The fifth annual Greater Lycoming Out of the Darkness Walk for suicide prevention will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, in Montoursville's Indian Park. The walk will be a 5K (3.1 miles) and the proceeds raised by walkers will go toward American Foundation for Suicide Prevention research and education programs.
Student acts are invited to take part in "Penn College Star," billed as the biggest talent show to ever hit campus, when it begins later this month. The competition – sponsored by Student Activities, the Residence Life Office and the Off-Campus Housing Organization – is a series of three shows, culminating in a Klump Academic Center Auditorium finale with $500 in prizes.
Bestselling authors and sexologists Joni Frater (left) and Esther Lastique (right), with Kristi L. Hammaker, Penn College health and fitness specialist, in the ACC lobby. Enlisting their audience in the fight for personal responsibility and healthy choices, fittingly camo-clad speakers engage hundreds of students.
Penn College students, employees and alumni were among the 1,919 fans in the stands for Tuesday’s 14th annual Penn College “Pack the Park Night” at historic Bowman Field.
Student April M. Tucker collects her winnings from a spin of the Williamsport Crosscutters prize wheel. The Physical Fitness Specialist Club, among campus organizations aligned with academic majors, spreads the word about wellness. Students of Musical Development, chosen as the college's Most Improved Organization during the 2012-13 year, provides the entertainment.
From behind a table full of popular snack food, Frito-Lay Inc.'s Rich Clark engages a job-seeker. Among the Penn College representatives available to students was Danielle L. Willits, Dining Services' recruitment and training specialist. A student explores a possible part-time job at Excell Tutoring with Jenna Trowbridge (right) and her mother, 1988 business management alumna Jacqueline K.
Playing Plinko for prizes Students check out intramural possibilities for the semester ahead. The new air-hockey table gets some use in background, while the Root Beer Pong Tournament heats up. Crowned tourney champion is Lee D. Bouton, a building construction technology: masonry concentration major from Stillman Valley, Ill.
Elliott Strickland, chief student affairs officer – with daughter Emma and "Rusty," their Brittany – engages a student at Wednesday's event. A ground-level gathering surrounds "Maggie," an English bulldog owned by Paul L. Starkey, vice president for academic affairs/provost (right). Ryan A. Gibson, an aviation technology major from Lansdale, fills his plate.
International flags decorate the Victorian House fence, welcoming visitors. Conversation and sunshine stream onto the Victorian House lawn. Attending to answers in a “human scavenger hunt,” offered to encourage mixing and mingling, are first-year students Kasandra L. Smoyer (left), a nursing major from Spring Mills, and Jessica T. Haynes, of Bethlehem, enrolled in culinary arts technology.
Penn College greeted new and returning students for the start of the Fall 2013 semester during Welcome Weekend, which provided a variety of opportunities for a transition into campus life after a busy summer: moving into on- and off-campus housing, participating in academic and social activities, and being introduced to student leaders, faculty and staff.
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