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How many of you and your family are ISU alums?

dahliaclone said:
There is a wall at the Iowa State Fair that lists all ISU graduates. A cousin of mine found a hoard of us which got my great aunt thinking about how many family members went to Iowa State. So far we've confirmed that from 1986-2014 there has been a family member attending, many years with several of us in that timespan. Also a stretch from 1968-1984 where 10 or so family members were all there (my dad, mom, uncles). Go back further and my great great grandmother was one of the first females on campus. Just curious if your fam has a long ISU history. I am sure there are many others like my family. Kind of cool.
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The wall lists all alumni that are alive and living in Iowa. A friend of mine who graduated a semester before me lives in Minneapolis, her name is not on the wall.

I'm the only one from my family to ever attend and/or graduate from Iowa State. First generation baby! My parents met at South Dakota State University.
 
RING4CY said:
The wall lists all alumni that are alive and living in Iowa. A friend of mine who graduated a semester before me lives in Minneapolis, her name is not on the wall.

I'm the only one from my family to ever attend and/or graduate from Iowa State. First generation baby! My parents met at South Dakota State University.
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Interesting. Like I said, it listed me, my sister, my uncles, and two cousins and none of us have lived in Iowa for at least 8 years.
 
As usual. the ISU booth at the fair was awesome. My son was pretty adept at finding all of us on the wall. I thought the Drake booth was pretty sad, DMAAC's was better. Hokland was really pimping their native Iowa students, one of the featured ones was from our local high school and certainly not a stellar student, so not sure why he was highlighted.
 
My dad, mom and uncle all graduated from Iowa state. Unless I do something great enough to get an honorary degree from Iowa State, I don't think i'll be added to that list.
 
dahliaclone said:
Interesting. Like I said, it listed me, my sister, my uncles, and two cousins and none of us have lived in Iowa for at least 8 years.
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I talked to one of the ladies manning the exhibit about the wall. She told me the information used was the addresses the alumni association had of the graduates.

Basically the wall is the names of people the alumni association have in their database as alive and living in Iowa.
 
dahliaclone said:
Interesting. Like I said, it listed me, my sister, my uncles, and two cousins and none of us have lived in Iowa for at least 8 years.
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I haven't lived in Iowa since 2007 and I was on the wall.

As to the original question besides myself my wife, dad, brother, 1 uncle, 1 aunt, 2 cousins and a handful of more distant cousins.
 
dahliaclone said:
There is a wall at the Iowa State Fair that lists all ISU graduates. A cousin of mine found a hoard of us which got my great aunt thinking about how many family members went to Iowa State. So far we've confirmed that from 1986-2014 there has been a family member attending, many years with several of us in that timespan. Also a stretch from 1968-1984 where 10 or so family members were all there (my dad, mom, uncles). Go back further and my great great grandmother was one of the first females on campus. Just curious if your fam has a long ISU history. I am sure there are many others like my family. Kind of cool.
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I come from a small family so there's just my dad (born and raised in Ames) and me. I sometimes count my grandfather, though, as he spent his entire career working at the university.
 
Parents, brothers, wife, sister in laws. My son is still 15 years away, but he already cheers for Cy.
 
I was the first in my family to get a college degree; neither my mom or dad went to college. My brother graduated from ISU a couple semesters after I did. My wife is an alum as well. There aren't a lot of college degrees between my aunts and uncles but I have one aunt who went to ISU back in the late 50's. I have one neice who now has her ISU degree.
 
I was the trailblazer going to ISU from both sides of my family. After me:

Sister
5 cousins
1 brother-in-law
 
I'm the only one to go on my side of the family - actually probably the only in the the current to past 2-3 generations to go to a four year school.

Husband and his brothers went to ISU.
 
My parent sent 5 kids to ISU. They had a kid at ISU from 1989 until 2005 at all times.
 
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