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Vol. 110, No. 9
Near 100 candidates in the race for office Emma Rossi Editor-in-Chief
ventures, including Winklevoss Consultants, a financial consultant to over 125 major corporations, and Winklevoss Technologies, a company that builds software for the actuarial consulting community to model and administer defined benefit pension plans. Winklevoss Technologies was acquired by Constellation Software for $125 million in 2023. In recent years, Winklevoss has become a Bitcoin advocate. The digital currency is the answer, he said,
As the semester progresses, the search for the ninth president of the College has expanded to almost 100 candidates. President Paul J. McNulty ’80, now in his eleventh year as president, announced his retirement over the summer. The search for the next president is being conducted by a committee of eleven College representatives led by Chair of the Board of Trustees Ed Breen ’78, comprised of several members of the Board of Trustees and including professor of electrical and computer engineering Dr. Mike Bright and professor of biblical and religious studies Dr. Carl Trueman. Consulting firm CarterBaldwin has been retained to aid in the process. CarterBaldwin is a nationally prominent executive search firm that fills senior level executive positions for academic, not-for-profit and corporate clients. Breen gave attendees of the Department of Graduate Programs an update on the search at last week’s Leadership Summit. In early December, the search committee will hold an all-day meeting in Pittsburgh, where they will narrow down their list of 80 to 100 serious names to less than 10. Their goal is to present the final one or two names to the Board of Trustees following CarterBaldwin’s background searches. Breen spoke highly of McNulty’s work as president, acknowledging his effort to strengthen the College’s mission on the core pillars of Christianity and Conservatism. This work, according to Breen, gave the College more opportunity to be nationally recognized, evidenced by Former Vice President Mike Pence’s role in the Center for Faith and Public Life and the newly dedicated Winklevoss
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Above, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss meet with senior Eleni Kasianides after their Q&A about cryptocurrency at last Friday’s summit. Below, Mike Pence addresses the audience on Friday morning.
Summit features Pence & Winklevosses Grad department hosts students and star speakers Emma Rossi Editor-in-Chief
On Nov. 8 and 9 the College’s Department of Graduate Programs hosted their annual Leadership Summit. The Summit featured guest speakers Former Vice President Mike Pence and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, providing Grove City
graduate students a chance to learn directly from those who have had great success and impact in their careers. The Summit is a two-day conference offering several guest lectures, a reception for graduate students and time for students to work together on projects from their courses. Grad students comSUMMIT 3
Winklevoss School of Business dedicated Grove City College Grove City College gave Howard E. Winklevoss ’65 a shot. That was all the teenager from Mercer, Pa., needed to embark on a journey of success that led to a successful career in the field of business technology and came full circle Thursday when the College honored Winklevoss by adding the alumnus’ family name to the College’s business school. The newly minted Winklevoss School of Business is being supported in part by a $4
million Bitcoin gift from its namesake. It was the first digital currency donation in the College’s history. During a ceremony celebrating the naming, Winklevoss shared his Grove City College story, which began 60 some years ago with a trip to Penn State, where Winklevoss intended to enroll after high school. Winklevoss said his entre-
preneurial spirit was fostered at the College. He was inspired by the courses taught by Dr. Hans Sennholz, a protégé of Ludwig von Mises and a leading voice for Austrian economics. “I fell in love with freedom, capitalism, and everything the Austrian school is about,” he said. At Grove City College, he earned a degree in Accounting and met his wife Carol, who also graduated in 1965. His groundbreaking book “Pension Mathematics with Numerical Illustrations” revolutionized the industry and led him to found multiple
Pitch perfect at business battle Madison Lynch Staff Writer
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (E+I) held its annual Elevator Pitch Competition at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13 in Sticht Hall. The event began with 169 pitches with students from thirty different majors, and a group of seventy-five original reviewers made up of individuals that have worked in relevant fields and other associates. This final round features only nineteen of the original 169 pitches, which was evaluated by a panel of judges who awarded cash prizes to
the first three winners. The judges for the event are Don Tharp from Hudson Financial Advisors, Chris Camp from Fun Fore All, Lori Brinker the Senior Vice President of Merrill Lynch, Mitch McFeely the Vice President of Treasury Management of NexTier Bank and Dan Sumner from Westinghouse. Additional prizes provided were the fan favorite vote, the Social Impact Prize by the Grove City Foundation and a prize from the Hudson Financial Advisors. The social impact prize of $500 presented by Dorene Powell went to Sarah Karns for Play It Forward. The Hudson Financial Advisors
award of $1000 was presented by Jason Burtt in place of Don Tharp to Audrey Karwowski for InSight. Third place for social enterprise was a tie between Abigail Mason with First 3 and Emily Haught with SocialPal. Second place was also a tie between Eleni Kasiandides with SproutRoute and Karis Mall and her group with CanvasCare, and first place went to Sarah Karns for Play It Forward. Commercial third place was a tie between freshman Gavin Rhodes with Chameleon Boots and sophomore Ian Martti with The Ball BATTLE 3
Pictured here are the winners of this year’s Elevator Pitch Competition.
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