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Lebanon Valley College Magazine

115th Annual Commencement
Jean Love on The Life and Times of Virginia ^Voolf

Ed Wahoju A Boston Treasure

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Lebanon Valley College Magazine

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2
SUMMER, 1984

Table of Contents

3 COMMENCEMENT

JEAN LOVE, NOTED WOOLF SCHOLAR

by Dawn C. Humphrey

A BOSTON TREASURE

by Michael Drago

12 CHEMISTRY SUMMER RESEARCH

13

SENIOR WINS FULBRIGHT GRANT

by Lisa Meyer

14 A WINNING TRADITION

LETTERS

Dear Editor:

Your Spring, 1984 issue contained an article on Dr. Shay
which referenced his 1963 trip to the Far East. Reading this
sent me to the attic, and after sorting through pictures, year
books and other memorabilia from Lebanon Valley, I found
one of the most treasured items that 1 have because of the
fondness I have for the memories it provokes, and that is Dr.
Shay's itinerary for that trip. I often tell people that the
"Captain" was the most organized man I ever met and if I
ever had to prove that statement, the itinerary would be
Exhibit Number 1 . The computer shown on page 1 1 of the
same issue has a very tough act to follow.

Sincerely,

Thomas E. Webb '64

Dear Editor:

Bravo to The Valley. Your first issue hit the jackpot for
me: I found in the oldest classnote a report on my roommate,
Frank Bryan. I had lost contact with him and was delighted to
read that he is still active. I was very concerned about his
health which was precarious at the time of our graduation.
So, I have written him to re-establish friendship. Thanks.

Yours truly,

Gerald L. Hasbrouch '38

Dear Editor:

1 like the new magazine format better than the former
"tabloid" style. This is much easier to handle and read.

Thank you!

William H. Jenkins '40

Publisher Howard L. Applegate

Editor Dawn C. Humphrey

Alumni Editor Robert L. Unger

Parents Editor Joseph P. Wengyn

Sports Editor Scott B. Dimon

Production Editor Mary B. Williams

Creative Director Michael R. Casey

Dear Editor:

I was really thrilled today to receive my first copy of The
Valley. I've been moving around a lot in the last few months
and LVC hasn't been able to keep up with all my address
changes. I'm glad The Valley caught up with me ....

Sincerely,

Patty McGregor '80

The Valley is published quarterly by Lebanon Valley
College. Second-class postage paid at Annville, PA.

Please send address changes to Lebanon Valley
College, Annville, PA. Inquiries should be addressed
to Dawn C. Humphrey, Editor, The Valley, Lebanon
Valley College, Annville, PA 17003. Telephone:
717-867-4411, ext. 225.

© copyright 1984 Lebanon Valley College

Dear Editor:

I'd like to compliment you on your first issue of The
Valley. All articles are appreciated as they are one way of
keeping abreast of what is happening at "The Valley."

Sincerely,

Donna Gladhill Winch '72

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115 ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT

On May 13, a perfect spring day, 192
students received degrees at Lebanon
Valley College's 115th annual com-
mencement ceremonies in Lynch Memo-
rial Gymnasium.

President Arthur L. Peterson
officiated at the day's events, which
began with a baccalaureate service at
9:00 a.m.

Baccalaureate speaker, the Most Rev-
erend William H. Keeler, bishop of the
Diocese of Harrisburg, counseled the
graduates: "As you bring your idealism
and enthusiasm to your future work places
and communities, and most especially
when you are motivated by religious
principles impelling you to give witness
to God's goodness and to serve others,
you will encounter misunderstanding.

"Sometimes there will be opposition.
Sometimes there will be malice. But
always try to remember that the Lord
Jesus has given a principle to deal with
such situations, to bring light into the
bleakest of moments: 'Blessed are you
when others revile you and persecute
you and utter all kinds of evil against
you on my account. Rejoice and be glad,
for your reward is great in heaven . . . . '

"If you keep this principle of faith in
your hearts, you will find that, in the
worst of situations, the Lord can and
will transmute a curse into a blessing.
And that blessing, together with the
sense of his presence, will be a source
of strength, and indeed, of the deepest
kind of joy — the joy and peace that no
one can take from you."

Commencement speaker William F.
May, dean of the faculty of business
administration and of the graduate
school of business administration at
New York University, echoed Keeler's
optimism. He explained the importance
of improved productivity if the United
States is to outrun its competition in the
world marketplace and said: "The
critical role in improving productivity
performance is played by business man-
agement .... You have some turbulent
times ahead . . . but I am confident you
will truly come to grips with the nation's
problems of world competitiveness."

Keeler, who received an honorary
doctor of divinity degree at the com-
mencement, was honored for his
"exceptional steps toward ecumenical
openness" and for "personally spear-
heading better relations between Cath-
olics and Protestants and between
-Christians and Jews in Central Penn-
sylvania."

May, who received an honorary doc-
tor of law degree, was honored for his
role in the shaping of business trends
towards providing leadership in the
volunteer segment of society, whether
social or philanthropic. On a personal
level, he has assumed a responsibility to
his community, epitomizing the remark-
able contribution of American business
leadership. In recommending May for
the degree, Dean of the Faculty Richard
Reed said: "William May has been
recognized nationally as a dynamic and
creative force in a wide variety of
educational, cultural and religious
organizations, including the National

Council of Christians and Jews, which
he served with great distinction as
chairman."

May was also recognized for his in-
sightful academic leadership at NYU,
where he has re-directed the thrust of
graduate business education by insisting
on a team-teaching method of instruc-
tion. One of the key features of the
team-teaching method is that each class
is taught by two instructors — one a full-
time member of the faculty and the
other a member of the business com-
munity drawn in to team-teach that
particular course. As a result of this
innovative approach, NYU has signifi-
cantly improved its ranking among the
country's top graduate business schools.

Following commencement, graduates
recessed from the gymnasium through
the traditional LVC faculty line and
continued out into the sunshine to pose
for tearful photographs with friends and
families.

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LVC

Prof Noted

Woolf
Scholar

by Dawn Humphrey

For more than twenty years, Dr. Jean
O. Love, Lebanon Valley College pro-
fessor of psychology, has been studying
an absorbing and thorny subject — the
life and writings of British author
Virginia Woolf.

In the course of her extensive study,
Dr. Love has learned much about bio-
graphy, particularly her own field of
psychobiography, and has established
an international reputation as one of the
foremost Woolf scholars. "I suppose
one would have to say I'm one of the
'older' Woolf scholars," she says,
"since I've been studying her life and
work for over twenty years now."

Recently Love appeared as the key-
note speaker at the University of
Michigan's Conference on Biography.
One of five biographers in the nation
invited to speak at the conference, her
colleagues included biographers of
Emily Dickinson, Walter Lippman and
Mark Twain.

She says of her address: "I took the
theme of how much what we as bio-
graphers think we know is discovered
and how much is created. It seems that
many times we are inventing material we
begin to consider as factual." She used
illustrations from her own research of
Virginia Woolf "... to philosophically
explore how we know people, particu-
larly people we are writing about."

"In doing a biography" she said,
"most of us are working with primary
documents, but the question is how we
evaluate those documents. Many times
the writer of the primary document has
been inventing. When a person is fa-
mous, the question remains: Is he
writing for biographers or for himself

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and his friends in the letters and diaries
biographers depend upon?"

"Both Mark Twain and Walt Whit-
man became very conscious of being
famous," she says. "There was a point
where Samuel Clemens became Mark
Twain. Walt Whitman purposely ob-
fuscated and put out things that would
confuse and mystify because he thought
his Leaves of Grass was a sufficient
account of his life. Similarly, Emily
Dickinson tried to keep everyone from
knowing who she was. The thought of
a biography probably would have
horrified her."

"Virginia Woolf thought about the
whole thing," says Love, but unlike
some of her colleagues, she simply tried
to hide information about herself rather
than to mislead people.

"In writing in her diaries, she
supposed her husband would make
them into a book and then burn the
originals," Love explains. Conse-
quently, "She presented herself very
differently in the diaries and letters than
she did in her published works." This
is not unusual, says Love, who in addi-
tion to her doctoral training in psychol-
ogy, is a former clinical psychologist.
"Many times when people are particu-
larly troubled and they have no one to
talk to about their problems, their
diaries contain what a person might say
on a therapist's couch on a particularly
bad day. It is said that Virginia Woolf's
diaries -have been pawed over, even
though I am among those doing it."

Love began her research on Woolf as
part of a study of creativity. Her broad-
based work shifted focus when she got
to Virginia Woolf and, she says, "I
realized that I did not understand her
writing. I said, 'Here is a fascinating
mind, but an extremely perplexing one.' "

Her research has been fueled by
several lucky coincidences.

In 1962, prior to traveling to England
to study Virginia Woolf's diaries, she
corresponded with Woolf's husband,
who told her the diaries were in the Berg
Collection in New York. Following her
return to the United States, she was one

of the first researchers to read through
the diaries.

Her research continued and in 1970
she published Worlds in Consciousness,
which explores Woolf's "mythopoetic
thought that in many ways can be com-
pared to early Buddhistic thought."

In 1974, when she began serious
research for her second book, a psycho-
biography, she was sure she would have
to concentrate on Woolf's adult years
since so little was known of her child-
hood.

Quentin Bell, Woolf's nephew, had
written "a fine general biography" says
Love. But he had been unable to find
important family letters that had dis-
appeared after Woolf's death.

Just as she was beginning serious
research, the letters were acquired by the
Berg Collection in New York City. The
letters, more than 550 in all, chronicled
the Woolf family history from the court-
ship of Virginia's parents, through their
seventeen years of marriage.

Love was one of the first researchers
to read the letters, and the private
glimpses of the Woolf family contained
in the letters allowed her to devote
Sources of Madness and Art entirely to
Virginia Woolf's life before the age of
twenty-five.

"I wasn't trying to do a general bio-
graphy," she explains, "I was trying to
do a biography as a psychologist." In
writing her biography, she decided to
give up all technical language. "Very
hard for a psychologist to do," she
observes. "I put personality theory way
on the back burner. Using Freud or
Erickson sets you up to look for certain
things and to overlook other things that
may be totally contradictory." Love was
not taking chances. "I tried to judge
each bit of evidence in its own right and
then to evaluate the evidence in the light
of accepted theories."

One of the problems in studying
Woolf, says Love, is that "in addition
to being an exceedingly complex person,
to many she was a charismatic figure.
Because of this, people can make of her
what they need her to be." Although

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Woolf has often been adopted by the
feminist movement, Love says, "She
was a feminist, but that was a small part
of her writing. She became a cult figure
and was mythologized to the point that
the popular conception has become a
caricature."

The book now in manuscript is actu-
ally volume two of Sources of Madness
and Art. It will explore Woolf 's life and
writings from age twenty-five to her
death. Love says she has relied not only
on correspondence, but also on Woolf's
writings themselves for both volumes.

"Virginia Woolf was very self-reveal-
ing in her writing," Love explains.
"Really, it's almost necessary to treat
her novels as primary biographical
sources. Ideas about death and dying are
found in her writing and her diaries and
those same ideas pervade her novels. I
found that she was living consciously
toward death much of her life, and yet,
at the same time, she was a very alive
and vital person."

Love explains that in addition to
being a brilliant writer with the uncanny
ability to create rich visual images,
Virginia Woolf was also "periodically
mad, as they called it, or in modern
terms, psychotic."

Psychosis is a psychological disorder
characterized by a loss of contact with
reality, mental disorientation, hallucina-
tions and delusions. The disorder may
be the result of organic causes such as
brain injury or drug abuse or it may be
of a strictly mental origin. Such was the
case with Virginia Woolf, Love believes.
She had been plagued all her life by
deaths of close family members and
Love believes this series of tragic deaths
may have contributed to the author's
emotional and mental problems.

In fact, says Love, Woolf's periods of
psychosis correspond closely to periods

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Recently Love appeared as

the keynote speaker at the

University of Michigan's

Conference on Biography.

One of five biographers in

the nation invited to speak

at the conference, her

colleagues included

biographers of Emily

Dickinson, Walter Lippman

and Mark Twain.

of intense personal upheaval, including
the death of several family members and
the first two years of her marriage to
Leonard Woolf.

One particularly distressing period of
upheaval was responsible for Woolf's
death, explains Love. In 1941 "she
thought she was slipping into another
period of psychosis." The psychosis,
Love says, was precipitated by the war.
"She had always had a lot of chaos
churning in her. Now, the whole world
seemed to be acting out what she felt.
She chose suicide rather than going on."

Love points out, however, that
Woolf's madness "comprised relatively
limited intervals of an extraordinarily
productive and creative life. The sheer
quantity of her writing establishes that
she could not often have been incapaci-
tated. Rather, she was in control of
herself most of the time, although rarely
if ever secure from the threat of mental
and emotional disturbance."

Love's research has centered on the
relationship between the madness and
the art of Virginia Woolf, and as the
title of her book suggests, she believes
both sprang from the same source.

She explains that Woolf never lost the
young child's ability to think and create

in vivid visual images. "A mind that
leans heavily on visual imagery has to
be unstable," she says. "It is when we
translate our thoughts into language that
we stabilize them." Often Woolf's
poetic, mythic prose was simply a
description of her own mental images.

Woolf's work has been compared to
ancient Chinese poetry and to that of
many of her contemporaries, including
James Joyce. "People say she was imi-
tating James Joyce," says Love. "But
James Joyce broke up language and
then put it back together. Virginia
Woolf almost always used conventional
form, but she invested words with
different meanings." Also, says Love,
"when you understand what she was
doing by recording her own idiosyncratic
images, you realize she couldn't have
been imitating anyone. Hers is a unique
form of stream of consciousness writing."

And Love's is a unique form of bio-
graphy. Her perspective is unusual, her
style engaging and (to borrow a phrase
from Virginia Woolf) her work as satis-
fying as "the knock of a mallet on sea-
soned timber."

Editor's Note:

For those interested in exploring
Virginia Woolf's worlds, Jean Love
recommends To the Lighthouse and To
the Waves as the most representative of
her novels.

Dawn Humphrey, editor of The Valley,
is the College's director of information
services.

Ed Walton never thought of becoming
a baseball writer. At first, he was just
a fan. A Boston Red Sox fan, and a
devoted one at that.

When his family moved from New
Jersey to Connecticut, Walton, then age
ten, began following the Bosox. He
attended games at Fenway Park, fell in
love with the team, and cheered on the
likes of Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx and
Bobby Doerr.

Years later, while searching for a
book on his favorite subject, he
stumbled onto what has turned into a
fascinating hobby. He filled out a reader
survey card he found in the book,
adding a note to the publisher explaining
that he had compiled a manuscript on
the history of the Red Sox. He asked if
they might be interested.

They were. And Ed Walton's writing
career was underway. Walton, who
attended Lebanon Valley College in
1949-50, has since authored four books
on baseball and the Red Sox. He is
presently adding the finishing touches to
a fifth, The Language of Baseball.

Walton's full-time job is Director of
Administrative Services at the University
of Bridgeport. But his full-time love is
the Boston Red Sox.

The team's unofficial historian, he
also writes articles and researches
statistics for the Red Sox scorecard and
media guide, and advises the front office
with player evaluations on minor league
players. Once, through his statistical
research, he changed the outcome of an
American League batting champion-
ship.

While paging through Red Sox record
books, Walton came across an in-
accuracy in the home run total of
Boston's Tris Speaker. Walton's total
showed Speaker with one more homer
than the official 1912 records credited
him. It was an important oversight:
Speaker had lost the title to
Philadelphia's Frank "Home Run"
Baker by just one home run.

Walton spotted an error in a score
sheet, then confirmed his assumption by
locating an old newspaper cartoon that
showed Speaker rounding the bases. He
presented his argument to the Baseball
Hall of Fame. The Hall accepted it — a
rarity considering the importance of the
record — and, two decades after his
death, Tris Speaker was awarded his
only home run title.

As Casey Stengel used to say, you can
look it up.

That, in essence, is what baseball
historians like Walton live for. A
member of the SABR (The Society for
American Baseball Research), much of
Walton's life has been dedicated to
investigating — and correcting — figures
such as Speaker's. The average person
might find his work trivial, but to the
true baseball fan, it is as relative as

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Ed Walton (center) with Boston Red Sox Jim Wilson, Ed Jurak and minor league
manager Tony Torchia.

anything Albert Einstein ever did.

Walton's four previous books — This
Date in Boston Red Sox History, Red
Sox Triumphs and Tragedies, Every Day
Is A Baseball Day and The Rookies —
are proof of that. His first, This Date
. . . , was critically acclaimed, both in
book circles and around baseball
diamonds. Washington Post book critic
Jonathan Yardlay called it "the most
maddeningly entertaining sports book to
come along in many a year." Red Sox
President Jean Yawkey called it "most
interesting, especially for me." The
book remains Walton's personal
favorite.

The idea, chronicling a baseball
team's history day-by-day, was a good
one. It caught on around the country,
with similar works being published
about the Yankees, Orioles, Tigers,
Cubs and others. Walton, however,
wasn't involved in those other works.

"It took off," he said of the concept,
"it was a good idea, but you don't get
rich on ideas."

With Walton's follow-up book,
Triumphs and Tragedies, (Walton likes
the book, hates the title), and his other
works, baseball's history and fans have
become the richer.

His next work, The Language of
Baseball, follows in that tradition. It is
rich with baseball facts and history.
Language includes chapters on baseball
terms and expressions, famous numbers
and nicknames, and lists of past and
present minor league teams and ball-

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parks. It's easy to see that nearly four
years of research went into its making.

Walton and a friend from high
school, Don McNamara, first came to
Annville in the fall of 1949. Finding the
dormitories filled, they lived with a
family on East Maple Street.

Walton remained at The Valley only
for his freshman year, transferring to
the University of Connecticut where he
graduated with a degree in Government.
Still, he has fond memories of LVC.

"It was a wonderful year," he said.
"We enjoyed all the school activities and
attended a local church. Hershey was an
attraction, and we spent many days at
the YMCA and attending hockey
games."

Walton ran the mile and medley relay
on the LVC track team. The late Chuck
Maston, for whom the college in-
augurated its most coveted athletic
award, was a teammate, and former
President Fred Sample, first recipient of
the Maston award, a fellow undergrad.

"When I look back — and I often
io — I realize what a fine school LVC is
md what friendships I made," said
Walton.

Walton and his wife Ruth, who have
.wo children and two grandchildren,
ooth intently follow Red Sox baseball on
i daily basis. And like all baseball fans,
hey have suffered their share of dis-
appointments dealt by their team.

It matters not. Walton will remain a
loyal fan, the team historian, and a
Boston treasure as fascinating as Fen-
way's Green Monster. You can look it
up.

Mike Drago is a sports writer with
the Reading Eagle/Times, Reading,
Pennsylvania.

The following quiz will test your

knowledge of baseball personalities

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their nicknames.

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3. Third baseman-manager John J. McGraw

4. First baseman Henry L. Gehrig

5. Pitcher Charles A. Nichols

6. Second baseman Frank F. Frisch

7. Third baseman John F. Baker

8. Outfielder Lloyd J. Waner

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Chemistry

Summer Research An

LVC Advantage

With the new Garber Science Center in
operation, all eyes are turning to the
College's science departments, now well
settled in their new surroundings.

LVC's chemistry department, "tem-
porarily" housed with the biology
department for twenty-five years in a
converted shoe factory, has maintained
a strong program despite less-than-ideal
surroundings. Now, in modern quarters
that rival those of major universities, the
department has continued to blossom.

The department has maintained an
outstanding track record of publication
in refereed journals and has consistently
excelled in preparing students for grad-
uate study and medical school.

One factor contributing to this
unusual success may be the annual
summer research program begun in 1948
by present department chairman Dr. H.
Anthony Neidig '43.

The annual program offers students
a chance to do research as undergrad-
uates and to co-author articles later
published in refereed journals.

Participating in summer research
improves students' preparation for
graduate school and often helps them
crystallize their career plans. Dr.
Elizabeth Robinson Unger '72, currently
a fellow in the pathology department of
Hershey Medical Center, says, "The
summer research program really made
a difference in my eventual career
choice. It was during that time I got
'hooked' on the fun of asking questions
and trying to answer them."

Recently, CynthialMolt '84, a biology
and chemistry major, won first place in
the biochemistry division at the 1984
Intercollegiate Student Chemists Con-
vention.

Her presentation entitled: "Purifi-
cation of Polyphosphate Kinase from E.
Coli," summarized research performed
at LVC during the summer of 1983.
Nolt, Jane Conley '86, and George
Reiner '86 assisted Dr. Owen Moe, Jr.,
assistant professor of chemistry. Nolt's
presentation topped eight others in that
division.

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She will continue her education this
fall at Cornell University where she will
pursue graduate study in environmental
toxicology. She also has been accepted
into a summer intern program at
Argonne National Laboratories in
Illinois, where she will assist with acid
rain research.

This summer, Dr. Donald Dahlberg,
associate professor of chemistry, will
direct the summer research project,
which will explore the nature of elimi-
nations reactions.

Dalhberg's research will be supported
by a Penta Corporation Grant of Re-
search Corporation. Dahlberg says
much of the grant will be used to finance
the salaries of the students who will be
assisting him in his research. LVC
students Dave Baldwin '85, Jane Conley
'86, and George Reiner '86 will work
with Dahlberg forty hours each week for
ten weeks.

The students' work, he says, will
consist mostly of "synthesizing com-
pounds we are studying, purifying these
compounds, analyzing them to make
sure we have what we think we have,
and measuring rates of reactions under
the various conditions."

"I am a strong believer in undergrad-
uate research," says Dahlberg, "because
it helps prepare students for graduate
school or industry and helps them make
decisions as to what they want to do
after receiving a bachelor's degree.

"I've had students and have known
students in graduate school who don't
like research. And graduate school is a

terrible time to find out you don't like
research. It is much better for them to
find this out during their undergraduate
years so they can make informed
decisions about whether to go on to
graduate school, industry or other fields
where a chemical education is an ad-
vantage. Some students go into sales or
law, especially patent or regulatory law,
or pursue master's degrees in business
administration or library science."

In addition to unusual summer re-
search opportunities, LVC chemistry
students have another advantage over
their counterparts at many other small,
independent colleges, namely outstand-
ing equipment usually reserved at larger
institutions for graduate students

This summer's research will utilize a
newly-acquired cold temperature bath,
which will enable researchers to keep
two gallons of liquid at a constant
temperature between -4 and -112
degrees Fahrenheit, and the depart-
ment's new Fourier Transform Infrared
Spectrophotometer (FTIR), which will
be used in the analysis of compounds.
Dahlberg says of the FTIR: "Due to the
advent of less expensive computers, the
price of the FTIR is now competitive
with traditional instruments."

He adds, "Whereas the old types of
infrared spectrophotometers took be-
tween ten and fifteen minutes for
readout, the FTIR will give us the same
information in about a minute. We are
very fortunate to be one of the few
schools in the country to already have
such an instrument."

Jane Conley, George Reiner, David Baldwin, Dr. Donald Dahlberg

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grant

to Study Solar Cells

by Lisa Meyer '84

For the seventh time in the past nine
years, a Lebanon Valley College student
has been awarded a prestigious grant
through a program administered by the
Institute of International Education.

David N. Blauch, a senior chemistry
major, has been awarded a Hays-Ful-
bright grant to study in England next
year with W. John Albery, professor of
physical chemistry at Imperial College
in London. Professor Albery is investi-
gating ways to convert sunlight into elec-
tricity through chemical reactions.

Blauch will assist with a research
project attempting to develop an im-
proved solar cell. He explains that
present solar cells are relatively in-
efficient and expensive both to install
and to maintain. His portion of Albery's
research will concentrate on developing
a more efficient system using a dye
solution to convert light energy to
chemical and then to electrical energy.

The difficulty, he says, is in finding
the right dye. In the prototype cell, two
electrode plates are placed 0. 1 millimeter
apart (roughly 1/250 inch). A conduct-
ing dye solution sandwiched between the
two plates absorbs sunlight, which
makes the solution relatively unstable,
creating charged particles called ions,
"with one more or one fewer electrons
than they would like."

These ions migrate to the electri-
cally-charged electrodes to pick up or
discharge electrons so they can return to
their normal state. Blauch says that it is

in these reactions at the electrodes that
the electrical energy is produced.

"In order to work," he says, "the cell
requires a very fine chemical and
physical balance, and the balance de-
pends on the chemistry of the dye." His
job during the next year will be to find
a suitable dye. First, he says, it must be
very soluble, so that enough of the dye
can be dissolved in the solution to ab-
sorb large amounts of the available sun-
light. "Ideally, we would like it to
absorb all available sunlight," he says.
Also, it must be capable of transferring
electrons efficiently so that the chemical
reaction produces an amount of electri-
cal energy close to the amount of light
energy absorbed. Because the cell uses
a very small amount of solution, it
should operate inexpensively regardless
of the cost of the dye.

Blauch learned of Albery's research
when he ". . . came across one of his
papers in a chemical journal. I wrote
and asked him to send me more infor-

mation. "We corresponded and I told
him I was interested in applying for a
Fulbright grant to work with him and
asked if he had any ideas of what I
might do for my research." In consul-
tation, they decided upon the dye
search.

Blauch says the international grant
application procedure is quite involved,
requiring eight or nine forms. Each
applicant must submit a proposal for a
research project and must be able to
speak the language of the country in
which he wants to study. Because of the
language requirement, a disproportion-
ate number of students apply for grants
in English-speaking countries, which
means Blauch faced even tougher than
normal odds in winning his grant.

Each applicant must also complete a
curriculum vitae in which he must
describe himself, including everything
from his hobbies to his outlook on life.

Blauch had to be approved by a
screening committee of LVC faculty and
administrators, then by a national and
international screening committee be-
fore being approved for the grant.

In his appearance before the campus
screening committee, Blauch described
his project so that the group would have
a chance to ask questions to determine
the project's feasibility and importance.
Members of the campus screening com-
mittee also evaluate how well the can-
didate will adapt to foreign culture and
how he will represent the United States.
Their evaluations are compiled into one
report and submitted to the national
screening committee, which makes

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recommendations to the international
screening committee.

Blauch says he kept the screening
committees in mind when developing his
proposal. "The American and inter-
national screening committees are com-
posed of intellectuals from different
disciplines, so the proposal should be
constructed in such a way that someone
who is not in the field can understand
and appreciate it," he said. His proposal
is also unusual in that most Fulbright
applicants who choose England pursue
artistic or social projects rather than
scientific ones.

Having made it through this process,
Blauch will live in England for a little
more than a school year. He will both
work on research and attend classes part
time.

After returning to the United States,
he plans to study chemistry at the
California Institute of Technology. He
will be supported through graduate
school by a National Science Foun-
dation graduate fellowship, which he
was also awarded this year. "After
that," he said, "I'm not certain yet. I
have not decided whether to go into
industry or academia."

Lisa Meyer graduated from Lebanon
Valley College on May 13, 1984 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and
English.

A Winning Tradition

With the receipt of his Fulbright-Hays
grant, David Blauch joins the ranks of
an elite group who, while students at
Lebanon Valley College, received
prestigious grants administered by the
Institute of International Education.

Seven of these elite earned their
honors within the last nine years. They
are: Rebecca Kost '76, whose study of
linguistics took her to Germany; Lee
Klingler '77, who studied theoretical
mathematics in Germany; Doug Eber-
sole '78, who conducted a computer-
assisted study of voting configurations
in the Australian Supreme Court; Mike
Garnier '80, whose study focused on the
international law implications of a
hypothetical oil spill in France; Dan
Koon '81, who conducted interdis-
ciplinary research in color theory in
Germany; and Mike Gross '82, whose
research centered on the re-vegetation of
French salt marshes.

According to Dean of Students
George R. Marquette, the College's
liaison with the international scholar-
ship-granting organization, the odds of
a school of LVC's size winning even one
grant are slight. The chances of
garnering seven in nine years verge on
the incredible. As an illustration, he
says, David Blauch's proposal was one
of 513 competing for 22 grants in the
United Kingdom.

Marquette explains that the Institute
administers a variety of international
scholarship programs, including the
Fulbright-Hays grants, ITT inter-
national fellowships and foreign and
private grants including the Alliance
Francaise de New York Scholarship. Of
the seven LVC recipients, four were
awarded Fulbright-Hays Full Grants,
two received ITT grants and one won
the Alliance Francaise de New York
Scholarship.

In October, Marquette attended a
conference of other Fulbright program
advisors. "I sat at a table with seven
other advisors," he said, "and we were
talking about the ITT grants, which are
in some ways more difficult to obtain
than the Fulbright grants. When I told
them we had had two within the last
eight years, they were amazed. No one

else at the table had ever had a student
receive an ITT grant."

Marquette attributes LVC's successes
to the caliber of the students presenting
proposals as well as to the nature of the
proposals, outstanding faculty support
and the input of the campus screening
committee.

Each of the grant-winning students
has had a double major, which, Mar-
quette says, "has allowed them to bring
a special versatility to their proposals,"
and may be one reason all of the pro-
posals have been unusually attractive
and well thought out. Certainly, the
faculty members and advisors of these
students have played a vital role in
motivating and encouraging their
students to compete and win.

Another factor in the successes may
be the role played by the campus
screening committees which Marquette
appoints for each proposal. "The com-
mittee is composed of a cross-section of
faculty, including several from the area
of study in which the proposal is being
submitted. Also, one member of the
faculty will usually lend special advising.
We put the applicants through their
paces with a rigorous examination of the
proposal," says Marquette. If the pro-
posal is for study in a foreign country,
the examination will also ensure that the
student will meet the program's foreign
language requirements.

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assisted greatly through legacies from its alumni,

alumnae and other friends.

The LVC Development Office

suggests a bequest wording to be included in a will

as follows:

"I give and bequeath to Lebanon Valley College,
Annville, Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania Corporation,

the

sum of dollars ($ ), the principal

and income of which are to be used in such manner
as the Board of Trustees of said college, in its
sole discretion, may determine."

Inquiries on this subject may be made to the
Development Office at (717) 867-441 1 , ext. 224.

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