My Alma Mater: Portrait of an Artist
Felice Sherwin Polson, ’78 FAA At first, keeping busy during the COVID-19 shutdown was a challenge for me. But I did a little soul searching and found myself thinking about my college years at...
Baptism by fire
The train from Champaign lumbered through the black Illinois night, just past the witching hour, en route to a city on fire. Nineteen-year-old Dillon Brown, Class of 1875, sat in his seat, smelling the...
Class Notes Profile: Community Developer
“I never knew this job existed,” says Erica Bauer, PHD ’10 LAS, sounding amazed that she’s the Chicago Bulls’ director of community relations. Her journey to the Bulls started at Illinois, where she wrote her...
Memory Lane: Neat As a (Homecoming) Pin
It couldn’t be simpler. A bit of paper, a bit of plastic, a piece of metal, ribbons in orange and blue. These are some of the raw materials that make up the U of...
“I”s on the World: Perfectly Nice Time
Jay Bernstein, ’92 BUS, and Shelly Pearson, ’91 UIC, enjoyed the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France during their visit to Nice. The couple journeyed with a group in celebration of a mutual...
Alumni Interview: Lynn Rippelmeyer
What a time to join aviation! The 747 had just been introduced in 1972, and TWA started around-the-world service. A sorority sister persuaded me to join her in New York City in her new...
Optimistic Thriller
Known for his writings about sports and film, Athens, Ga.–based journalist, Will Leitch, ’98 MEDIA, veers into new territory with How Lucky (Harper, 2021), a novel in which a young man with a debilitating...
UIAA Board welcomes seven new members
Randy L. Buhr, ’90 BUS, JD ’95, is director of championships and alliances for the NCAA, where he has day-to-day oversight for the Division I Baseball Championship and the Men’s College World Series. He...
Tax Guide
The Mexican American family came looking for help—with their taxes. Dad was a maintenance worker. Mom was a homemaker. The eldest of their three children served as their translator. When a helpful volunteer ran...
Six Generations
This past May, 9,200 students graduated from the U of I, joining a network of nearly 500,000 alumni around the world. One of those graduates, Mariah Jean Guyot, FAA ’21, was already part of...
