Hello Everyone!
Please let me introduce myself: My name is Cathy Wanner and I am a professor of Eastern European history and now I am also the new director of the Paterno Fellows Program. I am really looking forward to meeting and working with you all! This is a great program that is about to get better! There are many exciting guests who are coming to Penn State to meet with Paterno Fellows this semester.
Our first special event is a film showing of Lincoln on Sunday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m. in the State Theatre on College Avenue. The film will be introduced by Penn State history professor and Pulitzer-prize winning author Mark Neely, and Northwestern Professor David Zarefsky. After the film, we will have a brief Q&A session with our experts. The film touches on many issues, ethical and rhetorical, that will be addressed in the first-year sequence ENGL/CAS 137H/138T. The event is free with student ID and open to all PFP students. I hope to see you there!
Check our website <laus.la.psu.edu/paternofellows/events> for a preview list of the fall semester events and special courses that are sponsored or co-sponsored by the Paterno Fellows Program. I think you’ll find them informative and enjoyable.
Please feel free to drop by 217 Weaver when you can to tell me about your summer adventures–studying abroad, taking on an internship, getting your research going, or doing a summer job. I will be in my office every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to meet with PFP students. I will also host a series of informal “conversations” with PFP students each month. I hope to meet each of you before too long!