Hershey News 1958-12-11

              Churches Plan Christmas Observances
During the Christmas season,
Hershey's churches will. observe
the true meaning of Christmas as
they foster the religious aspect of
the joyous holiday.
Sacred music and special ser-mons-
by the pastors, and
traditional means of celebrating
the Nativity, will highlight the ob-servance.
Much of the pageantry
will also, be presented by the chil-dren
of the churches as they join
in the' 1958 Christmas observances.
Most of the highlights of the
SUCCESSFUL DEER HUNTER Sam Coletti, 530 West
Chocolate Avenue, became the owner of a fine eleven-point
rack of antlers when he bagged this .150-pound
buck at 11:20.a.rn. on the first day of the deer season.
It Was his first deer. The Hershey Chocolate Corporation
electrician was hunting east of the Indiantown Gap Mili-tary
Reservation with Cyrus Forry, Palmyra; Rev. Ted
Yohe, Lawn; and Galen Donmoyer, Grantville.
FOURTEEN - YEAR - OLD HUNTER Dennis Hetrick,
son of Paul,Hetrick, Sr., of 146 West Caracas Avenue,
got a handsome trophy when he bagged this eight-point
specimen at Manada Gap at 8:45 a.m. on the first day of
deer season. The Hershey High School sophomore was
hunting in company with his dad. It was the younger
Hetrick's second year, of deer hunting, although'he was
unsuccessful last year. His buck was a 150-pounder.
Christmas services in Hershey
churches are listed in the follow-ing
paragraphs. Others will be in-cluded
in next ,week's edition of
this publication.
Holy' Trinity Lutheran
The Evangelical Lutheran
Church of the Holy Trinity on Sun-day,
December 21; will be the
scene of an Advent Concert by the
choirs at 7:30 p.m. The concert
will tell the story in Scripture and
music of the Advent, Christmas
and Epiphany.
Some 100 voices will take part
in the concert, under the direction
of Mrs. Edward Walls. Organist
will be Karl Schmidt, and the pas-tor,
the Rev. Robert M. Lezenby,
will serve as narrator.
On Christmas Eve, at 10:45 p.m.,
the Sacrament of the Altar will be
observed, when the sanctuary will
be lit by candlelight.
The Church School program will
be presented on Sunday, December
28, at 9:15 a.m„ with the beginners,
primary and .junior departments
fielding their Christmas programs.
On the evening of December 28,
the church 'will hold its annual
Family Night, with entertainment
and refreshments for all the fami-lies
and friends of Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church. The gathering
will take place at six p.m. in the
parish hall.
Derry Presbyterian
The pre-Christmas Communion
Services will be conducted at
Derry Presbyterian Church on Sun-day,
December 14, the pastor, the
Rev. William Sheldon Blair, an-nounced.
The services will be held
at 8 and 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 pm
Also at the 10:30/ service, the
church will hold a reception of
On Sunday, December 21, the
church will present its Christmas
Candlelight Service at 7:30 p.m.
The choir, with Richard Chubb as
director and organist, will present
a Christmas Oratorio by Camille
St. Saens. All friends of the church
are cordially invited to attend.
The church Christmas party will
be livid in the educational build-ing
on Friday, December 19, at
7:30 p.m. The children's party will
be held by the ladies of the church,
with Mrs. Ray E. Miller, Mrs.
Howard Baum and Mrs. John Beck
in charge.
The Christmas Eve service at
Derry Presbyterian Church will be
ionducted at eleven p.m., when
carol singing and instrumental
music will be a part of the unfold-ing
of the Christmas Story.'
All Saints Episcopal
The seasonal observances at All
Saints Episcopal Church will begin
with a Festal Choral Eucharist and
Sermon at 11:30 on Christmas Eve,
according to the vicar,- the Rey.
Kermit L. Lloyd.
A Festal Choral Eucharist and
Sermon will also mark the obser-vance
of Christmas Day, beginning
at 11 a.m.
Holy Communion will be con-ducted
on St. Stephen's Day (Dec-ember
26) and on St. John's Day
(December 27), both at 10 a.m.
Services announced for Holy In-nocents'
Day—the Sunday after
Christmas—are the Holy Commun-ion
at 7:30 a.m. and Morning Pray-ter
and Sermon at 11 a.m. A Christ-mas
pageant will be presented at
7 p.m. The day is set aside in mem-ory
of the innocent children killed
by King Herod.
On New Year's Eve, the tradi-tional
College Age Service will be
held at 11:30 p.m., followed by a
New Year's Eve dance for the
young people.
The church will observe the
Feast of Circumcision at 10 a.m.
on New Year's Day, and the Holy
Communion will be conducted. On
January 6, the Feast of the Epiph-any
will be commemorated with
Holy Communion at 7:15 a.m.
Fishburn E.U.B. Church
The Rev. Dr. J. R. MacDonald,
pastor of Fishburn Evangelical
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Veteran school director
Marlin E. Balsbaugh was
elected president of the Derry
Township Board of School
Directors at the annual reor-ganization
meeting held early
last week. Balsbaugh succeeds
E. Carl Foreman.
The new school board pres-ident
has served on the board
for twelve years, including
eight years as secretary and
one year as vice-president.
William II. Black was re-elected
as board vice-presi-dent.
He has served as a
school director for eleven
years.
Other members of the
board are Secretary Ezra E.
Grubb, Treastirei Clever E.
Ernst, E. Carl Foreman, Paul
0. Curry and E. Morse Hei-sey.
The reorganization session
was held in the offices of the
elementary school building,
and was followed by a,dinner
in the school cafeteria. Forty
persons attended the dinner,
when President-elect- Bals-baugh
served as master of
ceremonies.
Dr. L. Eugene Jacques, su-perintendent
of schools, ad-dressed
the group and com-ments
were given by D. Paul
Witmer, Samuel F. Hinkle
and James E. Bobb of the Her-shey
Foundation; Dr. V. 'H.
Fenstermacher, dean of Her-shey
Junior College; George
D. Lange, Rufus K. Eby, A.
Sterling King and Raymond
F. Evans of the Derry Town-ship
Schools administrative
staff; and School Directors
Grubb, Foreman, Curr y,
Ernst and Black.
The dinner arrangements
were handled by Mrs. Grace
Hershberger of the home eco-nomics
department of the
school, assisted by 'Miss Mil-dred
Snyder and Miss Neda
Thierwechter and home eco-nomics
students.
Miss Evelyn Deen was in
charge of invitations and Wil-liam
Batchelor prepared table
decorations.
Music for the occasion was
provided by an instrumental
quartette of high school music
students under the direction
of Miss Jane Emel. Quartette
members were Priscilla Sny-der,
flute; Kathy Geesey, vio-lin;
Joyce Beaver, cello; and
Louise King, piano.
Concert Harpist To
Festival With High
Marie Melmann Naugle,
former harpist with the Har-risburg
Symphony Orchestra
and outstanding concert solo-ist
in this area, will appear
with the Hershey High School,
Chorus in a performance of
Benjamin Britten's "A Cere-mony
of Carols," to be pre-sented
in the Hershey C.om-munity
Theatre on Monday
evening, December 15, during
the annual Christmas Music
Festival by the high school's
Two Hershey students at Lebanon
Valley College took part in the an-nual
concert presented by the col-lege
'symphony orchestra in Engle
Hall on Tuesday evening. Hershey
members of the orchestra were
Doris Hein, French horn, and Karl
Moyer, viola.
Thomas Lanese, assistant profes-sor
of strings and theory, con-
Appear In Music
School Chorus
music department.
Members of the chorus
have been diligently at work
in the regulasr and many extra
rehearsals needed for this
contemporary composition.
"A Ceremony of Carols" was
composed in 1942.
The words, mostly Old
English, are largely anony-mous,
while the unusual and
characteristic melodic set-tings
seem to suggest the pun-gent
simplicity- of centuries-old
festivity and recapture
the medieval quality to which
many composers have not de-voted
much serious attention
heretofore.
Accompanists assisting "in
the rehearsals were Ruth
Lingle and Rodney Stoessel.
Vocal soloists will include Di-ane
Flowers and Ruthann
Donmoyer.' Elwyn Spangler
ducted. is directing.
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