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MAKING THE COST OF
TUITION COLLEGE MORE TRANSPARENT
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“That’s what we achieved by lowering our Elizabethtown
REDUCED
tuition for 2019-20 by 32 percent to $32,000.
We want students to understand that with
32% scholarships, part-time and summer work, THE MAGAZINE OF
$32,000 and reasonably-sized loans they can afford an ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE
LOWER
Elizabethtown College education. It’s the best
investment they can make for their futures.”
FOR 2019-20 FALL 2018
President Carl Strikwerda
VOL105 NO1
(More information on page 15)
A Bright Future Ahead
PRESIDENT
Carl J. Strikwerda
Along with a beautiful campus and a caring faculty and staff, highly innovative academic
programs rank among the most attractive attributes during a student’s college search. EDITOR
Elizabeth A. Braungard ‘86
Over the last year, Elizabethtown College’s faculty and the administrators in Academic
Affairs, led by Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Betty Rider,
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
developed more new majors, minors and concentrations than in any comparable period in Wendy Sheaffer
the College’s history.
CONTRIBUTORS
Mark A. Clapper ‘96
E.A. Harvey ‘14
Chemistry Laboratory Sciences prepares students for laboratory research careers; guaranteed
Matt Heffelfinger
internships at Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Environmental ensure that they are prepared to Myla Merkel
enter the job market after graduation. Data Science and Business Analytics place our students Jon Rutter
at the forefront of the rapidly growing fields of data analysis and data management. The PHOTOGRAPHERS
Physician Assistant master’s degree, coming in Fall 2020, will meet a pressing need for more Wendy Sheaffer
Andy Williams
flexible medical care. I hope you’ll read more about our rapidly expanding academic programs
Gini Woy
on page 16. Photos by staff or courtesy,
except as otherwise noted.
Equally important to creating vibrant and relevant academic programs is seeing our students Printed by Intellicor
develop into healthy, thoughtful adults. The Gallup Organization found that college graduates
Elizabethtown magazine is published, annually,
feel engaged in their work if they pursue what they’re good at, develop those talents and with occasional special editions. The views
recognize the strengths of others. Using these insights, Stacey Zimmerman, associate director expressed in this magazine do not necessarily
reflect the policies or positions of the College.
of strengths coaching and ethical leadership development, encourages all first-year students Visit www.etown.edu for more information about
to take a 30-minute, StrengthsFinder inventory. The online inventory identifies a person’s top the College and its history.
five talents out of 34 possible strengths. Students build on the StrengthsFinder results through
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class sessions, advising and workshops. Our entire campus community has embraced this [email protected].
approach and their own strengths. You can read more on page 10.
Elizabethtown College continues to build on our own strengths as well. Our “Roadmap to
2025” will guide us as our enrollment grows, we anticipate a shift to becoming a regional
university (a natural outcome of our growing master’s programs) and we continue to sustain
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our financial growth. Ours is a community in which academic programs are built to meet
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the demands of the marketplace and where students’ strengths are embraced. With these
passionate commitments and your support for the BE More Inspired. campaign, which has
now passed $53 million toward an expanded goal of $60 million, we all have the power to
ensure that our College’s future remains bright.
Blue Jays. Always,
Carl J. Strikwerda
President, Elizabethtown College
INSIDE
lizabethtown
FEATURES
10
Building on Talents
The positive impact of the Clifton
StrengthsFinder— identifying an
individuals top five talents.
16 10
Design Thinking
Building new academic programs
by “design” and demand.
19
The Art of Tea
Nobuaki Takahashi shares his
knowledge of the Japanese tea
ceremony. SECTIONS
20 2 The Dell & World
23 Sport Shorts
Putting it all Together
On and off the field, Derek 24 Alumni News
Manning is driven to succeed.
27 Class Notes
Special pull-out insert: Homecoming & Family Weekend
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THE DELL
& WORLD
A fresh start, feet first
LIVES OF SERVICE: STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR
GIVES AWAY SNEAKERS TO FAMILIES IN NEED
When Nickolas Levin was a teenager, in Lancaster, Levin said. He recently took apparel, much of which goes to Asian
he was completely into unique sneakers. 20 pairs of sneakers to a poor area of Isla markets. With a minor in Japanese, he said
“I collected them,” he said. “I wanted Mujeres in Mexico. he’d love to work in Japan after graduation
something different on my feet than other The Kix for Kids executive director but knows he’ll be too homesick.
people.” All told, he had about 100 pairs. and president said he also runs a business Instead, he’s going for his law degree.
“My closet was full.” that sells sneakers, luxury luggage and “I’ve thought about that since sixth grade.”
Eventually, Levin, an Elizabethtown
College junior, said he looked at all those
shoes and thought, ‘what are you doing?’ “I want to mitigate poverty so families
He took about half the pairs in his
can have more money to
collection and placed them for resale.
Unfortunately, growing up in a “low put food on the table.” Nickolas Levin
income” area of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
he said, the prices excluded most of his
neighbors as customers. The secondhand
shoes were expensive.
With that in mind and with inspiration
from James Reeb, director of the College’s
Social Enterprise Institute, who spoke
in one of Levin’s classes, his passion for
sneakers turned into a purpose. This
past January, the family business and
entrepreneurship major formed Kix for
Kids, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization
that offers sneakers to children in
underprivileged and underfunded areas.
He gifted the first pair of Kix for Kids
sneakers to a McCaskey High School
basketball player. “I gave him sneakers
to match his uniform,” Levin said. Since
then, with start-up funding of $5,000, he’s
given away about 100 pairs of children’s
sneakers—newborn through 18 years. His
goal is to collect and give away 500 pairs
in his first year of business, he said. Then,
there are plans to increase that amount by
100 every year following.
Presently, Kix for Kids sponsors five
Lancaster families and is connected to local
charity organizations ECHOS in E-town
and the United Way and Milagro House
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THE DELL & WORLD
NEW VICE PRESIDENT
Featherton FOR STUDENT LIFE
Crossings
Celestino José Limas became the College’s
new vice president for student life, this
summer, following the retirement of Vice
President and Dean of Students Marianne
Calenda.
Prior to coming to
Elizabethtown, Limas
was an administrator
in residence life,
international student
advising, cocurricular
programming,
multicultural affairs, athletics, wellness
and health promotion, counseling services,
student government and religious life.
“E-town has long been a place I’ve
Birds of a feather flock together… admired for its commitment to service
Was it just coincidence that 50 Blue Jays migrated to an off- and experiential learning,” said Limas.
campus apartment complex called Featherton Crossings? Not “The way it weaves robust student-faculty
at all. The new housing option, which was introduced this fall, is collaboration, sustainability and affordable
popular with students, according to Allison Bridgeman, associate
excellence into every facet is what makes
dean of students and director of residence life. “Our students
the community one of a kind.”
have been asking for more opportunities to live, independently, in
apartment-style housing, and the new construction at Featherton
Crossings created the opportunity for Blue Jays to live in a
community together.” Students have more flexible housing
options, living in groups of two, three or four in both one- and
two-bedroom models, which are equipped with microwaves,
dishwashers and washers and dryers. Students also can stay for the
academic year or for an entire 12 months.
KELLY-WOESSNER: RANCK PRIZE LECTURER
April Kelly-Woessner, professor of political The College acknowledged her
science and chair of the Department of achievements through a springtime
Politics, Philosophy and Legal Studies, Faculty Scholarship Lecture and
earned Elizabethtown College’s first Ranck recognition in the 2018 Commencement
Award for Research Excellence. and Convocation programs. She also New! INTERACTIVE
received supplements to her professional CAMPUS MAP
development fund.
Robert O. Kerr ’64 and Mary Ann
Visitors to the E-town campus can now
Kerr ’64 established the Ranck Prize
navigate the College’s new interactive
as a permanent endowment to award,
map. The mobile-friendly platform
commend and celebrate a full-time
allows users to travel around our 204-
Elizabethtown College faculty member
acre campus with ease. Each location
for research and a commitment to his or
on the map is organized by building or
her field of study. The prize honors John
area of interest, with sub-categories for
P. Ranck ’58, a faculty member emeritus
quick and accurate wayfinding.
and former chair of the Department of
Check it out! www.etown.edu/map
Chemistry and Biochemistry.
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BOOK
MARK
Steel beam framework brings the Bowers Center
to life, as shown on July 27.
Follow the live construction feed at:
etown.edu/inspired/wellness-center.aspx
I Am the Hero
of My Own Life Campaign Impact:
BRICKS-AND-MORTAR
PROJECTS KEEP PACE WITH CAMPUS NEEDS
Brianna Wiest
Thought Catalog Books
BOWERS CENTER YOUNG CENTER
Despite a soggy spring, construction The building expansion of the Young
“I Am the Hero of My Own Life,” progress on the Bowers Center for Sports, Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
a guided journal by Brianna Fitness and Well-being continued. A fall is complete and includes new offices,
Wiest ’13, will be available in 2019 opening is anticipated. expanded meeting space, desk areas for
hardcover in September. “Hero” The largest building project in the visiting scholars and a large interpretive
the third book for Wiest, who history of the College, the Bowers Center gallery. Join us at homecoming this fall for
majored in professional writing will be a “wellness hub” in the center of a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1:30 p.m.
with a gender studies minor, campus. From lounges to locker rooms, on October 20. An open house and tours
accompanies the masterclass “The courts to kitchens (a demonstration will follow. A formal dedication of the
Hero of Your Own Life” available kitchen), tracks to treadmills and expansion is scheduled for spring 2019.
through Thought Catalog Books. classrooms to cardio areas, the Bowers For opportunities to support either
Center will offer wellness opportunities for the Bowers Center or the Young Center
Her earlier books, “101 Essays that the entire campus community. Cash and endowment for programming and long-
will Change the way You Think” pledges totaling $18.2 million have been term support, please call 1-800-877-9658.
and “Salt Water” were published raised for this state-of-the-art facility.
in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
The intent of the journal is to
help the reader—through writing
prompts, exercises and quotes—
to “envision your ideal life and
then identify the unconscious
attachments that are preventing
you from living it.”
Building expansion of the Young Center is complete.
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THE DELL & WORLD
OLYMPIC MEDALIST
Proudly IS LEFFLER LECTURER
serving…
Ibtihaj
Muhammad,
Starbucks has made its way to the first female
campus! The Blue Bean Café
began serving a wide variety of Muslim-
hot and cold Starbucks beverages American
this fall after a summer renovation
athlete to win an
to the Café space in the Baugher
Student Center. Olympic medal
at the Summer
Games in Rio,
is this year’s
Elizabethtown College Leffler Lecturer,
ARMSTRONG ENCOURAGES COMPASSION
speaking at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.
Karen Armstrong feels strongly that people Her books include “Through the 7, in Leffler Chapel and Performance
should put away egos and treat others as Narrow Gate,” “The End of Silence: Center.
they, themselves, wish to be treated. This Women and the Priesthood,” and A lifelong athlete, Muhammad
was her message this past April 2018 as the “Fields of Blood: Religion and the His- discovered fencing as a teenager when she
Judy S. ’68 and Paul W. Ware Lecturer on tory of Violence.” realized it didn’t interfere with wearing a
Peacemaking. With or without religion, everyone hijab. She participates on the council for
Armstrong, Officer of the Most Ex- is born with compassion, Armstrong the U.S. Department of State’s initiative
cellent Order of the British Empire and said. Unfortunately, not everyone Empowering Women and Girls through
founder of the Charter for Compassion, is shows it. “Compassion demands that Sport.
a historian of world religions and a leading you place yourself on the backburner. The Carlos R. and Georgiana E.
commenter on faith. It does not mean you feel sorry for Leffler Memorial Lecture, created by
Many people, she said, involve them- yourself. Unless human beings learn to Linda ’67 and Patrick Castagna, honors
selves in religion “because they want to be cooperate with one another, they will the legacy and contributions of Mrs.
transformed.” This was her reason for join- destroy each other.” Castagna’s parents.
ing a convent as a teen, she said. Eventu- The Ware Lecture is made possible
ally, she left, however, to become a student, by a sustaining donation by Judy S. ’68
teacher, television producer, public speaker and Paul W. Ware.
and author.
DIGITAL HUMANITITES HUB
Imagine a room full of computers, The first phase of the Digital are partnering on digital assignments with
intimate gathering areas, comfortable Humanities Hub—to introduce its purpose humanities students and one another.
furniture, workspaces and students and possibilities, establish dedicated “They each have their own way of looking
busy with archiving, video production, space and plan it out—is complete. The at a project,” said Carol Ouimet, an
analysis, interviewing, research and project next stage will continue making personal administrative assistant for the humanities
planning. The collaborative energy is connections across campus to encourage departments and Scholarship and Creative
practically palpable. creativity and scholarship. The addition of Arts Days. “A biology student is going to
Thanks to a fall 2017 Mellon Grant, more equipment and technology also will approach something differently than a
the space in the Wenger Center for the enhance the experience. history student or an art student. Each is an
Humanities has become a dedicated All humanities departments—History, asset to the group.”
Digital Humanities Hub. Faculty and staff English, Religious Studies and Modern Since changing the room from simply
members and students who are looking Languages—use the Digital Humanities being a lounge, there has been a different
beyond the perceived boundaries of their Hub and its equipment. However, the energy in the building, Ouimet said.
majors come together to collaborate on reach is much farther. Students from other “Students are spending time in the Hub
projects and share resources. majors, who have likeminded interests, and even teaching each other.”
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hello....
Class of
2022
Our newest flock of Jays began flying onto campus
August 17. Their days were filled with first year
seminar meetings, roommate and floor mate
introductions, nature hikes on the Conewago Trail,
a rally (complete with Alma Mater singing lessons),
the traditional walk through Elizabethtown and a incoming students have worked
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new first year seminar team challenge. part-time jobs
And then there was the food—a chocolate buffet,
a cookout and the tastes of traditional food and
culture at the Pennsylvania Dutch Sunday dinner. new Blue Jays are first-generation
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New this year, our 400 Jays gathered for a first- college students
ever “Flock Photo” on Wolf Field.
The weekend ended with the induction
ceremony where our newest Jays received their pins incoming first-year students
75
and well-wishes from senior administrators of the
are Undergraduate Fellows
College.
percent of students were
63
involved in service projects
percent of new Blue Jay
40
students played sports
first-year students have a family
38
member who is a graduate
percent of students graduated
29
in the top 10% of their class
students in the incoming class
20
have traveled abroad
students earned Valedictorian
7
or Salutatorian honors
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farewell....
Class of
2018
Saturday, May 19, 2018, was the first time, since
2001, that Elizabethtown College’s traditional
Commencement took place indoors.
However, the day’s inclement weather did
not cloud the anticipation and enthusiasm of
traditional grads were 491 traditional and 163 School of Continuing
98
and Professional Studies (SCPS) grads as they
master’s degree recipients
took their last steps as College students and their
paces toward a promising future. The Traditional
percent of traditional graduates Commencement speaker was Kwame Appiah,
63
completed a capstone course New York Times Sunday magazine columnist
“The Ethicist,” and Nancy Dering Mock ’76,
founder of The Dering Consulting Group, was
percent of grads took part in the speaker for the SCPS ceremony.
62
an internship/study abroad
adult learners earned a
37
SCPS master’s degree
18 grads had double majors
percent of traditional grads
15
studied abroad
traditional graduates traveled
13
to Vietnam during May Term
grads were international
12
students
brothers graduated together in
2
the SCPS Commencement
“Your passionate advocacy has brought us to new insights. To rebuild the
world we must also give due respect to those we do not agree with. …
The task isn’t just to change the world; it is to be open to changing ourselves.”
2018 Commencement speaker, Kwame Appiah
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E-TOWN
SNAPSHOT
an
Elizabethtown
moment…
Professor Milt Friedly
observes Meg McMurdy ’19,
in a printmaking course, as
she lifts a solarplate-etched
print from a glass surface.
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