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Fall 2012 Alumni Speaker

Ralph Tutlane, Jr.

Ralph Tutlane, Jr.

Ralph Tutlane, Jr. is a 1983 graduate of Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in Geography. He is also a graduate of Reading High School. He currently works in the Stock and Sales Department for Kenneth Cole and is also employed as a Tennis Official with the United States Tennis Association.

Tutlane was an active student at both Penn State Berks and University Park. While at Berks campus, he played soccer and wrote sports articles for the student newspaper, and at University Park, he was the student representative from the College of Education to the Student Government Association. He also helped establish and served as secretary for the Geography Department’s Student Government group.

He first became an Alumni Society board member in 1988. While on the board, he worked on several committees to help endow the Alumni Society Scholarship. In addition, he ran the society’s tennis tournament for six years, raising nearly $3,000 for the scholarship at that 2011 tournament.

Currently, Tutlane is the president of the Penn State Berks Alumni Society and an ex-officio member of the Penn State Berks Advisory Board, as well as a life member of the Penn State Alumni Association. He resides in Reading, Pa.