Spring 2002 Wheaton Origins of Public Art Wheaton’s Global Classroom d ear friends— 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. Duane Litfin President volume 5 number 2 Ta ble of Contents 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 Wheaton is published winter, spring, special (catalog), summer, and autumn by Wheaton College, 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187-5593, 630-752-5047, and mailed free of charge to alumni and friends of Wheaton College. Periodicals postage paid COVER PHOTO:MICHAEL JOHNSON. Leah Samuelson ’02 of Brighton, Michigan, works on a piece for her at Wheaton, IL (USPS016326). senior show, a requirement for all art majors. Read more about student and faculty artists in “Conversation Postmaster: Please send address changes to Pieces” on page 42. Wheaton College,Wheaton,IL 60187-5593. Opinions expressed are those of the con- tributors or the editors and do not necessar- The purpose of the Wheaton College Alumni Association is to unite all alumni of Wheaton College into a compact ily represent the official position of the organization for effective communication with each other and with the College, to arrange alumni reunions, to encourage College. © 2002 Wheaton College, the formation of Wheaton Clubs throughout the world, to foster and perpetuate enthusiasm for the College and fellow Wheaton, IL www.wheaton.edu alumni, and to promote alumni giving. L ESSONS FROM THE 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. 2 Wheaton GLOBAL CLASSROOM 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. ENGLAND 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.