Hershey News 1954-06-03

              MIDSHIPMAN John E.
Reisinger, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John O. Fosnacht of 157
West Chocolate Avenue, will
graduate tomorrow (Friday)
from the U. S. Naval Acad-emy
at Annapolis, Md. Upon
graduation, he will receive a
Bachelor of Science degree
and will be commissioned "an
ensign in the U. S. Navy.
He entered the Naval Acad-emy
on a Congressional ap-pointment
after graduating
from Hershey High School in
1949. He also attended Her-shey
Junior College for one
year before going- to Ann-apolis....
E!uring his First Class
(senior year) at the Naval
Academy he attained the rank
of midshipman lieutenant,
junior grade, serving hs' pla-toon
commander during the
Fall. Among his extra-curric-ular
activities, he served as
business manager of the
Academy's music clubs and
quartet.
St. Joan School
Graduates 37
Eighth Graders
Thirty-seven students of St.
Joan of Arc Parochial School
received diplomas , at Eighth
Grade transfer exercises held
at three o'clock Sunday after-noon
in the school auditorium.
The graduation program
followed the May devotions
and sermon by Rev. Charles
- Murray of St. Catherine La-boure
Church, Harrisburg. •
Student speakers at the
graduation ceremony-were Ar-thur
Graham, -class valedic-torian,
and Gabrielle Ecken-roth,
salutatorian. Rev. An-thony
J. Mayan, pastor of St.
Joan of Arc Church, delivered
'-- a brief sermon.
Vocal selections were pre-sented
by the Seventh Grade
students of the school.
The diplomas and awardg-to
the graduates .were presented
by Father Mayan. Recipients
of awards were:
Arthur Graham and Ga-brille
Eckenroth, general
average; Michael Tushup, re-ligion;
Lawrence Butler, con-
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HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JUNE 3, 1954 °'.i® No. 22
First Ail-Star
Hockey Game Is
Set For Hershey
Hershey Sports Arena will
be the scene of the American
Hockey League's first All-
Star game on Wednesday, Oc-tober
27. •
American Hockey League
governors, meeting here last
week, voted to hold the first
fracas in the local arena be-cause
the original suggestion
for staging such a tilt came
from members of the Hershey
Hockey Writers and Sports-casters
Association.
Murray Henderson, coach
of the second-place Hershey
Bears, will direct the All-
Stars against Cleveland's
Calder Cup champions. *Three
Bears will be members of the
squad—George "Red" Sulli-van,
named to the first team,
and Dunc Fisher and Lorne
Ferguson, who •were voted
berths on the second team.
The governors also cut the
1954-55 schedule to 64 games
for each tealn and elected
John Digby Chick of Windsor,
Ontario, as president. He suc-cpeds
John B. Sollenberger of
Hershey, who retired. Mr. Sol-lenberger
was 'named chair-man
of the board of gover-nors.
The league adopted two
plans to help the financial sit-uation
of tQ4,111$,&_„4.
fund was established calling
for the payment of 10 per
cent of. the gate receipts of
every game by the home team.
The fund will be divided 'at
the end of the season among
the member clubs on an in-verse
ratio based on gate re-ceipts.
The other plan is designed
to equalize travel expenses. At
the end of the season thp lea-gue
will total traveling ex-penses.
of all clubs, and divide
by the number of league mem-bers.
Any team under the av-erage
will make up the money
while teams o.ver it will re-ceive
a refund.
Cubs Take To Stage (
Cub Scout Pack 203 is set
to present the play, "The Wiz-ard
of Oz,” with parental par-ticipation,
at the First E.U.B.
Church on Friday evening at
7:30.
Assisting in producing the
play are Mrs. Merle Stuckey,
Mrs. Jones, Mrs. William
Muench, Mrs. James Winters
and Mrs: Robert Rodeffer.
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Memorial Day parade
97 Will Receive Diplomas -
At Milton Hershey School
Ninety-seven Seniors at the
Milton Hershey School will
receive their high school di-plonias
at 'Commencement ex-ercises
next Monday evening
in the Hershey Community
Theater.
The Commencement speaker
will be Dr. J. C. Warner, presi-dent
of Carnegie Institute of
Technology, Pittsburgh.
Student speakers on the
Commencement program are
Ronald Bierman, Syracuse, N.
Y., and Richard Reed, Chester
pa. Musical presentations will
be provided by the Milton Her-shey
Glee Club, with Virgil L.
Alexander directing and wil-
Ham Williams appearing as
soloist.
' A Commencement feature
will be the singing of the class
song, written by Conrad Iun-gerich
with words by John
Walden, both of vOhom are
members of the graduating
class.
The school reported that
thirty per cent of the Seniors
are planning to attend college.
Three Seniors plan to enlist in
military service after gradua-tion,
and "nearly all"-of the
remainder have definite job
assignments.
Twenty-one awards, plus a
number of Hershey Junior
College scholarships, will be
given during Class Day exer-cises
in the schoOl auditorium
on Sunday afternoon.
The baccalaureate service
will be held Sunday evening in
the Hers he y Community
Theater, where Rev. J. Her-bert
Miller, pastor of the
Spring Creek Church of the
Brethren, will deliver the bac-calaureate
sermon. Other
local ministers will also take
part.
DR. J. C. WARNER, presi-dent
of Carnegie Institute of
Technology, Pittsburgh, will
be the speaker at Commence-
,ment exercises for the Milton
Hershey School on June 7.
Before joining the Carnegie
faculty in chemistry in 1926,
he was a research chemist for
a number of industrial firms
and had taught chemistry at
Indiana University, his alma
meter.
During a two-year leave
from Carnegie (1943-1945)
for war work, Dr. Warner di-rected
research in several lab-oratories—
including Los Ala-mos,
N.M.—in the confiden-tial
work on the purification
of plutonium, a vital part in
the development of the atom
bomb. He later took part in
the work at Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
and is currently a member of
the General Advisory Com-mittee
to the Atomic Energy
Commission.
His two sons are students
at Carnegie.
Memorial Day
Speaker Cites
Debt To Dead
"We need only to look at
the countryside around us on
a day like this, particularly
here in Hershey, and we real-ize
what we have in this
country of ours.
"Then we can realize what
our fighting men, now in their
graves, have bought for us
with their lives.'"
Those words were spoken
here on Monday, at Derry
Township's annual Memorial,
Day observance, by Brig. Gen.
Henry K. Fluck of Somerset,
Pa., and Indiantown Gap. Gen.
Fluck, acting commanding
general of the 28th Infantry -
Division, was the guest speak-er
for Memorial Day rites
held at the Derry Township
Court of Honor in front of the
Community Building.
The speaker outlined the
orikin of Memorial Day 86
years agifi -as Decoration Day,
and spoke orthe "great trib-ute
we should -pay to those
men who lie in graves
throughout this country, and
in most of the countries of
the world."
The cermonies at the Court
of Honor followed a colorful
three-division parade headed
by Major Thomas F. Martin
as parade marshal. Division
marshals were, Robert E.
Heagy, A. Sterling King and
Edwin C. Miller. VFW Com-mander
Clarence Jefferies
presided at the ceremonies.
Musical organizations were
the Chocolatiers Drum and
Bugle Corps, Hershey High
School Band and Milton Her-shey
School Band.
The parade and cermonies
were sponsored by the Her-shey
posts of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars and American
Legion.
M. S. Hershey's
Own Rose Plot
Is Memorial
The annual influx of ama-teur
photographers and flower
fanciers began last weekend
at the Hershey Rose Garden,
although they were the "early.
birds."
According to Harry L. Erd-man,
director of horiculture,
the rose garden will come into
bloom starting this Coming
weekend. Several thousand
plants in 25 different varieties
have bee nadded to the beauty
spot this.year, Erdman said.
Another new feature is
. the original M. S. Hershey
rose plot which has been
moved from the High Point
home of the late founder of
the community to a selected
location in the 21-acre Her-shey
Gardens. The original
plants have been placed in a
memorial plot and a bronze
marker is being erected to
point out the significance to
visitors.
The plot is surrounded by a
white picket fence that was
used as part of the decorations
for President Eisenhower's
birthday party here last Octo-ber.
The entire rose garden con-tains
some 40,000 plants in
3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE more than 900 varieties.