Penn State Mont Alto parents and families are invited to campus for Parents and Family Weekend Oct. 17-18 to visit their students and participate in some special campus activities.
Penn State Mont Alto forest technology faculty and students joined other volunteers, including Pennsylvania Sen. Richard Alloway II, in planting 191 trees during a Trees for Tomorrow event Oct. 10 at five area locations. Alloway and the Pennsylvania Office of the Alliance for Chesapeake Bay, led by Donna Morelli, the alliance’s Pennsylvania director, coordinated the event.
The Penn State Mont Alto Development Office hosted its seventh annual Alumni & Friends Football Tailgate as part of Penn State’s Homecoming weekend on Oct. 10. It was held at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus prior to the football game. More than 140 Mont Alto supporters attended the event, which was sponsored by the Penn State Mont Alto Alumni Society and generously underwritten by alumni Jim and Barbara Ingram.
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.”
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.
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.
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 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.
