Archive for September, 2011
Dr. Wernher von Braun at Wheaton College
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011As the newly-appointed director of the Marshall Space Flight Center at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Wernher von Braun was invited by the Wheaton College Student Union as its last guest for the 1960-61 Lyceum season. Scheduled for 8:00 on June 3, 1961, in the newly-constructed Edman Chapel, Dr. von Braun delivered [...]
A rare breed – Charles Percy
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Charles Harting Percy died over the weekend at 91. He was an unusual politician, not unlike another recently passed Republican, Mark Hatfield. Percy was on the moderate-end of the Republican spectrum, probably a bit left of Hatfield. Both were known as Rockefeller Republicans. He had broad appeal in Illinois, including in the African-American community in [...]
An Inaugural Prayer
Friday, September 16th, 2011September 17, 2010 marked the inauguration day of Philip Graham Ryken, eighth president of Wheaton College. One year later it is fitting to remember a powerful prayer given seventeen years earlier to the day by Dr. Haddon Robinson on behalf of Duane Litfin, Wheaton’s seventh president. Our sovereign Father, we come to You at this [...]
Log Blog and Silos
Monday, September 12th, 2011Ebay brings forth some of the oddest things around. Sometimes it gives a glimpse into history and sometimes it just plain rips it wide open. Today’s post would fall into the latter category. Several months ago, the picture shown here (really the negative) appeared on Ebay. It purported to have been taken on the campus [...]
American Scientific Affiliation celebrates 70th Anniversary
Friday, September 9th, 2011This past summer the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) held it’s 2011 annual meeting at North Central College and co-hosted by Wheaton College on the topic of Science-Faith Synergy: Glorifying God and Serving Humanity. “Wheaton College has had a long association with the ASA, and many of its earliest activities, starting in the 1940s, involved a [...]
From one language to another: translating Christ cross-culturally
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011Word from the American Bible Society came over the weekend of Rev. Eugene A. Nida’s recent passing. Nida, who died at 96 years of age, had served the American Bible Society for roughly four decades. His greatest contribution to the society was his approach to training Bible translators for their work. After graduating from the [...]
Ruth Cording
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Ruth James Cording (who graduated with a literature degree from Wheaton College in 1933) was born and raised in Auburn, New York, of Welsh and Irish descent. Her father was a Baptist pastor and her grandfather, Evan Thomas James, had emigrated in 1866 from Wales. In fact, Auburn greatly resembled Wales, from its rocky terrain [...]