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As Eric Barron prepares to become Penn State’s next president this month, those who know and who have worked with him say his philosophy and style of leadership are what the university needs in facing the challenges ahead • by Paige Minemyer
42 / History Comes to Life As Boalsburg prepares to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its holding the first Memorial Day, local Civil War reenactors continue to honor the men and women of that time with authentic portrayals • by Aimee Morgan
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Letter From The Editor Starting Off On Center: Regina Carter’s seasonopening concert interprets music from her grandfather’s day Health & Wellness: Growing number of adults deal with arthritis This Month on WPSU Penn State Diary: Fans have had varied experiences attending football games and cheering on the Lions through the years Events: Bellefonte Art Museum brings food and art together in summer project What’s Happening: Jason Aldean, graduation, and Big Spring Festival highlight this month’s events From the Vine: Central Coast is California’s forgotten wine region Taste of the Month/Dining Out: Clem’s Roadside Bar and Grill brings popular barbecue back to area Lunch with Mimi: Maggie Lucas reflects on her Lady Lion career that will go down as one of the best in program history State College Photo Club’s Winning Photos Snapshot: Palmer Museum’s honorary chairs continue to show great passion, support for the arts in Happy Valley
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Change in the Spring Air Penn State prepares for its future with new president It comes around each May — a sure sign of spring. Thousands of Penn State students put on their caps and gowns and officially become alumni of the university. They bid a fond farewell to the place they’ve spent their formative years, and will hopefully leave as better people — and leave the university a better place. This month’s graduation, however, has extra significance. It will be the last graduation with Rodney Erickson serving as president of the university. The next day, May 12, Eric Barron will become the 18th president of Penn State University. Over the past few years, there’s been a lot written about when it comes to a new era as regards to the Penn State football program. Even the 2014 season marks another new era with James Franklin, hired in January, now leading the Nittany Lions. The start of Barron’s term marks a new era for the entire university, and even, in some ways, all of Happy Valley. Barron, a former dean at Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and, more recently, president of Florida State University, comes to the university at a time when it has plenty to be optimistic about, but also a time when it is still dealing with the fallout of the Sandusky scandal. On the positive, undergraduate applications to attend Penn State are running ahead of last year’s numbers — many continue to see the value of a degree from Penn State. The fundraising campaign For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students sur-
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passed its goal and raised $2.158 billion in private support — and the campaign is continuing until June 30. Senior vice president for development and alumni relations Rodney P. Kirsch said in a released statement, “The success of For the Future clearly demonstrates that Penn State is stronger than ever and that Penn State values endure.” However, there are still some gray clouds overhead in the forms of ongoing investigations, upcoming trials, and a divided alumni base and board of trustees. From all indications, and from his record both at Penn State and Florida State, Barron is capable of seeing the university through whatever adversity may come its way. In Paige Minemyer’s story “Retutrning to Lead Dear Old State,” people who have worked with Barron talk about his style of leadership and bringing people together to solve problems. He also has a strong focus on helping students, which may sound like an obvious trait to have for his career, but that’s not always the case at some institutes of higher education. A lot has changed at Penn State over the past 30 months, and more changes are likely to come once Barron starts his new job. The task for him, for Franklin, and for everyone is similar to what we hope for from those graduating students: leaving Penn State and this community in a better place — for the future.
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Centre Foundation schedules third annual Centre Gives Centre Foundation will hold its annual online giving event, Centre Gives, from midnight May 6 to noon May 7. Centre Foundation will provide $105,000 in matching dollars and $25,000 in prizes. Also, this year marks the 100th anniversary of community foundations, so Centre Foundation is teaming up with the Council of Foundations to take part in its “Give Local America” event. By participating in the national event with more than 85 other community foundations, Centre Foundation’s Centre Gives will receive a portion of a national pool of matching funds. Last year, Centre Gives raised $550,000 from 4,100 donations and benefited 82 participating organizations. This year, 97 local nonprofits are participating in the event. “Our neighbors in Centre County have really embraced this event," Centre Foundation executive director Molly Kunkel said in a press release. “We thoroughly enjoy hosting this event and are looking forward to expanding it for 2014.” For more information or to donate during the Centre Gives event May 6-7 visit centregives.org. Penn Stater celebrates anniversary The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. It hosts an anniversary celebration with a cake and ice cream party from 1 to 3 p.m. May 7 in its courtyard. In case of inclement weather, the party will be in the lounge.
The Penn Stater opened in 1994, and “enhanced the ability of faculty in Penn State academic units and research centers to convene communities that explored research and technology transfer, professional development, and academic innovation opportunities.” Among the many conferences and events it has hosted, the Penn Stater hosts the National Autism Conference every summer and the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture’s Farming for the Future conference in the winter. In 2000, it hosted the National Governors’ Association Summer Meeting that included a visit from President Bill Clinton. It also hosts the WPSU Wine Festival in the fall. The anniversary “will celebrate faculty success in engagement through conferencing.” Paterno tribute film planned The Porterfield Group and Ten Media Group will be producing an hour-long documentary titled The People’s Joe. The film will be about former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno told from the perspective of “ordinary people.” Production begins this month in Paterno’s hometown of Brooklyn, New York. Filmmakers will travel to other on-site locations to capture conversations about how Paterno impacted those he met — and those he didn’t. The film will be released on DVD on November 9, the three-year anniversary of when Paterno was fired by Penn State’s board of trustees. The Porterfield Group is a State Collegebased production company that produced the films The Joe We Know and 365 Days: A Year in Happy Valley. T&G
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Community Raina Arnett State College Area High School junior Raina Arnett was recently selected to the National High School Honors Orchestra and performed in a national showcase in Louisville. A violinist, she was the only student from Pennsylvania to be a part of this year’s orchestra. The American String Teachers Association organizes the orchestra biennially to showcase the most talented musicians in 11th and 12th grade from orchestras in each state. Arnett was selected through an audition process in which applicants submitted recordings of a required piece. Her submission included the first movement of Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor.
Arnett serves as associate concertmaster of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Orchestra and plays with the Nittany Valley Symphony and school ensembles. David Taylor Penn State wrestler David Taylor became just the third wrestler in NCAA history to win the Hodge Trophy Award twice. The award is college wrestling’s top award. Taylor went undefeated in 2013-14 and won his second national title in leading the Lions to their fourth consecutive team national championship. The senior pinned 16 opponents, and only two of his matches ended without his earning bonus points. Taylor finished his Penn State career with a record of 134-3. He also won the Hodge in 2012 and joins his coach Cael Sanderson, who won the award three times while wrestling for Iowa State, and Missouri’s Ben Askren as the only multiple-time winners of the award. John Urschel In April, John Urschel won the James E. Sullivan Award, which is presented by the Amateur Athletic Union to America’s top amateur athlete. Urschel was an AllAmerican guard on the Penn State football team. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in May 2012, a master’s in mathematics in 2013, and has been working on a second master’s degree in math education — all while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. He was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree. He has taught college-level courses and had several research papers published. He also is active in the community as a volunteer with Penn State Uplifting Athletes, THON, Relay for Life, Special Olympics, and Make-AWish events. T&G
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Q&A with Kristin Hoy, PASA conference manager and Centre County chapter coordinator for Buy Fresh Buy Local By Sarah Harteis As spring continues and summer nears, more outdoor events begin to happen, including the wide variety of local outdoor farmers’ markets. Kristin Hoy, conference manager for the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) and Centre County chapter coordinator for Buy Fresh Buy Local, has spent seven years promoting local farms that produce fresh and healthy foods. She took the time to share with Town&Gown her passion for healthy living as well as the benefits of eating fresh and local. “Tasteful Touches for Every Room”
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T&G: What is your role at PASA? Hoy: My main role is planning the annual Farming for the Future conferences that happen at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. The primary goal of the conference is to educate the members, most of whom are farmers, so there are lots of workshops for them to attend. It’s also a social event for them as well. I also manage Centre County’s Buy Fresh Buy Local, which connects customers to farmers as well as with restaurants, retailers, and grocers. We are trying to get more local food into the food system in Centre County. T&G: Why do you think Buy Fresh Buy Local is vital to the community? Hoy: Their concept is that all communities need to have a sense of identity. Food is such a big part of that because it’s something everyone does multiple times per day, so there’s a big opportunity to have an impact on what the community looks like. One thing we love about Happy Valley is that it has such beautiful agricultural landscapes, but, to keep them, we have to be committed to using foods that farms produce, and giving farms fair prices for what they’re growing and producing. Buy Fresh Buy Local allows the food web of the community to be stronger. T&G: What are the benefits of shopping at local farmers’ markets? Hoy: My self-serving answer is that it’s just plain delicious! There is nothing better than a truly ripe strawberry or tomato or peach. In grocery stores, they typically have to ship long distances and you lose a lot of flavor that way. Also, if you care about a certain aspect of your food, such as whether it is pesticide free or GMO free, these are the things you can ask when you buy at a farmers’ market. That’s a big benefit, to be able to talk to the farmer and ask those questions that you personally care about. T&G: What are some tips on shopping at farmers’ markets? Hoy: First, I would say to bring cash. That’s always important. It’s also good to have a cooler if you want to purchase meat. One other thing I’d say that you shouldn’t be afraid to do is ask if you can sample something you’re interested in. If you see a weird looking vegetable, ask what it is. It’s their life’s work and they’re proud of it. They’re very passionate and they appreciate when people are excited about it, too. T&G: Is it more expensive to shop fresh/local? Hoy: In peak season, prices are relatively reasonable. Buying local cuts out a lot of the middle men, so I know that my entire dollar goes to the farmer. Otherwise, you have fuel, packaging, and labeling costs. That, to me, is more important. Plus, you are typically getting reasonable prices anyway when you buy local. It’s also important to keep in mind that during peak seasons you can get canning quantities to be able to can tomatoes or whatever it is you want to can, and, in the long run, that is much cheaper. T&G
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1988 “A Forty-Year Song of Joy” helped mark the 40th anniversary of the State College Choral Society. The society was just a “gleam in the eyes of thirty-five Women’s Club chorus members in December of 1948,” wrote Liz Ball. Choral member Ernie Hawk said, “The Choral Society represents a long line of giving, from the composers who gave us texts and music, to those who’ve learned and taught the works down the generations, to what we give of ourselves chorally, to the people in the community who come to hear us and give us their support.”
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1999 The subject of pet adoption was at the center of “Newfound Friends.” Nittany Greyhounds was founded in 1995, and most of its dogs came from racetracks in the south and east. Cofounder Elaine Skidel said that the group had adopted out about 220 greyhounds, and most greyhound owners adopt more than one dog. “It’s called ‘chipping,’ ” Skidel said. “With greyhounds, as potato chips, it’s hard to stop at just one!” 2012 In “Educational Adventure,” State College Area School District teacher Nell Herrmann wrote about her travels to Antarctica with a team of scientists. One of her responsibilities with the team was working as a dive tender, which meant either driving the small inflatable boat or assisting divers as they put on their gear and got into and out of the water. She also had to watch out for leopard seals, which have been known to attack divers. She had one instance where she alerted the divers to a seal. “The seal had extremely bloodshot eyes and was intimidating,” she wrote. “We got the divers back into the boat successfully, but my heart was racing for about an hour afterward.” T&G
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Southern Songs Regina Carter’s season-opening concert interprets music from her grandfather’s day By John Mark Rafacz
Jazz violinist Regina Carter is a restless voyager. Her Reverse Thread (2010) album rejoiced in African folk music. I’ll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey (2006) revived early jazz loved by her late mother. Paganini: After a Dream (2003) was a tip of the cap to an Italian violin virtuoso. “On Southern Comfort, her bracing new album, she turns her focus to a chapter in her family history that preceded the Great Migration [of African Americans from the South to northern cities in the twentieth century], when her paternal grandfather was a coal miner in Alabama,” writes Nate Chinen of the New York Times. “The result is a meditation on American roots music with barely a whiff of the musty carpetbag and more than a hint of personal investment.” Carter and her band perform music from Southern Comfort in a Thursday, September 25, concert at Eisenhower Auditorium that opens the 2014-15 season for Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State. “Elements of alt-country, folk, Bill Frisell-esque Americana, jazz, traditional music, and more merge together beautifully on this gem on an album,” writes Dan Bilawsky for AllAboutJazz.com. “Carter has no shortage of fine records in her discography, but this one tops them all.” Carter — who last performed at Eisenhower with guitarist Russell Malone, pianist Kenny Barron, and vocalist Kurt Elling in 2010 — is routinely cited as the finest violinist in jazz. In 2006, the Detroit native received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” Fellowship in recognition of her artistic achievements. While Carter found inspiration in the idea of songs her grandfather might have heard in southern Appalachia, she expands on the theme to take a broader survey of an earlier South. She began her research by talking with relatives and reading books. She later delved into Library of Congress music collections made by folklorists such as Alan Lomax and John Work III.
Carter opens the 2014-15 season for Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State with a September 25 concert at Eisenhower Auditorium.
“When I would hear some of these field recordings, if I heard something that touched me, I put it on the list,” Carter recalls. “I had maybe 50 tunes that I felt strongly about, and I finally forced myself to work more on those to stop myself from collecting more.” Southern Comfort, released in March, includes 11 tracks in which Carter interprets the past from a contemporary perspective. “A bunch of traditional songs and a nugget or two that fit the stylistic bill, if not the exact place and time (i.e., Gram Parsons’s ‘Hickory Wind’), are handled with care by Carter and her crack crew,” Bilawsky notes. The violinist even tested her vocal chords for the project. “Though Ms. Carter sings on one track, ‘I Moaned and I Moaned,’ it’s her violin that generally serves as a surrogate voice,” Chinen observes. “On ‘Cornbread Crumbled in Gravy’ especially, she brings a muted assurance, calming and bittersweet.” T&G Tickets for Carter’s concert and other 2014-15 presentations go on sale to Center for the Performing Arts members June 9, Choice series buyers June 16, and the public June 23. Visit cpa.psu.edu or phone (814) 863-0255 for information. John Mark Rafacz is the editorial manager of the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State.
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Arthritis Agony Growing number of adults deal with pains in or around their joints By Cassandra Wiggins
Millions of Americans suffer with the aches and pains caused by arthritis.
For millions of Americans, aches and pains and growing older go hand in hand. But for some, those aches and pains can interfere with and even alter their daily lives. Approximately 50 million adults in America report having doctor-diagnosed arthritis, and, as the population ages, the number is expected to rise to 67 million by 2030, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. May is Arthritis Awareness Month, and the CDC’s Web site states that there are more than 100 different types of diseases and conditions classified under arthritis, the most common of which is osteoarthritis. Symptoms of arthritis often include pain, aching, stiffness, and swelling in or around the joints. Judy Ko, MD, a rheumatologist with Mount Nittany Physician Center, sees patients with arthritis on almost a daily basis. “There are many different types of arthritis, but it’s easier to classify them between the wear-and-tear arthritis, which is osteoarthritis, and the inflammatory types of arthritis, like rheumatoid and juvenile arthritis,” Ko says. “I usually tell folks that just about everybody is going to get some osteoarthritis at some point in their lives. It may not be necessarily debilitating to them, but everyone is 24 - Town&Gown May 2014
going to get some form of wear and tear in their joints as they live their lives.” Rita Palmer, 80, a patient of Ko’s, has suffered from osteoarthritis in her back and shoulders for several years but she says she refuses to dwell on it. She stresses that many others her age have it worse than she does, so she considers herself very lucky. “It’s hard for me to stand in one place for too long since my back will start to hurt,” she says. “The most bothersome thing for me is when I’m standing at the kitchen sink or trying to do something, all of the sudden my back will hurt me, so I just sit down and the pain usually goes away.” She reports that exercising and keeping active have helped subdue her symptoms. “I don’t enjoy the exercise all the time, but I know I have to do it,” she admits with a laugh. “You have to keep moving. I do what I can. I get along pretty good.” While cracking one’s knuckles will not lead to osteoarthritis, the daily mechanical use of a joint during a person’s life will. Injury to a joint can speed up the development of arthritis in that particular joint. Ko says there are some instances where genetics may allow the cartilage to break down faster in some people as they age. She says, in healthy joints,
there are usually some spaces between the bones, along with cartilage and a good amount of fluid surrounding the joints to keep everything moving smoothly. But as a person ages and they injure their joints, the cartilage will start to break down, the joint spaces get narrower, and the fluids bathing the joints lose their viscosity and don’t absorb shock as efficiently. However, Ko says the inflammatory types of arthritis happen “because your body is doing something it’s not supposed to and creating inflammation in the joints for whatever reason.” She says while there are many theories out there, no one knows for sure what causes these types of inflammatory arthritis. Some suspected causes are genetics, environmental factors, and maybe even smoking, according to the Arthritis Foundation Web site. “The inflammatory types are interesting because there are people who will go years without any problems and all of the sudden, they will notice stiffness and swelling in their joints they never had before,” Ko says. “There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.” Sometimes there are certain genes that can cause doctors to worry more about the developHalo-therapy may help relieve the symptoms of: Allergies•Arthritis•Asthma COPD•Emphysema•Sinusitus Cystic Fibrosis•Hypertension Sleeplessness•Acne/Eczema Weakened Immune System and others...
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Exercise can help alleviate arthritis pain: • Adults should aim for 75 minutes of vigorous intensity or 150 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic activity per week. • Include balance and musclestrengthening activities also. • Vigorous intensity aerobic activities include running, swimming, spinning classes, stair-climbing machines, jumping rope, etc. • Moderate intensity aerobic activities include brisk walking, heavy yard work, leisurely swimming, bicycling, yoga, etc. • Muscle-strengthening activities include lifting free weights, using weight machines, working with resistance bands or using your own body weight as resistance. • Balance activities may include standing on one foot, walking backwards, or even some group exercise classes. • If you’re unaccustomed to exercising, begin small and speak with your physician about activities that will work well for you. — Mount Nittany Medical Center
“The important thing is to keep people active.” Pool exercises are optimal, she states, since they have low impact on the joints but still give a great workout for the muscles. However, many patients don’t have access to pools, so she recommends that people do what they enjoy doing but make modifications. “Instead of walking in the woods, maybe try walking on a flat surface or paved area,” she offers. She says medications such as Advil and Aleve also can help relieve the pain but, if necessary, patients are sometimes prescribed stronger medications. For some, joint replacement also is an option, but that is usually saved for when everything else fails. Ko emphasizes that people do not need to suffer in silence with their arthritis, and encourages people to seek help from their primary-care doctors. Palmer also wants those suffering to take action. “Don’t dwell on it, I don’t believe in that,” she says. “You can’t just give into it. You just have to admit to yourself that you have this problem, or else you’ll become a couch potato.” T&G
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Youth Empowerment Jana Marie Foundation looks to help young people gain self-respect and have opportunities to make positive choices By Jennifer Babulsky
(Editor’s note: This is the fifth of Town&Gown’s yearlong series profiling organizations, groups, and individuals who do noteworthy work to help others — and who also could use your help in aiding those in need. Each month, you’ll have an opportunity to read about these people and organizations in our communities, and maybe be able and even be inspired to provide some help to them. If you have a suggestion for our “12 Months of Giving” series, e-mail dpenc@barashmedia.com.) It’s a letter in the mail, a comment after a forum, or a look out into an audience at an event. The Vicere family and others associated with the Jana Marie Foundation do not have to look far to see how the efforts of their beloved Jana Marie to better the lives of youth still live on three years after the then30-year-old completed suicide. Jana’s sister, Marisa Vicere Brown, created the Jana Marie Foundation in 2012 to honor her sister, and Jana’s dedication to youth and the arts. The foundation’s mission is to empower young people, especially young women, to make positive choices, practice self-respect, and maintain healthy relationships by providing opportunities for personal growth and creative expression. “[Jana] had such a big heart,” says Brown, 31, who serves as the foundation’s president and founder. “She is the inspiration behind our mission. She was creative, and helped teens, so we wanted to follow her lead.” While the foundation’s work is based in the State
Jana Marie Vicere had a desire to better the lives of young people.
College area, Brown lives in Philadelphia, where she is earning her executive MBA degree from Penn State, and is program director at the Little Gym. Jana graduated with a general-education diploma from State College Area High School in 1999 and went to Penn State, where she graduated in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies with a minor in sociology. As a college student, she was named to the Dean’s List, Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society, and to the College of Health and Human Development’s Women’s Leadership Initiative. Despite struggling with depression all her life, she was dedicated to helping others. She served on State College Area School District’s community education advisory board, and she earned a statewide award from the Pennsylvania Association for Adult Community Education in 2006 for her volunteer efforts. She was a counselor for at-risk teenage girls through the Youth Service Bureau and also was an artist, creating poetry, collages, drawings, jewelry, and pottery. Now that she is gone, her family is trying to educate the public about a variety of issues, including suicide, substance abuse, and depression. The foundation’s educational programs work with schools and communities to combat those issues
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Brown started the Jana Marie Foundation in 2012 to honor her sister.
and related social challenges by building support networks and giving community members access to relevant resources and information. The foundation helped to initiate a Straight Talk task force made up of representatives from the foundation, Youth Service Bureau, Communities That Care Partnership, and State College Area School District. The task force sponsors the monthly Straight Talk programs for parents and caregivers in an effort to encourage positive youth development. “All of the cosponsoring agencies work closely together to plan topics that parents request,” says Connie Schulz, State College Area School District family outreach specialist and a member of the foundation’s board of directors. “The foundation’s work seems to be filling a need, and as it becomes more known, I believe that more people will identify potential recipients of scholarships.”
The foundation’s scholarship and award programs fund opportunities for young women in middle and high school to express themselves in artistic and other creative ways. Staff members also are working with the Delta program, Jana’s former school, to honor a female student’s artistic and creative achievements with the Jana Marie Foundation Creative Expression Award. As part of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, the foundation sponsors a square at the Italian Street Painting Festival, giving young artists an opportunity to execute and showcase their talents. “The foundation can help provide funds for some of the young people who have withdrawn from the mainstream and who would benefit from experiences in the arts,” Schulz says. “Developing interests and skills in the arts can provide a lifeline and connection to mentors who can encourage further development.” Schulz met Jana in 2005 when Jana was a student intern in the State College Area School District’s family outreach program, which links families with resources and information that help parents send children to school ready to learn. Interns assist with various program components and help provide current research on various topics. “I knew her passion for helping others, and I wanted to contribute to the foundation when I was contacted,” Schulz says. A 2013 scholarship recipient, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote of her gratitude in receiving a scholarship from the foundation and being able to participate in a Penn State dance class. “I am honestly so grateful because I know if it were not for this scholarship, I would not have been able to even consider taking a Penn State dance class,” she writes. “Dance is honestly a passion of mine that sadly I cannot pursue because of financial hardships, therefore the experience the Jana Marie
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Foundation provided me with was a way to pursue a dream of mine.” It is that kind of positive feedback that shows those associated with the foundation how their hard work is truly paying off. While Brown created the foundation, she credits its success to the team, namely all the people who volunteer their time to plan programs, events, and keep the foundation going strong. “We’re all in the community together, and the more we can reach out and work together, the better it is for everyone,” she says. Denise Herr McCann is division director at Youth Service Bureau and partners with the foundation on projects. She knew Jana when the two worked at Stormbreak girls’ group home. McCann says with parents and children dealing with substance abuse, social-media influences, and overall stress, the pressure to find effective solutions can be difficult. But that is where the foundation can help. “We all know there is no perfect recipe for parenting, and even when you do everything ‘right,’ bad things can still happen,” she says. “Our mission with Straight Talk and some of the other programs we do to create awareness about parenting and youth issues is to provide education and support, not
judgment. We support each other as we all strive to do our best for the kids out there who need us. It’s really about education, awareness, and support.” Raising awareness about mental-health issues is “critical,” she says. “There is often stigma attached to mental-health issues and to getting help,” she says. “We need to overcome that stigma so that people will seek help. Mental-health issues affect people from all walks of life.” As the foundation progresses and more people take advantage of its services, Brown says she sees only good things for the future, including expanding class and program offerings, as well as seeing a growth in the foundation’s Wellness Forum for Young Women. The wellness forums are designed to build personal strength and self-confidence to help combat the stresses of a high-pressure society. “If you ever feel like you are in need, don’t wait,” she says. “There is help out there.” T&G For more information about Jana Marie Foundation, including upcoming events, visit janamariefoundation.org. Jennifer Babulsky is a freelance writer based in State College, and programming coordinator of Penn State’s Center for Women Students.
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Dear Old State As Eric Barron prepares to become Penn State’s next president this month, those who know and who have worked him say his philosophy and style of leadership are what the university needs in facing the challenges ahead By Paige Minemyer 35 - Town&Gown May 2014
When Penn State named former faculty member Eric Barron as its 18th president, trustees and search-committee members lauded his dedication to research and academics, his prior ties to State College, and his willingness to bridge divides in the university community. But Bill Easterling, his successor as the dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, says that Barron’s leadership style can be summed up even more succinctly: He’s an idea man. “At the end of the day, somebody has to step up and have the courage to propose a vision,” Easterling says. “He really has that sort of moxie, the kind that it takes to throw out ideas that stick to the wall.” John Dutton, former dean of the college, and who also hired Barron at Penn State in 1986, says it was evident to him early on that Barron was going to make a mark. “He came up and interviewed and it was clear that he was bright, capable, and full of energy,” he says. “Eric was standing in my office when we realized: That young man’s going to make a success for us.”
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Working for the students It’s Barron’s student-centric mindset that will be his greatest asset, Easterling says. In his previous stint at Penn State, Barron — who will become Penn State’s president on May 12 — exemplified this during his time as
Barron was involved in many community endeavors during his time as president of Florida State University, including helping out during a Habitat for Humanity event.
dean, Easterling adds, through the creation of the Ryan Family Student Center in the Deike Building for students in the college. The center offers tutoring and study spaces for both groups and individuals. The college offers free coffee and sometimes snacks as well, Easterling says. There also is an in-house writer to help students master technical-writing skills for academic papers. The facility “serves no other purpose than to help our students learn,” and getting it together was no easy task, he says. “He took a big risk,” Easterling says, “probably against the advice of a number of colleges.” The center is now considered a “headquarters” for students in the college, according to its Web site. Dutton echoed Easterling’s sentiments. He says Barron sought to make the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences the most studentcentric college at Penn State. “It has functioned for a long time with the intimacy and support of a small college within the framework of a major university,” says Dutton. “Eric really put a lot of emphasis on that.” He adds that along with the student facility, Barron formed an orientation program to allow all the freshmen in the relatively small college meet each other before classes start. This student-focused mentality, Dutton says, is because he wants to see students utilizing all that Penn State has to offer them instead of just “coasting along” through college. “I think you’re going to see that Eric is going to be trying to drive our undergrads and grads to take better advantage of our institution,” he says. Easterling says the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has grown in enrollment over recent years, from about 900 students to about 2,400. Much of that, he says, is because of Barron’s influence. “I will attribute an awful lot of that success to the seeds Eric Barron laid when he was here at Penn State,” he says. Barron himself placed emphasis on helping the student body grow, naming “student success and engagement” as two of his major goals when he was named president of the university on February 17. “I really don’t see barriers to advancing this
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Uniting a community Barron is fully aware of the challenges he faces as the head of Penn State, Pantin believes, and says he received some basic experience with that during his tenure at Florida State. He cites Barron’s efforts to mend fences with former Florida State football head coach Bobby Bowden as a learning experience that may prepare him to deal with the issues at Penn State. Barron took office at FSU in 2010, shortly after Bowden had been forced into retirement by the university. He invited Bowden back to Florida State for a football weekend in an event dubbed “The Legend Returns” in an effort to repair the university’s relationship with the former coach. Bowden told the (Harrisburg) Patriot-News in February that the gesture was appreciated: “It didn’t have to be done and I thought it was very nice for them to do that.” Pantin says, “He helped bring Bobby Bowden back in Barron and his wife, Molly, are “very much a team and very close." the fold and he was successful. But [that wasn’t] one person versus a whole institution,” he says. faction of [Joe] Paterno [supporters] that he has According to Leslie Pantin, vice chair of to bring back.” the Florida State board of trustees, during his Paterno was fired by Penn State’s board of time as president of Florida State, Barron also trustees on November 9, 2011, in the wake was focused on education reforms and updating of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse case, a academic standards. decision that still incites anger among many “He accomplished that in his four years at alumni. Paterno’s statue outside of Beaver Florida State,” he says, “and we continue to Stadium was removed in July 2012 as part of the make advances.” scandal’s fallout. Barron’s official biography from Florida Barron was asked about Paterno’s legacy when he State points to these ideals, too. It reads: “In was named to the presidency, and gave a diplomatic the past three years, he has led his alma mater answer: “Give me time.” He’s seeking time to digest to new heights as a dynamic, elite research the situation and treat it with “the high sense of institution with a central focus on being one dignity and honor” it deserves, he says. of the most student-centered universities in Richard Anthes, who oversaw Barron’s the country.” directorship at the National Center for 37 - Town&Gown May 2014
Barron meets with some Penn State students after he was announced as the next president of the university.
Atmospheric Research (NCAR), feels that Barron’s “quiet” approach to leadership will serve him well as he works to bring together the different groups at Penn State. “I thought that probably he was exactly what Penn State needs at this time: a leader of unquestionable integrity,” he says, “and really a very fair person. … I couldn’t imagine a better president for Penn State.” Easterling says Barron has a knack for bringing a group of diverse minds together, a skill that will prove key as president, a role that requires a person to work alongside a diverse group of people and opinions. “He’s, if anything, enormously powerful in sitting with large groups of people — any of whom have different agendas and different MOs and are there at the table for something for themselves — and getting all those special interests to come together and to agree to make sacrifices,” he says. That’s a skill he shares with another gregarious Penn State president, Graham Spanier, according to Easterling. Regardless of Spanier’s current legal situation — he has been charged in connection with an alleged cover-up of
Sandusky’s abuse — he was good at engaging people, Easterling says. “Eric will do the same thing, mark my words,” says Easterling. “Eric might not be a magician, he might not be an entertainer, that’s not who he is, but he will certainly be in the trenches with all the different interest groups.” And though Barron can bring people together, Dutton says he will be working to move forward, not back. “I think it’s fair to say that Eric will be working on the future and not on the past,” he says. Barron’s key teammate Barron brings to the presidency one of his most important assets: his wife, Molly. The Barrons, who have two grown children, married in 1981 after meeting in Colorado, while Eric worked for NCAR. Dutton, who would visit with the Barrons in Florida over the years, says Molly’s dedication and level of involvement in the community are rare traits in a “First Lady.” He says: “At Florida State, she was very much involved in the presidential activities involving alumni and the community, and I think we’ll see that here.”
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A Complex Tenure Opinions will vary on how Erickson handled time as president By Paige Minemyer As the days of his presidency came to a close, a blue banner spread across the front of Old Main in recognition of Rodney Erickson for his tenure at Penn State. The banner read, “Thank you, Dr. Erickson, for 37 years of service to Penn State students.” Erickson took over as president of Penn State on November 9, 2011, when thenpresident Graham Spanier was removed from his position amid the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse case. He had been serving as the university’s executive vice president and provost. Though Erickson has taken plenty of heat in his time as president, Scott Jascik, editor of Inside Higher Education, thinks Penn Staters should be glad that someone as “steady” as Erickson took the reins through much of the Sandusky fallout. According to Jascik, it’s hard to compare Erickson to Spanier because they operated under such different circumstances. “It’s not so much his predecessor, but the fact that [Erickson] took over at a time that the university was pretty seriously traumatized,” he says. “To sort of show that the university will survive ... that’s a really big deal, and it’s hard to do at an arguable low point.” In response to the Sandusky case, Erickson
gave five promises to Penn Staters to help weather the storm. He said he would “reinforce ... the moral imperative of doing the right thing — the first time, every time,” according to the original statement, lead by example, commit to transparency, show respect and sensitivity to the young men involved in the case, and provide whatever assistance was needed to the Freeh Group, which was investigating the case at the time. Some of Erickson’s decisions relating to the scandal have been met with criticism: his willingness to accept the NCAA’s consent decree and sanctions, and the removal of the statue of Joe Paterno chief among them. Jascik says that disagreement with Erickson’s methods was inevitable, as there was no solution to please everyone. “There’s no way somebody in that position could have made everyone happy,” he says. “A lot of people would have been furious with him either way.” He adds that if anything reflects poorly on Erickson’s tenure it is the university’s handling of faculty health care. Faculty members were required to participate in health screenings and complete a detailed health questionnaire. For those who refused, there would be a $100 per month penalty. Erickson released a statement in September backing down from the plan. “I think that looked pretty bad, certainly,” Jascik says. “There were a lot of outraged faculty members and a lot of criticism of that.” Former faculty member Eric Barron was named as Erickson’s replacement in February. Barron called Erickson a “mentor” to him when he previously had been at Penn State. Erickson told the Penn State faculty senate in March that he would be “around but out of sight” after Barron officially assumes the presidency on May 12, and that he will continue to assist Barron and the university in any way he can. Erickson will likely, in time, be remembered for helping Penn State through some of its toughest years, says Jascik. Because Penn State is still admitting students at a high number, and it has resolved many, though not all, of its legal issues related to the Sandusky case, Jascik says Erickson’s legacy is mostly positive. “Any president is going to have some things that go better than others,” he says. “Things are calmer now than when he started, and I’d have to say that’s important.” T&G
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According to Anthes, the Barrons work well off each other. “They’re very much of a team and very close,” he says. “She’s very good socially and supports him in that. I think she’s good at helping him do fundraising, especially. “She’s a good all-around partner.” Easterling says that Molly Barron would keep the spouses of College of Earth and Mineral Sciences administrators busy during regular advisory committee meetings, something that became somewhat “legendary.” He believes “she saw it as her job to be the official First Lady of the college.” “When I say ‘complementary,’ I mean it,” he says. “She really was in it all the way with Eric. “I can only imagine that when she arrives with Eric that she will, in fact, be the First Lady of Penn State University, and will wear that mantle first and foremost.” When they lived in State College previously, the Barrons were involved with the State College Area School District, and participated actively in the local community, something they
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History Comes to Life As Boalsburg prepares to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its holding the first Memorial Day, local Civil War reenactors continue to honor the men and women of that time with authentic portrayals • By Aimee Morgan 42 - Town&Gown May 2014
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Members of Battery B include (from left) Nancy Van Saun, Elaine Fisher, Private Ron Fisher, Captain Gene Metzgar, Sergeant Major Bill Fisher, Private Ron Cryder, Donna Gisewhite, Bonnie Barry, Corporal Bob Barry, and Private Marvin Gisewhite.
The word “passionate” comes to mind when listening to the stories of local Civil War reenactors. They have a passion for history — and a passion for honoring the brave men and women of the Civil War era. “I do a lot of reading on the Civil War. You have to be somewhat of a historian — a Civil War nut,” says Captain Gene Metzgar when talking about reenacting battles fought during the Civil War.
Metzgar is the commanding officer of Battery B, 3rd PA Vols., Light Artillery. He joined the group as a private in 1996 after he saw cannons being fired. He “stopped and talked to some of the fellas and joined — and the rest is history.” He was promoted to corporal and first sergeant over the years, and elected captain in 2011. This month, he’ll be leading Battery B as it once again participates in the Memorial Day activities in Boalsburg. And with this being the 150th anniversary of the first Memorial Day in Boalsburg, the battle reenactments will have extra significance. According to Metzgar, Boalsburg’s Battery B was formed by Colonel James Dearing in 1984. The group is a living-history unit portraying a Union Civil War artillery battery. It was one of 12 companies that served from 1862 through 1865. The men served initially as prison guards at Fort Delaware near Wilmington, Delaware. The unit was then transferred to Fort Monroe at Hampton Roads, Virginia. While there, the battery served as gunners on naval ships and in the siege lines around Richmond, Virginia. One battery of the 3rd PA was detached to participate in the Battle of Gettysburg. The battery’s uniforms have never been retired from service, so they are official US uniforms today. The reenactors today are well trained on proper military behavior and use of the cannons. “Members re-create the life of Civil War artillerymen by wearing their uniforms, firing their weapons, and acting the part of a Union military unit,” Metzgar says. “Our goal is to keep history alive and educate all who are interested in the events and life as it was in the times of the Civil War. We participate in reenactments of past battles and other activities such as parades, school programs, dedications, honor guards, and many livinghistory events to honor our American heritage.” According to Metzgar, Battery B has been involved in the Boalsburg Memorial Day celebration since it began. Colonel Dearing and his wife, along with battery members, are responsible for the statue, standing on the grounds today, of the three women visiting a graveside Metzgar with a saber his depicting the first Memorial Captain great, great grandfather, John Albright, Day in 1864. used during the Civil War. Metzgar says one of his favorite memories from Memorial Day celebrations is from the monument’s dedication in 2000. “We put a time capsule that will be opened up for the year 2064,” he says. “We placed information on the battery and local newspaper articles on Battery B and members’ names and pictures in the capsule. “We take cannons out every hour and have simulated rounds that the cannons would have fired [during the Civil War]. A lot of people come to the camp we set up for the living history, and once 43 - Town&Gown May 2014
Some of the men of Battery B — from left, Corporal Barry, Private Cryder, Captain Metzgar, Sergeant Major Fisher, Private Fisher, and Private Gisewhite — show the cannon they use.
they hear the cannons boom, civilians ask a lot of questions.” Metzgar says Battery B is asked to fire cannons for living-history school programs. The unit will be visiting schools in Huntingdon, Saint Marys, DuBois, and Selinsgrove in the near future. “The members of Battery B all have a ‘haversack,’ and we keep our eating utensils, clothes, and candles in the haversack, and we like to show the kids in the school program all of the Civil War-era items. The kids show a real interest,” he says. State College resident Kerry Schwindenhammer says his son, Ryan, shows an interest in the living history each year they attend the Memorial Day festivities in Boalsburg. Kerry Schwindenhammer has been attending Memorial Day festivities since the late 1990s. He makes it a family affair now with his wife, Nicole, and Ryan, who will be attending his sixth Memorial Day weekend, as he was only 2 months old when he attended his first.
Some of the “Ladies of Battery B” — from left, Fisher, Van Saun, Barry, and Gisewhite.
“We always go to the parade and like to go to the carnival and walk around the concession stands and booths that they have set up. We will look at the gravestones and see the ages, and do a walk-through of the museum and exhibits,” Kerry Schwindenhammer says. “We try to do a little bit of everything. We have a respect for history. We like when they shoot off the cannons. It’s nice to have some things dedicated to what Memorial Day is all about. Memorial Day is not meant to be about everyone off work. It is meant to be a day to remember those that have fallen.” For the past 17 years, Elaine Fisher, one of the “Ladies of Battery 44 - Town&Gown May 2014
B,” has enjoyed reenacting with her husband, Sergeant Donald Fisher. Before joining Battery B, the Fishers were with the group Kerns Battery G based in New Columbia, Pennsylvania. This group did not have cannons, so after two years with Battery G they traveled with Battery B. “My son, David, was the first one to get us into reenacting,” Elaine Fisher says. “He went to a reenactment at Gettysburg and came home and was so thrilled to share his experience. He said, ‘Mom, Dad, you’re going to love it! You have to go!’ So we did. The whole family was hooked, and it was a family affair.” Fisher says the role for her and the other ladies of Battery B is to be just that, “ladies,” and to dress appropriately and authentically. “There’s a big difference between the reenactors that want to do it for fun and our group,” she says. “Some have flip-flops and sneakers — not wearing proper fashion. Our group does not do that.” Fisher has been involved in fashion shows in the Selinsgrove area, wearing Civil War attire for senior centers and various clubs and organizations that like to have speakers visit and explain Civil War clothing. She explains that a chemise, corset, and dress are worn. Bonnie Barry, another lady of Battery B, has been reenacting for 11 years, trying to represent a middle-class lady during the Civil War. “I enjoy reenacting with my husband,” she says. “Besides providing meals for the men at reenactments, I am very interested in Civil War fashion and etiquette. Along with other ladies in the battery, we have a display of clothing put together and do presentations for schools and many other organizations. We have also done a few teas.” She says during the Memorial Day celebration at Boalsburg, the ladies have a fashion display and talk to people that come by. In the evening, they participate in the walk to the cemetery with the men marching and the three ladies, representing the original three women, walking with a large wreath while the other ladies carry flowers. “Reenactors, in general, are a close-knit community as we all try to portray life both military and civilian as it was in the 1860s,” Barry says. “Our battery travels to reenactments in Pennsylvania and outside the state such as Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.” Nancy Van Saun of Battery B says her role also is to portray a middle-class woman of the Civil War era. The Van Saun family has been members since
2001. She says her son was interested in history, specifically military history, and was 10 when the family joined the unit that was closest to their house. Van Saun’s son was a drummer for many years but now lives too far away to participate. Nancy and her husband, however, have remained active. “The Ladies of Battery B have a reputation of having an accurate presentation of women in the era,” Nancy says. “Of course, we will never be completely accurate, but we do a lot of research on fashion and etiquette of the day. We utilize primary sources when possible, and are very careful in our use of secondary sources. You will never see any of our ladies with wristwatches, fingernail polish, makeup, modern hairstyles, etc. Not all reenactors are as careful in their presentations.” She says their unit does several activities during the year. Already this year, the ladies have done a class for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and Penn State, and a presentation for the Bellefonte chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. “In addition, we do living histories in Gettysburg, Greenwood Furnace, etc.,” she says. “We also participate in battle reenactments, including the battle of Cedar Creek. We generally do presentations on fashion and etiquette. The men, of course, talk about the military, the cannons, and camp life.” Someone who knows a lot about the military, cannons, and camp life is Captain Dave Felice. He has been involved with Civil War reenacting for 23 years, with 16 as captain of the 148th PA Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company C, Civil War reenactment group. The 148th PVI was formed in August 1862 and was under the command of Colonel James Beaver — the same man that Beaver Stadium is named after. The 148th PVI was involved in many major battles in the Civil War, including two days at the Battle of Gettysburg. By the end of the war, the 148th PVI had four Medal of Honor recipients. It was part of General Hancock’s Second Army Corps, which was the most decorated corps in the Union Army. Felice says as captain of this infantry company his role is to command the troops within the company and oversee their safety at all events. When they attend large events, he has to attend officers’ meetings and gather information from the command staff and pass the communication on to the company. “I was one of the cofounders of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Company C 18 years ago,” he says. “As a native Centre County resident I wanted to reenact a Civil War unit that
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The 148th PA Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company C participated in a reenactment during the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
was from Centre County, and the 148th PVI has an incredible history. We do recruit folks from many different areas who share the same interest in this awesome regiment.” Every month, the company conducts business meetings to discuss the various events that they plan to attend. Like Barry, Felice agrees about the close-knit community among reenactors. “We are members of a large brigade called the United States Volunteers, consisting of around 3,000 to 4,000 Union troops,” he says. “We are an infantry company within the First Regiment of the USV. We attend events all over the country and we also participate in local events.” According to Felice, for the 150th Memorial Day celebration in Boalsburg, the reenactors
plan to have two small battles with a Confederate group in the afternoon and then attend the 150th Memorial Day ceremony at 6 p.m. He adds, “Company G of the 148th PVI was from Boalsburg, and two of the three women on the statue at the cemetery were family members of 148th PVI soldiers — a mother and a sister. “This is a very special time as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of 1864. It is extremely important to understand where we came from if we are to understand where we are going. It is important to honor the men and women who sacrificed everything to make this country become one whole nation.” T&G Aimee Morgan is a freelance writer in State College. She enjoys sharing the beauty of the town with friends, family, and her two dogs, Willy and Danny.
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Special Events Planned for Memorial Day Anniversary By Aimee Morgan “A War, Three Women, and a Tradition” is just one of the themes to this year’s anniversary of Memorial Day in Boalsburg. Because this year marks the 150th anniversary of the first Memorial Day, Harris Township manager Amy Farkas says the township felt it should coordinate special activities related just to the anniversary. “We’ve held several meetings with our local organizations to discuss the anniversary and how best to commemorate it. At the January meeting, the committee chose the theme, ‘In Honor and with Glory, Our Gratitude.’ We intend to raise money to support a veterans’ organization through our special events this year,” she says. She adds that while there will be special activities on Memorial Day weekend, the anniversary celebration will wrap up in October. She notes that the first observance honoring Boalsburg’s Union soldiers was in October 1864, and the township is still finalizing plans for how they will commemorate that date. This year, Memorial Day is on May 26. Prior to Memorial Day, on May 3, the Boalsburg Heritage Museum hosts “A War, Three Women, and a Tradition” at 2 p.m. at St. John’s United Church of Christ. Historians Bob Hazelton and Cathy Horner will present findings from the recent rediscovery of Civil War-era letters from a Boalsburg family. They look into the lives of the three women whom the Boalsburg Heritage Museum credits with having started Memorial Day. Hazelton and Horner coauthored a book with Susan Evans and Nancy Taylor titled A W ar, Three W omen, and a Tradition: The History of Boalsburg During the Civil W ar, which was published by the Centre County Historical Society. The book will be available for sale on May 3 and the four authors will be signing books.
Following the talk, members of the Ladies of Battery B will represent the three women of Boalsburg in period fashion and will lead a walk to the gravesides of the Civil War veterans who are buried in the nearby Boalsburg cemetery. Barbara Grignano, volunteer for the Boalsburg Heritage Museum and active participant in this year’s Memorial Day festivities, explains the Day In Towne, which runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 26. She says it consists of 100 food and craft vendors on East and West Main streets and Church Street in the Village of Boalsburg and also at the Boal Mansion. Different musical groups will perform on the Diamond of Boalsburg during the day, and the Boalsburg Heritage Museum is open to tour the house and exhibit on hearth cooking during the Civil War era. There also are photos and memorabilia from the three Boalsburg women who started Memorial Day. Christopher Lee, Boalsburg Village Conservancy president, says he first attended Boalsburg’s Memorial Day evening service as a teen in the 1960s when he was helping his grandfather, ambassador Pierre Boal, take care of the Boal Mansion Museum, before there was a daytime festival. He was the founding chairman of the community committee that today organizes the daytime festival. Its effort is to broaden the base of support for the festival by involving not just the conservancy that founded it but also the entire community and many organizations. “I do this because our heritage gives us a sense of identity and brings the community together today in peace through justice, and helps us shape the best possible future for the community,” Lee says. “I think that’s what those who sacrificed in the past would have wanted for their beloved community. By remembering those who served the community and the country in the past, we hope to inspire today’s citizens to do the same.” T&G
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Home & Garden No Containing the Many Ways to Do Container Gardening By Kim Bailey, assistant retail sales manager of Wheatfield Nursery Container gardening is becoming a very popular form of gardening — it is fun, easy, and a great way to create an inviting outdoor space. Let your imagination take over! Container gardens can be created by using old watering cans, wagons, boots, or any item that can be considered a plantplant able container. No matter which container you choose, it is important that it will drain water well. Most plants that sit in water become yellow, and eventually perish. Creating a container garden is not difficult. You can do them as simply or elaborately as you choose. Once you have selected your container, the selection of plant material is easy. The first step is to choose a plant with interesting appeal — this will be your focal point. Usually this plant will have some vertical height. Some examples might be an ornamental grass, an annual or perennial with a height of 15 to 18 inches or taller, or a tropical
plant. Step two is to choose your filler plant. This plant will fill in the space in front and around the focal plant. It is normally more of a rounded plant and is placed in the middle of the container. Step three is your trailing plant. This plant is placed to the front and/or side of the container. Such a plant has a trailing habit. Some examples of this plant would be Bacopa and sweet potato vine. Once the container is planted, add a slow-release fertilizer (15-7-15 is a good choice) that will feed your plants during the growing season. After all the steps are complete, you have successfully created your own container garden. As always, we suggest that you be aware of your light location, and select plant material that will perform well in it. Water your plants regularly — if the soil is dry to the touch it is time to water — making sure the water soaks into the soil and doesn’t just wet the foliage. These gardens are not limited to decorative uses, but by using the steps listed above you can create you own herb/vegetable gardens that will produce edible crops. Containerized water gardens are another great way to make use of your space whether it is on a patio, porch, deck, or balcony. By adding a small fountain piece in a water bowl, you can create your own water garden with the sound of trickling water. Whatever your situation, container gardening is a great way to add some interesting fun with different colors, textures, and containers. Whether you are in full sun or full shade, there are plants that when added to the right container will make an impact in your gardening area. T&G
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Home & Garden Always in Vogue with Vintage Many people love decorating or designing a room — or their whole home — around vintage or antique pieces. Besides the look, it’s the quality of the product that attracts people to go for “old” over “new.” Brian Herman and Ede Boake, owners of the Great Mish Mosh in Bellefonte, discuss what’s possible when it comes to adding vintage or antique elements to a home. T&G: Have you seen any recent trends when it comes to people decorating their houses using vintage pieces or antiques? Boake: Absolutely. Mixing all styles and eras of vintage furniture, industrial, or decorating elements is a major trend today in home decorating. This ties into the other major trend of repurposing of what’s old into “new.” A family is looking to combine functionality and style elements to create personal
statements on their lifestyle and points of view. By choosing one design element, such as an antique dresser from Grandma’s, as the key thread to pull their diverse look together, they create personal statements about their points of view. T&G: What do you think attracts people to go with a vintage or antique look compared to going new? Boake: The majority of vintage and antique furniture or decorative elements are made of real wood, metals, or quality materials. The second advantage is in workmanship or design esthetic using quality materials to their best advantage. The Great Mish Mosh purchases only real wood materials in their furniture acquisitions. The majority of these pieces were made in the United States by workers who knew how to make quality furniture that stands the test of time. Today’s materials in furniture focus mainly on flake board (compressed wood chips), luan, plastic, or man-made materials. And you’re paying for advertising and brick-and-mortar space for the pleasure of seeing the item you pur-
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chased fall apart in two or three years. T&G: Are there items that are always in style and people are always looking for? Boake: Perfect question with a perfect solution: Cupboards — corner, buffet, chimney, or jelly. Storage is a major issue in home layouts. Vintage or antique cupboards are the perfect solution, and fit into any area of the home — bedroom, basement, kitchen, living or dining rooms. They come in all sizes, materials, and finishes that can easily be retooled to fit into your lifestyle. T&G: Any specific story/example you can give of a customer finding some hidden gem and what they did with it? Herman: Quite often we have customers looking for specific items for specific purposes. Here at the Great Mish Mosh we use repurposed materials to reproduce vintage-appearing merchandise that is functional to the needs of specific customers. If someone has a hard-to-fill location with a special purpose, we can custom
make them a piece to their specifications. An example of this is a chimney cupboard I made for a customer using aged barn wood and vintage shutters. The cupboard now holds awkward-to-hide home appliances and cleaning supplies, hence, functional and aesthetically pleasing. T&G: Any things you’re expecting to see this spring and summer in terms of hot items or things people are going to want to find? Boake: If the trend continues, repurposing of industrial and metal items should be the ticket. It’s all started when kitchens started using stainless steel as a design feature. The industrial look is using unique and unusual items such as metal medical cabinets for doctor’s implements but using them in a new way, say in a craft-room area, to hold crafting supplies such as beads, scissors, thread, and more. An unusual piece with a functional purpose reused in a new way in your home is red-hot design in today’s world — see items differently and use them to your advantage aesthetically and functionally. T&G
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(Within 20-mile radius of State College) Big Valley Antiques: 47 Auto Auction Circle, Milroy • 667-2400 Conklin’s Corner Antique & Gift Barn: Route 350, 670 Tyrone Pike, Philipsburg • 342-0650 I-99 Antiques: 1222 Pennsylvania Avenue, Tyrone • 684-5088 John R. Snedden LTD Antiques: 1996 General Potter Hwy., Centre Hall • 364-1771 The Victory Antiques: 3968 West Main Street, Belleville • (717) 935-2299 T&G
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What can you do with an old door knob? That windowpane? A coat of arms? If you don’t have a use for them, you can always donate to the Habitat ReStore in Bellefonte that supports Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County. Or if you know exactly what you can do with those and other items, you can likely find some “gems” at ReStore that would be perfect for your latest do-it-yourself project. ReStore manager Stephanie Clevenger shares the value ReStore has for customers and for the community. T&G: Are you seeing more people coming through the store over the last year or two? Do you attribute that to anything? Clevenger: I would say that our increase in customers has not been over the last two years but gradually over the eight years we have been taking donations and raising money for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County. The more folks who have a positive experience shop-
ping, donating, or volunteering at the ReStore, the more successful we are, and that, along with our mission to support Habitat in building homes with families while simultaneously reducing landfill waste, is how we have done well over the years. T&G: Do you have some examples of some hidden “gems” people have found at the store? Clevenger: It depends on the treasure hunter: Are they searching for four legs for their coffee table, a replacement toilet lid or chandelier for their dining room with a price tag that is shockingly low? What I consider a “gem,” a 100-yearold unused solid walnut door, an unused stainless steel refrigerator, or one-of-a-kind handmade Christmas ornaments vary from even our Habitat staff. Their amazing finds are lifetime warranty wrenches, a 1930s’ metal toolbox, and a $10 utility tub, amongst other prizes. Honestly, every day I am intrigued by what we have donated — anything from granite countertops and brass drawer pulls to three replica aluminum cast King George II coats of arms. You never know what you will unearth, and all the proceeds go to a great cause, making
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and we have the supplies for these projects and many others. What have been popular lately are materials for chicken coops. Usually this involves some ingenuity and money savvy on a customer’s part. I have seen folks take windowpanes or an old TV cabinet and turn them into pleasant homes for their chickens. T&G: Have you noticed any other trends of what people want when they come to the store? Clevenger: With the boom in DIY projects on TV, blogs, sites like Pinterest, which we have a board on, and our bulletin board of customer creations and ReStore Restyles, many of our shoppers are inspired to repurpose items to give them a new functional twist. Doors, windows, and light fixtures have been very popular. Doors you can turn into desktops, side tables, entry coat racks, and more. Windows are made into planters, jewelry displays, chalkboards, and picture frames, coasters made of tile, and light fixtures are given new life with a coat of electric red paint. Another trend is turning anything into a coat or towel hanger: door handles, old hammers, even faucets. And because our stock is priced well below retail, these projects are economical and have come with a story — that Habitat was benefited by their purchase. T&G Mid-State 248266 2x3:Layout 1
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Home & Garden The Great Outdoors at Home During the warm-weather months, many homeowners love to do their cooking and entertaining outdoors. From elaborate outdoor kitchens to simple backyard barbecues, nothing quite beats being with friends and family on a deck or patio. Chris Combs, who handles sales and installation for Pennwood Home & Hearth, discusses some of the new trends in outdoor entertaining. T&G: Over the years it seems people are trying to get more creative, do different things with their outdoor cooking and entertaining. What trends have you noticed of late of what people are looking to do outdoors? Combs: The hottest outdoor feature right now is some sort of fire feature. They are doing large custom-built fire pits and just simple units to sit around. There is nothing more relaxing than just sitting around the fire for an evening. T&G: What are your keys to what makes a great outdoor cookout/meal? Combs: Friends and family hanging out for an evening. You, of course, want to grill a good meal, but the outdoor grilling to me is more about a social time with friends and family. T&G: What are the advantages/disadvantages of the various grills that one can have – gas, charcoal, smokers, etc.? Combs: The gas units are quick at heating up but do require cleaning and maintenance if you are going to make it last. The ceramic grills and smokers
will definitely change people’s thoughts of how food should taste when cooked outside. They use natural lump charcoal that is fast at heating up but does take a few minutes longer than gas. They will be a little more versatile in what they can make. You also have wood-pellet grills that you basically set a temperature and they do the rest. They will require some cleaning and maintenance and do require electricity to run. T&G: How should people go about choosing what type of grill may be best for them and their cooking skills? Combs: There are so many options out there on grills today, it sometimes can be overwhelming. I would suggest going someplace that demonstrates the grills being used, if possible. They can see how they light, cook, and the cleaning that is required. There are places around that do live demonstrations and cooking events. They will need to decide if it is something they want to last for a couple years or for many years. T&G: Are there any “hot” things you’re expecting this spring and summer in terms of what customers will be looking for? Combs: There are two hot trends that we are seeing currently. People are looking at starting the outdoor season earlier and extending it a little later in the year. There are outdoor patio heaters. They have value-priced units that do an okay job with adding some heat, and there are some heaters on the market that do a great job with radiant heat that will warm objects up instead of trying to warm air. The other thing is people are looking for a little more workspace with their grill. They are wanting maybe just a small little cabinet system instead of just a grill on a base. This gives them some storage at the grill and more counter area to prep some food. T&G
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Five years after it opened, the Arboretum at Penn State eyes expansion while still providing Happy Valley a treasured place to go for peace and education By Kerry Royer
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland, nature writer and journalist After a long, particularly harsh, Pennsylvania winter, thoughts can finally turn to a gentle awakening into warming weather. There are few places better to greet the sunnier days than in a garden — and after this weary winter, the Arboretum at Penn State is certainly a garden that beckons people to visit. Situated on the north side of campus, this 370-acre tract offers a 62 - Town&Gown May 2014
A rendering of how the Arboretum at Penn State could look in the future with an education center, planetarium, and conservatory.
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place to reconnect with the natural world — a much-needed respite after the thaw. Easily accessible from a busy campus and bustling downtown, the arboretum sidles up next to Park Avenue across from the Business, Food Science, and Forest Resources buildings, and is not far from Beaver Stadium. Next door towers the Penn State Dickinson School of Law’s Lewis Katz Building. The arboretum opened in 2009 and stretches in wide contrast to its surrounding structural neighbors. “The arboretum’s location makes it an easy retreat from the demands of the classroom and the workplace, and from personal challenges. A short walk through the gardens is an opportunity to reconnect with the natural world in a calming way,” says Kate Reeder, the arboretum’s event and marketing coordinator. “At other vantage points, the arboretum evokes a sense of drama and perspective when visitors gaze out from the overlook pavilion.” Elements of the arboretum echo the natural landscape of the mountains and valleys. Native plants are a hallmark of the design, and impressive sculptures are as educational as they are stunning. All aspects fuse to support the arboretum’s mission of “creating a nationally renowned facility dedicated to fostering an understanding
White and yellow daffodil flowers along with evergreen trees are part of the arboretum.
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of the natural world.” State College resident Vanessa McLaughlin and her family ride their bikes to the arboretum every weekend in summer. Afterward, they scoot over to Berkey Creamery, a few blocks away. “We made this a family tradition ever since the arboretum sprouted,” she says. With two energetic boys, Spenser, age 11, and Sawyer, age 8, McLaughlin says the arboretum is the perfect place to take advantage of open space and winding paths. “The boys are energized the moment they hit the trails.”
The McLaughlins, (clockwise from top left) S.J., Vanessa, Sawyer, and Spenser, enjoy riding their bikes to the arboretum during the summer months.
It’s a place that offers her and her husband, S.J., peace. “We all seem to get what we need from a visit there,” she says. Erika Christiansen could not agree more. She had spent more than two decades living and working in New York City as senior art director for The Wall Street Journal, and dedicated her weekends to working at the Museum of Modern Art.
“I burnt out. My job took over my life,” she says. She decided to leave that lifestyle behind and return to State College where she grew up. “I came back to family and back to nature.” She accepted a part-time position at the arboretum “basically digging in the dirt and watching the sun rise over Mount Nittany. It was what I desperately needed,” she says. In truth, she was part of a team that helped to put the early designs of the garden in place. “We maintained the H.O. Smith Botanical Gardens, which include 17,000 individual plantings of 700 plant varieties,” she says. “Daily work included watering, trimming, pruning flowers, and planting floral displays. We worked together to achieve garden display objectives and assisted efforts to maintain the garden in excellent horticultural and aesthetic condition.” While she has since moved on to a new position with Penn State Campus Catering where she can explore her design and culinary interests, she finds that she still returns to the arboretum a few times a month to go back to the place that helped to restore her. “I like to check out how the gaden grows, see what locations have improved, and how the trees I replanted are flourishing,” she says with satisfaction. Perhaps Christiansen’s initial experience with the arboretum embodies what Reeder says is the spirit of the arboretum — it “inspires new beginnings.” “Visitors often tell us they had their first dates here, or proposed here, and ultimately want to get married here,” Reeder says. “In fact, the Over-
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look Pavilion is frequently booked for weddings. “Alumni, students, and volunteers add a special energy to the development of the gardens. There really is something for everyone to do to contribute to the growth and maintenance of the arboretum. We have opportunities for volunteers to become docents who lead tours, to participate in our ecological restoration project, and to assist our avian education instructors. Or one can simply join the volunteers who help by weeding the gardens.” The arboretum’s genesis comes from a $10 million lead gift in May 2007 from Charles H. “Skip” Smith, a Penn State alum, in honor of his late father. This gift enabled the university to build phase I of the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens. The master plan encompasses natural areas and former farmland that will be developed into botanical gardens, a demonstration area for environmentally sensitive agricultural practices, and restored native-plant communities. The first official tree donation was the “Witness Tree” at the center of the gardens — a white oak known as the Hosler Oak. The gift from George Biemsesderfer was made in honor of Charles Hosler, and his late wife, Anna Rosa. Biemsesderfer says that the tree, planted on March 21, 2005, was intended to be a beacon for others to see that the time had come to build an arboretum. Kim C. Steiner, professor of forest biology and director of the Arboretum at Penn State, says that the inaugural planting event was like laying the cornerstone of a building. The tree’s prominent position was intentional so that the oak could witness the development of the landscape around it. In the nine years since its planting, it has stood tall next to gardens, sculptures, and special features such as an overlook pavilion facing Big Hollow. It faces
A rendering of Central Valley in the Children’s Garden, which is expected to open this summer.
A rendering of the Children’s Garden’s Mushroom Hollow.
a one-acre event lawn that hosts festivals, plant sales, garden shows, and conference receptions. It will eventually shade the entrance to the Children’s Garden that is currently under construction. Due to open this summer, the Children’s Garden, will be an interactive, learning environment for children of all ages and their families. The central theme is based on Central Pennsylvania’s geomorphology and its particular
flora, fauna, and culture. Linda M. Duerr, coordinator of children’s educational programs at the arboretum, says, “For the past year I have been enjoying standing at the Witness Tree with visiting children and telling them the story of this wonderful oak tree that has been watching the growth of the gardens. Then we turn around and look at the map of the Children’s Garden and see what is to come next. The opportunities for learning from the garden areas
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Music in the Gardens Returns to Arboretum
On June 10, the Arboretum at Penn State will host Music in the Gardens: Healing the Soul, an event presented by Penn State’s School of Music and featuring musicians of the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra. Mount Nittany Health cosponsors the event with the arboretum. The event is free and open to the public. A rain date is scheduled for June 13. Attendees are invited to stroll in the gardens and enjoy music being played. The event begins at 6 p.m. and ends at dusk. Last year was the first year for the event, and an estimated 800 visitors attended. Various stations are created throughout the gardens for small groups of musicians to perform, and the finale is performed at the Overlook Pavilion. Performances are staggered, approximately 10 minutes apart. Greeters welcome visitors to the gardens and distribute programs. Arboretum docents will be on hand to answer questions about the gardens. Ensembles include solo violin; solo cello; solo wood flute; solo English horn; duo flutes; and a trio of flute, violin, and cello. For more information, visit music.psu.edu/mpw. — Kerry Royer
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and features are extraordinary — from our ridgeand-valley region with our disappearing streams to the creatures that inhabit this place with us. “We will be able to offer seed-to-table learning in our harvest gardens, learn about the first people to live in our woodland areas, explore the passage of time through our spiral timeline, and consider life above and below the earth around us. I am learning so much and cannot wait to share this extraordinary garden with our community.” Other future plans for the arboretum relying on philanthropic donations for construction include an education center, planetarium, and conservatory. Concept drawings of these three state-of-the-art facilities indicate that careful consideration has been taken to make space flexible for programs and exhibits, as well as university and community gatherings. They will help to form the educational core of the arboretum. The conservatory will offer a regionally unique opportunity to showcase plants that cannot survive in the climate of Central Pennsylvania. “Many people have said to me that the arboretum is the greatest addition to State College
in a great many years. I’m biased of course, but I agree,” Steiner says. “It’s been very gratifying to watch the arboretum develop and become a treasured part of the community. We have a long list of expansion opportunities, and, of course, all of them hinge on private giving. If our reach didn’t exceed our grasp, then I’d say we were not being ambitious enough.” While the expansion projects are ambitious, the arboretum continues — and will continue — to also provide many simple pleasures for all who visit. “I really believe the arboretum is the best place in State College,” McLaughlin says. “We can’t wait for the Children’s Garden to be complete. As my boys grow, there are unending lessons to be learned. We have been measuring the rapid growth of the bamboo since we started our treks to the arboretum. My kids are amazed that the small stakes are now skyhigh towers. It’s great to know there is more to come to explore.” T&G Kerry Royer is a freelance writer and author. She recently relocated to the State College area from Mount Gretna.
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HEROIN: A Commonwealth Crisis Thursday, May 29, at 8 p.m. Be part of a live studio audience as WPSU hosts a call-in community forum. Heroin use in Pennsylvania has reached epidemic proportions, and young people are at particular risk. The average first-time user is 23 and has likely turned to heroin after developing an addiction to prescription pain medication. On Heroin: A Commonwealth Crisis, experts will discuss what led to this deadly health issue and provide information on prevention and treatment. To attend the event, register at wpsu.org/heroincrisis.
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Game Changers Fans have had varied experiences attending football games and cheering on the Lions through the years By Lee Stout
Traditionally, history was seen as tales of great events and great men. We still find that today with the regular appearance of new histories of the Civil War and biographies of the founding fathers, for example. But in the last half century there’s also been a growing interest in another approach to the past — social history. On the scholarly side, these are often historical treatments of the struggles of the downtrodden, ethnic minorities, and underrepresented groups. But another form has struck the interest, and often the participation, of the general public. It’s something we might call the history of everyday life. With the baby-boomers reaching retirement age, many are recording or writing memoirs. For example, the Library of Congress’ StoryCorps project makes it possible for young people to record interviews with parents and grandparents for both their own families and a national collection of memories. Examples of some of the most common questions to senior citizens are “What was it like to live through the Depression, or on a farm?” Locally, OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, offers a course in “Life Story Writing: Engaging Memoir and Autobiography,” taught this spring by education professors Bernard Badiali and Jackie Edmondson. It provides “a way to chronicle your life experiences.” Popular historians have done very successful books on time periods such as the 1920s, for instance. But, unlike the history of an event, there’s not as much tension in this kind of social history — no building anxiety about what will happen, and then dramatic climax, followed by closure in a lesson learned or questions posed about an unknown future. This social history is the slice of everyday life. It’s usually limited to
Top, an early photo at Beaver Field, circa 1915 (the location of today’s Nittany Parking Deck), shows additional wooden bleachers on both sides of the original grandstands. The dress of the day would be formal by today’s standards. Above, cheerleaders coax the freshman section, many wearing their dinks, to yell the customary cheers of the early 1960s at the new Beaver Stadium.
a specific time and place, but also can refer to a specific aspect of life. I’m engaged in a writing project like that right now, looking at the evolution of football at Penn State from the nineteenth century to the present. My coauthor, Harry H. West, professor emeritus of civil engineering, is detailing the history of Beaver Stadium and the earlier Beaver Fields as places and structures, while I’m focusing on the social history that has revolved around our football venues and games. Whatever your opinion of the value of football for the modern university, there is no debate about its historical significance. Deciding on what the appropriate rules of conduct are and policing the abuses generate most of the controversies. But other question abound. Are athletes “real students?” Should they be “paid?” Is intercollegiate athletics just a disguised form of professional sports? Would the university be better served by smaller-scale
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sports programs that are true student activities? Advocates on all sides of these questions are easy to find. What cannot be denied is that the football experience of substantial portions of the student body, the alumni, and the general public is important to their everyday lives. It impacts the sense of community, self-image, and the emotions of many. Unquestionably, the appeal of sports is a mystery for some, but for the rest it matters a great deal. It may significantly affect a decision to attend Penn State, to stay associated with it after graduation, or to admire and support its educational programs for the greater good. At the same time, both the experience of attending a game at Penn State, and the game itself, have gradually changed over the years. The size of the crowd, pregame and postgame activities, the dress and deportment of the students and other spectators, the rituals and customs of the game — cheers, band, and crowd participation, the food we eat and when we eat it, even the sound of the game — have all changed the atmosphere of celebration over time. When I was a student attending games in the 1960s, we dressed in coats and ties, our dates in dresses and heels, we walked from town or dorm to and from the stadium, only out-oftowners brought a picnic lunch to the game, the band provided all the music, and there was a wider variety of cheers. The stadium was a horseshoe, and the scoreboard at the open, south end of the field had no video screen or fancy electronics, and 1960s-era students lustily sang that they didn’t know the G.D. words instead of singing the alma mater as a nearly sacred Penn State tradition. It sure is different today, and it was different in many other ways in the past. This is what we learn from history — cultural traditions may persist, but they also change with the times. Penn State’s been playing intercollegiate football since 1887 — the games, playing venues, spectator experiences, and what it all means to us have all changed dramatically over the years. The challenge for us, the authors, is to figure out how to tell that story in both an accurate and interesting way. Stay tuned! T&G
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Dan Murphy: ‘Welcome to Penn State!’ Dan Murphy hated his college orientation. “I was completely overwhelmed,” he recalls. “I wasn’t mentally prepared for the transition to college.” The following year, he became a student orientation leader himself, helping other Western Michigan University freshmen make the transition and beginning what would become his career. He “fell in love with public speaking” and added to his music major a second degree in organizational communication. Murphy went on to James Madison University, helping with orientation while earning his master’s in counseling psychology. Working in orientation at Indiana University in Bloomington followed and then, in 2012, his move to State College to lead Penn State’s transition from the one-day FTCAP orientation program to the two-day New Student Orientation, launched last summer. “We have the opportunity to set expectations for college as a really incredible place to be,” he says. The new program lets incoming freshmen spend the night in residence halls, make connections with other students and an academic adviser, and learn about town and gown resources, while helping parents transition to their new role as coaches. Drawing on his own experience in college, Murphy loves recruiting students for the orientation team. “They develop Penn State pride even deeper than they already had,” he says. “I can’t think of a better way to pay it forward.” The Penn State Bookstore thanks Dan Murphy and all faculty and staff who carry out the university’s mission every day.
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A Food Pairing of a Different Kind Bellefonte Art Museum brings food and art together in summer project By Brittany Svoboda
You’ve heard of pairings of food and wine or food and beer, but what about food and art? Starting in June, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County will present a three-month project — “Food, Glorious Food!” — that puts a focus on local foods as well as local art. Several events pertaining to food are scheduled, and food-inspired art will be exhibited in the museum’s Windows on the World Gallery. Funding for the project was in large part provided by Barbara Palmer, a local philanthropist who supports many organizations in Centre County. Museum director Patricia House introduced summer projects to the museum last year when artists created works based around Central Pennsylvania waterways, a concept that was kept broad in hope of attracting new visitors to the museum. “We had more people in last year that had never been to a museum,” says House, who hopes to emulate that this year. She started planning for this year’s summer project last fall, almost immediately after last year’s project ended, she says. In order to decide on this year’s theme, she says she thought about what was available and important to the area while keeping a broad concept like last year’s. After reading Seasons of Central Pennsylvania, a cookbook that was published in 2000, she says she knew exactly what to do. Anne Quinn Corr, who wrote the cookbook and is the project director of “Food, Glorious Food!,” met House last year when she visited the museum to see the Central Pennsylvania waterways summer project.
Watercolor paintings by local artist Holly Fritchman (above and opposite page) are part of the Bellefonte Art Museum’s “Food, Glorious Food!" project starting June 1.
“I was kind of captivated because it was so interactive,” Corr says. A former professor in the nutrition department at Penn State, she notes how food is a common denominator. “Everybody is interested in food — from a really serious businessman to a preschool child. We just wanted to talk about local foods.” Artists were commissioned to create works for the museum based on food themes such as social gatherings, fresh produce, farmers’ markets, and grocery stores. “Food, Glorious Food!” will include works by the following artists: Pat Casher (painting), Peg Panasiti (watercolor painting), Jennifer Tucker (photography), Harriet Rosenberg (photography), Mary Vollero (photography and painting), Nancy Brassington (painting), Theresa Crowley (painting), Dana Morrison (photography), Jim Farrar (painting), Pat Little (photography), Art Heim (photography), Carrie Lions (sculpture), Lori Fisher (painting), and Holly Fritchman (watercolor painting). In addition to the artwork exhibited in the Windows on the World Gallery at the museum, programs will take place across Centre County. For each month, a fruit and vegetable were selected to focus on: strawberries and mushrooms
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for June; blueberries and garlic for July; and corn and tomatoes for August. Local farms and stores have joined in by donating their spaces or products for several of the programs. For example, Diane Cramer of Cramer Farm has set aside a heritage type of corn for a popcorn workshop for children; it will take place in August. Much of the programming for “Food, Glorious Food” is geared toward children. To coincide with this year’s summer project, one of the museum’s children’s summer art camps focuses on food nutrition, House says. “Gooey You II” takes place from June 23 to 27 at the museum. Campers will have the opportunity to make art and self-portraits out of fruits and vegetables as well. As with any new exhibition opening at the museum, there are Family First Sunday events that will happen on June 1, July 6, and August 3. “We have a committee who volunteers to do these really lovely receptions,” House says. The opening
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reception on June 1 features local artist Carrie Lyons, who will instruct kids on a maskmaking activity involving various fruits and vegetables. Several of the programs are for museum members only. However, it is easy and fairly inexpensive to become a member, House says. The cost varies based on how many people will utilize the membership. Information can be found online at bellefontemuseum.org. All other events are free to attend. Beginning with the opening, visitors to the museum will have the option to leave appropriate items for area food banks. House says the plan is to have shopping carts at the museum for donations. “We’ll fill them up and take them to the food bank as often as we can,” she says. Looking to the future, she says she thinks that next year’s summer project might have to do with quilting. “Maybe needleworks,” Corr says. Referring to this summer’s project and future projects, Corr says, “It’s really about engaging the community.” Most of the programming for “Food, Glorious Food!” has been decided but is subject to change. The following list is tentative and weather dependent:
June 1 — Family First Sunday at the Museum: Vegetable Masks. June 8 — Mushrooms in the Woods (at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center). June 13 — Full Moon Wine Tasting (in Unionville; museum members only). June 18 — Strawberry Jam (at Foods Lab at Penn State). July 6 — Family First Sunday at the Museum: “In the Garden of Eatin’. ” July 16 — Blueberry Picking (at John and JoAnn Sengle’s Farm in Julian). July 25 — Garlic, Myths and Miracles (at Panorama Village; museum members only). August 3 — Family First Sunday at the Museum: Popcorn Workshop. August 6 — It’s All About Corn (at Wasson Farm). August 16 — Tomato: the Red Fruit (at Tait Farm). August 20 — Pig Roast in Historic Vaults (at Pat House’s home on Spring Creek; museum members only). T&G The Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County is at 133 North Allegheny Street, Bellefonte. For more information about the museum or “Food, Glorious Food!,” visit bellefontemuseum.org or call (814) 355-4280.
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How you can help…While While we always appreciate the donations of non-perishable food items, we would like to offer more fresh items, such as milk, eggs, butter, and fresh fruit and vegetables. You can make that possible, through financial donations. Stop by, check out what’s new, and be part of the solution, so that one day, no one will go hungry in Centre County!
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Museum Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, noon to 4:00 p.m. Closed Mondays and some holidays For more information, please call 814-865-7672. Surveying Judy Chicago: Five Decades was organized by the museum in partnership with A.R.T. Corp. Above: Judy Chicago, Hitch Your Wagon to a Star, from Resolutions: A Stitch in Time, 2000, painting, appliqué, embroidery, and quilting. Needlework by Jacquelyn Moore Alexander, Jane Thompson, Pat Rudy-Baese, and Mary Ewanoski. © Judy Chicago. Photo © Donald Woodman. The Palmer Museum of Art receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Penn State is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, women, veterans, disabled individuals, and other protected groups.
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Academics 2 – Penn State University, classes end. 9-11 – Penn State University Spring Commencement, BJC, PSU, 8 p.m. Fri., 9 a.m., noon, 3 & 6:30 p.m. Sat., 9 a.m., noon, 3:30 & 6:30 p.m. Sun. 26 – State College Area School District, Memorial Day, no school K-12.
Children & Families 1, 5, 8, 12, 15, 19, 22, 29 – Music Together free trial class for children 0-5 and a parent, Oakwood Presbyterian Church, S.C., 9:30 a.m. Thurs., 9:45 a.m. Mon., 466-3414. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – Story Time, Discovery Space of Central PA, S.C., 10:30 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – Science Adventures, Discovery Space of Central PA, S.C., 11 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org. 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28, 31 – Music Together free trial class for children 0-5 and a parent, Houserville United Methodist Church, S.C., 10:30 a.m. Sat., 9:30 or 10:45 a.m. Wed., 466-3414. 3, 10, 31 – Saturday Stories Alive, Schlow Centre Region Library, S.C., 11 a.m., schlowlibrary.org. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 – Go Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, S.C., 1 p.m., schlowlibrary.org. 5 – Stripes of All Types Book Party, Schlow Centre Region Library, S.C., 6:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org. 7, 14, 21, 28 – Baby Explorers, Discovery Space of Central PA, S.C., 10:30 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org. 17 – Saturday Story Time, Discovery Space of Central PA, S.C., 3 p.m., mydiscoveryspace.org. 29 – Late Night, Discovery Space of Central PA, S.C., 10 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org.
Classes & Lectures 3 – “A War, Three Women, and a Tradition,” St. John’s United Church of Christ, Boalsburg, 2 p.m., boalsburgheritagemuseum.org. 6 – Central PA Civil War Round Table: “Even to Hell Itself, Battle on the North Anna River,” by Michael Miller, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 7 p.m., 861-0770. 7 – Friends’ Richard Koontz Memorial Lecture: “The 1813 Lake Erie Campaign” by Walter Rybka, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 7:30 p.m., pamilmuseum.org.
18 – “Victorian Tussie Mussies and the Language of Flowers,” by Candace Dannaker, Centre Furnance Mansion, S.C., 2 p.m., centrehistory.org. 20 – Introduction to the Ovulation Method of Natural Family Planning, Schlow Centre Region Library, S.C., 7 p.m., fertility.appreciation@gmail.com. 22 – Foxdale Spring Seminar Series: “Staving Off Dementia: What Works and What Doesn’t” by Dr. Rodney Sepich & Dr. Joy Bodnar, Foxdale Village, S.C., 2:30 p.m., 272-2146.
Club Events 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – S.C. Downtown Rotary mtg., Damon’s Grill & Sports Bar, S.C., noon, centrecounty.org/rotary/club/. 1, 15 – State College Toastmaster’s Club, South Hills School of Business and Technology, S.C., 6 p.m., statecollegetoastmasters .toastmastersclubs.org. 6, 13, 20, 27 – State College Rotary Club, Nittany Lion Inn, S.C., 5:30 p.m., statecollegerotary.org. 7, 14 – Outreach Toastmasters Meeting, The 329 Building, Room 413, PSU, noon, kbs131@psu.edu. 7, 14, 21, 28 – S.C. Sunrise Rotary Club mtg., Hotel State College, S.C., 7:15 a.m., kfragola@psualum.com. 13 – Women’s Mid Day Connection Luncheon, Mountain View Club, Boalsburg, 11:45 a.m., 404-3704. 14 – Women’s Welcome Club of State College, Oakwood Presbyterian Church, S.C., 7 p.m., womenswelcomeclub.org. 14 – 148th PA Volunteer Infantry Civil War Reenactment Group mtg., Hoss’s Steak and Sea House, S.C., 7:30 p.m., 861-0770. 20 – Coffee/Tea with Women’s Welcome Club of State College, Oakwood Presbyterian Church, S.C., 8:30-11:30 a.m., womenswelcomeclub.org. 21 - Nittany Mineralogical Society, 116 Earth & Engineering Sciences Building, PSU, 7:30 p.m., nittanymineral.org. 28 – State College Bird Club, Foxdale Village, S.C., 7 p.m., scbirdcl.org. 28 – Applique Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, S.C., 7 p.m., 237-0167.
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Community Associations & Development 8 – Centre County TRIAD: Explosive Detection, Canine Demo, Centre LifeLink, 125 Puddintown Rd., S.C., 10 a.m., 237-8932 or 237-3130. 8 – CBICC Business After Hours: Senior Daily Living Center, 5:30 p.m., cbicc.org. 13 – CBICC Member Spotlight, Hoag’s Celebration Hall, S.C., 5 p.m., cbicc.org. 20 – Spring Creek Watershed Association Meeting, Patton Township Municipal Building, S.C., 7:30 a.m., springcreekwatershed.org. 22 – CBICC Business After Hours: Young Scholars of Central PA, 5:30 p.m., cbicc.org. 28 – Patton Township Business Association Lunch, Patton Township Municipal Building, S.C., noon, 237-2822.
Exhibits Ongoing-4 – British Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu. Ongoing-11 – Forging Alliances, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu.
Ongoing-11 – Surveying Judy Chicago: Five Decades, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu. Ongoing-November 14 – Rural Landscapes: Exploring Rural Heritage Through the Art of the Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania, Centre Furnace Mansion, S.C., 1-4 p.m., Sun., Wed., & Fri., centrehistory.org. 2-31 – Nature of Art, State College Framing Company & Gallery, S.C., 10 a.m., 234-7336. 4-May 25 – The Art of Adornment, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, Bellefonte, 1-4:30 p.m. Fri.-Sun., bellefontemuseum.org. 9-11 – Potters Guild Exhibition and Sale, Art Alliance of Central PA, Lemont, 7 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m. Sat., 1 p.m. Sun., pistange@hotmail.com. 13-August 24 – Mining the Store: American Prints from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu. 13-August 31 – Veiled Arts of Victorian Women, Centre Furnace Mansion, S.C., 1-4 p.m. Sun., Wed., & Fri., centrehistory.org.
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20-August 17 – Seeing America: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu.
Health Care For schedule of blood drives visit cccredcross.org or givelife.org. 2 – Free Developmental Screenings, Schlow Centre Region Library, S.C., 9 a.m., schlowlibrary.org. 2 – Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Group, Schlow Centre Region Library S.C., 1 p.m., 234-3141. 5 – Cancer Caregiver Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, S.C., 10:30 a.m., cancersurvive.org. 5 – Breast Cancer Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, S.C., 5:30 p.m., 231-7005. 8 – Diabetes Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, S.C., 6 p.m., 231-7095. 13 – Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Group, Mount Nittany Dining Room at the Inn at Brookline, S.C., 6:30 p.m., 234-3141. 13 – Brain Injury Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 7 p.m., 359-3421.
14 – The Fertility Issues and Loss Support Group, Choices (2214 N. Atherton St.), S.C., 6:30 p.m., heartofcpa.org. 15 – Better Breathers Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 2 p.m., 359-3421. 19 – Cancer Survivor Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, S.C., 11:30 a.m., cancersurvive.org. 20 – Multiple Sclerosis Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Outpatient Entrance, Pleasant Gap, 6 p.m., 359-3421. 26 – Heart Failure Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 4 p.m., 359-3421. 27 – Stroke Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 4 p.m., 359-3421.
Music 1 – Penn State School of Music: Centre Dimensions Jazz Ensemble, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 8 p.m., 863-1118. 2 – Penn State School of Music: Bass Bash, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 8 p.m., 863-1118.
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Lauryn Hill performs May 4 at the Bryce Jordan Center. 2 – Jason Aldean, BJC, PSU, 7:30 p.m., bjc.psu.edu. 4 – State College Choral Society presents Bach’s St. John Passion, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, PSU, 3 p.m., scchoralsociety.org. 4 – Lauryn Hill, BJC, PSU, 7:30 p.m., bjc.psu.edu. 7 – Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra presents “Summer” Music From the Movies, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 7:30 p.m., centreorchestra.org. 11 – State College Area Municipal Band Mother’s Day Concert, State College Area High School South auditorium, S.C., 3 p.m., jpp2@psu.edu.
The Boxcar Lilies perform May 17 at the Center for Well Being as part of the Acoustic Brew Concert Series. 15 – Iris Dement, State Theatre, S.C., 8 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 17 – Acoustic Brew Concert Series: The Boxcar Lilies, Center for Well Being, Lemont, 7:30 p.m., acousticbrew.org. 18 – Sunday Afternoons at the Library: The Nittany Wind Quintet, Centre County Library Historical Museum, Bellefonte, 2:30 p.m., bellefontearts.org.
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Special Events 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – Downtown State College Farmers’ Market, Locust Lane, S.C., 11:30 a.m., statecollegefarmers.com. 3 – Central PA Native Plant Festival, Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center, Petersburg, 10 a.m., shaverscreek.org. 3 – Music at the Boal Mansion, Boalsburg, 7 p.m., www.boalmuseum.org. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 – Bellefonte Farmers’ Market, Parking lot of Gamble Mill restaurant, Bellefonte, 8 a.m., centralpafarmers.com. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 – Millheim Farmers’ Market, Millheim American Legion Pavilion, Millheim, 10 a.m., centralpafarmers.com. 4 – Linden Loop Bike, Run, or Walk, Oak Hall, 11:30 a.m., bit.ly/lindenloop2014. 4 – Tastes and Treasures, Seven Mountains Wine Cellars, Spring Mills, 2 p.m., housingtransitions.com. 6, 13, 20, 27 – Tuesday State College Farmers’ Market, Locust Lane, S.C., 11:30 a.m., statecollegefarmers.com. 6, 13, 20, 27 – Boalsburg Farmers’ Market, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 2 p.m., boalsburgfarmersmarket.com.
6-7 – Centre Foundation’s Centre Gives 36-Hour Online Giving Event, midnightnoon, centre-foundation.org. 7 – Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel 20th Anniversary Celebration, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel Courtyard, PSU, 1 p.m. 10 – Lemont Plant Sale, Lemont Village Green, Lemont, 9 a.m., lemontvillage.org. 10 – Plant Celebration and Sale, Centre Furnace Mansion, S.C., 9 a.m., centrehistory.org. 10-13 – AAUW Used Book Sale, Snider Agricultural Arena, PSU, 9 a.m., aauwstatecollege.org. 10, 17, 24, 31 – North Atherton Farmers’ Market, Home Depot Parking Lot, S.C., centralpafarmers.com. 12 –On the Fly PA Flyfisher’s Tournament, Spruce Creek, 6:30 a.m., ccysb.com. 16 –Palmer Museum of Art Gala 2014: Black & White Masquerade Ball, Nittany Lion Inn, PSU, 6:30 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu. 16 –Wine Pairing Dinner, Duffy’s Tavern, Boalsburg, 7 p.m., duffystavernpa.com. 17 – Master Gardeners of Centre County’s Garden Fair and Plant Sale, Ag Progress Days Site, PA Furnace, 9 a.m., extension.psu.edu/garden-fair.
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17-18 – Plant Sale, Arboretum at Penn State, PSU, 9 a.m., arboretum.psu.edu. 17-18 – Central Pennsylvania Orchid Society’s Orchid Show, Snider Agricultural Arena, PSU, 1 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m. Sun. 18 – Big Spring Festival, Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte, noon, visitbellefonte.com. 19 – Toast and Tribute Dinner Honoring Mary Dupuis and Martha Kolln benefiting Mid-State Literacy Council Scholarship Fund, Hoag’s Celebration Hall, S.C., 6 p.m., 238-1809, 24-25 – World War II Revisited, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 10 a.m., pamilmuseum.org. 26 – Memorial Day Festival, Boalsburg, 9 a.m., boalsburgvillage.com. 21, 28 – Lemont Farmers’ Market, Lemont Village Green, Lemont, 2 p.m., centralpafarmers.com. 30-June 1 – Nittany Valley Machinery Association Spring Show, Penn’s Cave, Center Hall, nittanyantique.org. 31 – A Toast to Reading: Wine Pairing and Silent Auction to Benefit the Children’s Dyslexia Center of State College, Ramada Inn and Conference Center, S.C., 2 p.m., happyvalley.com.
Penn State’s softball team wraps up its regular season with a three-game series against Illinois May 2-4 at Beard Field at Nittany Lion Softball Park.
Sports For tickets to Penn State sporting events, visit gopsusports.com or call (814) 865-5555. For area high school sporting events, call your local high school. 2-4 – PSU/Illinois, softball, Beard Field at Nittany Lion Softball Park, PSU, 6 p.m. Fri., 3 p.m. Sat., 10:30 a.m. Sun. 9 – Jim Thorpe Invite, track & field, Nittany Lion Track, PSU, 2 p.m.
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9-11 – PSU/Indiana, baseball, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 6:30 p.m. Fri., 2 p.m. Sat., 1 p.m. Sun. 15-17 – PSU/Michigan State, baseball, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 6:30 p.m. Thurs. & Fri., noon Sat. 23-26 – Happy Volley Club Championships, PSU.
Theater 3 – Bill Maher, BJC, PSU, 8 p.m., bjc.psu.edu. 4 – Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop, State Theatre, S.C., 7 p.m. thestatetheatre.org. 10 – Metropolitan Opera Live in HD presents Rossini’s La Cenerentola, VILMA/JOHN&CREW: THIS IS COPY FOR State Theatre, S.C., 1 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. MAY ’14 RED CROSS AD – 10 – National Theatre Live presents King PLEASE MAKE IT LOOK THIS, Lear, State Theatre, S.C., 7 p.m.,LIKE thestatetheatre.org. EQUAL SPACES TOP & BOTTOM 15, 17 –WITH State College Community Theatre presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream, IF IT DOESN’T FIT VERTICALLY OR HORIZONTALLY, State High South Auditorium, S.C., 7 p.m. Thurs., 2 PLEASE EMAIL WITT – HE WILL MAKE IT FIT & 7 p.m. Sat., scctonline.org. 20 – Out Loud: Penn’s Valley Poets Abby Minor and Margie Gafforn, Bellefonte Art 2014-05 MAY Red Cross Museum for Centre County, Bellefonte, 7:30 p.m., FOR MAX LINE WIDTH: bellefontemuseum.org.
The State Theatre shows the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD’s presentation of Rossini’s La Cenerentola on May 10. 22 – National Theatre Live presents The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, State Theatre, S.C., 7 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 24 – Letter From Home: The Andrew Sisters Tribute Show, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 3 p.m., pamilmuseum.org. 28-30 – Penn State Centre Stage presets Broadway on Allen, Penn State Downtown Theatre Centre, S.C., noon, theatre.psu.edu. 31 – Performing Arts School of Central Pennsylvania presents Spring Gala, Mount Nittany Middle School, S.C., 3 & 7 p.m., 234-4961. T&G
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The Forgotten California Region Central Coast sees increase in quality and quantity wines By Lucy Rogers
When people think about California wines, they usually first think of Napa and Sonoma valleys. But the Central Coast wine-growing region, located just south of San Francisco and stretching all the way down to Santa Barbara, just north of Los Angeles, is a 250-mile swath of land that is home to more than 350 wineries, many of which you’ve probably already heard of — J. Lohr, Turley, Robert Hall, Hahn, Bernardus, Chalone, Tablas Creek, Sanford, Qupe, Fess Parker, and Justin all make their home in the Central Coast AVA (American Viticultural Area), just to name a few. There are almost 100,000 acres planted under vine, and more than 100 varieties of grapes are able to grow in more than 10 counties because of the wildly varying climates and terroir found in such a large area — any grape can do well somewhere in the region. There are many subregions contained within the Central Coast — regions that have become known for their success with certain grapes. The largest and most important of these subregions are Monterey, Paso Robles, Santa Lucia Highlands, and Edna Valley in the more northern part of the appellation, where grapes such as Chardonnay, Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Syrah have been found to flourish. Farther south, in places, smaller AVAs such as Santa Barbara, Santa Rita Hills, and Santa Ynez, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir stand out. (Fifty percent of the wine produced on the Central Coast is Chardonnay because it seems to do well across the region.) It wasn’t always so. Most of the winegrowing in California was started by Spanish missionaries in the 1800s who dotted the landscape with missions, from the south all the way up north of San Francisco, where they planted grapes for making sacramental wine. And while the gold rush in 1849 brought fortune seekers to California, bringing an increase in
Chateau Julien is one of the many wineries producing quality wine in the Central Coast region of California.
demand for wine, the majority of wine in those days continued to be made from the “mission” grape, the Spanish grape missionaries brought with them from Mexico. Prohibition in the early twentieth century then took its toll on the industry, bringing it to near collapse, allowing only a handful of wineries to continue to produce only sacramental wine that was sold to the church. In the 1970s, when Napa and Sonoma valleys began to be identified as regions where world-class wines could be made, not too much was happening in the Central Coast. Interestingly though, native Pennsylvanian and Penn State alum Gary Eberle was one of the first to make wine in the Central Coast region known as Paso Robles, and is considered a pioneer in the wine industry there. He was a winemaker at Estrella Vineyards until he purchased a plot of land of his own and established Eberle Winery, where he produced his first wine in 1979. He also is credited with bringing Syrah, a northern Rhone Valley (France) grape variety, to California — a clone that he then shared with other winemakers when it was shown that Syrah could in fact thrive in the Central Coast, along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Zinfandel. To this day, Eberle makes a range of both red and white wines, many of which are widely available in Centre County. The past 30 years have seen continued growth in the entire Central Coast region, with Paso Robles showing a five-fold increase in the number of wineries in the past decade. Established winemakers in Sonoma and Napa also have purchased land in the Central Coast and are making both Central Coast
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wines or using grapes grown there to supplement their crops in northern California. Noteworthy Pinot Noir is emerging from Santa Barbara and Santa Rita Hills, making it a new mecca for devotees of that delicate grape. The benefit to the casual wine drinker is that real estate is far less expensive in the Central Coast compared to Sonoma and Napa valleys, meaning the wines produced in the Central Coast can have a high QPR — quality to price ratio — meaning you won’t have to spend as much to get a well-made wine. You can imagine the difficulty in assembling a representative sample of wines from an area so large and so varied. Our panel was interested in seeing what was out on the shelves and to see if we could get a handle on Central Coast wines and what, if anything, distinguished them from wines from other geographic areas. We found many of the reds from the more northern part of the appellation were Cabernet, Zinfandel, Syrah, and a few blends. Most were easy-drinking, fruit-forward wines — tons of ripe berry fruit, soft textures, and interesting aromas. Sometimes we did notice a certain lack of structure and complexity in some of the wines. Our sampling from the more southern half of the appellation was quite different. Most of the wines were Pinot Noir, and we found several good-quality, well-made, well-balanced wines at reasonable price points. If I were to go to a restaurant looking for a Pinot Noir that wouldn’t break the bank, I would definitely start my search looking for southern Central Coast Pinot Noirs — Santa Barbara, Santa Rita Hills, Santa Lucia Highlands. I have included some (but not all!) of our notes from our tasting and hope you find time to seek out some Central Coast red wines. They are worth looking into. Chateau Julien Royalty Red 2010 (blend of Merlot, Cabernet, Syrah), Monterey County ($13; PLCB code 48330): Great nose of chocolate and red fruit, pipe tobacco. A rich, ripe fruit bomb, the wine was great with sea salt-caramel chocolate, bleu cheese. Not a ton of acid, bordering on flabby. Austin Hope, The Troublemaker (nonvintage blend of Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre, Zinfandel, Petit Syrah), Paso Robles ($18; PLCB code 46963): Smoked meat/salami on the nose initially, then raspberry, vanilla, and cinnamon with hints of chocolate, too. Interesting, but something about it seems out of balance.
David Bruce Petite Sirah 2010, Santa Cruz ($21; PLCB code 48021): Tons of vanilla, raspberry, and black pepper on the nose. Fairly light bodied with a bit more acid than its predecessors, but overall somewhat lackluster, especially for the price. The Carnelian Project Cabernet Sauvignon 2012, Paso Robles ($11; PLCB code 32999): Beautiful nose of strawberry jam, with hints of vanilla and green pepper. Light bodied for a cab. Four Vines “Biker” Zinfandel 2009, Paso Robles ($20; PLCB code 518160 [SLO]): Buttered popcorn on the nose, and then turns floral; light bodied with lots of raisins and a bit of cocoa. Daniel Gehrs Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 Central Coast ($17; PLCB code 46837): Lots of aromas of green pepper and jalapeno, and then green bean; in spite of being light bodied, it has a lot of texture. Very tasty with Mexican food. Sea Smoke Pinot Noir 2010 Santa Rita Hills ($24; PLCB code 534919 [SLO]): Petrol and burnt rubber on the nose, latex initially, but a lightbodied red with some nice fruit and hints of mint and menthol. Claiborne and Churchill 2008 Pinot Noir Edna Valley ($23; PLCB code 20844): Easy and floral with a soft palate, a little bit of earth and strawberries, hint of tobacco. Well balanced. Sanford Flor de Campo 2012 Pinot Noir Central Coast ($20; PLCB code 46347): A little funk and mushroom on the nose, but nice bright fruit, a little racy with a touch of spice, though a short finish. Byron Pinot Noir 2012 Santa Barbara ($19; PLCB code 3520): Another wine with some burnt rubber in the nose but lots of aromas and flavors of roses, with some raspberry hard-candy flavor, too. Deep Sea 2009 Syrah with Petite Sirah, Merlot, Lagrein, and Mourvedre, Santa Barbara County ($24; PLCB code 534919, [SLO]): There is a little funk in the nose but it goes away and leads to fresh fruit-flavors balanced by its tannic structure. Margerum M5 2011 (Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Counoise, Cinsault), Santa Barbara County ($27; PLCB code 46846): An off-putting nose reminiscent of low tide, once it opened up, the wine was light, soft, and easy with a sweet/ tart flavor. 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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Clem’s Roadside Bar and Grill brings popular barbecue back to area
By Vilma Shu Danz
Renowned griller Clem Pantalone has returned to the area joining forces with Autoport owner Greg Mussi in rebranding the restaurant to offer finger-licking barbeque and mouthwatering Southern dishes. Walking into the newly renovated Clem’s Roadhouse Bar and Grill, located at 1405 South
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Atherton Street in State College, customers are welcomed by a one-of-a-kind mural painted by Pantalone’s brother, Raphael, a Pittsburgh art teacher. In the dining room, the warm and inviting wooden backdrop was assembled with wood salvaged from an old barn. The various metal art pieces tie the dining room together beautifully
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Chocolate-brownie sundae with the existing custom-designed metal bar. Customers who were familiar with Clem’s barbeque can still order the BBQ ribs, pulled pork, and wood-grilled chicken to go at the counter, or dine in and enjoy the full menu with a fullservice bar. “Soul food really has to come from the heart, and both Clem and I are equally as passionate about the food we offer here,” explains Mussi. “All our side dishes, breads, soups, and desserts are all homemade.” In addition to Clem’s original BBQ sauce, customers are invited to try five other sauces, including Clem’s Fire, Southern Comfort, Carolina-style, Creole Honey Mustard, and Korean Barbeque. As an accompaniment to Clem’s BBQ, the new menu showcases some Southern specialties such as chicken tamales, cornmeal-encrusted Mississippi catfish, fried green tomatoes, creole shrimp, Andouille and crawfish over grits, and a Delta blues burger topped with blue cheese, hickory-smoked ham, and melted gruyere. Some of the upcoming plans for the restaurant include adding a small stage to feature live weekly blues, country, and hillbilly rock music. Outdoor seating will be available with some changes to the tiki bar area to allow customers to interact
with Pantalone as he grills his famous barbeque. And, possibly soon, customers can have their BBQ orders delivered. For more information about Clem’s Roadhouse Bar and Grill, visit clemsbarandgrill.com. For a special offer for 50 percent off a chickentamale plate and the recipe for chicken tamales, visit townandgown.com. T&G
> Featured Selections < Hours of Operations: Sunday: 7 a.m.- 9 p.m. Monday-Saturday: 7 a.m.-11 p.m. Happy Hour: 8-10 p.m. every day. To view the new menu and entertainment schedule, visit clemsbarandgrill.com. For daily blue-plate specials and features, visit Clem’s Roadside Bar and Grill on Facebook. Takeout is available, call (814) 238-2333.
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Dining Out Full Course Dining 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 II, 135 S. Allegheny St., Bellefonte, 3534696. Cozy and charming, yet affordable, Bella II’s specialty is good food! Fresh, classic pasta dishes with homemade sauces, large dinner salads, and inhouse, hand-crafted desserts, top the favorites. Plan to try Bella II’s lunch buffet, Tues.-Thurs., featuring pasta, pizza, wraps, and desserts. BYOB welcomed! Take out available. Hours: Sun. 12-9, Tues.-Thurs. 11-9, Fri.-Sat. 11-10, Closed Mondays. AE, D, MC, V. 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. 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.
Clem’s Roadside Bar and Grill, 1405 S. Atherton St., 237-7666, www.clemsbarandgrill.com. Chef/owner Greg Mussi combines forces with infamous griller Clem Pantalone to bring you a mix of classic BBQ and other signature dishes featuring local produce and an extensive wine list. Central’s PA’s unique “whiskey bar” and extensive wine list. Happy hours every day from 5 to 7 p.m. State College’s largest outdoor seating area. Groups welcome. Catering and private events available. Daily specials listed on Facebook. Live music. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.
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. The Deli Restaurant, 113 Hiester St., 2375710, 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 award-winning 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.
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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. The Greek, 102 E. Clinton Ave., 308-8822, www.thegreekrestaurant.net. Located behind The Original Waffle Shop on North Atherton Street. Visit our Greek tavern and enjoy authentic Greek cuisine. From fresh and abundant vegetables to the most succulent kebabs, each dish has been perfected to showcase genuine Greek flavors. When we say “authentic,” we mean it. Full service, BYOB. D, MC, V.
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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.
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Herwig’s Austrian Bistro, “Where Bacon Is An Herb,” 132 W. College Ave., 272-0738. Located next to the State Theatre. Serving authentic Austrian home cooking in Central PA. Ranked #1 Ethnic Restaurant in State College for 7 years in a row. Eat-in, Take-Out, Catering. Gluten-free options available. Bacon-based dessert. Homemade breads, BYO beer or wine all day. Sense of humor required. D, MAC, MC, V. Hi-Way Pizza, 1688 N. 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, D, MC, V. (call ahead.)
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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.
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Each month Town&Gown highlights a local place to eat and offers a glimpse into the great dining of our community.
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Mario’s Italian Restaurant, 1272 N. Atherton St., 234-4273, MariosItalianStateCollege.com. Fresh specialty dishes, pasta, sauces, hand-tossed pizzas, and rotisserie wood-grilled 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. Otto’s Pub & Brewery, 2235 N. Atherton St., 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. Philipsburg Elks Lodge & Country Club, 1 Country Club Lane, Philipsburg, 342-0379, philipsburgelks.com. Restaurant open to the public! Monday-Saturday 11-9, Sunday 9-3. Member-only bar. New golf member special, visit our Web site for summer golf special. AE MC, V. Full Bar (member only).
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The Tavern Restaurant, 220 E. College Ave., 2386116. 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.
Fiddlehead, 134 W. College Ave., 8237-0595, www. fiddleheadstatecollege.com. Fiddlehead is a soup-andsalad café offering soups made from scratch daily. Create your own salad from over 40 fresh ingredients.
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.
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.
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.
Good Food Fast Baby’s Burgers & Shakes, 131 South Garner St., 234-4776, www.babysburgers.com. Love poodle skirts, a jukebox playing the oldies, and delicious food cooked to order? Then Baby’s Burgers & Shakes is your kind of restaurant! Bring the entire family and enjoy a “ Whimpy” burger, a Cherry Coke or delicious chocolate shake, and top it off with a “Teeny Weeny Sundae,” in our authentic 1947 Silk City Diner. Check out Baby’s Web site for full menu and daily specials! D, MC, V, MAC, Lion’s Cash.
Irving’s, 110 E. College Ave., 231-0604, www.irvingsstatecollege.com. Irving’s is State College’s finest bakery café serving award-winning bagels, espresso, sandwiches, salads, and smoothies. Meyer Dairy, 2390 S. Atherton St., 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!
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Westside Stadium Bar and Grill, 1301 W. College Ave., 308-8959, www.westsidestadium barandgrill.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.
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Hoag’s Catering/Celebration Hall, 2280 Commercial Blvd., State College, 238-0824, www.hoagscatering.com. Hoag’s Catering specializes in off-site catering, event rentals, and on-site events at Celebration Hall. We do the work, you use the fork — large and small events. T&G
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Before she heads off to the WNBA, Maggie Lucas reflects on her Lady Lion career that will go down as one of the best in program history Maggie Lucas came to Penn State with high expectations, and she reached or exceeded many of them as a member of the Lady Lions basketball program. Lucas, who grew up near Philadelphia, will be graduating Maggie Lucas (left) talks with Town&Gown founder Mimi Barash from Penn State in May with a Coppersmith at the Original Waffle Shop in State College. degree in recreation, park, During the WNBA draft in April, Lucas was and tourism management. She is the two-time Big picked by the Phoenix Mercury with the 21st overall Ten Player of the Year, three-time first team All-Big selection. Ten honoree, two-time Wade Trophy finalist, and Prior to the draft, Town&Gown founder Mimi two-time USBWA All-American. She had one of the Barash Coppersmith sat down with Lucas at the most prolific careers in Lady Lion and Big Ten history. Original Waffle Shop, on West College Avenue in Among her career accomplishments at Penn State, State College, to discuss what motivated her to come she finished second in program history and fourth in to Penn State, what she has learned in the four years the Big Ten in career scoring with 2,510 points. She here, and what her plans are for the future. owns the Big Ten and Penn State record with 365 Mimi: I was reflecting on just how I would career 3-pointers, which also ranks 11th in NCAA start an interview with a young woman who has history. She owns the free-throw percentage mark for stormed this valley for four years and given a both the Big Ten and Penn State at a .907 career clip, lot of us a whole lot of pleasure. Can you try to and broke the Lady Lion record for career free throws isolate what was the greatest lesson you learned made (547). She is the only player in school history and from this exciting four-year experience? just the sixth player in the Big Ten to accumulate 2,000 Maggie: I would say one of the biggest lessons points, 500 rebounds, 250 assists, and 200 steals. I’ve learned is try not to get too high with all the highs that happen, but, more importantly, not to get too low with the lows. In basketball, you’re going to experience both, and if you let the two extremes affect you, I don’t think you’ll have as long of a career. Mimi: And it’s a tough lesson to learn. What was your highest point, would you say? Maggie: I would probably say getting the threepeat for the Big Ten championship. Especially this year, a year when a lot of people thought we couldn’t have done it with such a young team and only two returning starters. I think that was
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In March, Lucas celebrated leading the Lady Lions to a third consecutive Big Ten title.
a big feat for us and definitely one of my favorite moments. Mimi: I don’t think anybody expected you, as a team, to finish where you did. How did you achieve that? What do you think made the four seniors all leaders, and how did you manage to be great individuals and a team at the same time? Maggie: I think we all embraced our different roles. We each had a very different role as a leader and a player. Each one of us was a different kind of leader. We had to do it all together. Early on, we had a couple times when things got rough and when we faced adversity. We may have gone separate ways, but it was a learning experience for us. It was some of our first times spending a lot of time out on the court together. Before that, we had been more with the senior class before us. I spent most of my time on the court with them. We had to learn to play with each other and know what each other did when things got rough and when they were good. Mimi: Tell us a little bit about the struggle involved with being a star. Share with us some of the feelings and your own personal struggle in that role. Maggie: You feel very responsible for the losses. I would say that’s one of the biggest things. I don’t think people realize that a lot of pressure goes into every game. There were times that I felt, this year especially, going against different defenses, people expected to see more of this game. One of my biggest struggles was every time I stepped on the court I was facing a box or just being face-guarded the whole game. It’s tough to score and have high percentages in that sort of defense. Mimi: But you’ve learned from that. Maggie: Definitely.
Mimi: You’ll probably play better at the next level. Maggie: Yes, at the next level it’ll be nice to be guarded one-on-one and have people be able to help off of you. That was tough this year. Before, I shared a lot of the pressure with Alex Bentley. This year, I faced a lot of boxes and face guarding. Mimi: But you survived. Tell us a little bit about your dreams for the future. Maggie: To get drafted and go to camp. The best thing I can do is prepare myself as much as possible. That’s what I’ve done my whole life is prepare myself. I’d love to make a WNBA team this summer. I also might go overseas and play professionally, too. Mimi: Any idea where? Maggie: No, not yet. Not at all. Mimi: You changed significantly as a player from year one to year four. How did that evolve? Maggie: Everything comes from my position coach, Fred Chmiel, and all of the work with him has paid off. He’s unbelievable. He’s one of the best basketball minds I’ve ever been around. It’s the way he teaches and drills. He’s unbelievable, and I owe all of my player development to him. Mimi: That’s quite a testimony. Maggie: It is, but he’s awesome. Tough, but cares about every person he is coaching for. Just very smart. Mimi: Well, I always thought he was a good hire because I thought that every team should have at least one male coach to settle us women. Maggie: For sure! He definitely does that. He’s really transformed me as a player. Everything that I’ve added to my game is from spending hours in the gym with him. Mimi: What’s pretty amazing about the Lady Lions is the tremendous role you play off the court in the community. Could you talk a little
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bit about different things you’ve been involved in and what that has done for the full experience of being a Lady Lion basketball player? Maggie: We go to YMCAs and local youth basketball games to interact with the kids and practice with them. We’ve gone to the Village at Penn State and interacted with them. We’ve gone to the SPCA, helped clean, and interact with the animals there. We’ve visited Hershey Medical Center and cancer patients getting chemo. Then, we went to Lewistown and did the same thing. And Mount Nittany. It’s been awesome! Mimi: How do you fit it all in? You’re a good student. Most of the team has good grades. You, more than anyone else, practice unbelievable hours. You do all this public service from Pink Zone to the golf tournament, lots of things you didn’t even include. How in the world do you do it? Maggie: I’d say that our support staff who do so much of the organization. Kris Petersen, our trainer Natalie Meckstroth, the fitness trainer Brad Pantall, Kathy Drysdale, and the list goes on. There are so many people who help us stay organized. Anytime I have an interview or anything, [Petersen] texts me to remind me. Our support staff here is top-notch
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and probably the best in the country. They keep us well rounded and on top of things. We have the best academic advisers. I would say that’s how we keep everything straight, stay organized, and fit it all in. Stepping out into the real world there aren’t going to be people like that to remind you and help you stay so organized. Mimi: Talk a little about the choice and deciding to come here. Who were you deciding between and what brought you here? Maggie: It was mainly between here and Maryland, and I was talking a little bit to Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Boston College, Miami, or Florida. I can’t even remember. I was planning those visits. But the more I got closer to making the decision, I wanted it to be between two. I thought the more schools I added, the harder it was going to be because I was going to make relationships with more people. Mimi: And you’re not a shy person. Maggie: It’s just hard to say No to people who are so nice. But in the end, I loved Penn State, the school, above anything else. I told my parents that even if I got hurt while I was playing here and couldn’t play anymore, I would love going to school here. It seemed like a great fit for me. It’s a g Comin 014 2 r e m Sum Way, s wkne t a H 0 0 1 nte Bellefo
good distance from home. I wanted my parents to come to every home game, which they have since I was a freshman. I love Penn State. Mimi: One of the things that frustrates me most of all is that we can’t seem to raise the bar on attendance at the games, and it’s such a thrilling experience as a spectator. Do you have any ideas of what we can do to help people realize what a remarkable experience it is to see the performance of these young women? Maggie: I don’t think we can ask much more out of the community and the families. They come to the games. They’re our biggest supporters. They’re there every game. Where we lack is we don’t get any students. Mimi: So how do we get them? Maggie: There’s a negative feeling that women’s basketball is boring. I don’t know. It’s hard to argue with people who don’t seem to know. Mimi: If you were paid to figure it out and come up with suggestions, what would you do? Maggie: I’d say you’d need more money to market games with incentives for students to come. First 150 students get a free slice of pizza or a T-shirt. I think those are things that attract students.
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Lucas was drafted by the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, who begin their season this month.
I remember for the men’s games they get a bunch of students, but the games where they give away hats there’s more attendance because that’s something that the students want. Mimi: It’s fair to say that if we could get more fans in the arena for every game, the team could be even better because the role of the fans is inspiring. Maggie: I also think it’s on the girls to go out and interact with the fans. Mimi: But you guys do that! Maggie: Yes, after games I always go out and sign as many autographs as I can, and talk and take pictures with as many people as I can. I think that’s big because it makes people want to come back because they have a relationship with you and they know who you are. It’s more of a personal touch. Mimi: Well, my goal is to help figure that out. Maggie: It’s the students. We get large crowds on the weekends, especially when people come from out of town and they bring a full team of girls, a high school team or a middle school team, and I think we’re really good with that.
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Our marketing team is really good with that. I know, in year’s past, they’ve done their best to reach students, but it’s almost been a waste. Mimi: Well, it’s a whole different feeling in the Bryce Jordan Center at the Pink Zone game because the place the last few years has almost been full. It’s not a white out, it’s a pink out! So, we know we can attract people with reasons. Coming back to the camaraderie that was achieved on this year’s team, mostly seniors and lower classmen, tell me what made you gel together in spite of the spread of the age group. Maggie: I would definitely say that we all have differences for sure, but at the end of the day we all have the same goals. We wanted to win, and we wanted to win a Big Ten championship again. I think a lot of the freshmen felt that they owed it to the seniors that they help us out and go out on a good note. Mimi: They came through. Maggie: I think that made them work really hard and gave them extra motivation for sure. I don’t think they wanted to be the class that came in and didn’t win one after winning for
two years. For the seniors, after our freshman year, we’ve won Big Ten championships, so we don’t want to go back to feeling empty-handed after the Big Ten. We got different ideas a lot of the time. It’s not always smooth. What we always bonded over was that we all have the same goal and we had to find ways to make it happen together. Mimi: Your parents are great fans and great role models. What was their secret weapon, in your mind, for the wonderful job they did in support of you? Maggie: I think they balance each other out really well. My dad is super intense. He’s into every step of the game. Not that my mom isn’t. My dad is basketball-intense and my mom is like the balance between the two. If they were both like my dad or my mom, it would be off-balance, but they balance me out really well. Mimi: You’re blessed in many ways. Maggie: Yes I am. Mimi: Well, I want to thank you on behalf of the community. You’re an inspiration to all of us. Maggie: Thank you! T&G
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2014 Penn State Football Schedule August 30 ............................................... vs. Central Florida (at Croke Park Stadium, Dublin, Ireland) September 6.................................................... AKRON September 13............................................at Rutgers* September 20.................................MASSACHUSETTS September 27................................ NORTHWESTERN* October 11.............................................. at Michigan* October 25.............................................. OHIO STATE* November 1............................................ MARYLAND* November 8............................................... at Indiana* November 15.................................................. TEMPLE November 22...............................................at Illinois* November 29................................. MICHIGAN STATE* Home games in ALL CAPS ............ * — Big Ten game
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Kick Off a New Era with the Same Great Tradition! As James Franklin prepares for his first year as the Nittany Lionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; head coach, Town&Gownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2014 Penn State Football Annual will get you ready for the upcoming season! The Football Annual will once again have in-depth features and analysis from awardwinning writers who cover the Nittany Lions.
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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 February meeting competition.
February Meeting First Place: Theme “Shopping”
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“Mini-Shopper” by Sami Sharkey
“I took several shots with existing light while shopping with our 2-year-old granddaughter. I had to select the one with the least motion.”
February Meeting First Place: Open Category “Yoga” by Robert Hale
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“ ‘Yoga’ was taken in our studio using three Profoto strobes. The model is a local yoga instructor.”
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 (814) 861-1785 and let him know you would like this image. 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. Guests and new members are always welcome.
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Sponsor / Captain Reception, Thursday, May 29th Individual tickets availalble
TEE OFF ON CANCER! 18th Annual Coaches vs. Cancer® of Penn State Golf Tournament
Friday, May 30th 2014 at the Penn State Golf Courses Great Golf•Great Food•Great Fun•Great Cause Morning & Afternoon Rounds•Two Receptions Online Registration: www.cvcpennstate.org • One of the top golf events of the season in Pennsylvania • More than 350 golfers participate annually • Great participation gifts and competition prizes • All the food you can eat on and off the course • Penn State coaches, former stars, and celebrities from across the sports world • Morning and Afternoon tee times available
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Art Lovers Palmer Museum’s honorary chairs continue to show great passion, support for the arts in Happy Valley By Cassandra Wiggins
Christine and Benson Lichtig’s interest in the arts was a “growing process,” according to Christine. “The more I became involved in the arts, the more I came to understand the benefits of creative efforts and the influence on a community by having the arts as part of it,” she says. “It opened up a whole new world for me. I like giving back to the arts for what they have given to me.” Today, the Lichtigs are involved in many organizations, including several in the arts. Christine serves on the Palmer Museum of Art’s advisory board, Penn State’s public art committee, and the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State’s community advisory council. She also has served on the boards of the Friends of the Palmer and, more recently, on Friends of Schlow Centre Region Library. In recognition of Christine’s volunteer work as a docent and the couple’s support of the Palmer Museum of Art throughout the years, the Lichtigs are the honorary chairs of the 2014 Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art Gala, a black-tie dinner with silent and live auctions that benefits the museum’s educational programming. The gala takes place May 16. The couple’s involvement in the arts started with a chance meeting in the early 1990s with Kahren Arbitman, director of Palmer Museum at the time. It was meeting her, Christine says, that started and developed her interest in arts. Arbitman was inviting people to join the docent group because there was a new addition being put onto the museum, so they needed to expand the educational tour guides, Christine says. To prepare for her new role as docent, she took many basic art courses and did a lot of self-research. “I learned about the importance of museums to provide access to art images that we might not otherwise be able to see,” she says. “We made a concerted effort to visit and travel to other museums and understand their collections and broaden our scope of understanding of the arts. What I took from it is all the communities we visited that had strong a strong arts component, whether it be visual arts or the performing arts, the community seems more vibrant and creative.”
Christine and Benson Lichtig Best Penn State Memory: Christine: “Our best Penn State memory is meeting each other and sharing our years together as our romance developed.” Favorite restaurants in the area: Christine: “ We frequent and enjoy many fine restaurants in State College. The owners of these restaurants are some of the most generous donors to our community. We admire each and every one of them!” What made you choose to stay in State College? Christine: “I have western Pennsylvania roots and Benson was from the eastern part of the state, so we thought this would be this best place to settle, raise children, and be a part of this great community.”
Around that same time, Benson also became connected to Palmer. He was on the board of directors of the Lion’s Paw Alumni Society when the organization raised funds for and donated the familiar paw sculptures at the entrance to the museum. The couple say they hope their support of art organizations in the community and Penn State, including the Palmer Museum, the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, and Penn State Centre Stage, will inspire others to get involved and show their support in any way they can. Benson says that by getting involved and exposing oneself to the arts, people may realize an interest they didn’t know they had, and enjoy it. “The arts are there not only to entertain and educate,” Christine says, “but also to provoke and cause you to think in ways you never did before. … We benefit from the arts as a whole. It goes back to making a more vibrant and creative community.” T&G
116 - Town&Gown May 2014
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