Join other IWU supporters by renewing your gift at www.iwu.edu/give.

The Illinois Wesleyan fiscal year is ending quickly on July 31. Have you renewed your support yet this year? *

It’s not too late to be added to the list!

We still need 163 alumni to step forward before July 31 to increase alumni participation 1% over last year.

*Check by visiting http://www.iwu.edu/annualreport/.

After decades of service to Illinois Wesleyan, Ann Harding recently retired as director of Alumni Relations. Here is a photo of Ann in action promoting IWU Homecoming on local talk station WJBC. We will miss you Ann! To read more  visit IWU Campus News: http://www.iwu.edu/news/2014/06-alumni-director-retires.html

Admissions Dean Tony Bankston ’91 offered advice to students beginning their college application process. From The Choice Blog: http://www.thechoiceblog.com/2014/05/q-with-admissions-dean-tony-bankston_30.html

Here is a picture of IWU grad Kris Ford and I in the trauma bay at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. We were in SRU1 (shock resuscitation unit or trauma bay) awaiting the arrival of a patient with multiple gunshot wounds. Over the past few years, we have had fun trading IWU, Bruce Criley, and Bob Hippensteele stories in the trauma bay and the surgical ICU. I continue to be value my IWU education- every day! Each time I work on a solving a problem- whether in the OR, trauma bay, ICU, or lab, I think about Criley and Hippensteele. Working on manuscripts brings back fond memories of asking questions, researching, and writing papers in freshman seminar with Dr. Jerry Israel. I even still have my presentation at the Research Conference on my CV as presentation #1. – Tim

Sure, you may have complained about it at the time, but living in the dorms provided the most freedom many of us had experienced at that point in our lives. I met some of my best friends freshmen year on the third floor of Gulick Hall. Click to check out the cast of characters in the back row. To put some names with faces visit page 104 of the 1988 Wesleyana online archive.

The class of 1991 had 27 donors for All In for Wesleyan!

Over $838,000 was raised on this day.

Thanks to all who participated. If you missed it,

please make your gift  to the Wesleyan Fund.

Elly jones, division manager at State Farm, spoke at the Council for IWU Women Summit Break-Out Sessions. She presented “Building & Sustaining Your Social Capital”

Thank you, Elly!

 At the Council for IWU Women Summit Kickoff Luncheon in the Young Main Lounge of the Memorial Center, Stephanie Whyte, chief health officer for Chicago Public Schools, was the Keynote Speaker of the event.

Congratulations, Stephanie!

Aimee Chamernik has found a way to maintain an upbeat attitude as a mother battling ALS, known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.  Read about her story of strength and positive thinking here.