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Spring 2017

Alumni Events

For information about the upcoming events listed below and other alumni activities, please visit alumni.iit.edu/events or contact the Office of Alumni Relations at alumni@iit.edu or 312.567.5040. Illinois Tech Is Coming Your Way This spring Illinois Tech is hitting the road to bring you a series of events featuring groundbreaking research...

Spring 2017

Alumni Board 101

If you’re looking for a way to get more involved with your alma mater this year, look no further! It can be as easy as following the Alumni Association on social media, or attending alumni gatherings in your area, or simply remembering AP 3 : Admissions, Pride, Placement, Participation ...

Spring 2017

Passings

Alumni Charles Condes ME ’42 Harwood Heights, Ill. Corinne Bieber HE ’44 Davenport, Iowa Arthur Uhlir CHE ’45, M.S. ’48 Weston, Mass. Robert Durham ME ’46 Canyon Country, Calif. Frank Allseits CHE ’48 Palatine, Ill. Margaret Stepanek HE ’48 Henderson, Nev. John Doering ME ’49 San Mateo, Calif. Robert Blumenthal...

Fall 2016

Class Notes

1950s Theodore Brown (CHEM ’50), Bonita Springs, Fla., is the founding director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation presented the institute with a $5 million gift to establish the Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship and...

Fall 2016

Alumnus Spotlight

Darryll Schiff (DSGN ’72), Chicago Fine art artist/photographer whose 24’x56’ mural “Descending into Heaven” can be viewed through January 2017 at 710 South Wabash in Chicago, courtesy of the Wabash Arts Corridor. List three characteristics that identify a photograph as a Darryll Schiff fine art piece. There is boldness and...

Fall 2016

Alumni News

Illinois Tech spirit runs in the family of Jerry (ENVE ’00, M.S. EM ’01) and Danette (CHE ’01) Hanttula . The 2016 Class Gift —solar-powered picnic tables on Mies Campus—was dedicated at Homecoming. Alumni enjoyed the props at the Homecoming photo booth. Friends Karin Turnquist (BIOL ’53) [left] and Marilyn...

Fall 2016

Alumni Events

For information about the upcoming events listed here and other alumni activities, please visit alumni.iit.edu/events or contact the Office of Alumni Relations at alumni@iit.edu or 800.IIT.ALUM. Illinois Tech Is Coming Your Way Illinois Tech is hitting the road to bring you a series of events featuring groundbreaking research by our...

Fall 2016

Hawk Talks

Have you ever wondered how the president of your company came to be in that position? Exactly how the chief executive officer climbed the company ladder? The steps senior executives took along their career paths?

Fall 2016

Passings

Alumni Orville Klima ME ’34 Whitewater, Wis. Bernard Wolfe LAW ’37 Northbrook, Ill. Earl Sherman ME ’43 Encino, Calif. Richard Vander Mey ME ’43 Bolingbrook, Ill. Kenneth Sanders ME ’44 Campbell, Calif. Carl Sundeen ME ’44 Minnetonka, Minn. Charles Soderquist ME ’45 Black Canyon City, Ariz. Arthur Uhlir CHE ’45,...

Summer 2016

Block Star

For generations of people, LEGO ® (formed from the Danish words for “play well”) bricks serve as the memorable building blocks of their youth. Established in 1932 by master carpenter and joiner Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund, Denmark, the company first produced wooden toys and household items before expanding into molded plastic in the late 1940s. Today the brand has a portfolio of some 650 products and was the subject of an animated film— The LEGO Movie —with a sequel in the works. The company launched a Sustainable Materials Centre last year as part of its goal to use sustainable materials in all core LEGO products by 2030.

Summer 2016

Class Notes

1940s Warren Spitz (ARCH ’42, M.S. CRP ’68), Northbrook, Ill., is looking to reconnect with classmates from ’41, ’42, or ’43. Robert DeBoo (ME ’45, M.S. IE ’61), Stone Mountain, Ga., turned 90 this year and graduated from Illinois Tech at 18 while in the V-12 Navy College Training Program...

Summer 2016

Class Notes Spotlights

Steve Bellinger (PSYC ’73), Chicago, science fiction author The Chronocar (Barking Rain Press, 2015) tells the story of the genius son of a slave who earns his physics degree from Tuskegee University and makes plans to construct a time machine but doesn’t have the technology to build it. Fast-forward 100...