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Skills of Central PA company history timeline

1970

South Hills started out as South Hills Secretarial School in 1970 in a modest location on Allen Street in State College, Pennsylvania.

1971

The first class began on January 4, 1971.

1977

First gay rights march in Harrisburg protesting proposed anti-gay legislation in 1977.

1980

In 1980, South Hills was granted approval to award the Associate in Specialized Business (ASB) degree.

1982

In August 1982, growth forced the school, by then renamed South Hills Business School to reflect the nature of its evolving program offerings, to move to larger quarters, a former elementary school building in Boalsburg, PA.

2001

In 2001, the Altoona, PA Campus was opened when South Hills purchased the former Altoona School of Commerce.

2008

Maralyn Mazza served as the Director of South Hills until her retirement in 2008 and has continued in an advisory role ever since.

2012

The History Project began in August 2012 as an initiative of the LGBT Center of Central PA. Since then, it has seen rapid growth in activity and interest in the Central PA community.

2013

With the passing of her husband in 2013, Maralyn Mazza became the President of South Hills School of Business & Technology.

2014

In 2014, the History Project won the prestigious J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award from the Society of American Archivists.

2015

S. Paul Mazza III, President, his mother, Maralyn Mazza, Co-Founder, and Mark Maggs, former Director, are pictured at the September 2015 commencement ceremony.

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