Alumni Updates
1989 Alums
Margaret Kent, 1989
Connection to Campus Recreation:
Employee (First Aider)
Favorite Campus Rec Memory:
The Rugby Club's first game of the season. The captian
yelled, "O.K., Let's see some blood out there!"
What's New with You:
I went on to receive a Master's in Recreation Management because of the fond memories that I have of IMPE. I'm now staying home to raise my children.
Ronna (Reckman) Renken, 1989
Connection to Campus Recreation:
Employee - Lifeguard
What's New with You:
Teaching English at Edwardsville High School
Amy (Iben) Wills, 1989
Connection to Campus Recreation:
Women's Intramural Manager
Favorite Campus Rec Memory:
Interviewing incoming Women's IM Managers and the laughter it inspired. Also, discovering through this volunteer position that I needed to pursue a career in Campus Recreation.
What's New with You:
I'm presently working at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as a Recreation Specialist for Aquatics and Outdoor Recreation.
1987 Alums
Margie Ruble, 1987
Connection to Campus Recreation:
Employee – back in the "brown shirt days!"
Favorite Campus Rec Memory:
For the most part, it was the people I worked with. I enjoyed NEARLY everyone of my fellow employees.
What's New with You:
Have returned to school to pursue medical assisting. And, I'd love to get in touch with anyone who worked from about 1985-1987. I know you are out there and missing those brown shirts and days of actually checking stickers on the back of ID's.
1986 Alums
Pamela Galowich, 1986
Connection to Campus Recreation:
IM Manager, IM official, IM office worker, Campus Rec Committee student member
Favorite Campus Rec Memory:
All of them but especially memorable ones: reffing men's frat basketball (kinda scary as a female!), hanging out in the IM office and winning one of the badminton doubles IM championship my freshmen year.
What's New with You:
Just completed a master's degree in physician assistant studies and passed my national board exam to become a PA-C (certified) and am now looking forward to starting a job 10/08 as a surgical PA in Philadelphia PA.
1985 Alums
Tom Esch, 1985
Connection to Campus Recreation:
Employee
Favorite Campus Rec Memory:
Worked at "IMPE" for a year or two (1983-1984) when they had 34 racquetball courts.
1984 Alums
Calvin C., 1984
Connection to Campus Recreation:
Employee - I remember the brown shirts and the year we started using them. Craig said that people would feel less threatened by us because it was a passive color. It was the 80's. Earth tones were in.
Favorite Campus Rec Memory:
To this day, working at IMPE is still one of my favorite places that I have ever worked. It was really a great group of people.
What's New with You:
work in the Silicon Valley in the semiconductor equipment industry.
Hey, Tom....How are you? What are you up to these days?
Hey, Grant...Nice to hear from you.
Hey Jim....You were one of the best head supervisors. Was I the one who trained you?
1983 Alums
Grant Marozas, 1983
Connection to Campus Recreation:
Employee
Favorite Campus Rec Memory:
Working Camp IMPE and the people. Forgetting the key to open on a Hot Summer Saturday and having to call Craig while 50 people were upset with me.
What's New with You:
Work at Mayo Clinic.
1982 Alums
Jim Hvizd, 1982
Connection to Campus Recreation:
The best IMPE Head Supervisor Craig Stinson ever hired!
Favorite Campus Rec Memory:
The creativity of excuses used when students showed up at IMPE in late January and found that they left their ID's at home. I met my fiancé that way!
What's New with You:
I'm a Vice-President with Raytheon, a large defense contractor, running an aircraft production program for the Air Force and Army.
Laura Knuffman, 1982
Connection to Campus Recreation:
Employee, Facility Management
Favorite Campus Rec Memory:
There are so many!
What's New with You:
Moving to Boston