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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 (Continued on Page Four) 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. . (Continued' on Page Four) Hershey News Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Pa. 4 BULK RAtt U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 40. 3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE Wit
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Title | Hershey News 1959-08-20 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1959-08-20 |
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Title | Hershey News 1959-08-20 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1959-08-20 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
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Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | 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 (Continued on Page Four) 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. . (Continued' on Page Four) Hershey News Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Pa. 4 BULK RAtt U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 40. 3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE Wit |
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