Hershey News 1955-03-24

              HERS EY NEWS
Vol. 3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 24, 1955
Hershey Host To Erie High
School Students For Week
Thirty young residents of
Erie, Pa., are guests in Her-shey
homes this week in the
first phase of the Hershey-
Erie student exchange prog-ram.
The boys and girls from
the northwest corner of the
state are being treated to the
Hershey brand of hospitality,
with a full schedule of enter-taining
visits, tours and social
affairs making up :;heir week-in-
Hershey.
- Along with the Erie high
school students are two Euro-pean
exchange students —
Teresa DeLauretis of Italy
and Felix Ibanez of Spain.
They are exchange students
attending the Erie school and
have come to Hershey in what
amounts to a double-exchange.
The guests of the Hershey
High School Exchange Club
are students at Erie's Lawr-ence
Park High School. They
were accompanied here by
Principal and Mrs. Daniel
Skala, Mr. Skala is also presi-dent
of the Pennsylvania
State Education Association.
Advisors to the Hershey ex-change
students, who will
make a similar visit to Erie
at a later date, are Miss Janet
Knohr and Eugene Herr.
Full Schedule
The Erie-ites arrived in
Hershey on Sunday, when
they were welcomed at the
hiffh school hi their Hershey
Mgt Nitifiairty ifiOi1li1 Alfer
received the official welcome
by school officials and imme-diately
began a full schedule
of activities.
Their first day in Hershey
gave them a chance to look
over the local scene — first
touring the school and attend-ing
classes. After being noon-time
guests at the Rotary
Club's luncheon, the exchange
students were taken on a tour
of the interest points of the
town. Tuesday's activities in-cluded
a trip through the choc-olate
factory in the morning.
Afternoon and evening events
were on the social side, includ-ing
a tea given by the Her-shey
High School Student
Council and a dance in the
school gymnasium.
' Visit Harrisburg
Wednesday was largely oc-cupied
with a trip to the State
Capitol, _ where the students
met Governor George M.
Leader after a visit to the
General Assembly.
Today — Thursday — the
group got to see more of Her-shey,
visiting the Reese candy
factory, the Milton Hershey
School and the State Police
Training School. A square
dance was scheduled for the
evening.
The students take to the
road on Friday, making a
swing through historic Corn-wall
and into Lancaster Coun-ty
where they will see the
Ephrata Cloisters and the
Green Dragon Market.
On Saturday, the schedule
calls for a trip to the Gettys-burg
Battlefield —with picnic
lunches — and on Saturday
evening the Erie youngsters
will report their impressions
at an evaluation meeting in
the social room of Derry Pres-byterian-
Ohm eh.
Sunday is set aside as a full
day of home and family ac-tivity
for the visitors and
their hosts. The Erie group re-turns
home on Monday morn-ing.
The purpose of the ex-change
program, Hershey
High School Principal George
D. Lange said, is to broaden
pupil experience beyond their
own schools, and to evaluate
what other schools offer.
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
from Erie, Pa., are guests
in Hershey homes this
week.
Above is the Charles
Rath family of 169 East
Derry Road and their
guests for the week — left
to right: Mr. and Mrs. Rath,
son Robert, Carl Pekala,
Felix Ibanez and Garry
Rath.
Pekala is a student of the
Lawrence Park'High School
in Erie, and Ibanez is here
trg a 'clooble-exrhange"-stu-dent.
He is a Spanish high
school student currently at-tending
the Erie school
under a U.S.—Spain ex-change
program.
Photo at right shows part
of the crowd of Hershey
folks who were on hand
late Sunday afternoon to
welcome the busload of ex-change
students from Erie
as they arrived at School
Plaza.
Miniature Motorist Gets "Tagged"
DEMONSTRATING the new "Hershey — The Chocolate Town" automobile plates,
Rosemary McCleaf fastens one of -the emblems to the business end of a toy auto while
- the driver, Rosemary's sister. Kathleen, wa its with motor idling. The youngsters posed
for the photographer at their Parkside Apartments home. - .
- The•Hershey car plates are being sold-by. the music students -of Hershey High
• SchoOl.as a-p_roject to raise funds.for the pirrchase of new robes for Hershey. High's.
champion chorus.. •
No. 12
Community Club Slates Open House
"It's "open house" at the
Community Club on April l—
and that's no April fooling.
A big program of drills, ex-ercises
and exhibitions is be-ing
arranged for the event by
the staffs of both the men's
and women's divisions of the
club and a big evening is in
prospect for all visitors. The
welcome sign is out to all in-terested
persons of the com-munity.
Young club members
from Third Grade age
through high school will
demonstrate the skills learn-ed
in the 'club's winter pro-gram:
games, exercises, re-lays,
tumbling, vaulting and
trampoline work.
The program swill be fol-lowed
by a family swim party
in the men's club pool in the
Community Building.
Purpose of the open house
is to acquaint the parents and
friends of the youngsters
with the over-the-winter ac-tivity
and programs for the
various age groups of boys
and girls.
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