Glenn Leonard of the Temptations, Joe Coleman of the Platters, and Joe Blunt of the Drifters, left to right, now members of the group LCB, will perform classic hits from all three of their groups at the Penn State DuBois Benefit Celebration on Oct. 6.
All members of the community are welcome to support Penn State DuBois at the campus' first Benefit Celebration, planned for Oct. 6 at the DuBois Country Club. Featured entertainment will be provided by Leonard, Coleman and Blunt, the former lead singers of the Temptations, the Platters, and the Drifters.
Thanks to a generous gift by Dave and Francie Spigelmyer of Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, five Penn State DuBois students have just become the first graduates of a two-year program aimed at increasing financial literacy and better preparing them for success during and after college. Tory Anderson, of Curwensville; Amber Hainsey, of Clearfield; Samantha Miller, of Woodland; Tyler McDonald, of Morrisdale; and Brooke Simcox, of Curwensville, completed the ASPIRE program this year.
Chancellor M. Scott McBride presents Robert Umbaugh with his Penn State DuBois Alumni Society Lifetime Achievement Award that he received in the Fall of 2017.
An unprecedented gift to the Open Doors Scholarship Program at Penn State DuBois by Robert Umbaugh has generated $900,000 in scholarship endowment funding for students.
A project scheduled to begin on July 25 will rejuvenate the area around the DuBois Monument, with landscape improvements, lighting and a new fence. Situated above the Penn State DuBois campus on what is referred to as Monument Hill, the granite statue marks the grave site of John DuBois, who founded the town of DuBois, and is topped by a figure of a woman said to represent hope.
