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F&M_Autumn2011_Layout 1 11/4/11 11:18 AM Page 1 AUTUMN 2011 / ISSUE 67 F&M Celebrates Its New President Magazine Marshall & Franklin F&M_Autumn2011_Layout 1 11/8/11 12:31 AM Page 2 elemen ts F&M_Autumn2011_Layout 1 11/4/11 11:18 AM Page 3 Autumn 2 0 1 1 22 8 14 28 Departments Editorial Left: A fall aerial photograph of Editor’s Word 4 Uncovering Secrets campus. Photo by Ian Bradshaw. in the Salt Marshes 14 Matters 5 Let’s Kindle Fire 16 Front Cover: (l–r) Christopher Bemis ’14, Around the Quad 6 Siva Reyna ’12, Allison Deutsch ’12 Creators of Frozen Music 22 and Linnea Cole ’12 show off their Up Close 10 smart phones in front of Distler House. Homecoming & Family Photo by Brian Donnelly. Campus Space 12 Weekend 2011 28 Class Action 30 History Lesson 50 ISSUE NO. 67 A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION / EDITOR JILL COLFORD SCHOENIGER ’86 / DESIGNERS ANITA FOCHT AND ART270 INC. / CONSULTING EDITOR JASON K L I N G E R / CONTRIBUTING W R I T E R CHRIS K A R L E S K Y / CONTACTS: E M A I L [email protected] / PHONE 717-291-3981 CHANGE O F A D D R E S S [email protected] / COLLEGE P O L I C Y F&M DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, RELIGION, COLOR, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, DISABILITY, OR NATIONAL OR ETHNIC ORIGIN IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF ITS EDUCATIONAL POLICIES, ADMISSIONS P O L I C I E S , SCHOLARSHIP A N D L O A N P R O G R A M S , A T H L E T I C P R O G R A M S , O R O T H E R COLLEGE-ADMINISTERED P R O G R A M S . F&M_Autumn2011_Layout 1 11/8/11 12:35 AM Page 4 Editor’s WORD Supersizing the Celebration Some people love a parade. I love a big The energy of the weekend matched weekend. It’s one of the bonuses of working the enormity of it. Participants moved on a college campus. That’s because from lectures and student presentations colleges revel in the big weekend, and to receptions and concerts. Highlighted Franklin & Marshall is no exception. The by a festive Tailgate Extravaganza on F&M calendar typically includes, to name a brilliant Saturday afternoon and an a few, Family Weekend, Homecoming, inspiring Inauguration Ceremony on Spring Arts and Commencement. Sunday morning, the weekend celebrated This fall F&M took the idea of the the vibrancy of the F&M community, the big college weekend and supersized it. strength of the liberal arts and the In addition to combining Family Weekend possibilities of the F&M to come. with Homecoming, the College celebrated In this issue of the magazine, we look the inauguration of its 15th president, to capture that energy through colorful Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph.D. photographs (we had 5,590 options) and More than 3,000 alumni, parents, inspiring quotes — and also through a new students, faculty members, professional design. Our refreshed look mirrors the staff and friends participated in more than energy of the College as it begins a new 70 events from Sept. 22 to 25. chapter in its 224-year history. In keeping with the spirit of newness, I’d like to throw in one more: a new vehicle to submit your news. On this page is a quick response code, or QRC. When you scan R E the QRC with your smart phone or tablet, G R E B you will be taken directly to the “Submit R O F C a Class Note” page on our website. I R So please take a moment to get in E touch and help us, in the spirit of Inauguration Weekend, supersize next issue’s Class Action section. Cheers, Jill Colford Schoeniger ’86 [email protected] 4 AUTUMN 2011 F&M_Autumn2011_Layout 1 11/4/11 11:18 AM Page 5 Matters F&M Forges STEM Partnership with Posse in Miami Franklin & Marshall has embarked on a new partnership and leadership potential and steer them to institutions with the Posse Foundation to recruit students from Miami. committed to undergraduate success. Colleges and universities Miami is the College’s second Posse city, along with New York, have awarded more than $406 million in leadership where F&M has been successfully educating Posse Scholars scholarships to nearly 3,700 Posse Scholars since 1989. since 2005. F&M is working with the Posse Foundation to pave the way The program in Miami will be F&M’s first Science Posse and for the College’s first Miami cohort. Dean of the College Kent only the third in the United States. Together, the foundation Trachte will bring an F&M team to Miami in December for the and the College will recruit high-performing students from selection process. Several faculty members in the sciences will under-represented groups interested in careers in science, accompany Trachte, as will Daniel Lugo, vice president and technology, engineering and math (STEM). Ten new Franklin dean of admission and financial aid. & Marshall STEM Posse Scholars from Miami will matriculate “One of my first conversations with President Porterfield, in fall 2012, along with 10 students from New York City. even before he took office, was about the importance of our “We became partners with Posse because of the way the relationship with Posse,” Trachte says. “Members of the program attracts remarkable students and aligns with Franklin College’s faculty have long had an interest in finding and & Marshall’s commitment to excellence and equity in higher launching more students from under-represented communities education,” President Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph.D., explains. into roles of STEM leadership in our country. This is actually a “We’re expanding the partnership now because the renewal of F&M’s great achievement in the sciences beginning outstanding performance of Posse Scholars at F&M is a after World War II. This new partnership brings together Posse’s testament to the fit between this model and liberal arts vision with our longstanding goal of leadership in this vital learning. Recruiting STEM Posse students from Miami will allow national priority.” F&M to respond, in yet another way, to the profound American Posse has sites in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, imperative to recruit and educate the next generation of Miami, New York and Washington, D.C. An eighth site — science and technology leaders upon whom so much of our New Orleans — launches this fall. national competitiveness, security and health will rest.” A group of F&M’s current Posse Scholars, pictured here in Steinman The Posse Foundation partners with 38 colleges and College Center, will be joined by 10 STEM Posse Scholars from Miami universities to identify students with extraordinary academic and 10 Posse Scholars from New York City in fall 2012. FORBERGER ERIC FRANKLIN & MARSHALL MAGAZINE 5 F&M_Autumn2011_Layout 1 11/4/11 11:18 AM Page 6 Around THE QUAD F&M Reads The Odyssey On Oct. 4 and 5, members of the Franklin & TGU Students Come to F&M Marshall community participated in a campus- wide reading of The Odyssey , Homer’s epic Tucked into a small booklet, they are words of thanks, appreciation and poem of home, journey and adventure. The hope. “Seeing your message gave us courage. Thank you for your reading moved from one location to another kindness,” one says. for two days. The Department of Classics The notes were written by students from Tohoku Gakuin University sponsored the public reading in conjunction (TGU) in Sendai, Japan — one of the cities hit hardest by the March 11 with Professor Alexis Castor’s first-year earthquake and resulting tsunami. Eight TGU students presented the seminar, The Odyssey of Homer . Ira Grushow booklet to F&M President Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph.D., during their six-day (pictured), the Alumni Professor of English visit to campus in August as part of TGU’s American Studies program. Belles Lettres and Literature Emeritus, reads It marked the fifth year TGU students have visited R a portion of the epic outside Jazzman’s Café. E G R the College during their American trip. E B R The visit by TGU students took on special O F C I meaning in the wake of the disaster. “The R E outpouring of support from F&M was more notable during this year’s program,” says Candace Roper, director of the summer program and coordinator of International Studies at F&M. “It’s almost impossible for us to imagine what these students and their families have been through. One girl lost her house, and her father TGU student Chiaki lost his business in the tsunami.” A Journey with ‘One Goal’ Kurihara enjoyed the reception and closing During the spring semester, members of the ceremony at the end of F&M community sent more than 1,000 paper Near the entrance to Chris Campbell Memorial Field in the group’s visit. cranes to TGU in a show of support. The Asian Khayelitsha Township, South Africa, more than 100 Cultural Society collected $1,000 during the children wait in anticipation. Some have walked more project and directed the contribution toward the 2011 TGU course at than a mile for a chance to play soccer on the turf field, F&M. In addition, the College made a commitment to host all Japanese which opened in 2009. students registered in the program, regardless of their ability to cover The children visited the field to take part in The ONE the cost.