Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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ws aban Morey served as both a financial and emotional supporter of the school. He, along with Judge Wheaton, served on the first Board of Trustees. His death was a great loss to the school. However, even in death, he remained committed to Wheaton College in the form of a large finan- cial endowment. The Wheaton Fam- ily produced a seminary and eventually a college, which has, to the present day, committed itself to the pursuit of higher education for wom- en. The competitive academic spirit formulated by the Wheatons in those early years is perpetuated today by CLASS OF 1888 WITH ELLEN ST. current Wheaton students and gradu- ates. The women who currently at- tend the college owe a great indebtness to the Wheatons for their foresight and commitment to the ANTON education of women. The Wheaton Seminary was a pioneer in the higher education of women. It was modest in pretensions, small in size, and hid- den in a remote town. The girls BICENTENNIAL TRIBUTE TO NORTON, SEPTEMBER 28, 1911 whom it attracted were young and impressionable. They came to the school looking for preparation for future studies or simply to develop themselves intellectually,socially, a d emotionally. The founders tried to build a Christian school with an em phasis on higher spiritual values. Th wished to create a school that pro moted piety, religion, morality, and the intellectual atmosphere to edu cate women in all branches of science and literature that were suitable fa them to attend. The Wheaton Se nary opened on April 22, 1835 wi forty-nine students. Tuition was $10 a term and Room and Board was at $1.67 per week. Student housing was dispersed among the townspeo=) ple and eventually, Judge Wheaton allowed his home to be used as @ boarding house too. The first class t@

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graduate from the Wheaton Seminary consisted of four pupils. At the close of the year 1839, Judge Laban Morey Wheaton awarded the first diplomas to be granted from this institution. The commencement of Wheaton owes a great deal to the charismatic and innovative Mary Lyon. Together with the Wheaton family, Miss Lyon laid the foundations of the unique and modern college we call Wheaton. In 1834, Mary Lyon unveiled her plans for a seminary which would have a permanent endowment. With the financial and emotional support MAYDAY PAGEANT OF 1920; CREAM OF WHEATON 1920 - 21 i VARSITY TENNIS 1933 of Laban Wheaton, Miss Lyon was able to open the seminary on April 22, 1834. The school was developed to promote female education which in the words of Judge Wheaton, “is now the importance to the rising generation.” Mary Lyon advocated to a strict and rigorous academic pro- gram in the belief these studies pro- moted morality, piety, and discipline. From the beginning, she strove to provide an education which was di- verse in Content and unique in terms of women’s education. A variety of subjects such as chemistry, philoso- CIRCA LATE 30'S, EARLY 40'S EEO KT LT TIT a ene Fem mem 82 or ee oa “MARINE MAGIC” PERFORMED BY THE TRITONS - 1942 phy, botany and human physiology provided students with a wide range of intellectual studies. Mary Lyon contributed much to the pursuit of education. Perhaps her greatest gift to the Wheaton commu- nity was the belief that given a proper educational foundation, women had no limits on what they could achieve in their given circumstances. The Wheaton women of today have as- similated and conceptualized Miss Lyon’s belief. In appreciation for her achiev ements, the college communi- ty, in the early part of the twentieth century, renamed the beautiful Semi- nary Hall. In present day, the gracious yellow structure bears the name Mary Lyon Hall and stands as a monument to past, present, and future women scholars. women’s 21