In the News
June 7, 2001

Couple gives $2 million for
theatre, education and engineering
Students in the musical theatre program in the College of Arts and Architecture will benefit from a $1 million endowment created by William E. and Wyllis M. Leonhard. The State College couple also has given $1 million to divide equally between two existing endowments in the College of Engineering and the College of Education.

Amusement park chills and
thrills live on in new collection
Although prized by amusement park aficionados for being host to more than a dozen active parks, Pennsylvania was once home to nearly 150 others that no longer operate.

5 appointed to the leadership
of the CIC Academic Leadership Program
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program has gained five additional Fellows from the Penn State ranks. The CIC is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago.

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