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Past Tense

What did your Iowa State education mean to you? Caralee Adams talked with several ISU journalism grads about their time in Hamilton Hall, discovering what was important to them and what they remembered the most.

Past Tense is the place where the Society will revisit what once was. What is your favorite ISU memory? Who was the toughest, or the nicest, or the most memorable professor (or was the same professor all three)?

If you have a memory to share, contact us and we’ll help bring it to life. We’re looking for graduates from all eras. Most of the people featured here are from the ’80s — that’s who we know. Help us branch out to other eras.

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Sharon Kibiloski, as public affairs officer in Iraq

U.S. Air Force Maj. Sharon Kibiloski ’98 remembers a class in which the professor pushed her to go far beyond the typical student-writing topics.

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Sara (Maltby) Opie

Sara (Maltby) Opie ’86 has worked in political and corporate communications since leaving ISU, where professors taught her the importance of the basics.

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Martha Pickerill

Martha Pickerill ’86 spent two decades in magazines in New York. She edited her first magazines at ISU, and describes the journalism building then.

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Jeff Butts

Life before the digital age: Jeff Butts ’86 had to fight for time on an electronic typewriter — but it turns out technology wasn’t what mattered most.

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Lisa Kingsley

Lisa Kingsley ’89 remembers fondly the ISU faculty and the campus publications that helped launch her 20-year writing career.

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Past Tense