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Engendering Dialogue
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Sharing Heston Summer
Welcome Rita Murray
Nica Night 2009
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Welcome to Center for Public Service's e-newsletter for friends and alumni!
We hope to keep you informed of news at CPS, connect alumni and friends with each other and link current students to you.
Each year, CPS takes on a new social justice issue around which we promote dialogue, reflection, action and partnership. This year, the theme is gender.
Rebecca Walker, an award-winning author, speaker and one of the the original leaders of third wave feminism, is our 2009 Fall Convocation speaker. At Fall Convocation, she will focus on third wave feminism and identity while weaving her personal experiences into the larger discussion of racism, classism, homophobia and social change.
nGender: In partnership with Allies and Greek Life, we have begun a new group named nGender. 20 students, faculty and administrators have been gathering bi-weekly to dialogue about issues of gender and identity in our personal lives. The frank, open discussion is powerful.
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In honor of President Riggs' inauguration and the National Day of Service, CPS led service projects with local agencies on September 11, 2009. Trustees, faculty, staff and students served by:
Installing insulation for a Habitat for Humanity house
Making salsa from gleaned produce at the Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College
Preparing art for the annual Adams County Heritage Festival
Participating in the a Poverty Simulation and learning about the effects of the PA budget impasse.
Painting a shelter and trimming trees on the Appalachian Trail.
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After three summers of the Heston Summer Experience and expansion to four sites, student interns presented their experiences and learning to President Janet Riggs, Dean Julie Ramsey and donor Jim Heston '70. Watch a summary of the presentation!
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 We are delighted to welcome Rita Murray to the CPS Team as our new Immersion Projects Coordinator. Rita has just moved to the Gettysburg area with her fiancé. She has worked in international program development and management in both higher education and the corporate sector, and is very excited to apply her skills to the mission of social justice and community change. Already two months into her role, Rita says she "is so impressed with the Gettysburg students and is looking forward to the success of the upcoming Winter Break Immersion Projects."
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In celebration of 27 years of sharing cultures and promoting sustainable development, Project Gettysburg León recently hosted a delegation from the Taller Ártistico Xuchialt, our partner art school in the barrio of Subtiava in León. While in Gettysburg, Marvin Hernandez, Soany Lainez and Elizabeth Rios facilitated dance classes at Gettysburg College, worked with children at Lincoln Elementary School (grades 4&5), Saint Francis Xavier Catholic School (grades K-8) and the after-school program El Centro. In addition, Marvin, Soany and Elizabeth worked with PGL members and Gettysburg College faculty to begin planning for long-range partnerships in developing theater arts, music and drawing exchanges between our communities.
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The Taller Ártistico Xuchialt is just one example of the partnerships PGL promotes and supports. Our upcoming annual Nicaragua Night will raise the funds to support the art school and other grassroots development project in Nicaragua. Interested in attending or donating? Visit PGL's auction website.
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Kate Sweetland-Lambird '10, Rebecca Brown '10, Sneha Shresthra '10 and Jackie Powell '09 are all authors of bi-lingual books that give voice to under-privileged children.
Sweetland–Lambird and Brown published their books, A Collection of Voices, and La Quinua; Mi Pasado, Mi Futuro: My Quinoa Grows; It is My Past; It is my Future,” while participating in the Heston Summer Experience, a summer community development internship program in Nicaragua, Uganda and Adams County.
Powell and Shrestha published their bilingual book My Happiness, as a part of an independent project while implementing a Kathryn Davis Projects for Peace grant in Nepal.
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