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President Gilmour joins lineup at "Hot Stove" event. In her capacity as chair of the Little League International Board of Directors, Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour attended Monday's Williamsport Crosscutters Hot Stove Banquet. The annual charity event, held at The Genetti Hotel, helps eager baseball fans get through the seemingly interminable months before major-league Opening Day.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett made a Tuesday visit to Pennsylvania College of Technology's Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood, where – surrounded by the workforce of tomorrow, embodied by diesel technology and on-site power generation majors – he presented a 73-page resource guide designed to attract business and industry investors to the energy-rich commonwealth.

For the past century, Pennsylvania College of Technology and its predecessors filled a unique position in higher education, focused on applied technology and emerging workforce needs. Throughout 2014, the college invites alumni and the public to join the campus community in celebrating milestones of its first 100 years and exploring the future of technology and society.

Beginning a year that celebrates the institution's history while defining its future, President Davie Jane Gilmour opened the Spring 2014 semester – and Penn College's centennial – with an all-college address to faculty and staff. “It is all of us today – each of us in this room – who will determine how the beginning of the next 100 years is remembered," she said Friday morning.

With abundant smiles easily cutting through the drizzle (and one of the most buoyantly boisterous crowds in memory), Pennsylvania College of Technology held its final commencement ceremony of 2013 Saturday for nearly 300 students who petitioned to graduate following the fall semester. The student speaker for the 11 a.m. proceedings in the Community Arts Center was Eric J.

One College Avenue Winter 2013/Annual Report The Annual Report edition of One College Avenue, the college’s official magazine, is on its way to students, alumni employees and friends. In it, President Davie Jane Gilmour discusses how, 100 years later, Penn College continues to embody its founders' legacy: the transformation of lives.

Penn College’s role in training workers for the natural gas industry – credit and noncredit programs, the collaborative ShaleNET consortium and the Energy Technology Education Center south of Williamsport – drew prominent mention in The Philadelphia Inquirer over the weekend.

The third volume in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Countdown to the Centennial series, an abundantly illustrated book that employs a variety of promotional images to chronicle the transformation from Williamsport Technical Institute into Pennsylvania's premier technical college, has been published. Like other titles in the series, “Marketing With a Mission” was written by Elaine J.

Faculty and staff have until Oct. 21 to submit proposed presentations for “Technology and Society: The Centennial Colloquia Series,” a component of Penn College’s 100-year anniversary celebration in 2014.

As chair of the Little League International Board of Directors, Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour was seemingly everywhere during the 67th annual Little League Baseball World Series. In the whirlwind dozen days between an Aug.