Wes Schlauch (center) shared a smile with his parents, Richard and Meg Schlauch, after the 2018 Penn State Lehigh Valley Commencement ceremony held May 5 at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.
Penn State is a multicampus university with 20 undergraduate campus locations throughout Pennsylvania. All Penn State campuses offer four-year and two-year degree programs.
Penn State Lehigh Valley held its annual commencement ceremony on May 5 at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. The campus awarded associate and bachelor’s degrees to 115 students. The featured speaker for the event was Kassie Hilgert, CEO and president of ArtsQuest and a 1997 Penn State alumna.
Kassie Hilgert served as the featured speaker for 2018 commencement ceremony. Hilgert is CEO and president of ArtsQuest and a Penn State alumna. She posed with the Nittany Lion before the ceremony on May 5 at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.
Richard “Wes” Schlauch graduated with a degree in corporate communication on May 5 with 114 of his classmates from Penn State Lehigh Valley at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. Schlauch processed in with fellow graduates, walked up the stage to get his diploma and walked out of the Musikfest Café with his classmates during the recessional. These achievements on their own are noteworthy, but they are even more impressive because Schlauch suffered a stroke in 2010 when he was 16 years old, six days after he had an accident playing hockey while attending The Hill School in Pottstown.
