Penn College had a pervasive presence in Thursday's Grand Slam Parade, which kicks off the Little League Baseball World Series and stepped off at 6 p.m. northwest of campus. Among those in Division Three of the parade – which follows West Fourth Street eastward to Market – were Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour, players and coaches on the college's conference-champion baseball squad, vehicles from the Penn College Motorsports Association and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Mini-Baja team, the Wildcat mascot, and a cohort of ambassadors, freshmen and alumni. The campus community showed its Penn College Pride; the parade also was broadcast live on WVIA television and covered via this PCToday photo gallery.
Penn College's Wildcat mascot gets a hero's welcome.
Penn College baseball players ham it up in the parade staging area.
College President Davie Jane Gilmour greets the Series' Europe Region champion.
Student Ambassadors carry the college banner and lead the first four teams from main campus to the Grand Slam Parade staging area.
Wildcat baseball alumni Curtis Taylor ’05; Paul Hileman, ’97; and Austin Upright, ’06, join the Wildcat on the parade float.
Penn College Pride in The College Store’s satellite location downtown.
Aptly gathering on a campus where "nontraditional by gender" is becoming passe, two girls on World Series teams join chaperone Carol Weinhoffer.
The Penn College Wildcat is mobbed by team members, all wanting some "face time" with their furry new friend.
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers prepares to show off its Baja vehicle.
Members of the Japanese team drink in the applause.
President Gilmour welcomes teams to a campus cookout in their honor, preparing to dispatch the blue-shirted Student Ambassadors to distribute commemorative pins to the World Series teams.
Tom F. Gregory, associate vice president for instruction, talks with the New England Region champs.
Already comfortable in his new surroundings, a Japanese player readily shows his confidence.
The Wildcat and PresidentGilmour prepare for the trip down West Fourth Street.
Ambassador Bradley S. Jackson leads two Northwest players in some impromptu dance moves.
The Latin American entry and its team "uncles" is escorted to a picnic outside the Bush Campus Center.
Little Leaguers - and one not-so-Little Leaguer - show that ballplayers come in all sizes.
Baseball coach Chris Howard and Wildcat bat girl Cynthia Howard.
Thomas F. Speicher, video production developer (and veteran of Little League Baseball World Series coverage), briefs Student Ambassadors prior to the teams' arrival.
The Caribbean team alights from a River Valley Transit bus, which carried them to campus from South Williamsport.
Potential "competitors" have no problem getting along off the field, as youngsters from all corners of the globe meet on common ground.
Mid-West players hone their whistling skills, with the help of a Latin America friend.
Mexico's players move through the food line, filling their plates with goodies from the college's School of Hospitality.
A sea of color fills the embankment west of the Bush Campus Center, as varied team members mingle in the shadow of the dining tents.
A menu of hot dogs and hamburgers is no match for cross-cultural appetites.
Representatives of the freshman class welcome the world to Williamsport.
Hospitality servers don appropriate athletic jerseys for their evening duties.
— Photos by Jennifer A. Cline and Tom Wilson, news bureau writer/editors
Penn College's Wildcat mascot gets a hero's welcome.
Penn College baseball players ham it up in the parade staging area.
College President Davie Jane Gilmour greets the Series' Europe Region champion.
Student Ambassadors carry the college banner and lead the first four teams from main campus to the Grand Slam Parade staging area.
Wildcat baseball alumni Curtis Taylor ’05; Paul Hileman, ’97; and Austin Upright, ’06, join the Wildcat on the parade float.
Penn College Pride in The College Store’s satellite location downtown.
Aptly gathering on a campus where "nontraditional by gender" is becoming passe, two girls on World Series teams join chaperone Carol Weinhoffer.
The Penn College Wildcat is mobbed by team members, all wanting some "face time" with their furry new friend.
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers prepares to show off its Baja vehicle.
Members of the Japanese team drink in the applause.
President Gilmour welcomes teams to a campus cookout in their honor, preparing to dispatch the blue-shirted Student Ambassadors to distribute commemorative pins to the World Series teams.
Tom F. Gregory, associate vice president for instruction, talks with the New England Region champs.
Already comfortable in his new surroundings, a Japanese player readily shows his confidence.
The Wildcat and PresidentGilmour prepare for the trip down West Fourth Street.
Ambassador Bradley S. Jackson leads two Northwest players in some impromptu dance moves.
The Latin American entry and its team "uncles" is escorted to a picnic outside the Bush Campus Center.
Little Leaguers - and one not-so-Little Leaguer - show that ballplayers come in all sizes.
Baseball coach Chris Howard and Wildcat bat girl Cynthia Howard.
Thomas F. Speicher, video production developer (and veteran of Little League Baseball World Series coverage), briefs Student Ambassadors prior to the teams' arrival.
The Caribbean team alights from a River Valley Transit bus, which carried them to campus from South Williamsport.
Potential "competitors" have no problem getting along off the field, as youngsters from all corners of the globe meet on common ground.
Mid-West players hone their whistling skills, with the help of a Latin America friend.
Mexico's players move through the food line, filling their plates with goodies from the college's School of Hospitality.
A sea of color fills the embankment west of the Bush Campus Center, as varied team members mingle in the shadow of the dining tents.
A menu of hot dogs and hamburgers is no match for cross-cultural appetites.
Representatives of the freshman class welcome the world to Williamsport.
Hospitality servers don appropriate athletic jerseys for their evening duties.