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The Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors on Thursday authorized refinancing of the college’s 2005 bond series to generate financial savings from reduced interest costs. Refinancing, said Suzanne T. Stopper, vice president for finance/CFO, is being undertaken at this time because of favorable interest rates. Closing is expected in June.

Three Pennsylvania College of Technology students have been inducted into the North American Forest Technician Honorary on the basis of their scholastic achievement. Forest technology majors Derek S. Labs, of Jersey Shore; Sharon L. Morris, of Liberty; and Mark J.

Twelve students in six automobiles representing the Penn College Motorsports Association completed both stages of the 2015 Toyota Green Grand Prix, held April 17 at the historic Watkins Glen International Raceway.

The Dunham Children’s Learning Center will offer a summer program from June 8 to Aug. 7 for children who have completed kindergarten or first grade (up to age 7). Hours will be 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fridays. A full week of enrollment is $150, or families can choose a part-time schedule of Monday/Wednesday/Friday or Tuesday/Thursday at $30 per day.

Christopher J. Gagliano, PIRC program and technical service manager, showcases the thermoforming lab. C. Hank White, director of the PIRC, answers a question in the extrusion lab. Julia I. Gilchrist, a plastics and polymer engineering technology major and a research assistant for the PIRC, holds court in the rotational molding lab. Gary E. McQuay (left), PIRC engineering manager, and Jared W.

Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s practical nursing major recently raised $300 for the Wounded Warrior Project. Students in the course Nursing Care for Adults 1 elected to host a dress-down day on April 6.

Horticulture alumni returning to Penn College as Field Day judges (from left): Tyler J. Fatzinger (2014), Cory M. Ferreri ('12), Nicholas B. Cramer ('08), Melissa D. Berrier-Cramer ('08), Jeremy L. Thorne ('13), Nicholas D. Foreman ('14), and Joseph D. Plummer ('97). Students in the hardscape competition prepare the base for brick pavers.

Kacie L. Weaver, an applied human services student from Harrisburg, shimmers under the ACC lights. Strikingly making the scene are Glendalis Guadarrama, a nursing major from Avondale, and Wilmer I. Chase, of Lancaster, enrolled in architectural technology. Nursing major Chesnya I. Cherulus, of Elmont, New York, lets loose her inner nerd.

G. Patrick Butler, a 2007 computer information systems graduate now working for Amtrak in Philadelphia, recounts what attracted him to Penn College in the first place: the people, the personal interaction and the positive attitude of a clerk in the Wildcat Express convenience store. Sara H.

About 50 graduates of Williamsport Technical Institute, a Pennsylvania College of Technology forerunner, attended a 15th annual reunion on April 17.