Rock camp, today referred to as Wheaton’s northern campus. In the heart of the Eagle River chain of lakes, the camp site borders on Long Lake and serves a two-fold purpose— for Christian recreational and leader ship training of college students and as a camping site for nearly 800 boys and girls from ages 9 to 16 each sum mer. Today the camp has grown to 320 acres with more than 200 build ings. Harvey C. Chrouser, chairman of the department of physical educa tion at the College, directs the huge project with college students finding the camp program a natural labora tory for their training in camp pro gram and recreational leadership. This year will mark the 5th annual Summer Institute of Missions as a part of the Summer School program. The project is sponsored by the Inter national Foreign Missions association
Office of Education in a wide range of evening courses as well. During these years of expansion in the Summer School, enrollment had increased in the regular school by leaps and bounds, necessitating many changes in facilities and in the physi cal plant. In 1941 the Alumni gym nasium was completed and 1946 saw two women’s dormitories ready for occupancy accommodating 286 wom en. The Conservatory of Music found it necessary to acquire additional space for their quarters in Pierce chapel, while Blanchard hall was pressed into many services, both ad ministrative offices and classrooms. At that time it also housed the College library. Two men’s dorms were completed in 1948 and during the same year the College purchased the site in the Black Hills, South Dakota, as its west-
Pictured above: A tew of the students enjoying a rest stop on the way down from Mt. Hamey on an overnight field trip. At left young people enjoy Honey Rock Camp, often called Wheaton's Northern Campus. Below: Jim Powell, Kathy Hetzer and Margaret Pritchard, geology students, at Pegmatite Mine, in Keystone, South Dakota.. These are but a few scenes from the summer program.
era campus and instituted two full terms of summer study in field sci ences. A number of buildings as well as a modem science station comprise the 40-acre campus today, with the great out-of-doors serving the students as laboratories. More than 100 stu dents can be accommodated each term. A Christian Day Camp for boys ages 9 to 15 was established in 1949 with Christian education and recrea tional leadership majors gaining valu able experience as counselors. Also a first time in 1949 was the Summer Art program at Maranatha confer ence site in Muskegon, Michigan, di rected by W. Karl Steele, director of art at the College. In 1950, as a part of the Summer School program, the College pur chased a 50-acre tract of woodland in northern Wisconsin called Honey
and the Evangelical Missions associa- £ tion in cooperation with the Commit- g tee on Education of the National As- a sociation of Evangelicals. Dr. Dymess | directs the Institute along with the J rest of the Summer School. As the College goes into its 47th annual Summer School this year, the * program is a far cry from its initial venture in 1914. A total of 109 courses ►¿t# comprise the academic curriculum which has been multiplied many times with an increased faculty, faci lities and buildings. A ll adding to the effectiveness of an accelerated Summer School program. Under the able leadership of Dr. *"* Dymess, the Summer School is serv ing a real need in the educational programs of the country, enabling many a student to complete his col lege education in less than f o u r years.
JUNE, 1961
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