Look­ing Ahead BY JENNIFER TELLES ’09 After 11 years of mar­riage, Brad Gude­man ’95 and Alli­son (Sny­der) Gude­man ’98 both recall their Wes­ley Col­lege days as the most influ­en­tial time in their lives. Hav­ing met at Wes­ley dur­ing Allison’s fresh­man year and Brad’s senior year, the two knew they were des­tined for each other from […]

Grow­ing On and Off the Court BY GEOFF GOYNE IN THE FALL OF 2006, Wes­ley Col­lege fielded the first var­sity vol­ley­ball pro­gram since mov­ing into the Divi­sion III era. The Wolver­ines won nine games that sea­son with a ros­ter of mostly fresh­men and the pro­gram looked to have a solid foun­da­tion. Fresh­man Lilia Brekke earned All-Pennsylvania […]

New Stu­dent Lead­er­ship Retreat BY ELISE MARIE KNABLE ’09 While many stud­ies show that stu­dent apa­thy is a much greater chal­lenge today than it ever was a gen­er­a­tion ago, Wes­ley Col­lege admin­is­tra­tors are tak­ing a proac­tive approach with incom­ing stu­dents to reverse the trend at Wes­ley Col­lege. What bet­ter place to start than with the […]

Alumni came out in droves this year for a Hol­ly­wood Home­com­ing cel­e­bra­tion on cam­pus Octo­ber 2 –4. Beau­ti­ful fall weather cre­ated the per­fect back­drop for an action-packed, box-office hit of a weekend.

Inter­view with Vice Pres­i­dent for Insti­tu­tional Advance­ment WHY DID YOU CHOOSE A CAREER IN DEVELOPMENT? Actu­ally, I wouldn’t say I chose a career in devel­op­ment. It chose me. The first 15 years of my pro­fes­sional life were spent as a United Methodist pas­tor. Serv­ing the last seven years of that time in a new church […]

Win­ning sea­sons and NCAA tour­na­ment play dom­i­nate the Fall Sea­son FIELD HOCKEY One of Wesley’s most dec­o­rated ath­letic pro­grams, the field hockey team, set a school record with a 7–0 start that included a win over peren­nial confer­ence power Mary Wash­ing­ton. Also included in the streak were three of the Wolver­ines’ four shutout vic­to­ries of […]

Syd­ney Kahan BY LAUREN MIGNOGNO ’07 WHEN IT was time to find a col­lege, Syd­ney Kahan knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted to move out of the cold north and away from home. She also wanted to keep play­ing soc­cer, study to become a nurse, and con­tinue to travel. She found all of those […]

Hui Zeng BY ELISE MARIE KNABLE ’09 WESLEY COLLEGE has become a home to the thou­sands of stu­dents who have passed through its doors. Those who spend part of their life at the Col­lege expe­ri­ence a nur­tur­ing environ­ment that pro­vides both learn­ing and growth. Some stu­dents come from fur­ther away than oth­ers, mak­ing the home […]

Gath­er­ings Keep Alumni & Friends Involved BY AMANDA DOWNES ’06 WITH LESS THAN 18 MONTHS into Dr. William Johnston’s pres­i­dency at Wes­ley Col­lege, a new vision is quickly tak­ing shape. With a com­pre­hen­sive campus-wide strate­gic and mas­ter plan­ning process well under­way, along with record-setting num­bers of stu­dents on cam­pus, the Col­lege administra­tion is embrac­ing the […]

2009 Ath­letic Hall of Fame As part of the College’s recent Home­com­ing cel­e­bra­tion, the Wes­ley Col­lege Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion inducted a record 18 for­mer student-athletes into the Ath­letic Hall of Fame at the Schwartz Cen­ter for the Arts in Dover. Estab­lished in the early 1980s by the Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion, the Wes­ley Ath­letic Hall of Fame was founded to […]