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 am.
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)
Class of 2012 alumna, Caroline Rohloff, is cited as the co-author and key researcher of a major new policy report titled, “The New Ice Curtain: Russia’s Strategic Reach to the Arctic.” The report was released on August 27th by the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Caroline has been a research associate at CSIS since April 2014 and covers both the Arctic and Northern Europe portfolios.
Congratulations to Caroline for the release of this new report!
Class of 2012 and School of Music alumnus, Max Briggs, has had some recent career success when he was chosen as the winner of the Tuba Artist division of the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival. Known as a premier event for student and artist level euphonium performers, the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival cites student and artist level competition as an integral component of this Twin Lake, MI-based international event. Additional information about the festival can be found here.
Since graduation, Max has completed his Master’s of Music degree from Northwestern University and will soon begin work toward his Doctorate of Musical Arts at Northwestern. Max resides in Chicago and is maintaining an active freelance career and private studio.
Please join me in congratulating Max!
Class of 2012 alumna, Emily Line, is returning to her Titan roots as a new staff member for Illinois Wesleyan! Emily has recently joined the staff as an IWU Admission Counselor. She has previously worked as an admissions advisor at Lake Superior State University and is a member of the Illinois Association for College Admission Counseling and the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
Congratulations, Emily, and welcome back to IWU!
Class of 2012 alumnus Stephen Rudnicki was recently selected as the boys basketball coach and a social studies teacher at West Carroll High School in Savanna, IL. Noting Stephen’s experience as a basketball player at both Evanston Township High School and our very own Illinois Wesleyan, the West Carroll Athletic Director arranged Stephen’s introduction to both the public and the media in June. Check out this article from the Rockford Register Star for additional information.
Congratulations to Stephen from the class of 2012!
Class of 2012 Physics alumnus, Taiyo Wilson, was awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship. Taiyo is a current PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Receipt of this fellowship will enable Taiyo to collaborate with top researchers in the field in addition to traveling to various NASA research centers to conduct his research. The full feature written by Illinois Wesleyan can be found here. For additional information regarding Taiyo’s research on continuum-kinetic hybrid framework for chemically reacting flows, check out the NASA press release.
Please join me in congratulating Taiyo for this accomplishment!
Amanda Williams, a class of 2012 English major and alumna, was awarded Hollins University’s Academy of American Poets Prize, the Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize on April 28. Amanda is a class of 2016 MFA student at Hollins University. The Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize is awarded to the best poem or group of poems written by an undergraduate or graduate student at Hollins University.
Please join me in congratulating Amanda!
Jordan Zimmer ’12 and his wife Carolyn (Leonard) Zimmer ’11 welcomed the birth of their son, Samuel Douglas Zimmer, on April 1, 2015. This wonderful Titan family is pictured below. Please join me in congratulating Jordan and Carolyn!
Fellow class of 2012 member and Class Newsletter Editor, Tracy Lytwyn Fischer married Andrew Fischer on August 31 in Avon, Indiana. Two photos from the wedding can be found below. Please join me in congratulating Tracy and Andrew!
