2013 April 5 Image of the Week
Wheaton students have accomplished much in swimming over the years. Head swim coach Jon Lederhouse sent this picture of Wheaton women swimming champions, past and present. Kirsty Nitz ’16, left, won three events at the NCAA Division III Swimming Championships, held March 20-23 in The Woodlands, Texas. Her winning times were 22.8 seconds in the 50-meter freestyle, 53.0 in the 100-meter butterfly, and 1:57.3 in the 200-meter backstroke.
With Kirsty are Linda Chambers Long ’86 (center) and Laura Witt ’90 (right). Linda won the 1650-meter freestyle in 1983 and 1985, and Laura was champion at the 100- and 200-meter freestyle events in 1990.
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2013 March 29 Image of the Week
This week’s picture was taken on a slightly warmer day in the midst of a cool spring on campus. We join the Psalmist, who said, “I will praise you, LORD, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.” (Psalm 108:3-5)
This Easter week we follow the path of Jesus as he carried out the Father’s plan for the redemption of mankind. Consider this great summary of the work Jesus did on our behalf in Luke 24:44-53, “He said to them, ‘This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.’ Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, ‘This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.’ When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.”
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2013 March 22 Image of the Week
From March 17 to 21, Wheaton hosted the Global Symposium on Experiential Leadership Development on campus. More than 20 delegates from Christian camps in countries such as Russia, Kenya, Jamaica, Brazil, Panama, Costa Rica, India, and Romania came together to promote stronger cooperation between camp ministries and institutions of higher learning. In part through its Outdoor Adventure Leadership Concentration, Wheaton College is a major contributor to the global movement of adventure and camp ministry.
This week’s image shows the opening session of the symposium, where Phillip Ryken, Wheaton College President; Laura Montgomery, Dean of Global and Experiential Learning; and Rob Ribbe, Director of Wheaton’s HoneyRock Camp, greet the delegates and kick off five days of meaningful conversation about the importance and potential of these partnerships.
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2013 March 15 Image of the Week
Each Spring Break more than 100 Wheaton students travel to a variety of locations, both nationally and internationally to serve as a part of Wheaton’s BreakAway Ministry program. This week’s image was submitted by David Malone, Associate Professor of Library Science and co-leader of this year's Spring Break BreakAway trip to the Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia. He is pictured here with four students on the Georgia BreakAway team and President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. The students, pictured from left to right, are: Susie Eichling '14, Sylvi Thorstenson '13, Hannah Pinter '13, Lydia Gantz '14.
David Malone shares, "We went to Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, GA to go to President Carter's church. With our late arrival and the time zone and Daylight Savings Time change we didn't feel we could get to Carter's Sunday school. Well we were able to hear him teach on Luke 15 (Parable of the Prodigal Son) as well as stay for church."
The team spent the rest of the week serving at Koinonia Farm, an intentional Christian community founded in 1942. The Farm has a rich history in the Civil Rights Movement and has played a part in the establishment of many organizations including Habitat for Humanity. For more images of our students serving on BreakAway trips around the world, check out #breakaway13 on Twitter and Instagram.
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2013 March 8 Image of the Week
This week’s image comes from Steven Mull, showing his son, Wheaton track All-American Brandon Mull ’08 about to receive a certificate for placing 5th in the Osaka Japan Marathon. Brandon is in the middle in the Wheaton shirt. Steven says that Brandon “ran the Osaka (Japan) Marathon in November where he finished 5th in a time of 2:19:23.” Over 35,000 runners participated in the marathon.
Brandon had been invited to run in Osaka since he was the top male finisher from Illinois in the 2011 Chicago Marathon. The invitation from Japan is part of an exchange of top local runners to promote that Osaka and Chicago are sister cities.
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2013 March 1 Image of the Week
Football coaching staff member Ben Hoffmeier shot this video of the January 26 men’s basketball game, featuring #25 ranked (at the time) Wheaton Thunder against the #5 North Central Cardinals. The Wheaton men secured the upset victory in wild overtime play, immediately followed by a flood of people onto the court.
Wheaton College has earned the opportunity to host a men’s basketball NCAA Division III Tournament first round game versus St. Norbert College on Saturday, March 2. The last time Wheaton hosted an NCAA Tournament game was 2008. The Wheaton women’s basketball team also will participate in NCAA Tournament action this weekend, playing a first round game in Holland, Michigan against Hope College. More information about both tournament games can be found at the Athletics website. Go Thunder!
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2013 February 22 Image of the Week
This week’s photo submission comes from assistant professor of Physics, Heather Whitney. “These are five of our physics majors,” says professor Whitney, “at Loomis Laboratory at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, during the 6th Annual Midwest Undergraduate Conference for Women in Physics. About 250 women from the Midwest attended this conference, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The number of women in the field is slowly growing, but for several of these students it was the first time they had been around more than a handful of fellow women in physics at one time.”
Pictured here are, from left to right: Jessica Seckler ’14, Maddie Baltzer ’16, Emily Willson ’16, Rebecca Russ ’13, Mindy Cartolano ’13.
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2013 February 15 Image of the Week
One of the hallmarks of a student’s experience at Wheaton College is the opportunity for interaction with faculty and staff, such as the Dine with a Mind program, which brings professors and students together over a meal in the cafeteria. This week’s photo comes to us from Dr. Melanie Humphreys, Dean of Student Care and Services. She had the opportunity to be a mentor to Rebecca Queen ’13 while Rebecca worked in Student Government. When Melanie heard of Rebecca’s plans to spend a semester in San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala, she was very interested. When Rebecca invited her to visit, Melanie decided to go.
Rebecca says, “Dean Mel came and visited me over Thanksgiving break. During the week that she was there, I took her to visit a disability center and we also did more touristy things around Guatemala. This picture is from a Guatemalan cooking class in Antigua. We made chile rellenos, tortillas, Guatemalan rice, cucumber/radish salad and plantain dessert.”
Rebecca, a psychology major at Wheaton, plans to start a Master of Arts in Counseling at Westminster Theological Seminary next fall. She eventually wants to be able to help refugees adapt to life in the states, as a result of her experiences in Guatemala.
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2013 February 8 Image of the Week (1 of 2)
Each year a group of Wheaton alumni get together and ride their motorcycles. This year, the Wheaton Motorcycle Riders went to the Pacific Northwest for some classmate bonding and beautiful scenery. The group’s 12-day odyssey, covering 4,000 miles, included visits to Mt. Ranier, Columbia Gorge, Crater Lake, and much more. Dwight Johnson ’65, who began the trip in Georgia, would travel 7,335 miles through 19 states in 19 days.
During their 12 days together, the Wheaton riders found time to do a little more than ride. Guy Lashlee ’65, is seen here (and also on the far right of the accompanying group photo) diving over 30 feet into the crystal clear and cold waters of Crater Lake, Oregon. Crater Lake is 2,000 feet deep at its deepest point, making it the deepest lake in the United States.
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2013 February 8 Image of the Week (2 of 2)
Each year a group of Wheaton alumni get together and ride their motorcycles. This year, the Wheaton Motorcycle Riders went to the Pacific Northwest for some classmate bonding and beautiful scenery. The group’s 12-day odyssey, covering 4,000 miles, included visits to Mt. Ranier, Columbia Gorge, Crater Lake, and much more. Dwight Johnson ’65, who began the trip in Georgia, would travel 7,335 miles through 19 states in 19 days.
Dwight submitted this picture of the group at the home of Dave Wolfe ’65 in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, featuring, from left to right: Bob Hulting ’57, Dick Tennies ’65, Dwight Johnson ’65, Dave Wolfe ’65, Doug Johnson ’65, and Guy Kim Lashlee ’65. Mr. Lashlee also appears in the accompanying photo as the diver.
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2013 February 1 Image of the Week
The 3rd Annual Faculty Battle of the Bands took place in Coray Alumni Gymnasium on January 25. The Haiti-Wheaton Partnership hosts the event to raise funds to benefit the nation of Haiti. Professor Larycia Hawkins sent this picture of the winning band, The Peaceable Kingdom, with members (back row, l to r) Larycia Hawkins (vocals), Luke Theobald ’14 (drums), Jamey O’Connor ’13 (guitar), Tiffany Kriner (vocals), (front row, l to r) Jeremy Botts (vocals, accordion), Chris Kim ’14 (trombone).
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Wheaton’s influence can be felt all the way to Washington, DC, displayed in this week’s image of the week, which is actually a video from Fox News. On January 21, at the Presidential Inauguration, the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir sang an inspiring arrangement of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, written by David Hamilton ’86.
While at Wheaton, David studied piano and conducting at the Conservatory of Music. He is an accomplished conductor, arranger, producer, keyboard artist, and songwriter, and has arranged music for such well known artists as Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant. David currently serves on the Wheaton Leadership Council.
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2013 January 18 Image of the Week
Amy Culhane ’07 sent in this week’s photo of a Wheaton improv troupe. Two troupes, named The Whittakers and Kids These Days, competed in the Chicago Improv Tournament’s Windy City Regionals. Both troupes had a strong showing and Kids These Days went on to win the competition. They will compete in the nationals on March 23 in Chicago.
Pictured in this photo, from left, are Keith Habersberger (CIT producer), Brendon Culhane ’07 (Kids These Days coach), Jon Jones ’13, Peter Thompson ’13, Ben Kinsinger ’13, Andrew Wagner ’13, Laura Ketchum ’13, and Jonathan Pitts (executive director of Chicago Improv Productions). Not pictured: Kids These Days members Gwen Dreyer ’13, Amanda Gregornik ’13, and Sarah Neff ’13.
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2013 January 11 Image of the Week
This week the Wheaton Club of Windsor Park sponsored a special “afternoon of the arts”, for alumni, parents, and friends of the College at the Windsor Park retirement community. The event showcased the talents of the Opera Music Theater students through selections from The Pirates of Penzance. The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, which will be performed in Pierce Memorial Chapel January 16 – 19, is conducted by Conservatory professor Mary Hopper and directed by Arena Theater technical director Andy Mangin. The picture, submitted by Reunion and Clubs Coordinator, Rachael Burlingame, features from left, Sydney Timmons ’14 in the role of Ruth, Jonathan Cramer ’15 in the role of Frederick, and Patrick Zurschmiede ’15 in the role of The Pirate King.
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2013 January 4 Image of the Week
The past year has been filled with many different interesting images sent by students, faculty, staff and alumni of Wheaton College. To start the new year, we take the opportunity to highlight the one image that received the most views in 2012 (over 4,000) on Wheaton College’s facebook page. That photo was sent by David Ko ’14 in August. David ( left), Jeremy Petersen ’14 (middle), and Julie Flaherty ’12 (right), are standing on a rock outcropping called Trolltunga (aka Troll Tongue) in Norway. The trio served this last summer in Bergen, Norway through Wheaton’s Youth Hostel Ministry, part of the Office of Christian Outreach.
Maybe next year at this time you will see your picture posted as the most viewed! Action shots are great, but everything is welcome, even video. To be considered, please send your submission to us at images@wheaton.edu, with your name, relationship to Wheaton College, and an image description.