2009 Lantern Tours 1
A Lion Ambassador portraying former Penn State President Milton Eisenhower hands out cookies outside McAllister Building as part of the Lion Ambassadors' Lantern Tours of campus.
2009 Lantern Tours 2
Outside of Old Main, a group of Lion Ambassadors played the role of freshmen during the early 1900s, getting hazed by upperclassmen, as part of the annual Lantern Tours of the University Park campus put on by the group.
2009 Lantern Tours 3
Lion Ambassador Emily Hebner, dressed as the ghost of Frances Atherton and haunted her husband's grave outside of Schwab Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus. Several students dressed up to represent parts of Penn State's past during the Lion Ambassadors' annual Lantern Tours of campus.
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Lion Ambassador Mike Lampariello played the role of Charles Schwab, founder of Bethlehem Steel and the namesake of Schwab Auditorium.
2009 Lantern Tours 5
Lion Ambassador Kristen Gunnison, as Sue Paterno, tells Lantern Tour attendees of the time she helped paint the Nittany Lion Shrine orange (with water-soluble paint) to stoke school spirit.
2009 Lantern Tours 6
Outside the Hintz Family Alumni Center, Joe Millet (in vest) and Kyle Brzezynski (grey sweater) portrayed famous Penn State alumni Herman Fisher, who founded Fisher-Price Toys, and Tom Clarke, former president and COO of Nike.
2009 Lantern Tours 7
A Lion Ambassador played a student from the 1960s, talking about the time students celebrated a win over Ohio State by dumping a Volkswagen into the pond outside the president's house.
2009 Lantern Tours 8
Penn State trustee and former Alumni Association president Anne Riley explained the Henry Varnum Poor frescoes in Old Main to Lantern Tour attendees.
2009 Lantern Tours 9
Attendees heard about the Land Grant Frescoes inside Old Main from the artist himself -- Henry Varnum Poor, as portrayed by Lion Ambassador Alexander Middleton.
2009 Lantern Tours 10
Three Lion Ambassadors reenacted the stresses of dating at Penn State in the 1950s, when chaperones and curfews were the norm.
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Lion Ambassador D.J. Lingelbach, playing the role of Joe Paterno, talked of a time when Old Beaver Field was near where Whitmore Laboratory now stands.
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Lion Ambassador Victoria Brandolini portrayed Heinz Warneke, the German-born sculptor of the Nittany Lion Shrine, during the Lion Ambassadors Lantern Tours.
