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Back to top 7/31/2007 Students, faculty help children on Vietnam service-learning trip Drs. Peggy McFarland and Susan Mapp of the Department of Social Work and Trustee Candace Abel of Brittany’s Hope Foundation  led a 14-day service-learning trip to Vietnam in early June. The group hosted parties and field trips, painted walls, built cribs and renovated yards in street children’s centers and orphanages. The students and faculty painted a playground (right) and residential building and threw a party for children at the Nha Trang orphanage. They also played games and painted buildings at a vocational center for street children in Da Nang.  Students in one of Mapp’s classes raised money to buy bicycles for the children at the Ben Tre orphanage (left), where some of the children were walking more than seven miles to get to school. Back to top 7/23/2007 Women's track and field earns All-Academic Team designation The Elizabethtown College women’s track & field  team has earned an All-Academic Team designation from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association (USTFCCCA) for 2007.The Blue Jays posted a cumulative team grade point average of 3.34 to rank 37th in NCAA Division III. To earn the award, a team had to post a combined GPA of 3.00 or higher. Elizabethtown finished third out of 10 teams in the 2007 Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor Championships and third out of 10 teams in the 2007 MAC Outdoor Championships. The Blue Jays had six MAC individual titles, one NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championship participant and one ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American over the course of the year. Back to top 7/5/2007 English prof writes book on Southern dissidents in Civil War An Elizabethtown College professor has written a book that is a panoramic overview of Southern dissidents in the Civil War.  What emerges in David C. Downing’s “A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy” is a complex pattern of dissent involving every state of the Confederacy and every year of the war. His book is an account of Southern dissidents who at times were labeled as traitors, deserters, or mossbacks during the war, but called “Lincoln’s loyalists” by one Northern historian after the war. All of these people and groups had their part to play in the epic drama that sapped the strength of the Confederacy from within, according to Downing. They were rebels again the rebellion. “A South Divided” recounts dramatic stories from behind the battle lines that have been largely overlooked by most Civil War buffs. Downing tells about Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond belle who ran an extensive spy network in the Confederate capital. He also tells the story of Robert Smalls, a Charleston slave who commandeered a Rebel steamboat, and Daniel Ellis, a Tennessee mountaineer who guided 4,000 Unionists through the Cumberland Pass so they could enlist in the federal army. Downing is the R.W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College and the author of six books, the most recent of which is “Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles.” He has been an avid student of the Civil War for nearly 20 years and has walked many of the battlefields and led tours of Gettysburg. Ordering information is available at Cumberland House Publishing. |
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