Van Bodegraven attends conference, named to board

Donna Van Bodegraven, professor of foreign language, recently attended the XX International Latin American Theater Festival and Conference in Miami, Fla. She attended three performances, attended many academic presentations and a directors’ roundtable, and networked with writers, critics and scholars of Latin American theater.

Van Bodegraven has also been elected to the Penn State Abington Alumni Society Board. She will assist in the development of programming to support the campus. Van Bodegraven is a 1974 Penn State graduate and attended the Abington campus, then known as the Ogontz campus, from 1970-1972. In 2002, she endowed an award at Penn State Abington to honor her first Spanish professor there, Enrique Gronlund.