Still Life

With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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Danzer Group pledges $75,000 to new School of Forest Resources Building

Monday, December 19, 2005

University Park, Pa. -- Pennsylvania-based companies within Danzer Group, an international leader in the manufacture and marketing of hardwood veneer, lumber and related products, have pledged $75,000 to fund a new wood products marketing laboratory in Penn State's School of Forest Resources Building.

The lab will focus on Pennsylvania hardwood industries, market development of woodfiber-plastic composites and value analysis of key building materials. It will be named the Danzer Group Wood Products Marketing Laboratory in honor of the donor's generosity.

Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, Danzer Group has a 70-year history based on sustained management of hardwood resources, quality manufacture of hardwood veneer and lumber, and marketing programs to meet the worldwide demand for wood products. The Pennsylvania companies within Danzer Group contributing to this gift are Bradford Forest in Bradford and Tioga counties, Interforest Lumber Corp. in Shade Gap, Interforest Veneer in Darlington and The David R. Webb Co. in Williamsport.

"Danzer's gift to the new building will further the education of well-qualified wood product graduates for our industry and expanded research to ensure the competitive stance of Pennsylvania's wood industry in world markets," said Mark Conolly, president of Bradford Forest.

Danzer Group has been a long-term supporter of the School of Forest Resources' research programs in wood products and forestry, and in particular has been a sponsor of student educational exchange programs with the University of Freiburg in Germany.

The new four-story Forest Resources Building, under construction on the University Park campus, will house all three professional programs -- forest science, wildlife and fisheries science, and wood products -- under one roof for the first time in the school's century-long history. It is scheduled for occupancy in February 2006. The $30.5 million building is being financed by a combination of state, University, and philanthropic funds.