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  2. Ruth Graham - Wikipedia

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    She graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. The Grahams met at Wheaton College and were married in the summer of 1943, shortly after their graduation. Ruth Graham became a minister's wife for a brief period in Western Springs, Illinois. She lived out the rest of her life in Montreat, North Carolina.

  3. Wheaton College (Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as a college and preparatory school. . Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin Co

  4. Robert Van Kampen - Wikipedia

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    In 1963 Van Kampen married, and he and his wife had three children. Having initially lived in Wheaton, Illinois, Van Kampen made his home in West Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, and West Michigan. Van Kampen died on October 29, 1999, at the age of 60 in Loyola University Medical Center while waiting for a heart transplant. [1]

  5. Edward Breathitte Sellers - Wikipedia

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    In the 1862 Wheaton College Catalog, he is shown to have entered the Collegiate program and is listed as a Freshman. That same year he joined the Beltionian Literary Society. [ 1 ] Founded in 1856, the crimson-clad Belts championed the cause of "striving for the greater and better."

  6. List of Wheaton College (Illinois) alumni - Wikipedia

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    Niel B. Nielson, BA philosophy, 1976 – former president of Covenant College; Mark Noll, BA English – professor of history at University of Notre Dame; Phil Ryken, BA English literature and philosophy, 1988 – former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church and current president of Wheaton College; Daniel W. Smith, BA literature

  7. J. Richard Chase - Wikipedia

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    J. Richard Chase (1930–2010) was the sixth president of Biola University in California from 1970 to 1982 and the sixth president of Wheaton College in Illinois from 1982 to 1993. Early life and education

  8. Philip Ryken - Wikipedia

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    Ryken is the son of the Christian literary scholar and Wheaton professor Leland Ryken. Ryken met his wife, Lisa, while the two were students at Wheaton. They were married after their junior year. The couple have five children, and reside in Wheaton. He is known to enjoy waterskiing, basketball, soccer, golf, and poetry.

  9. Jonathan Blanchard (abolitionist) - Wikipedia

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    Blanchard saw Wheaton College "as an 'arsenal' and 'drill camp' for the hosts of righteousness in the moral warfare of the world . . . a means of training social activists . . . ." [11] In 1861, Jonathan Blanchard organized College Church in Wheaton. The church first met on the campus of Wheaton College as "The First Church of Christ in Wheaton."