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Like Mother, Like Daughter
Alexis Evans, Gladys Philips- Evans and Brooklyn Hurley—three generations who can sing “Hail to the Orange.” (Image courtesy of Mary Francis Graham) California born and bred, Alexis Evans, ’12 LAS, MBA...
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When orthopaedic surgeon Ravi K. Bashyal, ’01 LAS, responded to an unusual request for a Nepalese interpreter in the NorthShore University HealthSystem clinic where he works in Skokie, Ill., he had no...
View ArticleStudent Mom
Life couldn’t have been that much easier half a century ago. Right? Some people just make it look that way. Consider Mary Frances Graham, ’77 ACES. In the early 1950s, Graham, a Champaign resident,...
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My Alma Mater: A Good Fit
Beschloss (shown at typewriter) cut his teeth as a journalist on The Daily Illini. After a decades-long career in the pipe, valves and fittings industry, he picked up where he left off, serving as a...
View ArticleThe Good Neighbor
It could have ended like so many tragic stories of gun violence that increasingly dominate today’s headlines. Fifty police officers unsuccessfully tried for 12 hours to end a Sept. 16, 2022, standoff...
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Sports Legends: Historic Hurdler
During a stellar track career, hurdler Perdita Felicien, ’04 AHS, ran in the Summer Olympics (twice), won a World Championship and captured three NCAA titles. But ask the U of I Athletics Hall of Famer...
View ArticleI’s on the World: A Welcome Waddle
You’ll stand out in Illini Orange and Blue, especially when everyone else is in a tuxedo. That was a lesson learned by Chicago attorney Robert P. Harris, ’77 LAS, on his November 2022 journey to South...
View ArticleIlllini Beetle
Anyone visiting Keith McLean’s Orland Park, Ill., home can easily see the depths of his University of Illinois devotion. His basement is an orange-and-blue shrine, and McLean, ’88 LAS, a cardiologist...
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Globe Trotter
When Scott Ziffra, ’94 ENG, crossed the finish line of the December 2022 Antarctic Ice Marathon, he raised his arms—hands covered by thick black gloves—in victory. The moment marked not just the end of...
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Agent of Change
After being profoundly changed by her experiences with facilitation and activism at Illinois, Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier went on to a career developing health equity and anti-racism curricula.(Image courtesy...
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Club Kids
“A lot of our old standbys are disappearing,” says Javan Samp, lamenting the loss of Illini Inn, where he and future wife Melissa Raney Samp signed their names as members of the 100,000-strong Mug...
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2023 ALUMNI AWARDS
Tracey Meares (Image courtesy of Tracey Meares) DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AWARD TRACEY MEARES Yale Law School Professor addresses justice-system inequities One of the nation’s leading authorities on...
View ArticleEternal Flames
Their romance began even before school did, at a summer orientation for incoming freshmen. Over the next couple of years, they blossomed together, becoming finance majors, members of rival business...
View Article“I”s on the World: Czech Mates
“We truly appreciated the re-establishment of the downtown areas in Krakow and Warsaw,” says Greg Cargill, ’71 ENG, of the recent trip he and several Illini took to the Czech Republic and Poland in...
View ArticleCheerleaders
For the Hoffman family, cheering on the Illini is a family affair. At home football and basketball games, you will find J.R. Hoffman, ’92 LAS, MD ’96 UIC, and Rose Hoffman, ’92 LAS, in the stands, not...
View ArticleSustainability Engineer
Growing up in the western suburbs of Chicago, John W. Sutherland, ’80 ENG, MS ’82 ENG, PHD ’87 ENG, always liked math and was “pretty good at science.” It was his uncle, an engineer, who told him that...
View ArticleAlumni Interview: Mary Lou Kutska
I’d been at my job as a bridge technical manager at the engineering firm Michael Baker International for two months when I got a photo message from my supervisor. It was a picture of a large crack in a...
View ArticleMy Alma Mater: Around the GLOBE
When I enrolled at the U of I in 2016—a fresh-faced international student from Costa Rica—it was the beginning of a transformative journey that made me feel like I truly belonged. In my homeland, I had...
View Article“I”s on the World: Honoring Fallen Americans
During a Seine River cruise in August 2022, Jay Stortzum, EDM ’71, his wife, Winnie (Berni) Stortzum, MA ’69 LAS, and her sister, Cindy (Berni) Mark, ’79 UIC, visited the Normandy American Cemetery and...
View ArticleI’s on the World: French Connection
James L. Edwards, ’73 BUS, and Patricia A. Roberts, ’74 UIC, DDS ’76 UIC, both went to Taylorville (Ill.) Senior High School before entering the University of Illinois in the early 1970s: Edwards to...
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