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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Euphonium performance major wins national music competition

Thursday, April 30, 2009

University Park, Pa. -- Gretchen Renshaw, a junior music major in euphonium performance at Penn State, was the national first-place winner of the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Brass Competition in Atlanta, Ga. in March, after previously winning at the state and regional levels. She is the daughter of Ron and Coleen Renshaw of Middleburg. For the competition, she performed a 45-minute recital that included original music or transcriptions from the Baroque, Romantic and Contemporary time periods. Renshaw is a student of Velvet Brown, professor of music, who successfully coached three other students to this national award.

While at Penn State, Renshaw has received numerous honors, including winning the 2009 Penn State Symphonic Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition and receiving a 2009 Penn State Summer Discovery Grant for the project, The Simone Mantia Collection: Archiving Euphonium History. She plans to pursue master's and doctoral degrees in music and teach on a collegiate level in tuba and euphonium.

For more information on the competition, visit http://www.mtna.org/.
 

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