Pride & Tradition

From freshman orientation and sorority recruitment to the 1975–76 men’s basketball team, Al Edyvean, BA’72, MS’75, captured it all on camera.

Only 52 athletes in the world have successfully completed the Enduroman Arch 2 Arc challenge—Jenny (Johnson) Smith, BS’99, is one of them.

In 1972, Linda (Holderread) Pearl, BS’76, started working at her local Kroger in Plymouth, Ind. She retired from that store 50 years later.

In the Summer/Fall 2022 issue of the “IU Alumni Magazine,” we asked readers to recall their campus shenanigans.

Eleanor Cox Riggs, BA’55, MA’82, began cheering for Indiana University before she could spell it. As a little girl in Terre Haute, she sat on the living room floor, listening…

January On January 20, 1820, Indiana University was “born” in Bloomington, Indiana. Today, IU has nearly 765,000 living alumni—one of the largest alumni bodies in the country. IU alumni can…

Connor Hitchcock, BS’16, printed T-shirts and stickers from his apartment while a Kelley School of Business student. Now a successful premium collegiate clothing brand, Homefield Apparel sells vintage-inspired gear for IU alumni across generations.

Sarah “Mili” Milianta-Laffin, BA’06, a middle school STEM teacher, helped her students advocate for free period products in Hawaii schools.

In 2006, Christina (Fonte) Hillsberg, BA’06, joined the Central Intelligence Agency. She spent nearly a decade uncovering intimate details about world leaders and meeting with assets to collect confidential information. In this story, Hillsberg offers a small peek behind the CIA curtain.

In 2021, four IU alumni launched East Third Collective—an online gift shop where customers can build their own gift boxes.

In July 2017, Jose Aponte sat down under one of his favorite trees on the IU Southeast campus with a pistol in his hand. After 24 years serving in the…

Durand Jones, MM’15, is the latest in a long line of IU Soul Revue alumni contributing to the Great American Songbook . As one of two lead vocalists for Durand…