• 1941-2001 Naylor House/ 40 Howard St.

    February 7, 2011 admin
    A student house on Howard St. was named for Mrs. Naylor, from whom the property was purchased by the College in 1941. The construction of Beard Hall required the removal of the Infirmary built in 1954 and the 19th century Naylor House (40 Howard Street) next door. More »

  • 1954-2001 Public Safety/ Infirmary

    February 7, 2011 admin
    This building, at the southeast corner of Howard Street and Fillmore Drive, replaced King Cottage as college infirmary and health center. Security/Public Safety Offices were installed in 1981. More »
  • Anson Beard, date unknown

    1971-2008 Anson McCook Beard, Jr.

    March 23, 2011 Julie Travers
    Mr. Beard served as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1971 until his retirement in 2008, when he was named Trustee emeritus. He served on the Executive and Resources committees, co-chaired the Campaign for Wheaton in the 1990s, and was the Chairman of the Board from 1997 to 2001. The Haas Athletic Center [...] More »
  • Dale Rogers Marshall

    1992-2004 Dale Rogers Marshall

    January 13, 2011 admin
    Dale Rogers Marshall, former Academic Dean at Wellesley College, was inaugurated as Wheaton's sixth president in 1992. Central to her tenure was the Campaign for Wheaton, successfully concluded in June 2000 with $90 million in support for the college including more than 70 new student scholarship funds, twelve new endowed faculty chairs, new programs such as the Davis International Fellows program, and the Jane E. Ruby Lecture Series, and several new facilities. The campaign was capped by the construction of Mars Arts and Humanities, renovation of Meneely and the renovation of Watson Fine Arts Center. More »

  • 2000 Time capsule buried

    November 19, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Students, faculty, and staff contribute to a Millennial Time Capsule, to be opened in 2100. More »
  • Janet Reno

    2000 Janet Reno Speaks

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno delivers the 30th Annual Miriam Lee Tropp Lecture. More »

  • 2000 President Marshall's Plan

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    President Marshall announces major financial plan. More »

  • 2000 AIDS Quilt comes to Wheaton

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    The AIDS Memorial Quilt travels to Wheaton College. More »

  • 2000 Wolf Kahn, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Wolf Kahn, Landscape Painter and Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2000 Emily Mason, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Emily Mason, painter, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2000 Denise Jefferson, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Denise Jefferson, Ballerina and Director of the Alvin Ailey School, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »
  • John Walsh

    2000 John Walsh, Commencement speaker

    February 16, 2011 Julie Travers
    John Walsh, Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, speaks at Commencement. More »
  • Howard Zinn

    2001 Howard Zinn receives award

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Historian and writer Howard Zinn receives the Otis Social Justice Award. More »

  • 2001 Campus master plan developed

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Martin Sokoloff develops a master plan for the future development of the college. More »

  • 2001 Margaret J. Tibbets, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Margaret J. Tibbets, Former U.S. Ambassador to Norway, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2001 Frederick Barton, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Frederick Barton, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2001 Winston R. Hindle, Jr., Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Winston R. Hindle, Jr., former Senior Vice President of Digital Equipment Corporation and Wheaton Trustee, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2001 John F. Mars, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    John F. Mars, President and CEO of Mars, Inc., is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »
  • Tom Friedman

    2001 Thomas L. Friedman, Commencement speaker

    February 16, 2011 Julie Travers
    Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist and author, speaks at Commencement and is awarded an Honorary Degree. More »

  • 2001 September 11, 2001

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    President Marshall and two colleagues were in Manhattan when the Twin Towers are attacked. More »
  • David McCullough

    2002 David McCullough, Commencement speaker

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough speaks at Commencement. More »

  • 2002 New Curriculum approved

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    A new curriculum is approved with ten goals. More »
  • Paul Helmreich

    2002 History of Wheaton published

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Professor of History Emeritus and College Historian Paul Helmreich, publishes Wheaton College: 1834-1957: A Massachusetts Family Affair. More »
  • Beard Hall front view, 2009, photographer: Madeleine Goldsmith

    2002-  Beard Hall

    February 2, 2011 admin
    Built in 2002, Beard Hall houses 100 students in suites and singles. Sited on the corner of Howard Street at the intersection with Fillmore Drive, the construction of this dormitory required the removal of the Infirmary built in 1954 and the 19th century Naylor House (40 Howard Street.) Beard Hall was designed for students to live in cluster arrangements that serve as "living and learning communities." The residence hall was named for Anson McCook Beard, Jr. and his wife Jean Jones W1965. Mr. Beard served as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1971 until his retirement in 2008 More »

  • 2002 Howard Gardner, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Howard Gardner, theorist of multiple human intelligences and researcher of human cognition, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2002 Trish Karter, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Trish Karter, Co-founder of Dancing Deer Baking Company, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2002 Andrew Wyeth, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Andrew Wyeth, artist and realist painter, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »
  • Keith Lockhart

    2003 Keith Lockhart speaks

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Keith Lockhart, Conductor of the Boston Pops, lectures about the importance of music in life, as part of the Jane E. Ruby Lecture Series. More »

  • 2003 Esther R. Newberg, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Esther R. Newberg, Joint head of the New York Office of International Creative Management, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2003 Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 7, 2011 Julie Travers
    Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Chairperson and Co-founder of the Fundación Cisneros, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2003 Catherine A. Keener, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Catherine A. Keener, Academy Award-nominated Actor, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »
  • David Levering Lewis

    2003 David Levering Lewis, Commencement speaker

    February 16, 2011 Julie Travers
    David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, speaks at Commencement. More »
  • Eliza B. Wheaton Diary, 1867

    2004 Wheaton diaries found

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton's long lost diaries are found, by College Archivist Zepherine Stickney after 24 years of searching, and returned to the college. More »

  • 2004 Mary Robinson, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Mary Robison, Former President of Ireland and international champion of human rights, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »
  • Ronald A. Crutcher

    2004-  Ronald A. Crutcher

    January 13, 2011 admin
    Ronald A. Crutcher was named the seventh president of Wheaton College on March 23, 2004. He came from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and professor of music. Since coming to Wheaton, President Crutcher has led a strategic planning process that has engaged the entire college community in envisioning the components necessary for continued leadership in the liberal arts for the 21st century. The strategic plan, Wheaton 2014: Transforming Lives to Change the World, was unanimously approved by the Board of Trustees in October 2006 and is now being implemented. More »
  • Mary Robinson

    2004 Mary Robinson, Commencement speaker

    February 16, 2011 Julie Travers
    Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, speaks at Commencement and is awarded an Honorary Degree. More »

  • 2005 150 years for Rushlight

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Rushlight celebrates 150 years of continuous publication. More »
  • Senator Ted Kennedy

    2005 Senator Kennedy speaks

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Senator Ted Kennedy speaks to Wheaton College students after receiving the Otis Social Justice Award. More »
  • Jean Jones Beard

    2005 Jean Jones Beard, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Jean Hones Beard, Clinical social worker and Author, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2005 Alexandra Marshall, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Alexandra Marshall, author, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »
  • Charlayne Hunter-Gault

    2005 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Commencement speaker

    February 16, 2011 Julie Travers
    Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a journalist, speaks at Commencement and is awarded an Honorary Degree. More »

  • 2006 Wheaton responds to Katrina

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Wheaton students and faculty mobilize in response to Hurricane Katrina. More »

  • 2006 Book of Hours

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    The Art History and Classics Departments team up to purchase the 15th Century Book of Hours, an illuminated manuscript. More »

  • 2006 Kathleen M. Dennehy, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Kathleen M. Dennehy, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2006 Patricia Higgins Arnold, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Patricia Higgins Arnold, Philanthropist and Wheaton Trustee, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2006 Elspeth Davies Rostow, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Elspeth Davies Rostow, Stiles Professor Emerita in American Studies at the LBJ school of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Emerita, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »
  • Cokie-Roberts

    2006 Cokie Roberts, Commencement speaker

    February 16, 2011 Julie Travers
    Cokie Roberts, a journalist, speaks at Commencement. More »

  • 2007 Wheaton 2014

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Wheaton 2014: Transforming Lives to Change the World. More »

  • 2007 Debrah Bial, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Debrah Bial, founder of the Possee Foundation, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2007 Bob Herbert, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Bob Herbert, Op-ed columnist for the New York Times, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2007 Kathleen M. O’Donnell, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Kathleen M. O’Donnell, a Massachusetts Attorney, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »
  • Freeman Hrabowski III

    2007 Freeman Hrabowski III, Commencement speaker

    February 16, 2011 Julie Travers
    Freeman Hrabowski III, President of the University of Massachusetts, speaks at Commencement. More »
  • Twisted Sisters, 2008

    2008 Dougherty builds Twisted Sisters

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Visiting Artist Patrick Dougherty builds "Twisted Sisters," a sculpture made of thousands of sapling branches. More »
  • Kathryn Wasserman Davis

    2008 Kathryn Wasserman Davis, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Kathryn Wasserman Davis, International Philanthropist and founder of 100 Projects for Peace, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2008 Lousie Henne Feroe, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Lousie Henne Feroe, President of Mercy College, is an Honorary Degree Recipient. More »

  • 2008 Katherine T. Bartlett, Commencement speaker

    February 16, 2011 Julie Travers
    Katherine T. Bartlett, Professor of Law at Duke University, speaks at Commencement. More »

  • 2009 Wheaton celebrates 175 years

    December 3, 2010 Jessica Chapman
    Wheaton College celebrates 175 yeas of operation. More »

  • 2009 Gentleman Callers 20th Anniversary

    January 14, 2011 Jessica Chapman
    In April the Gentleman Callers celebrated their 20th Anniversary, at Wheaton College, with a concert. More »

  • 2009 Donna Hurd Drohan, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Donna Hurd Drohan, class of 1969 and former member of the U.S. Department of Transportation's National research facility and founder of Donna H. Drohan Consulting, is presented the Honorary Degree of Humane Letters. More »

  • 2009 Sandra Ohrn Moose, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Sandra Ohrn Moose, class of 1963 and Senior Vice-President and Director of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is presented the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters. More »

  • 2009 Anne J. Neilson, Honorary Degree Recipient

    March 8, 2011 Julie Travers
    Anne J. Neilson, class of 1949 and Taste Chemist at Arthur D. Little, Inc., is presented the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science. More »
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    2009 Deval Patrick, Commencement speaker

    February 16, 2011 Julie Travers
    Deval Patrick, Govenor of Massachusetts, speaks at Commencement and is presented with the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law. More »

  • 2009 Alumni of Color Conference

    May 31, 2011 admin
    Wheaton Alumnae/i of Color Share Their Experiences in Support of Today's Students of Color. The public discussion illuminated encouraging changes in Wheaton’s campus climate over the last decade. More »