Forty incoming Penn College students are finishing up their last week on campus in the Summer PLUS program offered by Academic Support Services. Besides taking preparatory classes in math, English, reading and study skills, they attended a lecture by Veronica M.
A memorial service was Saturday morning for Lamont E. Butters, head of the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies' civil engineering department, who died early Tuesday, July 19. A faculty member for nearly 30 years, he was the 1985 recipient of Penn College's "Master Teacher" award.
Four Pennsylvania College of Technology students volunteered to take part in an initiative by the Williamsport Area School District to close achievement gaps and raise the performance level of pupils at Sheridan Elementary School. On July 19, Penn College early childhood education students Thomas A. Gallup Jr., Williamsport; Michaela A. Lehman, Montoursville; Eryn K.
Henriette K. Evans, an Act 101 Academic and Career Specialist in the Office of Academic Support Services at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been elected the Northeast Regional Representative to the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Association of Developmental Educators for 2005-07.
Students from Penn College's Children's Learning Center toured the Paramedic Lab on Wednesday, dialing 9-1-1 for practice, watching their vital signs measured on a monitor, and sitting in the back of an ambulance.
Towering steel beams rise on a near-daily basis, seen in this view from the third floor of the SASC, as the Roger and Peggy Madigan Library visibly progresses toward next summer's targeted completion date.
Two new program directors, Shawn A. Kiser and Joseph Mileto Jr., have been named in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Health Sciences. Kiser, formerly the coordinator of dental hygiene at the college, has been promoted to director of dental hygiene.
During their summer break, high school teachers became students in classrooms and laboratories at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Through its Outreach for K-12 Office, the college offered hands-on training to the high school instructors to help keep them up-to-date with new technology and give their students a firm foundation in basic and advanced technical skills.
Culinary arts and systems student and "You're the Chef" production coordinator Christine L. Faherty, Wantage, N.J., and Dean of Hospitality Frederick W. Becker offered expertise to children attending day camp Monday at Bruce E. Henry Park in Loyalsock Township. In honor of the camp's Hawaiian Week theme,Faherty made fruit smoothies for the children, with their help.
An event to raise money for an endowed scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology this week also resulted in the kickoff of another scholarship fund. Michael Taylor, arborist representative and manager of the York office of Bartlett Tree Expert Co., presented a check for $1,000 to the Penn College Foundation, to be used as the first award from the Bartlett Tree Foundation Inc.
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