Friday, August 24 (All First-Year and Transfer Students) 8:00 am 11:00 am REGISTRATION & MOVE INTO RESIDENCE HALLS- Leffler Chapel Parking Lot 8:00 am HONORS STUDENTS DEPART FOR HOOT - Meet at Brown Lot (across from Leffler Chapel, Lake Placida) 8:00 11:30 am STUDENT PHOTO ID CARDS - Campus Security Orchard Hall 605 South Mount Joy Street (For students who need to make an ID card) 9:00-11:30 am OPTIONAL CAMPUS OPEN HOUSES COLLEGE BOOKSTORE - (opens at 8am) ITS (INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY SERVICES) INFORMATION- Nicarry Hall 125 STUDY ABROAD OPEN HOUSE - Nicarry Hall 117 CENTER FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING AND PEACEMAKING Nicarry Hall 121 LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE - High Library WRITERS HOUSE OPEN HOUSE - Bowers Writers House MOSAIC HOUSE OPEN HOUSE - Mosaic House; Corner of Orange Street & South Mount Joy Streets STUDENT INVOLVEMENT CENTER OPEN HOUSE - Baugher Student Center CAREER SERVICES OPEN HOUSE - Baugher Student Center 201 CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS OPEN HOUSE - Baugher Student Center 216 OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Raffensperger Alumni House, Corner of College Avenue & Chestnut Street STUDENT EMPLOYMENT OPEN HOUSE- Human Resources; Myer Hall 2200 PSECU OPEN HOUSE- Brossman Commons BLUE JAYS SIBLINGS, COUSINS, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, VISITORS ADMISSIONS OPEN HOUSE- Leffler House WELLNESS FAIR- Thompson Gymnasium Athletic Quad 11:30 am 1:00 pm OPENING DAYS LUNCH- Brinser Field - 1:10 pm-1:30 pm BLUE JAYS ALWAYS OPENING DAYS WELCOME- The Dell Welcome by President Dr. Carl J. Strikwerda, Professor of History, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs & Dean of Faculty Dr. Elizabeth Rider, Professor of Psychology, Vice President of Student Life, Celestino Limas
1:30 2:00 pm FAMILY & FRIENDS FAREWELL Families and Friends please depart by 2:00 PM 2:00-3:00 pm FIRST YEAR SEMINAR PEER GROUP MEETINGS- Academic Quad Review Fall Schedule & Locate Classroom Assignments 3:00 3:20 pm PURCHASE TEXTBOOKS & EC SWAG- Brossman Commons 3:30 4:30 pm FIRST YEAR SEMINAR MEETINGS - Various Locations 3:30 pm HONORS STUDENTS RETURN FROM HOOT. Free time until dinner. 4:30-5:00 pm WELCOME TO YOUR NEW NEST: MEET YOUR ROOMMATES/FLOORMATES Resident Assistant Floor Meetings COMMUTER STUDENTS MEET AT COMMUTER HOUSE Corner of Cedar and South Mount Joy Streets 5:00 6:30 pm DINNER- Marketplace; Brossman Commons Join your First Year Seminar Flock and Peer Mentors for Dinner 6:40-10:30 pm THE BLUE JAY COMMUNITY Presentations and discussions by Student Life staff - Various Locations 10:30-11:30 pm WELCOME TO THE NEST CHOCOLATE BUFFET - KAV Brossman Commons Saturday, August 25 7:00 8:30 am BLUE JAYS WELLNESS BREAKFAST (Optional) Marketplace; Brossman Commons Optional small flock discussions about wellness 9:00-9:50 am EDUCATE FOR SERVICE- Musser Auditorium of Leffler Chapel Explore options for Civic Engagement, Global Citizenship, & Study Abroad
10:00 11:20 am SCHOLARSHIP AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY- Musser Auditorium of Leffler Chapel Understanding the Core curriculum, accessible education, and FERPA 11:30 am-12:30 pm STRENGTHS LUNCHEON- Marketplace; Brossman Commons Exploring your top five strengths discussion 12:30-2:00 pm FIRST YEAR SEMINAR FLOCKS STRENGTHS CHALLENGE- Thompson Gymnasium Athletic Quad 2:00-2:45 pm CLASS OF 2022 AND FACULTY/STAFF RECEPTION: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HIGH LIBRARY- High Library Conversations with faculty and staff with refreshments and learn about the many resources and services the library offers. 3:00-4:30 pm ACADEMIC FREEDOM: BLUE JAYS TAKE FLIGHT! Musser Auditorium of Leffler Chapel 4:30-5:15 pm- YOUNG CENTER OPEN HOUSE- Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies 4:30-9:00 pm (optional) BLUE JAYS ALUMNI GAMES - (participating athletes are dismissed) Various Playing Fields 5:30-6:30 pm SUMMER COOKOUT WITH PRE-GAMES TAILGATING Brinser Field 6:30-8:00 pm BLUE JAYS ALWAYS OPENING DAYS GAMES - Brinser Field 1899 Cup Ceremony 8:30-11:30 pm BLUE JAYS MOCKTAIL RECEPTION WITH STUDENT PERFORMANCE GROUPS AND CAMPAIGN 2018- Leffler Chapel & Performance Center Sunday, August 26 7:00 8:30 am BREAKFAST (Optional) BREAKFAST "SPEEDFAITHING" (OPTIONAL)- Marketplace; Brossman Commons Instead of speed-dating, you will have an opportunity to hear other students' speedy answers to
questions about what they believe (and do not believe) about the world, how they came to believe these things, what they want to stay the same, and what they would like to see change. 8:00 11:00 am BODY SHOP OPEN (optional)- Brossman Commons 9:00-11:30 am CONTEMPLATIVE NATURE HIKE ON THE CONEWAGO RECREATIONAL TRAIL (Optional)- Meet school bus in front of Alpha Hall To contemplate is to observe at length, to ponder or mull over. You can talk with others or you can just listen to the sound of your own and other's footsteps. Savor the beauty. Live in the moment. Pay attention. 9:00 am - Noon EXPLORE A LOCAL HOUSE OF WORSHIP (Optional, Times Vary) Walk with a peer mentor, a chaplain's office student leader, and friends from your FYS peer group to explore a local house of worship. Here is a list of several options, meeting places/times, and the peer mentors or chaplain's office students who will host you and your friends on the visit. 9:30 11:00 am DINING SERVICES STUDENT EMPLOYEE MEETING - Marketplace; Brossman Commons This meeting is required of all first-year students who will be working for Dining Services. 10:00 am-1:00 pm PARKING PERMIT DISTRIBUTION- Campus Security; Orchard Hall, 605 South Mount Joy Street 11:00 am- Noon (Optional) LEARNING ABOUT THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS: A CONVERSATION WITH MUSLIM AND JEWISH LEADERS Bring friends from your peer group, and join one of the college chaplains and the chaplain's office student leaders in conversation with local Muslim and Jewish leaders, as we learn together about religious diversity and civil discourse in America. Noon-1:20 pm LANCASTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH SUNDAY DINNER - Marketplace; Brossman Commons Experience and taste local traditional Pennsylvania Dutch food & culture 1:30-2:15 pm BLUE JAYS ALWAYS RALLY - Musser Auditorium, Leffler Chapel Learn and reflect on the history of Elizabethtown College. Blue Jays learn to sing the Alma Mater & fight song.
2:30-4:30 pm BLUE JAYS TAKE FLIGHT- FIRST YEAR WALK & FYS TEAM CHALLENGE- The Dell & Elizabethtown Borough 4:30 5:30 pm CLASS OF 2022 BLUE JAYS ALWAYS FLOCK PHOTO- Wolf Field 5:30 6:30 pm DINNER- Marketplace; Brossman Commons 6:30-7:30 pm FREE TIME Dress for the induction ceremony 7:30-8:00 pm BLUE JAYS CHARACTER, HONOR, INTEGRITY, CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY- Musser Auditorium of Leffler Chapel 8:00-9:00 pm INDUCTION CEREMONY - The Dell 9:00-10:30 pm FIRST YEAR FESTIVAL FLOCK PARTY - The Dell Monday, August 27 8:00 am FIRST DAY OF CLASSES 6:00-7:30 pm FIRST YEAR PEER MENTORS AND FLOCKS MONDAY MEAL - Marketplace; Brossman Commons First Year Seminars meet for dinner with Peer Mentors 7:45 pm BLUE JAYS ALWAYS SING THE ALMA MATER AT THE PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE First Year Seminar Flocks sing the Alma Matter to Dr. Strikwerda and Dr. Bossenga Tuesday, August 28 3:30 pm Convocation Peer Mentors & All New Students Assemble - KAV First-year, Transfer, & International Students
4:00 pm Convocation - Leffler Chapel 5:00 pm All Campus Dinner - Brinser Field Wednesday, August 29 11:00 am 12:00 pm First Year Seminar Round Table: Electronic Resources Navigation of campus electronic resources, with a focus on Jay Web, Canvas & Starfish. Wednesday, September 5 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Academic Department Welcome Sessions Students are expected to visit the department in which they intend to declare a major. If you are a double major, please begin at one department and then proceed to the other. If you are undecided, please visit a department(s) in which you have an interest as a potential major. Wednesday, September 5 4:00 6:00 pm Student Involvement Fair - Thompson Gym