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There exists at Honey Rock Camp a president’s cabin called Elim.The name, which means “oaks,” is taken from Exodus 15:27:“Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy trees, and they camped there beside the waters.” Built during the tenure of President V.Raymond Edman and then expanded under Hudson Armerding ’41, Elim sits in a secluded stand of hemlock, surrounded on three sides by water. It has become for Sherri and me a wonderful retreat.

Many go to Honey Rock for the activities; certainly the kids do all summer. Others go for relationships, spiritual growth, learning, or service. But Honey Rock is also, blessedly, a place where one can still find solitude. There is nothing quite like the quietness of Honey Rock mornings, or the fury of a storm bustling toward you across the lake; like studying close-up the frail forms of the fawns feeding just outside your window at dusk, or drifting quietly on the lake, watching a pair of loons appear and disappear beneath the surface; or spotting the arc of an eagle’s flight, or, as Sherri and I glimpsed this past year, the fleeting form of a mountain lion.

Honey Rock has always played a special role at Wheaton College. For a half century its people, programs, and splendid northwoods location have contributed a unique dimension to the College’s life. In this issue of Wheaton, we take the opportunity to look back over those 50 years, and then look forward to what lies ahead for Honey Rock Camp.

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Editor p.20 Aunt Fanny Georgia I. Douglass ’70, M.A. ’94 Managing Editor Michael Murray p.2 The Northwoods Campus Designer ABS Design Group p. 41 Vehicle for Creativity Class News Editor Donna Antoniuk Editorial Advisers Marilee A. Melvin ’72 R. Mark Dillon Alumni Association President A.Thomas Paulsen ’70 President-elect Charles V. Hogren ’58 Features Executive Director Marilee A. Melvin ’72 2 A Classroom in the Wilderness Professor Emeritus Northwoods Campus of Wheaton College is not just a LeRoy H. Pfund ’49 nickname.With more students taking more classes with Alumni Trustee Representatives more professors, Honey Rock Camp looks more like a Ray Carlsen ’60 campus than ever before. Charles V. Hogren ’58 A.Thomas Paulsen ’70 8 No Less a Miracle Board of Directors From the outside, the process of adopting a child Class of 2001 Wesley C. Bleed ’80 looks tedious—an endless list of chores and hoops to Bud McCalla ’59 jump through—but, to the parents who stand on the Elaine Wakefield McCalla ’60 Edith E. Nowack ’49 other side, holding a tiny hand in theirs, it has all Mary Graham Ryken M.A. ’88 Sharen Nerhus Sommerville ’72 been a miracle. David R.Veerman ’65 Class of 2002 Patrick O. Cate ’63 Mary Ann Seume Cate ’65 Departments Robert D. Dye ’73 12 Profile Katherine E. Gieser ’99 Susan H. Grosser ’71 Amy Wang Sit ’49 has set Scripture to a wide variety Janice Stevenson Nickel ’69 of music, from classical and opera to nursery-rhyme Class of 2003 Randal Ellison ’77 melodies and German drinking tunes. Marilyn L. Himmel ’55 Dwight E. Nelson ’72 Shane A. Scott ’96 14 Under the Tower Brian J.Wildman ’85 A different kind of Spring Break road trip.A new Wheaton College honor for an old friend. Peace and the War Requiem. President Dr. Duane Litfin A passion for urban ministry. Provost On My Mind: Dr. C. Hassell Bullock contemplates Dr. Stanton L. Jones society’s moral decline. Senior Vice President Dr. David E. Johnston ’65 Scholarly Pursuits: Dr. Edith Blumhofer examines the Vice President for life of lyricist Fanny Crosby. Advancement Dr. R. Mark Dillon Vice President for 22 Sports Alumni Relations Marilee A. Melvin ’72 Vice President for 24 A Word With Alumni / Alumni News Student Development Dr. Samuel Shellhamer

Wheaton is published winter, spring, 40 Letters special (catalog), summer, and autumn by Wheaton College, 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187-5593, 630-752-5047, 42 The Journal of Jonathan Blanchard and mailed free of charge to alumni and friends of Wheaton College. Periodicals postage paid at Wheaton, IL (USPS016326). Postmaster: Please send address changes to 48 At Last Wheaton College,Wheaton,IL 60187-5593. Opinions expressed are those of the Cover Photo: Ken Kalisch. The 18-day Vanguard Expedition has served as the first impression of contributors or the editors and do not Wheaton College for 3,000 students over the years. Read more about it and other wilderness necessarily represent the official position programs in “A Classroom in the Wilderness” on page 2. of the College. © 2001 Wheaton College,Wheaton, IL The purpose of the Wheaton College Alumni Association is to unite all alumni of Wheaton College into a compact organization for effective communication with each other and with the College, to arrange alumni reunions, to encourage www.wheaton.edu the formation of Wheaton Clubs throughout the world, to foster and perpetuate enthusiasm for the College and fellow alumni, and to promote alumni giving. That course changed my life. It really took me to was able to recognize leadership gifts I had—but A Classroom in theWilderness by Michael Murray

They don’t tell you this when you sign up, but if you spend enough time at Wheaton College’s Northwoods Campus your eyes start to play tricks on you.You begin to see bald eagles in the trees overlooking Long Lake.You spot a skunk walking five feet from your face when you’re sleeping under the stars.You spend hours watching bright streaks of light dance in the night sky. The ears are the next to go.You stop Fifty years after hearing the endless stream of traffic outside your window, the cell phones beeping in your its birth, the classmates’ pockets, the whining about how “I truly believe in the Honey Rock Northwoods busy everyone is. experience and the power that experience has Campus of You’ll catch yourself doing the strangest on college students,” he says.“I feel that the students who go through Wheaton without Wheaton College things: plucking small berries off a bush and tossing them into your mouth, climbing a wall experiencing at least one event here have is experiencing for no good reason, wondering if anyone back missed out.” renewed life. home would mind if you never returned. More students That’s how they do things at Honey Rock When football coach Harvey Chrouser ’34 are taking more Camp.You fall in love with the place so you returned to Wheaton’s campus following courses from never want to leave. Just ask Rob Ribbe. voluntary service in the Navy during World Immediately after graduating from War II, one of his top priorities was establishing more professors, Wheaton College in 1987, Rob traveled north a youth camp as a leadership training experience and Honey Rock to Honey Rock for a 16-day Wilderness for students. For five years Harve worked to Camp’s director Leadership Seminar. prove the experiential training concept in camps says this is just “That course changed my life,” he says. near Warsaw, Indiana; Little Rock,Arkansas; and “It really took me to a place where my faith the beginning. Williams Bay,Wisconsin.Throughout that time, became owned.And I was able to recognize Harve and the College were searching for a leadership gifts I had—but I also recognized permanent site. my deficiencies in a clear way.” In 1950, the College learned that Honey Later in the summer, he led wilderness trips Rock Fellowship Camp near Three Lakes, for junior-high and high-school students. Wisconsin, was available for rent or purchase. Because of that experience, he says, he kept The Board of Trustees immediately approved going back to Honey Rock and earned an rental of the site for $1,000 a year in 1951 and M.A. in educational ministries in 1990. ’52.After witnessing the effectiveness of the Rob joined the camp staff full time that year, program, the Board agreed in 1953 to buy the and last summer he became the fifth director in property for $18,000.“This idea is 30 years Honey Rock’s 50 years—and the first to live in ahead of its time,” said Chairman Herman Wisconsin’s Northwoods year-round. Fischer ’03.

2 Wheaton o a place where my faith became owned. And I Honey Rock I also recognized my deficiencies in a clear way.

The camp at the time consisted of 58 acres of land, mostly shoreline property; nine build- ings; five tent-covered platforms; and, not insignificantly, a name.Two youth workers— recent Wheaton graduate Danny Moore ’48 and Truman Robertson, youth director at Beldon Avenue Baptist Church in Chicago—had been working to convert the Swartz Deer Lodge Resort into a youth camp since 1947. Danny’s wife, Kitty, came up with the name for the camp even before they had a site.“Honey Rock” is derived from Psalm 81:6—“With honey from the rock would I have fed thee”—and 1 Cor. 10:4—“. . . and that Rock was Christ.”

Honey’51 Rock Camp The College Professors from ’57 You fall in love begins with ’53 buys the outside the 165 campers. with the place property physical education Wheaton College so you never for $18,000. department teach rents the site for at Honey Rock for want to leave. $1,000 a year. the first time.

Wheaton 3 Kitty came up with the name for the camp even before they had a site. “H honey from the rock would I have fed thee”—and The most direct route to Honey Rock Wheaton College got involved in camping Camp from Wheaton is straight up the middle primarily for leadership training.When Harve of Wisconsin.Travelers pass through a succession and Dot McDonald Chrouser ’34 were in of cities that get smaller and smaller: Madison, graduate school at the University of Washington Wausau, Rhinelander,Three Lakes. Honey Rock in the 1930s, they often spent their weekends Camp is 350 miles north-northwest of Wheaton assisting at the Firs Camp near Bellingham. and is closer to Thunder Bay, Ontario, than They were most impressed with the preparation to Chicago. Just 2.5 percent of Wisconsin’s the counselors received before their actual 5 million-plus citizens live farther north. counseling duties.That program served as “What makes Three Lakes is large enough to appear on a the model for Honey Rock’s training and standard road atlas but too small to be listed in leadership programs. us unique is that the index.The town is in the northeast corner Wheaton’s Leadership School, which we’re a college of Oneida County, a part of Wisconsin that supplied the counselors and other workers to in the camping seems to have as much blue on the map as the day and residential camps, had ties to the industry,” says green. Honey Rock Camp sits where the blue physical education department until the early and green meet, on the eastern side of Long 1980s. Students initially received eight credits for Rob Codding. Lake, part of the Eagle Chain of 28 lakes. the summer—four for the training phase and Honey Rock leaders through the years have four for the experiential phase.The focus on said the camp’s location itself is evidence of students has remained the same for five decades. God’s leading.Another possible site was Lake “What makes us unique is that we’re a Geneva,Wisconsin, in the southeast corner of college in the camping industry,”says Rob the state. But Harve Chrouser and others involved Codding, Honey Rock’s director of operations. had a sense that commercial development would “We’re not here primarily to run camps for eventually overrun the area, robbing it of an campers, which is what most camps do.We’re here essential element in camp ministry: solitude. to give college students an opportunity to put into The years have proven them right. practice what they’re learning in the classroom.” “If you go to Lake Geneva today, it’s the Rob Ribbe says the mission of Wheaton worst environment possible for camping,” says College drives every program Honey Rock offers. Dr. Glenn Town, the director of Honey Rock The camp is one of a few in the world that is Camp from 1992 to 2000 and now director of owned by a Christian college and is also used for the College’s Sports and Recreation Complex. academic purposes by the college.And, Rob says, “There’s no wilderness area around the lake; it’s given Wheaton’s emphasis on holistic develop- practically suburban. ...[Choosing Lake ment of students and a goal of sending them into Geneva] would have been a terrible mistake.” the world to influence the church and society, Honey Rock’s educational approach complements and supplements what happens on campus.

The Board of The High Road The Vanguard The completion of ’72

’58 program makes its Expedition, a the Arthur Palm ’69 Trustees holds ’66 debut. Honey Rock High Road Chateau marks the its first meeting builds one of the course for beginning of a full at the camp. premiere ropes freshmen and season of winter courses in the transfers, makes programs. country. its debut.

4 Wheaton Honey Rock” is derived from Psalm 81:6—“With Honey Rock d 1 Cor. 10:4—“. . . and that Rock was Christ.” Discovery through “We take learning out of the classroom and put it into real-life ministry situations,” he says. Adventure “Students who are taking education or Bible or psychology courses are taking that coursework and applying it as they work as wilderness leaders, counselors, day-camp teachers, ministry workers. That allows students to test the academic learn- ing, and often ownership and understanding of the information are enhanced by that application.”

The sign at Honey Backpacking, camping, climbing, Scripture Rock Road and Highway studies, leadership training. Not a bad first X announces entrance into impression of college life. the Northwoods Campus Over the past three decades, the Vanguard of Wheaton College. “Northwoods Campus” is Expedition has been the first Wheaton not just a folksy nickname College experience for about 3,000 freshmen spoken with a wink. and transfer students. The expedition is an Wheaton College has two 18-day wilderness-based course that’s year-round campuses, Rob offered in August just before the start of the says, one in Illinois and one in Wisconsin. academic year. (The College also owns the Black Hills Science Station in South Dakota, but student work “It’s a head start for their Wheaton experi- there is limited to the summer.) ence,” says Dr. Bud Williams M.A. ’66, who Yes,Honey Rock is and always has been a helped craft the High Road course while a camp. Programs range from day camps for local graduate student in 1966.Vanguard is a two- children to eight weeks on the service team. credit High Road program designed specifi- About 3,500 people use the facilities each year. cally for new students.“This is also a period And the site and resources are impressive: 800 of self-discovery and God-discovery.” acres of land, 100 buildings, two climbing facil- ities, a 40-element challenge course, 45 horses, Bud says the expedition offers two things and 100 watercraft. But two other facilities—a new college students are looking for: library and a computer center—serve as relationships with other people and the reminders that this, despite the dirt roads and opportunity to be themselves. canoes, is a college campus. “It’s a period of transition,” he says.“They’re leaving parental care and moving into a whole new area.They’re fully responsible for who they are.” About 150 new students are expected to participate this summer.They will be divided The College Loberg Lodge Harvey Chrouser into groups of eight to 12 and sent—with a trained instructor, of course—on their ’76 ’79 celebrates is completed, retires’80 as director; Honey Rock’s increasing Roger Sandberg journey into the Wisconsin and Michigan 25th anniversary. winter capacity takes over. wilderness. They will be required to solve by 100. problems together, master skills together, and overcome obstacles together.The sense of common purpose, Bud says, creates bonds among the team members that last into their college careers and beyond.

Wheaton 5 will make the trip to Honey Rock this summer, staying two or four weeks. “There are more real-life interactions in that environment,”says Dr. Scottie May, who will teach children’s ministries at Honey Rock for the second time this summer.“There are more natural All photos courtesy of Between 600 and 700 Wheaton students Honey Rock Camp. encounters—on the path, on the waterfront, use Honey Rock during the course of a year, around the dinner table....And then there’s an from the Vanguard Expedition for incoming immediate opportunity to work with concepts.” freshmen and transfer students to winter retreats Honey Rock’s academic programs for to the summer academic session. About 100 Wheaton students will head undergraduates are the Summer Leadership north this summer to take one or more classes School, the Wilderness Leadership Practicum, out of nearly 40 offerings. In addition to such and the Youth Ministry Practicum, which began courses as Camp Ministry, Discipleship, and last fall.The Summer Leadership School includes “We take Health and Personal Safety are general education four weeks of training in ministry skills and learning out of classes such as New Testament Survey, Issues and principles followed by eight weeks of courses the classroom Worldview, and Developmental Psychology. and hands-on work in either the Camp Ministry Practicum or the Outdoor Education Program. and put it into Until three years ago, Honey Rock offered primarily elective courses, taught by four profes- The Wilderness Leadership Practicum is five real-life ministry sors; most of the classes were finished in the first weeks of training and courses preceding four situations,” says five weeks of the summer. Courses now are stag- weeks of leading High Road wilderness trips to Rob Ribbe ’87, gered throughout the season, and most meet northern Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the Boundary Waters of M.A. ’90. major and general education requirements, leading to a five- or six-fold increase in the hours taken. Minnesota. Undergraduates may also gain Courses offered at Honey Rock are also modular, professional training as high-school team leaders, meaning that students take one class at a time. youth-camp unit leaders, and wilderness trainers. “It’s an ideal model,” says Dr. George “Bud” Graduate programs consist of the 16-day Williams M.A. ’66, a professor of kinesiology at Wilderness Learning Seminar; an eight-credit Wheaton who has been involved with Honey summer semester; a nine-month Camp Rock since the mid-1960s.“Students are able to Ministry Practicum; a six-month Wilderness study a topic a lot more in depth. . . .They Leadership Practicum; and a 12-month immediately put into practice the theories Certificate in Leadership and Camp Ministry. they’ve just learned.” With additional coursework on Wheaton’s The format also promotes increased inter- campus, graduate students can earn an M.A. in action between students and faculty.Twenty educational ministries in conjunction with any Wheaton College professors and their families of these programs.

Honey Rock David Klopfenstein Glenn Town The Chrouser

becomes’81 its own becomes camp becomes Center is ’97 ’92 ’87 department after director. camp director. dedicated. three decades of affiliation with the physical education department.

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The College is in the process of hiring a Rob is not only the caretaker of the camp’s tenure-track professor who will teach at Honey heritage, but he’s also the resident visionary. It’s Rock all year.The professor, who will be a part his job to build on the legacy left by former of the educational ministries department and directors Dr. Glenn Town (1992-2000), Dr. work primarily with graduate students, is David Klopfenstein (1987-92), Roger Sandberg expected to be in place by August 1. Rob Ribbe ’75, M.A. ’76 (1980-86), and Harve Chrouser dreams of eventually having as many as five (1951-79), and by others who have served the faculty members on site year-round. camp in so many ways. Dot Chrouser worked with her husband for three decades. Bill ’72 and Nancy Derck Long ’72 have served at Honey Rob can step out of his office and immedi- Rock year-round for 26 years.Willis “Coachie” ately see how Honey Rock Camp has grown in Gale worked alongside Coach Chrouser for 17 the past five years. In that time, the camp has years. Bud Williams has held a number of titles dedicated the Outdoor Education Building just in his three and a half decades of service. Don across the road from his office and the $1.2 “Bubba” Church ’57 has been involved in camp million Chrouser Center, which serves as dining construction since his student days in the hall, classroom space, and recreational area.The Engineer program. Christian education Chrouser Center, in addition to setting the Professor Vivienne Blomquist taught at the standard for the camp’s facilities, makes it easier camp for two decades. Ken Kalisch, the for Honey Rock to function year-round. manager of wilderness programs, has been at There were about 20 full-time students in Honey Rock for more than 20 years. three different programs at Honey Rock during Developing leaders has always been the the spring semester, which began in January, and engine that drives Honey Rock Camp, so when Rob hopes eventually to have up to 50 students Rob looks to the future, he borrows from the in the Northwoods for the spring and fall past.“As a result of our academic focus,” he semesters.To accommodate that goal, as well as says,“I hope to see Honey Rock’s faculty and the many winter retreats, he hopes to increase students producing research and writing that the number of all-season beds from 150 to 250 will provide leadership to youth- and camp- in the next three years. But being a 12-month ministry organizations. I hope to see Honey campus is about more than beds. Rock’s students graduating and going out and “It’s my desire to provide the Honey Rock having a profound influence on ministries academic experience year-round,” Rob says.“To around the world.” do that, we’ll need the academic, instructional, If you spend enough time at Wheaton and faculty resources that are equal in quality to College’s Northwoods Campus, you start to those on Wheaton’s campus. I think we’re very dream big. close to that now.”

Celebrate Honey Rock Camp’s The summer Rob Ribbe The first faculty 50th anniversary. course schedule becomes camp member’01 to teach Make plans now to be in ’98 is reorganized, director.’00 Camp at Honey Rock the Northwoods during resulting in administration year-round will be Labor Day weekend: record numbers moves to the in place August 1. August 31 to September 3. of courses, Northwoods. For more information, students, and call 715-479-7474 or visit professors. www.honeyrockcamp.org.

Wheaton 7 NO LESSMiracle A by Jennifer Grant ’89

After all of the paperwork and interviews, parenting classes and phone calls, adoptive parents say welcoming their child into a new home is as much a miracle as giving birth.

From the outside, it looks like reams outside, the process of adopting a child looks of paper sorted and clipped in neat piles on tedious—an endless list of chores and hoops the dining room table. Hours spent in front to jump through—but, to the parents who Mark and of a photocopier. Endless rounds of phone tag stand on the other side, holding a tiny hand Mary Lewis with social workers and government clerks. in theirs, it has all been a miracle. brought The wait, first imbued with excitement, drags Mark Lewis, an associate professor of Olivia home on until its presence—undiminished by theater at Wheaton College, and his wife, Mary, from China in time—becomes a familiar, if unwelcome are the parents of Olivia Mei-Rose Lewis, October 1999, companion.There is waiting for phone calls whom they adopted from southern China. when she was to be returned.There is waiting for confirma- Olivia was 8 months old when they brought 8 months old. tion that paperwork is in order. From the her home to Wheaton in October 1999.

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“This process has reinforced in me says.“Before you have things like that in your the belief that parenthood—adoptive or life, you think:‘Dear God, spare me from that, biological—is a miracle,” Mark says.“If you’re keep me from having to go down that road.’ not prepared for surprises along the way, you But maybe people who choose to adopt chil- take a chance at missing God’s blessing.” dren with special needs know more about Mark and Mary adopted Olivia, now what Jesus cares about than the rest of us do.” 2 years old, after desiring a child for many Mark and Mary look forward to adopting years.The experience of becoming an a second child from China next year. adoptive father has significantly altered Mark’s thinking on his spiritual lineage. usan Fabricius Sharpe ’78 is also the “Now I know something more about Sadoptive mother of a daughter from China. In what it means that we are heirs of Christ,” addition to their biological son James Scott, 6, he says.“I look at Olivia in our home and she and her husband, Ken, are the parents of I think:‘This is your house.You own this Laura Valentine, 5. house.This is your family.These are your In 1996, five months after Susan and Ken friends.This is all yours.’ I know something were assigned an infant—whom the staff at more about the gospel from experiencing this her orphanage had named Feng Li Li—they with Olivia.Adoption was just a word before.” learned that all adoptions from China were The Lewises’ adoption agency is Sunny temporarily brought to a standstill. Ridge Family Center in Wheaton. Sunny When China resumed the adoptions, Ridge handles domestic and international Susan and Ken were notified that there was no adoptions and has placed more than 350 trace of Feng Li Li, the baby girl whose babies from China alone since 1994. photograph they had received and whom they Parents who adopt a child must be had already begun to think of as their daughter. prepared to weather a lengthy, often compli- Susan wonders whether Feng Li Li’s cated process. In addition to gathering legal apparent disappearance was due to over- documents such as birth and marriage certifi- crowding, lack of food and medicine, or cates and tax statements, prospective adoptive inefficient administration in the orphanage. parents must supply physical exam reports, photographs of their families and homes, “We were obviously really upset and and autobiographical sketches. disappointed and wanted to know what Compiling necessary paperwork can take happened to Feng Li Li,” she says. several months or longer.Adoptive parents are They were never given more information also usually required to attend parenting about her. sessions, and they must be interviewed, usually Soon after, they were assigned a second several times, by social workers so their suit- infant. Susan was still devastated by the loss of ability as parents can be assessed. International Feng Li Li and did not want even to look at adoptions involve a trip to the country from the photo of the baby. She did look, however, which the child will be adopted. and was stunned by her response to it. Mark Lewis is deeply moved by the stories “That picture jumped off the paper into of parents who, in addition to completing all my heart,” she says.“I can’t really explain of the work normally required, have chosen it. It was an emotional attachment that to adopt children with special needs. happened immediately.” “I think those people know something Susan and Ken named their daughter about the heart of Jesus that I don’t know,” he Laura Valentine for her Valentine’s Day birthday.

Wheaton 9 “If you are not prepared for surprises along the way, you take a chance at missing God’s blessing.”

The baby was placed in their arms on October provide assistance to 20 to 30 families annually 14, 1996. On that day six years earlier, Ken’s and receive more than 300 applications a 14-year-old daughter, from a previous marriage, year.The foundation’s five board members had died of leukemia. include Hutz Hertzberg ’79 and Lori “God brought healing to Ken,” Susan Bachman ’78. Lori has an adopted daughter says.“Giving us Laura Valentine on that day from China as well. was a gift to him.” In addition to standard information Although it was love at first sight with including adoption applications, tax returns, Laura, they had not forgotten Feng Li Li— and biographical backgrounds of the parents, and, indeed, that baby’s life has forever the Feng Li Li Foundation application asks changed not only their lives but the lives of applicants to include a “spiritual sketch” many other families as well. of the family. One day in 1998, while they were Susan says the people whom the founda- listening to Laura sing “Jesus Loves Me,” tion has helped have been inspirational to all Ken and Susan were inspired to establish who are involved at Feng Li Li Foundation. the Feng Li Li Foundation to honor the “It’s been so humbling for us,” she says. child they had wanted to adopt.They “We have people who make minimum wage decided that the foundation would provide who are looking for a child that is in some assistance to Christian parents for whom way challenged. It’s just amazing.These lack of finances was an insurmountable people will call me in the middle of the barrier to adopting children. night and say,‘We’ve found a little girl in “For all intents and purposes, Laura Albania who has no arms and no legs and Valentine would have been raised Buddhist, if no nose—we want her!’ God has given them anything,” Susan says.“We decided we needed such big hearts.” to get as many kids into Christian homes as In addition to serving as Feng Li Li we could.” Foundation’s president and CEO, Susan serves Currently, the foundation is personally on other charity boards and raises her children. funded by Susan and Ken.They are able to She laments that more Christians who

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take a strong stand against abortion do not “It’s such a selfless act to place a child,” similarly commit to helping the women in she says.“It takes a lot of ego strength and difficult circumstances who choose to give courage to do what’s best in that particular birth to their babies. time in their lives.” “This has always been one of my pet Jennifer notes that ECFA is listed under peeves,” she says.“It’s one thing to get up and “Abortion Alternatives” in the phone book say,‘I’m a Christian and we and that many of the women shouldn’t [condone abortion].’ who call mistakenly think they Why not go and be with the “ I can’t really are calling a clinic that person who is having that provides abortion services. child and take that child home. explain it. “Some of them are quite That’s a different story. People relieved to hear that someone get quiet. I would like to see It was an will be there to walk through the ones who are so vocal it with them or at least to talk against abortion involved and emotional it through with them so that helping with adoption.” they can make an educated Jennifer Gioffre M.A. ’95 attachment that decision,” she says. does just that. Jennifer is one Jennifer and the other of three pregnancy support happened counselors meet with the counselors at Evangelical Child pregnant women once a week and Family Agency in immediately.” for about an hour during their Wheaton. ECFA was started pregnancies and up to six by the National Association of months after the baby is born Evangelicals in 1950 and was or placed for adoption. She says the first agency in the country to place chil- the counselors are committed to helping the dren exclusively in evangelical Christian young mothers who place their babies for homes. adoption work through their grief. “I believe if you are pro-life, you need to “A lot of times these be doing something to live out your beliefs,” women don’t have anyone on says Jennifer, who has been at ECFA for three their side,” she says.“The years.“Helping women who don’t think they father of the baby has taken can give life, give life, is of interest to me. off, their parents want them to Holding out hope to people who are in abort—we’re their greatest fans. despairing situations is my call.” I’m their cheerleader. Everyone About 10 percent of the women whom needs a cheerleader, especially Jennifer counsels place their infants for when they are in a tough place. adoption. She counsels the women who keep We’re about holding out hope, their babies and helps them develop positive cheering them on down that parenting skills and build self-esteem. life road. Women who are forced to leave home “It’s so neat how the Lord can choose to live in ECFA’s housing up to puts together families.Adoption two weeks after the baby is born.They are is a miraculous work.” then referred to the transitional housing program of Wheaton Youth Outreach, which was founded by Christopher Ellerman ’75.

Wheaton 11 Amy Wang Sit ’49 says there was the Song a time when music was her of Scripture god. Fifteen years after giving up the piano, she says God gave her a new passion: She was only 14 years old when she made the Amy says she knew this was a message setting voyage from Hong Kong to the United States. from her Lord.What she did not know was Scripture Someone had told her father, a missionary, how after 15 years she would return to the to music. about a school in Pennsylvania where students music she had spent so much time avoiding. couldn’t even pay to get in. But if they were “It was a miracle,” she says.“I hadn’t accepted to the Curtis School of Music, they played the piano for so many years, but as would receive a full scholarship.Amy Wang Sit He was dividing out His inheritance He gave ’49 made it. me a grand piano.After God told me His “I couldn’t speak a word of English when plan, I sat down at this piano, and I had I arrived,”Amy says.“I would just say ‘thank forgotten nothing.” you’ and smile whenever I was spoken to.” So she began to put Scripture to classical She studied for five years at Curtis, and music.“I want people to remember Scripture,” later earned a bachelor’s degree in music from Amy says.“I think putting it to music is the Wheaton College. easiest way to remember.” But the influence of her parents revealed When she had finished with her classical to Amy that music had become her god.After works,Amy took on a new challenge.“I years of spending hours a day at the piano, wanted to give Scripture to children when Amy gave up music. they are ready to learn it, so I put Scripture “One day, I decided to give it all to the with nursery-rhyme tunes,” she says. She Lord,” she says.“I went to the park and burned wrote one song for every book of the Bible. all my music. I gave up the piano. For 15 years But her greatest challenge was yet to it was dead to me.” come, when God told her of her mission field It was a car accident that finally brought in China, where her father had been a music back into Amy’s life. missionary and evangelist.While in China, Dr. “When I was at my weakest, lying on a Leland Wang D.D. ’49 ministered to a young hospital bed with cracked ribs and other man named Watchman Nee, who became a injuries, God told me,‘Now, I want you to well-known author and leader in the Chinese put music to the Scripture you know.’ ” home-church movement. profile

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Leland Wang sent his three daughters— “He has been a pastor for 42 years, and we Joyce Wang Fan ’42, Lois Wang Chi ’45, and have never had a salary,” she says.“We never Amy—to Wheaton College, and now God owe anything. I have a house, a library, and a wanted Amy to produce songs for people in the car. God is so wonderful.” country she left as a 14-year-old. But as she continues to send copies of her “I didn’t even like Chinese music,” she says. songbooks to China,Amy’s territory expands “I made about 100 songs, and God told me even further. She is now setting Scripture to “I want people I needed to get 1 million copies of the song- opera, ballet, and even German drinking tunes. to remember books to mainland China. I told God,‘I’ll “I didn’t know anything about opera, but take care of the music, and you take care of as soon as I said,‘Okay, God, I’ll do it,’ God Scripture,” the money.’ ” sent these opera stars who were converted, and Amy says. Amy knew it would take a miracle to get they kept coming,” she says.“Some German “I think putting the money necessary to publish her music and stars wanted me to put Scripture to German it to music is send a million copies to China. Starting with drinking songs. But most recently, He has the easiest way 10,000 songbooks,Amy saw God work called me to put Scripture to ballet.” through an appeal to a church in Houston. Ballet has excited Amy to the point that to remember.” “An oilman was introduced to the idea she is building a dance studio in the backyard and asked us what our burden was,”Amy says. of her Houston home. She welcomes a group “We shared with him, and he went into his of abused and broken women into her home office and wrote down a check for exactly each day to create a choreographed dance what we lacked.We had never met him before. ministry of their own. Emphasizing dance as a Through that, God taught us never to worry form of worship has been a blessing,Amy says. about money.” Her studio “provides a place for me to go and And that is something Amy and Hong, her pray and dance before God,” she says. husband of 42 years, have learned to live by. In addition to her songwriting and his preaching, the Sits are both accomplished authors.Amy’s book Rib was born out of a women’s Bible study she led.The book has been translated into Chinese and distributed in China and Taiwan, where it is a best seller.This year a Spanish translation is coming together. From Hong Kong to Pennsylvania to Wheaton and eventually to Houston,Amy says her life has been a trust walk with God.At each step of the way, she says, it has been punctuated with a simple question:“Lord, what do you want me to say next?” Laura Wiginton

Amy Wang Sit ’49 has set Scripture to a wide by Heather Jensen variety of music, from classical and opera to nursery- rhyme melodies and German drinking tunes.

Wheaton 13 No Breaks labor to install a gravity-fed water system for about This Spring 80 families.The group dug the ditches for the system Seven groups—and 167 alongside the Hondurans. students and leaders in Soon, their houses will have all—give up their Spring running water, allowing them Break to spread the message of the gospel to forego their daily trips around the world. uphill to fetch water from a Four weeks after his river.The team also orga- While the rest of his team team’s arrival back in the nized vacation Bible schools was digging ditches, David United States, he cannot get for the young children. Blake Bradley ’02 was using the the image of the juggling Hanson ’01 says the students’ few Spanish words that he knew to teach Oscar how Oscar out of his mind. David enthusiasm lifted the to juggle. keeps a picture of Oscar taped Hondurans’ spirits. “While we were digging to the inside cover of his “We showed them that if you could hear,‘Tirar, tirar, Bible, so that he remembers you work together you can catchar, catchar’—throw, to pray for him regularly. do things that can better throw, catch, catch—over David’s trip with the your life,” he says.“They can and over,” David says, recall- Honduras Project was one of say,‘I am not totally helpless. ing the friendship he made seven Wheaton College I have a purpose.’ ” with Oscar on a Spring Spring Break mission trips Besides the work they Break mission trip to that scattered 167 students accomplished, the team Honduras.“Oscar always and leaders around the world returned home pleased that had such an amazing, joyful to communicate the love and they had touched people’s attitude, even though he salvation of Jesus Christ. lives.“We were able to lived in some of the worst The annual Honduras develop relationships far and conditions [in the village].” Project provided material and above the work itself, to OWER show them that we care about them as people,” says T Sarah Rotman ’01. While the Honduras Project was installing a water system, about 40 members of the football team were fixing a lighthouse, running sports clinics, and helping a children’s community center in Dakar, Senegal. Coaches Gary LaVanchy ’98 and Jeff Peltz ’81 led the team to

NDER THE Africa to see culture through the eyes of a different people. U

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communities.The students lifted their spirits and learned about the missionaries’ daily lives.Andrew says the trips “We showed were a success, and that them that if OCO will plan more trips you work for Spring Break 2002. together you Jordan Craven ’01 trav- can do things eled to Paris with OCO. that can better “Everyone in missions isn’t your life.” going to be the person build- “It was challenging for Back in the United ing houses, or preaching in Gary and me with such a States, the Office of Christian an open-air meeting,” she large group,” Jeff says,“but Outreach sent seven teams says.“There has to be the God worked in each heart across the country and the person that sends the in our group and in the Atlantic. One team went to missionaries, and people who hearts of those we came in Paris, while others went to encourage the missionaries. contact with.” Appalachia, San Francisco, More than anyone, they have Gary says the players Florida, and New Orleans. In to know that [encouragers] were energetic, plugging in its second year sending are there.” with the community by student missionaries, OCO attempting to use the unique attracted 98 students to trade by Jackie Sager ’01 French dialect. He and Jeff in their Spring Break in emphasized to the men that exchange for ministry. missions is something they Wheaton College gradu- could do in the future.“Jeff ate student Andrew Shriver and I count it a privilege to helped organize the OCO be able to lead such a group trips. He says he still prays for of eager and spiritually sensi- Lucy, a blind woman whom tive ‘tough football players,’ ” he met in the Convalescent Gary says. Hospital in San Francisco. He For Corey Noonan ’03 says she told him she saw the and Kevin Sellers ’03, the trip Golden Gate Bridge as it was to Senegal was their first being built. He held her missionary experience. Before hand for 1 1/2 hours while leaving for Africa, Corey said, she asked questions about the “I’m trying to not have any Wheaton students’ ministry. expectations about what we The OCO-sponsored can do, but what God can do trips all aimed to encourage through us.” missionaries they met in the

About 40 football players worked in Senegal, top left and top right; 22 students aided Habitat for Humanity in central Florida, bottom left; and 15 students traveled to Paris, right.

Wheaton 15 A Lifetime special education at College around her cannot be Church in Wheaton, minister- measured, mostly because of Friendship ing to disabled children and she always gives the glory their parents. to her Savior. Olena Mae Hendrickson Last November, the Olena Mae is collecting Welsh ’41 is probably the Alumni Association presented stories from Wheaton alumni only person who does not its first Award of Distinction to and others about the influence easily recognize her unique Olena Mae for a lifetime of of Chaplain Welsh’s ministry contribution to generations of friendship to Wheaton alumni on their lives. Many letters Wheaton students and alumni. and students. More than 200 have already been received, friends met in Coray Alumni and people have written of Gym to celebrate Olena Mae’s seemingly “chance” meetings 81st birthday and to recognize where Evan’s words of her service to generations of encouragement made the Wheaton’s people. difference in their choices. In addition to the gifts she They have written that the received from the Alumni Welshes called them to a high Association and others, dozens standard of Christian living— of alumni and friends sent both purity and love. letters and cards. The volume of personal The association created stories may someday be the Award of Distinction last included in a book that would year because there are some be interspersed with some of people who fit none of the Evan’s sermons. Olena Mae Alumni Association With her husband of existing award categories: invites alumni who have a President-elect 35 years, Chaplain Evan Alumni of the Year for story to write her in care of Chuck Hogren ’58 Draper Welsh ’26, Olena Mae Distinguished Service to the Executive Director, welcomed College students to Society, Distinguished Service Wheaton College Alumni presented the Award their home across from front to Alma Mater, and Association, 501 College Ave., of Distinction to campus on Seminary Street. In Distinguished Service to Wheaton, IL 60187, or send Olena Mae the evenings, visitors usually Family.These people are e-mail to [email protected]. Hendrickson Welsh found a fire crackling in the marked by outstanding service ’41.Among the grate and the Welshes’ dog, and are important to Wheaton by Marilee A. Melvin ’72 speakers at the recep- Baron, curled at Chaplain’s because they have demon- feet.And more often than not, strated through their lives tion were Olena visitors were regaled with the mission of the College. Mae’s grandson portions of poetry from the The text of Olena Steve Patterson, Romantics, Robert Burns, Mae’s award cites her Wheaton College or Sir Walter Scott. Other dedication to holding high President Duane students “became like sons the banner of allegiance Litfin, and Alumni and daughters,” Olena Mae to Jesus Christ and Board members Ruth says, and some lived with teaching others through the Welshes in their home. friendship and the study Flesvig Gibson ’59 Those were golden days, of God’s Word about the and Mary Graham Olena Mae recalls, unaware all-sufficiency of Jesus Ryken M.A. ’88. that since Chaplain Welsh’s Christ’s sacrifice and More than 200 friends and family death in December 1981, she God’s grace. Olena Mae members honored Olena Mae at the has continued to make days continues her ministry of reception last November, including golden for the many people encouragement and prayer Wynne Wagner Cole ’45, left. she has encouraged. From with young people, peers, 1982 to 1997 she served as family, and Wheaton alumni. visitation coordinator of Her influence on the people

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Reconciliation through Music

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, presented March 23 and 24 as the finale of the John Nelson ’63, left, traveled from Paris 2000-01 Wheaton College Artist Series, was more than to conduct the performances.The College’s just a performance. It was an Symphony Orchestra, below, was joined by expression of peace and other College and community musicians. reconciliation. War II. He used the event to Almost 300 Wheaton communicate a message of College and community forgiveness and peace within musicians teamed up on an all areas of conflict. expanded Edman Memorial “The War Requiem Chapel stage to perform the allows us to explore recon- ambitious and difficult piece. ciliation through Scripture,” Internationally acclaimed Dr. Payne says. conductor John Nelson, a Lyrics consist of the 1963 Wheaton alumnus and poetry of Wilfred Owen Grammy Award winner, (1893-1918) and the Latin traveled from Paris to conduct Mass for the Dead. Michael Hudson ’89 photos by the performances. Coventry Cathedral’s “I’ll stick out my neck director of international that may not have been initi- and say that it is the most bril- ministry, Canon Andrew ated otherwise. liant music-making you will White, attended the perfor- “We don’t believe it is a ever hear from undergraduate mances to give and receive a mistake of history,” he says.“It musicians,” says Dr.Tony symbol of peace. is like God turning everything Payne, director of the Wheaton White received one of into something good.” College Conservatory. two banners created by Provost Stan Jones The Wheaton College Wheaton artist Marjorie received the 220th Cross of Symphony Orchestra, Men’s Nystrom Gieser ’59.At each Nails for the College from Glee Club,Women’s Chorale, performance Dr. Payne White.The Cross of Nails is a and Concert Choir joined the presented White with the symbol of Coventry’s message Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus banner that reads “Father of peace.Two ancient nails and the West Suburban Choral forgive.”The College form a cross that is planted in Union to perform the piece. presented the other banner a piece of rubble from War Requiem also attracted to Chicago’s German consul Coventry Cathedral dated three guest soloists: baritone general during a January 1041 A.D. Robert Orth ’68, tenor appearance of the Dresden “This was, in every Donald Kaasch, and soprano Staatskapelle Orchestra. Like respect, a moving experience,” Gwynne Geyer. Many partici- Coventry, Dresden was heavily Dr. Jones says.“The gift of the pants say it was John Nelson’s bombed during World War II. Cross of Nails, the Requiem skill that drew them out. The banners will be deliv- itself, and the testimony of Britten (1913-76) ered and given to the city of Canon White all worked composed War Requiem in Dresden and Coventry together to reinforce the 1962 for the reconsecration Cathedral this summer. conviction that our witness of England’s Coventry White says the bombing to the gospel must include Cathedral, which had been of the cathedral sparked its reconciliation work.” bombed by the German Air worldwide crusade for peace Force in 1940 during World and forgiveness, something by Jackie Sager ’01

Wheaton 17 The Challenge of Urban Missions

Tony Campolo set out to do Rogers says his friends one thing when he spoke to sat at attention while Wheaton College students in Campolo spoke. His candid at a question-and-answer February: influence young speaking style combined with session.“Look completely adults to make a stand.And his upfront message enticed into that person’s eyes. If you he did it. Literally. the listeners, Rogers says. look deep enough, you’ll see He brought the students “I sense the sacred in Campolo spoke about a Jesus staring back at you.” to their feet during a mission field that is a lot Campolo said his philosophy every person I come February 5 chapel service closer to home than some stems from Jesus’ teaching in contact with,” about Christians’ ministry students may realize. that Christians should care says Tony Campolo. and service to those living in Citing statistics of educa- for one another just as they “Look completely urban, impoverished areas of tional and economic failure would Jesus. into that person’s the country. in most of the inner cities, Campolo encouraged eyes. If you look “I was impressed that he Campolo preached students to enroll in Mission deep enough, you’ll wasn’t afraid to be confronta- Christians’ duty to be Year, which is 12 months of see Jesus staring tional,” Ryan Rogers ’03 said concerned and not ignore sacrificial service and inten- back at you.” after the standing ovation. the problems. He cried out tional Christian discipleship “He wasn’t afraid to get in about the need for qualified in the inner cities across the your face.” teachers in cities such as United States. Campolo’s Dr. Campolo was the Chicago that graduate only ministry recruits teams of five keynote speaker for 20 percent of their freshmen or six committed Christians Wheaton’s annual Missions in classes. to live and work together in Focus conference February “He helped me under- a poor urban neighborhood, 5-7.An author, pastor, and stand why she did what she reaching out to love their speaker, he is also chairman did,” says Andrew Gill ’02, neighbors in a variety of of the sociology department whose mother chose to teach practical ways. Not all of the at Eastern College near in an inner-city school. Some students felt Campolo was Philadelphia. Campolo inner-city classrooms have pressuring them to abandon founded and is president of rooms full of students that do their career paths, but possi- the Evangelical Association not have assigned teachers. bly delay them a while for for the Promotion of Campolo told students that urban ministry. Education, an organization those are the classrooms they “As privileged involved in educational, should be filling. Christians, you should think medical, and economic Instead of serving poor about where you can be development programs in citizens out of pity, Campolo used,” says Esther Geist ’02. various Third World coun- urged students to see the “It’s really good to be chal- tries.The organization also humanity in each person. lenged to consider a life of has done extensive work “I sense the sacred in sacrifice.” among at-risk young people every person I come in in urban America. contact with,” Campolo said by Jackie Sager ’01

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Unwitting Accomplices by C. Hassell Bullock referred to abortion and Everyone has become a law Franklin S. Dyrness Professor homosexual rights and called to oneself.This is happening of Biblical Studies them “fundamental values.” with homosexuality, and I have sometimes pondered “Rights” have become there are signs that some are the question,“Is it possible “values.”The moral battle is determined to put pedophilia for a society to commit the being waged in the church in the same category. sin against the Holy Spirit?” too. Despite the mounds of As Christians, in our atti- Obviously, Jesus, in Matthew exegesis that favor moral tude toward sin we are either 12, spoke about individuals clarity, the claim is that we accomplices or members of who had turned the moral should be neutral on certain the opposition.There is no code upside down—good moral issues. If Satan can first neutrality. Some of us need C. Hassell Bullock, was evil, and evil was good. get us to become neutral or not only to repent of the sins Franklin S. Dyrness Isaiah too described that state indifferent on morality, then we have committed, but we Professor of Biblical of moral depravity:“Woe to he has made us accomplices need to repent of our Studies, has taught at those who call evil good and in progress toward the rever- neutrality to sin.We need good evil” (Isa. 5:20).This is sal of moral standards. God to renew in us a sense Wheaton since 1973. what the sin against the Holy Jesus warned the reli- of righteous indignation as His latest book, Spirit means. John Milton gious leaders of His day that, well as compassion about the Encountering the summed it up well in Satan’s if they continued to see the sinful world we live in. C. S. Psalms, will be apostrophe,“Evil be thou my work of God and persisted Lewis said that an absence of published by Baker Good.” on calling it evil, their hearts righteous indignation might Book House in July. Yet I don’t think believ- would fossilize in that state of be one of the alarming Also this summer, ers can commit this sin.They thinking.They would see evil symptoms of a society that is Dr. Bullock will be belong to God, and Jesus and think it good, and good, losing its moral moorings. a visiting fellow at assured us,“I give them eter- and think it evil.Their moral Can a society commit the sin the University nal life, and they shall never code would turn upside against the Holy Spirit? of Edinburgh. perish, and no one shall down, and they would Broadly speaking, I snatch them out of my hand” become incapable of repen- believe it can.That’s (John 10:28).Then why tance and thus of forgiveness. what happened to should believers be The final goal of our Canaanite society concerned about this warn- moral journey is not neutral- whose sexual perver- ing at all? Perhaps the answer ity about right and wrong. sion rendered it irre- is that we can become Even when we insist that one deemable. God help accomplices in the process of has the right to determine us not to be an moral decline.We can, by our one’s own moral standards, accomplice in the own indifference to the issue we become a catalyst in the progress of our of right and wrong, abet our movement toward moral cultural journey society in its trek toward inversion.Then there are no toward moral inver- moral inversion. In the standards of the whole, no sion, where good is debate over our current absolutes by which our evil and evil is good. attorney general’s confirma- actions and attitudes can be tion, one opposing senator reckoned right or wrong. Les Barker

Wheaton 19 TheLanguage of Devotion

by Edith Blumhofer, Professor of History

When Mercy Crosby enrolled evenings by reading aloud her teen-age daughter Fanny from their meager library of at the New York Institution English classics. By the time for the Blind in 1835, she did she enrolled at the NYIB, not anticipate that she set in Fanny Crosby had committed a revival at Manhattan’s 30th motion a series of events that entire books of the Bible and Street Methodist Church. Her would propel Fanny to fame. long sections of literary works religious involvement assumed The school, still in an to memory. new intensity. She participated experimental stage, had At the NYIB, Crosby in many of Manhattan’s Aunt Fanny, recently opened to students cultivated a flare for poetic Protestant churches and often as she was best who qualified for state schol- expression and learned to play rode the ferry to Brooklyn to known, gained arships, making it possible for four musical instruments. She hear Henry Ward Beecher at popularity Fanny to attend. Mercy was a was often chosen to compose Plymouth Church, where widow who had done her best and deliver a poem of welcome hearty congregational singing rather than to provide for Fanny, but the for visiting dignitaries, and also helped draw crowds. In 1858, wealth and found obstacles facing her blind addressed the state legislature she married a graduate of the enormous personal daughter seemed insurmount- and participated in a tour of NYIB, music teacher satisfaction in able.The NYIB offered basic the state designed to publicize Alexander van Alstyne. simply doing good. education, music instruction, the benefits of educational A brief conversation with and vocational training. Mercy programs for the blind. During a Dutch Reformed pastor in recognized that she had little the 1840s, she addressed 1864 resulted in Crosby’s to lose:The school offered Congress on the subject and acquaintance with a well- Fanny the best hope for a dined several times at the known New York music productive life. White House. She gained publisher,William Bradbury. Frances Jane Crosby was confidence and poise and, after Known to Protestants as the born March 24, 1820, in finishing her education, composer of the common Southeast, a village in Putnam remained at the school as a tunes for “Just As I Am” and County, New York. Blinded six teacher. “Jesus Loves Me,” Bradbury weeks later as the result of Musical instruction at the built and sold pianos, inappropriate treatment for an NYIB was the responsibility of conducted mass music schools eye infection, Crosby spent her George Root, a noted teacher in Manhattan’s largest audito- childhood among a large and composer who sometimes riums, composed hymn tunes, extended family scattered devoted his energies to the and published hymnals.The across the farmlands and composition of church music. business of American hamlets near the New York- Root gave Crosby her first hymnody was about to Connecticut border. Her opportunity to provide lyrics explode, and Crosby’s immediate relatives worked for published music.The two acquaintance with Bradbury hard to eke out a living from collaborated on several cantatas positioned her for a central the land. Devout Presbyterians, and popular songs. role in this market. they taught Fanny the Bible In November 1850, Driven by a rapidly and whiled away long winter Crosby’s heart was warmed in expanding market for songs

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suitable for Sunday schools and discovered her texts and incor- congregations used her hymns revival services, Bradbury had porated them in the various and followed programs that established himself as a leader hymnals that served the included her testimony and in the field.The best-known Moody-Sankey revivals in stories of the origins of her gospel songwriters of the Britain and the United States. best-loved texts. Crosby died, day—mostly men—convened Sankey’s Gospel Hymns and just shy of her 95th birthday, in his bustling offices, and they Sacred Solos enjoyed phenom- in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Edith Blumhofer welcomed Fanny to their enal sales. In 1900 Sankey’s February 12, 1915. circle. She signed a contract to British publisher, Morgan & Crosby’s life offers a received her B.A. provide a set number of lyrics Scott, announced that it had window on nearly a century and M.A. in history for a weekly payment of $2. sold more than 7 million of urban American from Hunter College Soon her gift for verse made copies and taken in $1.25 Protestantism. Despite her of the City University her so prolific that she adopted million in royalties, making the prolific pen, she lived simply, of New York and her pseudonyms to mask the high book one of the most valuable preferring lower Manhattan’s doctorate in American percentage of published songs literary properties in the crowded tenements.Well-to- religious history from in individual hymnals that world. Sankey and his mass do friends showered her with flowed from her pen. choirs sang Crosby’s hymns hospitality, but she chose to Harvard University. Crosby ultimately into the hearts of British and live among the urban poor for She is the author or provided thousands of texts to American Protestants and whom she often wrote.A editor of eight books Bradbury’s company and its made Fanny Crosby a house- participant in the early stages and numerous successor, Bigelow & Main. hold name across Britain and of an emerging multi-million- journal articles. But her most enduring work America. dollar business of hymnody, Dr. Blumhofer was resulted from her collaboration As she grew older, Crosby Crosby benefited immeasur- with a wealthy Baptist tune found herself acclaimed by an ably from new forms of mass at Wheaton College writer,William Doane. adoring public. Her winsome production and communica- from 1987 to 1995. Together they produced an personality and boundless tion.Aunt Fanny, as she was After co-directing the immediate favorite,“Safe in energy seemed remarkable to a best known, gained popularity Public Religion the Arms of Jesus,” a song used new generation. In her 70s, rather than wealth and found Project at the a few years later at memorial she charmed tens of thousands enormous personal satisfaction University of Chicago services for both President of young people gathered in in simply doing good. She Divinity School, she Ulysses S. Grant and Princess Christian Endeavor would have approved the Alice, daughter of Queen Conventions and was named epitaph on her simple tomb- returned to Wheaton Victoria.“Rescue the poet laureate of the stone:“Aunt Fanny—She hath in 1999 as professor Perishing,”“To God Be the Chautauqua Institution.A done what she could.” of history and director Glory,”“Jesus, Keep Me Near regular speaker at railroad of the Institute for the Cross,”“I Am Thine, Oh YMCAs, in her 80s, she the Study of American Lord,” and other of their joint professed delight at the Evangelicals. She and efforts were immediately trans- welcome Harvard faculty gave lated and sung by Protestants her during her first visit to her husband, Edwin, around the world. Doane Cambridge.When she turned live in Wheaton and copyrighted Crosby’s lyrics 85, then 90, a national have three children: and his tunes and refused to Protestant sense of gratitude Jonathan ’02, a permit one to be published for her vast contributions to strings student in without the other.As editor an evangelical language of the Wheaton College of several Northern Baptist devotion, praise, and exhorta- Conservatory; Judy hymnals, Doane gave Crosby’s tion prompted an interdenom- work exposure among a large inational movement to mark ’03, a pre-med constituency. the Sunday closest to her student at Wheaton; Crosby gained even more March 24 birthday as Fanny and Christopher, a repute when Ira Sankey Crosby Sunday. On these days, Les Barker senior in high school.

Wheaton 21 Fifteen other Wrestler Wins Wheaton National athletes are named Championship All-Americans. The winter sports season featured a national champion in wrestling, conference titles and All-America honors in swimming,Wheaton’s first indoor track and field All-American since 1994, and all-conference perfor- Michael Hudson ’89 photos by mances in basketball. Freshman Tony Nord (26-8 three straight years. Wrestling overall) earned a CCIW title Sophomore Emily Mason The Thunder finished second at 125 pounds. Sophomore earned All-America honors in at the College Conference of David Hirt (26-6) won the the 200-yard backstroke, 200- Illinois and Wisconsin conference championship at yard individual medley, and Championships, nearly stop- 184 pounds and was second at 100-yard backstroke. Junior ping Augustana College from the NCAA Division III Kelly Stewart swam to All- winning its 19th conference Regional. Fellow sophomore America status in the 100-yard title in 20 years. Senior Dan Sean Collins (28-6 at 149 freestyle and 200-yard Weber posted a 25-0 record at pounds) was also second at the freestyle, and junior Kristin 167 pounds while becoming regional meet. Titcombe was an All- American in the 200-yard the fourth Wheaton wrestler to Women’s swimming win a national championship. Both swimming teams, breaststroke. In the relay Weber also won a regional coached by Jon Lederhouse events, the 200-yard medley title, a CCIW championship, ’74, defended their CCIW team of Mason, Stewart, and a title at the Wheaton titles this winter. Eight women Hillary Wildes, and Michelle College Invitational.At the competed at the Division III Nye earned All-America Division III Great Lakes championships; the team honors, as did the fourth-place Regional, he pinned all four of finished in sixth place. effort by the 800-yard freestyle his opponents and earned Most Wheaton has placed in the top relay team of Lauren Smith, Outstanding Wrestler honors. 10 at the national meet for Allison Kamienski, Christin Tyner, and Stewart.The 400- yard freestyle relay team of Kamienski, Smith, Mason, and Stewart took third place for another All-America award. In addition to five All-America honors, Mason, an elementary education major, was recog- nized for her work in the classroom. She was selected to the Verizon District V Academic All-America Team. Men’s swimming Freshman Paul Gyorfi and

sports sophomore Chris Kamienski were named Most Valuable

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Swimmers at the conference Gyorfi,Taylor, and John Glass. Senior guard Rachel Horgen championships. Kamienski and Kamienski, Gyorfi, Glass, and ends her career in fourth place Gyorfi were among six men freshman Chad Olson earned on Wheaton’s all-time scoring who represented Wheaton at All-America honors in the list with 1,375 points. In four the NCAA Division III 400-yard freestyle relay and the years, she made more three- Swimming and Diving 200-yard freestyle relay. point field goals (206) than any other Wheaton player— Championships, where the Indoor track and field team placed seventh. It was Sophomore Ryan Rogers woman or man—in school Wheaton’s best finish since earned All-America honors at history. Horgen was a first- 1991 and third best ever. the NCAA Division III team all-conference selection; Senior Jon Taylor earned All- Indoor Track and Field junior forward Amie Karkainen Ryan Rogers is America accolades in the 100- was a second-team honoree; Championships. He finished in Wheaton’s first yard breaststroke, 200-yard and junior guard Sarah Clark a tie for second place in the indoor track and breaststroke, and 200-yard 55-meter high hurdles with a was a third-team selection. field All-American individual medley. Gyorfi took time of 7.53 seconds. Earlier in Men’s basketball sixth in the 100-yard freestyle the year, Rogers set the school Head coach Bill Harris’s start- since Kermit Ellison to earn All-America honors. record in that event with a ing lineup included two fresh- took seventh in the Wheaton participated in all time of 7.51 at the CCIW men and a sophomore, but the 100-meter dash at five of the relay events at the Indoor Championships. He is team (13-12 overall) recorded the 1994 indoor championships and earned All- Wheaton’s first indoor track its ninth straight winning championships. America status in four of and field All-American since season, something that hasn’t them.The grouping of Gyorfi, Kermit Ellison took seventh in been done since Lee Pfund’s Taylor, Kamienski, and sopho- the 100-meter dash at the teams of the 1950s. Senior more Adam Gess won All- 1994 indoor championships. center Luke Moo earned his America accolades in second consecutive first-team Women’s basketball the 400-yard medley, all-conference accolade. He as did the 200-yard The team was ranked nationally in Division III was the second-leading scorer medley relay team in the CCIW and ends his of Gess, for most of the year and finished with a 20-5 career in 15th place on overall record and an Wheaton’s all-time scoring list, 11-3 conference with 1,460 points, and 13th on mark, good for the all-time rebounding list. second place in the Moo scored a career-high CCIW.This was 35 points in a 67-63 win over the 17th consecu- Division III Final Four partici- tive winning season pant Illinois Wesleyan in King for the women’s Arena on February 10. basketball program, the past 15 under by Brett Marhanka head coach Beth Sports Information Director McKinney Baker ’77.

Dan Weber, top left, won all 25 of his matches, including the national championship. Emily Mason, far left, earned All-America honors in five events. Rachel Horgen, left, finished her career in fourth place on Wheaton’s all-time scoring list.

Wheaton 23 a word with Alumni by Harvey Chrouser ’34, Founder of Honey Rock Camp

When Dot and I were coaching and teaching at Sterling College in Kansas, we spent our summers at the University of Washington doing graduate work. Our good friends Grant ’34 and Bernice Atkinson Whipple ’34 were directors of the Firs Camp in Bellingham, and we spent our weekends assisting them.We were impressed with the leadership training program that preceded the counseling responsibilities. The counselors were so effective in discipling the campers in how to live their spiritual lives. It was much like the pattern Christ followed in making disciples into apostles.That creative relationship concept is at the heart of the Honey Rock training and leadership programs. In 1940 I returned to Wheaton as football coach and in 1942 Operating a bulldozer volunteered for the Navy.At the Naval Air Technical Training Base in Oklahoma, at Honey Rock in the and later in Brisbane,Australia, I was assistant to Commander George Halas, coach summer was as natural of the Chicago Bears.After the war, when Mr. Halas asked me to join the Bears, I to Harve Chrouser as replied,“Mr. Halas, I am honored by your offer, but I have plans to return to Wheaton running a football with two goals: to end the days of ‘moral victories’ in football, and to start a youth practice in the fall. camp as a training experience for the students.” He paused and answered,“Harve, you can do it. God bless you.” In addition to those When I returned to Wheaton in 1946, President V.Raymond Edman asked me to consider directing a youth camp near Warsaw, Indiana. My mind went into high mentioned in the article gear: Here could be the fulfillment of our goals. I was filled with a new and enduring “A Classroom in the determination. In 1951, the camp moved to its current location in northern Wisconsin. Wilderness” (page 2), For half a century, Honey Rock has been anchored to a biblical and spiritual Coach Chrouser would emphasis and sound educational goals, using the creative relationship environment like to acknowledge the of in-camp and out-of-camp experiences. For the student leader, it is learning to be a contributions the following discipler who is modeling Christ. For the camper, it is meeting new friends, trying new people have made to activities, and following a leader who encourages others to grow in the Lord or to the lasting legacy of come to faith in Christ.The campers have found spiritual and activity fulfillment at Honey Rock Camp: Honey Rock. It has been like a second home to them. Harry Agabedis ’56, God has given Honey Rock Camp committed and enthusiastic leaders through the Harley Bowerman ’66, years who have worked to improve and enrich the campers’ experiences.The five camp Don Gast ’52, Penny directors in 50 years have each made significant improvements in the camp.The excel- Nickel Hagaman ’70, lent program directors of girls’ and boys’ camps have made Honey Rock the unique Gordon Knapp, Jerry camp it is today, producing missionaries, Christian workers, pastors, and committed Christians whose enduring faith makes an impact on our society. Lindquist, Carol Morgan Of all my experiences since coming to Wheaton in 1930, the most fulfilling has ’67, Paul Nyberg ’58, been the development of the diverse educational and experiential programs for campers Jake Wetzel ’72, M.A. and students at the camp. Honey Rock has become a special educational and spiritual ’77, and Mary Wetzel. environment.Truly, Honey Rock is a place apart.

24 Wheaton The on-line edition of Wheaton magazine does not include the Class News section. Alumni in Law Professor David Bruce We stopped at a small market along the highway.We surveyed the My copy of Wheaton arrived The Volkman Chair in Business produce section and the dairy case yesterday and I read it with great Law (Winter 2001) caused memo- for something to meet our projec- interest. I was especially impressed ries to surface of “brave sons” who tile specifications. Eggs were the by the memorial to Professor had a great influence on my life. It grenades of choice. Many dozen David S. Bruce (Winter 2001). It is started in 1950, shortly after my would be required. How were we such a wonderful testimony to the conversion. Joe Cosgrove ’53 to pay for them? I lent the Class of quality of a man and the influence suggested that I investigate the ’53 the $18 and change to of his life. Dr. Paul J. Pearson ’84, the newly founded Boston Christian purchase the ammunition. High School, where I soon author, not only paid fitting tribute enrolled. The principal at the time to Dr. Bruce—he also demon- The buses were stopped and the was Isaac Thiessen ’32. He encour- strated outstanding writing skills. situation explained to their passen- gers. Although crestfallen to know aged me to apply to Wheaton; I appreciate every issue of the secret site was declassified, they however, because of my grades, I Wheaton. Keep up the good work. had to take an entrance exam. He quickly bought into the egg plan. To soon informed me I hadn’t passed, Dr.Albert L. Kurz ’58 be forewarned was to be forearmed. Phoenix but he asked my permission to We arrived at the ranch.The seniors petition the College for me to take Senior Sneak Revisited had been told to look sad. They another exam. stepped off the bus with arms at “The Year Juniors Foiled the Senior Without Joe’s quiet encourage- their sides and hands cupped. Who Sneak” (Autumn 1999) by Ray “The ment and then Isaac’s going the threw the first egg is unknown, but Scribe” Smith ’54 has a story extra mile, I would not have bene- once in the air, it became the signal behind the story. fited from the Wheaton experi- for a barrage of chicken eggs. The letters ence. When I learned of Margaret I was originally a member of the yolk was on the juniors. The Dirty Richards Thiessen’s (’32) death Class of ’54, but I followed an Dozen juniors with their welcoming years ago in the alumni magazine, I accelerated program, became a banner fled in haste. was filled with regret that I had senior between 1952 and ’53, and The Scribe, who watched the never personally thanked Isaac for graduated in August 1953. mayhem from inside a locked car, his intervention. Consequently, my loyalty was to the could not report the entire historic senior class. Bill Volkman inspired me to use the event because his heavy breathing business world as an opportunity My intent was not to go to the had steamed the car windows. Many of the juniors washed them- We invite your letters to serve. His classes always Senior Sneak, but I changed my mind when I learned of the plan to selves in the nearby lake and turned and e-mail as they contained an ethical dilemma of the day, case studies from “his” business secretly transport the seniors’ it into a bowl of egg drop soup. relate to topics covered world. When asked what Wheaton luggage off campus. in the magazine. You may ask where is Christian did for me, I answer: It provided an Riding ahead of the buses in the charity in all of this? Again, The Correspondence must be environment where I learned to ask conspirators’ scout car on the way Scribe did not report the entire signed and may be edited hard questions and the peer pres- to the Jack and Jill Ranch in event. The generous seniors took for length or clarity. sure for godliness. Michigan, we looked for any sign of up a collection the next day to John Ryan ’56 juniors. We spotted a carload of repay their loan to me, and I stayed Write: Minneapolis them speeding down the highway on for a most enjoyable weekend. I had demonstrated my loyalty to Editor Thank you for the feature on in the opposite direction and Wheaton magazine the Class of ’53. alumni in law (Winter 2001). It is suspected, correctly, that the site Wheaton College especially important to know about was discovered. Dr. Donald J. Evans ’53 501 College Ave. Riverside, CA Wheaton, IL 60187; prominent Christians in politics, and We drove back east of Gary, I was happy to read that the David Indiana, to stop the buses carrying or send e-mail to For the Record [email protected]. Iglesias whose name I had seen on the seniors. I suggested that we buy the ballot in our recently adopted tomatoes with which to pepper the LeRoy Pfund ’49 coached the state was the same person I knew juniors. We worried, though, that Wheaton baseball team from about from Wheaton. the hands of anxious seniors, who 1948-49 through 1974-75. That’s Dr. Roger C.Wiens ’82 had yet to be told of the discovery, 27 seasons in all, one more than we Los Alamos, NM would prematurely squeeze the reported in “Shaped by Example” tomatoes.We needed another plan. (Winter 2001).

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Continued from the back cover. AUTO Focus

Where others might see rust and ruin, Pat Mercer Hutchens ’59 sees the promise of restoration. Old cars in a junkyard become symbols of life—and of the kingdom of God. The vehicular motif took root in 1969-70, when Pat and her family were living in Israel.“We went to a graveyard for old, rusted-out cars, and I took lots of photos straight on from the front,”she says. “They seemed to be looking back at me, and I saw them as remnants, from the biblical word nisharim.” Pat remembers a neighbor in the German colony of Jerusalem who was a Holocaust survivor and suffered from frequent nightmares. Often waking to the woman’s screams, Pat came to see a connection between her, a biblical remnant, and the old graveyard cars. “I turned around immediately, went to Pat Mercer Hutchens lives in “The biblical promise that God will the hardware store, bought wood, and Great Falls,Virginia, with always have a remnant has stuck with me began to develop a completely new style,” her husband, Dr. James M. to this day,”she says.“It occurred to me she says.“I wanted to create works that Hutchens ’60. Jim, a retired that these old, broken-down, beat-up cars were almost humanoid—works that would Army brigadier general and are much more valuable when restored exist and survive in changing space.” the first chaplain to be than when they were new. It’s the same At the top of Pat’s list of influences wounded in Vietnam,once with people.They have greater ‘value’ after is Karl Steele, former head of Wheaton’s served as chaplain of suffering.They are God’s remnants after art department.“I asked him to honestly Wheaton College.They have the trials and struggles of life.” tell me if I had any talent,” she says. Years later, those memories resurfaced “The first day in class he looked me three children and nine when Pat was in an M.F.A. program at right in the eye and said,‘Art is 1 percent grandchildren. Pat will travel Northwestern University. She had post- inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.’ to St. Petersburg, Russia, in poned enrolling for a semester because she That’s all I needed.” 2002 to present a paper on was questioning the direction of her art. Now a teacher herself, at Corcoran art and spirituality. “The square canvas felt binding to College of Art and Design in me,”she says.“I just couldn’t solve it.” Washington, D.C., as well as at Northern The epiphany came during a morning Virginia and Lord Fairfax Colleges, Pat jog in Highland Park, Illinois, when she tells her students they all have the capac- noticed what looked like the image of one ity to create.“We are made in God’s by Alice Ross of those old cars in a neighbor’s home. image,” she says.“We are creative.” Adapted from Elan Magazine.

Wheaton 41 GrowingStrong Daughters

A sociology professor’s new book urges parents to help their daughters discover who they were created to be. When Lisa Graham McMinn thought about writing a book on daughters, she didn’t have to look The church authentic,” Dr. far for material. She has three presents its own McMinn says. daughters of her own, Danielle, 20; tensions.The The final chapters Sarah, 19; and Megan, 17. Like all evangelical church of the book detail women, she is a daughter herself. successfully relationships with And, as an assistant professor of teaches “God daughters, and the sociology at Wheaton College, she loves women chapter “Daughters teaches many young women. as much as and Fathers” is The stories of her family and men,” Dr. written by Dr. students help form the basis of her McMinn writes. McMinn’s husband, book Growing Strong Daughters, Yet it may often Mark, a psychology published in 2000 by Baker continue to emphasize professor at Wheaton. Book House. attitudes that limit the Dr. McMinn stresses that she Dr. McMinn started writing contributions of women. and her husband try to ground the book about four years ago Growing strong daughters their daughters in community, after toying with the idea for means giving them a sense of including family and the church. several years. It examines how confidence, competence, and The goal of building confidence parents can respond to the voice, Dr. McMinn writes.The and independence is not individual messages and pressures from book devotes several fulfillment, but an increased ability society and the church. “I didn’t chapters to these areas. Each to serve others. She sees the goal think there had been a good chapter ends by outlining as women and men working analysis on the role culture practical options for tackling together to be God’s hands and plays in determining values the theoretical issues raised. feet for justice and mercy.“I want associated with being female,” The book also includes many women to do many things not she says. “I want to redeem personal anecdotes that detail because it’s their right but their Diverse Notes what it means to be females both successes and struggles.“I responsibility,” she says.“We get made in the image of God.” thought it important that this be sidetracked when we think what on Activities Today, daughters find we’re supposed to be striving for is personal fulfillment.” at Wheaton– themselves pulled between conflicting signals from by Megan Laughlin ’02 Now and Then secular culture and from the church. One segment of society tells young women they can “do anything men can do as well as men can do it,” Dr. McMinn says, but society also tells women their value primarily comes from physical beauty. Lisa McMinn and her youngest daughter, Megan. Journal of Jonathan Blanchard

42 Wheaton Les Barker Journal Les Barker

Starr’s Message: During his 40-minute lecture, Character Still Starr referred to his role as inde- Matters pendent counsel as “the recent Ken Starr still draws a crowd. unpleasantness.” He told reporters Throughout his investigation earlier in the day that, after serv- “To make a of former President Bill Clinton, ing in the Reagan administration choice based Starr had to endure packs of as a federal judge and chief of staff on principle reporters and photographers for the attorney general and the camped outside his home. Now, Former Federal Judge Kenneth first Bush administration as solici- but that the 18 months removed from the Starr visited campus in April. tor general, his “time had come representative office of independent counsel, he for a really lousy job.” knows is is attracting audiences of friends “To make a choice based on Starr is now an adjunct unpopular is and foes alike. principle but that the representa- professor at the New York Starr was on Wheaton’s tive knows is unpopular is one University School of Law, one that campus April 4 to deliver the that should merit our heartfelt distinguished visiting professor should merit 2001 LeRoy H. Pfund lecture, thanks,” he said.“We are tending at George Mason University Law our heartfelt and more than 800 people packed more to equate politics with other School, and partner in a law firm thanks.” Barrows Auditorium and three wants, interests, and needs. Politics in Washington, D.C. other rooms in the Billy Graham is seen as a method of getting The Pfund lectures are named Center to hear what he had to what I want. . . . for longtime Wheaton coach and say.The man whose investigation “[Character] should be a part alumni director LeRoy Pfund ’49. ultimately led to a president’s of our discourse, and we should Past speakers have included impeachment had this advice for not be ashamed that it counts. former President Jimmy Carter, politicians: rely on your own The modern tendency in politics political columnist George Will, judgment and integrity, not on ...is to neglect the issues of and presidential historian Doris opinion polls. morality and character.” Kearns Goodwin.

Stop the Presses: GOP Alive and Well at Wheaton File this under the “You Call That themselves as Democrats; and Wheaton College Republican club News?” category:Wheaton 8 percent were independents. is the largest in Illinois.The state students are Republicans. The presidential preference organization named Professor Bud Kellstedt’s poll reflected those numbers: Wheaton’s group the Electoral Politics class last fall 83.1 percent for George W.Bush; Outstanding Club of the conducted a comprehensive 7.5 percent for Al Gore; and 7 Year and recognized telephone survey of about 450 percent for Ralph Nader. Devin Schultz ’01 as Wheaton students.The survey Despite such an overwhelming the Outstanding Club listed seven categories of party advantage—or perhaps because of Chairman of the Year. affiliation: strong, weak, and inde- it—the student Republican club The College pendent Democrats; strong, weak, disappeared from campus several Democrats also made and independent Republicans; and years ago. But in this election year, their quadrennial independents. the club came back to life and appearance in the fall The results: 82.7 percent of the won two major awards from the with 30 members.The students surveyed placed them- Illinois College Republican club has been active in selves in one of the Republican Federation. each presidential-elec- categories; 9.2 percent classified With 169 members, the tion year since 1972.

Wheaton 43 Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, I wondered if my students there what it should always do, and so Professor of English: would be able to understand rarely does—it evokes time and I’d have a difficult time choosing Faulkner at all, much less the first place, pulling the reader out of her between Dostoevsky’s The Brothers section of the book told impres- own present, placing her in the Karamazov and Cervantes’s Don sionistically from the point of present presence of another. Quijote for the category “best view of a 33-year-old man with novel of all time.” For the best the mentality of a 3-year-old. But novel published in English, I’d somehow these non-native have to choose William Faulkner’s English speakers picked it up right The Sound and the Fury. I first away. Faulkner’s characters are read it one summer in college in haunted by the past, as were my Georgia, in an un-airconditioned Basque students, never quite able dorm room with crickets already to break out of the realization that going strong at 8 A.M. Since then it was the past that simultaneously I have taught it many times, gave them an identity they could including once in the Basque not escape and enervated them. country of northern Spain. In Faulkner’s hands language does

JUST ONE What is the best novel Question? originally published in English? Do you have Alan Jacobs, Professor of English: I don’t think one English-language novel clearly just one question stands out from all the others.There are several for a Wheaton that are truly great, but in very different ways: professor? Write George Eliot’s Middlemarch,William Faulkner’s Leland Ryken, Professor of English: to us and we’ll Absalom,Absalom!, James Joyce’s Ulysses, and so The best novel originally published in pass it along: on. But just for fun, let me pick one few the English language is Great Expectations Editor, Wheaton, others pick: Bleak House by Charles Dickens. by Charles Dickens. It meets the criteria Wheaton College, Bleak House is a wonderfully innovative of a classic in a preeminent degree. It is 501 College Ave., book—it has two narrators who alternate in telling entertaining—in fact, it is the archetypal Wheaton, IL 60187; the story, one being the protagonist, Esther “fun read.” Its style sparkles and is self-rewarding. [email protected]. Summerson, the other being a lofty, ironic, omniscient It has all the qualities of a good story (too numerous commentator—but also a deeply moving one. It’s a to mention). It is filled with recognizable human bitter satire on the corruption of the English legal experiences and touches upon life system, an indictment of do-gooders who please powerfully at many points.And it themselves but don’t actually do much good, one is a never failing fountain of the first great English mysteries, a family tragedy, of wisdom and delight—an and a romantic comedy—all rolled into one! inexhaustible text that yields Bleak House is Dickens at the height of his powers, more upon every rereading. which is saying quite a lot.

44 Wheaton Journal Webcasting to the World

WETN Radio’s sports Arena.The network allows coverage went worldwide video to be carried from in 1998 with live audio the game to the studio; webcasts of Wheaton video is then sent to College soccer, football, and WETN-TV (cable channel basketball games. Last fall, 62 in Wheaton) and the WETN added a new sports Web site. feature: televised games on Wheaton sports fans WETN-TV and the around the world can watch WETN Web site, streaming video and listen

Walter Danylak Walter www.wheaton.edu/wetn. to a play-by-play account of A new fiber network the game. For the 2001-02 connects the WETN studio season, in addition to the in the Billy Graham Center game itself, coverage will to McCully Field and King include on-camera inter- views with student-athletes Career Services Joins and coaches. the Online Community Looking for a new job? Trying to are seeking information about expand your professional network? specific careers. Go to the Wheaton College Career “I’ve enjoyed being able to Services page, which is now part of share my experience and perspec- the Alumni Online Community: tive in the business environment,” THE WHEATON www.wheaton.onlinecommunity COLLEGE WE says Kate Wilhelm ’98, who used LOOK B SITE HAS A .com. . CHECK IT O NEW the service when she was a UT AT WWW On the Career Services page, .WHEATON student and now serves as a career .EDU you can post your résumé, search consultant.“The interaction with for a job, or find or register to current students makes me grate- become a career consultant.There ful for my time at Wheaton.” are about 90 different job categories This service is offered free of listed, including business, Christian charge to alumni who are regis- service, communications, education, tered with the Alumni Online health care, and social services. Community. If you have not yet Nathan Whitley ’97 of registered, please call the Alumni TalentSphere Services says he Association at 630-752-5047 to uses the online service to find receive your identification employees for his clients.“A number.Then proceed to Wheaton College graduate is www.wheaton.onlinecommunity equipped like few other candi- .com, and you will soon receive a dates to succeed in our rapidly username and password that will changing economy,” he says. allow you to access the commu- The Wheaton Career nity’s services, including the Consultant Network, which began Career Services page. in 1984, can also be found on the Online Community.The network by Sherry Waldrep connects alumni and students who Director of Career Services

Wheaton 45 Faculty News Retired Professor’s Book Still Teaches Lessons Twenty-seven years after its publication, Famous Pianists and Their Techniques by Professor of Music Emeritus Reginald R. Gerig ’42 is still regarded as an authoritative text in its field.The book covers the history of piano technique based on the practices of great teachers and performers. Famous Pianists and Their Techniques was one of just four books used in “Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos,” a recent exhibition at the National Museum of American History. It is also cited as a reference in The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and several other books and articles. Professor Gerig, who taught at Wheaton College from 1952 to 1987, lives in Wheaton with his wife, Irene Conrad Gerig ’42.

Dr. Moreau’s Dictionary Earns Award The Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions (Baker Book House, 2000), edited by Dr.A. Scott Moreau ’77, has received a Christianity Today Book Award for 2001. The dictionary contains more than 1,400 articles on the theory, practice, theology, and history of missions. More than 300 missionaries, theologians, and educators contributed to the dictionary, providing a broad international and interdenominational survey of the history of world missions as well as current trends and research.Associate editors are Harold Netland of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Charles Van Engen of Fuller Theological Seminary.The

Walter Danylak Walter award was announced in the April 23, 2001, issue of Christianity Today. Dr. Moreau, an associate professor of missions and intercultural studies, joined Wheaton’s faculty in 1993.

Dr. Savage Receives Prize for Article Dr.Alan Savage, an associate professor of French, was recently awarded the Edouard Morot-Sir Pedagogical Prize by the Institut Français de Washington.The prize is awarded annually for the best article on the teaching of French language, literature, or culture in The French Review. Dr. Savage’s award-winning article,“Surveying the Survey Course:A Practical Guide,” appeared in the March 2001 issue of the journal. It was co-written by Alice M. McLean. Dr. Savage, who earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago, has been a member of Wheaton’s faculty since 1994.

Dr. Terry Wins Screenplay Contest Slide, a screenplay by Dr.Artie Terry, an assistant professor of communications, was recently awarded first place in the inaugural Broadcast Education Association Faculty Script Writing Competition. Professors were required to write a short-subject script (15 to 45 pages) and were even given a theme: trust. For winning the competition, Dr.Terry received a cash prize, screenwriting soft- ware, and books on the subject. He will also have his script analyzed by noted Hollywood consultant Peter Mellenkamp. Dr.Terry, who joined Wheaton’s faculty in 1994, was invited to the 2001 Christians in Media Conference at Biola University in March. He presented two sessions:“Guerilla Filmmaking in the Digital Age” and “No-Budget Video for Churches and Ministries.” Walter Danylak Walter

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The Hall Calls, at Last He had 28 winning seasons in his were not separated into divisions the first people to offer his 29-year career. Six of his wrestlers based on size, as they now are. congratulations after the Hall of earned All-America honors. One Little Wheaton College often Fame announcement was made. was a national champion. found itself matched up against The congressman, who once was Still, George Olson ’34 says he Big Ten universities, including the a wrestling coach himself, jokes was shocked by his latest honor. University of Illinois, the that he learned takedowns and Twenty-seven years after he University of Wisconsin, and escapes from his coach. coached his last match, George Northwestern University. George’s Although George missed out was inducted into the NCAA Crusaders won their fair share. on the public ceremony in Iowa, Division III Wrestling Hall of George did not attend the several friends and former Fame in March.“You never Hall of Fame induction ceremony wrestlers honored him at an

expect recognition like this,” he in Waterloo, Iowa. But Tom informal celebration in Wheaton. 1958

says.“I was fortunate. I had some Jarman ’65, a national champion They presented him with his Hall Tower good wrestlers.” in 1964, spoke on his behalf. of Fame plaque and showered him George Olson’s teams When George coached Another one of his former with gifts and stories about the had winning records in Wheaton’s teams, from 1945 to wrestlers, Speaker of the House good ol’ days. 28 of 29 seasons. 1974, colleges and universities Dennis Hastert ’64, was among

Faculty on the Move Seen and Heard Promotions, tenure, and emeritus status Wheaton College is about to effective July 1, 2001 get into the earthquake-track- From Associate Professor to Professor Daniel Horn, D.M.A., Conservatory ing business. Dr. Jim Clark, of Music professor of geology, is building Tim Wilkinson, Ph.D., Chemistry a seismograph, which will From Assistant Professor record earthquake activity to Associate Professor around the world. Dr. Jeffrey Trey Buchanan, Ph.D., Psychology Greenberg, the chairman of Lisa McMinn, Ph.D., Sociology/Anthropology the geology and environmental Steve Rauseo, Ph.D., Physics science department, hopes Artie Terry, Ph.D., Communications eventually to have a number 52 characters. . . .This year’s communications Professor of seismographs working Ken Chase’s performance Te n u r e organizers of the annual Class Trey Buchanan, Ph.D., Psychology together and to connect the Films decided to go for an in the junior film, Curse Michael LeRoy, Ph.D., Politics and system to an international Academy Awards-type feel of the Gorilla Picture (The International Relations network. . . . The Arena to the evening and invited Other Side of the Story). Steve Rauseo, Ph.D., Physics Theater spring production attendees to dress up for the Blind, the senior film, Lindy Scott, Ph.D., was The American Clock:A occasion.All of the directors won best picture, best Foreign Languages Vaudeville by Arthur Miller. and principal actors arrived in director, best actor, best Alan Seaman, Ph.D., Missions and Intercultural Studies The play employs short scenes formal attire, as did many cinematography, and best Artie Terry, Ph.D., Communications and a broad sampling of the audience members. Highlights editing.The juniors won Emeriti music of the period to capture of the 25-minute films best actress, best supporting Ivan Fahs ’54, Ph.D., America in the midst of the include President Duane actor, best supporting Sociology/Anthropology Great Depression.Wheaton Litfin’s appearance in actress, best soundtrack, Lyman Kellstedt, Ph.D., Politics and College actors portrayed Freshmen: The Musical and and best screenplay. International Relations Helmut Ziefle, Ph.D., Foreign Languages Wheaton 47 Faith grace to what’s happening on And I’ve discovered that at last the page.As I fashion my char- every single piece of life is as Through acters, God is fashioning me. deep as the spirit itself, and Words And in some mysterious way that the key to wisdom is to God has placed me inside look and listen—and then by Vinita Hampton Wright every plot I create. God is look and listen again. God has M.A. ’93 writing my life the whole buried more secrets in a time. sentence or scene than I ever When I was young and just The life of writing has notice at first. Sometimes I discovering my gifts, I dreamed taught me much about life of don’t know something impor- of writing stories and songs the spirit. For one thing, there tant about a character until and poems and books. In this is no way to predict how the I’m rewriting for the way I would spread the good story will end.You lay out a umpteenth time. It’s been Vinita Hampton news of Jesus. I knew that God plot and think you know there all along, but it took Wright M.A. ’93 gave talents for a reason and where things are going. But practice and patience to see it. shifted from music that I was being called to a then the characters come to Life is like that too.The life, and they go where they education to book holy task. same tasks, the same friends, please, and you end up with a publishing in the I didn’t know back then the same places, and the same story you wouldn’t have that the first person God Scriptures have new things to early ’90s, serving expected coming out of your would bless through my gifts show me if I’ll simply pay as editor for Harold little mind and heart. was me. I never suspected that attention. So I’m becoming less Shaw Publishers, God would use my own words I left God a few times anxious about my own life Tyndale House, and to form me, teach me, and over the years. Never story as it unfolds.The Spirit currently Loyola eventually bring me back completely, though, because will throw in plot twists I to faith. my gifts always brought me Press. Her two wouldn’t have imagined or When you are an artist, back.The more deeply I novels, Grace at had the nerve to carry out. you don’t bring anything new explored the world through Bender Springs The Spirit will reveal parts of to the world; you merely writing, the closer I came to (1999) and Velma myself I never knew existed. the God in whom I’d stopped uncover what already is. I I have also learned that Still Cooks in believing.Whenever I gave don’t make up stories; I there is a difference between Leeway (2000), discover them. I don’t create mastering the craft of writing attention to my gifts, God are with Broadman characters; I meet them.Then and controlling the process of showed up in the midst of the & Holman. She is I describe those characters and creating. I am responsible to work.This is inevitable, writing a third novel tell those stories to others.And become expert with words because creativity is rooted in the more creative I become, the spirit.When I am doing and some nonfiction. and ideas. But the moment I the more enthusiastically I creative work, I can’t help but She lives in Chicago clamp down on the work and believe that God is close by all try to control it too much, the be drawn to what is spiritual. with her husband, the time, just waiting to be thing I am creating becomes And so I offer my writing Jim Wright, recognized and then expressed flat and lifeless, forced and to God. I step out in sheer a photographer in fresh detail. trite. I must let go and trust faith every time I construct a and designer. I am led by this sincere the gift to do what God sentence or scene. I wait to see intention of serving the world. created it to do. how the story will turn out. But the Spirit never touches I must let go of my life And I wonder—with much the world through my words as well. I concentrate on hope—about the person I will without touching me as well. mastering justice, mercy, and become by the end of it. In using my gifts, I am partici- love. But I don’t worry so pating in God’s coming to life much about the details right in my life.Time after anymore. God knows how time I’ll be writing and mind- to bring my story to pass. ing my own business, and God And it will not be trite will appear and lend lovely and uninteresting.

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