Donors empower students to experience firsts during their college experience: a first opportunity to study a subject they love, first international travel, first chance to compete on a national stage. In 2020-21, more than half of Penn College students were the first in their family to attend college. Opening opportunities transforms lives.
Students gain first large-aircraft experience on jet
"Working on something bigger like this, it’s a new experience for me, and I’m glad to be able to be doing it. Having something like this to work on sets me up for wherever I might want to go in the future."
Curtiss R. Gay ’22 aviation maintenance technician student
My Tomorrow program gives middle schoolers first taste of careers
"The hands-on experience helped build (my daughter’s) confidence in areas of work she would not otherwise experience. I was getting texts from her throughout the day telling me about her experiences, each one unique and exciting to her."
Mother of a participant
Gifts to Penn College
Setting the stage for tomorrow
We extend sincere appreciation to those who have provided generous contributions to the educational opportunities and successes of Penn College students.
Empowering opportunities
Gifts to Penn College set the stage for the future in the form of scholarships, new equipment and technology, facility enhancements and extracurricular leadership opportunities.
Nature Space provides outdoor learning for campus's youngest
"The children are learning an appreciation for the outdoors. We’re showing them you can have fun without things. And we’re sneakily getting them to be more active.”
Linda A. Reichert director of the Children's Learning Center
Brewing system provides technological firsts for students
“The new system provides an opportunity for our students to work on small-scale equipment that has many operational and design features in common with equipment found in much larger, industrial breweries. It allows me to demonstrate and teach ‘big-brewing’ operational techniques in the lab as we explore the fundamental scientific and technological concepts informing those techniques in the classroom.”
Timothy L. Yarrington instructor of brewing and fermentation science
President establishes first fund to support student competition
"Providing students with opportunities to succeed has always been a primary focus for me as president of this institution. My hope is that these funds will be life-changing for the students who receive them."
Davie Jane Gilmour president
James E. and Darla B. Logue Scholarship established for first-generation college students
"Jim and I valued our educations and realized that a solid foundation for a life well-lived is grounded in a good education. … My hope is that the recipient of this scholarship will set a new tradition in their family by being the first in what will be a long list of college graduates."
Darla B. Logue ’79 retired associate professor of dental hygiene
Keith S. Kuzio Larson Design Group Scholarship promotes diversity in engineering
"Larson Design Group hopes that the Keith S. Kuzio Scholarship will provide a diverse student with financial support as they strive to make an impact in the architecture and/or engineering field. By including a paid internship with the scholarship, it empowers the recipient to gain practical, hands-on experience."
Terry Krezmer chief human resources officer, Larson Design Group
Industrial robot and software enriches hands-on learning
"Partnering with the college will help students enhance their skills as they enter the workforce."
Rob Crane ’88 account executive, ABB Inc.