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Golf Classic raises nearly $105K for student scholarships

The 37th Annual Penn College Foundation Golf Classic, featuring eight-time PGA Tour and nine-time PGA Tour Champions winner Fred Funk, raised $104,215 for student scholarships at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Including this year’s effort, the Penn College Foundation Golf Classic ...

DAR chapter announces award winners

Each year, the Lycoming Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution presents commencement awards to area high school seniors with the highest average in American History. The Anne Perley American history award goes to a senior at Williamsport Area High School, honoring the chapter’s 4th Regent Anne Perley from Williamsport, who was also a State Regent, and a Vice President General at the national level of the society. The chapter also presents an American History award to seven other schools in the county, with the same criteria. All students receive a monetary award from the ...

Lock Haven KDR alumni raise $7,400 for scholarship

LOCK HAVEN — Fifty-six alumni-brothers of the Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) fraternity returned to Commonwealth University-Lock Haven from June 2-3, raising $7,400 for the Kappa Delta Rho Alpha-Alpha Scholarship during their KDR Alumni Weekend. The event, attended by recent 2023 KDR alumni to the Class of 1969, serves as a fun-filled annual reunion for the group. Along with a full slate of on- and off-campus festivities, the brothers also use the gathering to hold various fundraising activities supporting the KDR scholarship. Since 2021, the scholarship has been awarded to Lock Haven KDR ...

Clinical mental health counseling student, faculty member create ‘Culture Collective’ to promote cultural awareness

LOCK HAVEN — In the Fall of 2022, Commonwealth University-Lock Haven clinical mental health counseling (CMHC) graduate student, Katie Burns, was a student in a multicultural counseling class. When the semester ended, Burns found herself so immersed in the course content, she needed a way to continue her new-found passion for the topic. During the class, micro and macro levels of power, privilege and oppression were examined and affirming counseling considerations for diverse populations. “I want to keep learning and talking and growing in this,” Burns said to her professor, Dr. ...

Local fourth grade class speaks to officials at NASA

A fourth grade class out of Loyalsock Valley Elementary School, in the Montoursville School District, got the “amazing opportunity” to speak with two NASA officials, according to the class’ teacher, Hannah McCracken. After a unit on space in the students’ science class, McCracken, ...

Wertz Scholar finds career, community at Lycoming College

Sylphrena Kleinsasser ’23 of Muncy Valley, Pa., entered Lycoming College during the fall of 2019 with a major in chemistry. As a Wertz Scholar, she was awarded a stipend of up to $5,000 to help support the costs of global study or completion of an internship or research experience — ...