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The 2010-2011 Faculty/Staff Campaign is under way. So far, more than 300 faculty and staff members have made gifts to the university to support the hallmarks of an Elon education, including excellent teaching and engaged learning programs, outstanding facilities and scholarships for students.

Editor’s Note: Website manager David Morton is an associate pastor for Welcome Baptist Church in Hillsborough, N.C. He visited earthquake-ravaged Haiti recently as part of a mission trip. He shared his thoughts on his experiences with @Elon in this special feature.

Since 2001, Elon’s marching band, the Fire of the Carolinas, has been a fixture on both the field and in the stands at all Elon home football games.

Deep within the Petén Forest, which extends from the eastern Chiapas in Mexico through northern Guatemala and into northwestern Belize, are the ruins of the once powerful Maya. And though the pre-Columbian civilization collapsed centuries ago, the site of Dos Hombres, in Belize, still holds many secrets waiting to be unearthed by archaeologists, anthropologists and researchers, including Elon professor Rissa Trachman and her students.

Are you a new employee at Elon? Don't forget to fill out the "Who's New" questionnaire to be featured in the next issue of @Elon!

Members of the Class of 2010 aren't the only people leaving Elon's campus this month. Several faculty and staff will be leaving Elon for the next chapter of their lives, too. Celebrate the legacies of Jane Romer, George Troxler, Anne Cassebaum, Jim Pace, Jerry Tolley, Frank Harris '65 and Lamar Bland in the following profiles and videos.

A renowned scholar in the field of religious studies, a respected Elon colleague and an influential teacher of Elon students for more than two decades, Jeffrey Pugh, Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies, has been named the 2010 Distinguished University Scholar.