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Ninth- through 12th-graders from a number of school districts visited Pennsylvania College of Technology campuses Oct. 15 for Career Day, sponsored by Outreach for K-12 to allow exploration of a wide variety of technical careers through hands-on activities, tours of facilities, and discussions with students and faculty.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation's recent dinner auction set a new record for funds raised at the biennial event. Robb C. Dietrich, executive director of the Penn College Foundation, said more than $58,000 was raised at the event. He said the total was about $4,000 more than the amount raised at the last dinner auction in 2008.

A Tuesday afternoon gallery talk and an evening Meet the Artist reception formally opened "I Am," artwork by Antonio Puri that will be exhibited on the third floor of the Madigan Library through Nov. 7. During his weeklong stay as an artist in residence, Puri is engaging students from multiple disciplines to create a large-scale work that will be permanently installed on campus.

Keeping his audience spellbound with a stunningly creative blend of storytelling, wit, stage presence and music not to mention an effective use of props David S. Sims shared a hypothetically valedictory message as this year's speaker in The David London My Last Words lecture series.

More than 150 participants raised a little more than $6,000 in Sunday's "Out of the Darkness" suicide-awareness and -prevention walk. Joe S. Miller, manager of audio/visual services at Penn College and coordinator of the walk, said the number of walkers was five times last year's total; the amount of money raised so far (donations are accepted through Dec.

Ninth- through 12th-graders from a number of school districts visited Penn College campuses Oct. 15 for Career Day, sponsored by Outreach for K-12 to allow exploration of a wide variety of technical careers through hands-on activities, tours of facilities, and discussions with students and faculty.

Plastics SourceNet hosted its 2010 Symposium on the Penn College campus Oct. 14-15. Keynote speaker Peter J.

The college community is invited to attend a gallery talk by artist-in-residence Antonio Puri at noon Tuesday, Oct. 19, in The Gallery at Penn College on the third floor of the library; bringa bagged lunch. In addition to the gallery talk at noon, a Meet the Artist Reception will take place on the same day, from 4:30-6:30 p.m., with a second talk at 5:30.

The David London My Last Words lecture series at Pennsylvania College of Technology asks student-nominated faculty members to share their final thoughts if they knew it was their last opportunity to impart wisdom and life lessons. This year's nominee, David S.

Casting Change Prompts College's Postponement of Stage Play "Run for Your Wife," Ray Cooney's comedy about a London cab driver with two distinct lives and two wives! will be staged next month in Pennsylvania College of Technology's Klump Academic Center. The production, the college's first foray into full-tilt farce after two years of musicals, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov.