Spring 2010 Open House – Saturday, March 27
Heralded by the morning chill's evaporation into a glorious burst of spring, Open House was held across Pennsylvania College of Technology campuses from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Helpful and friendly members of the college community were on hand to answer visitors' questions and to guide prospective enrollees and their families to their preferred locations. From enlightening tours to information sessions to academic presentations by students, guests made the most of their day at Pennsylvania's premier technical college.
— Photos by Joseph S. Yoder, news bureau manager; Michael S. Fischer, student photographer;
Tom Wilson, news bureau writer/editor; Scott D. Neuhard, assistant professor of electronics; and Cindy D. Meixel, photo editor
President Davie Jane Gilmour welcomes morning visitors to Penn College.
Admissions Office staff meets the needs of prospective students and their families.
Ashley N. Follmer, admissions representative, answers questions at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center.
Ambassador Brinton P. Davis leads an Open House tour west of the Bush Campus Center.
A student maneuvers a stone into a mortarless 'sheep gate wall' at the ESC, under the watchful encouragement of alumnus James A. Asbury.
From an overhead vantage, student organizations fill the Breuder Advanced Technology and Health Sciences Center atrium.
Thomas J. Livingstone, associate professor of machine tool technology/automated manufacturing, meets with visitors to the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies.
Christopher J. Holley, assistant professor of automotive technology, shows off one of the college's impressive labs.
Francisco Marin, a student ambassador at the Lumley Aviation Center, discusses his senior project-in-progress.
Forest technology student Michael C. Frantz practices the ax throw for an April 17 woodsmen's meet.
Kimberly A. Venti, a Penn College alumnus and employee, greets visitors outside the School of Business and Computer Technologies.
Mark A. Vasellas, an electronics and computer engineering technology major making a presentation during Open House, signals his enthusiasm prior to crowd's arrival.
A family stops to get its bearings and plan its next move, thanks to the Open House activity brochure.
A display of wedding cakes, beautifully created by School of Hospitality students, entices visitors to the Madigan Library.
Carolyn R. Strickland, assistant vice president for academic services, provides valuable information in the ACC Auditorium.
Marc E. Bridgens, dean of construction and design technologies, and Anne K. Soucy, assistant dean, hold a get-acquainted session in the Carl Building Technologies Center.
Chef Monica J. Lanczak, instructor of hospitality management/culinary arts, talks with a family outside the Susquehanna Room.
Instructor Nicholas A. Puza explains opportunities in civil engineering technology.
Claude T. Witts, instructor of diesel equipment technology, reinforces the accessibility of Penn College faculty.
School of Transportation Technology's Colin W. Williamson presides over a Meet the Dean session.
Faculty member Loren R. Bruckhart conducts a tour of the collision repair area of College Avenue Labs.
Jack E. Fisher, lab assistant for forest technology (left), assesses the crosscut-saw technique of his woodsmen's team members.
Mary A. Sullivan, dean of natural resources management, enlightens another inquisitive busload to the ESC.
Heavy construction equipment technology majors demonstrated their operating skills – including the excavator pipe pick – in the parking lot.
Typically, it was 'all smiles' at the School of Health Sciences dental hygiene lab.
Diesel instructors Mark E. Sones and David C. Johnson (right) answers questions in an ESC lab.
Jim E. Doebler, department head for aviation, shares information in the Lumley Aviation Center hangar.
Richard L. Druckenmiller, assistant professor of building construction technology, among the helpful faculty on hand.
Student ambassador Hannah E. Fisher conducts a main campus tour.
Grabbing a slice of pizza at Fresh, a convenient dining unit in the ATHS.
Students of Michael A. Dincher, assistant professor of horticulture, work with alumni to create an expanded Remembrance Garden.
Alumnus Glenn A. Raup, honored in 2002 as a mentor to students, visits the downdraft paint booth at the Aviation Center.
Jody L. Fausey, pressroom production specialist (right), and James P. Lentz, associate professor of printing and publishing technology (foreground), discuss graphic communications.
A whimsically clad skeleton mutely awaits Open House visitors to the Health Sciences wing of the ATHS.
From left, Daniel O. Gomes, Marcus Maceyko, Nicholas L. Orwan and Stephen G. Dumbeck, juniors in the electronics and computer engineering technology program, get ready to demonstrate a “Water Sign." The electromechanical system controls water solenoids that fire at specific intervals to display letters and symbols as determined by a matrix output from a Programmable Logic Controller.
Warming up with coffee at a hospitality tent
The College West Apartments complex was open for tours of on-campus housing.
Robert S. Heiser, assistant professor of HVAC technology/plumbing and heating (right), amid one of the college's well-equipped laboratories.
Attendees at an ACC information session watch a college video.
Thomas D. Inman, associate professor of aviation, provides insight into avionics.
Joseph M. Van Noy, a junior in the electronics and computer engineering technology program, with his project that uses a modulated laser beam to send music to a plasma speaker.
Ambassador Kevin E. Brookhart leads a group through the School of Natural Resources Management labs.
What's cooking in the School of Hospitality kitchen?
Demonstrating a metalworking lathe
The college's paralegal/legal assistant majors (as well as health information technology, accounting and others) were well-represented in Business and Computer Technologies hallway displays.
Touring the Madigan Library
Madigan Library operations assistant April M. Hart (left) and circulation assistant Nicole S. Staron staff a table near the library entrance.
Glenn R. Luse, instructor of building construction technology, shares a laugh in the masonry lab (along with colleague Robert P. Gresko, second from right, and others).
Gregory J. Miller proves an invaluable student ambassador when it comes to giving directions.
Nursing instructor Barbie D. Hoover, left, was just one of the day's congenial hosts.
Program director Barbara J. Natell, in the occupation therapy assistant lab.
A glowing recommendation for the college's radiography department
Resident Assistants Sarah R. Shott, Corvin K. Oberholtzer and Alyssa J. Giedroc
In the physics lab with Shahin Shabanian, assistant professor
Visitors to the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies get a taste of the college's hands-on education, hammering out souvenir ID tags.
Horticulture students demonstrate tree-climbing (and trimming) in a project on main campus.
With the Welding Program moved off-campus by Stage X construction, a CAL classroom serves as an Open House home base.
