Hershey News 1957-12-12

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 5 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 12, 1957 No. 50
School Christmas
Music Festival
To Saluie Season
Striking the keynote of
Christmas in musical fashion
will be the annual Christmas
Music Festival of the Derry
Township Schools.
The .popular concert of
sacred and traditional music
will be held at seven-thirty
p. m. on Monday, December
16, in the Hershey Community
Theatre. Taking part in the
event will be some 250 stu-dents
in the various vocal and
instrumental groups of the
school music department.
Participants will include
members of the Hershey High
School Orchestra, • Hetshey
High School Chorus, Hershey
Junior College Chorus, Her-shey
High School Girls'
Chorus, and a pantomime
group. They will be supported
by a production. staff of stu-dents
and faculty. members.
Conducting the groups will
be _Miss Jane I. Erne', high
school orchestra; Wilbert H.
Hartman, high school chorus;
:and Paul G. Fisher, junior
'College chorus. Directing the
pantomimists will be Miss
Elaine Trotter.
Opening the nni,i( festi‘,11
wlll"ban organ prelude by
Diane Bohner, followed by
selections by the high school.
orchestra.
The impressive candlelight
processional of the high school
and junior college. choruses
will set the stage for a com-bined
rendition of "Gloria in
Excelsis."
• Dr. Varnum H. Fenster-macher,
dean of HersheST Jun-ior
College, will then extend
the greetings to the audience
in behalf of the students.
The high school girls'
chorus will appear• to sing
"Birthday of a King," "No
Candle Was There •and No
Fire," "Go Tell It on the
Mountain," and "Winter Won-derland,"
•followed , a brass
quintet. playing Yuletide
carols.
, The quintet will include Lee
Moyer and Terry Garman,
trumpets; David Fortna,
trombone; James Kling, tuba;
a n d Thomas,- Longenecker,
French horn.
Jr. College Chorus
Tenor Harold Gallagher
will be heard as soloist as the
junior • college chorus sings,
"I Wonder As I Wander," an
Appalachian carol. The col-lege
group will also present
the selections, "Glorious Is
Thy Name," "Jesus, Jesus,
Rest Your Head," and `Turn,
' Fum, Furn," a Spanish. carol.
The audience will be invit-ed
to sing the favorites, "It
Came Upon a Midnight Clear"
and "Hark, the Herald Angels
Sing."
Higb School Chorus'
The Hershey 'High School
Cherus will present a series
of Christmas selections on the
theme: "A Christmas Card to
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Firemen Honor High School Football Team Elect E. C. Foreman
• JOHN HERTZLER, Hershey High School gridder, re-ceives
the congratulations of Head Coach Frank Kamus
after Hertzler was named Outstanding Player of the
Year by a vote of his teammates: Hertzler was awarded
the Outstanding Player trophy which is given annually
by the Marching Club of the 'Hershey Volunteer Fire
Company.
Community's Churches
Plan Christmas Rites
The spiritual aspect of Christmas will be widely.ob-served
here, with special services in the various churches
emphasizing the true meaning of the joyous religious holiday.
Following tradition, much of the Christmas observance
in the community's churches will be of a musical - nature,
with choirs and children's groups singing the story of the
Babe of Bethlehem. •
Pageantry of. the season will 'be prese,nted in the
churches, and special sermons are being prepared by the
pastors for the Christmas services. ,
Most of the Christmas services
in Hershey churches are listed in
the following paragraphs. Others
will be included in next week's is-sue.
At All Saints 'Episcopal Church,
a Midnight Festal Choral Eucharist
and Sermon will be held as the
Christmas Eve service, with a
Festal Choral Eucharist also at
eleven a.m. on Christmas Day. The
church will hold its children's
Christmas pageant on Sunday, De-cember
29, at 7110 p.m., and special
Holy Day services are being ar-ranged.
"
The Evangelical Lutheran Church
of the Holy Trinity will observe
White Gift Sunday on December 22
during the Church School period.
The combined choirs of 99 voices—
Cherub, Carol, Youth and Senior
Choirs — will present, the annual
Christmas program on December
22 at 7:30 p.m., with Mrs. Edward
Walls as choir directress and
Thomas H. 'Israel as organist. On
Christmas Eve the. Sacrament of
the Altai will be celebrated.
The Church School Christmas
program for the congregation will
be held during the Matins on De-cember
29 at 9:15 a.m. Also on
December 29, at six p.m., Family
Night will be held in the Parish
Hall, with entertainment and re-freshments
provided by the young
adults and the Men's and Women's
Bible Classes and decorations by
the Luther League.
At ,the First Evangelical United
Brethren Church, Christmas Sun-day
will be noted on December 22
with the Christmas Message and
Sacrament of Baptism at the 10:30
a.m.'service and a pageant by the
combined Senior and Youth Choirs
at 7:30 p.m. under the direction of
Prof. Robert W. Smith. Christmas
Sunday will also be devoted to the
gift offering for, the Quincy Home
and Orphanage.
The church's annual Service of
Carols' and Lights will be held at
eleven p.m.. on Christmas Eve, pre-ceded.-
by an organ recital begin=
ning at 10:45.
The Spring Creek Church of the
Brethren will begin the seasonal
observance on Friday evening (De
cember 13) with a Christmas
Family Night in the social room
of the church. On Sunday, Decem-ber
15, the morning service will
,bring the Pastor's Christmas Mes-sage
and special music by the
Ladies' Choir and Senior Choir.
The evening service. on December
15 will .be devoted to a carol serv-ice
by the Senior Choir, Melody
Choir, Youth Choir and Junior
Choir.
•The Senior Choir has planned a
program of Christmas anthems for
the December 22 morning service,
and at the evening service the
Junior Department will present its
Christmas program. The Young
people of the church, along with
choir members, will follow their
custom of caroling on Christmas
Bve.
By Brent Hancock
John •- Hertzler, pile-driting
fullback on Coach Frank Ram-us'
Hershey High School foot-ball
squad,- was voted by-fel-;
low members of the squad as
the Outstanding Player of thel
Year and was -presented with
a fine - trophy . by W. W.I
"Tiny" Parry, sports editor Of
the Lebanon Daily News in
his capacity As master of cere-monies
at the .12th annual,
sports recognition night spon-sored
by .the HersheY Volun-;
teer Fire company last'
Thursday night at the fire'
hall. 1
The trophy is an annual
award given by the fire com-pany's
Marching Club.
Hertzler, who • suffered a
fractured ankle in the Me-chanicsburg
garne', proved
himself- to-be an oktstanding
public speaker as indicated in
his acceptance remarks and
in the presentation Of a jack-et
to COach Kamus from the
squad.
Co-captain with South Penn
All-Star halfback Barry Dan-iels,
Hertzler also announced
the next season's co-captains
would be center Ron Wenrich
and halfback speedster Jim
Bott.
Sevor "Tor" Toretti, assist-ant
coach at Penn State,
heaped praise on the should-
*re of Hershey's Les Waiters,
Penn State end, during' the
course of Toretti's principal
address. He stressed mental
and physical courage, humor,
attitude, respect and manners
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• CHRISTMAS FIRES
,This advice comes from
the National Board of Fire
Underwriters about how to
avoid fire hazards in setting
up the Christmas tree.
Don't place the tree near
hot spots such as radiators,
fireplaces or television sets.
Don't use paper ornaments,
cotton batting or gauze that
hasn't been treated for flame
resistance.
Keep -curtains and other
flammable material at least
six inches from electric bulbs.
Check light cords for fray-ing,
and have the switch for
turning on tree lights some
distance from the tree itself.
Be careful with wrappings
after .packages .have .been
opened. -
President Of Derry
Twp. School Board
E. Carl Foreman 182 West
Governor Road, was elected
president a the Derry Town-ship
Board of School Directors
at the board's annual reorgan-ization
meeting on December
3. Foreman succeeded Clever
E. Ernst. .
At the same time, William
H. Black was elected board
vice - president, succeeding
Foreman in that post.
Both Foreman and Black
were re-elected to six-year
terms on the school board at
the November general elec-tion.
•
Other members of the board
are Secretary. .Ezra .E. Grubb,
Treasurer Paul 0. Curry, Clev-er
E. Ernst, E. Morse Heisey
and Marlin E. Balsbaugh.
At the conclusion of the re-organization
meeting, the an-nual
reorganization dinner
was served in the elementary
school cafeteria to forty
guests. Attending were the
board members a n d their
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Pa. National Guard Unit
To Move To Hershey Site
For the first time in its
history, Hershey will welcome
a unit of the Pennsylvania
National Guard as a part of
its community picture.
The 899t1'i Anti-Aircraft
Artillery Battalion, now lo-cated
at Lancaster, will be in
its new quarters in the old
Reese candy factory building
at Caracas Avenue and Ridge
Road by December 15, a
Guard spokesman said.
However, an office- is al-ready
being staffed there for
information . and recruiting
purposes.
• The battalion is command-ed
by Lt. Col. Daniel Rogers
of Linglestown Route I. Cap-tain
Charles- E. Romich, Jr.,
of Harrisburg is commanding
officer of Headquarters Bat-tery;
Second Lieutenant Rob-ert
L. Meals of Lebanon is
CO of the Medical Detach-ment;
and Captain Joe H.
Freeseman of Ephrata com-mands
Battery A.
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