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First-year student Kasey Varner may be a new name and face at Gettysburg College, but her work is well known by many in Central Pennsylvania, as Varner is a former Patriot-News Davenport Fellow.
Named after former editorial page editor Dale Davenport at The Patriot-News, the fellows are comprised of promising high school students interested in opinion writing. The student-journal...
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An exhibition of recent artwork by alumnae Kerri Rosenstein, a member of the Class of 1998 who majored in psychology, and Torrey Stifel Kist, a member of the Class of 2000 who majored in art, will run Sept. 3 to Oct. 9 at Gettysburg College's Schmucker Art Gallery.
Since graduating from Gettysburg, Rosenstein and Kist successfully completed graduate programs, continued to produce and ex...
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"We are expecting great things from the Class of 2014," Gettysburg College Director of Admissions Gail Sweezey said as the new academic year began.
The incoming class includes a singer who performed with stars such as Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen and an activist who gathered supplies for an orphanage in Afghanistan, where her father was deployed.
Those are only two o...
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A childhood trip to Gettysburg sparked a lifelong fascination for the new director of Gettysburg College's Civil War Institute (CWI).
Peter Carmichael was seven years old when he and his parents journeyed from Indianapolis to Gettysburg. "A guide told an apocryphal story about a field hospital where the blood stood three inches deep, and they had to cut holes in the floor to let it...
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The College's rich historical context creates the backdrop for three distinctive Civil War programs:
The Institute provides both top-level dialogue among policy-makers and a premier learning experience for undergraduates. Its activities include research and scholarship, education and outreach, and recognition and celebration.
The distinctive vibrancy of a Sunderman Conservatory education results from three things coming together: a diverse and vital music environment, a culturally rich and supportive atmosphere for all of the performing and visual arts, and an energetic college community full of intense involvement in a broad spectrum of pursuits.
Offering three majors, bachelor of music in performance, bachelor of arts in music, and bachelor of science in music education, the Conservatory's curriculum encompasses a wide variety of music genres and traditions and opportunities to perform with more than a dozen vocal and instrumental ensembles.
The Conservatory was founded by a $15.7 million gift from 1919 Gettysburg graduate Dr. F. William Sunderman.
The Majestic Theater is home to the Jennifer and David LeVan Performing Arts Center, a world-class facility featuring an 816-seat theater, two cinemas, and art gallery., offering pre- and post-performance dining with a swanky, 1950s ambience.
The 83-year-old theater reopened in Nov. 2005 after a $16-million renovation, invigorating the cultural community in Gettysburg. Owned and operated by the College, the Majestic offers a diverse program of Broadway shows, classical and popular music, dance, comedy, children's theater, film classics, and other attractions.
The Gettysburg Review has won many prizes and awards, including a Best New Journal award, four Best Journal Design awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and a PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. More than 80 short stories, poems and essays first appearing in the journal have been reprinted in prize anthologies, such as The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, The Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of Small Presses. Contributors have included such luminaries as E.L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, Donald Hall, and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as emerging writers Ginger Strand, Scott Schrader, Kellie Wells, and Charles Yu, among others.