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Pennsylvania College of Technology's Board of Directors on Thursday authorized the college administration to enter into an agreement to purchase a property at 944 First St. If the sale is finalized, the property, situated across the street from the Student and Administrative Services Center, will be used for additional college parking, said Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour.

The annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work observance brought 15 young women and men to Penn College campuses for a variety of activities Thursday.

Despite adversity throughout their seasons due, in part, to poor spring weather resulting in inconsistent play, and injuries Pennsylvania College of Technology softball and baseball teams have met the preseason expectations of their coaches. Roger Harris, in his 10th year as softball coach, and Chris Howard, in season No.

Prospective enrollees in Penn College's legal assistant/paralegal majors visited Thursday for an informative overview of the program. Participants explored academics and real-world applications with faculty and other School of Business and Computer Technologies principals; toured main campus with admissions representative Brian D. Walton and Bradley M.

Notable students and on-campus programming for March have been announced by Pennsylvania College of Technology's Residence Life Office. Selected as the Rising Star of the Month was Robert J. Lamb, a welding and fabrication engineering major from Lansing, N.Y., and a Resident Assistant in York Hall.

Students came out with a vengeance in Wednesday's softball challenge against staff/faculty: Justin Eberhart, Bryann Bingamann and Marc Kaylor scored early to take a 3-0 lead after the first inning. Their opponents didn't get their first run until the third, and scored three more in the bottom of the fourth after RBI singles from Eric Ranck and Andy Gutkowski.

Cows grazed the Madigan Library lawn Wednesday, part of a fundraising effort for the Tracy A. Garis Memorial Scholarship. In a form of bovine bingo, the three cows meandered the playing card (a fenced-in area of the field) until each of them "plopped" into a square. Penn College's Student Government Association sold chances on each square, with the three lucky winners collecting cash prizes.

Students from North Penn High School participated in activities on campus Wednesday that included a nontraditional career-exploration activity with staff from Career Services, lunch in the Capitol Eatery and a session with representatives from the Admissions Office. The event was coordinated by the Outreach for K-12 Office through a Creating Access to Post-Secondary Schools grant from the U.S.

Around 100 third-graders from Cochran Elementary School in Williamsport spent time at Penn College on Wednesday, learning about some of the many careers that could be in their future. The students visited the School of Hospitality, where they watched a cake-decorating demonstration by baking and pastry arts students Ariel L. Woodring and Patricia A. Bennett and sampled the product.

Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour visited the Bird's Nest at the college's Children's Learning Center, where she read them a book titled "Whose Shoes?" You often can tell what a person does by the shoes he or she wears, and the children enthusiastically guessed the occupation that matched each pair of shoes in the book.