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.
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: MBA
YEAR GRADUATED: 2013
BS Technology Mgmt. 2011,
Assoc in Advertising 2002 from Pa. College of Technology (an affiliate school of PSU)
FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR:
Pistachio
FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY:
Going to my first Penn State game. It was a day game so we had to start tailgating early... in complete awe over how vast the stadium was. It was a great time!
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: Speech 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 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: Criminal Justice
MINOR: Psychology
YEAR GRADUATED: 2004
Also: Master's, 2017, USAF Air Command College
FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR:
Coming
FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY:
Coming
MAJOR: International Politics
MINOR: Japanese Language
YEAR GRADUATED: 1995
FAVORITE BERKEY FLAVOR:
Death By Chocolate with Peachy Paterno
FAVORITE PENN STATE MEMORY:
I met Joe Paterno while working in East Halls during the football team's summer practice. Joe 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.
WE ARE chartered as an affiliate member of the Penn State Alumni Association and promote and support the Pennsylvania State University
and serve the Hampton Roads community.
WE ARE proud that for the 5th consecutive year, we have earned recognition as an
"ELM LEVEL" chapter, the highest level of distinction.
WE ARE Award Winning!
The chapter received national recognition for
New or Innovative Program (2015)
Outstanding Service Project (2011)
Best out-of-state entry in the Homecoming Parade
1/ Sailors wearing ‘Virginia is for Lions’ T-shirts– (2016)
2/ Pirates proclaiming, “WE ARRRRGH Penn State!” (2012)
Committee Chair; Eli Keller, '04
TBD: We are waiting to hear how the new ONE Membership model affects chapter membership.
Committee Chair: Donna Bell '83
Committee Members: Becky Burley '03, Carol Arsenault '83
Committee Chair:Jessica Palko, '95
Committee Members: Shawn Machemer
Committee Chair: Kathryn Barrett '79
Newsletter Editor, Social media including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, Website Manager, Photographer
Committee Members: Jessica Palko '95, Chris Hunsicker '00 - graphic arts Morgan Denault '18, website ; Daniel Ehlich '20, instagram.
Committee Chair: Becky Burley '03
Committee Leaders: Becky Burley '03 (Care Cards for students), Kathryn Barrett (Annual Sendoff Picnic), Carol Arsenault (Alumni Admissions Volunteers)
Committee Chair: Tom Forrest '85
Committee Leaders: Jan Dungan '78 (Food Bank); Tom Forrest '85 (Clean the Bay Day & Wreaths Across America).
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