Industry Partnerships Articles

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.

Engineering design faculty members at Pennsylvania College of Technology have established a scholarship for students enrolled in computer aided design majors at the college.

A record crowd of 134 guests attended Sunday's Grand Pastry Buffet, a scrumptious culmination of course work for baking and pastry arts seniors and an acknowledgement by scholarship recipients of the donors who have smoothed their road to a Penn College diploma.

Penn College employees have moved into the Millionaire's Society, recognizing $1 million-plus in co-worker contributions. President Davie Jane Gilmour announces that total employee contributions to the Penn College Fund have topped $1.1 million.

A scholarship fund that will eventually meet the emergency needs of eligible Pennsylvania College of Technology students is more than halfway to endowment, thanks to a recent initiative by employees in two campus offices. “Dress Down February,” born of a committee of co-workers in the Financial Aid and Admissions offices, raised $4,070 for the Mary Beth Saar Memorial Scholarship.

PPL Energy Funding, an affiliate of PPL Corp., has contributed $7,000 to two Pennsylvania College of Technology programs through the state’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit program.