BenGil native Adam Schmidt is the recipient of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Summer 2014 Dual Admission Academic Award. All students entering SIUE through dual admission programs are eligible for the award. Schmidt is currently a student at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey. The SIUE Office of Educational Outreach administers the award, and students […]
’67 graduate publishes two books
You might call him successful. Of course, it’s according to how you measure success. As an author, you might want to judge him by the number of his books that have been sold. Ron Secoy, Christian cowboy poet and author of two books, figures if it is numbers that determine success then he isn’t. Ron’s […]
Where are they now: Benisha Abe
We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Benisha Abe while she was back in the states for a short amount of time. Benisha always had wanted to go to Japan, it has been her dream since she was a youngster. We could not have enhanced her story any better, so we are going to leave […]
Where is Chris Haddad at now?
Chris Haddad is an interesting fellow with a very bright future full of loads of potential. The BenGil Post was able to catch up with Chris at the airport before he departed to the Caribbean, wow.. we can now claim we have interviewed one of the most successful entrepreneurs to come from the BenGil area. […]
Where are they now: Ben Marcacci
If the Heineken beer commercials claim they have the world’s most interesting man, then the BenGil Post can claim they just interviewed the BenGil area’s most interesting man. Well-traveled? Yes. An adventurer? Yes. An artist? Yes. Unconventional path to success? Yes. Interesting? Intoxicatingly. Ben Marcacci, a 1994 graduate of GHS, started life after high school […]
Where are they now – Devon Largio
11 years ago, Devon Largio was sitting through her last few classes at GHS, imagining what life would be like after high school. Even then, she probably wouldn’t have guessed her undergraduate work at U of I would have been featured on James Carville’s Crossfire or that she’d be working for one of the top […]
Where are they now? Dustin Brown GHS ’01
He went from driving his toy Tonka trucks down Roland Drive in Gillespie to fixing one of the biggest trucks on the planet, Grave Digger. Dustin, a 2001 graduate of Gillespie High School, spent 19 years in Gillespie before heading off to South Carolina. There he joined a professional drag racing team in 2002 and […]
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