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HERSHEY NEWS Vol. 7 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY, 2, 1959 No. 27 D. Paul Witmer Retires After Thirty-Five Years As Hershey Exetkitive And Builder July 1 brought retirement for D. Paul Witmer, chairman of the Board of Managers of the Milton Hershey School and manager of Hershey Lum-ber Products, a division of Hershey Estates. Mr. Witmer retired after 45 years as a builder. Thirty-five of those years were spent in Hershey. As a draftsman, architect and construction manager, he worked closely with the late -Milton S. Hershey to plan and guide to completion many of Hershey's finest buildings. • And in his administrative capacities With the Milton Hershey School he has helped to build the future of many a boy. Mr. Witmer, a graduate of Stevens Trade School at Lan-caster, has been engaged in the building industry since his youth. He is a native of Eliza-bethtown. He came to Hershey in 1924 as a draftsman and estimator and in a short time was chosen as manager of the Hershey Lumber Products. In this latter capacity, he was directly responsible for the planning.and constr.uction of much of the Chocolate Town. Industrial, recreation-al, and educational structures, as well as a great many resi-dential and farm buildings, bear the stamp of Mr. Wit-mer's creative ability. At Mr. Hershey's direction, Mr. Witmer brought into be-ing the Milton Hershey School's junior-senior high school building, Hotel Her-shey, the windowless office D. Paul Witmer • building of the Hershey Choc-olate Corporation, Hershey Sports Arena and Stadium, Hershey Hospital, Hershey Laundry, the Hershey Model Dairy and Hershey Abattoir. He supervised the construc-tion of the Community Build-ing and was responsible for the planning and building of the Derry Township junior-senior high school and the Mil-ton Hershey School's Fannie Hershey Memorial Build-ing. The relatively new Derry Township elementary school building also Was erected un-der his supervision, as well as the new annex to the junior-senior high school. His work includes the re-modeling of the Milton S. Her-shey homestead, and additions and remodeling of the Derry Presbyterian Church, United Brethren Church and the Spring Creek Church of the Brethren. He is a former superinten-dent of the Milton Hershey School, becoming the school's second superintendent when he succeeded the late George E. Copenhaver in that post in 1938. Except during his term as superintendent, he served on the school's Board of Mana-gers from 1936 until his re-tirement, devoting- much of his time and ability to serving the boys in posts which includ-ed the chairmanship of the board, the vice-chairmanship, and chairmanship of the Man-agers' Administrative Com-mittee. He was the. third man to serve as chairman of the Board of Managers of the Mil-ton Hershey School. At his retirement Mr. Wit-mer also was chairman of the Board of Managers of the M. S. Hershey Foundation, hav-ing served on the board since January 1, 1936. His service at Hershey in-cluded his directorship on the Board of the Hershey Trust Company, a function which dated from 19:16. He §erved as a director of the HeiintarBTX-tional Bank from 1937, and was a director of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation since 1946. Long a well known local golfer and aviation enthusiast --he flies his own plane out of the Hershey Air Park — Mr. Witmer has diversified other interests. Among them are the mem- (Continued on Page Four) The Blanken Formula He Has No Hobby, Lots Of Interests Feeding the goldfish in his backyard pond (photo at right) is just one of the many interests of Edmund M. Blanken of 649 Linden Road, retired supervisor of the Her-shey Chocolate Corporation's Printing Department. For one thing, retirement for the Blankens will mean travel, and the .veteran of the presses and his wife are pre-paring for a motor trip to Montreal, by way of starting things off. Mr. Blanken's retired life Will be a busy one. He has no hobbies, but his "interests" in-ch*, his home, travel, photo-graphy, fishing, reading, woz*ing in his basement shop, and many other activities.,, He can also sometimes sit back and recall his many ex-periences in a wide-ranging career in his field, in which he was formerly associated with a number of firms pro-minent in printing and pubJ (60"manuid on 'Page Pout) Independence Day Independence Day, our Number One patriotic holi-day, will be celebrated here and throughout the nation on Saturday. It is to be hoped that, in the holiday bustle, the people who will find enjoyment in the special cele-bration will not overlook the real and genuine meaning behind it. When the Founding Fathers signed the historic doc-ument declaring this country a free and independent na-tion for all time, that document became the sturdiest Cradle of Liberty ever devised. Freedom and indepen-dence, born and nurtured in the New World, has become the light and hope for people the world over. Our own country has grown great by the appli-cation of the principles of freedom, independence and human integrity. - As individuals, Americans are guaranteed free elec-tions, free speech and a:free press, freedom in their choice of religious belief arid 'manner of worship, and the freedom befitting luindri dignity. These principles were fought for, and earned, at the price of great sacrifice. They have been entrusted to us, and to &thing generations, by men who paid the highest price. The guarantees of freedom and indepen-dence which we enjpy today are as precious as life itself. Through their application since 1776, this nation has developed the strength and sinew of world leader-ship. But today, more than ever before, the people of the United States must face up to great challenges. Unquestionably, the strength and the sinew is still there. Americans will never stand by and see the foun-dation blocks of freedom swept away. Their heritage of individual initiative, free enterprse, unlimited oppor-tunity and independent thinking is far too precious to be given up. Independence Day is thoroughly American and its meaning has remained clear for 183 years. What our Founding Fathers began, we will continue. Employees Golf Is Knotted Four Ways By BRENT HANtOCK A four-way tie for the lead-ership -developed in the Her-shey Employees Golf Tourna-ment following last week's play at the Park Golf Club's layout, as Art Garrison's No. 1 team handed Pete Gasper's No. 5 outfit its first loss with a 54-38 decision. Harold Kendig's No. 3 team remained in the thick of things with a 46-30 decision over a winless No. 2 team headed by Dino DiClemente. With the first six men turn-ing in cards bettering 80, the No. 6 Club of lefty Bill O'Neal rolled over Octavio Lalli's luckless No. 4 club 60-40. Eighteen men joined the elite ranks, with medal honors taken by Harold Kendig with a one-over par 72. Art Garri-son and Guy Ramacciotti shot 75's. Gene Smith and Bill O'- Neal were home in 76. Dino DiClemente and Dick Reese shot 77's. Tony Ortenzi, John Lalli, Scotty Manari, Joe Kupstas and Bill Pendleton were in the 78 bracket. Harry Zimmer-man, George Boyer, Carl Hess, John Levens, Ammon (Continued On Page Two) MARINE CORPS INTERVIEWS United States Marine Corps re-cruiters will be in Hershey every Tuesday to discuss the Corps pro-gram with prospective enlisteed and parents, the Harrisburg Re-cruiting Station announced this week. Staff Sergeant John Herman and Sergeant- Jacques Miller will be available for interviews each 'Tues-day from 2 until 4 p.m. in the west end of the Community Building lobby. Hershey News Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Pa. BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 3541 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE
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Title | Hershey News 1959-07-02 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1959-07-02 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
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Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
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Description
Title | Hershey News 1959-07-02 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1959-07-02 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Rights | https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | HERSHEY NEWS Vol. 7 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY, 2, 1959 No. 27 D. Paul Witmer Retires After Thirty-Five Years As Hershey Exetkitive And Builder July 1 brought retirement for D. Paul Witmer, chairman of the Board of Managers of the Milton Hershey School and manager of Hershey Lum-ber Products, a division of Hershey Estates. Mr. Witmer retired after 45 years as a builder. Thirty-five of those years were spent in Hershey. As a draftsman, architect and construction manager, he worked closely with the late -Milton S. Hershey to plan and guide to completion many of Hershey's finest buildings. • And in his administrative capacities With the Milton Hershey School he has helped to build the future of many a boy. Mr. Witmer, a graduate of Stevens Trade School at Lan-caster, has been engaged in the building industry since his youth. He is a native of Eliza-bethtown. He came to Hershey in 1924 as a draftsman and estimator and in a short time was chosen as manager of the Hershey Lumber Products. In this latter capacity, he was directly responsible for the planning.and constr.uction of much of the Chocolate Town. Industrial, recreation-al, and educational structures, as well as a great many resi-dential and farm buildings, bear the stamp of Mr. Wit-mer's creative ability. At Mr. Hershey's direction, Mr. Witmer brought into be-ing the Milton Hershey School's junior-senior high school building, Hotel Her-shey, the windowless office D. Paul Witmer • building of the Hershey Choc-olate Corporation, Hershey Sports Arena and Stadium, Hershey Hospital, Hershey Laundry, the Hershey Model Dairy and Hershey Abattoir. He supervised the construc-tion of the Community Build-ing and was responsible for the planning and building of the Derry Township junior-senior high school and the Mil-ton Hershey School's Fannie Hershey Memorial Build-ing. The relatively new Derry Township elementary school building also Was erected un-der his supervision, as well as the new annex to the junior-senior high school. His work includes the re-modeling of the Milton S. Her-shey homestead, and additions and remodeling of the Derry Presbyterian Church, United Brethren Church and the Spring Creek Church of the Brethren. He is a former superinten-dent of the Milton Hershey School, becoming the school's second superintendent when he succeeded the late George E. Copenhaver in that post in 1938. Except during his term as superintendent, he served on the school's Board of Mana-gers from 1936 until his re-tirement, devoting- much of his time and ability to serving the boys in posts which includ-ed the chairmanship of the board, the vice-chairmanship, and chairmanship of the Man-agers' Administrative Com-mittee. He was the. third man to serve as chairman of the Board of Managers of the Mil-ton Hershey School. At his retirement Mr. Wit-mer also was chairman of the Board of Managers of the M. S. Hershey Foundation, hav-ing served on the board since January 1, 1936. His service at Hershey in-cluded his directorship on the Board of the Hershey Trust Company, a function which dated from 19:16. He §erved as a director of the HeiintarBTX-tional Bank from 1937, and was a director of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation since 1946. Long a well known local golfer and aviation enthusiast --he flies his own plane out of the Hershey Air Park — Mr. Witmer has diversified other interests. Among them are the mem- (Continued on Page Four) The Blanken Formula He Has No Hobby, Lots Of Interests Feeding the goldfish in his backyard pond (photo at right) is just one of the many interests of Edmund M. Blanken of 649 Linden Road, retired supervisor of the Her-shey Chocolate Corporation's Printing Department. For one thing, retirement for the Blankens will mean travel, and the .veteran of the presses and his wife are pre-paring for a motor trip to Montreal, by way of starting things off. Mr. Blanken's retired life Will be a busy one. He has no hobbies, but his "interests" in-ch*, his home, travel, photo-graphy, fishing, reading, woz*ing in his basement shop, and many other activities.,, He can also sometimes sit back and recall his many ex-periences in a wide-ranging career in his field, in which he was formerly associated with a number of firms pro-minent in printing and pubJ (60"manuid on 'Page Pout) Independence Day Independence Day, our Number One patriotic holi-day, will be celebrated here and throughout the nation on Saturday. It is to be hoped that, in the holiday bustle, the people who will find enjoyment in the special cele-bration will not overlook the real and genuine meaning behind it. When the Founding Fathers signed the historic doc-ument declaring this country a free and independent na-tion for all time, that document became the sturdiest Cradle of Liberty ever devised. Freedom and indepen-dence, born and nurtured in the New World, has become the light and hope for people the world over. Our own country has grown great by the appli-cation of the principles of freedom, independence and human integrity. - As individuals, Americans are guaranteed free elec-tions, free speech and a:free press, freedom in their choice of religious belief arid 'manner of worship, and the freedom befitting luindri dignity. These principles were fought for, and earned, at the price of great sacrifice. They have been entrusted to us, and to &thing generations, by men who paid the highest price. The guarantees of freedom and indepen-dence which we enjpy today are as precious as life itself. Through their application since 1776, this nation has developed the strength and sinew of world leader-ship. But today, more than ever before, the people of the United States must face up to great challenges. Unquestionably, the strength and the sinew is still there. Americans will never stand by and see the foun-dation blocks of freedom swept away. Their heritage of individual initiative, free enterprse, unlimited oppor-tunity and independent thinking is far too precious to be given up. Independence Day is thoroughly American and its meaning has remained clear for 183 years. What our Founding Fathers began, we will continue. Employees Golf Is Knotted Four Ways By BRENT HANtOCK A four-way tie for the lead-ership -developed in the Her-shey Employees Golf Tourna-ment following last week's play at the Park Golf Club's layout, as Art Garrison's No. 1 team handed Pete Gasper's No. 5 outfit its first loss with a 54-38 decision. Harold Kendig's No. 3 team remained in the thick of things with a 46-30 decision over a winless No. 2 team headed by Dino DiClemente. With the first six men turn-ing in cards bettering 80, the No. 6 Club of lefty Bill O'Neal rolled over Octavio Lalli's luckless No. 4 club 60-40. Eighteen men joined the elite ranks, with medal honors taken by Harold Kendig with a one-over par 72. Art Garri-son and Guy Ramacciotti shot 75's. Gene Smith and Bill O'- Neal were home in 76. Dino DiClemente and Dick Reese shot 77's. Tony Ortenzi, John Lalli, Scotty Manari, Joe Kupstas and Bill Pendleton were in the 78 bracket. Harry Zimmer-man, George Boyer, Carl Hess, John Levens, Ammon (Continued On Page Two) MARINE CORPS INTERVIEWS United States Marine Corps re-cruiters will be in Hershey every Tuesday to discuss the Corps pro-gram with prospective enlisteed and parents, the Harrisburg Re-cruiting Station announced this week. Staff Sergeant John Herman and Sergeant- Jacques Miller will be available for interviews each 'Tues-day from 2 until 4 p.m. in the west end of the Community Building lobby. Hershey News Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Pa. BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 3541 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE |
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