Elizabethtown College News 
Back to top 4/29/2009 Sophomore Competes This Saturday for Miss Pennsylvania
Back to top 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." Read the Interview with Dr. Kirsten Johnson 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). Back to top 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 Back to top 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. * Pearson Website for Tyminski Book Back to top 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. Back to top 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. Back to top 4/21/2009 Commencement 2009 McNish and Whipple Receive Honorary Degrees Celebrating Elizabethtown College's 106th Commencement Record Number of Graduates This Year 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. 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: McNish's full remarks can be found on our website. The Commencement concluded at 1:00 p.m. as the rain gracefully held off.
Back to top 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’s
performance, 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. Back to top 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. Back to top 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. Back to top 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. Back to top 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 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 Young Iraqi Girl………………………………………………Emily Grove Mullaya…………………………………………………………..Laura Robbins Um Ghada………………………………………………………Jenn Heimbach Layal……………………………………………………………..Katlyn Howes Director: Prof. Terri Mastrobuono Scenic and Lighting Designer: Prof. Tom Hackman Costume Designer: Shannon Bowman Sound Designer: Sarah Rich Projection Designer: Stephany Schultz Dramaturg: Linda Bateman Stage Manager: Beth Lewis Assistant Stage Manager: DJ Littell Back to top 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. Back to top 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. Back to top 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 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.
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. Back to top 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. Back to top 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. Back to top 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. Visit www.etown.edu/SCAD for today's schedule Back to top 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” Back to top 4/2/2009 April 14 "The Many Roles of 18th Century Women" at the Young Center Elizabethtown
College Presents Anthropologist Patricia Gibble “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. A reception for Gibble will follow the lecture. |
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.”Back to News Index
