Ursinus College
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Liberal arts colleges in the United States
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in Collegeville
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Collegeville is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia on the Perkiomen Creek. Collegeville was incorporated in 1896. It is the seat of Ursinus College, opened in 1869...
, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of 2010, the population was 799,874, making it the third most populous county in Pennsylvania . The county seat is Norristown.The county was created on September 10, 1784, out of land originally part...
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History
1867Members of the German Reformed Church
Reformed Church in the United States
The Reformed Church in the United States is a Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. The present RCUS is a conservative, Calvinist denomination. It affirms the principles of the Reformation: Sola scriptura , Solo Christo , Sola gratia , Sola fide , and Soli Deo gloria...
begin plans to establish a college where "young men could be liberally educated under the benign influence of Christianity." These founders were hoping to establish an alternative to the seminary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
Mercersburg is a borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, southwest of Harrisburg. Originally called Black Town, it was incorporated in 1831. In 1900, 956 people lived here, and in 1910, 1,410 people lived here...
, a school they believed was increasingly heretical to traditional Reformed faith.
1869
The college is granted a charter by the Legislature of Pennsylvania to begin operations in its current location on the grounds of Todd’s School (founded 1832) and the adjacent Freeland Seminary (founded 1848). Dr. John Henry Augustus Bomberger, for whom the campus' signature Romanesque building is named (see Gallery, below), served as the college’s first president until his death in 1890. Bomberger had proposed naming the college after Zacharias Ursinus
Zacharias Ursinus
Zacharias Ursinus was a sixteenth century German Reformed theologian, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau . He became the leading theologian of the Reformed Protestant movement of the Palatinate, serving both at the University of Heidelberg and the College of Wisdom...
, a 16th-century German theologian and an important figure in the Protestant Reformation
Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...
, in order to declare the Reformed orthodoxy of the College.
1870
Instruction begins at the college in September; on October 4, the Zwinglian Literary Society — which was to be resurrected in the early 1990s — was founded. For many years the annual opening meetings of "Zwing" and its rival society, Schaff, were the major events of the student year.
1881
Women first admitted, as a direct consequence of the closing of the Pennsylvania Female College in 1880, and a separate literary society for women, The Olevian, is formed.
1893
The first meeting of the college's alumni association is held at the Colonnade Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
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1897
The Ruby, Ursinus' yearbook is first published by the Class of 1897 as a tribute to Professor Samuel Vernon Ruby, who collapsed as he was entering Bomberger Hall in 1896 and died in its chapel, surrounded by students and teachers who had gathered there for morning prayers.
1921
The first aerial photograph of Ursinus is taken, by future college president D.L. Helfferich, and is published in the 1921 Ruby.
1995
The college appoints Dr. John Strassburger as its 12th president, the first president from outside the Ursinus alumni group. Dr. Strassburger was an American Historian, a graduate of Bates College, Oxford University, and Princeton University.
Today
Aakash Shah '10 of Harvard Medical School is named Ursinus' first Rhodes Scholar.
Dr. Bobby Fong, a graduate of Harvard and UCLA and current president of Butler University, is named the 13th president of Ursinus. Dr. Fong will begin his tenure on July 1, 2011.
For the third year in a row Ursinus is designated as a Top Ten Up and Coming College by US News and World Report. Ursinus is also included among only 40 colleges in Loren Pope's popular guidebook, Colleges That Change Lives.
Ursinus College is now independent in character with historical but no longer any operational ties to its church past, and currently operates on a growing $118,000,000 endowment.
Academics
Ursinus established its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1992. At the time, only 242 of the nation's 3,500 colleges and universities had gained acceptance into the elite group. The school is a member of the Watson Foundation List, Project PericlesProject Pericles
Project Pericles Inc. is a non-profit organization composed of liberal arts colleges and universities geared towards the ideas that social responsibility and participatory citizenship are essential parts of an undergraduate curriculum, in the classroom, on campus, and in the community.- Background...
, Project DEEP, and the Annapolis Group
Annapolis Group
The Annapolis Group is an American organization that describes itself as "a nonprofit alliance of the nation’s leading independent liberal arts colleges." It represents approximately 130 liberal arts colleges in the United States...
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While students choose from 28 majors and 49 minors, "Biology, Business & Economics, and English are the three majors with the largest numbers of students." Many graduates go on to attend law and medical schools, and 90 percent of those who do apply to these schools are accepted.
Current students
While the first students enrolled at Ursinus were almost exclusively Pennsylvanians, today the school's 1,780 students come from 25 states and 15 countries. Eight percent are African American, 3% are Latino/a, and 2% are international students. The school has a 12:1 student/faculty ratio.http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/schoolsays.asp?category=1&listing=1023818<ID=1&intbucketid=Campus and facilities
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
, and is also within three hours’ driving distance of New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. Notable facilities at Ursinus include the Phillip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, the Walter W. Marstellar Memorial Observatory, and the Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center, which opened in April 2005 with a performance by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...
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The college's Myrin Library has an extensive Pennsylvania German archive and is one of three government repositories in Montgomery County.
Athletics
In the immediate years following its founding, there were no organized athleticsCollege athletics
College athletics refers primarily to sports and athletic competition organized and funded by institutions of tertiary education . In the United States, college athletics is a two-tiered system. The first tier includes the sports that are sanctioned by one of the collegiate sport governing bodies...
at Ursinus College. Baseball matches held against neighboring towns, hiking along the Perkiomen Creek
Perkiomen Creek
Perkiomen Creek is a tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks, Lehigh and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania in the United States.Perkiomen Creek begins in Hereford Township, Berks County, initially flows eastward into Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, and turns southward to reenter...
and in nearby Valley Forge
Valley Forge
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 in the American Revolutionary War.-History:...
, and skating, bathing and boating in the Perkiomen were popular pastimes for students. Students first organized a tennis club in 1888, and intercollegiate baseball
College baseball
College baseball is baseball that is played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education. Compared to football and basketball, college competition in the United States plays a less significant contribution to cultivating professional players, as the minor leagues primarily...
began with play against Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....
, Haverford College
Haverford College
Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...
, and Muhlenberg College
Muhlenberg College
Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America.- History...
in 1890. The college's first football
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
team was also fielded in 1890.
College basketball
College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....
practice was built behind the field house in 1910.
The school is now a member of the Centennial Conference
Centennial Conference
The Centennial Conference is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are located in Maryland and Pennsylvania....
, founded in 1992 by eleven selective colleges in the mid-Atlantic region, including McDaniel
McDaniel College
McDaniel College is a private four-year liberal arts college in Westminster, Maryland, located 30 miles northwest of Baltimore. The college also has a satellite campus located in Budapest, Hungary. Until July 2002, it was known as Western Maryland College...
, Washington
Washington College
Washington College is a private, independent liberal arts college located on a campus in Chestertown, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore. Maryland granted Washington College its charter in 1782...
, Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh....
, Dickinson
Dickinson College
Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded in the newly...
, Haverford
Haverford College
Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...
, Franklin and Marshall, Gettysburg
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg College is a private four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. Its athletic teams are nicknamed the Bullets. Gettysburg College has about 2,700 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women...
, Muhlenberg
Muhlenberg College
Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America.- History...
, and Swarthmore
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....
. Ursinus' athletic teams regularly place regionally and nationally; Its field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
team was the 2006 National Champion for NCAA Division III. The team earned spots in the national championship game three times before, between 1975-77, as a Division I program, and the United States Field Hockey Hall of Fame
USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame
The USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame honors the achievements of athletes and/or coaches of USA field hockey teams. The permanent home of USA Field Hockey's hall of fame is located at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania.-Inductees:...
's permanent home is at the college.
In the fall of 2001, Ursinus students started a men's rugby
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
team/club called the Bearcox. The Bearcox is a member of the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union
Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union
The Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union is the Local Area Union for rugby union teams in Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, as well as Delaware and parts of New Jersey...
(EPRU) and of USA Rugby
USA Rugby
USA Rugby is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in the United States. It is divided into seven territorial Unions: Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, Pacific Coast, Southern California, South, and West...
. They play in Division III and their practice field is located on Hunsberger Farm.http://wiki.ursinus.edu/index.php/Men%27s_Rugby. The Women's Rugby Club, also a member of the EPRU and USA Rugby, has enjoyed successes, winning back-to-back divisional championship titles in 2005 and 2006, resulting in the team being promoted to Division II. Rugby is becoming a dominant sport at Ursinus, recruitment doubling in the last two years.
The college was well-known for many years for its Patterson Field endzone, in which a large sycamore tree grew undisturbed. Ripley's Believe it or Not featured the famous tree for being the only one on an active field of athletic play, and the seclusion "of the tree at night for generations afforded lovers a trysting place. Greek organizations initiated pledges into their mysteries under its branches." A new sycamore, growing since 1984 from a seedling taken from the old tree, now stands nearby.
In 1974, the NCAA Award of Valor
NCAA Award of Valor
The NCAA Award of Valor is presented by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to recognize "courageous action or noteworthy bravery" by persons involved with intercollegiate athletics....
was presented to the 1973 basketball team. Every member of the team had entered a burning building, with their combined efforts leading to the rescue of 14 persons.
Ursinus is the home of the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame
USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame
The USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame honors the achievements of athletes and/or coaches of USA field hockey teams. The permanent home of USA Field Hockey's hall of fame is located at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania.-Inductees:...
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Outside recognition
- During the dedication of the school's Berman Museum of Art, novelist James Michener credits Ursinus as "a college with managers who are bright enough to see that this ought to be done, an industrialist who had the courage to buy the material, and a group of professors and students and citizens of the community who will enjoy this that we are doing today for the next 100 years."
1992
- Polio vaccinePolio vaccineTwo polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat poliomyelitis . The first was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in 1952. Announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955, it consists of an injected dose of inactivated poliovirus. An oral vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin...
developer Jonas SalkJonas SalkJonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was born in New York City to parents from Ashkenazi Jewish Russian immigrant families...
declares that uniting Ursinus' psychology and biology departments under one roof "represents a union of nature and human nature" and calls the school "one of the few colleges integrating these concepts which will serve as a role model for other institutions."
1999
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Internet Life lists Ursinus as one of the 100 Most Wired Colleges in the United States.
2000
- New York Times education editor Loren PopeLoren PopeLoren Brooks Pope was an American writer and independent college placement counselor.In 1965, Pope, a former newspaperman and education editor of The New York Times, founded the College Placement Bureau, one of the first independent college placement counseling services in the United States...
includes Ursinus in his book Colleges That Change LivesColleges That Change LivesColleges That Change Lives is a college educational guide by Loren Pope. It was originally published in 1996, with a second edition in 2000, and a third edition in 2006...
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2001
- The Fiske Guide to Colleges assigns Ursinus three bells for academics, three bells for social life and three bells for quality of life.
- The Princeton ReviewThe Princeton ReviewThe Princeton Review is an American-based standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company. The Princeton Review operates in 41 states and 22 countries across the globe. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college...
lists Ursinus among the country's 331 best colleges, assigning it three out of four bells for academics and indicating a high degree of professor accessibility and professor interest in students.
2004
- The Middle States Association of Colleges and SchoolsMiddle States Association of Colleges and SchoolsThe Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association dedicated to educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation...
accrediting team writes in 1998 that “developments at Ursinus in the last five years are nothing short of astonishing.” - One of the 50 top colleges in the nation for undergraduate research, according to U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2004.
- Forbes.com: Most Connected Campuses. Top 25
2005
- The National Survey of Student EngagementNational Survey of Student EngagementThe National Survey of Student Engagement is a survey instrument used to gauge the level of student participation at universities and colleges in Canada and the United States as it relates to learning. The results of the survey help administrators and instructors to assess their students' student...
report identifies Ursinus as one of 20 (out of 700) campuses nationally that "do an especially good job of educating students" and have a “clear educational purpose and coherent educational philosophy" and an “unshakable focus” on student learning.
2006
- Newsweek Kaplan College Guide names Ursinus one of 25 "Hottest Freshman Year" schools and "one of America's 367 most interesting schools."
2007
- U.S. News America's Best Colleges gives Ursinus an "A+ rating for B students", commending its "first-rate programs" and calling it one of the country's “Best Liberal Arts Colleges" (53rd among its 215 peers in terms of graduation and retention).
- The Princeton ReviewThe Princeton ReviewThe Princeton Review is an American-based standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company. The Princeton Review operates in 41 states and 22 countries across the globe. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college...
identifies Ursinus as one of the nation's "Best 361 Colleges." - The Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty, staff members and administrators....
reports that Ursinus' Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center "comes alive at night, and the building's showpiece space, a three-floor atrium with a glass-lined south face-dazzles from within." - Jeffrey SachsJeffrey SachsJeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments in the...
calls the college "very proudly and very successfully committed to the power of ideas."
Notable faculty
- Raymond DodgeRaymond DodgeRaymond Dodge was an American experimental psychologist. He was educated at Williams College and the University of Halle. In 1896 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Ursinus College...
, experimental psychologist: Appointed Professor of Philosophy in 1896 - John MauchlyJohn MauchlyJohn William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.Together they started the first computer company,...
, computer pioneer and creator of the ENIACENIACENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems....
: Was a faculty member at Ursinus from 1933 to 1941, working at Ursinus's science labs in Pfahler Hall, a building which still stands on campus (see Gallery, below) - Royal MeekerRoyal MeekerRoyal Meeker was an American economist, born at Quaker Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1898, then studied with E.R.A. Seligman at Columbia and for a year at the University of Leipzig...
, statistician: Taught at Ursinus from 1906 until his appointment by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics in 1913. He later served (1923-24) as Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry - Joseph MelroseJoseph MelroseJoseph Melrose is an American diplomat who served as United States ambassador to several countries, including Sierra Leone and Pakistan. In the fall of 2006 he served as a senior area advisor on south and central Asia to the United States Mission to the United Nations.Melrose currently serves as...
, former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra LeoneSierra LeoneSierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...
: Ambassador-in-Residence of the school's International Relations Program - Deborah Poritz, former Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court: Taught at Ursinus in the late 1960s
Notable Alumni and Former Students
- Barrie Ciliberti (Class of 1957): Maryland House of DelegatesMaryland House of DelegatesThe Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...
legislator and Reagan administrationReagan AdministrationThe United States presidency of Ronald Reagan, also known as the Reagan administration, was a Republican administration headed by Ronald Reagan from January 20, 1981, to January 20, 1989....
appointee
- Larry CrabbLarry CrabbLawrence J. Crabb, Jr. is a psychologist, author, Bible teacher and seminar speaker. Dr. Crabb has written many best-selling books and is the founder and director of New Way Ministries...
(Class of 1965): Author and psychologist; founder and director of New Way Ministries - J. William Ditter Jr. is a judge on the United States District Court
- Steve DonahueSteve DonahueSteve Donahue is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball coach at Boston College.A native of Springfield Township, Pennsylvania and a former player at Ursinus College, Donahue previously served as head coach at Cornell University, an assistant coach at Penn,...
(Class of 1984): Head men's basketball coach at Boston CollegeBoston CollegeBoston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early... - Gerald EdelmanGerald EdelmanGerald Maurice Edelman is an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules...
(Class of 1950): Winner of the 1972 Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
in medicine - Hermann EiltsHermann EiltsHermann Frederick Eilts was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as an American ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, assisted Henry Kissinger's Mideast shuttle diplomacy effort, worked with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat throughout the Camp David Accords, and dodged...
(Class of 1943): Former U.S. ambassador to Saudi ArabiaSaudi ArabiaThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
and EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
who assisted Henry KissingerHenry KissingerHeinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
's Mideast shuttle diplomacy effort, worked with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat throughout the Camp David AccordsCamp David AccordsThe Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following thirteen days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States...
, and dodged a Libyan hit team - Jacob G. FrancisJacob G. FrancisJacob Gottwals Francis was an author, a historian, a photographer, and a Church of the Brethren minister....
(Class of 1891): Author, historian, Church of the BrethrenChurch of the BrethrenThe Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination originating from the Schwarzenau Brethren organized in 1708 by eight persons led by Alexander Mack, in Schwarzenau, Bad Berleburg, Germany. The Brethren movement began as a melding of Radical Pietist and Anabaptist ideas during the...
pastor, and founder of Elizabethtown CollegeElizabethtown CollegeElizabethtown College is a small comprehensive college located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster County. The school was founded in 1899 by members of the Church of the Brethren... - Norman E. GibbsNorman E. GibbsNorman E. Gibbs was an American software engineer, scholar and educational leader.He studied to a B.Sc. in mathematics at Ursinus College and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Robert R. Korfhage...
(Class of 1964): was an American software engineer, scholar and educational leader. - Kim GuadagnoKim GuadagnoKim Guadagno is the first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, having won the 2009 election as the running mate of Governor Chris Christie. She is also concurrently the Secretary of State of New Jersey.-Early life:...
(Class of 1980), Lieutenant Governor of New JerseyLieutenant Governor of New JerseyThe Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is a position that has existed since January 2010, following conjoint election with the Governor of New Jersey. The position was created as the result of a Constitutional amendment to the New Jersey State Constitution passed by the voters on November 8, 2005... - Russell Conwell JohnsonRussell Conwell JohnsonRussell Conwell "Jing" Johnson was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics. He played in five seasons for the Athletics in three separate stints, –, and –...
(Class of 1916): Major League BaseballMajor League BaseballMajor League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
pitcher (Philadelphia Athletics, 1916-1928) - Sam KeenSam KeenSam Keen is a noted American author, professor and philosopher who is best known for his exploration of questions regarding love, life, religion, and being a man in contemporary society...
(Class of 1953): Author, professor of philosophy and religion, and former contributing editor of Psychology TodayPsychology TodayPsychology Today is a bi-monthly magazine published in the United States. It is a psychology-based magazine about relationships, health, and related topics written for a mass audience of non-psychologists. Psychology Today was founded in 1967 and features articles on such topics as love,... - Joseph MelroseJoseph MelroseJoseph Melrose is an American diplomat who served as United States ambassador to several countries, including Sierra Leone and Pakistan. In the fall of 2006 he served as a senior area advisor on south and central Asia to the United States Mission to the United Nations.Melrose currently serves as...
(Class of 1966): Former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra LeoneSierra LeoneSierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4... - Dan MullenDan Mullen-External links:** on Bulldog Junction's website* article on Coach Mullen as new MSU head coach* Dan Mullen goes from Trinity star QB to Mississippi State head coach...
(Class of 1994): Head Coach of the Mississippi State Bulldogs footballMississippi State Bulldogs footballThe Mississippi State Bulldogs football program represents Mississippi State University in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing as a member of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference. Mississippi State has produced 38 All-Americans, 171 All-SEC selections, and 124...
team - J.D. Salinger (attended 1937-38): Author of The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, language, and rebellion. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major...
; he left the school after one semester and continued his studies at other institutions. Attended prep school at nearby Valley Forge Military Academy. A letter from Salinger hangs in Ursinus' Corson Hall - Ismar SchorschIsmar SchorschIsmar Schorsch had been the son of hanoveranian Rabbi Emil Schorsch. They both experienced the so called "Reichskristallnacht" in a different manner. Dr. Ismar Schorsch became the sixth Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary and is the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history...
(Class of 1957): Former Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of AmericaJewish Theological Seminary of AmericaThe Jewish Theological Seminary of America is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism, and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies.JTS operates five schools: Albert A... - Linda M. SpringerLinda M. SpringerLinda M. Springer, the eighth Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management , was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in June 2005.As OPM director, Ms...
(Class of 1979): Director of the United States Office of Personnel ManagementOffice of Personnel ManagementThe United States Office of Personnel Management is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the civil service of the federal government. The current Director is John Berry.-History:... - Jeff TrinkleJeff TrinkleJeffrey C. Trinkle is Professor and former Chair of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is known for his work in robotic manipulation, multibody dynamics, and automated manufacturing...
(Class of 1979): Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteStephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...
; known for his work in robotic manipulation, multibody dynamics, and automated manufacturing - Robert YerkesRobert YerkesRobert Mearns Yerkes was an American psychologist, ethologist, and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology....
(Class of 1897): Psychologist, ethologist and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology; co-developer of the Yerkes-Dodson lawYerkes-Dodson lawThe Yerkes–Dodson law is a claimed empirical relationship between arousal and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908. The "law" asserts that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. When...
relating arousal to performance