Hershey News 1959-10-15

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 7 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 15, 1959 No. 42
Announce Open House Event
For New School Facilities
Residents of the Hershey
community are invited to at-tend
an open .house program
to inspect the new facilities
for the Hershey High School
and Hershey Junior College,
it was announced by the
Derry Township Board of
School Directors: The pro-gram
will be held Monday
evening, October 26, between
the hours of 7:30 and 9.
The additional facilities for
both the junior college and
the high school are gifts of
the M. S. Hershey Fciunda-tion
to the community and
will enable the schools to ade-quately
meet the needs of the
students.
Junior College Labs -
The Hershey JOnior College
facilities have been expanded
to include the fifth floor of
the Community Building and
on this floor have been locat-ed
a Biology laboratory and a
Chemistry laboratory.
The Biology laboratory ac-commodates
twenty-four stu-dents
and provides extra
work 'space, storage and of-fice
space. The Chemistry
laboratory Will also accommo-
-date twenty-four students
and. has facilities for general
chemistry, qualitative analy-sis
and quantitative analysis.
Storage and preparation
rooms are also Drovicled.
- the
junior college shared the
science facilities at Hershey
High School. The new facili-ties
will enable scheduling to
be done in the college labora-tories
throughout the day, as
well as allowing opportunities
for students to do make-up
work and for the staff to do
research.
The Physics lAloratory is
now located in the room for-merly
occupied by the Bio-logy
Department -on the sec-ond
floor of the junior college.
In previous years junior col-lege
Physics classes had
utilized the science laboratory
of the high school's voca-tional
division.
Visitors to the junior col-lege
laboratories may use the
.elevator at the west end of
the Community Building.
Members of the junior college
staff and student body will be
on hand to greet visitors.
High School Facilities
The addition to the Her-shey-
High School was con-structed
during the past
twelve months and is located
directly above the Auto Body
Shop and the bus garage. In
the new unit are seven rooms,
equipped with the latest
facilities.
The chorus room is semi-circular
in structure and is
t ic red f(Ir hetter y
and sea'tin'g of stUdents. It is
built to accommodate 110
students at one time. Ad-jacent
to the chorus room is
a storage room for the uni-forms
used by various musi-cal
oroanizations of Hershey
High School.
The instrumental room is
also tiered in structure and is
designed to accommodate an
80-piece band. An office is
provided for the music de-partment.
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BIGGER THAN EVER BEFORE was the sixth annual Fall Meet of the Antique
Automobile Club of America, held last .weekend in Hershey, national headquarters
of the vintage auto fans' organization. Photo shows a small portion of the huge
assembly of more than 690 cars gathered in 'Hershey Stadium on Saturday. The
meet's events were held both Saturday and Sunday.
Steamers, cycle cars,, electric autos and "gasoline buggies" were judged Sat-urday
in 21 different categories, with the judges looking for authenticity of restor-ation
work and mechanical fitness. More than 100 trophies were awarded to winning
entry,owners at the annual banquet held in the Community Building Dining Room
on Saturday night.
Sunday morning, the "ancient" vehicles carried their owners and guests on a
"breakfast run" over a route which took them from Hershey to the Quentin- Riding
Club, returning to Hershey for "car games" in the Stadium. -
Host for the meet was the Hershey Region AACA, wh.ose director is
George R. Norton, Jr., of Reading. Norton is also executive vice-president of the
AACA. Meet activities chairman was William Boden, Jr, Pottstown, who is also a
vice-president and director of activities for the AACA.
The AACA. national office is located in the Hershey Museum building and is
managed by William Bomgardner..
NEW SCIENCE LABORATORIES at Hershey Junior
College include a Chemistry lab, a small area of which
is shown.in'photo above, and a Biology lab which is also
shown in picture below. A third newly installed labora-tory
at the junior college, not pictured, is the Physics
lab, now located in a room formerly occupied by the
Biology Department of the college. The Chemistry and
Biology labs_ were installed in rooms located on the fifth
floor, of the Community Building after an extensive' re-modeling
program. The piiblic will have the opportunity
of visiting the new facilities on Monday evening, Octo-ber
26, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. when an open house will
be held at the junior college and also for the new
modern ,facilitie -added to the Hershey High ,School
building. The Derry Township Board of School Directors
has invited all residents of the Hershey community to
inspect the excellent -new additions to the school plant.
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