David Spigelmyer, the recipient of the 2014 Alumni Fellow Award for Penn State DuBois, spoke Oct. 9 in Hillier Auditorium on campus to an audience of students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the public, about his work in the natural gas industry. A Penn State DuBois alumnus and a 1982 graduate of the University with a bachelor's degree in public service, Spigelmyer is president of the Pittsburgh-based Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC), the region’s largest shale gas development trade association.
Thirty-four men from Penn State DuBois participated in the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event last week, a march designed to raise awareness of the battle against rape, sexual assault and gender violence.
Students in the Penn State DuBois Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) program met face-to-face with potential employers during the OTA Job Fair held on campus on Oct. 10. The training they receive in the OTA associate degree program will prepare them to work with a licensed occupational therapist and administer therapy to people who have been injured, or suffer from debilitating illnesses.
Three individuals were honored at the Penn State DuBois Alumni Society's Annual Alumni Awards Banquet held Thursday evening at the DuBois Country Club. David Roush received the Dave Shaffer Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Rawland Cogan accepted the Outstanding Alumni Award, and John Bean was presented with the Distinguished Ambassador Award.
Front Row, left to right: Award recipients John Bean, David Roush, and Rawland Cogan.Back Row, left to right: Chancellor Melanie Hatch; Jean Wolf, presenter; Diane Bernardo, presenter; David Spigelmyer, presenter; Michael White, president, DuBois Alumni Society.
Maureen Horan, the assistant director of academic affairs and kinesiology instructor at Penn State DuBois, has just been recognized, for the second time, in the Drew University Athletic Hall of Fame. Horan previously coached field hockey at Drew in Madison, N.J. Her winning team from 1983 was inducted into Drew's Athletics Hall of Fame as a Team of Distinction during a ceremony Oct. 4.
