Hershey News 1961-08-03

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 9 0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AUGUST 3, 1961 No. 16
"Five Full Days Of Folklore, Fun And
Festivities, Free" Theme For The 13th
Annual Pennsylvania Dutch Days Events
"Five full days of folklore, fun and festivities, free" is ,
the theme for the 13th annual Pennsylvania Dutch Days
celebration in Hershey Park from Wednesday, August 23rd •
through Sunday, August 27th, as announced by C. S. Swarr,
General Chairman of the event, and one of the original
founders.
HERSHEY Chocolate of Canada Ltd. Plant and Offices, Smiths Falls, Ontario. Pictured above is
an architect's rendering of the manufacturing facility of Hershey Chocolate of Canada Ltd., located
at Smiths Falls, Ontario. The buildings wilt contain nearly 200,000 square feet of floor space and its
very modern equipment will produce all forms of chocolate and cocoa products for the Canadian
market. Present plans call for completion during Fall of 1962. Engineers for the project are
Surveyer, Nenninger and Chenevert of Montreal, and Day & Zimmermann, Inc., of Philadelphia, Pa.
Changes Made In Board Of Directors At Corporation
Hershey Chocolate Corporation announced the following elections
made at a special meeting of its Board of Directors.
Julian Hemphill, of New York City, Director of Cocoa Bean Pur-chases,
was elected a member of the Board of Directors.
Richard L. Uhrich, of Hershey, Pennsylvania, formerly Assistant
Secretary, was elected Secretary of the Corporation.
Mr. Uhrich succeeds Lester W. Majer in the Office of Secretary.
Mr. Majer, Vice President and Secretary and a member of the Board
of Directors, died on July 15.
MEMBERS of the 3d AW Bn (SP) 213th Arty, PANG in
preparations prior to departing for annual field training at Ft.
Miles, Del., July 29 - Aug. 12. Taking a Friday evening loading
break at the Hershey Armory were PFC Harold Nornhold (left).
S/Sgt. Paul J. Kuhn, SP/4 H. Arthur Gingrich; SgtMaj. Delbert
E. Shildt; 1st Lt. Frank A. Capitani. The 35-officer, 400-man unit
started with a field exercise of 5 days and 4 nights at Georgetown
'Airport; will also fire 40mm and AA weapons at .Bethany Beach.
A TOTAL of 6,814 hospitals in the United States are listed
by the American Hospital Association. Of this number, only 3,600
have achieved the approval of the Joint Commission on Accredia-lion.
One of these is the Hershey Hospital; which has been fully
accredited by the Joint Commission on Accrediation. Heavy mid-summer
foliage precluded a front view of the modern brick struc-ture.
However, this is the West Wing, showing the sunporch on
the first floor and the Nursery of the Maternity Wing on the sec-ond
floor.
New Homes For Students Of
The Milton Hershey School
The Managers of the Milton
Hershey School announce seven
new homes for students of the
Milton Hershey; School are sched-uled
for completion this summer.
They are located in the new cam-pus
development for the Inter-mediate
Division south of the Mil-ton
S. Hershey Homestead near
the Bachmanville Road. This clus-ter
of homes will be known as the
Woodland group. They will accom-modate
98 boys, 14 boys. with one
house arent couple in F:le
Conkrnetion of n6
homes has been prompted by an
increase in enrollment and a de-sire
to lower the number of boys
in each family group.
Boys of the Intermediate Divi-sion,
grades 6 to 8, will live in the
new homes. Boys of the Senior Di-vision,
grades 9 to 12, will continue
to live in the farm-homes in small-er
family groups.
There will be no change in the
farm life program as this is a
most necessary part of the educa-tional
and training plan for the
older boys. ,
Boys in Kindergarten through
the 5th grades will continue to live
in the Junior Cottages.
Present plans are being com-pleted
for more homes as needed
and renovation of some of the
present buildings is now in pro-gress.
Hershey Hospital Honored
By Being Fully Accredited
The Joint Commission on Ac-crediation
has fully accredited the
Hershey Hospital.
Member organizations of the ac-crediting
body are the American
College of Physicians, American
College of Surgeons, American
Hospital Association and the Amer-ican
Medical Association.
The hospital accrediation pro-gram
is a voluntary program; and
accrediation assures the patient of
high standards of care.
The patient is assured that better
care- is provided by a competent
staff using adequate diagnostic and
therapeutic facilities.
The hospital stay is shortened
through efficiency, proper organ-ization
and professional skill of its
medical staff and employes.
At the time of the survey, Norris
J. Kirk, M.D., representative of the
Joint Commission on Accrediation
of Hospitals, met with T. R. Banks,
secretary of the Hospital Govern-ing
Board; Raymond R. Curanzy,
M.D., President of the Medical
Staff; Harold T. Engle, M.D., Sec-retary
of the Medical Staff and
Welch England, Administrator.
Prominent Pennsylvania Ger-man
educators and scholars have
been listed as speakers for the 13th
annual event.
, Dr. Arthur D. Graeff, past presi-dent
of the Pennsylvania German
Folklore Society and presently on
the staff of Kutztown State College,
is known internationally for his au-thenticity
regarding the arts,
folklore, customs and beliefs of the
early pioneers who founded our
nation.
Opening speech of the Dutch
Days program will be delivered by
Dr. Pierce E. Swope from Leba-non.
A retired Evangelical a n d
Reformed minister, Dr. Swope is
an outstanding humorist in either
the Dutch Dialect or English.
Another outstanding Dutchman,
Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser, of Eliza-bethtown
College, will be the main
speaker on Thursday afternoon,
Aug. 24th. His message will be
"The Pennsylvania Dutch Spirit"
Featured speaker at the evening
Pennsylvania Dutch Chuich Serv- A child must be five years old
ice on Friday, Aug. 25th will be before February 1, 1962 to be
The Reverend Ralph E. Starr of eligible for kindergarten and must
be six years old before February 1.
1962 to be eligible for first grade
Highlighting the speaker's pro-gram
for Sat.. Aug. 26th, will be
The Reverend Luther N. Schaeffer,
STM, pastor of The Evangelical
Lutheran, Church of the Holy Trin-ity,
Northampton.
Following a tradition set by the
founders of Pennsylvania Dutch
Days, no admission is charged to
any of the events and parking is
free.
the Evangelical Lutheran Church,
Wernersville, Pa
School Registration Will
Be Held Week Of Aug. 14
Registration for kindergarten
and new entrants for grades one
through six who have not previ-ously
enrolled at the Derry Town-ship
Elementary School has been
scheduled for the week of August
14 to 18.
Registration will be held in the
principal's office from 9:00 to 11:30
a.m. and from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.
MEMBERS of the Louisiana Bankers Association and the Lou.
isiana Association of Soil Conservation District Supervisors de-parted
their special 12-car air-conditioned train in Lancaster,
traveled by six air-conditioned busses through the Dutch Country
to Hershey and a visit to Milton Hershey School Farm Homes
Eastmoor (53) and Swatara (6B). Farm Division General Man-ager
Charles R. Wolgemuth (center) chats on the porch of East-moor
with II. P. Fleniker, Mansfield, La., (left); Frances Fran-ques,
Church Point; Roy B. Miley, Denham Springs, A. F. Barron,
Friendship.
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