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Board of Advisers

Chair: James C. Byerly

Vice-Chair: Christine Sears

Treasurer: Richard E. Bentz

Secretary: Madlyn L. Hanes

Nancy Cramer Aronson
President
Capitol Commercial Corporation

Christopher S. Barrett, '84
President and CEO
Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bureau

Richard E. Bentz, '69, '72g
President
Edenridge Enterprises, Inc.

David E. Black
President and CEO
Harrisburg Regional Chamber
Capital Region Economic Development Corporation

David A. Brinjac, P.E., '79, '80g
Principal
Brinjac Engineering

James C. Byerly
President and CEO
HDH Byerly

Joseph M. Capita, '76g
President and CEO
Tri-County United Way

William Christ, '73g
Retired Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer
Hershey Foods Corp.

Paul C. Coppock

Dominic "Nick" DiFrancesco, '86
Commissioner, Dauphin County

J. Glenn Ebersole, Jr., '70, '73g
J. G. Ebersole Associates
and The Renaissance Group in Lancaster

Gary Eichelberger, '92
County Commisioner
Cumberland County

Joseph Grosso, '71
Business Loan Officer
Members First Federal Credit Union

Madlyn L. Hanes
Chancellor
Penn State Capital College

Kevin M. Harter, '90, '05g
Senior Vice President
Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania

Michael L. Hund, Esq.
Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll

Albert H. Kramer, '77, '80g
Senior Vice President, Operations
D&E Communications, Inc.

Melissa Kutz, '93g
Administrator, Rehabilitation Hospital
Pinnacle Health
Community General Osteopathic Hospital

Barbara A. Layne
Director, Professional Drug Education and Information
PA Medical Society

Franklin D. Linn Sr.
President, Lower Swatara Township
Board of Commissioners

Steven J. Masterson, CPA, '78
Tax Partner
Beard Miller Company, LLP

Gerald K. Morrison, Esq., '65, '68g
McNees, Wallace & Nurick

Edward Nielsen
Representing Stephen Reed, Mayor
Director, Office of Economic Development and Special Projects
City of Harrisburg

Sondra Osler
Civic Leader

K.D. Patel
Co-founder, Hersha Hospitality Management, L.P.

John D. Payne
Representative
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 106th District

Charles C. Pearson, Jr.
Chairman of the Board
Waypoint Financial Corporation

Ralph E. Peters, '48
CEO and Chairman of the Board Emeritus
Benatec Associates

Vincent J. Pinizzotto, '71
Regional Vice President
United Concordia Companies, Inc.

Robert Reid
Mayor
Borough of Middletown

Richard T. Reynolds
Owner/Founder
Reynolds Construction Management

Napoleon Saunders

Christine Sears, '77
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Penn National Insurance

Fred Sembach, '77, '78g
President, Penn State Harrisburg Alumni Society

Kathleen A. Smarilli
Honorary

William M. Stout
Chairman and CEO
Gannett Fleming, Inc.

Mark Whitmoyer
President, Conservation Concepts, Inc.

Robert J. Woelfling, '63
Vice President, Global Sourcing and Operations Strategy
The Hershey Company

Harry I. Yaverbaun, '57
Certified Public Accountant

Richard Ziegler
Owner/President
R.E. Ziegler Remodeling and Construction Company

College News

Course on American childhood will include student-produced documentaries

Is there such a thing as a typical American childhood?

Can a study of the historical and cultural trends of the American childhood reveal society’s underlying values?

Original drama, concert to highlight King Day observance

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Penn State Harrisburg’s community observance of Martin Luther King Day on Monday, Jan. 19 will again include an original dramatic production and a musical celebration.

For the 11th consecutive year, the day’s observance begins at noon in the Capital Union Building on campus with an original play written by faculty member and Harrisburg resident Dr. Dorothy King. Then at 4 p.m., Harrisburg’s G.A.T. Fellowship Choir will take the stage for a celebratory concert.

POGIL and clickers bring learning to classroom

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Clickers and POGIL may not sound like academic terms, but a faculty member at Penn State Harrisburg is utilizing them to enhance learning and knowledge in his chemistry classrooms.

If you’ve seen the TV program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," you’re familiar with personal response systems — those clickers the audience uses to register their votes. Associate Professor of Chemistry Thomas Eberlein is pairing clickers in the classroom with a student-centered active learning technique called Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) to encourage students to learn to reason through problems.

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