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* Robert Allen Skotheim, director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, has received honors from his alma mater, the University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences, and from Illinois Wesleyan University, where he delivered the commencement address May 12.
June 3, 1990
Sports
It’s a parallel universe unheard, unseen and unknown by those of us who have come to expect professional entertainment from college basketball games.
March 25, 2001
Illinois Wesleyan offensive lineman Doug Schmied died following heatstroke during practice last week.
Aug. 26, 2005
Olympics
Bucks of all kinds came through for U.S. speed skater Bonnie Blair when she needed money.
Feb. 23, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
James R. Velde, 82, former senior vice president of United Artists Pictures.
Aug. 18, 1996
World & Nation
Bats sometimes look like flying rodents with sharp, scary teeth.
Oct. 26, 2004
Obituaries
Kent Haruf, who found acclaim in midlife with a trilogy of sparely written novels, including the 1999 bestseller “Plainsong” that illuminated the rhythms and dramas of small-town life in America’s High Plains, died Sunday in Salida, Colo.
Dec. 3, 2014
Caltech in Pasadena was named the sixth-best college value in the nation last week by Money magazine.
Sept. 8, 1991
California
Two Californians were among 32 American students named Sunday as Rhodes scholars.
Dec. 9, 1991
Leslie Arends, who represented east-central Illinois in Congress for 40 years and served as House Republican whip for 30 years, died Tuesday.
July 17, 1985