Archive for July, 2011
Betsy Palmer
Friday, July 29th, 2011Betsy Palmer simply needed funds for a new car when she accepted the role of Jason Voorhees’s demented mother in the wildly successful slasher flick, Friday the 13th (1980). Reading the script, she realized it wasn’t exactly Shakespeare. “I never expected that anyone would see that darn thing,” she recalls. Nonetheless, her performance brought her [...]
John Stott (1921-2011) – Global Christian
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011John Stott with Hudson T. Armerding, circa 1968 Word spread today that John Stott has left this earth and moved on to his reward following a short illness. Stott, who died mid-afternoon London-time, had a relationship with Wheaton College that went back many decades. He spoke at Wheaton on numerous occasions with nearly thirty recordings [...]
Seeing through the eye
Monday, July 25th, 2011Anyone who has read Malcolm Muggeridge extensively will be familiar with the recurring themes which he tended to call on, either in articles, speeches or books. The clear favorite was the rather overused quote from Blake, making the distinction between seeing with and seeing through the eye. Another was describing himself as a vendor of [...]
It’s a beautiful day in Chicago!
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Though, as of the writing of this blog, it is not a beautiful day in Chicago with its heat index in the 100+ degree mark for several days running, the radio career of Everett Mitchell was signified by his recognizable phrase. Everett Mitchell, born March 15, 1898, grew up on a small farm near Chicago [...]
Movie Madness
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011William “Willy” Kuntze, former Dean of the Conservatory of Music at Wheaton College, was a man of tremendous musical gifts, enjoying an international reputation for his compositions and solo performances. Graduating in 1891 from Kullak Conservatory in Berlin, studying under Kullak and L.E. Bach, he served as Conductor of the Chicago Teachers’ Union from 1898 [...]
On My Mind – Lyle Dorsett
Monday, July 18th, 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. Former Professor of Christian Educational Ministries and Evangelism Lyle Dorsett (who taught at Wheaton from 1983-2005) was featured in the Winter 1993 issue. When I was a [...]
Army Specialized Training Program
Friday, July 15th, 2011John LaVine Photo: Minnesota Historical Society In mid-August 1942 Wheaton College experienced its first war-related blackout. At 10:30pm on August 12th alarms, whistles and air-raid sirens blew sending students to shelters below ground. The following summer 250 soldiers arrived on campus to begin Army Specialized Training Program 3672, otherwise known to everyone as ASTP. The [...]
What Wheaton College Did for Me: Norman Rohrer
Monday, July 11th, 2011Norman Rohrer’s recollection appeared in the March, 1966, edition of Alumni magazine. In addition to writing several books, he was Executive Secretary of the Evangelical Press Association. God used Wheaton College to pull me off the road where I was wandering aimlessly and set me on a course of Christian service. When I stopped at [...]
On My Mind – Ruth Bamford
Friday, July 1st, 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. Former Dean of Students Ruth Bamford (who worked at Wheaton from 1970-1994) was featured in the December 1991/January 1992 issue. Often I find myself thinking about how [...]