Table Of Content

" --~ ... J::31:3HB'VlOB'.A WOW:3NlS VNG llW:3S Od B':3!:1:3J:liON ." .... . president's message Dear Friends, An institution with an extraordinary history such as Lebanon Valley College is bound to have celebratory moments and times of reflection. This past academic year proved to have an abundance of wonderful celebrations, and that is why we have chosen to profile several prominent anniversaries in these pages. Some were inauspicious such as the lOOth anniversary of the fire that destroyed the old Humanities Building. The rest mirrored anniversaries that best exemplifY the varied successes of our College. In ascending chronological order, this past year witnessed notable anniversaries for the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery (lOth), Zimmerman Recital Hall (lOth), Lebanon Valley Education Partnership (15th), Garber Science Center (20th), women's volleyball (20th), Christmas at the Valley (50th), and the Music Department (125th). There were of course other anniversaries profiled in other venues, including the lOOth anniversary of both men's and women's basketball, Dr. D. Clark 2 Lebanon Valley College Carmean's H'85 lOOth birthday, whose members celebrated their and the lOth anniversary of the 50th anniversary by winning what Men's Basketball NCAA National we call the "Triple Crown." Championship. Together, they earned The Founders These milestones would not be Cup for having the highest total possible without the continued giving to The Valley Fund, The financial and volunteer support of Quittie Cup for having the highest our many alumni, friends, class participation in The Valley foundations, and parents. In Fund, and The Dutchman Cup for 2003-2004, the College received having the highest attendance outright gifts, bequest intentions, during Alumni Weekend. and foundation grants to support a Thank you once again for all your wide range of purposes. continued generosity as we head I want to acknowledge the into a new era of LV C' s history. My approaching anniversaries of several wife, Mary, and I look forward to members of the College's Board of getting to know many of you as we Trustees. Dr. E.H. Arnold H'87, work together for the benefit of vice chair of the board, is LV C in the coming months and approaching his 30th anniversary years. In closing, it is my pleasure to (May 16, 1975) and four of his note that Mary and I are celebrating colleagues will be celebrating more an anniversary of our own this year than 20 years of service to the --our 30th wedding anniversary. College. The Rev. Dr.]. Dennis Williams H'90 (June 21, 1976), Harry B. Yost '62 (May 16, 1980), Dr. Thomas C. Reinhart '58 (May 15, 1981), and Samuel A. Willman '67 (May 11, 1984), have each selflessly served the College for more than two decades. Thank you on behalf of the College. Stephen C. MacDonald I also wish to acknowledge the President, Lebanon Valley College achievements of the Class of 1954 President's Report 3 The academic quad has been aesthetically enhanced . year • revi• ew In Passing the Torch gymnasium, received an Dr Stephen C. Dr. Stephen C. MacDonald was architectural award for the new MacDonald was design that transformed it into a the unanimous choice of the Board much-needed, all-academic ofTrustees to be the 17th the unanimous building. The revitalization plan president of Lebanon Valley for Lynch won a Merit Award from choice of the College. He assumed the role of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter acting president in May after Board of Trustees of the American Institute of former President G. David Pollick left the College to assume the Architects (AlA). The award was to be the 17th presented to TONO Architects, presidency at Birmingham LLC, at a ceremony in October in president of Southern College in Alabama. Harrisburg. At the ceremony, the Once MacDonald announced his Lebanon Valley architects acknowledged the candidacy for the presidency Dr. Stephen C. MacDonald several months later, he became design contributions of former College. (right) speaks at a press the focus of the presidential search, President Pollick and current conference, announcing his and was appointed to the position President MacDonald, who was then the vice president for presidency, held in the Frock in October. His inauguration is academic affairs and dean of the Conference Room of the scheduled for the last weekend in Vemon and Doris Bishop April, the same weekend that faculty. Both men worked closely Lynch Memorial Hall will be re on the design that turned the Library. former gymnasium into an dedicated as an all-academic imaginative, two-level space that building. houses "smarr" classrooms, lecture A1·chitectural Achievement halls, offices, and a two-story common space filled with natural Lebanon Valley College's Lynch Memorial Hall, which for over 50 light and featuring a coffee bar. The building supports the use of years served as the College's wireless communications. Lynch will be the home for the departments of psychology, mathematical sciences, business administration, and education. New Gym Opens The new gymnasium, with more ].D. Byers '05 (above), named a than 1,650 seats, was dedicated pre-season All-American, plays Oct. 4, 2003. Now all the in front of a packed house. College's athletic and recreational facilities are conveniently located on the north campus. The main the basketball and volleyball entrance to the new gym is on the teams. As the largest indoor space The Synodinos Commons south side of the Heilman Center on campus, the gym also will be (right) is the new heart of lobby. There are plenty of parking used for major events. academics in Lynch spaces around the athletic Overlooking the space is an Memorial Hall. complex, which is now home to event/reception room, the 4 Lebanon Valley College A student prepares for an exam while sitting among the flowers in the Peace Garden. orchestra and appeared in the his personality. O'Donnell leaves movie of the same name after the his wife, Dr. Agnes M. Boyle war. Lanese, an award-winning O'Donnell, LV C professor emerita composer, wrote more chan 100 of English. pieces, including musicals, operas, Dr. Carl T. Wigal died and requiem Masses. During his unexpectedly June 20 at the 24 years with the College, from Hershey Medical Center after 1954 to 1978, he collaborated suffering a heart attack in Me. with lyricist Edna Carmean '59, Gretna while on a family outing. Dutchmen Lounge, which has H'85 and poet Dr. Philip In the spring of 2003, the views of the ponds and athletic B1111ngs o American Chemical Society fields co the east. The recognized Wigal with the E. gymnasium was ~ng Deoo Emmet Reid Award, which honors completed with Lanese's most the best undergraduate teacher at a funds provided frequent small college in the Mid-Atlantic through the Great collaborations region. In September 2003, Wigal Expectations were with Dr. was presented with an award Campaign. Arthur Ford sponsored by Pfizer at Indiana Tlnn cmcnt1 In Memoriam '59, a professor University's Symposium for eem eritus of Excellence in U ndergraduace profc~sors cUed Three emeriti professors r<ng Chemical Research. Wigal won died last year and the lczsl \Carund the College also experienced the ]. Robert O'Donnell, an LV C's highest teaching prize in associate professor emeritus of 2003, the Thomas Rhys Vickroy unexpected loss of its Chemistry CollLr,L cil~o Department chair, Dr. Carl T. physics, died May 5 at the age of Distinguished Teaching Award. 82. O'Donnell, who caught at the During his 11 years at LV C, cxpclicnccd the Wigal, at 46. College for 28 years, from 1959 to Wigal was successful in obtaining Dr. June Eby Herr '34, H'97, a unC\pcctcd IO)\ dedicated and revered education 1987, was loved by his former nearly half a million dollars in students for his teaching style and research grants for the department. professor emerita at the Valley, died i!f its Chcm1stl_v April 18 at the age of 90. Herr was Dcparlmcnl awarded LV C's prestigious doctorate of humane Jeerers in dwu ... 1997. During the 27 years she Dr. june Eby caught here, she was known as a Herr '34, H'97 caring person who excelled at (above) and finding each student's unique talent, inspiring many of them co Dr. Carl T. become the kind of teacher she was. Wigal (right) \ Thomas A. Lanese, an associate will be missed professor emeritus of strings, by many. conducting, and theory, died April 23 at the age of 88. While serving in the Army in World War II, he toured around the world with Irving Berlin's "This is the Army" President's Report 5 I year 1• n rev1• ew Founders Day Honors Annville Township Commissioner Richard F. Charles, who for 13 years was the prime mover behind Annville's Srreerscape Project, was honored in February for his efforts with the College's 25th annual Founders Day award. The $4- million rransformarion was government officials, and the The Collc,~c Pennsylvania Department of d\HIIdul cliplomcl\ Transportation. A four-block stretch along Annville's Main 111 i\!m lo 11C(irl\ Street shows the results of Charles' leadership. Brick-bordered i-50 g1 aducilL ,, sidewalks, new trees, and period lampposts line the newly rebuilt uqng, [o1 lhc {11\l 11mc, section of Route 422, which has Roll/unci Inti wmu c1l wider, safer intersections and new pedestrian crossings. Uriliry poles Field and wires have been relocated ro [(ll 1hc the rear of buildings, and there are new srorm sewer lines under the LCI"C1110111CS. road. The makeover highlights the Above: Annville Township completed in rhe center of arc hi recrural charm of the hisroric Commissioner Richard F. Annville. The College conrribured rown. Charles is vice president Charles (center, blue $250,000 roward rhe project, emeritttJ for advancement at LV C. shirt) received the which borders the campus. The Intramural Field for the Founders Day award for Founders Day award recognizes Commencement ceremonies. Dr. Carl Wigal, then his 13 years of work individuals whose character and The College awarded diplomas in chair of the LV C Chemisrry toward the establishment leadership, in rhe spirit of rhe May ro nearly 450 graduates, Department, gave the founders of lebanon Valley using, for the first rime, Rohland Commencement address, a few of the Annville College, conrribure ro the Streetscape Project. enhancement of life in central Charles is pictured here Pennsylvania. First as a volunteer with members of his and later as a rownship family who attended the commissioner, Charles raised ceremony. funds and coordinated the concerns of everyone involved in planning rhe srreerscape project, including community groups, L VC students head to class on a beautiful fall day. 6 Lebanon Valley College Left: The Vernon and Doris Bishop Library houses more than 200,000 educational materials. Right: The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery celebrates its 1Oth anniversary this year. science, won the award along with another summa cum laude graduate, Adam Benrz of Annville, who majored in both historical communications and Spanish. Hot Topics LVC's 2003-2004 Colloquium weeks before his unexpected death. investigated the mutual impact of Dr. H. Anrhony "Tony" Neidig Science & Public Policy in several '43, H'04, professor emeritus of areas: How should advances in chemisrry, who pioneered the scienrific knowledge and tech concept of engaging undergrad nology affect public policy uate studenrs in chemistry research regarding such issues as global at the College, was awarded an climate change, nuclear weapons honorary degree. He taught proliferation, the reaching of chemistry at LV C for 36 years. evolution in high school, and bio affairs and dean of the faculty, and the College's Science & Public Policy Also honored at the ceremony was engineering' First-semester Dr. Eric Bain-Selbo, chair of the Colloquium, the Gallery's winrer Dr. Mary Lemons, associate speakers included leading authors Religion and Philosophy show presenred works by inrer professor of music, who won The and environmenral activists, who Departmenr at LV C. nationally renowned photographer Thomas Rhys Vickroy Award for discussed global warming and U.S. Gary Schneider. The photographs teaching, the College's highest energy policy, as well as arms Exc.cptwnal Exhil7l twns revealed the invisible world of cells, teaching award for full-time conrrol. The spring semester began The season began at the Suzanne chromosomes, and natural faculty. The award for a part-time with a discussion of "inrelligenr H. Arnold Art Gallery with an specimens, allowing viewers to or adjunct faculty member, the design," as opposed to Darwin's exhibition called john Covert discern their own inner beauty. Nevelyn J. Knisley Award for theory of evolution. Later, the chief Rediscovered. Through painrings, Next up was Illuminated Treasures: Inspirational Teaching, wenr to curator of the American Museum works on paper, and photographs, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Jeff Remington, an adjunct of Natural History in New York the exhibition showed how Covert, from Pennsylvania Collections, an instructor in the Master of Science City covered evolutionary theory an avanr-garde American modernist exhibition of approximately 25 Education Program. In the fall of through the fossil record. Another from the first half of the 20th illuminated manuscripts, 2002, Remington was the only speaker discussed the ethical cenrury, found new ways to depict including 15th-and 16th-century secondary school teacher in implications of medical experi the human figure. The next Bibles, Books of Hours, and Pennsylvania to receive the 2002 menrs on patienrs, including the exhibition, Whistler's England: Psalters. The College's 33rd Presidenrial Award for Excellence artificial heart recipienr she Works on Paper, presenred 25 of the Annual]uried Art Exhibition, took in Science Teaching, which was counseled before his death at the rich graphic works of the place in the spring. It is the presenred at the White House. For University of Pennsylvania celebrated American artist James longest-running visual arts evenr at \ the second year in a row, two Hospital. Next, the leading Abbott McNeill Whisrler. Works LV C, and it featured a number of studenrs qualified for the highest academic on the politics of tech from the artist's 19th-cenrury talenred regional artists competing studenr honor, the Howard nology, asked whether humans are London period included his for prizes. The season closed with a Anrhony Neidig Award, created now obsolete in this technological extraordinary portraits, views of the May/June exhibition, Ephmera: by this year's honorary degree age. The colloquium closed with a Thames, cityscapes, and landscapes. Recent Works by Rob Evans, a York recipienr and his wife, Helen. Lisa panel discussion on the lessons of Some ofWhisrler's best known Counry artist. He is known for his Landis of New Holland, a summa Nazi eugenics, featuring, among images such as Billingsgate, The realistic drawings and painrings cum laude graduate in English with others, Dr. Stephen MacDonald, Forge, The Thames, and Limeburner that set a tone of mystery and minors in Spanish and political then vice presidenr for academic were on view. In conjunction with estrangemenr. President's Report 7 \ lover A rt and football are generally considered diverse pursuits, but Dr. Suzanne H. Arnold H'96 has found a way to link the two. "It all started at a football game in 1991," said Suzanne, a Lebanon native now living in Lancaster, who was the driving force behind the establishment of the College's Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, currently celebrating its lOth anniversary. Suzanne recalled it was at a football game when she told then President John Synodinos H'96 that she wanted ro work with the College on a project that would have a lasting impact, and reflect her personal interests. "He mentioned the former Sr. Paul's Lutheran Church and how it was going robe made into a recital hall. We thought it would be a good idea to have an art gallery too," Suzanne said. Three years later, bolstered by Suzanne's generous financial support and driven by her organizational leadership, the gallery and the Zimmerman Recital Hall were opened. During the ensuing decade, the gallery has hosted numerous exhibitions ranging from Rembrandt, Cassatt, and Whistler to medieval manuscripts and works by contemporary artists. Suzanne, who holds an honorary doctoral degree from the College, has maintained a life-long interest in the arts. A graduate of Lebanon High School, she was named Best Artist in the school yearbook and has "dabbled" in Chinese brush painting, oils, and acrylics. She is a member of the gallery's advisory council and, while not directly involved in the selection of shows, acknowledged that she and other council members frequently offer exhibition suggestions to the gallery Dr. Suzanne direcror. It was her idea, for example, ro bring in Tiffany by Design, a showing last year of some 25 lamps, glass, and decorative objects from the Arnold H'96 Neustadt Museum of Tiffany Art. Suzanne said she hopes community interest in the gallery will grow as "Art is relaxing more quality exhibitions are scheduled. Also, she added, "I would like to and educational. see more children's programs and more children in the gallery. We need it "Art is relaxing and educational. We need it for our own pleasure," she for our own concluded. pleasure." -Arnold 8 Lebanon Valley College