Hershey News 1955-05-19

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 19, 1955
Judge Harold Medina
Will Be M HS Speaker
Judge Harold R. Medina, who made international history
with his handling of the 1949 trial of eleven Communist
leaders, will be the speaker at the Commencement exercises
for the Milton Hershey School graduates on June 6, it was
announced by Dr. John 0. Hershey, M.H.S. superintendent.
The Commencement program
is to be held in the Hershey
Community Theatre.
A member of the United
States Court of Appeals,
Judge Medina has a long and
distinguished career as a
practicing attorney, teacher,
author and jurist.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
he was educated in the pub-lic
schools there and at Hol-brook
Military Academy. He
graduated as a Phi Beta Kap-pa
from Princeton University
in 1909 and won the Ord-ronneaux
Prize for the highest
standing in his class on grad-uation
from Columbia Law
School in 1912.
There never had been a law-yer
on either side of his fam-ily
and the struggle to get a foothold in the profession in the
early days often called for working fourteen hours a day at
assorted jobs.
While working as a clerk in a New York law office, he
was writing articles for the International Encyclopedia and
preparing a new edition of a lawyers' manual, thus starting
his famous course of lectures preparing students for the
New York bar examination. On top of all this, he accepted
a call from Harlan F. Stone, then dean of the Columbia Law
School and later Chief Justice of the United States, to teach
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Dr. Paul W. Hoon To Address
Hershey High School Seniors
The 214 members of the
1955 graduating class at Her-shey
High School will hear
an address by the Rev. Dr.
Paul Whitman Hoon, profes-sor
of Pastoral Theology at
Union Theological Seminary,
New York City. Dr. Hoon will
deliver the high school Com-mencement
address in the
Hershey Community Theatre
next Thursday evening.
An ordained minister of
the Methodist Church, Dr.
Hoon is a Chicago-born son
of a clergyman. He received
his Bachelor of Arts degree
from Yale University and
Bachelor of Divinity degree
from Union Theological Sem-inary.
In the course of two
years of study abroad, he at-tended
the University of Mar-burg
in Germany and Cam-bridge
University in England,
receiving his Doctor of Phil-osophy
degree from the Uni-versity
of Edinburg, Scot-land,
in 1936, the year of his
ordination.
Dr. Hoon has held pastor-ates
in Pennsylvania, New
York and Connecticut. Prior
to his appointment to the fa-culty
of Union Seminary, he
was minister for ten years at
the First Methodist Church,
Germantown, Philadelphia,
and is a past president of the
Philadelphia Council of
Churches.
He is the author of the
"Exposition of the Epistle of
St. John" in the Interpreters'
Bible (to be published), and
has contributed to various re-ligious
and theological journ-als.
He has also served for two
years as lecturer in Practical
Theology at Drew Theologi-cal
Seminary, Edison, N. J.
Historic Rite
For Ground
Breaking
A ceremony from out of the
pages of history will mark the
groundbreaking on Saturday
afternoon for a new Episcopal
Church at Elm Avenue and
Valley Road. The service will
follow an old English "Order
for the Breaking of Ground
for a New Church," taken
from a book now out of print.
The public is invited to at-tend
the event, which is set to
begin at two-thirty p.m.
The Right Reverend John
Thomas Heistand, bishop of
the Episcopal Diocese of Har-risburg,
will preside at the
service and will turn the first
shovel of earth from the site
i where the church altar s to
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No. 20
HERSHEY JUNIOR COLLEGE'S graduating class of Sophomores will receive their
diplomas at Commencement excercises in the Little Theatre on Monday evening.
Guest speaker will be Dr. Paul A. W. Wallace, teacher, historian and writer. Class
members:
Front row — left to right: Betty J. Showalter, Mary L. Herr, Flora L. Gallag-her,
Lillian G. Ruddle, Mary G. Koth, Elizabeth E. McMullen, Jean E. Heilman, Jo-anne
E. Ebersole.
Second row — Joseph Turzai, W. Ray Seidel, Richard L. Dows, Ronald E.
Fouche, Fred D. Pellegrini, Thomas Eisen huth, Richard Lyman, Richard L. Hartman.
Third row — Melvin Knecht, John J.Kaplafka, Thomas W. Gamble, Charles H.
Stoner, E. Robert Lollo, Charles Eisenhour, Ben F. Olena, Vern E. Wolf.
Back row — Curtis W. Stroman, George G. Yoder, John D. Witmer, Jr., Thomas
Cline, J.T. Robert Musser, Carl C. Herr, Kenneth Ernst, James .Lingle.
Absent when photo was taken is Daniel Strickler.
First in the 1955 series of graduation activities here was the Junior College's
Sophomore Convocation, held May 10 in the Little Theatre under the auspices of
Student Chairman Ronald Bierman, assisted by Miss Carol Moyer, along with Dr.
Varnum H. Fenstermacher and the college faculty. A number of awards, prizes and
merit certificates were presented to members of the Sophomore Class.
Rev. W.S. Blair Will
Give Baccalaureate
Sermon On Sunday
Rev. William Sheldon Blair,
pastor of Derry Presbyterian
Church, will deliver the ser-mon
at the combined Bacca-laureate
Service for the 1955
graduating classes of Hershey
Junior College and Hershey
High School on Sunday eve-ping
at seven-thirty p.m. The
service will be held in the Her-shey
Community Theatre.
The Hershey High School
Chorus will take part in the
service.
Opening the service will
be the invocation by Rev.
Thomas W. Guinivan, pastor
of the First Evangelical Uni-ted
Brethren Church. Rev. J.
Herbert Miller of the Spring
Creek Church of the Brethren
will give the Scripture read-ing.
Prayer will be offered by
Rev. Stephen E. Schullery of
Holy Trinity Lutheran
Church.
Rev. J. R. MacDonald of
Fishburn Evangelical United
Brethren Church will give
the benediction.
Student music groups tak-ing
part in the service, in addi-tion
to the high school chorus,
will be: string trio—Sandy
Stover, Lois Shuler and Karl
Moyer; mixed quartet —
Laura Jean Breneman, Fay
Eshleman, Donald Ebersole
and Carlton Hoffer.
Naval Commander Will Be
Memorial Day Keynoter
Delivering the keynote ad-dress
at Derry Township's an-nual
Memorial Day service
will be Commander Russell R.
Hedgecock, executive Officer
of the Navy's Ships Parts Con-trol
Center at Mechanicsburg.
He will speak at the cerem-monies
to be held at the Derry
Township Court Of Honor at
the Community Building at
the conclusion of the Memorial
Day parade.
Prior to coming to Mech-anicsburg,
Cdr. Hedgecock
was on duty in the Bureau of
Ships in Washington, D. C.,
where he was director of the
Applied Science Division, Re-search
and Development. His
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