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Pre'Sident

Y COLLEGE PRESIDENT will tell

yo u th at spring is a busy season. As

admiss ion decisions a re m ade,

new fa cul ty are hired , and building projects move into th eir fin al phase of compl etion, it is evident this spring has been

parti cul arl y ac ti ve a t Fra nklin & Ma rshall. I welcom e this chance to update

yo u on som e important developments.

We a re asse mbling th e cl ass of stude nts who will e nte r Franklin & Marshall in fa ll 2007 . We received a record

number of appli cati ons thi s yea r - topping 5,000 for th e first tim e in th e C ollege 's history. Beca u se we are enjoying

in creased popul arity am ong m any talented appli ca nts, we ca n be m ore selecti ve in th e admi ssion process . T his yea r,

we offered admiss ion to just 36 percent

of appli cants. T his will be an especially

gifted class, with an average SAT score

of about 1300. Best of all , th e ma jori ty of

th ese students consider Franklin & M arsh all th eir first ch oice. T h ey a re great

stud ents, wh o really wa nt to be here. We

could not ask for better news.

Once th ese stude nts are here, we will

offe r th em a chall e nging educati on in

th e Franklin & M arshall tradition - one

tha t stre tch es th e m intell ec tua lly a nd

c reati vely whil e prov iding a wonde rful

res idential experi e n ce via th e Coll ege

H ouse Sys tem . T he h ouses all ow us to

extend the great intell ectual experi ence

our students are having in th e classroom

and bring it to th eir residen ces-yet anoth er way of leveraging th e power of facul ty-student relati on ships.

To e nsure th a t th ese rela ti onships

a re more access ibl e and p rodu c ti ve

th an eve r, we are expanding the fac ul ty

by 18 new positions in th e coming yea rs.

T his yea r, we hired nin e new te nu retrac k professors. Of these, fi ve will h old

bra nd-new posi ti ons, with one eac h in

th e D epartm ents of Engli sh , Religious

Studi es, a nd Spa ni sh , and two in th e

D epartm ent of Fren ch and Itali an. Thi s

distributi on of new positi ons refl ec ts our

commitm ent to m aking expand ed and

be tter intern ati onal edu ca tion opportunities ava ilabl e, parti cul arl y in th e study

of la nguages - all whil e ac hi eving fo r

th e fi rs t tim e a highl y compe titi ve student-to-fac ul ty ra tio of 10: 1.

Students a rri ving this fa ll will be th e

first to take classes in the new Barsh inger

Life Sc ien ces & Philosophy building.

This fac ility will ope n in August 2 007,

and we will m a rk its dedi ca tion with a

seri es of eve nts th ro ughout the fa ll. As

we welco m e th e D e partm e nts of Bi ology, Psychology, and Phil osophy to th eir

new state-of-th e-a rt hom e, we will begin

renova ti on of Facke nthal Laboratori es,

whi ch will ho use two of our signa ture

academi c programs- Government and

Business, Orga ni za tions, a nd Soc iety and our m os t ac tive resea rch institute the Fl oyd Institute for Publi c Policy.

As I noted, th e Coll ege House system

is reinve n ting our residential expe ri ence .

We dedica ted th e Ware Coll ege H ouse

Comm ons a nd renam ed the old No rth

Ben res ide nce hall as th e Ware Coll ege

House to th ank Trustee Paul Ware ' 72

and hi s wife, Jud y, for th e gen e rou s

gift th a t m ad e Wa re Co mmon s possibl e. Ware Comm ons is magnifi cent,

a nd a nyo ne takin g a stroll ac ross th e

Quad will m ee t stude nts m aking th eir

way th e re to attend a wo rkshop, m eet a

professo r, or join fri ends. Late in April , I

had the pleasure of ann ouncing a m a jor

gift to build th e second College H ouse

a t South Ben -to be known as Bonchek

H ouse -th anks to th e extrao rdinary gene rosity of Trustee Larry Bonch ek, M.D. ,

and hi s wife, Rita Bonchek, Ph.D .

T hi s spring will be re m embered as

on e of th e m os t successful spo rts seaso ns in rece nt m e m ory. Th e base ball

tea m fini sh ed a top th e Ce nte nnial

Confe re n ce regular season standings,

th e m en's golf team won its conference

championship on the way to th e N C AA

C ha mpionships, and th e wo m en 's tenni s tea m fini sh ed with a n 11-5 record

and a spot in the semifi nal ro und of th e

confe re n ce c hampi onships. But it was

th e wo m e n's lac rosse tea m th at stole

th e sh ow with a conferen ce c hampionship , an unble mish ed record , and a #1

nati onal ranking heading into th e fina l

weeke nd of the NCAA C hampi onships.

T hese outstanding athl etes have crea ted

quite a buzz on campus. With a team

G PA of 3.11 and nine m erit sc holars, our

wo m e n 's lac rosse program is bri nging

th e Di vision III student-athlete philosophy to life .

D espite the e normous progress thi s

Coll ege is m aking, on e topi c weighs

h eavily on m e. Th e tragedy at Virginia

Tec h is almost too te rri ble to contempla te . We mourn th e loss of inn oce nt

li ves and th e shatte rin g of a ve n e rabl e aca demic community. Even as we

m ourn , we have redoubl ed our commitm ent to m aking Franklin & Marshall a

safe place. My team has been ac ti vely

reviewing our e m ergency protocols and

impl em e nting m easures that will furthe r

enhan ce security on ca mpus-from improving communica tions to better e m erge ncy response training fo r all empl oyees and students. I promise yo u th at no

am o unt of othe r wo rk will distrac t m e

from doing all that I ca n to e nsure th e

safety and securi ty of our communi ty.

With wa rm regards,

Pres ident

news

notes

F&M forms partnership with

renowned Strasburg clin ic

Franklin & Marshall has joined in a partnership with th e C lin ic for Special C hildren and Lancaster General H ospital to

bring new life scien ces research to the

College . T he partne rship , anno unced

April 2 1 in Strasburg, Pa ., wh e re the

cli nic is loca ted, will provide F&M students with n ew opportuniti es in scie ntific study and gen etics research.

T h e C lini c fo r Sp ec ial C hildre n

a n alyzes human gen eti c stru ctures to

de term ine precisely wh e re on huma n

genes disorders are carri ed . C lini c doctors Holmes Morton , E rik Puffenberger,

and Kevin Strauss prescribe therapies for

yo ung patients that atte mpt to improve

the length and quality of th eir lives.

T h e clini c's patients a re alm ost excl usively Amish and Old Ord er Mennonite children and young adults. T he

doctors h ave don e exte nsive resea rch

into th e inhe rited disord ers to whi c h

th e communities are susceptibl e, su ch

as m apl e syrup urin e di sease and gluta ric aciduria.

For hi s pi on ee ring wo rk , M orton

was nam ed a MacArthur Fell ow by the

James D. and Catherine T. MacArthur

Foundation- an honor designating him

as one of th e wo rld 's m ost pro mi sing

medi cal research ers.

Mo rton , who co-fo unded the clini c

with his wife, Caroli ne, spoke of his h ope

for this partnership : "T he children wh o

come to th e C lini c for Special Ch ildren

fo r medi cal care inspire students to learn .

T h ese children m ake students and physicians interested in compl ex subj ects like ""

gene ti cs, bioche1n istry, phys iology, an d t;:;

emb ryology. T h e children make all of

us wan t to tra nslate scientific knowledge

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into be tter medi cal ca re . We will find

th at th is new collabora ti on will h ave

inspired stude nts, gen erated knowledge,

and led to solutions to complex m edical

problems."

For the next fi ve yea rs, th e clinic's

th ree doctors will teac h a sem inar for

biology and bi och em istry/molecular biology students at F&M. T he doc tors will

hold a research fac ulty appointm ent in

biology and will also advise students doing research and indepe ndent study on

topi cs related to biochemistry, genetics,

and publi c h ealth . T he cl inic will serve

as a site for this student research .

Th e three doctors will also h elp establish a bioinforma tics program at th e

C oll ege . Bioinform atics involves th e integration of disciplines in cluding genetics, computer scien ce, an d biochemi stry

to solve bi ological probl ems usually on

th e m olecular level.

In addition, fo r each of th e n ext fi ve

years, th e clini c and the Coll ege will

co-sponsor a series of public "Clini c fo r

Special C hildren MacArthur Lectures"

on topics of interest in th e li fe sciences .

Morton (pictured below) has also agreed

to give the keynote lecture on Oct. 26 to

begin th e celebration of th e opening of

th e Barshinger Life Scien ces & Phil osophy Building.

T h e Coll ege will raise approximately

$1 milli on to support thi s pa rtn ership ,

which will provide fin an cial stabili ty for

the cli nic and an academi c affili ati on

for its doctors.

Recogni z ing th e e n orm ou s pote ntial of thi s collaborati on to enh an ce th e

quali ty of h ea lth ca re fo r Lan cas ter's

Pl a in Sec t co mmuniti es, Lancas te r

General H ospital has in ves ted $500,000

in th e partn ership . T he College will use

part of th at investm en t to support constructi on of a cell and m olecular biology

teachi ng labo ratory in th e Life Scien ces

& Phil osophy Building.

"Th is is an in ves tme nt in ou r local

communi ty, in our Plain Sect neighbors,

and also in wo rld-cl ass scien ce being

don e right h e re in Lan cas te r Co unty,"

Pres id en t John Fry sa id . ~

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F&M and partner schools receive $1 million

grant from Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

T h e Jack Kent Cooke Foundation awa rded a $1 million grant to a partn ership of

schools h eaded by Franklin & M arshall

that is aimed at signifi cantl y in creasing

coll ege enrollm ent a nd graduati on rates

a m ong low-in com e hi gh sc h ool a nd

commu n ity coll ege stud ents.

Us ing th e grant, o ne of 10 awa rded

na ti on wide, will b e fo ur pa rtn ership

sch ools-Fra nklin & Marshall , Di ckinson Coll ege, M ill ersvill e U ni ve rsity,

and Shippensburg Uni ve rsity. Th ey will

develop a coll ege access network ove r a

four-year peri od to provide on e-on-on e

advising services to 2,400 Penn sylva ni a

high school stude nts in nin e sch ool distri c ts in Fulton , Huntingdon , Juni ata,

and Mifflin Counti es .

Thi s uniqu e pa rtn e rship be twee n

priva te, inde pe nde nt coll eges a nd th e

Pennsylva nia Sta te Sys te m of High e r

Educa tion is a response to th e findin gs

reported in "A Rising T ide : Th e C urrent State of High e r E du ca ti on in th e

C ommon wealth " (Edu ca ti on al Poli cy

and Leadership C e nte r and th e Lea rning Alliance for High er Educa tion , April

2006).

The report found tha t rural Penn syl-

va ni ans are signifi cantl y less likely than

th eir peers through o ut th e C omm onwealth to continu e th eir edu cati on beyond high sch ool. Only 50 to 63 perce nt

of stud ents graduating from these high

school s pl an to go on to any postsecondary education at all , with an even sm aller pe rcentage completing fo ur-yea r college programs.

Following in th e traditi on of th e

Am e riCorps a nd Teac h for Amer ica

programs, th e coll ege access initi a ti ve

will rec ruit and train coll ege seniors to

work full-tim e as advisers for one to two

yea rs foll owing graduation . Th e goal is

to comba t th e staggering rates of college-qualifi ed, low-in com e high school

gradua tes who fail to ea rn ba ch elor's

degrees by providing college admi ssion

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College commits to becoming "climate neutral"

In a step toward making Franklin & Marshall more sustainable, President John Fry signed the

American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, which is a high-visibility effort

to make college campuses more sustainable by reducing and ultimately neutralizing greenhouse

gas emissions.

As a participant in the program, Franklin & Marshall will develop a plan to become climate

neutral by adopting energy policies that effectively result in zero net emissions of greenhouse

gases.

"Becoming climate neutral is a highly challenging, but extremely worthy, goal," Fry explained.

"The pace at which we proceed will depend on two factors: the magnitude of our current greenhouse

Time to be generous

The class of 2006 contributed $13,927

toward the purchase and installation

of a campus clock near Distler House

to commemorate their days at Franklin

& Marshall. Sixty-one percent of

students contributed, which tied them

with the classes of 2001 and 2000 for

the highest percentage of students

donating in the last 15 years of the

senior gift program. Committee cochairs were Jane Bee and Sara Beltz. A

number of parents also contributed to

the project, as did the Alumni Board,

which offered the class a $2,006

incentive for reaching 60 percent

participation.

gas emissions and the resources at our disposal to reduce these emissions."

Franklin & Marshall will move toward more sustainability by taking three actions: developing

a long-range plan for becoming climate neutral, creating an inventory of its greenhouse gas

emissions, and taking short-term, tangible actions toward minimizing carbon dioxide emissions.

"Together, these steps will enable us to understand more clearly our energy use and its

implications for the environment," Fry said. "This understanding will in turn help us to adopt

policies consistent with becoming climate neutral as we expand the campus footprint."

Signing the commitment requires the College to take at least two tangible actions to reduce its

greenhouse gas emissions during the next two years. F&M is exploring options such as purchasing

more renewable energy, improving building energy efficiencies, and committing to purchase Energy

Star appliances.

In making the announcement, Fry lauded the Campus Sustainability Committee and the

Sustainability Task Force and students Rebecca Rehr '09 and Marilyn Weiss '09 for recommending

the College's involvement in the commitment. ~

Ware House

Commons

opens doors

Paul Ware '72, P'99 and Judy Ware P'99 in

front of the Ware House banner

On Februa ry 23, Ware House Commons,

th e first of th e Coll ege House Comm ons built on campus, opened its doors

to students, facu lty, and administration.

Boas ting an open, high-ceilinged Grea t

Room with walls of glass, limeston e, and

granite, a li ving room with deep armchairs and a roaring fireplace, as well as

a seminar room, kitch en , and office, th e

Com m ons is a physical realiza tion of

the College House System's goals.

According to Ware House Don Joel

Eigen, the adaptabl e, n e utral space of

th e Great Room maximizes ch an ces

for m embe rs of the community to intellectually explore ideas outside the classroom or after a compelling lecture.

Ware House Commons will help facilitate one of the m ain tenets of the house

system philosophy- "wh at h appens in

the classroom doesn 't have to stay in the

College unveils new

KIVO dining option

Franklin & Marshall stud ents have a

lot to look forward to n ext sem este r

with n ew advancem e nts in dining

services for th e fall of 2007 . F&M admini stration and Sodexho In c. have

announced plans to introdu ce a n ew

m e nu featuring kosh er, international ,

vega n/vege ta rian, and organic food s

(KIVO ) to the Benj a min Franklin

Dining Hall.

The KIVO menu will be accessible

to all participants of the College's m eal

plan for breakfast, lunch , and dinne r,

resulting in broader options for dine rs

and an additional dining destination

on campus.

"All stude nts will now h ave access

to even h ea lthie r food choi ces," sa id

Ralph Tabe r, th e Coll ege's clea n of

stud e nts. "Our c urrent Jewish a nd

Muslim students will be able to meet

their religious dietary needs .. .very few

other coll eges in the country can offer

this option."

No t only will the new KIVO menu

be Star Kosh e r-ce rtified , gu arante eing that all produ cts served will m eet

kosh e r dietary law, but th e program

will also be subject to strict rabbinical

supe rvision. The College ha s additional plans to hire a full-time, on-site

manage r for extra regu lation of th e

KIVO program , who is full y trained

and certified in kosh e r dietary practices .

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Opening night at Ware House Commons

classroo m." E ige n hopes that studen ts,

inspired by an "a ha!" moment, will view

th e Ware Commons as an inviting space

in which to engage fellow students and

faculty in stimulating discuss ion. On th e

other hand , th e Commons also provides

a space in which house don s, prefects,

and faculty can rise to chall enges of th e

house system, creating opportunities for

discussion tha t compl ement and expand

upon classroom lectures.

Mariyah Salem '07, pres id en t of

Ware House, com me nted on the new

space, d esc ribing th e co mmons as

a "third pla ce where th e academ ic

wo rld m erges with the social life of our

residents." When not h osting lec tures,

launch parti es, voice recitals, or bagel

brun ch es, the Commons fill s with students studying, relaxing, or enjoying the

view of the Quad.

Built a t th e north e ncl of th e Benj am in Franklin Res ide n ce H alls, Wa re

College House is the gift of Paul W. and

Judy Ware of Lancaster, who donated $1

mill ion towa rd its construc tion. Longtime supporte rs of Franklin & Marshall,

the Wares have h elped to expand the

College 's publi c service program s under th e auspic es of th e Ware Institute

for C ivic E ngagement.

President John Fry has described the

house system, instituted in 2005-0 6, as a

way to "ensure that, in partnership with

m e mbers of the faculty, our stud ents

learn to be grea t citizens." Currently,

th ere are four College H ouses at F&M:

Marsha ll-Bu c h a n a n-Th omas Hou se,

Schnader House, South Ben House, and

Ware House. Plans to build house commons for th e rema ining three h ouses are

c urrentl y in the works.

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undergraduate in stituti ons, is reloca ting to

Franklin & Ma rsh all.

T he con so rti u m , previously h os ted a t th e

Coll ege of Woos te r,

de Wet

has also n a m ed And rew d e We t, F&M

associa te professo r of ea rth and environme nt, as its director.

In additi on , th e Na ti o nal Scie n ce

Found ati on (N SF) h as continu ed its

supp ort of th e Keck C on so rtium by

awarding it a three-yea r, $650,000 grant

fo r support of th e proj ect titl ed "REUsite: T h e Keck Geology ConsortiumProviding Coll abo ra ti ve Yea rl ong Opportunities fo r Und ergraduates."

The N SF's Resea rch Experi e nces for

U nd e rgradua tes (REU) progra m supports active research parti cipati on by undergraduate students in any of th e areas

of resea rch fu nded by the Na tional Science Foundati on. REU pro jects in volve

students in m eaningful ways in ongoing

resea rch programs or in resea rch projec ts des igned espec ially for th e purpose .

Th e consortiu m fo cuses on enriching

unde rgraduate education th rough th e

developm ent of hi gh-quality resea rc h

expe ri enc es . It has bee n a fund am e ntal compone nt of th e und e rgradu a teresea rc h landscape sin ce its in augural

pro jects in 1987. In 116 sponsored projec ts to ela te, th e co nsortium h as supported 970 unde rgraduate students from

90 sc hools ac ross th e na ti on. Programs

have in vo lved m ore tha n 115 facu lty

represe nting 50 diffe re nt coll eges, u nive rsiti es, gove rnm e ntal age n cies, and

busin esses.

"Franklin & Marshall Coll ege was a

fo unding m em ber of th e Keck Geology

Consortium in 1987 a nd ove r th e pas t

2 0 yea rs alm ost every fa c ulty m e mber

of its Ea rth a nd Env ironm e nt D epartm e nt has pa rti cipa ted in th e p rogram

as proj ect leaders or as stude nt advisers,"

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sa id de Wet. "M ore than 50 Franklin &

Marsh all stude nts comple ted Keck resea rch pro jec ts, wi th m ost con tin u ing

on in ca reers related to th e geosciences.

As one of th e for em ost und ergraduate

geosciences departm ents, it is appropriate tha t this highl y su ccessful progra m

be based at Franklin & Marshall fo r th e

next three yea rs."

Na m ed one of seven "Programs th at

Work" by Pro jec t Kaleidoscope, th e success of the consortium can be measured

o n mu ltiple leve ls. Kec k fa c ul ty and

students have produced num erous pee r-

reviewed articl es and have prese nted

m ore th an 200 multi-a uth ored pape rs at

regional and nati onal confe rences.

Con so rtium m embers are: Amh e rst

Coll ege, Beloit Coll ege, Ca rl eton College, Colgate Unive rsity, T he Coll ege of

Wooster, Th e Colorado College, Franklin & M a rshall Coll ege, Maca les te r

Coll ege, M t. Holyoke Coll ege, Oberlin

Coll ege, Pomona Coll ege, Smith College, Trini ty Uni ve rsity, Uni on Coll ege,

Was hington a nd Lee U ni ve rsity, Wesleya n U ni ve rsity, Whitman Coll ege, and

William s C ollege. ~

Author Bechdel entertains students

Ali son Bec hcl el's visit to Fra nklin &

M a rsh all in February was a h om eco ming of sorts. On tour with h er criti cally

acclaimed graphi c m e moir Fun Home,

th e a uth or and illustrator had a chance

to revisit som e of h er fath er's fo rm e r

haunts.

"It was defini tely fa sc in ating to find

m yself a t his old stompin g gro unds,"

says Bechclel, whose fa th er Bruce All e n

Bec hclel was in th e class of 1958. "H e

loved it he re."

'Tel look a t his coll ege pic tures when

I was littl e," she recall s. "H e had his frate rnity paddle on th e wall , and I used

to imagin e what a fraterni ty was like. I

th ought it sounded like a big fun clubhouse."

F&M's ca mpus figures several tim es

in he r award-winning book, as she m eti c ul o usly rec rea tes old coll ege ph otograph s of h e r fa th e r, as

we ll as illu stra tes h e r

bro th er wea ring an F&M

T-shirt.

A sharp-eyed observe r

of th e la ndsca pe of li fe,

Bec hcl el was form e rl y

best kn own for he r wry,

insightful Dykes to Watch

Out For comi c strip. But

with th e release of thi s

m e m oir, de ta ilin g h e r

story of growing up in a .small Penn sylva ni an town , Bechcl el has received inte rnation al attenti on and hit th e top of

n ea rl y every Best Books of 2006 list.

Whil e see min gly un con ve nti o n al,

th e form of th e book is stunningly compelling and intim ate, with an economy

of langu age and de ta il ed illustra ti on s

infused with laye rs of m ea ning.

"I do think that graphi c storytelling is

partic ul arl y powerful in autobi ograp hy,"

sh e says.

While on ca mpus, Bechdel visited

c rea ti ve writing classes and expl a in ed

h er m eti culous process (whi ch includes

ph otogra phing h erself as every cha rac ter

in every setting). In he r evening lecture,

sh e surprised the crowd with he r F&M

conn ec tion. ~

- Daina Savage

Matthew Mazuroski is the performing arts coordinator in

F&M's Department ofTheater, Dance, & Fi lm (TDF). His duties

include teaching an acting course and directing one of TD F's

main-stage shows each year. He also books the touring productions for the Roschel Performing Arts Center and serves

as liaison to outside arts orga nizations.

Describe the path that led you to F&M.

I've taken a circuitous path to F&M. I grew up in a small, coal-mining community in western Pennsylvania where I read voraciously and dreamed of escaping the confines

of that dreary town. I saw my first play when I attended the Governor's School for the Arts and discovered the imaginative power of the theater. From that moment I

knew what I wanted to do with my life. I joined the Army at 17 to save money for college and was stationed in Panama and Ft. Riley, Kan. I received my undergraduate

training from Kansas State University and Emporia State. I have spent nearly 15 years as a professional actor

and director and worked all over the United

States. After this long period of wanderlust, I finally settled down and put my energies into an M.F.A. in

directing at Northwestern University. As I

was completing my course requirements, Michael Mitchell, the artistic director at the Fulton Theatre, told

me of the open position at F&M.

What's it like being back in Pennsylvania?

After nearly 20 years, I find myself back in the state I grew up in. My wife is a Midwesterner. Whenever

we go to visit her relatives in Kansas she remarks, "It's good to be back with my people." They are hardscrabble, decent, hard-working, plainspoken folks. I feel much the same way now that I've returned

to Pennsylvania-it feels like I'm home again.

Are there special challenges

working with students?

The biggest challenge is the fear of failure. Acting by its very nature

is about being fearless! Whether I'm working with students in a

classroom or a rehearsal studio, I try to create an environment where

they can take risks and develop trust. It is amazing to see what happens

when they become fearless in a scene.

What's the best part of your job?

There is no better feeling than guiding young actors in the classroom or in production and

watching the journeys they take as they discover something new about the play, the characters they

are playing, themselves, and the world around them.

You recently became a certified fight choreographer. What are

special considerations when choreographing fight scenes?

I meet with the director to discuss how the fight sequence fits within the overall dramatic action of

the play. I ask about the actors: How physically fit are they? Have they had previous stage combat

experience? Do they have any pre-existing physical injuries or conditions? The number one concern of

any fight choreographer is safety. To avoid injuries, I take the actors through a vigorous warm-up regimen, demonstrate how to safely execute the fight sequences, and adjust the fight to fit the strengths

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Faculty studies, team-teaches course about

pregnancy outcomes in American women

Am eri can wom en ha ve inc reas ing access

to prena tal ca re . Ye t prem ature birth s

are up , and th e number of underweight

babi es rem a in s troubling. If fo cusing on

wom en when th ey are pregnant is not

solving th e probl em , how about findin g

an d trea ting risks in wom e n 's li ves befo re and in betwee n pregnancies?

It's a potentiall y in va luabl e premise,

and one that has heavily engaged Franklin & Marshall Coll ege. F&M h as initiated a first-of-its-kind stud y on Ami sh

wome n , and g ive n birth to a hi ghl y

p opul a r co urse- Publi c H ea lth Research: Pregnan cy Outcom es in Am erican Wo m en - that has galva ni zed both

students and fac ul ty.

The study

Using federal tobacc o settlem ent m oney

and under the auspices of Penn State's

Ce nter of Exce ll e n ce for Resea rc h

on Pregnan cy Outcom es, th e C e ntral

Pe nn sylvani a Wo m e n's H ealth Study

began in 2002. In a random telephon e

survey, 2,002 wom en betwee n 18 and 45

living in a 28-county region of C entral

Pennsylva nia were interviewed to identify risks to healthy pregnancies .

At th e sam e time, researchers wa nted

to compare the results with a culturally

di stin c t se t of wom e n of c hildbea ring

age : th e Ami sh of La ncaster Coun ty. For

thi s c hall enging, sensitive survey, they

turn ed to F &M's Ce nte r fo r Opi nion

Resea rch .

T he survey presented cultural and logisti ca l chall enges from th e outset. Berwood Yost, th e center's direc tor, kn ew

resea rch ers co uldn ' t just go m a rc hing

cl own a farm lan e with laptop comput-

e rs and qu es ti o nn a ires full of m edi cal

ja rgon . So nin e Ami sh wo m e n we re

tra ined to be li a isons to help break th e

ice .

Th e resea rc h e rs qui ckl y lea rn e d

so m e fa cts abo ut Ami sh life . Fo r on e,

th ey di scovered it would be a waste of

tim e to do th e surveys on Tuesdays and

Thursdays in th e fall , th e cl ays tha t th e

Amish se t as ide for weddin gs durin g th e

post-h arvest season. They also lea rn ed to

avoid Saturdays, wh en Ami sh children

we re n ot in school and were apt to spy

on th e interviews .

And th ey learn ed about th e unhurri ed fl ow of Ami sh life. "Th e ge n e ral

pa ce of Ami sh life is more deliberate

than ours," recalls Yost. "It took us longer to do th e study th an we anti cipated."

But h e is qui ck to add , "I learn ed a great

dea l about th e ir c ulture and ga in ed a

trem endous respect for it."

T h e survey did eventually ge t clon e,

and th e results from inte rviewing 288

Ami sh wo m en yield ed groundbreaking

and surprising results.

T h o ugh no su ch studi es of Ami sh

wom e n h ad eve r bee n clone befor e, it

was beli eved th ey would have a high er

ra te of pre-te rm birth s a nd low birthwe ights th a n th e n on-Ami sh wom e n

surveyed in th e 28-coun ty region.

After all , th e wom e n in th e Ami sh

co mmunity h ave littl e form al e du cation , are exposed to pesti cides, and drink

from pri va te wells. And , typi call y, th ey

don't seek tradition al m edi cal ca re durin g pregnancy, don 't take prescriptions

for illnesses, a nd usually deli ve r babies

in th eir hom es.

So resea rch ers we re surprised by th e

survey results th at fo und Ami sh wo m en

had high e r fertility rates but fewer lowbirthwe ight babi es.

What Yost and about a dozen of th e

cente r's staffe rs who pa rti cipated in th e

survey found sugges ts th a t th e Ami sh

wom en 's lowe r stress, fewer cases of depression , and greate r suppo rt from th e ir

communi ty all might m ake fo r h ealthie r

babi es . And th ey found Ami sh wom en

do seek traditional m edi cal ca re a nd

hospitals to g ive birth when th ey think

th ey need it, and do take multi vitamins

more th a n was thought.

Yost, M ill er, and Flaherty have pub]is heel papers on th e studi es.

"We couldn 't be more pl eased to be

workin g with F&M ," says Sara Bake r,

proj ec t direc tor of th e health stud y at

th e Penn State C oll ege of Medi c in e in

H ershey. 'Th ey've just clon e a reall y stellar job. Th ere is just trem endous interest

in th e Ami sh data."

Adverse pregnancy

outcomes course

F&M's involve m ent with th e pregnan cy

outcom es study hardl y stopped with th e

ga th er ing of cru cial data. T h e tobacco

se ttl em ent mon ey also fund ed a course

in whi c h th e stud y results would be analyzed and mull ed ove r on m an y levels

by stud e nts, fa culty, and guest lec ture rs. Publi c H ealth Resea rch : Pregnancy

Outcom es in Am erican Women was

born .

Th e c lasses, taught in spr ing 2006

with a foll ow-up in spring 2007, we re

sellouts. Th e multidisciplinary approac h

of th e course was ens ured by bringing in

di ve rse fac ul ty instructors. In addition to

Yost, fac ul ty included Ki rk M ill e r (b iology), Ali son Kibl e r (Am erica n studi es and

wo m e n a nd gende r studi es), and Sean

Flaherty (economi cs). Adding to the mi x

we re weekl y guest lec turers.

Stud e nts desc ribe th e inte n se sessions as m ini sociology experi me nts. "It

was unlike anything else I had ever taken ," recalls Laura Evans '07, a pre-med

student fr om Bloomsburg. "It took th e

da ta from th e surveys beyond imm ediate analysis and into th e realm of askin g

th e important question: Wh at ca n we

do to alter poor outcom es?"

Th e di sc u ss ion s- m ore oft en constructi ve debates- "were vibrant, engaging, and often very charged," says Sara

Keely Beltz '06, now at Drexel Coll ege

of M edi cin e.

T he bull sessions often extended well

beyond th e encl of class . "We wo uld just

kee p goin g beca use we kn ew we we re

striking gold with th ese topi cs : illi c it

dru g use durin g pregnan cy, e nvironm ental toxins, th e econ om ics of pove rty,

low birthwe ight, th e Hi spani c paradox,

the lack of insuran ce, religion , teratol ogy-we hit it all in thi s class," says Beltz,

who considered th e course h er m ost enri c hin g at F&M.

Kibl e r (th e onl y person teaching th e

class who's actuall y been pregnant, she

jokingly notes) rem embers th e li vely deba te that ensued wh en sh e brought th e

issue of wo m en's ri ghts into th e fray.

"Ca n th e gove rnm e nt te ll wom e n

th ey can ' t do certain jobs in our socie ty because of th eir child-bea rin g? In

som e cases, suggested solution s to poor

pregnan cy outcom es threa ten wo m en 's

sta tus as equal citi ze ns. Many of th e topics we addressed cam e up aga in st th a t

issue," sh e expl a in ed .

M ill er has spent th e las t 2 0 summ ers

studying n esting turtl es in Ne braska . H e

loved th e wo rk but always had a h a rd

tim e expla ining why h e did it. No t so

with th e pregnan cy outcom es study of

wo m e n in his backya rd. "H avin g th e

po te ntial to have an impac t on yo ur local communi ty is a ve ry powerful thing,"

he says.

He also is warm ed by the kee n focus hi s students bring to th e class . "Vie

F&M's Kirk Miller, Berwood Yost, Alison Kibler, and Sean Flaherty formed this spring's

teach ing team for Pregnancy Outcomes in American Women.

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bring togeth er wonderful students from

so m any different di sciplin es who interac t so h on estl y with us. T hat's a privilege. Th ey can go ve ry deepl y and ve ry

broadly at tim es ."

The abili ty to give life to fac ts and fi gures and to m ove students on a hum an

level is a pinnacle of teaching. "Publi c

H ea lth Research taught m e that health

ca re ca n ' t be th ought abo ut with out

talking about m oney, without looking at

racial di spariti es, without askin g about

the e nvironm e ntal probl e m s, exa mining th e edu ca ti onal level of parents, th e

drug use . . . it's all conn ected," says futur e

phys ician Beltz.

"Medi cine is so much m ore than what

m eets th e eye, or what m eets th e ph ys i-

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course of the final 100 clays of each academic year, Beverly M enghetti '07 thinks

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Teamwork on and off the fi eld works fo r these four seniors: Juliann Cutruzzula, Bev

team . Menghetti was the catalyst in the

Menghetti, Em Gill, and Amy Ol iver.

formation of a new team at F&M, one

that also excels in one-on-one situations

and enjoys the sa m e type of success that

afforded the opportunity to work directAnd the la nguage sh e used to dehas become th e norm for th e Diplomats

ly with th e c hildren on reading, speakscribe the many positive experi ences in

in women's lacrosse circles.

ing, and com pre hension of E nglish. It

doing this wo rk drew the notice of he r

It began as a seed in Menghetti's

is som eti m es a daunting task, but one

peers. This yea r, teammates (and housemind . She was lookin g for a way to

that comes with the ben efit of immedirnates) Arny Olive r, Em G ill , and Julicombin e th e experiences of he r sem esate positive feedback for th e tutor-and

anne Cutruzzula, as well as swimmer

ter studying abroad in Botswana and two

lifelong benefits for th e children. Those

Rachel Army, have all continued on in

months of working in Italy with her love

lessons are not lost on the c hildren , nor

the classroo m where Menghetti left off.

of h elping others. Sophia Jon es' classare th ey lost on Menghetti.

Olive r, who is co n sid e rin g mediroom at Ja m es Bu c han an E lem e ntary

"Everyon e plays a role in building a

ca l-sc hool options, has bee n working

School on Lancaster's west encl beca m e

communi ty," says th e senior. "It is all th e

closely with Melba, a Domini ca n-born

th e fertil e land on which that seed was

more necessary in an a rea as di verse as

third grader who reads English on a first

sown.

Lancaster, as language dissolves cultural

grade level. She echoes Menghetti's senJones runs a program that brings a dibarri ers."

timents on th e program's rewards.

ve rse grou p of stude nts into a common

After her internship ended and c redit

"Th e experi en ce was slightl y fru stratclassroom for about an hour a clay, two

h ad been awarclecl, Mengh e tti co uld

ing at th e beginning, as I was trying to

tim es per week. The children who flo ck

have walked away, but h er conviction of

find m y place in the progra m," Oliver

to her classroom va ry as widely in their

ca use continued on. Sh e now volunteers

recalls. "But I really enjoyed th e one-onnative tongues as they do in their degrees

at Lancaster's San Juan Bautista's Adult

one work in the classroom. Seeing the

of proficiency in the English language.

Learning Center, still teaching E ngli sh

mom en t wh en a child ma ste rs someIn Jon es' classroom, Menghetti was

thin g n ew is pretty awesome . In that

as a Second Language (E SL).

si tuati on, yo u get to see the results firsth and, and it is trul y gratify ing."

T hose types of pos iti ve experie n ces

we re n ot lost on Karyn Convey, assista nt cl ea n for in terna ti o nal pro·g ra m s.

"In talking with Beverly abo ut h ow to expand upon her study-abroad experi e nces,

and to incorporate those lessons in the

wider community, we kept coming back

to the ESL," said C onvey. "Th e natural

combination of cross-cultural skills and

community outrea ch is in pe rfec t accord with th e a ims of th e program."

Th ey are also in accord with th e a im s

of Ann e Phillips' wo m en 's lacrosse program.

"As a coach , yo u can reall y see the

bond th at h as developed betwee n th e

pl aye rs wh o h ave pa rti c ipa ted ," Phillips n otes . "Th ere is a rea dil y appa rent

enhancem ent of probl em-solvin g skills

and a larger respect for tea mm ates that

occ urs as a na tural outgrowth fr o m

wo rkin g with oth ers in ord er to ac hi eve

a comm on goal."

T he long-te rm game pl an for Mengh e tti 's creation is still being developed.

The inte rnship is essentially a pilot program at th e m om ent, and will continue

as such through the fall. T he hope is to

continue buildin g th e fram ework th at

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lacrosse team had just capped an undefeated

regular season by winning the Centennial

Conference over longtime rival Gettysburg

College 14-4. The Diplomats finished the

season at 17-0 and ranked first in Division Ill.

The team, which received an automatic

bid into the NCAA Division Ill Championship

Winter sports

wrap-up

Swimming

It was ano th e r exciting seaso n at M cG inni s Pool as F & M 's

wom e n 's swim tea m

(8-2-1 ) sent a trio of

swimme rs to th e Nation a l C h a mpi o nWalters

ships. Jenna Walters

'07, th e Ce nte nni a l

Co nfe r e n ce (CC)

m ee t's Outsta nding Pe rform e r, a nd

Kelly Landman '07 earn ed All-Am erica

honors in two events, and Brittany M cCabe '09 earned th e distinction in one

at the NCM DIII Swimming and Di ving C hampionships. F&M fini sh ed in

21st place among 54 team s.

Th e m en's swimming team wrapped

up its third Ce nte nni a l Co nfe re n ce

C hampion ship in as m a ny as awa rd ed.

D erek Nowak '08 was nam ed th e Outstandin g Pe rform e r. Th e Diplom at

junior wo n the 500 and 1650 fr ees tyle

races, as well as the 400-ya rcl individual

m edl ey. He also contributed legs on the

winning 400 and 800 free relay squads.

Squash

Sadiq M adraswala '10 (14-1 3) defeated

Harva rd's Ve rdi DiS esa and Penn's Ryan

Rayfi e ld in th e C SA Moll oy Division

Sec ond Round C onsola tions to fini sh

10th in th e di vision at the C SA singles

champi onships. T he Diplomat m en (1311) sat 15th in th e final CSA rankings .

F &M's wom e n 's squ as h tea m finish ed the season ranked 19th in the nation with a m ark of 9-7. D avinia Buckl ey

'09 competed at th e singles championships but was ousted after two m atch es.

Tournament, was set to host the first round

at Sponaugle-Williamson Field . Franklin &

Marshall entered the 24-team field as the only

unbeaten squad, having posted wins over three

of the other competing teams, Washington &

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T he m en 's basketball team fini shed with

an 8-17 m a rk . Lan caste r nati ve D e rek

Hines '08 was nam ed a fin ali st for th e

coveted Jostens Trophy, awarded to the

Di vision III Men's and Women 's Baske tball Outstand ing Athl etes of the Year

based on excell ence in basketball , academi cs, and com mun ity service.

T h e F&M wo m en fi nished 6-19 in

head coach As hl ee Courter's ina ugural

season. T h e yo un g D ipl oma ts (nin e of

th e 12 pl aye rs are fr esh me n or soph om ores) n ever stop ped bein g a th o rn in

the sid e of opponents, takin g two of th e

CC's perenni al top tea m s clown to th e

wire in th e las t tvvo ga m es of th e season .

Wrestling

Th e Dipl o m a t g rappl ers we nt 7-8 on th e

season . The victo ri es

incluclecl a four-match

win streak th at saw th e

likes of Ja m es M adison and Prin ceton fa ll

to F &M. Four wresSomers

ti ers finish e d th e season with doubl e digits

in th e wins column . H eavyweight N ico

Somers '09 posted a 20-5 record on th e

yea r, whil e Al G ianforti '09 we n t 18-9

at 141. Justin H e rb ert '09 (165) won 16

m atch es, whil e Jake Bu cha '10 (125) registered 12 wins.

Indoor track & field

T he Franklin & M arshall wo m en's track

team fini shed in sixth place in th e 10team fi eld at the C C Indoor Track and

Fi eld Ch ampi onships. Kare n Ziga '07

took gold in th e 5,000-mete r run , m aking h e r th e first Diplomat sin ce th e

second half of th e 1980s to win a conference gold m edal in a distan ce event.

Libby H aas '07 took silve r in th e hi gh

jump, clea ring at 1. 53 m eters. Both wen t

on to compete at the E C AC C hampi onship m ee t. H aas took fifth in th e hi gh

jump, whil e Z iga fini sh ed seve nth in

th e 5,000.

Th e m en's track tea m placed seventh

am ong th e nin e team s at the CC Indoor

T rack and F ield C ha mpi onships. Jon

Bralli e r '07 wo n his third gold m edal in

th e indoor pole va ult, clearing the bar at

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unde rgraduates to th e cu lture of a noth er nation . On e of Franklin & Marshall 's versions of the

stud y-abroad program is di stin ctive in its rich academic offerings and opportunity to

becom e imm e rsed in the dail y life of a foreign country.

Bath , a city in so uth e rn England linked to th e m an y

attractions of London by fa st rail se rvice,

is famou s for its well-preserved Roman baths, its medieval abbey, and

its architec tural splendor. It recall s

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Advanced Studi es in England (ASE )

was es tablished in 1988 by th e husbanda nd-wi fe team Ann and D on Nun es .

Through th e yea rs, a numbe r of di stinguished coll eges and universiti es, including Yal e,

Smith , Amherst, and Notre Dame, made the program available to th eir stud ents. In 2004, thanks in

part to a gift from Joseph Doh erty '65, Franklin &

Marshall purc hased ASE.

The ASE U.S. coo rdin a tor at F&M is Patti

Brown , associate dean for inte rnational programs. Serving as acad emic advisers are D ea n

Kent Trachte and Provost Ann Steiner. F&M

faculty regul a rl y visit Bath to attend ASE academi c board m ee tings and to teach. Serving

on th e academ ic board are representati ves

from ASE's 15 affi li a te coll eges, including Skidm o re,

Spelman , and the Coll ege of William and Mary, as well as from th e Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Bath Spa University, and University College, O xfo rd.

In additi on to the regular ASE programs, F&M has conducted mini-summ er schools using th e faci liti es. Last yea r Associate Professor of Art Amelia Rauser ta ught "Portraiture, Fashion , and Id entity in Georgian Bath ," and

Assistant Professor of Busin ess, Orga ni za ti ons, and Society Trexler Proffitt taught "Th eori es of Orga nization." This year, as part of

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"Th e academic quality of thi s program is exceptional ," says Trac hte. "The tutors are drawn prim aril y from th e Oxford Colleges,

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2005. "My 'Modern Briti sh Politi ca l Hi sto ry' professor, Dr. Lesli e Mitc h e ll , is

emeritus fe llow at U ni ve rsity Coll ege, an

autho rity on 18th century British histo ry,

and one of th e m ost famou s historians

in th e U nited Kin gdom ," she says. "It

was trul y a privilege to study with him.

His cl ass was one of th e most ri gorous

and rewa rding acade mi c experi ences

I've eve r had."

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intrig uing. "I h ad n o expe ri en ce

studying a rchitec ture, and no idea what I was getting myself into." Sh e soon beca m e fa scinated by Bath 's glorious G eorgian buildings .

E nglish m a jor Anna Kotopoulos '08 was drawn to Bath 's

associati on with Jan e Austen- who wrote Northanger Abbey

and Persuasion h ere-as well as Bath 's proximi ty to m a jor literary sites, such as th e country of th e Bronte sisters and Hard y's

imaginary Wessex.

For three clays, all AS E stud ents vi sit Stratford-upon-Avon ,

living in bed-and-breakfasts. With pre-perform ance lectures by

AS E fac ulty as well as speakers from T he Royal Sh akespeare

Company, students see up to three plays at T he Shakespeare

Memorial T heatre and Th e Swa n.

Each se m es ter AS E has a weeklon g residency at th e oldest

of th e O xford coll eges, Uni ve rsity Coll ege, giving th ese 21stcentury Am eri can students a sa mple of how th e E ngli sh elite

received th eir edu ca tions clown through th e centuries.

Meeting of the minds

"AS E brings toge th er th e best of both th e British and U. S. systems of hi gher edu ca tion ," says Brown . In addition to

parti c ipa tin g in U. S.-style se min ars

taught by Briti sh tutors, students have th e opportunity

to stud y in tradition al tutorials, where students devise th eir

own course of study and m eet

with a tutor once a week to discuss th e ir pape rs. On e stud ent

a nalyzed th e h isto ry of Vikin g

in c ursions into th e Briti sh Isles,

whil e others have studied modern

Briti sh and Irish poetry.

"Most AS E seminars have a study

tour attac hed that takes students right

to the source," says Brown . "For Iri sh

Na tionalism s, stude nts go to Dublin

fo r a long weekend, a nd those studying

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th e hi story of th e Middl e Ages

visit No rm a nd y a nd th e Bayeux

Ta pestry."

To m ake "M odern Briti sh Political Hi story" com e ali ve, Ni cole Caplan '08 and her classm ates hopped on

a train for th e 90-minute trip to London to see Win ston C hurchill 's Cabinet War Rooms and visit th e Houses of

Parliam ent. T hose studying "M yth s and

Legends of th e Briti sh Isles" tour Ca dbury C astl e and Glas tonbury. A walk on

th e sea mi e r side of Lond on is a mu st for

th e "Ghosts a nd Go th s" class, and "Bl ac k

Atl anti c Hi story" stude nts travel to Bri stol's

History of Sl ave ry Museum . And, of course,

Jane Austen fa ns drop in at the famil y h om e,

C ha wton , in Hampshire.

Soaking in the city

An important goal of th e AS E program is to integrate stud ents

into th e Briti sh c ulture, according to AS E D ean and Director

Barbara White. "Our aim is to help our stud ents interact with

a ran ge of Briti sh peopl e in th e n e ighborhoods wh e re th ey

li ve and shop."

"Th e program does an excell ent job of providing opportuniti es to get out and m ee t people," says Drakatos. "We know

peopl e from the Uni versity of Bath who take us to pubs and

rugby ga m es. Although th e city seem s ve ry old and proper, it

has a yo un g feel because th ere are so m any students here."

Rath er than li ving in dorm s, stud ents m ake th emselves a t hom e in six of Bath 's bea utiful and hi stori c

18th-century townhouses, two of whi c h

F&M owns . Caplan appreciates th e romantic hi story of Linley

H ouse, th e h om e of Eli za beth Linley, who eloped with the

playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and whe re Lo rd Horatio Nelson 's lover, Lady E mma H amilton , once resided.

"Living on our own was a forn~ative experi ence," says Preston. "It took us three weeks to figure out that th e square plastic

and metal box sitting in the corner was our clothes dryer. We

set the stove on fir e and found the local fir e department to be

quite kind. The eight of us spent m any nights crammed in

a room with one cou ch watching the British television that

never ceased to make us laugh."

To give the students an insider's view of Bath , ASE provides

an array of internships, for which they recei ve credit. T hey can

choose among working at the Bath Preservation Trust, Theatre

Royal Bath , the Black Swan Arts Centre, Footprint Books Publishing, and, naturall y, th e Jane Austen Centre, among others.

"The most rewarding pa rt of the se m este r," says Pres ton ,

"was my internship with the m emb er of Parliam ent who represents the City of Bath. Earli er I had been a summe r intern

in Washington, o .c ., with F&M alum Kenneth Mehlman '88,

the n-chairma n of th e Republi can Na tional Committee. In

Bath , I worked for a ranking m embe r of th e Liberal Democrat

Pa rty. I was n ot onl y exposed to politi cal parties at opposite

ends of th e spectrum , I was able to compare th e politi cs of two

different nations. Th ese experi e nces inspired me to pursue a

career in publi c policy as it relates to education."

"Adva nced Studi es in E ngland ," says Preston, "taught m e

that special experiences often require pushing oneself to conside r new options and id eas. It's in those experi ences that a

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BATH AND BEYOND

The hot springs of Bath (pictured above) are what

first drew the Romans to set up shop there. Today

the springs and the ruins of the Roman baths attract visitors by the thousands, making tourism

Bath's number one industry. Set in beautiful rolling hills about 100 miles west of London on the

River Avon, Bath occupies a top spot on every

guidebook's must-see list of places in England .

Today there's much more to Bath than the Roman

baths: its varied sights and sounds help this compact city live up to its vibrant reputation.

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Restaurants and pubs number more than 300

and have food and drink to satisfy any palate.

Looking for a spot of tea? Head to the famed

Pump Room for its traditional tea, featuring

a glass of warm spa water from the fountain

and the music of the Pump Room Trio .

Bath is known as England's festival city. Vis itors from around the world flock to the Bath

International Music Festival and the Fringe

Festival. The city hosts an amazing array of

festivals, including ones on literature, hot air

balloons, kites, guitars, film, beer, and Shakespeare.

Literary aficionados will find a slice of heaven at the Jane Austen Centre, which honors

Bath's most famous resident. Austen set two

of her novels in Bath-Northanger Abbey and

Persuasion. The costumed guides lend an authentic period atmosphere.

And the compact nature of Bath makes it an easily

walkable city, enabling visitors to take in its 5,000

preserved Georgian buildings, historic baths and

ruins, and landmarks at a leisurely pace.

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ERE WE ARE AGAIN

in the thick of another presidential campaign season, faced with a fresh

set of reminders about just how divided we in the electorate are. It won't be long before the

ubiquitous red-and-blue maps resurface. The Washington punditocracy, spilling barrels of ink, will

file reports from roadside diners in Middle America about how the country is still trying to pull

itself together from the last divisive election. 4J There's a lot of time between now and November

2008,

so let's pause to ask ourselves a few questions. Namely, are we really that different? Was Dave

Barry, the nation's humorist laureate, right when he joked weeks after the

2004

election that reel

states are "where 'foreign cuisine' pretty much means Pizza Hut," and blue states are those in

which people "believe they are smarter than the red states, despite the fact that it takes the average blue-state resident 15 minutes to order a single cup of coffee?"

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as it is funny, how did we end up this way? And more important, why should we care? For those

answers, we turned to some Franklin & Marshall political scientists and alumni Beltway insiders.

Here's the bottom line: For all the hand wringing about our polarized nation, there's surprisingly

little to worry about, most believe. Of course, there are dissenters who say Washington is fiddling

while Rome burns.

Divided we stand

It's not your imagination. The las t two presidential elec tions

reaffirmed that we in the electorate see our politi cians through

ve ry different pri sms. Whil e the largest segm ent of voters is

made up of moderates and while there is evidence that Americans have grown closer together ideologically in recent yea rs,

the races for th e White House in 2000 and 2004 were extraordinaril y divi sive.

For proof of that, just look at who voted and wh y. Wh en it

came to three of the most important iss ues among voters in

2004-the war in Iraq, terrorism , and moral valu es - vo ters

were clearly torn . Those who said Iraq was th eir biggest conce rn sided with Kerry, 73 pe rcent to 26 perce nt. Voters who

were most concerned about national sec uri ty ove rwhelmingly

picked Bush , 86 percent to 14 pe rcent. And th ose who voted

on the basis of moral valu es? It was Bush in a landslide, So

pe rcent to 18 percent.

"How can these differences not lead to a certain polari zation

in the electorate? Voters are polarized in how they view th e

econom y, how they view Bush , how they view Iraq, and there

isn 't any doubt about it. These are pretty profound differences,"

says G. Terry M adonn a, the direc tor ofF&M 's C enter for Politics and Public Affairs. "Sure, we've always had strong feelings

about candidates . I can rem ember how people hated Kennedy

in the '6os when I was a kid. Voters see things through ve ry

different prisms. But I have been impressed with th e degree of

difference be tween D emocrats and Republi cans now."

What makes the nation seem even more polari zed, however,

is that the last two presid ential elec tions were won by razo rthin margins. "We are a deeply divided - and equally divided-country," says Ken Duberstein '65, who served as President

Ronald Reagan 's chi ef of staff in 1988 and 1989 . "I think the

country is as polarized as I've ever seen it. I think Iraq has a lot

to do with it. I think we are still fundamentally a 50-50 country.

But that does not m ean that this is a blue state and that is a red

state. That m eans people are virtually equally divided."

It is diffic ult to argue that there is not at least a significant

partisan ga p, a nd to a lesse r extent an ideological on e. But

the di visive nature of Ameri can politics is n owh ere n ear as

evident ot1tside th e Beltway as it is in th e na ti on 's capital, say

b oth Duberstein and Ken Mehlma n '88, the fo rm er chairman

of th e Republican Na tional C ommittee who led President

Bush's 2004 re-election campaign.

M ehlman believes Washington is a lot more polari zed than

the rest of the country, m ostly because politi cs occupies a much

grea ter percentage of th e lives of peopl e in Washington.

"H oward D ea n said , 'I ha te Re publica n s and everything

th ey stand for.' For most D emoc rats outsid e of Washington,

a Republican is not somebody you hate," says M ehlman. "It's

som ebody whose children your kid plays soccer with .

"In politics, if yo u view someone as a Republican first and

a golfer second, if what someone's political party is is th e most

important thing about that person, th en you're more likely to

hold a polari zing view. And in Washington , a lot of people, the

first thing they ask is, 'What party are you ?' In m ost of America,

it's, 'Where are you from ? Wh ere do your kids go to school ,"'

M ehlman says .

"Second , I think part of wh y pola rization exists- and this is

counte rintuiti ve- is that our political parti es have been su ccessful in accomplishing a lot of things th ey wa nted to accompli sh ," M ehlma n says.

"A generation ago, m any on the left sa id , 'We want to pass

the Ci vil Rights Act, we want the New D eal, we wa nt to cl ean

up th e environm ent.' A generation ago, Republica ns said, 'we

wan t to free th e people behind th e Iron C urtain . We want to

en cl th e Cold War. \11/e wa nt to reduce crim e, and reduce th e

strangleh old of confiscatory taxes on th e econom y,'" Mehlm an says.

"Both political parti es ha ve acco mpli shed those things, and

n ow they fi ght about things that are less central to our politi cs,"

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parties jockey to shape the boundaries in a fashion that favors

their officeholders. "And when yo u get safe seats, wh en the

districts are overwhelmingly of one party, you get polarization .

Several other factors have contributed to the deep divisions

among members of Congress in the last four decades, says Ste0::

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and still won the nomination, thanks

to a process heavily influenced by party bosses.

Elected officials don't represent the wh ole nation . They rep"Instead of party leadership picking, the candidates now

resent their own district," Medvic says.

have to speak to primary voters," M edvic sa id. "And primary

But hasn 't politics always been a nasty business? We're not

voters are much more ideological in both parties. So primary

setting any new records for abrasiveness here in 2007, are we?

voters are picking candidates who are more polarized than the

The answer depends on whom you ask. Stanley M. Brand,

party bosses may have picked."

Esq., '70 arri ved in Washington in 1971. "I don't know how

At the same time, a signifi ca nt realignm ent to both mamuch more polarized we could be than wh en I got h ere, with

jor parties h as been underway. "Th e big m ove ment is the

the wa r in Vietnam and the fights th at Congress had with

south ern D emocrats leaving

N ixo n. Those are easily as rathe party and going to th e

bid and strident as anything

Re publi cans, m ak in g Rewe see now," says Brand, who

The wide gap between voters on major issues

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se rved from 1976 to 1983 as

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whom

they voted for in the 2004 presidential race.

and Democrats m ore liberal.

general co un sel to the U.S.

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The war in Iraq

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two gro ups, Democrats and

vided , then th e peopl e who

Republicans," Medvic says .

ele cte d them mu st b e too.

"So m e of thi s movement is

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taking place am ong the electorate as well."

refl ect th e people," Brand says. "But what has happened is

The m edia has undergone dramatic ch anges as well.

the following: T here are two camps, the Democratic base and

Consumers now ch oose from a much broader menu of news

the Republi can base. To som e extent, those ha ve shrunken

sources. T hanks to the Interne t, they tend to pi ck the ones

but have gotten more mobilized. I wo uldn 't say the country is

th at reaffirm their own politi cal beliefs, Medvic says . In other

that polarized. The activists in each party are polari zed. The

words, liberals might opt for Josh ua Micah Marshall 's Talking

bases are more polarized. But th ere are still enough people

Points Memo or Daily Kos before clicking on Andrew Sullivan

in the middl e. No election gets won anymore without some

or Matt Drudge . "Fewer and fewer people are using media

portion of th e independent middle getting wooed to one side

sources that attem pt to be fair," Medvic says.

or the other."

Brand makes th e argument that Am eri ca

seem s so divided not because there's such a

wide dispa ri ty in public opinion, but because

How can these differences not lead to a certain polarization in the

there's such a n arrow one. "One party doesn't

electorate? Voters are polarized in how they view the economy,

have an overwhelming advantage," Brand says .

in how they view Bush, and there isn't any doubt about it. These

"In the '70s and 'Sos, there was a 50-, 60-seat

are pretty profound differences. -G. Terry Madonna

majority in Congress. Now the numerical differen ce is so small. It's so close . If one party

or anoth er even had a 10-vote majority, things

wouldn't seem so polarized."

An d here's a bit of bad news: Our deeply divided Congress

isn't likely to undergo dramatic changes anytime soon, thanks

Partisan politics vs. pressing problems

to the highl y political process of redistri cting, the decennial

If yo u read th e letters to th e editor in your local paper, yo u

redrawing of House districts based on new census data. Both

will find a writer complaining that the country's serious issues

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are being ignored whil e Congress engages in partisan bickerh ave always been polarized. But we have reached a consensus

on the big issues of th e clay.

ing. It's a valid con cern. But is that really happening? Or is it

"This is what's good about our country, what is the clea nsjust Was hington 's clum sy way of wo rking th ro ugh the nation's

ing nature of the politi cal system. Our country's about peopl e

probl ems?

learning from each other, arguing, ultimately corning together

T hat's where you'll find a difference of opini on .

b ehind an issue, and th e n agreeing an d m oving on ," M ehl"When things get a little h ea ted, tha t's not reall y a bad sign

for democracy," says Meclvic. "Th e probl em is it might just be

m an says.

"I do be]ieve th e highly pe rson al attacks are n ot h ealth y.

political posturing. It might be one side trying to take clown

But if you look at the last 50 yea rs - not fr om 15,000 feet but

the other side just for the sake of it.

"Th e problem ," he says, "is tha t as that

b ecom es more and more a part of wha t

moti vates policymakers, it squeezes out the

I think part of why polarization exists-and this is counterintuitive-is

ability to solve an y problems. Was hington

that our political parties have been successful in accomplishing a lot

doesn 't grind to a halt, but it's ope rating

of things they wanted to accomplish .... and now they fight about

on a treadmill. What's being clone about a

things

that are less central to our politics. -Ken Mehlman

number of pressing problems? Social Security? H ealth care? Energy poli cy? What are

th ey doing about those problems?

"The effect is twofold: one, th ey're spend30,000 feet-the Ameri can politi cal system has wo rked pretty

ing a lot of time sniping at one another, and th ey don't have

darn well ," M ehlman says . "A gen eration ago, if you had said

the time to devote to these other issues," M eclvi c says . "And

th ere wo uld be no Soviet U nion , welfare reform , that you 'd

two, they lose th e ability to reach a bipartisan compromi se on

have civil rights, important protections for th e environment,

some of these things."

that old folks have h ealth ca re, people would have said , 'No

Duberstein worri es about that as well , saying that Washway.' But all of those things have h appen ed, and we're better

ington has almost forgotten how to gove rn in what he believes

off for it."

is the most highl y polari zed point in modern histo ry. "I think

Brand also thinks health y, spirited, national debates such

that if yo u're pointing to the Vietnam War, if you're pointing to

as the ones we're having now ove r Iraq , energy policy, national

Watergate, to Iran-Contra, if you're pointing to Monica Lewinsecuri ty, and immigration are ben eficial , a sign of a thriving desky, I think things are much more ingrain ed now- ingrained

m ocracy. "We're in a struggle ove r some important issues, and I

in the sense that they've been fighting so long they've forgotten

don't think it's necessaril y bad that th ere's division," he says .

how not to fight," h e says . "I think th ere is signifi cant polar"We had draft riots in N ew York Ci ty in 1865. Diel people

ization be tween th e White House and C ongress in no small

say we were hopelessly divided?" Brand asks. "The history of

measure because of both sides .

this country is that we play this stuff out in the political arena,

"The result is gridlock and alienation of the Am eri can peom ostl y where it's a lot healthier to play it out than how other

pl e toward our gove rnment in Was hington ," says Duberstein .

countries play it out."

Dub e rstein b elieves that in

th e m ea ntim e lawmake rs should

The problem is that as [polarization] becomes more and more a part of

make m ore of an effort to be civwhat motives policymakers, it squeezes out the ability to solve any

il. "The solution is to find a way

for th e leaders of gove rnm e nt to

problems. Washington doesn't grind to a halt, but it's

work

together to get some of th e

operating on a treadmill. -Stephen Medvic

people's age nda through , wh eth er

tha t is No Child Left Behind , or

a comprehensive immigration reform bill , or getting our spending under some control ," he says .

"People are increasingly just turning off their TV sets whenever

"Th ese are th e things that affect peopl e's everyday lives, and

one of the politi cians shows up on th e sc reen. This is not a

th ey expect th e peopl e in Washington to be grown up about it.

h ealthy trend ."

It's

time for th em to bell y up to th e bar and be grown-ups."

M ehlman , on th e oth er hand, doesn 't think Washington

T he qu estion is: Will that h appen in our life time? Says

has reached nearl y that level of dysfun cti on. He says th e re is

cooperation betwee n Republica ns and D emocrats on m any

big issues . "We all wa nt th e sam e thing, and that's more sec urity, a better economy, better h ealth care," he says . "We just

h ave gentl emanl y and gentlewom anl y debates . Our politi cs

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More than four-and-a-half years ago, when John Fry

became president of Franklin & Marshall College, there

were a number of goals he wanted to pursue. One was to

see the campus officially designated as an arboretum, to

preserve and enhance the College's natural landscape for

the benefit of current and future generations.

On February 24, that aim was realiz ed wh en F&M

named its campus the Caroline Steinman Nunan Arboretum at Franklin & Marshall College. Mrs. Nunan, a local philanthropist and conservationist, was presented

with the citation at a board of trustees meeting at the

Steinman College Center. Fry said the decision to dedicate the arboretum after Nunan, an emerita trustee of

F&M , was easy. "It took about five seconds," he said,

"and Carrie's name popped into my head."

AN EXEMPLAR

When he assumed the presidency of the College in July

2002, Fry said he was struck by the beauty of the campus. He also knew many people already referred to it as

an arboretum, even though it was never designated as

such. Making it a formal arboretum, with all that entails,

seemed a logical step, he said.

In preparation for that, David Schuyler, the Arthur

and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and

American studies, worked with then-student Jane A. Bee

'06 to produce a photographic history of F&M that was

published in 2004.

And this past summer, Schuyler and another student,

Hackman scholar Lydia Wood '08, researched and wrote

a paper titled, "History of the Franklin & Marshall College

Landscape."

"For more than a century, F&M has thought of its campus as an arboretum in the generic sense," Schuyler said .

He and Wood discovered at least one tree at the College that dates from 1857, when the campus was in its

infancy. It's a silver linden, Schuyler said, and is found

near Keiper Hall.

Fry said it makes sense to move forward on the arboretum project because the College's master plan is being

updated and because public concern over the environment is growing. In the past few years, the campus has

expanded more than 40 acres with the acquisition of a

former scrapyard along Harrisburg Avenue and land at

the Armstrong site off Liberty Street, as well as the leasing of some property on Harrisburg Avenue.

Maintaining the arboretum will be part of the master

plan, which should be finished later this year.

"It's a propitious time to be doing this," Fry said. There

will be a "formal process for tagging trees, and bringing

in more specimens" the College doesn 't have, he said .

And the campus will be freed of landscape "clutter,"

Fry said, meaning overgrown trees will be pruned and

unnecessary bushes removed . Those improvements also

will help public safety by improving visibility.

And "if we're going to have a first-rate arboretum,"

Fry said, it must be named after someone "who has a

connection to the natural environment." Nunan not only

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F&M awarded her an honorary doctor of

humane letters degree in 2003, but the arboretum designation is more special, Fry said.

"I can't think of a better thing to do than to

do this," he said.

The citation begins, "Caroline Steinman

Nunan has an extraordinary record of civic

contributions to the Lancaster area and has

had tremendous influence in shaping the

modern environmental, cultural, and educational nature of the community in which

her family has played such a major role for

generations."

Nunan is a life member of the Lancaster

County Conservancy and was given the conservancy's Partnership Award in 1999. "Her

outstanding support of the conservancy and

the Lancaster Farmland Trust has helped

preserve the unique character and beauty

of Lancaster County," the citation continues.

The document also praises Nunan for overseeing "the development of the gardens of

her childhood home, Conestoga House, into

a magnificent showcase of annual, perennial

and tropical flowering plants."

At Franklin & Marshall, she is an emerita

member of the board of trustees and a member of the board of visitors. The Steinman

Greenhouse in the new Ann & Richard

Barshinger Life Sciences & Philosophy Building, to open later this year, and the Steinman

College Center are symbols of her family's

long tradition of supporting F&M.

"This woman is incredibly self-effacing,"

Fry said. "It's one of her great characteristics.

We're embarrassing her a little bit."

FOLLOWING IN FOOTSTEPS

Nunan called the naming of the arboretum

"a great honor. I'm thrilled with all the wonderful things that are going on at the College."

On February 24, Mrs. Nunan was presented with a framed copy of the citation . "She's

delighted" about the arboretum designation,

Fry said afterward.

"I think it's a great idea," said Dale Frey,

chairman of the board of trustees, who was

briefly interviewed following the meeting. "It

just couldn't happen to a more wonderful and

appropriate person," who's given so much to

the College and the community, he said.

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Fry said his benchmark for the project is the

78-year-old Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore

College, which he became familiar with

while an administrator at the University of

Pennsylvania. Fry said he's also inspired by

the Morris Arboretum of the University of

Pennsylvania, which is a 92-acre, Victorian

landscape garden in Chestnut Hill, Pa.

Paul Meyer, director of the Morris Arboretum, visited the college in 2005 and wrote

back to Fry: "We were very impressed with

the beauty of your campus and the breadth

and quality of your collection of trees. Your

plans to designate the entire campus as an arboretum are most exciting and appropriate."

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Till now, he said, Ted Schmid, grounds and

SWAT team manager, and Carroll Shearer,

supervisory lab technician in biology, have

"been informally carrying the load" of identifying and caring for the trees and other species on campus. "This allows us to take their

work to another level," Fry said .

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He env1s1ons walking tours and educational programs, for example. "Why

shouldn't the outdoor environment be part

of the learning experience?" Fry said. Now

that the arboretum's been formalized, he

said, "any time you touch something" on

campus, its effect on the landscape has to be

considered . "It imposes a discipline."

"I'm very excited about this," Fry said.

"It's part of the F&M legacy." ~

This article appeared in the February 25

edition of the Lancaster Sunday News. It is

reprinted with permission.

PHOTOS: counterclockwise from top left:

John Fry, Caroline Steinman Nunan, and

Dale Frey at the Arboretum dedication;

a flowering cherry (Prunus sp.) near the

Barshinger Center; the emerging leaves of

the sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum) in

front of Keiper Liberal Arts; the campus in

spring bloom; students relax under a red

oak (Quercus rubra) .

Go to magazine.fandm.edu/arboretum

to find out more about F&M's trees.

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Bloom berg's openness and his focus on teamwork (no one

at Bloomberg LP had a title) are a perfect match for Harris .

"It's exciting to be able to get people to work together and

feel pride in what you're doing. It's not about labels or titles;

it's about the work," she explains.

"It's a great job. My favorite part is that we have an independent mayor with an aggressive, innovative agenda," she

says. "Having a chance to work with someone like that and

help him advance his agenda is the best part. We want to

make New York City a better place." In the corporate world,

Bloomberg focused on his customers, and Harris says he has

that same customer-friendly approach with the city's 8.1 million residents.

Ensuring that the mayor achieves his initiatives requires

a certain toughness and tact . Perhaps that's why Harris has

been dubbed the "velvet hammer" by her colleagues.

She laughs about the nickname and says: "Sometimes

you have to be tough and direct. In government many times

people are reacting to whatever the issue of the day is, and

part of my job is making sure the mayor's big-picture goals

move forward."

That toughness has helped Harris meet the many challenges the administration has faced. They came into office

in January 2002, shortly after the 9/11 tragedy. "We had the

first six-month ceremony right when we got here," she says.

Harris oversaw the planning of the first commemoration and

all the subsequent ones when the eyes of the world were on

New York. She also sat on the committee to select the 9/11

memorial.

One of the many sides of Patti Harris is her love of the arts

(she took 10 art history courses at F&M). She talks excitedly

about bringing Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates to Central Park, a project to restore 108 paintings in City Hall, and an

exhibition of Calder sculptures on view in City Hall Park.

In addition to a busy work life, Harris and her husband

have a son (a 12th grader) and a daughter (a 10th grader) .

She also has an older stepson. An active and involved mom,

she attends her kids' activities, gets them involved in her work,

and takes family vacations (she is an avid scuba diver) .

When asked if being a woman has even been a hindrance

in the workplace, her answer is a resounding no. "I've never

thought, 'Hey, if I were one of the guys, I could have done this

or achieved that. I've just figured out how to get it done."'

MARY SCHAPIRO '77

chairman and CEO of NASD

Having spent her entire career in

financial and securities regulation,

Mary Schapiro often finds herself

facing an audience of mostly men .

She hasn't let that slow her rise to

the top of her field.

"I don't feel that it's been that

much of struggle being a woman," she says. "Clearly there are

moments when you are standing

up in front of an audience of 500

people and 493 of them are men

and it'd be wonderful to see a few more female faces. But

I've never felt I've had less responsibility or authority than I

wanted because I am a woman ."

Schapiro has been in the regulatory environment since

earning her law degree from George Washington University

in 1980. An anthropology major at F&M, she chose this field

because of two brothers-Nelson Bunker Hunt and William

Herbert Hunt-who tried to corner the silver market in 1980.

"Here were two people who thought they were powerful

enough to corner the world market in a commodity that is

really important industrially," she says. "There was a little

federal agency that was responsible for investigating what

the Hunt brothers were doing and prosecuting them. I became enthralled with the idea that two people thought they

were bigger than the marketplace and would disadvantage

millions of people around the world to enrich themselves." A

passion was born.

During her career, she has been chairman of the federal

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In

1996, she was hired as president of NASD Regulation at NASD.

NASD is the world's largest private sector securities regulator

and the primary regulator of 5,200 U.S. securities brokerage

firms and the nearly 700,000 registered brokers who do business with the public.

In 2002, she was named vice chairman, and she became

chairman and CEO on Sept. 1, 2006. This year, she also helped

orchestrate a plan to consolidate the regulatory operations

of NASD and NYSE into a new self-regulatory organization,

the world's largest.

That sense of fairness that first piqued her interest in 1980

still runs deep. One of Schapiro's biggest objectives is educating underserved populations about smart investing and

protecting senior citizens from financial scams through the

NASD and its foundation.

Seniors should be pleased they have Schapiro on their side.

Never one to back down, this field hockey and lacrosse standout at F&M has been described as tough, direct, and steadfast.

These traits have paid off time and again .

Perhaps the story that best illustrates how she stares down

challenges occurred in 1994 when she was chairman of the

CFTC. When the CFTC rejected a proposal that the Chicago

Board of Trade brought before it, the board's president was

especial ly unhappy that the new, female chairman shot down

his plan. He announced that he

wouldn't be "intimidated by any

blond, 5-foot-2-inch girl." When

his comment hit the news, a reporter called Schapiro looking

for a reaction . Her response?

"He is absolutely wrong," she

said. "I'm 5-foot-5 ."

While there have been similar challenges, she believes being

a woman can be an advantage.

"When you stand up and give a

speech, your voice is different

and your tone is different," she

explains. " Sometimes you get the benefit of people's curiosity

about what you ' re going to say."

Schapiro is also a big believer in strong relationships .

"Build relationships everywhere you go along the way, because you never know when someone is going to reappear in

your life and become important to you for totally unrelated

reasons," she says.

Schapiro and her husband have two young daughters

("both going to F&M, though they don 't know it yet") . And

while she is surely a role model to other women trying to get

ahead in the business world, she doesn't think it has sunk in

with her daughters quite yet. "I think they're proud of me,

but right now I'm just mom to them ."

Her best advice to anyone in the workforce-and not just

women-is to prepare relentlessly, believe in your abilities,

and act accordingly. "You have to go in with the assumption

that you are going to be treated on your merits," she says.

" You're going to be judged on how you handle situations

rather than being judged by what you look like."

NANCY FLOYD '76

co-founder and managing director of Nth Power

"I was a shy, quiet person," says Nancy Floyd with a chuckle.

That's a tough concept to believe for anyone who has done

business with this high-energy entrepreneur.

Floyd credits her time at Franklin & Marshall, where she

majored in government, as a key turning point in her development and as the spark that unleashed her entrepreneurial

side. The College had just become co-ed, so she had a plethora of opportunities to start new programs, such as the first

women's varsity tennis and squash teams. "Anything I wanted

to do, the administration supported me," she says. "I didn't

realize at the time, but I was being entrepreneurial."

That was just the beginning. After earning a master's degree from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, she worked for the chairman of the Vermont Public

Utilities Commission-the first woman ever hired by the commission. There she addressed energy and telecommunications

issues, served as the commission's chief legislative liaison, and

founded one of the first non-profit companies in the U.S. to

fund home energy audits.

From there it was on to Philadelphia, where she was recruited to help start the American Refining Group. "The CEO

viewed himself as a visionary and wanted to start a subsidiary

that was going to invest in renewable energy companies like

solar and wind," she says.

She then took her entrepreneurial talents to San Francisco, where she founded NFC Energy Corporation, one of

the country's first wind development firms . She developed

more than $30 million in projects and sold the company. Next

she tried her hand in telecommunications and helped found

PacTel Spectrum Services, which was later sold to IBM.

Making a name for herself in both the energy and telecommunications fields was challenging . "There were definitely points along the way where I had to push myself to do

things that I wasn't comfortable doing," she says. "Partly because I was the only woman and partly because I was pushing

myself to do things

I didn't have in my

skill set."

Her way to earn

people's respect was

to over-prepare and

work hard. "I always

wanted to feel like I

was more prepared

than anyone else in

the room," she says.

In 1993 she

founded her "most

successful venture."

Nth Power, based

in San Francisco,

was the first venture capital firm to

specialize in new

energy technologies . "I realized

that if there is one

industry that really

needed innovation,"

she says, "it was the

energy industry."

The early going was difficult. " It took me three-and-a-half

years to raise our first fund," she says. "I visited 197 investors

around the world and only nine of them bought. I counted."

Soon after founding the business, Floyd and her husband

decided to move to Oregon to raise their two young sons .

With the business now flourishing, she takes full advantage

of being able to work out of her sophisticated home office .

And Nth Power is indeed flourishing . "Today we have $400

million under management. Being one of the early investors,

we are considered the leading brand of funds that are investing in this sector. When we started hardly anyone was investing in energy. Now 10 percent of all venture capital goes into

the sector," reports Floyd .

Being on that cutting edge is a spot that now feels like

home to Floyd . "It takes a certain personality to be a founder

or a first in something . It takes a sort of bravado and confidence. The challenge was developing the confidence to be

comfortable in that role."

Along the way she has also developed her own way of

managing and leading . "I think that I have a distinct style . I

am very direct. I am extreme ly energetic, " she says. "I believe

the business I am in today is all about relationships, and I

think women tend to be a bit more relational than men."

Still, she doesn't rely on her experience. She still feels the

need to "work harder and prepare more than most people .

That's inbred in me. It's the only way to really get ahead ."

Moving ahead is what Floyd is all about. And if she ruffles

a few feathers along the way, all the better. "We have all

achieved," she says in reference to Harris, Schapiro, and herself, "and you're not going to achieve anything by being a

wallflower." Or a shrinking violet . And there aren't any of

either of those in this accomplished bunch . ~

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Dea r Fri ends,

With all th e amazing phys ical changes on ca mpus, it's easy

to ove rlook a comparabl e transformati on underway in th e

conn ec tion s among our alumni , ac ross th e country and

ac ross th e globe.

Franklin & Ma rshall alumni enj oy spending time together. As a result, our regional chapter program is thriving,

with new chapters taking root in citi es from coast to coast.

This year we welcomed more al umni to regional events than

ever before clue to th e hard wo rk of volunteers who plann ed

a broad range of fun and interesti ng programs, many fea turing presentations by President Fry. Keep coming out to these

region al events and bring yo ur fri ends! For more chapte r

information , go to page 33.

F&M alumni like to stay in touch with one another. To

make this easier, th e Coll ege has contrac ted with PCI to

publish a print alumni directory by early next year - our fi rst

in more than 10 yea rs. The same company will provid e a

new, comprehensive onlin e community that will make it

simpler fo r all of us to stay connected. PCI will contact every

alumnus, starting thi s spring, to ga ther contact informati on

fo r th e directory.

Our graduates al so love an opportunity to reminisce an d

reconn ect with class mates, maki ng Reunion Weekend a focal point of our programming. Our second spring reunion in

recent history is fa st approac hi ng. T his year, classes endi ng

in 2 or 7 are celebrating their reunions.

New ideas for alu mni programming are emerging every day. We are wo rking closely with the Alumni Engagement Task Force of th e Board of Trustees to identi fy ways

to stre ngth en th e alumni experi ence. T he task force will

presen t their fin al report in May, and I look forwa rd to sharing th eir ideas with you and eliciting your thoughts on how

F &M can be an enduring and cheri shed component of yo ur

li fe .

With wa rm rega rds,

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Herman Slotoroff reports that his 14th

Annual By Pass Open Tennis Tournament

was held in May in Armonk, N.Y. Players in this

round-robin event enlist family and friends to

sponsor them by making contributions to the

American Heart Association. The purpose of

the tournament is to encourage exercise and

demonstrate that heart disease and heart surgery patients can live active leads and promote

awareness of a healthy diet.

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Harold Miller represented the College

at the inauguration of Northeastern

University's new president on March 26.

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Andrew Rouse represented F&M at the

inauguration ofTemple University's new

president on March 22 .

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Michael Hillegass spoke at the Cliosophic Society in Lancaster on Feb. 2. His

topic was "Holland's Hexagram," which is a

six-sided geometric figure that allows for the

graphic depiction of six basic personality types

relating to working behavior. He and his wife,

Mary, have returned to the Lancaster area.

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Burt Kaufman recently announced his

retirement. He began his career as a

teacher in Baltimore and became one of the

nation's leading mathematics curriculum developers, directing national research projects

targeting America's most talented young mathematicians. He moved to South Florida, first

in 1963 to design the mathematics courses

at the experimental Nova schools in Broward

County, and again in 1981 when he established

the county's Mathematics Education for Gifted

Secondary School Students Program. In 1993 he

created the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, a teaching and research institute

based in Plantation, Fla., which teaches more

than a thousand mathematically talented students in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade.

It also has centers in Connecticut, Philadelphia,

Raleigh, and St. Louis.

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From Boynton Beach, Fla ., Nathan Dorman, M.D., writes that he retired from

the practice of dermatology in New Jersey after

42 years. He and his wife, Blanche, have two

children and four grandchildren." • Morton

Feldman, M.D., writes : " I retired from surgical

practice three years ago. I recently returned from

Yangzhou, China, where I taught for six months

at the medical school and Peoples Hospital #1

as a visiting professor. Also, I am attempting to

establish a camp in Gaoyou, China, for children

with cancer."

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Roy Scheider received a Lifetime

Achievement Award at the 2007 Sun

Deis Film Festival at Brandeis University in

March.

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Art Magi Iner, M.D., writes in to report

that he is a semi-retired radiologist, not

a cardiologist, as was incorrectly reported in

the Winter issue.

' 6 3 The Rev. William H. Gray Ill retired

from Bright Hope Baptist Church in

Philadelphia on Feb. 1. It is the first time in

more than 80 years that a member of the Gray

family has not steered the 97-year-old church,

which has 2,500 members. Bill's father, William

H. Gray, Jr., and his grandfather, William H. Gray,

Sr., preceded him in the pulpit.

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From Essex, Conn ., Henry "Toby"

Dunn reports that he retired in 2006.

As a board member of the Lyme Academy of

Art, he is actively involved in development,

scholarship, and preservation . He and his wife,

Marcy, are restoring a 1797 Loyalist cottage in

Harbour Island, Bahamas. He is also pursuing

his oil painting career and currently painting

two commi ssions for friends in Essex and New

York. • From Warner Robins, Ga., Frank Gadbois writes: "I retired in 2001 after a 30-year

career as a senior civil servant. Most of my

career was spent in the U.K. from where I visited every European nation." • Brent O'Brien

writes: "I have 'retired' after nearly 35 years in

the leisure travel and hospitality industry following six years as a USAF pilot. I fill my 'spare'

time as an independent consultant with the

Cruise Holidays office here in Williamsburg, Va.,

marketing cruises and tours around the world.

I live in this beautiful town of Williamsburg

with wife, Joan; son Greg (18); and daughter

Kendall (12). Grown daughter, Carrie, lives in

Dallas, Texas, with her husband, Eric, and my

two granddaughters, Larsen and Kennedy, ages

5 and 7." • The Rev. Olof Scott reports from

Charleston, W.Va .: " I celebrated 30 years as pastor at St. George Orthodox Church . In October,

Evans (left) and Dunmeyer reminisce at the dinner before Evans' lecture at

Franklin & Marshall.

Renewing a friendship

Caswell Evans Jr. , Ph.D., '65 deli ve red

th e Polcyn Lecture on Ma rc h 26. T he

associate cl ea n fo r preventi on and publi c hea lth sciences at the Uni ve rsity of

lllin o is College of D e ntistry, C hicago,

spoke about "Th e U. S. Health Ca re

Sys tem : An O xym o ron ?"

Wh e n as ked if th e re was an yone

spec ia l h e wan te d to in vite, Eva n s

li sted a few classma tes . H e also asked

abo ut H e rb e rt D u n meye r, direc tor

of stude n t a id wh en Eva ns atte nded.

T hat's beca use th eir relationship goes

furth er back than coll ege an d has continu ed to th is clay.

Wh en Eva ns was a yo u ng child at

an upstate New York ca mp , he had a

coun selo r named H e rb e rt D un meyer. Ma n y yea rs la te r as a p ros pec ti ve

F&M stude nt, Evans was on campus

whe n his mo th er saw the name H erb

Du nmeye r in th e Coll ege ca ta log.

F iguri ng it was th e same person , th ey

camped out by hi s offi ce and surprised

him when he return ed .

Durin g hi s years a t F&M, Eva ns

so m e tim es soug ht g u id a n ce fr o m

Dun meye r w h o l e ft th e Co ll ege

aro und 1963. O ve r th e yea rs, Eva ns'

m oth e r stayed in to u c h with Dunrn eyer, who ended up in California a t

th e sa m e tim e Eva ns was the re . "My

m orn m oved in with us," Eva ns says,

"and I som e tim es wrote letters to H erb

th at m y m o th e r d ictated to m e."

Whil e th ey have stayed in to uc h ,

th ey h ad n ' t see n each o th e r sin ce

th eir F&M clays. Evans asked th e College to invite Dunmeyer to th e dinn e r.

Dunm eye r, now 75 yea rs old, was so

honored to receive an invitati on th at

h e fl ew in fr om Sa n F ran cisco to a ttend. Th ey had quite the reuni on.

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"Is th ere a place fo r this? Very much

so," h e says. "It's grea t th at coll eges

like F&M are p rov iding this edu ca ti on

on th e fro nt encl so stude nts will confr ont th e phil osop hi cal, moral, soc ial,

an d e thi cal iss ues in scien ces ea rl y

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In February, Mellon Financial Corporation appointed Robert Penney as

president of its Private Wealth Management

group's new Connecticut region. He will head

the group's sales, portfolio management, and

private banking efforts throughout the state.

He has more than 25 years of experience in the

investment and wealth management field and

most recently was managing director and sales

manager for U.S. Trust in Connecticut.

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From West Hartford, Conn ., Syd Elkins P'00 reports:" In Nov. 2006, I was

re-elected as probate judge for the District of

West Hartford. I look forward to our upcoming Reunion." • Marty Laufer writes that he

and four of his ZBT brothers gathered to celebrate the wedding of Stephen Ginsberg, son

of Richard "Ginz" Ginsberg in August. Also

in attendance were Robert "Brownie" Brown,

Paul Rafter, and Andy "Ax" Axler '67. • Lew

Myers, director of business development 