Why have I been reading this board for so long and never seen this mentioned? Is it somehow possible that people here don't know that? Here's a clip of him mentioning it and his Wiki page confirms it.
The guy that played Will Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation went to Penn State???
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It was mentioned 20-25 years ago. Yes he is a psu alum he was actually at an award ceremony for my dad when he retired emeritus at Hammond.
I thought this was widely known in these parts that he is a PSU alum. He is an alum of my high school as well. I am also a sci-fi and Star Trek nerd, so all of my worlds seem to collide with this guy. 
Married to Genie Francis, "Laura" of General Hospital back in the day. And she has a shop in Belfast, Maine.
Donald Bellisario, Producer and Writer for Magnum PI, AirWolf, NCIS and a few others
Dan Bongino, Internet "personality", who got an MBA from PSU.
Lara Spencer, who secretly had a crush on me
There are a few out there.....
What year did you graduate from Liberty? Class of 81I thought this was widely known in these parts that he is a PSU alum. He is an alum of my high school as well. I am also a sci-fi and Star Trek nerd, so all of my worlds seem to collide with this guy.
Patrick Fabian, who played Howard Hamlin on Better Call Saul, is also a PSU grad.
He was just on the cover of a recent "Penn Stater" magazine.
Ty got his undergrad degree at Oregon and MFA at PSU. Liked to play outdoor pick up ball at the North Halls courts.
Or so I’m told.
Personally, I thought Frakes was a way better FO for the Enterprise than Patrick Stewart was her captain.
I also read recently where Edward James Olmos "olmos" was captain of the Enterprise in ST:NG, but turned it down. I would've rather seen him as captain than Stewart. But that's just me.
I also read recently where Edward James Olmos "olmos" was captain of the Enterprise in ST:NG, but turned it down. I would've rather seen him as captain than Stewart. But that's just me.
I had a room in Beam, spent way way too much time on the North Hall courts.
wait- you're telling me he didn't graduate from Star Fleet Academy?
I thought North Halls was a cool dorm. I was 2nd floor Beam when it was the Arts & Architecture interest house. One side men other side women. Food wasn't that great in the Dinning Hall but we still had Chicken Cosmos.
They turned the first 2 floors into some Administration building a few years after I graduated. I think they are back to being dorms again and I think they may have since redesigned them into suites with 2 bedrooms and a shared bath.
I wouldn't mind going back to take a look at them.
I was in 434 Beam. (I still got a textbook with my name and dorm room written in it.) Good people, they put up with me. (I was in the ******* idiot phase of my life, sadly.)
Let’s not forget Keegan-Michael Key… he and Ty each earned their MFA in theater at Penn State.
Did any of you take Theater 100? It was an undergraduate gen-ed arts course where we’d read plays and study various genres of theater. There would always be a troupe of grad students participating as well, prepping and performing sketches and excerpts of plays for the class.
I do believe there was a point in the mid-90s when Theater 100 students would have been entertained by BOTH Burrell and Key. Which means I missed it by just a few years, dammit. That would have been cool.