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Burl Ives nearing death
Daily Eastern News, April 14, 1995

Eastern mourns Ives' death
Daily Eastern News, April 17, 1995

Feature on Burl Ives
Daily Eastern News, April 27, 1995

Burl Ives Homepage

Burl Ives Monument (right)

Burl's Career

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Joan Allen
An Oscar-nominated actress. Because of her Eastern ties, she'll never win.

Calli Cox
What do you do with an elementary education degree from EIU? Why, porn of course!

Kevin Duckworth
The NBA's greatest 300-pound center ever to come from Eastern.

Gov. Jim and
Brenda Edgar
The former Illinois governor loves Eastern so much he now works at the University of Illinois.

Joan Embery
Her EIU degree qualified her to feed animals at the San Diego zoo.

Jeff Gossett
As a Raiders punter, he worked more often than any Eastern grad.

Burl Ives
Getting kicked out of Eastern launched this folk legend's career.

John Jurkovic
Meet the school's best pro-football player: A mediocre lineman.

Danny from The Shining
Danny’s at EIU Mrs. Torrence

Fabulous Moolah, Uncle Elmer, Abdullah the Butcher, Booker T and Matt Hughes
EIU's real strength: violence.

John Malkovich
Hates the school. Has a great movie career. Any questions?

Marty Pattin
More Eastern students have had a beer in his name than any other person in history.

Kevin Seitzer
Baseball star who swings for Jesus.

Mike Shanahan
Head coach of the Denver Broncos. Similarities between Denver and Eastern? Both high.

Larry Smith
Why is he famous?

Triumph
EIU: A great school – for me to poop on!

Jerry Van Dyke
'Coach' co-star learned to play dumb at Eastern.