Events Articles

The "Spring Potluck Supper," a tradition at which the Children's Learning Center welcomes the new season and says "goodbye" to youngsters who will be leaving at the end of the semester was held Thursday night in Penn's Inn. In addition to a family-style meal, the evening included energetic dancing and other activities. Photo by Phillip C. Warner, student writer/photographer

PGA Tour member J.J. Henry will be the visiting pro at the 20th Annual Golf Classic, to be hosted by the Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation on May 8 at the Williamsport Country Club. Net proceeds from the event will benefit the Penn College Foundation Golf Classic Scholarship.

Tuesday's rain didn't dampen the sixth annual "Villapalooza," as about 150 students attended the event organized by Village Resident Assistants Amanda Miller, Rachel Hall, Marisa Labosky, Sarah Landis, Adam Sillaman, Doug Bloom and Spyke Krepshaw.

Author Lindsay Barrett George read her book, "Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse," to the children of the Children's Learning Center at Penn College on Tuesday morning in the Professional Development Center.

Retired Air Force Col. Timothy D. Bair was at the Lumley Aviation Center on April 20 to present results of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident investigation. Bair was a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board as an investigator from February to August 2002.

Penn College held a reception for its much-appreciated donors Tuesday night, celebrating benefactors' funding of state-of-the-art equipment, scholarships and building projects so vital to students' education.

Chef Michael J. Ditchfield, instructor of food and hospitality management/culinary arts in Penn College's School of Hospitality, was the spring semester's final speaker in Student Activities' "My Last Words" series Tuesday night.

The School of Business and Computer Technologies held its annual Showcase and Advisory Committee Meeting in the PDC on Monday, tackling the "brain drain" in Central Pennsylvania. Jim Shillenn, chief executive officer of the Industrial Modernization Center, in center photo, presented a recent study on retaining and attracting young adults to central Pennsylvania.

The second "Catch Me if You Can" Allyson Wilgar-Jones Memorial 5K Walk/Run attracted 115 participants Saturday, despite chilly weather. The walk/run is organized by Penn College nursing faculty in memory of Wilgar-Jones, a colleague who died in 2004 after a brief battle with cancer.

More than 150 students in 10th to 12th grades visited campus Friday to take part in the Outreach for K-12 Office's NanoTrek Camp. The students are enrolled in the 2+2+2 program, through which they take Penn College classes while in high school.