David C. Evans ’84

Dave Evans ’84 wrote 10 Rules For Financial Freedom: A User Guide For Saving, Investing, and Doing What You Love
that was published March 15th, 2018.
In his straight-talking manner, Evans shares the steps anyone can follow to build a path towards Financial Freedom. The book outlines how to: – start an emergency fund – cut expenses and debt – save for retirement – develop and follow a simple investing plan – beat Wall Street – avoid large losses – quit the 9 to 5 and do what you love As Evans demonstrates, anyone can be Financially Free if you just follow a few rules.  Ideal for millennials and recent grads.

Here is the link to the book on Amazon.

Congratulations, Dave!

Edie (Hook) Yakutis ’84

Edie (Hook) Yakutis ’84 has retired from Microsoft after 22 years in various management positions. She has been accepted to Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion as a rabbinical student in their five-year educational program. She will be starting this June with her first year in Israel.

Congratulations, Edie, and good luck as you embark upon your next chapter!

Renee McGinnis ’84

The exhibit entitled “OF RUST AND MEN” presents the newest paintings of Chicago artist, Renee McGinnis ’84 and will open Friday, January 5th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm and run through Feburary 24th, 2018 at ZG Gallery in Chicago.

Renee on her exhibit:
“I spent much of my childhood riding the Great Plains of central Illinois on horseback or in luxurious automobiles, passing abandoned farms and towns.  I was in awe of the grand, magnificent scale of these forgotten places, and became aware of the nature of passing time, beauty and gradual decay.
With a precise hand, I paint aging, rusted megastructures surrounded by lush botanicals of a misdirected beauty, suggesting man’s infallible desire to control nature and his surroundings.  The once luxurious ocean liners, the highly sexualized iron ore uploaders and Battersea Power Stations are staged in deceptively beautiful gardens or stricken on turbulent seas.  The purity of the water, clouds and flora, juxtaposed with these decaying structures, create a potent marriage of emotions where the viewer can choose to engage in the monument of human labor or take in the serene beauty enveloping it.”
Accompanying the larger works in this exhibition will be a series of thirteen micro-tondos lining the main wall of the gallery, like portholes of a great ship.  Each 3 3/4″ painting offers an intimate, pristine view of our natural world of clouds, storms, marine animals and plant life, each devoid of any trace of man.

“The Peaceable Republic” oil on canvas 36x48in.

More on Renee’s exhibition:
ZG Gallery 300 W. Superior, Chicago IL
phone: 312.654.9900
email: Info@ZgGallery.com
Learn more about Renee and her work here: www.reneemcginnis.com

Homecoming 2017

 Homecoming 2017 is right around the corner!

You can register now here

A few noteworthy events:

  • Back to College Classes Friday and Saturday – The Ames Library, Beckman Auditorium
  • Family Fun on the Quad Saturday 8:30-11 – Eckley Quadrangle
  • Titan Tailgate Featuring Local Food Trucks Saturday 10AM-1PM – Shirk Center Parking Lot
  • “Club Tommy” Saturday, 6-9pm (Cost: $20) – Young Main Lounge in the Memorial Center

You can see the full schedule of Homecoming 2017 events here