Board of Advisers
Chair: Christine Sears
Vice-Chair: Richard E. Bentz
Treasurer: Steven J. Masterson
Secretary: Madlyn L. Hanes
Ted J. Ackroyd
Chairman and CEO
HealthcareData Company, LLC
Christopher S. Barrett, '84
President and CEO
Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bureau
Richard E. Bentz, '69, '72g
President
Edenridge Enterprises, Inc.
David E. Black
President and CEO
Harrisburg Regional Chamber
Capital Region Economic Development Corporation
David A. Brinjac, P.E., '79, '80g
Chief Operating Officer
Brinjac Engineering
James C. Byerly
President and CEO
HDH Byerly
William Christ, '73g
Retired Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer
Hershey Foods Corp.
Paul C. Coppock
Honorary Member
Dominic "Nick" DiFrancesco, '86
Commissioner, Dauphin County
Gary Eichelberger, '92
County Commisioner
Cumberland County
Salvatore Fazzolari '77
Chairman and CEO Harsco Corp.
Michael Fiaschetti '04g
Senior VP Mid-Atlantic Region
Highmark Blue Shield
Jessica Gray '97
Executive Director
Republican Caucus Chairman’s Office
Madlyn L. Hanes
Chancellor
Penn State Capital College
Kevin M. Harter, '90, '05g
Senior Vice President
Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania
Max J. Hempt
President and Chairman
Hempt Brothers, Inc.
Michael L. Hund, Esq.
Partner, McNees, Wallace & Nurick LLC
Carlton Klinger '81, '90g
Senior VP/Business Sales Manager
PNC Bank, N.A.
Ralph Klinepeter '93
President
Pyramid Construction Services, Inc.
Albert H. Kramer, '77, '80g
Senior Vice President, Operations
D&E Communications, Inc.
Melissa Kutz, '93g
Administrator, Rehabilitation Hospital
Pinnacle Health
Community General Osteopathic Hospital
Franklin D. Linn Sr.
President, Lower Swatara Township
Board of Commissioners
Steven J. Masterson, CPA, '78
Tax Partner
Beard Miller Company, LLP
F.G. Merkel '89g
President and COO
United Concordia
Jeffrey Merritt '85
Reynolds Construction Management, Inc.
Gerald K. Morrison, Esq., '65, '68g
McNees, Wallace & Nurick
Honorary Member
Edward Nielsen
Representing Stephen Reed, Mayor
Director, Office of Economic Development and Special Projects
City of Harrisburg
Sondra Osler '92 Honorary
Civic Leader
Honorary Member
K.D. Patel
Co-founder, Hersha Hospitality Management, L.P.
Ralph E. Peters, '48
CEO and Chairman of the Board Emeritus
Benatec Associates
Honorary Member
Vincent J. Pinizzotto, '71
Regional Vice President
United Concordia Companies, Inc.
Robert Reid
Mayor
Borough of Middletown
Napoleon Saunders
Honorary Member
Christine Sears, '77
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Penn National Insurance
Burton H. Snyder
Senior VP/General Counsel/Secretary
The Hershey Company
Kathleen A. Smarilli '71
Honorary Member
William M. Stout
Chairman and CEO
Gannett Fleming, Inc.
James Talalai '94g
Executive VP Info Services & CIO
Select Medical Corporation
H. Ralph Vartan ‘08g
Chairman, Vartan Group, Inc.
Mark Whitmoyer '72
President, Conservation Concepts, Inc.
Robert J. Woelfling, '63
Vice President, Global Sourcing and Operations Strategy
The Hershey Company
Harry I. Yaverbaun, '57
Certified Public Accountant
Richard Ziegler '06 Honorary
Owner/President
R.E. Ziegler Remodeling and Construction Company
College News
Web site profiles American emigration to Liberia
Building on years of research and two published books, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has created a web site dedicated to profiling the historic African American emigration to Liberia.
Associate Professor of Communications and Humanities C. Patrick Burrowes unveiled his interactive web site entitled “Like a Motherless Child: African American Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1904” as part of a presentation to faculty, staff, and students recently in the Gallery Lounge. Taken from the title of the well-known spiritual, “Like a motherless child expresses the overriding feeling of dispossession and alienation felt by the emigrants,” Burrowes says. Many of them former slaves, “they had no mother and they had no homeland,” he adds.
Hershey High ensemble to join college choir for Dec. 8 concert
Hershey High School’s vocal ensemble, “Cantabile,” will join Penn State Harrisburg’s student choir to herald the coming of the holiday season in a free public concert December 8 at 5:15 p.m. in the Morrison Gallery of the college library.
“Cantabile” is an auditioned ensemble that meets daily at the high school. It is one of four choirs in the school’s vocal music program. Repertoire performed by Hershey Cantabile ranges from Renaissance to popular.
Art exhibit addresses the Holocaust
A unique and powerful art exhibit addressing the Holocaust by acclaimed Israeli artist Ardyn Halter will be on public display in the Schwab Family Holocaust Reading Room of Penn State Harrisburg’s library November 15 through April 15.
Entitled The Family I Never Knew, the prints and paintings “depict the Shoah (Holocaust) from the point of view of the second generation and also those were born after (it),” Halter explains.