Thiel Happenings

Sharp and Thiel awarded Student of the Month honors for November

Thiel College announces Alayna Sharp ’18, of Franklin, Pa., and John Thiel ’18, of Pickerington, Ohio, as its November Students of the Month.

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Music instructor collaborates with trumpet trio for upcoming CD release

The Northwest Passage Trumpet Trio, featuring Thiel College Director of Bands and Instructor of Music Andrew Erb, has recorded its first CD and is set for its release in the spring of 2018.

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65th annual Christmas Festival features new choir director and modified program

The 65th annual Christmas Festival, “A Light Unto The World,” will be performed at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3 in the William A. Passavant Memorial Center.

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RSVP today for the Thiel employee Christmas Luncheon

The Employee Christmas Luncheon is from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14 in the Lutheran Heritage Room of the Howard Miller Student Center. Employees are asked to bring a non-perishable  food item to be donated to The Good Shepherd of Greenville.

Intercampus an RSVP or email Linda Nochta by Friday, Dec. 8.

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Donor pledges to match Thiel donations to United Way

Employees are asked to consider donating to the Hermitage chapter of the United Way. It has a goal of raising $800,000 to address poverty-related issues through local educational programs for pre-kindergarten children, as well as healthcare and counseling services. Thiel College assists their efforts by mounting a campaign on their behalf.  Our goal is $10,000, a target the College me last year.

This year a donor has stepped forward with an offer to match each Thiel College gifts up to a total of $5,000. To reach that goal, 96 employees have to make a $1/week pledge.

Employees should have gotten a pledge form in their mailbox. Complete and return it to Kim Braden in Human Resources.  The deadline is Dec. 15.

Student News

Johnson, Oros, and Kramer present at Shakespeare conference

Scholars from Thiel College, a leading liberal arts college in northwestern Pennsylvania, recently presented their research at the 41st Annual Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference in Berea, Ohio. Jared Johnson, Ph.D., Chair of the English Department and Associate Professor of English, Sean Oros ’15, Dietrich Honor Society associate, and Tina Kramer ’18, a senior English education and psychology major, participated in the annual gathering of the professional organization in late October. 

Themed “Shakespeare: Now and Then,” the 2017 meeting of the OVSC sought presenters with fresh perspectives on the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries across a range of temporalities. 

Johnson presented “Ghostwriting Shakespeare: Authorship and Cultural Appropriation in Ian Doescher’s William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: The Tragedy of the Sith’s Revenge.”

Oros presented, “From Good Duke to Knave: Critical Opinion of Shakespeare’s Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester,” and Kramer, the President of the Thiel College chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, presented “You’re Never Too Old to Laugh: An Adaption of Shakespeare’s Fool in the Modern Era.”

Biology majors travel to Juniata for conference

Associate Professor of Biology Sarah J. Swerdlow, Ph.D., and Katie Altman ’19, Crystal Carradine ’18, Jason Takacs ’18, Isaiah Hill ’20, Nathaniel Hill ’20, Jessica Orczeck ’18, Ashley Prout ’20, Evan Youker ’18 attended the Allegheny Branch of American Society of Microbiology meeting on Nov. 3-4 at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa.

In addition to a couple days full of scientific talks and poster sessions Takacs, Carradine and Orczeck presented posters titled “Study of Mutagenesis in Escherichia coli in the dgt gene,” “Annotation and Analysis of Mycobacterium Phage Pipsqueak’s Genome using Bioinformatics” and “Phage Hunters: Discovering Mycobacteriophage “S11.”

Swerdlow and the students expressed gratitude for the funding that was provided which allowed the students to present at the meeting.

Phi Theta Phi featured in Sharon Herald before embarking on walk

Leading up to their annual fundraising walk to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Phi Theta Phi was featured in Wednesday’s Sharon Herald.

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The brothers were in Mercer on Wednesday and will be collecting in Greenville on Thursday before departing Friday morning for the 100-mile walk to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

“Over the past 47 years, Phi Theta Phi brothers have collected and donated more than $1.6 million to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s Free Care Fund,” Phi Theta Phi president and walk chairman Anthony Donnorummo ’19 said. “It is an incredible feeling to be part of an organization that supports an amazing cause that helps families and children in need. I can say with certainty that each brother is proud to be a part of the Walk-A-Thon legacy. The Walk is a central and important aspect of Phi Theta Phi's unique culture.”

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