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Welcome, New Faculty
Eastern European scholars, summer 2014
Row 1 (l to r): James Gordon, philosophy; Dr. Tammy Schultz, psychology; Rebecca Toly ’99, foreign
languages; Dr. Angela McKoy, chemistry; Dr. James Huff, anthropology and Human Needs and
Global Resources; Dr. Risa Toha, politics and international relations. Row 2: Dr. Michael McKoy,
politics and international relations; Michael Kibbe, biblical and theological studies; Dr. IL-Hee Kim,
education; Capt. David Iglesias ’80, director, Hastert Center; Dr. Andrew Abernethy, biblical and
theological studies; Christa Strickler, library science; Dr. Theon Hill, communication. Not pictured:
Dr. Christopher Armstrong, director, OPUS: The Art of Work; Sean Devine, military science;
Enoch Hill, Business and Economics; MSG James Kelley, military science.
Hopper Wins Award for
Choral Direction
Dr. Mary Hopper ’73, director of
performance studies and professor of
choral music and conducting, received the
2014 Harold Decker Award at the Illinois
American Choral Directors Association
(ACDA) summer conference. This award
recognizes conductors who have made
a significant contribution to the lives of
“innumerable choral singers, conductors,
and audiences.”
President-elect of the national
ACDA, Dr. Hopper conducts both the
Women’s Chorale and the Men’s Glee
Club at Wheaton. Dean of Wheaton’s
Conservatory Dr. Michael Wilder says,
“Mary’s programming, outreach, and
many musical contributions result in
a legacy at Wheaton College that is
formidable and will pay dividends for
generations to come.”
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Graduate School Hosts Central
and Eastern European Scholars
Wheaton hosted graduate students and
professionals from Central and Eastern
Europe for the 20th summer this year.
Launched in 1995 by Don Church,
Dr. Walter Elwell, and Dr. Dave Sveen, the
Central and Eastern European Scholars
Program has hosted over 250 participants
from 23 countries in Central and Eastern
Europe. Participants include senior
administrative leadership and faculty from
nearly every evangelical seminary in the
region, as well as many denominational
presidents, pastors, and lay leaders.
“The primary purpose of the program
is academic, but it’s also relational and
recreational,” program coordinator Kurt
Tillman ’78 says. “If you have any leadership
gifts in Central and Eastern Europe,
you’re doing a number of things all at once:
pastoring a church, leading a seminary,
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publishing a book, counseling, and raising
a family. We notice these people show up
exhausted because there is no space in their
regular lives to breathe. So we also make
space for them to spend time alone with
God . . . to do whatever recreational work
needs to be done.”
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