Western the Magazine for Alumni of Western Illinois University Winter 2018/Spring 2019

WESTERN

The magazine for Alumni of Western Illinois University | WINTER 2018/SPRING2019

Law Enforcement and Justice Administration students in the new McCamey Crime Lab

Managing Editor Alisha Barnett Looney MA ’13 Magazine Designer Shanee Sullivan ’00 Contributing Writers Brad Bainter ’79 MS ’83 Kathy Nichols ’89 MA ’94 Jodi Pospeschil MA ’15 Darcie Dyer-Shinberger ’89 MS ’98 Alisha Barnett Looney MA ’13 Amy Spelman MS ’98 Director of Alumni Programs Amy Spelman MS ’98 Assistant Vice President for Advancement and Public Services Darcie Shinberger ’89 MS ’98 Vice President for Advancement and Public Services Brad Bainter ’79 MS ’83 Western Illinois University President Jack Thomas

Western Magazine Winter 2018/Spring 2019 Vol. 70, No. 4 Western Magazine (USPS 679-980) is published quarterly by University Relations, 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455-1390.

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Letter from the President Dear Alumni and Friends, In 1969, Western Illinois University became the only residential institution of higher learning in the state to offer an undergraduate degree in law enforcement. Fifty years later, WIU’s School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration is among the largest programs of its kind in the United States.

The foresight of Dr. Richard Gibbs, administrative assistant to the late WIU President Knoblauch, led to the success of today’s program. Many individuals have further enhanced the department during the past 50 years, and we owe them a debt of gratitude for their forward thinking and continued efforts. Today, our law enforcement and justice administration program continues to be among our most popular academic majors.

Western boasts thousands of law enforcement alumni around the world, including those featured in this winter/spring issue of our magazine. We extend our deepest appreciation to the men and women in law enforcement, including our own Office of Public Safety officers, who work tirelessly to ensure that our communities are safe.

I invite our alumni and friends back to campus this fall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Western’s law enforcement and justice administration program. The school has several events planned, which you can read more about on page 41.

It is with great pride that I serve as the 11th president of this outstanding institution. I thank our alumni for all that you do for your alma mater and for representing the best of Western Illinois University.

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Features 6 Where in the World are LEJA Interns

Interns have been placed at more than 1,400 sites worldwide.

18 Justice, Integrity, Service ... A Journey with the U.S. Marshals Service

Dave Harlow ’82 began his career with the U.S. Marshals Service in 1983 and was named deputy director in 2014.

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22 Chasing El Chapo

Drew Hogan ’02 is a small-town alumnus who traveled to the west coast and then to Mexico to capture one of the most notorious drug lords of all time.

Departments 2 University News 8 What I Know Now 10 Student Spotlight 12 Blast From the Past 16 Giving Back to Western

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26 Straight From a Student 28 Athletics 31 Alumni Class Notes 32 Alumni Calendar

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University News WIU Earns U.S. News & World Report Best Online Program Ranking Western Illinois University has been recognized once again by U.S. News & World Report for offering some of the best online degree programs.

Western is ranked 76th out of 348 ranked colleges and universities from across the U.S. in the 2019 “Best Online Programs: Bachelor’s” category and is one of four Illinois public universities in the top 100.

WIU offers 463 online classes (320 undergraduate; 143 graduate) and seven undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including the longstanding Bachelor of General Studies (BGS), which offers students the option of obtaining their degree entirely via distance learning opportunities, or through a combination of on-campus and distance learning classes.

The newest online undergraduate programs—accounting, economics and management—began in Fall 2018. Supply chain management and communication are scheduled to go online in Fall 2019. The undergraduate anthropology program went online in Fall 2017, and is the first of its kind in the state, and one of

only a few in the nation, to offer the major online. Students enrolled in the online majors will have the ability to take traditional face-to-face classes, online classes or a combination of the two.

“While we are a traditional University, we must continue to build upon our online degree programs and courses to meet the needs of students worldwide,” said WIU President Jack Thomas.

“Among our many goals, we strive to provide students with access through a variety of platforms to the quality public higher education that Western Illinois University provides.”

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Other online bachelor’s degree programs at WIU include fire protection services, geography and geographic information science, interdisciplinary studies, law enforcement and justice administration and nursing (RN to BSN completion).

Online graduate degrees include curriculum and instruction, educational studies, instructional design and technology, law enforcement and justice administration, music (music education emphasis only), special education and MBA, which is also included in the 2019 U.S. News and World Report Best Online MBA Programs.

In addition to the Bachelor of Science Degree in Fire Protection Service or BGS degree from Western, firefighters have the opportunity to obtain a certificate in fire administration and management and a certificate in fire prevention technology.

For more information, visit wiu.edu/online_learning/ or contact Distance Learning, International Studies and Outreach Executive Director Jeff Hancks at (309) 298-1929 or JL-Hancks@wiu.edu.

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Western Illinois University Named Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars Western Illinois University has been named among U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. Scholars. Each year, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces the top producing institutions for the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes the lists annually.

WIU was also named a top producer in 2013-14 with three.

WIU, with three for 201819, ranks at the top of the U.S. master’s-granting institutions list, and is the only Illinois master’sgranting institution with three or more Fulbright Scholars. Since 2001, more than 25 WIU faculty, staff and students have received Fulbright scholarships and grants. Western’s first Fulbright Scholar was Carol Lynn Hagaman in 1963.

Associate Professor of English Rebekah Buchanan was named a 2018-19 Fulbright Scholar, and is currently in Norway as part of the U.S.-Norway Fulbright Roving Scholars program, which brings American teachers to the country to spend a year traveling to give presentations, seminars and lectures for teachers and students and to students in teacher training programs.

Professor of Biological Sciences Shawn Meagher was also named a 2018-19 Fulbright Scholar. He is currently teaching biology courses at Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznan, Poland to both Polish

students and exchange students from throughout Europe who are studying in Poland.

In addition to the faculty Fulbright Scholar recipients for 2018-19, WIU also had one student chosen for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and a faculty member selected for the Teaching Specialist Grant Program. College Student Personnel graduate student Eden Driscoll ’18, of Caledonia, MI, is currently teaching English in South Korea. WIU Associate Professor of Music Education Richard Cangro recently returned from visiting and teaching in Pakistan as part of his 2018 Fulbright Teaching Specialist grant award. This was Cangro’s second Fulbright award. He worked with teachers and students at the National Academy of Performing Arts in Karachi and the Beaconhouse National University in Lahore for two weeks.

Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 390,000 participants, chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential, with the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to find solutions to shared international concerns. Over 800 U.S. college and university faculty and administrators, professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers and independent scholars are awarded Fulbright grants to teach and/or conduct research annually. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program operates in over 125 countries throughout the world.

“We thank the colleges and universities across the United States that we are recognizing as Fulbright top producing institutions for their role in increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries,” said Marie Royce, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

“We are proud of all the Fulbright students and scholars from these institutions who represent America abroad, increasing and sharing their skills and knowledge on a global stage.”

The Fulbright Program also awards grants to U.S. students and teachers to conduct research and teach overseas.

In addition, some 4,000 foreign Fulbright students and scholars come to the United States annually to study, lecture, conduct research and teach foreign languages.

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Office of Public Safety: To Protect and Serve

WIU Alumnus Inspires Art Students to Respond to Social Justice Issues A Western Illinois University alumnus is translating the historical lessons he learned from his grandfather and the classroom knowledge he gained on WIU’s campus for his middle school students at Kewanee’s Central Elementary School.

Marc Nelson, who received his art education teaching certificate from Western in 2006, has been a middle school art teacher in Kewanee, IL since 2008. Prior to that he taught for two years at a private school in Iowa City, IA. Through his classroom art lessons, Nelson is infusing social justice topics into his curriculum to teach students about specific cases of injustice.

Students are then encouraged to incorporate and express their feelings about the lessons into the art they create.

“As an artist, I have been inspired to respond creatively to social justice issues since I was a child,” said Nelson. “My grandfather’s family was forced to flee the violence in Northern Ireland in the 1920s, and he and I would often talk about the fear and sorrow of his family’s displacement from their home.”

Introducing the social justice topics in the classroom creates a bridge for Nelson to dig deeper into new subject matter before presenting it to his students. Through the lessons, students use painting, drawing, digital art and stop-motion animation to visualize the issues. He encourages students to respond to issues they are passionate about and sometimes he shares their work on Twitter to gain a broader audience.

“Creating art helps my students find their voice,” he said. “When

groups like Amnesty International or the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC acknowledge my young artists’ work, it shows them that, though they are young, they have a right, even a civic duty, to never be silent about the things that matter to them. The world often underestimates, or even disregards the potential of our children to be lights of hope, even in the darkness.”

Nelson said he recommends WIU to his students, and he calls his time at the University “one of the best educational choices I have ever made.”

“My art and education instructors were passionate, talented and dedicated,” he said. “They knew that art is, and should always be, an integral component of our society.

My WIU instructors were, and are, inspired professionals, and they

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pushed me to continually learn and challenge myself.”

While Nelson was at WIU, he worked as a student reporter for Tri States Public Radio (TSPR), which he said gave him access to cultural events in the region.

“While working for TSPR, I had the chance to spend the day with Buddhist monks, explore the nation’s first town platted and registered by an African American (New Philadelphia, IL) and interview the humanitarian hero, Rwandan Paul Rusesabagina (portrayed in the film ‘Hotel Rwanda’).”

Nelson added that he stays in regular contact with his former WIU instructors and TSPR colleagues.

“They still encourage my work and are passionate about teaching the next generation of artists” he said.

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By Darcie Dyer-Shinberger ‘89 MS ‘98 While the police officers working at Western Illinois University wear many hats and juggle a multitude of responsibilities, their job first and foremost is to ensure the safety and security of more than 8,500 students, faculty and staff and numerous campus visitors.

For 63 years, the women and men of WIU’s Office of Public Safety (OPS) have made it their mission, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, to maintain safety and security on Western’s Macomb campus. OPS started as Campus Safety and Security in 1956, replacing the night watchman era that was part of campus for many years.

As enrollment grew at Western in the 1950s, parking, traffic management and other issues cropped up. Western had night watchmen but no real security department. The need for a campus police department was evident when, in September 1955, several armed men robbed the college’s business office, getting away with more than $9,000 in cash and checks. The watchman on duty, Jack Frost, later proposed to then-President Beu a security force. Beu agreed, and in 1956, Frost became the first security director. He retired in 1970.

The department, currently led

by Director and former Rock Island Police Department Chief Scott Harris, employs 24 full-time sworn police officers. Since the department’s inception in 1956, more than 110 police officers have worked for OPS, including the first female law enforcement officer in the area.

Today, OPS strives to be a leader in diversity, Harris noted, and currently employs three female police officers.

“Campus police departments differ from that of a city or county department. While we will handle many of the same types of calls, our population is condensed to a much smaller region. The University community is a city within a city,” Harris said. “It is our job to make sure that the Western Illinois University campus is safe and secure for our members and our many visitors.”

In addition to routine patrols, OPS dispatches officers to the street on foot and bicycles, as well as in the residence halls. While law and order is the department’s mission first and foremost, Western’s police officers perform a variety of duties, including sponsoring educational programming for University organizations and groups, safe escorts on campus during the evening hours, security at athletic events, traffic control, non-emergency hospital transport, conducting building safety checks and supervising student patrol and emergency medical services on campus.

Harris said his department’s mission also includes community policing and being an active member of the Macomb campus and local community. OPS hosts two “Coffee with a Cop” programs each year, partners with other campus department for such programs as Take Back the Night and Sexual Assault Awareness Month, works with the Macomb Police Department and University Relations to issue reminders

regarding holiday safety tips and fire safety, is a part of the Community University Partnership Program, supports the local Crime Stoppers program and has participated in philanthropic activities such as Special Olympics Polar Plunge, St. Baldrick’s, St. Paul’s Raising Saints Block Party, Salvation Army bell-ringing and Movember, to name a few.

Like officers from city and county agencies, OPS officers attend a 14-week training academy before earning their badges, and must then participate in a 14-week field training program.

“We understand the students, and we understand their issues and concerns,” Harris added. “While a majority of the community sees us as a resource and benefit to the community, there may be some individuals who may see us as a hindrance, or here to make their lives difficult, but in reality, we are here to help. We want to see the students here succeed.

We choose this line of work because we feel a sense of duty to our community. We try to get voluntary compliance in our policing style, but we will most certainly apprehend those who break the law and disturb the peace within our community.”

There are 49 blue light emergency call boxes installed across the WIU campus. Anyone may notify OPS day or night, 365 days a year..

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By Alisha Looney MA ‘13

Western Illinois University’s School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (LEJA) recently debuted a new interactive internship Google map, which displays nine categories of criminal justice internships and locations where students are placed, on the school’s website at wiu.edu/leja. The map also displays the agencies, organizations and companies that actively solicit WIU students for open positions within their organizations.

According to Jill Joline Myers, School of LEJA director, more pins will be added as students are placed in internships throughout the coming years. Myers added that while the map shows criminal justice placements within the previous and

current academic years, Department, the U.S. over the school’s 50Department of year history, student Homeland Security interns have worked at in Kansas City, the approximately 1,400 Kankakee County locations worldwide.

State’s Attorney “What’s great and the myriad of about this interactive various agencies map is you can choose within the state of the criminal justice Illinois, nationally and category and see internationally,” Myers McDonald with her children exactly where our added. “We’re thrilled interns are placed—from D.C. to to show our current students, as well California to Florida and beyond— as prospective students, just how far and by clicking on a pin, you can their degree will take them.” see the specific agency supporting Senior LEJA major Ines Palmiero our interns, such as Interpol in Herrera traveled to Viladecavalls, Washington D.C., a state prison in Spain in Summer 2018 to work with South Dakota, a security agency in the local police department. She said Las Vegas, the Bloomington Fire that while she mostly assisted with paperwork and learned how to properly complete reports, she also attended a firearms training.

“They let me attend a shooting drill. A police chief was there from another city and he explained what they were doing and what they were learning,” said Palmiero Herrera. “He told me the officers can’t seize something

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McDonald with her step son and husband

or enter a house unless they have this or this or this, and I told him all of this was the same as in the States. I had learned all of this in my classes at Western.”

Another student explained how Western went above and beyond to make sure that she was able to attend classes after her life took a different direction.

Miranda McDonald ’18, an LEJA graduate student, began to take classes at Western in 2012 and was only a year in when she accepted a position as a correctional officer for the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), which required her to participate in a training academy that did not allow contact with the outside world during the week.

She wanted to return to Western, but her new schedule was too demanding. She took some online

Palmiero Herrera with Viladecavalls police officers

courses, but at the time, the online courses were limited and she eventually ran out of courses.

“One day at work, I received an email from WIU saying the school was beginning to partner with IDOC to help state employees like me,” explained McDonald. “I was so excited that I emailed the department head [Myers] and told her my story. She was able to work with academic advisor Stacey Dorsett ’89 to create a specific schedule just so I could continue my studies. I am forever grateful! And because of the integrated bachelor’s/master’s program, I was able to take my last three courses for my bachelor’s degree and also have them count toward my master’s.”

A 2016 alumna who has been working for the U.S. Secret Service for almost a year was recently assigned

to the White House, and she said she would not be in the position she is without the help of Western.

“I could not have done it without the WIU LEJA professors,” she said.

“I want to let Western students know that anything is possible. I never believed I would be assigned to the White House, never in a million years.

WIU has a lot of great opportunities and great professors. I would not be where I am today without their guidance, patience and drive to teach.”

Western’s School of LEJA boasts nearly 13,200 alumni around the world, and nearly 2,000 students are currently enrolled as LEJA majors and/or minors. For more information, visit LEJA@wiu.edu or call (309) 298-1038.

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What I Know Now Kirk Dillard ’77, Chair, Regional Transportation Authority; Locke Lord LLP Law Firm Partner; Former Senator; Governor’s Chief of Staff; and Alumni Council President Put family first and friendships too...

Those are what matter. Display those photos as a reminder and as a stress reliever at work. It is critical to have a well-balanced life in order to be an effective employer or employee.

Treat the custodian the same as the CEO...

Secretaries and staff make the workplace run. Seek their input and suggestions since they know how things REALLY operate. Say “thank you” and mean it!

Macomb and McDonough County have the friendliest people anywhere…

I have traveled to all corners of the Land of Lincoln; nowhere have I experienced the warmth I have in western Illinois communities. WIU has a humanity about it I cherish.

Every vote counts...

I lost the 2010 Republican Primary for Governor by 193 votes­­—1/10,000th of a percent or about a vote per county. Western would have its new Performing Arts Center had I been elected.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

You don’t need a famous name to succeed...

I knew no one. We were an ordinary family—my father was a teacher, my mother was a nurse and

Senator Dillard laughs with his then-State Senate colleague in Springfield, Barack Obama

Dillard with his daughters

my grandfathers worked in a factory and coal mines. Western’s Political Science faculty members and graduate assistant (and former member of the WIU Foundation Board) Neil Flynn ’75 MA ’76 introduced me to an internship program in Springfield and it changed my life forever. If you work hard, do your homework and prepare, you will excel.

Get—and be—a mentor...

From the late WIU President Emeritus Leslie Malpass, Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity Advisor Gordon Taylor ’68 (former WIU Alumni Director), Director of Student Activities Jim Miner ’72 MS ’73 and an accessible faculty, I had fabulous mentors at Western. I was so fortunate to have Illinois Governors James Thompson and Jim Edgar as career influencers.

Today, I mentor students from Western, the University of Chicago, DePaul—where I serve on the Law School Dean’s Advisory Board—and the College of DuPage. I love to mentor young attorneys at my law firm, Locke Lord LLP. The best thing you can give someone is a chance.

Where mass transit goes the economy grows...

One-sixth of Illinois (over two million each workday) ride Chicagoland’s mass transit system (The “L,” Metra commuter rail, CTA and the Pace suburban buses). Over 50 percent of all new jobs in the past decade were within a half-mile of mass transit and 85 percent of commercial construction was within a mile of mass transit. For every dollar invested

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Kirk Dillard, 1977 senior class

in transit it returns $4 in private investment—an unparalleled return in Illinois.

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Every day is a great day to be a Leatherneck...

Purple and gold are beautiful colors, and Western has the nation’s most awesome nickname stemming from its proud military friendly tradition.

Finally, 30-second rapid fire tips...

Do what you can with what you have and where you are located. Credibility is a non-renewable resource. Ask for help since pretending doesn’t make you smarter. There will be setbacks— Lincoln, Reagan and Churchill lost elections. Be tolerant and trust your gut. Dream big since a Western education prepares you for anything.

Learn the art of listening. Make friends before you need them. Money doesn’t buy class. Put the iPhone down and look into people’s eyes. Paralyze resistance with perseverance. Life is tough so trust your Western Illinois University “Tradition of Tough.”

Western is a center of excellence but it needs our help...

For many years it has been named a “Best Midwestern College” by the Princeton Review and is on Forbes list of “Best Colleges." The Economist named WIU as one of the top three Illinois institutions for value between the cost of tuition and future earnings. Our graduates have won Superbowls and have served as, or are currently: Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; Director of the U.S. Marshalls; Vice President at ESPN; chair of a Big Three auto manufacturer; Vice President of the Disney Corporation; Superintendents of Education for the state of Illinois and Chicago, New Orleans and Philadelphia schools; top advisors at the White House; President of the Illinois Farm Bureau; Financial

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Chief of the Illinois Tollway; state legislators; CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies; U.S. Ambassadors; Emmy-nominated actors; top park district administrators; National History Teacher of the Year; Chair of the Chicago Board of Trade; President/CEO of Chicago’s top ranked Lurie Children’s Hospital; Deputy Director of the FBI and named a top 10 lawyer in America.

Leathernecks are leaders worldwide in almost any field.

Our recent graduates led all Illinois public universities in the Certified Public Accountant exam pass rate, had a 100 percent passage rate on the state’s Nursing Exam, won the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts competition in Washington, D.C., made the NCAA Women’s basketball tournament and have perfect placement rates upon graduation in

cutting edge fields like logistics. We are the only major U.S. university to have a location adjacent to the Mississippi River.

Now is the time to help your alma mater by recruiting students … send your children, grandchildren, family and neighbors to Western. They will thank you later.

Brad Bainter ’79 MS ’83, Vice President of Advancement & Public Service and the Executive Officer of the WIU Foundation, has done an amazing job alongside our faculty and staff in shepherding the school through this unprecedented fiscal crisis. Two years of no funding from Springfield have taken a serious toll on the University. Please contribute if you are able and/or check to see if your employer matches gifts. Western has never needed or deserved our help more than right now!

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Student Spotlight Victoria Ketterer,

Junior Fire Protection Services Major What does Western Illinois University mean to me? Opportunities, knowledge, hands-on experience, friendships and much more. My name is Victoria. I am a junior fire science major at WIU. My journey in fire science began four years ago at the Bloomington Area Career Center. There I was able to get a basic knowledge in firefighting, along with my EMT-B license. During my junior year, a University came to talk to the students; this University was WIU. This was the day I fell in love with my future home.

Since choosing to attend Western, I have been blessed with so many opportunities. My freshman year, I joined the nation’s only fire science fraternity: Omega Gamma Phi (OGP). By my second semester, I was the secretary of OGP. This opportunity allowed me to learn not only fire science skills, but life skills, such as organization and working with people. I just recently passed the position on to another member.

Through OGP, I was also given the opportunity to participate in SkillsUSA again, which is an organization that offers competitions in technical careers at the high school

and college levels. I participated in high school, placing first at the state level twice and 10th and 13th at the national level. When Professors Swanson and Walker asked if anyone wanted to represent WIU at SkillsUSA, I jumped at the opportunity. I made so many connections while competing in high school, so another chance to network was easy to say yes to.

Competing at state was nothing new for me, and it wasn’t that difficult considering I was the only college student there. However, I still had to prove I was competent in both my hands-on skills and the physical challenge, both simulating the everyday

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tasks of a firefighter. Upon returning, OGP’s training spaces were opened to me to begin training for nationals.

I was allowed to use the University’s firefighting gear as well. Over the summer I traveled to Louisville (KY) with my mother and sister to represent WIU and the state of Illinois at nationals. Nationals is a weeklong competition, each day ranging from eight-12 hours long. I had to complete skills like ropes and knots, donning fire gear, a written test, a job interview and the candidate physical ability test. During the down time, my fellow competitors and I formed friendships that I still hold today. The females were vastly outnumbered by the males. Therefore, we spent much of our time together talking about the challenges we overcome as females in a male–dominated career. I was also able make contacts with fire chiefs and teachers from around the country. At the end of the week, it was announced that I placed sixth in the nation at the collegiate level and as the number one female in the nation at the collegiate level. Without the training and backing of WIU and the LEJA and fire science programs, I would have never had the opportunity to obtain those titles.

WIU has also brought me my best friends and future bridesmaids.

I know it is corny, but it is true.

Outside of WIU’s educational opportunities, there are many social activities. I chose to surround myself with the amazing women of Chi Omega, a social sorority. It offers me not only friendships, but opportunities to grow as a leader and in my professional life. I am currently the sorority’s secretary.

Another opportunity WIU has given me is working as an EMT-B as a member of Western EMS (WEMS).

WEMS gives me the chance to hone my EMT skills in real life situations.

With WEMS, we respond on campus to medical emergencies of students, faculty, staff and campus guests. Being able to practice my skills in real life is an opportunity I am so grateful for, and when I graduate, I will be ready for the workforce.

Thanks to WIU I have been given so many opportunities both in my professional and personal life.

I appreciate all that the alumni do to help current and future students of WIU. Without Western Illinois University, I would never have been able to become the person I am to today: a confident young female, working her way toward a career in a male–dominated field, with no reservations about my future.

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John Conrad

The proposal was approved by the Applied Sciences Curriculum Committee during Summer 1968, the Faculty Senate in September 1968, the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities in February 1969 and the Board of Higher Education in June 1969. Van Meter was named the director of the program, which grew rapidly—in part because Western was the only residential institution in Illinois to offer a law enforcement bachelor’s degree. In 1976, a graduate program was established. After its 25th anniversary in 1994, the department’s name was changed to Law Enforcement and Justice

The Law Enforcement and Justice Administration Program at Western: Its Past and its Present and Future Contributions

By Kathy Nichols ’89’ MA ‘94, WIU Archives

Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (LEJA) at Western Illinois University is an internationally-recognized provider of top criminal justice and public safety instruction, with more than 1,400 partner agencies and approximately 13,000 alumni. Moreover, it is the largest criminal justice education program in the state of Illinois and one of the largest in the United States.

The majority of the program is now offered in both traditional and online formats in order to accommodate the lifestyle and geographical needs of students. For good reason, LEJA is a signature program and a source of pride at WIU. The planning for a degree program in law enforcement at Western began in 1968, as a result of the passage

of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act. That piece of legislation was in part an outgrowth of public awareness of the relative lack of control over the sale and possession of firearms in the United States, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and other political leaders, shortcomings in existing law enforcement policies and rising crime rates in America.

At the request of Richard Gibb, administrative assistant to former WIU President A. L. Knoblauch, a proposal for a law enforcement program was prepared by Clifford Van Meter MA ’69, director of safety and security, in conjunction with John Conrad and Maurice Porter. The proposal was based on a survey in which all existing four-year programs

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Administration to accommodate the growing number of students interested in corrections, law, private security and juvenile justice careers.

Eventually, the program developed from a department to a School.

Like all entities, LEJA has been shaped by the people associated with it who have been dedicated to a higher purpose. One notable example is the late John Conrad, a co-founder of the LEJA department.

Conrad earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana State University, did post-graduate work in law at Indiana University, taught in public schools and worked for the

Indiana Department of Corrections as a senior counselor before beginning his career at Western in 1967, teaching criminology in the sociology department. He chaired LEJA from 1974-83 and continued to teach until his retirement in 1999.

During the department’s early years, he oversaw the development of the master’s degree program and the expansion of the undergraduate and graduate extension courses in Burlington, Quincy, Springfield, the Quad Cities and the Chicago area. Specialized law enforcement education and training programs were offered throughout Illinois, and Conrad was the principal instructor for 80 of them. In addition, he worked extensively as a planner and consultant with the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission, the Western Illinois Crime Commission and drug task force units of various federal and state agencies.

The School of LEJA prides itself on the professors and chairs who provide the direction and instruction for the program. All faculty have had extensive careers within the criminal justice and public safety arena and as a result are able to provide real-

Richard Gibb

in the United States (approximately 48 of them) were contacted. Leaders from approximately two-thirds of those programs responded, and the information they provided was used in the creation of a basic curricula outline at Western.

1969 Van Meter ’69 (R) with Lawrence J. Slamons Jr. ’78 (L)

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Carper was the first woman tenured full professor in LEJA.

world, first-hand accounts of policies, strategies and responses to myriads of incidents to their students. Each faculty member brings to the table examples and issues that students and leaders will encounter when they begin, or grow in, their careers.

Another trailblazer in LEJA is Professor Emeritus Gayle Carper ’73 MS-Ed ’80. Carper started her teaching career at WIU in 1985, and in November 1988, Carper had her first article published in a refereed journal, the initial step to becoming the first woman tenured full professor in the LEJA Department. She was promoted to a tenured position in 1992, and taught at WIU under her retirement in 2012. Carper earned her bachelor’s degree in English education and master’s degree in education from Western Illinois, followed by her Juris Doctor from DePaul University in 1983.

In 1993, Clyde Cronkhite, who had worked his way up through the Los Angeles Police Department, eventually being named deputy chief, followed by a stint as chief of the Santa Anna Police Department, was named the LEJA Department chair.

During his time as chair, through 1998, Cronkhite As chair of the department during the years 1993-98, Cronkhite established an auxiliary program on Western’s Quad Cities campus and expanded the overall program to include additional coursework in

pre-law, corrections, probation and fire science. It was during his tenure that the name of the department was expanded from the Law Enforcement Administration to Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (July 1, 1994). After stepping down from the position of chair, he continued to teach in the department until his retirement in 2012.

Since its origins in 1969, the program has expanded beyond its initial primary policing focus to a fullscale criminal justice and public safety program, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees to practitioners and leaders around the nation at state and federal levels.

Current faculty include a former FBI behavioral analyst with expertise in interviewing, interrogating and detecting deception of terrorists and criminals; several former Illinois State Police administrators and current and retired police chiefs with expertise in management supervision and deployment; former Chicago, Joliet and Wheaton police personnel with skillsets ranging from crime scene processing to ethical policing and policing styles (community policing and intelligent led policing) and a retired Los Angeles supervisor with Secret Service and police academy training credentials and expertise in digital and cyber investigations.

The School also has faculty with extensive expertise in corrections, juvenile justice, restorative justice and policy creation and implementation.

The Homeland Security and Security Administration programs are fortunate to have faculty who have garnered international esteem as a result of their teaching, researching and presenting on policy, legal issues, family and homegrown terrorist connections, threat assessment and national incident management responses. The legal courses in the curriculum are taught entirely by attorneys with former prosecution, defense, judicial and civil experience.

Within the last five years, the fire curriculum has grown to include two majors and two minors, which

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Clyde Cronkhite

have enabled students earning baccalaureate degrees to obtain internships and receive certifications while being instructed by former fire chiefs, deputy fire chiefs and those with the Executive Fire Certification Board.

Jill Joline Myers, the current director of the LEJA program, earned her juris doctorate from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Before joining the faculty at Western, she spent 21 years as a prosecutor in Baltimore, MA. One of Myers’ achievements while she was in Baltimore was serving as the division chief of the special investigations unit, which targeted and prosecuted violent drug trafficking organizations by employing wire, electronic and oral surveillance techniques.

Constitutional law, primarily fourth, fifth and 14th Amendment issues, cyber investigations and school safety are her primary areas of expertise.

She said she is proud that WIU has now opened a state-of–the art crime laboratory, thanks to the generous donation from the family of former faculty member William McCamey ’80 MA ’82. She is also proud of the extensive outreach and civic involvement her faculty engage in with the community, including various professional groups.

Her faculty routinely offer summer camps for high school students interested in crime scene

investigation and policing practices, provide security assessments for local businesses and churches and conduct presentations related to disaster preparedness, fire prevention and response, cyber aggression, sexting, ethics and civics education.

The faculty also provide support to agencies in the recruitment and hiring processes at gang, juvenile and legal conferences by presenting and judging at events.

Overall, the School of LEJA has developed in the last 50 years from a concept into a servant leadership program that actively educates and supports individuals and organizations involved with criminal justice and public safety. The School of LEJA is a leader in education and professionalization in the realm of criminal justice and public safety of which we can all be proud.

LEJA Professor Emerita Gayle Carper and Jill Myers speaking a the McCamey Crime Lab dedication

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Appreciation is extended by the author to Director of the WIU School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration Jill Joline Myers for her assistance with this historical overview.

Degrees offered through LEJA • Bachelor of Science in LEJA • Bachelor of Science in Fire Protection Services (Fire Science) • Bachelor of Science in Fire Protection Services Administration • Minors: criminalistics, homeland security, law enforcement, corrections, security management, legal studies, fire science and fire administration

The new McCamey Crime Lab

Myers with students

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Giving Back to Western McCamey Crime Lab Provides Leading-Edge Opportunities for Students

By Darcie Dyer-Shinberger ’89 MS ’98 The late Bill McCamey ’80 MA ’82, Western Illinois University law enforcement and justice administration professor emeritus, was considered a “forward thinker,” always looking for new ways to recruit students and promote his department, as well as staying up to date on trends to enhance his students’ education.

That forward-thinking ... and McCamey’s legacy ... lives on at WIU in the form of the new School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (LEJA) McCamey Crime Lab. The premier state-of-theart crime lab, which is located on the fourth floor of Tillman Hall, is the result of a sizeable donation from Jody ’85 and the late Toby McCamey to honor their husband and son.

McCamey was a professor within the School of LEJA from 1982-12. He passed away unexpectedly Nov. 19, 2013.

The McCamey Crime Lab officially debuted for classes in January. The lab houses alternate light source equipment with magnifying lenses and interchangeable barrier filters to examine hair, fibers, semen, dust, prints, blood and palmar oils, as well as other physiological fluids. The lab also features an optical comparator, which examines tool marks, fingerprints, palm prints, footprints and glass fragments; a forensic workstation; a ductless dry safe and numerous evidence recovery kits, including a liquid silicone casting kit, latent print kit, digital mobile device kit and blood spatter documentation kit.

“The addition of the crime lab affords students experience in cuttingedge and best practice techniques taught by exceptional faculty who have real-world expertise in the field,” School Director Jill Myers said. “The hands-on lab offers the link between academics and application of the theories to real world events. Plus, it makes the learning exciting, entertaining and purposeful. This is such wonderful gift for our students.”

Additionally, the crime lab is equipped with movable walls, props, cameras and mannequins so the room can be transformed to stage working crime scenes.

McCamey joined the WIU faculty after earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Western and his doctorate from the University of Iowa. Within the School of LEJA, McCamey taught courses in criminal justice management, fire administration and policing. He also taught and developed fire courses for the National Fire Academy.

His colleague, WIU LEJA Professor Emerita Gayle Carper ’73 MS-Ed ’80 spoke at the lab’s dedication ceremony in Fall 2018, recalling how McCamey was a great role model for new faculty.

“Thirty years ago, I had my first article published in a refereed journal, my initial step to becoming the first woman tenured full professor in the LEJA department. That’s important today because that article would not

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have existed without my co-author Bill McCamey. He came up with the idea and asked me to join him,” Carper said.

“I would have had a hard time getting tenure without Bill. He spent a lot of the time explaining the process and helping me. Bill didn’t have to be asked for help; he was always available.”

Carper also shared how McCamey investigated several cases for her when she was a criminal defense attorney.

“His reputation for thorough investigation and credibility changed the course of several of my cases, even getting one dismissed—a rarity in McDonough County—because he found evidence that showed incorrect police reporting,” she explained. “He was universally admired by students.

His experience, knowledge of, and interest in his subject matter were obvious, and his enthusiasm was evident out of the classroom as well.”

While at Western, McCamey helped certify 1,800 police as juvenile specialists and served as the department’s graduate school coordinator.

WIU Office of Public Safety (OPS) Lt. Derek Watts ’96 MA ’15 said he remembers walking into the first day of a 32-hour Illinois Juvenile Officer course in Summer 1997 and meeting McCamey for the first time. Immediately, the two began talking and McCamey began touting Western’s LEJA graduate program to Watts, who had earned his bachelor’s in law enforcement from WIU. “A year later, I was hired by OPS, and it wasn’t long after I joined the department that Dr. McCamey tracked me down and asked me again about pursuing my master’s degree. I

remember him telling me, ‘You might not think it will be beneficial now, but it may provide opportunities in the future,’” Watts said. “I kept telling him I didn’t have the time, but he kept persisting … and I ended up getting my master’s.

“The last time I talked to him, I saw him in the LEJA department office and told him I owed him an apology for not completing my master’s degree.

He told me I didn’t owe him anything as long as I finished the program,” he added. “Unfortunately, I did not get to shake his hand when I crossed the stage to get my degree, but I knew he would’ve been the first in line to congratulate me. As fate would have it, I met Jody (McCamey) and had the honor of sharing how Bill influenced me. He was right.”

In addition to teaching, advising and recruiting, McCamey co-authored four law enforcement textbooks, published numerous peer-reviewed articles on fire science and criminal

justice and was the editor of the Journal of Security Administration.

McCamey’s professional experience included serving as a Canton (IL) firefighter, police officer, investigator and paramedic.

“Bill was a firefighter, then a police officer, then an investigator for Fulton County. When he got to Western, he found himself. I think these are the best tributes I can give Bill,” Jody said.

“I know he is looking down smiling.

Every time he taught juvenile justice classes he would wear his WIU shirt to reinforce how important Western’s criminal justice program is to their profession. This new lab adds to Bill’s legacy and will provide an outstanding hands-on learning experience for LEJA students at Western.”

Jody said Bill was always a “forward thinker,” constantly bringing up some of his unsolved cases, and remarking that additional investigation and crime-solving techniques would further enhance

the student’s educational experience.

The new crime lab embodies his desire to increase student capabilities in meeting the challenges of modern investigations, she added.

McCamey’s legacy is apparent, not just through the thousands of alumni who had the benefit of his knowledge and the new lab. In 2015, Jody and Toby first established the William P. McCamey Public Safety Memorial Educational Scholarship in the School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration.

“We cannot thank Jody and Toby enough for their continued support of the LEJA program in Bill’s memory with this gift to fund the much-needed crime laboratory,” said Vice President for Advancement and Public Services Brad Bainter ’79 MS ’83. “Bill was certainly one of the professors who helped move the LEJA program forward to where it stands today as one of the largest and most successful programs in the country.”

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Justice, Integrity, Service …

A Journey with the U.S. Marshals Service

By Darcie Dyer-Shinberger ’89 MS ’98 The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is the nation’s oldest and most versatile federal law enforcement agency. Since 1789, federal marshals have served the nation through a variety of law enforcement activities, including fugitive apprehension, witness protection and prisoner transport (“Con Air,” anyone?!).

And one Western Illinois University graduate made the U.S. Marshals Service his life’s work.

Ninety-four U.S. marshals, appointed by the president or the U.S. Attorney General, direct the activities of 94 district offices and personnel stationed at more than 350 locations throughout the nation, and approximately 4,800 deputy marshals and career employees perform nationwide, day-to-day missions.

David Harlow ’82, a law enforcement and justice administration graduate, started as one of those 4,800 deputy marshals back in 1983. Thirty-two years later, Harlow found himself at the helm of the USMS as acting director. He served in that capacity until his retirement in January 2018.

So, how did a suburban Oak Forest (IL) youth end up at Western, then with an elite government law enforcement agency one year after his graduation? Because of family and certainly by chance, Harlow said.

“My sister went to school at Western, so I’d been here for a few visits. I was a track athlete in high school, and WIU had high hurdles, so I thought I’d walk onto the track team. I came here for school and for track, and learned very quickly that I was not a college athlete,” Harlow laughed. “The coach and my teammates were great, and because

they took some pity on me, I supposed, I was able to run during the indoor and outdoor season, but I wasn’t in the same league as the other athletes.”

Harlow said in addition to thinking he could run track at Western, in high David Harlow school he was also into computers. “I thought I was better at computers than I truly was,” he said. So, of course, he first majored in computer science.

“For the first time in my life, I wasn’t enjoying things I thought I had always been good at. My friend in Wetzel Hall had registered for an Intro to Law Enforcement class, so he talked me into joining him in the class. I can’t remember exactly who the professor was, either Bill Johnson ’76 or Stan Cunningham ’77 MA ’79, but what I do remember is the passion this professor had for his job and his students. That’s all it took for me to change my major to law enforcement,” Harlow said. “I have such a debt of gratitude for Western. Law enforcement was the furthest thing from my mind when I first got here, but that first class and every one after, I felt the passion come through my professors. They had experience in the field and they brought that to class.”

When Harlow graduated in 1982, he moved to Minnesota, with his wife, Lisa—who he met on Wetzel 11 and admitted they “didn’t like each other very much at first”—where her parents owned a business and offered her a job. Harlow began applying for law enforcement jobs, while working

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at a Mobil gas station.

He was hired by the U.S. Marshals Service one year later, and Lisa and David moved to the Buckeye State.

“Believe it or not, I took a $7,000 pay cut to become a federal agent.

My salary as a deputy marshal was $13,000, and I was making $20,000 at the gas station,” he said.

Harlow said his hire as a recent graduate was a new initiative for the USMS. The general rule back then, he explained, was in order to work for a federal law enforcement agency, an individual had to first work for a local law enforcement department. In the mid-80s, the agency decided to hire young graduates right out of college, so Harlow’s USMS class was half new graduates and half nine- to 10-year law enforcement veterans. His first duty station after the academy was in the Toledo, OH, office.

“It turned out to be a blessing.

Had I been assigned to a large office, I would have been pigeon-holed.

The Toledo office was a four-man office covering 21 counties. We had something different going on every day, so I really got some great experience there,” Harlow said. “But had the USMS had K-9 officers back in the day, my story would have been much different. I’d still be a deputy U.S. marshal in a truck with my dog.”

The Harlows made Toledo their home for 18 years. It was only during the last few years on the job in Toledo that he felt his family could be in danger because of his job.

“Honestly, early on in my career, we didn’t worry about it. We were in a relatively small town and we had a group of ‘regulars.’ We knew who the bad guys were and where they were at, so I just told my wife to be aware,” Harlow explained. “The one time I was really worried was when I was in a mall with my toddler son and my other son, who was a baby and was in my arms, when I saw a man approaching us who I’d sent to prison.

I didn’t know how I was going to draw my gun and protect my children if I needed to. But it ended up okay.

He approached me and told me I saved his life.”

Harlow added that his youngest son, that baby in the mall, is now a police officer, and they joke he had his first arrest at the age of 9 when he was with his dad during a “Take Your Child to Work” day. They were having lunch at Subway and Harlow’s men were on a fugitive hunt. They called Harlow to tell him where they thought the fugitive was, what he was driving and the vehicle’s plate number.

“I wrote it down, and my son, who had been looking out the window, turned to me and said ‘Dad, the numbers match the license on that car.’ Sure enough, our guy had switched plates from an Escort to a Continental and my 9-year-old caught it,” he laughed.

After a few more years in Toledo, Harlow was promoted to chief deputy marshal for the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland, where he served for six years. Harlow made numerous contributions while assigned to Northern Ohio, including serving as national commander of Operation FALCON 2007, serving as deputy commander of operation FALCON III, developing Toledo’s first cooperative fugitive apprehension team consisting of multiple law enforcement agencies, and overseeing the development of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force.

Before arriving at USMS Headquarters in D.C., he was the chief deputy marshal for the Eastern District of Virginia from

David Harlow (far right) with the former AG and directors of the ATF, DEA, FBI and UMSS.

2007-08. In 2008, Harlow took over what may have been his toughest role of his career: chief of the Sex Offender Investigations Branch, where he oversaw the development and deployment of the Agency’s Sex Offender Apprehension Program.

He also oversaw the interagency National Sex Offender Targeting Center and developed the USMS Behavioral Analysis Unit to assist with prioritizing and targeting noncompliant and fugitive sex offenders.

It was in this role, which he served from 2008-12, when he met John Walsh, the creator of “America’s Most Wanted” and father of Adam Walsh, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1981.

“The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act was signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on July 27, 2006, which allowed the USMS to hunt those who prey on children and also put into place a consistent registry for law enforcement to track pedophiles,” Harlow explained. “What we learned in our work was that pedophiles are never cured and must be kept track of.

It was a very tough job. You see and hear terrible things every day. You’re exposed to some truly awful people.

I’ve been a part of violent fugitive task forces, but in the sex offender realm, you see the darkest side of people that sear your soul.”

In his role as chief, Harlow, along with Dr. Michael Bourke, chief psychologist of the USMS Behavioral Analysis Division, created a Safeguarding Program, which was designed to help state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as the marshals, cope with what they dealt with in their career. As Harlow pointed out, what marshals see as a part of the sex offense investigations aren’t things that one can drink away or take up a hobby that will take your mind off what you’ve seen.

“There’s a shelf life for those who work on sex offense crimes, especially if you have children. We saw that our agents and officials who worked in sex crimes would start to pull away from their family, but most didn’t want to see the ‘shrink squad’ to talk over what they were going through.

We had to change that culture,” he explained. “We really wanted to make sure that they could seek help for themselves and their families.

We needed to give them the tools to stay healthy. Employee Assistance Programs are good, but they are like putting on a bullet proof vest after you’ve been shot. Our officers need the tools before they’re affected, but even then there are things you just cannot forget.”

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Harlow’s Words of Wisdom Harlow was promoted to the senior executive service when he was selected as the assistant director of the Investigative Operations Division (IOD), overseeing the agency’s extensive fugitive investigations mission. From 2012-14, Harlow served as the associate director for operations, managing the USMS Operational Directorate, which includes Investigative Operations, Judicial Security, Witness Security, Tactical Operations, Prisoner Operations and the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System.

As Harlow has served in every branch of the USMS and led the agency, when asked about how the USMS is portrayed in the movies (think Tommy Lee Jones) and television shows, he grinned and said while things like “Con Air” certainly exist, “it’s nothing like the movie with Nicholas Cage.”

“The movie ‘The Fugitive’ is pretty reasonable in some parts, but most of that movie and others are off base.

For example, in ‘Justify’ they did an awful lot of shooting. In reality, that just doesn’t happen,” Harlow said. “As for the mob, it still exists,

but there are a lot more than just the Cosa Nostra out there and it’s more underground. It was more public back in the day. The witness protection is still obviously in place, and to date, we haven’t had one witness harmed and thousands have been through the program.”

While times have changed for the USMS, and criminals have certainly gotten more sophisticated over the years. Harlow said the advent of social media has made the job more difficult—and dangerous—yet in the same vein, also a little easier.

“We may be on the hunt for a fugitive, and one of our behind-thescenes tech guys will come across the violent, hardened criminal who just took a selfie in front of the 7-Eleven and posted it on Instagram,” he pointed out. “It’s easier to threaten people now, but it’s also easier to track them down.

However, they can also find us much easier. Our names, our addresses, what our families look like... social media puts so much more out there for the bad guys.”

After working in the field and overseeing several branches, units and

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divisions over the years, Harlow was named deputy director in 2014 and acting director in July 2015. In spite of some of the horrific things he’s seen over the years, Harlow has been happy with his career and the accomplishments it has brought.

He has received numerous accolades, including Attorney General’s Awards, Director’s Awards and several special act and performance awards.

“I’ve had a lot of wonderful experiences, and unfortunately, I’ve also had to attend a lot of funerals. I’ve worked some very big cases and very big events. I’ve seen heinous people arrested and put away for life. It’s nice to know I’ve contributed to society and made a difference,” he said.

While he’s still easing into retirement, Harlow remains an active

member of the federal law enforcement community. He serves as a consultant for law enforcement agencies and private entities that service them.

He plans on continuing his work with John Walsh and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and he is a member the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.

Because of an experience that occurred in 2011, when nine deputy marshals and special deputy U.S. Marshals were killed in the line of duty in a two-month span—the first marshals lost since 1992—Harlow and several others started a USMS Survivors Benefit Fund. When he was promoted to the senior executive service, he had to recuse himself from

the initiative, but after retirement, he’s back working with the board, which raises funds to ensure the survivors of a marshal killed in the line of duty have their bills paid while awaiting “line of duty insurance.” The board’s goal is to pay for college for every child of a fallen marshal.

When he’s not working as a consultant or with the Benefit Fund Board, David and Lisa can be found camping, and recently, the pair followed their lifelong dream of traveling the old Route 66 in his Mustang convertible.

“We did the ‘brown sign’ tour, and we stopped for every ‘World’s Largest Ball of Twine’ and stayed in a wigwam in Holbrook, Arizona,” he grinned. “For the first time in 35 years, we took more than a one-week vacation. That said, I still expect a call when I hear sirens in the distance, and now, instead of dealing with 500 emails a day, I’m lucky if I get a coupon from Home Depot.

I’m still getting used to not having anything to do after Sunday. And I drive the speed limit now and just put the cruise on.”

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• You can go into law enforcement without a badge or a gun. Eight thousand people are arrested each year due to the work of the person behind the computer in the USMS. You don’t have to be in a squad car or have sniper skills to chase bad guys.

• Law enforcement often is hours of boredom followed by minutes of terror.

• You can major (or minor) in computer science, pre-law, psychology, fitness. There are all sorts of ways to get into federal law enforcement.

• Look at all your college coursework. It’s important to have enthusiasm for what you’re doing. Do what you love.

I loved what I did for more than 30 years, and it started at Western.

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By Alisha Looney MA ’13

A small-town WIU alumnus captures one of the most powerful and elusive drug lords in the world. ** Some names and locations have been changed to protect former colleagues.

When Drew Hogan ’02 was growing up, all he could think about was becoming a police officer after graduating college.

He had no idea that life had other plans for him … plans that included moving his family to Mexico and capturing one of the most notorious Drew Hogan drug lords of all time.

The year was 1999, and Hogan was an 18-year-old kid ready to blast through college to land his dream job.

“I always knew I wanted to be a cop. There was no question of where I should go to school. Western was, and still is, the premier school for a law enforcement education. If you talked to anybody, that was their answer.

I wasn’t even looking at any other schools,” said Hogan.

While at WIU, Hogan started learning about the world of law enforcement through his first LEJA (law enforcement and justice administration) classes; working for WIU’s Office of Public Safety in student patrol and Western EMS (emergency medical services); his time as Sergeant at Arms of Lambda Alpha Epsilon, a professional fraternity of the American Criminal

Justice Association; and through his faculty mentors, including Professor Emeritus Dennis Bowman.

“I had several classes with Dr. Bowman, and I really respected and looked up to him,” Hogan said.

Hogan was able to graduate after only three and a half years and was fortunate to have been selected to attend the Illinois Police Corps Academy, which was held at WIU at the time. The academy was a 24-week live-in paramilitary law enforcement training program that certified graduates as police officers and provided scholarship incentives.

Hogan was then hired by a local sheriff ’s office as a patrol deputy where he worked for three and a half years before a friend, knowing how aggressive and street savvy Hogan had become at finding drugs, suggested he test with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

“I didn’t know a thing about the DEA at that time and had no intentions of becoming a special agent, but something triggered internally telling me to go and give it a shot,” said Hogan.

After completing the preliminary test in downtown Chicago, Hogan had a serendipitous encounter. “One day, I took a Harley ride and I ran into a DEA agent. He was the first one I had ever met. I told him who I was and that I had just applied.

He asked that I give him a call that following week, and before I knew it,

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I had passed the testing process and was in Quantico at basic training.”

Hogan spent 16 weeks at the DEA Training Academy before graduating near the top of his class, giving him one of the first choices of where he wanted to go next. Hogan was young and ready to explore, so he chose to head west and move to Phoenix.

Hogan was first assigned to the DEA Narcotic Task Force, where he teamed up with a Mexican-American task force officer, Diego Contreras, who would become Hogan’s partner, teaching him the world of Mexican drug trafficking and about Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, a.k.a. “El Chapo,” considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world at the time.

Excerpt from Hogan’s book: I first heard the legend of Chapo Guzmán just after midnight inside Mariscos Navolato, a dimly lit Mexican joint on North 67th Avenue in the Maryvale section of West Phoenix. My partner in the DEA Narcotic Task Force, Diego Contreras, was shouting a translation of a song into my ear: “Cuando nació preguntó la partera, Le dijo como le van a poner? Por apellido él será Guzmán Loera y se llamará Joaquín.”

“When he was born the midwife asked, ‘What are they gonna name the kid?’” Diego yelled, his breath hot and sharp with the shot of Don Julio he’d just downed. “The last name’s Guzmán Loera, and they’re gonna call him Joaquín…”

Before he knew it, Hogan was immersing himself in the narco culture and studying everything he could get his hands on. He asked himself, “What would I have to do to become the agent responsible for targeting Chapo?”

Over the next few years, Hogan and Diego built a sophisticated undercover investigation specifically targeting high-level members of Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel. After much success, Hogan knew that he would need to work and live in Mexico if he were to have any shot at capturing the cartel boss. So, in 2011, he put his name in for an open position in the DEA’s Mexico City office with hopes of continuing his hunt for Chapo.

The position is Mexico City was considered one of the most elite foreign postings for U.S. agents targeting Mexican cartels, and this would put him right in the middle of the action.

Unfortunately, he still had to consider that it wasn’t just him moving south of the border. He would be taking his wife and children with him ... right into the middle of a violent drug war. After long consideration and much discussion with his family,

Hogan and his crew made the dangerous move south of the border.

Hogan arrived at the U.S. Embassy at a time of reorganization, where he was able to take over the Sinaloa Cartel desk and would be directly responsible for leading the investigation of Chapo Guzmán.

He said he tried to hide his excitement, but he had worked his entire career for this opportunity and he had come to dominate.

Excerpt from Hogan’s book: The task in front of me was daunting. After all the failed capture operations, all the years of near misses, I knew that Chapo must have learned from his mistakes. He had the resources, the money, and the street smarts to secrete himself so deeply into the underworld that it would now be extremely difficult—perhaps even impossible—to take him unaware.

‘He has 11 years of hard study on me,’ I thought as the meeting wrapped up. ‘I’ve got a hell of a lot of catching up to do.’

For the next eight months, Hogan continued to target Chapo and members his inner circle. During that time, Hogan met Brady Fallon, a United States Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent who was targeting some of the same members. They began to work closely together and were able to infiltrate Chapo’s sophisticated communication structure, learning his methods of operation, and ultimately track his location.

Due to the rampant corruption of the Mexican government agencies bribed by Chapo, Hogan and his colleagues trusted only the Secretaría de Marina Armada de Mexico (SEMAR), the Mexican marines. Once Hogan and Fallon had established Chapo’s pattern of life and current location, they devised a capture operation with SEMAR, which, of course, did not go according to plan.

After narrowly missing Chapo once when he escaped naked via a tunnel beneath a bathtub on hydraulics in a house in a middle-class neighborhood of Culiacan, on Feb. 22, 2014, Hogan and Fallon were able to determine that El Chapo and his secretary had fled to the Miramar hotel in the Pacific coastal

Hogan with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

Hogan in his first job with the Sheriff's Office

Hogan and Brady sitting in Chapo's driveway outside Safe House 3

Hogan and Brady with El Chapo in Mazatlán

Hogan holding El Chapo’s pistol

The Man in the Black Hat El Chapo could always be seen in photographs wearing a plain black baseball cap, his signature look. While in Culiacan raiding his safehouses, Hogan came across one of Chapo’s infamous black hats in his closet, so he grabbed it and wore it during the final raid at Hotel Miramar as token of good luck.

“I drove down into the dark parking garage underneath the Miramar where the Marines had taken him [Chapo] from his room. I was donned in SEMAR camouflage BDU’s, a black ski mask wearing Chapo’s black hat when I saw the Marines standing him up. I had complete tunnel vision, ran right up and jumped in front of his face and shouted, ‘What’s up? Chapoooo!’

We locked eyes for a split second and I knew right there without a doubt that it was him. The man who had evaded capture for more than 13 years was finally in handcuffs.”

– Drew Hogan After capturing Chapo, Hogan flew to Washington D.C. to brief DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart and her top brass at DEA Headquarters along with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

“That was certainly a highlight of my career,” Hogan said.

So, how does it feel to capture one of the biggest criminals in the world?

Hogan said it was like winning the super bowl of his career, but then it left him feeling surprisingly empty.

“The following Monday, I went to the Embassy and reported for work just like a normal day. But, I was feeling so different from the high I expected to feel. I was left with a void,” Hogan said. “I realized it was never about Chapo. I had never

become obsessed with the man, I was obsessed with the challenge, the hunt, and now that it was over I had some serious decisions to make. Where do you go from capturing the number one guy on the planet?”

After much thought, Hogan decided he needed a new challenge and a new hunt. So, at the pinnacle of his career, he left the DEA and moved to Europe where he ran a global security firm in the private sector and began writing his book, “Hunting El Chapo—The inside story of the American lawman who captured the world’s most-wanted drug lord.”

“The story is an important part of history that no one would have known otherwise,” said Hogan. “This isn’t a story about one man; this is a story about two countries coming together and achieving what most thought was impossible.”

Hogan has made numerous media appearances, including NBC’s Today Show, Dateline with Lester Holt, Fox & Friends, Fox Business, National Geographic, Univision, BBC – United Kingdom and World amongst others, and he is currently working with Sony to turn his book into a motion picture.

Boarding the DEA Learjet en route to Mexico City in 2010, carrying $1.2 million inside FedEx boxes as part of a drug sting operation

2,513 kilograms of cocaine seized in Ecuador in 2010

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resort city of Mazatlán. With their elite team of Mexican Marines, they stormed the hotel in the early hours of the morning to capture the most wanted fugitive since Pablo Escobar.

Coming Full Circle After several years, Hogan decided it was time to return home and focus on his wife and three young boys. He moved back to the United States and is currently working for a good friend Pete Spizzirri ’02, who also happens to be a WIU alumnus and former police officer and narcotics detective.

“We have a blast together every day,” said Hogan. “Pete had a pretty phenomenal career and left at an early age as well. We hooked up, and became this power house with our work we do now.”

Hogan said he hasn’t been back to WIU since he left, but has fond memories of Thompson Hall and his LEJA classes and,of course, quarter draft night at the Ritz.

“Western was so good to me” he said. “I hope to bring my kids back when they get a little older.”

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Author's Note: On Feb. 12, after a threemonth trial and six-day jury deliberation, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán was convicted by a U.S. jury over a series of crimes he committed as a Mexican drug kingpin.

Because of these convictions, he will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

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STRAIGHT FROM A

STuden

Nicholle Welch, senior biology major I was completely unsure of what to expect when I was just 17 years old, applying to colleges and trying to figure out what I was supposed to do for the rest of my life. One thing I never questioned, though, was my aspiration to attend Western Illinois

University. For me, this wasn’t the right decision just because it was cost effective, but because I knew I could get the most out of my experience right here in this small-town community.

It was a scary transition for me, as I’m sure it is for all of us; but the transition was made as painless as possible by the communityminded feel at WIU. I wasn’t sure what to expect once I got here, but I was pleasantly surprised by all the opportunities that I was now suddenly surrounded by. The hardest

part for me was figuring out my next step. Should I get involved? Where do I even start? What kind of organization will I fit into? I started by stepping back and thinking about what I could get involved in that would benefit me in my future endeavors. As a prephysician assistant student, I knew that I wanted to expand my medical knowledge further; and of course, there was an excellent opportunity for that.

I joined Western Emergency Medical Services (WEMS) the first semester of my freshman year. I

figured that at the very least, I would be able to learn more about EMS and the impact it has on the community.

After my first semester, I knew this was something I was meant for; I absolutely loved it. Over the next semester, I took an EMT-B class and worked to better myself for my future and the future that I knew I wanted to have within the Western EMS organization. Eventually, I was fortunate enough to take over as the captain of the organization, and I cannot express enough how thankful I am that I decided to get involved so early in my college career. I have learned so much about what it means to be a leader, how to be a teacher,

how to continue to learn from others and how to expand all the resources I have to help someone who probably isn’t having the best day. These are all things that I will never forget.

I not only learned how to be a better care provider, but I learned so much about the law enforcement field as well. I never realized what a broad spectrum of calls law enforcement officers handle. They really are modern-day heroes, which is something I don’t think I would have ever fully appreciated without the experiences I have had at WIU. I can’t help but feel this was meant to be for me. Everything I have done at Western has helped me

grow into someone who I want to be.

I am so incredibly thankful for the experiences I have had that I know only Western Illinois University could have provided for me. I have built lifelong friendships and learned an abundance of things both inside and outside the classrooms, and I have built memories that will stay with me for the rest of my life.

When I was 17, I had no idea that my decision would have such an extremely positive impact on my life.

Has it been easy? Absolutely not; but I know that nothing worth having will ever be easy, and I couldn’t have asked for a better life experience than this one.

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A Tradition of Tough: Leathernecks Around the Globe Courtesy of WIU Athletics Western Illinois men’s basketball has a tradition of producing professional players for decades.

Former Leatherneck stars Joe Dykstra ’86 and Brad Bainter ’79 MS ’83 played professionally overseas after concluding their WIU careers, and today several players continue to play basketball and represent the Leathernecks around the globe.

David Jackson (2004-08) Leaving behind a 4-year-old son was one of the hardest decisions Jackson has ever had to make, but after his basketball career ended at Western, he left the U.S. to pursue a goal of playing professional basketball in Europe. Eleven seasons later, his career has spanned five countries.

Jackson is entering his second season with Chorale Roanne, an organization that competes in the LNB Pro B League of France.

“The most difficult part of moving from the United States to Europe was leaving my family behind,” said Jackson. “It was incredibly difficult to leave my son, Chandler.

At WIU, Jackson committed himself to scoring, and it paid off as he recorded 14.0 points per game during his senior season, a mark that ranked 12th in the league at the time.

Jackson also broke a 25-year milestone by becoming the first Leatherneck to lead the team in scoring for three consecutive years.

“My transition to the European style of play has been a little different. At WIU and in the U.S., I played a lot of one-on-one basketball.

In Europe, coaches and management are always stressing team ball,” Jackson said.

“I’ve been on teams where the one-on-one style of play was bad in the coaches’ minds and negative for the team.

The team I’m currently on allows room for oneon-one play, and it lets the Americans play our game.”

During his stint with Chorale Roanne, Jackson has been able to focus on scoring and playing a more NBA-style game.

Last season, Jackson netted 13.8 points per game to go along with 3.5 rebounds and three assists.

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Mike Miklusak (2013-17) The 6-foot-6 forward set out to make an impact on the court, and that he did, guiding New Bosch to a 24-8 season, while starting every contest and averaging 11.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and shooting 39.5 percent from three-point territory.

“After my career ended at WIU, I immediately jumped into the process of wanting to play overseas,” Miklusak said. “I had over 20 agents contact me, and I interviewed about five of them and signed the one I felt most comfortable with; after that, it was really all in the agent’s hands.

He sent out my game films to his connections, and we went from there.

Den Bosch ended up offering me a pretty good deal, and my agent told me it was an ideal situation for my rookie season, so I took it, and it was a great decision.”

After getting over the fact that there was now an ocean between Miklusak and his friends and family, one of the first things that he noticed was the use of bicycles—he was surprised to see people riding no matter the weather.

“I found it interesting how much they ride bikes in the Netherlands.

With it being so much smaller than the states, bikes are very efficient,” he said. They do not care if it’s raining, snowing or freezing cold.”

Shooting three-pointers was just like riding a bike for Miklusak.

He was honored with the Kees

Akerboom Trophy, an award given to the best three-point shooter in the Dutch Basketball League, after making a total of 78 shots from behind the arc. In 32 contests, Miklusak netted a three-pointer in all but one game, including 20 games with two or more trifectas.

Although his time with Den Bosch was memorable, Miklusak signed a contract with Gries Oberhoffen of France’s Pro B League for the 2018-19 season.

Garret Covington (2013-17) After graduating, Covington inked a deal with Albacete Basket, which competes in the LEB Plata, the third tier of professional Spanish Basketball.

For Covington, the transition to European basketball was not difficult.

While at Western, he became the program’s all-time leader in three-pointers made with 296. In a seamless transition to a new style of play, his first season at Albacete featured a team-leading 15.6 points per contest.

Covington noted that while not much changed in his game, the language barrier proved to be a little difficult at times. He knew very little Spanish when he arrived across the pond, which made small tasks like grocery shopping very interesting.

“When I went shopping for groceries, none of the cashiers spoke English, so I tested out my Spanish as much as I could,” Covington said. “I ended up just pointing to a lot of things instead of actually speaking Spanish.”

After a few weeks as an assistant coach in Edwardsville, IL, Covington returned to Spain and is now playing for L’Hospitalet, a team in Spain’s LEB Silver League.

The three players all have fond memories of their time suiting up in Purple and Gold. While Jackson played in France last season, Covington competed in Spain, and Miklusak spent his first professional contract in the Netherlands, they all have one thing in common: they are all proud Leathernecks.

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March 1, 2 p.m. at Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL March 2, 2 p.m. at Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL March 3, 1 p.m. at Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL March 8, 3 p.m. at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO March 9, 2 p.m. at Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO March 10, noon at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO March 12, 6:30 p.m. at Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK March 13, 3 p.m. at Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK March 15, 3 p.m. vs South Dakota State March 16,1 p.m. vs South Dakota State March 17, 1 p.m. vs South Dakota State March 19, 3 p.m. vs Iowa Wesleyan University March 22, 3 p.m. vs North Dakota State March 23, 1 p.m. vs North Dakota State March 24,1 p.m. vs North Dakota State March 26, 3 p.m. vs St. Ambrose March 29, 1 p.m. at Omaha, Omaha, NE March 30, 1 p.m. at Omaha, Omaha, NE March 31, 1 p.m. at Omaha, Omaha, NE April 2, 6 p.m. at Bradley, Peoria, IL April 5, 3 p.m. vs Oral Roberts April 6, 1 p.m. vs Oral Roberts April 7, 1 p.m. vs Oral Roberts April 9, 4 p.m. vs Bradley April 12, 3 p.m. vs Purdue Fort Wayne April 13, 1 p.m. vs Purdue Fort Wayne April 14, 1 p.m. vs Purdue Fort Wayne April 16, 6 p.m. at SIU - Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL April 19, 3 p.m. at South Dakota State, Brookings, SD April 20, 1 p.m. at South Dakota State, Brookings, SD April 21, 1 p.m. at South Dakota State, Brookings, SD April 23, 4 p.m. vs Southern Illinois - Edwardsville April 26, 6:30 p.m. at North Dakota State, Fargo, ND April 27, 1 p.m. at North Dakota State, Fargo, ND April 28, 1 p.m. at North Dakota State, Fargo, ND April 30, 6 p.m. at Iowa, Iowa City, IA May 3, 6 p.m. at Oral Roberts, Tulsa, OK May 4, 2 p.m. at Oral Roberts, Tulsa, OK May 5, 1 p.m. at Oral Roberts, Tulsa, OK May 10, 3 p.m. vs Omaha May 11, 1 p.m. vs Omaha May 12, 1 p.m. vs Omaha May 14, noon vs Iowa May 16, 3 p.m. at Purdue Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN May 17, 2 p.m. at Purdue Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN May 18, 1 p.m. at Purdue Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN

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2019 Softball Schedule WIU Student-Athletes Record Highest Term GPA in Department History Courtesy of WIU Athletics Western Illinois University Athletics officially crowned its Fall 2018 semester with the highest term grade point average in department history. En route to a 3.199 mark, 44 Leatherneck student-athletes completed the semester with a perfect 4.0 GPA, and a total of 129 earned honors with a 3.6 or above.

“Our student-athletes, support staff and coaches worked very hard this past fall to achieve the highest term GPA to date. This achievement reflects our dedication to our core value of academic excellence,” said Holly Van Vlymen ’00 MS-Ed ’08, Western’s assistant athletic director for academics and student-athlete development. “Our coaches have built a strong culture of academic excellence within their programs, and our student-athletes put a lot of time and energy into representing this great University to the best of their abilities, both in the classroom and in their athletic arenas. Congratulations to our student-athletes for a job well done.”

With a 3.729, women’s golf boasted the highest team average within the department, while soccer (3.375) pulled in the best mark on the men’s side.

During the 2017-18 season, WIU student-athletes posted a 3.122 GPA in the fall and a 3.17 in the spring, the second-highest departmental GPA at the time.

Fall 18 Academic Report Card 44 Student-Athletes - 4.0 244 Student-Athletes - 3.0 or above 129 Student-Athletes - Honors (3.6 or above)

Semester Team Average (Top 3 / Men & Women) W. Golf | 3.729 W. Basketball | 3.724 W. Tennis | 3.644 M. Soccer | 3.375 M. Basketball | 3.206 M. Golf | 3.119

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Cougar Classic · March 1, 2:30 p.m. UMKC, Edwardsville, IL · March 1, 5 p.m. at SIU-Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL · March 2, 12 p.m. Green Bay, Edwardsville, IL · March 3, 9:30 a.m. UMKC, Edwardsville, IL

UGA Classic Tournament · March 9, 9:30 a.m. Bowling Green, Athens, GA · March 9, 5 p.m. Elon, Athens, GA · March 10, 9:30 a.m. Bowling Green, Athens, GA · March 10, 2:30 p.m. at Georgia, Athens, GA · March 11, 5 p.m. at Georgia, Athens, GA March 13, TBA at Bethune-Cookman (DH), Daytona Beach, FL March 23, noon vs South Dakota (DH) March 24, 11 a.m. vs South Dakota March 27, 7 p.m. at Iowa, Iowa City, IA March 30, noon vs North Dakota State (DH) March 31, 11 a.m. vs North Dakota State April 6, noon South Dakota State (DH), Brookings, SD April 7, 11 a.m. at South Dakota State, Brookings, SD April 13, 1 p.m. at UL - Chicago (DH), Chicago April 19, noon at North Dakota (DH), Grand Forks, ND April 20, 11 a.m. at North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND April 27, noon vs Purdue Fort Wayne (DH) April 28, 11 a.m. vs Purdue Fort Wayne May 4, noon at Omaha (DH), Omaha, NE May 5, 11 a.m. at Omaha, Omaha, NE

Class Notes Barbara Lynn Shave ’63, Castlegar, BC, Canada, is a retired teacher from Medicine Hat School Dist. #76.

Eric Coleman ’68, Green Valley, AZ, is retired.

Roger Glazer ’68, Farmingdale, NY, was inducted into the Nassau County High School Athletics Hall of Fame on Long Island as a basketball official.

Pamela Rigsby Hoffman ’70, Yarmouth, ME, is retired.

Linda Bornsheuer Perschke ’70, Martinsville, IN, is retired.

Robert Perschke ’70, Martinsville, IN, is retired.

Jenkins Davis MBA ’71, Barrington, received a doctorate PhD from Argosy University in Chicago.

Jack Schulte ’71, Alpine, WY, is president of Redrock Aviation Inc. in Whakatane, New Zealand.

Deborah Haight Hackbarth ’72, Fairhope, AL, is retired.

Becky Cation Leib ’72 MSED ’82, Milan, retired from teaching at E. Moline School Dist. # 37.

Bradley Gottfried MS ’73, Cobb Island, MD, recently had a new book released titled “The Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 –January 22, 1863.”

Lawrence Palmisano ’73, Clearwater, FL, is a selfemployed professional singer/ actor.

Scott Vierke ’73, Steamboat Springs, CO, retired as president and CEO of Class 5 Medical Marketing, Inc. and is now working as a consultant to the healthcare industry.

Deborah Baird Garrett ’74 MS ’76, Cabot, AR, retired as the vice chancellor for Student Services at Arkansas State University.

John Sanders ’74, Maryland Hts, MO, is sr. VP of sales for Gabriel Group.

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Galen Wickline ’74, Lincoln, is retired from human services for the state of Illinois.

Grant Afflerbaugh ’75, Oregon, is retired.

Bob Basala ’75, St Charles, MO, is retired.

Wayne Bickert ’75, Aurora, CO, is retired.

Patrick Cunningham ’75, Rock Island, is a licensed clinical professional counselor.

John “Biff” Maldaner ’75, Hickory, KY, has retired from a career in sales and marketing in the foodservice Industry and is now volunteering with Cassidy’s Cause, and the Illinois Doberman Rescue.

Fred McConnell ’75, Marion, AL, is retired after 42 years of teaching math in Montana, Illinois and Alabama.

Marvin Rabe ’75, Quincy, has retired as VP of First Bankers Trust.

William Atkins ’76 MBA ’98, S Haven, MI, is retired.

Pam Best Basala ’76, St Charles, MO, is retired.

Roberta Garlisch Hersom ’76 MA ’77, Emmetsburg, IA, is the assistant dean in the School of Education at Buena Vista University.

Larry Bradshaw ’77, National City, CA, is a substitute teacher for the National School Dist., the Chula Vista Elementary School Dist. and the South Bay Union School Dist.

James R. Godfrey ’77, St. Germain, WI, is retired.

Rose Hackett Henness ’77 MA ’93, Belton, MO, is the director of Institutional Effectiveness at Calvary University in Kansas City.

Jim Laverdiere ’77, Carmel, IN, is an account manager for ADT. Kathi Sircy ’77, Des Moines, IA, has retired from Des Moines Public Schools as a special education school nurse.

Tobin Chakeen ’78, Clarendon Hills, is a sr. director for Principal Global Investors.

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APRIL

15 Plano, TX, Alumni & Friends Luncheon 16 Austin, TX, Alumni & Friends Social 17 Houston, TX, Alumni & Friends Social 18 Dallas, TX, Alumni & Friends Social 24 Macomb Purple & Gold Day 24 Quad Cities Purple & Gold Day in conjunction with Quad Cities Western Wednesdays 25 Phoenix, AZ, Alumni & Friends Social at The Henry 26 Tucson, AZ, Alumni & Friends Social 27 Chicago Cubs at Arizona Diamondbacks Pregame Social & Baseball Game

MAY

10-11 Graduation/Distinguished Alumni Awards 18 Chicago Cubs at Washington Nationals Pregame Social & Baseball Game 30 Cleveland, OH, Alumni & Friends Social

JUNE

8 Alumni & Friends Social and Baseball Watch Party for Cubs vs. Cardinals at the Cubby Bear in Chicago 10 “The Western Open” Chicago Golf Outing 17 Quad Cities Alumni & Friends Golf Outing

JULY

11 Washington, IL, Alumni & Friends Social

AUGUST

7 Chicago Western Wednesdays Downtown 9 Suzi Stambaugh Miner ’72 ’73 Memorial Macomb Alumni & Friends Golf Outing

Alumni & Friends EVENTS For all upcoming events, visit: WIU.EDU/ALUMNI/EVENTS.

Robert Cloyd ’78, Huntington Beach, CA, is retired.

David Davidson ’78, Edgewater, FL, is retired.

Debra Graves ’78, Ft Myers, FL, is a middle school special education teacher for the Lee County School Dist.

Jean Hunter-Batty ’78 MS-ED ’79, Arlington, TX, is a professional service provider for the Texas Center for Dist. and School Support and received her Doctor of Education in June 2018 from Walden University.

Randy Ingram ’78, Greenwood, IN, is VP and general manager of WISH/ WNDY-TV. Martin Kennelly ’78, Orland Park, has retired after working 36 years for Allstate Insurance Company as a trial attorney.

Jacqueline Wagner ’78 MS-ED ’89, Bloomington, has retired.

Cyndi Cilek DeCook ’79, Cleveland, TN, is retired.

Amy Henry Flint ’79 MA ’80, Sandpoint, ID, retired as an English professor at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene.

Larry Bealer ’80, Andalusia, is retired from the Rock Island Arsenal.

Mary Kay Goller Kosur ’80, El Paso, is a wellness supervisor at Evergreen Village in Normal and received her associate degree in nursing from Heartland Community College.

Cynthia Beals MS ’81, Yale, MI, is retired.

Todd Brown ’81, Arlington, VA, is the deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Dept. of State in Washington, DC. Kevin Morris ’81, Phoenix, AZ, is a sr. business development manager for Nxtbook Media.

Lori Hooper Sternisha ’81, New Lenox, is retired after 17 ½ years in data management/ supply chain management from HAVI in Downers Grove.

Susan Kirbach Veach ’81, Springfield, MO, is a HR records technician at Missouri State University.

Fred Walborn MS ’81, Glenville, WV, has written a novel, “Two Days at the Asylum,” and has been awarded an honorable mention at the San Francisco Book Festival.

Wilson Wong MBA ’81, San Leandro, CA, is the owner of Bay Area Real Estate in Hayward.

Jay Bainbridge ’82, Albuquerque, NM, is a preschool teacher at St. Mark’s in the Valley Day School.

Rita Daniels ’82, Orlando, FL, is retired from State Farm Insurance Co. Michelle Friedlund ’82, Lafayette, IN, is a customer service representative for Alorica.

Nancy Kauzlarich ’82, Rockford, is business manager for UW Health Sports Factory with the Rockford Park Dist. and recently celebrated her 40th anniversary with the Rockford Park Dist.

Timarie Maske ’82 MA ’88, The Villages, FL, is a sr. classification specialist for Will County.

Vilma Matthews ’82, Hazel Crest, is a therapist at Chicago Christian Counseling Center in Orland Park.

Darrell Philos ’82, Plainfield, is a corporate security manager for U.S. Cellular Corporation.

Philip Sweet ’82, Nekoosa, WI, recently retired from his military career as flight surgeon, public health officer, sr. reviewer for SECAF for Invisible Wounds (TBI and PTSD) and commander. He is currently a VA Site Psychiatry Residency director for the Veterans Administration.

John Weiss ’82, Centennial, CO, recently retired from 30 years of teaching.

Katherine Palmer Conant ’83, Bradenton, FL, is retired.

Dave Faries ’83 MA ’85, Monterey, CA, is a managing editor for Monterey County Weekly.

Monica Setnicar Kaenzig ’83, Ann Arbor, MI, has retired from the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Nancy Kauzlarich ’83, Rockford, business manager at UW Health Sports Factory for the Rockford Park Dist.

Von Matthews ’84, Hazel Crest, is a sr. VP/head of global fraud risk for the Northern Trust Company in Chicago.

Carolyn Parks MS ’84, Philadelphia, PA, is an associate professor of instruction at Temple University.

Janet Van Arsdale ’84, Highwood, is the assistant principal at Washington School in Park Ridge.

Lisa Hoffmeister Segalla ’85, Milwaukee, WI, is a retired teacher at Milwaukee Public Schools.

Robert Chavarria ’86, Humble, TX, has retired from the Houston Independent School Dist. after 32 years of service as a teacher and administrator.

Jim Courter MA ’86, ’97, Macomb, is a writer and emeritus writing instructor at Western Illinois University, a Pushcart Prize nominee and a winner of an Illinois Arts Council award for short fiction.

“Rhymes with Fool” was his first published novel.

Bill Enright ’86, Glen Ellyn, is a village trustee in Glen Ellyn.

Kimberly Wagner Lohan ’86, Lake in the Hills, is a patient access for Advocate Sherman Hospital.

Mick Louck ’86, Aledo, is the physical education teacher K-4, head coach HS boys track and field at Mercer County School Dist. in New Boston.

Richard Lundeen ’86 MA ’92, Galesburg, is a human resource specialist of recruitment for the Dept. of Defense in Rock Island.

Kelly Hartford Mierkowski ’86 MA ’90, Jacksonville, FL, is the affordable housing & community development administrator for the city of Jacksonville.

Paul Dennhardt MFA ’87, Stanford, is a professor in the school of theatre and dance at Illinois State University, a certified teacher with the American Society for the Alexander Technique, a full member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the national union for stage directors and choreographers and a professional fight director.

Vincent Holman ’87, San Antonio, TX, was selected to the African American Federal Executive Assoc. (AAFEA) 2019 Fellows Cohort, graduated from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Senior Executive Fellow (SEF) program and is the executive director of quality and safety directorate in Fort Sam Houston.

Cynthia Knight MS ’87 SSP ’90, Springfield, is director of special education for Ball Chatham School Dist.

Deborah Notaro Petersen ’87, Chicago, is the director of merchandising at FTD, Inc. Jenny Felts Shepherd MA ’87, San Antonio, TX, has been appointed VP for Legislative Affairs and Political Action for Texas Medical Association Alliance, is serving as the Bexar County Medical Society president and the president of the Panhellenic Association of San Antonio.

John Wagner ’87, Cary, is president of J.G. Wagner Insurance Group, LLC. David Lungerich ’88, Arlington, VA, is a phlebotomist at the Pentagon.

Karen Johnson Stylianides ’88, Stroudsburg, PA, is an assistant teaching professor at Penn State University.

Brian Sullivan ’88, Paddock Lake, WI, has been at the Silver Lake Marina for 20 years and has opened a certified naturally grown commercial vegetable farm.

Brad Beckman ’89, Naperville, is COO for FITT Finder.

Jerri Swails Howard ’89, Loganville, GA, is a teacher for Gwinnett Schools.

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Paul Hurckes ’89, Lowell, IN, works in sales at Cabela’s in Hammond.

Glen Kelley ’89, Minneapolis, MN, is retired.

Tangula Tillman Wells ’89, Gurnee, is a fifth grade teacher for Zion Elementary Dist. # 6.

Angela Gray Beckman ’90, Naperville, is the attendance secretary for Plainfield School Dist. # 202.

Robert Conant ’90, Bradenton, FL, is retired.

Anne Hale Corrigan ’90, Pontiac, is a first grade teacher at St. Mary’s School.

Kristen Helgesen ’90, Cornelius, NC, is a sr. account manager for HUB International.

Wendi Lauer-Braswell ’90, Ft Myers, FL, was promoted to circuit chief of Investigations for Circuit 20, is certified CCDI and forensic interviewer.

Mitch Lutzke ’90, Williamston, MI, has written a book “The Page Fence Giants, A History of Black Baseball’s Pioneering Champions” which has been released

by McFarland Publishing Company in North Carolina.

Jason Parrott ’90, Arlington Hts, is the chief of police for the Lincolnwood Police Dept.

Diana Robertson MS ’90, Lawrence, KS, received the 2018 Parthenon Award which recognizes outstanding collegiate housing professionals for their service, leadership, achievement and contributions to the housing field.

Yvonne Villanueva-Russell ’90 MA ’92, Commerce, TX, is a dean at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Thomas Berola ’91, Auburn, is mayor of the city of Auburn.

Clay Dixon ’91, Petersburg, is an auditor for the state of Illinois.

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Melissa Phillips Griswold ’91 MBA ’92, Quincy, is an associate professor of finance at Maryville University in St. Louis, MO, and published a book on reaching financial freedom.

Martha Baca Ryan ’91 MS ’93, Chicago, is manager of operations and quality for Mount Sinai Hospital.

Omar Sofradzija ’91, Haslett, MI, is a communications manager for Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Nora Ten Broeck ’91 MS ’96, Nashville, TN, is director of delivery management for 10th Magnitude in Chicago, IL. Bruce Becker ’92, Troy, MO, was promoted to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and assigned as the Civil Liaison Team Chief.

Kelly Cameron Dold ’92, Monticello, IN, is the membership marketing manager for Purdue Alumni Association.

Charlene Laverty Goodreau ’92, Island Lake, is a substitute teacher for the Bolingbrook School Dist.

Patrick Kaler ’92, Buffalo, NY, earned the Tourism Executive of the Year award from the state of New York State Hospitality and Tourism Association (NYSHTA) and was elected the new chair of the U.S. Travel Association’s Destinations Council.

Cora Lafary Kington ’92, Canton, is a substitute teacher for CUSD # 3.

Thomas Majchrowitz ’92, Huntley, is a science teacher at Fairfield International School in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Terry Beeck ’93, De Pere, WI, is a team facilitator for Athletic Training Services with Bellin Health in Green Bay. Lance Johnson ’93, Destin, FL, is the city manager for Destin.

Dennis Powers ’93, Mt Prospect, is VP of sales and a shareholder for Lamb, Little & Co. in Schaumburg.

Steve Brown ’94, Cambridge, is the village administrator for the city of Cambridge.

Marceia Duhm MS-ED ’94, Moline, retired from Black Hawk College.

Kenneth Kington ’94, Canton, is a design engineer for Cyient, Inc. Reginald Mathews ’94, Lindenhurst, was selected as the associate judge of the Ninetheenth Judicial Circuit Court.

Tracey Kiefer Bloomer ’95, Grayslake, is a quality leader for Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Hankyu Cho MA ’95, Seoul, Korea, is the general manager for HY Securities.

EJ Piersol ’95, Hoffman Est, is the director of network services at Common Sense Solutions.

Lorri DeWall Scheider ’95, Collierville, TN, works in sales at RR Donnelly.

John Paul Schumacher ’95, Texarkana, TX, is a CNC programmer for the Dept. of Defense.

Octavianus Setiadi MBA ’95, Anaheim, CA, is the president of Charta Global.

Benjamin Boeke ’96, Oskaloosa, IA, is chief of Police for the Oskaloosa Police Dept.

Terry Carter ’96, Metamora, has been appointed the director of the Fire Science Technology Program at Illinois Central College in Peoria.

John Comerford ’96, MS ’98 PhD ’07, Galena, OH, has been selected as the 21st president of Otterbein University in Westerville.

Ivy Hartstein Kiefer ’96, Plano, TX, is a sixth grade special education math teacher at Plano ISD. Scott Scheider ’96, Collierville, TN, is a warehouse associate at Estes Express Lines.

Kimberly Stenerson MA ’96, Wonewoc, WI, is CEO for Mama Rosie’s Dream.

Heath Warren ’96, Chicago, is a donor records coordinator for Ravinia Festival.

Rich Clark ’97, Elgin, is a sergeant with the St. Charles Police Dept.

James Conant ’97, St James, MO, is a driver for Southeast Missouri Transportation Services in Fredericktown.

Kevin Horan MS ’97, Brentwood, CA, was named president of Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa.

Heather Engstrom Johnson ’97, Elgin, is a mixed age preschool teacher at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Preschool.

Roberto Miller ’97 MS ’98, Downingtown, PA, is the assistant general manager at Amazon in Seattle, WA. Matt Johnson ’98, Elgin, is a web operations strategist for U.S. Cellular in Chicago.

J. Dougal Nelson ’98, Moline, is president and CEO for Junior Achievement of the Heartland.

Colleen Chesla Carroll ’99, Sitka, AK, is a secondary teacher for the Sitka School Dist.

Michael Carroll ’99, Sitka, AK, is a pilot for the U.S. Coast Guard.

Ronnie Faraher ’99, Machesney Park, is retired.

Larry Hunt MS-ED ’99 ED SP ’09, Anamosa, IA, is a superintendent for Anamosa Schools.

Christa Koehler ’99, Aurora, is the controller at Shorr Packaging Corp.

Elizabeth Mavetz ’99, Tucker, GA, is a GRC specialist for State Farm.

Gregg Moon ’99 MBA ’02, Tucker, GA, is the global supply chain director tea/ coffee for the Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta.

Rebecca Bukowy Vinton ’99, Peoria, AZ, is a veterinarian for Arizona Animal Welfare League.

John Williams ’99, Beacon, NY, is a rector for St. Andrew and St. Luke Episcopal Church.

Byron Hendrix ’00, Kewanee, is a U.S. account manager of AgroChemicals for Oxiteno US LLC in Houston, TX. Timothy Maguire ’00, Indianapolis, IN, is a regional leader for Primerica Financial Services in Noblesville.

Eric Schaefer ’00, Round Lake, is the interim minister at Trinity Lutheran Church.

Robert Sheehan ’00, Gilbert, AZ, is a sergeant for the city of Mesa.

Carrie Blomquist Starks ’00, N Hollywood, CA, is a graphic designer for CBRE Global Headquarters in Los Angeles.

Roberta Delaney Tidball ’00, Davenport, IA, is the asst. director of Internships at Augustana College.

Philip Wurtz ’00, Charlottesville, VA, has retired.

Thomas Jones ’01, Belvidere, is a detective for the Belvidere Police Dept.

Michael Rose ’01, Las Vegas, NV, is the sr. investigator – child protective services at Clark County Family Services.

Dominick Gusso ’02, Lincoln, NE, is the manager at Speedway Basketball Courts.

Robert Matthiessen ’02, Dixon, is a freight handler for Walmart.

Michelle Thompson Mustain ’02 MS-ED ’09, Galesburg, is an independent education advisor and co-founder of pursuED. Gary O’Driscoll ’02, San Antonio, TX, is director of sales and marketing for Aimbridge Hospitality.

Brett Shepard ’02, Malden, MA, works in sales at REI. Arwa Sulieman ’02 MS ’04, Doha, Qatar, is the registrar at Hamad bin Khalifa University.

JT Timmons MS ’02, Solon, IA, is assistant VP for student life at the University of Iowa.

Lauren Franczyk Merritt ’03, Macomb, is the executive director for the Macomb Area Chamber of Commerce.

David Reilly ’03, Woodstock, is a financial consultant at Benjamin F. Edwards & Co.

Carmen Anthony Anfuso ’04, Westmont, is sr. video engineer for Creative Technology.

Michael Bunn ’04, Keokuk, IA, is a housing choice voucher program manager for Keokuk Housing Authority.

Crystal Divis ’04, St Charles, MO, is the corporate HR and benefits manager for Alpha Packaging in Overland.

Kent Hawley ED SP ’04, Pittsfield, is the superintendent for the Griggsville-Perry School Dist.

Sarah Squires Raftis ’04, Tallula, is a staff development specialist for the state of Illinois.

Emily Klarkowski Silzer ’04, Brookfield, is an administrative assistant at Loyola University Medical Center.

Michael Callahan ’05, Chicago, is a fire chief for the Kansas City Fire Dept. in Kansas.

Lonnie Dye III ’05, New Berlin, WI, is an MD at a VA Hospital.

Brenda Mason ’05, Dixon, has been named director of FOCUS House.

Robert Pfrank ’05, Toongabbie, NSW, Australia, is a client risk officer for ABN AMRO Clearing Sydney Pty Ltd. Terrence Tully ’05, Elmhurst, works at Blistex, Inc. in operations.

Gerold Washington ’05, Clarkston, GA, is a sr. paralegal for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. in Atlanta.

Stephanie Abbott ’06, Belvidere, is a digital marketing communications coordinator for Savant Capital Management in Rockford.

Tiffany Hutton Barr ’06, W Peoria, is a personal assistant for Tiffany’s Simply Sunshine Services.

Sheridan Essman Posey MFA ’06, Little Rock, AR, is a theatre teacher and play director at Pulaski Academy.

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Joe Tazioli ’09, Chicago, is sr. manager of Enterprise Business Continuity Management for BMO Financial Group.

Shawn Wilber ’09, Albuquerque, NM, is an HR tech and works in benefits at Central New Mexico Community College.

Sara Nobbe Guallpa ’10, Morton Grove, is an academic advisor for the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Kate Sullivan Lavris ’10, Fox Lake, is a licensed clinical social worker/ therapist at Libertyville Counseling Group.

Rory Quinn ’10, Chicago, is a lateral associate for the Chicago office of Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP. Bryan Schullian ’10, Augusta, is an agriculture education teacher at Southeastern High School who was awarded the National Association of Agricultural Educators Outstanding Early Career Award and won the competition’s regional honor.

Randy Sherwood MS ’10, Orland Park, is a sr. data scientist at Salesforce.

Lily Blouin ’11 MA ’14, Galesburg, is the regional coordinator at Forefront in Monmouth.

Jaimee Buttgen ’11, Aurora, is a corporate buying logistics assistant for Aldi, USA. Andrew Donahoo MS ’11, Macomb, is the associate director of Undergraduate Admissions for Campus Events & Orientation at Western Illinois University.

Robert Elliott II ’11, Lehigh Acres, FL, is a retail store manager II for AT&T in Sarasota.

Walter Malecki ’11, Colorado Springs, CO, is a squad leader for the U.S. Army.

Jason Moore ’11, Freeport, works in nuclear security at Exelon Generation.

Kali Mustain ’11, Galesburg, is an education access advisor and co-founder of pursuED.

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Srivathsan Raghavan MS ’11, Newburgh, IN, is a research scholar at Walden University.

Dawn Baldwin ’12 ’13, Brookfield, is a LGBTQ program specialist at Garfield Park Hospital.

Diesel Baldwin ’12, Brookfield, is a quality control laboratory analyst for AveXis in Libertyville.

Natalie Dybsky ’12, Chicago, is on the incident management assistance team (IMAT) for Dept. of Homeland Security and FEMA. Jason Gilbert ’12, Buffalo, NY, is an academic advisor for SUNY University at Buffalo School of Management.

Lauren Ahmann Heller ’12, St Louis, MO, is the director of activities at McKnight Place Assisted Living & Memory Care.

Nicholas Reans ’12, Waterloo, IA, is a basic machine operator for HyPor Inc. in Cedar Falls.

April Rosier ’12, Tampa, FL, is a GIS analyst for Pinellas County in Clearwater.

Louise Speer-Collins ’12 MS-ED ’18, Eldridge, IA, is a T-LMHC for Vera French Community Mental Center in Davenport.

Josh Weber ’12, Metamora, is an estimator/ project manager for Stark Excavating, Inc. Amanda Doyle Wiese ’12, Decatur, is an attorney at Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar.

Rebecca Horton Baugh PBCER ’11 MS ’13, Blue Grass, IA, is a naturalist for Scott County.

Eric DeRue ’13, Lindenhurst, is a purchasing and inventory supervisor for North Shore Water Reclamation Dist. in Gurnee.

Shane Fuqua ’13 PB-CER ’14 MS ’15, Iowa City, IA, is an HRIS specialist for West Liberty Foods.

Aaron Kastner MS ’13, Dallas, TX, is a manager of corporate partnerships services for the Dallas Cowboys organization.

Michelle Stone Markey ’13 M.ACCT ’14, Macomb, is a business manager for West Central Illinois Special Education Cooperative.

Logan Weed ’13, Rochester, NY, is a designer for NextGen Building Components.

Hadden Carlberg ’14, Armed Forces Europe, is a Fire Controlman Aegis Second Class for the U.S. Navy.

Corey Gondeck ’14, Chillicothe, was recently sworn in as a police officer for the Princeton Police Dept.

Alaina Di Giorgio Macaulay ’14 MS ’16, Springfield, MA, is the director of diversity and inclusion at Elms College in Chicopee.

Devin Hacker Mooneyham ’14, Tinley Park, is a health and fitness coach.

Rebecca Off ’14, Kokomo, IN, is a sr. research associate at Corteva Agriscience in Windfall.

Rebecca Drustrup Roe MA ’14, West Des Moines, is a sr. licensing technician for Nationwide.

Lindsay Pearce Eden ’15, Rochelle, is a building technical specialist for Winnebago CUSD # 323.

Rose Speidel Hall ’15 SSP ’18, Crystal Lake, is a school psychologist for School Dist. # 300.

Kimberly Just ’15, Elk Grove Vlg, is a qualified developmental disability professional for Trinity Services, Inc. in Des Plaines.

Kassandra Karssen ’15, Wood River, is a federal wildlife biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Sharon McKenna MS-ED ’15, Smith Center, KS, is retired.

Trisha Ostrander Allen ’16, Tumwater, WA, is a personnel clerk JBLM at Skyline Ultd.

Neville Crenshaw MA ’16, St Louis, MO, is a manager of special exhibitions and experiences at St Louis Science Center.

BE A PART OF THE CHALLENGE!

Kelly O’Connell Underwood ’06, Bloomingdale, is an associate product manager for Wilton Brands in Naperville.

Bridget Fischer Barrett ’07, St Charles, is a teacher for School Dist. # 54.

Debbie Curtis ’07, Harvey, is a library assistant II for Circulation and Reserves at the University of Chicago.

Evan Lindemer ’07, Clayton, NC, is a sr. demand planner at Butterball, LLC. Samuel Lozier ’07, Charlotte, NC, is a sr. VP for Revolution Messaging in Washington, DC. Katie Banker Puttrich ’07, Crest Hill, is a juvenile probation officer for Will County Court Services.

Sarah Pinkston Schmidt ’07, Carrollton, is an early childhood director for Carrollton School Dist.

Alesha Benedict ’08 MS-ED ’09, Lowell, IN, is a vendor quality assurance manager for Silva International, Inc. in Momence, IL. Jamie Cortesi Blanchard ’08, Pekin, is a support staff at St Joseph School.

Justin Hegy ’08 MA ’10, Palatine, is a regional manager for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

Taylor Kistner ’08, Chicago, has been promoted to VP with Segal Marco Advisors.

Graham Robson ’08 MBA ’09, Dallas, TX, is the clinic director for Blackwell Chiropractic.

Eli Rogers SSP ’08, Wilmette, is the student services coordinator for Aptakisic-Tripp School Dist. # 102.

Elizabeth Reder Taylor ’08, Johnsburg, is a sales manager for Lambs Farm.

Andrew Tingley ’08, Gentry, AR, is a realtor for Cry-Leike in Bentonville.

Tabitha Cooper Jozwick ’09, Macomb, is a correspondent for the McDonough County Voice.

Selina Goddard Shiflett PBCER ’09 MS ’10, Orlando, FL, is a GIS and I&T engineer at Leidos, Inc.

CHOOSE YOUR IMPACT

Celebrate Purple & Gold Day (April 24) with the opportunity to give to the initiatives and areas of Western that mean the most to you while supporting our students.

Visit wiu.edu/westernchallenge to choose where you want your impact to be made during the 24-hour Western Challenge on April 24.

Join us at the Sports Corner in downtown Macomb or Barrel House in Moline to celebrate Purple & Gold Day with alumni and friends from our host communities. Or get a group of alumni together in your city and share your Purple & Gold Day photos on facebook.com/WIUAlumni.

Meghan Deatrick ’16, Davenport, IA, is a special education teacher for the Moline-Coal Valley IL School Dist. # 40.

Danielle Fitzsimmons ’16, Chicago, is a leasing consultant for JL Woode Management.

Bridget Rakidzic Green ’16, Springfield, TN, is the front office manager at Hampton Inn by Hilton.

Kara Luster ’16, Macomb, is a human resource representative at NTNBower.

Matthew Rammelsberg MS ’18, East Moline, is a jr. software developer for Yash Technologies.

Rebecca Richards MS ’16, Atascadero, CA, is an academic advisor for Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo.

Abbie George Seaton ’16, Aurora, CO, is a station services coordinator for Southwest Airlines in the Denver station.

Jonathon Swanson ’16, Palatine, is a police officer for the Glenview Police Dept.

Every day is a great day to be a Leatherneck!

Caitlyn Westfall MS ’16, St Louis, MO, is an assistant director of education and leadership for Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority in Woodstock, VA. Lexie Woodward ’16, Rowlett, TX, is the economic development specialist for the city of Rowlett.

Devin Biggs ’17, Rhinelander, WI, is a weekend meteorologist/MMJ at WJFW, Newswatch 12.

Jacob Farrell ’17, Franklin, is the herdsman for Hadden Farms in Jacksonville.

Hannah Westlove ’17, Naperville, is a physical education teacher for Naperville CUSD # 203.

Jen Zarate MS ’17, Louisville, KY, is a leasing consultant for Hills Properties.

James Adams ’18, Westchester, is a fire chief for Westchester Fire Dept.

Darcy Baker ’18, Peoria, is a community support counselor for South Side Office of Concern.

Gail Bowen ’18, Carol Stream, is the logistics coordinator for Becker Logistics.

Alex Erlandson MS ’18 PBCER ’18, Omaha, NE, is the events and tour coordinator, iEXCEL at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Corey Hamilton ’18, Tucson, AZ, is a legal entity accountant for Caterpillar, Inc. Hannah McInerney MS ’18, Waukegan, is a financial literacy counselor at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

Jack Scherer ’18, Chicago, is the recreation supervisor for Vernon Hills Park Dist.

Taylor Schnowske ’18, Orion, is a HR team member at Target.

Connor Shinberger ’18, Chicago, is an associate neuroscience specialty representative for Vanda Pharmaceuticals.

Marriages & Civil Unions

Kassandra R. Karssen ’15 and Tyler G. Schoon ’14, June 10, 2017.

Gregory T. Marinelli ’10 and Lisa Kulczak, Jan. 21, 2017.

Martha Baca ’91 MA ’93 and David Ryan, July 7, 2018.

Spencer D. Conlin ’13 and Kathleen “Katie” Allvin ’12, July 28, 2018.

Rose T. Speidel ’15 SSP ’18 and Jeremy S. Hall ’15, Apr. 21, 2018.

Melissa R. Nemec ’13 SSP ’16 and Alex Voytilla ’12, Aug. 4, 2018.

Sarah E. Squires ’04 and Patrick Raftis, June 9, 2018.

Jay M. Bainbridge ’82 and Timothy Masterson, Apr. 29, 2016.

Darren Lillard MUS-MM ’17 and Courtney M. Gear MA ’18, Aug. 4, 2018.

Sarah J. Looman ’05 MS-ED ’09 and Jonathan Gibson, June 2, 2018.

Jennifer Wilson ’13 and Aaron Viner ’14, July 21, 2018.

Abbie George ’16 and Bradford Seaton, June 16, 2018.

Zach Kerr ’16 and Alyssa Russo ’17, Aug. 11, 2018.

Matthew Lannom ’16 and Hailey Heister, Apr. 28, 2018.

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Katie Banker ’07 and Mark Puttrich ’07, Sept. 7, 2018.

Kendra Lutterman ’14 and Clint Epley ’14, Sept. 15, 2018.

Sydney Sottos ’17 and Brian Adams, July 28, 2018.

Kaitlyn Dyche ’11 MS-ED ’16 and Justin Bagley ’12, May 12, 2018.

Rebecca Bukowy ’99 and Charles Vinton, Mar. 24, 2018.

Robert Elliott II ’11 and Kelly Johnson, July 21, 2018.

Katie Savage ’09 and Mike Mongoven ’09, Aug. 18, 2018.

Births & Adoptions

Curtiss Alsvig ’06 and Meghan, a daughter, Kennedy Curtiss, May 11, 2018.

Tiffany Hutton Barr ’06 and David, a son, Renton Elliott, Mar. 8, 2018.

Caryn Elm Becker ’07 and Dave, a son, Everett James, Sept. 25, 2018.

Thomas Boyles ’06 and Amy, a daughter, Allison Judith, July 16, 2018.

Rob Bross ’04 and Lindsey, a daughter, Robbie Madelyn, July 31, 2018.

Brett Bucholz ’06 and Koryna Felt Bucholz MS ’14, a daughter, Audrey Jean, June 19, 2018.

Lori Pankratz Conrad ’10 and Patrick, a son, Noah, Aug. 16, 2018.

Dana Kendall Corral ’08 and Ricardo Corral ’08, a son, Giovanni, Dec. 12, 2018.

Shannon Van Vleet Dexter ’08 and Jarred, a son, Cameron Lee, Oct. 31, 2018.

Michelle Frieden ’01 a daughter, Pearl Robin, Nov. 23, 2017.

Alex Cameron Geisler ’09 MS ’11 and Jared, a daughter, Vada Scarlett, June 22, 2018.

Bridget Rakidzic Green ’16 and Logan, a son, Richard Lane, Feb. 1, 2018.

Lauren Ahmann Heller ’12 and Zack Heller ’13, a son, Rowen Allan, Aug. 7, 2018.

Angelica Markey Hoenig ’11 and Cullen Hoenig ’14, a daughter, Markey Jo, Sept.

18, 2018.

Miranda Whitaker Kocher ’14 MS ’16 and Max Kocher ’13, a son, Rhett, Oct. 16, 2018.

Michelle Stone Markey ’13 M.ACCT ’14 and Caleb Markey ’14, a daughter, Adeline Joyce, July 3, 2018.

Carley Bobell McGrew ’13 and Jordan McGrew ’11, a daughter, Parker Sandra, Aug. 22, 2018.

Sara Stokert Montgomery ’13 and Tyler, a son, Bennett Walker, Sept. 10, 2018.

Nicholas Reans ’12 and Sherry, a daughter, Ellie Marie, Sept. 11, 2018.

Michael Reed ’07 a daughter, Lola Kamila, Sept. 14, 2018.

Andrea Robinson Riebling ’06 MS ’09 and Eric Riebling ’03, a daughter, Harper Faith, Oct. 22, 2018.

Chris Sinnokrak ’04 and Danielle, a son, Tatum Grey, Apr. 11, 2018.

Nicholas Stasi ’05 and Stacey, a daughter, Madelyn Grace, Nov. 6, 2018.

Cavan Sullivan MS ’11 and Sydney, a son, Archer Cavanaugh, Aug. 27, 2018.

Mark Szalkowski ’11 and Sara Koslowski Szalkowski ’10, a son, Raylan, Dec. 5, 2017.

Elizabeth Reder Taylor ’08 and Mike, a daughter, Raelynn Miriam, Aug. 1, 2018.

Shelbi Root Taylor ’16 and Ethan Taylor ’13, a daughter, Darci Meredith, June 18, 2018.

Kelly O’Connell Underwood ’06 and Nick, a son, Remington Warren, May 17, 2018.

Jenelle Urban ’01 and Kenny Kowalski, a daughter, Hazel, Oct. 16, 2018.

Jamie Watson ’04 and Lisa Blatner Watson ’06, a daughter, Camryn Elaine, Apr. 11, 2018.

Mikala Mareno Wightman ’12 and Richard, a son, Logan Christopher, June 25, 2018.

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Deaths Lois R. Arthur, Ipswich, MA, Sept. 1, 2018.

Richard E. Aten, Edwardsville, Dec. 18, 2018.

Steve Bainter, Macomb, Aug. 17, 2018.

Joseph A. Bartlow, Rushville, Feb. 20, 2018.

Donald H. Black, Macomb, Nov. 6, 2018.

Dale T. Breeze, Shabbona, July 21, 2016.

Irvin C. “Clark” Bunn, Eau Claire, WI, Mar. 30, 2014.

Harold R. “Rich” Buttleman, Parker, CO, Feb. 9, 2017.

Derrill D. Carrigan, Knoxville, Mar. 14, 2018.

June Chapman, Macomb, Oct. 10, 2018.

Ty T. Chuich, Silvis, Jan. 3, 2017.

Dorothy J. “Jean” Parkinson Clague, Galesburg, Sept. 8, 2018.

Gordon D. Combs, Danville, Jan. 20, 2018.

Harriett A. Woods Crossett, Macomb, Nov. 25, 2018.

Wallace Davis, Phoenix, AZ, Sept. 6, 2014.

Myrtle E. Baker Dorris, Paducah, KY, Feb. 4, 2018.

Rolland A. Duffield, Palm Coast, FL, Oct. 13, 2017.

James H. Edwards II, Grand Rapids, MI, June 27, 2016.

Anna M. Fagerlie, Rochester, MN, Sept. 21, 2018.

Giles S. Farmer, Mabank, TX, Dec. 31, 2015.

Harold F. Feikert, Sr., Bushnell, Nov. 4, 2018.

Marvin E. Fesler, Tomball, TX, June 23, 2017.

George O. “Doc” Foster, Macomb, July 27, 2018.

Elizabeth L. McKinlay Fottler, Chelmsford, MA, July 4, 2014.

Helen J. France, Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 2, 2018.

Thomas L. Garner, Lakeland, FL, Nov. 14, 2017.

David L. Geer, Bushnell, Nov. 27, 2018.

James M. Griffin, Littleton, CO, Jan. 7, 2017.

Wendell W. Hahn, Eagan, MN, Nov. 12, 2018.

Randall B. Hansen, Hummelstown, PA, Sept. 25, 2018.

John R. Harvey, Macomb, Dec. 20, 2018.

Robert R. Hawthorne, Hot Springs, AR, Feb. 13, 2018.

Marlene H. Hetherington, Moline, Apr. 4, 2018.

Carroll T. Holloway, Chillicothe, July 24, 2018.

Ellis C. Horton, Chillicothe, Sept. 14, 2016.

Michael A. Hott, Macomb, Sept. 12, 2018.

Joyce M. Howe, Macomb, May 13, 2018.

Melissa R. Inman, Macomb, Oct. 28, 2018.

Emily I. Pitz Jackson, Moline, Oct. 4, 2018.

Larry R. James, Blandinsville, June 25, 2018.

Francisco “Frank” Jimenez, Chapel Hill, NC, Apr. 24, 2015.

Richard W. John, Good Hope, Aug. 19, 2018.

Jerome E. “Herb” Kaufmann, Marble Falls, TX, May 27, 2018.

Mary L. Stearns Lamb, Port Byron, Apr. 14, 2018.

Cynthia E. Williams Langellier, Stevens Point, WI, Mar. 3, 2017.

Inessa Levi, Ft Myers, FL, May 18, 2018.

Margaret E. “Peg” Lock, Avon, June 18, 2018.

Robert L. Longman, Miami Shores, FL, Oct. 23, 2017.

Norman W. McAllister, Quincy, Dec. 30, 2017.

Darlene F. Ashby McCaughey, Shelbyville, IN, Dec. 8, 2016.

Walter F. Michna, Elk Grove Vlg., Sept. 20, 2017.

David L. Miller, Macomb, Dec. 24, 2018.

Dorothy R. Montgomery, New Braunfels, TX, July 11, 2018.

Gary W. Myers, Avon, Nov. 11, 2018.

EmBARK on an adventure with the WIU Alumni Association SAVE THE DATE for these 2019 trips!

SAVE THE DATE for these 2020 trips!

Southern Grandeur

75th Anniversary of D-Day

Legends & Legacies Rome/Athens

Summer Vistas of Alaska

Timeless Cuba

Iceland Cruise

Aug. 28-Sept. 5, 2020

April 7-15, 2019

Sketches of Sicily

Aug. 30-Sept. 7, 2019

Barcelona: Art, Culture, People

Oct. 23-30, 2019

June 22-July 6, 2020

Greece

Riches of the Emerald Isle

April 10-19, 2019

May 4-12, 2019

Journey Along the Elbe May 19-30, 2019

Stunning Scenery of Alaska

Oct. 24-Nov. 1, 2019

Holiday Markets Cruise Nov. 27-Dec. 5, 2019

May 8-20, 2020

June 24-July 5, 2020

Grand Danube Passage

July 23-30, 2020

Italy-Verona

Hudson River Fall Foliage Cruise Oct. 3-10, 2020

Legends of the Nile Oct. 27-Nov. 7, 2020

July 7-21, 2020

June 12-19, 2019

We offer insurance for all types of travel. Whether you decide to travel with WIU or even for trips you take on your own, the WIU Alumni Association offers insurance for all types of trips. Feel free to check out our Travel Insurance Program. Visit wiu.edu/alumni/travel.php for more information, or call (800) 937-1387.

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Merle W. Parks, Colchester, Aug. 22, 2018.

Marilyn A. Peterson, Zephyrhills, FL, Dec. 12, 2018.

Sharon R. Peterson, Princeton, May 7, 2017.

Lyle M. Pool, Griggsville, July 29, 2017.

Betty V. Carlson Porten, Wauconda, Mar. 10, 2017.

Gerard V. Radice, Oak Brook, Oct. 28, 2016.

Clyde E. “Gene” Rittenhouse, Colchester, Oct. 10, 2018.

Maxine A. Schermer, Davenport, IA, Dec. 29, 2018.

Joel F. Scholz, N Liberty, IA, Jan. 14, 2018.

Helen A. Short, Macomb, Dec. 12, 2018.

Robert A. Smith, Carthage, June 17, 2017.

Robert E. Spinks, Green Lake, WI, June 27, 2016.

Roger C. “Doc” Stephens, Good Hope, Jan. 25, 2018.

Frederick C. Stockwell, Macomb, Dec. 20, 2018.

Charles E. Syester, Terre Haute, IN, Dec. 21, 2018.

Vidya S. Taneja, Clive, IA, May 26, 2018.

Arthur R. Thorpe, Macomb, Oct. 4, 2018.

Shirley S. Kimmell Thuerk, Valencia, CA, Sept. 28, 2017.

Donna G. Wilson Thurmon, Gridley, May 25, 2015.

Victor Tomczak, Homer Glen, Aug. 23, 2016.

Ardith Murk Tubbs, Abingdon, July 31, 2018.

Margaret A. Tucker, Quincy, Mar. 2, 2018.

Donald L. Van Winkle, Galesburg, Mar. 15, 2017.

Leslie T. Walker, Macomb, Apr. 22, 2018.

Thomas H. Watkins, Blacksburg, VA, Nov. 15, 2018.

Virginia A. Watson, Peoria, AZ, Dec. 1, 2018.

Antoinette “Toni” Cook Weber, Rockton, Jan. 17, 2018.

Ruthann “Shanny” Whimpey, Gurley, AL, Nov. 23, 2017.

Lucille B. Whitmill, McKinney, TX, Mar. 24, 2018.

Judith K. Wiegard, Port Charlotte, FL, July 6, 2017.

Nicholas S. Winowich, Silvis, Nov. 26, 2016.

Nelvin H. “Whitey” Wistedt, Rock Island, Dec. 19, 2017.

John Witzeman, Houston, TX, Mar. 10, 2017.

1934 Mando E. “Ernie” Primo ’36, Brandon, FL, Jan. 1, 2018.

1936 Evelyn D. “Doris” Adams Cavanaugh, Sequim, WA, Sept. 30, 2014.

1939 Carmilee Weatherington Larson, Tennessee, June 19, 2018.

1939 Gladys V. Nickell Pritchett, Avon, IN, May 11, 2018.

1940 Muriel A. Jokisch Baker, Alexandria, VA, Nov. 10, 2016.

1940 Dorothy L. Price DeRosa, Waseca, MN, Jan. 23, 2018.

1940 Margaret N. Malcomson MS-ED ’57, Rochester, NY, Dec. 25, 2017.

1941 Helen L. Miller Katzell, Webster, NY, Apr. 7, 2017.

1941 Warren Priepot, Winchester, Aug. 2, 1016.

1941 Harriet B. Sutton Tranbarger, Torrance, CA, Feb. 15, 2017.

1942 Marjorie K. Cooper Templeton MS-ED ’69, Keokuk, IA, Apr. 19, 2018.

1943 Dorothy H. Hoener Bizer, Quincy, Nov. 19, 2017.

1943 Imogene J. Meaker Blair, Kewanee, Mar. 5, 2018.

1943 Betty J. Coultas Hanson, San Antonio, TX, May 20, 2018.

1943 Miriam Schory Jackson, Decatur, June 27, 2018.

1943 Norma L. Twomey Kirkpatrick, Roseville, July 17, 2018.

1944 Lucille A. Karmenzind Paine, Ventura, CA, Apr. 19, 2018.

1944 Delvina P. Bradley Soper, Bloomington, July 18, 2018.

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1945 Alice E. Jones Carson Adams, Cameron Park, CA, Jan. 8, 2017.

1945 Phyllis Garst-Brooks, Springfield, July 24, 2017.

1945 Raymond L. Miller, Lisle, Dec. 22, 2017.

1945 Marian S. Quirsfeld, Cicero, Sept. 1, 2016.

1946 Ruth V. Wittler Holmes, Jacksonville, Apr. 2, 2018.

1946 Hazel C. Fetherspil Netherton, Naperville, Apr. 3, 2017.

1947 Marie T. CarlsonWeishar, Eldridge, IA, Dec. 28, 2018.

1947 Betty N. Ballou Phelps, Petersburg, July 16, 2016.

1947 Sophy K. Ross, Mundelein, July 27, 2016.

1948 Carole M. Graham Bode, McLean, Feb. 1, 2017.

1948 Delwin C. “Clark” Edwards MS ’49, Belleville, July 22, 2017.

1948 Hazel M. Birch Iftner, Harvard, Aug. 17, 2017.

1948 Harold W. “Bill” Lashmett, Babbitt, MN, Sept.

15, 2016.

1948 Gilda I. Fields Malmgren, Glendale, AZ, Nov. 16, 2015.

1948 Lyllisan George Shaner, Aurora, Nov. 10, 2017.

1949 Gertrude A. “Trudy” Gebeck Cole, Greenfield, June 5, 2017.

1949 Dorothea E. “Dot” Bodeen O’Brien, E Peoria, Jan. 7, 2018.

1949 Richard M. Rabbitt, St Charles, Dec. 17, 2017.

1949 Marjorie N. Butcher Wolf, Bushnell, Oct. 2, 2018.

1950 Phil H. Edie, Portage, MI, Nov. 11, 2017.

1950 Shirley L. Brown Hopper, Rochester, NY, Nov. 29, 2014.

1950 Floyd D. Johnson, Lewistown, July 12, 2016.

1950 Thomas E. Neice, Allen, TX, Dec. 10, 2016.

1951 Charles B. Beck MS ’54, Tucson, AZ, Sept. 1, 2017.

1951 William E. Cornwell, Quincy, May 30, 2017.

1951 Jerard K. Hargis, Spearfish, SD, May 31, 2018.

1951 Nathan F. Johnson MS-ED ’60, Dixon, July 24, 2016.

1951 Martha F. Boley Olin, Aledo, Nov. 20, 2018.

1951 Bessie B. Schisler Pempek, Springfield, Oct. 2, 2018.

1951 Thomas W. Skaggs, Naples, FL, Feb. 3, 2018.

1951 John H. Suehr, Hilo, HI, Apr. 4, 2017.

1951 William L. Voiles, Eldred, Mar. 11, 2018.

1952 Delores J. Anderson Ashworth, Decatur, June 9, 2018.

1952 Rosalie J. Finch Avery, Titusville, FL, Nov. 25, 2016.

1952 Ruthe E. Harfst Gillam, Canton, Apr. 6, 2017.

1952 Charles W. “Wayne” Hoelscher, Estes Park, CO, Sept. 21, 2017.

1952 Luella M. Mixer Sabick, Normal, Aug. 30, 2018.

1953 Raymond P. Baxter MS, Waukegan, Mar. 13, 2018.

1953 Marilyn B. DeLonjay Brasher, Aptos, CA, Aug. 1, 2017.

1953 Deloras E. Zaret Gjertsen, Des Plaines, Oct. 11, 2018.

1953 Roy A. Shaver MS-ED ’56, Platteville, WI, Dec. 1, 2018.

1953 Newton W. “Wayne” Wiggins MS-ED ’59, Crystal Lake, Dec. 17, 2018.

1954 Gordon C. Hopper MSE ’55, Ames, IA, Mar. 25, 2018.

1954 Ellen J. Price Lehning, Ladd, June 9, 2018.

1954 Helen I. Peterson Stewart, Knoxville, Sept. 12, 2018.

1954 Wayne M. Sutton, Aurora, Jan. 5, 2018.

1954 Thomas D. Williamson, Washington, NC, July 29, 2018.

1954 Joyce L. Wuehle, Galesburg, May 13, 2018.

1955 Sara A. Pratt Arnold, Palos Hts, Jan. 10, 2018.

1955 G. Louis Battin MS-ED ’57, Macomb, Sept. 10, 2018.

1955 Cecil C. Dorsey, Springfield, Jan. 22, 2017.

1955 Carole E. Penny Hinkleman, Bradley, Oct. 31, 2018.

1955 Frank E. Hutt, Peoria, Jan. 20, 2017.

1955 Harry P. Lehning MS ’76, Ladd, Apr. 12, 2018.

1955 Leon H. “Bud” Perley MS-ED ’58, Punta Gorda, FL, Mar. 11, 2018.

1955 Norma J. Johns Roseberry, Hopedale, Sept.

30, 2016.

1956 Joan A. Kimball Church, Prospect Hts, June 20, 2018.

1956 Theodore M. Gapinski MS-ED ’60, Rockford, Nov. 14, 2016.

1956 Karlene A. Gullberg, Stronghurst, Jan. 18, 2018.

1956 Janice E. Wetzel Leonard, Pompano Beach, FL, July 19, 2017.

1956 Walter J.”Joe” Reynolds, Nauvoo, Nov. 2, 2018.

1956 Robert W. Schlepphorst MS-ED ED-SP ’71, Quincy, May 29, 2017.

1956 Winona M. Winter, Macomb, Dec. 7, 2018.

1957 Erma L. Curtis DeVore, Burlington, IA, Dec. 13, 2016.

1957 Anton Dolenc, Ft Myers, FL, June 12, 2018.

1957 Donald E. Hopkins, Wichita, KS, Feb. 25, 2018.

1957 Kenneth G. Mehl MSED CAS ’71, Quincy, Jan. 19, 2017.

1957 Leonard T. Reveal, Chula Vista, CA, May 20, 2018.

1957 Irving T. Sutton, Pueblo, CO, June 30, 2018.

1957 Elma C. “Gobie” Stern Vennard MS-ED ’60, La Crosse, WI, June 21, 2018.

1958 William R. Dornacher, Twentynine Palms, CA, Sept.

29, 2018.

1958 Patricia L. Pagett Fieldhouse, Helena, MT, Dec. 28, 2018.

1958 Harold A. “Hal” Henrikson MS-ED, Schaumburg, Apr. 23, 2018.

1958 Gordon J. Hocker MSED ’66, Pekin, Nov. 30, 2017.

1958 Paul D. Lancaster, Edwardsville, June 13, 2018.

1958 Richard E. Meyer, Lexington, TN, Feb. 22, 2017.

1958 Dorothy E. Adams Renfro MS-ED, Iowa Falls, IA, Feb. 21, 2018.

1958 David R. Silvestri, Winchester, CA, Feb. 8, 2018.

1959 Shirley A. Gerber Bliven, Burlington, IA, Apr. 18, 2018.

1959 Franklin D. Calvert, Washington, Nov. 8, 2016.

1959 James R. Carson, Cave Creek, AZ, June 6, 2018.

1959 Thelma J. Beeler Gernandt, New Caney, TX, Dec. 22, 2018.

1959 Nancy M. Evans Gillenwater, Sebring, FL, May 13, 2018.

1959 Lois I. Harn, Lewistown, Dec. 28, 2017.

1959 Donald E. “Dixie” Howells MS-ED, Brea, CA, Aug. 3, 2017.

1959 Bonnie L. Tolle Lee, Louisville, KY, May 1, 2017.

1959 Richard E. “Dick” Maher, Lena, Apr. 22, 2018.

1959 Marvin C. Williams MS ’67, Kearney, NE, June 19, 2018.

1960 John M. “Jack” Carroll, Dublin, OH, May 13, 2018.

1960 Barbara R. Pettit Clawson, Prescott Valley, AZ, Dec. 5, 2018.

1960 Gene A. Davidsmeyer, Iowa City, IA, Feb. 3, 2018.

1960 Paul E. Habel, Washington, Oct. 9, 2016.

1960 Kenneth L. Johnson MS-ED, Lincoln, NE, Feb. 16, 2018.

1960 Marjorie J. Parchert Pape, Illinois City, June 12, 2018.

1960 Carole H. Brouk Quinlin, Kent, WA, Aug. 17, 2016.

1960 Bernard L. Raabe, Hillview, Jan. 11, 2017.

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1960 Dixie E. Briney Skiles MS-ED ’68, Jacksonville, FL, Aug. 21, 2017.

1960 David F. Wentura, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 20, 2018.

1960 Larry L. “Lee” Westerman, Barrington, Nov. 25, 2017.

1960 James R. Wood, Orlando, FL, Sept. 26, 2017.

1961 Marion E. Brauns Hopper, W Des Moines, IA, Mar. 3, 2018.

1961 Robert E. Kirsh, Des Plaines, Aug. 25, 2016.

1961 Wayne G. Lunak MSED ’63, Three Rivers, MI, Sept. 25, 2017.

1961 William C. McAfoos, Davenport, IA, July 9, 2018.

1961 Ronald L. Summers, Quincy, Dec. 25, 2016.

1962 Richard G. Auten, Plano, Dec. 11, 2016.

1962 George E. Ayers, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Nov. 1, 2018.

1962 William L. Conner, Shalimar, FL, May 3, 2018.

1962 Roberta Kerr DeWitt MS-ED ’68, Winchester, Nov. 5, 2016.

1962 Alan J. Hoffman, Moline, Apr. 30, 2018.

1962 Charlotte Pence Rogers MS-ED ’70, Ashland, OR, July 19, 2018.

1962 Robert N. “Nick” Woll, Lincoln, Nov. 23, 2018.

1963 William E. Christensen, Galesburg, June 14, 2017.

1963 Judith A. Nelson Graves, Ventura, CA, Aug. 15, 2017, 1963 Rebecca S. Parkins Olson MS-ED ’68, Elgin, May 2, 2018.

1963 Delbert L. Pruett, Scottsdale, AZ, June 23, 2017.

1963 George R. Walker, Normal, Feb. 27, 2018.

1964 William E. Camille, Sherman, Mar. 18, 2018.

1964 Rose J. Vigna Centers, Canton, Oct. 18, 2017.

1964 Donald L. Eiker, Bloomington, Aug. 6, 2018.

1964 David E. Goeke, Othello, WA, Oct. 21, 2018.

1964 Robert O. Johnson Jr. MS-ED ’68, Knoxville, Oct. 25, 2018.

1965 John D. Frey, Oakland, June 22, 2018.

1965 Lawrence D. “Pete” Hittmeier, Chester, Jan. 12, 2018.

1965 Thomas G. Maple MS-ED ’68, Ingleside, Apr. 28, 2018.

1965 Robert A. Sporleder, New Buffalo, MI, Feb. 23, 2018.

1965 Richard E. Woodley, Sheffield, Mar. 23, 2018.

1965 Terry L. Workman, Rockford, Feb. 4, 2015.

1966 Richard W. “Rich” Bachtold, Gilbertville, MA, Feb. 11, 2015.

1966 Joyce L. Van Horn Frauens, Spring Valley, Apr. 1, 2018.

1966 Camille M. Kasal Haffner, Western Springs, Aug. 10, 2017.

1966 John D. Jones, Villa Grove, Dec. 7, 2018.

1966 Richard D. Lovelace MS-ED ED SP ’72, Venice, FL, Nov. 9, 2017.

1966 David J. Prater, Lewistown, Mar. 29, 2017.

1966 Marvin D. Scranton, Geneseo, Dec. 3, 2017.

1966 Ronald A. Studnicki, Joliet, Jan. 26, 2018.

1966 Thomas L. Walker, Nauvoo, Dec. 28, 2017.

1967 Catherine T. Thompson Ekstrom MS-ED, Washburn, WI, Dec. 10, 2017.

1967 Patricia A. Winter Gianneschi MA ’69, Jacksonville, FL, Sept. 28, 2018.

1967 Miriam R. Ralston Gustafson, Kewanee, July 24, 2018.

1967 Roberta Reeder Hanson, Moline, Sept. 25, 2018.

1967 Ronald L. Hartman, Laramie, WY, June 30, 2018.

1967 Nancy P. Randall “Patsy” Jackson, Flower Mound, TX, Mar. 12, 2018.

1967 Gene C. Kirk MA, Vernal, UT, Nov. 30, 2017.

1967 Wayne L. Knox, San Antonio, TX, Mar. 2, 2018.

1967 Marta B. Kimble Logan, LaHarpe, May 14, 2018.

1967 Gilbert R. Maple, Jr., Edina, MN, Dec. 25, 2017.

1967 Pamela G. Prestwood Mikesell, Fairfield, PA, Mar. 29, 2018.

1967 Carolyn M. Olson, Burlington, IA, Sept. 18, 2016.

1967 Leslie A. Olson, Phoenix, AZ, Dec. 3, 2018.

1967 Bonnie J. Steinke Rafferty, Wheaton, July 31, 2017.

1968 Gloria A. Moeller Bozarth, Oklahoma City, OK, Aug. 10, 2017.

1968 Linda C. Chapman Brodkey, San Diego, CA, Mar. 14, 2018.

1968 Alice M. Schiltz Fuhrman, Dubuque, IA, Aug. 28, 2018.

1968 Evan R. Haag, Morrison, Aug. 30, 2018.

1968 James M. Martin, Rock Island, Mar. 18, 2018.

1968 Gary L. Putnam, W Burlington, IA, Nov. 26, 2017.

1968 Theodore K. Roberts, Peru, Jan. 22, 2017.

1968 John S. “Steve” Yeast, Sciota, June 27, 2018.

1969 Mark L. Bannier, Burlington, IA, Dec. 21, 2017.

1969 Michael W. Beaty, Groveland, May 16, 2018.

1969 Ronald W. Blemler, Normal, July 4, 2017.

1969 Gene E. Bumgarner MS, Farmington, IA, Apr. 12, 2018.

1969 Helen Homik Erickson, Crete, Jan. 29, 2018.

1969 Dennis F. Hertz, Knoxville, June 26, 2018.

1969 Richard W. Icenogle, Sioux Falls, SD, Dec. 7, 2017.

1969 Wayne M. Liken, Rochester, Nov. 2, 2016.

1969 John L. Rogers MSED, Godfrey, May 1, 2018.

1969 Marion O. Tucker CAS, Quincy, July 4, 2018.

1969 Julia M. Gunnell Werthmann, Rock Island, July 19, 2018.

1969 Ann C. Kuhn Williamson, Zionsville, IN, Apr. 28, 2018.

1970 Lavain C. Current CAS, Canton, MO, Feb. 24, 2017.

1970 Willam D. Hansen, E Moline, Mar. 19, 2018.

1970 Gary K. Hartwig, Spartanburg, SC, Nov. 7, 2017.

1970 James Hepker, Henderson, NV, Mar. 29, 2018.

1970 Lynn R. Oswald, S Beloit, Apr. 29, 2018.

1970 Mary E. Schrock, New York, NY, June 28, 2018.

1970 Philip D. “PD” Sohn, Conroe, TX, July 27, 2017.

1970 Maureen P. Gooding Steepleton, Austin, MN, Mar. 9, 2014.

1970 Letha B. Hoover Waters MS-ED, Baylis, June 5, 2018.

1970 Calvin L. Willey, Hurricane, UT, May 29, 2018.

1971 Keith E. Ahrling, Spring Grove, Mar. 12, 2018.

1971 John L. Birkey, Princeton, May 9, 2018.

1971 Karen K. Bruder Bonta MSE, Wever, IA, Mar. 13, 2018.

1971 Robert L. Bonta MSED, Wever, IA, Mar. 13, 2018.

1971 Robert P. Bower MA, North Bend, OR, Nov. 28, 2017.

1971 Patrick E. Callahan, Bull Shoals, AR, Apr. 9, 2018.

1971 Thomas J. Compton, Pana, Dec. 3, 2018.

1971 Daniel J. Dailey MA ’75, Sergeant Bluff, IA, Feb. 12, 2017.

1971 Daniel C. Frisbie, Freeport, Dec. 17, 2017.

1971 Gordon W. Frobish, Graymont, Dec. 17, 2017.

1971 Norman D. Goldberg, Des Plaines, Mar. 30, 2016.

1971 Roseann Klinc Hopwood, Springfield, Aug. 29, 2018.

1971 Susan B. Deahl Kalabus, Springfield, June 3, 2018.

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1971 Joseph A. Lee, Greenville, NC, July 25, 2017.

1971 James C. Nuhlicek MA, Cobleskill, NY, Sept. 14, 2017.

1971 David A. Peck, Knoxville, Feb. 6, 2017.

1971 Lawrence M. “Larry” Pillion, Glen Allen, VA, Apr. 24, 2018.

1971 Ronald T. Quadagno MS-ED ’75, Boynton Beach, FL, Apr. 3, 2018.

1971 Doris M. Jones Wherry, MS-ED, Orion, Dec. 14, 2018.

1972 Byron N. Baumgartner MS-ED, W Burlington, IA, Sept. 3, 2018.

1972 Thomas P. “Pat” Beaty, Canton, Sept. 8, 2016.

1972 Thomas P. Berry, Orland Park, June 23, 2017.

1972 Stanley G. Case, Towanda, June 25, 2016.

1972 Daniel G. Holland, Durango, IA, May 29, 2017.

1972 Burton L. Markham, Macomb, June 15, 2018.

1972 Geraldine A. “Geri” Hemp Mercer, Edgewater, FL, May 9, 2018.

1972 Terry W. “Bill” Morovic, Arlington, TX, June 20, 2017.

1972 Richard J. Parker, Dwight, Jan. 10, 2018.

1972 Marjorie J. Sorrill Rabbitt, St Charles, Jan. 24, 2018.

1972 Rebecca TaylorCabine, Savannah, GA, May 12, 2018.

1972 Michael R. Van Hecke, Rock Island, June 28, 2017.

1973 Patrick L. Aten, Groveland, June 14, 2017.

1973 Michael E. Booker, Sullivan, Mar. 2, 2018.

1973 Sheila M. Burden, Evanston, Dec. 19, 2017.

1973 Steven P. Burdick, San Clemente, CA, Oct. 22, 2016.

1973 Donald J. Crandall, Lake in the Hills, Nov. 29, 2017.

1973 Steven M. Fitzsimmons, Aurora, Sept. 17, 2016.

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1973 Stanley P. Higdon ED SP, Burlington, IA, Apr. 12, 2018.

1973 Judith A. Shugart Lambiaso MS-ED ’10, Abingdon, Dec. 26, 2018.

1973 Karen M. Czerwinski Lawber, Griggsville, Oct. 12, 2017.

1973 Sharon A. Limkeman, Bloomfield, IA, Aug. 10, 2018.

1973 Donn E. Majercik, Broomfield, CO, Apr. 21, 2014.

1973 George M. McGann, Pittsfield, Dec. 22, 2016.

1973 John M. O’Connell, Parker, CO, May 3, 2018.

1973 Ronald W. Parrett, Belvidere, Mar. 3, 2018.

1973 Sarah A. Hurst Reese, Newburgh, IN, Aug. 12, 2017.

1973 Edward W. Schaefer, Harvard, Feb. 15, 2017.

1973 Ronald P. Sczurko, Petersburg, Jan. 30, 2017.

1973 Donna R. Dace Stephens, Rushville, July 5, 2018.

1973 Jeanette A. Thomas, Geneseo, July 16, 2018.

1973 Michael S. “Scott” Zolna, Portage, WI, May 3, 2018.

1974 James W. Behrens MBA, Roanoke, VA, Mar. 26, 2018.

1974 Stanley P. Budzinski, Peoria, Oct. 7, 2017.

1974 Richard A. Carlucci II, Plainfield, IN, May 20, 2018.

1974 John W. Christian, Marshall, NC, Feb. 18, 2018.

1974 Rodney L. Cratsenberg, LaHarpe, July 31, 2018.

1974 Carol A. Kaliebe Enyart, Naperville, Feb. 26, 2017.

1974 Michael E. “Mick” Jones, Moline, June 26, 2018.

1974 Rebecca A. Cripe Lightle, Pittsfield, Mar. 4, 2018.

1974 William G. Lehman, Superior, WI, Dec. 14, 2017.

1974 Elyse M. Ross Piper, Scottsdale, AZ, July 10, 2016.

1974 Joel F. Scholz, N. Liberty, IA, Jan. 14, 2019.

1974 Scott T. Walker, Bradenton, FL, July 1, 2018.

1975 Lawrence G. Carlson, Osage Beach, MO, Oct. 18, 2018.

1975 George D. “Dave” Chenoweth, Kansas City, MO, May 8, 2018.

1975 Scott E. Dobbs MA ’77, Ft Collins, CO, Jan. 13, 2018.

1975 Linda A. Zeller Greenlee, Indianapolis, IN, Mar. 10, 2017.

1975 Lillian H. Hess MS-ED, Scott City, MO, Feb. 14, 2017.

1975 Jeremy T. Johnson MS-ED, Galesburg, Nov. 4, 2018.

1975 Dennis G. Lambert, Greeley, CO, Jan. 12, 2018.

1975 Donald A. Schneider, Gainesville, TX, Dec. 30, 2016.

1975 Ronald L. Stokowski, Chicago, July 4, 2017.

1975 Duane I. Swanson, Lebanon, OH, Sept. 14, 2017.

1975 Joseph H. Woosley, Macomb, Nov. 22, 2018.

1976 William R. Barham, Springfield, Mar. 10, 2018.

1976 Loren T. Beswick MSED ’90, Sterling, Aug. 18, 2018.

1976 Brian P. Bradfield, Mundelein, Apr. 3, 2018.

1976 David E. Main, Galesburg, Feb. 12, 2017.

1976 Nancy A. Marzec, Fox River Grove, Mar. 9, 2018.

1976 Bradford D. Metge, Arlington Hts, Dec. 7, 2016.

1976 Morgana Mlodoch, Escondido, CA, Sept. 26, 2016.

1976 Michael A. Reuter Roon, Allentown, PA, Sept, 29, 2017.

1976 Mark D. Spinner, Houghton, IA, Sept. 20, 2016.

1976 John C. Szaltis MS, Monmouth, Mar. 3, 2017.

1976 Mary E. Hagan Wajer MA, Prospect Hts, Apr. 22, 2018.

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1976 Naomi J. “Jean” Gladden Whitehead MS-ED ’84, Macomb, Sept. 10, 2018.

1977 Stephen W. Bachman, Kankakee, Feb. 28, 2017.

1977 David M. Benson, Bloomington, Aug. 9, 2018.

1977 Afton E. Booth, Peoria, May 13, 2018.

1977 Margaret M. Sullivan Gittler, Elon College, NC, June 4, 2018.

1977 Robert T. Thiemann, Dunedin, FL, July 23, 2015.

1977 Janet J. Lewis Zolecki, Lewisburg, WV, Sept. 28, 2017.

1978 Russell H. Barber, The Villages, FL, Aug. 12, 2018.

1978 William R. Breese, Stillwater, OK, Sept. 20, 2018.

1978 Steven A. Ciolino, Buffalo Grove, Oct. 1, 2016.

1978 Michael R. Hurley, Mesquite, NV, July 22, 2015.

1978 Kenneth P. Leonard, Milford, Oct. 16, 2018.

1978 Evelyn F. Goetten McCormick, Monroe City, MO, July 9, 2018.

1978 Richard C. Palermo, Westchester, Nov. 16, 2017.

1978 Gilbert J. Phillips, Jr. MS-ED, Indianapolis, IN, Aug. 24, 2014.

1978 Steven A. Soler, Northfield, Feb. 21, 2018.

1979 Mark A. Lemont, Westerville, OH, June 20, 2018.

1979 Roger J. Motsinger, Clinton, Jan. 1, 2018.

1979 Bernard R. Ogurek, Jr., Barrington, June 20, 2016.

1980 Albert C. Bodenhamer MA ’82, Zumbrota, MN, Oct. 11, 2018.

1980 Roxanne E. Weingartz Boyum, Coal Valley, Apr. 20, 2018.

1981 Diane J. Polishak Allen, Gig Harbor, WA, June 19, 2018.

1981 Dorothy E. Bird, Genoa, Aug. 1, 2017.

1981 Theodore E. Glas, Lake Placid, FL, Sept. 2, 2018.

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1981 Michael L. Guidotti MS ’87, Morton, Sept. 13, 2018.

1981 Barbara A. Baughman Guthrie MS-ED, Pittsfield, Jan. 1, 2018.

1981 Christopher E. Holbrook, Peoria, Aug. 16, 2018.

1981 Thomas L. Kemmer, Prescott, AR, July 10, 2018.

1982 Steven R. Burse, Munster, IN, June 5, 2018.

1982 Dona J. Coultas MA, Quincy, Oct. 17, 2017.

1982 Steven D. Dalton, Beaverton, OR, Oct. 19, 2016.

1982 Patricia L. Marshall Hertzog, Littleton, CO, Apr. 8, 2017.

1982 Brenda R. Richardson Leng, Aledo, Mar. 24, 2017.

1982 David P. Schmidt MSED, Milan, Feb. 9, 2018.

1984 Dana A. Bosway Gentile, Westerville, OH, June 4, 2018.

1984 Deborah L. JonesMorzuch, Plainfield, Oct. 26, 2014.

1984 Gary L. Mell, Rock Island, Mar. 23, 2018.

1984 Donald J. Murray MSED ’00, Macomb, Oct. 26, 2018.

1985 Susan T. Temple Boeye MS-ED, Naples, FL, May 27, 2018.

1985 Florence G. Gumprecht Hendrickson MS-ED, Geneseo, Dec. 9, 2017.

1985 James P. O’Toole ’88, Macomb, July 7, 2018.

1985 Susan L. Smith MSED, Virginia, July 25, 2018.

1985 Pam L. Geer Thompson, New Port Richey, FL, May 29, 2018.

1985 Sheri J. Zbleski MBA ’86, Des Moines, IA, Apr. 20, 2018.

1986 Lawrence T. Lewis, Sierra Vista, AZ, May 1, 2018.

1986 Morgan R. Michel MS, Byron, May 7, 2018.

1986 Joyce A. Beckwith Picard, Rio Rancho, NM, Dec. 4, 2016.

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1986 Gerald W. Theobald, Bushnell, June 26, 2018.

1987 Aaron R. Boysen, Columbus Junction, IA, Oct. 5, 2018.

1987 Guido Cools, Dunnellon, FL, Nov. 17, 2017.

1987 Noel M. Glucksman, Georgetown, TX, Apr. 12, 2018.

1987 Marcella M. Freund Rowe, E Moline, Oct. 30, 2018.

1987 Daniel J. Wakefield, Terra Haute, IN, May 5, 2018.

1987 Charles D. Wilson, Abilene, TX, Dec. 17, 2017.

1988 David “C.Y.” Burgett ’94, Pleasant Plains, Dec. 10, 2018.

1988 James V. “Jake” Jacobs, Kewanee, Apr. 19, 2018.

1988 Jeffrey W. Wolff, Flagstaff, AZ, Nov. 18, 2018.

1989 Alberto Craff, Davenport, IA, June 21, 2018.

1989 James R. Creviston, Springfield, July 20, 2018.

1990 Jerry J. Baumeister, Algonquin, July 17, 2017.

1990 LaVonne F. Frana Prochaska MS, Milan, Sept.

2, 2018.

1990 Michael T. Vawter, Avon, July 9, 2018.

1990 Marilyn E. Price Voss MA, Annapolis, MD, Apr. 24, 2018.

1991 Kevin M. Morrissey, Romeoville, May 3, 2018.

1991 Cheryl A. Stokes Smith MA, Morton, Jan. 13, 2018.

1992 Ilene L. Lukas Foote, Lancaster, CA, Mar. 27, 2018.

1992 Richard L. Friedline, Davenport, IA, Dec. 15, 2016.

1993 John T. Gregg, Dubuque, IA, Oct. 18, 2018.

1993 Dennis C. Johnson MS-ED, Eldridge, IA, July 31, 2017.

1993 Diane Y. Childress Johnson, McLeansville, NC, Aug. 23, 2018.

1993 John W. Neary MSED, Rock Island, July 23, 2017.

1994 Anthony L. Fillingham, Macomb, June 22, 2018.

1994 Candace M. KeightleyVine, St George, UT, Feb. 20, 2017.

1994 Lila J. Link McKeown MS-ED, Carthage, Sept. 18, 2018.

1994 Norma J. McCaffrey Nagle, Silvis, Aug. 6, 2017.

1995 Richard P. “Dick” Miller HA, Bloomington, Aug. 23, 2018.

1995 Fredric J. Swango MS, Moline, Feb. 28, 2018.

1995 Robert W. Young, Manchester, Oct. 7, 2018.

1996 Jennifer L. Battistella, Midlothian, July 1, 2016.

1996 Mohammed A. Dembele MBA, Oakland, CA, Mar. 19, 2018.

1996 Melissa M. Myhr, Plano, TX, Apr. 25, 2017.

1996 Scott A. Woolley, Vancouver, WA, July 16, 2018.

1997 Marsha L. Breecher Ackerman, Simpsonville, SC, July 3, 2018.

1998 Taylor G. Moore MBA, Joliet, Sept. 7, 2017.

1998 Kevin M. Tierney MS, Bradenton, FL, Jan. 27, 2018.

2000 Colleen N. Bolger, Chicago, Dec. 10, 2017.

2000 Sheila A. Smith Hackworth, Rushville, Sept.

17, 2018.

2000 Anne C. Ketelsen Mullin MS, Goose Lake, IA, Sept. 2, 2018.

2000 Penny J. Wallace, Burlington, IA, Oct. 30, 2017.

2001 Betty C. Morlan, Burlington, IA, May 6, 2017.

2002 Julie E. Bergschneider, Jacksonville, Jan. 29, 2018.

2002 Rebecca L. Brackenrich Kazecki, Joliet, Aug. 7, 2018.

2003 Clare L. Carpinella Beadles, Macomb, Dec. 13, 2018.

2003 Cathy H. Hall Nottoli, Normal, Sept. 25, 2018.

2004 Cory G. Herschler, Belleville, Jan. 12, 2018.

2004 Kevin M. Matheis, Plainfield, Nov. 24, 2017.

2007 Heather A. Poulson Diefendorf, Galesburg, May 31, 2018.

2008 Christina Orlowski, Des Plaines, June 22, 2017.

2009 Robert “Bob” Anstine HA, Macomb, Apr. 27, 2018.

2010 Jeremiah L. Freitag, Mediapolis, IA, Sept. 20, 2018.

2010 Julie A. Cahill McVey MS-ED, Monmouth, July 27, 2018.

2010 Patricia L. Semick, Macomb, Sept. 8, 2018.

2012 Brian S. Sellers, Chicago, May 30, 2018.

2014 Jennifer Van Cleave, Princeton, Nov. 23, 2018.

2018 Tyler L. Smith, Rochelle, Sept. 15, 2018.

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Col. Rock IV aka “Ray”