Juniata College

Template:Infobox American Universities Juniata College is a small, liberal arts & sciences college located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It is named after the Juniata River, one of the principal tributaries of the Susquehanna River.

Juniata College was founded by the Church of the Brethren in 1876. Its current enrollment is approximately 1400 students.

Juniata has a friendly atmosphere accentuated by faculty that often participate in extracirricular activities with students and are focused on the Juniata community. Students have many opportunities to participate in academic projects as well as club activities. Juniata has nearly 100 student run organizations.

Traditions

One of the things that sets Juniata apart is that it keeps several unique traditions each year. Here's a short list of campus traditions.

• Lobsterfest, Established: 1988 -- Held at the end of the first week of fall semester classes to welcome the students back to campus after summer break, this picnic gives each student a chance to enjoy his or her own lobster.

• Storming of the Arch, Established: Mid-1970s -- This event takes place on the second Wednesday of fall semester and is an optional rite of passage for the new freshmen. The goal is for the freshman to make it through the arch of The Cloister, which is guarded by the men's and women's rugby teams. To date no freshman has ever made it through the arch.

• Family Weekend, Established: 1936 -- Like most colleges Juniata hosts a family weekend, where students families can come to campus and enjoy several pre-planned activities.

• Homecoming Weekend, Established: 1923 -- This event is another that is not unique to Juniata. Homecoming weekend is a time for Alumni to return to campus and enjoy several sporting and non sporting events.

• Mountain Day, Established: 1896 -- Mountain Day remains the most anticipated tradition on campus. On Mountain Day all classes are cancelled and the students are bussed to a secret location in the mountains to spend the day picnicking, playing volleyball, canoeing, swimming, etc. What makes Mountain Day so popular is the fact that no one knows on which day Mountain Day will fall. Students wake up to a message on their phones and posted around their dorm telling them that "TODAY IS MOUNTAIN DAY". Some Resident Assistants will do something even more exciting to let students in their dorms know that today is the day, like banging pots and pans up and down the hallway early in the morning.

• Mr. Juniata Pageant, Established: 1997 -- This newer tradition is a spoof on modern beauty pageants. The guys of Juniata all stand up on stage and compete for the title of "Mr. Juniata".

• Madrigal Dinner, Established: 1970 -- Taking place on the last Saturday of fall semester, this holiday tradition has students camping out for tickets weeks in advance. Why? Because the first people to get tickets get the best seats and their pick of faculty or staff to serve their meal to them. That's right, the faculty and staff serve the students a fancy dinner on this special night each year.

• Fate of Gravity,Established: Unknown -- If you drop your cup in the Baker Refectory, it is heard by everyone and a chorus of 'ooooooh!' follows. The football team started this and continue to do so, unless they're at practice from which other students who are dining carry it on. Sometimes the "oooooh" sounds more like "oh", to which a good reply is "And 10", which is often the football team's record.

Buildings

Key campus facilities include the Baker Peace Chapel, located near campus, and the Raystown Field Station, an environmental research center located on Raystown Lake. In 2002, the new von Liebeg Science Center opened to provide leading edge facilities for biology and chemistry.

Academic Buildings:

• Brumbaugh Academic Center
• von Liebig Center for Science
• Good Hall
• Humanities Center
• Swigart Hall
• Ceramics Studio (The Pot Shop)
• Carnegie Hall & Shoemaker Galleries
• L.A. Beeghly Library
• Halbritter Performing Arts Center

Student Housing:

• Tussey and Terrace Halls
• Sunderland Hall (Formerly North Hall)
• Sherwood Hall
• The Cloister
• Lesher Hall (All female dormitory)
• South Hall
• Nye House
• East Apartments
• Mission House
• Pink Palace
• 2111 Cold Springs Road
• Hess Apartments
• Alternatives to Alcohol House (The House)

College Offices:

• Founders Hall
• Oller Center
• Quinter House
• I. Harvey Brumbaugh House
• Pennington House
• Accounting Office
• Business Office

Other Buildings:

• Ellis Hall (includes the college cafeteria, Baker Refectory)
• Kennedy Sports + Recreation Center
• Stone Church of the Brethren
• Health & Wellness Center
• H.B. Brumbaugh Alumni House
• Hickes Observatory
• Physical Plant
• President's House
• Baker House
• Baker Peace Chapel
• Juniata Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Raystown Field Station

Sports

The Juniata College Women's Volleyball team won the 2004 NCAA Division III National Championship in a 3-0 win over Washington University in St. Louis at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minn. The title was the first for head coach Larry Bock, who is the winningest coach in women's volleyball history. Carli Dale was named AVCA Division III Player of the Year and was featured in Sports Illustrated.

Notable Alumni

• Bruce Davis, 1965, executive director, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• Chuck Knox, 1954, former National Football League head coach, Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks
• William Phillips, 1970, atomic physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, jointly awarded Nobel Prize in 1997 for advancing basic knowledge and new techniques to chill atoms to extremely low temperatures.
• Robert W. Godshall, 1955, State Representative (R-Montgomery County), Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1983-present).
• Thomas C. Creighton, 1967, State Representative (R-Lancaster County), Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2001-present).
• Patrick E. Fleagle, 1973, State Representative (R-Franklin County), Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1989-present).

External links

• http://www.juniata.edu/
• Alumni Newsgroup

References

"Juniata College Campus Tour". Retrieved Mar. 9, 2005.