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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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Study details role of electronic connector manufacturing in Adams, Dauphin and York counties

University Park, Pa. -- For every 100 jobs in the electronic connector manufacturing industry, an important part of the economy of Adams, Dauphin and York counties, other industries in those counties employ an additional 49 workers due to the need to supply the electronic connector manufacturing industry, according to a workforce assessment brief produced by the Workforce Assessment Center in Penn State's Office for Economic and Workforce Development, a unit of Penn State Outreach. The brief can be viewed at http://train.ed.psu.edu/brief/EconDevBrief_confman.pdf online.

Tyco Electronics in York County recently announced plans to layoff 600 employees in its East Berlin plant by June 2008. The company said that about 40 percent of those employees will be offered jobs throughout central Pennsylvania and the company's Rock Hill, S.C., facility, while the remaining 60 percent will be laid off.

The report's authors, David Passmore, professor of education at Penn State, and Rose Baker, program manager of the Workforce Assessment Center, contend that job losses in one major industry in an area have a ripple effect throughout the local economy. "The industry creates additional jobs and compensation for workers throughout Adams, Dauphin and York counties and influences tax revenues in those counties," they said in the report.

The Workforce Assessment Center produces similar briefs about other industries. Go to http://train.educ.psu.edu/brief/ for more information and to view other briefs.

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The Workforce Assessment Center in the Office of Economic and Workforce Development a Penn State Outreach unit, supports the development of the workforce in Pennsylvania through the utilization of Penn State resources to conduct various types of workforce assessments for employees, industry partnerships, not-for-profit organizations and government entities. The Penn State Outreach organization is the largest unified outreach organization in American higher education. Penn State Outreach serves more than 5 million people each year, delivering more than 2,000 programs to people in all 67 Pennsylvania counties, all 50 states and 80 countries worldwide.

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