Author: Carl Olsen (Carl Olsen)

With fewer than 100 days remaining until the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, presidential campaigns are revving into high gear across the state, and Drake is launching the Iowa Caucus Project.

More than 150 African-American alumni and students socialized, networked and explored ways to keep connected with each other and the University during a special reunion Sept. 28-30 themed "With Pride and Purpose."

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.

Angela Day Johnson’s BN’01, senior subcontracts manager with Rockwell Collins residing in Marengo, Iowa, informed Drake that her four-year-old daughter, Rian, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia in February 2007.

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.

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.

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.