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As part of the Penn College Scholarship Campaign launched this month, Dorothy J. Gerring, associate professor of architectural technology, and William F. Geyer, assistant professor of building construction technology, have established the Gerring Geyer Scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Pennsylvania College of Technology President Davie Jane Gilmour has established a building-to-endowed scholarship as part of the Penn College Scholarship Campaign and in honor of the college’s upcoming Centennial Celebration. The scholarship, which will generate initial annual awards of $1,000 benefiting full-time students, will be fully funded in 2017. At an all-college meeting Aug.

Pennsylvania College of Technology presented a Mentorship Award to alumnus Ronald A. Burger, co-owner of George Burger & Sons Inc. Garden Center in Luzerne County. The award was bestowed upon Burger by Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour during a Summer Commencement ceremony held at the Community Arts Center, Williamsport.

Under skies that hadn't yet rumbled with thunder, Joey Sindelar offers pointers. A pyramid of balls, soon to be employed in a show of putting prowess Lining it up, straight and true A smooth exit from the bunker Interest runs higher than the humidity when a pro comes to town.

A 150-year-old Williamsport law firm has established a scholarship benefiting students enrolled in the legal assistant-paralegal majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The McCormick Law Firm Scholarship will make annual awards of $1,000 while building to endowed status. Once fully endowed, the scholarship fund will produce annual awards of $1,000 or more in perpetuity.

Cameron Manufacturing & Design, of Horseheads, N.Y., has established a new scholarship fund for students at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

The family of the late Ryan and Karen English recently delivered a check to Pennsylvania College of Technology to be added to a scholarship fund started in 2011 by Ryan in support of students in the electronics and computer engineering technology majors. The Ryan and Karen English Marcellus Measurement Scholarship will provide perpetual annual awards.

A Kylertown man who comes from a family with three generations of alumni has donated a Cessna 175C airplane to Pennsylvania College of Technology. Gary Gable, who graduated from Penn College forerunner Williamsport Area Community College with a certificate in electrical technology in 1974, donated the plane with co-owner Charles Michaelis.

A recent benefit for the William E. Henry Memorial Scholarship, established early last year by family and friends of a local trailblazer in emergency medical services, brought the fund $500 closer to endowment.

Faculty members in the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies at Pennsylvania College of Technology have established the Automated Manufacturing and Machining Scholarship.