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 10, 2021
Nathalie Ruth Beck, 80, entered her heavenly home on May 3, 2021. Nathalie was born Feb. 6, 1941 in Chelsea, Mass. to Ruth Mitchell Betz and Charles Joseph Betz. She lived in many states during her childhood and graduated from Williamsport Area Community College in 1984. Nathalie was employed as a well-loved librarian at elementary schools in the Williamsport area and then as an Administrative Assistant at Lycoming College where she worked for 16 years, retiring in 2001 as Assistant to the President.
Nathalie met her husband, William Beck, while both were abroad in Italy. They returned to the States, were married, and raised their family of three children in Pennsylvania. They relocated to Rochester, Minn. in 2010. Nathalie and Bill were married for 59 years before Bill’s passing in Sept. 2020 and provided a beautiful example of devotion and uplifting partnership. They cherished each other beyond measure.
May 5, 2021
We’d like to send along a couple of Sun-Gazette shout-outs today to two people whose names now appear on local buildings and for good reason.
Larry A. Ward graduated in 1966 from the former Williamsport Technical Institute, which later became the Williamsport Area Community College and is now Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Decades after his graduation, a newly revamped building on campus bears his name the Larry A. Ward Machining Technologies Center.
That followed his gift of $1 million to the college the largest alumni gift in the school’s history.
It was a bit of appreciation for the school that gave him all of the tools he needed for success as an engineer, manufacturing designer and business owner.
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.
Albert Sidleck left us Saturday April 24, 2021 to be with the Lord, his mother Mary and his father Alexander. Al, as he was always called, was born October