Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Spring 2013 | Page 2
Wheaton College exists to help build the church and improve society worldwide
by promoting the development of whole and effective Christians through
excellence in programs of Christian higher education. This mission expresses our
commitment to do all things “For Christ and His Kingdom.”
volume 16
issue 2
sPRiNG 2013
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alumni news
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departments
2
Letters
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News
Association news and events
10
Sports
Alumni Class News
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Authors
A Word with Alumni
From the President of the Alumni Association
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Wheaton Alumni Association News
Cover photo: Blake Williamson ’09, Larissa Smith ’09, and
Abby Hart ’09 head out in the morning to dig ditches in
San Ramón, Honduras, a small coffee farming community not
too far from Nicaragua. Since 1982, students have participated
in the Honduras Project, raising money for gravity-fed water
systems in remote mountain villages, and joining the village
to share in the labor for one week. On this particular trip,
twenty-two students and two faculty members helped dig the
ditches for the system’s pipes, which go from a spring above
the village to each home. Photo by Abigail Mitchell ’12
501 College Avenue
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
Inside photos: Les Barker, (above, left [Jonathan Edward’s
signature on a letter on exhibit in the Wheaton College Archives
and Special Collections, courtesy of Brian ’73 and Sally Phillips
Oxley ’74] ) and p. 2; Michael Hudson ’89, (above, center) and
pp. 3, 8, 11-13, 18-19, 31, 55, 59-61, and 64; Honduras
Project (above, right); DuPage Office of Homeland Security and
Emergency Management, p. 17; Josh Okerman ’07, p. 23;
the Honduras Project, p. 26; David Johnson, p. 47.
Books by W heaton’s faculty; thoughts on friendship
by Dr. Steve Hoke ’71, M.A. ’72
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Readings
Excerpts from Homecoming 2012 chapel address
by Todd Komarnicki ’87
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Faculty Voice
Dr. Robert Gallagher, chair of intercultural studies,
on finding intimacy with God despite life’s
busyness.
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Student Profile
Mimi Guiracocha ’13 tells her story of God’s care
and faithfulness.
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Wheaton in the World
Dr. Susan Hayes Greener ’83, associate professor
of intercultural studies, trains teachers in Rwanda.
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President’s Perspective