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NEWS FROM IWU
May 15, 2002
Contact: Jeffery G. Hanna, 309/556-3181
IWU Elects Nine New Trustees
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Illinois Wesleyan University has announced the election of nine new members to its Board of Trustees, including three trustees who were nominated by the IWU Alumni Association.
The elections occurred during the spring Board of Trustees meeting, which was held on the campus May 13 and 14. In addition to welcoming new members, the trustees also paid tribute to those colleagues who retired from active membership in the Board.
The new IWU Trustees are:
- Richard D. Ames of Cleveland, Ohio, president of Command Plastic Corporation, a manufacturer of vinyl products and packaging in Akron, Ohio.
- Jean S. Baird of Bloomington, a 1980 graduate of IWU and executive assistant at State Farm Insurance Companies.
- Phyllis Barker of Chicago, a 1973 graduate of IWU and manager of Agency Wide Volunteer Services for the Safer Foundation.
- Demetria Kalodimos of Brentwood., Tenn., a 1981 graduate of IWU and Emmy-winning news anchor for WSMV-TV in Nashville.
- Thomas J. Neis of McHenry, Ill., a 1970 IWU graduate and owner of Neis Insurance Agency Inc., in Crystal Lake, Ill.
- Ronald L. Ruecker of Decatur, a 1966 IWU graduate and a gastroenterologist with the Internal Medicine Subspecialty Associates, Ltd., of which he is president.
- Ann R. Stroink of Bloomington, a 1976 IWU graduate and a neurosurgeon with the Central Illinois Neuro Health Sciences group.
- Amanda S. Toney of Chicago, a 1974 IWU graduate who is in her second term as Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County.
- Susan D. Waring of Bloomington, Ill., senior vice president, chief administrative officer, and a member of the Board of Directors of State Farm Life, State Farm Accident and Assurance, and State Farm Life and Annuity companies.
Barker, Neis, and Baird were the nominees of the IWU Alumni Association.
Six retiring trustees were elected to emeritus status: Ronald B. Cate of Wildrose, Wisc., Robert E. Davis of Hinsdale, John W. Maitland Jr. of Bloomington, Dr. Robert M. Reardon of Bloomington, Dr. Sidney G. Smith of Carbondale, and Anne Colwell Tryon of Frankfort, Mich.
The 2002-2003 officers for the IWU Board are Craig C. Hart, president; Gilbert L. Dorsey, first vice president; Herbert A. Getz, second vice president; George Vinyard, secretary; and Robert E. Field II, treasurer.
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For a complete list of all the news releases from the 2001-2002 academic year, updated daily, go here.
IWU President Minor Myers jr. authored an opinion piece about the importance of private higher education and the need for Illinois to continue the MAP program of financial assistance in Sunday's (5/12) Pantagraph.
Warren Kistner, director of IWU's Career Center, is quoted in an article on job prospects for college students in the May 5 edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Jim Plath, professor of English, is quoted in an Associated Press story about a new effort to catalogue and publish the letters of Ernest Hemingway.
IWU senior Kyle Eash is a finalist for the NCAA's Walter Byers scholarship. The Pantagraph (4/29) details Eash's impressive accompishments.
Students from Illinois Wesleyan joined Illinois State students to construct a Habitat for Humanity home. Details in Saturday's (4/27) Pantagraph.
The work that IWU senior Kyle Eash has done with chemistry professor Ram Mohan leads a story on undergraduate research in the April 8 editions of USA Today. See the story.
IWU President Minor Myers jr. was featured in the Sunday (3/11) edition of The Chicago Tribune discussing the College Readiness Program. (Registration required for Tribune site.)
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