Events Articles

From campus royalty to a historical photo exhibit in The Gallery at Penn College, to sporting events and alumni reunions, to a car show and "floats" that didn't move, the college was alive this past weekend with a "Connecting the Pieces: Past and Present Unite" Homecoming celebration. For more, visit the PCToday Photo Gallery.

Thirteen offices participated in this year's Homecoming Door-Decorating Contest, displaying creativity and honoring the theme of "Connecting the Pieces: Past and Present Unite." Although the voting was characterized as "tough," the Homecoming Committee was able to determine this year's winners from among the many colorful entries.

School of Hospitality students and faculty benefited from visits by culinary experts who shared their knowledge during classes and special events.

Decorated T-shirts, hanging through Friday in the Campus Center Lobby and first floor of the Madigan Library, bear witness to violence against women. Penn College students and employees were invited to participate in The Clothesline Project, creating shirts that express the emotions of and stand in solidarity with those affected by the unspeakable.Photos by Michael S.

The role of personal responsibility in maintaining a healthy lifestyle will be addressed by an assistant professor of fitness and lifetime sports in an upcoming forum at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library.

Scores of civic-minded Pennsylvania College of Technology students and employees fanned out across Lycoming County on Saturday, Oct. 3 – rolling up their sleeves at about a dozen job sites from Montoursville to Jersey Shore, from Newberry to South Williamsport – for the United Way's annual Day of Caring.

An "Out of the Darkness" community walk for suicide awareness and prevention, a first-ever event for Lycoming County that will begin and end behind the Bush Campus Center on Pennsylvania College of Technology's main campus in Williamsport,will be held Sunday, Oct. 18. Registration is from 1-2 p.m., with the walk starting at 2.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students will prepare a tea luncheon on Oct. 19 to benefit the American Rescue Workers Men's Center in Williamsport. Under the direction of Chef Judith P. Shimp, associate professor of hospitality management/culinary arts, culinary arts students in the Breakfast and Brunch course will serve an English high tea buffet, with poured hot and flavored ice tea.

A two-part presentation in Penn College's Madigan Library provided some free insight (and some historical hindsight) into the formidable natural-gas industry in the area. "Oil's Stepchild: The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia: A History from the First Discovery to the Maturity of the Industry" was discussed by David A.

Pennsylvania College of Technology alumnus Alfonse Ciaccio will return to The Gallery at Penn College on Oct. 11 to present "The Good, the True and the Beautiful: An Afternoon of Classical Guitar Music." Ciaccio, a 1993 graduate, will perform from 1 to 2:30 p.m. He plans to feature pieces by classical and contemporary composers from around the world.