Day of Caring
Published 10.05.2009
Scores of civic-minded Pennsylvania College of Technology students and employees fanned out across Lycoming County on Saturday, Oct. 3 – rolling up their sleeves at about a dozen job sites from Montoursville to Jersey Shore, from Newberry to South Williamsport – for the United Way's annual Day of Caring. Among the locations captured by PCToday cameras were the Williamsport YMCA, made spick-and-span with student-applied elbow grease, and Lions Field in South Williamsport, where a faculty-mentored group of sorority sisters buried a dark and timeworn paint job under a fresh blue coat. The volunteer effort (typical of Penn College employees and the students who represented residence halls, Greek organizations and campus clubs) added to a record-breaking day of assistance to 39 nonprofit agencies.
— Photos by Jessica L. Tobias, student photographer,
and Tom Wilson, news bureau writer/editor
Alyson M. Fields, an accounting student from Marysville, exits the 129-foot tunnel at the YMCA's Children's Discovery Workshop.
Kattie I. Heisey, president of the Penn College Sigma Sigma Sigma colony and an early childhood education major from Richfield (below); and Kayleigh M. Stonecipher, sorority sister and pre-dental hygiene student from Lock Haven, brighten the Little Mountaineer Little League field along West Southern Avenue in South Williamsport.
Oversized building blocks at the Williamsport YMCA get a good scrubbing from volunteers from The Village at Penn College.
Chef Judith P. Shimp, associate professor of hospitality management/culinary arts (and far-reaching community volunteer), diligently tends to the detail work in South Williamsport's Lions Field concession stand.
Automated manufacturing technology student Jacob D. Wrenn, of Granville, Mass.; and Nicholas P. Seigenfuse, of Auburn, enrolled in the information technology: network security specialist concentration, spruce up the WIlliamsport "Y."
Although the group's emblem ultimately was painted over, Michele Ramirez, regional leadership consultant for Sigma Sigma Sigma, made sure the local colony's signature was noted.
Tri-Sigma sister Katie A. Rosengrant, a pre-radiography major from Dover, plies painstaking brushwork on a door jamb.