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'Silent Auction' Makes Big Noise in Scholarship Coffers

Friday, March 28, 2014

A Penn College tow hook, fabricated by campus welders, awaits bidders.Timothy B. Boring, a building automation technology: electrical technology concentration major from New Florence, considers some summertime fun.Who can resist THAT face? A hand-carved wooden bear appears to sniff out buyers in the Bush Campus Center air.Emily E. Grimes, of Coalport, a pre-dental hygiene student, surveys the sale items.A basket, attractively and bountifully prepared by the Admissions Office, in unsurprising Wildcat Blue.The Student Legacy Leadership Scholarship Fund got a $668 boost from Thursday's Student Government Association "Silent Auction" in Penn's Inn. "Things went well overall," said Dionisios D. Tomboris, student chair for the event. "People really swarmed at the end to make last-minute bids." SGA created the scholarship in 2006 and has worked diligently ever since to increase the fund and its annual gifts.
Photos by Craig R. Urey, student photographer
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