Hershey News 1961-10-26

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 9 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 26, 1961 No. 22
OF NATIVE South Carolina marble and brick construction, the modern Unitied States Post Office
Building, erected by the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, will provide 5,038 square feet of interior
space, an outside loading platform of 743 square feet; hard-surfaced space for parking of 1,496
square feet; and 4,940 square feet for truck maneuvering. Contractor is the John Stapf Co's, of
Harrisburg, Pa. During the construction of the new postal facility, temporary quarters were housed
at 119 Park Avenue on "Bowling Alley Hill". The original post office in Hershey was opened back
in 1905 in the "Cocoa House", which is now the Women's Club, with the late Ezra F. Hershey the
Postmaster. Men 1 W. Seavers has been Postmaster since July 24, 1959.
HONORED at a reception in the School Cafeteria following his 12
Noon celebration of The Solemn High Mass at St. Joan of Arc
Church on October 15, Father William Hopkins, 0.S.A., (left)
son of St. Joan Of Arc Church and the first Milton Hershey
School graduate ('47) to be ordained into the priesthood; his
mother, Mrs. Anne Hopkins, 85 Wynewood Road, Philadelphia, Pa.;
The Reverend Anthony J. Mayan.
Special Services For All Saints'
All Saints' Episcopal Mission,
Elm Avenue at Valley Road will
celebrate a dedication service at
a special Festal Choral Eucharist
and Consecration of the Mission at
the 11:00 a.m. service on Sunday,
November 5.
All Saints' Episcopal Mission was
established in the Little Theatre
Dedication
of the Hershey Community Building
in 1938, and has been situated at
Elm Avenue at Valley Road since
December, 1955.
On Wednesday, November 1, at
6:00, there will be an All Saints
Day parish communion, followed
by a covered dish supper at Brown-stone
Masonic Temple.
RELAXING from a tight Homecoming weekend schedule, Milton
Hershey School Alumni members, met in the Hershey Volunteer
Fire Hall, elected officers for the year: A. Wade Hancock '37,
' Immediate Past President, Altoona; Herbert Huebner '49, Vice
President, Palmyra; Charles A. Newcomer '50, Secretary, Her.
Shey; Kenneth V. Hatt '41, President, Hershey; Charles L. Smith
'41, President-Elect, Chambersburg; William L. Schutt.lit '38,
Treasurer, Hershey.
This Is Trick Or Treat
Week By The Ministerium
As they have for a number of
years, the Hershey Ministerium is
sponsoring trick or treat for church
world service, with children of the
churches making their "share our
surplus" rounds all this week.
Containers a n d identification
badges were distributed last Sun-day.
Monies collected by the chil-dren
will be returned to the
'14es in tli c coarinnc.srs on Sun-ay,
'October 29, at which -triit
services of dedication will be
observed.
Amounts collected will be an-nounced
at the Hershey Stadium
on October 30. "
Youth groups have been encour-aged
by the Ministerium to enter
floats in the parade with the church
world service theme.
In connection with the PTA
sponsored Halloween Parade, reg-istration
between 5:00 and 6:15
p.m. will be coordinated at School
Plaza by Charles E. Muench, Jr.
and Francis McCarthy.
Adding color to the parade will
be the distribution of hundreds of
balloons by members of the Her-shey
Lions Club.
A bake sale, coordinated by Mrs.
John T. Shuey, will be held in front
of the Hershey Department Store,
starting at 6:30 p.m. .Parade time
is also 6:30 p.m. from School
Plaza.
Parade prizes will be awarded
for best motorized float; best non-motorized
float; small fry; most
comical; best impersonation; most
original; best family group; best
non-family group; Boy and Girl
Scouts units and floats, as well
as to Brownies and Cubs.
Co-chairmen of the Planning
committee are John P. Meszaros
and Joseph C. Turazi. The judging
committee is headed by Mrs. Theo-dore
D. Mandes.
Coordinating the parade will be
Meszaros, Brent I. Hancock, Ter-ence
G. Faul. Transportation chair-men
is Edward Groy. Richard D.
Kieffer, John T. Shuey, Robert 0.
Bettleyon head the prizes corn-mittee.
Program coordinator at Hershey
Stadium will be Richrad Uhrich.
Coordinator of School Services is
Isaiah D. Bomboy. Richard Barbo
and Raymond F. Evans are head-ing
up poster distribution and
publicity.
The food sale at Hershey Stadium
is being coordinated by Mrs. Rus-sell
J. Hironimus.
Musical organizations will in-clude
the Milton Hershey School
Varsity Marching Band and Drill
Team; the M. S. Hershey Jr.-Sr.,
High School Senior and Cadet
bands.
Program For Dedication Of New Post
Office Building; Erected By The Hershey
Chocolate Corporation; An Open House
Another step in the Post Office
Department's modernization pro-gram
will be realized with the dedi-cation
program for the new, mod-ern
facility on Chocolate Avenue at
2:00 p.m., EST, on Saturday, No-vember
4. Open house will be im-mediately
following the ceremony.
Speaker at the dedication will be
the Honorable Wilmer E. King,
Postmaster, of Harrisburg, Pa.
Master of Ceremonies will be Louis
C. Smith, Chief Engineer of the
Hershey Chocolate Corporation,
builder of the new Post Office,
under the Post Office Department's
unique commercial leasing plan.
Opening greetings and the intro-duction
of the Master of Cere-monies
will be handled by Post-master
Merl W. Seavers, following
an organ recital by Mitchell Grand,
organist of the Hershey Sports
Arena.
The Reverend Glenn J. Rader;
Past President of the Hershey
Ministerium, will offer the invo-cation.
Remarks" of welcome will be ex-tended
by Samuel F. Hinkle, Presi-dent,
of the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation, followed by the pre-sentation
of guests and officials by
Mr. Smith.
A tenor solo will be presented by
Howard B. Phillippy prior to the
dedication address by Mr. King.
Following the address, remarks
l'e_vrelitcd by John B. Sol-en
erger, PreSident of the Her-shey
Estates.
The Honorable John C. Kunkel
Congressman of the 16th District
of Pennsylvania, will present the
flag to Postmaster Seavers, fol-lowed
by the presentation of the
Ode to Flag by Miss Kay Hollings-worth,'
student of the M. S. Her-shey-
Jr.-Sr. High- School and re-cent
winner of the State American
Legion Essay Award.
Postmaster Seavers will in turn
present the flag to the color guard;
Mr. Phillippy will sing the Na-tional
Anthem; and the benedic-tion
will be offered by the Rev-erend
Anthony J. Mayan, Pastor
of St. Joan of Arc Church.
Postmasters over the years have
been Ezra F. Hershey, 1905-1908;
Dr. M. L. Hershey, 1908-1914; Herb-ert
A. Newton; George J. Eppley,
1914-1917; John H. Cope, 1917.1921;
John Balsbaugh, 1921-1935; Thomas
H. Black, 1935-1946; Daniel S.
Graeff, 1946-1959.
MAIL SERVICE
Postmaster Merl W. Seavers
has announced that facilities of
the United States Post Office will
be moved from temporary quart-ers
at 119 Park Avenue to the
new Post Office Building on
Chocolate Avenue on Saturday,
October 28. Service will be
available to boxhoiders in the
late afternoon of October 28.
Complete mail service will be et.
fective from the new Post Office
on Monday, October 30.
SPEAKER at the 23rd annual Keystone Building Contractors As-sociation
convention at Hotel Hershey, Governor -John A. Volpe,
of Massachusetts (second left) is welcomed by Hershey Estates
President J. B. Sollenberger (right); George M. Schmeltzer, 840
Fishburn Road, Executive Director of the Association (left); J.
E. Bobb, Hershey Estates Vice President. Until elected Governor
of Massachusetts, Mr. Volpe was president of his own construction
company.
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