{"id":213338,"date":"2026-06-07T23:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213338\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T23:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:46:17","slug":"former-university-of-scranton-president-honored-with-sculpture-unveiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213338\/","title":{"rendered":"Former University of Scranton President honored with sculpture unveiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>, the University of Scranton honored and memorialized Reverend Joseph A. Panuska by unveiling a sculpture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Father Panuska was the 22nd president of the university and the longest-tenured president in school history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He served for 16 years from 1982 to 1998.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serving successfully for 16 years is quite and doing so as a college president requires an uncommon vision, a versitility, a vitality that he had uniquely and in spades. It also requires trust, and throughout that tenure, he earned that trust, and that&#8217;s why I think we all remain indebted to Father Panuska for the way that he, many ways, that he earned that wonderful nickname: &#8216;papa bear,'&#8221; said Reverend Joseph Marina, President of the University of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling of the sculpture was part of a brief program during which a university &#8220;commons&#8221; building was dedicated in Father Panuska&#8217;s honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday in Lackawanna County, the University of Scranton honored and memorialized Reverend Joseph A.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-213338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}