Dr. David Seitz, associate professor in communications, will will present the first of three Colloquy Series talks at Penn State Mont Alto on Sept. 12, 2018.
Penn State Mont Alto will host the first of three Faculty & Staff Colloquy Series talks for fall 2018 on Sept. 12 from 12:20 p.m. to 1:10 p.m., in the Heritage Room of The Millstream Café. David Seitz, Penn State Mont Alto associate professor of communications, will present “World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern U.S. Soldier: A Rhetorical History.” The event is open to the public and free of charge.
Members of the Penn State and local communities are invited to celebrate Constitution Day with on-campus events at University Park on Monday, Sept. 17, as well as activities at a number of Penn State campuses.
U.S. Army Sgt. Donise Johnson is shown getting ready to do a sound check to sing the National Anthem at the 2016 Daytona 500. Johnson was a member of the 82nd All-American Airborne Chorus, a military singing group that performs all over the world. Johnson is a 2012 Penn State graduate in film-video.
U.S. Army Capt. Chelsea T. Allen, is shown while serving in Afghanistan in 2016. Allen, a Schreyer Honors College student while at Penn State, graduated in 2014 with a degree in history.
United States Marine Corps Maj. Lindsay Mathwick is shown at the end of a six-week training exercise in 29 Palms, California, August 2018. Her unit, Combat Logistics Battalion-1, participated in the integrated training exercise with two infantry battalions and numerous aviation squadrons. Mathwick is a 2004 Penn State graduate in earth sciences and was commissioned into the Marines from Penn State Naval ROTC.
United States Navy Lt. Jennifer Knapp has been serving for eight years and just began her graduate degree through Penn State World Campus. Knapp, pictured in front of an aircraft on display at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, flies a Mercury E-6 out of Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma.
Sgt. Sue (Ruggero) Kohler served in the U.S. Army from 1976 to 1979. This photo was taken in 1978 when Kohler was promoted to sergeant. Her husband, Alan Kohler, pinned on her stripes. Both were stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. "I am proud to be an Army veteran and a PSU alum," she said. Sue Kohler, a Russian linguist, was in the Army Security Agency, which later became the Intelligence and Security Command. She used the GI Bill in 1980 to attend Penn State Mont Alto, graduating with an associate degree in business in 1984.
U.S. Air Force Capt. Danielle (Johnson) Miller had just returned to the United States from deployment in Southwest Asia in 2012 when this photo was taken. Miller shed a few tears of joy as she held her 11-month-old son, Owen. Miller is a 2004 Penn State graduate in biology.
