*125th Anniversary Celebration events for WellBeing, diversity/inclusion, sustainability, Native American History Month (November), summer Alumni Fridays, and academic panels are being planned. They will be added to the schedule as details are finalized.
Looking Back: "Jazz at Northern Michigan"
7 p.m. Tuesday, March 18 Jamrich Hall 1318
Presenter, Daniel Truckey, Director, Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center
As part of the NMU 2025 Jazz Festival and NMU’s 125th Anniversary Celebration, Dan Truckey, director of the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center will take music lovers and historians on a walk down memory lane to explore the wide variety of jazz events that have taken place on campus through Northern’s 125 years, including many prominent jazz performers. This event has free admission.
Radio X 125th Anniversary Alumni Show
Northern Michigan University students at Radio X (WUPX-FM) will broadcast an all-day NMU 125th Anniversary Alumni Show from 6 a.m. to midnight Saturday, March 22. Radio X alumni are scheduled to guest-DJ radio shows, and there will be interviews with other alumni. Radio X announcements from the past will air, and students will present NMU history moments that they have researched in the NMU Archives.
The day-long broadcast can be heard on WUPX at 91.5 FM, or streamed online at http://www.nmu.edu/wupx.
30 Years Later: Remembering Haywire
7:30 p.m. Friday, April 4
1100 Jamrich Hall
In the spring of 1995, the Forest Roberts Theatre’s production of Haywire was one of five selected from more than 900 national submissions to perform at the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival. The musical, about an 1880s logging camp, was written by NMU theatre professor Shelley Russell, with the original score written by NMU music professor Rob Engelhart.
As part of NMU’s 125th Anniversary Celebration, the NMU Department of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Communication and Media Studies will recognize the 30th anniversary of the nationally recognized production with a program at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 4, in 1100 Jamrich Hall. The program will highlight the creators, some of the alumni who performed in it, and scenes and musical selections.
The event has free admission as part of the Forest Roberts Theatre’s “theatre for all” initiative.
Alumni Reunions
Join your fellow Wildcats for alumni reunions centered around various activities, sports and other affiliations from your time at NMU. These gatherings have been thoughtfully organized by alumni volunteers and you can reach out to them individually for more details. More information will be added as we receive it.