‘Completely Out of Context’: Alumni Recall Party Where Garthwait Photo Was Taken
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The now ubiquitous photo of former college trustee Bob Garthwait ’82 wearing a Nazi uniform was taken at a 1979 party held at the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, an alumnus who provided a photo of the party’s official t-shirt said Thursday. Dr. Albert Fedalei ’80, who was a member of Alpha Chi Rho, said that the photo was taken at his fraternity’s sixth annual “Four in...
Garthwait Resigns from Board of Trustees After Photo of Him in Nazi Uniform Found in Yearbook
By Benjamin Pontz & Gauri Mangala Bob Garthwait ’82 has resigned from the Gettysburg College Board of Trustees after a photo of him wearing a Nazi uniform at what appears to be a fraternity party was found in the 1980 edition of Spectrum, the college yearbook. Garthwait, who has donated more than $1 million to the college over the years, most notably for the development of his namesake Garthwait Leadership Center (GLC), was...
Q&A with the Chair and Executive Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief On Friday afternoon, Editor-in-Chief of The Gettysburgian, Benjamin Pontz (BP) sat down with David Brennan ’75 (DB), Chair of the Board of Trustees, and Charlie Scott ’77 (CS), Executive Vice Chair of the Board and Chair of the Presidential Search Committee, for a wide-ranging interview on subjects facing the Board at its meeting this weekend and down the road. The transcript of the...
Faculty Meeting News and Notes: February 7, 2019
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The Gettysburg College faculty met Thursday afternoon for the first time this semester and pursued a packed agenda that it did not entirely complete before adjourning after the meeting had already run a few minutes past its allotted hour. Faculty Votes to Make First-Year Seminars Mandatory The first substantive agenda item was consideration of a proposal from the First-Year Seminar Committee to make...
Iuliano Will Replace Riggs as College President
By Phoebe Doscher, Staff Writer, Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief, and Gauri Mangala, News Editor On Wednesday afternoon, the Presidential Search Committee announced that the fifteenth president of Gettysburg College will be Robert W. Iuliano. He is expected to begin on July 1, 2019. Charlie Scott, Chair of the Presidential Search Committee (PSC) and Executive Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, said that Iuliano was a unanimous...
