![The featured speaker (center) greets Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour and her husband Fred, an alumnus and retired college faculty member.](//www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/09/Pickens1-e1568302692251-150x150.jpg)
![Pickens makes a point, joined on stage by Yaw (who also chairs the college board of directors).](//www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/09/Pickens2-150x150.jpg)
Wednesday's death of oil magnate T. Boone Pickens evoked his Fall 2011 trip to Williamsport to push for energy self-sufficiency through natural gas and other sources. Pickens, who died in Dallas at age 91, delivered a public address at the Community Arts Center on Sept. 30, 2011, preceded by an invitation-only panel discussion with then-Gov. Tom Corbett, state Sen. Gene Yaw, and other government and industry leaders. The appearance also led to a Spring 2012 article in One College Avenue, the forerunner to Penn College Magazine:
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