Grads Pave Way for Vital New Highway
Published 07.12.2017
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Two Penn College civil engineering graduates – David Wise, '92, and Maggie Jackson, '08 – are helping to lead the $670 million Central Susquehanna Valley Transportation Project, one of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s largest undertakings. Wise is a construction manager for PennDOT, and Jackson is the design project engineer. Both rely on their Penn College background as they work on the 13-mile limited access highway that will alleviate a problem faced for 40 years: congestion and heavy truck traffic through Shamokin Dam. "Here's the largest construction project that I know of in the state and here are two Penn College graduates that are right at the top of the list in making this whole project work, and that's pretty significant," said state Sen. Gene Yaw, who also chairs the college's board of directors. "They should be pretty proud of their own accomplishments because we can do all these things at the college and train them and everything, but I think it's incumbent upon the individual to go out and use the skills they've learned ... and these two people obviously have. And we're really excited about them."– Photos by Tom Speicher, writer/video editor
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