Elizabethtown College News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
4/27/06
Contact: Mary Dolheimer, director of marketing and media relations, 717-361-1587, dolheimerm@etown.edu
E-town College’s Center for Continuing Ed to offer creative writing class for high-school students
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – High-school students interested in honing their writing skills while earning credits for college are invited to enroll in a one-week class being offered this summer by Elizabethtown College’s Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning.
The class, available to students entering 11th or 12th grade, will be offered from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., June 26 to 30, at Elizabethtown College. Students who enroll will be introduced to the elements of creative writing through the genres of poetry, short story, essay and drama.
Teaching the course will be Lyn Shaffer, gifted education coordinator for Elizabethtown High School and an adjunct faculty member with the Center for Continuing Education. Shaffer earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master of education degree. Prior to her career in education, she worked for three years as a freelance journalist for the Lifestyle section of the Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal. Her prize-winning short story “Jesse Dear” and poems “Unwanted Reflection” and “Memories” are published in Penn State’s literary magazine, The Tarnhelm.
For additional information or to register for the course, please contact Cristie Dry at Elizabethtown College’s Center for Continuing Education at 717-361-1411 or 1-800-877-2694.
At Elizabethtown College -- central Pennsylvania’s premier small, comprehensive college -- 1800 men and women enjoy personal attention, breadth of curriculum, experiential learning and a commitment to serving others. Elizabethtown has been ranked for 12 consecutive years by “U.S. News and World Report” as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the North.
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