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penn state altoona
founded in 1939 penn state altoona began its life as the altoona undergraduate center owing its genesis to an inspired group of local citizens who built financed and nurtured the college through the economic woes of the great depression an enrollment collapse engendered by world war ii and the rise and fall of the regions railroad fortunes . after relocating to the site of an abandoned amusement park in the late 1940s penn state altoona enjoyed a rapid postwar growth spurt that culminated in 1997 with its newly minted charter as a four year college in the penn state university system . using lively period photographs from the schools archives penn state altoona chronicles the schools transformation into a flourishing teaching and research institution of national acclaim .
paperback arcadia pub 2009 isbn13 9780738565996 isbn10 0738565997
book type nf isbn 13 9780738565996 number of pages 127 publisher arcadia publishing sc release date 62135769600000