Metropolitan Opera Bass-baritone William Powers ’64 will offer a 90 minute Vocal Recital
accompanied by William Billingham of Chicago’s Lyric Opera on Sunday afternoon, April 15th
at 3:00 pm at the Auditorium of the Barrington White House ( across the street from the Catlow
Theater in downtown Barrington ). Selections from opera ( in costume and make-up! ) will be
followed by selections from the Great American Songbook, and more. Information available at
(224) 512-4292, or at events@barringtonswhitehouse.com

Tuesday, April 3rd is our day of giving at Illinois Wesleyan and this year’s theme is
Think Bigger!
Not only is today a day for giving, it’s a day to celebrate IWU and all of the things that make it special.  Check out last year’s leaderboard for some of the 60s classes:

1964-4 donors-$1,800
1965-4 donors-$3,850
1966-8 donors-$8,150
1967-6 donors-$920
1968-11 donors-$4,895
1969-14 donors-$2,560

Look at the significant impact our classes made! How can we #ThinkBigger this year?
Shall we make it a class competition this year? Please encourage your classmates to join you in being #AllInForWesleyan!

Click here to learn more and to donate on Tuesday, April 3rd.
Help spread the word using #AllInForWesleyan and take advantage of our social media toolkit.

Justin Kronewetter’s ’62 next exhibition of photographic artwork will occur in the
Crossroads Gallery For Contemporary Art at the University of Notre
Dame in South Bend, Indiana.  The exhibition is to be on display from
May 20 to July 20, 2018.  The exhibition will be titled “Purposeful
Looking.”

Quita (Verban) Shier ’60 wrote a book called “Warriors in Mr. Lincoln’s Army: Native American Soldiers Who Fought in the Civil War” that was published by iUniverse in December of 2017 and is now available online for purchase. The book contains comprehensive profiles of 140 little-known soldiers (enlisted “grunts”) of Company K, First Michigan Sharpshooters and the reasons why they wanted to enlist to fight a war in a country where they were not even recognized as citizens. Each profile is divided into two sections: the men’s military experiences and their biographies. These profiles are their stories.

Here is a link to more information about the book.

You can order it online here.

Congratulations, Quita!

Justin R. Kronewetter ’62, Emeritus Professor of Fine Art / Emeritus Director, Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University shared that there is an exhibition of his photographic artwork currently on display in the Wakeley Gallery in the art department at IWU.  The show is on display through 4pm on March 22nd.

We remember the following alumni who have passed and celebrate their lives.

Terry Adreon ’60 – 8/15/17, Anne (Hadaway) Andruczk ’61 – 1/15/16, William Carter ’62 – 5/4/17, Barbara Douglas, Ph.D. ’62 – 3/4/15, Donald Dowling ’67 – 6/8/17, Robert Enkey ’68 – 5/28/17, Cyril Frevert ’61 – 12/16/17, Stanley Grubb ’67 -3/3/17, Dennis Gustavson ’65 – 9/10/17, Douglas Holman ’68 – 5/28/17, Judith (Schulze) Jaeger ’66 – 10/15/16, Wallace Malmborg ’60 – 4/3/15, Michael Neal ’66 – 1/10/95, Steven Reeser ’69 – 8/30/17, Joan (Kroutil) Stein ’60 – 3/26/17, David Taft ‘ 69 – 5/5/17, John Unger ’62 – 4/28/17, Charles Wills ’60 – 10/28/17

If an obituary was found online, we have made an individual post to remember those alumni. You can search by name in the right of your class newsletter.

In the fall of 2017 Don Roth ’62 organized a group of IWU Sigma Chi’s from the classes of 1960 through 1964 in the Chicago area to celebrate more than 55 years of brotherhood and friendship. Those able to make the reunion were: (from back, left) Justin Kronewetter ’62, Garr Becker ’61, Bill Rapp ’64, Craig Rabiega ’64, Brad Handley ’63, Val Lecas ’60, Charles Hawker ’62, Emil Ludy ’61, Dave Adams ’63; (front), Curt Tobin ’63, Ron Zehr ’62, Bob Janssen ’63.  Don Roth pictured in seperate post.

In the fall of 2017 Don Roth ’62 organized a group of IWU Sigma Chi’s from the classes of 1960 through 1964 decided to meet in the Chicago area to celebrate more than 55 years of brotherhood and friendship. Others able to make the reunion can be seen in the next post.

On Tuesday, PEN America announced that David Kindred ’63 won the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement in Literary Sports Writing. The award is given “to a living sports writer for literary merit and dedication to sports writing with keen knowledge, insight, and a literary voice.”

Kindred began his career at the Bloomington Pantagraph in 1959 after attending IWU. Since 1966, Kindred has written for the Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, The Washington Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, The National and Sporting News.

His work includes Heroes, Fools and Other Dreamers: A Sportswriter’s Gallery of Extraordinary People, Around the World in 18 Holes, For the Love of the Game: Women Who Go Toe-To-Toe With the Men, Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post The Fight to Keep a Great Newspaper Alive, and Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship.

Since 2010, Kindred has written an online blog about the Morton High School girls basketball team.

Read the article from the Chillicothe Times-Bulletin here: http://www.chillicothetimesbulletin.com/sports/20180207/dave-kindred-wins-pen-america-espn-lifetime-achievement-award-for-literary-sports-writing

Read more about the PEN America award winners here: https://pen.org/2018-lifetime-career-achievement-honorees/

Congratulations, David!