Barb Nathan ’80 and Jason Clark ’00 came back to campus on October 19 to speak with current students about how their values, questions, and beliefs have shaped their careers in their lives.

Jeff Warren ’83 started his State Farm Agency in 2008 in Snoqualmie Washington… This is a video of him playing in Vegas at the State Farm Convention…

https://youtu.be/pwd8LhToLNM

Jeff Warren, State Farm Agent

www.jeffwarrenagency.com

We are sorry to announce that Mike Beer ’80 passed away on August 14, 2016.

Here is a link to his obituary –
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/louisville/obituary.aspx?pid=181079964

Attorney Victoria Olds ’88 was selected by the Second District Magistrate Commission to serve as magistrate judge for Lewis County, Idaho.

Click here for a link to the entire article.

Elgin principal Steve Johnson ’85, who is known for his involvement in summer reading, discussed his goal to raise “every child’s trajectory.”

Click here for a link to the entire article.

Dirk Behrends ’87 has been promoted to vice president of association enterprise solutions at Abila. He has nearly 30 years’ experience in the association sector, spending his first 15 years working for some of the most influential professional societies in the U.S., most notably as the assistant director of the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association. He joined Abila (formerly Avectra) in April of 2000 and has been instrumental in helping associations enhance member value and engagement. Behrends is a member of Association Forum and the American Society of Association Executives and currently serves on the Illinois Wesleyan University Alumni Association Board of Directors.

2016-04-08 Alumni Association Board. Dirk Behrends ’87. Photo by Makenna Merritt ’17 for Illinois Wesleyan University.

Barb Nathan ’80 represented Westminster Village, Sue Seibring ’82 represented Advocate BroMenn Medical Center, and Linda Bollivar ’88 represented the Multicultural Leadership Program at the 2016 IWU Internship Fair on September 26.

After 21 years as a scientist at The Dow Chemical Company, Carol (Gentry) Burns IWU ’85, has retired to consult independently on issues related to occupational health and agricultural exposures.  Her firm is Burns Epidemiology Consulting, LLC
989.205.1243.

Janet Albers MD ’82 is now Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at SIU School of Medicine in Springfield.