Go Beyond campaign co-chair
Why I want to help prepare for the future.
“I truly believe that a liberal arts education is the best preparation for thriving in an ever-changing world. Wheaton taught me how to think, not what to do. It has enabled me to adapt to a world that is a far cry from the 1960s. I feel it is important for students today to have that experience.
I enjoy my service on the Board of Trustees, and I feel that I can make a difference.”
President Crutcher accepts the alumnae/i Reunion gift from Scott St. Onge ’99.
Wheaton’s supporters pushed annual giving to the college to new heights during the 2010–2011 school year. Alumnae/i, parents and friends gave $4,104,865 to the Wheaton Fund, exceeding last year’s $3.9 million mark.
The final Wheaton Fund tally for the 2011 fiscal year reflects a modest increase in alumnae/i participation as well as the generosity of the members of the Mary Lyon Society, who make leadership gifts to the college on a yearly basis. As a group, the Mary Lyon Society contributed $3.6 million.
“Wheaton’s donors have truly ‘gone beyond’ expectations this year,” said Mary Casey, vice president for college advancement. “We are tremendously grateful.”
“The Shared Origins and Parallel Histories of the West and Islam (400–900 C.E.)”
$21,000, Teaching Development Fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Yuen-Gen Liang
“What Is the Good Life?”
$25,000, Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants, NEH
John Partridge
“Encoding Financial Records for Historical Research”
$25,000, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, NEH
Kathryn Tomasek
Renovations and Improvements in Keefe Hall
$25,000, Keefe Family Foundation
“MRI: Acquisition of an Ion Chromatograph to Support Research and Undergraduate Education”
$36,179, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Matthew Evans
“Lexomic Tools and Methods for Textual Analysis: Providing Deep Access to Digitized Texts”
$135,895, Preservation and Access Research and Development, NEH
Michael Drout
Presidential Leadership Grant: Investing in Research—A Bridge to a Vibrant Academic Future
$150,000, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Davis United World College Scholars Program
$270,000
Supporting Faculty Retirements and Reconfiguring Curricular Resources
$700,000, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Nice surprise
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the most recent issue of the Quarterly. I was pleasantly surprised to see Onyedikachi [“Kachi”] Udeoji ’12 featured in “A minute with....” Kachi is a good friend of my daughter, Kara Fierro ’12, and has visited our home on several occasions since freshman year. I like to think we have been a “home away from home” to Kachi when he misses his native Nigeria! I also enjoyed the article on the cryptologists on the Wheaton campus during the war. Thanks for keeping Wheaton parents connected to campus through the magazine.
—Amy Fierro P’12
Good cover to cover
I graduated from Wheaton in 1967. This is the first time in a long time that I’ve read the Quarterly from cover to cover! I know it was impressive when we were there, but not nearly as impressive as it has become! From President Crutcher’s talk about the opening of the new Mars Center to Rebecca Sieburth’s [Class of 2011] interests in medicine and art to [Read more...]
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