Welcome to the Central Pennsylvania Torch Club

 Sept. 10      Peter Jurs                John Muir and the Camping Trip that Changed 

                                                    America

Oct.    8       Roy Hammerstedt    Baby Steps for Microgravity Bioscience: The NASA

                                                    Funded PSU Center for Commercialization of 

                                                    Research (CCR) in the 1980's two 1990's.     

Nov.  12      Bob Carline               Is the Spring Creek Watershed Under Siege?

Dec.  10      Bill Arden                 Gershwin: Classical Meets Jazz                 

Jan.  14      Terry Engelder         How was Mt. Nittany Able to Move from Lewistown

                                                    to State College?

Feb.  11      Brian Dempsey         Wastewater Management in State College         

Mar.  11      John Dillon               AI in Journalism: The Good, the Bad, and the 'What

                                                     the Hell is That?'            

Apr.    8      Wayne Osgood         The Banjo: The Most American Instrument 

May  13      Ron Smith                 Sex in Sport and Letters: How a Harvard Coach and

                                                    Boston Debutante Played Sport and Wrote 

                                                    Letters More than a Century Ago.  

June 10      Cathi Alloway           Managing Personnel and Professional Change: 

                                                    Research vs Reality. 

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President                                Carolyn Wilhelm       clwilhelm1       @me.com         

Vice President                         Robert Igo                rli2                  @psu.edu

Corresponding Secretary         Art Goldschmidt        axg2                @psu.edu

Recording Secretary                Charles Maxin           cwmaxin          @gmail.com

Treasurer                                Peter Jurs                  pcj                  @psu.edu

Past President                         Terry Engelder          jte2                  @psu.edu 

Second Wednesday of every month (except July and August), social hour at 5:00 pm, dinner at 6 pm, Ramada Inn and Conference Center, 1450 South Atherton St. State College, PA. The program begins promptly at 6:45 pm. 

https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/ramada/state-college-pennsylvania/ramada-state-college-hotel-and-conference-center/overview. 

• To give members of different professions the opportunity to meet together in the  spirit of fellowship.
• To prevent the narrowing tendencies of specialization by developing a breadth of thought and culture.
• To foster the highest standards of  professional ethics and civic well-being, no club is permitted to sponsor any cause or partisan movement.

International Association of Torch Clubs, Inc. was instituted on July 10, 1924.  Its web page can be found at www.torch.org.