Hershey News 1953-12-10

              HERSHEY NEWS
HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 10, 1953 No. 11
Christmas Plans
Arrange Holiday
Celebration For
Hershey Personnel
An unusual program is be-ing
arranged for the Fiftieth
Anniversary Year Christmas
celebration of the Hershey
employees, it was announced
this week.
Feeling that a real Christ-mas
event was in order, offi-cials
of the Hershey Estates
an d Chocolate Corporation
have planned something really
different for .this Yuletide
season.
In a unique fashion this
year, a Christmas buffet is
to be held' for the more than
five thousand Hershey em-ployees—
both active and re-tired.
It will be a party for em-ployees
at their yarious de-partments
throughout the
Hershey Estates and at a
central point in the choco-late
plant on December 24.
Food is to be prepared lo-cally,
in the Inn and Cafe-teria,
and will be served at
central locations al the em-ployees
come off their
shifts.
It will be a really down-to-
earth employees' affair,
with fellow employees hand-ling
the serving and helping
with the decorations. Plans
for the Christmas observ-ance
represent quite an
undertaking.
There are problems, nat-urally,
to be ironed out.
Here's a general idea of how
the preliminary plans line up:
In the plant, as was done
last year, two four-hour shifts
will be worked wherever pos-sible,
and the employees will
be feted, according to the pre-liminary
plans, on the third
floor of No. 41 building.
This includes all employees
—production and office work-ers
alike -- with something
like ten serving lines to be
set up to facilitate the serv-ing
of the buffet luncheon.
The exact details will be
released as they are formu-lated.
All in all, this 1953 Christ-mas
event should be a fitting
climax to this year's 50th
An niversary celebration.
Hershey News
Comm. Bldg.
Hershey, Pa.
IN MUSIC POST
W. Paul Campbell of 1,207
West Main Street, Palmyra,
(Palmdale), was elected presi-dent
of the Pennsylvania Mu-sic
Educators' Association for
a two-year term at the organ-ization's
annual conference in
Harritthurg last week.
Campbell is in his sixth
year as director of music in
the Derry Township public
schools and Hershey Junior
College.
A native of Johnstown, Pa.,
Campbell came to Hershey
frofh a teaching post in Som-erset
County. He took his
undergraduate work at the
Indiana (Pa.) State Teachers'
College and received his mas-ter's
degree from New York
University. He is currently
matriculated at Pennsylvania
State University for work on
his doctorate.
As president of the state
music educators, Campbell
heads a 2,004-member organ-ization
which includes 1.500
music instructors in secondary
schools and colleges. He for-merly
served as first vice-president
of the association
for two years and was a mem-ber
of the group's executive
council.
He was program chairman
of the annual conference
which concluded at the week-end.
Sign New Contract
On Friday the Hershey
Estates and Local 464, Bakery
and Confectionery Workers
International (AFL) signed a
contract to run until Septem-ber
4, 1954.
John 0. Shearer, Grover S.
Brong and Howard Sillik rep-resented
the union while T. R.
Banks and Marlin Herbst rep-resented
the Hershey Estates.
Announced
Yuletide Party
To Be Held For
Schools Of Area
More than 8,000 students
and faculty members from a
dozen local and surrounding
school districts will be enter-tained
at an elaborate Christ-mas
party on December 22 at
1 :30 p.m. in the Hershey
Sports Arena as guests of the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
and Hershey Estates.
Invitations have been sent
out by P. A. Staples, Choc()
I ate Corporation president
and chairman of the Board oi
Managers.
The youngsters will enjoy
a ten-act stage show which
will include some of the out-standing
talent in the field
of vaudeville and television.
The two-hour show will be
produced by Earl Ball and
music will be provided by
Lew Cohan and His Orches-tra
with Mitchell Grand di-recting.
The entertainment pro-gram
is designed especially
for young people.
Santa Claus will be on hand
to make an appearance before
the legions of his admirers
during the afternoon of fun
and frolic. The Arena is to be
prepared for the festive occa-sion
by decorators under the
direction of Harry L. Erdman.
The committee on arrange-ments
announced that stu-dents
and faculty members
from the following schools
have signified that they will
attend:
Palmyra and North London-derry,
Hummelstown, South
Hanover, South Londonderry,
West Hanover, 'East Hanover
(Dauphin County), East Han-over
(Lebanon County), Cone-wago,
Londonderry, St. Joan
of Arc, Derry Township and
the Milton Hershey School.
Fire Company
Honors Four
Retired Men
Four retired men — Milton
Hunchberger, Luigi Gherar-dini,
John flossier and Oscar
Bordner — were honored by
the Hershey Volunteer Fire
Company at the firemen's De-cember
meeting held last
week. The four were given
honorary memberships in the
fire company.
A memorial service was
conducted during the meeting
for the late Samuel Brenber-ger
and David S. Gordon.
Fire Chief George Trump
announced Monday's fire drill
at the Hershey Chocolate Fac-tory,
held to familiarize fire-men
with the location of hose
connections and plant en-trances
and exits.
It was anneunced also that
the fire hall will be decorated
for the 'Christmas season ac-cording
to annual custom. In
charge of the decorating is the
House Committee composed of
.1. William Abram, Richard
Willard and Elmer Reidel.
Worsmen were giving Santa Claus an assist here during the
past week as they put Christmas glitter in the Chocolatetown.
Installing seasonal decorations in the street lamps in the photo
above were Harold Meashey (top) and Milton Graybill, from the
Hershey Greenhouses.
The town was rapidly assuming its Christmastime array as
business places, organizations and individuals- began the annual
decorating.
Young Musicians Star
In Tribute Program
Area residents on Saturday night gave a resounding
reception to three young local musical artists who appeared
in two performances in a special Recognition Night program
in the Community Theater.
The program was held in tribute to the people of the
community generally whose civic pride was reflected through-out
the local Fiftieth Anniversary projects by their spirit of
coorleration in such successful events as the Pennsylvania
Week program, Halloween parade and the town-wide decora-tions
for the visit of the President of the United States.
Stars of the Recognition
Night program were Her-shey
High School students
Gwen Hess, Fred Bucciotti
and Itdbert Tancredi, a trio
of young musicians who
have achieved early success
and acclaim. They were pre-sented
by way of a salute to
the wealth of ability and
talent existing in the Her-shey
area. .
Miss Hess, popular young
vocalist, sang "Somewhere
Along the Way" and 'Till I
Waltz Again With You" and
joined the two instrumenta-lists
in a medley Of Christmas
songs. The daugVer of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Stewart
Hess and a member of the
Junior Class of Hershey High
School, Gwen displayed a
charming personalitY and an
unusual vocal style that is dis-tinctively
pleasing.
Amazingly, GWen's first
public appearance was at a
school dance only a little more
than a year ago. But since that
time she has skyrocketed to
popularity and last Spring
she carried the name of Her-shey
far and wide as a winner
for six weeks on the Horace
Heidt air-show. For the past
four months she has been
the feminine vocalist with
Red McCarthy's Orchestra, in
which her father plays the
drums. She plans to make a
career of singing.
Providing an accordion per-formance
that would be the
envy of many a professional,
Fred Bpcciotti presented as a
solo number an extremely
complicated selection, t h e
First Movement from a Con-certo
in D Minor, written for
accordion by Andy Arcari who
is Bucciotti's teacher. Fred, a
Senior at Hershey High
School, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Bucciotti and has
been playing since he was six
years old. He has studied with
Victor DeAngelis of Hershey
and Arcari, who is a Philadel-phian.
Fred plans to continue in
the music profession and aims
for concert work.
Pianist Robert Tancredi,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Tancredi and also a Hershey
High Senior, is headed for the
medical profession and his ac-hievements
on the piano
promise he will have a sur-geon's
fingers.
As solo numbers at the
Recognition Night program,
Waaiuued um Page Two)
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