Archive for April, 2011
What Wheaton College Did for Me: M. Douglas Hursh, M.D.
Thursday, April 28th, 2011This edition of “What Wheaton College Did for Me” appeared in the October, 1966, Wheaton Alumni magazine. When I came to Wheaton College in 1929 I was surprised to find such a friendly, closely-knit group of students and faculty. We seemed like one big family to which everybody belonged. Perhaps it really wasn’t so big [...]
Special Collections researcher publishes “Scandalous Women”
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011Wayward wives and warrior queens alongside wild women of the west and amorous artists and amazing adventuresses are the fodder for this book of “herstory.” Elizabeth Mahon took her notable blog and put it into book-form. In this book, “Scandalous Women: the lives and loves of history’s most notorious women,” she writes in an accessible [...]
On My Mind – Terry Perciante
Monday, April 25th, 2011Twenty years ago, the Wheaton Alumni magazine began a series of articles in which Wheaton faculty told about their thinking, their research, or their favorite books and people. Professor of Mathematics Terry Perciante was featured in the February/March1992 issue. The Washington Monument stands outside my hotel room window. To the right, I can see the [...]
Clouds of Witnesses published from the Evangelism & Missions Collection
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011Through nearly a dozen and a half biographical sketches Nystrom and Noll take the reader to Africa and Asia to see the lives of Christian believers in other lands and in other times. These stories span a century from the 1880s to the 1980s as the variety of Christian faith and practice are displayed in [...]
The Crafty Mr. Ulricson
Monday, April 18th, 2011Throughout his teaching career at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, Dr. R. Lance Factor, George Appleton Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Philosophy, had noticed several odd flourishes adorning the interior and exterior of Old Main, the historic central campus hall where Lincoln debated Douglas in 1858. Investigating its history, Factor unearthed fascinating secrets [...]
“Hopelessness can be overcome” said Jimmy Carter in 1992 Pfund lecture
Thursday, April 14th, 2011Nearly twenty years ago, President Jimmy Carter delivered the LeRoy H. Pfund Lecture on February 24, 1992. The following article “President Carter urges Christians to compassion and action on behalf of others” by Margaret Irish documented the event and was featured in the April/May 1992 issue of the Wheaton Alumni magazine. As a young person, [...]
“From Bible Belt to Sunbelt” published
Monday, April 11th, 2011In this new book Darren Dochuk, from Purdue University, argues that Great Depression-era religious tenant farmers, “plain-folk” migrants, from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas are key to understanding the contemporary interchange between American religion and politics. These migrants, with their Southern steely persistence and Western rugged impatience and pragmatism helped shape the character of politics in [...]
What Wheaton College Did for Me: Walter M. Dunnett
Friday, April 8th, 2011Walter Dunnett reminisces in the December, 1966, Wheaton Alumni magazine. It was the year 1946, and I was a student in the School of Commerce at Northwestern University. On occasion, seeing my fellow students who were enrolled in the School of Education, preparing for a career in the classroom, I sometimes found myself saying, “What [...]
On My Mind – Jill Baumgaertner
Monday, April 4th, 2011Twenty years ago, the Wheaton Alumni magazine began a series of articles in which Wheaton faculty told about their thinking, their research, or their favorite books and people. Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner was featured in the Spring 1994 issue. In 1980, after many years of “sanctified [...]