Statue of Joe Paterno
The statue was commissioned to Angelo DiMaria, a sculptor from Reading, Pennsylvania by friends of Paterno and his wife Sue in recognition of his contributions to the university and was unveiled on November 2, 2001.It was sculpted by Colombian-American artist Yesid Gomez and Wilfer Buitrago from Ephrata, Pennsylvania and took 6 months to complete.[4] At one point, an anonymous individual chartered a plane to fly over State College for several hours with a banner that read Take the Statue Down or We Will.[5] On July 22, 2012, six months after Paterno's death, the university announced it had removed the statue and "store[d] it in a secure location",[6] citing that it had become a "source of division and an obstacle to healing".[8] According to Penn State President Rodney Erickson, "were it to remain, the statue will be a recurring wound to the multitude of individuals across the nation and beyond who have been the victims of child abuse".
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