Collision Repair & Restoration Articles

Last week was a busy one for the collision repair department. Two important meetings were heldin the College Avenue Labs building, and James Meyers, the East Coastinstructor for Toyota collision repair and refinish training, was "in the house" for four days.

The collision repair department has selected Brandon Smith asits "Student of the Month" for October. The honoree's father ownsthe R.A. Smith& Sonscollision repair shop in York Springs, with 30 years' experience. "Brandon has been a very hard-working, serious and dedicated student and leader while pursuing his education here at Penn College," said Stephen T. Duna, instructor of collision repair.

The collision repair department recently hosted Car-O-Liner frame-equipment training on a newly purchased frame rack and Car-O-Tronic computerized measuring system. "Car-O-Liner Bob" Warren and his son, Nick, were on campus Sept. 14-15 to provide 16 hours of training for collision repair instructors Stephen T. Duna and Roy H. Klinger.

The Fall 2005 slate of Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair training has begun in earnest at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Training kicked off about a week and a half ago with I-CAR's newest training program (GEN01, "Collision Repair Overview") for the 2006 Chevrolet Corvette Z06.Monday evening's class (ALT01, "Electric and Hybrid Vehicles") was hosted by Alfred M.

Joshua M. Yost, chosen as the Student Government Association's "Student of the Month" in March, has been selected by collision repair faculty for a similar honor this month. Yost, from Cochranton − the unanimous choice of all six collision repair faculty members − was chosen for his campus leadership, dependability, initiative, integrity, enthusiasm and his support of fellow students.

Two sections of first-year collision repair students recently participated in a "Shop Fire Safety" demonstration and training session at the Williamsport Bureau of Fire training area on West Third Street.