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Elizabethtown T H E M A G A Z I N E O F E L I Z A B E T H T O W N C O L L E G E FA L L 2 0 1 8 MAKING THE COST OF TUITION COLLEGE MORE TRANSPARENT $ “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 Send feedback and story ideas to 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 FSC logo - FPO our financial growth. Ours is a community in which academic programs are built to meet printer will place 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 { } 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 2 WWW.ETOWN.EDU 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. ELIZABETHTOWN MAGAZINE • FALL 2018 3 { } 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. 4 WWW.ETOWN.EDU 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.” ELIZABETHTOWN MAGAZINE • FALL 2018 5 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 153 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 121 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 6 WWW.ETOWN.EDU 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 ELIZABETHTOWN MAGAZINE • FALL 2018 7 { } 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. 8 WWW.ETOWN.EDU