12/22/2004		Spring 2005 orientation schedule released
12/21/2004		Prof exhibits paintings at The Hoyt Institute
12/16/2004		Honors student creates hypertext sphere
12/15/2004		Book Store, students donate stuffed animals to Children's Hospital
12/15/2004		Amish expanding hold on Lancaster County says E-town prof
12/13/2004		Prof earns entrepreneurship award
12/10/2004		Kauffman hits 600 wins
12/7/2004		Kraybill featured on ABC and NBC Dec. 10
11/24/2004		Blue Jays have stellar fall season
11/22/2004		Two alums named trustees
11/22/2004		Physics prof develops system to monitor cement curing
11/19/2004		E-town chosen by website as promoting student-athlete
11/11/2004		Men's soccer beats Drew in NCAA tournament
11/10/2004		Art prof chosen for sculpture reference
11/9/2004		Men's soccer captures conference title, tournament bid
11/2/2004		Cross country teams capture conference titles
10/29/2004		E-town profs in NY Times, on C-SPAN
10/28/2004		Men's soccer wins 700th
10/22/2004		Kraybill to address Amish business, conflicts with state
10/22/2004		Historian Lukacs to discuss Cold War
10/19/2004		'Metamorphoses' is fall theatre production
10/15/2004		Women's tennis finishes undefeated, wins conference title
10/5/2004		'Newsweek' editor to discuss presidential election
10/5/2004		Homecoming/Parent Weekend 2004
10/1/2004		Lefever Fellow to discuss Bush WMD policy
9/27/2004		Talk on Iraq exit strategy to kick off Center for Global Citizenship
9/13/2004		E-town To Award Scholarships During Sept. 25 Open House
9/13/2004		Anthropology Professor Earns NSF Grant to Study Arctic Pollution

Orientation for new, transfer and international students

Spring 2005 orientation for new, transfer, and international students is scheduled for Jan. 14 - 18.  In addition to providing new students with information to help them "put the pieces together" as a new E-town student, the orientation schedule will also include information on Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- Monday, Jan. 17 -- which will feature programming  to celebrate his life and work.      •  Elizabethtown College spring 2005 orientation itinerary Contact person:       Paula Orenstein, assistant director of admissions and        coordinator of orientation programs          717-361-1376 (telephone)          717-361-1365 (fax)          orensteinp@etown.edu (e-mail)

Pennsylvania landscapes painted by Elizabethtown College art professor Lou Schellenberg will be featured in an exhibit at The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle.

Schellenberg will present a selection of her recent works in the East Gallery. In addition, three other artists -- Aaron Brooks of Lancaster, James Allison of Kittanning and Anna Marie Legler of Pittsburgh -- will present similar work. The opening reception for the exhibits, titled "Four Pennsylvania Painters," will be held from 2 to 4 p.m., Jan. 9.

The paintings will be on display Jan. 4 through Feb. 25 and may be viewed during normal business hours at The Hoyt Institute: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Admission is free.

Inspired by her surroundings in Pennsylvania (and summers in Nova Scotia), Schellenberg’s oils imply man’s presence and influence in our landscape through the manmade structures left behind. These could be buildings, work yards, vacant lots or artifacts commonly found around the home.

A resident of Mt. Gretna, Schellenberg is an associate professor of art at Elizabethtown College. She exhibits extensively in the United States and abroad and has work in several permanent collections, including the Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts.

An Elizabethtown College honors student has created a one-of-a-kind sculpture that depicts people, events and themes of ethnic life in mid-19th-century Philadelphia.

J. Nathan Matias of Mount Joy created the hypertext sphere, Philadelphia Fullerine, as an extension of his senior English honors project, which is a traditional narrative nonfiction on the same topic. He presented the sculpture at the National Collegiate Honors Conference in New Orleans in November.

A multidisciplinary project, the sculpture pulls together skills in art, engineering, history, writing, performance and recording. Philadelphia Fullerine’s geodesic framework is constructed of galvanized steel rods riveted together onto 12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal connectors. Covering the framework are 60 numbered triangles -- made of balsa laced onto the structure with hemp cord -- that represent a different story or theme from mid-19th-century Philadelphia. An attached mp3 device plays a short audio clip explaining the triangle. "As much as possible, I use the words of those who were there, including figures like Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and Frederick Douglass," Matias said.

The placement of images on the sphere is not random. Each triangle relates directly to the stories and themes adjacent to it. Many more connections exist, but these provide a basic sort of guidance for experiencing the project, according to Matias. "Life is a much richer thing than dots on a timeline or paragraphs in a chronological story," Matias said. "In a city like Philadelphia, the actions of one person were not confined to one event or sphere of influence."

Matias refers to Philadelphia Fullerine as a hypertext, a work meant to be read or experienced nonlinearly." "By presenting this work as a hypertext sphere," he said, "I hope to encourage people to read history holistically -- to explore the history and connections for themselves, in whatever order or manner they enjoy."

In September, Matias presented a paper outlining the benefits of hypertext for storytelling at the WWW@10 conference at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has also written an article on his use of hypertext software for nonfiction research and writing. "An Accordion for the World" is to be published in the winter 2004/5 edition of Tekka, a peer-reviewed journal of new media and software aesthetics.

Sixty stuffed puppy dogs are on their way to patients at Penn State Children’s Hospital in Hershey, thanks to the Elizabethtown College Book Store and Laughter Overcomes Virtually Everything (LOVE) Student Directed Learning Community.

The Book Store donated the stuffed animals to patrons who spent at least $125, and customers could either keep them or donate the bears to the Hospital. The event was organized by Director of Campus Services Keith Marks, who manages the Book Store, and LOVE, one of 13 SDLCs at Elizabethtown College.

Established in 1992, SDLCs provide students with the opportunity to live in College-owned housing on the perimeter of campus. Groups of four to eight students life together in the SDLC in exchange for creating, maintaining, and actively participating in activities that enrich the campus and outside communities.

The Old Order Amish have rapidly expanded their geographic hold on Lancaster County, according to a recent study by Elizabethtown College sociology professor Conrad L. Kanagy.

Kanagy’s study examines the growth of Amish farm ownership in Lancaster County from 1984 to 2003 and builds on research that he previously conducted of farm sales from 1984 to 1997. His new data -- gathered with assistance from student researchers Kyle Kopko of Enola, Pa., and Courtney Fellows of Pleasantville, N.Y.--shows a net gain of 89 farms and 6,833 acres during the six years of the new study. Added to previous data from earlier studies, Kanagy concludes that the Amish have gained a total of 266 new farms and 21,659 acres in Lancaster County over the past 20 years.

"The Amish continue to strengthen their cultural and geographical imprint on Lancaster County," Kanagy said. "They now own 1,432 farms, or 41.5 percent of all Lancaster County farms, those consisting of 25 acres or more." The southern region of the county continued to grow disproportionately to other regions, gaining 44 new Amish farms, followed by eastern Lancaster County with 15 and southwestern townships with 14.

While the Amish are rapidly gaining farms, they rarely sell their own to anyone outside of their community, according to Kanagy. The number of farms leaving the community has declined over the two decades. While some Amish are participating in County land preservation efforts, "the vast number of farms under the control of the Amish assures the preservation of Lancaster County farmland well into the future," Kanagy said.

Kanagy estimates that the value of farms gained by the Amish over the last 20 years is currently worth more than $200 million and that the value of all Amish farmland in Lancaster County is just under $1 trillion. "The market value of all this farmland is astounding," Kanagy said. "What’s so amazing is that the Amish are not buying these farms for economic reasons. It’s not economically rational to pay the kinds of prices they are for these farms. Instead, their motivation is the preservation of their way of life, and a recognition that their culture’s survival depends upon a connection to the soil.

"At the core of Amish culture is a commitment to their faith and to their families. And historically, they have been able to maintain those commitments by grounding themselves in a rural, agricultural lifestyle. Anything else would be an experiment that the Amish are not ready for yet."

A graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, Kanagy earned a doctorate in rural sociology from Penn State University. He has been recognized by both Elizabethtown and Wheaton colleges for excellence in teaching and scholarship. He was honored in 1997 as a Young Scholar in American Religion, receiving an award from the Pew Charitable Trust, and in 1998 as an exemplary teacher scholar through a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. He is also pastor of Elizabethtown Mennonite Church.

Kanagy has published articles in sociological journals such as Social Science Quarterly, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Rural Sociology and Sociology of Religion." He is co-author of an introductory sociology text titled "The Riddles of Human Society."

Elizabethtown College business professor Petru Sandu received an award for outstanding leadership from the Consortium of Entrepreneurship Education.

Sandu earned the Outstanding Leadership in the Field of Business Creativity and Entrepreneurship, which was presented to him based on his involvement in the development of the entrepreneurship program at Elizabethtown College.

An assistant professor of business and management, Sandu joined Elizabethtown College’s faculty in 2003. Prior to that, he served as dean and associate dean of the School of Economics Sciences and Public Affairs at "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava in Romania, owned and managed his own firm for seven years and consulted with numerous companies. He has published six books and textbooks and many articles in the field.

Sandu has also participated in programs with London’s University of Greenwich; France’s University of Science and Technology, University of Luxembourg, University of Toulon and University of Toulouse; Italy’s University of Perugia; and The Ohio State University.

Created by the faculty in the Department of Business, Elizabethtown College’s entrepreneurship program will integrate four key dimensions: how to launch and grow new ventures, how to manage existing small and family-owned businesses, how to foster entrepreneurial spirit in established corporations (intrapreneurship), and how to start and develop not-for-profit organizations (social entrepreneurship). Classes in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial marketing are currently being offered.

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Elizabethtown Colleg's Don Kraybill has been interviewed by ABC's "20/20" and NBC's "Dateline" for a story on a rape/incest case in Wisconsin.  Both shows are scheduled to air this Friday, Dec. 10.  "Dateline" begins at 8 p.m. EST and "20/20" airs at 10 p.m. EST.

Information on the case is available here.

Kraybill is senior fellow and distinguished college professor at Elizabethtown.  Nationally recognized for his scholarship on Anabaptist groups, he is the author or editor of more than 18 books and dozens of professional articles.  His books have been translated into six different languages.  Kraybill's research on Anabaptist groups has been featured in magazines, newspapers, and on radio and television programs across the United States and in many foreign countries including Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Australia and Japan.

Kraybill has received numerous awards including the National Religious Book Award for "The Upside Down Kingdom," which has been translated into five languages.  He has authored or coauthored seven books on Amish life and culture, including "The Riddle of Amish Culture," "The Amish and the State" and "Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits."  Other books include "Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism," "Building Communities of Compassion: Mennonite Mutual Aid in Theory and Practice" and "On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren."  His most recent titles are "Anabaptist World USA," "Where Was God on September 11?," "The Amish: Why They Enchant Us?" and "Who Are the Anabaptists?."

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While the Blue Jay athletics program enjoy success every sports season, the achievements of this fall season are worth noting:

• 4 teams (men’s and women’s cross country, men’s soccer, women’s tennis) won conference championships.
• 2 teams that did not win the conference title (women’s soccer, women’s volleyball) reached the conference semi-finals
• 3 teams qualified for the NCAA national championships, with men’s cross country finishing 15th in the country (348 Division III schools sponsor the sport), women’s cross country finishing 19th in the country (377 schools sponsor the sport), and men’s soccer reaching the second round and narrowly missing the opportunity to go on to the Sweet Sixteen (381 schools sponsor soccer).
• 4 coaches (Mike Dager, Matt Helsel, Skip Roderick, Chris Straub) were named conference Coach of the Year.
• The women’s tennis team went undefeated for the first time since 1977.
• 38 percent of our fall sport athletes will be named to the conference Academic Honor Roll this fall, with a 3.2 or better cumulative GPA.

Elizabethtown College has elected two alumni to its board of trustees. Candace Abel of Elizabethtown, a 2002 graduate, and David Sykes, a 1970 graduate, will begin serving a three-year term in January.

Abel is founder and director of Brittany’s Hope, an Elizabethtown foundation that helps with financial grants for families seeking to adopt special-needs children and advocates on their behalf. Brittany’s Hope was founded in 1999 to honor the memory of Abel’s adopted daughter Brittany, who was killed in an automobile accident.

Abel is an officer in DAS Distributors, Inc., a family-owned business in Palmyra for which her husband, David Z. Abel, serves as CEO and treasurer. She graduated from Elizabethtown with a bachelor’s degree in social work, and two of her children are currently enrolled at the College.

Sykes is president and CEO of Prospec Electronics, Inc. of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., a company that assembles and distributes stereo systems for marine vessels. He is also the principal in a number of Prospec subsidiaries. Prior to founding Prospec Electronics in 1987, he worked for AudioVox in New York.

Sykes graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, having served as class president and residence hall counselor. He established The David R. Sykes Scholarship Fund, which is awarded to an entering business major who expresses an active interest in marine activities and has entrepreneurial interests.

A resident of the Isle of Palms, S.C., Sykes is also active in the greater Charleston community. He is a past member of the board of Happy Days and Special Times, an organization providing ongoing programs for children with cancer and their families.

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An Elizabethtown College professor has developed an embedded sensor that functions in cement much like a thermometer in the Thanksgiving turkey.

"The thermometer indicates if the turkey is done by measuring its internal temperature," said Nathaniel Hager III, an adjunct faculty member in Elizabethtown’s physics and engineering department. "The embedded sensor does the same thing in concrete by monitoring how quickly water involved in the curing process is chemically combining with portland cement."

Hager’s research, conducted with business partner and chemist Roman C. Domszy, involves embedding a disposable sensor in a concrete structure when the cement is poured. "A fast electrical pulse is bounced off the sensor, producing a reflected pulse that contains molecular signals due to unreacted water and water combining with portland cement," Hager said. "Tracking these two signals along with cure time provides a better understanding of the cure process and identifies irregularities that lead to improper cure. Essentially, we’re looking for the signals that correspond with cement strength. If we don’t get them, we have to trust the signals to tell us that something is wrong."

There are a number of applications in the construction industry for the system, which Hager and Domszy refer to as Time-Domain-Reflectometry (TDR) Concrete Cure Monitoring. The system could be used by companies that make cement and cement additives to determine how to optimize the curing process. It could also be used in the field to help test structures – "to see if cement is fully hard" -- or on multilevel structures, to determine when to pour the second layer. And it could help identify residual moisture in cement floors before surface coatings, like epoxy, are installed, minimizing moisture damage and reducing wait times.

"When the thermometer indicates that the turkey is getting done too quickly or too slowly, you take corrective action like turning the oven temperature up or back," Hager said. "This monitoring system allows those in construction to do the same thing with concrete."

An article on Hager and Domszy’s research, which was funded in part by National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of Applied Physics. A patent for their concrete cure monitoring system has been issued.

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Elizabethtown College has been identified by high school counselors as one of 80 colleges nationwide that "excel in promoting the ‘student’ aspect of the student-athlete."

Elizabethtown was chosen as a "Counselors’ Pick" – a school that excels in academic engagement, teaching, community and outcomes – by a national group of high school counselors assembled by College Athletes, a website for students looking to combine athletics with academics at a NCAA Division III college.

Elizabethtown, which competes in the Middle Atlantic State College Athletic Conference, is one of just 11 Division III schools nationwide to send both its men’s and women’s teams to the national cross country championship this year. The men’s team is competing in the national championships for the fourth time in the last six years, while the women’s team is competing for the first time ever.

E-town’s 2002 men’s squad, while finishing 15th in the nation and winning its first regional and fourth consecutive conference championship, achieved the highest GPA of any NCAA Division III men’s cross country program in the nation. And the College’s lone Rhodes Scholar, John Leaman, was also a member of the cross country team.

In addition, Elizabethtown’s men’s soccer team recently advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament before losing to Johns Hopkins. And the women’s basketball team, with three more wins in its upcoming season, will put head coach Yvonne Kauffman in the history books as just the second NCAA Division III women’s basketball coach to reach the 600 win plateau, as well as the first woman in Division III ever to do so.

"The great thing about working at a Division III college is that our student-athletes are students first and foremost and athletes second," said W. Kent Barnds, dean of admissions and enrollment management. "During the selection process we make sure that a recruited athlete is equally capable in the classroom. If a student can’t do the work in the classroom they don’t deserve a place at the College -- after all we are a place of higher learning."

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Elizabethtown College, playing in the NCAA Division III men's soccer tournament for the first time since 1999, defeated Drew University 2-0 at home on Wednesday (Nov. 10) to gain its first NCAA tournament win since 1996. Drew, which was the 2003 NCAA Division III national runner-up, concluded its season with a 14-6-1 overall record, while E-town improved to 15-3-3 overall and advanced to the second round of the tournament.

Elizabethtown will host Johns Hopkins University Saturday (Nov. 13) at 1 p.m.

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Professor of Art Milt Friedly is one of less than 300 contemporary sculptors chosen for inclusion in a new illustrated sculpture reference.

Friedly is featured in "The Sculpture Reference," by Sculpture Books Publishing (www.SculptureBooks.com), which contains more than 1,000 color images selected from more than 16,000 submitted. He has been teaching in Elizabethtown’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts since 1987 and has served as coordinator of the art division and director of Hess Gallery since 1991. Friedly earned a bachelor of fine arts (with an emphasis on ceramics and printmaking) from Arizona State University and a master of fine arts in sculpture and printmaking from the University of Wyoming.

Friedly most recently exhibited his work at Penn State University’s Hub-Robeson Gallery, Elizabethtown’s Hess Gallery, The Community Gallery of Lancaster, Shippensburg University’s Kauffman Gallery and Lock Haven University’s Sloan Fine Arts Center. He also participated in Lebanon Valley College’s 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, "Images 2003" at Penn State University’s Robeson Gallery, "Art in a Changing World: Northeast PA Regional Art 2002" at Marywood University’s Mahady Gallery and "In Response" at the Savannah (Ga.) College of Arts and Design.

Friedly has earned prizes at a number of shows, including an honorable mention at Fort Hays State University’s "3rd Great Plains National," a certificate of excellence at the Soho (N.Y.) International Art Competition, and the Juror’s Award at the 12th Annual All Wyoming Craft Show. He is also the past recipient of an Art in Public Places Award for the state of Wyoming.

Elizabethtown College won its first conference title and clinched its first NCAA Division III Tournament bid since 1999 with a 1-0 double overtime upset road win over nationally ranked Messiah College in the Commonwealth Conference championship game Saturday night (Nov. 6. The men's soccer team will host Drew University in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament at 6 p.m., Nov. 10, at Ira R. Herr Field.

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E-town College's men's and women's cross country teams captured Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) titles on Saturday, Oct. 30. This is the sixth consecutive conference championship for the men's team, tying the College's record for most consecutive conference titles, which was set by the men's soccer team from 1962-1967. The women's cross country team claimed its first championship ever, placing first out of 15 teams with a score of 46 points.

In addition, first-year student Ryan Mulcahy (Towanda, PA) has been named the Middle Atlantic Conference men's cross country Rookie of the Year for 2004, and E-town head men's coach Chris Straub and head women's coach Mike Dager have been named the MAC cross country Coaches of the Year.

More information is available at E-town SportsNet.

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Political science professor Wesley McDonald’s recent campus talk on his book "Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology" was taped by C-SPAN and aired on Nov. 13 and 14. The broadcast is available by clicking here.



A study coauthored by assistant professor of criminal justice Carolyn Field was mentioned in the Nov. 9 issue of The New York Times. The article, "Scream at Your Own Risk (and Your Children's)," discussed Field's 2003 study, published in The Journal of Marriage and Family, which found that 88 percent of the 991 families interviewed reported shouting, yelling or screaming at their children in the previous year.



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Elizabethtown College's men's soccer team -- currently ranked 25th in the nation -- became just the third NCAA Division III men's soccer program ever to total 700 victories all-time when it defeated Commonwealth Conference rival Juniata College 10-0 at home Wednesday (Oct. 27) night.
     The win boosts the Blue Jays' season record to 12-2-3 overall and 5-0-1 in the Commonwealth Conference. All-time, the Blue Jays are now 700-220-68. 
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Elizabethtown College Senior Fellow and Distinguished College Professor Donald B. Kraybill will discuss Amish-owned businesses and conflicts between the Amish and the state in upcoming talks.

He will present "Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits" on Oct. 26 and "The Amish and the State" on Nov. 9. Both talks begin at 8 p.m. in the College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and are open to the public free of charge.

Kraybill’s Oct. 26 presentation will trace the growth of Amish-owned businesses and explore the sources of their success. On Nov. 9, he will review the major conflicts between the Amish and state authorities in the 20th century in issues such as education, social security and slow-moving vehicles.

Nationally recognized for his scholarship on Anabaptist groups, he is the author or editor of more than 18 books and dozens of professional articles. His books have been translated into six different languages. Kraybill’s research on Anabaptist groups has been featured in magazines, newspapers, and on radio and television programs across the United States and in many foreign countries including Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Australia and Japan.

Kraybill has received numerous awards including the National Religious Book Award for "The Upside Down Kingdom," which has been translated into five languages. He has authored or coauthored seven books on Amish life and culture, including "The Riddle of Amish Culture," "The Amish and the State" and "Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits." Other books include "Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism," "Building Communities of Compassion: Mennonite Mutual Aid in Theory and Practice" and "On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren." His most recent titles are "Anabaptist World USA," "Where Was God on September 11?," "The Amish: Why They Enchant Us" and "Who Are the Anabaptists?."

Historian John Lukacs will discuss the Cold War at 3:30 p.m., Oct. 28, at Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. His talk, "The Cold War: Its Misconceptions," will be held in the Bucher Meetinghouse and is open to the public free of charge.

Praised by critics as a historian who has the literary talents of a novelist, Lukacs is the author of more than 20 books, including "The Hitler of History," in which he studies German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s life by examining the more than 100 biographies written about him. A recipient of the Ingersoll Prize, his other books include "The Great Powers and Eastern Europe," "A History of the Cold War," "Outgrowing Democracy: A Historical Interpretation of the U.S. in the 20th Century," and "The Duel." A Lukacs reader, "Remembered Past," will appear in November.

Lukacs served from 1947–94 as professor of history at Chestnut Hill College, and as its department chair from 1947–74. He also served as a visiting professor at many universities, including Columbia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins University, and at the University of Budapest in his native Hungary.

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Eleven actors, three dancers and 2,400 gallons of water will be on stage for Elizabethtown College’s fall production, "Metamorphoses" by Mary Zimmerman. Performances are scheduled in Tempest Theatre at 8 p.m. on Nov. 5, 6, 12 and 13, and 2 p.m. on Nov. 7 and 14. Tickets, which cost $5 for adults and $3 dollars for seniors, children and students, are available by calling the box office at 717-361-1170.

Set in and around a large pool of water onstage, "Metamorphoses" brings to life the classic Roman tales written by poet Ovid. Presented in a contemporary style, the play reinvents the stories of King Midas, Cupid, Psyche, Aphrodite, Narcissus, and other familiar mythological characters.

Much of the play’s action takes place in the pool or on decking that surrounds the pool, which makes "Metamorphoses" "extremely elaborate from a production standpoint," according to associate professor of theatre and director Michael Sevareid.

He and set designer Shari Taylor, an associate professor of theatre, have been working with Gordon Hostetter of Waterman’s Gardens in Elizabethtown for months to construct the pool.

"We had to bring in a structural engineer to look at the theatre floor and determine whether it would support the 16,000 to 20,000 pounds of water," he said. "We then began working with Mr. Hostetter on the design, which will involve three levels of depth."

A stage dominated by water also provides lighting challenges, according to Sevareid. Lighting designer Nels Martin of Lancaster’s American Music Theatre, who will assist with the production, has never tried to light water. And Cara Fulton, a recent graduate of Brooklyn College’s master of fine arts program who will design and make the costumes, will have to consider how her work will stand up to repeatedly being wet then dry.

"And I still don’t know how we’re going to get the actors in and out of wet costumes quickly, or how we’ll keep them warm when they’re off-stage," Sevareid added. "We’re all learning. That’s what’s fun about this piece. Putting this together might be courageous or stupid, but it will be fun."

The cast list for "Metamorphoses" includes seniors Julie Miller of Upper Darby, and Mark Muenzen of Sparta, N.J.; juniors Tara Collison of Blackwood, N.J., Erin Lichti of Shickley, Neb., and Matt Simon of Shenandoah Junction, W.V.; sophomore Lisa Sweney of Denver; and first-year students Devon Fahy of Glenolden, Michael Gephart of York, and Andrew Mannion of Linthicum, Md.

Senior Eric Kurzenberger of Philadelphia will act in the production as well as sing, dance and choreograph. Dancers are juniors Ashley Kerns of Mechanicsville, Md., and Kate Needham of Lititz, and first-year student Samantha Mock of Sewell, N.J. Music will be provided by juniors Jessica Kelley of Westerville, Ohio, and Barclay Stiles of Monroeville, N.J.

The New York Times wrote that "Metamorphoses" "has been reducing callused New Yorkers to sobs," and The Wall Street Journal commented that the play is "funny one moment, achingly sorrowful the next." Nominated for three 2002 Tony Awards, including Best Play, "Metamorphoses" earned Zimmerman a Tony for "Best Direction of a Play."

Elizabethtown College wrapped up its fall 2004 dual match schedule with a 9-0 shutout of Immaculata University on Oct. 14 and earned the 2004 Commonwealth Conference team championship. The Blue Jays completed the season with a best-ever record of 14-0, the team's first undefeated mark since 1977 and fifth undefeated season ever.

E-town senior Mel Parenteau (Marydel, Md.) won her 38th career singles match, tying the modern program record for most career singles wins, and first-year student Emma Smith (Moorestown, N.J.) picked up her 14th doubles win of the season, breaking the modern program record for most doubles wins in a season.

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Eleanor Clift's talk has been moved to the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren, 777 S. Mount Joy Street.

Eleanor Clift, a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, will discuss the presidential election at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 19, at the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren. Her talk will be followed by a discussion of the election with Elizabethtown College political science faculty members E. Fletcher McClellan and W. Wesley McDonald. Admission to the talk is free, but tickets are required. Call 717-361-1410 for tickets and information. 

Clift will also offer a book-signing session after the program. Her books will be available at the College’s Book Store, which will be open until 7:30 p.m. that evening.

Formerly a deputy bureau chief and Newsweek's White House correspondent, Clift continues to write about the White House, Congress and the political scene. She was a member of the magazine’s 1992 election team and followed Bill Clinton’s campaign from the start. She is now reporting on the 2004 presidential election, for a special post-election issue of the magazine and for a possible book on the campaign.

Clift also reports for the magazine on the conflicts over economic and domestic policies and priorities on Capitol Hill. Her column, "Capitol Letter," is posted each week on Newsweek.com and MSNBC.com.

Clift is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show, "The McLaughlin Group,"  and a political analyst for the Fox News Network. Playing herself as a member of the McLaughlin Group, she has appeared in several films, including "Independence Day," "Murder at 1600 Pennsylvania" and "Dave," as well as the CBS series "Murphy Brown."

Clift’s latest book, "Founding Sister," tells the story of the long struggle for passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. The book meshes with the HBO movie "Iron Jawed Angels," which debuted last February.

Clift and her husband, Tom Brazaitis, Washington columnist for the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, are co-authors of "Madam President: Shattering the Last Class Ceiling," which tracks the rise of women in politics and looks ahead to the day when there will be a woman on the national ticket, and "War Without Bloodshed: the Art of Politics."

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• This year's Homecoming Parade will mark the 75th anniversary of Blue Jay athletics and will include star athletes past and present. The parade, which will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday at High Street and travel to Market Street and College Avenue, will also include student-built floats constructed around the theme "A Tribute to Comic Books and Strips," clowns, and live music.
• The Kevin Scott Boyd '98 Memorial Stadium, named in honor of the former Blue Jay baseball player, will be dedicated at 1 p.m. The event will be followed by an alumni baseball game.
• A reception and artist's talk will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday for an exhibit of paintings by Juniata College professor Alexander T. McBride in Zug Hall's Hess Gallery. The exhibit will remain until Oct. 22.
• Several choral groups -- Women's Chorus, Community Chorus, and Concert Choir -- will perform music and poetry of the British Isles during the Fall Choral Showcase at 3 p.m. on Saturday in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Choirs will be directed by Assistant Professor of Music Matthew Fritz and adjunct faculty member Carrie Fritz.
• Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood will present a show of improvisational comedy at 9 p.m. in Thompson Gymnasium. Ticket information is available at 717-361-1579.

Elizabethtown’s biology department will present the Dr. Charles S. Farver-Apgar and Dr. Bessie D. Apgar Biology Alumni Award to1978 graduate Mary Ann McDonald of Mifflin County. McDonald worked for 12 years in medical research in the cardiology and pediatrics department at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center following graduation. For the past 16 years, she has been a professional wildlife photographer, teaching workshops and leading photo tours around the world. McDonald also writes children’s natural history books illustrated by her and her husband’s photography.

Barbara Weaver of Lancaster, a 1971 graduate of Elizabethtown, will receive The Oscar F. Stambaugh Chemistry Alumni Award. After graduation, Weaver worked at Warner Lambert and Hershey Medical Center, and for a year was an instructor at Elizabethtown College. She currently works for Lancaster Laboratories, where she began in 1978 as a chemist/program manager for air quality and miscellaneous chemistry before being named group leader for industrial hygiene and eventually principal specialist. A Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), she recently earned a master’s degree in chemistry from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Three alumni will receive the Educate for Service Award, the highest honor given to alumni that honors individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the community, professional field, and/or the College.

• A Service Through Professional Achievement award will go to 1968 graduate Frank E. Seidelmann of Johns Island, S.C., a musculoskeletal specialist and neuroradiologist (specialist in small joint imaging).A senior member of the American Society of Neuroradiology, he has more than 15 years of experience in interpreting MRI cases and serves as a consultant on difficult cases for radiologists and clinicians. Seidelmann previously co-founded a hospital and outpatient center-based radiology group and also founded Ris Logic, Inc., a company that provides software used to manage workflow in outpatient radiology centers. He has also taught radiology at Case Western Reserve University and SUNY in Syracuse, N.Y., has published more than 40 articles and is a contributing author to four books.
• Elizabethtown College professor of chemistry and 1958 graduate John P. Ranck will receive the Service to the College award. Ranck earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics magna cum laude from Elizabethtown and a master’s degree and doctoral degree in physical chemistry from Princeton University. He has been teaching at Elizabethtown since 1963 and also served as assistant dean of faculty, chair of the Department of Physics and Engineering and president of the Elizabethtown College Faculty. An Elizabethtown resident, Ranck was recently presented with the 2004 Emmett Reid Award for teaching at a small school presented by the American Chemical Society’s Middle Atlantic Region.
• Wilbur W. Gibble of Greensboro, N.C., 1963 graduate and retired human resources manager for AT&T, will receive the Service to Humanity award. Gibble and his wife regularly assist refugees who want to settle in the United States, helping them to learn English, find jobs and homes and become American citizens. He recently learned Spanish and now also tutors young Hispanics.

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John R. Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, is serving as Elizabethtown College’s 2004 Ernest V. Lefever Visiting Fellow in Ethics and Culture. He will present ""Bush Administration Policies to Stop Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Proliferation" at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 11, at the College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. His talk is open to the public free of charge.

The Visiting Fellow in Ethics and Culture at Elizabethtown College was established to honor Ernest W. Lefever, an alumnus of the Class of 1942 and founder of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Each year a Lefever Fellow visits campus for two days to share his or her professional experience, particularly regarding moral dilemmas in contemporary society, with students and faculty. In addition to giving a lecture, the Fellow meets with students, faculty and administration.

Prior to his 2001 appointment to his current position, Bolton was senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit public policy center dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom through research, education and open debate.

Throughout his many years of public service, he has served as assistant secretary for international organization affairs for the Department of State, assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice, assistant administrator for program and policy coordination for the U.S. Agency for International Development and general counsel for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

An attorney, Bolton was an associate from 1974 to 1981 at the Washington office of Covington & Burling. He later returned to the firm from 1983 to 1985, after working at the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 1993 through 1999, he was a partner in the law firm of Lerner, Reed, Bolton & McManus.

Bolton graduated with a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Yale University and received his law degree there as well.

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A talk on an exit strategy for Iraq will kick off programming offered by Elizabethtown College’s newly formed Center for Global Citizenship. R. Craig Nation of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle will present “War Without End? Exit Strategy and Iraq” at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 7, in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.  His talk is open to the public free of charge.

Nation is professor of strategy at the Army War College and a resident fellow with the Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues at Dickinson College. A native of Philadelphia and graduate of Villanova University, he earned a doctorate in modern history from Duke University and has taught with Duke University, the University of Southern California, Cornell University, and The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is a specialist in war and peace studies with particular emphasis upon the European and Eurasian regions. His most recent major publication is “War in the Balkans, 1991-2002.”

Nation’s talk is a peacemaking initiative of Elizabethtown’s Center for Global Citizenship, which brings together three areas of programming central to the mission and Brethren heritage of the College: international studies, service learning and peacemaking. Its purpose is to foster student encounters with these three dimensions of global citizenship in and outside the classroom and on and off campus.

• The Center builds upon Elizabethtown's commitment to service, manifested through popular service-oriented programs like occupational therapy, social work, allied health and education; through the College's annual program, "Into the Street," which places hundreds of students, alumni, faculty and administrators into the community for a day of service; through service-related organizations, like Habitat for Humanity; and through Student Directed Learning Communities, college-owned houses that provide groups of students with the opportunity to conduct a community service project.
• Also under the umbrella of the Center for Global Citizenship are the College’s international studies program, which annually welcomes a growing number of international students to campus and at the same time coordinates a variety of study abroad options for the College’s resident students, from a three-week summer programs to semester- or yearlong programs of foreign study through the Brethren Colleges Abroad (BCA) partnership.
• The final component of the Center involves peacemaking, an expression of the College’s Church of the Brethren heritage that affirms the values of peace, nonviolence, human dignity and social justice. The College’s religious studies department emphasizes the study of nonviolence and sponsors interdisciplinary minors in peace and conflict studies and Anabaptist and Pietist studies. Michael Long, assistant professor of religious studies, anchors the peacemaking initiative of the Center.

Ron McAllister, former provost and dean of the faculty who currently serves as professor of peace and conflict studies and sociology, has recently been named director of Elizabethtown’s Center for Global Citizenship. “The work of the Center is the educational work necessary for the 21st century: students, faculty and staff engaged in learning and service in all areas of our citizenship, including local, state, national and global,” McAllister said. “We all must come to see ourselves as international students now. The Center for Global Citizenship will continually seek to expand opportunities for make that global citizenship meaningful.”

Elizabethtown College will award scholarships to two students who submit 500-word essays describing their most embarrassing experience in high school during the College’s Sept. 25 Open House.

            A $1,000 award will be presented for first place and $500 will go to the runner-up. Winners will be chosen around January 1, after students have formally applied to the College and been admitted.

More than 200 students have registered for the event, which will include registration and conversation with faculty from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. and a stage presentation titled “Welcome to Elizabethtown” from 9:30 to 10 a.m. in Thompson Gymnasium. Financial aid workshops, student panels and a presentation titled “The Admissions Game” by W. Kent Barnds, dean of admissions and enrollment management, will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and campus tours will be available during that time as well.  The event will also feature a picnic in the Dell from noon to 2 p.m.

Elizabethtown College will waive its $30 application fee for students who attend the event. More information is available by at www.etown.edu/admissions/septoh.html or by calling 717-361-1400.

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Elizabethtown College anthropology professor Robert Wheelersburg, along with colleague and natural scientist Alexey Voinov of the University of Vermont, has earned an $80,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue research in the Artic.

Wheelersburg is currently part of a team of American and Russian researchers studying the role of human dynamics on the ecosystem of the Kola Peninsula of Russia, one of the most populated and polluted regions in the Arctic. The team is also exploring development strategies to enhance ecosystem health, ecological sustainability and economic diversity.

Wheelersburg and Voinov received an earlier $220,000 grant to begin the project, (www.aaas.org/international/eca/kola) which focuses on the Imandra Lake watershed. The watershed cuts through the heart of the industrially developed ecosystems of the Kola Peninsula and accounts for the release of major pollutants into the Barents and White seas and the Artic Ocean.

Working with Russian anthropologists on the project, Wheelelersburg is locating and interviewing Saami (Lapp) reindeer herding survivors that lived in the region prior to the Stalinist repressions in the late 1930s, when Saami males were imprisoned and killed, and their families and herds removed from the region. Following their removal, the Imandra Lake region was heavily industrialized and militarized, resulting in the extremely polluted ecosystem.

Chair of Elizabethtown’s sociology and anthropology department, Wheelersburg earned a doctorate in Arctic studies from Brown University and has worked in the Arctic for nearly 20 years studying indigenous peoples and the loss of traditional resources.