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^VISIONS of GETTYSBURG from the President Winter 2015 Gettysbur: JOwx College's Magazine ( ^VISIONS OF GETTYSBURG From the president are hiring our grads year after year. (Burgians of the Last Decade) Gettysburg received impressive alumna Brady Luceno '08 is applying rankings in the latest Payscale College Salary Report, reflecting the fact that managing day-to-day operations our alumni are finding rewarding for Project Gaia, a nongovernment organization focused on improving I am also proud that our global health by increasing the students leave with a sense of social use of sustainable alcohol fuels for responsibility—an understanding cleaner cooking. In the process, she that they need to take the education is shaping a career and a life around they've received and put it to her passions—and she is working for There is a lot of talk in the press good use, both professionally and these days about the value of higher personally, in their workplaces and From the sciences to the arts, education, and particularly liberal in their communities. and from business to service, our arts education. What can a graduate Some of you will remember alumni are doing great work and leading great lives. was one of five colleges and I recently wrote in a letter to major? universities in the country to our campus community, "we need My response to that question receive the Presidential Award to stay sharply focused on our mission is "anything!" That might seem a as part of the Higher Education of preparing the next generation of little flip, but my point is that four Community Service Honor Roll. Gettysburgians who will have positive years at Gettysburg provide students This year The Corporation for impact in the world as professionals, with skills that translate across National and Community Service as local and global citizens, and as a broad array of careers—skills named Gettysburg College to human beings in daily interaction with of effective communication and both the General Community others. There is no better preparation critical thinking, a multi-faceted Service Honor Roll of Distinction for a fast-changing world than a approach to problem-solving, an and the Education Community contemporary liberal arts education, appreciation for diversity and the Service Honor Roll. These honors and there is no better place to get that global interconnectedness of today's are a product of the work that is education than at Gettysburg College." world. In fact, nothing underscores engendered through our Center the strength of a Gettysburg for Public Service, whose focus is I trust that you agree. education more powerfully than our to help our students learn to think dedicated alumni who achieve career critically and act compassionately. Sincerely, Gettysburg continues to prepare in just about every walk of life. educated citizens eager to make a The largest number of our difference, help those in need, and graduates goes into careers in elevate our society and our world. business. Deloitte, AT&T, IBM, In this edition of our magazine, Merrill Lynch, Vanguard, and other you'll see a great example of this Janet Morgan Riggs '77 leading multinational companies as you read about how BOLD President •••--- - ^ Inside Volume 106 • No. 1 • Winter 2015 14 No major, no problem ! News@Gettysburg Parlaying liberal arrs prepararion into communications careers. 12 Conversations 28 Do Great Work 20 Contemporary impressions 30 Bulletins The combined vision of an alumnus and plein air impressionist painter portrays a campus rich in history—and on the move. 31 Class notes 46 In memory 22 Connecting the dots 48 Parting shot The Eisenhower Institute examines intelligence and security in an ever-shrinking world. Cover photo: "Pennsylvania Hall, Legacy" painting by Alan Fetterman, photo by Miranda Harple Opposite page: Janet Morgan Riggs '77 congratulates 24 Better fuel for the fire Yao Guo '14 at the Midyear graduation ceremony Students and alumni work on global energy challenges with Editor: Sue Baldwin-Way. Contact nonprofit NGO Project Gaia. [email protected] Address changes: Communications & Marketing, Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Box 422, Gettysburg, PA 17325 Gettysburg College assures equal employment and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. Printed in U © Gettysburg College 2015. For additional content related to this "'•='* '"ww.gettysburg.edu/links or c" [email protected] UK* it s ? _•• News ftol Gettysburg Scholarship expands access to STEM fields s U.S. education policy day or two for your corrected and the world power that it has been grapples with expanding program to go back to Spring in my lifetime, we need to ensure that A the pipeline of graduates Grove and return to Gettysburg." our colleges and universities are entering the STEM (science, That rigor and her aptitude for providing a quality education to technology, engineering, and math) math and systems served her well at students in science, technology, fields, a Gettysburg College alumna the Naval Air Systems Command engineering and mathematics," is helping to ease financial road­ (NAVAIR), where she spent her Trobaugh said, adding, "financial blocks for Gettysburg students entire career, beginning as a circumstances should not be a majoring in these areas. mathematician and advancing as roadblock to any student who wants Diane Allwardt Trobaugh '67 a manager and department head to pursue a technical education." has made provisions for the in operations analysis and policy Trobaugh is an active volunteer Diane E. Trobaugh '67 Endowed development. NAVAIR is in a number of community and Scholarship Fund to be awarded to responsible for development, national organizations, many of students majoring in mathematics, acquisition, and logistics of naval which support access to education. physics, computer science, biology, aircraft and weapons systems. "I believe that the drive to volunteer chemistry, health sciences, or "I had a wonderful career with my time and what I have to offer in other emerging fields of science, many outstanding opportunities," the way of skills was something that technology, or engineering. Trobaugh said. "As computers I learned at Gettysburg," she said. Trobaugh, a math major, was became more a part of the tools to Last year Gettysburg College in one of the College's earliest assist in our analyses, I became more awarded $47.7 million in scholarships, computing classes, a time when involved with computer science." benefiting two-thirds of the student "send" meant not a keystroke, but While advancing through body. Scholarships are a priority of a car ride. No computer on campus? a variety of strategic leadership the $150 million Gettysburg Great: No problem. Keypunch cards were positions with NAVAIR, she met The Campaign for Our College. driven to the P. H. Glatfelter Paper her husband, Lynn Trobaugh, an Learn more about the campaign by Mill to run on their computer. aerospace engineer and graduate contacting the Office of Development, "I became very careful when of Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Alumni and Parent Relations I programmed," said Trobaugh. Lynn and Diane are strong supporters online or at 717-337-6543. "If you made a keypunch error or a of scholarships for STEM. mistake in the program you wrote, "If America is to continue it meant you had to wait another to be in the forefront of innovation W£r± The Trobaugh endowment helps to alleviate financial roadblocks for Gettysburg students and meet a critical national need for graduates in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. From left: chemistry Prof. Shelli Frey, Luke Cuculis'12, and Avani Amin '13. Office hou rof. Florence Ramond Jurney " I HAVE HAD MY SHARE OF MENTORS, AND I STILL SEEK THEM OUT." onnections. Links. actions rather than words, to the and hear their life stories. I love Relationships. It seems professors who showed me the way, it because their lives are so full of .' like these themes are at or even writers I interview and who possibilities. They always teach the center of many things I do. give me ideas for my own books. me something. From my office in I am a Caribbeanist by training and A few years ago, I became an McKnight Hall, I encourage them I have always found the women in American Fellow at the American to embrace uncharted territories the novels I read fascinating: they Association of University Women: and become, like I did many years mother, they are mothered, and it was humbling to see my name before, a citizen of the world. • they are also seeking mothering. added to this list of exceptional The connections they create impact women who had already cleared A native of France, Prof. Jurney the way and who believed that my received a Licence, a Maitrise, and a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies at the net across ideas could make a difference. So, Universite de la Sorbonne (Paris IV) genderlines and tell stories of in turn, I mentor. Why? Because and holds a doctorate in Romance imagined genealogies. I never know when it makes a Languages from the University of Oregon. Her scholarly interests include Outside of literature, we call difference, but I am convinced that Gender Studies, Post-Colonial and this mentoring. I have had my share it does. I listen to my students' Cultural Studies, and Francophone of mentors, and I still seek them out: dreams, imagining where they can Studies. She specializes in the study from my own mother, a feminist in of exile and migration in the Caribbean. Budding entrepreneur helps buyers find sellers implemented by the Center for has forged partnerships with, like Career Development (CCD), the Amazon and Half.com, as well as competitive program connects the lowest price available on campus. alumni with current students ScholarOasis launched before spring and cultivates and inspires semester.
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