Portrait of a Graduate: How Mastery Learning Interacts with Higher Education
By William Oehler, Director of Photography The enduring sentiment of Gettysburg College’s education as “consequential” creates an objective for every professor and student alike; but how does this ideal exist beyond the classrooms of college, into the halls and schools that lead us to Gettysburg’s hallowed grounds? In the 1950s, Benjamin S. Bloom, alongside a group of educators, formalized the idea of Mastery-Based Learning...
Dreamscapes: Waldo’s & Co Debuts New Studio Holders Gallery Exhibition
By William Oehler, Director of Photography “Dreams are really ineffable, weirdly hard to penetrate. You can ask what a dream means, but it is hard to penetrate your subconscious to figure out [what they mean].” Ethan Hartranft, a studio artist of Waldo’s and Co’s, described his interpretation of the non-profit, community art space and café’s new studio artist exhibition titled Dreamscapes, which opened on Nov. 7th. Waldo’s &...
Language Immersion at Gettysburg College: Five New Teaching Assistants Join our Community
By William Oehler, Director of Photography For the academic year of 2025-26, Gettysburg College welcomed five new language Teaching Assistants (TAs) to its French, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and German language classes and departments. Angelle Depuy, Jiahui Ouyang, Alba Chacon, Kotoha Mori, and Antonia Voss all participate in and outside classrooms. Teaching their own classes, liaisoning with culture clubs, hosting review sessions...
New Student Exhibits Open in Schmucker Art Gallery
By William Oehler, Director of Photography & Staff Writer On Wednesday, Sept 3rd, two new student-curated exhibitions opened to the public in Schmucker Art Gallery. The gallery hosted a public opening that included student-curator remarks, as well as a special presentation from one of the featured artists, Dr. Gan Yu. Director of Schmucker Art Gallery Sarah Kate Gillespie opened the evening with acknowledgements to the students:...
Postcard from Abroad: The Gift of Language
This article originally appeared on pages 16 and 17 of the No. 5 April 2025 edition of The Gettysburgian magazine By William Oehler, Staff Writer As I sat down to dinner with my host family on my first night in Nantes, France, my brain was jet-lagged and focused on everything but speaking in a second language. I had waded through a 24-hour travel day and needed food and sleep immediately. But first, I needed to make a good first...
