Hershey News 1955-03-31

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 .43*ao HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 31, 1955 No. 13
Still On Job After 50 Years In Chocolate Factory
HER GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY as a Hershey Chocolate Corporation employe brought
congratulations to Miss Margaret M. Clark from Corporation President P. A. Staples
•
.
Miss Clark's record-setting service with Hershey began March 23, 1905. Her regular
• workday last Wednesday was interrupted for warm congratulations from Hershey of-
- ficials and the informal presentation of appropriate gifts for the occasion.
Foremen's Club
Establishes Jr.
College Award
• The Hershey Foremen's
Club, in a move designed to
foster the cause of education,
has established a scholarship
award for students of Her-shey
Junior College, it was
announced by Club President
Allen E. Lingle.
Approval of the award was
voted at a recent meeting of
the organization of local su-pervisory
and staff employees
of the Hershey Estates and
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion.
It provides an award of $125
to be payable to the recipient's
college or university as an aid
to furthering hli; or her edu-cation.
Nominations for the Fore-men's
Club Award are to be
made by the faculty of Her-shey
Junior College. The
faculty will select as candi-dates
for the award two or
more students who have com-pleted
a minimum of two se-mesters
at the Junior College.
Nominees will be students
who, in the opinion of the
faculty, ex hibi t superior
scholarship and leadership
ability.
The award recipient will be
chosen by a committee com-posed
of members of the Fore-men's
Club from the list of
(Continued on Page Two)
Marine Officer
Skip Kilrea
QUANTICO, Va. --Com-missioned
a second lieuten-ant
in the Marine Corps in
February, Walter C. Kilrea,
Jr.; son of Mrs. Ida M. Kil-rea
of East Derry Apart-ments,
Hershey, Pa., is now
taking a five-month basic
course at the Marine Corps
schools at Quantico. He
completed a ten-week indoc-trination
a n d training
course as an officer candi-date
prior to receiving a
reserve commission.
Kilrea is a 1954 graduate
of Yale University, where
he starred in hockey and
golf.
New Telephone
Dialling System
Coming Sunday
Anybody have any use for
a lot of old telephone num-bers?
Come Sunday morning,
there will be a lot of them.in
Hershey, all useless. '
At two a. m. Sunday, the
big telephone - change-over
goes into effect, and dialing
the old numbers will 'get you
nowhere.
Replacing the old numerical
system in Hershey will be the
new method of dialling the
letters KE (for Keystone) and
five numbers . . . for in-stance,
KE-3-2150.
The Hershey Bell Telephone
Company was making final
preparations for the change
this week and equipment was
in readiness to cut in the new
automatic apparatus at the
central office when the ap-pointed
time arrives.
At the same time, the new
local calling set-up which will
include Palmyra, Hershey and
Hummelstown on a toll-free
basis will go into effect.
The changes in the tele-phone
service are designed to
keep pace with the modern de-velopment
of telephone com-munications
all over the coun-try
and to meet the demandQ
of our expanding common-
Miss Margaret Clark Works
As Usual On Anniversary
A small, pleasantly efficient woman spent last Wednes-day
— March 23 -- performing her usual duties of general
supervisory work among the women of the Hershey Choco-late
Corporation. And, as she went about her work, there
was little evidence that this was a very special day in her
life.
Very quietly, Miss Margaret M. Clark was observing
the fiftieth anniversary of her career with the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation.
Although the appeaarnce of this attractive woman be-lies
her record of fifty years of employment, she began
working for Hershey on March 23, 1905, coming in from her
Sand Hills home to become one of thirtyfive women em-ployees
then doing the hand wrapping operation for the two-year-
old Hershey Chocolate Company. Her first job was
tissue-wrapping Almondines, an early Hershey product.
Now -- achieving the distinction of being the first
Hershey employee to attain a halfcentury of service — she
takes a great deal of pride in having had a part in the build-ing
of an industry and a community. She has seen just
about all the growth and development take place.
A Good Life
It's been a good life, she said on her big anniversary day.
She has always enjoYed her work, her home and her church,
and has found satisfaction in sharing her happiness with
other people through frequent and faithful visits with elder-ly
people.
The product of a good home and family life, Miss Clark's
own life has been profoundly influenced by the love of her
parents, whose memory she cherishes.
Good health has also been a great factor in her enjoy-ment
-of life. Her one notable illness came during the-grim
days of World War Two when she put in too many hours on
the job of war production.
"I didn't have to," she said, "but I felt I had to do all
I could."
Native Daughter
Miss Clark has lived all her life in Derry Township and
now resides with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Chester A. Burkholder, at 170 governor Road. She has three
brothers --- Harry,' in Palmyra; Irvin, near Jonestown ; and
William, who resides on Fishburn Road. She is a faithful
member of Derry Presbyterian Church and is a substitute
teacher in the Sunday School.
In her youth, she attended the rural schools at Know-ledge
Hill and Foreman's School, later taking post-graduate
work.
From handwrapping Almondines back in 1905, Miss
Clark has become familiar with many production operations
in the chocolate factory. She became an operator of one of
the first wrapping machines until January 2, 1924, when
she began working as a sample girl. Later that year she was
made a supervisor in the hand-wrapping department.
During the war years — February 1942 to September
1945 — Miss Clark supervised wrapping of the famous D-Ration
bars for U. S. government production, then for near-ly
a year she headed the machine wrapping on the third
floor. From July 1946 until the end of 1948 she had charge
of automatic machine wrapping.
At the outset of the year 1919 she was assigned to gen-eral
supervisory .work among the women employees of the
plant as a sort of industrial dean of women.
•That, briefly, is the story of a woman who hag 'spent
fifty years in industry and found happiness. As she herself
put, it:
"I'm a millionaire. Not in money, but in many other
things."
And the fifty-year mark isn't the end of her career.
She won't retire for a couple of years yet. They started
young in her day.
Hershey News
Comm. Bldg.
Hershey, Pa.
BULK RATE
U S. POSTAGE
PAID
HERSHEY, PA.
Permit No. 13
3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE