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...
’Shroom Chef
In 2008, Michael Pan, ’01 ENG, traveled from his home in Chicago to visit his vegetarian Buddhist family in Malaysia. His cousin put a bowl of food on the table. Pan tried a bite...
Show Starter
For Christine Rea, ’91 LAS, the roller-skating rink was a fixture of her childhood in Lansing, Ill. She loved every aspect of her weekly Saturday skates with her best friend: the music, the food,...
Bibliophile
From earliest childhood, Audrey Chapuis, MA ’06 LIS, was in love with books. “No one knows where it came from,” she says, “but since I was 3 years old I was obsessed with them....
Class Notes Profile: Water Expert
When The New York Times and The Washington Post reported on an alarming study detailing global water shortages, they quoted a U of I graduate whose degree is in … economics. For Betsy Otto,...
Alumni Interview: Bill Geist
I’m very much a Midwesterner, and I think of myself that way. Very practical. Standard. I’d say I’m normal, but I’m actually from Champaign, and Normal is about 50 miles further west. (That’s an...
Park Rover
Lots of men facing a mid-life stall opt to get a divorce or a sports car. David Kroese, ’93 LAS, visited all of the U.S. National Parks. “I’d had a very good run,” Kroese...
One of a Kind
The unwieldy head, with its single white horn and tri-color mane, towers and bobs. The inflated torso overwhelms her body. She gets someone to turn on the video on their phone, then prances a...
Alumnus Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO and chairman, dies at 84
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — John Francis “Jack” Welch Jr., 84, the former CEO and chairman of General Electric Co., has died. He earned a Ph.D. in 1960 in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois...
Orange on Brown
The place was Rosebud, but the occasion was straight up Orange and Blue—emphasis on Orange. This past January, the grandfather/grandson duo of Bart Ladd, ’57 BUS, and Grant Pitcher, ’19 ACES, took Illini basketball...
