Students Articles

A number of Pennsylvania College of Technology offices again are encouraging students to make wise, safe decisions during Spring Break. In a party atmosphere from 5-6:30 p.m.

The family of a former Pennsylvania College of Technology student who died in a traffic accident in 2005 has established a scholarship fund at the college in his memory. The Penn College Foundation has received a donation to establish an endowment for the Joshua R. Geary Memorial Scholarship. The endowment is expected to produce $2,000 in annual awards.

Pennsylvania College of Technology continues to support students who have served their country in the armed forces. The Financial Aid Office at Penn College recently hired three veterans as U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Work-Study Program students.

The Internal Revenue Service's free Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, in which Pennsylvania College of Technology students annually prepare hundreds of returns for area taxpayers, will offer two by-appointment-only sessions for Northern Tier residents this season. The program will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, and from 1 to 6 p.m.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students volunteered recently to assist in a drill for medical staff at the U.S. Penitentiary at Lewisburg. Invited by Bryan Walls, a paramedic and training coordinator at USP Lewisburg, six students from the emergency medical services program at the college used their medical knowledge to act out injuries during the prison's annual mass casualty drill.

Thanks to the journalistic contributions of a faculty member, the February issue of Avionics News spotlights current students and an alumna of Penn College's aviation program. Thomas D. Inman, an associate professor at the Lumley Aviation Center in Montoursville, conducted an interview with 2006 aviation maintenance technology graduate Gail A.

Four automotive students and their Pennsylvania College of Technology instructor are applying some 21st-century know-how to a car that predates them by decades: a 1965 Ford Mustang convertible that is being restored for display at the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum in Hershey. "This car definitely is a cream puff," said Roy A.

At a Thursday gathering in City Hall, Williamsport Mayor Gabriel J. Campana endorsed a food drive undertaken by Penn College's Students in Free Enterprise in conjunction with Campbell's Soup.

The chimes have returned at Trinity Episcopal Church in Williamsport where, in December, Jim Zerfing, the church clock's longtime caretaker, and students from Pennsylvania College of Technology climbed 100 feet up the clock tower's narrow stairs to replace parts that had fallen into disrepair. The students are enrolled in majors in the automated manufacturing and machining department.

Five Penn College students will be among the volunteers on a Spring Break church trip to help earthquake-stricken Haitians in desperate need of housing. Benaiah K. Tucci, of Ligonier; Anthony P. Grubbs, of Irwin; Zachary D. Zukauckas, of Newville; Brian J. Applebaum, of Huntingdon Valley; and Matthew A.