Faculty & Staff Articles

A school assignment required 9-year-old Trevin Allen to write about his dream. Rather than being a famous athlete, musician or movie star, the youngster expressed a desire to work as a computer designer in the plastics industry for SEKISUI SPI, which employs his father, Lucas L., a 2001 Penn College graduate in building construction technology.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has named Randy J. Zangara dean of college transitions and first year initiatives. As dean, Zangara is responsible for coordinating and aligning first-year programs and services and the development of a collegewide retention plan.

Donors were in the spotlight at two recent Bush Campus Center events: a Sept. 5-6 blood drive in memory of Patrick M. Breen, a longtime General Services employee who died June 25 at the age of 58, and a Sept. 5 "Be the Match" effort to find compatible volunteers for bone-marrow donations or cord-blood transfusions. Mindy J. Colony, first-shift custodian, and Charles J.

Hundreds of people from throughout Williamsport are anticipated to take part in the 10th annual Greater Lycoming Out of the Darkness Community Walk hosted by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Central Pennsylvania chapter and Pennsylvania College of Technology. The event will be at Penn College on Saturday, Sept. 15, with registration starting at 4 p.m. and the 90-minute walk at 5.

Papa tells the story in front of a group of Penn College students who just completed their work for the morning. Luse displays plans for the project for WNEP photographer Tom Durant. WNEP-TV reporter Kristina Papa spent Friday morning with a group of Penn College students whose class project honors the ultimate sacrifice.

In photos posted to social media by an Antioch Baptist Church parishioner, Penn College Police Officer Jeffrey E. Kriner assists in maneuvering a larger-than-thought refrigerator through a doorway and into the kitchen. Penn College Police Officer Jeffrey E. Kriner was a neighborhood hero to a local church on Wednesday, answering an online call for help with goodwill and no shortage of muscle.

A memorial service is planned for Robert J. Hutchinson, a former instructor in Williamsport Area Community College's building construction department, who died Saturday, Sept. 1, at the age of 80. The Williamsport Technical Institute alumnus, shown in a photo from the 1975 Montage yearbook, taught carpentry and masonry at Penn College's immediate predecessor institution.

Cathryn Addy, founding director of the college's North Campus in Wellsboro, has been named interim president of NHTI in Concord, New Hampshire. Addy was hired for the Wellsboro position in March 1983, shortly after Williamsport Area Community College (forerunner to Penn College) began offering practical nursing classes at the Tioga County site.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Blaise E. Marshall, full-time Hall Coordinator, Rose Street Commons, Residence Life; effective Sept. 4 Katherine S. Sweeting, regular part-time Dining Services Worker III, beginning Sept.

A cross-section of the Penn College community – including student-athletes, Circle K members, alumni and neighbors – collected 28 bags of recylables and 20 bags of trash during a cleanup on Saturday.