09 autumn reporter 1-20 - Franklin College
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Girls in Power Camp participants brainstorm about<br />
how to use different types of simple machines to pour<br />
water into a cup without using their hands.<br />
for Lowe. She drove him to Johnson<br />
Memorial Hospital, where she had<br />
previously served a college internship.<br />
When they arrived at the hospital, Letner<br />
explained the situation to the triage<br />
nurse, telling her Lowe appeared to have<br />
a broken hip and collar bone. Lowe was<br />
treated at the hospital for broken ribs, a<br />
concussion and broken collar bone, and<br />
a pin was placed in his hip.<br />
After the accident, Lowe’s friends<br />
remembered that Letner said she was<br />
an athletic training major at <strong>Franklin</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>. They tracked her down through<br />
the school to send her a thank-you note.<br />
The note congratulated Letner on being<br />
a first responder to the accident, a<br />
comment that particularly sticks with her.<br />
“It was my first time to be a first<br />
responder to something,” said Letner.<br />
“That was pretty cool.”<br />
Bicyclist Donald Lauer said he was most<br />
impressed that Letner turned around to<br />
help out strangers.<br />
“She couldn’t have been nicer,” said<br />
Lauer. She is a great ambassador for<br />
<strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong>. She spoke well for<br />
herself and her school.”<br />
New course to focus on women in leadership<br />
By Samantha Parker ’11<br />
Pulliam Fellow<br />
<strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong> realized women were crucial to the education<br />
equation just eight years after the college’s inception, when it became<br />
the first co-educational college in Indiana and the seventh in the<br />
nation in 1842. That catalyst for leadership and social action had a<br />
profound effect on changing the landscape of <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong>,<br />
where today the student enrollment is approximately 50 percent<br />
women, and the leadership positions of Student Congress President,<br />
college board of trustees chair and college vice president for planning,<br />
plant and technology are held by women.<br />
Women’s contributions, then and<br />
now, at <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong> and around<br />
the world, are the foundation for the<br />
Leadership Department’s new<br />
“Women in Leadership” course that<br />
will be offered this spring.<br />
“We will discuss historical attitudes<br />
toward women in power positions as<br />
well as the extensive current research<br />
on women in leadership,” said Bonnie<br />
Pribush, director of leadership development<br />
and course instructor. “We<br />
will also talk about the personal skills<br />
necessary for success in leadership<br />
today, and the impact of cultural<br />
differences.”<br />
The “Women in Leadership” course<br />
evolved from a program last year that<br />
required the college’s major scholarship<br />
winners to meet periodically with<br />
the leadership department director<br />
and work on developing leadership<br />
projects that engaged them with the<br />
college community. The three recipients<br />
for <strong>20</strong>08–<strong>09</strong> were all women, and<br />
they were inspired by their opportunity<br />
to meet current board of trustees<br />
chair Susan Johnson DeVoss ’65, the<br />
first woman in <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong> history<br />
to hold the position. The course was<br />
developed in response to the students’<br />
interest and their suggestions made<br />
during the program.<br />
The “Women in Leadership” course<br />
will be offered in two formats: A onecredit<br />
version for <strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
students and women in the community<br />
will consist of four weekend workshops,<br />
one reflection discussion and<br />
a paper. An additional two credits will<br />
be offered to traditional <strong>Franklin</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> students who will meet during<br />
a regular class to discuss class readings.<br />
Four speakers have been selected to<br />
lead workshops: The first is Linda<br />
Carli, an associate professor of<br />
psychology at Wellesley <strong>College</strong> and<br />
co-author of Through the Labrynth —<br />
The Truth about How Women Became<br />
Leaders. Carolyn Davis, president of<br />
Alliance Coaching and an executive<br />
coach and leadership consultant, is<br />
the second speaker. The third speaker<br />
is Ethlie Ann Vare, author of Mothers<br />
of Invention. Vare will speak to the<br />
<strong>Franklin</strong> <strong>College</strong> community in<br />
March as part of the college’s 175th<br />
anniversary convocation series and<br />
Women’s History Month celebration.<br />
The fourth is Juana Bordas, president<br />
of Mestiza Leadership International<br />
and author of Salsa, Soul and Spirit.<br />
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