Year: 2007

The Drake University Writers and Critics Series will host the Alumni Writers Festival at 7:30 p.m. Thursday Oct. 11, in the Cowles Library Reading Room.

Wanda Everage, LA’72, has been named Virgil S. Lagomarcino Laureate by the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences for outstanding work in the field of education.

Roger Wilkie, PH'63, and his wife, Marie, recently hosted a reception in their Leawood, Kansas, home for fellow Drake pharmacy alumni.

The Drake National Alumni Association Board is seeking nominations for the 2008 Drake alumni awards, which will be celebrated during the annual Alumni Awards Dinner on Friday, May 16, 2008.

Here’s a story of two Drake graduates who were educated at different times and who have very different backgrounds, but who are now working together: Dan Hobson, who earned his master of business administration degree in 1988, and Maggie Buttweiler Blehert, who earned her journalism degree from Drake in 2006.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 • College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Day, 10 a.m. • School of Education advisory council meeting, 2-5 p.m., School of Education. • Executive in Residence Lecture – Award-winning screenwriter and Drake graduate John August will discuss journalism and screenwriting at 7 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main. Admission is free. Call 271-2295. • “A Little...

The Drake Alumnae Association of Des Moines was established in 1920 to keep Drake alumnae and friends in touch with the University. Dues and member contributions support the scholarship fund.

Emma Jordan, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, will open the 2007-08 con law lecture series at Drake at 2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5, Drake Law School, Room 213, Cartwright Hall, Carpenter Ave. with a discussion on "Wealth and Inequality: Thinking about Communities and Individualism."

For the second year, the Drake men's basketball team will play in a school record tying three regular-season tournaments to highlight a 30-game schedule for the upcoming 2007-08 season.