HORN TEXTILE INC. CONTRIBUTES $25,000 TO EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER AT PITT-TITUSVILLE
TITUSVILLE, Pa. - Horn Textile Inc. of Titusville contributed $25,000 to the Education & Training Center at Pitt-Titusville to support programs and to memorialize Jack and Irene Steinbuhler.
“We are grateful for this gift from Horn Textile Inc., a successful six-generation family business in Titusville, that understands the importance of supporting initiatives like ETC to help this community continue to thrive,” said Rick Esch, Pitt-Titusville’s president.
The gift was made in memory of Irene and Jack Steinbuhler, a former owner of the company who dedicated 70 years of his life to the company until his passing in 2007. Along with his brother, Bill, he initiated innovation and change, including the development of new looms and dye machines, many of which are still used.
In addition to memorializing Irene and Jack Steinbuhlers, the gift will be used to support ETC’s education and workforce training programs.
ETC programs include a clinical medical assistant and phlebotomy program offered by Brockway Center for Arts & Technology, several associate degree programs provided by the Northern Pennsylvania Regional College, basic machining and CNC programming through Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering’s Manufacturing Assistance Center, and the associate of science in nursing program offered by Pitt-Titusville and Pitt-Bradford.
Most of those programs are now operating in newly renovated spaces in the J. Curtis McKinney II Student Union, which were unveiled last month. Those new spaces include the Peter C. Rossin Manufacturing Center, a makerspace, a MAC gallery, a new digital arts lab, an industrial maintenance lab, and several new general classrooms.
Outside one of those general classrooms located on the second floor of the Student Union is a plaque that bears the name of the Steinbuhlers. The classroom, Room 202A, is fully equipped with the latest technology to allow for blended learning and personalized instruction.
Horn Textileis a six-generation, family-owned textile mill that specializes in manufacturing narrow fabrics. The company has been inTitusville since 1897, when looms from New York City were moved from the railroad depot to the new factory by horse-drawn sleds. William Steinbuhler, Jack Steinbuhler’s father, was responsible fordisassembling the looms and overseeing their installation at the new plant.