Summer 2008
Tracking a generation
In 1977, social scientist Helen Zarsky Reinherz '44 began to ask questions of and about several hundred kindergartners who were attending public schools in Quincy, Mass. More than three decades later, her on going study of their lives is still providing answers that offer a valuable understanding of the links between school adjustment, mental health and family relationships.(more)
New horizons
In Guatemala, they say that hope is the last thing to die, and it is very hard to kill. Alida Adams '08 saw this hope in action early last year when she traveled to Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, to work in a shelter for abused women and their children. (more)
Rooting through Wheaton's herbarium
The six-foot tall army-green cabinets in the back of a classroom in the Science Center look like any other generic file cabinets. But approach one and open the doors, and Alexandra ("Lexie") Sabella '08 casually warns: "Be careful. Don't touch the felt, it's lined with poison." These cabinets hold Wheaton College's herbarium, a collection of more than 100 years of dried plants, pressed between paper and protected by insecticide-lined felt.(more)
Green giants
What does it mean to be green? For seven Wheaton graduates who are addressing a range of environmental issues-from building locally based, self-reliant food economies to promoting the use of renewable energy-it means putting the earth first in their work and lives.(more)
