Hershey News 1956-04-12

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4
Bicycle Program
Set For Saturday
By Optimist Club
Special circulars announc-ing
details of the Hershey
Optimist Club's second annual
Bicycle Safety Program, to be
held at the Hershey High
School Playground Plaza on
Saturday, April 14, beginning
at 9 A.M., have been distrib-uted
to pupils of Derry
Township schools and the St.
Joan of Arc Catholic School.
Upwards of 3,000 of the
circulars were distributed un-der
the direction of J. William
Abram, chairman of the boys'
work committee and general
chairman of the event.
The program is open to all
boys and girls residing in
Derry Township. Every youth
who registers will receive a
membership card and a num-bered
Scotch-lite safety em-blem.
The agenda also calls for
bicycle safety drill tests, the
showing of sound motion pic-tures
on the theme of "Bicy-cle
Safety," and a presenta-tion
by William Fisler, ven-triloquist.
As a climax, a drawing will
be held, at which time some
lucky youngster will receive
a new bicycle as a gift from
the Optimist Club.
In the event of rain, the
program will be held Satur-day,
April 21.
Essay Prizes Awarded
First prize of $5 for the best
"Americanism" essay sub-mitted
in the Hershey Ameri-can
Legion Auxiliary's con-test
has been awarded to
Larry Witmer, a tenth grade
student at Derry Township
High School.
Mary K. Porr received sec-ond
prize of $3 and Patricia
Gilman, third prize of $2.
They are also students in the
tenth grade.
Judging of entries was done
HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 12, 1956
RECEIVING KEY TO NEW CONVENT -- Sister M.
Rosella, Mother Superior at the new St. Joan of Arc
Parish convent, which was consecrated last Sunday, re-ceives
the keys to the building from the Rev. Dominick
A. Mammarella, assistant pastor of the parish.
New Pumper Passes Tests Busy Season Planned For
With 12 Members Aboard Juvenile Club Golfers
Twenty-two members of
the Hershey Volunteer Fire
Company made the shake-down
run on their new custom
built Oren pumper last week.
The local fire laddies had a
try at the Hockersville road
over the Sand Hills and reach-ed
the top hitting twenty
miles per hour.
Put through exhaustive
pumping tests at the Rose
Garden, tie truck came
through with flying colors.
Later, it was loaded with
$4000 worth of hose and auxil-by
a committee headed by iary equipment, and is now
Mrs. Mardell Strimble. ready for service.
Plans for a busy season,
including weekly golf lessons
by Johnny Weitzel, pro at the
Hershey Country Club, have
been announced for the Her-shey
Juvenile course by Ralph
L. Hoar, director of the Com-munity
Club.
Playing privileges for the
season are now on sale at the
Community Club desk. These
privileges, incidentally, are
limited to juvenile members
of the Community Club and
members of the Hershey Wo-men's
Club.
No. 15
$135,000 Catholic Convent Building
Dedicated By St. Joan Of Arc Parish
Impressive ceremonies marked the dedication of the
new $135,000 convent of the St. Joan of Arc Parish on Sun-day.
Bishop George L. Leech, of the Diocese of Harrisburg,'
blessed the building, with the Auxiliary Bishop-Designate
Lawrence F. Schott delivering the dedicatory sermon.
An open house program followed the dedication, dur-ing
which hundreds of townspeople inspected the structure.
The beautiful new building,
built of brick and trimmed in
Indiana limestone, is a two-story
structure facing Areba
avenue from the courtyard of
St. Joan of Arc School.
Fifteen bedrooms are pro-vided
for the sisters, who will
occupy the convent shortly.
The local nuns, members of
the order of Daughters of Our
Lady of Mercy, are primarily
teachers.
The main floor provides a
community room, a chapel and
dining facilities.
The basement houses heat-ing
and laundry rooms and a
large, fully equipped kinder-garten.
Junior Anglers
Await Fishing Day
Hershey youngsters a r e
busy oiling up their reels for
the Community Club's third
annual Fishing Derby Day,
scheduled for Saturday, May
5 in the fishing area of Spring
Creek.
Preliminary plans for this
popular event call for award-ing
prizes to three children
coming up with the largest
catches. Contest hours will be
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with
the competition limited to
cadet members of the Com-munity
Club. Youngsters un-der
eight years will also par-ticipate
as guests of the club.
The young piscatorial ex-perts
will be shooting at the
record catch of Larry Geib,
who last year landed a 22-
inch rainbow trout for the
largest fish ever hooked.
Steve Miller was the win-ner
last year, with Robert
Bucher receiving the top
prize in 1954.
PLAN SCRAP DRIVE
Hershey firemen will con-duct
a paper and scrap metal
collection on Monday evening,
April 16. Residents are asked
to have their newspapers,
magazines and scrap on the
curb in front of their homes
by 5.30 p. m.
Boys And Girls Act
As Teachers For
Student Day Event
Frank Tapparo served as
student principal, assisted by
Terry King during the annual
Student Day program held by
Derry Township High School
students.
Winifred Adams acted as
dean of girls, with Wanda
Oiler serving as librarian.
Jean Heagy, Pat Koons,
Louella Lightner and Judy
Smith comprised the faculty
of the home economics depart-ment,
while vocational sub-jects
were taught by James
Wagner, Robert Gipe, Fred
Walters, John Gepfer, David
Keller, William Ames, William
Moore, Galen Dunmoyer, Don-old
Emerick - and Robert
Trump.
Members of the commercial
staff included: Pearl Brinser,
Erma Deimler, Shirley Wal-born,
Grace Rhine, Barbara
Day, Betty Miller and Fay Es-hleman.
The junior high school
teaching staff included: Ruth
Waybright, Mary Ann Daniels
Pascal DiMagno, JoAnn John-son,
William Nixon, Ardith
Curry, Eleaine Deets, Marie
Kieffer, John Juran, Carolyn
Hocker, Ronald Upperman,
Ann Snyder, Mary Alice Hec-ker,
Mary Ann Haldeman,
Edith Kreider, Ken Hoover,
Darlene Strickler, Kenneth
Heaps, Faye Eisenhour, Ann-etta
Robertson, Lona Magnelli
and Joe DiBlascio.
Among the students teach-ing
academic subjects in the
senior high school were: Lee
Moyer, Carl Schiller, Cleon
Cassel, Joan Lollo, Lucartha
Donges, David Tapparo, Ar-thur
Whiteman, Mary Kosier,
Eileen Cassel, Ronald Seavers,
JoAnn Bruce, Michael Miller,
Nina Matheny, Anita Freet,
Glenn Weidler, Harold Balmer
and Louis Gruber.
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