Donation to Pa. college goes to center that will teach manners

ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- A newspaper publisher and his family are donating $340,000 to honor his wife through a center that will teach manners and civility at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Corry Journal publisher George Sample said his late wife, Janet Neff Sample, who died three years ago, was the moral compass for their eight children.
"What we're doing is graduating a bunch of boys who can chug-a-lug a beer and burp and can't say 'please' or 'may I,'" he said.
He hopes The Janet Neff Sample Center for Manners and Civility will address that.
"Manners becomes part of your character. If you have no character, if you're not an honest person, a sincere person, a gracious person, you're going to stumble and fall on your way up the business ladder," he said. "It's just that important."
The center, still in the formative stages, will be located in Behrend's School of Humanities and Social Sciences and will be developed by Clare Porac, director of the school.
While the center won't be a physical building at Behrend, Sample said he would like to see some black granite markers along the campus walkways with phrases such as "Let me help you" and "Can I be your friend?"