Hershey News 1955-11-17

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, NOVEMBER 17, 1955 No. 46
New Builders' Center Opens
At Hershey Lumber Products
Crowds of interested per-sons
welcomed a new service
to the Lebanon Valley this
week, as they attended the
grand opening of the Hershey
Lumber Products' new build-ing
center.
The huge modern display
center, unequalled in scope
and attractiveness in this
area, is a permanent feature
of the Lumber Products head-quarters
on West Chocolate
Avenue.
The general public visited
the display center on Wednes-day
during an all-day open
house event. Lumber Prod-ucts
personnel headed by
Manager D. Paul Witmer
greeted the guests and show-ed
the many interesting fea-tures
of the new facility.
On Monday and Tuesday
evenings, the open house was
held for contractors in all
building fields, for many deal-ers
in building supplies, for
area school directors and
teachers, for bank officials
and a number of other guests.
Large floral displays added
to the many bright colors of
the center's exhibits during
the three-day event.
Huge Room
The new display room at
the Hershey Lumber Products
building at 213 West Choco-late
Avenue has a floor area
of six thousand square feet
and is filled with features of
interest to home owners as
well as home builders.
One hundred and fifty feet
in length and forty feet wide,
the room was built on what
was formerly a flat deck
above a part of the Lumber
Products' furniture factory.
Designed to serve as."a peo-ple's
building center," the
display room shows top lines
in all materials for building—
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Hundreds Attend Homecoming Weekend
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL HOMECOMING of the Milton Hershey School Alumni
Association brought the election of this group of officers for the coming years: Left
to right — Melvin H. Garner, Class of 1940 and present director of student placement
for the school, alumni president; E. Martin Kuhn, Class of '43, vice-president; Wil-liam
L. Schmehl, Class of '38, treasurer; and Kenneth V. Hatt, Class of '41, secretary.
The homecoming activities closed Sunday with a memorial service in Hershey
Cemetery. The service paid tribute to the memory of the school's founder, Mr. and Mrs.
Milton S. Hershey, Mr. and Mrs. George Copenhaver, Percy S. Wilson, Clair Harnish,
and for the students who died while in school.
Alumni attending the homecoming weekend came from ten states and the Dis-trict
of Columbia. Also, many alumni now in the military service were able to obtain
furloughs for the occasion.
At the banquet Saturday evening, Alumni President William E. Dearden (Class
of '40) presented the honor guests and introduced the newly elected officers. Nine
hundred alumni members and guests were present at the dinner.
Mr. P. A. Staples, chairman of the Board of Managers of the Milton Hershey
School, brought the greetings of the Managers and briefed the group on the ac-complishments
of the school during the past year. Mr. D. Paul Witmer, former super-intendent
and vice-chairman of the Board, welcomed the alumni and introduced other
members of the Board and their wives. Also speaking were Dr. John 0. Hershey,
school superintendent, and W. Allen Hammond, principal.
Speaker at the Sunday morning church services attended by the alumni was
Dr. Marcus Bach, world traveler, author, and popular interpreter of inter-cultural
relations.
Ministerium Readies Annual
Union Thanksgiving Service
Hershey's traditional Com-munity
Thanksgiving Service
is to be held next Thursday
morning in First Evangelical
United Brethren Church, the
Hershey Ministerial Associa-tion
announced this week.
The community-wide ob-servance
begins at nine o'clock
with the host pastor, Rev.
Thomas W. Guinivan, in
charge.
Delivering the Thanksgiv-ing
sermon will be Rev. J. Her-bert
Miller, pastor of the
Spring Creek Church of the
Brethren.
Other pastors participating
in the union service will be
Rev. J. R. MacDonald of Fish-burn.
Evangelical U n it e d
Brethren Church, who will of-fer
the Thanksgiving prayer,
and Rev. William Sheldon
Blair of Derry Presbyterian
Church, who will give the
Scripture reading for the ob-servance.
Specially selected music will
be presented by the choir of
First E. U. B. Church. The
host church organist, Prof.
Robert W. Smith, will play
for the service.
Following the custom of the
annual religious celebration
here, the offering received wlil
be turned over to the Derry
Township Welfare Board for
its social services in the town-ship.
The community Thanksgiv-ing
service is is conducted by
the Ministerial Association,
rotating among the various
churches.
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SPECIALISTS in the art of package wrapping are Mrs.
Harold Kendig (left) and Mrs. Maurice Harro of the Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation's "Wrapping Department
They're shown here giving some specialty items "the
woman's touch." The two women employees use their
dexterous fingers to hand-wrap such packages as these
containing special Christmas gift chocolates.
Mrs. Kendig and Mrs. Harro are the only two wo-men
regularly assigned to the specialty wrapping of ord-ers
which cannot be handled by machine. Their job is
reminiscent of the way all wrapping was done in the early
days of Hershey Chocolate. It is one of the original wrap-ping
operations and is done under the supervision of Miss
Margaret M. Clark.
Mrs. Kendig, the former Veronica Schewkun, is a
native of the Ukraine and came to the United States
from Germany in 1946 as a war bride. The Kendigs live
in Palmyra and have three children — Harry, 9, Judy,
8, and Gregory, 5. Mr. Kendig is employed in the Choco-late
Corporation's Steel Rolls Department.
Mrs. Harro is the former Esther Glessner and is the
wife of a Moulding Department employee. They have an
eight-year-old daughter, Karen. The Harro family reside
in Campbelltown.
School Needs In Spotlight At PTA
Hershey citizens, parents
and non-parents alike, will
have the opportunity of hear-ing
at first hand the story of
what today's educational
needs are and how state
trends affect the local schools
as the subject is aired next
Monday evening at the No-vember
meeting of the Derry
Township Parent-Teacher As-sociation.
The session will be
held in the high school audi-torium
at seven-thirty.
T h e superintendent of
schools, Dr. L. Eugene Jac-ques,
and other school admin-istrators
will be in charge of
the program.
A thirteen-minute film,
"Johnny Keystone's School
Report," supplied by the
Pennsylvania State Education
Association, will be shown and
the local administrative staff
will answer questions on
school needs as brought out in
the film.
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