The Penn Stater Magazine

The Lehigh Valley Lion is Home

August 13, 2009

Nichola Gutgold ’99g, a faculty member at Penn State Lehigh Valley, sent along these photos from the moving of their lion shrine this morning. The whole Lehigh Valley campus is moving from Fogelsville to the town of Center Valley, and that meant moving the two-ton shrine and its six-ton base.

Here’s a shot of the shrine being hoisted up onto a truck for the 16-mile drive:

Here’s the crowd waiting for it in the rain at the new Center Valley location:

And here’s the Nittany Lion mascot, who drove the truck, posing with the newly relocated shrine.

The shrine is a replica of the University Park lion shrine sculpted by Heinz Warneke.

Tina Hay, editor

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