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Penn-Trafford High School

Following his retirement and until his death, Alistair Cooke was a frequent and generous donor to the high school.


1975 Sugar Bowl

After Penn State's Chris Bahr missed a 62-yard field goal, Alabama scored on a 25-yard Danny Ridgeway field goal to take a 3–0 lead.

2008 Oregon State Beavers football team

Penn State linebackers Tyrell Sales and Navorro Bowman both recorded 10 tackles each, both career-highs and linebacker Josh Hull and safety Mark Rubin both made their first career interceptions.

Allen J. Greenough

Though both the Pennsylvania and the Central struggled through the 1950s on the dividends from their large investments in border state coal haulers—the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Norfolk and Western—the Penn Central merger created a massive system from two weakened giants.

Aubrey Herring

He was part of the 4x120yd world record shuttle hurdle relay team (David Oliver, Joel Brown, Aries Merritt) that ran 53.31 at the 2008 Penn Relay Carnival.

Beirut Memorial

Other memorials to the victims of the Beirut barracks bombing have been erected in the United States, including those at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Benedum Center

Today the Center is the home of the Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera who formerly were based at Heinz Hall, (the former Loew's Penn Theater) that had been restored by and is the current home of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

Brian Russell

He was recruited and spent his freshman season (1996) at Penn, where he became the first quarterback in the history of the school to start as a freshman.

Burleigh Cruikshank

Sportswriter Walter S. Trumbull of the The New York Sun suggested that the Michigan Aggies, Washington & Jefferson, Chicago University, and Notre Dame were the new "Big 4 of College Football" instead of the traditional grouping of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Penn.

Combat Jack

Combat Jack's co-hosts include Dallas Penn, Premium Pete, DJ Benhameen, AKing, and Just Blaze.

Community Displacement in Philadelphia

The former Graduate Hospital is now Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse, a rehabilitation and acute-care facility owned owned by University of Pennsylvania Health System.

David B. Pakman

At Penn, Pakman's Senior Design Project advisor was David J. Farber.

Evan Pugh

An agricultural chemist, he was responsible for securing Penn State's designation in 1863 as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Land Grant Act.

Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Senate version, while the bill was introduced to the House by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) and Kevin Yoder (R-Kans.)

First professional degree

The first medical schools that granted the MB degree were Penn, Harvard, Toronto, Maryland, and Columbia.

Frank Speck

Speck also sponsored Native American students at Penn such as Molly Spotted Elk and Gladys Tantaquidgeon.

Frogmore, South Carolina

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. studied and lectured at Penn Center during the formative years of his career as a civil rights leader.

Geoff Garin

He replaced Mark Penn as the Clinton Campaign's chief strategist in April 2008, after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Penn met with Colombian official regarding a proposed free trade agreement opposed by Clinton and most labor unions.

George England

He moved to London and trained at the John Penn Boilerworks and Shipyards in Deptford.

Graiseley

Graiseley ward is bounded by Penn Road (A449) to the east, Coalway Road and Church Road to the south, Bradmore Road and Merridale Road to the west and the ring road to the north.

Grants, New Mexico

Scenes from the movie 21 Grams starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts were also filmed in Grants.

Greg Buttle

He stood atop the Penn State career tackles list for over 30 years (until Paul Posluszny surpassed his mark of 343 versus Wisconsin on November 4, 2006).

Hillblazers

Hillblazers was supported by student leaders all across America from schools to colleges; 352 alone in New Hampshire to hundreds more at schools like University of California, Penn-State, Notre-Dame, to Kentucky Supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton's past and future campaigns from donating, funding to phone-banking and other youth Democratic activities.

Jay Paterno

He has spoken at several young voters rallies including one in one sponsored by PSU Votes, a nonpartisan political initiative where both he and Penn State women's basketball coach Coquese Washington spoke.

John P. Surma

As the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University, Surma informed longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno late at night, and over the telephone, that he had been terminated without a hearing amid the media firestorm in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

Kenneth Frazier

On November 11, 2011, as a member of the Penn State board of trustees, the board selected Frazier as chairman of a commission empaneled to investigate a child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and allegations of a cover up by university officials.

Kenneth Weiss

Kenneth M. Weiss, Professor of Anthropology and Genetics at at Penn State University

Lenny Moore

It was the first time a former Penn State player has been invited to participate in the pre-game coin toss.

Leo Penn

Leo Z. Penn (August 27, 1921 – September 5, 1998) was an American actor and director and the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.

Let's Talk Penn State

Let's Talk Penn State was an afternoon drive sports radio program based out of WKPS in State College that featured O. Richard Bundy and Jon Nese.

Martin Meyerson

After leaving Penn, he served on a number of boards and in advisory positions, including that of the Monell Chemical Senses Center.

Montreal Maroons

The city's largest arena, the Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania, did not have an ice plant, and Penn balked at the expense of installing one.

National Signing Day

He took out a picture of himself with Penn State head coach Joe Paterno during the press conference and announced his decision to sign with Penn State.

Penn College

Pennsylvania College of Technology, a college affiliated with the Pennsylvania State University whose name is commonly abbreviated to Penn College

Penn Plaza East

The Penn Plaza East complex takes its name for its location near Penn Station in Newark, New Jersey.

Penn State Ice Pavilion

The Penn State Ice Pavilion is an 1,350-seat ice arena on the campus of The Pennsylvania State University located in University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.

Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon

In 1982, Penn State Heisman Trophy winner John Cappelletti spoke to the dancers about losing his brother, Joey, to leukemia ten years earlier, and the event that year raised more than $95,000, and the following year, the sum of $131,000 was raised.

Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry

Pitt's coach Johnny Majors moved Tony Dorsett to fullback for the second half, and the Panthers went on to defeat Penn State, 24–7, finishing the regular season 11–0, on their way to a Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia and their first National Championship in 39 years.

Penn Traffic

As of January 9, 2010 Penn Traffic is entertaining 3 separate bids: $54 million from Price Chopper for 22 P&C Foods stores, a private bid of $36.5 million from a team of professional liquidators for all of P&C's assets and $85 million from Tops Markets for all of Penn Traffic's stores.

Penn Yan, New York

David Bordwell, prominent American film theorist, film critic, and author, grew up on a farm near Penn Yan.

Raymond Pace Alexander

That same year, he married his former Penn classmate Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander – who in 1927 would become the first black woman to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard Penn

Richard Penn, Sr. (1706–1771), younger son of William Penn and joint proprietor of Pennsylvania

Richard Raiswell

Shell Games: Studies in Frauds, Scams and Deceit in Early Modern Culture, 1300-1650 with Mark Crane and Margaret Reeves (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004) and The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012) with Peter Dendle (Penn State Mont Alto).

Robert Penn Warren

Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, which is very near the Tennessee-Kentucky border, to Robert Warren and Anna Penn.

Ronald Coder

His son, Ron Coder later played football at Penn State and with the Seattle Seahawks.

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

In 1951 her family moved to Queens, where she would graduate from John Adams High School in 1959.

Shane Conlan

Conlan capped his junior season at Penn State in the 1985 national championship game in the Orange Bowl against the University of Oklahoma.

Stacy Levy

Ms. Levy has completed numerous rainwater pieces including a watershed rain terrace for Penn State University's new Arboretum, and rain garden for Springside School with the Philadelphia Water Department and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra

The band will release their second single 'Bangarang' which features vocals from Dawn Penn and accordion from Sharon Shannon in February 2014, and Penn joined Thompson and backing singer Fordham on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny (UK TV series) 2013 to perform the track.

William Fontaine

During the Truman and later McCarthy eras, Fontaine supported the presidential candidacy of socially liberal Republican governor Harold Stassen, who served as President of Penn from 1948 to 1953.


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