Battle Studies: Stories from the Students of Pennsylvania College GNMP

Five Gettysburg College Alumni - John Rudy ’07, Nick Lorenz ’08 and Stephen McNamee ’09; Teri Gillmor ’10 & Jacob Dinkelaker (Gettysburg Semester Student) ’09 - wrote and starred in a dramatic performance titled “Battle Studies: Stories from the Students of Pennsylvania College,” which was performed the summer of 2010 at a special interpretive campfire program in the Gettysburg National Military Park. Introduction & Closing remarks by Ranger Angie Atkinson.
The recently graduated Gettysburg College students assumed the roles of their 1860s alumni predecessors to convey the civilian college students’ battle experiences. Among those depicted was Michael Colver, Class of 1863, who watched the war come to his classroom, and James Crocker, valedictorian of the Class of 1850 who fought for the Confederacy and later described Pickett’s Charge.
At the time, Dinkelaker was a seasonal park ranger and Lorenz a living historian for the Gettysburg National Military Park, while Rudy was a Ranger at Harper's Ferry, NHP.
This program was also featured in the Gettysburg Magazine Autumn 2010:
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General note: The college was founded as Pennsylvania College in 1832, and changed names to Gettysburg College in 1921 which it remains today.