Kendra Brooks

Off the Court

IU Indy alumni, as Kendra Brooks tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Norman Bridwellcreated Clifford the Big Red Dog

  Norman Bridwell studied art at Herron and went on to write and draw Clifford the Big Red Dog. The biggest dog in children's books has Indy roots, and I will not be quiet about it.

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• Vija Celminspainter and printmaker

  Vija Celmins came out of Herron in 1962 and became a fine art painter and printmaker. Art school in Indianapolis, folks. It works.

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• David Wolfastronaut

  David Wolf is an astronaut and he's one of ours. Jaguars are fast, but that is a whole other kind of fast.

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• Dan Quayle44th Vice President

  Dan Quayle got his law degree here in 1974 and ended up the forty-fourth Vice President. House, Senate, then number two in the country. Night school energy, honestly.

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• Dan Coatssenator turned lobbyist turned intelligence chief

  Dan Coats, law class of 1971. Later a lobbyist, in 2007 he worked to block a bill closing a tax loophole worth hundreds of millions to a company that had moved to Bermuda. We taught him the law. The loophole, he freelanced.

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