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  • Annual lecture promotes cross-cultural dialogue through music

    Annual lecture promotes cross-cultural dialogue through music

    The Ware Lecture on Peacemaking is an annual event hosted by the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking in honor of Judy S. and Paul W. Ware. J. Ware graduated from Elizabethtown College in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and later retired as an art teacher at Lancaster Country Day School in

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  • Common Cents

    Common Cents

    This weekly column will feature the latest topics and tips in the financial world. Each week, we will focus on a specific financial topic, with topics covering a wide range of financial information and the latest opportunities with the Family Business and Entrepreneurship Club on campus. If there are any topics or concepts that you

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Student Senate met Thursday, April 11 for its last meeting before running elections for next year. The meeting started with questions about summer housing for students staying on campus. Coordinator of Housing Operations Wendi Kenley answered questions about transportation, saying that a shuttle will run from the Featherton Apartments to Elizabethtown College based on times

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  • Trustees debate residential renewal plan

    Trustees debate residential renewal plan

    The Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees held its spring business meeting Saturday, April 27. Before the formal meeting began, assistant professor of STEM education Dr. Peter Licona, associate professor of music Dr. Kevin Shorner-Johnson, senior Etownian Business Manager Emily Seratch and sophomore Veronica Ruiz presented the mission statement of Latinx recruitment and empowerment at Etown

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  • Current students represent College outside classroom

    Current students represent College outside classroom

    Members of the Elizabethtown College community are continuing to make their marks outside the College bubble even as the academic year ends. Two seniors recently won Fulbright scholarships. Etownian staff writer Victoria Edwards won a research fellowship and senior Melissa Germano won an English Teaching Assistant scholarship. Both worked with Director of Prestigious Scholarships and

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  • Class of 1969 celebrates golden reunion

    Class of 1969 celebrates golden reunion

    A 50th anniversary is always something to celebrate. For the Office of Alumni Relations at Elizabethtown College, 50th anniversaries mean golden class reunions and a special precession in that year’s commencement ceremony. 24 graduates from the Class of 1969 will participate in the optional precession during the 2019 Commencement Ceremony. As of Wednesday, April 17,

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  • College bids farewell, celebrates retirement of 14th president

    College bids farewell, celebrates retirement of 14th president

    Elizabethtown College President Dr. Carl Strikwerda will retire June 30 after completing his second term as president. He began his tenure as the College’s 14th president in 2011. Board of Trustees Chair Robert Dolan recalled his first impressions of Strikwerda when Strikwerda first joined the College. “He’s a straight-shooter kind of guy, and very precise

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  • The Global Perspective

    The Global Perspective

    This weekly column will cover a variety of contemporary global issues including climate action, global health, international peace and security and gender equality. I hope that this column will act as a platform to advocate for global progress and to empower young leaders to get involved in international affairs. If there are certain global issues

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  • Twelfth annual SCAD promotes student research

    Twelfth annual SCAD promotes student research

    Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD) launched in 2007 and has continued to be a tradition at Elizabethtown College for 12 years now. In the spring, students present their research with the support of faculty mentors. The research covers the disciplines offered at the College and also allows students to review research outside their discipline.

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