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What started as a menu option for the Williamsport cable audience now has the potential to satisfy the appetites of public television viewers nationwide. "You're the Chef," Pennsylvania College of Technology's Telly Award-winning cooking series, has been selected by a major distributor of "how-to" programs for satellite delivery to public television stations this winter.

As someone whose chief mission was to obtain federal, state and local funding for a multitude of projects at Pennsylvania College of Technology and its predecessor institution over the years, Dr. Grant M. Berry Jr. can be said to have put the "grant" in grantsmanship. Berry, who retired Jan.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's popular CoffeeHouse Series of musical performances continues Tuesday, Feb. 20, with a show presented by guitarist Edgar Cruz. Cruz is a guitar wizard who captures the sounds of an entire band and reduces them to a single guitar. The show begins at 8 p.m. in the CoffeeHouse, located on the first floor of the Bush Campus Center at Penn College.

A man who went undercover to infiltrate the Neo-Nazi movement in Germany will speak about his experiences in "In Hitler's Shadow," the initial program of the Spring 2001 Lecture Series at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Thursday, Feb. 15, lecture by Yaron Svoray, a former Israeli commando, will be presented at 8 p.m. at Penn's Inn in the Bush Campus Center at Penn College.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will culminate its Fourth Annual Homecoming Week on Saturday, Feb. 3, by crowning a Homecoming King and Queen at the Homecoming Dance. The announcement of the king and queen will be one of the highlights of a week's worth of Homecoming events at Penn College. The Homecoming Dance, which will feature music by the band Inspired, will take place from 8 p.m.

An exhibition of 50 wood cut prints will be on display from Jan. 30 to Feb. 18 at the 202 Gallery in the Alvin C. Bush Campus Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Commemorating National Book Month, authors from Pennsylvania College of Technology and the Williamsport community will speak about their experiences writing, preparing manuscripts, contacting publishers and working with editors in a program scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 30, at the College Library. The event, which begins at 1:15 p.m., is expected to last approximately 45 minutes.

Self-esteem doesn't just happen − you have to discover it. This spring, Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus near Wellsboro will offer a two-part course that provides participants with the opportunity to learn the methods and techniques necessary to discover their self-esteem. "Increase Your Self-Esteem-Level I" will be offered Tuesday and Thursday evenings April 10-19.

Providing a sound foundation in medical science isn't the sole goal of a good nurse-education program. Conveying the "caring art" of nursing, as demonstrated recently by several members of the Student Nurses' Association at Pennsylvania College of Technology, is equally important in producing well-rounded health-care professionals.

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. of Torrance, Calif., has donated a sport utility vehicle valued at $60,600 to Pennsylvania College of Technology. The vehicle, a 2000 Lexus LX, will be used for instructional purposes in the Collision Repair programs in the School of Transportation Technology.