PSU Visit and More

Hi everybody.

Just back from an east coast visit to check on Lisa's parents. While there we headed up to Penn State for a day. Checked out changes on campus (many) and I met with the new head of the program, John Kreminski.

Unbelieveable number of changes to the campus since we have been there. Parking lot behind the Ag Sci building where we took class picture is all filled in with new buildings, including one holding the new Creamery. They filled in both ends of the stadium, built a new basketball arena next door, a new law school out by the turf center, bunch of new dorms, a building that spans the highway over by the golf course, and much, much more.

Spent about an hour with John. Told him what I/we had going on with this project. He got me an up-to-date listing of our class locations (will post somehow, or send out via Google Group when I get a chance). He is a busy guy, but said he had just got back from the national show. At Penn State breakfast the talk was about how to do something like this. He is also trying to assemble a Google Map of the location of all PSU alumni (to use at the short course website). He said this work was very timely.

I added a link to the Google Earth software download and a download file of our project to view in Google Earth at the "Project Info" page at our site. Will try and set up more info and instructions, eventually a "tips" list.

Have heard from about 25% 0f the class so far, most have signed up on Google's gmail (come on Doug and Jake). Will see if I can "cut and paste" info/updates people sent me to this blog or Google Group.

More later

Ron Hall