Freshman Melissa Lake (Winburne) was named the Penn State University Athletic Conference Women's Volleyball Player of the Week for the period ending Sept. 18. In a 2-0 week for the Wildcats, Lake notched 15 kills, five aces and six digs, including a season-high 14 kills against Penn State Wilkes-Barre. Lake is having a solid rookie season with 65 kills, 14 digs and eight blocks.
Graphic designer David Carson has canceled his planned Oct. 4 visit to Penn College for personal reasons. Carson, the former art director for the magazine Ray Gun, was scheduled topresent a lectureas part of The Graphic Design Speaker Series.
Pennsylvania College of Technology students, employees and alumni as well as members of the general public are welcome to enter their vehicles in the annual Homecoming Car Show sponsored by the Student Government Association. This year's event, offering prizes in 12 categories, will be held Saturday, Oct. 8, on the college's main campus in Williamsport.
Alumnus Daniel J. Clarke, a systems engineer for Cisco Systems, will offer a working-world perspective when he returns to Penn College to meet with students from 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Room E140 of the Breuder Advanced Technology and Health Sciences Center. For more about the visit, which is sponsored by the Penn College Cisco Networking Academy, email Jeff B.
Other than a women's volleyball win and second-place finish by the golf team, it was a tough week for Pennsylvania College of Technology fall sports teams as the men's and women's soccer squads each went 0-2 and the coed tennis team 0-1.
Parent & Family Weekend 2011 offered a variety of activities for Penn College students and their families, including social events, educational workshops, brunch with the president, performances by the Wildcat Dance Team and other entertainment, tethered balloon rides, and trolley tours of Williamsport.
Visitors to Saturday's portion of Parent & Family Weekend engaged in friendly competition outside the Field House during the Intramural Family Spectacular at Penn College. Options ran the gamut from a foul-shooting contest to ladder golf and other leisure games made even more pleasurable by sunshine and free ice cream! Photos by Jeremy R. Bottorf, intramural assistant
Students in the Advanced Patisserie Operations class presented their first bake sale of the Fall 2011 semester Friday morning, a menu of "International Delights" that appropriately satisfied the senses. Student managers for the sale, held in Le Jeune Patissier (in the market area of the Carl Building Technologies Center) were Ana-Maria Grigore, Oksana M. Punako and Lauren G. Hammer.
As we charge into fall, darkness is creeping into the late afternoon and we are switching on lights earlier. It is a good time to think about the energy used for your lighting, and Penn College's Energy Conservation Subcommittee offers these practical suggestions: Turn off lights when they are not needed.
An assistant professor in Penn College's physician assistant program observed a somber anniversary with "In remembrance of Ground Hero: Ten years after 9-11," published this week by the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
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