Hershey News 1955-06-09

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JUNE 9, 1955 No. 23
Judge Harold Medina Points
To Nation's Spiritual Boon
Speaking here Monday night at Commencement exercises for the Milton Hershey
School, the Honorable Harold R. Medina, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, condensed
the great spiritual force which he said characterizes America and Americans into a
three-word formula: Goodwill, freedom and justice.
In his address before the graduates and their relatives and friends who crowded
the Hershey Community Theatre, the noted trial judge said:
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• • • We Americans have a wonderful heritage of spiritual wealth and it is very
largely bound up in three words: Goodwill and freedom and justice. Each and every one
of these is a spiritual force of tremendous dynamic power."
His address was titled: "By
Their Fruits Shall Ye Know
Them," and he told his audi-ence,
"What I would have you
take away with you this eve-ning
is the notion that if you
live your lives, every day and
every week and every month
and every year, with goodwill,
SITTING JUDGE Harold R. Medina autographs a copy
of his biography for Milton Hershey School Student
Senate President Jim Hoeschele in the school library
during a pause in the famous jurist's stay here. Judge
Medina, a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals, was
the Milton Hershey School Commencement speaker on
Monday evening. The judge Was accompanied to Her-shey
by his wife, and the couple were deeply impressed
by the school itself and the community in general.
Sidelight Notes On A Great American
A genuine, homey touch was added to Judge and Mrs.
Harold R. Medina's Hershey visit on Monday when the boys
of the Milton Hershey School's vocational baking class pre-sented
the couple with a decorated cake. Monday happened
to be the Medinas' wedding anniversary.
The judge told a group of press, radio and television
people on Monday afternoon that he was greatly impressed
by "the little kids" of the Milton Hershey School. In one cot-tage
he noted a little paper cross, hung on the wall at Easter
time and still there.
• "Someone," the judge commented, "has an awful lot of
good influence around here."
Among other things, the judge predicted a growing
shortage of cats in the U. S., if the Davy Crockett hat fad
continues.
W. P. Campbell To Receive Doctorate
Pennsylvania State Uni-versity
has announced that
W. Paul Campbell, supervisor
of music in the Derry Town-ship
Schools, will receive his
Doctor of Education degree in
music at the regular gradua-tion
exercises to be held on
Saturday.
President of the United
States Dwight D. Eisenhower
will deliver the Commence-ment
address and award the
degrees.
Campbell, as school music
supervisor, directs the Her-shey
High School Orchestra
and Senior Chorus, as well as
many other vocal and instru-mental
ensembles. In addi-leoutlissed
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devotion to justice, you will
be known in the community
as an example of what the
greatest of all mankind meant
when He said: 'By their fruits
shall ye know them.'
"And in so doing, you will
spread the gospel of Milton
Hershey, for those are the
things he, also, stood for.
Those are the principles which
are reflected in these monu-ments
to his generosity."
Crystallization of his think-ing
on what forms the basis
of our spiritual wealth came
about as the result of popular
reaction to the 1949 trials of
the communist leaders, at
which he presided as a Dis-trict
Court judge. The trial
proved to be an ordeal for
Judge Medina as the com-munists
and their sympathiz-ers
characteristically reverted
to name-calling and tumultous
demonstrations in an effort to
distract him from the re-sponsible
administration of
justice.
"Despite all the pandemon-ium
... I ruled on every point
of law with scrupulous regard
for the constitutional rights
of the defendants," Judge
Medina said, "and in the end
the jury found them guilty
and they went off to jail.
"What happened then was
probably the most significant
thing that will ever happen to
me. Thousands upon thou-sands
of letters poured in
from all over the Unit ed
States. And it was just as
though the word 'America'
were written across the face
of every one of those letters.
"These people were not
telling me what a great fel-low
I was. They were tell-ing
me that they loved
Am er i ca and- that they
loved American justice and
were proud of the fact that
American justice had sur-vived
this effort on the part
of the communists to break
is down.
". . . The significance of
all this is that I found my-self
in the midst of a per-fectly
t err if ic spiritual
force."
Everyone, Judge Medina
pointed out, can take part in
and contribute to this great
force in everyday living, with
goodwill, love of freedom and
devotion to justice in all
things.
His address climaxed the
twenty-first annual Com-mence
exercises of the Milton
Hershey School, when 96
members of the Class of 1955
received their high school
diplomas.
The diplomas were awarded
by P. A. Staples, chairman of
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Father's Day •TV Play Tells
Life Story Of M.S. Hershey
Hallmark Hall Of Fame Program
To Present Drama On Sunday
Via NBC-TV Network
The .Life of Milton S. Hershey, who amassed a fortune
from milk chocolate and then devoted his wealth to orphan
boys and to the community he founded, will provide the
Father's Day story for the Hallmark Hall of Fame drama on
Sunday, June 19, over the NBC-TV network (5 to 5:30 p. m.
EDT). The program will be carried in this area by Channel
8 (WGAL-TV, Lancaster).
The half-hour drama will detail Mr. Hershey's develop-ment
of milk chocolate more than fifty years ago, his found-ing
of the model town of Hershey, Pa.
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and his endowment
of the world-famous school for orphan boys.
The Hall of Fame television
series, directed and produced
by Albert McCleery and spon-with
a love of freedom and a sored by Hallmark Cards,
each week enacts a segment
from the life of an inspiring
figure in history "who has
contributed in a substantial
way to making this a better
world."
An impoverished Pennsyl-vania
farm boy, Mr. Hershey
failed in the candy business
at least three times before he
finally won •success at Lan-caster
when he was nearly
forty years old. In succeeding
years he poured his increas-ing
wealth from the chocolate
business into building the fine
community which bears his
name.
Here, too, Mr. Hershey and his wife, Catherine, estab-lished
the unique school for orphans.
Childless himself, Mr. Hershey was known throughout
his lifetime for his kindliness to children, an attitude which
undoubtedly led him to establish the school and to make so
many great contributions to public education.
Scot Minister And Rotary
Leader To Visit Hershey
David Dick, internationally
known Presbyterian minister
and president-elect of Rotary i
International in Great Britain!
and Ireland, will be the guest ,
of the Hershey Rotary Club
here on Sunday, June 12, it
was announced by local Ro-tary
President Lewis J. Maur-er.
The prominent clergyman
and Rotary leader will ad-dress
district Rotarians in the
Hershey Community Theatre
at 7:30 p. m. at an event to
which the general public is
also invited.
The appearance of Mr. Dick
here is another feature of the
Hershey • club's series of
salutes to Rotary's Fiftieth
Anniversary Year.
Mr. Dick resides in Stirling,
Scotland, where he is the min-ister
of the Parish of St. Nin-ians.
He is a graduate of the
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Hershey, Pa.
University of St. Andrews in
Scotland.
A Rotarian since 1940, he
has served Rotary Interna-tional
as a district representa-tive
and, for 1954-55, is serv-ing
as vice-president of Ro-tary
International in Great
Britain and Ireland.
He is chairman of the
Church of Scotland Commit-tee
on Education and of the
Scottish Joint Committee on
Religious Education. He is a
director of the Scottish Insti-tute
of Adult Education, a
member of the Commission on
Adult Religious Education
and chaplain of the Stirling
Royal Infirmary. He is also a
director of the Glasgow Pro-vincial
Committee for the
Training of Teachers, and of
the Stirling Savings Bank.
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