Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Autumn 2013 | Page 37

wheaton college alumni association

annual report 2012-13

grants and awards to faculty, students, and alumni. Funds for these grants flow from

Juniors Awarded Scholarships for
their Senior Year

the annual Wheaton Fund, which also supports every faculty member’s salary and every

Lilian Chou

student’s academic program.

Clara Kent

Each year the Alumni Association’s Board of Directors awards financial and nonfinancial

Elizabeth Loewer

Alumni Faculty Grants awarded for 2013-2014

Faculty Missions Project 2012-2013

Amy Black (Politics and International Relations)

Daniel Block (Biblical and Theological Studies) Greece

Robert Gallagher (Intercultural Studies)

Johann Buis (Conservatory of Music) South Africa

Andrew Hill (Biblical and Theological Studies)

Richard Butman ’73 (Psychology) Egypt

Distinguished Service Awards 2012-2013
for Distinguished Service to Alma Mater

Daniel Horn (Conservatory of Music)

Robert Gallagher (Intercultural Studies) Turkey

Jillian Nerhus Lederhouse ’75

Bryan McGraw (Politics and International Relations)

Jeffrey Greenberg (Geology and Environmental

Jonathan E. Lederhouse ’74

Tom Schwanda (Christian Formation and Ministry)
Rose Wang (Foreign Language)
Science Division Block Grant for Faculty/Student

Matthew McMillan

Science) Kosovo
Stephen Lovett (Mathematics) Kenya – Timothy R.
Phillips Scholarship

for Distinguished Service to Society
Dr. S. Douglas Birdsall ’75

Summer Research

Wheaton College Alumni Association Board of Directors Row 1: (l to r) Kurt Tillman ’78 (President-Elect), Cindra Stackhouse Taetzsch ’82 (Executive Director), Christopher
Jahns ’82 (President). Row 2: Christopher Yuan, M.A. ’07, Meagan Stuart Gillan ’75, Joelle Meyer Herskind ’91, Tiffany Staples ’06, Donna Peterson Nielsen ’93, Kirstin Skytte Lindquist
’87, Cindy Hoidas, Renae Schauer Smith ’91. Row 3: Erin Hoekstra ’04, Hythem Shadid ’79, Paul Klobucher ’96, Ryan Buchanan ’11, Barbara Reusche Winter ’60, Timothy Stoner
’82 (Past President). Not pictured: John Biedebach ’89, Mark Dillon hon (Vice President for Advancement and Alumni Relations), David McDowell ’68, and Susannah Schwarcz ’00.

call for
nominations

All alumni are invited to suggest qualified candidates for
the Wheaton Alumni Board of Directors by submitting
an online form to the nominating committee. The
committee will take into account class year, vocation,
gender, ethnicity, and demonstrated commitment to
Wheaton. Job description and nomination forms can be
obtained and submitted online at alumni.wheaton.edu.
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