Center for Public Service Sponsors 28th Annual GIV Day for Class of 2025
By Phoebe Doscher, Editor-in-Chief On the Friday of First-Year Orientation, first-year students had the option to give back to their new community through the Center for Public Service’s (CPS) Gettysburg is Volunteering (GIV) Day. The event lasted from the morning through the afternoon, with students dispersed at various community partners throughout town to have a hands-on service experience. Students began in the Ballroom with a...
Class of 2025 Steps Into Gettysburg Tradition with First-Year Walk
By Phoebe Doscher, Editor-in-Chief and Katie Oglesby, Magazine Editor On Thursday, Aug. 26, the Class of 2025 participated in the First-Year Walk, beginning in the Chapel and ending at the Gettysburg National Cemetery. The tradition is 17 years in the making, hearkening back to the 1863 trek to the Cemetery where students, faculty, and members of the community heard Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address. The first-year class...
Class of 2025 Enters Gettysburg Community in Opening Convocation
By Phoebe Doscher, Editor-in-Chief and Katie Oglesby, Magazine Editor On Wednesday, Aug. 25, Gettysburg College welcomed first-year students and families for the 190th Convocation for the Class of 2025, in-person outside of Pennsylvania Hall. It began with words from Orientation Coordinator Kayla Julio ’22, who read the Land Acknowledgement Statement, a new addition to the convocation tradition. Julio advised the first-year class to...
Move-In Day for the Class of 2025
Photos by Aly Wein, Director of Photography Yesterday morning, members of the Class of 2025 and their families moved in to their dorms. Resident Assistants, Orientation Leaders, staff members, and volunteers greeted the newest class of students and carried their belongings into their new home for the next four years. Follow along for highlights from move-in:
Gettysburg Sets Campus-Wide Temporary Indoor Mask Mandate
By Nicole DeJacimo, Managing Editor This past week, Vice President for College Life Anne Ehrlich and Provost Chris Zappe announced the College will require indoor masking for all students, staff, and families regardless of vaccination status until further notice, effective August 23. This interim change results from monitoring the high transmission rate of COVID-19 in Adams County, according to the CDC, the trajectory of the Delta...
