Fall 2026, Volume 35, Number 2
The Victorian House, a student-built project of the 1990s, is a centerpiece of campus. Can you help us identify the who and when in this photo?
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Thank you to Michael Frazier for identifying Bill Cook, of Wellsboro, in the 1969 basketball team photo. Cook is behind No. 30, on the left.
Thanks also to Gail Landers and Michelle (Prunera) Bergey for identifying a few faces in the 1975 WACC Band photo: Mr. Vanhorn, director, standing. Seated in the back (from left) are trumpeters Tom Leitzel, Phil “Pete” Bergey, Michelle (Prunera) Bergey and Keith Steiger. Phil and Michelle will celebrate 50 years of marriage in November. Seated in front are Jim Coddington (second from left) and Barbara Webber Forbes (second from right), who married WACC grad Palmer Forbes. Bergey’s Bardo Gym memories include a Mountain concert and helping with a would-be KISS concert. She said when KISS wanted to change its contract and backed out at the last minute, SGA members scrambled, buying Frisbees and beach balls to entertain the disgruntled crowd while the warm-up band figured out how to play a full concert.
A “dessert tree” is among the delights served to guests in premium venues at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, during Kentucky Derby Week events. Adelaide E. Miller, a baking and pastry arts student, helped to assemble the tree’s “ornaments.” Twenty-eight Penn College business and hospitality students were hired by Levy, the Downs’ food and beverage provider, for weeklong internships during the iconic event.
Multiple Interactive Learning Objectives (MILO) Theater, Hager Lifelong Education Center
Purchased with the support of the Pellegrino family and installed in Spring 2026 to prepare students in the emergency management & homeland security major, “MILO” is working overtime, already serving as a resource for several majors, the college’s ROTC program, local police and even state legislators who wanted to practice speaking at a crisis-related press conference. With full-surround video, the theater can simulate numerous situations, from target shooting with prop guns to approaching a person experiencing a mental health crisis.
Congratulations to all those who correctly found the Wildcat superimposed on a wall in a photo on Page 3 of the Spring 2026 edition. Our five randomly selected winners were Josh D., Lorraine K., Debra M., William R. and Jerry H.
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