PAGE TWO ‘Annette D. Kowalski, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kowalski, Route 1; Noxen, recently enrolled in the Army’s Delayed Entry program. This program is designed to allow the individual to take up to one year before actually entering active duty. Additionally, this delay insures that the individual will be able to select the training and ‘even the location of assignment upon entry. Upon entering the dividual will basi¢ training skills such as drill and ceremonies, marksma- nship, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, first aid, and Army history and traditions. Completion of basic training is but the first step. = After graduation, the individual will be assigned for training in a speciality field. Kowalski has met the qualifications and elected to receive training as a policewoman. She is a senior at Lake- Lehman High School. Paul Simons, of 37 Stites St., West Wyoming, was named to the Dean’s List at Penn State-Wilkes- Barre for the winter term. Simons is a sophomore majoring in the associate degree program in Biomedical Equipment Technology. Students are eligible for the Dean’s List at Penn State-Wilkes-Barre if they and attain a grade point MICHELIN SIZE AR78-13 5150 BR78-13 603° 617° CR78-14 62°° DR78-14 637 ER78-14 67°° FR78-14 732° GR78-14 7773 HR78-14 8225 GR78-15 780° HR78-15 825° JR78-15 86°° LR78-15 977° IEEE SEINE RS SSS SNE SS YS SY TE TE EE IEEE EER EE EE NSE SESS SSCS EARN RE SPECIAL Correct Pressure. | + $y so average of 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0. Simons name was inadvertently omitted from the dean’s list released earlier by Penn State-Wilkes-Barre. George W. Bierly, an integral part of Penn State-Wilkes-Barre for 33 years, will retire as the campus’ director this fall. A search com- mittee will be selecting his suc- cessor. Bierly has held the position of director, the top administrative post on campus, for 22 years. During that period he made Penn State-Wilkes-Barre a leader and innovator in many areas of higher education, especially in associate degree programs in engineering technology. Even as he prepares to retire, Bierly is involved in setting up two new associate degree programs in engineering technology, each of which is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation. These new programs in Telecommunications and in Railway Engineering Technology will offer their first classes this fall, just weeks after Bierly retires. New and innovative programs are nothing new for Bierly. As director he was instrumental in creating such programs as those in Biomedical Equipment Technology, Surveying Technology, Mass Communications-Broadca- sting, and Highway Engineering Technology. One of Bierly’s biggest ac- complishments as director was obtaining the beautiful 50-acre John N. Conyngham estate in Lehman Township as a gift. That multi- million dollar gift enabled = the campus to move from its crowded quarters in the old Guthrie Building in Wilkes-Barre to its present site with attractive grounds and ample room for expansion; That expansion began almost immediately after the Conyngham estate became the Wilkes-Barre Campus of The Pennsylvania State - 7 Pad everywhere University, thanks to a community- wide fund drive spearheaded by the campus’ Advisory Board and Bierly. In ‘addition to the two buildings that were once part of the estate, the stately Hayfield House and the Commons, the campus now includes a well-equipped Laboratory Building and a Classroom Building. Bierly, a native of Berwick and an Army Air Force veteran of World War II who. served in Italy, is a graduate of the former Bucknell Junior College and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has done graduate work at Penn State and at M.L.T. He first joined Penn State-Wilkes- Barre in 1947 as a part-time in- structor and became an assistant professor of engineering in 1952. He taught courses in industrial processes, ‘engineering calculations, engineering economics, and other subjects. In 1958 he was appointed campus director, a position he has held ever since. Bierly’s contributions to the community have extended far beyond the campus. He led the campus’ Agnes Hurricane disaster relief efforts. He is a past chairman of the Regional Education Planning Council for the i4 institutions of higher learning in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club, Penn- sylvania Society of Professional Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, and other civic, educaitonal, and professional organizations. In 1976 he received the Out- Luzerne County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, and in 1972 and chief Mary Kevin functional and William sibility. systems and Serg Kills Fl International Presidents Award for distinguished leadership of the Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club. Also in Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis for servig, rendered as an officer of th organizations. Bierly is well-know throughout Greater Wilkes-Barre as a promoter of Penn-State-Wilkes- Barre and its | educational programs. He has given numerous: speeches to area organizations on the values of a Penn State educaiton and has often appeared on local television and radio programs and been interviewed by local newspapers. He said that one of the facts he is proudest of is that graduates of the two-year associate degree programs he helped create and guided at Penn State-Wilkes-Barre often obtain careers with higher starting salaries than graduates of four-year bachelor degree programs. As director, however, he helped to bring bachelor degree programs to Penn State-Wilkes-Barre, and now students at the campus have their- choice of more than a dozen associate degree programs ‘and more than 120 bachelor degree offerings. Bachelor degree years at Penn State-Wilkes-Barre and their second two-years at another campus, usually Penn State-University Park. Bierly said he has no particular plans regarding what he will do in retirement. The process for selecting a successor as campus director will include setting up a search committee, and the name of the replacement is not expected to be ‘known for at months. Judy Menapace processing departments and is systems project manager. She began her banking career with Miss and joined Wyoming National's staff in 1977. She is a graduate of Dallas High School and is presently enrolled in and A.LB. courses at Luzerne County Community College; she received her A.L.B. basic certificate in 1978 and represents Wyoming National as data (Continued on P. 24) That Works Fast Service 675-5121
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