Jane Wallace ’05 has rejoined the Bigfork Summer Playhouse in Montana for a fourth season, this year with dual roles as director and choreographer. For more information, visit BigForkSummerPlayhouse.com.

IWU’s fiscal year ends TODAY – July 31 – Thank you if you’ve already made your annual gift!

Now help us find the 47 additional alumni donors we need to reach our participation goal by today. Organizations view alumni participation as the metric that measures alumni satisfaction. It affects IWU’s ranking, bond rating, and ability to earn grants, so make your gift today at iwu.edu/give to keep IWU strong!  Every donor counts!

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 retired this month as director of Alumni Relations.

Join the new academic tradition known as the Summer Reading Program.  Students, faculty, staff, and alumni are reading:

The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse.

If you would like to participate in an alumni-only book discussion group in Bloomington, Chicago or Washington DC, please register or contact your area Alumni Regional President directly.

RSVP for the campus book discussion group on Friday, August 20, 6-8 p.m.

Wednesday, September 3rd the author will be discussing his book at the President’s Convocation at 11 a.m. at Westbrook Auditorium in Presser Hall, IWU.

Anna Deters ’05 won the 2012 international quarterly Eighteenth-Century Fiction Best Graduate Essay contest with her article “‘Glorious Perverseness’: Pride and Domestic Heroism in Richardson’s Novels.” The article appeared in the Fall 2013 edition. In May, she successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in English literature at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jonathan Charak ’05 spent 2.5 years in Australia with Zurich Insurance (a total of 9 years with the company). He will be a speaker at the upcoming Casualty Actuarial Society web meeting on autonomous vehicles.

The class of 2005 had 67 donors for All In!