Join Golden Titan Club members for dinner and cocktails.
Cocktail hour starts at 6:00 pm, and dinner begins at 6:30 pm.
New Venue:
Redbird A and C, Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, 201 Broadway Ave., Normal
$35 registration fee for non-IWU alumni guests
You may register here or you may call 888-498-2586.
Donald E. Smucker, 82, of Bloomington, passed away on Friday, November 24, 2017 at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington. You can read his obituary here.
Luman B. Sutton died Friday, February 3, 2017 at St. John’s Retirement Village in Woodland, California. After graduation from Illinois Wesleyan, he was employed by the U.S.F.&G. Insurance Company in Chicago, Illinois. Luman transferred to the San Jose branch in 1983, and retired as a Commercial Lines Underwriting Manager, in 1987. He was a founding member of the Sacramento Masters Swim Team in 1971 and competed in all venues – Long Course, Short Course, Short Course Meters and Open Water races. He made top times in the local Pacific Masters Association swim meets and top ten times in the United States Masters Swimming Association. He is survived by his beloved and devoted wife Gloria, his sons and their families.
You may read Luman’s entire obiturary here.
2016-06-23 Bob Lewis ’56. Illinois Wesleyan photo by Robert Frank III
Bob Lewis ’56 was the 2016 Illinois Wesleyan University Loyalty Award Winner. Bob’s award was presented at IWU Homecoming 2016.
Jim Ridenour ’54 is halfway through three family reunions. The first, in Denver Colorado had all of the children of Hank and Ardy Charles all IWU grads or faculty, with 20 other family members there. The Chicago Cub game, however, was postponed because of hail!! One of our cousins flew in from Sweden for the affair.
The second will be in Chicago with about twenty there, including several of Carol Pettyjohn’s IWU ’56 kids in attendance. The third next month in Baltimore with all of our children, plus about 20 others. All three dates include Cub games, in celebration of the World Series win!
Jim and Doris will be visiting Mickey Drexler, ’48 (?)l Howard Berggren ’54, Helen Lacroix ’53, and Bill Jennings ’53, during these travels.
April 5, 2017 is our day of giving at Illinois Wesleyan and this year’s theme is Tune In for All In! Not only is today a day for giving, it’s a day to celebrate IWU and all of the things that make it special.
Visit https://www.iwu.edu/all-in/ to learn more and donate.
Donate today! Go Titans!
Lee Short ’44, Director of Admissions from 1952-1978, passed away on January 4th. Services for Lee will be held Thursday, January 12 at 10:30 a.m. at Wesley United Methodist Church. An obituary will be published in The Pantagraph on Sunday.
Please join me in offering sympathy to Lee’s wife, Phyllis, his children, and his nephew Trey.
Lee’s many contributions to Illinois Wesleyan are chronicled in this IWU Magazine article from 2010.
You may read his obituary here.
Elsie Wright Sterrenberg ’50 of Peoria, AZ passed away Nov. 30, 2016. Since her obituary was written, another great- grandchild has arrived, which makes a total of six great- grandchildren.
You can view Elsie’s obituary here.
Click here to read, George Allison’s ’51 story, “How Being an Editor of the Argus Probably Saved My Life,” that he shared a the Golden Titan’s Dinner, Homcoming 2016.