29 Sep 2025

Monmouth College's Fall Choir Concert, First Maple Leaf Community Concert Series (MLCCS) Event Coming in Early October

By Barry McNamara

As part of a September day spent working with area high school students, Tim Pahel led the college's choral students in a selection. The Fall Choir Concert will be held October 4

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 29, 2025) — The Fall Choir Concert and the first Maple Leaf Community Concert Series event of the season are both on tap for early October at Monmouth College. Both concerts will be held in the Kasch Performance Hall of Dahl Chapel and Auditorium.

29 Sep 2025

Monmouth College's Taylor Whitaker Named a 2025-26 Newman Civic Fellow

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 29, 2025) — Monmouth College student Taylor Whitaker has already built a strong foundation for a future career in politics and public service.

The senior from Germantown Hills, Illinois, recently added another layer to her résumé when she was named a 2025-2026 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact.

25 Sep 2025

Monmouth Grad Emily Siefken Garrett (’16) Shares Her Journey from Small Town to SEC — and Yes, Travel is Involved

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 25, 2025) — About sixty years ago, a song by the legendary Johnny Cash detailed how he'd been "everywhere, man" — "Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota," and on and on.

15 Sep 2025

Robin Ottenad Galloway Shares Insights for Consumers at Monmouth College's Wiswell-Robeson Lecture

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 15, 2025) — In her concluding remarks after Monday evening's Ninth Annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture, Monmouth College President Patricia Draves neatly summarized the presentation by alumna Robin Ottenad Galloway ('90), a member of Monmouth's Board of Trustees and chair of its finance committee.

11 Sep 2025

Upcoming Events at Monmouth College, September 12-18

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 11, 2025) — The fall semester at Monmouth College is now in full swing and the events calendar is heating up. The next few days will feature the first concert of the academic year, an update on the college by President Patricia Draves, and a wellness fair that will involve the entire campus.

08 Sep 2025

Monmouth College's Music Season Features Plenty of Chances to Fill Seats of Dahl Chapel, Zorn Stadium

By Barry McNamara

The Fighting Scots Marching Band makes it way down Broadway during the Warren County Prime Beef Festival Parade earlier this month. The band's numbers are up this year, which is also the case for the college's Chorale and Wind Ensemble

05 Sep 2025

Monmouth College's 2025-26 Theatre Season Has Focus on Students, Community

By Barry McNamara

Theatre professor Todd Quick, shown here directing a dress rehearsal last fall for Love/Sick, will direct a community co-production of Our Town in November

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 5, 2025) — By serving as cast and crew, student work is always featured prominently in theatre productions at Monmouth College, but this year's season will also highlight their writing and directing talents.

04 Sep 2025

Monmouth College Engineering Program Earns Prestigious ABET Accreditation

By Barry McNamara

In 2023, Preston Rousey, Caden Stasko, and Reed Wilson were the first graduates of Monmouth's engineering program

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 4, 2025) — Monmouth College's engineering program has achieved a major milestone - official accreditation by ABET, the global standard in engineering and technology education — marking a significant moment for both the college and its STEM ambitions.

02 Sep 2025

Works by Carl Sandburg College Art Professors Nikki Ponce, Lisa Walker on Display at Monmouth College

By Barry McNamara

“Historical Fiction,” Lisa Walker

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 2, 2025) — "Historical Fiction," a collection of works by Carl Sandburg College art professors Nikki Ponce and Lisa Walker, is currently on display in the Len G Everett Gallery at Monmouth College.

27 Aug 2025

Monmouth Graduate Robin Galloway ('90) to Deliver College's Wiswell-Robeson Lecture

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 27, 2025) — A member of Monmouth College's Board of Trustees with an extensive career as an executive in the food industry will deliver the college's Ninth Annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture.

Robin Ottenad Galloway, a 1990 graduate of Monmouth, will speak at 7PM, September 8, in Dahl Chapel and Auditorium. Free and open to the public, her talk is titled "Consumer Food Trends, Food Labeling and the Supply Chain."

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