Coach Streeter retires from Gettysburg Football
By Elizabeth Hilfrank, Co-Sports Editor Head Coach of Gettysburg College Football Barry Streeter coached his last game Saturday afternoon. This season marked Streeter’s 42nd year with the Bullets. Coach Streeter came to Gettysburg College in 1975 as defensive coordinator and head track and field coach. While “not a track guy,” Streeter led the Bullets to the Middle Atlantic Conference championships. When Coach Streeter...
Blasts from the Past: November 16, 2017
By Shannon Zeltmann, Staff Writer This week in 1917, an ad appeared in The Gettysburgian for the college bookstore. It was a small ad with the address of the bookstore, and it listed some of the available stock: the usual books, supplies, college jewelry, and athletic goods, but also, very specifically, Waterman’s fountain pens, fresh candies, and “sunshine biscuits.” I wonder what those fancy biscuits were? They must have been famous...
Dodging the Bullet: Wonder Rooms and a First-Year Seminar
By Shannon Zeltmann, Staff Writer A few days ago, I attended an exhibit opening in Schmucker Art Gallery, but this was a special opening … I was one of the students who got to curate this exhibit. How did I end up working on an exhibit in my first semester of college for a field that I want to go into? Four words: my First-Year Seminar. In June, I looked through the list of First-Year Seminars and I wanted to take so many of them, but...
Gettysburg Alum Owen Roizman ‘58 Wins Governor’s Award from Academy
By Samantha Anastasiou, Contributing Writer Had he followed his original dream, he may well have played baseball or become a mathematician, but instead, second generation cinematographer Owen Roizman ’58 was honored with the Governor’s Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over the weekend to honor his extended career that spanned 25 years. Academy President John Bailey called the recipients “very representative of...
Gettysburg Fraternities and ROTC Students Work on Battlefield Beautification
By Sarah Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer In these tight budgetary times, the National Park Service had struggled to find a work force to clear brush from around the Eternal Peace Light Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield until Alpha Chi Rho, Alpha Omicron Pi, and the ROTC program offered to help. On Saturday, October 21, over 80 Gettysburg students from these organizations donated three hours of their time to work on park beautification...
