Alumni
On Friday, April 13, 2012, The Graduate School and the Graduate Alumni Advisory Board welcomed back 11 graduate alumni for a series of events celebrating their induction to the 2012 Class of Outstanding Graduate Alumni. A twelfth honoree, Larry Newman, '85, could not attend but sent video greetings.
Honorees and their guests enjoyed brunch with the provost in Booth Library, lunch and reunions with their home departments and an awards dinner on the stage of the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center that evening. Honorees were nominated by academic departments and were selected by the Graduate Alumni Advisory Board.
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| The 2012 Class of Outstanding Graduate Alumni are pictured above: Honored alumni are listed with the name of the graduate program responsible for nominating them for the honor. In the front row seated: Gwen Dungy, '65, '67 (college student affairs); Sally Cummins Healy, '93 (dietetics); Ruth Hawkins, '47, '68 (elementary education); Ajay Ojha, '00 (communication studies); Jennifer Berkshire, '89, '91 (English). In the back row standing: Tom Seng, '68, '70, '87 (business administration); Jayne Ozier, '63, '71 (family and consumer sciences); Andy Ramage, '93, '94 (political science); Mike Sarna, '93 (historical administration); Jerry Boyd, '73, '76 (clinical psychology); Frank Blum, '76, '77 (chemistry). |
Outstanding Grad Alumni Awards Programs
To view biographies of this year's honorees as well as those of the past, see the links below. If you would like to submit your name for consideration for this award or would like to reconnect with other graduate alumni, please e-mail graduate@eiu.edu or visit our Facebook page.
To submit a nomination for the Outstanding Graduate Alumni Award: http://www.eiu.edu/~graduate/pdf/Outstanding_Alumni_Nomination_Form.pdf
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50 Years of Graduate Education
Graduate Alumni Advisory Board
The mission of the Graduate Alumni Advisory Board is to promote superior graduate study through philanthropic and alumni programs that advance the mission of graduate education at Eastern Illinois University.
The vision of the Graduate School Alumni Advisory Board is to offer superior graduate alumni programs that achieve the Board’s philanthropy goals resulting in awards that attract the finest graduate scholars to Eastern Illinois University.
Members:
- Jerry Boyd, '75, '76, Chair
- Pamela Rathjen, '85, '86, Vice Chair
- Stanley Adkins, '67, '69
- Dwight Baptist, '52
- Bob Dennison, '77, '90
- John Dively Jr., '80, '90
- Michele Heidel, '98, '00
- Marilyn Holt, '88, '94
- Sharon Jackson, '83, '84
- Walter Knollenberg, '67, '72
- Linda Komes, '74
- Jamie Willis, '75, '86
