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One College Avenue ‘Student Bodies’ Art installations among Centennial’s lasting footprints See Page 5 Also in this issue: 10 Running Without Eating Disorders 12 Lifting Young Lives in Lebanon 18 Coach’s Billtown Baseball Bond Spring 2015 One College Avenue, a publication of Pennsylvania College of Technology, is dedicated to sharing the educational development, goals and achievements of Penn College students, faculty and staff with one another and with the greater community. Please visit One College Avenue online at oca.pct.edu EDITOR ONE COLLEGE AVENUE Jennifer A. Cline ADVISORY COMMITTEE L. Lee Janssen ’82 CONTRIBUTING news editor EDITORS Williamsport Sun-Gazette Elaine J. Lambert ’79 Lana K. Muthler ’70 Cindy Davis Meixel managing editor Tom Speicher The Express, Lock Haven Tom Wilson Julie Stellfox ’06 Joseph S. Yoder Lifestyle and Education editor Williamsport Sun-Gazette ISSUE DESIGNER Robert O. Rolley ’83 Deborah K. Peters ’97 publisher The Express, Lock Haven DESIGN & DIGITAL PRODUCTION Joseph Tertel ’02 manager, eCommerce Marketing Larry D. Kauffman Rite Aid Tina M. Miller ’03 Sarah K. Patterson ’05 PENN COLLEGE MEMBERS K. Park Williams ’80 Valerie L. Fessler WEB DESIGN annual giving manager Judy A. Fink ’95 Barbara A. Danko Carlos Ramos retired director of alumni relations Phillip C. Warner ’06 Sandra Lakey faculty CLASS NOTES speech communication and composition Megan L. Ripka ’13 Brad L. Nason CONTRIBUTING faculty PHOTOGRAPHERS mass communications Jennifer A. Cline Paul R. Watson II Larry D. Kauffman dean of academic services Marc T. Kaylor and first year programs Cindy Davis Meixel Abdullah H. Muaddi Craig R. Urey Davie Jane Gilmour, Ph.D. Dalaney T. Vartenisian PRESIDENT Tom Wilson PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY Other photos as credited One College Avenue, published by Public Relations & Marketing, considers for publication materials submitted by students, alumni, faculty, staff and others including letters to the editor, alumni notes and other information. We reserve the right to edit or refuse items for publication. To submit items for consideration, or to subscribe, contact: One College Avenue DIF 30 Pennsylvania College of Technology One College Avenue Williamsport, PA 17701-5799 FAX 570.321.5537 EMAIL [email protected] WEB oca.pct.edu Nursing student Emily L. Hibbs listens to the heart-valve sounds of SimMan 3G, a high-fidelity simulation manikin. SimMan is controlled remotely to test students’ skills in identifying and treating conditions from bleeding lacerations to strokes. One College Avenue is printed by Bayard Printing Group, Williamsport, a certified FSC® printer. Contents VOLUME 24 NUMBER 1 degrees that work. A Celebration for the Centuries A look back at the celebratory scenes of 2014, ON THE COVER the year that marked the 100th anniversary of Abstract human figures, the work of education on the Penn College campus. welding students and their instructor, “walk” the campus’ Susquehanna Street pedestrian mall. 5 Joy Run A student who made the difficult decision to postpone her education while seeking treatment for an eating disorder establishes a nonprofit to help others find joy – not punishment – in exercise. GO PAPERLESS To receive an email when we publish new editions at oca.pct.edu, 10 email [email protected]. Include your name, class year (if alumni), Living Outside ‘You’ address and email address, and put George W. Settle III takes his welding talent to Online OCA Subscription in the a children’s home near Beirut, Lebanon, where subject. You will stop receiving the he teaches his young apprentices a new skill. printed One College Avenue. 12 ATTENTION ALUMNI: Share your story and catch up Come Fly With Him with your classmates online at Student Max Davert’s skills behind the oca.pct.edu/cn controls of a camera-equipped quadcopter provide a refreshing view from above. Web Extra additional content at 16 oca.pct.edu Playing at Home With a passion for the game and a history at the city’s historic ballpark, head baseball coach Chris Howard relishes his role in the college’s Division III program. In this issue, you will find “QR codes” like the one at right. Smartphone users 18 can scan them and get instant access to extra content – like photos Investments Made, Lives Changed and video – on the One College The Penn College Scholarship Campaign – the first of its kind Avenue website. at the college – exceeded all expectations and doubled the amount of scholarship aid available to students. 22 REGULAR FEATURES Campus News 2 Focus on Faculty & Staff 26 Class Notes 28 Penn College® and degrees that work ® are registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. campus NEWS Student Competes in World Food Championships Culinary arts and systems student Jessica N. Felton chops a red onion for the shrimp and grits dish that would earn her a Golden Ticket to the World Food Championships in Las Vegas, where she finished 14th among 45 competitors in the seafood category – just four spots from moving on to the category’s Top Ten Round. Television host Chef Ben Vaughn visited the college in September, granting a Golden Ticket to one Penn College student. The students competed in a faculty-judged cook-off to determine who would travel. Grant Helps Wetlands Revitalization Project The state Department of Environmental Protection awarded an Environmental Education Grant to the college for revitalization of wetlands and related nature- trail work at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center. The money is being used to continue planting a wetland meadow that was begun by students in a Sustainable Landscape Procedures and Practices class. “We have an area that drains very poorly, and we planted it with more than 1,000 native wetland perennials,” said Carl J. Bower Jr., a horticulture instructor. “We will continue planting wetland perennials in this area, which will lead to a set of steps into the woods.” Those wooden steps – which are in poor condition and will be replaced – are at the head of the nature-trail system that winds through the ESC’s 400-plus-acre campus, where invasive plants are being removed and replaced with native species. The project will illustrate a sustainable forest environment that can be studied in PHOTO COURTESY OF CARL J. BOWER both the horticulture and forest technology curriculums. Faculty provide guidance with design and installation, but the project is executed primarily by students. After removing invasive grasses, students plant native vegetation at the head of the campus’s walking trail. 2 One College Avenue Summer Camps Inspire Future Professionals Designing a Digital Future Penn College’s third annual “Designing a Digital Future Camp” introduced dozens of high school students to employment opportunities. They developed personal computer games and mobile applications, and networked with faculty, staff and students. Youth Training for Athletic Development SMART Girls A trade show that ended the college’s four-and-a-half-day SMART Girls session offered display after display by young women who showed as much heart as they did skill. During the “Dream It – Design It – Do It” themed program, the rising ninth- to 11th-graders used imagination, design software and 3-D printing technology to create projects on behalf of causes near and dear to them, then presented their finished work – complete with A four-week summer program paired faculty in the exercise science major – the marketing materials developed under the guidance of only associate degree in Pennsylvania recognized by the National Strength and graphic design faculty – to the Penn College community. Conditioning Association – with middle school and high school student-athletes. The program helped the young athletes concentrate on such areas as flexibility, cardio, injury prevention and nutrition. Spring 2015 3 campus IT Students Excel at ‘Hackathon’ NEWS Students in information technology majors proved their prowess at a cybersecurity competition, finishing second at the Altamira Hackathon in Fairfax, Virginia. Participants tested their skills around the Atari game “Scram.” Team Plastics Students Recognized for Research members controlled various aspects of a nuclear reactor while protecting their computer network and attacking Research conducted by plastics and polymer engineering the computing resources of other teams. Those other technology students was recognized by the Rotational teams included Cisco Systems employees, cybersecurity Molding Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers. organization members and graduate students. Four students researched powdered polyethylene and micro-pelletized polyethylene. Julia L. Gilchrist and PHOTO COURTESY OF SANDRA GORKA Thomas J. Ryder delivered the team’s findings in Cleveland at RMD TOPCON, a forum for SPE members to exchange information regarding rotational molding. In rotational molding, plastic is melted inside a hollow mold that is machined to the shape and size of the desired plastic part. The students researched which type of plastic – polyethylene powder or micro polyethylene pellets – performs best in terms of flowing into difficult features and minimizing voids in the molding process. They concluded that the pellets were superior and recommended additional study. The students conducted their research at Penn College’s Rotational Molding Center of Excellence. Part of the Plastics Innovation & Resource Center, the Rotational Molding Center of Excellence offers independent, hands-on applied research and development to the rotomolding community. Social Media Roundup Plastics and polymer engineering technology students receive plaques recognizing the research they presented at a rotational molding forum in Cleveland, Ohio. From left are: Julia I. Gilchrist, Thomas J. Ryder, Benjamin G. Robertson and Taylor J. Smith. 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