11/17/2009 12/4 and 12/5 Student Dance Troupe, Emotion, Presents Fall Show
Student Dance Troupe, Emotion,
Brings Variety of Dance to Elizabethtown
Sixteen Dances Choreographed by Students Featured
Emotion, the Elizabethtown campus dance troupe, performs its fall 2009 dance concert, “Rhythmic Expressions,” on Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5, at 8 p.m. in Leffler Chapel. The fall show features sixteen dances, all of which are choreographed by Elizabethtown College students. Styles include: ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, hip hop, Irish, swing, contemporary / modern, and Hawaiian / Tahitian / Polynesian. This is the most varied selection of dances staged by the club in years.
Nine dances will be performed in the first act, named “Expression.” The second act, titled “Rhythm,” features seven dances. Emotion is known for including not only female dancers, but men as well. This semester we will be featuring an all-male dance choreographed by Matthew Torresani. Also, partner dances and quarter dances are showcased. The choreographers consist of nine sophomores, nine juniors, and seven seniors. Emotion is the largest student-run club on campus, with 180 dancers participating this semester.
11/14/2009 11/18 A Traditional Christmas Tree Lighting
Put on your Santa hat and head over to Elizabethtown College for the annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. At 8 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18, the tree outside High Library will be lit to greet the holiday season.
Families are invited to the Elizabethtown College campus at for a festive program including brief remarks from Dr. Theodore Long, President of Elizabethtown College; The Rev. Tracy Sadd, Chaplain & Director of Religious Life; Elizabethtown Mayor Robert Brain, and Mr. Barry Freidly, Associate Vice President for Alumni. Christmas carols will be performed by college a capella groups Phalanx, Melica, & Vocalign.
11/12/2009 12/6 Elizabethtown College Fall Symphonic Band Concert
Musical Works of Mennin, Schumann and Strommen to be Featured
Elizabethtown College presents a fall concert by the Symphonic Band at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6.The Symphonic Band, under the direction of Dr. Robert Spence, is the College’s premiere wind and percussion ensemble. Spence is also assistant professor of music and director of instrumental studies in Elizabethtown College Department of Fine and Performing Arts.
The Band will perform a wide variety of musical pieces, including pieces by Peter Mennin, William Schumann, and Carl Strommen, among others. The Symphonic Band’s performance will be preceded by performances by smaller ensembles. The concert, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Leffler Chapel and Performing Arts Center.
11/6/2009 Sustainability & Hope Film “China – From Red to Green,”
Sustainability and Hope: Will Our Planet Survive?
The Elizabethtown College “Sustainability and Hope Series” features films and panel discussions addressing global warming and other potential environmental catastrophes. The films raise critical questions, “What led to our environmental crisis?” “How will it affect me?” and “What can I do to reverse these seemingly inevitable outcomes?” The series of events will be held in the Steinman Center, Brinser Lecture Room. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, all events are free and open to the public.
The final film of the Sustainability and Hope Film Series, “China – From Red to Green,” will be shown at 7:00 p.m. on November 10th. Can China handle its own enormous environmental challenges? The film charts China’s rise as the future world leader in sustainable technology and design and explores design solutions, theoretical and practical, including Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid Project. Also featured is William McDonough, Time magazine’s “Hero of the Planet,” McDonough elaborates on his innovative plans to make China an entirely sustainable country and how architecture can be both profitable and environmentally intelligent. The film will be introduced by David Ferruzza, associate professor of engineering emeritus.
Celebrate Christmas
with the Sounds of Elizabethtown College
The Elizabethtown College Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Music Division presents the annual American Family Christmas Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, in Musser Auditorium, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Celebrate the holiday season with performances from both choral and instrumental ensembles. Enjoy your favorite Christmas tunes and songs as well as other holiday pieces celebrating peace on earth and goodwill to all. Bring the whole family for a surprise visit from Santa Claus, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. They’ve all taken the day off from their hectic holiday schedule to visit Elizabethtown!
The concert, open to the public, is free with the donation of a non-perishable food item to be donated to local food banks, but seats go quickly so get here early! Questions regarding the event can be directed to Matthew Fritz, Director of Choral Activities at 717-361-1112.
11/3/2009 11/16 Film Screening of "Home" by the High Library
Locally Produced Film, "Home,"
to be Screened as Part of High Library 20th Anniversary
On Monday November 16, The Friends of the High Library will premiere the film, “Home," as part of the 2009 High Library Film Series and 20th Anniversary – Bigger than Books. The film, starring Academy and Tony Award-winning actress, Marcia Gay Harden, will be shown in the Brinser Lecture Room, Steinman Hall, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the event is free and open to the public.
Home” is an award-winning independent film, which was filmed entirely on location in Lancaster and York Counties, and Goat’s Island, Maine. Lancaster native, Mary Haverstick is the film’s writer and director. Judy Ware, alumna and member of the College’s Board of Trustees and husband Paul Ware were co-producers of the film. Haverstick and the film’s composer Michele Mercure will both attend the screening and join in the discussion following the film.
11/2/2009 11/12 Author Nolt Explores Global Influence of the Mennonites
“Globalizing a Separate People: World Christianity and North American Mennonites”
On Thursday, November 12, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College presents the 2009 Snowden Lecture, “Globalizing a Separate People: World Christianity and North American Mennonites.” Dr. Steven Nolt, professor of history at Goshen College, will explore how Mennonites and historians of Christianity have begun to think in global terms. He will discuss how North American Christians have impacted other parts of the world via traditional mission work and how the wider world and wider Christian community has shaped North American Christianity.
Steven M. Nolt has written nine books, focusing on Amish and Mennonite history and culture. He also co-authored the book, "Amish Grace," which explores Amish forgiveness in the wake of the school shooting. Nolt is currently working with Donald B. Kraybill of Elizabethtown College and Karen Johnson-Weiner of SUNY Potsdam on a collaborative research project entitled "Amish Diversity and Identity: Transformations in 20th Century America," funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The generous gift of Lucille Heisey Snowden in memory of C. Armon Snowden has endowed the Snowden Fellowship and the Snowden Lecture at the Young Center each fall.The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Young Center's Bucher Meetinghouse on campus. For details, call Stephen Scott, 717-361-1470.
Charles Abramovic and Marc-Antonio Barone have accompanied some of the brightest stars in the classical pantheon, but they’ve never teamed with each other until now. Leave it to Gretna Music to bring them together for this shining evening of rarely heard masterpieces for one piano 4-hands and duo pianos. An informal classical conversation about the evening’s music will precede the concert at 6:30 p.m. For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact Gretna Music at 717-361-1508 or visit the organization’s website. The event is open to the public and begins at7:30 p.m.in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, Musser Auditoriu. For tickets, contactGretna Music, 717-361-1508 or visit the website.
10/21/2009 E-town Alumna Brings Her News Book to Campus at High Library
In celebration of High Library’s 20th anniversary, author Melanie Snyder, an Elizabethtown College alumna and adjunct faculty member, will discuss her book, titled “Grace Goes to Prison: A Story of Hope andHumanity.” The book, covered by the Lancaster Sunday News, focuses on the work of Marie Hamilton, who has devoted 33 years as a volunteer within the Pennsylvania prison system.
The book, published by the Brethren Press, is the story of "how this quiet woman touched the lives of thousandsby tearing down the walls of mistrust, bringing respect and humanity
to peopleon both sides of the prison bars."
During her remarks, Snyder will share Hamilton’s amazing story and explore its impact on our views of criminal justice in America. This event, which is at 7:00 p.m. in the High Library, is free andopen to the public. Details: Louise M. Hyder-Darlington, M.S.L.S., 717- 361-1454.
10/19/2009 World Renowned Economist & Nobel Laureate Stiglitz to Appear 11/11
Stiglitz, Renowned Economist & Nobel Laureate, to Speak
“Ethics and the Global Economic Crisis”... Putting the Economy Back in Balance
As the Dow passes 10,000 and voices on the economy debate whether a recovery is imminent, renowned economist Joseph Stiglitz comes to Elizabethtown College to look back at the global economic crisis and to the future at its recovery. Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, will be the featured speaker at Elizabethtown College on Wednesday, November 11. Dr. Stiglitz was one of the winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (the Nobel Prize in Economics) in 2001. Stiglitz will discuss the turbulence of the global economy, the economic collapse, and the ethical and management failures behind the current financial crisis. Looking at deeply rooted practices and policies, he draws forth the lessons we must learn from these times of economic trial in order to put the world economy back in balance. Did the stimulus package really help? What went wrong? How long will it take our economy to correct itself?
The lecture is the 2009 Rev. Dr. Frank S. Carper Lecture on Ethics, Business and Society and the 2009 John F. Chubb Lecture on Business, Public Policy and World Affairs. Both Carper and Chubb were alumni of Elizabethtown College, where business is one the most popular majors on campus. The event takes place in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center and is free and open to the public. Tickets are required for the 7:00 p.m. event. Tickets can be reserved by calling the ticket hotline, 717-361-4757.
Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. He is a graduate of Amherst College and received his Ph.D. from MIT. In 2008, he was appointed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to chair a Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Economic Progress. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System, which also released its report in September 2009. He is currently University Professor at the Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Department of Economics) and the School of International and Public Affairs.
The Carper Lecture honors the legacy and contributions of Elizabethtown College alumnus and former trustee, the Rev. Dr. Frank S. Carper. In 1980, his family and friends created The Carper Lecture on Ethics, Business and Society to further the dialogue about ethics and business at Elizabethtown College.
The Chubb Lecture honors the exemplary legacy of Elizabethtown College alumnus and former trustee, John F. Chubb. After serving his country in the Marine Corp, Mr. Chubb completed his accounting degree at Elizabethtown College. Mr. Chubb ultimately became president of the accounting firm Chubb and Associates. The Chubb Lecture on Business, Public Policy and World Affairs was established with the generous support of members of the Chubb family.
The Theatre and Dance Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents “The Memorandum,” by Václav Havel and translated by Paul Wilson. This Obie Award dark comedy, by the political prisoner and revolutionary who became president of the Czech Republic, mocks an absurd but familiar bureaucratic workplace run amok with impossible rules, secret codes, spies in the walls, and back-stabbing co-workers. It’s “The Office” or “Dilbert” played by Monty Python in “1984” in Havel’s expressionistic farce. Prior to the opening, tickets for the production can be purchased for $6 through the Theatre Box Office by calling 717-361-1170 or sending a request via e-mail to boxoffice@etown.edu.
The comedy is being performed Sunday, November 8th at 2 p.m.Baugher Student Center, Tempest Theatre .
10/16/2009 November 19 - 21 E-town Student Shorts Fest
Students Showcase Directorial Talent in Shorts Fest
Students in the Theatre and Dance Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts are directing 10-minute plays for their Directing class at Elizabethtown College. The Shorts will be performed in the Baugher Student Center, Tempest Theatre, Nov. 19 through 21. Each night the program will consist of seven of the 14 plays being presented. The program starts at 8 p.m. on Nov. 19 and 20. On Nov. 21 the first program will begin at 2 p.m. and the second will begin at 8 p.m.
The 14 plays include many comedic and some drama scenarios, sure to make the program worthwhile. The directors and the title of their plays are as follows:
Tammy Bateman: "Playwriting 101: The Rooftop Lesson," by Rich Orloff
Michael Fleming: "You Can't Trust the Male," by Randy Noojin
Emily Grove: "I Didn't Know You Could Cook," by Rich Orloff
Beth Karcha: "Dalmatian," by Conrad Bishop
Emily Knitter: "It's Not You," by Craig Pospisil
Beth Lewis: "Funny," by Neil LaBute
Peter Starr Northrop: "English Made Simple," by David Ives
Spencer O'Dowd: "Ohio Impromptu," by Samuel Beckett
Ian Pape: "Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye," by Lanford Wilson
Abbie Ricker: "Funeral Parlor," by Christopher Durang Meghann Timney:
"Sure Thing," by David Ives
Theresa White: "Pillow Talk," by John Pielmeier
Rachel Witkovsky: "Arabian Nights," by David Ives
Angela Wright: "The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of How Babies Are Made," by Christopher Durang
The tickets are $4 per person, and are available at the Theatre Box office. Call 717-361-1170 or email request to boxoffice@etown.edu.
10/16/2009 10/17 Homecoming Choral and Jazz Band Concert The Music Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Elizabethtown College presents the Homecoming Choral and Jazz Band Concert at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17.
The performance, featuring some of Elizabethtown College’s most talented students, will be held in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, and is open to the public
The Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Elizabethtown College presents the opening reception to the exhibit On and Off the Wall from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, Hess Gallery in the Zug Memorial Hall.
The exhibit, which pulls together a diverse group of artists working with a variety of materials to create unique three-dimensional works of art, will continue from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through Dec. 11. The exhibit will be open to the public.
10/16/2009 10/29 Dale Brown Award Winner on the Schwarzenau Brethren
The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies presents “The Schwarzenau Brethren: Anabaptist Dissent in the Context of Pietism” with Dr. Marcus Meier. The lecture, which is based on Meier’s recent book, “The Origin of the Schwarzenau Brethren,“ will provide an overview of the beginnings of the Brethren in the context of German Radical Pietism and Anabaptism. Meier will also offer insights into the process of researching and writing the book, which received the 2009 Dale Brown Book Award.
He will discuss the methodology, source material and central themes of the book. Meier will also outline the present state of research and suggest some future research projects in the field of early Brethren history. He will also reflect on the beginnings of historical research on the Schwarzenau Brethren by focusing on Martin Grove Brumbaugh, the first noted historian among the Brethren.
The Brethren Encyclopedia cites Meier’s new work as “the most recent and thorough documentation of the beginning of the Brethren movement in 1708 in Schwarzenau, Germany. Especially noteworthy is Meier’s description of the way various religious movements influenced Alexander Mack, including Pietism and Anabaptism, as well as the little-known Philadelphian Movement. This important scholarly work on early Brethren history includes 2,364 endnotes citing valuable sources of information.”
Dr. Meier, a fellow at the Young Center in fall 2006, is now a research fellow at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 29, in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Bucher Meetinghouse.
According to William R. Eberly, retired faculty member at Manchester College and a Brethren historian, “The book represents a continuing development in Brethren historical studies to seek original European sources of information…Marcus Meier has written about still new information on the Schwarzenau Brethren.... It is a very important book for a new era of Brethren historiography."
The Dale W. Brown Book Award honors the significant contribution of long-time Brethren scholar Dale Brown to Brethren and Pietist studies. It is designed to stimulate research in Anabaptist and Pietist scholarship, honor scholars who have made original and significant contributions, promote important books in Anabaptist and Pietist studies, and bring authors to campus to interact with students, faculty, and friends of the Young Center.
10/15/2009 S. Dale High Center for Family Business Profiled in Lancaster Paper Mike McGrann, newly appointed executive director, and the S. Dale High Center for Family Business, were profiled in the October 4 issue of the Lancaster Sunday News. The feature article provided in-depth information about McGrann’s professional background and plans to expand the reach and services of the Center. Read the full article.
10/11/2009 11/4 Iroquois Peace Traditions and Today’s World
“Tree of Peace”
Why “Burying the Hatchet” is a True American Tradition
On Wednesday, November 4th, at 11:00 a.m., Elizabethtown College hosts Jacob Swamp, former chief of the Mohawk Nation and representative to the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Swamp will present a lecture on Iroquois traditional peace beliefs and rituals, followed by a public planting of a white pine tree on the Elizabethtown campus. The event will take place in Gibble Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
Made famous by the Hiawatha myth and the phrase “bury the hatchet,” the peace tradition allowed six constantly warring nations to form the Iroquois Confederacy based upon peaceful coexistence during the 17th century. According to historical accounts, Native American tribes like the Iroquois buried their weapons under a white pine as a truce symbol. Burying the hatchet also symbolized peaceful relations between Indians and Europeans. The new United States of America negotiated peace treaties using the ceremony.
Students enrolled in Elizabethtown College’s archaeology field school recently found evidence of this practice. They located four European-made ax (hatchet) heads along with the remains of large fires and ceremonial cooking vessels. These artifacts were buried six feet deep at the Washington Boro Susquehannock Indian Village, which was connected to the Iroquois (c. 1600 – 1630). Although native in origin, the phrase “bury the hatchet” is now an English expression for ending conflicts. It also has modern applications; in fact, in 1990 the Mohawk Nation buried the hatchet with officials in the Canadian Province of Quebec after settling a land dispute.
Jacob Swamp founded the Tree of Peace Society in 1984 as a non-profit organization to build cross-cultural understanding between Native and non-Native peoples. Both the Mohawk Nation Council and the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee sanction the organization.
This event, to celebrate American Indian Heritage month, is sponsored by the Office of Diversity, the Dean of Faculty and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. It is one of a series of events in November recognizing the Elizabethtown College heritage as a college founded by the Church of the Brethren, historically a church of peace and nonviolence.
10/9/2009 20th Anniversary Celebration Kick Off for High Library
Bigger than Books
Provost and Senior Vice-President Susan Traverso helped kick off the 20th anniversary of the High Library last Thursday by sponsoring a faculty reception in the new Reading Commons of the library. The highlight of the reception was a talk by guest lecturer Maria Mogford, Albright College, on “Updike and Pennsylvania,” moderated by English Professor John Rohrkemper. The spotlight was on Updike because a new friend of the College, Leland Wilson, recently donated a gift of first and signed editions of Updike’s works to the High Library. Throughout the year-long celebration, “Bigger than Books: 20 years of Expanding Information Horizons at High Library,” the librarians hope to promote all of the collections and services that have been developed over the decades, from books to scores to DVDs as well as library instruction sessions to spaces conducive to scholarly conversation and debate.
10/8/2009 11/17 “Jainism: An Ancient Path of Peace and Ecological Wisdom”
A Lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Long
Dr. Jeffery Long, Professor of Religious Studies at Elizabethtown College, will present a lecture on his new book, “Jainism: An Introduction ,” on Tuesday, November 17, at 7:00 PM. The event, which will be held in the Hoover Center for Business, Room 212, is open to the public.
Jainism is a mysterious and little understood religion of India, best known for its monks, who wear face-masks to protect insects and micro-organisms from being inhaled. Jainist monks also sweep the ground in front of them to ensure that living creatures are not inadvertently crushed and killed by their progress: a practice of nonviolence so radical and all-consuming, it defies easy comprehension.
Is there anything the Western world can learn from this radical religion? Is there anything we can learn from its practitioners, the Jains, who had a profound influence on the life and thought of Mahatma Gandhi? Long has been studying this intriguing community for the last decade.
Jeffery D. Long is Associate Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, at Elizabethtown College. He is the author of A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism. Meet the author and learn about this ancient and engaging path of peace and ecological wisdom.
Of his new book it was written, "This highly readable book provides an excellent introduction to an ancient and complex tradition that predates the birth of the Buddha. The author skillfully explores Jain doctrines regarding the nature of the soul and the observance of nonviolence, placing Jainism within the context of Hinduism and Buddhism. He also highlights the influence that Jainism had upon the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. The book corrects misperceptions that have characterized Jain ethics as extreme, and discusses how Jainism is being practiced globally, including in the US heartland."--Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Long is also the author of "Hinduism: A Vision for the Future."
A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.
10/2/2009 10/6 Afghanistan and Mexico -- Politics, Drugs and Terror Collide
Mexico, Afghanistan and the War on Drugs
How Politics, Drugs and Terror Collide
Elizabethtown College will address issues regarding the drug problem in the United States, Afghanistan and Mexico, the two main countries that supply illegal narcotics. The event, which is free and open to the public, is held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, the in the KAV in Brossman Commons.
Moderating will be John B. Craig, former Ambassador to Oman. Craig served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism under President George W. Bush. He is currently Chairman and Managing Director of the Jadwin Consulting Group, a group offering expertise in the Middle East market.
The “War on Drugs,” as our counter narcotics policy is commonly called, involves nearly every element of the U.S. Government. As such it is a major consumer of resources and provokes much debate both in the administration and within the Congress about how best to “solve” the issue of the very negative impact that drug use has on our society.
The two sides of counter narcotics policy are the demand side, which involves users in the United States and the supply side, which is the attempt to keep drugs from reaching the United States. We are going to look mainly at the supply side in this panel discussion.
Two countries dominate the activities of our policy makers. Afghanistan is the major producer of Opium poppies and Mexico is the major route through which narcotics enter the United States. We want a better understanding of the situations in both those countries and a better appreciation for the efforts of the US government to interdict narcotics both at the source and in transit. Panelists: Linda Flohr, Consultant, The Rendon Group (Washington, D.C.) George Grayson, Class of 1938 Professor of Government, College of William & Mary Gregory Passic, Counter Narcotics Expert, Drug Enforcement Administration
10/1/2009 Congressman Pitts Addressed Health Care Bill to Students
Congressman Pitts to Discuss Healthcare Plan with Students
When: Monday, October 5, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Where: Elizabethtown College, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Congressman Joe Pitts (R) is a seven-term Congressman who represents the 16th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, a district that stretches from the far western suburbs of Philadelphia in Chester County, north to Reading and Berks County, and west into the rolling countryside of Lancaster County famous for its Amish and Mennonite culture.
Congressman Pitts will clearly lay out the principles of the healthcare issue so students can understand the debates now stretching across the United States. This will help them to appreciate what is at stake with this issue and how healthcare will impact the business environment over the next twenty years. Congressman Pitts will address the vital issue of healthcare and then open the floor to questions from our students and faculty.
Pitts, as stated on his website, believes “there is no doubt about it, we need healthcare reform in the United States. But we need the right kind of reform…I believe we need healthcare reform that brings down the cost of insurance by creating real competition and consumer choice. But we also need fiscally responsible reform that is not a burden on future generations.”
Dr. Sylvester Williams, Assistant Professor of Business Law at Elizabethtown College, created this event to show students that the healthcare debate is more personal than they might think. He wanted to bring the issue close to home in terms they can understand and relate to.
This event is only open to members of the campus community.
10/1/2009 10/6 Mexico, Afghanistan and the War on Drugs
Former Ambassador to Oman, Middle East expert John B. Craig, to moderate
The Elizabethtown College Center for Global Citizenship will address issues regarding the drug problem in the United States and Afghanistan and Mexico, the two main countries that supply illegal narcotics. The event, which is free and open to the public, is held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, the in the KAV in Brossman Commons. Moderating will be John B. Craig, former Ambassador to Oman. Craig served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism under President George W. Bush. He is currently Chairman and Managing Director of the Jadwin Consulting Group, a group offering expertise in the Middle East market.
The United States’ “War on Drugs,” a program intended to combat the import and use of illegal drugs, is an effort that demands a substantial amount of funds and other resources from the government. Law enforcement personnel are constantly dealing with problems caused by illegal drugs, and policymakers have the responsibility of dealing with matters from a
Two countries in particular are of interest to policymakers in relation to the drug problem: Afghanistan and Mexico. Afghanistan, despite the presence of U.S. military forces, continues to be a major producer of opium poppies, and Mexico is the major route that drugs follow on their way into the States.
The discussion host is Dr. William Ayres, Director of the Center for Global Citizenship at Elizabethtown College.
9/28/2009 10/1 Award-Winning film, “My American Girls” Screening
Latino/Hispanic Month Celebration Kicks Off with Film
The award-winning film, “My American Girls,"will be screened on Thursday, October 1 in celebration of Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month. The Office of Diversity presents this thought provoking film directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Aaron Matthews and featuring the Ortiz family.
“My American Girls” chronicles one Dominican family’s immigrant experiences in Brooklyn. The film—which depicts humor, honesty, vulnerability and service to others—was nationally broadcast on P.O.V. in 2001. The film won Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Latino Film Festival, was aired throughout Europe and Latin America, and is now being broadcast nationwide on PBS’s “True Lives” series.
During this special program the audience will have an opportunity to meet and talk with filmmaker Aaron Matthews and members of the Ortiz family.
The film will be shown at 7:00 p.m. in Esbenshade Hall, Gibble Auditorium
Sponsors: The Office of Diversity, The Office of International Programs, The Department of Modern Languages, The Department of Social Work
9/22/2009 10/1 The Future of Pakistan and Its Effect on the U.S.
The Future of Pakistan and Its Effect on the U.S.
Middle East Expert, John B. Craig, to Moderate
On October 1, the Elizabethtown College Center for Global Citizenship will address issues regarding Pakistan and how it affects the United States’ actions in the Middle East. The event, which is free and open to the public, is at 3:30 p.m. in the KAV in Brossman Commons. Moderating will be John B. Craig, former Ambassador to Oman. Craig served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism under President George W. Bush. He is currently Chairman and Managing Director of the Jadwin Consulting Group, a group offering expertise in the Middle East market. The discussion host is Dr. William Ayres, Director of the Center for Global Citizenship at Elizabethtown College.
Pakistan has been an important factor in the strategic interests of the United States since the creation of state of Pakistan in 1947. Pakistan hasbeen an ally and strategic partner of the U.S. since the first Baghdad Pact was proposed in the 1950’s to group together Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan into a defense alliance to bottle up the former USSR on its southern flank.
In the 1980’s Pakistan developed nuclear weapons technology and has produced nuclear weapons as well as the missiles to deliver those weapons. In 1979, Pakistan became an important strategic ally of the United States following the invasion of Afghanistan by the former Soviet Union. Pakistan remains a vital partner for the United States in the search for stability in Afghanistan.
At the same time, Pakistan has assumed a very important role as an ally of the oil producing states of the Persian Gulf. Pakistan serves as a Muslim anchor for the interests of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations on the Asian subcontinent.
Pakistan occupies much attention of our decision makers in Washington and we need to further understand this complex country and its relations with our Gulf allies in order to be informed about this vital area of our world.
Panelists include Wendy Chamberlin, a former American Ambassador to Pakistan.
Also participating is the current President of the Middle East Institute and Mark Weston, journalist and author of "Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present." Weston is a former Visiting Scholar at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, has worked for ABC News and has written for the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is the author of "The Land and People of Pakistan" and "Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan's Greatest Men and Women." A graduate of Brown University and the University of Texas Law School, he lives north of Manhattan. The discussion host is Dr. William Ayres, Director of the Center for Global Citizenship at Elizabethtown College.
The Beautiful Country of Pakistan
From Dr. William Ayres: "I think it's very important to bring people with real-world experience grappling with important global problems to our campus. This is a chance for students, faculty and staff, as well as the surrounding community, to learn about major international problems right from the horse's mouth--from the men and women in Washington who have been on the ground, dealing with these issues and carrying out US foreign policy around the world."
9/21/2009 10/1 -- Stephen Scott on Amish Dress at the Young Center
“Amish Dress: Tradition and Transition”
An Illustrated Lecture by Stephen Scott
Stephen Scott, Administrative and Research Associate at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, will present the illustrated lecture, “Amish Dress: Tradition and Transition,” on Thursday, October 1 at 7:30 p.m. Scott will discuss the religious garb of the Amish and its relationship to that of other Plain groups. This event is open to the public at no charge and will take place at the Young Center Meeting House at Elizabethtown College.
Stephen Scott attended Cedarville College and Wright State University and has extensively studied the life and history of conservative Anabaptist and Pietist groups. His publications include “Plain Buggies,” “Why Do They Dress That Way?” “The Amish Wedding and Other Special Occasions of the Old Order Communities,” and “Living Without Electricity” among others.
Of his book, “Why Do They Dress That Way?” Publishers Weekly wrote “In this concise overview of ‘plain’ clothing, Scott, author of ‘Plain Buggies,’ discusses simple garments worn by the Amish and Mennonites, and mentions in passing other plain dressers, including Hasidic Jews, some Catholic nuns and Quakers, the few remaining Shakers and some Pentecostal groups. Scott relates the origins of plain clothing in North America and notes basic styles… He also charts the changes made in plain clothing strictures.”
The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College promotes the scholarly study of Anabaptist and Pietist groups. Scholarly and interpretive investigations of the life, culture and beliefs of Anabaptists and Pietists, primarily in their North American context, are conducted by the Young Center staff, visiting scholars and students under the Center's auspices. In addition, the Center interprets the cultural and religious heritage of Anabaptist and Pietist communities to the general public and serves as a clearinghouse for information through a variety of programs, including public lectures, colloquia, seminars, exhibits and conferences.
Hillary Daecher
Administrative Assistant
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
daecherh@etown.edu
717-361-1470
9/15/2009 9/25 through 10/6 The International Festival
International Festival Features Music, Dance, Fashion, Dining, and Film
International Forum Features Events of Global Significance
Beginning September 25th and running through October 6th, Elizabethtown College is featuring an international festival and forum of events. Dine with us; dance with us. Hear global experts speak on topics such as "China and the Global Economy," "Mexico and Afghanistan: The Politics of Drugs," and "Pakistan:Implications for U.S. Interests in the Region." Enjoy music and dance from other cultures. Experience an international fashion show. Visit @e-town for a full listing of all programs.
9/15/2009 Historian Dr. Karim al-Barghouthi to Speak
On Thursday, September 18, 2009 there will be presentation by Fulbright Palestinian Historian, Dr. al-Barghouthi, who is visiting the United States as Franklin & Marshall's first Fulbright Visiting Specialist through the Direct Access to the Muslim World Program. Professor al-Barghouthi is Assistant Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank. His awards include a British Council Scholarship and a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) fellowship. His scholarship focuses on globalization, Islamic fundamentalism, and Palestinian culture, history, and politics.
The event will take place in Hoover, 212 at 11:00 a.m. The event is sponsored by the Elizabethtown College Department of Modern Languages and First-Year Seminar, “Political Self-Determination”
9/9/2009 9/24 Poetry Reading -- Stephen Cramer and the Art of Poetry
Odes and Elegies: A Poetry Reading by Stephen Cramer
The Craft of Poetry
On September 24th at 7:00 p.m., poet Stephen Cramer will conduct a reading of his works and discuss the craft of poetry.His work has appeared in journals
such as American Poetry Review, African American Review, Harvard
Review, Atlanta Review, Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review
and Southwest Review. The event is sponsored by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jesse Waters as part of the First Year Seminar.
Cramer’s first book of poems,
“Shiva’s Drum,” was selected by Grace Schulman for the National Poetry
Series and published in 2004. His second, “Tongue & Groove,” was
published by University of Illinois Press in the fall of 2007.
"Cramer's
Tongue and Groove celebrates Manhattan's vibrancy and the passionate
self-expression of its denizens. . . . Tongue and Groove is a book of
linguistic and formal performance. . . . This performance is fluent and
exuberant."
Antioch Review
"I
can think of almost no other young poet who can claim Stephen Cramer's
lyric authority and self-possession. His odes and elegies capture the
grit and delights of New York City in a manner that manages to capture
something of Crane's sense of the marvelous with Oppen's descriptive
acuity. This is to say he follows in the footsteps of the giants--and
he shows himself abundantly capable of filling their shoes. Tongue
& Groove is a ravishing book."
David Wojahn
"Stephen
Cramer's Tongue & Groove seeks unity through clarity. Each poem
here forms a world of its own, but the poet . . . gives us a map of
sound, where the pastoral and the urban inform each other, and the only
level and plumb line that matter is the heart."
Yusef Komunyakaa
"What
I love about these poems is the parabolic nature of so many of them:
the very concrete physicality of the language that turns quickly in
some new direction, or makes a connection with a shift of pronoun or
verb tense that opens the poem out, gives it space."--Jean Gallagher
??"All of the poems in this collection are aesthetically carved. Each
an organically conceived arrangement with its own unique shape . . . a
clustering of lines in stanzas, lively but restrained swirls of
symmetries."
Scott Hightower
This
past year, Cramer was the recipient of a grant from The Vermont Arts
Council. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Vermont. Watch one of his readings on YouTube.
9/9/2009 9/25 Exhibit: Three Women, Paint, Mixed Media and Found Objects
“Inner, Outer, and Secret” Exhibit
Three Women: Paint, Mixed Media and Found Objects
The Fine Arts Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents this opening reception for an exhibit titled “Inner, Outer and Secret.” The show features artists Joann Doneen, Ellen Slupe ’67 and Shirley Thomas. The exhibit showcases works that express inner, outer and secret qualities arrived at through manipulation of paint, mixed media and found objects. The exhibit will run through November 6.
On Joann Doneen:
“So, who is she? Seriously, because I don't know. There isn't much background information to be found. But, I'll tell you what I do know; Joann Doneen is one of the most talented mixed media painters in Philadelphia! If you have an eye for the mesmerizing combination of strong yet wispy brushwork, then Doneen's abstract landscapes are definitely worth your time
There is a seductive quality to her work. The paintings seem to be carved from stone, and attack you in three dimensions. This piece here is called Powerful Golden Earth. It is abstract to the strictest definition. Is it a mountain? Is it a valley? Perhaps it is both. If you listen closely, you can almost hear the wind grazing the stone.”
"It is the straight line element that is so prevalent in my art. Straight-sided shapes tumble in space or become organized into over-layered generations of colors that suggest stripes or plaids framed within a color field. In others, scribed lines in parallel rows march across the painted surfaces. They reveal hidden colors and simultaneously give the appearance of a veiled lacy outer wrapping to the surface.
The repetitious mark making suggests records of activities or things that keep steady rhythm or pulse that I rarely pay attention to – like heart beats, seconds of the day, cycles of the moon, life cycles, etc. all repeating over and over again. Each mark through its action influences the outcome of the work- sometimes beautiful color associations surface other times the colors are so similar that they seem to disappear.” Artist Ellen Slupe '67
"I am a self-representing artist who paints every day, if possible. Painting, to me, is like eating--if you don't do it every day, you get a gnawing in your stomach. My works are original oils, original watercolours, and original mixed media or collage. Some of my works are abstract. Usually I work in my studio, but I like to work outdoors "plein air" (out on location) too. I have works in private collections in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
My belief is that art is a gift and as such has to be used. To me, it is a lifetime love. I'm sure that a lot of what I feel shows in my original work. My paintings are always changing and evolving as I get new ideas."
Artist Shirley Thomas
The opening reception will be held on Wednesday, September 25th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, Lyet Gallery. Gallery Hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 1:oo p.m. until 5:00 p.m. For further details, contact Amy Reynolds, 717-361-1212. This event is free and open to the public.
Sustainability and Hope Film Series: “Human Footprint”
In a playful, surprising and thought-provoking portrait of our time on earth, National Geographic demonstrates, in a series of remarkable visuals, what makes up an average human life today and how everything we do has impact on the world around us. The film will be introduced by Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor-King, associate professor of sociology.
The film will be shown at 7:00 p.m. in the Steinman Center, Brinser Lecture Room. The event is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Faculty and is open to the public free of charge.
In this special film, hosted by Elizabeth Vargas, National Geographic chronicles the extraordinary impact that each of our lives has on the world around us. The unique, thought-provoking film is a portrait of our time on earth -- the things that comprise an average human life and how everything we do has impact on our world. The film shows all the people you will ever know, how much waste you will produce, the amount of fuel you’ll consume and how much you really have to fit into the 2,475,526,000 seconds you have on earth.
Understand how much an effect each of us has on the planet and its destiny--especially in a time of mass consumption and fossil-fuel hungry machines. This clever look at just how much a single life affects the planet is presented through the creative visuals and stunning photography that are the hallmarks of National Geographic productions.
From Barnes and Noble…”The filmmakers at National Geographic offer a unique exploration of the effect that mankind has on his environment with this documentary that asks exactly how much waste a single person will generate, as well as how much fuel a single person will use over the course of their entire lifetime. Groundbreaking computer graphics and detailed studies combine to highlight the long-term impact that our lives have on the world we inhabit. Everyone knows that our time on Earth is limited, and in this documentary, environmentally conscious viewers are offered a playful yet thought provoking look at our unique role in the grand scheme of things.”
The Music Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents this Monday Series concert featuring Elizabethtown College faculty. An annual event in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, faculty from the Music Division will present a recital featuring music from across the ages. Well-known composers such as George Frideric Handel and George Gershwin will be featured along side lesser known figures such as Francis Kleynjans and Frank Bridge.
The College is well known for the richness of its music program and there are currently 75 students majoring in music. The program will include Phyllis Drackley (soprano), Dr. Justin Badgerow (piano), Dr. Sarah Daughtrey (mezzo-soprano), Dr. Karendra Devroop (saxphone), Dr. Paula Nelson (flute), Jill Marchine (oboe), Faith Shiffer (clarinet) Cheryl Staherski (horn), Gail Ober (bassoon), Cheryl Gingerish (harpsichord), and Dr. Gary Galván (guitar).
The concert will be held in the Zug Recital Hall on Monday, September 21 at 7:30 pm and is free and open to the public. For additional information, please contact the Department at 717-361-1212.
9/8/2009 10/5 African Folk Music with Cullen and Samite
An Evening of African Folk Music with David Cullen and Samite
On October 5, a rare performance of two award-winning musicians take the stage at Elizabethtown College at the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Elizabethtown College Artist in Residence, David Cullen, has performed in a dazzling wide range of styles including Classical, Jazz, and World Music and won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Recording.
He has performed with Will Ackerman, Samite, Michael Manring, Victor Wooten, The Jaco Big Band and with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. David Cullen is featured on the Windham Hill Guitar Sampler and other Windham Hill Compilation CDs. He has released 2 books, "Jazz, Classical and Beyond" and "Grateful Guitar. His performance DVD, "Jazz, Clasical and Beyond," features multi-camera angles and lessons. David has performed throughout North America for Classical Guitar Societies, Jazz Festivals and Performing Arts Series. He has released nine CDs for the acoustic guitar label, Solid Air Records. David Cullen's recordings have been featured on NPR stations across the country.
The performance features the uplifting voice, flute and kalimba playing of Samite, of Uganda, along with the world music guitar rhythms of Grammy Award- Winning Guitarist David Cullen. David Cullen is currently Artist in Residence at Elizabethtown College. Samite and David Cullen have performed throughout the United States. Samite has performed with Paul Simon , Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Wynton Marsalis. Samite was born and raised in Uganda. Delivering vocals in his mother tongue, Luganda, he mesmerized audiences with original compositions played on kalimba (finger-piano), marimba (wooden xylophone), litungu (seven-stringed Kenyan instrument) and various flutes. Samite now makes his home in Ithaca, New York. Samite's sixth and newest CD, Tunula Eno, is a work of commitment, devotion and an overwhelming sense of humanity. He is also the founder of the non-profit Musicians for World Harmony, serving to enable musicians around the world to share their music to promote peace, understanding and harmony among peoples, One of Samite's goals is to open peoples' minds and hearts to the common threads of human concerns, conveying optimism through stories and song. "I am convinced that we are all moved by the same desires, needs and emotions, regardless of the language in which those feelings are expressed."
The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, and is sponsored by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts. For details contact: Amy Reynolds @ 717-361-1212. This event is free and open to the public.
9/8/2009 TONIGHT: The Journey of Robert Rhodes with the Hutterite Community
Author Rhodes Shares the Story of His Six-Year Stay
in a Hutterite Colony
Tonight, September 17th, Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist Studies will host a reading and discussion on life in a Hutterite colony by Robert Rhodes. Rhodes’s presentation, based on his recent book, is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. in the Young Center.
“Nightwatch: An Inquiry into Solitude: Alone on the Prairie with the Hutterites” describes the spiritual journey Rhodes took from the South, where he grew up near Memphis, Tennessee, to the communal farming enclaves of the Hutterian Brethren. The book details not only this journey but also Hutterite history and the impact of modern society and technology on Hutterian communalism. The event is open to the public free of charge.
Publishers Weekly reviewed the book, saying, “With a lyric sensibility and journalist's eye, Rhodes documents the six years that he and his family spent in a Hutterite colony in Minnesota, a place that some of his friends called a "religious Alcatraz." A chronicle of his existential journey from privileged son of the South and agnostic writer to member of a communal religious sect that opposes war, this is no titillating exposé or angry account from a disillusioned exile… his unaffected spirituality, historical acumen and prairie-studded prose make a lovely and moving read.”
The Hutterian Brethren (Hutterites) are a religious group born from the 16th century Protestant Reformation. Hutterites and Mennonites (and thus the Amish) share common roots -- both are Anabaptists and both trace their beginnings to the same period of time and to the same occurrences, in the 16th century.
Rhodes is a former daily newspaper journalist who worked for 11 years at the Northwest Arkansas Times in Fayetteville before joining Starland Hutterite Colony in Gibbon, Minnesota, with his family in 1995. After leaving the colony in 2002, he was associate editor of Mennonite WeeklyReview and an editor at Good Books. The author of numerous essays and a published poet, Rhodes holds an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas.
Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Education
Dr. Elizabeth Coyle has been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Education. Dr. Coylejoined the Education Department faculty in 2004. She currently teaches Early Adolescent/Adolescent Cognition, Learning Environments and Social Interaction in Inclusive Settings, and Senior Seminar for Secondary Education. Her research interests include school violence prevention, classroom management issues, and women’s learning. She has shared her scholarly work in several publications and presented papers at a number of international, national, and regional conferences. Prior to Elizabethtown College, Dr. Coyle taught graduate classes in School Violence Prevention, Learning Theory, and Childhood/Adolescent Mental Health Disorders at Penn State Harrisburg and Penn State York. Dr. Coyle received her master’s degree from Mansfield Univeristy and her doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Tamara L. Gillis
Promoted to Professor of Communications
Dr. Tamara Gillis, newly promoted to Professor of Communications, advises the student IABC chapter (IABC/Elizabethtown). She teaches public relations, organizational communication, journalism, and communication research courses. Her research interests include change management communication as an organizational cultural artifact, public art as communication. Her most recent work includes The Handbook of Organizational Communication and its companion instructor¹s manual, published by Jossey-Bass in 2006, The Human Element published by IABC Knowledge Centre in 2008 and Essentials of Employee Communication in 2008. She has also published an article titled “Employee Communication Is No Small Wonder.” Gillis received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Shippensburg University and her doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor-King ’93
Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor-King has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology. Kozimor-King holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from The Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. in Sociology and English from Elizabethtown College. Kozimor-King is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Early Career Work and Family Scholar (2008-2009 cohort). Her research interests include the effect of control and self-efficacy on work-family outcomes. She examines public perceptions of work-family roles of women and the impact of career interruption on occupational attainment and career mobility. Her current research is on the impact of family structure on retirement expectations of women. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare and Research in the Sociology of Work. Kozimor-King has led numerous workshops on balancing work and family.
Dr. Susan C. Mapp
Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Social Work
Susan Mapp, Ph.D., has been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Social Work. Mapp received her Ph.D. from the University of Houston and her MSSW from the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of scholarship are international social work, child welfare and program evaluation. She has written two books for Oxford University Press: “Human Rights and Social Justice in a Global Perspective: An Introduction to International Social Work” (2008) and “Global Child Welfare and Well-being (forthcoming).” She has been appointed as Chair of the Social Work Department this year.
Dr. Timothy J. McDevitt
Tenured as Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Dr. Timothy McDevitt has been tenured as Associate Professor of Mathematics. He received his bachelor’s degree from James Madison University, a master’s degree and his doctorate from the University of Virginia. McDevitt is an applied mathematician specializing in applied mechanics. He teaches courses in single and multivariable calculus, statistics, linear algebra, differential equations, numerical analysis, operations research, and an honors first-year seminar on cryptology. McDevitt is a self-proclaimed fan of Mathematica, a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing.
Dr. Petru Sandu
Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management
Dr. Michael A. Scanlin
Tenured and promoted to Professor of Geosciences and Engineering
Dr. Michael A. Scanlin was awarded tenure and promoted to Professor of Geosciences and Engineering. He received an M.S. in Geophysics, and Ph.D. in Geosciences from the Pennsylvania State University. Scanlin is a licensed professional geologist in Pennsylvania. He was formerly a senior executive at R.E. Wright Environmental Inc., UGI Corporation, and Chevron USA where his primary responsibilities were in the areas of resource exploration and environmental project management. His current academic research interests include delineation of the subsurface structure and tectonic mechanisms of the Appalachian fold-thrust belt using seismic imagery and the utilization of near-surface geophysical methods for environmental site characterization. He teaches earth system science and engineering geophysics. His personal teaching philosophy emphasizes an understanding of the context and relevance of scientific inquiry and development of critical observational and thinking skills.
Dr. Michael D. Silberstein
Promoted to Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Debra L. Wohl
Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Biology
Debra L. Wohl, Ph.D. was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor of biology at Elizabethtown College. Her research focuses on microbial interactions, particularly on the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem function. Specifically, Dr. Wohl is researching: (1) the relationship between hospital delivery practices and early childhood health, and (2) the spatial distribution of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment. At Elizabethtown College, Dr. Wohl teaches introductory biology courses, Microbiology, and Pathogenic Microbiology. She earned a Ph.D. in Ecology and a M.S. in Entomology from the University of Georgia and a B.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan.
Administration and Staff
Ms. Erica Barley
Promoted to Accounting Manager
Erica Barley, CMA recently completed her fifth year at Elizabethtown College. She holds a bachelor of science in professional accountancy from the Pennsylvania State University and earned her managerial accountant certification in 2009. She thoroughly enjoys the working environment of higher education with its great diversity of people and situations.
Ben Goodhart
Promoted to Director of Business Operations
Ben Goodhart has worked in the field of Higher Education for more than ten years. He graduated from Lebanon Valley College with a Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology in 1997 and a Master of Business Administration in 2004. Ben joined Elizabethtown College in 2004 as the Bursar. He enjoys the unique “out of the classroom” teaching opportunities that arise through working with students as they transition through college.
9/4/2009 Friedly Sculpture Accepted to National Juried Exhibition
Art Professor's Piece Featured in "Salvage: Reclaiming Recycling" Show
Professor of Art, Milt Friedly, will be part of a unique exhibition centered on the theme of sustainability and the environment. His sculpture, “Plumbing Woes” was accepted for “Salvage: Reclaiming Recycling” a national juried exhibition at Franklin and Marshall College.
The exhibit will run Sept. 3-Oct. 29, 2009 in the Rothman Gallery and the Sally Mather Gibson Curriculum Gallery of the Phillips Art Museum. An artists reception and awards presentation will take place Saturday, Sept. 19 at 1 PM in the Rothman Gallery. For more information, contact The Phillips Museum at 717.291.4006
9/3/2009 Wheelersburg Announces New Contract for Lab
Public Archaeology Lab at Elizabethtown College Receives New Contract
The Public Archaeology Laboratory (PAL) in the Sociology/Anthropology department has received a $7,000 contract to conduct a Phase 1 archaeological survey of the proposed Millerstown (Perry County) community park. According to founding director of the Elizabethtown College PAL, Robert Wheelersburg, the laboratory has received ten archaeology contracts worth over seventy thousand dollars since 1998. These were provided through a Presidential Fund for Distinction. In addition to providing paid work and experience for students, PAL surveys have resulted in the identification of five prehistoric or historic period archaeology sites now registered with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Historic Preservation.
Dr. Wheelersburg is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Elizabethtown College Professor of International Studies. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from Brown University. His most recent finds, which garnered local press, include the discovery of four buried European iron trade axes that may have been used as part of a peace ritual by the Susquehannock Indians. They were unearthed in the Washington Boro Susquehannock Indian Village, a locale visited by Captain John Smith in 1608.
At left, Jenna Zimmerman ’09 was one of 23 Elizabethtown students who worked with College Professor of International Studies Robert Wheelersburg at the Washington Boro site, thanks in part to Collaborative Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program grant.
9/2/2009 YouTube Video of A Capella Group Vocalign Now Live
Campus A Capella Group, Vocalign, Hits YouTube
During the spring semester, the co-ed a capella group on campus, Vocalign, showcased its talent in a performance titled “Make a Memory.” After posting it on video site sensation, YouTube, the group’s performance of “Wait” is getting rave reviews and lots of views.
The song was co-written by one of the group’s members, Derek Shanely, while collaborating with local band Shame. With almost 12,000 views, the video hit the top 100 most popular music videos for August 2nd. Vocalign will continue to perform on campus and make their performances available on YouTube. As a co-ed band, Vocalign brings a new sound to the campus and more opportunity for students to showcase their talent and singing abilities.
The group also appeared at the Giant Center earlier this year.
To watch Vocalign perform, visit YouTube and search Vocalign Wait
Important Information on the H1N1
for all Students, Faculty and Staff
The Emergency Management Group of Elizabethtown College has aggregated all the vital information you need on the H1N1 Virus to prepare yourself for the fall. In collaboration with members of the Department of Higher Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, we have included the most up-to-date information for you.
Please visit the website regularly for more updates. If you have any questions, please call or email Sandy Spayd, our Director of Student Wellness and Campus Health Sandy Spayd: spayda@etown.edu (717-361-1123).
9/1/2009 Work on New Academic Quad Begins -- Groundbreaking Ceremony
Generosity and Philanthropy Triumph
Despite Gloomy Economy
Generosity of Harrisburg Philanthropist, Frank Masters, Jr.,
Will Create New Academic Quad
In difficult economic times, with philanthropy down nationwide, one Pennsylvania man continues to give from his heart. Elizabethtown College has announced that Frank M. Masters Jr., has donated more than $330,000 to fund renovations on the campus, for the academic quadrangle once called “the Midway.” The groundbreaking ceremony was held on September 3rd with President Long, Masters and Elizabethtown Mayor Bob Brain.
Masters, a resident of Harrisburg, has dedicated a lifetime to the support of education, with a particular interest in the sciences. In 2006, Frank Masters Jr. gave a significant gift – the largest cash gift in Elizabethtown College’s history – to enable completion of the Masters Center for Science, Mathematics and Engineering; in 2008, he donated a gift to the College, resulting in the naming of the Masters Center. A noted area philanthropist, Masters has provided support and counsel to many cultural, educational and environmental causes.
Once completed, the new Quad will tie together the main academic buildings, including the Masters Center, and create a central hub for the faculty and students. The project is scheduled for completion in late fall 2009.
Groundbreaking Ceremony September 3, 2009
Elizabethtown Mayor Bob Brain, Jeremy Coble, Brad Clubb, Provost Susan Traverso, Board Member Terry Koons, President Ted Long, Frank Masters, Jr., Betty Gault, Jim Wenger, and Dave Madary.
8/31/2009 Engineering Programs Accredited by ABET for First Time
ABET Accredits Engineering Programs
As a result of its very first application for accreditation, Elizabethtown College has received accreditation for its engineering programs from The Engineering Accreditation Commission of
ABET
. The College is now fully accredited until September 30, 2015, the maximum six-year period for which the commission accredits programs.
The College offers bachelor degrees
in Engineering (concentrations in Electrical, Mechanical, or Applied Physics), Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering Management and a cooperative 3+2 Engineering Program with cooperating engineering universities such as Penn State and University of Maryland.
President Ted Long stated, “This step has been a dream of the department for some years, and their steady work at building a strong faculty and quality program has paid off with this recognition. It is impressive to note that the visiting team found no “deficiencies” or “weaknesses” that required correction in order to achieve accreditation. Awarding the maximum term without any interim requirements is also strong affirmation of the program’s quality. And in the eyes of the visiting team, Elizabethtown has a philosophy of engineering education for service that could inform the entire profession.”
The pursuit of accreditation was first envisioned by David Ferruzza, former chair of Physics and Engineering, and carried forward under the leadership of Dr. Kurt DeGoede, current chair. Members of the department were also intimately involved in moving the process to this successful conclusion.
Dave Ferruzza
Professor Emeritus
ABET, the Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology, is the nationally recognized accreditor for college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. The organization is a federation of thirty professional and technical societies representing these fields. For over 75 years, ABET has provided leadership and quality assurance in higher education and now accredits 2,800 programs at more than 600 colleges and universities nationwide.
Announcing the 2009 – 2010
Elizabethtown College Theatre Season
Elizabethtown College Theatre has announced the schedule for the upcoming season. Works include "The Memorandum" by Václav Havel, in October and November. This Obie Award-winning dark comedy, by the political prisoner and revolutionary who became president of the Czech Republic, mocks an absurd but familiar bureaucratic workplace run amok with impossible rules, secret codes, spies in the walls and back-stabbing co-workers. In November, students will present their directorial works in "The E-town Shorts Fest." It's an evening filled with creative experimentation in ten-minute plays directed by students in the TH320 Directing class. February brings "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" by Alan Ball, sharing hilarity and heartbreak in an irreverent look at friendship and the power of similar dressing. Finally, an American classic, "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller comes to Elizabethtown, a work famous for its exploration of the power of accusation and gossip in the witch hunts of 1692 Salem.
Dates to Remember The Memorandum
by Václav Havel; translated by Paul Wilson
October 29, 30, 31, & November 5 & 6, 2009 at 8 p.m.; November 8 at 2 p.m.
This Obie Award-winning dark comedy, by the political prisoner and revolutionary who became president of the Czech Republic, mocks an absurd but familiar bureaucratic workplace run amok with impossible rules, secret codes, spies in the walls and back-stabbing co-workers. It’s “The Office” or “Dilbert” played by Monty Python in 1984 in Havel’s expressionistic farce.
The E-town Shorts Fest
November 19, 20, and 21, 2009 at 8 p.m.; November 21, 2009 at 2 p.m.
Two evenings of experimentation in ten-minute plays directed by students in the TH320 Directing class!
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball
February 11, 12, 13, 18 & 19, 2009 at 8 p.m.; February 21 at 2 p.m.
Tennessee bridesmaids rebel, hiding from the wedding reception; trading teasing and revelations, and sharing hilarity and heartbreak. This irreverent look at friendship and the power of similar dressing comes to us from the Emmy- and Oscar-winning creator of True Blood, Six Feet Under and American Beauty.
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
April 15, 16, 17, 22 & 23, 2009 at 8 p.m.; April 25 at 2 p.m.
One of the classic American dramas, this Tony-winner is famous for its exploration of the power of accusation and gossip in the witch-hunts of 1692 Salem, while allowing Miller to state loudly his opposition to the paranoia and demagoguery of the 1950s red scare. In this time of tea parties and Fox News, Miller’s dramatic warning rings truer than ever.
Tickets are $6 for all but the E-town Shorts Fest, which are $4.
Reserve tickets by calling 717-361-1170 or e-mailing boxoffice@etown.edu
On August 24, the Elizabethtown Area Water Authority issued a “Boil Water” advisory for the areas it serves in Elizabethtown and Mount Joy Township, including our College’s campus. The advisory, which was issued when routine testing found E. coli bacteria in water samples, is expected to be in effect until at least Friday, August 28.
The College’s Emergency Management Group took prompt action to advise the campus community of the situation and to protect the health and safety of those on campus. To read more about the steps the College has taken or to learn what we are advising students, please go to the update on our Emergency Action Plan website.
8/24/2009 9/1 First Rehearsal: Community Chorus Open to New Talent
Elizabethtown College Community Chorus Seeks New Talent for 2009/10 Season
Dr. Matthew Fritz, Director, announces that the Elizabethtown College Community Chorus is open to all students, staff, faculty, and community members. This non-auditioned ensemble rehearses Tuesday evenings in Leffler Chapel, 7:30-9:00. The ensemble counts 80+ singers in its membership and focuses on masterworks. Our first rehearsal is on Tuesday, September 1.
8/24/2009 9/1 Professor Friedly to Exhibit New Works
Art Professor Shows Unconventional Printmaking Works
Milt Friedly, Professor of Art, will exhibit thirty four new works at the Morrison Gallery, Penn State, Harrisburg from September 1 through October 24. Titled “Remnant – Mixed Media Printmaking and other Curious Objects,” the exhibition includes works on paper and panel follow an ongoing theme for Friedly, who investigates life and culture, often including real objects in his work.
Friedly‘s printmaking for this exhibition is unconventional, but speaks to process as well as seeing potential in what he considers remnants from printmaking practices. For example, he began pressing used clean-up rags to produce images by running them through the printing press – this then led to using the actual rags in the work rather than making impressions. Friedly, a well-known sculptor, realized the potential in “palette printing”, i.e., making prints directly from the inking palette in its various stages from the first initial inking to clean up.
Other works in this series contain common objects such as, orange peels, a hornets’ nest, gloves, welding wire, napkins, packing material and other used or leftover objects. These objects are often combined with monotypes and other references to printmaking practices.
The work exhibits references to modern and contemporary masters in his work such as, Marcel Duchamp, Jim Dine and Jasper Johns. According to Friedly, “All of these artists made a major impact on the generations to follow, defining and redefining fine art. Without innovations like the ready-made, artists would continue to see who could impress the public and critics with skills to create illusions of nature in drawing, painting and sculpture. Instead, I choose to bring the actual object for closer examination and scrutiny – what you see, is what you get. In all my work there are serious and non-serious aspects. I hope we can meditate on serious issues, those that impact life and the future. At the same time, perhaps we can look at ourselves and have a good laugh.”
The Morrison Gallery 777 West Harrisburg Pike Middletown, PA 17057 Gallery Hours: Monday – Thursday from 8 a.m. To 9 p.m. Friday from 8 a.m. To 5 p.m.
8/23/2009 Alumna Lois Herr Publishes New Book on E-town Coach and Dad
"DEAR COACH: LETTERS HOME FROM WORLD WAR II"
Raised on the campus of Elizabethtown College, Lois Kathryn Herr’s life has been strongly influenced by the men and women of the college community. Her father, Ira R. Herr, was the legendary coach and athletic director at Elizabethtown College for over 34 years.
Now Herr has published a book on the story of her father, Ira R. Herr, and the men and women athletes of 1937-1946. More than just a collection of war letters, Dear Coach is the yearbook of an era and the scrapbook of an extended family dealing with a war that forced a generation to grow up overnight.
New book written by alumna Lois Herr about her father, a legendary E-town coach
Lois is also an alumna of Elizabethtown College. She went on to receive a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Fordham University. She has had extensive experience in business, government service, and education. Under President Gerald Ford, she served in the Office of Management and Budget as part of the President’s Executive Interexchange Program.
Lois’s business career included twenty six years in telecommunications management with Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T, New York Telephone, and NYNEX. Based on her experience, she wrote the book Women, Power, and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace" in 2003.
She returned to Lancaster County in 1990, bought a farm, and later served in a variety of positions at Elizabethtown College -- as teacher, senior administrator, and scholar-in-residence. In recent years, she has served her community as chair of the Lancaster County Planning Commission and President of the Elizabethtown Rotary Club, as well as working on numerous state, local, and nonprofit boards and commissions. Among her awards were “Visionary 2005” from the Coalition for Smart Growth and the “Progressive Voice of Lancaster County” from Democracy for Lancaster.
8/23/2009 E-town Community Orchestra Begins Rehearsals September 15
Community Orchestra Seeks New Members
E-town Community Orchestra Begins Rehearsals September 15
The Elizabethtown College-Community Orchestra begins rehearsals for fall 2009 on Tuesday, September 15th from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in Zug Hall.
The fifty-member ensemble has openings available in every string section and in select woodwind, brass and percussion sections. There are no auditions required and all members of the regional area are welcome.
The Northern Region includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This annual report is used by many to inform decisions about the relative quality and nature of the College. While not without controversy, it is an influential source of information and used worldwide by parents and college bound students.
8/20/2009 Gottfried Hosts Schlafly Radio Program Saturday
Dr. Paul Gottfried Hosts Schlafly Radio Program
On Saturday, August 22nd, Elizabethtown College Political Science Professor and scholar Dr. Paul Gottfried appeared as the guest host on “ Encounters,” the radio show produced and starring Phyllis Schlafly.
The program can be streamed from the Eagle Forum website. This program invites listeners to learn about things by spending time with the great thinkers of our time. Guests include people who are considered to be some of the best conservative and liberal minds of today.
8/20/2009 Kraybill Comments on Amish Economic Challenges on msnbc.com
"Amish See the Recession as a Challenge and a Blessing"
Factory Job Losses Hurt Finances but Renew Focus on Family, Faith
In an article on msnbc.com today, Elizabethtown College scholar Don Kraybill, Ph.D., was quoted on the subject of recent economic challenges for the Amish community in Indiana. Unable to rely solely on farming now, “the Amish community in Elkhart and LaGrange counties is unusual in that so many of its members have turned to factory work primarily in one industry.” Senior fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and an expert on Amish life, Kraybill went on to discuss national trends among the Amish to seek income from non-farming sources. Staff from the Young Center on campus were also involved in providing research for the new article.
The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College promotes
the scholarly study of Anabaptist and Pietist groups. Scholarly and
interpretive investigations of the life, culture and beliefs of
Anabaptists and Pietists, primarily in their North American context,
are conducted by the Young Center staff, visiting scholars and students
under the Center's auspices. In addition, the Center interprets the
cultural and religious heritage of Anabaptist and Pietist communities
to the general public and serves as a clearinghouse for information
through a variety of programs. These programs include public lectures,
colloquia, seminars, exhibits and conferences. Learn more about Anabaptists and Pietists.
The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies on the Elizabethtown College campus.
Msnbc.com is the most-visited news website in the United States, owned and operated by NBC Universal and Microsoft as a joint venture. The main newsroom is on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, with additional newsrooms in New York City and London. In addition to original content from its news staff, msnbc.com is the news website for the NBC News family, with content from the cable television news channel MSNBC, NBC shows such as Today, NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC, and partners such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. (Source: wikipedia.org)
Poetry Readings and the Craft of Poetry by Linda Gregg
On October 29th, poet Linda Gregg arrives at the Elizabethtown College campus to read her works and to discuss the craft of poetry. Linda Gregg’s books include In the “Middle Distance”, “Things and Flesh,” “Chosen by the Lion,” “The Sacraments of Desire,” “Alma,” “Eight Poems” and “Too Bright to See.” She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Whiting Writer’s Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, The Jackson Poetry Prize, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and, most recently, The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her new collection of selected poems, “All of It Singing.”
Gregg has taught at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley. Linda Gregg received her B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University.
8/17/2009 Waltermire of OT Department on Childhood Hospitalization
Occupational Therapy and Child Development During Hospitalization
In a recent article on PennLive.com, Elizabethtown College academic lecturer Deborah Waltermire was interviewed on hospitalization and its effects on child development. The article highlighted a program, Caitlin's Smiles, begun by Cheryl Hornung of Middle Paxton Township in 2004. Originally founded in memory of her 8-year-old daughter, Caitlin’s Smiles provides hospital kids for almost 70,000 hospitalized children and teens each year. The organization depends on private donations and volunteers to maintain the volume of services it offers.
A lecturer in the Occupational Therapy department since 1997, Waltermire was quoted in the article, "As the child's main occupation, they need to play, and Caitlin's Smiles is trying to give a normal play experience. Arts and crafts is a lot of what they do to develop those fine motor skills and visual skills."
The Patriot-News is the largest daily newspaper serving the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metropolitan area. In 2005, the newspaper was ranked in the top 100 in daily/Sunday circulation in the United States. The Patriot-News’ history goes back to December 1820, when it was a weekly newspaper named, The Pennsylvania Intelligencer. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, The Patriot-News received the Pennsylvania Newspaper of the Year award. (source: www.wikipedia.org)
With as many as 467,000 unique visitors1 and 22 million page views per month, PennLive.com is Central Pennsylvania's most popular news and information site. (www.pennlive.com)
8/17/2009 Central Penn Business Journal Covers Freshman Enrollment
Concerns over Decreased Central Pennsylvania College Enrollment Proven Premature
With the economic downturn of the last twelve months, administrators nationwide were highly concerned that college enrollment would suffer. Predictions of trouble for small liberal arts colleges were in the forefront. It appears that those concerns for central PA colleges, including Elizabethtown College, may have been premature. Reporter Paula Holzman of the Central Penn Business Journal covered the story on August 16th and all is well here on campus.
Interviewed by the CPBJ reporter, Vice President of Enrollment Management, Paul Cramer explained that E-town is doing just fine. “We didn’t see that exodus everyone had predicted,” he said of the coming fall’s enrollment at the Lancaster County private college.
E-town’s freshman class is at 564 and the College still estimates that the campus will exceed last year’s freshman enrollment.
The Central Penn Business Journal publishes daily on the Web and weekly in print, covering Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. There are more than 8,200 subscribers to the Business Journal's e-Newsletters, a weekly circulation of more than 10,000, and a readership of more than 50,000
Elizabethtown College New Facebook Page Open to Visitors YouTube Site Now Showing Videos
The campus has now launched an official E-town Facebook page. In four days we already have 964 fans! Visit our page now and follow all the activities and excitement on campus. Soon, we'll be welcoming the Class of 2013 to our family. Facebook is a great way to keep on top of all the news. So come...become an E-town fan.
8/12/2009 New Learning in Retirement Programs Announced
New Fall Prgram Schedule Announced for Retiree Community
Elizabethtown College’s Institute for Learning in Retirement has released its fall 2009 schedule of classes. The college has been offering courses, programs, and educational trips for local retirees as a community service since 1990, welcoming all persons of retirement age. The classes are for people who want to enrich their minds and have some fun. There are no homework assignments and no one receives a grade.
Some of the topics offered this fall include:
Coming Attractions: A Look at Movie Trailers Elizabethtown College marketing professor Dr. Bryan Greenberg
It’s All In The Telling Professional storyteller Judy Wolfman
Lancaster County Covered Bridge Tour Ken Collins author/photographer of Covered Bridges of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Our Founding Mothers: Heroines of the American Revolution Alan Ruby, retired Lutheran minister
"Preserving YOUR Story" (For Cancer Survivors) Susan Wert Vogt, author and cancer survivor
Writing Characters: Real and Imagined Award-winning writer Lori Myers
Where: Elizabethtown College Main Campus Masonic Village Campus in Elizabethtown Lancaster Recreational Center Elizabethtown College newly opened York Center
Details:Cindy Rothrock, (717) 361-1288 or (717) 361-1411
8/11/2009 Alumnus Lovelidge Runs PricewaterhouseCoopers in Philadlephia
Lovelidge, '82 Alum, Takes the Helm at PricewaterhouseCoopers Philadelphia
Edward Lovelidge, a 1982 Elizabethtown alumnus, was recently appointed to the top position of Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Philadelphia office. In an article in the Philadelphia Business Journal, Lovelidge was likened to Charlie Manuel, manager of the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies. Quoted as saying, “My job is to leverage the veteran players to get the most of the young players,” Lovelidge will manage 1200 employees and 100 managing partners.
Lovelidge’s newest challenge is to incorporate the assets, human and financial, of its newest acquisition – BearingPoint – which filed bankruptcy and had portions of its business acquired by PricewaterhouseCoopers in June. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a global consulting and accounting firm with $28 billion in revenue. The company specializes in assurance, tax, human resources, transactions, performance improvement and crisis management for clients worldwide.
Lovelidge, who is a vital member of the Elizabethtown College Alumni Leadership Council, will spearhead leveraging the assets of both the existing organization and the acquisition.
8/11/2009 Professor Johnson Quoted in Harrisburg Patriot-News
“Midstate TV Stations Change Programming as Ad Revenues and Viewership Fall”
Dr. Kirsten Johnson, Assistant Professor of Communications, was recently interviewed by the Harrisburg Patriot-News for an article titled “Midstate TV Stations Change Programming as Ad Revenues and Viewership Fall” by reporter Kira Schlechter. The article, appearing in the August 11 issue of the newspaper and on pennlive.com, addressed the challenges faced by local television stations in the digital era.
As an expert in citizen journalism and new media, Johnson teaches citizen journalism within the Communications program, in courses such as “You and YouTube: Storytelling in Cyberspace,” “Broadcast News and Copywriting” and Senior Seminar. Dr. Johnson is an expert in citizen journalism and also appeared on WGAL news in Lancaster, reporting on the use of Twitter by Iranian citizens during recent protests.
The Harrisburg Patriot-News is the major daily paper in the Pennsylvania state capital and surrounding area.
8/11/2009 “Economic Woes Expose Sins of Both Political Parties” by Dr. Paul Gottfried
Political Science Professor’s New Op-Ed in Lancaster Journal
Paul Gottfried, Ph.D., Horace E. Raffensberger Professor of Humanities, has contributed an op-ed piece titled “Economic Woes Expose Sins of Both Political Parties.” The piece was published in yesterday’s edition of the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal. Read the full piece here.
Paul Gottfried, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, is a well-respected, widely read political science academic who is often described as a “paleoconservative.” In these modern times of blue vs. red and liberal vs. conservative, the term "paleoconservative" is not widely understood beyone the academic and political world.
Dr. Gottfried received his Ph.D. and master’s degree from Yale University. He most recently published an autobiography recounting his experiences with former President Nixon and other influential people in his life. In commenting on this new book, Gottfried stated “I have very little hope for the rising generation whose minds have been saturated with political correctness through public education and the entertainment industry…everything I write, including this autobiography, is directed to the few, who may be looking for other behavioral and cultural models. ‘Encounters’ treats some Marxists better than it does today's movement conservatives or the current political Left. That is because the academic Marxists of my youth were highly educated individuals, with a deep sense of history, even if they proposed economically unsound policies and were blind to Soviet tyranny. Today Left and Right are equally vacuous and usually indistinguishable.”
8/11/2009 Students Travel to E-town for Summer Research Project
Wohl and Bowne Host Students for Research on Antibiotic Resistance in Lancaster County
This summer, eight high school students traveled from homes across the United States, to Elizabethtown College for a unique two-week learning experience conceived and led by Associate Professor of Biology Debra Wohl and Assistant Professor of Biology David Bowne. Sponsored by a grant from Earthwatch Institute, the proeject aimed to increase the students’ civic responsibility and environmental awareness, and further our understanding of antibiotic resistance in the environment. The Earthwatch Institute is an international nonprofit organization that supports scientific advancement through “citizen science,” research in which volunteers perform investigation-related tasks.
The Elizabethtown project, titled “Student Challenge Awards Program: Mapping Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Across a Landscape,” quantifies the distribution of antibiotic resistance across Lancaster County, Pa., suggesting possible factors that might influence the level of resistance. The research focuses on Enterobacter spp., a bacterium typically harmless to humans that has demonstrated drug resistance in clinical settings. As Enterobacter spp. is both free-living and found in the gastrointestinal tract of warm-blooded animals, a growing resistance might result from a variety of antibiotic exposures, including direct application to vegetation or treatment of animals.
As part of the investigation, the student volunteers—along with Bowne and two other team leaders, a graduate student from the University of Arizona and a high school chemistry teacher from Elizabethtown, Pa.—traveled throughout the county to collect soil samples. The sampling locations were selected based on their varying degree of human contact. As a result, information from analysis of the samples should allow the researchers to weigh whether any antibiotic resistance they find might be connected to human use of antibiotics.
In Wohl’s laboratory, the high school researchers isolated the bacterium from the soil samples and “grew” colonies. Then, they assessed the resistance of the bacteria to five commonly used antibiotics—ampicillin, kanamycin, tetracycline, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and chloramphenicol.
In Bowne’s laboratory, the students measured the characteristics of the soil, including its pH, water content and carbon. Later this summer, Bowne—together with collaborators from Franklin & Marshall College—will use an ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma) spectrometer to look for trace metals, like lead, nickel and copper. The data will allow the researchers to factor into their results a possible link between antibiotic resistance and resistance to these metals, which has
According to Wohl, the project is a win-win for the students and for this particular scientific investigation. “It offers the students a unique opportunity to experience the excitement of science and participate in valuable research,” says Wohl. “We also benefitted by having a team of interested, enthusiastic technicians to support us with an intensive study that we couldn’t do by ourselves.” Bowne agrees, noting the students also walked away with a better appreciation of this career path. “We view our time as successful if the students have an interest in science, and they realize this is what they want to do,” he explains. “The project also is successful if students, after being exposed to the reality of science, realize that they don’t want to do this and can focus on something different.”
Read full coverage of participating student in the Oakland Press.
7/27/2009 Young Center's Scott Featured in the Daily American
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies' Scott Discusses How Amish Community Moving Out of State
Stephen Scott, Administrative and Research Associate at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, commented in the "Daily American" this weekend on the trend of Amish migrating to other states. In an article by Tiffany Wright, Scott's research showed that Pennsylvania lost 468 Amish families in the last five years.
Stephen Scott attended Cedarville College and Wright State University and has extensively studied the life and history of conservative Anabaptist and Pietist groups. His publications include “Plain Buggies,” “Why Do They Dress That Way?,” “The Amish Wedding and Other Special Occasions of the Old Order Communities,” and “Living Without Electricity” among others.
The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College promotes
the scholarly study of Anabaptist and Pietist groups. Scholarly and
interpretive investigations of the life, culture and beliefs of
Anabaptists and Pietists, primarily in their North American context,
are conducted by the Young Center staff, visiting scholars and students
under the Center's auspices. In addition, the Center interprets the
cultural and religious heritage of Anabaptist and Pietist communities
to the general public and serves as a clearinghouse for information
through a variety of programs. These programs include public lectures,
colloquia, seminars, exhibits and conferences. Learn more about Anabaptists and Pietists.
Read the full article in
the "Daily American." The "Daily American" is a six-day daily newspaper
serving Somerset, Pennsylvania and the surrounding Laurel Highland
outdoor recreation area.
7/22/2009 9/16 Best-Selling Author, the “Savvy Traveler” Takes You Around the World
Get Lost: World Travel with Doug Lansky
Best-selling author and travel expert Doug Lansky takes Elizabethtown College on a multimedia journey around the world at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the college’s Leffler Chapel.
Join Lansky as he shares his knowledge and experience from traveling around the world more than 10 years. This informative and comical presentation, sponsored by Called to Lead, the Office of Student Activities and the Office of International Programs, is free and open to the public. Lansky will give away a $1,000 Eurail Pass to one lucky member of the audience.
Lansky was born in Manhattan, raised in Minnesota, and attended Colorado College, where he later taught journalism. He worked the copy machine at the “Late Show with David Letterman,” Spy Magazineand The New Yorkerbefore beginning his journey around the globe.
Lansky traveled for two and half years, picking bananas in Israel, guiding snowmobiles in the Alps, taking tango lessons in Argentina and sand surfing in Namibia before a car accident in Thailand brought him home. Six months later he began traveling again, this time as America’s youngest nationally syndicated columnist. His weekly feature, “Vagabond” grew to reach more than 10 million readers of 40 major newspapers.
To date, Lansky has traveled in more than 100 countries. He hosted a travel documentary for the Discovery Channel/Travel Channel and for five years served as the world-travel expert on Public Radio’s “Savvy Traveler.” He is a regular contributor to “National Geographic Adventure” magazine.
His award winning books are filled with both information and humor related to travel and survival. His most recent publication, “Lonely Planet: Signspotting 3,” is a collection of unintentionally entertaining road signs.
See Lansky’s entertaining and inspiring lecture at 7:30 p.m., Sept.16 at Leffler Chapel.
The second annual Mount Gretna Jazz Festival, with five concerts, takes place Wednesday, Aug. 26, through Saturday, Aug. 29.
The Godfathers of Groove, who have teamed with major funk and groove artists Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, James Brown and the Rolling Stones start the festival Wednesday, Aug. 26.
Philly drummer Rob H. Henderson, founder of The H-Factor, teams for the first time with the Karendra Devroop Trio, featuring Elizabethtown and Messiah colleges jazz professors Karendra Devroop and Kirk Reese, Thursday, Aug. 27.
Hard bop keyboard legend Cedar Walton brings his trio to town Friday, Aug. 28. Cedar has been at the center of the bop jazz scene since leaving Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the early ’60s. That’s 40 years at the top of bop.
The 15-piece Phil Giordano Jazz Orchestra, led by Phil Giordano himself, a veteran of Jimmy Dorsey’s and Sammy Kaye’s bands, plays classic songs and original charts with dazzling precision Saturday, Aug. 2, at a matinee show. An hour before the gig, Phil will talk about how the band performs such musical prestidigitation, and how they balance the new with the classics.
Saturday evening, Two Sides of the Great American Songbook, feature vocalists Hilary Kole and Claudia Acuna, will perform a set of the standards their way—Kole in the ear-tingling, eye-popping, absolutely smokin’ torch-song tradition, Acuna with a flair distinctly Latin. They will be backed by the 2008 Grammy Award winning Arturo O’Farrell Trio.
All evening Music at Gretna 2009 Jazz Festival concerts take place at 8 p.m. at the Mount Gretna Playhouse. The matinee is at 2 p.m. Passes for the festival start at $80; single ticket prices vary per event. A limited number of budget tickets will be available for most events, beginning at $12. Discount tickets also are available for ages 26 and under. To order tickets, visit the website or call 717-361-1508.
7/16/2009 NY Times Greets Guidance Counselors on Bike Trip to Elizabethtown Campus
On the Road Again...Counselors Bike to Elizabethtown College
A brigade of 6 adventurous and curious guidance counselors began a 400-mile bicycle trip to more than twelve Pennsylvania colleges; the group was also traveling on to Delaware and Maryland. The ride of more than 400 miles brought the counselors to Elizabethtown College on Tuesday, July 14, where they were greeted by Paul Cramer, Vice President of Enrollment Management and Debbie Murray, Director of Admissions.
The annual trip allows counselors to visit colleges “up close and personal” and enrich their knowledge of colleges that they then bring back to their high school students. This unique trip allows counselors to immerse themselves in the campus and surrounding areas. As one counselor put it, colleges “are often best-observed slowly, ideally from the open-air perch of a bike saddle.” On Tuesday, the New York Times came to the E-town College campus to cover the event. Read more about this trip on the New York Times web site.
7/16/2009 Provost Traverso Featured on Public Radio
Traverso Discusses the Economy and Higher Education on WITF
Provost and Senior Vice President Susan Traverso was featured on WITF radio this week. Traverso discussed the effects of the current economic climate on institutions of higher education and the steps Elizabethtown College took earlier this year to prepare for a continued economic downturn. In her conversation, she emphasized that Etown did make contingency budget cuts in case enrollment targets were not achieved. She also highlighted our increase in financial aid to students during these difficult financial times.
Susan Traverso joined E-town in 2007, coming from Redlands University. She received her undergraduate degree from Simmons College in Boston; her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is the Chief Academic Officer of the College and is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing the college’s academic policies as well as for oversight of the College’s academic expense budget. Dr. Traverso advises the President on all major matters of resource allocation within the academic areas of the College including construction and other capital projects, space allocation, and distribution of new positions within the faculty.
WITF-FM (89.5) is s a public radio station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The station aired its first show in 1971, featuring classical music and NPR news throughout the local area – Harrisburg Lancaster, Lebanon and York. The station is part of the PBS network. WITF-FM is a dual-format station, presenting both news and classical music during the day.
7/10/2009 E-town Blue Jays Soar -- ‘08/’09 Athletics Accomplishments
Another Banner Year for the E-town Blue Jays
The 2008/2009 academic year marked another milestone for the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays. With 20 teams and a rich tradition of scholar/athletes, the athletics department had many achievements to be recognized this year.
7/8/2009 High Family Business Center Adds Dynamic New Leadership
New Executive Director, McGrann, is International Family Business Expert New Marketing Director, Martin, also Joins Center Staff
A nationally known expert in family enterprise and entrepreneurship, Michael N. McGrann, has been named Executive Director of the S. Dale High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College. His appointment marks a significant expansion of operations in order to provide increased services to existing members as well as to attract new members.
“The importance of family businesses cannot be understated. They are responsible for more than half of the Gross Domestic Product of the United States, and they create a majority of the jobs in this country. They are the dominant form of enterprise worldwide, outperforming non-family businesses in nearly every long-term measure,” McGrann said. “Our family businesses are vitally important to our economy. Our goal is to give them the tools, the support, and a strong network to succeed at every level–as a management team and as a unified family group.”
McGrann has extensive experience working with family businesses on issues such as leadership transitions, developing accountability structures, empowering next generation teams, building unified shareholder groups, and identifying the unique characteristics of a family business that can produce a competitive advantage. He previously served as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and as assistant director of Babson College’s Institute for Family Enterprise. Prior to his work at Babson, Mike co-managed an academic center at the Wharton Enterprising Families Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a founder and principal of the Telos Group.
He holds a BA in economics from Cornell University, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. McGrann also has a faculty appointment at Elizabethtown College as the Sara Lodge Executive-in-Residence for 2009-10, and will share his business acumen with the College community through classroom instruction; formal presentations; internal publications; and informal meetings to expose the students and faculty to current business practices, issues, and opportunities.
The S. Dale High Center also appointed Gale Martin in a new post as director of marketing and membership. Martin was previously the director of marketing and communications at Alvernia University in Reading and associate director of College Relations at Elizabethtown College. She has an MA in Business Management and a BS in Education from Penn State University.
McGrann and Martin will join long-time director and Elizabethtown College executive Mary Beth Matteo in offering family businesses an innovative curriculum and unique programs on a range of issues to increase their competitiveness.
Established in 1995, the S. Dale High Center for Family Business is one of largest of its kind in the United States. Created by a group of business people, family business owners, and representatives of Elizabethtown College, the Center is dedicated to bringing the best available resources to family businesses. Serving South-central Pennsylvania and beyond, the Center believes that strengthening entrepreneurial families enhances the community and the economy as well. Contact: email FBC@etown.edu or call 717.361.1275.
7/8/2009 Elizabethtown College to Host 2010 NCAA Division III Golf Championships
National Golf Championships Coming to Pennsylvania
Elizabethtown College, in partnership with the Hershey Golf Collection, announced today that it has been selected as the host institution for the 2010 NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships.
The four-day event will be held May 11-14, 2010 on the courses of the Hershey Golf Collection. The first two rounds will be played on the East Course at Hershey Country Club and at Hershey Links, and Hershey Links will provide a stern test for the final two rounds. The Division III Men’s Golf Championship will feature 36 collegiate teams from across the country, along with the top five individuals not participating with their teams. There will be a total of 185 competitors.
"We are thrilled that the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Committee has selected Elizabethtown College to host the 2010 championships,” said Nancy Latimore, Elizabethtown College’s director of athletics. “We are confident that, working with the NCAA and Hershey Golf Collection, we will provide the participating student-athletes and coaches with a first-class and memorable experience."
“We are excited to be partnering with Elizabethtown College to host this national event,” said Ned Graff, director of golf operations for Hershey Golf Collection. “Hershey has a great tradition of national golf events – dating back to the 1940 PGA Championship that was played on our historic West Course. Bringing an NCAA championship event to our courses is both a great opportunity and a great honor. The destination of Hershey is an ideal venue for players, families, and NCAA staff and officials to enjoy a memorable championship week.”
Elizabethtown College participated in the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championship in both 2008 and 2009, earning an automatic bid after winning the Commonwealth Conference tournament championship in both years. The Elizabethtown Blue Jays have had a long relationship with the Hershey Golf Collection, hosting collegiate tournaments in the fall and spring at both the East Course at Hershey Country Club and Hershey Links. For details about the Hershey Golf Collection, visit HersheyGolfCollection.com or call 1-800-HERSHEY (1-800-437-7439).
7/7/2009 The End of the Free Market Era by Dr. Sanjay Paul
Department of Business Chair’s Editorial Featured on PennLive.com
Dr. Sanjay Paul’s recent editorial on the end of the free market era in today’s economy appeared on a PennLive.com, a favorite central Pennsylvania web site. He refers to America’s “decimation of the housing market, the collapse of the titans of finance and the emergence of a global recession,” and how “doubts about the efficacy of the capitalist enterprise have become markedly more pronounced.”
Dr. Paul is also an associate professor of economics at Elizabethtown College. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York, Buffalo and joined Elizabethtown College in fall 2002. Dr. Paul taught economics at a liberal-arts college in the Midwest for 10 years. He teaches microeconomics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, international economics, economic development, and managerial economics. His areas of specialty include globalization, trade policy and innovation. He writes a newspaper column on economic issues and “drinks too much coffee for his own good.”
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7/6/2009 Music Travels From Elizabethtown to South Africa
Elizabethtown College Faculty Brings Music to South Africa
Professors Karendra Devroop, director of music education, and Michael Roy, professor of psychology, traveled to South Africa with 45 wind instruments to create a music program in a disadvantaged school. The trip marks the culmination of the 2009 South African Music Program initiated last year by Devroop and a team of faculty and students from Elizabethtown College.
Devroop is a native of South Africa and was born in Pietermaritzburg, the city in which the music program has been established. According to Devroop, he South African music program was conceived out of his passion for music and need to give back to his home country and city of his birth.
Last year, Devroop and a team of faculty and students started a concert band at Northbury Park Secondary School, a rural disadvantaged school in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. According to Devroop approximately 40% of the students at the school were orphaned by one or both parents, 30% were living with a parent that had AIDS, many students were HIV positive and faced crime and poverty on a daily basis. The instrumental program, hailed as a tremendous success, was one of the very first attempts to bring a concert band program to the public school system in South Africa. Devroop partnered with faculty from two South African universities, Professor Pete Jugmohan from the University of Kwazulu-Natal and Professor Chats Devroop from the University of South Africa.
The team launched a concert band program at another school and a string program at t a concert band at Eastwood Secondary School in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. According the school principal, the majority of the students at the school lives in poverty and is classified as “head of household” meaning they are orphaned by both parents and take care of their younger siblings. Devroop and Roy have spent several months collecting instruments, books, supplies and equipment from area schools, churches and individuals from the community in Central Pennsylvania in an effort to secure the necessary instruments and equipment to start the program. Several area schools assisted in securing instruments and equipment including Hempfield High School, Manheim Township High School and Manheim Central Middle School.
The team taught the students and music teacher to sustain and continue to develop the program after their departure. “The principal at the school is very excited and so are the students,” Devroop said. Devroop documented their week of teaching via a live webcast, which enables students at Elizabethtown College and area schools to interact with Devroop and his team and the students at Eastwood Secondary School.
The group will also spend a significant amount of time conducting follow-up research studies on the program started last year and research on the impact of the new program, leading to three separate psychology of music studies to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals in the United States and in South Africa.
According to Devroop –arts education in South Africa was eliminated from public schools in the aftermath of apartheid. “Thirteen years ago, the then newly formed democratic government removed music from school system,” he explained. “Today, there is little to no music education in the public school system, yet motivation to make music on the part of that country’s students is extraordinarily high. The current shortfalls in education – coupled with the devastating impact of AIDS, high unemployment and crime in the country – make this project a beacon of hope for students wanting to study music. And this is an excellent opportunity for Elizabethtown College’s students to experience another culture and advance their own professional knowledge and skills.”
Dr. Karendra Devroop is a Fulbright scholar from Durban, South Africa. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in South Africa and completed his PhD in music education at the University of North Texas. He has presented and published his research in the United States, South Africa, Germany and Canada. He was the 2002 national winner of the Alice Branfonbrener Young Investigator Award, which is sponsored by the Performing Arts Medical Association. He is also a saxophone and piano player from South Africa and a graduate from the University of North Texas. He has performed extensively throughout his homeland and the United States and has several live and studio recordings to his credit.
The South African Music Program is a partnership with faculty from the University of Kwazulu-Natal and the University of South Africa and is sponsored through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program (CISP) grant from the College.
7/2/2009 New Yorker Online Features Professor Mark Harman's Work
Who is Karl Rossman and What Does His Story Offer Today's Young Adults?
Mark Harman, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Professor of German and English, is now featured on the New Yorker magazine website. The feature showcases his new translation of Franz Kafka’s book, “Amerika: The Missing Person.” The piece relates the search for careers by American students to the journey of Kafka’s character in the novel, Karl Rossman. Harman considers the work a coming-of-age novel.
Harman is widely respected for his translations of Franz Kafka and other German-language authors. He has written extensively about modern German and Irish literature with particular emphasis on Joyce, Kafka, Beckett and Robert Walser. He won the first Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work by the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from University College in Dublin and two master’s degrees and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the author of four books and a widely published author and co-author of scholarly articles.
Harman lives in Manheim Township with his wife, Nina Menke and has two grown children, Eva and Keara.
7/1/2009 E-town Alumnus Brings GM out of Bankruptcy in Record Time
Al Koch, Class of '64, Brings GM through Bankruptcy Proceedings in Record Time
After being named as restructuring chief for General Motors, Al Koch wasted no time in guiding GM thorugh the bankruptcy process, emerging only 40 days later from the courts. The final deal saw the disposition of key operations and the sales of core brands such as Chevrolet and Cadillac, to a new company, majority-owned by the U.S. Treasury.
Albert A. Koch, Class of ’64, was named to head the largest corporate restructuring in American history as Chief Restructuring Officer for General Motors. This makes Koch the highest ranking outsider at GM. An accounting major at Elizabethtown, Koch is now Vice Chairman and Managing Director at AlixPartners LLP. He has led the restructuring of Kmart as interim chief financial officer; led Champion Enterprises as interim president and chief executive; served as interim CFO of Oxford Health Plans during a financial crisis. Koch was formerly a partner with the accounting firm of Ernst & Young.
Koch is considered a turnaround specialist. His newly created position at GM includes responsibilities for streamlining corporate units, representing GM in bankruptcy court protection, selling off targeted assets and collaborating with GM constituents -- management, debt holders, employees, customers and communities. The government expects GM to be out of court by September -- a fast turnaround by any standards.
"Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers"
Paul Gottfried, Ph.D., Horace E. Raffensberger Professor of Humanities, has published an autobiography recounting his experiences with former President Nixon and other influential people in his life. When asked why he chose to write this book now, he commented “I have very little hope for the rising generation whose minds have been saturated with political correctness through public education and the entertainment industry…everything I write, including this autobiography, is directed to the few, who may be looking for other behavioral and cultural models. ‘Encounters’ treats some Marxists better than it does today's movement conservatives or the current political Left. That is because the academic Marxists of my youth were highly educated individuals, with a deep sense of history, even if they proposed economically unsound policies and were blind to Soviet tyranny. Today Left and Right are equally vacuous and usually indistinguishable.”
Paul Gottfried, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, is a well-respected, widely read political science academic who is often described as a “paleoconservative”. In these modern times of blue vs. red and liberal vs. conservative, the term “paleoconservative” is not widely understood beyond the academic and political world. Reading of this new autobiography may help the public understand this paleoconservative philosophy.
An exacting, scrupulous historian of political ideas, Gottfried has never taught at an upper-tier university. That career disappointment is an evanescing leitmotiv in this memoir, which is far more concerned with what Gottfried learned from and enjoyed about his favorite acquaintances, most of them colleagues in academe and the world of philosophical-historical-political publishing, including Will Herberg, Paul Piccone, Peter Stanlis, Christopher Lasch, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese, Thomas Molnar, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, John Lukacs, and the Marxist father of the sexual revolution, Herbert Marcuse, whom Gottfried, though at the opposite end of the political spectrum, admired for his pedagogical liberality and European good manners. From outside the academy he recalls his entrepreneurial father, independent conservative scholar Russell Kirk, libertarian Murray Rothbard, columnists Samuel Francis and Pat Buchanan, and a figure almost as surprising as Marcuse in this context, Richard Nixon, whose knowledge, conversational panache, and personal warmth charmed Gottfried. Discussing his favorite people brings out a becoming modesty and a humane intellectual seriousness in Gottfried, which make him another—possibly the most—winning personality in the book.
“It was a real treat to coast the curve of time with Professor Gottfried as his many milestones of intellectual history reveal their greatness with charm and their foibles with candor. The author's searing self-awareness is an inspiration to all who eschew vulgarity for nobility.”— Rabbi Daniel Lapin; President, American Alliance of Jews and Christians.
“Paul Gottfried is a child of the century. He studied at Yale with Herbert Marcuse and has known Pat Buchanan, Will Herberg, Sam Frances, Richard Nixon, and many others. His autobiography Encounters narrates his intellectual journey, and will be indispensable as a source when the history of the conservative movement is written.”—Jeffrey Hart, professor emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, cultural critic, columnist
“Political philosopher Paul Gottfried, well-known for his studies of modern ideologies such as Marxism and neoconservatism, reveals the personal and intellectual influences that have made him one of our most provocative scholars. In this candid and beautifully written memoir, we learn more about friends such as Herbert Marcuse, Richard Nixon, and Patrick Buchanan than in a shelf of biographies. Encounters is indispensable reading for every student of modern American conservatism.”—Lee Edwards, author and Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation
"What jumps off the pages of Encounters is the amazing intellectual courage of an author who clearly and unequivocally states and defends what he believes. Agree with Gottfried or not, you will appreciate his refreshing honesty. A penetrating read."—L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center
Paul Gottfried, Ph.D., is Raffensperger professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College (PA) and a Guggenheim recipient. He is an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute and the author of numerous articles and eight books including Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right (Palgrave-Macmillan, July 2007), The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium (University of Missouri Press, 2005), Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards A Secular Theocracy (University of Missouri Press, 2002), and After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State (Princeton University Press, 1999).
6/26/2009 Professor McClellan in Sunday's Patriot-News
Returning from Asia, Professor of Political Science, Fletcher McClellan, Ph.D., Writing in June 27 Sunday Harrisburg Patriot-News
Dr. E. Fletcher McClellan recently traveled with other faculty members to Asia, as part of the Faculty International Seminar. Dr. McClellan’s goal was to further examine the relationship between the Chinese government and Hong Kong. This will evolve into an academic paper and presentation, perhaps with a co-author. Having taught in China during the spring 2008 semester, McClellan is drawn to conflicts between Beijing and such areas/groups as Tibet, Taiwan, and the Uighurs in western China. Along this vein, I talked to scholars in Hong Kong and examined years of documents and newspaper articles.
Such faculty seminars yield great benefits for Elizabethtown College students, as faculty incorporate their research, findings and perceptions into their academic coursework. McClellan explains, “My research and experiences will definitely benefit the content and teaching of my first-year seminar, as well provide a comparative context for my teaching and research in American politics, my primary area of expertise.”
For Dr. McClellan, his first-year seminar students in “Political Self-Determination” will benefit from his recent trip. The course examines conflicts involving ethnic, religious or cultural minorities that seek greater control over their destinies and looks at self-determination conflicts in America, beginning with the American Civil War, then surveys conflicts in the international arena such as Tibet, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Quebec, etc. Research isn’t just limited to faculty, though. Students will choose a conflict to research, write about, and then present a paper at an undergraduate research conference on campus.
6/18/2009 Professor Finley-Bowman Receives National Recognition
ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE’S FINLEY-BOWMAN
WINS NATIONAL AWARD
Dr. Rachel Finley-Bowman, Associate Professor of Social Studies Education, has earned the Teacher of Honordesignation from Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education. As one of this year’s recipients, Bowman joins a small group of remarkable educators that have been recognized with this honor.
“Dr. Finley-Bowman is the epitome of the teacher/scholar,” said Dr. Carroll Tyminski, Chair of the Department of Education at Elizabethtown College. “She exemplifies the high standards that Kappa Delta Pi sets for Teachers of Honor. I can think of no one more deserving of this award.”
Finley-Bowman’s educational history is comprised of a rich dynamic of undergraduate and graduate work, with a bachelor of science in history and politics from Drexel University, a master of arts in history from Lehigh University and a doctorate of philosophy in history from Lehigh University. Her involvement in the world of education can be seen through her numerous academic presentations, continual research in the field of Social Studies, publication of peer and expert-reviewed articles, as well as participation in more than 10 professional organizations, including Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education.
In October 2008, Finley-Bowman received an Elizabethtown College Faculty Starter Grant for her current project that involves the founding and development of a new regional professional organization—The Susquehanna Valley Council for the Social Studies. Most recently, Finley-Bowman was honored by Elizabethtown College as a recipient of the Academic Integrity Award of Excellence and was chosen by the Pennsylvania Department of Education as an expert Content Reviewer in the area of Middle Level Education.
“Great teachers change lives by inspiring students to recognize their gifts and to learn how to use them to pursue a worthy dream. Rachel Finley-Bowman is one such teacher,” said Kappa Delta Pi International President Dr. Pamela Kramer Ertel.
Since the award’s establishment in spring of 2008, Kappa Delta Pi has named a select few from around the world as Teachers of Honor. Both the award winner and the school in which they teach are recognized for this accomplishment. To earn the Teacher of Honor, an educator must have more than 3 years of classroom teaching experience, submit evidence of professional development, leadership, community service, and meaningful contribution to the education profession, and demonstrate a commitment to integrity and high standards in the classroom. The award recognizes teachers of all levels, from early childhood instructors to university faculty members.
6/17/2009 Professor Johnson on Citizen Journalism and Trip to South Korea
Communications Professor Johnson Returns from South Korea, Lecturing on and Researching Citizen Journalism and New Media in Asia
Dr. Kirsten Johnson, Assistant Professor of Communications, returned from South Korea after witnessing national grief over the suicide of former president, Roh Moo-hyun, on May 23. With long lines of people waiting to pay their respects throughout Seoul, sometimes lines stretching for blocks, Johnson and Elizabethtown professor, Dr. David Kenley (History), also saw numerous protests as citizens blamed the government and media for the former President’s death. Johnson’s trip was part of the Faculty International Scholarship Seminar program. She was one of six faculty members traveling to Asia to study and conduct research.
As an expert in citizen journalism and new media, Johnson seized the opportunity to visit Seoul, which is home to the world’s most famous citizen journalism website, ohmynews.com. She Interviewed Mr. Oh, the founder and CEO, covering his operation and examining elements of such a successful enterprise. Johnson taped the interview and will show portions of it to her class on citizen journalism. Johnson teaches citizen journalism within the Communications program, in courses such as “You and YouTube: Storytelling in Cyberspace,” “Broadcast News and Copywriting” and Senior Seminar.
After meeting with a professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul. Dr. Johnson gave two guest lectures and met with graduate students on citizen journalism, new media and journalism; also speaking to a head researcher at the Korea Press Foundation.
After South Korea, Professor Johnson headed to Beijing, China, meeting with a researcher at Tsinghua University on new media and media censorship. She will continue collaborating with her Asian contacts, doing research on citizen journalism or news blogging.
When asked her impressions of the people of South Korea and the country, Johnson noted, “The people were friendly and helpful; the country, beautiful and clean. I saw the people using technology everywhere. After all, South Korea is the most wired country in the world! Honestly, I don’t think Americans know much about South Korea. They might be surprised to learn that South Koreans are more technologically advanced and literate than we are here.”
Dr. Kirsten Johnson is an expert in citzen journalism and has most recently appeared on WGAL news in Lancaster, reporting on the use of Twitter by Iranian citizens during recent protests.
6/2/2009 Seiders Recognized as Facilitator of the Year
A strong proponent of continuing education, Lori Seiders spends her days – and evenings – teaching.Elizabethtown College recently recognized Seiders’ by awarding her the distinction, “Facilitator of the Year.” The annual award honors only one of 90 facilitators from Elizabethtown College whose length of service, dedication to adult learners, willingness to facilitate at various locations and whose development of course work goes above and beyond expectations.
Since November 2002, Seiders has been a facilitator in the classroom and on the Web for Elizabethtown College’s Edward R. Murphy Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning. The center promotes lifelong learning by offering programs for adult studentswho desire to articulate and advance their personal and professional goals. Seiders helped to develop a foundational course and a capstone course for the center. She has the pleasure of interacting with students at the beginnings and ends of their continuing education journeys through the center.
For 13 years, Seiders has served as the director of organization development & training at the Masonic Villages, where she instructs employees in leadership, teambuilding, strategic planning and employee relations at five villages in Pennsylvania, which employs more than 2,000 people. She applies many of the same principles to her evening classes at Elizabethtown College, helping students to balance their home, work, family and school responsibilities.
“I teach because I truly enjoy working with adults who want to continue their education…The adult learners in my class contribute to each other, and from their contributions we all grow. I enjoy learning from them; that is what keeps me coming to every class,” Seiders said. She teaches six or seven classes per year in addition to her responsibilities at the Masonic Villages. Seiders has a master’s degree in Psychology/Counseling and lives in Lancaster with her husband and children.
With locations in Dallas, Elizabethtown, Lafayette Hill, Sewickley and Warminster, the Masonic Villages provide continuing care retirement services, children’s services and community outreach services. All five not-for-profit communities are owned and operated by the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania. The organization provides more than $18 million in charitable care and services each year. For more information, visit www.masonicvillagespa.org.
Elizabethtown College, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, offers adult degree programs, which have exceeded all seven national benchmarks of effectiveness in serving adult learners in higher education. Our reputation for academic excellence and access in adult learning drives our continual effort to offer the best learning programs for adults in the Central Pennsylvania area. For more information consult http://www.etowndegrees.com.
Record Number of Graduates This Yearat May 16th Commencement
On Saturday, May 16th, Elizabethtown College celebrated the accomplishments of the Class of 2009. The Commencement ceremony took place at 11:00 a.m. in the Dell, where over 500 students received their diplomas while parents, family and friends looked on. The students, in collaboration with Chaplain Tracy Wenger Sadd, planned this traditional College event. Afterwards, students and guests, approximately 2,000, enjoyed fellowship, hors d’oeuvres and live music by the lake. The Lancaster Sunday News covered the event as well as several local television stations.
The "Serpentine Tradition" at E-town. Graduates Walk by Faculty and Staff, Congratulating Them on the Culmination of Their Years of Hard Work.
The 2009 Board of Trustees at Alpha Hall. The Board waited until graduates walked past and gave them a standing ovation as they processed into the Dell.
President Long welcomes 2009 graduates and their families to Elizabethtown College...on the Dell. Later, he gave the valedictory address, telling the newest alums that their personal memories “will become the very energy of life that bears your hopes and dreams. They will help you make a difference in the world, and as you do, we will know that you are truly sons and daughters of Elizabethtown.”
Chaplain Tracy Sadd gives invocation at 106th Commencement.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
David Hossler
welcomes graduates and families
Graduating student Audra Farren, Communications Major, receiving her diploma from President Long. Over 500 students participated int he Commencement Ceremony this year.
Graduating senior, Jake Keeler, after receiving his diploma from President Long. Jake was a Communications major and a former "Mr. E-town." He has chosen to work in the Admissions field...at his alma mater, E-town.
The class of 1959 celebrated its 50th reunion on May 16, Commencement Day at the College. A hardy group of 23 ’59 “youngsters” joined the Class of 2009 to process in the ceremony and walk to the graduation stage to have a special 50th reunion medallion conferred by President Ted Long. Afterwards they joined additional classmates – 65 in all – at a complimentary reunion luncheon staged by the Alumni Association on campus. The highlight of the event was the presentation of the Class of 1959 video, a sentimental trip down memory lane for the classmates. Those classmates who could not attend the festivities will be mailed a copy of the DVD compliments of the Alumni Association.
Members of the Class of '59 Wait to Greet Graduates of Class of '09
Class of '59 Celebrates on Campus
Provost Traverso, President Long and '59 Alumnus Dr. Edward C. Apple
President Long with '59 Alum and Board of Trustees Member Emeritus, Kenneth Bowers
5/18/2009 119 Continuing Education Students Graduate
On Saturday, May 16th, 119 students graduated from Elizabethtown College through the Continuing Education Center, from three distinct campuses – Lancaster, York and Harrisburg. Elizabethtown College is dedicated to providing the most adult-friendly and convenient academic programs in the Central Pennsylvania region. Students can earn a bachelor or associate degree in a program designed for busy working professionals. Growth in the CCEDL program has been brisk as more students seek to finish a degree while maintaining a career and personal life - and in less time than they think!
Continuing Ed Students Being Congratulated by Faculty and Staff
The Edward R. Murphy Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning at Elizabethtown College seeks to extend the boundaries of the College's learning community to include a wider and more diverse population. The Center expresses the values of the College's mission through a commitment to and advocacy of degree and non-degree academic programs for adult learners. In particular, the Center embraces the values of human dignity and social justice by widening access to quality higher education for adults. In its programs and outreach, the Center fosters a learner-centered academic culture that expresses the College's belief that learning is life-long and most noble when used to benefit others.
Proud Mama Graduate and Happy Kids on the Dell at Commencement (photo by Elizabeth Harvey/Marketing and Communications)
5/18/2009 Lancaster Sunday News Profiles Two Graduates
Bravery and Determination Rewarded at Elizabethtown College Commencement
On Saturday, May 16th, Rachel Rohland and Melvyn Moore were interviewed and photographed by Jo-Ann Greene of the Lancaster Sunday News. What made these two students special? They are good examples of students who face obstacles in pursuing their education, but rise above the difficulties to finish the race. Saturday, at Elizabethtown College's 106th Commencement, both Rachel and Melvyn crossed the finish line and received their diplomas, all captured by the reporter and the Lancaster Sunday News.
Class of '09 Graduates Melvyn Moore and Rachel Rohland (Photo: Vinnie Tennis/Sunday News)
5/16/2009 First Annual International Programs Photo Contest -- Winners
The top winners of the very first Elizabethtown College Study Abroad Photo contest have been announced. The contest was run by the Center for Global Citizenship -- International Programs -- on the campus. In its first year, the Center received over 80 entries from 26 contestants. Both students and staff from the Center were the judges, awarding winners travel vouchers from Travel Time. In addition, winning photos will appear in Elizabethtown's Study Abroad calendar. For more information on the International Programs Calendar, call Dr. Amy Simes at 717-361-1347.
With cultural boundaries blurring and the world becoming increasingly interconnected, Elizabethtown College Center for Global Citizenship brings the world to our students and our students to the world. To help our students develop an appreciation of our global culture, the Center encourages and facilitates study abroad experiences for our U.S. students and provides a support network for international students who elect to study here.
Our International Programs provide students with opportunities that expand their worldview by immersing them in another culture. Study abroad is an eye-opening, life-changing experience for Elizabethtown students. Thanks to the efforts of faculty and staff members, increasing numbers of students are participating in the semester-long study abroad opportunities as well as in short-term faculty-led study. Typically, more than 200 Elizabethtown students go abroad annually to study in more than 2 dozen countries.
Grand Prize Winning Photo of the Galapagos Islands by Mark Heinbockel While Studying in Quito, Ecuador
Great Wall of China by Senior Brandon Stolar
Second Place Winner, Emily Grove, took this photo of Herstmonceux Castle
(East Sussex, UK) while studying in England.
Kimberly Warriner Won Third Place with Her Photo of Venice While Traveling During Her Study Abroad semester in the U.K.
5/14/2009 May 28 William Klassen to Lecture on Pilgram Marpeck
Pilgram Marpeck: Resisting Oppression from Within
On Thursday, May 28, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, will host a lecture by William Klassen, Ph.D. Klassen will discuss the life of Pilgram Marpeck, who was both a civic engineer and an Anabaptist theologian during the tumultuous years of the Reformation. Since the discovery of the “Kunstbuch,” a collection of works by Marpeck and his circle, there has been a major resurgence of interest in Marpeck in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. An early advocate for freedom of religion and separation of church and state, Marpeck helped lay the foundation of the believers’ church and was an important South German Anabaptist leader in the 16th century. This event is free and open to the public.
Klassen is the co-author, with Walter Klaassen, of a new biography,
"Marpeck: A Life of Dissent and Conformity." He has written 14
additional titles since 1962, including "The Contribution of Jewish
Scholars to the Quest for the Historical Jesus" and "Love of Enemies:
The Way to Peace." He is currently adjunct professor and principal
emeritus at
St. Paul’s United College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, and has been professor of New Testament and Peace Studies at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, the University of Manitoba, Simon Fraser University, University of Toronto and the École Biblique, Jerusalem. Klassen received his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary.
A reception for Klassen will be held at 7:00 p.m., preceding the lecture.
5/12/2009 Students Travel to Washington for Hearing on Anti-Dumping
Dr. Sylvester E. Williams IV,
Professor of business and business law, took his BA 337
International Legal Environment of Business students to Washington,
D.C., April 6, to attend an anti-dumping hearing at the U.S.
International Trade Commission (ITC).
The hearing pertained to
the final phase of a countervailing duty investigation and final phase
of anti-dumping investigation to determine whether an industry in the
U.S. is materially injured by subsidized imports from China and
less-than-fair-value imports from Canada and China of citric acid and
certain citrate salts. The students received a high-level briefing
from the General Council of the ITC on presidential proclamations and
the harmonized tariff schedule. Also, an industry analyst provided
insight into the steps taken to find material injury. At the hearing,
the chairman of the ITC recognized the group from Elizabethtown
College. Every spring Dr. Williams takes this class to attend a hearing
at the ITC to apply the principles of trade policy learned over the
semester.
5/12/2009 Professor Milt Friedly's Work on Exhibition Through July 3
Milt Friedly, Professor of Art, had his etching “Jetty” selected for the juried exhibition “Make Your Mark,” hosted
by the Whitaker Center for the Sciences and Arts, Harrisburg. The
exhibition was organized by the Susquehanna Art Museum and runs through Friday, July 3. An opening reception is planned from 5 to 7
p.m. tonight, May 12, at the Whitaker Center.
His digital photograph, “Bull Rider,” is part of the PA Arts Experience
– The Susquehanna Valley Artists Trail exhibition which runs through
June 18 at Lancaster Arts Hotel.hing selected for Make Your Mark exhibit, digital photo in Susquehanna Valley exhibit.
5/12/2009 Commencement Speaker Mary Ellen McNish to Receive Honorary Degree
Elizabethtown College’s 106th Commencement will be held Saturday,
May 16, 2009, at 11 a.m. A record number of students, 524, will be
participating in this year’s commencement, held in the Dell on the
E-town campus. The event is the culmination of a week of special
activities for seniors at Elizabethtown College.
Ms. Mary
Ellen McNish, General Secretary of the American Friends Service
Committee (AFSC), will address this year’s graduates and receive an
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the College. Mary Ellen
McNish was appointed general secretary of the American Friends Service
Committee by its board of directors in June 2000. In this position, she
is responsible for the administration of programs and projects in more
than 22 countries and nine regions in the United States. Before joining
the Service Committee, Ms. McNish was executive director of development
at Weil Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian
Hospital, and the assistant vice president for development at Medical
College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, Pa.
She
has more than 20 years of progressive responsibility in nonprofit
management. Ms. McNish has worked for the Young Women’s Christian
Association of Camden County (N.J.) and the Burlington County (N.J.)
Community Action Agency. A former chief operating officer of Planned
Parenthood of Maryland, Ms. McNish spent 13 years in several roles in
the Friends General Conference, including assistant presiding clerk.
She is an experienced public speaker and has particular strengths in
strategic planning, fundraising, team building, operations and
organizational development. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education
from East Stroudsburg University and a master’s degree in business from
The Johns Hopkins University.
Ms. Mary Ellen McNish,
General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC),
will address this year’s graduates. AFSC is a Quaker organization
devoted to peace and justice in the U.S. and around the world. The
organization is a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for its work in
post-World War II Germany. A graduate of East Stroudsburg University
and Johns Hopkins, Ms. McNish has served as General Secretary since
2000. During that time she has represented AFSC on peace delegations
to North Korea, Iran, and Israel/Palestine, as well as at Nobel Peace
Laureate Summits.
During her tenure, the organization has
been active in community building in Bosnia, enhancing the education
system in Afghanistan, peace advocacy regarding the Iraq war, and flood
relief in the gulf region, Honduras, and areas affected by the
Tsunami. She oversees an array of ongoing programs, including those
addressing economic and social justice, immigrant rights, African
development, and Israeli-Palestinian peace. She is a frequent speaker
on issues regarding human rights, economic justice and conflict
transformation.
5/12/2009 Borough Manager, Pete Whipple, to Receive Honorary Degree at Commencement
On Saturday, May 16 at 11:00 a.m. Elizabethtown College will hold its 106th Commencement. Peter Whipple, Borough Manager of Elizabethtown will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree that day. Whipple has served the Borough of Elizabethtown, Pa., for more than three decades. As borough manager, Mr. Whipple has been instrumental in several significant projects that have enhanced the financial health of the community and improved public services to its residents and businesses. Highlighting his tenure with the municipality are projects that raised funding and managed the acquisition of a privately-held water utility, upgraded and expanded the community’s wastewater treatment plant, and planned a $9-million intermodal transportation center renovation.
As a leader of a local task force, Mr. Whipple supported Elizabethtown’s economic growth through the development of a master plan for the borough’s downtown. He also coordinated a major industrial plant expansion in the downtown, which included a $3-million street relocation and extension, and facilitated a $14-million commercial and residential adaptive reuse project involving public and private participation. Reflective of his outstanding leadership and considerable efforts, Elizabethtown Borough was recognized in 2009 with the Governor’s Award for Local Government Excellence.
In addition to his work with the borough, Mr. Whipple is actively involved in his community. He is a board member and/or officer of a number of organizations, including the Susquehanna Municipal Trust, the Elizabethtown Fire Protection Endowment Fund, the Elizabethtown Area Regional Authority, and the Elizabethtown Industrial Development Authority. He also is a member of the Lancaster County (Pa.) Planning Commission’s Water Resources Advisory Committee and Economic Development Task Force, the International City/County Management Association, the Association for Pennsylvania Municipal Management, and the Friendship Fire and Hose Company No. 1. Mr. Whipple actively supports Elizabethtown College as one of our annual Homecoming parade judges and through his involvement with the Hillel student group. He earned a bachelor’s degree in government and law from Lafayette College and a master’s degree in public administration, with a concentration in local government, from Penn State.
Director of Admissions and Marketing for Continuing Ed to Advise Editor of Jossey Bass Publication
Barbara Randazzo, Director of Admissions and Marketing for the Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning at Elizabethtown College (CCEDL), has joined the Board of Advisors for Nontraditional Students Report. NSR is a national newsletter for higher education professionals serving adult students and advisory board members are chosen for their expertise in the area of adult education. Published monthly, it covers such topics as marketing strategies, accelerated learning, prior learning assessment, and many others. Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, is the publisher and Randazzo will serve in an advisory capacity to the editor.
Randazzo has tallied ten years in the dynamic field of Continuing Education, one of the fastest growing areas of higher education. She was a key member of the original task force for accelerated learning programs at Elizabethtown College. As Director of Admissions and Marketing for Elizabethtown CCEDL, she is responsible for marketing academic programs at multiple off campus locations including Lancaster, Harrisburg and the newly opened campus in York. She is responsible for strategic planning, identifying and seizing new growth opportunities, as well as enrollment management. Elizabethtown CCEDL enrollment has surged 92% in the past four years under hear marketing and enrollment leadership. Randazzo has an extensive background in progressively responsible Human Resources positions. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from St. Joseph’s University, and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Leadership and Business Ethics at Duquesne University. Randazzo lives in Lebanon, PA, with her family.
5/9/2009 K9 Club Pup-E-Palooza Holds Successful Puppy Party on Campus
Ruffing it
Pup-E-Palooza works to give every dog its day
Intelligencer Journal by Jennifer Todd, Staff Writer
Pixie had one thing on her mind. As NatalieWeidman stopped to chat, the 2-year-old beagle mix nosed impatiently at her owner's hand.
"OK, OK, be patient," Weidman said as she handed Pixie a recently purchased treat. "You can't tell she's spoiled, can you?" Weidman, of Hershey, joked as her canine pal quickly devoured the peanut-butter goodie. "But she's my baby. I just love her to death."
With the treat safely in her belly, Pixie tugged on her leash, ready to meet more canine friends at Pup-E-Palooza, held Sunday at Elizabethtown College's Brinser Field. Pup-E-Palooza, now in its fourth year, is organized by the school's K-9 Club. Sunday's event featured live music, face painting, demonstrations, raffles and games.
"As a group, we volunteer at various rescue groups and attend animal-rights meetings," senior Jasmine Gollup, co-president of the K-9 Club, said Sunday. "This is our way of bringing attention to those things to our school and to the community. Some of these rescue groups need all the support they can get." About 22 vendors set up tents around Brinser Field Sunday and offered everything from stylish dog collars to gourmet treats and lush doggie beds — all the necessary tools for spoiling your pooch.
And then there were some pooches who would give anything to be spoiled. Muffin, Lucky and Powder sprawled out on the cool grass under The Dogs' Den tent, just waiting for someone to come by and offer them a home. "It's been difficult with the poor economy," said DeniseDurkey, founder of The Dogs' Den, an education and adoption group. "Donations are down; rescuers are having a harder time finding good homes for their dogs."
Durkey said she has about 38 dogs in foster care who need homes. Muffin, Lucky and Powder were all surrendered by their owners, volunteer KimberleaKonowitch said. Over at the Bad Press tent, BrianEsponara's 16-month-old pit bull Dozer stretched out on the grass and slurped from a bowl of water. Bad Press, organized in 2003, seeks to quell the stigma associated with certain breeds of dogs, such as pit bulls and Rottweilers, that have gained a reputation for being vicious. "I feel I have a responsibility as a dog owner to educate people about the breed," Esponara said. "They are not the dogs everybody thinks they are."
Proceeds from this year's Pup-E-Palooza benefited Brookline Labrador Retriever Rescue, Cocker Spaniel Adoption Center and Coast to Coast Dachshund Rescue. ###
The K9 Club at E-town is dedicated to the awareness that canines are loving, loyal, and intelligent animals that deserve a good home with a family willing to return the love. The club shall strive to raise money for non-profit animal rescue organizations and causes. Business professor Dr.BryanGreenberg is the faculty advisor. Officers include Jasmine Gollup ,President; PatriciaCangelosi,Vice President: KalieDesimone,Secretary ;AshleyFrank ,Treasurer; and JessalynDonnelly , President.
5/7/2009 Blue Jay Hall of Fame Inducts Seven Alums
Elizabethtown College inducted seven new members into its Ira R. Herr Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 9 during the Blue Jay Athletics Alumni Reunion banquet. This year's inductees are W. Randall (Randy) Stauffer '76, a member of the men's tennis team, Jeffrey R. (Jeff) Stauffer '80, a member of the men's tennis team, Gary E. Scheib '80, a member of the wrestling team, Darcy (Hall) Thompson '89, a member of the volleyball team, Brad D. Hassinger '90, a member of the baseball team, Chris E. Morgan '91, a member of the men's soccer team, and Jaclyn (Zimmerman) Waldron '99, a member of the women's swimming team.
In addition, former men's basketball and men's tennis coach Don Smith will receive the Joseph A. Whitmore Outstanding Service to Student Athletes Award, and the late Ray Diener '65 will be the posthumous recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award. Read More
5/7/2009 Golf Team Places 1st at Commonwealth Conference Championships
The Elizabethtown College golf team won its second consecutive Commonwealth Conference championship by seven strokes over Albright College at Blue Ridge Country Club.
Junior Kurt Amen (Quakertown, PA/Quakertown) became the first Blue Jay golfer since Ben Smith in 1995 to win a conference individual championship as he shot 156 over 36 holes for a one-stroke victory over teammate Nick Iacono (Hockessin, DE/Sanford School) and Erik Thorn of Albright.
Amen was honored as the conference's Player of the Year while Iacono was recognized as Rookie of the Year as the top first-time performer at the conference meet. Elizabethtown head coach Keith Marks was named Coach of the Year for the second straight year for leading his team to back-to-back titles.
With the conference championship, the Blue Jays earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Golf Championships to be held May 13-16 at the PGA Village at Port St. Lucie, Florida.
After shooting 311 and holding a 16-stroke lead over Albright following Sunday's opening round, the Blue Jays turned in a 327 on Monday but the Lions could card no better than 318.
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Eight members of the Elizabethtown College women's lacrosse team have been named to the All-Middle Atlantic Conference team, the conference office announced Tuesday.
Senior attack Katie Foley (Palmyra, NJ/Holy Cross) was honored for the second time in her career as MAC Player of the Year after setting school single-season records with 84 goals and 115 points, and was joined on the first team by senior midfielder Anna Ford (Salisbury, MD/Homeschooled).
Earning second-team honors were junior attack Megan Byrnes (Lutherville, MD/Towson), junior midfielder Katie Caprinolo (Jarrettsville, MD/North Harford), sophomore midfielder Sarah Cullinan (West Chester, PA/West Chester East), senior defenders Lyndsey Reeve (Turnersville, NJ/Washington Township) and Dana Simmons (Flourtown, PA/Plymouth-Whitemarsh) and senior goalkeeper Jenn Hawkins (Havre de Grace, MD/Havre de Grace).
As a group, they led the Blue Jays to a 16-3 overall record and a perfect 11-0 mark in MAC play. Elizabethtown was ranked as high as 16th in the IWLCA Division III poll and advanced to the MAC championship game for the second consecutive season.
5/6/2009 Senior Guzik Named to NCAA III Softball Third - Team All-Regional
Marian Guzik Selected Third-Team All-Region in Softball
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College senior outfielder Marian Guzik (Greensburg, PA/Hempfield Area) was named third-team Division III All-East Region by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, the NFCA announced Tuesday.
She is the first Elizabethtown player to be named All-Region since Kelli Thon was a second-team selection in 2007, and is the 10th different Blue Jay player to be an All-Region pick. Guzik, a first-team All-Commonwealth Conference selection, is ranked seventh in the conference in batting average at .385, and she led the Blue Jays in hits (45) and runs scored (20) while sharing the team lead in doubles with five.
She led the Blue Jays with 13 multiple-hit games and had the team's longest hitting streak of the year at 11 games. For her career, Guzik finished with a .324 batting average in 115 games, and is tied for seventh on the school's career hits list with 111.
The Blue Jays finished 11-25 overall and 4-8 in the Commonwealth Conference in 2009, playing a challenging scheduled that included six games against NCAA Division III tournament participants.
Jordan Stepanchick isn't shy about sharing the "secret" behind his prize-winning pancakes. "Eggos," he says.
The frozen favorites — warmed and topped with bananas, strawberries and blueberries — propelled Jordan and Ben Kramer to victory in Hempfield High School's first-ever Student Chef competition. Classmates chose the duo's Fruit-Topped Pancakes from original lunch entrees created by five student teams. The winning pancakes will appear in the school's 2009-10 menu cycle.
Jordan and Ben, who celebrated their victory with high-fives, also won the title of "Hempfield Student Chef 2009" and chef's jackets embroidered with the Hempfield logo. The boys looked to their favorite meal — breakfast — to come up with Fruit-Topped Pancakes. "We're both wrestlers," says Ben, the son of Larry and Julie Kramer, Landisville. "We're always trying to lose weight for that. We thought we'd make something healthy."
Jordan figures they won because the pancakes were different. Two of the other four contestants were wraps; two were pasta dishes. All five entrees were served in the school cafeteria the week of April 27. The May 1 vote was very close, district child nutrition department supervisor Joan L. Wheeler says, with 685 high schoolers casting ballots.
Student Chef started as a way to solicit new menu ideas from students. The contest was so popular, Wheeler says, that more than one finalist may end up in next year's menu rotation. "(Students) know what they like and don't like," she says. "It's easier for them to tell us than for us to guess." Jordan, a senior, and Ben, a junior, entered the contest because, as Ben puts it, "It was something to do."
"It was a good opportunity for the student body as a whole to try different lunches, instead of having the same thing day in and day out," says Jordan, the son of Gary and Karen Stepanchick, West Hempfield Township.” We got to try all-new things."
When it comes to school lunches, teenagers tend to be brutally honest about their likes and dislikes. "Most of the time we hear they're tired of the same thing," Wheeler says. "I think that's (the) biggest complaint.” The high school offers six to 10 daily lunch-entree choices, in a menu cycle that repeats every five weeks. The stakes are high. About 1,950 high schoolers — or 85 percent — buy at least one school meal every day, Wheeler says.
Student Chef, a joint venture between the district's child nutrition department and wellness council, was open to any student at the high school. Staff whittled 33 student teams down to six finalists. Recipes had to fit nutritional criteria, use common cafeteria ingredients — that would include Eggo pancakes — and be feasible to produce.
(Only one or two entries were really off the wall, Wheeler says.) The six finalists prepared their dishes for Hempfield School Board members to sample and vote on at their April meeting. Monday, April 27, through Friday, May 1, cafeteria staff prepared and served between 734 and 840 portions of the board's top five vote getters. Hempfield plans a second Student Chef competition next year.
Fruit-Topped Pancakes, which will be served with Canadian bacon or another meat for protein, may also appear on menus at the district's middle schools, Wheeler says. "I think (students) have a better understanding of what school lunch is — how hard it is to think up a product and put it out there," she says. Finalists Ryan Stadel and Christine Mavraganis say their Homemade Lasagna was inspired by the popularity of the cafeteria's pasta bar.
"That is a big deal," Christine says, before last month's school board meeting. "It's pretty much a holiday at Hempfield." (Having sampled the lasagna, Jordan, who will study criminal justice at Elizabethtown College, expected it would be his stiffest competition.)
But pasta and wraps proved no match for Jordan and Ben, who squashed the competition, well, like a pancake.
Baseball Team Advances to the NCAA Divison III Championships
WEST LAWN, Pa. --- Tournament Most Valuable Player Matt Vinagro (Fredericksburg, VA/Stafford) threw his second complete game in less than 24 hours as Elizabethtown College defeated Widener University 12-5 to win the Commonwealth Conference baseball championship at Owls Field on Saturday.
The Blue Jays (27-13 overall) won four elimination games in a span of 30 hours to win their third conference title in four years and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Baseball tournament, which begins May 13.
It was the fifth consecutive season the Blue Jays qualified for the Commonwealth Conference Championship and its third season win. The team is under the management of Coach Cliff Smith. Elizabethtown College named Cliff Smith head coach of its baseball program since December 2006. Prior to his appointment, Smith was an assistant coach at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and an educational technician in the special education department at Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham, Maine.
Only the ninth head coach in the history of the Elizabethtown College baseball program, he guided the team to its 1,000th all-time victory, a Commonwealth Conference title and an NCAA Division III tournament appearance in his first season at the Blue Jays' helm.
5/5/2009 Professor Gottfried on Obama's Approval Ratings
Article by Professor Paul Gottfried, Ph.D.
Obama's High Approval Ratings Could Change on a Dime
Lancaster New Era Published: May 02, 2009 By PAUL E. GOTTFRIED
Now that the controversy generated by the tea-party protests is fading into memory, it might be useful to measure their historic significance.
If the president's opponents were hoping to display their numerical strength in the face of Democratic spending programs, the result of their efforts was quite modest.
From what we can tell, the protests drew about 450,000 participants, at most, from across the country.
No matter what excuses are given to explain these unimpressive numbers, be it rainy weather or hasty organization, the tea-party participants seemed relatively few in comparison to those millions who rallied in Washington, New York, San Francisco and other major cities last summer in defense of the "right" of illegal aliens to remain in the U.S.
Even granting that illegals and their families were among these demonstrators, other groups also poured out for these rallies &tstr; such as social-service employees, teachers, clergy and loads of college students.
It is unlikely this event did better than the tea parties because of greater media support. One could see on TV the relative numbers of both groups of demonstrators and, from the density of the crowds, it would seem that the amnesty rallies had far more mass support than the tea parties.
What made the tea parties worth watching were the remarks of some of the protesters and the malicious coverage that came from network-news commentators.
Some of the demonstrators expressed contempt for the two national parties and insisted that neither paid any real attention to the Constitution (strictly interpreted).
Others were complaining that the current American administrative state had nothing to do with the principles for which the American Revolution had been fought, and that we were better off under George III, who for the most part left the American colonies alone.
Network commentators, and especially those representing CNN, seemed genuinely belligerent toward the protesters.
CNN contributor Paul Begala mouthed off famously against the lack of patriotism among the tea-party activists, who objected to paying what they regarded as exorbitant taxes.
One CNN reporter began to rage on TV against a protester whom she was supposedly interviewing.
Various entertainers stepped in to trash the demonstrators, perhaps most stupidly the actress Janeane Garofalo who opined: "It's about hating a black man in the White House. This is nothing but racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks."
In view of the size of the crowds, the president's popularity, and Democratic control of the federal government (including presumably most of the federal bureaucracy), one wonders why the media assumed the role of thought police.
Presumably the Hollywood types were doing nothing more interesting than flaunting the views they had picked up at disco clubs and their predictably poor English grammar. But why did CNN commentators like Begala and Anderson Cooper go ballistic, dumping on the demonstrators?
Three explanations seem to hold true.
One, the media commentators overestimated the strength of the resistance to a beloved chief executive. In all likelihood, they believed they were confronting a more numerous opposition than they actually met.
I myself was struck by the meager turnouts, having believed from, among others, TV celebrity Glenn Beck, that the demonstrations would pull far many more sympathizers than they did.
I recall meeting a Ron Paul activist a few weeks ago, who kept telling me, "We have them surrounded." He had heard that from Beck the day before.
Explanation two, the media may be preparing to silence any real opposition to the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress.
The controversial economic, social, and foreign policies pursued by the current administration could create noisy resistance, and the media came forth as diehard defenders of the Democrats, in order to let Obama's critics know what might await those who gripe.
While the president and first lady continue to enjoy high popularity ratings, partly because of unrelenting media hype, this trend may change if the American economy goes further south.
Obama's popularity rests on the perception of him as "someone who can be trusted" and as a celebrity whose image journalists, TV commentators and the entertainment industry are all working hard to keep intact.
But what happens if the unemployment rate shoots up more and if American money is further devalued as a result of inflation caused by the recently passed stimulus programs?
At that point, Obama's chief strength &tstr; which lies in the fact that the majority of Americans trust him as a leader, according to the latest Marist Poll &tstr; may be diminished.
Note that, for his followers, Obama is not just an officeholder but someone destined to introduce significant change &tstr; such as nationalized health care, federal support for abortion rights and a hate-crime bill now sailing through the Democratic House.
It is therefore imperative for the Obamaites to stifle opposition before it takes off.
The tea parties were as good a time as any to start this work of dissuasion.
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Paul E. Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College.
4/29/2009 Sophomore Competes This Saturday for Miss Pennsylvania
Elizabethtown Sophomore Kuperavage: The Next Miss Pennsylvania?
Brittany Kuperavage, a sophomore at Elizabethtown College, will be competing in the Miss Pennsylvania Scholarship Pageant this Saturday, June 27, 2009. Kuperavage, who is now Miss Berks County, is a biology/communications honor student at the College who has maintained a 3.9 GPA and is a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society and the Tri Beta Biological Honor Society on campus. Her future plans include studying for a master’s degree in Public Health and continued work in the health care field.
She is currently a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society spokesperson and has organized and participated in fundraising activities for the Tennis Love Affair to benefit Cystic Fibrosis, CMN Valentine’s Day Fundraiser at Hershey Medical Center, and the Jerry Lewis Telethon. She is a member of the Elizabethtown College Emotion dance club, a biology student tutor, a laboratory assistant and a peer mentor. She performs dance in the talent portion of the pageant competition.
The winner of the Miss Pennsylvania Scholarship Competition will go on to compete in the Miss America Pageant 2010. The Miss America Organization is one of the nation's leading achievement programs and the world's largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women. Last year, the Miss America Organization and its state and local organizations made available more than $45 million in cash and scholarship assistance.
4/27/2009 Dr. Kirsten Johnson Featured on Ourblook.com Dr. Kirsten Johnson, professor of communications at Elizabethtown College, was interviewed recently by the editors of ourblook.com on the growth of citizen journalism in America. OurBlook is a collaboratively written blook - part blog, part book - offering internet citizens a neutral platform to discuss public issues generally not covered by the mainstream press. This blook emphasizes edited, organized input of uniform quality. But unlike a book, our "publishing" remains available on the Internet and it will not be static ... it will frequently grow and change as content is added or eliminated based on reader submissions. Gerry Storch is the OurBlook editor, and former reporter and editor for the AP, Detroit News, Miami Herald and Gannett News Service. Paul Mongerson is the OurBlook founder, and author of "The Power Press: Its Impact on America and What You Can Do About It."
Prior to teaching, Johnson worked for nearly a decade in local radio and television, beginning her media career at KRNT and KIOA radio in Des Moines as an on-air personality and board operator. She then worked as a news producer at WOI-TV (the ABC affiliate in Des Moines) and at WGAL-TV (the NBC affiliate in Lancaster).
4/27/2009 Dr. Fletcher McClellan Op-Ed on "Obama's First 100 Days." Dr. Fletcher McClellan, chair of the political science department, wrote an Op-Ed piece published in the Harrisburg Sunday Patriot-News titled "Checking In: Obama's First 100 Days." Read Op-Ed Piece
4/24/2009 Dr. Tyminski Publishes New Book on Student Teaching
April 24, 2009 – Dr. Carroll Tyminski's new book, “Your Early Childhood Practicum and Student Teaching Experience: Guidelines for Success” has been published by Merrill, a brand of Pearson Education. The text is “designed for students who are assuming the responsibilities of teaching young children while receiving guidance and supervision. Students may be taking part in a variety of student teaching experiences. These may include capstone courses for one-year certificate programs and for associate degree programs, practicum experiences in a community college setting, as well as traditional early childhood programs in a four-year university setting. This text offers both theory and practical application to guide each student to a successful conclusion of the practicum and student teaching experience.*” The new book is also available with complementary online resources including a Blackboard® cartridge, an instructor’s manual, a test bank, TestGen and a WebCT cartridge. Carroll Tyminski, Ed.D. is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at Elizabethtown College.
4/22/2009 Today "Weathering the Economic Storm" @ High Center for Family Business
“To Weather the Storm, Create Your Own Forecast”
A Conversation on the Economy and How Best to Respond to a Downturn
On May 7, The S. Dale High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College presents a conversation on how to weather the storm of an economic downturn. The event, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. will beheld in Myer Hall and is free and open to the public. Attendees should r.s.v.p. by Thursday, April 30.
The event features two speakers, including Thomas J. Wonsiewicz who will discuss “Leading During a Downturn” based on his 39 years experience in dealing with the financial, human and cultural challenges inherent in economic downturns.Mr. Wonsiewicz is retired President and currently Chairman of Lane Enterprises, Inc., a successful manufacturing/distribution firm with sales in excess of $50 million.
The second guest, Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. will provide an overview of the subprime financial crisis and efforts by federal agencies to contain it.He will discuss how the financial crisis will affect the broader economy in the near term, including the availability of credit to small and medium-sized businesses."Wilmarth is Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.
The event will be moderated by Michael N. McGrann, the Associate Director of the Institute for Family Enterprising at Babson College and co-founder and managing principal of The TELOS Group, an education firm that provides specialized services to family and closely-held companies. Call 717-361-3752 for further information.
The S. Dale High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College helps family businesses “Prepare for Tomorrow” by providing opportunities to address and resolve their succession, management, ownership and strategic issues through a special program of seminars, access to national resources and networking.
4/21/2009 Dr. Varamini Appointed to Turnbull-Jamieson Chair in Business
Dr. Hossein Varamini
Appointed to
Turnbull-Jamieson Endowed Chair in Business & Accounting
Elizabethtown College Receives $1.1 Million Gift to Endow
Chair
Elizabethtown College
announces Dr. Hossein Varamini, Professor of Finance and International
Business, has been appointed to the new Turnbull-Jamieson Chair. Elizabethtown
College created the chair from a family estate gift of more than $1.1 million
to fund the Turnbull-Jamieson Chair in memory of Craig J. Turnbull, Florence O.
Turnbull, Katherine E. Jamieson, and Lorraine L. Jamieson. This endowed Chair
provides funding for teaching in the fields of Business and Accounting at
Elizabethtown College.
Dr. Varamini earned his B.S. in Business from the Tehran
Business College in Iran, his M.B.A. from Phillips University and his Ph.D. in
Economics from Kansas State.He
has taught at St. Norbert College and Montana State University and served as
the Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin.He is the author of 20 published articles and has presented
numerous papers at scholarly meetings in the areas of finance, international
economics and econometrics. Dr. Varamini has distinguished himself as a
teacher, scholar and faculty leader. He has been one of the leaders in our
college-wide effort to enhance global education for all of our students.Dr. Varamini lives in Lancaster with
his wife, Maryam, and their two children, Behzad and Behnaz Varamini.
“We are extremely grateful for this generous gift from the
Turnbull and Jamieson families,” said Theodore E. Long, President. “Dr.
Varamini is the perfect choice for this honor and he will continue to enhance
the national visibility of the International Business program at Elizabethtown
College.” The College offers baccalaureate degree programs in accounting,
international business, economics and business administration in the Department
of Business, headquartered in the James B. Hoover Center for Business.
Record Number of Graduates This Year at May 16th Commencement at Elizabethtown College
On Saturday, May 16th, Elizabethtown College celebrated
the accomplishments of the Class of 2009. The Commencement ceremony, took place at 11:00 a.m. in the Dell, where over 500 students received their diplomas while parents, family and friends looked on. This traditional College event
was planned by the students, in collaboration with Chaplain Tracy Wenger Sadd. Afterwards, students and guests, approximately 2,000, enjoyed
fellowship, hors d’oeuvres and live music by the lake. The Lancaster Sunday News covered the event as well as several local television stations.
An Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree was bestowed upon Elizabethtown Borough Manager Pete Whipple.
Mary Ellen McNish, who also served as the Commencement speaker, received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
McNish, who is General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, told students, "You are graduating into a period of history that will test you and try you. We are in a time of two major wars, 17 other conflicts around the globe, 70% of the world’s population living in poverty, global warming, peak oil, the financial meltdown and now the H1N1 flu. It almost seems insurmountable."
She went on to say,"Essentially I am advising you to develop your character as well as your intelligence. And if you put it all together with creating your own “home” and being a life long learner there is no doubt in my mind that you will: • Bring your authentic selves to every situation so you act with integrity. • Approach every interaction with humility. • Be able to open your minds and hearts to others. • Be courageous in doing the right thing. • Have compassion for other people’s struggles. • Know and understand that living with uncertainty will never change. • Have faith that everything serves a higher good. • Be patient and forgiving. • Love all beings simply because they exist."
4/15/2009 May 1 A Conversation on “The Female Experience in Iraq”
"9 Parts of Desire" Delves into the Lives of Nine Iraqi Women
A Conversation on
“The Female Experience in Iraq” to
Precede Performance
on May 1.
The Elizabethtown College Theatre presents the play “9 Parts
of Desire” on May 1, with a special conversation on "The Female Experience
in Iraq" preceding the performance. Written by actress and playwright
Heather Raffo, the play delves into the lives of nine Iraqi women as each
struggles to make sense of the chaos wreaked by two wars in her homeland. A portrait
of many women’s lives, this heartbreaking work is a timely meditation on the
ancient, the modern, and the feminine in a war-torn country. The characters
endure unimaginable savagery, but maintain a belief in love and the possibility
of finding peace.
Raffo describes her own work as “a portrait of the
extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of a whole cross-section of Iraqi women: a
sexy painter, a radical Communist, doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. This work
delves into the many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in the
age-old war zone that is Iraq.” The play will be directed by Terri Mastrobuono
of Elizabethtown College at Tempest Theatre in the Baugher Student Center.
Only on Friday, May 1 at 7:00 p.m., in Tempest Theatre,
preceding the evening’sperformance, a conversation will be held on "The Female Experience
in Iraq." The panel includes Dr. Oya Ozkanca, professor of political
science at Elizabethtown College; Hana Ali of Lititz, who emigrated from Iraq
and now manages her own business; and “9 Parts” director Terri
Mastrobuono.Michael
Swanson, coordinator of theatre and dance at Elizabethtown, will moderate the
discussion.Admission to the panel
is free. Tickets to the performance are $5.00 each and can be reserved by
calling 717-361-1170 or e-mailing boxoffice@etown.edu.
Oya Dursun-Ozkanca is a native of Turkey who has done
extensive work on post-conflict reconstruction. She is currently assistant
professor of political science at Elizabethtown College and specializes in European
politics (European Union enlargement, EU common foreign and security policy,
and trans-Atlantic relations), international relations (international security
and conflict, and international organizations), and American foreign policy
(counter-terrorism and post-conflict reconstruction).
Hana Ali immigrated to the United States from Iraq in
1991.She manages investment
houses, translates for Iraqi refugees and recently opened an international food
store in New Holland.
Teri Mastrobuono, actress, writer and director, is an
adjunct faculty member at Elizabethtown College and has directed such timely,
visceral, and thought-provoking pieces such as "The Laramie Project",
"Marat/Sade", and "Hair". As part of E-town's "Creating
and Performing Children's Theater" course, she has directed "Yearning
to Breathe Free", and a version of "Pinocchio" which she adapted
from the original Italian work.
4/15/2009 May 3 – Faure's Requiem Part of Spring Choral and Jazz Band Concert
On Sunday, May 3rd, choirs from Elizabethtown College will present a
wide assortment of music from across the ages. The Music division of the
Department of Fine and Performing Arts sponsors the 3:00 p.m. event. Anchoring
the concert will be a performance of the Gabriel Fauré masterpiece, Requiem, with organ and piano
accompaniment as well as soloists. The first version of the work premiered in
1888 as “Le Petit Requiem” with the second following five years later, as the
work is known today -- the chamber orchestra version.Requiem was not
performed in the United States until 1931, at the Curtis Institute in
Philadelphia.
Also
performing on the concert will be the College's Jazz Band under the direction
of Mr. Grant Moore II; Women’s Chorus under the direction of Professor Carrie
Fritz; Concert Choir and College-Community Chorus, directed by Dr. Matthew
Fritz; and Camerata, the student-led ensemble. The event, which will be held in
Leffler Chapel and Performance Center on the campus of Elizabethtown College, is free and open to the public.
4/15/2009 Tonight Thomas Hylton "Save Our Land, Save Our Town"
On Wednesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m., Elizabethtown College, the Borough of Elizabethtown, and a coalition of local land-use planning and reform organizations will present a timely look at urban sprawl, a complex, challenging issue being faced by many communities in central Pennsylvania. The event will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Hylton, who will offer a lecture, titled “Save our Land, Save our Towns: Growing Communities, not Sprawl.” The lecture – which will be held in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center on Elizabethtown College’s campus – is open to the public and free of charge. Because of limited seating in the venue, free tickets are required and can be obtained by calling the College’s ticket hotline at (717) 361-4757.
This program – along with a series of classroom discussions being conducted for Elizabethtown College and Elizabethtown Area High School students – is being sponsored by the College, the Borough of Elizabethtown, the Coalition for Smart Growth, the Hourglass Foundation, the Lancaster Alliance, and the Lancaster County Planning Commission. More information is available by contacting Elizabethtown College’s Office of Marketing and Communication at (717) 361-1410.
Thomas Hylton is author of the coffee table book, titled “Save Our Land, Save Our Towns,”and host of a public television documentary with the same name. The program was first broadcast on Pennsylvania PBS stations in 2000 and has aired more than 100 times on PBS stations nationwide.
Since publishing the book in 1995, Hylton has given more than 400 presentations in Pennsylvania and 34 other states on land-use planning and community building. He addressed the nation’s governors at the winter 2001 conference of the National Governors’ Association. In addition, Hylton has given talks to legislators, which were sponsored by both the Democratic and Republican caucuses of the Pennsylvania House and Senate. His book was distributed to every Pennsylvania legislator and 500 other state and local officials by Pa. Secretary of Environmental Protection James Seif. Hylton is an organizing member of 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, a coalition of civic groups dedicated to land-use reforms and community building in Pennsylvania.
A three-time winner of the American Planning Association’s annual journalism award, Hylton received a fellowship from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1993 to study state planning issues. Since then, Hylton has written more than 200 newspaper and magazine articles on land-use planning and community building.
4/8/2009 April 14 Get Absurd to Simulate Car Accident on Campus
Elizabethtown College Students Raise Issue “Don’t Drink and Drive”
On April 14 at 6:30 p.m., the student group Get Absurd, an acronym for “Get A Better Safer Understanding of Responsible Drinking,” is holding a crash simulation, showing the possible effects of driving under the influence. The event is being staged with the cooperation of two ambulance corps and the local fire department setting up the scene and conducting this program for students. The mission of the student group is to educate the members of the Elizabethtown College and the local communities about the dangers of irresponsible drinking. The scene will include two cars that have “crashed.” Student actors will play out the scene while the fire department and ambulance crews arrive and respond exactly as they would in a real accident. The event shows the students that in a matter of seconds, based on one poor decision, life can change forever. Almost 14,000 fatalities occur in crashes each year, which involve at least one driver who had a .08 or above blood alcohol concentration. E-town students in the Get Absurd program hope to play a critical role in helping to ensure that no one on campus becomes a part of this national problem. The event will be held outside the Ober Loop on the E-town campus.
4/7/2009 May 1st and 2nd "9 Parts of Desire" 8:00 p.m.
“9 Parts of Desire”: Play Delves into the Lives of Nine Iraqi Women
Award-winning
Playwright Heather Raffo’s Work to be Staged by Students
The Elizabethtown College Theatre presents “9 Parts of
Desire,” a play that will be held on May 1 & 2,
2009 at 8:00 p.m. The play, written by actress and playwright Heather Raffo, delves into
the lives of nine Iraqi women as each struggles to make sense of the chaos
wreaked by two wars in her homeland. A portrait of many women’s lives, this heartbreaking
work is a timely meditation on the ancient, the modern, and the feminine in a
war-torn country. The characters endure unimaginable savagery, but maintain a
belief in love and the possibility of finding peace.
Raffo describes her own work as “a portrait of the
extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of a whole cross-section of Iraqi women: a
sexy painter, a radical Communist, doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. This work
delves into the many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in the
age-old war zone that is Iraq.” The play will be directed by Professor Terri
Mastrobuono of Elizabethtown College and is being held at Tempest Theatre in
the Baugher Student Center.
New York Times critic Charles Isherwood wrote, “the voices
are a study in contrasts: vivid and subdued, sophisticated and naïve, seductive
and standoffish…portraits all marked by vivid, memorable details, and a measure
of lyricism.”Tickets are $5.00
each. Reserve tickets now by 717-361-1170 or e-mail boxoffice@etown.edu.
The all-student cast includes:
Huda…………………………………………………………….Chloe Beveridge
Amal……………………………………………………………..Natasha Threatts
Nanna……………………………………………………………Laura Abernathy
Doctor……………………………………………………………Elyse Venturella
American of Iraqi descent ……………………………Tammy Bateman
4/6/2009 Senior Brandon Bear Wins Sudoku Contest from Inventor
County native
meets Sudoku creator
Brandon Bear won a Sudoku contest in D.C. for the honor.
By TOM JOYCE
Reprinted from the York Daily Record/Sunday News, York, PA
Posted: 04/05/2009 10:26:55 PM EDT
Picture, say, showing off how well you can play the
Sousaphone in front of John Philip Sousa. Or demonstrating your jump shot in
front of Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.
Opportunities to show off your skill in a given activity in
front of that activity's inventor don't come along often. But that's the
situation that Hellam native Brandon Bear walked into Saturday, when he
encountered the inventor of the Sudoku puzzle.
Not only did Bear get a chance to meet Japanese puzzle
designer Maki Kaji, but he also won a Sudoku contest held to mark Kaji's visit.
"That was pretty neat," Bear said.
It happened more or less by accident.
Bear, 21, an Eastern York grad, is a senior at Elizabethtown
College, where he's pursuing a degree in mathematics and physics. The
instructor for his course on modern Asian history suggested students visit the
Sakura Matsuri Japanese Street Festival in downtown Washington, D.C.
Bear said he was just walking around, checking out the arts
and the food, when he encountered a stage in the street. A small crowd was
listening to Maki speak through a translator.
Then someone on the stage announced a Sudoku contest, with a
prize for whoever placed first. Bear raised his hand.
He ended up besting five opponents, completing the puzzle in
about five minutes. He won Sudoku-related merchandise such as a towel, a
T-shirt, a book and some stickers.
Maki himself presented the prize. He seemed pretty nice,
Bear said.
Not surprisingly, given his major, Bear is good with numbers.
But he wouldn't call himself a Sudoku fanatic. He goes through phases where he
does the puzzles online or in books.
And that Sudoku book he won helped him pass the time on the
bus ride home.
"I like the challenge of it and that it usually makes
you think outside the box to get the harder ones," he said.
4/6/2009 TONIGHT "Amish Identity and Rites of Passage" by Andy Borella
Borella to Discuss how
Rites of Passage Ensure Amish
Strength and Solidarity Within Communities
On Thursday, April 23, at 7:00 p.m., the Young Center for
Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College will present Andy
Borella, who will speak on “Amish Identity and Rites of Passage.” Using a
structural-functionalist approach, Borella will discuss how the Amish rites of
passage such as baptism, marriage and funerals have symbolic meanings and
ensure stability and cohesion in Amish communities. He will also offer
anthropological reflections on ways that Amish religious views on salvation and
church membership contribute to a separate identity for the Amish, maintaining
their cultural patterns. A reception for Borella will follow the lecture. Andy
Borella is the Young Center’s doctoral fellow for Spring 2009. He is a Ph.D.
student in anthropological sciences at the University of Turin (Italy), and
holds master’s degrees in political science and in anthropological and
ethnological sciences. The event is free and open to the public.
4/5/2009 Elizabethtown College Recognized for Service
Elizabethtown College recently was honored for its focus on service with two national recognitions. For the third consecutive year, the College was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities. In addition, Elizabethtown was included in the 2008 edition of “Beyond the Books, Colleges and Universities Service-Learning” publication.
According to Elizabethtown College President Theodore E. Long, these recent honors are a sign of the College’s continuing commitment to service. “Elizabethtown’s mission is centered on delivering an education for service in the largest sense, and these recognitions confirm once more that this campus is actively engaged in building a better community around us,” says Long. “We are honored to be recognized in this way.”
Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen based on a series of selection factors, including scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.
According to Director of Civic Engagement Nancy Fritz Valkenburg ’71, these honors are recognition that the College is living its “Educate for Services” motto. “Every year, our programs strengthen and expand to include more service to those in need locally, nationally and internationally. The College participates in both large immersion events, such as ‘Into the Streets’ and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, as well as on a daily basis with community service work study, academic placements and volunteering in area schools and with nonprofit agencies,” she says. “Elizabethtown students tutor and mentor children and adults regionally from Lancaster to Harrisburg. Many students also participate in alternative fall and spring breaks. Recent projects include helping to rebuild homes damaged by hurricanes and floods in Mississippi and Texas, trips to Indian reservations in New Mexico to make repairs to the homes of elderly and disabled residents, and service-learning trips with faculty to Mexico, Ireland, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Africa.”
In addition, Elizabethtown has been chosen as an AmeriCorps campus and currently has five AmeriCorps Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania participating in service projects. The College’s faculty and staff are very supportive of service to the community and work alongside their students.
Stephen Goldsmith, vice chairman of the board of directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service that oversees the Honor Roll, notes that the service efforts of American colleges are even more imperative now. “In this time of economic distress, we need volunteers more than ever. College students represent an enormous pool of idealism and energy to help tackle some of our toughest challenges,” Goldsmith says. “We salute Elizabethtown College for making community service a campus priority, and thank the millions of college students who are helping to renew America through service to others.”
The Honor Roll is a program of the Corporation, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll is presented during the annual conference of the American Council on Education.
4/3/2009 April 26 College Symphonic Band Spring Concert
On Sunday, April 26 at
3:00 p.m., the Elizabethtown College Symphonic Band will present its spring
concert in the Leffler Chapel and Performing Arts Center on campus.The 75-member band, directed by Dr.
Robert Spence, will feature works by Jager,Newman, Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Bernstein, Whitacre and Sousa. Dr. J. Robert Spence is Assistant
Professor of Music and Director of Instrumental Studies in the Fine & Performing Arts department at the
College. Student chamber ensembles
will provide pre-program music.This
concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact
Amy Reynolds at (717) 361-1212 or reynoldsa@etown.edu.
4/3/2009 April 19 College Community Orchestra Performance
Elizabethtown College Community Orchestra Performs
The Elizabethtown
College Community Orchestra will present its spring concert Sunday, April 19th
at 3:00 pm in the Leffler Chapel and Performing Arts Center on campus.The 52-member orchestra, directed by
Dr. Robert Spence will feature works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Dvorak, Ginastera and
Ives.Pre-program music will be performed
by the College’s String Quartet and Brass Ensemble. Dr. J. Robert Spence is Assistant
Professor of Music and Director of Instrumental Studies in the Fine &
Performing Arts department at the College. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Amy Reynolds at (717) 361-1212 or reynoldsa@etown.edu.
4/2/2009 TODAY Scholarship and Creative Arts Day All Day
Scholarship and Creative Arts Day 2009
Scholarship and Creative Arts Day is a celebration of the scholarly and creative accomplishments of Elizabethtown’s students. Through a variety of scheduled activities – including academic presentations, posters, performances and exhibits – students will have the opportunity to present their work and showcase their skills and abilities.
Elizabethtown College will host the second annual
Scholarship and Creative Arts Day on Tuesday, April 21. This year's event will
feature 400 student presentations, almost twice that of last year's inaugural
conference.
4/2/2009 TODAY 11:00 a.m. Dr. Paul Farmer to Speak
Dr. Paul Farmer: "A Man Who Would Save the World"*
TODAY - Global Health Leader Says Healthcare is a Basic Human Right
Say, “quality
healthcare cannot be delivered in resource-poor communities,” and Dr. Paul
Farmer would vehemently disagree. A “genius,” a leading social entrepreneur, a
humanitarian and a physician -- these are characterizations of Dr. Paul Farmer,
a man who co-founded a global health concern at the age of 28, believing that
healthcare is a basic human right of every person. On April 21, 2009 Dr. Farmer
joins Elizabethtown College as part of the campus’s annual Scholarship and
Creative Arts Day, an annual celebration of scholarly and creative
accomplishments of E-town students including academic presentations,
performances and exhibits. The all-day event features Dr. Farmer as the keynote
speaker at 11:00 a.m. in the Leffler Chapel.
Dr. Farmer, currently the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard
University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, grew up in humble but loving circumstances, living in a bus
and then a houseboat with his family of eight. That, he feels, taught him to be
resilient rather than hungry for wealth. Farmer graduated summa cum laude from Duke
University and he received his M.D.and Ph.D. degrees in medical
anthropology, both from Harvard. With a specialty in infectious diseases, he
co-founded Partners in Health in
1987. PIH is an organization that considers its
mission both medical and moral, not founded simply on
charity. Dr. Farmer’s specialties include treatment of AIDS and tuberculosis.
Thirteen years after startup, his organization received $44
million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study MDR-TB (multi drug
resistant) research and treatment with Harvard Medical School. His hospital in Haiti,
once serving a few hundred patients, had almost 2 million patient visits last
year. He estimates that ten million people globally die each year from
treatable diseases. And he hasn’t stopped his global trek, bringing medicine,
hope and healthcare; literally giving lives back to millions of
poverty-stricken people in nine countries, including the United States. His priority now is training the
next generation of physicians to carry on his mission through PIH.
Farmer has written several books including “Pathologies of
Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor,” and has received many
awards including the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian
Contributions to the Health of Humankind, the American Medical Association's
International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award, the Skoll Award for Social
Entrepreneurship and the MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in
recognition of his work. He donated the proceeds of this award to create the
Institute for Health and Human Justice, the research and advocacy arm of PIH.
Dr. Farmer’s message will have special significance here at
Elizabethtown College, a small but distinguished college whose very mission is
“Educate for Service.” As President Ted Long put this, “Our belief that
learning is most noble when used to benefit others – in our communities, the
country and the world – is exemplified by Dr. Farmer.He will be an inspiration to our students and teach them how
they too can use their knowledge, ideas and expertise to make the world a
better place. I am eager to hear Dr. Farmer’s ideas on bringing modern
healthcare options to the neediest of people around the world.”
*From the
title of a book about Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder titled “”Mountains Beyond
Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World”
4/2/2009 April 14 "The Many Roles of 18th Century Women" at the Young Center
Elizabethtown
College Presents Anthropologist Patricia Gibble
to Discuss the Many Roles of 18th Century Pennsylvania Women
“Finding Esther: Archaeological Research and Gender Construction at an
18th Century Pennsylvania Swiss/German Farmstead”
On April 14 at 7:00
p.m., The Young Center at Elizabethtown College will present Patricia E.
Gibble, Ph.D., in the Center’s Bucher Meetinghouse. Gibble’s talk, the 2009
Kreider Lecture, is titled “Finding Esther: Archaeological Research and Gender
Construction at an 18th Century Pennsylvania Swiss/German Farmstead.” The event
is open to the public free of charge.
Gibble, the current Kreider fellow at Elizabethtown
College will cover the important role 18th century German and Swiss immigrant
farmwomen in the central Pennsylvania region played in domestic economies. In
addition to child rearing
and homemaking, they produced commodities for home consumption and retail sale
and completed farm labor that contributed to farm incomes. Despite their
economic contributions, they had limited independence and legal rights to
property, like all colonial women during that period. Gibble’s presentation
will highlight her continuing research into women’s lives, employing
archaeological data from four years of excavation at the Alexander Schaeffer
Farm and primary and secondary documentary evidence about colonial farmwomen in
central Pennsylvania.
Gibble, an adjunct professor at Elizabethtown College,
teaches in the sociology and anthropology department and is a member of the
Women and Gender Studies faculty. She also has a contract archaeology company
through which she conducts investigations of prehistoric and historic sites in
Lancaster and Lebanon counties. She also presents public programs for
historical societies. Gibble holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from American
University in Washington, D.C. The generous gift of Ken and Carroll Kreider has
endowed the Kreider fellow and Kreider Lecture at the Young Center each spring
semester.
3/31/2009 Through April 21 Sculpture & Photography Show in Zug Hall
Elizabethtown College Presents Exhibit by Photographer Hans-Erik Wennberg
and Sculptor Jim Bright
The Fine Art Division of Elizabethtown College’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts will present an exhibit by Hans Erik Wennberg, digital photographer and Elizabethtown College faculty member, and Jim Bright, sculptor. The exhibit – which is open to the public and free of charge – will be displayed in the Hess Gallery, which is located in the College’s Zug Memorial Hall. An opening reception is slated for Friday, March 13 from 5 until 7 p.m., with a gallery talk beginning at 5:30 p.m. The exhibit will run through Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
The Hess Gallery is open from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. from Monday through Friday and 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. More information is available by calling 717-361-1212.
Hans Erik Wennberg is associate professor of communications at Elizabethtown College, where he teaches a variety of photography and graphic design courses and supervises student practicums and internships. Wennberg, who has been teaching at the high school and college level for 40 years, earned his bachelor’s degree in secondary education – mathematics from State University of New York, Geneseo; his master’s degree in educational media from Temple University; and his doctorate in professional higher education administration from the University of Connecticut.
Sculptor Jim Bright has taught art at the Chief Logan/Indian Valley High School for almost 40 years. In addition to his work in the classroom, he has been exhibiting his sculpture throughout central Pennsylvania since the mid-70s. Bright earned his bachelor’s degree in art education and his master’s degree in sculpture from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He also completed the International Medallion Workshop and studied creative arts in Italy.
3/27/2009 College Receives $1.1 Millon Gift for Endowed Chair
Turnbull-Jamieson Endowed Chair Created
(ELIZABETHTOWN, PA – March 27, 2009) – Elizabethtown College has
received a family estate gift of more than $1.1 million to fund the
Turnbull-Jamieson Chair in memory of Craig J. Turnbull, Florence O. Turnbull,
Katherine E. Jamieson, and Lorraine L. Jamieson. This endowed Chair provides
funding for teaching in the accounting field at Elizabethtown College. The
endowment was established from the remainder of the Turnbull-Jamieson Trust
established by Craig & Florence Turnbull and Lorraine Jamieson, and by
additional gifts from Lorraine Jamieson
Lorraine, who was Katherine’s daughter and Craig’s sister,
attended, but did not graduate from Elizabethtown College.Still, she returned often for
activities and reunions with the Class of 1935. Lorraine supported the College
throughout her lifetime.She died
September 27, 2005 at the age of 92.
“We are extremely
grateful for this generous gift from Lorraine and her family,” said Theodore E.
Long, President. “I always got a lift from her endearing spirit and I am
saddened by her passing. Her great legacy will live on through the creation of
this important fund and continue to benefit students for many years.”
3/27/2009 TONIGHT -- Percussion Ensemble of Ragtime, Brazilian Folk and Drumming
Ragtime, Brazilian Folk Music, Drum and Dance
to be Performed
On Wednesday, April 15 the Elizabethtown College Percussion Ensemble
and E-town Congueros, both under the direction of James Armstrong, will present
a spring percussion concert. Armstrong is an instructor in percussion in the
Department of Fine and Performing Arts. This event will be held in the Brossman
Commons Event Space starting at 7:30pm. This event is free and open to the
public.
The percussion ensemble will present works by Grainger, GH Green, Rosauro and
others, covering a wide range of styles including ragtime, Brazilian folk
music, and standard western percussion ensemble literature. The E-town
Congueros will perform traditional drumming and singing from the Haitian Vodou
tradition, as well as traditional drum and dance from Ghana, West Africa.
The Department of Fine and Performing Arts plays a
major role in fulfilling the College’s mission “to nurture sound intellectual
judgment, keen moral sensitivity, and an appreciation for beauty in the world.”
In the process of acquiring knowledge of the arts, students develop aesthetic
judgment and an appreciation for the value of the arts to humanity. The
Department encourages students to reach their highest potentials and to use
their knowledge and their talents to benefit others.
3/26/2009 April 2nd: Passover Seder Meal for Campus and Community
On
Thursday, April 2 Elizabethtown College will hold a traditional Passover Seder
meal at 6:30 p.m., sponsored by Hillel,
Elizabethtown College's Jewish Student Union. The group’s Model Passover
Seder celebrates traditional Jewish customs during the Passover Seder meal. The Seder is an integral part of the Jewish faith,
celebrating the liberation of the Jewish people during the Exodus from Egypt,
thus it is a special occasion for praise and thanksgiving. Ms.
Alison Cohen, president of E-town’s Hillel,
invites the entire campus and members of local towns to join in the
celebration, “Judaism is very much a "cultural" faith where specific
cuisine, customs, and gatherings are essential. We welcome the opportunity to
host students and our neighbors at our Seder meal.” The event is open to the
public for $10. Campus members with a meal plan will be "swiped for one meal."
Hillel strives to create a warm, social, and educational
environment to those who practice Judaism both culturally and religiously as
well as educate those who do not practice Judaism, hosting events to celebrate
holidays, hold social gatherings, perform community service, and extend
awareness and cultural interest to the campus and surrounding community of
projects involving the Holocaust and Jewish holidays. The event will be held at
the Susquehanna Room in Myer Residence Hall.
3/26/2009 April 6 -- Spring Student Recital of Solo and Chamber Music
On Monday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m., the
Elizabethtown College Department of Fine and Performing Arts will present a
student recital of solo and chamber music in Zug Recital Hall. The concert will
feature a wide range of music for large and small groups by composers as
diverse as 16th-century Italian composer Giovanni Gabrieli and 20th-century
American composer Samuel Barber, a native of West Chester, PA. The performance
will also feature favorite works by Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and
others. The event is free and open to the public.
Twenty-three
student performers will take part in the recital, including vocalists Laura
Francis, David Hiddeman, Alena Lerch, Maggie Sabota, Elizabeth Shea, Nathan
Shughart, and Michael Tschop. Pianists featured in the recital are Stephanie
Baumann, Katelynn Olsavick and Alison Sailer. Guitarist Mike Sweeney will
perform along with brass players Kristyn Algieri, Kyle Bauman, Danielle-Lynn
Caggiano, Crystal Connelly, Austin DeMarco, Travis Lucas, Amanda Marfisi,
Elizabeth Michel, Kayne Neugebauer, Charles Reppucci, Megan Thaler, and Joseph
Zielinski.
3/25/2009 E-town Professor Wes McDonald Featured on WITF Smart Talk TV
On Friday, March 20, on channel WITF-TV’s award-winning Smart Talk, Dr. W. Wesley McDonald, political science, debated a local lawyer on the topic of academic freedom. In light of the recent controversy over Bill Ayers’ appearance at Millersville University, the show featured a lively debate on the merits and rights of colleges inviting controversial and possibly lawbreaking guests to speak on campus.
Smart Talk is a part of WITF-TV's news and public affairs programming block titled Friday Night Insight hosted by Nell McCormack Abom.
3/25/2009 Elizabethtown Sponsors Event on Modern China with Leslie T. Chang Speaker
“Love
and Money: The Many Lives of a Chinese Factory Girl”
Elizabethtown
Sponsors Event on Modern China with Leslie T. Chang Speaker
Elizabethtown, PA – March 17, 2009 – On Wednesday, March 25, the Faculty International
Scholarship Seminar will host author Leslie T. Chang at 7:00 p.m. in the
College event space. The lecture is part of the Asian Studies program and he
first in a series of events this spring at he Elizabethtown campus. Ms. Chang served as correspondent
for The Wall Street Journal for a decade in China, specializing in stories
detailing socioeconomic influences on the transformation of China’s institutions
and its people. Her first book, in 2008,“Factory Girls: From Village to City in
a Changing China,” traces the lives of several young women from the countryside
who work in a factory in South China, interwoven with her own family history of
migrations within China and to the West. The publisher, Random House,
introduced the publication as “abook of global
significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls
demonstrates howthe mass movement from rural villages to cities is
remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration
to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.” In addition,
she has been published in "National
Geographic Magazine and is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree
in American History and Literature. Chang has also worked as a journalist in
the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Elizabethtown College Presents Anime Masterpiece, Tekkonkinkreet Internationally Acclaimed Author, Frederik Schodt, to Discuss Journey of Anime
(ELIZABETHTOWN, PA)-- March 18, 2009 – On April 15, 2009, the award-winning anime film, Tekkonkinkreet, will be showcased by Elizabethtown College. The film, a 2008 Japan Academy Award Winner, was directed by Michael Arias and produced by legendary anime Studio 4C. The viewing is being sponsored by a group on campus consisting of the Friends of the High Library, the Faculty International Scholarship Seminar and the Asian Studies program. In addition to the film, Frederik Schodt, an acclaimed author who writes on Japanese history, popular culture and technology will introduce the film and discuss the wonders of anime film adventure. Mr. Schodt also writes on manga, which are comics and print cartoons in the Japanese language.
He recently won a prestigious Osamu Tezuka Culture award for his work on manga and is the author of The Astro Boy Essays: OsamuTezuka, Mighty Atom and The Manga/Anime Revolution as well as Manga! Manga! The film will be screened from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Gibble Auditorium, at Elizabethtown College where Mr. Schodt will conduct the discussion on the film, the story of two young men surviving in the world of a post-apocalyptic “future world.” The film and discussion is free and open to the public.
3/25/2009 4/16 Racism Among Evangelicals: Religion and Race Expert to Speak
Racism Among
Evangelicals: Religion and Race Expert to Speak at Elizabethtown College
(ELIZABETHTOWN,
PA, March 20, 2009) -- Elizabethtown College is presenting a workshop, “Divided
by Faith: Racial Diversity and Anabaptists Today,” on Thursday, April 16, from 1:00
p.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the Young Center’s Bucher Meetinghouse. Sponsored by the
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and the Sociology and
Anthropology Department of the college, the workshop features Michael O.
Emerson, Ph.D. Emerson is the Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology and
founding director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice
University. The workshop is open to the public free of charge.
Emerson will discuss
his research on racism among American evangelicals and share his stories and
findings from multi-ethnic congregations in the U.S. Also included will be an
overview of findings about race and racism from Church Member Profile 2006 (a
study of Anabaptists in the U.S.) by Elizabethtown College professors Conrad
Kanagy and Jeff Bach, and responses by several Mennonite and Church of the
Brethren pastors.
At 7:00 p.m.,
students in Kanagy’s Sociological Theory course will host an “Author Meets
Critics” discussion with Emerson, where they will critique his work and pose
questions. This event will also be held in the Bucher Meetinghouse and is open
to the public free of charge.
Emerson is the co-author
of several books, including the award-winning “DIivided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America" and “People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States." The latter book
won the 2007 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for making the most significant
contribution to overcoming racism, awarded by the Racial and Ethnic Minorities
section of the American Sociological Association. His most recent books
are “Passing the Plate: Why American
Christians Don’t Give Away More Money” and the forthcoming “Religion Implicated: What Sociology Teaches
Us about Religion in Our World.”
The Young
Center, an integral part of academic life at Elizabethtown College, fosters and promotes the study of
Anabaptist and Pietist groups. Scholarly and interpretive investigations of the
life, culture and beliefs of Anabaptist and Pietist movements, primarily in
their North American context, are conducted by Young Center staff, visiting
scholars, and students s. Named for Galen S. Young, D.O., and Jessie M. Young,
the Center interprets the cultural and religious heritage of Anabaptist and
Pietist communities to the general public.
3/25/2009 April 4 and 5 -- Student Dancers to Perform “In Motion”
Elizabethtown Dancers to Perform “In Motion”
Each Dance Themed to a Verb And
Choreographed By Students
(ELIZABETHTOWN, PA, March
20, 2009) – On Saturday, April 4th (8:00 p.m.) and Sunday, April 5th
(3:00 p.m.), Elizabethtown College presents a dance performance titled “In Motion,” featuring performers from the college’s Fine and
Performing Arts program. See a fresh take on the choreographers’ expressions of
their vision through creating a “verb” for their dance.Each dance possesses a unique feel,
theme, and story, thus displaying the various ways a dancer can be “in
motion”.Prior to the show, there
will also be choreographer tributes displayed for the audience affording a
person insight into the inerpetations that the choreographers have of their
creative pieces for this spring performance. Tickets, which may be purchased at the door
the day of the performance, are $3 for students & $4 for general admission.
The public is welcome to attend this exciting event to take place in
Leffler Chapel.
3/10/2009 Harpsichord Performance to be Held at Elizabethtown College
The Elizabethtown
College Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents harpsichordist Joseph
Gascho in a survey of some of the greatest keyboard music before 1750,
including works by Sweelinck, Frescobaldi, Rameau, Bach, and Scarlatti. The
recital will take place in Zug Recital Hall at 7:30 pm on Monday, March 23.
Generations before Steinway and Baldwin built pianos, Ruckers and Couchet built
the most amazing keyboard instruments of their time. Constructed from the
quills of birds’ feathers and the trunks of trees, the humble harpsichord became
the most beloved instrument of kings and queens.
Conductor and harpsichordist Joseph
Gascho has a varied career as a baroque keyboardist – performing as a soloist
and collaborative artist; conducting opera, orchestra and choir; editing and
arranging scores; and teaching and lecturing. He has won numerous grants and
prizes, including first prize in the 2002 Jurow International Harpsichord
Competition. He earned his master’s degree from the Peabody Conservatory, and
will complete his doctorate from the University of Maryland later this year. In
addition to numerous performances in the United States, he served as
claveciniste repetiteur and directed a chamber music program at the Academie
d’Art-Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence, France. He conducts regularly for Opera
Vivente and the Magnolia Baroque Festival. This summer, he will teach figured
bass at Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute. He also teaches at the George
Washington University and directs the music program at the Towson Unitarian
Universalist Church.
3/9/2009 Critically Acclaimed Kafka Scholar Mark Harman to Read from "Amerika" Dr. Mark Harman will present his new, critically-acclaimed translation of Franz Kafka’s novel “Amerika: The Missing Person”at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 11, in Hoover 212. The event, titled "Who's Afraid of Franz Kafka?": Storytime with Mark Harman,” features a reading of select portions of the book, followed by a group discussion.
Harman—a professor of German and English, as well as chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Elizabethtown College—previously has translated Kafka’s “The Castle.” His versions are praised for their faithfulness to Kafka’s voice and style, and reviews have been featured in papers such as the New York Times and L.A. Times. College
Professor Mark Harman – who garnered critical acclaim for his edition of modern
classic Franz Kafka’s masterpiece “Das
Schloss” (“The Castle”), has crafted an elegant new translation of the
author’s first novel, “Der
Verschollene” (“The
Missing Person”).
Three year’s after Kafka’s
early death from
tuberculosis in 1924, Kurt Wolff Verlag published, under the title “Amerika,” a
version of “The Missing Person” that was edited by the author’s friend and
literary executor, Max Brod. Over the past 30 years, an international
team of Kafka scholars has worked on restoring all of Kafka’s writings by
consulting the original manuscripts and notes, correcting transcription errors,
and removing Brod’s editorial interventions. Harman’s translation is based on
the restored text of the resulting German-language critical edition.
With the same expert balance of precision and nuance that marked his
award-winning translation of “The Castle,” Harman now restores Kafka’s dry
humor and linguistic precision in his translation of “Der Verschollene.” “The Missing Person” tells the story of young
Karl Rossmann, who is banished by his parents to America following an incident
involving a housemaid. With unquenchable optimism and in the company of two
comic-sinister companions, Rossmann throws himself into misadventure after
misadventure, eventually heading toward Oklahoma, where a career in the theater
beckons. Though we can never know how Kafka planned to end the novel, Harman’s
translation allows us to appreciate, as closely as possible, what Kafka originally
committed to the page.
Mark
Harman – a native of Dublin, Ireland – is currently chair of the Department of
Modern Languages and professor of German and English at Elizabethtown College. Harman
did his doctoral work at Yale University and also has taught at Dartmouth
College, Oberlin College, Franklin & Marshall College, and the University
of Pennsylvania.
3/9/2009 Elizabethtown College Presents Spring Choral Showcase
Elizabethtown College’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts present its annual Spring Choral Showcase – with a side of Jazz Band, Basie-style – on Sunday, March 15 at 3 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The concert is open to the public and free of charge.
Several of the College’s musical groups – including the Concert Choir; College-Community Chorus; Women’s Chorus; student-directed ensemble, Camerata; and Jazz Band – will perform at the event. The afternoon concert will offer something for a broad range of musical tastes, including traditional Americana, spirituals, music from South America, a little Haydn, and more.
The Women’s Chorus is directed by adjunct faculty member, Carrie Fritz. Associate Professor of Music Matthew Fritz directs the Concert Choir and College-Community Chorus. The Jazz Band is led by Grant Moore II, director of the College’s Preparatory Division.
More information is available by calling 717-361-1212.
3/9/2009 Elizabethtown College Presents Inaugural Campus New Playwright Fest
Public Reading Features Nine Never-Before-Heard Plays
by the Next Generation of Theatrical Writers
The Theatre and Dance Division of Elizabethtown College’s Fine and Performing Arts Department will present its inaugural Etown New Playwrights Fest on Thursday, March 12 and Friday, March 13 at 8 p.m. The staged readings of the work of nine student playwrights will be offered in Tempest Theatre in Baugher Student Center. Tickets can be purchased for $3 by calling the College’s Theatre Box Office at (717) 361-1170 or sending a request via email to boxoffice@etown.edu.
During the event, audience will hear comedies, romances and dramas that have never been presented publicly. The plays were created for the College’s “Playwriting” course, which is taught by Michael Swanson, associate professor of theatre and coordinator of theatre and dance at Elizabethtown. The following works will be featured:
·“Photographing Philadelphia,” written by Tammy Bateman and directed by Elyse Venturella, of Palmyra, Pa.
·“Sit Tight,” written by Michael Fleming, of Ewing, N.J., and directed by Amanda Marfisi, of Bethlehem, Pa.
·“An Egg for Your Thought,” written by Beth Lewis, of Lititz, Pa., and directed by Angela Wright, of Baltimore, Md.
·“Letters to My Brother,” written by Spencer O’Dowd, of Methuen, Mass., and directed by Ian Pape, of Columbia, Pa.
· “To Be Frank,” written by Ian Pape, of Columbia, Pa., and directed by Sam Gillam, of Glen Burnie, Md.
· “Will She Dance Again?,” written by Kelly Tate, of Somerdale, N.J., and directed by Tammy Bateman
· “Among Us,” written by Meghann Timney, of Middletown, Del., and directed by Alyssa Miller
· “Musical Roommates,” written by Rachel Witkovsky, of Huntingdon, Pa., and directed by Natasha Threatts of Camden Wyoming, Del.
·“Kelsey’s Game,” written by Angela Wright, of Baltimore, Md., and directed by Beth Lewis of Lititz, Pa.
3/9/2009 "God Bless the Shadows" A New Play About Mark Twain's Daughter
Elizabethtown College Professor John Rohrkemper Unveils New Play
An Elizabethtown College professor’s newest play will be premiered in a dramatic
reading Tuesday, March 17 at 7 p.m. in Gibble Hall, located in the Masters Science
Center on the Elizabethtown campus. Admission is free, and the event is open to
the public. John Rohrkemper’s “God Bless the Shadows” is the story of the last days of Mark Twain’s oldest daughter, Susy Clemens. The play opens with the 24-year-old Susy, wracked by fever, tossing and turning in her sick bed, muttering incoherently. As the story unfolds through the memories of Susy and her family, however, we begin to piece together the events that shaped this happiest and saddest of lives.
The cast comprises three theater professionals—Lydia Brubaker, Laura Korach Howell, and Chet Williamson—and six student actors: Sam Gillam ’09, of Glen Burnie, Md.; Emily Knitter ’11, of Selinsgrove, Pa.; Jess Mathews ’11 of Huntingtown, Md.; Alyssa Miller ’09; Kristina Psitos ’10 of Wallingford, Pa.; and Jennifer Schoonmaker ’10 of Chambersburg, Pa. Lindsey Evans ’11, of Newark, Del., is the stage manager.
The dramatic reading of “God Bless the Shadows” is sponsored by the Elizabethtown College departments of English and Fine and Performing Arts, and the programs in Theatre, Creative Writing, and Women and Gender Studies.
3/9/2009 TONIGHT Nobel Laureate on Peace and Global Women's Rights
Nobel Laureate Jody Williams Featured in 2009 Ware Lecture on Peacemaking
During Elizabethtown College’s 2009 Ware Lecture on Peacemaking, international peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jody Williams will present the blueprint for the crusade that resulted in an international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines. The lecture, titled “An Individual’s Impact on Social and Political Change,” will be held Thursday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center on Elizabethtown’s campus. The event is open to the public and free of charge. Because of limited seating in the venue, free tickets are required and can be obtained by calling the College’s ticket hotline at (717) 361-4757.
A highlight of the College’s annual cultural event series, the Ware Lecture on Peacemaking is part of the multi-faceted Ware Colloquium on Peacemaking and Global Citizenship. Delivered under the auspices of the College’s Center for Global Citizenship, the Ware Colloquium has brought internationally known speakers – including F.W. de Klerk, former president of South Africa, and Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland – to central Pennsylvania. The Colloquium was created through the generous sponsorship of Judy S. ’68 and Paul W. Ware. More information about this year’s Ware Lecture on Peacemaking or the Colloquium is available by contacting the Elizabethtown’s Office of Marketing and Communication at (717) 361-1410.
Jody Williams – the founding coordinator and campaign ambassador of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) – is a tireless crusader against war and the lingering effects that armed conflict has wrought around the world. A driving force in building an unprecedented open partnership between governments, international agencies, and the ICBL that she helped create, Williams was rewarded for her efforts in 1997, when a sweeping international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines was negotiated in Oslo, Norway. In December 1997, 122 nations signed the treaty. One week after that historic event, she became the 10th woman – and only third American woman – in history to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Williams has overseen the growth of the ICBL to more than 1,300 NGOs in more than 85 countries and served as the chief strategist and spokesperson for the campaign. With ICBL’s primary objective achieved, she now serves as campaign ambassador for the organization, speaking on its behalf all over the world. Williams has addressed the United Nations, the European Parliament, and the Organization of African Unity.
3/9/2009 "JOY LUCK CLUB" Star Speaks on Campus “Joy Luck Club” Star Kieu Chinh to Appear at Elizabethtown College
Kicking off a series of public lectures and performances in celebration of Women’s History Month, Elizabethtown College proudly presents its 2009 Carlos R. and Georgiana E. Leffler Memorial Lecture on Monday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. The event – which is open to the public and free of charge – will feature Kieh Chinh, star of “The Joy Luck Club” and a respected humanitarian recognized as “Refugee of the Year” by the U.S. Congress. The lecture will be held in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center on the Elizabethtown College campus. Because of limited seating in the venue, free tickets are required and can be obtained by calling the College’s ticket hotline at (717) 361-4757. The 2009 Leffler Memorial lecture is the featured event in a Women’s History Month series, titled “Women’s Struggles for Empowerment,” being presented at the College under the auspices of Elizabethtown’s Women and Gender Studies Program. All of the events of the series are open to the public and free of charge. More information is available by contacting the Elizabethtown’s Office of Marketing and Communication at (717) 361-1410.
During her remarks, Kieh Chinh will share her unforgettable tale of survival and personal empowerment. Chinh’s lecture, titled “Hanoi to Hollywood: One Woman’s Triumph,” chronicles her survival of conflicts in Vietnam and Indochina, rise to stardom, and dedicated activism on behalf of those in her native land. Born in war-torn Vietnam, Chinh overcame the loss of most of her family to become the biggest female star in Indochina – only to lose everything again with the fall of Saigon. Never beaten, however, she came to America to once again rebuild her life and has since gone from refugee to film star, with featured roles ranging from television’s “M*A*S*H” to her triumphant portrayal in “The Joy Luck Club.”
In addition to her film success, Chinh is co-chairperson, with Terry Anderson, of the Vietnam Memorial Association, a nonprofit agency dedicated to building schools in the most damaged areas of Vietnam. She was named “Refugee of the Year” by the U.S. Congress in 1990, received the “Warrior Woman Award” from the Asian Pacific Women’s Network, and was the only Vietnamese person invited to speak at the 10th anniversary ceremonies for the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 1996, she was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for “Kieu Chinh: A Journey Home,” an Emmy Award-winning documentary by Fox Television.
The Carlos R. and Georgiana E. Leffler Memorial Lecture – created by Linda ’67 and Patrick Castagna – honors the legacy and contributions of Mrs. Castagna’s parents, who greatly enriched Elizabethtown College and their community during their lives. Through the fund, the College is able to present speakers of national and international renown, who enhance the educational experience for our students and create meaningful public dialogue.
2/24/2009 Family Business Owners to Hear Howdy Holmes on Leadership
“Don’t Make Business Decisions with Your Heart or
Family Decisions with Your Head”
By Howdy Holmes
March 12, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Myer Hall
Open free to members of the public involved in a family business – limited seats available.
RSVP to 717-361-3752 by March 2, 2009.
After successfully competing in the world of motor sports for 20 years, Howdy Holmes returned to the family business in November of 1987. As a racecar driver, Holmes won championships, was named “Rookie of the Year” at the Indy 500 in 1979 and competed in six Indy 500 events, compiling the best average finishing record of any Indy 500 driver who started in more than four events.
Upon returning to “JIFFY” in 1987, Mr. Holmes led a transformation of the then 100 year old family business. With the help of others, a professionally managed strategic vision was successfully introduced. Today, known for their Quality and Value, “JIFFY” Mixes is uniquely positioned for the 21st Century. “JIFFY” is the market-share leader in retail prepared baking mixes. Chelsea Milling is a privately held family-owned business.
Howdy Holmes discusses how the old model of leadership, based on authority and position, no longer works in today’s business climate. Through stories of his own return to the family business, Mr. Holmes describes his concept of “Servant Leadership” and how families often make this difficult. The tendency to keep the peace and failure to tell the truth sometimes pushes things over the top. In addition to leadership, Mr. Holmes will touch upon succession and governance in the family business and advises, “You can’t think your way into acting; you have to act your way into thinking.”
The S. Dale High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College and its Corporate Partners — Barley Snyder, Fulton Bank, Glatfelter Insurance Group, The High Companies, MANTEC, Inc. and McKonly & Asbury — help family businesses “Prepare for Tomorrow” by providing opportunities to address and resolve their succession, management, ownership and strategic issues through a special program of seminars, access to national resources and networking.
2/24/2009 Elizabethtown College Named to Presidential Honor Roll
The Corporation for National
and Community Service honored Elizabethtown College this month with a place on
the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service
efforts and service to America’s communities.
Elizabethtown College
President Dr. Ted Long said, “Elizabethtown’s mission is centered on delivering
an education for service in the largest sense, and this recognition confirms
once more that this campus is actively engaged in building a better community
around us. We are honored to be recognized in this way.”
Launched in 2006, the Community
Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for
its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award
were chosen based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovation
of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities,
incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic
service-learning courses.
Nancy Valkenburg, the
director of service learning and civic programs at Elizabethtown College said,
“It is an honor to be selected, for the third consecutive year, to the Honor
Roll. The Elizabethtown College community lives our College motto of ‘Educate
for Service.’ Every year our programs
strengthen and expand to include more service to those in need locally, nationally
and internationally. The College participates in both large immersion events
such as ‘Into the Streets’ and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service as
well as on a daily basis with community service work study, academic placements
and volunteering in area schools and with nonprofit agencies.Elizabethtown students tutor and mentor
children and adults regionally from Lancaster to Harrisburg.Many students also participate in alternative
fall and spring breaks.Recent
projects included helping to rebuild homes damaged by hurricanes and floods in
Mississippi and Texas, trips to Indian reservations in New Mexico to make
repairs to the homes of elderly and disabled residents, and service-learning
trips with faculty to Mexico, Ireland, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Africa.”
Elizabethtown College has
also been chosen as an AmeriCorps campus and currently has five AmeriCorps Scholars
in Service to Pennsylvania participating in service projects. Our faculty and
staff are very supportive of service to the community and work alongside their
students. Elizabethtown College has recently been selected to appear in Beyond the Books: Guide to Service-Learning
Colleges and Universities.”
“In this time of economic
distress, we need volunteers more than ever. College students represent an
enormous pool of idealism and energy to help tackle some of our toughest
challenges,” said Stephen Goldsmith, vice chair of the Board of Directors of the
Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees the Honor Roll. “We
salute Elizabethtown College for making community service a campus priority,
and thank the millions of college students who are helping to renew America
through service to others.”
Overall, the Corporation honored
six schools with Presidential Awards. In addition, 83 were named as Honor Roll with
Distinction members and 546 schools as Honor Roll members.In total, 635 schools were recognized.
A full list is available at www.nationalservice.gov/honorroll.
The Honor Roll is a program
of the Corporation, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the President's Council on
Service and Civic Participation. The President’s Higher Education Community
Service Honor Roll is presented during the annual conference of the American
Council on Education.
“I offer heartfelt
congratulations to those institutions named to the 2008 President’s Higher
Education Community Service Honor Roll. College and university students
across the country are making a difference in the lives of others every day –
as are the institutions that encourage their students to serve others,” said American
Council on Education President Molly Corbett Broad.
Recent studies have
underlined the importance of service-learning and volunteering to college
students. In 2006, 2.8 million college students gave more than 297 million
hours of volunteer service, according to the Corporation’s Volunteering in
America 2007 study. Expanding campus incentives for
service is part of a larger initiative to spur higher levels of volunteering by
America’s college students. The Corporation is working with a coalition of
federal agencies, higher education and student associations, and nonprofit
organizations to achieve this goal.
2/24/2009 Elizabethtown College Launches Mobile Science Program
State
Grant through SIM Program –
Legislators and Educators Partner
On Thursday,
March 12th, legislators, local school leaders and college
administrators came together on the Elizabethtown campus to launch the new
Science in Motion program. Attending for the State Department of Education was
Ms. Patti Vathis, who was instrumental in administering the program to include
Elizabethtown College and representatives of Senators Folmer and Smucker. Also
attending the launch were representatives of Elizabethtown, Pottsville and
Lancaster school districts. Dr. Ted Long welcomed guests, which included
students from Elizabethtown High School. The high school students performed
experiments (extracting DNA from a strawberry) for the crowd using some
high-tech equipment that is part of the program.
The Science in
Motion program is funded through a state grant created by state legislators and
awarded by the Department of Education. The Elizabethtown College Scien
The Elizabethtown College “Sustainability and Hope Series” features films and panel discussions addressing global warming and other potential environmental catastrophes. The films raise critical questions, “What led to our environmental crisis?” “How will it affect me?” and “What can I do to reverse these seemingly inevitable outcomes?” The series of events will be held in the Steinman Center, Brinser Lecture Room. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, all events are free and open to the public.
tunes and songs as well as other holiday pieces celebrating peace on earth and goodwill to all. Bring the whole family for a surprise visit from Santa Claus, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. They’ve all taken the day off from their hectic holiday schedule to visit Elizabethtown!
On Thursday, November 12, 
As the 
ine the present state of research and suggest some future research projects in the field of early Brethren history. He will also reflect on the beginnings of historical research on the 
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Swamp will present a lecture on Iroquois traditional peace beliefs and rituals, followed by a public planting of a white pine tree on the Elizabethtown campus. The event will take place in Gibble Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
Elizabethtown College will address issues regarding the drug problem in the United States, Afghanistan and Mexico, the two main countries that supply illegal narcotics. The event, which is free and open to the public, is held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, the in the KAV in Brossman Commons. 
The two sides of counter narcotics policy are the demand side, which involves users in the United States and the supply side, which is the attempt to keep drugs from reaching the United States. We are going to look mainly at the supply side in this panel discussion. 
from the far western suburbs of Philadelphia in Chester County, north to Reading and Berks County, and west into the rolling countryside of Lancaster County famous for its Amish and Mennonite culture. 
Craig served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism under President George W. Bush. He is currently Chairman and Managing Director of the 
d in the 1950’s to group together Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan into a defense alliance to bottle up the former USSR on its southern flank. 
amic Studies in Riyadh, has worked for ABC News and has written for the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is the author of "The Land and People of Pakistan" and "Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan's Greatest Men and Women." A graduate of Brown University and the University of Texas Law School, he lives north of Manhattan. The discussion host is Dr. William Ayres, Director of the Center for Global Citizenship at Elizabethtown College. 
Stephen Scott, Administrative and Research Associate at the 
Amish and Mennonites, and mentions in passing other plain dressers, including Hasidic Jews, some Catholic nuns and Quakers, the few remaining Shakers and some Pentecostal groups. Scott relates the origins of plain clothing in North America and notes basic styles… He also charts the changes made in plain clothing strictures.”
rst book of poems,
“Shiva’s Drum,” was selected by Grace Schulman for the National Poetry
Series and published in 2004. His second, “Tongue & Groove,” was
published by University of Illinois Press in the fall of 2007. 
not only this journey but also Hutterite history and the impact of modern society and technology on Hutterian communalism. The event is open to the public free of charge.
osed Millerstown (Perry County) community park. According to founding director of the Elizabethtown College PAL, Robert Wheelersburg, the laboratory has received ten archaeology contracts worth over seventy thousand dollars since 1998. These were provided through a Presidential Fund for Distinction. In addition to providing paid work and experience for students, PAL surveys have resulted in the identification of five prehistoric or historic period archaeology sites now registered with the 
of four buried European iron trade axes that may have been used as part of a peace ritual by the 
ABET, the Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology, is the nationally recognized accreditor for college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. The organization is a federation of thirty professional and technical societies representing these fields. For over 75 years, ABET has provided leadership and quality assurance in higher education and now accredits 2,800 programs at more than 600 colleges and universities nationwide.
realized the potential in “palette printing”, i.e., making prints directly from the inking palette in its various stages from the first initial inking to clean up. 
with a war that forced a generation to grow up overnight.
In an article on 
Dr. Gottfried received his Ph.D. and master’s degree from Yale University. He most recently published an autobiography recounting his experiences with former President Nixon and other influential people in his life. In commenting on this new book, Gottfried stated “I have very little hope for the rising generation whose minds have been saturated with political correctness through public education and the entertainment industry…everything I write, including this autobiography, is directed to the few, who may be looking for other behavioral and cultural models. ‘Encounters’ treats some Marxists better than it does today's movement conservatives or the current political Left. That is because the academic Marxists of my youth were highly educated individuals, with a deep sense of history, even if they proposed economically unsound policies and were blind to Soviet tyranny. Today Left and Right are equally vacuous and usually indistinguishable.”
As part of the investigation, the student volunteers—along with Bowne and two other team leaders, a graduate student from the University of Arizona and a high school chemistry teacher from Elizabethtown, Pa.—traveled throughout the county to collect soil samples. The sampling locations were selected based on their varying degree of human contact. As a result, information from analysis of the samples should allow the researchers to weigh whether any antibiotic resistance they find might be connected to human use of antibiotics. 
According to Wohl, the project is a win-win for the students and for this particular scientific investigation. “It offers the students a unique opportunity to experience the excitement of science and participate in valuable research,” says Wohl. “We also benefitted by having a team of interested, enthusiastic technicians to support us with an intensive study that we couldn’t do by ourselves.” Bowne agrees, noting the students also walked away with a better appreciation of this career path. “We view our time as successful if the students have an interest in science, and they realize this is what they want to do,” he explains. “The project also is successful if students, after being exposed to the reality of science, realize that they don’t want to do this and can focus on something different.”
The annual trip allows counselors to visit colleges “up close and personal” and enrich their knowledge of colleges that they then bring back to their high school students. This unique trip allows counselors to immerse themselves in the campus and surrounding areas. As one counselor put it, colleges “are often best-observed slowly, ideally from the open-air perch of a bike saddle.” On Tuesday, the New York Times came to the E-town College campus to cover the event. Read more about this trip on the 
Susan Traverso joined E-town in 2007, coming from 
“The importance of family businesses cannot be understated. They are responsible for more than half of the Gross Domestic Product of the United States, and they create a majority of the jobs in this country. They are the dominant form of enterprise worldwide, outperforming non-family businesses in nearly every long-term measure,” McGrann said. “Our family businesses are vitally important to our economy. Our goal is to give them the tools, the support, and a strong network to succeed at every level–as a management team and as a unified family group.” 
McGrann and Martin will join long-time director and Elizabethtown College executive Mary Beth Matteo in offering family businesses an innovative curriculum and unique programs on a range of issues to increase their competitiveness. 
The four-day event will be held May 11-14, 2010 on the courses of the 
Last year, Devroop and a team of faculty and students started a concert band at Northbury Park Secondary School, a rural disadvantaged school in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. According to Devroop approximately 40% of the students at the school were orphaned by one or both parents, 30% were living with a parent that had AIDS, many students were HIV positive and faced crime and poverty on a daily basis. The instrumental program, hailed as a tremendous success, was one of the very first attempts to bring a concert band program to the public school system in South Africa. Devroop partnered with faculty from two South African universities, Professor Pete Jugmohan from the 
The team launched a concert band program at another school and a string program at t a concert band at Eastwood Secondary School in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. According the school principal, the majority of the students at the school lives in poverty and is classified as “head of household” meaning they are orphaned by both parents and take care of their younger siblings. Devroop and Roy have spent several months collecting instruments, books, supplies and equipment from area schools, churches and individuals from the community in Central Pennsylvania in an effort to secure the necessary instruments and equipment to start the program. Several area schools assisted in securing instruments and equipment including 
The group will also spend a significant amount of time conducting follow-up research studies on the program started last year and research on the impact of the new program, leading to three separate psychology of music studies to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals in the United States and in South Africa. 
Dr. Karendra Devroop is a Fulbright scholar from Durban, South Africa. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in South Africa and completed his PhD in music education at the University of North Texas. He has presented and published his research in the United States, South Africa, Germany and Canada. He was the 2002 national winner of the 
Harman is widely respected for his translations of Franz Kafka and other German-language authors. He has written extensively about modern German and Irish literature with particular emphasis on Joyce, Kafka, Beckett and Robert Walser. He won the first Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work by the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from University College in Dublin and two master’s degrees and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the author of four books and a widely published author and co-author of scholarly articles.
Klassen is the co-author, with Walter Klaassen, of a new biography,
"Marpeck: A Life of Dissent and Conformity." He has written 14
additional titles since 1962, including "The Contribution of Jewish
Scholars to the Quest for the Historical Jesus" and "Love of Enemies:
The Way to Peace." He is currently adjunct professor and principal
emeritus at
As a leader of a local task force, Mr. Whipple supported Elizabethtown’s economic growth through the development of a master plan for the borough’s downtown. He also coordinated a major industrial plant expansion in the downtown, which included a $3-million street relocation and extension, and facilitated a $14-million commercial and residential adaptive reuse project involving public and private participation. Reflective of his outstanding leadership and considerable efforts, Elizabethtown Borough was recognized in 2009 with the Governor’s Award for Local Government Excellence. 
The Blue Jays (27-13 overall) won four elimination games in a span of 30 hours to win their third conference title in four years and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Baseball tournament, which begins May 13.
are a sign of the College’s continuing commitment to service. “Elizabethtown’s mission is centered on delivering an education for service in the largest sense, and these recognitions confirm once more that this campus is actively engaged in building a better community around us,” says Long. “We are honored to be recognized in this way.”
According to Director of Civic Engagement Nancy Fritz Valkenburg ’71, these honors are recognition that the College is living its “Educate for Services” motto. “Every year, our programs strengthen and expand to include more service to those in need locally, nationally and internationally. The College participates in both large immersion events, such as ‘Into the Streets’ and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, as well as on a daily basis with community service work study, academic placements and volunteering in area schools and with nonprofit agencies,” she says. “Elizabethtown students tutor and mentor children and adults regionally from Lancaster to Harrisburg. Many students also participate in alternative fall and spring breaks. Recent projects include helping to rebuild homes damaged by hurricanes and floods in Mississippi and Texas, trips to Indian reservations in New Mexico to make repairs to the homes of elderly and disabled residents, and service-learning trips with faculty to Mexico, Ireland, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Africa.”
