IU parents through the years

Families will have years to share college experiences while their students are at school. Here are some Hoosier parents who came before you.

IU ARCHIVES 1948 Law student Jean Seidel Miller, standing with her husband and parents, receives an award for having the highest GPA in her class in 1948.

ARBUTUS FILE PHOTO BY BOBBY GODDIN 2018 Then-senior guard Robert Johnson thanks his father, grandfather and mother in his senior day speech after the IU v. Ohio State basketball game at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Feb. 23, 2018. Johnson was one of five seniors on IU’s team. He played in the inaugural 3X3U Championship, and he scored the game-winning shot.

IDS FILE PHOTO BY DAVID CORSO 2007 Then-freshman Andrei Vajiac gets help moving into his Ashton dorm from his father Bogdan Vajiac in 2007. The beginning and end of the school year are always filled with a flurry of activity on campus.

IDS FILE PHOTO BY STEPH AARONSON 2012 Anna Mackinnon hugs her mother after the undergraduate commencement ceremony at Assembly Hall in 2012.

IU ARCHIVES 1970s Students at an IU football game in the 1970s send a message to their parents.

IU ARCHIVES 1948 Students and their fathers gather for Dad’s Day at the Chi Omega sorority in 1948.

IDS FILE PHOTO BY LYDIA GERIKE 2017 Then-freshman Elizabeth Ketzner and her father, Brian, laugh while listening to a recording of Elizabeth’s grandfather in Wells Library in 2017. Elizabeth was a baby when her grandfather died and had no memory of what he sounded like.

ARBUTUS FILE PHOTO BY ROB HILL 1994 Then-senior Todd Yeagley shares a moment with Jerry Yeagley, his father and head coach, following the Hoosiers victory over University of California, Los Angeles in the Final Four of the 1994 NCAA Soccer Championships. Todd Yeagley is now coach of the Indiana men’s soccer team.

ARBUTUS FILE PHOTO 1977 Hoosier players crash through a banner commemorating Parents Day celebrations in 1977. 2018 On Senior Day 2018, then-senior softball infielder Taylor Uden walks down the field with her parents and her younger sister, Madison, a player for the University of Michigan. The Hoosiers lost the April 29 match to Michigan 2-0 in extra innings.

ARBUTUS FILE PHOTO BY BRUCE CARVER 2010 Graduate Latroy Hampton hugs his mother, Eunice Foley, following spring commencement May 8, 2010, at Assembly Hall.

IDS FILE PHOTO BY RACHEL MEERT 2015 Parents and students listen to an informational talk about financial aid in Whittenberger Auditorium in 2015.

IDS FILE PHOTO BY BRITTANY MASON 2010 Kim Davis shakes the hand of the Herman B Wells statue during an orientation tour in 2010 on behalf of her son. Wells was a long-time, much-admired president and chancellor at IU. It’s a tradition to shake hands with his statue for good luck.

IDS FILE PHOTO BY ANNA TIPLICK