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Penn State Intercom......October
11, 2001
We care
Naomi Manning, coordinator of reunions and homecoming activities for the
Alumni Association, scrubs the front porch at Centre Furnace Mansion near
the University Park campus to prepare it for a new coat of paint. Manning
was among the roughly 6,000 volunteers throughout Centre County to participate
in the annual PNC Bank-United Way Day of Caring. For more information
about this and other United Way events involving the University, check
the Web at http://www.psu.edu/ur/events/unitedway/.
Spanish students at Penn State DuBois
celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month by holding a variety of events at the
campus Sept. 28-30. Here, student Tonya Bell (foreground) helps Jeffrey
Makkos and Ellie Haering decorate Ecuadorian festival headdresses, while
student Mike Reinhart works with Seth Michaels.
This artist's rendering shows the Life Sciences Building, connected to the Chemistry Building with a glass-enclosed corridor that will span Pollock Road on the University Park campus. Below, the ground-breaking ceremony on Oct. 5 was well attended.
All the news that's fit to print 
Mike Schubert, right, a freshman in the Eberly College of Science, takes a New York Times from Janet Robinson, president of the New York Times Co. Robinson was handing out free copies of the paper to students Oct. 5 in front of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus and spoke later that day at the Penn State Forum Lunch. The next speaker in the series will be Matthew Pittinsky, chairman of Blackboards Inc., who will speak on Oct. 19. For details, see the story above, left.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Kim Morris, publicity assistant for the HUB-Robeson gallery, works on the setup of "Heartdreams and Legends: Story of Two Peoples." The exhibit will be on display through Dec. 4 in the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus.
Photo: Greg Grieco
A sign of the season, these pumpkins are ready to move from the Larson research farms to a trail at Shaver's Creek. Activities at Shaver's Creek this month include the family foliage walk, pumpkin carving and the children's halloween trail and festival. For more information on these and other activities at Shaver's Creek, see the briefs section on page 8.
Photo: Greg Grieco
The bright, sunny days of early October gave Joel Myers, a landscape contracting senior, an opportunity to work in the medieval garden adjacent to the Test Gardens on the University Park campus.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Roger Finke, professor of sociology, examined church membership in the United States. His study found that churches lost conservative members when they abandoned traditional membership niches.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Preserving history
"The Wire
That Remembers," a unique preservation project, is almost complete in
the Fred Waring's America collection in 313Pattee Library on the University
Park campus. Undergraduate student assistants Rob Borger, shown here,
and Mauri Buetzow have worked since June to 
transfer
magnetic wire recordings of Fred Waring radio and 
television
shows from 1948-50 to digital tape and CD. More than 300 reels of wire,
a recording technology developed in 1942 but made obsolete by magnetic
tape, have been transferred. Each 7,200-foot reel of wire holds an hour
of sound, but they are unpredictable -- any kink or tangle can make
the wire unplayable. Above, Borger loads a wire recording onto one of
the library's antique wire
players. At right, he is washing an original recording to remove an
acid buildup that has accumulated over the years. Left, he prepares
to play the cleaned master recording to re-record it onto digital tape
and CD. A new exhibit, "Fred Waring and Patriotism," is on display in
the exhibit case outside Fred Waring's America archives, 313 Pattee
Library. For more information, see the story on page 6.
Photos: Greg Grieco