Inauguration Weekend - Moravian College

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HAPPENING . . .
October 23
Michael Gordon
CAMPUSFACES
“When thunder roars, go indoors,” says Michael Utley
’74. He should know: in 2000, Michael was stuck by
lightning while golfi ng and spent 38 days in intensive
care and months in a rehab center. In 2002, he started
the safety group struckbylightning.org. “Don't bother
counting seconds between the lightning and thunder,”
Michael says. “Get inside, count from there.” And
exercise that caution wherever you are. “Ninety
percent of lightning casualties happen within running
distance of shelter,” Michael notes. “Somebody runs
out to roll up the car windows, and they get hit.”
COHEN ARTS AND LECTURE SERIES • The nation's
preeminent reporter on national security, New York
Times chief military correspondent Michael Gordon has
reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans,
the Horn of Africa, and other trouble spots around the
world. His visit to Moravian will include a reception, book
signing, and a lecture titled “Global Security Challenges
in the 21st Century.”
Shiloh, Lightfoot, and Linda
PHOTO BY JOHN KISH IV
Moravian football games feature not just Greyhound athletes, but
hounds of the four-legged variety. It’s a custom that dates back to
the late 1940’s, when the brothers of Omicron Gamma Omega ran
their greyhound across the fi eld at each game. A series of greyhounds
continued the tradition through the early 1970’s, when OGO mascot
Ichabod would dash across the fi eld whenever a touchdown was
scored. Thirty years later after Icky’s retirement, Moravian director
of athletics Paul Moyer and OGO president George Gray ’06 revived
the tradition with Linda Davis-Wallen ’75, whose greyhounds Shiloh
(white, gray, and tan) and Lightfoot (brown) are now familiar faces at
home games and other campus events. Kids love meeting the gentle
canines, who are often accompanied by friends from First State Greyhound
Rescue, a non-profi t organization dedicated to the adoption of
ex-racing greyhounds.
See www.moravian.edu/magazine/extra for more pics.
SAVING YESTERDAY FOR TOMORROW
When professor emeritus of history Dan Gilbert retired from fulltime
teaching at Moravian in 1988, he wanted to keep busy. Then
Robert Snyder, Moravian’s fi rst vice president, asked Dan to help
him organize his papers. “In the process of digging around, I was
fi nding all sorts of materials in the top fl oor of the library, and in
various offi ces and so forth,” Dan says. His project grew into the
Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary Archives.
Earlier this year, Dan established a $30,000 endowment for developing
and promoting the archives; he hopes others will contribute so
the collection will be available to anyone with an interest in the history
of the College. “There are some important stories in there,” he
notes, adding, “my favorite items are the ones that offer glimpses of
everyday student life. It’s hard to recapture that.”
October 25 – December 2
Leonard Ragouzeos - Recent Paintings
and Drawings
PAYNE GALLERY • Sometimes abstract, sometimes
realistic, the works of Leonard Ragouzeos are
meditations on form, object, space, and void.
6 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2007
PHOTO BY JOHN KISH IV