Hershey News 1954-07-08

              Dozen Retire
From Hershey
On June 30
The Hershey News this
week introduces the first of a
series of brief sketches of
Hershey employees as they
retire.
A total of twelve persons
joined the ranks of the re-tired
at the end of June, some
of whom are appearing in
this issue. Others will be in-cluded
in succeeding issues.
Retiring as of June 30 were:
Tony Accordinio, 107 West
Granada Ave. (Cocoa Dept.) ;
Salvatore U. Capitani, 63 West
Granada Ave. (Longitude) ;
Mason Deimler, Hummels-town
Route 2 (Bean Building)
Harry E. Gingrich, 138 North
College Stree t, Palmyra
(Longitude) ; Edward I. Mil-ler,
East End Apartments
(Cocoa Dept.) ; Harry S. Boy-er,
135 West Caracas Ave.
(Garage).
Irwin R. Gingrich, 410 East
Cherry Street, Palmyra
(Credit Dept., Department
Store) ; Ammon R. O'Neal,
Hummelstown Route 1 (Lum-ber
Company) ; Joseph B.
Shreffler, 202 North Chestnut
Street, Palmyra (Lumber
Company).
Clair F. Harnish, 528 Cocoa
Ave. (Assistant Principal, Mil-ton
Hershey School) ; and Mr.
and Mrs. George Charles-worth,
(House Parents, Ever-green
Cottage, Milton Her-shey
School).
Those pictured in this issue:
CLAIR F. HARNISH, 528
Cocoa Avenue, Hershey, re-tired
on June 30 after a 23-
year association with the Mil-ton
Hershey. School, where he
was assistant principal at the
time of his retirement.
Mr. Harnish has had a close
personal relationship with
hundreds of M.H.S. graduates
through his work as Director
of Student Placement for the
school.
A former supervising prin-cipal
of the Palmyra schools,
his first three years at Her-shey
were with the junior
high school which was then
located in the Community
Building. He went to the "hill
school" as assistant principal
and later served also as Direc-tor
of Student Placement. .
A native of Cumberland
County, he earlier sold feed
and automobiles for his
father, a Mechanicsburg busi-nessman.
Mr. Harnish's plans for the
future include a combination
of rest and work at home,
with some traveling to come
later.
MR. AND MRS. GEORGE
CHARLES WORTH, house
parents at Milton Hershey
School's Evergreen Cottage
for the past six years, retired
June 30.
The couple came here from
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Vol. 2 <6keliFb). 0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY 8, 1954 No. 27
THE HERSHEY COMMUNITY BAND, directed by Paul G. Fisher, presented the first of two summer concerts
in the park bandshell on the evening of July 1, presenting an ear-pleasing program of concert favorites. Soloists
were Jean Breneman, soprano; Bill Guyer, baritone; and Carlton Hoffer, trombonist.
Also apearing with the Community Band were the Hershey High School twirlers and Arthur Mentzer, new
student-conductor of the band.
Next concert at the park is scheduled for Thursday, July 15.
Make-up of the Community Band includes high school and alumni musicians from throughout the area who are
keeping that musical touch under the Derry Township School District's summer school of music.
Alma and George Charlesworth
Plant Vacation Means
"Operation Overhaul"
Vacation time for Hershey
Chocolate's employees means
lots of things to lots of people.
To other vacationers visit-ing
here, it means disappoint-ment
as they arrive at the
Visitors' Entrance and read
the sign: "Factory Vacation.
Sorry we cannot accommo-date
you. Will resume visitors
tours July 12th. Please come
again."
This past week there were
hundreds of out-of-towners
and out-of-staters who came,
read and remarked: "Oh, my
gosh" (or words to that ef-fect.)
Meanwhile, within the
plant things were humming
with activity as the full
force of the Mechanical
Dept. swung into action—
the machinists, the carpen-ters,
the plumbers, the
painters, the, millwrights,
the riggers, the electricians,
the beltmen; the whole
works.
First off, the doors at the
Employees Entrance were re-hung,
what with new hinges
and a big "well done" to Ira
Baker and Harold Kling, who
had a lot of sidewalk super-intending
by members of the
Watch Force and nearby Per-sonnel
Dept. Staff.
Then, on down the main
hallway, the carpenters were
putting in new flooring near
the entrance to the Syrup
Dept. Also on tap were plans
to rebuild the north-south
wooden floor as well as to re- °
surface the concrete portion
of the north-south floor.
In the Syrup Dept., as is
the annual schedule, things
were getting a major going-over
by members of the Ma-chine
Maintenance Meehan-
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