MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (December 13, 2021) — Running out of Christmas gift ideas for those special someones on your list?

Then read on and consider giving the gift of reading. Monmouth College alumni, retired staff, and current and retired faculty have enough recent literature on the market to fill up the twelve days of Christmas, and then some.

More than 49 years after his original due date at Monmouth College, Battles on the Monsoon is put in its proper place by Hewes Library Director Sarah Henderson

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (December 6, 2021) — John Carlson and his 1974 Monmouth College classmate Lynette Johnson Carlson have been married for 46 years.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (December 3, 2021) — Monmouth College's educational studies department is already on top of a major issue, helping prepare its graduates to work in rural school districts, where there has been a shortage of teachers.

Pictured from left are Shayne Sendera ('21), Kyle McEwen ('13), Mitchell Perez ('21), and Kenzi Lafferty ('19)

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (December 2, 2021) — Monmouth College graduates have a presence up the road from campus in Aledo, and there's room for more.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (December 2, 2021) — "Christmas at Monmouth" is back in front of a live audience this year, and Monmouth College choral director Tim Pahel is thrilled for the underclassmen in the College's various musical ensembles.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (December 1, 2021) — The career of Monmouth College graduate Robin Ottenad Galloway is a testament to the power of liberal-arts degree. A three-decade veteran of the ice-cream industry, Galloway has also worked in the oil and automotive industries.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (November 30, 2021) — Emeritus professor of English Gary Willhardt slipped into the "Realms of Light" on November 27. He was 84 at the time of his death in Clarksville, Iowa.

In addition to teaching English at Monmouth for 33 years, Willhardt was a 1959 Monmouth graduate.

Monmouth College psychology professors Carolyn Liesen, far left, and Sydney Greenwalt, far right, took seven Monmouth students to the Tri-State Undergraduate Psychology Conference, held earlier this month in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. From left: Liesen, Abigail Schaeffer ('24), Hannah Jones ('22), Kaid Landon ('24), Ivair Pacheco ('23), Samantha Weidman ('22), Hannah Rossmiller ('23), Michaela Jelenova, and Greenwalt

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (November 19, 2021) — Veteran music educator John Eckstine has been named director of the Monmouth College athletic bands.

Eckstine brings more than three decades of experience and awards to the position, most recently serving as athletic director/dean of students at Pendleton County Middle/High School in Franklin, West Virginia.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (November 18, 2021) — On September 29, Minnesota United FC and DC United met in a Major League Soccer match at Audi Field in the nation's capital.

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