Alumni Articles

72 donors in 72 hours Act now! With a diverting message designed to elicit giggles while it solicits donations (and with all the subtlety of the late-night infomercials it so pointedly parodies), the Penn College Scholarship Campaign is offering first-time alumni benefactors a sweet opportunity to help current students.

As Pennsylvania College of Technology's reigning Alumni Sweethearts, Joshua A. and Aurora D. (DiRocco) Bonner visited campus this past weekend to stay overnight at the Victorian House and dine in Le Jeune Chef Restaurant. Their trip to campus, initially scheduled for Valentine's weekend (Feb. 15-16), was postponed due to winter weather, but springtime rolled out an even better red carpet.

Penn College alum Ryan E. Campbell and his co-worker Harry Wilson are congratulated in their employer's newsletter. Ryan E. Campbell, a May 2013 graduate of Penn College's automotive technology: Honda PACT emphasis major, was a recent third-place winner in the Zone 5 Honda Professionals 2014 Technician Online Challenge.

A scholarship has been created at Pennsylvania College of Technology memorializing Bethany G. Hughes, an August graduate of the college’s radiography program who was killed in an automobile accident in Fairfield Township on Nov. 22. The Bethany Hughes Memorial Radiography Scholarship has been established by the Hughes family: her father, Charles; mother, Kathleen; and sister, Heidi.

Students prepare to lay pavers in the Hardscape Installation contest. A Floral Design competitor Graduates Julie D. Kehrer-Vogel and Matthew D. Lowe act as the homeowners in the Sales Presentation competition. A student carefully ponders the type of plant she has been challenged to identify.

Warren A. Peter An alumnus of Williamsport Area Community College was accorded Pennsylvania Builders Association "Builder of the Year" honors during the group's recent Installation Banquet and Awards Gala at the Radisson Lackawanna Station in Scranton. Warren A. Peter, of Warren Peter Construction Inc.

Golfer-turned-head-coach Matthew Haile helped his team stay undefeated and capture conference championships. In 2003, he was the conference individual champion – the first since 1982. During Adam Waigand’s tenure, the Wildcats soccer team achieved a 55-14-1 record and a 2004 conference championship. An All-State selection, he helped the defense record 15 shutouts in his last two years.

Mitchell T. Black and Bryant M. Deller became friends after enrolling at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Today, the successful alumni are separated by companies and specialties. But their bond endures, thanks to a joint senior project that is powering a champion tractor in a professional pulling league.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology horticulture students were among national Top 10 finishers in their respective categories during the recent Professional Landscape Network’s Student Career Days competition in Fort Collins, Colo. Nicholas D. Foreman, of Rockwood, placed first in a field of 76 students in the Construction Cost Estimation contest, and Emily M.

Penn College welcomed Open House guests for a Saturday full of activities and information about the diverse "degrees that work" offered on its campuses.