Archive for February, 2012
A.W. Tozer & Wheaton College
Monday, February 27th, 2012The following passage describes the relationship between A.W. Tozer and Wheaton College and is transcribed from “A Passion for God: The Spiritual Journey of A.W. Tozer” by Lyle Dorsett (Moody 2008). From 1945 until his death in 1963, Tozer poured seemingly unbounded energy into the younger generation. The Sunday evening services at the church on [...]
Royalty in Our Midst
Friday, February 24th, 2012Guest posting by Special Collections staff member The current King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, is known as a stern and tough Monarch. Though his authority is not absolute, he continues to wield considerable influence within his country and beyond. In line with past Kings and Queens of Thailand, he is known for having those who [...]
An Instrument of Service
Monday, February 20th, 2012The following article about Conservatory Professor Gladys Christensen ’49 was featured in the Wheaton College Alumni Magazine in June 1987 and is transcribed below. An Instrument of Service by Sue Miller ’82 I can remember as a very young child going up and trying to touch an organ, and the organist, of course, shooed me [...]
Chaplain Pat
Friday, February 17th, 2012In recent weeks a nondescript box arrived at the Wheaton College Special Collections containing the sermons of Harold LeRoy Patterson, third chaplain of Wheaton College, and affectionately referred to as “Chaplain Pat.” The sermons were originally grouped by subject and stored in a small filing cabinet measuring 12″x10″x16″. They were meticulously organized and written or [...]
C.S. Lewis and the Mennonite
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012The Evangelism and Missions Collection, housed on the third floor of the Billy Graham Center in Special Collections, is largely unknown to most undergraduates. Emphasizing autobiography, biography and denominational histories, its countless pages hold boundless curiosities for the questing researcher. Recently one such treasure revealed itself. Investigating the history of the Mennonites, a patron randomly [...]
50th Anniversary of “A Wrinkle in Time”
Monday, February 13th, 2012In celebration of the 50th anniversary of “A Wrinkle in Time”, this Newbery Award-winning novel written by Madeleine L’Engle has over 10 million copies in print. The following article was written by the author at the novel’s 25th anniversary. It’s been twenty-five years since the publication of A Wrinkle in Time, and longer than that [...]
On My Mind – Jim Young
Friday, February 10th, 2012Twenty 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 Communications and Director of Theater Jim Young (who taught at Wheaton from 1973-2005) was featured in the Summer 1995 issue. “On My Mind,” she told [...]
A Burning and Shining Light
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012Campus buildings and rooms are often named in honor of a generous donor, but this does not necessarily mean that the details of the honoree’s life survive the commemoration. In time the name simply becomes associated with the structure rather than the individual. Hugo Wurdack, whose name graces a small auditorium in the eastern colonnade [...]
Miss Illinois
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Over thirty years ago the following article was featured in the Wheaton College Alumni Magazine in May 1981 and is transcribed below. Blythe Sawyer — Miss Illinois 1981 by Ed Meyer ’71 Little did Blythe Sawyer know, when she graduated from Wheaton’s Conservatory of Music a year ago, of all the excitement which lay ahead. [...]
New Book on Russian Evangelical Spirituality Published
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012A new book on Russian Evangelical spirituality is receiving strong praise. Aided by the holdings of the Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections, along with other archival resources, Gregory Nicholas has produced what Walter Sawatsky of the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, calls a “deep, careful exploration of the developing spirituality and theology of Ivan V [...]