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Hundreds of area children took a ride on Centre County’s version of “The Polar Express” over the weekend. Santa Claus and a cast of characters enjoyed cookies and hot chocolate on a special ride to the North Pole./Page 11
December 26, 2013-January 1, 2014
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2013: Gazette year in review By MARJORIE S. MILLER and CHRIS MORELLI Centre County Gazette
There were plenty of attention-grabbing headlines in 2013. Once again, most of the stories centered around Penn State. But unlike 2012, not every story coming out of Happy Valley was bad news. In fact, there’s plenty of good news on our list of the most memorable stories of 2013. Here’s a closer look at The Centre County Gazette staff’s picks for the top 10 stories of 2013:
1. SANCTIONS REDUCED
In September, the NCAA announced that it would reduce the unprecedented sanctions against Penn State’s football program by gradually restoring scholarships starting next season. Officials did not rule out future modifications, such as reducing the four-year postseason ban.
The announcement came 14 months after NCAA president Mark Emmert levied the historic penalties in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Penn State had faced a cap of 65 scholarships starting in 2014, but instead will have 75 scholarships in 2014, 80 in 2015 and the full allotment of 85 in 2016. “The executive committee’s decision to restore football scholarship opportunities for more student-athletes at Penn State is an important recognition of the university’s progress — and one I know it was pleased to make,” Emmert said. The scholarship reduction was widely believed to be the most significant sanction. Penn State vacated wins from 1998 to 2011, was hit with a $60 million fine, and banned from the postseason from 2012 to 2015. Review, Page 5
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NICE ICE: The Pegula Ice Arena opened its doors for the first time in October. The Nittany Lions christened the building with a 4-1 victory over Army in front of a sold-out crowd.
Young Scholars learn about alternative energy By MARJORIE S. MILLER mmiller@centrecountygazette.com
STATE COLLEGE — Alternative energy was at the forefront of the Young Scholars of Central PA Charter School’s third annual environmental luncheon Dec. 18. Held at the Westerly Parkway school, the event featured a Penn State extension associate in biomass energy, a representative of Dix Honda and three Penn State students from the Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team who are competing in the EcoCAR2.
The presentations were moderated by Dr. Ali Demirci, Penn State professor of agricultural and biological engineering and bioprocess and food safety engineering. “BioFuels and Alternate Fuels,” a talk by Daniel Ciolkosz, of Penn State’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, addressed bioenergy and how it’s used. His job, he said, is to work with farms and industries around Scholars, Page 4
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LEARNING LESSONS: Parents who have children headed to preschool will learn a great deal at the State College Area Preschool Fair, which is scheduled for Jan. 11.
2014 State College Area Preschool Fair approaching By MARJORIE S. MILLER mmiller@centrecountygazette.com
STATE COLLEGE — For its annual State College Area Preschool Fair, Mothers and More has partnered with the State College Area School District to provide a largOpinion ............................. 7 Health & Wellness ............. 9
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Front and Centre WORLD TRAVELER: Penn State student Allie Silber traveled to South Africa in 2013 to learn about global health and the best practices from those in the community. She recently sat down to talk about all she learned. Page 10
PARTY ON: Centre County will once again Celebrate First Night in downtown State College. There are plenty of family-friendly events scheduled for Dec. 31, so get ready to ring in the new year! Pages 16, 17
REC HALL MAGIC: Despite an overtime loss on Dec. 14, a new generations of Penn State basketball fans found out just how special Rec Hall can be. Gazette columnist John Patishnock makes the case for playing there all year long. Page 11
CELEBRATING IN SEATTLE: The Penn State women’s volleyball team claimed another national championship over the weekend, taking care of business against Wisconsin in the NCAA finals. Page 19
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STATE COLLEGE — A Penn State student died Dec. 20 after he fell from the Fraser Street Parking Garage. The garage is located near Fraser Street and West Beaver Avenue. The student was identified as Andrew Magargle, 22, of Pasadena, Md. Police were called to the scene at 9:38 a.m. after receiving a report of a man found lying on the south side of the garage. Officers said Magargle was dead when they arrived. There was no evidence of criminal activity. According to Centre County coroner Scott Sayers, the death has been ruled a suicide. Penn State spokesperson Lisa Powers said, “It is with deep sadness that we learned of Andrew’s death. It is always heart wrenching to hear that a student’s life has been cut short, and we grieve for this loss. Our deepest sympathy is offered
to his family and friends.” According to Penn State, Magargle, a computer science major, was supposed to graduate over the weekend. There have been at least two other falls involving Penn State students this past semester, one of them fatal. On Nov. 16, Conor MacMannis, 20, died in a fall from a ninth-floor balcony of Penn Tower at 255 E. Beaver Ave. Police said at the time that drugs and alcohol appeared to have been a factor. Police said they believe MacMannis was under the influence of alcohol and some kind of psychedelic drug, either LSD or possibly a synthetic form of the drug. Addressing MacMannis’ death, university spokesperson Annemarie Mountz said in November, “It’s tragic. We’re trying to come to grips with it ourselves. It’s just so sad.” Less than a week later, a Penn State student fell from a second story balcony of the Palmerton Apartments at 316 W. Beaver Ave. That student fell about 15 feet and suffered a broken leg.
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Baldwin told feds in 2012 Spanier was trustworthy By MARK SCOLFORO The Associated Press
HARRISBURG — Records from a federal investigation show a lawyer whose role in the Jerry Sandusky investigation has held up the criminal prosecutions of three former top administrators praised one of them effusively just months before testifying he was “not a person of integrity.� The notes made public Sunday by a lawyer for former Penn State president Graham Spanier indicate the university’s former general counsel, Cynthia Baldwin, told the federal Office of Personnel Management in early 2012 that Spanier was very smart, “a man of integrity,� and “very forthcoming and open� with the board of trustees. About six months later, Baldwin, a former state Supreme Court justice, testified before a grand jury that Spanier told a series of lies and misleading statements before and after Sandusky was arrested in late 2011 on child molestation charges. Spanier attorney Liz Ainslie said the federal investigation resulted in the restoration of Spanier’s top security clearance, although it was again taken away when he was charged in late 2012 for an alleged cover-up of complaints about Sandusky. Baldwin’s lawyer Charles De Monaco said Dec. 20 that Baldwin’s view of Spanier changed during the summer of 2012, particularly after the release of a scathing report into the Sandusky matter produced for Penn State by former FBI director Louis Freeh. “Much like the public at large, Justice Baldwin learned for the first time in the summer of 2012 about the conduct of the defendants as a result of documents and e-mails which were discussed for the first time with the release of the Freeh Report in July 2012,� De Monaco said. “For those reasons, Justice Baldwin was asked about these issues
when she testified before the grand jury in October 2012.� Ainslie said Baldwin’s grand jury testimony was “shamefully inaccurate� and had not been subject to defense questioning. “Ms. Baldwin has so far managed to avoid cross-examination,� Ainslie said. “But that day is coming.� Baldwin was the university’s top lawyer in early 2011, when she accompanied Spanier and the two others to grand jury appearances. The men all say they believed she was acting as their attorney. Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley face charges of perjury, obstruction, conspiracy, child endangerment and failure to properly report suspected child abuse. Spanier was charged a year after the other two. The judge in their case last week cut short a planned four-day hearing into Baldwin’s actions, and quashed a subpoena calling for her to testify. Defense attorneys have said their clients’ rights to legal counsel were violated and are seeking to have the cases thrown out. Dauphin County Judge Todd Hoover has instructed prosecutors and defense attorneys to submit proposed findings of fact and legal conclusions, after which he will schedule oral argument on the issue. No trial date has been scheduled. Sandusky is serving a 30- to 60-year state prison sentence after being convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse. He maintains his innocence and is asking the state Supreme Court to take up his case. Spanier remains a tenured faculty member at Penn State. Curley and Schultz have retired. Baldwin served as a county judge, president of the Penn State Board of Trustees and a state Supreme Court justice before her role as the university’s general counsel involved her in the Sandusky investigation.
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CHARLES DE MONACO, lawyer for Cynthia Baldwin, addresses the media at the Dauphin County Courthouse on Dec. 17 in Harrisburg.
State College ranked as third-best college town By StateCollege.com STATE COLLEGE — State College, home to Penn State’s University Park campus, has again been ranked third-best among college towns for college students by the non-profit economic research organization American Institute for Economic Research. The rankings appeared in AIER’s recently released 2013-14 College Destinations Index, an annual quantitative ranking of the nation’s 75 best towns and cities to live in if you’re a college student. The index takes into consideration aspects such as academic environment, quality of life and professional opportunity. “State College has consistently been ranked among the best places to live, best college towns and a safe community, to name just a few of the accolades,� said Lisa Powers, a Penn State spokeswoman. “For those who live, work and study here, it certainly reaffirms our lifestyle and college choice. This is a friendly, welcoming, educated and caring community. The ranking reflects those values.� The CDI considers college towns as those with a resi-
dential population under 250,000. Ithaca, N.Y., and Ames, Iowa, came in first and second, respectively. The locations were chosen based on an analysis of 229 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas with student populations of at least 15,000. According to Steven Cunningham, chief economist at the Barrington, Mass.-based AIER, the CDI aims to provide an additional resource to students and their parents to help them evaluate their college decisions, based on additional factors beyond academics. “Cities and towns on this list don’t just offer great academic environment or college experience for students,� said Cunningham. “They’re also vibrant places for businesses to open, tourists to visit and people to live.� State College ranked third among college towns based on its performance across 12 factors in three categories that impact the student experience, according to AIER: n Academic environment: student concentration, student diversity, research capacity and degree attainment; n Quality of life: cost of living, arts and leisure, city accessibility and creative class; n Professional opportunities: earning potential, entre-
Despite mild weather, typical snowfall expected By JENNIFER MILLER StateCollege.com
STATE COLLEGE — It’s official. While the State College area has already received its share of snow this year, Saturday was the first day of winter from an astrological standpoint. What’s in store for us over the next several months? Paul Pastelok, a meteorologist who is head of longrange forecasts at AccuWeather, said the State College area is expected to have a typical winter with roughly 45 inches of snow accumulation. Right now, the region is experiencing a mild phase, however, AccuWeather is monitoring two storm systems, both being anticipated for this week.
The temperature will determine if precipitation is snow or rain, Pastelok says. A major storm is expected for mid-January, with a few more winter storms in February and March. “Overall, I still feel that we’re going to have our share of systems coming up especially as we get into the second week in January,� Pastelok said. “The second week of January is set up to be a pretty active week.� Snow aside; the State College area is still on track to potentially beat the record high temperature for Sunday. The record is 60 degrees, which was set in 1990. “We have a good shot. If we get a little sun late morning or midday, it’s a no brainer, we’ll break the record,� Pastelok said.
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Scholars, from page 1 the state, focusing primarily on bioenergy. Solar energy, Ciolkosz explained, is stored in plants. The way it works, he said, is the sun shines on plants, plants grow, and then it is turned into fuel, or plastics or heat. What scientists have discovered over the years is a way to speed up the process, and turn plants directly into the things people use, he said. Sugar crops can be converted into ethanol, Ciolkosz said, and oil crops, such as canola, sunflower and flax, are made into biodiesel. In Pennsylvania, gasoline is blended with 10 percent ethanol. Non-food crops, Ciolkosz explained, come from the forest, fast-growing trees and switch grass, which is a native plant that grows well around this area. Switch grass cannot be used for food or feed, he said. “If you like to grow things, bioenergy might be part of your future,” Ciolkosz stated. There are a lot of ways to take natural resources, grow them sustainably, and use them for energy needs, he said. “Bioenergy … can provide what we need and can help the ecosystem at the same time,” Ciolkosz said. “Hybrid and Compressed Natural Gas Powered Vehicles,” a presentation by Charlie Faris, of Dix Honda in State College, focused on alternate fuels for cars. “As young scholars you’re going to invent the next cars,” Faris said. Part of his business, he said, involves looking for environmentally advanced cars. There are four types of alternate fuels for cars, he said — hybrid, which is a mixture of auto fuel and electric; electric only; biodiesel; and CNG, or compressed natural gas. Electric-only cars, Faris explained, are plug-in cars that have an 83-mile range before the batteries need to be recharged. When it comes to natural gas, Honda, he said, makes a 100 percent natural gas car. “Natural gas is abundant in Pennsylvania,” he added. A great need for this type of car is natu-
ral gas refueling stations, Faris explained, as only a few exist, including one in State College. There are a variety of pros and cons to using energy-efficient vehicles, he said. Some advantages include reduced energy costs, energy efficient vehicles tend to be more environmentally-friendly, and these vehicles eliminate reliance on oil which is a limited resource. Some disadvantages, among others, include possible limited access to fuels, a higher vehicle cost and potential poor longevity of electric battery, Faris said. “The EcoCAR2,” by Penn State students Cheyenne Sexton, Ben Sattler and Sam Salloum, focused on the students’ work in the EcoCAR2 competition. The goal of the competition is to design and build a working hybrid vehicle applying General Motors’ standard engineering design methods and procedures. A three-year challenge, Penn State’s team is competing with 15 universities from throughout North America. The objective is to construct vehicles, employing innovative technology, which reduce greenhouse gas emissions, have better efficiency and reduce overall petroleum consumption from well-to-wheels, they said. Teams are responsible for designing and using their own hardware and software. Salloum briefly described the team’s work over the past three years. The first year was spent primarily on outlining a design for a car. The second year the team received a car from General Motors, one of the contest’s sponsors. Year Two also involved implementing some of the designs created in the first year, he said. And in the third year, the current year, the team is testing the vehicle and making sure it’s ready, Salloum said. Sattler said their car is hybrid and mainly runs off battery power. As just an electric car, it can travel between 40 and 50 miles, and 200 additional miles with a range extender, he said. There are three different components to the team of about 70, Sattler said, including an electrical unit, a mechanical unit and a controls unit. The Penn State group, which is composed entirely of undergraduates, won a variety of second-year awards, Salloum
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STUDENTS AT the Young Scholars of Central PA Charter School listen to a presentation about alternative energy at the school’s third annual environmental luncheon. said. Among them were first place overall and fastest autocross time. The competition, EcoCAR2: Plugging in to the Future, is also sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, and is organized by
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MOTHERS AND MORE has partnered with the State College Area School District to provide a larger venue for its annual preschool fair. Pictured, from left, are Christina Fiore, Melissa MacNeely and Nicki Rusca. Preschool, from page 1 feature activities for children, aims to provide parents and caregivers with an opportunity to learn about local preschools. Attendees will have an opportunity to meet teachers and staff. “Partnering with the school district has been great,” Rusca said. All local preschools are invited to the fair, Rusca said, as well as other area resources for preschool-aged children, such as gymnastics and music-based programs. The idea is to have “one-stop shopping” for parents and families, she said. And with some preschools being faith-based and others being play-based, the fair provides a “nice mix” of options.
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“There really are a lot of different choices,” Rusca said. In addition to finding out what schools offer preschool programs, parents can learn about application deadlines and when preschools hold their own open houses. Additionally, school board members will be available to answer questions about the State High Project and how it will impact future students, according to the Mothers and More website. Julie Miller, public information specialist for State College Area School District, said in addition to board members and other district administrators on hand, the fair will also include high school students who will offer tours to preschool parents. “We are looking forward to hosting the event in our building,” she said. “And it also gives us an opportunity to connect early on with parents of younger students.” A philanthropy-focused non-profit mom’s group, Mothers and More is an organization dedicated to improving the lives of mothers through support, education and advocacy. The State College chapter serves State College and surrounding areas, including Bellefonte, Pleasant Gap, Port Matilda and Centre Hall, according to its website. For more information visit www.mothersandmorestatecollege.org.
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2. PEGULA OPENS
In October, Penn State opened its brand-new $90 million Pegula Ice Arena with a 4-1 win over Army. A crowd of 6,370 watched the first-ever hockey game in the building. Nittany Lion coach Guy Gadowsky was overwhelmed by the night and everything that went with it. He was especially impressed with the Penn State student section. “The student section was definitely the first star of the night, but it was a tremendous night for so many people,” he said. “What this building does for you is special. It’s so motivating to play here.” The 5,782-seat Pegula Ice Arena features 14 luxury suites and 525 club seats. It was designed to maximize Penn State’s home-ice advantage. During the planning stage, Terry Pegula told then-Penn State associate athletic director Joe Battista that one of his goals was to build “the most rocking arena in college hockey.” Opening night put the Pegula Ice Arena on the map. A national television audience watching on the Big Ten Network found out just how loud the building could get. The design of the building also helps — Pegula features a low, flat ceiling lined with sheet metal. That intensifies the crowd noise.
3. PSU REACHES SETTLEMENT WITH VICTIMS
In October, Penn State announced that it had settled a civil suit involving 26 victims from the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal and would pay out nearly $60 million. “The terms of the settlements, which include a release of all claims against Penn State and other parties, are subject to confidentiality agreements,” the university said in a news release. “The aggregate dollar amount paid by the University for the 26 settled claims is $59.7 million and will be reflected in the University’s audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2013.” According to the university, it believes that its various liability insurance policies cover its settlements and defense of claims and those expenses not covered by insurance will be funded from interest revenues from the university to its own self-supporting units. Sandusky, a former defensive coach under the late Joe Paterno, was sentenced last October to no less than 30 and no more than 60 years in prison after being found guilty on 45 counts of child sex abuse.
4. GARMAN THEATRE CONTROVERSY
The story of the Garman Theatre will, apparently, continue into 2014. The demolition of the historic theatre and neighboring Hotel Do De was scheduled to begin shortly before Christmas, but yet another delay stopped the wrecking ball from taking the fire and water ravaged building down. Developer Ara Kervandjian wants to raze the Garman and Hotel Do De to create 32 units of workforce housing. In the fall, he opened the Garman to the media for tours to document the sorry state of the theatre, which was severely damaged following a fire in September 2012. Those taking the tour had to wear masks due to the amount of mold in the decaying theatre. Members of the Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association are fighting the demolition because they believe the theatre can be saved. BHCA attorney Bruce Manchester said the group plans on taking the appeals process all the way to the state supreme court. Stay tuned.
5. STATE HIGH EXPANSION PROJECT
At the Dec. 2 board meeting, Option 2 was selected as the preferred option of the State High Project. Six concepts were originally under consideration. Based on community survey results, the board unanimously voted on July 22 to remove all concepts not receiving 50 percent or more support from the community. The State High Project, if approved by district voters at the May 20, 2014, primary, will: build all core academic areas on the South side of Westerly Parkway; include a combination of renovation and new construction; and preserve a portion of the existing North school building to serve students and community needs. The cost range is estimated to be between $109 million and $115 million, according to the SCASD.
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MORE THAN 10,000 runners took part in The Color Run, which was held at Penn State on Sept. 29. The race was touted as “the happiest 5K on the planet.” 6. MEMORIAL FIELD RENOVATED
A 4,000-seat stadium, Memorial Field serves as the primary outdoor athletic venue for the State College Area School District, hosting several teams, physical education classes and community organizations, according to the State College Area School District. Phase 1 of the renovation plan is a $2.8 million project which was completed in the fall. It consisted of west side wall reconstruction and 1,500 new seats; a new entrance at the corner of Fraser Street and West Nittany Avenue; reconstruction of the Fraser Street sidewalk as a brick memorial walk; replacement of artificial turf; and storm water management enhancements provided by the Borough of State College, according to the SCASD. A rededication ceremony was held on Oct. 11. Memorial Field was originally named in honor of State College graduates who lost their lives in World Wars I and II. It has since been rededicated to honor fallen soldiers from all wars, according to StateCollege.com.
7. PSU STUDENT DIES IN FALL
Penn State student Conor MacMannis died Nov. 16 as a result of head trauma after falling from a ninth-floor balcony at Penn Tower on Beaver Avenue. The death of the 20-year-old from Stafford, Va., was ruled accidental by Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers. The death was first reported by The Daily Collegian.
8. NEW BUSINESSES OPEN
Specialty store Trader Joe’s opened in State College. Located on Patriot Lane off North Atherton Street, it offers more than 2,000 items under its own label. In the Northland Center, both SweetFrog and Ni Hao opened their doors. SweetFrog frozen yogurt shop opened in May; Ni Hao Asian Cuisine in January. In October, Quaker Steak
and Lube returned to State College, after closing in 2008, at the location of the former Cinema 6 Theatre in the Benner Pike Plaza. The Pennsylvania-based restaurant has 42 locations nationwide. Dickey’s Barbecue Pit also came to State College, opening its doors at 333 Benner Pike over the summer. The Texas-based chain specializes in sandwiches, meat platters and barbecue.
9. ANOTHER MEMORABLE SEASON
Heading into the 2013 football season, the Penn State Nittany Lions had a tough act to follow. Led by then first-year head coach Bill O’Brien, the 2012 Lions finished the season at 8-4. This season, the Lions were expected to struggle after losing several key players to the NFL and graduation. However, the Lions finished the year with a respectable 7-5 record. Among the wins was a thrilling 43-40 overtime victory against Michigan and a stunning 31-24 win at Wisconsin. Despite unprecedented sanctions and no bowl to play for, attendance at Beaver Stadium was strong and the Lions played well at home, losing just twice. It will be an interesting offseason. Just weeks after Penn State’s season ended, O’Brien’s name was being circulated as a candidate for several NFL head coaching jobs.
10. COLOR RUN COMES TO PSU
On Sept. 29, thousands of runners participated in the first ever Color Run at Penn State, an event organized in part by Homecoming. According to Onward State, some 10,000 participants bought out the ticket allotment for the “happiest 5K on the planet.” The race, which is known for dousing its participants with different colors of paint, started at Medlar Field and ran through the middle of campus.
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Superintendent ousted following security failures By JENNIFER MILLER StateCollege.com
BELLEFONTE — Major failures in security at State Correctional Institute-Rockview led to Dept. of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel ousting the head of two state prisons in Centre County. An internal investigation into the July 25 rape of a 24-year-old typing clerk at Rockview — where an inmate was reportedly alone with the victim for 27 minutes — shows numerous failures on the part of administrators, including ousted Rockview and Benner SCI Superintendent Marirosa Lamas. The internal investigation outlines the following breakdowns in security: n Administrators failed to appoint a unit manager in the housing unit where the crime occurred. n Breakdown in the response to employee reports of inappropriate inmate behavior. n Inadequate or non-existent emergency personal alarm systems for employees. n Code of Ethics violations by staff not performing their duties. n A lack of monthly unit staff meetings and documentation of issues discussed at those meetings. n Failure to provide and document required staff training. n Failure by prison administrators to inspect each housing unit on a regular basis as required by policy. Authorities released details of the investigation Thursday. “While nothing we can do or say can change the criminal event that took place in July, what we can do now is ensure these
specific areas are addressed not only at SCI Rockview, but throughout the state prison system,” Wetzel said in a prepared statement. Lamas was managing both Benner and Rockview. Results of the internal investigation prompted Wetzel to place a superintendent at each facility. Wetzel named Steven Glunt superintendent of Rockview. Since 2010, Glunt served as superintendent of SCI-Houtzdale and the Quehanna Boot Camp. David Pitkins, former regional deputy secretary for the corrections department, will serve as acting-superintendent of SCIBenner starting Jan. 1. “After reviewing investigative information, it is clear to me that we need to take Rockview and Benner in a new direction,” Wetzel said. “Our review has revealed many instances where our own policies had not been followed, as well as areas where our procedures needed to be improved.” The assault also prompted the department to make other internal changes, including: n Relocating clerk typists away from inmate housing units. n Providing all employees who do not have radios with personal duress systems to alert others of emergency situations. n Increasing accountability measures to monitor the management of prison administration. n Implementing new training procedures for all new hires to ensure appropriate training is provided in a timely manner. Additionally, the department reached out to the Moss Group, an agency of experts in the area of sexual safety assess-
“The victim said she believed she was going to die and fought for her life until she was choked unconscious,” the affidavit states. Police said prison surveillance video shows Best was alone with the victim for 27 minutes. DNA evidence confirmed Best as the assailant, police said. The victim, who had only worked at the prison for six weeks, became uncomfortable with Best so much so that she asked a corrections officer to ensure Best no longer had access to her office, which was located within Best’s housing unit, records state. Since the incident, officials transferred Best to SCI-Huntingdon, where he is still incarcerated. Nearly three months after the attack, state police charged Best with five felonies, including aggravated assault, rape and sexual assault. In October, he waived his right to a preliminary hearing. Best has criminal charges dating to 1994. In 2010, while incarcerated for previous offenses, Philadelphia police charged Best with the 1999 armed abduction and rape of an 18-year-old woman. Advances in DNA testing linked Best to the crime. Best was reportedly linked to the 1999 rape after submitting DNA to authorities upon his conviction for an armed robbery. At the time, he was already serving an 8 to 17 year sentence for 1999 charges of armed robbery and indecent assault. In 2012, a judge sentenced Best to seven to 15 years in state prison for the 1999 rape. The clerk is no longer employed with the corrections department. Susan McNaughton, spokeswomen for the department, says the victim now works for another state agency.
ments. The group will provide an external review and a vulnerability assessment of the prison. For months, the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association called for security changes at Rockview and throughout the prison system. President Roy Pinto issued the following statement in response to Wetzel’s decision: “A change in leadership was necessary, but we will not comment further until we’ve had an opportunity to thoroughly review the findings. It’s our hope the steps taken to improve safety at SCI-Rockview are applied statewide to protect all employees.” Lamas is no longer working at Rockview, but is still employed with the corrections department. Officials are still determining her placement. The clerk who was brutally attacked raised concerns about the inmate charged with the crime prior to the attack. Court records show the victim asked a corrections officer to keep the inmate out of her office. Still, somehow the inmate was able to be alone with the typist in her office for nearly 30 minutes, during which time Omar Best, 36, of Philadelphia allegedly choked her unconscious and sexually assaulted her, records show. Best entered the victim’s office, which was within Best’s housing unit, and told her he was there to take out her trash, according to the affidavit. When she handed him the trash can he allegedly threw it and attacked the victim. She told police she blew her whistle, as a signal for help, but no one responded. Best also allegedly told the victim that he had a knife and threatened to stab her.
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Finding ET more likely Scripps Howard News Service Well, that significantly improves the odds there is life of some kind out there somewhere. According to calculations by Berkeley astronomer Erik Petigura, one out of five sunlike stars has a planet the size of Earth or close to it orbiting in what scientists have come to call the Goldilocks zone — not too hot, not too cold and compatible with liquid water. “It seems that the universe produces plentiful real estate for life that somehow resembles life on Earth,” Petigura told The New York Times. For centuries, astronomers assumed our solar system and its planets, not to mention ourselves, were unique in the universe. Then, in 1992, the first planet outside our solar system was discovered. Since then, more than 1,000 exoplanets have been discovered and 3,500 candidate planets have been identified. The work of identifying and confirming planets limped to a near-halt when the Kepler space telescope malfunctioned after four years, but not before sending back so much data that it will take another year to sort through. To date, astronomers have discovered planets that are about the size of Earth, are rocky instead of being composed of ice or gas and have atmospheres containing water — basically, all the ingredients for life. The possibility was intriguing enough to prompt the House Science Committee to conduct hearings on life on other planets. “The chance that there’s a planet like Earth out there with life on it is very high,” MIT professor Sara Seager told the committee. “The question is: Is there life near here, in our neighborhood of stars,” Seager said. “We think the chances are good.” Unfortunately, many of the answers will have to wait until 2018, when the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope is launched. But the question of other Earths and other life forms is no longer a question of if but when, and the quest picked up new urgency this year. 2013. Remember that year, kid.
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Compromise to the rescue Washington is trying to rescue itself. The Republican method is too much compromise, although that’s still better than none. President Barack Obama’s strategy is policy sleights of hand and staff shuffles. While no piece of this takes us where we need to go, the GOP at least is stumbling in the right direction. Let’s visit first with the negative side of what Republicans did. Backing a deal done between the budget chairs of the House and Senate, House Republicans Jay Ambrose is agreed to still a columnist for more excessive Scripps-Howard federal spending News Service. that is also excessive national jeopardy. Especially considering that there was no simultaneous agreement on long-term, crucial entitlement reforms to prevent debt catastrophe, this would be highly objectionable if it were not for three matters that good sense forbids ignoring. One is that the deal cancels some reckless sequestration cuts few had wanted to go into effect in the first place. Two is that the Democrats also did some truly commendable yielding. Three is that the Democrats were
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highly unlikely to yield more and that the alternative to this shaking of hands and final Senate passage could have been a government shutdown. That would have shut down any GOP chance of obtaining power sufficient to do something more important someday. Already, with their don’t-fundObamacare tactic that culminated in a 16-day shutdown back in October, House Republicans had established themselves with many as hooligans whose legislative muscle should be shrunk in the 2014 mid-term elections. Then came further implementation of Obamacare, upholding their thesis of its abominations. There has also been a growing disenchantment with the president who misled us into this ungodly mess, and the Republicans may now have a second chance if they behave reasonably. That’s huge because Obama’s policies could otherwise prove ruinous. His administration has unblinkingly abetted the worst economic recovery since World War II — increased poverty, decreased middleclass incomes and prolonged lifecrushing rates of long-term unemployment. The Obamacare disasters to date, such as millions losing health insurance polices, will be followed by such other misadventures as doctor shortages, taxes that obliterate factories and regulations likewise punishing America with higher unemployment. Let’s change the subject, said Obama, promising that he would devote himself for the rest of his term to
reducing income inequality. And how better to start than with a false assertion, namely saying that middle-class incomes have been stagnant since the late 1970s. Actually, according to the Congressional Budget Office, they had been scooting upwards at a healthy pace prior to the recent recession. To make everything more evensteven, our leader wants to raise the minimum wage. Does he know that only a tiny percentage of hourly workers earn the minimum-wage? That average minimum wage earners are in households that have an overall decent income? That the minimal good it will do for some will be offset by all the people who will lose their jobs or have their work hours reduced? Overlooking the fact that virtually all poverty increases in the decades before the last recession were a consequence of immigration, another of his answers is to continue importing uneducated, unskilled workers in numbers too great to be assimilated. Do they consequently get bliss here? Some do, but some suffer. There’s more, some of it complicated, none of it quite what’s needed, and even if his new staffers advise him more ably than past ones, I seriously doubt any significant enlightenment will occur minus an ideological reversal nowhere signaled. What’s needed in the absence of significantly more Democratic yielding in Congress is to put Republicans in control of the Senate as well as the House, a possibility I would have ruled out until lately.
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Since when do county sheriffs get to decide which state laws they will enforce? Furthermore, when did they become the arbiters of what is or isn’t constitutional? Ask the citizens of Colorado (I used to be one) who are now confronted by rebellious elected “law” officers who say they aren’t going to enforce a package of new gun controls that makes their state one of the saner and possibly safer venues in the nation. They consider Dan K. Thomasson the new statutes is a columnist for vague and a vioScripps-Howard News Service. lation of the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. In fact, all but seven of the state’s 62 sheriffs signed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new statutes. The last time anyone looked, these law enforcement paragons — whose main duties include serving subpoenas, warrants and running the jails where inmates are housed because, among other things, they used a firearm in the commission of a crime — had no say about the constitutionality of a law. That responsibility in every place I know of in this land belongs to the courts. So who’s in charge in Colorado? Apparently it’s not the Legislature or the governor or the judiciary; it’s the
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county Mounties. If they are allowed to get away with this, these badgewearing, gun-toting successors to the Earps and the Hickoks, like their predecessors, are pretty much a law unto themselves. By the way, Wyatt Earp and Bill Hickok took it on themselves to ban the carrying and brandishing of firearms in certain areas of their jurisdictions despite the Second Amendment. Few states have more reason than Colorado to try to keep guns out of the hands of crazies and to ban the use of such things as 30-bullet magazines. The state has been the site of two of the highest-profile massacres in the history of such tragedies: the mass slaying first at Columbine High School and then the more recent fusillade of death and destruction launched in an Aurora theater filled with Batman fans. When the Newtown, Conn., slaying of 20 youngsters and six adults occurred last year, Colorado lawmakers decided something had to be done. After all, Congress couldn’t even pass a law to expand background checks that 90 percent of Americans supported. Just recently an incident in Arapahoe High School in Colorado fell just short of another major tragedy. A large number of Congressmen decided stopping criminals and nutcases from getting guns they might use on innocent children or patrons of malls and crowded theaters was not enough reason to disturb the flow of support from the gun lobby, namely the National Rifle Association. Their NRA rating might drop. The package adopted after a tough campaign produced a back-
lash among those who still believe the West is wild. Two key players in the successful effort to do something about this were recalled by voters. The message: How dare they cast a vote aimed at preventing these atrocities? There are bigger, more important questions here such as the ability to draw first if the need is perceived, as fostered in self-defense laws in some states like Florida. While the Supreme Court supported an individual’s right to own a gun, overturning two centuries of judicial thought that the Second Amendment was steeped in the need to form militias in what was still pretty much a wilderness, the court did not prohibit the adoption of local and state laws that control the trafficking of firearms. So the fight shifted largely to the state legislatures. Colorado isn’t the only site of rural resistance by sheriffs. Groups of these elected law enforcement operatives are making noises along the same lines in a number of other locations. No offense meant, but those who hold these jobs aren’t generally heavyweight sleuths. A whole lot of them are just politicians untrained in the craft. They make their money off of fees and how they run the jails, including feeding the prisoners, and the result often has been corruption and abuse. One sheriff in Weld County, Colo., was portrayed in the national press recently as holding up two identical large-capacity clips. He said one was bought before the law went into effect and the other after. How could he or anyone tell the difference? Make the owner show a receipt, buster. When in doubt, check it out.
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Changes in protein may predict ALS progression From Gazette staff reports HERSHEY — Measuring changes in certain proteins — called biomarkers — in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may better predict the progression of the disease, according to scientists at Penn State College of Medicine. ALS, which is often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurological disease in which the brain loses its ability to control movement as motor neurons degenerate. The course of the disease varies, with survival ranging from months to decades. “The cause of most cases of ALS remains unknown,� said James Connor, distinguished professor of neurosurgery, neural and behavioral sciences and pediatrics. “Although several genetic and environmental factors have been identified, each accounts for only a fraction of the total cases of ALS.� This clinical variation in patients presents challenges in terms of managing the disease and developing new treatments. Finding relevant biomarkers, which are objective measures that reflect changes in biological processes or reactions to treatments, may help address these challenges. The project was led by Xaiowei Su, a medical and doctoral student in Connor’s laboratory, in collaboration with
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Dr. Zachary Simmons, director of the Penn State Hershey ALS Clinic and Research Center. Su studied plasma and cerebrospinal fluid samples previously collected from patients undergoing diagnostic evaluation, who were later identified as having ALS. Analysis shows that looking at multiple biomarkers to predict progression is not only mathematically possible, it improves upon methods using single biomarkers. Statistical models analyzing plasma had reasonable ability to predict total disease duration and used seven relevant biomarkers. For example, higher levels of the protein IL-10 predict a longer disease duration. IL-10 is involved with anti-inflammation, suggesting that lower levels of inflammation are associated with a longer disease duration. The researchers identified six biomarkers for cerebrospinal fluid. As an example, higher levels of G-CSF, a growth factor known to have protective effects on motor neurons — the cells that die in ALS — predicts a longer disease duration. Perhaps most importantly, the results suggest that a combination of biomarkers from both plasma and cerebrospinal fluid better predict disease duration. While the size of this study is small, the ability of the specific biomarkers used to predict prognosis suggests that the approach holds promise.
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SOME PLAYERS from the Hershey Bears put down their hockey sticks and picked up craft supplies in a recent visit to Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. In attendance were left wing Josh Brittain, captain Dane Byers, goalkeeper David Leggio and his wife, Kristen, right wing Brandon Segal, and Coco, the team mascot. They helped children create holiday-themed photo frames, posed for photos and signed autographs.
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ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS at Penn State Hershey, measuring changes in certain proteins — called biomarkers — in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may better predict the progression of the disease. “The results argue for the usefulness of researching this approach for ALS both in terms of predicting disease progression and in terms of determining the impact of therapeutic strategies,� Connor said.
Lady Lions to visit hospital LEWISTOWN — The Penn State Lady Lions basketball team will visit Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital on Monday, Dec. 30. The Lady Lions have a strong connection to Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital, as the team donates a portion of the proceeds from its annual Pennsylvania Pink Zone women’s basketball game to the hospital. This is the third year that the hospital is one of the beneficiaries of Pink Zone funds. During the tours, coach Coquese Washington and members of her team will able to see first-hand how the Pink Zone money directly supports Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital’s efforts to fight breast cancer through education, prevention, early detection and diagnosis, effective treatment and survivorship programs.
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December 26, 2013-January 1, 2014
Penn State student travels to South Africa By SAMANTHA SCHWARTZ Special to The Gazette
UNIVERSITY PARK — Allie Silber, a senior in the College of Education’s rehabilitation and human services program and co-president of the RHS Student Organization, traveled to South Africa in summer 2013 to learn about global health and best practices from those in the community. Silber, who is also part of Penn State’s global health program, a minor designed to expose students to health issues around the world, joined a community health group in Limpopo Province, South Africa. During her South Africa visit, Silber spent most of her time in various clinics observing and talking with nurses. She also shadowed nutrition students from University of Limpopo and learned from two traditional healers. Silber also observed consultations and the distribution of medicine and learned about the health care system, education system and the communities she visited. According to Silber, the trip was more about learning from the people who live there than going to a foreign country and “saving� it. “I am continuing to reflect and learn from my time there and how it can help me in my career,� Silber said. “South Africa is collectivist, and the people have such a sense of community and helping.� Silber, a native of State College, said that during her college career she has dedicated her time
to many hometown causes. She also became involved with the RHS Student Organization to make an impact on the State College community and meet fellow RHS students. One of her favorite community service activities is wrapping gifts for the Toys for Tots Foundation, a nonprofit organization that collects and distributes toys as Christmas gifts to less fortunate children in local communities. “The greatest thing you can give is your time,� Silber said. “[Volunteering] doesn’t take money or significant resources. It doesn’t have to be life consuming — just a bit of your life to help people and places in need.� Silber also volunteers as a hotline counselor at Community Help Centre, a nonprofit organization that provides services, resources, education, training and information to people in need of support. She has assisted members of the community with basic needs, short-term counseling, crisis intervention, drug/alcohol abuse, emergency food and more. “It’s been one of the best preparations for entering the field because it has shown me how to treat each client as an individual and be empathetic towards their needs,� Silber said about her experience at Community Help Centre. Silber will graduate in May 2014 and has secured an internship at the Centre County Youth Service Bureau working with the outreach and prevention department and the Youth Haven shelter for teens. She plans to become a mental health and addictions counselor.
ALLIE SILBER traveled to South Africa last summer to learn about global health. Silber is a senior and will graduate in May 2014.
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From Gazette staff reports UNIVERSITY PARK — The job prospects for master of business administration (MBA) graduates continue to look up. According to the Graduate Management Admission Council, 90 percent of 2013 MBA graduates are employed, and 74 percent of these graduates report they couldn’t have obtained their job without their MBA. To make it easier for working adults to earn an MBA for career advancement, Penn State’s online Intercollege MBA (iMBA) program is launching merit-based scholarships. “iMBA scholarships will allow us to attract and retain highly qualified applicants,� said Ashutosh Deshmukh, iMBA program chair and professor of accounting and management information system (MIS) at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. “These scholarships make us more competitive and broaden the appeal of the iMBA program.� The iMBA program is a collaboration of Penn State Behrend, Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies, Penn State Harrisburg and Smeal College of Business. The program is delivered online by Penn State’s World Campus. The four academic units and the World Campus are pooling funds to invest in the iMBA meritbased scholarship program. iMBA students will be selected for scholarships based on the strength of their application portfolio by the iMBA program office in consultation with the Academic Steering Committee led by Deshmukh. Scholarships of up to $10,000 per academic year will be awarded to reduce tuition. Most iMBA students are mid-level managers working in the business field. Groups of students proceed through the two-year program together, including participating in a
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Rec Hall needs to become full-time venue
UNIVERSITY PARK — Finally. That’s about all I was thinking as I walked around Rec Hall on Saturday during the Penn State men’s basketball team’s pre-game activities against Princeton. Also this: There’s no good argument anyone can make that will convince me Penn State shouldn’t play all of its home games at Rec Hall. There were numerous well-written articles penned last week during the runup to the game detailing personal memories. Ryan Jones’ guest column on the “Black Shoe Diaries” website especially stands out. John Patishnock If you have a minis a Centre County ute, check it out. Well native, and his worth your time. stories on how Everyone has a Rec he’s reconnecting to the area will Hall memory. I have be showcased in plenty. “Rediscovering I remember watchHappy Valley,” a ing Penn State host column that will Michigan and the Fab run every other Five, who at one point week in the Centre orchestrated an offCounty Gazette. the-background dunk and made it seem routine. I also remember sneaking into the building during the Christmas holidays when I was in high school, because my friends and I wanted to play pickup basketball. The truth is, there were probably other places where we could have played, but Rec Hall was just so cool that it was worth the risk of getting caught — which never happened. Rec Hall has character and charm. Draw your own conclusions about the Bryce Jordan Center. More importantly, Penn State basketball at Rec Hall is exciting, energetic and creates eager anticipation. What high school recruit wouldn’t get excited by that description of a college program? Throw in the added incentive that a kid can come
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here and help re-establish a program, and a coach already has his built-in recruiting pitch. I was in junior high when the team moved from Rec Hall to the Bryce Jordan Center, so I can’t speak much to the politics behind the shift, though I’m sure it had something to do with more seats equals more money, more concession revenue, more parking revenue, etc. Maybe that made sense in theory, but I don’t see the value in extra possible revenue when a 16,000-seat arena sits twothirds empty for most games. That’s why Penn State basketball needs to return to Rec Hall on a permanent basis. And yes, even as I say this, I realize this will never happen. I’m guessing mostly because athletic administrators would hate the ensuing PR mess, but it would be worth it. It would be worth it because it would give Penn State the best chance at becoming relevant on a national scale in basketball. It would be worth it because it would create an enormous home-court advantage. And it would be worth it because it would have the chance of generating the same type of buzz as a school that plays in essentially the same type of gym, a team that’s made the Final Four twice in recent memory: The Butler Bulldogs. I’ve been to Hinkle Fieldhouse, the 10,000-seat home of Butler, near Indianapolis. There, I watched Butler and Duke battle for the NCAA title in nearby Lucas Oil Stadium a few years ago. The game was shown on six Jumbotron screens that occupied the court at Hinkle, and I was there to capture the spirit of the crowd. I can’t compare the energy of a crowd watching an NCAA Championship game to that of a regular season game at Rec Hall, but the structure of the gym struck me. It immediately reminded me of Rec Hall. Hinkle seats a few more thousand than Rec Hall, but they both permeate the same down-home toughness that can get lost in an arena as large as the Bryce Jordan Center. After Saturday, I’m more certain than
TIM WEIGHT/For The Gazette
THE STUDENTS were loud for the “Return to Rec” game on Dec. 14. Would the Penn State men’s basketball team consider moving back to the venue? ever that nobody will ever convince me that Penn State shouldn’t play all of its home games at Rec Hall. The place possesses a combination of small-town charm and basketball muscle that could make Nittany Lion basketball a special and unique program. I talked to two students before the game who spoke with so much enthusiasm it made me wish athletic administrators were standing beside me, listening to the direct impact that playing in Rec Hall had on these two freshman students who are also season-ticket holders. None of this is to say the team can’t do well in the BJC. Critics have plenty of ammo after the team’s second-half meltdown in Saturday’s overtime loss, but Penn State should be competitive in every conference game. Moving home games to Rec Hall wouldn’t be a gimmick or a sign that the university made a mistake with the BJC — which, by the way, is so much more
than just a basketball arena so lost revenue wouldn’t be a huge concern. Parking and other logistics would probably cause headaches, but it’s nothing that Penn State isn’t equipped to handle. Fans could still park at the BJC lots and buses could shuttle them across campus for games. Maybe a new tradition could be created with fans welcoming the team as players and coaches exit the bus after leaving the BJC. The team could still consider the BJC its headquarters and Penn State could keep intact its offices, workout facilities and gym spaces. Practice, lift weights and watch film at the BJC, but play the games at Rec Hall. It’s just that University Park boasts so many unique features: the Nittany Lion shrine, the creamery, etc., and it makes sense to highlight what truly makes Penn State so special. Rec Hall is another of those unique features. It’s time to start using it more often.
The Santa Express delights youngsters BELLEFONTE — Bright colors, noise, excitement and young faces shining with wonder were everywhere when adults and children filled the Santa Express at the 1889 Bellefonte Passenger Station the weekend before Christmas. The restored passenger train, on its second run of the weekend, departed right on schedule for its one-hour run to the “North Pole.” “All aboard!” The conductor’s call was loud and clear. He then passed through the cars and punched each of the excited passengers’ tickets. Christmas carols and other holiday music added to the festive atmosphere. As they traveled Connie Cousins along, riders enjoyed a covers Centre reading of the popuCounty for the Centre County lar holiday tale, “The Gazette. Email her Polar Express.” at correspondent@ The fog hovering centrecounty over the snow banks gazette. com outside the windows added an eerie note to the story. It seemed that more adults were paying attention to the story than children. Perhaps it was a sensory avalanche with all that was happening on the Santa Express; the kids simply couldn’t tune in to the storytelling.
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But, tune in they did when the doors between each car opened and Santa Claus appeared! “It’s him!” exclaimed a boy as his sister stared open-mouthed at the visitor. “Here comes Woodolph the Red-Nosed Reindeahh,” squealed a little blonde girl, lisping in delight. The Gingerbread Man, ever the clown, sashayed down the aisle, reaching out his gloved hand to a child as if to shake hands, and then quickly withdrawing it. With a chuckle, the huge cookie moved on to the next child. The mean one, Mr. Grinch, was quite convincing, but none of the children were afraid of him. In fact, most of the kids stretched out eager hands to high-five the characters, including Frosty the Snowman and a couple of small elves. The elves eagerly asked each child what he or she wanted for Christmas, and a member of the Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society (BHRS) took instant pictures of the families who wanted photos. “This weekend we will run 11 trips and over 3,900 people will enjoy the railroad experience and the Santa Express. It is not just for kids. For many adults, it is their first train ride. A lot of people traveled from out of town and out of state to ride this train,” said Keith Koch, a car host on the Santa Express. The Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad donated the locomotives and crew for the Santa Express excursion. Jeff Pontius’ Penn Valley Railroad loaned the 1920sand 1940s-era passenger equipment. The Bellefonte Historical Society sponsored
CONNIE COUSINS/For The Gazette
SANTA CLAUS made an appearance in Bellefonte over the weekend and delighted youngsters on Centre County’s version of the “The Polar Express.” the Santa Express. The Susquehanna Economic Development Association-Council of Governments Joint Rail Authority supports the BHRS. The mission of the BHRS is to connect the public to both the past and the fu-
ture of railroad history in Bellefonte and Centre County. One way to do that is by running the fall excursions and the Santa Express. Call (814) 355-1053 or go to www. bellefontetrain.org. for more information on the organization.
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Elks Club conducts annual Christmas charity event By SAM STITZER
fill boxes with food from the State College Food Bank. The food, clothes and toys were handed out to needy families in the area on Dec. 21. Each family received enough food to make a complete turkey dinner. Event organizer Jeff Kephart said that 320 families in the region had signed up to receive items from the event. Kephart was grateful to the Ramada Inn, who owns the country club, for allowing the Elks to continue to use the facility. The Ramada Inn also supplied golf carts to assist recipients in carrying food and toys to their vehicles in the parking lot. Food distribution organizer W. F. Reiber was directing volunteers filling the food boxes. “I’ve been doing this for 40 years,” he said. “When I started we had about 20
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BOALSBURG — The State College Elks Club, working with the Toys for Tots program and the State College Food Bank, recently conducted its annual Christmas charity event at the Mountain View Country Club near Boalsburg. Hundreds of toys collected by the U.S. Marine Corps League and others for the Toys for Tots program were brought to the Elks facility for a giftwrapping session prior to the event. Volunteers from the Elks, school and scouting organizations, and the community gathered there and wrapped the toys, which were sorted and labeled by age and gender. Donations of clothing of all types were also sorted and labeled. An army of volunteers also helped to
families signed up. Now it’s over 300.” He noted that most of the volunteers for the event were Elks Club members and their families. Among the volunteers helping to sort and stack toys on tables was Centre County Dairy Princess Halee Wasson. “This is a great way to give back to the community,” she said. In addition to the wrapped toys, several tables were filled with small “stocking stuffer” items and some were piled high with stuffed animals. The toys, clothes and boxes of food filled the building’s ballroom and spilled out into adjacent rooms awaiting the arrival of folks whose Christmas would be a lot merrier thanks to the Elks Club and all the volunteers from the community. Co-organizer Brenda Kephart summed up the Elks event. “This is amazing,” she said.
CENTRE COUNTY Dairy Princess Halee Wasson carries a bag of toys to be sorted.
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Students make hundreds of gingerbread houses By SAM STITZER pennsvalley@centrecountygazette.com
CENTRE HALL — It looked like an aerial view of a suburban housing development — rows and rows of houses adorned with Christmas decorations, with pine trees and snowmen in their front yards. But, these houses were not made of wood or bricks. They were made of gingerbread, and were the products of 225 students in kindergarten through fourth grade at the Centre Hall Elementary School. The sugary houses were on display on rows of tables in the school gymnasium on Dec. 16. The students had decorated the houses earlier in the day using candy kisses, M&Ms, candy canes, pretzel sticks, bubble gum, shredded wheat, gumdrops, icing and other goodies. Adult volunteers helped guide the students. The gingerbread dwellings were as-
sembled by Heather and Keith Luse, of Centre Hall, who operate Delectable Delights, a cake, cookie and pastry business in Centre Hall. Heather Luse assembled the houses, while Keith Luse cut plywood bases for the houses to rest on. The Luses also supplied large amounts of icing and other items used to decorate the houses, all free of charge. “I’m not sure how much candy we used, but I know we made 500 pounds of icing,” said Heather Luse. Keith Luse buys the candy and other toppings for the houses throughout the year at post-holiday sales, overstock and surplus sales, and anywhere he can find them. He is proud of his latest find — white cheese balls. “I saw them and thought they would make great snowmen,” he said. He was right. Nearly half the gingerbread homes had cheese ball snowmen placed in their yards by the students. Heather Luse was grateful for dona-
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Penns Valley musicians present holiday concert By SAM STITZER pennsvalley@centrecountygazette.com
SPRING MILLS — The music department of Penns Valley High School presented its annual Christmas concert on Dec. 18 at the high school auditorium. The concert featured the high school chorus and concert band performing many sacred and secular Christmas songs. The chorus, directed by Phil Stattel, opened the concert with four numbers including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Pie Jesu,� with Raven Althouse and Susanna Mills as soloists. Running With Scissors, a quartet group composed of Mitchell Shuey, Nick Fuller, Mara Done and Althouse, sang “Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno� in fourpart harmony. The Chamber Choir, a subgroup of chorus members, performed four songs, including “Perfect Christmas Night,� a bouncy number done in a crowd-pleasing 1950s “doo-wop� style. Next, the full chorus returned singing three songs, opening with a George J. Trinkaus arrangement of
“Winter Wonderland� sung by the tenors and basses in four-part a cappella harmony. Not to be outdone, the sopranos and altos followed with their performance of Mac Huff’s arrangement of “All I Want for Christmas is You.� Following an intermission, the high school band took the stage performing five numbers, including the “Concert Suite� from the movie “The Polar Express.� Band director Darris DeRemer said this number was challenging to the band because of its many tempo, key and style changes. The band finished its set with the classic favorite “Sleigh Ride.� The concert finale was the iconic “Hallelujah� chorus from Handel’s “Messiah� oratorio. Penns Valley alumni, faculty and community members were invited to come on stage and sing along with the combined band and chorus directed by Stattel. The stage was soon filled with students and many adults who gave a rousing performance of this traditional number. It was a fitting finale to an evening of excellent Christmas music.
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PHIL STATTEL directs the high school chorus in their opening number,�Cantate Domino.�
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including senior citizen, can be purchased at the outlets. However, lifetime licenses must be purchased at the treasurer’s office and owners must be prepared to go to a veterinarian to have the dog tattooed or microchipped. Pennsylvania state law requires all dogs, 3 months or older, to be licensed in the county where they are maintained. New tags should be displayed beginning Wednesday, Jan. 1. Owners of dogs without licenses are subject to penalties. A license serves an important role in helping return a dog to its owner if it should become lost or stray. License prices for 2014 are $8.45 for regular dogs and $6.45 for spayed or neutered dogs. Senior citizens can purchase a license for a regular dog for $6.45 and a spayed or neutered dog for $4.45. For more information, call the Centre County Treasurer’s office at (814) 3556810.
STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES of South Hills School of Business and Technology were involved in community service projects throughout the holiday season. They participated in a community food drive, a Red Cross blood drive and are shown here with their “Toys for Tots” collection. Submitted photo
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New Year’s revelers will be delighted once again By SAMI HULINGS shulings@centrecountygazette.com
STATE COLLEGE — For the 17th year, First Night State College will ring in the New Year in family-friendly celebration complete with ice skating, variety acts, food, music and ice sculptures. Beginning at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31, the 100 block of South Allen Street will become a winter wonderland full of beautiful ice sculptures. Led by captain Ernie DiMartino, the First Night State College Ice Sculptors will carve more than 100 blocks of ice into striking frozen artwork. Pieces will include a dinosaur and a giant piggy bank. Small ice sculptures will be found outside local sponsoring businesses and throughout Sidney Friedman Park. First Night will also add two “new resolution” sculptures to its New Year’s festivities. Encouraging rebirth, “First Night Phoenix,” a giant fabric bird, will be located in the lobby of the State College Municipal Building. Rick Bryant, director of First Night State College said the second sculpture, “Gravity Powered Fortune Matrix,” will work like a Japanese pinball machine. Visitors to First Night can put a ball in at the top of the sculpture and watch it come out of a slot at the bottom, predicting fortunes. Bryant said it is necessary to continuously add elements like this to the celebration to keep it bright and new.
“We want to keep it fresh for the audience. We don’t want people to come back and think ‘Oh, I did that already’,” he said. “You’ve got to reinvest in your product here and that’s what we’re doing. We don’t want it to be boring.” In addition to the ice and resolution sculptures, the event will also feature a wide variety of entertainment. From musical acts to variety shows, First Night has something for everyone. This year, due to high audience demand, the night will feature three different variety acts. Hilby, a German-American juggler and comedian, will perform at the Penn State Downtown Theatre Center at 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Hilby is known for shows with hilarious audience participation. Joe Holiday is an award-winning magician who has performed throughout the world. A family-friendly approach to magic and comedy has made Holiday an audience favorite from Singapore to Atlantic City. His First Night performances will take place at the State College Municipal Building at 5 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Jonathan Burns combines the unusual talents of contortion, comedy, magic tricks and various sideshow stunts to create a show like no other. Like Holiday, Burns has performed all over the world, including Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. He has even been featured on “The Jay Leno Show” and “The Late Show with David Let-
terman.” Burns will perform in the State Theatre at 3:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Bryant said variety acts like these are consistently the most popular events of the night. “Conceivably, you can go to a bar and see a musical act, but it’s pretty darn hard to go to a bar and hear a comedy juggler,” he said. “Perhaps it’s because of the novelty that they are so popular. People will wait in line to see them.” Musical acts including Celtic group Callanish, Summit Hill Bluegrass, Revamped, Hot Soup and folk rockers Biscuit Jam will perform at various locations downtown throughout the evening. The variety offers First Night visitors the opportunity to experience classical music to rock and everything in between. Carriage rides through downtown State College and ice skating at the new Pegula Ice Arena also rank among the more popular events of First Night. Bryant attributes this to the sentimental and loving moments New Year’s Eve is filled with. “It’s frankly quite romantic,” he said. Both the carriage rides and ice skating require buttons and an extra cost. For athletes and runners, First Night will offer its 14th annual 5K Resolutions Run. Sponsored by Mount Nittany Health, the race will kick-off at 6:30 p.m. at the corner of College Avenue and Allen Street. Runners are encouraged to wear costumes
in celebration of the new year. Awards will be given for the best times and the best costumes. Largely popular with children and the theatrical, the Grand Procession features large and small papier-mache creatures and the playing of African drums. The procession will start at 6:30 p.m. at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 208 W. Foster Ave. Children can also enjoy arts and crafts workshops at the State College Borough Building Community Room from 1–3 p.m. and in the Social Hall at the State College Presbyterian Church from 2–4 p.m. With events for the young and the young-at-heart, Bryant said First Night’s continuous success is due to the variety of events it offers for all. Because of this, he encourages all wishing to celebrate the New Year to take in First Night State College. “They can hear some great music or see a great show. They can see our wonderful ice sculptures, grab a bite to eat and enjoy the great downtown with no parking worries and all at a very reasonable price,” he said. “It’s a great deal and a great way to start the new year.” Admission to all indoor performances requires a 2014 First Night State College button. Buttons are $10 and can be purchased at the door of events and select downtown businesses. When accompanied by an adult, children five and under are free. For more information, visit www. firstnightstatecollege.com.
First Night offers events for all tastes First Night events begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31, and run all day and evening. All items marked with an asterisk require a First Night State College button to attend. Resolution Exhibits Noon–midnight, Sidney Friedman Park, South Allen Street and State College Municipal Building. Giant Ice Sculptures 10 a.m.–midnight, South Allen Street and Sidney Friedman Park. First Night State College Ice Sculptors in Action 10 a.m.–9 p.m., South Allen Street Celebrating their 17th year, The First Night State College Ice Sculptors will carve more than 100 blocks — that’s more than 10 tons — of crystal clear Pennsylvania ice for this year’s First Night. Under the direction of captain Ernie DiMartino, the sculptors are expected to include Richard Alford, Robert Higareda, Gary Glenn, Jared McAlister, Joe DiMartino and Ryan Crosby. FNSC uses ice blocks manufactured by DiMartino Ice and Strickler Ice Company of Huntingdon. Academy of Sacred Music* 6:30 p.m., St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Julie Hanlon, soprano, James White, bass-baritone, and Asa Carns, pianist, join their considerable talents to present a variety of seasonal and sacred selections. Air Dynamics!* 8:30 p.m., St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Air Dynamics!, State College’s first professional flute ensemble, is comprised of Diane Gold Toulson, Cathy Herrera and Susan Kroeker, all members of the Nittany Valley Symphony flute section, as well as Smith Toulson. Archie Blue* 8 p.m., University Baptist & Brethren Church Archie Blue was formed by State College pianist Arthur Goldstein in 1979 and was a fixture on the local music scene for most of the 1980s and provided the soundtrack for the award-winning film, “Magic in the Afternoon.” The band members then went their separate ways, but, fast forward to 2012 and the band performed again publicly for the first time in years to a warm reception. Archie Blue’s music has been called “fusion,” “jazz-rock” and even “prog rock.” Band leader Goldstein calls it: “intelligent rhythm music.” Arietta Women’s Ensemble* 9:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church Arietta Women’s Ensemble, under the direction of Janice Mianulli, was founded in 2001 by a group of musicians
who did not want to give up singing during the State College Choral Society summer hiatus. Since its inception, Arietta has performed with the State College Choral Society, at national conferences at Penn State, for churches, community and service organizations, and at private events. Below Centre* 3 p.m., Faith United Church of Christ Low brass instruments are the foundation of any concert band but don’t get to be in the spotlight very often. Below Centre, a tuba quartet from State College featuring Leigh Hurtz, Mike Loewen, Phil Jensen and Leif Jensen, features music arranged for two euphoniums and two tubas. Biscuit Jam* 8 p.m., Faith United Church of Christ Biscuit Jam performs unique acoustic interpretations of classic rock favorites as well as traditional folk songs and Americana-flavored original compositions. The band has performed at nightspots in the State College area as well as at several central Pennsylvania festivals and at many private events. Jonathan Burns* 3:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m., State Theatre Burns has the unusual talents of contorting his body in wacky ways, doing comedy and magic tricks, and performing various sideshow stunts. He has appeared at more than 250 colleges and universities, at festivals across the U.S., Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. He was recently featured on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “The Late Show with David Letterman.” Callanish* 4 p.m., State College Presbyterian Church For the 11th year, this traditional band brings music from Ireland and Scotland to the mountains of central Pennsylvania. The four women of Callanish, Patty Lambert, Gretchen Seaver Lee, Holly Foy and Louisa Smith, share the music of their heritage — reels, jigs, polkas, hornpipes and songs of love and longing for homeland. Carriage Rides sponsored by Downtown State College Improvement District* 7 p.m.,Mayor Welch Plaza $5 per person, plus a 2014 First Night Button Three carriages drawn by Percheron draft horses will take you back in time as they take you through downtown State College. Dress warmly — it’s difficult to turn up the heat in an open carriage. Rides are on a first-come, firstserved basis. Due to high demand, not all of those wishing to ride may be accommodated.
Kim Cook and Anne Sullivan* 10:15 p.m., St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Cellist Kim Cook has performed to critical acclaim as a soloist in 27 countries and has toured as an artistic ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. The inaugural Penn State laureate, she teaches a cello studio that attracts students from all over the world. Recent performances include recitals in New York, Baltimore and the University of Cambridge, and concerto performances with the Dublin Festival Orchestra in Ireland, the Volgograd Symphony in Russia and the Ukrainian State Orchestra in Kiev. Harpist Anne Sullivan began her career as a concert harpist at age 12 when she appeared twice as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. A native of the Philadelphia area and a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, she is in demand as a recitalist, chamber musician and symphonic soloist. She is the author and arranger of more than two dozen works for harp and has published a series of ear training books specifically for the harp student. Her dedication to the development of complete musicianship skills in her students has brought her acclaim both as a teacher and a lecturer. Currently, she is the harp instructor at the University of Delaware and at Swarthmore College. Mark DeRose & the Dreadnought Brigade* 8:30 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church Imagine, if you will, James Taylor and Dave Matthews enjoying each other’s company while contemplating pop rock. Their musical progeny would be Mark DeRose and the Dreadnought Parade. The band’s tuneful music is filled with wry metaphors of hope and celebration — the things that make feel-good music feel good. Deirdre Flint* 10:15 p.m.,Grace Lutheran Church No two ways about it, Deirdre Flint, a Philadelphiabased singer-songwriter, is a perennial favorite with First Nighters. She writes songs about the trials of being an introvert, the Failed Metric Coup of 1975, horrendous bridesmaids dresses and all the warped and wonderful experiences of adolescence. Giant Puppet Display 6 p.m., Canterbury Hall, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Discover the well-populated menagerie of giant papiermâché creatures made to be worn or carried in the First Night Procession. Dragons, lions, fish, carousel animals and everything in between will be primping before their big moment in the First Night procession. Grand Procession sponsored by the Centre Daily Times 6:30 p.m. A high point of First Night State College, the Grand Procession features an array of giant papier mache puppets
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brought to life by your friends and neighbors. Local drummers are also welcome to join in by utilizing one of the available African drums or by bringing their own drums. Anyone who would like to be a part of the Grand Procession should meet at 6 p.m. in Canterbury Hall, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 208 West Foster Avenue. Heritage Brass* 1 p.m., Faith United Church of Christ Heritage Brass’ extensive music library includes music for dancing, complete church services, marches, pop tunes, jazz, swing and show tunes, Dixieland, complete weddings and Christmas tunes. The quality of playing is always top shelf and the music always enjoyable and entertaining. Hilby* 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center Best described as a show without boundaries, Hilby is living proof that being German doesn’t mean you can’t be funny. An expert in juggling all sorts of objects and subjects, as well as proficient in countless circus and variety skills, he really gets his audience involved and creates magical and hilarious moments through their participation. Joe Holiday* 5 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., State College Municipal Building Community Room Joe Holiday is an award-winning magician who has been working in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. From Singapore and Seoul, to the casinos of Atlantic City, his hometown, Joe’s family-friendly approach to magic and comedy has made him an audience favorite on cruise ships, at amusement parks and at private and corporate events the world over. Rick Hirsch 4 + 1* 10:15 p.m., University Baptist & Brethren Church Ring in the New Year with this stimulating concert of progressive jazz. Local faves Kevin Lowe (drums), Jeff Beck (bass), Mac Himes (guitar) and Rick Hirsch (saxophone) will be joined by the fantastic British trumpeter/composer Eddie Severn. Hot Soup*, sponsored by Hold-It Self Storage 8 p.m., State College Presbyterian Church Hot Soup is a blue ribbon recipe for harmony! Sue Trainor, Christina Muir and Jennie Avila blend their stylistically diverse musical talents to cook up a spicy vocal trio. Audiences rave over their close harmonies and the variety in their repertoire, from ballads to blues, from retro to novelty songs. Add delicious licks on guitars, harp, mountain dulcimer, conga and udu, and you’ve got a delicious recipe for a spirited and soup-erbly engaging performance. Dennie Huber* Noon and 7 p.m., Downsborough Room, Schlow Centre Region Library Magician and balloon “animal-ologist” Dennie Huber is a veteran entertainer, performing at fairs, festivals and events throughout Central Pennsylvania. Ice Skating* 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., Pegula Ice Arena, sponsored by Geisinger Ice skating, accompanied by the sounds of Larry Moore Productions, is one of FNSC’s most popular events, and makes a great way to slide into 2014. Ice will be resurfaced at 45 minutes past the hour. Ice skates may be rented for $1.75. CATA shuttle bus service runs to the rink from College Avenue. Live Mannequins 6 p.m, Appalachian Outdoors Don’t miss the State College High School Thespians as live mannequins in the store’s window. Ted McCloskey and Friends* 6 p.m., State College Presbyterian Church Ted McCloskey’s award-winning music has been featured on AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” NBC’s,”The Voice,” and on PBS, MTV, Discovery, and The History Channel, among others. In March, Honda Motors picked up a track from his 2012 album, “The Last of the Pin-Up Girls,” for use in a national television ad campaign. Middle-earth Studios* presents “The Pirates of Buccaneer Isle” 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Westminster Hall, State College Presbyterian Church Since ancient times storytelling has enchanted people of all ages. Middle-earth Studios’ kind of story-telling is an interactive celebration that brings out the kid in everyone. Nittany Highland Pipe Band* 4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church The Nittany Highland Pipe Band is one of the only pipe and drum bands in Central Pennsylvania. The band draws players from the State College, Lock Haven, Williamsport, Lewistown and Altoona areas, encompassing an extremely broad area. Revamped* 3 p.m., University Baptist & Brethren Church Revamped is an independent duo comprised of violinists Mark Minnich and Sally Williams Minnich, who have been bringing the precision of classical training together with the energy of pop concerts ever since since establish-
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ing the group in 2008. They have performed in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Washington, D.C., as well as abroad in Austria and Greece. Nittany Knights* 2 p.m., State College Presbyterian Church The Nittany Knights are living proof of the enduring popularity of barbershop music. Barbershop music, with its close, unaccompanied four-part harmonies, is a uniquely American musical folk art. One Block Ice Sculpture Exhibit 10 a.m.–midnight, Downtown and Sidney Friedman Park The One-Block Ice Sculpture Exhibit runs through noon on Wednesday, Jan. 1. Sponsored by State College area businesses, more than 75 one-block ice sculptures are displayed for your enjoyment. Please follow the Ice Sculpture Map in the program guide for a walking tour of visual enchantment. PSU Nittany Lions vs. Michigan State Big 10 Opener* 5 p.m.; Bryce Jordan Center Wear your First Night button and join the Nittany Lions as they ring in the New Year in their Big Ten opener against Michigan State at 5 p.m. Your First Night button enables you to purchase a single game ticket for just $5. Pepper Lotus Tribal Belly Dance Troupe* 5 p.m., University Baptist & Brethren Church The troupe performs Improvisational Tribal Style belly dance, a modern American take on traditional belly dance. Many members are also highly trained in more classic genres of belly dance, so the troupe also showcases a full variety of belly dance styles from around the world. The Puppet Factory presents “The Flying Tortoise”* 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., Days Inn Penn State Since 1970, master puppeteer Carolyn Koerber has presented puppet theater that excites the imagination. An outstanding artist, she has performed for the Smithsonian Institution’s Discovery Theater, the National Theater, and thousands of schools, theaters and community groups throughout the mid-Atlantic area. “The Flying Tortoise” is the story of a mischief-making tortoise named Mbeku, who has a beautiful golden shell and thinks he deserves the best of everything. Every day, he finds clever ways to trick the other animals and steal their food. One day, the animals plan a trick of their own that leaves Mbeku with a dull, bumpy shell. But this trickster is a true survivor who outsmarts them all in the end. Ron Ray, Organ Grinder 7 p.m., State College Municipal Building Plaza Phil Spangler & Joel Blunk* 10 p.m., State College Presbyterian Church Phil and Joel perform original songs that help us understand that our everyday hopes, fears, joys and sorrows are anything but pedestrian. Phil and Joel pursued musical careers in Los Angeles and Nashville before embracing the delights of Happy Valley and alternate careers as a contractor and a minister. State College Area High School Jazz Band* 6:30 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church The State College Area High School Jazz Band is among the finest in the United States and has an international reputation for excellence. The band has received 30 consecutive years of superior ratings in festivals and competitions. The band has performed in Europe and closer to home in New York City in the Essentially Ellington Competition at Lincoln Center. State College Area High School Thespians* 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Fairmount School Auditorium The State High Thespians’ Edinburgh Fringe Festival Troupe will present the Pennsylvania premiere of “In Silence,” a thoughtful Holocaust-themed one-act play with a resolution message for the New Year. The performance
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will be accompanied by musical numbers from the Thespians’ upcoming Fringe Festival performance, “Alice in Concert,” a zany and imaginative retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic. State High Thespians were selected from hundreds of applicants to appear with the American High School Theatre Festival at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August 2014. Performances are suitable for ages 10 and above. Summit Hill Bluegrass* 10 p.m., Faith United Church of Christ Strasburg, Pa.’s Summit Hill Bluegrass is comprised of four members: Roger Eberlin on bass fiddle, mandolin and lead vocals; Ron McVey on fiddle; Elvin Burkhart on the banjo; and Tim Kilby on guitar. This show will be a special bluegrass gospel performance. The Tarnished 6* 4:30 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church The Tarnished 6 Traditional Dixieland Jazz Band was formed in 1967 and has performed throughout the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The Tarnished 6 has many recordings including “Live at HiWay Pizza.” Toot-in-Common* 3:30 p.m., St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church After returning from a tour of the Baltic States with the International Flute Orchestra, Judy Moore was inspired to form State College’s flute choir, Toot-in-Common. The group’s repertoire consists of popular and classical favorites arranged for flute choir and works written especially for flute choir. Instrumentation includes one piccolo, six to eight C flutes, two alto flutes, one bass flute and one cello. Tussey Mountain Moonshiners* 5:30 p.m., Faith United Church of Christ Fronted by talented multi-instrumentalist Stephen Buckalew, the Tussey Mountain Moonshiners is a quartet that plays traditional bluegrass, old-time and folk music, as well as original tunes. Winners of The Acoustic Brew’s local showcase competition, the Tussey Mountain Moonshiners are quickly becoming a favorite at Central Pennsylvania events. In 2010, the band won the DelFest Bluegrass Band Competition. The band’s first album, “I’m Coming Home,” was released in 2011. Voxology* 7:30 p.m.; St. Paul’s United Methodist Church Kevin Neidig and Les Vonderlin make up this awardwinning duo, based in Mechanicsburg, which has been performing for more than years. Voxology has opened for the legendary Doc Watson, Peter Rowan and his Texas Trio, the Grammy Award-winning Alison Brown Quartet, and the renowned folk artist Tom Paxton. Voxology has been featured at music and arts festivals in the midAtlantic region, Arkansas, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida and Utah. They have produced four recordings — a self-titled debut CD “Voxology,” “Under the Covers,” “Someday Soon,” and their latest release, “Simply ... Voxology.” Worship services: Two downtown churches will offer New Year’s Eve services. The public is invited to attend. Faith United Church of Christ will hold a worship service at 7 p.m. and Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church will offer Holy Eucharist at 5 p.m. Events are subject to change. For more information, call Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, producer of First Night State College, at (814) 237-3682. — Compiled by Gazette staff
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Champions again!
Penn State bests Wisconsin for another NCAA volleyball championship By ANNE M. PETERSON The Associated Press
SEATTLE — There was determination behind the two straight aces Micha Hancock served to set up Penn State’s four-set victory over scrappy Wisconsin. “I didn’t want to go to five,” said the setter known for her powerful left-handed jump serve. “I didn’t think anyone did.” Hancock’s second ace paved the way for Deja McClendon’s match point, a soft hit over the net that fell unanswered and the second-seeded Nittany Lions defeated the Badgers 3-1 Saturday night to win the NCAA championship. Ariel Scott had 21 kills and Katie Slay added 14 in the 25-19, 26-24, 20-25, 25-23 victory. It was Penn State’s sixth NCAA volleyball championship and the team’s first since a historic run of four straight from 2007-2010. “People say you can’t put it into words,” Hancock said. “And you really can’t.” The Nittany Lions (34-3) dogpiled as streamers rained down at Seattle’s Key Arena. During the celebration, Wisconsin’s players returned to the court to applaud the champions. The 12th-seeded Badgers (28-10) were the lowest seed ever to make it to the final match. Stanford won the title in 2004 as the 11th seed. McClendon finished with 11 kills for Penn State, which is 6-3 overall in NCAA championship matches. Megan Courtney and Dominique Gonzalez each had 20 digs. Dominique Thompson had 16 kills for Wisconsin and 5-foot-7 outside hitter Deme Morales added 15. The Badgers were making their first appearance in the championship match since 2000, when they fell to Nebraska in five sets. “Everybody out there saw out there that as a team, we weren’t just happy to be playing in this match,” Wisconsin firstyear coach Kelly Sheffield said. “A lot of emotions in the locker room. They expected to win, they played to win. Not a whole lot of people thought we had a chance to do that, but our players did.” Wisconsin won the third set and strung together a key four-point run to go up 17-15 in the fourth. Ellen Chapman’s ace made it 22-19, but a missed serve by Annemarie Hickey — who had injured her shoulder earlier in the set — hurt the Badgers. Hancock’s ace narrowed it to 23-22,
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PENN STATE players cut down the net after beating Wisconsin in an NCAA women’s volleyball tournament championship final on Saturday night in Seattle. The Nittany Lions won the championship in four games. and Slay’s kill down the middle evened it. Hancock had another ace before McClendon’s tap arced over the net and dropped untouched. “Micah’s serve at the end? We had maybe a four-point lead, and she caught on fire,” Wisconsin freshman Lauren Carlini said. “We couldn’t control her.” Hancock, a junior, finished with three aces. “Penn State has the biggest weapon in college volleyball in Hancock’s serve,” Sheffield said. “We battle like crazy to keep it off the floor. She hadn’t gone off on us too much this year, but tonight, they got some points in that rotation.” Penn State, led by national coach of the year Russ Rose, swept Washington in the semifinals. Surprising Wisconsin downed top-ranked Texas, the defending champion, in straight sets to advance to the final. The Badgers came out with determination, going up 5-3 before the Nittany Lions, with a distinct size advantage, evened it at
9 on McClendon’s cross-court kill before pulling in front on 6-foot-6 Slay’s swing. A five-point Penn-State run made it 2015. Ellen Chapman’s tap over the net for Wisconsin held off set point until Scott’s kill to give the Nittany Lions 1-0 advantage. Penn State went ahead 10-4 in the second after Hickey’s ace, but scrappy Wisconsin clawed back, pulling ahead 18-17 to cap an 8-2 run. Carlini’s kill put Wisconsin ahead 2423, but Morales served into the net for the Badgers’ second straight service error, opening the door for Penn State, which closed the set with a pair of spikes from Scott to go up 2-0. Trailing in the third set, Wisconsin pulled in front 13-12 on Morales’ kill before Carlini and Thompson combined for a block and Morales added another pointwinning swing to make it 15-12. Pushed by momentum, Thompson and Morales combined for the block to go up 23-17 and first-year coach Kelly Sheffield
pumped his fist. Wisconsin claimed the set when Cerame Prieto served into the net for Penn State. Hickey finished with 26 digs for Wisconsin. “It hurt pretty bad,” she said of her shoulder. “I could feel it come out of my shoulder and it was painful, but we were playing in such a high intensity, we were winning the game, all I wanted to do was win for my teammates. I didn’t want to come out.” The Nittany Lions beat Wisconsin twice in straight sets during the regular season. Overall, Penn State has a 43-7 advantage in the series between the teams, including a 3-0 advantage in postseason play. “I thought it was a great match,” Rose said. “All three times we played Wisconsin was a battle. They play great defense, play really hard, passionate kids. It’s hard to advance through the tournament. Texas was defending champion, they ran into a real hot team. We knew that was the case.”
Lady Little Lions edge Mifflin County, 52-46 By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com
STATE COLLEGE — After four big blowouts, State College girls’ basketball coach Bethany Irwin had yet to see her team perform in a close game against a determined opponent. She did last Friday. And except for some rough edges, the Little Lady Lions came through with high marks in an exciting 52-46 victory over Mid-Penn Conference foe Mifflin County that ran SC’s record to 5-0. It wasn’t easy though as State College had to withstand a barrage of threepointers from the Mifflin County perimeter shooters and some tough play in the paint against its high scoring front court of Kyla Irwin and Jalyn SheltonBurleigh. The Little Lions used a second quarter 15-4 outburst to forge a 15-point, 32-17 lead going into halftime and then held on as Ashleigh Williams (19 points, 4 threepointers) led a furious second-half Huskie comeback. After creeping back the entire half, Mifflin County scored six consecutive points — four by Williams — in the last 90 seconds of the game to pull to within four points, 50-46, and forced State College to make plays against its full-court pressure. Fortunately for SC, Kyla Irwin took
the subsequent inbound pass and found Bridget King running free down the court for a layup that iced the game with 22 second left. “We did hang in there,” Bethany Irwin said, “and I’m thankful that we had a really good second quarter. I think they only had about four or five points (four) and we advanced our score. That was a really big help, having that cushion, because we lost our focus and concentration at times. I’m just glad the clock ran out.” State College opened the game by scoring the first eight points on five straight points by Carrie Mahon and then a three by King. It was then back-and-forth for the rest of the quarter, as SC held onto a slim 17-13 lead. The Little Lions adjusted their defense and allowed MC just one field goal in the second quarter while Kyla Irwin and Shelton-Burleigh combined for 12 points to lead SC to that 15-point halftime cushion. “It was a pretty tough game (inside),” Kyla Irwin said. “They know what I can do, so it was pretty rough trying to do what I can when they know. I’m really proud of my teammates for getting those open shots and calling for the ball when they are wide open. Whenever you’re not contributing with shots, you can always contribute with rebounds or passes.” In the third quarter, Mifflin County
began to heat up from beyond the arc — the Huskies had eight threes in the game — and cut into State College’s lead by five points. Even though the Little Lions managed to stay ahead through the early stages of the final quarter, Mifflin County had turned the momentum and seemed poised to go on a run at any time. And it did. With just under two minutes to play, the Huskies forced three SC turnovers that led to six consecutive points and brought Mifflin County to within four points, 50-46, with 35 seconds left. After a time out, Kyla Irwin took the inbound pass and, with Mifflin County in an all-out press looking for a steal, found King all alone down the court. It was an easy pass and an easy layup to wrap up the game. “We left them open,” Bethany Irwin said, “and we weren’t playing strong defense. We tried to tell them, leave this kid alone, but make sure you know where this one goes. We didn’t stay focused as to where their shooters were.” With the win, State College stays unbeaten and moves to 5-0 for the season. The Little Lions will take on Hazleton next, and then gear up for the Kiwanis Tournament on Dec. 27 and 28. “I think we are playing well as a team,” King said, “and everyone is scoring and contributing, so it has been a good start.”
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STATE COLLEGE’S Jalyn Shelton-Burleigh (35) takes a shot while Mifflin County’s Breanna Cline (5) Jessa Wright (13) look on during Friday night’s game at State College Area High School.
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Making the case for hockey at Beaver Stadium You just never know when you will meet Penn State alums. On Dec. 13, the Buffalo Sabres’ American Hockey League franchise, the Rochester Americans, hosted the Lake Erie Monsters of Cleveland in the “Frozen Frontier” outdoor hockey game at Frontier Stadium in Rochester, N.Y. As I was walking into the stadium prior to the game, Sabres’ public relations director Rob Crean told me an old friend was looking for me down on the field. As I got closer to the area where the Zamboni entered the Joe Battista is the temporary ice surface, vice president of I spotted Penn State hockey operations alumnus and State for the Buffalo Sabres and a College native David columnist for Fies. StateCollege.com. Dave is the vice president of operations at Rink Specialists, a company that builds temporary outdoor rinks used all over the world. His dad, Larry, was the rink manager at PSU’s
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Greenberg Ice Rink, where he hired me in 1987 and was my boss for years. Watching Dave and his colleagues work their magic and put up an outdoor rink under less than ideal conditions — Rochester was hit by a nasty snowstorm the week of the event — was impressive. Frontier Stadium is home to the Rochester Red Wings, the AAA affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. Seeing an ice rink in the middle of a baseball stadium is a bit odd, but it didn’t stop a standing-room-only crowd of almost 12,000 from participating in this special event. Neither did the 18-degree temperature! I watched a few hardy souls walking around in shorts and throwback Rochester Americans jerseys. I have attended outdoor hockey games at football and baseball stadiums and they all have one thing in common: They are spectacles. It is, admittedly, not a great way to watch a hockey game. But it is an “event,” and one that creates an amazing buzz in whichever location it is held. The “Frozen Frontier” game exceeded expectations on and off the ice. Lake Erie jumped out to a 3-1 lead before the Americans stormed back to take a 4-3 lead. In dramatic fashion, Lake Erie pulled their goalie and scored with just 0.1
They will most certainly set an attendance record for NHL hockey and may break the “world record” of 113,411 set when Michigan played Michigan State in the “Cold War at the Big House” in December 2010. Of course, this all leads back to the topic of playing an outdoor game at Beaver Stadium. It simply needs to happen. It would be the equivalent of the economic impact of an Ohio State or Michigan playing football at Beaver Stadium and could even be greater since additional events surrounding the game would fill hotels and restaurants and be a boom to the area. Sure, there are some challenges with such a game being held in Happy Valley “post-football season.” But I am confident Penn Staters would embrace such an event and it would, at a minimum, drive a lot of revenue into the area. It would also be very memorable and it could be historic as we are one of only a handful of stadiums capable of setting a world record. So when my alma mater is ready to commit to the project, the university can turn to one of our own alums, David Fies, to make an outdoor rink in Beaver Stadium a reality. The “Hockey Valley Outdoor Classic” has a very nice ring to it.
left on clock to tie the game. Rochester was down 2-0 in the shootout, but came back and won 3-2 in an atmosphere that rivaled a championship game. Alas, David Fies’ weekend was just starting as they also played men’s and women’s college games, youth hockey games, and finished up with a Buffalo Sabres and Rochester Americans alumni game. In early December I was in much warmer weather in Tampa Bay for meetings to discuss growing the sport of hockey, and specifically college hockey. I was chatting with Bill Daly, the NHL’s deputy commissioner, and in the course of the conversation he told me of his fond memories of attending football camp at Penn State and that his father was a Penn State graduate. Bill was recruited at Penn State but ultimately chose an Ivy League education at Dartmouth. After law school at NYU, Bill has ascended to become one of the most respected hockey figures in the world. Hockey is enjoying unprecedented levels of interest and Bill has played a major role in that progress. We also had a brief discussion of the upcoming NHL Winter Classic, which will feature Toronto and Detroit at the “Big House” at the University of Michigan.
PSU wrestlers laying foundation for fourth straight title On a night when the Penn State women’s volleyball team won its sixth NCAA championship, the Penn State wrestling team was making a down payment on its fifth. The No. 1 Nittany Lions walked out of Carver-Hawkeye Arena into the teeth of a Midwestern snowstorm Saturday night with a convincing 24-12 win over the No. 3 Iowa Hawkeyes. It was the first time Penn State coach Cael Sanderson had exited Carver-Hawkeye as part of a winning team, as either a coach or a wrestler. Sanderson has always downplayed that fact, but as a world-class competitor, you knew it had to eat at him. Now that he’s slayed that dragon, Sanderson can get to work fine-tuning his starting lineup so it’s roaring along without a miss come March. Don’t think for minute, even after a Andy Elder win as impressive as it was, that Sandcovers Penn State erson and his staff don’t need to spend wrestling for The some time under the hood. Centre County For starters, Penn State won withGazette. Email out two of its starters in the lineup. him at sports@ centrecounty Andrew and Dylan Alton each undergazette.com. went offseason shoulder surgery. And even though each has been cleared to practice full tilt, the staff has been cautious in facilitating their return. Assistant coach Cody Sanderson told the Penn State Sports Network after the Iowa dual that they would probably make their season debut Saturday at the Wilkes Open in Wilkes-Barre. It will be interesting to see if Sanderson and Co. will enter either or both Altons in the Southern Scuffle next week in Chattanooga, Tenn. And, if they do, how long will they let each of them advance through the tournament before pulling the plug? The Scuffle is arguably the best mid-season tournament in college wrestling, rivaling the venerable Midlands tournament in Evanston, Ill. This year the field will include 33 teams, including Oklahoma State, Minnesota, Cornell and Missouri, among other talented teams. Four of the top five teams in the country and six of the top 10 are scheduled to compete. In addition, 135 NCAA qualifiers and 34 All-Americans are expected to grace the field. If the Nittany Lions hope to win their third straight Scuffle crown, it figures to need a strong showing from redshirt freshman 133-pounder Jimmy Gulibon. The four-
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time PIAA champion is off to a rocky start in the Penn State lineup. His record has slipped to 4-6 after losing his last three bouts, including getting pinned against Iowa’s thirdranked Tony Ramos and a 3-2 decision to No. 6 Johnni DiJulius of Ohio State. Both Cael and Cody Sanderson insist that Gulibon will be just fine. Cael said as much last week before a mid-week practice. And Cody made the same assertion Saturday night after the Iowa win. Is that wishful thinking by a coaching staff looking to prop up Gulibon’s spirits? Or is it a faith in what they see in the room and the track record of a staff that has made good wrestlers great and great wrestlers elite champions? That remains to be seen, but a strong Southern Scuffle performance would be a good start in affirming the latter. With the second two months of the regular season ahead, now’s a good time to evaluate each of the threetime defending champs’ weights. 125, Nico Megaludis: The two-time NCAA runner-up is 11-1 and humming along as usual. His only loss is to Cornell’s second-ranked Nahshon Garrett. He’s ranked No. 3, but regular-season rankings mean nothing when it comes to Megaludis. He performs best when the lights shine brightest. 133, Jimmy Gulibon: As discussed above, he has struggled. He’ll need to build momentum, and confidence, in the next two months. 141, Zain Retherford: The precocious freshman looks like the next Nittany Lion superstar to follow in the footsteps of David Taylor and Ed Ruth. He’s 12-0 and, beyond that, what impresses most about Retherford is his ability to improve, not only from match to match, but within matches. 149, Andrew Alton: It will be interesting to see how quickly he can round into his old, dynamic self. 157, Dylan Alton: Much like his brother, it remains to be seen how long it will take him to get back to 100 percent. 165, David Taylor: He’s ranked No. 1, as usual, undefeated at 12-0 and there’s really no one in the country collegiately at his weight that can touch him. 174, Matt Brown: Undefeated (12-0) and ranked No. 3, Brown hasn’t been in danger of losing yet. His toughest battles are ahead, but he looks like he’s up to the task. 184, Ed Ruth: He’s ranked No. 1, as usual, undefeated at 12-0 and, like Taylor, there’s no one collegiately that figures to knock him off. He just got done majoring the No. 2 guy at his weight, Iowa’s Ethen Lofthouse, 12-4, Saturday night. 197, Morgan McIntosh: The redshirt year obviously had its desired effect on the sophomore. He’s 11-0, ranked No.
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AT 165 POUNDS, Penn State’s David Taylor is perfect at 12-0. Taylor is the odds-on favorite to capture the NCAA title at the weight.
3 and looks better than ever. He doesn’t have the flair for the dramatic that Quentin Wright had, but McIntosh is filling his shoes pretty well. Hwt, Jimmy Lawson: At 11-1 and ranked No. 12, Lawson suffered his first defeat against Iowa, a 3-2 decision at the hands of No. 3 Bobby Telford. He’s gaining ground on the nation’s best. The only question is, can he catch them by March? As a team, Penn State has no peer. It spanked Iowa, 2412, without two starters. The only team that might have a shot is No. 2 Minnesota. The Golden Gophers might be favored at five weights, the Nittany Lions at the other five. It’s a safe bet that Penn State and Minnesota will meet in spots sometime during the Southern Scuffle. That will give an indication of how those wrestlers match up. That will be an appetizer for the main course, Sunday, Feb. 9, in Minneapolis.
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No need to root for overrated Buckeyes UNIVERSITY PARK — So let me get this straight: As a fan of Penn State football, and by extension, a fan of the Big Ten Conference, it was in my best interest to have rooted for Ohio State to have defeated Michigan State in the conference title game a few weeks ago? Yeah, not so much. I’ll do my best to explain how I couldn’t feel more strongly that the above statement is a largely flawed argument, but my basic response is this: I didn’t root for Ohio State because as a Penn State and Big Ten Conference fan, I don’t care how Associated Press sportswriters and college football fans around the country view the Big Ten. John Patishnock I just don’t. Never covers Penn State have and never will, athletics for the mostly because everyCentre County Gazette. Email one in the two aforehim at sports@ mentioned groups is centrecounty usually wrong. gazette.com. This isn’t a direct response to any one article. I’ve read the same points from various members of the media, not just this season but in plenty of years past. Before I continue, I’ll grant the other
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side one caveat: If Ohio State were truly superior to Michigan State, I’d agree in this case, or in any other case where an upset precludes a Big Ten team from playing in the national title game. But here’s the problem: It was clear to anyone paying attention this season Ohio State wasn’t superior. I believed Michigan State was the better team pretty much the entire year, and I was right. It’s not my fault, nor is it my concern as a Penn State and Big Ten fan, that the AP voters whiffed, as they’re prone to do. If you rooted for Ohio State to win, you assumed a lot. You assumed Ohio State would beat Florida State. You assumed everyone would immediately bow down and proclaim an undefeated Ohio State squad was above a one-loss SEC team such as Auburn. And you assumed this would make a significant difference in how AP writers would vote in future years. And you’d be wrong each time. Ohio State wouldn’t have beaten Florida State, many people still would have considered Auburn a better team, and the Big Ten critics still would have said the conference isn’t on level ground with the SEC. Think about it: Would a staunch SEC supporter, fan or voter, really turn around and agree that just because the Big Ten won one title, that the conference sits alongside the SEC? Yeah, I doubt it, too. Sure, one title is a start to reversing a na-
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SHOULD PENN STATE fans have been rooting for Ohio State and Urban Meyer in the Big Ten championship game against Michigan State? tional perception, but I don’t like watching college football because I enjoy comparing and considering national perceptions. Games at Beaver Stadium are fun, energetic and showcase our Nittany Lion players, many of who truly do embody what a student-athlete should be. Hello, John Urschel. I don’t need perception. I experience the real thing. Most importantly, Penn State doesn’t need to piggyback off the prestige of another Big Ten school, such as Ohio State. If somebody’s opinion of Penn State is shifted one way or another because of something Ohio State does, well, I couldn’t be less concerned with what that person thinks. They’re uninformed, easily persuaded or both. Look, I root for the Big Ten teams in bowl games and want to see the conference do well whenever possible. This isn’t me contradicting myself after I made my argument. It’s just there’s a difference, a rather enormous one, between wanting to see the Big Ten Conference do well and believing that for that to happen, everyone has to hinge their hopes on the shoulders of an overrated team that got exposed yet again in a big-time game. If a four-team playoff, like the one starting next year, were implemented this season, I’d be rooting for Michigan State like crazy. But to cheer for Ohio State to win a few weeks ago because of a way a certain sportswriter may vote in the next four or
five years is nonsensical. If Penn State is good enough to qualify for the four-team playoff sometime in the near future, I don’t think Ohio State’s recent loss is going to keep the Nittany Lions out. One final caveat to the argument Big Ten fans should have wanted Ohio State to win. That makes sense if you’re a fan of Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue or some other downtrodden program. In those cases, you need outside circumstances to intervene because you’re unable to generate a positive image on your own. Fans in Happy Valley don’t fit into this category. I seem to remember Penn State football doing quite well before joining the Big Ten, and if the conference somehow dissolved in the near future, Penn State would still be fine. So thank you, Ohio State, for trying to lift up the Big Ten Conference, and by extension, Penn State. Now I’ll let everyone in on a secret. Ohio State needs the Big Ten more than the conference needs the Buckeyes. Don’t believe me? Look at the conference alignment over the last few years. The power conferences continue to do well with TV markets and revenue sharing, so the Big Ten would keep on chugging without the school in Columbus. And as far as Penn State needing Ohio State for anything, I’m sure you can imagine where I fall on that argument.
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Sprang expects big things from State High swim teams By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com
STATE COLLEGE — A closer look at the State College Area High School boys and girls swim teams: Coach — Ryan Sprang, second season. 2012-13 record — District 6 champions (boys and girls), 16 state qualifiers. Key graduates — Alex Hillsley, Anna Farnsworth, Liz Brown and Trevor Bain. Returning letter-winners — Boys: Seth Erdley, Carter Hardy, Fred Zheng, Ian Schrock, Abe Rovansek, Jon Cather, Joe Liechty, Will Bener and Matt Fritsch. Girls: Kirsten Vashaw, Ally Hughes, Miranda Myford, Hannah Mancuso, Juliet Garrigan, Courtney Quinn, Kirsten Hillsley, Sarah Koberna, Macy Blake, Grace Tothero, Hannah Finton, Harly Stuyvesant and Kate Cooper. Outlook — The State College swim program has a long history of success, and both the boys’ team and girls’ team in 2013-14 are ready to continue the tradition. Second year coach Ryan Sprang took over last year, and after a very strong year, Sprang thinks the Little Lions are ready for an even better campaign this season. “It was (last year) a challenging situation,” Sprang said, “because the previous coach had been there for about 35 years, so any time there is a change in guard it’s difficult for the kids and the coaches as well. “But things went extremely well. The kids gave me a chance to come in and create my own path while at the same time respecting the traditions from the past. I thought we had a great season.” And Sprang believes there is more to come. “Our seniors this year are going to be our leaders in and out of the pool. We are going to count on them heavily. “We have a lot of returning talent. I can go through our entire roster, and there are a whole bunch of kids there who are going to contribute a great deal to our success this
Hoop Shoot scheduled BELLEFONTE — The Bellefonte Elks Hoop Shoot will be held at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, at Bellefonte Area High School. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Volunteers should report at 7:30. The local Hoop Shoot chairman is Bucky Quici. For more information about the Hoop Shoot, contact Quici at (814) 880-0725 or email him at bq913@hotmail. com. The Bellefonte Elks Hoop Shoot banquet is scheduled for Jan. 19 at the Bellefonte Elks Club.
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THE STATE COLLEGE Area High School boys’ swim team returns 10 letter-winners for the 2013-14 season. Pictured, front row, from left, are Abe Rovansek, Jon Cather, Joe Liechty, Will Bener, David Rovansek and Matt Fritsch. Back row, from left, Seth Erdley, Carter Hardy, Fred Zheng and Ian Schrock.
season. “I would say, first and foremost, that we have a lot of depth. If we don’t win events in dual meets, we can get the seconds, and thirds, and fourths, so in that case outscoring them. We are strong in the IMs. We are very deep in the 500 and the 200. We’re deep in stroke, and I think our sprints are coming around, but that is one area that we are going to look to improve upon. We definitely have the talent to do that.” State College is presently 2-0 on the boy’s side and 1-1 for the girls, but for Sprang and his swimmers, everything is pointed at the post-season and the district and state meets.
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THE STATE COLLEGE Area High School girls’ swim team returns 13 letter-winners for the 2013-14 season. Pictured, front row, from left, are Fiona Vashaw, Ally Hughes, Miranda Myford, Hannah Mancuso, Juliet Garrigan, and Courtney Quinn. Back row, from left, Kirsten Hillsley, Sarah Koberna, Macy Blake, Grace Tothero, Hannah Finton, Harly Stuyvesant and Kate Cooper.
“We want to build on the success we had last year,” Sprang said, “so I think all those neat things are in the cards — team records, district and state finalists, moving up in the state rankings. Those things motivate us, and they are things that we want to do. I’d be lying if I didn’t envision a state championship at some point down the road, and we are going to continue on that path the right way through hard work.” Circle these dates — vs. Hershey (Tuesday, Jan. 14); vs. Central Dauphin East and Central Dauphin (tri-meet, Tuesday, Jan. 21); at Williamsport (Friday, Jan. 24); at Carlisle (Tuesday, Jan. 28).
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Little Lions look for continued success By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com
STATE COLLEGE — A closer look at the State College Area High School boys’ basketball team: Coach — Drew Frank, 19th season. 2012-13 record — PIAA District 6 Champions (10th time), lost to North Allegheny in PIAA State Tournament. Key graduates — Kyle Kanaskie, Jason Costa, Bryan Sekunda and Connor Nodell. Returning lettermen — Lucas Cooper, Patrick Irwin, Michael Beattie, Bryce Williams and Michael Hall. Outlook — A high school basketball team cannot lose the likes of Kanaskie, Costa and Sekunda and not feel the effects of those losses, and this year’s Little Lion team is going through that transition right now. After five losses to open the season (albeit to very good teams), State College broke
through with its first victory, 5646, over Chambersburg. It has been slow going, but SC coach Drew Frank remains optimistic. “We don’t replace,” he said, “every one of these teams and every one of these players is special. As we finish a season, that State College team will never exist again. Out of respect for those players who have moved on, we can’t replace them. “That’s not our focus. Our focus is that these players now have an opportunity and need to step up. I ask them to continue to have a passion for how our players have represented our school.” From last season’s team, two of the players with the most time — Michael Beattie and Ryan Karstetter — have not been playing, Beattie because of injuries and Karstetter because he is concentrating on a promising baseball future. “Those are two players we don’t have right now,” Frank said, “but Bryce (Williams) has
been playing a crucial role for us, and Lucas Cooper has stepped up as a senior. “And Patrick Irwin has been a leader for us. In his own way, he’s doing for us what he did for the football program.” Still, there’s work to do for the Little Lions. “I think our guys need to understand the importance of possession of the basketball,” Frank said, “and we need to focus on execution. If we are not able to consistently execute the little things of the game, those x’s and o’s, to be in the right spot at the right time, and we need to have five guys doing the same thing and the same time. “I am going to be patient as long as I see improvement in terms of execution, and that’s really all I can ask of these guys. We are hard working. We need to make sure we are better at the end of a practice than we were in the beginning. “Are we going to contend at the state level? I’m not sure that
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THE STATE COLLEGE Area High School boys’ basketball team returns five letter-winners for the 2013-14 season. Pictured, from left, are Lucas Cooper, Patrick Irwin, Michael Beattie, Bryce Williams and Michael Hall. we have that amount of skill, but we certainly are going to have the mindset that we are going to be relevant in District 6 post-season play once again.” Circle these dates — State
College Kiwanis Tournament (Friday, Dec. 27, and Saturday, Dec.28); vs. Harrisburg (Friday, Jan. 3); at Cumberland Valley (Tuesday, Jan. 7); at Central Dauphin (Friday, Jan. 10).
Lady Little Lions have plenty of talent By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com
STATE COLLEGE — A closer look at the 2013-14 State College Area High School girls’ basketball team: Coach — Bethany Irwin, 21st season. 2012-13 record — 14-9. Key graduates — Jenna Altomare and Taylor Allison. Returning letter-winners — Bridget King (G/F), Carrie Mahon (G), Kyla Irwin (C/F) and Allie Treglia (F). Outlook — The team so far has gotten off to an extremely fast start, winning its first four games by a margin of more than 35 points per game. Despite the loss of Altomare and Allison (along with five others), the Lady Little Lions return a strong core of successful players from 2012. “This year we have a lot of strong returning letter winners. We have Bridget King returning in the back court, and Car-
rie Mahon, who did not get to play a lot last season because of injuries, brings a savvy to the floor. And Kyla (Irwin) for a freshman last year pretty much dominated inside. With those three we have a strong nucleus, and thrown into the mix is Ali Treglia, a junior, who when her shot is on, is pretty deadly.” Before the start of the season, Irwin was concerned about how this team would mesh as a unit. “Right off the bat, a lot of the girls were playing in the off-season, but they weren’t really playing together. So right now we are concentrating on working together as a team, and I think that the longer we are on the court together, the more familiar we are going to be with each other.” But after the first four games, especially the last two victories over Carlisle (78-29) and Chambersburg (69-37), it is apparent that the team is coming together a bit quicker than anticipated.
Kavanaugh leaving for Bentley By BEN JONES StateCollege.com
UNIVERSITY PARK — After six years at Penn State’s director of player personnel, Bill Kavanaugh will take over as Bentley University’s head football coach according to a Bentley release. “I am excited for the opportunity to lead the football program at my alma mater, a place I have held in high regard since stepping on campus as a freshman,” said Kavanaugh in the release. A 2004 graduate of Bentley University, he added, “The opportunity to return home to Boston and lead a program with such a great tradition is a dream come true.” “I’m thrilled that Bill has accepted our offer to become our head football coach,” said Bentley athletic director Bob DeFelice. “He displayed his leadership ability as a team captain 10 years ago and has since grown into an outstanding young man who will be a tremendous leader for our football program and Bentley University.” While at Penn State, Kavanaugh most recently directed recruiting efforts under head coach Bill O’Brien. Kavanaugh worked within the program prior to his advancement under O’Brien, starting out as a graduate assistant coach, working with the running backs, from July 2008-January 2011.
“We do have a strong inside-outside game,” Irwin said. “That’s where I am hoping that we will continually have a presence. If we have Kyla inside with Jay (Shelton-Burleigh) and they’re scoring, and the other team starts to double-down, I’m hoping that our outside game will kick in and hit some threes so that they can’t concentrate on just one. We will always try to look for balance on the offensive end.” It is early, of course, but Irwin still has a good feeling about her team and its prospects. “They are great kids to coach, every single one of them,” she said. “We have 20 girls on the roster, and when you talk to them, they are looking at you right in the face. They are making eye contact. “Our motto this year is what can you do in the two hours that you have to give to your team, and with that focus, I’ve had some really good practices with these kids.” Circle these dates — Kiwanis Invi-
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“Bill Kavanaugh was a tremendous asset to us here at Penn State University,” said O’Brien in the release. “He was involved in all facets of our program and I credit him with much of our success in recruiting and all of the things that went on behind the scenes here at Penn State.” Penn State may have more wellknown faces around the program, but there is little doubt Kavanaugh has been key to the program’s success during the past two years. O’Brien has long said he won’t ever stop one of his coaches from advancing in their profession and it’s hard to say “no” when your alma mater comes knocking.
tational (Friday, Dec. 27, and Saturday, Dec. 28); at Harrisburg (Friday, Jan. 3); vs. Cumberland Valley (Tuesday, Jan. 7); vs. Altoona (Wednesday, Jan. 8).
Penn State student-athletes earn Academic All-Big Ten honors By BEN JONES
BILL KAVANAUGH is leaving Penn State to take over as head coach at his alma mater, Bentley University.
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THE STATE COLLEGE Area High School girls’ basketball team returns four letter-winners for the 2013-14 season. Pictured, from left, are Kyla Irwin, Bridget King and Carrie Mahon. Missing from photo: Ali Treglia.
UNIVERSITY PARK — Eighty-three Penn State student-athletes from seven fall teams have earned Academic All-Big Ten honors. It’s a total number that ranks second of all time among fall teams at PSU. Included in the total are four Nittany Lion studentathletes with perfect 4.0 grade point averages. Penn State’s four honorees with a 4.0 GPA led all Big Ten institutions, with Michigan State and Wisconsin next with three
each. Those Nittany Lions with 4.0 GPAs are senior women’s volleyball player Maggie Harding, sophomore field hockey player Haley Kerstetter, junior women’s cross country runner Katie Rodden and graduate student football All-American John Urschel. The Nittany Lion football team was credited with 24 honorees, the largest single team counting towards Penn State’s total of 83 student-athletes. Now in its 21st year of full membership in the Big Ten, Penn State has had a total of 4,560 Academic All-Big Ten honorees through this fall.
Little League seeks volunteers BELLEFONTE — The Bellefonte Little League is looking for volunteers to fill concession stand manager and field sign sponsor coordinator positions. For more information about the posi-
tions, visit the Bellefonte and vicinity Little League website at www.bellefontelittleleague.org or find them on Facebook. Email questions to baseball@bellefontelittleleague.org.
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Penn College to host Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition From Gazette staff reports WILLIAMSPORT — What is it like to live in a work of art? Experience the process of building and living in a home designed by one of America’s greatest architects in “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Samara: A Mid-Century Dream Home,” an exhibition making its East Coast premiere at Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport. An opening reception is scheduled for 5–7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16, in The Gallery at Penn College, with the exhibition running through March 29. Also on Jan. 16, Jack Quinan, founder of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and a renowned architectural historian, will present a lecture at 3:30 p.m. in the college’s Klump Academic Center Auditorium. Admission to the exhibition and lecture are free and open to the public. Via an impressive compilation of original furniture, architectural fragments, rare archival materials, home décor ephemera, books, video footage and reproductions of photographs, documents and architectural drawings, “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Samara” tells the story of a young couple from Indiana and the world-famous architect working together to build an American dream home. The exhibition explores how John and Catherine “Kay” Christian worked with Wright in the 1950s to create their home that the architect named Samara for the winged seeds from trees on the Christians’ property. The immersive exhibition gives visitors a unique, behind-the-scenes view of the communications between Wright and his clients, and how the family’s values worked in tandem with Wright’s vision. It also shares the story of how the Christian family continued to honor the architect’s vision long after his death. As early as the 1930s, Wright had been thinking about ways to create affordable homes for the American middle class. His answer was what he termed the Usonian home, a moderately scaled one-story house that was designed to be cost-effective and relatively easy to build. During his career, Wright created more than 100 Usonian designs. John and Kay Christian first saw a Wright Usonian when they visited one in Pleasantville, N.Y., in 1948. Inspired, the couple, who had met while working at Purdue University, approached the topic of Wright with the zeal of true researchers, visiting multiple Wright homes and collecting everything that they could read about him. The Samara exhibition includes a sampling of books about Wright from the Christians’ library, as well as magazines they later consulted during the furnishing of their home. After John Christian contacted Wright in 1950, the architect agreed to accept the commission in 1951. It then took four more years before construction started. The Samara exhibition shows how Wright managed the design process and the Christians’ expectations largely via correspondence. Objects and graphics in the Samara exhibition illustrate how he worked with them to clarify their needs and wants, negotiated details of the home and its final layout, and conveyed the architectural vision of the work through drawings and diagrams. The exhibition also explores how Wright scaled the home to the Christians’ limited budget by designing elements that he knew they might want to add, years later, when money allowed. The exhibition demonstrates how the Christians fulfilled Wright’s vision by completing those design elements, including perforated window panels, furniture and roof details. The final sections of the Samara exhibition welcome audiences into a glimpse of the family’s life in the home. Vintage movie footage, family scrapbook photos, and oral-history memories reveal how John, Kay and their daughter, Linda, lived in their dream house. Wright never actually saw Samara. Like most of his Usonian creations, the home’s construction was overseen by a representative from his architecture school, the Taliesen Fellowship. Samara was designed and completed at the end of Wright’s career. He was over
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JOHN CHRISTIAN and his daughter, Linda, in the living room of Samara, their Frank Llody Wright designed home. 80 when he accepted the commission; he died three years after the home was completed, at the age of 91, in 1959. Today, Samara, also known as the John E. Christian House, remains a private home in West Lafayette, Ind. John Christian, over 90 years of age, still resides there; Kay Christian died in 1986. Along with his daughter, Christian founded the John E. Christian Family Memorial Trust in 1990 to preserve the home as a living example of Wright’s Usonian architecture. Samara is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is open every summer for public tours. John Christian still welcomes visitors personally. “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Samara” exhibition is among the events launching Penn College’s Centennial celebration, taking place throughout 2014. The college began offering adult education classes in 1914, and through its years as Williamsport Technical Institute, Williamsport Area Community College and its present-day special-mission affiliation with Penn State, the college has expanded its commitment to applied technology education. The Samara exhibition celebrates that focus as it encompasses architecture, construction, design, environmentalism and respect for earlier technologies. “To kick off our centennial celebration, my goal was to find an exhibition that had a connection to our earlier days as Williamsport Technical Institute,” said Lenore G. Penfield, executive director of The Gallery at Penn College and director of facilities utilization and college events. “Coincidentally, I received a notice that this Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition was to begin touring, and with woodworking, drafting and construction being some of our earliest offerings, it seemed a natural fit. We believed an exhibition of Samara would appeal to not only a wide audience of our current program majors, but to the general public, as well.” Enthusiasm for the exhibition is already stirring, said Penfield, who added: “We’ve had numerous inquiries from out-of-state groups who are interested in viewing the exhibition. Part of the appeal is because The Gallery at Penn College will be the first venue in the East to host the exhibition; thus far, it’s only been exhibited in a few Midwest venues.” Interest is also high for Quinan’s exhibition-opening lecture. In the historian’s presentation, Samara will be seen in the context of a representative selection of Usonian houses of differing typologies and often eccentric geometries. Quinan specializes in the architecture
of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Arts and Crafts Movement, American architecture of the 19th century, Utopian communities, and the relationship of architecture and phenomenology. He is the senior curator and a member of the board of directors of Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, N.Y. He has written five books and numerous articles on Wright’s architecture. Quinan is a State University of New York distinguished service professor. Located on the third floor of the Madigan Library, The Gallery at Penn College is open Sundays, 1–4 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2–7 p.m.; and Wednesdays and Fridays, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. It is closed Satur-
days and Mondays. In addition to serving as an instructional resource for Penn College students and a cultural asset to the college and community, the gallery is dedicated to promoting art appreciation and understanding through its exhibits of traditional and contemporary art in a variety of media. For more about the Samara exhibition — a program of ExhibitsUSA and The National Endowment for the Arts — visit www.pct.edu/gallery, email gallery@pct. edu or call (570) 320-2445. For more about the college, visit www. pct.edu, email admissions@pct.edu or call (800) 367-9222.
CHILLING OUT
AMY ANSARI/For The Gazette
“FROSTINI” CHILLS out on the deck of the American Ale House. The snowman was created following a storm that dumped nearly eight inches of snow on Centre County.
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t n e m in a t r e Ent Schedule
December 26, 2013-January 1, 2014
SPECIAL SALE
Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013 through Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 AMERICAN ALE HOUSE, 821 CRICKLEWOOD DRIVE, STATE COLLEGE, (814) 237-9701 Thursday, Dec. 26 Friday, Dec. 27 Sunday, Dec. 29 Wednesday, Jan. 1
Domenick Swentosky, 8 to 11 p.m. Tommy Wareham, 6 to 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. to midnight Ted and Molly, 8 to 10 p.m. Scott Mangene, 8 to 10:30 p.m.
THE ARENA BAR & GRILL, 1521 MARTIN ST., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 237-8833 Saturday, Dec. 28 Tuesday, Dec. 31
Crossover, 10:30 p.m. Screaming Ducks, 10 p.m.
THE AUTOPORT, 1405 S. ATHERTON ST., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 237-7666 Thursday, Dec. 26 Friday, Dec. 27 Saturday, Dec. 28
Kate and Natalie, 9 p.m. TBA Jordan Robb, 9 p.m.
BAR BLEU, 112 S. GARNER ST., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 237-0374 Thursday, Dec. 26 Friday, Dec. 27 Saturday, Dec. 28
Big Feast, 10:30 p.m. Lowjack, 10:30 p.m. Ted McCloskey & The Hi Fis, 10:30 p.m.
CAFE 210 WEST, 210 W. COLLEGE AVE., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 237-3449 Friday, Dec. 27 Saturday, Dec. 28
Pure Cane Sugar and Miss Melanie & The Valley Rats, 10:30 p.m. Velveeta, 10:30 p.m.
THE BREWERY, 233 E. BEAVER AVE., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 237-2892 Wednesday, Jan. 1
Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.
ELK CREEK CAFÉ AND ALEWORKS, 100 W. MAIN ST., MILLHEIM, (814) 349-8850 Thursday, Dec. 26 Saturday, Dec. 28
Boxing Day Pub Hang with DJ Vinyl Fog, 7:30 p.m. Woody Pines, 8 p.m.
THE GAMBLE MILL, 160 DUNLAP ST., BELLEFONTE, (814) 355-7764 Friday, Dec. 27 Saturday, Dec. 28 Sunday, Dec. 29
Pure Cane Sugar, 6 to 8 p.m. Momma Corn, 7 to 9 p.m. Cone of Silence, 5 to 7 p.m.
GOVERNORS PUB, 211 W. HIGH ST., BELLEFONTE, (814) 353-1008 Thursday, Dec. 26 Wednesday, Jan. 1
JT Blues, 6:30 p.m. Biscuit Jam, 6:30 p.m.
HOME DELIVERY PIZZA PUB, 1820 S. ATHERSTON ST., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 237-7777 Tuesday, Dec. 31
Chris Good, 7 to 10 p.m.
INFERNO BRICK OVEN & BAR, 340 E. COLLEGE AVE., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 237-5718 Thursday, Dec. 26 Friday, Dec. 27 Saturday, Dec. 28
DJ Kid A.V., 10 p.m. DJ Fuego, 10 p.m. DJ Ca$hous, 10 p.m.
OTTO’S PUB & BREWERY, 2286 N. ATHERTON ST., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 867-OTTO Saturday, Dec. 28
Tussey Mountain Moonshiners, 9 to 11 p.m.
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THE BELLEFONTE ART Museum is currently holding its fifth annual Holiday Show and Sale. Fine arts, crafts, wearable art and greeting cards by local artists are on display through Sunday, Jan. 26. For more information about the sale, call (814) 355-4280 or visit www.bellefontemuseum.org.
Send calendar items to ... editor@centrecountygazette.com The State Theatre, W. College Ave., Downtown State College
This Week at the State…
THE PHYRST, 111 E. BEAVER AVE., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 238-1406 Thursday, Dec. 26 Friday, Dec. 27 Saturday, Dec. 28 Wednesday, Jan. 1
Lowjack, 8 p.m., Maxwell Strait, 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Dominic & Noah, 8 to 10 p.m. Ted and the Hi-Fi’s, 10:30 pm to 2 a.m. Lowjack, 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Go Go Gadget, 10:30 p.m.
THE RATHSKELLER, 108 S. PUGH ST., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 237-3858 Friday, Dec. 27 Saturday, Dec. 28
Mr. Hand, 10:30 p.m. Jason McIntyre, 10:30 p.m.
THE SALOON, 101 HEISTER ST., STATE COLLEGE, (814) 234-0845 Thursday, Dec. 26 Friday, Dec. 27 Saturday, Dec. 28 Tuesday, Dec. 31 Wednesday, Jan. 1
My Hero Zero, 10:30 p.m. John and Chad, 8 to 10 p.m. Velveeta, 10:30 p.m. Mr. Hand, 7 p.m. Shake Shake Shake, 10:30 p.m. His Boy Elroy, 10 p.m. — Compiled by Marjorie S. Miller
Friday, December 27 — 7:00pm *Premiere* Saturday, December 28 — 4:00 & 7:30pm Sunday, December 29 — 4:00 & 7:30pm
Guys and Dolls JR
presented by Singing Onstage Studios
Monday, December 30 — 7:30pm
Happy Holidays from The State Theatre!
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Quilts on display at Schlow Library From Gazette staff reports STATE COLLEGE — The colorful, inventive quilts created by the kindergarten and first grade students of recently retired teacher Dorothy Habecker are a sheer delight — a wonderful visual treat on a wintry January day. A quilter and teacher of young children all her adult life, Habecker decided 12 years ago to combine these two interests in her classroom. Each year thereafter, her students had the memorable experience of creating a quilt together. The collaborative quilts will be on display from Thursday, Jan. 2, through Friday, Jan. 31, in the Betsey Rodgers Allen Gallery of Schlow Centre Region Library in State College. Gradually, their work evolved in complexity, and over the years they designed and created traditional pieced quilts, an embroidered heart quilt, a tie-dyed quilt out of fabric they tie-dyed themselves, and a keepsake quilt made
QUILTS LIKE this one will be on display throughout the month of January at the Schlow Centre Region Library. The quilts were created by the students of Dorothy Habecker.
from fabric recycled from their “old” clothes. Each child designed and hand sewed at least one block, a grandmother volunteer stitched the quilt together, the children quilted the layers together with embroidery floss, and Habecker completed the quilts by finishing off the edges. Perhaps best of all, they kept all the quilts in the classroom, where the children stretched out on them to rest and read books. The craftsmanship is clearly that of young children, with irregular stiches and blocks that can vary in size. This adds to the spontaneity and vibrancy, as do the bright colors the kids chose and assembled in unexpected ways. Visually joyful, the quilts are a testament to children’s abilities to engage in a large, complicated art project that takes weeks to complete, and to work collaboratively as a classroom community. Like Schlow Library, this exhibition is free and open to the public.
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‘Forging Alliances’ opens Jan. 7 at the Palmer From Gazette staff reports UNIVERSITY PARK — The Palmer Museum of Art will present “Forging Alliances” from Saturday, Jan. 7, through midMay. In the years following World War II, one of the ways Japan attempted to reshape its world image was by presenting an idea of modern Japanese culture rooted in tradition. This effort took place both in Japan, where individual artists were encouraged to develop new approaches to long-established forms of Japanese art, and in the West, where art audiences were encouraged to value new Japanese artistic expres-
sions as part of a global culture of modernism associated with creative individuality. “Forging Alliances” draws on the Palmer Museum’s collection of postwar mingei ceramics and mid-20th century woodblock prints. Many of the ceramics were acquired for the university by the late professor of art Ken Beittel during his historic 1967 sabbatical in Arita to study with Manji Inoue. The prints are from the “Creative Print Movement,” a western-influenced trend that emphasized a more individualized approach to Japanese printmaking. The works featured in “Forging Alliances” were selected by Christopher Reed, professor of English and visual culture,
and Jonathan Abel, assistant professor of comparative literature and Asian studies. The exhibition served as the subject for their fall 2013 seminar, “Mapping Identity, Difference, and Place,” in which students researched and provided didactic information for each of the pots and prints on view. The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is located on Curtin Road and admission is free. Museum hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m., and Sundays, noon–4 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays and some holidays. It will be closed through Wednesday, Jan. 1. Reduced hours over winter break are noon–4 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 2, through Sunday,
Jan. 12. The museum will be closed Monday, Jan. 6. The Palmer Museum of Art receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Also on view at the Palmer Museum of Art this spring are “British Watercolors from the Permanent Collection,” beginning Tuesday, Jan. 7, and “Surveying Judy Chicago: Five Decades,” beginning Tuesday, Jan. 21. “Surveying Judy Chicago: Five Decades” was organized by the museum in partnership with A.R.T. Corp.
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ONGOING
Bookmobile — Centre County Library Bookmobile is a fully accessible library on wheels. Look for it in your community and join Miss Laura for story times, songs and fun. Visit the website at www.centrecountylibrary.org for days and times. Exhibit — “Abstract,” the multi-medium artwork of Bellefonte artist Karyn Debrasky, will be on display through Monday, Dec. 30, at Schlow Region Centre Library’s Betsy Rodgers Allen Gallery, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Gallery hours are Mondays through Wednesdays, 9 a.m.–9 p.m.; Thursdays, noon–9 p.m.; Fridays, 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; and Sundays, 1:30 p.m.–5 p.m. For more information, call (814) 237- 6238. Art Show — The Green Drake Gallery and Arts Center will show the work of its studio artists through Sunday, Jan. 5, at 101 W. Main St., Millheim. Call (814) 349-2486. Exhibit — The HUB-Robeson Galleries will present State College Area School District student artwork in the Robeson Gallery Friday, Jan. 3, through Wednesday, Jan. 18, with a reception on Jan. 18, 2–4 p.m. This annual exhibit features the works of artists in grades kindergarten through 12. For more information, visit www.student affairs.psu.edu/hub/artgalleries or call (814) 865-0775. Winter Clothing Giveaway/Donation Collection — The Buffalo Run United Methodist Charge Coat Ministry will distribute free winter coats and accessories on Saturdays, 9 a.m.–1 p.m., through Saturday, Jan. 25, at 2262 Buffalo Run Road, Bellefonte. Donations of gently used coats and other winter items will also be accepted. For more information, call (814) 237-4707 or (814) 355-2208. Exhibit — The Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County will have a holiday show and sale by local artists through Sunday, Jan. 26, at 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Gallery hours are Thursdays through Sundays, noon–5 p.m. Call (814) 355-4280 or visit www.bellefontemuseum.org. Exhibition — British watercolors from the Permanent Collection will be featured at the Palmer Museum of Art, Tuesday, Jan. 7, through Sunday, May 4. Museum hours are 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays, and noon–4 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, visit www.palmermuseum.psu.edu. Exhibition — “Forging Alliances” will be featured at the Palmer Museum of Art, Tuesday, Jan. 7, through Sun-
day, May 11. This exhibition draws on the Palmer Museum’s collection of post-WWII mingei ceramics. Museum hours are 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays, and noon–4 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, visit www.palmermuseum.psu.edu. History/Genealogy — Learn about local history and genealogy with expert researchers at the Historical Museum and PA Room, 203 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., and Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon–5 p.m. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecountylibrary.org.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26
Embroidery Club — An embroidery club will meet 6:30–8:30 p.m. in the Sun Room, Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. All skill levels are welcome. Call (814) 237-6236.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27
Line Dancing — Centre Region Parks and Recreation presents line dancing at 10:50 a.m. at the Centre Region Senior Center, 131 S. Fraser St., No.1, State College. No experience necessary or partners needed. Call (814) 231-3076. Children’s Activity — Schlow Centre Region Library hosts “Discovery Days,” where children can create winterthemed craft stick figurine, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. in the Children’s Department, 211 S. Allen St., State College. For more information, call (814) 235-7817.
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Film — “365 Days: A Year in Happy Valley” will premiere at 7 p.m. at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. This film takes audiences on a journey into the heart of one of the world’s most beloved university towns to reveal whether the crimes of one man will redefine not only the way the world views it, but also how those who live there feel about it. Tickets can be purchased at the box office by calling (814) 272-0606 or by visiting www. statetheatre.org or www.365daysthefilm.com.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28
Children’s Activity — Schlow Centre Region Library hosts “Saturday Stories Alive,” a half-hour program featuring stories, finger plays, crafts, movies or special performances, 11–11:30 a.m. in the Children’s Department, 211 S. Allen St., State College. To sign-up, visit the Children’s Desk on the day of the event. For more information, call (814) 235-7817. Games — Hone your strategy for the ancient game of “Go,” 1:30–5 p.m. in the Sun Room, Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Call (814) 237-6236. Film — “365 Days: A Year in Happy Valley” will be screened at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. Tickets can be purchased at the box office by calling (814) 272-0606 or by visiting www. statetheatre.org or www.365daysthefilm.com. What’s Happening, Page 26
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What’s Happening, from page 25 Games — Snow Shoe EMS will host bingo, 7 p.m. at 492 W. Sycamore St., Snow Shoe. Doors open at 5 p.m.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29
Film — “365 Days: A Year in Happy Valley” will be screened at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. Tickets can be purchased at the box office by calling (814) 272-0606 or by visiting www.statetheatre. org or www.365daysthefilm.com.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 30
Volunteering — Bellefonte Area Mission Central HUB will be open 9–11 a.m. at the Trinity United Methodist Church, 128 W. Howard St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-9425. Story Time — The Centre Hall Branch Library will have preschool story time, 10:30–11 a.m. at 109 W. Beryl St., Centre Hall. Today’s theme is “Hats and Mittens.” Call (814) 364-2580 or visit www.centre countylibrary.org. Line Dancing — Centre Region Parks and Recreation presents line dancing at 10:50 a.m. at the Centre Region Senior Center, 131 S. Fraser St., No.1, State College. No experience necessary or partners needed. Call (814) 231-3076. Children’s Activity — Schlow Centre Region Library hosts “Discovery Days,” where children can create a monster from a tissue box, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. in the Children’s Department, 211 S. Allen St., State College. For more information, call (814) 235-7817. Games — The State College Knights of Columbus will host bingo, 7 p.m. at 850 Stratford Drive, State College. Practice/Performance — The Nittany Knights will perform a capella barbershop songs, 7:15 p.m. at the South Hills School of Business and Technology, 480 Wau-
December 26, 2013-January 1, 2014
pelani Drive, State College. For more information, call (814) 777-7455, visit www. nittanyknights.org or email jimkerhin@ yahoo.com. Musical — The performers of Singing Onstage present “Guys and Dolls Jr.,” 7:30 p.m. at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. Tickets can be purchased at the box office by calling (814) 272-0606 or by visiting www.statetheatre. org.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31
Coffee Time — Bring a friend and savor that second cup of coffee and conversation 9:30–11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall, Howard United Methodist Church, West Main Street, Howard. Farmer’s Market — The Boalsburg Farmer’s Market will be held 11 a.m.–2 p.m. in St. John’s United Church of Christ, 218 N. Church St., Boalsburg. Vendor products include fall greens and root vegetables, meats, dairy items, breads and apples. Children’s Activity — Schlow Centre Region Library hosts “Discovery Days,” where children can create plastic egg maracas, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. in the Children’s Department, 211 S. Allen St., State College. For more information, call (814) 235-7817. Film — Greats at the State Film Series presents “An American in Paris,” 2 p.m. at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. Tickets can be purchased at the box office by calling (814) 272-0606 or by visiting www.statetheatre.org. Café — University Baptist and Brethren Church will have its First Night Soups and Sweets Cafe during the First Night activities in downtown State College in the church’s basement, 411 S. Burrowes St. Donations to the church are accepted to support youth travel and volunteer projects. Chili Café — Faith United Church of Christ will have its annual First Night Chili Café, 4–6:30 p.m. in Romig Hall at 300 E.
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128 W. Howard St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-9425. Zumba — New Hope United Methodist Church will sponsor a free Zumba class at 6 p.m. at Marion Walker Elementary School, 100 School Drive, Bellefonte. Call Amanda at (814) 321-4528.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2
Craft Class — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will host “Hooks & Needles,” an adult craft class, 1–2:30 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centre countylibrary.org. Children’s Program — The Centre County Library and Historical Museum will host its Lego club, 3:30–4:30 p.m. at 200 Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1516 or visit www.centrecounty library.org. — Compiled by Gazette staff
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College Ave., State College. There will be many types of homemade chili, desserts and beverages. For more information, visit www.firstnightstatecollege.com or email faithucc@comcast.net. Performance — DJ Tony Breon will perform at Home D Pizzeria, 1796 Zion Road, Bellefonte. For more information, call (814) 357-8399. Performance — Chris Good will perform at Home D Pizzeria, 1820 S. Atherton St., State College. For more information, call (814) 237-7777. Dinner — Trinity United Methodist Church will host a New Year’s Day dinner, 11:30 a.m–1:30 p.m. at 128 W. Howard St., Bellefonte. Pork and sauerkraut will be served. Take-out will be available. Volunteering — Bellefonte Area Mission Central HUB will be open 1–3 p.m. at the Trinity United Methodist Church,
Happy New Years from our family to yours! New Year’s Eve 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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THE FILM “An American in Paris” will be on the big screen at the State Theatre at 2 p.m. on Dec. 31. Tickets are available at the box office or online at www.statetheatre.org.
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GROUP MEETINGS The Gazette will publish the regular meeting dates and times for all Centre County social and service groups, organizations, clubs, etc. that have membership open to the public. To be included in the weekly listing send information by Wednesday one week prior to publication to community@centrecountygazette. com or mail to: The Centre County Gazette, Attn: Group Meetings, 403 S. Allen St., State College, PA 16801. Adult Bible Study and Kids Program, offering practical help from the Bible and a fun and productive time for kids, will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesdays at Nittany Baptist Church, 430 Mountain Back Road, Spring Mills. Call (814) 360-1601 or visit www.nittany baptist.org. Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse — Men’s Support Group sponsored by The Centre County Women’s Resource Center, meets from 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesdays. Call (814) 237-5220 ext. 247, email edteam@ccwrc.org or visit www.ccwrc.org. Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse — Women’s Support Group sponsored by The Centre County Women’s Resource Center, meets from 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesdays. Call (814) 237-5220 ext. 247, email edteam@ccwrc.org or visit ccwrc.org. ALIVE Teen Club meets at 6 p.m. Sundays at First Baptist Church, 539 Jacksonville Road, Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-5678 or visit www.fbcbellefonte.org. Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Groups meets the first Friday of every month at 1 p.m. and second Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m., Mount Nittany Dining Room at The Inn at Brookline, 1930 Cliffside Drive, State College. Call or email Anne at (814) 2343141 / teadmin@brooklinevillage.com or Janie at (814) 235-2000 / iwpcommrel@brooklinevillage.com for more information. AWANA Club meets at 6 p.m. every Sunday at the First Baptist Church, 539 Jacksonville Road, Bellefonte. Activities and Bible lessons will be held for children ages 3 through sixth grade. Materials provided. Call (814) 355-5678 or visit www.fbcbellefonte. org. Bald Eagle Grange No. 151 meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month at the Grange Hall in Runville. Bald Eagle Watershed Association meets at 9:30 a.m. the third Monday at the Milesburg Borough Building, 416 Front St., Milesburg. Visit www.baldeaglewatershed.com. The Bald Eagle Area Class of 1959 meets at 6 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month for dinner. Location changes each month. Call Joyce at (814) 383-4337 or email ljt2342@embarqmail. com. Bald Eagle Area Class of 1960 meets for lunch at 11:30 a.m. the third Thursday of every month at The Bestway Restaurant, 1023 N. Eagle Valley Road, Howard. Call Barb (814) 466-6027. Bald Eagle Area Class of 1962 meets for breakfast at 9 a.m. the first Saturday of each month at Bestway Truckstop Restaurant, Route 150, Milesburg. Call Sandy at (814) 387-4218. Bald Eagle Area Class of 1964 meets for breakfast at 9 a.m. the fourth Saturday of the month at the Bestway Restaurant, Route 150, I-80 exit 158, Milesburg. Dinner will be at 5:30 p.m. on the third Friday of the month at the Bellefonte Moose, 125 N. Spring St., Bellefonte. Call Sue (814) 625-2132 or bea.1964@ yahoo.com. Bald Eagle Area Class of 1965 meets for dinner at 5:30 p.m. the last Friday of each month at Bellefonte Elks, 120 W. High St., Bellefonte. Call Bob (814) 383-2151. Bellefonte High School Class of 1956 meets for dinner at 5:30 p.m. the second Friday of each month at Bellefonte Elks, 120 W. High St., Bellefonte. Call Kay at (814) 359-2738. Bellefonte High School Class 1967 meets for breakfast at 8:30 a.m. the first Saturday of each month at Sunset West, 521 E. College Ave., Pleasant Gap. The location is subject to change. Call Vic at (814) 360-1948. Bellefonte Elks Lodge meets at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Mondays of each month at Bellefonte Elks, 120 W. High St., Bellefonte. Bellefonte Encampment No. 72 and Ridgeley Canton No. 8 meets at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month, Windmere Hall, 454 Rolling Ridge Drive, State College. Bellefonte Garden Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at the First Presbyterian Church, 203 N. Spring St., Bellefonte. Visit www.facebook.com/bellefontegardenclub or call (814) 355-4427. Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society meets at 7 p.m. the first Monday of each month at the Train Station, Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-1053 or www.bellefontetrain.org. Bellefonte Kiwanis Club meets at noon Tuesdays at the Moose Club, 125 N. Spring St., Bellefonte. Call Richard King at (814) 3559606 or email kings430elinn@yahoo.com. Bellefonte Sunrise Rotary Club meets at 7:30 a.m. Fridays at Diamond Deli, 103 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call Mary Jane Fisher at (814) 355-5905. Bellefonte Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1600 meets at 8 p.m. the second Thursday of every month at Post Home, Spring Street, Bellefonte. Bellefonte Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1600 Ladies Auxiliary meets at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of every month at Post Home, Spring Street, Bellefonte. Better Breathers Support Group meets at 2 p.m. the third Thursday every month at HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, 550 E. College Ave., Pleasant Gap. Call James Williamson, respiratory manager, at (814) 359-3421. Better Breathers is affiliated with the American Lung Association. Business Networking International meets at 7 a.m. Thursdays at Celebration Hall, 2280 Commercial Blvd., State College. Members share ideas, contacts and business referrals. Fee is $10 for room and breakfast. Call Kelly Swisher at (814) 280-1656. Boy Scouts of America BSA Troop 66 meets from 7-8 p.m. every Tuesday at Pleasant Gap United Methodist Church, 179 S. Main St., Pleasant Gap. Email Scoutmaster Bill Weaver at standinten@aol.com. Brain Injury Support Group meets at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month at HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, 550 E. College Ave., Pleasant Gap. Call Sharon Poorman, nurse manager, at (814) 359-3421. There will be no meetings in January and February. Breast Cancer Support Group meets from 5:30-7 p.m. the first Monday of every month in the ground floor conference rooms, Mount Nittany Medical Center, 1800 E. Park Ave., State College. If the first Monday of the month is a holiday, the meeting will be held on the second Monday of the month. Call Cheri at (814) 2317005. The Caregivers Support Group of the Cancer Survivors’ Association meets at 10:30 a.m. the first Monday of the month in Conference Room 6, Mount Nittany Medical Center, 1800 E. Park Ave., State College. Catholic Daughters of the Americas social begins at 6:30 p.m. and meets at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of every month at St. John’s Catholic School auditorium, 134 E. Bishop St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-7730 or email jmoest@yahoo.com.
Central Pennsylvania Holistic Wellness Group will meet to share and learn about many methods and techniques to support a holistic, homeopathic and spiritual lifestyle from 6:30-8 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at the Inspired Holistic Wellness, 107 S. Spring St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 883-0957 or visit www. meetup.com/central-pa-holistic-wellnessgroup. The Centre County Down Syndrome Society meets from 7-9 p.m. on the second Thursday of the month in the offices at 111 Sowers St., Suite 504, in State College. Email ccdssociety@gmail. com or visit www.centrecountydownsyndrome.org. Centre County Greens meets at 7:15 p.m. the first Monday of every month at Webster’s Bookstore & Café, 133 E. Beaver Ave., State College. Centre County Real Estate Investment Club meets from 7-9 p.m. the third Thursday of every month at RE/MAX Centre Realty, 1375 Martin St., State College. Call (814) 280-5839 or email len@ decarmine.com. Visit www.centrecountyreiclub.org. Centre Hall Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month and at 7 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of the month at Centre Hall Lions Club Building, 153 E. Church St., Centre Hall. Centre Line Riders — ABATE of Pennsylvania, Chapter 18 meets at noon the third Saturday of each month at the Centre Hall American Legion, 2928 Penns Valley Pike, Centre Hall. Centre Pieces Quilt Guild meets from 7-9 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month (March through December) at the Mount Nittany Middle School Cafeteria, 656 Brandywine Drive, State College. Visit www.centrepiecesguild.org or call (814) 237-6009. Centre Region Model Investment Club meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second Monday of the month at the Mazza Room, South Hills Business School, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Call (814) 234-8775 or email cr20mic@aol.com. The Centre Region Wargaming and Miniatures Group will meet each week. Meeting times and place changes each week. Join the website to become active: http://www.meetup.com/CentreRegion-Wargaming-and-Miniatures-Group/. The Compassionate Friends Group meets from 7-8:30 p.m. the second Monday of each month at New Hope, 1089 E. College Ave., Bellefonte. TCF is a national non-profit support organization offering understanding, friendship and hope to families following the death of a child of any age, from any cause. Contact Peg Herbstritt at (814) 574-5997 or email at mah10@comcast.net. FHA Center for Weight Management and Nutrition hosts a bariatric surgery support group from 6-7 p.m. the third Thursday of each month in Classroom 4, Lewistown Hospital, 400 Highland Ave., Lewistown. Sessions are moderated by Virginia M. Wray, DO, CNSP. Call (717) 242-7099 or visit www.myfamilyhealthassociates. com. Girls of Bald Eagle Area High School Class of 1961 meets at 11:30 a.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Mt. Valley Diner, 850 S. Eagle Valley Road, Wingate. Call (814) 355-3686. Halfmoon Garden Club meets at 1 p.m. the first Thursday of the month. Membership is open to Halfmoon Township residents. Contact Barbara Fleischer by phone at (814) 693-0188 or by email at barb.fleischer@gmail.com; or contact Lori Clayton by phone at (814) 692-8077 or by email at lafc30@gmail.com. Halfmoon Grange No. 290 meets at 7:30 p.m. the first Monday of every month at the Grange Hall in Centennia. Call Diane at (814) 692-4580. Hearing Loss Association of America meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month at Foxdale, 500 E. Marylyn Ave., State College. Learn the latest technology available for hearing loss. Heart Failure Support Group will meet at 4 p.m. the fourth Monday of every month at HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, 550 E. College Ave., Pleasant Gap. Call Traci Curtorillo, nurse manager, at (814) 359-3421. Heritage Museum Board meets at 7 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the Boalsburg Municipal Building, Main Street, Boalsburg. Call Dr. Pete Ferretti at (814) 574-0939 or email par2@ psu.edu. I.O.O.F. Centre Lodge #153 meets at 7:30 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at I.O.O.F. Lodge Hall, 756 N. Main St., Pleasant Gap. Junior Rockhounds meets at 5 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month in Room 121, Earth and Engineering Sciences Building, University Park. Call (814) 867-6263 or visit www.nittanymineral.org. Keystone Guild of the Watchmakers Association of Pa. meets at 1 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at Bull Pen Restaurant, Washington Avenue at First Street, Tyrone. Call George at (814) 238-1668. Ladies Grief Support Group meets at 2 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesday at Living Faith Church, 113 Sunset Acres, Milesburg. Call Hazel at (814) 387-4952. Marion Grange 223 meets at 7 p.m. the second Thursday of every month at the Jacksonville Grange Hall. For more information, call Brenda at (814) 383-2796. The Milesburg Lions Club meets 7 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of every month at Milesburg Center across from UniMart. MOPS, Mothers of Preschoolers, sponsored by New Hope Church, is designed to nurture every mother with children from pregnancy through kindergarten and meets the first and third Thursday of each month at The State College Evangelical Free Church, 1243 Blue Course Drive, State College. Child care is provided for each monthly meeting. Visit www.statecollegemops. com. Mount Nittany Health’s Diabetes Network diabetes support group meets from 10:15-11:15 a.m. the second Wednesday of every month at the Centre Region Senior Center, 131 S. Fraser St., No. 1, State College. Call Carol Clitherow at (814) 231-3076 or visit www.mountnittany.org/diabetes. Multiple Sclerosis Support Group meets at 6 p.m. every third Tuesday at HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Outpatient Entrance, 550 E. College Ave., Pleasant Gap. The support group is affiliated with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Harrisburg office. Call Steve Uberti at (814) 359-3421. National Alliance on Mental Illness meets at 7 p.m. every second Tuesday at South Hills School, State College. June is the last meeting of the summer. Meetings resume in September. Call Dave (814) 238-1983. The Neuropathy Support Group of Central Pennsylvania will meet at 2 p.m. the fourth Sunday at the Mount Nittany Medical Center, Conference Room 3, 1800 E. Park Ave., State College. Call David Brown at (814) 531-1024. Nittany Knights Barbershop Chorus meets at 7:15 p.m. every Monday at South Hills School, State College. Men who like to sing are welcome. Visit www.nittanyknights.org or call Bill (814) 3553557. Nittany Valley Model Railroad Club meets at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at Old Gregg School, Room 1A, 106 School St., Spring Mills. Call Fred at (814) 422-7667. Nittany Mineral Society will hold a social at 6:30 p.m. and
meet at 7:30 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month in Room 116, Auditorium of the Earth and Engineering Sciences Building, University Park. Call (814) 867-6263 or visit www.nittanymineral. org. Nittany Valley Woodturners meet from 7-9 p.m. every first Thursday in the woodworking shop of State College Area High School, South Building, 650 Westerly Parkway, State College. Email reg@marketvaluesolutions.com or visit www.visitnittany valleywoodturners.org. The Nittany Valley Writers Network meets for an early-risers breakfast at 7 a.m. every third Wednesday at The Waffle Shop, 1610 W. College Ave., State College. The Nittany Valley Writers Network meets from 7-8:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Old Gregg School Community and Recreation Center meets at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of every month in Room 106, 106 School St., Spring Mills. Call (814) 422-8582, email ogsrobin@ gmail.com or visit www.oldgreggschool.org. Parent Support Group for Children With Eating Disorders meets from 7-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month in Conference Room 3, Mount Nittany Medical Center, 1800 E. Park Ave., State College. Call Kristie Kaufman at (814) 466-7921. Penns Valley Grange No. 158 meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Thursday of every month in Grange Hall, Railroad Street, Spring Mills. Pleasant Gap Rotary Club meets at 6 p.m. every Thursday at The Oaks, 220 Rachel Drive, Pleasant Gap. Reiki Group will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at Inspired Holistic Wellness, 107 S. Spring St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 883-0957, email beth@inspiredholisticwellness. com, or visit www.inspiredholisticwellness.com. RSVP is appreciated. The Romans 12:2 Group meets from 7-8:30 p.m. Mondays at 204 W. High St., Bellefonte. The group is an addictions breakaway program sponsored by Lifegate Baptist Church, and is open to all who are suffering from any form of addiction as well as to family members that may be affected by the addict’s behavior. Call (814) 353-1942. Sacred Harp Singing meets from 7-8:30 a.m. the second and fourth Monday at the University Mennonite Church, 1606 Norma St., State College. Visit www.statecollegesacredharp. com. The Snow Shoe Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the first and fourth Wednesday of every month at the Moshannon Community Center, Route 144, Snow Shoe. Soroptimist International of Centre County meet at 6 p.m. the first Monday of the month at the Atherton Hotel, 125 S. Atherton St., State College. Call (814) 234-0658 or email hjlaw11@aol. com. State College Area High School Class of ’65 meets for brunch at 10:30 a.m. the second Wednesday of each month at Way’s Fruit Market, 2355 Halfmoon Valley Road, Port Matilda. State College Downtown Rotary Club meets at noon on Thursdays at Damon’s, 1031 E. College Ave., State College. State College Elks Lodge meets at 7:30 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at Mountain View Country Club, 100 Elks Club Road, Boalsburg. State College Lions Club meets at 6:15 p.m. the first and third Thursday of the month at Damon’s, 1031 E. College Ave., State College. State College Rotary Club meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Nittany Lion Inn, Faculty Staff Lounge, 200 W. Park Ave., University Park. State College Sunrise Rotary Club meets at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays at Hotel State College, 106 S. Allen St., State College, above The Corner Room. State College Weavers Guild meets from 7:30-9 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month, September through May. Meetings are held in members’ homes. Refreshments are served at 7 p.m. For meeting location, visit www.statecollege weaversguild.weebly. com or call (814) 234-7344. Support Group for Family & Friends of Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors sponsored by The Centre County Women’s Resource Center meets from 5:30-7 p.m. Mondays. Call (814) 2375220 ext. 247, email edteam@ccwrc.org or visit www.ccwrc.org. Stroke Support Group meets at 4 p.m. the last Tuesday of every month at HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, 550 E. College Ave., Pleasant Gap. There will be no meeting in August and December. Call Caroline Salva-Romero, speech therapy manager, or Linda Meyer, speech-language pathologist, at (814) 359-3421. The Survivors’ Support Group of the Cancer Survivors’ Association meets at 11:30 a.m. the third Monday of the month in Conference Room 3, Mount Nittany Medical Center, 1800 E. Park Ave., State College. TOPS, Take Off Pounds Sensibly, will meet at 6:20 p.m. every Tuesday at the American Legion, 2928 Penns Valley Pike, Centre Hall. Weigh-in will be held from 5:30-6:20 p.m. Call Aurelia Confer at (814) 574-1747. TOPS, Take Off Pounds Sensibly, PA 473 support group meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the conference room of Windsong Apartments at Brookline, 1950 Cliffside Drive, State College. Call Jane Wettstone at (814) 404-1689. TRIAD, a public safety group for senior citizens, meets each second Thursday in various locations. Call Helen Evans at (814) 237-8932. Trout Unlimited, a non-profit conservation organization, meets at 7:30 p.m. every first Thursday at Comfort Suites Hotel, 132 Village Drive, State College. Walker Grange #2007 meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Walker Township Building, 816 Nittany Valley Drive, Bellefonte. Weight Loss Challenge meets at 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Park Forest Baptist Church, 3030 Carnegie Drive, State College. The class also meets at 7 p.m. Thursdays at the Faith Baptist Church, 647 Valley Vista Drive, State College. Membership fee is $35. Call Darlene Foster at (814) 238-8739 or email at rdf55@ verizon.net. WiNGs, the Women’s Network Group for women entrepreneurs, has a social from 8-8:30 a.m. and meets from 8:3010:30 a.m., the third Wednesday of every month at the Patton Township conference room, 100 Patton Plaza, State College. Email membership@wngs.org or call (814) 360-1063. Women’s Welcome Club of State College meets at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of every month at Oakwood Presbyterian Church, 1865 Waddle Road, State College. Visit www.womens welcomeclub.org or email wwcmembership@ gmail.com. Young at Hearts Club meets for Red Pin bowling at 1 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of the month at the Millheim Lanes, Main Street, Millheim. A yearly $5 donation is requested to join the club. — Compiled by Gazette staff
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PSU appoints Krebs as new director of EEB Hub From Gazette staff reports UNIVERSITY PARK — Martha Krebs, executive director of strategic initiatives at the University of California at Davis Office of Research, has been appointed senior scientist in Penn State’s College of Engineering and principal investigator and director of the Energy Efficient Buildings (EEB) Hub at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The EEB Hub is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy with a goal to reduce energy use in commercial buildings. Major activity areas include development and deployment of energy efficient building systems and control technologies, building energy modeling and simulation, and economic and business analytics, among others. “Martha brings a dynamic range of superior academic, public and private-sector credentials to the EEB Hub, including her tenure as assistant secretary at the Department of Energy,” said Rod Erickson, Penn State president. “Her wide range of energy research experience, such as her oversight of research and development at the California Energy Commission, highly complement the broad and ambitious mission of the EEB Hub, and we look forward to her visionary leadership contributions.” Krebs has taken the reins from Laurie Actman, who has resumed her duties as
EEB Hub deputy director after serving as interim director since Aug. 1 and playing a critical role during the leadership transition period. “We are indebted to Laurie and her senior colleagues for the marvelous job they have done in guidMARTHA KREBS ing the Hub over the last several months,” said Neil Sharkey, Penn State’s interim vice president for research. Regarding her appointment, Krebs said, “It is a great honor to have the opportunity to lead DOE’s Energy Efficient Buildings Hub at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Hub has made significant contributions that will lead to new technologies and tools to increase the efficiency of existing buildings across the nation and to build a clean energy future for the U.S.” Krebs was selected after an exhaustive search by the executive search firm Storbeck-Pimentel. The search committee included representatives from major EEB Hub partner organizations and was chaired by Joseph Bordogna of the University of Pennsylvania, who also is a former chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation. In her most recent position, Krebs has
worked with UC Davis faculty and staff to leverage and expand research programs through federal, state and private partnerships. In that role she also has served as science adviser for the California Energy Commission. Before joining UC Davis, she was the Commission’s deputy executive director for research and development (R&D). There she also was responsible for its Public Interest Energy Research program, which conducts research that seeks to improve the quality of life for California citizens through the development of environmentally sound, reliable and affordable energy technologies. Prior to coming to the Energy Commission, Krebs was president of Science Strategies, an analysis and consulting firm that works with public and private organizations to identify critical issues and opportunities in science and technology. Earlier, she was an associate vice chancellor for research at the University of California at Los Angeles. She arrived at UCLA as the founding director of the California NanoSystems Institute, charged with establishing its initial leadership, administration and strategic direction. Krebs also was a senior fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis, where she led studies in R&D management, planning and budgeting. From 1993 to 2000, Krebs served as assistant secretary and director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy, responsible for the basic research program
that supports the department’s energy, environmental and national security missions. She also advised the Secretary of Energy on the department’s R&D portfolio and the institutional health of its National Laboratories. In addition, she served on the National Science and Technology Council’s Interagency Committee on Science and its Committee on the Environment. From 1983 to 1993, Krebs served as an associate director for planning and development at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she was responsible for strategic planning for research and facilities, technology transfer, and science education and outreach. From 1977 to 1983, she served on the House Committee on Science first as a professional staff member and then as subcommittee staff director, responsible for authorizing the department’s non-nuclear energy technologies and energy science programs. Krebs received her bachelor’s degree and doctorate in physics from the Catholic University of America. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of Women in Science. She has served on numerous National Research Council boards and committees. She is also a trustee of the Institute for Defense Analyses.
Class presents marketing plans for Arts Fest events From Gazette staff reports UNIVERSITY PARK — Several groups of Penn State Smeal College of Business undergraduates put their marketing creativity to work this semester developing marketing plans for BookFestPA, a literary event of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts (CPFA), and First Night, a CPFA-sponsored New Year’s Eve celebration. Associate professor of marketing Meg Meloy incorporated a real-world client into the project for her “Marketing 330: Consumer Behavior” class to enhance the students’ experiences. “The students always benefit from taking the concepts learned in class and apply-
ing them in actual business context where there are more moving pieces to consider and greater uncertainty,” said Meloy. “It makes them think more flexibly about cause and effect.” Rick Bryant, executive director of the CPFA, came to the students in one section of Meloy’s class and asked them to put together ideas to increase attendance at both BookFestPA and First Night. “Each team was tasked with doing a marketing plan for one of the events, while staying within a limited budget,” said Bryant. “My background isn’t in marketing, so I’m always happy to hear new ideas.” The teams all met with Bryant individually to learn more about the events and to
do some preliminary brainstorming. Then, they developed integrated plans with ideas ranging from expanded events to improved social media usage and advertising tactics. “The students often overlook marketing career opportunities with small businesses and nonprofit organizations. In some ways, these are the businesses that require greater marketing creativity and resilience because the budgets are small,” explained Meloy. “This exercise tests their problem solving and marketing skills so they can more fully appreciate the role effective marketing can play. I am so grateful to the organization for giving us permission to use them
as our learning incubator.” Students delivered final presentations to Meloy and Bryant in class earlier this month. “The presentations really reinforced a lot of our current ideas, and often it’s the simple ideas that work the best, like improving signage,” Bryant said. “I do plan to implement some of their ideas.” Another section of Meloy’s class worked with State College Framing Co. and Gallery. Meloy picks a new community client to work with each year, and in the past has worked with the Mid-State Literary Council, Girls on the Run, the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store, Discovery Space of Central Pennsylvania and others.
Gambone, Songer and Associates open office in Tyrone From Gazette staff reports
TYRONE — Gambone, Songer and Associates Realty of State College recently announced the opening of a branch
office in Tyrone at 5523 E. Pleasant Valley Blvd., Suite 1. The agency is a member in both the Allegheny Highland Association of Realtors and the Centre County Association
of Realtors. The new branch office will allow their Blair County clients the convenience of an office in close proximity, and it will have two agents available to meet the needs of the public. These agents are residents of the local community of Tyrone and bring with them years of real estate experience as well as a knowledge of the local area. The company is excited to be of service to the people of Blair County and to be able to offer valuable doublemarketing exposure to its clients. For more information about the new Tyrone office, call (814) 682-7565 or contact the State College office at (814) 237-5384.
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PICTURED AT THE recent ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Gambone, Songer and Associates realty office are, left to right: Cathy Igou and Lori Eckert of the Tyrone Chamber of Commerce, Mary Ann Scordo and Lora Larimer of Gambone, Songer and Associates, Appleton, Wisconsin • Minneapolis, Minnesota • Thrivent.com • 800-THRIVENT (8 27790C N6-13• Thrivent.com • 800-THRIVENT (800-847-4836) 684954 Appleton, Wisconsin • Minneapolis, Minnesota Tommy Songer and Chuck Gambone, owners of the firm, State Rep. Jerry Stern, R-Martinsburg, and Rose Black of the Tyrone Chamber.
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DeCember 26, 2013-January 1, 2014
DEED TRANSFERS The following property transactions were compiled from information provided by the Centre County Recorder of Deeds, Joseph Davidson. The Gazette is not responsible for typographical errors. The published information is believed to be accurate; however, the Gazette neither warrants nor accepts any liability or responsibility for inaccurate information.
RECORDED DEC. 2-6, 2013 BELLEFONTE
Robert L. McDowell Jr. estate and Dennis L. McDowell executor to Bonnie J. Rossman and Barbara J. Bair, 631 E. Burnside St., Bellefonte, $122,000. Sandra Silknitter to Derek G. Hart, 222 Hale Lane, Bellefonte, $25,000. Robert A. Zaccaria Jr. and Wendy M. Zaccaria to LEDJ LLC, 334 S. Spring St., Bellefonte, $150,000.
BENNER TOWNSHIP
Vicki J. Aiken, Vicki J. Litzinger and Patrick Litzinger to Vicki J. Litzinger and Patrick Litzinger, 591 Valley View Road, Bellefonte, $1. East End Partnership, Ronald D. Mattern, Allen Rex Mattern by agent and Danial L. Mattern by agent to Nancy R. Keser, 122 Midway Drive, Bellefonte, $298,982.61. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to Jessica Marie Holland, 127 Willow Bend Drive, Bellefonte, $236,700.
BOGGS TOWNSHIP
Glenn D. Ehrlich and Amy L. Ramautar to Glenn D. Ehrlich, 146 Sunset Acres, Bellefonte, $1.
COLLEGE TOWNSHIP
Brandalls Investments LP to Paul Gotzel and Siobahn Gotzel, 160 Matilda Ave., State College, $274,106. John M. Corneal, Jorene S. Proper and S&A Homes Inc. to Lance D. Wood and Amber L. Wood, 601 Brandywine Lane, State College, $127,500. Charlene G. Morett to Stephen J. Miska and Jennifer Seller Miska, 138 Ashbury Lane, State College, $325,000. Mitzi Souchak Revocable Trust and Mitzi Souchak trustee to Keith P. Muhlbauer and Christy L. Muhlbauer, 1160 Shamrock Ave., State College, $290.000.
FERGUSON TOWNSHIP
Patricia A. Byrne to Maria Fiori and Stacey L. Gleeson, 151 Crescent Court, State College, $615,000. Ferguson Township, Clifton A. Hatch, Norma G. Hatch, Cellco Partnership and Verizon Wireless to Ferguson Township, Clifton A. Hatch, Norma G. Hatch, Cellco Partnership and Verizon Wireless. KGP Village Venture to H&K Property Investments LLC, 494 Meckley Road, State College, $125,000. Thomas R. Knepp, Thomas R. Knepp esquire and Ralepp Associates to Pennsylvania CVS Pharmacy LLC, $1.
Pennsylvania CVS Pharmacy LLC to Team Blue State College Real Estate LLC, 2601 Gateway Drive Suite 325, State College, $600,000. Elizabeth L. Pierce to Matthew A. McCartin and Suzanne M. Laforge, 328 Madison St., State College, $205,000. James Kevin Plourde and Carrie Ann Plourde to David G. Pribulka and Stacy L. Pribulka, 115 Ramblewood Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, $215,000. Stone Valley Construction Inc. to H&K Property Investments LLC, 498 Meckley Road, State College, $275,000. Alice L. Wedlake estate and Timothy Charles Wedlake executor to Alice Wedlake Trust, Timothy Charles Wedlake co-trustee and David Alan Wedlake co-trustee, 4817 W. Whitehall Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, $1.
Chastity L. Long, Chastity L. King and Steven G. King to Vladimir G. Sidorick and Rachelle A. Sidorick, 608 Pauline St., Philipsburg, $128,700.
POTTER TOWNSHIP
Roland E. Shelton to Royer Real Estate LLC, 154 Par Sonics Road, Centre Hall, $300,000. Ralph E. Young Sr. by agent to Emily V. Stecko, 124 Williams St. Extension, Centre Hall, $172,000.
RUSH TOWNSHIP
King Coal Sales Inc. to Crown Prince Investments LLC, 602 N. Centre St., Philipsburg, $29,900.
SNOW SHOE TOWNSHIP
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP
James A. Bialcak and Bonnie L. Bialcak to Gregory W. Butler and Laurie Butler, 227 Bald Eagle Forest Road, Blanchard, $175,000. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. to Cletus D. Mack and Dorothy A. Mack, 53 Main St. Exit, Beech Creek, $21,000.
PATTON TOWNSHIP
Charles L. Campbell and Susan K. Campbell to Paul George and Eva B. George, 301 Christopher Lane, State College, $331,000. Wilburn K. Covington Sr. by attorney to C&R Real Estate Partners, 422 Canterbury Lane, State College, $178,000. Anthony C. Detato and Mary E. Detato to David P. Pollock and Anne T. Pollock, 131B Alma Mater Court, State College, $208,000. Harry H. Dinsmore Jr., Vicki V. Dinsmore and Vicki A. Vogtman to Nicholas A. Wavers and Sandra K. Wavers, 163 Brothers Court, Port Matilda, $485,000. Jodi L. Grove by sheriff to US Bank, 105 White Birch Road, Port Matilda, $7,560.78. Kaungha Hsieh, Feng Cheng and Kaungha-Hua Hsieh to Todd J. Hawbaker, 724 Cornwall Road, State College, $205,500. Matthew J. Leroy and Meredith Leroy to Katelin G. Yarnell and Terry D. Yarnell, 740 Galen Drive, State College, $180,900. Jerry H. McCullough and Barbara G. McCullough to Chester D. Hughes and Marie E. Hughes, 188 Tradition Drive, State College, $330,000. Virginia G. White estate, Susan E. Niezelski co-executor and Nancy K. Hostetler co-executor to Michael A. Depasquale and Oonagh C. Depasquale, 15 N. Barkway Lane, State College, $303,000.
PHILIPSBURG BOROUGH
Robert C. Bell and Corri S. Redburn to Lori Rodriguez, 215 N. Centre St., Philipsburg, $62,000. Federal National Mortgage Association and Fannie Mae to Justin Teats, 505 Philips St., Philipsburg, $118,000.
William A. Hepner and Caroline M. Hepner to Robert C. Askins and Marian C. Askins, 1944 Clarence Road, Clarence, $47,900.
SPRING TOWNSHIP
Paul T. Berkobin to K-Prop 1 LLC, 178 1st Ave., State College, $170,000. Robert L. Callahan by sheriff, Beth A. Callahan by sheriff, Robert Callahan by sheriff and Beth Callahan by sheriff to US Bank, 1222 Doruss Drive, Bellefonte, $125,000. Mark T. Traband and Annette C. Traband to Joshua R. Reese and Stephanie A. Reese, 208 Melanie Lane, Pleasant Gap, $164,500. Jennie Mae Traxler estate and Timothy Traxler administer to M. Donald Shawver, 121 Oak St., Pleasant Gap, $92,500.
STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH
Joseph H. Delauter Sr. and Sandra L. Delauter to 217 Park Associates LLC, 217 W. Park Ave., State College, $292,500. Bruce L. Firster and Josette M. Firster to Jamie L. Streicher, 1020 N. Atherton St., State College, $102,375. Richard D. Fitzgerald and Carol S. Fitzgerald to Michael W. Labarge and Anita C. Labarge, 1041 Crabapple Tree, $250,000.
WALKER TOWNSHIP
First Line Development Two Inc. and S&A Homes Inc. to Patrick R. Burke and Hanna L. Burke, 224 Archer’s Glen Circle, Bellefonte, $256,281. Julie A. Kowalski and Ray J. Snyder to Julie A. Kowalski, 743 Forest Ave., Bellefonte, $10.
WORTH TOWNSHIP
Nancy L. Robison to Nancy L. Robison, 330 Flat Rock Road, Port Matilda, $1. Joan Wallace-Woodard to Angela R. Wojtaszek and Piney Walk, 220 Woodward Lane, Port Matilda, $344,000. — Compiled by Gazette staff
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