SUMMER 2006 p7 T v<i ^1 V ': ' • • .- '" v," • ^H - '^B.' •*!,.,_ > L-J» 1 ' ferf*" ••• ^-'v. '•%',,:;••', e for Gettysl ege Alumni, Parents, 'f"*. li^-jfc' : $••••%%%%%%. h' \ r< Tmmm\ \ w^mWImWm^ mm T-T* 1 S-W 1. 1 /i 'mW?':^: L?T?. 1 FROM THE PRESIDENT A YEAR WELL SPENT Now iiiAi COMMENCEMENT is over, I find myself students make that transition, the College launched the thinking about the promising futures of the new gradu­ Great American Cities Program in New York early this ates who are leaving Gettysburg to make their mark on spring. The focus of "Great Cities" is to engage alumni the world, and I also look back and reflect upon the and parents to actively assist young graduates in their job academic year we have just completed. I am struck by searches in key metropolitan areas, and I was heartened what an eventful one it has been for Gettysburg College, by the resounding support from our alumni and parents. •"iced historic enrollments, national I was also pleased to welcome two distinctive new recognition for the academic programs with enduring connections to two venerable accomplishments of our American families—the Eisenhowers and the Bernsteins. students and faculty, the re­ The Eisenhower Institute in Washington, D.C. will fuse opening of a historic theater, with the newly created Eisenhower Center for Leadership #i two major new programs, and Public Affairs in Gettysburg to provide a focus for tovative new majors, and research, learning, and dialogue on leadership and public more. Any one of these accom­ policy. The Leonard Bernstein Center for Learning moved plishments would signal a from its long time home at the GRAMMY Foundation in productive year; cumulatively Los Angeles to Gettysburg College. The Center's Artful they mark 2005-2006 as one Learning program is a nationally honored model of of our most successful. curriculum reform for K-12, which uses masterworks . August with the orientation of in the arts to teach all academic disciplines. our first year class, which was drawn from the largest, Our faculty also enjoyed an exceedingly productive most academically accomplished applicant pool in our year. During our annual reception, we honored more than history. As these students were beginning their college 140 publications by faculty authors. Other academic careers, we were already planning for the next generation achievements included the addition of two innovative of Gettysburg students with the launch of a new round majors: Globalization Studies and Africana Studies. of strategic planning. Globalization Studies focuses on the emerging intercon­ In the fall, I named a Strategic Planning Steering nections among people and institutions throughout the Committee to begin examining what was needed to build world—not only politically and economically but also in our already strong liberal arts program into a national the realms of culture, media, art, literature, and science. benchmark for engaged liberal arts learning. The Africana Studies focuses on the multidimensional connec­ Committee has been hard at work and will present a tions among black communities throughout the world. report to the Board of Trustees next spring. This spring, Gettysburg took the lead among liberal On November 14, the red carpet was out on Carlisle arts colleges with an innovative video podcasting Street to welcome guests to the 80th anniversary gala and program called Podium. The writing projects of nine grand reopening of the College's Majestic Theater. Since Gettysburg faculty members are featured in our inaugural opening night, thousands of visitors have attended scores series of podcasts, which are accessible via the College's of sold out live performances as well as fine-art films at website. The podcast series also includes Doris Kearns the Maiestic. Goodwin's acceptance of the Lincoln Prize and NAACP During Thanksgiving week, Gettysburg College President Bruce Gordon's '68 commencement address to proudly announced that senior Luke Norris was one of the Class of 2006. 32 Americans named as Rhodes Scholars. Luke was also As Gettysburg Magazine goes to press, we are already named a Marshall Scholar. It was a banner year for such preparing for the arrival of the Class of 2010 in August recognition with students receiving Fulbright Teaching and another academic year of solid accomplishment. It is Assistant scholarships and Freeman, Gilman, fames a wonderful time to be a Gettysburgian. Madison and Pennsylvania House of Representatives Legislative Fellowships. These awards reflect beautifully on the multidimensional liberal arts experience that ^&J4CUAU. TT^UA ILL . Gettysburg College provides. Translating all of those wonderful liberal arts into Katherine Haley Will careers can be a challenge for new graduates. To help our President Gettysbur A Magazine for Gettysburg /College Alumni, Parents, and Friends g FEATURETURES SUMMERM ^ 2006 IO VOLUME 97 • NUMBER 3 Lending a Editor Jerokl Wikoff Helping Hand Contributing Writers Jim Hale This past March, 50 Gettysburg Kendra Branchick College students and employees Contributing Editor traveled to New Orleans to take Patricia A. Lawson Class Notes Editor part in a national effort to help Sue Dyer Gulf Coast residents clean up Intern Farrell Curran 06 after Hurricane Katrina. Director of Alumni Relations Joe Lynch '85 Photography 16 Bill Dowling Asian Studies at Jim Hale Design Gettysburg College MSK Partners, Inc. 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DEPARTMENTS Gettysburg College assures equal employment and prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national 2 Around Campus origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. 9 Letters to the Editor 26 Connections On the Cover: Photography: Ken Hawkins 29 Sports 32 Class Notes Printed in the U.S.A. 48 Last Word ©Gettysburg College 2006 Around-Campus COMMENCEMENT 2006 ALL WEEK LONG the forecast was for rain on Sunday, May 21, but dark clouds did not appear on the horizon until well after President Katherine Haley Will handed the last graduate, valedictorian Nikolay Ognyanov Doskov, his degree at the College's 171st Commencement exercises. Bruce Gordon '68, president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), addressed the 594 graduates, saying that "there are great disparities in this country. They are unacceptable to me and should be to you. Those who have little should be your concern. In America, we must think of these problems as our problems." Gordon has led the nation's oldest and Commencement speaker Bruce Gordon largest civil rights organization since June '68, President ancl CEO of the NAACP, 2005. He was president of Verizon Communi­ urged the Class of 2006 to work for cations' Retail Markets Group before retiring change, saying "those who have little in 2003. His work earned him "Executive should be your concern." of the Year" honors from Black Enterprise magazine, and Fortune magazine ranked him sixth in its list of the "50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America" in 2000. Gordon, the only African American in his graduating class 38 years ago, praised progress at Gettysburg College, where the student body and faculty are more diverse and a campus chapter of the NAACP now exists. Two alumni received honorary degrees: Mimi A. R. Koehl '70, the Virginia G. and Robert E. Gill Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley; and Peter A. French, Gretchen Seiferth presents her Stole the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of Gratitude to her mother, Sharon Seiferth, whom she thanked "for of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at everything." The Stole of Gratitude, a Arizona State University. new tradition introduced at last year's Student speaker Alexandra W. East '06 Commencement, was in part a gift quoted Dwight D. Eisenhower to remind from the Gettysburg College Alumni fellow graduates of the "intellectual luggage" Association ancl the Class of 2006. that she and other members of her class now Graduates wear the stoles to symbol­ ize their appreciation of everyone carry into the future. East majored in history who helped them to reach graduation. and minored in political science. She was a After Commencement, graduates can member of the sorority Chi Omega, the history present their stoles to someone as a honor society Phi Alpha Theta, and the Senior special expression of thanks. Scholarship Committee. This fall she will attend Roger Williams School of Law in For more information on Commencement, including photos and a podcast of Bristol, RI. Bruce Gordon's address, visit the College's website at www.gettysburg.edu. 2 GETTYSBURG COLLEGE • SUMMER 2006 "Too many Americans have nightmares instead of dreams." — Bruce Cordon '68, President and CEO, NAACP VALEDICTORIAN & SALUTATORIAN Nikolay Ognyanov Doskov, of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, graduated as valedictorian of the Class of 2006.