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NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Celebrity Series will present a Valentine's Day themed concert featuring Jim Brickman at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, in Orr Auditorium. The concert is a part of what Brickman calls "The Love Tour."
Sparked by ¾¨Ó㴫ý Bookstore clerk Linda Butler, whose son is stationed in Mosul, the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Community collected enough items to send care packages to 54 soldiers stationed in Iraq.
 "My son knew about this, but many of the 32 soldiers that live in his quarters did not," Butler said. "Scott's unit is part of the Battery A First Battalion of the 107th Field Artillery, a military police unit."
 ¾¨Ó㴫ý junior elementary education majors donated money each week to purchase items for the friends and family members of the ¾¨Ó㴫ý community.
 "The faculty and staff in the Education Department decided to forgo gift exchanges within the department and donated money for the care packages," said Dr. Amy Camardese, assistant professor of education. "We decided to join forces with the bookstore and our students and collected about $350 to purchase items for the care packages."
 "Packages included items like toothpaste and brushes, and the small fruit cans they like so much," Butler said. "We had enough to send to all 32 soldiers in my son's unit, and a box to every soldier who had a connection with the College like Josh Shaffer, who has a girlfriend at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, and Terry Bolger, whose wife Dorita works here. We even sent a couple of boxes so that they could have Christmas and New Year's parties. It contained huge containers of things like salsa and chips."
 The packages also included either a Christmas card or a note written by a ¾¨Ó㴫ý Preschool student. One such child wrote, "I want to wish you luck. Please keep all the soldiers safe and come soon." While another wrote, "I love you because I like you. Thank you for everything and here is a hug."Â
"I talked to him Sunday. He was so excited," Butler said. "He said that the driver of his humvee received his box on Friday, and the guys laughed because he didn't get his yet. The guys live together in one big room, so the news traveled fast."
"I just want to thank everyone because this means so much to these boys," Butler said. "It's a connection to home. I'm so thrilled at the response from ¾¨Ó㴫ý staff and students. When there's need, everyone pulls together here.
"The unit is scheduled to return January 20, but the rumors are flying around about a later date," Butler said. "Some nights I sleep, but some not at all. I'd never sleep without my prayers and the prayers of others, though. I pray for their safe return."
For more information, contact Butler at (724) 946-7216.
David Griffith, author of "A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America," will read and discuss his work as part of the Bleasby Colloquium series Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"In the wake of Abu Ghraib, Americans have struggled to understand what happened in the notorious prison and why," said Dr. Suzanne Prestien, assistant professor of English and public relations at ¾¨Ó㴫ý. "In 'A Good War is Hard to Find' an elegant series of essays inflected with a radical Catholic philosophy, Griffith contends that society's shift from language to image has changed the way people think about violence and cruelty, resulting in a disconnect between images and reality."
Griffith, an award-winning author, teaches writing at the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, and is the chair of creative writing at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. He is a contributing writer for "Godspy" magazine and associate editor of "The Sign of Peace," the publication of the Catholic Peace Fellowship.
This colloquium is the second in a series of events scheduled for the George Bleasby Colloquia, a series of literary events in honor of Dr. Bleasby, who chaired the Department of English at ¾¨Ó㴫ý from 1954-75.
Contact Prestien at (724) 946-7029 or e-mail prestos@westminster.edu for more information.
Nineteen ¾¨Ó㴫ý students were recently inducted into Kappa Delta Pi, an international education honor society.
Kappa Delta Pi membership is restricted to the top 20 percent of those students seeking teacher certification. Eligibility includes that the student must be at least a second-semester sophomore who is in a program leading to teacher certification and has evidence of service to children and the profession.
Contact Dr. Linda Domanski, assistant professor of education and adviser to the group, at (724) 946-7182 or e-mail domanslp@westminster.edu for more information.
Dwight Copper, a technical assistant at the ¾¨Ó㴫ý McGill Library, recently had his historical researched published in the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly.
Dr. Mandy B. Medvin, associate professor of psychology at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, recently presented a paper, "Using Computers to Facilitate Social Problem Solving in Head Start Classroom," at Head Start's National Research Conference in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, professor of physics and astronomy and chair of the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University, will speak Thursday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips Lecture Hall of the Hoyt Science Resources Center.
Krauss will speak on "Einstein's Biggest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story."
Two ¾¨Ó㴫ý professors and six students recently attended the Society for Neuroscience Conference in Atlanta.
¾¨Ó㴫ý will welcome the class of 2011 with the traditional Opening Convocation Friday, Aug. 24, at 1:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
¾¨Ó㴫ý will host "The Science Scene," a workshop of hands-on chemistry and biology laboratory projects for middle school students, Saturday, April 5, from 2-5 p.m. in the Hoyt Science Resources Center.
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