From left, back row: Diana Zaleski, SAI president;
Jamie Devitt, APO member; and Daniel Rowland, PMA president.
Front row: Al McGlennon and Brenna Bradburry, APO president.

LET'S GIVE THE CANDY MAN A SEAT!
For more than 15 years, Al “The Candy Man” McGlennon has been a fixture at campus theatre and music performances, his proud and loving face in the front row. Following his wife’s death from lung cancer, Al began attending as many Millikin performances as he could, spending the money that had been spent on tobacco to buy candy to give as encouraging gifts to student performers.

“Through the years, Al has become a cherished member of the Millikin music and theatre family,” says Jamie Devitt, a member of Alpha Psi Omega honorary fraternity. APO members, along with those of Sigma Alpha Iota and Phi Mu Alpha Alpha, are banding together to raise $1,000 to endow a front-row seat in his name within the newly renovated Albert Taylor Theatre. “We want to show our gratitude by naming a permanent place within the College of Fine Arts department in his honor,” Devitt says.

Al will sit front and center in a seat engraved with his name, a lasting legacy of “the great love surrounding this man,” Devitt says. “Alumni donations toward this project, large or small, will help us reach our goal. Thank Al for his years of kindness by giving something back.” Give to this project online at www.millikin.edu/alumni/gifts.asp or by calling the alumni office toll-free at 1-877-JMU-ALUM.

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