Augustana College is a private liberal arts college

Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers a definition of the liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general...

 located in Rock Island, Illinois

Rock Island, Illinois

Rock Island is the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The population was 40,884 at the 2010 census. Located on the Mississippi River, it is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring Moline, East Moline, and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf. The Quad Cities...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The college enrolls approximately 2,500 students. Covering 115 acres (46.5 ha) of hilly, wooded land, Augustana is adjacent to the Mississippi River

Mississippi River

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. Ninety-one percent of the full-time faculty hold Ph.D.s or the terminal degrees in their field.

History

After 1890 an increasingly large Swedish American

Swedish American

Swedish Americans are Americans of Swedish descent, especially the descendants of about 1.2 million immigrants from Sweden during 1885-1915. Most were Lutherans who affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ; some were Methodists...

 community in America promoted a new institutional structure, including a lively Swedish-language press, many new churches, several colleges, and a network of ethnic organizations. The result was to foster with pride a sense of Swedishness in the United States. Thereby there emerged a self confident Americanized generation. Augustana College put itself in the lead of the movement to affirm Swedish American identity. Early on all the students had been born in Sweden but by 1890 the second generation of American-born students predominated. They typically had white-collar or professional backgrounds; few were the sons and daughters of farmers and laborers. These middle class youth developed an idealized view of Sweden, characterized by romanticism, patriotism, and idealism, just like their counterparts across the Atlantic. The new generation was especially proud of the Swedish contributions to American democracy and the creation of a republic that promised liberty and destroyed the menace of slavery.

Academics

Augustana ranks among the top forty U.S. liberal arts colleges in the sciences, based on the number of graduates earning Ph.D.s. Students accepted to Augustana typically rank in the top 10% of their high school classes. The middle 50 percent of enrolled students for the class of 2012 scored 24-29 on the ACT, well above the national averages. Augustana College is considered highly selective.

Augustana currently has approximately sixty academic programs including nine pre-professional and eight interdisciplinary programs:

Academic Programs

Accounting, Africana Studies, Anthropology, Art, Art History, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Business Administration, Chinese, Chemistry, Classics, Communication Sciences & Disorders (including Speech Pathology and Audiology

Audiology

Audiology is the branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. Its practitioners, who treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage are audiologists. Employing various testing strategies Audiology (from Latin , "to hear"; and from Greek , -logia) is...

, Communication Studies, Computer Science, Creative Writing, Economics, Education, Engineering, Engineering Physics, English, French, Geography, Geology, German, Graphic Design, History, International Business, Japanese, Landscape Architecture, Mathematics, Multimedia Journalism, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Scandinavian, Sociology, Spanish, Theatre, World Literature

Pre-Professional Programs

Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Optometry, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Veterinary Medicine

Interdisciplinary Programs

Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Environmental Management & Forestry, Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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, Women's & Gender Studies

Gender studies

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Academic buildings

Old Main

Old Main, Augustana College

Old Main, Augustana College is an historic building located in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. It was built between 1884 and 1893 on the campus of Augustana College, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.-History:...

 was constructed between 1884 and 1893. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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. On August 2, 2010, the New Science Building was officially named the Robert A. and Patricia K. Hanson Hall of Science after Robert Hanson, a former John Deere

John Deere

John Deere was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world...

 CEO. Mr Hanson, who donated $8 million to the college, credits his success in life to his time spent at Augustana. The science building was dedicated in 1998 is the largest academic building serving approximately 700 students in 17 majors, minors and concentrations. The Hanson Hall of Science's facilities and resources include seven classrooms, thirty-five laboratories (including a cadaver lab), a 400 MHz liquid-and solid-state NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectrometer, scanning electron microscope, instrumentation for X-ray powder crystallography and a fully functioning 40-foot greenhouse.

Residential complexes

Augustana has five traditional residence halls: Andreen Hall, Erickson Residence Center, Seminary Hall, Swanson Commons, and Westerlin Residence Center. All five of these residence halls are coeducational. The majority of first year and sophomore year students typically reside in one of these five residence halls. For uppclassmen, Augustana also offers Transitional Living Areas (TLAs) in which Augustana students live in either apartment-like complexes or traditional off-campus houses administered by the college's Office of Residential Life. The school takes care of basic maintenance in these areas, some of which are House on the Hill

Weyerhaeuser House

Weyerhaeuser House is an historic building located in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. It was built in 1865 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975...

, Naeseth, and Arbaugh Apartments. These areas usually have 2-6 students who share a bathroom, a kitchen, and other living spaces.

Augustana provides several services to attending students. Services include: campus ministries, career center, student counseling, academic advising, student employment, business office, food services, safety office, campus security, computer services, and campus recreation.

Student Life

Organizations

Since 1950, Augustana has had a chapter of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society. The College also has non-"Greek" collegiate fraternal organizations, including Alpha Phi Omega

Alpha Phi Omega

Alpha Phi Omega is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of approximately 17,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni members...

 (APO) (service), Sigma Alpha Iota

Sigma Alpha Iota

Sigma Alpha Iota , International Music Fraternity for Women. Formed to "uphold the highest standards of music" and "to further the development of music in America and throughout the world", it continues to provide musical and educational resources to its members and the general public...

 (SAI) (music), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music...

 (music), Epsilon Sigma Alpha

Epsilon Sigma Alpha

Epsilon Sigma Alpha International is a collegiate and service organization for women and men ages 18 and older. The organization states that its purpose "is to inspire leadership and service by bringing good people together to pursue programs and projects that make a positive difference locally,...

 (ESA) (Service), Alpha Psi Omega

Alpha Psi Omega

Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society is an American recognition honor society recognizing participants in collegiate theatre. The Alpha Cast was founded at Fairmont State College on August 12, 1925 by professor Paul F...

 (ΑΨΩ) (theater), and others.

Augustana has a local Greek system, which includes six sororities (Chi Alpha Pi (CAP), Chi Omega Gamma (COG), Delta Chi Theta (Delta Chi), Phi Rho, Sigma Kappa Tau (KT), and Sigma Pi Delta (Speed), and seven fraternities (Alpha Sigma Xi (Alpha Sig), Beta Omega Sigma (BOS), Delta Omega Nu (DON), Gamma Alpha Beta (GAB), Omicrom Sigma Omicron (OZO), Phi Omega Phi (Poobah), and Rho Nu Delta (Roundels).

Augustana has many other organizations, including a chapter of MENC: The National Association for Music Education

MENC: The National Association for Music Education

MENC: The National Association for Music Education is an organization of American music educators dedicated to advancing and preserving music education and as part of the core curriculum of schools in the United States...

, a National Band Association chapter, American Choral Directors Association

American Choral Directors Association

The American Choral Directors Association , headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a non-profit organization with the stated purpose of promoting excellence in the field of choral music...

 (ACDA), Paintball Team (NCPA), American String Teachers Association

American String Teachers Association

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 (ASTA), Psychology Club, Business Club, DDR

DDR

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 Club, Anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 Club, Asian Student Organization (ASO), Ladies of Vital Essence (L.O.V.E.), The Order of the Phoenix, Majestic Hearts, Majestic Gents, Martial Arts Club, and many other organizations.

Athletics

The Augustana Vikings compete in the NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 Division III College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

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 (CCIW). The Vikings compete in a combined total of 22 male and female team sport

Sport

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s, and five out of seven students compete in some form of varsity

Varsity team

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, club, or intramural sport. The Augustana College football team won four NCAA Division III national championships in a row from 1983 - 1986 under Coach Bob Reade

Bob Reade

Bob Reade is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois from 1979 to 1994, compiling a record of 146–23–1. His Augustana Vikings won four consecutive NCAA Division III National Football Championships from...

. Coach Reade's overall winning percentage of 87% is second only to Larry Kehres

Larry Kehres

Larry Kehres is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Mount Union, formerly known as Mount Union College, in Alliance, Ohio, a position he has held since the 1986 season...

 and Knute Rockne

Knute Rockne

Knute Kenneth Rockne was an American football player and coach. He is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history...

 on the all-time list. Augustana College was a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

The Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was a college athletic conference that existed from 1908 to 1970 in the United States.-History:...

 from 1912-1937.

Current varsity sports include: baseball, basketball (m/w), cross country (m/w), football, golf (m/w), lacrosse (m/w), soccer (m/w), softball, swimming (m/w), tennis (m/w), track & field (m/w), volleyball, wrestling.

Notable faculty

Accounting

• Pamela Druger is the S. James Galley Endowed Chair in Accounting.

Art History

• Cathy Goebel is a professor, the Paul A. Anderson Chair in the Arts and current chair of the Department of Art History. Dr. Goebel oversees collaborative research and publication of faculty and student essays related to Augustana College Art Museum exhibitions. One example of this is her recent work to coordinate Origins of Modernity, a project that integrated first-year studies with essays from the Augustana community and an elaborate art exhibit and catalogue, as well as a community convocation event.

Chemistry

• Pamela Trotter is the Robert W. Beart Endowed Chair in Chemistry having been a leader in student-faculty collaboration at Augustana College, having organized summer research programs involving students from the departments of biology, pre-medicine, chemistry and education since 2002.

Communication Sciences & Disorders (CSD)

• Kathy Jakielski is an Associate Professor of (CSD), director of the Augustana Center for Speech, Language and Hearing, and the Florence C. and Dr. John E. Wertz Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. Dr. "J" - as she is called by her students - is a noted clinician and scholar examining Childhood Apraxia
  Apraxia
  Apraxia is a disorder caused by damage to specific areas of the cerebrum. Apraxia is characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned purposeful movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements...
  
   of Speech.

English

• Karin Youngberg is a professor and the Conrad Bergendoff Chair in the Humanities, Augustana's first endowed faculty position. Dr. Karin Youngberg joined the English department in 1967, and in 1980 became the first woman elected to chair the Faculty Senate. The Phi Beta Kappa Augustana graduate has a long association with East Hall Press, which gives students hands-on experience in book publishing.
• Jason Peters holds the Dorothy J. Parkander Chair in Literature. Recent publications include "Wendell Berry: Life and Work" (University Press of Kentucky, 2007).

Geology

• William R. Hammer
  William R. Hammer
  Dr. William Roy Hammer is a professor at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He is credited with the discovery of the Cryolophosaurus in 1991. He is originally from Detroit, Michigan.- References :...
  
   is a noted paleontologist who found the first dinosaur, Cryolophosaurus, in Antarctica. Dr. Hammer is the Fritiof M. Fryxell Chair in Geology.

Geography

• Norm Moline is the Edward Hamming Professor of Geography. Norm has co-directed the college's fall term in East Asia since that program started in 1974, which was the first time China opened its borders to the West for educational purposes.

History

• Van J. Symons is a noted scholar of China, with his focus on the Q'ing dynasty. Dr. Symons is the Executive Director of ASIANetwork and the William A. Freistat Chair for Studies in World Peace.
• Lendol Calder, professor of history, became the second member of the Augustana faculty to earn Professor of the Year honors from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education
  Council for Advancement and Support of Education
  The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is a nonprofit association of educational institutions. It serves professionals in the field of educational advancement...
  
  . Dr. Dorothy Parkander, professor emerita of English, was so honored in 1992 and Dr. Calder was recognized in 2010.
• Jane Simonsen is an Associate Professor of History and Women's & Gender Studies, which she serve is the program chair starting with the 2010-2011 school year. Dr. Simonsen is the current president of the Mid-America chapter of the American Studies Association.
• Thomas Mayer is a Professor of History, specializing in the 16th and 17th Europe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held numerous fellowships including at Harvard University and Villa I Tatti in Florence. During the 2007-08 academic year he was a fellow of the American Academy in Rome where he researched Galileo's trial.

Mathematics

• Tom Bengtson is the Earl H. Beling Chair in Mathematics and mentors 4-5 students, designated Beling Scholars, conducting research projects in mathematics. These students present their research at state and national mathematics conferences, as well as the Augustana Celebration of Learning.

Sociology

• Peter Kivisto is a noted sociologist, former editor of the Sociological Quarterly, and author of over a dozen books on immigration, ethnic and racial studies, and social theory, most recently "Illuminating Social Life" (fifth edition, Pine Forge Press, 2010) and the forthcoming "Race aand Ethnicity: The Basics (with Paul Croll, Routledge, 2012). Dr. Kivisto is the president (2010–2011) of the Midwest Sociological Society, holds the Richard A. Swanson Chair in Social Thought and chairs the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Welfare at Augustana. Other members of the Department:
• Paul Croll is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Augustana College. His research, focusing on whiteness, critical race theory, race and ethnic relations, social inequality, quantitative research methods, and statistics, has appeared in the journals Social Forces, Social Problems, and The American Sociologist. He has been influential in the management of the American Mosaic Project Survey.
• Marsha Smith - Gerontologist and scholar of Asian Studies - is a board member of ASIANetwork (2008–2011) and former president of the Illinois Sociological Association (ISA).
• Vicki Sommer - Social Welfare and Gender Studies professor - is also a former president of the ISA and a current board member of the American Men's Studies Association
  American Men's Studies Association
  The American Men's Studies Association advances the critical study of men and masculinities by encouraging the development of teaching, research and clinical practice in the field of men's studies...
  
   (AMSA). Dr. Sommer was also the program chair for the Women's & Gender Studies program and institute at Augustana for twelve years.

Notable alumni

• Carl Aaron Swensson
  Carl Aaron Swensson
  Carl Aaron Swensson was an American Lutheran minister and founder and President of Bethany College.-Background:...
  
   (1877) - Lutheran minister and founder of Bethany College
• Gustaf A. Brandelle (1882) - Lutheran minister, K.N.O., longest-serving president of the Augustana Lutheran Synod]] (1918-1935).
• A. J. Carlson
  A. J. Carlson
  Anton Julius Carlson was a Swedish American physiologist. Carlson was Chairman of the Physiology Department at the University of Chicago from 1916 until 1940.-Biography:...
  
   (BA.1898, MS.1899) - Chairman of the Physiology Department at the University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
  
• Petrus Olof Bersell (1899) - Lutheran minister, K.N.O., Order of the Lion, president of the Augustana Lutheran Synod]] (1935-1951).
• K. G. William Dahl
  K. G. William Dahl
  K. G. William Dahl was a Lutheran pastor, author and social advocate.-Background:K. G. William Dahl was born in Osby, Skåne in Sweden. Both Dahl's father and grandfather had been Lutheran ministers of the Church of Sweden parish. His brother was the composer Viking Dahl. K. G. William Dahl...
  
   (1907) - Lutheran pastor and author. Founder of Bethphage Mission
• Theodore Emanuel Schmauk
  Theodore Emanuel Schmauk
  Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, D.D., LL.D. was an American Lutheran minister, educator, author and Church theologian....
  
   (1910) - Lutheran minister, educator and author.
• Conrad Bergendoff (1915) - Lutheran minister, educator and author. President of Augustana College, 1935-1962.
• Thorsten Sellin
  Thorsten Sellin
  Johan Thorsten Sellin was an American sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, a penologist and one of the pioneers of scientific criminology.-Biography:...
  
   (1915) - pioneer in scientific criminology
  Criminology
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• Oscar Broneer
  Oscar Broneer
  Oscar Theodore Broneer was a Swedish American archaeologist prominent for his work on Ancient Greece.-Biography:...
  
   (1922) - prominent Greek archaeologist
• Carl Marcus Olson
  Carl Marcus Olson
  Carl Marcus Olson has been credited as the discoverer of the process to make silicon pure.-Early life:Carl Marcus Olson was born in 1911, to Swedish immigrants in Chicago. His father, Dr. Oscar N. Olson, a clergyman, and his mother, Wilhelmina Peterson Olson raised him and his older sister Heloise...
  
   (1932) - developed the process to purify silicon
  Silicon
  Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. A tetravalent metalloid, it is less reactive than its chemical analog carbon, the nonmetal directly above it in the periodic table, but more reactive than germanium, the metalloid directly below it in the table...
  
   for electronic use
• Ruth Parkander Clokey Goodell (1944) - producer of ELCA's Davey and Goliath
  Davey and Goliath
  Davey and Goliath is a 1960s stop-motion animated children's Christian television series. The programs, produced by the Lutheran Church in America , were produced by Art Clokey after the success of his Gumby series.Each 15-minute episode features the adventures of Davey Hansen and his "talking"...
  
  
• Charlotte Erickson
  Charlotte Erickson
  Charlotte Erickson was an American historian.-Life:Erickson was born in Oak Park, Illinois a suburb of Chicago, where her father was a Swedish Lutheran minister...
  
   (1945) - historian
• Robert Hanson
  Robert Hanson
  Robert Hanson was a World War II U.S. Army Air Forces flier.He served as the radio operator and as a gunner on the Flying Fortress Memphis Belle, the first U.S. bomber to complete 25 missions in Europe....
  
   (1948) - Former CEO Deere and Company
• Dorothy Ann "D.A." Bjornson (1950) - first woman to compete in the Final Round of the National Debate Tournament (1950).
• Roald H. Fryxell
  Roald H. Fryxell
  Roald H. Fryxell was an American geologist and archaeologist.-Background:Roald Hilding Fryxell was the son of Fritiof Fryxell, a geologist and professor, and Regina Holmén Fryxell, an organist and music teacher, both on the faculty of Augustana College in Illinois, from which he graduated in 1956...
  
   (1956) - Geologist and Archaeologist
• Don Sundquist
  Don Sundquist
  Donald Kenneth Sundquist is a former governor and congressman from Tennessee. A Republican, he served as the 47th Governor of Tennessee from 1995 to 2003...
  
   (1957) - Former United States Congressman (1983–1985) and governor of Tennessee (1995–2003)
• Timothy Johnson
  Timothy Johnson
  G. Timothy Johnson is an American academic, pastor, physician, television journalist and writer who, as "Dr. Tim Johnson", is best known to television viewers as the longtime chief medical correspondent for ABC News on the ABC television network.-Education:Johnson received his undergraduate degree...
  
  (1958) - ABC
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   News Medical Editor.
• Daniel C. Tsui
  Daniel C. Tsui
  Daniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics...
  
   (1961) - Nobel Prize
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   winner in physics
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  .
• Robert J. Swieringa
  Robert J. Swieringa
  Robert Jay Swieringa was the ninth Dean of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He was succeeded by L. Joseph Thomas....
  
   (1964) - Former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board
  Financial Accounting Standards Board
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   (FASB) and former Dean of the Johnson School at Cornell University
  Cornell University
  Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
  
  .
• Ken Anderson (1970) - NFL Quarterback with the Cincinnati Bengals
  Cincinnati Bengals
  The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the AFC's North Division in the National Football League . The Bengals began play in 1968 as an expansion team in the American Football League , and joined the NFL in 1970 in the AFL-NFL...
  
   for 16 seasons.
• Mark Schwiebert
  Mark Schwiebert
  Mark William Schwiebert was Mayor of the City of Rock Island, Illinois from May 1989 until May 2009. Prior to his election as Rock Island Mayor, Schwiebert served the people of his City as an attorney and City Councilman since the mid-1970s...
  
   (1972) - Mayor of Rock Island
  Rock Island, Illinois
  Rock Island is the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The population was 40,884 at the 2010 census. Located on the Mississippi River, it is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring Moline, East Moline, and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf. The Quad Cities...
  
  , 1989-2009.
• David Hultgren
  David Hultgren
  David Rodger Hultgren is a former politician and judge in Illinois.In 1986 he successfully ran for the Illinois House of Representatives, winning the 94th District seat. After serving three full terms, he moved into the judicial field as a judge in the 9th judicial circuit.Hultgren retired on July...
  
   (1973) - Former Illinois State Congressman (Illinois 94th District).
• Phil McKinley (1973) - Broadway director.
• Elizabeth J. Stroble (1973) - 14th president of Webster University
  Webster University
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  .
• Lane Evans
  Lane Evans
  Lane Allen Evans is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007, representing the 17th District of Illinois...
  
   (1974) - Former United States Congressman (Illinois 17th District).
• Lawrence S. Barker (1974) - CEO of Argent Networks
• Brenda Barnes (1975) - Prominent businesswoman and former CEO of both Sara Lee and PepsiCo
  PepsiCo
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  , where she was the first female head.
• Clarence "Al" Bowman
  Alvin Bowman
  Clarence Alvin Bowman is an American academic and current President of Illinois State University . He was trained in, and still teaches upper-level classes in, speech pathology....
  
   (1975) - President of Illinois State University
  Illinois State University
  Illinois State University , founded in 1857, is the oldest public university in Illinois; it is located in the town of Normal. ISU is considered a "national university" that grants a variety of doctoral degrees and strongly emphasizes research; it is also recognized as one of the top ten largest...
  
  .
• Murry Gerber (1975) - CEO of Equitable Resources
  Equitable Resources
  EQT Corporation is a Pittsburgh, United States-based, integrated energy company, supplying natural gas, crude oil, and gas-related services to wholesale and retail customers...
  
  
• Doug Hultquist (1977) - CEO of QCR Holdings
  QCR Holdings
  QCR Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides commercial and consumer banking, and trust and asset management services for the Quad City, Cedar Rapids, and Rockford communities. QCR Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Moline, Illinois.-About:QCR Holdings, Inc...
  
  
• Dave "Gruber" Allen (1980) - Television
  Television
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   and film
  Film
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   actor
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   - (The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show, Freaks and Geeks
  Freaks and Geeks
  Freaks and Geeks is an American teen comedy-drama television series, created by Paul Feig and executive produced by Judd Apatow, that aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 television season...
  
  , Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
  Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
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  , King of the Hill
  King of the Hill
  King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...
  
  , Gilmore Girls
  Gilmore Girls
  Gilmore Girls is an American family comedy-drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. On October 5, 2000, the series debuted on The WB and was cancelled in its seventh season, ending on May 15, 2007 on The CW...
  
  , Higgins Boys and Gruber).
• Aaron Kennedy (1985) - Founder of Noodles & Co.
• Kevin Burns (mayor)
  Kevin Burns (Mayor)
  Kevin Burns Kevin Burns Kevin Burns (born August 26, 1964 in Arlington Heights, Illinois is the current mayor of Geneva, Illinois.-Early life:Burns was born to John and Ann Burns in Arlington Heights...
  
   (1986) Mayor of Geneva, Illinois
  Geneva, Illinois
  Geneva is the county seat of Kane County, Illinois. It is located on the western fringe of the Chicago suburbs. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 26,652. Geneva is part of a tri-city area, along with St. Charles and Batavia...
  
  

External links

• Official website