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The Fort Wayne Alumni and Friend Resource Center exists to care for Fort Wayne campus alumni and to celebrate the legacy and impact of the Fort Wayne campus dating back to 1904. Realizing alumni are the only enduring and permanent constituency of the Fort Wayne campus, the Resource Center endeavors to increase the level of communication, to encourage continued involvement and to promote positive lifelong relationships between Fort Wayne alumni and their alma mater, where the Vine of God’s Own planting continues to live on throughout the world.

With this mission in mind, we are here to serve you. If we can help you organize a gathering in your area, find a long-lost college friend or just answer your questions about events and programs happening, please call, write, email or just in any time at the address below. We love to hear from you!

Michael D. Mortensen g91
Director of Fort Wayne Alumni & Friend Relations

Michael serves as the Director of Fort Wayne Alumni and Friend Relations, where he serves alumni across the country by planning reunions, events and programs and encourages them with updates and services. Mortensen served TUFW since 1997 (with the exception of a year and a half when he and his wife were short-term missionaries) in various development roles. Michael and his wife, Christine g92, have five children, Ashlyn (16), Alli (13), Anna (11) and David (9) and Jonathan (3). He enjoys providing pulpit supply, traveling and helping orphans and vulnerable children through Forgotten Children International. The family resides in Fort Wayne.
Email: mcmortensen@taylor.edu
Phone: (260) 744-8790

Kari Reynolds g99
Secretary to the Fort Wayne Alumni & Friends Resource Center

Kari g99 serves as the Secretary to the Fort Wayne Alumni & Friends Resource Center. She loves serving the alumni and friends of FWBC, SCC, and TUFW. Kari maintains and updates records, writes alumni News Notes for the FW Vine, manages the On-line FW Store, coordinates volunteer staff, organizes archival materials in the Resource Center as well as in the digital archive, and assists the Director with events and daily operations. In addition to her responsibilities at the Alumni Resource Center, Kari is a teacher for Fort Wayne Community Schools. Kari is proud of her long Fort Wayne heritage as her great-grandmother, two grandparents, her parents, several aunts and uncles, several cousins, brother and sister-in-law are all alumni of the Fort Wayne campus.
Email: krreynolds@taylor.edu
Phone: (260) 744-8790

Jay D. Platte, D. A. g69
Volunteer Archive Coordinator

For 38 years Dr. Jay Platte taught full-time, performed and administered music on the Fort Wayne campus, serving as head of the Music Dept. (1972-92) and Professional Division Chair (1984-92). He taught music appreciation, education, theory, computers, choral and instrumental performing groups, and courses in worship, recording as well as other subjects. Dr. Platte directed performances of Handel's Messiah, other oratorios and musicals. He also toured with performing groups throughout Africa, the United States and Jamaica. Since retirement, he volunteers extensively at Matthew 25 Health Clinics and has given over 1,000 hours at the Fort Wayne Alumni & Friends Resource Center digitizing recordings and pictures and creating many video projects for Fort Wayne alumni and friends now available in our Fort Wayne Archive Vault and Store. Dr. Platte was instrumental in making the virtual archives a reality. Jay is married to Shirley (Mertz) g69 and they have two sons and 6 grandchildren, and they continue to live in Fort Wayne just a block from the Resource Center.
Email: fwarchives@taylor.edu
Phone: (260) 744-8790

Fort Wayne Alumni & Friends Resource Center
915 West Rudisill Blvd
Fort Wayne, IN 46807

Phone: 260.744.8790
Fax: 260.745.4974
Email: alumnifw@taylor.edu

Taylor Alumni Staff Serving You:
Brent Rudin g94 – Associate Vice President for Alumni & Parent Relations
Email: brent_rudin@taylor.edu

Sharon Campbell – Alumni Assistant
Email: shcampbell@taylor.edu

Emily Seeger – Assistant for Alumni & Parent Relations
Email: emseeger@taylor.edu

• Use our General Contact Form to send a comment, question, address request, information request.
• Submit your news notes
• Submit your prayer request
• Use our Alumni Update Form to update your personal information with our office or to help us “find you” if you are a “lost alumnus(a).”