Hershey News 1955-09-08

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPT. 8, 1955 No. 36
Annual Observance Of M. S. Hershey Day Is Set
"His deeds are his monu-ment;
his life is our inspira-tion."
Behind that theme lies the
sixth annual community-wide
observance of M. S. Hershey
Day which is to be held in the
Hershey Community Theatre
on Tuesday evening.
The Hershey Rotary Club,
which sponsors the observ-ance,
said:
"A cordial invitation is ex-tended
to everyone to attend
the program to honor the
memory of Milton S. Hershey
on the ninety-eighth anniver-sary
of his birth. A musical
program, designed to please
everyone, will be presented by
t h e Harrisburg Symphony
Orchestra under the direction
of Edwin McArthur and fea-turing
Robert Maxwell, Amer-ica's
foremost harpist. No
tickets will be required, and
there will be no admission
charge. Invite your friends."
The evening's program gets
under way at eight o'clock and
is almost entirely devoted to
"iiiusic for everyone."
Delivering t h e Memorial
Tribute to keynote the observ-ance
will be Frank Tapparo,
selected as the Rotary Club's
current Boy of the Month. The
young man is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Tapparo. A
Hershey High School Senior,
he serves as president of his
school's Student Council. -
The widely acclaimed Har-risburg
Symphony Orchestra
will present a pleasing reper-toire
of instrumental music by
skilled musicians under the
baton of their eminent con-ductor,
Edwin McArthur. The
group of eighty pieces is rec-ognized
as one of the top--
flight concert orchestras.
The orchestra personnel
includes four Hershey mu-sicians
— Miss Gretchen
Aungst, cello; Miss Ema-lene
Rodeffer, bassoon;
Samuel Basehore, string
bass; and Paul G. Fisher,
French horn. Miss Aungst
and Miss Rodeffer are Her-shey
High School students.
Robert Maxwell, the talent-ed
young harpist who plays
the world's most modern mu-sic
on the world's most an-cient
instrument, will appear
as instrumental soloist on the
varied program. His presenta-tions
will include his own im-mensely
popular composition,
"Ebb Tide."
At the age of seventeen,
Maxwell was the youngest
member of the NBC Orches-tra
under the direction of Tos-canini.
However, Maxwell at-tributes
much of his initial
success to Rudy Vallee who
was Maxwell's commanding
The Cocoa Bean Game
School Football Season
Opens Friday At Stadium
Photo On Page 4
The Hershey High Trojans
and the Milton Hershey Spar-tans
will pry open their foot-ball
seasons with their tradi-tional
friendly battle for the
Hershey High Band
Plans For Season
Thirty-three new members
will march in the band tomor-row
night when Hershey High
School plays its first game of
the football season. Three
weeks of practice have herald-ed
the beginning of Fall for
band members who have been
preparing colorful maneuvers
for use in the coming months.
New members of the band
are: Betsy Aungst, Patricia
Gabriel, James Hinkle, Ann
Koons, Lucille Hollinger, Carl
Spangler, Arno Bosley, Mau-reen
Smith, Beverly Miller,
Robert Funk, Douglas Her-shey,
James Engle, Judy Burd,
James W. Long, Richard Riss-miller.
John Hoover, Dayle Stare,
Dale Bohner, Rebecca Curry,
David Bikle, Patricia Good,
Car ol Kissinger, Patricia
Reese, Anne Herriott, Judith
Emerick, Clee Hagaman, Mary
Kay Porr, Fay Eisanhour, Do-
'lures Straub, Harold Bahmer,
James Foreman, Roddy Pera,
and Terry Sholley.
ALUMNI BAND
Hershey High School's
Alumni Band will meet at the
school at six-thirty Friday to
take part in the traditional
Cocola Bean football game
ceremonies.
Cocoa Bean Bowl trophy at
Hershey Stadium on Friday
night.
Sponsored by the Hershey
Rotary Club, the. game was
moved up from last place on
their respective schedules to
the opening fracas this year.
The tilt is a community proj-ect,
with proceeds going to-ward
acquiring equipment for
the Memorial Field Play-ground.
And there won't be a player
on the field who has ever been
on a winning team in this local
series. For the two teams have
battled to a tie in each of the
last three games, scorelessly
in 1952 and 1954, and 6-6 in
1953.
Milton Hershey holds a big
edge in games played to date,
with Hershey High winning
it.:, last victory back in 1946.
Frank Kamus, new Hershey
High coach, is well fortified
with returning backfield vet-erans,
but lacks experience on
the line. Quarterback Joe Di-
Blasio heads a starting quar-tet
which includes Ronnie Up-perman,
Bob Gipe, and Glenn
Weidler.
Coach Behney Buser of Mil-ton
Hershey, on the other
hand, has a liberal sprinkling
of veterans throughout his
starting lineup. In the back-field,
for instance, he has Eu-gene
Clapps, at the signal-calling
post, plus Gerry Ayres
aid Bill Hutchison at half-back,
and Larry Thomas, Tom
Bowman, and James Porach
at fullback. The forward wall
has John Scipione and Eric
Wojeichowski at ends; Ken-neth
Roberts, a guard, and
Harold Kriner, a center, re-turning
from last year.
officer in the U.S. Coast
Guard. It was while touring
the U.S. and the South Pacific
with the Bluejacket orchestra
that Vallee encouraged the
young harpist to arrange and
play solos, with the band as a
background. When he emerged
from the armed forces, Max-well
was a harp soloist of
prominence.
Hollywood beckoned, and he
appeared in "Tars and Spars."
He also dubbed in harp solos
for Harpo Marx in "Night in
Casablanca" and for Judy Gar-land
in "In the Good Old Sum-mertime."
From there he went
on a long series of successful
engagements in clubs and ho-tels
in New York, Chicago,
Las Vegas, and other enter-tainment
centers.
Providing an excellent in-gredient
of vocal music in
this outstanding program of
music will be the Milton
Hershey School Glee Club
directed by Virgil L. Alex-ander.
The choral work of the
boys' singing- group is well
known and appreciated, and
will add to the local flavor
of the M. S. Hershey Day
observance.
The annual birthday tribute
to the founder of this com-munity
is a function of the
Rotary Club. Presiding at this
year's program will be Rotary
President Paul 0. Curry.
The committee of Rotarians
in charge of arrangements in-cludes
Arthur R. Whiteman,
John B. Sollenberger, D. Paul
Witmer, and Theodore Banks.
ROBERT MAXWELL, harp
soloist at the M. S. Hershey
Day program next Tuesday
in the Community Theatre,
is also a gifted composer.
He has added immeasurably
to his laurels by writing the
enchanting "Ebb Tide."
Among his achievements
as a harpist, he has recent-ly
recorded two albums,
"Harpist's Holiday" for Co-lumbia
and "A Thousand
and One Strings" for
Tempo.
Maxwell has an innova-tion
whereby he has install-ed
lights in his harp which
vary in color with the mood
and tempo of the music.
M. S. Hershey, founder . . .
In his honor, an annual community-wide tribute
Retired Assn. To Meet
Rev. Allen E. Chamberlin,
pastor-emeritus of the Sev-enth
Street Lutheran Church
of Lebanon, will address the
members of the Hershey Re-tired
Employees' Association
at their September meeting
next Monday at the Hershey
Volunteer Fire Company Hall.
The meeting begins at 2 p.m.
Guest vocal soloist at the
meeting will be Howard B.
Phillippy, with Mrs. Ralph
Shirk as piano accompanist.
Irvin E. Spancake will lead
group singing, which will have
piano accompaniment played
by Mrs. Israel Early. In
charge of the meeting will be
President John F. Snavely.
Scrap Paper Collection .
Hershey's volunteer fire-men
announced they will con-duct
another scrap drive on
Monday, September 12, start-ing
at five-thirty p. m., for
paper, rags and metal. Pro-ceeds
will be used toward pay-ment
of Hershey's new fire
apparatus.
To contact the firemen re-garding
the scrap collection,
use telephone numbers
KE-3-2963 or KE-3-2953. DO
NOT CALL THE EMER-GENCY
NUMBER.
Derry Twp. Begins
Sending Funds
For Flood Relief
An initial contribution from
Derry Township for flood re-lief,
totalling $814.73, was tak-en
to the Harrisburg Ameri-can
Red Cross center last
Thursday by Mrs. J. J. Gal-lagher
who is heading the Red
Cross flood fund work here.
Of that amount, $654.73
was •contributed by patrons of
the Hershey Community The-atre
in collections taken by
Girl Scouts.
Mrs. Gallagher reported
that special collection points
had been established for
emergency relief funds at the
Community Building, Com-munity
Inn, Hershey Depart-ment
Store, Milton Hershey
School, Hershey National
Bank, Ernst's Service Station,
Spinner's, and Pronio's.
Cash donations were also be-ing
taken in the plants of the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
and the Reese Candy
Company.
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