Family connection brings Illinois Wesleyan yearbook back after a decade April 21, 2010
April 21, 2010 / News

Family connection brings Illinois Wesleyan yearbook back after a decade

Written by Evan Blackwell, CJE

This spring, Illinois Wesleyan University will publish a yearbook with the theme “Restart.” It’s an extremely appropriate theme, seeing as how the school is putting out a yearbook for the first time since 2000.

Restarting the Wesleyana yearbook has been a mission for editor Cameron Ohlendorf, one with a personal family connection.

Ohlendorf’s parents were both editors of the yearbook while they were students at Illinois Wesleyan back in the 1980s, which made bringing the book back to campus even more meaningful for him. Now, Ohlendorf told the university website that he is adamant about keeping the Wesleyana alive.

“People may not understand now that they are becoming part of history, but when they look back at a yearbook, they will see more than the great times at college, they will understand the history and how they were part of that,” Ohlendorf said.

One Response to “Family connection brings Illinois Wesleyan yearbook back after a decade”

April 21, 2010 at 12:01 pm, yearbookforever said:

Family connection brings Illinois Wesleyan yearbook back after a decade http://goo.gl/fb/TUuRc

This comment was originally posted on Twitter

Comments are closed.

Evan Blackwell, CJE

Evan Blackwell, CJE, is the Marketing Automation Supervisor for Walsworth. He's been a writer, editor and web content specialist for Walsworth for the past 15+ years, and is the author of the Yearbook Suite's "The Art of the Interview" unit. Prior to joining Walsworth, Blackwell spent five years as an award-winning newspaper and magazine journalist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.