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Penn College Magazine
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Magazine Fall 2023
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Fall 2023, Volume 32, Number 2
The Blooming of Performing Arts
Students act on their passions to initiate two new clubs: Penn College Music Makers and Penn College Theatrics.
Cory’s Comeback
First-year wrestler Isaac Cory becomes the first Wildcat to advance to the NCAA Division III National Championships – despite midseason surgery.
Boldly Seizing Second Chances
It Starts With a Story
For innovator Eli Hughes ’01, there’s a story behind everything. In his newest venture, he aims to share those stories while he engineers solutions.
Celebrating a Community Centerpiece
The Penn College Community Arts Center – opened in 1993 in an ornate 1920s-era movie house – celebrates 30 years as a downtown destination.
Photographic Memory
Do you know what was afoot in this Fall 1982 photo? And who was having all this fun? Please tell us by emailing magazine@pct.edu or calling 570.327.5527. (By the way, if you have copies of The Spotlight student newspaper from 1982- 83, please let us know that, too!)
Archives
In the last Photographic Memory
Thanks to several readers of the Spring 2023 issue, who shared their memories of a photo taken on the Klump Academic Center steps. Edward Bandics ’69 identified the student on the left as Ronald Smith, with whom he commuted every day from Berwick (with fellow carpoolers Earl Harris, Neil Karchner and Dave VanAuken). Smith was the best man in Bandics’ wedding. Melissa (Follmer) Baker ’93 identified the young woman as her mother-in-law, the late Connie (Bown) Johnston, who was also a WACC Fall Weekend Queen. John Hopkins ’68 recognized that a photo of two of the students, evidently from the same photo shoot, ran on Page 40 of the 1968 Montage yearbook. And Joseph Barnatovich ’74 recognized the notebooks in the gentlemen’s laps as those handed out by Admissions.
Printed Issue
Inside Front Cover
Student photographer Alexis M. Burrell, who completed her graphic design degree in May, caught this unique view of her Bush Campus Center home base, where graphic design and art classes are taught.
Niche
Midnight Breakfast
Keystone Dining Room
Just before Spring 2023 final exams sprang, one of Penn College’s longest-running traditions drew its usual large crowd to the Keystone Dining Room. Designed to help students fuel their pre-finals cram sessions, Penn College’s Dining Services crew has served Midnight Breakfast twice a year since 1998. This year, the free event featured its usual mix of celebrity cooks – President Mike Reed and other administrators – and its original menu: pancakes, ice cream and toppings. Also on the menu were “stuff-a-plush” and a commemorative anniversary T-shirt designed by dental hygiene student Melina K. Petrick.
Purpose
To provide stress relief and an opportunity for students to celebrate the end of the semester with friends before finals start.
Activities
The headlining activity through Fall 2019 was a free chair massage, provided by local massage therapists. Other activities have included musicians, karaoke, therapy dogs, photo booths, caricature artists, coloring, product giveaways, large prizes (like bikes and video games), and, in recent years, the popular stuff-a-plush.
Menu
The original menu was pancakes and ice cream with toppings. In later years, bacon was added as a menu feature, along with eggs and home fries at various times. During COVID-19 restrictions, the menu changed to breakfast sandwiches. In Spring of 2023, the original menu returned.
Numbers
The event draws an average of 600-650 students each semester. Fall 2005 set the record at 795!
When
From 1998 to 2009, the event was held on a Tuesday night. During that time, finals began on Wednesday. Since 2010, the event has been held the Thursday before finals start on Monday. Originally held 11 p.m.-1 a.m., over time, the event shifted to its current time slot of 10 p.m.-midnight.
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09.19.2023
Alumni share Lahaina fire experiences, donation ideas
The deadliest wildfire in the U.S. since 1918 torched Hawaii’s Maui island last month and touched the lives of two Pennsylvania College of Technology alumni. Both continue to cope with the tragedy that destroyed their hometown of Lahaina, killed numerous neighbors and harshly transformed their ideal definition of paradise.
09.19.2023
Penn College celebrates National Surgical Technologists Week
Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s surgical technology major are joining hospitals and colleges throughout the country in observing National Surgical Technologists Week, Sept. 17-23. National Surgical Technologists Week has been celebrated since 1984 by the Association of Surgical Technologists to honor those who work in the field.
09.19.2023
College teams ignore rain, shun 'Darkness'
Penn College comprised the largest showing at Sunday's Out of the Darkness Community Walk, helping to save lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide. Two teams – PCT Hope, organized by Mary R. Shuma Rudberg, director of counseling, and Katie L. Mackey, assistant director of disability and access resources; and the Wildcat men's basketball team – paid no heed to rain and joined other local residents in Montoursville's Indian Park.
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