Amy Atkins, U.S. Navy veteran and administrative operations for the Penn State Harrisburg School of Business Administration, will speak at the college's Veterans Day ceremony. Her son, U.S. Marine Corps. Capt. Corris Atkins, will deliver a video message.
Amy Atkins, administrative operations manager, for the School of Business Administration at Penn State Harrisburg, pinned gold aviator wings to her son Corris Atkins' uniform during his graduation from The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia. "He chose me to pin on his gold aviator wings for the ceremony," she said. "Traditionally, aviators choose a mentor for the pinning who has been critical to their success in the four years it takes to complete flight school. Unmeasurably proud moment for me."
Amy Atkins in 1991 when she was deployed to Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, during the Persian Gulf War. Atkins served in the U.S. Navy from 1988 to 1992. She is now the administrative operations manager for the School of Business Administration at Penn State Harrisburg.
The Atkins family at Corris Atkins' graduation from the Virginia Military Institute in 2018. From left to right are: Ken and Amy Atkins and their children, Corris, Meredith and Jack.
U.S. Navy veteran Amy Atkins took her father, U.S. Air Force veteran Alan Jones, to visit Amy's son U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Corris Atkins at his base, Camp Pendleton, California, in September.
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Corris Atkins, whose mother, Amy Atkins, works at Penn State Harrisburg, will record a message for the college's Veterans Day ceremony. Amy Atkins, a U.S. Navy veteran, will deliver remarks at the event.