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A wine and cheese reception will start the weekend events at
McKinstry Memorial Library from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Dr. Dennis
Campbell and Judd McCullum will be on hand to introduce the guests
to a nearly 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk. Guests will meet
Lincoln College President John Hutchinson along with his wife, Jean
Ann. Cost is $10 per person. Guests are also invited to attend the
annual Lincoln College spring concert in the Johnston Center for
Performing Arts. On Saturday morning the second annual Run, Ramble
and Roll -- a 5K run and noncompetitive one-mile walk -- will start
at 10 a.m. Check-in is at Meyer-Evans Student Center and cost is $25
per person. Each participant receives a T-shirt, post-race brunch
and a gift certificate for a free chair massage at Lincoln College's
Midwest College of Cosmetology. Proceeds from the race will go to
Lincoln College's scholarship fund.
A women's basketball alumni game and contest will be from 1 to 3
p.m. in the Davidson-Sheffer Gymnasium. Former Lincoln College
coaches Donna Bonebrake and Cyndi Slayton-Jackson will be honored at
the alumni program later in the evening.
Hollywood producer and Lincoln College alum Bruce Block (LC '68)
will present an inside look at filmmaking and what it's really like
to live and work in Hollywood. Block's presentation will run from 2
to 4 p.m. at the Johnston Center for Performing Arts. He will sign
autographs after the event. Block's film credits include "The
Holiday," "Christmas with the Kranks" and "What Women Want," among
others. (See
related article posted previously.)
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An alumni dinner and awards program is scheduled for Saturday at
the Maple Club dinner theatre. An opening reception for Lincoln
College alumni and friends will start at 4:45 p.m., and a buffet
dinner will begin at 6 p.m. A program to honor alumni achievement,
honorary alumni, the golden anniversary class of 1957 and the silver
anniversary class of 1982 will immediately follow the dinner. The
cost for the alumni dinner and program is $30 per person.
The weekend will conclude with a tour of the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Museum in Springfield. Cost is $8 per person, which
includes admission and transportation. The group will depart from
Davidson-Sheffer Gym at 9 a.m. Sunday and will arrive back on campus
at approximately 2 p.m.
Advance reservations are requested but not required for all
events. To make a reservation, please call 217-732-3155, ext. 217.
For additional information on all of the above activities, visit
www.lincolncollege.edu/alumni/reunion or contact Natalie Jeckel
McGee, Lincoln College director of alumni relations, at 732-3155,
ext. 219, or by e-mail:
nmcgee@lincolncollege.edu.
[Text from file received from
Lincoln College]
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