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Music Faculty to Present Faculty Forum
Westminster College music faculty Dr. Daniel Perttu, assistant professor, Dr. Nancy DeSalvo, associate professor, and James Flowers, adjunct, will present at the Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 11:40 a.m. in Orr Auditorium.
Regional History Day Winners Announced
Students from area junior and senior high schools competed in the regional History Day competition at Westminster College March 31.
Students Study Off Campus for Spring Semester
Ten Westminster College students will study at off-campus locations including Argentina, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Pittsburgh, Scotland, and Spain for the spring 2012 semester.
Ever Higher: The Campaign for Westminster College Goes Public with School-Record $36.4 million Raised
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College launched the public phase of the most successful fundraising campaign in the independent liberal arts college's 160-year history over the weekend with a campus-wide celebration and announcement that Westminster had already raised $36.4 million for Ever Higher: The Campaign for Westminster College.
Westminster College Employees Honored for Years of Service
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College honored 49 employees for 1,020 years of combined service at a luncheon May 8 in the McKelvey Campus Center's Witherspoon Rooms.
College to Host Author on Amish Culture
Westminster College will host sociologist and author Dr. Donald Kraybill for a talk and book signing Thursday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel. The program is free and open to the public.
Fall Family Day Coming to Westminster College Sept. 18
Fall Family Day is scheduled at Westminster College Saturday, Sept. 18.
This Westminster tradition has gathered thousands of family members to Westminster College to celebrate and enjoy the special activities.
"My wife, Jean, and I have enjoyed the opportunity to meet the moms, dads, grandparents and siblings of some of the finest young people on earth," said Westminster College President R. Thomas Williamson. "It's an opportunity to enjoy good times and camaraderie with the entire campus."
The day begins at 9:30 a.m. with coffee and meeting with President Williamson in the Witherspoon Room of the McKelvey Campus Center. The meeting will begin with a short speech from the president and is followed by a question and answer session.
At 11 a.m. a family barbecue is planned at the Anderson Amphitheater, next to Brittain Lake. This fun-filled event gives family and friends the opportunity to eat, visit, laugh, and purchase football game tickets.
Kick-off for the Westminster College Titan football game versus Hiram College is 1 p.m.
The day concludes with the comedy troup, "Late Night Players," at 8 p.m. in the Berlin Student Lounge, located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
For more information, contact Cindy Dafler at (724) 946-7373 or e-mail daflercs@westminster.edu.
Westminster Student's Research Earns Award
Abigail Sumpter, a Westminster College senior history major, earned one of the book prizes for best paper at the Western Pennsylvania Regional Phi Alpha Theta conference.
Sumpter presented "Blonde-Haired Blue-Eyed Betty or Hard-Hitting Hannah: Projections of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Players in the Press, 1943-1954" at the meeting of the national history student honor society meeting at Clarion University April 2. This paper is based on Sumpter's honor's thesis at Westminster.
Her research indicated that the image of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players portrayed by national publications was quite different from that in local newspapers. While national magazines described the players as feminine women, the local press described these players only in terms of their on-the-field accomplishments.
"Abby's work, based on her archival research in South Bend, Indiana, and at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, is important for several reasons," said Dr. Timothy Cuff, Sumpter's honors advisor and assistant professor of history at Westminster College. "She has shed new light on the way in which women athletes were portrayed by American journalists in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly in her identification of a divergence in the image projected at the national level from that projected on a daily basis in local papers. More generally, she has highlighted the need for historians to examine how local situations vary from national level developments. Abby's paper is a valuable addition to the academic literature on the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League."
Sumpter is a daughter of Linda Sumpter, Corry, and a graduate of Corry Area High School.
For more information, contact Cuff at (724) 946-7291 or e-mail cufft@westminster.edu.
Psychology Professor to Discuss Neuroeconomics
Dr. Alan Gittis, professor and chair of psychology at Westminster College, will discuss "The Costs/Benefits of Neuroeconomics: Theory and Reality" at Faculty Forum Wednesday, March 8, at 11:45 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"Neuroeconomics in the title is word-play," Gittis said. "Theory of neuroeconomics will be related to some recent thesis projects of Westminster students who analyze patterns of choice behavior in animals emerging from cost/benefit computations in the brain.
"Reality of neuroeconomics deals with the funding of neuroscience projects and the difficulty of getting federal funding agencies to invest in undergraduate science education. I will discuss both topics in my presentation."
Faculty Forum, established in 1990, serves as a venue for the exchange of ideas and information among Westminster College faculty. Speakers present their research, teaching ideas, lectures, performances, special programs, and uses of technology to keep faculty informed about the work of colleagues from many disciplines.
Gittis, who has been with Westminster College since 1976, earned his undergraduate degree from Temple University, and his master's and Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
The event is free and open to the public. Contact Gittis at (724) 946-7358 or e-mail gittisa@westminster.edu for more information.
Westminster Student to Give Voice Recital
Rachel E. Lange, a senior music and speech communication major from Cecil, will give her voice recital Sunday, Nov. 16, at 3 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
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