Penny Petrone

Dr. Penny Serafina Petrone (1925 – August 22, 2005) was a Canadian writer, educator, patron of the arts, and philanthropist.

Thunder Bay connections

Penny Serafina Petrone (1925 – August 22, 2005) was a Canadian writer, educator, patron of the arts, and philanthropist born in Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay). She was the daughter of Luisa Sisco and Luigi Petrone and sister to the lawyer Alfred Petrone. She attended St. Joseph's School and the Port Arthur Collegiate Institute, where she won the first Canadian Federation of University Women scholarship given to an outstanding Grade 13 female student in the Lakehead. She later taught in one-room schools in rural Port Arthur and at the Lakehead University Faculty of Education, formed the local reading group 'I Literati', and was made an honorary Indian Chief by the Gull Bay Ojibwa. In recognition of her contributions, Magnus Theatre in Thunder Bay was renamed Magnus Theatre - The Dr. S. Penny Petrone Centre for the Performing Arts, and the West Campus library facility was named the Dr. Serafina "Penny" Petrone Health Information Resource Centre.

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