Hershey News 1959-10-08

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HERSHEY NEW
Vol. 7 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 8, 1959 No. 41
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BRONZE STATUE OF MILTON S. HERSHEY was presented by the Milton Her-shey
School alumni to their alma mater at ceremonies on Friday, October 2, in special
tribute to the 50th anniversary of the school. In photo at top of page are some of the
figures in the presentation ceremony, which was one of the first events of the Alumni
Homecoming Weekend:
From left—James E. Bobb, chairman of the Board of Managers of the Mil-ton
Hershey School; Melvin H. Garner, chairman of the Alumni Associations Statue
Committee; Walter Hancock of Massachusetts, sculptor who created the statue;
Alumni President (1959-60) Robert Beitzel, who made the presentation; and Dr.
• John 0. Hershey, superintendent of the Milton Hershey School, who received the gift
on behalf of the school. Standing to the rear of Dr. Hershey is Milton Hershey School
student Stephen Quick, one of a group of students who formed an honor guard for
the statue in the foyer of the junior-senior high school building.
The half-size statue shown will be replaced in the foyer by a life-size identical
creation which is yet to be cast in bronze.
ALUMNI HOMECOMING PARADE FLOATS (photos immediately above) included a
beatity queen brought to Hershey by the York Cthapter alumni; along With a big kiss
for the school's 50th Anniversary. The queen is the daughter of Milton Hershey
School alumnus Millard Horton (Class of 1940). Another of the elaborate floats was a
repliea of the familiar school clock tower, shown at right as it left the stadium at the
conclusion of the parade on Saturday morning.
1959 United
Fund Drive
Set To Start
The 1959 united campaign
for welfare funds opens here
, on Monday, October 12, it was
announced by the Derry
Township Welfare Board
which sponsors the local drive
in collaboration with the Tr -
County United' Fund of Dau-phin,
Perry and Cumberland
Counties.
Heading the township-wide
effort is B. Francis Garman,
serving as chairman for the
over-all campaign here. Rich-ard
L. Uhrich is Lower Dau-phin
County chairman for the
United Fund drive.
The Hershey Chocolate
Corporation, Hershey Estates
and Milton Hershey School
announced their in-plan cam-paigns
will begin on Monday.
Other firms and organiza-tions
poised to launch their
1959 drives are the H. B.
Reese Candy Company, Acme
Market, Derry Township
School s, Miller Brothers,
King Kup Candies, Inc., and
M. L. Haldeman and Son.
The business-industry in-plant
campaign affords a
unified system of conven-ient
giving. By this means,
persons have the oppor-tunity
to lump their char-itable
contributions into a
single convenient plan —
either by the popular pay-roll
deduction system,or by
cash contribution.
Also benefitting substan-tially
by the Derry Township
campaign is the Lebanon
County Community Chest.
Persons designating the
Lebanon County organization
in making their contributions
in the local drive will have
their donations assigned to
that agency.
Letters to the employees of
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