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Hey skydivers! For those of you who have been asking me, of course we’ll be jumping over the summer! Unfortunately I will not be here to organize or see most of you jump. I’ll be leaving this weekend to travel up to Minneapolis to start work. But I wanted to thank you all for a great year, and all the great opportunities to skydive and hang out with all of you. The Falling Illini has been a big part of my life these last 2 years and I wanted to thank you all for the great memories.

Taking over as President of the Falling Illini for the 2008-2009 school year will be Liz Mengyan. Liz is a great skydiver, and you can contact her at president@fallingillini.org to set up jumps during the summer and the rest of the year. Helping her out will be Vice President Laura Thompson and Treasurer Mike Murphy. Also, helping to get everyone together outside the airport will be Brad Topol as Social Chair. Please be as helpful and patient with them as you have been with me.

Just like always if you want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane from 14,000 feet, email Liz your name, your number, what day you want to go, the jump you want to do, and if you can drive. Thanks!

Hey everyone! For those of you were wondering, Mike Murphy was the winner of the April Showers contest with 12 jumps from April to the end of the school year. He will be awarded $100 for his accomplishment. We had a bundle of terible weekends but congratulations to all of you who made great efforts these past few months. Keep the pace up over the summer!

Photo of Murphy taken by Hector Mandel