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Gettysburg College student balances passion for athletics, music

Put football players on a football field and you will get noise. But pull Gettysburg College junior Anthony DeSalva away from practice and put him in a recital hall and he will make something else. Something beautiful. Something meaningful. Something personal. DeSalva's best position? It's not running back. It is when he is facing a piano translating music; his music, that he wrote himself. Jason Bristol, WHP-CBS Ch. 21 News, reports.
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Dog Days help students adapt to college life

Dog Days, where professors and staffers bring their dogs to the college for an hour of social interaction with students, were started by Kathy Bradley, executive director of health and counseling at Gettysburg College. The events, held in a grassy area outside the dining hall, are designed to help students overcome their homesickness.
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Eisenhower-Khrushchev 50th Anniversary of meeting in Gettysburg

The Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College commemorated the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower's meeting in Gettysburg on Sept. 26, 2009 with a talk by Susan Eisenhower (granddaughter) and Sergei Khrushchev (son), moderated by Daun van Ee, co-editor of the Eisenhower Papers.
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Exercise is good prescription for our nation, prof writes

Gettysburg College Health Sciences Prof. Dan Drury authored an opinion piece that appeared in The Patriot News (Harrisburg, Pa.) Sept. 20, calling for a more proactive model for health care that would expand services provided by professionals to help prevent diseases before they require traditional medical attention. Specifically, he wrote about the role of prescriptive exercise and its potential role in a medical model of the future. "I am proposing that any new health care initiatives proposed by our lawmakers include provisions to enhance the relationship between physicians and highly qualified exercise professionals. This symbiotic partnership and fundamental shift in the way we view exercise can go a long way in improving the health of our country," Drury wrote.
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Janet Morgan Riggs inducted as Gettysburg College's 14th president

In the weeks leading up to her induction as Gettysburg College’s 14th president, Janet Morgan Riggs did a lot of reading. Sworn in Saturday afternoon before hundreds of people at Pennsylvania Hall, Riggs referenced one of those books — ”Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder,” by Rebecca Wells — when summarizing her role as college president. “The main character’s mother talked about dancing from the bottom of your heart,” Riggs told the chilly but festive crowd of local residents, students and dignitaries. “This phrase stayed with me,” Riggs continued, “because for me, the opportunity to lead Gettysburg College truly is the opportunity to dance from the bottom of my heart. And I invite all of you who are Gettysburgians to dance with me.” A 1977 college alum, she had been serving as interim president since the 2008 resignation of Katherine Haley Will. She was unanimously named acting president this year by a college search committee.
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Alum authors op-ed on health care reform in Washington Post

Art Feldman ’70 wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Outlook section of the Washington Post Sept. 6, 2009. In “10 Things I Hate About Health Care Reform,” Feldman wrote, "I don't want my patients to rely on luck. I want them to have insurance that will pay for their care, and I want to be able to offer new medications and the most sophisticated treatment. I want to be able to give preventive care as well as to monitor patients effectively if they develop diseases. I want to be able care for my patients in their homes, and I want to offer palliative care if it becomes necessary. I want them to be able to afford all this." Feldman is a cardiologist and chair of the department of medicine at Jefferson Medical College. He is the author of "Pursuing Excellence in Healthcare: Preserving America's Academic Medical Centers."
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New students lend a hand in the community

A group of first-year students from Gettysburg College weren't sure what to expect on Thursday morning. It was the day after they had moved into their new dorms, and as part of the 19th annual Gettysburg Is Volunteering (GIV) Day, they were assigned to help at the Painted Turtle Farm on campus. GIV Day focuses on three areas of the Gettysburg community: environmental justice, socio-economic issues, and education issues for adults, children and migrant workers "I had no idea what we would be doing," first-year Joanna Myers said with a laugh. "I thought we would be painting turtles." So when they got to the student-run organic vegetable and flower garden, they were a little relieved. The Painted Turtle Farm provides food to the local shelters and pantries of the South Central Community Actions Program, and sells its herbs to the college's food service organizations.
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Pres. Riggs authors op-ed on liberal arts education and why it still matters

President Janet Morgan Riggs authored an editorial that appeared in The Patriot News (Harrisburg, Pa.) Aug. 30 on the relevance of a liberal arts education and why it matters more in this turbulent economy and job market. "The point is that it is not so much the specific content of our courses that is at the core of the liberal arts experience, rather the value is in a way of learning," Riggs wrote.
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