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  • High center is turning 20!

    The S. Dale High Center for Family Business recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary. The Center invited some of their best speakers from past events to speak at the annual Family Business Forum. The event was held Thursday, March 26 at the Marriott hotel in Lancaster. The High Center was founded in 1995 by a group

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  • Pledge of Academic Integrity receives update

    The Pledge of Academic Integrity has recently been rewritten to include a more personal aspect of commitment to the students’ promise to Elizabethtown College. Last year, Seth Previty, a current senior business major, realized that the former Pledge did not include elements that his peers felt strongly about. Etown students recognized they were promising to

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  • Retired professor of modern languages emerita passes away at age 80

    Retired professor of modern languages emerita passes away at age 80

    On March 8, Suzanne Schmitt Goodling, associate professor of modern languages emerita at Elizabethtown College, passed away after battling cancer. She was 80 years old. Goodling taught in the Modern Languages department at Etown for 35 years before retiring in 1999. Born and educated in Gettysburg, Pa., she attended Valencia, Madrid and Valladolid Universities in

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  • Young Americans for Liberty promote club ideals at conferences

    embers of the Young Americans for Liberty organization, also known as YAL, have attended political conferences within the past two months including International Students for Liberty Conference, Conservative Political Action Conference and the Pennsylvania YAL State Convention. The political organization also hosted a “Voice Your Concerns” event on Monday, Feb. 23 in the BSC as

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  • Department of Fine and Performing Arts offers events

    Department of Fine and Performing Arts offers events

    Elizabethtown College’s music division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts offers many opportunities to students, faculty and staff members and the community. This week, Etown student chamber choir, senior recitals and Hershey Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition. Senior recitals will continue throughout the end of March and the month of April. The recitals

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  • Power of One Day fundraising event raises thousands of dollars

    Power of One Day fundraising event raises thousands of dollars

    On March 18, Elizabethtown College set a new record for the amount of money donated to the school in a single day. During the 24-hour giving period, entitled the Power of One Day 24-Hour Giving Challenge, $177,163.56 was collected from 849 donors. Alumni, staff and faculty members, students, their families and friends of the College

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  • SCPS welcomes new Executive-in-Residence Nevin Cooley

    Nevin D. Cooley was recently appointed the new Executive-in-Residence of Elizabethtown College’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS). Cooley is the former Chief Executive Officer for High Industries Inc. and High Real Estate Group, LLC. Cooley started at the High Companies in 1986. During his time there, he held the positions of Vice President

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  • Psychology professor explores sensation, perception in study

    Elizabethtown College professor of psychology Dr. Catherine Lemley is conducting research on synesthesia, a neurological condition. “Synesthesia occurs when the stimulation of one sensory modality reliably causes an involuntary and simultaneous perception in another modality,” Lemley said. “For instance, I know a synesthete that always tastes strawberries when she hears the word ‘bend.’” “Synesthesia is

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  • Modern Language department hosts May Term trip abroad

    This May Term, the Elizabethtown College Department of Modern Languages will be hosting a trip to Japan for students interested in experiencing Japanese culture firsthand. Dr. Mahua Bhattacharya, associate professor of Japanese and Asian studies, will lead the trip, which will allow nine students of various majors the opportunity to visit several Japanese cities and

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