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Back to top 11/18/2008 Former Harsco CEO welcomed as Sara Lodge Executive-in-Residence Elizabethtown College has named retired Harsco Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Derek Hathaway as Sara Lodge Executive-in-Residence in its Department of Business. During this appointment that begins January 2009, Hathaway will bring four decades of international business experience to Elizabethtown’s classrooms. Additionally, Hathaway’s long-time involvement with community organizations on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean will offer students a living case study of the powerful impact of the College’s “Educate for Service” motto. A native of the United Kingdom, Derek Hathaway founded Dartmouth Investments Limited in 1966 and built a group of engineering businesses into a public corporation, which was acquired by Harsco Corporation in 1979. Over the next decade, Hathaway was promoted through a series of increasingly more responsible positions before being named Harsco’s chairman, president and chief executive officer in April 1994. The company prospered under his leadership, with sales exceeding $4 billion by the time he retired in April 2008. Hathaway has served on numerous boards of public corporations, charitable institutions and government advisory councils in both the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1998, he was awarded the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which is presented annually to individuals of foreign heritage for extraordinary service to the United States and international community. Additionally in 2008, Her Majesty The Queen of England presented him with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, one of the highest civil service honors bestowed on a native of the British Empire. Locally, Hathaway also has been awarded honorary degrees from Elizabethtown College, The Dickinson School of Law, and Messiah College in recognition of his outstanding career and commitment to serving the community. As Sara Lodge Executive-in-Residence, Hathaway will advance Elizabethtown’s mission by joining theory and practice for students, and will underline the importance of the College’s commitment to “Educate for Service.” He will share his expertise and experience in a variety of ways, including classroom instruction, formal presentations, internal publications, and informal meetings. In addition, Hathaway will provide career guidance to our students, will advise the Department of Business and Elizabethtown College on matters of curriculum and program development, and will promote links between the College and business community. The Sara Lodge Executive-in-Residence Program was created in 1991 through the generous contribution of siblings, Dr. William H. Lodge and Sara Lodge ’41, both of whom attended Elizabethtown College. Back to top 11/18/2008 College Receives $1,000,000 Gift to Provide Student Scholarships The Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation recently awarded Elizabethtown College a $1,000,000 grant to create the Stabler Scholarship Fund, significantly increasing the College’s commitment to student scholarship aid. Beginning in the 2009-2010 academic year, Stabler Scholarships will be awarded to Elizabethtown College students who exhibit “…the character, motivation and achievements of candidates who give indication of their eagerness for a college education, do not expect a free education and recognize the virtues of working for what they receive.” “This is an extraordinary gift,” said Elizabethtown College president Theodore Long. “Thanks to the Stabler Foundation, the Stabler Scholarship will help highly motivated students benefit from the education that Elizabethtown College offers - for generations to come.” According to Long, Stabler Scholarship recipients will be encouraged to repay the scholarships in the years after they graduate in order to make even more scholarships available to future Elizabethtown College students. Characterized as a “debt of conscience” by the Stabler Foundation, this is consistent with Mr. and Mrs. Stabler’s view of philanthropy. Forming the Harrisburg-based foundation in 1966, Mr. and Mrs. Stabler believed in the importance of education and were aware of the fact that many young men and women might not be able to have the benefits of higher education without financial assistance. In his will, Mr. Stabler stated, “Each alumnus of a private college or university owes a considerable debt to his or her Alma Mater… (and) should be encouraged to form the habit of making annual financial contributions to the college in accordance with his or her means.” “At Elizabethtown College, our motto is ‘Educate for Service’,” Long said. “This will remind Stabler Scholarship recipients that they can and should serve future generations of students here. No one knows better what an impact scholarship aid can have than students who have benefitted from scholarships themselves.” Back to top 11/17/2008 College to Hold Annual Christmas Candlelight Service On Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m., Elizabethtown College will welcome members of the community to its annual Christmas Candlelight Service, which will be held in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. An uplifting, celebratory start to the holiday season, this service is free of charge and open to the public. The event is not ticketed, and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Auditorium doors will open approximately 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the service. For more information, please contact Karen Hodges at 717-361-1260. The Christmas Candlelight Service – which is coordinated by the College’s Office of Religious Life – is a longtime community favorite. This year’s service will include performances and seasonal sentiments from the College’s students, faculty and staff. To herald the Christmas holiday season, gifted performing groups – including the Women’s Chorus, Gospel Choir, Camerata and the Arioso Flute Choir – will play and sing holiday favorites. In addition, several speakers will offer heartwarming thoughts focusing on their favorite lessons and carols. All are invited to enjoy seasonal treats at a reception in the lobby following the service. Back to top 11/17/2008 Kafka Scholar Releases New Translation of “Amerika: The Missing Person" Elizabethtown College Professor Mark Harman – who garnered critical acclaim for his 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. Harman’s translation of Kafka’s novel “The Castle” for the same publisher was nominated for the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club prize, selected as a best book of the year by the Los Angeles Times, and won the first Lois Roth Award of the Modern Language Association of America. The paperback edition of the translation is currently in its fifth printing. Harman’s other translations include “Robert Walser Rediscovered” (University Press of New England), which he edited and co-translated, and Hermann Hesse’s selected letters, “Soul of the Age” (Farrar, Straus), as well as shorter works by contemporary German writers ranging from Günter Grass to Martin Walser. His most recent publications include essays on Kafka’s “The Castle” in “A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka,” Swiss writer Robert Walser in Sewanee Review, the Gaelic tradition (also in Sewanee Review), Kafka and Berlin in New England Review, and Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” in Sinn und Form (Berlin). Other articles and reviews about German-language authors, Irish literature and literary translation have appeared in journals such as Partisan Review, Boston Review and New Literary History, as well as newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, The Irish Times (Dublin), and The Washington Post. Among his recent literary and scholarly awards were residencies at MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire), Ledig House (New York), Djerassi Foundation (California), European Translators’ Collegium (Germany) and Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland); a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy, Berlin; and a grant for translation from the Office of Federal Chancellor of Austria. Upcoming regional talks and readings by Harman include: Gettysburg College on Nov. 18 (sponsored by "The Gettysburg Review"); Princeton University on Nov. 24; Franklin & Marshall College on Dec. 2; Austrian Cultural Forum at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2009; and the University of Pennsylvania on Jan. 28, 2009. South African novelist and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee described Harman’s translation of “The Castle” in The New York Review of Books as follows: "Semantically accurate to an admirable degree, faithful to Kafka’s nuances, responsive to the tempo of his sentences and to the larger music of his paragraph construction. For the general reader or for the student, it will be the translation of preference for some time to come." Back to top 11/17/2008 Elizabethtown College Presents American Family Christmas Concert Revel in the spirit of the season as Elizabethtown College’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts present its annual American Family Christmas Concert on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 3 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. This event – featuring performances by the Women’s Chorus; the Concert Choir; the College-Community Chorus; the student-directed ensemble, Camerata; and the Jazz Band – is open to the public and free of charge. More information is available by calling 717-361-1212. During the concert, the Women’s Chorus will perform works by Benjamin Britten and Daniel Nelson. The group is directed by adjunct faculty member Carrie Fritz. The Concert Choir and College-Community Chorus – both directed by Associate Professor of Music Matthew Fritz – also will perform. With Dr. Fritz on sabbatical, these groups will be conducted by Emery DeWitt, director of music at the Lancaster Church of the Brethren. The Concert Choir will perform a collection of significant choral works for the season, such as pieces by Manz, Bruckner, Fissinger, Rutter, Flummerfelt and Mechem. The College-Community Chorus – which includes both Elizabethtown College students and local community members – will perform an international collection of carols from Spain, France, England, Trinidad and the Appalachian region of the United States. In addition, the Jazz Band will present holiday favorites, such as “Winter Wonderland,” “Jingle Bells” and “White Christmas.” The group – comprised of College students of many majors who perform on campus and in the community – is led by Grant Moore II, director of the College’s Preparatory Division. Back to top 11/17/2008 Elephant Toothpaste Garners Award for Elizabethtown’s Chem Club One E-town student group earned a national title from the American Chemical Society this year, and an elephant helped them do it. The diverse résumé of the Elizabethtown College Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (ACS)—commonly referred to as the Chem Club—garnered them an Honorable Mention in an annual awards program sponsored by the national organization. During the 2007-2008 academic year, students participated in Dr. Al Hazari's chemistry magic show, which was a part of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers meeting held on campus in November 2007, and they hosted the 72nd Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Conference. Five students also presented original research at last year’s ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. E-town’s Chem Club found enormous success with the experiment, so they submitted it to the Chem Demo Exchange, a program where Student Affiliate groups present their favorite chemistry demonstration that uses household materials. The activity was selected by the ACS Kids & Chemistry Division as an outstanding demo. Chapter President Alaina DeToma says she knows that the Honorable Mention and the club’s success are due to busy members and hard work. “I think it speaks well for the Elizabethtown Chemistry Department and the College for supporting the chapter,” she says. “Hopefully, the success of last year's efforts will inspire the club members to make this year even better!” The Chapter will be recognized in the November/December 2008 Issue of “in Chemistry,” a magazine for Student Affiliates of ACS, and at the Undergraduate Awards Ceremony of the National ACS Meeting in Salt Lake City in spring 2009. Back to top 11/7/2008 Elephant Toothpaste Garners Award for Elizabethtown’s Chem Club One E-town student group earned a national title from the American Chemical Society this year, and an elephant helped them do it. The diverse resume of the Elizabethtown College Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (ACS)—commonly referred to as the Chem Club—garnered them an Honorable Mention in an annual awards program sponsored by the national organization. During the 2007-2008 academic year, students participated in Dr. Al Hazari's chemistry magic show, which was a part of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers meeting held on campus in November 2007, and they hosted the 72nd Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Conference. Five students also presented original research at last year’s ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. E-town’s Chem Club found enormous success with the experiment, so they submitted it to the Chem Demo Exchange, a program where Student Affiliate groups present their favorite chemistry demonstration that uses household materials. The activity was selected by the ACS Kids & Chemistry Division as an outstanding demo.
The Chapter will be recognized in the November/December 2008 Issue of “in Chemistry,” a magazine for Student Affiliates of ACS, and at the Undergraduate Awards Ceremony of the National ACS Meeting in Salt Lake City in spring 2009. by Audra Farren ’09 Back to top 11/6/2008 Emotion presents fall showcase "Bright Lights and Dark Nights" Dec. 5, 6 Elizabethtown College Presents “Bright Lights and Dark Nights” Dance Showcase ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – The Elizabethtown College Department of Fine and Performing Arts will present a fall showcase by the College’s dance club, Emotion, on Friday, Dec. 5 and Saturday, Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The event is open to the public. Tickets – which may be purchased at the door the evening of the concert – cost $3 for students and $4 for the general public. More information is available by calling 717-361-1212. The fall showcase – which is themed and titled “Bright Lights and Dark Nights” – will feature dances choreographed and performed by Elizabethtown College students. The event will include a wide variety of performances, from a segment showcasing the toe-tapping Broadway jazz style to powerful pieces focused around peace, love and conflict.Back to top 11/6/2008 Guest recital featuring Soprano Teresa Bomberger to be held Dec. 1 The Elizabethtown College Department of Fine and Performing Arts will present Bomberger is a winner of the Montpelier Recital Competition and the Lotte Lehman Art Song Competition. She has performed leading roles with the Hawaii Opera Theatre, the Maryland Lyric Opera, the Cornell Savoyards, the Durham Savoyards and the Maryland Shakespeare Festival. Back to top 11/3/2008 Educate for Service Awards presented Elizabethtown College presented three alumni with Educate for Service awards. The highest honor given to Elizabethtown alumni, these awards are presented annually at the President’s Dinner to those who have made exceptional contributions to the community, professional field or the College. A Service through Professional Achievement award went to David G. Behrs, Ph.D., of Terre Haute, Ind., a 1981 graduate of Elizabethtown. Behrs is the 15th president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana, the nation’s oldest Catholic liberal arts college for women. He was appointed the first lay president of the 1,700-student institution following an extensive national search. After graduating from Elizabethtown with a bachelor’s degree in history and social science, Behrs earned a master’s degree in counseling and student personnel from Shippensburg University and his doctorate in counseling and student development from American University. Spending the past 25 years of his career in higher education, Behrs came to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College after serving as both the associate provost for university initiatives and vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Dominican University of California. His career has included positions at Lynchburg College, Marymount University, George Mason School of Law and The Pennsylvania State University. A Service to Humanity award was presented to Katharine A. Moser of New York City, a 2003 graduate of Elizabethtown and the youngest person to ever receive an Educate for Service award. The following is an excerpt from a March 18, 2007, story in the New York Times written by Amy Harmon: “The test, the counselor said, had come back positive. Katharine Moser inhaled sharply. She thought she was as ready as anyone could be to face her genetic destiny. She had attended a genetic counseling session and visited a psychiatrist, as required by the clinic. She had undergone the recommended neurological exam. And yet, she realized in that moment, she had never expected to hear those words. “Ms. Moser was 23. It had taken her months to convince the clinic at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University medical Center in Manhattan that she wanted, at such a young age, to find out whether she carried the gene for Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s, the incurable brain disorder that possessed her grandfather’s body and ravaged his mind for three decades, typically strikes in middle age. Ms. Moser is part of a vanguard of people at risk for Huntington’s who are choosing to learn early what their future holds.” Moser graduated from Elizabethtown with a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy. She works at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in Manhattan, where her grandfather spent 10 years in treatment before dying in 2002 from Huntington’s. Moser has found strength through advocacy. She educates about the disease, even appearing on network television and writing a children’s book about Huntington’s, and organizes fundraising events for the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. Whenever she gets a break at work, Moser returns to the Huntington’s unit to customize wheelchairs with padding to fit each patient’s unique physical tics and fabricate special silverware to prolong his or her ability to feed himself/herself. A Service to the College award was presented to Jay R. Buffenmyer, Ph.D., of Palmyra, Pa. A member of the Class of 1959, Buffenmyer graduated from Elizabethtown – after a two-year pause for a calling in the Brethren Volunteer Service – with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. After graduation, Buffenmyer went into the Peace Corps until 1965, serving in Tunisia and India. Upon returning to the United States, he went on to earn a master’s degree in public and international affairs and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. Buffenmyer began his teaching career in 1971 with the Organization of American States, where he was assigned to the Institute of Management and Productivity in Barbados, followed by two years as chairman of the Department of Economics and Business Administration at Lebanon Valley College. He returned to Elizabethtown in 1976, where he served twice as chairman of the Department of Business. Although Buffenmyer retired as a full professor in 2003, most of the campus community believes that he is still working full-time at the College because of his continuing presence and involvement in campus life. As a professor emeritus for the past five years, Buffenmyer has taught almost 10 different courses, coordinates student internships, and advises between 30 and 40 students each semester. Buffenmyer has many notable achievements to his name, from consulting with private-sector businesses and educational organizations to an extensive list of research and publications, including work funded by the World Bank and the Ford Foundation. But his greatest success – and a source of personal pride, as well as a lasting legacy to the College – was his creation of the International Business Program at Elizabethtown in 1983. The program became a major in 1992, which is a credit to Buffenmyer who has worked in seven countries and visited more than 60 others. Back to top 10/8/2008 "Handprint Identity Project" exhibition 9/23/08 ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – A unique traveling exhibition capturing the essence of human identity will open at Elizabethtown College on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008. The diverse collection, titled “The Handprint Identity Project: An Exchange Between Artist and Poets,” includes work resulting from a collaboration of 20 respected poets and artist from throughout the United States. Conceived and directed by Elizabethtown College Professor Milt Friedly, the exhibition will be available for viewing by the public through Dec. 15, 2008, in the Hess Gallery of Zug Memorial Hall and Lyet Gallery of Leffler Chapel and Performance Center at the College. Both galleries are open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. from Monday through Friday and from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The exhibition is free of charge. More information is available by calling 717-361-1212. According to Friedly, the “Handprint Identity Project” found part of its genesis in the turmoil of the With exhibition co-directors, literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller, of Howard University, and poet Leslie McGrath, of Stonington, Conn., Friedly recruited 10 poets and 10 visual artists, who would work from the common theme for a period of one year, first individually and later in a cross-genre collaboration. The project received support through a grant from Elizabethtown College’s Collaborative Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program. The program provides financial support for interdisciplinary scholarship and seeks to promote interdepartmental interaction, as well as faculty and student research. It is administered by the College’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and was created through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In the first phase of the project, each participant worked independently, interpreting the theme within their genre. The artists created works that speak to the concept of identity, as both an individual experience and as part of the universal experience. According the Friedly, the project addresses timeless questions typically assigned to the arts. “Given shared experience and broad diversities, can artist and poets create works that elucidate both common and individual identity? Can new works be created that are truthful to the artists’ experience, yet contain resonant meaning for all human beings?” reflects Friedly. “These are old questions … lasting ones … that have been posed throughout the ages. These times of economic globalization, war, and the diminishment of environmental resources compel us again to examine the tension and balance between the individual and the broader human community.” In the second phase, artists and poets were paired. After exchanging some of the work created in the first phase, the collaborators reflected on and responded to, in their own genre, the work created by their partners. “We explore questions like how do collaborative artistic exchanges between artists and poets come into being? Are certain artistic genres more or less amenable to the expression of what it means to be at once deeply human and a unique individual?” he explains. The Handprint Identity Project exhibition includes the work of artists and poets representing a broad diversity of ethnicities, native homelands, and religions. In addition to Miller and McGrath, poets include: Shirley Ainoo of Gathersburg, Md.; Scott Cairns of the University of Missouri; Jennifer Foerster of San Francisco, Calif.; Sandra Kohler of Boston, Mass.; David Mura of Minneapolis, Minn.; Julia Spicher Kasdorf of The Pennsylvania State University; Carmine Sarracino of Elizabethtown College; and Ravi Shankar of Central Connecticut State University. In addition to Friedly, the visual artists include: Stacey Carter of San Francisco, Calif.; Bivas Chaudhuri of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Carol Cole of Philadelphia, Pa.; Donald Forsythe of Messiah College; Carol Galligan of Lancaster, Pa.; Fred Metz in Seattle, Wash.; David Reif of the University of Wyoming (retired); Kebedech Tekleab of Savannah College of Art and Design; and Leslie Kaufman of Philadelphia, Pa. The project also involved two Elizabethtown graduates, artist Thomas Yukovic ’08 and poet Piece Hibbs ’07. The art exhibition is curated by Friedly and Yurkovic. The poetry collection was curated by Miller and Hibbs. Available for purchase at the exhibition will be a full-color, glossy catalogue and a collection of poetry inspired by this project. The proceeds of the sale of these two pieces are earmarked for the creation of an Elizabethtown College scholarship fund for students studying art or literature. Truly a coffee table piece, the exhibition catalogue will include high-quality photographs of the art collection, excerpts of the poetry, and reflections from the artists and poets about their participation in the Handprint Identity Project. It will include a forward by Thomas Zummer, regular visiting professor in the Transmedia programme/post-graduate at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas/Universite Leuven in Brussels and visiting professor at the Transart Institute in Linz, Austria. PulseDirect, Inc. – an Elizabethtown-based direct marketing agency – donated its services in the design of the piece. The catalogue will be sold for $15. The poetry collection, titled “The Handprint Identity Project: Selected Poems,” was edited by Leslie McGrath. PulseDirect, Inc. also donated its services in the design and layout of the piece, and Continental Press of Elizabethtown donated the printing. It will be sold for $10.
Back to top 10/8/2008 Accelerated adult degree program expands to York County 9/18/08 Elizabethtown College is pleased to announce that a new location will be opening in York County in January 2009, just in time for students to start school for the spring semester of classes. Space has been secured and classrooms and offices will be designed in a new, state-of-the-art facility right off the Queen Street exit of Route 83. Partnering with Kinsley Properties, the College plans to provide York county adult learners a technologically advanced, comfortable and stimulating environment for learning. Elizabethtown College is dedicated to providing the most adult-friendly and convenient academic programs in the region. The Center's Adult Degree Programs are designed for busy working professionals seeking to earn a college degree while maintaining career and personal lives. The Center currently operates campuses in Harrisburg and Lancaster, as well as providing extensive online course offerings. Elizabethtown’s Adult Degree Programs are open to those age 23+ with professional work experience. The academic majors that will be available at this new site are Business Administration, Accounting, Corporate Communications and Criminal Justice. To obtain further information about the opening of this new center of learning, please contact Barbara Randazzo, randazzob@etown.edu, (717) 361-3750 or Erica Schieler, schielere@etown.edu, (717) 519-9337. |
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”). Published by Random House’s Schocken Books, “Amerika: The Missing Person” is now available online and will be released at book stores across the nation on Nov. 18.
Chapter President Alaina DeToma (shown in the center to right, wearing the orange Into the Streets T-shirt) says she knows that the Honorable Mention and the club’s success are due to busy members and hard work. “I think it speaks well for the Elizabethtown Chemistry Department and the College for supporting the chapter,” she says. “Hopefully, the success of last year's efforts will inspire the club members to make this year even better!”
soprano Teresa Bomberger in a guest recital on Monday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Zug Recital Hall. The event is open to the public and free of charge. More information is available by calling 717-361-1212.
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