9/30/2005		Watercolor paintings on display in Hess Gallery
9/30/2005		Christian comedian Brad Stine to perform
9/27/2005		E-town grad studies art business at Sotheby's in London
9/22/2005		Women's soccer coach earns 150th victory
9/21/2005		Moravian scholar, Dale Brown Book Award winner to speak
9/12/2005		Homecoming and Family Weekend 2005, Oct. 14-16!
9/12/2005		E-town prof comments on Katrina
9/9/2005		College to break ground on Hoover Business Center
9/7/2005		College plans relief efforts for Katrina victims
9/6/2005		American Enterprise Institute scholar to serve as Lefever Fellow
9/1/2005		PA Sec. of the Commonwealth to speak

An exhibit of watercolor paintings by Florida artist Quentin Walter will be on display in Elizabethtown College’s Hess Gallery from Oct. 28 through Dec. 16. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Oct. 28.

Both the exhibit and the reception are open to the public free of charge. Hours for Hess Gallery, which is located in Zug Hall, are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and 1 to 5 p.m. on weekends.

The exhibition, titled "Intimate Encounters: Mercedes Devereau," features small-scale watercolor paintings that explore Walter’s alter-ego, Mercedes Devereau. A native of Bethesda, Md., Walter earned a bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. She has served residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida and at Shaull Elementary School in Enola. She also received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts and the Vermont Studio Center.

Walter published a satirical art book titled "Intimate Encounters, Mercedes Devereau, BUZZ X" in 2004, a coloring and aesthetic book titled "Color the Burg" in 1988, and a calendar titled "Sketches of Jazz Artists" in 1985. She has served as a scenic artist for Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, Fla., since 2004 and previously served for two years as the assistant to the executive director of visual arts and crafts for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Christian comedian Brad Stine will present his "A Conservative Unleashed" act on Oct. 23 in Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Doors will open at 6 p.m., and the show will begin at 7 p.m.

Advance general admission tickets are available at www.etowncollegeonline.com for $10, while tickets at the door will cost $15. For more information or special church youth group rates, call 717-361-1260.

Stine is a clean, conservative, cerebral comedian with a new DVD out titled "A Conservative Unleashed." He has been seen on MTV’s "Half Hour Comedy Hour," Showtime’s "Comedy Club Network," and A&E’s "Caroline’s Comedy Hour Evening at the Improv" and "Comedy on the Road." Stine is also the author of the book "Being a Christian Without Being an Idiot: Ten Assumed Truths That Make Us Look Stupid."

Kate Needham, a 2005 graduate of Elizabethtown College, is sure she is in the right place to learn the business of art.

Needham is in London, where she’s pursuing a master’s in art business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. "London is wonderful, and a fantastic place to be learning," she said. "The different kinds of connections I have already made make it completely worthwhile for me to be here. My school is a block from the British Museum, which is an outstanding area."

A resident of Canaan, N.H., Needham is enrolled in a yearlong program – nine months of classes in London and a three-month internship. She hopes to pursue a career as a private art dealer specializing in contemporary art or fine jewelry, or as an employee of an auction house like Sotheby’s. "My program is specifically designed for people who want to break into the art market as private dealers, gallery owners, auctioneers, or consultants, and even art law," Needham said. "My objective is to break into the jewelry sector of the auction market, hopefully, and end up working with fine and antiqued estate jewelry.  I am waiting to interview for an internship with Sotheby’s next week."

Serving as an intern is old hat for Needham. As an Elizabethtown College student, she was an intern at the Susquehanna Museum of Art in Harrisburg and the Lancaster Museum of Art. It was her experience as an intern at the Lancaster Area Central Art Market, where she hung works and sold items, that sparked her interest in a career as an art dealer. And conversations with her faculty advisor, Lou Schellenberg, led her to the Sotheby’s program. "I knew I didn’t want to teach and that I wanted to be with people," she said. "This seemed like a good fit."

Needham is also enjoying time spent with the faculty at Sotheby’s, who are "highly acclaimed in the art market as experts," she said. "We have cocktail parties and private viewings of artists -- such as Warhol, Lichtenstien, and Miro -- where we are given a chance to make connections with other professionals as well as students from other departments in the school."

In addition to her classes – currently finance, art marketing, business planning, organizational behavior and methodology, which will useful for doing research – Needham has a busy travel itinerary. "We were taken to our first trip on Sept. 8," she said, "and then the following Monday we went to St. Ives, an area on the west coast of England. We did market research there, as it is an artist/gallery community. We will also travel to Paris, Amsterdam and Basel. In London, I have access to international contacts and resources, and that will make a difference in the future for my career."

Women's soccer head coach Barry Dohner, a 1983 alumnus of Elizabethtown, picked up the 150th victory of his collegiate coaching career Sept. 21 as the Blue Jays defeated host York College ( Pa.) 3-2.

E-town’s women’s soccer team has been a varsity program since 1988, and Dohner has been its head coach since 1994. He has guided the Blue Jays to NCAA Division III Tournaments in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2001. In 1997, he led the program to its first ever berth in the Final Four.

For his team's outstanding accomplishments, Dohner was named NSCAA/Umbro Division III women's soccer national Coach of the Year in 1997, NSCAA/Umbro Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year in 1996 and 1997, and Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth League Coach of the Year in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999.

Dohner learned about Blue Jay soccer firsthand, playing for former Blue Jays’ coach Owen Wright from 1979 to 1983. At Elizabethtown, he played for four varsity teams that compiled a 49-31-6 overall record.

He holds an advanced coaching diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, and he conducts numerous summer clinics for both girls and boys.

Noted Moravian scholar Craig Atwood will present a talk titled “God in the Flesh: The Body of Christ in Zinzendorf’s Bethlehem” at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 13, at the Elizabethtown College Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. The event is open to the public free of charge. Copies of Atwood’s book “Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem,” for which he earned the Young Center’s 2005 Dale W. Brown Book Award, will be available for purchase.

Atwood’s lecture will explore some of the crucial aspects of Moravian leader Nikolaus von Zinzendorf’s theology and show how it was institutionalized in the social structure and practices of the Bethlehem community. He is theologian in residence at Home Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., and a Comenius Scholar and adjunct faculty member at Wake Forest University Divinity School.

Atwood previously served as the Clarkson S. Starbuck Professor of Religion at Salem College. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina, a master of divinity from Moravian Theological Seminary and a doctorate in historical theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Part of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute Series, Atwood’s book “Community of the Cross” discusses the influence of the theology and religious expressions of von Zinzendorf. It was named an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE: Current Review for Academic Libraries and has been hailed by reviewers as “a superb contribution to Moravian studies” and “an essential resource for those seeking to connect what the Moravians did with why they did it.”

The Dale W. Brown Book Award, a national award that recognizes an outstanding book in Anabaptist and Pietist studies, was named for a retired Bethany Seminary professor who lives in Elizabethtown and served previously as a fellow at the Young Center. Nominations for the 2006 Brown Book Award are due Dec. 1. Visit the Center’s website at www.etown.edu/youngctr/ for details.

Homecoming and Family Weekend
October 14 - 16, 2005
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Homecoming and Family Weekend 2005 events

Elizabethtown College will debut its brand new Blue Jay mascot and will present comedian Richard Lewis, one of Comedy Central’s top 50 stand-up comedians of all time, during Homecoming and Family Weekend. Additional festivities scheduled for the weekend of Oct. 15 include a float parade, dedication of the Class of 2005 gift, an art exhibit and gallery talk, the Fall Choral Showcase and illusionist Mike Super.

The new Blue Jay mascot will be unveiled during the 11^th annual Homecoming parade, which will also feature student-built floats created around the theme “Great Inventions,” as well as M&M characters, clowns and live music. The parade begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15, and will travel along the route of High Street to Market Street to College Avenue.

The Class of 2005 gift, a “town-square” clock, will be dedicated at noon on Saturday in front of Brossman Commons.

An exhibit featuring the works of the late David Brumbach of Lititz will open with a 1 p.m. gallery talk by painter Michael Heberlein. The talk and exhibit will be held in Zug Memorial Hall’s Hess Gallery and will be open to the public free of charge. Hours for Hess Gallery are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and 1 to 5 p.m. on weekends.

The Fall Choral Showcase 2005, directed by Matthew and Carrie Fritz, will feature members of the Elizabethtown College Community Chorus, Women’s Chorus and Concert Choir. The diverse program of choral music will feature selections from “West Side Story” and “Man of La Mancha,” as well as those inspired by the Bard, William Shakespeare. The concert begins at 3 p.m. on Saturday in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Admission is free but space is limited. Additional information is available by calling 717-361-1112.

Stand-up comedian Richard Lewis will perform at 9 p.m. on Saturday in Thompson Gymnasium. General admission seats are available for $20 at the College Store in Brossman Commons or online through www.etowncollegeonline.com. For more ticket information, call 717-361-1260.

Magician and illusionist Mike Super will entertain at 1 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 16, in Leffler Chapel. The performance will showcase Super’s ability to make an audience member levitate and physically fold a spectator so small they will fit into a Japanese show box. This event is free; no tickets are necessary.

Robert Wheelersburg, chair of the anthropology department and associate professor, responded to a number of media queries on Katrina last week, offering commentary to Congressional Quarterly, the Dallas Morning News, National Journal, a foreign news service and to the Associated Press’s Martha Mendoza. The AP story was released nationally on Sept. 10, 2005, and has appeared on Yahoo News and CNN.com, and in newspapers in Missouri, Arizona, Washington and Montana. More information is available at the media relations newsroom.

In addition, an editorial by Wheelersburg appeared in the Lancaster Sunday News.

What: Groundbreaking ceremony for E-town College’s James B. Hoover Center for Business

When: 5 p.m., Sept. 15, 2005

Where: Site of the future building, between Steinman Center and Musser Hall along College Avenue

College President Theodore E. Long will serve as master of ceremonies for the event, offering the opening remarks and introducing the speakers: Elizabethtown Mayor Robert Brain, Trustee James Hoover ’75 and chair of the Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees David Hosler ’72.

Technology will be a major focus of the building; classrooms will feature state-of-the-art projection equipment and data ports. The design of the building will promote small group and collaborative problem solving, as well as faculty-student interaction.

The James B. Hoover Center for Business is being named in honor of alumnus James Hoover’s extraordinary leadership as a trustee of the College and for his financial support of this project. Other large commitments were received from area foundations, alumni, parents and friends. Elizabethtown College officials were particularly pleased to have received a nationally recognized challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation and more than 60 individual capital gifts since last October. This building will be completely paid for through donor commitments.

About James Hoover
James Hoover graduated from Elizabethtown College in 1975 with a degree in business administration and went on to earn an MBA in finance from the Graduate School of Business at Indiana University. He is founder of Dauphin Capital Partners of Locust Valley, N.Y., a venture capital firm focused on providing financial backing to promising companies in the medical industry. Prior to founding Dauphin Capital in 1998, Hoover was a general partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe, and Robertson, Stephens & Co. He also served as vice president of the Investment Management Group at Citibank N.A. from 1977 until 1984.

Hoover is a director of Quovadx, Inc., and U.S. Physical Therapy Inc., two publicly traded companies, as well as a director of several private health care companies. He is also a member of the Special Projects Committee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which raises funds and evaluates funding proposals from physicians interested in pursuing cancer research projects.

Hoover serves as chair of the Elizabethtown College Board of Trustee Investment Committee and as a member of the Finance and Audit committees. He endowed The James B. Hoover Business Scholarship, which provides aid to a junior majoring in business administration who is excelling academically and demonstrates good citizenship through co-curricular activities.

Hoover has also hosted several New York City area events for the college and chaired the College Endowment Campaign in that region. He was honored by his alma mater in 1994-95 with the Alumni Fellow Award and in 1997 with the Distinguished Business Alumni Award.

In addition to assisting college students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Elizabethtown College will sponsor a disaster relief effort to benefit residents of areas most affected by Katrina.

The College’s Center for Global Citizenship is partnering with the American Red Cross and Church World Ministries to accept monetary donations. A special Disaster Relief Fund – opened with a $2,000 donation from the College – has been created. Those wishing to contribute are asked to send checks made payable to Elizabethtown College to the Business Office, Elizabethtown College, One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022. Please write "Disaster Relief Fund" on the memo line to designate the funds for this purpose. All proceeds will be sent to the American Red Cross and Church World Ministries.

In partnership with the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren, Elizabethtown College will also collect From the Heart Health Kits and deliver them to the Church World Services Disaster Relief Center in New Windsor, Md. The first shipment will be made during the first week of October. Kits must contain only the following items: one hand towel, one washcloth, one comb, one metal nail file or nail clipper, one bath-size bar of soap, one toothbrush, one four- to seven-ounce tube of toothpaste, six band aids and $1 donation for processing. All items should be sealed in a one-gallon plastic bag with a zipper closure, and completed kits should be brought to the Office of Service-Learning in the Student Life Center in Brossman Commons. Extra items may also be brought to the Office for use in the preparation of other kits. If you have questions about this effort, please contact Nancy Valkenburg, director of service learning and civic programs, at 717-361-1108.

Elizabethtown College will welcome nationally known public policy and social science expert Charles Murray as its 2005 Ernest W. Lefever Visiting Fellow in Ethics and Culture. Murray will present a public lecture -- "Why Athens? Why Florence? The Origins of Great Accomplishment" -- at 7 p.m., Sept. 26, in the Bucher Meetinghouse of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. His talk is open to the public free of charge.

The W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for Public Policy Research, Murray is best known for his 1984 seminal book about welfare reform, "Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980," and for his controversial 1994 book, "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life." His latest book, "Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Science, 800 B.C. to 1950," presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself gloriously.

In addition to his books and articles in technical journals, Murray has published extensively in The New Republic, Commentary, The Public Interest, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review and the Washington Post. He has been a frequent witness before congressional and senate committees and a consultant to senior government officials of the United States, Great Britain, Eastern Europe and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in France.

Murray has been affiliated with AEI since 1990. Prior to that, he was a fellow with the Manhattan Institute and worked for the American Institutes for Research (AIR), one of the largest of the private social science research organizations, where he eventually became chief scientist. While at AIR, Murray supervised evaluations in the fields of urban education, welfare services, daycare, adolescent pregnancy, services for the elderly and criminal justice. Before joining AIR, Murray spent six years in Thailand, first as a Peace Corps Volunteer attached to the Village Health Program, then as a researcher in rural Thailand.

A talk by Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro A. Cortés, the first Hispanic Cabinet member in the Commonwealth’s history, will open Latino Heritage Month events at Elizabethtown College. Cortes will speak at 7 p.m., Sept. 21, in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The event, which is sponsored by Noir, the Black Student Society of Elizabethtown College, is open to the public free of charge.

Cortés administers the Department of State, which oversees the Commonwealth’s electoral process, licenses business, health and real estate professionals and maintains corporate filings as well as sanctioning professional boxing, kick-boxing and wrestling in Pennsylvania. Previously, Cortés was executive director of the Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs. He also served with the Pennsylvania State Civil Service Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.

Cortés was named one of Hispanic Business magazine’s “100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States” in 2003. He was also selected as one of the top “Forty under 40” business leaders in Central Pennsylvania by the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal and as a “Lawyer on the Fast Track,” a distinction bestowed upon Pennsylvania lawyers under 40 years of age.

A native of Puerto Rico, Cortés has lived in Harrisburg since 1990. He earned a bachelor’s degree in hotel, restaurant and travel administration from the University of Massachusetts, a master’s degree in public administration from Penn State University and a law degree from Penn State Dickinson School of Law. He also holds a certificate in Public Sector Human Resources Management from Penn State University.