Brown and White Vol. 123 no. 12

              Vol. 123 No. 12
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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By TIANLI ZHANG
Lehigh students, faculty, adminis­trators and alumni celebrated Lehigh University’s 134th Founder’s Day Friday afternoon.
The Founder’s Day ceremony was held in Packer Memorial Church, during which the Lehigh community celebrated and honored the legacy of Lehigh’s founder, Asa Packer, to whom President Alice P. Gast referred to as a “man of vision.”
Janet Norwood, senior director of Ad­vancement Communications at Lehigh, who helped organize Founder’s Day, said in an email that Founder’s Day is an opportunity to recognize the vision of Packer and the leaders who are following in his footsteps and support Lehigh in many different ways.
“It’s exciting to be a part of one of the university’s most long-standing tradi­tions,” Norwood said. “It also gives the Lehigh community a chance to applaud students, faculty and alumni who are helping to keep Lehigh strong.”
During her welcoming remarks, Gast spoke about Packer’s visioning goals for Lehigh and his important and pressing need to rebuild the nation after the Civil War. Gast said she often reflected Pack­er’s need and vision as she traveled to six universities in China last month with the Lehigh delegation.
“I must say that Lehigh’s founding principles — Packer’s aim to rebuild the nation, resonates with our Chinese col­leagues,” Gast said. “I returned from this trip, more convinced than ever that there’s great value in what we do at Lehigh.”
Gast also addressed the significance of collaboration and competition in a present global context by comparing it to the history of Packer. Gast said Packer understood the need to collaborate and compete with a growing world as he trav­eled to Europe in 1865 when the railroad industry began transitioning from iron to steel.
Packer also recognized this change as an opportunity while working with Rob­ert Sayre, who was vice-president of Le­high Valley Railroad, and sent John Fritz, a pioneer in the iron and steel industries, to Britain and France for advanced study in steel production. These visionary men collaborated with the Europeans, while competing with them at the same time. Their business had succeeded while other ironworks were wiped out in the 19th century.
By LAURA CASALE and
CORY TUCKER
Lehigh groups are holding Pink Week, a week of philanthropic events to spread brast cancer awareness hosted by the Panhellenic Council, fraternity and sorority organiza­tions and Colleges Against Cancer through Friday.
Although different groups on Lehigh’s campus strive to raise as much money as they can, their main goal is to raise aware­ness about the disease.
“We have been working on planning this week for some time now, so we look forward to all of the support we are going to get from the campus,” said Ari Stillman, ’13, a member of Panhellenic Council who helped organize the event.
Zeta Tau Alpha soroity, whose philan­thropy is breast cancer awareness and edu­cation will be donating their proceeds from the week to the Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation, which supports Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Unless noted otherwise, 99 cents of ev­ery dollar donated from every event will go to the Gateway for Cancer Research to sup­port breast cancer awareness and research.
“Zeta Tau Alpha feels very strongly about our philanthropy not only because it is an important cause, but also some of our own members have friends and family battling breast cancer,” said Jen Francis, ’13, ZTA’s Pink Week Chair.
Pink Week’s events started Saturday with a push to wear pink at Lehigh’s football game. The players and coaches received various pink accessories to wear during the game like bracelets and sweat bands. ZTA also handed out pink ribbons to the many spectators and fans in the crowd.
“It was really inspiring to see our team rallying behind such an important cause,” said Colin Orr, ’15. “Winning this game was extra special because of its role as the Pink Week kickoff event.”
The sorority has been working with Le­high Athletics since last spring to help ensure that the game was a success, according to Francis. ZTA members hosted different sta­tions including ribbon painting and a free throw challenge in an effort to attract stu­dents as well as alumni and their families.
“There are so many groups and organi­zations out there that are supporting breast cancer awareness,” said Eileen Biro, the foot­ball team’s secretary. “It’s nice that Lehigh can get the student groups and teams togeth­er to bring the awareness to the campus and to the entire Bethlehem community.”
Aside from sponsoring the Pink Out foot­ball game, ZTA is also hosting many other awareness events around campus this week.
Today the sorority will be keeping
Founder’s Day events honor LU students, faculty, alumni
B&W photo by LISA KONG
TOP: Attendees listen to President Gast’s opening remarks at the Founder’s Day ceremony BOTTOM LEFT: Lehigh students hold flags to commemorate LU classes. BOTTOM RIGHT: Lehigh officials enter Packer Memorial Church.
Campus groups collaborate for Pink Week
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