Jay Paterno

In the dugout before the game Lasorda decided that my brother Scott, a few months shy of his eighteenth birthday and a big kid, would be the bat boy. Scott was hesitant to be the bat boy but there was no telling Tommy Lasorda no. Kirk Gibson could not stop laughing.

Our country is a product of all the people and all the history that is and has been here. Immigrants, slaves and free men and women all brought a stone to build our “City on the Hill”. Some stones are scarred with painful memories but they are often the strongest because they are dearest to…

In school I read because I had to get a good grade. There was no passion for the works I was assigned to read. That changed somewhere in Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” as Frederic and Catherine rowed across a lake to Switzerland.

While we enjoy a three-day weekend that has become the unofficial start of summer, take a moment and think beyond what you want on your hamburger. Memorial Day may mark the mental transition to long sunny days, but it should mean more.

Visiting State College High School they see facilities designed in the mid-1950s. They see students crossing the street when classes change; they see buildings in need of major repairs. What they see brings two words to mind “antiquated and outdated”.