The Penn State McKeesport Advisory Board will host its second annual All That's Jazz scholarship benefit on Saturday, October 15, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. in Penn State McKeesport's Student Community Center. Proceeds will be added to the Penn State McKeesport Scholarship Fund.
Last year's event raised $21,050 for student scholarships, allowing the campus to provide scholarship aid to an additional 22 students. The Advisory Board has set a goal of $42,100 for this year's benefit, double the amount raised last year.
Temujin the Storyteller is a font of stories and lore about Africa and elsewhere, and a wonderful entertainer.
He has performed across the United States, delighting audiences with his humor as well as his knowledge of Africa and African American history.
He has been a performer at the local Renaissance Faires, and some may recognize him from his appearance in the movie Lorenzo's Oil.
Don't miss his performance, starting at 12:15 on Thursday, September 29th in the Ostermayer Room of the SCC on the Penn State McKeesport campus.
The first event for the Fall 2005 Teaching Africa project will take place on Tuesday September 27 at 12:15 p.m. in Crawford 102 on the Penn State McKeesport campus.
Sam Weinreb
Surviving the Holocaust
September 21, 7:00 p.m.
Abie Abraham
Surviving the Bataan Death March
October 19, 2005- 7:00 p.m.
Larry Donovan
Surviving a Korean POW Camp
November 16, 2005-7:00 p.m.
John Ungar
Surviving the Quecreek Mine Collapse
February 15, 2006 - 7:00 p.m.
Ed Ezaki
Surviving an American Internment Camp
March 1, 2006-7:00 p.m.
Michael DiLauro
Documentary Filmmaker
"Be careful or the aluxes (pronounced a-loo-shas) will get you" is a warning taken seriously by generations of Yucatan inhabitants. Who are the aluxes? Why should one heed this warning? What are the consequences of ignoring the aluxes?
On Wednesday September 21 at 7 p.m. in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center, Holocaust survivor Sam Weintreb will speak about his experiences as a survivor of Auschwitz.
They stood in the rain and squinted through the rain drops, straining to see every item in the CSI Mobile Van. Young campers at Penn State McKeesport's Kids' Camp, a summer youth program sponsored by Continuing Education, were given the chance to see first-hand what it takes to investigate a crime scene just like the popular television series CSI.
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Making the decision to stay in Pittsburgh while pursing a college degree was not a hard choice for Anthony Bruce. After all, Anthony's friends and family were already here and when he looked around at the opportunities available, he knew he could be successful right in his own community.
Attend a discussion by a representative of Doctors Without Borders, the Nobel-Prize winning organization that has done great work in Africa and elsewhere.
Our speaker, Sharon Connor, is a pharmacist who negotiated access to medicines for people in need in Ethiopia and Kenya.
She will speak from 12:15 to 1:30 on TUESDAY, APRIL 5, in the Ostermayer Room of the SCC.