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This time of year, unique local shops provide an oasis to the shopping frenzy To set the record straight, I hate shopping. I rarely go shopping for something for myself, unless I have finally convinced myself that I absolutely need to buy a particular item. When that happens, I put a plan in place to hit the store, buy the item, and get out as quickly as possible. And while I do the grocery shopping in my family, I attack it the same way — I make my list (and check it twice), get my coupons in order, grab a shopping cart, go through each aisle I need to, pay my bill, and leave. I guess that’s why I never understood the frenzy that takes place mere hours after Thanksgiving turkeys have been eaten. Black Friday — the day when people camp outside major stores across the country, and when the stores open their doors, it turns into mass chaos as customers run around — and sometimes over each other — to get whatever products are for sale. For someone who hates shopping, it would be a nightmare to participate in such an event. As much as I dislike shopping and would never go to a store the day after Thanksgiving, I don’t mind the experience as much during the Christmas season when I’m looking for gifts for friends and loved ones. I like to do much of that shopping, however, at local shops where the owners decorate inside and have holiday tunes playing — and I can find items that are unique to Happy Valley. The “Buy Local” movement is mostly associated with supporting farmers’ markets and eating at local restaurants. But “Buy Local” also means supporting
local retail businesses, especially during prime shopping seasons — which the months of November and December are. Check out our “Holiday Gift Guide” that starts on page 75 to find some of the great items from local businesses that you can get for a loved one or friend — or for yourself. You’ll find everything from jewelry to wine and beer to food to home-décor items. It’s enough to make this Scrooge of a shopper look forward to visiting multiple shops — even without a list! Finally, on a sad note, Town&Gown lost a member of its family in October. Former editor Richard “Witt” Yeagley died on October 10 at the age of 87. He had been a senior editorial consultant for the magazine since he and his wife, Mary, moved to Colorado in 1993. He continued in that role until his passing. He served in various positions at Town&Gown since 1969, including editor, publications manager, and vice president. You can read more about Witt in this month’s “People in the Community” on page 12. I met Witt just once since I became editor of Town&Gown in 2005, but even while working with him from afar, he was an amazing resource and of great help to me. He was a wealth of knowledge when it came to the history of State College, and would bring up interesting facts whenever I had him look at a story that included some historical references. He also would make a point to ask me about my personal life, and congratulated me on major moments — getting married, having children — that occurred during our working relationship. He will be missed by everyone at Town&Gown, and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. David Pencek Editorial Director dpenc@barashmedia.com
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Boalsburg market receives grant The US Department of Agriculture has awardedtheBoalsburg Farmers’ Market $28,171 to increase the sale of local agricultural products. The Farmers’ Market Promotion Program funds will be used to allow SNAP (food stamp) recipients to buy at the Boalsburg market, increase the number of cooking demonstrations at the market, expand its school outreach programs, and raise public awareness of the market and the health benefits of fresh local food through increased advertising. These activities will serve as a test of ways to increase the consumption of local food in general. The local chapter of Buy Fresh Buy Local will submit a grant application next year, drawing upon the results of the Boalsburg Market’s experience, to expand the program to include all of Centre County’s farmers’ markets. Presently, no Centre County farmers’ market accepts SNAP benefits. The grant will establish a system for allowing SNAP recipients to use their benefits to purchase fresh local products. The cooking demonstrations that will be conducted will help all patrons of the market learn new ways to prepare the local vegetables, fruits, dairy products, and meats available at the market. The grant will enable the market to expand its school outreach programs. It has already participated in nine “Farmer Comes to School” presentations in local elementary schools, and will now be able to go to middle schools. It also will conduct “food safety and food preparation” in-school programs for older students in local schools, and continue its support of school gardens at Grays Woods and Mount Nittany Elementary.
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Centre Foundation announces grant and awards At its annual dinner, Centre Foundation announced that Book Benches of Centre County would receive the inaugural $100,000 grant through the new Centre Inspires program. The $100,000 grant from Centre Foundation will start the project off with 25 fiberglass benches in the shape of an open book. Similar in idea to Harrisburg’s “Cow Parade” or other animal-themed, large-scale sculptures in various cities, these benches will be the first of their kind in the United States. Benches will be placed across the county — each community will design and decorate their bench. Local artist Elody Gyekis will help oversee the countywide project. Next year, Centre Inspires will focus on health and human services. The granting program will operate on a six-year cycle and rotate through all of Centre Foundation’s interest areas, which also include environmental conservation and awareness, and education and life-long learning. Penn State named “Best of the Best” The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) presented Penn State with its 2014 Outstanding Higher Education Award as one of the “Best of the Best.” The university was specifically recognized for its “exceptional program in recycling” and for “connecting higher education and industry.” The NRC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and enhancing recycling in the US. Penn State was selected from more than 70 other universities under consideration. Twenty-five years ago, the university recycled less than a ton of its waste. Today, students, faculty, staff, and visitors divert more than 100 types and almost 10,000 tons of waste from landfill at the University Park. T&G
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Community Richard “Witt” Yeagley Former Town&Gown editor Richard “Witt” Yeagley died Friday, October 10, in Evergreen, Colorado. He was 87. Mimi Barash Coppersmith, founder of Town&Gown, explains that Yeagley, in baseball terms, was the designated hitter, especially at critical times in the growth of the magazine. Like Coppersmith, his work on Town&Gown was always a labor of love, particularly with his commitment to presenting and preserving the remarkable history of town and gown. Coppersmith knows that no one is indispensable, but “Witt came about as close as it gets.” Yeagley had been senior editorial consultant for Town&Gown since 1993, when he and his wife, Mary, moved to Colorado. He first joined
Town&Gown in 1969 when he was hired as the magazine’s managing editor. Through the years, he served in various roles, including publications manager, advertising salesman, and vice president. “Witt is responsible for our up-to-date index and our capacity to continue to reference details that might never have been preserved,” Coppersmith says. “We will miss him, but his imprint will live forever in the pages of Town&Gown.” When Town&Gown celebrated its 30th anniversary in the January 1996 issue, Jo Chesworth wrote a story, “Happy Thirtieth, Town&Gown!” In it, she wrote, “The person largely responsible for T&G’s success during most of its life is Witt Yeagley. Its first full-time staff member, he was hired in mid-1969 as managing editor and advertising salesman and publications manager, then full-time editor for a brief spell …. A State College native who had spent 12 years away from State College in the 1950s and ’60s, Witt brought in more ads, helped increase production efficiency, and insisted every issue contain some local history.” Mike Aquilina was an intern for Town&Gown before becoming its editor in 1984. In the story, he said prior to his internship, his Penn State professor gave him reports from former T&G interns that made Witt sound “like a Cyclops. He timed your typing, they said, and asked you to spell ‘desiccate,’ and one intern had even broken out in hives! … As it turned out, Witt was a unique joy to work with, and he gave me a good example of what an editor is and does.” Yeagley, born on November 5, 1926, in State College, was the son of Blanche and Henry Yeagley. He was a member of the State College Area High School Class of 1944. He served in the Navy during World War II, on a destroyer escort in the North Atlantic. He graduated from Penn State in 1950. He was a journalism and advertising major, and was on the varsity soccer team, lettering on the 1949 team that won a share of the national title. He coached elementary and junior high soccer for five years in State College. Yeagley was active in the community, including serving on the board of directors of the local chapter of the American Red Cross. He was a 24-gallon blood donor. Yeagley is survived by his wife; a son, Erik, and his wife, Shaina; a daughter, Kristen; Erik’s son, Hayden; Shaina’s son, Seth Bruce; and a sister, Elizabeth. T&G
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Q&A with Glenn Myers, manager of the Penn State Meats Lab By Sarah Harteis For the last two decades, Glenn Myers has thoroughly enjoyed teaching and working closely with many students at Penn State. As manager of the Penn State Meats Lab, part of the animal-science department, he is able to teach students a variety of skills and techniques when it comes to taking proper care of meat. With Thanksgiving on its way, Myers took some time out of his busy schedule to share with Town&Gown the inside scoop on the meat lab, along with a variety of tips one can use in preparation for cooking this holiday season. T&G: What types of animals does the animalscience department raise? Myers: All of our animals come from farms here at PSU. The beef sheep center, swine center, and poultry farm produce and raise the animals that we sell through the meat counter on Friday mornings. T&G: Who buys the meat at the PSU Meats Lab, and is it priced reasonably? Myers: Customers range from students, local residents, retired folks, and people who are visiting the area for football weekends or
other events. Our prices are competitive with what you find in a retail store. Prices can fluctuate because the price of livestock is variable. T&G: Why do you believe it is better to purchase your meat at the lab as opposed to major grocery chains? Myers: People are becoming more and more in touch with their food. They want to know where it comes from, how it was raised, and they want to make sure it was processed and handled in a safe way. People also like to see a fresh-meat case that displays all the cuts. We are a USDA-inspected facility. T&G: Do a lot of people purchase their Thanksgiving turkey at the meats lab? Myers: Poultry is sold through the meats lab, but the Thanksgiving turkey sale is held at the Poultry Research Center. The Penn State Poultry Science Club has a great fundraiser the week of Thanksgiving where they sell turkeys that were processed fresh that weekend. T&G: Some people say that cooking the stuffing inside the turkey is unsanitary. What are your thoughts? Myers: If you wish to stuff your bird, don’t do so until you are ready to roast it. What you’ll want to do is combine all the stuffing ingredients just before using, fill the neck cavity, and then securely return the neck skin in place. Stuff the body cavity loosely and return the legs to a tucked position if they were untucked. Overpacking the stuffing can result in undercooked stuffing, even when the turkey is completely cooked. T&G: When is the best time to purchase meat from the PSU Meats Market? Myers: Our meat sale gets very busy when we open on Friday mornings at 9:30 a.m. — usually there is a line that forms prior to opening the doors. The best selection is first thing in the morning. Sometimes we are sold out of steaks by 10:30 a.m. T&G
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Instruments Collide Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center uses uncommon pairing in Parallel Worlds By John Mark Rafacz
Flutist Tara Helen O’Connor is one of the musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center who will perform November 20 at Schwab Auditorium.
Listen to Tara Helen O’Connor speak, and it becomes apparent in no time that she and the flute are a match made in heaven. O’Connor, one of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center musicians performing November 20 at Penn State, possesses a seemingly uninterrupted supply of breath, bolstered by boundless enthusiasm, to tame even the most demanding woodwind. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s return to Schwab Auditorium for the first time since 2011 features music by Mozart plus Sebastian Currier’s Parallel Worlds, a 2013 work for flute, two violins, viola, and cello, co-commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State. “When I first saw the [Currier] score, I was like, ‘This is a really cool piece, and it looks really hard.’ We were all terrified. I mean, serious terrified,” O’Connor recalls. “We get into the first rehearsal and everybody has done incredible amounts of work on it. O’Connor, who describes Parallel Worlds as a “great piece,” has known Currier for years. “I’ve played a bunch of his premieres, a bunch of works written for other ensembles. He’s a very clever craftsman,” she says. “What’s really, really cool about it is that there’s not a lot written for this combination,” she says. “We have some Boccherini. We have some classical stuff. We don’t have a lot of pieces written for the combination of flute and strings.” The Currier work, which premiered earlier this year, takes about 15 minutes and four movements to explore the contrast between flute and string quartet. “Sebastian says of his piece, Parallel Worlds, that though we make music in different ways, the unfolding of this is parallel. But I also like to think of it as a juxtaposition of different worlds — this old-world kind of beautiful
homogeneous sound and then this juxtaposition of activity and kind of quick, difficult writing,” she says. “The feel is very active. There’s a lot of leaps and different kinds of filigree. The writing is very dense. And so we go back and forth between these places. The second movement is very, very quick and exciting. And the third movement is, again, a slow movement that has this kind of back-and-forth thing. And then the fourth movement is incredibly virtuosic.” Currier, a Huntingdon native, is a 2007 recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award. Heralded as “music with a distinctive voice” by a New York Times critic and as “lyrical, colorful, firmly rooted in tradition but absolutely new” by a Washington Post reviewer, his compositions have been performed at major venues worldwide by acclaimed ensembles. The program also includes three Mozart pieces written in the 1780s: Quartet in A Major, K. 298, for flute, violin, viola, and cello; Duo No. 2 in B-flat Major, K. 424, for violin and viola; and Quintet in A Major, K. 581, for clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello. “The flute in Sebastian’s piece is very, very different than my Mozart as [part of] a quartet,” O’Connor says of the other piece she’ll be performing. “So you’ll be able to hear the flute as, maybe, an equal to the first violin in the Mozart. In the other piece, in Sebastian’s piece, you’ll be able to hear the flute combination with the two treble instruments.” In addition to O’Connor, the concert features six musicians — clarinetist David Shifrin, violinists Ani Kavafian and Arnaud Sussman, violists Yura Lee and Paul Neubauer, and cellist Mihai Marica — selected from the Chamber Music Society’s roster of virtuosos. T&G Tom and Mary Ellen Litzinger sponsor the concert. WPSU is the media sponsor. For tickets or information, visit cpa.psu.edu or phone (814) 863-0255. John Mark Rafacz is the editorial manager of the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State.
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Kristen Connelly looked to her mother, Barbara, as her mentor and her best friend. They talked on the phone every day, and for nearly 10 years they took annual mother-daughter trips. “My mom and I were very similar,” recalls Connelly, who lives in State College. “We basically had the same personalities — very outgoing, very fun people. We kind of lived in the moment, lived for everything. She basically taught me, growing up, what it is to be a good person and to care about people and to love people.” In October 2013, about a month after one of their mother-daughter trips to Quebec, Connelly and other members of the family had started noticing that Barbara was having issues with her memory. Connelly says that her mother often would know what she wanted to say but couldn’t figure out how to say it. Barbara eventually had a CT scan. It showed she had a grapefruit-sized tumor in her brain, along with multiple nodules. A full-body scan was then ordered, and, following a PET scan, doctors were able to determine that she had a nonsmall-cell adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer that, according to the Lung Cancer Alliance, makes up a little more than 30 percent of cases. The diagnosis came as a complete shock, not only because curing it was highly unlikely but also because Barbara was a seemingly healthy person who never smoked. Her brother, Thomas Bunch, had been diagnosed with lung cancer a year prior, so there was a family history. A genetic profile confirmed that she and her brother each had the ALK gene, a mutation linked to lung cancer. In May, six months following the diagnosis and five months before Kristen’s wedding, Barbara passed away from the disease. Shortly after her mother’s funeral, Connelly recalls a woman telling her, “Barb is still with us.” In a lot of ways, that has become a guiding principle for how Connelly has chosen to spend her time since losing her mother. Like many who are affected by this disease, she now considers herself an advocate to raise money
Kristen Connelly holds a photo of her mom, Barbara, who died from lung cancer in May. Connelly has become an advocate in the fight against lung cancer.
and awareness about lung cancer. She became involved in the State College chapter of Free to Breathe, a national organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. The organization is a partnership of lung-cancer survivors, advocates, researchers, health-care professionals, and industry leaders. It unites in the belief that every person with lung cancer deserves a cure. Since her involvement with the organization, Connelly has gained a better understanding of lung cancer and the challenges faced by those affected. “I was so thankful to have these people,” she says, “and I was just starting to get to know some of them around the time when my mom was diagnosed. I had some understanding of the disease, but it wasn’t until my uncle’s diagnosis that I started to see the stigma. Every time I talked to people about it, they asked if he smoked — and I was shocked.” Based on statistics, the need for lung-cancer advocacy is great. According to the Lung Cancer Alliance, the relative five-year survival rate for the disease is 16 percent, and that statistic has not changed in nearly 40 years. The reason why is twofold — so few cases of lung cancer are diagnosed at an early stage when it’s most curable, and there is little federal funding going toward lung-cancer research. Lung specialists at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center say that the causes of lung cancer
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are more complex than the popular opinion that it’s a disease caused by smoking. While smoking makes up a large number of cases, former smokers, nonsmokers, those affected by environmental-risk factors such as asbestos, radon, and second-hand smoke, as well as those with a family history, are also at risk. Despite this, social and political biases remain, which have stifled advancements in research and clinical trials. “When you look at other cancers that are common,” says Dr. Michael Reed, chief of the thoracic division at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, “all of them have screening. What’s interesting is that the screenings utilized were put into widespread use long before they were proven to increase survival rates. Lung-cancer screenings, due to various biases, had to be proven first.” Reed explains that if all the tobacco smokers were eliminated from the pool of lung-cancer patients, 20 percent would be left over, and that is still a significant number, considering that lung cancer is one of the top killers in the United States. Dr. Jennifer Toth, director of interventional pulmonary medicine at Penn State Hershey, explains that better understanding of the disease, including closer discernment of a possible genetic link, could
help in determining better treatment paths for lungcancer patients and possibly extend the survival rate. “It’s important to remove the stigma that this is a universally self-inflicted disease,” she says. “Doing so will allow more opportunity for funding to further research studies and sponsor trials to prevent metastization.” Andrea Royer-James of Bellefonte became involved in Free to Breathe around the same time as Connelly. She had just lost her mother to lung cancer, as well as her grandfather a few years before that. Each had been a smoker, and because of societal challenges, Royer-James often found it difficult to talk with others about her experience. “Losing somebody is always hard,” she says, “and I understand that everybody loses somebody, but when you lose someone to cancer, especially to a cancer that has the stigma that lung cancer does, you really feel alone.” Like Connelly, Royer-James found both comfort and the need for further awareness through her involvement in Free to Breathe. By attending the organization’s annual lung-cancer summit, she met others who were experiencing similar struggles, from dealing with the stigma to dealing with loss and insurance companies and medical bills.
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“It was so nice to go to the action summit and be with people who get it,” she says. “Everyone there was active in some way, shape, or form, and trying to change things for the better.” Connelly adds, “Nobody deserves to get cancer. My mom wasn’t afraid [of the stigma], and she didn’t feel the need to defend it. She understood this was life.” Strides are being made locally through Mount Nittany Medical Center. Dr. Edward Balaban is medical director of Cancer Care Partnership, a partnership between Mount Nittany Health and Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute. “The Cancer Care Partnership is a coming together of two communities — State College and the region — in an effort to be part of the larger academic community of the Penn State Hershey Medical Center and the Hershey Cancer Institute,” says Balaban. “And vice versa, Penn State Hershey is trying to be more of a presence in the community by partnering with the local, trusted health-care provider, Mount Nittany Health.” The Cancer Care Partnership also is in the process of developing a clinical protocol that addresses lung cancer and, more specifically, those patients who are at high risk or who have the possibility of becoming high risk due to factors such as family
history. The group also is exploring the possibility of lung-cancer preventative trials through low-dose CT imaging to detect lesions as early as possible. The partnership also was a sponsor of this year’s Free to Breathe 5K Walk/Run held in September. It was the second year for the event. Although the State College chapter of Free to Breathe is small, the committee hopes to continue to build awareness and make the 5K event a local tradition. “We realize there are a lot of other fundraising events and a lot of different cancers that organizations raise funds for here,” says Connelly. “This community rallies around events like THON and Coaches vs. Cancer. We’d like that kind of awareness and support to go toward this cause, too. “I’ve seen hope in this, and that hope is to move forward with research, and maybe we won’t necessarily find cures but we’ll find ways we can combat this cancer so that people can enjoy their lives a little bit longer.” T&G To learn more about Free to Breathe, visit freetobreathe.org. Lori Wilson is a freelance writer and works in marketing for the Penn State Smeal College of Business.
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Glimmers of Hope CentrePeace gives inmates a chance to restore their lives By Sabrina Evans
CentrePeace executive director Thom Brewster (right) with one of Centre Peace’s “trainees," Brenda Trude.
“There’s a selfish piece in all this,” admits Thom Brewster as he talks about CentrePeace, the sprawling used-furniture and home-décor
facility on Benner Pike in Bellefonte that he runs as executive director with his small staff. From the window of his office, you can glimpse a sea of armchairs extending out to the road, and shoppers wading for reupholstered treasures amidst the organized chaos. But among these shoppers are a smattering of men and women dressed in orange. These men and women, floating between the rows of recliners, are inmates from the Centre County Correctional Facility who are serving a sentence of less than two years. They work with CentrePeace as “trainees,” helping around the store and learning the tricks of the furniture-rehabilitation trade. Opening its doors in January 1994, CentrePeace works with local inmates in an effort to prepare them for life after prison. The program combines a unique blend of responsibility and support, to restore a sense of pride and purpose in the inmates. “What CentrePeace tries to do,” says Brewster, “is put faces and names to these people dressed all in orange,” offering a mission of hope where hope is hard to come by. And yet, in giving this hope, Brewster suspects selfish motives, although not quite the motives many might associate with a business turning out as much merchandise as CentrePeace does. As a nonprofit, CentrePeace and its volunteer staff don’t reap the financial benefits of the business it brings in, so when it comes to keeping CentrePeace up and running, a currency based on passion proves more effective than any based on cash. “It feels good to know I made a difference in somebody’s life,” Brewster says, revealing the “little secret” behind his and his staff’s efforts to continue the program. Ginny Clickner, a volunteer, says, “It never seems like hard work working here. It’s the people and the volunteering. It’s the prisoners — you see these glimmers and it inspires you.” However, Brewster, a father of two from Pine Grove Mills, didn’t come into the position as executive director of CentrePeace from years of following a dream to work with inmates. Rather than pursuing this passion, he believes the passion pursued him. In January 1994, he and his wife moved to Centre County when he had been accepted into Penn State’s PhD program for counseling psychology. As part of the program, students were expected to join a therapy group both on and off campus. On campus, Brewster became involved with the Adult Children of Alcoholics group, while off
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By next spring, CentrePeace will be moving from its current location on Benner Pike (above) to 3047 Benner Pike.
campus he stumbled across a position working with the Special Needs Unit at SCI-Rockview. “I never gave incarcerations, jails, any of that a second thought,” he says. “I drove by Rockview like most people thinking, ‘Wow, that seems like a scary place. I wonder what’s on the other side.’ ” But after stepping onto the cellblock for the first time, he knew that he had found his calling. “There was such a peace that came upon me,” he says. That peace became a full-time passion, eventually leading to his work with CentrePeace. It was through his work with the Special Needs Unit at the State Correctional Institution that he came to fully understand why CentrePeace’s mission of
reintegration is so essential to changing lives — both of those incarcerated and those in the outside world. “We have a skewed vision of what these inmates look like and who they are,” says Brewster. “Only when people visit CentrePeace do they see these inmates as human beings — as someone’s son, daughter, grandchild.” In one of his classes at SCI-Rockview, Brewster met an inmate who was a retired NASA aerospace engineer and husband of 53 years, but because of what Brewster describes as “one bad decision,” the man was now two years into serving a life sentence. Working personally with the inmates helped Brewster to realize that it isn’t only bad people who do bad things, but also simply normal people who have made unfortunate mistakes. Intermingling shoppers with inmates is part of the unique experience CentrePeace offers, and while Brewster hopes this experience sheds a light on the subject of incarceration, he also knows there’s a long road ahead. Brewster draws on the extremes portrayed by the media as part of the reason the public remains misinformed about incarceration — pointing out that extremes do exist, but that “they are only about two percent of the prison population.” Among the
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many roles he hopes CentrePeace plays in the community is that of education. “Only when we begin to deal with them as real people do we begin to care to help them,” he says. And help is what both the inmates and the system that incarcerates them need most. According to Brewster, the United States incarcerates around 2.3 million men, women, and children — taking responsibility for 25 percent of the world’s prison population. “It’s a broken system,” he says. “We call it the State Correctional Facility, but we’re not in fact correcting anything.” CentrePeace’s goal is to identify the issues facing inmates, aiming to produce a population of released inmates that doesn’t fall into the 70 percent return rate. “CentrePeace is a safe place for me where I can share my feelings and fears,” says a female inmate and trainee at CentrePeace. “I have started to at least admit to my faults so I can begin to ‘fix’ them.” A supportive environment that erases the fear of judgment and gives way to emotional healing is an essential facet of CentrePeace’s mission, both for the inmates and the volunteers. And whether it’s
an inmate or volunteer, CentrePeace’s protocol is the same: “We wrap our arms around them and say, ‘Let’s do this together,’ ” says Brewster. Showing support for the inmates and CentrePeace’s mission can be as easy as creating holiday greeting cards through its Christmas Cards for Inmates program, or becoming a pen pal through the Prayer-Mate outreach program. “For many of [the inmates], the Christmas cards created by young and old alike throughout the US will be the only piece of mail some inmates will receive all year,” Brewster says. “The best way for the general public to understand what we do is to get involved.” Thanks to the community’s continued interest over the years, CentrePeace will be moving to a bigger location by next spring — allowing its mission to provide even greater support for people who are looking to change their lives. “We are making a difference,” says Brewster. “We are making a difference in human terms — and I’d like to think that we are restoring lives along with furniture.” T&G For more information about CentrePeace, visit centrepeace.org.
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International Educ a Penn State’s study-abroad students reflect on their time away from Happy Valley
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c ation Experiences International Education Week is November 17-21. The US Department of State and Department of Education team up each year to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. As part of the celebration, Penn State’s education-abroad program holds an annual essay contest that provides study-abroad alumni the opportunity to share their experiences. For the second consecutive year, Town&Gown is partnering with the program to publish the winning entries. The contest is open to all current Penn State students who have participated or are currently participating in a Penn State study-abroad program. During the 2013-14 academic year, Penn State sent 2,590 students abroad to 52 countries. The growing number of students who study abroad “reflect Penn State’s commitment to forging global citizens and global leaders.” Here are the top two entries from the 2014 writing contest.
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Darren Weimert (2)
Road-Running Africa By Emily Paskewicz
Emily Paskewicz (3)
Running in the United States is all about tuning out. Headphones are in, eyes trained forward with a dead gaze, and interaction with passersby ranges from limited to an ideal none for most runners. Some would liken the separation to respecting a runner’s focus and stern motivation, others may think of it as simply getting out of the way. No matter how you describe it, it’s taboo to interact with street runners in America. It was clear as soon as we boarded the shuttle van from the Dar-el-Salaam Airport that Tanzania would be entirely different from the world we had recently departed. Even in a moving vehicle, albeit slowly in a developing city’s jarring traffic, street life was reaching right through any and every crack in the van window. People wave, they holler, barefoot children pound the windows mercilessly selling candies and odd trinkets, and
they harass you with a sentence worth of words that they remember from grade school. This jumpy coastal city’s absolutely bombarding street persona made me seriously doubt my pretrip goal of running during the six weeks long visit. However, Dar-el-Salaam’s reckless street energy was shocking but short lived. Tanzania’s largest metropolis would represent merely a few acclimatizing days of our trip. During these dizzying days, we attempted to adjust to Swahili and a culture that invited open staring and both friendly and occasionally slightly less friendly public taunting to white foreigners. The next stop was Mang’ula, our basecamp for those sweltering Tanzanian “winter” months. Mang’ula is one of several intersecting villages quietly thriving along the steep peaked, rainforest swathed divide of Udzungwa Mountains National Park. The no - man’s land, if you will, between the vast mountainous jungles of the park and the steadily developing villages, is known simply as the main road. This highway of the Kilombero Valley can barely pass as a back road by American standards. The winding dirt way is infamous for monstrous potholes, and transforms into an impassable mud pit during the rainy season. On the opposite side, the road embraces several rural villages of varying sizes, all shaded with a sprinkling of leafy palms and featuring more or less improved versions of mud-brick and thatched-roof huts. The road provides a division between the treacherously steep tropical paradise of the national park and the vivacious struggles of backwater villages plodding along in a rapidly urbanizing world. This characterizing juxtaposition drew me to the road, but it was the initial thrill of untethered exploration by rapid foot that brought me there on my very first day in Mang’ula.
During a safari in Mikumi National Park, Paskewicz was able to see a lion up close.
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Paskewicz enjoyed playing with some kids from an elementary school in Tanzania. The school held a World Environment Day celebration.
A small group of us, jetlagged yet fueled by the unbridled ecstasy of exploration, set out down our own mile-long path to the main road. The immediate collective reaction made it clear that the average Tanzanian is not going for a run for fun or exercise anywhere, much less on the main road. We were stared at, pointed out, and most certainly made into a running joke in the native tongue, and yet that first run was an oddly magical introduction to this new home. Barefoot kids playing by the road would laugh and point, and then out of nowhere they began following us, kicking up orangey-brown cumulous plumes on the dusty road before quickly fading out behind us. Five or six kids in tattered American hand-me-down T-shirts emitted shrill contagious fits of giggles that we couldn’t help but reciprocate till they petered out at the main stretch, still laughing yet bored of our straightforward pursuit. Aside from the general public’s reaction, hugging the curves of a craggy peaked mountain range sheathed in luscious leafy green and chasing off lumbering baboons that litter the road as prevalently as a US squirrel proved to be stunning running experiences in their own right. By the time we had raced to the finish line of our simple bunkhouses that evening, I was hooked. It didn’t matter how long we had toiled while mapping villages in the blaring sun and muggy heat earlier in the day, that perfect 7 p.m. sunset
hour between class requirements and dinner was a reserved occasion for me and the main road. Initially, I always had the company of whomever I could coerce out that day. However, as time wore on and projects picked up speed, I found myself going it alone. The initial hesitation of being a solo female runner in sub-Saharan Africa, wore off almost instantly. Runs here were so much more than a stretch of the legs and a clearing of the mind. For this little sunbaked orange hour every day, I was discovering little slices of the true rural Tanzania usually clouded by language barriers and traveling in hordes of other white Americans. My limited Swahili had to be put to the test when I was the only one who could respond to the sibling pair’s ecstatic “Jambo!” and frantic cheering at the top of the hill. Waving and properly greeting everyone I passed in Swahili became more than a challenge, but a matter of principle. Before I knew it, the dumbfounded stares of villagers became warm greetings. The barefoot children pounding the pavement behind me became my pacers, pushing me faster up the next stretch with the shocking strength of their little legs. The man selling vegetables in the roadside market south of our village always left his post to practice his stumbling English and pace with me for a few yards. Alone and jogging down Kilombero Valley’s main street, I discovered a
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Paskewicz visited the Uluguru Mountains in Morogoro, Tanzania.
passing and unique little sense of community. During one of my final weeks, I was powering up the nasty gradual burn of the last hill before my turnoff on the way home. A man walking down the side of a stalled tractor and rusted agricultural trailer caught my eye and waved me over. Hesitant and alone, I kept moving and let him wave me over again more fervently before I ventured closer. He didn’t speak a smidge of English, but his frantic concern made me realize this wasn’t one to run away from. Somehow, through his indiscernible Swahili and quick gestures, I realized he wanted me to help push the struggling tractor from the ravine it was caught in along the side of the road. Accustomed to constant downpours during the rainy season, the main road was equipped with natural swales in some areas that form sharply sloping muddy ravines, which were several feet deep on either side of the road. The tractor and its trailer were teetering too far on the edge for the strained motor to pull it out alone. Unsure of my own strength or usefulness, I joined the man in the back of the trailer and pushed with everything I had, shocked at how easily our combined force actually moved the motor along. The man’s warm smile sent a message clearer than his “Asante!,” which I finally understood to be “Thanks.” He chased to the front of the cab and hopped in as the tractor plotted along up the hill. Relieved, surprised, and overcome with a small but stunning joy, I couldn’t help but laugh to myself as I returned to my journey up the hill. Shortly after, I gained speed and passed the shabby peeling cab of the tractor. There, I found
my new comrades, wide smiled, waving, and cheering as I summited the hill. On a study-abroad program with a sizable focus on service learning that features a final project dedicated to working out conservation solutions for villagers, this meager moment somehow won for me. Later in the week, my group would present a wildlife conservation corridor plan to local experts. Our project solutions would be more warmly received than my two teammates and I could ever have dreamed. Yet somehow it would pale ever so slightly in comparison to a steady push on a stalled tractor in just the right moment. As I think back on my six-week stay in Tanzania, now more than a year later, I fondly recall fresh mangoes, wild monkeys in the treetops, and showstopping elephants crossing my path on safari. But what I hold onto even closer are those runs and the momentary and stunning bonds of community with dozens of perfect strangers. Tenuous and instant little bonds with people who don’t know my name or story, who I can’t communicate with by words, and who have lived vastly different lives than mine. However, for that perfect sunset hour, we all felt the same dreams and wishes — to reach out, to laugh, and to help when help is needed. Community is a global language and a feeling that can transcend any barrier. I discovered that finding it is often simply a matter of going for it, open minded and sometimes alone. T&G Emily Paskewicz is a fifth-year student from Bethlehem. She is majoring in landscape architecture and geography.
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I Will Miss You By Joseph Nakpil
The second intermission of the evening. I shut my eyes as the lights turn back on and the applause dies down. Quite a long production — this calls for refreshments. I rise from my seat and stretch, then, after collecting my spare change, I leave my little theater box of scarlet wallpaper out into the front hall. Once I get in the long snack-bar line of foreign theater patrons, I decide on what I want. No hlebicek ˇ sandwiches or candy for me. Ah, my turn at last. The young man, looking a bit bored at the counter, asks for my choice. “Chardonnay, please,” I answer in Czech. He looks up and smiles, happier to respond in Czech than English or German, and says the amount: “65 korun, prosím.” I pay the $4, he hands me my small glass of cold and sparkling champagne, and then, I take my first sip. Well, what do you know! The bubbles do tickle the nose! I walk around the semicrowded hall, surveying the tiled floor and copper busts of Czechoslovak national figures. Oh, there’s the box¯office kiosk, now with a little red curtain pulled across the glass partition. Just think, not two hours ago I was standing there in line, hoping the student¯ticket prices were inexpensive. The clerk had said, with a typically impatient scowl, that prices for students begin at 90 K. Before I could make the mental
conversions in my head to USD, a hand slipped between me and the box office. A smartly dressed lady offered me her ticket. “Please accept this,” she said in Czech, “one of my colleagues couldn’t come.” I looked at the clerk, who smiled back and nodded. A rare sight indeed. How I stepped out of line and into the first-floor box seats with a ticket in my hand is beyond my expectations for the usual evening at the opera — my last time at the opera. What kindness from a stranger! What a pleasant surprise after all those nights of going to the theater alone. The bell rings, signaling the end of intermission and the beginning of the final act. I return to the box of four seats: three in front and one in back. Two of the seats in front are taken by the colleagues of the kind lady — they’re also smartly dressed older women: one Czech, the other a Spanish professor from Germany with gold and silver bracelets. All three ladies are quite kind, even if I speak English, not German, as they had first guessed. During the first intermission the lady with the bracelets had asked me about myself. “Are you studying or working here in Prague?” “I’m in a Central European Studies program at Karel University.”
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Joseph Napkil (2)
The National Theatre of Prague provided Nakpil with many great memories.
“And in America, where do you study?” “At the Pennsylvania State University.” “Do you speak Czech?” I replied shyly that I’d been here in Prague since September, so I should at least be able to buy bread. Before I left home, I knew I’d have to learn as much as I could to outlast two semesters abroad. I asked her what languages she spoke, which led to hearing about her German background and position as a Spanish professor. Intrigued, I asked how she started to learn Spanish. Her beautifully wrinkled face beamed as she told me. “When I was a little girl, I had always wanted to go to Mexico. I’ve always loved Mexico — the culture, the landscape. So I studied, and here I am teaching.” “Did you ever get to travel to Mexico?” “Four times! It’s even more lovely than I had dreamt. My husband goes with me — you have his seat tonight by the way, he’s sick.” I wished him good health, to which she smiled and asked me how much longer I would be in Prague. “A week more.” “In that case, I wish you safe travels and the best of studies.” I’m still touched. I keep my eyes on her as I return to my lone back-row seat, then take another look at the venue: The Národní Divadlo, or National
Theatre of Prague. Such opulence, such beauty from an era long gone, and all wrapped in gold and red velvet. The painted figures of muses and spirits on the ceiling look down at the people filling the ground-level seats. The lady with the bracelets told me that the front curtain mural of the theater depicts an event from the early days of the first Czechoslovak Republic: the Bohemian countrymen giving their gold to help fund the first National Theatre, which burned down soon after its opening. I begin to gather my anticipation as the orchestra appears and starts tuning. I’ve heard many a good orchestra play, and seen a few good productions here, though Czechs certainly like their absurdist touches every once in a while. At least this production is quite traditional. Then I begin to wonder: What does it mean to be Czech, nestled in the heart of Europe, with more and more tourists around you, and more signs in English? I certainly have not missed an opportunity to participate in Czech culture while abroad, but as to seeing the Czech spirit .... Before I continue my thoughts, I hear the door to the private box open, and in enters the lady who gave me the ticket, walking happily toward me and telling me that her colleague said that I speak Czech. Embarrassed, I say I speak a little. “And how do you like Prague?” she asks in Czech.
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“It’s beautiful,” I stutter hesitatingly in Czech, “but it’s a pity that this is my last week.” She pats my shoulder, wishes me well, and sits back down. After a moment, the three of them turn back to each other and proceed to look over the program notes in a mixture of Czech and German. I take another look at my copy: Smetana’s Libuše, a “festive opera.” Since I came here I had trouble getting use to the city — I’d rather take trips across the country, even going to the border near Slovakia, but never try to get to know the capital with its stoic people and odd day-to-day rhythms. Has this evening changed my mind? A sudden silence as the lamplights fade into the gentle heat of the theater’s darkness and the spotlight falls on the bowed conductor. Now the curtain rises and continues the ancient Czech legend of Libuše, prophetess and judge to warring clans. The open and solemn pace of the music carries throughout the work and never relaxes the ceremonial atmosphere, from the grandest choral passages to quietest duets. A patriotic carriage fit for special occasions. I recall reading that this National Theatre itself was opened and reopened after the fire with performances of this very opera. We reach the last scene with its famous
“prophecy aria,” where Libuše, now wife and queen, goes into a trance and prophesies the future of Czech history, from major figures to the founding of the city of Prague itself. She leaves her trance and emphatically announces to the swell of the music: “This I feel in the deepest depths of my breast: my dear, unvanquished Czech nation will gloriously overcome the very horrors of Hell!” My spine tingles as the lights shine on Libuše and her subjects intoning her words of “my dear, unvanquished Czech nation,” with a final trumpeting of the orchestra and a closing of the curtain. While the cast comes out for their bows and the audience cheers loudly, the lady with the bracelets tells me that when she was at the Viennese performance of this opera, many years ago, the Austrians in the audience shook their fists and pursed their lips when they heard the final scene. At this, I take a moment to continue my thoughts. So many things were denied to the Czechs by their oppressors: language, culture, free speech. Czechs of the past fought and died for many a right. Why do people nowadays act as if their national treasures are no longer of importance? Before I know it, the lights go back up and the three kind strangers are saying Good-bye and Good luck. “Farewell,” I say, sadly smiling. They laughingly correct me to say, “Until next time.” I leave them in the box, still smiling as I step out into the warm May night. The music still swirls in my head like champagne bubbles, and the smiling faces of the ladies put a spring in my step. I look up at the street lamps on my way to the Metro. Tonight, for a glimpse of a moment, I felt a welling up inside me — a welling up of national pride, of pride to be in Prague. Amazing how opera, the synthesis of music and speech, can tap into sentiments you would never have come to on your own. All these months, and suddenly a magic moment like this, as subtle and as latent as a “Mona Lisa” smile, comes right before I have to go back home. But what an opportunity, to be in the midst of such history, such wealth of artistic expression! My dear, unvanquished Czech nation ... Yes, I will miss you, my dear, strange, shrewish, and beautiful Prague. I will miss you. T&G Joseph Nakpil, a State College native, is a Schreyer Honors senior who is majoring in comparative literature and Russian.
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With a father who served and led in the Navy, Sandy Barbour saw what it meant to be a strong leader. Now, as Penn State’s new athletic director, she hopes to use her experiences and that knowledge to steer the department through the difficult challenges it faces 39 - Town&Gown November 2014
By Josh Langenbacher
To understand who Sandy Barbour is and the path she took to become Penn State’s newest athletic director — and the university’s first female athletic director in school history — is to understand the formative role her father played in her life. A Navy pilot twice shot down over Korea, Henry S. Barbour served as one of the last commanding officers of the USS Monrovia before it was decommissioned, and it was on that ship that Sandy Barbour says she began to understand her father’s influence on her life and those around him.
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When Sandy Barbour was about 8 years old, the Monrovia took some midshipmen on a summer cruise, and the ship stopped in Annapolis, Maryland. So, Barbour and her mom, Nancy, made the four-hour drive from their home in Norfolk, Virginia, to visit her maternal grandfather in Annapolis, and Sandy and her grandfather helicoptered out to the Monrovia for an overnight visit. Long after her dad, who died in 2001, went to bed for the evening, Sandy stayed up all night
In August, Barbour became Penn State’s first female athletic director.
with her dad’s crew, listening to stories they told about her father. “I don’t remember what they said, but I remember them talking about my dad, and it was clear they loved him,” says the 54-yearold Barbour, who took over as athletic director at Penn State in August. “And they loved his leadership. I didn’t think about this at the time — it wasn’t impactful at the time. I just knew they were talking about my dad, and I thought they were being nice, but years later I thought about those words and what they meant, and he led by example.” An intensely sharp, committed worker — Henry Barbour grew up on a Mississippi farm, graduated from high school at age 15, and took classes at Mississippi State for a few years until he began his Navy career. He would routinely put in 18-hour days, and often spent months at sea. But in his calmer moments away from work, he took his third daughter under his wings. Already the father of girls ages 12 and 14, Barbour longed for his and his wife’s third child to be a boy. Instead, Sandy Barbour came along, and in the words of Penn State’s newest athletic director, her dad said, “The heck with it,” and turned his nose up at the existing mindset that sports was to be a bond shared between father and son, and marginalized a woman’s place in the game. So Henry Barbour took his daughter, whose given name is Anne and whose middle name, Saunders, is the same as her father’s, to Navy football games — the two had season tickets — and to Baltimore Colts and Baltimore Orioles games regularly. As Barbour grew older, she realized she wanted to blend her father’s love of sports with his devotion and passion for his work. “That’s one of the things my dad showed me,” she says. “He never said this — he just showed me. He was so passionate about his work. He loved his country, he loved being a Naval officer, he loved leading, at the time, mostly men. He loved leading people, and I saw that. I got to live that through him. And I was like, ‘I want to do that,’ but my ‘that’ wasn’t being in the military or being a Navy pilot, my ‘that’ was serving studentathletes and communities through the power of intercollegiate athletics.”
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Three new leaders at Penn State — (from left) President Eric Barron, who started in May, Barbour, and football head coach James Franklin, who is in his first season with the Nittany Lions.
And so Barbour embarked on a career in intercollegiate athletics that leaves many of her former colleagues wondering where she finds the energy. Prior to coming to Penn State, she had been athletic director at California-Berkley since 2004. From 2002 to 2004, she was the deputy director of athletics at Notre Dame. She also has worked at the University of Massachusetts, Northwestern, and Tulane. Dan Mogulof, executive director of the Office of Public Affairs at California-Berkeley, often woke up to e-mails Barbour had sent at 4 a.m., noting she had woken up and couldn’t stop thinking about whatever the subject of the e-mail was. “The schedule she led and will continue to lead is beyond comprehension,” Mogulof says. “I think she may be like Superman, who had a fortress of solitude where he had standins. Somewhere, there’s a fortress of Sandy Barbour where she has different avatars she can substitute.” Barbour says she culls her motor from a much simpler place: partially from the caffeine
in an unsweetened iced tea appreciation she developed in her undergraduate days at Wake Forest, but primarily from a deep-rooted belief and passion in her work that her father helped shape. That passion manifested itself while at Cal, says Dr. Robert Birgeneau, the university’s former chancellor and the man whose first hire at the university was Barbour. One of Barbour’s first implementations at Cal was an annual celebration for athletes who had won national titles that year, hosted at Birgeneau’s residence. And whether it was at this reception or some other place on campus, Birgeneau says Barbour would introduce every athlete to him by name. The university had more than 800 athletes, and Barbour says she knew almost all of them. “It took time,” she says, “and it certainly didn’t happen overnight. Sometimes it took several years to actually have been involved in their recruitment to know them and their families and a little bit about their background. It’s important to me that I know about the star middle linebacker, particularly now that I’m at Linebacker U, as it is I know
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Barbour takes a selfie with Penn State baseball head coach Rob Cooper.
the No. 2 javelin thrower, because they’re both here to get a great education. One may go on to the NFL, but the other may go on to become president of the United States. That’s not the only reason to know them, but to help support their hopes and dreams, you need to know a little about them.” Those who know Barbour best say her devotion to student-athletes is unparalleled. Current Duke athletic director Kevin White, who hired Barbour at Tulane and Notre Dame and called Barbour his closest confidant, notes folks called her “Sister Sandy” because of her ability to forge relationships with student-athletes. And Birgeneau calls Barbour an “incredible booster” for all sports, before pointing out that athletes who trained during Barbour’s 10 years at Cal won more gold medals than the entire country of France or Germany during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. “That’s pretty extraordinary to win more gold medals than the entire country of France or Germany,” he says. “I think Penn State can look
forward to having really outstanding athletics across the board. There’s not many athletic directors who can brag about winning more gold medals than France or Germany.” Still, despite the overwhelming success of some of Cal’s sports, and despite her administrative skills and ability to relate to people being lauded, Barbour was unable to leave Cal on her terms because of two polarizing issues: a poor academic performance by the football and men’s basketball teams and a $474 million spending plan to renovate Memorial Stadium and build a new training center. While some renovations to Memorial Stadium were mandatory because of the stadium’s position on the Hayward Fault and the subsequent life-threatening risk in the event of an earthquake, the university spent an additional $250 million on the training center and stadium amenities, a figure higher than what Michigan recently racked up for a similar endeavor. Penn State president Eric Barron, who directly vetted both issues before hiring Barbour, largely absolved her of much blame, noting it is “absolutely true” that a decision of that magnitude is something athletic directors typically take a back seat on, heeding the advice of a university’s chancellor or president and vice president of finance. “Could you imagine at any university the athletic director being the sole decision maker in that process?” he asks. Barbour, while acknowledging she played a significant role in the financing plan, largely shrugs off blame and staunchly defends the financial model that placed a high priority on lagging sales of seat licenses. She contends that when she left Cal, the plan was $3 million ahead of projections. “It took the criticism it did because there’s a lot of people at Cal who want athletics to fail,” Barbour says. “They don’t value what athletics can bring to an institution. … I was there for 10 years, and I dealt with it every day for 10 years. It did [rub me raw]. But I will say this, it was an absolute minority. It was a very small number, but it was very loud and very vocal. They were the squeaky wheel.” Of the academic failings, Barbour accepted blame head-on for a 2013 NCAA report
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showing that only 44 percent of football players who entered the school between 2003 and 2006 had graduated, and 38 percent of men’s basketball players during the same period left with degrees. The football program’s academic standing ranked last among the 72 major programs, appalling many academics at the university who pride themselves on Cal being the top public university in the world. Barbour — someone with two advanced degrees, one from Northwestern’s renowned Kellogg School of Management — called it “absolutely my greatest regret as a professional, no doubt about it.” “Frankly, I have no better explanation for it than we took our eye off the ball,” she says. “We began to struggle a little bit competitively, and that’s where our program’s focus went. I didn’t do enough to prevent that.” Despite division at Cal over the stadium financing and graduation rates, Mogulof says Barbour’s integrity, devotion, authenticity, and commitment were never called into question, even by Barbour’s detractors. Those traits have followed Barbour during her entire career, White says.
“The business about Sandy being considered the gold standard of college athletic administrators is widely held,” says White, himself a giant in the profession. “She has impeccable integrity. Sandy couldn’t lie to you if she had to.” Such integrity, no doubt, comes from her father and the “Yes, sir. No, sir. I’ll find out, sir” mentality Barbour says he ingrained. And the transient military lifestyle, the uprooting that came to her every two and a half to three years while she grew up, cut the apprehensiveness that comes with walking into a room full of strangers. “I was always exposed to leadership,” she says, “and as I began to compete in athletics, I emerged on most teams and in most situations as a leader, and I do think part of that was the household I grew up in and situations where I had to go into new places and make myself known, if you will. I certainly owe a lot of leadership ability and qualities to my upbringing.” With her new leadership position, she knows she has some challenges she must face, including an athletic department that’s run a deficit the last two years and is still making its way through the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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In 2013-14, the Penn State athletic department had a deficit of $1.3 million. The previous year, the deficit was nearly $6 million. In September, when Barbour and associate athletic director of finance Rick Kaluza addressed Penn State’s board of trustees, they presented possible “initiatives” to help reduce the deficit. The initiatives included a potential increase in football ticket and parking prices. It was announced, however, in October that the price for season tickets next year would stay the same but season parking passes increased to $100 for each car and $350 for each RV. “There may be some unpleasant choices that have to be made, because, ultimately, it’s not acceptable for us to run a deficit,” Barbour says. “We’re a really large and energetic and influential and impactful university that ought to have a big athletic program and ought to have a robust athletic program, but we have to figure out how to afford it.” Besides putting the athletic department’s finances in the black again, Barbour wants Penn State to fight back against the attacks on its name that have occurred the past few years. Thanks to her upbringing and her father’s influence, she ap-
pears ready to be one of the leaders in that fight. “[Penn State has] certainly faced an attack on its integrity and, if I can use a business term, our brand — our brand of excellence, or brand of values and integrity — and I think one of our challenges as a university is to unify our family around that,” she says. “We know who we are, and that we’ve always been about doing things the right way. We have to figure out how to move through that. “I know the word ‘culture’ has become a bad one here because we’ve been branded as having a bad culture. I don’t believe that. I don’t agree with that. I’ve told people we need to reclaim that word, and we need to take it back because it’s a really, really important word to organizational success — and we have a great culture and always have. I’m really upset that we feel that word has been taken away from us, and I think we need to take it back.” T&G
Josh Langenbacher has covered Penn State sports for several newspapers. He currently works the news copy desk at the Altoona Mirror.
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The good news is that due to rapid advances in the medical world many of us can expect to live longer than past generations. But that presents a challenge: To support longer lifespans, our investment portfolios must be properly structured so we have the assets to cover our needs. It’s a balancing act, of course. Being too conservative or too aggressive may be a detriment to achieving our retirement financial goals. Traditionally, retirement portfolios were often invested conservatively, focusing primarily on capital preservation and safe income rather than growth. But for many, it’s time to rethink the approach to retirement investing. Consider the following that are impacting investment strategies that may cause some investors to outlive retirement assets: • Low-Interest Rates: Not long ago, a conservative portfolio consisting primarily of fixed income had an expected real return that was sufficient to support a 3 to 4 percent annual drawdown. However, the low-interest rate environment that we have seen over the last several years has made it much more difficult for investors following such a strategy to achieve returns above their drawdown rates. • Rising Health-Care Costs: The cost of health care for retirees has been rising well above the rate of inflation. While the consumer price index has averaged a 3.7 percent year-over-year increase since 1948, health-care costs have been rising at a rate of 5.5 percent per year during that same time frame. Currently, health-care costs consume
15 percent of a retiree’s annual spending, and health costs tend to escalate with age, according to government statistics. • Longer Lifespans: Due in part to advances in medicine and medical technology, average lifespans have increased enabling people to live longer during their retirement years. Consider that 50 percent of all children born in developed countries today are expected to live to age 100, according to the respected medical journal The Lancet. So what does this mean for your portfolio? Investors need to be more proactive with managing their nest eggs, ensuring retirement goals and objectives are reflected in their portfolio’s asset allocation. Selecting an appropriate long-term asset allocation that matches investment goals against risk tolerance and time horizon is vital to managing a retirement portfolio that will serve one’s needs through the years. That may even mean considering larger allocation to equities within retirement portfolios to achieve retirement goals. While some retirees or those approaching retirement may feel uncomfortable increasing their allocation to equities, history indicates that long holding periods can help to mitigate the ups and downs of the equity market. An analysis of annual market returns over 10-year rolling periods dating back to 1929 reveals that portfolios with equity allocations as high as 80 percent never experienced a 10-year annualized negative return. In fact, the lowest annualized 10-year return for a portfolio of 50 percent equity/50 percent fixed income was 2.8 percent. While prior returns may not be indicative of future results, these numbers should provide comfort that a meaningful allocation to equities is appropriate for retirees who need to plan for a long retirement time horizon. Consulting a financial expert for a retirement account checkup is the best step to making sure you have the best balance and strategy to meet your goals throughout retirement. n
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The annual tax-filing ritual is not the only time a taxpayer may need the help of a tax professional. According to the IRS oversight board, 37 percent of taxpayers — that’s almost 60 million taxpayers — have to contact the IRS for something other than filing their returns. If a taxpayer doesn’t have the time to work with the IRS, or the expertise to interpret the tax code, here are six times a tax professional can help after the April 15 filing deadline:
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not match information statements on file with the IRS. That’s one out of six returns with potential underreporting that the IRS would like to see reconciled. There could be many reasons for an underreporter notice, including IRS error. In fact, many underreporter notices are resolved with no change to the return. One out of six individuals will face this potential issue — and even more small businesses. An underreporter notice may not always indicate an error, and a professional can help get to the bottom of the issue. Tax professionals also can provide expert help to resolve any penalties resulting from an underreporter inquiry. When a taxpayer is audited. In an audit, the odds are in favor of the IRS. If a taxpayer gets audited, the IRS may determine the return needs an adjustment. When the IRS completes an audit, individual taxpayers are left with an average bill of more than $16,000 per year examined in a field audit, and $8,000 per year examined in a mail audit. Taxpayers without the time or knowledge required to work with an IRS examiner should seek out a tax professional. n
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Many of life’s different stages offer challenges and rewards — whether you’re starting out on your own, raising a family, focusing on your career, or preparing for a rewarding retirement. However, while each life stage is unique, making sure your loved ones are cared for financially is something that needs to be addressed along the way. Here are things to keep in mind as you enter each life stage: Early career Surprisingly, when you’re young and at your healthiest is the ideal time to get your first life-insurance contract. Your family and your financial future are counting on you continuing to earn a living. Life insurance will ensure your loved ones aren’t left dealing with your financial burdens if you pass away. Because you are young and healthy, a basic policy may be the most affordable depending on your needs. Growing families (and income) Young children at home can bring untold joy to a family. Unfortunately, this idyllic picture can be easily shaken if an untimely death occurs. Term
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The annual tax-filing ritual is not the only time a taxpayer may need the help of a tax professional. According to the the School IRS Oversight One of of Board, 37 percent of taxpayers — that’s almost Music at Penn State’s showcase events 60 million taxpayersbig — have to contact the IRS Mosaic, which for something otheristhan filing their returns. If a will be performed taxpayer doesn’t have the time to7 work with the December this year. IRS, or the expertise to interpret the tax code, here are six times a tax professional can help after the April 15 filing deadline: When a taxpayer’s life changes. Life changes often mean tax changes. Marriage, divorce, the birth of a child, a child moving out and supporting themselves, moving, going back to school, becoming self-employed, and many other life events generally will impact a person’s tax situation. If a taxpayer addresses these events as they occur, rather than waiting until April 15, they may avoid some surprises at tax time. When a taxpayer needs to estimate taxes. Financial transactions, expiring tax benefits, and new tax benefits may all impact a taxpayer’s liability. Estimating their taxes before filing can help taxpayers budget for their tax bills. It also can help inform other important decisions, such as whether to sell a certain stock, when and how to convert a retirement account, when to spend funds in a flexible savings account, or how to make charitable donations. When a taxpayer with Marketplace health insurance faces an unexpected change. Many taxpayers who enrolled for health care through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace receive advance credit payments to help them pay their insurance premiums. The advance is calculated on projected incomes and life situations during enrollment. As life changes, the actual premium tax credit, which is calculated on the tax return, may be higher or lower than the advance. If the actual PTC is higher, the taxpayer receives the difference as a refundable credit. If the actual PTC is lower, taxpayers will have to repay some or all The School of Music at Penn State has become its the excess, depending on their income level. own creative “neighborhood” of singers, musicians, composers, educators, and more. BetweenTaxpayers the high-do not need to wait until after the end of the year to find out about an unexpected tax class faculty and ambitious students, it fosters an bill. A tax professional can help the taxpayer appreciation for the past and a design for understand the future when to notify the Marketplace
During a sunny afternoon in September, Lynn Drafall sits in the office of Sue Haug, Penn State’s School of Music director. Through a window, she can see students bustling between classes. “We like to think of ourselves as a small neighborhood within a large, rich city,” says Drafall, a choral director and faculty member in the School of Music. Russell Bloom, arts manager at the School of Music, soon joins Haug and Drafall, and, in a matter of minutes, the dynamic trio becomes lost in passionate conversation about its small neighborhood.
“You always hate it when someone says, ‘You’re the best kept secret.’ Well, we don’t want to be the best kept secret!” — Sue Haug “I stayed because of the people. That’s why I’ve been here 27 years,” says Bloom, whose relationship with the school began with his graduate studies. Haug adds, “I think the people who come here do so because of the type of place it is. As a result, we recruit faculty who are great teachers, as well as wonderful performers and scholars.” The place — the School of Music — is home to more than 300 music majors and hundreds of other students who are involved in some way with the school. It is the place to find the Blue Band, six choirs, three orchestras, three jazz bands, and numerous other ensembles. It is a place where the faculty knows every student by name, and classmates make fliers to promote each other’s performances. “When anyone walks in here, I feel like they become their better selves,” says Haug. Drafall adds, “When one person succeeds, we all succeed.” It was this connection that originally attracted Janey Martinsen to the school — and what has kept her there for two degrees. Martinsen is a second-year graduate student within the school,
pursuing her master’s in clarinet performance. She previously earned her undergraduate degree in music education, graduating in 2012. “It’s rare to find an academic program that makes you feel like everyone is on the same page,” she says. “It immediately felt like home to me — and it still feels that way.” While some Penn State students spend class time tucked away in the back of a large lecture hall, the students within the School of Music receive at least an hour a week of individual rehearsal time with faculty. This is in addition to their classwork, homework, ensemble practice, and personal rehearsals. “It’s pretty intense — the students basically live here,” Haug laughs. “But they do it so they can be actively involved in making music at the highest level they possibly can.” Of the student experience, Haug says the hours are long, but the quality of musicianship is evident. This also is due to the outstanding crew of faculty members the school has assembled. Scholars, teachers, and world-class performers, they are each distinguished in their fields of expertise. Haug notes the current faculty includes the president of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the former president of the International Society of Bassists, and the current president-elect for the National Association of Schools of Music. Distinguished professor of music theory Maureen Carr recently wrote her fourth book on the work of Igor Stravinsky. Faculty violinist James Lyon performed with the Nittany Valley Symphony in September. Kim Cook, faculty cellist, traveled to Brazil in October to present a master class, give a recital, and perform a Haydn concerto with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul. “The faculty are fantastic, across the board,” Haug says simply. “They come here because they want to teach and perform together.” The passion, the knowledge, and the teamwork do not go unnoticed. School of Music students credit the faculty for not only the musical growth they experience but also personal growth. “I can’t stress enough how wonderful each of the teachers are. You work so closely with these people every day, sometimes for hours, and they pour their hearts and souls into making you a
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The Penn State Cello Choir performs during last year’s production of Mosaic.
better performer and person,” says Martinsen. And the admiration is mutual. “The students elevate us,” says Haug. “We help bring out the best in them. It’s the greatest job on Earth!” When asked about the noteworthy students and alumni they’ve worked with, Bloom, Drafall, and Haug begin to rattle off one name after another. Some of the alums that the school features on its Web site include Ivan Hodge, who was a featured violinist on the PBS special A Capitol Fourth, tuba player Chanell Crichlow, who is a member of the Pitchblack Brass Band that is seen as a leader in a new wave of brass bands that are blending New Orleans street music with hip-hop and rap to create a new art form, and Alex Meixner, who is mostly known for his polka performances and has appeared on The Tonight Show and had his CD, Polka Freak Out, nominated for a Grammy Award. One recent alum mentioned was Laura Brown, a Waterford native who graduated in 2014. She earned dual bachelor degrees in music and Russian, and a master’s in musicology. Last spring, she presented some of her music research at the Window to the World International Symposium in St. Petersburg, Russia. “I had written ‘The Pennsylvania State University’ on the title slide [of my presentation] underneath my name. It sounds sentimental, but that was really the culmination of my time at Penn State, and I never would have made it all the way there without a lot of support in the last five years from this university,” she says. 65 - Town&Gown November 2014
This fall, she began doctoral studies in music history at Yale. “The people here are just so committed and so loving of the institution,” Bloom says. “It’s the 18-year-olds who walk through the door not knowing the possibilities, and the faculty who open those doors to say, ‘Here they are!’ They really guide the students and expand their ideas of what they can do.” Faculty and staff want the rest of the world to know about the possibilities available at Penn State’s School of Music. And that’s been a challenge. “You always hate it when someone says, ‘You’re the best kept secret.’ Well, we don’t want to be the best kept secret!” Haug says. Drafall adds, “I’ve been hearing that since I got here. ‘We’re the best kept secret in Pennsylvania.’ ” With hundreds of performances a year, the School of Music hopes to turn the volume all the way up and showcase itself. The performances include faculty recitals, opera, music written by Penn State students, jazz festivals, and more. It can be heard most diversely, perhaps, at Mosaic, one of the School of Music’s most celebrated annual concerts. Set during the holiday season, Mosaic features both large and small ensemble performances, as well as the school’s most outstanding soloists. Bands and orchestras give way to individuals in a variety of genres, ranging from jazz to seventeenth-century masterworks. The performances merge seamlessly into the next, overtaking all of Eisenhower Auditorium, from the stage to the balconies to the aisles. “It’s a big showcase — a knockyour-socks off, great kind of show!” says Haug of Mosaic, which will be performed December 7. Bloom notes that the school has come a long way in recent decades
From left, students Julia Wolcott, Lisa Rogali, and Jamie Rapaport perform with the Philharmonic Orchestra.
with performances such as Mosaic. Historically, the School of Music was known for its education program, but now, while the music-education piece is still strong, more emphasis is placed on performing — and performing on stages across the country. In 2010, nearly 100 School of Music students traveled to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall for the annual President’s Concert. Haug remembers watching the students walk onto the stage for the first time, some so overcome by emotion and joy that they began weeping.
“I remember the triangle player was just so excited, and he would hit that triangle like it was the highlight of his artistic career,” says Haug, beaming at the thought. Previous President’s Concerts have been held at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, all providing students unforgettable experiences. Those major performances are only the beginning. The work happening inside the classroom walls continues to differentiate the education available at the School of Music. “When people think of
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the School of Music, they probably immediately picture someone playing or singing music on a stage. This makes sense because performance is the most visible thing we do,” says Hannah Lin, a senior music-education major and State College native. “However, I feel like there is much more going on in the School of Music that often gets overlooked because it’s simply not as visible. There is also amazing research, teaching, and learning going on in music history, theory, ensembles, composition, technology, education, and performance.” Haug says, “We try to do anything we can to benefit our students and move the program forward to give us more visibility in the region, so that the great things that are happening here are known.” The integration of technology has been integral in this goal. Several courses are even offered only online. Haug says these classes typically fill up overnight. “There’s a number of students at Penn State who need an arts credit. This is not only a convenient option, but the medium works well online,” she says. “Students have the ability to listen to a piece
of music over and over. The class ‘Film Music’ was even recognized by Onward State as one of the top ‘Gen Eds That Don’t Suck.’ ” She admits that there’s only so much a school of music can do to differentiate itself from the competition, but Penn State strives to do just that, through technology, through that small neighborhood Drafall mentions. “The School of Music doesn’t just value technical skill on a musical instrument,” says Lin. “The School of Music also values thinking and hard work. Demonstrating musical growth, intelligently supporting a musical decision, effectively teaching a musical concept — it’s these kinds of things are the most worthy of respect in the School of Music.” The classes and performances aside, Penn State’s School of Music places as much, if not more, emphasis on its people as it does its music. “Everybody is important here,” Martinsen says. “Perhaps what I’ve gained the most is the value of being a good person through music. This is a wonderful place to grow — musically, personally, academically.” Haug, who is in her 10th year, echoes that
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The Percussion Quartet of (from left) Kevin Eppinger, Jaren Angud, Kyle Haust, and James Rivera perform during last year’s production of Mosaic.
sentiment, saying, “It’s just the atmosphere here. There’s a wonderful sense of working together. What ended up bringing me here was I felt that.” She, Bloom, and Drafall continue their conversation that seems to harmonize with the School of Music’s mission: “to inspire and educate performers, composers, scholars, and teachers in an atmosphere that fosters excellence and serves the global and regional community through performance, research, and creative
work of the highest standards.” Drafall smiles, this time turning her attention to the noises in the hallway — students talking and laughing. She says, “We’re not a secret anymore.” T&G Chelsey Scott is a freelance writer for Town&Gown who is originally from Ohio. She is happy to now be living in the Happy Valley and currently resides in Bellefonte.
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Penn State presidents have often had to lead in times of great challenges, and I tend to focus on them in my columns as symbols of the historic eras of the university’s past. But the presidents were hardly alone in confronting such trials. It might be good to recall some unsung heroes, who also were vital to the institution in their own right. I could easily name dozens of possibilities, but I’m going to select one from each of the three historical eras into which I often divide Penn State history. From the early years, there’s James Y. McKee — a longtime professor of Greek language and literature. You may know the name because there’s a West Halls dorm named for him. He served as acting president four times during the rapid turnover of presidents in Penn State’s “dark ages,” before the arrival of George W. Atherton in 1882. He and fellow faculty members kept the place going when it was at severe risk of closing down. From the middle period (1908 to 1956), I think I would choose Samuel K. Hostetter. I’ve mentioned him in past columns, but he deserves a little more attention I think. There also is a little-known building named for him on campus — it serves as home for a variety of business services. Hostetter rose from purchasing agent in 1910 to managing Penn State’s business and finances and serving as the university’s treasurer, until his retirement in 1957. He, too, was a stabilizing force through years of war, depression, and boom. An oral-history interview I did with Eric Walker revealed a little-known facet of Hostetter’s value to Penn State. President Milton Eisenhower relied a great deal on Walker as a dean and then vice president for research. Walker was a doer — he looked for problems to solve and someone to talk with about them.
Two of the “unsung heroes” in Penn State’s history include Samuel Hostetter (above), “who was a stabilizing force through years of war, depression, and boom,” and Arthur Lewis Jr. (left), who understood that faculty helps set the direction for the university.
Walker was often at his desk by 7 a.m., and he discovered that Hostetter also was working then, so Walker talked with him regularly in those early mornings. He found Hostetter’s years of experience were extraordinarily valuable in learning how things worked in administrative areas with which he was unfamiliar. It might be going too far to call him a mentor for Walker, but Hostetter was another solid citizen in guiding Penn State through times of turmoil and stress. Finally, choosing one person to represent the modern era is a more difficult task. There is just so much to deal with — more students, faculty, staff, academic and research programs, money, and campuses. Choosing one person ignores so many for whom one could make a strong case. But I would select Arthur O. Lewis Jr. for the period from 1957 to the present. He was a professor
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of English and associate dean in the College of the Liberal Arts. As a scholar and teacher, his specialty was utopian literature and science fiction, perhaps not inappropriate subjects for dealing with Penn State. As a dean, his specialty was interdisciplinarity, by which I mean helping people from diverse disciplines create a functioning academic program from their shared connections to an era, an area, or a concept. The value of interdisciplinary settings is that they are often where the new ideas and exciting initiatives come from, where scholars and students challenge each other with their differing perspectives. Lewis supported and helped organize programs such as black studies, Jewish studies, East Asian studies, and Medieval studies, and interdisciplinary initiatives such as the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and the science, technology, and society major. He was a person who could bring people and ideas together to work effectively. That also went for Lewis as a “Lion of the Senate” — the University Faculty Senate, that is. Many today don’t take shared governance of the university very seriously — they tend to see faculty as just an exotic breed of employee. Lewis strongly disagreed. He understood the university’s mission to produce and transmit knowledge, to open the eyes and minds of young people to the world, and to share the benefits of all that work with the broader public. He understood that faculty helps set the direction for the university by providing the academic programs that are the heart of the university. Lewis’s institutional memory helped keep the senate on track. In the late 1960s, he was one of the faculty leaders who brought idealistic and passionate students together with those who had little patience for them into constructive dialogue for potential change. He was extraordinarily effective at keeping scholarship, administration, and university citizenship in balance. Dean Lewis was another of those unsung heroes of his time who deserves to be remembered. McKee, Hostetter, and Lewis — you may not know their names, but their accomplishments helped make Penn State what it is today. T&G Lee Stout is librarian emeritus, Special Collections for Penn State.
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Holiday Gift Guide Aurum Jewelers and Goldsmiths
A pendant with icy winter colors featuring blue sapphires, blue topaz, white and cognac diamonds. Just one of the selections from our distinctive designer collections. Every piece tells a story, so this holiday season, say it all without saying a word. Join us downtown Friday, Nov. 7 for “First Friday” and the tree lighting ceremony. Visit us from 5-9 pm only for 50% off select merchandise.
132 S. Allen Street, State College (814) 237-1566 www.aurumjewelers.net
State College Framing Company… Art for Giving! Original art is the gift that will be appreciated and enjoyed for years to come! Choose an oil painting by Beverly Klucher, sterling jewelry by Elizabeth Hay Designs, unique pottery by Ian Stainton, or exquisite candles by Barrick Designs in a variety of colors. We also offer professional framing of your most precious possessions: portraits, artworks, needlework, sports and war memorabilia, or shadow boxes.
160 Rolling Ridge Drive in Hills Plaza South, on South Atherton (814) 234-7336 www.framingstatecollege.com
Happy Valley Vineyard & Winery
Autumn Wood, Blue Luna, and Happy Valley Red are our “red, white, and blue trio” of wines certain to please the palate over the course of the Holiday Season. The ‘three pack’ plus a locally hand-crafted Amish cheese will make a memorable gift for those who enjoy a ‘taste of the valley’. We have wine accessories for those special individuals on your holiday gift list. Please join us for our second annual “Dickens Christmas” open house December 14. Holiday sweets provided by staff in period dress.
576 S. Foxpointe Dr., State College (814) 308-8756 www.thehappyvalleywinery.com
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CONKLIN’S CORNER ANTIQUE & GIFT BARN 20 Plus Dealer Antique Co-op plus...Huge Country Gift Shop Including Amish Crafts & Furniture Kameleon Jewelry, Handbags, and Accessories Christmas Room Overflowing with Unique Gifts New Items Arriving Daily!
Open 7 days a week until 8 p.m. Black Friday thru December 23.
20 minutes from State College Rt. 350, 670 Tyrone Pike • Philipsburg, PA 16866 • 342-0650 • www.ConklinsCornerBarn.com
Town&Gown’s 2014-15 Winter Sports Annual
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Determination Led by senior guard D.J. Newbill, the Nittany Lions look to turn a corner this season
Inside: Previews of women’s basketball, wrestling, and men’s and women’s ice hockey
Winterize Your Love of Penn State Sports! Get ready for the basketball, wrestling, and ice hockey seasons by ordering your copy of Town&Gown’s 2014-15 Penn State Winter Sports Annual! Previews, features, predictions, Q&As with the head coaches, and more!
Visit townandgown.com to order your copy online. Due to hit newsstands November 13.
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Holiday Gift Guide Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art Holiday Art and Ornament Sale
Join us on Saturday, December 6, for our annual fundraiser, featuring the 2014 commissioned ornament by Kat Oliva. Another great gift idea is a Friends’ one-year membership, a wonderful way to share art with someone special.
Palmer Museum of Art • Penn State Curtin Road • University Park, PA 16802 814-865-7672 • www.palmermuseum.psu.edu
Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Beer Lover, from Otto’s!
Stop by our gift shop this holiday season and check out what’s new from Otto’s, including this season’s hottest item the Beer Holder Hoodie with built in neoprene beer coolie, BPA Free Plastic growlers or Double wall stainless steel growlers, Craft Beer Journals, locally made double growler carriers, beer soap, beer shampoo, and stout chocolates and of course….Gift Cards! Plus Otto’s introduces Night Owl Coffee Stout now in 12oz 6 packs and Cases.
2235 North Atherton St. State College 814-867-6886 www.ottospubandbrewery.com
CO2 The Unique Boutique
Alex and Ani Bracelets are made of recycled materials and completely Made in America. Each bracelet has a meaning and comes with a gift box and meaning card. Easy to take on and off, lightweight and comfortable and with a price point of $28-$58, these bracelet make a wonderful gift.
104 N. Allegheny St. Bellefonte, PA 16823 (814) 353-4258
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Holiday Gift Guide Conklin’s Corner Antique & Gift Barn of Philipsburg
is packed full of unique holiday décor & gifts. Lighted canvases have been a very popular item this year. From everyday designs to Holiday & Snowman Scenes throughout the Christmas Room—these beautifully lit pictures are a perfect gift for that person who has everything. With over 10,000 square feet of gift ship area, the barn is often called one of Central PA’s Best Kept Secrets for unique items. For your shopping convenience, Conklin’s Corner has extended holiday hours Black Friday thru Dec. 23rd, open 7 days a week until 8 p.m.
Rt. 350, 670 Tyrone Pike Philipsburg, PA 16866 814-342-0650 www.ConklinsCornerBarn.com
Seven Mountains Wine Cellars is now featuring 12 Days of Christmas Wine Case!
A spectacular sampling of 12 Seven Mountains’ favorite wines, each with a special holiday label featuring the 12 days of Christmas! For more information or to order your case, contact Tracy@sevenmountainswinecellars.com. Our beautiful lodge is decorated for the Holidays! Visit us for wine tasting and unique gift ideas for the wine lover on your list! Shipping Available!
107 M ountain Spr ings La ne, only 20 minute s fr om Sta te C ollege, GPS use 324 Decker Valley Road 814-364-1000 www.sevenmountainwinecellars.com
State Amusement Company of State College State Amusement is the only place in town to get everything for your game room. Want to play a little Bubble Hockey? It is just as much fun today as it was when we were kids. Maybe Air Hockey is more your speed. No? What about ping pong? We have many other table games including Foosball, Poker and Pool. You should really stop in to see all of the great gift ideas in our showroom. Our showroom staff can help you make an educated selection, whether it be a pool cue, a chess set, or a boxed set of poker chips. If we don’t have what you want, we can order it for you to arrive before the holiday. 1358 E. College Avenue, State College • (814) 234-0722
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Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art Annual Holiday Art and Ornament Sale
Saturday, December 6, 2014
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Featuring the 2014 commissioned ornament by Kat Oliva and additional works of art by other local artists.
Ricotta Jewelry
Your watch & jewelry repair center Since 1968
James E. Ricotta
Free admission and free parking
Watchmaker Jeweler Goldsmith
For more information, please visit www.palmermuseum.psu.edu or call 814-865-7672.
Lead Sponsor
Proceeds benefit the Palmer Museum of Art
105 N. Front Street Philipsburg, PA (814) 342-3709
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.
Kish Bank State College Diner McDonalds Flower Tent Rite Aid Pharmacy Sherwin Williams Leila’s Beauty Firestone Auto Center H & R Block Oriental Grocery • GNC Power Train Campus Skooters Fairways & Greens • Wines & Spirits • Edward D. Jones & Co. Miracle Ear • Nail Square Express Professionals • State College Consumer Discount • Taco Bell Victory Sports • Clothes Mentor Huntington Learning Center • Cosmo Prof Holiday Hair • Pella Windows & Doors State College Framing Company • Kid to Kid H2O to Go • Ace Hardware • Weis Market State College Mulch • State College Firewood Amish Farmer’s Market First National Bank
Holiday Shopping Made Easy, Hills Plaza Shopping Centers Have It All!
Local Owners, Friendly Service Convenient Parking! Everything You Need For Your Home, Your Health, Your Car, YOUR FAMILY!
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Holiday Gift Guide Pennwood Home & Hearth
The Big Green Egg is like the Swiss Army Knife of grills! You can use it for everything- grilling, smoking, roasting, even baking. Sold in 5 sizes, let Pennwood Home & Hearth help you find the perfect Egg for your own ultimate cooking experience. Check out our extensive selection of grilling accessories, cypress tables and seasonings (including Dizzy Pig and John Henry’s, only available from authorized Big Green Egg Dealers!) 294 W. College Avenue, Pleasant Gap 814-359-2761 www.pennwoodhomeandhearth.com
Simply Health
Himalayan Salt Lamps make a great holiday gift. We carry a large selection of Himalayan Salt Lamps. Also known as “the world’s only natural ionizer and air purifier.” These Lamps produce negative ions naturally and are known to help alleviate symptoms caused by allergies, sleep disorders, migraine headaches and depression. They also help to eliminate common indoor air pollutants such as dust, mildew, electromagnetic fields from TV’s, computers and other electronic devices. Gift Certificates Available. 1760 S. Atherton St. • State College, PA (In the Creekside Plaza with Honey Baked Ham) 814.954.7731 or 717.248.2000 www.simplyhealth-calm.com
Hogs Galore
Start a new tradition with our Hickory Smoked Hams. Our brown sugar naturally smoked hams capture the flavor reminiscent of an earlier time. We offer Boneless hams, ideal for sandwich and platter serving, and Bone-in Hams that are perfect for carving station presentation. Call and order your ham for the holidays!
330 Enterprise Dr., Philipsburg, (814) 342-7060 www.hogsgalore.com
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Locally raised Farm to table pork producer since 1979.
Having a holiday party? Let us do the cooking!
No party is too big or small for us to cater! Celebrate the holidays with Hogs Galore. We offer our naturally hickory smoked hams, fresh pork roast and customized gift boxes. Call to place your order!
Stop by our BBQ restaurant and retail market.
330 Enterprise Dr., Philipsburg, 342-7060, www.hogsgalore.com
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November 2 Lady Lions vs. Indiana (PA) (Exhibition) 2 p.m. 14 Lady Lions vs. Towson (Preseason WNIT) Noon Nittany Lions vs. Morgan State 7 p.m. 16 Lady Lions vs. TBA (Preseason WNIT) 2 p.m. Nittany Lions vs. Fordham 5 p.m. 20 Lady Lions vs. TBA (Preseason WNIT) 7 p.m. 23 Lady Lions vs. TBA (Preseason WNIT) 2 p.m. 25 Lady Lions vs. St. Bonaventure 5:30 p.m. Nittany Lions vs. Akron 7:30 p.m.
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November
what’s happening
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4 Election Day 5
Fall back! Daylight Savings Time ends.
Penn State Centre Stage opens its production of Spring Awakening at the Pavilion Theatre. The show runs through Nov. 18.
9 The four-time defending national champion Penn State wrestling team opens its 2014-15 season hosting Lehigh at Rec Hall.
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra performs The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres at Schwab Auditorium.
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Arlo Guthrie visits the State Theatre.
7 Downtown State College hosts its annual Tree Lighting Ceremony.
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A doubleheader of hoops at the BJC as the PSU women’s basketball team opens its season against Towson at noon, and the men’s team hosts Morgan State at 7 p.m.
Penn State Forum series presents writer and activist Margaret Atwood at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.
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Penn State football wraps up its regular season hosting Michigan State at Beaver Stadium.
Announcements of general interest to residents of the State College area may be mailed to Town&Gown, 403 S. Allen St., State College, PA 16801; faxed to (814) 238-3415; or e-mailed to dpenc@barashmedia.com. Photos are welcome. 89 - Town&Gown November 2014
Academics 24-28 – Penn State University, Thanksgiving Holiday, no classes. 26-28 – State College Area School District, Thanksgiving Holiday, no school K-12.
Children & Families 1 – Pumpkins and Power Tools, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 2 p.m., mydiscoveryspace.org. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – Saturday Stories Alive, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 11 a.m., schlowlibrary.org. 3, 4, 10, 11 – Baby & Me, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 9:30 a.m., schlowlibrary.org. 3, 4, 10, 11 – Tales for Twos, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 10:30 a.m., schlowlibrary.org. 5, 12 – 3s, 4s, & 5s Storytime, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 9:30 a.m., schlowlibrary.org. 5, 12 – Everybody Storytime, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 10:30 a.m., schlowlibrary.org. 5, 12, 19, 26 – Baby Explorers, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 10:30 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org. 6 – A Night to Discover, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 6 p.m., mydiscoveryspace.org. 6, 13, 20, 27 – Storytime, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 10:30 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org. 6, 13, 20, 27 – Science Adventures, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 11 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org. 7 – Homeschool Days, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, noon, mydiscoveryspace.org. 8 – Kid’s Day II: Dress up and Discover!, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 10 a.m., pamilmuseum.org. 8 – Young Writers Workshop, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 10 a.m., schlowlibrary.org. 16 – Gobble Up a Book, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org. 22 – The Nutcracker, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.
Classes & Lectures 1 – Huddle with the Faculty: “Touring America’s Religious Landscape” by Roger Finke, Nittany Lion Inn, PSU, 9 a.m., alumni.psu.edu. 4, 18 – “A Joint Venture,” information session on hip or knee replacement, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 11 a.m. Nov. 4, 7 p.m. Nov. 18, 278-4810. 5 – Friends’ Richard Koontz Memorial Lecture Series: TBA, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 7:30 p.m., pamilmuseum.org.
6 – Penn State Forum: “Our Generation’s Space Race” by Robert Braun, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, PSU, 11:30 a.m., pennstateforum.psu.edu. 6 – Research Unplugged: “Rise of the Robots: Imagining the Future of RobotHuman Relationships” by John Jordan, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 12:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org. 7 – Marcellus Shale Gallery Conversation: “Finding a Way Forward: Thoughts on How to Address Marcellus Shale Development-Related Conflicts” by Lara Fowler, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 12:10 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu. 7 – Paper Views Conversation: “Memories and Resonances: A Few of Our Favorite Things” by David Teplica, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 1 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu. 7 – Science Pub: “Maps and the Geospatial Revolution” by Anthony Robinson, State Theatre, SC, 7 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 7-9 – Center for Alternatives in Community Justice presents 24-Hour Basic Mediation Training, Lewis Katz Building, PSU, 9 a.m., cacj.us. 8 – Ellen Perry Speaker Series: “Penn State Women in Sport, the First 25 Years” by Kathy Mills Parker, Ann Carr Tunney, Sherri Landes Borreson, & Jana Angelakis, Penn State All-Sports Museum, PSU, TBA, gopsusports.com/museum. 11 – Central PA Civil War Round Table: “The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee” by Dick Simpson, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 6 p.m., 861-0770. 13 – Penn State Forum: “Genre and Gender” by Margaret Atwood, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, PSU, 11:30 a.m., pennstateforum.psu.edu. 13 – Research Unplugged: “Pop! America’s Enduring Love for Popular Music” by Vincent Benitez, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 12:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org. 14 – Marcellus Shale Gallery Conversation: “The Economic and Community Impacts of Natural Gas Development” by Kathy Brasier & Timothy Kelsey, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 12:10 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu. 15 – Huddle with the Faculty: “Personalized Medicine: A Look into the Future” by Marylyn Ritchie, Nittany Lion Inn, PSU, 9 a.m., alumni.psu.edu. 18 – “Marcellus Shale Documentary Project” by Nina Berman, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 4:30 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.
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18 – Straight Talk: “Could Your Child Have An Eating Disorder?” by Jennifer Seidenberg & Phyllis Stackhouse, Mount Nittany Middle School, SC, 7 p.m., janamariefoundation.org. 19 – American Art Series Lecture: “Modern Art, Racial Rhythms, and the Economy of Energy” by Robin Veder, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 4:30 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu. 20 – Family Medicine Seminar Series, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 6 p.m., 234-6738. 29 – Huddle with the Faculty: “Preserving Wealth and Relationships” by Cathy Bowen, Nittany Lion Inn, PSU, 9 a.m., alumni.psu.edu.
Club Events 1, 8, 15, 22, 28 – Go Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 1:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – Chess Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org. 4, 11, 18, 25 – State College Rotary Club, Nittany Lion Inn, SC, 5:30 p.m., statecollegerotary.org. 5, 12, 19, 26 – State College Sunrise Rotary Club, Hotel State College, SC, 7:15 a.m., kfragola@psualum.com. 5, 19 – Outreach Toastmasters, The 329 Building, Room 413, PSU, noon, kbs131@psu.edu.
6, 13, 20, 27 – State College Downtown Rotary, Damon’s Grill & Sports Bar, SC, noon, http://centrecounty.org/rotary/club/. 6, 20 – State College Toastmaster’s Club, South Hills School of Business & Technology, SC, 6 p.m., statecollegetoastmasters.toastmastersclubs.org. 11 – Women’s Mid Day Connection Luncheon, Mountain View Club, Boalsburg, 11 a.m., 404-3704. 12 – 148th PA Volunteer Infantry Civil War Reenactment Group, Hoss’s Steak and Sea House, SC, 7:30 p.m., 861-0770. 12 – Women’s Welcome Club of State College, Oakwood Presbyterian Church (not church affiliated), SC, 7 p.m., womenswelcomeclub.org. 12 – Women’s Welcome Club Auction/ Fundraiser, Oakwood Presbyterian Church (not church affiliated), SC, 6 p.m., wwcmembership@gmail.com. 19 – State College Bird Club, Foxdale Village Meeting Room, SC, 7 p.m., scbirdcl.org. 19 – Nittany Mineralogical Society, 116 Earth & Engineering Sciences Building, PSU, 7:30 p.m., nittanymineral.org.
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Martha Rial’s photo “Well Flaring in Jefferson Township, Greene County" is part of Marcellus Shale Documentary Project that is at the Palmer Museum of Art through December 14. 18 – Women’s Welcome Club of State College Coffee/Tea, Oakwood Presbyterian Church (not church affiliated), SC, 9:30 a.m., womenswelcomeclub.org. 26 – Applique Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 6 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.
Community Associations & Development 6 – CBICC Business After Hours: First National Bank, 117 South Allen Street, SC, 5:30 p.m., cbicc.org. 9 – Centre County TRIAD: Community Policing Programs, Centre LifeLink Building, SC, 10 a.m., 238-2524. 18 – Spring Creek Watershed Association, Patton Township Municipal Building, 7:30 a.m., springcreekwatershed.org. 20 – CBICC Business Expo, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, PSU, noon, cbicc.org. 26 – Patton Township Business Association, Patton Township Municipal Building, noon, 237-2822.
Exhibits Ongoing-14 – Rural Landscapes: Exploring Rural Heritage Through the Art of the Farmland Preservation Artists of Central PA, Centre Furnace Mansion, SC, 1-4 p.m. Sun., Wed., & Fri., centrehistory.org. Ongoing-30 – Out of the Woods: Art Works and Furniture Made by Local Artists, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, Bellefonte, 1-4:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., bellefontemuseum.org. Ongoing-30 – The Fluidity of Gender, HUB Gallery, PSU, studentaffairs.psu.edu/artgalleries. Ongoing-December 14 – Marcellus Shale Documentary Project, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu. Ongoing-December 21 – Henry Varnum Poor: Studies for the Land Grant Frescoes, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu. Ongoing-December 21 – Lanny Sommese: Image Maker, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu. 7 – Paper Views Exhibition: Memories and Resonances: A Few of Our Favorite Things, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.
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Health Care For schedule of blood drives visit redcross.org or givelife.org. 3 – Cancer Caregiver Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 10:30 a.m., cancersurvive.org. 3 – Breast Cancer Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 7 p.m., 231-6870. 5, 12, 19, 26 – Alzheimer’s Support Group, Elmcroft Senior Living, SC, 6:30 p.m., 235-7675. 7 – Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Group, Schlow Centre Region Library SC, 1 p.m., 234-3141. 9 – The Ostomy Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 2 p.m., 234-6195. 11 – Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Group, Mount Nittany Dining Room at the Inn at Brookline, SC, 6:30 p.m., 234-3141. 11 – Brain Injury Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 7 p.m., 359-3421. 12 – Senior Center Diabetes Support Group, Centre Region Senior Center, SC, 10:15 a.m., 231-3076. 12 – The Fertility Issues and Loss Support Group, Choices (2214 N. Atherton St.), SC, 6:30 p.m., heartofcpa.org. 13 – Diabetes Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 6 p.m., 231-7095.
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17 – Cancer Survivor Support Group, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 11:30 a.m., cancersurvive.org. 18 – Multiple Sclerosis Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Outpatient Entrance, Pleasant Gap, 6 p.m., 359-3421. 20 – Better Breathers Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 2 p.m., 359-3421. 20 – Parents-to-Be: The HEIR & Parents Hospital Tour for Expectant Parents, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 6:30 p.m., mountnittany.org. 24 – Heart Failure Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 4 p.m., 359-3421. 25 – Stroke Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehab Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 4 p.m., 359-3421.
Music 4 – Nittany Valley Symphony presents “Tin Pan Alley to Tinseltown,” Eisenhower Auditorium, PSU, 7:30 p.m., nvs.org. 5 – Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Schwab Auditorium, PSU, 7:30 p.m., cpa.psu.edu.
November 4–18 • Pavilion Theatre
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Brother Sun performs November 15 at the Center for Well-Being in Lemont as part of the Acoustic Brew Concert Series. 6 – Arlo Guthrie, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 6 – Penn State School of Music: Baroque Ensemble, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 8 p.m., music.psu.edu. 8 – Return of the Native Sons and Daughters, State Theatre, SC, 7 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 8 – Penn State School of Music: Glee Club, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 8 p.m., music.psu.edu. 9 – Penn State School of Music: Oriana Singers, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 2 p.m., music.psu.edu. 9 – State College Area Municipal Band Veterans Day Concert, State High South Auditorium, SC, 3 p.m., crpr.org. 9 – Penn State School of Music: University Choir, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 4 p.m., music.psu.edu. 9 – Penn State School of Music: Chamber Orchestra, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 8 p.m., music.psu.edu. 10 – Penn State School of Music: Musica Nova, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 8 p.m., music.psu.edu. 11 – Home Free, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 11 – Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Eisenhower Auditorium, PSU, 7:30 p.m., cpa.psu.edu. 12 – Penn State School of Music: String Chamber Music, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 8 p.m., music.psu.edu. 14 – Penn State School of Music: Bandorama, Eisenhower Auditorium, PSU, 7 p.m., music.psu.edu. 15 – Acoustic Brew Concert Series: Brother Sun, Center for Well-Being, Lemont, 7:30 p.m., acousticbrew.org. 16 – Penn State School of Music: Women’s Chorale, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 2 p.m., music.psu.edu. 16 – UUFCC Music Series: Allegria Ensemble, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County, SC, 3 p.m., www.uufcc.com. 16 – Penn State School of Music: Concert Choir, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 4 p.m., music.psu.edu.
16 – Penn State School of Music: Clarinet Choir & Flute Choir, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 6 p.m., music.psu.edu. 16 – Passafire, State Theatre, SC, 7 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 18 – Penn State School of Music: Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 8 p.m., music.psu.edu. 19 – The Art of Music: The Pennsylvania Quintet, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 12:10 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu. 20 – Get the Led Out, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 20 – Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Schwab Auditorium, PSU, 7:30 p.m., cpa.psu.edu. 21 – Darin Rex, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m., thestatetheatre.org.
Special Events 1, 8 – North Atherton Farmers’ Market, Home Depot Parking Lot, SC, 10 a.m., centralpafarmers.com. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – Millheim Farmers’ Market, Old Gregg Mills Farmers’ Market, Spring Mills, 10 a.m., centralpafarmers.com. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – Bellefonte Farmers’ Market, Gamble Mill restaurant, Bellefonte, 8 a.m., centralpafarmers.com. 2 – Historic Harvest Festival, Millbrook Marsh Nature Center, SC, 2 p.m., 231-3071. 3 – AAUW State College presents Community Response to Domestic Violence in Centre County, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 7 p.m., aauwstatecollege.org. 4, 11, 18, 25 – Tuesday State College Farmers’ Market, Locust Lane, SC, 11:30 a.m., statecollegefarmers.com. 7 – First Friday, Downtown State College, 5 p.m., firstfridaystatecollege.com. 7 – Downtown Tree Lighting, Allen Street, SC, 5:30 p.m., downtownstatecollege.com. 7, 14, 21, 28 – Downtown State College Farmers’ Market, Locust Lane, SC, 11:30 a.m., statecollegefarmers.com. 9 – Team Snap 5K Race/Walk, Tudek Park, SC, 11 a.m., http://bit.ly/teamsnap5k. 9 – Central PA Gluten Free Expo, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, PSU, noon, centralpaglutenfreeexpo.com. 9 – Night of Community Stars, Mountain View Country Club, Boalsburg, 6:30 p.m., scctonline.org. 12 – Women’s International Night, Minitab World Headquarters, SC, 6:30 p.m., gc-cc.org/events/win/. 15 – International Games Day @ Your Library, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 10 a.m., schlowlibrary.org.
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18, 25 – Boalsburg Farmers’ Market, St. John’s United Methodist Church, Boalsburg, 2 p.m., boalsburgfarmersmarket.com. 20 – Hadassah Kosher Hot Dog Dinner and Bake Sale, Congregation Brit Shalom, SC, 4:30 p.m., 234-8112. 20 – Found in Translation: World Poetry Read by World People, Webster’s Bookstore and Café, 7 p.m., gc-cc.org. 22 – One-Stop Shopping Fair, Knights of Columbus Hall, SC, 9 a.m., 574-7578. 27 – Boalsburg Turkey Trot 5K/Walk and Gobbler Gallop, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 9 a.m., imathlete.com.
Sports For tickets to Penn State sporting events, call (814) 865-5555 or visit gopsusports.com. For area high school sporting events, visit high school Web sites. 1 – PSU/Maryland, football, Beaver Stadium, PSU, TBA. 2 – PSU/IUP (Exhibition), women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 2 p.m. 5 – PSU/Akron, men’s soccer, Jeffrey Field, PSU, 7 p.m.
Micha Hancock and the Penn State women’s volleyball team wrap up their regular season with five home matches at Rec Hall.
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25 – PSU/Akron, men’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 7:30 p.m. 29 – PSU/Nebraska, women’s volleyball, Rec Hall, PSU, 8:30 p.m. 29 – PSU/Michigan State, football, Beaver Stadium, PSU, TBA.
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Metropolitan Opera Live in HD’s presentation of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia will be shown at the State Theatre November 22. 7 – PSU/Rutgers, women’s volleyball, Rec Hall, PSU, 7 p.m. 7-8 – PSU/Virginia/Michigan, men’s & women’s swimming, McCoy Natatorium, PSU, 11 a.m. Fri., 6 p.m. Sat. 8 – PSU/Maryland, women’s soccer, Jeffrey Field, PSU, 7 p.m. 9 – PSU/Lehigh, wrestling, Rec Hall, PSU, 2 p.m. 12 – PSU/Iowa, women’s volleyball, Rec Hall, PSU, 7 p.m. 14 – NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional, cross country, PSU, noon. 14 – PSU/Towson (WNIT), women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, noon. 14 – PSU/Morgan State, men’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 7 p.m. 15 – PSU/Minnesota, women’s volleyball, Rec Hall, PSU, 7 p.m. 15 – PSU/Temple, football, Beaver Stadium, PSU, TBA. 16 – PSU/TBA (WNIT), women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 2 p.m. 16 – PSU/Fordham, men’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 5 p.m. 20 – PSU/TBA (WNIT), women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 7 p.m. 21-22 – PSU/Lindenwood, women’s ice hockey, Pegula Ice Arena, PSU, 7 p.m. Fri., 2 p.m. Sat. 22-23 – Garret Penn State Open, men’s and women’s fencing, White Building, PSU, 8 a.m. 23 – PSU/TBA (WNIT), women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 2 p.m. 25 – PSU/St. Bonaventure, women’s basketball, BJC, PSU, 5:30 p.m.
1 – Metropolitan Opera Live in HD presents Bizet’s Carmen, State Theatre, SC, 12:55 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 1-2 – Penn State School of Music: Opera Theatre: Little Women, Esber Recital Hall, PSU, 8 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., music.psu.edu. 2 – National Theatre Live presents Skylight, State Theatre, SC, 3 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. 5 – The Art of Poetry: “The Reformation” by Katherine Bode-Lang, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 12:10 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu. 4-18 – Penn State Centre Stage presents Spring Awakening, Pavilion Theatre, PSU, 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. matinee Nov. 8), theatre.psu.edu. 17- December 6 – Penn State Centre Stage presents The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, SC, 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. matinee Dec. 6), theatre.psu.edu. 21 – Out Loud: “Poems from the Fracking Fields” by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, 7:30 p.m., bellefontearts.org. 22 – Metropolitan Opera Live in HD presents Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, State Theatre, SC, 12:55 p.m., thestatetheatre.org. T&G Inside: Penn State AD Sandy Barbour’s love of leading • Pie recipes for the holiday season
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Rustic Reds Cooler weather brings out some hearty, “less polished” wines By Lucy Rogers
The dictionary defines the term “rustic” as follows: adj. 1. of or relating to the countryside; rural. 2. constructed or made in a plain and simple fashion. When it comes to describing wine, the term “rustic,” though somewhat vague and
not specifically defined in any glossary of wine terms, is usually used in reference to red wine and can mean hearty, earthy, or even roughedged. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be a negative quality in a wine. Many wines that are described as rustic can be quite charming and/or distinctive, and can give the consumer a real sense of the wine’s origin, a unique sense of place. The key to determining whether or not the use of the term rustic is negative or positive has a lot to do with a consumer’s expectations. If you buy an expensive well-aged Pinot Noir from Burgundy, expectations are that the wine will be smooth and silky, elegant and refined — the exact opposite of rustic. But many wines made in the old world using more traditional methods, i.e. with less interference from the winemaker so that the wine expresses itself as nature intended, are often found to be quite rustic in nature. Take a vin de pays — literally, a “wine from the country” from France. These wines are made with fewer regulations and, therefore, do not qualify for the AOC designation of a particular region on their label. French winemakers in regions such as Provence and the Languedoc don’t try to manipulate the wines to create a certain style — they let the grapes express themselves just as nature intended, and the result can often lead to wines that are quite rustic indeed. Expectations play a part here — if you purchase a vin de pays, you should expect a less refined style of wine. The same can be said about red grapes from other parts of the world. Certain grapes tend to express a certain rusticity because of their very nature — Malbec, Tempranillo, Mourvedre, certain other Rhone Valley varieties such as Carignan and Syrah, as well as Zinfandel’s Italian cousin, Primativo, and Sicily’s Nero d’Avola — and are often characterized as rustic because of their earthy, leathery notes so often found in wines these grapes produce. These wines exhibit a more masculine nature — big, bold — and are most often consumed with food. Regions that grow these grapes — Argentina, Spain’s Rioja, the Southern Rhone Valley, and any number of Italian regions — tend to be using old-world style techniques
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that have been practiced for centuries. While their new-world counterparts in the US and Australia are using more modern techniques with the goal of producing fresh fruit-forward wines that are easy drinking and meant to be consumed young, many of these other regions are content to rely on more traditional winemaking methods, even if it means the wines will need to age. The cooler weather that autumn brings is the perfect time to experiment with more rustic-styled wines. As our meals change to heartier, warmer foods that include stews, soups, and heavier meats, wines with similar characteristics will pair beautifully. Roasted or grilled pork, roast lamb with mustard and rosemary, cassoulet, and other stews almost demand wines with character and backbone to enhance their flavor appeal. Look for wines from Bandol (predominantly made up of Mourvedre) or savory blends from Rioja, which are dominated by Tempranillo. (In
Portugal, you can find Tempranillo by another name — Tinto Roriz — and in Spain’s Ribera del Duero region the grape is called Tinto Fino or Tinto del País). Malbec is an excellent pairing for steaks of any kind. Italy is loaded with more rustic-styled wine varieties, and often at prices that are quite user-friendly. And obviously, Italian cuisine is well-suited to these types of wines. As we have recently learned, there are health benefits to drinking moderate amounts of red wine. It turns out that wines that are made with less interference and manipulation by winemakers tend to be higher in resveratrol, which helps to fight tumor growth. When he studied 100 different red wines, Leroy Creasy, PhD, a professor emeritus in the department of horticulture at Cornell University, consistently found the highest concentrations of resveratrol in Pinot Noirs that had been grown in cool, rainy climates. His advice to healthconscious imbibers: “Stay away from huge wineries, because their wine is made by chemists and they tend to mellow the wine out to save aging time, which reduces resveratrol. Stick to boutique wineries or traditional oldfashioned wineries, where the winemaker is not a chemical engineer.” (From “Red Wines Vary in Health Benefits” by Deborah Hastings, Prevention.com.) Recent studies also show there are other beneficial nutrients such as procyanidins that improve cardiovascular and arterial health, as well as antioxidant flavonoids that have been shown to promote healthy cholesterol levels and help to prevent coronary disease. Researchers agree that wines that are produced more naturally are higher in these beneficial nutrients. So now that the average daily temperature is dipping below 50 degrees, take time to search out some of these “less polished” red wines. They not only offer health benefits but also present interesting flavor profiles that will help you access wine in a new way, will pair well with the richer meals we tend to consume this time of year, and rarely will they ever break the bank! T&G Lucy Rogers is the tasting room manager for Big Spring Spirits in Bellefonte. She can be reached at lucy@bigspringspirits.com, or you can find her in the tasting room.
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Tasteof the Month Homemade Goodness Looking for a new pie recipe or two to try for Thanksgiving and the holiday season? Look no further By Vilma Shu Danz The history of pies dates back to ancient Egypt, and it was once a practical way to bake and preserve meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains. Pies came to America with the first English settlers, although it is unknown if it was part of the first Thanksgiving feast. Today, pies have become a symbol of home, family, and tradition in America. No Thanksgiving meal is complete without a slice of apple or pumpkin pie. Etched in our memory from childhood is the smell of a freshly baked pie cooling as the family gathers around to carve the turkey. The staff of Barash Media gathered a few of our favorite homemade pie recipes to share with our readers this holiday season.
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Double - Crust Peach Contributed By Brittany Svoboda, Centre County Gazette staff writer
Crust 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 Tbsp. salt 2 sticks chilled unsalted butter 4 Tbsp. ice water, more if needed Filling 1 egg, beaten 5 cups peeled and sliced peaches 2 Tbsp. lemon juice 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg 1/4 tsp. salt 2 Tbsp. butter Directions Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Crust: In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, and butter. Add ice water until the mixture makes a ball. Add more water if dry. Divide the dough ball in half and shape each into a disk. Wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate about 30 minutes. When chilled, roll one pie crust to about 12 inches around and drape over 9-inch pie plate. Roll the other pie crust to about 10 inches. Set aside. Filling: Peel and slice peaches into about 1/4-inch thick pieces and toss with lemon juice in a large bowl. Whisk flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a different bowl. This mixture should have no lumps. Gradually stir the dry mixture in with the peaches, and mix well. Pour mixture into pie crust. Top with pieces of butter and second pie crust. Seal edges of the pie by pushing together the two crusts. Use a knife or pizza cutter to remove excess crust from the edges of the plate. Brush top of pie with beaten egg and make slits in the top to vent. Bake at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 min minutes, then lower temperature to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake an additional 30 to 35 minutes until crust is browning and pie juice bubbles through slits. Cool before serving.
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Crust 3 cups flour 1 cup Crisco (my great-great grandmother used lard!) Pinch of salt Filling 10 Macintosh apples 1/3 cup sugar (use 1/2 cup if you have a sweeter palette) 1/4 cup butter or margarine 1 tsp. cinnamon
Grandma’s PennsylvaniaDutch Apple Pie Contributed by Katie Myers, Centre County Gazette ad coordinator
Directions Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Crust: Combine all ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Using a fork, work Crisco into flour. Add water (a few drops at a time) until smooth enough to roll out. Filling: Peel and slice apples. Put in cold lemon water to keep from browning while you are making the pie crust. Drain well when ready. Cover bottom of pie plate with a thin layer of pie crust. Evenly distribute apples on top of crust. Apples should be in a mound (apples will shrink in the oven; this is the secret to a full pie!). Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on apples. Cut butter into thin slices and distribute over apples and sugar/cinnamon mixture. Cover with top layer of pie crust. Cut off excess pie crust and pinch the edges. Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes or until crust is golden brown. 104 - Town&Gown November 2014
Gingersnap Pumpkin Pie Contributed by Aimee Aiello, Town&Gown business manager Crust 2 2/3 cups flour 1 tsp. salt 1 cup Crisco shortening 7-8 Tbsp. cold water Filling 1 can pumpkin puree 1 cup heavy cream 1/2 cup whole milk 2 large eggs 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 tsp. pumpkin-pie spice blend 1/4 tsp. salt Topping 10 gingersnap cookies 1 Tbsp. flour 2 Tbsp. sugar 2 Tbsp. butter (cold) Directions Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. 10-inch double crust: Combine flour and salt. Cut in the Crisco with a pastry blender until flour is crumbly pea-sized pieces. Sprinkle with water, 1 Tbsp. at a time, until dough forms a ball. Roll dough out to fit a 10inch pie plate. Topping: Crush the gingersnap cookies and mix with flour, sugar, and butter. Filling: Mix together pumpkin, cream, milk, eggs, brown sugar, pumpkin-pie spice, and salt. Pour into pie crust. Bake in middle of oven for 30 minutes and then sprinkle topping on pie. Bake for 20 more minutes until center is firm. Transfer to rack to cool completely. Filling will continue to set as pie cools.
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Graham - Cracker Crust Blueberry Pie Contributed by Vilma Shu Danz, Town&Gown operations manager/ assistant editor
Crust 1 1/2 cups graham-cracker crumbs 1/2 cup melted butter 1/8 cup water Filling 3 cups fresh or frozen blueberries 6 Tbsp. cornstarch 3 Tbsp. blackberry or grape juice 2 Tbsp. lemon juice 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 2/3 cups sugar
Graham-Cracker Crust: Combine graham-cracker crumbs, one stick of butter, and water. Press into pie plate and refrig-erate for at least 20 minutes (to prevent crumbling when serving). Filling: Rinse blueberries. Combine the sugar and cornstarch in a bowl and mix well. Stir in cinnamon. Add the lemon juice and blackberry/grape juice. Stir it up. Pour blueberries into pie crust. Pour the mixture of sugar and juice into the pie all over the blueberries.
Topping 1/4 cups sugar 1/2 cups flour 1/4 cups butter (softened)
Crumb Topping: 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup flour 1/4 cup butter Mix together in a small bowl and sprinkle it over the pie.
Directions Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Peanut Butter Cream Pie Contributed by Debbie Markel, Town&Gown account executive
1 (9-inch) prepared graham-cracker crust 1 cup chocolate chips (melted) 1 (8-ounce package) cream cheese (softened) 1 cup creamy peanut butter 1 cup sugar 1 Tbsp. butter (softened) 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1/2 cup Cool Whip Directions Melt chocolate chips and spread inside of crust. Refrigerate until cool. In mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar, butter, and vanilla until smooth. Add whip cream and mix in peanut butter and Cool Whip. Gently spoon the filling into the crust. Garnish with chocolate if desired. Refrigerate for several hours before serving. T&G
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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, 353-4696. Cozy and charming, yet affordable, Bella II’s specialty is good food! Fresh, classic pasta dishes with homemade sauces, large dinner salads, and in-house, 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. 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., 237-5710, TheDeliRestaurant.com. Since 1973, The Deli has served up New York-style deli favorites on an American menu offering everything from comfort food to pub favorites, all made from scratch. Soups, breads, sauces, and awardwinning desserts are homemade here early in the morning folks. Look for its rotating menu of food-themed festivals throughout the year. AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar. The Dining Room at the Nittany Lion Inn, 200 W. Park Ave., 865-8590. Fine continental cuisine in a relaxed, gracious atmosphere. Casual attire acceptable. Private dining rooms available. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Full bar. Down Under Steakhouse at Toftrees, One Country Club Lane, 234-8000, www.toftrees.com. A casual restaurant with unique dining featuring hearty appetizers, delicious entrees, fresh sandwiches and salads in a comfortable scenic atmosphere. Outdoor seating available. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Full bar. Duffy’s Boalsburg Tavern, On the Diamond, Boalsburg, 466-6241. The Boalsburg Tavern offers a fine, intimate setting reminiscent of Colonial times. Dining for all occasions with formal and casual menus, daily dinner features, specials, and plenty of free parking. AE, MC, V. Full bar. Faccia Luna Pizzeria, 1229 S. Atherton St., 237-9000, www.faccialuna.com. A true neighborhood hangout, famous for authentic New York-style woodfired pizzas and fresh, homemade Italian cuisine. Seafood specialties, sumptuous salads, divine desserts, great service, and full bar. Outside seating available. Sorry, reservations not accepted. Dine-in, Take out. MC/V. Galanga, 454 E. College Ave., 237-1718. Another great addition to Cozy Thai Bistro. Galanga by Cozy Thai offers a unique authentic Thai food featuring Northeastern Thai style cuisine. Vegetarian menu selection available. BYO (wines and beer) is welcome after 5 p.m. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V.
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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. Gigi’s, West College Ave. on the Corner of Cato Ave., 861-3463, gigisdining.com. Conveniently located 5 minutes from Downtown, Gigi’s is a farm-to-table dining experience inspired by the hottest southern trends. Outdoor Patio. Lunch & Dinner. Full Bar. AE, D, MAC, MC, V.
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As he completes his fifth season of leading the men’s soccer team, Bob Warming has maintained his passion for the game and for life Bob Warming has coached soccer for more than 35 years, and his career has been marked by success and distinction. He is a six-time finalist for national coach of the year, and he was named Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2012 and 2013. He is in his fifth season as Penn State men’s soccer head coach, and has Town&Gown founder Mimi Barash Coppersmith (left) talks led the Nittany Lions to Big Ten titles with Bob Warming at the Dining Room at the Nittany Lion Inn. each of the past two seasons, as well as your record, and you’ve done pretty well through two trips to the NCAA Sweet 16, in 2010 and 2013. the years. What’s the key to your coaching that The Lions wrap up their regular season November 5 makes your teams what they’ve been? and will then play in the Big Ten Tournament and, Bob: I am so fortunate to have been around possibly, the NCAA Tournament. some terrific young men in my life, and that’s Prior to coming to Penn State, he had coached why my teams have been good. They are just at Creighton University (1990-94 and 2001-09), good human beings. They have something and also held head-coaching positions at Saint Louis unique and special about them. Our sport has Univerisity (1997-2000), Old Dominion (1996), the lowest amount of scholarships of any team Charlotte (1982-88), Berry College (1977-81), sport in Division I. We have 9.9 scholarships and Transylvania University (1976). For his that we divide among 26 players. No one is on a career, he has more than 430 wins and led two diffull scholarship. All of our players play because ferent teams — Saint Louis and Creighton — to the they love soccer, and I try to find guys who love College Cup, which is soccer’s Final Four. it just as much as I do and want to see how good A 1975 graduate of Berea College in Kentucky, they can become. That trait has carried them he was a varsity letterman in four sports, starring on forward into becoming very successful players the golf, swimming, tennis, and soccer teams. He in college, and professional players in many holds a master’s of science degree in sport adminiscases, and, more importantly, just great people tration from Eastern Kentucky University. He and in our society. They become doctors, lawyers, his wife, Cindy, have four children — Emily, Bess, teachers, and people who do service in the and twins, Grant and the late Audrey. Grant played community. soccer for four seasons at Penn State (2010-13). Mimi: How do you identify those people? You Town&Gown founder Mimi Barash Copperseem to do it pretty consistently. smith sat down with Warming at the Dining Room Bob: I think those questions are always tough at the Nittany Lion Inn to discuss his love for soccer, to answer. I mean, why are you a good interthe tragic loss of his daughter, Audrey, and what’s viewer? I’ve just been really lucky more than ahead for Penn State soccer. anything. Mimi: Well, Bob Warming, what a nice Mimi: Well, we’ve been lucky! The boys name and what a nice guy! The name sort of have been lucky! Everyone needs leadership, dimatches your personality. From a distance, I’ve rection, and inspiration. I believe you’ve got to observed you as a very inspirational guy. I read 116 - Town&Gown November 2014
be an inspiring guy. Bob: I don’t know about that. I’m inspired by my players. I’m inspired to work hard. I’m inspired to do everything I can to try to help them achieve their goals and be as good as they can be. Mimi: What made you come to Penn State? Bob: A new challenge. I started the program at Creighton from its inception, meaning we had all freshmen there. They dropped soccer because no one would ever come to a game and they had never won a game in Division I. Five years later, they decided to reinstitute it and start with all freshmen. Four years later, we were No. 1 in the country and the first team to go undefeated in Division I in about 25 years. We went to a record 17 consecutive NCAA tournaments and built the new stadium that had suites on the second level. We went from playing out of City Park that was 20 miles from campus, where we had to wait for the men’s league team to get off the field, to playing in a stadium that we built on campus where people spent $15,000 a season to sit in the suites and watch our team play. Mimi: How do we get that to happen at Penn State? Bob: I would love for that to happen! I think
we need some big upgraded facilities at Jeffrey Field. If you look at this campus, it’s gorgeous! If you look at the corner of Park Avenue and University Drive, it’s literally the ugliest corner of our campus. So, we need to improve that. It’s a beautiful field and a beautiful location. Mimi: Soccer, internationally, is an amazing sport, and somehow that has to transfer here. I would think the fans are there. Have we reached that? Bob: Yes, we’re really getting there right now. And, it’s not just here. The latest surveys show that in the demographic of ages of 13 to 23, the No. 2 most followed sport in America is soccer — followed, meaning not played but they want to watch it. Ironically, this past year the folks from Florida, a huge football program, went to a pro soccer team in Kansas City to learn how to capture the fans that soccer is capturing. Three other SEC teams have now followed suit. Mimi: You get things done even under difficult conditions. What made you that way? Bob: Well, I was educated at a school where there was no tuition charge, but everybody had to work. I worked 20 hours a week minimum for the school. Not only did I work but I played
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four varsity sports at the time, worked a job, and went to school. You learned to manage what you were doing so that you could be successful in all the areas. So, I think that training helped me. My parents came from very humbled beginnings and did very well, and I think their work ethic has transferred a little bit over to me. Although, I would always say that my parents were much harder workers than I am. Mimi: Are you a very religious man? Bob: I would say that I’m a spiritual guy more than a religious guy. Mimi: The spiritual piece shows. When you’re not thinking about soccer ... Bob: Doesn’t happen unfortunately. Mimi: That doesn’t happen? So it’s a 24/7 job? Bob:: 365. Every day. Mimi: I have a feeling you’re a very good family man. Bob: I love my family very much. Mimi: I wish my readers could see the look on your face as you said that. Bob: Yeah, my wife has been through a lot to raise our kids, and did a great job while I’ve pursued this passion of mine. She has been amazing. My kids are all different, but they are all amazing. 1937 North Atherton Street State College, PA 16803 P. (814) 865-7728 P. (800) 828-4636 F. (814) 863-6183 www.PennStateFederal.com
Mimi: Well, I’m about to ask you a question, and if it’s uncomfortable to talk about it, I don’t want you to do it. Bob: No, it’s fine. Mimi: To me, and I didn’t know your daughter, Audrey, and I didn’t know you, so, you’ve never heard a thing from me, but I mourned with you. And I think a lot of people, a lot of parents, would have. Bob: Well, thank you. Thank you very much. Mimi: To me, the greatest loss in life is to lose a child. How did you manage to overcome that? Can you put into words what came to your help to make you be able to still be the wonderful guy you are? Bob: Well, I would say that you don’t overcome it. I think that’s one thing that I am learning — that how you deal with it just changes. So, I don’t think it’s something you ever overcome. I think it’s something that evolves in different ways. One of the things that Audrey loved was shoes and working with kids in disadvantaged situations. She had a great heart and wanted to help others who weren’t doing so well. And so, when she passed away, the family and I talked about what will we do to honor
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her. So, we have Audrey’s Shoes for Kids, the acronym was ASK, and we provide free soccer shoes, socks, shin guards, and other supplies for children in the housing projects of Omaha, so that they all get to play soccer. We got the state, the soccer association to waive all the fees for the kids. We partnered with United Health Care, and they provided uniforms, backpacks, and soccer balls for all the children every year. And, we’ve given away several thousand pairs of shoes now. Mimi: And I’ll bet you’ve thought about how to spread that farther. Bob: You are absolutely right. Mimi: How are you going to do it? Bob: I’m going to keep this going as long as I am on the planet. We’ll keep the thing going in Omaha, but we’re going to create a template that’s going to help this spread to children all over the country. I’m not going to coach forever, but when I get done, it’s one of the things that I’m going to do. Mimi: What’s ahead for you? What do you dream for Penn State soccer? What is going to come next? Bob: Well, we haven’t been to a Final Four
since 1979. I’ve got to change that. You know, I’ve taken two other programs to the Final Four, and we’ve got to get this program at that level. We’re getting close. It depends on our guys staying healthy. We’ve got to get the program elevated to be in elite status. We have elite performance status on my hallway in Rec Hall — [women’s volleyball head coach] Russ Rose and [wrestling head coach] Cale Sanderson inspire me with what is possible here. We’ve got to get our soccer program up at that level. Mimi: They’re pretty smart students, too. Bob: We have a bunch of guys from the Schreyer’s Honors College, which is the best and the brightest kids on campus. We have some guys who aren’t in the Schreyer’s who are very bright. They all want to make their mark at Penn State. These kids love soccer. They love playing with each other, and they want to see how good they can be. Mimi: Are they from all over the country? Bob: Yes, they are from all over the country. We actually have a player from Israel this year. He is injured but will be terrific for us. He is a fantastic human being and a fantastic player. We’ve got kids from northern California, Flor-
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ida, but the core of the team is from Pennsylvania. Five of our starters are from Pennsylvania, so there’s good talent close to home, and keeping them here in state is important to us. Mimi: How did you get involved in soccer? Bob: I grew up in a small town where there were a lot of students who had been brought to our school to get an education for five years and then go back home and help their country. My school didn’t charge tuition, and a lot of the students were Africans. There were no Africans that were allowed to play in European leagues at that time, and so often, talented players were the leaders in their country. They were the captains of their national team, and they hooked me on the sport. I was just very lucky. That program has gone away at that school now. It was just there in that window of that opportunity when there were these remarkable players. The teams are still in the college record books that I got to play on — most wins because of these guys. Mimi: And why are they so good at soccer? Bob: These kids were good at it because this was the only sport in their country, so they were the best athletes. They were the brightest, most intelligent athletes in soccer.
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Mimi: How has your commitment and love for what you do interfered with you doing some of the things that you wish you might have done? Or have you done them all? Bob: If there are any regrets you ever have it’s not spending enough time with your kids. I love my kids so much. I am so fortunate to be married to this wonderful woman who had reared them, all in their own unique compassionate way. My oldest daughter worked in orphanages in Bolivia, has done service work in El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. After that, she went to get two master’s at the University of California at Berkley in social work and now in public policy. Now, she works to help prevent childhood obesity through a government program. She’s amazing — so much less selfish than I am. I’m too selfish to ever do the things that she’s done. I have a daughter who teaches second grade in Omaha and she works with kids from Myanmar. She works with all these children on the side to help them assimilate into American culture and keep them out of gangs. Mimi: Well, they don’t just do that. They learn that from both of you. Bob: They learn it from their mother! Their
mother is a great person. Mimi: Did your kids play soccer? Bob: My son played here at Penn State. Grant graduated in December. He’s forming his own company with a soccer-training device. He’s just contracted a deal to launch in January at our national convention. Mimi: What’s the product? Bob: We’ve always talked about in soccer and in a lot of sports where you need to play in triangles. So, Grant has developed and gone through the whole research, development, and the production of the product, and is now going through the sale of a triangle training device. He has just reached an agreement with the largest supplier of soccer goods in the country, KwikGoal. It’s been a great experience because he’s learned to develop a company from its inception. Mimi: What did he major in here? Bob: Economics. Mimi: Well, isn’t that exciting. Bob: It is exciting. Mimi: I want to thank you. This has been a remarkable experience. I’ve admired you from afar and I think our readers will love you. Bob: Thank you for the opportunity. T&G
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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. Town&Gown is pleased to present the winning images from the club’s monthly competition. Shown this month are the first-place winners from the judged August meeting competition.
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“Rainy Day in Venice” by Jim Steamer
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August Meeting First Place Open Category “Tommy” by Jan Anderson
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“Legendary Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel in concert in January 2013. ”
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Veterans Organization president helps guide former military members adjusting to college life By Sabrina Evans
For Joe Enman, president of Penn State University Veterans Organization (PSUVO), the decision to join the Navy in 2004 was made because he “didn’t have much of a direction” in his life. After he studied computer electrical engineering at Rutgers for two years, Enman says, “I ended up doing the Navy as a means to see the world and try to figure out what I wanted to do.” Now a Penn State senior majoring in nuclear engineering, Enman, who will graduate in May, has traveled everywhere from Hawaii to Japan and South Korea, serving his country and learning valuable lessons along the way. Through PSUVO, he hopes he can help ease the struggles of other veterans who are adjusting to college life. “When there are veterans coming to campus, we try to work with them to help them get through the hoops that come with going to Penn State,” he says. “We’re trying to make sure we have enough money for college, make sure we have a place to stay. It’s a tough transition.” And while PSUVO exists to give veterans arriving at Penn State peace of mind in dealing with the technicalities of life after service, Enman’s favorite part about the organization is the sense of community it creates for its members. “It’s very easy to feel awkward when you’re surrounded by 18- and 19-year-olds,” he says. He compares life on campus to life on a submarine when it was him and his shipmates “against everyone else” when they would reach shore. As a member of PSUVO, a veteran knows they’re never truly alone. “At least [in PSUVO] we all understand each other,” he says. However, working with the other members of the group as their president has been another learning experience for Enman. “When I was in the service, I was used to that kind
Joe Enman What’s an unusual hobby that you have? “I love to ride motorcycles. I got started with it when I was about 8, riding dirt bikes.” If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? “I would like to go to Alaska. It’s not so much that I’d like to go there, it’s more that I want to take my bike and camp all the way there. It’s more about the journey than the destination.” What would you study if you weren’t doing engineering? “Probably kinesiology or physical fitness. I always see people owning their own gym or being a personal trainer, and they’re always happy. You’re fit, you’re working with people to help them get fit — the only thing that stinks is cleaning up the pools of sweat, I guess.”
of delegation where people are going to do what I say because I have authority,” he says. “When I first came to be president of PSUVO, I tried to do that and I got almost nothing done.” But it’s over beers at the Rathskeller during PSUVO’s Tuesday-night meetings where he has learned to embrace what the Navy has taught him, but also let it go. “It’s just a matter of duty,” he says. “I had to learn how to get the best out of people. Working together always accomplishes a goal better than working on your own.” T&G
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