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)

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 2013 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!

Zach Johnson ’13 began a new position at RCP Advisors in June. He is an Analyst – Investor Relations.

Alex Hill ’13 has been named assistant volleyball coach at Illinois College.

You can read the entire article here.

Kate Roessler ’13 recently joined Missouri State University as the assistant director of student engagement for fraternity and sorority life.

Young Alumni Challenge:  If our class reaches 30% participation, two gifts of $2,500 (for a total of $5,000) 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!

Only 16 more donors are needed to reach 30% giving for our class by July 31.

Every Gift Counts!

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I am a 2013 graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and am pleased to say that my life since then has been a whirlwind of exciting experiences.  In the two years since leaving Bloomington, I have spent time employed at three different nonprofits (Camp Courageous of Iowa, the Human Rights Campaign, and most recently Year Up Bay Area), lived in three different regions of the United States (Iowa, Maryland/DC, and California), and performed spoken word and music at slams and cabarets.  IWU was one of the best times of my life, but I’m thrilled to say it wasn’t the best time of my life.  My phenomenal college experience set me up to live a thrilling and fulfilling life after graduation, and it only gets better.

A childhood dream of mine is about to be realized, something that would not have happened without IWU.  On July 15th, my debut fiction novella, Edenfall, was released by Ceti Publishing, a house begun by another IWU alum, Chris Francis ’13.  In addition to IWU being the place that brought us together, this work of fiction itself is indebted to IWU.  The initial drafts of the story were written for an upper level fiction class I took with Brandi Reissenweber in the spring semester just before I graduated.  The class was themed around “Write What You Don’t Know” and Edenfall was my final project.  After receiving my final grade, she encouraged me to push the work further than just the classroom.  Now, I have a publication date.

If you would like to read the first chapter (it’s a novella, so the first chapter is only 2 pages), it is available for preview and to order at http://www.cetipublishing.com/edenfall.

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Joseph Lim ’13 has seized the opportunity to conduct research in Dublin, putting on hold his studies at the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in West Indies in order to work with investigators to address a significant threat to Ireland’s dairy sector and its economy – postpartum uterine infection in cows.

Here is a link to the full article.