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Features 26 / Perfect Fit It took some time, but Penn State has finally become a home for Division I ice hockey, and the pieces appear in place for a bright future • by Amy King

34 / Where to Go? Residents of two mobile-home parks that are scheduled to close in 2013 find limited housing options • by Tracey M. Dooms

44 / To the Moon and Back Lunar Lion team sets its sights on not only a moon landing but also being a leader in the new space industry • by Lori Wilson

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letter from the editor

A Festivus New Year Before looking ahead, feel free to get a few things off your chest Assuming the Mayan calendar was wrong and the world didn’t end on December 21 (which was right around the time we went to press with this issue), Happy New Year and welcome to 2013!

Of course, we may have just gone off the “fiscal cliff,” so while we made it to 2013, we could be off to a rocky beginning to the new year. Actually, 2012, both locally and nationally, wasn’t exactly a smooth year either, so it seems we could all use a fresh start.

But before we can do that, I think it’s necessary to take a tradition from that famous Seinfeldian holiday Festivus and have an “airing of grievances” that will hopefully clear the air and make everyone feel better. Here are just a few of mine; feel free to air your own grievances to people who have disappointed you over the past year.

To NCAA president Mark Emmert: Well, we can’t really print what I’d like to write about you but we feel that you and Franco Harris should go at it in a Feats of Strength contest — provided you don’t run away beforehand.

To President Obama and members of Congress: All of you, regardless of party affiliation, have messed up things a great deal for all of us.

Your punishment is to take the Festivus aluminum pole, stick it outside in freezing temperatures for a few days, then stick your tongues on it, joining Flick from A Christmas Story. We’re not calling the fire department to help set you free until you work everything out.

To Bill O’Brien: Um, well, we’ll get back to you. You had to have done something that we didn’t like (after all, nobody’s perfect), we just can’t think of anything. So for now, just keep doing what you’re doing.

To PSY: Obviously, we didn’t appreciate some of the anti-American lyrics you sang several years ago. But we’re also getting tired of the whole “Gangnam” dance, so just stop it or go on a USO tour so you can personally meet members of our military.

To Steven Spielberg: We feel you took the easy way out with your latest film — anybody can do a movie about Abraham Lincoln. He’s only the most revered President in our nation’s history.

Your challenge is to make a film about Lincoln’s predecessor and the only President to come from Pennsylvania, James Buchanan, who also happens to be one of the least-popular Presidents of all-time.

Finally, to the people of Happy Valley: We obviously don’t have any grievances with you — far from it — but we just want to take this opportunity to write that — especially given the past 14 months — we think everyone deserves the healthiest and happiest New Year ever! Happy New Year from all of us at Town&Gown!

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Charis Lin (second from left) won the Nittany Valley Symphony’s Ann Keller Young Soloist Competition. She’s pictured with (from left) judge Joanne Feldman, Carol Lyon (Lin’s teacher), and symphony director and conductor Michael Jinbo.

NVS holds annual young soloist competition The Nittany Valley Symphony held its annual Ann Keller Young Soloist Competition, and first place went to cellist Charis Lin with second place going to violinist Juliette Greer.

Lin is a senior at State College Area High School and has played the cello for more than 10 years.

For the competition she played Edward Elgar’s Concerto in e minor, Mvt. II. She will perform the piece with the Nittany Valley Symphony at its concert January 20 at the State High South Building Auditorium.

Carol Lyon, who is Lin’s teacher, said of Lin, “She is an absolutely wonderful student! Besides her natural affinity for the cello and her keen musical instincts, she is very disciplined and hard working, always applying through diligent practice what she has learned in her lessons.”

Greer is a freshman at State High and is coconcertmistress of Central PA Youth Orchestra. She also was named the PA winner in the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) Competitions.

Hillel receives national award Penn State Hillel received the Philip H. and Susan Rudd Cohen Campus of Excellence Award at the 2012 Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly.

The Campus of Excellence Awards honor local Hillels and their achievements in empowering student leadership, engagement, and education.

One award is given to a small campus and one to a large campus. Penn State Hillel won the largecampus award for having shown “a commitment to engaging students on every level while also deepening their student leadership. Penn State Hillel has shown unique leadership during times of challenge and adversity, and proven success.”

Elliott Weinstein, chairman of the Penn State Hillel board of directors, said, “The hard work of our students and staff has now been nationally recognized. The entire board of directors, including myself, is so proud of the work these students and professionals do every day, and we congratulate everyone involved.”

PSU football team recognized for graduation rates The American Football Coaches Association has recognized the Penn State football program for the team’s Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for the 22nd time in the AFCA’s annual survey.

Penn State was among 18 institutions that earned special recognition from the AFCA for having a graduation rate of 90 percent or higher. The Nittany Lions earned a program-record 91 percent GSR in the most recent data.

The 91 percent GSR was higher than the 68 percent Football Bowl Subdivision average and was second to Northwestern among Big Ten schools.

Penn State’s GSR was tied for seventh among all 120 FBS teams. T&G

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People in the

Community Penni Fishbaine

In early December, Penni Fishbaine was elected president of the State College Area school board. She replaced Ann McGlaughlin, who held the position since January 2010.

Fishbaine has served on the board since 2009. She has lived in the State College area for 27 years, and she has been active in several groups.

She and her husband, Steve, have a son, Josh (27), and a daughter, Arielle (21), both of whom graduated from State High.

“As a board, we are committed to improving learning experiences and preparing students for lifelong learning,” Fishbaine says. “We will be engaging our community in conversations to envision and design facilities that support our educational program, maximize flexible and efficient learning spaces while remaining fiscally

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Together, we will find solutions that our community will support.”

Maggie Harding

Penn State women’s volleyball player Maggie Harding of State College won the Elite 89 award for the 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship. The award recognizes “the true essence of the student-athlete by honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers.”

The award is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA’s championships.

Harding, a redshirt sophomore, is majoring in food science and had a 4.0 GPA heading into the women’s volleyball championship. She is a twotime academic All-Big Ten selection and was the 2011 Big Ten Sportsmanship honoree for the Lions.

J. Lloyd Huck

J. Lloyd Huck, who, along with his wife, Dorothy, helped Penn State become a pioneer in the life sciences, died in early December at the age of 90.

Huck graduated from Penn State in 1943 and would become chairman of the board of the pharmaceutical firm Merck & Company. He also became chairman of Penn State’s board of trustees. He and his wife established endowments in fields ranging from molecular biology to nutrition, leading to the creating of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.

Huck was among the first to recognize the increasingly important role that philanthropy would play in public higher education. He led one of Penn State’s earliest private fundraising efforts in the 1980s and was a member of the steering committee for the Grand Destiny campaign.

“Lloyd never lost his passion for learning or his passion for Penn State,” Rodney Kirsch, Penn State’s senior vice president for development and alumni relations, said in a released statement. “He was a man of great intellect and was universally respected by all who came to know him. Yet he was modest about the enormous impact he had on Penn State’s advancement.” T&G

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Q&A with Liz Wainright, Easter Seals Central PA development specialist Easter Seals Central Pennsylvania serves more than 2,600 children and adults with disabilities and developmental delays in the region. For more than a year now, Liz Wainright has taken on the role of development specialist in State College for Easter Seals Central PA. To help raise funds and awareness for the cause, she helped to organize a benefit concert that would bring in supporters from all over the community. Last year’s Heart of Gold concert that benefitted Easter Seals and the State Theatre was such a success that the two organizations are putting on another event this month. BeCAUSE the Night: A Celebration of Women in Rock will be held January 26 at the State Theatre. It will mostly feature local women musicians and singers such as Pure Cane Sugar and Miss Melanie and the Valley Rats.

Wainright took some time to talk about Easter Seals and the benefit show.

T&G: How did you get started with Easter Seals?

Wainright: After having lived in State College for two years, I felt ready to take on a new challenge. Having a background in campaigns

and event planning, development at a nonprofit like Easter Seals was a natural fit.

T&G: How did you come up with the theme for this year’s benefit concert?

Wainright: Coming off the success of last year’s Heart of Gold concert, Dr. Roy Love, president of the State Theatre, and local musician Jason McIntyre came to us in September to partner with them again. They had discussed the idea to focus this year’s concert on the women of rock. After a little deliberation, we came up with the name BeCAUSE the Night: A Celebration of Women in Rock.

T&G: How do you measure the success of your benefits?

Wainright: First on the list — we want to sell out the theater. A concert like BeCAUSE the Night gets a lot of its groove from the audience and their unique energy that you can only find at events like this. Also, the State Theatre and Easter Seals are hoping to raise much-needed funds.

As nonprofits, we rely upon the generosity and support of people in the State College community to help us further our missions.

T&G: What do you enjoy most about hosting benefit events?

Wainright: Without a doubt, it’s the energy and the people. The best part of my job is that after months of preparation, you get to see so many people have a wonderful time at your event.

T&G: Would you say State College is a good community for raising awareness about good causes such as Easter Seals?

Wainright: Having lived in many different cities, I can say that the State College community is special. They enthusiastically give of their time and money to many worthy causes. I’m so proud that our two organizations can offer a night of fun and music like this to this town. T&G

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My Coal Journey

What the Stories Look Like

ART & LIFE: Where they intersect

Worthy of Winning

Speaker: Kathy Mattea, Grammy-winning singer Date: January 31, 2013 Location: President’s Hall, The Penn Stater

Speaker: Christopher Staley, Professor of Ceramic Arts at the Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Arts; 2012-13 Penn State Laureate Date: February 5, 2013 Location: President’s Hall, The Penn Stater

The Trauma Paradox: Lessons of Adversity and Transformation

Speaker: Charles Figley, Paul Henry Kurzweg Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health and School of Social Work Professor at Tulane University Date: March 19, 2013 Location: President’s Hall, The Penn Stater

Speaker: Chip Kidd, Graphic Designer for Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Date: April 4, 2013 Location: President’s Hall, The Penn Stater

Speaker: Beverly McIver, Suntrust Endowed Chair Professor of Art at North Carolina Central University Date: April 19, 2013 Location: President’s Hall, The Penn Stater *This Forum will be preceded by a screening of Raising Renee, the HBO documentary about Ms. McIver’s decision to adapt her career and life to assist with her mentally disabled sister. The screening will be held at 7pm on April 18, 2013 at the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium

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2001 “Paving Paradise? I-99’s Effects” analyzed what the new highway would mean for Centre County. Commercial development was one of the areas where growth was expected. Robert Donaldson, then-director of the Centre County Planning Commission, said, “People don’t just move into an area because they build a new highway. New highways provide opportunities for business and industry, and then employment opportunities begin to draw new people in from beyond local communities.”

2009 With Barack Obama winning election a few months prior, “ Work Still to Be Done” featured how local leaders viewed America’s first African-American president in terms of fulfilling Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream.

“I want to see nothing more than for Obama to be successful,” Marcus Whitehurst, Penn State’s assistant vice president for educational equity, said. “He will be challenged, but the ultimate measure of him will be how he navigates through those challenges and hopefully moves the country in a positive direction.” T&G

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Building Hope

It Gets Better makes the leap from Internet to stage in national-local collaboration

By John Mark Rafacz

The It Gets Better Project has become an international Internet phenomenon by showing young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people the levels of happiness and potential their lives can reach if they just get through their challenging teen years.

Now, It Gets Better transforms into a nationally touring theatrical production coming to Penn State’s Eisenhower Auditorium February 7.

Upbeat, exciting, and funny with a narrative that includes moments of pain and pathos, the show is built on a collaboration among the It Gets Better Project, six members of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, and Speak Theater Arts, plus Penn State’s Center for the Performing Arts, University Choir, Cultural Conversations festival, LGBTA Student Resource Center, and others.

The visiting artists and local participants work together to build a performance responding to the issue of bullying. They imagine what “better” means for young people through stories, songs, dances, and multimedia.

With its unqualified support for all young people, It Gets Better creates and unites allies in solidarity against bullying and teen violence.

It Gets Better is offered in conjunction with Cultural Conversations, an annual visual, theater, and dance festival devoted to new works related to global and local diversity.

Susan Russell, an assistant professor in Penn State’s School of Theatre and creator of Cultural Conversations, is working with six Penn State students — two of them State College Area High School alumni — on short monologues to be performed in the show.

“No matter what frame you put a person in, we’re all the same. We all have essential commonalities. We all love, we all want, we all look for peace,” Russell says.

“This is our largest opportunity to have a show in Eisenhower,” she adds, “and be able to look at you and say, ‘We want the same things as you and deserve the same things as you.’ ”

What began as an Internet phenomenon, It Gets Better has become a theatrical production and it comes to Eisenhower Auditorium February 7.

Russell, who’s also an actress and playwright, delights in the opportunity to collaborate.

“It’s the most fun ever,” she says. “When you have artists come together to create something like this for the community, there’s nothing more exciting.”

It Gets Better also had a national songwriting competition. University Choir, conducted by Penn State associate professor of music Tony Leach, will perform the winning selection during the show along with other thematically related pop songs.

The content of It Gets Better is not suitable for young children. The material, which includes strong language, is the equivalent of a PG-13 film rating.

The participating Gay Men’s Chorus members, playwright Liesel Reinhart of Speak Theater Arts, and music/tour director Morten Kier are scheduled to be in residence at Penn State for a week of engagement activities beginning February 4.

Cultural Conversations features a variety of events February 4-9. The offerings, other than It Gets Better, take place at the Penn State Downtown Theatre Center in State College. T&G Sandra Zaremba and Richard Brown sponsor the performance. For more information or tickets, visit www.cpa.psu.edu or phone (814) 863-0255.

John Mark Rafacz is the editorial manager of the Center for the Performing Arts. Jennifer Pencek, Center for the Performing Arts associate editor, contributed to this article.

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Full Plates, Less Calories PSU professor spreads the word about her Volumetrics plan

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The Volumetrics diet developed by Penn State professor Dr. Barbara Rolls was recognized in 2012 as, among other things, the Best Weight Loss Diet, Easiest Diet to Follow, and Most Effective Diet.

We hear about them every day — on the news, in magazines, in conversation with friends.

Diets.

The word “diet” is rather intimidating.

That’s where Dr. Barbara Rolls, professor and Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State, steps in. She developed a diet that people can maintain without feeling hungry and deprived by fitting people’s favorite foods into their day.

The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet is different from the slew of diets that have been promoted to Americans for decades. Developed by Rolls, the diet can be easily maintained and should be fol-

lowed as more of a lifestyle rather than a “diet.”

“People think weight-loss diet and a healthy diet are two separate things,” Rolls says. “They come up with something that isn’t sustainable by cutting out whole food groups.”

Rolls is the author of more than 250 scientific articles and six books, including Thirst; The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan: Feel Full on Fewer Calories; The Volumetrics Eating Plan; and The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet, which was released in the spring of 2012. (The paperback version will be released January 8.)

The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet has more than 100 recipes. It’s different from Rolls’s other books in that it’s a 12-week plan with specific goals and weekly strategies, but the diet builds on the same basic idea from her previous books — eating a satisfying amount of foods that are lower in calorie density.

In 2012, The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet was named a Best Weight Loss Diet, Best Diet for Healthy Eating, and Easiest Diet to Follow

by US News & World Report. The Daily Beast named it the Most Effective Diet of 2012. In addition, Jenny Craig licenses the Volumetrics trademark to enhance the weight-loss program.

“I wanted to write a healthy-sensible diet book,” Rolls says. “Fad diets are really a setback to our field.”

Although fad diets help people get motivated, Rolls says that they are not good for our mental or physical health, and she calls them “very frustrating.”

“Being female, I was always very conscious of weight and weight concerns,” she says. Her mother, who was obese, also contributed to her interest in weight.

“Part of why I wanted to do a 12-week plan is that a lot of health professionals use my books,” Rolls says, “so it is how a health practitioner would deal with patients. … It’s an update, but the science is really evolving rapidly. Over 80 percent of the research in the book is new.”

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Although the concepts in the book are science-based, Rolls didn’t want to overwhelm her readers with science. Her book evaluates the science end of things and puts it into simple language that people can understand.

“Translating research related to weight loss into a practical plan is something that is really worthwhile,” she says.

While some people would argue that eating less is better, Rolls wants to show people how to have a full plate while managing calories. This principle starts with eating more fruits and vegetables. She says this is a good way to lower the calorie density of your diet because fruits and vegetables are mostly water, which she calls the “magic ingredient.”

“It’s a matter of how you fill your plate,” she says. “You need to have a good balance of what you want to satisfy your desires but also include the nutritious foods that are lower in calorie density.”

Lowering the calorie density (or CD as it is referred to in the book) is a tactic used in the recipes. This approach, which she says is now widely accepted, allows people to enjoy their favorite comfort foods and still lose weight.

Lowering CD in recipes is achieved by adding one’s favorite vegetables when possible, cooking more whole veggies into recipes, and blending vegetables into recipes.

Rolls adds that high-calorie-density foods such as those high in sugar and unhealthy fats and those that are low in water content should be eaten in small amounts.

She is the first to admit that there will never be one plan that fits everyone’s needs, but she believes that by making long-term changes and

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not forbidding people to eat certain foods, they will be able to keep up with healthier habits.

“The book can help people in terms of giving them information,” she says, “but some people are going to need some external reinforcement.”

The diet, she says, is “full of all kinds of practical tips and a lot of tables and ideas for simple ways to do things.” For instance, the book provides a table to help readers decide if they would rather save time or money when preparing foods.

It provides examples, such as how buying precut vegetables will save time but will cost more.

“Research shows it’s easier to lose weight than keep it off,” Rolls says, “so people need to work harder to maintain their weight.” This can be done through the recipes provided in the diet book.

Of the 105 recipes in the book, some were from family, friends, and colleagues. Rolls developed the remaining recipes with dieticians Mindy Hermann (who cowrote the book) and Jennifer Meengs.

When developing the recipes, she calculated calorie density and measured variable water loss, which required the team to cook and recook every recipe — and taste them all.

She even added grams to all the recipes.

Because she lived in England for 18 years and learned to cook there, she weighs her food. She wanted to incorporate grams into her book’s recipes, which took a lot of extra time but gives people the option of weighing their food, which can be more precise than standard measures such as cups and spoons.

As expected, starting any new diet plan can be challenging, but she says that people need to gather as much information as possible. She says that she would like to see more health-care professionals raise the issue of weight loss.

“There are so many consequences of being obese,” she says. “Diabetes, heart disease, cancer — they all stem from a weight issue. … Finding the motivation is the key. Sometimes it takes a really big health scare.”

Although diet is important, she also emphasizes physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle.

“The reality is that diet and exercise go handin-hand,” she says. In the book, she suggests walking as a physical-activity plan.

She says she feels passionately about the diet she’s developed and her research, and wants as many people as possible “to know these principles based on sound science.” T&G

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The Foster brothers have had very similar career paths, yet have never had the opportunity to work together until now. Neil moved to State College in 1980, landing his dream job at McLanahan’s, after graduating from pharmacy school.

The following year, Wayne also moved to town to join the McLanahan organization, and both became owners of different stores in 1986. Coincidentally, the opening Neil filled at McLanahan’s in 1980 was created when Don Farber left McLanahan’s to open the Boalsburg Apothecary in the new Boalsburg Medical Office building. Now 32 years later, Neil returns to community-retail pharmacy in the pharmacy Farber founded, after having spent the past 10 years working in the long-term-care pharmacy sector.

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It took some time, but Penn State has finally become a home for Division I ice hockey, and the pieces appear in place for a bright future

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Construction continues on the Pegula Ice Arena, which will open this fall.

It’s fair to say that some things in life just naturally go together. Peanut butter and jelly. Bert and Ernie. We Are and Penn State!

Now, thanks to the abundantly generous and historic contribution by Penn State alumnus Terry Pegula, and his wife, Kim, that was announced in September 2010, the university (and the entire Centre Region, in actuality) are experiencing another logical fit — Penn State and NCAA Division I ice hockey.

After decades of speculation and hope from many, Penn State began its first season of Division I hockey in October. And come next season, which is in about nine months, the university will open the doors to the 6,000-seat Pegula Ice Arena.

Many pieces had to fit together for this endeavor to be a complete success. One of those was finding the right man to lead Penn State into Division I hockey, and that part fell into place with the hiring of Guy Gadowsky.

From Edmonton, he grew up around hockey — the sport has been in his blood for as long as he can remember.

“It’s just what we did when I was a boy,” he says.

“I went to outdoor rinks and skated with my dad, and when Gretzky came to Edmonton, it was exciting times. Watching them [the Edmonton Oilers], that’s when I truly fell in love with the game of hockey.”

Gadowsky played collegiately at Colorado College and had several stints with various professional teams before securing his first head-coaching job with the Fresno Falcons, a team he helped groom for the West Coast Hockey League.

“I knew that helping to develop the team in Fresno would involve many particulars and be a ton of work, but the end result would be very rewarding,” he says. “That opportunity gave me great experience for here, where we had a solid foundation to continue to build on, and we have a great athletic staff that works so hard at all of the details.”

From Fresno, he took his talents to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he spent five seasons before accepting the head-coaching position at Princeton University. During his seven-year

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Gadowsky has a history of building programs up and is excited about doing the same at Penn State.

tenure with the Tigers, Gadowsky led the program to back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances in 2008 and 2009.

Joe Battista, former longtime Penn State Icers head coach and current associate athletic director for Pegula Ice Arena and Penn State hockey, was one who had long wanted varsity hockey to become a reality at Penn State. He knows the school picked the right man to lead the program.

“Coach Gadowsky brings instant credibility to our program,” he says. “He is a good man, a good community citizen. He is a family-oriented guy with a commitment to academic excellence, and he puts the welfare of his student-athletes ahead of simply winning.”

Furthermore, Battista praises Gadowsky’s cognition of all things hockey, shown through his strategies, both with recruiting and on the ice. “He is capable of everything that has to do with the sport,” Battista says.

In addition, Gadowsky brings an element of excitement with his personable disposition. On ice, the focal point of his coaching philosophy emphasizes speed and creativity. “We want to be a fun team to watch as well as be successful,” he states.

“And these are important criteria for developing players for the NHL as well.”

Judging from the crowds coming to see the team this season, both at home in the cozy confines of Greenberg Ice Pavilion and on the road,

it’s safe to say that Gadowsky is well on his way to making Penn State an entertaining team. And he is ecstatic with what he is seeing in regards to the fan base.

“The passion of the student body and alumni is a big reason I came to Penn State,” he says. “I really value that spirit, that enthusiasm. I observe it from watching other sporting events at Penn State, and it’s phenomenal. I wanted to be a part of that.

From midnight practice to our first game [which was a sellout] to hours away in Wilkes-Barre, there are Penn Staters everywhere supporting us.”

And if someone has shown no previous interest in hockey, Gadowsky stresses the importance of seeing a game live. “To see hockey live is very different than from on TV. It’s fast, it’s tough, it’s physical. It’s just so much fun,” he animatedly says.

Battista could not agree more. “Hockey has something of everything,” he says. “It’s got speed, physicality, skill, and teamwork. The atmosphere can be electrifying. We want to expose all Penn State fans to the sport and include them in future achievements.”

Another component of Gadowsky’s coaching style stems from his upbringing. “I grew up in a family of teachers,” he says, “and while that’s not necessarily unique, it’s been a benefit to me, growing up in that type of environment. I take pride in that. It’s taught me commitment, something I still utilize every day in my coaching.”

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When asked how he sustains a motivational viewpoint day in and day out to continue to lead Penn State, he says it’s really quite straightforward — “I just love hockey.”

He continues, “To compete in the Big Ten at the highest level and do it at a campus with so much passion is a dream come true for me. It motivates me every day, and I’m grateful for it. I’m having so much fun.”

While living in the present and focusing intently on the current season, he also has high hopes for the years to come.

“When I think of next season, it’s unbelievably exciting,” he says. “We’re jumping into the Big Ten Conference, one of the premier hockey conferences in the nation, and we very well understand how difficult this league is going to be.

But we are a high-profile program, and we will be playing in perhaps one of the best environments in the country.”

As Gadowsky continues, he turns just a bit more dynamic, more heartened. “Our ‘secret’ weapon will be our arena,” he says. “The rink is going to be beautiful, next to none. With that being said, the season will be an incredible challenge, but one that we’re up for. We’re doing well so far, and we’ll continue to take it one day at a time.”

The Pegula Ice Arena has that effect — the ability to make many people truly excited for what is to come. Upon completion, the arena will be a 226,000-square-foot venue with capacity for 6,500 attendees (including standing room only). It will

consist of two sheets of ice, allowing use for a wide range of campus and community activities, a large weight room and hydrotherapy training room, steam room, numerous concession stands, guest suites, and modern locker rooms.

In short, the Pegula Ice Arena will offer some of the best amenities available at the college level and beyond.

“We did our homework,” Battista says in earnest. “We traveled to many other venues, took the best of what we saw, and added in our wants. We talked and went back and forth and changed our minds and changed them back. There are an awful lot of people involved in this process, and the end result will be tremendous.”

Both Gadowsky and Battista are quick to point out that the Pegula Ice Arena has always been intended for more — much more — than simply Penn State ice hockey games.

“One of the goals of Mr. Pegula is to have the arena and Division I program as a catalyst for hockey in this area,” Gadowsky says. “Every Monday night the players are coaching youth clinics.

There are and continue to be very good hockey players coming out of Pennsylvania — we just need more of them, and it starts at a young level.”

Battista adds on to this thought. “I believe the overall impact on the community is how we will define ‘success,’ ” he says. “My goal is to make a destination for faculty and staff, students, alums and their families, and the community as a whole.

I want it to be an integral part of State College,

Battista stands in what will be the lobby entrance for the Pegula Ice Arena.

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maybe especially on those winter weekends, and leave a positive impression on the region. Terry, as the visionary of the entire process, feels the same way — he wants it to be about the community and Central Pennsylvania as a whole.

“We will benefit because of all we’ll have to offer. There will be skating and hockey programs, hockey and figure skating competitions, state playoff games, adult beginning-hockey classes. All of these opportunities will continue to generate interest in our region.”

The tumultuous circumstances in the community over the past year have done nothing to hamper the encouraging and constructive ideals that both Gadowsky and Battista have regarding Penn State athletics, alumni, and fans. After the

“My goal is to make a destination for faculty and staff, students, alums and their families, and the community as a whole. I want it to be an integral part of State College ....”

— Joe Battista on the Pegula Ice Arena

NCAA sanctions were imposed on the football team, Gadowsky gave a statement affirming the positivity of the entire staff, along with Pegula, of supporting Penn State student-athletes and continuing on with the great traditions of Penn State.

He says that he has seen no repercussions on his ability to recruit future players for his squad.

“Above all, it gave me an opportunity,” Gadowsky says. “I knew the student body and alumni were the best in the nation. This experience showed me the resolve of these groups. One benefit of it all is that it showed just how strong they are and how much we all pulled together. I couldn’t be more proud of the students and the alumni.”

Battista also remains positive. “If anything, it’s shown how strong and resilient a community we are,” he says. “We have a great mission. We’ll come out stronger and smarter, and we’ll continue to do what’s right.” T&G Amy King is a contributor to Town&Gown, and teaches preschool at Grace Lutheran Preschool & Kindergarten. She lives in State College with her husband and three children.

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Penn State women’s ice hockey head coach Josh Brandwene played for Penn State and is happy to return to his alma mater.

Happy Homecoming Former Icer returns to lead women’s program

By Amy King

The pace is quick and the game is always changing. It takes endurance, both mental and physical, and it’s tough — but it’s also dynamic and extremely exciting. And even though it may not be what most people consider traditional, ice hockey for females is rapidly gaining popularity.

Here in State College, particularly with the imminent opening of the Pegula Ice Arena, the sport is garnering more attention than ever.

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Josh Brandwene, head coach of Penn State’s women’s ice hockey team, played the game he loves here at Penn State and he is thrilled to return to his alma mater to guide — and advance — the Lions.

“It’s so great to be back,” he says. “This is a fantastic environment in every way, shape, and form. Penn State offers a great education; Happy Valley is a wonderful place to raise a family. …

I’m so happy to be here!”

Brandwene, in his second year at Penn State (he was head coach last season when the women’s squad played its final year as a club sport), conveys this overall-affirmative attitude on the ice as well. “Culture and a positive environment are incredibly important,” he says. “One of our team’s main focal points is to support the positive and remain optimistic, showing commitment to that. Players and staff enjoy coming to the rink every day because of this, and that’s something special.

“We also focus every day on process. The process of striving for excellence, improving the little things, translating what we do into the classroom — we want to excel at that process. Together we want to better ourselves with every challenge we face. That will serve us well in the future.”

Brandwene has the necessary support of countless individuals in the athletic department, including his former coach Joe Battista, now associate athletic director for Pegula Ice Arena and Penn State hockey.

“Coach Brandwene and his staff have a passion for all things Penn State,” Battista says. “He stands for all the right things we need a coach to have in a brand-new program. He’s a builder as well as an administrator. He wants to see women’s hockey grow.”

Bolstering community interest in women’s hockey is constantly on Brandwene’s mind, but not only in the pure numbers coming to watch his team play. He’s been pleased with what he’s seen from the home crowd thus far this season.

“The support has been really good. It’s been a nice combination of community and enthusiastic students, a grassroots effort with many people contributing,” — but he also eagerly looks forward to strengthening girl’s youth-hockey programs in Central PA, especially in State College.

“We have a great youth-hockey program in town with some girls playing in what is essentially a boys’ organization. One of my goals is to

continue generating interest in girls’ hockey in the region. I feel it’s tremendously important,” he emphatically states.

He says women’s ice hockey has seen tremendous growth ever since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan, which were the first Olympics where women competed for a medal in ice hockey.

“The Olympics created the awareness,” he says, “and the coaching at the youth level continues to get better and better every year. It’s an exciting sport to be part of.”

Taylor Gross, a junior from Colorado Springs who transferred to Penn State from the University of Connecticut, has been playing ice hockey since she was 6-years old. She loves the game for a myriad of reasons, but she is quick to point out that the team comes first.

“Because not one thing happens exactly the same in every game, being part of a hockey team is different,” she explains. “I love having 26 fam-

“One of my goals is to continue generating interest in girls’ hockey in the region. I feel it’s tremendously important.”

— Josh Brandwene ily members who always have my back. The team feeling is awesome.”

For Gross, this camaraderie stems from the coaching staff. “Coach Brandwene is a great coach, not only because of his hockey knowledge but also because of his personality,” she says. “I have never met another coach who is as excited and devoted to coaching as he is. He makes you want to work as hard as you can and gets the best out of his players. He has done a great job at building the program and still works at making it the best it can be.”

She is hopeful that, between the new Pegula Ice Arena and the efforts of many, ice hockey for girls will continue to evolve.

She says, “I think the addition of DI hockey to Penn State will help women’s hockey development in State College with more girls wanting to play because they will have the opportunity to watch other women play the sport in their hometown.” T&G

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to Go? The Hilltop Mobile Home Park and the Penn State Mobile Homes park are on opposite sides of town, but the scene at both is the same right now. Windows sport “For Sale” signs.

Dumpsters fill over and over with pieces of trailer skirting, discarded decks, and possessions that had accumulated over the years. Heavy machinery removes — or trashes — one mobile home after another, leaving lots vacant of everything except a rectangular indentation.

Both parks are closing this year — Hilltop in February and Penn State Mobile Homes in July — continuing the trend of recent years as park owners find they can make more money by selling the land for redevelopment than by continuing to rent lots. For mobile-home park owners, this makes financial sense. For residents, it means trying to find somewhere else to live in a town where affordable housing is limited. Some residents had planned to move before long anyway and just have to find a way to do it earlier.

Others have to replace what they had hoped would be long-term homes of their own.

“It was just a really big shock,” says Sarah Stephenson. She and her boyfriend, Jeffrey Osborne, both in their

Residents of two mobile-home parks that are scheduled to close in 2013 find limited housing options

By Tracey M. Dooms Photos by John Hovenstine

Jeffrey Osborne and Sarah Stephenson bought their mobile home at Hilltop Mobile Home Park in July only to find out a few months later that the park was closing and they had to move.

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20s, had spent their “life savings” to buy a 9-yearold mobile home at Hilltop in July, and they moved in on August 20, when Osborne finished his Army Reserves duty. “Then Labor Day we got the notice in the mail that said the park had been closed and we had to move our home.”

The couple had moved here from western Pennsylvania so Osborne could study forestry at Penn State after six years of active duty in the Army and two years in the Reserves, including tours in Iraq and Korea. Stephenson had recently earned a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies from Penn State Shenango and landed a job at HigherEdJobs in Innovation Park.

“Here we were, two young kids who just moved in, and we were screwed over,” Stephenson says.

“They could have told us it was being sold and

Former Hilltop tenants Michelle Corey (left) and Jesse Kennedy moved to Philipsburg when they found out the mobile-home park was closing.

we wouldn’t have bought our trailer.” The couple bought their trailer from its previous residents and paid rent to Hilltop for their lot. They saved money on transportation because Osborne could walk to class at Penn State.

When they got the news, they frantically began looking for a place to move their trailer. “We called around, and nobody had anything available,” Stephenson recalls. Finally, a tip from one park owner led them to Black Hawk Village in Centre Hall, where they were able to find a lot.

They moved on November 30. “Now our commute is 20 minutes, compared to five minutes, but you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do,” Stephenson says.

Welcome to Philipsburg

Stephenson and Osborne represent one of an estimated 200 families that lived at the two mobile-home parks when word arrived that Hilltop and Penn State Homes would be closing, according to Natalie Corman, director of the Centre County Office of Adult Services. Her office is working with many of the residents to connect them with other human-services agencies that can help with housing, childcare, transportation, and other needs. Among the agencies are Housing Transitions Inc., Interfaith Human Services, and Community Help Centre.

“We have a lot of people that are trying to find housing,” she says. “Some people have moved their homes. A lot are getting on wait lists for rental places throughout the county. Some have moved to the Philipsburg area and out of the county.”

Former Hilltop tenants Michelle Corey and Jesse Kennedy are among the new Philipsburg residents. Thanks to a US Department of Agriculture loan, they were able to buy a house even though they had no money for a down payment.

Their new house cost less than $100,000 — a listing price hard to find in State College. “If we’d had time, we could have waited for something closer that would have been better for us. It’s rough to force this kind of thing on a person so fast,” says Corey, who works in marketing at Sam’s Club on the Benner Pike. Kennedy is an electrician but took a job at Hogs Galore in Philipsburg when they learned they’d be moving there.

Corey had bought their mobile home in Hilltop about five years ago and paid $460 a month to rent the lot. Although a “For Sale” sign was

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in the trailer window in December, the only offer has been a “lowball” one from a construction company. If they don’t find a buyer, she says, they’ll have to pay Hilltop $750 to take care of demolishing or removing the trailer.

During Labor Day weekend, when Hilltop residents learned that the park would be closing, Corey began knocking on her neighbors’ doors and organized a tenants’ association with the

situations like this. However, Trinitas Ventures of Indiana had already petitioned College Township to rezone the property to higher-density residential, indicating that redevelopment is in the works. Current Hilltop owners Sharon and Kenneth Mayes did not return phone calls concerning the park’s status.

Although Corey remains passionate about the possibility of the tenants purchasing Hilltop, she says she and Kennedy couldn’t risk waiting until February and having no place to live, so they joined the “exodus” to Philipsburg.

Payments for a home long gone

Barbara Burris, shown with daughter, Vivienne Witmer, continues to pay off a loan on her home at Penn State Mobile Homes.

hope of banding together to purchase the park themselves. As of early December, the group had begun working with PathStone Corp., a nonprofit group that helps tenants find financing in

Corey owns her trailer outright. Some residents used loans to buy their mobile homes and still owe on them. If they can’t find buyers and can’t move the trailers to new lots — because they can’t afford to move them, or they’re too dilapidated to survive moves, or they can’t find places to move them — they may end up making payments on loans for homes they no longer live in. That’s a possibility for Barbara Burris, who bought her Penn State Homes trailer from the previous residents in July 2011.

For Burris, a mobile home had been the best option in State College, even with a home loan and $330 a month to rent the lot. “I had looked at apartments, and there was nothing I could afford,” she says. Plus, the trailer had the added benefit of a yard for her daughter, Vivienne Witmer, now 2, to play in.

Burris is a server at Duffy’s Tavern but just finished school at the Phlebotomy Institute of Central PA, so she’s hoping to find a higher-paying job that will help her afford a new place to live.

Friends of hers own rental properties in State College, and she says she might be able to get a place through them if one becomes available, although she says giving up her daughter’s play yard will “break my heart.”

For now, Burris is staying put as long as she can, since she still has to pay on her mobile-home loan. She’s had only one offer to buy the trailer — for $1,000 from a man who buys and resells mobile homes.

The trailer park land has been purchased by 1752 North Atherton Street Associates. The site is zoned general commercial and medium-density residential. In September, partner Heidi Nicholas said redevelopment plans had not yet been defined; she did not return calls for this article.

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The big unknown

Harry Houts doesn’t know where he’ll be moving to when he’s forced to leave his home in the Penn State Mobile Homes park.

Harry Houts is among those who still don’t know where they’ll live once the Penn State Homes park closes in July. A retired certified public accountant, he has lived in his trailer since Groundhog Day 1975, almost four decades ago, when the Temple Drive-in theater was still across Atherton Street, where Walmart now sits. He doesn’t think his trailer is in good enough shape to move it.

Born in Lemont and a nephew of departmentstore founder O.W. Houts, he has lived in the area all his life, except for a dozen years in Kingsport, Tennessee. He’ll be moving, but he says, “I don’t know where or when.” A friend in Tennessee has offered him a place to stay, but he also has written a letter to his son in Virginia, asking if he could move in with him. So far, Houts has declined assistance from the agencies that have contacted him offering to help him find a new place to live.

Other North Atherton Street mobile-home parks have closed in recent years to make way for redevelopment. Now these areas are home to Trader Joe’s, Pier One, Starbucks, Verizon Wireless, and other commercial establishments. Still, Houts says, “It came as a surprise when I first heard about this place closing.”

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Parents to the rescue

Joy Habovick says the short lead time — learning in September that she’d have to move from Hilltop by February — left her with one less-thanideal option: At age 43, she moved back in with her parents.

Habovick lived at Hilltop for 12 years, ever since her son, Anthony Pastrana, was born. She owned her trailer, but moving it to her parent’s property in Howard would have cost more than she could afford because she would have had to drill a new well and install a septic system. “I sold my trailer for considerably less than it’s worth,” she says.

Since her move in December, she’s been commuting to work in downtown State College, where she is an assistant teacher at St. Paul’s Christian Preschool; she also works part-time at Penn State doing event parking. Pastrana has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism, and attends the alternative STRIDES program at Fairmount School. He is continuing school there, although now he has a half-hour ride to school in a school-district van.

Habovick says she would have loved to stay in State College, but “you can’t rent anything under $700 a month.” She figures it will take her about two years of living with her parents to set aside

Joy Habovick, shown with her son, Anthony Pastrana, moved out of her mobile home in Hilltop and back in with her parents.

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some money and improve her credit rating so she will be able to get a loan and buy another home.

“I’m going to be 44, and I don’t need to stay at my parents’ house,” she says. She and her son will live “wherever I can find somewhere to live that’s going to be in my budget.”

Mifflin County and paid $1,400 to move the trailer there. After they’re settled in, they plan to invite the former owner for dinner so she can see what they’ve done with the home she lived in for 20 years.

Lingering effects

As the February move-out deadline for Hilltop residents approaches and the July deadline for Penn State Homes looms on the horizon, Corman’s office continues to seek out residents of both parks who need help finding their next homes.

“We’ll continue until we’ve met with all the residents remaining there or until the parks close,” she says. Then, she predicts, another wave of families will need help — those who moved onto friends’ couches or wherever they could temporarily, simply because they had no choice.

“While it might look like everything ends in February and July,” she says, “we feel this will be ongoing for some residents.” T&G Tracey M. Dooms is a freelance writer in State College and a contributor to Town&Gown.

Cheryl and Corri Hockenberry purchased a home that had been at the Penn State Mobile Home park and moved it to Mifflin County, where they own a couple of acres.

The bright side

The planned closing of the two State College mobile-home parks has been beneficial to at least one group — those who are looking to buy trailers of their own. Cheryl and Corri Hockenberry bought a 1992 model for $7,000 from an elderly woman who decided to move to assisted living in The Oaks at Pleasant Gap after she found out she’d have to leave the Penn State Homes park.

“We got fortunate here,” says Cheryl. “The mobile homes are nice for a starter home.”

The Hockenberrys own a couple of acres in

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Every dollar collected will be used to help displaced families, according to executive director Ruth Donahue; none will go toward administrative costs.

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Looking for Solutions In August and September, two State College mobile-home parks told residents they were closing. Also in September, fire destroyed Bellefonte’s Hotel Do De. Together, these events put about 220 more families in need of affordable housing into the already strained local market.

“We daily have people seeking affordable housing,” says Natalie Corman, director of the Centre County Office of Adult Services. “This is just a lot at once.

“Affordable housing is just what people can afford to live in,” she explains. “What I live in, it’s affordable to me. What other people live in, it’s affordable to them.”

She compares the entire housing market to a ladder, with different prices at different rungs.

“The mobile homes were an affordable rung for people,” she says. “We just ripped that rung right out with these two closings.”

Monthly apartment rent in State College starts at $700 to $800, thanks partly to ongoing demand from Penn State students. At the mobilehome parks, residents were paying $330 to $360 for monthly lot rent, and many also had monthly mobile-home loan payments, putting some of them close to that monthly apartment rent.

“The fact is that, while $800 does sound reasonable, $800 in the State College area is a onebedroom,” Corman says. “You have to look at what’s comparable, and they may need a threebedroom because they’re a family.”

Housing costs are significantly lower outside of the State College Area School District. In 2011, the average cost of homes sold in the SCASD was $263,345, compared with an average of $107,284 in Philipsburg-Osceola and $124,519 in the Bald Eagle Area School District. However, Corman says, many lower-income workers need to live within publictransportation range of their jobs in State College.

A variety of efforts are in the works to grow the stock of affordable housing in the Centre Region: • Formed in 1996, the Centre County Affordable Housing Coalition has grown to more than 130 members representing 63 organizations. The group strives to ensure that all county residents, especially those with low incomes, have decent, safe, affordable, and accessible housing. The co-

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alition’s “Yes in My Backyard” group supports the development of affordable housing in all area communities. CCAHC also sponsors a local Affordable Housing Summit each fall.

• Also founded in 1996, Centre County’s First-Time Homebuyer Program provides qualified buyers with as much as $10,000 each in a nointerest loan that doesn’t need to be repaid until the buyer resells the house.

• Limerock Terrace is a low-income housing project under construction near the East College Avenue Giant shopping center thanks to about $1 million in tax credits and $2 million construction funding from the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.

• When the Mellott Mobile Home Park closed in 2007 and developers asked Patton Township to rezone the area, the township first required that affordable housing be included in the project. Developers worked with Habitat for Humanity and the Centre County Housing and Land Trust to build new homes there, in the area behind what is now Trader Joe’s.

• In 2009, College Township passed an ordinance offering incentives — such as waiving the open-space requirement — to developers who add affordable housing to new neighborhoods.

• Last year, the State College Borough passed an ordinance requiring that at least 10 percent of the units be affordable housing in any new development of six or more units.

The Centre County Affordable Housing Coalition is one of several organizations that is looking to help the affordablehousing situation in State College. Its work includes the “Yes in My Backyard" campaign and sponsoring the Affordable Housing Summit each fall.

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• The State College Community Land Trust helps reduce the cost of buying a home by splitting the cost of home ownership with the home buyer. The organization holds the land permanently in trust so the homeowners can apply for mortgages based on the costs of the homes alone.

• Several new student-targeted housing projects are in the works, including The Retreat on Waupelani Drive, The Legacy at East Beaver and Hetzel streets, and The Heights at Turnberry, between Blue Course Drive and Circleville Road.

Although these units do not fall into the “affordable” category, Corman says, the law of supply and demand may push older housing into that price range after the new complexes open.

• The Centre County Association of Realtors aims to raise $100,000 through its American Dream Housing Fund, with the intention of working with existing county-based agencies to help more people afford homes. The fund will be endowed at the Centre Foundation, with interest going toward nointerest loans for first-time home buyers.

• Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County works to build simple, decent, affordable houses for qualified families. Individuals, corporations, faith groups, and others provide financial support, while homeowners and volunteers build the houses themselves, under trained supervision. The houses are sold with no-profit, no-interest mortgages.

A common misperception is that “affordable housing” means housing for people who are not working, says Ruth Donahue, executive director of Interfaith Human Services. She notes, “Minimum wage doesn’t even give a living wage in this area. We see people that are working multiple jobs if they’re able to find them.”

Corman agrees, adding, “These are people in our community. The person who helps you at the store, at your favorite restaurant, the teacher’s aide, your mechanic — they all need affordable housing.” T&G

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To the Moon and Back Lunar Lion team sets its sights on not only a moon landing but also being a leader in the new space industry

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When history-makers such as Charles Lind Lindbergh and Neil Armstrong set out for the un unknown, it is likely that neither focused on much beyond the successful completion of their mis mission. But, one has to wonder that if somewhere in the back of their minds there were visions of the future — of a world forever changed by what they were accomplishing in that moment.

Within the walls of Penn State’s Applied Re Research Laboratory, a team of students, faculty, and researchers are sharing in the same bold vision as those of Lindbergh and Armstrong. Competing in the Google Lunar X Prize, the Penn State Lunar Lion Team is in a race to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon and back by 2015. The successful completion of their mission not only holds larger implications for the university but also for the community and beyond.

The Google Lunar X Prize is sponsored by Google and conducted by the X Prize Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, whether through health care, the environment, or, in this case, space exploration. A total of $30 million in prizes, which are being funded through Google, are available to participating teams who complete the mission in the allotted time frame.

Michael Paul, a space-systems engineer at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory, is the team leader in charge of the Penn State Lunar Lions, which formed in 2010 and are currently composed of 40 team members. Paul’s devo-

tion to the mission stems from his own personal curiosity about mankind’s place in the universe, a curiosity that began at a very young age.

“I have been interested in space since my dad took me to see Star Wars when I was five,” he recalls. “My dad still takes me and my siblings out to look at the night sky.”

His curiosities about space followed him through undergraduate and graduate studies, eventually landing him a position as a spacecraft-systems engineer with NASA’s Messenger mission to Mercury.

Because of his work with NASA, Paul says he is now hooked on exploring the solar system.

“When I worked on the Messenger mission, I realized just how much more there was to learn and to discover,” he says.

With this sentiment in mind, Paul and his fellow teammates hope to inspire renewed, widespread interest in space exploration. And as the only team participating in the X Prize to put its university’s name on its mission, the Lunar Lions also hope to put Penn State on the map as a driving force in private space exploration.

The competition challenges privately funded space-flight teams to successfully fund and send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon. Penn State’s vehicle, the Lunar Lion, will be carried by a commercial vehicle and placed on a trajectory to the moon. Following five days of cruise, the Lunar Lion will execute a controlled descent to the lunar surface.

The spacecraft, which will travel between two specified landing locations on the moon, will capture photographs, videos, and data while on the moon’s The large descent engine will slow down the Lunar Lion as it is pulled into the moon’s gravity.

Powered by solar arrays, seen on top, the Lunar Lion will have to track the sun during its week-long journey from the Earth to the moon.

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surface and communicate that back to mission operations at Penn State.

The spacecraft must then return to Earth’s surface.

With the goal of an incentivized prize, the X Prize Foundation hopes to inspire a new generation of space exploration, with the idea that After working with competing teams will bring fresh NASA on its Messenger ideas and innovation to bear on mission to Mars, Paul the challenges associated with the realized how much mission. Competitions such as the X more there was to learn Prize reflect what is being called the and discover in the new space industry, in which private solar system. companies compete in a commercial market to enhance space technology — making costs leaner and encouraging growth in the industry.

Not to diminish what national space programs have already accomplished over the past 50-some years, the X Prize is meant to complement, not compete, with public space agencies. The advancements made during the competition allow NASA and other space agencies to save money and expand the capabilities of future manned and unmanned missions to the moon.

“I expect that NASA will continue to provide world-changing science, will still lead the charge with its astronauts, and will still be the gold standard of exploration,” says Paul. “The new space industry will follow NASA’s lead, just as trappers and miners followed Lewis and Clark into the American West. In the same way, I think that in years to come, people will look back and say that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin laid the groundwork — we’re fortunate to be living in a time when the story of what follows is unfolding. It’s an exciting time to be alive!”

For Paul, the Google X Prize signifies a change in the space industry, and an opportunity for Penn State to be a driver behind that change.

The Penn State Lunar Lion team is one of 25 teams registered for the competition. The team, which is truly a university-wide effort, collaborates with colleges and campuses across Penn State, such as the College of Engineering, the The Lunar Lion as it will be in College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the Smeal its final configuration after it has College of Business, and more. Outside of Penn landed on the moon.

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State, the Lunar Lions also are partnering with a group of students and researchers at Lehigh University. The overall team is made up not only of engineers and physicists, but marketers, journalists, and business developers.

Michael Policelli, a second-year graduate student in aerospace engineering at Penn State and senior team member of the Lunar Lions, had originally set out on his job search exploring options as a materials scientist. Many of the jobs were industrial, and none of those piqued his interest.

“I learned about new space companies and was like ‘Wow! This is fast, this is innovative, this is the pace I would want to work at,’ ” he recalls.

“I was always interested in space, but when I was growing up, space was something that only national governments did. With the way the space industry is changing, it suddenly dawned on me that space was something that I could do too.”

Maria Matthews, who is completing her PhD in physics at Penn State, is involved in business development for the mission. Although new to the team, she is blown away by the ambition of her fellow team members.

“This project is like a magnet for ambitious people,” she says. “Everyone is just so enthu-

siastic about this and willing to work for it. I think those involved realize this isn’t just good for the university, it’s good for all of Pennsylvania, especially if we can attract businesses to come in and invest and locate here.”

Matthews, who also is motivated by her personal interests in space exploration, joined the team after completing graduate school.

“Space exploration has always held a pull for me,” she says. “When I was leaving grad school, I had to sit down and seriously think about what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. There’s nothing that came close to getting into the space industry. I can’t think of anything I would rather do — by a long shot!”

As the team works to convert the mission concept into design, prototypes of the spacecraft will be built. A lot of legwork has gone into building the blueprint of the spacecraft, which has been an experience in and of itself.

In March 2011, Paul, along with about a dozen Lunar Lion team members, visited NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to participate in a weeklong study with the center’s Collaborative Modeling for Parametric Assessment of Space Systems (COMPASS) Lab.

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The lab is a multidisciplinary, collaborative engineering team whose purpose is to analyze integrated vehicle systems and provide conceptual designs for space-exploration missions.

“The NASA Glenn experience got us to the point where we know we have a spacecraft that will work,” says Paul. “The strategic partnerships formed will also be very helpful to us in the actual construction of the vehicle.”

Currently, the team is in the early stages of designing a rocket-powered prototype, which will lead it to the next step on its path to the moon. This prototype will build on the control-system software that has already been developed for another prototype, the Y6 Copter. According to Paul, this software represents a critical stage of the mission’s progress.

With the construction of the vehicle being a challenge, the team also is tasked with developing a strategic business plan to fund not only the vehicle’s assembly but also the engineering services necessary to get the spacecraft to the moon and back. Much of the team’s time is now devoted to securing these funds and developing partnerships with corporations to support the mission’s needs.

“Millions of dollars are needed to pay for

the students and the research to work on this project,” says Paul, “in addition to paying for the resources and facilities needed to build the spacecraft here at Penn State.”

Despite the fact that the team has a lot of work ahead of them, Paul says the members are still on track to meeting their goal of getting their spacecraft to the moon by the end of 2015.

“Securing and maintaining the necessary funding will be key to keeping on that schedule,” says Paul, “and we are pursuing this funding within the Penn State community and by bringing new people into the fold who have an interest in pushing the boundaries of space exploration.”

Although the task seems monumental and the spacecraft itself is still in the conceptual phase, team members are motivated by the bigger picture. They not only want to put a “Nittany Lion” on the moon, but also Penn State on the map within the new space industry.

“This mission will prove what we are capable of as a university,” says Paul. “It will show that the expertise we have here at Penn State has been around and will be around. And it helps those students who have ideas to be able to actualize them because of the connections

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Locally, the team has connected with the Discovery Space Center in downtown State College, participating in programming to educate area youth on the Lunar Lion mission and its progress. Members of the team have visited the center to discuss different parts of the mission, highlighting how the many aspects of science will help to send the spacecraft to the moon.

Tammy Miller, who is the director of communications and public-outreach liaison for the Lunar Lions, explains the impact the partnership with Discovery Space Center has had on people of all ages in the local community.

“In this particular partnership, one of many planned across the state and beyond,” says Miller, “we have the opportunity to share the passion we have for the project and help people become a part of something close to home that has farreaching, life-changing implications. The partnership with the Discovery Space has been tremendously rewarding as we have been able to educate others on all levels of development as we continue on our journey all the way to the moon!”

The project shows the many hands that go into successfully completing a lunar mission,

which for the Penn State Lunar Lions is about much more than the Google X Prize. The benefits to the university, future Penn State students, the community, and, potentially, the local economy have proven to be the driving force behind the team’s passion for the project.

“The Google X Prize is not only an opportunity to respond to what has become a change in the space industry,” says Paul, “but it helps to grow the future leaders in our field, while at the same time grow the university and the community.”

Echoing this thought, Policelli says, “It’s a full push on the behalf of the lab and the university to really build this business here. It’s exciting to think that this spacecraft will go to the moon, but the more exciting thing is that I’m not going to be the only one doing this. I get to help generations be able to share this dream that makes space exploration a more viable career choice.” T&G To stay up-to-date on the progress of the mission, visit the Penn State Lunar Lion team blog at lunarlion.psu.edu.

Lori Wilson is a freelance writer and works in marketing for the Penn State Smeal College of Business.

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Always one of Great Performances’ “favorite things,” the cherished tradition of ringing in the New Year with special host Julie Andrews and the Vienna Philharmonic continues.

In addition to the Musikverein setting, the broadcast features a range of picturesque Vienna landmarks.

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Liberators. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Bringing to life the intertwined stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, The Abolitionists reveals how the movement shaped history by exposing the fatal flaw of a republic founded on liberty for some and bondage for others, setting the nation on a collision course.

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Moulton served as executive chef for Gourmet magazine for 23 years and was part of the Food Network in its first decade. Sara’s Weeknight Meals — as seen on WPSU-TV, Saturdays at 1 p.m. — is based on her cookbook Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners, with recipes for getting quick, tasty meals on the table during the work week. The show is currently in production for its third season. Sara also is the food editor for ABC’s Good Morning America.

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The Library Evolution In this digital age, university’s libraries still meet public’s needs If you enter Pattee Library from the mall these days, you will see a newly created set of spaces called the “Knowledge Commons.”

That certainly sounds trendy, but nebulous. The days when “The true university is a collection of books” was our motto seem long gone, although you can still find books in the new and shiny spaces, as well as in the old stack areas behind them.

With the digital revolution, however, it seems like some even Penn State students enjoy relaxing in and using the library’s question the need for a library. Barbara Hackman Franklin Atrium.

“Isn’t it all available on the Internet?” “Why spend in the science and technology fields, the new money to keep that cavernous warehouse open?” Pattee Library, opened in 1940, and expanded in “People aren’t checking out books anymore; why 1953, was challenged to provide adequate service. do we still need librarians?” If libraries aren’t doing Stacks were then closed to undergraduates, and much of what they did in the past; do they still staff retrieved books for them. The library played serve a useful purpose? an important role in supporting teaching in the The answer lies in both the past and the present. liberal arts and professional schools, but minimal The history of Penn State’s University Libraries budgets and overcrowding kept Penn State out of is not just a succession of ever-expanding spaces the prestigious Association of Research Libraries and collections; the functions themselves have until 1962. evolved over time as well. Back in the nineteenth By the 1960s, new trends were sweeping the century, the library, overseen by faculty members library field. Librarians no longer simply taught acting as part-time librarians, was just two rooms in students to navigate the building and use the card Old Main. The collections were largely technical catalog — they also answered increasingly complex and scientific literature, and students didn’t spend reference questions and taught search strategies for much time there. online catalogs, indexes, and databases. Scholarly With the 1904 move into the then-new research in the humanities also was supported Carnegie Library, the minimal services for a school by the growth of rare-book and special archival mostly devoted to engineering and the sciences collections. Overall, vastly increased budgets and began to evolve into a more modern library. open stacks meant the libraries’ holdings, and its Collections were always underfunded, growing usefulness, expanded as the one-millionth volume to only 120,000 volumes by the 1930s. On the was added in 1967, with an additional million positive side, however, there was now modern volumes added in each decade to follow. cataloging, professional librarians providing Significant fundraising, beginning with the reference services, and liberal lending policies. But Campaign for Penn State and the Paterno Libraries with an enrollment of about 4,000 in 1930, the Endowment in 1984 to 1990, helped to add new college’s library could still seat only 160 students. space and collections, and endowed faculty Penn State changed a great deal in the 1940s positions to the libraries. With the expansion of and ’50s. But even with special branch libraries libraries and integrated services at our campuses 54 - Town&Gown January 2013

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all over the commonwealth, the Penn State University Libraries have become a major provider of many library services for much of the state.

And yet, we have been overtaken by the information revolution; people are serious about questions of continued relevance. The ground is literally changing under our feet, and librarians are adjusting accordingly. Virtually all of the kinds of materials that libraries deal with are becoming digital. Users think both “e-books” and “digitized” versions of hard-copy items should be available everywhere, without considering the cost to create or use them.

Many are questioning the need for a physical space, since the role of libraries as holders and lenders of physical items seems to be diminishing.

Certainly the need to collect and preserve the archival collections of books and unpublished materials that document special subjects and our institutional and community history remains important, but even there, the pressure is growing for expanded access to digitized versions.

As a result, the evolving role of the library in the future is to be a learning center, where people can come together for help in finding the information they need with improved efficiency and effectiveness. Learning to navigate through the information overload is a challenge, and librarians have the expertise to teach and facilitate those skills.

Hence, the Knowledge Commons — it’s as much a community gathering space as a center for working with information resources. It is both WiFi-enabled and full of specialized workstations for creating videos, designing computer presentations, and similar tasks. It has spaces where small teams can come together to craft group projects without bothering their neighbors. At the same time, individual students can receive help from librarians and other specialists in exploring and using information for their particular topics. There are classrooms where a librarian can provide group instruction. And there are leisure-reading spaces where a student can relax with a laptop or even a hard-copy book.

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Different Perspectives Jewish Film Festival hopes to entertain and bring awareness

By Jennifer Babulsky

While not big-screen hits, six films to be shown at the State Theatre over three days in January and February aim to raise awareness of the depth of Jewish films. The inaugural Jewish Film Festival — organized by the State College chapter of Hadassah — is the result of nearly two years of work by a committee of Hadassah members with the goal of introducing the community to a variety of poignant films.

“Jewish films are not just Woody Allen and Mel Brooks comedies,” says Sue Kleit, president of the State College chapter of Hadassah. “There are films that focus on life from different perspectives in Israel, the Holocaust, and the Jewish-American experience.

Moreover, part of Hadassah’s mission is education and outreach, which a film festival achieves nicely.”

Je T’aime, I Love You Terminal will be shown at the State Theatre February 10 as part of the Jewish Film Festival.

The Oscar-nominated film Footnote will be shown at the State Theatre February 24.

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Jewish Film Festival benefitting the Hadassah Medical Organization Six films over three days. Price is $10 per film (this includes a $2 ticket-handling fee) The entire six-film package can be purchased for $50 (this includes a $2 ticket-handling fee)

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Sponsor: Estelle Frankl Yoav, a Jewish boy, and David, a Muslim, ask if they can become friends in an environment of religious tensions.

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Sponsors: Sherri and Cliff Cohen and Lynn and Evan Myers

Remembrance will be shown January 27 at the State Theatre.

Proceeds from the film festival, which also includes a kosher meal for sale between films January 27, benefits the Hadassah Medical Organization, which has two locations in Israel and conducts sophisticated medical research in areas including obscure genetic diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and diabetes.

“What makes the Hadassah Medical Organization such a wonderful facility is twofold — it uses stateof-the-art equipment for cutting-edge research, and second, it serves all who come in, including patients from surrounding countries in the Middle East,” Kleit says.

The idea for the Jewish Film Festival was sparked by professor Brian Hesse of Penn State’s Jewishstudies program. Both Hesse, who died in 2011, and Wilma Stern, a long-time member of Hadassah and the organization’s past president, felt a film festival would fit well in State College. Hesse encouraged Stern to move forward with the plan, and Stern joined forces with fellow Hadassah members Carol Hodes and Willa Silverman to gather programs of Jewish film festivals from around the country in cities such as Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Scottsdale, and, closer to home, Altoona, and determine which films would make a good fit locally. Stern

A Polish partisan and German Jewish woman forge a bond and survive a daring escape from a Nazi death camp in 1944, after which they separate amidst the chaos of war. Thirty-two years later, thinking she sees her savior on television, the now-married woman must confront her unresolved emotions and moral ambiguities.

February 10 3:30 p.m.

Nicky’s Family

Sponsor: Penn State Jewish Studies Program The nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who saved the lives of 699 Jewish children from then Czechoslovakia just before World War II. 7 p.m.

Je T’aime, I Love You Terminal

Sponsors: The Krentzman Family and Mark Jay Tygel A flight leads to a chance encounter for Israeli Ben and English Emma.

February 24 3:30 p.m.

Footnote

(2012 Oscar-nominated Israeli film) Sponsored by Eileen Leibowitz in Memory of Herschel Leibowitz An academic father and son with different values in scholarship and in life.

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From the Black You Make Color

Sponsors: Barbara Marder and Susan and David Werner A new film by Judy Maltz and Richie Sherman concerned with women in an Israeli beauty school finding common language to communicate their shared experiences.

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Penn State professor Judy Maltz is one of the directors for the film From the Black You Make Color, which will be shown at the State Theatre February 24 as part of the Jewish Film Festival.

and her committee also sought out sponsors, some of whom preferred to support a particular film while others just wanted to be involved.

“When choosing the films, we tried to find films of interest for people of all ages,” Stern says.

The local Hadassah chapter will have to evaluate results from the film festival to see if it will become an annual event, Stern says. She has high hopes.

“Hopefully, State College residents won’t have to go far to see these types of films,” she says.

The local Hadassah committee includes Kleit, Karen Scherba, Michelle Katz, Carol Shapiro, Andrea Commaker, and Trudy Lipowsky.

“It is our hope that State College residents will learn and gain some perspective,” Kleit says.

“We are especially excited to introduce a film from Penn State professor Judy Maltz, whose documentary [No. 4 Street of Our Lady] on the positive role of a particular Polish woman during World War II premiered at the State Theatre a short time ago. Her new film, From the Black You Make Color, should prove just as engaging.”

Richard Biever, executive director of the State Theatre, is proud to be associated with the film festival.

“This kind of thing is exactly what the State Theatre should be doing,” he says. “Film is a staple of what we do, and combining that with a local organization to help them raise funds — perfect.” T&G

To learn more about Hadassah visit www.hadassah.org.

Jennifer Babulsky is a State College-based freelance writer and associate editor of the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State.

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17 Lady Lion Basketball vs. Wisconsin 7 p.m.

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The State College Choral Society presents “Let Freedom Ring" in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center.

Seymour Lipkin performs with the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra at Esber Recital Hall.

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Academics 1, 18 – SCASD, no school.

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21 – Penn State University, no classes, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Community Associations & Development 15 – Spring Creek Watershed Association mtg., Patton Township Mun. Bldg., 7:30 a.m., www.springcreekwatershed.org.

Children & Families 5, 12, 19, 26 – Go Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, S.C., 1 p.m., www.schlowlibrary.org.

5 – Kindermusik, Schlow Centre Region Library, S.C., 10 & 11 a.m., www.schlowlibrary.org.

7, 11, 14, 18, 21, 25, 28 – Music Together free trial class for children 0-5 and a parent, Oakwood Presbyterian Church, S.C., 10:45 a.m. Mon., 9:30 a.m. Fri., 466-3414.

12, 19, 26 – Music Together free trial class for children 0-5 and a parent, Houserville United Methodist Church, S.C., 9:30 a.m., 466-3414.

“Still Life for Winston Smith" is part of the exhibit Lit with Piercing Glances: Linocuts by James Mullen that opens January 6 at the Palmer Museum of Art.

Classes & Lectures 1, 15 – “A Joint Venture,” a free class on hip and knee replacements, Mount Nittany Medical Center, S.C., 11 a.m. Jan. 1, 7 p.m. Jan. 15, 278-4810.

15 – “Retirement: Making Your Money Last,” Elmcroft Senior Living Center, S.C., 3:30 p.m., 867-5745.

17, 22 – Pre-Retirement Classes presented by Financial Abundance, Location TBA, 6 p.m., 235-7675.

31 – Penn State Forum Speaker Series: “My Coal Journey" by Kathy Mattea, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, PSU, 11:30 a.m., pennstateforum.psu.edu.

Exhibits Ongoing-20 – Celebrating Forty Years of Gifts: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., www.palmermuseum.psu.edu.

6-May 19 – Lit with Piercing Glances: Linocuts by James Mullen, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., www.palmermuseum.psu.edu.

Club Events 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – S.C. Sunrise Rotary Club mtg., Hotel State College, S.C., 7:15 a.m., kfragola@psualum.com.

3 – 148th PA Volunteer Infantry Civil War Reenactment Group mtg., Hoss’s Steak and Sea House, S.C., 7:30 p.m., 861-0770.

3, 10, 17, 24, 31 – S.C. Downtown Rotary mtg., Damon’s Grill & Sports Bar, S.C., noon, http://centrecounty.org/rotary/club/.

8 – Women’s Mid Day Connection Luncheon, Mountain View Country Club, Boalsburg, 11:30 a.m., 355-7615.

9 – Women’s Welcome Club of S.C., Oakwood Presbyterian Church, S.C., 7 p.m., www.womenswelcomeclub.org.

9, 23, 30 – Centre Squares Dance Club, Pleasant Gap Elementary School, Pleasant Gap, 8 p.m., 238-8949.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Lake George" is part of the exhibit Varied and Untried: Early TwentiethCentury American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection that opens January 13 at the Palmer Museum of Art. 13-May 5 – Varied and Untried: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., www.palmermuseum.psu.edu.

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Health Care For schedule of blood drives visit www.cccredcross.org or www.givelife.org.

3 – Grief Support Group, Centre Crest, Bellefonte, 6 p.m., 548-1140 or amboal@co.centre.pa.us.

4 – Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Group, Schlow Centre Region Library, S.C., 1 p.m., 234-3141.

7 – Breast Cancer Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, S.C., 5:30 p.m., 231-7005 8 – Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Group, Mount Nittany Dining Room at the Inn at Brookline, S.C., 6:30 p.m., 234-3141.

9 – The Fertility Issues and Loss Support Group, Choices (2214 N. Atherton St.), S.C., 6:30 p.m., www.heartofcpa.org.

10 – The Diabetes Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, S.C., 6 p.m., 231-7095.

13 – Ostomy Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, S.C., 2 p.m., 231-3132.

15 – Multiple Sclerosis Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Outpatient Entrance, Pleasant Gap, 6 p.m., 359-3421.

17 – Better Breathers Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 2 p.m., 359-3421.

17 – The free “Parents-to-Be: The HEIR & Parents Hospital Tour for Expectant Parents,” Mount Nittany Medical Center, S.C., 6:30 p.m., 231-3132.

Sally Burris performs January 26 at the Center for Well Being as part of the Acoustic Brew Concert Series.

21 – Cancer Survivor Support Group, Centre County United Way, S.C., 11:30 a.m., www.cancersurvive.org.

29 – Stroke Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 4 p.m., 359-3421.

Music 18 – Winter Jam Tour Spectacular, BJC, PSU, 7 p.m., www.bjc.psu.edu.

18 – Christopher O’Riley and Matt Haimovitz, Schwab Auditorium, PSU, 7:30 p.m., www.cpa.psu.edu.

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20 – State College Choral Society presents “Let Freedom Ring: A Celebration of the Life of Martin Luther King," Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, PSU, 3 p.m., www.scchoralsociety.org.

20 – Nittany Valley Symphony presents “The Composer Is Dead,” State College Area High School South Auditorium, S.C., 4 p.m., www.nvs.org.

26 – Acoustic Brew Concert: Sally Barris, Center for Well Being, Lemont, 7:30 p.m., www.acousticbrew.org.

27 – Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra presents “Mozart’s Piano,” Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 3 p.m., www.centreorchestra.org.

12 – State College Elks Local Lodge Hoop Shoot Contest, Mount Nittany Middle School, Boalsburg, 8 a.m., 237-4086.

15 – Sustainable Housing Series, State College Borough Building, Room 201, 7 p.m., 574-9267.

25 – Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser for Nicaragua Medical Mission Trip, Grace Lutheran Church, S.C., 5 p.m., www.glcpa.org.

Special Events Ongoing-13 – Bellefonte Art Museum – Holiday Show and Sale, Bellefonte, noon, www.bellefontemuseum.org.

1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – Boalsburg Farmers Market, Boalsburg Fire Hall, Boalsburg, 2 p.m., www.boalsburgfarmersmarket.com.

5 – The Bellefonte Elks Lodge’s Local Hoop Shoot, Bald Eagle Area High School Gymnasium, 8 a.m., 355-2828.

6, 13, 20, 27 – State College Farmers Market, State College Municipal Building, S.C., 11:30 a.m., www.statecollegefarmers.com.

7 – State College Area Preschool Fair, Young Scholars of Central Pennsylvania, S.C., 10 a.m.

The film Remembrance will be shown January 27 at the State Theatre as part of A Jewish Film Festival.

26 – Bellefonte Elks Lodge # 1094 hosts the Elks District Hoop Shoot, Bellefonte High School, 8 a.m., 237-4086.

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Contribute Your help is needed! Please seriously consider the importance of this project and make a contribution to “Together We Are One”

Together We Are One will implement calls to action by inviting the nation to hear our story and to visit our community and campus; a town and university filled with natural beauty and an indomitable spirit.

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For More Information, Call: David Nevins 814-360-2551

26 – BeCAUSE The Night: A Celebration of Women in Rock, State Theatre, S.C., 7 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org.

27 – A Jewish Film Festival: David and Remembrance, State Theatre, S.C., 3:30 p.m.

(David) & 7 p.m. (Remembrance), www.thestatetheatre.org.

Sports For tickets to Penn State sporting events, visit www.gopsusports.com or call 865-5555. For area high school sporting events, call your local high school.

3 – PSU/Northwestern, women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 7 p.m.

4-5 – PSU/Chatham, women’s ice hockey, Greenberg Ice Pavilion, PSU, 7:30 p.m. Fri., 7 p.m. Sat. 5 – Penn State Relays, track & field, MultiSport Facility, PSU, all day.

7 – PSU/Indiana, men’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 7 p.m.

10 – PSU/Northwestern, men’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 8 p.m.

11-12 – PSU/US National U18, men’s ice hockey, Greenberg Ice Pavilion, PSU, 7:30 p.m.

12 – Nittany Lion Challenge, track & field, Multi-Sport Facility, PSU, all day.

12 – PSU/Drew, Penn, Temple (women), Duke, North Carolina, Columbia, & Haverford, men & women’s fencing, White Building, PSU, 9 a.m.

12 – PSU/Army, men’s gymnastics, Rec Hall, PSU, 7 p.m.

13 – PSU/Nebraska, women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 2 p.m.

13 – PSU/Michigan State, wrestling, Rec Hall, PSU, 2 p.m.

15 – PSU/Neumann, men’s ice hockey, Greenberg Ice Pavilion, PSU, 7:30 p.m.

16 – PSU/Michigan State, men’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 7 p.m.

17 – PSU/Wisconsin, women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 7 p.m.

18 – PSU/Lewis, men’s volleyball, Rec Hall, PSU, 7 p.m.

18 – PSU/Wisconsin, wrestling, Rec Hall, PSU, 7 p.m.

19 – PSU/North Carolina State, men’s tennis, Tennis Center, PSU, noon.

19 – PSU/Nebraska, men’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 1 p.m.

19 – PSU/Minnesota, Kent State, Towson, women’s gymnastics, Rec Hall, PSU, 6 p.m.

20 – PSU/Cornell, men’s tennis, Tennis Center, PSU, noon.

20 – PSU/Cleveland State, men’s tennis, Tennis Center, PSU, 5 p.m.

22 – PSU/Loyola-Chicago, men’s volleyball, Rec Hall, PSU, 7 p.m.

24 – PSU/Minnesota, women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 6:30 p.m.

25 – PSU/Sacred Heart, men’s volleyball, Rec Hall, PSU, 7 p.m.

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25-26 – Penn State National, track & field, Multi-Sport Facility, PSU, all day.

26 – PSU/Navy, men’s swimming, McCoy Natatorium, PSU, 11 a.m.

26 – PSU/Ohio State, men’s basketball, BJC, PSU, noon.

26 – PSU/Harvard, men’s volleyball, Rec Hall, PSU, 4 p.m.

26 – PSU/Iowa, Rutgers, Pittsburgh, women’s gymnastics, Rec Hall, PSU, 7 p.m.

27 – PSU/Nebraska, wrestling, Rec Hall, PSU, 2 p.m.

29 – PSU/Princeton, women’s ice hockey, Greenberg Ice Pavilion, PSU, 7 p.m.

Theater 4 – Singing Onstage presents The Apple Tree, State Theatre, S.C., 7:30 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org.

5 – Metropolitan Opera Live in HD presents: Berlioz’s Les Troyens, State Theatre, S.C., noon, www.thestatetheatre.org.

5-6 – Children’s Theatre Production presents Many Moons, State College High School North Auditorium, S.C., 7 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., www.scasd.org.

8 – Singing Onstage presents Seussical The Musical Jr., State Theatre, S.C., 7:30 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org.

12 – Metropolitan Opera Live in HD presents: Verdi’s Aida, State Theatre, 1 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org.

12 – Documentary Film: You Enter Germany – Bloody Huertgen and the Siegfried Line, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 2 p.m., www.pamilmuseum.org.

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13 – Greats at The State Film Club: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, State Theatre, S.C., 2 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org.

17 – National Theatre Live presents The Magistrate, State Theatre, S.C., 7 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org.

19 – Metropolitan Opera Live in HD presents: Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, State Theatre, S.C., 1 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org.

20 – Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, State Theatre, S.C., 2 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org.

23-24 – Penn State Centre Stage presents The All Night Strut, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, S.C., 7:30 p.m., theatre.psu.edu.

25 – Tap Kids, State Theatre, S.C., 8 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org.

26 – Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, Eisenhower Auditorium, PSU, 7:30 p.m., www.cpa.psu.edu.

30 – Todd Oliver’s Dogs Gone Wild, State Theatre, S.C., 8 p.m., www.thestatetheatre.org. T&G

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BERLIOZ’S LES TROYENS Saturday, January 5 at 12pm VERDI’S AIDA Saturday, January 12 at 1pm Pre-Opera Presentation at 12pm DONIZETTI’S MARIA STUARDA Saturday, January 19 at 1pm Pre-Opera Presentation at 12pm VERDI’S RIGOLETTO Saturday, February 16 at 1pm Opera Buffs Luncheon at 11:30am

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Bob Perks Fund ..............................38

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Bryce Jordan Center .....................53

Duffy’s Tavern ..................................25

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A New Cab in Town Many winemakers have turned to making a more “accessible” Cabernet Sauvignon

By Lucy Rogers

What do you think of when you think of Cabernet Sauvignon?

For me, the words “big,” “tannic,” “currants,” and “layered” generally come to mind. I’ve never considered it a “go-to” wine unless I was eating something such as steak or beef stew — something well-suited to a big, tannic wine. Further, the words I associate with a very good Cabernet would be “big,” “rich,” “luscious,” “powerful but balanced,” and “fine tannins.” Often it is the tannins that give the wine structure and keep it from being a big jammy fruit bomb that can often seem over the top and out of balance.

So you could say I was more than a little surprised when our wine panel found few Cabs that truly fit that description when we assembled more than a dozen Cabernets from all over the world, with varying price points.

Don’t get me wrong, we tasted plenty of wines that were generally pleasing to the palate. But we all agreed that the majority of the wines were lacking in both tannin and depth of character, properties we all have come to associate with Cabernet.

Many of the wines did hit the expected range of notes in the nose, and many had familiar flavors of cherry and currant; some were more herbaceous, with dill, green pepper, and green beans, which we certainly expected. What we did not expect was wines so soft they could be mistaken for Merlot, or wines lacking complexity that they had us characterizing them as “lackluster.”

Are winemakers today restyling Cabernet Sauvignon? Clearly many vintners are choosing to make wines that are accessible now rather than making wines that need to be cellared for several if not many years before being consumed. Because Cabernet Sauvignon grapes have a very thick skin, there is a fair amount of tannin in the resultant

wine. Tannin is a natural preservative that allows a wine to age. Drink a wine too young, i.e., with unripe tannins, or tannins that have not had time to soften, and the wine’s profile will be dominated by astringency, knocking the wine out of balance.

But another source of tannin are the oak barrels in which the wine is aged for extended periods prior to bottling. It seems that many winemakers are deliberately making wine with lower tannin levels so that the wines are approachable sooner rather than after years in your cellar. These wines don’t need time to mature in order to reach their potential — they were made with the idea that you would be drinking them within a week or two of purchasing them. This seems to be a direct result of the way the majority of Americans approach wine, and their desire to drink a soft, fruit-forward wine that is not dependent upon food nor dependent on cellar aging. This could be a result of the public growing up on a soft, less tannic easy wine such as Merlot.

For better or worse (and there are arguments to be made on both sides), this seems to be the state of many a Cabernet Sauvignon these days.

The advantage for winemakers is that they are improving their cash flow by getting their product to market sooner rather than aging the wines extensively in oak before finally releasing them in bottles, years after the harvest. Additionally, Cabernet is probably the best known wine grape in the world — almost everyone, despite wineknowledge level — knows of Cabernet and knows that it is widely available because any restaurant that serves wine by the glass will have a Cab available. Consumers appreciate that level of familiarity. The more the wine softens in style, the more broadly appealing it becomes to the wine-drinking public, so there is then an increase in market share for Cab. There also is a certain level of cachet that Cabernet Sauvignon has always had in this country, one that Merlot could only hope to achieve.

So what does an old-school Cab fan do in the wake of this flood of less-than-striking wines on the shelves? Well, it’s going to require a little more attention and dedication to finding the producers who

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make the style of wine they have come to love — wines with guts and structure, with layers of flavor ranging from cherry and cocoa to green bell pepper and tobacco. For those who have come to love the newer, more easily consumed, easily approached wines, I can’t help but lament a trend that makes a wine that seems often to be indistinguishable from just generic “red wine,” palatable as it may be. I miss the presence of those varietal characteristics that make Cabernet distinctly Cabernet, and for me these newer wines will always make me feel like something is missing.

It is important to know that we tasted all the following wines blind — we did not know what they were as we poured them or tasted them, revealing their identities only at the end of the tasting to reduce any prejudice or preconceived notions about the wines.

Excelsior 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon, South Africa (PLCB Code 37015, $10) — A funky nose with herbal/vegetal notes and earth; smoky fruit flavor of cherry; not for the faint of taste, a touch of bitterness in the finish.

Chatter Creek 2006 Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (Washington State, PLCB code 11290, $29) — Bright aromas of cherry in the nose, and then dill; on the lighter side with soft tannins, this wine is pleasant and relatively simple and does not hold up well to strong cheeses.

Chateau Ste. Michelle 2010 Indian Wells Cabernet Sauvignon (Washington State, PLCB code 6896, $19) — A little buttered popcorn in the nose, this wine is fruit forward with a very nice mouthfeel, although the tannins are a little odd; eucalyptus notes also are present, with a bit of under-ripe raspberry and a crazy late hit of tropical fruit in the finish.

Cliff Lede Napa Valley 2006 Stags Leap Cabernet Sauvignon (PLCB code 503428, $63) — A rich, molasses-and-vanilla nose lead to a rich spicy wine with a thick mouthfeel that has just a touch of extra sweetness. Lots of polish, in spite of the bitter note at the very end; the wine warmed up nicely with a little air. Ninetypercent Cab with a blend of Bordeaux varietals making up the remaining 10 percent.

Sonoma River 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon (PLCB code 32537, $15) — A delicious nose of baked goods and baked fruit with delicate floral notes is misleading: the wine is astringent and thin, with a taste of apple skin. To be fair, though, the Cliff Lede was a tough act to follow.

Errazuruiz 2009 Single Vineyard Cabernet

Sauvignon (Aconcagua Valley, Chile; PLCB code 27562, $20.99) — Tar and plum aromas lead to cherry, cranberry. Virtually no tannins; easily quaffed and pleasant, simple.

Beringer 2010 Knights Valley Cabernet (California, PLCB 8664, $26) — Some boiled green beans, green bell pepper here — which is indicative of grapes grown in a cooler climate — lead a wine that is thick on the palate with an overwhelming amount of vanilla. It tastes unnatural, manipulated — overdone. A disappointment, particularly for the price.

Chaddsford 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon (Pennsylvania, PLCB code 7511, $17) — A little bit of prune, new plastic, sandalwood, and camphor in the nose, leading to a light-bodied wine with spice mid-palate, as well as prune and vanilla, even a note of green olive. Somewhat surprisingly pleasant considering the growing region.

Los Vascos 2010 Colchagua Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile, PLCB code 4389, $13) — Aromas of herbs and a hint of PlayDoh or maybe a kids’ art room; soft cherry flavors with a nice medium-bodied weight; lots of cherry-vanilla and virtually no tannin. Very easy drinking. A centuries old estate, owned by Domaines Barons de Rothschild-Lafite since 1988.

Duncan Peak 2006 Mendocino County Cabernet Sauvignon (California, PLCB code 32678, $20) — A note of cream or dairy on the nose with just a touch of window cleaner, this wine has a creamy mouthfeel with some floral and cedar notes. Very easy drinking.

Two Hands 2011 Sexy Beast Cabernet McClaren Vale (Australia, PLCB code 37077, $37) — Sexy, indeed. Interesting nose of pipe tobacco that has a whiff of dill, the wine has a ton of ripe cherry fruit, is very rich, and easy drinking. Big and delicious, could use a tad more structure, but still a pleasure to drink.

Ghost Pines 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon (Sonoma/Napa/Lake Counties, California, PLCB code 5162, $18) — Cinnamon on the nose, a tad herbaceous on the palate (but in a good way) with medium body and decent fruit, easy tannins, and cocoa emerging on the finish. Port Salut cheese brought out incredible toffee notes in the wine. T&G Lucy Rogers teaches wine classes and offers private wine tastings through Wines by the Class. She also is the event coordinator for Zola Catering.

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Lifestyles Come Together Aardvark KafĂŠ and OIP has dining options for vegans, meat eaters, and everyone in between

By Vilma Shu Danz The Aardvark KafĂŠ and OIP, located at 906 West College Avenue in State College, caters to vegans, vegetarians, and carnivores alike.

Although the restaurant, which opened in February, is hidden away, it has quickly attracted a unique mix of loyal diners, some of whom have strict dietary restrictions such as gluten-free and oil-free to meat eaters who crave a New Yorkstyle pepperoni pizza or a Philly cheesesteak.

Owner Les Urbanski and his stepson, improvisational chef Brandon Bunting Allen.

Owners Les Urbanski and his stepson, Brandon Bunting Allen, took over the restaurant from its previous owners and continued the existing OIP menu, but gradually added vegan options on a little board on the wall. Soon, these specials grew in popularity and developed into a three-page vegan menu. Walking into the restaurant, there are two menus on the counter.

The white menu features the original OIP-style menu with items such as strombolis, calzones, pizzas, hand-trimmed marinated chicken, and sirloin-beef cheesesteaks. The green menu is 100-percent vegan, prepared and prepped at vegan

Mick Mick Mick with seasoned fries

Tofu bites covered in our homemade spicy Buffalo sauce with sautĂŠed peppers and onions, romaine lettuce, and tomatoes in homemade pocket-style bread.

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Kafé Kurry served over rice.

Tofu, beans, peppers, onions, and mushrooms sautéed in coconut milk with a mild curry.

workstations separate from the OIP workstations.

Some of the most popular items on the vegan menu include the homemade black bean burger, Kafé Kurry, and the Mick Mick Mick. Some of the vegan options can be modified gluten-free and served over rice.

“No matter the kind of lifestyle or diet people live by, the Aardvark Kafé has something for everyone,” says Allen. “A vegan or vegetarian can come in with their meat-eating boyfriend, girlfriend, or group of friends and everyone is able to order something great to eat.”

There are many reasons why people choose to follow a plant-based diet — from the health benefits and the treatment of animals to environmental issues. Allen was a vegetarian on and off for several years, but it wasn’t until he witnessed his sister’s miraculous health transformations after she became a vegan that he decided to become a vegan himself.

“I watched over a seven-month period that my sister’s migraine headaches, stomach, and digestive issues all went away, so on Christmas Eve 2010, I went vegan and quit smoking. I have lost 50 pounds so far and I have noticed a positive change in my joint pains,” he says.

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Black Bean Burger with side salad

Homemade black bean burger pieces with romaine lettuce, tomatoes, and hummus in homemade pocketstyle bread. Topped with Buffalo or BBQ sauce.

For the eco-conscious individuals, going to a vegetarian diet can help lower your carbon footprint. A study done by the University of Chicago in 2006 calculated that an average meateating US diet where 47 percent of the calories come from animal products translates to 2.52 tons of carbon-dioxide emissions per year. A vegetarian diet will drop your carbon emissions to 1.5 tons per year.

As more people start considering a plantbased diet, it is important to understand the differences between plant strong, plant perfect (vegan), and vegetarian.

“A lot of people come in and they say they are vegetarian, but they occasionally eat fish or chicken, so I tell them that they are plant strong, which means that the bulk of their diet is veggies with some eggs, dairy, and occasional animal proteins,” explains Allen. “Vegans only eat plant-based foods that come from the ground, no animal products or byproducts are consumed. For vegetarians, in addition to veggies, fruits, and nuts, they do eat animal

byproducts such as eggs, cheese, and milk.”

For more information about the Aardvark Kafé and OIP, visit www.aardvarkkafe.com.

For special recipes for vegan stuffed peppers and linsagna, visit www.townandgown.com. T&G

> Featured Selections < Aardvark Kafé & OIP Hours of Operations:

Monday: 11a.m.-2 p.m.

Tuesday-Friday: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Saturday: 1-8 p.m.

Closed Sunday Improvisational chef Brandon Bunting Allen teaches vegan cooking classes once or twice a month at the Aardvark Kafé. For $35 per person ($10 grocery deposit, $25 for the class), enjoy four hours of hands-on cooking with plenty of food to eat at the end and to take home. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/improvisingveganchef.

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Dining Out Full Course Dining Allen Street Grill, corner of Allen Street and College Avenue, 231-GRILL. The food sizzles. The service sparkles. The prices are deliciously frugal.

The menu is classic American grill mixed with popular influences from Mexico, Italy, and the Far East. AE, D, MC, V. The Autoport, 1405 S. Atherton St., 237-7666, www.theautoport.com. The all new Autoport offers exceptional dining featuring local produce and an extensive wine list. Tapas menu and special events every week. Catering and private events available.

Live music. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Full bar. bar bleu, 114. S Garner St., 237-0374, bar-bleu. com. Socializing and sports viewing awaits at bar bleu. Don’t miss a minute of the action on 22 true 1080i HDMI high-definition flat-screen monitors displaying the night’s college and pro matchups. The bar serves up 16 draft beers in addition to crafted cocktails, including the “Fishbowl,” concocted in its own 43-ounce tank! Pub fare featuring authentic Kansas City-style barbecue is smoked daily on-site.

AE, D, DC, ID+, MC, V. Full bar.

Bella Sicilia, 2782 Earlystown Road, Centre Hall, 364-2176. An Italian kitchen where food is prepared from scratch and with love! Featuring traditional recipes of pasta dishes, calzones, stromboli’s, subs, salads, and extraordinary pizza! Try Bella Sicilia’s stuffed, Sicilian, Chicago, or 16 varieties of thin-crust specialty pies, including seafood pizza with shrimp, clams, calamari, mussels, and margherita sauce!

Take-out or enjoy our beautiful dining room, located in the back of our building. Feel free to bring your own beer and wine. Lunch buffet Mon.-Fri. Check us out on Facebook. AE,MC,V,MAC,D. Bill Pickle’s Tap Room,106 S. Allen St., 272-1172.

Not for saints…not for sinners. AE, DIS, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.

Carnegie House, corner of Cricklewood Dr. and Toftrees Ave., 234-2424. An exquisite boutique hotel offering fine dining in a relaxed yet gracious atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner. Prix Fixe menu and à la carte menu selections now available.

AAA Four Diamond Award recipient for lodging and fine dining. Reservations suggested. AE, MC, D, V. Full bar.

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To advertise, call Town&Gown account executives Kathy George or Debbie Markel at (814) 238-5051.

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Chili’s Grill & Bar, 137 South Allen Street, 234-5922.

Chili’s is like “no place else” — Southwestern menu features sizzling fajitas, “the Best Burgers,” baby-back ribs, steaks, and Margarita Madness.

The Corner Room Restaurant, corner of Allen Street and College Avenue, 237-3051. Literally first in hospitality. Since 1855, The Corner Room has served generous breakfasts, lunches, and dinners to the community and its guests. AE, D, MC, V. Cozy Thai Bistro, 232 S. Allen St., 237-0139. A true authentic Thai restaurant offering casual and yet “cozy” family-friendly dining experience. Menu features wide selections of exotic Thai cuisine, both lunch and dinner (take-out available). BYO (wines & beer) is welcome after 5 p.m. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Damon’s Grill & Sports Bar, 1031 E. College Ave., 237-6300, damons.com. Just seconds from Beaver Stadium, locally owned and operated, Damon’s is the premiere place to watch sports and enjoy our extensive menu. Ribs, wings, burgers, steaks, apps, salads, and so much more. AE, D, MAC, MC, V, Full bar.

We love People, Beer & Local Foods!

Proudly Serving Our Dedicated, Loyal Customers For 10 Years

Bringing you craft beer and fresh food using local products in a family friendly, casual atmosphere.

Food & Beer TO GO!

Bottles • Cases • Kegs • Growlers ring Now offe ade locally m dy, , can beer soap ! & mugs

2235 N. Atherton St. State College 814.867.6886 www.ottospubandbrewery.com

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State College’s newest hangout

Try our onsite Smoked Pork Sandwich!

1301 West College Ave. • 814-308-8959 www.westsidestadiumbarandgrill.com

FINE COUNTRY FOOD & DRINK

The Deli Restaurant, 113 Hiester St., 237-5710, TheDeliRestaurant.com. Since 1973, The Deli has served up New York-style deli favorites on an American menu offering everything from comfort food to pub favorites, all made from scratch. Soups, breads, sauces, and awardwinning desserts are homemade here early in the morning folks. Look for its rotating menu of food-themed festivals throughout the year. AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar.

The Dining Room at the Nittany Lion Inn, 200 W. Park Ave., 865-8590. Fine continental cuisine in a relaxed, gracious atmosphere. Casual attire acceptable. Private dining rooms available. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.

Duffy’s Boalsburg Tavern, On the Diamond, Boalsburg, 466-6241. The Boalsburg Tavern offers a fine, intimate setting reminiscent of Colonial times. Dining for all occasions with formal and casual menus, daily dinner features, specials, and plenty of free parking. AE, MC, V. Full bar.

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A true neighborhood hangout highly regarded for its popular and authentic New York-style wood-fired pizza and commitment to quality. Award-winning pizza. and Italian cuisine homemade with only the best and freshest ingredients.

We offer wood-fired pizza, fresh homemade pasta, as well as wood-grilled items such as Baby Back BBQ Ribs, homemade meatloaf, various fish and seafood and our soon to be award winning burgers!

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1229 South Atherton St. • State College • 234-9000

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Faccia Luna Pizzeria, 1229 S. Atherton St., 234-9000, www.faccialuna.com. A true neighborhood hangout, famous for authentic New York-style wood-fired pizzas and fresh, homemade It.alian cuisine. Seafood specialties, sumptuous salads, divine desserts, great service, and full bar. Outside seating available. Sorry, reservations not accepted. Dine-in, Take-out. MC/V. Galanga, 454 E. College Ave. 237-1718. Another great addition to Cozy Thai Bistro. Galanga by Cozy Thai offers a unique authentic Thai food featuring Northeastern Thai style cuisine. Vegetarian menu selection available. BYO (wines and beer) is welcome after 5 p.m. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Gamble Mill Restaurant & Microbrewery, 160 Dunlop St., Bellefonte; 355-7764. A true piece of Americana, dine and enjoy our in-house craft beers in a historic mill. Experience bold American flavors by exploring our casual pub menu or fine dining options. Six to seven beers of our craft beers on tap.

Brewers Club, Growlers, outdoor seating, large private functions, catering. Lunch 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Dinner 5-9/10 p.m. Mon.-Sat. “Chalk Board Sunday’s” 4-8 p.m. All credit cards accepted.

The Gardens Restaurant at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd., Innovation Park, 863-5090. Dining is a treat for breakfast, lunch and dinner in The Gardens Restaurant, where sumptuous buffets and à la carte dining are our specialties. AE, CB, D, DC, MC, V. Full bar, beer.

Harrison’s Wine Grill & Catering, 1221 E. College Ave. (within the Hilton Garden Inn), 237-4422, www.harrisonsmenu.com. Traditional seasonal favorites prepared extraordinarily. Fusion food, sharing plates, and fresh seafood. Extensive wines-by-the-glass, full bar, moderate prices. Lunch/ Dinner. Exquisite catering. MC, V. Herwig’s Austrian Bistro, where bacon is an herb, 132 W. College Ave., herwigsaus trianbistro.com, 272-0738. Located next to the State Theatre. Austrian Home Cooking. Ranked #1 Ethnic Restaurant 5 years in a row. Eat-in, Take-Out, Catering, Franchising. BYO after 5 p.m., D, MC, V.

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Hi-Way Pizza, 1688 North Atherton St., 237-0375, HiWayPizza.com. The State College tradition for nearly 50 years, nobody does it better than Hi-Way! Offering more than 29 varieties of hand-spun pizzas made from scratch offer an endless combination of toppings. Its vodka “flaky” crust and red stuffed pizzas are simply a must have. Hi-Way’s menu rounds out with pasta dishes, calzones, grinders, salads, and other Italian specialties. Eat-in, Take-out, or Hi-Way delivery. AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar.

India Pavilion, 222 E. Calder Way, 237-3400.

Large selection of vegetarian and nonvegetarian dishes from northern India. Lunch buffet offered daily.

We offer catering for groups and private parties. AE, (call ahead.)

D, MC, V.

Inferno Brick Oven & Bar, 340 E. College Ave., 237-5718, InfernoBrickOvenBar.com. With a casual yet sophisticated atmosphere, Inferno is a place to see and be seen. A full-service bar boasts a unique specialty wine, beer, and cocktail menu. Foodies — Inferno offers a contemporary Neapolitan brick-oven experience featuring a focused menu of artisan pizzas and other modern-Italian plates. Lunch and dinner service transitions into night as a boutique nightclub with dance-floor lighting, club sound system, and the area’s most talented resident DJs. AE, D, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.

Legends Pub at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd., Innovation Park, 863-5080. Unwind with beverages and a casual lounge menu. AE, D, MC, V. Full bar.

Luna 2 Woodgrill & Bar, 2609 E. College Ave., 234-9009, www.luna-2.com. Wood-fired pizza, fresh pasta, wood-grilled BBQ ribs, seafood, burgers, and don’t forget to try the homemade meatloaf! Sumptuous salads and desserts. Full bar service. Outside seating. Sorry, no reservations accepted. Dine-In, Take-out. MC/V.

Traditional Italian Recipes… made with love!

Try our Linguine di Mare Take Out or bring your own beer and wine, and enjoy our beautiful Dining Room!

Bring this ad in and receive 10% off your next meal (dine-in only).

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All day every day we make everything on our menu from scratch. We are proud to use local meats and produce, and strive to find the absolutely best ingredients avaliable.

We know it makes a difference, and we believe you will agree.

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The Autoport–Good, comfortable food.

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Mario’s Italian Restaurant, 1272 North Atherton St., 234-4273, MariosItalianStateCollege.com. Fresh specialty dishes, pasta, sauces, hand-tossed pizzas, and rotisserie woodgrilled chicken all made from scratch are just a few reasons why Mario’s is authentically Italian! At the heart of it all is a specialty wood-fired pizza oven and rotisserie that imparts rustic flavors that can’t be beat! Mario’s loves wine, honored with six consecutive Wine Spectator awards and a wine list of more than 550 Italian selections. Mario’s even pours 12 rotating specialty bottles on its WineStation® state-of-the-art preservation system. Reservations and Walk-Ins welcome. AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar.

The Mt. Nittany Inn, 559 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Centre Hall, 364-9363, mtnittanyinn.com. Perched high above Happy Valley at 1,809 feet, the Mt. Nittany Inn offers homemade soups, steaks, seafood, and pasta. Bar and banquet areas available. AE, CB, D, MAC, MC, V. Full Bar. Otto’s Pub & Brewery, 2235 N. Atherton Street, 867-6886, www.ottospubandbrewery.com. Our new location provides plenty of parking, great ales and lagers, full service bar, signature dishes made with local products in a family-friendly, casual atmosphere. AE, D, DC, LC MC, V, Full bar.

The Tavern Restaurant, 220 E. College Ave., 238-6116. A unique gallery-in-a-restaurant preserving PA’s and Penn State’s past. Dinner at The Tavern is a Penn State tradition. Major credit cards accepted. Full bar.

Whiskers at the Nittany Lion Inn, 200 W. Park Ave., 865-8580. Casual dining featuring soups, salads, sandwiches and University Creamery ice cream. Major credit cards accepted. Full bar.

Whistle Stop Restaurant, Old Train Station Corner, Centre Hall on Rte. 144, 15 minutes east of State College. 364-2544. Traditional dining in an 1884 Victorian railroad station decorated with railroad memorabilia. Chef-created soups, desserts, and daily specials. Lunch and dinner served Wed.-Sun. D, MC, V. Zola New World Bistro, 324 W. College Ave., 237-8474. Zola combines comfortable, modern décor with exceptional service. Innovative, creative cuisine from seasonal menus served for lunch and dinner. Extensive award-winning wine list. Jazz and oysters in the bar on Fridays. Catering. AE, D, MC, V. Full bar.

Taste of the Month Town&Gown’s Monthly Focus on Food

If it’s happening in Happy Valley, it’s in Town&Gown!

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Good Food Fast HUB Dining, HUB-Robeson Center, on campus, 865-7623. A Penn State tradition open to all! Eleven restaurants stocked with extraordinary variety: Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Higher Grounds, HUB Subs, Mixed Greens, Burger King, Panda Express, Piccalilli’s, Sbarro, Sushi by Panda, Wild Cactus, and more! V, MC, LC. Meyer Dairy, 2390 S. Atherton Street, 237-1849.

A State College Classic! Meyer Dairy is the perfect choice for a quick, homemade lunch with fresh soups and sandwiches or treat yourself to your favorite flavor of ice cream or sundae at our ice cream parlor. Fresh milk from our own dairy cows (we do not inject our cows with BST), eggs, cheese, ice cream cakes, baked goods, and more! Plus, Meyer Dairy is the best place to pick up your Town&Gown magazine each month!

Westside Stadium Bar and Grill, 1301 W. College Ave., 308-8959, www.westsidestadiumbarandgrill.com. See what all the buzz is about at Westside Stadium. Opened in September 2010, State College’s newest hangout features mouthwatering onsite smoked pork and brisket sandwiches. Watch your favorite sports on 17 HDTVs. Happy Hour 5-7 p.m. Take-out and bottle shop. Outdoor seating available. D, V, MC. Full Bar. T&G

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3 private banquet rooms available for your holiday parties.

TAILGATE PACKS ARE PERFECT FOR ANY HOLIDAY PARTY OR NFL WATCHING PARTY. Make Reservations for Valentine’s Day. Check out our tailgate menu at damons.com under the catering tab.

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Sharing the Inspiration Housing Transitions coordinator spreads the word about those who need help and have been helped

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As development and communityrelations coordinator at Housing Transitions Inc., Susanna Jech Paul is part of an organization whose work has helped rebuild the lives of Centre County residents in need. By sharing the organization’s story with the community, she is able to bring different groups together — from landlords to government agencies — to help Housing Transitions’ clients get back on track toward stability and self-sufficiency.

Born in Los Angeles, Paul was raised in State College. She earned her bachelor of arts degree in history from Stan- Mimi Barash Coppersmith (left) chats with Susanna Jech Paulin ford University, and master’s of public of Housing Transitions at Harrison’s Wine Grill in State College. policy at the University of Maryland. After 20 high school and I came back 20 years later, years away from the area, she returned to State when my children were 6 and 9. A lot has College after her husband, Michael, was offered a changed in the area, but, more than anything, job at Penn State’s Applied Research Lab in 2009. my perspective has changed. I now have chilTown&Gown founder Mimi Barash Copperdren and their welfare is my primary concern. smith sat down with Paul at Harrison’s Wine Grill I believed that coming to State College we’d in State College to discuss how Housing Transifind excellent schools and a safe, caring comtions is working with the community to find a munity — and that has been the case. Within long-term solution to the Centre Region’s need for about a week of moving into our house in Park affordable housing.

Forest, six or seven neighbors came by with cookies, brownies, and homemade candy to Mimi: We’re here today because I find you welcome us. That was reflective of how this to be someone that our readers should get to community has opened its arms to us. know. You’re a native of State College. You Mimi: What’s the most exciting thing left the area and then came back. that’s happened to you since you arrived?

Susanna: I left in 1989 when I had finished Susanna: The day that I recently said to

my husband that I love my job. And he said, “Susanna, in our 14 years of marriage, I have never heard you say that.”

Mimi: And tell me why you love your job.

Susanna: I spent years and years teaching.

I had participated in Teach for America in the 1990s, and I taught at the college level as well when we were living in Maryland. I had thought since my childhood, mostly because of my experiences at Radio Park Elementary School, that I was destined to become a teacher. But I think that it wasn’t quite the right fit.

As much as I loved being in the classroom, I was much more interested in the students’ stories and in their lives than I was in teaching them academic material. My interest in human stories is what has drawn me to the human-services sector. Working at Housing Transitions, I get to work with people whose stories are changing every day — changing for the better.

Mimi: This is the first time you’ve done work like this.

Susanna: That’s correct. What I love is the opportunity to tell Housing Transitions’ story and to share the inspiration that we get from the clients with the community.

Mimi: You’ve got a lot more visibility right now, so that’s partly your hand at work. You’re expanding, right?

Susanna: Well, there was an article in the paper with a headline that was a little unclear.

We’re not physically expanding, but thanks to a grant, we are expanding our services to a certain population that we wouldn’t normally be able to serve as thoroughly. We provide a continuum of housing services ranging from emergency-shelter services for the homeless to housing case-management services for the near-homeless to programs for homeless individuals with mental illness.

Mimi: That’s pretty important.

Susanna: It’s extremely important! It’s a very underserved part of our population nationally. I don’t know who said it, but a society can only be judged by how well they treat their weakest members — for example, people with illnesses that prevent them from thriving independently.

Mimi: Where do you think the breakdown comes in your experience with this?

Susanna: It’s very complex. I think that some people would struggle in compliance

with their medications. They are sometimes misunderstood by employers, landlords, or people they have professional relationships with. It’s sometimes difficult to give help to people who resist help, and there’s a trust issue that needs to be resolved as well. So, there are multiple ways in which a breakdown can occur, and what we do is learn the person’s story to determine what their personal challenges are. Sometimes, in addition to mental illnesses, those challenges can also include childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, a history of substance abuse, or some other barrier to self-sufficiency. We can’t apply a one-size-fits-all approach. Our case workers really try to learn people’s stories, understand where they’re coming from, why they’re going in the direction they’re headed in, and how do we get them on track toward stability and self-sufficiency. When we check back in with former shelter residents a year after they’ve left us, over 90 percent of them are still in the safe, stable, affordable-housing situation that we helped them find.

Mimi: Well, that’s pretty exciting.

Susanna: It’s really exciting. It’s one of the reasons that I love my job. Another reason is the highly competent people that work for the organization. Everybody I work with likes each other. Everybody gets along. It’s a wonderful, very supportive climate.

Mimi: What is the annual budget?

Susanna: A little over half a million.

Mimi: How many people can you have?

Susanna: We have what we call a continuum of services, and that’s everything from our emergency homeless shelter to our first-time home buyers.

Mimi: So, you have homeless shelters downtown?

Susanna: Yes, on East Nittany Avenue.

And through that whole continuum of services, or what I like to call a spectrum of services, last fiscal year, 2,400 people in Centre County were given some type of service. And most significantly, a third of them were children.

Mimi: Do you get a lot of people who are homeless? What happens then?

Susanna: There a couple of things we do for people who are in housing crisis. Our core service is the Centre House homeless shelter, where families and individuals can stay if they are homeless. Or, if they still have a home,

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we will work with them to try to either fix the situation, such as a landlord-tenant mediation or finding resources for grants so that eviction doesn’t occur. In some cases, we need to help people find new housing, and we maintain a housing list with a lot of resources.

Mimi: To what extent do the major property owners join in the solution?

Susanna: We do get support from a number of the major property owners. They give us financial support. We also have relationships with a number of landlords in town who help us place people. Though not everyone in town is helpful like this, a lot of the property owners in town are, and I think those good relationships are thanks in large part to our executive director Ron Quinn’s presence in the community.

Mimi: What percentage of the unmet need do you think might be met with better collaboration among a number of the potential resources that are solutions to this problem?

Susanna: I would say that there is already a good deal of collaboration. For example, the Centre County Affordable Housing Coalition is a coalition of members that include real estate agencies, banks and mortgage companies,

developers and property owners, and numerous human-services organizations, as well as government agencies that work with adults in our community.

Mimi: What’s the best first step forward to enhance the good work that’s already being done?

Susanna: The best first step is more funding.

We continue to need to be able to serve and provide a variety of services that help support folks so that they can establish themselves and maintain independence.

Mimi: We have some urgent needs with people who will have to vacate their trailers, and that causes a person like me to think that we need more places with affordable rent.

Susanna: If we could somehow raise rather than reduce the amount of affordable-housing stock, then many people’s lives would be far less stressful. And I think one of the things that would be really helpful is if people let go of the misconception that affordable housing only matters to people who are low income. Affordable housing matters to everybody, no matter what their income. When a household spends more than 30 or 35 percent of their household

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income on housing, there’s a tremendous impact on the rest of the budget. There’s a tremendous strain there, and this is particularly true when people look at children. Safe, stable, affordable housing supports children’s wellbeing and health, and the services we provide at Housing Transitions are a long-term solution. Affordable housing — while some people think it’s really just for some sector of the population — truly benefits the entire community.

Mimi: I like to call it the workforce.

Susanna: Yes, the truth is the majority of the people we see are working, but struggling to make ends meet. I’d like to share a story about a young man that we helped recently. He came through our shelter, and he was working one part-time job and was trying to increase his hours but couldn’t, so he found another parttime job. He now works two part-time jobs for a total of 60 hour per week and is maintaining his independence. He comes back periodically to the shelter, brings us baked goods, fruit, and makes a donation to the shelter to give back to the organization to help the folks that are there currently seeking shelter like he was. I like to share this story because there’s a misconception that some people in our community just want to take whatever they can get.

The majority of the people we work with are not just looking to improve their lives, but, as soon as they have the opportunity, they find a way to pay it forward or to give back. He’s not the only one of our former residents who comes back from time to time with a donation.

Mimi: So, how do you think we’re doing as a community on our immediate problem?

Susanna: People have really been rising to the occasion, and there’s been a lot of positive work that’s already taken place, but probably the hardest work is yet to come because as these mobile-home parks close, we’re going to need housing that people can afford — permanent replacement housing — and I don’t know that the housing stock is out there.

Mimi: You’re not going to find land in the community that they’re accustomed to, so realistically, looking at the bigger solution to the problem, the land will have to be maybe even outside of the Centre Region.

Susanna: That’s quite possible. But there are some interesting solutions taking place. For example, the Affordable Housing Coalition is

moving along with plans to start a shared-housing program, where they match people who need housing with households that have space.

It might be an empty nester or a widower who would like some company and maybe someone to take out his trash or help out around the house a little bit. It might be a recently divorced mother who would appreciate having a couple more adults around the house. They’re working on this shared-housing program.

Mimi: How do you do that?

Susanna: It’s complex. There’s a subcommittee that’s working on this shared-housing idea, and, of course, there would have to be many safeguards put in place. But they’re moving ahead with the idea because it has evidently worked in other communities.

Mimi: Of your $500,000 budget, what part of it is private support?

Susanna: About a quarter.

Mimi: And the other comes mostly from government agencies?

Susanna: The other comes from the United Way and government agencies, and private foundations like the Centre Foundation, and that’s where the opportunities for the community to step up are presenting themselves.

Mimi: To what extent do you collaborate with other organizations? When you say “shelter,” I somehow think of the Women’s Resource Center. Do you interact a lot?

Susanna: Yes, we do collaborate with many organizations, like the Community Help Center, Interfaith Human Services, the Food Bank, Catholic Social Services, the Centre County Women’s Resource Center, Centre Volunteers in Medicine, the Centre County Affordable Housing Coalition, and Bridge of Hope.

Mimi: I hope you continue to thrive.

Susanna: Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you. I think too of the inspiration that I get from the clients we work with. I get so much more than what I give, and everyone I work with would say the same. The people we work with who spread their wings and soar as they leave our doors are very inspiring.

Mimi: That’s a good note on which to soar away! Thank you so much. T&G To make a donation to Housing Transitions, send a check to Housing Transitions, PO Box 1391, State College, PA 16804.

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State College Photo Club’s Winning Photos The State College Photo Club provides photo enthusiasts with the opportunity to share their passion for photography with others and to provide an environment for learning and developing new skills. The club welcomes individuals from amateurs to professionals. One of the club’s activities is to hold a monthly competition. Town&Gown is pleased to present the winning images from the club’s competition.

Shown this month are the first-place winners from the judged October meeting competition.

October Meeting First Place: Theme “Carnivals/Fairs” “Evolution” by Linda Hale

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“Image taken at 2012 State College Arts Festival. The man in the background was walking behind the booth as I snapped this image. Thought it represented the somewhat blurred link between man and monkey.”

October Meeting First Place: Open Category

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“Light and Dark” by Gary Perdue

“This was taken at the Penn State Arboretum. I was attracted to the contrast between the reflections on the water collected on the light, bumpy surface of the lily pad, and on the water of the dark, smooth surface of the pond. I shot in RAW color, but then processed the photo in monochrome to emphasize the light and dark contrast.”

A copy of either of these photos may be obtained with a $75 contribution to the Salvation Army of Centre County. Contact Captain Charles Niedermeyer at 861-1785. You can select any size up to 11-inches wide.

The State College Photo Club meets on the third Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Foxdale Village Auditorium. Guest and new members are welcome.

Visit www.statecollegephotoclub.org for more information about how to join.

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Part of the Team Green helps PSU athletics move forward

By Cara McShane

Two years ago, Charmelle Green, working for the University of Notre Dame’s athletic administration at the time, was wrapping up a presentation in Indianapolis about networking. In the audience was Coquese Washington, head coach of Penn State’s women’s basketball program.

After her presentation, Green drove back to South Bend. Soon after, she received a phone call from Washington. “She asked me if Notre Dame was where I wanted to be or if I would ever want to move on,” Green says. Washington explained that a position at Penn State had become available — associate athletic director and senior woman administrator.

“She said I would be remarkable in this role,” Green says. “So I took a look, researched it, and it started rolling from there.”

Green, who says that the transition was both exciting and stressful, started her job replacing the retired Sue Delaney-Scheetz in July 2011.

A few months later, of course, Penn State was hit with the child-abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky, and Green has played a role in helping the university deal with the adversity.

“Certainly no one expects to land a new job and then be dealing with what we have been dealing with,” she says. “You don’t expect something of that magnitude within only three and a half months of being in a position. I had to adapt and be open to changes and new leadership.”

Green’s role includes monitoring Title IX compliance for intercollegiate athletics and oversight of several of Penn State’s athletic programs, including women’s volleyball, field hockey, women’s soccer, and softball. She also was on the search committee that led to Penn State’s hiring of head football coach Bill O’Brien.

Since her arrival, she says she has seen “tremendous camaraderie and guidance.”

“There are many great leaders who are driven and committed to seeing us get on the other side of this,” she says. “It gives you an idea of the

Charmelle Green What has been your most memorable experience? “Playing for the University of Utah in the WAC (Western Athletic Conference) Softball Championship as a senior and winning in 56 innings [losing a 31-inning game to Creighton before winning the title game in a 25-inning contest over the Bluejays]! We went on to win regionals and play in the College World Series. It was a magical year!”

What is your favorite food to cook?

“Cooking is one of my stress reliefs. I love a hearty Italian meal, but I also like to cook Mexican.”

What is your favorite book? “Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi. It’s awesome!” people that represent Penn State. It’s very encouraging that you can deal with great adversity yet come together as ‘one team.’ ” Green grew up in San Diego, the youngest of six children. When she was in high school, she was recruited by the University of Utah to play softball. She became an All-American for the Utes and graduated in 1991 with a degree in mass communications/public relations.

Her husband, Matthew Mooney, is a professor at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

He teaches interactive media and Web-design courses in the business school. He enjoys blues music and loves to play the harmonica and guitar.

She says that they are “avid outdoors people.”

The two enjoy mountain biking, hiking, and, since moving to State College, her husband has taken up fly-fishing.

“This area is really great,” she says. “Every day, we wake up and say, ‘Gosh, we’ve landed a really great spot!’ ” T&G

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