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 Featuring hour-long interviews with prominent Pennsylvanians. Check the PCN Profiles archives here.






August
(Schedule Subject To Change)

1st	William H. Gray, III Former U.S. Congressman, 1979-1991 William H. Gray, III is founder and chairman of the Amani Group, a strategic partner of The Loeffler Group. Prior to founding the firm, he was the president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), the nation’s largest and oldest minority education assistance organization. Before joining UNCF, Mr. Gray represented the Second District of Pennsylvania as a Congressman from 1979 to 1991. He was the first African American in the 20th century to become Majority Whip of the House of Representatives, and also served as chair of the Budget Committee. After leaving Congress, he served as the Special Advisor to President Clinton and the Secretary of State on Haiti.
8th	Reid Joyce BentProp Team Member Reid Joyce is a member of The BentProp Project, an organization that locates and identifies sites in the Western Pacific Ocean where US airmen, still listed as MIA, presumably lost their lives while defending the United States in WWII. Mr. Joyce played an integral role in the production of Last Flight Home, a documentary following the BentProp team members.
15th	Maxine Bruhns Dir., Univ. of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms Maxine Bruhns is the Director of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs at the University of Pittsburgh. The Nationality Room Program was founded by Ruth Crawford Mitchell at the request of Pitt Chancellor John Bowman in 1926 in order to involve the community in constructing the Cathedral of Learning and to provide the spiritual and symbolic foundation of the Cathedral that would make the inside of the building as inspiring and impressive as the outside. Ms. Bruhns has been Director of this program since 1965 and the cathedral is home today to 27 Nationality Rooms, which showcase the culture of the ethnic groups that built Pittsburgh.
22nd	Richard Alley Evan Pugh Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, Penn State University Richard Alley is one of the world’s leading climate researchers and is an Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University. In the 1990s, he and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. Among his many distinctions: Dr. Alley served as one of the authors on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose members shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore; in April 2009, he was awarded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and Dr. Alley is one of the experts featured in NOVA’s National Geographic film “Extreme Ice”.
29th	Roy Zimmerman PA’s 1st Elected Attorney General

September
(Schedule Subject To Change)

5th	Pete DeCoursey Journalist Pete DeCoursey is a prominent reporter of political news in Pennsylvania. DeCoursey worked as a press secretary for U.S. Rep. Bob Borski, D-Philadelphia, from late 1987 to late 1990, and for Philadelphia City Council for most of 1987. He first became a full-time reporter for the Reading Eagle-Times, in Reading, Pennsylvania in August 1990, leaving there to join The Patriot-News in March 1997. He worked as a political reporter and columnist for the The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from 1997 to 2005 before being hired by GovNetPA to produce original news content for Capitolwire.com. He currently works as bureau chief of Capitolwire.
12th	Dr. Joseph Mattioli Founder, Pocono Raceway Dr. Joseph Mattioli is the founder of Pocono Raceway, currently the only family-owned racetrack on the NASCAR circuit. A few items of note: Dr. Mattioli spoke Italian before he spoke English, served in the U.S. Marines in WWII and considers boating a hobby. After the interview, take a ride on the wild side as PCN takes an exclusive look at what it’s like to drive a race car.
19th	Irvin Naylor Founder, Roundtop Mountain Resort Irvin Naylor, founder, president and owner of Snow Time Inc. (owns and operates ski resorts including Ski Roundtop), sits down and shares his inspirational life story with PCN. In 1999, Naylor was paralyzed after being thrown from a horse he was riding in the Grand National Timber Steeplechase Stakes in Butler, Maryland. He has become a champion for DNA-specific embryonic stem cell research to help find a cure for paralysis and hopes that he will one day walk from his wheelchair.
26th	Jerry Wolman Former Owner, Philadelphia Eagles Jerry Wolman, former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, became known as "The Boy Wonder" of real estate, as a storybook "rags to riches" builder in the Washington, D.C. area in the mid-1950s through the decade of the 1960s, amassing a personal financial empire. At the age of 36, he purchased the Philadelphia Eagles, where he grew to national fame as an exuberant young football owner with a dynamic personality and a giant heart. His generous deeds for friends and strangers alike became legendary. Wolman’s numerous accomplishments were only surpassed by the manner in which he lived his life. His life touched thousands and his story is heartfelt, moving and compelling.