Donald B. Bergerstock, in a 1977 yearbook photo An Aug. 21 funeral service will honor the life of Donald B. Bergerstock, whose 35-year career encompassed Pennsylvania College of Technology and its two predecessor institutions. Bergerstock, who died Friday, Aug. 13, at his Montoursville home, served in a variety of capacities from 1961 until his retirement in 1996.
The Victorian House, built in 1997 and enhanced in 2021 ... ... and with a rainbow, free of charge. After nearly a week of 94-degree shade, stifling humidity and minimal breeze, who doesn't need a refreshing splash of General Services whimsy?
Among the latest additions to the Pennsylvania College of Technology community are four full-time faculty members for the Fall 2021 semester, as provided by the Human Resources Office (all effective Aug. 12). “The new faculty joining us this fall come to us with much enthusiasm and relevant experiences,” said Joanna K. Flynn, dean of curriculum and instruction.
A new institutional Land Acknowledgement Statement recognizes that Indigenous peoples were the original stewards of the land on which Pennsylvania College of Technology sits. “We acknowledge that the land on which we live, work and learn is the ancestral home of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee, Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannocks and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware).
The Fish Real Estate Leadership Challenge Course, the creation of which involved the same collaborative spirit that it will nurture in those who use it, was dedicated Aug. 11 on the wooded southcentral side of Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Challenge Course – a remarkable project funded by Brent and Daria Fish in memory of Brent’s father, William H.
This summer, Pennsylvania College of Technology culinary arts students are pleasing palates with fine food during internships near and far from home.
A 64-hour Lean Six Sigma Green Belt apprenticeship program will be offered this fall through Workforce Development at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Participants will learn breakthrough process-improvement solutions using the Lean Six Sigma tool set and its five-phase DMAIC problem-solving methodology: define, measure, analyze, improve, control.
Disability & Access Resources (formerly Disability Services) has relocated to the Bush Campus Center, Suite 202. Students with documented disabilities can rely on the office to explore and facilitate reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
Anders E. Vloedman’s soft skills helped secure the opportunity to reinforce his hard skills this summer at a Fortune 500 company. Thanks to his performance, the Pennsylvania College of Technology student will continue his coveted internship in the fall. Vloedman, of Villanova, is a network engineering intern for Universal Health Services Inc.
Pennsylvania College of Technology held its Summer Commencement at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Community Arts Center in downtown Williamsport, a ceremony that marked the sacrifices – and ultimate triumph – by classmates whose final year was anything but typical. Larcynina De Guzman Bitner, of Mill Hall, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physician assistant, was the student speaker.
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