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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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Gifts from Pasto Ag Museum namesake top $750,000

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

University Park, Pa. -- A recent gift of $177,000 to Penn State's Pasto Agricultural Museum from museum namesake Jerome "Jerry" Pasto of State College has brought his philanthropy to the museum to approximately $740,000, and his total giving to the University to nearly $750,000. Pasto designated his newest gift to the museum's endowment, which provides program support for operations.

The museum's enhancement campaign, begun in May 2006, has a fundraising goal of $500,000. The improvements will include doubling the square footage of the present facility, and ensuring better climate control for the preservation of the museum's collections.

Pasto, associate dean emeritus and professor emeritus of agricultural economics in the College of Agricultural Sciences, was volunteer curator of the Pasto Agricultural Museum from 1978 to 1998. The museum grew from an extensive personal collection of farm and home artifacts that he began in the 1970s, and now houses approximately 2,000 rare and unusual farm and household items dating back to the 1840s. In 1980, the Agricultural Alumni Society and Penn State named the museum after Pasto. Since 1998, Darwin Braund has served as the volunteer curator.

Pasto has been giving to the University for more than 25 years. His gifts have been made to several museum initiatives, such as building construction and expansion, collections and endowment. His additional philanthropy to the University is widespread and includes gifts to agriculture, athletics, and public radio and television. Penn State named Pasto an Honorary Alumnus in 1993.

Founded by the board of directors of the College of Agricultural Sciences Alumni Society, the Pasto Agricultural Museum opened in 1978 at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, nine miles southwest of State College on Route 45. The founding board members are listed on a bronze plaque inside the museum, which can be visited this week (Aug. 14-16) during Penn State's annual Ag Progress Days. An estimated 10,000 people visit the museum each year, including elementary, high school and college students, classroom teachers, professors, senior citizens, farmers and urban dwellers.

Visit http://pasto.cas.psu.edu to learn more about the Pasto Agricultural Museum.