During the Gettysburg Rocks event Feb. 4–6, the live performances of more than 172 bands in and around Gettysburg will help conquer childhood cancer by assisting children treated at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital and their families. Admission is free at all venues with 100 percent of the donations going to the Four Diamonds Fund in care of Penn State Mont Alto benefiting THON.
Penn State Mont Alto Associate Professor of English Kevin Alexander Boon continues to build on his success in film and writing. In January, his screenplay, “An Unmarked Grave,” won Best Screenplay in the Horror Genre during the 2016 Table Read My Screenplay Competition sponsored by the International Screenwriters’ Association (ISA).
Penn State Mont Alto will honor the legacy of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when African-American storyteller Dylan Pritchett comes to campus on Jan. 20 to celebrate Dr. King’s speeches and writings. The event begins at 2 p.m. in Wiestling Hall. It is open to the public and free of charge.
The American Mathematics Competition (AMC) will be held at 9 a.m. on Feb. 17 in the auditorium of the General Studies building at Penn State Mont Alto. The Mont Alto campus is the only public site for the AMC in this area and one of only six in Pennsylvania. The AMC is a national mathematics contest aimed at talented secondary students with the goal of "strengthening the mathematical capabilities of our nation's youth," according to its website.
Money saved on Black Friday can be put to good use on Dec. 1, #GivingTuesday, when anyone making a gift to the Penn State Mont Alto Athletics Fund will be matched by Craig and Page Nitterhouse and Matt and Tana Oyer up to $6,000. Mont Alto Athletics is one of three matching gift challenges available to Penn Staters during #GivingTuesday. University Libraries and Intercollegiate Athletics also offer matching gifts. To learn more or make a gift go to giveto.psu.edu/givingtuesday.
The Penn State Mont Alto Student Chorale invites the public to attend three holiday choral events that feature the music of Mozart, Schubert, Isaac and Haydn as well as contemporary and traditional Austrian Christmas carols. The events are free of charge.
About 400 scholarship donors and student recipients attended the Penn State Mont Alto 20th annual Scholarship Celebration in the Multipurpose Activities Center on Oct. 16.
On Oct. 22, photographer Judith Carroll Moore shared her passion for travel and experiences of capturing images of people from countries around the world with about a dozen students and Freya Qually, senior instructor in art at Penn State Mont Alto, during a reception that officially opened her exhibit of black and white photography, entitled “Street People of the World.”
