From family-friendly to frightfully fun, Penn College celebrated Halloween with several events, many of them longstanding traditions. The festivities started with Dining Services’ Goblins Breakfast and Halloween Boofet and encompassed the American Welding Society’s Arc Asylum (a haunted house in the Lycoming Engines Metal Trades Center), trick-or-treating at The Village housing complex and the Community Arts Center, and a Halloween parade by the Children’s Learning Center that featured a stop in the Davie Jane Gilmour Center for treats offered by various offices housed in the center. To cap it off, the college’s Alpha Chi chapter hosted a Fright Night 5K Walk/Run on Nov. 5 to raise funds to offset new inductees’ national chapter fees.
Families line up along West Third Street in anticipation of the trick-or-treat fun.
photos by Steven M. Ault, manager of marketing communications for the Journey Bank Community Arts Center
Eight brothers from Penn College’s Sigma Pi chapter lent a hand to the Journey Bank Community Arts Center staff in handing out candy to children who attended the community event, sponsored by the Williamsport Business Association, the city's Recreation Department and Horizon Federal Credit Union. They handed out over 1,300 pieces of candy, donated by both the Arts Center and the fraternity.
Sigma Pi brothers, from left: Zachary C. Cavaliere, of Concord, Mass., residential construction technology & management; Francesco E. Tomas, of Wilton, Conn., Bachelor of Architecture; Joe M. Pillsbury, of Point Pleasant, N.J., building construction technology; AJ Zerrenner, of Doylestown, building construction technology, concrete science technology, and residential construction technology & management; Michael J. Dinapoli, of Trafford, electrical construction and residential construction technology & management; Dante M. Lo Sasso, of Drexel Hill, construction management; John A. Papaianni, of Edison, N.J., building construction technology and residential construction technology & management; and Mason Smith, of Pennsburg, construction management.
photos by Alexandra Butler, photographer/photo editor
Alpha Chi raised $3,700 in a costumed 5K that started and ended at the Field House, with a route that explored campus after dark. Alpha Chi is a national honor society open to bachelor’s degree students in any major and limited to the top 10% of an institution’s junior and senior classes.
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