Discussion Leader: Rolland Hein, Professor Emeritus of English
Sessions held during the Fall and Winter
Saturdays, 10-11 am in the Marion E. Wade Center classroom
Corner of Washington & Lincoln, Wheaton, IL 60187
"Reading at the Wade" is an informal book discussion group open to all. Reading material is by or about the Wade authors and is selected by Dr. Hein. The Winter 2010 session will begin on January 16. Texts covered will be Letters to Malcolm (Houghton Mifflin 2002), The Princess and Curdie (Puffin 1996), and Till We Have Faces (Houghton Mifflin 1980). These titles are available at the Wheaton College bookstore at a discount when you download this coupon.
Additional Information, Audio Downloads, and Syllabus
To be notified of future sessions by email, contact the Wade staff at 630-752-5908 or wade@wheaton.edu
Mr. Walter Hooper, literary advisor to the C.S. Lewis Estate and editor of the works of C.S. Lewis, received the third-ever Clyde S. Kilby Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College. In the course of over forty years of scholarship, Mr. Hooper has edited over 20 books of C.S. Lewis’s writings, including most recently the definitive edition of C.S. Lewis’s collected letters.
The ceremony took place on October 21, 2009, in the Reading Room of the Marion E. Wade Center, where Mr. Hooper received the award in person in the company of guests from around the world. In honor of Mr. Hooper’s contributions to Lewis scholarship, Dr. Christopher Mitchell, Wade Center Director, presented him with a check for $2500 and a certificate of achievement.
(In photo above, Director Chris Mitchell (left) joins Associate Director Marjorie Mead (right) in congratulating Mr. Hooper.)
The Clyde S. Kilby Lifetime Achievement Award is presented on an occasional basis as worthy candidates are identified by the Steering Committee of the Wade Center. The purpose of this award is to recognize and honor those rare individuals whose work on one or more of the Wade Center authors is exceptional in quality and has made a lasting and irreplaceable contribution to Wade-related scholarship. Previous recipients include Barbara Reynolds (Dorothy L. Sayers) and Aidan Mackey (G.K. Chesterton).
Consider the Wade Center gift store for your special occasion shopping. Unique items for booklovers include J.R.R. Tolkien bookplates, G.K. Chesterton mugs, Wade author bookmarks, a Wade Center bookbag, Robert Cording's "Aslan" poster, and many other items. Also for sale for a limited time are dozens of used books by or related to the Wade authors. The books range from paperback reading copies to rare collectors' editions.
“The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Exhibition,” a state-of-the-art presentation based on the Disney/Walden Media films and
C.S. Lewis’s beloved fictional book series will open at the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land from October 3 through January 18. Over a dozen artifacts from the collection of The Marion E. Wade Center including C.S. Lewis’s pipe, his mug, an original letter he wrote, and rare first editions
of his book Prince Caspian,
have taken a five-year
leave of absence from the Wade Center’s collection to join this tour expected to
visit about a dozen venues over the next five years, in the U.S. and internationally.
