And it was probably the best choice I could have made because of the personal attention that I received here from people like Herb Ellison, Myrna Pearson and Bojan Jennings, who was my mentor. Well, it was something that wasn't widely available then, and I think it still isn't today. Yes, there is something special about Wheaton. I think the community spirit, the closeness, the expectation of interaction with faculty is stronger here than in any other liberal arts school I have seen. For my daughter's college search we visited 20 liberal arts colleges up and down the East coast.
All small colleges claim to have close community - but there are wide differences.
I have probably also stayed for personal reasons because of my background. I was a child of an uneven past. I came from a Greek family who left Greece after an earthquake to go to Australia. We were immigrants in Melbourne, and later returned to Greece. So my childhood was never spent in one safe place for more than two or three years.