Hershey News 1959-08-13

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 7 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AUGUST 13, 1959 No. 33
Milton Hershey School To
A wide-ranging program of
events throughout the 1959-
60 school term has been an-nounced
by the Milton Her-shey
School in observance of
the school's Fiftieth Anniver-sary
Year.
The events will commem-orate
the school's growth and
achievement since it was
founded in 1909 by Milton S.
Hershey.
From an initial enrollment
of four boys, the school in its
anniversary year now looks
with pride on more than
2,500 alumni taking their
places in their chosen com-munities.
The official opening of
the Fiftieth Anniversary
School Year will come on
Sunday morning, August
30, at nine o'clock at a wor-ship
service in the Hershey
Community •Theatre. The
public is invited to attend
the service, at which Dr.
Howard L. Rubendall, pres-ident
of the Northfield
Schools in Massachusetts,
will speak on the theme:
"Dedication of Our Tal-ents."
Dr. Rubendall will speak
here as a member of "The An-niversary
Lecture Series"
which is being sponsored by
the Milton Hershey School
during the 1959-60 school
,
'The many events planned
for the Anniversary Year in-clude
the release of the anni-versary.
edition of the Milton
Hershey School film: "A Liv-ing,
Heritage for Boys." It
will be shown locally and will
be placed in national distribu-tion.
Another important feature
of the observance will be the
release of the biography,
-"Milton S. Hershey," publish-ed
by Random House, Inc.,
and scheduled for release Oc-tober
1.
The biographical work was
authored by Kathryn Shippen
and Paul A. W. Wallace.
The communitywide ób-servance
of the , founder's
birth—M. S. Hershey Day—
will be held September 13.
The Milton Hershey
School's Alumni Homecom-ing
in October will be marked
w It h special Anniversary
Year emphasis also.
A homecoming highlight
will be the alumni's presenta-tion
of a statue of Milton S.
Hershey 'to the school on Oc-tober
2. The bronze statue
was designed to. be placed in
the main lobby of the junior-senior
high school building.
The Alumni Homecoming
football game in Hershey
Stadium on October 3 will
have a "Salute of Bands," fea-turing
a U. S. Air Force drill
team.
Throughout the Fiftieth
Anniversary School year,
afternoon and evening re-itals
will be played on the
Anniversary Carillon which
was dedicated last May 31
as part of the Milton Her-shey
School's Baccalaureate
Service. The music of the
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CA .11)BELLTOWN'S "MAYOR" MORRI4 BACHMAN finds himself being checkiia
for his "shaving permit" at the Hershey Chocolate Corporation plant. Investigating
the "mayor" is bearded "Sheriff" Glenn Daimler, at left, and "Deputy Sheriff" Wood-row
Epler, right. Fortunately, Bachman was able to produce the permit allowing him
to remain beardless. All three are CampbelltoWn residents employed at the Chocolate
Corporation.
The beard worn by Sheriff Deimler and the shaving permit shown by Bach-man
are part of Campbelltown's preparations for the community's 200th anniver-sary
celebration on August 22. Campbelltown men are required to wear the whis-kers,
or carry a shaving permit issued by "The Brothers of the Brush." Smooth-shaven
Deputy Sheriff Epler himself has 1. permit.
Bachman was "elected" mayor of th3 town for the in-centennial celebration,
while Deimler was "elected" sheriff and Epler deputy for the occasion. The obser-vance
is being conducted by the Campbelltown fire company and auxiliary, American
Legion and auxiliary, Parent-Teacher Asswiation, Lions Club, United Church of
Christ and Evangelical United Brethren Church.
Bachman, employed by the Hershey Chocolate Corporation since 1919, is a
member of the Corporation's accounting staff. Epler is employed in the refrigeration
operation at the plant and has been with the Corporation for nine years. Deimler, a
fifteen-year employee, is employed in thern syrup department. Deimler is also well
known in Hershey AS coach of the Junior American Legion baseball team.
Mark 50th Anniversary
Carillon Americana Bells
is heard from the school
tower. ,
A number of educational
events in conjunction with
the anniversary year have
been announced by Dr. John
0. Hershey, school superin-tendent.
On September 24-25-26 the
school will be host to a con-ference
of the Pennsylvania
Elementary School Principals;
the state meeting of the Penn-sylvania
Junior Academy ofl
Science will be held here Ap-ril
1-2; the Pennsylvania
Chief School Administrators
Conference, which will also in-clude
business and industrial
leaders, will be held here Ap-ril
3-4-5; and the Conference
on Children and Youth, spon-sored
by the Pennsylvania
Welfare Forum, is scheduled
for April 7-8-9.
On June 16 and 17, the
school will be the host for a
conference of college admis-sion
officers and school coun-selors.
Springtime highlights of
the anniversary year will in-clude
an open house on May 6,
featuring tours of the school
facilities; Parents' Weekend
on May 7 and 8; and Com-mencement
exercises on June
6th.
The Milton Hershey ,
School i sponsoring on
"Anniversary Lecture Se-ries"
in connection with
many of the 1959-60 spec-ial
events. One or more
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SOME OF THE FAMILY of Milton Hershey School boys
gather on the junior-senior high school campus. The
Milton Hershey School this year celebrates the fiftieth
anniversary of its founding by the late industrialist-philanthropist
whose name it bears.
Religion Of Pennsylvania Germans
Recognized At Dutch Days Festival
Religion, which has played be sung- in the dialect by the
such a tremendous part in the Mills Sisters.
growth of the Pennsylvania
Germans, will have its proper Each day the Pennsylvania
place • in Lite-orateoinittr-U-U4%1L Daypjrn. are
eleventh annual Pennsylvania opened by singing one verse
Dutch Days celebration at a "America" in Pennsylvania
Hershey, August 27-30. German, and a brief prayer is
Keynoting the religious offered in both the dialect
side of the big folk festival
will be a typical Pennsylvania'
nd in English.
Dutch church service in the Dutch Days General Chair-
Hershey park bandshell on man Carl S. Swarr announced
Friday evening, August 28. that, far all church services
One of the outstanding Gra: in -the town on Sunday morn.
tors in the "Dutch" dialect, ing, August 30, special greet-the
Rev..Dr. Pierce E. Swope ers will stand ready to wel-of
Lebanon, will preach the come out-of-towners who are
sermon in the dialect. here to attend the Dutch Days
Dr..8wope is a retired Evan- observance.
gelical and Reformed Church In the evening; in the Her-minister
and for many years shey Community Theatre;
has-been a. moving force in special services will be held
the celebration of Dutch Days by the Dauphin County Fed-eration
of Men's Bible Class-es,
with the Rev. Dr. Ray-mond
I. 'Lindquist of the
Hollywood (Cal.) Presbyter-ian
Church as guest speaker.
at Hershey.
A devotional period at the
service will be led by Prof.
Rufus K. Eby, Hershey Jun-ior
High School principal and
teacher of Pennsylvania Ger- Members of all denomina-man
dialect in the Hershey tions are invited that! sery-
Evening School. Hymns'"will ices.
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