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Wheaton College

Motto	"That They May Have Life and Have it Abundantly"
Type	Private
Established	1834 as a female seminary, 1912 chartered as a four-year women's college
Endowment	$184.8 million (2016)[1]
President	Dennis M. Hanno
Academic staff	140
Undergraduates	1,650
Location	Norton , Massachusetts , US
Campus	Suburban, Residential
Athletics	21 sports teams
Nickname	Lyons
Website	wheatoncollege.edu

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Wheaton College is a four-year, private liberal arts college with a student body of approximately 1,650. Located in Norton, Massachusetts, between Boston, and Providence, Rhode Island, Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a female seminary, it remained one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States until men began to be admitted in 1988. The trustees officially changed the name of the institution to Wheaton College in 1912 after receiving a college charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Wheaton College is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges by various publications. The student-faculty ratio is 10:1 and the average class size is between 15 and 20. It also has a reputation for athletics, ranking as one of the top NCAA Division III institutions in overall collegiate sports programs.

History

In 1834, Eliza Wheaton Strong, the daughter of Judge Laban Wheaton, died at the age of thirty-nine. Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton, the judge's daughter-in-law, persuaded him to memorialize his daughter by founding a female seminary.^[2]

The family called upon noted women's educator Mary Lyon for assistance in establishing the seminary.^[3] Lyon created the first curriculum with the goal that it be equal in quality to those of men's colleges. She also provided the first principal, Eunice Caldwell. Wheaton Female Seminary opened in Norton, Massachusetts on 22 April 1835, with 50 students and three teachers.

Mary Lyon and Eunice Caldwell left Wheaton to open Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 (now Mount Holyoke College).^[4] After their departure, Wheaton endured a period of fluctuating enrollment and frequent changes in leadership until 1850, when Caroline Cutler Metcalf was recruited as the new principal.^[5] Metcalf made the hiring of outstanding faculty her top priority, bringing in educators who encouraged students to discuss ideas rather than to memorize facts. The most notable additions to the faculty were Lucy Larcom, who introduced the study of English Literature and founded the student literary magazine The Rushlight;^[6] and Mary Jane Cragin, who used innovative techniques to teach geometry and made mathematics the favorite study of many students.^[7]

Metcalf retired in 1876. A. Ellen Stanton, a teacher of French since 1871, served as principal from 1880 to 1897. She led the seminary during a difficult time, when it faced competition from increasing numbers of public high schools and colleges granting bachelor's degrees to women.^[8]

Cole Memorial Chapel

In 1897, at the suggestion of Eliza Baylies Wheaton, the trustees hired the Reverend Samuel Valentine Cole as the seminary's first male president. Preparing to seek a charter as a four-year college, Cole began a program of revitalization that included expanding and strengthening the curriculum, increasing the number and quality of the faculty, and adding six new buildings.^[9]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted Wheaton a college charter in 1912, and the trustees changed the name of the school to Wheaton College. The Student Government Association was organized to represent the "consensus of opinion of the whole student body", and to encourage individual responsibility, integrity, and self-government. Wheaton received authorization to establish a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1932, twenty years after achieving college status.

President Samuel Valentine Cole died unexpectedly in 1925 after a brief illness. During his career as president, Cole oversaw the expansion of the campus from three to 27 buildings, the growth of enrollment from 50 to 414, and the establishment of an endowment. On the campus, Cole Memorial Chapel is named after him. Its approximate geographical coordinates are: 41° 58' 2.01" N, 71° 11' 3.51" W.

The Reverend John Edgar Park, who became president in 1926, continued Cole's building program, and saw the college through the Great Depression, the celebration of its centennial in 1935 and World War II.^[10] He retired in 1944, and was succeeded by Dartmouth College Professor of History Alexander Howard Meneely. During his tenure, the trustees voted to expand the size of the college from 525 to 800 to 1000 students, and construction of "new campus" began in 1957.^[11]

Meneely died in 1961 after a long illness and was succeeded in 1962 by William C.H. Prentice, a psychology professor and administrator at Swarthmore College. In the early 1960s, Wheaton successfully completed its first endowment campaign. The development of new campus continued, and student enrollment grew to 1,200. Wheaton students and faculty joined in nationwide campus protests against United States actions in Indochina in 1970.^[12]

In 1975, Wheaton inaugurated its first woman president, Alice Frey Emerson, Dean of Students at the University of Pennsylvania. During her tenure, Wheaton achieved national recognition as a pioneer in the development of a gender-balanced curriculum.^[13] Emerson would go on to receive the Valeria Knapp Award from The College Club of Boston in 1987 for establishing the Global Awareness Program at Wheaton College.^[14] Wheaton celebrated its Sesquicentennial in 1984/85 with a year-long series of symposia, concerts, dance performances, art and history exhibits, and an endowment and capital campaign. In 1987, the trustees voted to admit men to Wheaton. The first coeducational class was enrolled in September 1988.

Dale Rogers Marshall, Academic Dean at Wellesley College, was inaugurated as Wheaton's sixth president in 1992. She led the college in "The Campaign for Wheaton", to build endowed and current funds for faculty development, student scholarships, and academic programs and facilities. Enrollment growth encouraged the construction of the first new residence halls since 1964 (Gebbie, Keefe and Beard residence halls), the improvement of classroom buildings and the renovation and expansion of the college's arts' facilities.^[15]

Wheaton's Board of Trustees appointed Ronald A. Crutcher as the seventh president of the college on March 23, 2004. Crutcher came to Wheaton from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and professor of music.^[16] During his tenure, he ran the most successful funding campaigns in Wheaton's history, funding the new $37M Mars Science Center, more than $53M in new scholarships, as well as new athletic facilities, faculty-mentored research, and career services.[1]

Wheaton's current president, Dennis M. Hanno, was appointed in 2014. His emphasis has been on accentuating Wheaton's emphasis on diversity and a student-centered approach to education.^[17] He's advocated and implemented programs to apply liberal arts teachings to social entrepreurship and making the world a better place.^[18] One of his most famous initiatives was to provide full scholarship to one refugee student each year, with preference for students from countries subject to Donald Trump's Muslim Ban.^[19]

Presidents

The following is a list of Wheaton College presidents with the years of their presidential tenures.

• Rev. Dr. Samuel Valentine Cole (1912–1925)


• George Thomas Smart, Acting President (1925–1926)


• Rev. Dr. John Edgar Park (1926–1944)


• A. Howard Meneely (1944–1961)


• Elizabeth Stoffregen May, Acting President (1961–1962)


• William Courtney Hamilton Prentice (1962–1975)


• Alice Frey Emerson (1975–1991)


• Hannah Goldberg, Acting President (1991–1992)


• Dale Rogers Marshall (1992–2004)


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  Ronald Crutcher (2004–2014)


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  Dennis M. Hanno (2014–Present)

Honor code

Wheaton uses an honor code system originally instituted in 1921 and is one of a select number of schools to use it in both academic and social settings. Incoming freshmen learn about the code and discuss it during Orientation, before signing the matriculation book.

The current Wheaton Honor Code reads:

As members of the Wheaton Community, we commit ourselves to act honestly, responsibly, and above all, with honor and integrity in all areas of campus life. We are accountable for all that we say and write. We are responsible for the academic integrity of our work. We pledge that we will not misrepresent our work nor give or receive unauthorized aid. We commit ourselves to behave in a manner which demonstrates concern for the personal dignity, rights and freedoms of all members of the community. We are respectful of college property and the property of others. We will not tolerate a lack of respect for these values.

As part of the honor code, most tests and exams are not proctored by professors and students are often allowed to leave the testing location to complete the exam elsewhere. In 2003, through student and faculty cooperation, it was decided that students would write I have abided by the Wheaton Honor Code in this work and sign their name on all work handed in.

Students in violation of the honor code are expected to report themselves to either a professor, the Dean of Students or the Chair of the College Hearing Board. Students who witness and/or are aware of violations, are expected to confront the violator and encourage them to report themselves, before they report the violation.

The majority of minor violations are handled by the Residential Life Office, however certain, more serious and/or chronic violations are heard by the College Hearing Board, the judicial branch of the Student Government Association, which comprises four elected students and two appointed faculty members.^{[citation needed]} Students found responsible face sanctions ranging from probation to expulsion.

Academics

Wheaton offers a liberal arts education leading to a bachelor of arts degree in more than 100 majors and minors. Students are permitted to work with faculty members to design self-declared majors, if they wish. Students choose from over 600 courses in subjects from physics to philosophy, political science to computer science, art history to theater, English to economics.

Foundations courses focus on writing, quantitative analysis, foreign language study and non-Western perspectives. In their first semester at Wheaton, all freshmen take a First Year Seminar in which they explore contemporary issues and gain academic skills needed for college-level study. The Major concentration and elective courses are also central to the Wheaton Curriculum, which culminates in a senior capstone experience—a thesis, research project, seminar or creative project.^[20]

Partnerships with other schools

The course selection is extended further through the college's cross-registration programs with Brown University and nine local colleges involved in SACHEM (Southeastern Association for Cooperation in Higher Education in Massachusetts). Wheaton also offers dual-degree programs, enabling its undergraduates to begin graduate-level study in studio art, communications, engineering, business, theology and optometry.^[21]

Among several study abroad opportunities unique to Wheaton is its partnership with Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan.

Interdisciplinary study

A unique part of the Wheaton curriculum requires students to complete "connections" which approach a variety of topics from the perspectives of different disciplines. During their Wheaton career, students must take either three linked courses or two sets of two-course connections. These courses are intended to encourage students to explore and think beyond their primary academic interests.^[22] For instance, the Connection entitled "Communication through Art and Mathematics" links Arts 298 (Graphic Design I) with Math 127 (Advertising Math). Although students may complete one of the numerous pre-designed connections, students are encouraged to consider proposing their own.

In 2014, the college won a $500,000 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to fund the IMAGINE Network, "an interdisciplinary, campus-wide collaboratory connecting spaces, people, resources and ideas."^[23] While much of that grant was used in development of new interdisciplinary facilities, it also supports several interdisciplinary research groups each semester, and supports students and faculty in developing the next generation of liberal arts curriculum.^[24]

Hands-on learning

Although Wheaton upholds a long history as a liberal arts college, it has also pioneered practical learning opportunities. Wheaton's Semester in the City program places students in internships around Boston where they work while taking two related courses for the duration of the semester, to offer a more real-world living-working-learning experience.^[25] Wheaton guarantees funding for students pursuing unpaid extracurricular experiences, including internships, research, or any suitable experiential learning opportunity.^[26] The Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH) develops and exposes programming exploring liberal arts education's weight in the ever-changing and increasingly complex "real world."^[27]

Much of this emphasis was initiated by college president Dennis M. Hanno, who took some inspiration from Babson College, where he was a Senior Vice President and Provost.^[28] One of his primary efforts in this area is WIN, short for Wheaton Innovates, which prepares students to launch social enterprises, applying liberal arts skill sets to create social change.^[29] That's included a new partnership with MassChallenge to partner students with startups,^[30] and led to a $10M commitment by the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation to continue expansion of social entrepreneurship programs starting in 2018.^[31]

Arts

In 2003, the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program was initiated; the program brings writers, musicians, actors, directors, dancers and artists to campus for short-term residencies to share their work through lectures, master classes, concerts and exhibitions.^[32] Arts in the City complements the visiting artists program by taking students and faculty members on trips to Boston, Providence and elsewhere to explore the arts and cultural offerings of the region.^[33]

Wheaton also has an extensive Permanent Collection of artworks which are often implemented in classes and student projects,^[34] including in some innovative learning experiences, like a semi-annual student-curated exhibition and student-driven provenance research.^[35]

College galleries often exhibit work from the Permanent Collection, but also notable visiting artist. During the 2016–2017 school year, there was a student-curated show, a show of student work, and an installation by Judy Pfaff.^[36]

Scholarships and fellowships

Wheaton prioritizes scholarships and fellowships both at the college and for its alumni. In 2011, Newsweek/The Daily Beast placed Wheaton at number 19 of 25 in their "Braniacs" schools ranking^[37] in recognition of Wheaton students' consistent placement in prestigious post-graduate fellowships. In 2016, Wheaton ranked 10th in the number of Fulbright scholars produced, and has been recognized as a top producer for 11 consecutive years.^[38] Since 2000, well over 200 prestigious scholarships have gone to Wheaton students, including 3 Rhodes Scholarships.^[39]

Wheaton itself provides substantial scholarships opportunities for current and prospective students. From 2004 to 2014, Wheaton added $53M in scholarships for students, and guarantees funding for internships and experiential learning opportunities. Support for the most academically curious students extends beyond financial funding to include the cohort-based May Fellows program^[40] and the Beard Hall living-learning community.^[41]

Wheaton also has a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.^[42]

Campus

Wheaton is often recognized for its beautiful campus^[43] and arboretum.^[44] A complete map of campus can be found here.

Architecture

Austin House, designed by Walter Gropius' the architects collaborative, sits at the edge of campus and serves as housing for guest speakers, artists, etc. It won Architectural Record's "House of the Year" in 1962, and remains an important example of mid-century modernism.^[45]

In 1938, Wheaton sponsored a competition to build a new Arts center, cosponsored by Museum of Modern Art and Architectural Forum. They fielded proposals from some of the most famous architects of that era, including Louis Kahn and Walter Gropius, the latter of which took second prize. First prize went to two relatively unknown architects, Caleb Hornbostel and Richard Bennett, and while never actually built, accelerated the college's embrace of modernist architecture.^[46] In 1962, Watson Fine Arts was finally built in the Brutalist International Style.^[47]

The Balfour-Hood Student Center is one of the earliest examples of post-modern architecture on a college campus.^[48]

Student living

Wheaton students live in a variety of ways. There are 18 traditional residence halls, some, like Meadows and Beard, were built in the 2000s, while others date back to the late 1800s.^[49] Most have single and double rooms, with two buildings dedicated to suites of 3-6 people.

There's also a rich history of "Theme Houses," bringing together a number of students with shared interests or purpose. In the 2017-2018 year, there were 17 theme houses on campus. They range from Farm House, which is an active farm, to the United World College Davis House, to the Feminist Perspective House.^[50]

Recent facilities developments

Mars Center for Science and Technology

Wheaton's 2014 Sherman Fairchild Foundation grant supported development of a network of interdisciplinary creative spaces around campus, including a Makerspace called Lab 213 (housing 3D printers, Laser cutters, 5-axis CNC milling equipment, electronics workspace), the HATCH Lab (digital classroom with Virtual reality and eye tracking tools for digital humanities), and a Fiberspace (with digital jacquard loom, sewing machines, and other fibers and textiles tools).^[24]

Also included in that network are Arts spaces like the Wheaton Sculpture Studio (wood and metal working, ceramics, molding and casting, etc.), WCCS Student-run recording studio, Machine Shop for precision fabrication, and an experimental theater and dance studio.^[24]

In 2011, Wheaton completed its new Mars Science Center, a Gold LEED certified building housing the majority of the schools science classrooms and research (including greenhouses and observatory).^[51] It's also connected by underground passages to the old science center and library.

In 2000, Wheaton also expanded its Arts facilities.

The school has been pursuing infrastructure projects outside academics, too. In 2016, Wheaton renovated its dining halls, including Emerson Dining Hall, the Hood Cafe, and the Davis Spencer Cafe. They also rebuilt Chase Dining Hall. The next year, they erected solar panels on the roof of the old science center and in fields nearby.^[52]

Wheaton in blue away-game jerseys against WPI

Athletics

Wheaton fields 21 varsity intercollegiate teams, nine for men and 12 for women, in addition to 14 club sports programs and a variety of intramural activities. Varsity programs include baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, field hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's swimming and diving, synchronized swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's outdoor track and field and women's volleyball. The school's teams play within the NCAA Division III and in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC). Wheaton's mascot is a Lyon, named after founding principal Mary Lyon.

Wheaton finished in the top 15% of the NACDA Directors' Cup in 2013-14, highlighted by women's track and field, which placed fourth in the NCAA indoor championship and tied for sixth at the outdoor championship. Also contributing to Wheaton's point total was men's soccer, women's lacrosse and softball. Men's soccer and women's lacrosse both won the NEWMAC championship and advanced to the NCAA tournament second round, while softball earned an at-large bid to the tournament after a 30-win season.

Wheaton has found success in a number of its athletic programs, starting in 1983, when field hockey became the first Wheaton team to make an NCAA tournament. In 1986, women's lacrosse became the first Wheaton team to advance to an NCAA Final Four. Eight years later, women's basketball made its first Final Four, followed by the 1997 softball team finishing third at the national tournament in Eau Claire, Wis. The following fall, men's soccer became the first men's team to make the NCAA tournament, followed by volleyball advancing to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.

Wheaton's greatest athletic success has been on the track, as the women's track and field program has claimed 8 NCAA Division III National Championships and finished in the top 3 at the NCAA championships 6 other times (twice in indoor and four times in outdoor). Starting in 1999, the women's indoor team won five consecutive titles, while the outdoor team won three straight times from 2001-2003. Men's track and field also has been successful, finishing in the top 10 of the NCAA indoor championship seven times, in addition to four top-10 outdoor championship finishes.

The last varsity team established at Wheaton in 1997, has also achieved success. Baseball is the only team sport at Wheaton to advance to a national championship game, which it has done twice (2006 and 2012) in addition to one additional Division III world series (2017). Baseball has also won 14 of the 19 NEWMAC championships in conference history. Women's soccer advanced to 13 consecutive NCAA tournaments (2000–2012), which was the longest streak in the New England region of Division III women's soccer at that time. During that stretch, the women advanced to one national semifinal (2004) and 3 national quarterfinals (2002, 2003 and 2004). Softball has been to 3 NCAA championship rounds, finishing third twice (1997, 2001) and fifth once (2004). Men's soccer has been to one national semifinal (2003) and two national quarterfinals (2001, 2003). In addition, men's and women's cross-country, women's lacrosse, men's and women's swimming and diving and women's tennis all have competed in the NCAA post-season. Overall, Wheaton has won eight NCAA National Championships, 17 ECAC championships and 101 combined NEWMAC regular season and tournament titles.

Individually, Wheaton has more than 375 all-American performances and 64 individual national championship accolades in school history. Highlighting that list is Amber James '04, who was pivotal during Wheaton's run of winning six consecutive NCAA indoor and outdoor national championships from 2001-03. James, a 17-time national champion and 24-time all-American, was recognized by the NCAA as the greatest female athlete in the 25-year history of the Division III indoor track & field championship in 2009. In addition, she was selected to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division III Silver Anniversary Team, which commemorated the 25th anniversary of women competing in NCAA outdoor track & field championships. She served as the event representative for the 400-meter dash.

Deborah Simourian finished in a 72-hole tie for the AIAW individual collegiate golf championship in 1975 before losing a 3-hole playoff.^[54] Wheaton has also had two synchronized swimmers named collegiate swimmer of the year. Gina Lighthall '99 in 1999 and Christiana Butera '12 in 2012. Butera was also member of the U.S. National Synchronized Swimming Team during the summer of 2011.

Two alums have been drafted by major professional sport leagues. Jim Maganello '99 was a second round pick of the NY/NJ Metrostars in the 1999 Major League Soccer draft, while Chris Denorfia '02 was a 19th round pick in the 2002 Major League Baseball amateur draft by the Cincinnati Reds. Denorfia spent parts of 10 years roaming the outfield for five Major League teams, most recently as a part of the 2015 Chicago Cubs. In the summer of 2014, Mike Gibbons was signed to a professional baseball contract by the New York Mets, making him Wheaton's first student-athlete to sign with a professional team before using all four years of eligibility. In addition, Dan Antoniuk has put together a long career in professional soccer, playing with teams like the Portland Timbers and Montreal Impact. A number of track and field athletes have gone on to professionally train at the World Athletics Center.^[55]

Reputation

Wheaton College is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges by various publications. In 2016 and 2017, The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education ranked Wheaton among the Top 50 U.S. Colleges for liberal arts in 2017.^[53] For 2015, the U.S. News & World Report ranked it 69th in Best National Liberal Arts Colleges, and top 50 by high school counselor rankings.^[54]Kiplinger notes Wheaton as a "Best Value School,"^[55] and College Raptor and College Recruiter independently identify Wheaton as a "hidden gem."^[56] The Princeton Review also recognizes Wheaton as a standout Northeastern college and as one of the 373 best colleges in the United States.^[57] Since 2000, over 210 prestigious scholarships have gone to Wheaton students, including 3 Rhodes Scholarships.^[39] In 2011 Newsweek/The Daily Beast placed Wheaton at number 19 of 25 in their "Braniacs" schools ranking.^[37]

Niche ranked Wheaton 6th for most liberal colleges in 2018,^[58] and the college does generally have a reputation for liberalism. College leadership has spoken out at numerous occasions against the Trump presidency, remaining signed on to the Paris Climate Accord and establishing a scholarship for refugees affected by Trump's immigration policy. The school is not to be confused with the much more conservative Wheaton College (Illinois), and college leadership has at times publicly denounced that college's actions to make that clear.^[59]

Wheaton also has a reputation for athletics. It is ranked as one of the top 50 NCAA Division III institutions in the final United States Sports Academy (USSA) Directors' Cup standings. Of 420 schools competing in Division III, Wheaton ranks seventh in New England for an annual program that recognizes the best overall collegiate athletics programs in the country. Among 312 scoring institutions, the Wheaton Lyons tallied 338.5 points, placing them at 48th place nationally.

Publications and media

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  Wheaton Quarterly: College magazine^[60]
  


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  The Wheaton Wire: Weekly student newspaper^[61]
  


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  Nike: college yearbook


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  Rushlight: Student arts & literary magazine since 1855^[62]
  


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  Babe Lincoln: semesterly magazine^[63]
  


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  The Underwire: Alternative/underground newspaper (2005-2006)^[64]
  


• WCCS: free-format student-run radio station^[65]
  

Films

The following films have been filmed, at least in part, on the Wheaton campus or feature Wheaton students.

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  Soul Man (1986)


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  Metropolitan (1990)


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  Prozac Nation (film) (2001)


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  Mona Lisa Smile (2003)


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  Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

Notable alumni

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  Mimi Alford, 1966 - former White House intern who alleges to have had an affair with President John F. Kennedy^[66]
  


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  Dan Antoniuk, 2003 - San Diego Sockers player


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  Mary Ellen Avery, 1948 - pediatric physician and researcher


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  Elaine Meryl Brown, 1977 - novelist and HBO executive^[67][68]
  


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  Chris Denorfia, 2002 - Chicago Cubs outfielder^[69]
  


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  Diane Farrell, 1977 - Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress from Connecticut Fourth District
  


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  Lydia Folger Fowler, 1842 - second woman in America to earn a medical degree


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  Nick Fradiani, 2008 - winner of American Idol season 14


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  Jean Fritz, 1937 - Newbery Honor-winning author of children's books


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  Robie Harris, 1962 - children's book author^[70][71]
  


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  Emily Susan Hartwell, 1883 - Congregational Christian educational missionary in China


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  Debbie Jamgochian, 1974 - amateur golf champion, winner of 2007 Senior Women's French Open and 2007 Women's Western Senior Championship^[72][73]
  


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  Trish Karter, entrepreneur


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  Catherine Keener, 1983 - Academy Award-nominated actress^[74]
  


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  Patricia A. King, 1964 - Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics and Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center and first African American woman member of the Harvard Corporation^[75]
  


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  Neil Levesque, 1993 - Executive Director of New Hampshire Institute of Politics^[76]
  


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  Nancy Mairs, 1964 - poet and essayist^[77]
  


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  Alexandra Marshall, 1965 - writer^[78]
  


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  Susan Meddaugh, creator of Martha Speaks
  


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  Estelle M. H. Merrill, 1877, journalist, editor


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  Ellen Moran, 1988 - former White House Communications Director and chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke^[79]
  


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  Esther Newberg, 1963 - literary agent and co-creative director of ICM
  


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  Sandra Ohrn Moose, 1963 - Senior Vice President and Director of the Boston Consulting Group, and board member of several public companies and charitable organizations.


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  Chad Al-Sherif Pasha, 2001 - Prince of the Hijaz and Turkey ^[80]
  


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  Ann Peoples, 1979 - manager at McMurdo Station and Palmer Station, Antarctica ^[81][82]
  


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  Barbara Richardson, 1971 - New Mexico First Lady


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  Catherine Filene Shouse, 1918 - researcher and philanthropist


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  Lesley Stahl, 1963 - broadcast journalist^[83]
  


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  Callie Thorne, 1991 - actress


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  Amanda Urban, 1968 - literary agent and co-creative director of ICM
  


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  Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck - King of Bhutan
  


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  Christine Todd Whitman, 1968 - former governor of New Jersey and former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
  

See also

• Female seminary


• Women's education in the United States

References

External links

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  Wheaton College – official site


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  Wheaton College Athletics – official site


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  Wheaton College discography at Discogs
  


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   "Wheaton College". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
  


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   "Wheaton College". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.
  

Coordinates: 41°58′06″N 71°11′04″W / 41.968313°N 71.184529°W / 41.968313; -71.184529