Hershey News 1954-04-22

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2
Elect Officers
Of Ambulance
Corps Here
C. E. Muench Heads Unit;
Plan To Activate
Service On May 1
Charles E. Muench, 133
Maple Avenue, was elected
president of the Hershey Am-bulance
Corps on Monday
night as the unit held its first
organizational meeting.
Other officers elected were:
J. W. Dressler, vice presi-dent;
Mrs. Mildred Cluelow,
recording secretary; John W.
Steen, treasurer-financial sec-retary;
and the following di-rectors
— Charles Brinser,
three years; Dr. J. W.
Abrams, two years; and Paul
Seavers, one year.
Other highlights of the ses-sion
at the fire hall included
the presentation of gifts to
Ambulance Fund Chairman
Clarence J. Speicher and
State Police Sgt. Leon Wrona
for their assistance in launch-ing
the ambulance corps.
Speicher was given a hand-some
Sheaffer desk set by the
Hershey Volunteer Fire Com-pany
in recognition of his
work in heading the ambu-lance
fund raising campaign.
Sgt. Wrona, who has been
conducting the first aid class-es
to prepare the ambulance
crews for their missions, was
presented with a Colt target
pistol, a gift purchased by the
grateful members of the first
aid group.
The gifts were presented to
Speicher and Sgt. Wrona on
behalf of the fire company
and the first aid class by Her-bert
H. Vernet, Jr., a mem-ber
of the Ambulance Corps
Committee.
In receiving his gift,
Speicher said:
"My role was a small part
of the job. What you (the am-bulance
corps) people have
been doing week after week,
and will continue to do, is the
big job."
Start Service May 1 -
President Muench an-nounced
that the corps plans
to activate the ambulance
service on May 1.
The elected officers took
office immediately Monday
night, replacing President
Pro Tern J. W. Dressler and
Secretary-Treasurer Pro Tern
John W. Steen.
Ste'en was elected treasurer
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Hershey, Pa.
(.) HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 22, 1954
EASTER SUNRISE Service in the Hershey Rose Garden was attended by an esti-mated
1,000 persons. Shown here is part of the audience at the annual hillside service
conducted by the Ministerial Association.
Rev. Thomas W. Guinivan presented the Easter Dawn Meditation, and prayer was
offered by Rev. J. R. McDonald. Rev. Stephen E. Schullery read the Scripture. The in-vocation
Was given by W. Lyndon Hess, with the benediction by Rev. William Sheldon
Blair. Music was provided by the Hershey High School chorus and brass ensemble.
HERSHEY'S BEAUTIFUL new red-and-gold ambulance, shown here parked outside
its headquarters at the fire hall, is to be placed in active service May 1, according to
plans announced after Monday's organizational meeting of the Hershey Ambulance Corps.
Charles Muench was elected to serve as the first president of the ambulance corps
at the election session Monday night. Ambulance first aid trainees will have cortipleted
their course of instruction by the end of April and first aid directors are setting up duty
schedules for ambulance drivers and aides in preparation for getting the new community
service under way.
Mrs. Harold Brewer Heads Girl Scou4 Group
Mrs. Harold Brewer was
elected chairman of the Her-shey
Girl Scout Neighborhood
Association at a recent meet-ing.
Other- officers elected in-clude:
vice - chairman, Mrs.
Louis Smith; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Allen Huber;
recording secretary, Mrs. Dan-iel
Lewis; treasurer, Mrs.
Benjamin Olena.
Registration date for all
scouts, scout leaders, and
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committee members was set
for M'aY 1.
Mrs. Louis Smith was
named chairman of the com-mittee
for Girl Scouts partici-pating
in the Memorial Day
Parade on May 31.
The committee members'
annual luncheon for the scout
leaders will be held on April
24 in the Community Building
dining room. Mrs. Lloyd Blin-co
is chairman of the commit-tee
in charge of the arrange-ments.
Camperships were given to
the following girls at the
meeting: Katie Schiller, Ruth
Lingle, Nancy Wilson, Gretch-en
Aungst, Mary Porr, Carole
Strimble, Bonita Crist, Sally
Matheny, Judy Leibfried, Jan-et
DeHart, Rebecca Curry,
Joanne Fratti, and Linda Sei-bert.
The Hershey-Hummelatown
Day Camp reunion will be held
at Bullfrog Valley on May 15.
Staff training for that‘camp
will take place April 22 at
the Hummelstown EUB
Church. A second staff train-ing
will be held at the camp-site
on May 26.
Ray Koch Accepts Post At Columbia
Raymond H. Koch, superin-tendent
of Derry Township
Schools, has been elected to
the position of superintendent
of schools at Columbia, Pa. He
will begin his duties there on
July 5. '
Koch has been superintend-ent
of the Hershey Schools for
the past 12 years and is a
graduate of Palmyra High
School, class of 1924.
Among his civic activities
here, Koch is a past president
of the Rotary Club, a past di-rector
of the Rotary District,
Conference held in Hershey,
and a member of the Hershey
Welfare Board. He served as
chairman of the Pennsylvan-ia
Week Committee and as
co-chairman of the Hershey
50th Anniversary Parade
Committee. In addition, he
has also beer. serving as elder
in the Derry Presbyterian
Church.
Koch is a native Lebanon
Countian and grew up in Pal-myra.
His wife is the former
Emma R. Meyer of Annville.
No. 16
30 New England
Students Visit
Here This Week
Exchange Group Has
Busy Schedule Of
Tours And Activities
It's Newton Week in Her-shey.
Thirty young men and wo-men
of Newton, Mass., are
here as guests of the Hershey
High School Exchange Club
and are touring the many
points of interest in Hershey
and nearby.
A full schedule of events
has been arranged for the
New Englanders, with the
Hershey High Exchange Club
students accompanying them
on many "side. trips."
The Newton students pre-viously
entertained the Her-shey
Exchange Clubbers in
Massachusetts — during the
week whrch began March 20.
The school - and - school ex-change
program is designed
to acquaint high school Sen-iors
and Juniors with the cus-toms,
traditions, industries,
schools and institutions of
communities other than their
own.
As their week-long visit
here approached its halfway
point, the Newton students
and accompanying faculty
members were learning about
life in the Lebanon Valley at
first hand.
Today — Thursday — the
students were visiting the
Pennsylvania State Capitol
buildings at Harrisburg and
touring the big Bethlehem
Steel plant at Steelton. They
were scheduled to attend Her-shey
High's annual band con-cert
in the school auditorium
this evening.
The visitors are joining in
many school activities here
throughout their scheduled,
stay in Hershey. And, in-evitably
for high school stu-dents,
they also had classes
scheduled in order to maintain
their scholastic work.
Arrive Monday
The New.,onites arrived
here Monday evening by bus
and began their visits, tours
and other projects on Tuesday.
They received the official
welcome of the local schools at
a gathering on Tuesday morn-ing
in the library, when they
were greeted by Superintend-ent
Raymond H. Koch, High
School Principal George
Lange, Elementary School
Principal Rufus K. Eby and
Vocational Director Raymond
Evans.
Tuesday afternoon featured
tours to the Hotel Hershey,
Sports Arena and to historic
Derry Church.
The visiting students were
guests of the Hershey Lions
Club in the Community Club
Dining Room at dinner Tues-day
evening, later attending
a dance in the high school
gymnasium.
Student Welcome
The New Englanders re-ceived
the salute of the stu-dent
body of the local schools
at an assembly progrom on
Wednesday morning. The re-mainder
of the morning was
spent in the chocolate factory
where the Newtonites wit-leuntimied
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