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The Gallery at Penn College will continue its "In Perfect Harmony" concert series on Oct. 9 with the return of alumnus Alfonse Ciaccio, who will present an afternoon of classical guitar music to close Pennsylvania College of Technology's Homecoming Weekend.

The business, art and storytelling of comics and graphic novels from anime to zombies will be discussed during a range of ComiXnite programs at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library in October and November. Partially funded with a $3,500 Library Services and Technology Act grant from the U.S.

Graphic designer David Carson has canceled his planned Oct. 4 visit to Penn College for personal reasons. Carson, the former art director for the magazine Ray Gun, was scheduled topresent a lectureas part of The Graphic Design Speaker Series.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students, employees and alumni as well as members of the general public are welcome to enter their vehicles in the annual Homecoming Car Show sponsored by the Student Government Association. This year's event, offering prizes in 12 categories, will be held Saturday, Oct. 8, on the college's main campus in Williamsport.

Parent & Family Weekend 2011 offered a variety of activities for Penn College students and their families, including social events, educational workshops, brunch with the president, performances by the Wildcat Dance Team and other entertainment, tethered balloon rides, and trolley tours of Williamsport.

Visitors to Saturday's portion of Parent & Family Weekend engaged in friendly competition outside the Field House during the Intramural Family Spectacular at Penn College. Options ran the gamut from a foul-shooting contest to ladder golf and other leisure games made even more pleasurable by sunshine and free ice cream! Photos by Jeremy R. Bottorf, intramural assistant

Students in the Advanced Patisserie Operations class presented their first bake sale of the Fall 2011 semester Friday morning, a menu of "International Delights" that appropriately satisfied the senses. Student managers for the sale, held in Le Jeune Patissier (in the market area of the Carl Building Technologies Center) were Ana-Maria Grigore, Oksana M. Punako and Lauren G. Hammer.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the campus community is encouraged to show its support at the Penn College Pink Outs. The women's volleyball team, which held its second annual Pink Out Tie-Dye event Wednesday, didn't expect the crowd that showed up to helpheighten awareness.

With a lineup that includes an Emmy Award winner, a National Book Award finalist and a recognized leader in introducing comic books and graphic novels to school libraries, the inaugural Wildcat Comic Con promises to deliver a host of cartoonists, authors and industry trailblazers to Pennsylvania College of Technology.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The artist subsequently canceled his planned visit for personal reasons.) Pennsylvania College of Technology will host a lecture by American graphic designer David Carson, one of the most influential graphic designers of the 1990s, at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium.