Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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IN MEMORIAM Our college community was saddened last year by the death in February of Joseph KieHer Wolfinger, one of our most distinguished professors. Mr. Wolfinger was grad- uated from St. John,s College in 1926 and received his M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Gettysburg College faculty in 1946, following a teaching career at McDonogh School and Johns Hopkins. During his twenty years as a part of our school, Mr. Wolfingeris genuine love of teaching and of his subject endeared him to his students. His Shakespeare course remained highly popular as Mr. WolhngeBs health declined in his last years with us. His loss has been deeply felt by those who were privileged to work and study with him.

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Dedication Last fall found Gettysburg missing a person who had become an essential part of our campus. In her 14 years with us, Mrs. Martha Storek Hopmann gave much of herself to us: to our academic growth as Associate Professor of German, to our Greek system as Panhellenic Advisor, and to the whole college experience of Gettysburg girls as their counsellor, the Dean of Women. Dean Storek, by her own example, taught us to absorb the entire broad spectrum which college life offers, seeing in all of our experiences the principles behind them, which guide her life and can guide ours. The light of idealism that she kindled for us remains here in her stead, and her influence is still very much felt in this first year since her leaving us.

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Pren'dentfr Mermge The editors of the 1968 SPECTRUM have gathered in these pages a description of a year in the life of Gettysburg Col- lege. For understandable reasons the emphasis in this record is on students, and on their activities in campus life. While eEorts have doubtless been made to provide a sampling from many aspects of student life it is evident that the pace and fullness of a collegiate year would make impossible any at- tempt at completeness. This record of 1967-1968 at Gettysburg is, therefore, a be- ginning point for each reader who would regather the content of this year. It follows that each will attach his own meaning to what has taken place on this campus and to his part in the overall venture of a year of collegiate life. This process of at- taching meaning to this yearbook and what it offers begins now and continues down through the years. The 1968 SPECTRUM is now and will continue to be a means of recalling persons and individual accomplishments. Its greatest value, however, will most likely be found in the op- portunity it provides one to renew an association between a place and a period of life from which has come a lasting in- fluence and meaning. C. A. Hanson