Alumni! Welcome to the DEIL alumni site! This is your site!

Our alumni effort, which began in 1990 under the Directorship of Braj Kachru, was spearheaded by Laura Hahn (1986) and me. Its origins are documented in DYI Spring 1990 above. It was our goal, then as now, that DEILing You In would keep you informed of happenings in DEIL and in the lives of your fellow graduates--now exceeding 1200! Apparently, our work has struck a chord with many of you; we have been so surprised and pleased at the number of alumni who have thanked us for seeing that DYI reaches you semester after semester. It has certainly been our pleasure!

This Website is another means to further our original goal. Thanks to our 1999-2000 editor, Jean Czaja, we now have two offerings here. The first is a "two-way street" -- a way you can help us help you. Our Alumni Update Form makes it easy for you to keep us informed of changes in your e-mail and postal addresses and of developments in your personal and professional lives. I hope you will avail yourself of this opportunity to feed us the latest scoop.

Our second offering is an electronic version of current and back issues of DYI. They are available in PDF format, readable (and printable) with Adobe Acrobat Reader which is free to anyone. (If you need Acrobat Reader, click here to find Adobe's download site.) You can always read the latest issue of DYI at your nearest Web connection.

Budget constraints in DEIL forced us in Spring 2004 to the decision that subsequent issues of DYI would be delivered via this website only. If we have your current e-mail address, then we will notify you whenever a new issue of the newsletter is available. So please keep that in mind when you change your e-mail contact.

As most of you know, some past issues of DYI contained inserts, listing alumni e-mail addresses. We do not include those inserts in the PDF documents above. As always, if you wish to locate a classmate, send your inquiry to me, and I'll let you know what contact information we have (unless the classmate has asked that the e-mail address be used only for notification purposes). This is a courtesy extended to alumni only.

Please stay in touch. Let us hear from you so you can keep on hearing from us!

Our best wishes,

Wayne Dickerson
Consulting Editor
dickrson+DYI@uiuc.edu

Past and Current Volunteer Editors