Elizabethtown College commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King with community service, lectures and performances Elizabethtown College will mark Monday, Jan. 21, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, with a week of events, including a day dedicated to service. Activist and scholar Dr. Angela Davis will present the keynote address. Her lecture, “The Prison Industrial Complex and the Implications for Dr. King’s Dream” will be held Tuesday Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. A complete list of events is available online by visiting http://www.etown.edu/offices/diversity/mlk.aspx. Highlights from the week of celebration are listed below. Monday, Jan. 21,[Read more...]

 The “Weaver Suite,” a collection of 58 prints and related source drawings by Lancaster County artist Jeff Geib, is on exhibit Friday, Jan. 25, through Thursday, March 28, in the Hess Gallery, at Elizabethtown College. The drypoint prints–a form of etching–show the artist’s “methodical exposition of … seeing and making.” The free exhibit, including an artist’s reception at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, offers an opportunity to share in serial visual investigation, the focus of Geib’s work. The suite of work–portraits and artist self portraits–was commissioned by the father of a friend of the artist. Geib has lived, was educated[Read more...]

Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible, a traveling exhibition opening Saturday, Feb. 2 at the High Library at Elizabethtown College, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first printing of the King James Bible in 1611 and examines its fascinating and complex history. Elizabethtown College is one of 40 sites across 27 states displaying the exhibition and the sole location in Pennsylvania where the public can experience the exhibition. Visit http://www.manifoldgreatness.org/ for detailed information about the exhibition. In addition to the exhibition, the High Library will showcase four displays of historical texts and bibles, including the[Read more...]

Elizabethtown College will mark Monday, Jan. 21, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, with a week of events, including a day dedicated to service. Activist and scholar Dr. Angela Davis will present the keynote address. Her lecture, “The Prison Industrial Complex and the Implications for Dr. King’s Dream” will be held Tuesday Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. in Gibble Auditorium, located in the Masters Center for Science. A complete list of events is available online by visiting http://www.etown.edu/offices/diversity/mlk.aspx. Highlights from the week of celebration are listed below: Monday, Jan. 21, 6:15 p.m. – MLK Candlelight March–Location: Blue Bean, Brossman Commons–Reenact[Read more...]

  Tudor Choir and Wheatland Chorale at Leffler Tudor Choir vocal chamber ensemble, famed for its interpretation of New England shape note carols and hymns, and Lancaster, Pa.’s, Wheatland Chorale, one of Pennsylvania’s premier choral ensembles, perform holiday selections at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, on stage at Leffler Chapel and Performance Center at Elizabethtown College. A carol sing-along, led by both choirs, wraps the perfect bow around the evening’s festivities. The E-town performance is Tudor Choir’s only area concert this year. Founded in 1993 by director Doug Fullington, the Choir has received national and international attention as an interpreter[Read more...]

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (11/15/2012)– The Judy S. ’68 and Paul W. Ware Colloquium on Peacemaking and Global Citizenship will sponsor the Ware Seminar, scheduled for 7 p.m. November 27. The event, to be held in the Susquehanna Room of Myer Hall, will focus on the conflict in Syria and its repercussions on regional stability and American interests. The event features Dr. Oya Ozkanca, assistant professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College; John B. Craig, ambassador-in-residence at the College’s Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking; and Joyce Davis, president of the Harrisburg World Affairs Council. The event is free and open to[Read more...]

Nancy Drozdow presents Nov. 15 at Elizabethtown College: ‘Strategy is What You Do, Not What You Say’ (talk focuses on unique challenges of family business) Nancy Drozdow, founder and vice president of the Center for Applied Research (CFAR), will present November 15 at Elizabethtown College. Her talk-”Strategy is What You Do, Not What You Say”-will be held Thursday, November 15 from 7:30 to 11:00 a.m. in the Susquehanna Room of Myer Hall. Sponsored by the S. Dale High Center for Family Business, the event features a complimentary breakfast at 7:30; Drozdow’s presentation will follow. Call 717-361-1275 or email fbc@etown.edu to[Read more...]

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA –Ricki Lewis earned her doctoral degree in genetics in 1980 while studying insects with legs growing out of their heads. Over the next couple decades she wrote college textbooks and science articles.  However, it wasn’t until February of this year, when Lewis’ first “real book,” as she calls it, was published, that she felt at home in her career choice. The author visits Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance center at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, to discuss “The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It,” her non-fiction piece,printed by St. Martin’s Press. The book[Read more...]

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (10/24/2012)– In the movie “Bonsai People,” Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus asks, “What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger and inequality?” Find out how Yunus is doing exactly that by attending the movie screening of “Bonsai People” 7-9:00 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12 at Elizabethtown College. Join movie Director Holly Mosher for a discussion and Q&A session after the screening. The movie and discussion will be held in Gibble Auditorium in the Masters Center. Admission to the movie and parking on campus is free of charge. The[Read more...]

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (10/24/2012)– Dr. D. Holmes Morton, cofounder of the Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg, Pa., presents the Young Center‘s Durnbaugh Lectures Thursday, Nov. 8, at Elizabethtown College. The renowned pediatrician will speak about his experiences working in Old Order Amish and Mennonite communities. The lectures take place in the College’s Gibble Auditorium. At 3:45 p.m., Morton presents “Caring for the Patient in the Time of Genomics: Small Science at the Clinic for Special Children,” on the benefits of practicing medicine the way the clinic does-using modern technology to do small-scale research, focusing on the case study and prioritizing[Read more...]