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Dr. Burrowes memorial : pamphlets on Thomas Burrowes

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14527
Call Number
923.7 B972
Physical Description
16 p.
Notes
Report of the Dr. Burrowes Memorial Committee, Bloomsburg, Pa. - July 14, 1896; Dr. Burrowes and the State College; In grateful memory of Thomas Henry Burrowes; Report of the Dr. Burrowes Memorial Committee, New Castle, Pa. - July 1, 1897.
Subjects
Burrowes, Thomas H. - 1805 - 1871.
Pennsylvania State College.
Educators - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.7 B972
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History of the Pennsylvania State College

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19512
Author
Dunaway, Wayland Fuller,
Date of Publication
1946.
Call Number
378.748 P415d
Responsibility
by Wayland Fuller Dunaway ...
Author
Dunaway, Wayland Fuller,
Place of Publication
[State College, Pa
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State College],
Date of Publication
1946.
Physical Description
xiv p., 1, 540 p.: plates (1 fold.) ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Bibliographical note": p. 494-496.
Subjects
Pennsylvania State College - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
378.748 P415d
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Murder in the stacks : Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the killer who got away

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20432
Author
DeKok, David.
Date of Publication
[2014]
Call Number
364.152 D328
Responsibility
David DeKok.
ISBN
9780762780877
0762780878
Author
DeKok, David.
Place of Publication
Guilford, Connecticut
Publisher
GPP,
Date of Publication
[2014]
Physical Description
vii, 437 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-426) and index.
Contents
The murder. The library in Happy Valley ; Somebody had better help that girl ; The long night ; Trying for a do-over ; Miss Marple arrives at the library ; Bringing her home -- Searching for the killer. The running man in the core ; Hypnosis ; Frustration on the road ; Dragnet ; Trouble in Old Main ; Here sits death ; Sleep mode -- The good girl and the world outside. Betsy who dreamed ; Way station to the world ; A desirable young woman ; In the shadow of a killer ; Making the best of things ; Dangerous attraction ; Murder ; The night visitor -- Flight from justice. Bad seed ; Death Valley ; Left behind ; Hiding in plain sight ; Downfall ; Kill me the way you killed her ; Miscarriage of justice ; The Philadelphia lawyer ; Penn State drops the ball -- Monster. Revenge ; Paranoid and agitated ; Suing his own lawyer ; Thinking about Ted Bundy ; A life destroyed ; Neighborhood menace ; Hole in the desert ; The road to Rick Haefner.
Summary
"The book weaves together the events, culture, and attitudes of the late 1960s, memorializing the stabbing death of Betsy Aardsma in the stacks of Pattee Library at Penn State University's main campus in State College and her time and place in history"--
Subjects
Aardsma, Betsy Ruth, - 1947-1969.
Haefner, Richard Charles, - 1943-2002 - Lancaster, Pa.
Pennsylvania State University. - Libraries.
Murder - Pennsylvania - State College
Murder - Pennsylvania - State College.
Campus violence - Pennsylvania - State College.
Campus violence.
Murder
Pennsylvania - State College.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
364.152 D328
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Some Pennsylvania pioneers in agricultural science

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4681
Author
Mairs, Thomas I.
Date of Publication
[c1928]
Call Number
926.3 M229
Author
Mairs, Thomas I.
Place of Publication
State College, Pa
Date of Publication
[c1928]
Physical Description
185 p. front., ports. 19 cm.
Series
The Pennsylvania state college studies in agriculture, no.l
Notes
Pennsylvania state college. College series, no. 2.
"Sketches...concerning some of the men who laid the foundation of the School of agriculture and the Agricultural experiment station of the Pennsylvania state college." --Pref.
Click on Table of Contents for more information.
Contents
Henry Prentiss Armsby--William Armstrong Buckhout--George C. Butz--William Frear--John Hamilton--Whitman Howard Jordan--William Calvin Patterson--William Griffith Waring--Frederick Watts--Hugh Nelson McAllister--Moses Thompson.
Subjects
Pennsylvania State College. - School of Agriculture
Pennsylvania. - Agricultural experiment station, State College.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
926.3 M229
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