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JUNIAT4� NON PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE COLLEGE;_J;t PAID JUNIATA COLLEGE Office of College Advancement 1700 Moore Street Huntingdon, PA 16652-2196 www.juniata.edu Fall/Winter 2007-2008 RESIDENT'S MESSAGE IONTENTS Juniata Magazine Table of f features f Dear Friends, Brick By Brick: Founders Hall Reborn JUNIATA magazine I was talking to a member of the Class of '87 at Homecoming and she remarked at John Wall The College is returning Founders Hall to its original mission as a classroom how welcoming the campus appears today In her day, students spent most of their [email protected] and faculty building housing the history and English departments. By blending Edit01; Director of Media Relations time on the other side of Moore Street and often had to dodge cars driving down 18th Gabriel Welsch the venerable older structure with a new; expanded wing facing the quad, Street through the center of campus. [email protected] rJuniata has finished the reformation of the heart of campus. Assistant Vice President for Marheting Pete Lefresne Over a period of years, students, alumni and our dedicated employees have slowly [email protected] Cue Applause:]uniata Theatre POE is SRO (Standing Room Only) transformed the center of campus. Some of the changes were major (you can't get Spo,ts Infmmation Director Rosann Brown more major than building two, soon to be three, new buildings), some were more Director of Flint Publications Josh Beckel '09 andJesse Parsons '08 did not arrive on campus as theatre subtle. What isn't subtle is the reaction from both alumni and students. The alumni Angie Ciccarelli majors-primarily because the College didn't have a theatre POE. Now into Publications Assistant are universally pleased that Juniata retains the homey feel of the caring campus they its third year, there is, if not a cast of thousands, then a vibrant mix of students John Hille remember, yet has improved its facilities without removing its essential character-its Exeru(ive Vice Presidenr for Advancement willing to sample the educational and professional opportunities available to and Marl?eting 'Juniataness" if you will. We can tell the students love the new look because they're those seeking center stage. Bub Parker '91 voting their conscience-by enrolling. Di recto,· of Alumni Relations The central quad no longer is the place Evelyn L. Pembrooke 12 Tale of Two Students: Replenishing]uniata's Researchers The central quad no longer is the place you walk through to get to the gym or Ellis Alunmi Office Specialist you walk through to get to the gym J.D. Cavrich Joe Houck '08 and Cecelia Shertz '08 set foot in the von Liebig science center Hall. With the addition of the science center, the new theatre complex and soon, Principal Photography or Ellis Hall. With the addition of the a renovated Founders Hall, the central campus has become the academic heart of as freshmen and couldn't wait to get started in the lab. Older students and faculty mentored their progress. Now; their skill and enthusiasm is rubbing off Juniata. I vividly remember the anticipation and excitement that accompanied the science center, the new theatre complex on a new contingent of young scientists. building and completion of each new project. Juniata Magazine is published two times a and soon, a renovated Founders Hall, year by JuniaLa College, Department of Advancement and Marketing and is Just as we transformed the image of our College, I invite you to share in the Off the Shelves: Library Has Much More than Books the central campus has become the distributed free of charge to alumni and 18 exhilaration as we go forward to Juniata'.s next challenge: to build the Scholarship friends ofJ uniata College. Postmaster and others, please send change-of-address academic heart of Juniata. Fund and our endowment in order to continue to make our top-notch education correspondence to: Alumni Relations, Dedicated students and others can find the fantastic or the funereal amid 1700 Moore St., Huntingdon, PA the treasures of the Special Collections inJuniata's Beeghly Library: Holdings affordable and challenging. 16652-2196. Juniata Magazine can accept no ranging from Amazing Stories science fiction to mystical religious tomes can responsibility for unsolicited contributions Warm regards, of artwork, photography, or articles. inspire, educate and entertain students and visitors. Juniata College, as an educational institution and employer, values equality of opponunity and diversity. The College � is an independent, privately supported Thomas R. Kepple Jr. co-educational institution committed to providing a liberal ans education to d artments qualified students regardless of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ep marital status, sexual orientation, or disability. Its policies comply with requirements of Title VIII of the Civil 22 Campus News 62 Sports Rights Act of 1964, Title IV of the Education Amendments of 1972, and all 30 Class Notes 64 360° Reconnecting with Juniata other applicable federal, state, and local statutes, regulations and guidelines. 56 Faculty Feature 18( Campus Conversations 58 Faculty/Staff Briefs Cover photo by ].D. Cav1ich Fall/Winter 2007-2008 I 1 , --- ...L ,._. u ~ Fall/Winter 2007-2008 RESIDENT'S MESSAGE IONTENTS Juniata Magazine Table of f features f Dear Friends, Brick By Brick: Founders Hall Reborn JUNIATA magazine I was talking to a member of the Class of '87 at Homecoming and she remarked at John Wall The College is returning Founders Hall to its original mission as a classroom how welcoming the campus appears today In her day, students spent most of their [email protected] and faculty building housing the history and English departments. By blending Edit01; Director of Media Relations time on the other side of Moore Street and often had to dodge cars driving down 18th Gabriel Welsch the venerable older structure with a new; expanded wing facing the quad, Street through the center of campus. [email protected] rJuniata has finished the reformation of the heart of campus. Assistant Vice President for Marheting Pete Lefresne Over a period of years, students, alumni and our dedicated employees have slowly [email protected] Cue Applause:]uniata Theatre POE is SRO (Standing Room Only) transformed the center of campus. Some of the changes were major (you can't get Spo,ts Infmmation Director Rosann Brown more major than building two, soon to be three, new buildings), some were more Director of Flint Publications Josh Beckel '09 andJesse Parsons '08 did not arrive on campus as theatre subtle. What isn't subtle is the reaction from both alumni and students. The alumni Angie Ciccarelli majors-primarily because the College didn't have a theatre POE. Now into Publications Assistant are universally pleased that Juniata retains the homey feel of the caring campus they its third year, there is, if not a cast of thousands, then a vibrant mix of students John Hille remember, yet has improved its facilities without removing its essential character-its Exeru(ive Vice Presidenr for Advancement willing to sample the educational and professional opportunities available to and Marl?eting 'Juniataness" if you will. We can tell the students love the new look because they're those seeking center stage. Bub Parker '91 voting their conscience-by enrolling. Di recto,· of Alumni Relations The central quad no longer is the place Evelyn L. Pembrooke 12 Tale of Two Students: Replenishing]uniata's Researchers The central quad no longer is the place you walk through to get to the gym or Ellis Alunmi Office Specialist you walk through to get to the gym J.D. Cavrich Joe Houck '08 and Cecelia Shertz '08 set foot in the von Liebig science center Hall. With the addition of the science center, the new theatre complex and soon, Principal Photography or Ellis Hall. With the addition of the a renovated Founders Hall, the central campus has become the academic heart of as freshmen and couldn't wait to get started in the lab. Older students and faculty mentored their progress. Now; their skill and enthusiasm is rubbing off Juniata. I vividly remember the anticipation and excitement that accompanied the science center, the new theatre complex on a new contingent of young scientists. building and completion of each new project. Juniata Magazine is published two times a and soon, a renovated Founders Hall, year by JuniaLa College, Department of Advancement and Marketing and is Just as we transformed the image of our College, I invite you to share in the Off the Shelves: Library Has Much More than Books the central campus has become the distributed free of charge to alumni and 18 exhilaration as we go forward to Juniata'.s next challenge: to build the Scholarship friends ofJ uniata College. Postmaster and others, please send change-of-address academic heart of Juniata. Fund and our endowment in order to continue to make our top-notch education correspondence to: Alumni Relations, Dedicated students and others can find the fantastic or the funereal amid 1700 Moore St., Huntingdon, PA the treasures of the Special Collections inJuniata's Beeghly Library: Holdings affordable and challenging. 16652-2196. Juniata Magazine can accept no ranging from Amazing Stories science fiction to mystical religious tomes can responsibility for unsolicited contributions Warm regards, of artwork, photography, or articles. inspire, educate and entertain students and visitors. Juniata College, as an educational institution and employer, values equality of opponunity and diversity. The College � is an independent, privately supported Thomas R. Kepple Jr. co-educational institution committed to providing a liberal ans education to d artments qualified students regardless of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ep marital status, sexual orientation, or disability. Its policies comply with requirements of Title VIII of the Civil 22 Campus News 62 Sports Rights Act of 1964, Title IV of the Education Amendments of 1972, and all 30 Class Notes 64 360° Reconnecting with Juniata other applicable federal, state, and local statutes, regulations and guidelines. 56 Faculty Feature 18( Campus Conversations 58 Faculty/Staff Briefs Cover photo by ].D. Cav1ich Fall/Winter 2007-2008 I 1 Founders also was a dormitory-and in fact, as boys and girls once ' ' ...A ll of a sudden o young lived on separate floors in its early years, may have been the country's first co-ed residence hall. man came into Founders shouting Of utmost importance to a college that venerates history and tradition, 'Has anyone seen Elizabeth the new-look Founders will incorporate most of the original building. The east-west wing of the building (including the tower and Moore Wertz?' Well, the young man was Street porch) will remain in place and receive a top-to-bottom renovation. The existing north wing will be tom down and a my father, Elizabeth Wertz was transitional section, encased in glass (housing stairways, restrooms and elevators), will lead to a slightly larger new wing. my mother, and he had been sent Betty Ann Cherry; who had an office in Founders and played in its hallways as a child, describes herself as "maybe the last living link with by his father to ask if Elizabeth memories or stories of Founders going back into the 1920s." What better guide to describe the old and the new than a historian and Wertz could come to their house former Founders resident whose father (Calvert Ellis, president 1943-1968) and grandfather (CC Ellis, president 1930-1943) trace for dinner. They were married six connections to the College nearly to its founding? years later. ' ' Four Stories Founders Hall's Vivid History Recalls a Legacy of Learning Today; if a visitor wanders up the spiral staircase to the central bell tower of Founders Hall their "I remember going into the womens rooms in the basement of Founders journey is blocked by a forbidding door, safely locked. Adventurous souls who venture beyond when I was about 12 or 13 and watching all the girls get ready for that point can learn little other than the archeology of dust, changing styles of student graffiti, dinner. All the waitresses for the dining hall lived in the basement and the peel patterns of paint. The only audible sounds are the crunch of wood scraps because you could get to the kitchen in Oneida Hall from there. They underfoot, the creak ofloose floorboards, punctuated by an occasional dust-induced sneeze. were all dressed in white, and they would serve these huge bowls of That's about to change. Within a year or two, the halls of the upper floors will once again echo mashed potatoes, platters of meat and vegetables. I remember being in with the sounds of lectures, conversation and the occasional party. a room with a student and she changed into her white uniform in what seemed like an instant. I think I was transfixed by how fast she Founders Hall has been with us since the 1870s, built by men who had faith in Church of the changed her clothes!" Brethren values and in the potential for a fledgling college to grow into its destiny as a shaping influence for young minds. The new plan for the ground floor is essentially unchanged from the old footprint. The floor will house the Colleges advancement staff. The Colleges plan to revitalize and modernize Founders Hall is a crucial thread of memory that The additions to this floor include new restrooms for men and binds together not only alumni and current students but also the educational values that began women and the new elevator. In addition, the mechanical and the College and have remained undimmed for the 128 years of its existence. The College is electrical nerve center of the new building is located on this floor. returning 'The Building" to its original function as an administrative and classroom space. - 2 l]uniata Magazine Fall/Winter 2007-2008 13 - Founders also was a dormitory-and in fact, as boys and girls once ' ' ...A ll of a sudden o young lived on separate floors in its early years, may have been the country's first co-ed residence hall. man came into Founders shouting Of utmost importance to a college that venerates history and tradition, 'Has anyone seen Elizabeth the new-look Founders will incorporate most of the original building. The east-west wing of the building (including the tower and Moore Wertz?' Well, the young man was Street porch) will remain in place and receive a top-to-bottom renovation. The existing north wing will be tom down and a my father, Elizabeth Wertz was transitional section, encased in glass (housing stairways, restrooms and elevators), will lead to a slightly larger new wing. my mother, and he had been sent Betty Ann Cherry; who had an office in Founders and played in its hallways as a child, describes herself as "maybe the last living link with by his father to ask if Elizabeth memories or stories of Founders going back into the 1920s." What better guide to describe the old and the new than a historian and Wertz could come to their house former Founders resident whose father (Calvert Ellis, president 1943-1968) and grandfather (CC Ellis, president 1930-1943) trace for dinner. They were married six connections to the College nearly to its founding? years later. ' ' Four Stories Founders Hall's Vivid History Recalls a Legacy of Learning Today; if a visitor wanders up the spiral staircase to the central bell tower of Founders Hall their "I remember going into the womens rooms in the basement of Founders journey is blocked by a forbidding door, safely locked. Adventurous souls who venture beyond when I was about 12 or 13 and watching all the girls get ready for that point can learn little other than the archeology of dust, changing styles of student graffiti, dinner. All the waitresses for the dining hall lived in the basement and the peel patterns of paint. The only audible sounds are the crunch of wood scraps because you could get to the kitchen in Oneida Hall from there. They underfoot, the creak ofloose floorboards, punctuated by an occasional dust-induced sneeze. were all dressed in white, and they would serve these huge bowls of That's about to change. Within a year or two, the halls of the upper floors will once again echo mashed potatoes, platters of meat and vegetables. I remember being in with the sounds of lectures, conversation and the occasional party. a room with a student and she changed into her white uniform in what seemed like an instant. I think I was transfixed by how fast she Founders Hall has been with us since the 1870s, built by men who had faith in Church of the changed her clothes!" Brethren values and in the potential for a fledgling college to grow into its destiny as a shaping influence for young minds. The new plan for the ground floor is essentially unchanged from the old footprint. The floor will house the Colleges advancement staff. The Colleges plan to revitalize and modernize Founders Hall is a crucial thread of memory that The additions to this floor include new restrooms for men and binds together not only alumni and current students but also the educational values that began women and the new elevator. In addition, the mechanical and the College and have remained undimmed for the 128 years of its existence. The College is electrical nerve center of the new building is located on this floor. returning 'The Building" to its original function as an administrative and classroom space. 2 l]uniata Magazine Fall/Winter 2007-2008 13 Falling Down: '' Founders was designed to face the town of Huntingdon," Founders Reborn Most recent Juniata students have never says Tom Kepple, Juniata president. "The new wing will give been in the upper floors of Founders Hall, and lucky they are because the students a welcoming entrance from the heart of campus. ' ' third and fourth floors are preserved-in­ amber snapshots of old offices, peeling paint, ancient posters for study abroad, poetry readings and stacks of moldering President Tom Kepple sees the Life magazines. renovation of Founders Hall as the final project designed to focus student The upper floors were abandoned in life at the center of campus. 1980, when it was discovered that the walls of the building were bowing outward. The stress was causing large cracks between the floors (big enough to see down to the next level). ►To view floorplans and "The presidents office has never changed; president of finance and operations, The stress happened because of renderings, to read how it has always been the presidents office. across the hall. The area where the religion. Well, to be fair, it was because Founders will be a II green" One of my favorite stories about provost and dean of students currently the College's Founders decreed that the building, to check out the Founders is from my parents. When they reside will be dedicated to the Founders chapel-now the registrar's attended the College in the '20s the registrars office. office-would have no pillars obscuring "chalkboard" (is your name president, I.H. Brumbaugh at the time, the sightlines for religious services. on it?), and more, visit www. The dean of students and accompanying The local builder decided to create an met each student individually, and my iuniata.edu/g ifts/Founders staff, as well as academic support innovative truss system that actually mother was in line to meet the president services' entire staff, will occupy offices hung the floors from massive-beam in 1920. All of a sudden a young man trusses atop the building. The system in the new north wing. The second floor came into Founders shouting 'Has worked fine for about eight decades also will have the north portico exit, anyone seen Elizabeth Wertz?' Well, the and then the repeated vibrations and which provides a new fac;:ade for the young man was my fat her, Elizabeth shifting associated with a busy college building that faces the quad. "Founders building took its toll. Wertz was my mother, and he had been was designed to face the town of sent by his father to ask if Elizabeth The massive trusses, which used Huntingdon," says Tom Kepple, Juniata Wertz could come to their house for interlocking timbers and metal rods to president. 'The new wing will give stabilize the sturdy structure from above, dinner. They were married six years later. students a welcoming entrance from the are still visible through doors in the "The second floor was the center of the heart of campus." bell tower. College, it was the administrative center "The third floor was the English and its doors led to the 'social room' in department, but we all congregated there the adjoining hall. My fath er did not like because thats where Verna Homes office my brother and me to hang around was. She was secretary for the campus, but one of my best memories is humanities and everyone who drank walking through Founders to hear coffee was always there and we would (English professor) Harold Binkl read ey have parties there. The mimeograph 'TI1e Christmas Carol' eve1y machine was there, as was the only holiday season." typewriter on the top two floors." Well, the President's office will no longer Betty Ann will be returning to the third Betty Ann visits her old office-to be a classroom be where it always has been. In its place floor to visit her history colleagues, all by next fall. Alumni, friends, foundations, and will be a Juniata History Room, flanked with offices in the old wing of the parents of students are contributingfunds to by the offices ofRob Yelnosky '85, vice support the Founders restoration and return students-and teaching-to the building. Fall/Winter 2007-2008 I 5 Falling Down: '' Founders was designed to face the town of Huntingdon," Founders Reborn Most recent Juniata students have never says Tom Kepple, Juniata president. "The new wing will give been in the upper floors of Founders Hall, and lucky they are because the students a welcoming entrance from the heart of campus. ' ' third and fourth floors are preserved-in­ amber snapshots of old offices, peeling paint, ancient posters for study abroad, poetry readings and stacks of moldering President Tom Kepple sees the Life magazines. renovation of Founders Hall as the final project designed to focus student The upper floors were abandoned in life at the center of campus. 1980, when it was discovered that the walls of the building were bowing outward. The stress was causing large cracks between the floors (big enough to see down to the next level). ►To view floorplans and "The presidents office has never changed; president of finance and operations, The stress happened because of renderings, to read how it has always been the presidents office. across the hall. The area where the religion. Well, to be fair, it was because Founders will be a II green" One of my favorite stories about provost and dean of students currently the College's Founders decreed that the building, to check out the Founders is from my parents. When they reside will be dedicated to the Founders chapel-now the registrar's attended the College in the '20s the registrars office. office-would have no pillars obscuring "chalkboard" (is your name president, I.H. Brumbaugh at the time, the sightlines for religious services. on it?), and more, visit www. The dean of students and accompanying The local builder decided to create an met each student individually, and my iuniata.edu/g ifts/Founders staff, as well as academic support innovative truss system that actually mother was in line to meet the president services' entire staff, will occupy offices hung the floors from massive-beam in 1920. All of a sudden a young man trusses atop the building. The system in the new north wing. The second floor came into Founders shouting 'Has worked fine for about eight decades also will have the north portico exit, anyone seen Elizabeth Wertz?' Well, the and then the repeated vibrations and which provides a new fac;:ade for the young man was my fat her, Elizabeth shifting associated with a busy college building that faces the quad. "Founders building took its toll. Wertz was my mother, and he had been was designed to face the town of sent by his father to ask if Elizabeth The massive trusses, which used Huntingdon," says Tom Kepple, Juniata Wertz could come to their house for interlocking timbers and metal rods to president. 'The new wing will give stabilize the sturdy structure from above, dinner. They were married six years later. students a welcoming entrance from the are still visible through doors in the "The second floor was the center of the heart of campus." bell tower. College, it was the administrative center "The third floor was the English and its doors led to the 'social room' in department, but we all congregated there the adjoining hall. My fath er did not like because thats where Verna Homes office my brother and me to hang around was. She was secretary for the campus, but one of my best memories is humanities and everyone who drank walking through Founders to hear coffee was always there and we would (English professor) Harold Binkl read ey have parties there. The mimeograph 'TI1e Christmas Carol' eve1y machine was there, as was the only holiday season." typewriter on the top two floors." Well, the President's office will no longer Betty Ann will be returning to the third Betty Ann visits her old office-to be a classroom be where it always has been. In its place floor to visit her history colleagues, all by next fall. Alumni, friends, foundations, and will be a Juniata History Room, flanked with offices in the old wing of the parents of students are contributingfunds to by the offices ofRob Yelnosky '85, vice support the Founders restoration and return students-and teaching-to the building. Fall/Winter 2007-2008 I 5 - A Great Start: Irene, John Dale Donate $1 Million to Kick Off Founders Restoration Irene Dale '58 and her husband, John, same space fosters collaboration and '54, have donated $1 million as part I'm sure the same will happen here." of a capital campaign to restore and "It's a shame to use only part of the expand Founders Hall. building, because it has such history "The restoration of our first and most and memories for alumni-all Juniata revered campus building is a major students up until the 1970s had classes part of our strategic vision to bring in Founders," says Irene Dale, who the College's academic departments lived in a single room in Founders as a back to the heart of the campus," says Juniata senior in 1958. Thomas Kepple, president of Juniata. To date, the Dales have contributed "The Dales have lasting memories of $4.2 million to create the College's how well Founders served their needs as Information Technology program Juniata students and would like to see the and have funded a science and building continue to influence Juniatians technology scholarship program for as a classroom building." entering students. They were significant "When Irene and I were in school it was donors for the renovation of Dale The lead gift for Founders Hall, a the central building on campus and we'd Hall in Brumbaugh Academic Center. $1 million donation by the Dales, was like to see the College use the entire They also support several student inspired by the fact that Irene Dale lived building," says John Dale, whose first job scholarships. Their combined gifts of in Founders as a senior in 1958. after graduating was as a math instructor more than $6 million makes the couple at Juniata. "We've seen firsthand in the second largest donor in the history Brumbaugh Academic Center how of the College. bringing different departments into the building. In addition, a 30-seat addresses to the assembled student The fourth floor of the renovated classroom will be added to the teaching body and faculty." Founders is not puzzling in its layout. space on that floor. The English faculty will occupy the "We all walked up four flights of stairs offices in the older wing, which also However, after more than a century; the many times a day to go to our offices and contains a 30-seat classroom. In the new presidents office will be moving. On the we always used the circular center wing, there will be an office, two 30-seat third floor of the new wing, the steps-don't ask me why. We were all in classrooms and a small seminar room. presidents and provosts office will flank pretty good shape from going up and a central conference room provided for down those stairs! Fourth floor Founders Lets give Betty Ann the last word: ''I'm with funds raised during the 2001 was exciting-everybody's door was open ve1y happy to see Founders coming back Celebration of Juniata Women. In and we were always yelling back and to students. When it became only an addition, the Office of Institutional forth to each other. One of my favorite administrative building it became a place Research will move to the third floor. memories is that we would always have you didn't want to spend time hanging An added feature is an outdoor portico a jigsaw puzzle laid out on a table and around. Now the architects have blended where, President Kepple jokes, people could stop by and work on it. the old with the new-Founders has 'Jim and I will walk out and make They were always 1,000-piece puzzles." come full circle." 6 l]imiata Magazine A Great Start: Irene, John Dale Donate $1 Million to Kick Off Founders Restoration Irene Dale '58 and her husband, John, same space fosters collaboration and '54, have donated $1 million as part I'm sure the same will happen here." of a capital campaign to restore and "It's a shame to use only part of the expand Founders Hall. building, because it has such history "The restoration of our first and most and memories for alumni-all Juniata revered campus building is a major students up until the 1970s had classes part of our strategic vision to bring in Founders," says Irene Dale, who the College's academic departments lived in a single room in Founders as a back to the heart of the campus," says Juniata senior in 1958. Thomas Kepple, president of Juniata. To date, the Dales have contributed "The Dales have lasting memories of $4.2 million to create the College's how well Founders served their needs as Information Technology program Juniata students and would like to see the and have funded a science and building continue to influence Juniatians technology scholarship program for as a classroom building." entering students. They were significant "When Irene and I were in school it was donors for the renovation of Dale The lead gift for Founders Hall, a the central building on campus and we'd Hall in Brumbaugh Academic Center. $1 million donation by the Dales, was like to see the College use the entire They also support several student inspired by the fact that Irene Dale lived building," says John Dale, whose first job scholarships. Their combined gifts of in Founders as a senior in 1958. after graduating was as a math instructor more than $6 million makes the couple at Juniata. "We've seen firsthand in the second largest donor in the history Brumbaugh Academic Center how of the College. bringing different departments into the building. In addition, a 30-seat addresses to the assembled student The fourth floor of the renovated classroom will be added to the teaching body and faculty." Founders is not puzzling in its layout. space on that floor. The English faculty will occupy the "We all walked up four flights of stairs offices in the older wing, which also However, after more than a century; the many times a day to go to our offices and contains a 30-seat classroom. In the new presidents office will be moving. On the we always used the circular center wing, there will be an office, two 30-seat third floor of the new wing, the steps-don't ask me why. We were all in classrooms and a small seminar room. presidents and provosts office will flank pretty good shape from going up and a central conference room provided for down those stairs! Fourth floor Founders Lets give Betty Ann the last word: ''I'm with funds raised during the 2001 was exciting-everybody's door was open ve1y happy to see Founders coming back Celebration of Juniata Women. In and we were always yelling back and to students. When it became only an addition, the Office of Institutional forth to each other. One of my favorite administrative building it became a place Research will move to the third floor. memories is that we would always have you didn't want to spend time hanging An added feature is an outdoor portico a jigsaw puzzle laid out on a table and around. Now the architects have blended where, President Kepple jokes, people could stop by and work on it. the old with the new-Founders has 'Jim and I will walk out and make They were always 1,000-piece puzzles." come full circle." 6 l]imiata Magazine Josh Beckel '09, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., is Theatre Company in Malvern, Pa., the juggle and dance on a trapeze, in an emerging talent in the Juniata theatre first Juniata-produced show to tour at a addition to more prosaic theatre skills, program. Josh is the first student in the professional theatre. But his pathway to says the reason students seek Juniata for program to play a featured part in a play the professional stage started last its theatre program is the sense of that debuted at the College, and to go on and play the same part in a prof essiona1 summer when Andy Belser, professor of community and adventure each production. At right, Josh takes a break with theatre, agreed to combine the talents of production instills. other members of the professional company, Juniatas students and faculty, the theatre the People's Light Theatre Company. "We are always an ensemble creating the professionals who comprise The Gravity piece together," Beckel says. "When I Project, and the Peoples Light company, " ...y ou can't imagine came here I had never done to take Crispin from "workshop to experimental theatre, and it was scary at professional production." the confidence first, but then you see the beauty of 'The students are at the center of this," it-it challenges your expectations of they're taking away Belser explains. "They are doing a what theatre can be." six-week residency with the playwright Actors cast in a Juniata production from this." (Russell Davis) who works daily with rarely just hit their marks and recite the students to develop an aesthetic for lines. Our Town this isn't. Students are the play-you can't imagine the expected to dance, to swing, to sing, to confidence they're taking away move, to groove and possibly to change from this." their idea of a theatrical experience or Beckel, who has acted or worked in career. Juniata theatre also can be a more than seven productions in his time collaborative experience designed to at Juniata and as a result has learned to incorporate students at every phase of a Josh Beckel '09 came to Juniata from Hollidaysburg, Pa., with a performing resume that might have given even the most jaded casting agent pause. He found parts in plays in community and regional theatre and spent more than 10 years learning tap, ballet and modern dance moves at a regional dance studio. But, he had chosen Juniata not for its theatre department, but for its first-rate mathematics department. Once he set foot on campus, however, the numbers started to add up: he could pursue both disciplines with equal passion. Well on his way to earning a degree in performing arts and mathematics, Beckel is one of nearly 30 Juniata students majoring in theatre, performing arts or arts management. Enthusiasm for theatre and related disciplines is experiencing leaps in popularity worthy of Rudolf Nureyev-numbers made all the more impressive considering the performing arts and arts management POE s were approved just three years ago, in 2005. "I can share my excitement for the program with new students," says Beckel. "I don't The vision for Juniata's theatre program, to have students studying in the liberal arts tradition while also receiving opportunities with really think of myself as a leader, though-more like a guinea pig that can tell people professional theatre organizations, has come to fruition under about his experiences." Andrew Belse1; professor of theatre. Here, he works with Josh And he has more than enough experiences to share. As this magazine arrives in Beckel in rehearsals for the professional production of Ciispin. homes he will have just ended his performing run in Crispin at the Peoples Light 8 I Juniata Magazine Fall/Winter 2007-2008 I 9

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