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Description We Are The Champions Brooke Holechek '19
Back to Back Champions
Table of Contents
From the President Janet Morgan Riggs '77
History That's Digital Kasey Varner '14
Worldwide Connections (Allison Dauner Zoller ’01)
Three Join the Board of Trustees
Prof Notes: Charles (Buz) Myers JR. P'09 (Professor Charles (Buz) Myers)
Sunderman Prof. Bill O'Hara Pioneers Video Game Music Course Jordan Marks '18
Snapshots
What Makes a Great Joke? Professor Steve Gimbel
The 411 (Sherrin Hilburt Baky-Nessler '65, P'01)
Conversations
Big Picture: Special Commencement Miranda Harple
Battlefield as Teacher Katelyn Silva
Discovering Her Resilience: Rhiannon Winner '19 Jeffrey Lauck '18
Geologist Bob Gastaldo '72 Investigates: Will We Cause Our Own Mass Extinction Lucas Joel
What Students Do (Christina Noto ’19)
Work Makes a Difference
What Makes Gettysburg Great (Prof. Todd W. Neller)
Save the Dates
News of Note
Class Notes
Class of 1968 50th Reunion
In Memory
This book is available at The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag/10 Parting Shot: 2018 Special Commencement Ceremony Remarks to Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse (Sharon Stephenson)
The 1832 Society: The Impact of Legacy
Keywords Alumni Magazine, Gettysburg College
Disciplines Education | Higher Education | Liberal Studies
Publisher Gettysburg College
This book is available at The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag/10 Fall 2018
YES RESPONSIBILITY LEVEL BE GREATER PERSPECTIVE WARRIOR PURPOSE NOW NONSTOP WE AREDIFFERENCE THE MISSION ONE CHALLENGE GROW ATTITUDE RELIABLE COURAGE EXCEED FIRE HUNGRY POSSIBLE STRENGTH OWN FIGHT REMIX LIVE CHARGE PRESENCE COMMIT RESPONSIBILITYCHAMPIONSLEVEL GREATER YES PERSPECTIVE BE NONSTOP WARRIORWhat work goes into building a championship team? PURPOSE“The word they select is for NOWthem, but they also Since theDIFFERENCE 2000 season, the women’s lacrosse programMISSION share it withONE the team and coachesCHALLENGE so we all can help GROWthem has claimed ATTITUDEthree national titles, won 11RELIABLE Centennial COURAGEstay accountable to living by their word,” said Head CoachEXCEED FIREConference titles, and competed in the NCAA playoffs Carol Cantele ’83, who chose “DANCE” as her word HUNGRY POSSIBLE18 times. forOWN 2018. “I believe that it has been pretty powerful REMIX ForSTRENGTH the last several years, the team has adhered and has made anFIGHT impact on the players.” to a deceptively simple but effective tradition: pickLIVE one CHARGEOver the last two seasons,PRESENCE Gettysburg builtCOMMIT upon word to guide you through the season. the foundation of those words and climbed to the top RESPONSIBILITYFrom senior All-American KatieLEVEL Landry ’18 (THIRST) GREATERof the NCAA DivisionYES III lacrosse world.PERSPECTIVE After winning to first-year attacker Brianna Stokes ’21 (HEART)BE, each the program’s second national title in 2017, theNONSTOP Bullets WARRIORmember of the team, coaches included, selects a single PURPOSEbecame just the second team in NOWthe last 11 years to repeat word to serveDIFFERENCE as a guide through the year. This word servesMISSION as national champion this past May,CHALLENGE defeating MiddleburyGROW as a reminder of what is most important. College, 11-9,ONE in the title game at Kerr Stadium on the EXCEED ATTITUDE RELIABLE COURAGEcampus of Roanoke College. FIRE HUNGRY COMMIT. BELIEF. GRIT. HEART. PERSEVERANCE. POSSIBLE OWNDuring that course of time, it has taken a collection REMIX ThoseSTRENGTH were just a handful of the guide words chosen of different individualsFIGHT to reach those lofty heights, but by members of the Gettysburg College women’sLIVE lacrosse ultimatelyCHARGE that success hasPRESENCE been focused on oneCOMMIT particular team heading into the 2018 season. word chosen by junior defender Brooke Holechek ’19 in 2018—CHAMPIONYES. RESPONSIBILITY LEVEL BE GREATER PERSPECTIVE WARRIOR PURPOSE NOW NONSTOP DIFFERENCE MISSION ONE CHALLENGE GROW ATTITUDE RELIABLE COURAGE EXCEED FIRE HUNGRY POSSIBLE STRENGTH OWN FIGHT REMIX LIVE CHARGE PRESENCE COMMIT 10 WINS OVER PROGRAMS THAT FINISHED AMONG THE TOP 25 IN THE FINAL INTERCOLLEGIATE WOMEN’S LACROSSE COACHES ASSOCIATION (IWLCA) DIVISION III COACHES POLL
This is the first time Gettysburg has won back-to-back team national titles. THE ONLY INDIVIDUAL BACK-TO-BACK NATIONAL TITLES CAME FROM:
JOE LYNNE BAVARO ’66 CASSIDY ’92 wrestler swimmer 1965–66 1990–91 LIZA BARR ’20 attack
Sophomore Liza Barr ’20 led Gettysburg with a career-high five goals in the national title game against Middlebury. Barr had posted just six goals in the previous four playoff games combined. Barr is the daughter of Gettysburg alum and All-American defensive back Brian Barr ’86, who led the 1985 football team to the national semifinals and was inducted into the Hall of Athletic Honor in 2006. Barr was featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section this summer.
Left to right: Maggie Welsh ’18, Cassie Smith ’18, Elsie Wagner ’18, Associate Coach Barb Jordan, Katie Landry ’18, Head Coach Carol Cantele ’83, Ali Gorab ’18, Maggie McClain ’18, Katie Willis ’18, and Assistant Coach Kate Fowler GETTYSBURG Inside SWEPT THE CENTENNIAL Volume 109 • No. 3 • Fall 2018 CONFERENCE AND NCAA 14 Battlefield as teacher TITLES Gettysburg’s largest classroom is located FOR THE steps away from campus. 22 Discovering FIRST TIME her resilience A transformative study abroad experience led Rhiannon Winner ’19 to consider joining the United States Marine Corps.
24 Will we cause our own mass extinction? Research by geologist Bob Gastaldo ’72 provides new clues.
3 News@Gettysburg 10 Conversations
28 Do Great Work 30 Bulletins STEPH 31 Class notes COLSON ’19 46 In memory midfield 48 Parting shot
Cover photo: Keith Lucas Editor: Carina Sitkus Contact: [email protected] #1 Address changes: Communications & Marketing, Steph Colson ’19 was named Most Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Outstanding Performer of the NCAA Box 422, Gettysburg, PA 17325 Championship for the second year Gettysburg College assures equal employment in a row. Colson tallied nine draw controls and prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, in each of the final two wins, capping sexual orientation, or disability. a record-breaking season on the draw. Printed in U.S.A. The junior midfielder shattered the © Gettysburg College 2018 program and Centennial Conference records with 140 draw controls For additional content related to this issue, this year. She was named the inaugural IWLCA Division III Player visit www.gettysburg.edu/links of the Year, Midfielder of the Year, All-America First Team, All-Metro Region First Team, and All-CC First Team. Colson was also a finalist for the coveted Honda Division III Athlete of the Year award. From the president
As many of you know, I announced learning experience immeasurably. of importance. All of these in May that I will be retiring As I welcomed the Class of 2022 experiences advance our students’ as president of Gettysburg College to campus, I spoke about our intercultural understanding. following the 2018–19 academic institutional philosophy supporting We have also aligned our year. Not surprisingly, this freedom of expression, which was facilities with our inclusion efforts. is a bittersweet moment. approved by our Student Senate, For example, our newly renovated Although I believe the time faculty, and Board of Trustees Mosaic House provides a home is right for me to transition into last spring (www.gettysburg.edu/ for our Office of Multicultural retirement, and I look forward freedomofexpression). Of course Engagement, as well as social space to the adventures ahead, my heart with that freedom comes for our community and residential will always be with Gettysburg. responsibility—and so we strive space for our students. Our newly But before I wax too sentimental, to teach our students the opened Center for Religious and let me quickly turn to the work importance of respect and empathy Spiritual Life likewise provides we have before us this year. as they engage one another, gathering space, welcoming all I have written in prior columns skills that we think are ever Gettysburgians for programs and about two of the three pillars more important in an increasingly social events. of our strategic plan diverse society. Many members of our (www.gettysburg.edu/plan): In addition, Gettysburg’s community have happily observed Impact and Innovation. academic and cocurricular that our campus looks and feels Today, I write about the third pillar, programs are designed to expand different than it did just a few Internationalization and Inclusion, the perspectives of our students. years ago. That is as it should be. which focuses on the cultivation Gettysburg students must take There is strength in diversity, of a diverse, inclusive, and at least one year of language study and today’s student experience welcoming campus environment and two cultural diversity courses. is building on that strength. that prepares our students Thanks to the efforts of our Center As the world changes, to thrive as citizens and for Global Education (CGE), so must we. professionals in a diverse the Institute of International society and an internationally Education has consistently ranked Sincerely, interconnected world. us among the top 10 liberal arts Over the past several years, colleges for our semester-long we have made remarkable strides study experiences. Sixty percent in recruiting and retaining talented of Gettysburgians spend at least Janet Morgan Riggs ’77 students from across the nation one semester studying in locations President and around the globe. The Class around the world, from Norway of 2022 is the most diverse in the to China and Morocco to Brazil. College’s history, with more than Nine hundred fifty of our students, 31 international students coming faculty, and staff have been issued from 12 countries, domestic the Intercultural Development students coming from 28 states Inventory. Our Center for Public and Puerto Rico, 157 domestic Service (CPS), which is nationally What’s Next students of color, and 151 first- recognized for its approach generation college students. to community-based learning and The Winter 2019 issue The diversity of our student research, sends students into local of Gettysburg magazine body is of great benefit, as it provides and global communities, prepared will honor President everyday opportunities to share to collaborate with community Janet Morgan Riggs ’77, and debate a variety of ideas and partners as they offer support who retires in June 2019. perspectives, enriching the and work together on issues
2 News Gettysburg
HISTORY that’s digital
It was a damp, cold March morning when Prof. opportunity to do ground-breaking research Ian Isherwood ’00, archivist Amy Lucadamo ’00, and make real-time discoveries.” and students Meghan O’Donnell ’18 and Among them: shrapnel buried in the ground that Jesse Campana ’18 trudged through open fields originated from the battle, metal left behind from in France. the trenches that had been salvaged and repurposed Armed with reproductions of maps, letters, and by locals as they rebuilt their town, and the location 100-year-old photographs, the team’s goal was to locate of several key spaces and events from the battle that a dugout used in a World War I battle over the small had been ignored—including the dugout they were town of Le Verguier. searching for. “We designed the trip in a way that During the battle, the dugout was used by British we could bring the experience we were having officer Jack Peirs—the focal point of the team’s in France back to Gettysburg and the classroom,” multi-year digital history project called “The First Lucadamo added. World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs,” which aims Students from Isherwood’s Aftermath: to personalize the experience of a world war through The Experience of War and “Modern” Memory class sharing Peirs’s letters online. Skyped from France with students in Musselman With the support of alumni and a crowdfunding Library’s Special Collections, who were surrounded campaign, the team traveled to France with the by Jack Peirs’s original letters. purpose of contextualizing their digital history project. The experience proved to be an innovative learning “I’ve been on a lot of battlefield tours, but never opportunity that has changed the way students think one where we were assembling the narrative in the about conducting historical research. moment,” Isherwood said. “We were reconstructing a timeline of events that no one has paid attention —Kasey Varner ’14 to in 100 years. This gave our students the
3 to defend it—all of the skills I needed to succeed in graduate school, I learned at Gettysburg.” The opportunity to conduct research was so formative that it has served as the basis for her continued connection to Gettysburg College—providing internships and externships to current students. “I’ve always believed that because I had such a positive experience, I should return the favor and help others have an equally positive experience, too,” said Zoller. “I know the opportunities to conduct research have only expanded since I was a student, but I wanted to help students extend that experience through an internship so they know Worldwide CONNECTIONS with confidence if this is what they want to do.” Allison Dauner Zoller ’01 was in their professions, many alums Zoller has worked for the deep in the Amazon rainforest, have come to find unexpected Centers for Disease Control training Navy personnel on how connections to their alma mater. and Prevention and the to use the diagnostic tests that could As an undergrad, Zoller Department of Defense help doctors identify dengue fever declared a major in biology and through the Henry M. Jackson more quickly. spent three summers conducting Foundation. Now, she works Over 3,000 miles from campus, research with biology Prof. at a pharmaceutical company at a remote satellite lab run by the Kazuo Hiraizumi—an influential that is a world leader in vaccine U.S. Navy, she met a fellow alum. experience that led her to focus on development. She is working on “He graduated the year that immunology and pursue her PhD building a better flu vaccine. I enrolled at Gettysburg, and at Emory University. here we both were, working “By the time I got to graduate Help students explore their on the same clinical trial halfway school, I already had all of the professional paths. Contact the around the world,” Zoller said. experiences I needed to succeed,” Center for Career Engagement to As part of a network Zoller said. “How to pose find out how at 717.337.6616 or of 30,000 alumni actively engaged a hypothesis, how to prove it, how [email protected].
Three join the Board of Trustees
Flora D. Darpino ’83 Matthew G. McDevitt ’87 Craig R. Swanson ’80 is a retired three-star general is a partner with is a retired senior and military lawyer who was Transwestern Consulting vice president with the 39th Judge Advocate Group in Berwyn, Science Applications General of the United States Pennsylvania, where he International Corporation Army, the first woman specializes in the leasing in Reston, Virginia. He to hold that position. Darpino and sale of life science was inducted in the was the 2014 Gettysburg real estate for tenants Gettysburg College College Commencement and landlords. Hall of Athletic Honor Speaker, where she received in 2015. an honorary degree. 4 Prof notes Religious Studies professor
Charles (Buz) MYERS JR. P’09
Buz on campus I was on my way to class I was so touched by the story and I like to tell people it’s a Biblical 10 or 15 years ago when I got to hear what impact I’d had on her, name from Genesis 22, but that’s a phone call from a former student, then heartbroken when I learned not why I have the nickname. Martha Griswold Quijano ’93. that she died in 2015. Martha was My parents gave it to me—I’m She had been through brain a remarkable person. Students don’t a junior and my father was “Bus” surgery and endured a great deal know the impact they have on the so I am “Buz.” There’s no of pain. She said that during that people who teach them. significance to the one “z.” time she thought about my lecture on how much pain Jesus must have On the meaning of life Prof. Charles (Buz) Myers Jr. P’09 held endured during his crucifixion the Edwin T. Johnson and Cynthia Emeritus Prof. Carey A. Moore (pictured, taught a course on death and dying Shearer Johnson Distinguished Teaching a first century Professor in the Humanities Chair for 25 years, and when he retired Roman nail) and served as chair of the Department he made me promise to continue and she of Religious Studies. An ordained teaching it. The thesis of my Death called to minister in the Presbyterian Church, and the Meaning of Life course, thank me. Myers teaches and preaches in now a First-Year Seminar, is that local churches and regional and you can’t understand the meaning national conferences. He has of life if you haven’t confronted received awards for his work the reality of your own death. in prison ministry. Death is in everything around us, but we rarely talk about it— we are a death-denying society. I am interested in getting students to wrestle with the reality of death. On gratitude I was once asked what I would say to students if it were my last lecture. What I would say is, “Thank you.” Every class has its own character; the excitement of my students is contagious, and they challenge me to think more deeply and be more engaged.
5 Sunderman Prof. Bill O’Hara PIONEERS video game music course
or some Gettysburgians, an obsession with “As a kid, I always loved ‘Super Mario’ and F video games can mean “game over” for their ‘Mega Man’ video games and their music, so when scholarly pursuits. Not Sunderman Conservatory I was working on my graduate degree, I decided of Music Prof. Bill O’Hara—he’s actually built to study these two disciplines and bring them together,” a career around it. he said. “That was right around the same time video In the spring of 2018, O’Hara taught game music started to emerge as an academic field, a course devoted to video game music. and since then it has really exploded.” “We’re one of the first 10 or 15 schools Upon completion of his course, O’Hara hopes in the United States to offer a class like this,” said Gettysburg students gain a greater appreciation for O’Hara, who joined the Sunderman faculty last year creative inquiry—a hallmark of a liberal arts education. after earning his PhD in music theory from Harvard. “To me, it is important for students to learn “In my mind, it’s a way of encouraging students transferrable skills—video, photography, and sound to study something they’re interested in and letting editing, in addition to composition and writing,” them build upon it.” said O’Hara. Through the innovative course, music and “The traditional path for music majors has been non-music majors create their own video game to go to graduate school or become a private teacher, soundtracks and explore the vital role that new but now, you’re just as likely to record a soundtrack technology, math, and programming played in the for the new ‘Destiny’ game as you are to get a job in development of musical styles over the decades. the Los Angeles Philharmonic or record a Hollywood “Older video games from the ’80s and ’90s were soundtrack. Video game music is a growing career path, more primitive, more synthesized and mechanical and Gettysburg is well positioned to produce graduates in their musical approach, but as the games evolved and who will bring energy and new ideas to the field.” became more advanced, so did their music,” reflected O’Hara. “Today, games like ‘Call of Duty’ have full —Jordan Marks ’18 orchestral soundtracks, similar to film music.”
Snapshots
Hall of Athletic Honor Lincoln Prize awarded, PROSE Prize Congratulations to the 2018 new professorship endowed Philosophy Prof. inductees: Weston Bartlett ’94 The 2018 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize was Daniel DeNicola’s book, (tennis), Liz Janelle ’03 awarded to Edward Ayers for his book, The Understanding Ignorance: (swimming), Curtis McNeil ’02 Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and The Surprising Impact of (basketball), Terry Reinman ’89 Emancipation in the Heart of America, What We Don’t Know, (cross country, track and field, at an annual event hosted by Gettysburg College won the 2018 PROSE swimming), Barry Streeter and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American award from the Association (coach: football, track and field), History. Also announced was the establishment of American Publishers in and Jennifer White ’01 (field of a new Gilder Lehrman National Endowment the philosophy category. hockey, softball). The 1977 Men’s for the Humanities Professorship of Civil War Era Track and Field team was named Studies at Gettysburg College, to be held by Civil a Team of Distinction. War Era Studies Prof. Allen Guelzo. 6 For links related to these and other stories in this issue, visit www.gettysburg.edu/links
Scientific collaboration A new era in Athletics Prof. Nikki Shariat and students Mike Mattia is the new Executive Director from her phage course were invited of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation, to participate in a program World coming to Gettysburg after having been a football Learning coordinated for the U.S. coach, athletic fundraiser, and, most recently, Department of State. The students hosted deputy director of athletics at the Johns Hopkins and presented their research to six visitors University (JHU) athletic department. B.J. Dunne, from Abkhazia as part of their program previously the head men’s basketball coach to learn about U.S. initiatives for mitigating at Vassar College, is the newest head men’s agricultural threats. basketball coach.
Mike Mattia B.J. Dunne
7 First, it is crafted beautifully— What makes a a good joke has to be tight, that is, worded in a way that contains all and only what it needs to do its job, but that wording has to contain GREAT a rhythm that allows for the proper timing that will trigger the cognitive switch that generates the laughter. Further, the content is simple JOKE and true. It is something well- known to all, but an element that What makes a great joke? to my latest book, Isn’t That was completely ignored until This question unexpectedly Clever: A Philosophical Account it was pointed out. And once you shaped my research. Ten years of Humor and Comedy. see it, you will never go back ago, I decided to try something I’ve Jokes, I argue, are conspicuous to the way you were before always loved—stand-up comedy. acts of playful cleverness. The most the joke. I didn’t make it very far in the important term in the definition But what makes it magnificent comedy world, mostly open is “clever,” by which I mean that is the symmetry. Half that joke mic nights at comedy clubs and it displays a cognitive virtue, would be a good joke. Pointing a couple paid gigs at colleges, a way of thinking that would out the incongruity between the but it gave me the opportunity be good to have outside of the name and the meaning of either to hang out with working artistic context of a joke. It could “parkway” or “driveway” would comedians talking about humor. be Jerry Seinfeld’s observational be clever enough. But the symmetry Then, I discovered a growing abilities, Dennis Miller’s wide makes it the verbal equivalent of an literature in the philosophy range of knowledge, Steven M.C. Escher print. It is well-crafted of humor and realized that what Wright’s imagination, or Frank and true, but most of all, clever. the philosophers were writing Caliendo’s attention to detail. about humor was very different It is taking an intellectual ability and from what the comedians were displaying it in a way that plays with Prof. Steve Gimbel’s research saying. It led me to think about something artistically. A good joke is interests include the philosophy humor differently and that led one that is legitimately clever. of science, humor, and ethics. to several papers delivered Take George Carlin’s “Why do Recently published books include at the annual conference we drive on a parkway and park on Einstein: His Space and Times of the Lighthearted Philosophers a driveway?” It’s a fantastic joke. (2015); and Isn’t That Clever: Society, and ultimately A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy (2017).
8 Photo by Miranda Harple honored atBenefactorsWallceremony Last seenoncampus:May2018, Bob BarnesP’81,biology;andHelenDarrahbiology Lou Hammann’51,religiousstudiesandphilosophy; Most influentialprofs Science buildingstudyroom.Kilwin’sforicecream. Gettysburg must-stops students thatGettysburgCollegeattracts. will enrichthelearningenvironmentforsuperb challenges withfreshinsightandcreativitythat involvement toenablefacultymeeteducational to supportprofessionaldevelopmentandoff-campus Gettysburg faculty.Establishedendowedfunds Champion of to givesomethingback. and thetoolstoachieveenoughsuccessbeable to pursuemy36-yearcareerinthemedicalfield Gettysburg gavemetheknowledgeandstrength Supports G’burgbecause • ResidesinBrynMawr(PA) • MarriedtoBillNesslerP’01 Bruce AlanBaky’65(deceased) Meritorious ServiceAward,with • Recipientof2010 Board Oversight first SundermanConservatoryofMusic and Reunioncommittees•Servedon of Fellows,CommissionontheFuture, • TrusteeEmeritaServedonBoard Professionals •12yearsonCollegeBOT officer, AssociationofClinicalResearch president, IBAH•Retiredchiefassociation Biology major•Formerexecutivevice The 411
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9 Spring 2018
classroom and dorm debate, of the entire story—complex anti-war protests, and student memories indeed. On a personal activism. “As the father of note, I went down to the Wall at an Army veteran who is also ‘oh dark thirty’ on Memorial Day a Gettysburg alum, I am grateful to spend a few moments with my that the sacrifices of classmates platoon leader and friend, Buck COMPLEX MEMORIES are now memorialized. But let’s Thompson, who died in agony in a also remember other heros like hillside near Dak To on November Rev. Dr. John Vannorsdall ’72 19, 1967. I expected a little solitude Rev. John H. Thomas ’72, who helped us face the urgent at 3:45 in the morning and was in response to the spring issue's moral questions the War posed surprised and pleased to see so many cover story on memories of the and reminded us that service to our others with similar memories. It was Vietnam era, was concerned country also includes the witness of strangely comforting.” that focusing almost entirely the conscientious objector and the Many thanks to Bob Schultz ’57 on Gettysburgians who lost their voice of principled dissent.” for correcting our misspelling lives in the conflict, while highly Bill Bock ’66 emailed writer of Carol Traynor Williams ’57 significant, obscured the larger Kasey Varner ’14 his thanks: in the “In memory” pages. picture of the War’s impact on “I…liked how you linked and the College, which included intense brought together disparate elements
On social media
10 Social media continued have made. Over four decades later, the friends I made Following her retirement announcement, at G’burg remain, perhaps to the point of silliness, an outpouring of comments wished President in that my old college roommate and I still talk Janet Morgan Riggs ’77 well via Facebook, Twitter, at least every other week and we haven’t been on and Instagram. W. Kent Barnds ’92 said, “Wonderful campus together since 1977. Yes, higher education and leader and person. I am so very proud of President college are expensive, but less expensive than ignorance, Riggs’s accomplishments and leadership of Gettysburg and the friendships and experiences undertaken College. Gettysburg College is a much better place at G’burg cannot be assigned a monetary price tag.” because of her steady leadership.” “Congratulations!” On Christina Noto’s ’19 reflection of studying says Amy Coles Fisicaro ’05. “You were one of the abroad, Jessica Myers ’04 commented, “This was first professors to welcome me to campus. Wish you all very cool to read and reminded me of my Gettysburg the best.” Gayle Spencer P’11 shared: “I’m selfishly sad experience. I graduated in 2004 after creating my own to see her retire but grateful that my daughter was there major in peace and conflict studies (at the time I had 2007–2011 to benefit from her leadership, forward to call it The Nature of Peace and Conflict). I also thinking, and Great Work.” attended an SIT program (in Ireland and Northern The story of “8 Gettysburg classes that will change Ireland) and am so glad those are still an option the way you think” triggered fond memories from alums. at Gettysburg. I’m also so excited that this peace Chuck Steel ’97 called out geometry with and justice minor exists now. Those experiences Prof. David Flesner and a lab techniques course almost 20 years ago definitely shaped my life.” with Prof. Donald Jameson: “It was amazing how I was able to apply lessons from the geometry class to my theological studies at Gettysburg Seminary And in the news almost 20 years later.” Deidre Sepp ’75: Featured on C-SPAN: the Civil War Institute’s “Psych 101 with Dr. D’Agostino changed my life!” summer conference. View the video archive online. Tyler Littleton ’07 said,“Any…classes I took with Maneesha Mukhi ’03 was profiled in Fast Company the incredible LEGEND of Gettysburg College, for her work founding ImmiGo, a startup helping Dr. Leslie Cahoun, would count. From our individuals and businesses find high-quality exploration of the Latin language to the deep immigration attorneys in the United States. introspective examination of ancient Greek and Economics Prof. Rimvydas Baltaduonis was Roman civilizations, my perspective on the modern featured in a Q&A for The Baltic Times about his role world was fundamentally changed for the better.” as co-chairman of the Joint Commission of the Lithuanian Clash of Cultures: Germany and Turkey; the Parliament and the Lithuanian World Community. Imagining Peace senior scholars seminar; and NBC News showed several Gettysburg College Electron Microscopy with Prof. Ralph Cavaliere clips in its annual commencement video. See how many were Abdur Rehman ’13, David Moyer ’88, and you can spot online. Corey Ehrenwerth’s ’98 picks. Alyson Nawossa ’01 Calling all creatives. Profs. Ari Isaacman-Beck added, “One of my favorites was the philosophy (a violinist) and Taylor Brorby (a writer) recently of science. As a CS and math major, it was hosted an event at Musselman Library entitled “Behind an interesting mix of topics.” the Scenes of the Artistic Process.” We’re interested Our video from Get Acquainted Day 2018 in hearing from alums—what inspires you to do your prompted the following recollections. Sue Creighton P’21 best creative work? said, “I remember this day like it was yesterday. This was the event one year ago which made me realize that Tommy Keep reading, keep liking, keep sharing, was going to love Gettysburg College, and I was right.” and keep the Conversations rolling by sending Edward B. Ryder IV ’77 said, “For many, if not the vast [email protected] your thoughts. majority, it will be one of the best decisions they will ever
11 Big Picture
Special Commencement is an intimate version of our larger ceremony, one I have covered for the last five years.
Before the ceremony, the graduates and the platform party were waiting in Stevens Theatre. It’s one of my favorite places on campus. Its tall and unique windows are the main source of light for a room covered in black; the juxtaposition of these elements creates a moody space. There is a sense of anticipation building up to Commencement. Students are adjusting their tassels, joking with friends, and getting ready to make the walk across that stage. This image speaks to that anticipation—there’s excitement in the contrast of light and dark. Early in my career as a photojournalist, I was taught at every assignment to: 1. make the photos you need and 2. make the photos you want, for yourself. This was one of those “want” situations. I stepped back to frame up these beautifully historic windows. For a few moments, I reveled that no one was aware of my camera. I watched for layers of action and took a quick series of shots before moving on. When editing, I was struck by the mini-scenes happening within this one frame. Each student tells a story of that anticipation. With its strong mood and layers of story, this image perfectly captured what it feels like to be a graduate. —Miranda Harple
Camera and Lens: Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 35mm, f1.4 II lens
Settings: 1/160th second at f/1.6, ISO 800
Men’s and women’s lacrosse competed in the NCAA Division III Championships over Commencement weekend. Gettysburg College held a Special Commencement Ceremony for the 16 graduating seniors on May 17, 2018.
12 www.gettysburg.edu/links • 13 battlefieldBATTLEFIELD AS TEACHER
FOR SOME COURSES IN art, science, and the social sciences a s well as history Gettysburg’s momentous battlefieldlargest becomes classroom. the College’s
14 battlefieldBATTLEFIELD
15 AT DAWN AT Gettysburg National Military Park (GNMP), a mist hangs over the crags of Devil’s Den, the slope of Little Round Top, the headstones of the national cemetery, the blossoms of the apple trees, and the looming monuments. Against this backdrop, visitors—including Gettysburg College students and faculty—reflect on the bloodiest of Civil War battles and contemplate its historical reverberations.
Mere steps from the College, the park is fertile ground for history scholars. Its role as a living laboratory for disciplines beyond history may be surprising. Learning through observation and experience is a core tenet of a Gettysburg College liberal arts education. The GNMP provides students and faculty personal, hands-on connections to learning and research in history— as well as science and the arts.
16 “Students are generally quite naïve intensity of light, while also learning A SCIENTIFIC to just how much wildlife there is right how to incorporate gridding into the CONNECTION on their doorstep. It is eye-opening evaluation of tree species. for them to learn that they can leave The chatter of Wilson’s Principles the camera to gather scientific data of Ecology class can be overheard 24 hours a day while they are getting by the students in environmental on with their lives minutes away.” studies Prof. Sarah M. Principato’s History buffs, here’s a test: did you Alyssa Kaewwilai ’20 found Earth System Science class, as their know the battlefield is a prime site it “exciting to see new forms of wildlife fieldwork often overlaps. for studying geology of the Mesozoic while being able to appreciate the In Principato’s class, environmental Era? Or that the stones on the bridge Gettysburg landscape from an entirely science collides with history. Students near Big Round Top are embedded new perspective.” learn about the geologic history of the with dinosaur prints? Many students Kaewwilai was also a student area then study how the different rock at Gettysburg College are intimately in Wilson’s Principles of Ecology types make up the topography of the aware of these facts from their class, in which students take part in a battlefield and how they influenced the fieldwork in geology, ecology, and three-week field lab. During the first Battle of Gettysburg. From the vantage environmental sciences. week, they visit an older field habitat points of Seminary Ridge, Devil’s Den, “Ecology is the study of interactions to measure tree and shrub density, and the Overlook Tower, students learn between species and their environment, diversity, patchiness, and canopy about the geology of the area long before but even the most basic concepts can cover. During week two, they visit a the Civil War: when dinosaurs roamed seem rather arcane until students mature woodland and take similar the earth and when Pangaea began to are able to witness them in the field,” measurements. During the final week, break apart into the continents. said environmental studies Prof. the class conducts statistical analyses Gettysburg is part of a failed rift Andrew Wilson. to see how the patterns and diversity of basin; several failed rift basins are Wilson uses the park in trees and shrubs differ. present along the east coast of the his Principles of Ecology and “The students gain an understanding United States. “When rifting occurred, Environmental Science and Society of the ecological process that causes a large rift basin (i.e. lake) formed, which classes. In the latter, students set up successional change from open created the sedimentary rocks in the cameras to capture nocturnal wildlife field through to a mature forest,” Gettysburg area,” explained Principato. in their natural habitats. “The camera- said Wilson. “It’s also a great way Some of the rocks had magma trapping project allows students to of introducing various sampling pushing up through them, which think carefully about how to gather techniques and getting students created the igneous rock called diabase. information on species that are difficult to think about study design.” The important areas of high elevation to observe and promotes learning Kaewwilai said she worked are composed of diabase, which through experience,” said Wilson. with new equipment, such as withstands weathering better than spectrometers that measure the sedimentary rocks. “My students can see that the layers of rock are mostly at an angle, signaling that there has been tectonic activity. That’s a real ‘aha’ moment for them, like, ‘Oh, wow, the earth STUDENTS ARE“ GENERALLY was moving!’” Examining the signs of eras quite naïve to just how past and gathering data on the battlefield’s periglacial boulders, much wildlife there is said Marion McKenzie ’19, is “incredibly useful in visualizing the glacial history of Gettysburg, right on their doorstep. while gaining critical field experience in environmental studies.” —PROF. ANDREW WILSON
17 THESE MOMENTS ON“ THE BATTLEFIELD are powerful for students, who can feel the presence of the past...
—PROF. PETER CARMICHAEL
Survived in Civil War Armies, Carmichael. “That’s what we want from THE LANDSCAPE published this fall, which is inspired Gettysburg College students.” AS TEACHER by the stories of pain, loneliness, Associate Director boredom, trauma, family, and death Jill Ogline Titus and Assistant from everyday soldiers. He commented Director Ashley Whitehead Luskey that students are “quick to point out of the CWI are working with Cocco that there is no single narrative of the and other Fellows to develop wayside For history and social science scholars, soldier experience at Gettysburg and markers for the GNMP, a project that the landscape of the battlefield that soldiers could occupy the same Ogline Titus said “allows students provides different lessons. space at the same moment and make to strengthen their research skills Civil War Era Studies Prof. very different meanings about what and learn how to apply them Peter Carmichael, director of the was endured.” to a ‘product’ different than the Civil War Institute (CWI), brings his Abigail Cocco ’19, a history long-form research papers they write students to the battlefield to read the major and CWI Fellow, said that in the classroom.” letters and journals of the soldiers— accessing the battlefield through classes For CWI Fellow Jeffrey Lauck ’18, on the grounds on which they felt, with Carmichael and her work with the wayside project was an opportunity fought, and often perished in 1863. the CWI brought added depth to her to add nuance to the experience that “These moments on the battlefield educational experience, inspiring her to visitors have at the park. “For many are powerful for students, who can be a better historian. visitors—especially those who don’t feel the presence of the past, whether “Reading about the brutality know a whole lot about the Civil it is at an obscure grave site at Culp,s of war and about the number War—wayside exhibits and other Hill or at a more popular tourist haunt of casualties can be moving, but on-site interpretations can play like Little Round Top,” Carmichael it is not nearly as provocative a huge role in their understanding said. “They discover that the words as looking out into Iverson’s Pits and of the Civil War,” said Lauck. of a single soldier offer a pinhole seeing exactly where 900 men were “One of the goals of the project through which to explore the broader killed, wounded, or captured in a span is to complicate the public discussion social and political currents of of 20 minutes,” she said. “The strong of the Civil War by telling stories the Civil War. They see that the feelings and emotions the landscape that are often lost in the traditional battlefield is not just a chessboard evokes inspires in me, as a historian, ‘chessboard’ interpretation.” of tactical moments.” a sense of duty to think deeply about During his time as a Fellow, Lauck Carmichael said his students’ history, memory, and the implications helped create wayside exhibits observations were critical to his own of both.” on the dedication of Confederate thinking while writing his book, “Abby has learned to ask the difficult monuments on the battlefield and The War for the Common Soldier: questions of history and to challenge her African Americans’ experiences How Men Thought, Fought, and audience to think outside the box,” said during the battle.
18 The Fellows also worked on a experiences. They used books and maps digital mapping project called Killed to find the battlefield locations where at Gettysburg (KAG), which key events happened for their men tells soldier stories from multiple and took photographs of the major angles—their family and community landscapes that featured into their backgrounds, why they fought, and assigned soldier’s battlefield story. the impact of their deaths on family Experiential learning such as this and community. Luskey noted that she requires immersion in a topic, naturally encourages the CWI Fellows to use leading to a deeper level of analysis. their soldiers’ stories as a window into History Prof. Ian Isherwood ’00 said bigger ideas or themes about the Civil a central goal of a liberal arts education War era. The project is available to the is to instill critical thinking skills. public online. “It’s our job as faculty to encourage “By connecting specific, tangible our students to learn new ways places on the battlefield with much of approaching the past through broader, intangible ideas about the long its tangible symbols in our community,” Civil War era, students are better able he said. to understand the significance of the As another example demonstrating historic landscape and the worldviews the instructional value of Gettysburg’s of those who fought upon it,” Luskey landscape, Isherwood has his students said. “Through the soldier profiles conduct deep readings of Civil War they create for the KAG website, letters while overlooking the fields they help the public achieve a richer of Gettysburg. In his First-Year understanding of why these men, their Seminar, students use the letters actions, and this battlefield mattered— to reflect on individual trauma, probe and still matter to us today.” the meaning of monuments through Cocco’s solider was George Buck. the decades, and write reflections “Through this type of experiential on sacrifice while viewing the learning, I became intimately familiar headstones at the Gettysburg National with the action that occurred at Little Cemetery. He noted, “When you are Round Top in a way I couldn’t have between the ages of 18 and 25—prime otherwise,” said Cocco. military service age—the cemetery For the KAG project, Cocco and takes on a particular resonance. her peers used primary sources, such Students reflect on their own lives as military service records, widow’s at a leafy liberal arts institution and pension records, regimental histories, juxtapose that with the sacrifices that census records, and newspapers soldiers their age were making in the to flesh out pre-war and pre-Gettysburg past. It’s a powerful moment for them.”
19 Students tour battlefield and heroism, question how historical “War is a frequent motif for topography to learn how and why narratives change over time, and probe artists and a topic of contemplation strategic military choices were made the meaning of national symbols. for students of art and art history,” during the Civil War—an experience “A statue is never just a statue; a flag explained Prof. Shannon Egan, that cannot be replicated in a is never just a flag. Prof. Isherwood director of the Schmucker Art Gallery. classroom. In Isherwood’s History taught us that the battlefield is more The art gallery—small, but 219 course titled The Great War, than a historic resource; it is a cultural mighty—hosts eight to 10 exhibits he teaches students about military touchstone to be explored deeply and a year and houses major artistic works tactics—not the tactics of the Civil challenged constantly by students.” depicting the battlefield. Many past War, but those of World War I. exhibits have included interpretations Students learn about the 1917 World or responses to the Gettysburg War I mobilization that occurred on BLURRING OF Cyclorama depicting Pickett’s Charge. the Gettysburg campus and battlefield. TRUTH For example, contemporary artist Danielle Jones ’18 led her Gregory Thielker installed a panoramic peers in a tactical demonstration for painting of the battlefields and the Great War class on Gettysburg landscape of Afghanistan in homage College’s athletic fields. She ordered to the Cyclorama as part of the her classmates to leave the trenches and Challenging assumptions is integral exhibition “(Un)governed Spaces: attack based on the actual maneuvering to a Gettysburg College education. A Panorama of Afghanistan” in 2015. of a historical battle. In Prof. Jill Ogline Titus’s class, CWI students curated an exhibition “It was really interesting to Rewriting the Past: Historical Fiction titled “Visualizing War” in 2012, which experience the tactical transitions and History, she teaches excerpts from featured art and artifacts of scenes as opposed to just reading them The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, from the Civil War, and contemporary on paper. It helped all of us realize a novel that may be the best-known and artist Michael Scoggins took the scene how much more chaotic trying to carry most widely read book ever written of Pickett’s Charge and Lincoln’s out orders and keep men together had on the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg Address as the subject to have been on an actual battlefield.” Her class visits Little Round of two major works in his exhibition Juliette Sebock ’17, an alumna of the Top after reading the novel “When Johnny Comes Marching class, agreed: “There,s so much power to probe how the book has shaped Home” in 2014. in actually seeing these troop movements popular understanding of the Battle Beyond the richness of the done by people, rather than on a map.” of Gettysburg and the 20th Maine. museum, art and art history students ROTC Cadet Jared McCully ’19 “Students, like all people, are sensitive have immediate access to the park uses the battlefield weekly—conducting to the power of place, and enjoy the with its picturesque landscapes and ROTC runs and delivering leadership opportunity to make connections 1,328 monuments—an aesthetic feast. lessons to cadets, educating them about between ideas, historical experiences, Egan’s students spend time there, a significant moment or person related and landscapes,” explained Ogline connecting those visits to “present- to Gettysburg. McCully has built his Titus. While at Little Round Top, day controversies” about Confederate own major called War Studies. “The use students ask challenging questions, monuments, how histories are made of the physical battlefield is possibly the such as whether or not the 20th visible (or invisible) through public art, best classroom available on campus,” Maine’s action on the hill saved the and how artists carefully composed said McCully. “To have the ability Union and how literature might blur their photographs for political and to retrace the steps of the battle and use the truth of real events. aesthetic reasons. the lessons from an event that happened In art as in other disciplines, Through Egan’s History 155 years ago is extremely rare to find rigorous thinking and questioning and Theory of Photography class, on a college campus.” is required, whether the historical Erica Schaumberg ’18, an art history As a student, Kevin Lavery ’16 context is examined through major, said she analyzed the works appreciated that Isherwood’s classes used a contemporary lens or a historical lens of Civil War photographers such the tactile battlefield and monuments is used to study contemporary events. as Alexander Gardner, Timothy H. to complicate the concepts of valor O’Sullivan, and Mathew Brady.
20 Environmental studies majors Liana Sobel ’20 and Abigail Rec ’20 examine dinosaur prints found in GNMP.
The photographs from these artists, taken after the battle, depict the bodies of the dead and the destructive TO HAVE THE ABILITY“ TO RETRACE aftermath of the war. “Many of the photographs the steps of the battle taken after the battle were staged or manipulated to create a more dramatic effect,” Schaumberg said. and use the lessons “They pushed my understanding of how, as Americans, we view the war from an event that today and how that perception is intertwined with politics, economics, happened years ago is and a sense of celebrity.” It also 155 changed how she approached her own photography of the battlefield. extremely rare to find on Schaumberg also took Egan’s Art and Public Policy course and was able a college campus. to visit the archives in the GNMP. She said access to war-time objects and a close-up view of the Cyclorama —JARED MCCULLY '19 “put the battle in perspective” for her nocturnal movements of the battlefield RELATED LINKS: in a way reading and the classroom wildlife? In what ways will future artists Killed at Gettysburg: could not. be inspired by the landscapes outside www.killedatgettysburg.org As dusk descends on the GNMP the College’s front door? Every day, the and the tourists head home, Gettysburg GNMP gives the Gettysburg College The Wayside Project: students and faculty continue to muse community the opportunity to answer www.gettysburg.edu/cwi/historians/ upon their living laboratory. How did these questions and more. everyday soldiers feel contemplating projects.dot the same moon back in 1863? Will the camera traps capture the mysterious —Katelyn Silva
21 Photos by Mary Beth Bielicki ’18
DISCOVERING HER RESILIENCE
Rhiannon Winner ’19 is one of many Gettysburgians who have broadened their perspectives through the global learning opportunities offered at the College.
22 A fter studying in Rwanda, Winner There, Winner studied post-genocide decided to join the Marine Corps upon restoration and peace building. The program graduation—a significant career decision she visited killing sites from the Rwandan genocide made as a result of examining her personal as well as in neighboring Uganda during and professional goals while she was abroad. a two-week excursion to learn about the Winner’s first journey overseas with the Lord’s Resistance Army. College came at the end of her first year, when “We talked to survivors, killers, and lots she visited Israel and the Palestinian territories of different people who were affected by conflict with The Eisenhower Institute’s Inside the in both countries,” said Winner. Middle East program. The trip piqued her interest Even though her father served as a Marine, in Middle Eastern culture and society, inspiring Winner had not really considered the service until her to study abroad in Jordan during the spring her semester in Rwanda. Now it’s her primary goal. of her sophomore year. Winner physically trains multiple times a week “My semester in Jordan was the first time and must apply to and complete a 10-week Officer I had been out of the United States for so long Candidate School program after graduating from and been so far away from everyone and everything Gettysburg College before hopefully earning I knew back home,” Winner said. “I’m a pretty a coveted commission in the Corps. Then, she independent person, but that threw me into will go on to The Basic School for an additional so many situations where I had to figure out six months of training. how to do things for myself.” When considering the countless challenges Winner cites her experience in Jordan as one she’ll face before reaching her goal, Winner reflects of two transformative moments she had at on some of the lessons she learned while abroad. Gettysburg; the second occurred the following semester while studying abroad in Kigali, Rwanda. —Jeffrey Lauck ’18
“I wanted to do something where I felt helpful and productive. I needed to be able to respect and be proud of my own work, and the work I would be doing had to be important to me and to the world.”
23 Photos by Lucas Joel
Will we cause Geologist Bob Gastaldo ’72 our own mass investigates extinction?
In a hotel in Bloemfontein, South Africa, a plaque on a wall in the lobby reads that the site is the birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the famous The Lord of the Rings fantasy books. Those books sit on a shelf near a fireplace, along withThe Hobbit—another book by Tolkien about an old wizard who sends the book’s main character, the titular hobbit, on an adventure. In that hotel last January, Bob Gastaldo ’72—sandaled, bespectacled, white-haired, and wizened—strolled briskly through the front door, out from the hot summer sunlight, followed by a team of geologists.
24 Gastaldo, a biology major at Gettysburg “Even if they don’t become geoscientists, they learn College, is a professor of geology at Colby College how to do science, and they learn how to undertake in Maine, and he was in South Africa to study a project—get their hands dirty,” he said. rocks near the small town of Bethulie, which He does this for his students because when is about a two-hour drive south of Bloemfontein he was a student at Gettysburg, he, too, had in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo region. a mentor who guided him and who sent him The rocks he studies there are special, as they bear on his own journey. That mentor was biology fossils that record the largest mass extinction to ever Prof. William “Bill” Darrah. “He had a dynamic hit life. Known as the Permian-Triassic (PT) mass enthusiasm for what he did,” Gastaldo recalled. extinction, or the “Great Dying,” it is the biggest Back then, for his senior project, Darrah took of the “Big Five” mass extinctions that interrupted Gastaldo into the snow and the cold of Berwick, the history of life on Earth. It happened about Pennsylvania, to collect and study the fossils a quarter-billion years ago when about 96 percent of ancient ferns. There, Gastaldo felt the pull of all marine life and 70 percent of all land life of what he called the “mystery of the ancient,” vanished forever. and he knew he wanted to learn more. Darrah was Along with his team, Gastaldo brought at his side the whole time, giving close one-on-one an undergraduate student with him, Ruofei Jia, mentoring that helped mold Gastaldo’s professional so he could teach her about the cataclysm and future. “Going to Gettysburg gave me the about how scientific research actually happens. opportunity, in a liberal arts setting, to discover As a mentor, he has taken about 30 undergraduate a passion,” he said. students with him to South Africa over the years.
Even if they don’t become geoscientists, they learn how to do science, and they learn how to undertake a project— get their hands dirty. —Bob Gastaldo ’72
25 These days, Gastaldo is still on the path that Darrah revealed to him all those years ago, both as a teacher and as a scientist. In the classroom at Colby, he encourages undergraduates to get involved in research, and he meets with his students whose research he supervises every week to check in on their progress. In the field, the mystery of the ancient still draws him to places like the Karoo. There, he wore a broad sun hat and used trekking poles to traverse the rocky landscape, where the sun beat down on rocks of browns, purples, reds, and blues, located in hills covered in brown grass and wild olive trees. He zipped about the field site, hunting for clues in rocks that might reveal secrets to how the PT extinction happened.
Between the extinction of animals on land and the extinction of animals in the oceans, the latter is much better understood than the former. For instance, it is known that the cause of the marine die-offs was probably massive volcanism in what is today Siberia, which released about 3 million cubic kilometers of basaltic lava and also gases including carbon dioxide. In high enough concentrations, carbon dioxide can warm the planet, and one fallout effect of that was that the oceans likely became devoid of oxygen— something that would have suffocated life there. But the story of how the land extinction happened is not so well-known. That’s because it is not clear to scientists like Gastaldo whether or not the land extinction even happened at the same time as the extinction in the oceans. If it did, then climate-changing volcanism is likely to blame for the event. Otherwise, some other cause could be behind it all.
26 What happened is important, as many paleontologists think that humans are triggering another, sixth mass extinction of life by driving global warming via pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If global warming is part of what drove the PT extinction on land, then the PT extinction could serve as an ancient analogue for what we might expect to happen on land in the future. However, the verdict is still out on when the extinction happened, which is why Gastaldo continues to study rocks in South Africa. This year, Gastaldo worked with his team and Jia to solve the mystery. Jia explained that she had become a geology major, and had traveled out to the Karoo, in large part because of the enthusiasm of professors like Gastaldo.
Recalling the two of them at work, it is not hard to see the teaching legacy that began with Bill Darrah at Gettysburg and which continues through Gastaldo and his mentorship of students. Perhaps one day Jia will beckon others on similar such adventures, and a tradition that began at Gettysburg will continue.
—Lucas Joel
30.5112˚ south, 25.9823˚ east 27 Interested in the field of peace and conflict, Christina Noto ’19 studied in Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo. As a volunteer at the War Childhood What students Museum in Sarajevo, she was tasked with telling the stories of children affected by conflict through explaining the significance of everyday objects donated to the museum. “White ballet slippers symbolize childhood for Mela Softic,” wrote Noto in a feature story for the museum. “She grew up during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. Her memories of youth are those of war.” As a history major, Noto said working in Sarajevo helped her understand the ways in which people are affected both during, and years after, a conflict. Recently, Noto traveled to Namibia through a fellowship with the Center for Public Service to work on youth development. “Of course, Namibia’s conflict and culture are very different compared to the Balkans, but I am so excited to further develop the skills I gained while abroad,” she said.
Gettysburg College graduates give fully of themselves to advance the greater good—in their careers, in their communities, and in the world. At Commencement, the Board of Trustees presented the Lavern H. Brenneman ’36 Award for Exemplary Service to Gettysburg College to Trustee Emeritus Robert H. Joseph Jr ’69. The Alumni Association recognized that makes a difference 10 other Gettysburgians: Dick Boak ’72, Carol Hirst Clark ’61, Bob Ortenzio ’79, and Dr. John Perdew ’65 received Distinguished Alumni Awards, the Alumni Association’s foremost honor. Don Burden ’63, P’00 and Roy Fairman ’68, P’02 were recognized with Meritorious Service Awards. Young Alumni Achievement Awards for Service were awarded to Louisa Polos ’08 and Kyle Rhood ’08, while Jonathan Messier ’03 and Justin Hoover ’03 received honors for Career Development.
Biographies and photo galleries from Commencement and Reunion are online.
28 Neller earned a Bachelor of Science in computer What makes Gettysburg science from Cornell University and a doctorate from Stanford University, where he was awarded a Stanford University Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship and the George E. Forsythe Memorial Award for excellence in teaching. A game enthusiast, Neller has in recent years enjoyed pursuing game AI challenges—computing optimal play for games such as “Pass the Pigs” and Computer Science Prof. Todd W. Neller was named “Dudo”, creating new reasoning algorithms for “Clue/ the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Educator Cluedo”, analyzing optimal “Risk” attack and defense by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial policies, and designing logic mazes. Intelligence (AAAI) and Educational Advances in Artificial Neller currently serves on the AAAI Executive Intelligence. The award is given based on contributions to Council Committee on Education, and is an editor AI education—including innovative teaching methods, and columnist for the Association for Computing the creation of pedagogical resources, curricula design, and Machinery (ACM) SIGAI “AI Education Matters,” as general AI education outside of the classroom. well as the Model AI assignments chair and webmaster.
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OCTOBER 19–21 In addition to the honors reported on page 28, Family Weekend the Alumni Association announced the following: CLUB AWARDS NOVEMBER 10 Vietnam Memorial Dedication Bob Smith Alumni Club of the Year New York City Club JANUARY 25 Twilight Hour Special/Outstanding Achievement Recognition (SOAR) Seattle Club NEW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD DIRECTORS
Ja’Nai Harris ’16 Program Manager at the Harlem Children’s Zone
Katelyn E. Stauffer ’13 Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina
Lauren Meehan Keefe ’09 Attorney, Krooth & Altman LLP SEEKING NOMINATIONS
Alumni Association Board of Directors Directors share a close connection to the College and provide leadership and representation for all alumni. Forward nominations to Susan Eicholtz Pyron ’83 at [email protected] or 717-337-6542.
Alumni Association Awards The Alumni Association invites alumni to identify candidates for awards by November 9. Complete the form online (www.gettysburg.edu/alumniawards) or contact [email protected] or 717-337-6518.
Candidates for Honorary Degree Recipients of the College’s highest honor may be artists, scholars, clergy, humanitarians, and other distinguished leaders. The Office of the Provost is accepting nominations for honorary degrees to be awarded at Commencement 2020. The nomination form and guidelines are available online. Nominations and questions may be directed to Maureen Visit gettysburg.edu/links for information related Forrestal at [email protected] to Bulletins and other stories in this issue. or 717-337-6820.
30 Class notes
1944 As many of you remember, the Gettysburg One of which is a tree directly in front 75th Reunion Year Class of 1950 was a weird one in many of Glatfelter Hall in honor of the Class ways. Freshmen men who were not WWII of 1950 and all its happy, shared Dorothy Scheffer Hartlieb veterans were greeted with the news that memories. Remember, wherever those 5225 Wilson Lane, Apt. 4111 they would be housed in the barracks, loyal sons gather... Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 hastily set up in the old gymnasium 717-591-8434 with bunks and foot lockers. Not many [email protected] 1951 accepted, thank you very much, and Lou Hammann all kinds of arrangements were found 1945 1350 Evergreen Way in a big hurry. Neiman Craley hightailed Orrtanna, PA 17353 Charlotte Rehmeyer Odell it to Joe Wolfinger’s on Washington Street. 717-334-4488 1615 East Boot Road, #B-103 Sid Ehrhardt and Al Rudisill ended [email protected] West Chester, PA 19380 up in the Gettysburg Seminary’s dorm. 610-429-2120 If my memory serves me correctly, 425 Dear College friends: I knew I was men and 13 women made up the entering optimistic in my last message to the class. 1946 class. Those veterans were not going And this note will arrive after Homecoming. Connie Douglas Wiemann to hang around college any longer than All of which reminds me that 67 years 1117 Devonshire Way necessary, so the final number graduating makes ordinary life somewhat difficult. Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418-6863 was more like 200 men and 30 women. I would still appreciate hearing from any 561-622-5790 All of the women commuted daily. of you with at least a reminder that you Liz Lott Bair and Jeanne Hankins are still a member of a quite remarkable If anyone is interested in taking Dufour drove in from Biglerville. We met G’burg class. I am reluctant to burden our over the class correspondent position, in the registration line in Glatfelter Hall and magazine with casual messages about please contact Joe Lynch ’85 at became instant friends. They moved onto us, but if you send me any note, brief [email protected] or 717-337-6522. campus the next year, and the number or elaborate, I’ll see to it that it is passed of women making up our class increased on to our classmates. Just use some 1949 each year. I moved into Stevens Hall the judgment about what might interest 70th Reunion Year second half of my junior year and roomed us: at least a phone number or an email with Liz and Jeanne for our final year. Mrs. M. Jane Heilman Doyle (if you have one). Or surely some of us Why am I telling you this? Well, thanks c/o Suzanne Schneider could tell recent stories of what we are to her Atlanta family, Liz was able to 540 Orrtanna Rd. up to—that would spark interest. But I come to Gettysburg in May and then Orrtanna, PA, 17353 assure you: I will relay anything that seems we traveled to the Exton area to visit 570-470-7864 interesting enough to warrant a bunch Jeanne. So all three roommates had of postage stamps—or maybe a note a grand time together. Still all “vertical,” in the College’s magazine. 1950 as Liz says, and of reasonably sound Ruthe Fortenbaugh Craley mind! This wonderful visit brought out 3133 Sunshine Drive the yearbooks, and I hope you readers Dover, PA 17315 will do the same. If you haven’t been 717-764-6334 on campus, much looks familiar, but there [email protected] are many lovely and exciting changes.
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1952 two years with the USPHS in Gallup, NM, church and community activities. Margaret Blanchard Curtis treating the Indian tribes Hopis, Zunis, etc., Jean had successful heart valve 1075 Old Harrisburg Road, #144 and then had 38 years in family medicine replacement surgery in Feb. In June, Gettysburg, PA 17325 in Lancaster where he retired. He also Hank celebrated his 50th year as the 717-334-1041 commented on the College choir, which National Weather Service observer for [email protected] he loved to hear, and that he had been the Galeton area of PA. During the Is no news good news? I surely hope so! in the band. A big thanks to those who summer, they headed to New England But how about writing a note telling made writing these notes easy this time. to visit their eight great-grandchildren me and us what you’re up to these days— Remember the rest of you can do this also! and nine grandchildren, along with some traveling, visiting, a planned return of their favorite places. Bob and Denise to campus? Let’s have some news 1954 “Dinny” Haldt Brubaker sold their for our next class notes! Thanks! 65th Reunion Year Fort Collins, CO, home and moved into the Army Residence Community in San Helen-Ann Souder Comstock Antonio, TX, which is about 70 percent 241 S. 6th Street, #510 1953 U.S. Air Force retired officers and spouses. Philadelphia, PA 19106 Barbara Slothower King It is a full-service high-rise with meals 215-869-5125 6131 Greenbriar Lane provided. They regret, however, that they [email protected] Fayetteville, PA 17222 can no longer get together occasionally 717-352-7363 with Rod “Rocky” Fisher, also of “the Nancy Penniman Young has traveled [email protected] Fort.” John Stewart sends greetings a good bit of the world. Recently, she from Spain. He is enjoying retirement and visited Southeast Asia, and I heard about Our 65th Reunion was attended by six feels that Spain is the best possible place some of her trip when we had lunch stalwart classmates—Charles Sanders to live in retirement. “Every day is lovely— in May. I asked her to send her and Harold Carr and their wives all sun, no clouds, no rain—the best “impressions” to share with classmates. Harry “Red” Hamer, Bill Keers weather in the world.” and wife Marnie, Gladys Hicks Nigro She writes, “A trip abroad often gives you and husband Joe; and Barbara and more insight into your own country as you Larry ’50 King. We all enjoyed our time are able to compare a different way of life 1955 together and seeing the new buildings to your own. And so it was with a recent Rev. Joseph Molnar on campus. Bill Keers, “apparent president trip I took with my daughter to Vietnam, 4190 Park Place for life since the 50th Reunion—his Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. The war Bethlehem, PA 18020 words—was amazed as we all were at the we were involved in 40 years ago is now 610-814-2360 Presidential Address and Alumni Awards history, and the front-page incidents are [email protected] Ceremony. The Class of ’53 received two now tourist attractions. We visited the of the awards—The Verna A. Schwartz prison where John McCain was held, saw 1956 ’13 Reunion Fund Trophy for the largest the preserved body of Ho Chi Minh, and Georgiana Borneman Sibert Annual Fund gift and The Charles W. the explosive population of Hanoi, where 729 Hilltop Lane Beachem ’25 Reunion Fund Trophy for mopeds dominate the streets. There is little Hershey, PA 17033-2924 the most improved class. We congratulate room for cars. The people are all petite 717-533-5396 all of you who gave, because none compared to us. They had to make the 717-379-8910 of us thought we were responsible to that tunnels bigger to accommodate the tourist [email protected] degree. This really was quite an honor, and industry that is flourishing. Some unusual we were able to hold and have our picture things included a monk in a saffron robe There is not much news this time after taken with the silver plates and trophies. pulled out a cell phone after blessing us; receiving nothing for the last issue. Our festivities continued with dinner the tribal women in Chiang Mai now wear I hope everyone is off doing something at the Inn at Herr Ridge. Those present the brass rings around their neck more exciting for the summer and will write were asked to write or promise to write for historical interest than for tribal identity. and share their adventures for the something for these notes. So, in the Angkor Wat, the recently discovered next time around! I spoke briefly future, you will hear from them. Before temple in the jungle, is now overrun with with Alan Ruby who continues the Reunion, I heard from Ron Kick who millions of tourists a year. The people to amaze me with all the things he does. was at the 50th but not able to attend now who live on the Mekong River in floating He continues to do tours in the area and as his wife, Joanne Reese ’55, is unable villages seem healthy and happy. It seemed has now added the Hershey Hotel and to travel. They have been back to G’burg impossible that a war could have taken the Gettysburg battlefield to his journeys. since to visit the College and battlefield. place there at all, and yet the countryside Sounds like fun! I received a nice letter Ron said his great-grandfather survived in Cambodia is still riddled with land mines. and booklet from John Weaver letting Chancelorsville and Gettysburg with the Visiting Asia as an 86 year-old was us know of his activities over the years. 68th NY. He mentioned how important a challenge and a privilege. I was fortunate He is most thankful for the broad his four years were at G’burg and the to have the chance.” Buzz Hanson writes education he received at G’burg, which ATO house, where most of the seniors that during June he and his wife Denise he has used in many ways to support were WWII veterans. Also, the ROTC. visited her family who live just across his activities. He started an “antique Their retirement plans ruled out G’burg the Mississippi River from St. Louis. consultant” business, which is how his as it is too cold. They settled in the While there, they toured President history background and research has warmer subtropics of southwest FL, Estero Lincoln’s birthplace in Springfield, IL, helped him broker items for his clients. north of Naples. I also had a note from which Buzz comments “was neat.” John and his wife, Judy, live in Wall, Dr. Joseph Hess who, after graduation, Buzz continues with his hospice and USO NJ, and enjoy traveling, gardening, and went on to Jefferson Medical College and volunteer work. Henry “Hank” Lush living at the Jersey Shore. They have five interned at Lancaster General. He married writes from the mountains of Galeton, PA, grandchildren and one great-grandchild Shirley and had three children. He spent that he and Jean are well and busy with to enjoy and keep them busy. I hope
32 everyone has had a great summer and president of his fraternity, Theta Chi, executive director of Education Assoc., got to do lots of things worth writing and listed in “Who’s Who.” He married devoting his career to improving education. about. I am looking forward to hearing upon graduation, and he and his wife Several couples celebrate 60 years of from you so I have something to write Joan enjoyed years in Germany while marriage, doctors Beth Brown and Dick about in the next column. he served in the Army. Following his Lilly being one couple. Beth’s profession service, they lived in Brooklyn, New is practicing child, adolescent, and adult 1957 Orleans, and Miami. In the latter location, psychiatry (48 years), and Dick’s is in Don Helfrich he worked in the television industry. general practice in Prince George’s 7 Jeannes Way In retirement, he enjoyed working with County, MD. They have two children and Forestdale, MA 02644 his son, Glenn, at the South FL Rehearsal five grandchildren. Lin ’57 and Margie 508-539-4280 Studios, which they owned. Dick was Myers Goodyear, married 60 years [email protected] pleased to work with many young and loyal grads returning each Reunion, musicians who liked to call him “Pop.” enjoyed the Alumni College sessions I was happy to get back to G’burg again Joan died in 2016. Dick is survived by previous to our Reunion activities. Barry and attend the ’58 Reunion activities his son, a niece and nephews, and cousins, and Cindy Kunkel (61 years) have had with my wife, Phyllis Ball Helfrich ’58. among them Elaine Bonnet Molnar ’58, a wonderful life: Navy pilot, seminary, After dinner, I was able to catch up with whom he called “Cuz.” We extend our traveling, three children, six grandchildren, Franklin Goodyear. Many years ago, condolences to all. Gettysburg residents and seven great-grandchildren. Rich I chatted with “Linn” and inquired about Bob and Carol Sieck were surprised and Cindy Brunner and Sharon and Joe his work, but he was reluctant to share by a 60th wedding anniversary party while Gonzalez were two of the first couples anything about his government career. visiting family in Phenix City, AL. Among to respond for the Reunion. Quizzing Cindy In jest, he even said he might have the celebrants was 9-month old, Louis on a description of Rich over the years— to arrange my personal demise Brian Sieck. Other classmates marking he is the “provisioner” for her culinary if he disclosed anything. But, now retired, 60th wedding anniversaries are Franklin talents. Joe was the first student from Linn was able to share some information and Margie Myers ’58 Goodyear and G’burg to be part of the Washington about his career. After graduation, Don and Phyllis Ball ’58 Helfrich. Semester at American U. Thanks to Millie as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, I’m sure there are others. Please let Hartzell, his grades got transferred instead he went to work for the National me know, and I’ll name and list them of just as credits. Tributes after dinner Security Administration. He was hired in the next edition of the College magazine. were given to several faculty and staff as a mathematician to help the agency use who are memorable in our education room sized machines called computers. 1958 at G’burg. We appreciated President Janet He spent six months in training Janet Bikle Hoenniger Davis Morgan Riggs ’77 coming by during as a cryptologic officer at Fort Devens, MA. 407 Chamonix Drive our Friday evening social. Joe ’55 and His military service was reduced Fredericksburg, VA 22405 Elaine Bonnett Molnar, married almost to six months active duty when President 540-371-1045 60 years, have three children. She taught Eisenhower vetoed the Department [email protected] five years, earned her MA in counseling, of Defense budget. In 1961, he left and had a career as coordinator the NSA and worked for an engineering We had a great time reminiscing and of displaced homemaker program for firm that had several Navy contracts in HI. catching up on 60 years of events at 10 years. She enjoys retirement, being Later, back home in Bethesda, MD, our Reunion. Some people who emailed the wife of Rev., and they now own their he became director of data processing for and were sorry they couldn’t come were own home after living in parsonages the Metropolitan Council of Governments Abbie Pingatore, John Benjamin, many years. Campbell and Joy Steidle for many years. He then joined another Pat Mills Soderholm, Carolyn Graeub have lived in their home engineering firm that held FAA contracts Clausen, and Jerry Harrell. Abbie lives in Chevy Chase, MD, for 55 years with until his retirement in 2004. Linn and in FL, as does Pat. Pat keeps busy two children and four grandchildren nearby. his wife, Margie Myers ’58, have a son, recording Books for the Blind for the Joy spent many years as a volunteer daughter, and four grandchildren who Library of Congress and has a daughter at Sibley Memorial Hospital and continues all live in their general proximity in MD. who is a stained glass artist. She doesn’t doing garden work and flower arranging The college fraternity is not just for college have a computer or cell phone, but invited at Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens years alone. So it was taught by each anyone coming near Davie, FL, to call and while being active in church and a quilt of them, and Robert Sickel has followed stop by. Carolyn keeps in touch via email guild. Louis ’56 and Nancy Ortell that teaching very well. Recently, Bob with Carolyn Doehne Duckworth, Alice Mehl didn’t come to dinner, but it was became the recipient of three awards Klewer Williams, Chike and Janet nice to see them at the Heritage Lunch. by the SAE national and state organizations. Heverly, and Ken Purdy, but Gettysburg Our condolences to the families of Ted In recognition for his some 30 years was too far a drive from Long Island where Brenneman, Donna Rahn VanHouten, of service, he was given a merit award they still live. John lives in MD and sent and Betty Ryder Wolfe, who passed away. by the Supreme Council, the Order of his “hello” to all, as did Joan Doyle Ulrich, Donna lived in TX with her daughter and son- the Lion, and the Order of Minerva by who has had a hard time recovering from in-law. I have a lot more news. I’ll continue the PA Delta Corporation. The accompanying cataract operations. Thanks to Joe Lynch this Reunion news in the next edition. tribute reads, “In recognition of outstanding ’85 and the alumni office, we had 37 leadership, dedication, and exemplary classmates return and were extremely 1959 service to the fraternity in the name close to getting an award for the highest 60th Reunion Year of brotherhood that truly symbolizes percentage of classmates making a gift. Carol Reed Hamilton the bonds of fidelity and friendship.” Bob Barkley officiated, and his latest 60 Strand Circle Congratulations, Bob! The ever-flowing report is his grandson was selected Cromwell, CT 06416 stream that bears us all away claimed to the collegiate baseball freshman 860-613-2441 Richard O. Wexo on May 23. Dick was All-American Team. Bob retired as the [email protected]
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Bruce and I were able to return to the of Sigma Kappa. Flossie worked at the He and Eleanor Schoeller Butler are Campus for the 1832 Society dinner at the Library of Congress as a cataloger in the residents there. Lance and Ellie are found! end of Apr. After the dinner, we enjoyed Spanish language collections, eventually My apologies to Clark Billie and Eddie music by the College’s jazz band in the earning a master’s degree in library Lucas. I can’t find the article that you gave beautiful Majestic Theater. If you have not science from Catholic U in Washington. me about the SAE tribute on Reunion been back to Gettysburg recently and have She finished her library career at the Weekend 2017. May I please have a chance to visit, you will want to see the National Science Foundation. As a member it again? Thanks. Until next time. Majestic Theater, now operated by the of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, College. At the dinner, a student spoke she sang in the choir, volunteered in the 1962 to the gathering and thanked the alum church office, served on the Altar Guild, Denise De Pugh Kelly for the scholarship his family endowed that and after her retirement, opened the 1532 McCormick Drive she received. What poise and what a good church at 6:30 a.m. and worked until Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-5976 message this young lady gave. President 4 p.m. Flossie and good friends Beverly 717-796-1657 Janet Morgan Riggs ’77 said she was Mears Stang, Anne Heckler Kline, [email protected] always nervous following such a well- Joan Wachob Norris, and Marian often spoken student. It is always great to see got together for lunch and to share stories, Gettysburg College Class of 1962 the kind of students the College is sending memories, and laughs. Marian still uses out into the world. A special treat for me a walker after her serious accident and has 1963 was meeting Ellen Buchanan Wilcox folks who come two times a week to help Susan Cunningham Euker at dinner. Ellen was one of the foursome her “‘run’ (pun intended) errands. My two 1717 Gatehouse Court who shared the room with me, Marge favorite hangouts are the Adams County Bel Air, MD 21014 Mills Carpenter, and Florence Ann Public Library and the Adams County 410-420-9826 Duckworth Wilson on the first floor SPCA. Prayers, music, laughter, and pets [email protected] of Stevens Hall in 1955. Ellen now require no prescriptions!” resides in FL and often sees other G’burg Dear Classmates. Our Reunion was really folks who are at The Villages in FL. 1961 wonderful! We had about 40 classmates, I just received a note from Warren J. Nan Funk Lapeire plus significant others present, and Poysher. Warren said this was his first 20 Canal Run East we loved catching up, laughing, drinking, time communicating with me, and I hope Washington Crossing, PA 18977 eating great cuisine, and touring the he will be in touch again. He said he had 215-493-5817 beautiful and newly renovated campus. retired and was glad his good days were 215-962-8773 (cell) Not only did we discuss our own life in the “glorious ’50s.” Warren, we would [email protected] goings-on, but we also solved most like to know what you did over the past of the world’s problems! And, we are years and what career you retired from. Thanks to all for the exciting news for planning on a 60th Reunion, so don’t Bruce and I are just delighted that our this issue. Please keep the info coming! put away your dancing shoes quite yet! youngest granddaughter will be a member Classmates check here first when the The most moving part of the four days of the Class of 2022. I am sure tucking magazine arrives. A letter arrived with for me was the memorial service on a beautiful College calendar in her a colorful insert announcing that a book Saturday afternoon to honor Vietnam Christmas stocking these last two years entitled, AIias Emperor Rogers: veterans (Joe Murphy and others). had nothing to do with it. Please send A Majestic Memoir by Baltimore’s Fred Butler, who was Joe’s roommate, me some news for our next column. Emperor of Insanity in the Crazy Daze delivered a very moving eulogy. Thank you, of ’60s Top 40 Radio. The illustrious Fred. Also present were Carol Menges 1960 author is none other than our own Paul Gates and Joe’s son and daughter. Pat Carr Layton H.D. Rothfuss. Paul wanted us to know Several other Gettysburg graduates were 301 Powell Avenue that the book, published by RL Publishers, honored, as well. A big “thank you” to Salisbury, MD 21081 is available on Amazon and is a “light- Don, Oz, the rest of the committee, and 410-202-6049 summer” read about his 17 years on the the College who helped plan a wonderful [email protected] air during the heyday of Top 40 radio. weekend. A special thanks also to Ron While it is Baltimore-oriented, it is also Couchman for setting up the display Dan Selak writes from TX: “Austin reflective of the kind of wacky stuff that of the Class of ’63 memorial collection is a very progressive town, the blueberry was going on in Top 40 radio stations in the library. It should be noted that in a bowl of red soup. Working to help all over the U.S. The audiobook awaits the President of the College, Janet elect Beto for Senate to kick Cruz out... approval from Audible. Paul thought that Morgan Riggs ’77, made a special visit Still playing a little golf, still volunteering the many Phi Delt brothers who visited to our class to thank us for our many to drive old folks to their medical him when he was on WSBA would contributions to the College. We couldn’t appointments, still taking classes be interested. Congrats to Paul! Getting have asked for a more organized and at UT, and traveling. I have two grandkids a book published is no easy feat. Betsy memorable four days! And congratulations entering college and a 2-year-old by son Wenger Snipe is enjoying retirement— to Don Burden who was awarded the Mark who got to things at age 54, yikes! reading, visiting friends, and generally Meritorious Service Award for his 12- Got hooked on astronomy a few years doing whatever she likes. Betsy is year term on the Board of Trustees of back which I work on every day, even took especially proud of her grandson who Gettysburg College. Don served two years an online chemistry class to fill in my lack is a West Point graduate and serving as president, was involved in numerous of understanding.” Marian Davis sent as an Army Ranger. While visiting a friend Class of ’63 Reunions, as well as serving news that Flossie Heckman died in the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, on the conservatory oversight board and in Mar. Flossie sang alto in the Chapel she saw a G’burg banner and a Lance the magazine advisory board. In addition, Choir, played intramural basketball (where Butler nameplate on the door. Poking during his term on the board, Don she zipped under the taller players toward her head in the door, she said, “Are you initiated the Stole of Gratitude tradition the basket), and served as president the Lance Butler I know?” It sure was. at Commencement. Congratulations, Don,
34 and thank you for all you have done for from George Washington U, School students were members of Jim’s church. Gettysburg College! I received a note from of Medicine, and completed surgery While the women’s lacrosse team’s Doug Craig ’64 who said in April he was residency from Tripler Army Medical wonderful victories were being celebrated, on a transatlantic cruise on the Quest and Center. He just retired after 47 years Betsy Slaybaugh Reed, Linda Gatty met Jim Vinson in an elevator! Craig said of general and vascular surgery and is now Lovette, and Carol Ganoe Frederick Jim was decked out in his G’burg shirt and involved in philanthropy working for the remembered the days when it wasn’t was hard to miss—so they had a couple of Kettering Medical Center Foundation and possible. Ginny Morgan says that when meals together and marveled over the fact two other foundations in Dayton, OH. He she tried to start a lacrosse team in 1961, that two Gettysburgians met in the middle and his wife of 49 years, Carol, have two the administration said it was too rough of the Atlantic Ocean! Serendipity, for children who have an independent ministry for “girls.” Congratulations to John sure! I also received a note that Peter W. and commute regularly between Dayton Perdew who received a Distinguished Wright, USAF Lt. Col. retired, has passed and Jerusalem. Beth Headley Paul, who Alumni Award from the College. As a away. Pete received his master’s degree lived in Fairfield, CT, for many years with theoretical condensed matter physicist from SUNY Plattsburgh in 1975 and was her husband Richard “Dick” Paul, a retired known for his research in density a career Air Force officer. He is survived senior VP and general counsel for Xerox, functional theory of both materials by his wife Ann Barry Wright; a son, James, died unexpectedly Aug. 23, 2017, about and molecules, he has taught at Temple and his wife, Chris; and his grandchildren. a week after her 75th birthday. She is U since 2013. With a long and illustrious This Nov. on Veterans Day weekend, sorely missed by two of her longtime career, he was elected to the National Gettysburg College will celebrate the friends from G’burg, Sue Miller Robinson Academy of Sciences in 2011. Sometimes, completion of the new student union and Susan Eymann. Over the past I receive the news about deceased building with a dedication to the number of years, they would meet at classmates after the magazine is printed Vietnam War. There will be a ceremony various locations in the U.S. and Canada and mailed. We last saw Kurt Kaltreider on campus, so make plans to attend; some for wonderful get-togethers. Sue Miller at our 2015 Reunion. He was so noted of us already have. More information with Robinson, who lives in Vienna, VA, is for his expertise in finance, and his books be sent by the College later this summer. retired from being chief assistant librarian on Native Americans were consistently Hope to see you there! at the CIA in Langley, VA. She worked at the top of that Amazon category. A long in community libraries part time for several obituary is online. Larry Lees, his wife, 1964 years after her retirement. Susan Eymann and younger son are back from a 14-day 55th Reunion Year lived in Ithaca, NY, for the past 30 years fifth cruise to AK. By the time you read and is still a medical and scientific writer this, they’ll be travelling to the Canadian Kathleen Gibbs for a biomedical company. Dorothy “DJ” Maritimes. Still living in Valrico, FL, they 24 Heatherwood Lane Samuel Davis has died. She was one travel at least to bypass FL’s heat and Bedminster, NJ 07921 of the 16 Center Cottage girls. After mosquitoes. He keeps up with classmates. 908-781-6351 Gettysburg, she received a master’s Do you? Joe Kelley phoned with news [email protected] degree from Penn State. She began of several KDR friends. He met Dick her career as a teacher in both York, PA, Merryman ’67 and his wife while all were Sue Smitten sends along this message and Bristol, RI. After raising her children, on a HI cruise! Every column seems to give to the alumni office: “Just writing to say she worked for many years with the news of similar meetings. Pay attention I really enjoyed your article on Maria Women’s Resource Centers in Newport, RI to who is around you. Bill Bush loves Sibylla Merian. I’m a G’burg Class of 1964 and Wakefield, RI, as a victim’s advocate. living 5,300 feet up in the San Bernardino history major. When I spotted the original She is survived by her husband, Thomas Mountains of CA with Martha (a former New York Times article, : “A Pioneering Davis; her daughter, Joanna Davis-Swing; elementary school teacher) and their Woman,” I emailed it to my counterpart and three grandchildren. three cats. For 12 years in the late 1990s in Suriname. I was a Peace Corps volunteer through 2009, he enjoyed a part-time in Suriname 2002-2003 with my husband, instructor position teaching creative writing and we have many great memories of 1965 at UCLA. His love of genealogy led him our time there. Now I have this G’burg Rev. Dr. John R. Nagle to chronicle 500 years of his family’s connection and wish Professor Kay 303 Whitehall Way ancestry from the 16th century with Etheridge much success with her future Cary, NC 27511 stories, anecdotes, legends, photos, research.” In Apr., Susan Robinson and 919-467-6375 and facts. Bill was kind enough to share Doug Craig were on a transatlantic cruise [email protected] pictures of his kids and grandkids, on the Azamara Club Cruises ship Quest of whom he is justly proud. Again this and met Jim Vinson ’63 in an elevator. Jim The only thing wrong with this column year, thanks are in order for our class’s was decked out in his G’burg shirt, making is the long delay between what you send financial response. Some are able to give him hard to miss. They had a couple me and when it appears. Some of what large amounts (we know who you are and of meals together and enjoyed their time, follows may not be new (or news) to you. say thank you) and others give at their reveling in the fact that they had met I hope that many of you were able to watch own ability, continuing to keep our College a fellow Gettysburgian in the middle the 48 Hours television presentation strong. Every gift helps. Muriel Sabo has of the Atlantic Ocean. Attending the on the life and death of Andrew Muns. had a rough period of illness, but is now funeral of Paul Andrews in Dec. 2017 It was great to review his vindication, mending well. And the rest of you? Are in Bethesda, MD, were Jim Hammerstone, which all his friends knew would come. you now bionic or still at the same level Nick Nichols, Bob Hooper, and Tim Jim Gelbert sent word that the Parkland of health as 50 years ago? Remember Parsons, all brothers of Sigma Chi shooting had very personal connections. what I said before our last Reunion— fraternity. Also in attendance were John His granddaughter and grandson I don’t care what you look like. I just Jaeger ’65, Howard Livingston ’65, Ozzie (hospitalized, evacuated, and now being want to see you again. Really! Zagars, and Joe Lynch ’85, executive counseled) are students at the school director of alumni relations at G’burg. and witness to all that happened very Warren Muth earned his medical degree close to their home. Two of the killed
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1966 My very first correspondence deals with have to mow lawns or worry about home Tom de la Vergne a very close friend and Phi Delta Theta repairs. Katie gets together with roomie 587 Sheffield Drive fraternity brother, Charles “Chuck” Sue Knauer Webster, Elena White, Springfield, PA 19064 Widger. Chuck is founder and executive and Helen Woods Wilson for lunch 610-543-4983 chairman at Brinker Capital, Inc. and has every three weeks or so. She and Denny [email protected] been announced as a winner for this year’s are planning a trip to some baseball EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 award stadiums they haven’t seen this summer Dr. Nolan R. Walborn passed away for the Greater Philadelphia Region. and also play golf now that the weather is on Feb. 22. After graduating with high As a regional winner, Chuck is now eligible conducive. They also plan a week honors from G’burg, Nolan attended the for awards in several national categories, in NYC in June and various trips to their U of Chicago where he received his PhD as well as the EY Entrepreneur of the condo in NH. Sam Laudenslager writes in astronomy. He spent most of his career Year overall national award, which will that he was selected to the crew at the Hubble Space Telescope Science be announced on Nov. 10. Congratulations, of volunteers who worked at the fan fest Institute. The International Astronomical Chuck! Please send me any updates and all-star game activities during the Union has approved naming a recently on your lives or those of your 1967 Major League Baseball All-Star weekend discovered asteroid as Walborn 25942. classmates. I look forward to hearing in July, hosted by the Washington He was a well-known stellar spectroscopist from you. Nationals. His assignment was likely specializing in the optical and ultraviolet as escort detail for some of the former spectra of hot, massive (O- and B- type) 1968 Major Leaguers who returned for the “Old stars. Nolan returned to G’burg for our Susan Walsky Gray Timers” game played Sunday afternoon, 40th Reunion and gave a fascinating 113 Balsam Lane July 15. Terry Ludlow tells us that after-dinner talk about outer space. He Aiken, SC 29803-2713 retirement continues to be very good, also presented many spectacular color 803-641-4344 with quality time spent with his children photos taken by the Hubble Telescope. [email protected] and grandchildren. He is passionate Pat Shaffer Petiet wrote to let us know about woodworking, building many classic Gettysburg College Class of 1968 she is still doing theatre. She and her furniture projects for family and some husband run the Comic Opera Guild and custom work for clients. Living in VA They came from near. They came from far. just finished taping a show he wrote called has also been important to pursuing his They came for the first time in 50 years. Chapter and Worse, for broadcasting interest in the Civil War. Terry recently They have been at every five-year Reunion. on PBS (hopefully). Anyone can access completed an article entitled, “English They have kids, grandkids, and no kids. the work on YouTube or by going to the Revolvers for Southrons (sic)”, for the They are working. They are retired. Comic Opera Guild website. The show North South Trader’s Civil War magazine They have moved. They have stayed is a musical, comedy skit and very funny. that has received very positive reviews. planted where they started. What the She is still tutoring science and math He hopes to be doing more with his other heck am I talking about? Why our 50th in retirement from middle school teaching. avocation, archaeology, in the near future. “reunionees” in June! We had a great She was sorry to have missed our 50th, Thanks to these classmates for telling group of people for all the activities, and but she was recovering from hip surgery. us what’s happening in their lives. I’d love each of us received a ton of information “Hello to all.” Several members of our class to hear from more of you in the future. about classmates from the College. returned to Reunion Weekend this past Save the dates, May 31-June 2, for I refuse to repeat all of that, but if you June to attend or take part in the Vietnam the 50th Reunion of our class. Activities did not get one, I’d be happy to look Veterans Memorial Ceremony. will begin with the Alumni College on someone up for you. That leaves you with Those present were Dick Mole Myers, Thursday afternoon, an informal reception a responsibility. Send me or the College Rich Sawyer, Craig Disher, Kathie Thursday evening, a social on Friday some information about what you are Smith de la Vergne, Tom McCracken, evening, and class activities on Saturday doing. People really do want to know, Bill Bock, Steve Tracy, Gordy Rowe, morning and afternoon, followed by a as many said that they were so sorry that Ken Snowe, and Dale Boyd. dinner and program on Saturday evening. so and so, or someone else, didn’t come. The Reunion Committee of Jesse Diner, Was that you? It’s only five years to the Carol Bryant Emrich, Gregory Gibson, 1967 next Reunion! Bob Joseph, Tom Kull, Bill Lindsay, Larry Luessen Gail Van Norstrand MacFarland, RR 1 Box 503 1969 Kenneth Maskell, Stephen Nelson, 116 Fairway Oaks Lane 50th Reunion Year Henry Nicholson, Fred Schumacher, Roseland, VA 22967-9201 Jean Deimler Seibert, Joel Springer, 434-325-7864 (home) Jana Hemmer Surdi 7 Condor Road Barbara Wold Vogel, Fred Vogel, and 540-645-3760 (cell) Francie Erickson Zimmerman have [email protected] Palmyra, VA 22963 434-589-5669 started planning for this event. If you have [email protected] specific recommendations on activities, Let me introduce myself. I’m Larry please contact one of the committee Luessen, your new class correspondent. members. Hope to see everyone in June. I’m replacing Dick Matthews whom Katie Brown is always on the move. we unfortunately lost on Jan. 26, 2017. Last summer, she and her husband Denny I was a physics major at Gettysburg and went on a photo safari to Africa (Kenya 1970 obtained my Master of Science in electrical and Zimbabwe); that was the seventh Marsha Barger engineering in 1970 from Duke U. I spent continent on their travels. They have 409 Klee Mill Road 34 years working for the Department now visited all 50 states, all states and Sykesville, MD 21784 of Defense and another 10 years with two territories of Australia, and all continents. 410-552-9146 defense contractors. I retired in 2010 and They also lived in Australia for a year. [email protected] Now they live in a retirement community live with my wife, Lynn, in Wintergreen, VA. Gettysburg ’70 in Elizabethtown, PA, where they don’t
36 I hope everyone had a good summer! MD about you, and so do your classmates. 1973 had a rather wet spring and early summer. Please write, call, or email. Also join our Steve “Triff” Triffletti The corn crops look good at this point— class Facebook page (waving to Val 124 Long Pond Road I sound like a farmer! No one wrote again. Toombs Hamilton). Let’s start reuniting Plymouth, MA 02360 I’m going to have to rely on what some so we have a great turnout for our 50th 508-746-1464 (work) folks had written in last year’s Christmas Reunion in 2021! To my Facebook 508-746-9205 (fax) cards. Carol Infusino Tokar friends, I will ask your permission to share [email protected] is a grandmother. Congratulations! something from there to here. Carol’s son and his wife had a baby boy Gettysburg College Class of 1973 in July 2017. Kathie Klemmer Holliday 1972 Cynthia Wilcox reported the following: and husband Barry spent last Christmas Chad Pilling “The Class of 1973 Reunion was a great in Oklahoma City with Barry’s son and 4220 Morris Road success and a wonderful time was had family, and they enjoyed exploring the Hatboro, PA 19040 by all! Kathy Frederick traveled all restaurants and museums in the area. 267-566-0206 the way from AK with her husband. Kathie had planned to retire from her [email protected] finance position at a high school Former Stevens Hall residents Ann Marie “Campy” Brown, Sheryl Stokes, Kathy in Fredericksburg, VA, at the end of the As I write, the hazy, hot, humid days Henck, and Debra Wallet also made the 2018 school year. Congratulations, Kathie! of summer are upon us in the Northeast. trip. The JC Superstar Presentation was She said she has quite the “to-do” list Back in Feb., too late for the previous informative, memory enhancing, and fun! to keep herself busy. Donna Springer issue, Pam Werner Davey let me know The Alumni College classes were fun and wrote that she works out in the water that in 2017 she retired from Buyers, low pressure. The Class Social on Friday and on a treadmill. She teaches aquasize Products in Cleveland, OH, after night was fun and nicely attended. We had at the local YMCA in St. Louis, MO, and 16 years as IT manager and moved a great time at the Saturday night dinner. facilitates the adult Asperger’s group to the Pensacola, FL area with her Campy Brown, Bill Tyree, and I provided at Easter Seals Midwest. She is also husband Bill. She loves retirement and entertainment in the Patron’s Lounge furthering her nursing education. Our 50th living in FL. She is also involved with the in the Majestic Theater. We performed Reunion will be coming up in 2020. American Wine Society and now singing our Gettysburg version of the NPR Show How is that possible?! Please start with the Pensacola Choral Society. “Wait, Wait.” On Sunday night, we were to consider attending. You have two years Also, back in late Feb., Tom Lerch was treated to performances by David Crosby to prepare! If you’ve never attended, please kind enough to send me an article from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.” To say try to come. Everyone would love to see on Dick Boak’s retirement from Martin the least, Reunion Weekend was a great you. And for you Reunion “regulars,” it’s Guitar. It was quite a celebration, “Boak’s success! On a non-Reunion note, Carol always good to see you folks. Let’s make Bash,” thrown by the C.F. Martin Co. Hegeman was recently named executive this our most-attended Reunion yet. at a sold-out State Theater in Easton. director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower As always, please write. Thanks so much! The performers were all people with whom Society in Gettysburg. I occasionally run Dick had worked over his 41-year career into Dana Hudson Wilt, Jane Whitfield at Martin. There to serenade Dick were 1971 Strictland, Jean LeGros, Carol Susan “Nibs” Niblette Donahue John Mayer, Steve Miller, Marty Stuart & Hegeman, and Dean Nancy Locher 11906 Yellow Rush Pass His Fabulous Superlatives, Laurence Juber, who still live locally, as well as Charlotte Columbia, MD 21044 Jorma Kaukonen, David Bromberg, Craig Reichert and Russ Hanson. 202-439-7750 Thatcher, and Trevor Gordon Hall. Others Keep sending your updates, and I will [email protected] Dick worked with included Eric Clapton, include your news in the next issue! Willie Nelson, and Glen Campbell— Gettysburg College Class of 1971 a spectacular send-off. Jim Cooke lives Reunion in Gettysburg and enjoys being a Licensed 1974 Battlefield Guide for Gettysburg National 45th Reunion Year Greetings and salutations! The class Military Park. Sadly, he wrote to report the Nan Messinger Lansinger correspondent baton has been passed passing of Sue Bollinger Hoffman. 249 South Ithan Avenue to me from the esteemed Beth Parr- Sue lost her battle with pancreatic cancer Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 White. Dear woman, thank you so much on May 16. She retired after more than [email protected] for all that you covered and connected 20 years of service as director of adult throughout your tenure! I intend to badger education at the York County School Seven Sigma Chi brothers traveled and plead more completely than of Technology. My wonderful predecessor, to MT in late May for a stay at Mountain Beth did. There are so many good Patty Mack Groer, was kind enough Sky Ranch: Barry Letts, Dave Restrepo, networks via social media, but I’m sure to send an update on Bill and Lynne Dale Eichelman, Kirby Beshore, Gary there are more stories to be shared. Santee Ferguson. Lynne died eight Boguski, Michael Young, and Barry’s So many of us have found new years ago, and as the anniversary brother, Jeff, who was a Sig at Bucknell. opportunities and new passions to of her passing approached, Bill’s son, In addition to visiting Yellowstone, celebrate. Some of us travel; some of us remembering Lynne playing the piano these “city slickers” enjoyed fly-fishing, excel in theatre arts, music, or photography. when he was young, decided to establish skeet shooting, playing golf, and Some of us have turned avocations into the Lynne D. Ferguson Award, along with horseback riding. I hear their riding new job opportunities. Some of us share his father (whom you likely remember culminated with a somewhat rough our skills with new generations of family as “Ferg”). This will be an annual rendition of the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, members. Some of us continue scholarship for piano and wind instrument sung to the gal wrangler who seemed working at jobs or for causes we love! performance at Penn State, young touched despite the rather off-tune effort. Some of us have relinked through new Bill’s alma mater. And so the Fergusons Bob Maiocco reports that the recurrent friends. I found a classmate through pay it forward in honor of a loved one five-year Phi Delt reunion was a blast! a friend at the Columbia Dog Park! we all will miss. It was held in Apr. with Bill Heyman and It is a small world, and I want to hear
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Scott Kintzing attending, plus other Bret and Joan Weinheimer Altemose firm’s Cherry Hill, NJ, and Philadelphia, Phi Delts from ’72-’78. Other friends celebrated the birth of their third PA, offices. Phillippi’s practice focuses attended including Barry Letts, grandchild, Penelope Rose Coccia, on premises liability, breach of warranty, Ed Vonderschmidt, Jeff Cook, and on Mar. 6. Penny joins big sister Claire and product liability, personal injury defense, Nancy Lorenson Cook ’75. Bob says, big brother Matthew, both age 8. Bret and toxic torts, and employment litigation. “If a brother comes to one of these Joanie enjoy visiting their daughter Karen She represents national corporations reunions, he will not miss another one.” and son-in-law Matt who still live in Morris in manufacturing and retail industries. Great fun, great camaraderie, some Plains, NJ, close to their old neighborhood She has significant experience defending golf, and distance doesn’t seem to deter so they can combine grandkid time with automobile manufacturers in lemon law, people from attending. Look for the next visits to old friends. Their son Craig breach of warranty, and consumer fraud gathering in the spring of 2021 (now is married and living outside of Boston. claims. Phillippi has tried many cases every three years!), and contact Bob Both he and his wife Rouwenna are to verdict and has successfully won at [email protected] or visit him involved with nonprofits focused hundreds of arbitrations in federal and in downtown Denver. Tom and Sandy on government policies around climate state courts. Polly and I communicated James Smart live in Leesburg, VA, not change, lessening our reliance directly. She shared that previous far from Sandy’s hometown of Waterford. on non-clean energy, and dealing with to this move, she had her own firm with They have lived there since 1994 when any catastrophes that occur due to the a partner for 20 years. Her 17-year-old they returned from Heidelberg, Germany, change in climate. Joan still works son is a senior this coming year and and Tom was assigned to the Pentagon. on a project-related basis, but is winding looking at colleges. Her husband is in his After 23 years, Tom retired from the down toward retirement, which Bret has second career as a physician’s assistant Army in 1997 and then did contract enjoyed in Jacksonville since 2010. working at Temple U in the abdominal work for the Army until last year. They keep busy with friends and various transplant department. On a sad note, Sandy is a master gardener. She and Tom church activities and look forward to even I received the following from Lynn are busy with traveling (MN, Boston, FL, more travel. Recently, it has included time Purnell Leibig. Dann Cameron Leibig, Sedona, Germany, England—all this year!), in Cayucos and Morro Bay, CA; Sequoia age 63, passed away at his home two grandchildren, and the 2018 wedding Kings Canyon National Park and Yosemite. in Easton, MD, on Mar. 21. The cause of their daughter. Ritch Shidner still Acadia National Park, MN, is up next of death was pancreatic cancer. He was performs stand-up comedy and writes. on the bucket list. If you are like me, you born Jan. 1955 in Lancaster, PA, and He has a book available on Amazon, are wondering how we’ve gotten to the graduated from Cedar Crest High School, Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life age where grandchildren and great Lebanon, PA, in 1972. He received as a Stand-Up in the 1980s Comedy nieces and nephews are a main topic of a BS in biology at Gettysburg, where Boom. Barb White McInerney and her conversation. Then again, I happily spend he was a member of the Honor Council husband Mike are celebrating their 40th most of my free time with my 6-month-old and president of Sigma Chi fraternity. wedding anniversary. They love being grandson Jackson, so you may agree with Dann earned MA in international relations grandparents to their five grandchildren— me that this generation is one of the true at UPenn in 1978 and joined the Central all age 5 and younger! Barb continues blessings in life. I hope to hear from more Intelligence Agency in 1980. as the director of the Child Development classmates soon! Perhaps more fun stories He served in the CIA’s Clandestine Service Center at her church, and she has a small about travel and grandkids! with honor and integrity in Langley, VA, baking business. Decorated cookies and spent over 20 years abroad in Europe, are her specialty. I know because I saw 1976 Central Europe, and the Middle East. pictures of Barb’s creations when we met Debra Ann Myers Dykes Dann’s service of over 33 years included a few years ago in Greenville, SC, while 317 County Road 771 positions as a line officer, division manager, both of our daughters were at Clemson. Ohio City, CO 81237 chief of station, and senior intelligence Barb, Jan Lansinger, and I reminisced 970-641-1966 executive officer. He was awarded the CIA about our 1972 J-term trip to Austria when [email protected] Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal I texted pictures to them during my recent in Mar. 2011. For the past five years, visit to Vienna. Alison Raab Ruth lives Hello classmates. Barb Myhre Koch ’79 he provided lectures on intelligence in York, PA, and has two grandchildren: writes that her husband, Rob Koch, matters to UPenn, Duke, the Naval a baby boy and a 2-year-old girl. is a consultant for the Port Authority Academy, Gettysburg College, and others. While on an annual fishing trip to Bob’s of NY and NJ. They welcomed their Dann is survived by his wife of 40 years, Lake in Ontario, Barry Letts visited fellow first grandchild, Graham, on Apr. 30, Lynn Purnell, and two children, Caitlin ’10 Sigma Chi Tom Peter ’75 and his wife born to daughter Krista. I heard from and husband Joshua Franklin of Sterling, Karen Eakin Peter ’77 at their cottage Sue Reith Dippel. She writes, VA, and Brent (Bucknell ’08) of Easton, on another beautiful Canadian lake “In mid-Feb. of this year, a bunch MD. He has two brothers, David in lower Ontario, nearby Newboro Lake. of Gettysburgians gathered together of Havertown, PA, and Doug of Cross They had the opportunity to exchange at St. Pete’s Beach, FL, at the winter River, NY, and was preceded in death by fishing stories, mostly about the big ones residence of Carol Brown Murray and his parents, Herman and Phyllis Leibig. that got away! Please be sure to save husband Jim. Those in the group were the date for our 45th Reunion next year: John and Rosie Pawlak Santulli, 1977 May 30–June 2, 2019. Don’t miss it! Bill and Sue Reith Dippel, Bill and Katie Jackson Rossmann Cyn (Gelay) Van Order, and Jodee 3853 Lewiston Place 1975 Hetzer Hechler and husband Bruce.” Fairfax, VA 22030 Steve Detweiler I was sent the following notification about 703-591-0317 3107 Stonebridge Road Polly Phillippi: Schnader Harrison [email protected] Louisville, KY 40241 Segal & Lewis LLP welcomed Polly N. 502-551-4419 Phillippi as a partner in the litigation Jeff White is a professor of earth and [email protected] services department, resident in the atmospheric sciences in the College
38 of Arts and Sciences at IN U-Bloomington. George White ’79. For those of you who County Solid Waste Management This past Apr., he was their 2018 don’t remember, they were known as Prime Authority. Previously, she served for nearly Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer. Time in college and were the original 30 years as executive director of Hands He talked about his research experiences Bruce Springsteen cover band! Who can on House, a well-known children’s museum and findings from his work on the Arctic remember listening to them play “Rosalita” in Lancaster, PA. Charlotte Heverly Luy tundra. Jeff focuses his research on in the Huber Hall lobby? Saturday’s retired in Dec. and enjoys volunteering understanding human impacts forecast was to be a rainy G’burg type part time for Habitat for Humanity. on environmental systems and has worked of day, but the gods smiled down on She and Dale Luy ’78 welcomed their in northern landscapes since 1990 and us and brought sunshine, thus allowing second grandson in Apr. They reside in the remote Arctic for the past six us to take the class photo in front of in PA and visit immediate family in five years on several projects, including Pennsylvania Hall. It is always a highlight other states: CO, TX, FL, NC, and SC. work sponsored by NASA. He is also watching everyone figure out where they Chuck Shively retired from McCormick the founding director of IU’s integrated want to stand. Sorry, Scott Lange, but the and relocated to Gettysburg. He works program in the environment. We would love photographer made you move because you for The Wildlife Society “to give something to hear what you are up to these days! were too tall. Next time, we’ll make you our back after all those corporate years.” mascot and have you lie down in the front On weekends, he enjoys sporting around 1978 row. Saturday night was the infamous class in his ’47 Ford Coupe. Betsy Coombe Grace Warman Polan dinner where we “wined” and “dined” in the Gehm lives in the Buckeye State (OH) 5712 Bradley Boulevard Dining Hall, reminiscing about the tasty working as an entrepreneur. Her husband Bethesda, MD 20814 steak nights of our youth and listened David will retire soon from UPS and move 301-807-6798 to Frank Williams’s famous 1974 welcome on to something new. Their grown children [email protected] speech, in which he incorporated many live in Columbia, SC, where they plan of the last names of the incoming Class eventually to relocate. Betsy still sings, Gettysburg College Class of 1978 of 1978. The Lincoln Diner was the and she composes music for and directs informal reunion spot for breakfast a church children’s choir that she began I used to make fun of my parents who on Sunday morning as we saw multiple about 10 years ago. She hopes to find returned for every Reunion at G’burg. groups of ’78ers eating there before an arranger for her anthems and publish Not only did they return, but they often heading home. If this doesn’t make you them. Married since 1983 and also empty wore orange and blue and their dinks want to come back in five years, it will nesters, Becky Wilson Choiniere while leading the parade of the Class be the goal of the next Reunion Planning and her husband Steve live in upstate of 1948. After I attended our 40th Reunion Committee to tempt you with reasons NY. Becky owned and sold her own CO in June, I’ve become my parents, especially to return. There is truly a special bond business, raised their three children, when I was back at G’burg wearing my that we all share being members of the and then went to work for Home Depot favorite orange and blue outfit. (On the same class in the same small liberal arts in 2001. Retirement and travel are on her other hand, my dink has not survived, and I school in a small central PA town over 40 horizon. Terri Stull just retired after 34 don’t think they do class parades anymore.) years ago. Please don’t forget to write or years of teaching Spanish in Ocean City, This year’s Reunion was especially fun email me with the latest in your life. NJ. She also served as World Languages because I also attended the Alumni Team Leader for the Ocean City Board College classes beforehand. I didn’t of Education. Terri is happily remarried, know what to expect but was pleasantly 1979 40th Reunion Year and her new last name is Lashley. She also surprised by the quality of the speakers looks forward to traveling and renewing Dianne Lappe Cooney and the timeliness of some of the subjects. friendships. Several Phi Sigma Kappa 14 Byre Lane I encourage you to include it in your brothers who graduated in the years Wallingford, PA 19086 future plans if at all possible. It was great spanning 1975–1980 had their own mini- 484-684-9321 to see the familiar faces who generally reunion in early June that coincided with [email protected] return every five years and some other Alumni Weekend. Representing 1979 classmates who haven’t been back Gettysburg College Class of 1979 were Ken Aungst, Dave Boynton, on a regular basis. It seemed like “the Pit” and Bob Cole. Unfortunately, the frat had an extra strong showing. I counted Our 40th Reunion is less than one year is no longer active, but Ken reports that 13 Pit girls, including Ginny Waldkoenig away, folks! How can that be? I heard from ambitious alumni have fixed up their frat Blackwell, Alison Day Neu, Patti Phil Holbert who lives outside of Denver house and hope to one day recolonize. Bannon Burniston, Nancy David with his wife Karen and their daughter, He said the campus looked and felt Stewart, Nancy Going Loudy, Debbie a high school senior. They moved there familiar and comforting. Lush Whiting, Anne Pulliam Perry, in 1995 for the mountains and skiing and Anne Somber Riley, Laurie Moore stayed for the summers. They travel all Walsh, Libby Faron Mell, Alison 1980 over the country following their daughter, Joseph Sacchi Echard Vallejo, Beth Macneil Hesmer, who is a competitive rock climber. 572 Jackson Avenue and Pam Iovino. Please correct me, Phil has worked as a financial advisor Washington Twp., NJ 07676 ladies, if I missed anyone. Missing from the in the private wealth management field 203-219-3147 Pit was Erica Fisher Anello who was for over 25 years. Jeff Schiffman marked [email protected] in FL preparing to donate her kidney his fifth year at WVYC radio station, The to her husband Nick. As of the deadline, Voice of York College, and he continues Gettysburg College Class of 1980 both Erica and her husband were doing to teach at York College as well. Two of his great and on the road to recovery. former students were recently appointed It’s July 1, the 155th anniversary of the We missed you, Erica! Friday night was to positions at WHTM in Harrisburg, Battle of Gettysburg. As history maven the informal gathering where we were a testament to Jeff’s influence. His wife, Beth Ann Riley Griesser always taught entertained by Pennington Station which Lynn Morrison, is now community me, “Take and hold the high ground included band members Mike Kirby and engagement manager for Lancaster at Cemetery Ridge, and the battle is ours.”
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Three quick notes for the day. In Feb., 1982 1983 Stephen Morro wrote, “I traveled Kelly Woods Lynch Leslie Cole to Antarctica and celebrated retirement 90 Springs Avenue 184 Laurel Bridge Road with a polar plunge south of the Antarctic Gettysburg, PA 17325 Landenberg, PA 19350 Circle. I have now traveled to all seven [email protected] 610-274-3385 (home) continents.” Steve sent me stunning 484-888-3280 (cell) Gettysburg College Class of 1982 pictures with 157 penguins by his side [email protected] (I counted them). The photos and his adventure looked so cool as he has Hello! I hope this finds you well. Gettysburg College Class of 1983 traveled more miles than my 4,000 Here’s the latest: We have another commutes to Stamford, CT. In June, children’s author (in addition to Jen Fisher Hello, my friends. It was terrific to see Pete Carleson participated in his Bryant) in the class! Eric Jacobson so many of you at our 35th Reunion! annual Swim Across America fundraiser. recently published two children’s books— We had a better turnout than many other He wrote, “I am swimming 3 miles Ella Purrs: Case of the Missing Princess classes, as we saw in our hot (not us, the in the cold water of Long Island Sound and A Snail of Two Cities. You can check weather!) class photo shoot on the steps in the Greenwich-Stamford Open Water them out on Amazon! In June, I ran into of Penn Hall. Thank you to John Miller, Swim for the benefit of Swim Across several ’82ers at Reunion Weekend, our reunion chairperson, and the entire America and the Alliance for Cancer including Brian Boland, Linda Weaver reunion committee for their hard work Gene Therapy.” To date, Pete has raised Towe, Karen Bunke Lehman, Becky that made the weekend a success. Seth almost $25,000. Amazing! Finally, I heard Cooke Goodrich, Ben Howell, and Bob Statler kindly wrote that he’s wrapped from fellow economics major William Garthwait to name just a few! Wedding up his long federal career after serving Van Lear. William has worked at Belmont bells brought Beth Martin and John as NASA’s associate administrator for Abbey College as an economics professor Critchley together with Scott and Terri legislative and intergovernmental affairs for over 33 years. As a fun fact, he still Woodcock on several recent occasions: under the Obama Administration. He now runs into his 1980 mentor, Dr. Ann Fender. the wedding of Douglas Woodcock in TX, leads the government relations office Dr. Fender was a G’burg professor then Sarah Critchley in Cambridge, MA, of the National Fire Protection Association, in the economics department from and again this fall for Eric Woodcock’s a perfect fit given his long-standing 1979–2009 and lives close to Will in NC. wedding in TX. Speaking of offspring, this interest in fire and firefighter safety issues. After some research, I noticed Dr. Van Lear fall Frankie and Kathy Nieves’s daughter It seems as if the quantity has 30 journal publications, three book Isabel ’22 will join older brother Francisco of severe fires grows each year, and publications, and three teaching awards, ’19 as a G’burg student and future alum! I’m sure we’ll all benefit from Seth’s as well as a PhD from the U of Pittsburgh Who else has kids on campus? Be sure leadership in this important position. in 1986. It’s incredible what our class to let me know! This past spring, over Ann Guffey Stone and husband has accomplished! 30 Chi Os gathered in Center City Randy ’82 visited Gettysburg last Nov. Philadelphia for a laughter- and story-filled to see Coach Streeter before he retired. dinner and overnight, with graduation They ran into some fellow football 1981 years spanning the late ’70s through teammates of Randy’s including Kevin Mary Higley the mid-’80s. From our class, we had Kiesel ’81, Don Towe ’81, Al Schader ’81, 10110 Palazzo Drive Linda Weaver Towe and Brenda Jon Scott ’81, and Ann’s fellow Gamma Phi Naples, FL 34119 Brodt Alek (the masterminds behind the sister and cheerleader, Marcia Stahl Scott [email protected] event), Kristin Jones Shields, Karen ’81. Check out our class Facebook page Gettysburg College—Class of 1981 Spellman Cachion, Eileen McCabe, to see the photo. Ann and Randy have Kim Hollander Shrader, and Missy lived in Orlando, FL, since 1985. Their five It was a very slow news cycle this time Kerwien Merkel. Let’s just say that children have all graduated from college around. Almost everyone I know is busy our table for 30 at (the aptly named) and are well on their way to establishing with graduations and weddings this time of La Famiglia had a pretty amazing time! themselves in the world. Ann and Randy year. But I did hear from one classmate. On Speaking of restaurants, “fans” will be spend their free time visiting them. June 1, Peter Dunbar and Jeff Oak joined excited to know that Taco Bell has opened Michael (Louisa) are in Mountain Brook, Bob Garthwait ’82 at the Orange & Blue in G’burg, in a new shopping center where AL; Thomas (Lauren) are in Columbus, Golf Classic at the Hanover Country Club. Route 15 and Route 30 meet. So, if you OH; and daughters Jacqueline and Nicole Filling out the foursome was Andy Hughes, can’t get a reservation downtown next (Mark Kresowik) are in Washington D.C., director of the Garthwait Leadership Center. time you’re here... Also, as of this summer, Their son Kenny ’09, a Gettysburg alum, Although the team barely missed out on Starbucks can be found at 6 York Street, lives in Orlando and works for RM2 as the shooting the low score, a great time was had just off the square—walkable from campus! director of logistics. Randy is with Gomez by all. It’s been my pleasure to serve as our It’s in a building that is owned by the Construction, and Ann is a swim coach. class correspondent for the past five years, College, as part of the Gettysburg Hotel They’ve owned a USA swimming team, but the time has come for me to move block. So, for those who’ve been asking the Stone Crabs Swim Team, since 1991. onto other endeavors. If you are interested me about that for years, I can finally They have three grandchildren, with in assuming this responsibility, email say yes. That’s it for now! Don’t forget a fourth due any day, and say life Joe Lynch ’85 at [email protected]. to check out our Facebook group—search is always very exciting! Ann has many fond I’m always surprised about the reach that Gettysburg College Class of 1982. memories of Chris Edwards, Stuart G’burg has today. Back in “the day,” when And, finally, a special thanks to those Terry, and Jenny Sheehan living I told people I graduated from G’burg, they who helped me out in my quest for class on the first floor of Apple Hall, making would say, “where?” Today, I run into people notes information. Next time, let it be you! their way through their freshman year. all the time who know about the College and It was wonderful to see Stuart and Jenny have wonderful things to say about it. I’m at the Reunion. I only wish there was more always proud to tell people I’m a graduate! time to talk to everyone! I hope you all had a nice summer. Enjoy the fall!
40 1984 systems, how the advancement West of Hudson Realty Group, in 35th Reunion Year of technology is changing the role Montclair, NJ. Maria and her husband, Matt of counsel, and its effects on the insurance Vecchione ’87, live in Glen Ridge, NJ, David Schafer industry. Be sure to keep the news coming! with their two sons. Melissa Zamboldi 676 Windsor Drive Young lives in Allentown, PA, with her Westminster, MD 21158 husband Gordon and two children. 443-789-1271 1986 Melissa is a realtor with BHHS Fox [email protected] Liz LaForte 33 Lawson Lane & Roach in Macungie, PA. All agreed way Gettysburg College Class of 1984 Ridgefield, CT 06877 too much time had passed and another 319-270-2160 meet-up will be in the works for the 1985 [email protected] same time next year! Way to go and well Kathy Reese Laing deserved! Well, that’s a wrap. So until next Gettysburg College Class of ’86– 1812 Hanover Avenue time, and please send me more news. I Class Page Richmond, VA 23220 hope to hear from more of you so I have [email protected] lots to report in the next edition! Greetings, Class of ’86! Summer has flown Gettysburg College Class of 1985 by too quickly, and for me it has been very active as I spent time visiting with friends 1987 Jim Anderson As I’m writing this update, many of you and family all over the country! 13 Bay Hill Road are braving flooding and heat waves It was wonderful to hear from Leonardo, NJ 07737 as we enter the dog days of summer. Meg Roedel Mueller. Meg has two 732-546-6492 As we enter a new age bracket, new children, Allie and Sam. Allie graduated [email protected] things open up to us. For tennis players, in the spring from G’burg with a BS in we get to play at the 55 and over level, environmental studies. While at G’burg, Gettysburg College Class of 1987– which means we don’t have to compete she was a swimmer and loved her entire 30th Reunion against the 18-year-olds—yay! G’burg experience from beginning to end. Some classmates are beginning to join the Meg’s son Sam is a senior in high school 1988 ranks of the retired. As many of you may and is entrenched in the college search Carol Whiting Gordon have noticed from Facebook pictures, process. Thanks for the update, Meg! 1605 Troys Court Rich VanAntwerp has retired and Mary Dougherty also wrote Crofton, MD 21114 is dedicating his time to hiking the in to announce that she has joined 410-721-8894 mountain peaks in the U.S., as well American Academic Health System [email protected] as finding places to ski well into the spring. as their VP of talent management where Robin Ciraolo Sherlock is an empty she will be able to focus on two things Gettysburg College Class of 1988 nester and now semi-retired and working for which she has had a lifelong passion: as a substitute teacher in the Chicago building organizations where people’s 1989 area. I heard from Chris Snow who lives talents thrive and bringing superior health 30th Reunion Year in MN and doesn’t run into many fellow care to all communities. Mary will be based Patty Hunter Lovett classmates. I missed seeing him when in Philadelphia where she is still gloating 9000 Copenhaver Drive he was in town to visit U of Richmond with about the Super Bowl! Congrats, Mary! Potomac, MD 20854 his son. Chris lives in a small town helping There was a summer meet up at the Inner 301-838-4533 people appeal real estate tax assessments Harbor this past July of friends since [email protected] among other things. AJ Russo reported Apple freshman year: Amy Simmons Gettysburg College Class of 1989 in from the shore in Ventnor, NJ, where Chomsky, Robin Harling, Lisa he and his wife Rhonda will soon Nawrocki, Maria Constantine be empty nesters and celebrating their Vecchione, and Melissa Zamboldi 1990 25th anniversary in Sept. AJ also retired Young. “We fell right back into such Amy E. Tarallo after 25 years as an IT director for Atlantic a great place together as though it were 313 Birmingham Avenue, Unit 2 County Government. He is living the life 1982!” Lots of wine and catching up: Carolina Beach, NC 28428 as the head football coach and IT director family, kids, college, and careers. Amy 603-548-4706 for his alma mater, Holy Spirit High School. Chomsky, MD, lives in Nashville with [email protected] Be sure to keep us all posted on your her three children and husband Don. Gettysburg College Class of ’90 plans to wind down or keep going Amy is busy traveling for global health in the workforce. There is still time for around the world. Chomsky is a professor Hi, everyone! Please note my change a second career! I also received news from of ophthalmology at Vanderbilt Eye of address as we’ve recently moved. June Essis, partner in the Philadelphia- Institute and chief ofophthalmology at VA If anyone is traveling near the beautiful based law firm of Fineman Krekstein & Tennessee Valley Healthcare System. NC coastline, come by for a visit. Harris, P.C., who recently spoke as part Robin Harling, married to Pat Hanratty, Erin Francy Hazen writes from IA, of a panel at the National DRI (Defense has three strapping young men and is “the improbable place she’s called home” Research Institute) Trucking Law an acupuncturist at Stillwater Acupuncture since 1994. She and husband Tim live Conference in Chicago. The conference Clinic in Severna Park, MD. Lisa on a lively farm. Erin works in the was attended by more than 550 defense Nawrocki resides with her husband Allen renewable energy field. After 10 years attorneys and in-house counsel. in Burlington, VT; “girl genius” is a RDH in the utility-scale wind and solar industry, Essis spoke with a panel of in-house but most notably an author on the verge she’s currently helping the U of IA counsel and trucking professionals of publishing, so look out for her! Maria transition their large power plant from on the future of the trucking industry with Constantine Vecchione has been in real coal to renewable biomass fuels. Erin has the implementation of new technological estate for nearly 20 years and recently picked up the sport of distance running; advancements including collision mitigation partnered up to open her own brokerage, she has impressively qualified for the
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Boston Marathon five times, with her finish has joined the alumni ranks of Gettysburg lacrosse coach is JT McCook ’13, who also time at this year’s Boston guaranteeing her College and plans to work in Brazil played lacrosse for Coach Janczyk! a spot in the 2018 NYC Marathon. as a Fulbright Scholar in 2019. What are the odds that two former She also just completed IowaRelay, Gettysburg lacrosse players would end the world’s longest team relay run. 1992 up in the same northern CA town? With a 12-person team, they ran Gina Gabriele It was great to see Dion Liverpool 339 miles from one end of IA to the other 1 Jane Street, 1E at the Reunion! Dion came up from Atlanta in under 49 hours. Good for you, Erin! New York, NY 10014 where he resides. Most of us know that Dawn D’Orsaneo Morgan and her 415-271-3209 Dion is a DJ (DJ Rasta Root), in addition husband Sam enjoyed Miami with Abby [email protected] to many other hats he wears. Dion works Titus Johnson and her husband Ed with a group called the Redlands who were in Feb. to celebrate the big 50. She visited Gettysburg College Class of 1992 invited by the USA to travel to different with Abby again along with Lucy Ibanez U.S. bases around the world and perform Hamilton and Amy Gleason Goodrich Big move news from two of our for the troops. This past year, Dion traveled in May. Dawn’s son Mack will be a junior at classmates. At the last installment to Qatar and Jordan to play for the troops. the U of MD; her daughter Hannah of our quarterly NYC lunch, Kevin Larsen When asked about the experience, Dion’s will be a freshman at Providence College shared with me Erin McAvoy, and response was, “It’s the least I can do.” in the fall. Their youngest, Julia, will Marshall Brown that he and his family Thank you, Dion, for doing what you do! be in 10th grade next year, attending have decided to relocate to Denver, CO, Please don’t forget to send me an update. I the high school in Dawn’s hometown after nearly 25 years in and around NYC. hate having empty columns! of Berwyn, PA. Dawn works part-time Following a few weeks of sun and fun at Kramer Drive, a wholesale stationery in Avalon, NJ, the Larsens will drive cross country in Aug., stopping off along the way 1994 company, and is very involved as class 25th Reunion Year chairperson at her kids’ high school. to see Nick Denby in Columbus, OH. B.J. Jones Angela Carbone Sontheimer continues And, it turns out, fellow classmates 140 W. 69th Street, 107C her great work at the Lincoln Leadership Katrina Weidknecht and Kristen Prahl New York, NY 10023 Institute at G’burg, working alongside two live in Denver as well. Perhaps a mini [email protected] other alums, Steve Wiley ’73 and Jared reunion is in the making! Judy Ostronic Peatman ’02, and doing experiential wrote to let me know that she and her Gettysburg College Class of 1994 leadership development programs for boyfriend Geoff are moving from Hong corporate executives. They use the Kong to New Zealand this fall. She also Congratulations to Matt Haag who has battlefield as a metaphor to address recently met up with “Chief” (aka Chris been named vice president of development modern business issues. They’ve recently O’Connor ’91) over a few drinks. Chief lives and alumni relations for Dartmouth’s expanded their offerings to include in Singapore and was passing through for Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth- programs at the Alamo, Pearl Harbor, and work. Congrats and best wishes on your Hitchcock Health! He will lead efforts Normandy. Her younger daughter, Sophie, exciting next chapter, Kevin and Judy! to provide philanthropic support to help will join big sister Tessa at Penn State. advance patient care, medical education Angela and her husband Peter recently 1993 and research, as well as the creation traveled to Iceland to celebrate their 25th Bridget Donnelly Collins of a national model for how to accelerate wedding anniversary, to hike, and to cheer 5 Campbell Court scientific discovery and transform health on their adopted World Cup team. Mickleton, NJ 08056 care both in the U.S. and internationally. She is also planning a fall trip to CO with [email protected] Matt also plays an active role in a number Irene Magish Bassock. Angela often of boards and civic committees, including Gettysburg College Class of 1993 sees Nicole Amend King ’91, who lives as a member of the board of trustees in the Gettysburg area. Debbie Dent for Rochester Historical Society, the NY Hello, Class of 1993! We had a wonderful Young was hugely surprised by State Procurement Council, Equality time back on campus for our 25th husband Bryan for her 50th birthday NY, a member of the Technology Reunion, June 1–3. A huge thanks with Bruce Springsteen Live tickets and Commercialization Affiliates Committee, to Jennifer Carleo Grootenboer and a surprise weekend in NYC. Showing and has served as a member of the Thomas Desiderio for co-chairing this up the next day to join in on the surprise Monroe County Board of Health. year’s Reunion. As a class we raised over were Sarah Wendt, Becca Link, Tracy Please email with updates you’d like $50,000 for G’burg, and made amazing Baker Johnson, and Jessica Desmond to see in this column. Thanks. memories in the process. Although the Trenti. I wish I could have been there, too! weather did not cooperate for our Saturday Fortunately, I was able to see all of these night dinner, we still had fun at Servo 1995 lovely women when they came down for and afterwards at JD’s (The Pub) and Becky Schneider Keller a girls’ weekend to Carolina Beach, NC, Townie (Flying Bull, Inc.)! Congratulations 576 Peachtree Lane in early Apr. As always, send in your news, to Jennifer Pontz Slocum for her new Lake Zurich, IL 60047 and let us know how you all are doing! job as a nurse practitioner at an addiction [email protected] clinic. Jennifer worked the past seven Gettysburg College Class of 1995 1991 years as a nurse practitioner at Planned Michelle Lynette Hughes Parenthood. Jennifer and her husband 4042 Kimberley Glen Court Brian live in Sacramento, CA, and have two 1996 Ann Felter Chantilly, VA 20151 children, Everett (8) and Gavin (11). 145 West Swissvale Avenue 703-969-6180 Todd Frye wrote about his cross- Pittsburgh, PA 15218 [email protected] continent Gettysburg connection! Todd [email protected] Michelle Lynette Hughes P’18 was a member of the lacrosse team and is proud to announce that her daughter, played under Coach Janczyk, but today Gettysburg College Class of ’96 Andeulazia Hughes-Murdock ’18, Todd lives in Menlo Park, CA. His son’s
42 1997 2001 Hello Class of 2004! Darcy Bates Kelly Keep Runke Kathryn Ferguson Adams Pooler and husband Scot welcomed 47 Country Downs Circle 18 Peach Tree Trail their second daughter, Elyanna Quinn, Fairport, NY 14450 Fairfield, PA 17320 on Mother’s Day, May 13. Her big sister 585-421-9994 717-642-9254 Evelyn is over the moon about her. [email protected] [email protected] Todd Kohlhepp and wife Katie had a second child, Natalie Joan Kohlhepp. Gettysburg College Class of 1997 If anyone is interested in taking over She was born on Apr. 22 in Somerville, the class correspondent position, NJ. Katie and Todd now live in nearby 1998 please contact Joe Lynch ’85 at Bridgewater, NJ. Justin Parker and Helen DeVinney [email protected] or 717-337-6522. wife Shannon Sheehan had a son, 8125 Mississippi Road Jameson Westley Parker, on Jan. 23. Laurel, MD 20724 Gettysburg College Class of 2001 He weighed 8 lbs. 9 oz. and is a future [email protected] member of the Gettysburg Class of ’40! Janet Teske Cassarino and husband Gettysburg College Class of 1998 2002 Catherine Dietrich Pulse Steve ’02 welcomed their fourth child [email protected] on May 4. James Anthony Cassarino 1999 is already immensely loved by his older Gettysburg College Class of 2002 20th Reunion Year siblings Paul, Elena, and Veronica. Sue Bottone John Fegley married Carissa Saliby There is sad news to share with you. 780 Boylston Street, Apt. 20F on June 30. Matthew Hosterman was Craig Wilson passed away on May 1 due Boston, MA 02199 the best man, and Kyle Marshall ’03 was to cardiac arrest. The event was sudden, [email protected] a groomsman. John’s sister Miranda Fegley and he never regained consciousness and Sisolak ’00, Rachel Ferer Hosterman, Gburg Class of 1999 died shortly thereafter. Craig was 38 years Pamela Cunnugham, John Potter, old and survived by his wife, Christina, Matt Dorman, Douglas “JD” Walo ’03, and two young children, Madelyn (6) and 2000 Katie Greenwood Walo, Jason Patton Dylan (2). Craig lived in Apex, NC, where Marna Suarez Redding ’05, Julia Grover Patton ’06, Laurie Rubio he worked for Marriott International. 205 Campo Court ’02, and Tina Saliby Yunis ’00 were in His father, Walter Wilson, shared the Niskayuna, NY 12309 attendance. Shannon Maria Sweitzer news with the school and can be reached [email protected] married Thomas J. Brower of Springfield, at [email protected]. PA, on New Year’s Eve 2017. The two own Gettysburg College Class of 2000 He welcomes any emails and memories Cuisine365, a catering company in the that any of our classmates would like greater Philadelphia area, with a focus OK classmates, please save the date to share. Craig thoroughly enjoyed his on both professional sports catering for our 20th Reunion! Ahhh! Not sure time at Gettysburg, where he was active (from Division 1 to NHL and NBA) and how that happened, but please save in sports and enjoyed swimming. a dietitian-backed nutrition catering May 28–31, 2020! Most likely, this will also His obituary can be found at the following company called Nutritious365. Kathryn be our new president’s first Reunion, website: www.dignitymemorial.com/ Chongpinitchai was in attendance. The so a special weekend all around. Save the obituaries/apex-nc/craig-wilson-7839255. couple resides in Collingdale, PA. date! In other news, Aniela Hoffman His dad also reports that on June 3, was named the Santa Barbara County a memorial celebration of Craig’s life Performing Arts Teacher of the Year for took place, which emphasized the many 2005 2019. Congratulations, Aniela! Christine good things he was able to do with Holly Woodhead Sedlacko Biggins wrote, “I did start his family, wife, children, many friends, 1010 Riva Ridge Drive as a lab instructor for Bio 112 and classmates. It was a very positive Great Falls, VA 22066 at Gettysburg this past spring! It felt experience for all who attended. [email protected] great being back in McCreary Hall!” Gettysburg College Class of 2005 Ian Isherwood, a professor at Gettysburg, and Amy Lucadamo, 2003 Jennifer O’Hara Roche Katharine Newberg married Josh an archivist at Gettysburg, led a team 9120 Meadow Mist Court Israels in Cape Cod, MA, on Oct. 15, 2017. of students to conduct field research in Raleigh, NC 27617 Gettysburg alumni in attendance were northern France and Belgium in Mar. during [email protected] Elyse Panlillio and Liz Debarr. the centennial of the First World War. See Molly Gale, an eighth-grade social their project at www.jackpeirs.org. Caitlin Gettysburg College Class of 2003 studies teacher at the middle school Howard Kirby recently joined the Greater visual and performing arts program Catonsville Chamber of Commerce in 2004 at the Butcher Educational Center, MD as assistant to the executive director, 15th Reunion Year Warren Consolidated Schools in MI, dealing mostly with membership and events. Katie Orlando was named the 2018 Macomb County Joining Caitlin in chamber work, after 16 2530 University Avenue, Suite 8 Outstanding Teacher of the Year for the years in higher education, I transitioned Waterloo, IA 50701 middle school level. Previously, Molly was into a new role at the Capital Region [email protected] recognized for a second year as Teacher Chamber of Commerce as its VP of member of the Year for the Macomb Intermediate services, overseeing all our marketing, PR, Gettysburg College Class of 2004 School District. Teachers are nominated communications, sponsorships, and Women’s for their dedication to excellence and Business Council. professionalism by their peers, parents, and students. Molly cited four former
43 lass notes To post news, click myGettysburg at www.gettysburg.edu teachers as inspirations, including two Stinson and Stephanie Bonnes ’08 in spirit. Andrus was admitted as a lawyer education professors at G’burg, Profs. Judy welcomed their daughter, Eloise Stinson in Sydney NSW Australia in 2017 and Brough and Jonelle Pool. I hope everyone Bonnes, on Mar. 6, weighing 8 lbs. 6 oz. works as a solicitor with Colin Biggers had a fun summer this year! Robert and Lauren Scott Brassell & Paisley. A.J. Nappo and Sarah welcomed their first son, Robert Francis Kenney were married on Sept. 16, 2017 2006 “Tripp” Brassell III, on June 24. And finally, at the Shrine of St. Anthony in Ellicott Monique Mathews Gore there must have been something in the City, MD. Kurt Hagemann, Lee Gatto, 63 W. Middle Street Quarry water during our senior year—two and Frank Stroker all participated in the Gettysburg, PA 17325 sets of twins born to ’07 graduates this ceremony with pianist Alex Posmontier 410-493-0020 spring! Karen Hendershot Doshi and ’11. Molly Beyer, Drew Carlson ’09, [email protected] her husband Rahul welcomed their first professor Gretchen Carlson ’09, Michael children, boy and girl twins named Jasper Catalano, Jaclyn Clevenger, Robert Gettysburg College Class of 2006 Grey and Zora May, on June 1 and Finch ’09, Meredith Havard, Meghan June 2. Yes, you read that correctly, twins Kelly, Natasha Maskaly ’12, James I haven’t heard from many classmates with different birthdays! They were born Merrifield, C.J. Rauch, Audrey Schwinn lately. Don’t forget to send in any updates 13 hours apart. Stephanie Hafer Shaak ’11, Alex “Dale” Stockdale, Kerry you have to let the class know how you’re and her husband Tyler welcomed twins, Foley Stockdale, Frank Stroker, doing. Korin Faulkner Martin is the Kenton Michael and Tenley Scott, and Dean Vlahos ’09 also joined in the associate director of clinical research with on Mar. 29, each weighing in at 5 lbs. 8oz. celebrations at Rolling Road Golf Club Merck. Alisha Turner Rodriguez and The twins were an unexpected, but sweet in Baltimore, MD. Sarah works for the spouse Neftalie Rodriguez welcomed their surprise, and are happy, healthy, and super federal government, and A.J. teaches first child, Julien Avery Rodriguez, loveable babies! Tenley’s middle name social studies for Montgomery County on Feb. 28, 2017. Sarah Flood memorializes Steph’s father who passed Public Schools in MD. The couple lives in VA. Cymbolin and her husband Brian away in early 2012. welcomed their first child, Mary Christine, on Feb. 19, 2018. They live in Redondo 2011 Devan Grote White Beach, CA, and baby Mary enjoys being 2008 Ellen Furnari 137 Liberty Street a beach babe, with her four-legged 717-476-8870 Perryopolis, PA 15473 brother Beaux. [email protected] [email protected] Gettysburg College Class of 2008 2007 On May 20, Elizabeth Frey graduated Stephanie Hafer Shaak from the Lutheran School of Theology Leah Sigle Holz writes that she received 2715 Park Street at Chicago with her Masters of Divinity. a PhD in French literature from the Reading, PA 19606 She has been called as associate pastor U of CO-Boulder this spring and that she 610-914-9336 of Trinity Lutheran Church in Camp Hill, PA. started a position at Franklin & Marshall [email protected] In July 2016, Alex Posmontier left his College this fall. Stephanie Bonnes corporate job at Vanguard, where Gettysburg Class of 2007 wrote to share that she and husband he worked in IT, to pursue music full time. Andrew Stinson ’07 welcomed Since then, he has taught, performed, and Congratulations to Jessica Haines Rudy Eloise Stinson Bonnes on Mar. 6. recorded music. He released two albums who earned her Master of Arts in applied Stephanie and Andrew love their new in May—Coast to Coast and Bridges. history from Shippensburg U in Dec. daughter. Their cat Simone is not so sure. 2017. She has since returned to G’burg, More information is on his website, where she is a member of the Majestic alexposmontier.com Theater team, serving as office manager. 2009 Scott and Dulcy Gregory ’06 Kenner 10th Reunion Year 2012 welcomed a baby girl (and future Bullet!), Jenn Amols Brett Taylor Plank Annalee Agnes, on Feb. 6 in Aspen, CO. 608 Monroe Street 1705 East West Highway, Apt. 415 Wesley and Christine Nemetz ’08 Heyser Hoboken, NJ 07030 Silver Spring, MD 20910 welcomed a daughter, Eleanor Elizabeth, 540-538-1989 [email protected] on Mar. 6. The family resides adjacent [email protected] Gettysburg Class of 2012 to campus in Gettysburg. Michelle Gettysburg College Class of 2009 Veresink Richmond and her husband Derek welcomed their first child, a son 2013 named Wyatt Laurence, on May 8. Wyatt 2010 Kavya Kumar Emma Snellings arrived a month early, but weighed 4 West 101 Street, Apt. 49 11 Roberts Drive #14 in at a healthy 6 lbs. 14 oz. and was 19.5 New York, NY 10025 Weymouth, MA 02190 in. long. Bethanne Mascio Connolly [email protected] 339-235-0186 and her husband John are thrilled to share [email protected] the birth of their daughter, Mary Claire, Cara Dochat is pursuing a PhD in clinical on Apr. 13. The Connollys reside in the Gettysburg College Class of 2010 psychology with a focus in behavioral Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. Alumni medicine at the joint doctoral program Andrew and Katharine Brecht ’09 in clinical psychology at San Diego State Sylvester celebrated the birth of their son, Andrus Must married Amanda McCamey U and U of San Diego. Elizabeth Elliott Theodore “Teddy” Quincy Sylvester, Must in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and Joshua Poorman were married on May 10. Sarah West and her husband, in Oct. 2017. In attendance were in Reading, PA, along with bridesmaids Jeff Chang, welcomed their first child, Nick Wiley, Brian Vitrano, and Mariah HallBilsback, Kavya Kumar, Simon Chang, on May 21. Andrew Danno Lynch. Mike Stocker was there Liz Williams, Ashleigh Zicker, and
44 groomsmen Johnny Nelson and 2017 Alex Skufca. Also in attendance were Brooke Gutschick So many ways Joshua Carmel, Dave Debor, Amelia 316 Village at Vanderbilt to connect Grabowski, Casina Malinchak, Shruti Nashville, TN 37212 Naik, and Rebekah Oakes. Shruti 301-310-6135 Naik is an assistant director of academic [email protected] We love to read your news success at Purdue U. Riccardo Purita in class notes (see page 31), is an assistant director of residential Hello from Music City! Time sure has flown so keep them coming. education at Dartmouth College. since graduation last May, and the Class Use myGettysburg to search Meaghan Sheehan is an administrative of 2017 is all over the world, continuing the alumni directory, update manager at Merrill Lynch. Shane Swink to #DoGreatWork. I’m in the final year your profile, see more class news graduated from medical school and is doing of my master’s program at Vanderbilt, and or photos or share your own, and his residency in dermatology at Lehigh many of my classmates are also back in the stay on top of your annual giving. Valley Health Network in Allentown, PA. classroom, pursuing advanced degrees. Subscribe to Bullet Points. Liz Williams is a manager in donor relations Leah Pinkney started a master’s degree If you aren’t getting the monthly at the U of Melbourne. in global health epidemiology at MI. e-newsletter, you’re missing Kelly Ashnault is pursuing her Doctor out on news, wit, and wisdom 2014 of Physical Therapy at Franklin Pierce U. in the words of Joe Lynch ’85, 5th Reunion Year Julia Harper started her MD/PhD executive director of alumni relations. Christianna Jo Evans program at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. 29 S. Providence Road Online via social media: Wallingford, PA 19086 Erin Morin started her master’s degree 610-960-4782 in environmental health at Johns Hopkins [email protected] Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Like” Gettysburg Charlotte Triebl is at UPenn, pursuing College on Facebook Melissa Rich, DVM got married an MEd. Ember Parker is moving to Boston to start her master’s degree at the end of Dec. to an American U Follow Gettysburg in school counseling at Boston College, alum, Benjamin Litwack. Continuing their College on Twitter and celebrations, they both graduated from and Emily Patterson is working toward read tweets by alumni, VA MD College of Veterinary Medicine her master’s degree in early childhood parents, and friends in May as husband and wife. Dr. Leah special education at U of TX. On the other side of the globe, Piper O’Keefe is living Grandi graduated from Lewis Katz School Join the Gettysburg of Medicine at Temple U on May 16 and the dream as a Peace Corps volunteer College Professional was granted a residency at Temple in Sierra Leone, where she just finished Network on LinkedIn U Hospital. Gloria Mendoza was her first year of teaching. Sarah Hansen is in the U.S. Navy, currently stationed featured in a segment on CBS about Check out the initiatives in tech companies that help in Everett, WA. Closer to home, Eva College’s people on the autism spectrum to get their Karkuff lives in Gettysburg, teaching photostream on Flickr foot in the door. Gloria was interviewed at New Oxford Middle School and serving as the assistant coach for the high about her role at SAP in their digital YouTube business services department and their school cross-country team. Lizzy Butler Watch videos on the progressive training and mentorship teaches high school math in Hanover, PA. College channel program that creates a welcoming Kelly Palmer is the chief of staff at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. community for her and her autistic Instagram co-workers. I am always glad to hear Madison LaCroce continues to work for Search gettysburgcollege so many stories of my classmates doing Booz Allen Hamilton in Aberdeen, MD. for photos great work around the world! After four If you have any updates, please send them years with the PA College Advising Corps, to me! I also now serve as a representative Greyson Norcross moved to Raleigh, on the BOLD Council, Gettysburg’s NC, to begin his master’s degree in higher advisory group to the young alumni program. education administration at NC State U. If you have suggestions on how the He will also work as a graduate assistant College can further engage young alumni, for student success as part of NC State please send those suggestions my way! Student Centers. 2015 Jesse DeMartino 217 Baker Avenue Westfield, NJ 07090 908-418-8794 [email protected] 2016 Lindsey Gieger 862-222-4978 [email protected]
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Class of 1968 50th Reunion
From Left to Right First Row: Gene McClurken, Carol Houck Jarvis, William A. Frassanito, Lois Zimmerman Spangenberg, Carol Frenzel Gilbert, Elaine Wiley Schwenker, Donna Pruden Seckar, Nancy Dickensheets Webster, Roy Fairman, William M. Zimmerman, Kathy McCarney Foster, Mary Gatterdam, Folkemer, Susan Walsky Gray, Ann Abrahams Kessler, Diane Terry Brownlee, Ann Bittenbender DiNello, Joan Brettschneider Farrell Second Row: Pen Hoover, Jim Jenkins, Betty Schadel Steil, Dawn Wanamaker Timm, Diane Lewis Button, Rebecca Hopkins Smith, Marcia Walker Boote, Diana Beachley Parton, Betsy Bender Griffiths, Liz Marks, Judy Hutchinson Hershey, Rick Hershey Third Row: Peter MacLeod, Samuel Isenberger, Steve Homyack, Roger Hultgren, Kris Hughey, Rosemary Morel Lovelace, Sandra McCloy, Judy Williams Kip Fourth Row: Betsy Haave Dougherty, Laurel Wolfe McClurken, Joel Seckar, Peter Gaess, Sylvia Dix Kremp, Dunham Smith, Paul Luka, Joe Records, Jeanne Draper Embree Fifth Row: Peggy Chittick, Bob Ekman, Jim Mattucci, Bob Williams, Rich Erdmann Sixth Row: Ottilie Jones Grim, Susan Wakeley Andrews, David Andrews, John Fisher, Vernon Paulson, Douglas Ruby, John Schiller Seventh Row: Bill Stillgebauer, Doug Olsen, George Gilmour, Mike Mercer, Al Strunk, John Esterhai, Audrey McCarthy Forrer, Jack Freeston Eighth Row: Jay Neel, Kent Berthold, Bob Nothstein, Lou Bruchey, Phil Klemmer Ninth Row: Doug Goodfellow, Richard Gong, Bob Beynon, Hank Mountain, Rick Fortenbaugh, Mark Durham, Richard Imperatore, John Schrader, Christopher Falcon Tenth Row: Glenn Kershaw, Dave Fischer, Bob Harbeson, Dale Miller, James Sutherland, Stu O’Neal, Jr., George Thomson, Raymond Doviak, Martin Brubaker, Fred Hawkins, Keith Ahlgren, Bill Tingle
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’41 Virginia Mawson Rider, June ’54 Sarah Newcomer Henneberger, Feb. 25 William C. Kirschner, Feb. 16 John B. Zinn, June 21 William H. Nulty, Mar. 23 ’66 Wayne G. Lindquist, May 6 ’42 Kenneth A. Schaeffer, Mar. 12 Anita Holmsten Samuelsen, Mar. 24 William A. Smith, June 11 ’44 Charles W. Aurand, June 1 ’55 Raymond Kalil, Feb. 11 Nolan R. Walborn, Feb. 22 H. Jean Diefenderfer Parnell, Bruno G. Niemann, Mar. 24 ’67 David L. Hess, Feb. 9 Aug. 25, 2017 ’56 Donzel S. Loker, May 8 ’68 Diane Alleman Keister, Mar. 21 ’46 Donald C. Singer, Feb. 17, 2017 Abigail Irvin Radey, June 10 ’69 William F. Kaminski, June 8 ’48 Margaret Graefe Berg, Feb. 21 Richard O. Wexo, May 23 Michael B. Schwartz, Feb. 16 Dunning Idle IV, June 8 '57 Richard O. Wexo, May 23 Susan E. Smith, May 10 ’49 Rosita Gaines Ray, May 20 ’58 Glenn W. Kauffman, Sept. 20, 2017 J. Drew Somerford, Feb. 21 August F. Schmitthenner, May 1 Roy D. Miller Jr., May 10 ’70 Jane Lambertson Jones, Apr. 15 ’50 James E. Long, May 17 ’59 Matthew A. Pushkar, Mar. 3, 2017 ’71 Thomas B. Stoughton, Apr. 30 Alvin S. Rudisill, Feb. 21 Kae Meyer Spoerl, Mar. 11 James C. Thea, June 23 Wesley R. Stancombe, May 7 Dietrich F. Wahlers Jr., Feb. 20 ’72 Sue Bollinger Hoffman, May 16 Palmer R. Watkins, Dec. 4, 2017 ’60 Florence E. Heckman, Mar. 12 ’76 Jerry A. Krone, June 15 ’51 George Auxt Jr., June 2 John J. Howard Jr., Apr. 22 Dann C. Leibig, Mar. 21 William L. Becker, May 20 Nancy Ottmann Nightingale, Apr. 22 ’92 Craig A. Selcher, May 26 Shirley Martin Naugle, May 12 ’61 Kenneth A. Bluett, Jan. 24 ’00 Samuel J. Spiese III, Apr. 4 ’52 Harry C. Gardner, Mar. 23 Edward J. Monaghan, Apr. 5 ’02 Craig A. Wilson, May 1 Charles A. Swain III, May 6 Alan F. Young, June 28 ’53 Charles E. Close, Mar. 13 ’63 Peter W. Wright, June 3 William A. Deisroth, Feb. 27 ’64 Dorothy S. Davis, May 19 Richard J. Kenyon, May 27 James M. Weaver, May 23 ’65 Larry Joseph Grier, Mar. 16
46 John B. Zinn ’41 James Weaver ’64 bike rides and times shared with his family and friends. He also enjoyed Lt. Colonel John B. Zinn Jr., 99, died James Mark Weaver, age 76, traveling with his wife. Jim gave freely Thursday, June 21, at his home of Gwynedd Valley, PA, husband of 44 of his time to help others and was in Gettysburg, PA. Born in Worcester, MA, years to wife Karen Tiedemann Weaver, a mentor to many. he was the son of the late John B. Zinn passed away peacefully on May 23. He Jim is survived by his beloved wife, 1909 and Effie Miller Zinn. After the was born in Philadelphia, PA, to the late Karen Weaver; daughter, Kelly Wood; son, family returned to Gettysburg in 1925, James W. and Harriet Kitchen Weaver. Brent Weaver ’04, and their families. John graduated from Gettysburg High Jim was a graduate of Gettysburg In addition to his parents, he was School and Gettysburg College where College, where he was a lifetime Cupola preceded in death by his brother, John he studied chemistry and met his wife member. Following his graduation from Weaver, and daughter, Brooke Weaver. Frances Koenig Zinn ’41. They wed Gettysburg, Jim began his career in 1943 before he left for Europe during in commercial banking. He then received Dann Leibig ’76 World War II and were married for 63 an MBA in finance in 1967 and MA years until her death in 2006. in economics in 1971 from Temple Dann Cameron Leibig, age 63, passed With an ROTC commission, John University. Subsequently, he taught away at his home in Easton, MD, entered active duty in May 1943 both graduate and undergraduate on March 21 after a battle with pancreatic as an Infantry Unit Commander in the courses for Temple University. He was cancer. Born in January 1955 in U.S. Army, departing for France in 1944 one of the three founding partners Lancaster, PA, Dann graduated from with the 100th Division 399th Infantry 1st of Dearden, Maguire, Weaver and Barrett, Cedar Crest High School in Lebanon, Battalion. Lt. Col. Zinn was awarded the LLC (DMWB) in 1980, an investment PA, and received a BS in biology at World War II Victory Medal, the American counseling firm. Jim specialized in bank Gettysburg College in 1976. Campaign Medal, The European-African- and thrift equities. He served as president At Gettysburg, Dann was a member Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two of DMWB from 1998 to 2005 and was of the Honor Counsel and President Battle Stars; the Combat Infantryman a chief economist. He was an exceptional, of Sigma Chi fraternity. Dann earned Badge; Distinguished Unit Badge, the well-known speaker on the U.S. capital an MA in International Relations Bronze Star Medal with Cluster, National markets and was requested by many. at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Defense Service Medal w/Oak Leaf Jim relinquished the role of president in 1978, and joined the Central Cluster; Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam in 2006 and started his own consulting Intelligence Agency in 1980. He served Campaign Medal, Army Commendation business, Weaver Consulting & Asset the Clandestine Service with honor and Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters. After Management, LLC. integrity in Langley, VA, and over 20 years the war, John stayed in the Army Reserve, Jim served on the Gettysburg College abroad in postings in Europe, Central and in December 1951, he was called Board of Fellows for two years prior Europe, and the Middle East. His service back to active duty for the next 17 years. to being named to the Board of Trustees of over 33 years included positions as line After retiring and returning of the College in 2000 and served until officer, Division Manager, Chief of Station, to Gettysburg, John was involved with 2010 when he was named a Trustee and Senior Intelligence Executive Officer. Meals-on-Wheels and was a board Emeritus. He was chair of the Board He was awarded the CIA Distinguished member for the Apple Line Bus Line. of Trustees from 2006 to 2010. Career Intelligence Medal in March He also taught mathematics in the He established the James M. Weaver ’64 2011. For the past five years, he lectured Gettysburg School District for four years Fund for Creative Teaching in 2005. on intelligence matters at University of in the late 70s. From 1980 until 1983, His passion and lifelong commitment Pennsylvania, Duke, Naval Academy, he was president of Gettysburg College to his beloved Gettysburg College led Gettysburg College, and others, and Alumni Association; he was a class him to an appointment to the Board worked as a contract officer for the CIA officer and was the Class of 1941 Class of Directors of The Association on counterintelligence matters. Correspondent. For over 20 years he was of Governing Boards of Universities and Dann is survived by his wife of 40 the house manager for the ATO fraternity. Colleges (AGB). Jim served on the years, Lynn Purnell Leibig ’76, and John’s service to the College was noted AGB Board from 2005-2014, enabling two children, daughter Caitlin ’10 and when he received the Alumni Meritorious him to advocate on behalf of higher her husband Joshua Franklin, and son Service Award in 1984. John was education and its effective governance Brent. He has two brothers, David and a member of Christ Lutheran Church at a national level. Jim’s steady hand Doug, and was preceded in death by his where he was an altar boy in the 1930s helped successfully guide the association parents, Herman and Phyllis Leibig. and recently served on the finance through the challenges associated with committee. He also delivered the altar the nation’s financial crisis. He served flowers to shut-ins well into his 90s. as the Chair of the AGB Board between John loved to travel and was happy 2010 and 2012, during which he led to say he had been to all 50 states. AGB through a transformative strategic He loved to visit with family and friends, planning process as well as the launch attend local events, and host dinner of AGB Search—the association’s first parties. He was an active member of the subsidiary organization. He will forever Gettysburg community. hold a special place in the annals Lt. Col. Zinn is survived by a daughter, of AGB’s history. Jim was a very kind, Joanne Z. Lewis ’67; a son, compassionate, loyal, and distinguished John B. Zinn, III, six grandchildren; man who enjoyed boating, fishing, and 10 great grandchildren; and a niece. long walks with his wife. He loved John was predeceased by a sister, spending time at their shore house Margaret Elizabeth Zinn Sheely ’33. in Avalon, NJ. There, Jim enjoyed long
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It’s your time to legendmove into and lore. Excerpts from physics Prof. Sharon Stephenson’s 2018 Special Commencement Ceremony remarks to men’s and women’s lacrosse
hoped 20 years ago to delay the day I’d have to teach There is melancholy and longing when a typical I a lacrosse player because I had been told—and student graduates from college. But a fierce mythical I believed—that you were fierce mythical beasts who beast is not typical. You will leave fire and ash in your did things most of us will never do. wake. I do not envy the sadness you will feel in the I was 10 years at Gettysburg College when coming months. But I respect the many things you you first showed up in one of my classes. My husband have done to earn the right to feel such a heavy loss. and I would bring our two toddlers to hoot and holler I assume, 11 years ago, a similar sense of finality was for Jimmy Gates ’07, #29. He was indeed a fierce felt by midfielder Jimmy Gates. Jimmy now goes mythical beast. by James and he is an oral surgeon in Philadelphia. What happens to us—as observers—when You are about to become the athletic ancestry for others we watch you fierce mythical beasts do your thing to follow, others like my most recent lacrosse student, on Shirk and Clark Field? defender Joe Sokolowski ’20, #32. Scientists believe that humans have what are called But this is not his story because it is not his time. “mirror neurons” in our brains. They fire up the same It is your time, the time for this group of fierce mythical way regardless of whether we are moving our bodies beasts to move into legend and lore. or just watching someone else move their bodies. This phenomenon is called kinesthetic empathy. Prof. Sharon Stephenson is the W. K. T. Sahm Professor We are more than just observers of your of Physics and chair of the physics department at Gettysburg mythology, of your hero’s walk. In a minor way, College. Special Commencement honors graduating student we walk the path, too. athletes whose successful postseason sports schedule prevents Soon you will no longer be on Clark or Shirk Field. them from attending regular Commencement. You will be in the stands with us, the mortals.
48 The 1832 Society THE IMPACT OF LEGACY
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