Appointments
Penn State Intercom......January
31, 2002
Faust appointed to University
Libraries' Development Office 
Christine Faust recently joined the University Libraries' Development Office as assistant director of development.
She is responsible for donor cultivation and stewardship.
Faust brings six years of experience as the director of development for The Second Mile, which provides a network of prevention, early intervention, and community-based child development programs and services free of charge to school-aged children.
Before that, she served as conference planner in Conferences and Institutes, a unit of the Division of Continuing Education. For 10 years, she worked in various capacities at WPSX-TV, including assistant director of "What's in the News" and as on-air fund-raising producer.
Faust graduated from the University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.
Commonwealth College
appoints grant relations manager
Lisa Wiedemer has joined the Commonwealth College as manager, college grant relations.
Primarily focusing on public funding, Wiedemer will identify and create relationships with potential funding sources, identify funding needs and program possibilities within the college, and prepare proposals for collegewide funding. She also will design and conduct proposal-writing workshops for faculty members on all 12 Commonwealth College campuses. To fulfill these functions, she will work closely with the Division of Development and Alumni Relations and the Office of Sponsored Programs.
Wiedemer joined the University from Juniata College where she served for two years as associate director of develop-ment/foundations and corporations. Before that, she spent eight years at Central Florida Community College where she worked as grants manager and college relations manager.
Wiedemer also has nine years of newspaper writing experience, having worked at the Ocala Star Banner in Florida and The Messenger in Madisonville, Ky.
Wiedemer holds a bachelor of science degree in journalism from Ball State University and a master of arts degree in mass communications from the University of Florida.
Head librarian named to
post at Penn State Shenango
Penn State Shenango
has hired Paul A. Arrigo as its head librarian. 
Arrigo will be responsible for the overall library administration including instruction, planning and development, staff supervision, and close involvement with students, faculty, community and the University Park campus library.
Before coming to Shenango, Arrigo was the reference coordinator/government documents and electronic service librarian at Washburn University School of Law Library. At Washburn, he created and maintained the Law Library's Federal Document Web site "Doc-Law." He also has worked at the Texas State Library as a reference librarian. From 1997-1998, Arrigo held the appointment of chair of the Government Documents Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries.
He is a member of the Government Printing Office Depository Library Council, which advises the Public Printer on issues affecting Federal Depository Libraries.
Arrigo graduated from Creighton University, where he received a bachelor's degree in theology in 1984. He received a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990.
Penn College names police chief
who assumes position Feb. 25
Pennsylvania College of Technology has chosen Chris Miller to serve as chief of the Penn College Police.
Miller, who currently is chief of the Montoursville Borough Police force, will begin his duties at Penn College on Feb. 25.
A graduate of Montoursville Area High School, Miller attended Penn College's predecessor, Williamsport Area Community College, as an electrical technology student before leaving to pursue a career in law enforcement. Miller was hired as a police officer by Montoursville Borough in October 1981. He was named police chief for the borough in January 1995.
Miller, who will supervise a staff of 14 officers at Penn College, has received training in drug enforcement, motor-vehicle-accident reconstruction, fire prevention and investigation, and police supervision and management.