Hershey News 1957-05-30

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 5 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 30, 1957 No. 22
Hershey High Graduates 216
DR. WILLIAM C. FELS,
provost at Columbia Uni-versity,
addressed the two
hundred and sixteen grad-uating
Seniors of Hershey
High School at Commence-ment
exercises held last
night (Wednesday) in the
Hershey Community The-atre.
His theme: "On Being
Different."
Graduates taking part in-cluded
Nancy Laudermilch,
Thomas Loser and Jean Ott,
who participated in a sym-posium
on "The -World We
Desire," and William Reilly,
who extended the greetings
of the class. Awards were
presented by George D.
Lange, high school princi-pal.
Dr. Fels, the guest speak-er,
is a former executive
director of the Ford Foun-dation's
College Grants Pro-gram
and, as an associate
director of the College En-trance
Board, he organized
the College Scholarship Ser-vice,
in which 150 colleges
participate to assure the
most effective use of schol-arship
funds.
He also has been consult-ant
to the Fund for the Ad-vancement
of Education,
the George F. Baker Trust,
and to the University of
Puerto Rico and other in-stitutions
of higher learn-ing.
A native New Yorker, Dr.
Fels was teaching English
at the Cooper Union school
and doing graduate work at
Columbia when he went into
the Army as a private in
1942. He was discharged in
1946 as a captain of or-dinance
and returned to
Columbia as a counselor to
veteran students, and then
was assistant to the general
secretary until he joined
the College Board. He is a
resident of Demarest, N.J.
Named Class President
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. —
Miss Mary Alice Hocker, Wil-son
College freshman and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George W. Hocker of Hum-melstown
Route 1, has been
elected president of her class
for the coming academic year.
GRADUATES who h a d
prominent roles in Hershey
High School's 1957 Com-mencement
program were
Nancy Laudermilch
(above), Jean Ott (at right,
above) and Thomas Loser
(at right) The three stu-dents
presented a sympos-ium
on the theme: "The
World We Desire."
Nancy is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Lauder-mi
lc h of Hummelstown
Route 2; Jean's parents are
Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Ott,
314 Park Avenue, Hershey;
—nlid-Tbomas is the son- of
Mr. and Mrs. James Loser
of 19 North Spruce Street,
Elizabethtown.
New Service For Visitors
To Open Its Doors Friday
A Hershey Information
Center—located in the south-west
corner of the Women's
Club Building—is a new serv-ice
being offered by Hershey
Estates primarily for visitors
to the community.
The Information Center will
begin its operations tomorrow
Hershey's Roses
To Bow In Soon
The colorful rose display in
the Hershey Gardens, com-prising
five and one-half acres
of the 21-acre horticultural
layout, will get under way this
weekend, Harry L. Erdman,
chief horticulturist for the
Hershey Estates, has an-nounced.
Erdman said that the peak
of the display is expected
about June 10, depending on
weather conditions.
Thirty-three new varieties,
many of them as yet unnamed,
will be introduced to the pub-lic
for the first time.
Introduction of the new
varieties brings to 10,035 the
number of kinds of roses
among the 40,000 plants in
the display.
The Arlene Francis and
Peggy Newton are among the
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(Friday, May 31) and will pro-vide
tourists and other Her-shey
visitors with answers to
their questions about what to
do and what to see in the com-munity.
The Center will be staffed
between the hours of 8:30
a.m. and 5:00 p.m., seven days
a week, holidays included.
Available to visitors will be
a wide variety of bulletins and
pamphlets describing local en-tertainment,
recreational, ed-ucational
and industrial activi-ties,
and other services.
Among these pamphlets is the
pictorial "Places of Interest
in Hershey" which contains a
map of the area.
The new Information Cen-ter's
quarters—former site of
the Hershey Barber Shop—
have been redecorated and
final touches were being made
this week for the Center's
opening on Friday.
Telephone number at the
Center is KEystone 4-1650.
The Information Center for-merly
operated in the Com-munity
Building lobby's bal-cony
will continue to serve
the public as a source of com-munity
tourist information
and will be known as the Her-shey
Community Information
Bureau. Its function will be
largely to answer queries by
mail and to handle arrange-ments
for visiting groups,
delegations and organizations.
Junior College Holds 18th
Coin mencement Exercises
Fifty-four Sophomores of
Hershey Junior College were
graduated at the College's
eighteenth annual Commen-cement
exercises on Monday
evening in the Little Theatre
of the Community Building.
Forty-eight of the grad-uates
will transfer to other
colleges and institutions,
while others will take secre-tarial
and business positions.
Dr. Eugene Farley, presi-dent
of Wilkes College, Wil-kes
Barre, addressed the Class
of 1957 on the theme, "In
Spite of Change," pointing
out that in our world of ac-celerating
changes, the ideals
of vision, intelligence, integ-rity,
and a regard for the
welfare of all men, are needed
to sustain us in the future.
The traditional student ad-dress
was given by William
C. Larish, whose topic was
federal aid to education.
The class was presented by
Dr. L. Eugene Jacques, Der-ry
Township superintendent
of schools, and the diplomas
were conferred by Clever E.
Ernst, president of the Board
of School Directors.
Speaking for the graduat-ing
class was President Rich-ard
C. Mann.
Awards
Pr, Varniim II. Fenster-
Macher, college dean, present-ed
awards during the gradu-ation
ceremonies to these
class members:
Valedictorian Judith A.
Nagle — Dean's Scholarship
Award for "highest scholas-tic
achievement."
Richard C. Mann and Au-drey
J. Stump — Rotary Club
Award, to the man and wom-an
who "in daily personal re-lations
with associates and
the public best exemplify the
practice of the Rotarian ideal
of Service Above Self."
Sydney P. Magriney —
Hershey Junior College Fac-ulty
Award, for notable qual-ities
in citizenship in all
phases.
Helen J. Kling — Hershey
Junior College Alumni As-sociation
Award, for scholar-and
social promise, including
leadership, character and co-operation.
Richard A. Jackowsky —
Milton Hershey School Alum-
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DR. HEROLD C. HUNT,
Eliot professor of educa-tion
in the Graduate School
of Education of Harvard
University, will address the
graduating Seniors of the
Milton Hershey School at
Commencement exercises to
be held in the Hershey
Community Theatre on
Monday evening, June 3.
A former public school
teacher and administrator,
Dr. Hunt has had a long af-filiation
with education at
all its levels, serving also in
many key posts on state
and national associations,
councils and commissions.
He has also served as
U. S. under-secretary of
Health, Education and Wel-fare
from September 1955
to February 1957.
A native of Northville,
Michigan, he was educated
in the Holland, Michigan,
public schools; the Univer-sity
of Michigan (Bachelor
of Arts degree and Master's
degree) and Columbia Uni-versity
Teachers College
(Doctor of Education de-gree).
He has also received
honorary degrees from a
number of colleges and uni-versities.
Dr. Hunt is a member of
the National Council, Boy
Scouts of America, a past
director of the National
Safety Council, and is a
former district governor of
Rotary International.
Dr. Hunt resides at Lex-ington,
Massachusetts.
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