Alumni Articles

Did you meet your "sweetheart" at Pennsylvania College of Technology or its predecessors: Williamsport Area Community College and Williamsport Technical Institute? As the college continues its Countdown to the Centennial, the Alumni Relations Office invites alumni couples to share their love stories. One couple will win a special Sweethearts' Weekend just in time for Valentine's Day.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has formally dedicated a Veterans' Portico on the main campus, honoring students, alumni, faculty, staff and retirees of the institution who have served in the nation's armed forces.

Pennsylvania College of Technology President Davie Jane Gilmour issued this statement Thursday: "The transition of leadership at Penn State is more than national news; it is an issue that strikes close to the hearts and minds of all of us at Pennsylvania College of Technology. "As educators, our lives are committed to nurturing young lives.

Everyone knows manners are important, but what if dinner etiquette could jump-start your career? A "Dining for Success" Etiquette Dinner, hosted by Career Services and the Alumni Relations Office and attended by 43 students and 10 mentors was held Tuesday evening at Le Jeune Chef Restaurant.

Veteran Community Theatre League performers Brian M. McKeon, assistant professor of biology at Penn College, and 2002 alumnus Keith A. Wagner (computer information technology: data communications and networking concentration) co-star in "Heaven Help Me," opening Friday at the 100 W. Third St. theater.

A May 2010 ornamental horticulture graduate returned to Penn College's School of Natural Resources Management on Thursday, speaking to students in Carol A. Lugg's First Year Experience course and Carl J. Bower Jr.'s Landscape Operations class. "If you care about your education, you will get so much more from this experience," students were advised by Garrett M.

A recent forest technology graduate of Pennsylvania College of Technology and a current student in the same major in the School of Natural Resources Management have been awarded scholarships from the Council of Eastern Forest Technician Schools for their 4.0 GPAs. May 2011 graduate Lance E. Armstrong, of Muncy, and Matthew R.

More than 160 employers were on Pennsylvania College of Technology's main campus and at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center on Oct. 18, recruiting for nearly 1,900 full-time jobs, part-time positions and internships at the Career Fair. Greatly adding to the experience was the presence of blue-ribboned alumni, returning to Penn College on behalf of their postgraduate employers.

Two Penn College alumni, whose "degrees that work" led to employment in the natural gas industry, shared their stories with area high school students visiting campus for Friday's Career Day. At separate sessions in the Thompson Professional Development Center, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. employees Brandon J.

The Gallery at Penn College announced the winners of "Kaleidoscope: The Alumni Exhibit" during an opening reception on Oct. 7. The Kaleidoscope exhibition is a celebration of the talented alumni of Pennsylvania College of Technology and its forerunners, Williamsport Technical Institute and Williamsport Area Community College. It features original artwork by 29 alumni from all three institutions.