Media Mentions

Professor of Art Kathy Hettinga just completed her book “Grave Images: San Luis Valley,” a book of more than 200 photos of historic churches and cementaries in the San Luis Valley. The Santa Fe New Mexican featured Hettinga in an October 30 article.

“Down in the valley, valley so high” is no longer available online.

Richard Hughes, senior fellow in the Ernest L. Boyer Center, considers the power of forgiveness and how it could be used in the city of Harrisburg in a November 3 op-ed in the Harrisburg Patriot-News. The Boyer Center teamed up with WITF and the Central Pennsylvania Diocese of the Episcopal Church to watch and discuss the award-winning film, ” The Power of Forgiveness.”

Read “Build bridges of forgiveness.”

“How did a little-known Christian college of 2,801 near Harrisburg in south-central Pennsylvania become a national powerhouse?” asks an October 20 feature article in USA Today.

Read “At Messiah, glory comes on, off field.”

President Kim Phipps and Provost Randy Basinger teamed up to write an op-ed piece for the October 11 Harrisburg Patriot-News that highlights the College’s active engagagement in the Harrisburg region for 100 years.

Read “Messiah College takes holistic approach to education.”

On September 17, the Harrisburg Patriot-News featured the Serving and Living Together (SALT) program that allows students to live in downtown Harrisburg at the Harrisburg Institute while still taking their courses in Harrisburg. Student Karisa Martin said about her urban experience, “It’s one thing to sit in a classroom and learn about struggles and injustices. But here you can go out into the community and see them first hand or hear about them first hand. This program is Messiah’s footprint in the city. Hopefully we can bridge that gap.”

“Building a bridge: Messiah program brings people to Harrisburg” is not available online.

Messiah College is reflecting on its history as it commemorates its Centennial year and also looking forward and celebrating the promise of the graduating class, according to a September 5 article in the Carlisle Sentinel. The article outlines the school’s beginnings as a missionary training school and its evolution into the four-year private college it is today.

Read “College began as a training school.”

Ryan Keith `02 is noted for being young, motivated, and one of the midstate’s most impressive entrepreneurs under the age of 30, according to the September 4 issue of Central Penn Business Journal. Keith started Forgotten Voices International in 2004 to provide financial resources for pastors and community leaders in Zimbabwe and Zambia to help children.

Read “The young and the motivated.”

The College’s first graduate level course is off to a good start, according to participating students and the program director, both interviewed in an August 11 Carlisle Sentinel article. More than 20 students enrolled in the first course –Professional Issues and Ethics.

Read “Getting schooled: Messiah expands its programs.”

The scent of mimosa trees is a vivid part of reporter Diane McCormick’s memories of growing up in northern Virginia. She was recently delighted to find a mimosa tree growing in her backyard here in central Pennsylvania and spoke with David Foster, associate professor of biology and environmental science, about how the southern species migrated north for her July 31 column in the Harrisburg Patriot-News.

Read “Intrusive or not, mimosa is graceful.”

Central PA magazine, the publication of local public television station WITF, devotes much of its August issue to the arts in the capital region. In the feature story, the magazine profiles five talented creators and performers under the age of 25. Included in this prestigious group is David O’Donnell, a 2008 graduate, who is performing his sixth operatic role in Belgium as John Brook in “Little Women.”

Read “Reaching for the stars.”

In addition, a story about how arts and culture programs are faring at colleges and universities in light of the recession extensively quotes both Richard Roberson, dean of the School of the Arts, and Jeff Rioux, director of the Larsen Student Union. Both contributed to the conversation about the need for the arts, especially during times of national economic turmoil.

“A college is incomplete without the arts,” says Roberson. “The arts are part of what it is to be human. They’re part of the way we understand and interpret he world that’s around us. To not have them on the college campus, it wouldn’t be a real college any more.”

The article, “A commitment to culture,” is not available online.