Joe Battista
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A Gift that Keeps on Giving: A Digital Heirloom
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Years ago, my mother had all of our family movies dubbed down to VHS video tapes. I remember seeing the movies of my childhood and special events that took place […]
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Battista: We’ve Come a Long Way
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My wife and I (and our part-time author dog Barkley) trekked up to Pittsburgh recently to meet up with our youngest son Ryan (in town from Minneapolis for work) and […]
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Battista: Who to Believe?
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Halloween 2025 has come and gone but it reminded me of one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on a naïve audience. On Oct. 30, 1938, just over 87 years […]
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A Memorable Celebration of Life for a True Servant Leader
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It was the perfect fall weekend to travel into Happy Valley to get together with friends and family, including my two oldest children, as it was “Family Weekend” at Penn […]
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Battista: Make It Happen
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Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about the importance of taking time to go on family adventures, just after we spent nine days out west with our three adult […]
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Battista: Family Adventures Are Priceless
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If I could do it all over again, the advice I would give my younger self as a parent would have been to stretch our family budget, just a little […]
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Battista: God Just Doesn’t Make Them Any Better Than Our Friend Tim
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The State College community lost one of its best residents last week, someone who many of you probably didn’t even know. His name was Tim Holdcroft, and he was the […]
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Battista: Campus Memories
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Almost everyone has some fond memories of campus experiences, whether you’ve graduated from high school, trade school, college or military boot camp (well, maybe not fond memories of boot camp). […]
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Battista: Service to Others Is a Mindset, and a Gift
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We just completed our eighth year of Overspeed Hockey camps in Sun Valley, Idaho. That’s 16 weeks of service to over 700 kids predominantly from Idaho but with some coming […]
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Destinations: Dreams and Realities
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I recently became one of the newest members of the Medicare Club. My 87-year-old mother called to wish me happy birthday and said, “My baby is 65!” No way am […]