Hershey News 1964-01-23

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 12 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 23, 1964 No. 2
COMMUNITY SERVICE Award presented annually by the Hershey
Lions Club was this year awarded to Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Wil-liams,
who were chosen as the outstanding houseparents of the
Milton Hershey School. A plaque symbolic of their service to the
boys and the community, was awarded to the Williams' at cre-monies
held in the Dining Room of the Community Center. Mr.
Jack Keefer (center, left), Community Service chairman, pre-sented
the plaque to the couple. On the extreme left of th3 photo
is Mr. Leon Whipple, president of the club.
Tommy. Litz Leaves For Olympics;
Placed Second In Nationals
• Tommy Litz, 18-year-old Hershey ing Club pro, departed Wednesday
for the Olympics and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Litz, plan to
fly to Innsbruck on Saturday.
Junior College freshman, depart-ed
Monday for the ninth Winter
Olympic Games at Innsbruck, Au-
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. re skating
team.
Litz lost his U. S. skating crown
in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 12
by a slender margin of .09 of a
point. It was the closest margin in
the 46-year history of the National
championships by which a title-holder
had been dethroned.
Scott Allen of Smoke Rise, N. J.,
new champion, accomplished the
upset by placing first in the com-pulsory
school figure phase which
saw one judge, .Norman Fuller,
Long Beach, Calif., give Litz a
sixth place ranking. Litz earned all
five judges first place votes in the
free skating, but was unable to
overcome Allen's school figure
lead. Tommy stated that he'll have
his chance to get even at the
Olympics.
Felix Kaspar, Tommy's instruc-tor
and the Hershey Figure Skat-
Record Number Visit Plant
A total of 399,944 persons vis-ited
the Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
during the past year,
it was announced by S. F.
Hinkle, chairman of the board
and president of the company.
The total, while 56 short of an
even'' 400,000, was the largest
number of people ever to take
the plant tour and view the edu-cational
displays in the Visitors
Reception Center. A total of
362,254 persons visited the plant
in 1962.
The summer months consti-tute
the heaviest periods for vis-iting
with August leading the
parade. During Pennsylvania
Dutch Days at Hershey Park,
9,215 persons took the plant tour
on a single day.
'• GETTING SET for the Chocolate Town Age Group Swim Meet to
be held at the Cocoa Avenue Plaza on January 25, are members
of the co-sponsoring group, the Hershey Aquatic Club. Sanctioned
by the Middle Atlantic Assn. of the AAU, the meet is being held
In cooperation with the Hershey Community Center. On the starting
• blocks are Greg Weir (left) and Judy Lindentouth (right), with Coach
Bill Burns (center) checking their style.
Hershey Lions Present
Annual Service Award
Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Williams,
houseparents at the Milton Hershey
School Cottage "Perry", were chos-en
as recipients of the Hershey
Lion's Club annual Community Ser-vice
Award. The Williams' were
awarded a plaque in recognition of
their outstanding work with the
boys and the community, by Jack
Keefer, Community Service chair-man.
The couple came to the Milton
Hershey School ten and a half
years ago as assistant housepar:
ents and were employed as full
time houseparents a year later.
Today, they supervise one of the
new cottages for boys ranging in
age from four to 12 years of age.
In addition, Mr. and Mrs. Williams
are active members in the First
Evangelical .United Brethren
Church.
Alfred T. Gibble, director of the
Home Division of the Milton Her-shey
School, accepted a service
award plaque symbolic of the ex-cellent
work done by all the house-parents
of the school.
Elect Two New Members To
Foundation & MHS Board
Mr. James E. Bobb, chairman
of the Board of Managers of the
Milton Hershey School and the
M. S. Hershey Foundation, has an-nounced
the appointment of Mr.
Villiii E, Deaiden and Mr. John
S. Baum to the Board of Managers
of the school and the foundation.
The Boards presently consist of
the following members; Theodore
R. Banks, James E. Bobb, Joseph
S. Gumpher, Kenneth V. Hatt, John
0. Hershey, William E. Dearden,
John S. Baum, Samuel F. Hinkle,
Harold S. Mohler, William E. Schil-ler
and Arthur R. Whiteman.
At the reorganizational meeting,
the following officers of the Milton
Hershey School were elected:
James E, Bobb, chairman; John 0.
Hershey, president; Joseph S.
Gumpher, secretary and treasurer;
John T. Shuey, assistant treasurer;
Carl W. Scheetz, assistant secretary
and Clyde Ebersole, comptroller.
Officers of the M. S. Hershey
Foundation are James E. Bobb,
chairman; Joseph S. Gumpher, se-cretary
and treasurer; John T.
Shuey, assistant treasurer; and Carl
W. Scheetz, assistant secretary.
Chocolate Town
Swim Meet, Jan. 25
Entries have been coming in by
the scores for the Chocolate Town
Age Group Swim Meet, according
to Mrs. Wallace L. Gavett, Meet
Director. The open age - group in-vitational,
sanctioned by the Mid-dle
Atlantic Association of the
Amateur Athletic Union of the
United States, will be held at the
Cocoa Avenue Plaza on Saturday,
January .25.
Sponsored by the Hershey Com-munity
Center in cooperation with
the Hershey Aquatic Club, meet of-ficials
announced that 25 cents
of each entry fee collected for the
meet will be donated to the United
States Olympic Swim Team.
Team trophies for high point
girls' and boys' teams will be
awarded with appropriate awards
for the first six places in each in-dividual
event, as well as for the
first three teams In each relay
event. All contestants will receive
souvenir shouldet patches.
John S. Baum And William E. Bearden
Named To Hershey Trust Company Board
Mr. Arthur R. Whiteman, Pres-ident
of The Hershey Trust Com-pany,
has announced the election
of the following new members of
the Board of Directors of the Trust
Company. They are William E.
Dearden, Products Manager of the
Hershey Chocolate Corporation and
John S. Baum, Cashier and Vice
President of the Hershey National
Bank.
Incumbent members of the Board
are Theodore' R. Banks, James E.
Bobb, Joseph S. Gumpher, Ken-neth
V. Hatt, Samuel F. Hinkle,
Harold S. Mohler. William E. Schil-ler,
Arthur R. Whiteman and John
0. Hershey.
Continuing to serve as officers of
the Trust Company are Arthur R.
Whiteman, president; Samuel F.
Hinkle, vice president; John 0.
Hershey, assistant vice president;
Joseph S. Gumpher., treasurer and
secretary; John T. Shuey, assistant
treasurer; and Carl W. Scheetz, as-sistant
secretary.
Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sep-tember
14, 1922, Mr. Dearden is a
graduate of the Milton Hershey
School, Albright College with a BS
degree in Economics, and has done
graduate work at the Harvard Uni-versity
Graduate School of Business
Administration and Temple Univer-sity
in Philadelphia.
Mr. Dearden was associated with
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. as a Sales
Representative and Manager from
1946 until 1951 and served
as Administrative Services
Officer in the United States
Navy from 1951 until 1953. He be-gan
his employment in Hershey
with the Milton Hershey School as
Assistant Business M:nager from
1953 to 1957 and was appointed As-sistant
to the Chairman of the
Board of the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation in 1957. He served in
this capacity until 1961 at which
time he was named Products Man-ager.
In addition, Mr. Dearden was
named Vice President of Hershey
Chocolate of Canada, Ltd. and a
director of the H. B. Reese Candy
Co., inc., in 1963.
Mr. Baum was born in Palmyra,
Pa., Aug. 7, 1912. He is a graduate
a' M. S. Hershey High School and
the Central Pennsylvania Business
College of Harrisburg. In addition,
he has taken banking courses at
the American Institute of Banking
and attended several summer
school sessiohs at Penn State Uni-versity
held by the Pennsylvania
Banking Association.
Beginning his employment in the
Hershey Estates Offices in 1933, Mr.
&aim was transferred to the bank
in 1935 as a clerk. lie was appointed
as assistant cashier in 1946 and
"named as head cashier in 1958.
In 1962, Mr. Baum was appointed
vice president of the Hershey Na-tional
Bank and has 1)een a mem-ber
of the Board Directors of the
liznk since 1958.
PANEL MEMBERS at the District #38 Council Meeting of Toast-masters
held last Sunday at the Cocoa Inn were (seated) Dr. Neal
Musmanno, Education; Miss Lillian Meckley, Radio and TV; (stand-ing,
left to right) Mr. William T. Lunsford, Jr., Newspapers; Mr.
Harry Condo of Hershey, Business; Mr. Craig Truax, Politics; and
Rev. Raymond Fetter, Religion. Theme of the panel which was
moderated by Mr. Douglas Henry of the Hershey Toastmasters
Club, was "Communication—The Key To Progress." A Folk Singing
Concert was presented as the entertainment of the program by Mr.
Virgil Alexander, president of the Hershey Toastmasters Club, and
"The Metropolitans."
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