Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Autumn 2013 | Page 36
WHEATON alumni
Alumni RelAtions
There was a respectful silence
Cindra Stackhouse
Taetzsch ’82
Director of Alumni
Relations
Executive Director,
Wheaton College
Alumni Association
Vice President for Advancement
and Alumni Relations
when I stepped up
to the microphone on the stage of Edman Chapel on Friday, May 10. The seniors
had finished a week of final exams and were visibly tired. But many were also
excited because they’d just rehearsed for the ceremony that would take place in two
days—they were really graduating! I welcomed them to the Alumni Association and
encouraged them to stay connected with Wheaton. Then I read part of a letter I’d just
received from an alumnus whose name they all knew. A few students gasped when
I told them that Dr. Billy Graham’s class, 1943, was celebrating its 70th reunion that
weekend, and he had sent a greeting to his classmates.
Dr. R. Mark Dillon
When I had first opened Dr. Graham’s letter and prepared to share it with alumni
at the spring luncheon, it struck me that his words might also encourage our newest
graduating class:
Past President
May this weekend be a time for catching up on what God has been doing
in and through each of us since graduation. It is also a time to remember
our years at Wheaton. I know that God used our time there to stir us,
to challenge us, and to call us according to His plan for each of our lives.
To God be the glory for the great things He has done through you over
the years. I send my warmest greetings, and although I am unable to travel
to Wheaton to be with you, I look forward to our great reunion at the feet
of Jesus Christ!
The sights and sounds of Commencement and Alumni Weekend evoke the long and
rich story of Wheaton College. Each spring students graduate, parents clap and cheer,
faculty march in colorful academic regalia, and alumni come home from all over the
world to reflect on their time at Wheaton and on God’s faithfulness through the years.
It’s my prayer that Dr. Graham’s greeting to the Class of 1943 encourages you today,
just as it encouraged the Class of 2013 on the Edman Chapel stage in May.
Director of Alumni Relations
Cindra Stackhouse Taetzsch ’82
Alumni AssociAtion
President
Kurt D. Tillman ’78
President-elect
Paul T. Klobucher ’96
Christopher A. Jahns ’82
executive Director
Cindra Stackhouse Taetzsch ’82
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LeRoy H. Pfund ’49
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Paul T. Klobucher ’96
Christopher A. Jahns ’82
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