11/29/2005		E-town staff member reflects on hurricane relief experience
11/29/2005		Students meet privately with Justice Scalia
11/29/2005		E-town student earns mid-Atlantic music therapy award
11/21/2005		E-town receives Growing Greener II grant
11/18/2005		SIFE presents Scouting University
11/7/2005		Admissions website earns an "A"
11/4/2005		Brazilian band to perform for One World Series
11/3/2005		'Twelfth Night' begins Nov. 3
11/1/2005		Explore E-town during Nov. 12 Open House

Eleven Elizabethtown College students recently sat in on oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court and attended a 50-minute private meeting with Justice Antonin Scalia (fifth from left). Assistant Professor of Political Science April Kelly-Woessner (ninth from left) requested the meeting through the office of Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Two years ago, she accompanied a group of students to meet with Justice Clarence Thomas. “The justices have been very accommodating,” Kelly-Woessner said. “They answer student questions, tell stories of their days on the bench and willingly pose for photographs with our group. Students in the past have described it as ‘a life-changing experience.’ The justices often dispel popular myths about how the Supreme Court operates and provide rare insights into their own judicial philosophies.”

Pictured with Scalia are, from left to right, Ashley Kerns (senior from Mechanicsville, Md.), David Feidt (senior from Millersburg), Jennifer Snyder (senior from Yorkana), Cody Stahl (senior from Mifflinburg), Mike Hillman (senior from New Philadelphia), Gerry Blitz (senior from Port Jervis, N.Y.), Matt Sembach (junior from Middletown), John Bayard (junior from Green Lawn), Tracy Yenolevich (senior from Bethlehem), Danielle Grooms (senior from Frederick, Md.) and Christina Giglio (senior from Bordentown, N.J.)

Lindsay Nestor of Woodstown, a junior music therapy major at Elizabethtown College, was one of two students from the mid-Atlantic region to earn the STARS (Students Taking An Active Role Scholarship) presented by the student group associated with the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). The award package includes student membership dues to the AMTA for 2006 and reimbursement for the student registration fee for the Association’s 2005 national conference in Orlando, Fla.

Nestor is a member of Concert Choir, Community Chorus, Alpha Mu (music therapy club), Psi Chi (psychology honor society), Psychology Club and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. She serves as Elizabethtown’s representative to the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Music Therapy Students, as student supervisor at Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, as a weekly volunteer at Cornerstone Ministry in Elizabethtown and as director of the College’s chapter of Best Buddies, an international nonprofit that works with people with intellectual disabilities.

Elizabethtown College will receive $40,100 to expand an innovative storm water management system as part of Gov. Edward G. Rendell’s second round of Growing Greener grants.

The project at Elizabethtown is one of 140 funded in 50 Pennsylvania counties, for a total investment of $65 million. "With these projects we deliver on our promise to voters . . . to make Pennsylvania healthier, a better place to live and more competitive in attracting and supporting business investment," Governor Rendell said. "In just three months since we reached a final agreement with the legislature, we have our first list of projects. No state is doing more to protect its quality of life or to safeguard tomorrow."

Elizabethtown’s project, "Lake Placida: Improving Water Quality and Educating the Public," was initially funded in 2001 through a $90,000 Growing Greener grant. Designed to control and improve storm water runoff from the College into Lake Placida, the project created 1.5 acres of wetland, restored 500 feet of stream channel and established three acres of native meadow grasses and wildflowers. The project also created an interpretive trail with educational curriculum and signs highlighting the improved storm water control systems.

The additional Growing Greener II grant will allow the College to improve the flow of runoff water into an aquifer located beneath the campus and extend the flow of water downstream from Lake Placida through a plant-lined waterway that will be created by returning a portion of a parking lot to green space. This project is expected to improve water quality, serve as an example of how green space may be reclaimed, illustrate best management practices for water and serve as an educational site for college students and community groups.

Elizabethtown College’s One World Series, a yearlong series of artistic and cultural events designed to build bridges between communities, will continue with a performance by the Brazilian band Minas at 8 p.m., Nov. 18, in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Information on tickets for the concert, which cost $10, is available at 717-361-1985, 717-361-1212 or “Events” at www.etowncollegeonline.com.

Comprised of Orlando Haddad and his wife Patricia King, Minas was formed in 1978 when the couple was studying at the North Carolina School of the Arts. They played throughout the East Coast before going back to their musical roots in Brazil, where they entertained audiences in Rio, Recife and Belo Horizonte.

Minas’ original sound is defined by the unique blend between the couple’s vocals and the interaction of their Brazilian classical guitar and cool jazz piano. The duo has won “Best of Philadelphia” awards from Philadelphia Magazine twice, in 1989 and 1997. A native of Brazil, guitarist and vocalist Haddad is a faculty member at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. King, who hails from Denver, is a versatile and fluent pianist whose influences range from Bossa-Nova and Samba to Jazz and Rhythm and Blues. She is also prolific songwriter.

Upcoming events in the One World Series include an exhibit of photographs by P.H. Polk from Feb. 1 through 28; a March 3 performance of pieces reflecting women’s musical heritage by the group Libana; and a March 24 performance of “South of the Border” by The Children’s Theatre wing of The National Theatre of the Deaf.

Elizabethtown College’s fall theatre production will feature “a heartwarming and witty plot full of mistaken identities, compulsive infatuations and bittersweet conspiracy,” according to director and Associate Professor of Theatre Michael Sevareid.

Performances of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” are scheduled for 8 p.m. in Tempest Theatre on Nov. 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, and 12, and for 2 p.m. on Nov. 6 and 13. Tickets, which cost $5 for adults and $3 for seniors, children and students, are available by calling the box office at 717-361-1170.

“The play commences with a seemingly fatal shipwreck, but soon blossoms into a charming story that challenges our present day perceptions of love and relationships,” Sevareid said. Twenty-six Elizabethtown students will be involved in the production and performance of the play, and a recorder ensemble of 13 students will perform for the first time during the production. The ensemble, Early MUSIC ENSEMBLE, is directed by Assistant Professor of Music Victoria Smith

“Twelfth Night” is set in the Early Baroque Period, the time of James I and Charles I, and the costumes and lighting will reflect that time period. Autumn colors will be used for costumes, and lighting will feature heavy contrasts of light and dark, characteristic of the art of that time period.

The cast list for “Twelfth Night” includes 2005 graduate Eric Kurzenberger of Philadelphia; senior Ryan Gruber of Pottstown; juniors Timothy Kelchner of Millville, Danielle Shantz of Elverson, and Julie Strickland of Gettysburg; sophomores Nathaniel Abel of Elizabethtown, Devon Fahy of Genolden, Michael Gephart of York, Lucas Gerace of Edgewater, Md., Amy Glass of Avondale, Allison Koechig of Media, Andrew Mannion of Linthicum, Md., Meghan Scheeler of Mahanoy City and Will Secrist of Lincoln University; first-year students Trent DeArment of Elizabethtown, Sam Gilliam of Glen Burnie, Md.., Casey Martin of Mechanicsburg, Ezra Schatz of Elliotsburg, Graham Stokes of Exeter, R.I., and Elyse Venturella of Palmyra.