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The  Valley 

Lebanon  Valley  College  Magazine      Winter  1992  J 


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LETTERS 


Compares  with  the  best 

During  the  past  academic  year,  I  had  the 
opportunity  to  review  all  the  publications 
that  have  since  been  included  in  the  Council 
for  Advancement  and  Support  of  Educa- 
tion's top  10  university  magazines,  among 
them  magazines  from  Dartmouth,  Notre 
Dame  and  Pitt.  The  Valley  compares 
favorably  with  CASE'S  top  choices. 

Providing  the  funds  for  a  quality  maga- 
zine and  choosing  the  current  editor  are 
decisions  that  have  resulted  in  a  publication 
that  can  hold  its  own  with  the  best  in  the 
United  States.  The  Valley  speaks  elo- 
quently and  elegantly  for  LVC. 

Jacqueline  Vivelo 

Former  LVC  Assistant  Professor  of  English 

Hummelstown,  PA 

Enthusiastic  response 

I  want  to  congratulate  you  on  the  excellent 
article  "Jump  Start  on  Science  and  Math," 
in  the  Spring/Summer  1991  issue. 

The  college  and  all  the  other  groups 
involved  are  to  be  commended  for  under- 
taking this  seminar.  It  is  important  for 
young  girls  to  get  this  type  of  positive 
exposure  to  math  and  science.  They  are  at 
a  critical  age  for  making  decisions  about 
future  course  choices.  Without  the  encour- 
agement to  take  math  and  science,  many 
girls  make  decisions  that  eliminate  future 
educational  and  career  options. 

I  shared  your  article  with  the  national 
board  of  directors  of  the  American  Asso- 
ciation of  University  Women  and  the  50 
AAUW  state  presidents.  There  was  an 
enthusiastic  response  from  them  about  the 
work  Lebanon  Valley  College  was  doing 
to  promote  educational  equity  for  these 
young  women. 

If  the  cure  for  cancer  resides  in  the  mind 
of  one  of  these  girls,  you  may  have  given 
her  the  motivation  that  will  unlock  that 
secret  someday.  Keep  up  the  good  work! 

Janice  H.  McElroy,  Ph.D. 

Executive  Director 

Pennsylvania  Commission  for  Women 

Harrisburg 


Proud  alumni 

I  wanted  you  to  know  how  much  I  enjoyed 
the  interesting  and  informative  articles  in 
the  Fall  issue. 

The  section  on  the  library  was  well 
written.  I  made  copies  for  a  friend  in 
Georgia  who  is  a  media  specialist  at  a  high 
school  and  also  for  my  son  who  is  a  Ph.D. 
candidate  at  Carnegie  Mellon. 

Keep  up  the  good  work. 

I  was  the  first  weekend  graduate  of 
Lebanon  Valley,  so  my  time  on  campus 
was  very  limited.  The  program  allowed 
me  to  work  full  time,  take  the  courses 
needed  on  Friday  nights  and  Saturdays  and 
finally  complete  my  nursing  degree.  I  was 
sorry  to  learn  that  particular  program  has 
been  canceled. 

Jeanette  B.  Scroeder,  RN,  NHA 
Inservice  Director,  Epworth  Manor 
Tyrone,  PA 


Shared  pleasure 

The  article,  "The  Long  Journey  from 
Sorrow  to  Success"  [Fall  1991],  which 
describes  Vietnamese  refugees'  experi- 
ences at  Lebanon  Valley  College,  was  very 
good.  I  have  forwarded  it  to  ESL  (English 
as  a  Second  Language)  teachers  in  Lancas- 
ter City  schools. 


Douglas  E.  Dockey 
Lancaster 


Warm  memories 

The  article  about  us  Vietnamese  students 
in  the  Fall  issue  brings  back  a  lot  of 
memories  of  good  times  we  had.  The 
article  was  well  presented  and  the  story 
was  beautiful.  I  couldn't  believe  how  much 
our  lives  have  changed  in  the  last  16  years. 
I  recall  what  we  went  through,  and  the 
article  helped  me  relive  some  of  the 
warmest  moments  where  we  all  shared  love 
and  concern. 

Next  year  I  will  be  in  Vietnam  for  an 
international  business  conference,  and  I 
hope  I  will  have  time  to  see  my  family  after 


17  years.  Please  give  my  regards  to  Judy 
Pehrson  and  thank  her  for  a  beautiful 
article. 

Luong  Nguyen 
Singapore 

Editor's  note:  Nguyen  is  technical  service 
manager  for  Rohm  &  Haas's  Pacific 
region,  stationed  in  Singapore. 

Contributions  recognized 

I  enjoyed  the  article  on  the  12  Vietnamese 
students  in  the  Fall  issue  of  The  Valley.  It 
did  an  excellent  job  of  highlighting  the 
contributions  not  only  of  Glenn  and  Caro- 
lyn Woods,  but  of  the  college  as  a  whole. 
Background  and  follow-up  answered  all  the 
questions  one  would  have. 

Barbara  Haber 
Lebanon 

Fans  of  performing  arts 

I  enjoyed  the  Fall  issue  of  your  magazine 
and  have  forwarded  it  to  Randy  Gehret, 
our  curriculum  supervisor  for  fine  arts.  I 
am  sure  he  will  be  very  interested  in  the 
article  "The  Show  Goes  On." 

Carolyn  C.  Dumaresq,  Ed.D. 

Superintendent 

Central  Dauphin  School  District 

Harrisburg 

Grateful  for  article 

Thank  you  for  the  beautiful  article  about 
Christ  UMC  of  the  Deaf  and  me  ("Signs 
of  Joy,"  Fall  1991).  It  was  perfect!  Thank 
you  for  the  opportunity  to  tell  my  story. 

The  Rev.  Peggy  A.  Johnson  ('75) 
Baltimore 


The  Valley  welcomes  letters  from  our 
readers.  Send  them  to:  Judy  Pehrson, 
Laughlin  Hall,  Lebanon  Valley  College, 
Annville,  PA  17003-0501. 


Vol.  9,  Number  3 


Departments 


Features 


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LOST  ALUMNI, 
PART  2 


21  SPORTS 

24  NEWSMAKERS 

26  NEWS  BRIEFS 

28  ALUMNI  NEWS 

32  CLASS  NOTES 


Editor:  Judy  Pehrson 

Writers: 

Marilyn  Boeshore,  Class  Notes 

Greg  Bowers 

John  B.  Deamer  Jr. 

Lois  Fegan 

Dr.  William  McGill 

Laura  Ritter 

Doug  Thomas 

Diane  Wenger 

Editorial  Assistance: 
Diane  Wenger 


Send  comments  or  address  changes  to: 
Office  of  College  Relations 
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Lebanon  Valley  College 
101  N.  College  Avenue 
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The  Valley  is  published  by  Lebanon 
Valley  College  and  distributed  without 
charge  to  alumni  and  friends.  It  is 
produced  in  cooperation  with  the  Johns 
Hopkins  University  Alumni  Magazine 
Consortium.  Editor:  Donna  Shoemaker: 
Designer:  Royce  Faddis. 


On  the  Cover: 

The  Mounted  Warrior,  a  14th-century 

silk  scroll,  is  part  of  the  collection  of  the 

National  Museum  of  Kyoto.  Used  with 

permission. 


2  Superpower  or  Samurai  State? 

Political  scientist  Eugene  Brown  gives  an  insider's  analysis  of  the 


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crucial  debate  over  Japan's  world  role. 
By  Judy  Pehrson 


Of  Rockets  and  Radar 

Following  the  research  and  world  travels  of  Mae  Fauth  ('33). 
By  Lois  Fegan 

True  to  Our  Character 

Why  Lebanon  Valley  keeps  the  liberal  arts  at  its  heart. 
By  Dr.  William  McGill 

Spinner  of  Yarns 

Writer  John  Barth  captivates  a  campus  audience. 
By  Laura  Ritter 

Fielding  Dreams 

Charley  Gelbert  ('28)  earned  a  spot  in  the  World  Series  record  book. 
By  Greg  Bowers 

Behind  the  Lacquer  Curtain 

A  colorful  commemorative  box  from  the  former  Soviet  Union  has  been 
donated  to  the  college's  art  collection. 

By  Diane  Wenger 


Superpower  or 
Samurai  State? 


Already  a  giant  on  the 
economic  front,  Japan 
struggles  to  define  its  role 
in  shaping  world  stability. 
Political  scientist  Eugene 
Brown  takes  us  behind 
the  scenes  of  this  crucial 
debate. 

By  Judy  Pehrson 


As  the  Gulf  Crisis  heated  up 
last  year  and  America's  al- 
lies lined  up  to  lend  support. 
Japan's  lackluster  response 
generated  international  criti- 
cism. "Where's  the  New  'Superpower'?" 
sneered  Newsweek  in  its  August  27  issue, 
and  a  chorus  of  political  analysts  chimed 
in  to  deride  Japan's  vacillation  about 
providing  assistance. 

But  while  the  Japanese  government's 
weak  handling  of  the  Gulf  crisis  may  have 
been  a  public  relations  debacle,  it  masked 
a  significant  and  fierce  internal  debate, 
says  Lebanon  Valley  Political  Science 
Professor  Eugene  Brown. 

"Japan  is  in  the  early  stages  of  a  national 
debate  over  what  its  international  role 
should  be  in  the  face  of  its  growing 
economic  power,"  Brown  states.  "It's  a 
very  fertile,  healthy  debate— reminiscent 
in  some  ways  of  earlier  American  'Great 
Debates'  on  the  eve  of  World  War  II,  at 
the  outset  of  the  Cold  War  and  during  the 
Vietnam  War." 
In  the  years  since  World  War  II  ended, 


Japan  has  been  focusing  strictly  on  eco- 
nomic policy,  says  Brown.  "Indeed,  to 
Japan,  foreign  policy  was  economic  policy, 
and  that  made  sense  while  it  was  recovering 
from  the  war  and  was  the  junior  partner  of 
the  United  States  in  the  Cold  War.  With 
the  fading  of  the  Cold  War,  however.  Japan 
must  begin  to  find  its  voice  in  world  policy. 
Right  now,  Japan  is  conflicted  and  is  not 
functioning  as  a  true  superpower.  What 
we're  witnessing  are  debates  that  will  be 
the  precursor  of  strategies  for  a  new  world 
view  and  a  new  world  role." 

Brown  has  been  deeply  involved  in 
tracking  those  debates.  As  a  visiting  profes- 
sor of  foreign  policy  at  the  U.S.  Army 
War  College  in  Carlisle  from  1989-91,  he 
spent  considerable  time  in  Japan  research- 
ing internal  discussions.  During  two  weeks 
in  Tokyo,  for  example,  he  interviewed 
legislators,  diplomats,  intellectuals  and 
educators.  His  research  resulted  in  a  mono- 
graph, "The  Debate  Over  Japan's  Interna- 
tional Role:  Contending  Views  of  Opinion 
Leaders  During  the  Persian  Gulf  Crisis," 
which  is  being  circulated  at  the  highest 
levels  in  the  Pentagon  and  the  State 
Department.  His  monograph  is  required 
reading  at  Washington's  National  Defense 
University,  the  premier  academy  for  Amer- 
ica's senior  military  leaders. 

In  a  letter  to  Brown,  the  Pentagon's 
senior  official  for  Japan  policy  lauded  the 
study  as  "insightful,  instructive,  well- 
organized  and  beautifully  written.  More 
than  just  informative  on  this  particular 
subject,  it  is  an  excellent  review  of  Japa- 
nese foreign  policy  and  key  participants." 

Brown  has  been  surprised  by  the  atten- 
tion his  monograph  has  attracted.  "It's  all 
been  very  flattering.  In  November  I  was 
invited  to  speak  at  a  high-powered  confer- 
ence in  Baltimore  on  the  Middle  East  after 
the  Iraqi  invasion  of  Kuwait.  When  I  got 
the  program,  I  was  stunned  to  see  that  I 
was  the  only  speaker  from  a  small  college— 
the  rest  of  the  speakers  were  luminaries 
from  major  universities  and  think  tanks, 
and  three  former  presidential  foreign  policy 
advisors." 

Brown's  interest  in  Japan  and  Asia  is 


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long-standing.  After  receiving  a  B.  A.  from 
Western  Illinois  University,  he  worked 
with  Army  Intelligence  as  a  code  breaker 
and  cryptanalyst  in  Japan  in  1964-66  and 
in  Vietnam  in  1966-67.  He  studied  Japa- 
nese, although  he  says  his  fluency  has 
"atrophied  over  the  years."  He  returned  to 
the  United  States  and  earned  a  Ph.D.  in 
political  science  from  the  State  University 
of  New  York  at  Binghamton. 

He  sees  years  of  soul-searching  ahead 
for  Japan— and  for  the  U.S.— as  the  Japa- 
nese hammer  out  their  future  role.  "There 
was  no  historical  precedent  for  Japan  to 
be  a  superpower.  Throughout  their  history, 
they  have  either  been  subordinate  or  isola- 
tionist and  inward-looking.  When  they  did 
act  independently,  it  led  to  the  tragedy  of 
World  War  II."  But,  Brown  warns,  "don't 
underestimate  them  or  their  ability  to  forge 
a  vision  of  their  role.  Nothing  in  their  past 
presaged  their  becoming  a  high-tech  pio- 
neer either,  but  they've  done  it,  and 
remarkably  quickly." 

While  their  growing  economic  might  has 
pushed  the  Japanese  into  accepting  an 
expanded  world  role,  two  other  factors 
have  made  it  almost  mandatory  that  they 
do  so:  the  end  of  the  Cold  War  and  the 
collapse  of  communism  in  the  Soviet  Union 
and  the  Eastern  bloc.  As  the  United  States 
proceeds  with  planned  reductions  in  its 
own  military  forces,  particularly  in  the 
Pacific,  there  is  increasing  pressure  for 
Japan  to  shoulder  more  responsibility  for 
its  security  and  for  stability  in  the  Pacific 
Rim  region. 

"Japan  will  eventually  be  looked  to  for 
leadership  in  that  region,"  says  Brown. 
"It's  in  everybody's  interest  for  them  to 
step  up  and  assume  burdens  that  match 
their  capabilities.  In  the  short  term,  though, 
we  can't  count  on  them  to  pick  up  the  slack. 
Many  of  their  own  people  don't  want  them 
to,  and  it  would  also  create  great  consterna- 
tion in  Korea,  China  and  Southeast  Asia— 
possibly  even  touching  off  an  arms  race." 

It  makes  sense,  however,  for  Japan  to 
adopt  a  role  in  regional  military  security 
under  certain  conditions,  he  adds.  "First 
of  all,   it  has  to  happen  gradually,   and 


Japan's  Self  Defense  Forces  are  supported  by  the  world's  third-largest  military  budget.  It's 
a  mistake  to  underestimate  the  Japanese  or  their  ability  to  forge  a  new  role,  cautions 
Professor  Eugene  Brown,  who  has  spent  considerable  time  in  Japan. 


second,  it  has  to  happen  under  the  frame- 
work of  maintaining  the  U.S. -Japan  Secu- 
rity Treaty.  It  would  be  unacceptable  to 
China,  Korea  and  Southeast  Asia  if  an 
armed  Japan  were  not  tied  to  the  U.S." 

But  the  Japanese  themselves  cannot 
agree  if  they  should  become  a  military 
power,  despite  the  facts  that  the  country 
now  has  the  third  largest  military  budget 


everybody's 
interest  for  Japan  to 
step  up  and  assume 
burdens  that  match 
their  capabilities 


in  the  world  and  their  "Self  Defense 
Forces"  have  swelled  to  about  the  same 
size  as  the  British  Army. 

"There  is  still  fear  among  some  groups 
in  Japan  that  any  relaxation  of  the  strict 
policy  of  nondeployment  of  the  armed 
forces  would  undermine  Japanese  pacifism 
and  Article  9  of  the  Constitution,  which 
prohibits  sending  troops  outside  the  coun- 
try," says  Brown.  "Other  opinion  leaders 
believe  Japan  must  assume  greater  respon- 
sibilities, including  a  role— if  necessarily  a 
noncombat  one— for  its  armed  forces,  in 
order  to  help  sustain  a  stable  and  peaceful 
world  order." 

It  was  those  kinds  of  differing  views 
that  caused  the  Japanese  government's 
vacillation  during  the  Gulf  War,  Brown 
states.  "When  Prime  Minister  Toshiki 
Kaifu  proposed  a  United  Nations  Peace 
Cooperation  Corps,  a  mechanism  for  Japa- 
nese personnel  to  participate  in  the  coali- 
tion in  noncombat  support  roles,  the  mem- 


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Studying  Peace 
at  the  War  College 


Against  a  backdrop  of  the  collapse  of 
communism  in  Eastern  Europe  and  the 
Soviet  Union,  and  the  national  debate  over 
Desert  Storm,  Eugene  Brown  spent  two  of 
the  most  exciting  years  of  his  academic 
career  teaching  at  the  U.S.  Army  War 
College  in  Carlisle.  A  visiting  professor 
from  1989-91  at  the  War  College,  he  taught 
courses  on  national  security  policy  and 
U.S. -Japan  relations. 

"It's  an  incredibly  stimulating  environ- 
ment—and very  different  from  what  people 
might  think,"  he  states.  "The  title  "War 
College'  is  awful  and  a  misnomer.  It's 
actually  more  of  a  college  for  peace 
studies." 

Its  students  include  high-ranking  officers 
drawn  from  all  four  armed  services  (princi- 
pally the  Army);  civilians  from  the  State 
Department,  the  Pentagon  and  the  CIA; 
and  military  officers  from  foreign  coun- 
tries. Their  average  age  is  about  43,  says 
Brown,  and  most  have  chalked  up  some 
20  years  of  service.  About  75  percent  have 
at  least  a  master's  degree,  with  a  fair 
number  of  Ph.Ds.  He  adds  that  the  military 
officers  at  the  college  are  in  the  top  6 
percent  of  their  peer  group  and  comprise 
the  talent  pool  from  which  future  generals 
will  be  selected. 

"They're  an  extremely  talented  and 
articulate  group  of  men  and  women.  I've 
never  worked  with  a  group  I've  admired 
so  much,  and  I've  never  been  so  challenged 
as  a  teacher.  They're  very  different  from 
the  Hollywood  stereotypes  of  people  in  the 
military  and  government  service.  1  found 
them  very  moderate  and  open-minded.  I 
ran  into  very  little  dogmatism,  close- 
mindedness  or  militarism. 

"There  was  a  lot  of  very  thoughtful, 
soul-searching  discussion  about  what  our 
policy  should  be  in  the  Gulf,"  states 
Brown.  "And  the  stereotypes  that  picture 
members  of  the  military  top  echelon  as 
warmongers  always  looking  for  a  war  just 


isn't  true.  These  are  people  who  know  how 
terrible  war  is,  although  they  also  recognize 
that  sometimes  it's  necessary.  There  was 
a  great  caution  among  the  people  there 
about  taking  the  step  toward  force.  They 
knew  it  was  not  a  video  game." 

Brown  was  also  impressed  with  the 
steady  flow  of  prominent  guest  speakers. 
"You  had  senior  government  officials, 
senior  members  of  Congress,  top  intellec- 
tuals from  major  universities  and  media 
stars  like  Bob  Woodward  from  the  Wash- 
ington Post.  It  was  an  incredibly  dynamic 
place." 

Being  at  the  War  College  placed  Brown 
inside  the  loop  of  official  policy,  he  says. 
"I  had  access  to  people  I  never  would  have 
had  access  to.  Right  now  I  can  pick  up  the 
phone  and  call  key  people  in  the  State 
Department,  the  Pentagon  and  on  Capitol 
Hill.  When  I  made  my  trip  to  Japan,  the 
U.S.  Embassy  opened  up  so  many  doors 
for  me.  I  was  able  to  talk  with  top  Japanese 
legislators,  diplomats,  policymakers,  intel- 
lectuals and  educators— again,  people  I 
would  ordinarily  not  have  had  access  to. 
It  was  tremendously  exciting." 

His  contacts  and  experiences  have  al- 
ready paid  off  since  his  return  to  the  college 
to  teach  courses  on  international  politics, 
U.S.  foreign  policy,  the  Third  World  and 
Vietnam.  Recently  he  took  students  in  his 
U.S. -Japan  Seminar  to  Washington  for 
special  briefings  by  senior  Japan  poli- 
cymakers in  both  the  State  Department  and 
the  Pentagon. 

"The  briefings  were  a  direct  result  of 
personal  friendships  made  when  I  was  al 
the  Army  War  College."  he  states. 

Brown  adds  that  the  War  College  experi- 
ence "really  intensified  my  conviction  that 
students  need  to  learn  about  international 
affairs.  My  two  years  there  have  probably 
induced  me  to  lean  on  my  students  a  little 
more  to  get  excited  about  the  world— to 
overcome  their  parochialism  and  to  take 
seriously  the  fact  that  America  is  bound 
up  in  a  web  of  interdependencies.  It  is 
increasingly  urgent  that  American  students 
come  out  of  college  with  some  international 
dimension  to  their  education." 


bers  of  the  Japanese  Diet  became  mired  in 
discussions  about  the  legal  permissibility 
of  including  elements  of  the  Self  Defense 
Forces  (SDF)  in  the  proposed  corps. 

"There  were  protracted  discussions  of 
whether  overseas  deployment  of  unarmed 
SDF  forces  would  constitute  merely  the 
sending  of  personnel  (haken)  or  the  consti- 
tutionally suspect  dispatch  of  troops  (hahei). 
Similarly,  Kaifu  himself  weighed  in  with 
the  argument  that  while  the  dispatch  of 
SDF  forces  in  the  name  of  collective 
defense  (shudan  boei)  would  indeed  be 
unconstitutional,  their  participation  in  col- 
lective security  arrangements  (shudanteki 
anzen  hosho)  would  be  constitutionally 
permissible." 

Eventually,  Kaifu  was  forced  to  with- 
draw the  U.N.  Peace  Cooperation  Bill  in 
the  face  of  a  certain  rejection  by  the  Diet. 
It  wasn't  until  two  months  after  the 
conclusion  of  the  Allied  drive  to  expel  Iraq 
from  Kuwait  that  Japan  dispatched  four 
minesweepers  to  the  Persian  Gulf.  This 
was  the  first  time  since  World  War  II  that 
military  forces  had  ventured  outside  Ja- 
pan's border. 

Currently,  adds  Brown,  discussions  are 
under  way  in  Japan  about  whether  its 
military  personnel  will  be  part  of  a  com- 
bined peace-keeping  force  in  Cambodia. 

"Basically  I  believe  that  Japan  can  and 
will  gradually  re-emerge  as  a  normal 
country  with  an  array  of  military  resources— 
so  long  as  it  does  not  appear  to  be  a  threat 
and  as  long  as  it  is  anchored  to  the  United 
States.  There  will  be  a  gradual  evolution 
to  normality,  which  will  eventually  include 
possession  and  use  of  military  forces— for 
peaceful  purposes  and  to  forge  alliances." 

But  given  past  history,  might  a  re-armed 
Japan  eventually  pose  a  security  threat 
rather  than  being  a  stabilizing  force?  Brown 
says  no.  "I  guess  I'm  an  optimist,"  he 
states.  "I  believe  a  nation  can  change 
character." 

Judy  Pehrson,  editor  of  The  Valley  and 
director  of  college  relations,  has  spent 
three  years  in  Asia,  including  a  year  in 
Japan . 


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Of  Rockets 
and  Radar 


.  .  .  and  a  worldwide 
wanderlust.  If  Dr.  Mae 
Fauth,  age  78,  isn't  in  her 
research  lab,  she's  probably 
on  her  way  to  her  161st 
exotic  locale. 

By  Lois  Fegan 


At  Tibet's  Kambula  Pass  in  1981 ,  Mae  Fauth  ('33)  paused  beside  a  mound  of  stones  and 
flags — an  offering  to  the  gods  of  the  summit  (elevation  16,404')  to  assure  a  safe  journey. 


In  the  midst  of  our  century's  fast- 
paced  technological  advances,  Dr. 
Mae  Fauth  ('33)  always  seems  to 
be  where  the  action  is.  The  alumna 
has  spent  her  life  pioneering  and 
teaching  about  rocket  propulsion,  radar  and 
most  recently,  the  environment.  At  age  78, 
she  still  works  full-time  as  a  research 
chemist  at  the  U.S.  Navy's  Surface  War- 
fare Center  in  Indian  Head,  Maryland. 
"The  most  challenging  aspect  of  my  job  is 
the  constant  diversity,"  she  confides,  "and 
the  fact  that  sometimes  when  I  don't  know 
the  answer,  no  one  else  does  either." 

Meet  Dr.  Fauth— student,  teacher,  sci- 
entist, world  traveler. 

Lots  of  Latin  and  labs 

Today  she  would  be  described  as  a  "gifted 
child"  and  enrolled  in  a  special  class.  But 
when  Mae  Fauth  was  growing  up  in 
Wrightsville  in  central  Pennsylvania,  the 
brightest  students  skipped  a  grade.  She 
skipped  several,  entered  Wrightsville  High 
at  age  12  and  receiving  her  diploma  at  15. 
That's  how  she  became  one  of  Lebanon 
Valley's  youngest  alumni,  picking  up  her 
sheepskin  in  1933  at  age  19. 

Even  as  a  tot,  she  was  fascinated  by 
scientific  things,  so  it  wasn't  unexpected 
that  she  would  take  four  years  of  science 
in  high  school.  She  chose  Latin  as  an 
elective,  which  gave  her  two  advantages. 
"I  didn't  realize  it  at  the  time,  but  Latin 
plays  such  an  important  part  in  scientific 
vocabulary,  so  my  excellent  grounding  has 
helped   all   through   my   career.    It   also 


brought  me  into  contact  with  the  woman 
who  introduced  me  to  Lebanon  Valley. 
When  I  was  a  high  school  sophomore, 
starting  my  second  year  of  Latin,  Dorcas 
Bortz  ('26)  came  to  Wrightsville  to  teach. 
Not  only  was  she  a  wonderful  teacher,  but 
when  the  time  came  for  me  to  choose  a 
college,  she  suggested  LVC  She  took  me 
to  Annville  and  showed  me  around  the 
campus.  Even  as  a  youngster,  I  was 
impressed  by  the  fine  science  department." 
Mae  majored  in  chemistry  and  biology  at 
Lebanon  Valley. 

Three  faculty  members  especially  earned 
her  admiration:  Dr.  Andrew  Bender,  S.H. 
Derickson  and  V  Earl  Wright.  She  keeps 
in  touch  with  classmates  Flo  Grim 
(Wygant),  now  of  Camp  Hill;  Miriam 
Miller  (Roush),  whose  husband  has  a  tree 
farm  near  Lebanon;  Sophia  Morris  of 
Wyoming,  Pennsylvania;  and  her  room- 
mate, Kathryn  Gockley  (Heilman). 

"Kathryn  got  me  my  first  job  when  we 
graduated  in  the  middle  of  the  Depression. 
I  was  an  attendant  at  the  Schuylkill  County 
Mental  Hospital.  I  transferred  to  Wern- 
ersville  State  Hospital  because  it  was  closer 
to  home— and  more  money.  I  stayed  there 
for  eight  years,  all  the  time  taking  credit 
courses  at  Albright  College  nearby." 

A  lifelong  student,  she  earned  a  master's 
degree  in  industrial  chemistry  from  Colum- 
bia University.  Her  doctorate,  from  Penn 
State,  is  in  inorganic  chemistry,  with 
minors  in  physics  and  philosophy. 

Her  graduate  school  credits  piled  up  in 
chemistry  and  engineering  math,  electrical 
engineering  and  electronics.  "At  one  point 


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I  took  pre-med,  but  no  way  could  I  afford 
medical  school."  she  recalls. 

She  also  developed  her  talent  for  lan- 
guages. At  various  points  along  the  way, 
she  studied  Spanish.  German,  Russian  and 
Swahili— languages  that  would  stand  her 
in  good  stead  when  she  took  up  her  hobby 
of  world  travel. 

On  her  toes  teaching 

Never  far  from  a  classroom  throughout 
college  and  her  career,  she  managed  to 
teach  even  while  holding  down  full-time 
posts  in  her  specialty,  chemical  research 
and  development. 

She  chuckles  as  she  remembers  her 
practice  teaching  stint  at  Annville  High, 
"where  the  students  were  as  old  as  I  was." 

Her  first  high  school  teaching  post,  at 
Silver  Creek,  New  York,  near  Buffalo,  led 
to  an  offer  from  the  newly  opened  Penn 
State  Center  at  Hazleton,  the  university's 
first  off-campus  facility.  She  taught  chem- 
istry there  for  two  years,  then  transferred 
to  the  main  campus  in  State  College  with 
an  instructorship  as  part  of  her  Ph.D. 
program. 

Some  years  later,  while  at  the  Naval 
Surface  Warfare  Center,  she  was  invited 
to  teach  physics  on  a  part-time  basis  at  the 
Charles  County  Community  College.  One 
course  led  to  another,  and  she  found  herself 
instructing  in  math,  chemistry,  philosophy 
and  logic— all  the  while  up  to  her  elbows 
in  her  full-time  job. 

"I  finally  stopped  teaching  in  1983 
because  the  government  travel  got  too 
heavy,  and  I  was  skipping  too  many 
classes.  But  I  still  miss  it  a  lot,"  she  adds. 

A  life  in  research 

The  young,  would-be  scientist  was  in  the 
right  place  when  World  War  II  opened  up 
a  new  world  of  scientific  marvels.  She  took 
a  job  in  Kearney,  New  Jersey,  at  Western 
Electric,  which  as  the  manufacturing  arm 
of  the  Bell  Telephone  Company  was  devel- 
oping a  technology  with  important  civilian 
and  military  applications— radar. 


"The  word  meant  nothing  to  me,  but  I 
soon  learned,"  she  said.  "We  turned  out 
the  entire  national  output  of  what  we  know 
today  as  microwaves.  Then  we  gave  them 
top-secret  designations  such  as  F-band, 
X-band  and  the  like." 

Six  months  after  she  started  at  WE- 
Kearney,  as  the  big  plant  was  called,  her 
boss,  the  project  engineer,  had  to  take  a 
family  emergency  leave  of  absence. 

"No  one  else  knew  anything  about  the 
project;  it  was  all  in  that  one  man's  head. 
But  we  had  to  carry  on.  and  since  I  had  the 
title  of  assistant  engineer,  it  was  up  to  me 
to  maintain  test  equipment.  We  sweated  it 
out  as  we  went  along,  with  Bell  Labs 
changing  their  minds  every  day." 

That  baptism  prepared  her  for  what 
would  become  a  37-year  stint  at  the  Naval 
Surface  Warfare  Center.  As  a  research 
chemist  in  the  Manufacturing  Technology 
Department,  Methods  Branch,  she's  still 
working  on  top-secret  assignments,  includ- 
ing research  into  some  of  the  weapons  used 
so  successfully  during  the  Persian  Gulf 
war. 

During  her  career,  she  has  made  forays 
into  work  on  propellant  rockets,  missiles 
and  explosives.  Now  she  has  turned  her 
attention  to  sophisticated  experiments  in 
cleaning  up  the  environment. 

She  writes  and  oversees  research  propos- 
als, and  gives  seminars  and  makes  reports 
to  high-level  officials.  She  recently  ap- 
peared at  a  conference  at  NASA's  Kennedy 
Space  Center  to  talk  on  "The  Environ- 
mental Fate  of  Some  Energetic  Materials," 
among  them  explosives,  pyrotechnics  and 
propellants. 

Her  work  in  environmental  research 
began  in  the  early  1970s  when  she  took 
part  in  a  joint  project  with  the  U.S. 
Environmental  Protection  Agency  (EPA) 
to  study  heavy  metals  in  the  sediment  of 
the  Potomac  River. 

Currently,  she  is  one  of  the  few  people 
looking  at  the  lingering  environmental 
impact  of  explosives.  She  is  overseeing 
research  on  a  microorganism  called  white- 
rot  fungus,  which  may  be  useful  in  cleaning 
up  old  bombing  ranges  and  Department  of 


Defense  installations  where  explosives, 
propellants  and  munitions  have  been  manu- 
factured or  tested. 

She  is  also  involved  in  finding  new 
methods  for  getting  rid  of  other  environ- 
mentally harmful  matter,  including  heavy 
metals  like  mercury  and  lead,  volatile 
compounds  and  other  toxic  and  hazardous 
substances  that  can  no  longer  be  sent  to 
landfills. 

"We  need  to  find  newer  and  safer 
disposal  and  cleanup  methods."  she  states. 
"We  can  no  longer  rely  on  open  burning." 

One  part  of  this  project  will  be  to  help 
the  Navy  find  ways  to  meet  the  require- 
ments of  the  new  Clean  Air  Act  and  the 
Montreal  Protocol  Treaty  (the  latter  deals 
with  controlling  ozone-depleting  chemicals 
in  the  upper  atmosphere). 

Despite  her  concern  about  environmental 
issues,  she  takes  a  conservative  view  of 
how  fast  changes  can  be  made.  "In  some 
respects,  some  of  the  environmentalists  are 
moving  too  fast,  too  soon.  There  must  be 
a  compromise  between  economics— what 
it  costs  in  dollars  and  jobs— and  cleaning 
up  the  Earth,"  she  states. 

Intrepid  globe-trotter 

Despite  her  busy  career,  Mae  Fauth  has 
found  time  over  the  years  to  travel  to  160 
countries.  Her  four  favorites  are  Antarc- 
tica, Tibet,  New  Guinea  and  the  People's 
Republic  of  China. 

When  asked  about  her  fondest  memory 
from  her  travels,  she  closes  her  eyes, 
smiles  and  recalls  standing  at  the  top  of 
Kambula  Pass  in  Tibet,  looking  down 
16,404  feet  onto  Turquoise  Lake. 

"That  was  in  1981,  and  up  to  that  time, 
a  visit  there  was  the  impossible  dream," 
since  the  country  was  closed  to  outsiders, 
especially  tourists,  she  explains.  Since 
then,  she  has  been  back  three  times. 

Other  itineraries  have  taken  her  to  some 
of  the  most  exotic  sites  in  the  world.  She 
has  been  to  China  four  times  as  a  tourist 
and  once  as  an  environmental  expert  in- 
vited by  the  People's  Republic  Environ- 
mental Group  to  make  suggestions  about 


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Peak  experiences  in  Fauth's  travels:  the  ice 
caps  of  Antarctica,  where  she  was  once 
shipwrecked,  and  the  people  of  Lhasa,  Tibet. 


the  problems  plaguing  that  country.  During 
her  trip,  she  looked  at  environmentally 
stressed  sites:  the  dangerous  levels  of  heavy 
metals  in  the  groundwater  in  the  industrial 
northeast,  the  harbor  pollution  and  acid 
rain  in  Shanghai  ("they  don't  scrub  their 
sulphur  dioxide  out  of  the  air  as  we  do"), 
the  falling  water  table  in  the  semi-arid  north 
and  the  lack  of  central  sewage  treatment 
facilities  throughout  China. 

She  last  visited  the  Soviet  Union  in 
1986.  After  the  events  of  last  summer,  she 
doesn't  think  she  wants  to  return  for  a 
while:  "I  worry  about  the  nuclear  weapons 
if  it  becomes  too  disorganized  there." 


Among  the  highlights  of  her  travels  are 
trips  from  Borneo  to  Burma  and  from  Los 
Angeles  to  Jakarta;  a  long  journey  through 
Australia,  Tasmania  and  Honolulu;  a  cruise 
off  the  British  Isles;  numerous  other  visits 
to  Europe  (both  Western  and  Eastern 
before  the  Berlin  Wall  fell);  and  visits  to 
India  and  Egypt.  She  has  also  visited  each 
of  the  United  States,  including  Alaska  this 
past  summer. 

There  have  been  plenty  of  adventures 
along  the  way,  capped  by  being  ship- 
wrecked off  the  tip  of  Antarctica  on  Feb. 
11,  1972,  with  165  passengers  and  crew. 

But  let  her  tell  it: 


"It  was  snowing  and  blowing  a  gale. 
The  ship  ran  aground  on  a  submerged  rock 
off  South  Shetland  Island. 

"Fortunately,  I  had  bought  the  best 
Eddie  Bauer  goosedown  gear  I  could  find. 
When  the  knock  came  on  the  door  at  5 
a.m.  telling  us  to  get  dressed  in  our 
warmest  clothing,  that's  what  I  put  on.  A 
little  later  the  captain  took  the  mike  and 
announced  that  we  would  abandon  ship. 

"We  had  had  a  number  of  lifeboat  drills, 
so  we  were  prepared.  We  got  into  the 
Zodiacs  [inflatable  boats] .  If  The  Explorer 
hadn't  been  double-hulled,  we  would  have 
sunk  in  minutes.  As  it  was,  we  were  in  the 
lifeboats  for  four  hours  before  being  picked 
up  by  a  Chilean  naval  vessel,  the  Piloto 
Pardo. " 

On  her  trips,  Dr.  Fauth  prefers  to  sign 
up  by  herself  for  specialized  group  tours. 
"That  way  I  can  be  independent  and  learn 
to  know  my  fellow  travelers  as  we  go," 
she  explained.  In  many  instances,  an 
assigned  roommate— a  stranger  at  first — 
becomes  a  good  friend. 

She  makes  sure  to  keep  her  travel 
calendar  clear  for  Lebanon  Valley's  annual 
Homecoming  and  Alumni  weekends.  Her 
slide  shows  on  her  adventures  have  become 
a  welcome  feature  of  reunions. 

At  home  with  Fluffa 

An  only  child  of  a  mother  who  lived  to  be 
91  and  a  father  who  died  three  weeks  short 
of  99,  May  Fauth  has  many  cousins  and 
lots  of  friends.  But  she  prefers  to  live 
alone— except  for  her  cat.  Currently  resid- 
ing with  her  in  Maryland  is  Fluffa,  a 
four-year-old  Maine  coon  cat. 

In  considering  her  career  and  life,  would 
she  do  anything  differently  if  she  could? 
"No,  I  have  had  an  interesting  life  and  there 
is  nothing  in  particular  that  I  would 
change,"  she  replies.  That  includes  her 
philosophy.  Her  key  to  success?  "Hang  in 
there  when  the  going  gets  tough." 

Lois  Fegan  is  a  Hershey  freelance  writer 
whose  journalism  career  has  spanned  half 
a  century. 


Winter  1992 


True  to  Our 
Character 


The  marketplace  hasn't 
been  kind  to  liberal  arts 
colleges.  But  Lebanon 
Valley  has  kept  at  its  heart 
a  passion  for  teaching, 
learning  and  serving. 

By  Dr.  William  McGill 


What  characterizes  liberal 
arts  colleges?  What  sets 
them  apart  from  the 
more  than  3,000  other 
institutions  of  higher 
education  in  the  United  States?  David  W. 
Breneman.  former  president  of  Kalamazoo 
College  and  currently  a  visiting  fellow  at 
the  Brookings  Institution,  has  described 
liberal  arts  colleges  as: 

distinguished  by  a  mission  of  providing 
four-year  baccalaureate  education  . . .  in  a 
setting  that  emphasizes  and  rewards  good 
teaching  above  all  else.  These  colleges 
tend  to  enroll  small  numbers  of  students: 
they  emphasize  liberal  education  over 
professional  training.  They  are  the  source 
of  a  disproportionate  number  of  graduates 


who  go  on  to  earn  doctorates  and  to  pursue 
academic  careers.  Their  "privateness" 
means  that  certain  values— religious  and 
otherwise— can  inform  their  mission  in 
ways  not  possible  at  state  institutions, 
while  their  small  size  makes  possible  a 
sense  of  community  among  students,  fac- 
ulty, and  staff  that  can  rarely  be  achieved 
in  larger  settings. 

In  his  study  of  liberal  arts  colleges, 
Breneman  defined  them  by  their  educa- 
tional ideals.  They  are  primarily  under- 
graduate, residential  institutions  granting 
the  majority  of  their  degrees  in  the  arts  and 
sciences.  By  that  definition,  he  concluded 
that  their  numbers  are  shrinking:  of  the 
3,400  colleges  and  universities  in  the 
United  States,  only  about  200  now  are  true 


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liberal  arts  colleges— among  them  Lebanon 
Valley  College. 

The  other  400  or  so  once  thought  of  as 
liberal  arts  colleges  did  not  disappear. 
Rather,  in  the  face  of  marketplace  pres- 
sures—a declining  number  of  high  school 
graduates,  shifting  societal  expectations 
and  dramatically  rising  costs  for  the  re- 
sources colleges  need  to  function  (scientific 
equipment,  new  technologies,  books  and 
such  mundane  things  as  utilities)— many 
colleges  have  changed  their  character. 
They  have  begun  to  emphasize  vocationally 
oriented  curricula.  They  have  removed 
requirements  (for  example,  studying  a 
foreign  language)  that  are  inherently  part 
of  the  liberal  arts  tradition  but  that  might 
discourage  prospective  students  from  at- 
tending. And  they  have  come  to  translate 


all  educational  questions  into  fiscal  ones. 

The  forces  stimulating  this  response  are 
essentially  external  to  the  colleges  them- 
selves. But  the  colleges'  response,  which 
amounts  to  the  rejection  or  neglect  of  the 
qualities  that  made  them  liberal  arts  col- 
leges in  the  first  place,  derives  from  an 
internal  crisis:  the  loss  of  a  sense  of 
purpose.  I  will  not  recite  here  the  history 
of  higher  education  over  the  last  two 
decades.  But  one  of  the  critical  develop- 
ments has  been  a  crisis  of  confidence  in 
institutional  purposes,  an  inability  of  peo- 
ple within  an  institution  to  agree  about 
what  they  are  doing— or  at  least  an  unwill- 
ingness to  make  the  effort  necessary  to 
define  common  purposes  and  implement 
them. 

The  result  is  that  faculty  and  administra- 
tors generally  do  not  take  seriously  the 
statements  of  purpose  or  mission  adorning 
college  catalogs  as  criteria  by  which  to 
judge  programs  and  policies.  Lacking  such 
criteria,  colleges  seize  upon  others  that 
they  imagine  to  be  more  concrete:  market- 
ability, credit-hours  generated,  cost/benefit 
analyses  and  the  like.  Such  measures  have 
their  usefulness,  but  when  substituted  for 
the  educational  mission,  they  inevitably 
produce  the  kinds  of  changes  that  funda- 
mentally alter  the  character  of  a  college. 

Lebanon  Valley  College  has  confronted 
the  same  external  forces  as  have  most  other 
liberal  arts  colleges,  and  we  have  re- 
sponded and  adapted  in  a  variety  of  ways. 
But,  as  Breneman's  list  recognizes,  we 
have  continued  to  affirm  our  essential 
character,  and  that  character  is  most  clearly 
seen  in  our  hopes  for  our  students.  We 
want  our  students: 

1 .  to  develop  a  genuine  concern  for  coop- 
erative living  and  community  service; 

2.  to  attain  a  heightened  sense  of  moral 
and  spiritual  values  through  a  deepened 
awareness  of  how  people  have  thought  of 
themselves  in  relation  to  nature,  to  society 
and  to  God; 

3 .  to  appreciate  the  close  and  unmistakable 


relationship  among  rational  thought,  crea- 
tive imagination  and  moral  commitment; 
and 

4.  to  deal  candidly  and  intelligently  with 
the  past,  the  present  and  the  future  and  their 
interrelationship. 

We  affirm  those  hopes  in  the  college's 
statement  of  purpose.  In  its  present  form, 
that  statement  is  relatively  new,  but  its 
essence  goes  back  directly  to  those  who 
founded  this  college  in  the  1860s  and  to  the 
ethos  of  the  United  Brethren  Church.  In 
reply  to  the  question  of  why  they  should 
found  a  college,  they  asserted  that  God  had 
bestowed  on  human  beings  both  a  capacity 
to  know  and  a  desire  for  knowledge,  that 
He  had  not  done  so  "with  a  view  to  their 
never  being  improved  .  .  .  but,  on  the 
Contrary,  desires  &  demands  an  improve- 
ment of  the  faculties  given."  And,  no  less 


(Opposite  page)  Dr.  Paul  Heise  explains 
an  idea  in  his  seminar  on  the  history  of 
economic  thought.  (Above)  Economics  Pro- 
fessor Jeanne  Hey  takes  a  moment  to  chat 
with  senior  Tom  Rhoads. 


importantly,  the  founders  asserted  that 
education  was  essential  to  enable  people 
to  properly  fulfill  their  responsibility  to  and 
for  others. 

Over  the  years,   the  United  Brethren 
Church  was  transmuted  into  the  Evangeli- 


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Dr.  Diane  Iglesias.  chair  of  the  Foreign  Language  Department,  has  won  state  and  national  teaching  awards. 


cal  United  Brethren  and  then  into  the 
United  Methodist  Church.  The  relationship 
of  the  college  to  the  church  has  also  had 
various  transformations.  We  have  sought 
new  and  more  contemporary  ways  of 
expressing  our  purpose  and  conducting  our 
mission.  But  the  mission  remains  funda- 
mentally unchanged:  to  develop  in  our 
students  discriminating  minds  and  under- 
standing hearts  so  that  they  may  discharge 
the  duties  that  flow  from  the  varied 
relations  of  life. 

The  principal  reason  for  our  steadfast- 
ness in  pursuing  this  hope  is  (and  I  think 
always  has  been)  the  quality  of  our  faculty. 


When  I  came  to  Lebanon 
Valley  College  in  1986,  I  came 
because  of  my  assessment,  dur- 
ing the  interview  process,  of  the  quality  of 
the  faculty.  Now,  five  years  later,  after 
getting  to  know  faculty  members  better, 
with  all  their  strengths  and  foibles,  I  find 
myself  even  more  impressed  with  them  and 
clearer  about  what  so  struck  me  then.  By 
quality,  I  am  not  invoking  a  nebulous, 
generalized  judgment  about  how  good  they 
are.  I  am  referring  to  specific  characteris- 


tics of  excellence  that  I  think  make  Leba- 
non Valley  College  what  it  is.  Most 
particularly,  the  faculty  possess  an  excep- 
tional passion  for  teaching. 

Reflect  again  on  Breneman's  description 
of  liberal  arts  colleges.  He  notes  that  such 
colleges  provide  an  inordinately  high  num- 
ber of  people  who  go  on  to  do  graduate 
work  and  to  pursue  academic  careers.  That 
outcome  arises  directly  from  the  quality  of 
the  teacher-student  relationship.  Students 
who  choose  to  become  college  teachers 
often  do  so  to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of 
those  whom  they  most  admire— and  to 
provide  others  with  the  same  kind  of 
teaching  they  themselves  received.  Over 
the  last  several  years,  numerous  organiza- 
tions and  agencies  have  conducted  studies 
examining  which  colleges  and  universities 
produce  the  graduates  who  go  on  to  earn 
Ph.D.s  in  the  sciences,  the  humanities  and 
the  social  sciences.  Almost  invariably  the 
name  of  Lebanon  Valley  appears  on  such 
lists  in  a  very  prominent  place,  amidst  the 
Ivies  and  the  Little  Ivies  and  the  high 
visibility  colleges.  Compared  with  all  3,400 
colleges  and  universities  in  the  country, 
we  rank  in  the  top  3  or  4  percent  in  terms 
of  the  proportion  of  our  graduates  who  go 


on  to  earn  a  doctorate.  Even  in  comparison 
with  the  other  liberal  arts  institutions  on 
Breneman's  list,  our  performance  is  re- 
markable. Lebanon  Valley's  record  pro- 
vides dramatic  proof  of  the  special  nature 
of  student-teacher  relationships  here. 

When  President  John  Synodinos  first 
came  to  the  college,  he  asked  a  group  of 
students  whether  they  expected  to  maintain 
some  contact  with  one  of  their  teachers 
after  graduation.  He  reports  that  the  stu- 
dents laughed  and  said,  "Why  just  one?" 
That  response  is  not  merely  a  tribute  to  the 
faculty's  friendliness.  It  is  most  of  all  a 
tribute  to  their  commitment  to  teaching,  to 
the  intense  interpersonal  relationships  that 
are  at  the  heart  of  good  teaching. 

In  national  studies  of  what  makes  teach- 
ers effective,  an  enthusiasm  for  one's 
subject  often  emerges  as  the  most  impor- 
tant characteristic,  but  not  all  people  with 
enthusiasm  for  their  subjects  can  teach 
well.  The  critical  characteristic  is  really  a 
passion  for  teaching  one's  subject  to  others. 
That  passion  ultimately  derives  from  a 
sense  of  responsibility  to  and  for  others,  a 
commitment  to  the  ideal  of  teaching  as 
service.  That  passion  produces  a  sensitivity 
to  the  learners,  a  readiness  to  seek  ways 


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Great  teaching  is  ultimately 
personal  and  relational. 
That  is  why  it  occurs  more 
often  in  relatively  small 
colleges. 


of  making  the  material  more  comprehensi- 
ble to  them  and  an  energy  that  enlivens  the 
exchange  of  information  and  ideas. 

Great  teaching  is  ultimately  personal  and 
relational.  That  is  why  it  occurs  more  often 
in  relatively  small  colleges,  which  both 
value  the  personal  element  of  education 
and  have  environments  that  facilitate  it. 
But  there  is  a  great  danger  in  teaching:  the 
temptation  to  dominate.  Teachers  have 
mastery  of  a  subject,  and  knowledge  is 
power.  Teachers  can  use  their  knowledge 
to  dazzle  young  minds,  to  satisfy  their  own 
egos,  to  create  disciples  who  will  sit  at  their 
feet  and  admire  them.  But  the  ideal  of 
teacher  as  servant  guards  against  this 
temptation  and  mitigates  the  danger. 

This  ideal  is  essential  to  the  character 
of  Lebanon  Valley  College.  If  we  are 
committed,  as  we  say  we  are,  to  educating 
young  men  and  women  for  a  life  of  service, 
then  the  ethos  of  this  community  must 
value  service.  In  particular,  the  relation- 
ships at  the  heart  of  the  educational 
enterprise— the  teacher-student  relation- 
ships—must manifest  that  value. 

For  the  most  part  they  do.  Whenever  I 
speak  with  faculty  or  with  students  about 
the  teaching/learning  experience,  I  am 
impressed  by  the  quality  of  the  relation- 
ships that  exist  between  faculty  and  stu- 
dents here— and  that  quality  explains  the 
answer  the  president  received. 

That  is  not  to  say  that  every  faculty 
member  is  a  great  teacher,  nor  that  all 
teacher/student  relationships  meet  or  even 
approach  the  ideal.  As  a  dean,  I  have  had 
my  share  of  conferences  to  mediate,  mod- 
erate or  mollify  in  student-faculty  situ- 
ations. Faculty  are  human;  they  have  their 
quirks  and  biases,  their  good  days  and  their 
bad,  and  some  are  better  than  others  at 
understanding  how  18-year-olds  or  40-year- 
olds  will  react  to  their  ways  of  doing  things. 


Kenethia  Staley  discusses  a  paper  with  Dr.  Phil  Billings,  chair  of  the  English  Department. 


Just  as  students  have  learning  styles  that  fit 
them  better,  faculty  have  teaching  styles 
with  which  they  are  more  comfortable. 
Almost  everyone  has  an  anecdote  about  a 
Professor  So-and-so  who  was  (is)  a  diffi- 
cult person.  But  the  fact  remains  that  the 
Lebanon  Valley  College  faculty  are  distinc- 
tive in  their  passion  for  teaching,  their 
commitment  to  their  students.  Even  old 
So-and-so  may  act  the  way  he  does  because 
he  wants  so  much  for  his  students. 

Speaking  from  three  decades  of  experi- 
ence in  higher  education  (almost  four  if 
you  count  my  undergraduate  and  graduate 
years),  I  can  say  that  the  faculty  here  are 
very  special  men  and  women.  We  have 
more  great  teachers,  more  very  good 
teachers,  and  far,  far  fewer  problematic 
teachers  than  one  typically  finds,  even  at 
small  liberal  arts  colleges. 

My  point  is  not  simply  to  praise  the 
faculty,  but  rather  to  emphasize  that  it  is 
their  quality,  and  above  all  their  passion 
for  teaching  and  their  understanding  of 
teaching  as  fundamentally  a  service  voca- 
tion, that  has  enabled  Lebanon  Valley 
College  to  persist  in  its  commitment  to 
liberal  education. 

The  central  purpose  of  the  liberal  arts 


tradition  in  a  democratic  society  is  to 
prepare  people  to  make  a  difference,  to 
contribute  significantly  to  the  communities 
in  which  they  live,  work,  worship  and  play. 
That  purpose  resonates  with  the  intent  of 
the  college's  founders,  and  it  is  what  we 
continue  to  hope  for  today  for  our  students. 
The  faculty  exemplify  this  hope  in  their 
own  lives:  the  language  professor  who  has 
won  a  national  award  for  teaching  and  who 
helps  to  run  the  county  free  meals  program: 
all  of  his  colleagues  who  volunteer  to  help 
in  that  program:  the  political  science  pro- 
fessor who  devoted  proceeds  from  a  book 
to  a  family  shelter;  the  biology  professor 
who  volunteers  for  the  literacy  council. 
We  have  not  lost  our  sense  of  purpose 
because  we  have  faculty  who  teach  with 
more  than  words  and  in  arenas  beyond  the 
classroom.  And  because  we  have  not  lost 
that  sense,  we  have  had  the  ability  to 
respond  to  the  external  challenges  in  ways 
consistent  with  our  tradition.  We  have 
found  ways  to  change  our  face  without 
chanaina  the  content  of  our  character. 


William  McGill  is  vice  president  and  dean 
of  the  college. 


Winter  1992 


Spinner 
of  Yarns 


John  Barth  brought  along 
his  pen,  his  binder  and  his 
novel- in-progress  to  steer 
young  writers  on  their  own 
voyages  to  the  unknown. 

By  Laura  Ritter 


One  evening  in  late  Septem- 
ber, with  the  Little  Theater 
of  the  Mund  College  Center 
filled  to  capacity  and  dense 
with  expectation,  author 
John  Barth  took  the  stage.  Bald,  with  large 
glasses  and  a  graying  beard,  Barth  is  a  slim 
man.  almost  slight,  but  he  moves  with  the 
quickness  and  balance  of  the  experienced 
sailor  that  he  is.  Taking  position  behind  the 
comparatively  massive  lectern,  Barth 
opened  a  blue  paper  folder,  and  in  a 
smooth,  melodic  voice  began  his  talk. 

For  the  first  time  in  public,  Barth 
presented  a  work  he's  currently  calling 
"Once  Upon  A  Time:  A  Floating  Opera," 
a  novel  so  new  it  is  barely  out  of  what 
Barth  called  its  "first  trimester."  (If  the 
subtitle  has  a  familiar  ring,  it  is  because 
Barth's  first  novel,  written  in  1956,  bears 
the  same  name.) 

The  new  work  is  an  opera  of  the  literary 
kind,  floating,  because  as  it  begins,  a 
couple  sets  off  on  an  end-of-the-season 
sailing  cruise,  meandering  through  the 
marshy  shallows  of  a  bay  not  unlike  the 
Chesapeake,  Barth's  boyhood  home. 
"Life   as   a   voyage    is   trite,    but   it's 


serviceable,"  Barth  told  his  audience.  "For 
a  writer,  every  new  project  is  a  voyage  to 
the  unknown." 

After  an  "overture"  providing  an  outline 
of  the  novel's  plot,  Barth  launched  into 
what  he  calls  an  "aria,"  an  extended  essay 
about  the  old  binder,  acquired  some  40 
years  ago,  in  which  he  has  written  the  first 
draft  of  each  of  his  books.  Though  he 
professed  a  distaste  for  autobiographical 
fiction,  Barth  brought  the  binder  along, 
clear  testament  to  the  autobiographical 
nature  of  his  aria,  which  describes  not  only 
his  notebook  but  eventually  his  pen,  which 
he  extracted  from  his  pocket  at  the  appro- 
priate moment,  flourishing  it  like  a  magi- 
cian would  a  rabbit. 

Some  in  the  audience— one  or  two 
students  and  a  tow-headed  6-year-old  clutch- 
ing a  bear— were  lulled  to  sleep  by  Barth's 
rhythmic  melody,  but  for  many  of  his 
listeners,  expectation  gave  way  to  keen 
attentiveness.  In  witty,  carefully  turned 
phrases,  Barth  drew  the  audience  into  a 
detailed  account  of  his  way  of  writing: 
sitting  at  a  table  with  his  binder,  coffee  cup 
at  hand,  ear  plugs  in  place  even  though  the 
children  whose  presence  first  occasioned 
them  had  long  since  left  home. 

As  the  aria  proceeded,  Barth  mused  as 
to  "which  will  fail  first,  this  old  binder, 
this  old  body  or  the  high-minded  imagina- 
tion that  links  the  two?" 

Barth  appeared  at  Lebanon  Valley  at  the 
invitation  of  Professor  Philip  Billings  and 
the  sponsorship  of  the  Seth  Eisner/Kraft 
Foods  Lecture  Fund.  During  his  entertain- 
ing introduction,  Billings  explained  how 
he  had  first  met  the  author— it  was  just  at 
the  moment  when  he  was  trying  to  decide 
upon  a  dissertation  topic  as  a  graduate 
student  at  Michigan  State.  Billings  chose 
Barth's  fiction  as  his  topic,  and  the  two 
have  maintained  their  acquaintance  ever 
since. 

Before  the  evening  reading  and  recep- 
tion. Barth  spent  most  of  the  day  at  the 
college,  speaking  with  journalists,  students 
and  faculty. 

Barth  speaks  expressively  and  with  pol- 
ished composure,  whether  the  topic  is  10th- 


and  11th-century  Sanskrit  manuscripts, 
architecture  or  fractal  geometry.  Sprinkled 
through  his  lectures  are  quotes  ranging 
from  exotic  fictional  characters  like 
Scheherazade  to  contemporary  novelists 
like  Anne  Tyler  and  Umberto  Eco. 

Listening  to  Barth,  you  might  find  it 
difficult  to  imagine  that  he  grew  up  on 
Maryland's  Eastern  Shore,  in  the  backwa- 
ters of  the  Chesapeake  Bay,  coming  out 
of  what  he  called  "a  mediocre,  semi- 
Southern,  semi-rural,  wartime  school  sys- 
tem with  a  very  poor  education." 

Almost  like  a  character  in  a  novel,  Barth 
chanced  to  discover  he  was  the  recipient 
of  a  scholarship.  And  so  he  made  his  way 
across  the  bay  to  Baltimore  and  "managed 
to  stumble  into  a  very  good  university 
[Johns  Hopkins]  with  no  particular  ambi- 
tion in  mind." 

To  supplement  the  scholarship.  Barth,  a 
drummer  throughout  high  school,  played 
jazz;  he  was  also  given  a  job.  "The 
university  hired  people  to  put  books  back 
on  the  shelf,  and  without  anyone  saying 
so,  we  were  given  to  understand  we  could 
get  lost  with  our  cart  of  books."  It  was  by 
"enormous  serendipity"  that  he  was  as- 
signed to  the  stacks  of  the  classics  depart- 
ment, which  also  contained  what  would 
now  be  called  the  Near-Eastern  and  Far- 
Eastern  stacks.  Lost  amidst  these  shelves, 
Barth  discovered  the  "1,001  Nights"  tales, 
both  in  the  original  Arabic  and  in  Sir 
Richard  Francis  Burton's  "17- volume  trans- 
lation, with  all  the  crazy  footnotes."  Thus 
began  his  lifelong  fascination  with  ancient 
stories,  myths  and  the  master  story  teller, 
Scheherazade. 

"I  came  to  Johns  Hopkins  with  my  mind 
the  classical  blank  tablet  because  of  my 
high  school  education,  which  I  remember 
as  a  sort  of  benign  fuzz  ...  I  don't 
remember  any  education  taking  place.  My 
mind  was  this  perfect  Playdoh  or  Silly 
Putty,  ready  to  have  these  things  entraced," 
Barth  said. 

"As  the  Baptists  talk  of  total  immersion, 
this  was  my  baptism  into  world  literature— 
by  total  immersion." 

Perhaps  in  part  because  the  university 


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represented  such  an  awakening  for  him  (or 
perhaps  because  his  wide-ranging  interests 
require  ready  access  to  a  major  library), 
Barth  has  not  been  far  from  a  campus  ever 
since  his  arrival  at  Hopkins  in  1947.  After 
receiving  first  a  bachelor's  and,  in  1952,  a 
master's  degree  from  Hopkins,  he  began 
teaching  at  Penn  State  and  writing  novels, 
including  The  Floating  Opera,  The  End  of 
the  Road  and  The  Sot-Weed  Factor.  He 
later  taught  at  the  State  University  of  New 
York  at  Buffalo  and  published  three  more 
books:  Giles  Goat  Boy,  Lost  in  the  Fun 
House  and  Chimera,  a  novella  collection 
that  won  the  National  Book  Award  in  1973. 

Barth  returned  to  Hopkins  in  1973  and 
for  nearly  20  years  has  taught  in  The 
Writing  Seminars,  today  considered  one 
of  the  best  writing  programs  in  the  nation. 
Although  he  recently  retired  from  most  of 
his  duties,  he  continues  to  teach  a  graduate 
seminar  in  the  fall. 

Over  the  course  of  his  visit  to  Lebanon 
Valley,  Barth  spoke  often  of  former  stu- 
dents and  of  his  role  in  the  Seminars, 
which,  he  says,  is  not  that  of  a  teacher, 
but  rather  a  coach.  Clearly  recognizing  the 
importance  that  literature  played  in  his  own 


"I  make  no  attempt  to 
keep  up-to-date  with 
contemporary  fiction. 
It  is  probably  a 
mistake  to  douse  your- 
self in  too  much  of  the 
brand-new. " 

— John  Barth 


life,  he  urged  students  to  read  widely,  not 
only  their  "heroes  of  the  moment"  but  also 
to  "take  a  look  back  in  the  corridors  of 
literature  from  other  cultures  and  other 
centuries."  Thus  "out  of  the  enormous 
inventory  of  texts,"  they  might  find  "a  Ray 
Carver  and  some  10th-century  Sanskrit 
poet  that  might  come  together  to  help  a 
talented  apprentice  writer  find  out  who  he 
or  she  is." 

Asked  about  what  he  enjoys  reading, 
Barth  replied  that  he  is  currently  in  search 
of  literature's  first  message  in  a  bottle,  and 
has  so  far  read  all  of  Daniel  Defoe's  novels 
without  finding  it.  He  also  recently  under- 
took, for  the  second  time  in  its  entirety, 
1,001  Nights,  in  a  new  translation. 


"I  make  no  attempt  to  keep  up-to-date 
with  contemporary  fiction,"  he  said.  "It  is 
probably  a  mistake  to  douse  yourself  in  too 
much  of  the  brand-new.  I  heard  Bill  Styron 
say  once  that  if  he  hears  a  noise  about  this 
new  writer  or  that  new  writer,  he  sort  of 
waits  and  lets  about  10  years  go  by  .  .  . 
If  they're  still  talking  about  it  after  10 
years,  it  must  be  pretty  good,"  Barth  said. 

By  Styron's  definition,  Barth's  work  is 
certainly  worth  looking  into:  nearly  all  of 
the  11  books  he  has  produced  in  four 
decades  of  writing  are  currently,  to  his 
great  pleasure,  in  print.  In  addition  to 
numerous  American  editions,  his  work  can 
be  read  in  French,  German,  Italian,  Hun- 
garian, Korean,  Finnish,  Japanese,  He- 
brew, Portuguese  and  Polish.  His  most 
recent  novel.  The  Last  Voyage  of  Somebody 
the  Sailor,  was  published  last  February. 
In  it,  a  modern-day  adventurer  who  grew 
up  on  the  Eastern  Shore  finds  himself  in 
Baghdad,  exchanging  stories  with  Sindbad, 
the  sailor  made  famous  by  Scheherazade. 

There  is  a  studied  brilliance  to  much  of 
Barth's  work,  but  Barth  himself  seems 
wary  of  what  he  calls  "soulless,  merely 
razzle-dazzle  pastiche  which  you  see  on 
MTV  for  example,  a  dazzling  montage  of 
portentous  images— portentous  in  that  they 
seem  to  wave  heavy  meaning  at  us  .  .  . 
But  it  is  phony  portent,  it's  phony  apoca- 
lypse." 

To  Barth,  what  separates  literature  from 
mere  razzle-dazzle  is  its  passion.  "What- 
ever the  element  of  irony,  even  of  parody, 
you  will  find  [great  literature]  impassioned. 
It  would  be  directed;  the  real  job  of 
literature  remains,  as  Aristotle  said,  to  talk 
about  human  life,  its  happiness  and  its 
misery,"  Barth  said. 

It  is  perhaps  Barth's  passion,  and  his 
passionate  commitment  to  telling  a  story, 
that  enabled  him  to  hold  the  Little  Theater 
audience  in  his  spell  as  he  sang  his  aria. 
And  if  his  reception  at  the  college  is  any 
indication  of  this  new  work's  success, 
Barth's  latest  novel  should  charm  a  very 
large  audience. 

Laura  Ritter  is  a  Lebanon  fi-eelance  writer. 


Winter  1992 


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ds 

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James  F.  Barr  '59 

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Bombardner  '59 

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Thomas  M.  Cline  '59 

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Roy  G.  Smaltz  Jr.  '52 

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Janice  E.  Miller  '54 

Clifford  W.  Sloyer  '56 

Scott  F.  Dimon  '59 

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W.  Jane  Lochbaum 

Donald  Banchik  '57 

Robert  D.  Kerstetter  '59 

Max  C.  Fisher  '51 

Gerald  R.  Boyer  '53 

Poffenberger  '54 

Robert  S.  Birch  '57 

Sherwood  M.  Kimmel  '59 

Milan  Gerasinovich  '51 

Herbert  S.  Cassel  '53 

Ralph  M.  Ritter  '54 

James  R.  Cramer  '57 

David  W.  Kurr  '59 

Richard  E.  Goldfinger  '5 1 

James  C.  Colucci  '53 

Elsie  M.  Roenigk  '54 

I.  Lynd  Esch  '57 

Grace  E.  Lennox  '59 

James  Greene  '51 

Walter  T.  Courtney  '53 

Bernard  Schaak  '54 

William  D.  Etzweiler  '57 

George  R.  McClure  '59 

Robert  E.  Hartz  Jr.  '51 

Richard  C.  Einsel  '53 

Betty  Louise  Shepherd  '54 

Barry  N.  Franciscus  '57 

Ann  Wertz  McCreary  '59 

Elvin  Heller '51 

Esther  Engle  Eshelman  '53 

Robert  C.  Snavely  "54 

William  T.  Hill  '57 

Frank  E.  Masland  Jr.  '59 

MarlinN.  Hoffer'51 

Edward  C.  Farmer  '53 

Ruth  Hadley  Spencer  '54 

John  R.  Knecht  '57 

Richard  C.  Morrison  '59 

Herbert  Horst  '51 

Douglas  M.  Feaster  '53 

Jean  Ruth  Sprecher  '54 

Robert  C.  Kohr  '57 

June  R.  Morroni  '59 

Lawrence  M.  Kinsella  '51 

Robert  W.  Glaubit  Jr.  '53 

Allison  C.  Stella  '54 

Sylvia  Edris  Kreider  '57 

Rosalyn  Rodgers  O'Shea  '59 

FrankS.  McDaniels'51 

Richard  M.  Greene  '53 

Nancy  Fletcher  Swope  '54 

John  G.  Kurzenknabe  Jr.  '57 

Frank  Ottinger  '59 

James  T.  Magee  '51 

Joseph  V.  Hahn  Jr.  '53 

Ruth  Gutbub  Watson  '54 

Robert  A.  Mease  '57 

Margaret  F.  Robinson  '59 

John  H.Marks '51 

Leslie  Mansley  Hardy  '53 

Samuel  R.  Youse  '54 

Kenneth  R.  Miller  '57 

Richard  W  Rothenberger  '59 

David  B.  Mellor'51 

Walter  A.  Johanns  '53 

Frederic  L.  Moser  '57 

Wayne  A.  Seifarth  '59 

Richard  C.  Moorhead  '51 

Darlis  Hobbs  Jones  '53 

Ronald  A.  Bair  '55 

Peter  J.  Moyer  '57 

Lloyd  R.  Smith  '59 

Albert  Moriconi  '51 

Rudolph  J.  Jordan  '53 

William  H.  Bicksler  '55 

Teresa  M.  Norris  '57 

John  A.  Stonaker '59 

Ruth  Gluck  Page '51 

Charles  G.  Kagey  '53 

Hazel  Crankshaw  Bowman  '55 

Gloria  Foster  Patteson  '57 

Stanley  T.  Winarski  '59 

Ralph  J.  Quarry  '51 

Evelyn  Gehman  Kegerise  '53 

C.  Franklin  Chamberlin  '55 

Paul  Price  '57 

Mary  Ann  Cullen  Yodzis  '59 

Peter  F.  Rulewich  '51 

Geraldine  DeLong  Keglovitz  '53 

Charles  B.  Dix  '55 

Walter  E.  Remmers  '57 

Ann  Lyter  Zafis  '59 

Herman  Smith  '51 

Nancy  Jean  Klein  '53 

Virginia  Ann  Feeser  '55 

William  L.  Schmid  '57 

Lloyd  E.  Stambaugh  Jr.  '51 

Fern  Hostetter  Kurtz  '53 

William  J.  Fisher  '55 

Carl  E.  Seifert  '57 

Paula  D.  Ashbrook  '60 

Bobbie  L.  Synan  '51 

Theodore  Lauer  '53 

Chester  C.  Hollingsworth  '55 

Guy  B.  Sheaffer  '57 

Georgia  Hertzler 

Alice  M.  Wagner  '51 

Don  E.  McNamara  '53 

Masako  Kato  '55 

James  Stansfield  '57 

Bartholomew  '60 

Lois  Perry  Weaver  '51 

Elvin  R.  Miller  '53 

Patricia  Taylor  Keenan  '55 

James  Waddell  '57 

Donna  Briggs  Bechtel  '60 

Patricia  Shannon  Yocum  '51 

Roy  J.  Moore  Jr.  '53 

Ralph  J.  Kneeream  Jr.  '55 

Robert  W  Wagner  '57 

Paul  C.  Bingaman  '60 

John  A.  Ziemian  '51 

Nancy  Klein  Page  '53 

Philip  E.  Krause  '55 

Edward  C.  White  '57 

Robert  B.  Briggs '60 

Joseph  N.  Patterson  '53 

Philip  Krouse  '55 

Nabih  Habib  Younis  '57 

Anna  Elizabeth  Brightbill  '60 

Victor  L.  Alsberg  '52 

Wilmer  N.  Perry  '53 

Edward  R.  McCollum  '55 

Larry  Harvey  '57 

James  R.  Ennis  '60 

John  J.  Arata  '52 

Thomas  B.  Sawyer  '53 

Lorraine  G.  Maun  '55 

Betty  S.  Fox  '60 

Lynn  O.  Blecker  '52 

Sylvester  K.  Stevens  '53 

Patricia  E.  Newpher  '55 

Myrle  Eikner  Bowman  '58 

Mary  Orner  Gray  '60 

Joan  Brown  '52 

Neil  Timberlin  '53 

Oren  R.  Noss  '55 

Phyllis  Homer  Boyce  '58 

Earl  S.  Heckendorn  Jr.  '60 

Ernest  A.  Caprio  Jr.  '52 

Charles  A.  Wagner  '53 

Saundra  J.  Oliver  '55 

Gary  L.  Eppley  '58 

Karl  M.  Heckert  '60 

William  L.  Conrad  '52 

Martha  Alsberg  West  '53 

Rosalind  M.  Orbach  '55 

Albert  W.  Erickson  '58 

Norman  P.  Hernberg  '60 

Francis  R.  Douglass  '52 

Nancy  Linnen  Wrinkle  '53 

Lawrence  E.  Peters  '55 

Kenneth  L.  Fisher  '58 

Suzanne  Dubbs  Hill  '60 

Thomas  Elmore  Jr.  '52 

Howard  Pyle  '55 

Stuart  Gold  '58 

Ernest  V.  Hollis  '60 

Ronald  Fazekas  '52 

Robert  W.  Addiss  '54 

Robert  Rankin  '55 

James  Gravesande  '58 

Geraldine  Hart  Houck  '60 

Arthur  J.  Ferenczy  '52 

Noel  Beebe  '54 

Marlin  J.  Sachs  '55 

Joseph  S.  Green  '58 

Harry  William  Johnson  '60 

Joseph  F.  Fiordano  '52 

Angelo  P.  Bonanni  '54 

William  J.  Sawyer  '55 

Richard  A.  Humbert  '58 

Patricia  Dernier  Kaullen  '60 

Elmer  Hamm  Jr.  '52 

Betsy  Jane  Brodhead  '54 

Robert  T.  Slack  '55 

Elaine  Sproul  Johnson  '58 

Irvin  R.  Legay  '60 

Gerald  D.  Kaspar  '52 

Barbara  Grosky  Collins  '54 

Glenn  J.  Slike  '55 

Paul  E.  Johnson  '58 

Joseph  E.  Mantz  '60 

Edwin  U.  Kreider  '52 

James  R.  Cox  '54 

Thomas  J.  Snukis  '55 

Bernard  F.  Kotanchick  '58 

Warner  L.  Mark  '60 

Rhesa  F.  Martzall  '52 

Rodney  E.  Curry  '54 

Theodore  Stagg  '55 

Albert  M.  Lapioli  '58 

Ralph  G.  Mastrogiovanni  '60 

Marianne  Shenk  Meredith  '52 

Donald  L.  Dixon  '54 

Warren  J.  Strickler  '55 

Allen  D.  Marshall  '58 

David  W.  Mead  '60 

Felix  M.  Morley  '52 

William  E.  Dunn  '54 

Jack  M.  Weiner  '55 

Richard  M.  McHenry  '58 

Jane  Wirbick  Metzgar  '60 

Alvan  Morris  '52 

Mary  A.  Feeman  '54 

Beverly  Hemperly  (Culotta) 

Mary  Ann  Munchel  '60 

Donald  J.  Murray  '52 

Stuart  R.  Feeser  Jr.  '54 

William  W  Edel  '56 

Peiffer  '58 

David  Rowe  '60 

Edward  J.  O'Rourke  '52 

Theodore  R.  Fetter  '54 

JoAnne  R.  Garver  '56 

Russell  H.  Schott  '58 

Joseph  P.  Sevco  Jr.  '60 

Nancy  A.  Paules  '52 

Elaine  Smith  Freeman  '54 

Irmgard  Plessmann  LeFrank  '56 

Nathan  Schwartz  '58 

Stephen  W.  Sevits  '60 

Sylvia  Gueressi  Podged  '52 

Mary  Keeler  Fretz  '54 

Rebecca  Reitz  McKinley  '56 

Martha  Tittle  Schwenk  '58 

Phillis  Long  Snyder  '60 

James  H.  Reber  '52 

Jean  H.  Garverich  '54 

James  R.  Meluskey  '56 

Clark  L.  Snyder  '58 

Erika  Ruth  Staab  '60 

Kenneth  E.  Rossman  '52 

Millard  E.  Gladfelter  '54 

Adrian  O.  Morse  '56 

James  D.  Snyder  '58 

Donna  M.  Hill  White  '60 

Robert  J.  Schirato  '52 

Ronald  C.  Gluck  '54 

Robert  B.  Palmer  '56 

Edgar  N.  Stahley  Jr.  '58 

David  Wike  '60 

Joseph  Sebastian  '52 

Thomas  B.  Henry  '54 

Jerry  G.  Patterson  '56 

Richard  B.  Starr  '58 

William  R.  Yocum  '60 

Clyde  J.  Shaak  '52 

C.  Elwood  Johnson  Jr.  '54 

Lewis  W  Piedi  Jr.  '56 

Mary  Ann  Mutala  Swicarz  '58 

Lorelle  Lynn  Zacharias  '60 

Thomas  A.  Shaak  '52 

Neal  F.  Layser  '54 
Richard  Lenox  '54 

Thomas  L.  Reilly  '56 

Beverkt  Sutton  Tucker  '58 
James  Wright  '58 

14        The  Valley 


LECTURES 


CONCERTS 


[1U1    coui7 


WINTER/SPRING  1992 


World-class  perform  ins  artists, 
scinti I  latins  speakers,  a  festival  of 
classic  films,  wild  and  wacky  come- 
dians—they're all  on  tap  this  winter 
and  sprins  at  Lebanon  Valley  Collese. 
Join  us  for  drama  and  dance,  for 
Opera  Outreach  and  recitals  and  for 
the  collese's  traditionally  excellent  art 
exhibits,  concerts  and  athletic  events. 
This  year,  too,  the  campus  welcomes 
a  new  addition:  the  well-known 
Authors  &  Artists  series. 


JUDY  RICHARDSON 

February  26 
Civil  Rights  activist  and 
producer  of  "Eyes  on  the 
Prize,"  Richardson  takes 
you  behind  the  scenes  of 
her  award-winning  public 
television  series. 


ARTHUR  GREENE 

February  9 

The  young,  internationally 

acclaimed  pianist  performs 

music  by  Liszt,  Chopin  and 

Beethoven. 


MODERN  MANDOLIN 
QUARTET 

February  8 

Back  for  a  second  time,  the 

quartet  offers  an  exciting 

new  twist  to  classical 

music. 


i 


*     5'     10    13    ,1! 


Men's  Basketball 

Rinso  Marquette 

Tournament 

Lynch  Gym,  6  and  8  pm 


Men's  Basketball 

Rinso  Marquette 

Tournament 

Lynch  Gym,  1  and  3  pm 


Women's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  College  of 
Notre  Dame 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


Men's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Juniata 
Lynch  Gym,  8  pm 
JV  Game,  6  pm 


Men's  Baske 
LVC  vs.  Diet 
Lynch  Gym, 


22 


WED 


Swimming 

LVC  vs.  Elizabethtown 

Arnold  Sports  Center,  7  pm 

Men's  Basketball 

LVC  vs.  Western  Maryland 

Lynch  Gym,  8  pm 

JV  Game,  6  pm 


231    25 


Women's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Gettysburg 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


Honors  Orchestra 
Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center 
7:30  pm 


Wrestling 

LVC  vs.  Susquehanj 

Moravian/Scranton] 

Lynch  Gym,  12  pm 

Swimming 

LVC  vs.  Western  Ma 

Arnold  Sports  Centq 

Women's  Basketbai 
LVC  vs.  Delaware  w 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


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ta 


1 


SAT 


Honors  Band 
Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center 
7:30  pm 


Indoor  Track 

LVC  Invitational 

Arnold  Sports  Center,  1  pm 

Women's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Eastern 
Mennonite 
Lynch  Gym,  5  pm 

Men's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Moravian 
Lynch  Gym,  3  pm 
JVGame,  1  pm 


2     % 


■aiKiiMif/j« 

"Small  Change" 

Miller  Chapel,  Room  101 

7:30  pm 


Women's  Basketball 

LVC  vs.  Franklin& 

Marshall 

Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


^^THURS 

o 


BEnEnEZEJ 

Samuel  Oberholtzer 
"Literature  in  Opera" 
Faust  Lounge 
Mund  College  Center 
11  am 


Men's  JV  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Bucknell 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


14    15  16.  18 


Greg  Morton 

Comedian 

Underground 

Mund  College  Center,  9  pm 


Wrestling,  LVC  vs. 
Gettysburg/Salisbury 
State  Lynch  Gym,  6  pm 

Women's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Dickinson 
Lynch  Gym,  2  pm 


"Walkabout" 
Miller  Chapel 
Room  101, 7:30  pm 


TUES 


Professor  Elizabeth  Billings 

"Shakespearean  Drama 

in  Opera' 

Faust  Lounge 

Mund  College  Center,  1 1  am 


Tina  Washington 

Pennsylvania's  Teacher 

of  the  Year,  1991 

Faust  Lounge 

Mund  College  Center,  6:30  pm 


X 


1 


SUN 


■/MUTISM 

Faculty  Potpourri  Concert 

Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center,  3  pm 


3 

TUES 


■.IJdM.IIWl^iB 

Ruth  Kuchinsky 
"The  Arts  in  Special 
Education" 
Faust  Lounge 
Mund  College  Center 
11  am 


5 


Arceneaux  and  Mitchell 

Comedians 

Underground 

Mund  College  Center,  9:30  pm 


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sat  m  Da) 

m  Lut 

M  Bla 

^  8p 


21 


SAT 


High  School  Competition 
Blair  Music  Center 
8:30  am -5  pm 


Softball 

LVC  vs.  Elizabethtown 

Arnold  Field,  1  pm 

Baseball 

LVC  vs.  Dickinson 

Arnold  Field,  1  pm 


22 


Norma  Richar 

Oil  on  porcelain 

2-4  pm 

Exhibition  runs 

March  1 5  through  April  5 

Mund  College  Center 


^ 


£ 


LVC  Concert  Choir 
Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center 
7:30  pm 


Touch  of  Bi 
Lutz  Hall  I 
Blair  Music 
8:30  pm 


CLASSICAL  INDIAN 
MUSIC 

January  1 7 
Experience  the  magic 
of  Indian  music  with 
ethnomusicologists  John 
Protopapas  and  Jan 
Eyerhave,  who  have 
studied  under  master 
musicians  in  India  and 
performed  internationally. 


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BRIAN  BEDFORD 

March  28 

One  of  North  America's 
finest  Shakespearean 
actors,  he  presents  his  one- 
man  show,  "The  Lunatic, 
the  Lover  and  the  Poet,"  a 
glorious  two-hour  festival  of 
Shakespeare. 


Pianist,  composer,  vocalist 
and  arranger,  he  provides 
a  wonderful  taste  of  New 
Orleans,  with  French 
Quarter  jazz  on  the  piano. 


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FILM  FESTIVAL 

This  international  series 
features  five  classics  about 
"Childhood:  The  Lost 
World."  The  films,  shown 
on  Sundays  in  January  and 
February,  are:  "My  Life  as 
a  Dog,"  "Hope  and  Glory," 
"Small  Change,"  "My  Uncle 
Antoine"  and  "Walkabout." 


21 


16s    17 

__v~^_  FRI 


Women's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Swarthmore 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


Classical  Indian  Music 

Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center,  8  pm 


18    19 


Men's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Muhlenberg 
Lynch  Gym,  3  pm 
JVGame,  1  pm 


SUN 


"Hope  and  Glory" 
Miller  Chapel,  Room  101 
7:30  pm 


26„  28 


"My  Life  as  a  Dog" 
Miller  Chapel,  Room  101 
7:30  pm 


TUES 


Professor  Elizabeth  Billings 
"The  History  of  Opera" 
Faust  Lounge 
Mund  College  Center 
11  am 


29 

WED 


Wrestling 

LVC  vs.  Elizabethtown 

Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


L 

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i 


8 


SAT 


azz  Band 

i Vazquez 

mer/percussionist/ 

oser 

Hall 

vlusic  Center,  7:30  pm 


msEsmsssm 

Modern  Mandolin  Quartet 

Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center,  8  pm 


Wrestling 

LVC  vs.  Western 

Maryland/Mansfield/ 

Ursinus 

Lynch  Gym,  12  pm 

Swimming 

LVC  vs.  Washington 

Arnold  Sports  Center,  1  pm 


■JIWUiMW 

"My  Uncle  Antoine" 
Miller  Chapel,  Room  101 
^    7:30  pm 


M^!II:IU.]-JJ!II!« 

Barbara  Skelly 

Watercolors 

Exhibition  through  March  7 

Mund  College  Center 


Arthur  Greene 

Pianist 

Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center 

3  pm 


21     22 


i  Ba  9tball 

's.G  tysburg 

lGy  8  pm 

arne  om 


Women's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Western  Maryland 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


PERFORMING  ARTS* 


"Barefoot  in  the  Park" 
Student  Production 
Little  Theater 
Mund  College  Center 
8  pm 


Wrestling 
LVC  vs.  Albright 
Lynch  Gym,  12  pm 
Alumni  Game,  6  pm 


Men's  Basketball 
Hot  Dog  Frank  Night 
LVC  vs.  Franklin  &  Marshall 
Lynch  Gym,  8  pm 


PERFORMING  ARTS* 


"Barefoot  in  the  Park" 
Student  Production 
Little  Theater 
Mund  College  Center 
8  pm 


Erwin  Chan 
French  Hor 
Lutz  Hall 
Blair  Music 
3  pm 


1 


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Wile 

lall 

Ausic    enter 


THURS 


Dr.  Albert  Alley 

"Eye  Surgery  Mission  to 

Third  World  Countries" 

Little  Theater 

Mund  College  Center 

1:15  pm 


I'MfiHl 


Dr.  Arthur  McCardle 
"Language  and  Opera" 
Faust  Lounge 
Mund  College  Center 
1 1  am 


WED 


Baseball 

LVC  vs.  Albright 

Arnold  Field,  3  pm 


24 


W«J^;l^»l'tl:l^^:d 

Gayle  Zimmerman 
"Speech  Pathology" 
Faust  Lounge 
Mund  College  Center 
11  am 


Baseball 

LVC  vs.  Swarthmore 

Arnold  Field,  3  pm 


26™    28 


ENGLISH  COLLOQUIUM 


"Sexual  Politics:  Shoot-Out 

at  Gender  Gap" 

Little  Theater 

Mund  College  Center,  2  pm 


SAT 


mmmmnm 

Brian  Bedford 

"The  Lunatic,  the  Lover 

and  the  Poet" 

Little  Theater 

Mund  College  Center,  8  pm 


for  Admissi 
Call  for  detc 
(71 7)  867-6 


Baseball 
LVC  vs.  Frs 
Marshall 
Arnold  Fieli 


19 


SUN 


"Hope  and  Glory" 
Miller  Chapel,  Room  101 
7:30  pm 


Wrestling 

LVC  vs.  Elizabethtown 

Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


Indoor  Track 

LVC  Invitational 

Arnold  Sports  Center,  1  pm 

Heidi  Sternberger 
Black  and  white 
photography,  2-4  pm 
Exhibition  Jan.  1 2-Feb.  9 
Mund  College  Center 


30 


Women's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Johns  Hopkins 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


All  of  our  events  are  open 
to  the  public  and  many  are 
free.  Events  that  require 
a  ticket  are  indicated  with 
an  *.  For  more  information 
on  events  or  to  inquire 
about  tickets,  please  call: 


AUTHORS  &  ARTISTS 


Jim  Woland,  (71 7)  867-6036 


FILMS,  THEATRE  PRODUCTIONS 


Mund  College  Center,  (71 7)  867-61 61 
Athletic  Department,  (71 7)  867-6260 


CONCERTS  AND  RECITALS 


Music  Department,  (71 7)  867-6275 


*Admission  Charge 


omzizn 

ncleAntoine" 
Chapel,  Room  101 


Arthur  Greene 

Pianist 
i  March  7        Lutz  Hall 
iter  Blair  Music  Center 

3  pm 


■•liHflH'Wfitill 

Dr.  Kevin  Pry 

"Opera  and  Theater  Arts" 
Blair  Music  Center 
Room  228,  2  pm 


12  13 


Men's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Elizabethtown 
Lynch  Gym,  8  pm 
JV  Game,  Central  Penn 
Business  School,  6  pm 


SPORTS 


Women's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Susquehanna 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


Wrestling 
LVC  vs.  King's 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


Women's  Basketball 
LVC  vs.  Moravian 
Lynch  Gym,  7  pm 


sketball 
=rank  Night 
:ranklin  &  Marshall 
/m,8  pm 

tin  the  Park" 

Production 

:ater 

liege  Center 


£ 


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Mi 


■  «4im'l:WH-1l 

Erwin  Chandler 
French  Horn 
Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center 
3  pm 


idtifriiwm 


Barefoot  in  the  Park" 
Student  Production 
Little  Theater 
Mund  College  Center,  3  pm 


25- 

Mamie  Carlson 
"The  Arts  and  Prison 
Rehabilitation" 
Faust  Lounge 
Mund  College  Center 
11  am 


misi.uju.»« 

Convocation  Ceremony 
Miller  Chapel 


26 


Civil  Rights  Leader 
Judy  Richardson 
Producer  of 
"Eyes  on  the  Prize" 
Faust  Lounge,  7:30  pm 


KM 


THURS 


Baseball 

LVC  vs.  Albright 

Arnold  Field,  3  pm 


Golf 

LVC  vs.  Elizabethtown/ 

Alvernia 

Lebanon  Country  Club 

1  pm 

Baseball 
LVC  vs.  Alvernia 
Arnold  Field 
3  pm 


20 


Dan  Horn 
Ventriloquist 
Room  101 
Miller  Chapel,  9  pm 


18 


SAT 


Bedford 

Lunatic,  the  Lover 

le  Poet" 

Theater 

I  College  Center,  8  pm 


for  Admissions 
Call  for  details: 
(717)867-6181 


Baseball 

LVC  vs.  Franklin  & 

Marshall 

Arnold  Field,  1  pm 


LVC  Symphony/Concerto-Aria 

Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center,  3  pm 


31 


TUES 


SUN 


Baseball 
LVC  vs.  York 
Arnold  Field,  3  pm 


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2 


■.UJ:W.lHJ:im!l 

"History  of  American  Opera" 

Dr.  Kevin  Pry 

Faust  Lounge 

Mund  College  Center,  2  pm 


3 


LIGHT  IN  THE  VALLEY 


Christian  rock  music  festival 
For  details,  call  the  chaplain's 
office:  (71 7)  867-61 35 
Continues  through  the  5th 


Track 

LVC  vs.  Dickinson/ 

Lycoming 

Arnold  Field,  3:30  pm 


■  JJ-H.l-MI8lcM-U.-l 

Dave  Binder,  Singer 
Underground 
Mund  College  Center 
9:30  pm 


Baseball 

LVC  vs.  Widener 

Arnold  Field,  3  pm 


Golf 

LVC  vs.  Allentown/ 
Albright,  Lebanon 
Country  Club,  1  pm 


AUTHORS*  ARTISTS* 


Birdsongs  of  the  Mesozoic 

Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center,  8  pm 


5 


LVC  Symphonic  Band 

Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center,  3  pm 


6     7 


Baseball 

LVC  vs.  Elizabethtown 

Arnold  Field,  3  pm 


EsnaEsxa 

Ann  Simon 
Watercolors 

Exhibition  through  April  1 9 
Mund  College  Center 


LVC  Clarinet  Choir  and 
Flute  Ensemble 
Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center 
8:30  pm 


■.m-W.llW-H.1!! 

Othmar  Carli 

"Theater-Architectural 

History  and  the  Arts" 

Faust  Lounge 

Mund  College  Center,  1 1  am 


Dr.  Gary  Guertner 
Director  of  Studies  at  the 
Army  War  College,  Carlisle 
"National  Security 
Strategy  in  a  New  Era" 
Faust  Lounge 
Mund  College  Center 
1 1  am 


8 WED  ^^ 

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Softball 

LVC  vs.  Franklin  & 

Marshall 

Arnold  Field,  2:30  pm 


Track 

LVC  Invitational 
Arnold  Field 
3:30  pm 


WINHH:l'l-J'JJKil 

Spring  Fashion  Show  and 
Luncheon 
West  Dining  Hall 
Mund  College  Center 
1  pm 


10  M 

— Baa  EHsa 

"Man  of  La  Mancha"  Softball 

Student  Production  LVC  vs. 

Little  Theater  Gettysburg 

Mund  College  Center  Arnold  Field 

8  pm  1  pm 


"Man  of  La  Mancha" 
Student  Production 
Little  Theater 
Mund  College  Center,  8  pm 


Band  Day  featuring  MC 

Gary  De  Lena 

For  information,  contact 

the  Mund  College  Center: 

(717)867-6161 


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"Man  of  La  Mancha" 
Student  Production 
Little  Theater 
Mund  College  Center 
8  pm 


Quartet  Die  Posaunen 
Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center 
8  pm 


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I'B^MV    Arnold  Field,  3  pm  MWK 


LVC  Chamber  Choir 
Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center 
8:30  pm 


Dr.  Kenneth  Laws 

"Dance  and  the  Laws 

of  Physics" 

Faust  Lounge 

Mund  College  Center,  1 1  am 


Golf 

LVC  vs.  Widener/ 
Delaware  Valley 
Lebanon  Valley 
Country  Club,  1  pm 


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Mark  Rust 

Singer 

Social  Quad,  1 1  am 

In  case  of  rain, 

East  Dining  Hall 


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Baseball 

LVC  vs.  Moravian 

Arnold  Field,  1  pm 

Softball 

LVC  vs.  Moravian 

Arnold  Field,  1  pm 


sagaaaaaami 


Art  exhibit,  crafts, 
entertainment,  food 
outside  on  campus 
10am-5pm 


SPRING  ARTS 
FESTIVAL 


Noon  to  5  pm 
See  April  25 


LVC  Percussion  Ensemble 

Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center,  8  pm 


■  XlfTHURS  \ 


Dr.  W.  Fred  Kinsey 
Retired  Director  of  the 
North  Museum,  Lancaster 
"Archeological  Digging" 
Little  Theater 
Mund  College  Center 
1:15  pm 


AUTHORS*  ARTISTS* 


Henry  Butler 

Lutz  Hall 

Blair  Music  Center,  8  pm 


'Admission  Charge 


Lebanon  Valley  College 

of  Pennsylvania 
ANNVILLE,  PA  17003 


S    P    O    R     T    S 


Co-captain  Dawn  Hickman  (#5),  the  team  leader  in  points  for  the  1991  season,  battles  for  position. 


By  John  B.  Deamer,  Jr. 
Sports  Information  Director 

Field  Hockey  (14-6-2) 

Lebanon  Valley's  team,  dominated  by  a 
remarkable  group  of  freshman  talent,  won 
the  1991  Middle  Atlantic  Conference  Cham- 
pionship (MAC)  and  received  an  NCAA 
bid  to  compete  in  the  16-team  tournament 
for  the  national  title. 

Coached  by  Kathy  Tierney,  the  team 
won  its  second  MAC  crown  in  four  seasons 
by  defeating  Drew  in  Madison,  NJ,  2-1, 
on  penalty  strokes.  The  winning  stroke 
came  from  junior  midfielder  April  Myers, 
of  Lewistown. 

Lebanon  Valley  reached  the  champion- 
ship round  after  defeating  Elizabethtown 
on  the  road,  3-2,  and  Johns  Hopkins,  4-0, 
at  Arnold  Field. 

Senior  back  Dawn  Hickman,  of 
Clarksboro,  lead  the  team  in  scoring.  She 
netted  nine  goals  and  assisted  on  four 
others  for  22  points. 

Sophomore  Julie  Brymesser,  of  Boiling 
Springs,  was  second  on  the  team  in  scoring 
with  20  points— nine  goals  and  two  assists. 

Senior  goalie  Sue  Leonard,  of  Boothwyn, 


had  an  outstanding  season  in  the  nets, 
recording  a  .57  goals  against  average.  She 
made  key  saves  against  Drew,  including  a 
penalty  shot  save  in  the  first  overtime. 

Lebanon  Valley  finished  MAC  competi- 
tion with  a  15-7-2  record  and  advanced  to 
the  final  8  of  the  NCAA  National  Tourna- 
ment. In  the  NCAA  Division  III  Field 
Hockey  Championships,  LVC  defeated 
Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute  2-1  on 
penalty  strokes,  but  lost  to  Bloomsburg, 
0-2. 

Football  (4-3-1) 

Numerous  records  were  broken  and 
champions  were  challenged  in  one  of  the 
most  exciting  football  seasons  in  recent 
Lebanon  Valley  College  history. 

The  team  defeated  Albright  (28-10), 
Wilkes  (24-19),  Delaware  Valley  (31-20), 
Western  Maryland  (15-13),  Juniata  (7-0) 
and  Widener  (28-24).  The  wins  over 
Juniata  and  Widener  enabled  LVC  to  finish 
6-3-1 ,  the  team's  best  record  since  1975. 

The  Dutchmen  began  the  season  with  a 
19-19  tie  at  Johns  Hopkins.  Lebanon 
Valley  took  on  nationally  recognized  Ly- 
coming, but  lost  30-20.  This  was  the  most 


points  scored  against  Lycoming  all  season. 

The  Dutchmen  then  gave  Susquehanna 
a  fight  to  the  end,  but  lost  in  an  emotional 
game,  21-20.  The  team  failed  to  convert  a 
two-point  extra  point  with  less  than  five 
minutes  left  in  the  game.  The  team's  other 
disappointment  of  the  year  came  at  Mo- 
ravian, where  the  Dutchmen  lost  in  a 
shootout,  42-32. 

Junior  wide  receiver  Bob  Schwenk,  of 
Reading,  and  junior  quarterback  Erik 
Orndorff,  of  Shippensburg,  have  set  nu- 
merous offensive  team  records  this  season. 

Orndorff  broke  the  season  touchdown 
passing  mark  (13),  season  completion  mark 
(1 18)  and  most  yardage  thrown  in  a  season 
(1,450).  Through  eight  games,  he  owns 
16  touchdown  passes,  has  completed  135 
passes  and  threw  for  1 ,794  yards. 

Schwenk,  who  was  moved  from  quarter- 
back to  wide  receiver  in  the  second  game 
of  the  season,  returned  a  kickoff  83  yards 
for  a  touchdown,  caught  a  98-yard  touch- 
down pass,  owns  eight  touchdown  catches 
on  the  season  (a  new  record),  has  one 
touchdown  rushing,  owns  the  longest  score 
for  a  touchdown  in  team  history  and  has 
601  yards  on  35  receptions. 


Winter  1992        21 


Omdorff,  Schwenk  and  freshman  tail- 
back Corey  Thomas,  of  Lebanon,  have 
received  MAC  Offensive  Player  of  the 
Week  honors  and  numerous  EC  AC  awards. 

Women's  Volleyball  (9-13) 

The  women  faced  the  tall  task  of 
improving  on  last  season's  14-11  mark. 
Coach  Wayne  Perry's  squad  showed  a  lot 
of  determination  and  heart,  battling  through 
a  difficult  schedule  to  finish  9-13. 

Highlights  of  the  season  included  victo- 
ries over  Lycoming,  King's,  Delaware 
Valley,  Lancaster  Bible,  Goucher,  Dickin- 
son and  Wilkes. 

Record-breaking  performances  were 
turned  in  by  senior  Angie  Carl,  of  Hegins; 
junior  Jen  Carter,  of  York;  and  freshman 
Bridget  Lohr,  of  Harrisburg.  Consistent 
play  by  junior  Justine  Hamilton,  East 
Rockaway,  NY;  sophomores  Kelly  Burke, 
of  Cranford,  NJ,  and  Kristine  Kuhn,  of 
Shippensburg;  and  freshmen  Darlene  Mur- 
daugh,  of  New  Castle,  DE,  and  Angie 
Shuler,  of  York,  have  the  team  looking 
forward  to  a  successful  1992-93  season. 

Track  (62-21) 

The  men's  team  defeated  Western  Mary- 
land on  Nov.  2  to  complete  a  62-21  year. 

Scott  Young,  of  Spring  Grove,  led  the 
team  this  season.  In  the  last  meet,  Young 
ran  the  8,000-meter  men's  course  in  a 
school-record  time  of  25:54.  Dutchmen 
freshman  Jeff  Koegel,  of  Wood-Ridge, 
NJ,  finished  off  a  fine  season  as  well, 
ending  second  in  the  race  against  the  Green 
Terrors  with  a  time  of  26:08. 

Freshman  Deanna  Sanders,  of  Lewis- 
town,  led  the  women's  team. 

Soccer (2-16) 

Lebanon  Valley  had  a  frustrating  year 
in  soccer,  finishing  the  season  at  2-16. 

The  leading  scorer  for  the  Dutchmen 
was  junior  midfielder  Shawn  Auman,  of 
Somerset,  who  netted  four  goals  and 
assisted  on  two  others.  Sophomore  captain 
and  midfielder  Mac  Weinberg,  of  Leba- 
non, scored  four  goals  and  had  one  assist. 


Fielding 
Dreams 


In  1931,  the  flawless 
defense  of  Charley  Gelbert 
('28)  earned  him  a  place  in 
the  World  Series  record 
book.  His  claim  to  fielding 
fame  still  stands  today. 

By  Greg  Bowers 

Samuel  Clark  ( '27)  remembers  the  day 
when  teammate  Charles  Gelbert  ('28) 
wandered  in  late  for  football  practice. 
A  star  in  three  Dutchman  sports,  Charley 
Gelbert  had  been  pressing  his  luck  with 
football  coach  Everett  "Hooks"  Mylin.  As 
Clark  tells  it,  Charley  had  fallen  in  love 
with  the  coed  he  finally  married— Mabel 
"Jerry"  Hafer  ('28):  "He'd  walk  with  his 
girl  to  the  football  field,  taking  his  time 
and  usually  arriving  a  little  late. 

"One  day,"  Clark  went  on,  "I  was  sitting 
on  the  bench  next  to  the  coach  when 
Charley  came  ambling  along  with  his  girl. 


He  said,  'Hi,  Hooks,'  and  Hooks  said, 
'Charley  you  might  as  well  turn  around, 
because  you're  not  playing  today.'  He 
didn't  play  him  for  the  next  few  days  after 
that  either,  and  I  think  it  made  a  better  man 


During  his  Valley  days,  Charley   Gelbert 
courted  his  classmate,  Mabel  "Jerry"  Hafer 
(below),  whom  he  later  married. 

out  of  Charley.  That's  the  only  trouble  I 
know  he  had.  Hooks  wouldn't  hesitate  to 
throw  an  athlete  off  the  team." 

It's  been  60  years  since  Charles  Gelbert, 
Lebanon  Valley's  only  career  major  leaguer, 
set  two  baseball  records  that  are  still  in  the 
books.  He  holds  the  World  Series  record 
for  changes  accepted  (42  fielding  opportu- 
nities without  an  error  in  a  seven-game 
series),  and  another  for  his  1.000  fielding 
percentage  in  a  seven-game  series. 

Clark,  who  now  lives  in  Harrisburg,  was 
a  student  manager  at  Lebanon  Valley 
during  Gelbert's  years.  "Charley  was  an 
outstanding  athlete  at  Lebanon  Valley," 
Clark  said.  "He  played  varsity  football, 
basketball  and  baseball,  and  he  lettered  in 
all  of  them."  So  Clark  wasn't  surprised 
when  the  St.  Louis  Cardinals  came  calling 
for  Charley  Gelbert. 

Gelbert  reached  the  big  leagues  in  1929, 
playing  146  games  as  shortstop  for  the 
Cardinals.  That  year,  he  batted  .262  with 
29  doubles.  It  was  the  first  of  four  straight 
seasons  that  Gelbert  was  the  regular  short- 
stop for  St.  Louis. 

It  was  a  good  time  to  be  a  Cardinal. 
Gelbert  joined  a  team  that  carried  at  least 
four  future  Hall  of  Famers:  pitcher  Burleigh 
Grimes,  second  baseman  Frank  Frisch, 
leftfielder  Chick  Hafey  and  first  baseman 
Jim  Bottomley.  The  next  year,  1930,  St. 
Louis  reached  the  World  Series,  against  the 


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The  Valley 


Philadelphia  Athletics.  During  the  season, 
Gelbert  batted  .304  in  a  Cardinal  lineup 
that  featured  all  .300  hitters.  In  the  Series, 
he  batted  .353  (six  for  17).  Still,  the 
Athletics  won  six  games  to  take  the  Series. 

In  a  highlight  that  may  have  gone 
unnoticed  at  the  time,  Gelbert  turned  an 
unassisted  double  play  during  the  Series. 
He's  one  of  only  four  shortstops  who  have 
accomplished  that  feat. 

The  following  season,  the  Cardinals 
were  back  in  the  Series,  against  Philadel- 
phia once  more.  Gelbert  batted  only  .261 
(six  for  23).  But  he  made  up  for  it  in  the 


field,  setting  those  two  records  in  field 
opportunities  and  fielding  percentage. 

"They're  still  in  the  books,"  said  Carl 
Heilman  ('29),  who  remembers  Gelbert  at 
Lebanon  Valley.  "It's  unusual  for  baseball 
records  to  stay  in  effect  that  long." 

Heilman,  of  Mount  Joy,  has  written 
poems  about  Dutchman  baseball  during  the 
Gelbert  years.  His  "Postscript  to  Casey  at 
the  Bat"  was  recently  accepted  by  the 
Baseball  Hall  of  Fame.  In  fact,  Heilman 
says,  it  was  during  a  visit  to  Cooperstown, 
New  York,  that  he  "discovered  that  Gelbert 
was   the   only    Lebanon   Valley   College 


After  making  his  mark  in  the  Major  Leagues,  Gelbert  went  on  to  coach  at  Lafayette 


graduate  who  attained  any  success  in  the 
big  leagues." 

Sadly,  Gelbert's  career  was  shattered 
after  the  1932  season,  when  he  was  shot 
in  the  leg  in  a  hunting  accident.  The  injury 
required  two  years  of  rehabilitation. 

"I  went  to  see  Charley  in  the  hospital  in 
Philadelphia,"  Clark  recalled.  "He  was 
genial,  friendly.  Sure,  he  was  disap- 
pointed, but  not  downhearted." 

The  injury  marked  the  beginning  of  the 
end  of  Charley's  pro  career.  He  did  return 
to  the  Major  Leagues  in  1935,  but  spent 
the  rest  of  his  career  bouncing  from  team 
to  team— Cincinnatti,  Detroit,  Washing- 
ton, Boston,  Brooklyn.  His  replacement 
as  shortstop  on  the  Cardinals  was  Leo 
Durocher. 

In  the  twilight  of  his  career,  Gelbert 
even  took  his  shot  at  the  mound,  throwing 
four  forgettable  innings  for  Washington 
and  Boston.  At  the  end  of  the  1940  season, 
he  retired.  He  went  on  to  coach  baseball 
at  Lafayette  College  in  Easton.  During  his 
21  years  there  as  head  coach,  he  compiled 
over  300  victories  and  took  his  team  to  the 
Division  I  College  World  Series  four  times. 
Gelbert  died  in  Easton  in  1967,  and  his 
beloved  Mabel  died  in  1985. 

Gelbert  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Hall 
of  Fame  at  both  Lafayette  and  Lebanon 
Valley.  His  son  Dan,  now  a  forestry 
consultant  in  Durham,  North  Carolina, 
accepted  the  Lebanon  Valley  honor  on  his 
father's  behalf.  Asked  if  his  father's  60-year- 
old  record  was  still  a  source  of  family 
pride,  Dan  replied,  "Oh  my,  yes.  The 
World  Series  that  he  was  the  star  of  was 
an  incredible  opportunity  for  him." 

Walter  Zemski  ('27)  of  Nanticoke,  who 
was  a  year  ahead  of  Gelbert  at  Lebanon 
Valley,  also  remembers  him  well.  "He  was 
a  gentleman.  He  was  a  little  bit  on  the 
cocky  side,  but  maybe  that's  a  good 
characteristic  for  an  athlete."  Adds  Clark, 
"He  was  an  all-round  athlete.  He  played 
the  games  because  he  loved  them." 

Greg  Bowers  is  a  published  poet  and  an 
award-winning  sports  writer  for  the  York 
Dispatch  and  Sunday  News. 


Winter  1992 


23 


NEWSMAKERS 


Changing  roles 


President  John  Synodinos  and  Dean  Wil- 
liam McGill  have  announced  a  series  of 
personnel  changes  aimed  at  better  integrat- 
ing academic  programs,  student  life  and 
athletics. 

Greg  Stanson,  formerly  director  of 
enrollment  management  services,  has  been 
named  vice  president  for  enrollment  and 
student  services.  He  will  be  responsible  for 
admissions,  financial  aid,  student  services, 
the  Arnold  Sports  Center,  career  planning 
and  placement  and  residential  life.  Stanson 
will  move  to  offices  on  the  second  floor 
of  the  Carnegie  Building. 

William  Brown,  formerly  director  of 
financial  aid,  will  become  director  of 
admissions,  and  Ron  Good,  formerly 
assistant  director  of  admissions,  will  be- 
come associate  director  of  admissions. 

Also  reporting  to  Stanson  will  be  Rusty 
Owens,  director  of  the  Arnold  Sports 
Center,  and  Dave  Evans,  director  of  career 
planning  and  placement. 

Rosemary  Yuhas,  formerly  associate 
dean  of  students,  has  been  named  dean  of 
student  services  and  will  report  to  Stanson. 
Reporting  to  Yuhas  will  be  Dave  Calvario, 
director  of  student  life;  Jennifer  Dawson, 
director  of  student  activities;  and  Julie 
Wolfe,  director  of  the  health  center,  and 
two  part-time  psychological  counselors. 

McGill  will  continue  to  coordinate  rela- 
tionships among  the  areas  of  student  life, 
academic  life  and  athletics.  Reporting  to 
him  will  be  the  chaplain  (who  will  meet 
regularly  with  the  people  responsible  for 
student  life);  Leon  Markowicz,  director 
of  academic  support;  and  Dan  McKinley, 
director  of  leadership  studies.  McGill  will 
also  meet  regularly  with  Stanson  and  Bob 
Hamilton,  vice  president  of  administration. 

The  changes  follow  a  year  of  study, 
precipitated  by  the  retirement  of  George 
"Rinso"  Marquette  ('46)  as  dean  of  stu- 
dents. 

Development  director 

Ellen  Arnold  has  been  appointed  director 
of  development,  responsible  for  the  col- 


Patti  Flannery 


Jeannie  Burns 


Jim  McKee 


24 


The  Valley 


lege's  annual  giving,  foundation  and  corpo- 
ration solicitations  and  planned  giving 
programs. 

Formerly  director  of  annual  giving  at 
Lebanon  Valley,  Arnold  holds  a  bachelor's 
degree  in  economics  and  mathematics  from 
Bucknell  University.  Prior  to  joining  the 
college,  she  was  executive  director  of  the 
Allied  Arts  Fund  in  Harrisburg.  She  is 
certified  as  a  fund-raising  executive  (CFRE) 
through  the  National  Society  of  Fundrais- 
ing  Executives. 

Peterson  Fellowship 

Trustee  John  R.  Eby  ('57)  has  been  named 
the  college's  first  Arthur  L.  Peterson 
Fellow. 

The  Peterson  Fellowship,  named  in 
honor  of  President  Arthur  L.  Peterson,  who 
served  the  college  from  1983  to  1986,  will 
be  an  annual  residency  program  for  individu- 
als who  have  demonstrated  outstanding 
leadership  qualities  through  serving  as  a 
chief  executive  officer  or  in  a  position  of 
equivalent  responsibility  in  a  corporation, 
institution  or  agency. 

The  recipient  will  provide  insights  and 
new  perspectives  to  various  departments 
or  offices  within  the  college  and  also 
lecture  and  teach.  As  the  Peterson  Fellow, 
Eby  will  teach  in  the  management  depart- 
ment and  also  assist  the  office  of  Continu- 
ing Education  in  developing  the  M.B.A. 
program  that  Lebanon  Valley  took  over 
from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Textiles 
and  Science. 

Eby  was  president  and  CEO  of  Com- 
monwealth Communications  Services,  Inc. 
in  Harrisburg  from  1987  to  1990.  He  was 
executive  vice  president  of  the  corporation 
in  1986,  and  was  chief  financial  officer  in 
1985.  Eby  also  held  various  positions  at 
the  Foote  Mineral  Company  in  Exton, 
serving  as  vice  president/controller/secre- 
tary from  1981  to  1985. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  college's 
board  of  trustees  since  1983,  and  currently 
serves  as  vice  chair  of  the  board  and  chair 
of  the  finance  committee.  He  has  also  been 
an  adjunct  assistant  professor  in  accounting. 


Admission  professionals 

Heather  Keeney  has  joined  the  college  as 
admission  counselor.  She  earned  a  bache- 
lor's degree  in  consumer  economics  from 
the  University  of  Delaware  and  was  for- 
merly employed  by  Dean  Witter  Reynolds. 
Also  new  in  admissions  is  Marcella 
Elaine  Lightfoot,  who  has  been  hired  as 
a  counselor.  A  graduate  of  the  University 
of  Pittsburgh,  she  worked  for  the  Baltimore 
International  Culinary  College  before  join- 
ing Lebanon  Valley. 


New  faces 

Patti  Flannery  has  been  hired  as  a  finan- 
cial aid  counselor.  She  graduated  from 
Bucknell  University  with  a  bachelor's 
degree  in  psychology  and  was  formerly 
employed  with  True  Temper  Hardware 
Manufacturers  in  Camp  Hill.  She  is  mar- 
ried to  the  men's  basketball  coach,  Pat 
Flannery. 

Vicki  Cantrell  has  been  named  secre- 
tary of  financial  aid.  She  is  taking  the  place 
of  Leslie  Bojanic,  who  is  now  working  at 
the  college's  Lancaster  branch  at  Franklin 
&  Marshall  College.  Cantrell  was  formerly 
employed  by  Butler  Manufacturing  in  Leba- 


Advancement  coordinator 

N.  Jeannie  Burns  has  been  appointed 
phonathon  coordinator  for  Advancement, 
a  part-time  position  which  will  continue 
through  the  academic  year.  She  will  train 
and  supervise  the  student  staff  who  are 
contacting  alumni  for  annual  fund  dona- 
tions. 

Burns  earned  a  bachelor's  degree  in 
criminal  justice  from  the  University  of 
Illinois,  majored  in  communications  and 
minored  in  business  administration  at  Fran- 
klin &  Marshall  College  and  earned  a 
master's  degree  in  human  services  from 
Lincoln  University.  She  has  served  as 
director  of  development  for  the  Girl  Scouts 
of  America,  as  assistant  director  of  devel- 


opment for  St.  Joseph  Hospital  and  Health 
Care  Center  in  Lancaster  and  as  an  employ- 
ment specialist  with  CoreStates/Hamilton 
Bank. 

Heads  food  services 

Jim  McKee,  former  director  of  food 
services  at  Milligan  College  in  Tennessee, 
has  replaced  Steve  Schnorr  as  director  of 
food  services. 

McKee  completed  his  undergraduate 
work  at  Grand  Rapids  Baptist  College  and 
Michigan  State.  He  has  worked  with 
Western  Food  Enterprises,  General  Tele- 
phone and  Aquinas  College. 

National  recognition 

Dale  Summers,  assistant  professor  of 
education,  has  been  listed  in  the  1991 
edition  of  Who 's  Who  Among  Rising  Young 
Americans  and  in  The  National  Reference 
Institute's  1992-93  edition  of  Who's  Who 
in  American  Education. 

C.  Joseph  Tom,  professor  emeritus  of 
economics,  has  been  listed  in  the  1991-92 
edition  of  Who 's  Who  in  the  East. 

Article  to  be  published 

Eugene  Brown,  professor  of  political 
science,  has  had  an  article  accepted  for 
publication  in  the  Journal  of  Northeast 
Asian  Studies.  The  article  is  part  of  Dr. 
Brown's  larger  research  project  on  Japan's 
effort  to  define  an  international  geopolitical 
role  appropriate  to  its  status  as  an  economic 
superpower.  (See  page  2  for  a  feature  on 
his  research.) 

Art  exhibit 

G.  Daniel  Massad,  adjunct  professor  of 
art,  was  featured  in  an  exhibit  at  the 
Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts  in 
Philadelphia.  Titled  "To  Begin  Inwardly: 
Recent  Work,"  Massad's  exhibit  ran  for 
two  months  and  received  laudatory  media 


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NEWS        BRIEFS 


Campaign  approved 

The  Lebanon  Valley  College  Board  of 
Trustees  at  its  Nov.  2  meeting  approved  a 
$10  million  second  phase  of  the  college's 
comprehensive  campus  plan.  The  plan 
provides  for: 

■  Reconstruction  and  expansion  of  the 
library  into  a  state-of-the-art  facility 

■  Completion  of  the  Humanities  and  So- 
cial Sciences  Center 

■  Renovations  to  the  Allan  W.  Mund 
College  Center,  including  a  new  roof  and 
mechanical  systems,  and  improvements  to 
the  Little  Theater,  West  Dining  Hall  kitchen, 
lobby  and  lounge  areas  and  the  bookstore 

■  Conversion  of  the  church  on  Route  934 
to  a  gallery/small  recital  hall  (initially  the 
facility  will  be  used  as  space  for  the  public 
portion  of  the  library  while  the  new  library 
is  under  construction) 

■  Completion  of  the  campus  landscaping 
plan,  including  parking  areas,  roads  and 
walkways,  lighting  and  campus  entrances 

■  Refurbishing  of  dormitories  and  the 
Carnegie  Building. 

Funds  for  these  physical  facilities  will 
be  sought  as  part  of  a  $2 1  million  campaign 
also  approved  by  the  trustees.  The  five- 
year  campaign  will  seek  $10  million  for  the 
projects  listed,  $6  million  for  operating 
support  and  a  $5  million  increase  in  the 
college  endowment  to  support  additional 
professorships,  new  information  technolo- 
gies, scholarships,  a  musical  instrument 
purchase  and  maintenance  fund,  a  new 
venture  fund  and  a  professional  develop- 
ment fund. 

During  the  initial  phase  of  the  campaign, 
which  begins  immediately,  a  campaign 
organization  will  be  developed.  Trustees 
will  be  solicited  and  key  leadership  gifts 
sought.  At  the  fall  1992  meeting,  the 
trustees  will  set  final  goals  and  begin  a 
major,  public  fund-raising  effort. 


Elizabeth  (Bets\)  Bollinger  and  Charles  W.  Wolfe  ('44)  (far  right)  did  the  honors  at  the 
rededication  of  Laughlin  Hall  and  Bollinger  Plaza.  Trustees  Chair  Thomas  C.  Reinhart 
('58)  (at  the  podium),  and  LVC  President  John  Synodinos  cheered  them  on. 


Laughlin  rededicated 

On  Nov.  8,  the  college  rededicated  Laugh- 
lin Hall,  the  oldest  building  on  campus, 
and  Bollinger  Plaza,  which  is  located 
immediately  to  the  east  of  Laughlin. 

Built  in  the  mid-1800s,  Laughlin  Hall 
was  recently  renovated  and  expanded,  and 
its  surrounding  area  re-landscaped— a  pro- 
ject costing  $505,000. 

Officiating  at  the  ribbon-cutting  cere- 
mony were  Elizabeth  (Betsy)  Bollinger, 
widow  of  the  late  Dr.  O.  Pas  Bollinger, 
who  was  a  professor  of  biology  at  the 
college  and  for  whom  Bollinger  Plaza  is 
named;  and  Charles  W.  Wolfe,  college 
trustee  and  member  of  the  class  of  1944. 

Speakers  at  the  rededication  included 
Thomas  C.  Reinhart  ('58),  chair  of  the 
board  of  trustees;  Dr.  Carl  Y.  Ehrhart 
('40),  professor  and  dean  emeritus;  and 
John  A.  Synodinos,  president  of  Lebanon 
Valley  College. 

Laughlin  Hall  was  originally  built  by 
Samuel  Brightbill,  and  was  the  first  house 
in  Annville  to  have  electric  lights.  The 
college  acquired  the  property  in  1948,  and 
it  served  as  the  home  of  President  Clyde 
Lynch  until  his  death  in  1950. 

In   the   early    1950s,   Laughlin   was   a 


women's  dormitory. 

The  building  is  named  for  Professor 
Maud  Peet  Laughlin,  who  was  chair  of  the 
political  science  and  sociology  department 
from  1946-51,  and  chair  of  the  history  and 
political  science  department  from  1951-57. 

New  merit  scholarships 

Beginning  with  the  freshman  class  of  1992, 
the  college  will  begin  offering  additional 
merit  scholarships  that  will  not  be  contin- 
gent on  financial  need. 

All  students  who  rank  in  the  top  10 
percent  of  their  high  school  class  will  be 
offered  a  half-tuition  Vickroy  Scholarship. 
Those  in  the  second  decile  of  their  class, 
or  who  have  combined  SAT  scores  of  1050 
or  higher,  will  be  offered  a  one-third  tuition 
Leadership  Scholarship.  Those  in  the  third 
decile  of  their  class  will  be  offered  a 
one-fourth  tuition  Achievement  Scholar- 
ship. In  addition,  children  of  alumni  are 
eligible  for  a  $2,000  Alumni  Family  Tui- 
tion Credit  that  can  be  drawn  at  the  rate  of 
$500  a  year. 

Awarding  a  larger  number  of  merit 
scholarships  will  encourage  outstanding 
students  to  attend  the  college,  says  Presi- 
dent John  Synodinos,  and  will  "help  take 


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the  pressure  off  middle-class  parents  who 
are  often  shut  out  of  state  and  government- 
sponsored  financial  aid." 

Generous  Auxiliary  gifts 

For  70  years  the  Lebanon  Valley  College 
Auxiliary  has  been  working  quietly  behind 
the  scenes  to  make  life  better  for  students. 
Through  membership  dues  and  fund- 
raising  events,  the  group  has  made  signifi- 
cant improvements  in  college  facilities. 

Last  year  the  Auxiliary  donated  some 
$13,644  to  the  college -including  $8,500 
for  the  handsome  new  doors  for  the  Faust 
Lounge,  $4,000  to  the  development  office 
to  meet  the  Kline  Challenge  and  $1,144  to 
upholster  furniture  in  the  lounge  on  the  top 
floor  of  the  Garber  Science  Building. 

The  Auxiliary's  600  members  include 
faculty  and  staff  and  their  spouses,  as  well 
as  parents,  alumni,  community  people  and 
friends  of  the  college. 

The  group  sponsors  a  wide-ranging  lec- 
ture series,  a  plant  sale  in  the  fall  and  a 
fashion  show  in  the  spring.  They  also 
undertake  other  special  projects  to  raise 
funds.  Officers  for  the  1991-92  year  in- 
clude: Co-Presidents  Mary  Ellen  Ford  and 
Ruth  Rhodes;  1st  Vice  President  (Program) 
Ellen  Arnold  and  2nd  Vice  President 
(Membership)  Margaret  Broussard. 

Another  NSF  grant 

The  chemistry  department  has  received  a 
$65,000  grant  from  the  National  Science 
Foundation  to  develop  and  test  six  new 
integrated  instrument-based  laboratory  pro- 
jects for  upper-level  chemistry  courses. 

Lebanon  Valley  received  one  of  21 
grants  (and  one  of  five  grants  in  chemistry) 
awarded  under  NSF's  new  Leadership  in 
Laboratory  Development  program.  Leba- 
non Valley  was  the  only  small,  private, 
liberal-arts  college  to  receive  a  chemistry 
grant.  Other  recipients  were  the  California 
Institute  of  Technology,  the  University  of 
Wisconsin,  UCLA  and  the  University  of 
the  South. 


Gerry  Erhart  and  Ruth  Rhodes  show  off  the 
Faust  Lounge's  new  doors,  donated  by  the 
College  Auxiliary. 


They'll  be  calling 

This  year's  phonathon  for  the  annual  fund 
is  taking  a  new  approach.  Instead  of  using 
an  outside  telemarketing  service,  as  was 
done  in  years  past,  the  development  office 
has  hired  and  trained  eight  Lebanon  Valley 


students  to  call  potential  donors. 

The  five  women  and  three  men  work 
four  hours  per  night,  two  nights  a  week, 
calling  alumni  and  friends  of  the  college. 

So  far,  a  record  number  of  pledges  has 
been  recorded,  says  N.  Jeannie  Burns,  who 
is  coordinating  the  effort.  "Alumni,  espe- 
cially, have  expressed  pleasure  that  they 
are  able  to  speak  with  Lebanon  Valley 
students." 

Merger  intentions 

Lebanon  Valley  College  and  the  Pennsyl- 
vania School  of  Art  and  Design  in  Lancas- 
ter have  entered  into  an  agreement  of  intent 
to  merge.  The  agreement,  approved  by 
both  schools'  faculties  and  boards  of 
trustees  in  mid-December,  states  that  the 
merger  depends  on  the  ability  to  work  out 
a  final  document  resolving  all  the  details. 

The  two  institutions  have  been  working 
closely  together  for  the  past  several  years. 
For  three  years,  they  have  exchanged 
faculty,  and  in  October  of  last  year,  they 
signed  an  articulation  agreement  enabling 
PSA&D  students  to  continue  on  at  Lebanon 
Valley  to  earn  a  B.A.  degree. 


Freshman  Jennie  Bidlock  (left)  and  sophomore  Kriss  Riley  chat  with  alumni  during  the 
Development  Office's  fund  phonathon.  The  effort  will  continue  during  the  spring  term. 


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NEWS 


The  unsinkable 
Harry  Brown 

By  Doug  Thomas 

For  as  many  years  as  they  could  remember, 
the  floor  plant  workers  at  Erie  Bolt  Corpo- 
ration had  to  listen  to  their  managers  tell 
them,  "If  you  were  any  smarter,  you 
wouldn't  be  working  here." 

That  was  before  Harry  E.  Brown  ('83) 
showed  up. 

By  the  time  Brown  arrived  in  1985  as 
president  and  new  owner,  the  72-year-old 
company  that  manufactured  specially  engi- 
neered fasteners  was  about  eight  months 
away  from  failing.  Right  away.  Brown 
knew  that  the  firm  was  in  trouble,  although 
even  he  concedes  that,  at  the  time,  he 
didn't  know  how  much.  He  set  out  quickly 
to  undo  the  damage  that  years  of  insensitiv- 
ity  had  inflicted  on  Erie  Bolt's  work  force. 
His  weapon:  participatory  management. 

"I  had  to  reinforce  the  importance  of 
their  intelligence  and  tell  them  that  I 
respected  them  more  than  a  lot  of  people 
who  worked  at  my  level,"  Brown  says.  "I 
told  them  that  they  are  actually  earning 
my  paycheck  for  me— all  I'm  doing  is 
providing  all  of  the  necessary  tools  for 
them  to  do  their  jobs.  But  it  took  me  a  long 
time  to  convince  them  that  I  was  serious." 

Still,  he  says,  "the  biggest  challenge 
was  at  the  top,  it  wasn't  out  in  the  shop. 
The  shop  wanted  to  do  anything  that  was 
necessary  to  continue  the  longevity  of  this 
place,  but  the  administration  was  hindering 
the  process— and  so  I  had  to  change  it  from 
the  top  down." 

Change  is  exactly  what  Brown  brought 
about.  Today,  Erie  Bolt  is  a  thriving 
company  with  86  employees  and  $7  million 
in  sales.  It  has  returned  to  profitability,  and 
counts  among  its  customers  General  Elec- 
tric, Caterpillar  and  the  U.S.  Navy.  Even 
more  exciting,  the  firm  is  about  to  enter  a 
new  market— the  aerospace  industry. 

It  wasn't  magic  that  turned  the  firm 
around,  says  Brown.  "It  was  a  solid 
business  plan  aimed  at  generating  trust  and 


Harry  Brown  ('83)  buoyed  up  morale  and  productivity  at  Erie  Bolt. 


camaraderie  among  all  employees." 

Brown  instituted  regular  morning  "do- 
nut"  meetings,  at  which  he  sought  and 
received  input  from  all  levels  of  employees 
and  encouraged  his  workers  to  think  on 
their  feet— to  actively  share  in  the  decision- 
making process.  And  he  instituted  other 
ways  to  break  down  barriers  between 
managers  and  hourly  workers. 

"One  of  the  first  things  I  noticed  when 
I  came  here  was  that  there  was  a  union 
picnic  and  a  separate  salaried  employees 
picnic,"  he  states.  "I  decided  to  have  a 
company  picnic,  which  included  every- 
body and  where  everybody  co-mingled  and 
exchanged  ideas.  The  joint  picnic  ended 
the  artificial  separation,  and  the  relation- 
ships formed  carried  over  into  the  work- 
place." 

He  is  also  careful  to  involve  more 
rank-and-file  employees  in  the  planning 
process  for  products  and  manufacturing. 
"We  used  to  ask  only  management  employ- 
ees from  sales  and  engineering  to  give 
input.  Now  we  ask  production  workers, 
because  they  are  most  familiar  with  the 


processes.  They  have  been  a  great  help  in 
problem  solving." 

Brown,  who  attended  college  part-time 
for  more  than  a  decade  before  graduating 
in  1983,  credits  his  experience  at  Lebanon 
Valley  for  getting  him  through  the  tough 
times  in  his  early  days  at  Erie  Bolt. 

"I  think  a  lot  of  it  had  to  do  with  the 
encouragement  I  got  from  the  profs  while 
I  was  studying  at  Lebanon  Valley."  he 
says.  "They  drummed  it  in  that  if  you  have 
something  that  you  feel  is  worth  pursuing 
and  that  you  really  believe  in,  then  go  after 
it.  Work  through  the  obstacles  in  your 
way,  and  don't  stop  for  anything." 

Brown's  achievements  at  Erie  Bolt 
haven't  gone  unnoticed.  He  was  featured 
in  Inc.,  the  business  magazine,  and  in  1990 
was  named  winner  of  Pennsylvania  Gover- 
nor Robert  Casey's  Award  for  Labor 
Management  and  Cooperation.  He  holds 
numerous  professional  and  advisory  posi- 
tions in  the  northwest  corner  of  the  state, 
including  a  membership  in  the  board  of 
governors  of  the  Northwest  Manufacturers 
Association  and  a  recent  appointment  as  a 


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representative  to  Governor  Casey's  educa- 
tion coalition. 

Brown  maintains  a  deeply  rooted  com- 
mitment to  education.  All  Erie  Bolt  em- 
ployees not  only  qualify  for  profit  sharing, 
but  for  tuition  reimbursement  as  well. 
They're  encouraged  to  learn  new  skills,  to 
cross-train,  to  get  a  degree. 

His  commitment  to  education  doesn't 
end  with  his  own  shop.  He  has  taken  the 
lead  in  creating  The  Erie  Technical  Insti- 
tute, a  novel  approach  to  encouraging 
vocational/technical  students  to  pursue  edu- 
cation. Most  vo-tech  students,  after  their 
initial  training,  "go  out  into  the  industry 
and  don't  have  anywhere  else  to  go,"  he 
says.  The  new  institute  will  enable  them 
to  earn  their  associate  degrees  in  technol- 
ogy "and  then,  if  they  still  feel  they've  got 
that  fire  burning  inside  them,  they  can 
continue  their  education."  The  school's 
first  group  of  students  is  expected  to  start 
early  this  year. 

Brown  is  the  first  to  admit  that  without 
the  proper  educational  resources,  compa- 
nies like  his  would  be  hard-pressed  to 
compete  domestically,  let  alone  interna- 
tionally. 

Non-traditional  is  probably  the  adjective 
that  describes  Brown  best.  He's  not  big 
on  rules.  He  believes  that  competitors 
should  work  together  to  lower  costs  and 
create  expanded  opportunities  for  growth 
and  development.  And  to  be  sure,  in  order 
for  his  leveraged  buyout  of  Erie  Bolt  to 
work,  he  had  to  throw  many  conventions 
out  the  window. 

"Entrepreneurs  don't  have  to  be  25  years 
old  and  whiz  kids,"  he  states.  "I  only 
became  an  entrepreneur  when  my  hair 
started  turning  gray  on  the  fringes,  and  I 
had  some  life  experiences  to  add  to  the 
things  that  I  believe  in." 

Many  of  those  life  experiences  took 
place  in  the  Lebanon  area.  Brown  is 
married  to  Nancy  Conley,  a  Lebanon  High 
School  graduate;  they  have  two  sons, 
David  and  Jason.  For  many  years,  he 
worked  for  Bethlehem  Steel  and  ALCOA. 
One  day  soon,  he  would  like  to  open  a 
manufacturing  facility  near  Annville. 

"I  keep  coming  back  to  the  area,  and 
every  time  I  do  so,  I  look  around  at  what 
we  might  be  able  to  do.  I've  talked  to  a 
number  of  people.  I've  started  some  plan- 
ning, and  I  have  blueprints.  We're  just 
looking  at  the  right  timing  now  to  do 
something." 


Finding  futures 
for  victims  of  AIDS 

By  Diane  Wenger 


Doug  Thomas  is  a  Lancaster  freelance 
writer  who  specializes  in  business  topics. 


Through  her  own  grieving,  Sylvia  Frey  Moyer  ('76)  gained  th 
strength  to  counsel  AIDS  patients  and  their  families. 


The  strength  of  Sylvia  Frey  Moyer  ('76) 
arose  from  adversity;  yet  she  firmly  be- 
lieves all  things  will  work  out  for  the  best. 

Widowed  six  years  ago  when  she  was 
just  31,  Moyer  has  turned  her  difficult 
experiences  into  a  valuable  asset,  applying 
what  she  learned  during  those  two  years 
her  husband  was  dying  as  she  helps  people 
who  face  death.  As  AIDS  Project  coordi- 
nator for  the  Lebanon  Family  Health 
Services,  she  provides  AIDS  education 
throughout  Lebanon  County  and  offers 
counseling  and  other  services  for  its  clients, 
all  of  whom  who  have  tested  HIV-positive. 

It  was  during  the  time  Moyer  was 
working  at  Good  Samaritan  Hospital's 
business  office  in  Lebanon  that  her  hus- 
band, Don,  was  diagnosed  as  dying  of 
complications  from  juvenile  diabetes. 

"I  became  so  aware  of  time  when  Don 
was  ill,"  she  recalls.  "I  knew  what  the 
future  held.  The  doctor  said  Don  had  three 
to  12  months.  It  was  like  sitting  on  a 
bomb."  She  remembers  thinking,  "I'm 
getting  experiences  here,  but  I'm  not  sure 
what  I  am  going  to  do  with  them." 


One  thing  she  did 
know,  however, 
was  that  she  would 
not  stay  in  an  office 
job  forever.  "All 
along,  I  thought  I'd 
do  something  with 
diabetic  people;  I 
never  thought  about 
AIDS." 

Moyer  admits 
that  she  felt  some 
self-pity  when  she 
found  herself  wid- 
owed so  young. 
"Part  of  me  kept 
asking,  'Why  me?' 
We'd  only  been  mar- 
ried seven  years. 
Now  I  can  see  all 
of  this  was  used  for 
the  good.  All  the 
ups  and  downs  and 
the  insights  I  gained 
then  help  me  to 
work  with  dying  pa- 
tients." 

Knowing  that  it 
would  not  be  wise  to  make  any  major  life 
changes  until  she  had  gone  through  the 
grieving  process,  during  the  two  years 
following  her  husband's  death,  she  forced 
herself  to  concentrate  on  simply  eating, 
sleeping,  going  to  work  and  exercising.  "I 
needed  to  heal  myself  emotionally  and 
physically."  she  explains. 

Then  "out  of  the  blue"  one  day  in  June 
1989,  she  read  the  local  paper  from  front 
to  back.  "I  even  read  the  want  ads;  I  never 
do  that,"  she  noted.  But  fate  was  about  to 
intervene  as  she  flipped  through  those 
pages:  She  saw  an  ad  for  a  new  position 
in  Lebanon  County— AIDS  educator  and 
coordinator.  Even  though  she  knew  very 
little  about  the  disease,  something  made 
her  clip  the  ad. 

Two  days  later,  Moyer  summoned  her 
courage  to  call  the  number  in  that  ad. 
Again,  she  says,  fate  played  a  role,  because 
she  found  herself  talking  directly  to  Kim 
Kreider  Umble,  the  director  of  Lebanon 
Family  Health  Services.  The  lengthy  phone 
conversation  led  to  a  two-hour  interview, 
and  ultimately  the  job  offer.  Moyer  credits 


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Umble  with  encouraging  her  to  move  into 
the  social  services  field.  "She  bolstered 
my  courage;  I  was  not  feeling  the  bravest 
then,  although  part  of  me  kept  prodding 
me  to  do  it." 

Moyer  devoted  the  two  weeks  before 
beginning  her  new  position  to  learning 
everything  she  could  about  AIDS.  "I  love 
to  learn  and  study,"  notes  the  elementary 
education  major.  "I  spent  days  at  the 
Hershey  Medical  Center  library,  immers- 
ing myself  in  material."  And  she  began 
gathering  what  is  now  an  extensive  AIDS 
library  of  references  and  resources  avail- 
able to  the  public  through  her  office. 

The  education  didn't  end  there.  She 
attends  numerous  conferences  and  reads 
the  current  literature.  Tall  piles  of  The  New 
England  Journal  of  Medicine  in  her  office 
attest  to  the  volume  of  reading  needed  to 
keep  abreast  of  developments  in  AIDS/HIV 
research. 

The  current  case  load  for  the  AIDS 
Project  is  27  clients,  ranging  in  age  from 
25  to  67;  eight  of  them  are  women.  Of  the 
41  clients  served  in  the  two  years  since  the 
project  began,  six  have  died. 

Moyer  emphasizes  that  there  are  many 
more  HIV-infected  people  in  the  county. 
Local  physicians  provide  material  about  the 
AIDS  Project's  services  to  patients  who 
have  tested  HIV-positive,  but  it  is  up  to  the 
patient  to  contact  the  agency.  Sometimes 
it  may  take  months,  or  even  years,  Moyer 
says,  for  the  client  to  make  the  call  or  climb 
the  two  steep  flights  of  steps  to  her 
third-floor  office. 

On  an  ordinary  day,  the  office  is 
extremely  busy.  Some  callers  want  to  know 
where  they  can  be  tested  for  AIDS,  or  how 
they  can  avoid  contacting  the  infection. 
Others  are  explicit.  A  caller  might  describe 
a  sexual  act  from  10  years  ago  or  last  night, 
and  ask  if  he  or  she  can  get  AIDS  from 
that  activity. 

Moyer  is  the  only  paid  staff  member  on 
the  AIDS  Project;  she  is  assisted  by  nine 
volunteers  trained  in  medical,  biological, 
psychological  and  social  issues.  They  also 
learn  how  to  help  others  handle  death  and 
dying.  The  first  step  is  coming  to  terms 
with  the  reality  of  one's  own  death— not 
an  easy  task  for  many  people. 

Each  volunteer  is  assigned  to  a  client  as 
a  buddy.  Moyer  carefully  matches  their 
gender  and  sexual  preference.  Being  a 
"buddy"  to  an  HIV-infected  person  is  not 
easy,  says  Moyer,  who  compares  it  to 
"getting  on  a  physical  and  emotional  roller 
coaster  with  that  person." 

Clients  can  also  make  use  of  counseling 


sessions  and  bi-weekly  support  group  meet- 
ings. A  family  support  group  for  relatives 
of  HIV-infected  people  meets  once  a 
month.  Moyer  also  counsels  bereaved 
family  members.  Since  she  is  not  a  licensed 
therapist,  she  refers  clients  with  severe 
problems  to  a  professional. 

For  Moyer,  a  major  aspect  of  working 
with  clients  is  simply  listening.  "They  need 
to  unload.  I  don't  prod.  I  do  active 
listening,  clarification  of  thinking,  and  help 
them  set  goals." 

Given  the  terminal  nature  of  her  clients' 
illness,  Moyer  helps  them  focus  on  coping 
with  the  future.  "Everyone  has  a  future, 
even  if  it's  a  day,  a  week  or  a  year.  We 
help  them  manage  it  in  small  chunks,"  she 
notes.  Most  of  her  clients  come  into  her 
office  in  a  depressed  state.  She  helps  them 
direct  their  thinking  and  establish  meaning- 
ful goals,  because  she  firmly  believes  that 
people  who  have  goals  often  live  longer. 
She  stresses  that  she's  a  realist.  If  a  client's 
life  is  falling  apart,  she  won't  offer  trite 
advice  like  "Keep  your  chin  up." 

Over  the  past  two  years,  she  has  returned 
to  Lebanon  Valley  to  speak  about  AIDS 
to  students  and  staff  members.  She  talked 
about  AIDS  in  the  workplace  for  the 
"Contemporary  Issues  in  Management" 
course.  She  brought  along  a  client  to  a 
sociology  class,  "Death  and  Dying,"  to 
discuss  HIV  and  the  dying  process.  During 
National  AIDS  Education  month  in  Octo- 
ber, she  visited  classes  ranging  from 
psychology  to  American  Studies. 

When  a  client  dies,  the  agency  memori- 
alizes him  or  her  in  two  special  ways.  With 
permission  of  the  family,  the  client's  name 
and  date  of  death  are  stitched  onto  a 
commemorative  quilt  kept  in  the  office. 

Staff  members  also  plant  a  tree  in 
memory  of  each  one.  (The  location  of  this 
special  forest  with  its  circular  groves  is 
kept  secret  to  preserve  it  from  periodic 
threats  of  violence.)  Family  members  are 
invited  to  a  ceremony  when  the  tree  is 
planted,  and  often  return  to  care  for  it. 

For  Moyer,  success  comes  through  how 
well  she  and  her  volunteers  have  loved 
each  and  every  client.  An  index  card  on 
her  desk  reminds  her  of  this  goal,  with  its 
hand-printed  slogan,  "Life  is  a  moment 
by  moment  occurrence  of  opportunities  to 
give  love."  Moyer's  goal  is  to  be  able  to 
say  honestly,  "We  did  the  best  to  show  him 
or  her  love  without  strings  attached.  They 
aren't  used  to  that  kind  of  love." 

Diane  Wenger  is  assistant  to  Lebanon 
Valley  College  President  John  Synodinos. 


Alumni  leaders 

The  college  sponsored  a  weekend  training 
conference  for  30  alumni  leaders  and  their 
spouses  Nov.  8-9. 

The  group  heard  presentations  on  the 
college  vision  statement  and  campus  plan, 
and  spent  a  day  learning  about  enrollment 
and  student  life  at  the  college,  as  well  as 
plans  and  activities  in  the  humanities  and 
science  areas.  They  toured  campus  build- 
ings and  participated  in  hands-on  experi- 
ments in  the  Garber  Science  Center. 

A  final  work  session  identified  leader- 
ship opportunities  with  the  Alumni  Coun- 
cil, Development  Office.  Trustees,  Alumni 
Ambassadors  and  Career  Network,  and 
regional  events. 

Attending  the  conference  were  Dr.  Kris- 
ten  R.  Angstadt  ("74),  Charles  M.  Belmer 
('40),  Thomas  C.  Dilworth  ('75),  Rose 
K.  Dilworth,  Erik  L.  Enters  ('86),  Maria 
Wheeler  Enters  ('88),  Beverly  U.  Fowler 
("92),  Dr.  Martin  L.  Gluntz  ('53),  Karen 
McHenry  Gluntz  ('82).  Dr.  Dorothy  Lan- 
dis  Gray  ('44),  Dr.  Michael  P.  Hottenstein 
('58),  Star  Campbell,  Betty  Criswell  Hunger- 
ford  ('54),  Paul  Hungerford,  Dick  London 
('65),  Karen  L.  Mackrides  ('87),  Dr. 
George  R.  Marquette  ('48).  Rufina  Balmer 
Marquette  ('51),  John  R.  McFadden  ('68) 
Ann  McFadden,  John  W.  Metka  ('60) 
Louise  Metka,  Deanna  Metka  Quay  ('84) 
Jeffrey  R.  Quay,  George  M.  Reider  ('63) 
Carol  A.  Reider,  Stephen  H.  Roberts  ('65) 
Janet  Gessner  Roberts  ('68),  Dale  C 
Schimpf  ("76)  and  John  A.  Schoch  ('72). 

Athletic  fund 

to  honor  Longenecker 

The  college  community  was  saddened  by 
the  death  in  August  of  coach,  athlete  and 
businessman  Kenneth  A.  Longenecker 
('60).  President  and  owner  of  the  H&H 
Tack  Shop  in  Annville,  he  was  a  former 
administrator  of  Milton  Hershey  High 
School  and  had  been  a  football  coach  at 
Lebanon  Catholic  and  Palmyra  high  schools. 

A  fine  athlete,  he  played  football  all 
four  of  his  years  at  Lebanon  Valley  and 
was  drafted  by  the  Pittsburgh  Steelers  in 
1960.  He  was  also  a  wrestler,  and  in  his 
senior  year  was  Middle-Atlantic  Confer- 
ence Heavyweight  Division  champion  and 
participated  in  the  NCAA  Division  I  colle- 
giate wrestling  competition.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Central  Pennsylvania  and 
Lebanon  Valley  College  halls  of  fame. 

Surviving  are  his  wife,  Barbara  A. 
Heisey  Longenecker;  two  sons,  John  K. 


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The  Valley 


A  memorial  fund  is  being  established  in 
memory  of  Kenneth  A.  Longenecker  ('60). 

and  Paul  E.;  daughter  Elizabeth  Ann 
Barlett;  and  three  grandsons. 

His  Lebanon  Valley  teammates  and 
classmates  have  started  a  memorial  fund 
in  his  honor  to  benefit  the  Athletics 
Department.  The  first  project  will  be  trophy 
cases  and  a  new  Hall  of  Fame  board.  For 
information ,  or  to  contribute ,  contact  Naom  i 
Emerich  in  the  Advancement  Office,  at 
(717)  867-6225. 

An  executive  outlook 

A  disappearing  work  ethic,  the  misalign- 
ment of  government  and  business,  and  a 
failed  education  system  have  all  contrib- 
uted to  America's  loss  of  its  competitive 
edge  in  world  markets,  said  Ross  Fasick 


('55),  keynote  speaker  for  the  college's 
annual  Vickroy  Society  dinner.  Fasick  is 
group  vice  president  of  DuPont  Chemical's 
automotive  products  department.  He  ad- 
dressed 177  people  attending  the  dinner, 
held  October  26  at  the  Hotel  Hershey. 

In  analyzing  America's  declining  role, 
Fasick  noted,  "There  are  other  internal 
factors  that  contribute  .  .  .  factors  like 
ill-conceived  legislation  that  adds  high 
increments  of  cost  to  our  products.  There 
is  also  our  system  of  jurisprudence,  which 
encourages  product  and  personal  litigation 
beyond  all  reason,  and  our  very  capital 
formation  structure,  which  forces  business 
to  focus  on  the  short  term.  These  things 
help  put  us  at  a  great  disadvantage  versus 
many  of  our  global  competitors." 

Globalization  of  business  has  compli- 
cated the  scenario,  he  added.  "Today,  in 
order  to  be  successful,  an  American  com- 
pany must  compete  not  only  with  other 
U.S.  companies,  but  with  European,  Asian 
and  Latin  companies  as  well.  We  are 
rapidly  approaching  the  point  at  which 
strong  competitiveness  on  a  global  scale 
will  be  essential  to  survival." 

Fasick  also  identified  ways  that  America 
can  prosper.  The  nation  needs  "realism  and 
focus,"  and  government  and  business  "need 
to  act  like  two  very  important  players  on 
the  SAME  team." 

Above  all,  though,  he  emphasized,  "We 
must  do  a  better  job  educating  our  people, 
especially  our  young  people.  Without  higher 
value  for  education  and  knowledge,  we 
cannot  possibly  survive  as  the  nation  we 
are  today." 


Honor  roll 

In  the  college's  annual  report  and  honor 
roll.  Building  on  the  Legacy,  published  this 
fall,  the  United  Methodist  Foundation  for 
Christian  Higher  Education  was  incorrectly 
listed.  The  following  names  were  inadver- 
tently omitted  from  the  report's  lists  of 
donors.  Faculty  and  Staff:  Dr.  Barbara  J. 
Denison  '79  and  Mrs.  Deborah  R.  Fullam 
'81.  Foundations:  Russell-Eleanor  Horn 
Foundation. 

In  addition,  the  description  and  list  of 
donors  to  the  Kresge  Foundation  Science 
Initiatives  Challenge  Grant  were  also  inad- 
vertently left  out.  They  are  as  follows. 

In  September  1989,  the  trustees  of  The 
Kresge  Foundation  invited  Lebanon  Valley 
College  to  accept  a  $900,000  challenge  to 
renew  and  improve  the  college's  scientific 
equipment.  Specifically,  the  Foundation 
challenged  the  college  to  qualify  for  a 
$150,000  Kresge  grant  by  securing  direct 
gifts  and  grants  for  $150,000  in  new 
science  equipment  and  $600,000  to  estab- 
lish a  Science  Equipment  Endowment 
Fund.  The  endowment  income  will  be 
reserved  to  meet  future  needs  for  safe  and 
up-to-date  science  facilities. 

Thanks  to  the  donors  listed  below  for 
their  gifts  to  surpass  the  goal,  for  a  grand 
total  of  $948,439. 

Dr.  Luke  S.  Albert  Drs.  Charlotte  and  William 

Edward  H.  Arnold  Jones 

Barbara  K.  Baker  William  H.  Kelly 

Kathleen  Basehore  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  R. 

Vernon  and  Doris  Bishop  Kreiser 

The  Brossman  The  Kresge  Foundation 

Foundation  Donald  and  Nancy  Lesher 

Clark  and  Edna  Carmean  P.  Theodore  Lyter 

M.  Blanche  Cochran  Alonzo  L.  Mantz 

Dr.  Salvatore  Cullari  John  W.  Metka 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  David  Edgar  P.  Monn 

Cunningham  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Russell 

Janet  Else  D'Alessandro  Morgan 

Woodrow  S.  Dellinger  Suzanne  K.  Moyer 

Geret  and  Theresa  National  Science 

DePiper  Foundation 

Beth  L.  Dickinson  Dr.  Anthony  and  Helen 

Warren  D.  and  Carol  Neidig 

Ditzler  Christine  L.  dinger 

Dr.  Debra  Sue  Egolf  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas 

Marion  S.  Ellenberger  Orndorf 

William  F  Etchbereer  Laura  E-  fence 

Dr.  Arthur  S.  Evelev  Dr-  R°nal<i  Pieringer 
William  P.  Rhodes 
Loretta  R.  H.  Risser 
Dr.  Helen  Ross  and  Robert 

Russell 
Frank  A.  Ill  and  Deborah 

Dr.  Leroy  G.  Frey  Rutherford 

Dr.  Martin  L.  and  Karen  Dr.  Bonnie  Seidel-Rogol 

Gluntz  Dr.  John  S.  Snoke 

Nora  M.  Goodman  Michael  R.  Steiner 

Herbert  R.  Greider  Dr.  sterling  F.  Strause 
Dr.  Judith  F.  Grem 
Dr.  Michael  F.  Gross 
Roger  A.  Heckman 
DrrAllen  H.  Heim 
Drs.  Ned  and  Linda 

Heindel 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  W. 


Dr.  Ross  W.  Fasick 
Dr.  Larry  J.  Feinman 
David  J.  Ferruzza 
Lt.  Col.  James  T.  Frantz 


Ross  Fasick  (left)  chats  with  Judge  John  Walter  ('53)  at  the  Vickroy  Society  dinner. 


Frederick  Huber 
Athanasia  Johnson 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Tschop 
Dr.  Samuel  D.  Ulrich 
Dr.  Elizabeth  R.  Unger 
Richard  F.  Vogel 
Dr.  Elizabeth  K.  Weisburger 
Harlan  and  Nancy  Wengert 
Dr.  Christian  G.  Wornas 


Dr.  Ronald  J.  Zygmunt 


Winter  1992 


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CLASS        NOTES 


Pre- 1940s 

News 

G.  Edgar  Hertzler  (Rev.)  *30  has  just  completed 
50  years  of  service  in  the  Harrisburg  area.  He  was  at 
the  29th  St.  U.M.  Church  (where  he  was  named  pastor 
emeritus  in  June)  for  25  years  and  at  Otterbein  Church 
for  seven  years.  He  continues  as  chaplain  and  coun- 
selor at  the  Neill  Funeral  Home,  where  he  has  served 
for  18  years.  He  also  served  four  years  each  in  Lebanon 
and  Lancaster  counties. 

Paul  I.  Kleinfelter  '32  lives  at  Twin  Oaks  Nursing 
Center  in  Campbelltown,  PA. 

Irene  Ranck  Christman  '39,  executive  director  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Music  Educators  Association,  was 
given  the  award  of  exceptional  merit  for  "Outstanding 
Service  to  Music  Education  and  the  Music  Industry 
Conference,  1991"  during  its  meeting  in  Pittsburgh 
on  April  19.  1991. 

Deaths 

Edwin  H.  "Gus"  Zeigler  '17,  August  24,  1991. 
Gus  taught  health  and  physical  education  for  24  years 
in  Hegins  Township  High  School  and  Tri-Valley  High 
School.  During  his  baseball  coaching  career  there  from 
1936  to  1959,  he  led  his  teams  to  312  victories,  with 
only  83  losses  and  two  ties.  The  teams  had  a  winning 
streak  of  62  home  games.  Zeigler  was  enshrined  in  the 
LVC  Hall  of  Fame  in  1981,  and  in  1985  the  baseball 
complex  at  Tri-Valley  High  School  was  dedicated  in 
his  honor.  In  1987  he  was  inducted  into  the  Allen- 
Rogowicz  Schuylkill  County  Chapter  of  the  Pennsylva- 
nia Sports  Hall  of  Fame.  Gus  was  an  Army  veteran  of 
World  War  IL  His  wife.  Myrtle,  died  in  1972. 

Grace  Snyder  Martin  '19,  September  15,  1991. 

M.  Gladys  Bossert  LeCron  '23,  March  18,  1991. 

Herman  K.  Light  (Dr.)  '24,  July  7,  1991.  Herman 
practiced  dentistry  from  his  residence  in  Shillington, 
PA,  from  1933  until  his  retirement  in  1986.  After 
graduation  from  LVC,  he  taught  math  at  Kane  High 
School,  and  in  1932  graduated  from  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  Dental  School.  His  widow  is  Bertha  K. 
Snavely  Light. 

J.  Donald  Rank  '32,  September  10.  1991.  Donald 
was  a  retired  dairy  farmer  in  Marion  Township,  Berks 
County. 

Mary  Virginia  Summer  Newman  '36,  October  9, 
1990.  Virginia  made  her  contribution  as  an  organist 
and  music  director  in  the  churches  where  her  husband. 
Rev.  Daniel  L.  Newman,  served  as  minister. 

Esther  Koppenhaver  Dahlberg  '37,  July  20,  1991. 
Esther  received  her  calling  for  her  life's  work  during 
wartime.  Under  the  auspices  of  the  U.S.  Navy,  she 
studied  drafting  and  other  related  courses  at  Columbia 
University  and  became  an  aeronautical  engineer. 
Music  became  her  avocation  while  she  enjoyed  the 
engineering  profession,  spending  26  years  at  Grumman 
Aircraft  Manufacturing  Company. 

John  E.  Witter  *35,  July  10,  1991.  John  was  a 
former  member  of  the  Lebanon  Valley  College  Board 
of  Trustees.  He  was  the  father  of  Constance  Witter 
Leitner  '68. 

C.  Boyd  Shaffer  (Dr.)  '38  and  Louise  Stoner 
Shaffer  '38  celebrated  their  50th  wedding  anniversary 
on  June  14,  1991.  at  the  Red  Rocker  Inn  in  Black 
Mountain,  NC,  with  their  family.  They  are  enjoying 
retirement  and  Florida  living. 

Charles  D.  Worley  (Lt.  Col.)  '39,  June  19,  1991. 


1940s 


News 

Evelyn  Ware  Lynch  '41  and  Martha  Davies 
DeHaven  '42  enjoyed  a  week  of  the  Shakespeare 
Festival  in  Stratford,  Ontario,  Canada.  Evelyn  reported 
that  it  was  enlightening  to  experience  real  professional 
theatre  in  every  aspect:  "Just  what  Dr.  Wallace  would 
have  prescribed  in  our  LVC  Shakespeare  classes!" 

Dorothy  Landis  Gray  '44  had  four  poems  set  to 
music  by  Julio  Ionseca  and  presented  as  part  of  his 
senior  recital  at  The  Catholic  University  of  America, 
in  Washington,  D.C.,  in  August.  Dorothy  continues 
at  Calholic  as  a  part-time  voice  teacher  and  student. 
In  May  she  completed  all  required  music  courses  for 
the  Ph.D.  program.  Last  year,  she  interned  at  the 
Library  of  Congress  Office  of  Processing  and  Acquisi- 
tions, working  with  the  MacDowell  Collection. 

Gene  U.  Cohen  (Dr.)  '46  received  this  year's 
Hands  and  Heart  Award  at  the  Martinsburg  Veterans 
Affairs  Medical  Center  in  West  Virginia.  The  award 
recognizes  the  outstanding  employee  in  each  VA 
medical  center  whose  sustained,  compassionate  patient 
care  is  exceptional.  Gene  has  been  a  physician  at  the 
Martinsburg  Medical  Center  since  November  1979, 
serving  as  the  assistant  chief.  Medical  Service,  until 
his  appointment  as  chief  in  December  1980.  He  is  an 
Army  veteran  of  World  War  II. 

The  following  '47  graduates  of  LVC's  Conservatory 
of  Music  all  participated  in  the  church  service  at  Christ 
United  Methodist  Church  in  Marietta,  OH,  on  August 
18,  along  with  the  Rev.  Dale  R.  Beittel  '45:  Barbara 
Kolb  Beittel,  Richard  A.  Immler,  Wayne  L.  Mow- 
rey  (organist),  Evelyn  Spitler  Wild,  Harold  Wild, 
Nancy  Johns  Nevins,  Helen  Dickel  Sandrock,  Jeanne 
Kitchen  Winemiller,  Jean  Myers  Swanson,  Gladys 
Flinchbaugh  Slenker  (organist),  Arlene  Schlosser 
Keller  (director),  Marion  Schade  Stauffer  and  Betty 
Gingrich  Rauch. 

Death 

Robert  B.  Wingate  (Dr.)  '48,  August  6.  1991.  He 
had  retired  from  the  Pennsylvania  State  Library,  where 
he  was  curator  of  rare  books.  He  was  considered  to 
be  among  the  top  medical  illustrators  in  the  nation 
(there  are  fewer  than  100  so  ranked)  and  the  only  one 
from  that  group  in  Pennsylvania.  Bob  spent  seven  years 
preparing  2,000  drawings  for  the  1961  edition  of  An 
Atlas  of  Eye  Surgery  and  created  latex  prostheses  for 
Harrisburg  Hospital .  He  was  the  author  of  Perceptions  — 
Glimpses  of  Our  World  and  Ourselves,  published  in 
1984. 


1950s 


News 

Pierce  A.  Getz  "51  (Dr.)  presented  an  organ  recital, 
September  22,  1991,  at  Market  Square  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Harrisburg.  The  public  recital  was  sponsored 
by  the  Harrisburg  Chapter  of  the  American  Guild  of 
Organists,  which  presents  one  of  its  members  in  recital 
each  season.  He  played  music  by  Mozart,  J.S.  Bach, 
Hindemith  and  Reubke. 

Robert  Y.  Clay  '53  received  the  Arion  Award  for 
outstanding  community  service  in  York,  PA. 

James  R.  Enterline  '54  delivered  an  address  before 
the  National  Security  Agency  at  Fort  Meade.  MD, 


titled  "Cryptography  in  the  Yale  Vinland  Map."  His 
article  on  this  topic  appeared  in  the  1991  issue  of 
Terrae  Incognitae,  the  journal  of  the  history  of 
discoveries. 

Dean  R.  Artz  '55  was  promoted  to  assistant 
papermill  superintendent/operations  at  the  PH.  Glat- 
felter  Co.  mill  in  Spring  Grove.  PA. 

Death 

M.  Eugene  Patrick  (Rev.)  '53,  July  25,  1991.  He 
was  a  United  Methodist  minister  and  pastor  of  Houser- 
ville  and  Woodycrest  churches  in  State  College,  PA, 
and  a  former  pastor  of  Emmanual  U.M.  Church  in 
Royalton  and  the  Highspire  U.M.  Church. 


1960s 


News 

Stanley  M.  Daniels  '63  retired  from  the  Pennsylva- 
nia Department  of  Transportation  on  February  28, 
1991,  on  a  disability,  after  27  years  of  service. 

Nancy  Dice  Fennell  '65  and  her  family  presented  a 
homecoming  concert,  'A  Celebration  of  Music  to  the 
Glory  of  God,"  on  June  16,  1991,  as  part  of  the 
Lutheran  Enrichment  Series  of  Messiah  Lutheran 
Church  in  Lebanon.  Nancy  teaches  general  music, 
strings  and  orchestra  at  Muhlenberg  Elementary  School 
in  Allentown,  and  is  organist/choir  director  at  St. 
Timothy's  Lutheran  Church.  Her  husband  teaches 
general  music  and  jazz  band,  hand  chimes  and  chorus 
at  Northern  Lehigh  Junior  High  School  in  Slatington 
and  is  band  director  at  Salisbury  High  School  in 
Allentown.  Her  son  just  completed  his  freshman  year 
at  St.  Bonaventure  University,  where  he  received  a 
scholarship  for  singing  with  the  Chamber  Singers.  Her 
daughter,  a  ninth-grade  student  at  William  Allen  High 
School,  has  been  playing  the  cello  since  third  grade. 

William  A.  Grove  '65  was  appointed  high  school 
band  director  for  the  Elizabethtown  Area  School 
District.  For  26  years,  he  had  been  at  the  Milton 
Hershey  School,  where  he  ted  the  band  to  many  awards 
in  competitions  in  central  Pennsylvania  and  Washing- 
ton. D.C. 

The  children  of  George  J.  Hollich  '65  and  Carol 
Frey  Hollich  '66  (George  and  Kimberly)  will  be  listed 
in  the  United  States  Achievement  Academy  Official 
Yearbook.  They  are  students  at  Palmyra  Area  High 
School. 

Robert  C.  Lau  (Dr.)  '65  composed  an  anthem, 
"Let  the  Peoples  Praise  You,  O  God,"  for  the 
Sanctuary  (adult)  choir  at  Camp  Hill  (PA)  Presbyterian 
Church;  it  was  performed  for  the  first  time  in 
September  during  a  service. 

Mary  Ellen  Olmsted  Shearer  '65  and  Rodney  H. 
Shearer  (Rev.)  '66  celebrated  their  25th  wedding 
anniversary  with  a  surprise  card  shower  and  dessert 
party  hosted  by  their  daughters,  Laurabeth  '92,  Angela 
Gail  and  Sara  Helene.  Rev.  Shearer  is  pastor  of  the 
Ono  (PA)  United  Methodist  Church. 

Carl  A.  Synan  (Dr.)  '65  is  the  executive  director 
of  the  United  Ministry  at  Penn  State. 

Walter  D.  Otto  *67  was  named  president  of  the 
Lancaster  Rotary  Club  for  1991-92.  He  manages  the 
Lancaster  office  of  Bell  of  Pennsylvania. 

Larry  J.  Painter  '67  retired  from  the  U.S.  Air 
Force  in  1989  and  teaches  sociology  at  a  community 
college  and  substitute  leaches  in  public  schools  in 
Colorado  Springs.  CO.  He  completed  his  fifth  ascent 


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of  Pikes  Peak  in  August  1991  and  continues  to  be  active 
in  the  sports  of  road  racing  and  orienteering. 

Elizabeth  Beer  Shilling  '67,  who  had  majored  in 
biology,  has  completed  a  second  bachelor's  degree, 
in  music  education  with  a  concentration  in  flute  at 
Towson  State  University  in  Baltimore.  She  is  studying 
for  a  master's  of  music  in  voice  at  the  Catholic 
University  of  America  in  Washington,  D.C.  She 
teaches  flute  at  Towson  and  freelances  as  a  soloist. 
She  hopes  to  teach  instrumental  music  and  play  jazz. 

Mary  J.  Lippert  Coleman  '68  is  a  music  teacher 
for  the  Williamsport  Area  (PA)  School  District.  She 
is  married  to  Donald  E.  Coleman  and  they  have  four 
children:  Joseph  Miller,  Andrew  Miller,  Karen  Cole- 
man and  Beth  Coleman. 

James  F.  Davis  '69  and  Carol  J.  Gingerich  were 
married  May  26,  1991,  in  Market  Square  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Harrisburg.  Jim  is  a  self-employed  writer, 
as  well  as  a  teacher  and  coach  with  the  Susquehanna 
Township  School  District.  Carol  is  director  of  recruit- 
ing for  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  in  Harrisburg. 

Joanne  Cestone  McHugh  '69  and  her  husband, 
Michael,  welcomed  a  son,  Thomas,  on  April  29,  1991. 
He  joined  a  sister,  Sarah,  who  is  2. 

Deaths 

J.  Ronald  Earhart  (Dr.)  '63,  October  17,  1991. 

Recently,  he  had  been  appointed  to  the  principal 
professional  staff  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  Applied 
Physics  Laboratory.  This  appointment  recognizes  the 
highest  professional  stature  and  individual  achieve- 
ment and  parallels  full  professor  status.  Ron  had  been 
very  pleased  that  his  daughter.  Amy  Elizabeth  Ear- 
hart,  had  graduated  magna  cum  laude  from  LVC  in 
May  1991 .  Amy  is  the  third  generation  of  LVC  grads. 

Paul  W.  Lindemuth  (Brig.  Gen.  Ret.)  '61,  July 
19,  1991,  after  a  lengthy  battle  with  Lou  Gehrig's 
disease.  He  was  the  former  commander  of  the  Alaska 
Air  National  Guard.  He  left  active  duty  in  1959,  earned 
his  biology  degree  and  became  a  park  ranger  at 
Gettysburg  National  Military  Park.  Paul  returned  to 
active  duty  in  1963  and  was  assigned  to  Elmendorf  Air 
Force  Base  in  Alaska  until  1968,  when  he  joined  the 
Alaska  Air  National  Guard  and  served  as  an  instructor 
pilot,  flight  examiner  and  commander  of  the  144th 
Tactical  Airlift  Squadron  and  176th  Composite  Group. 

Agneta  Saylor  Dinsmore  '69,  August  19,  1991. 

1970s 

News 

James  R.  Biery  '70  was  appointed  executive  vice 
president  of  the  Hamsburg-based  Pennsylvania  Bank- 
ers Association. 

Robert  B.  Brandt  '71  is  in  his  third  year  as  the 
annual  conference  lay  leader  for  the  Northern  New 
Jersey  Conference  of  the  United  Methodist  Church. 
Next  year  he  will  chair  the  Northern  New  Jersey 
delegation,  General  and  Northeastern  conferences. 
He  is  a  technical  manager  and  consultant  with  Matrix 
Computer  Consulting,  Inc.,  in  River  Edge. 

Rex  A.  Herbert  (Dr.)  '72  is  a  Harrisburg  area 
orthopedic  surgeon.  He  and  Patrick  Flynn,  a  Harris- 
burg CPA,  are  the  new  owners  of  a  National  Profes- 
sional Soccer  League  franchise  to  play  out  of  the  State 
Farm  Show  Arena  in  Harrisburg.  The  new  franchise 
will  replace  the  Hershey  Impact. 

Kenneth  R.   Gilberg  '73  recently  addressed  the 


Be  an  Ambassador! 

"T  elp  a  high  school  senior  in 
— I  your  area  learn  more  about 
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the  Alumni  Ambassador  Association 
and  assist  in  recruiting  outstanding 
students.  For  more  information,  call 
Sue  Borelli  in  the  Admission  Office, 
toll-free  at  1-800-445-6181. 


Presidents  Alliance,  a  group  of  presidents  of  busi- 
nesses located  in  the  Delaware  Valley  (PA).  He  spoke 
about  management  techniques  that  help  companies 
maximize  productivity  and  improve  their  quality  of 
service  while  maintaining  employee  satisfaction.  Ken 
is  an  attorney  in  the  Labor  Relations  and  Employment 
Law  Group  of  the  Philadelphia-based  firm  of  Mesirov, 
Gelman,  Jaffe,  Cramer  &  Jamieson. 

Debra  Kirchof-Glazier  (Dr.)  '73  was  promoted  to 
full  professor  in  biology  at  Juniata  College.  She 
received  the  prestigious  Lindback  Distinguished  Teach- 
ing Award  given  by  Juniata  and  was  named  the  Center 
Board's  Honored  Woman  of  the  Year  in  1987.  Debra 
is  an  active  member  in  Juniata's  Peace  and  Conflict 
Studies  (PACS)  program,  serves  on  the  PACS  commit- 
tee and  lectures  on  the  consequences  of  nuclear  war. 

Marsha  Edwards  Zehner  (Dr.)  '73  recently  re- 
ceived her  D.Ed,  from  Penn  State.  She  is  an  assistant 
to  the  superintendent  of  the  Annville-Cleona  School 
District. 

Kenneth  R.  Bickel  (Rev.)  '74  was  named  an 
adjunct  professor  at  the  University  of  Dubuque  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  Iowa  for  1991-92.  He  serves  as  the 
senior  minister  at  First  Congregational  United  Church 
of  Christ  in  Dubuque.  His  wife,  Nancy  Nelson  Bickel 
'75,  is  enrolled  in  the  master  of  divinity  program  at  the 
seminary  and  is  the  director  of  church  life  at  the  same 
church  where  her  husband  serves. 

Thomas  C.  Dilworth  '75  was  appointed  president 
and  chief  executive  officer  of  Founders  Federal  Bank 
in  Williamsport,  PA. 

Francis  T.  Lichtner  (Dr.)  '75,  his  wife,  Kim,  and 
their  children,  Samantha  and  Erik,  relocated  to  Paris, 
France,  for  a  five-year  assignment  with  the  Agricul- 
tural Products  Department  of  DuPont.  He  is  a  senior 
research  scientist  with  responsibility  for  the  discovery 
of  new  agricultural  products  for  Europe. 

Joseph  M.  Pease  '75  and  his  wife,  Gail,  welcomed 
a  daughter,  Loren  Juliette,  on  August  9,  1991. 

George  A.  Kline  '76  was  promoted  to  the  position 
of  vice  president  of  Dauphin  Deposit  Bank  in  Hummel- 
stown,  PA. 

Randolph  M.  Rupich  '76,  owner  of  Monterey 
Painting  Company  in  Harrisburg,  served  as  chief 
operating  officer  and  executive  vice  president  of  a 
large,  national  publicly  owned  corporation  that  pro- 
vides maintenance  and  other  services  to  the  nuclear 
power  industry. 

Glenn  A.  Zearfoss  '76  was  promoted  to  vice 
president,  Technical  Services  and  Quality  Assurance, 
Hershey  Pasta  Group. 

Brian  L.  Johnson  *77  is  senior  choir  and  handbell 
choir  director  of  Bellevue  Presbyterian  Church  in  Gap, 
PA.  The  handbells  were  a  gift  presented  in  memory 
of  his  wife,  Sharon  Skyles  Johnson  '80. 

Selene  A.  Wilson  '77  is  a  lower  school  science 
teacher  at  the  Shipley  School,  Bryn  Mawr,  PA.  She 
also  freelances  with  the  Zoological  Society  of  Philadel- 
phia, the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  and  the  Peving 
Nature  Center. 


Anne  G.  Constein  '78  received  an  M.Ed,  in 
elementary  education  from  West  Chester  University 
in  May  1991. 

Stephen  H.  Gomm  '78  and  Anne  Fabry  were 
married  on  June  29,  1991.  Steve  is  a  regional  account 
manager  for  Agfa-Copal  Inc.  and  Anne  is  the  market- 
ing director  for  Conroy's  Flowers.  They  are  living  in 
Redondo  Beach,  CA. 

Lonnie  Lee  Swanger  Riley  '78  married  Louis  Riley 
in  August,  1984,  and  they  had  a  daughter,  Kathryn, 
in  September  1988.  Lonnie  received  her  M.B.A.  from 
Shippensburg  University  in  1988.  She  teaches  in  the 
Harrisburg  City  Schools. 

Robert  A.  Wisniewski  '78  performed  an  organ 
recital  at  the  Cathedral  of  St.  Luke  and  St.  Paul  in 
Charleston,  SC.  on  June  7.  The  recital  was  part  of  the 
1991  Piccolo  Spoleto  Festival,  and  included  works  of 
Bach,  Bruhns,  Milhaud,  Scheidt  and  Thomson,  in 
addition  to  the  premiere  of  the  recitalist's  own 
"Toccata  alia  Fantasia."  Since  1986,  Bob  has  been 
music/liturgy  associate  at  St.  Mary  Catholic  Church 
in  Marion,  OH,  where  he  directs  four  choirs  and 
provides  music  for  all  weekend  and  holy  day  liturgies. 

Lorraine  Heitefuss  Barry  '79  and  Eugene  F. 
Barry  '80  welcomed  a  daughter,  Nicole  Marie,  on 
September  9,  1991. 

Barbara  Jones  Denison  (Dr.)  '79  and  Richard  E. 
Denison  (Rev.)  '81  had  a  daughter,  Brooke  Frances, 
on  July  12,  1991.  Barbara  is  director  of  academic 
support  services  in  continuing  education  at  LVC. 
Richard  is  associate  pastor  of  Trinity  United  Methodist 
Church  in  Wrightsville. 

Lesley  Olewiler  Schoch  '79  joined  the  sales  staff 
of  Dennis  E.  Beck  Real  Estate  Inc.  in  Lititz.  PA. 
Lesley  specializes  in  residential  sales. 

1980s 

News 

Walter  F.  Fullam  '80  and  Deborah  Reimer 
Fullam  '81  welcomed  a  daughter,  Meghan  Elizabeth, 
on  September  13,  1991.  Deborah  is  controller  and 
treasurer  of  LVC. 

Cindy  Kihn  Todoroff  '80  and  David  S.  Todoroff 
(Dr.)  '80  welcomed  a  daughter,  Melissa  Leigh,  on 
June  1,  1991.  Dave  has  a  private  practice  in  podiatry 
in  Harrisburg.  Cindy  is  a  business  analyst  for  Pennsyl- 
vania National  Insurance  Co.  in  Harrisburg.  They  also 
have  a  daughter,  Stephanie  Nicole,  3  years  old. 

Raymond  J.  Boccuti  '81  was  promoted  to  supervi- 
sor of  fine  arts  (K-12)  in  the  Neshaminy  School 
District,  Langhorne,  PA.  He  had  been  assistant 
principal  and  an  instrumental  music  teacher  in  the 
same  school  district. 

Shelley  Bantham  Fredericks  '81  and  Mark  wel- 
comed a  son,  Douglas  John,  on  August  11,  1991. 

David  P.  Harris  (Rev.)  '81  was  appointed  as  pastor 
of  the  Trinity  United  Methodist  Church  in  Denver,  PA. 

Debra  Poley  Schmidt  '81  and  her  husband,  Gary, 
welcomed  a  son,  Jonathan  Frederick,  on  August  31, 
1991 .  Jonathan  joins  two  sisters,  Jennifer  and  Julie. 

Timothy  G.  Long  '82  was  named  vice  president  of 
Andrews  Excavating  Inc.  in  Willow  Street,  PA. 

Carol  Nixon  Potts  '82  and  Lawrence  H.  Potts 
(Rev.)  '82  welcomed  a  son,  Matthew  Frederick,  on 
January  31,  1991.  He  joins  Elizabeth,  5,  and  Daniel, 
3.  Carol  is  working  part-time  for  Union  Fidelity,  and 
Larry  is  pastor  of  Beverly  (NJ)  U.M.  Church. 

Marguerite  C.   (Marcie)  Woodland  '82  married 


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Timothy  K.  Bock  on  July  2,  1988.  Marcie  is  a  senior 
biologist  doing  diabetes  research  for  Wyeth-Ayerst  in 
Monmouth  Junction.  NJ.  She  is  also  a  freelance 
musician  in  the  evenings  and  on  weekends  and  is 
recording  a  solo  flute  album  titled  "Grace  Notes." 

Dawn  Humphrey  Drago  '83  received  an  award 
from  the  Pennsylvania  Division  of  the  American 
Cancer  Society  for  her  article  on  the  early  detection 
of  cancer.  Dawn  covers  the  county  government  beat 
for  the  Reading  Times  and  Reading  Eagle. 

Deborah  M.  Lucas  '83  was  appointed  as  admis- 
sions counselor  at  Messiah  College,  Grantham.  PA. 

Kay  Koser  Rhodes  '83  and  Frank  S.  Rhodes  '83 
welcomed  a  third  son,  Harrison  Richard  "Harry" 
Rhodes,  on  May  29,  1991. 

Ruth  E.  Carpenter  '84  received  her  M.S.  in 
administration/psychology  from  West  Chester  Univer- 
sity in  May  1991. 

Vicki  Frey  Groome  '84  and  Dale  R.  Groome  *84 
welcomed  a  daughter,  Kelsey  Lynn,  on  May  7,  1991. 

Mark  F.  Wagner  '84  and  his  wife,  Bethany,  have 
been  directing  and  performing  in  plays  with  admirable 
frequency  ever  since  .they  met  in  1985  while  appearing 
in  "Papa  Is  All"  for  Main  Street  Theatre  Co.  in  New 
Holland,  PA.  They  are  sharing  stage  credit  in  "Once 
Upon  A  Mattress"  at  Ephrata's  Playhouse  in  the  Park. 

Lori  M.  Yanci  '84  was  appointed  as  pre-nursery 
teacher  for  Brookside  School  in  Sea  Girt,  NJ. 

Beth  Blauch  Border  '85  and  her  husband,  Scott, 
welcomed  a  son.  Nicholas  Daniel,  on  August  27,  199 1 . 

Jonathan  P.  Frye  '85  and  his  wife,  Leslie,  wel- 
comed a  daughter,  Jamie  Louise,  on  July  14,  1991. 

Kristine  Barbatschi  Shirey  '85  and  Charles  T. 
Shirey  '86  welcomed  a  son,  Nicholas  Patrick,  on 
March  24.  1991. 

Mary  Seitz  Mamet  '85  is  taking  a  year's  leave  of 
absence  from  teaching  to  pursue  a  master's  in  secon- 
dary counseling  at  Shippensburg  University. 

David  J.  Ferruzza  '86  and  Mary  Margaret  Urban 
were  married  September  7,  1991,  at  the  Grace  Brethren 
Church  of  Elizabethtown.  PA.  He  is  an  electrical 
engineer  and  she  is  a  nurse  at  the  Milton  S.  Hershey 
Medical  Center. 

Maria  T.  Montesano  '86  was  appointed  as  assistant 
director  of  publications  at  the  Pennsylvania  Medical 
Society  in  Harrisburg. 

Leann  M.  Perry  '86  and  Steven  C.  Eshleman  were 
married  on  May  25.  1991,  in  Miller  Chapel  at  LVC. 
Leann  is  employed  by  the  Deny  {Hershey.  PA) 
Township  School  District  and  is  a  student  at  Penn 
State.  Steven  is  employed  by  Hershey  Entertainment 
&  Resort  Company  and  by  Lower  Dauphin  School 
District  as  the  high  school  basketball  coach. 

Mark  E.  Scott  '86  was  promoted  to  captain  in  the 
U.S.  Air  Force.  He  is  based  at  Tinker  AFB,  Oklahoma 
City,  as  an  AWACS  air  weapons  director  with  the 
964th  Airborne  Warning  and  Control  Squadron. 

William  J.  VanEtten  '86  and  Lynn  Bachelder  were 
married  May  4,  1991,  in  Florence.  Italy.  He  graduated 
from  Indiana  University  in  August  1991.  with  a  major 
in  genetics. 

Leslie  Hall  Webb  '86  and  Gary  welcomed  a 
daughter,  Caroline  Florence,  on  February  12.  1991. 

Kevin  L.  Biddle  '87  directed  "Godspell"  in  a  ball 
field  behind  Gravel  Hill  United  Methodist  Church  in 
Palmyra,  PA.  with  people  from  the  area  taking  part  in 
the  performances  September  21  and  22. 

Glen  M.  Bootay  '87  and  Leslie  Ann  Hayward  were 
married  May  25.  1991,  in  Miller  Chapel  at  LVC.  Glen 
is  a  regional  manager  for  Nuclear  Support  Services, 


Inc.,  in  Campbelltown,  PA.  Leslie  is  employed  by 
Kelly  Services. 

Stephanie  M.  Butter  '87  was  appointed  a  quality 
assurance  auditor  at  Merck  Sharp  &  Dohme  Research 
Laboratories  in  Rahway,  NJ. 

Ronald  A.  Hartzell  '87  was  promoted  to  assistant 
marketing  officer  for  market  research  at  the  Meridian 
Bank  of  Reading. 

Robert  J.  Lloyd  (Dr.)  '87  received  the  doctor  of 
osteopathy  degree  from  Philadelphia  College  of  Osteo- 
pathic Medicine  on  June  2,  1991.  He  is  interning  at  the 
college's  hospital. 

Sandra  L.  Mohler  '87  was  promoted  to  liability 
claim  representative  for  Aetna  Life  &  Casualty  in 
Sinking  Spring,  PA.  She  handles  bodily  injury  claims. 

Joseph  C.  Pennington  (Dr.)  '87  received  an  MD. 
degree  on  June  7  from  Jefferson  Medical  College"  of 
Thomas  Jefferson  University  in  Philadelphia.  He 
began  a  residency  in  family  practice  medicine  at 
Lancaster  General  Hospital. 

Mary  Beth  Seasholtz  '87  was  an  invited  speaker 
at  the  "Total  Least  Squares"  conference  in  Leuven, 
Belgium,  where  she  addressed  an  audience  represent- 
ing 11  countries  from  the  Netherlands  to  China.  Her 
topic  was  "Concepts,  Algorithms  and  Applications." 
Mary  Beth  will  graduate  next  May  with  a  master's  in 
applied  mathematics  and  a  doctorate  in  chemistry  from 
the  University  of  Washington  in  Seattle.  She  is  married 
to  Jonathan  Zieman. 

Margaret  M.  Springer  '87  married  Dan  Timmons 
on  August  31,  1991,  in  Frederick.  MD.  They  live  in 
Houma,  LA. 

Lore-Lee  Bruwelheide  '88  and  James  V.  Walak 
*88  were  married  June  16.  1990.  She  teaches  second 
grade  for  the  Halifax  Area  (PA)  School  District. 

Kim  A.  Daubert  '88  and  Eric  R.  Rismiller  were 
married  May  25,  1991.  Eric  is  a  student  at  LVC  in  the 
Secondary  Education  Certification  Program.  Kim  is  a 
general  and  instrumental  music  educator  in  the  Middle 
School  of  the  Pottsville  Area  School  District. 

Andrew  J.  Krall  '88  graduated  from  Drexel  Uni- 
versity with  an  M.B.A.  in  operations  management. 
He  is  a  quality  assurance  engineer  with  the  Janssen 
Pharmaceutical  Firm  in  Fort  Washington,  PA. 

Marjorie  A.  Schubauer  '88  and  Michael  J.  Hart- 
man  were  married  July  13,  1991,  at  Italian  Lake  in 
Harrisburg.  Marjorie  teaches  science  at  Red  Land  High 
School.  Michael  is  special  events  director  for  the  city 
of  Harrisburg. 

Paul  A.  Smith  '88  and  Bonnie  Lynn  Claeys  were 
married  recently  in  the  Bay  Head  Chapel,  Bay  Head, 
NJ.  Paul  is  a  freelance  audio  engineer  and  Bonnie 
works  for  American  Illustration  Inc.  in  New  York. 

Michael  L.  Trauger  '88  and  Priscilla  Rissler  were 
married  August  24,  1991.  in  Christ  United  Church  of 
Christ  in  Annville,  PA.  Michael  is  employed  by  the 
Milton  S.  Hershey  Medical  Center  and  is  a  student  at 
Harrisburg  Area  Community  College.  Priscilla  is 
employed  by  Dauphin  Manor. 

Jeane  L.  Weidner  '88  and  Dr.  John  L.  Serrian,  Jr., 
were  married  June  22.  1991.  She  teaches  at  Wilson 
Central  Junior  High  School  in  West  Lawn.  PA. 

Cynthia  M.  Barry  '89  and  Randy  F.  Dubbs  were 
married  August  31,  1991,  in  Salem  Lutheran  Church 
in  Lebanon.  Cynthia  is  a  TELLS  teacher  for  the 
Northern  Lebanon  School  District  and  serves  as 
co-aquatic  director  at  the  YMCA.  Randy  is  employed 
by  AWI  in  Womelsdorf. 

James  Patrick  Eckman  (Lt.)  '89  married  Tara 
Lynn  O'Neill  on  July  13,  1991,  at  the  St.  Anthony  of 


Padua  Church  in  Lancaster.  Jim  is  in  the  U.S.  Army. 

Rebecca  C.  Gaspar  '89  was  promoted  to  area 
director  of  the  Delaware  County  Branch  of  the  Big 
Brother/Big  Sister  Association  of  Philadelphia. 

Wendi  J.  Haldeman  '89  married  James  R.  Donmo- 
yer,  Jr.  on  September  21,  1991,  in  Assumption  of  the 
Blessed  Virgin  Mary  Church  in  Lebanon.  Wendi  is 
employed  by  Lebanon  Land  Transfer  Co.  Inc.  Jim  is 
employed  by  the  Lebanon  County  Commissioners. 

R.  Jason  Herr  '89  currently  is  in  graduate  school 
at  Penn  State. 

Drue  A.  Koons  '89  is  a  litigation  paralegal  for 
Klores  &  Associates  in  Washington,  D.C. 

Robyn  Keough  Miner  '89  is  a  research  technician 
in  the  division  of  endocrinology  at  the  Milton  S. 
Hershey  Medical  Center. 

Edwina  TVavers  '89  and  Marshall  Antonson  were 
married  February  24.  1990.  They  had  a  daughter, 
Alexina  Mae,  on  June  6,  1991. 

Kathleen  A.  Zitka  '89  joined  the  staff  of  the 
Pottsville  Hospital  and  Warne  Clinic  as  surgical 
sing  coordinator. 


1990s 


News 

Laura  A.  Baird  '90  teaches  first  grade  in  McKinley 
Elementary  School  in  Elkins  Park.  PA.  Joann  M. 
Giannettino,  her  best  friend  and  former  roommate, 
continues  to  pursue  graduate  studies  and  coaching  track 
at  Bucknell  University. 

Wendy  S.  Bord  *90  teaches  a  transition  class  at 
East  High  Elementary  School  in  Elizabethtown.  PA. 
She  received  the  gift  of  teaching  award  this  past  year. 

William  Dietz,  Jr.  '90  and  Elaine  M.  Koehler 
'90  were  married  July  20.  1991.  in  Miller  Chapel  at 
LVC.  Bill  works  for  the  Elizabethtown  Area  School 
District,  and  Elaine  works  for  the  Cornwall-Lebanon 
School  District  and  Weis  Markets  in  Lebanon. 

Shawn  M.  Gingrich  '90  was  appointed  as  minister 
of  music  at  Emmanuel  United  Church  of  Christ  in 
Hanover,  PA. 

Todd  A.  Hess  '90  and  Stacey  L.  Kercher  were 
married  September  14.  1991,  in  St.  Paul  the  Apostle 
Church  in  Annville.  Todd  works  for  AMP  Inc.  in 
Harrisburg  and  Stacey  works  for  Grumbine  RV  Center, 
also  in  Harrisburg. 

Harry  S.  "Buddy"  Oliver  HI  '90  and  Kathy 
Supplee  '90  were  married  November  3,  1990.  Buddy 
is  co-owner  of  a  production  company  and  is  in  a  band 
called  "Xtreme  Need,"  which  performs  in  Chester 
County  (PA)  and  areas  outside  Philadelphia.  He  is  also 
employed  by  Widener  University  as  a  studio  manager. 
Kathy  is  a  social  worker  for  HHL  Financial  Services 
Inc.  in  Media,  PA. 

Cynthia  J.  Woods  '90  and  Jed  H.  Kensinger  were 
married  July  20.  1991.  in  St.  Mark  Lutheran  Church 
in  Annville.  Cynthia,  also  a  graduate  of  Albright 
College,  is  employed  by  the  Lebanon  School  District. 
Jed  works  for  Lancaster  Newspapers  Inc. 

Lisa  M.  Dechert  '91  and  Robert  Putt  were  married 
July  27.  1991,  in  Miller  Chapel  at  LVC.  They  are 
living  in  Gaithersburg,  MD. 

Amy  E.  Earhart  '91  is  an  M.A.  candidate  at  the 
University  of  Tennessee  in  Knoxville.  She  received  a 
fellowship  and  a  graduate  assistantship. 

Michael  L.  Lichtenwalner  '91  and  Debra  L. 
Reagle  '91  were  married  June  19,  1991,  in  Christ 
Episcopal  Church  in  Toms  River,  NJ. 


M 


The  Valley 


Behind 
die  Lacquer 
Curtain 


A  hand-painted  symbol  of 
the  Soviet  state  finds  a  home 
where  art  doesn't  have  to 
serve  politics. 


On  this  relic  of  the  Soviet  state,  a  youth  trumpets  revolution. 


By  Diane  Wenger 


The  latest  addition  to  the  col- 
lege art  collection  is  a  gaily 
colored,  hand-painted  lacquer 
box  crafted  in  the  Soviet  Un- 
ion to  commemorate  the  70th 
anniversary  of  the  Bolshevik  revolution  in 
1917.  The  8"  x  3"  box,  which  shows  an 
allegorical  figure  symbolizing  the  "youth 
of  the  revolution  and  the  glory  of  the 
Soviet,"  is  the  gift  of  Henry  J.  Ruhl  of 
Hershey. 

This  type  of  lacquer  work  is  indigenous 
to  Russia,  where  it  has  been  an  art  form 
for  300  to  400  years,  according  to  Ruhl, 
an  art  collector  and  dealer.  But  the 
commemorative  subject  of  this  box  makes 
it  very  unusual:  The  vast  majority  of  such 
lacquer  boxes  depict  Russian  fairy  tales. 
A  craftsperson  needs  two  and  a  half  to  three 
months  to  complete  a  box.  Because  all  the 
work  is  done  by  hand,  no  two  boxes  are 
alike.  The  base  material  is  papier-mache, 
strengthened  by  applications  of  lacquer  and 
then  fired  in  a  kiln  as  many  as  20  to  30 
times  until  the  piece  is  harder  than  wood. 

Ruhl  first  learned  of  the  commemorative 
boxes  while  visiting  the  Soviet  Union  in 


1987.  An  acquaintance  in  Moscow  told  him 
that  artists  in  the  city  of  Lipetsk  had  been 
commissioned  to  create  a  limited  edition 
in  honor  of  the  upcoming  anniversary.  The 
boxes  were  made  sometime  between  1985 
and  1987.  Although  no  one  had  yet  seen 
the  lacquer  pieces,  Ruhl  placed  an  order 
for  one.  He  asked,  partly  in  jest,  "If 
humanly  possible,  send  two."  In  December 

1988,  back  home  in  Hershey,  he  received 
a  call  from  a  customs  broker  telling  him 
that  a  shipment  from  the  USSR  had  arrived. 
To  his  great  surprise,  it  contained  a  pair 
of  the  precious  boxes.  Being  able  to  obtain 
two  of  such  a  limited  run  proved  to  Ruhl 
that  "there  really  is  glasnost  and  peres- 
troika." 

Prompted  by  the  recent  moves  toward 
democracy  in  the  Soviet  Union  (which  give 
these  boxes  a  very  special  significance), 
Ruhl  decided  to  present  one  of  the  boxes 
to  Lebanon  Valley  College. 


Diane  Wenger  is  a  senior  English  major 
and  administrative  assistant  to  President 
John  Sxnodinos. 


Winter  1992 


35 


BILL  McALLEN 


>lebrate  Spring  with 
is  at  the  college's 
22nd  annual  Spring  Arts  Fes- 
tival the  weekend  of  April 
25-26.  The  juried  art  exhibi- 
tion and  crafts  display  will 
be  bigger  than  ever,  featur- 
ing artists  from  around  the 
state.  Plus  there'll  be  music, 
dance,  drama,  children's  ac- 
tivities and  a  wide  variety  of 
food.  Come  to  campus  and 
join  in  the  festivities. 


"Screeving"  in  the  Residential  Quad  has  long  been  a  Spring  Arts  tradition. 


A  Rite  of  Spring 


Lebanon  Valley  College 

of  Pennsylvania 
ANNVILLE,  PA  17003 

Address  Correction  Requested 


Non-Profrt  Organization 

U.S.  POSTAGE  RAID 

Gordonsville,  VA 

Permit  No.  35 


Mr.  Glenn  H.  Woods 
405  E.  Main  St. 
Annville,  PA   17003-1510