1997 Class News

Corey Schieler ‘97, a director of venture capital investments at State Farm, was named the Make-A-Wish Illinois Volunteer of the Year for 2021. He previously received Make-A-Wish Illinois’ Exceptional Creativity Award, for “bringing exceptional creativity to boost wish children’s spirits,” in April 2021.

Corey has been a wish granter since 2011 and has helped grant over 30 wishes for kids fighting critical illness.

He has received many accolades for his work, including a story on WGLT, and State Farm, Corey’s employer, created a video about his work with Make-A-Wish: Not 3 Wishes, 30 and Counting!

Check out Facebook for updates on Corey’s next wish-granting story, helping Luke, a 17-year-old Connecticut teen with rare and terminal thyroid cancer. Corey promises some of his few “magic sprinkles!” Find him on Facebook.

Want to help Corey make wishes come true? Visit wish.org/Illinois/donate

Way to go, Corey!

Elisa (Siegert) Egan ’97 was promoted to the Senior Product Development Manager, North America, for Mars Wrigley, responsible for Gum, Mints, and Fruity Snacks – including, but limited to, the brands of Extra, Orbit, Doublemint, Altoids, Hubba Bubba, Skittles, Starburst, and LifeSavers.

Congratulations Elisa!

 

 

Justin Zamirowski was named chief commercial officer at Better Therapeutics, a San Francisco-based prescription digital therapeutics company, where he will commercialize its portfolio of prescription digital therapeutics products.

Congratulations Justin!

Bruce Clark ’97, unveiled a mural he painted featuring an image of George Floyd. Yovana Milosevic ’21 wrote a poem in honor of the occasion. The two unveiled the mural in October at the Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington-Normal. The initiative was part of  the West Bloomington Revitalization Project.

The mural is called “Hold Onto Each Other.”

The Pantagraph covered the unveiling. See the mural and watch a video of Yovana reading her poem:

https://www.pantagraph.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fwatch-now-george-floyd-mural-unveiled-in-bloomington%2Farticle_d5efe201-2c49-5cae-9dd8-816069ed6a0e.html

Amazing work Bruce! Congratulations and thank you for painting the beautiful mural. Great job Yovana!

Jennifer Gill ’97 joined us virtually on October 15 to be a part of the Hart Career Center’s Law Career Panel. We are grateful that they spared their time and talked to the students about their experience. Thank you, Jennifer!