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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.

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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!)

In the last Photographic Memory
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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.

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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

Purpose

To provide stress relief and an opportunity for students to celebrate the end of the semester with friends before finals start.

Activities

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

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

Numbers

The event draws an average of 600-650 students each semester. Fall 2005 set the record at 795!

When

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.

 

Where

Where

From 1998 to Spring 2010, Midnight Breakfast was held in the Susquehanna Room. For the next four years, it was held in the newly open Capitol Eatery in Dauphin Hall. The event returned to the Keystone Dining Room (formerly the Susquehanna Room) in Fall 2014.

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12.03.2023

Filling the think tank with fuel for finals

More than 775 students were served Thursday during Penn College's Midnight Breakfast, an end-of-semester tradition beginning its second quarter-century. The free event at Capitol Eatery featured pancakes, ice cream, sausage links and an array of toppings; massage and chi machines for a relaxing atmosphere in the nearby TV lounge; and a pair of always-popular golden retrievers.

12.03.2023

Week of firsts for Penn College athletics

A milestone for Pennsylvania College of Technology wrestlers and the first United East Conference Volt Division wins of the season for the men’s and women’s basketball teams were recorded this past week.

11.30.2023

Ever wonder where experts get their start?

Professor Kirk M. Cantor's origin story, recounted in a three-and-a-half-minute YouTube video, takes viewers on a fascinating career arc that began with troubleshooting NASA weather balloons and – through an aptitude for math, a fondness for teaching and the bravery to leap into a brand-new academic program – produced an internationally recognized authority in polymer engineering.

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