Summer 2000 Wheaton

Jump Start for a New Century We asked, and you gave d ear friends—

“Already . . . but not yet.” Thus do theologians often speak of Christ’s kingdom. Our Lord’s rule in the world was inaugurated with His death and resurrection, but His rulership also awaits its eschatological fulfillment at His return. So in one sense we rightfully say that Jesus reigns; but in another, that He does not yet reign fully. His kingdom is both “already ...but not yet.” If this is true of our Lord, we should also expect it to be true of His followers. Whatever we accomplish for Christ’s kingdom will likely bear that same “already . . . but not yet” quality. Hence our ambivalent response to our successes:While pleased by them, we are also humbled by them, knowing it could have been otherwise; though confident of Christ’s ultimate triumph, we resist a prideful triumphalism since His full victory is yet to be achieved; while we genuinely celebrate, we do so, in a sense, wistfully, always aware of how much there is yet to be done. Our kingdom work too, then, is marked by an “already ...but not yet.” It was with just this sort of theological ambivalence that we announced recently we had reached the $140 million goal of Wheaton’s New Century Challenge. On the one hand this event represents a significant milestone in the history of the College, and we have been celebrating it with great joy. God’s blessing on this effort has been apparent from the beginning, and we want to thank—how inadequate that tiny word!—both Him and all those who have responded to His prompting by generously helping us reach this goal. It is a great victory won.Ah, but there is also our ever-present “. . . not yet.” Goals still unachieved, Initiative projects still unfunded, a Phase Two yet to come. Along with our celebrations, you will read about some of our unfinished work too in this issue of Wheaton. And why would we think it should be otherwise? We are celebrating these days a wondrous milestone for Wheaton College, but there is so much more to be done.Thus it shall always be, I think, for those who live “For Christ and His Kingdom,” at least until our Lord arrives to make all things complete.

Duane Litfin President volume 3 number 4 Table of Contents

Editor p.2 The sketch Georgia I. Douglass ’70, M.A. ’94 becomes reality Assistant Editor Michael Murray p. 40 Alumni Weekend 2000 Designer p.11 A call to uphold absolutes Les Barker Design Consultant Alice Isoz Chrismer ’70 Class News Editor Deborah MacPherson Gove ’92 Editorial Advisers Marilee A. Melvin ’72 R. Mark Dillon Alumni Association President A.Thomas Paulsen ’70 Features President-elect Charles V. Hogren ’58 2 The Measure of Stewardship Executive Director Reaching the $140 million goal of the New Century Marilee A. Melvin ’72 Challenge required support from every College Professor Emeritus LeRoy H. Pfund ’49 constituency. More than 37,000 individuals gave Alumni Trustee 151,009 gifts during the largest funding effort in the Representatives Ray Carlsen ’60 history of the College. A.Thomas Paulsen ’70 C. Samuel Gray ’52 11 The Corruption of Conscience Board of Directors Class of 2001 “Conscience,” Charles W.Colson warned during his Wesley C. Bleed ’80 Bud McCalla ’59 Graduate School commencement address,“is no longer Elaine Wakefield McCalla ’60 thought of as an inner moral compass.” Edith E. Nowack ’49 Mary Graham Ryken M.A. ’88 Sharen Nerhus Sommerville ’72 David R.Veerman ’65 Departments Class of 2002 Patrick O. Cate ’63 14 Profile Mary Ann Seume Cate ’65 Robert D. Dye ’73 Dr.Taylor McKenzie ’54, the first Navajo M.D. and Katherine E. Gieser ’99 current vice president of his nation, is named Alumnus Susan H. Grosser ’71 Janice Stevenson Nickel ’69 of the Year for Distinguished Service to Society. Class of 2003 Randal Ellison ’77 Marilyn L. Himmel ’55 16 Under the Tower Dwight E. Nelson ’72 Seven faculty members, having taught at Wheaton from Shane A. Scott ’96 Brian J.Wildman ’85 23 to 45 years, say goodbye. On My Mind: Wheaton College Dr. Clint Shaffer ’84 remembers Charles President Malik’s The Two Tasks. Dr. Duane Litfin Scholarly Pursuits: Dr. Roger Kennett is fascinated Provost Dr. Stanton L. Jones with what is not known about life. Senior Vice President Dr. David E. Johnston ’65 22 Sports Vice President for Advancement Dr. R. Mark Dillon 24 A Word With Alumni / Alumni News Vice President for Alumni Relations Marilee A. Melvin ’72 Vice President for 44 The Journal of Jonathan Blanchard Student Development Dr. Samuel Shellhamer Diverse Notes on Activities at Wheaton

Wheaton is published winter, spring, 48 At Last special (catalog), summer, and autumn by Wheaton College, 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187-5593, 630-752-5047, and mailed free of charge to alumni and Cover Photo: Les Barker. The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago was the setting for the friends of Wheaton College. Periodicals final New Century Challenge banquet, attended by more than 900 guests.At all six banquets— postage paid at Wheaton, IL (USPS016326). the others were in Minneapolis, Dallas, Boca Raton, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.—nearly Postmaster: Please send address changes to Wheaton College,Wheaton,IL 60187-5593. 2,000 alumni and friends attended and gave $485,415 toward the goals of the New Century Opinions expressed are those of the Challenge. contributors or the editors and do not necessarily represent the official position The purpose of the Wheaton College Alumni Association is to unite all alumni of Wheaton College into a compact of the College. organization for effective communication with each other and with the College, to arrange alumni reunions, to encourage © 2000 Wheaton College,Wheaton, IL the formation of Wheaton Clubs throughout the world, to foster and perpetuate enthusiasm for the College and fellow www.wheaton.edu alumni, and to promote alumni giving. Gift upon gift, dollar upon dollar.We asked, and you gave.

And the New Century Challenge reached its $140 million goal more

than a year ahead of schedule. the CAMPAIGN GOAL: $140 MILLION CAMPAIGN GIFTS: $145.4 MILLION

* Measure PLANNED GIFTS goal: $32,000,000 / gifts: $34,370,479 107% of INITIATIVES goal: $68,343,000 / gifts: $64,084,721 94% Stewardship

CURRENT GIFTS goal: $38,057,000 / gifts: $46,967,381

123% by Dr. R. Mark Dillon * percentage of goal reached Vice President for Advancement

can’t say I was looking forward to the The whole Wheaton family— I appointment. I had met the couple at a New not just a few Century Challenge event and knew they When President Duane Litfin and the Board of were wonderful people—alumni with Wheaton Trustees began thinking of a concerted effort to roots. But I also knew that one of their children try to make Wheaton all it should be, they soon had attended Wheaton some years ago but realized that it would not be business as usual. transferred out by the sophomore year, disap- Accomplishing this task would take leadership pointed with the experience here. from every sector of the Wheaton family. Still, that day I found some comfort in The trustees committed to giving knowing that, after all, they had invited me into $30 million, more than 20 percent of the total their home. As I drove from the airport to their home, $140 million. But their extraordinary commit- I did what I often do to prepare for a visit— ment was not limited to giving financially. I thought about why we were involved in this Each trustee pitched in, writing letters of effort called the New Century Challenge. endorsement to foundations, sponsoring events, or making personal contacts.Their question as As we stand at the summit of this, the largest trustees was not “How much do you need?” but NEW funding effort in the history of the College, “How can I contribute?” CENTURY CHALLENGE think with me about the values that infused the We asked faculty and staff to make com- New Century Challenge. mitments—to give, to write letters, to travel—

2 Wheaton NEW CENTURY CHALLENGE and they responded in remarkable ways. Student influence Wheaton professors had on their lives, leaders joined in, too, telling their friends they chose the Faculty Initiative’s Faith and about the Initiatives and how they could get Learning Program as the centerpiece project. involved.Wheaton students traveled, spoke Wheaton Associates, Phonathon teams, the at forums, gave testimonies at numerous events, Heritage Society, and Parents Council all lent held fundraisers, and participated in their their energy and resources to achieve the goals class gifts—all significant contributions to the of the New Century Challenge. New Century Challenge. This broad participation brought strength Very early on, the Alumni Association and weight to the whole effort.The New Board of Directors eagerly pledged personal and Century Challenge was simply too big to be a corporate support.They set unprecedented president’s “campaign” or an advancement goals of 60 percent alumni participation and division effort. It required participation from all $60 million in total giving. Recognizing the who loved and cared for Wheaton.

The Wheaton College Board C.William Pollard ’60 Thomas C. Pratt ’60 Kathleen Buswell of Trustees is made up of Trustee, Chairman of Chairman, Board of Trustees Nielson ’77 men and women of ability, the New Century Challenge True campaigns are never just Trustee achievement, and leadership. Executive Committee about raising money.They are Completing the As the owners and governing Through the vision, effort, about re-raising vision, New Century Challenge draws board of the College, they are and giving of many people, we retooling for the work ahead, my eyes ahead! What a delight a working board; they don’t have come to a successful and then about resourcing the to think of students coming to lend their names as mere completion of the New work. Such was the New a more well equipped campus, tokens to be printed Century Challenge, Century Challenge just and to a community where on the cover of an and a year ahead completed.When done well as biblical faith shines more annual report. Early of time to boot. It has this one was, campaigns serve distinctly in life and learning. on in the New been God’s timing, to draw attention to the Completing the New Century Challenge, not ours. It is for His College’s vision and mission, Century Challenge draws my their commitment kingdom that we rallying each of our constituen- eyes back, too—not just to to the College went even work, learn, and give. It is His cies around them and mar- several years of committed further, when they pledged to ministry,Wheaton College, that shalling efforts toward realizing work and beautiful generosity, be responsible for more than has benefited. Praise Him for them. Making the leadership but to years of faithful laborers $30 million of the $140 the mighty work He has done. gifts to kick off the campaign for Christ and His kingdom. million goal. Investing their Yes, it was a step of faith. galvanized the Board of God has blessed this institution energy, time, and resources, Yes, it is an answer to prayer. Trustees to the task, gave us a throughout its history. they each participated in their Yes, it is a reminder to all of us vision for it, and allowed us to Completing the New “Give/Get Challenge,” by that God does care and lead others Century Challenge must draw contributing personally and by work in our lives, and yes, it in joining the our eyes up. According to His encouraging others to give. does represent what can effort. We grace, God has blessed us.We be accomplished when God’s counted it a need His blessing, His people work together for a privilege to presence, and His life-giving common goal and do so in a co-labor Word more than we need way that honors His name. with the whole College anything else. Lead us on, Lord Praise God for all His blessings. community in this great effort. Jesus, into this new century.

Wheaton 3 Mission focused, not project focused education for the past 140 years are a The New Century Challenge has never been precious heritage.That is why it is impossible primarily about how much money can be to celebrate the achievement of a $140 million raised, but rather about how we can advance the goal without acknowledging that we mission of Wheaton College as our stewardship. stand on the shoulders of many who have Yes,the New Century Challenge has its gone before us. For nearly 14 decades, projects, its goals, and its Five Initiatives.Yet presidents and faculty have poured themselves these are not ends in themselves but means to into the lives of students. Students have the ultimate purpose of accomplishing the parlayed a heart for God and the life of the mission of Wheaton College: to serve the church mind into meaningful service to church and and society by developing whole and effective society at every level. Faithful college staff servants of Christ through higher education. and field representatives have developed meaningful relationships with friends and About the future, linked to the past alumni. Many of the gifts to the New Century Wheaton’s continuity of mission is a remarkable Challenge were nurtured in classrooms years testimony to God’s faithfulness to many ago and in visits by presidents and staffers generations. Seven presidents and an institu- long-since retired. tional commitment to Christ-centered higher The New Century Challenge was largely motivated by a vision of Wheaton’s mission, rooted in the past, but applied to the changing needs of future generations of students. Have you ever wondered about your gift to the Wheaton Fund? About people, not dollars Q When I got my Phonathon call this year, I gave $25 to the College. How did this One of the hazards of extensive fundraising affect the New Century Challenge? can be a tendency to focus on dollar goals A The Wheaton Fund supports the fundamental and ongoing needs that keep Wheaton rather than on people.And although monetary College functioning, day after day, year after year. But during the past six years, your goals are important, the exercise of thoughtful steady, consistent support of the Wheaton Fund also made it possible for the College to Christian stewardship is infinitely more so. focus on the specific and extra needs of the New Century Challenge. From the beginning, we knew that we could Q In December 1999, I received the Wheaton 2000 wall calendar and sent in $50 to not control how much people give. the Wheaton Fund. Did my gift count toward the goals of the New Century Challenge? What we could control, however, was the A Yes. Although distinct from the Five Initiatives, the Wheaton Fund was an integral integrity of our message and our care for component to the New Century Challenge. Your dollars are part of the 140 million dollars people, as evidenced in the ways we ask, say given to the New Century Challenge. thank you, and eventually use the resources Q What happens to the Wheaton Fund after the New Century Challenge? entrusted to us. Our institutional stewardship is every bit as important as personal A The Wheaton Fund will keep on asking, because its priorities are ongoing, reducing stewardship.The College’s resolve to manage the cost of educating each student—today by more than $5,000 a year. And it will resources wisely and faithfully is foundational continue to support student financial aid, faculty salaries and development, library learning to our asking for support from others who resources, and programs like HNGR and student ministries—and much more. also desire to be thoughtful Christian stewards. Q What—or who?—are Wheaton Associates?

A Wheaton Associates provide the backbone of support for the Wheaton Fund. They About investments, not merely gifts are a group of people who commit to a minimum annual gift of $1,000 to the Wheaton Many gifts to the New Century Challenge Fund, pray for the College, promote Wheaton’s mission, and encourage others to do the were given sacrificially from a family’s or same. Today 1,200 individuals and families participate in the Wheaton Associates program. individual’s current income. Other gifts came from accumulated assets.Yet the effect of every

4 Wheaton NEW CENTURY CHALLENGE Paula Poinson ’02 Junior Paula Poinson left Coral Springs, Florida, to attend Wheaton College because she wanted to learn from professors as dedicated to her holistic educational and spiritual development as they were to their own. Eager to help out the College however she can, she’s been an active participant in the New Century Challenge effort, offering many hours of volunteer and work service. Paula knows how she and her classmates are already benefiting from the New Century Challenge.Technological upgrades to residence halls, classrooms, and the library have made her studies in psychology more efficient and in-depth and honed her computer savvy. Having received financial aid from the College, she has benefited from donors’ gifts to the Wheaton Fund.As an African-American student, she values the efforts under way to increase the diversity of the Wheaton College community. And next fall, she looks forward to helping break in the new Sports and Recreation Complex. After all, this member of the Gospel Choir and student music group Indigo Blue knows the value of time invested both inside and outside the classroom. “I’m honored I could help perpetuate the legacy of the College,” she says. “I’m convinced that Wheaton College will be a better place in the next 100 years because of the New Century Challenge.”

gift—and its return on investment—is measured planted,Apollos watered, but God gave the For nearly six years in changed lives. increase. Dr. R. Mark Dillon, vice president for That is why these gifts do not mark the We can point to the vision of leaders; the advancement, has led a end of our relationship but a new beginning. extraordinary work of the advancement team; team of 50 individuals The investments by donors have been many: the faithfulness of faculty, staff, and students; the toward the successful 37,283 individuals, including 65 percent of our gifts and prayers of alumni and friends, as completion of the $140 million New Century alumni, gave 151,009 gifts that comprise ingredients to the success of the New Century Challenge.An ordained the total of $145,438,766 received for the Challenge. minister, he holds a New Century Challenge.The scope of the But only God gives the increase, and His B.A. from Bethel involvement and the generous amounts given provision has been evident at every turn. College, an M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical are a remarkable stewardship that will bear Divinity School, and fruit for generations to come. a doctorate from The ell, here I was. Fortified by my Ultimately, the careful, faithful giving by Union Institute. In reason for being there (and by my Christian stewards, whether in large or small W addition to his work at declaration to God that I wasn’t Wheaton, and with amounts, is an investment not merely in higher going in there without Him!), we began to talk. more than 18 years of education, or in a project, or even in Wheaton experience in fund They expressed fond memories of Wheaton. College. It is an investment in kingdom work, raising and public They also aired some profound disappointments. and that reality adds infinite value to all gifts. relations, he is an But, remarkably, what sustained the conversation author, consultant, and conference speaker. Not by human hands, but by was their abiding hope that Wheaton would, God’s provision indeed, be always true to its mission, ever rooted The trustees and president were resolute that the in Christ and ever more committed to its planning and execution of the New Century stewardship in the future.And with that Challenge would be bathed in prayer. For the confidence, like many thousands of Wheaton past four years, on the second Tuesday of every alumni and friends over the past four years, they month, trustees, faculty, staff, and students gave—thoughtfully, generously, joyfully, and at a gathered at the Billy Graham Museum chapel to level far above that which they had ever given pray. before. In 1 Corinthians 3:6, Paul says that he soli deo gloria

Wheaton 5 a Jump StartThe Five Initiatives for a New Century diversity goal: $29,435,829

Like all When Oxford University’s administrators Individuals, foundations, and corporations comprehensive recently tackled the renovation of an old dining gave—and surpassed the $140 million goal fund-raising hall, they were concerned.The ceiling was more than a year ahead of schedule.As a result efforts, the New buttressed by rotting 500-year-old beams that of these gifts, plus funds made available by Century were enormous and seemingly irreplaceable. budget tightening and reallocation, the purposes Challenge But the university’s forester spoke up.The of the Five Initiatives are already being realized. required gifts problem had been addressed half a millennium for all types ago, he explained, by staff who cared about the of uses: institution’s future.When the building was Faculty endowment, constructed, they planted a special grove of oak Initiative capital, and trees to replace the beams centuries later. Discerning Scholars the current In a similar way, through your gifts to the Inspiring Teachers Wheaton Fund. New Century Challenge, you have provided for Trusted Friends But at future generations of students and others who Goal: $10.7 million the center of the will be marked by the influence of Wheaton Received: $10.5 million New Century College. Challenge are the In July 1996, the College announced the A central goal of the Faculty Initiative is to Five Initiatives. New Century Challenge goal: to raise $140 bolster the College’s existing Faith and Learning million by June 2001 to fund Five Initiatives, Program, designed to ground faculty in the Wheaton Fund, and other priorities. applying the Christian faith to their disciplines.

6 Wheaton NEW CENTURY CHALLENGE

“Many faculty members were trained at Chair in Christian Education, created in 1984, to secular institutions,” says Dr. John Monson, full funding. In addition, four new chairs were assistant professor of archaeology.“In such established, surpassing the initial goal of two: the contexts, one has to be intentional—even Arthur F.Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning; counter-cultural—in the pursuit of integrating the Gunther H. Knoedler Chair of Theological academic research with Christian life and Studies; the William Volkman Chair for Business thought.Wheaton’s Faith and Learning seminar Law; and the Kenneth T.Wessner Chair of has profoundly enhanced my intellectual Biblical Studies.The Wessner and Knoedler journey, deepened my faith, and significantly chairs will be central to establishing the College’s improved my effectiveness in the classroom.” new doctoral program in biblical studies and Other goals of the Faculty Initiative— theology. Endowed chair holders also serve as some pursued through reallocated funding— colleague-mentors to junior faculty. include further encouraging the teaching and “Wheaton thrives because of the giftedness mentoring of students, promoting faculty of its faculty,” says Wheaton Provost Stanton intellectual productivity, lowering the Jones.“Endowed chair holders add to the student/faculty ratio, and increasing faculty richness of the faculty community by bringing salaries. to campus or allowing us to retain individuals The Faculty Initiative is also focused on who are effective and engaging teachers while establishing new endowed chairs and streng- also noted scholars in their fields.Their work thening the College’s 10 existing chairs. serves as a witness that faithfulness to Christ can Through the New Century Challenge, a com- go right along with rigor and fruitful scholarly mitment was made to bring the Price/LeBar endeavor.”

Dr. Jill Peláez Baumgaertner Vice Chair of Faculty, Professor of English How can I describe the excitement of walking into a classroom, pulling the door shut, and turning to face the assembled students who are ready to discuss the odd stories of Flannery O’Connor or the correspondence between Luther and Erasmus or those dislocating poems of John Donne? There is nothing in the world quite like it—the exhilaration of meeting young, eager minds alive with Holy-Spirited intelligence, sensitive to the full meanings of language, primed to integrate their readings with the Word made Flesh. I have taught in other environments, and I have found nowhere else the level of engagement and energy I find in the Wheaton College classroom. What, I have been asked, will the completion of the goals of the New Century Challenge mean to Wheaton faculty and their teaching? It will mean that we can do better what we already love to do. With more intensive and intentional training in Faith and Learning (especially important for those of us who received our education in the secular university), with the encouragement and support of excellence that the new Faculty Achievement Award Program gives, with all of the promised attention that will be given to help us to achieve technological proficiency in our pedagogy, with the support of an administration and board committed to lowering the student/faculty ratio, Wheaton can’t help but become an even better place for students who deserve the very best. faculty

Wheaton 7 Nurturing Mind, Body & Spirit The new Alfred C., Jr., and Ellen Faye Eckert Recreation Center and King Arena will be dedicated on September 29, 2000. This Sports and Recreation Complex will provide a convenient, practical, and accessible place for students to compete in varsity sports, exercise, play intramural sports, fellowship, and just “hang out.” Architecturally designed to complement Anderson Commons, the complex’s features include: • three-court multipurpose gymnasium • elevated running and sprinting tracks • 2,700-seat King Arena for intercollegiate basketball and volleyball • 8,000-square-foot weight and fitness room • aerobics and wrestling areas • climbing wall • kinesiology/athletics offices • informal gathering space

Student Life complex and a special homecoming Initiative convocation will be held in King Arena.) Time Out The Student Life Initiative has also drawn attention to another center of campus life: Goal: $15.1 million Edman Chapel. Funds have brought important Received: $16.2 million lighting, sound, and structural improvements “In an academically rigorous environment, to the building, and a $750,000 gift will provide students need to develop their bodies as well as the chapel with one of the finest Casavant their minds and spirits,” says Dr. Sam Shell- organs among national colleges and universities. hamer, vice president for student development. These upgrades will enrich the College’s Unquestionably, students’ characters are honed tri-weekly chapel worship services and Conser- and challenged through informal interaction, vatory of Music and Artist Series programming. fellowship, and athletic competition with peers, coaches, and faculty mentors. The only “bricks and mortar” component Technology of the New Century Challenge, the new Initiative Alfred C., Jr., and Ellen Faye Eckert Recreation connections to Center and Centennial Gym renovations a World of Information will provide a much-needed nucleus for campus Goal: $4 million community life. Received: $2.7 million A central feature of the complex, King Arena, is named for Wheaton athletics Accomplishing Wheaton’s Technology Initiative is enthusiast Leroy King.“The competition arena not a choice but an obligation in a world reliant is an area on campus most often visited by on information processing and transmission. the general public,” says men’s basketball coach Within the last several years, the College’s Bill Harris.“King Arena will contribute entire information services system has been substantially to bringing the Wheaton College revamped. Residence halls are now equipped community together. It will also bring the with mini computer labs, and individual rooms College up to par with the athletics facilities of are connected to the campus computer network other top-ranked conference schools.” and the Internet.A new major in computer (Mark your calendars for September 29, science has replaced the former combined 2000, when a dedication ceremony will mathematics/computer science major. Distance officially celebrate the completion of the learning connects the Wheaton classroom to

8 Wheaton NEW CENTURY CHALLENGE off-campus audiences as well as to the near- Association’s recommended holdings, the library infinite cyber-based knowledge pool. is also expanding and updating various strategic Three new “smart” classrooms installed holdings and collections in every discipline. in Barrows Auditorium and Blanchard and In addition, more library staff are on hand to Armerding halls allow lecturers to deliver maintain the new resources and to educate information via computer,VCR, or laser disk. students and faculty on their use. And plans are in place to develop a Center for “I value knowing that, in the coming Advanced Technology to further explore the years,” says Dr. Kenneth Chase, associate technological dimension of pedagogy as it professor of communications,“I can send relates to the Christian liberal arts education. students to Buswell Library with the confidence “The Technology Initiative will connect that the best and most recent scholarship Wheaton to worldwide channels of commun- in my discipline will be at their fingertips.” ication,” says Dr.Terence Perciante, professor of mathematics and computer science,“not only Greg Campbell ’70 for our sakes but for that of others as well.The Chairman, Board of Visitors calling of God’s people to incarnate and convey the Word of Truth compels us as believers to As I think about the completion of the New remain engaged.” Century Challenge, I am reminded again of the reason why the Board of Visitors Library supported the effort: the importance we Initiative place on the integration of faith, learning, doors to Discovery and living. We recognize its value in the work of Wheaton College and, by all means, in our individual lives as well. Goal: $7.4 million Received: $6.9 million Aware that each of the Five Initiatives incorporates this overarching theme of the integration of faith, learning, and living, we saw the need to stand Students seldom wait in lines anymore to use a with the trustees and take a leadership role financially. We also assisted in computer at the newly improved Buswell Memorial Library.And faculty members can other ways, such as helping to spread the College’s vision by hosting local have discussions with colleagues in London and gatherings of people interested in giving to Wheaton.We did so because we Los Angeles using the library’s new teleconfer- want to see that future Wheaton students will have access to the best faculty, encing equipment. a diverse community, extensive library holdings, a student life facility, and With the advance of technology, library technological advances. research today has become primarily multimedia-driven. Buswell Library is now In a recent Life@Work article, Board of Visitors member Bonnie Pruett equipped to give students access to personal Wurzbacher ’77 said the “call to good stewardship is not only for our laptop computers. It also provides a 60-station personal lives, but for our professional lives as well.” At the center of our computing lab and a new, state-of-the-art service as a board at Wheaton College is this call to manage well the Electronic Access Center that provides access to resources God has given, bringing our personal and professional lives together electronic databases and the World Wide Web. in a way that will serve Christ and His kingdom. Added to all this is a remodeled writing center, a library seminar room with video/ The Board of Visitors is a group of individuals who are leaders in a teleconferencing capabilities, three new confer- broad spectrum of professions and interests.The board’s purpose is to ence/study rooms, and rolling shelving units to assist where possible the College’s trustees and administration.They consolidate space for lesser-used materials. are not a governing body, but they do have influence and provide information and strategic counsel.

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Wheaton 9 Doris Mauer Meyer ’57 tive agreement between unnamed donors and College faculty and administration, the scholar- There certainly is no scarcity of worthwhile Christian ship has provided full tuition and room and organizations that need support. The question is, Out of board to 18 students since its initiation in 1998. the many, which ones should we choose? Other efforts for the Diversity Initiative, We choose to support Wheaton College because of its some funded through internal budget allo- cations, are also under way.These include steps influence on us more than 40 years ago, as well as today. to develop a pre-college urban outreach Our lives were profoundly affected through the faculty, program, to enhance teamwork between the chapel, friends, dorm life, and especially outreach College and alumni working in Chicago’s urban opportunities. Our support comes out of grateful hearts for being taught the setting, and to expand campus employment importance of thinking Christianly in our society.Wheaton has been instrumental opportunities for both women and members of in shaping our worldview. racial and ethnic minorities. “Our efforts toward increased diversity are Also, our support of Wheaton is built upon Wheaton’s consistency of mission. driven by kingdom values,” says President Wheaton has not wavered in its mission to prepare young people to be Christ’s Duane Litfin.“To the extent that it is possible, people in the church, at home, and in the marketplace. we’d love to see Wheaton represent the diversity Lastly, we have seen the effect of Wheaton on our three children. Their Wheaton found within the body of Christ.” experience has prepared them for life and service in today’s world. As we celebrate the $140 million milestone, We give to Wheaton with joy, knowing that our investment reproduces endlessly Wheaton College remains keenly aware of its responsibility to be a wise steward of your gifts. in the lives of people and will have continued returns for the kingdom of God.

alumna We are grateful to you and to the Lord for this provision. Diversity Still, some portions of the New Century Initiative Challenge lack complete funding.The overall Reflecting the Kingdom goal of $140 million has been met because some projects surpassed their goals. Goal: $28.9 million In the coming months, the College will Received: $25.2 million concentrate on seeking funding for the portions The Diversity Initiative represents the New of the New Century Challenge that remain Century Challenge’s single largest monetary outstanding. goal, showing the importance of making a Remaining New Century Challenge Wheaton education affordable to students from Funding Needs a wide array of ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, Project Goal Left to Raise geographical, and experiential backgrounds. Faith and Learning $2 million $646,000 Funding for the Diversity Initiative has Holmes Endowed Chair $2 million $553,000 increased the pool of financial aid dollars Diversity $28.9 million $3.7 million available to students in need.And gifts have Library $7.4 million$539,000 provided new endowed student scholarships Technology $4 million $1.3 million and bolstered existing scholarships. One such effort is the Don and Ann Total left to raise: $6.7 million Church Scholarship, which seeks to increase the Please keep the successful conclusion of the presence and influence of African-American New Century Challenge effort in your prayers, individuals on Wheaton’s campus and in the and accept our thanks for all you have done to church worldwide. Funded through a coopera- bring us toward an early, strong finish.

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The Corruption generation with unformed consciences.They are Charles W.Colson is like untamed children abandoned in the the author of 15 books of Conscience wilderness, and they have unleashed an that have sold nearly unprecedented wave of terror in our schools, 5 million copies, and by Charles W.Colson his daily radio our streets, and even our homes. commentary, More than ever before in American history, Conscience is not a matter of determining, “Breakpoint,” reaches indeed in Western history, we are witnessing the but of acknowledging, what is good and evil. an audience of near-death of conscience. By virtue of being But in much of contemporary society, including 3 million people. created in His image and likeness, all men have a most of secular academia, the very concept of Mr. Colson first conscience that is sensitive to God’s Law. Paul conscience has been insidiously corrupted to achieved national writes:“For when the Gentiles who do not have represent its total opposite: self-will. It has notoriety as an aide to the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, changed, as it were, from a stop sign to a green President Richard M. Nixon from 1969 to these, not having the Law, are a law to them- light.As Princeton Professor Robert P.George selves, in that they show the work of the Law ’73, when he as puts it:“Consider how common it is for people known as the White written in their hearts, their conscience bearing to reason as follows:‘My conscience does not House “hatchet man.” witness, and their thoughts alternately accusing tell me that X is wrong; therefore X is not After converting to or else defending them” (Rom. 2:14-15, NASB). wrong for me.’ Or, even more egregiously:‘My Christianity and But for many years this God-given internal conscience does not tell me that X is wrong (or serving seven months moral compass has been rapidly faltering. wrong for me); therefore I have a right to do X in prison on Watergate-related I regularly confront that brutal truth in as a matter of freedom of conscience.’ Every charges, he founded prisons across the country.An incident in manner of evil and injustice is today Indiana a few years ago brought it home to Prison Fellowship rationalized, defended, and insulated from Ministries, now the me dramatically. I had visited the prison several rebuke by appeal to conscience.” largest prison outreach times before, but that day a young inmate Traditionally, public schools have played a organization in the responded to my proffered handshake by major role in teaching and reinforcing what world. smacking my hand away—a first for me. In have been universally accepted standards of right “The Corruption of many years of visiting prisons, I had never before and wrong. But little help in that regard can be Conscience” is an encountered such direct and immediate hostility found in today’s schools.The much-celebrated abridged version of his address during the from a complete stranger. For obvious reasons, “values clarification” curriculum and its Wheaton College prisoners are rarely cheerful, but I saw in those variations reject the very notion that such Graduate School eyes that day a chilling hardness I had never standards even exist, much less are binding on commencement encountered before. Since then, however, I have everyone. Students are merely asked to consider ceremonies on May 6. seen similar hardness reflected in the eyes of and discuss morally countless other inmates, particularly younger difficult problems, but are ones. offered no objective and The assistant warden there was a Christian authoritative principles to I had known for some years, and I asked him apply to those problems. Michael Hudson ’89 what was happening.“This place has greatly The only suggested changed,” he replied.“Ten years ago I could guidelines are those of talk to these kids about right and wrong. Now personal feelings about they don’t even know what I’m talking about.” what seems to be right at He went on to share that older prisoners were the time or one’s personal demanding protection from the newly arrived notions about “what 19- or 20-year-olds, an ominous reversal. works” or what leads to Historically, it has been younger guys who the best results, with no needed protection from the older cons. yardstick for defining The horrifying truth is that we have bred a “best.”As should have

Wheaton 11 been expected, what some Conscience is no longer thought of as an children have come to “feel” is inner moral compass, calibrated to true north. It right is truly terrifying.As is rather like a ouija board that points in what- graphically documented in the ever capricious direction seems desirable at the Michael Hudson ’89 extraordinary tapes they made moment. before their mad rampage, Eric Unfortunately, even many evangelical Harris and Dylan Kliebold churches have to some extent embraced the dramatically “clarified” their culture of subjective experience and personal “values”—unmitigated hate, feelings that such a concept of conscience rage, and self-obsession. reflects. God is often presented not so much as As Professor George further the Bonum in se, the Good in Himself, as points out, it is an easy step merely the Bonum mihi, the Good for me. from turning conscience into a In a speech titled “The Causes of Virtue,” reliable green light for theologian and social critic Michael Novak whatever course of conduct reminds us of one public consequence of this feels most desirable or expedient—which is perverted view of conscience. He astutely quite bad enough—to the further step of observes,“This country ought to have, when it claiming an actual right to engage in that is healthy and when it is working as it was conduct.And if it’s a right, such reasoning goes, intended to work, 250 million policemen, why not claim it as a constitutional right? called conscience.When there are 250 million Indeed, this new doctrine of conscience has consciences on guard, it is surprising how few been raised to the level of constitutional law by police are needed on the streets.”The converse the Supreme Court in its dreadful 1992 is equally true.The fewer consciences on guard, abortion decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.In the more police required. this decision the Court announced that, even Our first task as Christians is to renew and though Roe v.Wade may have been an act of revive the fundamental conscience-forming judicial overreaching, and even though there are institutions of family and church.There are some good arguments against many obvious reasons why the abortion, abortion must survival of the family is essential to nonetheless remain a More than ever society, chief among them being constitutional right.Why? its crucial role in developing reliable consciences.Whatever our Because the Court maintained before, we are that “at the heart of liberty is calling, all of us must work to strengthen the biblical model of the right to define one’s own witnessing the concepts of existence, of mean- the family and to unapologetically ing, of the universe, and of the defend that institution in the mystery of human life.” near-death of public square. Going a step further, if In addition, the Church has a such rights are constitutional, conscience. crucial role to play in cultivating why not claim legal immunity individual and corporate even from criticism by others! conscience.We must get past the So to protect a woman’s constitutional “right” “feel-good” model of church-building and to kill her unborn child, we get laws such as the strive to establish authentic communities of Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act that faith, in which biblically based conscience is impose restrictions on the rights of abortion nurtured as the “stern but wise monitor” and opponents even to publicly challenge that where spiritually strong disciples serve one “right”—restrictions that would not be another by holding each other to the objective tolerated for any other cause. standards of biblical righteousness.

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As beneficiaries of one of the best educa- determination into every aspect of the college tions available anywhere, as graduates of a school experience. that has had long-standing leadership in the As I have argued in my latest book [How Christian world, I hope you will continually see Now Shall We Live?], because it is from the yourselves as part of the Wheaton community, Creator Himself, the biblical worldview is that you will care deeply about and encourage rationally sustainable and livable as is no other. the College in its commitment to “Christ and As God’s people, we need to be firmly His Kingdom,” including the grounded in that divine and derivative commitment to moral comprehensive framework for education and the cultivation of Moral education understanding how the world conscience.This is today one of works, for answering the the most crucial responsibilities of must be woven questions of where we came Christian schools, a responsibility from, why there is sin and it now largely carries alone in into every aspect suffering, and how the unsaved academia at large. can be redeemed. Because of its religious roots, Moreover, we are both able of college life. the American academy and obligated to establish clear historically maintained a strong parameters for behavior, which commitment to moral education. is to say, rules. I know Wheaton As recently as 1870, a big dust-up was caused at already does this, so I’m not preaching to this Yale when William Graham Sumner chose to choir, but rather suggesting a challenge for all use a book by Herbert Spencer in an upper-level Christian colleges and other institutions. Rules sociology course. Because Spencer was a per se, even the most biblical, cannot ensure Darwinist,Yale’s President Noah Porter was sanctification, or even good behavior. But godly alarmed that students were being taught a rules—whether to guide personal lives, family worldview that denied a Creator. Until the relations, or professional conduct—commu- middle of the 19th century, Christian ethics nicate the conviction that there are divine were taught to Harvard undergraduates by the absolutes of right and wrong to which the Lord president himself. holds us accountable. Today, however, schools like Wheaton are While living in a the only institutions of higher learning that still world that exalts the believe in, teach, and uphold spiritual and moral momentary and absolutes. I thank God for Wheaton and schools temporal, Christians like it where the Bible is the unequivocal basis must always keep in of belief and conduct. But I would suggest that mind the eternal and even Wheaton might ask itself periodically how permanent.As servants carefully and consistently it makes moral educa- of the Lord in society, Michael Hudson ’89, Les Barker tion a priority in curriculum and campus life. the Christian academy Like society in general, Christian institutions is uniquely equipped to face a vastly different challenge today than they raise up men and did even a generation ago. Christian young women passionately people cannot escape being buffeted by the committed to living for nihilism, degradation, and corruption of God in the light of His conscience that surrounds them. Many, perhaps truth in every field of most, come from high schools in which moral endeavor, passionately education, such as it is, has been thoroughly committed to the development of personal relativized. Because of that influence, moral character and conscience that are pleasing education must be woven with special to Him.

Wheaton 13 better in distance races, but Dr.Taylor A New Leader to Bring Back would probably not have McKenzie achieved his goal to get in and ’54 receives ‘Old Relationships’ the Alumni go through medical school.” “I’m not a politician,” says the ington, and in his first race at Association’s Taylor wasn’t sure he vice president of the Navajo Wheaton, he tied with five 2000 would get into med school, no Distinguished Nation without hesitating. teammates for first place. matter how hard he worked. Service to Asked to run for the vice Edward Coray ’23, a So he “took the in-between Society presidency in 1998, he longtime coach, teacher, and road,” majoring in chemistry. If Award. “delayed until the 11th hour” administrator at Wheaton, he wasn’t accepted into before agreeing to be added to wrote in Through Clouds and medical school, he thought, he the ticket.And even then, he Sunshine Vol. 2 that Taylor’s could always go into chemistry promised just one four-year “man-killing schedule” was an as a field of work. term. He is a physician, after inspiration to his coaches and While he allowed nothing all. Medicine is his passion. teammates. at Wheaton to impede his For more than 40 years, progress, the Korean War Dr.Taylor McKenzie ’54 has We want all the almost did. On the day he focused on one all-encom- received his acceptance letter passing goal: providing not Navajo people to from the Baylor University just adequate health care to College of Medicine, he also the Navajo people, but expert have a voice. My was ordered to report to active care, the kind they once had duty in the U.S. military. He to leave their reservation to philosophy is to was able to get an educational find. His sense of duty deferment, and a few months compelled him to accept the listen to people, invitation to enter politics, as later was in Houston, the first well. to try to realize Navajo—and possibly first In recognition of his Native American—to enter decades of service to the their needs, and medical school. Navajo people, the Wheaton “There was some College Alumni Association then help them indication from my people recognized Taylor in May back home that I would be with its 2000 Distinguished meet their the first ever to become a Service to Society Award. doctor of medicine,” he says. The determination needs. “But I didn’t pay too much necessary to achieve his attention to that. I was just ambitions was evident even thankful I was able to get in.” when Taylor was a student at “Taylor often studied until After medical school and Wheaton 50 years ago. He 3 or 4 in the morning,” Coray a surgical residency,Taylor and immediately joined the writes.“Then he would be up his wife, Betty, returned to the Wheaton cross country and at 7 A.M. and off to class or reservation in 1964. During track teams coached by Gil work.” Despite receiving one his career as a commissioned Dodds M.A. ’48, the one-time of the first Navajo Nation officer in the United States world record holder in the scholarships,Taylor had to Public Heath Service,Taylor indoor mile.Taylor had won work as a carpenter to afford served as staff physician, the New Mexico state cross tuition.“Had he spent more surgeon, chief of surgery, and country title at Methodist time sleeping, he would chief executive officer at

profile Mission School in Farm- undoubtedly have done even hospitals in Kayenta,Tuba City,

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Shiprock, and Gallup, New Taylor McKenzie is a make him wish social life Mexico. He also directed the progressive who wants some among his people could go Navajo Division of Health and things the way they used to back in time. He yearns for the Navajo Health Authority. be. Professionally and the “old relationships,” for a Among his awards for politically, his eye is on the day when the Navajo people leadership in Navajo health future.A list of his “firsts” as a will show the respect for one issues are the Distinguished physician could fill a page. another that they demon- Public Service award from the His political style is a strated when he was a child governor of New Mexico and departure, as well. For one growing up on a sheep camp the Distinguished Service thing, he is the first Christian near Rattlesnake, New Medal from the U.S. Public to serve as vice president of Mexico. Health Service. the Navajo Nation; Begaye is “There was a certain code All of those titles and the first Christian president. that people lived by,” he says. honors don’t mean as much to Dr. McKenzie says they “If somebody had a need, him as what he was able to do represent “a different kind of people were very helpful. for his people.“Before I leader with new ideas about Parents taught their kids basic became a surgeon, a patient leadership.”While the Navajo human values. People lived with a difficult problem would people once expected their with a respect and honor for have to be shipped out to a leaders to be loud and others. ” major medical center,” he says. forceful, he says, the new Some people, like Taylor “But if they came under my administration has come to be McKenzie, still live by that care, I was able to do that admired for its reasoned, code. surgery there.” In the process, inclusive approach. by Michael Murray he never stopped learning and “We want all the Navajo was able to do orthopedic people to have a voice,” he procedures such as hip and says.“My philosophy is to knee replacements, which had listen to people, to try to never before been done on the realize their needs, and then reservation. help them meet their needs.” He had completed the The needs are many.The circle from the mission school, Navajo Nation, with a popu- where he had first heard about lation of nearly 200,000 on Wheaton College from an 17 million acres in New alumnus,Willard Bass ’34, the Mexico,Arizona, and Utah, school’s superintendent. He has an unemployment rate of had gone to medical school. about 55 percent. Poor dietary He had returned and estab- habits and a sedentary lifestyle lished a credible medical contribute to a diabetes practice. He and Betty had problem that qualifies as an reared their nine children as epidemic. Substance abuse is active members of the Navajo passed from one generation community. Navajo Nation to the next. President Kelsey Begaye says While Dr. McKenzie’s Taylor was an obvious choice prominence in medicine for vice president.“Taylor and tribal politics can be McKenzie knows the Navajo attributed to his openness people inside out,” Begaye to new ways of doing likes to say. things, these problems Decades of teaching is the light in the student’s eyes and a probing Dedication question that follows. I will These seven professors, having also miss student approval at the end of a course, which served from 23 to 45 years indicates they will continue on Wheaton’s faculty, say this quality of biblical studies goodbye—and look ahead to in the course of their life- new challenges. time; the stimulation of a full range of academic disciplines; Norman Ericson, Ph.D. and colleagues who share my Professor of New Testament disciplinary purposes with a Tenney, Kantzer, Mickelsen, 23 years sincere commitment to Christ and Neuberg. and a variety of denomina- In my time at Wheaton, I’ve What I shall most miss is tional loyalties. come to learn that evangelical the camaraderie that I have I will continue as one of students do like the Bible, but experienced with the students, five general reviewers for the most of them don’t really both within and without the New Living Translation and know what it is, how it came classroom. My responsibilities am working on a commentary into being, or how to over the past 45 years included on James for a series of determine the author’s not only the teaching of commentaries on the NLT. courses, but also an array of The other elements of my life will continue at an increased co-curricular activities, ratio, including travels with particularly debate,WETN, Ruthie, organic gardening, and starting the drama children and grandkids, church program.The traveling of ministries and friendships, hundreds of thousands of miles continued learning at a with speakers and debaters to leisurely pace, and “things yet hundreds of tournaments across this country, often by

OWER to be revealed.” station wagon, proved to be Edwin Hollatz G.S. ’55, Ph.D. delightful and challenging. T Professor of Communications My wife, Joanne ’55, 45 years whom I met on the Wheaton The most important lessons faculty in 1959, and I plan I’ve learned at Wheaton may to remain in Wheaton.We be summarized under the want to continue to be a part rubric of “Faith and Learn- of the College scene with its intended message. God’s ing.”At Wheaton I was variety of rich offerings and message to the original encouraged to think Chris- experiences, and especially audience is the canonical tianly about every aspect of to continue the delightful message to us. human learning. In fact, I have associations with present I will miss the joy of often expressed the sentiment faculty and spouses as well sharing information, that for me the best prepar- as retirees.Travel and a NDER THE perspectives, and theological ation for teaching at Wheaton couple of research projects alternatives with excellent was to study Bible and will occupy my continuing

U students.The reward of theology under such men as professional interests.

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Narl Hung, Ph.D. in my thrill of trying to exceptional student body. I Professor of Chemistry understand the elegant laws will deeply miss the contact 31 years that govern God’s magnificent with and stimulation of my During my three decades at creation. By understanding peers as well as the challenge Wheaton, my greatest joy has God’s creation better, we may that my students gave to me been the opportunity of all come to know and to love continually.Wheaton has been working with my students. I God more. an extremely good experience count it a real blessing to Upon completion of my for our family over these years. teach, to serve, and to interact last research project at the The College has not only with them, as well as to learn Argonne National Laboratory, provided great opportunities I intend to spend more time for Rea and me to serve with our children and grand- Christ, but our children have children.And we would like to been blessed with a good teach in some developing education provided for by the country when God chooses to goodness of the school. open the door for us to serve I will continue as God there. enables with more dedicated time to pursue research and Alan Johnson, Th.D. writing in New Testament and Professor of New Testament Christian ethics. I will do 31 years some adjunct teaching at the I have learned over the years Wheaton Graduate School in to be more patient with the fall.Additionally we will students’ progress and be accepting some short-term weaknesses since I have lived teaching assignments in theo- long enough to see some logical training institutions in from them. It has been my rather rough and unpromising Europe and in Third World pleasure to see these young stones turn out to be sparkling countries. and nervous freshmen grow in diamonds.An ever so slight stature before God through bend of the young branch in Donald Lake ’59, M.A. ’60, Ph.D. their years at Wheaton.As the right direction can pro- Associate Professor of Theology their parents will, I am duce a significant change in 30 1/2 years delighted to watch them the shape of the whole tree. From the very beginning of gradually choose paths that My life has been enriched my association with Wheaton aim to serve rather than to be by the opportunities to rub as a freshman in 1955, served, paths that will please shoulders with a faculty of Wheaton has been people. Mr. and glorify God through their dedicated experts as well as an Evans, Robert Van Kampen, future endeavors. Sr., Dr. Evan Welsh ’27—these Other than teaching, in were people who greatly my research on the natural influenced my life.The most process of electron transfer, I valuable commodity in the never cease to marvel at the world is people, especially amazing order of God’s young people who are created physical world. I hope shapeable. I enjoyed teaching that in some small ways, Theology of Culture probably students in my chemistry more than any other course; classes have been able to share even more important than the

Wheaton 17 subject matter was their chosen fields. I learned them.We are interested in the enthusiasm and the importance of writing and teaching overseas as openness of first- research as a tool for the opportunities arise, and I will semester freshmen. classroom. It helps keep me continue teaching distance And come this fall, fresh. learning courses for Wheaton. it will be sad not I will miss the unusual We look forward to spending to see the familiar qualities and experiences of more time with our children faces of colleagues the students, and how they and seven grandchildren. and students I’ve forced me to be a better had in more than teacher. I was able to see God Robert Webber, Th.D. one class, to say at work in the lives of students Professor of Theology nothing of the from all over the world. I will 32 years wonderful, eager miss working one-on-one When I was a college student, first-year students. with students in my office— my father, who was a minister, My wife and I talking about academic, said this to me:“Robert, if I were part of that group that personal, and spiritual issues, had my life to live over again, worked to save the Artist I would choose to stay in one Series, and we’ll remember place and build by ministry fondly those seats in Row Q there.” I came to Wheaton that we shared so many years with that advice in mind and with friends.Wheaton was also have stayed here for 32 years, a rich environment for ath- seeking, as my father advised, letics, and we’ll miss football “to build a ministry.” and soccer games. As I retire from Wheaton Since retiring, I’ve College, what I will miss most purchased a resort/marina in are the bright, dedicated, and the northeast Nashville area. I inquiring students. However, was recently diagnosed with my teaching ministry and prostate cancer, and that will work in worship studies will affect my immediate and long- continue at Northern Baptist term future. I’m open to Seminary in Lombard, Illinois, whatever the Lord has for my where I have been appointed life, and I shall ever be grateful pulling books off shelves, to serve as the William R. and for my many years of enrich- wrestling with issues. Geraldyne B. Myers Professor ment that Wheaton provided. I will miss my colleagues, of Ministry and director of the particularly Walter Elwell ’59, M.A. in worship and J. Julius Scott ’56, Ph.D. M.A. ’61.We began teaching spirituality. Professor of Bible together in 1964 at another 23 years institution, and we’ve been At Wheaton, I learned how to through a great deal together. become a graduate teacher, I appreciate and love him. and I came to see that a My wife, Florence M.A. student’s academic record ’92, and I plan to keep our before and during graduate two homes—in Wheaton and school means very little. the North Carolina Students who don’t test well mountains—for the next few often become very effective in years and move between

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Fulfilling the a strong desire to Dr. Clint Shaffer ’84 view their studies is an assistant Two Tasks from within the professor in the context of their faith. department of foreign by Dr. Clint Shaffer ’84 But my German Assistant Professor of German languages and director friends wondered of the Wheaton in how they could ever Twenty years ago this fall, as a Germany program. He hope to think as new Wheaton freshman, I sat received his M.A. from Christians or share with hundreds of others on Middlebury College the gospel with their the lawn of front campus to peers when they and his doctorate from witness the dedication of the could barely see past the University of Billy Graham Center. Sharing the boundaries of North Carolina at the platform with Dr. Graham their own disciplines. Freshman Experience. Our Chapel Hill. His ’43 and President Hudson Wheaton has long valued eclectic group (representing 11 scholarly presentations Armerding ’41 was the the integration of faith and departments) discussed topics and publications deal keynote speaker, Charles learning and the wholeness of ranging from biblical ethics, to with 18th- and 20th- Malik, a Lebanese educator a liberal arts education. Since Christology, to ways of and statesman whose words century literature, joining the faculty four years knowing. It was inspiring to profoundly changed my German cinema, and ago, I’ve been a part of two see that God had called such attitudes toward learning and foreign language initiatives geared toward different people to pursue the gospel. Malik’s central pedagogy. His current helping students and professors scholarship in a single argument was that Christians research is a study of work more effectively at the Christian academic com- in general and North Christian responses to two tasks envisioned by Malik. munity.Though there was American evangelicals in Asian religions during The first is Freshman ample disagreement, we were particular stood little chance of Experience, a required course united in our desire to think, the German having a deep impact upon in which students explore such speak, and live as new Enlightenment. He their society unless they issues as consumerism, forming creations in Christ. and his wife,Virginia proved able to know and a Christian worldview, and the How well is Wheaton Davidson Shaffer ’84, influence the intellectual life theology of work and leisure. carrying out the two tasks that are the parents of Bill of the world.We are, he Above all, Freshman Experi- were laid upon us two decades (5) and Sarah (3), contended, admonished to save ence mentors aim to get ago? My experiences in the and enjoy introducing both the soul and the mind. students excited about being classroom and the seminar Freshman Experience The speech found such students, to encourage them to room over the past year give students to Chicago- resonance in the College see their studies and other me reasons to be optimistic. style pizza. community that it was quickly activities not just as means to I’ve observed colleagues and published in pamphlet form as an end, but as part of the work students striving to love God The Two Tasks. Malik’s words, of the kingdom. Not surpris- with all their hearts, souls, and together with my subsequent ingly, The Two Tasks occupies minds. In my own teaching four years at Wheaton, helped an important place in the and scholarship, whether it be me begin to see past my syllabus. analyzing the roles of prayer dualistic and utilitarian views During the 1999-2000 and providence in a recent of evangelism and education. academic year, I benefited German film or outlining While working with from the second initiative: the cultural differences in a evangelical student groups in new faculty Faith and Business German course, I’ve the city of Munich in the late Learning seminar, which found that true joy comes in ’80s, I found that Christian might be considered the pursuing both of the two tasks students in Germany also had postdoctoral equivalent of wholeheartedly.

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C endless array of organisms out even a small part of what location of many genes on reflecting His creativity, controls this process. each of the 23 sets of human imagination, and power. Being In the graduate program chromosomes.These mapped able to understand even a in biochemical sciences at genes acted as signposts along small part of this is a blessing Princeton, I studied a simple the human genome, making it we should not take for developmental system. Bacillus possible to determine the granted, nor should we reduce subtilus bacteria form inert relative position of pieces of it to the level of simply asking spores that, given the proper the human DNA as the how we can use the knowl- conditions, become actively sequences—the order of A’s, edge to benefit ourselves. growing bacteria.To make this G’s, C’s, and T’s that make up As an undergraduate at change, the bacteria must turn the words in our genetic Eastern College, I became on certain genes at different information—were fascinated with what is not times. I was able to determine determined. known about life. I began to that the order in which a After four years on realize that although humans series of proteins is made Oxford University’s faculty, I stress how much we under- corresponds to the order in joined the genetics faculty at stand, there is so much left to which the corresponding the University of Pennsylvania discover about how cells work genes are replicated when the School of Medicine in and how a single cell develops dormant spores develop into Philadelphia. Following up on into a complex organism. replicating bacteria. my prior work, I studied the Every cell in an animal’s body Doing postdoctoral expression of antigens

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expressed on human cancer come to be called human the zebra fish brain. Studying Dr. Roger Kennett is cells on mouse X human myosin V to isolate the gene gene expression during the Ruth Kraft hybrids.When Kohler and that produces this myosin nervous system development is Strohschein Professor Milstein described the protein.The isolated gene was not possible in humans and of Biology.After 20 production of monoclonal used to test mouse X human very difficult in mice. years of doing research antibodies, I was able to hybrid cells, each containing a We have also been and teaching genetics quickly make and use these specific human chromosome, working with Dr. David at the University of reagents.These antibodies are and the myosin V gene was Bruce, who, for many years, Pennsylvania School made by immunizing mice mapped to human chromo- has studied a protein that of Medicine, he came and making hybrids with their some 15.The DNA sequence induces squirrels and other to Wheaton in 1996. spleen cells.The hybrid cells was determined and was found animals to hibernate.This Dr. Kennett earned a make the antibodies that the to correspond to a myosin protein interacts with bachelor’s degree in mouse was making, each gene expressed in mice that, morphine receptors and acts hybrid clone producing a when mutated, causes abnor- somewhat like an anaesthetic. biology at Eastern different antibody.The hybrid malities in pigmentation and Working with a Wheaton College and a cells can be used as a source of in nervous system function. student, we have made mono- doctorate in pure, well-defined antibody. Others have shown that clonal antibodies against this biochemical sciences at Being in the right place at the humans with mutations in the protein.These reagents will be Princeton University. right time, I published the first myosin V gene have similar used to detect and quantitate While on the book on monoclonal anti- defects. the protein in the animals’ University of bodies. In the past 20 years After 20 years at Penn, I blood and perhaps determine Pennsylvania faculty, many monoclonal antibodies had the opportunity to come its localization in tissues. he earned an M.S. in have been developed for use in to Wheaton at the same time I have seen over the years computer education. cancer diagnosis and therapy, my wife, Carol, was able to a shift in attitude to the point He and his wife, and they are the basis of the come to Trinity International where we humans apparently Carol, live in University in Deerfield. I antibody-based test systems we assume that we understand the Schaumburg, IL. can now purchase in drug enjoy watching undergraduates biological world enough to stores, such as pregnancy tests. become excited about learning predict how the The first antibody we as opposed to simply remem- unknown, when produced was reactive with bering what a teacher says is figured out, can be human neuroblastoma cells, a important. During collabo- used to our benefit to childhood cancer.At Child- rative research with other cure disease or make ren’s Hospital of Philadelphia students and faculty, they learn life more comfortable. the antibody was used to to think critically and experi- Interestingly, it is diagnose the spread of the ence how science really works. evident that those tumor cells to bone marrow The focus of my current discoveries that have and eventually to remove the research is screening for zebra turned out to be the cancer cells from bone fish genes that may play a role most practical—for marrow. in the development of the example, monoclonal A second antibody we nervous system.We are antibodies and recombinant produced reacts with a form of attempting to clone the gene DNA techniques—have come human myosin. Myosin is a for the zebra fish counterpart from experiments that were class of proteins that acts as a of human myosin V.This will not designed to produce these motor molecule attaching to make it possible to study in results, but only to understand and moving other molecules detail the expression of this a bit more about how some within cells.We used the gene and the corresponding aspect of God’s creation antibody against what has protein during development of actually works.

Wheaton 21 Pancake Wins second trip to the NCAA Women’s Division III Championships. tennis earns Second NCAA Coached by Jane Nelson ’83, an NCAA Championship the squad won its opening berth, and match of the NCAA men’s tennis tournament, 5-4, over Hope The spring sports season wins its 20th College. In the regional finals, brought more all-conference league title. host Kenyon College was a berths, conference champion- 6-3 winner as Wheaton made ships, another trip to NCAA it to the round of 16 and Division III competition, and finished the season 21-2. Wheaton’s third national

Freshman Laura Byrne Brett Marhanka championship of 1999-2000. posted a 24-0 record at No. 3 Heather Pancake ’00 became Wheaton’s Women’s track and field singles. Sophomore Julie first woman athlete to earn four consecutive Senior Heather Pancake Long also notched a 24-0 All-America honors. concluded her remarkable record, in No. 6 singles at No. 3 doubles. Freshman athletic career at Wheaton by action, and freshman Kari Oliver Oatman was Wheaton’s winning her second consec- Jorgensen was 22-2 at No. 5 No. 1 singles player, posting a utive NCAA heptathlon singles. Byrne and Jorgensen 17-8 record. championship. Pancake were 22-2 as Wheaton’s No. 2 Golf became Wheaton’s first female doubles team, while Long and Joe Bean’s team won six of track and field athlete to earn sophomore Rachael Zorn the 10 events it competed in All-America honors four went 22-4 at No. 3 doubles. times. She also won her fourth and tied for second place at Men’s tennis straight heptathlon champion- the CCIW championships. Wheaton won its 20th CCIW ship in the College Confer- Freshman Kent Creasman was championship, posting a 15-8 ence of Illinois and Wisconsin, the medalist at the CCIW regular-season record and a 6- breaking her own conference tournament with a school- 0 mark in CCIW play. Eric record with 4,705 points at record 147 in the two-day Gorman’s team took four the CCIW meet. event. Junior John Bell was CCIW titles with two singles The team also received named the team’s Most and two doubles champion- strong performances from Valuable Golfer after ships, and Gorman ’97, M.A. sophomore pole vaulter averaging 77.36 strokes in his ’00 was named CCIW Coach Bethany Brown and senior 11 rounds. Junior John of the Year. Lindsay Peakman. Peakman Conrad was the medalist at Junior Andrew David was an all-conference Illinois Wesleyan’s Titan won the CCIW title at No. 4 performer in the 3,000- and Classic. singles and went 18-5 in 5,000-meter runs, with singles matches. Senior Kyle Men’s track and field second-place efforts in both Hubbard was 17-6 and won Junior Josh Adams was second events. Brown broke her own the conference title at No. 6 at the CCIW championships school record in the pole singles. Freshman Brian Wu in the decathlon, earning all- vault. and senior Tim Kniffin conference honors.Andrew Women’s tennis teamed up for the CCIW Logeman was fourth at the Wheaton built on its 11-0 fall championship at No. 2 CCIW meet in the 400- record with a 9-1 mark in the doubles. Freshman Mark meter dash, while Cameron spring.That record was good Vaughan and junior Tory Williams was fifth in the sports enough to earn the team its Anderson won the league title 1,500-meter run.

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Softball Wheaton Fall Sports Wheaton posted a 12-18 overall record and was 3-11 in Cross Country Sept. 20 Illinois Wesleyan Sept. 2 at Elmhurst CCIW play (seventh place). Sept. 22 Cornell College Sept. 8 at North Central Juniors Lori Day and Mary Sept. 27 at Carthage Sept. 16 at Wisconsin-Parkside Sept. 29 Ohio Wesleyan Schock earned all-conference Sept. 30 at Wisconsin-Whitewater Oct. 2 at Augustana honors. Day,Wheaton’s Oct. 7 at Wisconsin-Oshkosh Oct. 3 North Central catcher, recorded a team-best Oct. 21 at Olivet Nazarene Oct. 5 Elmhurst .424 batting average with 16 Oct. 28 at CCIW Championships, Carthage Oct. 9 Carleton RBI and 14 runs scored. Oct. 10 at North Park Schock was Wheaton’s only Football Oct. 14 at Western Oregon State starting pitcher and set a Sept. 9 at St.Xavier Oct. 16 at Willamette CCIW record for innings Sept. 16 Wabash Oct. 21 at DePauw Sept. 23 at Hope pitched. She was 12-18 with Oct. 25 U. of Chicago Sept. 30 North Central 26 complete games and a 3.19 Oct. 7 at Millikin Women’s Tennis ERA in 186 1/3 innings. Oct. 14 Carthage Sept. 1 vs. Wisconsin-Oshkosh Baseball Oct. 21 Illinois Wesleyan at Wisconsin-La Crosse Despite the team’s struggles Oct. 28 at Elmhurst Sept. 2 at Wisconsin-La Crosse Doubles Tournament (7-31 overall, 0-21 in the Nov. 4 North Park Sept. 8 Millikin CCIW), some individuals did Nov. 11 at Augustana Sept. 9 vs. Elmhurst and North Central shine. Freshman Jonathan at Elmhurst Men’s Soccer Sept. 15 at Augustana Berry showed promise at the Sept. 1-2 Wheaton Bob Baptista Sept. 16 vs. Cornell and Coe plate and on the mound. Invitational at Rock Island, IL Berry was named the All- Sept. 5 Calvin Sept. 23 Illinois Wesleyan and Wisconsin-Whitewater CCIW first-team designated Sept. 9 Westminster Oct. 5 at U.of Chicago hitter with a .341 batting Sept. 12 at Millikin Oct. 7 vs. Carthage and North Park at Carthage average. He also hit four Sept. 16 at Rhodes home runs, scored 15 runs, Sept. 20 Illinois Wesleyan Volleyball and recorded 18 RBI. Berry Sept. 23 Bethel Sept. 1-2 at Elmhurst Tournament was also a standout pitcher Sept. 27 at Carthage Sept. 5 Wheaton Tri-Match Sept. 8-9 at Gettysburg Tournament with a team-best 4.94 ERA; Sept. 29 Luther Oct. 4 North Central Sept. 14 at Benedictine Tri-Match he set a school record with Oct. 6 Wisconsin-Oshkosh Sept. 16 Wheaton “Blue”Classic three saves. Oct. 11 at North Park Sept. 19 Carthage Senior Trent Roth was a Oct. 14 at MacMurray Sept. 22-23 Wheaton Invitational second-team All-CCIW Oct. 16 at Washington Sept. 26 at Millikin outfielder with a team-best Oct. 20 at Augustana Sept. 29 Aurora batting average of .417. He Oct. 25 at U. of Chicago Oct. 3 at Augustana added 15 RBI and 14 runs Oct. 28 Hope Oct. 10 Elmhurst scored and was named to the Nov. 3 Rockford Oct. 12 Illinois Wesleyan 2000 Jack Swartz Academic Oct. 14 Beloit Quadrangular All-Conference Team.The Women’s Soccer Oct. 17 at North Central physics major had a 3.70 Sept. 4 Kalamazoo Oct. 19 North Park Oct. 21 Wheaton “Orange”Classic grade point average. Sept. 8 at Calvin Sept. 9 at Hope Oct. 25 Lake Forest by Brett Marhanka Sept. 13 at Millikin Oct. 27-28 at Calvin Midwest Invitational Sports Information Director Sept. 19 at Wisconsin-Stevens Point Nov. 2-4 CCIW Championships, Wheaton

Wheaton 23 a word with Alumni by Marilee Melvin ’72 Vice President for Alumni Relations In his essay,“The Roots of the World,” from the collection Lunacy and Letters,G.K. Chesterton describes a boy who, curious about the way the world works, decides to ignore the explanations and cautions of his elders and, with all good intentions, brings down total ruin. By trying to uproot an “irrational weed”—which is in reality the Truth, a feisty plant with a root so deep and interconnected that it affects everything known to mankind—the boy only manages to uproot all of civilization. Chesterton’s enigmatic essay affirms the necessity of the Faith and Learning Program at the College. Rather than “faith” and “learning” being two separate components of knowledge—that which we scientifically “know” (in the academic disciplines) being separate from that which we “believe” in faith (through revelation of God’s Word, His Son)—being “integrated” somehow, we apprehend and know Truth through revelation as well as analysis and discovery. In fact, how we analyze and discover is predicated on that which is revealed in God’s Word. How can Wheaton professors inculcate not only facts and theories about a discipline, but also Dr.Taylor McKenzie ’54, vice a worldview formed by God’s revelation, unless they have invested time and president of the Navajo Nation, resources to gain that understanding? and his wife, Betty, were on Chesterton’s essay comments:“Skeptics do not succeed in pulling up the roots campus in May as Dr. of Christianity, but they do succeed in pulling up the roots of every man’s ordinary McKenzie received the Alumni vine and fig tree, of every man’s garden and every man’s kitchen garden. Secularists Association’s Distinguished have not succeeded in wrecking divine things; but Secularists have succeeded in Service to Society Award. Marilee wrecking secular things.” Melvin ’72 is at left. What makes Christian liberal arts education different from a purely secular education? Teachers and what they admire help shape the mind set and worldview of their students. Students are, quite literally,“shaped by example.” Merely applying a Christian label to pedagogy will not prevent destructive skepticism from taking root in the hearts of young men and women who have not encountered the Truth. And only real Truth—He who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6)—can Here are your choices for your Alumni Association preserve the “roots of the world.” Board of Directors: We believe that Wheaton professors who are committed to knowing and President-Elect: obeying the Truth as revealed in Jesus Christ are well situated as mentors to shape Chuck Hogren ’58 the next generation of leaders.To encourage and validate their commitment, the Faith and Learning Project is making a difference. Professors at many points of their Western States Representative: Dwight Nelson ’72 academic career now have the opportunity to think about and analyze their discipline from the standpoint of scripture and revelation, rather than from the Board Members: purely secular standpoint. Of the $2 million goal for the Faith and Learning Marilyn Himmel ’55 Randy Ellison ’77 Project, $1.35 million has been received or pledged to date. On behalf of the Brian Wildman ’85 Alumni Association’s board of directors, and also on behalf of the future Wheaton Shane Scott ’96 alumni who are studying at Wheaton now, thank you for all you are doing to make this project possible.

24 Wheaton The on-line edition of Wheaton magazine does not include the Class News section. The Class of 2000, By the Numbers They arrived on Wheaton’s alphabet lesson. MSC, CPO,WCF, to get around the place and campus in late summer of 1996 DSG, OCO, BGC—WOW. Before soon adopted it as their own. much like kindergartners showing long, though, they had the Here’s a look at Wheaton’s up for their first day of school— letters—and roommates?—figured Class of 2000, by desperately in need of an out. They eventually learned how the numbers.

563 Graduates who received bachelor’s degrees on May 7. 141 Commencement ceremonies in Wheaton College’s history. 106 Members of the class from Illinois, the most of any state. 36 Graduates from California, the second-highest total. 0 Graduates from Rhode Island, the only U.S. state not represented. 31 Graduates from outside the United States.

10 Most popular degrees: English (54 students); business/economics (38); biology (37); Christian education and ministry (36); communications (26); psychology (24); political science (23); philosophy (21); elementary education (20); kinesiology and music performance (tied with 19 each). 56.3 Percentage of the 563 graduates who earned degrees in the 10 most popular majors.

37.5 Percentage of students graduating with honors, for a total of 211. 24 Students graduating summa cum laude. 38 Graduates who are members of the Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society. 9 Graduates commissioned as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army.

Diverse Notes 63 Members of the class of who completed double majors. on Activities 49 Graduates with degrees in music, music performance, music education, or music composition. at Wheaton– 3 Graduates who double-majored in political science and German. 1 Graduate who majored in German. Now and Then

2 Sets of siblings who received degrees. 8 Married couples who received degrees. 2 Graduates named Kristen Berry. 3 Graduates who share last names with Wheaton College presidents: Armerding, Chase, Litfin. 15 Graduates who share last names with U.S. presidents: Adams, Bush, Ford, Harding, Jackson (4), Johnson (3), Kennedy, Polk,Taylor,Wilson. Journal of Jonathan Blanchard

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Rameau, and Schubert on International Tchaikovsky Com- A Year Set to Saturday, October 28. Nicholas petition, will play Rachmaninoff’s McGegan conducts, and pianist Piano Concerto No. 3. Garrick Ohlsson is the featured Wheaton alumnus John Nelson Music soloist. ’63 will return to campus March Old favorites and new faces highlight the five-concert lineup Series patrons will remember 23 and 24 to conduct War of the 2000-01 Artist Series, set to the Waverly Consort’s perfor- Requiem, Benjamin Britten’s choral begin Thursday, September 28. mance during the 1994 Christmas masterpiece.The performance will That evening, classical guitar season.The ensemble of singers feature the West Suburban Choral virtuoso Christopher Parkening and instrumentalists returns on Union, the Glen Ellyn Children’s and baritone Jubilant Sykes will Saturday, February 3, with a Chorus, and more than 250 present music of Brazil and the presentation of Revelation 1000- musicians from Wheaton College Americas. Parkening has 2000, a program commemorating ensembles. Guest soloists will be performed before sell-out crowds a thousand years of music. soprano Gwynne Geyer, three times in the College’s Music director Mark Ermler, tenor Donald Kaash, and Edman Memorial Chapel, and pianist Denis Matsuyev, and the baritone Robert Orth ’68. Sykes was a soloist in the 1997-98 Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra will For ticket information, presentation of Mendelssohn’s be in Edman on Friday, February please call the Wheaton Elijah. 23, performing Prokofiev’s College Ticket Office at The St. Paul Chamber Symphony No. 5. Matsuyev, the 630-752-5010. Orchestra will play Beethoven, gold medalist at the 1998

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Louis, Bix, Benny 22.The concert will feature pieces The final concert,“New & More composed or arranged by Russo Orleans & Chicago: Bix & Louis” Director William Russo’s Chicago when he worked with Stan on Friday, March 2, will focus on Jazz Ensemble drew standing Kenton. the artistry of jazz legends Bix room only crowds to Barrows On Friday, November 17, the Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong. Auditorium last year, and the ensemble—in residence at For ticket information, please group returns in 2000-01 for Columbia College in Chicago— call the Wheaton College Ticket another three-concert series. will present “Highlights from Office at 630-752-5010. “Kenton a la Russo” will open Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie the series on Friday, September Hall Concert.”

Wheaton 43 G-rowing Sport member dues and private damaged the shell. Puts Wheaton on donations, forcing the 30-plus The insurance proceeds, National Stage students to constantly scramble however, allowed the club to Their coach is a volunteer.They’re for financial support. purchase a new boat, which they not even an “official”Wheaton As those who compete in the named “Manna” because they saw athletic team. And they recently sport will tell you, crew is it as a gift from God.Then, the placed in the top 10 in a different.To achieve success, each father of one of the team prestigious international individual athlete must row with members used his welding competition. strength and precision, yet the expertise to not only bring Meet the Wheaton College rowers must work together as a “Emma” back to rowable crew club. single, coordinated unit. Rachel condition, but also to build a For the uninitiated, crew is the Mariner ’89, who founded the customized trailer to transport the rowing sport that has long been team more than 10 years ago, put boats. an Olympic event and regionally it best in a letter to the club:“In a This gift provided a means for popular sport in the United world that requires focus on the the club to travel to races outside States. Crew is now rapidly gaining individual, I love a sport that the Chicago area—such as the popularity throughout the country, requires selflessness and one in Boston, where the men’s and is also the fastest-growing club cooperation. In a world that varsity crew team, with local sport at Wheaton. rewards standouts, I love a sport Wheaton alumni cheering them And last October, at the Head that requires uniformity. I think on from a bridge overhead, of the Charles River regatta in crew is good for the soul.” achieved its top-10 finish. Boston—the largest such event in Captain Jennifer Lindquist ’01 by Charles Day the world—the Wheaton men’s adds,“As varsity crew placed ninth in the Christians, we men’s 4-plus event against an find a special international field of 66 university significance in and independent clubs. In doing seeing how so, they left Penn State, the each rower University of Kansas, and the takes his or her University of Minnesota, as well as individual teams from England, France, and giftedness and Ireland, in their wake. surrenders it for This spring, the team the maximum competed in three regattas, two benefit of the on the Chicago River and one on team. It is Lake Wingra in Madison, exhilarating to Wisconsin. At the Midwest experience it.” Rowing Championships in Since the Madison,Wheaton advanced all of club’s birth in its entries to the finals and earned 1989, members have also learned medals in two events. a lesson in God’s faithfulness in Not bad for a team that is only their struggles along the way. For recognized as a club sport at the example, in 1997, during an early- College, and thus is limited to the morning practice session on the $600 annual College allocation. All Fox River west of Wheaton, one other funding for boats, equip- of the club’s two boats,“Emma,” ment, and travel must come from hit a submerged log that severely

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Complaining about the food is an roasted prime rib or five-ounce inalienable right of college lobster tail. students everywhere—almost Dinner at Anderson Commons everywhere, that is. normally features three entrées, Wheaton College, thanks to including a vegetarian selection; student survey results, is ranked pizza; fruit, salad, and sandwich fourth in the “Great Food on bars; a dessert table; and a variety Campus” category in the 2001 of beverages. edition of Best 331 Colleges, Best 331 Colleges analyzes published by The Princeton college life on 331 campuses in Review.And to celebrate and the United States and Canada.The thank students for their editors use surveys of admissions appreciation, Bon Appétit, the offices and current students to Bon Appétit general manager Jim Butera, center, and management company that rank the colleges in 62 categories, oversees food service on campus, ranging from academics to his staff serve up “Great Food on Campus,” according served up a dinner on April 11 financial aid to social life. In the to the 2001 edition of Best 331 Colleges, published that featured white linen 2000 edition,Wheaton was listed by The Princeton Review. tablecloths and a selection of in the top 20 in 11 categories.

Evolution of a “Wheaton is the only college I TV Series know that is willing to engage in All Work and It’s a common occurrence.Alumni discussion of science and returning to campus decades after theology,” Jersey says.“How do Three Plays their graduation often arrive with we as Christians perceive Charles Meier ’00, who played the title character in camera in hand, looking for the evolution?” Arena Theater’s spring production of Brand, says,“It’s perfect angle of the Blanchard Jersey’s crew interviewed and very rare to find a play that is really good theater and tower. Not too many, however, filmed science professors and has the power to draw people closer to God and show up with their own film students, and also spent time at each other in such an explicit way.” crew. the College’s Black Hills Science Brand, written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Bill Jersey ’51 (at right with Station in South Dakota. Ibsen, is a drama about a Catholic priest who, after Wheaton student John Welsh), the “My job is to help people to much personal hardship and despair, eventually finds founder of Quest Productions of tell their story,” he says.“It’s about rest and peace in God. Cast members say the play, Berkeley, California, was back in people who are gracious enough directed by assistant visiting professor Chad Bergman Wheaton this spring working on a to let me put my cameras in front ’87, is especially significant for a Wheaton audience. segment he is producing for a of them.” “It seems so important for Wheaton, where we series on evolution.The eight- work hard to present ourselves as holy sacrifices,” hour series—tentatively scheduled Meier says.“It’s commendable, but it can be to air on WGBH in Boston, the HeraldDaily dangerous without knowledge of resting, in weakness, nation’s largest PBS station—will on God.” include Jersey’s one-hour segment on how Wheaton College students In November, Professor Michael Stauffer ’70 are taught to think about the directed Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth.And interaction of the Christian faith David Reifsnyder ’82, another assistant visiting and their understanding of the professor, directed Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood world’s origins. in February.

Wheaton 45 Continued from Recent covers have been shot in the to Surrey, England. He the back cover. United Kingdom—he travels returned to the States to Developments there at least yearly to work. attend Wheaton. During Photographer Michael prefers to shoot in college, he took pictures for Michael Hudson On the shelves of Michael ’89 says his black and white. the Tower and the Record.He career is in a Hudson’s darkroom are neat “I like the Ansel Adams graduated with his B.A. in time of stacks of notebooks whose transition. look when pictures are sharp,” studio arts/photography. pages tell the story, frame after he says.“You can blow them Michael and wife,Wendy frame, of what Hudson ’89 has up really large and you can see (Kersey) ’90, and their two been looking at for the last 15 every blade of grass. In the last young sons live in Wheaton. years. Spray nozzles.The couple of years, though, I’ve On his extended visits to airborne, sweaty bodies of been shooting with grainy England, Michael has become athletes. Princess Diana, film. It has an ethereal, concerned about the state of bearing the world’s gaze. impressionistic kind of look.” England’s historic churches. Castles and crosses.Trees, the Michael often uses high- “There isn’t money to fix leaves seemingly lit from speed, infrared film to create them up,” he says of the within. these impressionistic pictures. decaying structures.“I’d like to After more than a decade “The grass turns white, of work as a commercial do a book of beautiful pictures the trees turn white—it of cathedrals and parish glows. I can capture a churches and use the proceeds mood, an emotion,” he to help repair some of them. says.“Infrared also works In English churches there is so well with hand much history; you can be coloring.” worshipping and know that His process for hand people were doing a very coloring is much the similar kind of worship there same technique that was six or seven hundred years used before the advent of ago—or even more.” color photography. He Michael describes his Web bleaches a black-and- site (www.home.earthlink.net/ white print, adds the ~mwhudson) as an “on-going brown sepia tones, and exhibit.” He’s scanned images then colors it with from his now substantial colored pencils and collection of stock photo- translucent oil paints photographer, Michael sees graphy into the computer and made for that purpose. himself in a time of transition. updates the site regularly. In “Some photographers Instead of photographing his notebooks of proof sheets, change the whole look of a products or making portraits, he is particularly fond of the scene,” Michael says.A gray he is spending more of his hundreds of pictures he has sky, he explains, can be colored time doing creative work for taken of Blanchard Hall.The book publishers. blue, autumn leaves can be building stirs his love of In the last few years, his made green—a season can be history. work has been produced on changed.“You have a lot more “You can’t go wrong the covers of several books control than with a color shooting a picture of from Tyndale House and print.” Blanchard,” he says fondly. others. Many of the photo- When Michael was 12, his graphs used on the book family moved from Wisconsin by Jennifer Grant ’89

46 Wheaton Dear Editor: mouth, not in his hand (Rev. May I commend you for Man of the In-Between 19:15). including Stu Weber’s article I cannot help but comment on Lynn Allan Losie ’67 in the Spring 2000 issue of the irony in the Spring 2000 Wheaton. His views need to issue of Wheaton, which has I, too, consider my brief time be kept in mind in light of probably been noticed by in the army a profound and some sentiment—on and many readers. President Duane life-changing experience. It off campus—that proposes letters Litfin’s welcome announce- ultimately led me to study a divorce between evangel- We invite your letters ment of the demise of the the biblical stories of how icalism and the military. and e-mail as they relate militaristic Crusader mascot God wants us to deal with Hudson Armerding ’41, to topics covered in the magazine. was quickly deconstructed by bullies. Looking at both the President Emeritus Correspondence must be Pastor Stu Weber’s defense of Old and New Testament signed and may be edited the “warrior spirit” as images of David and Goliath More Than a Game for length or clarity.Write: exemplified in the ROTC and Jesus on the cross, I really appreciated your Editor, Wheaton magazine, program at Wheaton. I find that God does not want article “More Than a Game” Wheaton College, As a classmate of Stu’s me to fight the bully with (Spring 2000).Thanks for a Wheaton, IL 60187; who did not continue in the bully’s weapons. David great piece of writing and or send e-mail to ROTC after the mandatory rejected all the “powerful” capturing the essence of [email protected]. two years, I do not find such a equipment of Saul’s army to Wheaton’s athletes. clear scriptural warrant for the fight Goliath, and Jesus Greg Doty, use of force to deal with the refused to call legions of Director, Purchasing/ “bully syndrome.”The com- angels to fight for Him. Risk Management pelling image of Jesus for me David knew that Yahweh is a is of the king who said,“My warrior and would do his Just wanted to let you kingdom is not of this world. fighting for him, and Jesus know how much I appreciated If my kingdom were of this knew that evil is overcome the excellent article on our world, then would my servants with good. Both understood athletic teams. It is very well fight” (John 18:36), and of the the choice of weakness. M-16s done.Thanks for your good Lion of Judah who is deemed and tanks just don’t come work. worthy because he is the close to the power of God’s Bill Harris, Lamb that was slain and who love. Men’s Basketball Coach carries the sword in his Ray Shiffer ’68

Order a 2000-2001 daily events calendar 2000-01Daily Events Calendar Today This 16-month daily planning guide will inform you of campus and sports events as well as prayer requests for the life of the College.The theme of this year’s spiral-bound calendar is “Finishing Strong.” It features the recently completed New Century Challenge. As in past years, the Alumni Association will send the Daily Events Calendar as a gift to alumni who have given consistently to Wheaton College over the past three years. The calendars may be purchased for $10, including postage and handling.Write the Alumni Association,Wheaton College, 501 College Ave.,Wheaton, IL 60187, e n g lle or call 630-752-5047. h a C ry tu e n GE LE e w C L N O C N O AT E H W

Wheaton 47 at last Reflections on the Christian life by Portrait of the Virgin published Wheaton Who Said No alumni to Gabriel

by Jeanne Murray Walker ’66

This is the 16-year-old Rubens never painted. I sketched this poem quickly in a hotel late one evening after teaching a poetry writing workshop in a strange city. That morning, when the voice scattered like gold coins I got the idea one day last winter at dinner when a friend, on the floor and the feathers settled, she looked up from baking to see his forehead, sweaty Bill Griffin, joked to me about the women who said no to from the long trip. Me? she asked. Oh sure! the angel Gabriel.The idea seemed both vaguely sacrilegious and irresistibly funny. But later, after he walked away, she couldn’t forget Winter grew into spring and I found myself leading the strange way his feet rang like horseshoes on the stones. the workshop with many women participants.They were What she had been wanting before he interrupted her talking about how difficult they found it to organize their was not the Bach Magnificat, I can tell you, not stained glass. lives to take a long weekend at the writers’ conference. Not to lose her good name. Nothing to do with heroism. They had left children in the care of baby-sitters or She was short. How could she keep in her heart husbands.They had cooked meals ahead. Most had taken those centuries of tall praise? But I praise her, off several days of work.They were skilled at juggling anyway, for wanting a decent wedding responsibilities.They had chosen lives, not of heroism, but with napkins folded like hats and a good Italian wine. of formidable detail which required good steady nerves. I praise her name, Lenora. I praise the way Now, released for a few days, they felt heady joy at writing. she would write it carefully, making the L I loved their work.They were good. Many of them were like a little porch, where she could imagine standing middle-aged. And they were just beginning to find their to throw a red ball to some children she loved. voices.You would not recognize them.They are not famous. I praise the way, year by year, she changed that visitor Mary, on the other hand, is. She has been the subject in her mind from a beggar holding a tin cup of paintings and cantatas and libraries full of books. She was so young when Gabriel invited her to become mother of into the angel she later knew him for.Think of her, Jesus.What made her say yes? Was it blind faith? Or did collecting belief slowly, the way a bird builds her nest she have some inkling of what she was getting into? It in an olive tree.Think how one year, after the leaves fell, meant she would lose her good name. She would have to she was an old woman looking at the truth, dark figure out how to discipline a child who was God. And she against the salmon sky, knowing it was the truth. would have to watch the Romans crucify her son. For not despising her own caution then, I praise her. Most of us would say no. So there are no paintings of For never feeling envy.And for the way, once, us, no stained glass windows, no music about us. I wanted she walked through her fear to hand a cup of water to write just one portrait of a woman who said no, who to a carpenter who was fainting by her door. chose common sense and decency instead. Only later does In every room of this gallery I think I see her picture. she understand who asked her the heroic question and what it meant.Then, I imagine, she begins to understand —for Henry William Griffin the choice she made and, maybe, to regret her caution. Her way is slow awareness and small victories. I praise it, too.

Jeanne Murray Walker ’66 is the author of numerous essays and plays as well as five volumes of poetry, the latest of which is Gaining Time.Among her many awards are an NEA Fellowship and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She leads workshops around the country in both script and poetry writing, and she lectures frequently at universities, churches, and conferences on topics such as spirituality and writing. Married and the mother of two children, Jeanne lives in Philadelphia. Lucy Deck Shaw ’53 Lucy Deck Shaw

48 Wheaton When he hand colors his black-and-white prints, photographer Michael Hudson ’89 is employing a technique as old as his profession. Photographs have been hand colored since the invention of photography in the mid-19th century. In the 1950s, when color photography became prevalent, hand coloring went out of style.A few decades later, however, it crept back into favor and now makes frequent appearances in print media as well as in neighborhood portrait studios. Digital colorization is the latest trend in coloring black- and-white images. Despite the appeal of this new technology, photographers like Michael prefer to hand color their black-and-white prints the old-fashioned way.“I enjoy getting my hands wet,” he says. See the story on page 46.