IWU Young Alumni – Meet your friends at the 4th Annual “Club Tommy” Homecoming Celebration
Saturday, October 10
6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Memorial Center, Young Main Lounge
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This all Titan (and guests) Homecoming celebration features a 25-foot hors d’oeuvres buffet that includes beer, wine, and soft drinks. “Club Tommy” is the perfect place to start your Homecoming Saturday night, and is one event you don’t want to miss!
Homecoming 2015 – #TGOE (Titan Green Over Everything)

IWU Young Alumni – Attend fellow Young Alumni, Korey Coon ‘00
Back to College Class-
“Staying Balanced in an ‘Always On’ World”
Saturday, October 10
9:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Ames Library-Beckman Auditorium
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Join us in hearing from fellow young alumnus and 2015 Robert M. Montgomery Outstanding Young Alumnus award recipient as he shares personal experiences and trends on finding efficient and effective balance in this ‘always on’ world.
Homecoming 2015 – #TGOE (Titan Green Over Everything)

IWU Young Alumni Families – Bring your kids to…
“All Free” Family Fun on the Eckley Quad

Saturday, October 10
8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Eckley Quad
Register Here for Homecoming
This event is promised to be fun for current and future Titans, alike, with activities for the whole family available! Join the IWU Cheerleaders and Tommy Titan under the Big Top on the quad with activities ranging from face painting and a balloon artist to Titan Spirit Dogs and IWU History under the museum tent. Rain or shine, the fun will go on!

Homecoming 2015 – #TGOE (Titan Green Over Everything)

THANK YOU to all of our fiscal year 2015 donors! Illinois Wesleyan University‘s alumni participation rate has increased for the third year in a row thanks to the generosity of donors like you! Your support helps to ensure IWU is stronger and more affordable for current and future generations of Titans. You’ve done well, and you’ve done good! Go Titans!

The class of 2011 exceeded the 24% challenge!  At least eight young alumni challenges were met in 2015, resulting in $20,000 of additional scholarship support for IWU students!

Young Alumni Challenge:  If our class reaches 24% participation, an additional gift of $2,500 will be made in honor of our class. Let’s move the Tommymometer to the top!

Without alumni support, IWU simply wouldn’t be the same.  Time is running out to make a difference this fiscal year.  Help to keep IWU moving forward and show your Titan Pride by making a gift before this Friday, July 31!

Nicholas Reinhart ’11 was featured in the Windy City Times 16th annual 30 under 30.

Nicholas Reinhart , 26, is a writer and director, who was born and raised in the western suburbs of Chicago. An imaginative and energetic only child, his parents spent years trying to channel his enthusiasm, finally enrolling him in a local children’s theater production and sparking a life-long love of live theater.

Nicholas attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, graduating with a B.F.A. in music theater. He returned to his hometown and quickly became active in Chicago’s vital theater scene. In 2012, he was invited to join Circle Theatre as a company member and, within a year, he was promoted to producing director. He oversaw the remount production of the Jeff Award-winning When the Rain Stops Falling in the city as well as two full productions. In 2014, when Circle Theatre encountered operating troubles, he was appointed artistic director.

A proud gay man, Nicholas found a second artistic home at the LGBT theater company MidTangent Productions, where he served as associate creative director. Last year, he worked as the music director and as a cast member in the long-running production Snow White and the Seven Drag Queens. This past winter, he co-wrote and directed the 1980s-themed musical The Bitchfest Club.

As a firm believer that the arts are not a luxury but a necessity, Nicholas seeks to create art that is smart, inclusive, and ultimately, an entertaining night in the theater.

DID YOU KNOW? Nicholas has an unhealthy obsession with awards shows.

A note from Ross Fraser ’78:

I am a graduate of IWU (’78) and in my 11^th year working     as the director of media relations for Feeding America, the   nation’s largest hunger relief organization.

We are the network of most of the food banks in the country. We distribute food to about 60,000 soup kitchens and food pantries across the nation.

We feed  more than 5 million people each week and will distribute more than 4 billion pounds of food this year.

Forbes Magazine rates us as the 3^rd largest charity in the U.S.

But I am not the only IWU graduate here. Sam Harris (2010) works with the food industry to help us get donations of food, and Tim Sunzeri (2011) is a senior budget analyst in our philanthropy department.

The photo above is of Ross appearing on the Rachael Ray. She surprised them with a check for $100,000!