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Download Spring 2008 Issue The Magazine of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Alumni Association No. 4 Spring 2008 1 Spring 2008 connection A Message from SIUE Today SIUE Alumni Association Connections the Chancellor 2 5 7 1 Jill Branch, ’04 M Carl Brooks, ’76 M for Ameristar Casinos, Executive Leadershi Alumni Events Alumni Profi les SIUE Love Connection Class Notes 8 10 17 18 Mary Robinson SIUE Athletics Tr a d i t i ons SIUE Foundation Inside 20 22 24 Back Cover On the Cover: Bryan King, ’04 BS in management information systems, is part of the family responsible for producing 13 SIUE alumni. See their story on page 10. SIUE Alumni Association Board of Directors Larry R. Lexow Bev George Debra O’Neill Marcia Wickenhauser President ’75 BA English ’79 BS Mass Comm/Psychology Vice-President ’75 BS Mass Communications ’79 MSEd Secondary Education ’82 MBA Bus Admin/General ’79 BS Human Services ’87 MSED Counselor Ed/Comm. Elzora P. Douglas Bill Graebe Jr. Chuck Rathert Immediate Past President ’64 BS Business Administration ’74 BS Mass Communications Dr. Scott M. Wolter ’76 BA Sociology ’90 DMD Dental Medicine Kay Guse John Simmons Ajay K. Kansal ’88 BSE Industrial Engineering ’91 BS Political Science Steve Jankowski President Elect Director Alumni Affairs ’89 MS Business Dr. Karen Kelly Christopher Slusser ’74 BS Mass Communications ’72 BS Nursing Vice-President Finance Rita Adkins ’77 MS Nursing ’03 BS Speech Communication Katie Bennett ’94 BS Sociology ’83 EdD Instructional Process Assistant Director Alumni Affairs ’95 MPA Public Administration Janet Sprehe ’03 BS Mass Communications Tom McRae ’88 BS Nursing Veronica Felton Armouti ’82 BS Organizational Behavior ’94 MS Nursing ’86 BS Psychology ’88 MS Policy Analysis SJ Morrison G. Michael Stewart ’02 BA Mass Communications ’92 BS Political Science Barry Delassus ’00 BS Biological Sciences ’01 MS Biological Sciences Printed by authority of the State of Illinois, 4/08, 6m, 8010611 Printed by authority of the State Illinois, Dear SIUE Alumni, For more than 50 years, SIUE has enjoyed a cast of thousands who have worked on behalf of the citizens of Southwestern Illinois for the greater good and the benefi t of future generations. This long-standing commitment to our region has brought us to the exciting news of this special commemorative year: • For the fi rst time, U.S.News & World Report placed SIUE among the top ten public master’s level universities in the Midwest. • For the third consecutive year, U.S. News recognized SIUE for top performance in the senior assignment program. The University was cited among only 13 elite institutions, including Harvard, MIT, Brown, Duke and Princeton, and is one of only two public institutions on the list. • SIUE is featured among the top “150 Illinois Great Places” by the American Institute of Architects Illinois Council. • SIUE is profi led in the December 2007 issue of St. Louis Commerce Magazine as one of the “2007 Greater St. Louis Top 50” award recipients. The award winners represent the best in their fi elds and a commitment to making the region strong economically and civically. Even more important than awards and accolades is the living legacy SIUE has in you and your nearly 80,000 fellow alumni. Not only are your present-day achievements of considerable signifi cance, your continued support of SIUE promises to enrich the lives of countless future students so that they may, in turn, reach their potential for excellence. Thank you for a wonderful fi rst half-century. We look forward to a continuation of the excitement and momentum that has characterized Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Go Cougars! Vaughn Vandegrift, Ph.D. SIUE Chancellor 1 Spring 2008 connection 1 SIUE Today The SIUE School of Nursing was named part of a national The School of Engineering robotics team—Fishtank study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Louise Assassin—took fi rst place at an International Beyond Flick, SIUE professor of family health/community health Botball competition in Honolulu. The competition draws nursing, was awarded a $4 million, fi ve-year grant to a diverse array of participants, including robot hobbyists, participate in the National Children’s Study, which is a joint college teams and professional engineers. Fishtank Assassin project with Washington University, Saint Louis University members include Ross Mead, a senior computer science and the SIU School of Medicine. The award is the single major, Jeff Croxell, electrical and computer engineering largest grant in SIUE’s history. graduate student, and Jerry Weinberg, associate professor of computer science. Accounting graduates through the School of Business ranked second among Illinois state universities for CPA Josephine Barnes, director of the Offi ce of Research and exam scores. SIUE, with nearly 40 percent of its test takers Projects in the Graduate School, was named as recipient of passing all parts of the exam, placed under Illinois State the Distinguished Service Award from the National Council University, which boasted a nearly 41 percent passing rate, of University Research Administrators in October. Barnes while ranking just above the University of Illinois at Urbana- was recognized for “sustained and distinctive contributions Champaign, which reported a total passing rate of just to the organization.” At SIUE she directs, manages and over 36 percent. The National Association of State Boards coordinates post award fi nancial and nonfi nancial activities. of Accountancy publishes a summary of CPA exam results annually which refl ect the previous year’s results. 2 Spring 2008 SIUE Today SIUE is in the news! Find out why SIUE has been featured more than 1,850 times during the fi rst half of the ’07-’08 academic year. Visit www.siue.edu/news. In July the School of Pharmacy reached another milestone A $250,000 gift over the next fi ve years from a company that on its journey to accreditation status, with the affi rmation of offers one of implant dentistry’s most comprehensive lines of candidate accreditation status for the Doctor of Pharmacy implants and abutments will allow the SIU School of Dental program. The School achieved “candidate status” in Medicine to enhance its postdoctoral implant program and 2006. The fi nal part of the process happens when the expand its teaching curriculum for its predoctoral students. Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) BIOMET 3i, one of the leading companies in the oral considers the School for full accreditation. That occurs when reconstruction market, also has promised in-kind support of the program is found to have met all ACPE standards for instruments, equipment and education worth an estimated accreditation and has graduated its fi rst class in May 2009. $250,000. The School of Education was awarded $194,251 to further A group of SIUE students recently traveled to China to learn expand the Teaching with Primary Sources Program, about the country’s cultures, views and language. The trip formerly Adventure of the American Mind. Supported was sponsored in part by SIUE’s Study Abroad Programs by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Springfi eld) and funded and the College of Arts and Sciences. While spending through the Library of Congress, this project has trained nearly a month in China, the group of 15 undergraduate and and mentored over 500 educators from K-12 schools graduate students toured historic sites, listened to lectures in 16 counties to date and has awarded approximately from Chinese professors, and became versed in political and $250,000 in technology awards to area schools and social practices, traditions and changes in the country with teachers for educational use. the formation of the People’s Republic of China. 3 Spring 2008 connection 3 SIUE Today Individuals to be Honored at Spring Commencement SIUE will recognize one of its own and a tireless community volunteer at Spring Commencement ceremonies. Honorary Degree Recipient Distinguished Service Award SIUE Professor Emeritus Eugene Carol Wetzel is known for her Redmond is a nationally-known signifi cant contributions as poet who founded the popular a teacher in Collinsville and multicultural literary journal Edwardsville schools and as a Drumvoices Revue which has dedicated community volunteer. featured some of the most A portion of her 15-year teaching important literary voices of the career was spent as a Homebound 20th and 21st centuries. Now Teacher, instructing children who its founder will be recognized were too ill to attend school. She with an honorary Doctor of has also taught special education Humane Letters. and international students, some of whom arrived with little or no Redmond, who is an SIUE English language skills. graduate, recently retired from the SIUE Department of English Language and Literature after 19 years of service. He was Carol has devoted much of her volunteerism on behalf of SIUE. named poet laureate of East St. Louis in 1976. He provided a She has served on the SIUE Foundation Board of Directors, the platform for hundreds of SIUE students and aspiring writers, Friends of Lovejoy Library, the Friends of Music and as past including several from the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club, president of the Friends of Art. She and her husband, Bob, have which was founded in his name. Redmond also shared his endowed SIUE Chancellor’s Scholarship in support of academic creativity through the visual art of photography, producing excellence and have contributed to more than 30 funds thousands of images that chronicle a generation of writers, civic throughout the University. leaders, performers and families on the SIUE campus and from around the world. Carol is also dedicated to her community. She champions such causes as the Edwardsville Children’s Museum, Riverbend Head During his career, Redmond has won numerous awards Start & Family Services, the Greater Edwardsville Community including fellowships, a lifetime achievement award from Foundation and the Benjamin Stephenson House.
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