Students at Penn State Lehigh Valley will work together on Tuesday, Nov. 23, to create 41 Thanksgiving dinners for needy families in the community. The dinners, complete with turkey, stuffing, vegetables, cranberry sauce, gravy, rolls, pumpkin pie and juice, will be delivered to the Sixth Street Shelter in Allentown. Members of the Student Government Association are providing the filling; the faculty and staff at the Lehigh Valley campus are supplying the turkeys and pumpkin pies; and several special-interest clubs on campus will be donating the trimmings.

Penn State Lehigh Valley, in partnership with the Holmes Corp. and the Society for Human Resource Management, is offering the instructor-led version of the society's Learning System program. Classes will be held from 6:15 to 9:15 p.m. Mondays, Feb. 7 through April 18 at the Lehigh Valley campus. This course is designed to provide an overview of key areas in human resource management and covers strategic management; work force planning and employment; human resource development; compensation and benefits; employee and labor relations; and occupational health, safety and security.

Adrienne Dorward, a Penn State Lehigh Valley student majoring in life science, is the recipient of the Commission for the Prevention of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (CPATODA) student mini-grant award. The commission's mission is to further an environment in support of the elimination of alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse and support those who choose not to use. The organization serves as an advisory group to the vice president for Student Affairs on any matter that affects the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in the University community.

Author, corporate executive and meditation teacher Michael Carroll will offer practical advice for engaging careers with ambition and enthusiasm without becoming workaholics in a lecture at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium at Penn State Berks. Carroll has more than 22 years of business experience holding human resource executive positions with such firms as Bankers Trust Co., Paine Webber, Simon & Schuster Publishing and the Walt Disney Co.

Penn State Berks will present Len Roberts as part of the 2004 Literary Arts Series at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10, in the Luerssen Building. Roberts is the author of several books of poetry. He is a professor of English at Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pa. The event, funded by a grant from the Berks Arts Council, is free to the public. For information on the series, call Jayne Brown at (610) 396-6041 or e-mail jrb30@psu.edu. The Literary Arts Series at Penn State Berks will continue at 7:30 p.m. Feb.

Penn State Berks campus will officially name and dedicate its newest road in honor of longtime campus friend and donor, Thomas P. Handwerk, at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10. Handwerk Road was created this summer as the result of a construction project which created a new main campus entrance off Broadcasting Road to a new parking area between the Janssen Conference Center and the Franco Building. Handwerk will be in attendance at the ceremony, which will begin at approximately 1:10 p.m. outside the Franco Building.

Penn State Lehigh Valley in Fogelsville has announced the schedule for its fall 2004 brown bag seminar series. A number of seminars are slated for faculty to share their current research and academic work with the public and campus community. Seminar topics include "Missionaries and Diplomats: An Uneasy Relationship," "She Threw Her Hat in the Ring: Women Presidential Candidates in the United States," "Radio Psychology in the Inter-War Period 1925-1939," "Classrooms without Walls: Experiential Learning in Costa Rica" and other topics. For more information, call the campus at (610) 285-5000.