Alumni Articles

Known as one of the premier public horticultural displays in the world, Longwood Gardens features nearly 1,100 acres of natural beauty. Two 2005 Penn College graduates help shape that magnificent scenery by serving as senior gardeners. April J. Bevans, landscape/nursery technology, and Lauren S.

The Lumley Aviation Center proved to be a popular venue for Friday's 17th annual reunion for graduates of Williamsport Technical Institute, a Penn College predecessor from 1941-65. Alumni and their guests, totaling about 75 attendees, enjoyed swapping stories, savoring lunch and listening to remarks by President Davie Jane Gilmour.

The visitor stops by the sheet-metal shop with faculty member Thomas D. Inman. The alumnus invented, manufactured and marketed slide-in adapters to retrofit new radios in older aircraft, a cost-saving innovation that he demonstrated for students. Haubert alights a twin-engine Dassault Falcon 20 business jet donated to Penn College during the Spring 2015 semester.

Eric P. Schmidt was amazed at the possibilities the first time he saw Penn College. "Being in high school, I remember it was pretty amazing because it's a beautiful campus," Schmidt recalls in a new video on the college's YouTube channel.

More than 40 Penn College students and alumni attended this year's "ShmooCon" national conference in Washington, D.C.: three days of cybersecurity keynoters, as well as discussions of relevant and innovative topics with professionals and students from across the country.

Raymond Eck, '41, lays a wreath at Madingley American Cemetery in England. From the Spring 2017 Penn College Magazine: Being in a war is like hell on earth, says World War II airman Raymond Eck, ’41, but he had a job to do and crewmates who depended on him. At 93, his bond with fellow airmen remains strong. Read "A Job to Do."

Alumna Trena Dale returns to Penn College. With help from the Alumni Relations Office, the Penn College Student Nurses' Association recently hosted alumna Trena Dale. Dale has received two associate degrees from Penn College: a dental hygiene degree in 2001 and a nursing degree in 2011.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student was among only eight in the world to receive a Bill Sanderson Aviation Maintenance Technology Scholarship from Helicopter Association International's Technical Committee. Zachary D.

Alumni returning to their graphic design roots are (from left): Bigger, Cosgrove, Januchowski, Hoover, Gray and Chandler. Stephenson (right) chats up his former students prior to their panel discussion in the Bush Campus Center. Chandler shares insight into her real-world design experience. A roomful of future graphic designers listens to Januchowski’s sage advice.

A generous donation of $275,000 worth of airplane parts will enhance the real-world instructional environment for aviation students at Pennsylvania College of Technology. David J. Barr, a quality management inspector with Airbus who graduated from Penn College with an aviation technology degree in 1997, brought the equipment to the Lumley Aviation Center hangar during the fall semester.