The Wheaton College Percussion Ensemble, founded by Dr. Kathleen Kastner in 1972, strives to create music using drums, keyboards, bells, whistles, pipes, and other everyday or abstract objects. Led by Dr. Noel Streacker, performs once per semester in Edman Chapel, as well as in the surrounding schools and at clinic presentations. Shortly after its founding, the Percussion Ensemble was presented at the Creative Arts Festival in 1973.