WHITEHALL
Several Whitehall students — wearing Penn State football T-shirts — scuttle through the high school’s faded glass doors and past a security guard with a sign-in sheet and a pack of Extra gum on his plastic pop-up table.
“Nope, not today,” the bearded guard tells students asking for a stick of gum. “I’m all out.”
As disappointed faces walked by earlier this week, Saquon Barkley — Whitehall’s favorite son — was waiting around corner. Just like always.
Beneath a maroon “Zephyr Pride” banner, behind the security desk, a full-page newspaper illustration of Barkley is one of the first things people see when they walk into Whitehall High School — and it’s certainly not the only reminder of the local legend.