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Erie PA News and Events for Wednesday April 11, 2007
Posted by Dennis on April 11, 2007
At a special meeting of the Erie Indemnity Company (Nasdaq: ERIE) Board of Directors held yesterday, the Board accepted and approved an additional nomination to the slate of directors for election at the 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The new proposed slate of directors includes the nominees set forth in the Proxy Statement, dated March 16, 2007, with the addition of Thomas B Hagen. Hagen has been nominated by the H O Hirt Trusts. The Board has also made the determination that Mr Hagen would be considered an independent director for purposes of the NASDAQ listing standards. At the meeting, the Board also chose to expand the size of the Board of Directors from 14 to 15 members. Hagen is currently chairman/ owner of Custom Group Industries located in Erie, PA, and has served in that capacity for more than five years. He is also the general partner of the Hagen Family Limited Partnership, which is a record owner of 17.5 percent of the Company’s Class A nonvoting common stock. Mr Hagen previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company for 19 years until 1998 and as the chief executive officer of the Company from Nov 1990 through Sept 1993. The slate of nominees for election at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders includes the following individuals: Kaj Ahlmann, John T Baily, J Ralph Borneman, Jr, Patricia Garrison-Corbin, Jonathan Hirt Hagen, Susan Hirt Hagen, Thomas B Hagen, C Scott Hartz, F William Hirt, Claude C Lilly, III, Jeffrey A Ludrof, Lucian L Morrison, Thomas W Palmer, Elizabeth A Vorsheck, and Robert C Wilburn. The Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Company’s headquarters on Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
Dr Nabil A Ibrahim, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer at Purdue University, Calumet, has chosen to withdraw his name from consideration to become the next president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. As a result, the candidate meetings scheduled Wednesday, April 11 with Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Chancellor Judy Hample and PASSHE’s Board of Governors have been postponed until a full slate of three candidates is in place. The Presidential Search Committee expects to bring several potential candidates to Edinboro to meet with various University and community constituencies within the near future and hopes to announce the meeting schedule later this week.
“Phantom Limb” by The Shins is Number 1 for the second straight week on WERG’s Top 30.
Kelly MarCom, a multi-disciplined marketing firm, announced that Lindsay Beck has been promoted to the position of account coordinator. As account coordinator, her main responsibility is assisting the senior public relations counsel and integrated teams with day-to-day management of the firm’s public relations clients. Beck graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA with a BA in Communication Arts.
The Erie SeaWolves failed to make it two in a row as they fell to the Binghamton Mets 4-2 in 11 innings.
The Gannon and Mercyhurst rivalry will be in full swing on Wednesday as the Lakers host the Golden Knights in both baseball and softball.
Josh Koscheck (11-1) a unanimous decision over Diego Sanchez at UFC 69. In 2001 at Edinboro University, Koscheck posted a 42-0 record and won the NCAA Division I championship in the 174 pound weight class.
Scott Champagne has joined the Texas Wildcatters of the East Coast Hockey League. He has two months left of school at Mercyhurst College), and received permission from the Dean to join the ECHL club, and still write his exams in May. If all goes as planned with the Wildcatters of course, Champagne will still be playing hockey at graduation.
The Gannon University Concert Band, under the direction of Bruce Morton Wright, will perform its annual Spring Concert today, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 7:30 pm in Gannon University Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel, 512 Peach Street in Erie. This concert is free and everyone is welcome to attend.
The Catholic Studies Speaker Series at Mercyhurst College will present noted author Mary Gordon on Wednesday, April 11, for a presentation titled, “Catholicism Through a Literary Lens.” She will speak at 8:15 pm in the Walker Recital Hall. The program is free and open to the public.
The Gannon University Villa Maria School of Nursing will host its annual community/health fair on Thursday, April 12 at the John E Horan Community Center, 730 Tacoma Road. The fair, titled “Prevention Adventure,” will run from 4-7 pm. It is free and open to the public; attendees need not live in the Horan Garden Apartments. For more information call (814) 871-5512.
If you’ve just heard about the Young Erie Professionals (yep!) and want to learn more, please join them and bring a friend or two on April 12 to Wild Cards (next to the Erie Sport Store and Tinseltown on Peach) for a Happy Hour. Haven’t connected with fellow yep! members in a while? Happy Hours are perfect opportunities to catch up. All happy hours are cash bar only. Hors d’oevres will be served.
Author and actor Peter Coyote will kick off the 2007 Literary Festival at Mercyhurst College with an appearance on Thursday, April 12, at 7:30 pm in the college’s Taylor Little Theatre. The festival, with a theme of “The Arts and the Counter-Culture: Then and Now,” continues April 19 with a visit by novelist Francine Prose and culminates April 25 with an event celebrating student creativity.
The Builders Association of Northwestern Pennsylvania 47th annual Home Show takes place April 12-15 at Family First Sports Park, 8155 Oliver Road.
Alto saxophone sensation Dave Pietro will be joined by four Brazilian musicians to present a special evening of Latin jazz at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Thursday, April 19. Music at Night tickets can be purchased at the door on April 19, in advance at the Reed Union Building main desk, or online. Ticket prices are $10 for adults, $8.50 for adults over 60, $5 for Penn State Behrend students, and $4 for kids under 16. In addition to the Music at Night performance, Dave Pietro’s Banda Brazil will perform at noon on Wednesday, April 18, also in McGarvey Commons. This one-hour concert, part of the Music at Noon series, is free and open to the public.
The Misery Bay Region of the Sports Car Club of America will hold their Spring Fling Rally on Sunday April 15 at the Burger King at I-90 Exit 18, the Presque Isle State Park exit. Registration is at12:30 pm, first car off 1:20 pm.
The Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology (eBizITPA) will hold a “Web Site Design and Online Marketing Essentials” Webinar on Tuesday April 17 from 9-10:30 am. The cost is $35. Registration deadline is April 11.
Careers in law enforcement, firefighting, criminal justice and other public safety professions are on the rise, and the Mercyhurst College Center for Public Safety (CPS) is quickly becoming a regional force in preparing individuals to serve in this field. Learn more about all that the Center for Public Safety has to offer at an Open House on Wednesday, April 18, from 6-7:30 pm, at the Michele and Tom Ridge Health and Safety Building on the campus of Mercyhurst - North East, 16 W Division St, North East, PA.
Literary nonfiction writer Marilyn Abildskov will close the 2006-07 Creative Writer’s Speaker Series at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, with a reading on Thursday, April 19. Abildskov will read from her works beginning at 6 pm in the Smith Chapel worship space. A 4:30 pm reception for her in the Smith Chapel living room will precede the reading; both are free and open to the public.
The Penn State Behrend Lion Entertainment Board 5th annual Battle of the Bands is going to be hitting Erie Hall on April 20. This year legendary ska band Less Than Jake along with fellow Fueld By Ramen artist The A.K.A.’s will join the ranks of bands who have taken the stage for this massive event. The battle from 1:30 - 6:30 will be FREE ADMISSION. Admission to LTJ and AKA’s will be $5 for General Admission and FREE with PSU ID.
The first Misery Bay Region SCCA autocross is Sunday, April 22 at Penn State Behrend in Erie PA. Registration is at 8 am with first car on course about 10:30 am.
John Kanzius and Dr Steven Curley will be holding an informational symposium on the Kanzius cancer treatment on April 28 at 7pm at the Mercyhurst College Mary D`Angelo Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $10. For more information call Mercyhurst at (814) 824-3000.
The Tragically Hip play the Warner Theatre in Erie, Pa on May 18. Reserved seat tickets are $31.50.
Posted by Dennis at April 11, 2007 7:08 AM
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