The Lacrosse team qualifies for a national competition.
1981Students Protest Nuclear Proliferation and Cuts to Financial Aid
Busloads of Wheaton students join 7,000 others in Washington, D.C., to lobby against nuclear proliferation and federal cuts to student financial aid
1981Maya Angelou Speaks at Commencement
Maya Angelou, author, poet, and actress, speaks at Commencement.
1981Molly Luce Burroughs, Honorary Degree Recipient
Molly Luce Burroughs, painter, is awarded an honorary degree.
1981Richard Lewis Thornburgh, Honorary Degree Recipient
Richard Lewis Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1981Virginia Judson Thornburgh, Honorary Degree Recipient
Virginia Judson Thornburgh 1961, activist for the disabled and first lady of Pennsylvania, is awarded an honorary degree.
1981Van A. Harvey Delivers Otis Memorial Lecture Series
Professor Van A. Harvey of Stanford University delivers the 23rd Marjorie Otis Memorial Lecture Series, consisting of three lectures, “Religion as Projection: Beams and Grids,” “The Gods as Personifications” and “Religion as Symbolic Grids.”
1981Walter J. Burghardt Delivers Otis Memorial Lecture Series
Professor Walter J. Burghardt of Georgetown University delivers the 24th Marjorie Otis Memorial Lecture Series, “Free Like God: Three Ways of Understanding Who We Are.”
1982Garry Trudeau Speaks at Commencement
Gary Trudeau, political satirist and Doonesbury cartoonist, speaks at Commencement.
1982Maurice L. Clemence, Honorary Degree Recipient
Maurice L. Clemence, director and CFO of the Kendall Company and Wheaton trustee emeritus, is awarded an honorary degree.
1982Alice Huang, Honorary Degree Recipient
Alice Huang, Director of Laboratories of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital in Boston, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1982Louise Nevelson, Honorary Degree Recipient
Louise Nevelson, sculptor, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1982Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty Delivers Otis Memorial Lecture Series
Professor Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty of the University of Chicago delivers the 25th Marjorie Otis Memorial Lecture Series, “The Testing of Reality in Indian Mythology.”
1983Wheaton Hosts Conference on the Balanced Curriculum
Three hundred educators from across the country gather at Wheaton to learn more about “gender-balancing” the college curriculum.
1983First Black Alumnae Weekend Held
The first Black Alumnae Weekend is held.
1983Barbara Walters Speaks at Commencement
Barbara Walters, TV journalist and interviewer, speaks at Commencement.
1983Nancy Hemenway Barton, Honorary Degree Recipient
Nancy Hemenway Whitten Barton 1941, artist and weaver, is awarded an honorary degree.
1983Walter A. Haas, Jr., Honorary Degree Recipient
Walter A. Haas, Jr., CEO and President of Levi Strauss & Co. and Wheaton Trustee, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1983Evelyn Murphy, Honorary Degree Recipient
Evelyn Murphy, Deputy Governor of Massachusetts, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1983The Balanced Curriculum
Wheaton publishes Toward A Balanced Curriculum which combines the theoretical aspects of integrating women’s studies with more practical tools such as bibliographies, course descriptions, and guidelines.