Hershey News 1959-08-20

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 7 -HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AUGUST 20, 1959 No. 34
Eleventh Annual Dutch Days
Celebration Here Next Week
The fine old art of quilt-making
by the Pennsylvania
Germans will once again win
the appreciative interest of
thousands as the needlework
objects of art go on display
at•the eleventh annual Penn-sylvania
Dutch Days celebra-tion
in Hershey on August
27-28-29-30.
Ladies of four area church-es
will be seen quilting among
the many handcraft exhibits
of the Hershey Sports Arena
during the big folk festival,
and several hundred beauti-fully
executed quilts will be
on display, according to Rufus
Hollinger, arts and crafts
chairman of the Dutch days
committee.
All Dutch Days exhibits
are open to the public with-out
admission charge, Hol-linger
said.
Among the many, interest-ing
examples of Pennsylvania
German handcrafting will be
hand-turned pottery as pro-duced
by Mr. and Mrs. ,Elwood
Deckert of Highspire, who will
demonstrate the operation of
the potter's wheel.
Ceramics firing and ceram-ics
painting, the "lost art" of
blacksrnithing, hex sign paint-ing.
and many other faseinat-
--- —Tick art forms of the Pennsyl-vania
Dutch will be shown by
outstanding talent in these
moyne will show his authentic
reproductions of grandfather
clocks and (surprise) grand-mother
clocks, and members
of the Conewago Church of
the Brethren will demonstrate
chair caning.
Interesting and tasty will
be the actual baking of pret-zels
during the exposition in
the Sports Arena. A Lititz
pretzel house also plans a
pretzel-twisting contest for
Dutch Days visitors.
The Lebanon Valley, Read-ing-
Berks and Williamsport
Guilds of Craftsmen will
again have representatives at
the Dutch Days exhibits to
show "just about every type
of craft or art usually asso-ciated
with .a guild."
The four-day revival of
Pennsylvania German cus-toms
and culture will be
crammed with interesting
highlights and sidelights.
Agricultural attractions Will
will include a 4-H and Future
Farmers of America hog
show, a dairy cattle show, re-gional
hay show, modern farm
implement display, a 4-H
Dairy Club roundup, and a
4-H Light Horse and Pony
Club roundup.
The Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation will crown its state
poultry queen and state poul-try
cooking queen at cere-fields.
monies in the Hershey Park
Raymond Heckert o,f Le- bandshell on Saturday, Au-
VA kik
SUNFLOWER SEASON—Ten-year-old Kendra Shuey, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Shuey of 78 East Derry Road, points to a tower-ing
sunflower growing nearly 12 feet tall in the Shuey garden. Der
fellow horticulturists are her brother Steven, 8, and a neighbor,
Jimmy Andrione, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Andrione, 123
Trinidad Avenue. The youngsters planted the sunflower last
April 7.
gust 29.
Strolling musical German
hands, square dancing, apple
butter cooking and other
events will fill the four days
with -the' color and sound of
the Pennsylvania, Dutch.
To please the sense of taste,
the flavorful Dutch copper
kettle apple butter boiling will
again be one of the features of
the festival, along with the
chicken barbecues conducted
by the Pennsylvania' Poultry
Federation.
Pennsylvania Dutch dialect
speakers and an oldtime coun-try
auction sale, a dialect
h-y m n sing, Pennsylvania
Dutch translation bee and a
typical Pennsylvania German
religious service will underline
the "Dutch accent" of the ob-servance.
These events will all
be held in the park bandshell
during Friday afternoon and
evening, August 28.
"Outdoor games for every-one"
a la picnic style are book-ed
for the Park athletic field
at 4 p. m. on Saturday, August
29.
One of the new, features of
the poultry exhibits this year
will be a prize bantam hobby
shOw_at the athletic_field.
Keynoting the religious
side of the big folk festival
will be a typical Pennsyl-vania-
Dutch church service
in the Hershey park band-shell
on Friday evening,
August 28. One of the out-standing
orators in the
"Dutch" dialect, the Rev.
Dr. Pierce E. Swope of Lela-
_ anon, will preach the ser-mon
in the dialect.
'Dr. Swope FS a retired Evan-gelical
and Reformed Church
minister and for many years
has been a moving force in
the celebration of Dutch Days
at Hershey.
A devotional period at the
service will be led by Prof.
Rufus K. Eby, Hershey Jun-ior
High School principal and
teacher of Pennsylvania Ger-man
dialect in the Hershey
Evening School. Hymns will
be sung in the dialect by the
Mills Sisters Quartette.
Each day the Pennsylvania
Dutch Days programs are
opened by singing one verse
of "America" in Pennsylvania
German and a brief prayer is
offered in both the dialect and
in English.
Eleventh Annual
Despite the heat, a call
went out this week for
quilts.
Dutch Days exhibits
chairman Rufus Hollinger
said a number of quilts are
still needed to complete the
big display planned for the
Dutch Days event in Her-shey
Sports Arena.
Hollinger invited all local
area persons with hand-worked
quilts to place them
in the display to add color
of the exposition.
Ribbons are awarded for
prize winning quilts.
Announce Change In Hotel Management
Robert Cournoyer
The Hershey Estates, own-er
and operator of Hotel Her-shey,
on Monday announced
the retirement of Charles E.
Todd, managing director of
the hotel, effective -Noyem-ber
1.
Robert P. Cournoyer. has
been appointed to succeed Mr.
Todd as managing director at
that time. Cournoyer -joined
the Hotel Hershey organiza-tion
on August 17.
Cournoyer recently com-pleted
the final touches to-the
successful opening of the de-luxe
Fontainebleau Motor' Ho-tel
in New Orleans, one of the
country's largest and most
luxurious. - -
Prior to that time he had
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Announce Staff Assignments
For -Milton Hershey School
As the Milton Hershey
School prepares to begin its
Fiftieth Anniversary School
Year, an announcement was
issued concerning the school's
staff organization.
As assistant 'superinten-dent,
Richard A. Rudisill will
assume more responsibilities
in the- Educational Division,
where _Melvin H. Garner has
been --appointed- director of
Secondary Education„ .
John M: Aichele - will serve
as administrative assistant in
the Educational Division:
HalL Giessler .- has been
named' director of the Senior
Home Division, and: Howard
H. Baum- has been _designated.
business manager.
Dr. John '0. Hershey, Mil-ton
Hershey 'School superin-tendent,
announced that the
school's new faculty, members
will include: <
William Bitner III, Shire-manstOwn,
Pa., who received
his Bachelor of Arts degree
from Gettysburg ,College this
Spring, will teach English
and Social Studies. -
Philip S. Brown; Elderton,
Pa., who received the degree
Of Bachelor of 'Science from
Indiana State Teachers Col-lege.
Married, and the father
of three sons, Brown will
teach Mathematics.
Mrs. Sarah Doherty, Colon-ial
Park, who has received- the
Bachelor of Science degree
and has taken graduate study
at the Pennsylvania State
University, will serve- as psy-chologist.
. •
Nelson Durand, Enola, Pa.,
who will teach Science, is re-siding
with ,his wife and two
children at M. H. S. College
Hall where he is serving as
hallmaster. He holds-. the de,.:-.--
gree of Bachelor of Science
and a Master's Degree in Ed-ucation
from the Pennsylvan-ia
State University. Durand
formerly taught at East
Pennsboro High School..
Lloyd Morgan, Harrisburg,
who will teach health and-phy-sical
education in the elemen-tary
school. Mr. and Mrs. Mor-gan
are residing at M. H. S.
Woodside •Cottage where they
are serving as substitute
houseparents Mr. Morgan re-ceived
the Bachelor of Science
degree from-Lock Haven State
Teachers College in 1959.
Charles Newcomer, Her-shey,
who will teach Business
Education, has received the
Bachelor, of ,Science degree
from Spsquehanna University
and the. Master's Degree . in
Education from Temple Uni-versity.
Formerly a teacher at
Elizabethtown High School,
he is married to the former
Natalie Whittle of Hershey.
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