Retiring president, professors awarded emeritus status at Elizabethtown College trustees meeting

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Theodore E. Long

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (05/10/2011)(readMedia)-- Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees recently granted emeritus status to retiring College President Theodore E. Long, as well as to Professor of Humanities and Raffensperger Chair Paul Gottfried and Associate Professor of Art Louise Schellenberg.

Emeritus status is accorded by the College as a positive action of the Board of Trustees, entitling the individual to special privileges regarding the use of College facilities and the right to be included in the College's Convocation and Graduation ceremony processions.

In the emeritus citation, Long was commended for guiding the College "with his strong and capable leadership and challenging us to aspire to a new standard of excellence." During the past 15 years, he partnered with the College's Board, the College's supporters, and administration, faculty and staff to envision, launch and complete a series of initiatives that have improved Elizabethtown's academic and co-curricular programs, while enhancing the College's reputation and strengthening its financial health.

The College almost doubled its endowment under Long's leadership, and its campus has been highlighted by academic and co-curricular facilities such as the Brossman Commons; James B. Hoover Center for Business; Masters Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering; Vera R. Hackman Garden Apartments; the Jay Walk; Wolf Field; the Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium; the Nest Softball Field; and Bowers Writers House.

The Elizabethtown College faculty expressed its appreciation to Gottfried for 22 years of service and to Schellenberg for 19 years.

The Board of Trustees of Elizabethtown College will confer upon Long the title of President Emeritus at the instance of his retirement, along with Elizabeth V. & Horace E. Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus to Dr. Gottfried and Associate Professor of Art Emerita to Ms. Schellenberg, as they retire.

Elizabethtown College, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than four dozen liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education degrees. Through personal attention, creative inspiration and academic challenge, Elizabethtown College students are encouraged to expand their intellectual curiosity and are given the opportunity to become a bigger part of the world through experiential learning-research, internships and study abroad. Elizabethtown College's overall commitment to Educate for Service is fulfilled as students are taught intellectually, socially, aesthetically and ethically for lives of service and leadership.

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