on June 12, 2021.
and her husband, Adam, welcomed a daughter, Sloane Penelope Galvan, on Jan. 8, 2022.
started as a subcontract administrator in the aerospace and defense industry with United Launch Alliance.
Noah Yantis '18
is legislative assistant for representative Mike Bost handling the Ag Committee and his education portfolio.
Morgan Wachob '17
graduated cum laude from Vincennes University in their physical therapist assistant program and has accepted a job at ATI Physical Therapy in Bloomington, Indiana, and Deaconess Midtown Hospital in Evansville, Indiana.
Paige Graham Hand '16
recently began a new role as a social services career trainee with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services. She is training to become a human services caseworker.
Rob Brown '14
has been promoted to director of consumer
Jaimie Engle '12
is assistant director of academic advising for biological sciences at DePaul University in Chicago as of May. She hosted a webinar panel discussion in May sponsored by the National Academic Advising Association, entitled “Maximizing our Minimal Time: Perspectives and Successes with Advisor Collaboration.” She was recently asked to serve as Common Reading Chair on the Conference Planning Committee for the 2020 NACADA Region 5 Conference in Milwaukee and selected as a presenter at the 2019 Illinois Academic Advising Association Drive-In Conference.
Elisa Stampf '09
graduated from University of Indiana Kelly Online Business School in May.
Lynnaun Johnson '09
successfully defended his Ph.D. at the Chicago Botanic Garden in May. The committee commented on the quality and significance of his research findings, a majority of which was conducted on Ghost Orchids in the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge.
Matt Vilicana '07
accepted a new position as a federal on-scene coordinator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Danielle Doerfler '06
is the associate athletic director at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri, as of June 2019.
Lucas Williams '06
has been elected as the mayor of Mt. Zion, Illinois.
Lindsay Hymes Williams '04
is the Controller, North America General Accounting and Close at Archer Daniels Midland.
Samantha Bentley Renaud '04
started a new job with Summit Agriculture Group in March 2019.
Christopher Morgan '03
is the director of technology at Illinois State University’s Mennonite College of Nursing.
Elizabeth Jenkins Morgan '02
is a licensed clinical social worker working as a psychotherapist in private practice in Normal, Illinois.
Tom Betsinger '97
accepted a position as the director of recreation in June 2019 for the Oswegoland Park District in Oswego, Illinois. He was also appointed in May 2019 to serve a two year term on the village board in Montgomery, Illinois.
Carrie McCrary Ward '91
is the executive director of the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Andy Smith '86
will be installed as president of the Kiwanis Club in Jacksonville in October 2019.
Kathleen Blough Taylor '86
was promoted to vice president, accounting operations at RLI Insurance Company.
Robert Cox '84
Congratulations to Robert Cox whose son was married on June 7, 2019.
Laurie Black '84
retired from the Registrar’s Office at Western Illinois University in June 2019 after 32 years of service.