Elizabethtown College News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7/11/05
Contact: Mary Dolheimer, director of marketing and media relations, 717-361-1587, dolheimerm@etown.edu
E-town College names two alumni to administrative staff
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – Elizabethtown College’s admissions and institutional advancement offices recently named several alumni to their staff.
Brian Sipe of Hummelstown, a 2005 graduate with a degree in communications and business administration, has joined the admissions office as an admissions counselor. As a student, he served as president of Student Senate, student activities programmer, peer mentor for first-year students and supervisor of student lab assistants for the communications department. Sipe was also a member of the Society of Collegiate Journalists Honor Society and of the Strategic Planning Committee for Elizabethtown College. In addition, he has worked at Hersheypark Entertainment since 2000 and served as an entertainment supervisor since 2002, and has worked in box office sales for Hershey Sports and Entertainment since 2002. Sipe graduated from Harrisburg Christian School and was awarded its 2002 alumni award.
Benjamin Osterhout of Tunkhannock, a 2005 graduate with a degree in business administration, will serve as assistant director of the annual fund in Elizabethtown’s institutional advancement division. Osterhout participated in the Elizabethtown College Honors Program, sponsored by The Hershey Company, and served for two years as its coordinator of special projects and initiatives. He also served as president, public relations coordinator and presentation team member for Students in Free Enterprise, as president and editor of Circle K, and as a member of the Concert Choir and Mock Trial Team. Osterhout was inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta and Delta Mu Delta honor societies and served as a resident assistant. An Eagle Scout, he twice earned the Liberty Mutual Scholarship and the Elizabethtown College Distinguished Student Award, and for three years earned the Thomas R. and Laura Ridge Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Food Merchant’s Association.
At Elizabethtown College -- central Pennsylvania’s premier small, comprehensive college -- 1850 men and women enjoy personal attention, breadth of curriculum, experiential learning and a commitment to serving others. Elizabethtown has been ranked for 11 consecutive years by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the North.
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