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This collection consists primarily of audio and video cassettes which document the people and events of TWU, including graduation ceremonies, conferences, reports, oral history interviews, presentations by guest speakers, and lectures presented by TWU faculty.
The collection consists of two series:
01: Audio
02: Video

The CDs and DVDs are unprocessed; descriptions have not been added to the online database

Audio 2a consists of the following recording:
Title: Dr. Beatrice Batson – The Christian Faith and the Humanities
Dr. Bernice Batson, a humanities professor from Wheaton, speaks at chapel. She believes students must understand the urgency of the responsibility of the integration of Faith, education and humanities. She believes the humanities require students to open their minds and their creativity. However, achieving understanding requires patience and work. Dr. Batson also explores the relationship between word and Word. She references Flannery O’Connor and Pete Devries. Dr. Batson believes that there is a significant relationship between the humanities and Christian faith. Both of these topics struggle with the same huge human questions. These hard questions are necessary to understand the world. This is part of a series of lectures; refer to Aud. 2a, Aud. 2b, Aud. 3a, Aud. 3b.
Audio 2b consists of the following recording:
Title: Dr. Beatrice Batson – Technology and the Humanities
Dr. Bernice Batson, a humanities professor from Wheaton, speaks at chapel. She explores the relationship between technology and the humanities. She speaks to the importance of Christian Education and the importance of following the call of God in choosing a way to live. She advocates for finding one’s true vocation. She argues that technology is numbing students to their education. Dr. Batson references “The Closing of the American Mind” by Allan Bloom in regards to the increase of ignorance and cynicism in place of careful consideration and idealism. She argues the humanities are the solution to the hollowness of the soul students struggle against. It is important to live with a trained mind. Through encountering and struggling with the Big Human Questions, a student opens his or her mind to the world. Dr. Batson references the 100th birthday of T.S. Elliot and proceeds to read from The Rock (1934). Dr Batson argues that students must take the time to wonder what it all means. She references a meeting of campus ministers in 1987 who attempt to uncover the student mind only to discover students felt powerless and fatalistic and unable to effect change on the world. She states we are plagued with a metaphysical affluence and the faculty and administrators have failed to teach students to think through problems themselves. Dr. Batson references Marshal McLuhan. Dr. Batson begins to discuss computers and robots and the importance of human discernment and interpretation. The tape cuts off suddenly. This is part of a series of lectures; refer to Aud. 2a, Aud. 2b, Aud. 3a, Aud. 3b
Notes provided by BF, student assistant, 2010/2011

Audio 3a consists of the following recording:
Title: Dr. Beatrice Batson – Staley Lecture - The Student in a Technological Age
Dr. Beatrice Batson, a Humanities professor from Wheaton, speaks at chapel. She relates a story of a former student who prays for students who are hungry for spiritual and emotional nourishment. Starved mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, students struggle with anonymity, reduced to numbers on an IBM card. Dr. Batson references “Caligula” (1938) by Albert Camus. Dr. Batson references Madeline L’Engle, “Anonymity is the disease of unnaming.” Dr. Batson argues that the Lord called people by name. She quotes L’Engle further and relates a personal story about the author's penchant to refuse to release her SSN. Dr. Batson argues for the importance of the name. She references the absurdist play “The Bald Soprano” by Eugène Ionesco comparing the theme of the futility of conversation to the way modern language has lost its potency. She also addresses the characters of “Bobby Watson” and how when everyone bears the same name they become nameless. She notes the loneliness inherent in the play and pleads with her audience, if anyone feels such loneliness, go knock on the door of a humanities professor. Dr. Batson sees students filled with brokenness and fear of tomorrow. Everyone is waiting for something - someone - to come along and change their situation. She argues people do not stand aloof from the pain or plight of the world. People cannot stand aloof of the human situation. The Humanities imply humanness. Dr. Batson encourages the audience that the prophets of doom, those declaring the Humanities nothing more then ornaments to the community, can be overcome. The day of the Liberal Arts College is still to come. The tape cuts off suddenly. This is part of a series of lectures; refer to Aud. 2a, Aud. 2b, Aud. 3a, Aud. 3b.
Audio 3b consists of the following recording:
Digitized file for Aud 3b is missing. November 4, 2010
Notes provided by BF, student assistant, 2010/2011

Digitized sound file not attached, due to copyright restrictions
Audio 4a consists of the following recording:
Title: Ray Boltz – “Thank You”
A Christian worship song released on the 1988 album “Thank You” which won Song of the Year at the 1990 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards.
Notes provided by BF, student assistant, 2010/2011