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Mortar Board searches for campus alumni

September 13, 2010

Logo of NIU Pleiades Chapter of Mortar Board Senior Honor SocietyNIU’s chapter of the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society will launch a new NIU alumni group with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1.

The group plans to meet three to four times per year to network, socialize, support the local collegiate chapter and provide programs of interest to Mortar Board alumni. All ideas and suggestions for the alumni group will be welcomed at the reception.

All current Mortar Board members and alumni, whether from NIU’s chapter or any other of the 228 chapters nationally, are invited to attend the event. Denise Rode, an NIU Mortar Board alumna and director of Orientaiton, will host the recpetion at her home, 2800 Country Club Lane in DeKalb. Collegiate chapter members will be on hand to share news about Mortar Board on campus.

Faculty, staff, and graduate students who have been initiated into Mortar Board as active or honorary members are encouraged to contact Rode  at drode@niu.edu or (815) 753-6781, Ben Thanepohn at bthanepohn@niu.edu, Jessica Sabbah at jmsabbah@gmail.com or Curtis Valasek at cvalasek@niu.edu for more information on the event or to indicate interest in the new alumni chapter.