"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too." (Frederick Buechner, Alphabet of Grace, p. 75)
Purpose
The Wheaton College Archives, located on the 3rd floor of the Billy Graham Center, seeks to document the history of Wheaton College, 1860 to the present, and its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, 1852-59. The College Archives also serves as a major information source for people, publications, and events associated with Wheaton College.
Many of the administrative records (re: Trustees, Presidents, and Vice-Presidents/Deans) have access restrictions and those accessible require written permission for research. The following resources are open for research within the posted hours:
Vertical File - covering over 600 topics
Publications -
Inform: Bulletin of Wheaton
College (catalog) 1860-present (view
sample online version) Tower (annual yearbook) 1893-1900, 1922-present Record (student newspaper) 1890-present Wheaton Alumni 1929-present
[primary and secondary campus publications]
Photographs [over 30,000 photographs in Personal and Topical series]
Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. No
photo or text from this website may be taken and used without the express
written consent of the Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections,
Wheaton College.
