UPCOMING 
Oct. 14: New Lenox, Ill.
Wind Ensemble plays at Lincoln-Way Central High School (see details, sixth item on left).

Oct. 17-21: on campus
Fall phonathon volunteers will be calling alumni and friends these evenings to request donations for the Millikin Fund. Alumni callers say it's also a great way to reconnect with old friends and classmates. Want to volunteer? Send an e-mail to Millikin Fund Director Amanda Landacre Podeschi  '02 or call her at 217-424-6383.  

Oct. 20: Washington D.C.
The Millikin Club of D.C. presents: Millikin Night on Capital Hill. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. at 121 Cannon House Office Building (corner of Independence and 1st SE, Washington, D.C.) with speaker John Adney '72, chairman of the Millikin board of trustees. Invited guests include Illinois Congressmen Lane Evans, Ray LaHood, Jerry Costello, Tim Johnson, John Shimkus, and Senator Dick Durbin. RSVP to Mandy Wimmer '01 at 202-258-0419 or madywimmer@yahoo.com or Bartlett Cleland '91 at bcleland@itaa.org or 703-284-5310.

Oct. 22: on campus
Let MU help you bring  that patrotic feeling right into your home. The Wind Ensemble's Oct. 22 John Phillip Sousa tribute concert at 7:30 p.m. in Kirkland Fine Arts Center will be recorded live that evening by MU's own First Step Records. The resulting CD, "Stars and Stripes Forever," may be pre-ordered at the concert for only $10. Tickets for the concert sell for $5 and $7 and are available through Kirkland Box Office, 217-424-6318.

Nov. 6: Elmhurst, Ill.
The Annual Howard Nyberg Football Party immediately follows the 1 p.m. Millikin football game at Elmhurst University.

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All alumni actors, artists, writers, singers, dancers and musicians: Send us details of upcoming engagements or releases for  the Millikin website. Drop a line to alumnews@millikin.edu, or fax your performance schedule to 217-424-3755. Click here to see what's posted.

MU AND PROF RECOGNIZED FOR 
BEING GOOD AT SHOWING STUDENTS HOW TO CREATE THEIR OWN JOBS. 
Tabor Professor Sharon Alpi was named one of only 11 Coleman Foundation professors in entrepreneurship by The Coleman Foundation, which also awarded the university a three-year $285,100 grant. MORE  
In related news, Millikin was highly rated in Entrepreneur magazine’s second annual rankings, achieving the second tier in schools with an entrepreneurship emphasis program.
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THE ANSWER IS NOVEMBER 1.
The Alumni Office fields several questions each day, and above is the answer to the question we've been asked the most lately: When do this year's Vespers tickets go on sale? Tickets go on sale 10 a.m., Nov. 1, for the 2004 Vespers performances, which will be held Dec. 4 and 5 in Kirkland Fine Arts Center. Mark your calendars now; this event is always sold out. For more information, call the Kirkland Box Office at 217-424-6318.

MILLIKIN ALUM NAMED IN WSJ. 
May grad Doug Shapiro was listed in a Wall Street Journal ad honoring students from around the country who received the Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award. MORE

THEY'RE GOING GLOBAL WITHOUT 
LEAVING THE MILLI-BUBBLE.
Students in this fall's comparative world civilizations course are experiencing international education without leaving campus. MU students and professors are taking part in the course in real time over the Internet with students and professors in Vietnam, Chile and Morocco. MORE

WAS IT A Big BLUE DAY 
AT YOUR WEDDING?
Send us the photos! Beginning soon, we will start publishing wedding photos of Millikin alumni on a special section of the MU website. To be included, send us a photo of the bride and groom (one or both must be alumni) pictured with alumni members of the wedding party and/or alumni guests. Please e-mail your photo(s) to MillikinQuarterly@millikin.edu or send a print to the Millikin Alumni Office, 1184 West Main, Decatur, IL 62522. Be sure to include the date and location of the wedding, identify who's who and include class years if you know them. Here's an example of a wedding party where everyone pictured is an alum!

BRING YOUR GUITAR-LOVING FRIENDS. 
Alum Nate Jackson '97 has made arrangements for Guitar Ensemble I to  perform at Lincoln-Way Central High School in New Lenox, Ill., at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 14, in the fine arts auditorium. The performance is free and open to the public. Nate and his wife, Stacy Williams-Jackson, also '97, both teach at the school, which is located at 1801 E. Lincoln Highway. Guitar Ensemble I is under the direction of Professor Manley Mallard.

he loved millikin. 
And we remember him: The Millikin Club of Chicago sponsors the Annual Howard Nyberg Football Party immediately following the Big Blue's game vs. Elmhurst on Nov. 6.

MAYBE YOU CAN RENT TICKETS.
The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical "Rent," comes to Kirkland Fine Arts Center on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. MORE. 
For the complete KFAC schedule, click here.

BOO-HOO, THEY WEREN'T  BLUE.
We get it! You like photo trivia. By far, it gets the best response of all our trivia questions. So, here's a little photographic trivia for you based on last weekend's homecoming. 

In this year's homecoming parade, which was set to the theme, "Forever Blue," the TKE house float looked like this. Can you select the reason why they obviously ignored the blue theme? 

A. They are huge St. Louis Cardinal fans. 
B. They said they didn't get the memo.
C. They were expressing their red-hot anger over the decline of manners in America.
D. They consider red to be a more becoming color for their complexions.

Send your answers to alumnews@millikin.edu and be sure to include your name and address. Five winners will be selected from a random drawing of all who respond correctly and each will receive a prize! Any bets on what color the prizes will be?

Last month's winners -- Gary Street '90, Suzanne New '85, Ami Cole Cathon '98, Aaron Rund '04 and John L. Clarke '01-- correctly guessed that Scovill was the building reflacted in the windows of Leighty-Tabor Science Center. Each received a Millikin cling.