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President's Message
Dear LVC Community,
LVC is a special place that offers students and alumni opportunities that simply don’t exist at larger colleges and universities. We have unique, personal connections that guide our students to achieve more and go further than they could possibly imagine.
The relationships many of you developed with your professors, staff, and fellow future alumni continue stronger than ever through increased community collaboration and the great work being accomplished, starting during a student’s first semester on campus, by Edward and Lynn Breen Center for Career and Professional Development staff. They also would not be possible without the generosity of the many alumni and friends who provide scholarship support, like that of Trustee Wendie DiMatteo Holsinger, her husband, Steven J. Holsinger, and Trustee Katherine J. Bishop
This issue highlights the numerous ways alumni, friends, and partners create real-world experiences for our students to define or further define their career paths, often leading to jobs post-graduation.
The hands-on learning roles include everything from clinical placements, student teaching placements, internships, studying abroad, and paid positions in the student’s field of choice. They are also educational partnerships established by our Design, Media, and Technology and Education departments with alumnae like Heather Woodbridge ’03, Chief Operating Officer at Harrisburg’s Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, and prestigious placements created by Prof. Tyler Canonico-Dilley ’14, Adjunct Instructor of Music and Minister of Music at Market Square Presbyterian Church.
These experiences are often life-changing, like those of Lannah Ulrich ’27, Nursing, who started working and job shadowing in the WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital’s ICU unit as just a first-semester sophomore.
“Experiencing my first code in the hospital was quite nerve-wracking at first,” she noted. “but the teamwork with the nurses, doctors, and other staff reassured me that I was competent in my skills… (it) was one of the key factors that confirmed I was meant to be a nurse.”
I hope you enjoy these stories, each made possible by the generosity of alumni, donors, and friends. Thank you for all that you do for our future Dutchmen!
Go Valley!
