[NU Sports] Pride of Illinois?

[Beamsley, Jeff]

If you are proud of all those guys, I suggest you start to lobby for
them.

Jeff 

-----Original Message-----
From: johnadeg at comcast.net [mailto:johnadeg at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:39 AM
To: Beamsley, Jeff; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Pride of Illinois?

How about including Everet Dirksen in the title.  If I hit a cutural
void he was a Illinois senator going back to the fifties who was known
as the Wizard of Ooze because of his speeches.Or, how about Richard
Daley and Al Capone?

John DeGroat
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Beamsley, Jeff" <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com>
> Roy,
> 
> I get it.
> 
> You didn't vote for Obama.
> 
> That doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of other people (a majority 
> the last time I checked) who ARE proud of him and have confidence in 
> his abilities.
> 
> That said, the suggestion DOES raise an interesting question.  If 
> we're talking about Presidents that have some affiliation with 
> Illinois, shouldn't Grant and Reagan be included?
> 
> Jeff
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> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
> On Behalf Of Roy Lamberton
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:30 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] Pride of Illinois?
> 
> The Sun Times is reporting that they want to establish a 
> "Lincoln-Obama Pride of Illinois Trophy" for the NU-Ill game.
> 
>  
> 
> "Pride of Illinois" is a good name for a trophy, putting a name of a 
> living person (especially one who hasn't really done anything except 
> get
> elected) on any award can raise the ire of various alumni who may or 
> may not change their giving habits.
> 
>  
> 
> When they changed the School of Speech to whatever gobbledygook it is 
> now, I stopped giving and I won't send in any news because I graduated

> from the School of Speech, not the new place. I says so on my diploma.
> 
>  
> 
> Yes on Pride of Illinois
> 
> No on putting names on it.
> 
>  
> 
> rsl
> 
>  
> 
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