Hershey News 1958-10-02

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6 (D HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 2, 1958 No. 40
Flower Show Held
Here Is Success
The Hershey Horticulture
Society's first flower show,
held Wednesday, September
24, in the social room of the
Community Building, was 'a
successful first venture from
every standpoint.
A large crowd of interested
spectatosr visited the show
to see the 131 competitive ex-hibits
entered b y flower
growers from Dauphin, Leb-anon
and Lancaster Counties.
Theme of the show was
"FlowenA in the Home,"
Judging the beautiful an
imaginative displays were
Mrs. Ralph M. Kolze, Camp
Hill; Mrs. David E. Hoff, Har-risburg;
Mrs. Claude Grein-er,
Hummelstown ; and Harry
L. Erdman, Hershey.
Top award for the best flor-al
arrangement of the show
was won by Mrs. Clarence
Koegel of Lebanon. Other
winners.
Artistic Arrangements
Hall arrangements-1. Mrs. Lee
Kessler, Lebanon; 2. Mrs. Ralph
Horst, Hershey; 3. Mns. George
Fox, Lebanon; honorable mention,
Mrs. Harold Graby, Annville.
Dining room-1. Mrs. Clarence
Koegel, Lebanon; 2. Mrs. Thomas
Loose, Lebanon; 3. Mrs. Harold
Graby, Annville; honorable men-tion,
Mrs. Robert Kissinger, Her-shey.
Living room-1. Mrs. Lee
Kessler, Lebanon; 2. Mrs. Thomas
Loose, Lebanon; 3. Mrs. Harold
Graby, Annville; honorable men-tion,
Mrs. Ralph Horst, Hershey.
Bedroom-1. Mrs. George Fox,
Lebanon; 2. Mrs. Lee Kessler, Leb-anon;
3. Mrs. Thomas Loose, Leb-anon;
honorable mention, Mrs.
Robert Smith, Hershey.
Seasons—i. Mrs. Clarence
Koegel, Lebanon; 2. Mrs. Thomas
Loose, Lebanon; 3. Mrs. Jared
Darlington, Hershey; honorable
mention, Mrs. James Stover, Her-shey.
Miniatures — 1. Mrs. Clarence
Koegel, Lebanon; 2. Mrs. Raymond
Bowman, Palmyra; 3. Mrs. Alfred
Gibble, Hershey; honorable men-tion,
Mrs. Robert Smith, Hershey.
Hospital—i. Mrs. Clarence
Koegel, Lebanon; 2. Mrs. Harold
Graby, Annville; 3. Mrs. Ralph
Horst, Hershey; honorable men-tion,
Mrs. Joseph Laws, Hershey.
Den — Foliage —1. Mrs. George
Fox, Lebanon; 2. Mrs. Thomas
Loose, Lebanon; honorable men-tion,
Mrs. Robert Schaffner, Her-shey.
Den — Dry —1. Mrs. Rodger
Weise, Lancaster; honorable men-
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AT THE FLOWER SHOW, Hershey Horticulture So-ciety
members gather to admire an eye-catching floral
arrangement. From left: Mrs. Richard Bacastow, Mrs.
Charles Harnden, Mrs. Ralph Horst, Mrs. Alfred Gibble,
Mrs. Thomas Haughney and Mrs. H. H. Stauffer. The
first flower show to be held by the ..local group, the
event proved to be a popular venture.
Alumni Of Milton Hershey
School Plan Homecoming
Milton Hershey Scho,o1 "old urday, followed by a program
of entertainment in the school
auditorium and the alumni
dance in the gymnasium.
Entertainment in the audi-torium
will be provided by an
all-Alumni show arranged by
Association Vice President
Charles L. Smith.
" -Sunday Services
The alumni and their fami-lies
will attend Milton Her-shey
School worship services
in the Hershey Community
Theatre on Sunday morning
at 9 o'clock. The speaker will
be the Revt Gurdon T. Scoville,
pastor of the West Hartford
(Connecticut) Presbyterian
Church and a former Milton
Hershey School chaplain.
At 10:30 a. m. on Sunday,
the annual memorial services
will be conducted at the Her-shey
Cemetery, a tribute by
the Alumni Association to the
late Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Her-shey,
deceased Milton Her-shey
School boys, and many
friends of the association who
have passed away. The ob-servance
will include the plac-ing
of flowers on the graves.
The Milton Hershey
School's Alumni Association
is currently headed by Presi-dent
E. Martin Kuhn of Lan-caster.
He will be succeeded
for the 1958-59 term by Presi-dent-
elect Robert Beitzel, also
of Lancaster.
Nominated for other offices
—and to be elected by ballots
submitted by mail proior to
the Homecoming weekend—
are:
For president-elect (to be-come
president in 1959-60)—
Charles L. Smith of Cham-bersburg
(unopposed).
For vice-president — Wade
Hancock, Baltimore, Md.; Paul
Yarnell, Harrisburg; and Earl
Nehr, Lancaster (one to be
elected).
For secretary—Kenneth V.
Hatt, Her she y (incumbent
and unopposed).
For treasurer —William L.
Schrnehl, Hershey (incumbent
and unopposed).
grads" by the hundreds, along
with their families, will be
here for the weekend of Oc-tober
10-11-12, when the MHS
Alumni Association holds its
twenty - eighth annual Home-coming.
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the Homecoming events will
begin Friday evening, October
10, with a `get-together" at
the Hershey Park Golf Club.
The social gathering will fea-ture
dancing to the music of
Tiny Wright's Orchestra, with
the musicians also providing
entertainment during the eve-ning.
The Saturday Morning
highlight will be the annual
business session in the Little
Theatre of the Community
Building, when the alumni as-sociation's
officers for 1958-
59 will be determined by the
tabulation of mailed ballots.
At the same time, the
Homestead Chapter Auxiliary
will conduct a "coffee-time."
Shortly after noon on Satur-day
the alumni members will
hold their annual pre - game
parade in Hershey Stadium
prior to the Homecoming foot-ball
game between the Milton
Hershey School and Bethle-hem
High-School. At the half-time
intermission the associa-tion
will conduct ceremonies
paying tribute to the Boy
Scouting program of the
school.
The annual alumni banquet
will take place at the MHS
Junior - Senior High School
building at six o'clock on Sat-
HEADS UF GROUP
Samuel F. Hinkle, president of
the Hershey Chocolate Corporation,
has been named chairman of the
loaned executives committee of the
Tr -County United Fund. For the
new committee, major companies
in the area are "loaning" 25 of
their executives to the UF to assist
other companies with special prob-lems
in connection with the Fund
campaign.
October Is Welfare Month
The time is approaching
when Derry Township resi-dents
and employees of local
industries will again have the
opportunity to give a helping
hand to the many organiza-tions
and institutions that
are dependent upon the public
spirit and generosity for their
support.
October is the month for
the unified campaign for
funds conducted by the Derry
Township Welfare Board in
collaboration with the Tr -
County United Fund of Dau-phin,
Perry and Cumberland
Counties.
Also benefitting by the
local campaign is the Lebanon
County Community Chest.
Persons making contributions
in the Derry Township drive
may have their donations as-signed
to the Lebanon County
Community Chest.
The campaign in the local
industries is based on the
give - only - once method of
lumping charitable giving in
one convenient plan, either by
means of the popular payroll
deduction system or by cash
contribution.
The campaign contributors
give support to a wide range
of worthwhile causes which
benefit the community, the
state and the nation.
Evening School Enrollment At 441
The Hershey Evening
School opened for its twenty-seventh
year on September 22
with an enrollment of 441, di-vided
into 28 classes.
The enrollment was de-scribed
by Director of Voca-tional
and Adult Education
Raymond F. Evans as "about
the satne,-and perhaps a lit-tle
larger" than the enroll-ment
at the opening of the
evening school last year. The
enrollment always increases
somewhat during the term,
Evans said. Je pointed out
that additional enrollments
can still be accepted in most
classes.
The school, conducted by
the Adult Division of the Der-ry
Township School District,
includes two new classes this
year: A public speaking class
is taught by Charles Muench,
Hershey Officials Will
Address Retired Group
Members of the Hershey
Retired Employees Associa-tion
will hear talks by Samuel
F. Hinkle, president of the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion,
and John B. Sollenberg-er,
president of Hershey
Estates, at the association's
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Jr., and a class in millinery
has Mrs. Irene Shuey as in-structor.
The Russian language class,
now in its second year on the
evening school curriculum, is
taught by Prof. Alexander
Konrad.
Mrs. Ruth Erdman is again
the instructor in Citizenship,
and students include natives
of Italy, The Netherlands,
Germany, Argentina, Japan,
Panama and Indonesia.
Prof. Rufus K. Eby is serv-ing
as principal of the Stan-dard
Evening High School
which this year opened with
an enrollment of thirty.
A breakdown of enroll-ments
announced by Evans
shows that 115 are enrolled
in the vocational shops; 77 in
sewing classes; 71 in commer-cial
classes; 49 in fine arts;
45 in crafts; 30 in the Stan-dard
Evening High School; 28
in foreign language classes;
14 in public speaking; and 12
in the citizenship course.
The evening school students
enroll for the various pur-poses
of self-improvement, for
improvement of skills, for
high school credits, or for leis-ure
time hobbies.
The Hershey Evening
School is known as "The
School of Opportunities."
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