Alumni Spotlights
2010's
Drew Wolenter '11 is an AmeriCorps National Direct Member with Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake.
Josh Scheinblum '11 covered Iowa caucuses for CBS, Fox News.
Ellen Speake '10 (pictured right) teaches at Mastery Charter School in West Philadelphia, and Emily Davis '10, teaches at Tyee High School in SeaTac, Wash.
Art History majors Gwendolyn Williams '10, Elizabeth Petersen '10, and Laura Barone '10 (pictured right) spoke on campus in spring 2012 about their professional and graduate work in the field.
The documentary On the Fence, made by Brian Kelley '10, has won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award.
Brooke Engeldrum '10 launched a one-day externship in 2008 into a sales job at Cooking Light.
A children's book by Jackie Powell '09 and Sneha Shrestha '10 was named the Best Book for children under 8 by The Nepalese Society for Children's Literature.
2000's
Brian Jordan ‘09, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, has published “Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862."
Fred Reimer '07 is a global product manager at OpenLink Financial.
Nick Boire '07 worked to save cheetahs from extinction as a Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia.
Rebecca Cannon '06 is a physician's assistant at Gettysburg Adult Medicine.
Luke Norris '06, Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School, spoke at TEDx Gettysburg in April 2012.
History majors Emily Voss '05 and Steve Light '05 are working at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sue Useem ’05 is producing documentary films about conflict in Indonesia.
Drew Seitz ’03 is a field instructor with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).
Macklin Farquhar ’03 owns Macklin's Cupcakes and Coffee in York, PA.
Jake Schindel '03 returned to campus as the John A. Hauser Executive in Residence in April 2011.
Steve Wylie '02 is a dentist at Verber Family Dentistry in Camp Hill, PA.
Jamie Fleet '02 is serving as staff director for the Committee on House Administration on Capitol Hill.
Tim Orr '01 is a professor of history at Old Dominion University.
Kerri Rosenstein '98 and Torrey Stifel Kist '00 were featured artists at Gettysburg College's Schmucker Art Gallery in the fall of 2010.
Sarah Calhoun '00, owner of Red Ants Pants, was among entrepreneurs invited to the White House in November to attend the Business Leaders' Forum on Jobs and Economic Competitiveness.
1990's
David Stanek '99 is a flight surgeon with the U.S. Navy Medical Corps.
Alexandra Slote '98 has launched a successful interior design firm, Alexander Slote Interiors, based in Boston.
Kerri Rosenstein '98 collaborated with Professor Jim Agard on his retrospective at Schmucker.
Laura Strickler '95 is a producer for CBS evening news.
Cheryl Walker Davis '95 is Director of the Office of Special Assistants for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
Professor Chris Kauffman '92 is directing the Gettysburg College's Department of Theater Arts Production of Romeo & Juliet, March 1-5, 2012.
Carson Kressley '91 met with Gettysburg students in New York on career immersion experience.
1980's
Deborah (Wanglee) Sundlof '88 and Joyce (Wanglee) Wald '88 practice cardiology in the Lehigh Valley area and Philadelphia, respectively.
Ned Olney '88 is Ethiopia country office director for Save the Children.
Maria (Constantine) Vecchione '86 has worked in television and interior design.
Denise M. Harnois '84 is a hepatologist and liver transplant specialist in the Mayo Clinic Florida.
Carol Cantele '83 was named the 2011 NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Coach of the year. Her Gettysburg College team won the college its first NCAA championship.
Flora Darpino '83 and Christopher O'Brien '83 serve in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps, she as a brigadier general, he as a colonel.
Jen (Fisher) Bryant '82 published a new novel, The Fortune of Carmen Navarro, in 2011.
Thanks to a significant gift from Robert Garthwait, Jr. '82, Gettysburg College has established the new Garthwait Leadership Center.
Marla Graff Decker '80 is Secretary of Public Safety for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
1970's
A gift from Andy Parker '79 funded student travel to New Zealand to present their public-policy research at a conference on sustainability.
Robert Ortenzio '79 is chief executive officer of Select Medical Corporation in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Holly Krafka '78 is the founder and director of Boston's well-known New World Chorale.
Larry Walker '76, in his capacity as senior vice president with The Louis Berger Group, led the rebuilding of the Kabul-Kandahar Highway in 2003.
Daria Lo Presti Foster '76 has made a $1 million gift to fund scholarships for talented students.
Katharine Brooks '76, director of liberal arts career services at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of "You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career."
David Brennan '75 is chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca.
Voice specialist Nancy (Fister) Daniels '75 is founder of Voice Dynamic, which helps improve the sound of the speaking voice.
Olivia Parr-Rud '73 published Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning Your Business in the Global Economy in 2011.
Andrew Mickley '70 was named Ohio Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
1960's
Gettysburg College graduate Debra Wolgemuth '69 is working to develop the first-ever marketable male contraceptive pill.
Mary Carskadon '69 is a professor of psychiatry and human behavior in the Brown Medical School and director of chronobiology at E.P. Bradley Hospital.
James "Biff" Houldin '63, international team leader for Habitat for Humanity, has had a career spanning insurance, farming, and teaching.
Fred Fielding '61 has served as White House counsel for two presidents and was a member of the 9/11 Commission.
Francis "Bud" J. Dougherty '60, U.S. Navy captain (retired), is president and chief executive officer, Transformational Defense Industries, Inc.
1940's and 1950's
J. Michael Bishop '57, Nobel Prize laureate, attended the White House stem cell research signing ceremony.
Wilson Allen Heefner '56 published his third book, Dogface Soldier: The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., in 2011.
A generous donation from Fred Mahan '52 and his wife Martha brought an expert on campus to speak on tragedy and forgiveness among the Amish.
Mary E. "Betty" (Shaub) Baldwin '49 left a bequest of $160,000 to Gettysburg College.












































