Learn more about these names in Wade Center history
![Mary Wade](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/wade-center/images/plan-a-visitabout-us/history/biographies/mary-wade/MaryWade_760.jpg)
![Crystal & David Downing](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/wade-center/images/plan-a-visitabout-us/staff/Downings_760-1.jpg)
Wade Directors (Past & Present)
Learn more about the Wade Center's directors from 1965 to present.
![Marion E. Wade](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/wade-center/images/plan-a-visitabout-us/history/biographies/MarionWade_760.jpg)
![Walter Hooper with Chris Mitchell and Marjorie Lamp Mead](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/wade-center/images/plan-a-visitabout-us/kilby-lifetime-achievement-awards/LifeTime_Achievement_760.jpg)
Kilby Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
This award honors those individuals whose work on one or more of the Wade Center authors is exceptional in quality and has made a lasting and irreplaceable contribution.