Holiday party!

Our featured guest will be Rashad Elby, Penn State’s Assistant Director of Player Relations and Personnel. Rashad works with the Penn State student athletes to help navigate the very complex world of NIL (Name, Image, Likeness).  

We will also have some fundraising auction items to bid on.  PRINTABLE FLYER, BELOW

Location:  Heritage Hills Golf Resort
Windows Ballroom 2700 Mt. Rose Ave. York PA 17402

Wednesday, December 13th 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.   (RSVP by 12/6/23)

$35 per person  This event will include buffet dinner. Cash bar.  
PayPal or send a check, payable to PSAA-York County Chapter 

HOLIDAY BUFFET MENU
Soup de Jour, Caesar Salad, Grilled Chicken Breasts  
Baked Potato Bar with Bacon, Shredded Cheese, Sour Cream, Salsa and Broccoli
Warm Rolls and Butter, Freshly Baked Cookies, Brownies and Dessert Bars
Freshly Brewed Coffee, Assortment of Hot Teas and Iced Teas 

an excerpt from Chuck's wife, Vicki

Charles (Chuck) Miller was a graduate of Spring Grove Area schools.  Following graduation he entered PSU and studied mechanical engineering, graduating in 1963.  He spent 30 years working in the dental field, designing and improving the processes for artificial teeth and the equipment used in dental procedures.  His most significant accomplishment was the design of a high speed machine to produce reamers to be used in root canal work.  Along with his company, he was awarded a patent on this machine.

Being a lifelong lover of wildlife, especially those indigenous to Pennsylvania, he formed a company with Bob Sopchick, a very well known and respected artist to create and market prints depicting the wildlife of the state.  Because of his attachment to PSU he encouraged the artist to create a painting of the Mountain Lion which was the inspiration for Penn State's mascot.  The finished painting was taken to a PSU marketing event with the hope of receiving a license to market it as representing PSU history.  His request was turned down as he was told that the University only marketed likenesses of the PSU lion and not realistic lions.  So none of these prints were ever marketed under the PSU name.  Calling this print, Pride of the Valley, was as close as he ever got to identifying it with Penn State.  When asked, he told people that this was a Mountain Lion that roamed the area around State College and it artistically showed Mt. Nittany in the background.

Chuck died in January 2021 and I have been donating the remaining prints to organizations I thought would be able to use them for fund raising events or just as door prizes.  I didn't stipulate their use, allowing each organization to decide how they would best use the print.  Most of these donations went to wildlife organizations who would appreciate the subject as a historical record of the PA mountain lion.

I am hoping that whoever receives these prints find them a beautiful rendition of the history of the mountain lion and it's relation to the mascot of PSU.

Vicki Miller