The annual early August picnic of the Minority Alumni Network celebrated this year’s Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) students and SEP alumni in addition to welcoming incoming students to IWU. Eugenie and David Darling ’79 hosted more than 100 alumni, students, faculty, staff, and parents. Inez Kitty White ’16 (left) photographs her son Malachi, who is held by SEP alumna Kamaya Thompson ’12. Myia Thompson ’11 is at far right.
During her fourth Global Brigade to Honduras in as many years, Meaghan Mormann (left) assists Assistant Professor of Nursing Noël Kerr in immobilizing a boy’s broken arm at the brigade’s medical clinic. The students in IWU’s Global Brigades chapter pay their own costs to attend (about $1,500 each) and must also collect or raise the money for most of the supplies and medications they need for their brigade. Mormann said the opportunity to volunteer with a brigade in Honduras “is one of the most precious gifts I’ve ever received.”
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Julia Savich was awarded a $5,000 fellowship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi for graduate study.
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Meaghan Mormann ’16 recounts her experiences with Global Brigades and its lifesaving work in Honduras in this article.
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Business administration graduate Michael R. Kelley ’16 will become the third generation in his family in management at the Giant City State Park Lodge.
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