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Jonathan Scott Holloway, Ph.D.
YALE UNIVERSITY DEAN FEATURED DURING
LYCOMING COLLEGE EWING LECTURE
Stanley W. Sloter ’80
NAMED CHAIR OF LYCOMING COLLEGE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Jonathan Scott Holloway,
Ph.D., discussed how memory,
a critical source of historical
narrative formation, has
shaped American identity
and how racial memories
have fundamentally altered
the national script during
a presentation held at
Lycoming College earlier
this year. He also explained
what happens to Americans’
understanding of history when
so many citizens do not find
their histories represented
in the national story of
exceptionalism.
Holloway is currently dean
of Yale College and professor
of African-American studies,
history and American studies
at Yale University. He is the
author of “Confronting the
Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E.
Franklin Frazier, and Ralph
Bunche, 1919-1941” and “Jim
Crow Wisdom: Memory and
Identity in Black America
Since 1940,” which won
the American Book Award
from the Before Columbus
Foundation.
Holloway won the William
Clyde DeVane Award for
Distinguished Undergraduate
Teaching at Yale College. He
has held fellowships from
the W.E.B. Du Bois Research
Institute at Harvard University,
the Stanford Humanities
Center, and the Ford
Foundation and has served
as an Alphonse Fletcher Sr.
fellow.
His lecture, “Whose
Memories Matter? Race,
Identity, and the Battle for
American History,” is part of
the Robert H. Ewing Lecture
Series, named after a former
teacher at the college. The
series provides students with
the opportunity to listen to
various outlooks about a
wide range of social issues
from national experts. The
presentation also was part of
the Organization of American
Historians Distinguished
Lectureship Program, which
promotes excellence in the
scholarship, teaching, and
presentation of American
history. It was funded in part
through a grant from the
National Endowment for the
Humanities in partnership
with the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History
for the college’s Bridging
Cultures initiative called
“Created Equal: America’s
Civil Rights Struggle.”
The Lycoming College
board of trustees elected
Stanley W. Sloter as chair
during the board’s spring
meeting this past May. He
succeeds Peter R. Lynn, a 1969
graduate of the college who
served as chair since 2011 and
who will remain on the board
as chairman emeritus.
Sloter has been a board
member since 2004 and
served as vice chair over
the past three years. He has
participated on a number
of committees including
personnel, technology,
advancement, investment,
and strategic issues and
assessment. In 1999 and
2009, he was a guest speaker
for the college’s Institute for
Management Studies.
Sloter is CEO of Paradigm
Companies, which he founded
in 1991. Paradigm Companies,
which includes residential
development, construction
and property management
firms, operates primarily in the
Washington, D.C. metropolitan
area. He is frequently quoted
in the Washington Post and
other publications on land use
issues, affordable housing, and
development trends. Paradigm
annually provides a variety
of internships to Lycoming
students. He also serves as
an adjunct professor at The
George Washington University
School of Business, teaching
entrepreneurship in real estate
development.
A strong proponent
of community outreach,
Sloter has been involved
with a number of non-
profit and government
organizations including
the Rocketship Charter
School in Washington,
D.C., The Washington
Center for Internships,
Teach for America, and
the National Multi Housing
Council Affordable Housing
Committee.
Sloter graduated from
Lycoming with a bachelor’s
degree in chemistry-business
and earned a master’s degree
in business administration
from the University of
Pittsburgh in 1981. He and his
wife, Jolene (Hall) ’80, reside
in Bethesda, Maryland and
have two daughters, Kelsey
and Andrea.
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