Hershey News 1958-08-28

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AUGUST 28, 1958 No. 35
Columbus Boychoir To Present Concert In
Observance Of M. S. Hershey Day Sept. 14
The Hershey area will be
treated to an unforgettable
program of music at the 1958
M. S. Hershey Day observance
in the Hershey Community
Theatre on Sunday, Septem-ber
14.
The program wilt be pre-sented
by the Columbus Boy-choir
of Princeton, N.'
famed throughout the coun-try
as one of the outstanding
inging groups of the day.
The people of the commu-nity,
as well as friends of
Hershey everywhere, are
invited to attend the con-cert
in tribute to the me-mory
of Hershey's founder.
There will be nO admis-sion
charge, and no, tickets
are required. The program,
sponsored by the Hershey
Rotary Club, will begin at
two p. m.
The Columbus Boychoir, di-rected
by Donald T.' Bryant,
originated as a community
enterprise in Columbus, Ohio,
'led by Herbert Huffman, then
minister of music at Colum-bus'
Broad Street Presbyter-ian
Church. Huffman founded
the Boychoir in 1940 with an
enrollment of 30 boys from
the city.
Almost at once, the choir
attracted attention far be-yon(
l the limits and after
AdY6
performances the boys cap-tured
the hearts and praise
of critical New Yorkers when
they made their metropolitan
debut in New York's Town
Hall in 1943.
Annual sell - out tours,
which carried the choir to
packed houses throughout the
United States and Canada, en-deared
the boys to millions.
COn'certs were given Ain
Carnegie Hall, the Academy
of Music in Philadelphia
and virtually every prin-cipal
auditorium in the
country. The boys have
sung with the New York
Philharmonic symphony or-chestra,
the Philadelphia
Orchestra, the NBC Sym-phony
under the direction
or Arturo Toscanini.
They.. made a film for ItKO
called "America's Singing
Boys" Which told the story of
461,-aeltool
8,000 theaters at home and
abroad. The U. S. State De-partment
also included the
Boychoir in one of its films
for distribution around the
world.
Pressure of applications
from all over the United
States led to the establish-ment
of a boarding, school in
1950 at a new location,
Princeton, N. J., where the
Boychoir occupied the former
Lambert estate, known as Al-bemarle.
Here, in a lovely and
spacious residential environ-ment,
the school offers an op-portunity
for combined mus-ical
and academic training of
high standard for qualified
boys regardless of religious or
social background.
Regular academic in-struction
in Grades Four
through Nine• is afforded,
along with a full program
of activities, pupils spend-ing
their days much as they
would in any school.
The curriculum differs only
in its emphasis on music. En-rollment
in the Ninth Grade
is normally small, for by that
time boys have, usually, be-come
wavering tenors or
baritones instead of the true
sopranos and altos demanded
by the Boychoir program.
Even while on concert tour,
the 26 selected singers from
the student body of 70 — ac-companied
by teachers —
have a nearly normal school
•oi.1 41,v
eir specially outfitted
bus, the "Schoolhouse on
Wheels," contains a desk at
each seat and a public address
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Hershey Farms Hay Wins
Grand Champion Award
The Hershey Farms entry
won the grand championship
award in the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Regional Hay
Show, one of the important
agricultural features of the
tenth annual Dutch Days
celebration here last week.
The winning Hershey
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DUTCH DAYS HONORS WERE GIVEN to two vet-eran
"workhorses" of the now-traditional event when
the Rev. Dr. Pierce E. Swope, left, and Harry L. Erd-man,
center, received bound copies of the ten Dutch
Days programs from 1958 Chairman Carl S. Swarr, at
right, in tribute to their unstinted service over the ten
years. Dr. Swope was the first teacher of the Dutch
Dialect Class of the Hershey Evening School which held
the first Dutch Days, and Erdman is a former Dutch
• Days general chairman.
swing open for Derry Town-ship
youngsters on Tuesday,
September 2, it was an-nounced
by Dr. L. Eugene Jac-ques,
superi ntendent of
schools.
The new term will begin
with a full day of- school on
the day after Labor Day, with
high school students reporting
at 8:05 a. m. and elementary
pupils at 8:55 a. m.
The high school dismissal
time is 2:45 p. m., and the ele-mentary
students will end
their school day at 3:05 p. m.
School buses will operate on
the same schedule as last year.
Plan Two Additions
To School Building
Will Provide Facilities For Labs,
Music, Homemaking And Phys-Ed
Plans for the construction of additions to the M. S.
Hershey Junior-Senior High School were announced
this week by the Derry Township Board of School Di-rectors.
The additions will be in two separate units — a
classroom built as a second floor over the existing bus
- garage and connected directly to the present school
structure, and a second unit to house the physical edu-cation
facilities.
Construction has been started on the first unit of
the addition. It will contain chemistry and physics lab-oratories,
science storage facilities, a photographic
darkroom, band suite, choral music suite, two general
homemaking suites, and a vocational homemaking suite,
as well as storage areas.
This unit will be a gift to the people of Derry Town-ship
by the M. S. Hershey Foundation and will be ready
for occupancy in September of 1959.
The unit will relieve crowded conditions in the high
school building, and will provide outstanding facilities
for science, music and homemaking.
Plans for the physical education unit include a
large gymnasium and auxiliary gymnasium, locker
roomsa physical education office and storage rooms.
The plans call for this addition to extend eastward
from the present school structure to the southeast
corner of East Caracas Avenue and Ceylon Avenue.
The School District has instituted plans to acquire
properties needed for the-project.
After the properties have been acquired by the
School District and the land cleared, the M.S. Hershey
Foundation will erect a gymnasium structure as an ad-ditional
gift to the people of the community, thus fill-ing
a long-felt need for adequate gymnasium facilities
for the4oca1 schools.*
These progressive steps by the local school direc-tors
and the M.S. Hershey Foundation will enable the
continuance of the type of educational facilities envis-ioned
for the people of our community by the late M.S.
Hershey.
Derry Schools To Open Sept. 2
Schoolhouse doors will In preparation for the open-ing
of school, the Derry
Township teachers reported
yesterday — Wednesday Aug-ust
27 — and are engaged in
a series of preparatory work-shops
'
meetings with princi-pals,
departmental meetings,
and a meeting of the Hershey
Education Association.
Friday morning, the teach-ers
wifl hear a talk by Dr.
Ralph Heiges, president of
Shippensburg State Teachers
College.
The largest enrollment in
the school's history is expect-ed
for the 1958-59 term, Dr.
Jacques said.
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