Faculty & Staff Articles

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. Trista N. Falls, regular part-time Dining Services Worker III, effective Dec. 6 Sarah E. Horton, transfer to full-time temporary Video Web Marketing & Innovation Coordinator, Industrial Modernization Center, beginning Dec.

Faculty member evokes cinema legend Members of the Penn College family – faculty/staff, students and alumni – are known for their civic involvement, and not even the hectic holiday season can douse that community spirit. Brian M.

Paul Zell Sr. Services were at the convenience of the family for Paul J. Zell Sr., a retired Penn College faculty member, who died Saturday, Nov. 24. Zell taught plumbing from August 1975-August 1986 in the college's Construction Technology Division (now the School of Construction and Design Technologies).

The Bison Battalion Army ROTC, comprising Pennsylvania College of Technology and four other Susquehanna Valley institutions, held its annual Dining Out ceremony Nov. 17 at the Kehr Dining Hall at Bloomsburg University. Penn College Cadets Diego Wilson (left) and Steven Cavanaugh. Also known as "Mess Night," the formal dinner is a tradition long observed by America's armed forces.

Wednesday's astoundingly huge Powerball jackpot, which ultimately will be split by players in Arizona and Missouri, eluded Pennsylvanians who nonetheless helped push the multistate total to a record $587.5 million. A group of Penn College employees, however – mostly from Dining Services, but joined by a few in other departments – have a $10,000 winner among its pile of tickets.

In the dusky blue of twilight, card-lighting attendees stand silhouetted outside the ATHS. PCCA's carpentry skills are evident in the student group's blue-ribbon creation. The 2012 crop of holiday cards, illuminated along the campus mall. Elliott Strickland Jr., chief student affairs officer, presides over the card-lighting ceremony.

"Forever" An early childhood lab assistant in Penn College's School of Integrated Studies was among the faculty/staff winners in The Pennsylvania State University's recent Global Perspectives Photography Contest. Jodi L. Binkley's "Forever" was a winner in the People category of the contest, which was administered by The University Office of Global Programs.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Sandra L. Richmond, full-time Faculty, Nursing Programs, School of Health Sciences; effective Nov. 26 Only new college hires and employees transferring from one internal position to another in certain situations are reported.

Traditional greetings of the season, fashioned by members of the Penn College family on oversized holiday cards, have been installed on the mall outside the Breuder Advanced Technology and Health Sciences Center. The cards uniquely represent 30 student organizations and five college offices. — Photos by Tom Wilson, writer/editor-PCToday

Faculty members in the Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology Department within the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies at Pennsylvania College of Technology have established a building-to-endowed scholarship.