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Re: 2022 Roster Changes
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:48 pm
by wiu712
Western Illinois Athletics Mourns the Loss of Hunter Mason.
https://goleathernecks.com/news/2022/6/ ... mason.aspx
Re: 2022 Roster Changes
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:07 pm
by wiu712
Funeral services for Hunter Mason will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 6, 2022 at the First Baptist Church in Nevada, MO with Dr. Kevin Daugherty officiating.
Interment will follow in Newton Burial Park.
Friends may call from now until 4 p.m. on Sunday evening at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada, MO.
Memorials are suggested in his memory to Nevada R-5 Scholarship Foundation for the Hunter L. Mason Scholarship Fund or the National Brain Tumor Society c/o Ferry Funeral Home, 301 S. Washington , Nevada, MO 64772.
Complete obituary:
https://www.tributearchive.com/obituari ... nter-mason
Re: 2022 Roster Changes
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:36 pm
by Tere North
I find it absolutely attrocious that WIU has not posted anything outside of on the athletics page. They do whenever a non-athlete student dies. Why not for Hunter?
There is part of a huge disconnect at Western. Each unit posting its own news means a visitor would have to go multiple places. Plus, so little is ever actually posted. For today, posted at 4pm: News for Thursday, June 2, 2022. There are no news articles for today.
I teach online at Grand Canyon University, a D1 school without football. This is what their news brief looks like for today, posted at 1:48pm. Each Monday they also have an employee feature.
https://view.email.gcu.edu/?qs=0bb72d905c66d20532ce791162744cebc559ee914e74d704ed9596c4db05273f70c9b0dfeb4b704a88bb250da8836e1fffabbd8d92dbf27b5dfd247e3c4e0408c776b0b2b531921c61cfb464a9008aa4b44b2ce829cc2d61
Re: 2022 Roster Changes
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:26 pm
by wiu712
Tere wrote:Thu Jan 01, 1970 4:14 am
I find it absolutely attrocious that WIU has not posted anything outside of on the athletics page. They do whenever a non-athlete student dies. Why not for Hunter?
It is posted on the Western Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/WesternIlUniv
Re: 2022 Roster Changes
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:25 pm
by Tere North
wiu712 wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:26 pm
Tere wrote:Thu Jan 01, 1970 4:14 am
I find it absolutely attrocious that WIU has not posted anything outside of on the athletics page. They do whenever a non-athlete student dies. Why not for Hunter?
It is posted on the Western Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/WesternIlUniv
Put no press release like they have done for others.
Re: 2022 Roster Changes
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:32 pm
by ST_Lawson
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Re: Hunter Mason - 1999-2002
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:20 pm
by ST_Lawson
In case you couldn't tell, I separated out all the posts relating to Hunter Mason into it's own thread to separate them from the regular recruiting news. This thread will be stickied (stay at the top of the forum section) for 1 year. I know there's already a Hunter Mason Scholarship Fund for his HS, but if anyone happens to see anything else in memory of Hunter...scholarship at Western, special patch or sticker that the team might be wearing on their uniforms or helmets this fall, etc...or if there's any other news or anything, please post it here.
https://goleathernecks.com/news/2022/6/ ... mason.aspx
Re: 2022 Roster Changes
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 2:13 am
by leatherneckcountry
Probably cause he had graduated was no longer a student.
Re: 2022 Roster Changes
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:02 am
by Tere North
leatherneckcountry wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 2:13 am
Probably cause he had graduated was no longer a student.
Yes, he got his degree in May 2021, but we was in the Master's Sport Administration program.
Re: Hunter Mason - 1999-2002
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:50 am
by HoosierNeck13
I sent the university communications an email, asking for clarification; the response was since he was a student-athlete, and athletics has their own communication department, they wanted to handle it.
