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Provost In Austria
Volume 16,
No. 5
Published by the students of the Capitol Campus of the Pennsylvania State
University in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
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June 10, 1982
Theodore L. Gross, Ph.D., Provost of
Capitol Campus, returned May 4 from a
two-week "working vacation" in
Salzburg, Austria, where he attended
and was keynote speaker for the 212th
Salzburg Seminar for American Studies.
Dr. Gross indicated that the Seminars
were begun in the 1940's and have been
sponsored by the Harvard Student Coun
cil and the Rockefeller Foundation. The
Seminar was held near Salzburg in the
Schloss Leopoldskron (Leopoldskron
Castle), formerly the residence of Max
Reinhardt, one of the originators and
principal producers of the renowned
music and drama festival held there
nearly annually since 1917. The magnifi
cent castle, pictured at left, now houses
the Salzburg Seminar for American
Studies where about a hundred students
from more than 15 countries study each
summer. Dr. Gross delivered two
speeches during this session, one on
Ralph Ellison's work on the black
American experience and the other of
Saul Bellow on the Jewish American ex
perience. Dr. Gross culminated his
research in black and Jewish American
literature over the years resulting in the
publication of Dark Symphony: Negro
Literature in America along with James
Emanuel (1968), and The Literature of
American Jews (1973) among his many
literary successes.
Dr. Gross described the beauty of the
Alps, the scenic river banks around
Salzburg (the birthplace of Mozart), and
the antiquity of the castle as providing a
unique background for the Seminar. The
stimulation of other Fellows during the
Seminar, during one evening sharing
native poetry and another evening enjoy
ing Cole Porter and Duke Ellington
music on the piano, was likened by Dr.
Gross to a Cultural United Nations.
This fall, Dr. Gross will be teaching a
"Seminar in American Culture: Ellison
and Bellow," dealing with the black
American experience as exemplified by
the work of Ralph Ellison and the Jewish
American experience as illustrated by
the work of Saul Bellow. If you register
for this Wednesday evening course, you
too can enjoy the literary enrichment
which was shared with the Fellows of the
Salzburg Seminar this spring.
PBL Awar
For their volunteer work in co
sponsoring last year's Capitol Campus
Community Health Fair, the Campus
chapter of Phi Beta Lambda (PBL), a
professional organization for business
students, recently won first place in the
community service category in statewide
competition among V PBL chapters. The
community service project will be en
tered in national PBL competition in
Indianapolis, Ind., in May.
In addition to the first place award for
the chapter as a whole, two Capitol
Campus PBL members won individual
awards in the state competition, and two
were recognized for their contributions to
PBL. The awards presented and the
competition between individuals was
held at the PBL state convention at
Valley Forge, March 26-28.
Diane Buhay of Camp Hill won first
place in the Data Processing I contest
and will represent Pennsylvania in the
national competition in Indianapolis. In
the state competition, the students were
quizzed on their overall knowledge of
computer processing.
Keith Wil liams of Palmyra won third
place in the public relations competition,
in which the students were asked 90
questions about the public relations
aspects of business.
Two students, David Boyd and Douglas
Charney, both of Camp Hill, were named
to Who's Who in PBL for their in
volvement in the organization. Mr. Boyd
By Pat Wenger