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Alumnus Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO and chairman, dies at 84
Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm3362 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 pm2803 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 pm585 views
Phyllis Gordon ... Richard H. “Dick” Howard ... Paul Dale Shaw
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Jun 28, 2019 11:45 am503 views
Roy O. Walker Jr.
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Jun 20, 2019 11:30 am345 views
Annie “Anne” Laura Eckerty ... Peter G. Martens
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Jun 13, 2019 2:15 pm337 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 pm221 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 am290 views
John “Jack” L. Hayes Jr. ... Wilma J. Parsons ... Jim Schuster
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May 24, 2019 1:00 pm132 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 pm410 views
Robert W. McCleary
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May 9, 2019 2:30 pm303 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 pm197 views
Tom Battershell ... Jeannine W. Corlas ... Keith Randall Erickson ... Philip Clayton Mitchell ... Shirley J. Smith.
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Apr 25, 2019 11:45 am356 views
Louis H. “Bud” Mesker ... Darcy Elizabeth Strack
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Apr 18, 2019 1:45 pm371 views
Ronald L. Miner ... Charles Edward Olson ... James H. Wyatt Sr.
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Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pm645 views
Janet Lynn “Jaelyn” Jefferson ... Sharon Jo Shiu
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Apr 4, 2019 11:15 am379 views
Manfred Raether ... Ralph Stoner Wolfe
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Mar 29, 2019 10:45 am358 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 pm224 views
Dick J. Albers ... Martha Baxter North
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Mar 7, 2019 1:45 pm267 views
Paul D. Bermingham ... William “Bill” G. Dean ... Arthur J. Harper ... Lois Ann Allhands Harpst
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Mar 1, 2019 11:15 am222 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 pm328 views
Roberta A. May ... James (Jim) P. Warfield
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Feb 7, 2019 2:30 pm401 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 pm761 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 am465 views
Danny L. Elam ... Randall Joseph Lutz ... Glenn Gregory Simpson ... Kent Thompson
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Jan 7, 2019 11:00 am287 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 pm711 views
Sammy Ray “Sam” Sommer ... Kerrin Thompson
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Dec 6, 2018 12:45 pm378 views
William Curtis Blaylock ... Susan Blunier ... Paula Jo Goodwin ... Barbara Clarke Swain
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Nov 29, 2018 1:15 pm503 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 am486 views
James B. Sinclair
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Nov 8, 2018 12:45 pm553 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 pm340 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 pm306 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 pm1038 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 pm388 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 am2535 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 am532 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 am471 views
Tom Wyles Day ... Scott Ray White
Scott R. White, pioneer of self-healing materials, has died
May 31, 2018 10:45 am5457 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 pm547 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 pm349 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 pm351 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 am335 views
Clinton Frederick Fink ... John T. Scott ... Helen T. Smith ... Al Ricco John Stasi