Hershey News 1956-01-19

              HERSHEY "NEWS
Vol. 4 4Egoa l HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 19, 1956 No. 3
Annual Elections
Held By Hershey
Trust Company
Mr. P. A. Staples, Presi-dent
of Hershey Trust Com-pany,
announced today the re-election
at the stockholders
meeting on January 5 of the
following Directors:
T. R. Banks, J. E. Bobb,
William H. Earnest, J. J.
Gallagher, P. N. Hershey,
Samuel F. Hinkle, J. B. Sollen-berger,
P. A. Staples, A. R.
Whiteman, D. Paul WitMer
and Charles F. Ziegler.
The first meeting of the
Board in 1956 was held on
January 12 with the group
re-electing as officers P.'
A. Staples, President; D.
Paul Witmer, Vice Presi-dent;
A. R. Whiteman, Sec-retary-
Treasurer; and Jos-eph
S. Gumpher, Assistant
Secretary-Treasurer.
The Directors of Hershey
Trust Company serve also as
the Board of Managers of the
Milton Hershey School for
orphan boys, which now has
an enrollment of more than
1,000 students, and as the
Board of Managers of the.M.
S. Hershey Foundation which
is concerned with education
in all its phases in Derry
Township, including the sup-port
of Hershey Junior Col-lege.
Hershey To Have Civil Air
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-LOOKING OVER THE FIELD as planning for Hershey's Civil Air Patrol squad-ron
reached an active stage are Harry Williamson (left) operator of the Hershey Air
Park, and Charles Hershberger who was appointed to serve as temporary CAP squad-ron
commander during the organizational period. The Air Park will be the local unit's
operational base. Williamson and Hershberger, both Air Force veterans, are typical of
-the senior Civil Air Patrol members who will provide the leadership for the Hershey'
squadron.
Patrol Unit
Squadron Activated
At Meeting Held
Here This Week
Aviation - minded Hershey
has started building its own
civilian air unit.
A Hershey squadron of the
Civil Air Patrol was activa-ted
last evening (Wednesday)
at a meeting in the Com-munity
Building. Ten Senior
CAP members — all of them
proficient pilots and techni-cians
— formed the nucleus
of the local unit.
Serving as temporary
'squadron commander .during
the organizational period is
Charles Hershberger.
Other "charter members"
of the squadron are Harry
Williamson, Vincent Galozzi
and H. R. "Dick" Knoll, all of
Hershey; Lynwood Smith,
Annville ; Victor Cottingham,
Hummelstown; and Clifford
Osborn, Gilbert M. Baker,
Harry Frysinger and James
A. Eckenrode, all of Harris-burg.
Hershberger's home is
at Middletown.
Base of operations for the
sqUadron will be the Hershey
Air Park, operated by Wil-liamson,
although a regular
headquarters remains to be
established at this time. The
CAP program requires a
sizeable meeting room with
storage facilities for training
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Directors Of Bank Re-Elected
Mr. P. N. Hershey, Presi-dent
of The Hershey National
Bank, announced today the
re-election at the stockhold-ers'
meeting on January 10,
1956, of the following as Di-rectors
of the Bank:
William H. Earnest, A. T.
Heilman, P. N. Hershey, Sam-uel
F. Hinkle, M. K. Huber,
A. Bowman Snavely, John B.
Sollenberger, P. A. Staples,
A. R. Whiteman, D. Paul Wit-mer,
Charles Ziegler and John
R. Zoll.
The first meeting of the
Board in 1956 was held on
January 12, with the group
re-electing as officers: P. N.
Hershey, ?resident; John B.
Sollenberger, Vice President;
M. K. Huber, Cashier; and
John S. Baum, Assistant
Cashier.
48 Singing Students In Jr. College Chorus
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AMONG THE NUMEROUS fine school music organizations of Hershey is the Hershey
Junior College Chorus, represented in the poto above by its varsity and freshman
quartets. With Carol Moyer, accompanist, at the piano keyboard are these double:.
quartet members (1. to r.) : Roger Forry, E zabeth • Baugher, John Shenk, Dolores
Peck, Donald Ebersole, Judith Nagle, Fay Eshelman and Carlton Hoffer.
Ten Junior College Chorus representatives are preparing to take part in the
seventh annual festival of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Choral Association at Drexel
Institute of Technology on February 25-26-27.
Traditionally, the HJC
Chorus sings for the com-munity's
annual Veterans'
Day observance, as well as
participating in Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter con-certs
and an all-musical Con-vocation
each April. One of
the major music festivals of
the year is shared by the Jun-ior
College Chorus and the
Senior High School. This year
it will be the Spring Music
Festival on Monday, May 7,
in the Hershey Community
Theatre.
In addition to traditional
and requested performances
by the entire college chorus,
the organization is often rep-resented
by ensembles and
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VFW Mothers Ready To March On Polio
Another attack on polio
will be made next Tuesday
evening by a group of Her-shey
mothers.
'Hershey Memorial Post,
Veterans of Foreign Wars—
again sponsoring the polio
drive here — announced that
the "Mothers' March" will be
held Tuesday, starting at
seven p. m. It will be con-ducted
by the ladies' auxil-iary
to the VFW post, aided
by other ladies of the com-munity.
Mrs. H. B. Smith, Sr.,
chairman of the "Mothers'
March," said that lighted
porch lamps would be the
beacons for the mothers.
Larry Wallace of the VFW
post is general chairman of
the polio drive. The VFW
previously sold Blue Crutch-es
and placed collection boxes
as part of the current cam-paign.
Derry Church To Burn
Mortgage At Ceremony
The Rev. William Sheldon
Blair, pastor of Derry Presby-terian
Church, this week an-nounced
that members and
friends of the church are in-vited
to participate in a recog-nition
dinner and mortgage
burning ceremony at six-thir-ty
p. m. on Thursday, Feb-ruary
2.
Guest speaker for the oc-casion
will be the Rev. William
C. Young III, a Rotary Fellow
from Cardiff, Maryland. The
event will be held at the
church.
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