What’s on IU Alumni’s Bucket Lists?

The Student Alumni Association added a bucket list feature to the Senior Salute events this year. Graduating IU Bloomington students filled out a bucket list with the 10 things that they wanted to accomplish before they graduated.

Via the IUAA’s e-Newsletter, the Indiana Alumni Magazine asked alumni for the 10 things they wanted to accomplish before they graduated from IU. Below are the responses received.

Brennan Boland, BS’07, of Minneapolis

  1. Attend an IU bowl game
  2. Tailgate outside Assembly Hall for a basketball game
  3. Visit quarries from Breaking Away
  4. Oliver Winery
  5. Swim in Showalter Fountain

Kari Burns Anderson, BAJ’01, of Charlotte, N.C.

  1. Get a job before I graduated
  2. Be a Resident Assistant
  3. Be an Orientation Leader
  4. Sink the Biz at Nick’s
  5. Take pictures of the campus
  6. Attend Little 500
  7. Get men’s basketball season tickets
  8. Attend a show at the IU Auditorium
  9. Participate in IU Sing
  10. Take as many electives as possible (choir, guitar, piano, self-defense, etc.)

James M. Evans Jr., BS’72, of Fort Wayne, Ind.

  1. Direct a winning entrant in IU Sing (Willkie Quad, 1970)
  2. Singing a role in an opera (Parpignole in La Bohème)
  3. Celebrating my 21st birthday...sober (I did. Honest! Cross my heart!)
  4. Passing music theory and my piano proficiency exam in order to graduate (With undying thanks to the grace of Dr. Joseph Rezits)
  5. Finding the love of my life (And I did, too ... a couple of times.)
  6. Singing in the choir at the First United Methodist Church (Those who sing really do pray twice ... especially accompanied by Charles Webb Jr.)
  7. Performing with Chamber Singers in the Madrigal Dinners (Elegance in every aspect and I still love plum pudding to this day.)
  8. Consuming inordinate amounts of fried biscuits at the Nashville House (Who worries about heart disease and cholesterol in college?!?)
  9. Getting laid (Oh, come on! After all, it was the radical ’60s–’70s.)
  10. Getting my diploma. (I had to have something to show for five years of undergraduate study before I headed off to seminary or grad school.)

Max Fitzpatrick, MS’64, of Greenwood, Ind.

  1. Be as proficient as possible in my job position
  2. Increase my earning power
  3. Be better prepared to help all kinds of people
  4. Be happy in my job and with myself
  5. Provide for the well being of family members
  6. Contribute to my community with volunteer efforts
  7. Be a leader in areas where I could help others
  8. Make the best better
  9. Learn, teach, and build
  10. Know that there was a much greater power that could be turned to in need and be thankful to all persons in my life

Gavin Mariano, BA’01, of Merrillville, Ind.

  1. Meet students from other countries
  2. Play ultimate Frisbee in Dunn Meadow*
  3. Overseas study trip*
  4. Meet Herman B Wells
  5. Finish the Dance Marathon (I did in 1992)
  6. Start a new fraternity*
  7. Attend Commencement
  8. Get a class ring
  9. Become a Resident Assistant
  10. Audition for a musical

*The only ones I did not accomplish were No. 3 and No. 6. Oh, No. 2 was more like regular Frisbee, but hey, I tried.