
Venture Boldly
Heading Across Campus
Thanks to Robert Kosobud '65, Nan Harris Crandall (Knox College'61-63'; Northwestern University '65), Kate Whitney Wilson '65, and Mary Ellen Keetley Williams '65 for identifying the individuals in the photo.
Front row, left to right: Nancy Ehrenberg '65, Susan Doyle Kosobud '65
Second row: Linda Richardson Youngren '65, Kate Whitney Wilson '65
Third row: Karen Hedberg '65
Kate Whitney Wilson believes the picture was taken in the spring of 1962 as the students were approaching campus from Whiting Hall. The courthouse is in the background.
1870
Barnabas Root receives degree
Knox was one of the first colleges in Illinois to award a degree to a black student