06 Apr 2023

In-Person Writers@Monmouth Series Returns April 12 with Knox's Gina Franco

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILINOIS (April 6, 2023) — Award-winning poet and teacher Gina Franco will revive an in-person Monmouth College series when she reads some of her works on April 12.

The Knox College professor will be the first Writers@Monmouth guest speaker to appear on campus since before the pandemic.

30 Mar 2023

Former US Representative Cheri Bustos to Teach Political Science Class at Monmouth College

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 30, 2023) — Monmouth College students will get to study US political campaigns next fall with two of the Midwest's political veterans.

Former US Representative Cheri Bustos will team up with Monmouth political science lecturer Robin Johnson to teach the College's "Campaign Methods" course.

28 Mar 2023

Former US Representative Richard A Gephardt to Deliver Monmouth College Commencement Address

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 28, 2023) — Former US Representative Richard A Gephardt will deliver this year's Monmouth College Commencement address.

Monmouth's 166th Commencement exercise will be at noon on Sunday, May 14, on the College's Wallace Hall Plaza. The rain site will be the Huff Athletic Center field house.

28 Mar 2023

Monmouth College's Sigma Phi Epsilon Chapter to Celebrate 75th Anniversary May 26-28

By Duane Bonifer

Pictured with Monmouth College's fourteen Buchanan Cups for Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter excellence are, from left, Cullen Marshall ('22), Eli Kelly ('24), Wendell Shauman ('67), and Tom Sargent ('8)5. Only one other school has earned more Buc Cups than Monmouth

21 Mar 2023

Ken McMillan's Economic Buzzword has Awitched from “Inflation” to “Uncertainty”

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 21, 2023) — Since 1989, the Monmouth Rotary Club has had an annual program focusing on the economy that helps its members attempt to make an accurate economic forecast for the coming year.

Retired Monmouth College economics professor Ken McMillan, the featured speaker at the talk for the past several years, said making an accurate forecast this year is extremely difficult.

17 Mar 2023

Monmouth Student from Naperville One of Two Undergrads Named to National Mental Health Committee

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 17, 2023) — For the past few years, Corey Pevitz ('24) of Naperville, Illinois, has helped make a difference in the Monmouth chapter of Zeta Beta Tau by serving as the fraternity's risk and wellness director.

"Risk had been the priority in my role, and wellness had been overlooked, especially mental wellness," said Pevitz, who is also president of the Delta Lambda chapter. "Our ZBT national has really started pushing that, though."

15 Mar 2023

Monmouth College's Thompson Lecture on March 23 to Bring Together Philosophy, Feminism, Faith

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 15, 2023) — Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Scott authored a chapter in the book Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith.

Now the chair of the philosophy department at Loyola University in Chicago, Scott will speak about that chapter when she delivers Monmouth College's annual Samuel M Thompson Memorial Lecture.

14 Mar 2023

Monmouth's Michael Solontoi Publishes Paper as Part of Multinational Astronomy Project That Will Capture “Ten-Year Digital Movie of The Sky”

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 14, 2023) — A continent away, on the other side of the Equator, a major project in astronomy is set to begin, and a Monmouth College professor is involved.

Physics professor Michael Solontoi is co-author of a paper that will help scientists utilize a major new telescope being completed at Chile's Vera C Rubin Observatory that will take what amounts to a "ten-year digital movie of the sky."

10 Mar 2023

Local Members of Monmouth College Chorale Spring Break Tour

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILINOIS (March 10, 2023) — The following students participated Monmouth College Chorale's annual spring break tour.

Megan Holevoet of Geneseo (61254)

Vaughn Vavrosky of Reynolds (61279)

William Plumley of Geneseo (61254)

This year's tour included performances in Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri. The "home" concert will be held at 7:30PM, March 18, in the Kasch Performance Hall of Dahl Chapel and Auditorium.

07 Mar 2023

Monmouth Alum Neil Dahlstrom ('98) to Tell the Story of His Book “Tractor Wars” on March 14 in Dahl Chapel

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 7, 2023) — Last year, Monmouth College classics and history major Neil Dahlstrom ('98) authored Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture, which won the 2022 American Book Fest Award for Best History-General.

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