Lots of overdue updates and some more stuff at the end.

On September 14th, 2014, the U of Minnesota School of Music Wind Quintet performed  Lisa Renee Ragsdale’s Wind Quintet # 2, “Winter Music” (a 3rd wind quintet composed in 2010-11), Sonata for Bassoon and piano (2010) and two short works for solo oboe (“Inquiringly” & “Sailing”).  During May 2014 Lisa composed two songs for mezzo soprano and alto sax on poetry of Boston, MA poet Fred Marchant. On November 1st, mezzo-soprano Alyssa Anderson and saxophonist Jeffrey Kyle Hutchins
performed the second of these two works “First Song Again” at the Gamut Gallery, a small art gallery in Minneapolis, along with seven other works specifically for voice and saxophone.

Lana Brown ’70, who manages the Urban Educational Internship Program for Michigan State University in Chicago, wrote about lessons in “staying above the fray” in politics.  Here’s a link to the article: http://www.daily-journal.com/opinion/columnists/local/lana-brown-politicians-take-heed-stay-above-the-fray/article_8ce839c6-4f05-53f9-a8d9-4cb1e99565e4.html

An art exhibition by Jana Fothergill ’72 will be on display at the Nob Hill Satellite in Albuquerque, N.M.  Here’s a link to the article: http://alibi.com/events/117008/A-Journey-of-Discovery-Opening-Reception.html

David A Petersen has just taken a new position with Optum Bank a UnitedHealth Group company as Vice President, Area Sales Manager, Southeast Region, in their Health Care Banking Group. He will be providing commercial lending, lines of credit, and equipment finance to health care organizations in Florida, Dallas-Ft. Worth, and Atlanta. David has over 10 years’ experience in Health Care Banking with Wells Fargo where he was a leading member of the Specialty Markets Group in Dallas-Ft. Worth and Naples, Florida.   David lives in Naples, Florida with his wife Jan and is an active member of the Southwest Florida Sigma Chi Alumni Association. He is also a member of the Immokalee Child Care Center board and governance committee, Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida, and the Illinois Wesleyan Alumni Association.

Ray (Rodriguez) Bradford (Class of ’71, Drama) married Terence L. Endersen (UCLA) in Beverly Hills, CA on September 5, 2014.  Ray is Founder and CEO of the advocacy firm The Bradford Advocacy Group, working at the intersection of civil rights and entertainment media

Now for the more sad news.

James Ascareggi ’58 passed away on September 2, 2014. He taught in the School of Drama at Illinois Wesleyan from 1963-72. Here’s a link to his obituary: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=james-ascareggi&pid=172403255.

Cherlynlavaughn Bradley ’73, an award-winning chemist who encouraged girls to pursue careers in chemistry, passed away on August 30, 2014.

Have received the news of Dr. Christine Kefferstan’s (class of 1973) passing.  Christine passed away August 20, 2014.

The Alumni Relations Office is sad to share that Robert J. Bunn ’71 passed away on May 12, 2013.

I’m sad to share that Michael Patterson ’75 passed away on January 8, 2012