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‘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
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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
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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
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