Congratulations! to Thiel College in Greenville, PA, for winning the ASSP 2024 Spring Student Membership Drive! The section will receive $200 to fund an upcoming meeting and provide an incentive for current members, a selection of ASSP T-shirts and complimentary dues renewal for one year for faculty advisor Anna Reinsel, Ph.D. One lucky student will receive an ASSP Port Authority City backpack, and one lucky faculty advisor will also receive a complimentary year of full membership.
(From ASSP “Your Student Services Update: April 2024”, 04/17/2024)

Congratulations! to the newly elected Chapter Executive Officers for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 Chapter Years:

President: Chris Sarracino, CSP

Vice President: Alec Kinslow, CSP

Treasurer: Robert “Mac” McAninch MS, CSP

Secretary: Trudy Hayes, SMS

Advisory Group Members:

– Daniel Wible, MS, CSP

– Fran Sehn, CSP, ARM

– Jocelyn Milby MS, CSP

– Josh Muth, MS

Current President, Wayne Vanderhoof, CSP, CIT will move to the office of Past President.

The new Chapter Officers will take office July 1, 2024, with the start of the new Chapter Year. The elected officers’ term is for two Chapter years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026.

Thank you to Melissa Heike for being the Chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee!

On behalf of the ASSP Western PA Executive Committee, Congratulations! to the students listed below for being selected and awarded a 2024 ASSP WPA Chapter Scholarship:

Chloe Croft (IUP)
Ashley Collura (SRU)
Casandra Schroeck (IUP)
Emily Szczesny (SRU)
Brooke Endress (IUP)

The Chapter is proud of each of our awardees and is pleased to assist each of them in their educational efforts at our Student Chapter schools.

On April 2, ASSP sent out an email with the link to vote for the Chapter Executive Committee.

As a member of the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of ASSP, you are encouraged to vote for your elected leadership. Voting will be open April 2 – 15, 2024.

Please take a minute to exercise your right to vote by filling out the ballot using the link in the email. The link is individual and can only be used once by to vote.

Wednesday April 10, 2024
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Pittsburgh International Airport

You are invited to participate in the PIT Airport’s Large-Scale Exercise on April 10, 2024.  You are invited to attend and participate in the upcoming drill. You are needed to volunteer to serve as a victim in a simulated aircraft incident. Please feel free to pass this invitation on to others who may be interested. 

The invitation lists a simple online registration form. A link to the registration form is:  

PIT 2024 Full-Scale Emergency Exercise (office.com) 

You are asked to pre-register so that they can send out surveys and other communications related to this drill exercise. This will also help them get the right amount of food for afterward! There will be a check-in station for everyone at our Snow Removal Equipment Building.

 The organizers need as many volunteers as possible to serve as passengers on the simulated aircraft incident. They are only accepting individuals age 18+ for these roles. The flyers below contain the links to the registration form, and a map with directions on where to report, for the convenience of all.

More information at these two links:

General Invite Information

Triennial Drill Flyer