Upcoming Alumni Events

If you are interested in hosting an event in your area, we would love to help you. Contact alumni@geneva.edu for more details.

Homecoming and Family Weekend 2017

We are excited to have many alumni, families and friends back on Campus on Friday, October 6 and Saturday, October 7!

• Class Reunions will be celebrated for 2012, 2007, 2002, 1997, 1992, 1987, 1980-86 Cluster Reunion and 1972.
• Affinity reunions will be hosted by Eight Bells, African American Alumni and Students, PoliSci/History/Sociology, Engineering and Communication Disorders. More information is on its way! Check the website for more details.

Register at http://www.geneva.edu/homecoming.

Geneva Gold Friday – Show your Geneva Spirit.

Wear your colors. Tell your story. Geneva colors unite alumni and fans alike.

Wearing gold on Fridays provides an opportunity to connect with one another and tell our Geneva stories to the world.

#GenevaGoldFriday

“One More Loved”: Zack Blair ’06 Makes Room at the Table

S&E 022, the basement lecture hall in Geneva’s Science and Engineering building, is a memorable place for many Geneva alums. Some remember SCS core science lectures, while others recall Genevans rehearsals or calculus classes. When Zack Blair walks into S&E 022, he has a very different memory.

“I can still see the seat where God began to move in my life,” Zack says. As a high schooler, Zack’s poor academics left his college prospects doubtful. “I was abused pretty badly as a kid, and I had a lot of shame. I always thought I was stupid.”

To Zack’s surprise, however, Geneva College offered him a football scholarship. Geneva also provided a major he was interested in pursuing: Business Aviation. Unaware of Geneva’s Christian heritage, Zack found himself as a freshman sitting in a football meeting in S&E 022 while Coach Geno DeMarco spoke on Matthew 5.

At that moment, Zack says, “I realized that God would take me back.” Geneva’s football program brought Zack face-to-face with God’s loving claim on his life.

Zack and Lauren have a passion for adoption as well, which is how the ministry of One More Loved Tables (http://zackblair.co/category/one-more-loved-tables/) was born. Zack and his team build and sell farmhouse tables made from reclaimed lumber. Someday the profits will fund Zack and Lauren’s hopeful adoption—and other families’ adoptions down the road. The design of the tables emphasizes families as a place of belonging. As Zack says, “There is always room for ‘One More.’”

Geneva Athletics Hall of Fame Nominations

Geneva College and the Golden Tornadoes opened its Athletic Hall of Fame doors to its first class of 2016, honoring 12 deserving inductees. The initial inductees represent just about every era of Geneva athletics dating back to the 1920’s up to the youngest inductee from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Members of the Geneva Alumni Council serve the Alumni Association by advancing the interests of Geneva College, promoting mutual acquaintance of the graduates and strengthening the relationship between the alumni and the college. Below are the two candidates for the 2017-18 Alumni Council.

 
New Class Notes Website!

Ron Elkin ’67 retired from the Ruidoso School District in 2012 after 44 years in education in OH, WY, and NM. Merry (Blair ’70) Elkin retired in 2013 after 29 ½ years in education. Ron and Merry have three grown daughters, four grandchildren, and reside in Seattle, WA. Linda (Frazier ’72) Brown was inducted into the Lakewood High School Hall of Fame, Lakewood, NJ, in May 2017. In June of 2017, Linda received the Community Service Award from the Lakewood Chapter of the NAACP, Lakewood, NJ at their annual Freedom Fund Banquet. She has set up a scholarship fund in memory of her late husband, John R. Brown, Sr., for children of veterans.  Robert Headland ’78 was inducted into the Beaver Valley Musicians Hall of Fame on May 7, 2017. He resides in Beaver, PA Nancy (McFarland ’86) McCollum and husband Norman announce the birth of their first grandchild, Calum Robert Morrison, born on May 27, 2017, in Antrim, Northern Ireland, to Erin and Andrew Morrison. David Fabricatore ’90 was awarded two patents from the country of China related to his work on the Ford Focus Electric Vehicle. David and his wife Michelle (Droz ’90) reside in Canton, Michigan. Benjamin Hanna ’97 was recently promoted to the position of Chief Deputy District Attorney at the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office in Redding, CA, where he has served as a prosecutor since 2001. As Chief Deputy DA he is the second highest ranking employee in the office, reporting to the elected district attorney.