Events Articles

The Penn College community will have two opportunities this week to meet and welcome a group of visitors from Mexico. The College is hosting a group of students from Mexico throughOct. 3. They are from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey campus in Toluca, Mexico. The visit is part of an exchange between "Monterrey Tec" and Penn College.

Malaysian satay and dipping sauces will be on the menu when Chef Paul E. Mach an assistant professor in Penn College's School of Hospitality offers the "Origin of Hibachi" at noon Friday, Sept. 24, in the courtyard outside the College Library:

An overview of the "graphic novel," a still-emerging genre of narrative literature, will be the subject of the Penn College Library's fifth Faculty Forum, to be held from 3-4 p.m. Oct. 6. David S. Sims, associate professor of English, will define some of the major characteristics of the form, then analyze sample frames by such practitioners as R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware.

Chef Michael J. Ditchfield and his Catering students from the School of Hospitality thank the Penn College community for its support during Saturday's Williamsport Outdoor Growers Association Market. The students prepared food from locally grown ingredients, available at the outdoor market on Saturdays through October.

The Children's Learning Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology will hold a 10th birthday party from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, at the Bush Campus Center on the College's main campus. To celebrate the anniversary, the center is inviting all former students/enrollees and their families to an open house on the lawn outside the Campus Center.

By Juli Reppert Student Writer/Photographer The Fall 2004 CoffeeHouse Series of musical performances at Pennsylvania College of Technology will begin Sept. 14 with acoustic guitarist Shevy Smith. The Tuesday performances are sponsored by the Office of Student Activities at Penn College and are held in the CoffeeHouse, located on the first floor of the Bush Campus Center.

By Juli Reppert Student Writer/Photographer Movies, filmmaking, dating and ghosts are among the remaining topics for the Fall 2004 Lecture Series at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The lectures are sponsored by the Office of Student Activities at Penn College. With one exception, they will be offered at Penn's Inn, located on the second floor of the Bush Campus Center, at 8 p.m. The Sept.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has its own high-power amateur or "ham" radio hidden within the ATHS. Amateur radio is a hobby that explores communications technologies.Radio amateurs or "hams" use radio in a variety of ways, such as communicating with people around the world, controlling robots, sending TV signals and even bouncing signals off the moon, meteors and the northern lights.

For the fifth year, the Office of the President, Alumni Relations and Student Activities are sponsoring "Penn College Pack the Park Night" with the Williamsport Crosscutters. The game, against the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, will begin at 7:05 p.m. Aug. 31 at historic Bowman Field.

The Gallery at Penn College on the main campus of Pennsylvania College of Technology will host the works of artist Leonard Ragouzeos from Aug. 24 to Sept. 17. Ragouzeos' work with India ink will be part of the show, "In Black and White." He is a professor in the art department at Millersville University where, since 1980, he has taught graphic design, basic design, calligraphy and typography.