Gettysburg College and the Lutheran Connection: An Open-Ended Story of a Proud Relationship

The oldest Lutheran College in America is a mark of distinction credited to Gettysburg. Just what Lutheran has meant to this institution throughout its century and a half is the subject of this historical essay. This is an open-ended story because the Lutheran connection of Gettysburg College is a live relationship today and gives promise of being a mutually supportive association in the future. Gettysburg represents not only a high water mark in the history of this nation, but also a place of landmark developments for Lutheranism in America. The College and the Seminary were center stage for these developments, and they continue to show marks of their Lutheran heritage. In tracing the nature of the Lutheran identity of the College, focus will be on the part played by its founder, its supporting synods, its faculty, its trustees, and its students. [excerpt]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/collegehistory/1001/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Harold A. Dunkelberger, July 29, 1999

The first of two interviews, Harold A. Dunkelberger, a student and professor at Gettysburg College, was interviewed on July 29, 1999 by Michael J. Birkner & David Hedrick. He graduated with the class of 1936, and discusses his experience as a student of English at Gettysburg and his time at the Gettysburg Seminary. Length of Interview: 87 minutes Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- http://gettysburg.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16274coll

Klipsun Magazine, 1994, Volume 31, Issue 05 - May

We are living in a time of great flux. It\u27s a time when traditional gender roles are being challenged and society is finally warming to the idea that people, regardless of gender, should be judged on the basis of their character and accomplishments. Feminism has been treated like a four-letter word by those in power for far too long. Sexist language, metaphors and symbols are so engrained in our culture that everyone must not only look at how they treat others in the workplace but, monitor how and what they teach their children. It will take generations to unravel the wraps of inequality prevalent in literature and language. Think about the words you use before you exclude the 51 percent minority.https://cedar.wwu.edu/klipsun_magazine/1155/thumbnail.jp

The effects of mushroom body lobe disruption on learning and memory

Animal models have been used for centuries to study learning and memory in simple systems with many applications to humans (Chapter 1). The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has added greatly to our current understanding of learning and memory and its underlying biology (Chapter 2). The research described here focuses on the relationship between learning and memory and the brain using three mutant strains of flies: mushroom body miniature B (mbmB), small mushroom bodies (smu), and mushroom bodies reduced (mbr). Mushroom bodies are paired neuronal structures found in most invertebrate brains involved in learning and memory consolidation. All three mutations studied were initially isolated based on a reduced dendritic volume in the mushroom body calyx; In chapter 3, GAL4 driven membrane bound and nuclear localized GFP expression revealed that adult mbmB and smu flies had intact gamma lobes with the rest severely reduced in size; while mbr flies had severe disruption in all lobes. A beta lobe midline fusion is seen in mbmB flies. Adults of all three mutants have a reduction in Kenyon cell number. They all show normal bifurcation and pathfinding of MB gamma neurons in wandering third instar larvae; while cell counts of mbmB and smu Kenyon cell bodies during development show cell number is consistent with wild type until approximately mid-third instar; I have shown that both mbmB and smu have impaired learning scores consistent with other fly mutations causing mushroom body calyx volume reductions. Both have reduced long term memory (LTM) and anesthesia resistant memory (ARM) as well. LTM and ARM are generated using two distinct training protocols, massed for ARM and spaced for LTM. Some reports state that these are additive processes while others say ARM is disrupted by spaced training. My studies support the hypothesis that ARM is disrupted by spaced training