Hershey News 1954-05-20

              Mrs. Ray Strickler
Elected President
At PTA Meeting
Mrs. C. Ray Strickler of
Hummelstown Route 1,
mother of ten children, this
week took on extra responsi-bilities
as she was elected pres-ident
of the Derry Township
Parent-Teacher Association.
Mrs. Strickler succeeded Ivan
Seltzer, retiring president,
who installed the organiza-tion's
new officers at the
meeting held Monday eve-ning
in the high school build-ing.
Elected and installed along
with the new president were:
Dennis Geesey, vice-president;
Mrs. John Bierstein, secre-tary;
and Benjamin Olena,
treasurer.
The meeting was the final
one of the present school term,
and the sessions will resume
in September. The member-ship
chairman, Mrs. Harry
Reese, Jr., reported member-ship
at 178 at the close of the
year.
At Monday night's meeting,
High School Principal George
Lange reported on the 1954
student exchange between
Hershey and Newton, Mass.,
schools. Lange expressed ap-preciation
to the PTA, who
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Set Plans For
Teaching Of
Gun Safety
A program aimed at saving
lives and preventing injury is
being formed up here by the
Hershey American Legion
post.
A committee was named
this week by Major Thomas
F. Martin, Legion post com-mander,
to handle a direct ed-ucational
program of fire-arms
safety in the home and
afield. Eight, weekly instruc-tion
classes are to be held at
the Hershey training school
target range in a program
initiated by Major Martin
and his committee and titled:
"Safety Principles in Use of
Firearms, and Safe Handling
of War Relics and Explo-sives."
The program is set to begin
June 15, Major Martin said,
and classes are to be held each
successive Tuesday evening
from 7 to 8:30. It is being
conducted by the American
Legion as a public service.
In announcing the pro-ject,
Major Martin invited
—and urged—the general
public to participate in the
safety classes which are to
be conducted by experts in
the various phases. Regis-
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A growing _school popula-tion
his —hirotiai
classroom facilities at the St.
Joan of Arc School on West
Areba Avenue, where con-struction
of an annex to the
present school building is un-der
way.
The building annex, which
will house four classrooms
and washroom facilities, is
expected to be ready for use
at the beginning of the new
school term in September, the
Catholic school office said.
The new section is being
constructed of brick to match
the original structure and will
cost an estimated $80,000. The
annex will be. a continuation
of the present school building,
and extends to the east.
The added classrooms will
permit the school to operate
two First, Second, Third and
Fourth Grades and projected
later expansion will af-ford
the doubling of all eight
grades, it was announced.
The present Catholic school
building, containing eight
classrooms, was built in 1948.
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Vol. 2 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 20, 1954 No. 20
Commencement Set For 231 HHS Seniors
FIRST COMMENCEMENT exercises of the season are set for Monday evening when
the Hershey Junior College-Sophomores (photo above) receive their diplomas in the Com-munity
Little Theatre. Members of the Class of 1954 are:
George August Bold, David II. Bucher, Elaine A. Cap-
• • pelli, Gerald R. Ebersole, Roger Jack Evanina, Homer L. Gol-
Build Annex To bauch II, Carl Richard Gepfer, Mary Louise Gordon, Fred- ric L. Hartman, Nancy Vincanne Heisey, Louis Charles Hen-
St. Joan School derson, Thomas Lee Hess, Ralph E. IIetrick Jr., Francis Jo-
• • seph Heyduk, Harold I. Hirsh, George Thomas Hocker.
Donald Ira Hoover, Mae Elizabeth Leonard, Glennace
M;.-Longrirene-L. Long, Margaret Ann McConnell, Ronald E.
McCoy, James W. McDonald Jr., Jackie NV. Maurer, Norma
Gloria Modesti, Samuel E. Moyer, Richard S. Piergallini,
Harry Allen Risser, Marlene J. Robertson, Joseph L.
Rodgers.
Eugene P. Sando, Woodrow A. Schlegel, David Grayson
Schwenk, Betty Jane Seibert, Charles J. Stoner, Dawn Fern
Strickler, Anne E. Swartz, Mary Lou Swartz, William C.
Wenrich, Arthur M. Werner Jr., Merlyn W. Wildermuth, E.
Marian Winters.
Diplomas will be conferred by E. Morse Heisey, presi-dent
of the Derry Township Board of School Directors, and
the class of candidates will be presented by Derry Township
Superintendent of Schools Raymond H. Koch. Dr. Varnum
H. Fenstermacher, dean of the junior college, will make the
presentation of awards.
Student speaker will be E. Marian Winters, with Dr. Aaron
G. Breidenstine, dean of Franklin and Marshall College, as
Commencement speaker. Speaking for the Class of 1.954 will
be Class President James VV: McDonald, Jr.
Set Joint Baccalaureate
Baccalaureate services for
the Hershey Junior College
and Hershey High School
Classes of 1954 will be held
Sunday evening at 7 :30
o'clock, in the Hershey Com-munity
Theatre.
The baccalaureate sermon
will be delivered by Rev. J. R.
McDonald.
Taking part in the program
will be Rev. J. Herbert Miller,
invocation; Rev. Stephen E.
Schullery, Scripture reading;
and Rev. William • Sheldon
Blair, prayer.
The College Choir, directed
by W. Paul Campbell, will
present several selections.
The combined baccalau-reate
service initiates the
graduation season here. Com-mencement
dates are: May 24,
Junior College; May 27, Her-shey
High School; May 30, St.
Joan of Arc School transfer
exercises; and June 7, Milton
Hershey School. '
School Beginners
To Be Registered
The approaching end of the
school term also meant look-ing
ahead to Vie beginning of
the 1954-1955 term for the
school authorities.
A. Sterling King, Derry
Township elementary school
principal, announced that reg-istration
for kindergarten and
First Grade children for the
school year 1954-55 is to be
held in his office beginning
May 24 and continuing'
through May 28.
To be eligible for kinder-garten,
children must be five
years old before February 1,-
1955, the principal pointed
out, and, to be eligible for
First Grade children must be
six years old before February
1, 1955. Birth and vaccination
certificates must be presented
at the time of registration.
Hours for registration were
listed as from 9 to 11:30 A.M.
and from 1 to 3:30 P.M. Chil-dren
attending kindergarten
in Hershey are not required to
register to enter First Grade.
College President
To Address Derry
Township's Grads
Dr. D. L. Biemesderfer,
president of Millersville State
Teachers' College, will deliver
the commencement address at
graduation exercises for 231
Hershey High School seniors
next Thursday evening in the
Hershey Community Theater.
In addition to the address
by the well-known Pennsyl-vania
educator, two student
speakers—Linda Louise Gar-man
and Edward L. Hitz—
will be featured in a sympo-sium
on the theme: "This We
Believe."
The commencement pro-gram
will be climaxed with
the presentation of diplomas
by E. Morse Heisey, president
of the Derry Township School
Board.
The invocation will be given
by Charles A. Lewis, who has
been named to serve as 'vicar
of All Saints Episcopal Mis-sion.
'
The Hershey High School
Orchestra .and Mixed Chorus
will present the musical por-tions
of the program, with the
orchestra playing for the pro-cessional
and recessional. The
mixed chorus will appear in
three selections with featured
pianists Robert Tancredi and
Karl Moyer.
Awards and citations will
be presented to graduates fol-lowing
the presentation of di-plomas.
Senior class officers are:
William J. Sponaugle, presi-dent;
Earl E. Alger, vice
president; Audrey F. Saufley.
secretary; Barbara J. Hum-mer,
treasurer.
Commencement
Speakers
LINDA LOUISE GARMAN
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EDWARD RITZ