{"id":269662,"date":"2026-08-21T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269662\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:24:08","slug":"scranton-psu-alumni-to-honor-the-legacy-of-dr-wayne-j-sebastianelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269662\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton PSU Alumni to honor the legacy of Dr. Wayne J. Sebastianelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON \u2014 The late Dr. Wayne J. Sebastianelli, a longtime Penn State sports medicine leader, will be honored at a Greater Scranton Penn State Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association celebration on Sunday, Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds will benefit the Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli Memorial Nursing Program Endowment.<\/p>\n<p>Matt McGloin, former Penn State and NFL quarterback and a Scranton native, plans to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastianelli, a native of Jessup, served as director of athletic medicine for Penn State athletics for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>The event at the Waldorf in Scranton, from 1 to 4 p.m., costs $30 and includes pulled pork, barbecue chicken, salad, coleslaw, corn on the cob, dessert, soda, tea and coffee.<\/p>\n<p>The reservation deadline is Sept. 15.\u00a0See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psuscranton.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">psuscranton.org<\/a> for reservations.<\/p>\n<p>Reservations and payment may also be made by contacting Jeff Mallas: JRM9@psu.edu; Ann McDonough: AFM8252@gmail.com; Nick DeLeo: NDELEO52@yahoo.com; Walter Telech: PSUCHIEF1@gmail.com; or Mike Duricko: MDURICKO2@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>Venmo payments are accepted at @PennStateScranton-AlumniAssociation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 The late Dr. Wayne J. Sebastianelli, a longtime Penn State sports medicine leader, will be honored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179,726,289],"class_list":["post-269662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269662","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=269662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}