The Graduate School and the Graduate School Alumni Advisory Board at Eastern Illinois University honored Roger Eddy with a 2007 Outstanding Graduate Alumni Award this past April.

The awards were established in 2005 to recognize professional and personal achievement by an Eastern alumnus of a graduate program.

Alumni are nominated by graduate programs and the selections are reviewed and chosen by the Graduate School Alumni Advisory Board.

Mr. Eddy was nominated by the graduate program in educational administration.

Alumni were invited back to campus for a series of events that included breakfasts with the provost and president of the university, a reunion and luncheon with their home departments, and an evening dinner and awards ceremony.

Along with Mr. Eddy, eight other alumni were honored at this year’s event. He earned his Masters in Educational Administration on 1986 and a Specialist Degree in Educational Administration in 1996.

He is currently serving his third term as State Representative in the 109th District which covers Lawrence, Crawford, Clark, Edgar, Cumberland, and portions of Shelby, Effingham and Wabash counties in east-central Illinois.