Illini Comeback
Each year since 1980, the Student Alumni Ambassadors of the University of Illinois
Alumni Association invite a group of distinguished alumni back to the campus
to participate in traditional activities such as the Homecoming Parade and Pep
Rally. These alumni honorees also interact with current students and talk about
their professional experiences since leaving their Alma Mater.
2009 Illini Comeback Honorees
The
Hon. Mark Filip’s ’88 LAS law career
has taken him from private practice to the federal bench to service at the U.S.
Department of Justice. After being named deputy attorney general of the United
States under President George W. Bush, Filip was asked to serve as acting attorney
general of the nation by President Barack Obama’s administration. Upon
the confirmation of the current attorney general, Filip joined the law offices
of Kirkland & Ellis
LLP in Chicago and Washington, D.C. He previously served as a federal judge in
the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and was a law partner
at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in Chicago. Filip has also worked as
an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago and taught law at the University of Chicago
Law School.
Robert
G. Kennedy ’78 ENG is co-president and co-chief operating officer
at C-SPAN, the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network created as a public service
by America’s cable television industry to provide balanced, commercial-free
coverage of the U.S. political process. Joining the operation two decades ago
in its beginning stages, Kennedy has played a formative role in bringing C-SPAN
to full-fledged status, with its programming now spread over three television
channels, radio and a Web site. The network – which offers live proceedings
with no editing, commentary or analysis – provides full, uncut coverage
of government functions, including Congressional hearings, testimonies, speeches
and political campaigns. C-SPAN also provides its viewers with direct access
to public officials through its call-in programs, as well as programming related
to nonfiction books and U.S. history.
Marvin
White ’69 LAS is the chief technology officer of Sportvision,
premier innovator of sports and entertainment products that enhance sports broadcasts
on television and the Internet. Regarded as one of the world’s top experts
in automated mapping and related technologies from his prior work with Etak,
the navigation company, and the U.S. Census Bureau, White has been with Sportvision
since its inception in 1998, leading the development of numerous technologies,
including football’s Virtual Yellow 1st and Ten Line, the KZone virtual
strike zone in baseball and RACEf/x in auto racing. Sportvision’s products – used
in broadcasts ranging from the NFL and college football to the NBA, NASCAR, NHL,
Major League Baseball and the PGA and LPGA tours – have earned eight Emmy
awards and dominate advancements in sports television.
Past Illini Comeback Guests
2008
Scott W. Atlas '77 LAS
Barry Sabath '74 LAS
2007
Lee Archambault ’82 ENG, MS ’84 ENG
Cathy Larson Koerner ’87 ENG, MS ’89 ENG
Maj. Matthew C. Shortal ’94 BUS
2006
C.O. “Doc” Erickson ’43 ACES
Gregory Paw ’85 MEDIA
Betty Lee Sung ’48 LAS
2005
Andrea Darlas ’94 MEDIA
Stuart M. Kaminsky ’57 MEDIA, AM ’60 LAS
Ann Davenport McBrien ’82 BUS
2004
Mary Frances Fagan ’76 MEDIA, MA ’83 LAS
Bridget Later Lamont, MS '72 LIS
John David Mooney, MFA ’65 FAA
Grover “Russ” Whitehurst, AM ’68 LAS, PHD ’70
LAS
2003
John Burgstone ’95 ENG
Londa Jorgensen Dewey ’82 LAS
Carol Hillsman Sagers ’79 MEDIA
2002
Scott Altman ’81 ENG
Temple Grandin, PHD ’89 ACES
Laura McInerney Jennings ’83 BUS
Barbara Baxter Pillinger ’56 AHS
Andrew A. Sorensen ’59 LAS
2001
Daniel J. Balz ’68 MEDIA, MS ’72 MEDIA
Henry Givens Jr., EDM ‘61
Edward L. McMillan ’69 ACES
Sheldon B. Rubin ’64 LAS, ’66 VM, DVM ’68
2000
Dr. Scott Anderson MS ’36 ENG, PHD ’40 ENG
Carol Ross Barney ’71 FAA
Dianne Sautter Campbell ’71 ED
Merle Gilmore ’70 ENG
Mary Kay Kretch Haben ’77 BUS
1999
Cheryl R. Berman ’74 MEDIA
Lu Ann Walker Maddox ’74 AHS, MS ’76 AHS
Peer Pedersen ’47 DSSWV, LLB ’48 LAW
Fred A. Rubin ’72 FAA
Lt. Gov. Corinne J. Giese Wood ’76 LAS
1998
Doris Kelley Christopher ’67 ACES
Eileen F. Fisher ’72 ACES
Fred F. Guyton Jr. ’61 FAA
John A. Johnson ’64 ENG, MS ’65 ENG
Arthur Ramer Wyatt ’49 BUS, MS ’50 BUS, PHD ’53
BUS
1997
Rowine Hayes Brown-Truitt ’38 MEDIA, MD ’39 MEDIA
Julia J. Henderson ’36 LAS, AM ’37 LAS
David F. Linowes ’41 BUS
Park C. Livingston ’30 LAS, MED ’81
Charles B. Shuman ’28 ACES, MS ’29 ACES
1996
James M. Benson ’68 LAS
Judge Maynard Glitman ’55 LAS
Debra L. Mitchell ’75 FAA
Cordell Reed ’60 ENG
Dr. Katie Harper Wright ’44 LAS, EDM ‘59
1995
Judge Eugene N. Hamilton ’55 LAS, LLB ’59 LAW
R. Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, PHD ’69 LAS
Carol Ann Keiser ’68 ACES
Robert D. Novak ’52 LAS, HON ’98
Gary K. Wolf ’63 MEDIA, MS ’69 MEDIA
1994
K. Kenn Allen ’71 LAS
Samuel T. Balen ’57 FAA
Steven H. Gerdes ’77 ACES
Nada J. Rowand ’58 FAA
Joyce E. Tucker ’70 LAS
1993
Emiel Hamberlin, EDM ’77, EDD ’83
Mannie L. Jackson ’60 AHS
Robert B. Levin ’65 MEDIA
Terri L. Ludwig ’85 LAS
David A. McConnell ’54 VM, DVM ’56
Eleanor H. Moty ’68 FAA
1992
Jacqueline Triche Atkins ’69 LAS, JD ’73 LAW
Herbert Y. Chang ’60 ENG, MS ’62 ENG, PHD ’64
ENG
George M.C. Fisher ’62 ENG, HON 96
Graham C. Grady ’80 LAS
John G. “Red” Kerr ’54 UIUC
Cecilia McCane “Ceil” Kuzma ’70 LAS
Miriam J. “Jess” Marlow ’58 DSSWV
Lester H. McKeever Jr. ’55 BUS
1991
William F. Kirk ’64 ACES
Landon Parvin ’70 BUS
Roger L. Plummer ’64 ENG
David G. Powless ’75 BUS
Christina Walton Tanner ’86 LAS
Eddie N. Williams ’54 MEDIA
1990
Stewart D. Daniels Jr. ’49 LAS
Stanley L. Elkin ’52 LAS, AM ’53 LAS, PHD ’61
LAS, HON ’86
Laura Barber Fraley ’77 LAS, MS ’79 BUS
William E. Geist ’68 MEDIA
Charla M. Krupp ’75 MEDIA
Robert “Bob” Martinez AM ’64 LIR
William F. Mellberg ’75 BUS
Dora Dougherty Strother AM ’53 ED
Barbara Seaquist Williams ’49 BUS
1989
Nancy Goodman Brinker ’68 LAS
Richard B. Fink ’50 VM, DVM ’52
Rita Bell ’65 BUS
Jacquelyn Knight Gates ’71 UIUC
H. Richard McFarland ’52 ACES
Susan Sowle Suter ’72 LAS
1988
Gary K. Bielfeldt ’58 ACES, MS ’59 ACES
Lee H. Falk ’32 LAS
Richard H. Frank ’65 BUS
Grover G. Hankins, JD ’72 LAW
Hachiro “Buddy” Koyama, AM ’80 LIR, HON ’95
Kathy Olesker Pounds ’71 LAS
Gail Shapiro Steinberg ’69 LAS
1987
Max Abramovitz ’29 FAA
Barton A. Cummings ’35 MEDIA
W. Leonard Evans. Jr. ’35 BUS
John C. Houbolt ’40 ENG, MS ’42 ENG, HON ’05
George E. Keck ’32 BUS
Jack S. Kilby ’47 ENG
Thomas A. Murphy ’38 BUS
James B. “Scotty” Reston ’32 MEDIA
Alfred B. Swanson ’45 MEDIA, MD ’47 MEDIA
Phillips Talbot ’36 MEDIA, ’36 LAS
Robert C. Underwood, JD ’39 LAW
Wilma L. Vaught ’52 BUS
1986
Lee L. Morgan ’41 ACES
Steven R. Nagel ’69 ENG
Lou Proana ’66 LAS
Edith Ann Stotler ’68 LAS
John L. Strohm ’35 MEDIA
1985
Michael Colgrass Jr. ’56 FAA
Donald C. Johanson ’66 LAS
Barbara Miller Knuckles ’70 LAS, MS ’71 MEDIA
Prentice H. Marshall ’49 DSSWV, JD ’51 LAW
Lynn Morley Martin ’60 LAS
Sherman Ted Rice ’43 ACES, MS ’48 ACES, PHD ’50
ACES
B. Kenneth West ’55 LAS
1984
Andrew Barr ’23 BUS, MS ’24 BUS
Richard A. Campbell ’49 ENG, MS ’50 ENG
Roger J. Ebert ’64 MEDIA
Richard A. Greenberg ’70 FAA, MFA ’72 FAA
Charles Marshall ’51 ACES
Cesar Pelli, MS ’54 FAA
Meredith Pleasant Sparks PHD ’36 LAS
1983
James S. Brady ’62 MEDIA
Harry J. Gray ’41 MEDIA, MS ’47 MEDIA
Gardner W. Heidrick ’35 BUS
Herbert H. McKenley ’49 UIUC
Godfrey Sperling Jr. ’37 MEDIA
Marion Morse Wood, PHD ’65 MEDIA
1982
John B. Anderson ’42 LAS, JD ’46 LAW
Arnold Orville Beckman ’22 LAS, MS ’23 ENG
Carole Kamin Bellows ’57 LAS
Earl B. Dickerson ’14 LAS, HON ’84
Malcolm C. Todd ’34 LAS
Craig S. Virgin ’77 MEDIA
1981
Harold R. “Hal” Bruno Jr. ’50 MEDIA
Arthur S. “Arte” Johnson ’49 MEDIA
Kathleen K. Kellaigh ’76 FAA
Alfred N. Koplin ’49 DSSWV
Lester G. Leutwiler ’29 ENG
Timothy J. McCarthy ’72 BUS
Nina Temple Shepherd ’55 LAS
Larry A. Werries ’62 ACES
1980
John S. Coleman ’57 MEDIA
Sheldon F. Good ’55 BUS
Alan M. Hallene Sr. ’51 ENG
Nancy Thies Marshall ’79 LAS
Cirilo A. McSween ’54 LAS
Judith Ford Johnson Nash ’73 AHS
Jane Hayes Rader ’54 LAS










