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From Collection 485, T1
JOHNSON: My first knowledge of Wheaton (and you have to realize this is back in the 30s and
Wheaton was not as well known...) was in a cartoon in the paper, and it...it showed this lady
sweeping all kinds of things out the door, and it was dancing and gambling and all that. But
the...the legend on it was saying that the fastest growing college in a certain area of the country
was this one which prohibited etcetera etcetera, all these things. And I was in high school at the
time and I was looking for a smaller college and I wanted a Christian one, but at that point I
didn't even know if such a thing existed. So that started our looking, and my mother and I came
down and looked the campus over and that sort of thing to get a feel of it and a picture of it.
And so the procedure went on from there, but it actually started with a cartoon in the paper
[laughs].