Events Articles

A record crowd of 35 chimney sweeps from across the country is on campus for "Masonry: A Permanent Improvement," a weeklong class offered through Workforce Development & Continuing Education and the Pennsylvania Guild of Professional Chimney Sweeps. This is the fourth year for the program, which is taught by Glenn R.

Saturday's Penn College/United Way "Trash to Treasure" Sale was another huge success. The event raised $1,400 (a more-than-25-percent increase over proceeds from last year) and provided the American Rescue Workers with truckloads of donations and food.

About 85 area high school students attended Wednesday's "Job for a Day," hosted by the plastics and polymer technology department. Students visited plastics laboratories, toured campus and made products on the college's mobile plastics lab. The lab, made up of smaller versions of Penn College's industry-standard equipment, traveled to several high schools this year.

Michelle McGann, winner of seven Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour events, will be the visiting pro at the 19th Annual Golf Classic, to be hosted May 9 at the Williamsport Country Club by the Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation. Net proceeds will be used to support The Penn College Foundation Golf Classic Scholarship.

Class work of students in Penn College's School of Hospitality was featured in Sunday's Victorian-themed " Mother's Day Tea" organized to raise funds for the Williamsport YWCA's warm-water pool. Under the direction of Chef Judith P. Shimp, associate professor of food and hospitality management, and student manager Matthew G.

Congratulations to Penn College's vital and vigorous student organizations, honored at Wednesday night's annual Student Activities banquet in Penn's Inn: James Riedel, an automotive technology management major from Quogue, N.Y., the outgoing president of the Student Government Association, who was selected as "Student Leader of the Year." The Society for Plastics Engineers was named "Student Orga

Students taking ceramics courses at Pennsylvania College of Technology will display their work in The Gallery at Penn College from Tuesday, May 3, through Friday, May 6. Showing their work will be Wendy L. Frew, Frackville, an independent-study ceramics student, as well as students from first- and second-level ceramics courses. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held 4 to 6 p.m.

"A Visit to Albania, a Country Rising Slowly From Communism," is the title of the program to be presented in an April 27 faculty forum at the Pennsylvania College of Technology Library. The forum, which is the seventh of the series, will be presented from 3 to 4 p.m. by Richard C. Taylor, associate professor of plumbing and heating.

The class work of students in the School of Hospitality at Pennsylvania College of Technology will be the feature of a Mother's Day Tea that was organized to raise funds for the Williamsport YWCA's warm-water pool. Under the direction of Chef Judith P. Shimp, associate professor of food and hospitality management, and student manager Matthew G.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will host a Student Professional Awareness Conference at the college on April 22. The conference, which is planned for 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Klump Academic Center auditorium, will include national and local speakers.