Hershey News 1955-07-28

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 -E0,)- HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY 28, 1955 No. 30
Laboratory's Kitchen Puts
Plant's Products To Test
Putting the big "R" in recipe is one of the functions of
the modern Test Kitchen of the Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion's
Laboratory, situated at the Eastern division of the
Plant's spacious .layout.
Ever alert to the betterment of present products, and
with an eye to possible future products, Laboratory person-nel
turn out each day recipes
containing chocolate which
run the gamut. of all good
things edible.
Some of the _recipes are
fashioned from ideas of the
Laboratory's personnel;
others come from other indi-viduals
throughout the Plant;
and still many others are con-tained
in letters received
from all over the United
States and Canada — with
varied and new ideas for the
utilization of products turned
out by "the most complete
chocolate and cocoa plant in
the world."
The Kitchen has a several-fold
purpose: 1—To cooper-ate
in the scientific analyses
which are routinely followed
Susan Campbell daily in the Plant's quality
control program; 2—To evaluate the standard prOducts—
cocoa, baking chocolate, and the bar goods of the Corpora-tion—
under conditions which simulate as nearly as pos-sible
those experienced by the actual consumer; 3—To co-
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HAYMAKING WEATHER of last week put this echelon of tractors to work cutting
alfalfa inea field near Hummelstown along new Route 422. Hershey Farms men man-ning
the machines are Kenneth Burd, Ray Lentz and Paul Zimmerman.
But (below) the haymaking weather was tough on home gardeners. Here, Assist-ant
High School Principal Rufus K Eby gives artificial precipitation to his parched
petunias, or whatever.—(Photos: David Strickler
Two Persons Join Faculty Of Hershey Junior College
Elizabeth Taylor Paul Hofmann
Make Improvements To Mansion Road
ONE OF THIS YEAR'S road improvements is the
change being made in Mansion Road between Chocolate
Avenue and Derry where this photo was made by David
Strickler. The work is being done by the Derry Town-ship
Board of Supervisors for better -safety for both
motorists and pedestrians.
The job includes the widening of the curve and tak-ing
off the top of the hill, plus the work of placing fill in
the depression near the Caddy House. The project will
be an important improvement in the local road network.
D.r. Varnum H. Fenster-macher,
dean of Hershey Jun-ior
College, this week an-nounced
the appointment of
two college faculty members
as the school prepared for the
coming term.
Named to the posts of dean
of women and professor of
psychology is Miss Elizabeth
L. Taylor, who comes here
from Lebanon Valley College
where she held a similar posi-tion.
Miss Taylor has had wide
experience in the field of psy-chology,
as an advisor to wom-en
students and in student
government activities.
Elected to give preparation
in biological, physical, and so-cial
sciences at Hershey Jun-ior
College was Paul E. Hof-mann,
who for the past two
years has been instructing in
Biological Sciences at the Uni-versity
of Pittsburgh.
Miss Taylor, a graduate of
Schenectady (N. Y.) High
School, received her bachelor
of arts degree from Skidmore
College, Saratoga, N. Y., and
her master's degree from Co-lumbia
University. She also
received a certification in Of-fice
Personnel-Industrial Man-agement
at Rochester Insti-tute
of Technology in 1948.
She is a member of the Na-tional
Vocational Guidance
Association and the Associa-tion
of Eastern College Per-sonnel
Officers.
In addition to her college
posts, her experience also in-cludes
work with the Presby-terian
Board of Foreign Mis-sions
in New York City.
Mr. Hofmann graduated
from Bradford (Pa.) High
School and received his bache-lor
of science degree from
Pennsylvania State Univer-sity
and his master's degree
from the University of Pitts-burgh.
'He served as a med-ical-
surgical technician in the
U. S. Army from 1946 to 1949.
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