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Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine Fall 2014 Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Fall 2014 Communications & Marketing Gettysburg College Follow this and additional works at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the Liberal Studies Commons Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Communications & Marketing, "Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Fall 2014" (2014). Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine. 3. https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag/3 This open access book is brought to you by The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of The uC pola. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Fall 2014 Description Table of Contents: From the President Janet Morgan Riggs '77 A Running Leap of Faith (Cindy Holck McWilliams '84) Office Hours: Prof. Timothy N. Good P'14 His Country is Tibet (Lhagyari Trichen Namgyal Wangchuk '17) Kasey Varner '14 The 411: Bob Joseph '69 What Makes A Great... Faculty Thomas F. George '67 Chief Diversity Officer Appointed (Jeanne Arnold) Tony Awards Spotlight Charlotte Wilcox '69 The Garden State's CEO of Fun (Wayne Hasenbalg '76) Stadium Locker Room Revamped Can You See Yourself in Gettysburg's Future? Matt aH ag '94 Making Gettysburg and Great Inseparable $4,000 Made All The Difference (Sarah Robertson '17) Teaching in a Radically Changing World (Prof. Steve Gimbel) Teaching Graduate Students. In Europe. Her First Year. (KJ Sanger '17, Prof. Rimvydas Baltaduonis) Expanding Horizons With Global Experiences (David Brennan '75) Plank Renovation How Good Can We Be? Onward Into The Past (Sarah Johnson '15, Prof. Ian Isherwood '00) Gettysburg Great Weekend Greatness Takes Action Class Notes Keywords Alumni Magazine, Gettysburg College This book is available at The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag/3 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/3 Fall 2014 From the president t’s an exciting time to be a You’ll see why we’re working so Gettysburgian! As many hard to make these opportunities of you know, we recently available to more students. hosted a terrific Homecoming And why we need your help. Inside Volume 105 • No. 3 • Fall 2014 Weekend that included the public In these times of seemingly launch of Gettysburg Great: insurmountable societal, 12 Making Gettysburg 2 News@Gettysburg The Campaign for Our College. economic, and environmental and Great Inseparable 11 Conversations In this edition of our issues, our world needs intelligent Our liberal arts model is the 30 Do Great Work magazine, we’ve tried to capture a and courageous individuals who education for the future. What 32 Bulletins sense of what it was like to be on see challenges as opportunities. It will it take to ensure a 24/7, full- campus for that special weekend, needs individuals who don’t cower blown, high-impact experience 33 Class notes as well as the vision we have for in the face of big questions, who for future Gettysburgians? 50 In memory this Campaign and its impact on are prepared to collaborate with 52 Parting shot the future of our College. As you people from various backgrounds 25 Gettysburg Great Weekend flip through these pages, you’ll to find answers, and who aren’t learn about the great work that afraid to roll up their sleeves and Connecting the past, present, and our students are doing every day, get things done. Put simply, our future with Gettysburgians on and how Gettysburg has prepared world needs Gettysburgians. campus for Homecoming and the and empowered them in pursuing While this magazine may Join me in celebrating our students! Campaign Kick-Off Weekend. these efforts. You’ll see the look like it’s about a campaign, research they’re doing in labs and it’s really about our students. Cover photo by Paul Fairbanks. Aerial photo by Brian Gilpin and Miranda Harple. in archives, the ways in which they These are students who inspire Editor: Sue Baldwin-Way. Contact [email protected] engage in public service, and the me every single day, and who Address changes: Communications & Marketing, Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Box 422, Gettysburg, PA 17325 experiences they’re gaining as they make me proud—not just as the Gettysburg College assures equal employment and prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national origin, immerse themselves in cultures leader of this great college, but Janet Morgan Riggs ’77 gender, sexual orientation, or disability. Printed in U.S.A. © Gettysburg College 2014. around the world. as a Gettysburg alumna, myself. President For additional content related to this issue, visit www.gettysburg.edu/links or contact [email protected] News Gettysburg A running Office hours Prof. Timothy N. Good P’14 me how to use the talents you have ver the summer, a new Applying science and ingenuity more faculty-led research and given me to help others,’” she said. cohort of science majors to “improve the human condition collaborations, preparing students leap of faith “And I didn’t know what those was at work in our and preserve the planet,” is how for graduate-level research and talents were.” labs, bent on pursuing useful Gettysburg’s own Ron Smith ’72 careers in the wider world. “My job is to share the mission, Her mother Betty (married knowledge by collaborating in puts it. After his distinguished the stories of the hardworking to Don Holck ’56), a nurse faculty-led research projects. career at Intel (where he led the Prof. Good is the inaugural Ronald J. Smith ’72 Professor of Applied Physics. people of Guatemala,” she said. with the medical mission group, These rising sophomores, development of microprocessors Good earned his BS in physics from “Stories of mothers just like me had an answer: “Come with juniors, and seniors have gained that powered the PC revolution), Dickinson College and his MS and PhD who have children just like mine. me to Guatemala.” foundational skills through the Smith provided a generous at the University of California–Irvine. He The only difference being where “Usually only medical personnel Gettysburg College curriculum— endowment for a professorship joined the Gettysburg College faculty I live: I have easy and affordable are needed, but Mom said they were effective communication for which I am honored to hold in 1990. His experimental research in plasma physics and laser spectroscopy access to doctors and medicine. looking for a photojournalist,” said collaboration and dissemination, and which enhances research Photo provided by Cindy Holck McWilliams provides rewarding research These stoic people expect nothing McWilliams. “I took a running leap reading and critical assessment, opportunities for physics students. experiences for students. indy Holck McWilliams ’84 and appreciate everything.” of faith and said, ‘I can do that!’” integration of multidisciplinary Funds from generous alumni and was feeling pulled: arranging A volunteer, she has unlimited Always an avid photographer, perspectives, and global standing parents, College grants, and federal coverage for life’s details, kissing access to the patients, the doctors, McWilliams says she found her voice within the scientific community. agencies like the National Science loved ones goodbye, and heading and even the surgeries, sharing in writing at Gettysburg College, In the realm of research and Foundation and NASA make it for Guatemala with nervous stories of lives changed for those in small classes where she “couldn’t development with faculty, they possible for faculty to engage with anticipation and one carry-on who are healed—and for those hide and was taught my thoughts test textbook or classroom theories students in research. The competition bag. Then it dawned on her. doing the healing. and opinions were important.” in the laboratory, applying the for those funds is fierce. Our students “Our patients were doing the Like eight-year-old Adeline, “Gettysburg professors principles of physics, chemistry, are well aware of the importance of same thing,” she said. “Leaving their fitted with a solar-powered hearing Ted Baskerville, James Pickering, and biology in pursuit of real- experience. With support for faculty mountain villages, relying on friends aid, hearing and learning to speak and Jim Slaybaugh inspired my world solutions to contemporary and engaged learning through and family to look after things, for the first time. Or William, teaching style and my writing,” challenges. In campus labs this Gettysburg Great: The Campaign travelling on foot, to a bus, to a city burned in a gasoline fire and in she said. summer, echoes abound of Ben for Our College, we can offer hours away. Like us, they would be need of repairs to his skin grafts And there’s no hiding in Franklin’s “Let the experiment be excited, nervous, perhaps frightened to regain movement of his neck Guatemala. “On the mountaintop, made!” with dreams of inventions —but taking a chance that their and chin. And doctors and nurses stripped to the basics, focused on as useful as the lightning rod. prayers will be answered.” accustomed to U.S. standards, only what is truly important, I am She brings that kind of solving problems in Guatemala my best self in Guatemala.” personal insight to her writing for with MacGyverlike ingenuity. Faith In Practice, an ecumenical Before Faith In Practice, Posts by Cindy Holck McWilliams Our students are McWilliams was searching. and other volunteers appear on the Christian nonprofit providing faithinpractice.org website. She will medical and surgical care for “For three years, I ended each return next February for her fifth trip well aware of Guatemala’s rural poor. night with, ‘God, please show to Guatemala.