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DICKINSON MAGAZINE WINTER 2017 VOLUME 94 NUMBER 3

Published by the Division of Enrollment, Marketing & Communications Publisher and Vice President Stefanie D. Niles Executive Director of Marketing & Communications Connie McNamara Editors Lauren Davidson Michelle Simmons College Photographer Carl Socolow ’77 Design Amanda DeLorenzo Printer Intelligencer Contributing Writers Matt Getty MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson Tony Moore Katya Hrichak ’17 Magazine Advisory Group Jim Gerencser ’93 Donna Hughes Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy Gregory Lockard ’03 David Richeson Adrienne Su Kirk Swenson Alisa Valudes Whyte ’93 Website www.dickinson.edu/magazine Email Address dsonmag@dickinson.edu Telephone 717-245-1289 Facebook www.facebook.com/DickinsonMagazine © Dickinson College 2017. Dickinson Magazine (USPS Permit No. 19568, ISSN 2719134) is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October, by Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, Cumberland County, PA 17013-1773.

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[ contents ] 17 President’s Report Interim President Neil Weissman and the senior staff present the previous year’s accomplishments and plans for the future.

26 Words Take Flight Letters from the front and homefront offer a 360-degree view of World War II. 30 40 for 40 A 1976 victory in the “greatest football game ever played” leads to a Red Devil reunion decades later. 32 Strategizing Foreign Policy Political science professor and international relations expert Doug Stuart shares recommendations for the new administration. 36 Tracing Truth A Q-and-A with 2016 Rose-Walters Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert.

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UP FRONT

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your view

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college & west high

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fine print

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kudos

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in the game

IN BACK

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beyond the limestone walls

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A student in Dickinson’s Arts Collective executes part of a mural designed by an alumna. Read more on Page 5. Photo by Sean Simmers.

closing thoughts

in season Students traverse the academic quad after a winter 2014 snowfall. Photo by Carl Socolow ’77.

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[ your view ] Fantastic Fall Issue I really enjoyed the current issue of the Dickinson magazine! From the great cover photo, to the food features, to the fantastic one-pager on Coach Don Nichter (who I called coach for four years!), and to Dr. Weissman’s article on tuition, you and your team created a well-rounded issue. Nicely done!

DARREN SILVIS ’00

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Follow-up to “Worst Election Year Ever”

More on the ’Milton I really enjoyed your “Culinary Carlisle” article in the fall magazine. I am one of the Beta Theta Pi group that has gathered in Carlisle on reunion weekend in June for the last 11 years. Of course, a must-do during those weekends is a visit (or more than one) to the ’Milton, which is precisely like stepping back into the 1967-71 span when we were at Dickinson. Amazingly, Tommy [Mazias] is there every year—incredible when you consider he’s been running the place with startling consistency for over 50 years, and the effort required to achieve that.

I am an artist, and this year I executed a painting of Tommy in his glory based on some photos I took while up there. (The original and framed prints are available through my website, JoeGrubbFineArt.com.)

By the way, I never have heard the restaurant called “the ’Milt”—only ever “the ’Milton” in our era.

JOE GRUBB ’71

LYNDELL, PA.

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I am probably not the first to point this out, but regarding the story “Worst Election Year Ever” (fall 2016 issue), I would note that Buchanan was not the only presidential candidate to hail from Pennsylvania. In 1880, former Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock, a Montgomery County native, ran unsuccessfully on the Democratic ticket, losing to James Garfield. Vice President Joe Biden was born in Pennsylvania and, though not born here, former governor Milton Shapp and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum are claimed as Pennsylvanians and have also been presidential candidates, though none of them received their party’s nomination.

Buchanan is, however, the first successful presidential candidate from Pennsylvania.

Nonetheless, I did enjoy and appreciate the article.

KIM HESS HOWELLS ’03

MECHANICSBURG, PA.

influenced” by Buchanan. So we certainly have no reason to brag about that dreadful Dickinson duo, Buchanan and Taney.

ROBERT D. KAPLAN ’58

SARASOTA, FLA.

On “Fertile Ground” I just read “Fertile Ground” in the fall ’16 issue and am so glad to see education at the intersection of food, social and environmental justice growing at Dickinson.

I’m finally teaching myself Spanish while driving my CSA delivery route after years of working in restaurants and on farms—relieved to see Spanish for Farm Workers being offered as part of the certificate!

Neil [Leary] and Jenn [Halpin] are great, and I hope to see their and their colleagues’ work take a very central role at Dickinson.

DAVID DURSTEWITZ ’10

CHICAGO, ILL.

Deny it if you want, but I feel Dickinson Magazine’s intent to vindicate me for, in its pages in 2015, having objected to the crowing of some alumni in letters to the editor bragging that President James Buchanan and Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney are Dickinson alumni. Yes, I see vindication in the fall 2016 issue’s article titled “Worst Election Year Ever.” In that article, the author of the book Worst. President. Ever: James Buchanan [... ] explains why he so nominates Buchanan (elected in 1856).

The article further notes that the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision (1857), the author of which was “our” Roger Taney, was “surreptitiously

We want to hear from you! Send letters via email to dsonmag@dickinson.edu or mail to: Dickinson Magazine, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013-1773. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.

[ college & west high ] A Lasting Impression

Photos by Wesley Lickus ‘17 and Joe O’Neill.

For the past five years, artists have been coming to Dickinson to collaborate with studio art majors and members of the Arts Collective to paint a mural on the wall behind the Goodyear building. This year’s artist was Kate Stewart ’98, associate professor of art at West Chester University. Stewart worked with the students, outlining shapes and giving instruction on which color would fill each space. In a matter of hours, the group transformed the wall from what had previously been a black-and-white painting into a mural of vibrant colors. For more details and additional photos, visit dson.co/2016mural. —Katya Hrichak ’17

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[ college & west high ] More than 1,500 alumni and family members of current students came together on campus for Homecoming & Family Weekend on Oct. 28-30—three days of celebration, reconnections, exploration and fun. This year’s gathering featured a variety of festivities like the homecoming football game and Dickinson Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony, class and club reunions, the all-campus barbecue, campus tours and information sessions with college leaders, an all-campus expo and performances by student groups.

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View additional coverage of the weekend, including photos and video, at dson.co/dsonhomecoming16.

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1. Run With It!, the college’s improv comedy troupe, got lots of laughs during its 25th-and-1/2 anniversary performance.

4. The Trout Gallery hosted a lecture and an opening reception for the Jose Guadalupe Posada exhibition.

2. The Mermaid Players presented Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters and highlighted its seven-decade history during a pre-show meet-and-greet and a post-show reception.

5. Nearly 70 years after graduating, Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient Tom Lacek ’48 returned to campus and Biddle Field to perform the opening coin toss.

3. The Athletics Hall of Fame inductees were recognized during the football game, as well as at a dinner: retired director of athletics Les Poolman; cross country/track and field standout Emily Hulme ’06; men’s lacrosse player Brian Read ’06; softball player Deb Wiediger-Strecker ’00; and the 2005 women’s soccer team (pictured—additional photos at dson.co/dsonhomecoming16).

6. The Student Athletic Advisory Committee hosted Red Devil S’mores Friday evening on Britton Plaza.

7. The a cappella showcase drew a standingroom-only crowd in Allison Great Hall.

8. The 12th annual Run for Steph saw almost 500 participants and raised $10,000 for the McAndrews Fund for Athletics.

Alumni of Color Conference Part of Homecoming & Family Weekend 2016 was the inaugural Alumni of Color Conference, which offered an opportunity for alumni to connect and discuss their experiences at Dickinson and beyond and to meet with campus leaders who work to develop and sustain a robust community of students and alumni of color at Dickinson. Presented by the Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity and the Office of College Advancement, the event included a student-alumni mentoring session, alumni panels on professional development, a student performance at Landis House and more.

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fine print Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice, Fifth Edition

Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack

By Mary Cappello ’82

Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education

By Ira Glick ’57, Douglas Rait, Alison Heru and Michael Ascher

University of Chicago

By Glenn Whitman ’91 and Ian Kelleher

What is a mood? How do we think about and understand and describe moods and their endless shadings? What do they do to and for us, and how can we actively generate or alter them? These are all questions Mary Cappello ’82 takes up as she explores mood in all its manifestations: We travel with her from the childhood tables of “arts and crafts” to mood rooms and reading rooms, forgotten natural history museums and 3-D View-Master fairy tale tableaux; from the shifting palette of clouds and weather to the music that defines us and the voices that carry us. The result is a book as unclassifiable as mood itself.

Rowan & Littlefield

Wiley Blackwell The fifth edition of a classic text views couples and family therapy through a psychiatric lens. It’s written by clinicians with a biopsychosocial perspective on illness and family dysfunction and draws on case studies to present family-oriented interventions in an accessible manner. Exploring underlying principles along with a wide range of practical therapeutic techniques, it is culturally inclusive, enabling readers to work with patients from diverse backgrounds.

Yellow Trophies

By Thomas Blomain ’78 New York Quarterly Books Thomas Blomain ’78’s third book of poetry is at times funny and at times savage, sometimes implacable and sometimes resigned. Yellow Trophies is a deep-mine exploration of bittersweet ironies. It creates a cohesive composition of random notes on chaos theory and childhood mischief; a defiant sneer at the changeless guards of corruption; an echo from reverberating myths of vague ancestors and youthful excess; a document of the glory of loss—set in the curious vortex and vacuum of Scranton, Pa.

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The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory That Opened the Door to Gettysburg

Teachers are brain changers. Thus it would seem obvious that an understanding of the brain—the organ of learning—would be critical to a teacher’s readiness to work with students. But in traditional public, publiccharter, private, parochial and home schools across the country, most teachers lack an understanding of how the brain receives, filters, consolidates and applies learning for both the short and long term. Neuroteach addresses the problem teachers and school leaders have in knowing how to bring the growing body of educational neuroscience research into the design of their schools, classrooms and work with each individual student.

The Morning Tree

By Eric Wittenberg ’83 and Scott Mingus

By Kristin Masters ’02

Savas Beatie LLC

Indie Gypsy

June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway.

Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia is pushing northward through the Shenandoah Valley toward Pennsylvania, and only one significant force stands in its way: Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy’s Union division of the Eighth Army Corps, in the vicinity of Winchester and Berryville, Virginia. What happened next is the subject of award-winning authors Eric Wittenberg ’83 and Scott Mingus’s provocative new book. Based upon scores of archival and previously unpublished diaries, newspaper accounts and letter collections, they explore the battle from every perspective.

This fairy tale with a twist begins in the naïve, Romantic style of Hans Christian Andersen and ends with Lovecraftian madness, necromancy and revenge.

Siblings Henry and Althea are simple peasants whose lives are changed when they rescue an injured elf maiden named Birne from brutal captivity. Their selfless act polarizes the community. As lethal enemies and allies emerge to jeopardize the family’s peace, Birne must prove her loyalty with deadly force.

Going the Extra Mile From left: Associate Professor of Biology and women’s soccer mentor Missy Niblock; women’s soccer midfielder Gabriella Tomasini ’17; Professor of Art History and former women’s basketball mentor Melinda Schlitt; Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) member and football wide receiver James Ward ’17; Assistant Professor of Economics, field hockey mentor and assistant coach Emily Marshall; Visiting Professor of Political Science and Security Studies and cross country mentor Craig Nation; cross country runner Sofia Canning ’18; SAAC member and field hockey defender Claire Taben ’20; and field hockey players Lily Mott ’18 and Chelsea Kramer ’19.

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There are many challenges facing collegiate-level student-athletes— longer seasons than they’d experienced in high school, more intense training sessions, team study halls, traveling for away contests and higher stakes—all in addition to classes and extracurriculars. Coaches and teammates help, but for some, extra support can mean the difference between struggle and success.

The Faculty Wear the Red program addresses that need by pairing faculty mentors with Red Devil teams. The mentors collaborate with coaches to provide an additional layer of support for student-athletes as they juggle the demands of on-campus life.

“It allows for faculty members to really experience a day in the life of a Dickinson student-athlete,” says Jenny Smith ’17, a psychology major and member of the women’s basketball team, “and it’s beneficial for both parties, because it develops a better understanding of the dedication to both academics and athletics the studentsathletes have.”

Proposed by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and launched last fall, Faculty Wear the Red is coordinated by the Department of Athletics in conjunction with the Office of Academic Advising. Mentors may commit to one season or longer and attend practices and games as able. Whether they cheer on their students strictly from the sidelines, or work out alongside them, they make a lasting impression.

Claire Taben ’20, a fellow SAAC officer and field hockey defender, says that Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Marshall has made a big difference both on and off the field. As an experienced former player and assistant coach, Marshall offered tips on Taben’s technique and helped her strike the right tone in an email to a professor.

Visiting Professor of Political Science and Security Studies Craig Nation, the men’s and women’s cross country mentor and former student-athlete himself, believes strongly that as mentors partner with coaches to help their student-athletes build valuable skills, they gain a fuller understanding of what it takes for the student-athletes to thrive.

As a result, they may discover how to better understand this portion of the student population.

James Ward ’17 is a wide receiver, SAAC member and economics major, and he’s quick to note that Assistant Professor of Political Science David O’Connell made it to every home football game and most practices and has hosted players at his home for dinner and Monday Night Football.

“I have seen firsthand how hard the players work on a day-to-day basis, and I think that’s different from simply being aware of the fact that they are members of an athletic team,” says O’Connell. “I see players giving their all for the duration of a long practice, and then I know that some of them are going to have to go home and work on a paper for my course later that night. Seeing this through their eyes makes an impact on you.” —MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson 9

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Publications

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Heather Bedi published “Right to food, right to mine? Competing human rights claims in Bangladesh” in Geoforum, 59, 248-257 (2015).

Associate Professor of Biology Scott Boback co-authored “Supersize me: remains of three white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in an invasive Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) in Florida” in BioInvasions Records: International Journal of Field Research on Biological Invasions, 5.4, 197-203 (2016).

Sharon Kingston, associate professor of

psychology, contributed to “Psychological Factors Influencing the Decision of Urban Adolescents With Undiagnosed Asthma to Obtain Medical Care,” published in Journal of Adolescent Health, 59.5, 543-548 (2016).

“I Lay on the Floor: Meditation on a Die-In” by

quality care and education while providing grants to dozens of award-winning teachers annually.

and the Mellon Foundation funded the project, and Hoefler was interviewed about the project on WITF’s Smart Talk.

Associate Athletic Director and Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach Dave Webster ’88 will be inducted into the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of US Lacrosse’s inaugural Hall of Fame for “pioneering record setting lacrosse at his alma mater.” Read more at dson.co/websteruslax.

Associate Professor of Sociology Erik Love discussed Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric in a story that ran on Vox.com. His op-ed, “Leading Republicans Plumb the Depths of Racist Islamophobia,” ran in The Huffington Post.

Associate Professor of Music Amy Wlodarski’s book, Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation, received two awards at the American Musicological Society (AMS) meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in November—an Honorable Mention for best publication of 2015 from the Jewish Studies and Music Study Group of the AMS, and the Lockwood Award, which honors the best publication by an emerging scholar in 2015.

political science, was featured on ABC27 news as part of a study on how Pennsylvania’s suburban middle-aged women could decide the election.

Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy, assistant

professor of Africana studies, was published in Anthropology Now, 8.1, 127-129 (2016).

Susan Rose, Charles A. Dana Professor of

Sociology and director of the Community Studies Center, co-edited Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, & Reclamations (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), which captures the voices of students and descendants of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918) as well as poets, activists and the latest research

by Native and non-Native scholars. Read more at dson.co/rosefof.

James Sias, assistant professor of philosophy,

published The Meaning of Evil (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016), which presents an in-depth, innovative look at the psychologies of those of have acted in ways widely regarded as evil.

Read more at dson.co/siasfof.

“The Lazy Susan,” a poem by Associate Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence Adrienne Su, was published in the Nov. 7 issue of The New Yorker.

Awards and Grants

Dickinson College Children’s Center teacher Mandy Gutshall has been named a 2016 recipient of the Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children’s TYLENOL National Child Care Teacher Award by the Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation. The award acknowledges the critical role of child care teachers in providing

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In the News Neil Diamant, professor of Asian law and society, who studies veterans’ issues, was quoted in an Associated Press article and The Wall Street Journal related to Chinese veterans protesting for better benefits.

Professor of Earth Sciences Benjamin Edwards was interviewed by the National Science Foundation as part of a series on geosciences risk and resilience. View the Q-and-A at dson.co/edwardsnsf. He also produced a video, “Pronounce That Volcano Name!,” to walk viewers through pronunciations of the 10 toughest volcano names on the planet. Watch it at dson.co/volcanonames. He also discussed his study of past under-ice volcanic eruptions and future dangers from the meltwater floods they cause for a story on Eos.org.

Amy Farrell, professor of American studies and women’s, gender & sexuality studies and John J. Curley ’60 and Ann Conser Curley ’63 Faculty Chair in the Liberal Arts, was quoted in an article in The Atlantic, “Donald Trump’s Double Standard on Weight.”

Professor of Political Science Jim Hoefler and his students collaborated with WITF’s Transforming Health to create a website, findingpeace.transforminghealth.org. It is a resource on end-of-life issues and options for caregivers. Jim interviewed medical experts, bereavement counselors and families across the country during his sabbatical. Dickinson

Kathleen Marchetti, assistant professor of

Stefanie Niles, vice president for enrollment, marketing & communications, was included in a feature in The Washington Post, “What college admissions officers say they want in a candidate,” in August.

Assistant Professor of Political Science David O’Connell and Assistant Professor of Political Science Sarah Niebler were quoted and featured in numerous local and national articles and news reports related to the 2016 presidential election, including The Christian Science Monitor, The Hill, Pittsburgh PostGazette, Associated Press, NPR, Roll Call, CBS21 and others.

Director of Institutional Research Jason Rivera had two op-eds published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education: “Free College for All, but Where’s the Choice?” and “At the Bottom of the Resource Gap Lies the Diversity Desert.”

New Faculty Members

Dickinson welcomed seven new tenure-track faculty members to the campus community this year: Maiko Arashiro, postdoctoral fellow in environmental studies; Qing Bai, assistant professor of international business & management; Lila Ellen Gray, associate professor of music; Sheela Jane Menon, assistant professor of English; Naila Smith, assistant professor of psychology; Nicholas Soderstrom, assistant professor of psychology; and Xiaolu Wang, assistant professor of international business & management. Read more at dson.co/fall16newfaculty.

See more faculty and staff publications at scholar.dickinson.edu.

BRAGGING RIGHTS

If Dickinsonians Bragged …

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ickinsonians never brag. Humility is one of our core values. Our founder, after all, named the college after his friend, Founding Father John Dickinson, rather than himself. Otherwise we’d all be Rushians—which doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well.

So when you refrain from bragging to family, friends and coworkers about your alma mater, these are just some of the things you might not mention: The Institute of International Education again ranked Dickinson a

top 5

COLLEGE FOR LONG-TERM STUDY ABROAD.

69 student-athletes earned All-Centennial Conference honors in 2015-16, and more

than 200 Red Devils

have earned All-American honors.

Events lectures art forums Calendar of Arts: dickinson.edu/coa The Clarke Forum: clarke.dickinson.edu (includes event podcasts)

JAN. 27-OCT. 7

Kathë Kollwitz: The Peasant War Cycle

The Trout Gallery JAN. 31

The Clarke Forum Thomas Palley, senior economic policy advisor, AFL-CIO

Stern Center Great Room FEB. 19

Prokofiev, Penderecki and Brahms: Chamber Music

Rubendall Recital Hall FEB. 23

The Clarke Forum Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of The Body Is Not An Apology

Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium FEB. 24, 25, 27, 28

Next to Normal

Mathers Theatre

Dickinson faculty members Amy Farrell, Sarah Niebler, David O’Connell and Jeff McCausland have put the college’s name front and center everywhere from The Atlantic to ABC News, CNN and Anderson Cooper 360 as they offered their expertise on election-season news.

Dickinson student Daniel Becker ’17 was honored at the White House this fall with the 2016 Presidential

Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons for the nonprofit he co-founded, Students Opposing Slavery.

Our sustainability efforts and courses once again earned us the highest possible score on The Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll and a spot on Sierra magazine’s

“Cool Schools” list.

The U.S. Department of State named Dickinson a

TOP FULBRIGHT-PRODUCING COLLEGE for the seventh time in the past 12 years.

What other Dickinson distinctions do you not brag about?

Email dsonmag@dickinson.edu.

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The Clarke Forum Lila Abu-Lughad, professor at Columbia University

Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium MARCH 3-APRIL 15

British Landscape Drawings and Watercolors From the Collection of John Harbold

The Trout Gallery MARCH 6

Poitras-Gleim Lecture

David Oyelowo, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actor/director Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium MARCH 21-APRIL 22

Shoshannah White: Sylvia J. Smith ’73 Artist-in-Residence

Goodyear Gallery MARCH 23

The Jane L. and Robert H. Weiner Lecture in the Fine Arts: Eugene Wang

Rubendall Recital Hall

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Hive

HYPE Behind the Rector Science Complex, behind a thick ring of wildflowers, two beehives were installed in October, and they brought a lot of buzz. They represent the beginning of an era: beekeeping on campus, an initiative spearheaded by Dickinson’s new beekeeping cooperative, dubbed The Hive.

Marcus Welker, projects coordinator for the Center for Sustainability Education (CSE) and head bee wrangler, is excited to see how this new living laboratory will enable the community to learn about sustainability problems and solutions through direct experience. So we thought we’d dive into the world of bees through a look at the tools of the trade and some of the more interesting terminology in the field. You’ll be talking like a seasoned beekeeper in no time!—Tony Moore

Beehives generate some early buzz Bearding: When bees gather on the front of a hive Brood: Immature bees still existing as eggs, larvae or pupae Chunk honey: Honey still in the comb Drone: The male honeybee Guard bees: Worker bees that challenge incoming bees and other intruders Nurse bees: Young bees that feed and take care of the developing brood Pollen bound: The state of the queen when the brood nest is so filled with pollen that the queen has nowhere to lay Queen bank: Putting multiple caged queens into a hive Queenright: A colony of bees that contains a queen Robber screen: A screen used to stop intruders but that allows local bees into the hive Royal jelly: A milky secretion nurse bees used to feed the queen and young larvae Scout bees: Worker bees that look for new resources or a home for a swarm of bees Shaken swarm: An artificial swarm made by shaking bees from combs into a screened box Swarm: body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony Swarm cutoff: The point at which the colony decides whether it’s going to swarm Worker bees: Infertile female bees responsible for carrying out all the routine tasks of the colony Windbreaks: Manmade or naturally occurring barriers that reduce the force of winter wind on a beehive Winter cluster: A compact ball of bees inside the hive, formed to generate heat

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This beekeeping hood attaches and detaches easily with zippers and is made of the same materials as the suit for maximum comfort. It offers total visibility while still protecting the wearer’s face completely when fully attached.

Fly on over to dickinson.edu/thehive if you’re interested in learning more about the initiative, joining The Hive or contributing your own expertise.

Suit Up! Beekeeping suits come in a variety of styles, but the one-piece (worn here by John Leibundgut ’18) offers the most protection and allows the wearer to dress comfortably underneath. The majority of this suit is mesh, which provides ventilation and comfort in all types of weather.

The goatskin gloves remain flexible even when wet and are thin enough for the beekeeper to maintain maximum dexterity. The glove sleeves extend beyond the elbow and have elastic ends that keep them in place.

Hive tools are essentially beehive-specific crowbars designed to help open hives and remove frames.

Pockets are positioned strategically to ensure that the wearer can have all the tools needed at his or her disposal.

Photos by Carl Socolow ’77

The black frame is where the bees lay eggs (which are white), while the white frame is for honey production.

The smoker burns organic fuels to generate smoke when needed to control aggressive behavior of bees during colony inspections.

Loops that go around the wearer’s shoes keep the pant legs in place for consistent coverage.

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Field hockey finished 12-7, earning the No. 4 seed in the CC playoffs as the team set school records in goals, assists and points. Catherine Perlmutter ’17 became the program’s all-time leader in goals and points with 53 and 127, tying the career mark with 21 assists. She was a four-time All-CC selection, earning honors with Kim Monteferante ’18 and Chelsea Kramer ’19 this season. Kramer led the attack, breaking a pair of school single-season records with 19 goals and 44 points.

The women’s cross country team captured four team titles on the year and placed second at the conference championship and the NCAA Mideast Regionals. Sofia Canning ’18 earned first-team All-CC honors and was one of four Red Devils named All-Region, joined

by Molly Conrad ’20, Adriana FrayneReixa ’17 and Lucile Ionescu ’19. Dickinson was ranked ninth in the country as the

team headed to the NCAA Championships at the end of November.

Men’s cross country won four titles as well, finishing third at the conference championships and fifth out of 52 teams at the NCAA Mideast Regional. Bryce Descavish ’20 was named CC Rookie of the Year and joined senior Mason Hepner ’17 on the All-Region team. The Red Devils captured their 20th-consecutive Little Three Championship, defeating Franklin & Marshall and Gettysburg colleges.

The men’s soccer team (8-8-2) ended the season strong to earn a fifth-straight appearance in the conference playoffs but suffered a first round setback at Washington College.

The Red Devils earned five spots on the All-CC team, led by first-team selection Matt Edmonds ’18. Danny Sheppard ’17 was named to the second team while Jeremy Palcan ’17, Chris Pollock ’18 and Macsen Pritchard ’18 received honorable mentions. Sheppard finished eighth in career goals scored with 26, while Palcan moved into fourth all-time with 15 career shutouts and sixth with a goals-against average of 1.08.

Women’s volleyball showed much improvement and finished even at 13-13 overall. They won their final four matches at the Kline Center to finish 7-3 at home.

Arielle Misrok ’17 led the CC in digs per set and broke the school record with 511 digs on the year, ranking third all-time with 1,366 in her career. Norma Jean Park ’18 was one of the conference leaders in blocks and ranks eighth all-time at Dickinson with 164. Misrok and Park were both named All-CC and members of the CC Academic Honor Roll.

The football team struggled in the win column with a 1-9 record but turned in some strong individual performances on the year. Senior captain James Ward ’17 broke school records for kickoff returns and return yards in the season opener.

He had another great year, moving into the number three spot all-time for the conference with 95 returns and fourth with 1,976 yards in his career. Kevin Sherry ’17, Stephen Walker ’19 and John Minicozzi ’19 were named to the All-CC team, while Sherry and Ward were two of nine players named to the CC Academic Honor Roll this season.

—Charlie McGuire, Sports Information Director

Women’s soccer finished 7-6-4 overall, starting the season unbeaten at 4-0-2 before injuries began to take a toll on the lineup. They rallied to put together a strong string of games at the end of the

Need more Red Devil sports?

Check out all the stats, scores, schedules and highlights at www.dickinsonathletics.com. Information about live streaming and radio broadcasts is available on a game-by-game basis, so check the website regularly or follow @DsonRedDevils on Twitter for the latest updates.

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Mike Foreman

The fall sports season was filled with highs and lows and some record-setting performances to begin the 2016-17 academic year. The field hockey team set numerous team and individual records while the women’s cross country team enjoyed another great season with second place finishes at the Centennial Conference (CC) and NCAA Mideast Region championships. Men’s soccer had a strong finish to make the program’s sixth-consecutive appearance in the CC playoffs.

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season, going 3-1-1 at one point. They allowed just one goal in that opening stretch, posting four straight shutouts after a season-opening tie with Randolph-Macon College. Olivia Termini ’19 earned All-CC honorable mention and led the team with 11 goals on the year.

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iguring out how to balance academics and extracurricular activities is just one challenge student-athletes often face. For Gavin Harter ’17, the balancing act between being a chemistry major, two-sport athlete and researcher isn’t easy, but “the busy schedule keeps me in line,” he says.

When it came to choosing a college, Harter says his decision to attend Dickinson was “mostly to do with football.” A football visit brought him to campus for the first time, when he met the coaches and decided he liked the school. In his first season as part of the team, Harter earned a starting role on the offensive line. During the 2014 season, he helped produce Dickinson’s first 1,000-yard rusher since 1992 and the team captured the Centennial Conference (CC) rushing title. This year, he is team captain.

“He is conscientious, organized and well-prepared. … Being able to play multiple positions in the offensive line made him a valuable member of our team,” says football coach Darwin Breaux. “Gavin has been a quiet leader on our team.”

In addition to playing football, Harter is also a thrower on the track and field team. He was second in the CC in both indoor and outdoor track and field in 2015 for shot put, but couldn’t compete junior year because of a football injury. When Harter isn’t out improving his own throwing skills, track and field coach Donald Nichter says he can be found helping other throwers, “a true ‘team-first’ student-athlete.”

Although athletics were his main reason for choosing Dickinson, Harter says he was also influenced by the opportunities provided by the small college atmosphere. “When I came on my visit, they did tell us that you are able to work closely with professors and get research experience,” he says. “I thought, ‘That’s great, … if you went to one of the bigger schools, there’s no way you could get one-on-one with a professor in their lab doing research.”

Harter is currently conducting research alongside Assistant Professor of Chemistry Jason Gavenonis, who describes it as “really fundamental biochemistry that may impact the way new drugs are developed for neglected tropical diseases.”

As described by Harter, the research deals with an enzyme found in a parasite that causes Chagas’ disease. “The enzyme has a mechanism and a pathway that avoids the immune system.

So it builds up and they can get in your heart and they can slow things down and cause all sorts of problems,” he says. “If we can inhibit that enzyme, it allows our body to fight off the parasite.”

“Gavin’s great in lab,” says Gavenonis. “He picked up all the standard lab techniques pretty quickly. What I really appreciate is the temperament he brings to the research as an athlete. Science doesn’t always work as planned, and having that flexibility to quickly change an approach to a difficult problem is an essential skill.”

After graduation, Harter anticipates diving into work. He isn’t sure whether it will be in pharmaceuticals, research and development or teaching as part of a STEM program, but he is confident that the research he is doing now is playing a huge role in preparing him for what will happen after college.

To other students struggling to find the balance between academics and extracurriculars, Harter offers this advice: “Education is obviously the most important part about going to college, but you have to enjoy the experience while you’re here.”

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Awarding Excellence

Two performing-arts legends held residencies at Dickinson in November.

Barry Snyder, a three-time Van Cliburn International Award-winner and leading music educator, served the 2016-17 Arts Award residency, and John Patrick Shanley, one of America’s foremost playwrights, visited campus through the Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholars and Writers Program. Both worked with students, in and out of class, and presented public events.

Shanley is best known for his 2005 Broadway production Doubt, and for his 2008 screenplay adaptation of that work, starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman; he also was screenwriter for the 1987 film Moonstruck (Cher, Nicholas Cage), which won three Academy Awards. While on campus Nov. 6 and 7, he visited theatre and screenwriting classes, worked with students in a First-Year Seminar on censored plays and had lunch with students in an advanced directing course, in addition to giving a public address, a Q-and-A session and a book signing. The Stellfox residency program is made possible thanks to a gift from Jean Louise Stellfox ’60, who was inspired by a campus visit from Robert Frost during her time as a student.

Events during Snyder’s Nov. 10-13 residency included public lectures, performances, classroom visits and master classes, meetings with students and faculty and a panel discussion about music and the liberal arts. The weekend concluded with Snyder’s performance of Prokofiev’s War Sonatas. The performance was preceded by a lecture by Simon Morrison, an expert in 20th-century music. The Arts Award was initiated by the Dickinson faculty and endowed in 1959 by gifts from members of the Board of Trustees.

Students who took part in the various events were quick to appreciate the opportunities to interact with such influential artists. “[Shanley’s] a true artistic leader of our day and we’re honored to have such a prominent artist sharing his experiences with us,” says Sarah Zimmer ’17, a theatre arts and history double major.

“It epitomizes why I chose Dickinson,” says Alicia Bazell ’18, a double major in psychology and music. “I am able to make meaningful connections, personally and professionally, with both my professors and resident artists like Mr. Snyder, in a way that just would not be possible at a large university.”

Read more about the 2016 Stellfox residency at dson.co/shanleystellfox, and about the Arts Award residency at dson.co/snyderarts.

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643 Standing, from left: Robert Winston, interim provost and dean of the college; Karen Neely Faryniak ’86, chief of staff and secretary of the college; Robert Renaud, vice president and chief information officer; Joyce Bylander, vice president and dean of student life; Dana Scaduto, general counsel; Brontè Burleigh-Jones, vice president for finance & administration; Neil B. Weissman, interim president. Seated, from left: Kirk Swenson, vice president for college advancement; Stefanie D. Niles, vice president for enrollment, marketing & communications; Michael E. Reed, vice president for institutional initiatives.

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NEW ADVANCEMENT VOLUNTEERS

STATE OF THE COLLEGE NEIL B. WEISSMAN, INTERIM PRESIDENT

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ickinson has identified “engagement” as a defining descriptor for the college. The term could not be more apt for the past academic year. Despite our current presidential transition, Dickinsonians were unusually active engaging our own community—on campus and beyond—and the wider world on many fronts. Let me offer some salient examples and invite you to explore more throughout all sections of this annual report.

The most important type of engagement for us, of course, is our students’ connection with their learning experience. Dickinson students have long been engaged with their academics and their broad range of social and residential activities. But, like students everywhere, they don’t always place their activities in broader perspective. Last year we implemented the Dickinson Four, a program to ensure that in their busy schedules students pause to reflect on the big questions that underlay their college experience. It begins with encouraging first-year students to make Dickinson their own and culminates with seniors considering how best to expand their stories as they chart their postgraduation paths. Our goal is to see that students don’t just go through the motions—even as high achievers—without fully appreciating the meaningful, useful education they are receiving. And how that education prepares them for their futures.

We have also worked to ensure that engagement characterizes every student’s experience regardless of background or perspective.

I refer here to the important steps we have made toward making the college more inclusive. Many of these, such as greater emphasis on diversity in faculty recruitment, were generated by the student Why We Wear Black movement. Our dialogue has in content reflected debates on campuses across the country, but it has unfolded here with the remarkable civility that typifies Dickinson’s culture.

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The theme of engagement extended beyond the campus to the wider Dickinson community. Establishing ever stronger ties with alumni, parents and friends remains a high priority for us. During the past year the ranks of virtually all of our affinity organizations—Devils’ Advocates, admissions volunteers, career mentors and the like—grew significantly. As did participation in events including Alumni Weekend and the Day of Giving. All very promising, though we have a long way to go to fully vitalize the entire Dickinson family.

Finally, we have been true to our mission of providing, in Benjamin Rush’s term, a useful education, a version of the liberal arts engaged with the wider world. Examples abound. For instance, a project by Dickinson faculty, librarians, technologists and students made materials of the Carlisle Indian School available online. A newly approved certificate in food studies places our diets in broad scientific, social and cultural context.

I do not know what Rush might have thought about the certificate (he did recommend an austere diet of “black broth of Sparta” and “barley broth of Scotland”), but his views on the centrality of citizenship to a Dickinson education were clear. In that spirit we will utilize a $650,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to deepen civic engagement as a dimension of our learning experience.

Funds will launch a new faculty position and underwrite faculty efforts to clearly articulate how their majors contribute to wider world activities such as internships and service.

And yes, we engaged challenges as well. Rising costs, the ongoing imperative to sustain access, and the complementary need to grow financial aid have all been subjects of past messages from me. And they remain pressing concerns to which, as you will see from the following pages, we are vigorously responding. We approach them from the standpoint of a college that maintains its vitality, even (and maybe especially) in times of transition.

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ROBERT WINSTON, INTERIM PROVOST AND DEAN OF THE COLLEGE

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ickinson remains committed to providing a challenging academic curriculum, intended to educate citizen leaders for a global society.

Since 2005, Dickinson has had a highly successful and nationally recognized writing center, established in honor of Norman M. Eberly ’24. The center offers targeted instruction in English and 10 other languages.

In the last few years, we recognized that numerical literacy was also important to our students, as they sought to make sense of vast amounts of data and statistical information. Dickinson’s Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Center was born in 2015.

Like the very successful Multilingual Writing Center, the QR center is staffed by trained peer tutors. Covered topics range from geometry to conceptualizing statistics, from graphing to data visualization.

The center is in its second year of a pilot program, and it is clearly becoming an important resource for a broad range of students in science, social science and humanities courses with a QR component. In the 2015-16 academic year, there were a total of 107 student visits to the QR center; the center broke that mark at the end of October this year.

In addition to the effort to expand quantitative learning, we launched an effort to broaden civic learning as well.

Dickinson received a $650,000 award from the Andrew

W. Mellon Foundation to launch a four-year initiative to enhance civic learning and engagement on campus and in the global community. The initiative seeks to help faculty members identify critical civic issues within their own fields, undertake investigation of these issues and develop innovative teaching methods and course materials to engage students. A complementary goal is developing more sustained connections between the college and its community partners.

A new faculty position in practical ethics will be created to provide expanded course offerings on moral and ethical reasoning as a key dimension of meaningful civic engagement. All faculty members, and especially those in the arts and humanities, will be encouraged to incorporate civic learning and engagement into their courses and to ensure that their programs advance Dickinson’s character as an inclusive community.

Academic Affairs also has worked closely with members of the Student Life staff on the development of the Dickinson Four, a four-year roadmap for making the most of the undergraduate opportunity. (See Page 21.)

We continue to work to increase the diversity of our faculty. (See more information on Page 23.) Last year Dickinson hired seven tenure-track assistant and associate professors; 71 percent (5 of 7) were women and 71 percent were faculty from underrepresented groups. (See a list in Kudos on Page 10.) Of the 17 visiting assistant professors, instructors and international scholars hired, 65 percent (11 of 17) were women and 41 percent (7 of 17) were faculty from underrepresented groups. We also continued our longstanding relationship with the Consortium for Faculty Diversity by bringing five postdoctoral fellows to the college for the year, all of whom are people of color.

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FIRST-YEAR APPLICATIONS

FOR THE CLASS OF 2020, THE LARGEST APPLICANT POOL IN DICKINSON HISTORY

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he Enrollment, Marketing & Communications Division achieved much success after a great deal of hard work this year in our efforts to enroll the class of 2020. After enrolling the very large class of 2019 (731 students), we were cognizant of the need to keep the class of 2020 within our targeted range. Following are a few updates on some of the areas that were discussed in last year’s President’s Report.

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Dickinson received 6,172 first-year applications for the class of 2020, our largest applicant pool in history. The class of 2020 target was 600-620 students and we enrolled 610. After the large class we enrolled in 2015, this was a welcome return to a much more manageable class size.

The academic quality of the class of 2020 is very strong. The average SAT score of those who submitted standardized test scores (we are SAT-optional, though approximately two-thirds of enrolled students submitted standardized test scores with their applications for admission) is a 1304, up nine points over last year’s average.

The class of 2020 is the most diverse class in Dickinson’s history, including 21 percent domestic students of color and 12 percent international students.

In addition, 10 percent are first-generation college students (neither parent has earned a bachelor’s degree).

We continue to nurture our positive relationships with community-based organizations to further our outreach efforts to diverse populations of students. In addition, our Discover Diversity at Dickinson program is in its fifth year. This program brings underrepresented students to campus in November to experience Dickinson during an overnight stay and our traditional open house. Since adding this program we have seen our greatest increase in qualified underrepresented students in our Early Decision round, which has had a positive impact on our overall applicant pool.

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We continue to enroll the most talented and diverse class that we can afford. More families are applying and qualifying for financial aid, and many see their out-ofpocket education cost as a primary factor in where their student will enroll. Sixty percent of students in the class of 2020 are receiving need-based financial aid, and the average need-based grant they qualified for is almost $4,000 more than the prior year. While the actual cost to educate a Dickinson student is more than $75,000 annually, the direct price of a Dickinson education is $63,974 with the college’s endowment and annual giving subsidizing the gap.

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The Dickinson Admissions Volunteer Society (DAVS) continued to thrive this year, with 1,146 prospective students interviewed in 2015-16 by 727 DAVS members (627 alumni and 100 parents) in 34 states and 41 countries. Additionally, DAVS members represented Dickinson at 347 college fairs in 29 states and 10 countries.

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We enhanced our geographic outreach efforts last fall by hiring a regional director of West Coast recruitment.

This fall we have hired four additional recruitment staff members. An admissions office reorganization allowed us to redistribute resources so that we can make greater strides in developing new markets. We continue to saturate our primary markets through intensive recruitment efforts yet also are investing in new efforts to grow markets with potential, such as Georgia, Ohio, Colorado and Maryland.

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STUDENT LIFE JOYCE BYLANDER, VICE PRESIDENT AND DEAN OF STUDENT LIFE

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he Division of Student Life is guided by our mission: Our intention is to prepare students, by means of a useful education, for service and leadership in an ever-changing and global society. To ultimately contribute to the academic mission of the college, our division supports a vibrant, engaged, intellectually stimulating and socially appropriate residential experience, grounded in layered support. Layered support is an intentional system of multiple individuals at the college, providing the scaffolding to assist students in navigating challenges with increasing independence as they matriculate.

One of our key goals is to foster a safe, healthy, supportive and inclusive environment in which students can learn and achieve.

We completed an external review of the Wellness Center.

As a result we were able to expand staffing in the Wellness Center to better meet the needs of students for mental health services. The First-Year Wellness program, piloted last year, encourages first-year students to participate in a well visit with each of the health care disciplines at the Wellness Center (nurse practitioner, psychologist and dietitian) to discuss adjustment to college, screen for common health issues in college, and discuss ways to promote well-being and prevent common health problems from developing. The program is continuing.

The Landis Collective (Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity, Women’s & Gender Resource Center, Center for Service, Spirituality & Social Justice, LGBTQ Services and the Prevention, Education and Advocacy Center) expanded outreach and programming to various constituents, helped the college successfully navigate a student protest and made progress in working toward a more inclusive campus community. This year the offices launched an extended orientation program around inclusion and moved forward the work of the Transgender Advisory Task Force.

The Department of Public Safety continues to hold meetand-greets during finals weeks and at other times to foster positive relationships between students and our campus police officers. They have been proactive in their outreach to students, including students of color, during this time of national unrest around police and their communities.

We continue to engage students in determining how they will lead meaningful professional and personal lives.

We continue to expand our leadership retreat opportunities for students, adding a Sophomore Leadership Retreat that we hope will be as successful as our Emerging Leaders program for first-year students. We held a series of leadership lunches and launched a successful Inclusive Leadership Retreat for student leaders across constituencies.

We have continued to develop our cross-divisional collaborative work that will help students successfully plan and navigate their four years at Dickinson. The Dickinson Four, a program that makes that planning intentional, is fully developed and being implemented across all class years. Each year focuses on a different objective: Make Dickinson Yours, Discover What Matters, Deepen Your Focus and Expand Your Story.

An outside review of the Career Center highlighted the need for us to expand staffing and services in this important area. We have created a new position to focus on alumni relationships and externship opportunities for students.

We anticipate the ability to expand services to alumni and to provide short-term career experiences to students to help them build a career portfolio.

We work to prepare students for the complexities of leadership and engaged citizenship.

The campus continues to be impacted by events in the wider world. We have worked closely with students around concerns raised by the Student Liberation Movement and other on-campus groups advocating for marginalized people.

(Read more on Page 23.)

The division has ramped up training and education of students around issues of sexual misconduct through Green Dot, a nationally recognized bystander intervention program, and extended orientation programs that focus on consent. We have responded to increasing reports of bias incidents through BERT (Bias Education & Response Team), working with students to engage each other in civil ways even when they hold passionate positions on social issues.

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FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION BRONTÈ BURLEIGH-JONES, VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

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hanks to disciplined budgeting, the Division of Finance & Administration helped the college increase its cash reserves while continuing to enhance the Dickinson experience. At the end of fiscal year 2015-16, the college held $5.4 million in general reserves, $2.1 million in healthcare reserves, and $4.3 million in strategic reinvestment funding, $3.75 million of which has been allocated to identified one-time projects, leaving a balance of $560,000 for future needs. Along with a solid enrollment performance, this strong financial management helped Dickinson earn a “positive” outlook and an “A+” bond rating from Standard & Poor’s Rating Services.

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New Residence Hall: Design and construction

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2006 and part of series 2007 bonds, resulting in a savings of $8.4 million on a net-present-value basis.

We anticipate another bond financing in spring 2017 to refinance the remaining 2007 bonds along with the issuance of new money for the residence hall project.

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THE COLLEGE’S TOTAL ENDOWMENT (NONPOOLED PLUS POOLED) ENDED THE 2016 FISCAL YEAR AT $413 MILLION, DOWN FROM AN ALL-TIME HIGH OF $444.7 MILLION AT THE END OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

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Sustainability: The college continued to make progress

on its 2020 carbon neutrality target, mitigating 986 MTCO2e during the fiscal year. We also entered into a power purchasing agreement with SolarCity to install a 3.0 megawatt solar array to the west of Dickinson Park. The project will reduce utility costs over the 25-year contract term while reducing annual carbon emissions by 2,500 MTCO2e.

documentation were concluded in summer 2016.

Construction is slated to start in spring 2017, and the new building is expected to open in fall 2018.

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Facilities Conditions Assessment: A campuswide comprehensive facilities conditions assessment investigated nearly every building last year to provide a snapshot of current conditions, estimated correction costs and recommended action dates. The resulting report will serve as the basis for a strategic investment plan over the next 10 years.

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informed on the category and tier placement for their position in the new salary structure. This completed the first phase in the college’s salary study implementation. For phases two and three, the goal is to prevent salary compression and address the salaries of employees who have worked for the college for more than one year. Additional funding to support phases two and three is dependent upon budgetary considerations.

ENDOWMENT PERFORMANCE Dickinson’s pooled endowment, the portion of the endowment managed by the college’s outsourced investment office, Investure, ended the 2016 fiscal year (July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016) at $338 million. Although this valuation reflects a one-year loss of 4.4 percent, the pooled endowment continues to perform well over the long term, with a three-year average annual return of 5.6 percent, a five-year average annual return of 6.6 percent and a 10-year average annual return of 6.7 percent.

This long-term performance compares favorably to the college’s passive benchmark (made up of a combination of the MSCI All Country World Index and the Bank of America Merrill Lynch U.S. Treasury 7-10 Year Index) and falls within a percentage point of the college’s strategic goal of spending plus inflation (5 percent spending plus the Consumer Price Index plus 1 percent). By performing well against these measures, the college ensures the endowment’s intergenerational equity.

Spending from the endowment provided $18.4 million in funding to Dickinson in fiscal year 2016, making an impact on the affordability of the college, the academic program, student-faculty research, athletics, facilities and much more.

Note: Dickinson’s endowment is composed of the pooled endowment, which is managed as part of a consortium of colleges and universities by Investure, and the nonpooled endowment, which consists of funds held in trust for the college, endowed pledges and other assets. The pooled endowment makes up roughly 80 percent of the total endowment, while the nonpooled assets make up the remaining 20 percent. To balance present needs with future stability, Dickinson spends 5 percent of the endowment’s prior 12 quarters’ average balance each year to support the budget and restricted funds. The college employs this disciplined spending strategy to ensure that the endowment meets today’s needs while continuing to provide a foundation for the future.

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INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVES MICHAEL REED, VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVES

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n August 2015, the Office of Institutional Initiatives & Diversity presented an orientation for all departments with tenure track hires. The orientation included a review of the online application process, how to leverage the process to help identify diverse candidates, strategies for working with search committees and practices for avoiding unconscious bias in the interviewing and hiring processes.

Meetings with department chairs and search committee members have continued and have shifted toward developing specific strategies for generating more diverse candidate pools, such as recruiting at major conferences, more proactive advertising language and directly targeting research universities that have a history of producing women and people of color Ph.D.s. Also, in conjunction with Liberal Arts Diversity Officers (LADO), we visited five University of California schools, the University of Michigan, University of Chicago and Howard University to strengthen the pipeline between these research universities and liberal-arts colleges. As a result of these efforts, in part, the new faculty members hired in 2016 were the most diverse in the college’s history.

Under the auspices of the All-College Committee on Enrollment and Student Life, and with the help of the director of institutional research, we conducted a student engagement survey last fall that resulted in an impressive 52 percent participation rate. An initial review of the data focused on race/ethnicity, gender and international

students. Broad initial results, augmented by individual interviews, were shared with the Dickinson community, and cross-divisional strategies are being developed to ensure all students are supported and engaged in the best possible ways.

Student attendance at a November 2015 Mellon Foundation summit to address issues of underrepresentation in research university graduate programs as well as faculty underrepresentation in liberal-arts colleges contributed to the development of activism on campus. Some of the experiences acquired at the summit informed the strategy for the Why We Wear Black movement (now the Student Liberation Movement).

Consequently, the student protests at Dickinson were strategic, thoughtful and productive in contrast to some of the activities occurring at dozens of other institutions nationwide.

Students created a document of “asks” seeking greater diversity among faculty and Wellness Center counselors, increased training collegewide to avoid bias and a greater voice for marginalized students. We have engaged in proactive discussions to address issues of equity and exclusion and have made progress, though more remains to be done. The President’s Commission on Diversity has been charged with coordinating the effort to implement diversity and inclusivity training.

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LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICES ROBERT RENAUD, VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

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ickinson has long been a leader in the application of information technology (IT) in learning, teaching and research. And over the past year, Library & Information Services (LIS) has continued to be a vanguard in the integration of technology across academic areas, while reimagining library spaces to advance face-to-face learning, using technology not as a replacement but an enhancement to a personalized education.

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In the new Archives Classroom, flexible furniture can be adapted to different faculty needs and teaching styles, and a large-screen monitor is available for video conferences and group viewing of websites. The space is perfect for examination of rare objects in a secure and comfortable environment, such as when Professor of English Carol Ann Johnston used the room for her Revolutionary Milton class, featuring the college’s first edition of Paradise Lost.

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The college archives exemplifies IT innovation by spanning paper and digital collections and leveraging technology to make its unique holdings available over the Internet. And starting in 2015, the archives reconfigured its physical space in the Waidner-Spahr Library to facilitate this work.

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At Dickinson, digital scholarship comes in many forms.

One of the most impressive large-scale projects is the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center (http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu), a project started several years ago by student and library researchers.

Resource Center researchers recently finished scanning all of the Carlisle Indian School documents housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., making roughly 125,000 pages of material readily available to the public.

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he Office of College Advancement achieved its goal of strengthening engagement among Dickinsonians last year by increasing attendance at on-campus and regional events, recruiting new volunteers and holding a record-breaking Day of Giving.

Nearly 2,000 alumni, parents and friends of the college came to Carlisle for Alumni Weekend, Homecoming & Family Weekend, Red & White Day and the Career Conference & Volunteer Leadership Summit. Continuing our effort to expand regional and affinity programing, the office helped alumni connect across generations through 45 affinity-group reunions and 48 events around the world in locations ranging from London to Los Angeles.

The slate of regional gatherings was highlighted by the yearlong celebration of Dickinson’s 50th anniversary of global studies. More than 550 study-abroad alumni marked this milestone through a global education reunion in Washington, D.C., and an Alumni Global Adventures trip to Bologna, Italy.

This increased attendance translated into involvement as Dickinsonians stepped up for their college in several ways. The ranks of Dickinson volunteers grew with 50 new Devils’ Advocates, 300 career volunteers, 285 new Dickinson Admissions Volunteer Society (DAVS) members and eight new Alumni Council members.

On April 19, 2,883 alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends made a recordbreaking 2,580 gifts to the college in 24 hours during the second annual Day of Giving, raising $765,124 for the college. The day contributed to a fundraising total of more than $8 million from 8,610 donors for the fiscal year.

Since joining the college this July, I have been working with my colleagues to leverage the energy that alumni, parents and friends brought to the college last year. Together, we will build greater pride and increase support for Dickinson this year. I invite you to join us for a full slate of on-campus, regional and affinity events this year. We will be working to remind Dickinsonians of the college’s distinctive strengths and our historic mission, while engaging them in the process of defining a plan for our future. I believe that we all can do more for Dickinson, and I invite you to join me in supporting our efforts to move the college forward in service to our students and the world.

PEER INSTITUTION COMPARISON

TOTAL ENDOWMENT DOLLARS PER FULL-TIME STUDENT $300K

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PHILANTHROPY REMAINS CRITICAL New endowed gifts this year helped bring Dickinson’s total endowment to $413 million (see Page 22 for more information), and it’s important to note that Dickinson’s endowment—as measured against our number of full-time students—is still well below many of our peer and aspirant institutions. (See chart at right.) These better-resourced schools with whom we compete for students can spend more of their endowment returns each year on each of their students.

This leaves the college with two options—increase tuition or continue to invest less in the student experience than our peers. Neither of these options is acceptable—and this is the most compelling reason for increasing support from our alumni, parents and friends.

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Letters from the front and homefront offer a 360-degree view of World War II

By MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson

Take Flight

When hundreds of Japanese fighter pilots attacked a Hawaiian naval base on Dec. 7, 1941, they steered a two-year conflict, distant to many Americans, onto U.S. soil. Ralph Leland Minker ’47, a first-year history major at Dickinson, had just finished a roast beef dinner and was on his way to Conway Hall when he heard the news.

“At first there was a period of intense excitement and anxiety: What was going to happen?”

Ralph—known as “Lee” to his family—later wrote. “After the New Year, a nervous calm prevailed but war became more real.”

This snippet is from just one of hundreds of letters Ralph penned to his family from 1942-45, chronicling his journey from undergrad to World War II commander and bomber pilot. Together with hundreds more mailings from his parents and sisters, the letters provide a vivid account of the war, viewed from battleground and homefront alike.

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[ feature ] Two generations of Dickinsonians

The Minker family’s story begins at Dickinson, where Ralph Minker Sr., a senior in the class of 1920, met Edna Jones, class of ’24. They married three years after Ralph Sr.’s graduation, and Ralph Jr. was born in 1924. Shirley followed in 1926; Bernice, in 1928.

The Minkers settled in Wilmington, Del., where Ralph Sr., a Methodist pastor, also worked as a reform school superintendent, and for a decade, the family lived on school grounds. Ralph Jr. was a high school class president and, despite his small frame, played second-string quarterback. He arrived at Dickinson at age 17 in the fall of 1941.

Too young to enlist when America entered the war, Ralph volunteered for a military preparation program on campus that included accelerated classwork and rigorous phys-ed courses.

Fourteen months later, he’d completed three semesters of credits and was ready to ship off to Florida for basic training.

Getting his wings

That train ride south was an adventure for the 18-year-old, who’d always wanted to travel, but had only ventured about 125 miles from home. And within just a few months, Ralph saw another boyhood dream come true when he climbed into a cockpit and learned to fly.

“There seems to be nothing at all around you—you’re floating in midair, but with the awful roar of the Franklin 65 H.P. engine in your ears,” Ralph wrote home from flight camp in Nebraska.

“The ground looks just as if it were a picture by Stephen Curry.”

Ralph went on to pass his flight tests with flying colors, “feeling rather cocky,” he wrote from the classification base in California where he was stationed along with Joe DiMaggio. By the time he was assigned his B-17 crew, however, the weight of responsibility was beginning to sink in. “I hope I’ll make a good leader,” he wrote to his father. “Now is when it counts.”

Dispatches from the homefront

Ralph Sr. sent his son encouragement, advice, Dickinson updates, baseball scores and news of his anxious congregation and dwindling school staff. He also discussed his role as civilian defense warden, organizing government bond fundraisers, purchasing air-raid sirens and addressing jammed phone lines when too many soldiers called home.

When Ralph Sr.’s secretary joined the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) reserve, Edna filled in. In June 1943 she wrote to her son, “Maybe you will be surprised to learn that your mother is a ‘working lady’ now.”

Writing twice-weekly letters on the school typewriter, she provided church and family news and work gossip; she also sent packages of cookies and hard-to-find items, like film.

As Shirley finished high school and began college, she saw many friends leave for war. She wrote to her brother of military leaves and school goings-on, including an informal and femaledominated prom.

In between jokes and news, Bernice discussed a program to keep soldiers’ farms afloat, a teacher who joined the Red Cross, the scarcity of Hershey bars and a school air-raid evacuation in December 1943: “I had to get all of the ‘Ag’ boys in from outside.

They were in the chicken house, and if you know what bedlam is, you can well imagine me trying to holler, ‘Air Raid, follow Plan B,’ over the chickens’ protesting clucks.”

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A close shave

Ralph received his wings and commission as a second lieutenant on March 12, 1944. After co-piloting two missions, the youngest member of the 447th Bomb Group was ready to take command of his own crew.

Ralph went on to aid battles in Rhineland, the Ardennes region and central Germany flying 15 missions in support of ground troops during the Battle of the Bulge. His most nail-biting moment arrived when he nearly ran out of gas after bombing a Berlin train station and landed the B-17 on little more than gas fumes. Ralph was promptly inducted into the “Lucky Bastards Club,” reserved for those who flew 35 successful missions. He also earned the distinction of being the youngest 447th pilot to complete a 35-mission tour.

Although his job was officially over, Ralph volunteered to stay on and fight, much to Edna’s dismay. By war’s end, he was a captain with an Air Medal and five oak leaf clusters, and he’d flown 37 missions—all before age 21.

When V-E Day arrived, Ralph sent news of “the joy and thanks deep in the hearts of those of us in the service,” while his father wrote about “how the Nazi ideology could so completely grip people … the ‘spanking’ we have given them is just the beginning of the work necessary to a changed point of view.” The Minker women’s letters were less introspective. Edna focused on her son’s safety, his sacrifices and work yet to do, while Bernice was outright unimpressed: “I rather expected shouting and parades, but it’s just another day when we sit with ears glued to the radio, hoping for news.”

Memorializing a life of service

Ralph set sail for home on the HMS Queen Elizabeth, playing cards with fellow pilot Jimmy Stewart during the voyage. He returned to Dickinson and graduated with his history degree in 1947, followed his father’s footsteps to Boston University of Theology and was ordained in 1951.

Two decades later, after serving 11 churches and raising two children with first wife Peggy Ann, Ralph launched a careercounseling business. He married Sandra O’Connell in 1980, and

they lived in Reston, Va. After Ralph’s 1995 Alzheimer’s diagnosis, he and Sandra decided to donate the family’s 656 WWII letters, recognizing their value to history.

The originals are housed at the Delaware Historical Society (DHS), with copies in the Dickinson archives; Ralph and Sandra also co-published a 2005 book about the collection with historian Harry Butowsky. In 1999-2000, Patrick Stevenson ’01 conducted an oral history of Ralph, published on the Dickinson website; they remained friends until Ralph’s death in 2008.

Last year, Sandra spearheaded a project to digitize the letters, with additional support from her sister, Sharron E. Juliano, and the Ralph Minker Peace Fund for Student-Faculty Research at Dickinson College. Patrick Kennaly ’17, a double major in history and Russian, helped prepare letter abstracts through a Dana Research Grant-funded project led by Associate Professor of History Jeremy Ball. The Minker family collection was made available on the DHS website last spring.

“Reading the letters was quite a privilege for me, especially as a history major, as I was able to work with such a large collection of primary sources that were very personal to the family,” said Kennaly, who was struck by the letter-writers’ distinctive tones.

As Sandra notes, the online collection invites people worldwide to discover “not only the history of World War II, but also the values of doing your duty, love of country and family and shared sacrifice,” and she’s already tapped the online resource to help teach students about history and the value of letter-writing.

Sandra is working with the DHS to develop online resources for further educational use.

“This is a legacy that is continuing to share the values of the generation that won our freedom,” she adds. “Seventy years later, young people are learning about the war and the people who lived through those days through these letters.”

View “An American Family in World War II: The Minker Family Letters Digital Collection” at dehistory.org/minker-introduction.

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By Tony Moore

1976 victory in the

“greatest football game ever played” leads to Red Devil reunion decades later.

Everyone has a favorite sports upset story.

Maybe it’s the U.S. men’s hockey team knocking Russia out of the 1980 Winter Olympics. Or maybe the 2008 New York Giants ruining the New England Patriots’ perfect season by beating them in Super Bowl XLII. For Dickinson football, it’s the game played against the Widener University Pioneers on Oct. 9, 1976, a game the Red Devils were never supposed to win and one that had them coming in 40-point underdogs.

“Even if the sun is shining it will probably be very gloomy for Dickenson [sic] again,” predicted the Widener school paper, The Dome, while reminding readers that the previous matchup found Dickinson falling to the Pioneers by three touchdowns. The Dome was right about one thing: The setting was about as gloomy as it gets.

“All that week, it just poured, day after day,” recalls Jim Gerlach ’77, who spent the day coming out of the swampy backfield as running back. “We weren’t even sure

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whether the game would be called at some point because the conditions were so sloppy.”

Maybe fate was trying to cut the Devils a break. After all, Widener was ranked No. 6 in the country, boasted the No. 4 offense and averaged 335 rushing yards per game.

Billy “White Shoes” Johnson, who’d gone from Widener to the NFL and would become one of the league’s greatest return men, had previously made mincemeat of the Dickinson defense.

“Widener was intimidating—the school attracted big guys and great athletes, and the team did these crazy calisthenics before the games, wanting you to give up before the game ever started,” says Jack Maley ’79, the team’s quarterback. “It was like Braveheart: I fully expected them to come bursting out of the locker room half-naked and painted.”

“I was optimistic, but you never know,” says Wilbur “Goby” Gobrecht ’52, Red Devils football coach from 1965 to 1979

(and also in 1984) and has written a book about the history of the Dickinson football program. “Now, they were on a 15-game winning streak, and I realized that, but you try not to get that involved in talking about it. We wanted to win the game.”

Widener hadn’t lost a game in two years, but, covered head to toe in mud and soaking wet, and on the back of what Gerlach calls a “total team win,” the Red Devils took down the Pioneers 17-6.

“It was just euphoric,” recalls Gerlach. “We had a bunch of students run onto the field, and family, and we were jumping around hugging each other—everybody was hugging each other. It was just really great.”

Forty years later, on another rainy October Saturday, the hugging resumed, as the team and coaches got together to celebrate the game.

“The reunion was further proof that time is an illusion,” says Maley. “From the moment we met up, we moved seamlessly and joyfully from 1976 to 2016. The friendships

were strong, authentic and a reminder that sports are far more than athletic events.”

Those friendships were honored when the team was recognized during a pregame ceremony before the current Red Devil team hit the gridiron against Franklin & Marshall College, and a tailgate and team celebration followed, featuring footage of the landmark game (view footage at dickinson.edu/magazine) cut to ’70s music.

“For me, while the reunion was to celebrate participation in a great football game, the best part of the event was just reconnecting with old teammates and friends,” says Gerlach. “What a great bunch of guys, who were a lot of fun 40 years ago and still are today!”

“A game like this, it’s just a game, really,” says Maley. “But in this case, it isn’t. I played football for a long time, and this is the best life experience I can remember.

I took away that anything’s possible. In the back of your head, it’s like, ‘We beat Widener. I can do this.’ ”

“I played football for a long time, and this is the best life experience I can remember.”

–Jack Maley ’79 And speaking of Widener, let’s cut to the opening of another Dome article, one covering the big game and running the next day: “This article is difficult to write …”

Gloomy indeed.

As this issue was going to press, Darwin Breaux (pictured in top left photo) announced that he was stepping down after 24 seasons leading Dickinson football. He will remain with Dickinson as the head men’s golf coach and as a physical education instructor. Read more at dson.co/coachbreaux.

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Strategizing Foreign Policy B Y D O U G L A S S T U A R T , professor of political science and international studies; J. William Stuart and Helen D. Stuart Chair in International Studies, Business and Management

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very four years in autumn, Washington, D.C., goes crazy (or, gets a bit more crazy than usual). Most of the think tanks, most of the pundits and most of the prestige media outlets begin to jostle for the attention of the next president. Some are looking for jobs in the next administration, some are trying to get their views on key policy issues noticed by the president’s transition team. They rely upon every mode of communication—op-eds, emails, tweets—to send their messages. They also host panels, conferences and media events to get their points across. Sometimes they have to go outside of the beltway to find folks who can help them in their campaigns for recognition. That is how I got recruited into two very interesting projects.

During the summer, I was invited to present the Ernest R. May Lecture at the start of the Aspen Strategy Group Workshop. The topic of this year’s workshop was America’s Security Architecture, and I was asked to provide the historical context for our four days of discussion.

I was invited to give this speech because of my book Creating the National Security State (Princeton 2008) and my other articles and edited volumes that deal with the national security bureaucracy.

My presentation focused on the impact of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on the post-World War II debates that culminated in the creation of a new network of national security institutions, including the Air Force, the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council. I discussed how and why the military became the principal beneficiaries of this new approach to foreign policymaking and how and why the State Department became the biggest victim of the new system. I argued that, after 75 years, it was time for radical reform of the “Pearl Harbor system.” But I also recognized how difficult it would be to achieve such reform.

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U.S. Foreign Policy class. Photos by Carl Socolow ’77.

Under these circumstances, I concluded with some recommendations for small steps to ameliorate some of the worst aspects of the existing system. My first proposal was for informal cooperation, modeled on the partnership between former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to identify new opportunities for State Department participation in complex nation-building operations. I also recommended more initiatives like the ongoing Mellon Foundation Project on CivilianMilitary Educational Cooperation, a program spearheaded by Dickinson to give students at selected liberal-arts institutions and students at selected military education institutions opportunities for academic and social interaction in order to cultivate familiarity and trust between the two communities.

My four days in Aspen were policy-wonk heaven. Most of the members of the Aspen Strategy Group are current or former foreign policymakers (a secretary of state, two national security advisers, etc.). A few are directors of think tanks or writers for the prestige print media. They are proudly bipartisan, comfortable with each other and very insightful. I was pleased that my arguments provided the group with some points of common reference throughout the four days of the workshop.

I met with this group again in Washington in mid-November for a book launch event. My speech was one of about a dozen essays, all of which were designed to provide the next president with ideas for institutional reform to improve foreign policymaking. Since several of the participants in the Aspen meeting are likely to be appointed to high-level positions in the next administration, it is likely that at least some of our recommendations will be taken seriously.

I made another trip to Washington in mid-September as a guest of George Washington University. On this occasion I was invited to participate in a small-group discussion with experts on U.S.-China relations. Our goal was to construct a briefing book on ways for the incoming administration to productively engage Beijing.

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In support of the Pivot to Asia, President Trump should:

The format was interesting. Our first round of discussions gave the invited experts an opportunity to briefly summarize their policy recommendations and respond to questions. My recommendations were based upon a monograph that I had just published with the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. My first recommendation was that within the first six months, the next administration should designate the Indo-Asia-Pacific region as the nation’s top strategic priority—an explicit commitment to the continuation of the Obama administration’s Pivot strategy. I argued that the Pivot is not a policy option, it is an essential adjustment to geostrategic and geoeconomic realities associated with the fundamental shift in the world economy from West to East. (See sidebar for additional recommendations.)

Following the presentation of proposals by the invited experts, a delegation of Chinese scholars and diplomats joined our group. They were invited to give their own presentations on the future of U.S.-China relations. The meeting was then opened up for discussions between the American and Chinese representatives. I was sorry, but not surprised, that this part of our meeting was not more productive. I have attended a couple of these types of meetings in the past, and they tend to be somewhat disheartening occasions. The American representatives offer proposals for meeting China halfway on various issues—climate change, South China Sea territorial disputes, etc. The Chinese delegation accepts the half loaf offered by the Americans, but they do not reciprocate with their own ideas for cooperation. It is hard not to come away from such meetings with an increased concern about the prospects for great power relations. In spite of the difficulty, it is essential that Washington continue to look for opportunities for cooperation with Beijing.

When I discuss U.S.-China relations with my students I remind them of the so-called Thucydides Trap.

This refers to the historical record of instances of great power wars as one rising in power challenges the status of a dominant power. According to Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, in 12 of 16 instances of great power competition since 1500, the result has been war. The cautionary reality is that in many of these cases, neither party wanted war, and both sides thought that they were taking steps to facilitate cooperation.

In my recommendations to the next president, I made the argument for increased American efforts at dialogue, conflict avoidance and confidence-building with China—even if our counterparts in Beijing make such initiatives difficult.

• coordinate our Asian policies with our major European allies • place a greater emphasis on diplomatic and economic elements of power to balance our reliance on military power • continue to encourage Beijing to participate in the liberal international order • and avoid gratuitously threatening actions toward China.

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Mr. President: Professor Stuart asked students in his U.S. Foreign Policy class to offer their own insights, based on class discussions, current events and political perspectives, on what foreign policy strategies the next administration should focus on first.

One of the most critical areas needing to be addressed by the next administration will be the issue of China and its presence in the South China Sea. Specifically confronting this issue could help the next president continue the Obama administration’s focus on a pivot from the Middle East to Asia on foreign affairs. By addressing the Chinese hold on the South China Sea, the U.S. can strengthen its position in Asia both militarily and economically, through solidifying its existing alliances with nations such as Japan and Taiwan and creating new relationships with nations who oppose Chinese aggression.

As the U.S. and its allies make progress in defeating ISIS, it will become easier to focus on the Middle East from a diplomatic position. In terms of diplomatic resolution we must focus more on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran, as they become the economic leaders of the Middle East. However, these states face serious problems of internal instability, as illustrated by the attempted military coup in Turkey. Saudi Arabia is right now the economic leader of the Middle East, but it also has still been involved in sponsoring terrorism. We must stabilize these countries before Russia has a chance to become the power in the Middle East.

Aturo Adkins ’18, international studies

Steve Sakowicz ’19, political science

The next president should prioritize relations with East Asia. Maintaining economic and political cooperation with the Asian powers is still one of the core interests of the U.S. The frictions in U.S.-China relations need solutions. How will the U.S. accommodate the rise of China without stimulating new conflicts? How will the U.S. deal with its decreasing influence in Asia because of China’s increasing influence? Better U.S.-East Asia relations means the countries can work together on other overlapping issues such as climate change and denuclearization.

It is necessary to up the pressure on Russia. Vladimir Putin is a major threat to the stability of the international system. America needs to continue to punish Russia for the illegal annexation of Crimea and for airstrikes supporting Bashar al-Assad. Russia’s support has secured them access to air and naval bases within the state, giving them access to the Mediterranean. Russia still harbors Edward Snowden. More economic and political sanctions will be necessary. We must build a strong Europe through more military aid, defense systems, and training for Eastern European nations. Combating Russian cyberattacks must be a priority.

Michael Cesare ’19, international studies, policy management

Lingzhi Wang ’18, political science, economics

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TRACING

In The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert points to five mass extinctions in the Earth’s long history—the last one wiped out the dinosaurs—and makes a strong case that there’s a sixth major mass extinction afoot. This time, humans are the cause. During her four-day residency as the 2016-17 recipient of the Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism, Kolbert sat down with Dickinson Magazine writer/editor MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson to discuss what it was like to write her Pulitzer Prize-winning book—a project that took her to rainforests, oceans, bat caves, coral reefs, Arctic snowbanks and labs around the world to see the effects of civilization on our ecosystem and to consult with top scientists working in the field.

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[ feature ] BITTS-JACKSON: When most of us think about extinction in the modern world, we think about isolated incidents—the honeybee in one part of the world, a great ape in another. Mass extinction is different.

KOLBERT: It’s sort of what it sounds like: a lot of species, across a lot of different groups, are going extinct at the same time. There have been five of these major mass extinctions—and, somewhat oxymoronically, there are also minor mass extinctions—in the fossil record.

BITTS-JACKSON: And the sixth mass extinction is underway and progressing really quickly?

KOLBERT: Even though these things look slow from a human perspective, they’re phenomenally fast, from a geological perspective. The only potential analog is the asteroid aspect that did in the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. When scientists look back in the record, they have a hard time finding analogs for what we’re doing right now.

BITTS-JACKSON: And we’re the culprits?

KOLBERT: We are definitely the culprits … We might say, “OK, that creature was

done in by deforestation, or … an invasive species,” or “That one was done in by an imported pathogen.” But if you look at the big pattern, you see that they can all be traced back to one needy species, and that’s us. … I don’t think there are any extinctions that we know about in the last several centuries that we can’t trace to some kind of human impact.

BITTS-JACKSON: You went all over the world to see extinction happening …

So many memorable and touching and darkly funny moments. I’ll never forget the rhino ultrasound. And the bats! I can’t stop thinking of the bats.

KOLBERT: Most extinction takes place in absence. You can’t see it. But you can actually see that these bats—which are very common bats here in the northeastern U.S.—are being killed off by this imported disease. I’ve been back almost every winter to the same [cave],

and there is a remnant population of bats there, but the numbers are a tiny fraction of what they used to be.

BITTS-JACKSON: In researching this book, what moments affected you the most?

KOLBERT: I’m not a scuba diver, but I really loved being out on the Great Barrier Reef. I found that sort of mindblowing, like a hallucinatory experience, almost. ... The world of the oceans is very different from the terrestrial world, and one of the great things about the oceans is that if you’re on a reef, you’re just seeing a variety of life that you can never see on land—it would all be hidden behind the leaves, like a rainforest. So it’s really a fantastic sight, and I would love to go back.

BITTS-JACKSON: It takes fortitude, hardiness, to even go out there on the tundra, into caves, to the Great Barrier Reef. It also takes fortitude to keep facing dismal information—to keep going there over and over again. What do you think it is that allows you to keep going?

KOLBERT: People write books about all sorts of horrors, to be honest. People are war correspondents. I would find that really impossibly depressing—man’s inhumanity to man. One of the ironies or paradoxes [is that] … in the process of writing the book, I actually went to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, the Amazon rainforest, the Peruvian cloud forest. I wasn’t reporting from Syria and seeing dead bodies in the street. It was often quite fantastic and beautiful, even though the basic thrust of [the book] is pretty heavy.

Reef, anyone who studies the Amazon, has seen this way more intimately than I have. People who have watched it over many years will tell you how it’s already quite degraded from what they knew when they started out their careers, [and how] even places that are extremely remote and untouched—no one’s digging them up, no one’s mining them—are all touched by us. That is definitely the overriding message of the book. There’s no place on Earth—and this is true, even in the deep oceans—where you can’t find human impacts now.

BITTS-JACKSON: How can we prepare young people to do better in the future?

KOLBERT: Journalists always act on the notion that knowledge is power, and it’s better to know things than not, including things that are painful. I don’t want to say that acknowledging what’s going on will solve it—this is not like a 12-step program, like the first step is acknowledging the problem—but I do think, from just a sort of ethical standpoint, that acknowledging the problem, and one’s participation in it, is crucial. Unfortunately, what we see in our politics now, [is that some people find it] easier to just say, “Well, it’s not a problem,” and deny what are, unfortunately, scientific facts. I think that the power of simply facing the truth—there’s a lot to be said for that.

You wouldn’t think that would be such a big barrier in the 21st century, but it turns out to be.

To read the full interview—which includes Kolbert’s thoughts on the tensions between journalism and activism, her view of the future, her thoughts on the liberal arts and her advice to young people—visit Dickinson.edu/magazine.

BITTS-JACKSON: Do you look at a landscape differently now?

KOLBERT: The fragility of the world, definitely, and the fact that things can be wrecked a lot more easily than they can be protected, at this point in time, is a very sobering and saddening fact …

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From theory to action

Carl Socolow ’77

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Are you interested in giving back to our alma mater? Does the notion of dedicating time to come back to campus three times a year, each with a unique purpose and with student engagement, intrigue you? The Alumni Council is always looking for individuals who are dedicated volunteers for the college who will serve as cheerleaders. Our work is to continue to engage fellow alumni who are already involved in some way with the college while also finding and connecting with alumni who may not be as engaged to re-engage them with Dickinson. (Note: Our bylaws

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limit our membership, and our leadership committee works to secure a balanced membership that represents our expansive alumni body.) If you are interested in learning more about the Alumni Council, please send me an email and I will do my best to respond or share your inquiry with someone who can.

As you attend regional events (dickinson.edu/ regionalcommunities), I am certain that you will run into current Alumni Council members. As a collective, we are moving from the theory of being engaged and how to do so, to actively being present and involved with the greater alumni body. We need you to attend events, to be engaged with the college and to make Dickinson your No. 1 philanthropic priority.

Together, we can continue the momentum that currently exists to catapult Dickinson into the foreseeable future (and beyond) as a premier private liberal-arts institution.

The Alumni Council is a small but powerful representation of the greater alumni association. This year is one of great transition. Our college has a dedicated committee searching for our next president. Whoever is selected will work diligently to re-engage alumni from a broad spectrum of class years. We, as a council, are doing that work now.

We want to hear from you and find ways to not only engage you, but to energize you. This, a reunion year for classes ending in 2 and 7, will most definitely be a year during which members of those classes will be re-engaged and willing to make Dickinson a topic of their conversation with friends and family alike.

I charge everyone reading this article, no matter your class year, to make Dickinson a focus of your conversation with everyone. We are over 24,000 strong. This is our year to support Dickinson in ways that are unparalleled. This is the year to give back to Dickinson as a way to give thanks to the institution that provided for us the opportunities we have been given within the comfort of the limestone walls. By opportunities, I don’t simply mean jobs and careers; we have forged lifelong friendships and connections with classmates, faculty and staff. Your time and financial support will increase Dickinson’s profile not only on the national level, but the international level as well.

As always, should you have questions, comments or feedback, contact me at profe207@gmail.com. I look forward to our working together, acting on behalf of Dickinson, to promote and support our alma mater. I hope you’ll join me!

Photos by Lisa Helfert

More than 60 members of the John Dickinson Society (JDS) and their guests gathered for a reception, discussion and private tour at George Washington’s Mount Vernon on Saturday, Nov. 5. The exclusive regional event is one example of the ways the college honors members of the society, which is Dickinson’s premier donor group. More about the event, including additional photos, is available at dson.co/jdsevent.

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I have just celebrated my 99th birthday and have begun to live my hundredth year. I am fortunate to be active, writing on my computer and joining in many activities here at University House in Seattle. Are there any other members of the class of ’39 who are still enjoying life? Email me, so I can share your story.

I sit on our patio, drenched and dripping from an afternoon of yard cleanup, and I realize I am already looking forward to the holidays. Hard to visualize snow with the maple trees blazing in gold and rust. But fall is already center stage, and winter is in the wings, and, as you read this, our 2016 holiday will be past. A recent plea for news surprised me (what a wonderful surprise!) with emails from three classmates.

In August, George Thomas ’39 visited his son John Thomas ’66 at their home in Alexandria, Va. George spent time with his grandson, Parker, who heads to college in North Carolina this fall. George enjoys emailing friends, receiving visits from family and walking around his home in Cornwall, Pa.

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Don Cosby and wife Jan observed their 50th anniversary in May, with all six children present to help celebrate, and in July, family and friends gathered for Don’s 90th birthday party. (Wow! Happy birthday, Don!) In April, Don, Jan and two of their daughters had so much fun on a California coastal cruise that they booked another cruise for

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mid-December to Cabo San Lucas, Puerta Vallarta and Mazatlán, Mexico. What a great Christmas trip! Don continues to be active in Rotary Club and the South California Presbyterian Church and enjoys gardening as well. And he says, “When I think back to my days at Dickinson, I remember having lots of fun and meeting fantastic people— both educators and students. I’m proud to be a graduate of such a special institution. And it’s nice knowing that there are still 1948 classmates to share my update with.”

And from Gladys Fry Crowl comes news that she, too, celebrated a 90th birthday in July. (Happy birthday, Gladys!) More recently, she and friends visited the Fredericksburg battlefields, where her great-grandfather and his two brothers fought in the Battle of the Wilderness. There, her greatgrandfather was seriously injured and his youngest brother killed the same day. The highlight of her trip was meeting a young park ranger who is being mentored by Eric Wittenberg ’83, who has written 15 Civil War books. Eric spoke in Lititz a few years ago and visited with Gladys, and she has become a fan of his historical writings.

Jane Hill Coddington said she was off to New

England for Thanksgiving as usual, visiting with family. She has recently moved to a retirement community just a mile from her home, so she’ll still be able to socialize with all her friends. Her new email is jhcoddington@gmail.com.

As for our holiday celebrations, we extend the dining room table for added generations, deck the Christmas tree with trinkets that stir ancient memories, and 20-some knitted stockings march along the stairway wall, with a brand new one for petite 4-month-old Mai. She could easily fit inside it! We “ooh” and “aah” at tales of grandkids’ successes at brand name companies: A graphic designer at Ralph Lauren! A software engineer at Expedia! Two interning pediatricians at Innova Hospital! But we have equal time and aching hearts and soft words for those telling of futile job searches and career disasters. A sign of our times, to be sure. Our menus are always standard—a turkey at Thanksgiving and a rib roast at Christmas. But new side dishes now appear, reflecting our expanding cultures—German, Dutch, Welsh, Vietnamese, Afro, vegan—but always good old American dessert! All is red and green and gold and silver, and Ho Ho Ho (Christmas demands that!). And we sincerely hope that your holiday, too, was full of festive pleasures with many cherished memories to warm your hearts during a wonderful new year. Best wishes for 2017!

Don Cosby and family eagerly set sail for Mexico in mid-December.

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1949 Dan Winters Apt. C-219 1290 Boyce Road Upper St. Clair, PA 15241 dbwinters1949@yahoo.com

It was after the war. Doug Rehor ’48 returned to Dickinson. He was a star football player. Not only was he an excellent athlete, but he had a friendly personality. Doug was a Phi Kappa Sigma and at one point was selected to participate in the annual North-South national football game. Not only was Doug popular as a Dickinson quarterback, but he was admired on campus as a student leader. He left after the spring semester of 1943. He returned to Dickinson in the fall of 1946 after serving in World War II and graduated in June 1948. Rehor was a Dickinson star. One time he was very upset with school spirit and along with several fraternity brothers dug a grave on the college grass across from Denny Hall to show his discontent.

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1951 Robert and Margaret Valentine Berry 5437 Village Run Roanoke, VA 24018 Valber1@verizon.net

Eileen Fair Durgin 2126 Holly Lane Cinnaminson, NJ 08077 eileenfd@msn.com

“Microcosm” is a modification of two Greek words meaning “little world” and is quite an appropriate name for Dickinson’s yearbooks. After all of these years, there is a piece written in the beginning pages of our Microcosm that belatedly can cause one to pause; first, because it could be somewhat meaningful as if written today; second, because it does not seem to send us off into the big, wide world being upbeat. Here are those words—see what you think: “Four years of college life—with its many high spots and its low ones, too—lie behind the seniors as we step out of the microcosm of Dickinson and enter a far larger and more complex world. This world that we are about to step into is far from a pleasant one, and many times we will look back longingly on our years at Dickinson with its weekends and its fraternity life and with little more to worry about than a few hours of exams.

But, we cannot return to this little world. We must look to the future, to the war-torn world that needs intelligent, young leaders. From now on, that will be our world, and we hope that the training received here will enable us to fill our new roles capably.” It is all very honest, true and even timely today, but it seems to be somewhat of a warning that when we step out of our cocoons, we may be devoured before we have grown. Our classmates have lived mostly fulfilling lives in a world that is mostly pleasant, mostly happy and mostly open to success. Leave it to Andy Rooney to share his timeless observations: “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but happiness and growth occur while you’re climbing it.” Let’s keep on climbing!

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east of Leesburg, Va. In the years that followed graduation, he received his Ph.D. in chemistry, although he indicated that he never worked in that specifically but rather in the realm of national security. It was in the field of operation research with the U.S. Navy that he worked with science as related to the military. After a period of five years with the U.S. Navy, he transferred to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. A vital role of this agency was in verification of treaties. It worked closely with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is responsible for verification of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. In this work, he spent most of his career. After retiring in 1999, he spent time traveling and delving into digital photography as one of his hobbies. He currently has taken on the challenging research of genealogy. With the typical dead ends in his own family branch, so often the result of nonexistent or lost records, he took on research of his son-in-law’s family. Much success in this area enabled him to reach back 18 generations. His fulfilling and productive life continues to make us, as classmates, very proud.

In Colorado, far from Carlisle, is one of our Theta Chi classmates. He is Richard Wood, who lives in Colorado Springs. He formerly was director of admissions at Colorado College, which is a small college similar in size to Dickinson. After 31 years, he retired from that position, joking that before long, his years in retirement will be equal to those of work. Diverse activities are now part of his days: He composes and arranges music for groups that play recorders and also spends time in his workshop, making furniture and other items for his family. He still owns a sailboat. Since retiring, he and wife Lila have pulled it quite a distance to the Chesapeake Bay—actually doing so three times. Keeping up with six married children, 13 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren rounds out a busy life and keeps him young. As a result of his career starting in alumni work, he appreciates the value of our keeping in contact.

1953 Betts Middleton Slim bslim12@verizon.net

1954 Louise Hauer Greenberg 300 Tranquility Lane, Apt. 100 Reading, PA 19607 lhg1309@aol.com

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1957 Ira Glick iraglick@stanford.edu Ira Glick co-authored, with Douglas Rait, Alison Heru and Michael Ascher, Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice, Fifth Edition. It was published by Wiley Blackwell. Read more in Fine Print, Page 8.

1958 Anne Biddle Tantum 413 Barrington Court Palmyra, PA 17078 anne.tantum@verizon.net

After Bob Kaplan’s retirement as a federal administrative law judge in 2009, he and wife Janet settled in Sarasota, Fla. Since then, they have traveled twice to France and to England (most memorably, hiking in the Lake District and the Cotswolds), Spain and Portugal and spent a month in Italy. They have also hiked in Death Valley and taken each of their three (now teenaged) grandsons separately to Yosemite, Yellowstone and Acadia National Parks. Bob notes, “Future, less vigorous, trips are planned.”

1959 Joe Carver jcarver@comcast.net Cora Lee Reddicks Page played her annual hostess

role in Avalon, N.J., for members of the class in late September. She awaits the birth of her 10th grandchild in London. She sent the following updates on her guests: Marcia Dornin Schoettle traveled from Maine and took copious notes.

Carol Dorsey Wisotzki recently flew by helicopter over glaciers in Alberta, Canada. Judy Flack Urban has moved from Lake Carolina to Lake Murray, S.C., so she can enjoy her kayaking passion.

Marcia Barndt Gobrecht chairs the committee for the 250th anniversary celebration of the John Harris Mansion in Harrisburg, Pa. Anita Cowling McCarty had a granddaughter and grandson graduate from high school and university, respectively. Nancy Moran Whichard traveled to the Outer Banks, N.C., for birding and plant study. Unfortunately, Judy Milligan Hughes and Ann Hooff Kline were ill and could not attend.

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Judy Flack Urban moved to South Carolina to embrace more kayaking in her life.

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1963 Barbara Buechner Carroll 14 Williamsburg N. Colts Neck, NJ 07722 bbcedit@aol.com

Some members of the class of ’63 have discovered the fountain of youth. Each fall, about 20 of them gather at Harry’s Seafood Grill in Wilmington, Del., to reconnect and relive their Dickinson days and, for a short time, feel like they are 18 again. This year they also celebrated their semisesquicentennial. This year’s attendees included Jack McClelland, Barb Geyer Keyser, Sue Pastore Chapin, Ann Conser Curley, Suellen Peltz Ettinger, Marian Moorhouse Hetrick, Jean Weller McClelland, Emily Zilinsky Wagner, Pam Searles Miller ’65, Linda Goodridge Steckley, Barb Greer Warden, Dave Chapin, Victor Hetrick ’62, Grace McConnell Clark, Dick Warden, Chuck Wagner, Al Miller, John Curley ’60 and Justine Englert. (See picture at right.)

Benjamin Cero’s experiences as a Marine in the Vietnam War were highlighted in “Voices of Service: Dickinson Grad Recalls Service as Marine in Vietnam” in The Sentinel (Carlisle, Pa.). In the article, he shared memories of boot camp and his duties as a radio platoon leader in the 5th Communications Battalion stationed at Camp Hoa Long in Da Nang, Vietnam. Cero retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a lieutenant colonel in 1992.

1965 Carol Nuetzman Weber 496 Windsor Place Oceanside, NY 11572-1146 weber496@aol.com Larry Rand 2544 W. Mesquite St. Chandler, AZ 85224-1631 larryrand@cox.net

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan cut the ribbon opening the 1744 Washington Inn on the Eastern Shore in the town of Princess Anne that Jim Sharf and wife Charlotte have worked for five years to restore. They hope this will start a renaissance in the historic town.

1967 Rumsey Young rumseyy@gmail.com Nick Brown brownnicholas3@gmail.com

Members of the class of ’63 got together for their yearly gathering at Harry’s Seafood Grill in Wilmington, Del., to reconnect and relive their Dickinson days. This year they also celebrated their semisesquicentennial. Front, from left: Jack McClelland ’63, Barb Geyer Keyser ’63, Sue Pastore Chapin ’63, Ann Conser Curley ’63 and Suellen Peltz Ettinger ’63. Middle, from left: Marian Moorhouse Hetrick ’63, Jean Weller McClelland ’63, Emily Zilinsky Wagner ’63, Pam Searles Miller ’65, Linda Goodridge Steckley ’63 and Barb Greer Warden ’63. Back, from left: Dave Chapin ’63, Victor Hetrick ’62, Grace McConnell Clark ’63, Dick Warden ’63, Chuck Wagner ’63, Al Miller ’63, John Curley ’60 and Justine Englert ’63.

Lorraine Howe Fenton fentonlh@gmail.com William Diefenderfer appeared in the motion picture Rising Fear. The film won the 2016 GI Film Festival: Best Action Feature and the 2016 MCA-TV Film Festival: Best Feature and was ranked No. 2 on Amazon’s new release chart. The film explores a very timely issue facing our country: terrorism.

The film is about a Marine framed for a terrorist attack in a major U.S. city. Diefenderfer plays a pivotal role as a banker in this action/suspense thriller.

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35 Consecutive Columbus Weekends at Kamp Kistler Submitted by Ben Compaine ’67

In 1982, Jim Kistler ’67 and his wife Donna were managing a summer overnight camp in Milford, Pa. They proposed that a group of Jim’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) brothers who had stayed in close contact bring their families for Columbus Day weekend at the camp. We came from some nearby New York addresses, but mostly from the Washington, D.C., Boston, Pittsburgh and New Jersey/Philadelphia areas. That became the first of what has turned into 35 annual Columbus Day Weekends at what is now affectionately called Kamp Kistler.

By the October 2016 reunion, the crew has been supplemented not only with adult children and their spouses but with grandchildren as well. We have spread out farther geographically, now arriving from Eugene, Ore., and Ann Arbor, Mich., as well as the old East Coast domiciles. Although the core of the group were SAEs from the class of 1967, also participating was one member of the class of 1966 and, on occasion, brothers from 1968 and 1969. Nor was the weekend restricted to SAEs, with friends from Phi Kappa Sigma and Phi Epsilon Pi fraternities as part of the group from the start. The core group has been 15 alumni and their families.

Class of 1967 alumni (and family) gathered for the 1982 reunion. Front row, from left: Margie Porch Hollinshead (in Dickinson sweatshirt), Richard Hollinshead, Joel Korin and Cal Stafford. Back row, from left: John Carl (deceased), Dave DeClue, Karen Roth Glenn ‘68 (partly visible), Stew Glenn, Ben Compaine and Jim Kistler.

Class of 1967 alumni (and family) gathered during the 2016 weekend reunion: Margie Porch Hollinshead, Richard Hollinshead, Peter Jacobson, Ben Compaine, Joel Korin, Tom Bauder, Gary Grosart, Susan Stover Grosart, Stew Glenn, Jim Morrisey, Jim Kistler and Richard Levie ‘66.

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Dickinsonians from the class of 1967 have reconnected for an annual camping trip for more than 30 years.

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Activities during the early gatherings included canoe trips down the Delaware, morning runs along a country lane and lots of tennis. Over the years the participants in the morning jogs dwindled to the second-generation children, the canoe trips devolved into paddling around the small lake at the camp and tennis matches became fewer. Instead, there were leisurely walks to the nearby falls, shopping excursions into town, reading, Cranium marathons and mostly talk about children and grandchildren, jobs and now, life in retirement.

What has been consistent throughout has been the dessert table, populated by homemade chocolate chip cookies, brownies and pies, as well as all sorts of store-bought baked goods, fruit and trail mix.

The 2016 weekend included a slide show of photos from the 35 years as well as a highlights video, and each year attendees gathered for a group photo.

Most of the group have attended all but a few of the weekends. However, besides our host, Jim Kistler, only Richard ’67 and Margie Porch Hollinshead ’67 have made the trip every year (and were duly recognized at our Saturday night banquet). Two frequent attendees who missed the 2016 reunion are Alan Keiser ’67 and Denny Wachter ’67. The commemorative shirts over the years were inspired by the children. The shirts in the 2016 photo were designed by Hollinshead grandchild Melanie Lischak, with the guiding hand of noted artist Sally Levie.

Karen Andrews Gahr wegahr@aol.com Faith Campbell writes, “I have been awarded the John Shannon Current Achievement Award for Partnerships from the National Association of State Foresters (NASF). I received the award during the NASF’s annual meeting on Sept. 21. I and the eight other recipients were described as having made ‘outstanding contributions in wildland fire protection, urban and community forestry, forest management and overall leadership.’ The association noted that I have spent more than 20 years working on invasive species issues for several environmental or conservation organizations, including The Nature Conservancy, the American Lands Council and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Now retired, I continue my work on behalf of a new, small organization, the Center for Invasive Species Prevention. You can track my ongoing work at www.cisp.us.”

1969 Dorothy Gnos Hoffman 884 West End Avenue, Apt. 144 New York, NY 10025 dhgnos@aol.com

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1970 Pat Cooke Baughman 305 Martellago Drive North Venice, FL 34275 pbaughman15@comcast.net Bruce Barton 10 Osgood Road Sterling, MA 01564 Bruce.Barton@umassmed.edu

1971 Suzanne Fost Jeffries 516 Halyard Way Enola, PA 17025 rjeff588@aol.com

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Faith Campbell has been honored by the NASF for her work in forestry conservation.

John Heath reports that members of the 1971 class

of Skull and Key had a reunion in Bethany Beach, Del., to celebrate the Skull and Key Scholarship reaching $100,000 in donations ($125K market value). Other attendees included Roger Rath, Eric Evans ’68, John Rizzi, Chas Kerr, Scott DeBold, Jack Ebeler and Craig Williams. They were joined later by Rick Slagle ’72, a Phi Kappa Sigma Black Hat. (See picture at right.)

1972 In addition to his regular columns in the Marina Times and his pop-culture reviews on GABnet.net and Roku, Michael Snyder is an adjunct professor in the digital arts department of International Technological University in San Jose, Calif. He also co-created, co-wrote and co-produced the awardwinning short The Barry & Ro Show, which has been an official selection of more than a dozen film festivals. He continues to split his time between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Recently, Snyder met Lisa Lepofsky Callahan ’75 and Rick Mater ’70 for brunch at the Grand Fare Market in Oakland,

Calif. Although Michael and Rick are colleagues in the Los Angeles entertainment scene and frequently socialize, it was the first time that all three of the friends had been together since their Carlisle days. (See picture, Page 46.)

1973 Sherry Coiner sc1128@hotmail.com

The 2016 Harry “Glimpse” Norton Humanitarian Award was presented in sunny Miami Beach to Steve Mamlin (in absentia) by the Harry Norton Foundation. Dickinson alumni in attendance were Rob “Rodney” Kluger, Dan Brehm, Roger Myerberg, Howard Lightman, John Paige, John Bancroft, Matt Frankel and Steve Cook. (See picture, Page 46.)

Several members of Skull and Key’s class of 1973 (Dickinson class of ’74) spent a September weekend at Steve Piper’s home in Colorado. Other attendees included Richard Rapone, Gary Williams and Mark Walters. (See picture, Page 47.)

’71 Karen Pflug-Felder ’71, who majored in biology and minored in art, has continued to pursue both of her passions since graduating from Dickinson. Inspired by her college professors, Pflug-Felder spent over 30 years as an educator.

Rick Booth ’70 reports that the Skull and Key Society Alumni Club held its annual reunion with 32 members back on campus from four decades and 13 Black Hat classes with nine of the original 10 fraternities represented. The event featured a scholarship update and honored the memory of four members who passed away over the last year.

The 1971 class of Skull and Key had a reunion in Bethany Beach, Del., to celebrate the Skull and Key Scholarship reaching $100,000 in donations ($125K market value).

Eight members attended the meeting. Front, from left: Roger Rath and Eric Freedman. Back, from left: John Heath, John Rizzi, Chas Kerr, Scott DeBold, Jack Ebeler and Craig Williams.

“I think I became interested in teaching because I wanted to share my love of science just as my biology professors had,” she says. Her love of working with younger students has kept her involved through a chapter of Art Goes to School, which brings works of art to elementary schools and prompts discussion about them.

“As a teacher you have to be both flexible and a lifelong learner,” she says. “Dickinson’s liberal-arts approach encountered these attributes. Dickinson not only gave me a great academic background but also the social skills to allow me to have a long, successful and satisfying career in education.” Read more at dson.co/pflugfelder71.

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our Dickinson 1974 Enid Erikson Albat 189 CR 3010 Altus, AR 72821 enidalbat@gmail.com Susy Rogers Spreat writes, “I’ve come to recognize that Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall and Gettysburg are essentially the same school.

They attract the same student body, offer similar programs and rank about equally in various polls. So I couldn’t be too upset that my daughter Gracie went to Gettysburg rather than Dickinson (although we still refer to her as a traitor). Anyway, she graduated in 2014 and is now in her third year of veterinary school at the University College Dublin. Meanwhile on the home front, a longhorn steer escaped from the neighbor’s farm last night and nearly ran down my husband, Scott Spreat ’72, who was running up the road looking for a lost dog.

Scott’s comment: ‘Take that, Ernest Hemingway.

Real men run right at the bulls. They don’t run away like they do in Pamplona.’ I haven’t yet told him that although the steer had horns, it wasn’t a bull. Let him live the brief macho moment. Still working 12-hour days at the veterinary clinic. I promise myself that someday, I’m going to have enough time to get a life. I think my life timeline is just out of sync. I had my daughter at 39. I opened a business at 55. I seem to be running 15-20 years behind schedule, which I guess means retirement sometime in my mid- to late 80s. No wonder I’m tired all the time. Maybe Gracie will take over the practice when she graduates vet school, but I’m afraid that she might be too smart to do that. I’m betting she’ll take a surgery residency so she won’t have to talk to people so much.”

The Phi Beta Graduate Chapter of Alpha Chi Rho celebrated its reunion at the Alumni Weekend Quad Party by singing “Amici,” their song of fellowship. Thirty brothers from 1956 to 1981 returned to campus to host the 5th Annual Crow Show. The Beta Pi Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Alumni Association sponsored Friday night’s acoustic band and the Omicron Graduate Chapter of Sigma Chi contributed weekendlong light fare and libations.

Michael Snyder ’72 met Lisa Lepofsky Callahan ’75 and Rick Mater ’70 for brunch at the Grand Fare Market in Oakland, Calif. Although Michael and Rick are colleagues in the Los Angeles entertainment scene and frequently socialize, it was the first time that all three of the friends had been together since their Carlisle days.

2016 was bittersweet for The Harry Norton Foundation as this year’s eponymous Harry “Glimpse” Norton Humanitarian Award was presented in sunny Miami Beach to Steve Mamlin ’73 (in absentia). Standing, from left: Rob “Rodney” Kluger ’73, Dan Brehm ’73, Roger Myerberg ’73, Howard Lightman ’73, John Paige ’73 and John Bancroft ’73. Seated, from left: Matt Frankel ’73 and Steve Cook ’73.

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1975 More than 20 1971-75 alums from six states gathered at the home of Pat Montgomery for the 25th Annual Non-Reunion, a fall tradition with great friends, food and memorabilia. Attendees included Lon Haines ’71, Denise Skillin Haines ’73, Gary Williams ’74, Sue Fox Williams, Nanette Brason

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Eva Zuckerkandel hopes to visit friends in Italy this summer.

Horne, Cyndi McNicholas ’74, Lindsey Goodman Iacovino, Jane Wilkie, Carol Graebner, Trish Godfrey Swigart, Jody Iobst Williams, John Heath ’71, Ron Fronduti ’73, Scott Beaumont, Peter Olsho and Scott Aldridge ’74. (See picture, Page 47.)

1976 John and Nanci Fox Taylor taylorjo@dickinson.edu

It seems like just yesterday that many of us gathered in Carlisle for our 40th reunion. The college has pictures from Alumni Weekend 2016 on its website. Now that so many of us have reconnected, please keep sending in news.

John and Nanci Fox Taylor, your class scribes, have

been enjoying “retirement,” but they both seem busier than ever. In July, Anne Chesnut came by for a concert and dinner at the Wintergreen, Va., summer (classical) music festival that John and Nanci are quite involved in. Later in the summer, your class scribes caught up with Nanci’s Dickinson roommate Beth Perryman and her husband, Jim Sommer, in Vermont and a week later in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. They are enjoying life in Reno, Nev., where Jim, supposedly retired, is ski coach of the Northstar ski team program at Tahoe, Nev. (See picture, Page 47.)

Pat Torres Cronenberger and husband Rick greatly

enjoyed being at Dickinson for the 40th reunion, for which Pat served as an active member of the organizing committee. Upon returning to Colorado, Pat learned that the Mountain Plains Museum Association team she’s part of received a grant from the Institute of Museum and

Library Services. She is serving as the grant’s project director and will explore how museums can access the skills and talents of retired museum professionals. Being a Dickinson art history major—and a retiree of sorts—are definite assets for this work.

Eva Zuckerkandel has been enjoying life in the Philly area but writes that family obligations kept her from attending our reunion. Her two kids went to and graduated from liberal-arts colleges, but farther away—Colorado College and Lewis and Clark. Her son lives in Boise and daughter in the San Francisco area. She is working at a company called Health Advocate and Dickinson College is one of her customers. She’s responsible for the benefits teams and really likes the job. Her terrific husband Richard, whom she didn’t start dating until after Dickinson, was in her high school class (as was Secretary of Defense Ash Carter). He’s been working for the same family business since he was 14. Retirement is in his lexicon, but not hers, at least for now! She and Richard hope to visit Italian friends in Bologna and Sicily this summer— friends since junior year in Bologna. She wishes her classmates good health and happiness.

1977 Rebecca Anstine Smith 1796 Reading St. Crofton, MD 21114-2606 rasmith55@gmail.com

Greetings, classmates! Please mark your calendar for June 9-11, 2017, when the class of 1977 will celebrate its 40th reunion! Plans are already

underway to create a celebration that cannot be missed. A committee, chaired by Roberta Zmuda Greenspan, already has set the creative wheels in motion. In addition to the Saturday evening dinner, we anticipate hosting “mini-reunions” of specialty groups, such as the Bologna program and Wheel and Chain, to name a few. This is your moment to step forward and let us know what you would like to celebrate this weekend. You may do so by joining the committee (our meetings take place as conference calls, so no travel required) and/or contacting me with your ideas. You will receive email updates as plans come together, so please watch your inbox. Please join the Dickinson College Class of 1977 Facebook page as well (@Dickinson1977).

1978 Nancy Quadri Bennett 236 Elverson Place Cary, NC 27519 bennettn@dickinson.edu

Yellow Trophies by Thomas Blomain was published

by New York Quarterly Books (read more in Fine Print, Page 8). This release is the Scranton poet’s third published collection. His previous books are Gray Area (Nightshade Press) and Blues From Paradise (Foothills Publishing).

1979 Jeff Cohen 2132 SW Racquet Club Drive Palm City, FL 34990 jeff.s.cohen@wellsfargoadvisors.com

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1980 Gail Fricke Dorosh 3756 Ebright Road Garnet Valley, PA 19060 SDorosh1@comcast.net Chris Paul has been appointed general counsel for Gulf Oil. He will oversee Gulf Oil’s legal matters, including capital markets, M&A, corporate governance, commercial, contracts, litigation and regulatory compliance. He formerly served as chief legal officer and general counsel of Blueknight Energy Partners, LP.

1981 Dana Alwine dalwine@pahousegop.com Frank Modruson was appointed to the board

of directors of First Midwest Bancorp Inc. He is president of Modruson & Associates LLC, a management consulting firm. He formerly served as a client partner and chief information officer for Accenture Plc, a global professional services company. He currently serves on the boards of Zebra Technologies Corp. and Forsythe Technology Inc., as well as on the boards of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company.

Several members of Skull and Key’s class of 1973 (Dickinson class of ’74) spent a September weekend at Steve Piper’s home in Colorado. From left: Richard Rapone, Steve Piper, Gary Williams and Mark Walters.

More than 20 1971-75 alums from six states gathered at the home of Pat Montgomery ’75 for the 25th Annual Non-Reunion, a fall tradition with great friends, food and memorabilia. Pictured: Pat Montgomery ’75, Lon ’71 and Denise Skillin Haines ’73, Gary ’74 and Sue Fox Williams ’75, Nanette Brason Horne ’75, Cyndi McNicholas ’74, Lindsey Goodman Iacovino ’75, Jane Wilkie ’75, Carol Graebner ’75, Trish Godfrey Swigart ’75, Jody Iobst Williams ’75, John Heath ’71, Ron Fronduti ’73, Scott Beaumont ’75, Peter Olsho ’75 and Scott Aldridge ’74.

Nanci Fox Taylor ’76 and Dickinson roommate Beth Perryman ’76 and spouses met up in New England. From left: John Taylor ’76, Nanci Fox Taylor ’76, Beth Perryman ’76 and Beth’s husband, Jim Sommer.

R.F. “Rick” Shangraw was named one of the Top 25 Most Admired Leaders in Phoenix, Ariz., by the Phoenix Business Journal. Phoenix is the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the nation.

Shangraw is the chief executive officer of Arizona State University Enterprise Partners and the ASU Foundation.

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Stefan Grossman 3100 Connecticut Ave., NW, #143 Washington, DC 20008 stefan_grossman@hotmail.com

Christy Sutherland Edwards 3797 Plum Spring Lane Ellicott City, MD 21042 christy@aurorafitness.net

Mary Cappello’s new book, Life Breaks In: A Mood

Eric Wittenberg and co-author Scott Mingus’s new book, The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory That Opened the Door to Gettysburg, was published by Savas Beatie LLC. Read more in Fine Print, Page 8.

Almanack, was published by the University of Chicago. Read more in Fine Print, Page 8.

Peter Frengel reports that there are five

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Caroline Leach Ramsey writes, “Our twin boys are

Tammy Noonan Collins was appointed to the board of directors for Liberation Programs Inc., a provider of behavioral health services focused on addiction treatment. She has over 15 years of broad hands-on management experience in treasury, finance and accounting functions, primarily in the financial services industry, and has worked for such companies as GE Capital Corp. and Bear Stearns & Co.

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in their senior year of high school and our daughter is in 8th grade. I work in the government relations field for Honda’s extensive Ohio operations.”

1985 Burt Sheaffer ’87 began pursuing his interest in finance as an economics major at Dickinson and has since worked his way up to senior vice president at HSBC Bank USA. In his current position at the international bank, Sheaffer works as part of a global team managing portfolios of currency derivatives. Although the marketplace is always changing and developing, Sheaffer says, dealing with the continual movement is both the most challenging and most rewarding part of the job.

When he’s not working, Sheaffer is busy staying involved with the college. In addition to keeping up communication with classmates, former teammates and fraternity brothers, he is part of Dickinson’s New York Regional Council. He also volunteers as an alumni interviewer and uses his connection with the Career Services Office to recruit current students for internships and fulltime positions.

“Connecting with and helping today’s students as they look to begin their careers has been a very rewarding experience,” he says. Read more at dson.co/sheaffer87.

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Dickinsonians teaching at Harrisburg Academy in Wormleysburg, Pa. Frengel, an English major and history minor, teaches upper school IB English and British literature. Becky Wells Coutts ’03, double major in math and computer science, teaches robotics, computer science and statistics. Lindsay Bowman ’04, political science major, teaches middle-school history. Denise Sharbaugh Hurst ’03, chemistry major, teaches IB chemistry, intermediate algebra and experimental science. Karen Stoner Weber ’91, international studies major, teaches kindergarten. (See picture, Page 52.)

Heidi Hormel 441 Deerfield Dr. Hanover, PA 17331 hormelh@dickinson.edu

1986 Stephanie Bupp Becker Daniel P. Becker 218 Sanibel Lane Wyomissing, PA 19610 steph.dan.becker@gmail.com Scott Jacobsen was appointed the new president

and chief executive officer of NorthStar Bank.

His banking career spans 30 years and includes many of Tampa Bay and Florida’s leading financial institutions, including Merrill Lynch, Bank of Tampa, Barnett Bank and AmSouth Bank.

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1987 Ellen Poris Robin 17813 Cricket Hill Dr. Germantown, MD 20874 pleasespammenow@yahoo.com

John Palitto 103 Van Buren Road Voorhees, NJ 08043 jpalittojr@yahoo.com Greg Gillas was appointed senior vice president of human resources and corporate services at SanBio Inc., a scientific leader in regenerative medicine for neurological disorders. He is responsible for human resources globally and information technology and corporate services in the U.S. He formerly served as the vice president of compensation and benefits at AMD, an international technology company.

Missy Klipp writes, “I live in Far Hills, N.J., with my family. Son Ross is in boarding school in Connecticut and daughter Caroline attends a local day school in Far Hills. I believe my years at Dickinson were not only some of my happiest, between rigorous scholastics, Delta Nu, Wheel and Chain and my junior year in Bologna, Italy, but also among the most formative. For that reason, my support for Dickinson has remained constant.”

Lora Bates Carr was elected to the board of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Jana Richards Taylor was appointed vice president of business development for INADEV Corporation,

a provider of enterprise-scale technology solutions for federal agencies and commercial business. She is responsible for identifying, defining and leading all strategic business development initiatives within the public sector. Prior to INADEV, she worked with both large and small companies supporting the federal government, ranging from systems integrators to consulting firms, including Unisys Corporation, Oracle Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton.

1989 Evelyn Short evelynshort@yahoo.com Daphne Peaslee is a registered nurse. She writes, “I began my nursing career at Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, N.C. My son Austin graduated from the University of Delaware and is happy to be working as a civil engineer. My sons Nolan and Hunter are finishing their senior year at Virginia Tech, where they enjoy hang gliding, climbing and caving, among other things.”

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Lora Bates Carr, director of strategic partnerships

for Dorado Systems Inc., was elected to the board of directors of the New Jersey Chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, a nonprofit organization focused on providing leadership in health care information technology management. The chapter promotes professional approaches to the operation, development and improvement of health care information and management systems that support the provision of high-quality patient care at the lowest practical cost.

Joel Eads, an insurance defense attorney, joined the global law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP

as a shareholder in the Philadelphia office.

He concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation and insurance coverage/ bad faith litigation, frequently involving the representation of entities and their directors and officers in securities actions, unfair competition cases, business torts, contract actions, insurance coverage and bad faith claims, employment disputes and product liability matters. He previously was a partner at Trenk, DiPasquale, Della Fera & Sodono, P.C. Matt Shappell’s article “Community Voice: Hello

From Puma Nation” was published in the Lodi Enterprise. He has more than 20 years of public education service and is starting his fifth year as district administrator of the School District of Poynette.

1991 Keri Casey Lewis 530 Colonial Drive Greencastle, PA 17225 rlewisjr1@comcast.net Matt Guedes and his uncle Joao Sequeira’s article “Family an example of immigration done correctly” was published in the Times News.

Guedes, a freelance outdoor writer and the child of immigrants to America, shares his family’s history and life experiences.

Glenn Whitman and co-author Ian Kelleher’s new

book, Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education, was published by Rowan & Littlefield.

Read more in Fine Print, Page 8.

1992 Kirsten Nixa Sabia ksabia@pgatourhq.com

In June, Sarah Raley Bentz was named executive director of woman-owned Pinnacle PR Group, providing digital marketing, website design,

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Sarah Raley Bentz was named executive director of Pinnacle PR Group.

hosting, search engine optimization, social media and content marketing, as well as video and webinar services. She writes, “Previously five successful businesses in the Poconos, we have formed an LLC together to provide integrated wraparound digital marketing services.”

Anne Richeson Amoroso was selected to be a clinical

scientist lead for a large global head and neck cancer immunotherapy Phase III study for Merck/ MSD. She writes, “Both of my children are now teenagers (yikes!): Sofia is 16 (and recently on the cover of the local sports section for her high school golf team—she carded 42 for 9 holes), and Alex will be 13 (my little soccer and baseball player).”

Amy Shelley Impellizzeri is excited to announce that Secrets of Worry Dolls will be her sophomore novel with the award-winning Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. More info is available at www.amyimpellizzeri.com.

1993 Nancy H. Richardson 4208 Fordham Road Baltimore, MD 21229 nancyhr93@verizon.net Andrew Conte andrew.c.conte@gmail.com Matthew Rodano is vice president of strategic alliances at ProTranslating, a Miami-based translation and interpretation company providing language services worldwide. Previously, he was vice president of client relations for LanguageWorks.

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Cristin Tighe is helping hurricane victims through Mercy Corps.

1994 Lindsey Dickinson Baynard lindsey_dickinson@yahoo.com

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Kelly Tebbe Miller 20 Pine St. Wakefield, MA 01880 katebbe@hotmail.com

2001 Devon Nykaza Stuart 62 Tice Ave. Hershey, PA 17033 devonmedicalart@gmail.com

1998 Terra Zvara tzvara@hotmail.com

1999 Kim Dulaney Mooney 330 Orleans Blvd.

McDonough, GA 30253 tracefinder@att.net

Courtney Osborne graduated with a master’s in risk management from New York University’s Stern School of Business in September. She is vice president of insurance & risk management at an international real estate investment, asset management and development company and lives in Manhattan.

Lisa Zubowicz Leighton wrote that six 2001

J.T. Sandone jt.sandone@gmail.com Cristin Tighe writes, “Greetings, dear class of

1994! I’m living in Haiti and running a personal fundraising campaign for Mercy Corps to provide relief to people impacted by the hurricane. They’re an international NGO with a strong history of emergency relief, and I know the executive director here, who has a Haitian staff and is in the field now helping. Please consider a small donation, or sharing this link, which contains more information and ways to help: http://dson.co/tighemercycorps.

Donations will get directly to people in need here.

The almost $3,000 raised so far will help 30 families, or about 195 people!”

1995 Adrienne Corrado Allison adrienneallison73@gmail.com

1996 After 10 years at home with her three children, Allison Lowry Evans started a new job at National Presbyterian School, working as a development and administrative associate. She writes, “Our work and home lives are busy, but I would love to reconnect with Dickinson friends.”

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Whew! Where did the last year go? It feels like it was just a few days ago that we were all trying to remember to write 2016 on all of our documents and now we are staring 2017 in the face. I hope that all is going well for everyone. I know that I fell behind a few times, and I hope I haven’t left anything out.

Richard Griffith and wife Britt just welcomed their third child (second daughter) into the household this past spring. Harper Brayden Griffith was born on May 23, 2016. Congratulations and welcome!

Sarah Hutt wrote and senior story produced three

episodes of the series Woman with Gloria Steinem for Vice’s new network, Viceland. The series explores how systemic violence against women around the world undermines societal progress.

Sarah wrote the series premiere, examining rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She also looked at the issue of femicide in El Salvador and sexual assault in the U.S. military.

The series was nominated for a 2016 Emmy award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. You can watch episodes online at www.viceland.com/en_us/show/woman.

alums recently had a mini-reunion in Carlisle.

“We couldn’t make it to campus for our official 15-year reunion, so we met on Saturday, July 16, at the home of Jessica Howard in Carlisle,” she says. “We walked around campus, enjoyed a meal together, caught up on recent events and reminisced. Between the six of us, we have seven young children. Hard to imagine.” Other attendees included Melanie Dean, Catherine Best, Katrina Jurgill Briddell and Christiana Briddell. (See picture, Page 52.)

2002 Michael W. Donnelly 62 Wagon Wheel Road Quakertown, PA 18951 profe207@gmail.com Angela Wallis amwallis@gmail.com Brian Blake was mistakenly referred to as “she” in his class note on Page 45 in the fall 2016 issue.

Kristin Masters’ new book, The Morning Tree, was published by Indie Gypsy. Read more in Fine Print, Page 8.

Matthew Stevenson acquired his real estate license

for Washington, D.C., and is affiliated with Long & Foster’s Capitol Hill office. He writes, “If you or anyone you know is looking to buy or sell in the city, please let me know!”

Angela Wallis and husband welcomed their

second daughter, Gwen Marie, on June 6. And in October, Angela entered the environmental consulting world as senior project manager at Full Circle Environmental in Seattle. She will provide technical assistance to local governments and businesses to help them recycle and compost more and conduct policy research on a variety of sustainability issues.

2003 Jennifer Elbert Betz 452 Storms Road Valley Cottage, NY 10989 mrs.jenniferbetz@gmail.com Angela Drake Hughes writes, “I married Eli Hughes on Jan. 7, 2016, and became stepmom to two cool girls named Autumn and Amaya. In other news for 2016, I accepted a position in March as a staff accountant with Shaner Hotel Group based in State College, Pa. And, because a new husband, new kids and a new job are not enough for a year, I am trying to kick off a burgeoning photography business in a slightly saturated market!”

Miles Hunt writes, “My wife, Danielle, and I had our second child, Madison, last year. I joined the law firm of Epstein & O’Donovan LLP in Portland, Maine, last fall. They are one of a very few firms in Maine with a practice focused exclusively on estate planning, probate and trust administration. I have been focusing my practice on those areas since graduating from Maine Law in 2008. I hope more people are reminded by reading this to send a quick email off with their news for the magazine—I always forget! It is always great to see what everyone from my days at Dickinson is accomplishing. I hope to make it back for an alumni weekend or homecoming weekend soon with the family.”

Andrew Rosenthal and wife Aubrey welcomed their second child, Colbie Brielle, into the world on Sept.

6. Big brother Skyler loves her very much. Andrew writes, “As if one life event wasn’t enough, this past summer after 12 years in Maryland, the entire family moved to Media, Pa., to be closer to family.”

2005 > Sarah Hyslop married Nick Leonardelli ’07 on

Jennifer Elbert Betz and husband Kevin welcomed their second child, Jackson Henry, into the world in July. Jack joins his sister, Amelia, who turned 2 in November.

Aug. 6 in Richmond, Va. Dickinson alumni in attendance included Kelly Nyquist ’04, Jenny Portillo Nyquist, Tara McFadden Graham, Deanna Fisher Najork, Emily Greenlee Gvodas, Emily Souder, Pat Coyle ’07, James Spicer ’09, Mark Harrison ’07, Alexa Vantosky Rowek ’07, Andrew Rowek ’07 and Erika Zavada Koval ’06.

Lauren McLane Gross and husband Greg welcomed

Scott McPheeters received a Barrymore Award for

their first child, Eleanor Irene Gross, on July 26.

The proud parents are elated—and exhausted!

2004 Todd Derkacz 67 Bushville Road Westtown, NY 10998 derkaczt@dickinson.edu David Crosson and wife Jill (Muhlenberg alum

’04) welcomed their first child, Collins Rebecca Crosson, to this world on Aug. 19, 2016. He writes, “Everyone is doing great and Collins is excited to visit (and attend) Dickinson in 18 years!” David is an attorney in Allentown working in an of counsel position with the Erb Law Firm, P.C. He focuses on adoptions, estate planning/administration and small business matters, including start-ups.

Excellence in Theatre (the Philadelphia-area version of a Tony) for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical (Andy: A Popera, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret and Opera Philadelphia).

2006 Susan Pierson San Francisco Theological Seminary San Anselmo, CA 94960 susanmpierson@gmail.com Ava Purkiss received a Ph.D. in history from the

University of Texas at Austin and is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.

2007 Michael Pennington michaeljohnpennington@gmail.com

It is hard to believe it has been almost 10 years since we descended the steps of Old West during our Commencement ceremony. As a member of our

10th reunion planning committee, I would like to urge each and every member of the class of 2007 to try to come back to campus during the weekend of June 9-11, 2017. The reunion planning committee comprises talented and motivated classmates who want to make our class reunion a fantastic experience. The list of committee members is lengthy, but I would like to collectively thank all of them for giving hours of their time to participate in committee meetings and conference calls. In particular, I would especially like to thank class vice president Mark Weller for once again offering to take a lead role in planning weekend refreshments.

Mark and class treasurer Brian Rickers handled logistics surrounding refreshment selection and transportation during our 5th reunion. Alumni Weekend is a fun opportunity to introduce your family to our alma mater. All members of the class should feel welcome to bring their spouse/partner and children. This special time will allow you to reflect on being a Dickinsonian while spending a memorable weekend with family and friends.

There will be several opportunities for you to meet campus administrators and to learn about the special happenings taking place at Dickinson. In June, our college will be on the verge of welcoming our new president who will be poised to begin the academic year as the new face of Dickinson College. I look forward to welcoming you, and your family, to campus in June. Go, Red Devils!

Nick Mallos is director of the Trash Free Seas

program at the Ocean Conservancy. Nicknamed “Trash Man,” he was interviewed by GreenSportsBlog about how his team is working with the sailing world to publicize the ocean plastic waste issue. He writes, “We’ve gotten involved with sailing through 11th Hour Racing, the organization devoted to promoting improved ocean health through the sport and who sponsor 55 South, one of the sailing teams that competed in the 2015 Volvo Ocean Race. We helped them tell the story about the problem of ocean plastic waste and solutions to it at the Ocean Summit in Newport, R.I., last year.”

Carlee Pipitone, founder and managing partner

of Tenth Harvest, was interviewed in a video

by D.C. Citybizlist about her business and the experiences that directed her career choices. Based in Baltimore, Tenth Harvest is an importer and distributor that represents food and beverage producers from around the world. The company takes a sustainable, artisan-focused approach to its business, emphasizing personal relationships and high-quality products that embody the character of the land in which they were grown.

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Brown have both changed their last names to Brooker. > Jacqueline Press married Philip Smith on Aug. 20 in Maine. Attendees included Justin Schaeffer, Michael Procelli, Harry Kline, Joseph DelDuca, Kelsey Oldendorp Paleokrassas, Katelin Sanford Procelli, Sarah Benton Dembert and Allison Goodhart DuShuttle. Jacqueline writes, “Philip and I started as

freshmen together at Dickinson in 2004 and became very good friends during our time at Dickinson.

There was (and still is) a group of 11 of us that became close in college, and have remained close ever since. We have joined each other for long weekends in Bethany Beach, New York, Nantucket and Washington, D.C., annually, and more recently have been part of each other’s weddings. That said, when Philip and I got married, our bridal party was 75 percent Dickinson, which is something truly special.”

Justin Schaeffer married Claire Moriarty on Sept.

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Abby Snyder returned from Lombok, Indonesia,

Having missed their official 15-year reunion, six members of the class of 2001 recently met at the home of Jessica Howard in Carlisle for a mini-reunion.

Pictured, from left: Jessica Howard, Melanie Dean, Catherine Best, Katrina Jurgill Briddell with newest family member, Miriam Lucile, Christiana Briddell and Lisa Zubowicz Leighton.

Alumni came together for Professor Ted Merwin’s Chicago alumni event at Max and Benny’s in Northbrook, Ill. Merwin is the author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli. Pictured from left: Mark Kyle Farina ’14, William Schroeder ’12, Paul Gaver ’15, Charles Cable ’15 and Adam “Gavin” Gutman ’14.

There are five Dickinsonians teaching at Harrisburg Academy in Wormleysburg, Pa. From left: Peter Frengel ’87, Becky Wells Coutts ’03, Lindsay Bowman ’04, Denise Sharbaugh Hurst ’03 and Karen Stoner Weber ’91. Read more about what they each do on Page 48.

where she served as a Fulbright Fellow. She is now pursuing a master’s in environmental management at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. As a returned natural resource management Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa, Abby has witnessed the power of international collaboration to address environmental challenges and is committed to examining the nexus of food security, climate change adaptation and women’s issues.

2009 Abigail Conger abbyconger@gmail.com Chris Ladd is serving on active duty as a captain in

the U.S. Army Logistics Corps. After spending two years stationed in Honolulu, where he commanded a company of 150 soldiers, he was accepted into the Army’s Training With Industry Program.

He will serve the next year as a resident research fellow with the Logistics Management Institute consulting firm in Tysons, Va.

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Jordan McCord 581 W. Wayne Ave. Wooster, Ohio 44691 jordanemccord@gmail.com Gwen Dunnington gedunnington@gmail.com Lucia Finucane married Cyril Abel Vergis on Oct. 9 in an outdoor ceremony at Oatlands Plantation in Leesburg, Va. > Tiffany Kintigh married Sergio Peña a at the Mission

Bay Yacht Club in San Diego, Calif., on Oct. 1. They stayed in San Diego for a few days and then stayed in La Jolla with their daughter, Samantha. They hope to go to England, France and Ireland for their dream honeymoon very soon. They also will be moving to California sometime in 2017.

2011 John Jones Johnjones4@gmail.com Annie Gilmore writes, “I graduated with a degree in environmental studies and worked for one season on the Dickinson College Farm. My experience there and my ecofeminism class led me to pursue a career in sustainable agriculture. I farmed for three seasons at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm in Lincoln, Mass., where I learned the basics of organic agricultural practices and marketing to a variety of local food outlets. I currently work part time for Allandale Farm, growing and arranging flowers, and have just begun working for Green City Growers, a Somervillebased company that installs and maintains urban raised garden beds and rooftop farms.”

2012 Mary Kate Skehan mkskehan@gmail.com Abigail Tufts abigail.tufts@gmail.com Christine Welling graduated from Northern Arizona University with a Master of Science in mechanical engineering. She was a graduate assistant in the machine shop.

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2013 Emma Tesman tesmane@dickinson.edu Melanie Levine started a master’s program in social studies education at Columbia University Teachers College.

2014 Tom Wang wang.yonghang@yahoo.com Mark Kyle Farina attended [Associate Professor of Religion & Judaic Studies] Ted Merwin’s Chicago alumni event at Max and Benny’s in Northbrook, Ill. Other attendees included William Schroeder ’12, Paul Gaver ’15, Charles Cable ’15 and Adam “Gavin” Gutman. (See picture, Page 52.)

Since May 2015, Annabelle Gould has been working for Hearst Corporation in New York City, first under luxury and lifestyle advertising directors as an executive assistant for Veranda magazine and Elle Décor. Recently, she became an account coordinator for the luxury, fashion & men’s group of Hearst Digital Media, working with publications such as Town & Country, Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar. She writes, “On a personal note, I completed my first half marathon in East Hampton, N.Y., in October and raised over $2,000 in honor of my sister, Eloise Gould, for CureSearch, a foundation devoted to pediatric cancer research—a foundation that my family is deeply devoted to. I reside on the Upper East Side in Manhattan and am loving it. I am happy to talk with Dickinsonians who are interested in pursuing careers in New York City.”

Tania Marinos was named to the 69th class of Coro Fellows in Public Affairs for 2016-17. The Coro Fellowship uses the community as a classroom to train the next generation of change makers.

Competitively selected applicants join an intimate cohort of 12 participants, each in five cities for the nine-month program, with each cohort encompassing a wide range of communities, interests, ideologies and experiences. Marinos is a participant in the Coro St. Louis Fellows Program.

2015 Aaron Hock hock.aarons@gmail.com Maggie Baldridge’s article “New government report

explores tension between religious liberty and civil rights” was published in Constitution Daily. She is an intern at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

The Washington Post’s Answer Sheet, an online resource about education, published Leanna Diggs’s article “We Can No Longer Teach a Whitewashed History.” Leanna is serving with Teach for America as a 9th-grade algebra teacher at Miami Edison Senior High School in Miami, Fla. Jamie Leidwinger writes, “I am finishing out an internship at Q2 Music, the contemporary classical brand of WQXR (New York City’s classical music station, a division of WNYC).

I have been booking and producing a series of Instagram takeovers with contemporary classical musicians, including Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, Rome Prize winners Chris Cerrone and Nina C. Young, the Grammy Award-winning vocal collective Roomful of Teeth and more. I also recently started my master’s degree in music composition at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins under the tutelage of Dr. Amy Beth Kirsten.”

Casey Merbler is the project coordinator for the

Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor Initiative. She works on a variety of projects, including managing the social media accounts for Healthy Harbor and “Mr. Trash Wheel,” coordinating the annual Floatilla for a Healthy Harbor paddling event, planning fundraisers and hosting Inner Harbor Eco Tours for Baltimore City school groups.

2016 Siobhan Pierce siobhanpierce27@gmail.com Cynthia Baur, a current apprentice at the

Dickinson College Farm, was awarded the Christine Wilson Prize from the Society of Anthropology of Food and Nutrition for her paper, “An Analysis of the Local Food Movement in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,” which was based on her senior thesis. The Wilson Prize is awarded to outstanding undergraduate and graduate student research papers that examine topics within the perspectives of nutrition, food studies and anthropology.

Baur’s work involved extensive ethnographic, participant-observation fieldwork at several farms in the local area, at the Farmer’s on the Square board meetings, as well as numerous interviews with people active in the local food movement in central Pennsylvania.

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Zhen Li ’11 and a Yale research team recently published a breakthrough paper on the Zika virus and how it affects babies born to infected mothers. While studying neural stem cells, Li discovered that one of the common causes of microcephaly, the type of brain damage found in babies affected

by Zika, is damage to these neural stem cells. The realization, accompanied by the knowledge that Zika and hepatitis C belong to the same viral family, prompted Li and the research team to test the hepatitis C drug Sofosbuvir on Zika-infected cells. The drug proved to have the same inhibitory effect, and the research team now intends to explore how the virus infects and kills the neural stem cells.

After graduating with his Ph.D. in neurology, Li will head in another direction as president and CEO of a startup he founded recently that specializes in new medical devices.

The company’s first device will warn people at risk for cardiovascular conditions such as arrhythmia, hypertension, heart attack and stroke.

“We, as Dickinsonians, want to bring positive influence to the world, through actively thinking, learning and doing, rather than following blindly what is handed down to us,” Li says. “We are not afraid of change and the unknown but rather cherish it.”

Read more at dson.co/zhenli11.

Ted Hinnenkamp signed a contract with the Spanish basketball team Fundación Baloncesto León, a member of the Liga EBA, a division of the Spanish professional basketball system.

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our Dickinson Obituaries 1940 Dorothy Sandrock Buffin died April 14. She earned a B.A. and was a member of Chi Omega.

Survivors include daughter Barbara and sons Roy and John.

1943 Champion “Champ” Goldy died Nov. 7. He earned a B.A. and was a member of the College Orchestra, band and men’s baseball team. He also earned a master’s in religion from Drew University.

He retired as minister from Haddonfield United Methodist Church in Haddonfield, N.J. A true athlete, he competed until a few months ago in numerous track and field events including the 100, 200 and 400 runs, javelin, discus and shot put, missing his goal of competing at 100 by two months. (Read a spring 2015 Dickinson Magazine feature on Champ at dson.co/goldy43.) Survivors include wife Evelyn, son Champion and daughter Audrey Goldy ’75.

1946 Eleanor Voorhis Mulvany died June 18. She earned a B.S. in chemistry and psychology and was a member of Microcosm, Zeta Tau Alpha and the basketball team. Survivors include daughter Jacqueline and stepson James.

1948 Bernice Curtis Dolan died Jan. 6, 2016. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and was a member of the Spanish Club, Debate Society and the basketball, softball and swim teams. She retired as an elementary school teacher from Western Wayne School District in Lake Ariel, Pa. Survivors include daughter Donna.

1949 Estelle Bernard Solomon died Oct. 6. She earned a B.A. in English and was a member of The Dickinsonian, Wheel and Chain, Microcosm, Student Senate and Debate Society. Survivors include sons Jacob, Dean and David.

1950 Robert Davies died Aug. 5. He was a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He retired as director of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Health Center.

Survivors include wife Martha and four children.

1950 B. Frank Dunkle died Sept. 19. He earned a B.A. in political science and was a member of Sigma Chi and the baseball team. He held positions as secretary, tax collector, councilman and council president for the Borough of Everett, Pa., and received the Charles F. Leedecker Award for 50 years of service. He was the owner of F. Dunkle Services, a financial and investment service company. Survivors include four children.

1950 Dean McCoid died June 14. He earned a B.A. in English and was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Belles Lettres Society, Delta Phi Alpha, German Club and Phi Beta Kappa. He retired as owner

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of Graphex Business Forms in San Jose, Calif.

Survivors include wife Carolyn and three children.

attorney in West Chester, Pa. Survivors include wife Marion and children John and Elizabeth.

1950 James Murray died Sept. 2. He earned a B.A. in political science and was a member of the College Choir, Band, Men’s Glee Club and Alpha Chi Rho. He also earned a J.D. from Dickinson School of Law. He was an attorney at Barley Snyder, LLC in Reading, Pa. He was preceded in death by brother Richard Murray ’54. Survivors include wife Elisabeth, son John, daughter Diane Murray Colby ’82 and granddaughter Abigail Colby ’16.

1952 Norman Twain died Aug. 6. He was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi. He was producer/director for Norman Twain Productions, which turned out numerous Broadway productions, including The Lady of the Camellias, Bajour and The World of Charles Aznavour. He also produced numerous films, including Lean on Me (starring Morgan Freeman), the horror film Scar and Spinning Into Butter (starring Sarah Jessica Parker). Survivors include wife Deanna and daughter Dena.

1950 Herbert Rutters died Aug. 17. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and attended engineering and flight school. He spent 18 months in the southwest Pacific flying combat missions in B-25s and A-20s. He was released from the service in 1946 but recalled to active duty during the Korean conflict. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for combat flight and held the Distinguished Service Medal among other decorations. He retired as lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force.

Survivors include wife Montyce and two daughters.

1950 Barbara Alfred Sprout died Aug. 28. She was a member of Chi Omega. She worked in public relations for the DuPont Company. Survivors include five children.

1950 Fred Gorsira died March 30. He earned a B.S. in biology and was a member of Delta Phi Alpha, Phi Kappa Sigma, Alpha Psi Omega, Mohler Scientific Club and the track and field team. He also earned an M.D. from the University of Amsterdam. He retired as physician on the island of Curacao. Survivors include wife Elyane, daughters Genevieve and Jean, son Maurice, brother Richard Gorsira ’51 and nephew Pieter Gorsira ’75.

1951 Diane Williams Oyler died Aug. 23. She earned a B.A. in history and was a member of Wheel and Chain, The Dickinsonian, Zeta Tau Alpha and Microcosm. She retired as an elementary school teacher at Park Forest Elementary School in State College, Pa. She was preceded in death by husband Eugene Oyler ’51, father Carl Williams ’26, son Brian Oyler ’78, sister Joyce Williams Kushinka ’47 and brother J. Carl Williams ’50. Survivors include children Gregory, Brenda and Theodore and niece Kerry Kushinka ’74.

1952 Owen Kertland died Sept. 3. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and the basketball and football teams. He retired as owner/operator of Earley Printery in Carlisle, Pa. Survivors include wife Lois and son David.

1952 C. Richard Morton died Aug. 20. He earned a B.A. and was a member of Union Philosophical Society and Student Senate. He also earned an LL.B. from Dickinson School of Law. He was an

1956 George Padjen died Aug. 8. He earned a B.S. in physics and was a member of Theta Chi and the football team. He retired as research engineer for Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Bethlehem, Pa. He was preceded in death by brothers Samuel Padjen ’39 and Steve Padjen ’48. Survivors include wife Mary, daughters Susan, Mary and Ann and brother Andrew Padjen ’55.

1959 Howard Hornstein died Oct. 3. He earned a B.A. in political science and was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi, Union Philosophical Society and the basketball team. He also earned an LL.B. from New York University School of Law. He was an attorney at Cozen O’Connor in New York City. Survivors include wife Bonnie and five children.

1959 Gordon Mowrer died July 19. He earned a B.A. in political science and was a member of the College Choir, Kappa Sigma and the wrestling team. He also earned an M.A. in counseling from Moravian College and an M.Ed. from Lehigh University. He was a former principle owner of Hampson Mowrer Kreitz Insurance Agency in Bethlehem, Pa., and the former mayor of Bethlehem, Pa. He was pastor for the Moravian Church and a volunteer chaplain at ground zero in New York City after 9/11. He also served as a part-time chaplain at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem, Pa. Survivors include wife Mary, children George, Ruth and Margaret and grandson Richard Mowrer ’10.

1960 Suzanne Sinclair Haring died Sept. 28. She earned a B.A. in psychology and was a member of the Follies, Psi Chi, Pi Beta Phi and the College Choir. Survivors include son Bradley and stepchildren Alan and Laurel.

1962 Richard Tull died Aug. 29. He earned a B.A. in sociology and was a member of Skull and Key, ROTC, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Epsilon Pi, Student Senate and the 1959, ’60, ’61 and ’62 men’s tennis teams, which were inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1991. He was senior vice president for McBride Corporate Real Estate in Franklin Lakes, N.J. Survivors include wife Lynn and three daughters.

1963 Donald Buxton died July 18. He earned a B.S. in chemistry and was a member of Mohler Scientific Club, Phi Kappa Psi, the Men’s Glee Club and the baseball team. He also earned an M.D. from Hahnemann University Medical School. He was a radiologist at Quantum Imaging in Lewisberry, Pa. Survivors include wife Janice, daughters Lydia and Elizabeth Buxton Abraham ’89 and son Douglas Buxton ’95.

1963 Willard Hunter died Sept. 18. He earned a B.A. in economics and was a member of Sigma Chi, ROTC and the basketball and track and field teams. He retired as lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army and later retired as president and CEO of Thales Optem, Inc., in Fairport, N.Y. Survivors include wife Judith and three children.

1964 Robert Jefferson died Aug. 18. He earned a B.A. in political science and was a member of Pershing Rifles, ROTC, Band and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Survivors include wife Judith and daughter Meghan.

1965 John Schultz died Aug. 4. He earned a B.A. in psychology and was a member of ROTC and Alpha Chi Rho. He retired from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Survivors include wife Helen.

1968 Archer Battista died July 24. He earned a B.A. in American studies and was a member of the Follies, Student Senate, Men’s Glee Club and Kappa Sigma. He also earned a J.D. from Western New England School of Law. He retired as a command pilot with the rank of colonel from the U.S. Air Force where he earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses and 20 Air Medals. He was an attorney at Lyon & Fitzpatrick, LLP in Holyoke, Mass.

Survivors include wife Judy and son Alan.

1969 Geoffrey Goldworm died April 17. He earned a B.A. in economics and was a member of Microcosm, Student Senate and Phi Epsilon Pi. He also earned a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. He retired as owner of Clementon Animal Hospital. Survivors include wife Sandra and two sons.

1973 Steven Mamlin died Aug. 12. He earned a B.A. in religion. He was a writer for the syndicated comic strip “Tumbleweeds,” received a Nodance Film Festival Award for his screenplay Cult Guys and an ADDY for Aqua PA while writing for Alstin Advertising. He performed sketch comedy at DQD Comedy Theater, on Philadelphia stages, on local Philadelphia television and with Hellorama at the Fringe Festival. Survivors include wife Cynthia.

1975 Joseph Walker died July 17. He owned and operated a drywall business in Palmyra, Pa. Survivors include mother Virginia, son Joseph and sister Jane.

1991 Todd Cheesman died Aug. 29. He earned a B.A. in political science and was a member of the College Choir, Omicron Delta Kappa, The Dickinsonian, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Phi Omega, College Democrats, Outing Club and Fencing Club. He also earned a law degree from Widener University School of Law. He was an attorney for AmeriCorps/Vista in Manchester, N.H., and an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts School of Law. Survivors include wife Susan Therriault Cheesman ’91 and daughter Sarah.

1995 Tammy Rapetsky Allen died Aug. 20. She earned a B.A. in English and history and was a member of Delta Delta Delta. She was a research coordinator for Amicus Therapeutics, Inc., in Cranbury, N.J. Survivors include husband Michael and daughter Carissa.

1995 Christopher Lawler died Aug. 3. He earned a B.A. in French and was a member of WDCVFM, French Club and The Dickinsonian. He was a former marketing manager at Home Instead Care in California. Survivors include parents Carl and Margaret.

1998 Brandy Lorah Cahill died Aug. 5. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and was a member of the Latin American Club, Spanish Club and Kappa Kappa Gamma. She also earned a master’s from Alvernia University. She was director of ecommerce analytics for Boscov’s Department Stores in Reading, Pa. Survivors include husband Duane, mother Lauren, father Dennis and stepdaughter Lexi.

2019 Lauren Lau died Oct. 30. Originally from Alameda, Calif., she was an anthropology major.

She was sergeant-at-arms for Dickinson’s chapter of the national service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega and lived in the Human Cultures House, a specialinterest residence hall for students interested in issues surrounding cultural diversity. She is remembered as a genuine and caring person with an endearing sense of humor and a passion for helping others. Members of the campus community came together on Monday, Oct. 31, in the Holland Union Building Social Hall to grieve, share memories and offer heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. Survivors include parents Lynn and Alfred Lau and brother Aaron.

Faculty, Staff and Friends Velva Lebo, retired office supervisor and circulation librarian in the Waidner-Spahr Library, died Sept.

17. She retired in 1991. Survivors include husband Thomas and sons Mark and Thomas Lebo ’83.

Daniel McDonald, emeritus professor in biology,

died Oct. 10. Hired in 1956 as an assistant professor, he taught in the Department of Biology for more than 25 years before retiring in June 1983.

He was promoted to associate professor of biology with tenure in 1962 and in 1970 was promoted to the rank of professor of biology. An active member of his department, he procured several substantial grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation to support his research and was known for his extensive publication and research activities. He was appointed chair in both 1968 and 1980 and played a crucial role in the planning and preparation of the new Dana Hall, including drafting the proposal for funding as well as drawing and designing its interior. He was preceded in death by wife Barbara McDonald, emerita professor of biology.

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Should you wish to honor a deceased member of our Dickinson family in this way, please send your gift to: College Advancement Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013-2896 Please note of whom your gift is in memory.

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Avocation meets vocation

BY LOUISE HAUER GREENBERG ’ 5 4

in the brain (e.g., antipsychotics and antidepressants) at SmithKline and French Pharmaceuticals, I went back to Bryn Mawr to obtain a Ph.D. in biochemistry and neuropsychopharmacology. I always joked that I never let my scientific career interfere with my singing “career”; however, the reverse did happen. While completing my Ph.D., I was president of MC during its centennial celebration, which probably added two years to the completion of my degree! I then joined the pharmacology department at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, taught medical and graduate students, conducted research in neurochemistry and neuropharmacology and published papers, especially regarding neurochemical changes in the aging brain.

In 1982, MC was going through some hard times after Bob Page left Philadelphia. I was sufficiently frustrated that I gathered together some singer friends, and in one summer we founded the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia (CASP). We made our PO debut in our very first season under the direction of Bill Smith. CASP is still going strong after 34 years. I served as founding president for four years and continued to sing with CASP for many years.

In 1990, I was elected to the board of Chorus America, the North American service organization for professional, volunteer, children’s and symphony orchestra choruses, on which I served for 11 years as secretary, vice president of external relations and vice president of member services.

Chorus America has changed the landscape of the choral world. It has helped member choruses be more successful, artistically and administratively, and has advocated for the payment of singers to sing in choruses (as instrumentalists are paid to play in symphonies). When it was founded, there were only three or four choruses in the U.S. that paid singers. Today, there are 46 fully professional ensembles and many more choruses that pay a core of professional singers. Most professional choral singers, however, still must cobble together other jobs, such as teaching, singing as paid church soloists, etc., to make a living. I hope this will gradually change.

Nevertheless, there are so many more options for professional singers now than there were in the ’50s. However, combining my scientific career with my avocational “career” was the right choice for me—both have been enormously rewarding.

Keith Negley

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any studies have shown that talent in music is often associated with math and science proficiency. Certainly that has been true in my case. In high school I sang in the chorus and girls’ octet, played clarinet in the band and considered a career in music. A wise counselor suggested that I keep music as an avocation but pursue a career in chemistry or another science, since I was unlikely to sing with the Metropolitan Opera and there were few options for singers at that time other than teaching music in schools, which did not appeal to me. So, off I went to Dickinson, where I majored in chemistry and minored in biology and math. I sang in the College Choir and played clarinet in the college band (there was one in the early ’50s). After Dickinson I enrolled at Bryn Mawr College to obtain an M.S. in biochemistry.

Near the conclusion of my master’s program, I saw an ad in the Philadelphia Inquirer for auditions for the Philadelphia Orchestra (PO) Chorus. I called and made an appointment, having not sung a note since my Dickinson days. Arriving at the Curtis Institute of Music for auditions, I noticed that other hopefuls were studying opera and other musical scores prior to their auditions. I had no such scores. Bill Smith, the associate conductor of the PO and director of the PO Chorus, asked me to sing “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” He then asked me if I had ever studied voice. I confessed that I had not, to which he replied in his often gruff voice, “Well, you should!”

After that discouraging audition, I thought that joining this chorus was hopeless. But, to my amazement, I was accepted, thus beginning a long “career” of singing and recording with the PO and other orchestras. (I took Bill’s advice and studied voice for many years with a succession of excellent teachers, which enabled me to be a paid singer in two professional chamber choruses in Philadelphia.)

When the PO discontinued the PO Chorus after two years, I followed Bill to the Mendelssohn Club (MC) of Philadelphia, which he directed for only one season. The chorus declined then but was reborn under the direction of Robert Page. I sang with MC for 22 years and served on the board for 14—my introduction to chorus management and administration.

In the meantime, after a successful career working on drugs acting

Louise Hauer Greenberg ’54, trustee emerita, led a long career in research in neuropharmacology and gerontology. At the same time, she pursued her other passion—singing for the Philadelphia Orchestra Chorus and the Mendelssohn Club, later founding the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia. She also served on six chorus boards and founded several. In June, she received Chorus America’s Distinguished Service Award for her work in advancing the choral field.

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E L I Z A B E T H K OL B E R T ,

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and recipient of the 2016 Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism. Read more on Page 36.

What always strikes the students is how audacious a claim it was at that time for women to seek the vote, how much backlash and anger and contempt they faced, how dangerous it was to speak up for voting rights and how important suffragists felt it was.

A M Y FA R R E L L , executive director of the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues; John and Ann Curley Faculty Chair of Liberal Arts and professor of American studies and women’s, gender & sexuality studies, on “The Value of the Vote” in Vantage Points.

Read more at dson.co/farrellcampaign.

We really try to increase our sustainability impact on campus and go a little out of our comfort zones to make ourselves more sustainable.

JA C K I E G O OD W I N ’ 1 7 ,

resident of the Treehouse. Watch the video at

dson.co/treehousevid.

It’s a space of vulnerability, because quantitative reasoning is often seen as something you have or you don’t. But by being vulnerable, students can grow their minds and skills.

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What does the term “evil” even mean? Does it just mean really, really wrong or bad, or something else entirely?

JA M E S S I A S ,

assistant professor of philosophy and author of The Meaning of Evil.

Read more at dson.co/siasfof.

who holds the distinction of leading the first tutoring session in the new Quantitative Reasoning (QR) center. Read more at dson.co/qrcenter.

Political science is more than polling and more than election forecasting. Race, class, gender, age and geographic identities all intersect with one another to make individuals’ behavior difficult to predict.

But this is what makes [it] so interesting.

SARAH NEIBLER,

assistant professor of political science. Read more about her and the Dickinson community’s involvement in election season at dson.co/dsonelection.