Hershey News 1956-07-05

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY 5, 1956 No. 27
Successful Day Camp Session Closes For
Ninety-Three Girl Scouts And Brownies
HUNTING EXPEDITION at the Girl Scout-Brownies
day camp last week brought such scenes as this: Carol
Little, Cynthia Baum and Mary Ellen Carpenter (left
to right). The Brownies trio is shown hunting crayfish
and salamanders.
Attend Girl Scout Roundup
ROUNDUPPERS—This sextette of Hershey High School
girls left last week to attend the National Senior Girl
Scout Roundup at Highland State Park, near Pontiac,
Michigan. They're shown here making preparations for
the trip during a pre-departure get-together at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Jared Darlington, Hershey Route 1.
Left to right, seated, are Diane Snavely and Pat
Koons; standing, in the same order: Pat Southby, Mary
Darlington, Nancy Risser and Kay Hite.
Mr. and Mrs. Darlington and daughter Susie were
also selected to attend the Roundup as part of a group
of adults who will staff the camp.
The Roundup runs from June 29 until July 11 on
a 5200-acre tract in Highland State Park. A tent city
will house more than five thousand Girl Scouts from
all parts of the United States and six teams of girls
from other countries.
A "big deal" for little girls
—the Sweet Arrow Girl Scout
day camp—closed last Friday
for ninety-three youngsters
and thirty-four staff mem-bers.
The day camp enroll-ment
was increased by twen-ty-
one this year with the addi-tion
of a camping unit.
Four units of Brownies and
one unit of Intermediate Girl
Scouts made up the camp
which was held Monday
through Friday of last week.
Under fine adult leadership,
the youngsters enjoyed a
memorable camping experi-ence
each day at the Boy
Scout Cabin, traveling to and
from the site by bus. Central
pickup and return point was
at the Hershey Women's Club.
At the camp, the Interme-diates
worked on their merit
badge requirements, passing
their star badges and some of
their tree badges. The Brown-ies
had a nature program,
earning awards for the study
of insects, wild flowers, and
general wildlife.
Highlights also included a
demonstration of forest fire
prevention, firefighting and
evacuation by the Hershey
Volunteer Fire Company on
the opening day, and a
"Scouts' Own" closing pro-gram
on Friday afternoon.
First and last day menus
featured "nosebag" lunches
to eliminate the need for fires,
Tri-er daytime meniiS 'Were :
Tuesday — frankfurters, po-tato
chips, celery, ice cream
and milk; Wednesday—pork
barbecues, carrots and cup-cakes;
Thursday — toasted
cheese sandwiches, pickles,
celery and watermelon.
Mrs. C. D. Hite served as
camp director and Mrs. Jo-seph
Fischer was business
manager.
Miss Irene Dietrich was
chairman of the day camp
committee and Mrs. Richard
H. McCrone heads the Girl
Scout Neighborhood Commit-tee.
Camp nurse was Mrs.
Wayne Brandt.
Unit leaders were: First
Unit — Mrs. George Shay,
Mrs. Henry Stump and Mrs.
Paul L. Ebersole; Second
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Legionnaires Elect
Don Chubb Commander
Donald B. Chubb was elect-ed
commander of Hershey
American Legion Post 386 at
the organization's annual
election session last Thursday
night. Chubb succeeds John
D. "Rip" Emerich.
Other officers elected are
Robert L. Schaffner, senior
vice-commander; Michael T.
Morris, junior vice-comman-der;
John W. Steen, finance
officer; John Eme rich, chap-lain;
Harry R. Knoll, ser-geant-
at-arms; and Norman
Stahle, historian.
Elected as members of the
executive committee were
Major Thomas Martin and
William Meiser.
The new post officers will
be installed August 24.
In other action last week,
the Legionnaires voted a con-tribution
of $25 to the pro-ject
for a war memorial at
Swatara Station.
Announce Summer
Teenage Dance Plan
A program for summer dances was announced here this
week, designed as a community project to fill a gap in the
vacation-time activities of Derry Township's Teenagers.
Chairman Ralph L. Hoar said the dances will be sponsor-ed
by various civic, educational and service organizations of
the community and will not replace the similar program con-ducted
during the fall and winter months.
All Derry Township teenagers are invited to attend
the dances, which are held without charge to the young-sters.
The dances will be held in the Social Room of the
Community Building twice a month during July and
August.
The schedule lists senior high school and college students
dances on July 20 and August 10, with junior high student
dances on July 27 and August 24.
Sponsoring organizations will provide the refreshments
for the teenage guests, and each organization will furnish
two couples to serve as chaperones. Music will be on record,
with a record player being supplied by a member of the
Lions Club.
The Hershey Community Club is serving as a coordinat-ing
body for the summer recreational project for the teen-agers.
Sponsoring groups and their representatives on the
Summer Teenage Dance Committee are:
Community Club—Ralph L. Hoar; Lions Club—Frank
Schwartz; Parent-Teacher Association—James L. Bevan;
Optimist Club—Levi Filepas ; Business and Professional
Women's Club—Mrs. Daniel W. Deets; Rotary Club—William
Kishpaugh ; Veterans of Foreign Wars—Clarence Jeffries;
American Legion—John R. Bierstein.
Richard I. Bacastow serves on the committee as a rep-resentative
of the community-at-large.
Clayton Shartzer Retires
At Milton Hershey School
Clayton H. Shartzer, who
retired on July 1 after nearly
twenty years on the mainten-ance
force of the Milton Her-shey
School, has plans to
spend a lot of his time grow-ing
things. Shartzer has a
fair-sized vegetable garden at
his home at 614 West Walnut
Street in Palmyra — a big
enough plot to be referred to
as his "little farm." There he
will put in a lot of enjoyable
and productive hours.
In addition, he is a "regu-lar
part-time employee at Her-shey
Park and has been for
some ten years. He has
worked at Hershey for
twenty-two years in all.
In his work on the main-tenance
force at the Milton
Hershey School, Mr. Shartzer
was responsible for the con-stant
fine appearance of the
high school auditorium and
gymnasium. The well kept
look of these facilities won for
the school many compliments
from visitors, a school spokes-man
pointed out to the Her-shey
News.
Another notable feature of
his long service on the hill is
the fact that in the twenty
years he was not absent a day
because of illness.
Clayton H. Shartzer
The Shartzers came here
from Penbrook, where they
formerly operated a grocery
and meat market. Mrs. Shart-zer
is the former Alma M.
Crum. The couple are regular
attendants at the services of
the Hershey Evangelical
United Brethren Church.
A son, Harold Shartzer, re-sides
at 459 East Derry Road
and is employed at the Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation.
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