Where Wheaton Drive meets Memory Lane
NEWS @ Wheaton, February 2006
Jennie Pleat '09 is one of 76 first-year students with family ties to Wheaton, but probably the only one whose family member named a street after the college.
Jennie's maternal grandmother, the late Martha "Timmy" Stillman, graduated from Wheaton in 1948, and later settled in Nashua, N.H., with her husband, Thomas Leonard Jr., a lawyer and real estate developer. When Thomas gave Martha the chance to name some of the streets in a new housing development, she decided to dub one of them "Wheaton Drive."
As Jennifer's mother, Lisa Pleat, describes it, "My mother greatly valued her years at Wheaton and the friends she made; thus the street name. Jennie never got to meet her maternal grandmother or grandfather, so this history and connection to Wheaton is something very special to her (and to me!)."
Jennie has another Wheaton connection to her grandmother: Wheaton Athletics. Jennie is a guard on the women's basketball team. Her grandmother was a "Triton" on the synchronized swimming team.
Pictured above: Jennie Pleat '09 on Wheaton Drive in North Nashua.