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lAA sponsors free sampler in dorms
Lawrence Bates
Capital Times Staff
An international experience invaded the
Penn State Harrisburg dormitories on the
evening of April 7.
The Food Sampler, sponsored by the
International Affairs Association (lAA)
and the Resident Life Program (RLP),
bombarded Wrisberg Hail’s first floor
lounge with an orgy of various tantalizing
Mediterranean foods as the lounge was
filled with curious and anxious onlookers.
The sampler, a part of the Spring
International Festival (April 6 to April
10), featured foods common to the
countries along the Mediterranean Region.
An assortment of different aromas lured
Faculty Womens Club continues aid for students
Maryann Harpin
Special to the Capital Times
The Faculty Women's Club celebrated
its 20th anniversary of helping financially
strapped students on campus last year, and
will be awarding yet another $5OO
scholarship later this month.
Initially, the club was formed to
provide social fellowship for female
faculty members and wives of faculty.
Later, membership expanded to include all
female staff personnel. Its focus changed
from social to service when the members
founded the scholarship and loan fund,
which provides monies to students in
need.
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unsuspecting students away from their
daily activities, such as studying and
Watching television, in the lounge. Some
students were lured by signs advertising
free food.
Foods such as fettucini from Italy,
honey spiced chicken with orange sauce
from France, and North African beef and
rice, led the attack on students'
unsuspecting appetites. Other foods, such
as stuffed grape leaves from Lebanon,
orange and olive salad and Serbian flat nut
roll from Yugoslavia, also were on the
menu.
Ed Shedlock, SDCET junior, said he
liked the Peta bread most, but did try the
grape leaves with a Lebanese hommos
spread. Shedlock said the leaves were
"We used to pay a student's entire
tuition but as the tuition increased, we
began to offer $5OO scholarships and loans
up to $1,000," said Joanne M. Smith,
retired faculty member of the Humanities
department, former director of the Writing
Lab, and current chairperson of the
Scholarship and Loan Fund. "We provide
short term loans, which are paid back
within the semester, and long term loans,
which the student pays back after
graduation."
The memorial scholarships are awarded
in memory of a recently deceased faculty
member or spouse, "■when a student has a
need and when we have the money," said
Smith. "These monies are grants and are
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better with the spread, then by themselves.
Kirk Smith, a public accounting
junior, tried the fettucini made by Mike
Hermick, president of the Student
Government Association.
"It's good," he said, "but no better than
grandma's."
Chelle Baker, lAA treasurer and math
science senior, said "The club has
sponsored this program for five years.
Each year a different touch of culture is
brought to the students, at no cost to the
students living in the dormitories."
After choosing their samples, the
residents socialized in the lounge or
outside the lounge, while others chose to
return to their rooms after filling their
plates with food.
not repaid."
The recipient of a memorial
scholarship typically has a "B or better
average, a financial need and displays good
character, providing letters of
recommendation and examples of work
experience and/or service to the
community," said Smith.
The Faculty Women's Club, whose
current membership numbers
approximately 26, has awarded two
scholarships this year and has contributed
$250 to the Dr. Micha Dordevic
scholarship fund, which is sponsored by
the Humanities department. Dr. Dordevic
was a senior member of the Humanities
department through the 1970's and into the
mid-1980's.
The next scholarship, the Rudy Jones
Memorial Scholarship, will be awarded on
April 26th. Rudy Jones was an
Engineering Technology professor who
specialized in computer sciences in the
early '7os.
In October of 1991, the wife of the
former provost and dean Dr. Theodore
Gross, Selma Gross, was memorialized
with a scholarship in her honor. In all,
the Faculty Women's Club has given
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Bill Stoner, lAA member and a
graduate student in psychology, said the
sampler was "one of the most successful
programs with the campus residents."
Most students in the dorms felt the
same way.
"The program is a good idea because it
is both a social and educational program,"
said Barb Turk, a resident assistant and
communications senior. "It provides more
diversity to the campus and gets everyone
together to sample foods from other
cultures. It also gets more people
involved, thus making it an excellent
program for the dormitories."
By about 10 p.m. most of the food was
gone, the aroma slowly subsided and life
returned to normal in the dorms.
$1,250 this school year to students in
financial need.
Members of the Faculty Women's
Club earn money by catering receptions
on campus and by holding bake sales. At
a bake sale held on April 13th, the club
raised over $4OO to add to its fund. They
will be working at the library book sale
this week, April 21-23, contributing those
earnings as well.
Over the last 20 years, the Club has
awarded 21 scholarships, totalling
approximately $ll,OOO and provided over
$24,000 in loan funds to over 100
students. As of February 10, the loan
fund had an approximate available balance
of $3,000 which could be tapped by
students.
Valerie Duhig, administrative assistant
to the provost, is the Faculty Women's
Club co-president along with Sylvia
Shoup, wife of Dr. Jerry F. Shoup,
CMPET, EET Program Chairperson.
Duhig believes that the objective of the
club is "to do good while enjoying each
other's company, a felicitous combination.
The members care about this college
community and work hard to provide loans
and scholarships for students in financial
need."