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VOLUME 27—NUMBER 30
SWARTHMORE, FRIDAY, July 29, 1955
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Swarthmore Leads in
Swim Competition
Youngsters' Scores
Swamp Seven
Districts
' Boys and girls teams from the
Swarthmore Swim Club chalked
up a 31 point lead, almost doubling the score of the runner-up,
when a three-night novice suburban swim meet opened at the
' East Whiteland pool in Paoli Tuesday evening.
The following night at Yeadon
they' maintained • the lead by adding another 42% points for a
total of 110%. Rose Valley crept
closer by gaining 47 points and
bringing its total to 84. Total
scores of the other teams competing stood as follows at the end
of Wednesday' night's contests:
Aronimink 62, Colonial Village 34,
Marple-Newtown 33, East White-
land 29%, Yeadon 25%, Martins
Dam 3%.
The local teams were quickly
assembled only a week before the
meet and had the benefit of but
a few short try-out swims. They
were coached and accompanied at
the contests by Millard Robinson,
Swarthmore .Swim    Club    pool
' manager, and Lifeguard John'
Knaff. .;"■.""..
Tuesday night Swarthmore crp-
tured first place in four out of six
.   events and brought home 16 rib-
/- bons in all along with its top
point tally of 68. Runner-up was
Rose Valley with 37 points.. Aron-
. imink made -25; East ^Whiteland,
. 17.5; Colonial Village, ldi'lia^pler
. Newtown; 13.5. Martins Data and
/-, Yeadon also competed,
..|l.-..Keith .Richardson   placed- first
f with 50.2 points in the 13 and 14-
'jyear-old boys diving; Second was
'Brody Crawford, 45.2; third David
Shute, 44; fourth Jay Lord, 36.8,
.and fifth Howard/Schad, 15.6 in
-this all-Swarthmore event.
Swarthmore did not have any
entries in the boys butterfly but
David Grogan tied for first place
with a member of another team
4n the 13  and  14-year-old boys
-freestyle. Timet was 1^.5 seconds.
Todd Tantum and John Thurman
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Sunday Afternoon Fire
,   Under Investigation
The mysterious origin of a fire
which threatened the Morrow
Construction Company garage
Sunday afternoon and was extinguished by the Swarthmore Fire
Company, is being investigated by
Springfield Fire Company officials.
Responding to a call from
a neighborhood boy who "saw
smoke? issuing from the building,
firemen found one of six trucks
housed in the structure ablaze.
The truck's gasoline tank was
burning/ahd spurting flames up to
the rafters which were charred
despite the quick removal of all
six trues* by firemen.
William Cadmao of Riverview
road, partner in the Construction
Company ahd owner of the adjacent Morrow Quarry on Sooth
Chester road, Springfield, just
over the Swarthmore boundary,
shared tiie opinion of Swarthmore Fire Chief John Rumsey *nd
Springfield authorities that the
fire 'looked strange", especially
in view of two others hi ttiat area
within recent weeks/
All three fires appear to hove'
started in Use atats of the motor
v*hlflss lips other two, private
parked behind the
fr^nffit|gf on the
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oftjity it and the other
EMERGENCY PHONES
Mrs. H. LeRoy MeCuhe,
SWarthmore 6-2474, co-
chairman of the Btood Service, for the local branch,
American Red Cross, informs the community, and
vicinity that requests for
blood during- she summer
months may be made through
her. or through Mrs. J. Albright Jones, SWarthmore 6-
6650 or Mrs. C. C. Shute,
SWarthmore 6-3757.
R. M. Hook Promote*
By City Bank
Strath  Haven Ave. Man
Becomes Assistant
^ Treasurer
Richard M. Hook, 611 Strath
Haven avenue, has been appointed
Assistant Treasurer of Girard
Trust Corn Exchange Bank.
Announcement of the promotion was made by fJreoffrey S.
Smith, President of,the Bank,
wh|ch has.total resources of $650,-
000,000 and administers trust assets of $1,400,600,000.
Hook lives at 611 Strath Haven
avenue. He is a graduate of
Swarthmore High School, Dartmouth College and the Amos Tuck
School of 'Business Administration at Dartmouth. He has been
employed at Girard Trust Corn
Exch'ange since July^ 1950, and is
pit the Commercial Loan Department; ,- -■•*.'.,..     'v'■'-■*-.
Hook is Assistant Secretary of
tiie Swarthmore Players. Club end
a veteran-actor pi many' of Its
productions. He also belongs. to
the Philadelphia Junior Chamber
of Comerce and the Phi Kappa
Psi Fraternity.
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SwanhitHfrtans in
Media Park Concert
The -Concert sponsored by the
Delaware County Park Board to
be held Thursday evening, August 4, in Glen Providence Park,
Media, will take on a distinctly
Swarthmorean flavor when several well known localites will be
featured.
Mrs. Mary DeProphetis, Harvard avenue, will> appear as, guest
soloist as Robert M. Holm, of the
local schools will direct 4he 30
piece Chester Elks Band in a varied program of musical numbers.
Eric Sharpless, Cornell avenue,
recently returned to civilian life
after two years duty with the
Quantico Marine Band, will participate in the concert as an instrumentalist.
Mrs. DeProphetis will be heard
in a group of four numbers including Coward's "Zeigeuner" and
the ever popular "My Hero" from
the Chocolate Soldier. Mr. Holm
ahd the members of the band
have prepared a varied program
that should prove to be of interest
to young and old alike. Numbers
to be heard include Selections
from "The King and I", Excerpts
from Dvorak's "Symphony No. 5
in E Minor" and several popular
marches. A trumpet trip will perform Walter's "Fantasy for Three"
and Bob KeeL popular Park Master of Ceremonies, will narrate
the humorous "Lirtie Bop Riding
Hood".
Glen Providence Park Is at the
western end of State street in
Media and the_entire area ia. regularly sproyecT before each performance. The concerts are free
aad open to the poboc, aoeT beam
Ellwood B. jChapman
Services Sat. 2 P.M.
Death Tuesday Ends
Years of Valued
Public Service
Ellwood B. Chapman, chairman
of the Swarthmore Board of Adjustment and of the borough's
original zoning commission, died
Tuesday afternoon at his home,
731 Harvard avenue, after an illness of more than a year. A^mem-
orial service will be held at the
house at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. In lieu of flowers the family
requests contributions be made to
the American Friends Service
Committee.
Born in Philadelphia 84 years
ago, Mr. Chapman graduated from
Friends Central School in 1896.
He was a lifelong member of the
Green Street Meeting of the Society of Friends and took an active interest in the work of the
American Friends Service Committee. He had served his home
town, hit business center' of Philadelphia, his state and his nation
in many capacities over a long
period of time. '
Associated with the Stephen F.
Whitman Co., confectioners, for
nearly 25 years, he was serving as
vice-president at the time, of his
retirement in 1927. He continued
until recently to maintain an office
in Philadelphia from" which he
directed-his civic activities.
-He. was one of the organizers
of this Chestnut Street Business
Men's Association in 1912 and
served as its president from that
timfcuntil 19^.;Rev^a*iialso president. .Jtf j jthfe4aso«s^;,fiBetefl['
for three years.
One of Mr. Chapman's chief
concerns was the preservation of
the natural beauty/ of the Pennsylvania landscape, and the creation of adequate recreational
parks within the state. He helped
to organize the Pennsylvania
Parks Association in 1930 and was
president of the group until 1954.
He was a director also of the
National . Conference on State
Parks and worked in many other
groups including the American
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Mother's Club
In Summer Teas
Members of the Swarthmore
Mothers Club meet at summer
teas as a means of keeping ih
touch with the ,group during the
summer months. The teas also
give members 'an opportunity to
bring friends and neighbors as
guests who might be interested
in joining with the organization
for the coming season.
Mrs. Edward Thomas, membership chairman, held the flrst "meeting at her home. The second tea
was held at the home of'her
mother, Mrs. Roland G:E. Tillman, on Park avenue. Co-hostesses included Mrs. Heins Heinemann, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. H.
Mather Lippincott, Mrs. Leslie
Simon, Mrs. Howard Clymer and
Mrs. Jack C. Fitch.
The third summer tea will be
held at the home of Mrs. Heinemann, president, on August 2.
Acting as co-hostesses will be
Mrs. Charles E. Durkin, - Mrs.
Frank Chapman, Mrs. Paul Zeck-
er, Mrs. Simon.
Plans are being made for. tiie
last meeting to be held' at the
home of Mrs. David Spears.
Despite the torrid temperatures
tha tees have been a delightful
nufffltff aad the Ctob hi li?"Mfts*
forward to a very successful ltSS-
"DAVY CROCKETT"
SHOOTS "POSSUM
The early morning calm of
Vassar avenue was spoiled last
Friday by the barking of dogs
and excited cries of children. Mrs.
Howard C. Jackson's dog and the
dog of her sister, who was visiting her, had brought to bay a
'possum, previously injured by
some other dogs.
The dogs continued to bark and
circle warily around the hurt
animal, huddled in the middle of
the street, until Patrolman Bill
Weidner arrived on the scene to
put the 'possum out of its misery.
Amidst cries of "shoot him,
Davy Crockett", Patrolman Weidner shot the 'possum, restoring
peace once again to Vassar avenue.
Memorial Held for
Mrs. John Longwell
Rev. Bishop, Dr. Malin, Agi
Jambor in Final
Tributes
A memorial service for Elizabeth Temple Longwell was held
in the Swarthmore Presbyterian
Church at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening. A native Swarthmorean ahd
the wife of John H... Longwell of
the Piasecki HeUcopter Corporation's procurement division, Mrs.
Hongwell died suddenly Sunday
morning at Taylor Hospital, Ridley Park. * Cremation took place
Monday at West Laurel Hill.
JThe Hey,. Joseph P. Bishop,
pastor of the cburch^waa assisted
in the service by Dr. Patrick
Murphy MaHn. of New York City,
a r former''6warihmore'president,
Mme.'■';. Agi Jambor,. a former
Swarthmorean and a close,friend
of Mrs. Longwell, played, two of
Mrs. Longwell's favorite piano
selections.
Mrs. Longwell was the daughter of Worrall E. S. Temple, of
143 Park avenue, a member of
the faculty of the Spring Garden
Institute, and the late Florence
May Temple, who taught for
many years at the Mary Lyon
School. She was educated in the
Swarthmore Public Schools, and
until a few years ago was ad-
ministrStive assistant at the Bar-
tol Foundation.
Mrs. Longwell, a member of
the SWarthmore Presbyterian
Church, had been active in many
charity campaigns; She was an.
active worker on the Swarthmore
Democratic Committee.
Surviving besides her husband
and father is her daughter, Jody,
a student at Drexel Institute of
Technology, and a sister, Mrs.
Edwin B. Newman, of Cambridge,
Mass.
Patterson Named
To Research Coaacil
George W. Patterson, 312 Dartmouth avenue, has been appointed to the National Research Council, according to the announcement of Detlev W. Bronk, president of the National Academy of
Sciences. -
Patterson will represent the
society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics, Philadelphia, in the
Council's Division of Mathematics.
Patterson is a senior research
engineer at the Burroughs .Corporation Research Center, Paoli.
Mr. and Mrs. David Bingham
of fairview road have been called
to Cedar Rapids, Iowa; by the
death of Mr. Bingham's mother,
Mrs. Edward H. Bingham. Mrs.
Bingham recently visited bar son
r«ad daughter-in-law here ft
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"Doe" Mercer Wins
National Honor
Popular Local Man Named
To Football Hall
Of Fame
E. LeRoy Mercer, 133 Ogden
avenue, coach of track and football and director of physical education at ^Swarthmore College
from 1915 to 1931, was elected to
the v National Football Hall of
Fame on July 25. Recently honored at a college dinner, this community's beloved "Doc" Mercer
retired June 30, 1953 from the position as Dean of the Department
of Physical Education, University
of Pennsylvania, which he had
held since leaving Swarthmore
College. An alumnus of the University, he is the third Pennsylvania football player to be so
honored.     . \\; •.V.V-
MercerV a star lacrosse player
and track man at George School,
had not played football prior to
coming to Pennsylvania. As a
sophomore in 1910 he earned a
regular backfield job on a team.
In three years of college football, Mercer seldom called for
time out and missed only one
game because of injuries, the 1911
game with the Carlisle Indians.
Perhaps his greatest performance
was against the Carlisle Indians
in 1912 when his great defensive
work helped the Red and Blue
turn the tide against Jim Thorpe
and company as Pennsylvania
scored a surprising 34-26 victory
in an uphill battle. -
. The Red Nand Blue came back
from a 26-20 defeat to win with
two touchdowns. The .tide Iwas
finally.turnedT^an Mercer roll 20
yards after the Bed. and Blue had
recovered a Thorpe fumble on the
Indians' 20/ yard line. '■
Thorpe and Mercer were longtime athletic rivals. In addition
to their great individual efforts
in the 1912 game, tiie two men
had been decathlon performers on
the United States Olympic Team
of 1912 at Stockholm. Thorpe the
winner eventually was disqualified in tids event while Mercer
finished sixth.
So respected was Mercer by his
teammates that he was selected to
captain the Red and Blue in both
1V\\ and 19J2 when Pennsylvania
won 7 of 11\ games each season.
In 1911  he scored two touchdowns in the 22-0 win over Villa-
nova, tallied three times as Lafayette fell 23-6, and was the out-
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Men's Double Tennis
Club Finals Sat. AM.
The Men's Double Championship Finals of the. Swarthmore
Tennis Club will be held Saturday at 10 a. m. at the.College avenue courts. William Trumpler and
William Haseltine will try for a
third straight year of victory as
they face George Willetts and
Curt WaUin. Trumplet arid Haseltine can, if they win this year,..;
retire-the,trophies.
The tournament began with sixteen entrants several weeks ago.
Matches were played off quickly
and the quarter final results are
as follows: Trumpler and Haseltine defeated Ted Shook and Bob
Lawit, 6-2, 6-3; George Height
and Hillary Conroy won oyer Don
Jones ahd Joe Leheckha 4-6, 10-8,
6-4; Willets and WeJttn emerged
victors over Stan Pilling and Ed
Lewis 6-1, e-3 and Pat Welsh and
Tom Kelly beat Bud Reed and
Law Kearn 6-3, 6-2.
In the semi-finals Trumpler and
Haseltine defeated Height east
Omioy tVa, a-* wbfle Walts* and
WlUetts won their match wish
We!* and ttb> a-* t-s.
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