Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Winter 2016 Communications & Marketing Gettysburg College

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Table of Contents

Science Woman to Women: Scholarships for Aspiring Scientists (Judith Keyes Guss-Nelson ’60, P’89; Kirsten A. Guss ’89; Kayla Britt '17)

Julia Hendon: Anthropology and Director of the Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning Professor Julie Hendon

There is No Orange Without Blue Candace Connors Vorhaus ’80

The 411: Bill Heyman '74, P'13 (Bill Heyman '74, P'13)

According to You: Alumni Survey Results

G-burg Interns Stand Out (Len Gemma ’81)

Binational Bio (Samantha Siomko ’17; Prof. Paula “Alex” Trillo)

Gettysburgreat: The Campaign for Our College

Sounding a Chord of Hope (Margaret Selby ’81; Thomas George ’67) Frank Arbogast '16

Career Explorations Multiply

Conversations

At the Heart of It (Michael Cain ’71; Blase Carabello ’69; Arthur Feldman ’70)

No More Marcus Welbys (Blase Carabello '69)

Flipping the Classroom (Michael Cain '71)

Patient Focused (Arthur Feldman '70)

G-burg's Bio DNA: Prof. Ralph Cavaliere

The Business of Making a Better World (Linda Zweizig Rentschler ’86; Frank Martin ’63; Lawrese Brown ’10; Chris Simard ’11; Alan ’02 and Victoria Anderson Manning ’01; Kim Davidson)

Voices of Experience: Making the Most of LinkedIn (Katherine Cornock Terhune ’07)

What Students Do: Developing a Curator's Eye (Kathya Lopez ’18)

Work that Makes a Difference: "The Missile Better Work" (Rick Edwards ’78)

What Makes Gettysburg Great: Focusing on Leadership, Service, and Civic Engagement (Fred Fielding ’61)

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Class Notes

Becker, Stevens, Birkner, and Me: Is the Past Really the Past? (Prof. Michael Birkner ’72, P’10; Michael Karpyn ’97)

Keywords Alumni Magazine, Gettysburg College

Disciplines Education | Higher Education | Liberal Studies

Publisher Gettysburg College

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Volume 107 • No. 1 • Winter 2016 hroughout the year, an area where alumni can be of me, this is truly inspiring. Your Inside I meet and hear from tremendous help! ThePrinceton gifts every year, no matter what many alumni and always Review recently ranked Gettysburg their size, not only enhance welcome their ideas and thoughts College among the top 20 colleges the quality and reputation of 14 At the heart of it 2 News@Gettysburg about Gettysburg College. and universities in the nation for our College, but also make a Three top cardiologists—all Gettysburgians—are shaping the 12 Conversations To learn more about what our internship experiences. We have profound difference in the lives future of the field by training the next generation of doctors. alumni think, we sent a survey, also been profiled in the book of our students. 28 Do Great Work co-promoted with the Alumni Colleges that Create Futures: 50 Speaking of which—what 20 The business of making a better world 30 Bulletins Association’s Board of Directors, Schools that Launch Careers by about today’s students? Ambitious and persistent, social entrepreneurs are driven to all of those Gettysburg alumni Going Beyond the Classroom. We According to the Princeton to do good while doing well. 31 Class notes for whom we had an email depend on our alumni, parents, , Gettysburg is among the Review 46 In memory address. The survey reached seven and friends to assist with this top 20 colleges and universities 26 Making the most of LinkedIn decades of Gettysburgians, and effort. I encourage any of you in the country for students who Standing out in the LinkedIn crowd can be challenging, 48 Parting shot nearly 3,500 alumni responded. I who have career experiences or study the hardest—and students but there is a Gettysburg College insider to help. thank those of you who took the opportunities you would like to who are the happiest! That is a time to complete the survey, and share to be in touch with our great combination! The support Cover photo by Shawna Sherrell I would like to point out some Center for Career Development you provide helps us to create an Photo of Lincoln statue by Miranda Harple key findings. (For some additional (www.gettysburg.edu/career). environment at Gettysburg that Editor: Sue Baldwin-Way. highlights, please see pages 6–7.) Our alumni also expressed is quite distinctive. Gettysburg Contact [email protected] First, those aspects of a desire to support us with students are highly engaged, Address changes: Communications & Marketing, Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Gettysburg College that alumni recruiting students and promoting and they are truly enjoying Box 422, Gettysburg, PA 17325 consider to be most important the College to others. This, the experience. Gettysburg College assures equal employment are the College’s reputation and too, is wonderful news since I Again, thanks to all who and prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, value; history and tradition; consider our alumni to be our responded to our alumni survey, as sexual orientation, or disability. Printed in accomplishments of students; greatest ambassadors. I encourage well as those who have contributed U.S.A. © Gettysburg College 2016. and campus aesthetics. Most you to talk about Gettysburg to Gettysburg College through For additional content related to this issue, visit www.gettysburg.edu/links or contact importantly, our alumni report in your communities and in our Gettysburg Great campaign. [email protected] that their Gettysburg education your workplaces. Feel free to Your voice and generosity prepared them well for their recommend Gettysburg to a high are invaluable! President Abraham Lincoln Signing the personal and professional lives. school student! By promoting Wishing you all the best this Emancipation Proclamation by sculptor Stanley Watts, a gift to the College from We continue to be dedicated to Gettysburg in this way, you will winter season! Trustee Emeritus Scott Higgins ’67, P’12, advancing that goal with today’s help us to expand our reach. was installed near Stevens Hall. Photos and video of the installation and students, preparing them for Finally, nearly all who Sincerely, dedication ceremony, including fulfilling careers and lives of responded shared a sense of remarks by Bruce Gordon ’68, civic engagement. pride about Gettysburg College. former NAACP president, are online. I was pleased that so many of Sometimes that pride translates our alumni conveyed an interest into giving financially. About in discussing career planning half of those surveyed include and job opportunities with Gettysburg in their top three-to- Janet Morgan Riggs ’77 students, especially since this is five philanthropic priorities. To President News Gettysburg Objects Time travel Teaching I went to Arizona as an undergraduate to My father, a linguist and anthropologist, Don Hinrichs and Jean Potuchek learn how to be an archaeologist. This had all these really neat books about were great mentors to me. New faculty bowl [below] is one of the first things ancient Egyptians and language that have to learn to turn themselves into I bought. It is a tourist piece, a smaller were interesting to me. And I read a teachers and think about what students version of a bowl that would have had lot of science fiction by Andre Norton. get out of a course in addition to the Science a practical purpose. It made me realize She had a series of books about specific subject matter. Woman to how much people cared about the world archaeologists that included travel to Here, teaching is so ever-present, so in which they lived—that they made other planets. One of the tools that front-and-center, that you have to learn to women ordinary functional things so beautiful they used was a device they could become a good, engaged teacher without and well done. point at a site, set to a time in the having it take over your life. It’s a job that Scholarships for aspiring scientists Then, of course, my cat broke it, past, and see what was happening is never finished. For me, it was a big thing so I mended it. there at that time. to realize that it is OK to have moments in the I use it in my 300-level seminar I thought it would be fascinating classroom when I wasn’t saying something. udith Keyes Guss-Nelson ’60, P’89 was the first when we talk about objects that are very to go back 1,000 or 2,000 years. Now I look for ways to get students to be meaningful in our lives, an anthropological I have this notion that this is what more intentional, to talk about stuff, and to in her family to pursue an undergraduate degree, study of how we understand our pasts we are trying to do as anthropologists engage in activities so I can get a sense paying for it with money she saved from babysitting, and the pasts of other people. or archaeologists—recover a scene. of what they are thinking. cleaning houses, and working as an AT&T telephone operator. Her mother never graduated from high school. The oldest of six children, Guss-Nelson felt the pressures of responsibility early in life, taking care My selection as the of her siblings when her single mother had to work to Prof notes support their family. They didn’t have a lot of money. recipient of the Judith Today, six decades later, Guss-Nelson lives frugally and, although she has not accumulated great wealth, she Keyes Guss-Nelson ’60 has committed nearly everything she has to Gettysburg College. Over the last several years she has made outright Women in Science gifts to establish the Judith Keyes Guss-Nelson ’60 Scholarship is truly Women in Science Scholarship. At her death nearly her entire estate will add to it with funds coming an honor. I feel so from her will and IRA commitments. “Gettysburg College made me the person I am,” grateful to be the Guss-Nelson said. “I want to show my gratitude for all that it did for me.” beneficiary of Ms. Guss- Guss-Nelson was one of seven women chemistry majors in the class of 1960. At a time when predominantly ULIA Nelson’s generosity. only men entered science and medicine fields, she pursued J a career conducting research on RNA, or ribonucleic HENDON This scholarship has acid, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Anthropology enabled me to attend Guss-Nelson’s vision for her scholarship centers Director of the Johnson Center for on helping other women pursue their career goals and Creative Teaching and Learning Gettysburg College, providing them with the means to overcome financial and other challenges. She said her daughter, Kirsten A. pursue my education, Guss ’89, who also attended Gettysburg, was able to do so only because of a scholarship. She graduated with and grow as a student a degree in biology, pursued her PhD, and is now on the Dickinson College faculty. and an individual. “Gettysburg gave my daughter the scholarship she needed to go to college. I owe Gettysburg,” said Guss- Nelson. “I want women today to be able to go to school, —Kayla Britt ’17 to learn all they can, and reach or exceed their goals. You cannot end at high school. There’s just so much to learn. Biology I mean, I’m still learning.”

2 3 News Gettysburg Objects Time travel Teaching I went to Arizona as an undergraduate to My father, a linguist and anthropologist, Don Hinrichs and Jean Potuchek learn how to be an archaeologist. This had all these really neat books about were great mentors to me. New faculty bowl [below] is one of the first things ancient Egyptians and language that have to learn to turn themselves into I bought. It is a tourist piece, a smaller were interesting to me. And I read a teachers and think about what students version of a bowl that would have had lot of science fiction by Andre Norton. get out of a course in addition to the Science a practical purpose. It made me realize She had a series of books about specific subject matter. Woman to how much people cared about the world archaeologists that included travel to Here, teaching is so ever-present, so in which they lived—that they made other planets. One of the tools that front-and-center, that you have to learn to women ordinary functional things so beautiful they used was a device they could become a good, engaged teacher without and well done. point at a site, set to a time in the having it take over your life. It’s a job that Scholarships for aspiring scientists Then, of course, my cat broke it, past, and see what was happening is never finished. For me, it was a big thing so I mended it. there at that time. to realize that it is OK to have moments in the I use it in my 300-level seminar I thought it would be fascinating classroom when I wasn’t saying something. udith Keyes Guss-Nelson ’60, P’89 was the first when we talk about objects that are very to go back 1,000 or 2,000 years. Now I look for ways to get students to be meaningful in our lives, an anthropological I have this notion that this is what more intentional, to talk about stuff, and to in her family to pursue an undergraduate degree, study of how we understand our pasts we are trying to do as anthropologists engage in activities so I can get a sense paying for it with money she saved from babysitting, and the pasts of other people. or archaeologists—recover a scene. of what they are thinking. cleaning houses, and working as an AT&T telephone operator. Her mother never graduated from high school. The oldest of six children, Guss-Nelson felt the pressures of responsibility early in life, taking care My selection as the of her siblings when her single mother had to work to Prof notes support their family. They didn’t have a lot of money. recipient of the Judith Today, six decades later, Guss-Nelson lives frugally and, although she has not accumulated great wealth, she Keyes Guss-Nelson ’60 has committed nearly everything she has to Gettysburg College. Over the last several years she has made outright Women in Science gifts to establish the Judith Keyes Guss-Nelson ’60 Scholarship is truly Women in Science Scholarship. At her death nearly her entire estate will add to it with funds coming an honor. I feel so from her will and IRA commitments. “Gettysburg College made me the person I am,” grateful to be the Guss-Nelson said. “I want to show my gratitude for all that it did for me.” beneficiary of Ms. Guss- Guss-Nelson was one of seven women chemistry majors in the class of 1960. At a time when predominantly ULIA Nelson’s generosity. only men entered science and medicine fields, she pursued J a career conducting research on RNA, or ribonucleic HENDON This scholarship has acid, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Anthropology enabled me to attend Guss-Nelson’s vision for her scholarship centers Director of the Johnson Center for on helping other women pursue their career goals and Creative Teaching and Learning Gettysburg College, providing them with the means to overcome financial and other challenges. She said her daughter, Kirsten A. pursue my education, Guss ’89, who also attended Gettysburg, was able to do so only because of a scholarship. She graduated with and grow as a student a degree in biology, pursued her PhD, and is now on the Dickinson College faculty. and an individual. “Gettysburg gave my daughter the scholarship she needed to go to college. I owe Gettysburg,” said Guss- Nelson. “I want women today to be able to go to school, —Kayla Britt ’17 to learn all they can, and reach or exceed their goals. You cannot end at high school. There’s just so much to learn. Biology I mean, I’m still learning.”

2 3 What makes great…school colors? Candace Connors Vorhaus ’80 The 411 Bill Heyman ’74, P’13

THERE IS NO Majored in sociology and anthropology • tour guide • baseball • Phi Delta Theta • Communications and Marketing Advisory Council (CMAC) chair • Entrepreneurial Fellowship Advisory Council • Meritorious Service award • President/CEO of Heyman Associates • with Doreen: Visionary Gettysburgians and parents to oranWITHOUT ge Alison and Corey ’13

Gained from Gettysburg Small school, one-to-one personal relationships are the backbone blue of my business; also intellectual rouping orange and blue, suits. Spanning geography and intuitively convey a natural curiosity, self-confidence, the Gettysburg College religion alike, orange represents and exciting symbol for personal and friendships school colors, creates an a raised consciousness, strength, accomplishment, self-actualization, extraordinary symbol of confidence, a flourishing spirit, and dynamic and achievement. trustworthiness, and honor. It is health, vitality, and aliveness. Adding orange and blue Memorable G-burgians a winning combination for a The color blue, especially a together inspired Dutch painter Prof. Wade Hook (sociology) believed in me thriving, exciting, liberal arts, deep and rich blue, represents Vincent van Gogh to write his academically; Rev. Dr. John Vannorsdall ’72 learning institution. peace, order, and trust. The brother, Theo, sometime around (chaplain) was insightful and visionary; classmate First, the basics: the standard Gettysburg blue incorporates 1880, “…there is no orange Gary Boguski ’74, P’15—we had almost every for matching and reproducing authority and intelligence, coupled without blue.” class together and still compare notes regularly. colors is the Pantone Color with confidence and dependability. Matching System, more simply Think of a blue sky, a blue sea, Candace Connors Vorhaus ’80 is a known as PMS. The Gettysburg or blue bird, and it’s easy to leading feng shui expert, spiritual coach, classically trained interior designer, Supports G-burg to orange is PMS #158, which understand why blue is the most colorist, and founder of C3D Feng Shui. Pay it forward for getting a great education includes mostly yellow, some favored color in the world. An English major, she was a member of both in and outside the classroom and for the magenta, and a little black. Consider our school colors both the Gettysburgian staff and Chi friendships that came out of those four years. The Bullets blue is PMS #294, and their implications—how Omega. She is a graduate of New York’s Parsons School of Design and studied incorporating a majority of cyan, our orange and blue affects at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the some magenta, and black, with us as students and as alumni. Louvre in Paris, France. Her daughter, Mets or ? absolutely no yellow—a subtle Gettysburg College’s colors Molly, is in the Class of 2019. YANKEES! yet powerful combination. The color orange, named Why are we orange and blue? after the fruit, represents the The colors were chosen by students and ratified by the faculty on April 4, 1889, unconventional, proactivity, according to the College history, A Salutary Influence, by Charles H. Glatfelter ’46. Last seen on campus: and high visibility, which is why The choice may have been driven by practicality—orange and blue caps (dinks) were October 2015 homecoming. orange became the standard color reported to be more readily available than the earlier choice of scarlet and deep canary. Read the full account of the rise in school spirit, beginning on page 362 for inflatable life jackets, and of the book, found online in Musselman Library’s GettDigital Collections. also the color of astronaut space

4 Photo by Jason Minick 5 What makes great…school colors? Candace Connors Vorhaus ’80 The 411 Bill Heyman ’74, P’13

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ALUMNI SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS ALUMNI AGREE THAT THESE CONNECTIONS VOLUNTEER ROLES ARE IMPORTANT:

ACCORDING LAST YEAR THE COLLEGE SURVEYED Identify jobs for graduates the Gettysburg 19,367 ALUMNI AND 3,441 (18%) Provide career guidance TO YOU RESPONDED. HERE ARE HIGHLIGHTS: for students Provide leadership PARTICIPANTS BY GRADUATION YEAR (% OF RESPONDENTS) by serving on boards Netw rk Prior to 1973 Woodstock/Vietnam and Prior (30%) 1994–2000 Electronic Revolution/Dot-Com (8%) and committees THOSE WHO GRADUATED SINCE 2008 ARE LOOKING 1974–1980 Post-Watergate (11%) 2001–2008 Post-9/11 (17%) FOR MORE NETWORKING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT And encourage the College to offer 1981–1993 Yuppie/End of Cold War (16%) After 2008 Post-Great Recession (18%) more of these activities.

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Graduates prior to 1993 are satisfied with the Graduates since 1994 want more news about AS GOOD TO EXCELLENT news and information they get from the College. their major and alumni programs and events. 93%

groups said they All read College ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’04’05’06’07’08’09’10’11’12 emails to alumni.

Grads from before 2008 are Grads from after 2008 are Gettysburgians say they Those who graduated before Grads after 2008 feel connected to more likely to read Gettysburg less likely to read Gettysburg All are most connected 2008 feel loyal to their class the College through their faculty and magazine but less likely to visit magazine but more likely to to their College friends. and their Greek organizations. their organizations and activities. the College Facebook page visit the College Facebook page

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HOAH adds 5 Certified leaders Tops in study abroad Football to big pharma We all liked Ike Driving in D.C. Horace Besecker ’39 (wrestling), The mentoring they receive is key, Gettysburg College ranks fourth in the He came to study history but got Archivist Amy Lucadamo ’04 He’s been elbow-to-elbow with Presidents David Boynton ’79 (golf), Kathy but students take the lead in planning nation and is the top liberal arts college in hooked on science. Former Bullets captured the many sides of President Bush 41 and 43, House Speakers Dennis Kroupa ’95 (soccer, softball), Megan a course of action in pursuit of the Pennsylvania for mid-length study abroad football player Patrick Hagner ’04 is a Dwight D. Eisenhower in the exhibit Hastert and Newt Gingrich, and Senate Lewis ’99 (swimming), and Craig Gettysburg College Leadership experiences, according to the 2015 Open scientist at a global biopharmaceutical she curated for Musselman Library’s Majority Leader Trent Lott. Jack Howard ’79, Swanson ’80 (football, track and field) Certificate. Offered for the first time Doors Report on International Educational company, Celgene, where his focus Special Collections. Though the exhibit senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of were inducted into the Hall of Athletic this year more than 140 students are Exchange by the Institute is drug discovery, specifically for has ended, the digital versions of the Commerce, talked about his life inside the Honor. The 1980 field hockey team, paired with leadership coaches who of International Education. the treatment of lymphoma. He artifacts, documents, and remembrances Beltway with Eisenhower Institute program which earned the College its first help expand student leadership Three out of five students describes his work and the impact can be enjoyed through the College’s assistant Natalie Young ’16. team national title, was named growth and career planning. spend at least one of his Gettysburg mentors, online. GettDigital Collections. a Team of Distinction. semester abroad.

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ALUMNI SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS ALUMNI AGREE THAT THESE CONNECTIONS VOLUNTEER ROLES ARE IMPORTANT:

COMMUNICATIONS LOYALTY

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groups said they All read College ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’04’05’06’07’08’09’10’11’12 emails to alumni.

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7 8 Master ofPublic AdministrationdegreefromAmerican University. psychology andmusic,graduated PhiBetaKappa,andearnedher Alumni BoardofDirectorssince 2008. Shecompletedmajorsin the YoungAlumniAchievementAward, shehasservedonthe Woman ofDistinctionbytheCollege in1999andrecipientof Deloitte ConsultingLLPinCamp Hill,Pennsylvania.Nameda Lindsay MusserHough’98ispartnerandseniormanagerfor Two jointheBoard ofTrustees Binational bio our program.AllofinternsfromGettysburghaveagood they thriveinordertoseeifwouldbeagoodfitfor interviewing them,wewanttoknowwhatkindofenvironment the insuranceindustry,”Gemmaexplained.“Whenweare program probablywon’tknowmuchaboutconsultingor (GLC) andothercampusprogramsmadethestudentsstandout. right) saidtheimpactofGarthwaitLeadershipCenter Lockton Chief Operating Officer out ofthefirm’ssixinternshipswenttoGettysburgstudents. Gettysburg studentsremaineddetermined.Intheend,four University andtheofMaryland.Butagroup out G-burg interns stand experience teachesstudentshowtobepartofaninternational a concertedeffortamongallcountries,”saidTrillo.“This for faculty-mentoredresearch. (STRI). SiomkowasaGettysburgKolbeFellow,receivingfunds grants andtheSmithsonianInstituteofTropicalResearch collaborative internship. and tropicalconservation,whichsparkedtheideafora Trillo createdbinationalcoursesintropicalcommunityecology internship developedbybiologyProf.Paula“Alex”Trillo. data collection. or spokenwordstocreatethedetailedsetupneededfor speak thesamelanguage.Theyusegesturesontopofwritten in a Panama rainforest. “We knowthestudentswearerecruitingforthisinternship brokerage—looked tohireinternsfromGeorgetown world’s largestprivately-ownedindependentinsurance “Current globalchallengesrequirescienceand Vasquez’s participationwasfundedbyPanamagovernment They arethefirststudentstoparticipateinapilotbinational Vasquez, analumnafromtheUniversityofPanama,donot hey wereawarethatLocktonCompanies,LLC—the wo studentsworkedtogethertosetupafieldexperiment Samantha Siomko’17andSara Len Gemma’81(center, University Graduate SchoolofEducation. a CertificateinHigherEducation LeadershipfromtheHarvard doctorate fromtheUniversityofTexas atAustin.Shereceived Phi BetaKappahonorsandthen earnedhermasterand Indianapolis, Indiana.Thepsychology majorgraduatedwith affairs andprofessorofpsychology atButlerUniversityin Kathryn Morris’92isprovostandvicepresidentfor academic campus—has reallygiventhemawindowtoreflectonthat.” The GLC perception ofself,andthatstoodoutintheinterviewprocess. collaborations fromearlyoninthescientificprocess.” The ideaistocreatetangible,long-lastingconnectionsand team, whichbuildsonthediversestrengthofitsmembers. Sara Vasquez(left)andSamanthaSiomko’17 —combined withtheotherexperiencesthey’vehadon

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107 or 717-337-6502. Office ofAnnualGiving:[email protected] programs haveampleresources—now andintothefuture. level supportisvitaltoensurethat ourstudents,faculty,and tracking towardsanambitiousgoal of$150million,leadership- With remain unchangedfortheCollege’s youngestalumni. since 1999. donors. Thisisthefirstincreaseinmembershipminimum giving societythatrecognizestheCollege’smostgenerous willbeincludedintheCupolaSociety,premiere annualgiftsof$2,500ormoretoGettysburgCollege eginningJune1,alumni,parents,andfriendswhomake or contact Development,Alumni andParentRelationsat717-337-6543.or contact Help keepGettysburgGreatwithyourgiftviawww.gettysburg.edu/campaign SOFAR: WHAT HASACHIEVED CAMPAIGN IS THE HERE 27 161 8 For moreinformationortomake your gift,contactthe Membership requirementsforCupolaSocietyAssociates Learning Engaged Faculty Support Annual Giving FACULTY Gettysburg Great:TheCampaign forOurCollege SCHOLARSHIPS FUNDS FOR ENGAGED LEARNING LEARNING , 246 $13,350,734 $11,797,887 $27,827,940 CHAIRS, AND PROFESSORSHIPS, EXPERTS-IN-RESIDENCE FUNDED Other and Facilities Global Initiatives Scholarships • CAREER EXPLORATION • CAREER , 714 CREATED • IMMERSION TRIPS • RESEARCH • RESEARCH $33,192,969 $15,255,845 $5,821,338 CUPOLA SOCIETY SETS SIGHTS HIGHER GOAL: 18,553 DONORS DONORS ARE FIRST-TIME 39 $150 MILLION %

Campaign update (as of January 2016) 8 Master ofPublic AdministrationdegreefromAmerican University. psychology andmusic,graduated PhiBetaKappa,andearnedher Alumni BoardofDirectorssince 2008. Shecompletedmajorsin the YoungAlumniAchievementAward, shehasservedonthe Woman ofDistinctionbytheCollege in1999andrecipientof Deloitte ConsultingLLPinCamp Hill,Pennsylvania.Nameda Lindsay MusserHough’98ispartnerandseniormanagerfor Two jointheBoard ofTrustees Binational bio our program.AllofinternsfromGettysburghaveagood they thriveinordertoseeifwouldbeagoodfitfor interviewing them,wewanttoknowwhatkindofenvironment the insuranceindustry,”Gemmaexplained.“Whenweare program probablywon’tknowmuchaboutconsultingor (GLC) andothercampusprogramsmadethestudentsstandout. right) saidtheimpactofGarthwaitLeadershipCenter Lockton Chief Operating Officer out ofthefirm’ssixinternshipswenttoGettysburgstudents. Gettysburg studentsremaineddetermined.Intheend,four University andtheofMaryland.Butagroup out G-burg interns stand experience teachesstudentshowtobepartofaninternational a concertedeffortamongallcountries,”saidTrillo.“This for faculty-mentoredresearch. (STRI). SiomkowasaGettysburgKolbeFellow,receivingfunds grants andtheSmithsonianInstituteofTropicalResearch collaborative internship. and tropicalconservation,whichsparkedtheideafora Trillo createdbinationalcoursesintropicalcommunityecology internship developedbybiologyProf.Paula“Alex”Trillo. data collection. or spokenwordstocreatethedetailedsetupneededfor speak thesamelanguage.Theyusegesturesontopofwritten in a Panama rainforest. “We knowthestudentswearerecruitingforthisinternship brokerage—looked tohireinternsfromGeorgetown world’s largestprivately-ownedindependentinsurance “Current globalchallengesrequirescienceand Vasquez’s participationwasfundedbyPanamagovernment They arethefirststudentstoparticipateinapilotbinational Vasquez, analumnafromtheUniversityofPanama,donot hey wereawarethatLocktonCompanies,LLC—the wo studentsworkedtogethertosetupafieldexperiment Samantha Siomko’17andSara Len Gemma’81(center, University Graduate SchoolofEducation. a CertificateinHigherEducation LeadershipfromtheHarvard doctorate fromtheUniversityofTexas atAustin.Shereceived Phi BetaKappahonorsandthen earnedhermasterand Indianapolis, Indiana.Thepsychology majorgraduatedwith affairs andprofessorofpsychology atButlerUniversityin Kathryn Morris’92isprovostandvicepresidentfor academic collaborations fromearlyoninthescientificprocess.” The ideaistocreatetangible,long-lastingconnectionsand team, whichbuildsonthediversestrengthofitsmembers. campus—has reallygiventhemawindowtoreflectonthat.” The GLC perception ofself,andthatstoodoutintheinterviewprocess. Sara Vasquez(left)andSamanthaSiomko’17 —combined withtheotherexperiencesthey’vehadon

Photo by Michael Caldwell $ 107 or 717-337-6502. Office ofAnnualGiving:[email protected] programs haveampleresources—now andintothefuture. level supportisvitaltoensurethat ourstudents,faculty,and tracking towardsanambitiousgoal of$150million,leadership- With remain unchangedfortheCollege’s youngestalumni. since 1999. donors. Thisisthefirstincreaseinmembershipminimum giving societythatrecognizestheCollege’smostgenerous willbeincludedintheCupolaSociety,premiere annualgiftsof$2,500ormoretoGettysburgCollege eginningJune1,alumni,parents,andfriendswhomake or contact Development,Alumni andParentRelationsat717-337-6543.or contact Help keepGettysburgGreatwithyourgiftviawww.gettysburg.edu/campaign SOFAR: WHAT HASACHIEVED CAMPAIGN IS THE HERE 27 161 8 For moreinformationortomake your gift,contactthe Membership requirementsforCupolaSocietyAssociates Learning Engaged Faculty Support Annual Giving FACULTY Gettysburg Great:TheCampaign forOurCollege SCHOLARSHIPS FUNDS FOR ENGAGED LEARNING LEARNING , 246 $13,350,734 $11,797,887 $27,827,940 CHAIRS, AND PROFESSORSHIPS, EXPERTS-IN-RESIDENCE FUNDED Other and Facilities Global Initiatives Scholarships • CAREER EXPLORATION • CAREER , 714 CREATED • IMMERSION TRIPS • RESEARCH • RESEARCH $33,192,969 $15,255,845 $5,821,338 CUPOLA SOCIETY SETS SIGHTS HIGHER GOAL: 18,553 DONORS DONORS ARE FIRST-TIME 39 $150 MILLION %

Campaign update (as of January 2016) Photo by Caroline Cress ’16 Career explorations multiply

n 2010, the Career Connector Challenge posed a The Center for Career Development helps students Sounding question: could the College community create an build their career plan and their network. Four ways additional 1,832 career exploration experiences for alumni can help: Gettysburg College students in five years? • Host a career experience for a current student (6,067 is a chord of hope Alumni, parents, and friends blew past the first goal, a great milestone, but CCD welcomes new opportunities). so a new goal of 5,000 was set. At Homecoming, the • Be part of the Gettysburg College Professional Network olden stage lights caught I ask, ‘How haven’t you figured it he met with Center for Career Development (CCD) announced the on LinkedIn—and be sure to include Gettysburg College the edges of two seamlessly out? Why are you still at it?”’ a physical tally (below): in the five years since the challenge began, in the education section of your profile (see more about dovetailed grand pianos on “We try to release ourselves chemistry more than 6,067 new externships, internships, job perfecting your profile on page 26). the Majestic Theater stage. Two from the history,” said Haroni. class and shadows, and networking dinners had been provided. pianists—eye to eye—swayed on “That’s the only way to move into spoke to All of these opportunities for practical career • Recruit and hire Gettysburg students and alumni. Post the benches. the future.” Garthwait development, in addition to our graduates’ high rate job openings to GettysburgWorks and to the Gettysburg On one was Yaron Kohlberg, Their visit to Gettysburg was Leadership of job placements one year after graduation, have College Professional Network. an Israeli born in Jerusalem. On inspired by Margaret Selby ’81, Center (GLC) earned Gettysburg College distinction as one of 17 • Use the alumni career resources on the College website the other, Bishara Haroni, a president of arts management students on the riots and protests liberal arts institutions featured in The Princeton for career assistance, whether you are beginning your very Palestinian born in Nazareth. enterprise CAMI Spectrum, that erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, Review’s newest guide, Colleges That Create Futures: first job hunt, moving between jobs, thinking about Together, they form the critically in celebration of the Majestic in August 2014. 50 Schools That Launch Careers by Going Beyond graduate school, or changing career fields. acclaimed Duo Amal. Theater’s 90th and Sunderman Ferguson is less than five miles the Classroom. Since coming together for a Conservatory’s 10th anniversaries. from the UMSL campus. George concert at a 2008 international Just as Duo Amal has promoted collaborated with community peace conference in Oslo, Norway, hope despite conflict with their leaders and spearheaded initiatives Duo Amal has graced some of the music, Thomas George ’67 has to support Ferguson counseling world’s great stages. Their program sought to restore harmony in spite and trauma recovery units. He reflects the broadened perspectives of racial tensions in his community. also extended campus resources they’ve gained, including their views In September, George, now the and services to local residents on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. chancellor of the 17,000-student in need. The pair answered questions University of Missouri-St. Louis George’s advice to students from students and faculty regarding (UMSL), opened the yearlong was to get involved. the strife between their respective celebration of the Sunderman “You don’t have to have the countries during a program Conservatory’s 10th anniversary. title of president or chair of a given sponsored by The Eisenhower He and his wife, composer, unit to get engaged with efforts and Institute (EI). harpsichordist, and organist Barbara programs that eventually enable “We are still connected Harbach—presented the works of you to be a leader. Getting involved emotionally. Our family and friends inspirational female jazz composers. with activities fed my leadership, are there, but we [now] see it in a In addition to holding the head even though they weren’t called different way,” said Kohlberg of the position at UMSL, George remains ‘leadership’ per se.” feuding nations. “After going all an active researcher in chemistry over the world and coming back, and physics. While visiting campus, —Frank Arbogast ’16 Photo by Matt Stanley

10 Photo by Caroline Cress ’16 Career explorations multiply

10 C-SPAN aired coverage of Selected events from the Civil the Eisenhower Institute’s (EI) War Institute’s (CWI) annual town hall discussion, featuring conference aired on the Pennsylvania the grandchildren of President Cable Network. Dwight D. Eisenhower discussing From her blog to YouTube to the his legacy and their memories Today show, a video lament by parent of him. The panel was part of Ann Pinto McCarney P’19 over her son a daylong event celebrating Liam’s scarce communication home was dorm rooms, Musselman Library, us smile! Proud parents of two Shades of the campus in fall, Eisenhower’s 125th birthday. viewed online more than 1 million times. the dining hall, and wherever else exceptional G-Burg graduates! keeping the Bucket away from the EI Director Jeffrey Blavatt ’88 Essays by College writers can be we met. As far as I was concerned, Best of luck, Class of 2019!” Dickinson Red Devils, and stacks appeared on WITF-FM’s found on Medium, a blog publishing that classroom in Weidensall Diane DiSapio Warzoha ’77 of Servo cookies were among your Smart Talk to discuss EI platform. Prof. Buz Myers’s “The Hall was the equivalent of went right to the point with her favorites on Instagram. Follow and the commemorations. Ten Commandments for New College Aristotle’s Lyceum.” comment, “Tradition + participation @gettysburgcollege and the Prof. Allen Guelzo Students,” “Purposeful Education” by Michael Karpyn ’97 also = lifetime memories!!” best of the best. commented on Abraham Prof. Ian Isherwood ’00, and “Inside added to the conversation about Jack Duffy ’79 is an enthusiastic Lincoln’s view of Thomas Jefferson the Iran Deal” by Avi Melamed, EI the methods class in “Parting Shot” champion of the College’s Center Tim Schmitt ’63 sent a note for a review in The Atlantic of the Fellow of Intelligence and Middle on page 48. for Career Development and as the about the fall issue, “Well done, Broadway musical Hamilton. East Affairs, are a few examples. especially Susan Eisenhower’s Congratulations to Troy video announcing the success of Area media covered the Datcher ’90 (“Come Here and the Career Connector Challenge piece on Normandy. My wife and dedication of Abraham Lincoln Make a Difference,” fall 2015, (see page 11) made the rounds, I have been there several times. Signing the Emancipation Keep the Conversations going on page 9). magazine named he gave it a shout-out and a share: It is a very moving experience.” Ebony Proclamation (inside front the College’s Facebook, LinkedIn, Datcher to its Power 100 We asked for reflections Ebony cover) and the coinciding or Twitter accounts or send a note to list for 2015. The list on “history boot camp” and Ebony panel discussion. [email protected] Steven Petrus ’95, Andrew W. “recognizes those who lead, inspire, Mellon Foundation Fellow at the and demonstrate, through their New York Historical Society, individual talents, the very best 508 21 wrote, “Historical Methods in Black America.” transformed me from a history A correction to the list of lover to a budding historian. Bold, new alumni association directors: persuasive, and demanding, Prof. Brian Orsinger ’01 is senior THIS SEMESTER IN THE HEADLINES Birkner [Michael Birkner ’72, consultant at First Niagara And in the news Benefits Consulting. During Open Access Week, P’10] challenged us to question In an op-ed appearing on FROM the source, find meaning in the the focus is on the benefits of Philly.com, education Prof. Dave THE GETTYSBURGIAN mundane, and probe the story of sharing scholarly work (see “Free Powell wrote about the impact everyone, not just the presidents On social media Admission,” Gettysburg spring 2015). of Pennsylvania’s changing CAN YOU GUESS THE YEARS? and generals. He introduced Move-In Day and the First-Year Musselman Library posted a test regulations. us to the richness of the field, Walk are sure to get alumni and look at the international reach Prof. Christopher Fee and of faculty research: G-Burg Will Open New Dining Hall To Student Body Second Semester showing intricate connections parents talking on social media, Joshua Stewart ’11 co-wrote a The new cafeteria on West Lincoln Avenue will open after the semester recess, between history and sociology, wishing the incoming class well. piece on veteran homelessness, February 4. Equipped with a loudspeaker system, the large cafeteria will provide anthropology, economics, and Susan Lukas Payne ’91 said, which appeared in The Wall Street music while dining. political science. He required us to “I remember Move-In Day back in Journal’s MarketWatch. Stewart is Chilly Streakers Strike Gettysburg do research in the College archives 1987. Still feels like yesterday. director of policy for the National Streaking arrived with warm weather at Gettysburg College Thursday night… and to conduct oral histories off Make the most of your time at Coalition for Homeless Veterans. campus. This was empowering, Gettysburg, Class of 2019. There An essay on voting by Garrison Keillor Will Address Class of [redacted] fostering empathy and helping are lots of amazing opportunities Burmese filmmakerLamin Oo ’10 The class of [redacted]’s Commencement speaker will be Garrison Keillor, an American humorist known as the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion… us to transcend the provincialism available. Enjoy it and make lots and interview following Burma’s [Keillor was the 2015 Dedication Day speaker.] of the present. Our discussions of lifelong friends.” November 8 elections aired on were invariably stimulating and Parent Michael Sass Sr. numerous public radio broadcasts 1987 1974, 1958, YEARS: THE illuminating, often continued in P ’00, ’10 wrote, “Just makes across the U.S.

12 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 13 C-SPAN aired coverage of Selected events from the Civil the Eisenhower Institute’s (EI) War Institute’s (CWI) annual town hall discussion, featuring conference aired on the Pennsylvania the grandchildren of President Cable Network. Dwight D. Eisenhower discussing From her blog to YouTube to the his legacy and their memories Today show, a video lament by parent of him. The panel was part of Ann Pinto McCarney P’19 over her son a daylong event celebrating Liam’s scarce communication home was dorm rooms, Musselman Library, us smile! Proud parents of two Shades of the campus in fall, Eisenhower’s 125th birthday. viewed online more than 1 million times. the dining hall, and wherever else exceptional G-Burg graduates! keeping the Bucket away from the EI Director Jeffrey Blavatt ’88 Essays by College writers can be we met. As far as I was concerned, Best of luck, Class of 2019!” Dickinson Red Devils, and stacks appeared on WITF-FM’s found on Medium, a blog publishing that classroom in Weidensall Diane DiSapio Warzoha ’77 of Servo cookies were among your Smart Talk to discuss EI platform. Prof. Buz Myers’s “The Hall was the equivalent of went right to the point with her favorites on Instagram. Follow and the commemorations. Ten Commandments for New College Aristotle’s Lyceum.” comment, “Tradition + participation @gettysburgcollege and the Prof. Allen Guelzo Students,” “Purposeful Education” by Michael Karpyn ’97 also = lifetime memories!!” best of the best. commented on Abraham Prof. Ian Isherwood ’00, and “Inside added to the conversation about Jack Duffy ’79 is an enthusiastic Lincoln’s view of Thomas Jefferson the Iran Deal” by Avi Melamed, EI the methods class in “Parting Shot” champion of the College’s Center Tim Schmitt ’63 sent a note for a review in The Atlantic of the Fellow of Intelligence and Middle on page 48. for Career Development and as the about the fall issue, “Well done, Broadway musical Hamilton. East Affairs, are a few examples. especially Susan Eisenhower’s Congratulations to Troy video announcing the success of Area media covered the Datcher ’90 (“Come Here and the Career Connector Challenge piece on Normandy. My wife and dedication of Abraham Lincoln Make a Difference,” fall 2015, (see page 11) made the rounds, I have been there several times. Signing the Emancipation Keep the Conversations going on page 9). magazine named he gave it a shout-out and a share: It is a very moving experience.” Ebony Proclamation (inside front the College’s Facebook, LinkedIn, Datcher to its Power 100 We asked for reflections Ebony cover) and the coinciding or Twitter accounts or send a note to list for 2015. The list on “history boot camp” and Ebony panel discussion. [email protected] Steven Petrus ’95, Andrew W. “recognizes those who lead, inspire, Mellon Foundation Fellow at the and demonstrate, through their New York Historical Society, individual talents, the very best 508 21 wrote, “Historical Methods in Black America.” transformed me from a history A correction to the list of lover to a budding historian. Bold, new alumni association directors: persuasive, and demanding, Prof. Brian Orsinger ’01 is senior THIS SEMESTER IN THE HEADLINES Birkner [Michael Birkner ’72, consultant at First Niagara And in the news Benefits Consulting. During Open Access Week, P’10] challenged us to question In an op-ed appearing on FROM the source, find meaning in the the focus is on the benefits of Philly.com, education Prof. Dave THE GETTYSBURGIAN mundane, and probe the story of sharing scholarly work (see “Free Powell wrote about the impact everyone, not just the presidents On social media Admission,” Gettysburg spring 2015). of Pennsylvania’s changing CAN YOU GUESS THE YEARS? and generals. He introduced Move-In Day and the First-Year Musselman Library posted a test regulations. us to the richness of the field, Walk are sure to get alumni and look at the international reach Prof. Christopher Fee and of faculty research: G-Burg Will Open New Dining Hall To Student Body Second Semester showing intricate connections parents talking on social media, Joshua Stewart ’11 co-wrote a The new cafeteria on West Lincoln Avenue will open after the semester recess, between history and sociology, wishing the incoming class well. piece on veteran homelessness, February 4. Equipped with a loudspeaker system, the large cafeteria will provide anthropology, economics, and Susan Lukas Payne ’91 said, which appeared in The Wall Street music while dining. political science. He required us to “I remember Move-In Day back in Journal’s MarketWatch. Stewart is Chilly Streakers Strike Gettysburg do research in the College archives 1987. Still feels like yesterday. director of policy for the National Streaking arrived with warm weather at Gettysburg College Thursday night… and to conduct oral histories off Make the most of your time at Coalition for Homeless Veterans. campus. This was empowering, Gettysburg, Class of 2019. There An essay on voting by Garrison Keillor Will Address Class of [redacted] fostering empathy and helping are lots of amazing opportunities Burmese filmmakerLamin Oo ’10 The class of [redacted]’s Commencement speaker will be Garrison Keillor, an American humorist known as the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion… us to transcend the provincialism available. Enjoy it and make lots and interview following Burma’s [Keillor was the 2015 Dedication Day speaker.] of the present. Our discussions of lifelong friends.” November 8 elections aired on were invariably stimulating and Parent Michael Sass Sr. numerous public radio broadcasts 1987 1974, 1958, YEARS: THE illuminating, often continued in P ’00, ’10 wrote, “Just makes across the U.S.

12 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 13 What’s in the cards for the future of cardiology?

Three top cardiologists share their expertise and experiences dating back to their years at Gettysburg—all as biology students in the late 1960s. Now, they’re all also leaders in medical education, shaping the future of cardiology by training the next generation of doctors.

here are about 27,000 consecutive years—and all went cardiologists in the United on to not only pursue cardiology, States, yet more than but also educate and train future 600,000 people die of heart disease cardiologists, shaping the programs in the U.S. every year, and rates of that make future doctors out of cardiovascular disease only continue today’s medical students. to increase. Now more than ever, So what was in the water at medical schools are pressed to meet Gettysburg in the 1960s? What the needs of a growing population shaped their distinguished careers? of people with specialized needs In addition to rubbing shoulders and increased life expectancies. in a few classes, the three cardiologists The Association of University shared mentors, but they mostly know At the Cardiologists—the group of each other today through the doctors who are researchers professional organizations they have and decision makers in medical in common. All three alumni are universities—comprises 125 committed to their fields in their academic cardiologists elected by unique areas of expertise—and each their peers, less than 1 percent of has his thoughts about where the the total population of cardiologists. future of cardiology education is Within this highly selective group headed. We asked them to share you’ll findMichael Cain ’71, Blase their predictions as well as their Carabello ’69, and Arthur journeys from Gettysburg to Feldman ’70. Three alums, three shaping the future of cardiology heartof it biology majors, graduating in three and education.

14 15 What’s in the cards for the future of cardiology?

14 15 No more Marcus Welbys Flipping the classroom

The incidence of valve disease is Before moving to New York to “Dating back to my time at apply scientific concepts to how growing as people live longer, but become the chair of cardiology at Gettysburg, I learned it was they will take care of patients or surgical techniques continue to Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Carabello important to me to have a career focus their research efforts to advance. Originally from Reading, served as chief of cardiology at the where I would both take care learn how disease occurs. Pennsylvania, Carabello received the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s of patients and do research— “There’s also the greater Distinguished Scientist Award from Episcopal Health System and the those are really the codominant utilization of the notion of a flipped the American College of Cardiology director of its Center for Heart themes of my career,” Cain said. classroom,” he said. “For homework Blase Carabello ’69 in 2009, an honor awarded to only Valve Disease. In addition, he was Cain knew he wanted to assignments, students can go to Michael Cain ’71 1 percent of doctors across the the vice chair of the Department become a doctor since before high the web and learn how sugars are country. As one of the nation’s top of Medicine at Baylor College of school, later finding a passion for broken down, for example. They doctors, he’s leading a new era that, Medicine and chief of medicine at internal medicine and cardiology • Chair of Cardiology at can do that at night and use class Vice President for Health according to Carabello, is moving the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans in medical school. He thrived on Mount Sinai Beth Israel time to discuss a clinically relevant Sciences and Dean at the towards greater specialization as Administration Medical Center. opportunities to teach resident case in small groups.” Jacobs School of Medicine • Medical Director of the doctors spend more time learning But his first foray into the world students and research trainees, With the benefit of more and Biomedical Sciences Heart Valve Center at everything about a particular of education happened as a third- but wanted to reach more people. sophisticated simulations, students at the University at Buffalo The Mount Sinai Hospital area and less time learning year resident in internal medicine at “I thought, ‘What would it be are able to practice working with • Association of University about everything. Massachusetts General Hospital. like to be the head of a medical patients before ever talking to a real Area of expertise: Cardiovascular Cardiologists president, “You won’t find Marcus “I enjoy teaching the most,” school and devote time to figuring human. Modern-day mannequins diseases, abnormal heart rhythms Welbys today. Every field of he said. out how you go about, in just four that talk and produce vital signs 2008-2009 Gettysburg mentors: “I had medicine has become incredibly His own philosophy of years, preparing a medical student are hooked up to computers so several role models, particularly in Area of expertise: subspecialized,” he said. (Welby education has deep roots in the to be a 21st-century physician?’ students can learn how to do the sciences. Bob Barnes, Ralph Valvular heart disease was a TV doctor on the 1970s liberal arts education he received So that led me to leave my triple certain procedures and get the right Cavaliere, John Winkelman, show Marcus Welby, M.D. A at Gettysburg. specialized life as a heart rhythm information from patients—and Sherman Hendrix ’61 in biology, Gettysburg mentors: “I owe much Alex Rowland ’53 in chemistry, and of my career to Alex Rowland ’53 in the generalist, Welby knew about “It’s hard to believe I would expert to being a dean and vice then self-critique the whole process. Richard Mara ’48 in physics. Even chemistry department. I would not have every part of the body and used have wound up at the same place president for health science and Cain said medical education in high school, I wanted a liberal arts received a positive recommendation more unorthodox methods had I not gone to Gettysburg. overseeing education programs.” is becoming more interprofessional. education because I knew physicians had he not been willing to support me than his younger counterpart, The liberal arts education has Prior to joining the University “When Blase, Art, and I needed to be broad-based—you interact after seeing my improvements between with a number of diverse people as my first two years and last two years physician Steven Kiley.) an important role—it provides at Buffalo, Cain spent 26 years at went to medical school, we trained patients, and you need that broad at Gettysburg. There were a lot of “To really know and understand you with a well-rounded nature Washington University in St. Louis, almost exclusively with fellow education so you can understand the influential people—a lot of gracious the technology and science involved and a broad perspective on life. where he held an endowed medical students; we didn’t have importance of inclusion and cultural people who gave up their time to be in any one corner of the medical If you become so focused on professorship and was chief of the opportunity to understand the advancement and also how people mentors to the rest of us, including think. It changes your approach.” Bill Darrah, Bob Barnes, and Ralph world requires a lifetime of something at that age, you risk the Division of Cardiovascular knowledge base of a nurse, dentist, Campus life: Member of the men’s Cavaliere. At Gettysburg you weren’t dedication,” Carabello said. losing opportunities,” he said. Medicine. His knowledge of pharmacist, occupational therapist, swimming team just a number—our professors had the medical education runs deep, or other medical professionals. opportunity to take an interest in you and over the years, he’s seen major We learned in isolation. So with personally. It was a great breeding shifts in the medical curriculum. the evolution in health care in the ground for a cardiologist.” First, Cain said every piece country and more team medicine, Campus life: President of Sigma Chi of the education program is now it becomes critical that health directly related to clinical care, professional students spend time focusing on how students can training together and understand what other professionals bring to the table so they can have confidence in working as a team.”

16 17 No more Marcus Welbys Flipping the classroom

16 17 Patient focused G-burg’s bio DNA:

Feldman, a recipient of the Lifetime pulmonary exam on the patient, Prof. Ralph Cavaliere Achievement Award from the whereas when I went to school, All three cardiologists named the professor emeritus among Heart Failure Society of America, we didn’t touch or talk to a patient still occasionally sees patients and until the end of our second year of their mentors, so we asked for his reflections on what it was works with students, but today, medical school. Now, it starts on like teaching at Gettysburg College in the late 1960s and you’ll also find him overseeing the day one. The outcome is better. early 1970s—the era of Carabello, Feldman, and Cain. academic programs of the Temple We’re graduating students who Arthur Feldman ’70 University School of Medicine. are more comfortable with patients.” Before coming to Temple, he In addition to shaping the way Over four decades, Cavaliere taught And here we were trying to teach served in a variety of leadership students learn and digest material, thousands of students and helped biology—things like physiology— Prof. Ralph Cavaliere roles at other universities and Feldman’s research in the lab is hundreds pursue careers in science. and sometimes I wondered if what Professor of Biology Executive Dean and Chief colleges, including the chair of paving the way for advances in His research expertise is in botany, we were doing was worth the time 1966–2011 Academic Officer, Temple the Department of Medicine at the treatment of heart failure. with a concentration in mycology it took when all of this was going Chair, Department of Biology University School of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, the Molecular biology controls the (the study of fungi), but he taught on in the world.” 1975–1985 and Temple University director of the Cardiovascular changes in the heart muscle when everything from zoology and marine During that time, students Education: Health System Institute at the University of disease affects its normal function microbiology at the Duke University craved comfort and a personal PhD Duke University; 1965; Marine Laboratory in Bermuda to connection with their professors. Botany (Mycology); Zoology Area of expertise: Heart failure Pittsburgh School of Medicine, —targeting the pathways that are and the director of the Heart Failure important in that transition can electron microscopy. Above all else, Cavaliere’s wife, Shirlee—a MS Arizona State University; Gettysburg mentors: “Prof. Cavaliere… Research Program at the Johns help discover new therapeutic Cavaliere taught his students to love botanist who taught at Gettysburg 1962; Biology we all took courses with him. [At Hopkins University School targets. Feldman says right now science. If his enthusiasm didn’t High School and then became a BS Arizona State University; Gettysburg] we all became interested in of Medicine. they’re focused on figuring out the convince them to major in biology, biology laboratory assistant at the 1960; Biology education, research, and investigation. I’m originally from Baltimore, and the “Education today is so function of two proteins—one that’s they at least learned to see the College—recalled how she and principal of my high school actually ended different, both when I was a student a cardiac receptor and the other that world through a scientist’s eyes. her husband came to know Cain, up becoming a dean of admissions at at Gettysburg and when I was a might be responsible for the mutated But when Cavaliere started his Carabello, Feldman, and their Where are the Gettysburg—he suggested to my dad medical student,” he said. “Today, gene that is found in patients with career at Gettysburg in 1966, he families. “These boys—it’s funny Cavalieres today? that we look at the campus. I had an interview and fell in love with the place. about 40 percent of the information familial heart failure. faced more than the usual teaching how I call them boys now—were Today, if you ask Cavaliere It’s a beautiful campus, it was close to that is given to students comes “In my career, I’ve had great challenges. The faculty included particularly interested in getting what he’s up to, he’ll answer Baltimore and it had everything I was through lecture, and the other 60 students, wonderful colleagues, Gettysburg notables like Profs. to know their professors, and by saying he wishes he’d never looking for—small class sizes, attention percent comes through active and outstanding mentors—and I’d Robert Barnes, Al Schroder, vice versa. The professors really left Gettysburg College. But in from faculty, and a number of people from my high school were already there learning where students look at like to think that, along the way, we Sherman Hendrix ’61, and John spent time with the students. Like some ways, he hasn’t and had nothing but good things to say.” video lectures at home and then have made contributions to the Winkelmann, but there was Ralphie says, there wasn’t much He and Shirlee still live in collaborate in small group sessions field that others can build upon,” minimal lab equipment, and the equipment and research facilities Gettysburg. Cavaliere volunteers Campus life: Member of the men’s in school.” said Feldman. “What I’m most facilities (the biology department like you find today; however, there at the Adams County Library and swimming and lacrosse teams Feldman said students also proud of is seeing the students and was located in Glatfelter Hall at was that bond. Professors gave gives occasional guest lectures. start working with patients from people I’ve trained and mentored the time) were in need of serious the students a sense of their This past summer, he came back day one. The curriculum is all go on to successful careers—in repair. Moreover, the country was enthusiasm for science,” she said. to campus for several weeks to organ-based, so they’ll study the fact, several have become leaders in the middle of the Vietnam War. Over the years, Ralph and teach a summer research student pulmonary system for a month, for of their own cardiology programs Every class, every campus event, Shirlee opened their home how to use the transmission example. This includes learning the and of departments of medicine. every conversation took place in to students. electron microscope. anatomy, pharmacology, pathology, However, I’m now having the its shadow. “When we lived in town, on “I like to stay connected to microbiology, and treatment of the most fun I’ve had in my career— “A lot of kids were having Lincoln Avenue, we had a policy the College. It was great to be back pulmonary system. At the same because my daughter is one of our problems, especially with the idea of with the students that if the porch in the lab. I just feel like I never time, they get to talk to and examine students! I get to see the field of going overseas and getting involved light was on, they could always should have retired. I should have patients with pulmonary disease medicine and medical education in a battle. I had many students come in,” Shirlee said. “And so a waited until they just carried me and can see how these components through her eyes and it is an come to my office for hours, sitting lot of these students would knock out,” Cavaliere joked. “Every chance affect their patients. enlightening experience.” and talking to me about the way on the door and we’d ask them to I get, I tell the professors to think “When you talk about a lung, they felt,” Cavaliere recalled. “They join us for dinner, and they just long and hard about retiring. the student might be doing a —Carina Sitkus were very difficult times for all of us. became part of the family.” I miss teaching very much.”

18 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 19 Patient focused G-burg’s bio DNA:

18 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 19 Entrepreneur Mission Society Resources Nonprofit Venture Grit Impact Grit Needs Risk Change Business Needs Needs Business Service Grit Service Mission Value Risk Nonprofit Impact Impact Needs Enterprise Mission Society Grit Nonprofit Grit Value Value Needs Change Needs Sustainable Community Bold Bold ChangeService Value Value Strategic Value Risk Resources Needs Grit Sustainable Mission Solutions Value Mission The Grit Venture Grit Society Impact Society Grit Grit Solutions Value Venture Change business Needs Problem Needs Resources of making Nonprofit Impact Society Venture Grit ServiceChange Service Strategic BoldInspiration a better Innovation Mission Strategic Grit Value Value Grit Society world Entrepreneur Business Purpose Strategic ntrepreneurship has reached helped to create programming and its highest levels in the curriculum on campus, including United States in the last a fellowship that awards society as well as the investment, Having a social impact is impact,” Rentschler explained. Her classmates, for example, ten years, with college graduates mentorships and resources. risk taking, and enterprise that changing the way these entrepreneurs “That philosophy fit in with my often needed support developing more likely than people of any other The latter program responds to entrepreneurship demands. think about business. personal philosophy of life, the their business model, finding education level to pursue their own another trend: GEM reports that “Any business that has a When Rentschler first heard person who I strive to be every day.” resources, and marketing enterprise, according to the Global not all entrepreneurs are putting mission where social impact plays an the term, “social entrepreneur,” At the time, Rentschler was their solutions. Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). profit first. Many business-minded integral role, technically, is a socially- something clicked for her. She enrolled in the MBA and MEd But the biggest challenge, Certainly an education in the individuals are interested in minded business,” explained Linda identified with it, not only as a program at Lehigh University. according to Rentschler, is finding liberal arts and sciences builds building sustainable enterprises Zweizig Rentschler ’86, founder business practice, but also as the She saw the challenges that her sustainable sources of revenue. underlying abilities that are to improve social conditions. of Humanitarian Social Innovations way she lives her life. classmates faced as they tried to plan “I kept thinking that there invaluable to those with a dream, The businesses may be tax- (HSI). “This includes everything “The piece about social and launch their own nonprofits. has to be a better way for people such as imagination, innovation, exempt, but may not identify as from Blake Mycoskie’s TOMS to entrepreneurship that appealed to According to Rentschler, most who want to do good to be able collaboration, and leadership. To “nonprofits” or charities. “Social Yvon Chouinard’s Patagonia to me was that whatever you are doing, social entrepreneurs have a passion to do that good,” Rentschler said. encourage emerging entrepreneurs, profits” has been coined to local businesses that have a formal whatever your business practice is, driving their organization, but not “For me, everything came together enterprising alumni and parents have encompass their contributions to and documented social impact.” your main goal is to have a social necessarily the business acumen. at that point.”

20 21 Entrepreneur Mission Society Resources Nonprofit Venture Grit Impact Grit Needs Risk Change Business Needs Needs Business Service Grit Service Mission Value Risk Nonprofit Impact Impact Needs Enterprise Mission Society Grit Nonprofit Grit Value Value Needs Change Needs Sustainable Community Bold Bold ChangeService Value Value Strategic Value Risk Resources Needs Grit Sustainable Mission Solutions Value Mission The Grit Venture Grit Society Impact Society Grit Grit Solutions Value Venture Change business Needs Problem Needs Resources of making Nonprofit Impact Society Venture Grit ServiceChange Service Strategic BoldInspiration a better Innovation Mission Strategic Grit Value Value Grit Society world Entrepreneur Business Purpose Strategic ntrepreneurship has reached helped to create programming and its highest levels in the curriculum on campus, including United States in the last a fellowship that awards society as well as the investment, Having a social impact is impact,” Rentschler explained. Her classmates, for example, ten years, with college graduates mentorships and resources. risk taking, and enterprise that changing the way these entrepreneurs “That philosophy fit in with my often needed support developing more likely than people of any other The latter program responds to entrepreneurship demands. think about business. personal philosophy of life, the their business model, finding education level to pursue their own another trend: GEM reports that “Any business that has a When Rentschler first heard person who I strive to be every day.” resources, and marketing enterprise, according to the Global not all entrepreneurs are putting mission where social impact plays an the term, “social entrepreneur,” At the time, Rentschler was their solutions. Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). profit first. Many business-minded integral role, technically, is a socially- something clicked for her. She enrolled in the MBA and MEd But the biggest challenge, Certainly an education in the individuals are interested in minded business,” explained Linda identified with it, not only as a program at Lehigh University. according to Rentschler, is finding liberal arts and sciences builds building sustainable enterprises Zweizig Rentschler ’86, founder business practice, but also as the She saw the challenges that her sustainable sources of revenue. underlying abilities that are to improve social conditions. of Humanitarian Social Innovations way she lives her life. classmates faced as they tried to plan “I kept thinking that there invaluable to those with a dream, The businesses may be tax- (HSI). “This includes everything “The piece about social and launch their own nonprofits. has to be a better way for people such as imagination, innovation, exempt, but may not identify as from Blake Mycoskie’s TOMS to entrepreneurship that appealed to According to Rentschler, most who want to do good to be able collaboration, and leadership. To “nonprofits” or charities. “Social Yvon Chouinard’s Patagonia to me was that whatever you are doing, social entrepreneurs have a passion to do that good,” Rentschler said. encourage emerging entrepreneurs, profits” has been coined to local businesses that have a formal whatever your business practice is, driving their organization, but not “For me, everything came together enterprising alumni and parents have encompass their contributions to and documented social impact.” your main goal is to have a social necessarily the business acumen. at that point.”

20 21 It’s an amazing moment when you sit with someone According to Martin, the first season of the antidrug-themed sports league drew over 1,000 This business...allowed who has this vision and you participants. The program garnered publicity and Coaching the coaches recognition, piquing the interest of President George me to put my values can give them what they For Frank Martin ’63, finding funding was one of the H.W. Bush and the Points of Light program. initial challenges he faced when he created the Kids “Receiving a Points of Light award from President and priorities need to make their passion Sports Network (KSN) of San Antonio. He had just Bush was probably one of the greatest highlights of my retired from the U.S. Air Force and was interested in career,” Martin said. “He presented it to us personally front and center.” come to fruition.” addressing systemic problems he saw in the management while he was visiting San Antonio, so I had a chance of youth sports leagues. Educating coaches and other to stand next to the president and hear him say, —Lawrese Brown ’10 ‘Thank you for your work.’ That really put us on —Linda Zweizig Rentschler ’86 adults would mean better experiences for kids. “I vividly remember thinking, ‘What am I doing? the map. That was about as big as you can get.” In 2013, San Antonio Sports, the city’s How am I going to make this work?’” Martin recalled. effective communication. Her collaborations with 13 nonprofit sports commission, acquired KSN to “I had three kids in school who would soon attend nonprofit organizations, including the Boys and Girls further enhance the impact of non-school youth college, and here I was trying to make something from Club of Newark (New Jersey), and Big Brothers Big Helping others help others sports in the community. As the program begins its nothing. But I stuck with it, got creative with resources, Sisters of New York City, allowed her to promote 26th year, nearly 400,000 children have participated, In February 2014, Rentschler launched and promoted the program quite aggressively. I had a these skills to more than 1,000 students in her coached by 52,000 trained volunteers. Humanitarian Social Innovations (HSI), lot of groundwork to do, but eventually, it really started first year. a social profit company that helps other to grow.” “This business was just such a natural fit with entrepreneurs build their organizations It was during his last four years in the service, when Inspiring personal agency everything I had going on in my life, and it allowed on a solid business foundation. he was in charge of youth and childcare programs for the me to put my values and priorities front and center,” Educator. Consultant. Speaker. “We are not only giving these people U.S. Air Force, that Martin realized how poorly managed Brown said. These roles are howLawrese Brown ’10 and their organizations what they need they were. After his retirement, he became dedicated to Her passion drives her, and as she celebrates identifies herself. Since founding Brown Coaching on a basic level, but also are encouraging improving the management of children’s sports. her first successful year with Brown Coaching and and Consulting in 2014, she has been able to put her and inspiring their passion,” Rentschler Martin met with coaches and youth leagues in the Consulting, she is looking for more ways to grow personal mission into her business plan and pursue stated. “It’s an amazing moment when you area to convince them of the need to properly train coaches her business venture and serve more students. opportunities that she finds personally satisfying. sit with someone who has this vision and you can and volunteers. A sponsorship from NBA’s San Antonio “It all comes back to what I’ve “One of the things that Gettysburg has shown me give them what they need to make their passion Spurs helped him to gain funding. Spurs head coach learned from Gettysburg and the is how important service is to me,” Brown explained. come to fruition.” Gregg Popovich helped the program gain credibility, Center for Public Service,” “Everything I am doing now is based on my interest In the year since founding HSI, Rentschler has and together, they created the innovative sports Brown explained. “The in service. I want to help people progress, to better helped organizations make their dreams a reality, training program. work that I do has to understand themselves in order to make decisions that including HSI-sponsored programs to install solar hold meaning, not just are in their best interests. That, to me, is the crux of panels in Tanzanian schools, bring books to school for me, but for the Brown Coaching and Consulting.” students in Nigeria, and promote reading readiness to people that I work Brown works with high school and college-aged young, expectant mothers in Pennsylvania. with. That is what students to help them make the difficult transitions “As one person, I can only do so much,” Rentschler drives everything from high school to college, and from college into a stated. “Through the Humanitarian Social Innovations, Receiving a Points of Light I’ve done so far, and career. As they make the transition from adolescence I am able to maximize my impact across social services it is going to drive into adulthood, Brown works with students to facilitate and social entrepreneurship in a way that I am really award from President Bush whatever I do next.” excited about.” their development, self-advocacy, and achievement. was probably one of the To accomplish these goals, she facilitates interactive experiences focused on personal and professional development. She works on subjects that, greatest highlights according to her, are not explored in the classroom— of my career.” ideas like conflict management, goal setting, and —Frank Martin ’63

22 23 It’s an amazing moment when you sit with someone According to Martin, the first season of the antidrug-themed sports league drew over 1,000 This business...allowed who has this vision and you participants. The program garnered publicity and Coaching the coaches recognition, piquing the interest of President George me to put my values can give them what they For Frank Martin ’63, finding funding was one of the H.W. Bush and the Points of Light program. initial challenges he faced when he created the Kids “Receiving a Points of Light award from President and priorities need to make their passion Sports Network (KSN) of San Antonio. He had just Bush was probably one of the greatest highlights of my retired from the U.S. Air Force and was interested in career,” Martin said. “He presented it to us personally front and center.” come to fruition.” addressing systemic problems he saw in the management while he was visiting San Antonio, so I had a chance of youth sports leagues. Educating coaches and other to stand next to the president and hear him say, —Lawrese Brown ’10 ‘Thank you for your work.’ That really put us on —Linda Zweizig Rentschler ’86 adults would mean better experiences for kids. “I vividly remember thinking, ‘What am I doing? the map. That was about as big as you can get.” In 2013, San Antonio Sports, the city’s How am I going to make this work?’” Martin recalled. effective communication. Her collaborations with 13 nonprofit sports commission, acquired KSN to “I had three kids in school who would soon attend nonprofit organizations, including the Boys and Girls further enhance the impact of non-school youth college, and here I was trying to make something from Club of Newark (New Jersey), and Big Brothers Big Helping others help others sports in the community. As the program begins its nothing. But I stuck with it, got creative with resources, Sisters of New York City, allowed her to promote 26th year, nearly 400,000 children have participated, In February 2014, Rentschler launched and promoted the program quite aggressively. I had a these skills to more than 1,000 students in her coached by 52,000 trained volunteers. Humanitarian Social Innovations (HSI), lot of groundwork to do, but eventually, it really started first year. a social profit company that helps other to grow.” “This business was just such a natural fit with entrepreneurs build their organizations It was during his last four years in the service, when Inspiring personal agency everything I had going on in my life, and it allowed on a solid business foundation. he was in charge of youth and childcare programs for the me to put my values and priorities front and center,” Educator. Consultant. Speaker. “We are not only giving these people U.S. Air Force, that Martin realized how poorly managed Brown said. These roles are howLawrese Brown ’10 and their organizations what they need they were. After his retirement, he became dedicated to Her passion drives her, and as she celebrates identifies herself. Since founding Brown Coaching on a basic level, but also are encouraging improving the management of children’s sports. her first successful year with Brown Coaching and and Consulting in 2014, she has been able to put her and inspiring their passion,” Rentschler Martin met with coaches and youth leagues in the Consulting, she is looking for more ways to grow personal mission into her business plan and pursue stated. “It’s an amazing moment when you area to convince them of the need to properly train coaches her business venture and serve more students. opportunities that she finds personally satisfying. sit with someone who has this vision and you can and volunteers. A sponsorship from NBA’s San Antonio “It all comes back to what I’ve “One of the things that Gettysburg has shown me give them what they need to make their passion Spurs helped him to gain funding. Spurs head coach learned from Gettysburg and the is how important service is to me,” Brown explained. come to fruition.” Gregg Popovich helped the program gain credibility, Center for Public Service,” “Everything I am doing now is based on my interest In the year since founding HSI, Rentschler has and together, they created the innovative sports Brown explained. “The in service. I want to help people progress, to better helped organizations make their dreams a reality, training program. work that I do has to understand themselves in order to make decisions that including HSI-sponsored programs to install solar hold meaning, not just are in their best interests. That, to me, is the crux of panels in Tanzanian schools, bring books to school for me, but for the Brown Coaching and Consulting.” students in Nigeria, and promote reading readiness to people that I work Brown works with high school and college-aged young, expectant mothers in Pennsylvania. with. That is what students to help them make the difficult transitions “As one person, I can only do so much,” Rentschler drives everything from high school to college, and from college into a stated. “Through the Humanitarian Social Innovations, Receiving a Points of Light I’ve done so far, and career. As they make the transition from adolescence I am able to maximize my impact across social services it is going to drive into adulthood, Brown works with students to facilitate and social entrepreneurship in a way that I am really award from President Bush whatever I do next.” excited about.” their development, self-advocacy, and achievement. was probably one of the To accomplish these goals, she facilitates interactive experiences focused on personal and professional development. She works on subjects that, greatest highlights according to her, are not explored in the classroom— of my career.” ideas like conflict management, goal setting, and —Frank Martin ’63

22 23 It was a long process, trying to figure “Philanthropy is incorporated into so much that We’ve built this in a we do on campus, both in the classroom and in our everything out and cocurricular experiences,” Simard reflected. “It really “These are students who didn’t have access to some way that is sustainable.” opens your eyes. Not only do you see how important of the basic necessities to ensure a good education,” this is, but it also shows you how little, personal, but establish a nonprofit.” Simard stated. “For these students to now have access —Alan ’02 and Victoria Anderson Manning ’01 intentional activities can really make a big difference.” to laptops—that’s something that was unimaginable —Chris Simard ’11 Alan Manning agreed, stating that his experience for this school just a year ago. It’s going to change at Gettysburg made him realize how much he wanted everything for them.” to incorporate a sense of community into his life and They call the difference they make “taking the edge provided him with the skills to pursue that goal. Parties with a purpose Comfort and care for caregivers off,” providing resources to critically ill children, their “Gettysburg taught both my wife and me about the families, and those dedicated to caring for them. Alan lens that we view the world through, while also showing Alan ’02 and Victoria Anderson Manning ’01 are Chris Simard ’11 enjoys party planning. and Vickie have developed many different programs us how to view things from different perspectives,” more familiar with the strain of inpatient units than In fact, Simard claims that it was his time in the years since Katie’s passing that help to provide Alan stated. “This helped us tremendously, not only in most. It was a few days after their daughter, Katie, as the social chair of Alpa Tao Omega resources to those in need. Alan has been able to lend realizing and understanding how lucky we are, but also was born that she was diagnosed with a congenital (ATO) that inspired much of his work. his business background to the development of the in creating a desire to help those we can.” heart defect. She died a few short months later. “There was a balance between fun organization, while Victoria has committed herself to It makes sense to Davidson that many alumni seek “My wife and I were actually really lucky,” Alan and philanthropy in Greek life that got leading the venture fulltime. a deep connection with their communities when they explained. “We both had good jobs that allowed us to me thinking,” Simard explained. “When “We’ve built this in a way that is sustainable, graduate and that they integrate social concerns into take time off as we needed. We had laptops that we I first started throwing events for charity and at the same time, in a way that is not financially their professional paths. could take into our meetings with doctors in order to through The LiftEd Project, it was my driven,” Alan explained. “This is more about creating “It stays with you long after you graduate,” research and better understand what they were saying. experience in ATO that made me realize a community and providing an outlet or a system of explained Davidson. “The critical thinking skills We had family and friends to support us, and we were this is something I could do.” support for people who are going through similar that they’ve developed, the desire for action that in a place where we could relate to the doctors The biannual events began as a way for Simard and experiences. At the end of the day, if we can have a little they’ve acquired—service becomes and and nurses.” his friends to connect with other young professionals bit of an impact or make a little bit of a difference for remains essential in many different It wasn’t until one of Katie’s hospital visits and in the cities where they work. Simard works fulltime another family, that is what means the world to us.” aspects of their lives. It is just as a chance encounter with another family that the in global investing at J.P. Morgan Asset Management much a part of our graduates Mannings recognized the full extent of their privilege, in New York City. As the events grew in popularity, as anything else, and it is and, in turn, their opportunity to help others. Cementing a sense of service he saw an opportunity to raise money and donate the truly unique because it “We watched through the window outside Katie’s funds to charitable organizations that were personally The desire to have an intentional impact is the unifying has been a value of the room as the doctors performed emergency surgery. important to Simard and his friends. factor of any social entrepreneurial venture. So is the College for such a They had just stabilized Katie and were debriefing with “We had no idea what we were doing. It was a long readiness to act. long time.” us, when there was an emergency in the next room. A process, trying to figure everything out and establish a “Service usually starts as something that people are young mother emerged in distress, as they now fought nonprofit. Even now, it can still be stressful. But it’s all told to do for a class or an organization long before they to save her daughter’s life,” Alan said. “She was maybe —Kasey Varner ’14 worth it,” Simard said. come to college,” said Kim Davidson, director of the 16 years old, a single mother, in her daughter’s room Their goal is simple—to raise money for charity Center for Public Service. “At Gettysburg, our goal is all alone. When we got to talking to her, we realized while forming relationships between the charities and to create sustainable partnerships with the community. that she didn’t have the support we had—no means to Can you help fund or mentor the event attendees. They partner with organizations This long-term type of interaction with the community advocate for her daughter. Nothing.” a budding entrepreneur? that support the health and education of students, makes service something that becomes very personal. “I just remember how lost she looked,” Vickie said. Contact the Office of Development, such as the Boston Children’s Hospital and the Bridge There’s a transitional moment—when it goes from “We all looked lost, but at least we had support.” Alumni and Parent Relations Boston Charter School. Their most recent event being something that you are told to do to something The moment had a profound at 717-337-6543. generated more than $40,000 for a low-income public that you do because you have a connection to it.” impact on the couple. The seeds Engaged learning opportunities school in the Bronx—enough to buy laptops for every for Kisses from Katie for students is an important student in the school. were sown. goal in Gettysburg Great: The Campaign for Our College. Alumni who change lives, have we missed your enterprise? Write and let us know.

24 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 25 It was a long process, trying to figure “Philanthropy is incorporated into so much that We’ve built this in a we do on campus, both in the classroom and in our everything out and cocurricular experiences,” Simard reflected. “It really “These are students who didn’t have access to some way that is sustainable.” opens your eyes. Not only do you see how important of the basic necessities to ensure a good education,” this is, but it also shows you how little, personal, but establish a nonprofit.” Simard stated. “For these students to now have access —Alan ’02 and Victoria Anderson Manning ’01 intentional activities can really make a big difference.” to laptops—that’s something that was unimaginable —Chris Simard ’11 Alan Manning agreed, stating that his experience for this school just a year ago. It’s going to change at Gettysburg made him realize how much he wanted everything for them.” to incorporate a sense of community into his life and They call the difference they make “taking the edge provided him with the skills to pursue that goal. Parties with a purpose Comfort and care for caregivers off,” providing resources to critically ill children, their “Gettysburg taught both my wife and me about the families, and those dedicated to caring for them. Alan lens that we view the world through, while also showing Alan ’02 and Victoria Anderson Manning ’01 are Chris Simard ’11 enjoys party planning. and Vickie have developed many different programs us how to view things from different perspectives,” more familiar with the strain of inpatient units than In fact, Simard claims that it was his time in the years since Katie’s passing that help to provide Alan stated. “This helped us tremendously, not only in most. It was a few days after their daughter, Katie, as the social chair of Alpa Tao Omega resources to those in need. Alan has been able to lend realizing and understanding how lucky we are, but also was born that she was diagnosed with a congenital (ATO) that inspired much of his work. his business background to the development of the in creating a desire to help those we can.” heart defect. She died a few short months later. “There was a balance between fun organization, while Victoria has committed herself to It makes sense to Davidson that many alumni seek “My wife and I were actually really lucky,” Alan and philanthropy in Greek life that got leading the venture fulltime. a deep connection with their communities when they explained. “We both had good jobs that allowed us to me thinking,” Simard explained. “When “We’ve built this in a way that is sustainable, graduate and that they integrate social concerns into take time off as we needed. We had laptops that we I first started throwing events for charity and at the same time, in a way that is not financially their professional paths. could take into our meetings with doctors in order to through The LiftEd Project, it was my driven,” Alan explained. “This is more about creating “It stays with you long after you graduate,” research and better understand what they were saying. experience in ATO that made me realize a community and providing an outlet or a system of explained Davidson. “The critical thinking skills We had family and friends to support us, and we were this is something I could do.” support for people who are going through similar that they’ve developed, the desire for action that in a place where we could relate to the doctors The biannual events began as a way for Simard and experiences. At the end of the day, if we can have a little they’ve acquired—service becomes and and nurses.” his friends to connect with other young professionals bit of an impact or make a little bit of a difference for remains essential in many different It wasn’t until one of Katie’s hospital visits and in the cities where they work. Simard works fulltime another family, that is what means the world to us.” aspects of their lives. It is just as a chance encounter with another family that the in global investing at J.P. Morgan Asset Management much a part of our graduates Mannings recognized the full extent of their privilege, in New York City. As the events grew in popularity, as anything else, and it is and, in turn, their opportunity to help others. Cementing a sense of service he saw an opportunity to raise money and donate the truly unique because it “We watched through the window outside Katie’s funds to charitable organizations that were personally The desire to have an intentional impact is the unifying has been a value of the room as the doctors performed emergency surgery. important to Simard and his friends. factor of any social entrepreneurial venture. So is the College for such a They had just stabilized Katie and were debriefing with “We had no idea what we were doing. It was a long readiness to act. long time.” us, when there was an emergency in the next room. A process, trying to figure everything out and establish a “Service usually starts as something that people are young mother emerged in distress, as they now fought nonprofit. Even now, it can still be stressful. But it’s all told to do for a class or an organization long before they to save her daughter’s life,” Alan said. “She was maybe —Kasey Varner ’14 worth it,” Simard said. come to college,” said Kim Davidson, director of the 16 years old, a single mother, in her daughter’s room Their goal is simple—to raise money for charity Center for Public Service. “At Gettysburg, our goal is all alone. When we got to talking to her, we realized while forming relationships between the charities and to create sustainable partnerships with the community. that she didn’t have the support we had—no means to Can you help fund or mentor the event attendees. They partner with organizations This long-term type of interaction with the community advocate for her daughter. Nothing.” a budding entrepreneur? that support the health and education of students, makes service something that becomes very personal. “I just remember how lost she looked,” Vickie said. Contact the Office of Development, such as the Boston Children’s Hospital and the Bridge There’s a transitional moment—when it goes from “We all looked lost, but at least we had support.” Alumni and Parent Relations Boston Charter School. Their most recent event being something that you are told to do to something The moment had a profound at 717-337-6543. generated more than $40,000 for a low-income public that you do because you have a connection to it.” impact on the couple. The seeds Engaged learning opportunities school in the Bronx—enough to buy laptops for every for Kisses from Katie for students is an important student in the school. were sown. goal in Gettysburg Great: The Campaign for Our College. Alumni who change lives, have we missed your enterprise? Write and let us know.

24 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 25 Voice of experience What are some ways to use LinkedIn for professional development? First impressions KCT: I advise following companies of interest. These could be competitors, companies of are digital now. interest for their products, or potential employers. Companies publish status updates, articles, information about who they are as an organization, who they are as employers, and yes, open Does your profile need a opportunities. Follow companies you want to learn more about. makeover? Here’s what Terhune says to update Making right away: LinkedIn is well known for facilitating networking and connections. Do you have any networking tips to share? Picture the most of KCT: Be sure to customize the connection request when you can (on mobile you can’t). Make “Profiles with photos have a 14-times sure you’re only connecting with people you actually know or want to talk to. As a guideline: higher view rate. But please—no if you couldn’t message your connection about what it's like to work at their company, don’t wedding, pet, couple, or strapless connect. Your network is about quality, not quantity. Your network is only as powerful as your pictures! Choose a portrait that reflects ability to use it. your industry and personal image.” ith more than 280 million members worldwide, College insider to help. Katherine Cornock it is hard to argue with LinkedIn’s claim to Terhune ’07 is a senior relationship manager at Headline be the “world’s largest professional network.” LinkedIn. In fact, the former corporate recruiter was Do you publish on LinkedIn? Why? What works best for you? “I love the headline because it’s a More than 7,500 Gettysburgians have joined found on LinkedIn by LinkedIn (Gettysburg, winter chance to show viewers your personality and, yes, mission statement. We advise the Gettysburg College Professional Network 2014) and has been advising clients on their social KCT: We do. As employees, we’re encouraged to share our opinions and voices. I keep a clients that their headline should tell on LinkedIn. recruiting strategies since 2013. In addition to the notepad by my phone with ideas. They range from recruiting trends to things I find interesting. people what they do—it should not be The key here is keep it short. You wouldn’t want to read five pages—the network doesn’t either. Navigating and standing out in the LinkedIn webinars she has presented for Gettysburgians, their job title. My title is “senior relationship manager.” Most people crowd can be challenging, but there is a Gettysburg Terhune shared some tips with Gettysburg readers. don’t know what that means. But if they read “changing the face of recruiting,” What is the best way for potential employers—such as small business owners they may want to learn more about me. who are seeking new employees—to use LinkedIn for recruitment? If I were a recruiter, I might say “connecting talent with opportunity.” KCT: Employers use LinkedIn in a variety of ways—traditional job posting and sourcing, of “Tell the value you add, instead of course, but for the first time, employers are taking control of their employer brand. Employer your responsibilities. This is a different Gettysburg College Add to board Suggest brand is what it's like to work at that company. Think about Google. Everyone knows what way to think about how you portray United States it’s like to work at Google, even if they’ve never seen an office or talked to an employee. They yourself. On my team we say, “If have a very public employer brand. We help companies articulate and showcase their unique someone has your profile and your employer brands. LinkedIn is the ninth most trafficked site in the world. By having a strong résumé, they should know twice as presence here, it significantly increases a company’s likelihood of being found by talent. Home Notables Student & Alumni Recommendations LinkedIn for Education much about you—not the same thing, twice!”

Summary Is LinkedIn a means for a job search or a “set it and forget it” résumé tool? What else should professionals know? “Be authentic. Give people a glimpse of what it would be like to work with KCT: LinkedIn is NOT a job board. It is a place to develop as a professional. When talking to KCT: Don’t be afraid. A lot of members are afraid to update their profile or publish content you/meet you/interview you. Focus on people who are new to LinkedIn, I compare it to a professional conference. You go there to because it’s their professional brand. However, by saying nothing, a lot of professionals your ideal audience and write to that gain information, meet others, and exchange ideas. are missing an opportunity to increase their visibility and career. Being on and active on person. Is that a recruiter? A client? I suggest people download the LinkedIn app and check it as part of their normal social LinkedIn is about wanting to improve your career—whether in your current role or preparing A customer? A boss? Someone else? media “check in.” Check Instagram, check Facebook, check LinkedIn. Also look at Pulse, the for the next step. Read articles and follow companies—there’s a wealth of knowledge at Write as if you have 30 seconds of their attention. What would you want them Katherine Cornock Terhune ’07 LinkedIn news feed. It gathers posts from influencers and publishers and groups them by topic, your fingertips for free. Information has never been available at a scale like this before to to know about you as a professional?” Psychology major, art history minor so you can follow any number of interests, professional development topics, or industries. every professional in the world.

Current experience “We’ve all seen the ‘skinny’ or empty Explore Careers of Alumni What about recommendations, skills, and endorsements on LinkedIn? Who are the influencers you follow on LinkedIn? profile with no information. What do Where they work Are they important? Do recruiters use them? Do you have LinkedIn stories or tips to share? we think about that person as a professional? Keep the information Morgan Stanley 48 KCT: Recommendations are always great. Having someone publicly talk about how much Email [email protected] and let us know. they enjoy working with you, or how well you performed, goes a long way. Endorsements simple and clear and tell the truth.” AT&T 47 are a shortened version of that process. As a recruiter, I don’t use endorsements as anything Help employers, recruiters, and other Gettysburgians find you by more than a data point. If I see someone is endorsed a lot for a skill I wasn’t thinking about, Education such as “project management,” I use it as a talking point in a phone screen, but not as a joining the Gettysburg College Professional Network on LinkedIn and Deloitte 43 “Be sure Gettysburg College is listed decision maker. indicating Gettysburg College in the education section of your profile. under education in your profile.” more

26 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 27 Voice of experience What are some ways to use LinkedIn for professional development? First impressions KCT: I advise following companies of interest. These could be competitors, companies of are digital now. interest for their products, or potential employers. Companies publish status updates, articles, information about who they are as an organization, who they are as employers, and yes, open Does your profile need a opportunities. Follow companies you want to learn more about. makeover? Here’s what Terhune says to update Making right away: LinkedIn is well known for facilitating networking and connections. Do you have any networking tips to share? Picture the most of KCT: Be sure to customize the connection request when you can (on mobile you can’t). Make “Profiles with photos have a 14-times sure you’re only connecting with people you actually know or want to talk to. As a guideline: higher view rate. But please—no if you couldn’t message your connection about what it's like to work at their company, don’t wedding, pet, couple, or strapless connect. Your network is about quality, not quantity. Your network is only as powerful as your pictures! Choose a portrait that reflects ability to use it. your industry and personal image.” ith more than 280 million members worldwide, College insider to help. Katherine Cornock it is hard to argue with LinkedIn’s claim to Terhune ’07 is a senior relationship manager at Headline be the “world’s largest professional network.” LinkedIn. In fact, the former corporate recruiter was Do you publish on LinkedIn? Why? What works best for you? “I love the headline because it’s a More than 7,500 Gettysburgians have joined found on LinkedIn by LinkedIn (Gettysburg, winter chance to show viewers your personality and, yes, mission statement. We advise the Gettysburg College Professional Network 2014) and has been advising clients on their social KCT: We do. As employees, we’re encouraged to share our opinions and voices. I keep a clients that their headline should tell on LinkedIn. recruiting strategies since 2013. In addition to the notepad by my phone with ideas. They range from recruiting trends to things I find interesting. people what they do—it should not be The key here is keep it short. You wouldn’t want to read five pages—the network doesn’t either. Navigating and standing out in the LinkedIn webinars she has presented for Gettysburgians, their job title. My title is “senior relationship manager.” Most people crowd can be challenging, but there is a Gettysburg Terhune shared some tips with Gettysburg readers. don’t know what that means. But if they read “changing the face of recruiting,” What is the best way for potential employers—such as small business owners they may want to learn more about me. who are seeking new employees—to use LinkedIn for recruitment? If I were a recruiter, I might say “connecting talent with opportunity.” KCT: Employers use LinkedIn in a variety of ways—traditional job posting and sourcing, of “Tell the value you add, instead of course, but for the first time, employers are taking control of their employer brand. Employer your responsibilities. This is a different Gettysburg College Add to board Suggest brand is what it's like to work at that company. Think about Google. Everyone knows what way to think about how you portray United States it’s like to work at Google, even if they’ve never seen an office or talked to an employee. They yourself. On my team we say, “If have a very public employer brand. We help companies articulate and showcase their unique someone has your profile and your employer brands. LinkedIn is the ninth most trafficked site in the world. By having a strong résumé, they should know twice as presence here, it significantly increases a company’s likelihood of being found by talent. Home Notables Student & Alumni Recommendations LinkedIn for Education much about you—not the same thing, twice!”

26 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 27 The prestigious Andrew W. “We can’t have a bad day at work,” Edwards often Developing a Mellon Summer Academy and says. “When we have a bad day at work, there is the Undergraduate Curatorial That missile possibility that one of our service members won’t Fellowship provides specialized come home.” training in the curatorial field for One of the world’s largest defense contractors, curator’s eye students from diverse backgrounds. better work Lockheed Martin plays an integral role in American Five museums participate in the national security and is a top contractor for the federal program nationwide. Only 15 government. Edwards’ own division—Missiles and Fire students are accepted at each museum. Sophomore That’s what Gulf War veteran Control—has created major products for the U.S. and art major Kathya Lopez ’18 was one. Admiral Stanley Arthur said to allied military, including Air and Missile Defense systems, What students Lopez spent a week at home in Los Angeles at Rick Edwards ’78 in 2003 as the the Hellfire missile, the Javelin missile, and the Joint Light the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). two watched news coverage of Tactical Vehicle, a potential successor to the Humvee. In the intensive program, the Mellon Fellows met with American soldiers pinned down by LACMA staff and learned about their career paths. Iraqi gunfire outside of Baghdad. They met local artists and curated their own virtual The Javelin missile was the key to exhibition from LACMA’s collection called the U.S. soldiers’ defense against “Transcending Self.” Iraqi tanks—and yes, it worked. Lopez wants to continue exploring the curatorial As the executive vice president and chief executive field. “I know now that curating is not solely one person for Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control division, managing it, but includes many people to Edwards understands the high quality demand for the Do get a show open to the public.” products he develops every day. that makes a difference Focusing on leadership, service, and civic engagement

Fred Fielding ’61 served as More than 100 distinguished in 2015 to advance the study White House counsel to guests—Gettysburgians and high- of presidential leadership and Presidents George W. Bush profile representatives of all three promote the value of government and Ronald Reagan. He also branches of government, including service and civic engagement. served in the Nixon White Chief Justice of the Supreme Court The Fielding Fellows (left) House as deputy counsel and of the United States John Roberts with Fielding (center); President associate counsel. His long —gathered at Washington, D.C.’s Janet Morgan Riggs ’77 (far right); What makes Gettysburg record of public service includes Metropolitan Club to honor and Kasey Pipes, EI Norris Fellow participating on many key national Fielding and celebrate the launch of Public Policy (far left) are task forces and commissions, of the Fielding Center for undergraduate juniors or seniors most recently the National Presidential Leadership Study. who benefit from connecting an Commission on Terrorist With Fielding’s leadership academic perspective with access to Attacks Upon the United States and guidance, the Center, part of senior officials in government. More (commonly referred to as the The Eisenhower Institute (EI) at about the Fielding Center and its 9/11 Commission). Gettysburg College, was established programs can be found online.

28 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 29 The prestigious Andrew W. “We can’t have a bad day at work,” Edwards often Developing a Mellon Summer Academy and says. “When we have a bad day at work, there is the Undergraduate Curatorial That missile possibility that one of our service members won’t Fellowship provides specialized come home.” training in the curatorial field for One of the world’s largest defense contractors, curator’s eye students from diverse backgrounds. better work Lockheed Martin plays an integral role in American Five museums participate in the national security and is a top contractor for the federal program nationwide. Only 15 government. Edwards’ own division—Missiles and Fire students are accepted at each museum. Sophomore That’s what Gulf War veteran Control—has created major products for the U.S. and art major Kathya Lopez ’18 was one. Admiral Stanley Arthur said to allied military, including Air and Missile Defense systems, What students Lopez spent a week at home in Los Angeles at Rick Edwards ’78 in 2003 as the the Hellfire missile, the Javelin missile, and the Joint Light the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). two watched news coverage of Tactical Vehicle, a potential successor to the Humvee. In the intensive program, the Mellon Fellows met with American soldiers pinned down by LACMA staff and learned about their career paths. Iraqi gunfire outside of Baghdad. They met local artists and curated their own virtual The Javelin missile was the key to exhibition from LACMA’s collection called the U.S. soldiers’ defense against “Transcending Self.” Iraqi tanks—and yes, it worked. Lopez wants to continue exploring the curatorial As the executive vice president and chief executive field. “I know now that curating is not solely one person for Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control division, managing it, but includes many people to Edwards understands the high quality demand for the Do get a show open to the public.” products he develops every day. that makes a difference Focusing on leadership, service, and civic engagement

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1939 1949 Lake, NJ. He introduced new products for several food companies before retirement. Glenn Rudisill Jane Heilman Doyle He was involved in local politics, serving as 14505 Greenpoint Lane 10221 Cabery Road a councilman for nine years and as mayor Huntersville, NC 28078 Ellicott City, MD 21042-1605 for 15. He was married to Marie for 55 SAVE [email protected] 410-465-7134 years and has a son, two daughters, and On Oct. 13, I had the surprise of my four grandchildren. Bernie has written an THE DATES 1941 life—a phone call from Dave Hough. impressive and delightful “farewell letter” John Zinn We chatted about old times, and I for his obituary, and I will be happy to 201 W. Broadway haven’t heard from Dave in well over 60 share it with anyone who gives me a Gettysburg, PA 17325 years. He lives in San Diego, CA. Bob call. Please note my correct number. 717-334-2932 Harrison also wrote that at age 88, he is News from family in CO tells us that [email protected] still portraying Founding Father Benjamin Don and Junie ’53 Simonton were FEBRUARY 27 Franklin, telling of the helpful things and recently honored posthumously with the ideas he had. He is immersed in history Lifetime Achievement Award for their Gala Concert 1942 (local, state, and national) and writes a great contributions for writing about Sunderman Conservatory of Music Jane Henry Fickes monthly column for Chambersburg’s local the history and heritage of skiing in CO. 10th Anniversary 16 Hemlock Court newspaper, The Public Opinion. Bob was This commendation was given by the Lebanon, PA 17042-8715 pleased to note that he is in good health CO Ski and Snowboard Museum Hall of 717-270-0972 and enjoys socializing with many friends Fame. I know that many of you received MARCH 22 and family. honors and tributes for the work you have Gettysburg Great campaign event 1944 done, both in your professions and as a New York, New York 1950 volunteer. It would be good of you to send Dorothy Scheffer Hartlieb us some of this information so I can pass it Ruthe Fortenbaugh Craley 4925 Woodbox Lane along while we can enjoy it with you. MAY 15 Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 Country Meadows/Shiloh 717-697-9686 1900 Trolley Road, Apt. 308 Commencement [email protected] York, PA 17408 1951 717-801-0048 65th Reunion Year JUNE 2–3 1945 [email protected] Lou Hammann 1350 Evergreen Way Charlotte Rehmeyer Odell I have the sad duty to tell you of 24th Annual Sara Lee/Butter Krust Baking Orrtanna, PA 17353 P.O. Box 5255 the death of two classmates since Gettysburg College Golf Classic 717-334-4488 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 our last publication. We offer our [email protected] presented by the Cly-Del Manufacturing Company 865-481-2594 sincere sympathy to the families of 931-456-2724 Frank Di Angelo and Bernie Kettler. JUNE 2–5 Frank, of Bel Air, MD, died last July after 1952 careers in banking and education. He Margaret Blanchard Curtis Alumni College and Reunion Weekend 1946 is survived by his wife, Jean Peshok 1075 Old Harrisburg Road, #144 70th Reunion Year DiAngelo; a son and daughter; and a Gettysburg, PA 17325 Connie Douglas Wiemann large family of 11 children and 22 great- JUNE 17–22 717-334-1041 1117 Devonshire Way grandchildren. He loved history, golf, [email protected] Civil War Institute (CWI) Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418-6863 ballroom dancing, and wood carving. Annual Summer Conference 561-622-5790 Bernie Kettler resided in Woodcliff We did it! No news, no obituaries.

SEPTEMBER 30–OCTOBER 2 Homecoming Weekend What’s new? Tell your classmates by submitting information to your class OCTOBER 28–30 correspondent by these deadlines: Family Weekend Spring issue, Jan. 15 Fall issue, June 15 Winter issue, Oct. 15 Class Notes Editor Devan Grote White ’11 The palette was orange and blue when Loyal Ones [email protected] gathered under Alexander Calder’s mobile Ghost, in the Great Hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The November program allowed alumni, parents, and Please friends of the College to experience the impact and envision the promise of the Gettysburg Great campaign, the largest comprehensive fundraising effort in College history. The next regional campaign event will be on write! March 22 at Cipriani on 42nd Street in New York City.

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1953 Navy veteran. They live in St. Petersburg, 1956 Wholesale Nursery, the largest provider themselves, and enjoyed a small Gettysburg Sara has been helping the homeless and FL, where Buzz is a hospice volunteer of nursery stock on the Cape. A kind of reunion right on the ship with Dave ’74 learned that it involves nurturing souls Barbara Slothower King 60th Reunion Year at the V.A. hospital. Ralph Fischer was harmonic convergence of work, interest, and Becky Royer Fuchs ’75 and Grant and more than sheltering bodies. Sara works 6131 Greenbriar Lane elected to the office of Prytanis Emeritus Georgiana Borneman Sibert and cultivation made for much positive Diane Blackmore Forsythe ’75. Margie to provide the kind of support that makes Fayetteville, PA 17222 by the Antekes of Psi Chapter of Tau 729 Hilltop Lane feedback from our garden and grounds credits Prof. Basil Crapster with their love a house a home. For the past 35 years, 717-352-7363 Kappa Epsilon at Gettysburg College. Hershey, PA 17033-2924 visitors. We’ve been part of numerous of European history. Still living in Bethesda, she has worked in paid positions and as [email protected] A note from Elaine Bonnett Molnar ’58, 717-533-5396 garden tours through the years. Jack MD, they saw Joyce Hamm Elsner and a volunteer to battle social problems in The mailman (you do remember him or wife of Joe Molnar ’55, told of the honor [email protected] Bream sent word of death touching lives husband Burt last summer. Two children central OH. For the past eight years, this her?) brought me a newsy note from bestowed upon Ralph at the group’s fall Happy fall to everyone. Save the date: of people known to us. One was Margery and grandchildren live nearby, and Margie energetic lady has devoted her time to Sonia Newlyn Naus, better known as luncheon, acknowledging his leadership Our big 60th Reunion will be here before Behrendt Scola, the wife of Vincent A. and Lin stay busy volunteering and being helping people find and keep housing. Sunny. She starts out by saying she looks and their appreciation for his efforts in we know it. Plan ahead now. Reunion Scola. She was an accomplished dancer active in church. Lin also golfs, along with Among the many organizations Sara has forward to reading the notes and shame arranging 50 events and luncheons since Weekend is June 2–5! Communication and choreographer for ballet and a legal traveling. They have been to the Galápagos, been a part of is Habitat for Humanity. One on her for not writing. All is forgiven the organization’s founding in 1998. is important. Call or write your College secretary. Their later years of marriage Ecuador, the Mayan Ruins, and Greece, to of her rewards certainly must have been now. Sunny reports that she lived for Ralph is one of the founders of the friends, roommates, sorority sisters, or allowed them to enjoy their home in Bonita mention a few places. It is always sad to having a young man of 18 come to her 30 years in a Lutheran community in group, whose purpose is “to renew and fraternity brothers, and let’s have a huge Springs, FL, golfing, and traveling the lose a classmate. Jonathan Peck passed when he saw her visiting, his high school, Cresco, PA. Her daughter, Stacy Naus preserve the friendships and comradery turnout! Whoever thought we would be world. We send our sympathy to Vince. away in Aug. He was an Army veteran, give her a hug, and say “You got me a Deuel ’80, and husband, Jeffrey ’80, of the brothers of Psi Chapter of Tau at this point: 60 years? How wonderful! The other was Jonathan B. Peck ’58. Jon had a varied career in MA in management, house when I was 3 years old, and now I convinced her to move to Mercer, WA, Kappa Epsilon.” Congratulations, Ralph! If you can’t make the Reunion, send a started out with us but graduated as a and established his own consulting firm. am going to college.” I am sure that was with them. She is now in an independent Rocky Fisher has enjoyed two pleasant note or update to the alumni office or me member of the Class of 1958. He made a His vocations and avocations were helping more than enough reward for Sara and living community there. It was a hard dinners and evenings in Fort Collins, CO, and I will see that it is shared. Thanks so career of mentoring youth, mostly through young people through the Skills for Life her work with Habitat for Humanity. I am decision to make as she has a daughter with Bob and Denise Haldt Brubaker. much! I recently had a very pleasant phone athletics, personally, and through a variety program. He was an avid cyclist, a pioneer always ready to hear your news, so send in PA and one in Chardles, AZ. Sunny The Brubakers now winter in Tucson, AZ. conversation with Gretchen Parkinson of boards and agencies. He was a pioneer participant in a two-day bike trek to benefit along a note or email for the next class mentioned her Chi O sisters who are Henry “Hank” and Jean Wolfe ’57 Lush Stuempfle. She still lives in Gettysburg, participant in the Pan-Mass Challenge, a cancer research in Boston, and participated notes. scattered, but keep in touch. She has still lead a very busy life in the mountains remains busy, and is looking forward to two-day bike event benefitting the Dana- in a number of triathlons. Our condolences been back to campus, but doesn’t think of PA. They are active in the community, the Reunion in June! I also had a phone Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. For go to his family. I received a very nice 1960 that will happen in the future. There are church, and traveling. Hank is completing more about Jon, see ’58 class notes. acknowledgement from Ted and Nancy call from Alan Ruby. He remains very Pat Carr Layton a few Gettysburg graduates out there his 49th year with the National Weather Soistmann’s family concerning our sincere busy with many activities including being 301 Powell Avenue and also some students. Sunny said she Service as an observer for his area of sympathy in class notes, so I’m glad we a substitute pastor, directing tours, giving 1958 Salisbury, MD 21081 hopes more classmates will write, and PA. He and Jean have seven great- can express how much we have enjoyed lectures, and participating in the Senior Janet Bikle Hoenniger Davis 410-742-7682 I say yes, please do. It is so easy, and if grandchildren! Carolyn Rumbaugh friendships of Gettysburg alums over Olympics among other things. He too is 407 Chamonix Drive [email protected] Sunny looks forward to keeping up with Bargeron wrote, “Happily, this has been many years. looking forward to the Reunion. I hope Fredericksburg, VA 22405 her classmates, there must be some of a year of remembering and revisiting The Class of 1960 must be either the everyone is looking forward to June, and I 540-371-1045 you who do also. I have had no notices some of my part in the life of the theater.” busiest or laziest group of people on the am sure we will have a great time. I hope [email protected] 1959 from the College, so if you have anything In fall 2014, she took part in the 100th face of the earth! I have not received to hear from many of you soon. I need Carol Reed Hamilton about one of our classmates, please let celebration of Owl and Nightingale and As I notice we are moving closer to the emails or letters from any of you. Do I have news for the spring issue! 60 Strand Circle me know. Maybe Sunny’s Chi O sisters participated in a cabaret, where former front of the class notes, it’s appropriate to describe my granddaughter’s soccer Cromwell, CT 06416 could respond. All is well with the Kings members presented skits of scenes from that I received another email stating that a season to you or recount the types of tulip 860-613-2441 as we prepare to greet two new great- memorable plays. She wrote and gave a 1957 classmate has a living parent. Joan Doyle bulbs we are planting? Let me remind you Ulrich [email protected] Will Brown The grandchildren in the new year. We know verse presentation about “Private Lives,” Don Helfrich has a father who will be 100 on that recently published one is a girl, our first in a long line Dec. 22, 2015. He’s in good health, lives As I write this, Bruce and I just returned Picture That Remains, a collaboration in which she had played a leading role. 7 Jeannes Way of boys! alone in a house he’s occupied for over 63 from Homecoming Weekend. I can report between the poet Thomas Devaney She received a standing ovation. Last fall, Forestdale, MA 02644 years, and has a “loving daughter,” as you the campus looks beautiful and students and Will’s photography. The curator of she met Audrey Wennblom Rawlings 508-539-4280 1954 in NY to see the latest iteration of [email protected] can tell from her comments. It has been are friendly. Yes, some things have changed photography at the Philadelphia Museum The King and I. Carolyn saw the initial great seeing Joan and her husband at our over the past 50+ years, but I think you of Art discovered Will’s 1970s series of Helen-Ann Souder Comstock presentation of the show over 64 years Classmate and CO resident Wayne Reunions. Jean Brown Broadbelt sent would be as proud as I am to say it is photographs of the Queen Village area of One Independence Place ago when Susan Gotwald Lose took Ewing inquired about the origins of a note that she and her husband Don, who Gettysburg Great. It was good to hear from Philadelphia and included them in a group Philadelphia, PA 19106 her to her first Broadway play. There my horticultural interests. He said, “You passed away in July 2014, have lived in President Riggs ’77 that the campaign for show. A 2014 one-person show in NY led [email protected] she met Yul Brynner, “with his startling showed no evidence of them at all in Greenville, NC, for 28 years. She lives in a Gettysburg is well on its way to reaching to an online article in The NY Times and M. “Buzz” Hanson, a classmate long bare (and attractive) chest.” Carolyn had college.” He was responding to news of wonderful Methodist retirement community its goal. I would urge all of you, if you have nice reviews in the Wall Street Journal unheard from, sent a letter updating his earlier been a classmate of Carol Landon, my wife, Phyllis Ball ’58, and I participating and has been blessed with three children not already done so, to lend your support to and The New Yorker. Since then, his work years since College. Buzz graduated from whose mother wrote Anna and the King in the Annual Cape Cod Hydrangea and seven grandchildren. We hope to the Campaign, which will give financial aid has been collected by the Philadelphia Valley Forge Military Academy and then of Siam, the source for The King and Festival. We had one of the 80 gardens see her at our next Reunion. It’s good to to worthy students. During the weekend, Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts attended Penn State. He transferred I. Ending her note, Carolyn wrote, “So and landscaped homes in the 10-day know that people read the alumni news, Bruce and I were happy to meet Florence Boston, the Beinecke Library at Yale U, to Gettysburg for his last two years long ago, associations came to fruition event, which raised $226,000 to benefit as Sandy Wolff Dixon ’60 called about the Duckworth Wilson and Richard “Dick” the Smithsonian Museum of American and graduated with our class. Upon in, all in all, a successful and satisfying 20 nonprofit Cape Cod organizations. nice feature on Dick Lilly and to inquire and Dorothy Lloyd Simpson for lunch Art, and PAFA. Well done, Will! Boyd graduation, he was sent to Germany and theatrical year.” And may 2016 be a My answer, surprisingly, dated to the about Marian Davis’s ’60 recovery. Her arranged by Marge Mills Carpenter. Any Pfeiffer’s latest book, No Proof At All: A was involved in U.S. Army occupation successful, satisfying, and healthy year for late 1950s while I was a student at husband passed away in 1987. Sandy time when good friends gather, there is Cure for Christianity, is available in book forces, attaining the rank of colonel. all classmates! the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary. I lives in Gettysburg and was interested in never a lack of conversation. Thankfully all stores and through Amazon. “The skeptical After leaving the army, he spent 20 years worked for Ernesta Drinker Ballard. She connecting again with Dick and his wife, are well. Bruce and I also had a short visit and atheistic book...contains 21 chapters with IBM, part of the time working in subsequently became the executive Beth Brown Lilly. Lin ’57 and Margie with Robert Smith and his wife Pat ’61 in denouncing Christianity. This is Boyd’s Germany to train IBM salespeople. Buzz 1955 director of the PA Horticultural Society Myers Goodyear have enjoyed traveling the College Union. The College keeps Bob 29th book and his first on religion and and his first wife, Gloria, were engaged Rev. Joseph Molnar (1965-1980) and the sponsor of the since marrying in 1958, first taking a busy as he shuttles students and visiting atheism.” Boyd forwarded me a chapter at the NY Memorial on the Gettysburg 4190 Park Place highly regarded, renowned Philadelphia three-month tour of Europe after being guests to and from airports. Ed McCleaf ’61 on prayer, and I read it with great interest battlefield. They were married for 53 Bethlehem, PA 18020 Flower Show. In retirement, wishing to married two years. In June, they were sent me an article from The Columbus (OH) and my own dose of skepticism about years until Gloria’s death in 2010. Buzz is 610-814-2360 learn more about bushes and shrubs, I on a Viking River Cruise, spied a chap Dispatch titled “A ‘Home’ Maker” featuring his conclusions! Perhaps we can get a now remarried to Denise, a 22-year U.S. [email protected] worked 10 seasons for the Cape Cod with a Gettysburg sweatshirt, introduced Sara Schneider Neikirk. For decades, discussion going in this magazine?

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1961 and volunteers at the plant clinic at her Couchman, Box 420, Gettysburg College, 1965 what you wrote. But, my email account her doctorate degree in Spanish local farmer’s market. She sends her Gettysburg, PA 17325. Thank you, Ron, must have thought I waited too long! from the U of Pittsburgh. She was a 55th Reunion Year Rev. Dr. John R. Nagle best to everyone. Judy Zerbe and her for all you do to preserve our time as So in my embarrassment, I ask David professor in the Spanish department 303 Whitehall Way Nan Funk Lapeire nephew, Bryan ’88, were featured in the classmates. I have three sad reports of Bloomer, Les Young, and others, if at Indiana U of PA for many years, Cary, NC 27511 20 Canal Run East Gettysburg Great campaign booklet, the deaths of our classmates. Terence you have not yet seen in print the very retiring in 2010. She made professor 919-467-6375 Washington Crossing, PA 18977 which offers options for financial and Sillett passed away on July 27 at his important news you sent me, please emeritus at that time. She was active in [email protected] 215-493-5817 philanthropic planning for Gettysburg home, surrounded by his family. Terry was resend it! I promise not to lose any environmental education for Evergreen [email protected] alumni. She and Bryan are both members a math major, participated in track, and Howie Olafson and his wife have information the rest of you send. This Conservancy, where she served as Our class information for these class of the 1832 Society. Suzanne Page was a Phi Sig. He is survived by his wife four children and four grandchildren. page is and always has been the first secretary of the board. She is survived notes was slim. Exciting news though: Leber and husband Gene ’61 took their of 50 years, Juliana; son Scott and his He retired from Lucent in 2001 and thing people read when they open by three children and one grandson. a 55th Reunion is being planned for grandsons Luke (13) and Wes (10) on wife, Kris; son Steve and his wife, Marie; moved south—to south Jersey! John the magazine. You’re here right now, Ellwood “Bud” Powell died Sept. early June. Pack your bags and head a Gettysburg battlefield tour that had daughter Liana and her husband, Len; Gribb intended to show off his new aren’t you? 30 in Paoli, PA, after suffering a to Gettysburg to share stories from our been promoted by Luke’s eighth grade and his two beloved granddaughters, wife at the 50th Reunion, but she fell heart attack while jogging in Valley student days. I look forward to seeing you history teacher, a Gettysburg grad and Alea and Milena. Terence was employed and broke her leg that Friday. They 1966 Forge National Park. A biology major in June and receiving emails from you Confederate reenactor. Suzanne says, “I as a drug and alcohol counselor by both promise she’ll be with us for the 50th Reunion Year at Gettysburg, Bud also held a law about your retirement adventures. appreciate my liberal arts education every Mazzitti & Sullivan Counseling Services. 55th! Don Lawson and his wife live degree and a master’s in education. Tom de la Vergne day.” Charlie Lingenfelter and his PA His passion for recovery inspired many in Naples, FL, where they are active in He worked as a biologist at the U 587 Sheffield Drive Sigma Nu buddies, Bob Andrews and people to make changes in their lives. the Naples Council on World Affairs of PA doing cancer research and 1962 Springfield, PA 19064 Lee Collins, played in two tournaments Memorial contributions may be made and the Forum Club, both devoted was also a patent attorney for a 610-543-4983 Betsy Shelly Hetzel June 10–11. One benefited Camp Victory to the RASE Project, in Harrisburg, PA. to understanding and appreciating Philadelphia law firm. He ended his [email protected] 193 Aster Avenue and the other the Ronald McDonald Also, I am sorry to report the death of worldwide politics. John Wright and career as a teacher in the Upper Bellefonte, PA 16823 House. The last of Charlie’s three sons is Nick Kargas, who was a business his wife enjoy quality time with their Mickie Binder Stricker reports Merion School System. Bud’s first love 814-548-7648 in his sophomore year at Penn State. Our administration major and active in student five grandchildren. They’ll downsize that she, Gilda Salto Gilmartin, was automobiles and their repair. From [email protected] artist and quilter, Carol Stewart Stens, publications. He served as business in the next year or two, but right now, and their husbands took a trip to HI his college days on, he was constantly Class of 1962 won a second, third, and two honorable manager of the Spectrum his senior they enjoy traveling here and abroad. in July. Mickie and her husband have rebuilding engines or restoring old Paul “Ted” Loubris writes that he mentions from her local NC Arts Council. year. Nick died at home on May 29 and Daryl Myers is glad that his youngest five children between them and 16 cars. Sally Kay Dress Sawyer retired 12 years ago from a flying career One award was for innovative art in is survived by his mother; sisters Diane son enjoyed the same Gettysburg grandkids. Gilda has three children died Oct. 31 in Nashville, TN, after with Fed Ex. “My almost 10 years as quilting. Her quilts truly are works of and Paula; nieces Keri and her husband experience he did, graduating in and five grandkids. They look forward waging a courageous battle against a corporate pilot for Air Products and art and love. Did you know that Phil Thomas, and Robin and her husband, 2000. Kurt Kalteider is proud of to seeing everyone at our 50th cancer. A resident of Gettysburg, Chemicals, Allentown, PA, was a good Wargo’s Wallingford Wobblers turned Riaz; and nephew Robert. Nick worked his 17 years as a #1 best-selling Reunion this year. Dale Boyd sold she taught English for many years at training ground for flying small jets. I over a record $4,000 to the American most of his career as an accountant author in the Native American Studies his house up north and now lives in Gettysburg High School. For several was based in London for two years Diabetes Association from their Tour employed at various accounting and category. Penn Rhodeen married Bonita Springs, FL. He and his wife years, she was class correspondent flying freight to Saudi Arabia. I especially de Cure Ride, June 7, in Kingston, RI? consulting firms. He enjoyed skiing, golf, a college professor and spends a do a great deal of traveling. A spring for Gettysburg magazine. Upon loved flying the Boeing 747s. I thought Phil says, “Thanks to all who generously reading, and baseball. And lastly, Gerald lot of time in Brooklyn. His newly cruise to Australia, New Zealand, retirement, she became an advocate I had arrived, working for Flying Tiger support us!” I appreciate all your news! J. Ponsiglione passed away on Sept. published book should be available and other areas of the South Pacific for veterans and authored a semi- Airlines, but in 1988, Fed Ex bought out 30. Gerald was founder of the Beverage soon. Eric Pearson has been a will be followed by trips in the fall to autobiographical novel, Prelude to Tigers, and I went to a flight engineer’s 1963 Works in Wall Twp., NJ, and was the sole Lutheran pastor for 46 years, married Denmark, Russia, Greece, Turkey, and Reveille: A Vietnam Awakening, which seat on DC 10s. I was very lucky to see distributor of Red Bull sales in NY and for 47 years, and has two children many of the islands in the Aegean. He was very well-received by veterans Susan Cunningham Euker a lot of the world and a ton of hotels NJ. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, and three grandchildren. In retirement, has a long bucket list and hopes to as a most authentic tale of the 1717 Gatehouse Court and runways. I loved what I did.” Paul Diane; sons Mark and his wife, Jennifer, he works on his Lionel “O” gauge check off as many as possible. Loyal burdens shared by wives of soldiers Bel Air, MD 21014 is married to Peggy Steeley Loubris and James; his brother John and his toy train collection. He remembers class member Don Fairchild passed during the Vietnam War. Sally Kay is ’65. In retirement, he enjoys collecting 410-420-0826 wife, Christine; his sister Mary and her leaving campus to see JFK’s body away on Apr. 29 near his Manassas, survived by her husband of 49 years, [email protected] military artifacts and going shooting. husband, Douglas; and his two adored lying in state in the Capitol rotunda. VA home, following an extended, Richard Sawyer ’69, and one son, two They live in Austin, TX, close to the Chuck Bikle writes that on Aug. grandchildren, Jake and Sarabella. Tom Don Rohrbaugh has maintained valiant campaign with esophageal daughters, and five grandchildren. grandkids. “Time is getting shorter for 9, a musical group with which he is and Peggy Jaeger Shreiner’s grandson, a 15 ft.-by-25 ft. vegetable garden cancer. A departmental honors English all of us. God bless all who are left and associated presented a program called “A Matt Johns, is the quarterback for the U of for the past 30 years. He has battled major, Don was a popular principal those who aren’t.” Betsy Graves retired Salute to Coffee” in a local coffeehouse VA football team. It has been fun to watch groundhogs, deer, squirrels, mice, and actor for the College’s Owl and 1967 moles, as well as flooding, disease, Nightingale Players (O&N), playing from the U.S. government 15 years ago in Billings, MT, to standing room only! him on TV when the games are televised. Dick Matthews and has been traveling, volunteering, The program consisted of two cantatas Very proud grandparents, for sure! I and insects. Ellen Hubbard wrote to lead and supporting roles in numerous 339 Devon Drive and gardening. Her graduate school composed by Nicolas Bernier and J. S. had a lovely three-day visit with Carole say that family matters kept her from productions. After graduation, Don was San Rafael, CA 94903 and government work focused on the Bach that featured coffee as the main Johnson Hiddeman in Oct. We had the Reunion, but she was with us in never very far away from Gettysburg 415-472-5190 Middle East and Asia, and that is where subject. They may have performed the lunch on the eastern shore of MD with spirit! Russell Angerman has been College, always returning for O&N [email protected] she has traveled. Last spring, she spent Bernier composition for the first time Bob Duncan. I am receiving emails from married for 49 years and an attorney reunions, video camera in hand, most two weeks in Japan on a study tour ever in MT. Ron Couchman writes that some of you who are planning to come to for 45 years. He and his wife built a recently for the O&N Centennial David Jones ([email protected]) focused on archaeology of prehistoric he would like to preserve some of the our 55th. Planning will begin soon. house on the shores of the Delaware Reunion in Sept. 2014. To Don’s wife lives in Boulder, CO, and has been Japan and the temples and religions of stories, experiences, and adventures River. They have traveled to Antarctica, Sarah and their daughter and two there a long time. He has been the medieval period. She volunteers at we shared while at Gettysburg and the Galápagos Islands, and more. He sons, fellow class members and the at Boulder Community Hospital the Washington National Opera in their include them in the Class of 1963 1964 also attended a White House state College community extend profound for almost 45 years, mostly as an costume studio. She also organizes and manuscript collection. He encourages Kathleen Gibbs dinner when Ronald Reagan was sympathies. Sally Webb Thornton, emergency room doctor, including creates finding aids for collections of us to record what we remember and 24 Heatherwood Lane president. When a submission comes wife of Gordon Thornton ’67 for 47 as chairman of the department. He’s papers donated to the archives of the how those memories added value to our Bedminster, NJ 07921 just after the magazine deadline, or years, passed away on Sept. 19 in now in urgent care at the hospital. Freer and Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian. lives. Send them to Ron at the College 908-781-6351 when I have so many notes that I’m Pittsburgh. Sally graduated Phi Beta He has been married to Anya Kirvan She has also become a Master Gardener at [email protected] or to Ron [email protected] over the word limit, I have to hold on to Kappa from Gettysburg and received for more than 25 years.

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1968 Donna Collin Son Fulton, Pegathy worked at Lancaster General Hospital as became a funeral director and worked as 1975 1978 Schoenbrodt Scheer, Jane Engel vice president of development and was chief of mortuary services at Penn State. Susan Walsky Gray Contrary to how I normally begin Dale Luy Gallagher, and I convened on Columbus later promoted to president of Lancaster He retired in 2000. Before he became 113 Balsam Lane this article, I’m going to give you an 3928 Greenville Road Day to celebrate Native American Indian General Health Foundation. Jay was chief, Norm and his supervisor invented Aiken, SC 29803-2713 update about me (Joan Weinheimer Meyersdale, PA 15552 Day and any intervening birthdays we a trusted advisor to many boards and a special shield to use in autopsies on 803-641-4344 Altemose) and Bret. Our son, Craig, [email protected] might have missed. We met at Kelly’s nonprofit organizations. He received highly infectious people. This invention [email protected] got married on Sept. 26 to Rouwenna Gettysburg College Class of 1978 home in Gettysburg and had a great time numerous recognition awards over the was so successful that Penn State took Gettysburg College Class of 1968 Lamm in a beautiful outdoor ceremony in spite of missing Sue Niblette and years including Gettysburg College’s the patent. Norm and his wife, Elaine, have The ol’ quarterback tossed me a couple in Plymouth, MA. It was a joyous Steve Wibberley wrote a long email Janet Ritter Wheeler ’70, who promise to Young Alumni Achievement Award and two daughters who both graduated from of lines. Mike Sharrett retired from occasion and a chance to reunite with to update us on his activities. He and come next time. When we lunch at Kelly’s was inducted into the Hall of Athletic Gettysburg: Stephanie ’09 and Christine daily pastoral ministry after 33 years family, including our daughter Karen his wife Barbara now live in CT after home, we all bring a dish, have too much Honor. Jay is survived by his wife of 42 ’11. All of our thoughts and prayers are and plans to pursue opportunities to and granddaughter Claire (5). It is with many years as missionaries in the Middle delicious food, and take home wonderful years, Pamela, a daughter and son, and with Elaine, Stephanie, and Christine at teach, preach, and counsel, always with a a mix of emotions that I bid you all a East. Their two sons, living in the Middle leftovers. Our fearless leader, Kelly, has four grandchildren. We heard some sad this time. Keep sending your updates, and gospel-centered focus. His wife, Janice fond farewell. This is my final article, so East, have presented them with six asked me to send you this note. Our 45th news from Jim Cooke. Though he and I will include your news in the next issue! Beechwood Sharrett, still teaches math, I’m hoping someone else volunteers to grandchildren, all under the age of six. Class Reunion is scheduled for June his wife live happily in Gettysburg, they science, and Bible to middle schoolers at take the reins starting in 2016. I haven’t Steve has been busy, despite a bout with 2–5, 2016. Barb Belletti Shames lost their 34-year-old daughter, Kate, to a classical Christian school in Lynchburg, 1974 received updates to report, with the Lyme disease. He finished his doctoral and Bob “Rusty” Cox are co-chairing Cystic Fibrosis, in January 2015. Karen VA. They are enjoying their first grandson, Linda Harmer Morris exception of some positive comments dissertation for a doctorate of divinity. a committee composed of 18 excited Johnson continues to enjoy California, although he lives too far away in Louisville, 601 W. San Mateo Rd. about moving our 45th Class Reunion to He is also publishing his fourth book, classmates. Planning has already begun but would like to see a little more rain. She KY, with their middle son, Luke. Luke Apt. # 130 coincide with Homecoming in the fall of From Connecticut to the Ends of the for an amazing weekend. A very special hopes to travel back to Rwanda in the fall. is a photojournalist who freelances for Santa Fe, NM 87505 2020. Several points were made: there’s Earth and Back, his memoirs. He is at event will happen Saturday, June 4, that She is deep into a series of pen and ink Bloomberg, The NY Times, and The better weather in the fall, the chance work on four other books, is speaking at will surely entice you to return to campus. drawings, around the theme of Genuine 609-280-7406 Washington Post. Their oldest son, Mike, [email protected] to see a football game and fall foliage, “Equipped for Life” seminars, and acting Stay tuned for details, and mark your Rwandan Goat Milk Soap. The drawings is a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch, the opportunity to see and interact with as a life coach. Despite planning to calendars. Now is also a good time to incorporate text into the composition. the Hi, everyone. Katie Cassel and their daughter, Laura, does college current students, and the chance to see continue with all this, he claims that he is make your housing reservations. Please conversations she had, long ago, with her ([email protected], 808-335- ministry at Emory in Atlanta with Reformed the campus when it’s being actively used. retiring in Dec. Someone better explain also go on Facebook or, through email, advisor Prof. Mary Margaret Stewart in the 0045) writes “Aloha” and states that University Fellowship. When not day- Someone made the point that we seem to him what retirement is! Our thoughts send Kelly memories from our years English department remain among Karen’s she has lived on the island of Kauai tripping to the Blue Ridge Mountains with to be the only college that schedules and prayers go out to the family of Kate at Gettysburg. I know they say if you keenest G-burg memories. since 1992. She coordinates a volunteer their yellow lab, they love to look for sea our Reunions when students are not on “Holly” Asquith Rogers who died remember the ’60s, you weren’t there, conservation program for preserving the glass at the Outer Banks. Mike finishes Campus. Anyway, that is the thought that in Apr. Holly was an elementary school but we were there until ’71 so let’s give Hawaiian native forest in the mountains, with these words: “So come on y’all. Are 1973 I’ll leave you with. I am looking forward to teacher and tutor. it the old college try. Here’s one to add: as well as saving endangered plants we the only ones with grandkids? Report Steve “Triff” Triffletti reading updates about you all. I remember someone renting a school and globally imperiled ecosystems. It in, Class of ’78!” Fran Cannon hosted 124 Long Pond Road Thank you to Joan Weinheimer 1969 bus to take all willing subjects with a is a nonprofit, and donations are tax- his summer party with music by Prime Plymouth, MA 02360 Altemose for her service to the College container of wine to Rock Creek or the deductible. They also need manpower Time and over 20 Gettysburg alumni. Send Jana Hemmer Surdi 508-746-1464 (work) as your class correspondent. Narrows for an afternoon of frivolity and to remove the invasive weeds. If any the details, Fran! Don Luy works hard in 7 Condor Road 508-746-9205 (fax) If anyone is interested in taking singing. Old Sweet Blindness was a Gettysburg students or alumni would like retirement, now teaching at Cornerstone Palmyra, VA 22963 [email protected] over this position, please contact Joe favorite. Discuss! to go there and volunteer, krcp.org will U and Davenport U. He helped Davenport 434-589-5669 Lynch ’85 at [email protected] Gettysburg College Class of 1973 provide housing. You can “travel2change,” achieve accreditation for its sports [email protected] or 717-337-6522. 1972 Rick and Marilyn Little Ludwick and on your days off, you can enjoy management program, one of only became first-time grandparents recently. traditional Hawaii. Scott Kintzing was 24 colleges and universities in the Chad Pilling 1970 Congratulations! Their daughter Susan named the 2015 Gloucester County, country to achieve that level. 4220 Morris Road 1976 Marsha Barger and her husband, Ken, welcomed NJ, United Way (UW of GC) campaign Hatboro, PA 19040 40th Reunion Year 409 Klee Mill Road daughter Kelsey! Rick and Marilyn chair. Donations can be made at 856- 215-675-4742 Debra Ann (Myers) Dykes 1979 Sykesville, MD 21784 also reported that their daughter Julie 845-4303, extension 18. Scott has [email protected] 317 County Rd. 771 Dianne Lappe Cooney 410-552-9146 is an art therapist in Chicago. Rick is been a member of the UW of GC board Ohio City, CO 81237 14 Byre Lane [email protected] News is a little thin and with some sad retired, and Marilyn works part time as of directors for a decade and is also 970-641-1966 Wallingford, PA 19086 Gettysburg ’70 overtones this fall. I hope to hear more an occupational therapist, which leaves the recipient of the 2015 Volunteer [email protected] 484-684-9321 from our class for the next edition. time for them to enjoy themselves biking, Leadership Award. He is currently a vice [email protected] 1971 Remember 2017 is our 45th reunion running, and working with their church. president with Investors Bank. I would love to hear from my 1976 graduate peers. 45th Reunion Year year. We should all have lots to talk about Brad Brown submitted interesting news Jim Margolin has a new granddaughter, It is hard to imagine 40 years ago, we after 45 years! Stu Lippsett is retired regarding the SAE ’73 members and the Eden Deirdre Margolin, born in June. were all freshmen at the ’Burg. Some Bethany Parr-White and living happily in NJ, busy with his Gettysburgives Challenge. Gary Betzing, Nan Messinger Lansinger is the vice of us, Barb Monaghan Ehrhardt, 2012 Penn Street 1977 wife and enjoying his grandchildren. Hohn Bilheimer, Chuck Everett, Bill president and director of marketing and Steve and Sue Tall Sutter, Barb Lebanon, PA 17042-5771 In March we lost another classmate, Friel, Jack Hoy, Rick Koenig, Ken client development at Penn Trust Co., Katie Jackson Rossmann Bright Henderson, Teena Stewart 717-272-0806 Jay Bucher, following a long battle with Peightal, Ted Riley, Ron Shay, Bill Radnor, PA. Michael and Holly Parker 3853 Lewiston Place Mowery, Andy Parker, Virginia Denny 717-813-1706 (Cell) multiple myeloma cancer. He lived in Shelly, and Brad Brown collaborated Monihan visited Santa Fe and Taos in Fairfax, VA 22030 Longfellow, Matthew McManness, [email protected] Manheim Township, PA. Jay was well to contribute their fair share to the cause. Oct. Lindsay and Jeff live in Manhattan 703-591-0317 Bill Loughran, Steve and Sue Long Gettysburg College Class known for his sports career and played Brad also informs us that the SAE Class with Holly’s two grandsons, Charlie (3½) [email protected] Evans, and Denise Miller Garman of 1971 Reunion basketball at Gettysburg scoring 1,118 of ’73 started a tradition of gathering in and Will (1½). Chris and Andrea live What? No news this month? are reliving those campus memories Hi, classmates and those on ships points. He also played professionally. Somers Point, NJ, around Labor Day! On in Ocean City, NJ, and Chris works Unfortunately, I did not hear from any with offspring currently enrolled. A at sea. I have heard other classes, in He joined the National Central Bank in a very sad note, the Class of ’73 lost a for Monihan Realty. If you would like classmates this time around. My inbox remarkable number of legacies! In Oct., addition to ours, read my column, thus 1972 (now Wells Fargo), becoming a classmate. Norm Foster passed away to see your name in this column, awaits an email from you! Keep well Dave Boynton was inducted into the the ship reference. Kelly Alsedek, senior vice president in 1995. Then he after a long illness. After graduation, Norm please contact me. and happy! Gettysburg College Athletic Hall of Honor

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for an outstanding collegiate golf career. from hereditary lung disease. Steve went Gettysburg College for Homecoming. NJ. John was a member of Sigma Chi 1983 has written several books including: The He joins classmates Scott Dillman, to law school after Gettysburg, and then How great is that? Next edition: it’s all and graduated with an English degree. Nude in American Painting, 1950-1980; Leslie Cole inducted in 2007 for lacrosse, and served as chief of staff for MD Governor about the children. Send me notes on He also had a degree in chemistry from Pop Art; and H.C. Westermann at War: 184 Laurel Bridge Road Peter Jurgs, inducted in 2014 for track. Robert Ehrlich from 1995 to 2003. He your kids at college or your high school Southampton College on Long Island and Art and Manhood in Cold War America. Landenberg, PA 19350 Dave is now an associate judge for the was liked and respected by everyone. graduates. For example, Young Joe a master’s degree in toxicology from St. His latest book is titled, American Artists 610-274-3385 (home) sixth Judicial Circuit in Montgomery Sacchi is a senior at Syracuse U, majoring John’s U in NY. He was employed as a Against War, 1935-2010, and can be 484-888-3280 (cell) County, MD. Gail Cooper Todd and in history and political science. The last senior scientist for Merck & Co. for over 27 found here: www.ucpress.edu/book. 1980 [email protected] Jane Anthon traveled on a river cruise tuition payment is coming up soon. As a years. John is survived by two children and php?isbn=9780520286702. David is a Joseph Sacchi Gettysburg College Class of 1983 down the Danube, from Budapest to dreamer of dreams and a traveling man, I countless friends. professor of art history at Rhodes College 572 Jackson Avenue Nuremberg. They report that they picked have chalked up many a mile, read dozens Hello, Class of ’83. It was terrific hearing in TN. The 1980 field hockey team was Washington Township, NJ 07676 up where they left off traveling together of books about heroes and crooks, and 1982 from Mark “Sharkie” Kennedy this honored as a Team of Distinction at the 30 years ago, without missing a beat, a 203-219-3147 I’ve learned much from both of their styles. fall. He has lived in Haddon Heights, NJ, Hall of Athletic Honor Induction Ceremony [email protected] Kelly Woods Lynch beer, a sausage, etc. Hope Dyer Luken Keep in touch. Go Bullets! for almost 25 years with Kelly, his wife of during Homecoming Weekend. Check 90 Springs Avenue spent the last weekend of Sept. in Cape Gettysburg College Class of 1980 close to 30 years. Mark’s two daughters out the College website to see a new Gettysburg, PA 17325 May Point with Chi Omega sisters Cindy Happy New Year. Things have calmed graduated from Towson U. Daughter and old photo of our winning classmates. 1981 [email protected] Eni Yingling, Barb Bright Henderson, down a bit after our Reunion, but life Meredith is finishing her master’s degree Gettysburg didn’t win another team 35th Reunion Year Meg Allen Nelson, Marianne Miller moves on. Our lead story tonight is from Gettysburg College Class of 1982 at the U of TX-Austin and dreams of national title until the women’s lacrosse Yingling, Jane Holmes Hollingsworth PA: Delma Rivera Lytle’s talented Mary Higley Greetings, all! There are just a few quick becoming a college basketball coach. team, guided by Carol Daly Cantele, won ’80, and Pam Iovino ’78. Lynne Silva- daughter, Maria, won the prestigious 6638 Trident Way updates this time. Lawrence Cuneo won Daughter Meghan works in marketing for in 2011. We seem to have a very modest Breen left a successful career in parish IFSA-Butler Institute for Study Abroad Naples, FL 34108 re-election this past Nov. as mayor of Pine a real estate developer. Son Matthew is a class. Do you teach, write, coach, create, or ministry in 2004, returned to graduate People’s Choice Award photo contest [email protected] Beach, NJ. Congrats to the Honorable high school junior and pitcher who’s being play something? Please let me know what school, and has been a licensed marriage a few months ago. What makes this Gettysburg College - Class of 1981 Mr. Cuneo! Our award-winning children’s recruited for college baseball. He towers you’re up to. and family therapist for the past 9 years. extra special is the fact that 66 of our Our 35th Class Reunion is fast author in residence, Jen Fisher Bryant, over Mark at 6 feet, 7 inches tall! Mark She enjoys working with individuals and Gettysburg College family voted with approaching. If you haven’t made your was featured in a recent question-and- still hangs with his best bud and fellow 1984 families without the politics of a parish Facebook “likes” to put her over the top. hotel reservations, now is the time. The answer article in the Sunday edition of the TKE, John Thompson, on the Jersey David Schafer and specializes in helping people restore Congratulations for a terrific photo and dates of the Reunion are June 2–5. Alumni Philadelphia Inquirer. Meanwhile, Jen’s shore during the summer. He recently 676 Windsor Drive and renew long relationships. Pennington a great Class of 1980 team effort. From College classes begin on June 2 and husband Neil, chair of the Orange & Blue saw Roger Goodstein and his family Westminster, MD 21158 Station Band, featuring George White Trumbull, CT, Eileen Brogan Maffei continue all day on June 3. The Orange advisory board, was this year’s emcee at during a baseball tournament in Atlanta. 443-789-1271 on drums, played to rave reviews at surfaced to say hello. Teaching sixth & Blue Golf Classic is on Friday, June 3, the Hall of Athletic Honor Awards Dinner Mark keeps in touch with Mike Kempski, [email protected] Marple Newtown High School’s 40-year and seventh graders, she continues to and I am looking for three others who are in the CUB Ballroom, where his eloquence Steve Yassky, George Hubley, Drew Gettysburg College Class of 1984 reunion in Oct., which was attended by mold the young minds of America. Keep interested in playing in a foursome with made it a memorable evening for all. Our Downer ’82, Linda Weaver Towe ’82, Sue Paul, Dianne Lappe Cooney, and an eye on Temple, as her son Bobby is me. The Golf Classic benefits Gettysburg own Cheryl McHale Carey and Nancy Mary Pat Mielach, Don Towe ’81, Billy Happy Holidays to fellow classmates in Joanne Keleher De Menna. For Lori a football coach down there. Go, Owls. College athletics. There will be a class Loh Shults were in attendance, as their Seymour ’82, and Jeff Lynch ’81. Mark is the Class of 1984! I had hoped I would Davenport, Oct. was a time to celebrate Dateline Austin, Texas, and Paris, France: social on Friday night, followed by a class NCAA-championship field hockey team COO of an award-winning digital marketing hear from some of you about what’s 30 years of service working with Gail Chovan continues to be the most dinner on Saturday night. If you have not was honored as the College’s second-ever agency in Haddonfield and hopes to happening in your lives. Please send me victims of domestic violence. She was interesting person in the world, living been back for a Reunion Weekend, I Team of Distinction! Also in the fall, Ellen retire to SC soon to play golf every day. news for inclusion the next time! As the recognized by the NJ State Legislature, the dream as an international fashion highly recommend it. They are always so Bakalian was on campus checking out It was super to see Tom Gibbon and holidays are a time full of memories, maybe Governor Christie, and the Board of designer and still the coolest mom in much fun! There will be more information Gettysburg with her daughter as part of Bill LeConey ’84 at the Gettysburg Brew you have some memories of celebrating Chosen Freeholders for her expertise Austin. Somewhere near Baltimore: Last in the next few months. Also, check their college exploratory travels. While on Fest last summer. Tom is a professor Christmases at Gettysburg College during and leadership. Life is good for Anne seen cruising past the Lincoln Diner in in periodically with the Class of 1981 the subject of local events and sightings, at Shippensburg U, and Bill’s son, Billy, the preholiday time we spent on campus Nogatch Phillips, who just retired after 1979, Dave Shaffer is transforming his Facebook page. I am excited to report Bonnie Portzline presented her “Birds became a freshman at Gettysburg last —maybe immersed in studying for finals 36 years of teaching music. She and old car, a 1968 Mustang convertible, that 33 percent of our class made gifts with a Gettysburg Address—the 2015 fall. I missed seeing Linda Bennetto and completing projects, but enjoying her husband are both board members into a beautiful candy apple red classic. to the College for the year June 1, 2014 Edition” nature program as part of the Leconey when she dropped them off, but holiday traditions. I remember decorations at Stiegel Glassworks in Manheim, I have seen the pictures, and it’s a beauty. to May 31, 2015. This is a wonderful Gettysburg National Military Park’s summer she kindly shared that she and a small, in Pennsylvania Hall and the chapel, and PA, and Anne volunteers with Special Whatever happened to the original Billy participation level, but I know we can do series of evening campfire programs this but close-knit, group of Gettysburg alumni I remember Christmas concerts by the Olympics. Their older daughter leaves for Bullet? Leo Devito was easily spotted better. In recognition of our 35th, consider past Aug. That’s it! Wishing this column gathered at Michele Zigrande Glover’s chapel and College choirs in a packed Marine boot camp right after graduation by one of my reporters in a bright red supporting our Class Reunion gift goal was a little longer? Me, too! So, please, house in July to celebrate the life of Rob -to-the-gills Christ Chapel. What do from Indiana U of PA. Their younger shirt and Scottish kilt (not kidding) at with a gift to the Gettysburg Fund and/or take a moment to shoot me a note or Glover ’82. Rob passed suddenly after you remember? daughter was just crowned homecoming the Old York Road Country Club in PA. the Orange & Blue Club. Not much news visit our members-only class Facebook numerous medical complications following queen. Fast friends since freshman His golf scorecard is confidential. Our coming my way these past few months, page. Search Gettysburg College Class the loss of his leg in a car accident. Linda 1985 year on second floor Stine, Barbara friend, Mary Fitzgerald, traveled to but I did hear from Captain Rob Powers, of 1982 on Facebook. Brief news about said that while the circumstances were Kathy Reese Laing Myre Koch, Tori Beach Hickerson, Tortuguero, Costa Rica, this fall where who is looking forward to the Reunion. recent cool travels, mini-reunions, work both sad and bittersweet, it was a great 1812 Hanover Avenue Diane Heller Stabb, and their spouses she walked and talked with the animals. Rob recently retired from the Navy with news, family updates, or memories of your gathering of the tribe, along with spouses, Richmond, VA 23220 vacation together annually. This year, Pictures seem to indicate a good time 30 years of service as a naval aviator. In times in Gettysburg as a student or as a friends, and Rob’s brothers. Attendees [email protected] it was in Hilton Head. Jack Duffy was was had by all. I heard from Doug Rob’s words, “It was an honor and privilege visiting alum is welcomed and encouraged. included Kathy Tarr Coscia ’82, Tom Gettysburg College Class of 1985 featured on the landing page of the Lieberman and his wife, Jolee, from to serve our great Nation!” Rob lives in Remember, we are a year away from and Cinda Gibbon (former Gettysburg Gettysburg College website with a photo Flourtown, PA. Although he missed our Louisville, KY, with his wife Jennifer and our next Reunion: June 1–4, 2017. Let College librarian), Bill LeConey, Billy Greetings to the Class of ’85. News has and fabulous article about how he and Reunion, Doug still keeps Gettysburg four boys, ages 16, 14, 12, and 8. Wow. He me know (or call the alumni office at LeConey ’19, Steve Cornwell, Jeff been a bit slim since our Reunion, so be other alumni help students make career ’80 ties with Ann Hummelsine and flies heavy jets for UPS, delivering “trash” 717-337-6518) if you’d be interested in Hunter ’82, Elizabeth Niewoehner sure to pass on some news for next time. connections through internships and Tom McBride at least once a year. And domestically and internationally. On a much helping on the committee. Start spreading Howell, Ben Howell, Jon Stout, Irene Richmond is trying to start an alumni externships. Finally, we grieve the loss finally, Janet Wiley Mudderig, with her sadder note, we lost another classmate the word now so we can get a boatload Watts Amadio, and Janine Fugere. chapter, and Gettysburg’s President of Steve Kreseski, who died in Aug. husband Topper, kicked off their wedding this past summer. John Sprowls passed of classmates back next spring. Take care My thanks to our alumni relations staff Janet Morgan Riggs ’77 will be in town (just after our last class notes deadline) anniversary week by coming back to away on July 8 at his home in Edison, and be well, all! who let me know that David McCarthy for an alumni event at the home of Mark

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Hourigan ’81. Hopefully, I’ll see Cathy America. Mary still calls Philly her home 1988 looking at colleges. Hopefully, Gettysburg 1992 needs help finding a new home, she’s Arnot Purcell at the event. I have not and lives in her 100-year-old house with is on the list. After 13 years in Durango, the one to contact! Susan Halpin Julie Buoy Whamond Gina Gabriele run into Tim Bright’s daughter, Maddie, her two beautiful children, Cameron and CO, Mark Little (GrtHorned@hotmail. Cohen and her husband manage an 3 Elliot Lane 1 Jane Street, 1E yet on the campus of the U of Richmond Reagan. Cheryl Stotter-Magnuson is com) is feeling a strong call to be closer artist primarily out of Nashville, Anthony Westport, CT 06880 New York, NY 10014 where she is a freshman. I missed seeing leaving sunny southern CA and relocating to family. He is moving back east, looking Orio. Anthony just had two songs on 203-858-1734 415-271-3209 Tim during parent’s weekend since I was with her husband to sunny Palm Beach to set up his massage practice in DE. SiriusXM The Highway and has been [email protected] [email protected] out of town. I wonder how she likes being County, FL. Her husband is retiring, He is open to whatever comes his way. voted best band in Nashville for 4 years Gettysburg College Class of 1988 Gettysburg College Class of 1992 so far away from dad who lives across the and they want to spend more time with Good luck to you, Mark, and we know that in a row by The Tennessean. Susan country in CA. Also on the West Coast Cheryl’s parents! Best of luck with your you will have success. Todd Wolfram Happy winter, Class of ’92! I hope you lives in Davidson, NC, and has three is Allison Campbell, who was elected move, Cheryl! It was time for mini-reunions 1989 is working hard with his business, all had a fabulous 2015 and enjoyed kids, Alex (16), Ellie (13), and Davis Lisa Marino Hafer the holiday season. I heard from Maria Nancy Knox president of the prestigious American for this past summer Patty Hunter Lovett Caring Transitions of Charlotte, NC, (12). celebrated her Chemical Society (ACS). Allison, who and fall. She enjoyed some girl time the city in which he lives with his two Melone who shared her experiences 15th year as a realtor with Re/Max in 9000 Copenhaver Drive is a lab director at Pacific Northwest with her dear Gettysburg roomie, Julia amazing kids, Holden (16) and Riley (14). hosting externships with Gettysburg Hoboken, NJ, and now lives in Wyckoff, Potomac, MD 20854 National Laboratory in the Seattle area, Jordan Edelson, last summer. They Todd is also working to develop franchises students last year. Maria has been NJ. Lisa Kaugher Humphreys 301-838-4533 involved in the dental industry for nearly will begin her term in 2017. This year, she spent time at Harvard Square, finding [email protected] in the food industry with Pita Pit ([email protected]) and husband will serve on the board of directors for their old apartment, and then went on to (www.pitapitusa.com) and in haircuts with 20 years. Three years ago, she started Tom relocated from Andover, MA, to Gettysburg College Class of 1989 the ACS. Congratulations, Allison! Don’t Kennebunkport for some more fun! In the The Guys’ Place (www.theguysplace.com). her own firm providing sell-side/buy-side Simsbury, CT and Lisa is looking forward be surprised if you think you see Steve fall, another roomie, Christine Tambakis Hi, everyone. Not much news to report, There’s nothing like the Gettysburg representation and valuation services to connecting with other Gettysburg Parker whizzing by on a bike; it probably McDonnell, came for a visit. They visited but I hope you are all doing well! Sarah entrepreneurial spirit, Wolfie! Jack Vishab to dentists. In 2015, she hosted two grads in the area. Lisa sees Susy is him. Steve is enjoying the open road historic Concord, MA, and Chris made Dunn Stiles reports that after 6 years in ([email protected]) took his kids, students for shadowing opportunities. Hayes Jones often and is excited to in the mid-Atlantic states. Sue Kahrs Lisa some amazing Greek specialties! St. Andrews, Scotland, they moved back Spencer (8) and Matilda (6), to Strawberry Maria really enjoyed the time she spent live closer to her. Lisa and Tom have Greiter is enjoying spending as much time Lisa also wanted to mention that her to Spain. This time, they have settled on Fields in Central Park where he played with Silvia and Renee, and they both felt two children; daughter Lucy is in sixth as possible with her first granddaughter, sister, Chris Marino Ebersole ’83, owns the mainland in the southwest corner, just 75 consecutive Beatles songs for them it was a very worthwhile experience. In grade and son Tommy is in fourth grade. Lucy. How many other classmates have an olive oil taperia in Montpelier, VT. It is next to Gibraltar (in Sotogrande). Sarah to commemorate Lennon’s 75th birthday. fact, one of the students wrote a nice This past summer, Jennifer Haase grandchildren? By the time you read this, called Alla Vita, and they serve lunches continues to teach online courses for He and his wife, Silke, just returned from a blog about her time with Maria that was traveled from Bainbridge Island, WA, to we will be well-entrenched in winter. I hope and sell specialty olive oils, vinegars, wine, PBSTeacherline, MD Public Television, fun, relaxing weekend in Montauk. Based posted on the Gettysburg Center for Gettysburg for the Civil War Institute. this year is milder than last, especially for and pasta! Check it out if you can. Thank and Towson U. Sarah would love to know in NYC, Jack has worked as a senior Career Development website, and Maria While she was there, Kathy Poist everyone who lives in New England. If you to all who wrote in with news, and I if there are any other Gettysburg grads in project manager at eScholar since May. now uses it for her own blog site. Maria Varady and I, traveled to visit Jennifer. you do get snowed in and are looking for hope to see many of you in June! southern Spain! If so, you can contact her Prior to that, he worked at Cadwalader, believes it is a wonderful experience There is nothing like visiting the something to do, be sure to email me and at [email protected]. Also, like father Wickersham & Taft LLP. Gwen Wright for us, as alumni, to provide to current battlefields and experiencing “History pass on news to your friends. 1987 like daughter: Pete and Carolyn Spindler ([email protected]) sends a shout- students. She’s looking forward to her Chills” with Jennifer Haase, former ’91 Kotz’s daughter, Emilie, a junior at out from Dallas, TX, where she moved next extern this winter. I hope everyone’s president of the Civil War Club! Thanks 1986 Jim Anderson Gettysburg, just received the Romeo M. last fall after 10 years in Naples, FL. 2016 is off to a great start. I’d love to for all the updates and don’t forget to 13 Bay Hill Road Capozzi Athletic Training Room Award for Prior to living in FL, she worked in hear from more of you for the next issue! keep in touch! 30th Reunion Year Leonardo, NJ 07737 her work in the Gettysburg training room. hospitality and international travel in Liz LaForte 732-291-3626 Congratulations, Pete and Carolyn. That’s NYC. Currently freelancing on marketing 1994 2248 Meadowbrook Dr. SE [email protected] all the news I have. I know there is more and public relations projects, Gwen is 1993 Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 Gettysburg College Class of 1987 - happening out there. Why not share? pursuing full-time opportunities and is Bridget Donnelly Collins B.J. Jones 319-270-2160 25th Reunion I would love to hear from you. becoming a networking guru in terms 5 Campbell Court 140 W. 69th Street, #108 [email protected] 08056 New York, NY 10023 Thanks to former class correspondent, of people and events. She took a huge Mickleton, NJ Gettysburg College Class of ’86-Class [email protected] [email protected] Lesley Longo McGovern, who checked 1990 leap of faith moving to TX, but it was Page in and gave me an update on her family time to make a change in terms of Gettysburg College Class of 1993 Gettysburg College Class of 1994 Amy E. Tarallo Greetings, classmates! Planning for our and Gettysburg crew. Lesley and Harold professional and social opportunities. It was great to hear from Susan Henry. Congratulations to Kim McCray Sakil. PO Box 214 30th Reunion is in full swing! If you haven’t ’86 moved to Kirkland, WA, just outside She is looking to land something soon and Susan went on a service trip to Peru Kim is a training coordinator in the Elkins, NH 03233 made your reservations for the weekend of Seattle, in 2012. Harold continues welcomes any networking suggestions; for eight days in April with Direct Relief Learning and Development department of June 2–5, now is the time. This to work in the wine and spirits industry 603-548-4706 please contact her via email or at International to bring medical supplies at Temple U. She started an initiative [email protected] promises to be a great weekend and is a as executive vice president for Young’s www.linkedin.com/in/gwendolynwright. and volunteer at a maternal health clinic. this year through the study abroad office time to disconnect from the present and Market Company. They spent last Gettysburg College Class of ’90 Gwen sees Bret Kelly ’91 often (when he While she was there, Susan also climbed called Passport to Global Temple. The reconnect with your past. We have social summer on the college tour with their Hello, everyone! I recently flew to Tracy is not filming the Dallas Cowboys and all Machu Picchu. Susan continues to live goal of the program is to give local high activities and dinners planned throughout sons Harrison and Holden. Of course, Baker Johnson’s beautiful beach home TX-related sports). He has been a good in California and says it’s like a dream school students the opportunity to meet the weekend. And, if you just want to slip Gettysburg was on the tour! While in in Bethany Beach, DE, where I visited friend, helping her transition and find great (compared to New Jersey!). Virginie people from different backgrounds and out to the battlefields, historical places, or Gettysburg, Lesley caught up with Hope with Tracy, her husband Jonathan, and bars and restaurants in the Dallas area. Daguise lives in Columbia, SC, with get them excited and aware about the favorite haunts, there will be time for that Carter Kowalewski and her kids Becca Link Wood. Tracy and Jonathan Good luck in your new ventures, Gwen! husband Kevin Schumacher and three option to study abroad in college. The too! Meanwhile, I did hear from a few of Hannah and Carter at The Pub. Barbara reside in Bethesda, MD, and Becca and Take care everyone, and please send children, Noah (13), Julian (7) and project was profiled in PA Council for our classmates. Mary Dougherty visited Mandes Donovan hosted a dinner at her family live in Street, MD. We also got news to share. Sophie (5). Virginie is the director of the International Education’s (PaCIE) June with Christian Miller for his annual Labor her beautiful home in VA that kicked to spend time with Laura-Lynn Hilbert Bureau of Disease Control for the SC newsflash. Day crabs and friends party! Mary enjoyed off a reunion weekend that included a Renner to celebrate her husband Phil’s Department of Health and Environmental this time with Chris, friends, and his new celebration at a northern VA winery and a birthday at their place in Rehoboth. Thank 1991 Control. After 17 years as a stay-at-home puppy, Cammie. They partied into the early farewell breakfast. Along with Lesley and you, my friends, for that much-needed 25th Reunion Year mom, Michelle Cosulich Giordano 1995 hours, by the water’s edge, under a starry Hope at this get-together were Bessie time away. Tracey Clark Celentano Michelle Lynette Hughes ([email protected]) decided to get Becky Schneider Keller sky with lots of music. Sounds awesome! Mandes Airey, Jennifer Harris- and her husband Joe built a home and 4042 Kimberley Glen Court back into the workforce, went back 576 Peachtree Lane Mary recently accepted a new position Jacobus, Caroline Roos Sergison, moved back to Clinton, CT. Their son, Chantilly, VA 20151 to school, and got her real estate Lake Zurich, IL 60047 with Checkpoint Systems in NJ as their Wyllo Mitchell Hanson, Amy Littig JJ, is now in his senior year at Williston 703-969-6180 license. Michelle will be working in the [email protected] director of talent acquisition for North Broda, and Christine Long Barry. Northampton School. It is time to start [email protected] Bridgewater/Warren, NJ, area. If anyone Gettysburg College Class of 1995

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1996 (December ’65–December ’66). Their has an awesome blog about fitness, food, Fallon and her husband, Patrick ’04, Spencer, MA. Monica Everett ’03 was a and Katherine Gamble as bridesmaids. 20th Reunion Year blog associated with the book can be and fun. A lot of us have been doing her welcomed their first child, daughter Molly bridesmaid and other Gettysburg alumni Catherine is in her fourth year working found at www.vietnammedic.wordpress. monthly challenges. Check it out! That’s Elizabeth, on Oct. 8. The happy family lives who attended included Alison Wyllie in emergency management at Townsville Ann Felter com. Gregory M. Wirt is now a partner all my friends. Get your information in! in Claremont, CA. It’s always great to hear MaClaren, Ridge MaClaren, Mike City Council and recently completed an 145 West Swissvale Avenue in Fox Rothschild’s taxation and wealth Remember, we only have three mailed from everyone, so please continue to Griffith, Morgan Cromwell Griffith, advanced diploma in public safety. She Pittsburgh, PA 15218 planning practice group in the firm’s Exton magazines, so dates to get your info to share updates. Chris Fay, Gina Potter Fay, Leslie also became a published researcher in [email protected] office. Greg’s practice involves a broad me are June 15, Oct. 15, and Jan. 15! Post Langan, and Nancy Zuck Torilli. collaboration with James Cook U in late Gettysburg College Class of ’96 range of taxation and wealth planning 2004 Stephanie Morano married Brent 2014. Kathleen Ketchum earned the Sean Burpee relocated to Manchester, matters, including federal estate and gift Weaver ’04, son of Jim Weaver ’64, on Oct. Chartered Financial Analyst designation 2001 Katie Orlando VT, as general manager of the Reluctant tax planning, business succession planning, 4, 2015 in Cape May, NJ. Brian Andrews in Sept. She lives in NY and works for 15th Reunion Year 2530 University Avenue Panther, a small luxury hotel. He is always and trust and estate administration. In got married in Rehoboth Beach, DE, on Merrill Lynch Wealth Management where Waterloo, IA 50701 happy to connect and welcome visitors to 2011, he was included in the Main Line Kathryn Ferguson Adams Sept. 26 to Jackie O’Brien. Brian’s father, she is a vice president. Jessica Brach [email protected] the area. He can be reached at: sburpee@ Today top lawyer list in the area of trusts, 18 Peach Tree Trail Paul R. Andrews Jr. ’64, and Brian’s aunt, Jensen and her husband Kevin welcomed Gettysburg College Class of 2004 reluctantpanther.com. Kerry O’Brien and wills, and estates. Greg received his JD, Fairfield, PA17320 Joyce Andrews Ellwanger ’62, were in their first child, Theodore, on June 22. her family moved to Garden City, NY. She cum laude, from the Dickinson School 717-642-9254 Hello, Class of 2004! Our classmates have attendance. Groomsmen included Paul Aunt Rachel Brach Noonan ’04 is Theo’s switched jobs recently and now works in of Law. Matt De Vecchi was promoted [email protected] wonderful updates to share. In June, Tara D. Andrews ’01, Dillon Friday, Devin godmother. Christina Natalello and international audience measurement and to senior associate dean and chief Gettysburg College Class of 2001 Schellhorn and husband Chris welcomed Russell, Steve Hurd ’06, and Steve Climie wife Brie moved from NYC to Madison, analysis for MTV/Viacom. Send your good development officer at the U of Southern their second son, Samuel Franklin. Sam ’04. Also in attendance were Jake Wright, WI, over the summer. Brie is in a PhD tidbits when you can! CA’s Marshall School of Business. Matt 2002 joins big brother Teddy, who is now 2½. Meredith Jessee Russell ’11, Russell program at the U of WI, and Christina is and Libby Main De Vecchi live in Santa Tara continues to work as an attorney at Canard ’01, Patrick McAneny ’01, and an assistant principal at a high school in Catherine Dietrich Pulse Monica, CA, with kids James (4) and Eliza Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland and Perretti John Jaeger ’65. Brian and Jackie live in Madison. They are enjoying all the beer, 1997 1386 Canterbury Way (2). Libby does communications consulting LLP in Morristown, NJ, focusing on Washington, D.C. where Brian has worked cheese, and biking that they can handle Greer Colvard Bautz Potomac, MD 20854 work. Jeff Sipe and Jenny Skelly married bankruptcy and corporate reorganization at LivingSocial for the past 5 years. Allison and loving life. Brandon Smith married 11224 Hurdle Hill Drive 301-806-0762 in July. Mollie O’Rourke Stuntz is matters. Autumn Taylor Yates won this Millner Brown ’07 married Joshua Brown Danielle Marie Dolch ’09 on May 24, 2014, Potomac, MD 20854 [email protected] the assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit, MI. year’s scholarship from the Embassy of on July 5 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The at Gettysburg College in the Majestic [email protected] Gettysburg College Class of 2002 Molly and her husband, James Stuntz, are Spain and the VA chapter of the American wedding officiant was Ross Mullican. Theater. I rarely have the fun of making Gettysburg College Class of 1997 expecting their first child (a boy!) in Dec. Kerry Darling Purvis traveled to Association of Teachers of Spanish and Jonathan Cordo and David Berke an update about myself, but here we go. Congratulations everyone and keep the Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, with an Portuguese. As a result, she spent three served as groomsmen. In attendance Monique Mathews Gore and husband 1998 news coming! organization called Librarians Without weeks of the summer participating in a were Andrew Barclay, Christopher Zachary welcomed their first child, Russell helen DeVinney Borders. Her group spent 11 days doing special program for American Spanish Dunne, Richard Gallagher ’04, William Robert-Francis Gore, to the world on Aug. 8125 Mississippi Road 2000 volunteer work at the Miguel Angel teachers in Salamanca, Spain. Last month, Jackson ’06, Nicole Pedota Jackson ’06, 30. That was fun to do! I hope to see all of Laurel, MD 20724 Asturias Academy Library. She participated she presented at a statewide language Ryan Lawrence, and Jesse Swartz. your beautiful ’06 faces this summer for Marna Suarez Redding [email protected] in a Library Day event for kids from pre-K teachers’ conference about ways to The couple resides in Los Angeles, CA. our five-year-times-two Reunion. 1457 Baker Aveue Gettysburg College Class of 1998 to middle school and was part of the incorporate Spanish culture into lesson Erin Corley married Charles Daugherty Niskayuna, NY 12309 communications team that posted updates plans based on her experience abroad. on May 23. They had an outdoor wedding [email protected] 2007 on social media. Curran Geist reports that Shannon Sauer Zavala received her at her parents’ home in Pemberton, NJ, 1999 Gettysburg College Class of 2000 Stephanie Hafer Shaak one of his short stories will be published PhD in clinical psychology from the U of with Katy Lesser Clowney as one of the Sue Bottone 2715 Park Street We are light on notes this go-round. in a best-selling horror anthology called At KY and completed her internship at Duke bridesmaids. Tory Harper Hogan was 780 Boylston Street, Apt. 20F Reading, PA 19606 Please remember to send in your updates, Hell’s Gates. This series raises funds for U Medical School. She is now an assistant recently selected as an AHRQ-funded, Boston, MA 02199 610-914-9336 new jobs, new anything, so we can keep an important charity called Intrepid Fallen professor at Boston U. Shannon married National Research Service Award T32 [email protected] [email protected] one another updated! Jamie Atkinson Heroes Fund, which supports the families Jason Zavala in 2012, and they welcomed predoctoral trainee focused on health Gburg Class of 1999 Asaro and husband Mike welcomed of men and women in our armed forces. their daughter, Fiona Rose, last July. Keep services research. Chris and Gina Potter Gettysburg Class of 2007 Greetings, Class of 1999. I’m sorry I their beautiful daughter, Elizabeth “Ellie” Visit www.athellsgates.com/our-cause/ your updates coming! Fay welcomed their third child and first Janna Diaz married Captain CJ missed the last issue. I recently moved Camerden, on July 28, weighing in at 8 for more information. daughter on Aug. 15. Margaret Rose is Erlandson in Moorestown, NJ, on June back to NJ from Boston, MA. I am now a lbs. 5 oz. Named after Jamie’s mother, 2005 doing well and loves her big brothers Joey 26. Maria Southerton McCorry and marketing product director with Janssen Elizabeth Camerden Austin Atkinson, and Tommy. Lastly, my husband and I, Laura Hellend served as bridesmaids, 2003 Holly Woodhead Pharmaceuticals. I also recently got Jamie and family live in NY, NY. John Holly Woodhead McCarthy, and guests included Kathryn Consorti Jennifer O’Hara Roche 1010 Riva Ridge Drive back from a Gettysburg Recreational Malcolm, Adam Purdy ’01, Stuart Marra, welcomed a baby girl on Aug. 26. Wishing Dumas, Julie Irving, Katherine Lorenz 29 Lakeside Avenue Great Falls, VA 22066 Adventure Board (GRAB) expedition trip and Peter Schiavone ’03 got together everyone a Happy New Year. McDonald, Annika Lowery, Jennifer Darien, CT 06820 [email protected] to Montenegro. Suzy Hemman York in northern NJ to support a charity to Still Younghans, Elizabeth Stuka, [email protected] and her husband Jeff welcomed their raise money for Eric Aiello’s uncle who Gettysburg College Class of 2005 and Krystal Thomas. Terry Ann Hayes Gettysburg College Class of 2003 2006 first daughter, Lily Lynn York, on Jan. 14, passed away in 2011. This past Aug., On Oct. 4, 2014, Devin Russell married 10th Reunion Year married Chris Fernando on Oct. 3. Kelli 2015. They live in Wakefield, MA. Suzy Marna Redding caught up with Sheana Jennifer O’Hara Roche and her Meredith Jessee Russell ’11. Chelsea Clair and Jessica Hernandez Basta Monique Mathews Gore works as the director of organizational Martin Zombek ’97, Jill Suess Botteon husband, Peter, welcomed their second Wendlinger ’11, Lea Carlson ’11, Katie attended the wedding. Nicole Amodei 63 W. Middle St. change management at Converse/Nike in ’97, Cara Domiziano Cunningham ’97, child, Wesley Thomas Roche, on July Versfelt ’11, Victoria Shepherd ’11, Steve married Amaury Moulron in Feb. 2015. Gettysburg, PA 17325 Boston. As of Apr. 2014, Megan Bartlett Mandy Mueller ’97, and Jana Wintish 28. Baby Wes already looks up to his Hurd ’06, Brian Andrews, and Steve The reception was in May, and alumni is a licensed professional counselor Jackle ’97 to surprise Christine Gaetz big brother Charlie. The family lives Climie ’04 were in the bridal party. Other 410-493-0020 guests included Annie Morgan, Thomas [email protected] (LPC) in PA. She counsels undergraduate Bauer ’97 for her big birthday! It was in Rowayton, CT. Peter and Sarah Gettysburg alumni in attendance included Didyk ’08, and Emilie Gidley ’08. Sarah Gettysburg College Class of 2006 and graduate students at Arcadia U in a great weekend of Gettysburg folks Lawrence Appel welcomed their son, Ellie Monahan ’12, Hilary Green ’10, Paul West married Jeffrey Chang on Sept. 9 Glenside, PA. She is also completing (including the person that planned it Augustus “Gus” Lawrence Appel, on Sept. Andrews ’01, Justin Steele ’03, Alex Catherine Girman married Damien in York, PA. Sarah’s sister, Victora West her second book with co-author David J. all, Jefferson Bauer ’97!). If you haven’t 8. Proud big sisters Lucy and Molly love Drinker, Bill Wolfe, Courtney Raneri ’11, Jordan on Aug. 15 in Townsville, Henady ’08, was maid of honor, while McCallum. It’s called Visions of Vietnam: followed Orange Visor on Facebook yet, having a new baby brother. The family and Katherine Risk ’11. Lisa Brierley Queensland, Australia. Julia Girman ’03 Mary Beth Heisner and Serena Day An Army Medic’s View of the War you should! Julie Nordstrom Graham lives in Darien, CT. Samantha Rodgers married Brian Clark on Oct. 4, 2015 in was maid of honor with Sara Gustafson were bridesmaids. Many Gettysburg

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alumni attended, including the bride’s 2008 2011 Juliann! Katie Thompson graduated marketing efforts for both the Baltimore response television, research, and data mother, Katherine Gottleib ’77, and with her Doctorate of Physical Therapy and Philadelphia offices. Gael Pitcairn analytics and digital marketing. In this Alison Pettine 5th Reunion Year grandfather, Robert Pillote ’52. On June in May from Nova Southeastern U in Fort married Kier Heilman in Bryn Athyn, role, she is on the digital marketing 119 E. 11th Avenue Devan Grote White 1, Hannah Temerlin married Adam Lauderdale, FL. She now works for the PA. Melissa Rich and Jenn Soroka team and helps their clients execute Conshohocken, PA 19428 137 Liberty Street Hideo Kurahashi in Honolulu, HI. Adam Rothman Institute in NJ. Anskar Fosse were bridesmaids. Amada Crespin was marketing campaigns across multiple 610-308-9649 Perryopolis, PA 15473 is a Marine stationed in San Diego, CA, ([email protected]) began his accepted into a Court Appointed Special digital channels. She has also decided to [email protected] [email protected] where the newlyweds make their home. MBA degree at the Rotman School of Advocate (CASA) for Children program pursue an MBA to gain a more holistic Gettysburg College Class of 2008 Despite the wrath of Hurricane Juaquin, Thank you, classmates, for answering my Management in Toronto. If anyone from to be a CASA volunteer at CASA of understanding of the foundations of Katie Herzberg married Steve Miller call for news in honor of our 5th Reunion the Class of 2011 wants to get in touch Allegheny County. She was sworn in by business. Zach Miller interned at an on Oct. 3 in Sea Bright, NJ. Melissa 2009 year. Keep it coming! Ken Behrens and or ends up visiting Toronto, let him know. the family division judge of Allegheny institutional broker dealer, MKM Partners, Bova served as maid of honor, and Sara Jenn Amols Brett Courtney Biggs were married on Sept. That is all for this round. Happy 2016! I County last fall. CASA collaborates with in Stamford, CT, for four months right Fry and Allison Campfield served as 608 Monroe Street 6, 2014, in Argyle, PA. Over a dozen look forward to seeing everyone June the judges in the children’s court system out of school. As of Sept. 1, he works bridesmaids. Guests included Jamie Hoboken, NJ 07030 Gettysburg alumni attended, including 2–5 back on campus. and provides written reports and court at an entertainment accounting firm in Leiter, Brittany Bloam, and Joseph 540-538-1989 the bride’s uncle, Richard Hammett ’56. testimony concerning the safety and White Plains, NY, as a royalty analyst. Joiner. Ryan Laughna married Goldie [email protected] Zachary Conway married Meghan care of neglected or abused children. Joey Orsini is a new analyst within Dieben, a 2007 graduate of San Diego Gettysburg College Class of 2009 Hoey ’10 on Aug. 1. Gettysburg alumni 2012 She also accepted a full-time position Oppenheimer & Co’s asset management Taylor Plank State U, on the beach in La Jolla, CA Greetings, Class of 2009! I have some in attendance included Michael Stocker with Southwood Psychiatric Hospital division. His team is responsible for 1705 East West Highway, Apt. 415 on Aug. 8. George Hatcher, Brian great news from our classmates to report ’10, Greg Williams ’10, Matthew Rush as their admissions coordinator. Matt evaluation and close monitoring of select Silver Spring, MD 20910 Shea, and Mike Marsella ’04 served as this time around and quite a few weddings ’09, Colin Quinn, Elizabeth Lusardi ’92, Maynard was promoted to a market separately managed accounts and mutual [email protected] groomsmen. Ryan’s sisters, Mary ’13 and and engagements. On Sept. 26, George Brian Vitrano ’10, Nicholas Wiley ’10, analyst at Travelers Insurance and is fund strategies that are filtered into a Sara ’16, served as bridesmaids. Other Kahl married Jamie Bumbaugh in Fort Maura MacZinko ’09, Diana Cotumaccio Nick Oristian was promoted to a full-time working in personal insurance and product focus list for all of the Oppenheimer’s Gettysburgians in attendance were Steve Lincoln at Point Lookout State Park. ’10, Robin Potestio ’10, Anne Richardson historian and guide for the U.S. Capitol in management. Emily Zeller introduced fee-based financial advisors. Joe is on ’04 and Sarah Dionne Pshenishny, Rev. Joseph Skillman ’73 presided over ’10, and Steve Keene ’82. On Aug. 8, Washington, D.C. He gives tours to visitors comedian Mindy Kaling for the book the fixed income team and is based James Powell, James Desson ’04, the ceremony overlooking the Potomac Carin Smith married Robert Antochy in and students, foreign and domestic, on talk that she gave at the Washington, in New York, NY. Mike Harmon Russell ’06 and Katherine Komsa River. Also in attendance were best man Annapolis, MD. Many Gettysburg alumni the history of the U.S. Capitol. I passed my D.C., synagogue, Sixth & I, where Emily started working for Rocaton Investment Kommer, Elizabeth Fouch Shea ’06, and Steve Slowinski, Lura McCartney in attendance were Kelli Silvestri, Bill candidacy exam in mid-Oct. and am now works as a young professional event Advisors in Norwalk, CT, in Oct. as an Henry Cassa ’06. Ryan recently earned Slowinski, Liz Metzger, Joseph Cook, Smith, Andrew Maturo, Geoffrey Carr, officially a PhD candidate in the chemistry associate. Kaytie Innamorati passed the investment analyst. Mike works on his MBA from Southern Methodist U, Ben Lillard ’08, Bethany Lillard Watts ’11, Kyla Rodgers, Christina McGahan, department at U of MD-College Park. preliminary exam at the PhD level (allowing defined benefits, endowment, and defined and the couple relocated to Washington, Alice Wolfkill ’12, and Barbara Weidley Alexander and Elizabeth Amrhein ’12 Contact me with any updates you want to for the passage to the second year of contribution portfolios for a number of D.C. for his new position with Capital Skillman ’74. Amy Butcher is an assistant Massey, Alyssa Clark ’12, Sara Malloy share with the class. I would love to hear graduate school) for the Drexel U College institutional investors. Jennie Gilman One. Matthew Trainor co-founded an professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan U. ’12, John Giannini ’12, Lauren Brauer from you! of Medicine’s Molecular and Cellular started working as a sales assistant at EdTech startup company, NORY. In Sept., Her first book, Visiting Hours (Blue Rider ’14, Tina Soma ’14, Derek Ziegler ’09, Biology and Genetics program. She also Discovery Communications on the Oprah Matea Migic began her coursework and Whitney Ziegler ’10. In addition, began work on Alzheimer’s disease. Kate Winfrey Network. She loves working in Press/Penguin), has appeared in The New 2013 at National Taiwan U in Taipei, Taiwan, York Times Sunday Review of Books, Carin’s grandmother, Sally March ’55, Forton appeared in the Chesapeake the media industry and especially for the top ranked university in the the Michigan Star Tribune, Glamour, and cousin twice removed, Jon Ganser Kavya Kumar Shakespeare Company’s production of television. She has also recently moved country. She is expected to graduate Cosmopolitan, and NPR. I (Jenn Amols) ’60, joined for the alumni picture. James 192 Joffre Avenue William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus to Manhattan with Gettysburg Class of in spring 2017 with a Global Master of got married on Oct. 31 to a Londoner, Merrifield married Audrey Schwinn Stamford, CT 06905 this Halloween as a Goth, vocalist, and 2015 alumni! After graduation, Eric Lee Business Administration (GMBA). Jean Ciaran Brett, with several 2009 alumnae on Aug. 15 in their home state of ME. [email protected] ensemble member. Be sure to send spent two weeks with GRAB in Scotland, Schumacher moved to Fort Myers, FL present. In the wedding party were Tracie Many Gettysburgians celebrated the day me your updates to be included in the backpacking the West Highland Way. and is teaching kindergarten. Michelle Desjardin, MaryAm Parvez, Jamee with them, including Sophie Schwinn 2014 next issue! Afterward, he started interning for a Veresink Richmond accepted the (maid of honor), Stephanie Hummel digital marketing company called Creative Kuznicki, and Kelley Wirths. Also in Christianna Jo Evans position of membership manager at attendance were Lauren Meehan Keefe, Austin ’10, Alicia Pepe, Sean Marz, DJ 2015 Feed, doing social media for them. As I ArtsQuest in Bethlehem, PA, in Aug. Groff, Krista Moser, Sarah Tuttle ’13, 29 S. Providence Road write, he’s traveling in Europe. In Dec., he’ll Sarah Maloney Truitt, Samantha Jesse DeMartino John Heller joined and became Frank Stoker ’10 (best man), Stephanie Wallingford, PA 19086 join a Gettysburg alum at a firm called SP Barton Jones, and Gracie Raver ’11. 485 Lindbergh Place, NE Apt. 1002 manager of KatzAbosch Certified Public Daugherty ’10, Amanda Jackiewicz 610-960-4782 Consulting in D.C. Maddie Price spent Atlanta, GA 30324 Accountants and Consultants based out ’13, Anthony Nappo ’10 (groomsman), [email protected] the summer interning at TerraCycle in 2010 908-418-8794 of Timonium, MD. John lives in Dover, Sarah Kenney ’10, Nicholas Krafka Hello, Class of 2014! It was good to see Trenton, NJ and the Broadway Green Emma Snellings [email protected] PA, with his wife and two children. James (groomsman), Dan Kalish ’14, Rebecca a lot of you at our second Homecoming Alliance in NYC. She was hired for an 56 Dysart Street ’08 and Erin Whelan McNamara Divas ’15, Christopher Cole ’09 this past Oct. After one year at The Since graduation, Katherine Fila AmeriCorps position with Volunteer MD Quincy, MA 02169 welcomed John Timothy McNamara on (groomsman), and Jordan Merrifield ’19. Sheward Partnership, an architecture firm began her career at Marketsmith, Inc. to serve as a volunteer coordinator at the Sept. 29, weighing in at 8 lbs.10 oz. and 339-235-0186 Audrey works at a publishing company as based in Philadelphia, I was promoted as a marketing coordinator. They are a Fox Haven Organic Farm and Learning [email protected] 21 in. Mom, dad, and big sister Emma are an editor for science textbooks, and James to marketing manager, responsible for marketing agency specializing in direct Center in Jefferson, MD. doing well. Baby Jack is excited to meet Gettysburg College Class of is working on becoming a flight instructor. his future Gettysburg roomie, Patrick 2010 Alumni In Sept. 2013, Juliann Purcell graduated James Sharkey, the second child of Brian Katherine Haas wed David Pompeani with distinction from University College and Maura Rafferty Sharkey, born on Oct. 17 in Binghamton, NY. Sara London in London, UK, with an MS degree Oct. 20 at 9 lbs. 7 oz. and 22.5 in. Mo Coleman was maid of honor, and in clinical neuroscience. She now works at and Brian are already planning trips to Kerrin Epstein and Sarah Fritz the U of PA in the neurology department Please Gettysburg to watch their future forward were bridesmaids. Also in attendance doing research with noninvasive brain play for the Bullets. Big sister Rose is in were Leonora Gatto and Alex stimulation. Last fall, she applied to clinical love with the new addition! Horning. Congratulations! psychology PhD programs. Good luck, write!

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DeLight E. Breidegam ’44 Robert S. Jones Jr. ’65 Paul M. Muchinsky ’69 Dates 2015 unless noted DeLight Breidegam, chairman emeritus Robert (Bob) S. Jones Jr., passed away on Paul M. Muchinsky died September 8 ’44 DeLight E. Breidegam, Sept. 9 ’54 Donald R. Clark, July 29 ’66 Donald S. Fairchild, Apr. 29 and founder of East Penn Manufacturing August 16 at the age of 74, after a battle of complications from a lung disease, Harris G. Fister, Aug. 5 George D. Katz, June 28 David E. Greer, Aug. 22 Co., passed away on September 9 at the with cancer. He was an economics major, with his beloved wife, Kay, by his side. A Ethel Sheraw Royer, Sept. 18 Charles W. McElfresh, Oct. 12 Elwood M. Powell Jr. Sept. 30 age of 88. DeLight attended Gettysburg a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, prominent industrial and organizational Phyllis Wickey Waltemyer, May 26 ’55 Margaret Reed Bloom, May 3 Sally Dress Sawyer, Oct. 31 College and served in the U.S. Air Force and played varsity football. He later earned psychologist, Paul received his bachelor's ’46 Frank B. Williams Jr., Aug. 9 ’57 Thomas Oates IV, July 30 Sally Webb Thornton, Sept. 19 prior to starting East Penn, a battery financial services designations CLU in 1971 degree, majoring in psychology from ’47 Gladys Tober Boehm-Carlsen, Sept. 3 Mary O’Rourke, Aug. 21 ’67 Richard W. Berg, Sept. 26 business, with his father in 1946. DeLight and a ChFC degree in 1982. He completed Gettysburg College in 1969. He went Alfred Roger Gobbel, Oct. 17 Jonathan B. Peck, Aug.11 John S. Pontius, Nov. 8 and his father began their business by the Advanced Management Program at on to receive his master's degree from Howard M. Walker, Sept. 27 Jay L. Sixeas, Oct. 26 Ellwood M. Powell Jr., Sept. 30 collecting old batteries and rebuilding Harvard’s Graduate School of Business Kansas State University in 1970 and ’48 Murray Jacobson, Aug. 7 Frank P. Wolyniecc Jr., Aug. 19 Sarah Youse Strangio, Sept. 14 them to new. Over the next six decades, in 1987. doctorate from Purdue University Dorothy Moss Keene, Sept. ’58 Charles W. Beachem, Oct. 24 ’68 Thomas R. Kardash, Dec. 17, 2014 East Penn grew from a one-room shop In the summer of 1965, Bob began in 1973. Richard E. Patterson, July 18 Thomas C. Niven, May 14 ’69 Paul M. Muchinsky, Sept. 8 with a product line of five automotive his 42-year career with AXA Equitable Life Paul received a Distinguished ’49 Stanley S. Lentz, Jan. 7, 2014 Jonathan B. Peek, Aug. 11 L. James Snyder Jr., July 24 batteries to one of the world’s leading Insurance Company (formerly The Equitable Alumni Award from Gettysburg College Donald C. Pentz, Oct. 7 John T. Toggas, Oct. 9 ’71 Donald C. Bigley, July 8 battery manufacturers with over 8,000 Life Assurance Society of the United States). in 1998, and in 2008, he received an William M. Slee, July 1 Elizabeth Ryder Wolfe, July 29 Philip T. Finn, July 28 employees, 450 product designs, and He spent half of his career in the field as honorary degree during Commencement William Wald, Oct. 26, 2013 ’59 Shirley Burkert Schleunes, July 18 William R. Pouss, Oct. 24 hundreds of awards for manufacturing an advisor, district manager, and agency proceedings. At that event, he danced ’50 B. Frank Di Angelo, July 17 ’60 Nancy Marsden, Oct. 12 ’73 Norman E. Foster, Aug. 4 and environmental excellence. manager, and spent the other half in with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day George E. Gorman, Oct. 31 ’62 Stephen E. Ten Eyck, Nov. 1 ’75 David J. Fickel, July 21 DeLight served as a member and marketing and retail operations. In his most O'Connor, a story he would recount to Bernard R. Kettler, Sept. 25 ’63 Nicholas A. Kargas, May 29 ’76 Steven R. Graybill, Oct. 8 past president of the Battery Council recent position, Bob had overall responsibility anyone who would listen. Earl Kutz Jr., Aug. 3 Gerald J. Ponsiglione, Jr., Sept. 30 ’79 Steven L. Kreseski, August 7 International, Lead Industries Association, for the management of the company retail Paul's proudest professional ’52 John W. Harford, Oct. 25 Terence B. Sillett, July 27 ’81 John Sprowls, July 8 and International Battery Manufacturer's field force, including its 6,000 financial achievement was Psychology Applied to George H. Mangels, Oct. 5 ’65 Robert Gygax, Aug. 29 ’82 Paul C. Reber, July 23 Association. He has been honored by professionals and 54 branch offices Work®, the most widely used textbook ’53 James E. Henneberger, Sept. 13 Robert S. Jones Jr., Aug. 16 ’93 Martha Griswold Quijano, Aug. 17 many organizations for his leadership, nationwide and in Puerto Rico. in the history of industrial psychology. altruism, and philanthropy, including the A dedicated philanthropic supporter Written over a 35-year period, it is World Entrepreneur Award from Kutztown of the College, Bob established the Robert currently in its 11th edition and has been University; Outstanding Business Leader S. Jones Endowed Scholarship. He served translated into several foreign languages. by Northwood University; Eberly Medal on the Orange & Blue Advisory Council and Paul credited former Gettysburg College for Philanthrophy and Volunteerism from provided generous financial support for the psychology professor Samuel Mudd the PA Fund for the Advancement of Bobby Jones Softball Field and facilities ’57 as a lifelong mentor. In his honor, the State System of Higher Education; in the Jaeger Center for Athletics, Paul established the Samuel A. Mudd Leadership by Example Award from the Recreations and Fitness. Psychology Award, which is presented Berks County Senior Citizen Council; Bob served Gettysburg College on the to a graduating senior psychology major Business Person of the Year from the Board of Trustees from 1988 to 2000 and who has demonstrated a high level Berks County Chamber of Commerce; was elected Trustee Emeritus in 2001. He of personal integrity and outstanding and the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame served on the National Campaign Steering scholarship. of Berks County. Committee, Campaign Executive Committee, Paul is survived by his wife Kay; He was a prominent supporter of and New York Regional Committee during daughter Andrea; sons Brian Muchinsky the military, serving as a member of the the Unfinished Work Campaign, as well and Zachary Allred; and six grandchildren. Southeastern PA Employer Support as the Trustee Gifts Committee, Board of of the Guard and Reserve Committee. Fellows, and Residential and Social Life He received the Employer Support of Advisory Committee. In addition, he has the Guard and Reserve Award from served on his class reunion committees the Department of Defense National and chaired his 40th reunion committee. Committee, the Army Community of Bob was a recipient of the Alumni Excellence Award, and the Freedom Meritorious Service Award in 2015. Award from the Department of Defense Bob is survived by his wife of 52 years, National Committee of Employer Support Sharon; his daughter, Kelly DalPra and husband of the Guard and Reserve. Kenny; his daughter, Kirsten Ward ’91, and He is survived by his wife Helen; his husband Chris; his daughter Ashley Jones, son Daniel; five grandchildren; and three and partner Sue Dillon; his son Matt Jones, great-grandchildren. and wife Elaine; and eight grandchildren.

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t was one of the first questions that As I read, the idea hit me—could we tell the story Prof. Michael Birkner ’72, P’10 of Marple Newtown in pictures? My students, building posed to our historical methods upon this idea, began to collect, catalogue, and examine class. Channeling historian Carl Becker’s the photos and memorabilia that told the story of our famous essay, “Everyman His Own school. This fall, we unveiled a 100-foot permanent exhibit Historian,” Prof. Birkner challenged charting the past 100 years of our school’s rich history. many of my previously held beliefs about the craft of And Thaddeus Stevens? As part of the exhibit, history. One revelation drawn from Becker has always one student team researched the beginnings of public stayed with me—that the past really isn’t the past. Becker education in Pennsylvania, learning that Stevens was instead called it “the specious present,” meaning that a champion of the 1834 legislation that created the history, in its many forms, is not relegated to a dusty and Commonwealth’s first public schools. Selecting an distant past, but is still very much alive and in the present. image for the exhibit, they uncovered a dashing During my college years, Prof. Birkner served as my portrait of the young Stevens painted in 1838 by advisor and trusted mentor. After graduation, we stayed Jacob Eicholtz. In the background sat the newly in touch. We still discuss new and different ways to constructed Pennsylvania Hall; the painting is owned teach history, still plumbing the depths of Becker’s by Gettysburg College. My students initially didn’t specious present. Today, I teach social studies at Marple understand my absolute delight with their find. Newtown Senior High School in Newtown Square, Like Becker’s specious present, my Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The year 2014 marked the centennial College experience is not a thing of the past. Though of our school’s founding, and we were struggling with my degree is nearly 20 years old, it is still very much how to commemorate such an occasion. alive and in the present. Every day of my life, As if on cue, I received a letter from Prof. Birkner, I express a thought, generate an idea, sharing a new methods research project focusing on or make a contact that I can a recently donated collection of photographs of tie back to my four years Gettysburg in the year 1950. at Gettysburg. Becker, Stevens, JUNE 2–5, 2016 Birkner, and me www.gettysburg.edu/reunion Is the past really the past?

In fall 2015 we asked for recollections and reflections on “history boot camp” and heard from Michael Karpyn ’97 (above left). The history major earned his masters in education from Johns Hopkins University and his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He poses this question: “What prominent Gettysburgian graduated from Marple Newtown Senior High School?” Email [email protected]

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