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Back to top 10/31/2006 Pianist Marvin Blickenstaff to perform Pianist Marvin Blickenstaff will present a recital at Elizabethtown College at 7:30 p.m.,  Nov. 10, in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The recital, which is open to the public free of charge, is cosponsored by the Lancaster Music Teachers Association.Blickenstaff is known among piano teachers throughout the United States for his teaching, lecturing, performing and publishing. In addition to presenting workshops for piano teachers, he appears frequently as soloist and lecturer at state conventions of music teachers and at national conventions of the Music Teachers National Association. For 16 years, Blickenstaff was on the faculty of International Workshops, where he performed and lectured in Canada, Austria, Scotland, Norway, France and Switzerland. He was honored by the Indiana Music Teachers Association as “Teacher of the Year ” in 1992, and the Registered Piano Teachers of New Zealand sponsored him in concert and a 15-lecture tour of that country in 1995. The “Marvin Blickenstaff Endowment Fund” was established in his honor in 2001 by the Music Teachers National Association Foundation. Blickenstaff currently serves as board president of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy and serves on the Executive Planning Committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. An associate editor of the periodical “Keyboard Companion,” Blickenstaff co-authored “Music Pathways,” a 36-book instructional series. He serves as a piano editor for Carl Fischer Music Publishers and has published anthologies of works by Bach, Beethoven and Grieg. He is also a consultant with the Frederick Harris Music Company in Toronto and has published two editions of “Celebration Series: A Handbook for Teachers” with co-authors Cathy Albergo and Reid Alexander. Blickenstaff’s teaching career is associated with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he taught for nine years and served as chairman of instruction in piano, and with Goshen College in Indiana, where he taught for more than 20 years. He currently resides in the greater Philadelphia area, where he maintains an active private studio and teaches at The New School for Music Study (Princeton). He has also taught at the Westminster Choir College of Rider University and The College of New Jersey. Blickenstaff holds degrees from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Indiana University, where he received both performing and academic honors. His teachers include Fern Nolte Davidson, Emil Danenberg and Béla Böszormenyi-Nagy; he has coached with Leon Fleisher and György Sebök. Back to top 10/25/2006 First Alumni Peace Fellow to offer two talks Elizabethtown College’s first Alumni Peace Fellow, Andrew Murray, founder of Juniata  College’s Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, will offer two talks on Nov. 8. He will present “Make Love Not War: Peace, Sex and Organized Lethal Conflict” at 11 a.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center and “The Question of Inevitability: Science, Original Sin and Seville” at 7:30 p.m. in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Both are open to the public free of charge.Active in the development of the field of peace studies, Murray founded the Juniata Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, which was later named in honor of the John C. and Elizabeth Evans Baker family, in 1985. In 1988, he helped found the Peace Studies Association, an organization of more than 100 colleges and universities with peace studies programs for which he has served twice as chair of the board of directors. Murray serves on the United Nations(UN)/International Association of University President’s Commission on Arms Control Education. As a Commission member, he directed the International Seminar on Arms Control and Disarmament from 1993 to 1998. This school, sponsored jointly by Juniata College and the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs, brought professors from more than 40 countries to Juniata’s campus for arms control and disarmament curriculum training. Murray also serves as a special consultant for a 10-nation UN peace-building initiative in West Africa and has worked with the government of Mali to develop a moratorium on the import, export and manufacture of small arms and a Military/Civilian Code of Conduct. Murray earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Bridgewater College and a Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry (with a concentration in peace studies) from Chicago at Bethany Theological Seminary. He has done additional studies at the University of Tamil Nadu, India; the Canadian Peace Research Institute; the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento, Italy; the Arias Institute for Peace, Costa Rica; and the Pennsylvania State University. He received the Beachley Distinguished Academic Service Award from Juniata College in 1991 and has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Manchester College and Bridgewater College. In 2001, the Peace Studies Association gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award. Murray came to Juniata in 1971 as college chaplain after serving pastorates in Virginia and Oregon. While at Juniata, he has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hawaii and the Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a consultant for peace studies curriculum at more than 20 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. Back to top 10/25/2006 Eight chosen as College's first Scholars in Service to PA Eight Elizabethtown College students have been selected as the College’s first  Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania. The awards were made on behalf of the College’s Office of Service-Learning and Civic Programs, a part of the Center for Global Citizenship.Students enrolled in Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania who successfully complete 450 hours of service between September 2006 and September 2007 will receive an AmeriCorps Education award of $1250. In exchange for that commitment, Scholars will receive leadership and organizational training, support from Elizabethtown College’s Office of Service-Learning and Civic Programs, and participation in ongoing supervision and reflective activities. Elizabethtown College’s first Scholars are Odessa Armstrong, a junior elementary education major from Pasadena, Md.; Erika Belletti, a sophomore biology-premed major from Walnutport, Pa.; Tamara Burch, a junior biology-allied health major from Philadelphia; Sarah Levine, a sophomore elementary education major from Glen Mills, Pa.; Megan Lippincott, a junior social work major from Logan Township, N.J.; Hilary Nelson, a sophomore communications major from Ligonier, Pa.; Tiphane Purnell, a sophomore psychology major from Bear, Del.; and Lisa Weeks, a sophomore health and occupation major from Mount Joy, Pa. The Scholars will be supervised by Nancy Valkenburg, director of service-learning and civic programs at Elizabethtown. Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania is a program of PennSERVE: the Governor’s Office of Citizen Service and is administered jointly by Pennsylvania Campus Compact and the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development. This program engages hundreds of college students across Pennsylvania in volunteerism and community service. Back to top 10/20/2006 Women's tennis players, coach receive accolades Three Elizabethtown College women's tennis players have been named  to the All-Commonwealth Conference teams for the fall 2006 season. Senior Stacy Shapiro made the First Team, and senior Heather Lander and first-year student Emily Swarr made the Second Team. Additionally, Shapiro was named the Commonwealth Conference Player of the Year, Swarr was named the conference's Rookie of the Year, and head coach Matt Helsel was named the conference's Coach of the Year.Thus far this season, Shaprio is 10-3 in singles, 4-1 at number one and 5-1 at number two in dual matches, and she is 12-5 in doubles, 9-3 at number one and 1-0 at number two in dual matches. Thus far in 2006-07, she has a combined 22-8 record. In her career, she is 47-22 in singles, 48-25 in doubles, and 95-47 combined. Shapiro has earned a spot on the All-Commonwealth Conference First Team every year of her collegiate career, making her the first Blue Jay to accomplish the feat. She was also the conference’s Rookie of the Year in 2003, and she won the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation (MASCAC) championship at number one doubles in 2004. Read more. Back to top 10/20/2006 Masters construction, Hoover dedication photos available Work continues on Elizabethtown's Masters Center for Science, Mathematics and  Engineering. Updated construction photos -- as well as photos from the Sept. 14 dedication of the James B. Hoover Center for Business -- are available at the Facilities Management website. Pictured at the Hoover dedication are college president Ted Long, (third from left) and benefactors (from left) Dale High, James Hoover and Edward Murphy.Back to top 10/18/2006 'Arcadia' to feature visiting prof as designer/technical director Please note that the Nov. 2 performance has been cancelled. Elizabethtown College’s theatre program will present “Arcadia,” by Academy Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard, at 8 p.m., Nov. 3 – 4 and Nov. 9 – 11. Tickets cost $5 and are available by calling 717-361-1170. “Arcadia” won the 1995 New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Best Play. According to director and Associate Professor of Theatre Michael Sevareid, the play moves back and forth seamlessly between 1809 and the present as it explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between neo-classic and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive nature of sex on our lives. The story is set in an elegant estate owned by the wealthy Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household as well as the gardens of the estate in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed, so are the lives and relationships of the family, especially 13-year-old Thomasina and her tutor, Septimus, who explore intellectual and romantic subjects. The present-day scenes involve the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars who are looking for possible scandals that occurred in 1809 involving the family and their guest, Lord Byron. Cast members for the production include senior Lily Newhouse of Middletown as Chloe; juniors Megan Roberts of Bordentown, N.J., as Lady Croom and Nyasha Hungwe of Zimbabwe as Bernard; sophomores Ezra Schatz of Elliottsburg as Valentine, Katlyn Howes of Taneytown, Md., as Hannah, and Sam Gillam of Glen Burnie, Md., as Septimus Hodge; and first-year student Emily Grove of Harrisburg as Thomasina. In addition, this is the first Elizabethtown production featuring Matthew Allar of  Lancaster, visiting professor of theatre, as designer/technical director. He is designing and building the set, designing and hanging lighting, and choosing costumes.Most recently, Allar was visiting designer and lecturer at Cornell College and guest artist at Muhlenberg College. He has designed scenery, lighting and costumes for more than 50 shows at a variety of theatres, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “The Sound of Music” and “West Side Story.” He earned a bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College and a master of fine arts degree from New York University. Allar also has studied sceneography at The University of London, Goldsmiths College; puppet crafting with the Bread and Puppet Theatre; and anatomical figure drawing at the Arts Student’s League of New York. Back to top 10/12/2006 Art prof's painting in Villa Julie College's Fairfield Porter exhibit Elizabethtown College art professor Lou Schellenberg is among artists  whose work is featured in an exhibit honoring American painter Fairfield Porter. “A Long Shadow: The Influence of Fairfield Porter” opened on Oct. 9 and runs through Nov. 18 at Villa Julie College in Stevenson, Md. A gallery talk by Ted Leigh, author of “Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter,” is scheduled for noon on Oct. 24. Additional information is available at Villa Julie’s website, www.vjc.edu.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. Back to top 10/12/2006 Anthropology prof member of NSF panel on global warming Elizabethtown College anthropology professor Robert Wheelersburg recently served  on a National Science Foundation (NSF) panel that examined how Arctic environmental changes may be related to global warming.A longtime Arctic researcher, Wheelersburg was the sole social scientist on the 12-member panel of academic and government experts from fields including oceanography, climatology, geophysics and biology. The panel provided guidance to the NSF regarding funding international project to Study Environmental Arctic CHange (SEARCH). Advice offered by the panel will help the NSF establish an Arctic Observation Network (AON) that combines data from sensors like submarines and satellites with human observations from local indigenous peoples such as Eskimo sea mammal hunters. When deployed, the AON would measure long-term variations in animal species such as bowhead whales and environmental changes like annual fluctuations in sea ice thickness. An associate professor of anthropology at Elizabethtown, 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. He was a Fulbright Scholar twice to Sweden’s University of Umea, at the Center for Arctic Cultural Research and the Department of Saami (Lapp) Studies, where he helped start the doctorate program in Arctic studies. Most of his work has been supported by the NSF, Arctic Social Science program. In addition to his main research area of Scandinavia (including the Russian Arctic), Wheelersburg worked for nearly 15 years on Iceland as a U.S. government representative with the Icelandic Civil Defense Office. He was also part of a team of American and Russian researchers who studied 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. Back to top 10/9/2006 Students studying genetics volunteer at patient retreats Associate Professor of Biology Jon Coren and nine students studying genetics with him  spent a September weekend volunteering at two patient retreat camps. Coren and seven students (juniors Dana Grantham of Secane, Pa., and Paul Yeager of Yardley, Pa.; sophomores Beth Ann Patti of Chambersburg, Pa., Anna Quimby of Mount Laurel, N.J., Stephanie Usefof of Danville, Pa., Caitlin Farley of Warrington, Pa., and Jackie Scott of Castleton on Hudson, N.Y.) worked with 12 campers at the Huntington's retreat in Worcester, Pa., where they helped patients swim, do crafts and play games. Sophomores Laura Critchfield of Somerset, Pa., and Kristin Zamietra of Hershey, Pa., worked with several hemophilia patients and their families that weekend as well.Back to top 10/9/2006 Recent grad helps restore NY monuments Lindsay Lampreda of Jamesville, N.Y., a 2006 graduate of Elizabethtown College, apprenticed this past summer with sculptor Sharon BuMann – owner of BuMann Sculpture Studios in Central Square, N.Y. – to restore monuments and plaques representative of the rich history of central New York state.  The work is part of the Monument and Plaque Restoration and Maintenance Project being funded by the City of Syracuse. Since June, Lampreda has had a hand in restoring 15 monuments and plaques, including the well-known Soldiers and Sailors monument.With an appreciation of art history and skills she developed at Elizabethtown College, Lampreda felt prepared for this work. “All of my studio classes provided me with the hands-on aspect of working with materials that I have to use in my current position,” she said. “Learning about bronze, patinas, sandblasting and ways to treat the metal in sculpture classes gave me the experience I need in my job.” Thanks to her work this summer, Lampreda claims that many restoration techniques now have become “second nature” to her. At 50 feet tall, Soldiers and Sailors is the largest piece on which the team worked this summer. Sculpted by Cyrus Dallin in the early 1900s, the bronze memorial honors Civil War veterans from Syracuse and other cities in Onondaga County. Five years ago, this statue – which had been badly weathered over a century of exposure to the elements and had turned green from oxidation – was restored. This summer, the team washed and waxed the piece, hoping to extend the effect of the restoration work. Their effort was well-received by Syracuse residents. “The positive comments that we’ve heard from people made me feel like I’m making a difference in the city,” she said. Back to top 10/6/2006 Durnbaugh Lectures to feature Young Center Fellow A researcher in reformation studies and radical pietism at the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany, who is currently serving as Young Center Fellow will deliver this year’s Elizabethtown College Durnbaugh Lectures.  Marcus Meier, an ordained Lutheran pastor who also earned a doctorate from the University, will present “New Light on Brethren Beginnings: The Debate about Baptism in German Radical Pietism” at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 19, in the College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. His talk is open to the public free of charge. Meier will also offer a seminar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Oct. 20, at the Young Center, during which he will present two talks: “Johann Kipping from Württemberg: A Case Study of Pietism and Anabaptism in Germany” and “The Little Church According to Comenius and Spener: A New Look at Pietism.” Registration is required for the Oct. 20 seminar. Cost is $10, which includes lunch. To register or for more information, contact the Young Center at 717-361-1470 or youngctr@etown.edu. Established in 1993, the Durnbaugh Lectures at Elizabethtown College honor scholarly efforts by Donald F. and Hedwig T. Durnbaugh to preserve and interpret the history of Anabaptist and Pietist groups. Each academic year an outstanding scholar is invited to present the lectures on a topic related to Anabaptist and Pietist heritage. |
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