From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
1969 Galesburg High School graduate Ken Johnson has been named to lead communications and marketing for the Solar Energy Industries Association… “This is an exciting opportunity to be part of something which is so critically important to America’s future,” said Johnson, a 1973 Knox College graduate… A Capitol Hill veteran, Johnson previously headed up communications for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and two major committees in the U.S. House of Representatives…
Ken remains a huge fan of Galesburg, and shares some of his thoughts and memories via email [to the Register-Mail]: “No matter where my career has taken me, Galesburg has always been home. I received a terrific education in the Galesburg public school system and later at Knox College…” Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
A two-day Peacebuilding Conference at Knox College this weekend celebrated the five-year anniversary of its unprecedented status in being the first college in the United States to implement a Peace Corps Prep Program for its students…
The weekend event was comprised mainly of panel discussions with participants in the program returning to Knox College to recount their stories. Judy K. Olsen, former Acting director of the Peace Corps, was the keynote speaker Friday. Saturday saw 15 different speakers discuss the impact the Peace Corps has had on their lives… Read more…
From: Manufacturing Institute
[Knox College graduate and Alumni Achievement Award winner] Carol Craig, Craig Technologies CEO, is recognized by The Manufacturing Institute, Deloitte, University of Phoenix, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers with a 2013 Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Award for her excellence and leadership in manufacturing.
Ms. Craig joins 121 other woman honorees, representing all levels of manufacturing from the factory floor to the C Suite… Carol has partnered with the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and NASA. She negotiated a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to operate, maintain and store 1,600 pieces of manufacturing equipment previously used to process space shuttle and space-bound payload components… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Sarah Jones hopes you’ll “dig” her new vintage/modern store. Dig, 70 N. Seminary St., is scheduled to open Wednesday… “It will be vintage clothing and household goods and recycled furniture,” she said, lots of furniture… Jones, 37, grew up in Galesburg and graduated from Knox College, where she was an art major…
“I think people are tired of cheaply made merchandise and they’re looking for the old things,” Jones said. “Especially when you think about our planet. If you can recycle something, all the better.”… Read more…
From: MSN - Entertainment India
[2002 Knox graduate] Vir Das is pictured at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards India. More photos…
“Touted as India’s answer to Jay Leno and the funniest guy in India,” Das and Imran Khan co-hosted India’s first-ever MTV Video Music Awards, broadcast on March 23.
Das also has his own theatre production company, Weirdass Repertory, that produces both spoofs of big international films as well as “high-content plays,” Das told a newspaper earlier in 2013. “I want to bring back the lost culture of watching plays.” More about Wierdass Repertory…
From: Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
[2002 Knox College graduate and] ace comedian Vir Das will co-host the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards India (VMAI). The duo [Das, at left in photo, and Imran Khan, center] that left the audiences in splits with their histrionics in [the 2011 film] Delhi Belly, make for great hosts. The VMAI organisers thought that it would be perfect to have them anchor the first Indian edition of the awards. Apparently, what helped also was the fact that the two have a good record of playing hosts in the past…
Vir confirms the news, “In India, award ceremonies follow strict formats, certain rules and regulations. So [our] idea is to break that pattern.”… Adds Imran, “Vir [and I] had a blast while shooting the movie and so I am sure this time around as well it will be a riot and I hope the audiences enjoy us on stage.”… Read more…
