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Alumnus Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO and chairman, dies at 84
Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm3183 views
John Francis “Jack” Welch Jr., 84, the former CEO and chairman of General Electric Co., has died. He was a chemical engineer who earned a Ph.D. in 1960 in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Jul 25, 2019 3:30 pm2779 views
Dolores Jane Byers ... Martin Joseph Knanishu ... Warren C. McCarty ... Kurtis Isaiah Pealer ... Patricia Eileen Price ... Selma Katharine Richardson ... Grace Christine (McCormick) Prestin Samford ... Winton U. Solberg
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Jul 11, 2019 12:45 pm574 views
Phyllis Gordon ... Richard H. “Dick” Howard ... Paul Dale Shaw
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Jun 28, 2019 11:45 am499 views
Roy O. Walker Jr.
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Jun 20, 2019 11:30 am342 views
Annie “Anne” Laura Eckerty ... Peter G. Martens
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Jun 13, 2019 2:15 pm330 views
Amy M. Blue-Short ... Joyce A. Butsch ... Kenneth Morris Davidson ... Virginia Guthrie ... Jean M. Jessee ... Ralph A. Smith ... William Murphy Tilton ... Harry C. Triandis ... Sherry Marie Weaver ... Jefferey “Jeff” Allen Welch
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Jun 6, 2019 1:30 pm214 views
John C. Hough Jr. ... Janet D. Knesek (nee Scott) ... Joseph “Joe” Konitzki ... Richard Newport Wright III
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May 30, 2019 11:30 am286 views
John “Jack” L. Hayes Jr. ... Wilma J. Parsons ... Jim Schuster
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May 24, 2019 1:00 pm127 views
Katharine “Kay” Oline Aston ... “Carol” Margadene Bateman ... Lucille “Lucy” L. Finn ... Joseph A. Garza ... Gerald “Jerry” E. Miner Jr. ... Shirley Bash Rittenhouse ... Louis Allen Walthall
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May 16, 2019 2:15 pm408 views
Robert W. McCleary
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May 9, 2019 2:30 pm301 views
Janice Lynn Allen ... Donald Chien-Tao Chiang ... Doris M. Downs ... Max Elmer Reid ... Helen Louise (Camp) Ridlen
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May 6, 2019 3:30 pm194 views
Tom Battershell ... Jeannine W. Corlas ... Keith Randall Erickson ... Philip Clayton Mitchell ... Shirley J. Smith.
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Apr 25, 2019 11:45 am353 views
Louis H. “Bud” Mesker ... Darcy Elizabeth Strack
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Apr 18, 2019 1:45 pm368 views
Ronald L. Miner ... Charles Edward Olson ... James H. Wyatt Sr.
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Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pm642 views
Janet Lynn “Jaelyn” Jefferson ... Sharon Jo Shiu
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Apr 4, 2019 11:15 am378 views
Manfred Raether ... Ralph Stoner Wolfe
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Mar 29, 2019 10:45 am356 views
Frank Gallo ... Charles E. “Charlie” Hartman ... Helen Wright
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Mar 21, 2019 12:15 pm303 views
Allan G. Mueller ... Stephen Steele Slivon
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Mar 14, 2019 12:00 pm223 views
Dick J. Albers ... Martha Baxter North
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Mar 7, 2019 1:45 pm263 views
Paul D. Bermingham ... William “Bill” G. Dean ... Arthur J. Harper ... Lois Ann Allhands Harpst
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Mar 1, 2019 11:15 am221 views
Paul A. Boatman ... Marcel Franciscono
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Feb 25, 2019 2:00 pm277 views
Lois B. Guiher
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Feb 14, 2019 12:30 pm327 views
Roberta A. May ... James (Jim) P. Warfield
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Feb 7, 2019 2:30 pm393 views
James W. “Jim” Chapman ... Willeta Mae Hassell Donaldson ... Elizabeth Fumiko Fujioka Easley ... Barclay George Jones ... Margaret “Eileen” Lyons ... Shirley Ann Perkins
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Feb 1, 2019 1:30 pm269 views
Wanda Elliott ... Norma Yvonne (Creekmur) Jackson
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Jan 24, 2019 12:45 pm760 views
Edward J. Armbrust ... Paul P. Bernard ... Richard “Don” Donald Brown ... Charles “Chuck” D. Elmer ... Barbara Ann Phillips ... Marilyn G. Vizek
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Jan 11, 2019 8:30 am462 views
Danny L. Elam ... Randall Joseph Lutz ... Glenn Gregory Simpson ... Kent Thompson
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Jan 7, 2019 11:00 am286 views
Edward E. Durbin ... Doris Patricia “Pat” Foster ... Judy Kurlakowsky ... Marjorie E. Nelson ... Frances Joann Pierce
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Dec 13, 2018 12:30 pm709 views
Sammy Ray “Sam” Sommer ... Kerrin Thompson
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Dec 6, 2018 12:45 pm376 views
William Curtis Blaylock ... Susan Blunier ... Paula Jo Goodwin ... Barbara Clarke Swain
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Nov 29, 2018 1:15 pm499 views
Alva “Tad” LeRoy Addy ... Nancy J. Blackburn ... Belle Anna Brine ... John Roy Campbell ... Judith “Judy” Arlene Corray ... Terry Denny ... Marjorie Ellen (Keagle) Lange ... Alleta A. (Sue) Moore ... John (Jim) J.E. Mullen ... George Robert Young
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Nov 15, 2018 11:30 am485 views
James B. Sinclair
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Nov 8, 2018 12:45 pm549 views
Stephen Mitchell ... Patsy R. Paye ... Alan Rankin ... Stanley James Rankin ... Arthur J. Slates ... Edward L. Young
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Nov 1, 2018 12:45 pm309 views
Kenneth Nelson Dugan ... Henry William Lippold ... Dr. Thomas N. “Doc” Monfort ... William “Harry” Soloman
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Oct 25, 2018 3:15 pm337 views
William Boyd Buck ... Emanuel “Manny” Donchin ... Les Gasser ... Marjorie Ellen “Marge” Gordon ... Alvin E. Gustafson ... Phillip I. Henson ... Matthew McClure ... Kurt A. Mitchell ... Pauline Rymer ... Rebecca J. Simon ... Bernard “Bernie” Daniel Taylor
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Oct 18, 2018 2:30 pm305 views
Charles “Chuck” Richard Kibler ... Jennifer Joy Loy ... Yoko Muroga (Nakamura) ... Pauline Rymer ... James Wilburn “Jim” Seets
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Oct 4, 2018 2:30 pm1031 views
Rita Josephine Deters ... John L. Larson ... Marilyn Sue O’Hara ... Joseph H. Smith ... Gerald Durbin Wood ... David Zola
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Sep 20, 2018 1:30 pm362 views
Martha JoAnn Milligan ... Charles William (Bill) Smith
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Sep 13, 2018 1:30 pm381 views
Roy F. Block ... Carolyn Margaret (Rexroat) Dodd ... Mary Anne Hewing ... Timothy Gerard Hewing ... Raymond Ides ... David Kay ... Frederick “Fred” E. Payne ... Margaret R. Selin ... Joseph Tarbet Woolley
Nina Baym, pioneer in the study of American women writers, has died
Jun 21, 2018 9:00 am2491 views
Nina Baym, an internationally recognized scholar of American literature and a pioneer in the field of study of American women’s writing, has died.
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Jun 7, 2018 11:30 am530 views
Charles M. Brown ... Norman C. Maske ... Terry D. Moore ... Eris E. Ponsler ... Ruth E. Shull
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May 31, 2018 11:15 am469 views
Tom Wyles Day ... Scott Ray White
Scott R. White, pioneer of self-healing materials, has died
May 31, 2018 10:45 am5351 views
University of Illinois aerospace engineering professor Scott R. White, an innovator of self-healing and self-regulating materials, died Monday of cancer at age 55.
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May 24, 2018 4:15 pm543 views
Daniel Lee Beckman ... Susan Kathleen Connelly ... Paul Krabbe ... Carolyn G. (Shaw) Mink ... Mete A. Sozen ... Marilyn Upah-Bant
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May 10, 2018 1:45 pm650 views
Richard E. Henderson ... Lois Evelyn Overmyer ... Christie Tucker
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May 3, 2018 3:15 pm341 views
Ray Boehmer ... Lawrence “Larry” Mervin Bowden ... Leo J. Clennon ... Dale F. “Marty” Eichelberger ... Robert “Bob” Allan Moff ... Christie Tucker ... Dan Weisman
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Apr 27, 2018 11:00 am251 views
Joseph Frederick Green ... Elmer Osterbur
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Apr 19, 2018 2:30 pm348 views
Richard Francis Earl Crang ... Donald Earl Hiner ... Thomas E. Jean ... Michael Earl Schlesinger ... Leonard “Lennie” Dean Seward Sr. ... Mary Sleator Temperley ... Cora L. Williams
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Apr 12, 2018 4:15 pm341 views
Jennifer Kee Anderson ... Joel M. Dexter ... William H. “Doc” Pirkle ... Pola Fotitch Triandis
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Apr 6, 2018 11:00 am333 views
Clinton Frederick Fink ... John T. Scott ... Helen T. Smith ... Al Ricco John Stasi