Thank-A-Giver Day (TAG Day) is Monday, February 10. This day provides the IWU campus community with the opportunity to thank donors who support Illinois Wesleyan. IWU celebrates each year in mid-February because it marks the symbolic point during the academic year – about 70% of the way through – when we rely on support from alumni and friends, our endowment, and external grants.
If you would like to be celebrated as a donor today, you can make a gift at iwu.edu/give.
The IWU campus extends it’s thanks to Barb Nathan ’80 for volunteering at the Hart Career Center Professional Etiquette Dinner, Tuesday, March 21st.
The IWU campus extends it’s thanks to Desiree Quizon-Colquitt ’89 for volunteering at the Hart Career Center Professional Etiquette Dinner, Tuesday, March 21st.
Thank you very much to Patrick Verda ’89 for speaking to Fred Hoyt’s Marketing 339 class about experience as Director of Regional Development for Cengage Learning!
Eric Gardner ’89 was awarded his second National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship, which will provide $60,000 worth of funding to support his year-long study of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a nineteenth-century African American writer, orator, and activist. Click here to read more about his work.
Congratulations, Eric! 
Congratulations to Ron Ekstrand ’86 for being named the president and CEO of Easterseals, a nonprofit providing support to people with disabilities and their families. He spent 10 years as an executive at Easterseals and another 20 years working at other businesses before that. Read more about his accomplishment here.
In September of 2019, Peter Berg ’83 was named the Director of the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University where he has been a professor for 21 years.
Best of luck on your new adventure, Peter!
In December of last year, Jennie Seeling ’89 began a new position as Sales Director for Legends in Concert, the longest running show on the Las Vegas Strip.
Congratulations and best of luck with your new position, Jennie!
We are saddened to inform you that Angie Dyer ’81 passed away on November 29, 2019. She was born on March 10, 1959 and graduated from Beardstown High School in 1977. She earned her BSN in 1981, and worked at Memorial Medical Center for 25 years. Angie retired from Springfield Clinic as a TeleNurse. She was the queen of the 2000/2001 Christmas Parades in Springfield, Illinois, and a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran church in Springfield as well. She is survived by her husband, Steve Dyer, her two sons, seven sisters, and other family members.
Read her full obituary here.
Kevin Long ’80 passed away on Sunday, November 24.
Kevin served Textbook Coordinator in IWU’s Bookstore starting in August 2002, then transferred to Campus Safety in July 2019. He is survived by three children, two grandchildren and three brothers. A celebration of life service is scheduled at 11 a.m. Friday, December 6, at Calvert-Johnson & Musselman Memorial Home in Lexington, with visitation from 9 to 10:45 a.m. on Friday at the memorial home. His obituary is available online.