Measures of Success Visit the Beamer Student Center Alumni Awards WHEATON COLLEGE EXISTS to HELP BUILD the CHURCH and IMPROVE SOCIETY

winter 2005 WHEATON Measures of Success Visit the Beamer Student Center Alumni Awards WHEATON COLLEGE EXISTS TO HELP BUILD THE CHURCH AND IMPROVE SOCIETY WORLDWIDE BY PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF WHOLE AND EFFECTIVE CHRISTIANS THROUGH EXCELLENCE IN PROGRAMS OF CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION. THIS MISSION EXPRESSES OUR COMMITMENT TO DO ALL THINGS “FOR CHRIST AND HIS KINGDOM.” VOLUME 8 ISSUE 1 5 20 24 WINTER 2005 alumni news departments 29 A Word with Alumni 2 Letters From the Vice President for 5 News Alumni Relations 12 Sports 30 Wheaton Alumni Association News 56 Authors Association news and coming events Books by Wheaton’s faculty; thoughts from published alumnus Phil Ryken ’88 36 Alumni Class News 58 Readings Hudson Armerding ’41 acknowledges Cover photo: Guerry Redmond, Atlanta. The Hand of God Bonnie Pruett Wurzbacher ’77 senior vice president, global accounts for the 60 Faculty Voice Coca-Cola Company, photographed at the World of Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta, Dr. Lederhouse ’75 defends public schools Georgia. Read about her and other alumni in business on pages 16-21. 61 Student Profile Inside photos: Michael Hudson ’89, pages Student promotes diversity, spreads unity 5-7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 23, 25-27, 39, 50-51, 60, 61, 63, reunion classes 36, 37, 45, 47-49. Wheaton in the World Les Barker reunion photos 38, 40-42, 44. 62 Homecoming photos, pages 32 and 33: Dr. Natalia Yangarber-Hicks teaches a Ben Nordstrom ’94, Richard Lyon ’99, Angel McGrath ’04, Marilee Melvin ’72. Holocaust seminar in Warsaw 501 College Avenue Back cover: Carlos Vergara ’82 64 President’s Commentary Wheaton, Illinois 60187 WHEATONcontents 26 58 features 14 In Memoriam 24 The Problem with Raccoons As the nation prepares to celebrate the Biology professor Dr. Kristin Page and 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in her students research a potentially Europe, we remember through the eyes of life-threatening raccoon parasite that one veteran alumnus, and give thanks for all gives parents one more reason to insist of our country’s World War II veterans, on proper hand-washing before meals. living and dead. by Amy Wolgemuth Bordoni by Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 26 Home from School 16 Defining Success The second in our series written for How do you define success? Find out how Wheaton families. Read how a few of some of Wheaton’s alumni leaders in business Wheaton’s homeschooling parents measure this multi-faceted concept. and homeschooled students evaluate by Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 their educational experiences. by Jessica L. Allen 22 Alumni of the Year 2004 James ’52 and Arlyne Nelson Lane ’52 received the Alumni Association’s award for Distinguished Service to Alma Mater during Homecoming weekend. by Jessica L. Allen mong institutions of higher education,Wheaton is classified as a “small” Acollege because its enrollment is fewer than 2,500 undergraduate students. It makes sense, then, that our number of living alumni—39,000—is small compared to that, for example, of Harvard, with its 323,000, or the University of Texas at Austin, with its 450,000. With relatively few alumni, scattered throughout the world, what is the Letter from likelihood that these individuals’ lives would intersect at all, let alone in matters Editor Georgia I. Douglass ’70, M.A. ’94 the Editor of life and death? Assistant Editor On September 11, 2001,Todd Beamer ’91 boarded a plane for a business trip, Jessica L. Allen as he had done many times before.Within hours, at a defining moment in Editorial Consultant Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 our nation’s history, he would be among the first of many heroes involved in Design Consultants the counterattack in the war on terrorism. The path of Todd’s life, at the Alice Isoz Chrismer ’70 Ellen Mardock point of his death, would cross that of a fellow Wheaton alumnus, Speaker of Chrismer Mardock Design Group the House Dennis Hastert ’64, who credits Todd with likely saving his life and Class News Editor Donna Antoniuk thousands more on Capitol Hill.Todd’s legacy continues, and you can read Editorial Advisers Marilee A. Melvin ’72 about it on page 5. R. Mark Dillon Near the end of World War II,as an intelligence officer assigned to Wheaton Alumni Association headquarters, Harold Mackenzie ’36 ordinarily would not have been riding President behind the jeep of Wheaton alumnus Joe Pleva ’35, whom he had met Robert D. Dye ’73 President-elect just days before. But replacements were needed for a major offensive deep into Matthew C. Hsieh ’93 German territory, and Harold had volunteered.And so these two Wheaton Executive Director Marilee A. Melvin ’72 alumni found their lives intertwined in the midst of war and a battle for survival. Professor Emeritus Their friendship would be all too brief. Harold tells the story on page 14. Leroy H. Pfund ’49 Alumni Trustee Representatives The visit wasn’t planned—at least it didn’t seem so.While scanning the day’s Robert D. Dye ’73 patient roster, a young resident, Peter Jaggard ’75, noticed the name of Hudson Charles V. Hogren ’58 Matthew C. Hsieh ’93 Armerding ’41 and decided to drop by his hospital room. Little did Peter know Wheaton College the significance that his visit would have on the life of the man who was President Wheaton’s president when he was a student. But Dr.Armerding wrote about Dr. Duane Litfin Provost it years later, and you can read his account on page 58. Dr. Stanton L. Jones Happenstance or the hand of God—that the paths of these alumni should Senior Vice President Dr. David E. Johnston ’65 intersect at these times and under these circumstances? We won’t understand Vice President for Advancement such things this side of heaven. But we do know, because Scripture shows us, that Dr. R. Mark Dillon our sovereign God does step into the broad expanse of Vice President for Alumni Relations Marilee A. Melvin ’72 human history—and into the minutest details of our lives— Vice President for Student Development for our good and His glory. Dr. Samuel Shellhamer Wheaton is published autumn, winter, spring, and special (catalog) by Wheaton College, 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL Georgia I. Douglass ‘70, M.A. ‘94 60187-5593, 630/752-5047, and mailed free of charge to alumni and friends of Wheaton College. Periodicals postage Editor paid at Wheaton, IL (USPS 016326). Postmaster: Please send address changes to Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187-5593. Opinions expressed are those of the contributors or the editors, and do not necessarily represent the official position of the College. © 2005 Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL www.wheaton.edu 2 WINTER 2005 lettersWHEATON WHEATON COLLEGE WHEATON Taylor-Made Blessings article for the magazine—and for giving institutions, and you run well against all of I just read my dad’s copy of the autumn him the latitude to write on whatever them, both in editorial content and issue, which had Ken Taylor’s article. My he pleased. I found his brief one-page design. father, Kenneth Churchill ’57, was an letter to be very encouraging. Imagine There’s a certain ethos that any associate pastor of College Church back that, a man who has spent more publication shoots for, and alumni pubs in the mid to late ’50s. Dad and Ken than 40 years poring over and translating have, I guess, a specific mission of Taylor have a friendship that goes back Scripture still struggles with the same bridging the alums and the institution even before Wheaton to Moody Bible spiritual disciplines in his life as I do! they graduated from; you do it in a way Institute days in the ’40s. In fact, I even Keith Duff ’94 that benefits old grads like myself and keep a baby card from Margaret and Ken North Aurora, Illinois also hopefully to the glory of God.When Taylor in my autographed Living Bible. a new issue comes, I almost always set My parents were missionaries in China, On Stage it aside, and then when the time is right, pastored at Minnetonka Community Living in the Colorado Rockies is its settle into it and plow on through. Church for 25 years, were U.S. directors own reward, but an added bonus has been As Dorothy Sayers once said,“There is for The Red Sea Mission Team,and now the opportunity to see Robert Orth ’68 no Christian work; only good work well my father, at age 84, continues to serve and Sheryl Woods ’72 in many done.” You do good work, and do it well. the Lord through visitation, witnessing, performances in the gemlike Central City Ron Boydston M.A. ’76 prayer, and counseling ministry. He is Opera House, starting with their Tacoma,Washington anxious to be called home to his Savior memorable pairing in Don Pasquale in the and longs to see his dear wife, but is late 1980s.And Sylvia McNair ’78 was Editor’s note: Thanks for the kudos. But much committed to serving the Lord with charming in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to our regret, we don’t always do it well. In fact, every breath he has. in 2002, and absolutely mesmerizing in a in the last issue, we, uh, really goofed.We told a He has lost touch with Ken over the solo Gershwin recital on the same stage. story about Doug ’68 and years, and I would love to have these two Wheaton grads have also been active Elizabeth Erlandson’s sweet saints of God connect again while they behind the curtain; my play on the life success with their Licorice still are on this planet.

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