The 30th Annual Penn State Scranton Alumni Society/James D. Gallagher Golf Tournament will be held on Monday, June 18 at the Country Club of Scranton. Members involved in planning the annual golf tournament include, from left, Chris Franchetti, Scranton; Dave Lucas, Old Forge; Society President Kathy Zielinski, Scranton; Jo Ann Durdan, Clarks Summit; Golf Co-Chair Kathy Casarin, Archbald; Jahan Tabatabaie, Moosic; Michele Jones, Old Forge; Dawn Bauman, Moscow; Angela Schuback, Old Forge; Dave Kaminski, South Abington Twp; and Renee Arledge, Madison Township.
High-achieving students, faculty and staff at Penn State Scranton were honored last month at the campus' annual Spring Honors Awards Dinner held to publicly recognize the award recipients. Marwan Wafa, chancellor, second from right, with the recipients of the Fourth Year, Outstanding Scholar Awards, from left: Aaron Panfini, Jillian Kochmer and Hannah Woody.
Fred Aebli, IST lecturer and program co-coordinator at Penn State Scranton, receives his 2018 Atherton Teaching Award from Dr. Nicholas P. Jones, executive vice president and provost at Penn State.
John Champagne, professor of English and chair of the Global Languages and Cultures program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has been named Penn State Laureate for the 2018-19 academic year.
William Scranton III delivers the commencement speech at Penn State Worthington Scranton's 2018 Spring Commencement ceremony on May 5. Mr. Scranton is the grandson of Worthington Scranton, for whom Penn State Worthington Scranton was named. The campus became Penn State Scranton on May 1, making the Class of 2018 the last Penn State Worthington Scranton graduating class in the campus' 50 year history.
