Winter 2013 Issue

On the night of April 29, 1977, Margie Bowers ’75 was brutally stabbed to death in her Oak Park apartment by a man whom she scarcely knew, but feared. The murderer should have been in jail. Previously arrested for another killing, he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. He was sent to a residential facility and later released after having been deemed mentally sound. The deplorable failure of the criminal justice system to protect Margie resulted in a public outcry. More>

Autumn 2012 Issue

For every issue of Wheaton magazine, the challenge comes down to this: Arrange almost a quarter of a million characters into about 35,000 words; and then place these words into sentences that become paragraphs that become articles that hopefully interest, inspire, inform, and motivate readers. More >

Spring 2012 Issue

Dr. H. Wilbert Norton ’36, now 97 years old, is just as good-humored, wise, and valiant as when I knew him in the mid-1960s when I worked in the office of Graduate School Dean Dr. Merrill C. Tenney. On February 20, 2012, I was with Dr. Norton as he did a video interview here on campus—this missions statesman, relating memories as a Wheaton student, graduate school professor and dean, and worldwide ambassador in Kingdom work. In this issue of Wheaton, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Wheaton College Graduate School. More >

Winter 2012 Issue

Our cover story for this issue of Wheaton centers around what was on the front page of the February 16, 1943, Wheaton Record—a picture of 17 out of a total of 23 Wheaton students who went off to war together. Reading their World War II memories, compiled in 2001 by Bob Baptista ’44, has drawn me into the lives of this cohort of 23 men who were still in, or barely out of, their teens when they relinquished their deferments to report for duty. More>