2010 Alumni Peace Fellow speaks at Elizabethtown College

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Ron McAllister, Elizabethtown College Alumni Peace Fellow, speaks at the College on contemporary American values Nov. 2 and 3

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (10/23/2010)(readMedia)-- The Elizabethtown College Alumni Peace Fellowship hosts 2010 Alumni Peace Fellow Ron McAllister who will present "Citizenship: A Noun with a lot of Verb in it," and "Vices and Virtues: Thoughts on Contemporary American Values."

McAllister is provost emeritus at Elizabethtown College, former President of Brethren Colleges Abroad and former director of the Center for Global Citizenship at the College. A sociologist, McAllister studied at the Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster at Coleraine in Northern Ireland and has published his research on religious conflict in Northern Ireland. Now retired and living in York, Maine, McAllister is active in his community and writes a bi-weekly column for The York Weekly newspaper.

"Citizenship: A Noun with a Lot of Verb in it" will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 2, in the Bucher Meeting House of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. The second lecture, "Vices and Virtues: Thoughts on Contemporary American Values," takes place from 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday Nov. 3, in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center's Musser Auditorium.

The events are free and open to the public.

The Elizabethtown College Alumni Peace Fellowship is a community of Elizabethtown alumni responsive to the enduring relevance of the College's peace identity. Believing this aspect of the College's legacy to be of profound significance in the contemporary world, the Fellowship seeks to affirm and promote the values of peace, non-violence, human dignity and social justice in the global community, as stated in Elizabethtown's Mission Statement.

Contact: Chris Bucher at 717-361-1182.

Elizabethtown College, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is a private coed college with degrees in liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education. The hallmarks of an Elizabethtown education are academic rigor, high expectations and intellectual curiosity. Our faculty members are teacher-scholars, pursuing their academic areas of expertise while sharing that expertise with students. For more information about Elizabethtown College, please visit our website at www.etown.edu.

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