WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2014 Happy Valley came to Wyomissing on Friday night as Penn State alumni and fans packed into MaGerk\u2019s to watch the Nittany Lions take on Northwestern.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have a lot of tailgates coming up here,\u201d said Brenna Lauer, secretary of the Berks County Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019re kind of just having a watch party to see who\u2019s coming out and hanging out with us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The chapter is trying out the bar as its new gathering place. Organizers said about 50 people attended, with some reconnecting with old friends and others meeting fellow Penn Staters for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI met all my friends at Penn State that I\u2019m going to have forever,\u201d Penn State alumna Amanda Alpuche said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I just love that we\u2019re here. We still get together. We still hold events. We try to bring the community in,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Organizers said the gatherings can build connections that continue long after the final whistle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2014 Happy Valley came to Wyomissing on Friday night as Penn State alumni and fans packed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-299036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299036","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=299036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}