By Brandon Huang, 2023 Union Board Director of Internal Communications Jeff Williams graduated from Indiana University in 2012 after serving on Union Board as the Director of Destinations / Spirits on the 2010 board. He is a marketing professional as well as a social entrepreneur that takes pride in working to support his communities. Jeff… Read more »
John Whittenberger Society
Alumni Spotlight: Kat Posada
By Cathy Deal “History has its eyes on you,” sings the cast of the Broadway musical “Hamilton.” JWS member Kat Posada has risen to that challenge. In 2018, she was teaching at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when the horrific shooting massacre of seventeen students took place there. In its aftermath, Kat “felt called… Read more »
From the 2023 Union Board President
Hello John Whittenberger Society – I am a junior studying Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation and Law & Public Policy and I am originally from Memphis, Tennessee. I have been on Union Board since Fall 2021 – first as a Lectures committee member, then as the 2022 Lectures Director, and now as the 2023 Union Board… Read more »
Alumni Spotlight: Barbara Singer
By Cathy Deal Barbara Singer’s history is one of initiative. She likes to say that she majored in student activities while she was an undergrad student, because she dabbled in many different organizations and committees (while achieving academic success as an eventual Mortar Board member. Barbara was heavily focused on Union Board committee work, in… Read more »
How Ernie Pyle’s journalism helped create the IMU
By Susan Burns When Ernest T. Pyle arrived at IU in the fall of 1919, the university was just composed of 15 buildings lined up along Third St and Indiana Avenue, bordering woods and the old Dunn farm, whose meadow stretched out along Seventh Street. Enrollment had jumped to 2,300 men and women who scrambled… Read more »
Mervis Lecture featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones held in October
The third installment of the Lou Mervis Distinguished lecture series was held this fall. Gabriella Couloubaritsis, the Union Board Director of Lectures expanded the lecture this year to include more opportunities for students to interact with Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, and creator of the… Read more »
Fall Update from the JWS Advisory Board President
Hello John Whittenberger Society Members – This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the John Whittenberger Society’s fall meeting—one of two in-person meetings annually. This year I was struck by how much activity the IMU was absolutely brimming with, thanks in large part to some of the recent (and ongoing shifts) to the… Read more »
Alumni Spotlight: Reid Cox
By Sharon Tubbs Reid Cox joined the Union Board in 1994 on a mission to diversify the university’s lecture series. He saw a slate of liberal speakers gracing the stage at Alumni Hall but no voices that reflected his views. “There was a concern that the Board was ignoring more conservative speakers,” he recently recalled… Read more »
The 1922 Bonfire in Dunn Meadow
By Susan Bonnell Burns To most of us in the John Whittenberger Society now, the Indiana Memorial Union building is a given. It was our home away from home often during our school years and is our anchor when we come back for Biennial celebrations, inductions of new boards, or just to see good old… Read more »
Mid-Year Update from the Union Board President
As we enter into the fall, the 113th Indiana Memorial Union Board would like to share an update on what we have accomplished so far and what we have in store for the upcoming semester. We have worked on the foundation laid by the 112th Board to put forth inclusive and entertaining in-person programming for… Read more »