Stuart and Linda (Gitzendanner) recently contacted the Alumni Office and wanted to share a blast from the past!

Stuart says, “Attached is a picture of the Homecoming “Chariot Race” for the 1964 IWU Homecoming festivities.  This picture came from the IWU archives and happened to be taken at the first turn of the chariot race just as the Theta Chi chariot wheel fell off “due to suspicious sabotage by competing fraternities”.

The people in the picture are two Theta Chi “pledges” – Rick King (67 – a very loyal IWU alum) and Dean Wait (68) with the rider of the chariot Linda Gitzendanner Hines (AOPi – 68).

Linda Gitzendanner Hines (68 – AOPi) and I (Stuart Hines – 67 – Theta Chi) will be celebrating our 45th anniversary in September of 2014.  IWU is where ‘we met and fell in love’. “

Kenneth Boyd Article

You might enjoy reading the article about Kenneth Boyd and the airplane that I just built in the latest issue of Shell Point’s magazine.Go to the above site and select the July 2013 issue; the article is on pages 4-8.  You can read the article online–or download the issue.This is the magazine for Shell Point Retirement Community, where we live in the winter.We live in Baileys Harbor WI in the summer, and that is where the plane was built and is kept.

– Kenneth C. Boyd

Martha Dodds Stoner  was the Regional Alumnae Leadership Award winner in the national magazine for the Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity.

Congratulations, Martha!

Award-winning journalist Dave Kindred has been selected for induction into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Homecoming 2013 was definitely a highlight of the year. In addition to the pleasure of meeting President and Mrs. Wilson, working with a great Reunion team of classmates and staff, and being amazed by the terrific new campus buildings there came a new connection to the University. That would be the Ames Library and its Archivist, Meg Miner. She is providing important research data for my project of a presentation on the Civil War service of John Wesley Powell to be given to the the Oklahoma Civil War historical roundtable in 2014. It is great to have a continuing link to this great university.

-Frank

I am not kayaking or rock climbing lately but am very involved in animal rescue and therapy dog training. I have 2 greyhounds who keep me active and happy. Spend winters in Mexico. Would love to hear from Wesleyan friends.