Faculty & Staff Articles

For the fifth consecutive year, two members of Penn College’s horticulture faculty shared their expertise during Pennsylvania FFA Convention/Activities Week in Centre County. Dennis P. Skinner, assistant professor, and instructor Carl J. Bower Jr.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology business faculty member recently presented research regarding minor-league baseball ticket sales at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Chip D.

Mallery engages the crowd. Runners, walkers and trotters – including Melanie A. Scaife, secretary to residence life at Rose Street Commons (in black at center right) – traverse Indian Park. Kimberly R. Cassel, director of student activities, helps set the pace, finishing 39th overall with a time of 28:37. Accenting the day's sunshine with her smile is Watson, a summer conference assistant.

Countdown to College Coach A national higher-education blogger, offering parents of college-bound teens a lifeline in the sea of options, has posted two more articles distilled from her late-April visit to Penn College. In one of those postings, Suzanne Shaffer tells of the distinction between career preparation and merely getting a job after graduation. "That's the key," she writes.

Paul R. Watson, dean of academic services and first-year programs, welcomes employees to the First-Year Institute. The fifth annual First Year Institute was held May 30 for faculty and staff. The day’s activities provided participants with practical tools to reach and teach first-year students.

Plastics employees from five states were schooled by industry experts and campus professionals when the Plastics Innovation & Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology held its sixth annual Heavy-Gauge/Cut-Sheet Thermoforming workshop in May.

Thomas McNally, in a photo from WACC's 1979 Montage yearbook Thomas Michael Patrick McNally, a member of the Williamsport Area Community College and Penn College faculty for more than 30 years, died Sunday, May 24, at his Camp Hill home. A licensed psychologist, McNally retired in 1998 as a counselor.

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. Stephen B. Wozniak, transfer from casual part-time Game Day Assistant, Women's Soccer, to full-time Procurement Services Assistant, beginning May 26 Mark A.

Senior Vice President William J. Martin points out the grandeur of the Community Arts Center for a stageful of Penn College's Classified personnel. Classified staff from Penn College were bused to and from the Community Arts Center on Wednesday for a daylong professional-development program. The agenda included a tour of the CAC with William J.

Nursing's Terri A. Stone, Sandra L. Richmond and Christine B. Kavanagh (from left) detail P.L.A.T.O.'s helpful streamlining of student remediation. Susan Slamka and James R. Dougherty III outline the role of video in human service students' role-playing exercises.