Gettysburg College

And, you know, we always say one thing that I've come to chuckle at, because I don't really have a rich athletic background.

My SBL co-founder, he's the athlete, played football at Gettysburg.

But a lot of people, they say that athletes, they pass away twice.

You know, you have to have a ceremony and and memorialization of your athletic career because you just can't play forever.

Oh, no.

Right on the northern lip of town sits Gettysburg College.

What they called

Pennsylvania College, back when the Union and the Confederacy clashed across its wheat fields, and sitting dead center on that campus is Pennsylvania Hall, or Penn

I graduated second in my high school class.

I Was fortunate to get a scholarship to Gettysburg College and ended up graduating second in my class there.

And I think largely shaped by my mom.

I always felt that the meaning of life was to live it in a way to making meaningful difference.

More than 160 years later, Gettysburg has become as famous for its ghosts as its battlefield.

Visitors tell stories of phantom soldiers at Devil's Den, invisible horses crossing an old covered bridge, and an elevator at Gettysburg College that seemingly opened onto a Civil War hospital still filled with the wounded.

Some of these stories have remarkable histories.

Others can be proven false.

That's it.

That's the whole setup.

It was the early 1980s at Gettysburg College and two administrators were working late in a building called Pennsylvania Hall.

It's dark out.

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From unfiltered at 5'12", from Gettysburg College, Bill Colarulo.

5'12"?

Yeah, right.

Kate became president in 2021 after a long career at Butler University, where she taught psychology, later served as provost and vice president for academic affairs.

She earned her bachelor's degree at Gettysburg College, go Bullets, and her graduate degrees in social psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Kate also serves as a trustee at Gettysburg College, which is of course our shared alma mater.

Kate, when we were doing our research for this, we discovered something a little unusual.

We try to do this for every single guest.

So both of my parents were enmeshed in higher education.

My dad at a liberal arts institution and my mom, as I said, at a community college.

So I knew from the time that I was a kid, really a young girl, that I wanted to go on to become a psychology professor and chose Gettysburg College as my undergraduate alma mater as a pathway to going and getting a PhD in psychology.

People around here will tell you that after three days of cannon smoke and screaming iron in July of 1863, 50,000 casualties soaked into that red clay, and some of that agony settled so deep it never quite evaporated.

Oh no. right on the northern lip of town, sets Gettysburg College.

What they called Pennsylvania College, back when the Union and the Confederacy clashed across its wheat fields, and sitting dead center on that campus is Pennsylvania Hall, or Penn Hall, as the kids call it today.

Now, it's a handsome thing.

I can remember quite well the lengthy discussions that we had in our Westchester dormitory about the merits of the Stanford style of play and the many other variations of the T that were being introduced throughout the country.

Some years later, while I was coaching at Gettysburg College, Al assisted us with one of our spring practice sessions.

This was just about the time that he was making his move in the coaching profession.

This is Leroy Zimmerman,

But, uh, by a House rule, the flag flies 24 hours a day over Congress.

It flies by sanc- by custom at Iwo Jima, by custom over the Arizona at Pearl Harbor, by custom over a dormitory at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

That dormitory was used as a hospital during the Civil War.

By custom at the town square at Taos, New Mexico, where Kit Carson climbed the flagpole to nail the flag up there so nobody could take it down, even if they lost the scrimmage.