From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
2011 Knox graduate Ben Reeves files a video on Hurricane Sandy with the Galesburg Register-Mail. Braving 60-mile-per-hour winds, Reeves reports from a bridge over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Monday, October 29. “It’s very windy out here. There’s almost no traffic,” Reeves says in the video — http://youtu.be/kRbGEqtdNko — which ends with a shout from his camera operator…
Reeves was Mosaic Editor for two years for The Knox Student and worked for The Register-Mail as a weekend Police Reporter and features writer. He is now pursuing a Master of Arts degree at New York University and is a contributing writer for Worth magazine and covers politics for ForexTV.com… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
[The Knox News Team analyzes the results of its pre-election polling, which show that] Galesburg voters remained supportive of the president [Barack Obama] despite his difficult road to re-election…
Andrew Civettini, professor of political science at Knox College, agreed that Obama likely gets a home state bounce in Galesburg, but also pointed out that Galesburg has directly benefited from the president’s economic policies. “Just down the road from the college they’re working on a major road project (the West Main Street overpass of the railroad tracks) made possible by the stimulus package,” Civettini said. “Western Illinois has done quite well with the stimulus and some people could certainly be thinking about that.”… Read more…
From: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
Columnist Bill McClellan writes: Edward W. Bilhorn was born in April 1918. He was raised in Webster Groves. He attended the University of Illinois and majored in mechanical engineering. He was in the ROTC… In April 1942, before shipping overseas, he married a young woman he had met on a blind date at a fraternity party. Elizabeth was from the south side of Chicago. At the time she met at Edward, she was a student at Knox College in Galesburg. She graduated from Knox in 1941…
Edward died in June 1973. His death came at a busy time for the family. Here is the way that week broke down: Saturday, Terry graduated from Knox College. Tuesday, Edward died. His body was cremated. In the hectic week after Edward’s death, nobody picked up his ashes… The unclaimed ashes came to the attention of a project called Missing in America… So on Thursday [October 25, 2012] the children of Edward Bilhorn [including James, Knox Class of 1969 and Terry, Knox Class of 1973] gathered in the chapel at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery… It was a nice service in a lovely setting… Read more…
From: The Dispatch Argus (Moline, IL)
Officials at Knox College say fundraising to renovate the school’s historic Alumni Hall has exceeded the $8 million mark. Knox College President Teresa Amott announced the milestone for gifts and pledges Friday during homecoming festivities… Read more…
From: Pacific Standard (Santa Barbara, CA)
The founders of Facebook proudly announced a few weeks ago that the social networking site now has one billion regular users. A mind-boggling statistic, to be sure. But how, exactly, are people using the site, and what is it providing them? Recently published research by Knox College psychologist Francis McAndrew suggests there may be different answers to that question for men and women.
McAndrew surveyed 1,026 Facebook users ranging from age 18 to 79, living in 54 different nations… “Overall, females engaged in far more Facebook activity than did males,” McAndrew and co-author Hye Sun Jeong report in the journal Computers in Human Behavior. “They spent more time on Facebook and had more Facebook friends…” Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Area newspapers in print during [1800s] included the Knox Republican, which was first published in 1856 and was credited with one of the best written stories covering the famed Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Galesburg… The Galesburg Free Press began publishing in the 1850s and also covered the Lincoln-Douglas Debate on the Knox College campus…
On Sept. 24, 1935, one of longest serving newspaper editors in Illinois was at his Register-Mail desk before 7 a.m. [Even though it was the day before his 81st birthday,] that was not unusual for Fred R. Jelliff, who used the exact routine for more than 50 consecutive years… During Jelliff’s half century at the helm of local newspapers he produced thousands of editorials pertaining to area town topics. Besides his endless newspaper duties [the 1878 Knox College graduate and honorary degree recipient] miraculously made time to participate in practically every worthwhile civic affair in the city… Read more…
