Wheaton "Firsts"

First College President 

Jonathan Blanchard 

1860-1882 

First Graduate of Color 

Edward Breathitte Sellers  

1866 

First Female Graduate 

Adeline Eliza Collins 

1862 

First Trustees 

Rev. Flavel Bascom, Rev. Rufus Lumry, Rev. R. F. Markham, Mr. Moses Pettengill, Mr. J. Platt, Hon. Owen Lovejoy, Prof. Freeborn G. Baker, Chester Hand. M. D., Mr. E. B. Thompson, Hon. R. Adams, Mr. Abram Long, Mr. Warren L. Wheaton, Mr. Robert Rothwell, Hon. F. H. Mather, A. H. Hiatt, Mr. A. Lewis, William W. Farwell, Esq., Hon. F. A. Hoffmann, Rev. J. E. Roy 

1860-1861 

First Faculty 

Jonathan Blanchard (Philosophy), George Collier (Mathematics), Oscar Lumry (Greek and Latin), Freeborn G. Baker (Music), A. H. Hiatt (Physiology), William Beardsley (Preparatory), Paul Shumann (French and German) and Mrs. A. Whittier (Ladie's Department) 

1860-1861 

First Graduating Class 

George Beecher, Alvin Chadwick, Charles Marsh, Harvey Potter, Orvis Ring, James Stoddard and Lemuel Stratton 

1860 

First Faculty with Earned Doctorate 

Louis A. Higley 

1924 

First Alumna Ordained Minister 

Jennie Hewes Caldwell 

ca. 1879 

First International Graduate 

Anastasios D. Zaraphonithes 

1873 

First NCAA Individual Championship - Two-Mile Run  

Kikuo Moriya 

1954 

First NCAA Team Championship (College Division) 

1956-57 Men's Basketball Team 

1957 

First NCAA Team Championship (Division III) 

Men's Soccer 

1984 

First Former Student to Receive an Honorary PhD 

John Wesley Powell (Illinois Wesleyan) 

1877 

First Former Student to Receive Earned PhD 

John Quincy Adams, Jr (Halle) 

1892 

First Graduate to Receive an Earned PhD 

Alma Blount (Cornell) 

1896 

First Female Bible Professor 

Edith C. Torrey 

1924 

First Missionaries 

Anastasios Zaraphonithes and Henry Martyn Bissell 

1873