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Diana Davis Spencer ’60

Nathania Aritao ’12, Aaron Bos-Lun ’12, Vladyslav Stadnyk ’12, Diana Davis Spencer ’60, Onyedikachi Udeoji ’12 and He Zhou ’12.

Diana Davis Spencer ’60 knows students, lots of them.

When the trustee emerita talks about Wheaton, she peppers her comments with anecdotes about recent visits she’s had with current students as well as updates on the lives of recent graduates from every corner of the globe.

“I enjoy getting to know students,” Spencer says. “When I was a member of the Board of Trustees, serving on the Student Trustee Liaison Committee was a highlight for me.”

She still makes students her priority. Spencer traveled to campus in May before Commencement to share lunch with five Davis United World College scholars who were about to graduate. Since then, she has met with two of those students: one while passing through New York City; another visited her Washington, D.C., home. [Read more...]

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Big win for students

March 23, 2012 by

Wheaton's scholar-athletes will soon have more opportunities to practice and play their sport, thanks to a new artificial turf field slated for completion by September 2013.

On the strength of a major gift from an anonymous supporter, Wheaton's Board of Trustees voted in February to raise funds for the $3.8 million project, under the stipulation that the remainder of funds come from philanthropic contributions. Following the board meeting, a second donor contributed to the project, bringing the funds raised for the effort to $2.25 million. Altogether, the college must raise $3,865,000 by June 30, 2012, to begin construction in time for a fall 2013 opening.

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Building excitement

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Go Beyond, Campaign for WheatonThat’s a fitting description for the current state of Go Beyond: Campaign for Wheaton. Thanks to the support of alumnae/i, parents and friends, the college opened the Mars Center for Science and Technology, and it reached its fundraising target for the facility’s construction, maintenance and operation. The campaign now stands at $99 million, and it is headed toward its goal of $120 million by June 30, 2014.

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DNA ribbon cutting

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Mars Center for Science and Technology dedication, Sept. 23, 2011

Ribbon-cutting ceremonies are standard practice for new buildings. Because the Mars Center for Science and Technology is anything but ordinary, it deserved something a bit more special. The solution: a 60-foot-long strand of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that Life Trustee Adrienne Bevis Mars ’56 and her husband, John, separated, with some help from President Ronald A. Crutcher and members of the college’s Board of Trustees.

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