Boscovs accommodates Penn State students
Jeanne Sacco
Contestants sought for
Miss Pocono Pageant
Applications for the 1983 Miss
Pocono Scholarship Pageant, an
official preliminary of the Miss
America Pageant for Carbon,
Columbia, Luzerne, Monroe, and
Schuylkill Counties are now
available.
George Yanoshik, Jr'., an Ex
ecutive Editor of tie Collegian is
serving his second year as
Publicity and Public Relations
Chairman of the pageant. Ap
plications and further details con
cerning the pageant are available
through George at any time, or
during scheduled Collegian hours
on Mondays; Wednesdays, and
Fridays.
The entry deadline is June 1,
1982. The pageant itself will take
place at Gus Genetti's Best
Western Motor Lodge, Hazleton,
on September 18,1982.
The 1982 pageant, conducted
Highacres / Harry
Photo by Jerry Trently
last September, awarded its win
ner Sophomore Kelly Yale over
$lOOO in scholarship and gift
prizes. The current Miss Penn
sylvania Scholarship package is
worth over $30,000.
The Miss America Pageant and
its preliminaries emphasize
talent and scholarships unlike the
Miss Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and
Universe Pageant counterparts
which are strictly pageants
where physical beauty, not talent
or education, is emphasized.
The Miss Pocono Pageant, a
Hazleton Chamber of Commerce
approved project is co-sponsored
by the Panther Valley ChaMber
of Commerce and the Pocono
Mountains Vacation Bureau.
It is to be emphasized that there
are no entry fees for any contes
tant participating in the pageant.
By George P. Yanoshik, Jr.
Boscov's, a department store in
the Laurel Mall, and neighbor of
the Hazleton Campus since Oc
tober 1980 extends its facilities
and the services of its personnel
to accommodate Penn State
students.
Not only does the store otter
employment opportunitiei to the
college student, but organizations
and clubs on campus can also
share in what is available.
Currently from Highacres Nan
cy Braskey, sophomore; Virginia
Holzman, continuing education
student; and Stacey Webber are
members of the "Teen Fashion
Board" in the store. This is a
select panel of 15 students from
the high schools in the Greater
Hazleton area and Penn State.
Current fashion trends, personal
grooming, cosmetics, and model
ing are among the many ac
tivities these young women par
ticipate in as a part of the board.
The girls modeled in Boscov's on
December 18 - 20.
"I'm pleased that we have Penn
State students involved in our
store activities," said Penn State
On
the
job
By Lori A. Emerich
"Working for security teaches
'you how to communicate
with many different people,"
said Joe Carter,sophomore.
"The job provides freedom,
freedom meaning that many
responsibilities are in the
hands of the student patrol.
The student patrol frequently
makes their own decisions on
some situations without
always getting okayed from
the top. Jobs that encourage
responsibility and personal
decision making prepare the
student for the outside
world. The security job does
this and I'm glad I work for the
department."joe works
Monday and Thursday nights
and is majoring in accounting.
Graduate Ms. Jeanne Sacco,
Public Relations Director at
Boscov's. "I hope to get many
more students interested in all
that Boscov's has to offer in the
future."
The Highacres Chorus provided
the store with strolling minstrels
and it staged a concert earlier in
December for the Christmas
holidays.
Events in the store-in which
students can become involved in
clude: "The College of
Knowledge," Boscov's "Pre-
Federation Day" project; and a
Cancer Telethon.
Between January 18 and
February 20, the store con
ducted its "College of
Knowledge."
The "Pre-Federation Day" pro
ject which will take place on
March 13 can involve any club
or organization on campus in
terested in helping raise money
for a( service organization. This
year !Domestic Violence is the
issue ,being addressed; and, the
Women's Aid Center in Hazleton
will benefit from the project.
On March 27, a Cancer Telethon
will take place in Boscov's
Auditorium. This program will
not only help raise funds for
Cancer research, but it will serve
as stage featuring local talent.
The event, a part of a two-day
program, will be televised in
Boscov's on Saturday, then at
Gus Genetti's on the following
day.
"Any student or groups in
terested in being a part of any of
the activities we have planned
should get in touch with me in my
office or by phoning 455-9561,"
said Ms. Sacco.
Also as a courtesy to the
Hazleton Campus, Boscov's plans
to support and promote the an
nual Arts Festival during the
Spring Term by providing -a park
ing area which will relieve some
of the traffic congestion on cam
pus during the this event.
Coincidentally Store Manager
Ken Brennan and Assistant
Manager Joe Guizdowski are also
Penn State Graduates, therefore,
along with Ms. Sacco, there is a
special interest in bringing
recognition and awareness to the
store's neighbor Penn State
University, The Hazleton Cam
pus.