Tom Hamm went coast to coast for two recent speaking engagements. On February 19 he was the speaker for the Quaker Forum at First Friends Church and the Western Association of Friends in Whittier, California, speaking on the history of Friends in California. On March 4 and 5 he was at Guilford College. He gave a lecture on Quakers and slavery sponsored by the North Carolina Council on the Humanities, and was the speaker for Guilford's Friends of the Library centennial celebration.

Thank you to Amnesty International Earlham chapter for sponsoring a great week of education and awareness regarding Haiti and the Rah Rah food was incredible!

The current issue of the American Psychological Association's Monitor on Psychology contains contributions from two members of the psychology department. Michael Jackson's letter to the editor defends psychology practitioners against charges that treatments are not evidence based. Kathy Milar authored her first Time Capsule feature, "Overcoming Sentimental Rot." She is the new editor of this series. These can be accessed at American Psychological Association.

Kathy Milar attended the filming of an e-workshop on Teaching Biological Psychology sponsored by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology at Ball State University.

Thanks to you for collectively contributing $523.80 to Beyond Borders, American Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee, and Partners In Health. Beyond food, emergency medical care, and shelter, donations help provide coordination of NGOs and Haitian service providers, trauma counseling, verification of standing buildings, assessment of unaccompanied children and coordination of local services for them, legal counsel for Haitian immigrants, and more. You designated another $150 to support schools run by The Soleil Foundation and Life and Hope. Mèsi!

Congratulations to Nadira Khudayberdieva and the ECMUN Secretariat, Chairs and volunteers for doing such a wonderful job last weekend. Thanks also to Cheri Gaddis and all of the administrative faculty and staff who helped make everything run smoothly. We got wonderful feedback from the participants and the success of it was due to your diligent efforts. Thank you so much!

The newly published four-volume Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace features nine Earlham contributors; more than any other single institution. They are Hugh Barbour, Tony Bing, Landrum Bolling, Welling Hall, Tom Hamm, Caroline Higgins, Howard Richards, Alice Shrock and Lonnie Valentine.

We want to congratulate Barrett Hall on winning the Canned Food Drive contest. Thank you for all your help. Also, thank you to everyone who contributed food. It was a huge help and greatly appreciated.

Gil Bailey '11 and David Wellcome '11 presented "Deciding the Strictly Piecewise Testable Stringsets" at the 2009 Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics, at Oberlin. Co-authors are Matt Edlefsen '09, Molly Visscher '09, and Sean Wibel '11.

M.E. Hogan '07 has been invited to present a paper at "Resonance(s): A Deleuze and Guattari Conference on Philosophy, Arts, and Politics in Istanbul" in April 2010.

Akiko Kakutani received the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association "Post-secondary Language Teacher of the Year" award at the recent IFLTA annual conference.

Kathy Milar is Earlham's first recipient of a GLCA New Directions Initiative grant. She will be collaborate with David Ebenbach for her project: "Using Narratives; Reading and Telling Stories about Science" to work on a new pedagogical approach to engage her students in neuroscience. Contact: To find out more about the GLCA-NDI program, please go to: http://www.glca.org or contact Corinne Deibel, GLCA NDI Campus Facilitator.

Earlham's Model UN class and club gave an outstanding performance Oct. 29-31 in Cleveland at the Lake Erie International Model UN (LEIMUN). Kudos to Tatenda Makanza and Nadira Khudayberdieva for organizing and leading the group. Well done delegates Sharon Martins, Tamas Csontos, Cem Erez, Yusra Saleh, Samantha Lyon-Hill, Sonia Noori, Allyson Ferry, David Gabriel, Ivan Babic, and Martin Popov. And a special congratulations to Charlotte-Anne Malischewski, winner of a medal for excellence!

Congratulations to Carmina Brelsford and Chuva Johnson-Stalhut, whose art works brought home awards at the Richmond Art Museum's annual juried exhibition last week. Earlhamites Alisa Cohen, Miranda Cohen, Mark Van Buskirk and Walt Bistline also have art works in the show, which continues through November.

Well done Earlham College! The results for the Blood Drive are in: we had 83 total registrants and netted 64 units of blood. Not bad for a new location. Thanks very much for another great drive. Mark your calendars for Wed., Feb. 10, 2010 for the next campus drive.

Congratulations to the following Earlham students and faculty whose art works were chosen for the 111th Annual Art Exhibition at the Richmond Art Museum: Carmina Brelsford, Alisa Cohen, Chuva Johnson-Stahlhut, Miranda Trostle, Mark Van Buskirk and Walt Bistline.

Thanks to all who helped out, donated money and donated items to the Action Against Sexual Violence yard sale. You are much appreciated.

Family Weekend 2009 was a big hit with parents and family members due to the contributions of time and effort from our students, staff and faculty. My sincerest thanks go to those who played a role in making the weekend a great success. Kevin Schaudt

Congratulations to the following members of the Earlham community, whose artwork was selected in the Whitewater Art Competition at Indiana University East. They are: Mia Herring; Micah Wood and Mark Van Buskirk, painting; Sydney Sogol, weaving; and Virgil Looney and Walt Bistline, photography. The judge chose 54 pieces from 188 entries, meaning Earlham entries account for 11 percent of the show!

Biology Professor Bob Rosenberg, Psychology Professor Kathy Milar and junior psychobiology majors Caitlin Handy, Meaghan Randall, and Kelly Short recently attended the Midwest and Great Lakes Undergraduate Research Symposium on Neuroscience, mgluRs, at Ohio Wesleyan University. Bob made a brief presentation to other faculty in a session on demonstrations in teaching neuroscience.

Thanks to SAB for bringing the great country band "Tin Horse" to campus last weekend.

Doug Bennett, Tom Hamm, Jay Marshall, and Marcie Roberts were all part of Richmond First Friends Bicentennial Celebration on Sept. 12 and 13. Tom presented a history of Quakerism in Richmond, Jay brought the Sunday morning message, and Jay, Marcie, and Doug were all part of a panel on "The Future of Friends."

Thanks and great job to all those students contributed time and energy to the Richmond Fall Festival and Walk of fame. Special thanks to the Bonner Center and all the volunteers they helped organize.

Samuel Leeman-Munk, Aaron Weeden, Andrew Fitz Gibbon and Bryan Purcell comprised Earlham's winning team in the undergraduate division of the annual TeraGrid Student Scientific Programming Contest in June. This is the second time an Earlham team has won such a contest. More information about the contest and TeraGrid can be found at http://www.hpcwire.com/features/TeraGrid-09-Student-Participation-Soars-50246857.html .

Many thanks to Jonelle Ellis in Financial Aid, Mandy Roell in Student Accounts and all the women in the Registar's Office for helping so many students during Fall Enrollment. Without all your hard work we could not have made this happen smoothly. Each and every one of you is much appreciated!

Thanks to the Program board for all your hard work. The Old Crow Medicine Show was a great success. Also thanks to all the wonderful volunteers, the maintenance staff, housekeeping, Sodexho, and athletics and wellness. Without all your hard work we could not have made this happen.

Jim Rogers, associate professor of computer science, presented a paper "On Languages Piecewise Testable in the Strict Sense,” co-authored with Jeffrey Heinz, linguistics at the University of Delaware, and Earlham students Gil Bailey ’09, Matt Edlefsen ’09, Molly Visscher ’09, David Wellcome and Sean Wibel, at the 11th Meeting on Mathematics of Language, Bielefeld Germany in August.

Tammy Tomfohrde, assistant director of financial aid, was accepted into the Ball State University MBA program. Tammy begins her program this fall and expects to graduate in May 2011. Congrats!

Thanks to the President Office, Public Affairs Office and Community Relations for sponsoring tickets to the River Rats games during the summer. For the many who took the opportunity to enter and win tickets to a game, it proved to be a fun time and a nice summer break. Thanks again for this opportunity to connect to the broader Richmond community and support local events that featured two of our own Earlham players. And thanks, also, for all who participated.

Kudos to sophomore Bailey Hall who recently curated her first art exhibition in the South Hall of the Richmond Art Museum, where she interned this summer. The exhibit contains works from the museum's permanent collection, including a piece by Earlham photography instructor Walt Bistline.

Jennie Kiffmeyer, Earlham reference librarian, was a contributor to local programming on WMUB, with a piece about plums entitled Purple Harvest. Her piece first aired on October 22, 2008, and has received the Public Radio News Directors' award in the Commentary category. It was selected from submissions by all NPR stations in the United States. Congratulations Jennie!

Karim Sagna presented his paper entitled “Esthétique de la répétition dans l’ écriture de Massa M. Diabaté” at the African Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference at the University of Vermont at Burlington. Karim also published his study, “Entretien avec fina Sirifo Tounkara : un fina se raconte”, in the Journal of The African Literature Association (JALA) (Spring 2009, 222-228). This study was supported by Professional Development Fund (PDF) that allowed Karim to travel to southern Senegal for fieldwork in December 2008.

SoAn, Biology, and History majors gave presentations at this year's Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference. SoAn majors Tucker Foltz "Witches in the Bible Belt: The Complex Power Relations of Contemporary Wicca"; Ketayinla Jamir, "Being Ao: Indigenous Identity in Nagaland, India"; Lucie Kalousova "Alternative Opportunity Structures in Adult Education"; and Emily Miller, "Colliding Realities and Narratives of Socioeconomic Class and School Achievement" were accompanied by faculty members Deb Jackson and Dan Rosenberg. Biology majors Ruth Carter, "Two Eleutherodactylus species on Dominica and notes about habitat use"; and Jessica Swilhart, "A phylogenetic analysis of egg and clutch size characteristics in turtles" were accompanied by faculty members John Iverson and Wendy Tori. History majors David Schultz, "Reflections on a Revolution: The Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and What it Means for China"; and Anna Obermayer, "(Image)ining D
anger: Purity, Race and America's Wars in Asia" were accompanied by faculty member Chuck Yates. Congratulations to all!

Four biochemistry majors presented their Earlham research at the 21st Annual Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference. Victor Anciano presented a poster, “The Expression of Heat Shock Protein 70 and Metallothionein in Trout Red Blood Cells Exposed to Cadmium.” Chris Owens and Juan Hernandez presented a poster, “The Expression of Metallothionein I in Indiana Game Fish Exposed to Copper.” Both of these were summer experiences supported by the WM Keck Foundation grant. Leo Bautista gave a talk entitled “The Expression and Activity of Aromatase in Canine Reproductive Tissues” which was a culmination of the laboratory in Chemistry 351, Biochemistry, Fall, 2008.

Thanks to all who supported the WECI/Faculty Benefit Basketball game! The event raised exactly $201 for the "Give a Dollar For Clean Water" campaign for the residents of the Garden City Mobile Home Community. Great job!

Kudos to Cheri Gaddis and her Liberty Avenue Nursery for supplying the beautiful bucket planter for the last Staff on Campus luncheon, Thursday, April 16th. Lyn Thomas was the grateful recipient of this generous gift.

Peace, Justice, and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, 7th edition (Lynne Rienner: 2009) has just been published by participants in the Plowshares Project: Timothy McElwee, Welling Hall, Joe Liechty, and Julie Garber. Joanna Swanger, Earlham parent Bob Johansen, and former Earlham professor George Lopez all have chapters in the book

Jennie Kiffmeyer, Reference/Theological Librarian, recently co-presented a biblical storytelling workshop on King David for Episcopal clergy and lay leaders at the Under One Roof Conference held at the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.

Heidi Hisrich, Richmond Highschool teacher and M.A.T. alum, received $8,000 from the Lilly Foundation to pursue her project entitled: Green Urbanism: From Rotterdam to Richmond. Heidi plans to travel to Germany and Holland to study ecological rooftops, planted to absorb carbon dioxide, control heating and cooling costs, and provide a habitat for birds and butterflies. Holly plans to use her experience in planning the Environmental Science class she will be teaching at Richmond High School next year. Way to go Heidi!

The recent All Staff Retreat led by Tim Branson, our own Human Resource Director was amazing! The topic - Building Better Work Groups - was well organized with important information presented using clear examples and much good humor. Thank you Tim, well done!

M.A.T. alum Brenda Campbell '03 was awarded $25,000 by the Lilly foundation for her project entitled Supporting the Bridge. She was one of three teachers in the state of Indiana to receive this prestigious award. She will travel the United States studying bridge construction and taking pictures of abutments and connectors (things not usually photographed) to share with engineering classes throughout the state.

Jeff Rickey, dean of Admissions, recently presented a session on college affordability to a standing-room-only crowd of high school counselors and administrators at the annual Indiana state ACT conference.

Congratulations to the Earlham Students, Staff, Faculty and the Richmond community members for record breaking attendance at this year's Wellness Fair! After the tabulations, it was revealed that nearly 700 people attended the 8th Annual Wellness Fair on March 5th! After reviewing the evaluations, it is clear that the health screenings were extremely popular and helpful to the attendees, with nearly 17% noting that they were made aware of a medical condition with the screenings.
Mark your calendar for next year's fair which will be held on Thursday, March 4, 2010. If you have suggestions for new health and wellness providers to invite to next year's fair, please forward those to Cathryn Craig Dickman at craigca or call x 1899.

Amy Bryant presented a poster at the recent Association of College and Research Libraries conference on her Ford/Knight Project entitled, Sustainable Digitization by Students: How Undergraduate Students, Librarians and Archivists Collaboratively Planned and Implemented the Digitization of Archival Photographs.

Neal Baker, teaming with professional colleagues at Beloit, Lawrence and MacMaster, gave two presentations at the recent Association of College and Research Libraries conference. The sessions were entitled Cultivating Quality Collaboration (a poster) and Improving on Excellence: Looking Beyond Information Literacy to 21st-century Educational Paradigms and Virtual Worlds (a panel presentation).

Tom Kirk, and founding members of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Institute for Information Literacy, recently received a ACRL Presidential Recognition Award at the ACRL National Conference. The award was presented for the tenth anniversary of the Institute which provides professional development for librarians.

The Earlham College cross country teams earned recognition recently from the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The men’s and women’s teams were on the list of All-Academic teams for 2008. The Earlham women had a 3.66 GPA and the men a 3.56 GPA during the fall semester.

The Earlham College team took third place last weekend at the Iowa State National Cyber Defense Competition (CDC). The eight-hour competition ran through the morning and afternoon, with the tired but valiant Earlham CS students keeping the lead most of the afternoon. The final results reflected the closest top scores in CDC history with Earlham College finishing third by a razor's edge margin of six points. The third-place winning Earlham team consisted of Matt Edlefsen, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Ben Goldstone, Samuel Leeman-Munk, and Samuel Wein.

Tom Hamm's article, "'Chipping Away at the Landmarks of the Fathers': The Decline of the Testimony against Hireling Ministry in Nineteenth-Century Quakerism" appears in the spring 2009 issue of Quaker Studies.

Kudos to the students, faculty and staff who organized the trip to Powershift 09 in Washington, D.C. this past weekend. More than forty folks committed a long weekend to demonstrate for real solutions to climate change and our economic future. Thank you for taking action on these critical issues... now, let's bring it back to Earlham!