McMurray woman member of Irish court
Colleen Marie Bench of McMurray recently was selected as one of two Miss Smiling Irish Eyes court maidens by the Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day Parade committee.
Bench is a freshman at Penn State University, where she is majoring in kinesiology. At Penn State, she has served as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion and is a member of the kinesiology club and the dancer relations committee of THON.
Bench has been active in competitive Irish dancing, first with the Bell School of Irish Dance, and now as a member of the Irish dance club, Rince na Leon, at Penn State.
She is a graduate of Seton-La Salle High School, and her parents are Kathleen and Michael Bench.