Hershey News 1955-07-07

              HERSHEY NEWS
>0 HERSHEY, JENNSYLVAN1A, JULY 7, 1955 No. 27
SAFE AND SANE Fourth of July weekend was observ-ed
by a great many local area youngsters who found the
ice skating was fine summer sport. Special Independence
Day skating sessions in the Sports Arena were set up
by the park management. Regular public skating ses-sions
were also held Friday and Sunday on the Arena
' ice. The summer ice skating was made possible for the
first time this year and is proving to be a popular
pastime.
Being Busy Comes Naturally To Vicar
. Hershey's youngest clergy-man
may be short on birth-days
but he is long on expe-
-mem in religious" and civic
work.
All Saints Episcopal
Church Vicar Kermit L.
Lloyd, who was assigned here
following his graduation
from Divinity School in May,
has squeezed into his student
days considerable experience
as a church lay reader, semi-narian
and civic welfare
worker.
A native of Kingston, near
Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Lloyd was
reared at nearby Progress
where his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Kermit R. Lloyd, now
reside. He graduated from
Susquehanna Township High
School in 1947 and received
his Bachelor of Arts degree
from Dickinson College in
1952. In May of this year he
completed his studies at the
Philadelphia Divinity School
of the Episcopal Church,
where he received his bache-lor's
degree in Theology.
At the Divinity School, he
was vice-president of the Stu-dent
Council and chairman of
Student Work Committees.
He also was seminarian in
charge of St. Andrew's
Church in West Philadelphia,
an inter-racial ,parish, and
took specialized training and
worked with Rev. Alfred M.
Smith in religious activities
among the inmates of the
Eastern State Penitentiary:
During his high school
and college days he was lay
reader at St. Stephen's
Cathedral in Harrisburg
where he was often called on
to preach. Mr. Lloyd also
filled many preaching en-gagements
in churches of
various denominations in
Baltimo re, Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia and Detroit, as
well as throughout the Har-risburg
area.
His activities while a stu-dent
at Dickinson College in-cluded
the presidency of the
college Student Christian As-sociation,
Inter-Faith Coun-cil
and the Canterbury Club.
He is a member of Phi Delta
Theta fraternity.
Also at Dickinson, he serv-ed
as chairman of the cam-pus
Community Chest cam-paign,
and in 1947 was a
member of the Advisory
Board of the Eastern Area of
American Red Cross.
• Along with this busy back-ground,
Mr. Lloyd also, found
time for Boy Scouting and
during the summer, months
while in college, he served as
a chaplain at the Scout camp
at Hidden Valley, Perry
County, and was camp com-missary
director, at times
pitching in to help with the
cooking.
At the present time he is
continuing his interest in
youth by working with boys
at the State's White Hill In-dustrial
School.
Mr. Lloyd is currently re-sciding
in Hershey at the
Community Club and has a
telephone listing of Keystone
3-2456.
Playground Lists
Special Events
A list of ten special events
slated for the Derry Town-ship
Memorial Field play-ground
was announced by
John Hanshue, playground di-rector.
First on the list was
a bicycle parade scheduled for
last Friday, followed by a doll
show today (Thursday).
Other playground special at-tractions
include:
Swimming party, July 11.
Archery tournament, July
14.
Checker tournament, July
18.
Hat show, July 21.
Puppet show, July 28.
Foul shooting contest, Au-gust
1.
Washline exhibition of arts
and crafts, August 4.
Playground party, August
11 (rain date, next day).
The playground director
pointed out that reservations
for the use of fireplaces and
ovens at the playground for
group functions may be ob-tained
by calling the play-ground
telephone—Keystone
3-2889.
Easter Seal Sale Helps
Crippled Children Fund
Hershey residents have
contributed $1180.21 to the
1955 Easter Seal Sale, accord-ing
to Mrs. John Beck, local
chairman and board member
of the Tr -County Crippled
Children's Association which
conducted the appeal.
Of the amount contributed
locally, $894.85 came from the
sale of Easter Seals, and
$285.36 from the annual Lily
Parade conducted by the Her-shey
High School Tri-Hi-Y
girls.
Joining with Mrs. Beck in
expressing thanks to all who
helped to make this year's ap-peal
a success were Mrs. Ed-
Win Hershey and M. M.
Hunchberger, also members
of the Crippled Children's As-sociation.
Legionnaires Elect John D. Emerich
Hershey's American Le-gion
post has elected John D.
Emerich as commander for
the 1955-1956 Legion year at
an election session held re-cently
at the post home. Em-erich
succeeds Edwin C. Mil-ler
who conducted the elec-tion
meeting.
The new post commander
is an infantry veteran of
World War Two and is em-ployed
in the Traffic Depart-ment
of the Hershey Choco-late
Corporation. He resides
at 308 East Derry Road.
George W. Boyer was elect-ed
senior vice-commander
and Donald B. Chubb was
named junior vice-command-er.
Other officers elected were
Jack N. Keefer, finance offi-cer;
Norman Z. Stahle, his-torian;
Samuel Coletti, ser-geant-
at-arms; Irvin J. Gru-ber,
chaplain; and executive
committee members Samuel
S. Strine and Herbert Heisey.
Other members of the ex-ecutive
committee are Edwin -
C. Miller, Thomas F. Martin,
Harry R. Knoll, Emmanuel
Groff, Brent I. Hancock and
John R. Bierstein.
Appointed officers of the
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Their Aim's The Same
POINTING 1N THE SAME DIRECTION through a pair
of Leicas are David S. Strickler, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Ray Strickler (left), and famous Life Magazine photo-grapher
Alfred Eisenstadt. Strickler, a graduate of Her-shey
High School and Hershey Junior College, was a
guest of Life Magazine in New York City for two weeks
after winning the grand prize in a national collegiate
photo contest while a student at Boston University.
Strickler returned home from New York last week.
While the guest of Life, Strickler went on photo
assignments with some of the magazine's ace camera-men
and was given the privilege of using Life's fabu-lous
photographic laboratories. A prized souvenir of
his visit is a camera which he purchased from Eisen-stadt
and which had been used to make many of Eisen-stadt's
published pictures.
Strickler was a photo-journalist during his four
years of Navy service in the Pacific and the Far East
and was a photo-journalism major at Boston Univer-sity's
School of Public Relations and Communications.
The Stricklers reside at Hummelstown Route 1.
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