Hershey News 1958-06-12

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6 HERSHEY, PENNSLYLVANIA, JUNE 12, 1958 No. 24
Savings Bonds Drives
Are Launched Monday
Chocolate Corp.
Bond Buying Up
Approximately fifty - nine per
cent of all Hershey Chocolate
Corporation employees are now
purchasing U.S. Savings Bonds
through the Payroll Deduction
Plan after the corporation's 1958
campaign was concluded recent-ly,
it was announced by President
8: F. Hinkle. The Chocolate
Corporation held its drive during
the week of May 19.
In complimenting the employ-ees
on their "worthy contribu-tion
toward 'Strengthening Ameri-ca's
Peace Power," Mr. Hinkle
reported that the final tabulation
indicates that there were 334 new
bond subscribers and 196 in-creases
by present bond pur-chasers
signed up during the
drive.
The corporation president also
expressed his appreciation for
the work of the canvassers dur-ing
the successful campaign.
Golfers Eye
Picard Mark
Contestants in the forthcoming
Pennsylvania Open, scheduled to
be played over the courses of the
Hershey Country Club and Park
Golf Club on Monday, June 23,
..will be shooting at the—Hershey
Country Club course record of 65
strokes, set by Henry G. Picard,
former golf pro here.
Picard fired the record-break-ing
65 way back in 1937, when he
won the Hershey Open for the
second year in a row with a 280
total for 72 holes, Ben Hogan,
who succeeded Picard as pro,
holds the. 72-hole mark with a
275 total.
The best mark for the Pennsyl-vania
Open since it first came to
Hershey in 1953, was posted by
Henry Williams, Jr., Berkleigh
Country Club pro, who registered a
141 (five under par) for the 36-hole
test, all at the Country Club.
Last year's victor, Skee Riegel of
Radnor Valley, went one over par,
posting a 145 total for 36 holes, 18
at the Park Club course, and 18
at the Country Club.
This will, mark the third year in
a row that the tournament will be
played over two courses.
Employees of the Hershey
Estates and the Milton Her-shey
School this week were
declaring themselves in for
their "share in America" as
the tWo organizations carried
on their 1958 U.S. Savings
Bonds campaigns..'
On the theme of "Share in
America," bond drive canvas-sers
were stressing the im-portance
of investing in the
nation's strength and peace
power, following a talk by
James W. Marvin, Pennsyl-vania
Directer of the U.S.
Treasury's Savings- Bonds Di-vision,
on Monday.
Marvin struck hard on the
note that "these shares in
America help your govern-ment
protect you and defend
our freedoms."
The Treasury official point-ed
out that the United States
must remain strong in mod-ern
military defense in order
to deter aggression and to as-sure
our future freedom. In-vesting
in the Share in Amer-ica
Savings Bonds program is
a sure way to help our nation
directly, Marvin said.
In detailing the personal
advantages of the payroll de-duction
plan of acquiring the
Series E Savings Bonds, Mar-vin
said that studies show
that Americans_ ar using the
system with enthusiasm for
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School Band
Ends Season
The Hershey High School
Band will draw - its concert
season to a close tonight —
Thursday, June 12 — in a
performance at the Hershey
Park bandshell. The concert,
which marks the final appear-ance
for many recent Hershey
High graduates, is scheduled
for 7 p.m.
Most of the selections
played during the past year
will be included on the pro-gram,
as well as several new
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St. Joan Of Arc School Graduates 29
The Rev. Anthony J.-May- Phyllis Funghi, general excel-an,
pastor of St. Joan of Arc
Church, delivered the Com-mencement
sermon and pre-sented
the diplomas as
eighteen boys and eleven girls
were graduated from the
Eighth Grade of the St. Joan
of Arc School on June 1.
The church choir provided
music for the graduation cere-monies,
with Miss Regina
Pronio as organist.
The valedictory address
was given by Agnes Graham,
and the salutatory address by
Antoinette Delisi.
Awards were presented by
Rev. Mayan to: Agnes Gra-ham
and Antoinette Delisi,
highest averages; N a than
English, religion; Agnes Gra-ham,
conduct; Rosemarie Or-tenzi,
Vincent Sheridan and
lence ; Michael Barry and Ron-ald
Meily, excellence in co-operation;
and Robert
Chango, Nathan English and
Michael Barry, perfect atten-dance.
The graduates: Michael
Barry, Ronald Bentz, Daniel
Boltz, Robert Chang°, Nathan
English, James Kolaric, Den-nis
Little, David Menicheschi,
Ronald Meily, Kenneth Mintz,
Richard Patterson, Michael
P av on e, Carl Piergallini,
James Piergallini, Vincent
Sheridan, Frederick Sorcsek,
Frank Tulli, William Yakstis.
Alberta Bambrick, Joanne
Bucciarelli, Antoinette Delisi,
Martha Erwin, Phyllis Fun-ghi,
Joyce Gasper, Agnes Gra-ham,
Sarah Kindt, Susan
Kupstas, Rosemarie Ortenzi
and Donna Rhan,
110 Get Milton Hershey School Diplomas
One hundred and ten Sen-iors
were graduated from the
Milton Hershey School at the
twenty-fourth annual Com-mencement
Exercises in the
Hershey Community Theatre
on June 2.
Graduating Summa Cum
Laude were John J. Corson,
Robert Duignan and Kenneth
Wilkinson, and receiving Cum
Laude honors were James
Carville, Bruce Cole, Gary
Daum, Richard Lowright,
Raymond Orlowski, Barry
Souders and Leslie Weaver.
The Comencement address
was given by Dr. Leonard W.
Mayo, executive director of
the Association for the Aid of
Crippled Children and chair-man
of the Executive Com-mitee
of the 1950 Midcentury
White House Conference on
Children and Youth.
Dr. Mayo was introduced
by Dr. John 0. Hershey, su-perintendent
of the Milton
Hershey School.
The graduating class was
presented by Principal W.
Allen Hammond, and the di-plomas
were awarded by D.
Paul Witmer, chairman of the
school's Board of Managers.
A •silent tribute to Milton
S. Hershey, school founder,
was led by James E. Bobb,
vice-chairman of the Board of
Managers.
Alumnus-of-Year -
During the Commencement
proceedings, Dr. Hershey pre-sented
the school's annual
Alumnus of the Year citation
to Richard M. Light of Day-ton,
Ohio, a 1941 Milton Her-shey.
School graduate. Light
is now head of the integral
horsepower motor section in
the Engineering Department
of the Leland Electric Com-pany,
a division of the Ameri-can
Machine and Foundry
Corporation.
The 1958 Alumnus of the Year is
also a graduate of Hershey Junior
College (1943).
He received his bachelor of
science degree in electrical engin-eering
from Bucknell University,
and is a veteran of Naval service.
Formerly associated with Westing-house,
Light participated in the de-signing
of motors for the country's
first atomic submarine, the Nauti-lus.
Student Commencement speakers
were Reid Henderson, who gave
the address of welcome, and Dale
Hess, who spoke the farewell for
his class.
Vocal music for the excercises
was provided by the school's glee
club, directed by Virgil L. Alexan-der.
The invocation and benediction
were given by Landis R. Heller,
Jr., director of religious life. An
organ prelude was played by W.
Purnell Payne.
Awards
Senior awards given at Class Day
during the afternoon of June 2 in-cluded:
William Ball, Senior course of
study award in sheet metal; Bruce
Cole, Senior course of study award
in college preparation, M. H. S.
faculty award in college prepara-tion,
Danforth Foundation Award.
John Corson (valedictorian), M.
H. S. Gold Scholarship Medal, M.
H. S. Alumni Association scholar-ship
award, Bosch and Lomb
Science Medal, Reader's Digest
Award.
Gary Daum,' Senior course of
study award in auto mechanics, M.
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FINAL INSPECTION — Milton Hershey School Senior
Fred Johnson receives a last-minute checkover from his
Mother, Mrs. Emma Johnson of Wilkes-Barre, before the
Commencement procession. johnson received the "most
nearly ideal Senior" award at the graduation exercises
On June 2.
Rev. Glenn Rader Is New Pastor
Welcomed into the Hershey Min-isterial
Association recently was
the -Rev. Glenn =Rader, pastor
the Hershey Mission of the United
Church of Christ. The United
Church of Christ was formerly the
Evangelical .and Reformed denom-ination.
Rev. Rader, who has been con-ducting
services for the Union De-posit
congregation on alternate
Sundays since April 1, is a native
of Allentown where he served as
an assistant minister for two years
since his graduation from the Lan-caster
Theological Seminary. He
resides at the parsonage- at 518
West Chocolate Avenue.
The new Hershey pastor- was
graduated in 1933 -from Franklin
and Marshall College, where he
was 'a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
national scholastic honor society.
At college he was also active in
the band and glee club.
In past years he has been ac-tively
engaged in youth work at
summer church camps.
Services at the mission church
—formerly the St. Joan of Arc
Catholic Church building will be-gin
in the early part of the sum-mer,
following completion of exten-
Here
.ive remodeling now taking place.
At the time the Union Deposit
congregation will move to the Her-shey
mission church. At the present
time, the Union Deposit congrega-tion
and a Lutheran congregation
hold their services in the Union
Deposit church on alternate San-days.
The Hershey mission will open
with a congregation of fifty.
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