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 MAJOR: Sp Com- Broadcasting

YEAR GRADUATED: 1979

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: Strawberry

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: Meeting the team bus returning from a loss in the Sugar Bowl . Very few people turned out. I ran up and kissed JoePa and said something silly like "We still love you!" Of course we did!

MAJOR: Business Finance

YEAR GRADUATED: 1983

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: Peanut Butter Swirl

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: 

Derby Days Ping pong champ, with trophies, two years in a row. Excited fans "roared" joyously with the  game-winning points!

MAJOR:  Human Development and Family Studies

YEAR GRADUATED: 2018 

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: 

Bittersweet mint

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: 

first white out game as a freshman and feeling the vibrations from the entire stadium! A feeling i will never forget! 

MAJOR: Aerospace Engineering 

YEAR GRADUATED: 1974 

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: Coffee Break 

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: Getting drenched at a rainy football game.  At the time, we all had black umbrellas and all the rain from the person in front of you dumped in your lap.  Walking back to dorm/fraternity soaked to the skin.

MAJOR: Business Administration - Marketing

YEAR GRADUATED: 1978

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: Bittersweet Mint 

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: Dancing every Friday night away at Mr. C's-- blacklight, disco and all the finest seventies trends!

MAJOR: Industrial Engineering

YEAR GRADUATED: 1985

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR:        Bittersweet Mint

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: Football games against Pitt (when they were good), and almost getting run over by Joe Paterno as he was eating an ice cream cone while driving out of the old creamery parking lot.

MAJOR: Sp Com-Broadcasting

YEAR GRADUATED: 1980 

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR:  Alumni Swirl & Monster Mash

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: Summer '78,  brothers of Delta Tau Delta  went "full HGTV" on the newly acquired shelter at 429 E Hamilton Ave.  We  knocked down drywall and did all sorts of demolition to prepare to move in  Fall '78.  After  five days of stripping paint and staining wood, it was absolutely beautiful.  I remember one of the brother's Mom say, "you guys will make great husbands."

MAJOR: Mechanical Engineering

YEAR GRADUATED: 2003

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: Keeney Beany Chocolate 

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: Favorite memory is having class in Breazeale reactor facility and seeing the Cherenkov radiation (blue glow).

MAJOR: Communications- Advertising

YEAR GRADUATED: 1980

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: Scholar's Chip

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: Gaining lifelong friends from across the globe and grabbing a bite or drink at spots like The Train Station, Suzie Wong's and Centre Bank.

Open Position 

Donna Bell 

MAJOR: Mining Engineering

YEAR GRADUATED: 1983

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: TBA

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: TBA

Jessica Palko

MAJOR: International Politics

MINOR: Japanese Language

YEAR GRADUATED: 1995

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: 

Death By Chocolate with Peachy Paterno

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: 

While working in East Halls during the football team's summer practice, Joe Paterno approached me after reading my name tag and asked if I was related to Thom Palko ('69)! He is my Dad, who worked with the football team when he was at Penn State in the first years of Paterno being head coach.

Becky Burley 

MAJOR: Secondary Education Social Studies

YEAR GRADUATED: 2003

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: 

Peachy Paterno

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: 

Favorite memory involves Blue Band where I played clarinet... the PSU victory over Nebraska in 2002 in Beaver Stadium was one of my all-time Blue Band memories.

Tom Forrest

MAJOR: Industrial Engineering

YEAR GRADUATED: 1985

FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR: Bittersweet Mint

FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY: Football games against Pitt (when they were good), and almost getting run over by Joe Paterno as he was eating an ice cream cone while driving out of the old creamery parking lot.