Titans Supporting Titans



Ways to Support Fellow Titans
    1. To share a word of support for your classmates at this time, submit a post to your class newsletter by emailing your editor or if your class does not have an editor, send your post to classnews@iwu.edu.
    2. You can provide support to the Titan Student Emergency Fund. This fund will provide relief to students with needs such as housing, travel, moving and storage, transportation and vehicle repair, and technology needs related to remote learning.
    3. If you have expertise or a career opportunity that you can share with students, please connect with a Hart Career Center staff member for a phone or video appointment through a Handshake account here. You can also post job and internship opportunities on the site. View FAQs here.
    4. University Archives & Special Collections wants to hear your experiences and reflections to keep a historical record of the impact of the pandemic on the Illinois Wesleyan community, you can learn more here.
    5. Assist the IWU Admissions team in student recruitment efforts. Our alumni are the best and most qualified to meet with prospective students to share your IWU experience. Sign up here: Titan Alumni Ambassadors.
    6. You can see more ideas here.

Erin Anderson ’07

The Robert M. Montgomery Outstanding Young Alumni Award was presented to Erin Anderson ’07 at Homecoming 2019 in recognition of her outstanding professional achievement and civic leadership. Erin was featured in the inset of page 23 of the IWU Magazine that can be found here. You can view her Homecoming Back to College class, entitled “Harnessing Chemistry for Selective Cancer Treatments” here.

Tyler Smith ’07

A big thank you to Tyler Smith ’07, who spoke on March 3rd to students and shared information on his work in investments, career opportunities in the field, and answered any questions students might have had. He is an Investment Professional with State Farm and obtained his MBA in Finance in 2012.

Jonathan Cable ’07

Congratulations to Jonathan Cable ’07, who is reprising his role as Nick Massi on the off-Broadway run of Jersey Boys! He spent two years with the National Tour of Jersey Boys, including a run that included a week of performances at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago in 2019.

Read more here.

Read more about Jersey Boys New York here.

See Jonathan’s website here.

TAG Day 2020

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

Dr. Andy Hall ’07

Congratulations to Andy Hall ’07, who recently realized one of his childhood dreams and opened his own interventional pain medicine practice (Relevium Pain Specialists) in Las Vegas, NV. You can view the website for Relevium here. You can also read more about Andy here.

Chris Seps ’07

Chris Seps ’07, from Ulmer & Berne LLP’s Chicago office, has been named to the 2020 list of Illinois Super Lawyers, which features the top attorneys in the state who are chosen for their demonstrated excellence in the practice of law. Here is the article about Chris.

Congratulations, Chris!

Shannon O’Rourke Kasali ’07

Thank you to Shannon O’Rourke Kasali ’07, who spoke at our Evelyn Chapel on 1/29/20 with two other alumni about the ways they experienced their work and commitments as a calling, how they’ve navigated failure and celebrated successes, how they’ve discovered a deeper purpose to their work, how their passions and callings have changed over time and how their beliefs (religious, spiritual, secular) have shaped their lives.