Alumni

Friday, April 18, 2008, The Graduate School and the Graduate Alumni Advisory Board welcomed back eight graduate alumni for a series of events celebrating their induction to the 2008 Class of Outstanding Graduate Alumni. Honorees and their guests enjoyed breakfast with the provost in Booth Library, lunch and reunions with their home departments and an awards dinner in the University Ballroom that evening. The festivities wrapped up with a breakfast in Blair Hall's foyer. Honorees were nominated by their departments and selected by the Graduate Alumni Advisory Board. To view biographies of this year's honorees as well as those of the past, see the menu at right. If you would like to submit your name for consideration for this award or would like to reconnect with other graduate alumni; please email gradalum@eiu.edu.

The 2008 Class of Outstanding Graduate Alumni are pictured above with EIU's administration. Honored alumni are listed with the name of the graduate program responsible for nominating them for the honor. In the front row seated: Philip Simpson, '86, '89 (English); Christy Strole, '79, '80 (communication disorders and sciences); Andrew Stupperich, '00 (historical administration); Joanne Guennewig, '93, '94 (economics); David Immke, '91, '93 (physical education); Harold "Skip" Nelson II, '85, '97 (political science). In the back row standing: Diane Hoadley, Dean, Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences; Robert Augustine, Dean, The Graduate School; Noelle Greathouse, '70 (elementary education); Blair Lord, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs; William Perry, President of EIU; Mary Anne Hanner, Dean, College of Science; Craig Gatto, '87, '89 (biological sciences); Diane Jackman, Dean, College of Education and Professional Studies; James Johnson, Dean, College of Arts and Humanities.

Members of the
Graduate School Alumni Advisory Board:
Sharon Jackson, '83, '84, Chair
Thomas Milowski, '90, '91 Vice Chair
Stanley Adkins, '67, '69
Dwight Baptist, '52
Jerry Boyd, '75, '76
John Dively Jr., '80, '90
Anthony Gilberti, '83
Michele Heidel, '98, '00
Marilyn Holt, '88, '94
Walter Knollenberg, '67, '72
Linda Komes, '74
Steven McArthur, '78
Pamela Rathjen, '85, '86
Jamie Willis, '75, '86