UIS Celebrates Homecoming – With Mashed Potatoes?

They're doing the mashed potato for the University of Illinois Springfield Homecoming celebration this year.

We're not talking about the dance. We're talking about the actual mashed potatoes.

That would be 25 pounds of mashed potatoes, to be exact. That's what students used Tuesday during the campus lunch rush to express themselves creatively during Homecoming Week.

The mashed potato sculpting event was featured in a WICS-TV 20 report on September 29, 2009.

Read the story online:
http://www.wics.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wics_vid_625.shtml

Pep rally kicks off UIS homecoming week

Homecoming activities kick off today (Monday) at the University of Illinois Springfield and later in the week include a parade, a barbecue and varsity soccer games.

UIS Family Weekend also coincides with homecoming events on Saturday and Sunday.

The theme of the 2009 event is “There’s No Place Like Homecoming.”

The homecoming schedule was published in a September 28, 2009 edition of the State Journal-Register.

Download a PDF of the article.
20090928-SJR-UIS-homecoming-activiti.pdf

Rich Bradley signs off at WUIS

Friday was pretty much like any other weekday for Rich Bradley, news director at WUIS radio at the University of Illinois Springfield. That is until the last 45 seconds of his seven-minute noon newscast, when he acknowledged he is retiring and thanked his listeners.

Bradley, 69, will officially retire on Oct. 1, which also is his 35th anniversary at the university station.

Bradley's story was featured in a September 26, 2009 edition of the State Journal-Register.

Download a PDF of the article.
20090925-SJR-Rich-Bradley-signs-off.pdf