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Back to top 1/24/2005 Kwame Jackson to speak at Career Expo 2005 A visit by Kwame Jackson of "The Apprentice" will wrap up Career Expo 2005 at Elizabethtown Jackson and 14 others competed to become Donald Trump’s first apprentice. He will share his lessons from the boardroom, lessons learned from his participation on the show and his personal business experience. A graduate of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a master’s in business administration from Harvard University, Jackson’s professional experience includes sales and marketing roles at Procter & Gamble and, most recently, on Wall Street as an investment manager for Goldman Sachs. He regularly addresses executive management teams and aspiring interns at the world’s leading companies on various topics such as team building, leadership, surviving and thriving in corporate America and the importance of being an entrepreneur. Jackson’s latest endeavor is Legacy Holdings LLC, an emerging diversified holding company he has founded that is positioned to engage in real estate development, fashion, television and film production. Sponsored by Elizabethtown’s career services office, Career Expo 2005 will offer students workshops on conducting an effective career search, career volunteering, leadership development, interviewing and networking, resume writing, dining etiquette, and graduate exam practice. The weeklong event is supported by a $250,000 grant from the Workforce Investment Board of Lancaster County. Back to top 1/20/2005 E-town hosts improvisation residency Elizabethtown College will bring world-renowned jazz musicians Eddie Gomez and Mark Kramer to The residency will be interdisciplinary and involve the entire campus. Gomez and Kramer will explore what they do as improvisers with students and challenge them to apply principles and techniques involved in improvisation to their academic disciplines. In addition, the residency schedule includes several public events. All are open to the public free of charge. More information on these events is available by calling 717-361-1212.
Gomez and Kramer have recorded and performed together for more than a decade. A Julliard-trained bassist, composer, arranger, producer and educator, Gomez has recorded with groups led by Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. He has also been a guest artist with high-profile musicians such as the Kronos Quartet, Tashi and Richard Stolzman. Kramer is a Telarc International recording pianist, composer, arranger, educator and producer who recent recordings are distributed by Warner Brothers. He was trained at Temple University and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Back to top 1/18/2005 Genetic disease research in Amish topic of talk The laboratory director at the Clinic for Special Children, a nonprofit pediatric metabolic disease cente The Clinic for Special Children serves the special medical needs of children with rare metabolic and other genetic disorders from the Old Order Amish and Mennonite communities of Pennsylvania. Puffenberger, a molecular biologist and population geneticist, has studied the genetic diseases of these groups for more than 15 years. His lecture will focus on their unique medical genetic heritage, detail the attributes that make them ideal for genetic disease research and discuss their impact on the field of human genetics. Puffenberger earned a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. His work involves implementation of molecular genetic techniques for routine diagnosis, research into the genetics of isolated populations, development of molecular strategies for newborn screening and identification of novel disease genes by linkage mapping. Back to top 1/16/2005 E-town hosts Dept. Day & Scholarship Comp. for applied prosp. students
Back to top 1/14/2005 E-town undertakes tsunami disaster relief effort Elizabethtown College’s Center for Global Citizenship is sponsoring a disaster relief effort for the people of Southeast Asia affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami. The Center’s program is being coordinated with the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren and Church World Service to ensure that donations are efficiently received by those in need. Donations collected will be sent to the Church World Service Processing Center for delivery to affected areas. The Center’s efforts are focused on seeking monetary donations as well as school, health and medicine kits. Monetary contributions may be dropped off at the College’s business office in Zug Hall. Checks, which will be deposited into a disaster relief account, should be made payable to Elizabethtown College, and "disaster relief initiative" should be included on the memo line. Specific instructions for the three types of kits are included below. All instructions must be strictly followed to meet the packing and shipping requirements established by the Church World Service Processing Center. Completed kits should be delivered to the Office of Service-Learning or the Student Life Center Office in the Baugher Student Center or to the Student Life Center Information Desk from 3 p.m. to midnight. Additional information is available by calling 717-361-1108. SCHOOL KIT
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Back to top 1/13/2005 E-town celebrates MLK Jr. Day Elizabethtown College will host its first ever Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration on Jan. 17. The daylong event will begin with an 11 a.m. celebration in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, which will include a talk by Pennsylvania’s deputy secretary for administration, Peter Speaks; music by guest soloist Elizabeth Jeffries of Harrisburg's Fellowship Baptist Church; and a performance by two step teams, Elizabethtown College’s Lady Jay Step Team and the Sigma Beta Club of Harrisburg High School. An historical drama, "The Pulse of Mourning" is set in 1936 South Carolina and centers on the Cane family, which has just lost a loved one to a lynch mob. Through its sorrow, the family must decide what to do -- to strike back or to move on. In the end, this African-American family marshals the strength it needs to heal and thrive. Back to top 1/6/2005 E-town student has hand in Farm Show butter sculpture This year's butter sculpture -- a 15-year tradition at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg -- Back to top 1/3/2005 Family Business Center hosts talk by Auntie Anne's CEO Elizabethtown College’s Family Business Centerwill host a seminar by the founder and CEO of Auntie Beiler has managed her business – Auntie Anne’s Hand-Rolled Soft Pretzels -- from one farmer’s market stand to a franchise organization with 150 corporate staff, supporting more than 250 franchisees and their 800-plus locations worldwide. Because of her attention to detail, investment in employees, and dedication, her company has been featured in several collegiate business textbooks as a prime example of how to manage a franchise system. In 2003, the Auntie Anne’s franchise system generated $234 million in sales and gave more than $1 million to charitable organizations. Beiler was named one of America’s 500 women entrepreneurs by Working Woman and "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Inc. Magazine, and received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Eastern College. Her entrepreneurial insights have also been featured on many television shows, including The Food Network’s "Unwrapped" and "The Oprah Winfrey Show," and in magazines such as Fortune, Nation’s Restaurant News and Guideposts. The Family Business Center at Elizabethtown College and its corporate sponsors — Barley Snyder, Fulton Bank, Glatfelter Insurance Group, and McKonly & Asbury —help family business "Prepare for Tomorrow" by providing opportunities to address and resolve their succession, management, ownership, and strategic issues. Through a special program of seminars, access to national resources and networking, the Center seeks to support and strengthen family businesses. |
College. Jackson will present "Lessons from the Boardroom" at 7 p.m., Feb. 10, in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. His talk is open to the public free of charge. Tickets are required and are available by contacting Elizabethtown’s career services office at careerservices@etown.edu or 717-361-1206.
campus for a four-day residency on improvisation from Feb. 2 to 5. The event -- "Improvisation: The Art of Intelligent Guessing" -- is designed to help the campus community explore "intelligent guessing" (or improvisation) as a logical component of most fields of human experience and education.
r in Strasburg, Pa., will present "Plain Genetics: How Old Order Communities Advance Genetic Disease Research" at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 27, at Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Erik G. Puffenberger’s talk is open to the public free of charge.
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depicts a farmer standing in a corn field with his child and a calf. Matt Victor, a first-year political science major at E-town, made the corn stalks.
Anne’s, Inc., at 8:30 a.m., Jan. 27, in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Anne Beiler’s talk, "The Story of Auntie Anne’s Pretzels," is open and free to family businesses who are interested in learning more about The Family Business Center. The registration deadline is Jan. 17. For more information, please call Rosa at The Family Business Center at 717-361-1275.Back to News Index
