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Gettysburg College’s campus during the fall of 2023

During the fall 2023 semester, three professors were recognized for teaching excellence: History Prof. Timothy Shannon, Africana Studies Prof. Jennifer Collins Bloomquist, and Psychology Prof. Erin Clark ’99.

Shannon was recognized with the Gettysburg College Distinguished Teaching Award, Bloomquist was honored with the Bruce S. Gordon ’68 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Teaching Excellence Prize, and Clark earned the Dr. Ralph Cavaliere Endowed Teaching Award.

Dylan Kemmerer ’25, Barry Goldwater scholar

Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing is the world’s busiest pedestrian crossing and one of the many sites visited by Sophie Nasir ’25 and Orazio Thomas ’25 during their stay in Japan.

Alexa Secrest ’20 is a producer at FedSoc Studios, the film department of The Federalist Society.

“As an institution, Gettysburg College does an excellent job informing its students that college is yet another stepping stone—it’s not your ‘end destination’ like you once thought,” Alexa Secrest ’20 explained. “I believe the promotion of this mindset encourages the early and active search for research opportunities, internships, and avenues for postgraduate study, which ultimately facilitates the transition to the professional world.”

Ken Burns and some of his longtime collaborators visited Gettysburg to participate in the Gettysburg Film Festival: The Art of Ken Burns.

History holds the valuable power to shape the future and can bring people together to investigate who we are and what we can become. As iconic storyteller Ken Burns has found, “There’s no them. It’s only us.”

The Commencement Ceremony for the Class of 2024 will take place on Saturday, May 18.

As the Class of 2024 receives their undergraduate degrees and prepares to depart campus to be conduits of change in the world this May, they will join Gettysburg College in recognizing the outstanding contributions to society being made by our alumni and friends with the awarding of Honorary Degrees and Distinguished Alumni Awards, marking two of the highest individual honors given out by the institution.

Inspired by Gettysburg College’s bold and ambitious vision of the future, distinguished alumna and member of the President’s Advisory Circle Daria Lo Presti Wallach ’76 has demonstrated her unqualified support for that vision by making the largest commitment by any living Gettysburg College donor in the 191-year history of the institution.

Through various engaging activities and events on campus, the Summit on the Future featured the College’s greatest champions and philanthropic supporters interacting with College leadership, including President Bob Iuliano and members of the Board of Trustees and President’s Council; faculty; students; College administrators and program directors; and o

The Donna Jean Brogan Center for Quantitative Learning is open 24 hours for students to work collaboratively, meet with peer tutors, and engage with faculty.

Music can have a powerful and transformative impact, communicating and creating connections in ways that spoken words alone fail to do. Ann Harward understood that.