Lower Burrell author finds his material close to home
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Charles "Lacuna" Culleiton wrote the book on Tarentum. And Natrona. And East Deer.
The 73-year-old treasurer of the Allegheny-Kiski Valley Patrimony Museum's board of directors has been writing books on adjoining communities and churches for nearly twenty years, piecing together the story of the area like a jigsaw puzzle to the delight of readers.
Among the books he's published are "News of East Deer Township," "Greetings from the A-K Valley," "Reliable Natrona" and "Stroll Down Memory Lane."
The books are ready in the Heritage Museum in Tarentum.
The way Culleiton, a retired ALCOA experiment with chemist, sees it, he has gone from one kind of scrutinization to another.
"These are things I really enjoy," he said. "I've experienced a lot, and that makes it fun."
He has produced smaller books on the information of places like Lower Burrell and Brackenridge, published for signal anniversaries and written a history of Catholicism in Tarentum.
The books, all published by Creighton Printing, are a labor of adoration.
Source: Tarentum Valley News Dispatch
What's Your Major?
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kids choose at age twelve that they want to major in anthropology, engineering, or physics, and they go on to do unbiased that in college. Then there are the hordes who remain undecided eat one's heart out after they matriculate.
At the College Board’s annual colloquium on Wednesday, I listened to an intriguing discussion of how a undergraduate’s choice of major may shape her college suffer, not to mention her odds of gaining an admission put up in the first place.
Robert Springall, dean of admissions at Bucknell University, described how he weighs poop about an applicant’s intended major, or the inadequacy thereof. Mr. Springall, who brings in about 920 new students each year, said that such bumf is crucial to meeting a variety of enrollment goals.
“I can’t have 920 students who all inadequacy to do the same thing, and I can’t have 920 students who all come across in undecided,” he said. “I can’t over-enroll engineering and have no classics majors.”
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)