9/2/2010		'The Arts of Spain’ celebration honors Spanish heritage Sept. 8
8/30/2010		E-town grads accepted into prestigious Carnegie Mellon program
8/24/2010		'Behind the Walls' West Bank photo exhibit opens Sept. 10 in Zug
8/24/2010		Writers House kicks off inaugural season, Taslima Nasrin highlights events
8/14/2010		Register now for 20th annual Building Strong Families Conference
8/2/2010		Science in Motion provides professional development for local educators
7/29/2010		S. Dale High Education Fund grant finances infrastructure improvements
7/29/2010		Rood receives prestigious Cottrell College Science Award
7/29/2010		Young Center Releases Amish Population, Migration Data
7/28/2010		McCormick Family Foundation grant broadens access to information resources
7/27/2010		Elizabethtown joins colleges in founding ecological research network
7/9/2010		Strings Excell concert Friday, July 23, in Leffler Chapel
7/6/2010		ETC music camp concerts July 12 through 17 in Leffler Chapel
7/1/2010		Elizabethtown College announces fall 2010 cultural events line-up
6/3/2010		First-year orientation Wednesday, June 23, through Saturday, June 26
5/22/2010		Commencement recognizes more than 500 students
5/18/2010		Elizabethtown College awarded $100,000 Walmart College Success Award
5/17/2010		Elizabethtown College to award degrees at May 22 ceremony
5/16/2010		Etownian Recognized by American Scholastic Press Association
5/16/2010		2010 Scholarship and Creative Arts Day Resounding Success
5/16/2010		Gottfried to present keynote address at 150th anniversary celebration
5/5/2010		The Amish way of forgiveness
5/5/2010		Alisha Martin ’13 receives inaugural Carper Award
5/5/2010		Six to be inducted into Ira R. Herr Athletics Hall of Fame
3/1/2010		20th Annual Building Strong Families Conference - call for proposals
2/23/2010		Kreider Fellow discusses Mennonite women in a changing world March 18
2/23/2010		Blackboard, Pulpit and Stereoscope: The Work of G.N. Falkenstein March 31
2/19/2010		Elizabethtown College hosts John Ros director of transient gallery
2/18/2010		Irish folklorist visits Elizabethtown College on St. Patrick's Day
2/9/2010		Night of classical works from around the world Feb. 22
2/5/2010		Flutefest features all members of flute family March 1
2/4/2010		"1001 Black Inventions" on stage Feb. 22 to celebrate Black History Month
2/4/2010		"Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" Feb. 12- 21 at Elizabethtown College
2/3/2010		Department of Fine and Performing Arts 2010 theatre schedule
2/3/2010		Film Showing ‘Central Station’ -- a tale of love and forgiveness
2/2/2010		New Exhibit "Reflections of the Martyrs Mirror" Now Open
2/2/2010		An Evening of the Arts of Spain Feb. 8
2/1/2010		Elizabethtown College Professor Paul Gottfried lectures on new book
12/8/2009		Karendra Devroop's CD debut jazz concert benefits disadvantaged youth

‘The Arts of Spain’ celebration begins Sept. 8

Department of Fine and Performing Arts honors Spanish heritage  

        The Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Elizabethtown College hosts The Arts of Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 8, to showcase nationalism in Spanish art during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

        The interdisciplinary program begins at 11 a.m. in Musser Auditorium in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center and includes music, art, poetry and drama. 
        With art direction by Elizabethtown College’s Associate Professor of Art Patricia Ricci, the performers include Lecturer in Music Debra Ronning and Assistant Professor of Music Justin Badgerow, on piano; Assistant Professor of Music Sarah Daughtrey, mezzo-soprano; and David Cullen, adjunct faculty member, on guitar. Dr. Kurt Barnada, Associate Professor of Spanish from the Department of Modern Languages, will read. There also will be performances by student musicians, readers and dancers.
        The event, open to the public, is sponsored by The Office of the Dean of Faculty,
        Contact: the Office of Marketing and Communications at 717-361-1410.

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May graduates accepted into
CMU Information Systems and Management program

Personal attention from Elizabethtown College professors and an extensive internship history are key elements to his acceptance into a prestigious Carnegie Mellon University graduate program, said Craig Rixham ’10.
        “Elizabethtown’s smaller class sizes made my professors very accessible, which made the learning process that much easier,” explained the recent graduate. Rixham, along with classmate Todd Lewellen ’10, received notification of acceptance to CMU this spring. Rixham is pursuing a master’s degree in information technology-information security in the Information Networking Institute at CMU, while Lewellen will attend the College’s Heinz College School of Information Systems and Management. They earned bachelor’s degrees in information systems this past May from Elizabethtown, and both plan to pursue careers in computer and internet security.
        When Rixham of Bel Air, Md., was looking for an undergraduate college, he says, one of the most impressive attributes at Elizabethtown was the personal attention. “It’s cliché to say that many large universities treat their students like numbers,” Rixham said, “but I was convinced that a smaller school was right for me.”
        “And because my interests range well beyond my major, I preferred a liberal arts school where I could explore other disciplines. Elizabethtown really does an excellent job of preparing students for what comes next, no matter the major,” Rixham explained.
        His college internships probably are one of his greatest strengths, Rixham said. He handled computer maintenance and worked the helpdesk at one company, worked the helpdesk at a nonprofit that provides resources and support for the development of low income housing, and he implemented a networking solution that allowed for remote control of plant systems at Chevron in Frederick, Md. The latter was the most interesting, he said, because it involved elements of security and networking.
        Rixham said the current job market played into his decision to continue to graduate school, but it isn’t the only reason. “I was constantly told that graduate school is not an endeavor to be taken on just because there isn’t anything else to do,” he explained. “To really succeed in computer science, specialization is important. Graduate school is the best way to specialize.”
        He picked CMU because of the diversity of their programs, he said. “CMU has programs dedicated almost entirely to security.” The school also is ranked near the top for information systems in the United States. After completing his master’s degree, Rixham said he is considering something in the security field. 
        When Lewellen earns his master’s degree, he is obligated, under a National Science Foundation’s award, to work for a federal agency or research center for two years. After that, Lewellen said, he’d like to continue with the federal government. “There are many benefits to government work,” he said. “One of them is the ability to serve your country and make your society a better and safer place.” 
        The Scholarship for Service (SFS) award goes to students in schools that the organization considers centers of excellence in the field of computer security. It pays all tuition and provides each student with a $12,000 annual stipend for living expenses—with the stipulation that the student works for a federal agency or federal research institution in information security for each year of “free” study. 
        The Bemus Point, N.Y., native applied to CMU “not expecting to get admitted due to their extremely selective admissions process,” and he never expected to be a recipient of the SFS award. However, “the best two moments of my (spring) semester were when I got an acceptance e-mail from Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College into the Information Security Policy and Management master’s program, and then, a month later, when I got the second e-mail telling me I had received the SFS,” he said.
        The information security policy and management program at CMU focuses on the technical aspects—cryptography, network analysis, secure system design, and computer forensics—as well as the managerial aspects, such as risk management, policy formulation, and incident response. Because CMU is an extremely progressive school in science and technology, its School of Information Systems and Management is one of the best in the nation, and its graduates are in high demand, Lewellen said the decision to attend was an easy one.
        While a student at Elizabethtown, the alumnus spent two summers as an information technology intern at Chautauqua Institution, where he helped “maintain several networks and all of the devices that connect to them, which include PCs, servers, printers, terminals, scanners and wireless access points.”
        Lewellen minored in business administration at Elizabethtown and was an assistant to the College’s chaplain, a resident assistant, and a technical operations assistant. For his senior project, Lewellen created a software application to easily create electronic music, collaboratively with other people, over a network. “It was my most memorable project of my academic career, and certainly the most beneficial to my learning,” said Lewellen, who is a musician with the band Flint.
        Like Rixham, Lewellen said he chose Elizabethtown because it was a small liberal arts school where he could explore a variety of career paths. During campus visits, he noticed students were happy; the campus felt welcoming. “I didn’t get that feeling at some of the other schools.” Also, he added, “I live in the heart of ‘snow country’ in western New York State. Elizabethtown was a good escape from the snow and cold.” 
        Lewellen said he especially appreciated that he could stop in to his Elizabethtown College professors’ offices at almost any time to talk about a class problem, project ideas, research, job opportunities, or just life in general. “In a nutshell, E-town prepared me for my acceptance to CMU, because it gave me people who encouraged and challenged me to do great things,” he said.

Digital photography of Gene Ann Behrens stirs emotions

 Opening for “Behind the Walls” exhibit Sept. 10

           
        “Behind the Walls,” an exhibit featuring emotionally stirring digital photographs by Dr. Gene Ann Behrens, associate professor of music and coordinator of music therapy at Elizabethtown College, opens Sept. 10. The photos were taken during the two months she was in Bethlehem in the West Bank, where she worked as a music therapist to develop the emotional coping skills of children traumatized by the on-going conflict .
    The Fine Arts Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts hosts an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10. A discussion with Dr. Behrens also will take place at 6 p.m.
    The exhibit is in the Hess Gallery of Zug Memorial Hall and continues through Oct. 16.
    Contact: Milt Friedly at 717-361-1385 or Amy Reynolds, 717-361-1212.

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Elizabethtown College Writers House kicks off inaugural season

Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Taslima Nasrin highlight of September events
 

         A panel discussion, poetry and essay readings, and a  roundtable discussion are planned as a kickoff, next month, to Elizabethtown College’s Writers House inaugural season. Featured is a lecture by the College’s Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Taslima Nasrin at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15. The lecture, held in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, is open to the public.
        Nasrin was born in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, in a tightly regimented Muslim conservative environment. She will tell how, as a young girl, she pushed the gender boundaries of society by attending medical school and becoming a writer and editor of literary magazines that questioned women’s oppression and tradition in her native country. When a fatwa—a legal pronouncement by an Islam religious law specialist—was issued against her, Nasrin was confined to her house and was forced to leave her job. Eventually, she escaped from her country and now lives in exile.
        Nasrin’s lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty and tied to the opening of the new Writers House, located in the former Hess family home between Cedar and Cherry streets in Elizabethtown. Writers House is a venue in which students and faculty can explore the scholarly pursuit of expression, presentation and performance; work on their writing; and explore creative fiction and nonfiction, poetry, drama and scholarly writing, as well as writing for films and documentaries, music, the visual arts, and both the printed and spoken word.
        Elizabethtown College Writers House welcomes student and faculty writers, as well as scholars, performers and speakers. Writers House director is Jesse Waters, visiting assistant professor of English.
        Additional events celebrating the kickoff include a panel discussion at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7, concerning the Intertexual and Interdisciplinary Natures of Math, Music and Art. The panel discussion, held in Writers House, features James Hughes, professor of mathematics and department chair of mathematical and computer sciences; Jim Haines, professor of music; and Milt Friedly, professor of art.
        A roundtable discussion, sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, takes place at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 13. Held at Writers House, the roundtable features Taslima Nasrin, discussing Equity and Equality for Women in the 21st Century.
        And, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14, Nasrin presents a poetry reading at the Writers House.
        To wind up the week, Nasrin presents selected readings from autobiographical and essay work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16. The reading, held in Esbenshade Hall’s Gibble Auditorium, is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Faculty.
        A full schedule for the first season of Writers House can be found HERE.
        Contact: Jesse Waters, 717-361-3762 or writershouse@etown.edu. 

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20th annual Building Strong Families Conference to focus on supporting families in times of economic uncertainty

Register by Sept. 15 for discount

The Mid-Atlantic Council on Family Relations (MACFR)—in collaboration with Elizabethtown College’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology—will present the 20th Annual Building Strong Families Conference on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on the Elizabethtown College campus. Themed “Families in Economic Uncertainty,” the conference will provide human services professionals, educators and students with tools to help families survive and thrive in tough economic times. Interested individuals may sign up for the conference by completing the registration form available through Elizabethtown’s website. Discounts are available for early registration.

Naomi Gerstel—who is the Eastern Sociological Society’s Robin L. Williams Jr. Lecturer—will present the conference’s keynote address, “Rethinking Families: Economic Conditions, Kinship and Marriage.” Gerstel is an award-winning and pioneering scholar and public sociologist whose research and writings have helped define the emerging subfields of work-family and the sociology of carework. The author or editor of four books, Gerstel most recently co-edited “Public Sociology: Michael Burawoy and His Critics” (University of California, 2007). Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation, among others. She has been recognized with several prestigious appointments and awards, including a visiting fellowship at the Russell Sage Foundation, the Rosabeth Moss Kanter International Award for Research Excellence in Families, the Samuel F. Conti Fellowship for Excellence in Research, and the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding

Accomplishment in Research and Creative Activity at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she has been on the faculty since 1978.

In addition to the keynote address, the conference offers a collection of timely and engaging sessions that focus on supporting families in difficult economic times. A Human Service Fair—featuring displays by representatives from local agencies and educational institutions, etc.—will be held from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the KAV at the College’s Brossman Commons. The conference also will include a student research poster competition and the presentation of the Distinguished Service to Families Award. A complete schedule is available online through the “Building Strong Families Conference” link available on Elizabethtown College’s homepage.

Registration is required for all sessions but the keynote lecture, which is free and open to the public. The registration form is available on Elizabethtown’s website. Discounted rates are offered for those who register by Sept. 15. A Certificate of Attendance will be provided for each conference participant. An application has been made for 5.0 hours of professional development credits/continuing education (CE) units. If approved, the credits/CE units will be available to participants for a $5 processing fee.

For more information, please visit Elizabethtown College’s website or contact Michele Lee Kozimor-King, MACFR president and associate professor of sociology at Elizabethtown College, at kozimor-kim@etown.edu.

The Mid-Atlantic Council on Family Relations (MACFR)—formerly known as the Pennsylvania/Delaware Council on Family Relations—is a regional affiliate of the National Council on Family Relations. The organization promotes and coordinates educational efforts to help and strengthen families and encourages research on family issues. In addition, the members—including family professionals in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland—further effective social action promoting strong, diverse and vibrant families. More information is available at the organization's website.

Science in Motion provides professional development for local educators

Teachers learn advanced science topics, techniques at Elizabethtown College during summer 2010

Twenty-one high school biology and chemistry teachers explored advanced science topics and learned cutting-edge scientific techniques and teaching strategies at a two-day Science in Motion professional development training program at Elizabethtown College in June 2010. The training program—which was made possible as a result of a collaboration between the College and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania—is part of a rich offering of Science in Motion program resources that have been supporting science education in schools in five counties in southeastern Pennsylvania.

During the two-day session, participating high school teachers deepened their personal understanding of advanced genetics topics and acquired new teaching strategies that support student learning. Throughout the training program, the teachers used state-of-the-art equipment to investigate the concepts through hands-on laboratories and lessons.

According to Wendy Griest, Science in Motion site director and mobile educator, the positive ripple effects of the training program will be felt for many years to come, as the teachers take what they learned and apply it in their classrooms. “This fall, when the teachers return to their own classroom, these techniques can be used to provide standards-based, inquiry science to their students,” she says. “In addition, the teachers may borrow the laboratory equipment to conduct the cutting-edge experiments as part of their own lessons.”

Created in 1987, Science in Motion is an educational partnership between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and 12 select colleges and universities, which provides science resources and training for teachers and schools in the state. In fall 2008, Elizabethtown College was selected to join the elite ranks of the Science in Motion program partner colleges and to offer support to schools in Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill and Berks counties, areas previously not served by the program. Since its March 2009 ceremonial launch, Elizabethtown’s program has loaned scientific equipment, presented science lessons, and offered professional development sessions for teachers in its target counties.

S. Dale High Education Fund grant finances infrastructure improvements at Elizabethtown College’s High Library

Elizabethtown College’s High Library will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its opening with a safety makeover thanks to a $44,000 grant from the S. Dale High Education Fund of the Lancaster County Community Foundation. The funding will finance important upgrades to the fire protection system and necessary aesthetic improvements to the facility, which has been a valuable resource for Elizabethtown College students and central Pennsylvania residents for the past two decades.

A large portion of the S. Dale High Education Fund grant will be used to finance the replacement of the fire protection system currently used at the High Library. The upgraded pre-action fire alarm system not only will meet the current safety requirements—protecting students and local residents in the event of a fire—but it also will protect the valuable, and in some cases irreplaceable, collections housed at the facility from damage due to mechanical malfunction. Water in the new state-of-the-art system is stored along the walls, instead of the ceilings, mitigating the potential hazard of water damage in the event of a pipe break or other equipment failure.

The McCormick Family Foundation also is supporting the High Library’s 20th anniversary by supporting the expansion of the McCormick Research Laboratory’s Laptop Lending Program with a $25,000 grant. Steadily growing in popularity, the highly successful program allows students to access the College’s wireless computer network from any location in the High Library. This flexibility is creating opportunities for student project collaboration. It also supports the diverse study styles of the College’s student body—allowing them to complete research, projects and papers in the way that is most comfortable for them. The McCormick Research Laboratory’s Laptop Lending Program now benefits upwards of 250 students each day.

The High Library officially opened its doors in September 1990. Housing an estimated 200,000 books and an expanding collection of online resources, the facility provides visitors with access to a world of knowledge seven days per week during the academic year and weekdays during the summer. Through their efforts, the High Library staff members connect people with ideas and create an intellectual and cultural commons—both physical and virtual—where individuals can experience the power of sharing information.

Established in 1924, the Community Foundation’s mission is to advance the vitality and well-being of the people of Lancaster County by inspiring generosity and being responsible stewards of gifts for future generations. The Community Foundation is entrusted with millions of dollars in community assets which are invested for the long-term benefit of Lancaster County. On a yearly basis, the Community Foundation invests in a wide variety of organizations that provide essential community services. In 2009, the Community Foundation invested nearly $2 million in Lancaster County through grants and other initiatives.

Elizabethtown College faculty member receives prestigious

Cottrell College Science Award

Grant supports novel solid-state materials investigation,

creates student research opportunities at the College

Jeff Rood, assistant professor of chemistry at Elizabethtown College, was one of only 57 science faculty from colleges and universities throughout the nation to be recognized on the most recent list of Cottrell College Science Award recipients. The prestigious $35,000 grant will allow the Elizabethtown faculty member to explore new directions in sold-state materials research and to create unique experiential learning opportunities for the College’s students.

This spring, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) awarded $2 million in grants to support early-career scientists, like Rood. The Single-Investigator Cottrell College Science Awards provide funding for significant research in the physical sciences—astronomy, chemistry or physics—which contributes to the advancement of science and to the professional and scholarly development of faculty at liberal arts colleges and primarily undergraduate universities. In addition, RCSA mandates that undergraduate students be involved in the research in meaningful ways.

Slated to begin in earnest this fall, Rood’s research—titled “Solvent and Temperature Effects on the Structure and Luminescent Properties of Metal Phosphinates”—will advance fundamental research into the structures and properties of hybrid inorganic-organic materials. With their unique properties, these materials potentially could be used to fabricate sensors or to serve as storage materials for fuels, such as hydrogen. The grant will purchase necessary supplies for the research over the next two academic years. In addition, it will supplement funding from Elizabethtown College for student research stipends.

Research Corporation for Science Advancement—formerly known as Research Corporation—was founded in 1912 and is the second-oldest foundation in the United States (after the Carnegie Corporation) and the oldest foundation for science advancement. Research Corporation is a leading advocate for the sciences and a major funder of scientific innovation and of research in America's colleges and universities. It has recently launched a Campaign for Early Career Scientists.

Elizabethtown College’s Young Center Releases Amish Population, Migration Data

An updated study by Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies finds that the North American Amish community is growing and migrating into areas far afield from their historic settlements in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana. The findings can be found at the Statistics tab on the Young Center’s Amish Studies website.

The study identifies a five-percent growth in the Amish community in the past year alone. Descended in large part from a group of about 5,000 immigrants in the early 20th century, the community is currently estimated to have a population of 249,000. Over the past 20 years, the Amish community has doubled in population, likely due to the communities’ “sizeable nuclear families” of five or more children and a high average retention rate of 85 percent or more.

Over the past five years, Amish have migrated throughout North America to establish a number of new settlements and now can be found in 28 states and Ontario. The study postulates a variety of reasons for this movement, including the community members’ search for fertile farmland at reasonable prices; non-farm work in specialized occupations; rural isolation that supports their traditional, family-based lifestyle; social and physical environments—climate, governments, services, economy—conducive to their way of life; proximity to family or other similar Amish church groups; and sometimes to resolve church or leadership conflicts.

The study’s research team was led by principal investigator Donald B. Kraybill, distinguished college professor and Young Center senior fellow, and assisted by his Young Center colleagues, Steve Scott, administrative and research associate, and Cynthia Nolt, research and editorial associate.

The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietiet Studies fosters and promotes the study of Anabaptist and Pietist groups. Young Center staff, visiting scholars and students conduct scholarly and interpretive investigations of the life, culture and beliefs of Anabaptists and Pietists, primarily in their North American context. In addition, the Center—which is named for Galen S. Young, D.O., and Jessie M. Young—interprets the cultural and religious heritage of Anabaptist and Pietist communities to the general public through lectures, colloquia, seminars, exhibits and conferences. The Amish Studies website was developed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of a collaborative research grant on Amish diversity and identity in the 20th century. 

The McCormick Family Foundation grant broadens student access to 21st-century information resources at Elizabethtown College

$25,000 grant continues philanthropic organization’s decade-long commitment to nurturing student learning through High Library

With a July 2010 gift to Elizabethtown College, the McCormick Family Foundation is broadening student access to 21st-century information resources available through Elizabethtown College’s High Library. The $25,000 grant continues a long-term relationship between the Foundation and the College that is enhancing student learning, supporting the College’s healthy and growing research program, and creating organic opportunities for student collaboration.

For more than 10 years, The McCormick Family Foundation has had a continuing connection with Elizabethtown College’s High Library. In August 1999, the Foundation created the McCormick Research Laboratory, which is the most heavily used computer laboratory at the College. Since opening, thousands of Elizabethtown students have been introduced to online research and connected to the library’s ever-expanding collection of online resources through the Research Laboratory.

Seeking to broaden the impact of the Research Laboratory, the College created a computer laptop lending program during the 2007-2008 academic year through a grant from The McCormick Family Foundation. Steadily growing in popularity, the highly successful program allows students to access the College’s wireless computer network from any location in the High Library. This flexibility is creating opportunities for student project collaboration. It also supports the diverse study styles of the College’s student body—allowing them to complete research, projects and papers in the way that is most comfortable for them.

According to High Library Director BethAnn Zambella, the new grant from The McCormick Family Foundation seeks to expand the laptop lending program, which has now reached its capacity. “In the past year, the lending program has seen significant growth and now benefits upwards of 250 students each day,” says Zambella. “We are grateful to The McCormick Family Foundation for providing the funding to create and now to expand this incredibly successful program, which is nurturing student learning at the High Library.”

The High Library has been a valuable resource for Elizabethtown students and central Pennsylvania residents for more than two decades. Housing an estimated 200,000 books and an expanding collection of online resources, the facility provides visitors with access to a world of knowledge seven days per week during the academic year and weekdays during the summer. Through their efforts, the High Library staff members connect people with ideas and create an intellectual and cultural commons—both physical and virtual—where individuals can experience the power of sharing information.

Elizabethtown College joins colleges in founding

ecological research network

National Science Foundation grant launches effort

Thanks to an almost $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, faculty at Elizabethtown College and other institutions are founding a network to enhance undergraduate ecological education through collaborative research.

The Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) comprises faculty at a dozen colleges in the Northeast and Midwest who will partner in developing collaborative research projects focused on regional to continental-scale ecological issues. Through the projects, the faculty will engage their students in authentic science while teaching them basic ecology. Additionally, the EREN faculty will create a continental-scale ecology course module using research data and establish an online database of collaborative data sets collected during the project.

Assistant Professor of Biology David Bowne, who is one of 16 EREN faculty, believes this effort could be a catalyst for significant ecological research. “This network will allow faculty and students here at Elizabethtown and across the nation to work together to answer large-scale ecological questions that would be impossible for any one participant to answer alone,” Bowne says. “Elizabethtown College students will actively conduct research that advances ecological science and, in the process, gain a deeper understanding of ecological concepts, experimental design, the process of science, and the value of collaboration.” 

The EREN is being led by Laurel Anderson, Ohio Wesleyan associate professor of botany-microbiology. In addition to Bowne and Anderson, the network includes faculty from Bard College, N.Y.; Carthage College, Wis.; Ferrum College, Va.; Meredith College, N.C.; Mount Holyoake College, Mass.; Mount St. Mary’s University, Md.; Sewanee: The University of the South, Tenn.; St. Olaf College, Minn.; Swarthmore College, Pa.; and Union College, N.Y.

Strings Excell elementary day camp concert Friday, July 23

Strings students in grades four through seven who take part in the Elizabethtown College Strings Excell elementary day camp will perform at 4 p.m. Friday, July 23, at Elizabethtown College's Leffler Chapel. 

Strings Excell day camp takes place this year from Monday, July 19, through Friday, July 23.

ETC Music Camp concerts planned for July 12 through 17 at Elizabethtown College

Faculty participants in the Elizabethtown College Music Camp (ETC) will perform a free concert from 8 to 9 p.m. Monday, July 12; Tuesday, July 13; and Wednesday, July 14, in Leffler Chapel. Students perform 7:30 to 10 p.m. Thursday, July 15, and Friday, July 16. A final ensemble performance takes place at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 17. Admission to the concerts is free.

The ETC (formerly the Lancaster County Music Camp) is a complete music camp for children entering grades 7 through 12, featuring voice, piano, band, orchestra and chorus. Students reside on the campus of Elizabethtown College studying music with practicing musicians from the College and the surrounding area. Click HERE for more information on the music camp.

Elizabethtown College announces
fall 2010 cultural events line-up

Elizabethtown College invites you to join us. Marvel at artistic expression, laugh with friends, and visit the world—all on our campus. Our doors are open. Experience diverse cultural offerings. For a listing of our fall 2010 events, click the @ E-town Events button on the Elizabethtown College homepage.

Selected highlights for fall 2010:

• The Elizabethtown College Writers House opens fall 2010 with presentations by a collection of authors from halfway across the globe and right here in central Pennsylvania. Slated to speak are Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Taslima Nasrin (event sponsored by the Dean of Faculty's office), historian Randy Roberts, novelist Libby Malin Sternberg, short-story author Mary Beth Matteo, and poet Jen Gates. In addition, the venue also will present events showcasing Elizabethtown faculty and faculty emeriti, including James Hughes, Jim Haines, Milt Friedly, Wayne Selcher, Tom Winpenny, and Mahua Bhattacharya.
  
  
• Elizabethtown is partnering with The Mid-Atlantic Council on Family Relations to present the 20th Annual Building Strong Families Conference, “Families in Economic Uncertainty,” on Tuesday, October 19. The conference’s keynote address, titled “Rethinking Families: Economic Conditions, Kinship and Marriage,” will be presented by Naomi Gerstel, who is the Eastern Sociological Society’s Robin L. Williams Jr. Lecturer. Beginning in July 2010, register through the link on our homepage.
  
  
• The Music Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts commemorates the 150th birthday of American composer Edward MacDowell (1860 – 1908) with the MacDowell Symposium and Festival from Friday, December 3, through Sunday, December 5. Three free public concerts and a series of lectures featuring leading scholars will highlight this celebration of the life and music of this preeminent American musician. Register for the symposium at www.etown.edu/macdowell.
  
  
• “What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play!” The Theatre Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents “Cabaret” as its fall 2010 production. This landmark musical—based on a book by Joe Masteroff with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb—depicts the dark haven of decadent 1931 Berlin. As the Third Reich rises, wild young American Sally Bowles and her associates—British, German and Jewish—keep up their spirits in the deceptive shadows of the Kit Kat Klub, and risk losing themselves in the song and dance of the cabaret. “Cabaret” opens Thursday, October 28.
  
  
• This fall, the Young Center welcomes scholars in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies who will speak on varied topics—from the pacifist farmers of World War II to Amish faith. Highlighting the Center’s fall series is the October 19 Dale Brown Book Award Lecture by Katherine Carté Engel, titled “German Pietists in a British Atlantic World.”
  
  
• The Elizabethtown College Alumni Peace Fellowship will present its 2010 Alumni Peace Fellow Ron McAllister who will present public lectures Tuesday, November 2, and Wednesday, November 3.
  
  
• This fall, the galleries in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center and Zug Memorial Hall will feature public exhibits featuring the work of Ricardo Diaz, Dave Grindil, the Echo Valley Art Group and Elizabethtown College’s own Gene Ann Behrens.
  

  
  

Most events at Elizabethtown are free and open to the public. Please join us—you’re always welcome!

Elizabethtown College welcomes Class of 2014

Elizabethtown College campus community welcomes the incoming first-year students.

Orientation for the Class of 2014 is set for Wednesday, June 23, through Saturday, June 26.

Elizabethtown College’s 107th annual Commencement

recognizes more than 500 students

Speaker Michael Lomax encourages graduates

to “not just make a life, but to make a difference”

On May 22, Elizabethtown College recognized the accomplishments of 513 students during its 107th annual Commencement. The ceremony—which took place in The Dell, the lawn in front of the College’s historic Alpha Hall—was highlighted by remarks from Michael Lomax (shown left), president and chief executive officer of UNCF, the United Negro College Fund.

During his address, Lomax remembered his own 1968 graduation from Morehouse College, just one month after public funeral services for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were held on the campus. He noted that the juxtaposition of the two very different ceremonies, held only a few weeks apart, forced personal reflection about the legacy Lomax would leave. “I still stand on the shoulders of giants,” he said, pointing to those like King who have had an impact on his life. “Being the descendent of giants is an inspiration ... and a great challenge.”

Lomax encouraged the class “not just to make a life, but to make a difference.” “What will you do to benefit the generation after yours ... and the generation before yours?” he asked of the most recent graduating class of an institution that has “Educate for Service” as its motto. “My generation has had its era,” he said. “We baby boomers have left a lot for you to do.”

From his vantage point as the leader of the nation's largest and most successful minority higher education assistance organization, Lomax stated that a lasting love of learning is key to a productive life. “In the old days, education was something that was done when you were young,” he said. “Today, it is a lifelong pursuit.”

Lomax has had a notable career in higher education and public service. Prior to joining UNCF, he served seven years as president of Dillard University. He also spent 30 years pursuing simultaneous full-time positions as a university professor and public servant in Atlanta, Ga. Lomax taught literature at Morehouse and Spelman colleges and the University of Georgia. In addition, he was a prominent figure in Atlanta government and politics. In recognition of Lomax’s contributions to higher education and to the lives of thousands of students, Elizabethtown presented Lomax with an honorary degree.

In addition, Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees Chair David Hosler, CPCU, also was recognized with an honorary degree. Hosler—who graduated from Elizabethtown in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration—accepted the call to serve his alma mater as a member of its Board of Trustees in 1995. Since his election as chair of the Board in 2003, he has worked with the College’s administration to launch a series of initiatives that have improved the quality of the institution’s faculty, its long-term financial health, and its academic and co-curricular facilities. Hosler is chief operating officer for Murray Risk Management and Insurance and serves his community as a member of the boards of PNC Bank (Central Pennsylvania Region Advisory Board), Housing Development Corporation, Parish Resource Center, Rotary Club of Lancaster, United Way of Lancaster County and CPCU Society – Pennsylvania Dutch Chapter.

In addition to recognizing current Elizabethtown students, the ceremony also offered 23 members the College’s Class of 1960 an opportunity to recall their own graduation 50 years before. The alumni processed along with this year’s class and were presented with a commemorative gold medallion celebrating the 50th anniversary of their graduation from the College.

Elizabethtown College to award degrees at May 22 ceremony

UNCF President and Chief Executive Officer to address graduates

More than 500 candidates for undergraduate and graduate degrees will be recognized during Elizabethtown College’s 107th annual Commencement. The ceremony—slated to be held in The Dell, which is the lawn in front of the Alpha Administration Building at the College—will begin at 11 a.m. and conclude at approximately 1 p.m.

The ceremony will recognize those students of the College who met the requirements for graduation during the previous year. Addressing the graduates will be Michael Lomax, UNCF president and chief executive officer. Lomax and Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees Chair David Hosler will receive honorary degrees during the ceremony.

In addition, 23 members of Elizabethtown’s Class of 1960 will return to their alma mater to be honored with a commemorative gold medallion celebrating the 50th anniversary of their graduation from the College. 

For more information, please visit the Commencement website. 

Etownian recognized by American Scholastic Press Association

The American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA) recognized Elizabethtown College’s student-run newspaper, the Etownian, with its highest honor.

Every year, the ASPA objectively critiques publications submitted by high schools and colleges from across the nation during its Annual Review and Contest. The contest—which is judged by a committee of publication experts—evaluates scholastic publications and assigns them a level of distinction according to a point system.

The Etownian received the highest recognition, a first-place award with special merit distinction. The publication was one of only 73 from schools nationwide and one of only three from colleges or universities with similar enrollments to receive the honor. According to the ASPA, this award is given to periodicals that are “an outstanding overall example of a scholastic publication in format, content and presentation.” Of the 1,000 points possible in the contest, the Etownian scored 960. Approximately 300 schools from across the nation submitted newspaper entries this year.

The Etownian, a weekly campus newspaper, is run by Elizabethtown College students. The editorial staff is advised by Assistant Professor of Communications Kirsten Johnson.

Fall 2009 Editorial Staff

Jamie L. Bartolino – Editor in Chief

Aimée M. DiMichele – Managing Editor 

Aidan E. Bauernschmidt – Assistant Editor

Rachel A. Marsteller – News Editor 

Allison M. O’Boyle – Assistant News Editor

Peter S. Northrop – Features Editor 

Laura A. Farnish – Assistant Features Editor

Joelle E. Atkinson – Campus Life Editor 

Ross M. Benincasa – Assistant Campus Life Editor

Craig H. Meaney – Opinion Editor 

Samantha T. Phillips – Assistant Opinion Editor

Sara E. Crimmel – Sports Editor 

Janna M. Richards – Assistant Sports Editor

Matthew A. Wagener Huntley C. McGowan

Layout Editor Assistant Layout Editor

Matthew P. Butera – Photography Editor 

Melanie R. Giardina – Assistant Photography Editor

Zachary T. Johnson – Online Editor 

Andrew R. Sides –Assistant Online Editor

Emily M. Reigart – Copy Editor 

Samantha M. Alleman, Patricia A. Cangelosi, Rachel L. Jesten and Leigh N. Ontivero –Assistant Copy Editors

Brittny E. McLaughlin – Business Manager 

Marc C. Weber – Assistant Business Manager

Katie L. Bornholdt – Advertising Manager 

Spring 2009 Editorial Staff

Aimée M. DiMichele –Editor-in-Chief

Aidan E. Bauernschmidt –Managing Editor 

Emily M. Reigart – Assistant Editor

Rachel A. Marsteller – News Editor 

Khouri E. McGrann – Assistant News Editor

Peter S. Northrop – Features Editor 

Rachel L. Jesten – Assistant Features Editor

Joelle E. Atkinson – Campus Life Editor 

Ross M. Benincasa – Assistant Campus Life Editor

Craig H. Meaney – Opinion Editor 

Samantha T. Phillips – Assistant Opinion Editor

Sara E. Crimmel – Sports Editor 

Janna M. Richards – Assistant Sports Editor

Matthew A. Wagener – Layout Editor 

Huntley C. McGowan – Assistant Layout Editor

Melanie R. Giardina – Photography Editor 

S. Alexandra Ward – Assistant Photography Editor

Zachary T. Johnson – Online Editor 

Andrew R. Sides – Assistant Online Editor

Patricia A. Cangelosi – Copy Editor 

Samantha M. Alleman, Katherine E. Blackman, Nancy C. Briscoe, T. Gavin Nevill and Leigh N. Ontiveros – Assistant Copy Editors

Brittny E. McLaughlin – Business Manager 

Marc C. Weber – Assistant Business Manager

Katie L. Bornholdt – Advertising Manager 

Jennifer R. Malik – Assistant Advertising Manager

2010 Scholarship and Creative Arts Day resounding success

Elizabethtown College’s April 2010 Scholarship and Creative Arts Day was a resounding success.

Now in its third year, the annual conference showcased the ideas and creativity of 384 of the College’s talented young scholars. Eager to be a bigger part of the world, these participants—with guidance from 70 faculty mentors—used their gifts to explore uncharted intellectual territory and then presented, performed or exhibited during the two-day event. Through their experiences, they have honed and refined their skills and have broadened their personal understanding of their field.

The event featured a keynote address by Roya Hakakian. Ms. Hakakian—the author of “Journey from the Land of No: A Memoir of a Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran,” her award-winning memoir about life as a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran—personally has demonstrated the power of a life dedicated to intellectual service.

Gottfried to present keynote address at 150th anniversary
celebration of founding of oldest Romanian university

Paul Gottfried—Elizabethtown College’s Raffensperger Professor of Humanities and America’s leading paleoconservative intellectual—has been invited to deliver the keynote address at the 150th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, the oldest institution of higher learning in Romania.

Gottfried’s address—which will be presented June 1, 2010—will stress the opportunities for national rebirth that the fall of Soviet tyranny has created for the countries of Eastern Europe. He will encourage Romania and the other re-emerging nations to chart a course that avoids the temptations of returning to old national rivalries and being drawn in by globalist and human rights ideologies of the West, which threaten to destroy their national character.

Founded in 1860, the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi has been carrying on a tradition of excellence and innovation in the fields of education and research. With more than 38,000 students and 800 academic staff, the university enjoys prestige at the international level and partners with more than 250 universities around the world. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi became the first student-centered university in Romania, once the Bologna Process was implemented. For the third year in a row, the university was ranked first in the national research based on the Shanghai criteria.

 The Amish way of forgiveness

Scapegoating may be irrational, but it's understandable and also very common. Perhaps that's why the upcoming movie on the 2006 Nickel Mines Amish school shooting, set to air this Sunday on the Lifetime Movie Network, adopts that story line. The movie's trailer portrays an Amish mother showing up at the deceased gunman's home the day after the shooting to "confront" his devastated wife, holding her responsible for her husband's deeds.

Only it didn't happen that way. True, Amish people did show up at gunman Charles Roberts' home within hours of the shooting that left five girls dead. They also visited his parents and parents-in-law, all of whom lived within a few miles of the West Nickel Mines School.

But the Amish people didn't go there to express rage or sling blame. They visited the Roberts family because of their compassion for his kin--victims of the tragedy who were also suffering immense emotional pain. One Amish neighbor consoled Charles Roberts' father with a hand on his shoulder and four simple words: "We love you, Roberts." A few days later, at Roberts' burial, parents of some of the Amish girls he had killed showed up and hugged his widow. It was, said one Amish man, "simply the right thing to do."

We haven't seen the entire Lifetime movie, which takes its title from our book, "Amish Grace." But we suspect the movie will conclude with the enraged Amish mother somehow finding within herself the wherewithal to forgive. It's the kind of ending that will make television viewers feel good, because it mirrors the way many of us think about ourselves: we'd be angry as hell at first, but over time our rage would subside.

Eventually, our reasonable and forgiving side--our good side--would win out.

That may be the way we think about ourselves, but at Nickel Mines, the Amish reversed that pattern. They led with their forgiving side, and began the struggle to make sense of their pain by extending grace. Relying on deeply engrained habits of forgiveness, they extended compassion right away, within hours of the shooting.

Did it make any difference that the Amish reacted that way from the start? Terrie Roberts, the mother of the gunman, thinks so. In our newly released paperback edition of "Amish Grace," we include an interview with Ms. Roberts. In it, she tells us how the Amish community reached out to her and her kin in the aftermath of the tragedy.

"It is hard to say how I may have reacted had they not offered forgiveness," says Ms. Roberts. "I just know that their immediate expression had a tremendous impact on my husband and me."

The Amish response was "the beginning of the healing process," Ms. Roberts continues. She describes how it compelled her and her husband to visit all the Amish families whose daughters had been shot, and to invite all the mothers and the surviving girls to her home for tea.

Ms. Roberts continues to host teas and swimming parties for the surviving girls, four of whom have resumed relatively normal lives. Her closest relationship, however, exists with Rosanna, the one survivor who doesn't swim because she's seriously disabled. To this day, Ms. Roberts visits with Rosanna for several hours every Thursday evening.

Perhaps the real story of Amish grace is as touching as the Lifetime movie version of it. But as we note in our book, the story of Amish forgiveness is not about remarkable individuals finding "within themselves" the ability to forgive. It's about a community that valued forgiveness and reconciliation so highly before the shooting happened that scapegoating the Roberts family on October 2, 2006, wasn't even thinkable.

If you want to be a forgiving person, writes Yale theologian Miroslav Volf, "It helps to live in a community that celebrates forgiveness." That won't make forgiveness easy, he says, but it will make it easier.

As we reflect once again on the Amish response at Nickel Mines, we couldn't agree more.

Alisha Martin ’13 receives inaugural

Anna Carper Excellence in Library Research Award

First-year student recognized for scholarly research

Alisha Martin ’13, of Port Trevorton, Pa., was awarded the inaugural Anna Carper Excellence in Library Research Award at a recent celebration of the 20th anniversary of Elizabethtown College’s High Library. Martin’s research project, titled “Nicotine,” presented the current scientific understanding of the biomechanics of nicotine addiction’s effect on the body. In addition to a certificate, Martin received a $500 cash award.

The Carper Award was created to recognize excellent scholarship by First-Year Seminar students who make “valuable use” of the High Library’s print and electronic collections and other available information resources. The Anna Carper Excellence in Library Research Award is supported by an endowment funded by the Carper Family and named after Anna Carper ’41, who was the College’s librarian from 1960 to 1986.

Martin’s project was completed as a requirement of her First-Year Seminar, titled “Gotta Have It: Exploring the Science of Addiction.” The seminar—which was taught by Tom Hagan, associate professor of chemistry and assistant dean for the First-Year Program—explores the biology, chemistry, physiology, psychology and sociology associated with addictions. This seminar is one of several offered to Elizabethtown College first-year students to acclimate them to the rigors of college scholarship and provide them with an understanding of the academic resources available at Elizabethtown College.

During her First-Year Seminar, Martin—a biology major, who plans to enroll in optometry school after completing her undergraduate degree—developed much more than a better understanding of nicotine addiction. “While I understood the health impacts of smoking, I didn’t have a thorough understanding of the biomechanics of how smoking impacts the body,” she says. “Through this project, I not only learned about the addiction, but I also learned about the type of in-depth research that is expected in college and developed new techniques for research and study.”

Dedicated in September 1990, Elizabethtown College’s High Library is a vital component of Elizabethtown College’s academic work and is an invaluable resource to residents in communities around the College. The facility has a capacity to house 250,000 volumes and is equipped with conference rooms, study carrels, group study spaces and a smart classroom for research instruction and student use. Named for Elizabethtown College Class of 1963 alumnus S. Dale High, the facility was constructed, in part, through a generous gift from The High Foundation of Lancaster, Pa.

Caption: High Library Director BethAnn Zambella (shown front row, left) awards the inaugural Anna Carper Excellence in Library Research Award to Alisha Martin’13 (shown front row, right). Looking on are Ann Carper, niece of former College librarian Anna Carper ’41, and Tom Hagan, associate professor of chemistry, assistant dean for the First-Year Program, and “Gotta Have It” First-Year Seminar instructor. Photo by JTS Photography.

20th Annual Building Strong Families Conference

to focus on supporting families in times of economic uncertainty

Conference proposal deadline set for April 19, 2010

The Mid-Atlantic Council on Family Relations (MACFR) has issued a call for presentation proposals for the 20th Annual Building Strong Families Conference. The conference, themed “Families in Economic Uncertainty,” will focus on supporting families during downturns in the economy. Slated to be held at Elizabethtown College on October 19, 2010, the conference is being co-hosted by MACRF and the College’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

The deadline for proposals is April 19, 2010. Topics may include maximizing family budgets, green living, dual earner households, job loss and impact on families and communities, managing debt, bankruptcy, creativity in hard economic times, pooling resources, work and family conflict, family businesses, and related matters. Proposals may include descriptions of successful programs, research findings, curriculum, panel discussions, participation exercises, or other creative formats. Joint presentations of faculty and students are being encouraged.

For more information and proposal guidelines, please visit the MACFR website or contact Michele Lee Kozimor-King, MACFR president and associate professor of sociology at Elizabethtown College, at kozimor-kim@etown.edu.

Kreider Fellow discusses Mennonite women in a changing world March 18
Diane Zimmerman Umble researched early diaries

Diane Zimmerman Umble, 2010 Kreider fellow, presents “Being Mennonite in a Changing World: Mennonite Women’s Diaries, 1920-1970” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in the Young Center’s Bucher Meetinghouse. This lecture is free and open to the public.

 Umble’s discussion centers on research of the diaries of two Mennonite women, Anna E. Umble (1889-1964) and E. Elmira Zimmerman (1898-1978). The diaries give insight into the women’s lives, families, daily routines, social networks and religion.

“They married, worked, raised families and served their churches and communities in times of war, financial stress, and great technological and social change. What counted for them and what they leave unspoken provides a window into how they constructed and negotiated their lives within the religious and cultural constraints of their changing times,” Umble says.

Umble, a communication professor at Millersville University, received her Ph.D.  from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She has several published works, including “Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life,” and multiple chapters and articles on women’s history, telephone history and media criticism. She co-edited “Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History” and “The Amish and the Media.”

Contact Stephen Scott at 717-361-1470.

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‘Blackboard, Pulpit and Stereoscope: The Work of G.N. Falkenstein’ March 31 at High Library
Illustrated lecture on past principal of Elizabethtown College

George Ness Falkenstein (1859-1949) taught science in Illinois, served a Brethren congregation in Philadelphia, wrote history, sold used books … and helped to found Elizabethtown College.

In celebration of the High Library 20th anniversary, Jeff Bach, director of the College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, gives an illustrated lecture about the many facets of G.N. Falkenstein and his career. The event, free and the open to the public, takes place at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, in High Library’s Winter Alcove, second floor.

Learn—through highlights from Falkenstein’s journals and photos from his massive collection of stereoscopic slides—about the intriguing man who helped to make Elizabethtown College a reality. He taught Bible, psychology and pedagogy (education) at Elizabethtown College, and during his 1900 to 1901 term as acting principal, the New College building, now known as Alpha Hall, was built, and all college relations were moved from downtown Elizabethtown to the new building. The dedication of Alpha Hall took place in March 1901.

After his term in office, Falkenstein continued to teach subjects such as history, science, psychology and Bible. He was elected to a second term as principal in 1902, but resigned in September because of health problems.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of the High Library and the Office of Institutional Advancement. Contact: Louise Hyder-Darlington at 717-361-1454
or e-mail at hyderl@etown.edu. 

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The Fine Arts Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts hosts an exhibit reception for John Ros from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 19, in Zug’s Hess Gallery. The exhibition continues 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, through April 18. The reception and exhibit is open to the public.

Ros, a 2000 graduate of SUNY Binghamton, is director of galleryELL, a transient gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., that displays works of under-represented artists who use their art to reach out to the local, national and world population.

His most recent works include two series of collages entirely made of recycled materials. The first series, “Industrialization,” focuses on the battle between architecture and nature. The second is influenced by, and dedicated to, Romanian-born printmaker Hedda Sterne.

Contact Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212.

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Irish folklorist visits College on St. Patrick’s Day

 ‘The Golden Treasures of Irish Art’ March 17

Michael Geaney Irish folklorist, traditional singer and historian presents “The Golden Treasures of Irish Art: From St. Patrick to Normans,” at 11 a.m. St. Patrick’s Day, Wednesday, March 17, in Hoover 212, Elizabethtown College.

Geaney performs with visuals and traditional songs, which he presents in English and Gaelic languages. This event is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty and the English Department. The event is free and open to the public. 

The folklorist graduated from the University College Cork in Ireland and became a teacher, and later, a principal at a high school in Dublin. Following his career in education, he focused on the Irish language and Irish traditions.

Still based in Dublin, he has given speeches and presentations at colleges and universities across the globe, including appearances at five universities in Hungary. He gives presentations on a variety of subjects regarding Irish history including Irish music and song, history of Irish language, cultural history of Gaelic Ireland, and oral and folk traditions of Ireland.

Contact: Mark Harman at harmanm@etown.edu. 

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Badgerow, a pianist and teacher, is an assistant professor of music at Elizabethtown College. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda national music honor society and has collaborated in chamber music groups including performances with Harvey Pittel, Patrick Mason and Eddie Daniels. 

Elizabethtown College concert features flute family
Fourth annual Flutefest March 1

Flute students of Elizabethtown College faculty member Dr. Paula Nelson present the fourth annual Flutefest, a gala concert featuring all members of the flute family from piccolo to bass flute. Performing at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 1, in Zug Recital Hall are Arioso Flute Choir and a variety of small flute ensembles and soloists.

Featured solos include compositions by Borne, Poulenc and Hoover. Small ensembles perform a trio by Kuhlau, plus “Chats” by Berthomieu. The Arioso Flute Choir will offer Gabrieli’s “Sonata Pian’ e Forte,” Mozart’s “The Magic Flute (In 5 Minutes),” Ravel’s “Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin,” and Bizet’s “Farandole from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2.” All musicians will join together at the end of the program to perform the “Air” from the “Suite in D” by Bach.

Student performers include: Allison Burket ’10, Stephanie Crawford ’12, Amber Farah ’12, Tanna Leigh Gibble ’12, Sarah Johnson ’11, Jana MacKay, Hollynn Olsavick ’13, Leigh Ontiveros ’10, Lauren Rossi ’10, Cassandra Summers ’13, and Sierra Tretter ’13. The concert is sponsored by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Division of Music. Contact Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212 with any questions.

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High Library and the Office of Diversity sponsor “1001 Black Inventions” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, in Musser Auditorium, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, Elizabethtown College. The play, performed by Washington, D.C.-based Pin Points Theatre, features the lives of brilliant men and women, and then takes you into the Twilight Zone, where a typical American family attempts to survive in a world without inventions created by Africans and African Americans. Audiences laugh themselves into the realization that Black ingenuity is an integral part of their everyday lives. The performance, which is open to the public, celebrates Black History Month.

Pin Points Theatre is a community theater company that travels internationally, creating its plays and workshops in impoverished D.C. communities then presenting them to schools, businesses, government agencies and theaters throughout the nation’s capitol, the United States, and Asia (Guam, Korea, Japan, and Singapore), Canada and Germany.

Contact: Rachel Hadrick at 717-361-1983 or Louise Hyder-Darlington at 717-361-1454.

The Department of Fine and Performing Arts of Elizabethtown College Theatre presents Alan Ball’s “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress” Feb. 12 through 21 at the College’s Tempest Theatre. Shows are 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12; Saturday, Feb. 13; Thursday, Feb. 18; Friday, Feb. 19; and Saturday, Feb. 20; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21. Tickets are $6.

Five Tennessee bridesmaids rebel, hiding from the wedding reception; trading teasing and revelations, and sharing hilarity and heartbreak. This irreverent look at friendship and the power of similar dressing comes to us from the Emmy- and Oscar-winning creator of True Blood, Six Feet Under and American Beauty.

The cast includes Tammy Bateman ’10, Clara DeAngelo ’12, Jackie Light ’12, Meghann Timney ’11, Angela Wright ’12—and the lone male Kyle Kovatch ’13. Dr. Michael Swanson directs with the assistance of Tom Hackman, assistant professor of Theatre, as scenic and lighting designer; Jen Kilander, costume designer; Beth Lewis ’11, sound designer; Peter Starr Northrop ’11, assistant director; and Jess Roberts ’11, stage manager.

For tickets, call the Theatre Box office at 717-361-1170 or send an e-mail request. Vist visit the Theatre and Dance Division of Fine and Performing Arts’ website. Contact Dr. Michael Swanson at 717-361-1160.

Elizabethtown College's Department of Fine and Performing Arts announces the 2010 theatre season

The Elizabethtown College Theatre Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts announced its schedule for the upcoming season. Works include "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" by Alan Ball, sharing hilarity and heartbreak in an irreverent look at friendship and the power of similar dressing, and American classic "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. The work is famous for its exploration of the power of accusation and gossip in the witch hunts of 1692 Salem.



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"Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" by Alan Ball
8 p.m. Feb. 11, 12, 13, 18 and 19
2 p.m. Feb. 21
Tennessee bridesmaids rebel, hide from the wedding reception; trade teasing and revelations, and sharing hilarity and heartbreak. This irreverent look at friendship and the power of similar dressing comes to us from the Emmy- and Oscar-winning creator of True Blood, Six Feet Under and American Beauty.

"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
8 p.m. April 15, 16, 17, 22 and 23
2 p.m. April 25
One of the classic American dramas, this Tony-winner is famous for its exploration of the power of accusation and gossip in the witch-hunts of 1692 Salem, while allowing Miller to state loudly his opposition to the paranoia and demagoguery of the 1950s red scare. In this time of tea parties and Fox News, Miller’s dramatic warning rings truer than ever.

Tickets are $6 and can be reserved by calling 717-361-1170 or e-mailing boxoffice@etown.edu.

"Central Station" -- a tale of love and forgiveness
Golden Globe award-winning film Feb. 16

The Friends of the High Library and the Office of International Programs at Elizabethtown College present “Central Station,” an emotional and enduring tale of love and forgiveness, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, in the College’s Brinser Lecture Room, Steinman Center.

The film portrays the powerful bond a young boy creates with a lonely retired schoolteacher after witnessing his mother’s accidental death. Directed by Walter Salles, “Central Station” follows the two in their search to find the boy’s father while restoring hope, and learning valuable life lessons along the way.

“Central Station” (aka Central do Brasil) won the Los Angeles Film Critics and Golden Globe award for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999. This event, which is free and open to the public, is the fourth in the High Library Film series, titled “Bringing the World to E-town.”

 

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"Reflections of the Martyrs Mirror" exhibit open through June
Anabaptist martyrology featured in exhibit at Elizabethtown College Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

In celebration of the 350th anniversary of the book’s first publication, Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies presents “Reflections of the Martyrs Mirror,” an exhibit showcasing the development of Thieleman J. van Braght’s “Martyrs Mirror” through various collections of Anabaptist martyr stories published from 1562 to 1660. The event, open to the public, takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, through June 30, in the lobby of the Young Center. Attendees are encouraged to call ahead.

The Young Center exhibit traces the development of Dutch collections of Anabaptist martyr stories leading up to van Braght’s “Martyrs Mirror” in 1660, with a second edition in 1685. The dates of the exhibit’s books span from 1578 to 1631, including two editions of van Braght’s book. The second Dutch edition (1685) includes 104 illustrations by Dutch artist Jan Luyken.

Featured is Peter Miller’s full translation, “Der Blutige Schau-Platz oder Martyrer Spiegel” completed at the Ephrata Cloister Community in 1748. The full translation was the largest book produced in the American colonies. Also in the exhibit is a rare copy of an early attempt by Alexander Mack Jr. at Ephrata to translate selected stories in 1745, “Das Andencken einiger heiligen Martyrer” (“The Memory of some holy Martyrs”).

The exhibit also includes a copy of the German edition in America that followed the Ephrata edition, published in 1814 in Lancaster.

The Muddy Creek Farm Library loaned an extremely rare copy with a second frontispiece for the second half of the book. From the Schwenkfelder Library comes a copy that has a highly decorated name plate for Brother Amos of the Ephrata community. Illustrations of the crucifixion of Christ and the martyrdom of some apostles decorate this book plate.

Contact:  Stephen Scott, 717-361-1470

The Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents the Monday Concert series, “An Evening of the Arts of Spain,” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, in Musser Auditorium, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, at Elizabethtown College.

Debra Ronning and Justin Badgerow, on piano; Sarah Daughtrey, mezzo-soprano; David Cullen and Gary Galván, on guitar; Johanna Hartman, on violin; and Ellen Eager, on cello; as well as student readers and dancers bring to Elizabethtown the music, art, poetry, dance and drama from late 19th and early 20th centuries—the time of the flowering of Spanish Nationalism.

The event is free and open to the public.

America's leading paleoconservative intellectual Paul Gottfried will share insights gathered over a lifetime of encounters with fascinating figures--including U.S. President Richard Nixon, Paul Piccone, Christopher Lasch, Patrick Buchanan and Herbert Marcus--during a lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, at Elizabethtown College's High Library. Following the event, Gottfried, who is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at the College, will sign copies of his critically well-received memoir, "Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers," during a reception. This event is open to the public.

In "Encounters," Gottfried puts past political battles aside in order to recount his varied associations and friendships with a number of fascinating political figures. This memoir emphasizes the Forrest Gump-like quality of Gottfried's often accidental relationships with celebrities and stimulating personalities, the benefits of which were not social or professional but personal. The author insists his life would be of little general interest were it not for the fortuitous encounters that have raised it out of the ordinary. "Encounters" was published by ISI Books.

Additional information is available by contacting Michael Long at 717-361-1240.

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