Alumni Issue August 1986 Alumni Issue Volume 77 Number 1 August 1986 GETTYSBURG

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Making Her Own Mark 1

Distinguished Alumni 4 Editor Carol L. Kefalas, Ph.D. Assistant Editors Fighting Against Time 9 Judy Hull Linda Lagle Rasmussen Receives Award 12 Obituary Editor Judy C. Hcpler Contributing Writers International Students 15 Robert Kenworthy '59 Anna Jane Moyer College News 17 Director of Alumni Relations Robert Smith '59 Campus Briefs 19 Executive Board of the Alumni Association: Nancy Riggins Letts '69, president; James Sports 21 H. Wagner '47, vice president; Robert D. Smith '59, executive secretary; Virginia Saul Reese '51, recording secretary; Craig A. Class Notes 23 Showvaker '78, treasurer. Past Presidents: G. Joseph Kurtz '54, John B. Zinn, Jr. '41, Bruce R. Stefany '71. Members-at-Large: Out of the Past 37 John M. Stentz '57, H. Lane Kneedler '63, Maria Caracciolo '83, Deborah L. Sorozan '77, Michael A. Falco 79, Wade C. Anastor '74, Carolyn Kuhn Byron '62, Jack H. Viets '49. Representatives to Advisory Committee on Athletics; William J. Rafferty '74, Harry C. Mason '72, Cynthia A. Prendergast '83. Chairpersons of Standing Committees: GETTYSBURG (USPS 218-120) is ON THE COVER: The drawing of Alumni Days—Raymond M. Miller '35; published monthly in August, October Chief Joseph (Nez Perce), by Dave Medals and Awards—Marcia L. Walker '68. and December; semi-monthly in April by Kessler '58, was first exhibited in the Alumni Trustees: James R. Thomas '53, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA Kerry MacCartney Berk '75, John W. Clark 17325. POSTMASTER: Send address 1982 World's Fair Fine Arts Pavilion. '52, Ernest J. Kruse '52, Frederick H. changes to Printing Office, Gettysburg Dave is currently serving as County Settelmeyer '63, Bruce R. Stefany '71. College, Gettysburg, PA 17325-1486. Commissioner in Santa Rosa County, Florida. Gettysburg College does not engage in illegal discrimination in its programs, activities, and policies against students, prospective students, employees, or prospective employees, on account of race, color, religiofi, ethnic or natural origin, age, personal handicap, or sex. Nancy Riggins Letts '69

Nancy Riggins Letts '69 is the first woman to serve as president of the Gettysburg College Making Her Alumni Association in the 151 years the association has been in Own Mark existence. by Jeffrey B. Roth

would rather not be U remembered as the first In History woman president of the I Gettysburg College Alumni Association. Instead, I would rather be remembered for my accomplishments," says Nancy Riggins Letts '69, the recently- installed President of the Alumfii Association. If dedication to an ideal is a prerequisite of success in the office, then Mrs. Letts is sure to be

GETTYSBURG 1 remembered as a visionary president t is that same kind of of the association. A soft-spoken, dedication to teaching, which articulate woman, she owes her the Gettysburg tradition instilled enthusiasm for her new position to in Mrs. Letts, that she hopes the liberal arts tradition of the She sees her new position wilIl also help her lead the Alumni College. as an opportunity to pay Association. "Academically, I felt very prepared the College back for what it "When I first got involved with to pursue my career choice in has added to her life. the Philadelphia Alumni Club, I history because of the small classes was rather tentative about whether and the professors at Gettysburg I would like it. But, through it, I who were all very accessible. I met a lot of people I would not never felt alone here. There was a have met. For me, the best part good relationship between students Haven, the American Studies was meeting older alums that I and faculty and I missed that when course now includes a battery of would not have had contact with. I did graduate work at West Chester simulation exercises that brings And now I am also getting to meet State College," says Mrs. Letts, history to life for students. A younger alums that I would not who has helped pioneer a unique simulation, she explains, uses a have met. I have gotten more from history curriculum for Swarth combination of role playing with the association than they have ever Haven High School, Swarthmore, task-oriented assignments to actively gotten from me," she says. PA, where she teaches. portray what life was like in She sees her new position as an She dismisses detractors of the different eras of history. opportunity to pay the College back liberal arts tradition who contend The first students to experience a for what it has added to her life. that specialization is the wave of simulation arrived at the newly- "A lot of people are reluctant to join higher education in the future. She formed Swarth Haven High the association because they ask, says it was the flexibility of liberal School, unfamiliar with the 'What are they going to make me arts that led her to pursue a surroundings and with fellow do?' or, 'All they want is my bachelor's and master's degree in students. They were welcomed to money.' But that simply is not true. American history. Primarily it was "Ellis Island" as immigrants and The association gives you more than the skill and enthusiasm of her were told they must complete entry you give it. You develop more history professors, Dr. Robert forms. The forms were written in friendships because of it and it is a Bloom and Dr. Charles Glatfelter, Spanish and French. Later, instead wonderful way to network with that fired her love of history and of the physical examinations that other alums," Mrs. Letts says. her desire to share her experience were actually performed on the Networking, especially "for the with others. immigrants seeking admission to younger alums, is an excellent way "I did not start out as a history the United States, the students were to be introduced to a new area." major. At first, I wanted to be a given eye chart tests. The rub of The range of professions represented social worker and then later I the exercise was that some were told by Gettysburg College alumni is became an English major. But a to read English eye charts, while phenomenal and includes every course requirement of English was others were told to read charts branch of the arts, business, and a course on the history of England. written in Greek. If the students professional careers. Mrs. Letts says It was because of the history failed to read the Greek charts, the association can literally provide department's faculty that I became they were rejected for entry. a first step toward obtaining a hooked on history. In fact, when I Another simulation entitled "The career. did grad work I felt that the history Company Town" provides students "The association also strengthens courses I had taken at Gettysburg with a personal, active glimpse of all the good things that you were better than many of the the life of factory workers during remember about Gettysburg. It is a graduate courses," Mrs. Letts says. the Industrial Revolution. There are way to preserve our roots and ideals As a result, history became for also simulations, many of which that were fostered here at her more than a string of were created by Mrs. Letts, Gettysburg. A common signature meaningless dates and names depicting "Women's Rights" and on every Gettysburg alum is the without personality or humanity. "Foreign Policy in Central reflection of the friendly atmosphere The Battle of Gettysburg became America." Educationally, the of the campus. There are things an eerie and vivid experience for students, without fail, while that have changed throughout the her as she and fellow students admitting the courses were difficult, years, but you can talk to a walked the battlefield and listened responded in year-end anonymous member of the Class of 1930 and to Dr. Bloom describe the horror surveys that they had a better still find common threads that run and heroics of the greatest battle of understanding of history because of through every Gettysburg graduate," the American Civil War. the innovative course. Mrs. Letts says. It is that animated method of teaching that Mrs. Letts experienced at Gettysburg that leads her to try to emulate and recreate history for her high school students. At Swarth

2 AUGUST 1986 The honor system at Gettysburg is one of the strongest legacies of the College, Mrs. Letts adds. "People ask; Do you really believe that students don't cheat? Well, that is not the point—it is the atmosphere of the College which assumes that you are honest that is important. That assumption has created a responsibility for the students to follow that tradition while enrolled at Gettysburg and throughout their lives," she says. s president of the Alumni Association, Mrs. Letts is planning to work with the College administration anAd the other members of the association to coordinate long range planning efforts. She says the College is getting more national recognition and she would like the association to become more visible on the national level. "The Key Alumni Resource Effort is an example of a program in which alums talk to prospective Gettysburg students about the College. These are the type of Nancy Riggins Letts '69 (top) speaks about her aspirations for the Alumni Association, and (bottom) programs the association needs to leads the Class Parade with Verna Schwartz '13 during Alumni Weekend in May. carry it into the future," she says. There are no strong-arm techniques involved in recruiting members or in dictating how involved members have to be in the association, she says. Alumni can be involved at any level that matches their interest and availability. The greatest need of the association, she says, is a commitment of time. The involvement can be limited to social functions or broadened to include any number of local, regional or national programs. "I am proud that I graduated from Gettysburg College and I feel that I acquired a wonderful education here. The whole experience of working for the Alumni Association is a way to say thank you for what the College has done for me," she says, adding that many other alumni can join the association and in their own way say thank you as well. •

Jeffrey B. Roth is a Gettysburg-based writer who works as a local newspaper correspondent and has published in numerous magazines including Pennsylvania Magazine, Baby Talk, Pennsylvania Game News, and Country Magazine.

GETTYSBURG 3 Distinguished Alumni

Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented during Alumni Weekend activities in May. Four persons received 1986 awards: Brian Avnet '64; David C. Kessler '58; Albert C. Neumann '64; and Girard Seitter '57. Carol K. Bellamy '63 accepted the 1985 award which she was unable to be present for last spring.

Brian Avnet '64 their theatre in Baltimore. I got For somebody who didn't know great training there." what he was doing, S. Brian Avnet Avnet started the tradition of rock has done all right for himself. concerts in Baltimore, though the In the midst of a busy career that theatre owners thought at first that has garnered him eight grammys their young protege was off his and 16 gold records as a manager rocker. of some of the brighter names in "In those days, you were talking the music business, Avnet took time about acts like Paul Revere and out to visit his alma mater in May The Raiders. One weekend I booked to receive the Distinguished Alumni the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Award. and the opening act was a Avnet started out in the philosopher named Allen Ginsberg. entertainment business as a scenery And it sold out. They made more runner at the Painters Mill theatre money for the owners than anything near Baltimore. That was the first they'd ever had. I think I paid a week. The second week he found thousand dollars for the whole himself acting as stage manager for package, three shows. We grossed a show starring stage and film star $20,000. I was a big hero then. Red Buttons. That was the summer But I didn't know what I was doing. before he entered Gettysburg as an It was just a lucky booking." economics major. Avnet's "luck" has apparently "I didn't know what I was doing," held. He is now president of Avnet Avnet said .during Alumni Weekend. Management and of A & R Record "Look, Avnet, I think you're "I had no idea. But I learned Company and Music Publishing better off on the other side under fire. I just moved up through Co. He has become the personal of the footlights!" the organization while I was here at manager of some of the biggest Gettysburg, working summers. By names in the recording business, the time I was 19, I was managing including The Manhattan Transfer,

4 AUGUST 1986 Frankie Vali and The Four Seasons, "Right now we're starting to do a we're going to have Stevie write a Michael and Danny Sembello, and lot of music for films. But the first sort of pop classical album with a Rose Ann Cash. thing were going to do is a lot of other contemporary writers Avnet credits some of his success Broadway musical. I've gotten who have a classical edge to them, with advice given him by one of together with a gentleman named like Winton Marsalis, and we're his mentors at Gettysburg College, Mark McCormick, who wrote the going to try to put out an album English professor and Director of book What They Don't Teach You that combines elements of classical Theatre Arts Emile Schmidt. at the Harvard School of Business. and pop. But you have to be "I was an athlete here, played He manages a lot of sports clients. careful with things like that." some sports, that kind of thing. I He brought me a script entitled Avnet's organizational abilities are auditioned once to play 'Othello' American Heroes. I took it to not spent totally on the fantasy-like with the drama club. I read for it. Frankie Hewett at Ford's Theatre in aspects of the entertainment world. Emile came up to me, and he said: Washington because it sort of fit His credits also include numerous 'Look, Avnet, I think you're better the vernacular of that theatre. So efforts on behalf of such off on the other side of the we're going to do that this spring. organizations such as the Vietnam footlights!' "But this is one of the more Veterans, Cancer Research at the "Emile was just starting the Owl interesting things we're doing . . . Concern Foundation in Los and Nightingale theatre then. He's There's this great classical opera Angeles, and the Biafrian Fund to made quite a thing out of it. I have singer named Tiri Te Kanawa. She's Aid African Children. He has also a lot of respect for him." As a from New Zealand. McCormick served on the Board of Directors of token of his respect, Avnet this also manages her. We had the idea the Young People's Cosmopolitan spring gave his former teacher one to take Kiri and Stevie Wonder, Symphony of New York. of his gold records. who's a good friend of mine, and

David C. Kessler '58 thirty featured artists invited to To David Kessler, "Sitting still is display their work at the 1982 like holding your breath. It makes it Worlds Fair in Knoxville, TN. pretty hard to live that way." He's From the creation of compelling never had to worry much about portraits of Indian chiefs, a specially- sitting still, though. commissioned portrait of Red From Gettysburg College, where Wolves for presentation to Mr. and he was a Distinguished Military Mrs. Marlin Perkins of TV's "Wild Graduate in 1958, majored in Kingdom," and a challenging stint physics, and earned such honors as as ABC's official Courtroom Artist the Baum Math Prize, the Convair during the network's coverage of Cadet Award, and the Military the Florida abortion clinic bombing Memorial Prize, Kessler went on to trials, Kessler has gone on to a a distinguished career in the United career in local politics. States Air Force. From his current position as County From the Air Force, where he Commissioner in Pensacola, was a Distinguished Flying Graduate Florida, Kessler hopes to go on to of pilot training, was handpicked to Africa, a recent Safari experience fly the first C-130 into Vietnam, having sparked his photographer/ shattered physical fitness testing writer's interest in the country's vast records, spent 15 years as a test expanses of untamed land, teeming pilot, earned a master's degree in wildlife, and a people Kessler astronautical engineering, qualified admires for their valiant "struggle to for the elite Society of Experimental retain their values." Test Pilots, and earned such From there, even David Kessler honors as the Bronze Star, two isn't quite sure what he'll go on to. meritorious service medals, and the Perhaps that's what he had in mind Vietnam Service Medal with five when, accepting his Distinguished campaign stars, Kessler went on to Alumni Award, his three children such civilian endeavors as teaching and three grandchildren among the and aerospace consulting. He's one of those rare audience, he asked the group to From his position as adjunct individuals who has never "remember how it felt when you professor of astronomy and physics lost the youthful wonder were young and trying to decide at Pensacola Junior College, Kessler of possibilities. what you wanted to be when you went on to become an award- grew up. Some of us," Kessler said winning portrait artist, one of only with a smile, "are still deciding."

GETTYSBURG Of course, it isn't that Kessler in an 82% Democratic area which he's always gone back to, from his hasn't grown up—he's just never had never before elected a award-winning photography and stopped growing. He's one of those Republican to the Commission. To sketches in Vietnam to his more rare individuals who has never Kessler, it's just the latest in a recent interest in oil portraits. lost the youthful wonder of lifetime of challenges met, the His choice of portraits is a possibilities. The lure of life's current thing to do as well as you deliberate one. He says in art challenge has never left him. can before going on to something "there's too much to do to try to Challenges have never worried new to learn, to experience, to do everything." An artist has to him much, either. Back in the 60's, accomplish. choose the area that personally having trained as a fighter pilot and If you ask David Kessler which "makes the work exciting to do." volunteered for Army paratrooper two of his many accomplishments For Kessler, that personal excitement training with the Green Berets, have given him the most personal has been in creating portraits, both Kessler flew more than 350 missions satisfaction, one of the two he'll "because of the challenge of in Vietnam in a tour of duty that mention is his career as a test pilot, portrait work and because of the began nearly a year before the Gulf chosen because of what he describes people involved." His work has of Tonkin incident and spanned the as "the extreme competition, the been praised for both accuracy of next nine years. qualities it took to get there." detail and for sensitivity. He's been Twenty years later, Kessler's Of 30,000 pilots in the Air Force told that he's "captured the essence concern about the impact of his at that time, only 12 were chosen of America" in his subjects. area's one-thousand-people-a-day for the year-long Air Force Test He's never done a self-portrait, growth on the quality of local life, Pilot School. Fewer enjoyed a though. And, he says he's never the problems of an aging society, distinguished, fifteen-year career thought about what the "essence of the need to strengthen the local which included atmospheric research David Kessler" might be. In words two-party system, and his belief missions, support for the Gemini or drawings, that driving force to that his background and experience space launches, basic astronaut meet the challenges of today head- might give him something of value training, and the development and on and to constantly seek out the to offer his community, led him testing of new weapons systems. challenges of tomorrow, that ability into the challenges of a different The other of the two things which to relish the excitement and wonder kind of conflict. Though a Republican has given Kessler the most personal at the possibilities of life, that and a northerner, Kessler decided satisfaction in life is his art. No essence of David Kessler would be to run for County Commissioner. matter what David Kessler has very hard to capture, indeed. He won a precedent-setting victory gone on to, art is the one thing

Albert C. Neumann '64 The operation was vigorously There was a time when radial opposed by some eye surgeons in keratotomy was done in the U.S. the U.S. when Neumann first began by only one man, and that man performing the operation in 1980. was Dr. Albert C. Neumann '64, But with six years and 2500 founder of the Neumann Eye successful RK's behind him, the Institute in Deland, FL. controversy has died down to a The radial keratotomy (or RK, as mutter, and Neumann is more the doctor calls it, and who can confident than ever. As well he blame him?) is a surgical procedure might be: he says that in not one which reduces or eliminates myopia of those 2500 cases has he had a (nearsightedness). The operation major complication. involves a series of eight microscopic "Radial keratotomy can reduce incisions in the cornea of the eye. or eliminate nearsightedness with As a result of the surgery, the predictable results," he said. "In 73 cornea "flattens," thus reducing or percent of the cases we have eliminating the patient's myopia. studied, the patients' visual acuity "The RK is very helpful to those six months after surgery was 20/40 whose careers or self-image depend or better, which is good enough to on clear, unaided vision. Pilots, read, write, or drive an automobile firefighters, media personalities and without the aid of glasses." police officers are among those To his detractors, Neumann offers requesting the surgery," said understanding: "Medicine, like "The RK is very helpful to Neumann., theology, is a conservative those whose careers or The RK was developed in the profession. And even though there self-image depend on clear, Soviet Union by Dr. Svyatoslav N. is an overwhelming amount of unaided vision." Fyodorov, from whom Neumann information to support the learned it. The two meet regularly effectiveness and safety of radial in the U.S.S.R. to compare notes. keratotomy, there are those who,

6 AUGUST 1986 because of their lack of personal at the University of Miami's Jackson One of the reasons Neumann set experience or because of their high Hospital. He completed his up his own clinic is that he wanted degree of conservatism, have residency at the Albert Einstein to get away from the traditional difficulty accepting the procedure. College of Medicine. hospital atmosphere, which he feels But this is commonplace. "The average cost over a lifetime is detrimental to a quick recovery. "In my courses in which I teach for wearing contacts is'about "What we've done is removed this the procedure to eye surgeons, I $11,000," said Neumann. "The indifferent, hostile environment for share with them a quote, attributed cost of an RK is much less expensive health care, and replaced it with to a vicar in Somersetshire, England than that. The patient is back to warmth, understanding, respect and in the 17th century. I'll paraphrase work within three days of the dignity of the patient, to reduce the quote: 'The use of the new surgery." anxiety and make it a more optic glasses is immoral, because it During the course of the interview, pleasant experience." Neumann perverts nature and results in false Neumann was asked why he added that technology has gone images.' Now this is some 500 years himself still wears glasses. "I guess I beyond the RK in the past six years, after the invention of eyeglasses. could have been slick and not leaving the procedure as the And that type of skepticism borders worn these," he laughed. "I have simplest and least risky operation of on obstructionism." 20/40 vision without my glasses. its kind. Neumann majored in psychology That's right within where most while at Gettysburg. He earned his patients are after the RK. I can M.D. from the New Jersey College scuba, I can ski, I can do anything of Medicine and went on to intern I want without the glasses."

Girard Seitter '57 The doctor doesn't smoke, jogs "I feel very, very strongly that a for an hour-and-a-half every liberal arts education is the only morning, and, since 1982, has way to go at the undergraduate competed in long distance running level. It certainly was for me. I events. In the interview, Gen. know those kinds of things I would Seitter was asked whether it made not have been exposed to had it not him angry as a physician to see been for a liberal arts education. I people eating junk food, smoking, now enjoy good music and I know and not exercising. a Van Gogh when I see one. If I "That's interesting. No one's ever were to do it over again today, I asked me that. I think that the would do it absolutely the same awareness throughout the country way." is continuing to build. I believe that The words are those of Brigadier we have not peaked out in our General Girard Seitter, '57, medical efforts toward good health and corps commander, Brooke Army fitness and 'wellness.' Let me be Medical Center, San Antonio, TX. very blunt. Smoking makes me He is a specialist in cardiothoracic angry. The reason for that is that, surgery. in my judgment, the evidence is in. Seitter entered Hahnemann Ten or 15 years ago, that may not Medical College in Philadelphia after have been true. It may have been "You chip away at a few graduating from Gettysburg and speculation. That's no longer true. things that need doing, and consequent commissioning as a The jury has returned, the facts are if that works, why that's there. Smoking does nothing for second lieutenant through the fine. Just struggling to get College's ROTC program. Following you except temporarily makes you his internship at Philadelphia feel better, and destroys you, and to the top is destructive." General Hospital, Dr. Seitter entered it does that in many, many ways. active duty in the Army. I have come to question the Seitter's career has not been judgment of people who smoke. spent entirely in a surgical theater Anyone who ignores the facts is is because I have consciously set or behind a desk; on his uniform ignoring reality." out some goals to achieve, not only jacket, along with numerous other Gen. Seitter was asked how he myself, but for the organization I'm awards, is the Airborne medal he would describe his 'secret to affiliated with, the Army and the earned at the Army's jump school success': "I didn't realize it because Army Medical Department. You at Ft. Benning, GA, and an "expert the term wasn't coined yet, but I don't set out to 'rise to the top.' marksman" medal he earned in realize that I directed my life in a You don't set out to become a handgun competition. He was the goal-oriented fashion. And now general. You chip away at a few first Army Medical Department goal-orientation is a household things that need doing, and if that officer to earn the Order of Military term. I fit right into that. Whatever works, why that's fine. Just struggling Merit in Korea. successes I may have had, I think, to get to the top is destructive."

GETTYSBURG Ms. Bellamy said many of the environment in which the gender and racial-based barriers, candidate's substantive issues are once nearly insurmountable not taken as seriously as some of obstacles that prevented women these other things," she said, from entering various professions noting that she believed the press, and careers, have been eliminated. on the whole, "muddled through But she said, the strides made for the ordeal decently." equality of the sexes is only a first To help prepare for the world, step in the process of re-educating she said that a liberal arts America about women. education, such as she received at "I am afraid that many women Gettysburg, is a good beginning today think everything is hunky- because it provides a strong dory and all the barriers have been foundation for developing decision­ removed. What I think will happen making skills. She said liberal arts is that young women will make helped her pursue her law degree their first career steps successfully and has helped her in the political and then run into these artificial and business worlds. The most barriers. They need to be aware important thing for young women that they still exist, so they can be and men, she said, is to be willing prepared to meet the challenge," to work hard and hard work is the Bellamy said. first step in attaining any goal. "There has been an assault, "They also need to understand The first woman commencement particularly economic, on that while, as women, they can speaker for Gettysburg College in have it all: a career, a marriage, 1973, Bellamy was also the first the gains made by women and a family, ... it is not that woman ever elected to a city-wide in American society." simple. The superwoman is just a office in New York City. comic book character. To have it She said that she misses the all means having the ability to give political limelight "a little bit," but and take; the ability to she is happy with her job. accommodate and compromise. It "I think that everyone has means balancing priorities and some several careers in them. This, for Carol K. Bellamy '63 days it will be the pits and other me, is a nice job. As a specialist in Carol K. Bellamy '63 advises days it will be wonderful," she said. public finance, this allows me to be young women today "that vigilance Geraldine Ferraro's vice in business and still keep my hand is necessary to maintain the social presidential candidacy changed in government by doing public tax- gains" made by women in the past forever the politics of the United exempt financing. I may get into century. Bellamy, 1985 recipient of States, Bellamy said. More and government again in the future. the Distinguished Alumni Award, more women have entered the But for now, I have committed a accepted the award at ceremonies political arena, with increasing concerted effort to what I am this year. success. doing," she said. Former president of the New Ferraro's candidacy has provided York City council, Bellamy, known many lessons for women in politics, for her direct and frank approach lessons that highlighted the gender- on issues she believes in, is now a based problems the country vice president of Morgan Stanley grappled with in deciding how to Stories on Brian Avnet, Albert Company, an investment banking treat her candidacy, Bellamy said. C. Neumann, and Girard Seitter firm. During an interview Alumni "First, she was treated fairly, but were written by T. W. Burger, a Weekend Bellamy said, "There has differently. There was a greater newspaper reporter and free lance been an assault, particularly scrutiny of the financial standing of writer who has published widely in economic, on the gains made by the spouse because she was a journals such as Atlanta Weekly, women in American society. female candidate than there would Progressive Farmer, New Arts "Young women must always be have been if she had been a male Review, and others. vigilant and cannot just sit back. I candidate. It should not have been The story on David C. Kessler don't mean they have to march on different. was written by Linda Maifair, a free the streets for women's rights, but "Then there was just plain lance writer of children's stories. they have to understand that silliness in some cases. Should Fritz The story on Carol K. Bellamy gender-based barriers to Mondale shake her hand when she was written by Jeffrey B. Roth, a employment, education, etc., still came into a room or give her a Gettysburg-based writer who works exist," said Bellamy, who left kiss and a liug? Or, what did she as a local newspaper correspondent political life for the time being after wear? Who cares?" she asked. and has published in numerous losing the New York mayorial "While you can just laugh at magazines including Pennsylvania primary to incumbent mayor some of these things, taken Magazine, Pennsylvania Game Edward I. Koch in 1985. together they begin to set an News, and Country Magazine.

8 AUGUST 1986 !"?• I J.* A i • M T*» Fighting A{gainst Tini e

The struggle to restore water quality is being undertaken by by William N. Hedeman, Jr. '64 the EPA.

^^^ rom the perspective of cases is disposal in the ground. hundreds of families living on top 1^^ protecting our environment, The decade of the 70's, as it often of a toxic waste dump were being we have been a nation of is described in the environmental exposed to those toxics as they JL reaction more than one of movement, yielded an arsenal of seeped through basement floors vision. When rivers began to catch federal and state legislation and and into backyards. The community on fire in the early 1970's, Congress regulation considered a model for of Love Canal, NY, became as reacted by passing the Clean Water the rest of the nations in the much of a household word in 1979 Act, a comprehensive water modern world to follow. The fervor as "toxic waste" has become today. pollution control law that regulates of the movement restored many of Love Canal was the catalyst that discharges of wastes into the our nation's streams to a fishable caused us to react once again. In nation's rivers and streams from and swimmable quality, visibly 1980, Congress passed the industries and municipalities, and purified the air, and yielded Comprehensive Environmental, establishes a multi-billion dollar warning labels on a variety of Response, Compensation and federal grant program ($42 billion household products, pesticides, and Liability Act, commonly known as to date) to construct municipal other toxic materials. Our senses— Superfund, to provide a federal sewage treatment facilities to control sight, smell, taste, hearing—all authority to address abandoned, this waste. Similar reaction occurred gave us a feeling that progress was uncontrolled hazardous waste sites, with the enactment of the Clean being made. chemical spills, and other types of Air Act about the same time after Ironically, in reacting to the incidents that cause releases of smog from industry smoke stacks problems our senses told us existed hazardous substances into our engulfed many of the nation's cities in the 1970's, our focus was on environment. The law set up a trust and affected the breathing of many changing our present and future fund of $1.6 billion for five years, of their residents. behavior. Little thought was given the majority of the money for the Further legislation followed in the to the behavior of our past, and trust fund coming from a new tax late 1970's to regulate the the problems that it may present to on chemical feedstocks—the raw production and use of the thousands us now. Operating under the material building blocks from which of toxic chemicals and pesticides instinct of "out of sight, out of the thousands of chemicals manufactured in this country. A mind," we assumed that whatever manufactured in this country are concern for the disposal of the may have happened in the past was derived. Taxing authority for this waste products from these toxic not of much concern to us today, fund expired October 1, 1985, and chemicals and pesticides also because things have a way of has not been reauthorized by the prompted Congress to enact further disappearing—of returning to the Congress. The Environmental legislation that regulates their use earth, so to speak. Protection Agency has responsibility from cradle to grave, recognizing Our senses were jolted into reality for administering the fund. that the "grave" in the majority of in 1979 with the discovery that

GETTYSBURG PA has developed a disposal practices. They also national inventory of existing represent where the vast majority but abandoned hazardous of the problem is as a result of waste sites. It includes these past disposal practices: almosEt 23,500 locations. Each of contaminated groundwater. these sites is being assessed and Studies to assess the extent of physically inspected, if necessary, groundwater contamination (the to determine which are serious location and movement of the enough to be placed on a national contaminated groundwater plume) priority list. often take years to complete Eight hundred ninety-five sites are because the groundwater and its on the National Priority List. Two surrounding geological formations of these are in the Gettysburg area: are very difficult to predict. The • The Westinghouse Elevator average national cost for a study of Co. Plant, Cumberland Township, this type is $800,000. Once the Pennsylvania: This 85-acre tract source of contamination is pinpointed of land is used to manufacture and a remedy is selected to correct elevators. The manufacturing it (often pumping and treating the process uses paint and degreasing contaminated water until it is materials that involve chlorinated purified to acceptable federal and solvents. In August 1983, the state public health standards), the Pennsylvania Department of remedy is designed and implemented. Environmental Resources detected William Hedeman Jr. '64 Costs for these phases of the work one type of solvent— are measured in the millions of trichloroethylene (TCE)—in a dollars. The national average cost nearby stream. A follow-up per site is now over $7 million for investigation by the State and EPA design and construction. revealed that a number of private wells in the vicinity of the site also ationally, a number of were contaminated. sites are abandoned or have responsible parties Responding to this problem, who are unwilling or Westinghouse has supplied 15 unablNe to assume responsibility for homes along Route 34, which have Operating under the instinct of "out of sight, out of the cleanup of the sites. Under the contaminated private wells, with Superfund law, any person or alternative water supplies. The mind," we assumed that company is considered legally company also has initiated a whatever may have happened responsible for the cleanup if they hydrogeological study of the site to in the past was not of owned the site, transported waste determine the extent of the to the site, or generated waste that contamination and available much concern to us today, because things have a way of went to the site. It is not uncommon alternatives to clean up the for a Superfund site to have contaminated groundwater. disappearing—of returning hundreds of individuals and • Shrivers Corner, Straban to the earth, so to speak. corporations designated as potentially Township, Pennsylvania: This site responsible parties. actually represents two areas Where responsible parties do not covering about ten acres along route exist or are unwilling to assume 394 in Straban Township, Adams responsibility, the Superfund is County, Pennsylvania. Both areas drums and 250 cubic yards of available to fund the cleanup. The accepted drums of liquid waste contaminated soil from the site and Government then attempts to from the Westinghouse elevator disposed these materials in an recover these costs from the plant. The liquid wastes included approved disposal site. The responsible parties. The law allows paint sludges and solvents, company intends to conduct the Government to recover three including 1,1,1-trichloroethane, groundwater studies in the vicinity times the amount of money it toluene, and xylene. of this site to identify alternatives to spends at sites where responsible Tests conducted by both EPA and correct this groundwater problem. parties refuse to follow Government Pennsylvania reveal contamination It must be emphasized that neither orders for cleanup. of the groundwater in the vicinity of these sites present any risk At this point in time, with the of these sites with unacceptable whatsoever to the water supplies taxing authority having expired levels of various organic for Gettysburg College. Both of nine months ago, the Superfund is compounds. About 5,000 people these sites, however, represent broke! Congress is wrestling with a within three miles of the sites use examples of a growing national tremendous number of issues the groundwater as a source of trend by industry to step-up and involving the reauthorization of this drinking water. Westinghouse has assume responsibility for correcting five-year-old statute, including removed approximately 80 surface the problems caused by these past where the money will come from

10 AUGUST 1986 to continue this national cleanup effort. The Office of Technology Assessment, the technical arm of Congress, projects that the amount of money that will be required to address this national problem over time is at least $300 billion. In a 1986 atmosphere of Gramm- Rudman and balanced budgets, choices of where the money should come from to continue this program have become very difficult to make. Members of a House/ Senate Conference are now attempting to reconcile differences between two separate bills passed by the House of Representatives in December 1985 and the Senate in April 1985 to reauthorize the Superfund for another five years. While the Conferees have agreed that the Superfund program for the next five years should be $8.5 billion, many issues remain unresolved. Nevertheless, it now seems likely that Congress will soon be able to resolve these issues and reauthorize this vitally LETS TALK REAL ESTATE ... important piece of legislation. Do you: We have come a long way in five . . . want to turn your real estate into cash or years. We have a better income? understanding of the magnitude of . . . want to avoid capital gains tax on appreciated this national problem and have property? assembled a respectable expertise to respond to it. But, we have only . . . know you can receive a tax deduction for your made a small dent. There is still home while continuing to live in it? much to be done and in many cases Contact us so we can tell you about opportunities available we will be fighting against time to concerning real estate. restore the nation's water resources Bruce Bigelow/Susan Warren to an acceptable quality that Office of Development assures adequate protection for Pennsylvania Hall public health and the environment. • Gettysburg College Gettysburg, PA 17325 717/337-6500

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GETTYSBURG 11 Secretary of Energy John Herrington (left) presented Dr. Norman C. Rasmussen '50 (right) with the Enrico Fermi Award on February 6, 1986. Fermi Recipient Considers Himself a Teacher First

by Robert Holt an honoree by Energy Secretary chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory John S. Harrington. The secretary Commission (NRC) panel which Despite his having received the noted Rasmussen's "pioneering evaluated the overall risks from highest recognition given by the contributions to nuclear energy in reactor accidents and delivered its U.S. Department of Energy, the development of probabilistic risk study in 1975. "An Assessment of nuclear physicist Dr. Norman C. assessment techniques that have Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Rasmussen '50 has set a greater provided new insights and led to Nuclear Power Plants," or the goal for himself. new developments in nuclear "Rasmussen Report," provided Rasmussen, who received the power plant safety." "probabilistic risk assessment" Enrico Fermi Award in February, is The Fermi award can be given (PRA) as a logical framework for professor of nuclear engineering at once a year at the approval of a the systematic analysis of possible the Massachusetts Institute of selection committee and the accident sequences at nuclear Technology. He would like to see President of the United States for power plants. one of his pupils eventually receive "exceptional and altogether The PRA method categorically the same award. outstanding scientific and technical groups the events that might occur "Any teacher yearns for the day achievement in the development, during a possible nuclear plant when he sees one of his students use or control of atomic energy." accident and the sequences of the be successful. It would mean more The recipients receive a presidential events. Potential accident to me to see one of my students citation, a gold medal and sequences are determined using the get the Fermi award than to receive $100,000. fault-tree analysis of reliability it myself, because it would be such The prize was established in engineering. Then quantitative a compliment to me to have 1956 to honor Enrico Fermi, who probabilities and consequences are someone I spent some years led a group of scientists in estimated for each group of training be recognized," Rasmussen initiating the first self-sustained, ordered events. said during a recent interview at controlled nuclear reaction in 1942. When environmentalists the National Science Foundation. Rasmussen, a member of the challenged the PRA method The 57-year-old native of National Science Board and the developed in the Rasmussen Harrisburg, PA, was announced as National Academy of Sciences, was Report, another NRC committee,

12 AUGUST 1986 the Risk Assessment Review physician. John graduated from Group, examined the findings of Hillsdale College and is a hospital the study and delivered the "Lewis "I love research. But the administrator at Travis Bay Hospital Report" in 1978. The review in northern Michigan. Frederik, Jr. panel, led by Harold W. Lewis, thing that makes it graduated from Penn State and questioned some of the statistical refreshing and full of fun is developed a corporate career, findings of the Rasmussen the daily interaction with a retiring as vice president of commission, and noted the NRC's lot of bright, young production for Sealtest Dairies. failure to fully implement the students." David pursued a career in the Air evaluation practices outlined in the Force, and is now a supervisor of final report. Yet, the commission dispatching for United Airlines. affirmed the evaluation method Their father, a Danish immigrant, outlined in the Rasmussen study, was a professor of dairy products and called it a "substantial advance the institute. at Penn State University. The elder over previous attempts to estimate "I love research. But the thing Rasmussen served as the the risks of the nuclear option." that makes it refreshing and full of Pennsylvania Secretary of The PRA method is commonly fun is the daily interaction with a Agriculture in the early part of this accepted in the nuclear regulatory lot of bright, young students," he century. It was during his term that field in evaluations plans for said. It is the one thing about his the Pennsylvania Farm Show was remodification, maintenance and career which he said gives him the initiated as an annual event. operation of nuclear reactors. most satisfaction. The boys spent their early years Though the report from his Speaking in a quiet, deliberative on a farm between Hershey and commission did get some criticism, manner, Rasmussen recalled his Middletown, PA. The family Rasmussen said, "Over the years, younger days as a student at moved to Gettysburg after their the value and the worth of these Gettysburg High School, where he father died. Rasmussen recalled his techniques have been helpful, and helped instructors teach laboratory brothers all displayed an aptitude certainly have proven themselves, courses. The professor said he for math and the sciences. His and today they are pretty much chose teaching as a career while older brothers, John, Howard and accepted." stiH a student himself in college. Holger, studied chemistry in The scientist believes he was He said his interest in physics school. chosen for the Fermi award was inspired by his science teacher "We had a bright mother and because of the creation of the PRA at Gettysburg High School, Jack father who provided us an method and because it is now a Cessna. Rasmussen also environment to grow up in that standard in the industry. He remembers getting encouragement fostered inquisitiveness and counted the completion of that from Gettysburg College professors competition," he said. Yet, he said study as his most notable Bowling Miller, John Zinn Sr., his motivation for math and science accomplishment, "because it's had Robert Fryling, and Charles Sloat. was the result of a desire to escape a significant impact on the way we "I just always did like teaching, the tedious routine of farm life. think about and deal with reactor don't ask me why. It was Rasmussen remembered sharing safety issues." Yet, he also something I knew from my early with his brothers the daily chore of expressed some doubt about his years in college, that I wanted to milking 30 cows at 6 a.m. and 6 deserving the Fermi award, noting be a teacher," he said. "And I got p.m. that he was not the "sole author" opportunities to be one in a place "There is nothing like growing up of the Rasmussen Report, and that of my choice." milking cows to make you realize other people who worked with him He considers himself lucky that that there is something better to do are worthy of some credit. he was "at the right place at the in life," he said, expressing no While being granted the highest right time" when MIT first opened desire to leave his suburban lifestyle scientific honor the DOE can its nuclear engineering department in Sudbury, MA, and return to the bestow for his contributions to and provided him an opportunity farm. nuclear safety, Rasmussen, the to explore in low-energy physics. One thing from his youthful days McAfee Professor of Engineering at Yet, Rasmussen's interest in on the farm that did stick with him MIT, places more emphasis on his science and teaching, combined is his love for the outdoors. Aside role as a teacher. with a bit of self-motivation, is from bird watching with his wife, Graduating from Gettysburg in more than mere luck. He was Thalia (Tichenor) Rasmussen, he 1950, he completed his advanced among six sons of Frederik and likes to photograph wildlife. studies in low-energy physics at Faith (Elliot) Rasmussen. Though Rasmussen also enjoys hiking, and MIT in 1956. The following year, Norman may be the Rasmussen downhill and cross country skiing. Rasmussen accepted a teaching most known by the public, his Making furniture is another of his position at MIT, became a brothers have also ranked high in hobbies. professor, and eventually served a their careers. Also Gettysburg Though he likes teaching, six-year term as chairman of the College graduates, Howard became Rasmussen still is attracted to Department of Nuclear Engineering a professor at the Yale Medical research, and his interests are during his 30 years of teaching at School, and Holger is a private closely related to his personal

GETTYSBURG 13 "There is nothing like growing up milking cows to make you realize that there is something better to do in life."

Dr. Rasmussen spoke about his life's work as a teacher and researcher while in Washington, DC. to receive the Enrico Fermi Award.

commitment to nuclear safety. He It fits the pattern of Rasmussen's in the high schools, that this society said he preferred low-energy research during the past 15 years: has to take more responsibility one physics for two reasons. It allowed nuclear safety and the way or another, to improve the him to work independently in a environmental impact of nuclear education available to our young laboratory, and he had a liking for power. He also is the director of people. We're discouraged in "applied and practical things" which the MIT Special Summer Program seeing the number of technically- he developed while growing up on on Nuclear Power Safety, where trained people beginning to drop the farm. leaders in the industry receive off," he said. Rasmussen is a member of a advanced training in reactor safety. The scientist noted that it is committee of scientists overseeing Rasmussen claimed one of the partially due to the decline in the the clean up of Three Mile Island most valuable lessons learned at number of students in the schools, (TMI) reactor No. 2, where a Three Mile Island is that "there are and to the fact that fewer children malfunction occurred in 1979. He ways these plants can get into are interested in the sciences. "We travels to the power plant near his trouble, and to be alert to them." think that if we are going to survive hometown three or four times a He noted that the only thing that in a world that depends on year. Coincidentally, the will allay people's fears about technology, that (fact) can be a Rasmussen homestead is only three nuclear reactors is their careful and tragedy. So we must do more to miles from the site of the infamous safe operation. Currently, stimulate in young people an TMI nuclear power plant. "After Rasmussen is conducting research interest in science, and do more to the accident occurred, it became on how to account for plant aging provide them with educational such a famous event in nuclear in the risk assessment of nuclear opportunities that will allow them history, it's of course ironic that power plant operations. "As plants to further develop their talents," he here's a guy that spent his life begin to become older, one said.B becoming an expert in reactor becomes concerned that they will safety, and the reactor that gives wear out, and have a higher failure him problems is the one next to his rate," he said. The research is boyhood home," Rasmussen said. intended to detect and predict "Of course, I think it is when nuclear reactor vessels are no unfortunate we had an accident. . . . longer safe to operate because of You're presented a problem, and age and fatique factors. Rasmussen you use your ingenuity and said the technology is available to resources the best you can to disassemble reactors and convert the sites for general use. Robert Holt is a journalist and contribute to the solution of the reporter for the Gettysburg Times problem. That's a fun kind of When thinking about the future who also writes on education topics. assignment in a sense, not because and the scientists who will provide something bad happened, but and maintain new technology, because it's such an intriguing, Rasmussen said he and other challenging problem. It's the kind scientists and educators have some of thing that excites all of us when concerns. we get a chance to work on such "We think, especially concerning an issue," he said. the undergraduates at colleges and

14 AUGUST 1986 International Students Provide A Link To World Understanding

by Marilyn Hubbard

hey come in slowly It is important, however, that As a result, international student growing numbers from international students who are here workers can be found working in those far away places with do more than study and do well in the CUB, the library, the computer the strange sounding their classes. Because rates of center, admissions, and other Tnames: Sri Lanka, once Ceylon, the exchange usually do not favor offices on campus. Tear Drop of India; Sweden and students coming from other Attention to academics and the Finland, lands of the Midnight Sun; countries, many must supplement need to work cause a drain on oil-rich Kuwait; Moslem Pakistan, any financial help coming from available time. It takes extra hours equatorial Nigeria. They speak home or the College by working. to study for a course offered in a Urdu and Twi, Malay and Chinese. Unless a student has been in the language and a cultural setting Some have never before felt the United States for a year and has different from that to which the moist heat of August or the freezing obtained a special work permit students are accustomed. Still, winds of January. They leave from the Department of Immigration international students may be found home and culture, familiar food and Naturalization, he or she is taking part in a variety of campus and family to come as international permitted to be employed only by activities. This past year they were students to Gettysburg College. the college or university attended. members of the Student Senate, They come as pioneers to a place where few, if any, from their countries have come before. As Gettysburg College students, they bring with them excellent credentials. They must. The College looks for this in accepting them. Because there are no remedial programs or English As a Second Language classes offered here, they must compete at the same level as U.S. students. They compete very well academically. In the fall semester of the 1985-1986 school year, four international students were named to the Deans' Honor List and one was named to the Deans' Commendation List. One 1986 graduate received his degree from Gettysburg College SUMMA CUM LAUDE. He had just completed These international students attended their first year of classes at Gettysburg during the 1985-86 a year as president of the Student academic year. They are: (front, left to right) Hin Aun Tan, Malaysia; Anil Ramchandani, India; (back, Senate, was named to Phi Beta left to right) Lars Bjorses, Finland; Jacobien Beekhuis, Sweden; Laure Flamand, France; Ulrika Bengtsson, Finland; YousufRamjoo, Pakistan; Katinka Van Varik, The Netherlands; Marilyn Hubbard, Kappa, and received other honors. International Student Coordinator.

GETTYSBURG 15 SAC, Government House, Greek students? More than sixty and individuals can establish organizations, and The Student and international students were accepted scholarship funds specifically for Faculty Coalition Against Apartheid. for admission to the College for international students. Alumni and They performed in choirs, 1986-87. Again, as with American friends can meet new students orchestras, and theater. They students, more are accepted than upon their arrival and arrange played on intramural and varsity can be expected to attend. Some transportation to the College. athletic teams. They could often be may be accepted and choose to Families can host a student for part found sharing their cultural attend another institution. Others or all of a long vacation break or, perspectives with classmates, campus may rely heavily on scholarship if they live close enough to organizations, and local clubs. help to make their decision. Many Gettysburg, can invite a student for Several students and faculty students who plan to study in a weekend visit or for a meal. The participated in the second Interfaith certain specialized fields receive more opportunities international Celebration of Life, a Sunday scholarships from their countries students have to meet Americans morning service at Christ Chapel, with the expectation that they will and to see how we live, the which provided international students be of service to their countries broader the understanding they will and faculty members with the when they return after graduation. have about the United States when opportunity to sing, dance, and read Countries are not likely to offer they return to their homes. selections from poetry or sacred funding to students who attend a There has been more and more scripture in their own languages, emphasis placed by colleges and with translations provided for universities on the importance of members of the audience. cultural diversity. Indeed, cultural ow do international diversity is an important element in students learn about The more opportunities Gettysburg College's Five-Year American colleges? Why international students have Plan for Excellence. In an age of do they choose to to meet Americans and to international travel and matriculatHe at Gettysburg College? communication, contacts with other see how we live, the How can the College attract more countries have become easier to such students? broader the understanding achieve and relationships of a social and political nature have These are questions that are often they will have about the taken on increasing importance. asked and for which there are a United States when they International students at Gettysburg variety of responses. First, return to their homes. College provide a small but international students hear about important link to increased world American colleges in many of the understanding. Students, faculty, same ways that U.S. students do. staff, alumni, and friends should They may know someone who is make every effort to take advantage attending or has attended a certain liberal arts college that does not of the opportunities for intercultural college, or they may have read offer courses in agriculture or education which are available at some of the various guides to engineering, so the necessary Gettysburg College. colleges and studied the rankings money must come from other and other pertinent information. A sources. Gettysburg College has Anyone with questions, suggestions, counselor in their school may have established a small amount of or offers of help should contact specific knowledge of certain financial aid which has been Marilyn Hubbard, International colleges or universities. Some designated to go directly to Student Coordinator, Box 520, colleges—not Gettysburg at this educating international students. Gettysburg College. M time—may send an admissions There are many international representative on admissions tours students having high scholastic in foreign countries. Various credentials who were accepted but Marilyn Hubbard, International countries have agencies for who will not be able to attend Student Coordinator and Adjunct educational exchange which serve because their financial need is so Instructor of Spanish, has lived in as liaisons between students from a great and the financial aid offered Gettysburg for three years. Prior particular country and American by the College is limited. to coming to Gettysburg, Marilyn institutions of higher learning. Friends of the College and alumni taught Spanish part-time at the Secondly, why does an international sometimes ask what can be done University of Missouri-Columbia student choose to be a Gettysburg to help further the efforts of and volunteered her time to a College student? The answer, Gettysburg College to increase the community support group for wives again, is that the choice is made numbers of international students of international students and faculty for many of the same reasons that and to make their stay more at the university. American students have, except beneficial to all. There are several that usually there has been no responses to this: alumni with opportunity to view the campus international contacts can spread before arrival. the word abroad and can send the How can Gettysburg College College names and addresses of succeed in enrolling more international potential students. Corporations

16 AUGUST 1986 Burgess and Faculty Editor Named For McElhiney Promotions New Literary Honored Seven members of the College Magazine at Faculty have been promoted, Milton V. Burgess '22 and William effective September 1. College R. McElhiney '36 were recognized Gabor S. Boritt, department of Peter Stitt, educator, author, for their long-standing service to the history, and Allen C. Schroeder, College when they were presented reviewer, and poet, has been named department of biology, were editor of The Gettysburg Review, a Alumni Meritorious Service Awards promoted from associate professor at the Collation Luncheon held on national literary magazine that is to professor. forthcoming from the College. campus during Alumni Weekend. Joseph J. Grzybowski, department Since 1922, Burgess has served Stitt is currently serving as of chemistry; Michael E. Matsinko, associate professor of American his class as correspondent for department of music; Paula Olinger, Gettysburg, never missing a Literature at the University of department of Spanish; Lisa Houston. While on the College deadline. In 1933, he assumed Portmess, department of philosophy; additional responsibilities as class campus in the coming year, Stitt and Amie Godman Tannenbaum, will assume such administrative agent. He has been a regular department of French, were contributor to the College's Annual duties as laying the foundation for promoted from assistant to associate staffing, and fundraising. He will Fund, and a supporter of the major professor. campaigns for Old Dorm and assume full duties as editor following Musselman Library. the 1986-87 school year. It is conceivable that the first issue of the Upon graduation, he launched a new quarterly journal will be newspaper reporting career that has Dean of Student published in January 1988. spanned 64 years. In 1922, he joined the Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Life to Spend where he worked for five years. Year Studying For the next 30 years, he was a Trustee Elections reporter with the Pittsburgh Sun- Management Telegraph. In 1958, he moved to At their most recent meeting, the Martinsburg, PA, and became editor Gettysburg College Dean of College Board of Trustees approved of the Morrisons Cove Herald. His Student Life Susan M. Brady is the a new group of officers and elected "semi-retirement" lasted 26 years, only educator, and one of five four new members. during which time he also published women, selected as an Alfred P. Clyde O. Black II '62, a partner two books titled Minutemen of Sloan Fellow for the master of in the law firm of Evey, Routch, Pennsylvania and David Gregg, science degree in management Black, Dorezas, Magee, and Pennsylvania Cavalryman. program offered by the Massachusetts Andrews, Hollidaysburg, PA, was A member of the Board of Institute of Technology. elected chairman of the board. Black Fellows, McElhiney also serves as Brady is participating in the 12- has been a member of the board president of his class and chairman month course of study, along with since 1980. Arline E. Shannon, of the 50th reunion gift program. 55 other mid-career executives from educator, Lititz, PA, was elected He recently established the William the U.S. and abroad. vice chairperson. Bruce S. Gordon R. McElhiney Scholarship Fund to Included in the itinerary is time '68, vice president of marketing, aid deserving students interested in at MIT and Harvard, management Bell of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, band or choir. and leadership study in New York PA, was elected secretary. President of The Ness Company City's major organizations, American New board members elected for in York, PA, McElhiney first government study in Washington, six-year terms are: Philip Parsons developed his leadership skills during DC, and meetings in Europe with '64, general manager, Perfect Pinch college, serving as business manager senior government and industry Inc., subsidiary of Soft Sheen, of the yearbook and as student leaders. Chicago, IL; Bruce A. Stefany '71, band director. He also was a The program's original concept is President of Man Equity, Inc., member of the Alpha Psi Epsilon the preparation of "typically Denver, CO. Kristine Hughey '68, economic honorary society, and specialized managers for general attorney with Petriken, Wellman, sang with the first College Choir. management positions." Damico, Carney, and Brown, Upon graduation, he joined the The majority of Brady's classmates Media, PA, was elected to a five- Firestone Rubber and Tire Company. come from U.S. industry, while year term. Barry B. Wright, '55 In 1943, he became sales manager others represent a wide range of chairman, chief executive officer, of The Ness Company. activities in the public and and founder of Temporaries, Inc., private sector. Washington, D.C, was elected to a four-year term.

GETTYSBURG 17 Boritt Appointed The Faces of Alumni Weekend Fluhrer Professor and Commencement '86 of Civil War Studies The College Board of Trustees has appointed Professor Gabor S. Boritt as the first Robert C Fluhrer Distinguished Professor of Civil War Studies, effective Sept. 1. The first fully-endowed chair at the College, the Fluhrer Chair was established by the Board in Dec. 1985. Establishment of the Chair was made possible with funds from the estates of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fluhrer '12 and a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This endowed professorship will allow the holder of the chair to concentrate his or her teaching on Civil War- related subjects and to engage in significant, creative research to help make the College an important, nationally-respected center for Civil War Studies. A native of Budapest, Hungary, Professor Boritt joined the College faculty in 1981 as assistant professor of history. He has been promoted to full professor, effective Sept. 1. In addition to his teaching duties, he also serves as director of the Frank Steward '46 and Chris Severud College's Civil War Institute. A nationally-recognized scholar in Civil War history, Boritt is the Dr. Spurgeon Keeny '14 author of several books, including Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream; and has co- authored The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print, and Changing the Lincoln Image. Retirees Granted Emeritus Status Three retiring faculty members and one administrator have been granted emeritus status by the College Board of Trustees. Retiring at the end of the academic year were Edwin D. Freed '43, Amanda Rupert It was a special moment when Laurel King Strong Professor of Religion; Lewis '86 received her diploma from President B. Frank, associate professor of Glassick. psychology; and C. Robert Held '49 assistant professor of classics. Mary Grace Kenney and Margaret Blanchard Curtis '52, trustee Burel, technical services librarian, retired from the administration.

18 AUGUST 1986 Ralph Cavaliere, professor, was elected to serve as assistant treasurer of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science at their annual meeting. He also directed the independent study of James D. Herbst '86, "An Electron Microscopic Study of the Fungus Lepiota procera (Fr.) S. F. Gray (Lepiotaceae)," which was presented at the Academy's meeting. Sherman Hendrix, associate professor and chairperson, was elected treasurer at the 1986 annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science. Allen C. Schroeder, associate professor, co-authored a paper which appeared in Theriogenology, 1986 entitled "Culture Systems of Mammalian Oocyte Development: Progress and Prospects." Kristen Creswell '86 read a paper which she and Schroeder co-authored at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science meeting in Seven Springs. The paper was entitled "The Effect of FSH and Cumulus Expansion on the Fertilizability of Murine Oocytes Matured In Vitro." An extension of that work was read by Schroeder at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction at Cornell Retiring Professor Edwin D. Freed '43 was presented with a portrait of himself University this summer. At the same meeting he at a reception in his honor during Alumni Weekend. Professor Freed taught co-authored a second paper entitled "The (un)-importance at the College beginning in 1948 and has been a member of the Religion Department since 1953. of FSH in the Maturation of Monkey Oocytes In Vitro." Ralph A. Sorenson, associate professor, has been included as a summer research associate at the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, NC. He was selected for inclusion in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's grant due largely to his summer teaching history at the Duke facility. The $594,063 grant is titled "Embryonic Cell Recognition: Specificity Determinants," and it will span the next five summers. Career Services: Dea Forney, director, served as the senior author of an article appearing in the Region II Newsletter of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. The article focused on current issues in the master's degree level preparation of college student personnel practitioners. She also reviewed the Job Knowledge Index for the summer, 1986 issue of the Journal of Career Planning and Employment.

Economics: Ann Harper-Fender, professor and chairperson, presented a variation on the theme of her Honorary degree recipients posed prior to Commencement. Receiving degrees previous paper, "The Hudson's Bay Company: were: (front, left to right) Normal Carol, Mayor William D. Schaeffer, John W. Precursor to the Modern Corporation," as part of the Galbreath; (top, left to right) Bishop William H. Keeler, Dr. Glassick, Dr. Joyce University of Delaware's economics seminar lecture Brothers, and Edwin T. Johnson, chairman of the board of trustees. series in March. Her review of "Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and Hidasta Indians, 1783-1818" appeared in the March, 1986 Journal of Economic History. She also reviewed "Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson" for the April, 1986 issue of the Southern Economic Journal. Dr. Fender's paper, "A Transaction-Cost Analysis of the Hudson's Bay Company," was selected to appear in the volume of selected papers from the 1985 Fifth North Biol09V* Robert Barnes, professor, spent a week American Fur Trade Conference. in January observing the animal life of the Galapagos Islands off of the coast of Ecuador.

GETTYSBURG 19 Kats Niiro, associate professor, teamed with Bill Carolyn Jacobson, assistant professor, has been Wilson, co-ordinator of academic computing, to hold accepted to the 1986 summer AACSB/University of a workshop on the use of software in teaching Minnesota Informational Systems Faculty Development economics at the Pennsylvania Economic Association's Institute in St. Paul. She has also had three book annual meeting that the College hosted in May. reviews published by Personnel Psychology and one William Railing, professor, has been appointed to by National Forum. the nine person Board of Directors of First Federal Asterios G. Kef alas, visiting distinguished professor Savings Bank. He also has served as a member of the of management, presented two papers on "Foreign four person Advisory Board for the Gettysburg Branch Executive Survey" at the October Academy of of the Bank. International Business meeting in New York City and at the Eastern Academy of Management in Philadelphia. English: Edward J. Baskerville, professor, had an He presented a paper on "Philhellenism in Modern article entitled "Some Lost Works of Propaganda and Greece" in May to the University Hellenic Club in Polemic From the Marian Period" published in the Philadelphia. Kefalas also testified on export promotion March, 1986 edition of The Library. activities in February at the hearings of the subcommittee Temma Berg, assistant professor, read her paper, of the Committee on Government Operations. entitled "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? History in William E. Rosenbach, professor and chairperson, Auerbach's Mimesis," at the Northeast Modern presented "Creative Leadership: Putting Words to Language Association's meeting at Rutgers University, Music" at the tenth Psychology Symposium at the April 5, 1986. She also chaired the Literary Criticism Department of Defense at Colorado Springs, CO, in section's seminar, "The Gaps Between Theory and April. The paper was published in the Proceedings. In Practice," at the NEMLA meeting. May he co-authored "Foreign Executive in the Jack Locher, associate professor, presented three Southeastern USA; an Overview," with Asterios papers this year: "The Persistence of Material Culture: Kefalas and Carolyn Magness. The paper was presented Germanic Influence in Appalachia," at the Pioneer at the meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management American Society, on November 1, 1985; "Mark and published in the Proceedings. He also chaired a Twain and Architecture," at the Mark Twain Conference panel entitled "Developing Innovations: Comparison at Siena College, December 12, 1985; and "The and Analyses" at the National Convention of the Case of the Vanishing Students: Attracting English Academy of Management. Majors," at the English Association's annual convention in April. Political Science: Ken Mott, associate James D. Pickering, professor, has presented two professor, and Lovette (Eichelberger) Mott '79 papers: "Litel Myn Tragedie: Chaucer Finds a Form," co-authored the article "Property and Personal Privacy: at the South East Medieval Association meeting, Interrelationship, Abandonment and Confusion in the October 12, 1985; and "Choice and Circumstance in Path of Judicial Review" for the John Marshall Law Chaucer and Malory," at the Fifteenth Century Review. He also presented two papers: "Religion and Symposium session of the Kentucky Foreign Languages the Schools: Squeezing the Lemon Test," at the Conference in April. Southwest Political Science Association's meeting, Mary Margaret Stewart, professor and chairperson, March, 1986; and "Religion in the Schools: The and Elizabeth R. Lambert, assistant professor, Impressionability Factor," at the Pennsylvania Political proposed, organized and chaired a seminar entitled Science Association's meeting, April, 1986. "Women's Correspondence: The Other View of Men/ Donald Tannenbaum, associate professor, was Women and Manners" at the annual meeting of the elected first vice-president and program chair of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pennsylvania Political Science Association. He also at Williamsburg, VA, March 13, 1986. was re-elected to a three-year term on the Council of the National Capitol Area Political Science Association. Management: Abbass F. Alkhafaji, assistant He also had his review for Martin Jay's Marxism professor, was chosen to be Director of the and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from International Affairs Division at the Association of Lukaes to Haberma published in the November, 1985 Human Resources Management and Organizational issue of the Journal of Politics. Behavior (HRMOB) meeting in November, 1985. He also presented a study at the national conference of Psychology: Gertrude Gobbel, associate professor HRMOB in Boston entitled "Management Perceptions and chairperson, has co-authored a book, The Bible, of Corporate Governance: The Importance of A Child's Playground (Fortress Press, 1986) with Stockholder Participation in Corporate Policy." He A. Roger Gobbel. This follows Helping Youth Interpret won the Best Paper Award at the HRMOB for his the Bible (John Know Press, 1984), which she paper entitled "Management Perceptions of Corporate co-authored with A. Roger Gobbel and Thomas Governance: The Importance of Co-determination Ridenhour. (Worker Participation) in Corporate Policy at the May, 1986 meeting. He also was given the best director Religion: Carey A. Moore, professor and award at the conference. He was chosen to be the chairperson, has recently been appointed to the Editorial discussant for a paper session at the Eastern Academy Board of the Hebrew Annual Review, published of Management meeting held in Philadelphia in May, by the Near Eastern Languages and Literatures of the 1986. Ohio State University.

20 AUGUST 1986 Kenney Special Inductee

Three years ago the Athletic field hockey, basketball, lacrosse and Athletic Honor, Gettysburg will also Advisory Board, which oversees and volleyball. For nearly four decades take time to honor the football team approves all recommendations Grace Kenney has been responsible of 1966 on the same evening. It for the Hall of Athletic Honor, for the rise, competitiveness and was the 1966 football team which inaugurated a "special category" for quality that the women's athletic won seven of nine games and nosed induction into the Hall. The special program at Gettysburg enjoys today. out the University of Delaware to category is to honor those people Joining Kenney will be five win the coveted Lambert Cup as who have devoted many years of former Gettysburg greats. They the best small eastern college service to Gettysburg College include John A. Hubicsak '29, football team. athletics, but who are not football (deceased); Howard G. Members of that team, as well as Gettysburg graduates. Shoemaker '42, football, coaches and managers, will be Among the six persons to be basketball, baseball; Mary M. notified officially, but should begin inducted into the Hall of Athletic Heilig Mueller '67, field hockey, to make plans to join us on October Honor on October 17, 1986, is basketball; and J. Jeffrey Clark 17 and 18. Grace C. Kenney chairman of the '75, basketball. Department of Health and Physical Besides officially inducting those Education, and former coach for six individuals into the Hall of

Hummel Steps Down

Following 25 years as head coach was inducted into the Central of the Bullet baseball team, Gene Pennsylvania Hall of Fame. This Hummel is stepping down. "Geno's past season, his peers named him long service to Gettysburg has been Middle Atlantic Conference "Coach outstanding," Bob Hulton, athletic of the Year." director, said. "He will retire from Hulton has announced that several the staff at the end of the 1986-87 other coaching changes will take academic year and this gives us an place this year. Jeff Little and John opportunity for an orderly transition "Jake" Gonos have left the football in our program." staff for other coaching assignments. John Campo, assistant football Gerard Lawrence, a 1978 graduate coach and Hummel's assistant this of Shepherd, is one of the new past season, has been named the replacements. new head baseball coach. Hummel Anne Hurst has resigned from her will continue to conduct fall position as head of the women's baseball and will tutor the golf team basketball and softball teams. Her for a one-year interim period. successor will be named in late In 25 years, Hummel-coached summer. teams have won 229 games, lost And finally, Howard Shoemaker, 242 and tied three. He has been who retired from the staff last recognized for his accomplishments year, but who came back this past as a coach as well as an athlete. spring to coach the golf team one Hummel was inducted into the more time, will completely enter Gettysburg College Hall of Athletic the retirement ranks.

Hummel Honor in 1983 and a year later

GETTYSBURG 21 Not only did senior attack Amanda Graham, Politi Spring Roundup Corroon shatter all Gettysburg scoring records, but she was It took Gene Hummel 25 years selected for the second straight Named Captains to repeat the performance of his year as Brine All-American and All- initial season as head coach, but he Conference. She also becomes finally did it. His baseball team was Gettysburg's first female lacrosse crowned the Middle Atlantic player ever to compete in the When Gettysburg launches its Conference champions. North-South All-Star game. 1986 football season it will have two His 1986 team won nine of The men's tennis team of its most respected players leading its last ten games to capture the finished 8-4 under 25-year head the charge. Seniors Pete Graham MAC southwest title. Then he did coach Bob Hulton, while second and Chris Politi were elected the near impossible. His Bullets year head tutor Doreen Drexel captains by their teammates just took on Johns Hopkins and Upsala, guided her ladies' net team to an before the summer vacation began. whose combined records were 65 11-3 slate. Graham is a 6', 202-pound wins, eight losses and a tie, to win The women captured the MAC offensive guard from Maple Shade, the overall southern division crown southwest title, but lost the overall NJ, and a product of Holy Cross and the MAC championship, all in southern division crown to Franklin High School. Despite playing behind the same day. and Marshall by a 9-0 count. some extremely talented interior With ace right-hander Brian linemen over the past three years, Golden tossing the first game, Ed Riggs had a pair of winners Graham still managed to earn two Gettysburg defeated Johns Hopkins as he continues to build two strong varsity letters and gain valuable 4-3 and with powerful Sean Murphy programs at Gettysburg. The men experience which makes him a hurling the second game, the were 5-4 and sixth in the Middle leading lineman in 1986. During Bullets tripped Upsala 9-4. Despite Atlantic Conference championships. the past three years, Gettysburg's this feat, the NCAA said the 16-9 The women won six of their nine offensive line, of which Graham Bullets did not play enough games decisions and finished fourth in the was an integral part, powered the to be considered for post-season conference meet. Bullets to national ranking as a top play and elected to go with the two Gettysburg's highly successful offensive team in Division III. teams Gettysburg beat. spring season was continued by the Politi is a 5'10", 218-pound As Gettysburg carried off the MAC women's softball team. The Lady defensive nose guard from South crown, Hummel was elected Bullets were 15-10 under second Plainfield, NJ, and a product of that conference "Coach of the Year" by year head coach Anne Hurst and town's high school. He is currently his peers. won the MAC southwest league a leading candidate for Division III Lois Bowers almost gave Gettysburg crown. All-American honors because of his its second conference Two teams which did not fare as versatile, hard-nose type of play. A championship. She guided her well were the men's lacrosse team three-year letterman, Politi has women's lacrosse team to an 8-3-1 which was 4-6 on the year and the rolled up 74 solo tackles, assisted record and the western division golf squad with its 5-8 record. 38 others, recorded 12V2 quarterback crown. sacks and forced seven fumbles, recovering three, all despite two serious injuries which limited his play as a freshman and junior. Graham is majoring in political science while Politi is a management major. Gettysburg will be seeking its fourth straight Centennial Football Conference title when it opens its season on September 13. The football schedule includes: Sept. 13 - Delaware Valley, home Sept. 20 - Western Maryland, away Sept. 27 - Swarthmore, home Oct. 4 • Johns Hopkins, away Oct. 11 - Merchant Marines, home (Parents' Weekend) Oct. 18 - Ursinus, home (Homecoming) Oct. 25 - Muhlenberg, away Noel Beebe '57 (left) won the annual Alumni Golf Tournament with a 78 while Dr. Ron Paul '58 Nov. 1 - Hampden-Sydney, away (center) was low net winner with a 72. Del Bushey '58 (right) won a prize for just keeping up with Nov. 8 - Dickinson, away the other two. This year's sportsmanship awards went to Jack Viets '49 and Kermit Deardorff '32. The Nov. 15 • Franklin & Marshall, home new Class Champion is the Class of 1967.

22 AUGUST 1986 75 Years . . . and Forward! A Salute to the Woman's General League

Editor's Note: The following is the first of a two-part series on the Woman's General League and its founder, Mary Stuckenberg. The December 1986 issue of Gettysburg will feature an article on the lives of Mrs. Stuckenberg and her husband, John Henry Wilburn Stuckenberg.

by Anna Jane Moyer

s the delegates and members of the Woman's General League return to campus for their annuaAl convention on November 6, it will be a very special "homecoming." 1986 signals the seventy-fifth anniversary of the organization of this amazing auxiliary of dedicated women who have lent their untiring efforts and loyal support to Gettysburg College, undergirding its programs The first convention of the General League, Gettysburg College, November 3, 1911. and facilities with total contributions that have reached almost three- quarters of a million dollars. To review their records—to puzzle over the old minute books and page the the strong spirit and contagious The spark of enthusiasm scrapbooks and search the enthusiasm of their predecessors. generated by women joining folders—in the archives of From the beginning, the together in support of Pennsylvania Musselman Library is like taking a members of the Woman's General College at Gettysburg was ignited trip across the decades and sensing League possessed a sense of their by Mary Gingrich Stuckenberg, the heartbeat of activity that own history, saving for those who widow of John Henry Wilburn accelerates as the history of would follow them a careful record Stuckenberg, distinguished Gettysburg College takes shape. of programs and photographs; Lutheran theologian, lecturer, and The photographs in the placecards, favors, and menus; author. In her conversations with scrapbooks are filled with faces- newspaper articles, brochures, President Samuel Hefelbower, Mrs. women in convention; presidents reports, and minutes. At a meeting Stuckenberg not only negotiated and leaders; members at banquets of the League's executive the terms of her husband's and teas; women making committee on November 21, 1911, bequests to Pennsylvania College, presentations. One begins to realize the chairperson presented a but she also became involved in that the Woman's League is "history" of the origin of the newly- discussion of its needs as an people, people who have made a formed group, and the members institution of Christian higher difference. Although the fashions voted to have the minutes of their education. Mary Stuckenberg have changed and the hairstyles first convention printed as a record believed that Lutheran women are different, the women involved of the "history in full of the could organize to help church in the League today have captured movement." colleges just as they worked

GETTYSBURG 37 together to support foreign donated funds for the chair of missions. Her responsibilities as the English Bible, books for the College first president of the Woman's library, or scholarships. To focus Home and Foreign Missionary energies more effectively, the Society of the Lutheran Church, officers of the General League her active participation in the conferred with President Granville Women's Christian Temperance in 1915; later the convention Union on both national and adopted a project for all leagues: international levels, and her success the goal of funding the erection of in canvassing for funds for the a Y.M.C.A. building on campus. American Church in Berlin gave A small tan promotional her the experience and confidence brochure was printed to show a for her new undertaking. At her sketch of the building, suggestion, with the approval of accompanied by floor plans. The the Board of Trustees, Mary women rallied to the cause. During Stuckenberg traveled at her own the 1916 convention the League expense to strategic Lutheran president unveiled a marker congregations in areas from which dedicating the site. League the College drew most of its members solicited donors. The students. Her appeal stressed the Mary Stuckenberg names of those who contributed need for funds to establish a $1.00 or more were put on a list position for a secretary to direct the to be placed in the cornerstone, activities of the Y.M.C.A. on Women which shall be devoted to and the donors received a button campus and to assist in student the financial support and the announcing "Y.M.C.A. recruitment. A total of $1900 was general advancement of Cornerstone" with College colors. raised, and the position was Pennsylvania College." In 1916 the General League began opened in 1909 to develop the Golden Book of Memory, the Christian leadership among the n January 11, 1911, a first of these special books inscribed young men at Pennsylvania with names; those who gave College. group of eleven women met in Gettysburg. $10.00 or more to the building Mrs. Henry W.A. Hanson, Under the effective fund could have the name of a president of the General League chairmanshiO p of Mrs. J.W. Richard departed loved one placed on a (1920-1923), recalled her from Gettysburg, they adopted the separate page of honor. At the end impressions of the gracious and resolution and elected provisional of the war, on Victory charming Mrs. Stuckenberg: "Her officers to proceed with drafting a Commencement Day—June 11, personal magnetism; the fervor constitution and by-laws, arranging 1919—the League broke ground. with which she presented the for a convention, and organizing On November 6, 1919, during cause; the power she had of new leagues. The first convention their convention, the League making others courageous, gripped held on November 2 and 3, 1911, members marched behind the the succession of little groups of in Brua Chapel was attended by College band and led the student women to whom she communicated eleven delegates and approximately body to the ceremony of the laying her vision." twelve visitors, representing 467 of the cornerstone, which members. Today the General contained memorabilia and the At first, contributions were made names of 2200 contributors. On through subscription cards. As the League is composed of ten sub- leagues, with a total membership of Commencement Day, June 23, idea caught hold, groups of women 1922, before a crowd of over formed leagues in areas where over 2700, as well as over 235 members-at-large. Anyone 1200, Mrs. Henry W.A. Hanson, support was strongest: York president of the General League, (1908), Pittsburgh (1908); interested in Gettysburg College may become a member. Beginning presented the keys of the new Harrisburg (1909). In recognition of building to President Granville. At the activity of these groups, later in 1973, the League received official representation on the Board this dedication ceremony, she known as sub-leagues, the Board spoke for the League: of Trustees of Pennsylvania College of Trustees. passed a resolution in 1910 which With Mary Stuckenberg as We could not give this building to indicated that "the plans for the president, the Woman's General you without giving ourselves; for extension of this work for the League began its history. New it has our very life within its walls. benefit of Pennsylvania College and leagues sprang up: 1911 — Therefore, in presenting it to you, as the organization of similar new Chambersburg, Gettysburg, representatives of Gettysburg Leagues in the new localities meet Philadelphia, Shippensburg; 1912— College, it carries along with it the with the hearty approval of the Washington", D.C, Baltimore. love of twenty-five hundred loyal Board of Trustees. ..." The Other groups of women organized mothers. We earnestly entreat you to guard tenderly the ideals for women responded with a resolution later. Some leagues contributed of their own . . . "that we proceed which it stands; namely, wholesome toward the support of the campus and clean recreation; second, a to organize a General League of Y.M.C.A. general secretary; others broad and far-reaching study of the

38 AUGUST 1986 truths of the Bible; thirdly, the development of the highest moral and spiritual life in those who sojourn within its walls. The crowd sang the "Alma Mater," by Paul S. Gilbert, '22, with music by Fred Reinartz, '24. 2500 copies of the words of this new song had been printed on a card with the rousing "Gettysburg League Song." These cards and sheet music of the "Alma Mater" were later sold by the League as part of the campaign for the new building. With the conclusion of the dedication ceremony, the new Y.M.C.A. building, Weidensall Hall, took its place on the campus as the lively center for the religious and social life of students. By 1928 the Breaking ground on Victory Commencement Day, June 11, 1919. women of the League cleared their contribution of $80,292.84 toward the campus community that a is deeply and profoundly grateful. I construction and furnishings and dream had finally become a reality. would have you know that in almost celebrated the burning of the As music blended into worship, every part of this campus one finds mortgage. those present could remember that material evidence of your The success of their efforts the Woman's General League had contributions. prompted the Board of Trustees to been part of that dream in Looking back one can find that involve the League in planning for providing funds for the organ, evidence in abundance. . . . The coeducation at Gettysburg College designed by Virgil Fox, who was establishment of a music by 1935. The League pledged the first to perform at its console. department at Gettysburg College $20,000 for the renovation of the As the Luther window above the in 1951 was undergirded with Academy buildings, Huber Hall and chapel balcony picks up the support from the Woman's General Stevens Hall, as the new Women's sunlight, it becomes an ongoing League with $50,000 plus an Division. For their Silver reminder of the efforts of the additional $85,000 six years later Anniversary in 1936, the Woman's leagues whose contributions it to bring the project of remodeling General League adopted the represents. Brua Hall to completion. The theme, "A Gift for Girlhood." As the program of the College League provided the first robes of Small silver collection boxes printed expanded and the needs and the College Choir, formed in 1935. with this slogan were distributed to interests of students changed with a In more recent years music members. At the 1936 convention changing world, the Woman's students and members of the the presidents of all the leagues General League extended its areas College band and orchestra have built a Silver Wall of Faith with the of concern and enlarged its focus had increased opportunities unopened boxes on the altar of to meet the thrust of the academic through instruments purchased Brua Chapel. venture at Gettysburg College. from League funds. The new Continuing their strong interest in Recognizing the service of the Student Union Building, completed in 1959, was furnished from a the religious life of the College, the League at its 50th anniversary $50,000 gift from the League, leagues provided their support of banquet in 1961, President Carl followed years later by funds for the general secretary of the Arnold Hanson spoke in tribute: refurbishing the lounges. During the Y.M.C.A., a position which later This is a remarkable occasion. This is restoration of Pennsylvania Hall in developed into the chaplaincy. an event which celebrates a half 1969, the League pledged $25,000 century of service which has been of They also contributed both efforts for the remodeling of the rotunda. and funds as the programs and high purpose, selfless, and of unstinting character. This meeting Other buildings undergoing change activities of the campus Y.M.C.A. have benefited from League became the Student Christian provides the opportunity to give the fullest possible recognition to an projects: Glatfelter Hall- Association in an extension of organization and its members for acts departmental reception rooms; ministry and mission to both men of devotion and dedication which Dining Hall—redecoration; and women students. have helped to make possible the Schmucker Hall—recital hall lobby; task of the college. . . . Brua Hall—faculty offices. Students n September 18, 1953, The Woman's League of Gettysburg in the infirmary have read Gettysburgians attended College assembled in its 50th annual magazines, enjoyed flowers, and the first service in Christ convention should know that this kept warm under blankets provided Chapel. Its 140-foot college which has been the by League funds. In 1983 the O beneficiary of this magnificent effort spire reaching skyward reminded

GETTYSBURG 39 donations. The Golden Books- books of Honor, Service, Memory, Jewels, Youth, Anniversaries, and Special Gifts—have become a way to pay tribute to family and friends with full contributions returning to the League and, in turn, to Gettysburg College. In the League newsletter, Highlights, which began publication in 1952, Mrs. Frederick J. Eckert, president of the Woman's General League (1950-1953), wrote in January 1953: . . . most members don't 'make' money—they give it; they're not primarily interested in constructing buildings, but in fashioning attitudes; they're not chiefly concerned with equipping dorms or chapel, but in the furnishings of the spirit; they don't convene just to hear speeches and reports, but rather to have another look at the College they work for and the young men and President Glassick and Louise Rafferty, trustee and current president of the Woman's General League, women on campus. . . . pose at Commencement. Today the work of the organization is enhanced by 10 sub-leagues in Altoona. Like their predecessors, the Baltimore, Delaware County. Gettysburg, Hanover, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Philadelphia and Suburban. women of the League provide Washington. D.C, and York and York County. continued support to the religious life of Gettysburg College, through League established an endowment Gettysburg College and because you the chapel program and its fund scholarship of $10,000. are a part of a fine team, dedicated outreach to the College During their golden anniversary to quality in education achieved community. In addressing the 1977 year, 1961, the League members through orderly processes, the power convention of the Woman's of your efforts will be magnified for pledged $60,000 for furnishings for General League, Chaplain Karl generations of young people yet to newly-remodeled Schmucker come. Mattson commented: Memorial Library. Their generosity The task of a liberal arts education in The activities of the Woman's continued with gifts amounting to general ... is to be the leaven in $6,000 as Musselman Library General League of Gettysburg the loaf. Leaven is a living force reached completion in 1981. In College received national meant to permeate the whole loaf, a presenting the plans for the new recognition in 1960 by the substance meant to make the loaf library, James H. Richards, College publishers of Who's Who in more palatable. . . . librarian, spoke during the 1976 America. The League was the .... College is for dreaming. Men convention about the role of the recipient of a citation for become what they dream. The League in helping to make the exceptional educational goodness of the future is determined by the quality of present aspiration library a reality as a vital part of the philanthropy in gifts to Gettysburg College. The text of the citation and dreaming. Dreamers of exalted academic experience at Gettysburg: was printed in the 1960-61 edition dreams of human community will I'd like to suggest that this represents of this reference source. Included inevitably be leaven in the loaf. the spirit of the 'Gettysburg idea,' with an overview of League In Weidensall Hall the warm, which I will define as total projects is this comment: "Few commitment to the attainment of kind eyes of Mary Stuckenberg quality, respect for the worth of the colleges can boast similar support look down from her lovely portrait individual, accomplishment through by such an auxiliary body." on the wall—a witness that the teamwork, and achievement by The financial support of the quality of the future is determined orderly processes. Among these members of the League is not by the dreams of the past and a phrases the key word is comprised of large contributions by reminder for us to say, "Thank COMMITMENT. The part accepted wealthy donors. From the you!" to scores of women who by the Woman's General League of beginning of their history, their gifts joined together during seventy-five Gettysburg College illustrates how every segment of the Gettysburg have been given by people working years to help Gettysburg College community shares this commitment together in small ways . . . through provide "leaven in the loaf."B and makes the Gettysburg idea a bazaars and bake sales; concerts, unique and wonderful thing. You festivals, and plays; socials and play an important role in an suppers; teas, movies, rummage Anna Jane Moyer is Readers' enterprise of great significance to sales, and other sales; individual Service Librarian.

40 AUGUST 1986 PROGRAMS/ EVEriTS

HOMECOMING SCHEDULE

The following is a partial schedule of Homecoming Weekend activities for October 17-18. All alumni will receive a complete schedule soon. October 17 Psychology Symposium—40 Year Celebration Media Seminar Orange & Blue Athletic Hall of Honor Banquet Music Recital Student/Alumni Dance

October 18 Media Seminar Alumnae Volleyball All Alumni Tailgate Buffet Luncheon Women's Varsity Volleyball versus This publication has been produced by the Career Moravian Services Office for potential employers of Gettysburg Varsity Football versus Ursinus students. In addition to background information on the Varsity Cross Country versus Susquehanna College's philosophies, academic curriculum, Class Reunions-'56, '61, '66, 71, 76, '81 extracurricular life and special programs, this brochure Alumni Association Dance contains a brief outline of the Career Services Office, including the services available to accommodate organizations interested in Gettysburg students. We invite suggestions regarding key contact people/ organizations that might benefit from this publication. Kindly complete the following form and forward to the Psychology Symposium address provided. Thank you for your support. Forty years of psychology at Gettysburg will be celebrated during Homecoming Weekend with the 14th annual Psychology Symposium. Appropriately titled Name. Phone ( "1946—Psychology at Gettysburg—1986", the sympo­ area code sium will be chaired by Jack D. Shand, professor emeritus. Address Participating will be Paul E. Mundschenk '62; Marsha J. Boerlin '86; and Thomas W. McLemore '86. Beginning at 2 p.m. Friday, October 17, in Bowen Auditorium, the city zip symposium is one of a series of events to be held Name of throughout the fall in honor of the department's 40th Organization Phone celebration. All psychology alumni will receive a complete area code schedule of events soon. Type of Organization

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ALUMNI CLUB PRESIDENTS Adams County Alumni Club Harrisburg Alumni Club Rochester Area Coordinator Mr. George E. Hikes '38 Mrs. Penny Sheckard Spence '73 Mr. James S. Hinman '76 171 South Hay Street 1508 Sheepford Road 103 Minocqua Drive Gettysburg, PA 17325 Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 Rochester, NY 14617 Baltimore Alumni Club Lancaster Alumni Club Southern California Alumni Club Mr. M. Brett Goodrich '82 Mr. Harold R. Schriver '28 Mrs. Myrna Speck Ireland '61 303 Gittings Avenue R.D. 1, Box 408 201 Morning Canyon Baltimore, MD 21212 Manheim, PA 17545 Corona del Mar, CA 92625

Buffalo Area Coordinator New England/Boston Southeast Florida Alumni Club Mrs. Evelyn Miller Swarts '63 Alumni Club Mr. John R. Sutton '69 2535 West River Parkway Mr. Frederick H. Settelmeyer '63 7721 S.W. 62nd Ave., First Floor Grand Island, NY 14072 6 Flint Street South Miami, FL 33143 Marblehead, MA 01945 Central New Jersey Southwest Florida Alumni Club Alumni Club New York/Long Island Mr. Mark I. Shames '73 Mr. Frederick W. Anthony 70 Alumni Club 8648 14th Way North 745 Highland Avenue St. Petersburg, FL 33702 Westfield, NJ 07090 Mr. Paul E. Seale '75 21 Mosshill Place Stony Brook, NJ 11790 South New Jersey Alumni Club Chambersburg Alumni Club Mr. Frank J. Keenan, Jr. '53 Mr. George W. Dress, Jr. '31 North New Jersey Alumni Club 201 E. Central Avenue 125 Greenleaf Road Ms. Lisa V. Fergerson '81 Moorestown, NJ 08057 Chambersburg, PA 17201 33 Montclair Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 Washington/Northern VA Connecticut Alumni Club Alumni Club Mr. Richard S. Krissinger '52 Philadelphia Alumni Club Mr. L. Seth Statler '83 68 Walden Street Pamela Murray '77 4513 Romlon St., #202 West Hartford, CT 06107 404 Danor Court Beltsville, MD 20705 Wayne, PA 19087 Denver, Colorado Alumni Club Wilmington, DE Coordinators Miss Mary L. Mohr '72 Pittsburgh Alumni Club Brian A. Sullivan 2701 South Ogden Street 2614 N. Madison Street Englewood, CO 80110 Mrs. Susan Fee Harper '76 260 Kenforest Drive Wilmington, DE 19802-3446 Pittsburgh, PA 15216 Frederick, MD Coordinator York County Alumni Club Dr. Fred W. Broadrup '68 Reading/Berks County The Rev. Raymond M. Miller '35 228 N. Market Street Alumni Club 78 Fox Run Drive Frederick, MD 21701 The Rev. Steven Belinski '76 York, PA 17403 1349 Perkiomen Avenue Hagerstown Alumni Club Reading, PA 19602 The Rev. R. Carl Myers 70 P.O. Box 217 Smithsburg, MD 21783

Hanover Alumni Club Mr. Bryant Meckley '75 R.D. 6, Box 184 Hanover, PA 17331