Exhibit documents 150 years of Penn State history

"A Tradition of Educational Excellence: 150 Years of Penn State Teaching, Research and Service," an exhibit of items from Rare Books and Manuscripts, Historical Collections and Labor Archives, as well as the University Archives, is on display through June 6 in Exhibits Hall, Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, University Park. Books, archival and manuscript collections, photographs, relics and audiovisual materials document 150 years of Penn State history. The exhibit includes a biographical look at Fred Lewis Pattee, the first professor of American literature in the United States; an evaluation of Penn State's role in labor education; an examination of pioneering researchers, including among others Evan Pugh, Erwin Mueller, C. Ray Carpenter, John Almquist and Russell Marker; a study of the changes in undergraduate and graduate education, instruction and learning since the founding of Penn State; and an acknowledgment of Penn State's strong tradition of service to the commonwealth from its roots in cooperative extension to the current challenges of distance education and the World Campus. For information about this exhibition, call Jackie R. Esposito or Lee Stout at (814) 865-7931.