Hershey News 1955-01-06

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 C.1417 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 6, 1955 No. 1
1954- 1955 Official Debutantes Pose With Mothers
BRIGHT-EYED BABIES — Vikki Lee Walmer (left) and Dawn Marie Heiple are
ready for 1955. Dawn Marie is Hershey's New Year's baby. Vikki Lee came on the 31st
of December.— in time to ring out the old and ring in the new. Mothers and babies are
being watched over by Miss Catherine Kra sovic, supervisor of nurses at the Hershey
Hospital. .
Events Of 1954
Pass In Review
Month-By-Month Synopsis Shows
Past Twelve Months Added
Up To Good Year
As the new year 1955 begins, it is fitting that a brief
review of 1954 be made in order to call to mind some of the
events and accomplishments that have now become recent
history.
Old 1954 was a pretty good year, the record shows.
Undoubtedly, the top event of the year, community-wise,
was the opening of the new Milton Snavely Hershey Mem-orial
Building, the modern kindergarten-elementary school
which was provided for the Derry Township School District
by the M. S. Hershey Foundation.
Many other important
events took place during the
past year. Most of them show
up in the following brief
synopsis. It is necessarily a
sort of spot-check of the local
happenings and developments
and is presented herewith as
A memory refresher:
January
Announce first organiza-tional
meeting of Hershey
Ambulance Corps on January
14; Melvin Garner appointed
as assistant placement direc-tor
at Milton Hershey School;
Hershey Hospital announced
a record corp of 503 babies
born during 1953.
Ellis Greene was elected
commander of the Hershey
Chocolatiers Drum and Bugle
Corps; Mrs. Mary Edwards
was given the annual Citizen-ship
Award by the Lions'
Club; C. J. Speicher accepted
MARRIED
Jane McCurdy, employed in
the Wrapping Department of-fice
at the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation, was married to
Albert W. Jamison on Decem-ber
18. Mr. Jamison is serving
in the U. S. Navy, and Mrs.
Jamison is residing at Pal-myra
Route 1.
HARRY W. BOYER, 321 S.
Lincoln St., Palmyra, has re-turned
to work at Hershey
after service in the Army. He
is employed at the Hershey
Lumber Company. ,
the post chairman of the am-bulance
fund-raising cam-paign.
The Foremen's Club toured
the Armstrong Corp Company
plant at Lancaster; Hershey
was shivering in below-zero
temperature during the week
of January 18.
Stearl Sponaugle was elect-ed
president of Local 464; Mr.
and Mrs. Egisto Menicheschi
observed their 53rd wedding
anniversary.
February
The VFW-sponsored March
of Dimes campaign brought
more than $2,000; Master Ser-geant
Earl R. Mays won a one-thousand-
dollar prize as au-thor
of the best military
march; Leo R. Poorman was
chosen by the County Com-missioners
for the post of su-pervisor
of the County Insti-tution
District.
Six Chilean labor officials
toured the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation ....a n d Estates;
Business and Professional Wo-men's
Club celebrated its first
anniversary.
Riley E. Heckert was named
superintendent of golf courses
at the Country Club, Juvenile
Country Club and Hotel Her-shey;
William S. Basehore,
Hershey milk truck driver,
named 1953's Driver of the
Year in Pennsylvania.
March
Original goal of $9,000 in
ambulance fund campaign
443onttnited on rode Fuouto
Boys Exceed Girls
In 1954 Stork
Sweepstakes Here
The gentlemen won the
stork race at the Hershep Hos-pital
in 1954 with 247 arrivals
during the year. Boys outnum-bered
girls by ten.
But the girls are wasting no
time in catching up in 1955.
As of January 3, the little
ladies were four to one ahead
of the boys.
And the girl faction was
also able to claim the first
Hershey Hospital arrival of
1955 —Dawn Marie, daugh-ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Heiple of 7 Franklin Street,
Palmyra, born on New
Year's Day. Mrs. Heiple is
the former Dorothy Patrick.
Last year's total number of
babies born at the Hershey
Hospital was 484, nineteen
short of 1953's record setting
503. '
September, with fifty-seven
arrivals, and October, with
fifty-three, were the busiest
months of 1954 in the mater-nity
department.
The last bundle f r o m
Heaven in the year of 1954
was a girl, Vikki Lee, daugh-ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Christian
Walmer, 230 Luna Lane, Mid-dletown.
The mother is the
former Geraldine Longeneck-er.
Other recent arrivals at
the hospital were born to:
Anthony and Nella (Kala-mai)
Butchkowski, 128 W.
Areba St., Hershey, a boy, 27
December.
Jack and Geraldine (Lebig)
(Continued on Pogo Twilit
Closing Service
The Hershey Week of
Prayer Services will con-clude
Sunday with a ser-mon
by the Reverend Mur-ray
Guy West of the
Church of the Brethren, of
York, Pa. The sermon will
be given in the Community
Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
New Year Means Retirement
For Eight Hershey Workers
The musical strains of Auld Lang Syne this year were
particularly significant for eight former Hershey employees
who joined the ranks of the retired as of New Year's Day.
Starting 1955 as retirees were six members of the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation personnel and two from the Hershey
Estates.
Leaving their active employment at Hershey with the
best wishes of their employers and fellow-workers for a
bright and happy future were:
Hershey Chocolate Corporation
Cyrus A. Hoerner, Hershey Route 2 (Second Mixing).
William Gohring, 129 South Hanover Street, Hummels-town
(Plow Room).
Antonio Paioletti, Hershey Community Club (Press
Room).
Edwin F. Cassel, 630 North Railroad Street, Palmyra
(Printing).
Lurton E. Halderman, Chicago, Illinois (Salesman).
Levi Leonard, 206 East Maple Street, Palmyra (Plow
Room).
Hershey Estates
Samuel D. Theal, Hummelstown Route 2 (Milton Her-shey
School).
John H. Ebersole, 139 Maple Avenue, Hershey (Com-munity
Building). .
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus
,
MISS VIRGINIA STRAWDERMAN, of Hockerville, who
won the grand prize in the Rotary Club's home Christmas
decorations contest, is shown here with friend. The Straw-derman
home wore a Christmastime air by night and day,
with window-trim resembling stained glass providing a
cathedral-like appearance.
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