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Admissions representative Caleb J. Swartz leads a tour group (toting commemorative backpacks) during Sunday's opening of Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week. Predicting a "life-changing week" ahead, President Davie Jane Gilmour welcomes teenage entrepreneurs to Penn College. Balloons bob and bounce in the day's gentle breeze outside the ACC. John J.

Women from the campus community are welcome to attend a free self-defense workshop, part of a Penn College student's internship at the James V. Brown Library, to be held from 6:30-8 p.m. Aug. 15-16 in the library's Lowry Theatre. The event was organized by Bethany M. Reppert, an applied human services major from Pottsville, whose internship capstone involves presenting a program for adults.

A commencement ceremony will be held Saturday, Aug. 10, for nearly 250 students who have petitioned to graduate from Pennsylvania College of Technology after the college’s summer sessions. The commencement ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. in the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St., Williamsport. The student speaker for the ceremony will be Katherine P.

Gary Steele, of Montgomery, received the Viewer’s Choice Award as part of the “Art Alive!” Lycoming County Juried Art Exhibition, held recently at The Gallery at Pennsylvania College of Technology. “Art Alive!” featured fine art in a variety of media, all created by Lycoming County residents.

A camper gets a rare opportunity behind the controls of earth-moving machinery at Penn College's riverside heavy equipment training site. Mansfield University's second annual Marcellus Camp, a weeklong primer on the natural gas industry and the career and educational opportunities available after high school, included a recent visit to Penn College.

Chief Automotive Technologies' Jim Wrigley conducts a session in a College Avenue Labs classroom. Tips on paintless auto-body repair Metalworking is among the skills honed in the collision repair lab. Penn College instructor Roy H. Klinger schools participants on forming sheet-metal panels.

Opening receptions were held late last week in The Gallery at Penn College, where “In the Field of Play: The Little League Baseball World Series through the lens of Putsee Vannucci” will be featured through Aug. 30. A well-timed collection honoring one of the acknowledged joys of summer, the exhibit includes photographs and camera equipment from Vannucci's 60 years of Little League coverage.

Williamsport Technical Institute alumni assemble for a reunion photo. WTI graduates tour interior facilities with Mary A. Sullivan, ESC executive director and assistant dean of transportation and natural resources technology, and William E. Curry, a part-time member of the diesel equipment technology faculty.

The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Madigan Library, will host an exhibit celebrating legendary local photographer Putsee Vannucci and his contributions to the visual history of the Little League Baseball World Series.

Under skies that hadn't yet rumbled with thunder, Joey Sindelar offers pointers. A pyramid of balls, soon to be employed in a show of putting prowess Lining it up, straight and true A smooth exit from the bunker Interest runs higher than the humidity when a pro comes to town.