“I”s on the World: South American Way
The globe-trotting Williams family craves action. On a recent trip to Peru, they climbed to the top of Machu Picchu Mountain, scaled the face of a 1,300-foot cliff to zipline back to the base...
Alumni Interview: Kevin Rhodes
When people hear that I’m a conductor, most assume I grew up in a music-rich home. Not me. My parents ran a 24-hour truck-stop diner in Evansville, Ind. The only music came from the...
The Governor’s Messenger
Michael Albert, ’87 LAS, has become a reluctant celebrity, thanks to his work as a sign language interpreter at Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s daily coronavirus briefings. He’s been interviewed by print, broadcast and social...
Social Mediator
When Warner Bros. announced its fourth film set in the world of the dystopian thriller, The Matrix, it was a testament not only to our love of cutting-edge action movies, but to our predicament...
Class Notes Profile: Band Leader
Forget the flags and fireworks; no national event in our nation’s capital is complete without the musical accompaniment of the U.S. Navy Band, whose commanding officer since 2015 has been Capt. Kenneth Collins, MMUS...
“I”s on the World: North to Alaska!
Friends Rich Schroeder, ’77 BUS, Janet (Dalrymple) Schroeder, ’76 ED, and Janet Kocal, ’78 LAS, explored all that Alaska’s Denali State Park had to offer. The trio enjoyed kayaking and dogsledding, as well as...
A new phase
After retiring six years ago, following a successful career in finance, Ned Moran, LAS ’82, purposely entered a new phase of his life. For him, it wasn’t time to kick back and relax, but...
Sibling Reveille
Soldiers often head into military service as strangers and return bonded like siblings. Then there’s Col. Robb Mitchell ’94 LAS, MS ’05 UIC, and Col. Todd Mitchell, ’95 LAS, who are identical twins on...
Alumni Interview: Annie Crawley
We’re all water babies.We spend our first nine months in water. Then we’re taught to fear drowning. We think about that, instead of realizing we live on a water planet that’s 70 percent ocean....
Better Days Ahead
THE COVID-19 ERA, Part 2 of 3 Where were you on Thursday, March 12, 2020? Rick Hazlewood, EDM ’85, was hunkered down in back of a tour bus outside of Sedona, Ariz., oblivious to...
