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Volume 19 // Issue 2
Wheaton magazine // Spring 2016
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Carol McEwing Harding '68 during her Wheaton College years
Photo courtesy the Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections

Hall of Honor

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DR. CAROL McEWING HARDING '68, nicknamed “Q,” was a five-sport varsity athlete. After making 19 saves in one field hockey game, Coach Marilyn Scribner HON called her the “finest goalkeeper in the Midwest.” Q counts herself “blessed” by “quality women professors” including LaVern Bjorklund ’63, Ruth Berg Leedy ’32, Marilyn Scribner hon, Martha Cole Baptista ’45, and Shirley Knauf ’55. “They all loved the Lord and passed that on to us,” Q says. 

HEIGHT: 5’5” 

HOMETOWN: Wayne, Pennsylvania 

DEGREE: B.A. in Physical Education 

SPORTS: Field hockey, softball, basketball, volleyball, tennis

WHEATON AWARDS/OCCUPATIONS: Hall of Honor inductee (1990); Field hockey and basketball coach, physical education department professor (1974-84)

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