May 2011 Articles

Automotive instructors from a number of high schools and regional career and technology centers visited Penn College on Friday for training in the application of waterborne paint. Sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Tech Prep Consortium, the college and PPG Industries, the daylong event combined classroom lectures and hands-on experience in the College Avenue Labs paint laboratory.

A gallery talk and Meet the Artist Reception on Thursday officially opened "Floreal Stratum," a display of textile art by Meredith Setser, in The Gallery at Penn College. Setser's work features large installations primarily composed of handmade and industrial felts printed with traditional processes, such as etching, relief and screen printing.

A Loyalsock Township High School senior who has been active in community service projects throughout her high school years is the 2011 recipient of the Peggy Madigan Memorial Leadership Scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology. A selection committee chose Niesha J. Williams to receive this year's award for the scholarship named in memory of the late wife of former state Sen. Roger A.

Penn College welcomed 250 high school students from the 23rd Senatorial District's five counties Thursday, as state Sen. Gene Yaw held his annual Student Government Seminar on campus. The full-day event, begun 26 years ago by Yaw's predecessor, state Sen. Roger A.

A faculty member in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management has been designated a Landscape Industry Certified Horticultural Technician by the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET). Carl J.

Penn College sophomore Amanda Baney (Williamsport) and freshman Sabrina Reynolds (Muncy) were selected to the Penn State University Athletic Conference softball all-conference team, voted on by coaches based on play and statistics throughout the season. Baney hit .452 with seven home runs and 25 RBI, which led the team.

A local business leader has established an endowed scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology in memory of his father and in honor of his mother. Frank Pellegrino, executive vice president of PRIMUS Technologies Corp., Williamsport, recently made a gift to the Penn College Foundation to establish the John Joseph and Eva Girio Pellegrino Scholarship Fund.

More than two dozen high school sophomores and juniors graduated recently from the Pennsylvania College of Technology Youth Leadership Program, a series of team-building exercises and other activities designed to improve communication and build character among select area teenagers.

"Boomtown Williamsport," a live "State of Pennsylvania" town meeting about the transformative andcontentious issue of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale play, will be broadcast live from Penn College at 7 p.m. Thursday on WVIA.

A key figure in the development of Pennsylvania College of Technology and his wife have established a scholarship fund at the college. Former State Rep. Alvin C. Bush and his wife, Elizabeth, have established the Alvin Bush Family Scholarship at Penn College.