Industry Partnerships Articles

A leading site contracting and paving firm in Chester County has established a scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The fund established by Lyons and Hohl Inc. focuses on students in Penn College's heavy construction equipment technology: operator emphasis major.

Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has established a scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology to support students in the college's aviation maintenance technology bachelor-degree major. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Scholarship Fund will make annual awards of $2,500 each to two students.

A Bloomsburg couple has established a scholarship fund that encourages students in the Mount Carmel Area School District to attend Pennsylvania College of Technology. Edward and Sharon Madalis recently signed the agreement establishing the fund in memory of Edward's parents, Walter and Nancy Madalis. "My parents placed a strong emphasis on the value of continued education," Edward Madalis said.

The Institutional Advancement Office and Pennsylvania College of Technology President Davie Jane Gilmour recognized the support of college employees through the Annual Fundand other college fundraising initiatives at a recent luncheon in the Thompson Professional Development Center.

Pennsylvania College of Technology on Saturday presented Alumni Citizenship/Humanitarian Awards to Diane L. Dorner and Lester J. Loner, both of Williamsport. The Alumni Citizenship/Humanitarian Award recognizes graduates of Penn College (and forerunners Williamsport Area Community College and the Williamsport Technical Institute) who provide distinguished community or volunteer service.

Penn College representatives were on hand for the 84th Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists' Association Annual Session and Keystone Dental Health Conference, held Nov. 7-11 in Pittsburgh. At left, Shawn A. Kiser, director of dental hygiene, and Barbara A. Danko, director of alumni relations, visit with prospective students and alumna Kristin Campbell (2005, dental hygiene).

Pennsylvania College of Technology's Student Government Association recently hosted its fifth annual Student Leadership Conference, promoting student involvement and leadership to more than 100 on-campus participants. The theme for this year's program, held Nov.

A member of the Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation Board of Directors has donated to the college nearly 200 mechanical drawings completed while he was student at Williamsport Technical Institute, a Penn College forerunner. David W.

At Homecoming festivities recently, Pennsylvania College of Technology presented, for the first time, Outstanding Varsity Athletic Alumni Awards. The 2007 recipients are Wayne M. Parfitt, of Newport News, Va., and Sara J. Smith, of Troy.

A donation of equipment from a Harrisburg-based electronics distributor has allowed Pennsylvania College of Technology to also receive a $75,000 equipment grant from the state toward furnishing new electronics and computer engineering technology laboratories with the latest industry-standard equipment.