Hershey News 1954-07-15

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY 15, 1954 No. 28
Longtime Employees Among
Persons Retiring June 30
. IRWIN R. GINGRICH
HARRY S. BOYER
SALVATORE CAPITANI
HARRY E. GINGRICH
Paul Garrett, desk clerk at
the Community Inn, is back
. on the job after spending his
vacation fishing in Canada.
This week the Hershey
New again salutes a number
of men who have retired after
varying lengths of employ-ment
with the Hershey Choco-late
Corporation and Hershey
Estates.
Oldest in point of uninter-rupted
service among those
who retired at the end of June
is Irwin R. Gingrich of Pal-myra,
who was long a familiar
figure at the Hershey Depart-ment
Store. Gingrich had been
credit manager at the store
since 1933. He retired after 41
years of employment at Her-shey.
Many others in the group
of June 30 retirees were long-time
employees and had made
many friends among their
neighbors and working asso-ciates
over the years. They
include:
IRWIN R. GINGRICH, 410
East Cherry Street, Palmyra,
retired June 30 after 41 years
of employment with the Her-shey
Estates and. Chocolate
Corporation. He was credit
manager at the Hershey De-partment
Store at the time of
his retirement.
Through his long associa-tion
with Hershey, Mr. Ging-rich
is widely known and re-spected
in the area. He was
born and reared two miles
south of Hershey and moved
fo Palmyra in 1909.
He began his career with
erisher-usr-St:-Patriekia-Day
in 1913 in the credit depart-ment
of the Hershey Choco-late
Corporation and was
transferred to the department
store in March of 1919, being
officially pained credit man-ager
in 1933.
Mr. Gingrich has been us-ing
his free time since retire-ment
in visiting places of in-terest,
including a trip to the
seashore. He was guest of
honor at a retirement party at
the Palmyra Legion home on
July 2, tendered by a number
of his associates at the depart-ment
store.
HARRY S. BOYER, 135
West Caracas Avenue, retired
from the Hershey Estates
Garage on June 30 after 35
years of affiliation with Her-shey.
A veteran of World War
One — in- which he served in
France as a motor sergeant—
Mr. Boyer was employed for
the first three years after the
war by the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation as a truck me-chanic.
He had helped keep
the trucks rolling for the
Amer ican Expeditionary
Forces at Chateau Thierry and
other famous fronts of the
1917-1918 conflict.
After three years at the
chocolate plant, he was trans-ferred
to the Hershey Garage,
where he has worked until his
retirement.
Born at Derry Church, Mr.
Boyer has watched Hershey
grow. Relaxing at ,his home,
he enjoys reminiscing with his
many friends.
SALVATOREU. CAP!-
TAN!, 63 West Granada Ave-nue,
was among the twelve
Hershey employees who re-tired
at the end of last month.
He had been employed by the
Chocolate Corporation for 35
consecutive years, and had
previously done "outside"
tesatiasell ea rase Twol
. INTERESTED OBSERVERS had their eyes on the subject matter as Captain William
R. Bowie, Jr., of the 67th Ordnance Detachment at Indiantown Gap, demonstrated proper
care with warg relics at last week's Firearms Safety Program class sponsored by the Her-shey
American Legion post in the interest of public safety.
Youngsters.in the photo, left to right—Lewis Maurer, Harry Cassel, Mary Ann Hen-ning,
George Brandt, Floyd Nestler and Carl Spangler.
Captain Bowie showed many types of war relics and souvenirs and pointed out the
danger in handling such objects without the certain knowledge that they have been made
explosion-safe. Exhibits included U.S. and foreign grenades, rockets, bombs and various
pistol, rifle and machine gun rounds.
The talk on war relics marked the midway point in the safety course sponsored by the
Legion post. Subsequent classes will be on the Proper handling- of the rifle, oldtime firearms
and black powder, and forest fire prevention.
Governor To Join- In Salute To Maj. Martin
Governor John S. Fine will
be the principal speaker at the
testimonial dinner for Major
Thomas F. Martin this Satur-day
night at the Park Golf
Club at 6:30 p. m. Major Mar-tin
is being honored for hav-ing
received the American Le-gion
Distinguished Service
Medal and also for his 40
years of service with the
Pennsylvania State Police.
Some 250 persons are ex-pected
to attend the affair in
honor of the veteran police
officer, who has been Super-intendent
of the Training
School in Hershey for over 20
years and who is also round-ing
out his second consecutive
year as Commander of Her-shey
Post 386, American Le-gion.
Fellow police officers at-tending
the function will be
headed by Colonel C. M. Wil-helm,
State Police Commis-sioner.
Others include Major
Charles C. Keller, Command-er
of Squadron Two, with
headquarters in Harrisburg;
Major William Clark,- retired,
Wyoming Barracks; Capt.
John D. Kime, Commanding
Officer of the Harrisburg
Barracks; Capt. James F. Ma-roney,
acting warden of the
Western Penitentiary, Pitts-burgh;
Capt. Norman E. An-nich
of the local Training
School; Lt. Wilbur M. Smith,
Commanding Officer of Divi-sion
Two, Montoursville ;
A. H. Kratzke, Executive Of-ficer
of the Training School;
Lt. Alfred Verbecken, Harris-burg
Barracks; and Lt.
Abram W. Corbin, Bethlehem
Barracks.
Paul R. Selecky and
Daniel B. Shaub, Comman-der
and Adjutant respec-tively
of the Department of
Pennsylvania, head the line--
up of Legionnaires who will
attend.
Clergy present will include
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John A.
Maguire, Harrisburg; Father
Louis Dougherty, Chaplain
of the Pennsylvania Industrial
School, White Hill; and the
Rev. Dominick A. Mamma-rella,
assistant pastor of St.
Joan of Arc Catholic Church,
Hershey, who is also a mem-ber
of Post 386.
Hershey officials who plan
to attend include J. B. Sollen-berger,
President of the Her-shey
Estates; J. J. Gallagher,
General Sales Manager of the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion;
J. L. Stahl, Sales Pro-motion
Manager; P. N. Her-shey,
head cd the milk division
of the Chocolate Corporation
and Agricultural Advisor of
the Hershey Estates and Mil-ton
Hershey School; J. R. Zoll,
Personnel Director of the
Chocolate Corporation; S. F.
Hinkle, Plant Manager; W. E.
Schiller, Treasurer and Comp-troller;
A. B. Snavely, Chief
Engineer; E. W. Meyers,
Chief Chemist; C. J. Speicher
and R. M. Bucher, Superin-tendents
of Production; Dr.
John 0. Hershey, Superinten-dent
of the Milton Hershey
School; and Harry L. Erd-man,
Manager of the Hershey
Flower Shop and Greenhouse
and chief horticulturist for
Hershey.
Entertainment will be pro-vided
by Jimmy Martino, M.
A. Riedel and Ray Divinney.
Toastmaster will be J. Ben
Dubson, past commander of
the 19th District of the Amer-ican
Legion.
Hobart F. Hopkins, pa#
Central Vice-Commander of
the Legion, Captain Annich,
Lt. Kratzke, and Paul G.
Shultz, Sales Promotion Man-ager
and a past commander of
Post 386, will head up the re-ception
committee.
The menu will include fruit
cup, seafood poulette, a Cold
platter of ham, turkey, beef,
Swiss Cheese, stuffed egg, po-tato
salad, celery, olives, Des-sert
will be holiday pudding
with cookies and coffee.
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