Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Spring 2013 | Page 3

WHEATON contents 26 features 12 Musicians in the Making Wheaton’s Community School of the Arts develops young artists, offering grant-funded 23 Need Career Advice? Got Advice To Give? Networking just got easier thanks to early-childhood music classes and violin Wheaton’s new online networking tool, now lessons to many students. available for 2003-2012 graduates, and 14 The Next Disaster. Are You Ready? Wheaton’s Humanitarian Disaster Institute, founded just two years ago, engages students, professors, and the global church soon available to all alumni. by Jessica Bernthal 26 Your Must-Read for Short-Term Missions A new book by Dr. Brian Howell, associate in disaster research, preparedness, professor of anthropology, offers and response. ideas for improving short-term missions trips. by Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 by Jeremy Weber ’05 20 Nashville Dream Tour A group of 11 students gain music industry insights that run the gamut—from performance and production to writing and business. by Alanna Foxwell-Barajas ’06 30 #embracingthesecondhalfoflife Fi