Bray, Faculty Advisor, Robert

Dierbeck, Liz

Rozinek, Erika

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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 2001, 12th Annual JWP ConferenceApr 21st, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PMVoices of Our Past: Illinois Wesleyan at theMilleniumLiz DierbeckIllinois Wesleyan UniversityErika RozinekIllinois Wesleyan UniversityRobert Bray, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Liz Dierbeck; Erika Rozinek; and Robert Bray, Faculty Advisor, "Voices of Our Past: Illinois Wesleyan at the Millenium"(April 21, 2001). John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference. Paper 5.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2001/oralpres4/5THE ,JOHN WESI EY POWEI I sn JDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE · APRil 2001 Oral Presentation 4. 1 VOICES OF OUR PAST: q.,LINOIS WESLEYAN AT THE MILLENIUM Liz Dierbeck and Erika Rozinek and Robert Bray* English and Anthropology Departments lllinois Wesleyan University The advent of the new millennium is a unique moment in lllinois Wesleyan's history. Our 150th year is a time for us honor our past, while we imagine our future. One of the best ways to accomplish this is to compile the stories that lllinois Wesleyan has to offer. The Oral History Project will help us to preserve the information that resides alive and well in the memories of former teachers and staff. Our presentation will officially present the Illinois Wesleyan Sesquicentennial Oral History Project to the campus and the community. We have interViewed three people thus far, who represent alumni, faculty and administration: Professor E. Melba lohnson­Kirkpatrick, Professor R. Dwitght Drexler, and Dr. Robert Eckley. Their memories of race relations, class traditions and antics, and the development of the university illustrate lllinois Wesleyan as a dynamic institution, always changing, always growing. The events on IWU's carnpus often reflected what was going on in the larger world, such as during the Depression, World War II, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam war. Times have changed dramatically, but there are still invaluable lessons to be learned at the feet of the "masters," those who have gone before. 

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