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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Emerging poet to open Rolling Reading Series

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Poet Catie Rosemurgy will open the 2010-11 Mary E. Rolling Reading Series with a reading of her poetry at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 8, in the Foster Auditorium of the Paterno Library on Penn State's University Park campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Rosemurgy’s poetry collection, "My Favorite Apocalypse," was published by Graywolf Press in 2001. She received a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Female Writers, and most recently her work has appeared in the anthologies "Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Young American Poets" and "Poetry 30," a collection of work by American poets in their thirties. She teaches courses in creative writing and poetry at The College of New Jersey.

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series is a project of Penn State's master of fine arts program in English. It receives generous support from the The Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing, the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, the University Libraries, the Department of English, and the College of the Liberal Arts. For more information about this reading or about the Rolling Series, contact Sheila Squillante, associate director of the master of fine arts program, at sks172@psu.edu.