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Rin lost her battle with cancer this last week. Rin has been a fixture at Valpo since 1980. Her work with athletics and recreation spanned all those years. She also taught for the PE/Kin Dept for all those years. I have known Rin for 23 years. She never failed to give me a hug and a smile. But it is all the students she touched and mentored and inspired that is the true measure of who she was and is. Rin was involved in Campus Recreation during her years at VU. The fitness center we have now was her inspiration and her passion. I would like to propose that that Building be dedicated and named for Rin. It is her building. If you agree please contact the Athletic Dept at Valpo and pass your support along. Let's get this done for Rin!

Rin lost her battle with cancer this last week. Rin has been a fixture at Valpo since 1980. Her work with athletics and recreation spanned all those years. She also taught for the PE/Kin Dept for all those years. I have known Rin for 23 years. She never failed to give me a hug and a smile. But it is all the students she touched and mentored and inspired that is the true measure of who she was and is. Rin was involved in Campus Recreation during her years at VU. The fitness center we have now was her inspiration and her passion. I would like to propose that that Building be dedicated and named for Rin. It is her building. If you agree please contact the Athletic Dept at Valpo and pass your support along. Let's get this done for Rin!
Barbara Tyree

I have worked at VU for 17 years and observed the changes in our student athletes under the tutelage of Tom Horn, Stacy Adams, and Dale Carlson. I don't know if other folks have noticed the change in our student athletes since the Dale Carlson era, but I certainly have.  Finally, the belligerent, unhappy, lethargic and semi-students of past eras have moved on. Coach Carlson has managed to recruit and keep a group of young men who are dedicated as much to the classroom as to the football field.  It would be a shame, at this point in time, in my opinion at least, to get rid of our current coaching staff and watch someone have to start over again. Carlson had a very deep hole to dig his team out of. He, and his staff, deserve another year.
BTW, I am one of the women who didn't find her way here getting lost on my way to Pintrest!