Alumni

Friday, April 17, 2009, The Graduate School and the Graduate Alumni Advisory Board welcomed back six graduate alumni for a series of events celebrating their induction to the 2009 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. 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 2009 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: Nancie King Mertz, '77 (art); Jonathan Schwabe, '88 (music); Sean Tomer, '93, '97 (economics). In the back row standing: David Carey, '73, '78, '84 (elementary education); Mythili Rundblad, '91, '92 (political science); Lee Martin, '78, '79 (English).

Members of the
Graduate School Alumni Advisory Board:
Sharon Jackson, '83, '84, 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