Student, Lowe’s partner to make campus safer

The efforts of a student and a donation from Lowe’s have combined to enhance security at Penn State Harrisburg.

Senior Camille Campbell, president of the college’s student Marketing Club, noted in communication to administration that many of the classroom doors in Olmsted Building are solid and have no widows. She pointed out that while students are encouraged to seek shelter in the classroom in the event of an emergency, they have no way of determining conditions outside the room. Campbell added, “I believe classrooms will only serve their purpose as a safe haven if students are able to see what’s happening on the other side of the door.”

Finance Club’s investments to assist deserving students

Members of Penn State Harrisburg’s student Finance Club will soon gain real-world experience in investments while raising funds to support deserving students.

The generosity of friends and alumni of the School of Business Administration has resulted to this point in a fund of $5,000 which the Finance Club members will use to invest in the stock market with profits supporting an annual award presented to an undergraduate student majoring in Finance.

The most recent donations have come from 1986 graduate Ron Bittner, senior pension compliance officer with Trollinger Consulting Group in Allentown, and jointly from M&T Bank and William Oakland, formerly affiliated with the Central Pennsylvania Corporate Relations Society.

$100,000 gift endows scholarship in memory of Morris Schwab

Current and future undergraduate students at Penn State Harrisburg will benefit from a $100,000 gift to endow the Morrie Schwab/Phi Sigma Delta Sigma Educational Foundation Trustee Scholarship.

The family of the late Mr. Schwab, a well-known Harrisburg business leader, and the foundation joined together to create the gift.

Mr. Schwab, who graduated from Penn State in 1940 with a bachelor's degree in arts and letters, was CEO of Credential Leasing Corp., a commercial equipment leasing and financing company, and an officer and board member of D&H Distributing Co., a wholesale distributor of computer and peripheral products. He served 12 years on the Penn State Alumni Association Executive Board, much of that time as chair of the finance committee, and in 1994 received its first Outstanding Alumni Council Member award. He died in December 2006.