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Long-time president of the Pennsylvania College of Technology to retire in 2022
Updated May 13, 2021;
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WILLIAMSPORT The president of the Pennsylvania College of Technology for nearly quarter of a century has announced plans to retire in June 2022.
President Davie Jane Gilmour joined the faculty of the then Williamsport Area Community College in 1977 as an instructor and curriculum developer in the dental hygiene program.
After a series of promotions and WACC becoming Penn College in 1989, she was named vice president for academic affairs in 1993 and three years later was given the additional duties as provost.
She became president of the special mission affiliate of Penn State on May 4, 1998. A nationwide search will be conducted to find her successor, the college said.
May 4, 2021
WILLIAMSPORT– Pennsylvania College of Technology is partnering with the Brook J. Lenfest Foundation and Philadelphia Foundation for the Lenfest Immensitas Scholars Program, which benefits youth in, or aging out of, foster care.
The innovative large-scale initiative, designed to increase college graduation among up to 100 Philadelphians annually, features participation principally from Harcum College (80 scholars) with additional funding reserved for three institutions: Penn College, 10 scholars; Penn State main campus, five scholars; and West Chester University, five scholars.
Immensitas (pronounced immense-it-tas) is Latin for “boundless” and signifies the unlimited potential of every youth, as well as the life opportunities available to those with a college degree.
May 3, 2021
PHOTO PROVIDED Larry A. Ward, responsible for the largest alumni gift in Pennsylvania College of Technology history, speaks during the April 27 dedication of the advanced manufacturing facility named in his honor. Ward donated more than $1 million to upgrade the instructional space at his alma mater, explaining, âI knew from my experience that Penn College students were hands-on and loved figuring out how to make things work better.â
WILLIAMSPORT An alumnus’ investment in the next generation of innovators, the literal future of American manufacturing, was spotlighted during the April 27 dedication of the Larry A. Ward Machining Technologies Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
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Larry Ward stood before a gathering of Pennsylvania College of Technology administrators, faculty and students, community leaders, and member of his family, on a sun-splashed spring afternoon on the grounds of the campus to remind everyone that manufacturing is alive and well in America.
Behind him stood the Larry A. Ward Machining Technologies Center, a newly revamped facility thanks to a donation of over $1 million, the largest alumni gift in the school’s history.
Ward, a 1966 graduate, made it clear that it was the college he returned to Tuesday that helped mold him.
“Penn College is what America needs to bring manufacturing back to America,” he said.