Events Articles

In celebration of Children's Authors and Illustrators Week, youngsters from the Children's Learning Center at Penn College visited The Madigan Library for story time between 9:30-10:30 a.m. Feb. 1-4. A total of 46 children, ranging in age from 18 months to 5 years, listened and interacted enthusiastically as Nicole S. Staron, library circulation assistant, and Blair E.

A series of educational and entertaining events, stressing responsibility and sound decisions in intimate relationships, will mark Pennsylvania College of Technology's observance of Sexual Responsibility Week (Feb. 21-26).

The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library, will host "Garden Views and Terraria Gigantica," a collection of photography by Dana Fritz, from Feb 16 to March 28. Garden Views examines formal gardening traditions in the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

A "Cure the Blues Jazz Fest," among Black History Month activities at Pennsylvania College of Technology, will be held from 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, in the Field House on the college's main campus in Williamsport.

Penn College baking and pastry arts students will help provide the goodies for the Williamsport Civic Chorus' "Coffee and Dessert" concert to be held Saturday, Feb. 13, at Park Place, 800 W. Fourth St. The concert will feature songs about coffee and desserts, as well as appropriately coffee and wonderful desserts from the collegeand sixother local vendors.

Nearly two dozen students from seven area schools Keystone Central Career and Technology Center, Williamsport Area High School, SUN Area Technical Institute, Columbia-Montour Area Vocational Technical School, Schuylkill Technology Center-South Campus, Lycoming Career and Technology Center, and Northumberland Co. Area Vocational Technical School visited Penn College on Jan.

Author Daryl Davis will discuss his near-incredible interaction with the Ku Klux Klan when he brings his battle against racism to Pennsylvania College of Technology on Monday, Feb. 15.

Nearly 150 pints of blood were collected at the Jan. 20 Red Cross Bloodmobile in Penn's Inn short of expectations, but, as every pint goes toward saving another life, a worthy effort nonetheless. Student and faculty/staff donors contributed 147 pints (135 whole-blood donations and 12 pints through the double-red-cell process) in the daylong visit. The next campus Bloodmobile will be April 28.

The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Madigan Library, is hosting "Cipher," a collection of ceramic works by Shalya Marsh, through Feb 9. An opening reception was held there Tuesday evening; other activities included an artist's lecture in the SASC and a follow-up talk in the gallery. Hours for the exhibit are 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 2-8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; and 11 a.m.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will host its spring Visiting Chef Series Feb. 17-19, welcoming Chef DeJuan Roy, executive chef of 95 Cordova at the historic Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine, Fla. While at the college, Roy will work alongside students, sharing his expertise as they prepare a benefit dinner on Friday, Feb. 19, that will conclude the stay.