| President Thayne Hosts First Opening Breakfast; Gifts $78,400 to Community |
08.24.12 |
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Dr. Lewis Evitts Thayne, Lebanon Valley College’s 18th president, hosted his first Opening Breakfast on Friday, August 24, and announced the College’s annual gifts to the community totaling more than $78,000. Thayne presented checks to Annville Township’s downtown economic development project for $50,000, Annville Township for $11,100, and Annville-Cleona School District for $17,300. The $50,000 gift to the downtown economic development project was the College’s last of the most recent five-year, $250,000 gift that helped to bring the Annville Center Plaza at the intersection of Routes 934 and 422 to completion.
Thayne reinforced the College’s commitment to growing along with Annville and Lebanon County: “The recent Lebanon County comprehensive plan has targeted a number of industries that will add to the area’s economic development efforts, and those industries pair nicely with some of LVC’s top academic programs. The plan identifies the biomedical and health care industries as a target growth area. Our biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, pre-med, and physical therapy students are ready to help meet that demand. The plan also identifies business and financial services and education as its top target growth areas. Our business, accounting, economics, actuarial science, and education majors will be delighted to learn that the knowledge they attain at Lebanon Valley College has a place in Lebanon County’s plan for growth.”
In addition to the check presentations, the president announced preliminary enrollment figures for the 2012–2013 academic year. Total full–time undergraduate enrollment increased slightly from last year—1,630 to 1,636 students. New full–time student enrollment, which includes both freshmen and transfer students, stands at 466. Additionally, 237 students from the physical therapy, business administration, music education, and science education graduate programs and 115 part-time undergraduate students will study at LVC this fall.
“I look forward to welcoming the new students—our Sesquicentennial Class—to campus tomorrow,” Thayne said. “Our full-time undergraduate enrollment has continued to increase, and we’ll make every effort to insure that they have a successful experience at the College.”
The incoming class includes 410 freshmen and 56 transfer students from 15 states. Seventy-eight percent of the entering freshmen graduated in the top 30 percent of their high school class, earning them automatic Presidential Scholarships of up to 50 percent off tuition. An additional 46 freshmen whose schools do not rank were awarded Presidential Scholarships based on other factors including standardized test scores, rigor of their high school curriculum, and extracurricular activities. The result is that 82 percent of the freshmen class has been awarded one of LVC’s three merit-based scholarships.
For the full text of President Thayne’s remarks, click here. View photos from the event on the College's Facebook page.
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