In 2010, the staff of the BGC Archives sent brief questionnaires to the approximately 480 Wheaton College alumnae from the classes of 1940 through 1946 whose attendance at the college overlapped that of Billy Graham. (Graham began classes in the fall of 1940 and graduated in the spring of 1943). They were asked 1) if they had documents from the period related to Graham and, 2) if they were willing to be interviewed about their memories of Graham. 112 responses were received. Most of these were in the negative, but even most of the negative responses included a few comments about their memories of Graham as a student. Any questionnaire that had any comment about Graham at all was kept. Questionnaires that had only “No” checked and nothing else were discarded. The net result of the project was several dozen questionnaires with handwritten comments, several typed and written brief memoirs and a few other documents, (including one 1944 letter over Graham’s signature), and 26 oral history interviews totaling a little more than 20hours.

Click here to go to a description of the interviews in Collection 74, several of which are online.

Click here to go to a description of the 2010 interview of Samual Faircloth, also a classmate, in Collection 658. This interview is also online.

Click here for a description of other material received.