April showers bring May flowers AND the traditional sprint to the spring semester's finish line. Aside from final exams, capstones and other yearend projects, the Penn College campus is annually abuzz with pastimes to occupy students' remaining waking hours (as well as those of the PCToday photographers trying to keep up).
Scholarship recipients Genevieve F. Guzman (left) and Olivia C. Ferki join the reception to converse with donors. Guzman is a nursing student from Pottsville, and Ferki is a plastics and polymer engineering technology major from Richboro. Under the warm glow of generosity, the president (right) welcomes donors to the reception in the SASC lobby.
General Services horticulturist Brooke M. Barton removes a weeping white pine from the west side of main campus. Conrad J. Young (left), of Slatington, enrolled in landscape/horticulture technology: landscape emphasis, and Erick V. Kennedy, a landscape/horticulture technology: plant production emphasis major from Williamsport, replant the tree in the Earth Science Center ... ...
Kathleen V. McNaul, director of college transitions and first year initiatives, talks with Frankie M. Gagliardi III, of Pottstown. Accepted students and their families hear an informative overview from Murphy. Lunch, featuring a teeming end-of-the-line cookie tray, beckons visitors. Sandra L. Richmond (center left), dean of nursing and health sciences, engages guests in conversation.
Seventeen years. Fifteen-hundred students. Four different homes. Countless exams. He’s seen it all. And now SimMan is ready to retire. He’s going to be missed by his Penn College family, but the days of worry-free retirement are calling. "I have helped so many students prepare to treat patients leading into their successful health care careers," SimMan said in his exit interview.
The annual Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work observance brought 36 young women and men to Penn College’s campuses for a variety of activities Thursday. Human Resources' Mattie L. Pulizzi and Jennifer L. Whitmoyer coordinated the day’s program, which included job-shadowing with parents and their co-workers; campus tours; career-focused activities with the School of Business & Hospitality, The Dr.
From the Spring 2019 Penn College Magazine: As a psychologist working with college students and teaching basic communication skills, counselor Linda L. Locher has been fascinated with digital conversation, how it may advance our understanding of each other, and how it may create unexpected obstacles and misunderstandings. Read Facebook Isn’t Face to Face.
A working clock complete with a pendulum tracks time on a wall. The creation is by Lauren S. Herr, a construction management major from Lititz. Skilled creations from wooded masks to ceramic “food” on plates A carved “green man” by Sydney O. Powell, of Linden, graphic design A corner of the gallery lobby beckons art explorers.
Three commencement ceremonies will be offered May 17-18 for the 950 students who have petitioned to graduate following the Spring 2019 semester at Pennsylvania College of Technology. All of the ceremonies will be held at the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St., Williamsport, with more than 800 students expected to march.
Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Bachelor of Science Nursing Honor Society was officially chartered as a chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International during a ceremony on the college’s campus on April 12. Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing was founded in 1922. The founders chose its name for the Greek words storgé, tharsos and timé, meaning love, courage and honor.
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