Penn State Students Volunteer At Society

January 30, 2013 at 9:50 PM

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From left:  DuBois Area Historical Society President Ruth Gregori,  John Marcolini, Amanda Palumbo, Miguel Villalba, Steve Larish, Alexandra Blose, and Beecher Klingensmith, DuBois Area Historical Society Director of Museum and Curator.

           Penn State University provided volunteer work at the DuBois Area Historical Society as part of Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day, Monday, January 21.

            The students represented the southwest campuses of Penn State University. Each year the six campuses in southwest Pennsylvania visit one of the communities where the campuses are located to volunteer. DuBois was the site for 2013.

 tv_interview.jpg           Johnny Marcolini of Lemont Furnace and a member of the Student Life office at the Penn State Fayette campus accompanied four students:  Amanda Palumbo of Aliquippa, Penn State Beaver; Alexandra Blose of DuBois, Penn State DuBois; Miguel Villalba of Lemont Furnace, Penn State Fayette; and Steve Larish of Gans, Penn State Fayette. WJAC-TV from Johnstown covered the event (Amanda Palumbo was interviewed on camera at left).

            The students did some cleaning throughout the museum during a four-hour stay. Beecher Klingensmith, curator for the Society, conducted a tour of the museum. Additional Society members participating included President Ruth Gregori, Tom Rubritz, Tom Schott, and Virginia Schott. 



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