Challenge, Encouragement, and Inspiration

With President Bortz (center) are Chairman of the Student Court M. Watson Mulkey ’08 (left) and Student Government President James L. Gresham II ’08. Mulkey is an English major and plans to travel and do service work abroad after graduation. Gresham, a major in Religion, will attend the Gemological Institute of America in preparation for becoming a jeweler.

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE has a long tradition of attracting professors to its teaching ranks who have a special talent for stimulating young men to reach above and beyond their abilities. They do it by challenging and encouraging their students to consider new ways of approaching problems. The faculty members who join this academic community show a passion for the classroom that inspires their young charges to respond with enthusiasm. They are faculty who take pride in their disciplines and in introducing the young men to the curriculum and to their areas of interest.

Hampden-Sydney is blessed with a faculty that excels at teaching, provides service to the community, and practices scholarship. Each year members of the faculty demonstrate their love and respect for scholarship by adding to the knowledge of their disciplines through study and research. Often they will include students in their pursuits and sometimes will partner with each other. Their body of work is shared in professional meetings, published papers, and books. And of great interest to our students, their work finds its way into the classrooms, corridors, and living spaces of our campus.

Within the pages of this document you will meet many of the men and women who make the Hampden-Sydney classroom such an exciting venue. They are great teachers and serious scholars. They challenge our young men and encourage them in many different ways.

I am grateful to Professor Emeritus of Classics C. Wayne Tucker, as well as to Provost and Dean of the Faculty Earl W. Fleck, for making this publication a reality. I also want to thank Elliott Professor of Biology Alex Werth, Elliott Professor of English Kathy Weese, and Elliott Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Vitale for sharing with us their love for and dedication to their profession, as well as all their colleagues who have contributed to this publication.

It is a great joy to work together as we “form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.” Following are the leaders in a long caravan of 233 years of Hampden-Sydney professors, scholars, and teachers.

-Walter M. Bortz III
President, Hampden-Sydney College

BEYOND THE Classroom FOR THE Classroom
Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
A report by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty