Letters

Summer 2016

Letter from the President

The summer season brings to mind a passage from the book The Call of Solitude by the late university educator Ester Schaler Buchholz: “Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original...

Summer 2016

Letters

Both Diane Oestreich (née Jones, CHEM ’59), Rock Island, Illinois, and Christopher T. Hill (CHE ’64), Knoxville, Tennessee, wrote in to call us out on the article “Fun As a Timeless Commodity” in the spring 2016 issue of IIT Magazine , which included a comment referring to the structure in...

Spring 2016

Letter from the President

This issue of IIT Magazine focuses on the research activities of our faculty, alumni, and students. I remember my early days as a faculty member when my academic life was focused on teaching and research. I look back fondly on that time when I was able to work with very...

Fall 2015

Letter from the President

It is with deep gratitude that I offer a heartfelt ‘thank you’—to our faculty, students, staff, alumni, friends, and members of the Board of Trustees—who have placed their confidence in me to lead Illinois Tech as its ninth president. I am honored and excited to see what is possible for...

Fall 2015

Letters

I’m sure it’s tough for the staff to select various articles for IIT Magazine; the selections continue to be very good. Not only do I look forward to receiving the magazine and reading the articles, but I also look forward to the regular departments such as Alumni News. The cover letter by Andrea Berry (CS ’84) was great! My wife and I have spent over 45 years in Wisconsin, but I, like Andrea, grew up on Chicago’s South Side. I can still name the theaters at 63rd and Halsted, where I was every Saturday morning. It’s hard to believe that there is now a Starbucks at 35th and State.

Summer 2015

Letter from the IIT Alumni Association President

Let me state the obvious. I am not John Anderson, president of Illinois Institute of Technology. When you open IIT Magazine , you expect to see a letter from him on this page—and so do I. For the eight years that John has led our university, his letters have told...

Summer 2015

Letters to the Editor

I thoroughly enjoyed your article about Rowine Hayes Brown Truitt on page 17 of the spring 2015 issue of IIT Magazine. Beyond being an amazingly accomplished professional, she was blessed with charm and wit, hinted at by the twinkle in her eye in the photo. Thank you for the article and for producing a consistently interesting and enjoyable magazine.