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New Vice President for Student Affairs
and Dean of Students Appointed
 Gina-Lyn Crance has been
appointed vice president for
student affairs and dean of
students effective May 1.
Crance comes to Albright
from Hofstra University,
where she has spent the last 17 years working
in various positions within the student
affairs division. She joined Hofstra University
in early 1990 as an academic adviser. By late
1993 she was promoted to assistant dean of
students and, by mid-1995 she advanced to
senior assistant dean of students and director
of the International Students Office.
In 1997, she became the associate dean
of students and director of freshman support
services. She was named Hofstra’s dean of
students following a national search in 2001.
As dean of students, she provided leadership
to more than 300 professional and
para-professional staff and was actively involved in student judicial affairs, multicultural
programming, honors college residence
hall and commuting student affairs.
Crance holds a bachelor of arts in psychology
from Hofstra University, a master of arts
in marriage and family counseling from Hofstra,
and a master of education from Teachers
College, Columbia, in higher education
administration. She is currently pursuing
her doctorate of education from Hofstra
University in foundations, leadership and
policy studies and anticipates graduating in
December 2007.
She and her husband, Robert Gutmann,
have a two-year-old daughter, Carly Joy
Gutmann. Crance said she is very excited
about the tremendous opportunity ahead
of her.
Stay tuned for a Q&A with the new
dean in a future issue of The Albright
Reporter.
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Tenure & Promotions Awarded to Faculty
At the February meeting of the Board of Trustees, six faculty members were awarded tenure
and/or promotions. Congratulations to the following:
Charles Brown, Ph.D., sociology, promoted to associate professor with tenure
Christian Hamann, Ph.D., chemistry and biochemistry, promoted to associate
professor with tenure
Richard Hamwi, Ph.D., art, promoted to associate professor with tenure
Elizabeth Kiddy, Ph.D., history and Latin American studies, promoted to associate
professor with tenure
Jon Bekken, Ph.D., English and communications, awarded tenure
Pamela Artz, Ph.D. ’87, chemistry and biochemistry, promoted to professor
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Reading Native
Leaves $800K
Legacy for
Scholarships
Elizabeth B. Bergstedt ’37,
from the 1937 yearbook Albright College received
a bequest of
$829,000 from the
estate of Elizabeth
Blecker Bergstedt, ’37.
Bergstedt, a Reading
native, lived in
Sun City, Ariz., at the
time of her death in
2006. Her bequest has
established the Elizabeth
and Gustave
Bergstedt Endowed
Scholarship in the
names of herself
and her late husband. The scholarship
will be awarded to financially
needy and deserving students.
Before her death, Bergstedt also
made a substantial gift to Albright
College’s planned Science Center,
bringing her lifetime giving to
Albright to nearly a million dollars.
Bergstedt graduated magna cum
laude from Albright with a degree
in English and German. She later
earned a master’s degree in psychiatric
social work from Columbia University,
and launched a career in social
services, including as director of
social services at the Veteran’s
Administration Hospital in Lebanon,
Pa., and the Toledo Mental Hygiene
Clinic in Toledo, Ohio.
In 2004, Bergstadt said of her
plan to establish a scholarship fund
that her satisfaction was in “knowing
that many students will have
the opportunity to attend Albright
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