Holiday Happenstance Puts College Card Into Grad's Hands

For the past few years, admissions representative Sarah R. Shott has headed up a campus initiative in which Penn College employees write grateful messages in holiday cards for American servicemen and women. This season, 1,500 cards were signed and sent to A Million Thanks, an organization that distributes them (along with hundreds of thousands of other cards and letters) in packages for troops around the world. One of those greeting cards was astonishingly delivered to Kelvin A. Ortiz-Gomez, who earned his associate degree in collision repair technology a year ago and is now serving in the Army. "Would like to give a shoutout to @PennCollege," he said via social media, "especially Disability Services for this holiday card I received, which is funny because it's been a year since I graduated from Penn College and I was given this bag randomly."