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The speaker was expounding upon our new realities.We must grasp the “glocal” nature of our contemporary world, he said. I winced. Glocal? Developments in the realms of transportation, communication, and infor- mation technology, he insisted, have transformed everything. Distance has become irrelevant.What used to be far off has now come close; the other side of the globe feels like next door. So we must all change our thinking.We must all “get glocal.” He was right, of course. I hope we shall be able to do without the rather infelicitous neologism “glocal,” and his idea, presented so breathlessly as the latest thinking, is by no means new. Four decades ago Marshall McLuhan could speak of the already emerging “global village.”As early as 1965 he was saying such things as,“There are no remote places. Under instant circuitry, nothing is remote in time or in space. It’s now. Right there.” But the point deserves new emphasis. Marshall McLuhan never lived to see the rise of the World Wide Web.What might have felt distant even to McLuhan now seems almost local, and everything local is at least potentially global in significance. Ours is quite literally a new moment in history. No previous generation has witnessed anything like it.And so, never has it been more important to grow Wheaton’s marvelous students into truly global Christians. This issue of Wheaton focuses on one of the important ways we’re trying to do that, our study-abroad programs.

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Editor p. 9 Documenting Wheaton’s history Georgia I. Douglass ’70, M.A. ’94 Managing Editor Michael Murray p. 16 Hastert returns Designer Michael Johnson p. 2 Firsthand study Editorial Assistant Jackie Noden Inouye ’00 Class News Editor Donna Antoniuk Editorial Advisers Marilee A. Melvin ’72 R. Mark Dillon Alumni Association President A.Thomas Paulsen ’70 Features President-elect 2 Lessons from the Global Classroom Charles V. Hogren ’58 Executive Director From Europe to Asia to South America,Wheaton Marilee A. Melvin ’72 students each summer study off campus and gain deeper Professor Emeritus LeRoy H. Pfund ’49 insights into other cultures. Alumni Trustee Representatives 9 How I Met Muriel on the Internet Ray Carlsen ’60 Charles V. Hogren ’58 The College’s archivist reveals one of the techniques A.Thomas Paulsen ’70 he uses to find pieces of Wheaton’s history. Board of Directors Class of 2002 Erin Briedenbaugh ’00 Patrick O. Cate ’63 Departments Mary Ann Seume Cate ’65 12 Profiles Robert D. Dye ’73 Susan H. Grosser ’71 Jorge Valdés M.A. ’96, a former drug trafficker, says no Janice Stevenson Nickel ’69 life is too dirty to be made clean through Jesus Christ. Class of 2003 Randal Ellison ’77 Marilyn L. Himmel ’55 14 Under the Tower Dwight E. Nelson ’72 Leilani Perez ’01 Arts in the Morning reaches out to the community. Shane A. Scott ’96 Brian J.Wildman ’85 Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert ’64 delivers Class of 2004 the Pfund lecture. CACE examines moral formation. Susan Fitzwilliam Alford ’77 William R. Alford ’78 On My Mind: Marilyn Scribner reminisces about her Ruth E. Bamford ’50 teaching career. C. Kevin Bell ’81 Carol McEwing Harding ’68 Scholarly Pursuits: Bruce Benson ’83 studies the Barbara Anderson Kay ’83, M.A. ’93 Estella Moore Tolbert ’82 relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. Wheaton College 22 Sports President Dr. Duane Litfin Provost Dr. Stanton L. Jones 24 A Word With Alumni / Alumni News Senior Vice President Dr. David E. Johnston ’65 42 The Journal of Jonathan Blanchard Vice President for Advancement Dr. R. Mark Dillon 47 Letters Vice President for Alumni Relations Marilee A. Melvin ’72 48 At Last Vice President for Student Development Dr. Samuel Shellhamer

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by Megan Laughlin ’02

Wheaton College sponsors summer programs on three other continents. From Europe to Asia to South America, students cross cultures and study in the birthplaces of their subjects.

he Wailing Wall was one of my favorite was the last night of Ramadan, the Muslim T places during my semester of study last holy month. Israeli security forces were every- fall at Jerusalem University College.The Wall where in case fighting broke out; helicopters’ captures the layers of Jerusalem’s identity—its blades whirred and churned through the cool beauty and its conflict.This holiest site of night sky.As the tinny sound of the call to Judaism is little more than a stone’s throw from prayer continued, it mixed with another sound. the Dome of the Rock, the third holiest site in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men belted out the Islam. It was at these places of prayer that the minor tones of a Hebrew song, their white tension between Israelis and Palestinians felt beards contrasting with their long black coats. most palpable to me. Candles glowed behind them.The last night I went to the Wall on my last night. I could of Ramadan fell in the middle of the Jewish hear the Muslim call to prayer sounding from holiday Hanukkah.A soldier next to me the Dome of the Rock.The Arabic chanting started humming the chorus—“Yerushalayim!” rolled out from other mosques near the Wailing he softly sang. I shivered as the disparate Wall, echoing off the hills of East Jerusalem. It sounds swelled.

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Studying off campus offers Wheaton College Off-campus study programs expand students some of the most exceptional experi- Wheaton’s offerings and allow more possibilities ences of their college careers. It gives them a than the permanent off-campus sites, such as chance to mix academics with some of the Honey Rock Camp, the Black Hills Science broader learning of life as they pursue their Station, and Uptown Chicago. If these don’t interests in the birthplaces of their subjects. meet students’ needs, some also enroll in off- Wheaton sponsors summer programs in a num- campus programs sponsored by other institutions. ber of locations. Some of these departmental programs run every summer—the English No Vacation department will go to England, the foreign lan- Off-campus study is a unique experience of guages department to Spain (it alternates in-depth learning.A vacation it is not.“This is between that country and Latin America), and a rigorous academic program,” says political the Bible department would usually go to Israel science professor Ashley Woodiwiss, head of and other Near East countries, though this the Wheaton-in-Washington program. Most year’s trip is cancelled for political reasons. Wheaton summer programs allow students Other programs run every other year, such as to earn six to 12 academic credits. Wheaton-in-Washington (politics and interna- Many of the programs include a week or tional relations),Wheaton-in-France (foreign two of intensive study before leaving Wheaton. languages), and a trip to Europe sponsored by The length of time off campus varies— business and economics. In addition,Wheaton- Wheaton-in-Washington students spend two in-London (Division of Arts, Media, and weeks in the District of Columbia, while Communications) and Wheaton’s May-in-Asia Wheaton-in-the-Holy Lands participants spend (the history department’s trip to Malaysia and about six weeks traveling Indonesia) will be offered for the first time in a from country to number of years. country.

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JERUSALEM ENGLAND Wheaton 3 Students benefit from the tight focus. Spanish Professor students visiting Spain or Latin America live Lindy Scott, with local families and supplement Wheaton who leads professors’ teaching with lectures from nationals. the trip “It forces you to speak [a foreign language],” to Latin says David Sterret ’02, who went to Argentina America with the Spanish department last summer. every other David, a Spanish minor, says his ability to speak year, says that with his host family was initially poor, but by last year in the seventh week,“I was talking about politics Argentina stu- with them,” he says. dents could Off-campus learning lets students examine see how a subjects in the culture that influenced them. church there

Annie Gotaas ’02 studied in London and engages society. ENGLAND Oxford with Wheaton-in-England last He and several summer.“I wanted to learn about English students visited a church in Buenos Aires that culture and study their literature at the same was the site of a treque,a market where people time,” she says. Her Shakespeare class barter goods and services and even use incorporated English history with the literature, Monopoly-like vouchers for “cash” instead and she gained a more genuine feel for of the official currency. By organizing the British literature. She visited the Globe treque, the church helps Argentines who Theater in London to see a Shakespeare play might not be able to find a job in the formal that “the English put on, not an American economy.“Our students got a vision of the interpretation.” dignity of work, of participation, and that Besides academics, students learn how a church can offer economic alternatives, Christians in other cultures worship.“I could and not merely on an individual level,” worship God in a completely different Professor Scott says. context and The programs sponsored by the worship the foreign languages department incorporate same God,” missions projects into the time abroad. Annie says The 40 or so students who will attend of her visit to Wheaton-in-Spain this summer will all a Presbyterian serve in a five-day project for the benefit church in of a Spanish church or community. Dublin, Ireland. In previous visits to Spain,Wheaton “I felt I was part of the body of students helped renovate a community Christ.We’re not separated by center for drug addicts and painted oceans.” the interior of a church.

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adds that as the number of Spanish majors Some Limitations continues to climb, it will be increasingly Despite the benefits of Wheaton’s difficult to accommodate students in Wheaton’s off-campus study programs, there are programs. limitations.The demand for off-campus In fact,Wheaton lags behind comparable experiences is increasing, but because of institutions in the number of students it is able concerns about the quality of study and the to send overseas.The College sends 22 percent practicalities of travel, each program can handle of its students off campus in programs that it only a limited number of students, usually 20 to sponsors. In contrast, Messiah College places 40. For the Spain/Latin America and Holy 69.7 percent of its students in its own Lands trips, the number of students simply semester-abroad programs. Fifty-two percent can’t exceed the number of seats on of Calvin College’s students spend a semester the chartered bus. Professor Daniel Master, overseas in programs sponsored by that school. who oversees the Bible department’s trip Currently Wheaton sponsors no in-semester to the Holy Lands, says there is a lengthy programs. Its programs are offered only in the waiting list for the program. Phyllis Mitchell, summer. chair of the foreign languages department, A faculty task force recently investigated

says he wanted to go before communism falls there in Behind Closed Doors order “to appreciate anew that freedom is important.” A group of students and professors travel The students, who are at least conversant in to Cuba as part of Wheaton’s newest Spanish, stayed in a Catholic convent and met a range study-abroad program. of Cubans. Dr. Scott, a professor of Spanish, said before the trip,“We hope that we will speak to a lot of Twenty Wheaton students boarded an airplane during Cubans who will give [students] a lot of opinions.” spring break and headed for a warmer climate. But Besides “talking to people on the street,” he says, stu- instead of joining vacationers on Florida’s beaches, they dents heard lecturers (including a member of the spent their break studying in a place most Americans National Assembly who is also a pastor) and visited a are forbidden to visit—communist Cuba. hospital, a rural school, Cuban churches, and the The newest addition to Wheaton’s study-abroad homes of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship students programs is Wheaton-in-Cuba, jointly sponsored by enrolled at the University of Havana.Talking with the foreign languages and politics and international Cuban Christians gave students insight into religious life relations departments.The U.S. government granted under communism. And Professor Amstutz hoped that Wheaton College a license to run an educational pro- his students would be able to see through the Cuban gram there. Students spent several Saturdays studying people’s eyes their aspirations and understand their with supervising professors Mark Amstutz and Lindy suffering. Scott, both of whom are native Spanish speakers. Dr. Amstutz, a professor of political science, made a preliminary visit to Cuba over Christmas break.“It’s enormously fascinating and interesting,” he says.“It’s also quite depressing and sad.” The idea of a class in Cuba has been brewing in Professor Amstutz’s mind for the past 10 years. He

Wheaton 5 the status of a program to Europe in 1998, says the current Wheaton’s programs leave out some students.“How do off-campus we make this experience available to everyone programs. who wants it—not just those who are here It found that at the right time or those who can afford it?” more than half he asks. of the 700 stu- Wheaton-in-Europe was offered just dents surveyed once, illustrating that faculty also face challenges said the avail- when teaching in summer off-campus courses. ability of The travel can take them away from home for Wheaton off- weeks at a time. Leaving their spouses with the campus programs sole responsibility for childcare is increasingly is average or poor. difficult, and being away for a significant Michael Le Roy, portion of the summer is simply tiring for a professor professors. Faculty on the Wheaton-in-Spain of political or Latin America trips don’t get back science who until mid-July. Limited faculty resources conducted make it hard to expand programs in their

PERU the survey, current forms. says availabil- ity could be Seeking Alternatives viewed as But the demand for long-term off-campus low because experiences is growing.“More and more are

CUBA of the rela- deciding to do a semester program,” Phyllis tively narrow Mitchell says. range of summer programs, Students are turning elsewhere to get the almost all of which are tailored programs they want. Some participate in to a specific major and include semester programs sponsored by the Coalition few general education courses. of Christian Colleges and Universities, which Summer programs also present problems has learning centers in six countries, including in terms of cost, with a range of $2,500 to Costa Rica, Russia, and Egypt. Other students $8,000.The only financial aid available for attend schools more loosely affiliated with— summer programs is student loans. Participating though not run by—Wheaton College, such in these programs also means students as Jerusalem University College in Israel. Or sacrifice the income from a summer job. In they may join other colleges and universities for the survey, 72 percent of students ranked the a semester to take advantage of their off-campus affordability of Wheaton’s overseas programs programs. as average or poor. Professor Le Roy, who led An entire semester of off-campus study

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allows students to feel like they are really living Naomi says spending a semester in Peru in a place, not just visiting. Betsy Childs ’03 and on her own gave her a more accurate taste of Meggan Connelly ’03 went with the CCCU what it would be like to live overseas as a program to Oxford, England. By spending sev- missionary.While it was difficult, she says,“I eral months in England, they could enjoy little learned a phenomenal amount of things.” things like shopping for groceries and finding Naomi determined to integrate as much as pos- favorite haunts. Both said they enjoyed taking sible.At the 17,000-student university,“I tried regular walks through the Christ Church mead- purposefully to take classes no other foreigners ow along the Thames River. were in,” she says.“I wanted to Besides a month of CCCU “How do we make be a Peruvian.” classes in England starting last this experience available Mark Ortman ’03, an August, they also spent two international relations major, months in one-on-one tutori- to everyone who studied in London for more als with Oxford University wants it—not just than three months with professors. Harding University of Arkansas. those who are here at The greater length of A semester gave him the time time in a foreign country the right time or those to witness the impact of the gives students a closeness World Trade Center attacks who can afford it?” and in-depth insight into on England. He left the the culture that a summer United States a week after program may not be able to offer. Naomi September 11, and while he was in London Haynes ’04, a Spanish and international several suspected al-Qaeda members were relations double-major, spent the fall 2001 arrested close to the neighborhood where semester in Lima, Peru, at a Catholic he lived and studied.“There are a lot of university.The Spanish department helped her Arabs in London,” Mark says, and he chose find a Christian Peruvian family to live with to live normally and talk with Arabs who in Lima, but no other Wheaton students lived and worked all around him. accompanied her. Students can sink their roots deeper into

Wheaton 7 a culture by doing a semester-long program, and learning. It was just academics for academ- yet the lack of Wheaton sponsorship can be ics’ sake.” a problem. Financial aid is not always Despite the program’s flaws, Betsy says, applicable, and transferring credit to Wheaton “I was very satisfied with my experience can also be an issue, as some foreign institutions living in England.” Many students who venture simply don’t issue credit hours or assign beyond Wheaton’s campus echo her positive different values than does Wheaton. reaction, whether they go with a Wheaton pro- Also, the academic programs of the other gram or that of another institution.They gain a schools may not be of the same quality as glimpse of new worlds and a vision of the rich Wheaton’s. Mark enjoyed his time in London offerings of life in those places.The experience with Harding University, yet adds,“I would can change a student’s perspective forever. It recommend it for the cultural difference, but certainly did for me. in terms of academics we’re definitely stronger [at Wheaton].” shivered as the contrasts of this city Other institutions also may not share I manifested themselves. I added this scene to Wheaton’s mission or Christian commitment. the treasure trove of memories collected from Betsy Childs says her studies with the CCCU the three and half months when I called program in Oxford were academically rigorous Jerusalem my home and the people here my but different from Wheaton.“It really was a neighbors. I heard voices praying in Hebrew more secular learning experience,” she says. and Arabic, the tromp of soldiers’ boots on “I missed the integration of faith the stone plaza.As I turned to leave, a Jewish woman spoke to me in Hebrew. Seeing my blank English-speaker’s stare, she gave me a religious pamphlet written in English. Its title: “Life is full of very beautiful things.” I looked at the ancient stones of the Wailing Wall, the intricate blue and gold patterns decorating the Dome of the Rock, rabbis carrying cell phones, military helicopters’ lights joining the pale stars emerging in the night sky above a city that has seen tens of thousands of night skies. I thought of how none of this had entered my dreams of Israel and how now it will change my dreams forever. I had to agree with the pamphlet. Life is full of many beautiful things.

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8 Wheaton Photos by Michael Johnson

How I Met Muriel on the Internet by David Malone M.A. ’92 The College’s archivist doubles as an online detective, seeking clues Relationships emerge in the strangest of places. that illuminate A few years ago, computer dating came upon Wheaton’s past. the scene as a solution for many as a way to meet people.Today, folks spend hours in chat rooms typing away as fast as their little fingers can with bursts of LMK, BTW,and IMO.A secret code of friendship goes on and on with the clicking of keystrokes. I didn’t meet Muriel in an Internet chat room. I met Muriel on eBay, that vast auction house that has no address other than www.ebay.com. Here thousands of new, used, and abused items go on the auction block each day. Eager buyers bid on items ranging from a shirt signed by Donny Osmond to a rare Johnson & Johnson dental floss tin. I met Muriel as I have many others.As the College’s archivist, every now and then I will prowl the Internet and eBay for many wonders from Wheaton’s past. I search for Web sites about Wheaton and by our alumni. Every few weeks or months I travel to eBay and plug in “wheaton college.” Often I’m given a listing of used books by faculty or alumni of Wheaton. At other times I browse through a list of items relating to the “other”Wheaton College, the

Wheaton 9 the auction closed and with the addition of a few dollars for postage, the letters were on their way from an “eBayer” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Muriel arrived in the hustle and bustle of an average working day amid the stacks of paper that can often accumulate in the one in Massachusetts.These items have ranged archives’ mailbox, let alone accumulate in from coffee mugs to a Public Safety patch the archives themselves.With a level of emblazoned with the school’s motto adopted disinterest, I opened a nondescript brown in 1912,“That they may have life, and may have paper envelope to the surprise of “Antique it abundantly.” Letters (3) and Envelope-Genealogy.” Some time ago, I made my Let it be known that I “a hundred . . . social usual trip to eBay and typed in was not previously introduced “wheaton college.”To my sur- functions that a green to Muriel.At the bidding I prise I saw a listing with the simply knew that these were little Freshie simply title “Antique Letters (3) and three letters written by a Envelope-Genealogy.”This must take in, during Wheaton student in the 1920s was my introduction to M. to “Vi” and “Jo” in Milwaukee Muriel Ramsay ’26. I quickly these first glorious (actually Misses Violet and placed a bid for the asking days of school life” Johanna Krejci).When they price of $4.Admittedly, I was arrived it was clear that my bidding against someone who may have had a work had just begun. tie to the letters or to Wheaton, but I quickly Who was Muriel? At first reading of the rationalized that if the College owned the let- letters with reference to Williston Hall, I sur- ters, they would become available to others in mised that it could be Muriel Fuller ’23, class- the College’s archives. I waited in anticipation mate and friend of Margaret Mortenson for the auction to close.You see, I had missed Landon ’25, author of the novel Anna and the out on a large cache of diaries and letters, more King of Siam.However, as I dug into other let- than 1,000, from two students from the 1940s ters they were dated in 1924—too late for because I hadn’t acted quickly enough.Well, Muriel Fuller. Now the chase was on. Using

10 Wheaton How I Met Muriel ... handy resources created by past archivists Muriel’s letters spoke of her joy of Thad Voss ’85 and Mary Dorsett M.A. ’91, I being at Wheaton. She described the troubles of searched a listing of students from past college her first weeks, but also how she loved every catalogs.This resulted in three possible Muriels. moment. She tells Vi and Jo that there were One was Muriel Fuller, and the others were “a hundred . . . social functions that a green Muriel Curtis and M. Muriel Ramsay. Muriel little Freshie simply must take in, during Curtis had also enrolled in the Conservatory as these first glorious days of school life.” well as the College. Usually at that time, She adds,“The spirit of the place simply chases Conservatory students lived locally, though not little thrills down my spine one after another. always. I then looked in the 1922 catalog to see I’m so happy I’m alive.” where Muriel Ramsay was from, since the I found a friend on the Internet. older catalogs listed each student’s hometown. From her letter she told of a life Muriel Ramsay was from Milwaukee. Muriel of fun, football, missionary had a home. zeal, and the love of I quickly scanned the 1923 Tower to find friends. I’ve not met a photograph or references to her. Muriel her personally or was corresponding secretary for the Aelioian talked with her on the Literary Society her first semester at Wheaton phone, but with our and was assistant librarian for the Women’s shared hope I’m sure we’ll Glee Club. Muriel had a face and a life. meet someday.

David Malone’s investigative work goes far main floor of Buswell Memorial Library, is beyond tracking down letters on eBay. In his role complemented by an online exhibit at as archivist and head of special collections, he is www.wheaton.edu/learnres/arcsc/1/index.htm. responsible for preserving the history of the The two full-time and two part-time employees College and making it accessible to a 21st-century of the archives and special collections spend up audience. to six weeks researching and building a window Sometimes alumni or others will lend a display, and they often make the information hand in this task—as was the case recently when available on the Web site and at a kiosk in the descendants of Jonathan Blanchard, the College’s library. first president, donated a small diary and notes David and his staff have also begun to from a lecture tour Blanchard took in the mid- digitize some of the 30,000 photographs in their 19th century. database.The new digitization work station has And sometimes all it takes is a closer look enabled them to convert LP recordings into at what is already in the archives. As David was digital files, including Wheaton’s Alma Mater and preparing an exhibit on the once-popular literary Fight Song, which you can listen to on the Web societies on campus, he enlarged a photo from site. the early 1940s and discovered a familiar face at The archives and special collections will be History’s Lost & Found History’s History’s Lost & Found History’s the front of the room—that of Hudson T. closed for renovations until August 26, but the Armerding ’41, president of Wheaton College exhibit “Lost Wheaton” will remain in Buswell from 1965 to 1982. Library through the summer. The display on the literary societies, on the

Wheaton 11 School. Graduate Wheaton’s with Godto encounter unexpected from an eral prison, trade tofed- the cocaine from Miami, from Cubato movesstory J Alumnus orge Valdés’s profile finally moving backtoFlorida next moving and toNew Jersey, inMiamiwithrelatives,first settling when hewas stillyoung, fled thecommunist regime Jorge’s family his countrymen. his bidforthepoliticallives of y justthree inCuba1956, born fiction. isstrangerthan times truth the College. program at enrolled inanM.A. had cartel Medellin drug branchofthe leader oftheU.S. w thenthere Senior Bench.And ofthe origins mice tothetrue prank involving parachuting the gamut from thechapel thelegendsrun forinstance, pus, cam- OnWheaton’s campuses. legends thatfloataround college there are plentyof tell you, m Ireally didn’t paynecessary, but beyond whatwas class, ing assistantinmy Greek 101 Hewas theteach- old bracket. we w but theGraduateSchool school, obviously notfresh outofhigh Jorge was seemed pretty normal. who from allappearances there was astudentoncampus thelate1990s, Wheaton during When Iwas studyingat 12 ears before FidelCastroears made as the rumor thataformer as therumor as filledwithpeoplewho uch attentiontohim. re Wheaton J some- As thesaying goes, asany studentwill Now,

orge ’96was Valdés M.A. ov er the18-to23-year- we ing withmoney andpeople Hisskillsatdeal- or taxlawyer. classes tobecomeanaccountant F w time hewas aseniorhewas andby the excelled inschool, book, somebody,” asJorge says inhis to “really be to make itbig, predicted. direction hecouldhave never on apaththattookhimin Jorge began year, 1973.That g when Jorge was aboutto Alvaro andElizabethhadlanded Jorge’s dealingswith at thetime, cars?” new luxury these peopleafford two brand- Howthat much could money. their business wasn’t making Iknew I handledtheirbooks, Jorge.“Since writes mobiles,” two new CadillacSeville auto- and Elizabethhadpurchased that shocked tolearn Alvaro k hired JorgeMiami.They to in theLittleHavana area of o and Elizabeth, Colombia,Alvaro Onecouplefrom also grew. r his circle of dence andability, house. garage ofhisparents’ o egular accountingcustomers eep their books.“I soonwas eep theirbooks.“I wned a small grocery store wned asmallgrocery wn accountingpracticeinthe aut rmhg col in raduate from highschool, ederal Reserve andtaking orking part timewiththe orking part re It all started withthedream It allstarted Though hedidn’t realize it As Jorge grew inconfi-

so acutethathebeganhis Coming Clean .He Stranger gi to for himwhenhegotout; andmoney waiting sex, power, Hewanted the into thecountry. to direct theflow ofcocaine Jorge continued stints inprison f in seductive was theindustry, So ofthecartel. members to accompany even thefringe wealthand fabulous thatseemed by Jorge was seduced Little by little, w andotherstates. California into of tonsillegaldrugs thetransport ing orarranging r Jorge himselfwas the decade, by theendof the1980s; during flooded theUnitedStates for much ofthecocainethat was thecartel responsible ombia, cartel. Medellin drug front operationsforthe him intheshadowy world of elaborate security systemsfor elaborate security up insidemansionswith hired thugsbut walled himself wielded hispower through He he thoughtcouldtrust. w He Manuel Noriega’s soldiers. beatings by then-President Nicaragua andthesubsequent J being inandoutofprison, Besides come withoutaprice. Fiction orge survived aplanecrashin c,thateven various during act, esponsible foreithertransport- orld wasn’t anovernight event. as double-crossed by people ve

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fear of enemies. He had access It was there that Jorge to any woman he wanted and rekindled his love of learning, the money to finance his and after receiving his bachelor’s wildest dreams, but deep down, degree from Southeastern Jorge was miserable. Bible College, Jorge began His mother’s constant belief pursuing his master’s degree that God would save her son through Wheaton’s Graduate never wavered; but it wasn’t School. Released from prison until 1987 and a karate class in 1995, Jorge stepped onto taught by Tim and Teruko Wheaton’s campus a free man Brooks that Jorge came in a different world—a world face to face with Christ as that needed him desperately he had never known Him. but didn’t know it. He writes, “Never were my new Christian “I realized that God could friends oppressive or rude in use my life as a means to help trying to convert me, but they not just hardened criminals weren’t reluctant to talk about in prison, but hardened their faith,”Jorge writes.“When Christians in churches as they spoke about a relationship well.” with Jesus being more than Jorge earned a doctorate in mere religion, it seemed almost New Testament studies from second nature to them.” Loyola University in 1999 and In 1990, Jorge was arrested occasionally serves as a guest on narcotics charges.While he lecturer at Wheaton.He and his had been “clean” for quite wife, Sujey Adarve-Valdés ’98, some time, he knew there was live in Georgia and minister no point in running from his to groups around the country past.“I wouldn’t try to claim through Coming Clean innocence; I wasn’t going to ministries, an organization make excuses or try to find a created by Jorge and a team scapegoat or legal loophole. of like-minded Christians. Nor would I try to avoid Truth is indeed stranger punishment for my crimes. than fiction—but then, writes I felt I could not confess to be Jorge, so is the reality of the a Christian and purposely God we serve:“If God could participate in lies,”Jorge writes. save Jorge Valdés,then no one While he faced having to serve else’s sin can possibly be too big eight consecutive life sentences, to be forgiven, and no life is too in the end he was sentenced to dirty to be made clean.” 10 years in a federal prison in Jessup, Georgia. by Lena James ’99

Wheaton 13 Drumming Up Interest in the Arts

The Northern Illinois was an organ, bass, or University Steel Band other instrument keeping the melody gave the final performance in the background. of the fall Arts in the And the repertoire Morning series. showcased the vari- ety of pieces that The sounds of Trinidad and can be played on the Tobago filled Barrows steel drums.The first Auditorium on November 9, piece,“Brute Force,” was 2001, as the Northern Illinois an example of typical University Steel Band enter- steel drum music from the tained about 200 people from 1950s and ’60s: lively calypso. the Wheaton community and The next two pieces beyond.The band, conducted were different in style but by Al O’Connor, normally performed as skillfully.The first O’Connor explained some of has 45 members but was scaled was a pop song made famous the physics behind how the down to 15 for easier trans- by singer Natalie Cole,“Miss drums work.The drums are port. Liam Teague, regarded as You Like Crazy”; the second, a selected by a craftsman in one of the three best steel reggae-like piece called Tr inidad based on the makeup drum players in the world and “Confusion.”The latter piece of the metal. He then uses a noted composer for the was composed by Cliff Alexis, hammers, ranging from eight- instrument, played the lead who also built the band’s pound sledgehammers to tiny drum. drums.Although the melodies mallets, to tune the drum.And The performance was in the song were clear, the at $1,000 each, pans, or drums, part of Arts in the Morning, musicians were getting a are made with great care. a two-year-old series sponsored workout on stage as they hur- Because metal in the

OWER by the Community School of ried to strike each note. center of the pan is the the Arts, itself a branch of the To vary the concert even thinnest, the highest sounds are

T Division of Arts, Media, and more, they went on to play produced there, whereas lower Communications at Wheaton two movements from Handel’s sounds are found on the outer College.Arts in the Morning “Water Music” followed by a rim of the drum.The longer has featured visual and per- tango piece,“Soledad,” by the drum’s skirt, the lower the formance artists such as the Argentine composer Astor sound, so full-size drums have Windy City String Ensemble, Piazzolla.The last number the lowest sounds.These drums THE calligrapher Timothy Botts, and came full circle. It was a con- also have the fewest number of historian Lyman Shepard, who temporary calypso piece titled tones because lower tones take portrayed architect Frank “Steel Band Paradise,” like one more space to resound.The Lloyd Wright. that could be heard in Trinidad lead, double tenor, or double Despite the small number today.As the concert came to second drums have higher of players for the steel drum a close, the audience awarded pitches and more tones, and concert, the sound produced the players a standing ovation. are about a third of the size of

NDER from the bright red barrels was After a short break, the a full drum. surprising. It was so varied that audience reconvened with Those who play the drums at times audience members O’Connor and Teague for a with lower tones must use U wondered aloud whether there question-and-answer session. more drums in order to play

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the same two and one-half sent to Trinidad to be tuned, the best players can make it octaves that one lead drum can and at a high cost. sound as smooth as a harp. produce. However, the lead Unlike the piano, with Most steel drum players start drum is challenging because each tone clearly marked by out as “rote”—they imitate for the higher tones the player a different key, the steel other musicians. Some must hit a space about the size drum tones seem to be in no advanced players, such as of a silver dollar to make the particular order.A tone and its Teague, branch out into adap- proper tone resound.This sharp or flat cannot be put tations and personal composi- space is much larger on a full- near one another on the drum tion.Whether the music is size drum. because when the tone is hit, classical or contemporary, the Another challenge to both would resound, creating skilled steel drum player can playing such a drum is the dissonance with every strike. bring out the beauty of his or force with which each note Instead, the C may be on the her instrument in any style. must be hit. Higher notes must opposite side of the drum from For more information be hit harder because they have the C-sharp. It makes for a about the Arts in the Morning less space in which to resound. dazzling display of wrist work series, please call the Com- Lower notes, if hit with the when scales are played on the munity School of the Arts same force as the higher notes, drum. But as Teague exhibited at 630-752-5567. would cause the drum to be as he played an original out of tune. Instruments are composition,“Raindrops,” by Jackie Noden Inouye ’00

Steps toward Renewal of the Church

The African American church world,” said Dr. McNeil, whose concerns in the church and is in a position to take an lecture, sponsored by the Office society.The church in America, unprecedented leadership role in of Multicultural Development, she said, must be willing to the universal church, says Brenda was titled “The Renewal of the form relationships with people of Salter McNeil. Dr. McNeil, the Church in the 21st Century: An other ethnicities:“We must Dr. McNeil is married to J. Derek McNeil, believe that God has invested founder and president of African American Perspective.” an assistant Overflow Ministries, Because of the ways in which His image in every culture.” professor of psychology at an organization working for they have been treated in She specifically noted the Wheaton.They have ethnic and racial reconciliation, our society, she said, African thriving church in Africa, which two children. was in Pierce Chapel on Americans have a right to speak has a zeal for evangelism; in Latin February 25 as part of the in situations throughout the America, which has a biblical African American Church world where people are being understanding of spiritual Lecture Series. oppressed. warfare; and in the Pacific Rim, “African Americans are Dr. McNeil also emphasized which emphasizes the practice uniquely poised to be agents that Christians need a global of prayer and has grown in the of reconciliation around the perspective when addressing face of persecution.

Wheaton 15 ‘They Call Me the Listener’ Someone in the audience at Wheaton College. Denny where he worked closely with wanted to know how was unable to join the military then-Speaker Newt Gingrich J. Dennis Hastert ’64, being a because of a shoulder injury, of Georgia.“Gingrich had kind man, could survive in so he dedicated himself to 10 great ideas a day,” Speaker the dog-eat-dog world of teaching high school for five Hastert said,“and would national politics.After the years, as an act of public serv- point at someone to get laughter died down, he ice, before entering business. them done.” reminded everyone that he The five-year commitment That “someone” was had been a teacher and coach has grown to nearly 40 years. often Dennis Hastert, who for 16 years.Then he added: The arc of Speaker was the chief deputy whip “My title is ‘speaker,’ but Hastert’s career reveals an from 1994 to 1998. In they call me the listener.” absence of ambition for December 1998, as Congress Rep. Hastert, the speaker ambition’s sake.After graduat- was debating the impeach- of the U.S. House of ing from Wheaton, he taught ment of President Bill Representatives, was in economics, history, and Clinton, Gingrich and his Before the lecture, Edman Memorial Chapel government and coached likely successor as speaker, Dennis Hastert ’64 on March 26 to deliver the football and wrestling at Robert Livingston, resigned. met with (bottom, 2002 Pfund Lecture,“The Yorkville High School in His Republican colleagues from left) David Illinois. He was well into his Johnston ’65, Calling of the Public turned to Denny.“Newt Harvey Chrouser Servant.” Previous Pfund second decade of teaching Gingrich called and said, ’34, and Ray lecturers include former and coaching when he was, ‘No one else can do it,’ ” Smith ’54. President Jimmy Carter, as he said,“bitten by the Speaker Hastert said.“He authors George politics bug.” In 1978, as the really meant,‘No one else Will and president of a national wants to do it.’ ” Doris Kearns coaches association, he was So Denny called his wife, Goodwin, and invited to Washington, D.C., Jean—the real speaker of the former federal to discuss the National house, he said—who had been judge Kenneth Sports Act, which was following the developments Starr.The lecture moving through Congress. on television and knew what series is named Meeting the legislators, he her husband wanted to discuss. in honor of said, was a revelation.“I She gave him the same advice LeRoy H. Pfund thought,‘These are real she had given 18 years earlier, ’49, a former people.There’s no aura about

Photos by Michael Johnson Photos by when he ran for the Illinois Wheaton College them.They have the same House:“You do what you coach and alumni types of emotions, the same think is right.” director. types of intellect as other In his two terms as In a wide- people.’ ” speaker, he has continued to ranging discus- In 1980 Denny was elect- follow that advice. sion, Speaker ed to the Illinois House as a Hastert retraced Republican, and after three by Michael Murray his career in pub- terms he won election to the lic service, which U.S. Congress representing the Visit www.wheaton.edu/wetn began with a 14th District of Illinois. He to listen to Dennis Hastert’s commitment he worked his way onto the speech, including his responses made as a student Republican leadership team, to questions from the audience.

16 Wheaton Under the Tower Open Doors, Open Hearts Wheaton-in-Germany participants help to fill sent kids off to bed with Gute a spiritual void by assisting in ministry projects. Nacht Bible stories.An excerpt from the journal of Carolyn Just before German unification foreigner violence—largely Lauderback ’03 captures both in 1990, several officers from unknown under commu- the hope and the challenge the National People’s Army nism—are rampant. of sharing the gospel in a (NVA) approached a pastor in Since 1999,Wheaton stu- post-Christian, post-communist the former German dents have had the opportunity context:“Our ‘chapel’ [actually Democratic Republic (GDR). to assist German nationals in a tent] is in the middle of Under communism, advance- Christian ministry projects in everything, and I believe we ment in the NVA was linked to the former GDR during the have a great impact just party membership.The men final week of the Wheaton-in- through our presence there. were about to enter the army Germany program. Last sum- The parents see how thrilled of the Federal Republic of mer, students worked with the kids are, and then they Germany, and since the chan- various ministries in the new themselves come and listen in. cellor’s party was the Christian German state of Mecklenburg- There are also a lot of teenagers Democratic Union, the officers West Pomerania. who hang around and talk next planned to prove their alle- A 2001 team built an to the chapel.They’re too cool giance by joining the Lutheran outdoor amphitheater at Beth for us now, but I’m sure they’re church.They soon discovered Emmaus, a Christian guest- having to think about what that ideological loyalty meant house that had hosted the we’re saying.” far less under the new system entire Wheaton-in-Germany Though the spiritual and abruptly left the church. group in 1999. climate is harsh and most churches stand empty, open Another pastor was guid- Another group helped In addition to serving ing some curious eastern open a new youth center doors in the former GDR are in various ministries, Germans on a tour of his operated by a Methodist con- leading, little by little, to hearts students visited church. One guest pointed to gregation and the Christian Aid open to the good news of Jesus. German churches, the crucifix hanging above the Society in Wismar.They had including this one in altar and asked,“What does the the opportunity to represent by Clint Shaffer ’84 Witzin, a destination plus sign mean, and why is that Christ to several non-believing Assistant Professor of German of pilgrims. man attached to it?” coworkers, who had been These stories, recounted by placed with the center through native German clergy, depict a a government employment spiritual void in the former program.They also provided GDR that has not changed translation assistance that substantially in the 12 years reached well beyond Germany’s since unification.Today, the borders, since the Christian Aid region that was once the cradle Society is active in humanitari- of the Reformation is one of an projects in Albania. the most thoroughly secular- Two additional teams ized and unchurched places on worked with the German sister earth. In addition, the transition organizations of Scripture to a free-market economy has Union and Child Evangelism brought with it numerous Fellowship in campgrounds social ills: Unemployment runs along the Baltic Sea coast.They above 20 percent, and alco- presented skits and led songfests holism, drug abuse, and anti- on the beach, and at night they

Wheaton 17 CACE Examines Education’s Role in Moral Formation The Center As the topic of values sor of Christian ministry Washington University; and for Applied Christian education achieves greater at Duke University. Other James Davison Hunter, profes- Ethics at Wheaton prominence in colleges and lecturers were Joel Green, sor of sociology and religious College promotes the universities, the Center for professor of Greek studies at studies at the University of formation of moral char- Applied Christian Ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary; Virginia. acter and the application Jean Porter, professor of The conference ended of biblical ethics to Wheaton College has some contemporary moral questions: How should col- theology at the University with a focus on “Shaping the decisions. Founded in leges and universities educate of Notre Dame; and James Christian College Experience.” 1986, the center is students for moral and spiritu- Fowler, director of the Center Presenters were Mary Stuart directed by Kenneth al growth? How can higher for Ethics and a professor of Van Leeuwen, professor of Chase, associate education promote moral theology at Emory University. psychology and philosophy at professor of development without produc- The sessions of day two Eastern College;Timothy communications. ing conformity or dictating were devoted to “The College Tseng, associate professor of behavior? What particular Experience and the Moral Life American religious history at contributions should the of Students.”The speakers American Baptist Seminary of Christian college make toward were William Slater, associate the West; and Arthur Holmes students’ moral formation? professor of psychology at ’50, M.A. ’52, professor emeri- These questions and oth- Bluffton College; Julie Reuben, tus of philosophy at Wheaton ers provided the framework professor of education at College. Dr. Holmes conclud- for “Exploring Moral Harvard Graduate School of ed the conference with his Formation:The College Education;Alan Wolfe, profes- lecture,“Can Virtue Be Experience,” CACE’s spring sor of political science and Taught?” conference, March 20-22.The director of the Boisi Center For other details of the theme for the first day was for Religion and American conference, and information “Developing the Moral Public Life at Boston College; on obtaining audiotapes of the Person” and featured a chapel Amitai Etzioni, professor and sessions, visit address by William Willimon, director of the Communitarian www.wheaton.edu/cace dean of the chapel and profes- Network at George or call 630-752-5886.

Intro101 to Decision-making Two keys to making ethical deci- belief that the end justifies make good ethical decisions. sions, author and ethicist E. David the means) is insufficient, This will require an emphasis Cook says, are an understanding because individuals cannot on the Word and Spirit, he said, of Scripture and a reliance on control or predict consequences. as “the Spirit leads into all the Holy Spirit. Dr. Cook, a Utilitarianism—the “greatest truth.” Dr. Cook said people professor at Oxford University’s happiness” principle—is prob- who understand 1 John 4:4— Green College, was on lematic for a number of reasons, “. . . the one who is in you is Wheaton’s campus March 4 including the fact that we do greater than the one who is to deliver a lecture,“How to not have adequate means to in the world”—are on their way Make Moral Decisions.” measure pleasure and pain. to making good decisions. In a one-hour session, The other processes he refuted The lecture was sponsored Professor Cook outlined seven were principles, happiness, by the Center for Applied decision-making processes and relativism, reductionism, and Christian Ethics, the philosophy then argued that each is virtue theory. department, and the Division inadequate. For example, he Professor Cook proposed of Humanities and Theological said making decisions based that Christians, through authentic Studies. solely on consequences (the community, grow people who

18 Wheaton On My Mind

No Peace Without Obedience by Marilyn Scribner Professor of Kinesiology As the end of the school year resistant to leaving the beauti- demanding. Have I been the approaches, I am increasingly ful northwest. Nevertheless, I perfect professor? Hardly. aware that this year will be made the trip to visit Nevertheless, not a day has like no other in my career. It Wheaton.The campus was gone by that I haven’t felt will be the end of 41 years of bare of green foliage between excitement upon entering Professor Marilyn teaching and coaching in the winter and spring break, and a classroom or gymnasium. Scribner has been a physical education and kinesi- the people were unfamiliar For the teacher and the coach and teacher at ology department at Wheaton (and talked funny). I returned student, each day is a fresh Wheaton since 1961. College.Those words bring to to Washington and wrote a opportunity to make a (Posing with her below mind a multitude of student letter to Coach Chrouser, difference in the life of are students in her faces along with a rush of turning down the position. another. volleyball class.) She graduated from wonderful memories. It would But the Lord spoke to me People have often told Multnomah School of be a conservative estimate to through Hebrews 11:8, which me that I would know when the Bible in Portland, tells of Abraham’s obedience it was the right time to retire. say that I have taught 4,000 Oregon, in 1951, and students in various classes dur- to Him.Truthfully, I had an But that was not necessarily then earned bachelor’s ing these many years.What a intense inner struggle.And true. I needed the Lord’s and master’s degrees at privilege and a joy to be a part with the recognition there direction, as before.While Western Washington of their lives. would be no peace without reading in Samuel, the story University in My call to teach came in obedience, I returned to of David’s later years came to Bellingham. Marilyn 1952. I had previously attend- Wheaton. my attention.After years of has written Free to ed Multnomah School of the Those early years were service, David had planned Fight Back, a self- Bible in Portland, Oregon, and difficult for me and for the to build a house for the ark defense guide with a intended to do missionary department, for I was horribly of the covenant, but God companion video, and a bowling manual, service in China. Upon my homesick, declaring each year informed him that his Striking Out in graduation, though, China was my intention to return to my labors were to cease, that Your Spare Time. beloved Washington. I turned David’s son, Solomon, was closed to missions because of a She has spoken to again to Hebrews 11:8, think- takeover by the communist to become king. Immediately, groups on self-defense regime. Contemplating my ing I might find something I recognized the similarities for women and has future one particular day while that would release me to go between David’s story and the assisted local schools in working as a receptionist, I home. But Hebrews 11:9 question of retirement. God initiating self-defense stopped and asked the Lord, brought conviction:“By faith, had been faithful again. programs. “Is this all there is?” He led he [Abraham] me to consider teaching and continued in the coaching sports, which I land.”Though it loved. Four years later, I began wasn’t easy, to teach. connecting to In 1961, Harve Chrouser Wheaton was the ’34, then chair of the physical best decision I ever education department and made, second only athletics director at Wheaton, to accepting the contacted me in my home Lord’s saving state of Washington. He grace.Teaching proposed that I teach at a and coaching at remote little college in the Wheaton has Midwest. I desired to be open been exhilarating, to the Lord’s leading but was challenging, and

Wheaton 19 TheThought of Our Age by Bruce Ellis Benson ’83 Associate Professor of Philosophy “God is dead.”—Nietzsche philosophical assumptions that might avoid it. “Nietzsche is dead.”—God often need questioning. Perhaps a brief sampling That seems to be the end Although much that goes from each philosopher might of the story.After all, God is as under the label “postmod- provide a taste of how the alive as ever, and Nietzsche is ernism” has been destructive seminar proceeds. just another dead philosopher. and undoubtedly inimical to A surprising aspect of So why take his thought seri- Christian thought, many con- Nietzsche’s thought is that his ously? cerns postmodern thinkers vehemence against Christianity In my senior seminar raise are ones to which is almost matched by his vehe- Postmodernism and Christian Christians must provide mence against philosophy. Thought, we attempt to responses, and at times share Nietzsche accuses philosophers answer that question.As it their concerns. of making grandiose claims to turns out, Friedrich Nietzsche Interestingly enough, the knowledge—of claiming to (1844-1900) sets the stage for focus of the seminar is idola- know the world “just as it is.” the thought of our age, for try.The warnings from John to But how, thinks Nietzsche, both good and ill.The seminar “keep yourself from idols” could human beings have begins with issues raised by (1 Jn. 5:21) and from Paul absolute knowledge? Only Nietzsche and then turns to to avoid “philosophy and God (who for Nietzsche does ways those issues get worked empty deceit” (Col. 2:8) serve not exist) could have anything out in “postmodern” philoso- as our backdrop.What is “vain like that. Nietzsche accuses phers—Martin Heidegger philosophy” (as the good old philosophers of creating (1889-1976), Emmanuel King James Version puts it)? systems that in effect recreate Levinas (1906-1995), Jacques And to what extent do we as the world in their own image Derrida (b. believers allow ourselves to be precisely so they can pretend 1930), and Jean- seduced by it? Given what to master the universe. It’s Luc Marion (b. Paul says, vain philosophy is the philosophical version 1946). whatever is empty and devoid of “playing God.”And Just the of truth. But it is usually also Nietzsche thinks that the names sound “vain” in the sense of lifting us motives at work here are all daunting enough. up to a place rightly reserved too obvious. But their writ- for God.When we make With this critique in ings are even claims that only God can mind, Heidegger encourages more challeng- rightly make, we are guilty of believers “to take seriously the ing—not only idolatry.The goal of the word of the apostle [Paul]” because they’re course is to see what we that philosophy (or at least the rigorous and pro- might learn from these post- kind of thinking that promotes found, but also modern thinkers about how vanity) is truly foolishness. He because they the idolatry of vain philosophy points out the radical differ- question basic takes place, as well as how we ence between what has some-

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times been called “the God of about recreating God, the The influence of all of the philosophers”—a “god” world, and our neighbor in these figures comes together who is simply the highest our own image.Thus the in the thought of Marion, being or first cause—and the starting place for philosophy who writes from a Christian living God of true faith.The should be ethics. Of course, perspective and focuses on former is simply an idol.Thus this is hardly a problem of the question of how we Heidegger reads the proclama- philosophy alone. It is the should relate to and speak tion of the death of God problem of sin, in which we of God. Following Levinas, in Nietzsche as simply the always want to make ourselves Marion attempts to break from death of an ideology. Only the center of everything, to intellectual vanity by setting a god graven by human design occupy the place that only faith above reason, so that could “die.” God rightfully has. So Levinas reason follows the dictates of That faith is truly faith is a thinks that the very ideal of faith. Marion employs explicit- central emphasis of Derrida’s philosophy—to master and ly Christian categories of recent writings on morality thought—Jesus as the Logos and religious belief. Picking up Given what Paul says, and the centrality of prayer on a point from Nietzsche vain philosophy is and praise in Christian (and also found in Pascal and speaking and acting. Marion Bruce Ellis Benson ’83 has taught at Kierkegaard), Derrida argues whatever is empty and attempts to rethink not just Wheaton since 1993. that the very attempt to devoid of truth. But it philosophy but also theology Graven Ideologies: provide a “foundation” for in a way that is Christian Nietzsche, Derrida religious belief (or morality) is usually also “vain” in from the ground up. and Marion on Modern Idolatry is threatens to undo its character That’s just a taste of the sense of lifting us scheduled to appear in as faith. How so? If we believe the seminar. Of course, there’s up to a place rightly June with InterVarsity in God, we have reasons for also a great deal of digestion Press. Bruce teaches in that belief, but the belief itself reserved for God. that goes on. One of the the areas of aesthetics, hermeneutics, history cannot be grounded. Rather joys of teaching a seminar of philosophy, phenom- God is Himself the ground of control the world by way of like this over the years is enology, and postmod- our own belief. So the attempt thought—needs to be over- that it has allowed my own ern thought. His book to “ground” that belief is in thrown. In its place would thinking to mature. I’ve on music making— The Improvisation effect to take God’s place. be a philosophical thinking come to appreciate each of Musical Dialogue: Derrida can be criticized for that is humble and recognizes of these thinkers, though A Phenomenology overly downplaying the “rea- its limits, one that makes a certainly not without of Music—is sons” that believers have, but proper relationship criticism. For that, though, forthcoming with Cambridge University his point is well taken. to God and our neighbor you’ll have to read my book Press. He is married to Reading Levinas is just as both the beginning and the Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Jacqueline Cameron shocking as reading Nietzsche, end of thought. For the Derrida and Marion on ’84, a hospice and but for the exact opposite rea- believer, Levinas is like fra- Modern Idolatry. It’s a text palliative care physi- cian at Northwestern son. For Levinas makes his grant air in the acrid desert of that has literally grown Hospital. Now on Judaism absolutely central to secular thinking.There is no out of my notes for the sabbatical in lower his philosophizing. Levinas more “postmodern” a philoso- seminar, so reading it should Manhattan, Jackie is argues that Western philosophy pher than Levinas, but it is give you a taste of what studying to become an Episcopal priest and has always tended to break the a kind of postmodernity it’s like to sit around the Bruce is a visiting first commandment—our with which most people table in the Holmes Seminar scholar at New School thinking has always been are not acquainted. Room as a participant. University.

Wheaton 21 Talking incredible amount of potential. champions.We talked about As one coach in the conference Nebraska baseball.They’ve never Baseball said,‘You guys can recruit been to the World Series, and it’s nationally, and nobody else been 50-some years since they’ve Bobby Elder is in his first year in the conference can.’And won a conference championship. as Wheaton’s baseball coach. it’s really true. Right now we’ve And now they turned it around He was most recently an got 15 or 16 players accepted in two years.We try to get them assistant coach at Northwest for next year—four Chicago to understand that it can be Missouri State. Bobby has a kids, one from Bloomington/ done. bachelor’s degree in psychology Normal, the rest are all from from Oral Roberts University San Diego to Long Island and What are some goals you and a master’s degree in all parts in between. have for this year and next? counseling from Denver The first goal is to make the Seminary. He met recently Wheaton baseball hasn’t conference tournament, whether with Michael Murray, managing had a winning record in the we do that this year, next year, editor of Wheaton.This is an conference since 1980.What 2004, whenever that is. If you abridged transcript of their are the biggest challenges in get into the conference conversation. building the program? tournament, you’re three good The first one is changing the pitching performances away Who was your favorite mentality: setting a vision that’s from being a conference cham- baseball player? attainable and getting people pion.With the lack of success Willie Mays, without a doubt. to believe in it. I agree with they’ve had here, I knew that if My little Willie Mays bobble- [Indianapolis Colts head coach] we walked in and said head doll that I’ve had for about To ny Dungy when he says the goal was to 35 years is still back home, players will play the way they win the cham- otherwise it would be in here. view themselves. So we pionship right I saw Mays when I was 3 years pushed really hard in two away, they’d old at Candlestick. I actually areas this year. One is disci- say,‘You’re remember that. pline, especially baseball disci- pline—fundamentals and execu- When did you realize you tion. But the second is getting weren’t going to be Mays? the guys to believe they are Probably my whole career.That I capable of doing what wouldn’t play pro ball? Probably they put their mind to, more toward my junior year in as a team, first, and also college. as individuals. It takes a lot of What brought you to energy to change Wheaton? the way you view The biggest thing I am afforded yourself.We use dif- here is that we get to have a spir- ferent examples of itual impact, discipling players. I places that have struggled enjoy coaching, but just coaching and have been able to to coach isn’t something I enjoy change. One example recent- that much.There’s too much ly would be Bridgewater, in teaching you can do as a coach, Division III football. Until and for me that teaching involves six years ago, they had won 94 life, especially life from a games in 70 years.This year Christian worldview. they were about a touchdown sports Wheaton baseball has an away from being national

22 Wheaton Sports full of it, coach.’They were one Winter inning away from the conference tournament three years ago— Wrap-up our seniors’ freshman year. So they at least can see that is Men’s Basketball honors in four events; CCIW: first attainable. Numbers: 16-9 overall; 6-8 in place in four events) College Conference of Illinois How would you describe and Wisconsin (tie for fourth) Women’s Swimming your coaching style? Honors: Kevin Blomstrom Numbers: sixth at NCAA (D3Hoops.com All-Midwest championship; first at CCIW During games, I try to present Region Third Team, CCIW championship a calm with intensity. I’ve Second Team); Nate Collord Honors: Leah Holt (NCAA: All- watched coaches panic in close (CCIW Third) America honors in one event, games, and when they do their honorable mention in two); players tighten up.Another Women’s Basketball Grace Johnson (NCAA: All- thing we tell the players:‘Practice Numbers: 21-4 overall; 12-2 America honors in three events, CCIW (tie for first) honorable mention in one; is our time; games are your time.’ Honors: Coach Beth McKinney CCIW: first place in two events, We told them,‘If we’re here for Baker ’77 (Illinois Basketball second place in two); Emily three years as a staff, our goal Coaches Association Coach of Mason (NCAA: All-America hon- would be at the end of that time, the Year, CCIW Coach of the ors in three events, honorable if we’ve done our job well, to sit Year); Stacie Clark (CCIW First); mention in two; CCIW: first place in the stands and watch you guys Sarah Harris (CCIW Third);Amie in three events, second place in Karkainen (CCIW First) one); Lauren Smith (NCAA: All- play for nine innings and you America honors in three events); would play well and make all Men’s Swimming Kelly Stewart (NCAA: All- your decisions yourself.’So we Numbers: eighth at NCAA America honors in four events, try to free them up to make championship; first at CCIW honorable mention in two; decisions.And obviously,as bright championship CCIW: first place in two events, as our players are, they handle Honors: Mark Anderson (CCIW: second place in one); Kristin Titcombe (NCAA: All-America that extremely well.We try to first place in two events);T.J. Danhelka (CCIW: first place in honors in three events, honor- put guys in a position where one event); Adam Gess (CCIW: able mention in one); Christin they can succeed. first place in one event); John Tyner (NCAA: All-America hon- Glass (NCAA: All-America hon- ors in one event; CCIW: second How does your academic ors in two events, honorable place in two events); Liz background fit into your mention in one; CCIW: first place Vanderveen (NCAA: All-America honors in one event) coaching philosophy? in two events); Dustin Guidry (NCAA: All-America honorable Yo gi Berra’s statement is mention in one event; CCIW: Wrestling hysterical, but there’s a lot of first place in one event); Paul Numbers: ninth at Great Lakes truth in it:‘Ninety percent of Gyorfi (NCAA: All-America hon- Regional championship; fifth at baseball is half mental.’If I ors in three events, honorable CCIW championship come up and strike out with mention in three; CCIW: first Honors: Christian Campbell (197-pound class; CCIW: second runners on second and third, place in four events, second place in one); Pete Johnson (CCIW: place); Sean Collins (149-pound that’s going to sit with me for first place in one event); Chris class; Regional: third place; CCIW: two or three innings unless I Kamienski (NCAA: All-America first place); David Hirt (184- know how to clear it.A pitcher honors in three events, honor- pound class; Regional: fourth maybe walks a guy and then able mention in two; CCIW: place; CCIW: first place);Tony gives up a 400-foot bomb. How Swimmer of the Year for third Nord (125-pound class; Regional: is he going to clear that? We time, first place in seven events); second place: CCIW: second Danny Linn (CCIW: first place in place) talk through those issues a lot. one event); Chad Olson (NCAA: Mental-skills training is an All-America honors in one event; For more information on the area I’m going to work a lot CCIW: first place in four events); winter sports season, visit more in as we go on. Jon Taylor (NCAA: All-America www.wheaton.edu/athletics.

Wheaton 23 a word with Alumni Shaping Students for Service

One of the joys of serving as president of the Alumni Association board of directors has been getting to know some of the members of the student body at Wheaton College. Members of the board and I have dinner with student leaders each fall and late winter. Besides having the chance for casual conversation at these dinners, we set aside time for the students to talk with us about their Wheaton experiences and share prayer requests.To hear how God has blessed Noel, Sarah, Rachael, Kyle, and others has been a real blessing.The prayer requests of the seniors have been particularly special.To a person, these young men and by Tom Paulsen ’70 women have been seeking God’s blessing and will for their futures. Some are planning President,Alumni Association careers in medicine or business, and others are looking to serve on the mission field or in Board of Directors, 2000-02 the local church.Whatever the field, these soon-to-be alumni are seeking to serve God. Throughout this academic year, the Alumni Association has focused on Wheaton graduates who are serving or have served God in foreign missions. David Howard’s book, From Wheaton to the Nations, has helped all of us appreciate the work of this group of Wheaton alumni. David ’49, M.A. ’52 has documented the effect of the Wheaton College experience on the lives of these missionaries.Although far from the well-documented efforts of David Howard, my own assessment of how the Wheaton experience has affected the current student body is encouraging and inspiring. Listening to students talk about how their lives have been shaped by teachers, adminis- trators, special speakers, and lecturers—and the content and rigor of course work—has been a blessing.The result is that these young men and women, like thousands of oth- ers over the years, have the desire to serve God above all else in whatever field He has chosen for them. I will be concluding my term as president of the Alumni Association board of directors in June. Chuck Hogren ’58 will be serving as president for the next two years. As an attorney, Chuck has been a living example of one who has placed a priority on Alumni, please serving God through addressing the needs of those unable to afford legal services. Vote remember to vote I cannot express enough appreciation for the hard work and dedication of the for your representatives volunteer members of the alumni boards with whom I have had the blessing to work on the Alumni Association these past several years.Another blessing has been to serve as a member of the Wheaton board of directors.The ballot College Board of Trustees. Having the opportunity to observe the men and women of the Board of Trustees as they work with President Duane Litfin to fulfill the mission is inserted in this magazine. of Wheaton College has been an inspiration and encouragement to me. I invite all (Alumni living overseas receive alumni and friends of Wheaton College to join the Alumni Association board in their ballot in a separate first- praying for God’s richest blessing for the College, President Litfin, the trustees, and class mailing.) the faculty, staff, and students.

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Class News section. Conversation Pieces A Wheaton art professor hopes a sculpture exhibi- tion will spark a campus discussion about race. The sculpture exhibition “Seven Ways of Imagining Ethnic Minorities,” displayed on campus from February 11 to March 15, sought to use shared the experience of art to challenge racial stereo- creating these sculptures and share dilemmas,” he says. types.The project, which others with his students. After explaining his originated with Jeff More than 60 current and vision for the sculptures with Thompson ’78, associate pro- former students helped with students, Professor Thompson fessor of art, consisted of a the project over the past invited them to mold and series of seven sculptures several years, working as carve the clay right alongside placed around campus. sculptors, models, and car- him. He describes some of Although the seven penters.The dedication of the works as “an extension of works share a common some students impressed my own hands.”Working theme, their forms vary. One Professor Thompson. Jessica with students meant that his prominent work, displayed in Hogue ’99 even flew back to ideas for a sculpture evolved Anderson Commons, is a Wheaton from Boston to as he gained insights from large head of an African- help finish a sculpture. students.“They took me in American man with closed Professor Thompson says directions I wouldn’t have eyes, enclosed in a clear he started creating sculptures gone by myself,” he says. plastic box on top of a pole. of people of African and Amy Day ’01 con- Behind Adams Hall is the Asian descent “to begin to tributed to several of the Diverse Notes figure of a young woman overcome my own stereo- sculptures. Professor with a pained expression types.”The sculptures helped on Activities Thompson “explained his on her face, lying on a pile him to find common ground vision to me,” says Amy, who of cement castings of water with others on racial issues. at Wheaton– earned a bachelor’s degree in jugs. “They’re really about human Professor Thompson experience and how we Now and Then share histories and how we Journal of Jonathan Blanchard

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Letting Their Lights Shine

art.“I could For the four Wheatonites follow those who carried the Olympic cues from him.” torch early this year,“Light the Her own creativity still Fire Within” is more than an had a role, she says.“I had advertising slogan. It is the a lot of freedom and was torchbearers’ motto.The cur- given a lot of trust.” rent Wheaton student, John Public art is not often Garvin ’03, and three alumni, displayed on Wheaton’s Kimberly Penrod ’01, Dr. Stan campus, partly because of Barnett ’59, and his daughter, the cost to produce it, Tara Barnett Van Dyke ’91, ing the torch was a metaphor Professor Thompson says. were nominated by friends for the Christian life:“To me The Alumni Association and family for leading inspiring the ‘fire’ is the Spirit of God contributed more than lives that represent the who is inside all believers in $7,000 to make “Seven Ways Olympic values of unity and Jesus Christ.” After a degenera- of Imagining Ethnic peace. tive nerve disease overtook Minorities” possible. “What am I doing here?” his body years ago, Stan Professor Thompson hopes was the question in John’s remained an example that establishing sculpture mind as he waited to be of perseverance and sites around campus will handed the torch in Chicago joy to all who know pave the way for future art on January 4. John, who con- him.Tara, who exhibitions.“Public art on siders himself a regular guy, nominated him, campus is a rare experience,” was surprised to discover he wrote,“He he says, but it can play an was chosen after fellow stu- deserves the important role.“It can bring dent and friend Nick Raia ’03 honor of a subject on the back burner nominated him.“John’s a great motivating even up front for a while.” guy—genuine, helpful—and more people Some students could has [influenced] my life in by carrying the be seen stopping to consider positive ways,” Nick says. Olympic flame.” the works of art, yet many Like John, Kimberly felt others seemed to pass by more than honored to be a torchbearer and found herself them without a glance as John Garvin ’03 “overwhelmed with emotion” they walked around campus. carried the Professor Thompson had at the site. She was nominated torch in Chicago hoped the sculptures would by her father, who says,“At 22 on January 4. spark discussion about racial she has done more than I issues on campus but is not have at 44.” During a summer sure whether that has hap- in Bucharest, Romania, pened. Regarding his own Kimberly worked with youth. experience with the sculp- She has also participated in tures, he says,“My sense several missions trips. of personal responsibility “Inspirational pair” is the has evolved . . . and that’s label given by Olympic officials the beginning of real to Stan and Tara, who carried improvement.” the flame in Buena Vista, Colorado, on February 1. For by Megan Laughlin ’02 Stan, the experience of carry- Head Freedom’s hillsfor the Fight On Rosenstrasse, a street in Berlin, stands a large black monument—the faces of and even some from the 1,000 German women looking gates of Auschwitz. up at an invisible window. Forty- The play, directed by Calling all nine years ago this February, Michael Stauffer and improvisers: they might have glimpsed the designed by Keith Pitts, The Conservatory of faces of their Jewish husbands incorporated an elaborate Music’s International walking by that window, set, complete with Nazi ban- Improvisation Institute captives of the Gestapo’s final ners and military uniforms. playwright. Lawrence cited the Amidst music by Philip Glass, will be back in the roundup. abundance of women’s roles film clips from Hitler’s reign Black Hills of South During the week of and the opportunity to explore were projected onto a screen Dakota from July 28 to February 22 to March 2, Arena how women use friendship and in the background followed by emotions to deal with difficult August 3. Theater created a monument live camera footage of the situations as her motivation to The faculty and of its own, a performance of actors, creating a documentary write about the Rosenstrasse artists of the second Rosenstrasse by Terry Lawrence style. event. The Resistance of the annual institute, also to commemorate the wives’ Lawrence fielded questions Heart by Nathan Stoltzfuz known as Music on the fight for their husbands’ free- dom—and their victory that following the March 1 show. provided historical background Fly, will include Ken brought back more than 1,500 Audience members and the for the play. Medema, Charlie men from Nazi prisons in Berlin cast asked about her choice of Arena Theatre will perform Peacock, Béla Fleck, story, character development, The Boys Next Door by Tom Jake Armerding ’00, and personal experience as a Griffin during the week of April and several members 26 to May 4. of the conservatory faculty. Experienced improvisers from a Biblical Images On Display wide range of genres— To visitors, the Billy Graham Museum’s lat- works, lithographs, engravings, and paintings classical, jazz, bluegrass, est art exhibit, “The Artist and the Bible: are among the diverse types of art dis- and others—and their 20th Century Work on Paper,” is an played. students will sit side by impressive excerpt from Ed and Diane Ed’s process of choosing works for his side in a collaborative Knippers’s collection of more than 350 collection includes traditional Christian disci- environment. works. For Ed, it also represents an act of plines such as prayer and keeping the Undergraduate and stewardship. As an artist himself, he Sabbath—not buying on Sundays. He has graduate students can believes that Christians have a responsibili- discovered many unique finds from all over earn academic credit ty to help the church regain its status as the world, most for less than $1,000. At for participating. For a patron of the arts. times, he trades his own paintings for the more information, call When Christians in the Visual Arts works of others. “Our Lord is faithful in the Conservatory asked the Knipperses to make part of this as in all else. He has given us oppor- at 800-325-8718 or their collection a traveling exhibit, they tunities and additions to the collection 630-752-5098; were able to gather 75 20th century beyond what would ever be possible on send e-mail to pieces that deal with biblical images. our own,” Ed says. This exhibit is the fruit musiconthefly Although the works have a common of those labors. @wheaton.edu; or visit theme, they are quite varied, ranging from The Knippers’s collection will be dis- www.wheaton.edu/ an etching by French artist Georges played through May 31 at the Billy Graham conservatory/iii. Rouault to a sketch by American folk Center Museum. For more information, call artist Clementine Hunter. Mixed-media 630-752-5909.

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A THUNDERING DEBUT So this is what thunder erful, and timeless,” he says. Edman Speakers looks like.After more than a More than 50 designs year of deliberation, the were submitted to the Bureau College’s logo selection selection committee as committee unveiled the part of the logo contest One of the hallmarks of visual representation of announced in autumn Wheaton’s thrice-weekly Thunder, the nickname of 2000. The committee chapel experience is Wheaton’s athletics teams then worked with the variety. In the Spring 2002 since Homecoming 2000. College’s marketing semester, students heard Jon Boba ’89, the com- communications depart- from President Duane Litfin mittee’s chairman, says the ment to produce the final and Chaplain Stephen image projects such attrib- image.As the contest utes as strength, boldness, winners, three individuals Kellough ’70 three times determination, and power. have the right to designate each. During Spring Special “Our logo, much like our a $1,000 scholarship to a Services, January 23-25, new name, is unique, pow- Wheaton student. Taylor University Chancellor Jay Kesler also addressed the students three times. Sticking with that triadic theme, here Midwestern Sea Breeze are some of the other The word “harbor” evokes The house was dedicat- where. A study with desks and chapel speakers: images of homecoming, ed on February 8 in a cere- telecommunications hookups is safety, and rest. It is no mony led by President also available, adjacent to the Alumni coincidence that visitors Duane Litfin and attended by sitting room with fireplace. Manuel Mill ’90, M.A. ’91 recognize these qualities members of the Board of The upstairs area, which (January 28) upon entering Wheaton Tr ustees, former presidents can be reached by the front College’s newest conference Hudson T.Armerding ’41 and staircase or a private back Ken Shigematsu ’89 and guest facility, aptly named J. Richard Chase, and others. staircase, contains three (February 4) Harbor House. The center was made uniquely furnished rooms Donald Soderquist ’55 possible by a gift from C. with private baths. (April 3) William ’60 and Judy An additional sitting Missions in Focus Wyngarden Pollard ’60, who room converts quickly to a Juliet Thomas had recognized the need for small bedroom if necessary. such a facility on campus. Complete with kitchenette, (February 11) The two-level home, this second level will act as Ruth Padilla DeBorst situated across from the a much-needed housing (February 12) Wade Center on Washington facility on campus for visiting David Zac Niringiye Street on the western edge alumni missionaries, chapel (February 13) speakers, and special-service of Wheaton’s campus, has Musicians been renovated to include leaders and is separate from such features as the conference area down- Fernando Ortega a technologically stairs. (February 14) advanced conference Greeting arriving Mitch McVicker room for use by the guests and organizing (April 8) Board of Trustees and accommodations is Jessica Bob Bennett other small groups; a Meldrum’s responsibility as (April 22) sunroom; and a host of Harbor House. kitchen, fully equipped Jessica ’99 lives in a private as a staging area for apartment in the basement Search the chapel functions held in the and maintains an office audio archives at dining room and else- upstairs. www.wheaton.edu/wetn.

Wheaton 45 metaphysical claims with “The Onto-theological 1976); Basic Philosophical In theclass- Christian faith and practice. Constitution of Metaphysics” Writings by Emmanuel ...To consider the in Identity and Difference by Levinas (Indiana University room implications of postmodern Martin Heidegger (Harper Press, 1996); God Without Course: thought for the future of and Row, 1969); Being by Jean-Luc Marion PHIL 494, Postmod- philosophy in general and “Phenomenology and (University of Chicago Press, ernism and Christianity Christian thought in partic- Theology” in The Piety of 1991); Twilight of the Idols/The (4 credits) ular....To consider how Thinking by Martin Heidegger Antichrist by Friedrich Professor: our own thinking falls prey (Indiana University Press, Neitzsche (Penguin, 1968). Sarah R. Borden, Ph.D. to idolatry.... To explore Schedule: new ways of philosophical 3:15 P.M. to 4:30 P.M., ‘seeing’ provided by post- Monday,Wednesday, modern philosophers. . . . and Friday, Spring To hone skills in reading 2002 philosophical texts.”

Course objectives from Selected required texts: syllabus: The Gift of Death by Jacques “To assess the compatibility Derrida (University of of traditional Western Chicago Press, 1995);

Professor Gramm Takes a Student Presents Paper Professor Sheesley Vitae Walk through Wilderness to Geological Society Receives Arts Council Grant English Professor KENT The North Central and GRAMM published a review Southeastern Sections of The Illinois Arts Council HNGR Director Joins of Robert Penn Warren’s the Geological Society of awarded a $7,000 grant to Bread for the World Wilderness:A Tale of the America heard a paper JOEL SHEESLEY ’72, a pro- Bread for the World, a Civil War in the Spring 2002 written and presented by fessor of art at Wheaton.As a Christian organization that issue of Civil War Book PAUL E. HAIDLE ’02 at a 2002 Artist Fellowship Award lobbies for justice for the Review.The Review is a joint meeting in Kentucky in recipient, Professor Sheesley world’s hungry people, recent- quarterly journal published early April.The paper deals was among 40 artists to ly added a member to its by the United States Civil with concerns about sea-level receive the honor for out- board of directors. PAUL War Center at LSU rise as a result of global standing work and commit- ROBINSON, professor of his- Libraries Special Collections. warming. In the paper, Paul ment to the arts. He was tory and director of It specializes in printing pro- sites data obtained from the recognized, in particular, Wheaton’s Human Needs and fessional scholarly reviews of TOPEX/ Poseidon satellite, for his contributions to the Global Resources program, books about the antebellum, which uses radar to measure visual arts. joins the organization, which Civil War, and Reconstruction the height of oceans. Professor Sheesley’s is based in Washington, D.C. eras. The paper was written paintings are well known for From 1979 until 1999, when Dr. Gramm has been under the direction of JAMES their realistic depiction of he came to Wheaton, Dr. a faculty member in the A. CLARK, professor of normal suburban life.They Robinson directed St. English department since geology and environmental have been exhibited in gal- Lawrence University’s 1988. He received a B.S. science at Wheaton, and with leries in New York, Kenya Semester Program, from Carroll, an M.Div. the assistance of NICHOLE Pennsylvania, and several a multidisciplinary academic degree from Princeton L. CUNNINGHAM ’01. locations in the Midwest. and experiential program Theological Seminary, and Paul had the rare honor—as Wood Street Gallery in designed to introduce a doctorate from the an undergraduate—of pre- Chicago currently displays students to development and University of Wisconsin- senting his research to more his work and will hold a cultural change. Milwaukee. than 1,000 geoscientists. solo exhibition in May.

46 Wheaton OCAL ISTINGS THE WHEATON LIFELINE Tur key. Little did I know I was L L to see Aslan’s name several After 43 years away from The best-selling trade books in the Wheaton College times while in Turkey. It turns campus I still remember fur- Bookstore since the beginning of the 2001-02 school year: out that aslan is the word for loughing alumni missionaries lion in Turkish. Now I suppose visiting the College and 1. From Wheaton to the Nations • by David Howard some trivia whizzes knew this, exclaiming how important it 2. Wild at Heart • by John Eldredge but I certainly did not, and 3. Desiring God • by John Piper was for them to remain in thought others might find it 4. Mere Christianity • by C. S. Lewis touch with Wheaton. Politely, interesting. Perhaps it is no 5. Sacred Romance • by John Eldredge even sympathetically, I listened coincidence that Edward ate 6. The Divine Conspiracy • by Dallas Willard to them—but without real Tur kish delight in Narnia. I 7. Health, the Bible, and the Church • by Daniel Fountain understanding, for I failed to began to wonder why Turkey 8. Growing Strong Daughters • by Lisa McMinn hear what it was they were was on C. S. Lewis’s mind 9. The Screwtape Letters • by C. S. Lewis telling us. when writing the Chronicles 10. The Return of the Prodigal Son • by Henri Nouwen In the several years I of Narnia. Narnia.com edited the back missionary The best-selling CDs in the Wheaton College Bookstore reports the name Aslan came page of the Wheaton Bible since the beginning of the 2001-02 school year: from the book Tales from the Church weekly Spire, the Arabian Nights, which Lewis isolation and frequent 1. In the Company of Angels (A Call to Worship) read as a child. • Caedmon’s Call oneliness of these brave, 2. Storm • Fernando Ortega tenacious souls got through Brian Wells ’91 3. Worship • Michael W.Smith to me a good deal more Wheaton 4. Declaration • Steven Curtis Chapman forcefully. But one has, I think, 5. Come Together • Third Day to experience many years of 6. Satellite • P.O.D. foreign living, particularly in a 7. The Way I Am • Jennifer Knapp Third World country, to 8. Hits 2002 • WOW:Various Artists appreciate every single com- 9. I Could Sing of Your Love Forever 2 • Var ious Artists munication from campus as 10. House • Fernando Ortega an extension of the lifeline that Wheaton College is to those of us who were firmly grounded and established Music there. letters for every taste We cannot live in the Three out of four recent Friday past, of course, but I do know evenings give an accurate rep- in Barrows Auditorium for that being able to draw upon We invite your resentation of the breadth of the third and final event of its the past keeps me acutely letters and e-mail as the musical offerings on cam- season series.The ensemble aware that during my years they relate to topics pus. On February 8, the BBC was accompanied by members as a student, employee, and covered in the magazine. Concert Orchestra stopped at of the Wheaton College teacher at the College, God Correspondence Edman Chapel as part of its Women’s Chorale and Men’s was laying in, as it were, a must be signed and 14-state, 27-concert tour.A Glee Club. boundless storehouse of may be edited for crowd of 1,900 turned out to Then, on March 1, British ballast and strength for the length or clarity. see the penultimate event of rock act Delirious drew a far 32 years I have lived on Wheaton’s Artist Series.The different crowd to Edman West Indian Island. Emerson String Quartet & Chapel.The concert featured a Ann M. B. Beattie Gale ’57 Write: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson light show, a large video screen, Barbados,West Indies Editor Wheaton magazine Trio wrapped up the season audience participation, and, of TURKISH INSIGHT Wheaton College April 6. course, loud music.The 501 College Ave. A week after the BBC College Union schedule also I noted the Aslan painting on Wheaton, IL 60187; Orchestra performed, the featured By the Tree on March the back cover of the Winter or send e-mail to Chicago Jazz Ensemble played 22 and Plus One on May 4. 2002 issue before I left for [email protected].

Wheaton 47 Francis Schaeffer Came Back at last by John Fischer ’69 Reflections on At this writing, I am anticipating a trip to seemed to have a genuine love for them both. the Christian life Wheaton College to keynote a writers But by far the most significant thing about by published conference being held there. I am all over this Francis Schaeffer, and my college experience, Wheaton alumni like a kid again.Will I stay in Fischer Hall? Will was that he came back.As a frequent college Blanchard still smell like formaldehyde? Will the speaker myself now, I know the usual practice tree on the front lawn I fell in love under still is to let a whole class go by before you bring John Fischer has be there? Will all those dormant feelings spring a speaker back. But in my senior year, Francis recorded 12 albums of up, warmed by familiar sights and smells? Schaeffer came back.This was the defining original songs and I have been rebuked over the years since moment.This was what I could realistically published as many my college experience by how important it all measure, far more than with a diploma. It was books, both nonfiction is to me now. College was not supposed to be a simple yardstick, and I didn’t realize it until and fiction, among important to me then, or at least that was how years later, but it has become the benchmark of them: Real my close-knit group of friends played it. Futility my college experience. Francis Schaeffer came Christians Don’t of futilities, all is futility, saith the teacher.We Dance and 12 Steps back, and when he came back, everything for for the Recovering were experts on Ecclesiastes then.Yes,I got my me was different because of one simple thing: Pharisee (like me). diploma, but it was nothing more than a piece I could understand him now. His most current of paper.After all, it was 1969. On other I had read the novels, heard of the movies release is Fearless campuses they were burning the flag.We (if not seen them), listened to the songs, studied Faith: Living burned our ROTC socks. the philosophers, learned the history. I was Beyond the Walls of Now I treasure what I remember about my plugged in and I got it now.Whatever you Safe Christianity. Wheaton experience, and, like most everyone’s happen to believe about Francis Schaeffer John now travels and college memories, it’s not about what happened and his work, he was one of the first in my speaks, writes regular in the classroom that I remember most. generation to connect the world and biblical columns in CCM Staying late in Edman after chapel was one truth.That connection is what has driven Magazine and on covert pleasure I allowed myself.Watching that my faith and my work ever since. It is an Breakpoint.org, and hosts a radio special, huge hall vacate in a matter of seconds leaving understanding that today seems to put me “Wide Angle with me alone with a conservatory student struggling at odds with many Christians. John Fischer.”Visit through the long organ postlude gave me We have a Christian subculture in this www.fischtank.com for a feeling I was finding a deeper level of country that is trying to pull away from the more information. appreciation somewhere in the lingering. world by creating and marketing a safe John lives with his Chapel was one of those things we were Christian version of everything in it.This has wife and newly adopt- supposed to loathe. (I secretly loved it.) done nothing but marginalize our influence in ed son in Laguna And then there was Francis Schaeffer— culture.The mass-marketing of Christianity in Beach, CA.They also knickers, goatee, and a voice like Elmer Fudd the end has made us, and the gospel we carry, have two children in being strangled. He came on like gangbusters far too easy to dismiss.Wheaton taught us to higher education. my freshman year and I could not understand find the Bible in the world, and the world in what the big deal was. He was a tiny man way the Bible, and it gave us the tools with which over my head, talking about a world I knew to do this. It is through a Christian’s presence little of—a world peopled with the likes of and participation in the world, in every sector Kant, Camus, and Antonioni. I was riveted, of society, that Christ will be known.The world nonetheless, by his passion and the idea that does not need a Christian version of itself; it here was a spiritual man who was not making needs the love of Jesus. Francis Schaeffer and spiritual talk. He spent as much time talking Wheaton College taught me that, and I am about the world as he did the Bible, and he forever grateful.

48 Wheaton Wheaton 49 Jeff Thompson ’78, an associate professor of art at Wheaton College, began creating sculptures of people of African and Asian descent to overcome his own stereotypes.That impulse grew into the campus exhibit “Seven Ways of Imagining Ethnic Minorities,” the product of several years of collaboration between Professor Thompson and his students.

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