From left to right: Jeffrey Vrabel, chair, Schuylkill Alumni Society; Darryl P. Gordon, 2019 Outstanding Alumni award recipient; Patty Shoener, alumni relations and stewardship officer; William Terrill, Ph.D., 2019 Outstanding Alumni recipient; Patrick Jones, chancellor, Penn State Schuylkill.
Pennsylvania Sen. David Argall joined Penn State Schuylkill and the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition for the coalition's on-campus exhibit opening of "67 Women, 67 Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in Pennsylvania." Argall committed in his remarks to supporting legislation requiring insurance companies to cover mammograms for women with dense breast tissue.
Andrea Solinski, Penn State Schuylkill's lab supervisor, is credited with bringing the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition's 67 Women, 67 Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in Pennsylvania traveling photo exhibit to Penn State Schuylkill. Solinski is a breast cancer survivor and, at the exhibit opening, she shared her story.
In mid-October, Penn State Schuylkill hosted its Week of Hope, a series of fundraising and awareness events to combat breast cancer and raise funding for the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, which displayed its powerful "67 Women, 67 Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in Pennsylvania" traveling photo exhibit at Schuylkill from October 8 through 21.
The Penn State Schuylkill Alumni Society honors 2019 Outstanding Alumni recipients Darryl P. Gordon, left, class of 1993, and William Terrill, class of 1992.
From left to right: Jeffrey Vrabel, chair, Schuylkill Alumni Society; Darryl P. Gordon, 2019 Outstanding Alumni Award recipient; Patty Shoener, alumni relations and stewardship officer; William Terrill, 2019 Outstanding Alumni Award recipient; Patrick Jones, chancellor, Penn State Schuylkill.
Penn State Schuylkill has been named a PNGAS Guard-Friendly School by the Pennsylvania National Guard Associations (PNGAS). The campus is one of just 30 institutions to receive this inaugural designation during the 2019 PNGAS Awards Celebration on Nov. 8.
