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Volume 32 Number 1 Marty Parkes, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications Editorial Staff Dr. Tom Hanrahan, Editor, Writer Grace Bailey ’17 Maureen Anderson Bentz ’00 Jennifer Bowers ’16 Jasmine Ammons Bucher ’97, M’11, P’14 Janessa Cruz ’19 Kristen Doverspike ’17 Lacey Eriksen ’16 Mike Freeman Tom Klemick Christine Brandt Little, Feature Writer Theresa Messenger ’18 Marty Parkes Ali Wenger Anita Williams, Class Notes Designer Tom Castanzo Afire Creative Group Inc. Production Manager Jasmine Ammons Bucher ’97, M’11, P’14 Photography Cassandra Barrett ’19 Laura Brent ’18 Jessica Charlton ’17 Lacey Eriksen ’16 Tim Flynn ’05 Mike Freeman Rev. Dr. Paul Fullmer Nick Gould David Hill Tom Klemick Raeann La Flame ’16 Lebanon Daily News LVC Archives Jeremy Long ’06 Lost Note Productions Kiersten Merkel ’17 Dr. Shelly Moorman-Stahlman Maggi Secrest ’16 Alexis Shriner ’19 Jeff Watts, American University www.lvc.edu Send comments or address changes to: Office of Alumni & Parent Engagement Maud P. Laughlin Hall Lebanon Valley College 101 North College Avenue Annville, PA 17003–1400 Susan Sarisky Jones ’92, Director Rebecca Hearsey, Assistant Phone: 717-867-6320 Email: [email protected] The Valley is published by Lebanon Valley College® twice each year and distributed without charge to alumni and friends. The deadline for submission of information to “The Valley” is approximately five months prior to being received by its readership. Class Notes news received after the deadline will be included in the next issue of the magazine. Printed on paper containing 30 percent postconsumer content. contents L E B A N O N V A L L E Y C O L L E G E M A G A Z I N E 6 16 One Campus: The Architects and Planners at Ayers Saint Gross Bring One Campus to Life 18 Place Matters: The One Campus Master Plan The LVC master plan will guide the College in its continued cultivation of the beauty and functionality of our campus. The plan’s principles are rooted in the concept of One Campus—a campus that is connected, welcoming, true to LVC history, grounded in responsible stewardship, and a framework for future growth. Departments 2 A Message From Dr. Lewis E. Thayne 4 Valley News & Notes 10 LVC Athletics 26 Class News & Notes 34 In Memoriam On the Cover: Artist rendering of One Campus. Inside Cover: Roses bloom in the Leon and Ethel Yeiser Rose Garden. In 1982, Leon took over garden duties from Professor O. Pass Bollinger, Class of 1928, who planted the original garden. During his 20 years, Leon used personal resources to expand the garden to its current size. His son, Kevin Yeiser, has maintained the roses since Leon’s passing in 2002. FALL 2016 • 1 A MESSAGE FROM DR. LEWIS E. THAYNE Dear Friends, I am pleased to present One Campus, the master plan that will guide the College’s physical development during the next decade, in this issue’s feature story. The plan proceeds from a single, but powerful concept: we are one campus, all 358 acres. Not parcels divided by roads and railroads, but one campus united by the enterprise of learning and student development and connected in very real and very visible, accessible ways. One Campus is a companion to our strategic plan, Envision 2020. The plan is a product of the community’s shared vision and aspirations. During the past two years, students, faculty, staff, and friends of Lebanon Valley have contributed to and commented on the broad concepts in the plan and many of the details. I am especially grateful to the members of the Campus Master Plan Steering Committee for their dedication to this project. We also relied on an outstanding group of planners, designers, and architects. It would be difficult to overstate our debt to the extraordinary ability and professionalism of the team at Ayers Saint Gross—Adam Gross, Amelle Schultz, Ann Dutton, Amy Cuddy ’06, and Lisa Keith—who collaborated with us during this period. The plan approaches the beauty and utility of our campus holistically. While the implementation of the plan will occur in stages, One Campus calls for a distinct sequence that allows work to begin soon, proceed for a decade or more, and still remain “on plan.” On behalf of the trustees, faculty, students, and staff, I look forward to our work together as we realize the vision of One Campus and a very bright future for Lebanon Valley College. Warmly, Lewis E. Thayne, Ph.D. President 2 • THE VALLEY Campus Master Plan Steering Committee Dr. Lewis E. Thayne, President Steven O’Day, Chair, Campus Master Plan Steering Committee, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Secretary of the College Garrett Collins ’17, D’19, Physical Therapy Major, Business Administration Minor, Student Representative Megan Cook ’17, Psychology Major, Studio Art Minor, Student Representative Shawn Curtin, Vice President of Finance and Administration Wesley T. Dellinger ’75, P’05, Chair, Lebanon Valley College Board of Trustees Dr. Stacy Goodman, Chair and Professor of Biology, Faculty Representative Dr. Michael Green, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty Stacey Hollinger, Associate Director of Athletics and Deputy Title IX Coordinator Greg Krikorian, Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Marty Parkes, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications Dr. Lynn Phillips ’68, Executive Committee, Lebanon Valley College Board of Trustees Don Santostefano, Senior Director of Facilities Management Dave Shapiro ’99, Director of Information Technology Dr. Grant Taylor, Chair of Art & Visual Culture and Professor of Art History, Faculty Representative Jani Mitchell, Senior Assistant and Project Coordinator for Finance and Administration, and Melissa Sherwood, Senior Assistant for Innovative Programs, served as Project Coordinators FALL 2016 • 3 Valley News & Notes New Majors A key focus area of the College’s new strategic plan, Envision 2020, is delivering educational excellence and engaged learning. In response to this strategic focus, LVC has added seven new academic programs: accounting/MBA (accelerated 3+1), analytical finance, athletic Gregory A. High ’92 Dr. Katie Oriel Rebecca “Becca” Whalen ’18 training, communication sciences & disorders, exercise science, Board of Trustees international business, and speech- language pathology. These new Wesley T. Dellinger ’75, P’05, chair of the College’s Board of Trustees, announced that Gregory A. High ’92, Dr. Katie Oriel, and Rebecca “Becca” majors will enable the College to Whalen ’18 have been appointed to serve on the board. Dellinger also remain competitive and expand its announced that Jeffrey A. Bates ’16 and Dr. Ken Yarnall completed their recruitment market globally. duties on the board as of June 30. Several of these new programs, High, who graduated cum laude from LVC, is vice president and an owner as well as other health-related of the High companies headquartered in Lancaster. Oriel is a LVC associate majors under review, will be housed professor of physical therapy and Whalen is a senior politics major with minors in business administration and law & society. Campus Transformations Several campus and adjacent facilities have been transformed under the leadership of Dr. Lewis E. Thayne, LVC president. In particular, several major projects were recently completed, or will soon be completed. These projects include construction of the Shankroff Tennis Center, a collaboration with PennDOT to revitalize White Oak Street and the major Route 934 thoroughfare through campus, revitalizations of the Vernon and Doris Bishop Library and Frederic K. Miller Chapel, and vast upgrades to the Mary Capp Green Residence Hall. In addition, plans for the Jeanne and Edward H. Arnold Health in the new $20-million Jeanne Professions Pavilion and other campus and Edward H. Arnold Health enhancements are Professions Pavilion, opening in well underway as part 2018. The Pavilion is made possible of the College’s new through an extraordinary $10-million campus master plan, challenge gift to the College made Edward H. Arnold H’87 and Jeanne Donlevy Arnold H’08 receive One Campus. (See pp. flowers from Stephanie Cosgrove ’16 in appreciation for their by the Arnolds. Visit www.lvc.edu/ 16–23 for additional $10 million challenge gift to build the Jeanne and Edward H. Arnold Health Professions Pavilion. information) supportlvc/ to participate. 4 • THE VALLEY Lifetime Vickroy Associates Honored LVC recognized five families as new Lifetime Vickroy Associates during the Thomas Rhys Vickroy Society and 150th Anniversary dinner in April. The Vickroy Society was created in honor of the College’s founding president, Rev. Thomas Rhys Vickroy. The new honorees have each donated a cumulative total of $100,000 or more to the College, in addition to being active figures in their communities. Dr. Kristen R. Angstadt ’74 is a member of the Board of Trustees who serves as co-vice chair and on numerous committees. She generously supports the College in numerous areas, including The Valley Fund, the Art & Visual Culture Department, and the David A. Hoffman, M.D., Memorial Prize Fund. Dr. Angstadt and her late husband, Dr. David A. Hoffman, are recognized with space in the Vernon and Doris Bishop Library, Heilman Center, Neidig-Garber Tracey A. Smith Stover ’91, chair of the Board of Trustee’s Advancement Committee Science Center, and Clyde A. Lynch Memorial Hall. John J. Stouffer ’60 and Sandra Stetler Stouffer ’62 are Karen A. Lewis Schmitt ’80 and Andrew W. Schmitt loyal supporters of The Valley Fund and the Music Depart- provide generous support to The Valley Fund and the ment. They remain connected to the College through the Dr. Bryan Hearsey Scholarship for Actuarial Science. “LVC Gang,” a group of alumni who meet monthly for The Schmitts established the Karen Lewis Schmitt ’80 brunch. In addition, the Stouffers are members of the Miles Scholarship for Actuarial Science in 2014, which allows Rigor Society, which recognizes and celebrates alumni and the recipient to intern with Maiden Holdings, where Karen friends who have planned for Lebanon Valley College’s serves as president. Karen was a Lazin Resident in 2011 future in their estate. and has been a member of the College’s Board of Trustees since 2013. David P. Stover ’91 and Tracey A. Smith Stover ’91 continue to give back to their alma mater. David remains Benjamin B. and Suzanne M. Shankroff are proud grand- actively engaged with former football coaches and team- parents of Kelsey ’13 and Jordan ’15. Thanks to the mates, supporting the Blue & White Club. Tracey is a Shankroff’s generosity, LVC was able to reconfigure and member of the College’s Board of Trustees and was vice upgrade its tennis facilities this summer. The new Shankroff chair of the Envision 2020 Strategic Planning Committee. Tennis Center is named in their honor. The Shankroffs Their generosity supports The Valley Fund, high-impact have also been longtime supporters of the Lebanon Valley experiences in athletics, and complex enhancements for Education Partnership and The Valley Fund. athletics and recreation. VISIT www.lvc.edu FOR MORE NEWS FALL 2016 • 5 Alumni Awards Major General Ross S. Plasterer ’57, dinner in April. The Alumni Awards to medical students, as well as to USMC, retired, received LVC’s 2016 Committee selected the recipients. residents in ophthalmology, family Distinguished Alumni Award, and Dr. Maj. Gen. Plasterer earned a medicine, and internal medicine. Marianne E. Boltz ’92, Dr. Charles R. bachelor’s degree in accounting Dr. Mershon, who has practiced Mershon ’80, and Jay S. Stanton ’66 at Lebanon Valley, then joined the medicine since 1987, graduated from were honored with Alumni Citations United States Marine Corps. During Lebanon Valley with a bachelor’s during the Thomas Rhys Vickroy his extraordinary career, he logged degree in biology. Through his Society and 150th Anniversary more than 6,800 flight hours as a comprehensive family medicine helicopter transport pilot. His service practice, Cornerstone Family Health included two tours in Vietnam and Associates, Dr. Mershon provides multiple tours in Okinawa, Japan. Maj. a Christ-centered ministry aimed Gen. Plasterer served heads of state, at serving his patients’ physical, including President Lyndon B. Johnson emotional, and spiritual needs. and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. Stanton is a former science teacher Dr. Boltz graduated magna cum and high school basketball coach laude with a bachelor’s degree in who graduated from Lebanon Valley biology and a minor in psychology. with a bachelor’s degree in biology. She is a pediatric optometrist, He participated in basketball, cross low vision specialist, and assistant country, and track & field, and held professor of ophthalmology at the College’s discus record for several the Penn State Milton S. Hershey decades. Stanton, who has a passion Medical Center’s Department of for horticulture, has fostered a variety Ophthalmology. Dr. Boltz provides of community programs and events. Major General Ross S. Plasterer ’57, USMC, retired (l.), and President Lewis E. Thayne, Ph.D. clinical and didactic education Frederic K. Miller Chapel Revitalized This spring, Frederic K. Miller chapel’s traditional identity as Chapel underwent a major a quiet place of reflection. revitalization through the Lois Brong Miller ’61 generosity of loyal alumni and provided the lead gift and the friends. The project was the sanctuary has been renamed first Chapel renovation since in her honor. Dr. Susan Engle the building’s construction ’78, Richard A. Zimmerman four decades ago. The H’92, and Nancy C. renovations feature updates to Zimmerman ’53 also provided the stage/performance area financial support and the and lobby, new audio-visual lobby was renamed the Engle technology including a fixed Family Lobby in honor of the 16-foot by 9-foot screen, and Engle family’s long association significantly improved general with the College, which dates and stage area lighting. These back to the 1890s. In addition, enhancements will transform the Engle Family Lobby now the space into an inviting features an icon painted by large-audience, multi-purpose Dorothy Thayne, LVC visiting venue, while maintaining the artist and scholar. View from the organ level of the revised Lois Brong Miller ’61 Sanctuary 6 • THE VALLEY Multicultural Affairs Reorganized Green Power—LVC #1 This summer, the Office of Multicultural Affairs was reorganized into the Office of Intercultural Affairs & Inclusive Programs (OIA). Renata Williams was hired as the In April, the U.S. Environmental office’s first director of intercultural affairs & inclusive programming, beginning Protection Agency recognized her role in August. She is a seasoned student affairs LVC as the professional having held positions at Manhattan College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Russell Sage College, Middle Atlantic and Fulton Montgomery Community College. Conference (MAC) Part of the office’s mission is to provide leadership Champion in the and direction for the development of educational, 2015–2016 College cultural, and social programs that enhance intercultural & University Green understanding. OIA will also facilitate a wide range of Power Challenge. activities to help students, faculty, administrators, and The College, staff develop programs, curricula, and policies that promote and foster an appreciation of peoples, cultures, which uses more Renata Williams and perspectives on a national and international level. renewable energy than any other school in the MAC athletic conference, was credited with reducing its carbon footprint by 50 percent through Lazin Series Continues its use of renewable energy. Six alumni and community leaders visited campus for the 16th Annual Lazin That same month, Dr. Lewis E. Distinguished Leader in Residence Series in March. Named in honor of Dr. Charles Thayne, LVC president, signed Lazin ’41 and Malcolm Lazin, Esq., ’65, the Lazin Series enriches students’ the Second Nature American educational experience by inviting accomplished LVC alumni and community College & University Presidents leaders—known as Lazin Residents—to campus for several days each spring. Climate Commitment, pledging This year’s residents were Mary Jean “M.J.” Bishop ’84, director of the William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation for the University System of Maryland; Joyce carbon neutrality in the College’s Davis, president and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and director near future. The day prior, a of communications for the City of Harrisburg; Shawn House-Fedor ’94, director of green roof was unveiled above snacks and adjacencies product development for The Hershey Company; Edgar “Ed” Rosemary Yuhas Commons. This Morgan ’63, retired country director in Nigeria for the International Foundation for student-led initiative will provide Electoral Systems; Kathy Prime, chief learning and talent development officer for High greens and produce for the Industries; and Malcolm Lazin ’65, executive director of the Equality Forum. dining hall and energy for the building. 80th Annual Concert Choir Tour In celebration of its 80th anniversary, the Concert Choir conducted a three-state tour this spring, performing in Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsyl- vania. Led by Dr. Matthew Erpelding, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities, the five-performance tour presented “Genius Loci—The Spirit of a Place,” an ode to the ancient Romans, who believed that some places were protected by a powerful spirit known as its genius loci. FALL 2016 • 7 Internationalization, Diversity, and Inclusion Workshop Dr. Fanta Aw, assistant vice president of campus life and Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer in the School of International Service at American University, held a professional development workshop for LVC faculty and staff in March. Dr. Aw, an expert in the field of campus internationalization and inclusive excellence initiatives, discussed “The Importance of Campus Internationalization, Diversity, and Inclusion.” Dr. Fanata Aw Service-Learning Trip to Peru Fourteen students and two faculty advisors traveled to Peru in May as part of the College’s second international service-learning trip. The trip offers LVC students an opportunity to experience extreme cultural immersion in an international country. The first such trip was in 2014. Dr. Gabriella McEvoy, associate professor of Spanish, and Rev. Dr. Paul Fullmer, chaplain and director of service and volunteerism, once again led the group of dedicated volunteers. Throughout the transformative week, students immersed themselves in Peruvian culture by learning about and working with the people of the Misminay village, where they participated in cultural and (l. to r.): Kylie Rank-Delaney ’19, Anna Quinn ’17, and Michael Butcher ’18 ride burros agricultural experiences. in Peru. International Food Festival Enhanced Through Inaugural Grant LVC’s Global Education Club (GEC) was one of the inaugural recipients of a President’s Student Innovation Fund Grant. GEC used the grant to enhance the now annual International Food Festival in April. The grant enabled the student group to purchase additional ingredients and unique T-shirts, add more international food options, and expand the program to the entire College community. Nearly 30 tables featured cuisine from different countries, along with takeaway recipe cards. (l. to r.): Meelan Uprety ’19, Bashu Timsina ’16, Thiren Upreti ’19, and Prem Tamang ’19 share Nepalese dishes during the International Food Festival. 8 • THE VALLEY