8/31/2009		Engineering Programs Accredited by ABET for First Time
8/26/2009		2009/10 Theatre Season Announced
8/25/2009		Important Update on Water Situation
8/24/2009		9/1 First Rehearsal: Community Chorus Open to New Talent
8/24/2009		9/1 Professor Friedly to Exhibit New Works
8/23/2009		Alumna Lois Herr Publishes New Book on E-town Coach and Dad
8/23/2009		E-town Community Orchestra Begins Rehearsals September 15
8/20/2009		Etown #1 in Northeast Baccalaureate College Best Value
8/20/2009		Gottfried Hosts Schlafly Radio Program Saturday
8/20/2009		Kraybill Comments on Amish Economic Challenges on msnbc.com
8/20/2009		10/29 -- Award Winning Poet Linda Gregg
8/17/2009		Waltermire of OT Department on Childhood Hospitalization
8/17/2009		Central Penn Business Journal Covers Freshman Enrollment
8/13/2009		E-town Now on Facebook and YouTube
8/12/2009		New Learning in Retirement Programs Announced
8/11/2009		Alumnus Lovelidge Runs PricewaterhouseCoopers in Philadlephia
8/11/2009		Professor Johnson Quoted in Harrisburg Patriot-News
8/11/2009		“Economic Woes Expose Sins of Both Political Parties” by Dr. Paul Gottfried
8/11/2009		Students Travel to E-town for Summer Research Project

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.

Kurt DeGoeode
Chair, Physics and Engineering

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


Details: Director, Michael Swanson

See a full fall 2009 campus event listing "@E-town."

Important Update on Water Situation

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.

Elizabethtown College Community Chorus
Seeks New Talent for 2009/10 Season

Art Professor Shows Unconventional Printmaking Works

"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.

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.

Details: Dr. Robert Spence, Orchestra Director
361-1178 

Elizabethtown College #1 in Commitment to Teaching
of Baccalaureate Colleges in the Northeast
 in latest US News & World Report Rankings

Dr. Paul Gottfried Hosts Schlafly Radio Program

"Amish See the Recession as a Challenge and a Blessing"

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.

The event will be held on Sunday, October 29th at 7:00 p.m. in the Leffler Chapel on the Elizabethtown College campus.

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."

Read full article.

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)

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 16^th 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.

Read the full article here

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

New Fall Prgram Schedule Announced for Retiree Community

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.

“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.

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.”

Wohl and Bowne Host Students for Research
on Antibiotic Resistance in Lancaster County