Student Achievements & Recognitions
Jennifer Snyder ’06 and Gerald Blitz ’06 presented papers at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association, March 31-April 1, in Harrisburg. Nineteen political science students will present papers at the annual Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Social Research Conference at Villanova University on April 20.
Political science students took numerous field trips this year. Last November a dozen senior political science majors attended oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court and spent an hour with Justice Antonin Scalia. Professor Selcher’s American Foreign Policy class went to the Army War College to hear analyses by faculty and senior officers. The Law Club went to Washington D.C. to attend Senate hearings and visit the headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission. And, the Political Science Club will meet with members of the U.S. delegation at the United Nations, led by Ambassador and 2004 Lefever Fellow John Bolton.
Elizabethtown College students played the role of the Spanish delegation at the annual Mid-Atlantic European Union Simulation in Washington, D.C. last November. Two mock trial teams from Elizabethtown competed in intercollegiate tournaments at Lehigh University in the fall and the American Mock Trial Association regionals in Baltimore in February. Christopher Miller ’07 was awarded Best Advocate at regionals, competing against students from such schools as the University of Maryland, University of Richmond, and William and Mary.
Jason Theobald ’07 and John Bayard ’07 won full-time, paid internships in Pennsylvania state government this summer as winners of the statewide James A. Finnegan Foundation essay contest. They were honored March 31 at a luncheon in the Governor’s Mansion. Twelve Elizabethtown students have served as Finnegan Fellow in the last twenty years.
James Buck ’06 won a full-time, paid internship this spring as a Legislative Fellow in a statewide program sponsored by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Bipartisan Management Committee. He is the sixth Elizabethtown student to serve as a Legislative Fellow in the last four years.
