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58 Readings Excerpts from the 2011 commencement address, Cover photo: New Digs for Perry. In October 1963, on the property of delivered by Lisa Brosious Beamer ’91. Judge Joseph Sam Perry of Glen Ellyn, the remains of an 11,000-year-old mastodon were found. The judge called for help from Wheaton College, 60 Faculty Voice and Dr. Douglas Block ’43 of the geology department, with the help of Dr. Beth Felker Jones reflects on why Wheaton students, was put in charge of excavating the bones. Dr. Donald C. theology matters. Boardman ’38, chair of the geology department, led the subsequent 11-year restoration effort, and for 40 years following, Perry Mastodon was on exhibit in 61 Student Profile Armerding Hall. Thanks to The Promise campaign, he moved to Wheaton’s Living with a disability, Julie Johnson ’12, M.A.’13 new Science Center in May 2010. Perry is now the centerpiece of a discovers her mission field. multi-story interactive museum that includes physics, biology, geology, and astronomy exhibits. Photo by Michael Hudson ’89. 62 Wheaton in the World By listening to God and looking to fill needs around Inside photos: Les Barker, pp. 2, 7-8, 26; Michael Hudson ’89, above, the world, Don “Bubba” Church ’57 has pp. 3-5, 9, 10, 14-25, 34-35, 37-40, reunion photos (41-43, 45-48, quietly helped to start several Wheaton ministries. 50-52, 54), 58, 61, 64; Greg Halvorsen Schreck, p. 9; Carlos Vergara ’82, pp. 12-13, 60; Philip Foxwell, Jr. ’80, pp. 28-29, 31. 64 President’s Perspective 501 College Avenue Wheaton, Illinois 60187
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2 Letters Tor: Wheaton’s New Mascot Dawn in the Land of the Unveiled in April and inspired by a story written by Rising Sun 4 News 12a Wheaton short-story class, Wheaton’s new mascot 28Wheaton alumni living in Japan are finding 10 Sports Stertorous “Tor” finally puts a face on the Thunder. ways to support and encourage Japanese 56 Authors leaders and survivors in the aftermath of the Books by Wheaton’s faculty; an excerpt from the Promises Kept Great Tohoku Earthquake. new book by alumnus Christopher Yuan M.A.’07. This photo essay provides mere glimpses of the by Alanna Foxwell-Barajas ’06 14benefits such giving has for the life of the College 58 Readings Excerpts from the 2011 commencement address, and its people. But the larger picture—if only it Her Story: The Early delivered by Lisa Brosious Beamer ’91. could be photographed—would be of ways your Christian Woman gifts will provide for future generations. 32An interview with Dr. Lynn H. Cohick, associate 60 Faculty Voice Dr. Beth Felker Jones reflects on why photography by Michael Hudson ’89 professor of New Testament and author of theology matters. Women in the World of the Earliest Christians, Not-So-Standard Achievement sheds light on how examining the lives of 61 Student Profile For her life-long dedication to serving at-risk first-century women adds to the understanding Living with a disability, Julie Johnson ’12, M.A.’13 26children and teens, Reverend Colleen Koppert of the New Testament. discovers her mission field. Holby ’55 received the Alumni Association’s by Dawn Kotapish ’92 Wheaton in the World 62 2011 Distinguished Service to Society award. By listening to God and looking to fill needs around the world, Don “Bubba” Church ’57 has by Karen Halvorsen Schreck ’84 quietly helped to start several W heaton ministries.
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85448_Cvrs_pg1.indd 5 8/12/11 7:02 PM letter from the editor n late summer 1965 my husband David and I, newlyweds for only a Editor Georgia I. Douglass ’70, M.A. ’94 month, left San Angelo, Texas, to attend college in Illinois. I had learned Assistant Editor of Wheaton College only six months before, but soon we would be Monica M. Jones
enrolled there—he as a graduate student and I as an undergraduate Editorial Consultant (thanks to Director of Admissions Charles Schoenherr ’50). Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 As I think of it now, my mother was, at age 39, so very young to be a Design Consultants Alice Isoz Chrismer ’70 Wheaton parent, let alone a Wheaton mother-in-law. But there she stood Ellen Mardock Chrismer+ Mardock Communication iin the driveway as we pulled out onto Jackson Street and turned our Class News Editor baby-blue Rambler north. I watched as Mother waved goodbye, sending Donna Antoniuk
me off to Wheaton not only with her prayers, but also her dreams. Editorial Adviser My obtaining a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton was not to be. After Dr. R. Mark Dillon
a couple of years, I ran out of money and dropped out. It would be Wheaton Alumni Association President 29 years before her prayers and dreams were realized, when I received Christopher A. Jahns ’82 my master’s from Wheaton. President-Elect Both of my parents knew the value of an education, but not because Kurt Tillman ’78 they benefitted from having a college degree. Daddy’s studies at the Executive Director Cindra Stackhouse Taetzsch ’82 University of Texas were interrupted by World War II, and his hopes of Professor Emeritus finishing ended with his personal battle against tuberculosis. My mother, Leroy H. Pfund ’49
abandoned by her mother and left to fend for her invalid father and two Alumni Trustee Representatives young brothers, was denied an education beyond the eighth grade. Christopher A. Jahns ’82 Kurt Tillman ’78 Georgia I. Douglass Some years ago after the deaths of my parents, knowing how much Timothy A. Stoner ’82 ’70, M.A. ’94 they loved Wheaton and had yearned for a college education, I urged my Wheaton College Editor President family to establish an endowed scholarship in their memory. This year’s Dr. Philip G. Ryken ’88 recipient of the Kenneth and Margarette Stephenson Irwin Memorial Provost Scholarship is Julie Johnson ’12, M.A. ’13, one of five students over the Dr. Stanton L. Jones past nine years who have been helped by this endowment. You can read Vice President for Finance Dale A. Kemp her story on page 61 of this issue of Wheaton. Every day she perseveres Vice President for Student through pain and disability, with challenges that would sideline most of Development us, and yet her life is full of hope and joy. Paul O. Chelsen ’91 Also in this magazine is a report on the recent completion of The Vice President for Advancement and Alumni Relations Promise of Wheaton, with $261,717,652 in gifts and commitments. Dr. R. Mark Dillon
Celebrate with us the close of The Promise, and be glad about how the Executive Assistant Lord will use your generosity to further His kingdom around the world. to the President Marilee A. Melvin ’72 What now seems eons ago, back in spring 2008, Wheaton announced the public rollout of this $260-million campaign. At that time, Wheaton is published autumn, winter, in my Letter from the Editor, I asked you to “see what opportunities in and spring by Wheaton College, 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187-5593, The Promise of Wheaton resonate within you, and give more than you 630/752-5779, and mailed free of charge have ever given in the past.” to alumni and friends of Wheaton College. Postmaster: Please send address changes to Together, upwards of 25,000 of you gave more than has ever been Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187-5593. given. In providing for the opportunities that resonated within you— Opinions expressed are those of the contributors or the editors, and endowments or Wheaton Fund, programs or buildings—you have helped do not necessarily represent the official position of the College. fulfill the dreams and answer the prayers of Wheaton students (and their © 2011 Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL parents) now and far into the future. We are grateful to you. www.wheaton.edu
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A Beloved Professor’s I’m grateful I had a couple of Reflecting on the Complex Legacy classes with Jerry Hawthorne, Thanks for the beautiful way you dealt when I took Greek to fulfill my with the complex issue of doubt and faith. foreign language requirement. I have spoken to the Lord, sought His counsel At one point, I was discouraged on things big and small and thanked Him for His that I was not really “getting” presence every day for the last 54 years. I did have a time of doubt once. It lasted for about Greek. One day I passed by Dr. 5 minutes. Am I weird? Hawthorne’s home on College It’s His faithfulness that carries the day, and Avenue. He was outside and we I realize that our blessed assurance is a gift of talked. I told him how I was the Spirit. Most of my conversations with Him struggling and that I was thinking center around gratitude, not petition, unless it is about dropping his class. to ask for more understanding of why He loves Looking at me he gently said, me so much. He’s not there “when I need Him,” “I’m sorry to hear that; I thought as if He were at my beck and call; it’s more like you were one of my best air is there when I need to breathe. He has never students.” given me a stone when I have asked for bread. He asked how I went about I’ve had my share of loss and sorrow and studying. I said, “I pile all my betrayal by people I thought were friends; but He subjects on my desk, doing the reminds me that He has been there, too, and easiest first, leaving time to that somehow He can use these things to make concentrate on Greek.” me a little more like His Son. I’ve never felt that He replied, “Try studying your life was unfair, or that I’ve been asked to make hardest subjects when your mind more sacrifices than He did. is fresh, and then when you’re There have always been consequences for my fatigued, study the easier nagging sins, but never punishment. His own subjects.” I took his advice and Son took care of that on the cross, once for all. started looking forward to class. My repentance is always answered by the Dr. Hawthorne taught his Father’s gentle mercy. Although I don’t see His classes with gentleness and grace. face when I’m forgiven and my soul feels Among the many fine articles in the When I became a high school social studies restored, I think He is smiling. spring 2011 Wheaton was a tribute to teacher, I patterned my teaching style after William (Bill) P. Scully M.A. ’67 Dr. Gerald Hawthorne ’51, M.A. ’54, which him. He was my constant model through all Toccoa, Georgia appropriately honored his life and ministry. my 42 years of teaching. One of only two Greek majors in the class Robert “Bob” Wright ’63 Write Us of 1965, I remember Dr. Hawthorne’s Silver Springs, Florida We want to hear from you. Send us your encouragement to me in my journey from letters and emails as they relate to material chemistry major to Greek major, and So Thankful published in the magazine. Correspondence eventually on to seminary and to more Thanks for the fascinating story must include your name, address, and than 40 years of pastoral ministry. about WETN alumni. In the 1950s, WETN phone number. The editor reserves the right Of the three photos on page four of the was a low-power FM station, but the to determine the suitability of letters for magazine, the young fellow in the picture experience I gained was tops. It led to my publication and to edit them for accuracy on the left is yours truly. It’s a great shot of broadcasting career with BBC Radio in and length. Unfortunately, not all letters can my right ear—and of a time when I had hair! England as a news commentator. I’m be published nor can they be returned. It put a smile on my face and in my heart. thankful for Wheaton. Editor, Wheaton Rev. Harold (Bud) Smith, Jr. ’65 Wayne Detzler ’59, M.A. ’61 Wheaton College / Wheaton, IL 60187 Farmington, Minnesota Matthews, North Carolina [email protected]
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New York Times best-selling author Lisa Brosious Beamer ’91, whose late husband Todd Beamer ’91 died heroically during the September 11th attacks on the U.S., delivered commencement speeches at the graduate and undergraduate ceremonies May 7 and May 8, 2011. Her address encouraged graduating students not to let the routine of their lives hinder them from boldly accepting God’s invitation to redeem creation. “God’s clear purpose is that through His spirit we make redemption our priority….That we bring the good news of peace and salvation to all the layers of humanity,” Beamer said. “Don’t be dismayed to find your life turn ordinary soon enough. When you realize that today is kind of similar to yesterday and a bit like tomorrow, ask yourself who is becoming whole again on your watch, what is being healed through your influence, how is God redeeming His creation by way of your life? Your good answers will surely be the mark of significance even in an ordinary life.”
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Wheaton’s New Website Launches The address is the same, but Wheaton’s website is brand new. The comprehensive project to redevelop the College’s public website began in the fall of 2009. “We’ve been deeply grateful for how supportive and enthusiastic the campus community has been throughout the project,” says Elisa Leberis, director of web communications. Launched this summer, the new site has a fresh appearance and a cohesive information structure, but perhaps the most significant difference is behind the scenes. Unlike its predecessor, the new website is built on a software framework that enables staff and faculty across campus to better manage various areas http://www.wheaton.edu/ of the site, notes Leberis. It also offers automated calendars and more areas for stories, images, and video. To check out Wheaton’s revamped website visit Colson Scholarship Seeks New Journalism http://www.wheaton.edu/. Applicants Certificate Total transformation often For the first time this fall,Wheaton Center for Applied Christian distinguishes recipients of the Charles students have the opportunity to earn Ethics Celebrates 25 Years W. Colson Scholarship. Since the a journalism certificate. This new The Center for Applied Christian scholarship was established in 1988, certification program is intended to Ethics (CACE) celebrated 25 years with 44 Colson Scholars have graduated from provide students with a strong its spring conference titled, “Challenges Wheaton College, many moving on to undergraduate education in in Christian Ethics, Charting a Course promising careers in various fields. The journalism, and to develop a global for the 21st Century.” Speakers delved Colson Scholarship provides former network of internship and career into topics like sexuality, interreligious prisoners with a college education and opportunities. Requirements for the dialogue (Christian-Muslim relations), life formation program that develops certificate include 24 credit hours, the moral obligations of a Christian them as Christian leaders. Scholarship and attendance at two co-curricular institution, and the intersection of applications must be submitted by or extra-curricular journalism Christianity and national identity. January 1 of the year to which the events per semester for four semesters. CACE also serves Wheaton faculty and student is seeking admission. For more For more information contact students with ethical training sessions, information about the Charles W. the communication department at public forums, and projects. To learn Colson Scholarship, contact the Billy 630-752-5095 or visit about events or programs sponsored by Graham Center’s Institute for Prison http://www.wheaton.edu/ CACE, visit http://www.wheaton.edu/ Ministries at 630-752-5727 or visit Academics/Departments/ CACE. http://www.bgcprisonministries.com/. Communication.
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student neW s assistant in a German high school in what I have learned about the power Freiburg, Germany. Solo, who is also of narrative and the nature of truth in Wheaton Graduates working on her master’s in secondary literature with students who have been Receive Fulbright Grants education at Wheaton, will also spend raised in a science-dominated society,” the 2011-2012 academic year as an she says. “By doing so I hope to plant English teaching assistant in Germany. seeds for non-Christian students to see ancient works and someday the Christian Scriptures in a fresh way.” Alumni Association Awards Jonathan Yates ’12 is an international Senior Scholarships relations and geology double major. His The Wheaton College Alumni family moved to Taiwan when he was Association Board of Directors 15 months old—where his father taught selected two students to receive Senior at a Chinese college and eventually went Scholarship Awards for the 2011–2012 on to train leaders for the Chinese church school year. The awards were announced at a seminary in Taipei, Taiwan. at Honors Convocation in April 2011. This past summer, Jonathan worked Nicole Hess ’12 of North Canton, as an intern with Water for Life, using Ohio, is majoring in ancient languages geology to provide clean water for a with an integrated philosophy major. “I village in Kosovo. Life after college has a have loved languages since I was a little number of possibilities. “I know what girl,” says Nicole, who can read Greek, I want to do with my life five or ten years Latin, and Hebrew. down the road, but I don’t really know This past summer she worked with how God’s going to get me there,” says Dr. Douglas Penney ’78, professor of Jonathan, who wants to work in some ancient languages, translating Greek capacity outside the U.S. with people fables for a book on Aesop’s Fables that who haven’t heard the gospel. He may Dr. Penney is working on. pursue graduate school, but he says, “I’m She plans to attend graduate school not too worried about the details, I just and pursue a Ph.D. in classics—hoping want to be totally committed to living for to teach Greek and Latin at the college God’s glory in each place He takes me. level. “I would love to teach at a I think that He will find a way to put the
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The Fulbright Program for U.S. students awarded English Teaching Assistantships to Marjorie Brumm ’11, Eileen Sleesman ’11, and Kristine Krupa Solo ’10, M.A ’12 this past spring. Brumm will spend ten months in Indonesia teaching English in a high school on the island of Sulawesi. (l to r) Jane Hatfield Erickson ’78, Tim Stoner ’82, Jonathan Yates ’12, Nicole Sleesman will spend the 2011-2012 Hess ’12, Christopher Yuan M.A. ’07, Erin Hoekstra ’04, Kurt Tillman ’78, Meagan academic year as an English teaching Stuart Gillan ’75.
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At the Top of Her Game Women’s Head Basketball Coach Beth McKinney Baker ’77 retires with a record-setting number of wins and a host of sisters in Christ.
by Brett Marhanka, Sports Information Director
court to share her passion and love for Christ with us on a daily basis.” Sarah served as head coach of women’s basketball at Grove City College for four years prior to returning to Wheaton. She adds, “I can recall a locker room talk when Beth spoke passionately about arming ourselves for both competition and battles that go beyond the basketball court. I knew that she labored to prepare us for the offensive and defensive challenges that we would face for a 40-minute game, but also for the temptations, discouragements, and struggles we would face for the rest of our lives.” It wasn’t just the players that were affected by Beth’s actions. Lori notes, “Beth has been the dean of CCIW women’s basketball for 25 years. She is the person we all turned to for personal and professional advice.” The winningest basketball court. “I have not only enjoyed watching In the history of CCIW women’s coach in Wheaton history, Beth athletes compete on the court, but even basketball, no coaches have more McKinney Baker ’77 announced her more meaningful has been the delight conference crowns than Lori Kerans retirement in May 2011 after 25 years as of coming alongside young women in and Beth Baker. Despite a rivalry on the head women’s basketball coach. a critical stage in their faith journey the hardwood, Lori says, “Once the “Without question, Beth Baker was to serve as a pointer, deepening their game was over, Beth became a friend the best coach I have faced in 25 years of relationship with Jesus Christ,” Beth says. to the coaches, and a role model to the college coaching,” says longtime Millikin Sarah Harris ’03, M.A. ’04, a four- athletes, both at Wheaton and every University Women’s Basketball Coach year letter-winner who returned to other university Wheaton faced.” Lori Kerans. Such praise isn’t surprising Wheaton last season to serve as an She continues, “But perhaps most when you consider Beth’s record: 434 assistant women's basketball coach, says importantly, Beth had and continues to career wins, six CCIW titles, and seven it was always clear that Beth considered have an unwavering internal drive to ‘do NCAA Tournament appearances. her job to be much more than developing things right.’” What the record books don’t show, basketball players and winning games. Nancy Fahey, head women’s basketball is what Beth has accomplished off the “She used the context of a basketball coach at Washington University
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football women’s soccer 10/18 at Illinois Wesleyan* 9/10 Albion 9/2 Loras** 10/21-22 at Elmhurst 9/17 at U. Wis.-Platteville 9/3 U. of Wis.-Eau Claire** 10/25 at North Park* 9/24 Olivet College 9/7 Calvin 10/29 at Benedictine 10/1 at Illinois Wesleyan* 9/10 U. of St. Thomas 11/1 CCIW Play-In Match (TBA) At the Top of Her Game in St. Louis, saw this internal drive in 10/8 Elmhurst* 9/12 at Aurora 11/4-5 CCIW Tournament (TBA) action when her team played a game at (Homecoming) 9/17 at Washington (Mo.) Wheaton in 1999. It was Nancy’s 10/15 at North Park* 9/21 at U. of Wis.-Stevens Point 300th career victory and Beth gave her 10/22 at Carthage* 9/24 Ohio Wesleyan women’s tennis the game ball. “That was the first time 10/29 Augustana* (Family 9/27 at U. of Chicago 9/3 Luther an opposing coach has done that, and it Weekend) 10/1 at Wartburg 9/3 Lake Forest always stuck with me,” says Nancy. 11/5 at North Central* 10/3 Kalamazoo 9/6 at Elmhurst* A health and physical education major, 11/12 Millikin* 10/5 at DePauw 9/10 at Illinois Wesleyan* Beth played basketball for Wheaton from 10/8 North P a r k * 9/10 vs. Millikin* 9/14 North Central* 1973-1977. After earning her master’s in 10/12 Carthage* men’s soccer 9/17 vs. U. of Wis.-River Falls education from Georgia State University 10/15 North Central* 9/2 Covenant ** 9/17 at U. of Wis.-Whitewater in 1984, she coached high school ball, 10/19 at Augustana* 9/3 Loras ** 10/22 at Elmhurst* 9/20 Carthage* and was named the Greater Atlanta Area 9/9 at Ohio Wesleyan 10/25 Illinois Wesleyan* 9/23 Augustana* Coach of the Year twice. 9/10 vs. Capital 10/29 at Millikin* 9/30-10/1 at ITA Tournament During the summer of 1979, Beth 9/13 U. of Chicago 10/7-8 at CCIW Championships toured South America as a member of 9/16 at Calvin the Venture Victory women’s basketball 9/17 at Hope volleyball team—an international outreach of 9/21 Dominican 9/2-3 at U. of Wis.-Whitewater men’s and women’s Overseas Crusades (now known as OC 9/24 at Westmont 9/6 at Lake Forest cross country International). Her passion for basketball 9/26 at Occidental 9/9-10 at Emory 9/9 at Aurora Spartan Cross Country has been a vehicle for spreading the 10/1 at U. of Wis.-Oshkosh 9/13 Augustana* 9/24 Wheaton Invitational Good News ever since. 10/4 Aurora 9/17 Crown 9/30 at North Central Sarah Harris admits that she’s copied 10/8 North P a r k * 9/17 Bethel 10/15 at University of Wis.- some of Coach Baker’s drills, and even 10/12 Carthage* 9/20 at Carthage* 10/15 North Central* 9/23 Thunder Invitational Oshkosh some of her phrases. “However, it was 10/19 at Augustana* 9/24 Thunder Invitational 10/21 at North Central her model of using sport to disciple 10/22 at Elmhurst* 9/27 Millikin* Cardinal Open and mentor young women that I found 10/26 Illinois Wesleyan* 10/4 at North Central * 10/29 at CCIW Conference myself replicating,” says Sarah. “Her 10/29 at Millikin* 10/7 U. of Chicago Champ. players did not simply exist in her (Homecoming) 11/12 at NCAA Div. III program for their careers at Wheaton; Midwest Champ. * CCIW matches 10/11 Elmhurst* (Senior Night) 11/19 at NCAA Div. III she continues to love her players—not ** matches played in the 10/14 at North Central because of what we offer her, but because Bob Baptista Invitational 10/15 at North Central National Champ. she considers us sisters in Christ.”
thunder by the numbers 62 28 11 80.6 0:12.31 base hits career home runs All-American per round 100-meter dash by softball standout for outfielder Justin Zeller selections average time of Renee Bettinger ’12 in the finals Katie Iser ’11 this spring ’12 of the Thunder baseball for Wheaton College in 2010-11 for Casi Blanton of the women’s 100-meter dash at the to set a new school team. In just three seasons athletes in the 2010-11 ’11 who became Wheaton’s 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track single-season record at the plate, he has already school year. first-ever All-American in & Field Championships as she earned for hits. The previous surpassed the previous women’s golf and the first All-American honors along with Luke record of 52 had stood career record of 23 that had CCIW Champion in the Vance ’13 who was an All-American in since 1990. stood since 1994. sport as well. the men’s 800-meter run.
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tor Journeying to the land of Wheaton, where no mastodon had set foot for thousands of years, was Tor’s mission. His purpose was to find his ancestor, Perry Mastodon, who—ages ago—protected the species from the deathly grips of saber-toothed tigers. Thus begins the story of Stertorous “Tor” Thunder, as written by students in Professor Nicole Mazzarella’s short-story class. Tor finds Perry at a college in the land of Wheaton, where he also finds a home. Intending to put a face to Wheaton’s nickname, Thunder, former Wheaton art director Ellen Rising Morris created the initial design and worked with mascot design company Olympus Group to bring the prehistoric mammal to life. Requiring two people inside and weighing 90 pounds, Tor is the largest mascot in the NCAA. To learn more about Tor, visit http://www.wheaton.edu/Student-Life/Activities/Student-Culture/ Traditions/Tor.
Top: Revealed to the campus community in April 2011, Tor gets a special cheer from Wheaton’s cheerleaders. Row 1 (l to r): Emily Blanco ’11 and Mary Walsh ’13. Row 2: Morgan Manchester ’12, Abby Massey ’14, Emily Deal ’13, Tor, Darlene Campos ’12, Meghan Ferry ’13 (top), and Alyssa Paulsen ’14.
Bottom: The designer, Ellen Rising Morris, and the movers and shakers, brothers David ’14 (left) and Drew Daum ’12.
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85448_12_33.indd 13 8/12/11 7:36 PM Promises Kept
The imagined unveiled. The possible realized. And the future? Promising.
photography by Michael Hudson ’89 text by Monica M. Jones, Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90, and Georgia I. Douglass ’70, M.A. ’94
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85448_12_33.indd 14 8/12/11 7:48 PM Walk with us through the incredible spaces that your gifts, great and small, have built and renovated. Meet some of the students, faculty, staff, and alumni whose stories highlight just a few of the many ways The Promise will reach families and communities, the church and society. The imagined unveiled. The possible realized. And the future? Promising. In these pages, we hope you’ll glimpse the astonishing effect that the now complete Promise ofWheaton fund-raising effort is already having on the life of the College. Although these images can’t possibly capture the potential of your investment, we hope that they will help you envision the possibilities and bring you joy. Thank you for your part in helping Wheaton fulfill its calling.
eaching at Wheaton for more than 35 years, the chair of the art department, Professor Joel Sheesley ’72, is an award-winning artist whose work has been shown in galleries across the country. Thanks to gifts to tThe Promise campaign, Sheesley and other professors teach and also mentor, a hallmark of a Wheaton education. Emma Saperstein ’12, an art major with a sculpture focus, spent time last summer completing her Printmaking course with Professor Sheesley. Before the Adams Hall renovation, the printmaking studio sat in the basement; but now it is on the second floor, its maple flooring the original laid in 1899 when the area was the College’s gymnasium. The printmaking darkroom has been integrated into the new studio, which has nearly doubled in size. A new lithography press, a refurbished German proofing letterpress, and four new large work tables grace the space, which now also welcomes more natural light—inspiring young artists to create amazing work.
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85448_12_33.indd 15 8/12/11 7:49 PM ampus architect Bruce Koenigsberg, in the Science Center atrium, says it was a “God thing” that he came to Wheaton in 1984. What he thought would be a five-year stint turned into his life’s work, and for the last 27 years, he has had a hand in designing cand/or redesigning portions of all 40 main buildings on campus. Of these, Bruce says The Promise campaign’s Science Center is the crowning achievement. He says, “The proportions, siting, transparency, and functionality are all better than any of our other buildings.” The building has earned a Gold rating in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) from the U.S. Green Building Council, an award for engineering excellence, as well as a community development and 17,709 alumni households gave. 58% of alumni gave. improvement award. Bruce says, “I came to Wheaton asking God for a Christian application to architecture, a higher purpose to design. God has [ definitely provided, and I have seen His hand at work ] in each project that we have planned and built.”
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85448_12_33.indd 16 8/12/11 7:51 PM fter meeting as freshmen in the chemistry alaboratory in Blanchard Hall, Barbara Burda Eckelmann ’51 and her husband Dr. Walter Eckelmann ’51 were married shortly after graduation, and shared a love for the sciences, family, and HoneyRock for 57 years. After Walt’s death, Barbara dedicated one of the 75 state-of-the-art labs in the new Science Center in his memory, since both felt that Wheaton laid a solid foundation—not just for their careers in science, but also for their lives in Christ. A Spanish major with a concentration in pre-nursing, Barbara’s granddaughter Allison Marshall Miller ’11 was part of the first graduating class to use the 134,000-square-foot facility. Following her grandmother’s ampus architect Bruce Koenigsberg, in the Science example, she married her Center atrium, says it was a “God thing” that he came own Wheaton man, Matt to Wheaton in 1984. What he thought would be a Miller ’11, in May, and plans five-year stint turned into his life’s work, and for the to go on to further studies last 27 years, he has had a hand in designing in the sciences in the fall. and/or redesigning portions of all 40 main buildings on campus. Of these, Bruce says The Promise campaign’s Science Center is the crowning achievement. He says, “The proportions, siting, transparency, and functionality are all better than any of our other buildings.” The building has earned a Gold rating in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) from the U.S. Green Building Council, an award for engineering excellence, as well as a community development and improvement award. Bruce says, “I came to Wheaton asking God for a Christian application to architecture, a higher purpose to design. God has definitely provided, and I have seen His hand at work in each project that we have planned and built.”
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85448_12_33.indd 17 8/12/11 7:52 PM [$ 31.7 million given to the Wheaton Fund. (Total giving to the Wheaton Fund exceeded the largest single gift.) 156 new student scholarships (endowed and spendable). ]
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he way light bends through Science Center. The layout a door, the trajectory of the facilities, the of an object thrown from proximity of student ta car—these were early workspaces to professor’s fascinations for Ben Sawyer offices, and an eager, ’12, say his parents Dave ’78 mentoring faculty all and Jill Lehnert Sawyer contributed, says Ben, ’78. As a junior, this fourth to helping him pinpoint generation Wheaton his specialization in atomic student received a Wheaton and molecular optics. College Physics Merit Scholarship, awarded to four physics majors each year. In addition to serving as a teacher’s assistant in the observatory (which will soon be home to a new 24-inch telescope), Ben developed a fondness for research through a modern science skills lab, taught in the $62 million
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85448_12_33.indd 19 8/12/11 7:39 PM students have made significant contributions to her research. Rachel Sweet Vanderpoel ’08 was a HNGR intern who worked with Dr. Joireman in Kenya and coauthored a n accomplished author chapter in Dr. Joireman’s who received her Ph.D. at recent book, Where the University of California, There Is No Government: Los Angeles, Dr. Sandra Enforcing Property Rights Joireman, professor of politics in Common Law Africa aand international relations, (Oxford University Press, has dedicated most of 2011). her career to studying and The Promise campaign writing about property funded renovations to the rights issues in Africa. Memorial Student Center (MSC), Traveling extensively which now houses the throughout Sub-Saharan politics and international Africa, she was a Fulbright relations department. Also Scholar to Ethiopia in situated in the MSC are the 1993-1994, and often business and economics returns there to teach at department and The J. Dennis Meserete Kristos College in Hastert Center for Economics, Debre Zeit. Helping to Government, and Public Policy. nurture and develop Wheaton students to have a global worldview is at the forefront of her work. She regularly visits Human Needs and Global Resources (HNGR) interns overseas; several of these
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85448_12_33.indd 20 8/18/11 5:43 PM riends and alumni gave $8 million to The Promise to renovate Adams Hall. The new space has sparked inspiration for studio art majors, including Robby Sawyer ’14, who says, “The renovations themselves display a creativity that impacts my work and helps push my mind to think more creatively.” The new, 73-percent larger Adams Hall has two galleries for student and professional exhibits, six state-of-the-art smart classrooms, and more painting, photography, and graphic design studio spaces. Remnants of the old Adams Hall—which was built in 1899 fand once housed the College’s first gymnasium—were integrated into the renovations. “This is what artists strive for in art,” says Robby. “A way to look at something new without forgetting where we’ve been.”
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85448_12_33.indd 21 8/18/11 5:44 PM received the Magoon Family Scholarship, a new scholarship awarded to one BRIDGE student who demonstrates academic potential, leadership, and nocencia Escobar hopes that financial need. Irving her son, Irving Ruiz ’15, will plans to major in sociology one day be an instrument or psychology and hopes of change for many. A to become either “a single mom of two, police officer or a child she supported Irving’s psychologist, working idesire to enter Wheaton’s with kids who have been BRIDGE (Building Roads abused or abandoned,” he to Intellectual Diversity says. The Magoon Family and Great Education) Scholarship, created by program for high school Christian ’97, m.a.’98 students two years ago. and Jewel Markwalder When her son was accepted Magoon ’97, is just one of to Wheaton last spring, 156 new scholarships made making him the first in his possible through The family to attend college, she Promise. said, “I was really happy that Irving’s dream and prayer came true.” Irving
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85448_12_33.indd 22 8/12/11 7:40 PM 75.8% Class of 1956. 75.1% Class of 1951.71.6% Class of 1957. [Three classes with the highest participation during The Promise. ]
ntonation, blend, balance—the John and Anita Nelson and far more focused practices. On a broader scale, the Rehearsal Room was acoustically engineered to foster the new space also gives Wheaton’s 200 music majors, ensemble skills of the 80-member Symphony three choral groups, and four instrumental ensembles Orchestra and the 60-member Symphonic Band. For the technological tools needed for computer-assisted Wheaton’s six percussion majors, the 8,000-square- classes and rehearsals, as well as larger studios and i Edman Chapel foot addition to funded by The Promise practice rooms. Wheaton's 2011 percussion majors, who campaign provides much needed studio and study with Dr. Kathleen Kastner '71, include, from left, instrument storage spaces, which (practically Taylor Anthony ’13, David Christensen ’13, Julian Henderson ’14, speaking) means far less schlepping of instruments, Mark Andersen ’14, Holli Wittman ’13, and Tessa Highmark ’14.
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85448_12_33.indd 23 8/12/11 7:41 PM heaton gave me the courage to believe that I could stand for Christ no matter if I decided to become a businessman in Chicago, a missionary in Kenya, or an NFL player in Kansas City,” says Andrew Studebaker ’08 (left), outside linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs. Neither Andrew or Peter Ittersagen ’08, cornerback for the o ‘‘ Tennessee Titans, came to Wheaton dreaming of playing pro football—instead they came for the Christian environment. And while it is extraordinary for two Division III players from the same school to go pro, wboth men say Wheaton taught them to pursue both God and career with passion. The Promise campaign raised $31.7 million for the Wheaton Fund, which lowers the cost of tuition for every student, and also helps to fund programs such as athletics—where students like Andrew and Peter learn not just how to compete, but also how to live—“honoring God in the present,” says Peter.
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85448_12_33.indd 24 8/12/11 7:53 PM n June 30, 2011, The Promise of Wheaton came to a close, surpassing its $260 million goal with a total of $261,717,652 in gifts and commitments. oGift upon gift . . . dollar upon dollar. You gave. The impact Giving totals can be calculated; the effects of such of your giving generosity cannot. A gift might extend around the globe, or across the campus. It might touch thousands of people, or one student’s heart. But together your gifts to The Promise will affect the life of shape the whole student for Christ
Wheaton College and the work of Christ’s kingdom Faculty-to-Student Mentoring 2.8M
throughout the world. Beyond-the-Classroom Learning 3.0M
Evangelism 2.0M The impact of your giving cannot be measured. TOTAL 7.8M Neither can our gratitude.
Thank you for giving to The Promise of Wheaton.
$261,717,652 * 123,070 total number of gifts from alumni, parents, provide excellent academic experience and friends
The Sciences / New Science Center 64.8M
The Arts / Adams Hall and Edman Chapel 15.8M
The Library / Hastert Center 13.9M
TOTAL 94.5M
keep Wheaton affordable
Endowed Scholarships 29.6 M
The Wheaton Fund 31.7M
Planned & Other Restricted Gifts 98.1M $58,687,244 in Trustee giving was 22% of TOTAL 159.4M The Promise total. 201 gift annuities set up during The Promise
total $10,501,678. And 89 charitable remainder trust gifts total $23,504,261. The largest single gift was
$27,746,400. * Total includes $11.2M in other institutional allocations through- [ ] out the course of the campaign from July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2011.
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85448_12_33.indd 25 8/12/11 7:54 PM Not-So-Standard Achievement
For her lifelong dedication to serving children and teens, Reverend Colleen Koppert Holby ’55 received the 2011 Distinguished Service to Society award from the Alumni Association.
by Karen Halvorsen Schreck ’84
When pressed, Reverend Colleen Koppert Holby ’55 acknowledges that she’s experienced triumph at her job. Indeed, she has. But as director of pastoral care at The Children’s Village, a nonprofit, residential treatment center that provides “What I’ve safety and care for at-risk youth in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Colleen experienced, challenges traditional expectations about standards of achievement. Indeed, she defines such aspirations in her own distinctive way. believed, For “Rev,” as she is affectionately known among young people at and known The Children’s Village, triumph might look like this: about God and His love since A resident approaches her outside the chapel where she’s worked I was a very to share God’s unrelenting love with troubled children and teens for more than 30 years. The young man is perhaps on edge. His young child heart or spirit is most likely broken. But on this particular day, he’s needs to not defiant. He’s relieved, at least temporarily, of the constraints be shared and that have defined and confined him. passed on.” “Could you pray for me, Rev?” the young man asks. “I want you to pray that I’ll make good decisions. I want my life to go right. Rev. Colleen Koppert Holby ’55 I don’t think it is.”
“Sure,” Colleen says. “Come on over here. Stand by me.” And when the young man does, she prays.
Such is Colleen’s triumph—one she’ll build on. She’ll watch for this young man. She’ll take him as he is, and show her interest and compassion. “How’s the decision-making going?” she’ll ask when he passes by the chapel or sits down in the sanctuary.
And when he sits down in the sanctuary . . . that is a very good day.
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85448_12_33.indd 26 8/12/11 7:42 PM There are hard days, too, of course. Days when Colleen would leave a lasting impression on her approach to her work with feels the weight of the childrens’ anger and ingratitude. Days when youth. Amazed by this ministry to adolescents, Colleen entered she makes the long drive to prison to see previous Children’s Village the Young Life training program—which was based on Wheaton’s residents, now incarcerated. But she prefers not to dwell on these days. campus—and became the leader of a Young Life group. After “She has a gift,” says Jeremy Kohomban, president and CEO of The graduating from college, she became a Young Life staff member, Children’s Village. “Our kids come to us broken and they’ve often lost which led to 15 years of ministry, making the gospel accessible to teens their faith in people. So there’s very little reason for them to trust us throughout the East Coast. and believe that we’ll treat them differently.” Through Young Life, Colleen met John Duncan Holby, a widower Whether working with children who have mental health challenges, from Pleasantville, New York. They fell in love, married, and returned providing shelter for runaways or homeless teens, or taking part in to Pleasantville, where Colleen served in their church as a deacon, street outreach, Colleen plays a vital role as The Children’s Village trustee, and teacher. She earned a master’s degree in counseling, and works to serve more than 6,000 children and families in the New at the time of her ordination by the United Church of Christ, she had York metropolitan area. Adapting to change and meeting the needs already worked for two years at The Children’s Village. of those she serves is a part of the job. “She brings in young men and When John died suddenly in 1982, her friends at The Children’s women who can help bridge the gap between what her experience has Village became even more like family, as they supported and cared been and what these teenagers have experienced on the streets,” says for her in her grief. She became senior Protestant chaplain in 1986 Jeremy. “That takes wisdom and humility.” and head of pastoral care in 1998. Along with her associates, she In a sense, Colleen has been doing her job since she became a now conducts weekly Protestant chapel services, Bible studies, and Christian at age eight. Her church, Grace Brethren of Mansfield, Christian holy day observances, ensuring that all residents have access Ohio, became the central communal force in her life. At 12 years to spiritual formation in their personal faith. “What I’ve experienced, old, she started a Bible study for neighborhood kids in a garage with believed, and known about God and His love since I was a very young tree stumps for chairs. “The most important event of my life was my child needs to be shared and passed on,” says Colleen. “Who better to response to God’s call at an early age,” says Colleen. “The model of receive this love than the young men at The Children’s Village?” my minister and the body of believers led me to commit my life to Believing that every child needs a spiritual foundation, Colleen helping people.” raises money every year to send 30 residents from The Children’s When the Wheaton College Women’s Glee Club performed at Village to Young Life camp. Grace Brethren one Sunday evening, Colleen decided that Wheaton “Getting those kids to camp—that’s a triumph,” Colleen asserts. was the best place for a Christian person to study and grow further in “They call it ‘paradise,’ and it provides exactly what they need: a living faith. A sociology major and philosophy minor, she came to Wheaton community of transforming love, rooted in God’s presence.” in 1951, where she was introduced to Young Life—a ministry that A triumph, indeed.
“Rev” poses with three of the many young men who volunteer to serve as altar boys every Sunday at The Children’s Village. She received a master’s in theology from the Young Life Institute in 1957, and has served as president of the National Chaplains’ Association for Youth at Risk.
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85448_12_33.indd 27 8/12/11 7:42 PM 日 Dawn in出 the Landづ of the る Rising 国 Sun by Alanna Foxwell-Barajas ’06 “I don’t want for us as the church to miss this window of の opportunity to reach people of Japan who are hurting, who are shaken to the core. It is a short window.” 夜 ext to a dilapidated schoolyard, hundreds of Colonel Stephen Town ’80, Chief Liaison Officer for mourners waited to pay their respects to U.S. Forces at Japanese military headquarters the dead, as bodies were lowered into seven N 8-by-40-foot-wide mass graves. Some three weeks after the Great Tohoku Earthquake 明 rocked the northeast region of Japan in March 2011, this is the scene Joey Millard ’03 and a member of a house church encountered after delivering relief supplies to communities devastated by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and
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85448_12_33.indd 28 8/12/11 7:43 PM and tsunami. The house church member asked, “How are we supposed to process that scene?”
“I didn’t have an answer for him,” says Joey. “And I still don’t.”
Months after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident in Japan triggered one of the worst disasters in world history, volunteers, self-defense force soldiers, neighbors, foreign relief workers, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters have buried the dead, continue to search for the missing, and still sift through putrid rubble. Two sisters, who lived in different Before this debris became the garbage blocking roads towns, fled into the and drains, many of these items were once precious: hills as the tsunami a dress worn by a bride, a baseball glove from a father, the washed away sash from a grandmother’s kimono. The television shows their homes. Miles apart, neither knew us faces of people we never knew; but it is their shoes if her sister was scattered across the barren foundations, their cars strewn alive. But three through second-story windows, and their houses ripped days later, each set naked for the world to gaze upon. out in search of the other, walking Whether living continents away or in communities in several miles Japan, Wheaton alumni and friends have chosen to through treacherous debris. Their paths learn about the needs, to weep with those who are weeping, met on a virtually to stand with the brokenhearted, and to help rebuild deserted beach, their land. where Wheaton alumnus Philip Foxwell, Jr. ’80 found them, Friday, March 11, 2011 – 2:46 P.M. (JST) – clinging to one – another. The Great Tohoku Earthquake “I was exactly where I said I’d never wanted to be for ‘the big one.’ I was just outside of Shinjuku train station under all of those huge swaying skyscrapers,” says Tim Cole ’78, director of Family Forum Japan. He was on his way to a national prayer dinner at a downtown Tokyo hotel ext to a dilapidated schoolyard, hundreds of when the earthquake struck. By the time he reached the hotel, there mourners waited to pay their respects to was very little news on TV and no phone service of any kind. “All we had were thoughts,” he says. “There was no real information.” the dead, as bodies were lowered into seven Throughout the evening, however, more news kept coming. 8-by-40-foot-wide mass graves. N The earthquake occurred near the east coast of Honshu, Japan—the Some three weeks after the Great Tohoku– Earthquake largest of the four main islands of Japan. A tsunami was reaching the coastline. Thousands joined a mass migration out of the center rocked the northeast region of Japan in March 2011, this is of Tokyo as they walked through the night toward their homes. the scene Joey Millard ’03 and a member of a house church Homeless men shared their cardboard with businessmen sleeping on encountered after delivering relief supplies to communities train platforms. School children pedaled commuters across town on devastated by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and the backs of their bikes.
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85448_12_33.indd 29 8/12/11 7:44 PM The massive quake created a 300-mile-long and 100-mile-wide Air Base outside of Tokyo. Within an hour of the quake, a meeting rupture in the Earth’s crust. According to NASA experts, the quake was called for the Crisis Action Team, which was developed to help shifted Earth’s axis, increased the rate of rotation, and shortened the coordinate U.S. and Japanese military relief efforts. Steve attended length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds. More than a thousand the meeting out of concern for a quick and well-informed response aftershocks followed, some measuring up to 7.5 on the Richter scale. from the U.S. military. When asked for comment in the meeting, he (The earthquake that caused widespread destruction in Haiti was a responded, “I was here in 1995 at the Camp Zama Army Headquarters magnitude 7.0.) during the Hanshin earthquake. There are three things we need to keep in mind: Japan will move slower than we are used to, but they will make good decisions; U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ) should Friday, March 11, 2011 – 3:12 P.M. (JST) – communicate immediately that we are in support of a joint effort; and First tsunami reaches Japan’s east coast someone should be a liaison at the Japanese military headquarters in Ichikawa.” Following these remarks, Steve was appointed as the chief With the epicenter of the quake in the Pacific Ocean, the tsunami liaison officer for U.S. Forces at the Japanese military headquarters. that followed traveled at approximately 434 miles per hour when out During the highly emotional first days of the crisis, Steve worked at sea, and grew to a height of 124 feet in some places as it slowed 20-hour days, often navigating the misunderstandings between and hit the shoreline. This wall of water mostly or totally destroyed divergent cultures. “The Japanese often make slower decisions, but every town along the coastline, for a distance roughly the length then they stay the course; the U.S. makes faster decisions, but they of California’s coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The change directions several times,” says Steve. “Yet they both often tsunami also moved inland as far as 6 miles. arrive at the same point.” Tim Cole was born in the coastal town of Ishinomaki, a city in Working together to solve such overwhelming problems opened eastern Miyagi prefecture in northeastern Honshu, Japan. He has doors for building trust, camaraderie, and understanding. Steve tells of spent almost every waking hour since the disaster working to deliver one Japanese general who said to him, with a tear running down his relief supplies to the area. His parents, Frank ’49 and Evelyn Clingan cheek, “America doesn’t understand—any one of us would give our Cole ’49, served as missionaries in the coastal town. Ishinomaki, once lives for our country!” a thriving fishing village with one of the strongest sea walls in the When Japanese leaders felt pressured by the Americans to move world, became an indescribable expanse of rubble as far as the eye quickly, Steve strategically suggested that the Japanese give the could see. “You just have to weep, the devastation is so amazing,” he Americans, impatient to begin work, the task of reopening Sendai says. “Truly this is Japan’s greatest crisis since World War II. And yet Airport. Not only did the reopened airport become a symbol of hope A even as God brought revival in the aftermath of world war, we dare to all over the world and provide critical supplies to the relief efforts, it believe that His hand will be at work to bring many more unbelieving also allowed the Japanese to focus more attention on the nuclear crisis. Japanese to a knowledge of the Savior through this disaster.” Steve says, “I believe God had me here to encourage these leaders. Their resilience is phenomenal.” Friday, March 11, 2011 – 3:45 P.M. (JST) – Tsunami hits Fukushima nuclear power Tomorrow – Japan after the disaster plants While many work to deal with the immediate tangible needs and The coastal town of Fukushima, home to two nuclear power plants— concerns, believers are also thinking of the spiritual needs. Shinto- Daiichi and Daini—was the southernmost point of widespread is Japan’s indigenous religion. Followers worship spirits known as tsunami damage. At 3:45 P.M. the tsunami inundated the power plants kami and the core belief is in the kami’s mysterious creating and and carried away the diesel generators that the plants were running on harmonizing power. “I don’t want for us as the church to miss this after the power was knocked out by the earthquake. What had been window of opportunity to reach people who are hurting, who are a routine, safe shutdown had turned into a looming crisis. Without shaken to the core. It is a short window,” says Steve. Christians operational generators, the plant had to run on short-lived battery throughout Japan echo this prayer. power, as engineers, physicists, government officials, and military Makoto Tsumura M.A. ’10 was on staff at a Christian camp in the leaders scrambled to keep dangerous levels of radiation from leaking mountains west of Tokyo when the earthquake and tsunami struck. into the surrounding area. When a group of evacuees near the nuclear plant were moving from Colonel Stephen Town ’80, director of ballistic missile defense shelter to shelter, the Christian camp opened its doors to become their of the 94th Army Air Missile Defense, was in his office at Yokota more permanent home. The camp dispatched Makoto to work with
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85448_12_33.indd 30 8/12/11 7:44 PM CRASH Japan (Christian Relief, Assistance, Support, and Hope), a cooperative network in partnership with churches, missions, and other relief organizations offering aid to survivors. Makoto went on some of the first trips to the disaster areas in the north to establish base camps in conjunction with churches in the area. He led grief management training and was a key communicator between the headquarters in Tokyo and outlying disaster areas. “I am hoping and praying that the church in the Tohoku- area will be strengthened,” Makoto says. “I pray that churches outside of Tohoku- will think not of their own church or denomination, but will come out, not just for this one time, but will continue serving.” David Millard ’06, along with his brothers, Noah ’04 and Joey ’03, and members of the house church they started in Tokyo are also helping survivors begin to pick up the pieces of their lives. Months after the disaster, the Millard brothers led a group from their house church to help families whose homes were salvageable. “It’s easy to look around and feel like everything we are doing is so small and useless compared to the needs,” says David. “It’s still like a horror movie when you look around and see the devastation. We aren’t working to earn points and respect; it doesn’t matter if it is a house on the main street or a barely used alley that we clear. I was reminded that we are just here to love people in any way that we can.”
bout 14,000 people died, and another 14,000 are still unaccounted for, yet in the midst of tragedy there is still hope. While creation astounds us with its Amagnitude and power—even shifting the Earth on its very axis—we believe that the Creator who first spoke the Earth into being sustains this world, telling us to rebuild, to be His ministers. Surely we, His laborers, can together plant gardens in the dust.
Monday, April 18, 2011—Japan Symposium on Wheaton’s campus
In the wake of Japan’s triple crisis, Wheaton’s Chair of the nuclear plants. Physics and Liberal Arts Engineering Dr. Stewart DeSoto “The media has really hyped up the whole idea of radiation,” - ’88 organized a symposium on campus titled, “The she said, explaining that the majority of the radiation vented Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Crisis: was in a form with a shelf life of eight days. When radiation Scientific, Cultural, and Spiritual Perspectives.” levels spiked, she noted, “People right around the plant did Beginning with a geological description of the receive what would be considered a normal annual dose of earthquake and tsunami, the symposium also included radiation for any individual.” She added, however, that though a nuclear industry insider’s perspective on the Daiichi people received this dose over two days instead of a year, the plant’s emergency response, as well as thoughts on levels were low enough that experts believe it shouldn’t cause energy sources for the future from an energy expert. any lasting physiological damage. Dr. Heather Whitney, associate professor i n the physics and liberal arts engineering department, addressed some To download audio from the symposium, visit the of the common misunderstandings regarding the crisis a t Seminars tab at wheaton.edu/physics.
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Giving voice to the mothers, wives, and daughters who populated the Greco-Roman and Jewish world of Jesus’ time is what Associate Professor of New Testament Dr. Lynn H. Cohick seeks to do in her book, Women in the World of the Earliest Christians (Baker Academic, 2009). In examining the everyday lives of first-century women, she strives to overcome some of the inherent difficulties in retelling women’s history. “While evidence suggests women were doing significant things, so often when we try to put flesh on the figure, it seems like dressing a ghost—the form lacks substance,” Dr. Cohick says. The following interview highlights the significance of this research for the author and for the church today.
What inspired you to write the book? for women of their station who were educated, privileged, and wealthy enough to be benefactresses of Jesus and His As a biblical studies scholar, I am interested in the social milieu disciples. During the first century, wealth and education very of the New Testament. I also wanted to explore further what often trumped gender. An educated upper-class woman would I think are two competing, contradictory histories in the have had a great deal more authority and influence than an popular imagination about women in the New Testament uneducated man of the lower class. world. Some say that women were sequestered in their homes Writing the book also helped underscore the deeply complex and others say that women were doing everything that men did. nature of any society’s social and cultural history. For example, I also found myself asking how I could convey all the really although the first-century home was seen as women’s domain, good scholarship being done in the wider academy on the it was also the place where everyone—men and women alike— history of women in the New Testament in such a way that the lived and worked. There was no office job to go to. If a man evangelical community could hear and relate to it. was a village carpenter, he did his woodworking at home. If he was a Roman senator, he often met with his constituents at What have you learned in writing the book? home. And although the marketplace was traditionally men’s Studying the social and historical context of New Testament domain, women were involved in just about every aspect of times has made my understanding of the Bible more complex, business and public life except politics.
but also more real. Too often, in the church, we’ve stereotyped biblical characters—both men and women, but especially How has this book fit with your other research pursuits? women. We often think of women in the Bible two- dimensionally, as either a Mary or a Martha. New Testament This book is a natural outgrowth of my larger interest in the women like Joanna, the wife of Chuza, or Lydia of Thyatira, Greco-Roman world. So whether I’m writing on the historical for example, are overlooked because we don’t have categories reliability of Jesus’ title on the cross, “King of the Jews,” or
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Alumni RelAtions Vice President for Advancement and Alumni Relations Dr. R. Mark Dillon Remember the climactic moment in the movie The Director of Alumni Relations Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and her friends return from their dangerous journey to Cindra Stackhouse Taetzsch ’82 get their wishes granted by the great and powerful Oz? As Oz’s voice bellows and Alumni AssociA tion they tremble in his presence, the little dog Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal President a strange man at the control panel. “Pay no attention to that man behind the Christopher A. Jahns ’82
curtain!” he demands as he attempts to hide himself and continue the charade. President-elect Kurt Tillman ’78 Chris Jahns ’82 In that instant, it’s clear that what Oz appeared to be and portrayed himself to Past President President, Wheaton be was not at all what he actually was. Unfortunately, when we peek behind the Timothy A. Stoner ’82 College Alumni curtain of many families, churches, organizations, and institutions today, we find Association Board executive Director of Directors with disappointment that the veneer disguises reality. Cindra Stackhouse Taetzsch ’82 Professor emeritus Serving on the Alumni Association Board of Directors has given me the opportunity LeRoy H. Pfund ’49 to “look behind the curtain” of the school that has been such a tremendous Alumni trustee Representatives blessing to me, my wife, three daughters, two sons-in-law, siblings, nieces, and Christopher A. Jahns ’82 Kurt Tillman ’78 nephews. As a Board, we interact regularly with students, faculty, staff, senior Timothy A. Stoner ’82 administrators, and trustees on both personal and organizational levels. We see Board of Directors serving through their planning, challenges, and passions. We witness their dedication to the 2012 John Allison ’63 mission of helping Wheaton students become whole and effective Christians who Lori Bachman ’78 impact the world for Christ and His Kingdom. We see them wrestle with complex Priscilla Mixter Gault ’66 Mary Ashley Miller ’69 leadership issues in a God-honoring way. We see them extending grace as Christ Jeannie Wang ’97
does, and making tough decisions amidst criticism. We see their joys and their Board of Directors serving through struggles. We serve alumni who return to campus throughout the year and hear 2013 T. Ryan Buchanan ’11 their stories of blessing and trial. We pray with, and for, them. I love serving on Board of Directors serving through the Alumni Board! 2014 Marcus Boatwright ’87 Wheaton, like any other earthly institution, is not perfect, nor has that ever been Meagan Stuart Gillan ’75 Erin Hoekstra ’04 my expectation. When I look behind the curtain, I occasionally see and hear about Christopher Yuan M.A. ’07
things that are not yet as they should be. However, I’m thankful to God that at Board of Directors serving through Wheaton College, the overwhelming good I see in front of the curtain is, by His 2015 John Biedebach ’89 grace, the result of the amazingly consistent good that lies behind it. Julie Bullock ’04 Paul Klobucher ’96 Kirstin Skytte Lindquist ’87 Tiffany Staples ’06
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85448_34_55.indd 34 8/12/11 8:34 PM wheaton college alumni association Faculty Missions Project 2010-11 Karin Edwards (Conservatory of Music) China George Kalantzis (Biblical and Theological Studies) Haiti annual report 2010-11 Joonhee Park* (Art and Communication) Mongolia Read Schuchardt (Communication) Ghana Each year the Alumni Association’s Board of Directors awards financial and nonfinancial Genzo Yamamoto (History) Congo grants and awards to faculty, students, and alumni. Funds for these grants flow from Alumni RelAtions the annual Wheaton Fund, which also supports every faculty member’s salary and every For Scholarships in Their Vice President for Advancement student’s academic program. and Alumni Relations Senior Year of 2011-12 Dr. R. Mark Dillon Alumni Faculty Grants awarded for 2011-12 Junior Faculty Grants awarded for 2011-12 Natalie Hess Jonathan Yates Director of Alumni Relations Leah Seppanen Anderson ’95 (Politics and Jeffrey Barbeau (Biblical and Theological Studies) Cindra Stackhouse Taetzsch ’82 International Relations) David Gordon (Conservatory of Music) Distinguished Service Awards 2010-11 Robert Gallagher (Intercultural Studies) Tiffany Kriner (English) Alumni AssociA tion For Distinguished Service to Society Stephen Moshier (Geology) Adam Miglio M.A. ’01 (Biblical and Theological Studies) President Rev. Colleen Koppert Holby ’55 Christopher A. Jahns ’82 Rodney Scott (Biology) Brian Miller ’04 (Sociology and Anthropology) Science Division Block Grant for Faculty/Student Miho Nonaka (English) For Distinguished Service to Alma Mater President-elect Summer Research Shawn Okpebholo (Conservatory of Music) Dr. Mary Hopper ’73 Kurt Tillman ’78 Katharyn Waidler (Philosophy) *Timothy R. Phillips Faculty Missions Project Past President Timothy A. Stoner ’82 executive Director Cindra Stackhouse Taetzsch ’82
Professor emeritus LeRoy H. Pfund ’49
Alumni trustee Representatives Christopher A. Jahns ’82 Kurt Tillman ’78 Timothy A. Stoner ’82
Board of Directors serving through 2012 John Allison ’63 Lori Bachman ’78 Priscilla Mixter Gault ’66 Mary Ashley Miller ’69 Jeannie Wang ’97
Board of Directors serving through Wheaton college Alumni Association Board of Directors Row 1: (l to r) Chris Jahns ’82 (President-Elect), Tim Stoner ’82 (President), Cindra Stackhouse 2013 Taetzsch ’82 (Executive Director). Row 2: Meagan Stuart Gillan ’75, Jeannie Wang ’97, Mary Ashley Miller ’69, Gretchen Wagle McCaskey ’74, Matt Hsieh ’93 (Past President), T. Ryan Buchanan ’11 Jane Hatfield Erickson ’78, Cindy Hoidas HON, Barbara Wessner Anderson ’70 (Trustee representative). Row 3: Adam Phillips ’96, Priscilla Mixter Gault ’66, Erin Hoekstra ’04, Board of Directors serving through Christopher Yuan M.A. ’07, Kurt Tillman ’78, Toby Eng ’01, Marc Boatwright ’87. Not pictured: John Allison ’63, Joel Ayee ’09, Lori Bachman ’78. 2014 Marcus Boatwright ’87 Meagan Stuart Gillan ’75 Erin Hoekstra ’04 All alumni are invited to suggest qualified candidates for Christopher Yuan M.A. ’07 Send us your the Wheaton Alumni Board of Directors by submitting Board of Directors serving through an online form to the nominating committee. The 2015 committee will take into account class year, vocation, John Biedebach ’89 nominations for Alumni gender, ethnicity, and demonstrated commitment to Julie Bullock ’04 Paul Klobucher ’96 Wheaton. Job description and nomination forms can be Kirstin Skytte Lindquist ’87 Tiffany Staples ’06 Board members obtained and submitted online at alumni.wheaton.edu.
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85448_34_55.indd 35 8/12/11 8:35 PM alumni association Life leaders had brought her Sunday school class to her hospital room to visit. Fifty years later, Jan attended another Young Life camp, Lost Canyon in Arizona. This time, she was newly retired from her 21-year career as a high school becoming family special education teacher. She navigated the terrain in At her 50th class reunion during Alumni Weekend in her wheelchair, but she was the one doing the carry- May 2011, Jan Webb ’61 shared with fellow alumni how ing and the holding—of another young life that was she found purpose in the midst of her circumstances. dependent on her. “The Young Life staff had asked me to come to Lost by Karen Halvorsen Schreck ’84 Canyon and hold babies while the moms played and It was Jan Webb’s ’61 second stay at Young Life’s participated in camp activities,” Jan remembers. This Frontier Ranch in Colorado, during the summer after particular camp session focused on Young Lives, an her sophomore year of high school. She found many outreach ministry to teen moms and moms-to-be on things to be reassuringly the same as her first experi- high school campuses. ence at the ranch. The spiritual inspiration, encourage- Volunteering for Young Life was nothing new to Jan. ment, and the fun—these hadn’t changed. And the She served on the staff for close to ten years before mountains—they were there again in all their gran- she got her master’s degree in education and became deur, a testament to the glory of God. a teacher. In the decades that followed, she gave The difference, however, was that this time Jan had time to the organization and maintained a community to be carried up those mountains on the backs of her among her friends there. But at age 64, she never ex- counselors and friends. They were lifting her up, body pected the personal transformation she would experi- and spirit, in the most literal of ways. ence over the course of that week at Lost Canyon. The year was 1954. Just before the large-scale Jan sums up the transformation simply, “When they release of the polio vaccine, the disease had hit Jan put that little baby in my arms, I fell in love.” hard. She’d spent October through June in the hospi- As the days passed and Jan cared for this baby, she tal. Each week throughout those months, her Young also got to know the baby’s mother. When a Young
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85448_34_55.indd 36 8/12/11 8:36 PM Will Norton ’36 Harold Mackenzie ’36 with Retired Vice President for Alumni Relations Lee Pfund ’49 Life staff member told Jan that she should be a mentor to the family, her initial response was no. “I thought I was too old, too handicapped. What would they want with someone like me?” she explains. But then, after some prayer, she found herself saying yes. Jan has continued to say yes for eight years. To imply that the act of mentoring has been easy would be to simplify the situation. As Jan puts it, “Sometimes it’s been a wild ride. There have been so many things I haven’t been able to control. But I’ve trusted God, who has poured out His gifts. I have to keep saying, ‘God, this is so You, because it sure isn’t me.’” In Celebration of Their 75th Now, Jan considers herself a grandmother to the Seventy-five years ago, Wheaton’s class of 1936 graduated to face the challenges that defined the Great Depression—and that particular generation. Two of these distinguished family’s three thriving children, and a mother to their alumni, both 97 years old, returned for their 75th reunion this past spring. mother, who recently received her GED, graduated Called an “evangelical giant” for his efforts in leading the evangelical community to a place from a college-level training program, and today works of global influence, Dr. H. Wilbert Norton, Sr. ’36 served half a century on the mission field. Aided by his wife Colene, he founded a Bible institute in the Belgian Congo and a seminary as a medical assistant. With the support of friends, in Nigeria. He taught at Trinity College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Jan has been able to send the children to a good Illinois, and was Trinity’s president from 1957 to 1964. In 1965, Will became professor of missions at Wheaton. He went on to serve as the dean of Wheaton’s Graduate School. Upon school, take them on trips, and help provide and be “retirement,” Will felt called to a new ministry focus; in 1989, he joined the faculty of the present for them on a daily basis. Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. A distinguished WWII veteran, Lt. Col. Harold Mackenzie, Jr. ’36 graduated from law school “Because of polio, my life didn’t go as I planned at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1940. He enlisted in the Illinois National Guard and when I was young,” Jan says. “God has called me to made history with America’s 9th Armored Division, capturing and crossing the Remagen Bridge in Germany—witnessing the horrific devastation inside the liberated concentration do things I never dreamed I’d be physically able to do. camp of Buchenwald. Harold went on to open his own law firm in 1957, practicing for more I can be with these children, and my legs don’t even than 50 years. Harold died on July 2, 2011, two months after attending his Wheaton reunion. hurt. They’ve been a blessing and an instrument for change in me.” Cycling Full Circle As Jan has been for them. Larry Entwistle ’61 returned to Wheaton this past May for his 50th alumni reunion. His chosen mode of transportation? Bicycle. But at 71 years old, Larry wasn’t just taking a quick spin down the Illinois Prairie Path to attend this special event. Instead, the journey from his Colorado Springs home to the College took 12 days and logged 1,120 miles. In 2006, Larry completed a cross-country cycling trek, so perhaps this recent odyssey seemed a little less arduous. Plus, Larry was in good company. He teamed up with his friend, fellow cyclist and Wheaton alumnus Andrew Krumsieg ’82. Larry began his trip meeting up with Andy in mid-Missouri. The two traveled without an itiner- ary through rural areas into St. Louis, headed north along the Mississippi River, and then east toward Wheaton. Pulling up in front of the Col- lege, they were grateful for their shared values, interests, and experiences. Larry arrived in time for the 50th reunion fes- Larry Entwistle ’61 (left) and tivities. And Andrew? He attended the Wheaton graduation of his daughter, Christine ’11.
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1. Rev. Harold Merwald ’56 and granddaughter, Stephanie Ribeiro ’14. 2. Charlie Williams ’56 and Rev. Dr. Garth Rosell ’56. 3. Classmates from 1981, celebrating their 30th reunion: Cynthia Yeomans, Karyn Forsythe, John Tsuang, Linda Palm, and Nicki Logan Summers. 4. Rev. Colleen Koppert Holby ’55 and Col. 8 Jim Meredith ’56 greet each other outside the Distinguished Service to Society reception. 5. Mary Gieser ’71 alumni weekend(center), chair of the 40th reunion may 6-7 committee, chats with fellow classmates. 6. Cindra Stackhouse Taetzsch ’82, director of alumni
relations and executive director of 2011 the Wheaton College Alumni Association. 7. President Philip Ryken ’88; Rev. Colleen Koppert Holby ’55, recipient of 2011 Alumna of the Year Award for Distinguished Service to Society; and Tim Stoner 9 ’82, president of the Wheaton College Alumni Association. 8. Kari Nelson Chronopoulos, accompanied by Dr. Tony Payne ’79, performs for the Distinguished Service to Society reception. 9. Janet Claar Butler ’41 celebrates her 70th reunion by showing off her freshman beanie.
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85448_34_55.indd 39 8/12/11 8:44 PM WHEATON alumni How a partnership between two classes is changing the face of Wheaton by Emily George DeLew ’08, Associate Director for Reunion Giving “Every year, several fully-qualified international applicants must decline Wheaton’s offer of admission for financial reasons. Our class wanted to do something about that,“ explains Paul Nelson, president of the class of 2011. “We considered a number of different options for our senior class gift, but in the end, there was very little question of what we wanted to support.” (l to r) Paul Nelson ’11, Rachael Burlingame ’11, President Ryken ’88, and Jerry Allen ’61 at The class gift was announced at the Commencement 2011 Class of 2011 senior banquet in March. Coray Alumni Gym buzzed with energy and chatter, as this banquet was the first of many “lasts” that the class would experience in the weeks leading to graduation. But when Faraja Songela from Tanzania took the stage, everyone listened intently. Faraja told alumni how she sensed God leading her to the Christian Formation and Ministry program at Wheaton, omin but, she said, without a scholarship, it would not have been possible for her to consider coming Homec g 2011 to Wheaton College. To her delight, Faraja was able to start her studies in fall 2010 because she received a scholarship that covered 90 percent of her expenses. “I had a vision for my ministry in Tanzania, but being here has sharpened that vision and helped me understand how God can use me.” Everyone’s invited! Her story is similar to that of many international applicants with one exception: she received a Come back to campus for scholarship; most do not. The class of 2011 believes that the presence of more international Homecoming, October 7-8. students will, says Paul, “bring a unique and valuable perspective and encourage us to view Christ, the church, and our lives in the context of the global world.” And so, in addition Celebrating to contributing to the Wheaton Fund, they set up the Class of 2011 International Student 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 Scholarship, which will help fund tuition for a non-U.S. citizen undergraduate student. Meanwhile, in honor of their 50th reunion, the class of 1961 raised more than $3 million toward support of Wheaton. Since Commencement was the same weekend as their 50th reunion, Jerry For more information and Allen, the gift chair of the class of 1961, asked, “Is there a way we can partner with the class to register, go to that graduates 50 years after us, the class of 2011?” And so began the partnership between alumni.wheaton.edu ’61 and ’11, as both classes focused on bringing another international student to campus.
At Commencement, the senior class gift was presented to President Ryken, and Jerry Allen joined them on stage to offer $75,000 from his class for the international scholarship. This scholarship fund, boosted by a generous grant from a foundation, will make it possible for Paul Kim, a trilingual Korean MK who grew up in Cambodia, to begin his studies at Wheaton this fall.
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Watching the ongoing a training guide for his Malagasy profile deforestation in Madagascar replacement. is difficult for Mark Downey ’09, an envi- “I am finding real ways to help commu- ronmental studies major working toward nities out here re-envision their roles his master’s degree in forest resource as Creation caretakers, and that’s why management at Duke University. I came,” he says. Painfully aware that the rainforest that In addition to his forestry work in Mada- once ran the length of the island now gascar, Mark has also joined studies on covers only about 30 percent of the prey species availability, and on hedge- land, he notes that as farmers continue hog-like animals called tenrecs. to slash and burn, they contribute to the country’s already devastating soil ero- Environmental issues haven’t always Changing the View sion, exposing more and more ground been a passion for Mark. In fact, he by Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 to the wet season’s cyclones. came to Wheaton as an English major, after disliking science classes in high Volunteering with a nonprofit called school. Then everything changed after Friends of Madagascar, he originally he spent a summer at Wheaton’s Sci- planned on spending only six months in ence Station in the Black Hills. the island nation constructing two fruit tree nurseries, training local growers “I couldn’t leave that magical place to propagate and plant fruit trees, and unchanged,” he says. “I wanted to see creating a terraced orchard demonstra- the world as God sees it, not just as a tion site. collection of people—in God’s image though they may be—but as an entire “An environmentally sustainable source symphony—art, moving poetry, the of income and nutrition, exotic fruit trees hands of God changing hearts while are less likely to be deliberately burned,” subducting tectonic plates and manu- he says. Now extending his stay for facturing sugars from sunlight in a leaf!” another six months, Mark hopes not only to plant more fruit trees, but also With plans to complete his master’s in to set up partnerships with village con- 2012, Mark’s first order of business servation groups and train his Malagasy upon graduation will be to lead a wilder- replacement so the work of reforesta- ness canoe trip down the Mississippi tion will continue long after he has left. River with Time Machine Outfitters, a guide company he and his friend, Jeff “This is what I’ve been studying for and Nelson ’09, began several years ago. dreaming of throughout college and graduate school: to practice stewarding After canoeing the Mississippi, he God’s creation, both because God trea- hopes to blend his passions for travel, sures it for its own sake, and because writing, and ecosystem management, “Every evening I sit on my porch the land is a vital component of human but mostly, he says, “I want to radi- and watch the sun sink. Its last rays life,” he says. cally change the way people, especially Christians in America, view our connec- mingle red with smoke rising Helping people like Emile propagate fruit tion to the natural world and to God the from the hills, and in the fading light trees on his family’s land is exactly the Creator.” I can see the rainforest burning.” work Mark hoped to accomplish. “After we plant, I’ll train Emile and his family Editor’s Note: Mark returned to the —Mark Downey ’09 to propagate their own trees, so they United States in July, and plans to spend can plant more next year,” he explains, the coming year writing his thesis in adding that he is also preparing a site- North Carolina. specific, fruit tree care handbook—
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Youngberg ’46; and one sister, Violet Morrow ’47, M.A.’50. Maida Sanderson Wichern ’43 profile died Dec. 4, 2010. She was preceded in death by her husband Homer ’41. Survivors include two daughters and one grandson. Eleanore White Conway ’44 died Jan. 14, 2011. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas ’43. Joyful Mornings Survivors include four daughters, on WETN ten grandchildren, four great-grand- by Monica M. Jones children, and one brother, Robert ’49. Norma Cook Wessner ’44 died Feb. 6, 2011. Preceded in death by Find out why waking up is easier for her husband, Kenneth ’44, former listeners who tune in to 88.1 FM or wetn.org chairman of the Wheaton College when Joy Curry ’02 is at the microphone hosting Board of Trustees, she is survived by one daughter, Barbara Anderson ’70; guests from every walk of life. one son, David ’73; six grandchildren, The first time Joy Curry ’02, their work, and their ministries—I’m just with a degree in liberal arts engineering including Evan Anderson ’95, Luke morning show host and program pro- helping them convey it.” and mechanical engineering. Shortly Anderson ’06, Carrie Anderson ducer for WETN, interviewed Grammy after her career got off the ground, the Matter ’97, Nora Wessner ’01, and So whether she’s talking with people Award-winning gospel artist George company downsized. Back in the job Samuel Gerhardt Wessner ’07; and such as Christian recording artist Beverly Shea, she burst into tears after- market, Joy kept seeing an ad for a eight great-grandchildren. TobyMac or Wheaton College electrician ward. For someone who brings Joy in the position at WETN. More than interested, Ruth Ferguson Young ’45 died Mark Cruse (who is president of the Morning to WETN radio listeners, this she was afraid to apply. Jan. 2, 2011. She served as a Northern Illinois Chapter of Black Sheep was completely uncharacteristic—a first secretary with the U.S. House of Harley Davidsons for Christ), she’s To test the waters, she applied for a in her years on air at Wheaton. Representatives, the U.S. Supreme tapping into their passions. very similar position at an AM station “Hearing about his many years of service A vocalist, violinist, and pianist who took in Chicago. “I thought if this big station with Billy Graham ’43, Litt.D. ’56 and lessons through Wheaton’s Community in Chicago might consider me with no seeing his heart for the Lord—it was School of the Arts growing up, Joy’s formal training, maybe WETN would,” just beautifully overwhelming,” she says. own passions today include the Lord, says Joy. When the Chicago station let In her nearly eight years at WETN, Joy professional singing, and Wheaton Joy know that the job was filled, but has averaged 220 interviews per year— College. Though she never set out to she would have been considered, it was talking with everyone from renowned pursue a career in radio, she developed just the encouragement she needed to preachers, authors, elected officials, and an uncanny knack for drawing out pursue the WETN position. recording artists to Wheaton students, stories, thanks to her radio-steeped Ironically, just before her final audition, Joy alumni, and staff. childhood. had an opportunity to tour the AM station, “She has brought a new level of Joy grew up listening to old-time radio and after an impromptu meeting with an professionalism to the on-air presentation shows, and one Christmas she received afternoon show host, she was asked to of the morning show,” says John Rorvik, a shortwave radio, giving her access chat live on air. “This time I didn’t chicken manager of event and media production to international broadcasts. In middle out,” says Joy. “It was my first time on for the Media Resources department and school she won a tour of a local Chicago air. It was also my final confirmation that I WETN. FM station, and even had the chance to wanted to continue on this path.” Capturing unforgettable moments comes say something on air. “I totally chickened Looking back, Joy reflects, “It’s been a naturally to Joy, who says, “Everybody out,” she notes. very unconventional journey for me. But I has a special story to share. There is At Wheaton, Joy enrolled in the dual always remember, man can make plans, something remarkable in their passions, engineering program, and graduated but only God can order your steps.”
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Force Hospital at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, where he was chief of profile became the first to bounce back thoracic surgery and recipient of the after the hurricane. “Katrina gave us Bronze Star. Later, in private practice an opportunity to freshly look at our as a cardiothoracic surgeon and on neighborhood, re-imagine it, and build the staff of all seven hospitals on the Hope it back better than it was before,” says west side of Cleveland, Larry was After the Storm Kevin. on the team that did the first heart by Jeremy Weber ’05 Today, violent crime is down 65 percent transplant at the Cleveland Clinic, and in Hollygrove. Houses line the streets, he did the first successful open-heart and there’s even a thriving one-acre surgery procedure on the west side. urban farm and market. “In addition, we After retiring from private practice For his part in rebuilding communities are telling kids about Jesus,” says Kevin. in 1986, he worked as a surgical in New Orleans, Kevin Brown ’83 received intensivist at Southwest General one of the highest civilian honors Blazing the trail in rebuilding efforts, Hospital until retiring a second time the U.S. Marshals Service named Kevin in 2007. Survivors include his wife, given by the Department of Justice. Citizen of the Year in 2010. Last October, Scotti; three stepchildren; and one just weeks before his father’s death, he grandson. also received the Attorney General’s Revitalizing an inner-city was time to pursue his calling to ministry, popularized Hollygrove as ‘a legendary Robert VandenBerg ’58 died Mar. Award for Meritorious Public Service, neighborhood is hard work. this time Kevin’s wife, Sandra, confirmed bad neighborhood,’” says Kevin. 13, 2011. He worked as an internist one of America’s highest civilian honors Especially after the costliest natural his feelings. With his father retiring from in New York and Michigan. He also He continued TCC’s work of developing given by the Department of Justice. disaster in American history strips it of TCC, things were finally falling into place served on short-term medical team leadership skills in inner-city children. houses and people. Yet Kevin Brown ’83 for Kevin to make the transition into full- Kevin credits Wheaton College with missions to Honduras and the But in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina has been doing just that in post-Hurricane time urban ministry. teaching him to “bring God’s kingdom Dominican Republic. Surviving are his devastated an already struggling Katrina New Orleans. to bear not just through Sunday worship wife, Leone Nykamp VandenBerg In 1998, Kevin moved to New Orleans community. TCC shifted its focus to but in all that we do.” This worldview RN ’57; 2 daughters; 2 sons; and 12 Kevin grew up in Hollygrove, a rough to become the executive director of rebuilding itself and the community. kept him motivated as he worked and grandchildren. section of New Orleans where his father, TCC. He returned to a Hollygrove that It set up block captains and started a ministered post-Katrina. Carolyn Lisk Bronkar ’59 died Bill Brown, founded Trinity Christian was crippled by high murder and crime community development corporation, Oct. 10, 2010. She was executive Community (TCC), a pioneering urban rates. With 65 percent of the residents attracting the support of AmeriCorps, “As the Apostle Paul wrote, ‘Trials give us director of the Attleboro Area Council ministry started in the 1960s to combat living below the poverty line, “The the A A R P, and Habitat for Humanity— perseverance; perseverance, character; the neighborhood’s decline. only thing that we had exported was a helping to bring federal redevelopment and character, hope,’” says Kevin. “And rapper named Lil’ Wayne, whose songs dollars into Hollygrove. The neighborhood hope is what we hold on to.” In 1979, Kevin left Hollygrove to attend Wheaton and study psychology. But he felt called to urban ministry after “Psychotherapists like attending an InterVarsity conference. to say the Chinese word Upon graduation, with no job offers for ‘change’ is made in sight after sending out hundreds of two characters: of resumes to urban ministries, Kevin crisis and opportunity. became a psychotherapist. Eventually With a crisis, you joining the Minirth-Meier Clinic in have opportunity; Wheaton, he was the successful author if you don’t see the of three books and a popular talk radio opportunity, all you personality. have is hopelessness and misery. Yet if you Some 20 years later, at the peak of his know that God works career, Kevin found himself confronted in everything, then find again with a desire he put on hold what God is doing and so many years ago. At an event in join Him.” Washington, D.C., Campus Crusade —Kevin Brown ’83 Founder Bill Bright challenged him to join a Lenten fast. Sensing in his spirit that it
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Subsequently, this page is left blank due to the revised layout. facu lty books Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright (IVP Academic, 2011) With insight from Christian scholars on theological themes, this book propels New Testament scholarship into the next decade. Dr. Nicholas Perrin, Franklin S. Dyrness Professor of Biblical Studies, edits this book with Dr. Richard B. Hays. Several other Recommended Reading biblical scholars and theologians, including Dr. Kevin J. Vanhoozer, from Wheaton’s Faculty Blanchard Professor of Theology, contribute with essays that Although the primary role of a Wheaton professor interact with major themes from N. T. Wright’s works. Order Jesus, is that of teacher, our faculty regularly conduct Paul and the People of God and any other faculty books from the individual research and publish books and articles. Wheaton College Bookstore: online, www.wheatonbooks.com; by Here are some of the more recent books. phone, 630.752.5119; or by writing, Wheaton College Bookstore, 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187.
Dr. Richard L. Schultz Dr. Timothy Larsen ’89, M.A. ’90 Carl Armerding and Hudson T. Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Armerding Professor of Biblical Studies Christian Thought How to Understand Your Bible (Third A People of One Book: The Bible and the Edition) Victorians (IVP Connect, 2011) (Oxford University Press, 2011) An update to the classic guide by the late Examining figures from the nineteenth- Dr. T. Norton Sterrett ’35, this book is century, Dr. Larsen presents their designed to help readers experience the distinctive beliefs and practices, but also Bible’s transforming power. draws out their shared culture.
Dr. Brett Foster Dr. Stephen Lovett associate professor of English associate professor of mathematics The Garbage Eater Poems Differential Geometry of Curves and (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern Surfaces University Press, 2011) (A K Peters, Ltd., 2010) This collection of poems explores such Along with Dr. Thomas Banchoff, subjects as joy, doubt, gratitude, and grief Dr. Lovett focuses on the geometric with a sly sense of humor. properties of curves and surfaces through clear exposition and comprehensive exercises.
Dr. Jerry Root Dr. Stephen Lovett associate professor of Christian associate professor of mathematics formation and ministry, and evangelism Differential Geometry of Manifolds and leadership (A K Peters, Ltd., 2010) The Sacrament of Evangelism This companion to Differential Geometry (Moody Publishers, 2011) of Curves and Surfaces expands on the With Stan Guthrie and a foreword topic, exploring the field of differentiable by Dr. Lyle Dorsett HON, Dr. Root and Riemannian manifolds. calls Christians to see evangelism as a sacrament and not a craft.
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85448_56_64.indd 56 8/12/11 9:28 PM biblical scholarsandtheologians, including Dr. KevinJ. Vanhoozer, Studies, editsthisbookwithDr. RichardB. Hays. Severalother Dr. book propelsNew Testament scholarship intothenextdecade. With insightfromChristianscholarsontheologicalthemes, this (IVP Academic, 2011) N. with Jesus, PaulandthePeopleofGod: 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL60187. phone, 630.752.5119;orbywriting, CollegeBookstore, Wheaton Paul andthePeople otherfacultybooksfromthe ofGodandany interact withmajorthemesfromN. Blanchard Professorof Theology, contributewithessaysthat Wheaton CollegeBookstore:Wheaton online, www.wheatonbooks.com; by NicholasPerrin, Franklin S. DyrnessProfessorofBiblical T. Wright A T. Theological Dialogue Wright’s works. Order
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8/18/11 5:54PM commencementreadings
Ordinary Significance What is the mark of significance in our often ordinary lives?
Lisa Brosious Beamer ’91
hank you for the opportunity to share in your commencement ceremony today. I am honored by your invitation, and if I am truthful, also surprised. A decade ago I was plucked from obscurity to become a temporary public figure, but my life treturned to ordinary years ago, and I am not the famous intellectual, wise elected official, or renowned preacher who often fills this role. I’ll be quite honest . . . at the moment I am a suburban mom from New Jersey. My impulse was to decline, but after conferring with three of my roommates from the class of 1991, I was struck by the fact that 20 years after we sat on this stage, in your seats, our lives all sit squarely in the “ordinary” category. Commencement is an auspicious occasion, but the reality as you walk out Lisa Brosious Beamer ’91 is an author, mother, and sought-after speaker. the doors of Edman Chapel today is Her husband Todd Beamer ’91, for whom Wheaton’s Beamer Student Center that you can bank on ordinary down the is named, died heroically in the September 11 terrorist attacks. After road. I didn’t say your lives would be “insignificant,” I only said they would be Todd’s death, Lisa authored the New York Times bestseller, Let’s Roll! Ordinary “ordinary.” People, Extraordinary Courage, which recounts her experiences and Wheaton College does an outstanding attests to God’s sovereignty, love, and purpose in her life. Today she is a job of imparting the unsurpassed value of full-time mother of three and part-time financial assistant with a using one’s life well, of bringing Christ local homelessness prevention agency in New Jersey. The following is an and His Kingdom to bear on the world. abridgment of her keynote address at Wheaton’s graduate But you and I know that all this good and undergraduate commencement ceremonies, May 7 and 8, 2011. preparation can be intimidating. You wouldn’t be the first soon-to-be Wheaton grad in a cap and gown to ask, “What if I mess up? What if I settle for less than the best? What if my great expectations get buried in minutia?” It happens. In fact it happened in a story I find among the scariest in the Bible. We’re introduced in three Gospels to a
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85448_56_64.indd 58 8/12/11 9:31 PM “God’s clear purpose is that through His Spirit we make redemption our priority.” hank you for the opportunity to share in gentleman who is known and respected notice due to her mother’s history of There’s some “rich young ruler” in all your commencement ceremony today. for being well behaved and well unpaid rent. Understandably this young of us. The tendency is to look after me I am honored by your invitation, and if educated. He’s materially wealthy, no woman’s lack of hope and distrust in just while leaving the rest of creation to figure I am truthful, also surprised. A decade ago doubt from a good family. He’s one who about everyone was palpable. it out for themselves. But God’s provision I was plucked from obscurity to become considers himself on board with God’s As we met with her over the course for this world is that His church—you a temporary public figure, but my life priorities. In fact, he even expresses a of weeks, the young woman became and me—be lavishly spent on redemption returned to ordinary years ago, and I am desire to know and do more. The scary enthusiastic as we worked together to everyday and everywhere on every level, not the famous intellectual, wise elected part comes when we realize that his make amends with her landlord. Hope leaving us no doubt as to our mission. official, or renowned preacher who often impressive pedigree hasn’t cost him a emerged as she talked of encouraging God’s clear purpose is that through His fills this role. I’ll be quite honest . . . at thing so far. When Jesus tells the man her siblings in their schoolwork—she Spirit we make redemption our priority. the moment I am a suburban mom from his next step as a disciple is to give away became optimistic at her prospects for We live in a world teeming with all New Jersey. My impulse was to decline, his treasure, the man walks away sadly, new employment. The process was sorts of opportunities, macro and micro, but after conferring with three of my unwilling to pay that price. a winding road, but the family was dramatic, and subtle! He asks that we roommates from the class of 1991, I was His story might have ended differently ultimately able to stay together in their wash the “least of these” in His love. struck by the fact that 20 years after we sat had he realized that he was being invited home. Though her life was far from That we proactively look in dark corners on this stage, in your seats, our lives all sit to participate in Christ’s grand plan of “fixed” as she left our offices recently, and behind closed doors for people squarely in the “ordinary” category. redemption, the restoration of creation her basic dignity had been restored, who are wounded and abandoned. That Commencement is an auspicious to what God foresaw all along. Meaning and her brush with the hands and we not be ignorant of His children occasion, but the reality as you walk out literally “to buy back,” redemption is feet of Christ had begun a journey of who are poor and hungry. That we act the doors of Edman Chapel today is the practical reality of paying a price transformation. as instruments to restore damaged that you can bank on ordinary down the in order to collect something of even This is how we know redemption. relationships. That we be unusual in road. I didn’t say your lives would be higher worth—a simple concept, but one When we see broken things made the value we place on each and every “insignificant,” I only said they would be full of all sorts of possibilities. whole, when what’s been discarded is soul that He’s created. That we wake “ordinary.” It’s been my privilege to work with restored to its rightful place, when those up the complacent as we radically care Wheaton College does an outstanding a homelessness prevention agency in peril are brought back to safety, when for neighbors and strangers alike. That job of imparting the unsurpassed value of near my home for the past few years. love shines in a place that’s been starving we bring the Good News of peace and using one’s life well, of bringing Christ The experience has afforded countless for it. That’s redemption. What an honor salvation to all layers of humanity. and His Kingdom to bear on the world. opportunities for the flow of redemption we are given to cooperate with God as So, as you wake up tomorrow, don’t be But you and I know that all this good in and through my life. One young He redeems creation! dismayed to find your life turn ordinary preparation can be intimidating. You woman came into our offices recently. The rich young ruler sadly missed soon enough. When you realize that wouldn’t be the first soon-to-be Wheaton As she told her story, I heard of her mother, the boat on all of this. He thought today is kind of similar to yesterday grad in a cap and gown to ask, “What if who had developed a drug problem and redemption was only personal, a kind and a bit like tomorrow, ask yourself I mess up? What if I settle for less than the was finally incarcerated. The young of spiritual workout program—his who is becoming whole again on your best? What if my great expectations get woman had moved back in with her to control, his to invest what seemed watch, what is being healed through buried in minutia?” four younger siblings and was working sensible. When he rejected Christ’s your influence, how is God redeeming It happens. In fact it happened in a story through the system to gain custody. Just invitation to reassess his treasure and His creation by way of your life? Your I find among the scariest in the Bible. as the family was getting to a point of invest differently, this man wasted the good answers will surely be the mark of We’re introduced in three Gospels to a some stability, she received an eviction value of a lifetime. significance even in an ordinary life.
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One Professor’s Prayer Out of Brokenness How does theology give life to the church? Facing pain and disability since childhood, this Wheaton student has found her mission field.
by Dr. Beth Felker Jones, Christian belief and life form one integral presumption, in favor of the wisdom God Associate Professor of Theology whole; however, there are spiritual offers us. obstacles that do keep the divide in place. Because of what Jesus has done for us, Pride is not least among those obstacles. our weakness can be used for God’s power, erhaps the most important thing I want In the land of academe, where jargon and and we can understand vocation in both ulie Johnson ’12, M.A.’13 thought she my students to recognize about Christian pretension are often valued over clarity church life and academic theology as a was going to be an Olympic gymnast, theology is that it matters for Christian and vulnerability, theologians, as part of vocation to vileness for the sake of the but that changed when she was diagnosed life. The study of doctrine is life giving, the Body of Christ, will need the power gospel. The evangelical tradition has with rheumatoid arthritis in the second a fruitful way of connecting to the truth of the Holy Spirit to give up our pride. always opted for engagement with the grade. Trading cartwheels for tiny that is in God. The doctrine of the We need to gain the courage to speak culture over the temptation to separate chalkboards sparked a love for teaching. pTrinity moves us to love and to worship, clearly and topically in ways that serve from the culture, and I see this as an jAt eight years old Julie was known for warning us against death-dealing both church and world. After all, this is ongoing mandate for evangelical theology. playing school with her younger sister. idolatries. The doctrine of creation one of the great beauties of the evangelical None of this implies anti-intellectualism. “That brought me the biggest joy,” says relocates us as God’s creatures, good tradition. Deep in evangelicalism Paul speaks, in the same 1 Corinthians Julie. “I would take my sister out of because God made us so. is a populist impulse, a desire to share passage, not against the gifts and pursuits whatever she was doing, sit her in a desk, As a professional theologian, I the gospel with the whole world, to of the intellect, but against those gifts and and pull up the chalkboard. As I tried to frequently bump up against the supposed communicate the gospel in terms that pursuits wrongly focused. He helps us teach her my math, she would dutifully divide between the academic work meet people where they are, to witness understand that true wisdom is not that of sit there and pretend to copy things off of theology and the things Christians to the power of Jesus Christ to transform the world, concerned primarily with the board.” do and believe on the ground. Ideally, ordinary lives and ordinary situations. prestige or pride of place. It is never wisdom Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, At the historical font of evangelicalism, that God destroys, but only the wisdom of Julie is in the accelerated graduate John Wesley insisted that his program of the world. Christ, after all, is the wisdom of program at Wheaton and plans on renewal was one of becoming “vile” for God, and God makes us new “in the earning a bachelor’s in psychology and the sake of Jesus Christ. Vile is a strong attitude of” our “minds” (Eph. 4:23). a master’s in elementary education. “I word. Wesley is locating himself here Surveying the considerable gifts of my love being able to focus on the social and within Paul’s logic in 1 Corinthians students, my prayer for them is that they emotional aspect of education,” she says. when he testifies, “God chose the lowly will go on to use their study of theology in This summer, Julie interned with the things of this world and the despised ways that give life to the church. Though Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where she things—and the things that are not—to only a few will be professional theologians, created and implemented individualized nullify the things that are” (1 Cor. 1:28, I expect them all to be engaged in the treatment for children with attention NIV). When a fellow preacher was theological work of making doctrine work deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), critical of Wesley for flouting established in the world. oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conventions of contemporary Anglican and conduct disorder (CD). “It was my Dr. Beth Felker Jones is associate theology, Wesley wrote back that he professor of theology and holds a Ph.D. dream-come-true job,” she says. was “blessed” because he enjoyed “the from Duke University. She is the author of Hoping to teach second or third reproach of Christ! O may you also be The Marks of His Wounds: Gender Politics graders after college, Julie volunteered vile,” Wesley pleaded, “exceedingly vile, and Bodily Resurrection (Oxford University at a public school in Ohio before for his sake! God forbid that you should Press, 2007) and Touched by a Vampire: attending Wheaton. “I was able to get ever be other than generally scandalous; Discovering the Hidden Messages in the a flavor for what I’m getting into,” Twilight Saga (Multnomah Books, 2009), I had almost said universally.” The and is currently writing on the theology she says. “I’ve tasted it, been there, and message from 1 Corinthians presses us of conversion. She and her husband, Brian, I want to go back.” to surrender pretension, to surrender have four children. Toward that end, Julie takes a full
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Out of Brokenness Facing pain and disability since childhood, this Wheaton student has found her mission field. presumption, in favor of the wisdom God by Monica M. Jones offers us. Because of what Jesus has done for us, our weakness can be used for God’s power, and we can understand vocation in both ulie Johnson ’12, M.A.’13 thought she church life and academic theology as a was going to be an Olympic gymnast, vocation to vileness for the sake of the but that changed when she was diagnosed gospel. The evangelical tradition has with rheumatoid arthritis in the second always opted for engagement with the grade. Trading cartwheels for tiny culture over the temptation to separate chalkboards sparked a love for teaching. from the culture, and I see this as an jAt eight years old Julie was known for ongoing mandate for evangelical theology. playing school with her younger sister. None of this implies anti-intellectualism. “That brought me the biggest joy,” says Paul speaks, in the same 1 Corinthians Julie. “I would take my sister out of passage, not against the gifts and pursuits whatever she was doing, sit her in a desk, of the intellect, but against those gifts and and pull up the chalkboard. As I tried to pursuits wrongly focused. He helps us teach her my math, she would dutifully understand that true wisdom is not that of sit there and pretend to copy things off the world, concerned primarily with the board.” prestige or pride of place. It is never wisdom Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, that God destroys, but only the wisdom of Julie is in the accelerated graduate the world. Christ, after all, is the wisdom of program at Wheaton and plans on course load every semester, while Julie was able to use even this God, and God makes us new “in the earning a bachelor’s in psychology and working her way through college. At difficult experience to give strength to attitude of” our “minds” (Eph. 4:23). a master’s in elementary education. “I one point, she found herself juggling odd others. Working as a Passage leader at Surveying the considerable gifts of my love being able to focus on the social and jobs that included working as a swim HoneyRock last summer, she connected students, my prayer for them is that they emotional aspect of education,” she says. instructor/assistant head coach for Great with one young lady who was struggling will go on to use their study of theology in This summer, Julie interned with the White Sharks, as a lifeguard at Wheaton’s with a health issue. “We built a strong ways that give life to the church. Though Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where she indoor pool, as a private swim instructor, relationship just bonding over the fact only a few will be professional theologians, created and implemented individualized and as a babysitter for 12 different that ‘yes, our bodies are broken, but that I expect them all to be engaged in the treatment for children with attention families. doesn’t hold us back,’” she says, adding theological work of making doctrine work deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), With a full plate, the continual battle that the young girl returned to Wheaton in the world. oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), with rheumatoid arthritis leaves her in “knowing she has a community of and conduct disorder (CD). “It was my physical pain more often than not. Due girls loving and praying for her as she’s Dr. Beth Felker Jones is associate professor of theology and holds a Ph.D. dream-come-true job,” she says. to her illness, she has suffered broken walking the road of disability.” from Duke University. She is the author of Hoping to teach second or third bones and swollen joints, but the worst Choosing purposefully to be a victor The Marks of His Wounds: Gender Politics graders after college, Julie volunteered moment came in the summer of 2009 and not a victim of her circumstances, and Bodily Resurrection (Oxford University at a public school in Ohio before when she injured her chest muscle, Julie says, “I realize that this is my Press, 2007) and Touched by a Vampire: attending Wheaton. “I was able to get making even breathing difficult. It took mission field—speaking to people who Discovering the Hidden Messages in the a flavor for what I’m getting into,” several months for her condition to are faced with being restrained by their Twilight Saga (Multnomah Books, 2009), and is currently writing on the theology she says. “I’ve tasted it, been there, and improve, and during that time she says, “I body, and helping them come to terms of conversion. She and her husband, Brian, I want to go back.” wrestled with God, but I could hear Him with what it means to suffer for have four children. Toward that end, Julie takes a full saying, ‘My grace is sufficient for you.’” the Cross and still give glory to God.”
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85448_56_64.indd 61 8/12/11 9:32 PM WHEATO N in the world Behind the Iron Curtain: Don Church ’57 (at left) led groups of athletes, including Todd Moxley ’86 (below left) and Jon Tuin ’83 (below right), to Eastern Europe, where they experienced life under communism, and encouraged believers. Go Quietly Before the fall of the Iron Curtain, one Wheaton professor dared to travel to Eastern Europe, and his charismatic leadership has shaped several Wheaton ministries since that time.
by Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 Carlson ’81 was a part of that first group, traveling with about 30 other young men, competing in track meets, singing in churches, and encouraging Christians alk into any room at Wheaton College in Eastern Europe. with Don Church ’57, and chances are “We weren’t world-class athletes, great you won’t be alone for long. Affectionately singers, or preachers, but it mattered known around campus as “Bubba,” Don that we were there,” says Ted, who went is a people magnet, whose genuine care again in 1983, this time as Don’s assistant. wand concern for others is coupled with a In Romania at that time, Ted distinctive ability to get things done. remembers the prevailing atmosphere “I had a lot of weaknesses, but God of fear. The athletes were told not to wasn’t limited by those weaknesses to do talk in the hotels or give the names of the things that He wanted to do,” says any of the Christians they were visiting. Don, who over the years has pioneered Ted remembers spending time with one three distinct ministries—Faculty “church leader”—later discovering the Missions Project, Eastern European church leader was a police informant. Summer Tutorial, and the Timothy “Bubba would show up and start Project—all still active today. talking to these pastors,” say Ted. “And With God-given vision and a because he didn’t have his own agenda willingness to take risks, Don got started and wasn’t there to grandstand, those by first envisioning a ministry to places pastors knew they could trust him.” where Christians weren’t welcome Don learned from local pastors in the 30 years ago—places like Czechoslovakia, region that they had very limited access Romania, Poland, and Hungary—the to seminaries or Bible colleges, so back lands behind the Iron Curtain. at Wheaton, he and Associate Professor Having already led athletic missions of Physical Education Dr. Bud Williams trips, Don got interested in Eastern M.A.’66 drafted a proposal that made it Hoffmeier adds, “It was interesting that For Dr. Hoffmeier, teaching these Europe after inviting a Bible smuggler to possible for Dr. James Hoffmeier ’73 and these were the two things they feared Romanian lay leaders and pastors who give devotionals to his classes. A physical Chaplain Victor Gordon hon to travel would bring the country down.” were each often responsible for five to education teacher and football and track to Romania in 1984, essentially bringing Careful not to say anything in bugged seven little churches spread throughout coach at the time, Don says this man’s the seminary to the pastors. hotel rooms, Dr. Hoffmeier says that at the the countryside, was profoundly different stories made him wonder if Christians in Not to arouse suspicion from local time, Romania was a dark country—both than teaching in America. “If I were to Eastern Europe would be interested in officials, the professors had to travel as literally and figuratively. “In hotel lobbies, teach here for two hours, and then suggest hosting student athletes for competitions. tourists. each floor would have 12 or 14 light a break, the room would be vacated in 20 Working through his national contacts Dr. Hoffmeier, a professor of Old sockets, but only one bulb, or it would seconds,” he says. “But there, they were with the International Association of Testament and archaeology at Wheaton just be completely dark,” he says, noting so eager to learn, they didn’t want to take Athletics Federations, Don recruited and from 1980 to 1999, will always remember that in this oppressive environment, breaks. It was very exciting.” led a group of talented Christian athletes the question he was asked by the border Christians stood out. “They were Since 1984, the Alumni Association’s from all over the United States to Eastern guard on that first trip to Romania, amazingly willing to take chances for the Faculty Missions Project has sent about Europe for the first time in 1978. Ted “Do you have any guns or Bibles?” Dr. cause of Christ,” he says. 100 different faculty members to 46
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85448_56_64.indd 62 8/12/11 9:33 PM Behind the Iron Curtain: Don Church ’57 (at left) led groups of athletes, including Todd Moxley ’86 (below left) and Jon Tuin ’83 (below right), to Eastern Europe, where they experienced life under communism, and encouraged believers. always great and often life-transforming.” The second ministry, now known as the Eastern European Summer Tutorial, began in 1995 after Don and his wife, Ann Stromberg Church ’56, visited Hawthorne House in Cambridge, and gained an appreciation for the teaching model for in-depth study with a small number of students. With the goal of providing a similar experience to those with scant resources, the tutorial continues to host church leaders, seminary professors, and more from all over Central and Eastern Europe who come to Wheaton for six weeks, often to work on master’s or doctoral theses with a Wheaton faculty mentor. This year, 11 students were able to participate in the program, notes Ward Kriegbaum ’64, co-director of the program along with Kurt Tillman ’78. Don is still active on the leadership team for the summer tutorial, and Ward explains simply, “Don has always found the right people and
the resources, and then brought these ’81 together.” The third ministry, the Timothy Project, began in 1985 for the purpose of sharing the gospel with people of diverse cultures, initially through athletics trips PHOTOS: Ted CarlSO n like the ones Don began leading in 1978. This ministry celebrated 25 years in December 2010, and continues to support Hoffmeier adds, “It was interesting that For Dr. Hoffmeier, teaching these countries. Many faculty members have ministries primarily in Ethiopia and these were the two things they feared Romanian lay leaders and pastors who volunteered their leadership over the Japan. would bring the country down.” were each often responsible for five to years, and Don still serves today as a Not one of these three ministries would Careful not to say anything in bugged seven little churches spread throughout consultant and promotes the program. have gotten its start without Don, who hotel rooms, Dr. Hoffmeier says that at the the countryside, was profoundly different Professor Mark Noll ’68, professor of has quietly worked to fill needs where he time, Romania was a dark country—both than teaching in America. “If I were to history at Wheaton from 1979 to 2006, can. He says of his role, “I was just trying literally and figuratively. “In hotel lobbies, teach here for two hours, and then suggest notes, “Don Church worked hard for to listen to God. These were the things each floor would have 12 or 14 light a break, the room would be vacated in 20 many years to recruit Wheaton faculty that God gave me the vision and ideas sockets, but only one bulb, or it would seconds,” he says. “But there, they were for short-term teaching in Eastern for, and then He always brought the right just be completely dark,” he says, noting so eager to learn, they didn’t want to take Europe, and then in other parts of the people to do the work.” that in this oppressive environment, breaks. It was very exciting.” world, as well as in nearby Chicago. The
Christians stood out. “They were Since 1984, the Alumni Association’s number of faculty involved was very Don and Ann Church live in Wheaton, and amazingly willing to take chances for the Faculty Missions Project has sent about large, and the impact on those who have three grown sons, David ’81, Andrew cause of Christ,” he says. 100 different faculty members to 46 ‘volunteered’ when Don called was ’84, and Thomas ’86.
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Philip G. Ryken ’88, President “Dad, have you seen the new science facility?” my ten-year old asked me last fall. “It’s beautiful!” My son is right: with its expansive hallways, colorful murals, and natural wood finishes—all bathed in abundant natural light—Wheaton’s new Science Center brings joy to the soul. I try to visit the Science Center as often as I can. I always take visitors there when dI am giving campus tours. The exhibits are fun for all ages: the display of African mammals, the Litfin pendulum, the greenhouses, the astronomical observatory, and (of course) my old friend Perry Mastodon. When I get the chance, I also sit in on some of our science classes. Although as an undergraduate I cheerfully took my general education coursework in the natural sciences—geology with Dr. Haddock and the history and philosophy of science with Dr. Spradley—I have less background in science than I do in the humanities. It seemed important, then, for me to catch the spirit of the sciences at Wheaton by visiting some classes and faculty seminars in my first year back. I went to organic chemistry and watched students piece together the puzzle of the bonds formed or broken “Wheaton College by chemical reactions. I listened to lectures on pernicious disease vectors, covalent stands squarely on bonds, protein cycles, and the history of evangelical views on creation and evolution. one side of the great I visited one of the last chemistry labs in Dr. Funck’s 40-year tenure at the College. And I heard thoughtful departmental presentations on the integration of faith with science. divide in science The Wheaton College Science Center is a dynamic place for learning—for mentoring in the liberal arts through scientific discovery. Indeed, the entire facility is built around today between the the premise that students learn the concepts and practice of science best when they have naturalists and the opportunities to pursue collaborative research with gifted faculty. supernaturalists.” Standards for undergraduate science education change as old paradigms shift and new frontiers emerge. It is not enough for students simply to repeat other people’s experiments (although this remains an important part of science education). Today they enjoy the natural world and expand scientific knowledge by making new discoveries shoulder to shoulder with the scientists who teach and conduct research at Wheaton. They are diving in Lake Michigan with Dr. Rorem to investigate invasive hydroids, or using microscopy to examine ion channel dynamics with Dr. Burden, or studying nutrition effects on fibrosis in the lungs with Dr. Baybutt, or helping Dr. Craig study plasmas in the Wheaton Impulsive Reconnection Experiments. Wheaton College stands squarely on one side of the great divide in science today between the naturalists and the supernaturalists. We do not believe that matter and motion are the fundamental realities. Rather, we believe that—as Isaac Newton wrote in his Principia Mathematica—“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” The Science Center enables us to do all of this with full scientific and theological integrity. We are conducting credible science, using state-of-the-art equipment to manage cutting-edge experiments in multiple fields of research. And we are giving real glory to God, studying what the Protestant Reformers called “the Book of Nature” while at the same time worshiping its Author. This is the real beauty of the Wheaton College Science Center. Not simply its bricks and mortar. Or even the students and faculty who do science there together. But the Creator who expresses His majesty in every membrane, molecule, and mineral—the beautiful God who spins the planets in their orbits and arrays the stars in their galaxies.
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85448_56_64.indd 64 8/18/11 5:54 PM Many thanks for your gifts to The Promise of Wheaton. Rejoicing in the Lord’s goodness and your generosity.
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85448_56_64.indd 65 8/12/11 9:35 PM WHEATON Art of Exploration Four-year-old Matteo was very brave one day while visiting HoneyRock Camp.
While missing his dad, deployed for the second time in two years, Matteo Blalock spent an adventurous day with his uncle, Dan Elsen ’02, HoneyRock’s residential program manager for the past six years. Matteo began by watching his two older brothers go up the climbing wall. He then decided to try it, saying over and over to himself, “Don’t get discouraged.” Next he helped carve a 700-pound pumpkin, and then floated out on the lake all alone in the pumpkin-shell skiff (cheered on by a crowd of college students).
“There is something in me that wants to make art that rejoices,” says Meredith Aulie Elsen ’09. “When you’re a photographer at HoneyRock, that’s easy to do.”
Meredith graduated from Wheaton as an art major with a concentration in Photograph by Meredith Aulie Elsen ’09 photography and film. A freelance HoneyRock, Northwood campus of Wheaton College photographer based in West Chicago, Illinois, she has spent four summers “O it’s I that am the captain of a tiny little ship, doing contract photography for Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond; HoneyRock. Last summer this included * * * But when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out filming and editing the latest HoneyRock How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.” DVD.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, My Ship & I “There is so much fun and adventure to be had in God’s creation and so many not-everyday things people experience when they come up to HoneyRock,” she says. “Whether it’s kayaking down rapids, downhill skiing, or even floating in a pumpkin boat, I love to be there with my camera to tell that story.”
Inside: Japan’s Recovery • Good News for Eastern Europe • First-Century Women
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