Faculty & Staff Articles

Chad L. Karstetter Chad L. Karstetter will step back into the head coaching position for the Penn College archery program for the 2014 season.

Kenneth C. Kuhns, assistant professor of electrical technologies/occupations, oversees the work of a student in the on-site power generation major as he troubleshoots a commercial generator at I-TEC (International Technical Electric & Construction) in Montoursville.

Interactive art project installed in Campus Center Members of the Penn College community are encouraged to participate in Before I Die, a public art project inspired by the work of Candy Chang. Participants complete the sentence, "Before I die, I want to ..." on a white postcard and hang it in the Bush Campus Center's north hallway for public viewing.

Beginning a year that celebrates the institution's history while defining its future, President Davie Jane Gilmour opened the Spring 2014 semester – and Penn College's centennial – with an all-college address to faculty and staff. “It is all of us today – each of us in this room – who will determine how the beginning of the next 100 years is remembered," she said Friday morning.

Echoing colors from the college's centennial logo, tinted tortilla chips await. Eric D. Ranck, manager of bursar and payroll services (left), joins Carl J. Bower Jr., horticulture instructor, in the buffet line. Chocolate bars, a treat no matter the occasion, are among centennial souvenirs. A festive snack begins the college's 100th year.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Lauren E. Reed, full-time Clinical Supervisor, Radiography, School of Health Sciences; starting Jan. 6 Matthew T.

Dennis E. Fink celebrated his May 2012 retirement at that month's commencement, surrounded by a fraction of the horticulture students he inspired during 38 years of teaching. A visitation and funeral were held Dec. 27-28 for Dennis E. Fink, 1997's Master Teacher and a retired assistant professor of horticulture, who died Monday, Dec. 23.

Members of the second graduating class of data-processing students practice on the college’s first computer, an IBM 1620 (mainly hidden in the background), in the college’s first computer lab, in Unit 6, in 1967. From the Winter 2013 One College Avenue magazine: Fifty years ago, with the challenge laid before him by Williamsport Technical Institute Director Kenneth E.

With abundant smiles easily cutting through the drizzle (and one of the most buoyantly boisterous crowds in memory), Pennsylvania College of Technology held its final commencement ceremony of 2013 Saturday for nearly 300 students who petitioned to graduate following the fall semester. The student speaker for the 11 a.m. proceedings in the Community Arts Center was Eric J.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Jeanie L. Krape, full-time Accounting Clerk, Financial Operations; starting Dec. 16 Rick L. Kintzer, regular part-time College Store Clerk/Shipping and Receiving; effective Dec.