Hershey News 1963-10-17

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 11 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 17, 1963 No. 21
Cocoa Avenue Plaza Dedication Oct. 20
will be John B. Zerbe, director of
recreation.
An open house will follow the pre-sentation
with a competitive diving
and swimming exhibition from 1:30
to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition will be
presented by members of the Hershey
Community Center and Hershey Aqu-atic
Club Teams. Jackie Henry is
the diving coach; swimming coach,
William Burns and assistant coach,
Roy Schaffer.
A demonstration of the motorized
dome will be given at 2:30 p.m. by
Donald Chubb, chief electrical en-gineer
of • the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation.
A Hershey family swim will be
held from 5 to 8 p.m. to end the
day's festivities in fine style.
Dedication of one of the most mod-ern
recreation centers in the
United States, the Cocoa Avenue
Plaza, will be held on Sunday,
October 20, 1963, at 1 p.m.
Serving as master of ceremonies
for the occasion will be Dr. John
0. Hershey, Chairman of the Her-shey
Recreation Board. The Rever-end
J. Herbert Miller, President of
the Derry Township Ministerium
will give the Invocation.
Presentation of the Cocoa Avenue
Plaza to the Recreation Board for
use in the community will be done
by Samuel F. Hinkle, President and
Chairman of the Board of the Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation. Accept-ing
on behalf of the Recreation Board
Community Center Adds Program Directors To Staff
Mr. John Zerbe, director of rec-reation,
has announced the appoint-ment
of two new program directors
to the staff of the Hershey Commun-ity
Center, Miss Martha Ann Mur-phy
and Mr. David L. Gossard.
Miss Murphy, who will be handling
the girl's and women's programs at
the Center, is from Greensburg,
Penna., and is a graduate of Greens-burg
High School and Chestnut Hill
College where she majored in So-ciology.
"Marty" will also be in
charge of social recreation for
youth and senior citizens and work
in special event areas.
President of the student govern-ment
while at Chestnut Hill, Miss
Murphy also was elected to "Who's
Who in American Colleges and Uni-versities."
She has been a play.
REMINDER
Friends of the Hershey Pub-lic
Library, a newly formed or-ganization,
will present the first
of their Adult Program series
on Thursday night, October 24
in the Little Theatre of the
Community Center. Under the
sponsorship of the Hershey
Community Center, each pro-gram
of the cultural series will
begin at 8 p.m.
The October meeting will fea-ture
a talk by Mr. John Hilde-brand
a house parent at the Mil-ton
Hershey School and a for-mer
missionary in Africa for
eighteen years. Mr. Hildebrand
will lecture with slides on "Post-war
Years In Nigeria."
The programs are presented
as a free public service.
ground leader for three summers in
Greensburg; was an assistant Girl
Scout leader and has helped organ-ize
a recreation day for all of the
boys and girls in Greensburg. She
Murphy Gossard
has traveled extensively throughout
the Western United States, Canada
and Europe.
Mr. Gossard of Fisher, Illinois,
was a graduate of the University
of Illinois in 1961 with a major in
recreation & park administration and
received his masters from Illinois
in 1963. His duties at the Center will
include the men and boys division
and the adult recreation program.
Dave has served as a recreation
leader at the 1st Methodist Church
in Champaign, Illinois; recrea-tion
leader and supervisor at
the 1st Presbyterian Church;
recreation supervisor of the
Canton Park District; co-chairman
for annual patrol picnic for 600
children; graduate assistant at the
Univ. of Ill.; taught recreation indoor
and outdoor sports for the Dept. of
Recreation; and was liaison chair-man
for organizing the U. of I.
family camping show. He also
helped to organize and direct com-munity
recreation summer programs
in Canton in the summer of 1960.
60th Anniversary
Parade, Oct. 26
A Sixtieth Anniversary Parade,
featuring a dozen bands and bugle
corps, a State Police mounted color
guard, drill teams, nine floats,
motorized units and marching groups
will be held in Hershey on October
26 as one of the final events of the
60th anniversary year.
Ray B. Miller, coordinating chair-man
_for the mommoth festival of
bands, has announced that the fol-lowing
bands will march down Choc-olate
Avenue at 10:30 a.m. with
Brent I. Hancock, personnel direc-tor
for the Hershey Estates, serving
as the parade marshal: Milton Her-shey
School, Hershey High School,
Palmyra High School, Lower Dauph-in
Schools, Lebanon High School,
South Lebanon High School, Garden
Spot of New Cumberland, Susque-hanna
Township High School,Middle-town
High School, Lower Paxton
Junior High, Annville-Cleona Joint-ure,
and the Hershey Chocolatiers.
Peggy Evans, Sixtieth Anniversary
Queen will reign over the day's fes-tivities.
On the agenda for the afternoon
will be a colorful ceremony featuring
a combined presentation of the
aforementioned bands to begin at
1:20 p.m. in the Hershey Stadium.
Following the Festival of Bands
presentation, the annual Milton Her-shey
School Homecoming football
game between MHS and Palmyra
High School will be played starting
at 2 p.m.
Halloween Parade
Plans have been completed for
the 13th Annual Halloween Parade
sponsored by the Parent-Teachers
Association of the Derry Town-ship
Public Schools. The parade
will be held on October 30 at 7
p.m. with a rain date set for
October 31. Registration will take
place at the high school from
5:30 to 6:45 p.m.
Prizes will be awarded for the
best motorized float, best non-motorized
float, best small fry
(under 3rd grade), most comical,
most original, best family group
and best non-family group (boy
scouts, girl scouts, brownies, cubs
etc)., and a special division com-memorating
the 60th Anniver-sary
of Hershey. The special di-vision
will have a total of $150
in prizes. Other prizes of money
and merchandise will also be
awarded.
HIGH WHEEL RACE, a performance event held during the annual Antique Automobile Club of
America, National Fall Rally, is shown in the photo above. In the race, the owner of the car must
drive to a previously designated point, stop the car, crank, and begin again; this is repeated a
number of times with the first car to cross the finish line winning the race. There were approxi-mately
25,000 spectators on hand for the national auto show. Thirty-eight states were represented
with 915 autos registered. Eighty-five awards were presented at a dinner held at the Hilton
Hershey School.
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COORDINATING CHAIRMAN for the mammoth 60th Anniversary
Parade to be held in Hershey on Saturday morning, October 26, is
Ray B. Miller (left), director of the Milton Hershey School band.
Also in the photo are Miss Peggy Evans, Sixtieth Anniversary
Queen, who will reign over the day's festivities; and Brent Hancock
(right), parade marshal. The parade will move down Chocolate
Avenue beginning at 10:30 a.m.
MRS Homecoming
Hundreds of former students and
their families will be in town over
the weekend of October 25, 26, and
27 for the Thirty-third Annual
Homecoming of the Milton Hershey
School Alumni Association.
Starting the weekend's events
will be a dance and get - together
on Friday night at the Park Golf
Club, beginning at 8 p.m.
In celebration of the 60th anni-versary
of Hershey, a mammoth
parade will be held on Saturday
morning at 10:30 a.m. Prior to the
homecoming football game be-tween
Milton Hershey School and
Palmyra High School, the bands
will participate in a mass band
presentation at 1:20 p.m. The game
will begin at 2 p.m. with half-time
presentations featuring the West
Shore Bonnie Scots Drum and
Bugle Corps.
Special entertainment in the high
school auditorium on Saturday
evening will be provided by the
Milton Hershey School Glee Club,
directed by Virgil L. Alexander. In
addition, the Hershey Optimists' will
perform a portion of their annual
variety presentation, "Cornival."
Following an open house in the
student homes, the annual banquet
will be held in the high school din-ing
hall at 6 p.m. A dance in the
gymnasium will follow the auditori-um
entertainment with the Spartan
Orchestra providing the music.
Speaker at the Homecoming Wor-ship
Service in the Community
Theatre on Sunday at 9:15 a.m.
will be Mr. Arthur R. Whiteman,
class of 1927 and President of the
Hershey Estates.
Memorial Services at Hershey
Cemetery will be conducted at
10:45. The address will be given
by W. Allen Hammond.
The first annual MRS Alumni
Golf Tournament will be held on
Sunday beginning at 12:15 p.m. at
the Hershey Park Golf Club. Golf-ers
are asked to register before
noon for the tournament which will
have trophies for the best scratch
and handicap scores.
Folk Festival '63 Set For
The Hershey Sports Arena
Warm and vivacious Judy Collins;
the young, fresh talent of the
Brandywine Singers; and America's
largest and best new folk group, the
New Christy Minstrels, make up the
big folk singing package coming to
the Hershey Sports Arena on Friday
night, October 25 at eight o'clock.
It's Folk Festival '63.
A product of the University of Col-orado,
Judy Collins is hailed by crit-ics
as "the epitome of what's best
about modern folk singing." Star of
ABC-TV's Hootenanny show, Miss
Collins started folk singing about
seven years ago and sings in an en-thusiastic
manner with a pure, pre-cise
voice.
Adding more of a college flavor to
the show is the appearance of the
Brandywine Singers, five handsome
young men not long graduated from
the University of New Hampshire
where they formed their folk sing-ing
group.
Consistently topping the field in
singles and albums since forming
just 18 months ago, the New Christy
Minstrels have a fantastic record of
four hit albums in the space on one
year. Their exciting style captivates
the audience and produces knee-slapping
and hand-clapping revelry.
Included in their program are famil-iar
pure folk songs, old English bal-lads,
spirituals and updated versions
of parodies and novelty tunes.
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