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Alumnus/labor leader makes eye-opening return to campus

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Jason W. Killinger (left), assistant professor of HVAC technology, leads the group on a Carl Building Technologies Center lab tour.Appropriately pausing for photos outside the Lycoming Engines Metal Trades Center, home to the college's welding labs, are (from left) Loni N. Kline, vice president for college relations/chief philanthropy officer; Yaw, who also chairs the college's board of directors; Steffee; and Michael J. Reed, vice president for academic affairs/provost.The Larry A. Ward Machining Technologies Center and College Avenue Labs were among the day's popular destinations; Steffee here gets a dose of faculty expertise from Howard W. Troup (left), instructor of automated manufacturing/machine tool technology.Clothing bearing the historic insignia of Steffee's union local awaits distribution to students.An alumnus of a program that now enjoys a vastly more spacious and well-equipped workplace, Steffee (right) engages with James N. Colton II (left), assistant professor of welding, and Reed.The business agent for Boilermakers Local 154, who earned a Williamsport Area Community College welding degree in 1987, came back Thursday for a visit arranged by state Sen. Gene Yaw. Shawn M. Steffee, greatly impressed by the changes at his alma mater during the intervening years, was greeted by a variety of college administrators before touring instructional labs in the School of Engineering Technologies. The Indiana County resident also met members of the Baja SAE team, delivered a boxful of giveaways to be distributed to students and was met by President Davie Jane Gilmour during lunch at Le Jeune Chef Restaurant.

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