FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9/5/08
Contact: Barry Freidly '69, interim director of media relations, 717-361-1495, freidlyb@etown.edu
Elizabethtown College Celebrates Constitution Day with Focus on U.S. Presidency
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – In this presidential election year, Elizabethtown College will mark Constitution Day with a faculty panel discussion about the U.S. presidency and the Constitution. The event – which is open to the public and free of charge – will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. in Steinman Center’s Brinser Lecture Room.
The panel will be moderated by Scott A. Hendrickson, assistant professor of public law and director of Elizabethtown College’s Pre-Law Program. In addition to Hendrickson, the panel will feature three long-time Elizabethtown College professors, Professor and Department Chair of Political Science E. Fletcher McClellan, Professor of Political Science W. Wesley McDonald, and Professor of History Thomas R. Winpenny. Together, these experts will offer an insightful and timely look at the impact of this country’s most important document on its most important political office. The event will conclude with a question-and-answer session.
Constitution Day is an American federal holiday recognizing the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. It is observed on Sept. 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787.
Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown offers its 1,900 students more than 50 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professional studies. Driven by its motto to “Educate for Service,” Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and cross-cultural perspectives and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose.
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