Grove City College

Whether you come alone, with your family or as part of a group, see the major motion picture that sends the message that "Life is how you live it - not how you spend it."

Pre-show comments will be made by the movie's producer James P. VanEerden ’85.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Registration for child care is closed.

All proce...eds benefit the following Grove City College organizations:
- Red Box Missions
- Inner City Outreach
- Student Philanthropy Project

A complimentary reception follows in the adjacent lobby. Questions?
Contact the Alumni Office at 888-GCC-GRAD (422-4723) or alumni@gcc.edu
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Compassion International’s Songs of Hope Tour, featuring musicians Robbie Seay Band and Bethany Dillon, comes to Grove City College Nov. 6. The concert, hosted by Grove City College’s Stonebridge Concerts, is at 7:30 p.m. in Crawford Hall Auditorium.

The tour also includes the band Caleb, featuring Will and Caleb Chap...man, sons of the musician Steven Curtis Chapman. Tickets will be sold Monday though Friday afternoons in the Breen Student Union until Nov. 5 or online at www.itickets.com. Advance tickets are $10 for students and $12 for general admission. Tickets also will be sold at the door for $14. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Robbie Seay Band, based out of Houston, Texas, has built a name for being one of the smartest and most uncompromising new bands in Christian music. The band’s debut album, “Better Days,” earned the trio a solid college following with Seay’s enigmatic melodies and gritty vocals and his challenging perspective on justice, faith and hope. The band’s sophomore Sparrow Records release, “Give Yourself Away,” debuted in August 2007 and showcased music influenced by British alt-rock bands, such as Keane, and modern worship bands like David Crowder* Band.

An Ohio native, Dillon began her song-writing/singing career at 14. Now 21, she has just released her fourth album on Sparrow Records, titled “Stop and Listen.” The album is a collection of simply produced, acoustic pop songs.

Stonebridge Concerts is a Grove City College student group that brings Christian concerts to campus.
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The Hon. Robert J. Cindrich, senior vice president and chief legal officer for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and former U.S. District Court judge, will present Grove City College’s J. Paul Sticht ’39 Lecture in Business and Ethics at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters on ...campus.

Cindrich’s presentation, “Principled Governance and Leadership,” is free and open to the public. The annual lecture in business and ethics is given in honor of the late J. Paul Sticht ’39, who began serving as a College Trustee in 1963 and was the Board Chairman from 1998 to 2003. After stepping down as Chairman, he served as a Trustee Emeritus until his death in 2007.

Since leaving the federal bench in 2004, Cindrich has served as senior vice president and chief legal officer of UPMC. Before taking the bench in 1994, he was a partner in the law firm of Cindrich & Titus and was an active trial practitioner in federal and state court, serving primarily as corporate counsel in commercial litigation. In addition, he represented corporations and white-collar defendants in criminal matters.

His government practice includes serving as assistant public defender, assistant district attorney, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, hearing examiner for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and chair of the Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission. He served as judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania until his resignation in 2004 to join UPMC.

Cindrich is a fellow in the American Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County. He has lectured at various bar and professional associations and was an adjunct professor of law at The University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Duquesne University. Cindrich received his A.B. from Wittenberg University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
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Dr. David McCormick, a business expert with firsthand knowledge of global financial market policy and the international response to the economic crisis, will examine “The Global Economy: How We Got Here and Where We are Headed” during the 2009-10 Grove City College J. Howard Pew Memorial Lecture. His presentation will ...be at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 in Sticht Lecture Hall in the Hall of Arts and Letters on campus.

McCormick has more than a decade of experience at senior levels of government, business and academia. From 2007 to 2009, he was under secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department where he oversaw policies affecting global financial markets and led the international response to the crisis. Before joining Treasury, McCormick was deputy national security adviser for international economic policy and the president’s personal representative to the Group of Eight industrialized countries. He also served as under secretary of commerce for export administration where he oversaw policies affecting over $200 billion in annual high technology exports.

He is now a senior leader and member of the Management Committee at Bridgewater Associates, a global leader in institutional portfolio management with over $70 billion in assets under management. He has also served as the Distinguished Service Professor of Information Technology, Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

McCormick was president and CEO of FreeMarkets and president of Ariba, two publicly-traded software and services companies. He has also worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. McCormick received a mechanical engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a former U.S. Army officer and a veteran of the first Gulf War.

The Pew Memorial Lecture at Grove City College is in honor and memory of J. Howard Pew, renowned industrialist and College benefactor. A graduate of the Class of 1900, Pew was a member of the Grove City College Board of Trustees from 1912-1971 and served as its president for the last 40 of those years. The annual Pew lecture is funded through the generosity of alumni gifts. Its purpose is to bring to campus lecturers who share Pew’s love of faith and freedom.
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This year, the Wolverines will take the field under the lights on Sept. 26, as they face the Presidents of conference rival Washington & Jefferson College. Kick off is at 7 p.m. at Robert E. Thorn Field.

For this game, the Wolverine Marching Band bleacher section will be located in the end zone in front of Phillips Fiel...d House to make room for a special student section in the stands. Students are again organizing a “White Out” T-shirt campaign to show school spirit.

The public is invited to attend the night’s festivities, which begin with pre-game at 6:30 p.m. There is no admission charge and no tickets are necessary for this special event. A short fireworks display by Zambelli Internationale of New Castle will cap off the game.

In case of rain, the fireworks display will be used the following weekend during Homecoming festivities.

The College added lights to Thorn Field three years ago as part of the facility’s renovation. The lights have allowed the College to open Thorn Field to the campus community for recreational use each evening in the fall and spring.

In 2008, the Wolverines won a high-scoring 41-35 game against Bethany College in the night game.

Also making headlines on Sept. 26, college coaches will work together in Coach to Cure MD, a national charity project of the American Football Coaches Association.

This day, coaches from all levels of college football will unite to raise awareness and research funding for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the most widespread genetic killer diagnosed in childhood.

At Grove City College, the Student Athlete Advisory Committee will collect donations during the night football game. Coaches will show their support by wearing the Coach to Cure MD arm patches during the game.

The fans will be asked to donate to research projects supported by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, the largest nonprofit organization in the United States that is entirely focused on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Read More

The Grove City College theater staff is preparing for its first production of the 2009-10 academic year. “Polarities: Honor and Dishonor in the Arctic” will be performed in the Little Theater of the Pew Fine Arts Center, Sept. 24-26 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are free and can be obtained at the theater table in the Breen Stu...dent Union, by calling the theater ticket line at (724) 458-3331, or by requesting them via email at theatertickets@gcc.edu.

The play recounts the adventures of Pittsburgh doctor Dr. John Goodsell, who served as surgeon to Commander Robert Peary on his famous trip to the North Pole in 1908-09. The play is based largely on Goodsell’s diaries but draws heavily on the historical records of others on the trip. Some of Dr. Goodsell’s 100-year-old photographs will be shown during the course of the play.

The play, written by retired history teacher Cliff Brown, was commissioned by the Mercer County Historical Society in 2008 – the 100th anniversary of the departure. Goodsell spent the latter years of his life in Sandy Lake, Mercer County. His diaries and Arctic memorabilia are on display at the Society’s main office in Mercer.

Brown has offered the following synopsis of the play:

In 1908, Dr. John Goodsell, expedition doctor for Robert E. Peary, leaves New York on what becomes the most controversial polar expedition of all time. The voyage brings him in contact with the world of the Eskimos − a world of extremities and uncertainties. On his return to America he finds that Peary’s claim to have reached the Pole is open to question, and he finds Peary’s disregard for those who went with him increasingly intolerable. The only one he can count on throughout the tensions of the ensuing years is Captain Bob Bartlett. When he and Bartlett reconnect in later years the trip is re-lived and Goodsell is able to face the issue of Peary’s duplicity and find a degree of closure.

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The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College has announced the 2009-10 lineup of speakers for the “Freedom Readers” dessert program, featuring discussions on economics editorial writing by free market thinkers such as Matt Kibbe ’85, the president and CEO of FreedomWorks, and radio talk show host Glen Meakem. A...ll six dessert programs will be at 7:30 p.m. in Mary Anderson Pew South Dining Hall; the programs are free and open to the public, however, registration is required.

Kibbe will lead off the series on Sept. 23, with an introduction by Grove City College Economics Department Chairman Dr. Jeffrey Herbener. Formerly the senior economist for the Republican National Committee, Kibbe has been with FreedomWorks, previously known as Citizens for a Sound Economy, since the mid 1980s. He has also served as the chief of staff and House Budget Committee associate for U.S. Rep. Dan Miller from Florida. Kibbe’s writings on economics, public policy and politics have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Times.

He did graduate work in the economics department at George Mason University and received his bachelor of arts degree in economics from Grove City College. FreedomWorks is also chaired by former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey and recruits, educates, trains and mobilizes volunteer activists to fight for less government, lower taxes and more freedom.

The Center established the "Freedom Readers" program in 2008 to educate America’s youth about basic free market economic principles. The Center hosts three “Freedom Readers” evening dessert programs each semester with a writer discussing his or her free market economics editorial and presentations from recent graduates working in the policy arena. In addition to educating students to free market principles and increasing interest in the Center’s programming, “Freedom Readers” aims to expand knowledge of freedom-oriented policy career and study opportunities. The program is free and open to the public, although seating is limited. Register in advance with Brenda Vinton at (724) 450-1541 or at blvinton@gcc.edu.

The fall portion of the series will also feature conservative radio talk show host Glen Meakem on Oct. 14; the Center’s Executive Director Dr. Paul Kengor and Tom O’Boyle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Nov. 9.

The Center for Vision & Values has gained expertise in writing and disseminating timely insights with 150 opinion editorials in the 2008-09 academic year. Beginning with the days of renowned economics professor Dr. Hans Sennholz, Grove City College has long valued the concise, well-written and entertaining opinion editorial grounded in academically sound arguments.

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World Seen Coming to Thiel College
Hello GCC!

I am posting an announcement about and event that will be occuring at Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania on Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 10am-5pm. This event is called Wold Seen (details withi...n the link as well as other promo-materials that can be sent via e-mail... after interest is shown) and is being hosted by Thiel Christian Fellowship (TCF.) I am inviting all of you to attend this event and to bring a friend or two...OR THREE... you get the point :). We encourage youth/church groups to register for this event and there will be a form online to do so in the near future. Those who contact Jacquelyne Kinney, Treasurer of TCF at jkinney@thiel.edu or 724-531-1250 will receive the updated information on registering for this event. Please feel free to contact Jacquelyne with any questions or concerns.
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