8/25/2005		E-town names first vice president for admissions, enrollment services
8/23/2005		E-town is #2 comprehensive college in the North
8/16/2005		Paintings investigating light on display in Lyet Gallery
8/15/2005		Education prof appointed to PA governor's commission
8/10/2005		High Library director named
8/9/2005		Family Business Center celebrates 10th with Yuengling talk

Elizabethtown College has named Paul Cramer of Landisville as its first vice president for admissions and enrollment services.

Prior to coming to Elizabethtown, Cramer worked in Ursinus College’s admissions office for 17 years, serving as admissions counselor, assistant director of admissions, associate director of admissions and, since 1998, director of admissions. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and business administration from Albright College in 1988.

"Paul’s record of achievement at Ursinus has been outstanding, and we are delighted that Elizabethtown will benefit from his success there," said Elizabethtown College president Theodore Long. "His experience in opening new markets and extending the institution’s reputation will be especially valuable to us.

"In addition, Paul is a wonderful fit for E-town. He believes deeply in and is very much at home in the culture of small liberal arts colleges, and he has personal experience linking liberal and professional education. We are very fortunate that Paul is joining our leadership team, and I believe he will make an outstanding contribution both to enrollment management and to our overall institutional development in the years ahead."

Elizabethtown College remains the #2 comprehensive college in the North, according to the 2006 U.S. News and World Report "America’s Best Colleges" rankings. This is the 12th consecutive year that Elizabethtown has been ranked as one of the top colleges in this category.

Elizabethtown’s commitment to personal attention was highlighted as the percentage of classes below 20 students improved from 62 percent to 73 percent. In addition, the quality of the College’s students was featured as the number of first-year students in the top 25 percent of their high school class rose from 60 percent to 65 percent, and the acceptance rate dropped from 70 percent to 64 percent.

The College was also named the #2 comprehensive college in the North in the magazine’s "Best Values" rankings. These rankings relate a school’s academic quality, as indicated by its U.S. News "America’s Best Colleges" ranking, to the net cost of attendance for a student who receives the average level of financial aid. The higher the quality of the program and the lower the cost, the better the deal, according to the rankings.

"Clearly, we are setting the bar high for comprehensive colleges across the nation," said College President Theodore Long. "As an institution, we have been blessed with a talented and dedicated faculty, and, by intentionally keeping our class size small, our students are enjoying a richer educational experience through a more personal relationship with their professors.

"We also are highly selective in our new student recruitment – choosing some of the best that our public and private schools have to offer. Once enrolled, we keep these students challenged and engaged throughout their College experience and into their professional lives."

Oil paintings that investigate light in everyday life will be on display in Elizabethtown College’s Lyet Gallery, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, from Sept. 9 through Oct. 11. A reception for "Regarding Light," which features oil paintings by artists Janet Hammond of Coatesville and Robert Heilman of Lebanon, is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m., Sept. 9. Both the exhibit, which is curated by Lisa Hollinger Bedenbaugh, and the reception are open to the public free of charge.

Hammond studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Maryland College of Art and Design. Her work has been shown extensively in the Chester County area, and she was represented by Somerville Manning Gallery in Wilmington, Del., before coming to Lynden Gallery in Elizabethtown.

Hammond’s professional experience has included portrait demonstration and lecture at the Delaware Art Museum and the Brandywine River Museum. She has been on the faculty of Chester Springs Studio in Chester Springs, Pa. She is noted for her realistic portraiture and has been recognized in various regional publications, including "The Hunt Magazine," "Chester County Town" and "Country Living Magazine," and the book "Speaking for Themselves; The Artists of Southeastern Pennsylvania." Her work is held in corporate collections throughout the United States and Canada, including MBNA Bank and Blue Cross, Blue Shield, both of Wilmington, Del.; Cavendish Investment Corporation in Toronto, Canada; Harlequin Ranches in Calgary, Canada; and Criswick Associates in New York City.

A graduate of Wichita State University in 1976 with a major in painting and drawing, Heilman has since shown his work extensively in the region. Along with local venues including Lebanon Valley College, the Pennsylvania State Museum, Art of the State, and the Doshi Gallery, his work has been represented by Gallery Henoch in New York City and the Harris Gallery in Houston. Heilman owns and operates Lebanon Art and Picture Frame.

An Elizabethtown College education professor has been appointed to serve on Gov. Edward G. Rendell’s newly created Training America’s Teacher’s Commission.

Professor Terry Blue is one of 44 members of the commission, which is charged with improving upon Pennsylvania’s excellent reputation as a national leader in teacher training.

"Already Pennsylvania is a leader in training teachers — nearly 7,000 Pennsylvania-trained teachers learn from the best colleges and universities and become our nation’s best teachers," Rendell said.  "Pennsylvania is where people want to come to be trained as teachers."

According to a press release issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Commission will examine national training models and best practices, look at possible solutions where improvements are needed, and recommend ways to address challenges associated with teaching in low-income communities; state-of-the-art high schools; schools with high immigrant, non-English speaking populations; and practices in early education. It will be led by Richard Kneedler, president emeritus of Franklin and Marshall College. Other members represent higher education, public schools, business and civic communities.  

Blue began his career as a middle school teacher in suburban Philadelphia. While teaching there, he earned a master’s degree in Eastern European and Russian history at Temple University. After studying and teaching for three years at Penn State, he was awarded a doctorate in curriculum and instruction. Prior to teaching at Elizabethtown, he served as chair of the education department at Franklin and Marshall College.

Blue is an expert in the areas of teacher education, outcomes-based education and academic standards advanced by the Pennsylvania Board of Education, and the debate on charter schools and voucher programs. His areas of teaching include social studies instruction, foundations of education, equality of educational opportunity and school law.

Blue has served for the past three and one-half years as the president of the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators, the state unit of the Association of Teacher Educators and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

BethAnn Zambella, former research and instruction librarian and group manager at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, has been named director of Elizabethtown College’s High Library.

Prior to her position at Wellesley, she was the reference librarian for the Lamont Library at Harvard University, bibliographic instruction coordinator/reference librarian at Rutgers University and head of public services at New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson University. Zambella also served as an instructor at Rutgers and Fairleigh Dickinson universities.

Zambella earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a master’s in library science from Columbia University and a master’s in educational psychology from Rutgers University. She was elected to Kappa Delta Pi (international education honor society) and Beta Phi Mu (library and information science honor society) and was named a Frye Fellow in 2002.

A Sept. 22 talk by Richard L. Yuengling, the fifth generation of his family to run the D.G. Yuengling & Son Brewery in Pottsville, will help mark the 10th anniversary of Elizabethtown College’s Family Business Center. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center and is open to the public free of charge. Registration is required by Sept. 12. Contact Rosa at 717-361-1275.

Founded in 1995 as a nonprofit organization, The Family Business Center (FBC) at Elizabethtown College has enjoyed a decade of success in actively assisting family businesses "prepare for tomorrow." The Center is now one of the largest and oldest family business centers in the nation with members who have collective revenues of almost $1 billion and employ close to 10,000 people in south central Pennsylvania.

A key to the success of the Center has been actively involved members and sponsors. Founding members include High Industries, Gooding, Simpson & Mackes, Pennfield Corp, Wolfgang Candy and Lobar, Inc. The FBC’s corporate sponsors — Barley Snyder, Fulton Bank, Glatfelter Insurance Group, and McKonly & Asbury, and MANTEC, Inc. — help to set the direction and scope of the FBC’s educational programs.

The FBC program provides members with half-day seminars featuring experts in the field of family business, affinity groups, access to a resource library, consultation on management issues, subscription to a family business publication, membership directory and one of the most beneficial aspects of the Center — networking.

A lifelong resident of Pottsville, Yuengling is president and owner of America’s oldest brewery. Since he took over in 1985, the Brewery has grown ten times in size, becoming the sixth largest brewery in the country.

In addition to developing and perfecting the Brewery’s portfolio of beer, ale and porter, Yuengling has introduced his company’s products to new markets up and down the East Coast. Demand has grown so steadily that in the late 1990s when most of the American beer industry was shrinking, consolidating or both, Yuengling committed his company to its most aggressive growth plan ever by building a brand new facility in Pottsville and buying a former Stroh plant in Tampa Bay, Fla.

In his hometown of Pottsville, Yuengling is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, volunteer fire department and both the Pottsville Rotary and Lions Clubs. He also serves on the Board of Directors at the Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic and is an active member of the Pennsylvania Brewers Association and the National Beer Wholesalers Association. He has also raised four daughters, all of whom are currently involved in the brewery’s daily operations.