2016-10-01 IWU Homecoming. The class of 1966 celebrated their 50 reunion at Bloomington Country Club. Photo by Marc Featherly.
Please help us identify some of your classmates. Please send corrections by clicking in the comments in the upper right hand corner of the post if we have anyone incorrectly labeled:
Front row left to right: Carol (Coons) Hayner ’66, Unknown Woman in brown geometric print top and glasses, Carol (Gray) Beaman ‘66
Second row left to right: Janice (Stackhouse) Clark ’66, Fran (Olson) Rouzee ’66, Judith (Elbert) Favell ’66, Marjorie (Ticknor) Hazelton ‘66, Mary Jo( Catlin) Loder ’66, Connie (Leach) Larson ’66
Third Row left to right: Candace (Martin) Hunter ’66, Mary (Wade) Baker ‘66, Denny Matthews ’66, Kathryn (Shouse) Tornquist ’66, Larry Bross ’66, Dick Healy ’66, Gayle Rathbun ‘66
Fourth Row: Dick Muirhead ’66, James Gresham ’66, William Larson ’66, Tom Burmeister ’66, Robert Whitley ’66, Dr. Georgia (Griffith) Whitley ‘66
The spirit of giving is all around us this holiday season, please consider giving the gift of bright futures to current and future Illinois Wesleyan University students. Your gifts provide opportunities and experiences that will be remembered for a lifetime.
Hello friends, it is this time of year where we have a bit more space and time with family, and a good time to give thanks for all our blessings and the richness in our lives.
In keeping with the holiday spirit, we hope you enjoy our new video recorded with the Prague Symphony – “A Django Christmas” https://youtu.be/twUFepphC-0
Warmest wishes to you and yours for the Holiday season and New Year,
– David Wilkes and the Sultans of String
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.
Robert “Bob” Denny Kennedy ’60, age
79, of Pekin passed away at 8:40 p.m. Saturday, December 31, 2016, at the Villas of Holly Brook in Pekin. A sports fanatic, he had been captain of the football team at Illinois Weslyan University. You may read his obituary here.
We are sorry to announce longtime IWU Advancement employee (retired) Harry Lovell ’60, passed away on Christmas morning after fighting cancer for just a few short weeks. Harry served the Advancement Office for 28 years. He had a special kind of enthusiasm for life and will be missed by his family and friends.
