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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Friday, September 14, 2007

Rock Springs, Pa. -- Penn State's Pasto Agricultural Museum will benefit from a $40,000 gift by the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau to the museum's enhancement fund. The statewide farm organization's pledge will support the expansion of the museum building at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, nine miles southwest of State College on Route 45.

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.

The Camp Hill-based Pennsylvania Farm Bureau provides legislative support, services, and information to the state's farmers and rural families and has a long history of collaboration with Penn State and the College of Agricultural Sciences. The Bureau created the E. Chester Heim Scholarship Program Endowment at Penn State in 1993 and has also contributed to 4-H and other programs in the college.

"The Pasto Agricultural Museum supports the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau's goals, helping current and future generations gain a greater appreciation of the rich history of farming and rural life in the Commonwealth and the nation," said Carl T. Shaffer, president of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and member of Penn State's Board of Trustees.

Elected president of the bureau in 2004 after serving as vice president since 1996, Shaffer leads the organization that represents 42,660 farm and rural families organized through 54 county farm bureaus. Shaffer also has a long history of support to the college, and created the Carl T. Shaffer Travel Fund for Students in the Crop Sciences in 1999.

"We are grateful for Carl Shaffer's strong leadership of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and for its support of our college," said Robert Steele, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences.