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Emily Stedman ’69

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Romancing Northampton, a collection by Emily Stedman ’69, is being featured at Historic Northampton Museum. The image above is a painting from her collection.
“Romancing Northampton explores our longing for a sense of continuity with our past.  New York City artist Emily Stedman has created a series of watercolor paintings based on archival photos from Historic Northampton’s collection. Through the use of transparent watercolor on paper, Stedman interprets these photos and creates lively, optimistic, and colorful visual stories. Looking at the past gives a much-needed context, direction and perspective on who we are and where we come from. In our dreams we are momentarily on our bicycles, wherever we grew up, and doing whatever it was we loved doing. In our minds’ eye, Grandma sat and knitted while kittens played with her yarn, kids wandered and explored outside for hours and chores were a part of life.”
You can read more about Emily’s work on her website: http://www.emilystedman.com/
Opening Reception: Friday, February 10th Arts Night Out 5 to 8 pm
Exhibition Dates: February 10-March 5, 2017
Exhibition Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 10 am to 4 pm Sundays 12 noon to 5 pm
Venue: Historic Northampton Museum
 46 Bridge Street
 Northampton, MA

Marilea White ’63

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As she celebrated the Martin Luther King Day of Service, Marilea White ’63 recalled marching with King in Atlanta in 1961 while helping children at Bent Elementary in Bloomington with arts and crafts on their Martin Luther King Day of Service.

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Phi Gamma Delta Celebration

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During IWU’s 2016 Homecoming Weekend, another Special event was held. The Alpha Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta held their Sesquicentennial Celebration. The Celebration was held at The Doubletree Hotel on 9-30 & 10-1. Over 230 members gathered Saturday night for dinner. Unless someone else can show otherwise, we believe we are the oldest Chapter of any Fraternity in the State of Illinois.

The following Brothers from the ’50 era are as follows:

Robert Carden ’52
Robert Hildebrand ’52
William Meister ’56
Dean Padgett ’58
Ronald Bell ’59
Roger Colton ’59
Roy Ferguson ’59
Dennis Mattix ’59
Gerald Philpott ’59
Greg Gardner ’60
Elvin Gentry ’60
Edward Martinez ’60
Robert Ward ’60

During the Celebration Marvin Bower ’45 was awarded the Diamond Owl for his 75 years in the Fraternity. There were 45 plus in attendance who have been members for more than 50 years. A great event for everyone in attendance!

Submitted by Jerry Philpott ’59

Fred G. Miley ’59 and Judith A. Miley ’61

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Fred G. Miley ’59 and his wife, Judith A. Miley ’61, are both active in their Community Crisis Response Team and in the American Legion and Auxiliary. Fred continues seeing patients 40 hours a week in 4 days. They walk a mile at night, and Fred trains in Karate and Judith trains in Yoga. They both enjoy frequent family gatherings with three of their adult children and their almost-adult children. Fred says that it is an honor to belong to the John Wesley Powell Society, as they met at IWU and he remembers it vividly and fondly.

Professor Joseph C. Collins

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For the past sixty years, including the 1962 to 1967 years at Illinois Wesleyan, Dr. Collins has been studying the role of water in providing order in the living cell. Covalent bonding is accepted as the primary mechanism of order-formation between atoms in the molecular components of living cells; now Dr. Collins has proposed in the three new web sites below, that it is the dynamic covalent linear hydrogen-bonding between water molecules on surfaces of natural molecules which not only provides for their quantized orderly motions and interactions within living cells today but provided for their selection as integral function unites when cellular evolution began.

http://www.proteinhydration.com/

http://www.linearwater.com/

http://www.molecularcreation.com/