Hershey News 1959-09-10

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 7 ® HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 10, 1959 No. 37
Community To Hold Tenth Annual M.S. Hershey Day
World Scouting Leader To Be Speaker At
Observance; Famous Welsh Choir To Sing
Milton S. Hershey's contri-butions
to the welfare of
youth will be underscored at
the tenth annual observance
of M. S. Hershey Day in the
Hershey Community Theatre
on Sunday, September 13 —
the 102nd anniversary of his
birth. The program begins at
two p.m.
The guest speaker,' Lady
Baden-Powell, widow of Boy
Scouting's Sir Robert Baden-
Powell, will address the gath-ering
on the theme: !`Youth
Serves Mankind."
•As wife of the first
"Chief Scout of the World,"
she was given the title of
"The Lady Chief" by the
Boy Scouts, and in 1930 she
was appointed World Chief
Guide by all the countries
where Girl Scouting existed.
Her native country has con-ferred
upon her, the Grand
Cross of the British Empire
in recognition of her contri-butions
to youth.
The ushering services at
the M. S. Hershey Day event,
usually provided by members
of the _...spcm,.orirz Hershey
Rotary Club, will be perform-ed
this year by members of
the Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts of Hershey.
It was noted that Milton S.
Hershey, in 1942, was given
Boy Scouting's coveted Silver
Beaver Award in tribute to
his active interest in Scouting
and for his significant contri-bution
to youth. Silver Beaver
Award holders from through-out
the Keystone Area Coun-cil
have been invited •to be
special guests at the tenth
M. S. Hershey Day program.
The commemorative
event will be highlighted by
the music of the Cambrian
Male Choir of Cleveland,
Ohio,
The people of the commun-ity,
and friends of Hershey
everywhere, are welcome to
attend the observance, it was
pointed out by Arthur R.
Whiteman, chairman of the
Lady Baden-Powell
World Chief Guide
William A. Hughes
Choir Director
Rotary Club's M. S. Hershey
Day Committee. There is no
admission charge and no tick-ets
are required.
The Rotary Club, in spon-soring
the annual tribute to
Milton S. Hershey, is this
year also recognizmg the fif-tieth
anniversary of the school
for orphan boys 'Which he
founded.
Dr. John 0. Hershey, Super-intendent
of the Milton Her-shey
School and past president
of the Rotary Club, will intro-duce
Lady Baden-Powell as
guest speaker during the pro-gram.
The audience will be wel-comed
by Rotary Club Presi-dent
Harold S. Mohler, and
the invocation will be given
by the club chaplain, the Rev.
Thomas W. Guinivan.
The Rotary Club committee
in charge of arrangements for
the observance is headed by
Arthur R. Whiteman and in-cludes
John B. Sollenberger,
Theodore Banks, and D. Paul
Witmer.
Music for the occasion will
be presented by the renowned
Cambrian Male Choir of Cleve-land,
Ohio, under the direction
of William Albert Hughes.
Widely known as "The
Welsh Choir," the group
numbers 40 men, 80 per
cent of whom are Welsh or
of Welsh extraction. Ann
Griffiths Roberts is the ac-companist.
Choir selections
to be presented:
"The Creation" (Richter)
and "Let There Be Music"
(Williams).
"The Vesper Hymn (Beet-hoven)
and -"The Crusaders"
(Protheroe).
"Friend" (Davies) ; "The
Hush Song" (Welsh lullaby) ;
and "The Martyrs of the
Arena" (DeRille).
"This Is My Country" (Jac-obs)
; "0 Peaceful Night"
(German) ; and "March of the
Men of Harlech" (Welsh Air).
Soloists will be Leonard
Crowle, "Without A Song,"
and Orton S. Read, "The
Glory Road." Crowle and Wal-ter
Thomas will appear in a
vocal duet, singing Parry's
"The Two Sailors."
Choir director Hughes, a
sensitive musician with keen
vocal understanding, came to
this country after gaining mu-sical
recognition in his native
Wales.
He has directed the Camb-rian
Choir since its inception
in 1933.
A 50th Anniversary Year Feature
-Special Postal Cancellation For Milton Hershey School
A special slogan, "50th An-niversary
— Milton Hershey
School," was put into use in
the cancelling o1 letters at the
Hershey Post Office on Tues-day,
September 1.
The commemorative slogan
will be used in the cancelling
machines at the post office
from September 1 to Decem-ber
31, according to Post-master
Merl W. Seavers.
The Milton Hershey School,
under the supervision of- Dr.
John 0. Hershey, is the spon-sor
of the special project as
part of the school's term-long
anniversary observance.
Postmaster Seavers said
that on September 1 the post
office cancelled approximately
400 envelopes and cards,, sent
to the postmaster here by col-lectors
of special slogan can-cellations
from 33 states, in-cluding
Alaska, and one from
London, England. Other simi-lar
requests are continuing to
arrive.
Collectors are notified in
advance of forthcoming spe-cial
• cancellations through
their collectors' publications,
Seavers said. On the first
designated,day for the use of
the new slogan, the postal dis-patch
clerks make a special
effort to produce a clear can-cellation
on the collectors' en-velopes
and cards.
The Post Office Depart-ment
grants the use of special
cancellation dies only in cer-tain
instances.
The "50th Anniversary —
Milton Hershey School" slo-gan
will be used on all First
Class and Air Mail letters
which be carried to all
parts of the world. ,
Postmaster Seavers said
the local post office.is honored
to perform this special serv-ice
to the Milton Hershey
School and to the special can-cellation
collectors.
Milton Snavely Hershey
1857-1945
"His deeds are his monument; his life is
fmr inspiration." •
He Shared His Success
This tenth annual coMmunitywide observance of
M. S. Hershey Day- very appropriately carries heavy
empheids on youth.
For one thing, the program in the Community
Theatre on Sunday afternoon will include a note of
recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Milton
Hershey School, one of Mr. Hershey's many great
contributions to young people.,
Then, too, the guest speaker for the occasion
comes from the heights of the world of Boy and Girl
Scouting. Lady Baden-Powell and her late husband,
General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, have been revered
for years among the youth of the world.
These are fitting overtones to a program com-memorating
the life and achievements of Milton Her-shey.
Although he left school at the age of 13 or 14,
historians point out that he had received more than
average schooling for his time. But it was largely by
his own native ability and keen insight that he was
able to attain the success that was his.
However, the crowning achievement of his in-spirational
life came from a quality deep within the
man himself, demonstrating a nobility of character.
He shared his success with others. -
He served the cause of youth, generously and
with thought for the future.
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