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VOL. VIII, No. 39
SWARTHMORE, PA., SEPTEMBER 25, 1936
$2.50 PER YEAR
MANY WINNERS IN ELEVENTH ANNUAL
ROWER SHOW AT 10CAL WOMAN'S CLUB
Over Two Hundred Exhibits in
This Week's Event; Opening
Tea Next Tuesday
The Eleventh Annual. Flower Show of
tbe  Garden  Section  of  the  Swarthmore
Women's Club was held at the clubhouse
on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 22
and 23.   In spite of recent storms, which
were   destructive   to   many   plants   and
flowers, the exhibits comprised over two
hundred entries.    Gorgeous  dahlias vied
with   simple  garden   flowers  for  prizes.
Credit for the lovely and tasteful arrangement of the exhibits is due to the Chairman of the Garden Section, Mrs. E. P.
Yerkes and her efficient committee, Mrs.
Dana Bigelow, Mrs. Charles Bolton, Mrs.
Thomas K. Brown, Mrs. Arthur Dana,
Mrs. George W. Ewing, Mrs. Harold R.
Goodwin, Mrs. Thomas M. Johnson, Mrs.
Ernest O. Lange, Mrs. Ross W. Marriott,
Mrs.   Thomas   B.   McCabe,   Mrs.   Ivar
Meurling, Mrs. Charles D. Mitchell, Mrs.
J. W. Paxson, Mrs. Henry A. Peirsol, Mrs.
Joseph H. Perkins, Mrs. Joseph A. Perry,
Mrs. William A. Raiman, Mrs. A. R. O.
Redgrave.
The judges were Mr. William O. Hird,
of I. N. Simon and Son; Mr. Harry Weed,
Swarthmore College; Mrs. Marjorie Sulzer
and Mrs. Mildred Hill.
Prizes were awarded to the following:
Dahlias—Section A, Class 1 (decorative,
one bloom in a container) : Mr. J. Perkins,
first prize; Mr. A. R.  Redgrave, second
prize.   Class 2 (Cactus or Hybrid Cactus,
one bloom in a container):    Mr. A. R.
Redgrave, first prize.   Class 3 (any other
variety Dahlia, except pompons, one bloom
in a container):   Mrs. E. O. Thomas, first
prize.    Class 4  (decorative Dahlias, three
blooms in a container):    Mr. J. Perkins,
first prize.    Class  5   (Cactus  or Hybrid
Cactus, three blooms in a container):   Mr.
J. Perkins, first prize.   Class 6 (five blooms,
any variety or color effect and arrangement
"td" count):    Mrs.  Clarence  Barnes, firsF
prize.   Class 7 (eleven blooms, any variety,
quality of blooms to count):   Mr. J. Perkins, first  prize.    Class  8   (collection of
Pompons, number of varieties and condition of blooms to be considered, limited to
25 blooms in one container):    Mrs. Clarence Barnes, first prize.   Class 9 (collection
of Dahlias grown from seed, number of
varieties to be considered):    Mrs. H. A.
Peirsol, first prize; Mrs. Philip Marot, second prize.
Roses—Section C, Class 14 (Hybrid Tea,
first prize;  Mrs.  E. P. Yerkes, second
prize; Mrs. J. Perry, third prize.   Class 39
(Marigold, Guinea Gold, seven blooms):
Mrs. Gurdon Jones, first prize; Mrs. W.
Ellsbree, second prize; Mr. Smalley, third
prize.   Class 40  (Marigold, light shades,
large, five blooms):   Mrs. Charles Bolton,
first   prize.    Class   41   (Marigold,   dark
shades, large, five blooms):   Mrs. Charles
Bolton, first prize; Mrs. H. L. Reynolds,
second prize; Mr. W. B. Keighton, third
prize.    Class  42,  Special:    Mrs.  E.  P.
Yerkes, first prize.   Class 42  (Marigold,
small, French, nine blooms), single, small,
Marigolds;    Mrs- Buck, first prize; Mr.
W.  B.   Keighton, second prize;  Marion
Barnes,   third   prize.     Small   Marigolds,
double:    Mrs. H. L. Reynolds, first prize;
Eleanor Shinn, second prize; Mrs. H. E.
Passmore, third prize.   Class 43 (Nasturtiums, - collection, fifteen  blooms):    Mrs.
A. P. Smalley, first prize; Mrs. H. B. Pass-
more, second prize; Mrs. N. Fitts, third
prize.   Class 44 (Nasturiums, double scarlet,  five   blooms):    Mrs.  Smalley,   first
prize;   Mrs.   E.   Paschall,   second   prize.
Class    46    (Petunias,   collection,   eleven
blooms): Mrs. Milton Bryant, firrst prize;
Mrs. C. A. Bolton, second prize; Mrs. C.
T. Evans, third prize.   Class 49 (Scabiosa,
nine blooms):    Miss Lillian  Boyt,  first
prize; Mrs. I. D. Wood, second prize; Mrs.
FRIENDLY CIRCLE IN
OPENINGFALL MEET
Members   of   Local   Charitable
Group Assemble at Home of
Mrs. Joseph H. Perkins
Mrs. Joseph Perkins, of Cedar Lane and
Swarthmore Avenue, was hostess to the
Friendly Circle at the opening meeting of
the season on Thursday, September 17.
After a box luncheon a business meeting
was held with the president, Mrs. T. Harry
Brown, presiding. The sewing committee
reported squares hemmed and donated to
the Community Health Sodety.
A request for a gymnasium suit for a
boy who in spite of effort had been unable
to raise the money, was granted. Money
to move a family to a new home when
evicted from their former one was given.
A box for a shoe fund will again be part
of the work for the season. It was voted
to continue contributions to the Needlework
Guild. A card party' to raise additional
funds will be held later in the season.
Among those attending were: Mrs.
George Alston, Mrs. A. D- Brauns, Mrs.
Benjamin Collins, Mrs. Dwight Cooley,
Mrs. Robert Erskine, Mrs. John Esslinger,
Mrs. F. S. Hadley, Mrs. Arthur Hughes,
Mrs. Otto Kraus, Jr., Mrs. J. Warren Paxson, Mrs. J. Ralph Rhoads, Mrs. J. N.
Snyder, Miss Elizabeth Steel, Mrs. Julius
POLICE NEWS
On September 16 Robert J. Harvard, of
Chester, and Edward Abel, of Philadelphia,
were summoned to appear on the 22nd for
through traffic violation on Chester Road.
At 4.20 P. M. last Friday, during the
storm, a collision occurred at Yale and
Cornell Avenues, when a Ford sedan
driven by Duane R. Terry, of Moylan,
proceeding north on Cornell Avenue, struck
a Ford coupe of the Philadelphia Electric
Company operated by Sana News, of Chester, and west bound on Yale Avenue. The
latter was pushed across the corner, snapping off an electric pole which fell, carrying a conduit of the telephone company,
across the trolley wire, all burning through
and coming down. Both cars were considerably damaged.
™pr6gKmfor
players club
Shaw, Barrie, Molnar, O'Neill and
Martinez Sierras Scheduled;
J. J. Gould to Direct November Play
MRS. COLAFEMINA
DeWEDNESDAY
Weil-Known     Musician     Passed
Away at Home of Parents
in Swarthmore
Underwood, Mrs. W, H. West, Mrs. W.
Smalley, third prize.   Class 52 (Verbenas, I Nivin Wherry and Mrs. Frank Windell.
collection):   Mrs. Julius Underwood, first!  »
prize; Miss L. Boyt, second prize; Mrs.:
A. R. Redgrave, third prize. Class 53
(Zinnias, white, five blooms): Mrs. A.
Smalley, first prize. Class 54-A: Mrs. I.
D. Wood, first prize; Mrs. C. DeMoll, second. Class 54 (Zinnias, yellow, five
blooms): Mrs. Gurton Jones, first prize;
Miss Olive Cleaves, second prize; Mrs. A.
Smalley, third. Class 55 (Zinnias, pink,
five blooms):    Mrs. W. B. Keighton, first
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GIVES HIGH SCHOOL
SOCCER OUTLOOK
Small Squad Practicing Furiously
in Preparation for Approaching Games
1936 H. S. GRADS
Eighty Percent of Last Spring's
Class Engage in Pursuit of
Further Education
Out of the sixty-three members of the
class of 1936 to graduate from the Swarthmore High School last June, fifty are planning to continue with their education this
year.     Of   this   number,  thirty-four   are
three blooms, one or more varieties):   O.! registered at twenty different colleges, eight
L. Shinn, first prize; Mrs. A. O. Howland, " "' ' *****
second prize.   Class 15 (vase of Sweetheart
Roses, limited to seven blooms):    Mrs. R.
Hayes, first prize.   Class 16 (Hybrid Tea,
shades of pink, one bloom):   Mrs. Joseph
Perry, first prize; Elizabeth Paschall, second prize; Mrs. I. D. Wood, third prize.
Class 17 (Hybrid Tea, shades of red, one
bloom):   Mrs. A. C. Howland, first prize;
Mrs. I. D. Wood, second prize.   Class 18
(Hybrid   Tea,   shades    of   yellow,   one
bloom):    Mrs. I.  D.  Wood,  first prize.
Class 19 (Hybrid Tea, white, one bloom):
Mrs. O. L. Shinn, first prize.    Class 21
(collection   of  Hybrid   Teas,   limited   to
seven blooms in one receptacle):    Mr. J.
S. Perkins,  first  prize;  Mrs.  Charles T.
Evans, second prize.   Class 21-A:   Mrs. R.
Hayes, first prize.
Garden   Flowers—Section  D,   Class  22
have enrolled in preparatory schools, three
have entered business schools, three art
schools, one kindergarten training scliool
and one nurses' training school. Registrations are now complete and most of the
graduates have already commenced their
studies.
Following is a list of the graduates and
the colleges and schools which they have
just entered:
Swarthmore College: James Lipman,
Rebecca Robinson, Jane Seely, Ellen Viehoever, Myra Williams and Mary Wood.
University of Pennsylvania: Robert Erskine, William Fawcett, Ruth Hihn, Lewis
Shay and Jane Smalley. Franklin and
Marshall: John Longwell, Julius Underwood and Nicholas Vlachos. Dartmouth:
William Cleaves and William Rutherford.
Wilson College:    Petra Lingle and Evelyn
(African Daisy, five blooms):   Mrs. A. R.  Morgan.    University of North Carolina:
Redgrave, first prize; Mrs. H. B. Passmore,
second prize. Class 23 (Asters, annual,
collection eleven blooms): Mrs. Charles
Acker, first prize; Mrs. Percival Armitage,
William Markley and Margery Faison:
Drexel Institute: Elizabeth Hessenbruch.
Penn State: Norman Borden. Adelphi
College:    Eleanor   Buell.    Colby  Junior
second prize; Mrs. Henry Hoot, third prize. I College: Mary Davis Temple University:
Class 27 (Cockscomb, one bloom): John Dorothea Dodd. Rutgers: Ellsworth
Kistler, first prize Class 27-A: Mrs. I Dougherty. Oberlin: Georgene Griffith.
Maurice C. Michener, first prize. Class 28' Lincoln University: Lester Jones. Uni-
(Cornflowers, fifteen blooms): Mrs. Perci- versity of Wisconsin: Donald Lange.
val Armitage, first prize. Class 29 (Cosmos,! Trinity: Ralph Shelly. Earlham: Doro-
mixed, fifteen blooms): Miss Lillian Boyt, thy Simons. Sweet-bnar: Estelle Sin-
first prize; Mrs Henry Hoot, second prize; ■ claire. Western: Eudora Sproat. Yale:
R- M. Vlachos third prize. Class 30 j Ralph Rhoads. Moore Institute of Art:
(Cosmos Golden, five bloomsJ^Miss Lil-| Virginia Chambers and Mary Williams,
ban Boyt, first prize; Mrs. Hejry Boot, ■ Pierce School: Elizabeth McGarrah and-
second prize. Class 32 (Gaillardia/aonual, j Marian Suplee. Philadephia Academy of
nine blooms): Mrs. H. P. Passmore, first j Art: Mary Jane Walters. Taylor Business
Prize. Class 34 (Japanese Anemone, seven : School: Trevor Roberts. Swarthmore
blooms): R M Vlachos, first prize; Mrs.I High School: Lewis Agnew and Boyd
William Vlachos, second prize; Mrs. - Stauffer. Brown Prep: West Cochrane.
Percival Armitage, third prize. Class 35 j Penn Charter: Gordon, Findlay^ Episcopal I
(Lantanas,   seven   stalks):     Mrs.   Henry j Academy:   Charles Innes.   George School:'
Hoot, first prize. Class 36 (Marigold, Josephine, tall, single, nine blooms): Mrs. E.
°- Thomas, first prize; Mrs.- E. Yerkes,
second prize. Class 37 (Marigold, yellow,
supreme, five blooms): Mr. W. B. Keighton, first prize; Mrs. R. Hayes, second
Prize. Class 38 (Marigold, large, single,
seven blooms):    Mrs. Samuel Carpenter,
Alice Marriott** Friends Central: "Walter
Wagner. Wyoming i Seminary: . John
Flood. Kindergarten "Traiftg SchobT^Alice
Nickerson. Nursesf "Tiammg.. School:
Dorothy Storkn. : V z_ .. j _ '\
Gordon Findlay.; wljo is-enrdlled at Peiin
Charter, is the recipient "of~ an; athletic
scholarship.
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(By Crawford Fetter)
With the reduced numbers on the squad
I this year each man will,have to work.hard,
if Swarthmore High is going to win its
games. The boys seem to realize this and
so far are practicing hard to learn the fine
points of the game.
The squad is considerably smaller than
in other years with only twenty-six reporting for varsity practice. Jeff Dolman
had been elected captaain of the team but,
due to an injured knee, will not be able
to play any more soccer. Coach Spaeth
is gradually building his varsity first team
which according to the present pep, should
develop into a good hard-fighting team.
With a fair share of the breaks, Swarthmore should come kicking through the season with at least a few wins, even though
it plays schools which have much larger
student bodies. The schools in Swarthmore's size class do not, as a rule, have
soccer teams.
Members of the varsity squad are:
John Delaplaine, Dwight Cooley, Herbert
Gross, Morris Bassett, Robert White, Robert Sanford, Robert Hanzlik, Louis Det-
loff, Bob Delaplaine, James Jackson, Walter Scott, Philip Park, Alec Ewing, Walter
Jones, Knaul Cruikshank, James Davis,
Arthur Collins, Samuel Raymond, William
Evans, Ted Saulnier, John Allyn, Richard
Jerome, Stuart Jones, Summer Jones,
Larry Kent, Robert Clay and Robert
Spencer.
Much interest is being manifested in the
Junior High School soccer program which
is under the direction" of Nathan Bell. The
boys of the 7th, 8th and 9th grades are
practicing immediately after school before
varsity practice. With a squad of over
thirty boys Mr. Bell is starting to build up
a team which should mean much to the
future of soccer in Swarthmore High
School. Already scheduled are two games
with the Upper Darby Junior High School
team—on October 13 at Swarthmore, and
on November 12 at Upper Darby. In addition, games will be scheduled later on in
the season between picked teams of "Garnets" and 'Whites."
Richard Shaw is manager of the Junior
High School soccer team and Burton
Peckerman is assistant manager. Squad
members are:
Seventh Grade: William Spiller, Norman Hulme, Lewis Beatty, Russell Kneedler, Thomas Randall, Stevie Spencer, Richard Keppler, David Spaeth and George
Armitage. Eighth Grade: Harvey Buck-
man, Richard Delaplaine, John Schobinger,
Gordon Douglas, Edward Alston, Alan Hall,
David Morgan, James Bowditch and David
Gilcreest. Ninth Grade: Richard Soder-
berg, Thomas Jackson, Joseph Koch, Jack
Corse, Edward Cooley, Guy Bates, Scott
Lilly, Bill Spencer, Bob Weltz, Norman
Hughes and James Kelly.
With plays by Shaw, Barrie, Melnar,
O'Neill, the Martinez Sierras and other
world-famed dramatists scheduled for production during the corning winter and
spring months the Players Club of Swarthmore will open its twenty-sixth season
Tuesday night, November 3, at the playhouse on Fairview Road.
Throughout the summer the Cast Committee and Auxiliary Cast Committee read
' and discussed scores of. plays in their effort
I to develop an interesting and well balanced
program with an appeal for every type of
theatre-goer in the Club.   This  season's
program is probably the most ambitious
ever attempted by the Players Club and is
the first season that full length plays by
such playwrights as George Bernard Shaw,
Sir James M. Barrie and Ferenc Melnar
will be presented.   The high royalties demanded for the plays of these writers have
made their presentations prohibitive in past
years.   Brt this-^e^w^thttre entire piay
schedule settled   well in  advance of  the
opening date, it  was possible to contract
for all seven plays in one transaction and
thereby secure' advantageous reductions in
royalty   charges.     Plays   for   Noveniber,
December, January,,, February and March
have already'been selected and those for
April and May will be decided upon shortly
by the Cast Committee from an approved
list and announced at that time.   It is possible both these plays will finally decided
\upon before the November opening.
The plays and directors named by the
Cast Committee^ are: November, "Fanny's
First Play?* TTeorge Bernard Shaw; director, J. J. Gould; December, "The Admirable Crichten," Sir James M. Barrie; director, John Delman, Jr.; January, "The
Guardsman," Ferenc Melnar; director, T.
Lawton Slaugh; February, "Ah, Wilderness," Eugene O'Neill; director, J. William
Simmons; March, "The Cradle Song," G.
and M. Martinez Sierra; director, Dr. A.
Francis Jackson. Roland G. E. Ullman
will direct the April play, and D. Malcolm
Hedge will close the season with the May
production..' l$i  <
Mr. Gould'sjrejurn to active service with
the Club is a source of deep gratification to
the officers and playing members. In past
years he rendered distinguished service as
producer, coach and actor, and the Cast
Committee feels the membership as a whole
will be as deeply gratified as they with
Mr. Gould's decision.
To Mr. Gould has been assigned the
opening production, and aided by Dr.
Jackson he will present the Shaw play—
"Fanny's First Play." This is one of the
Irish dramatist's earlier pieces and is considered by many critics one of his most
amusing. It is in a higher, more humorous
vein, and less caustic, than some of his
later writings. Surrounding Mr. Gould
will be a cast of veteran, experienced actors.
A few members of the cast will be new to
Club audiences, but all of them have had
considerable experience elsewhere. The
complete cast will be announced by Mr.
Gould in about two weeks.
Of the other plays listed, little need be
said at this time. All of them are well
known; they have had several professional
productions in past years. They are plays
which readily bear repitition and which
should be repeated from time to time, for
they stand in the front rank of modern
comedies.
The Cast Committee, continuously looking for new talent, will hold two open try-
out nights this year at the playhouse. The
dates are Tuesday night, September 29,
and Thursday night, October 1. Mr. Del-
man, Cast Committee chairman, has sent
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Mrs. Edna Coates Colafemina, widely-
known musician, teacher and writer, died
Wednesday night at 11 o'clock at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Livezey Coates, Harvard Avenue, Swarthmore, after an illness of several months.
Mrs. Colafemina's residence was "The
Vineyard," at Lima.
Mrs. Colafemina was born in Philadelphia in May, 1904, and was graduated
from Swarthmore High School and the
Philadelphia Musical Academy. In addition
to being a violinist of unusual artistry, she
was a composer, teacher and writer on
musical subjects. She appeared in concert
throughout the East and Middle We&t on
several tours.
For several years Mrs. Colafemina was .
music editor of the Chester Times. She
studied violin under Frederick Hahn, and
after being graduated from the conservatory, she returned for post-graduate work
and was awarded a degree of Bachelor
of Music.
On her concert tours, Mrs. Colafemina
appeared with hex husband, Donato Colafemina, former tenor of the Boston Opera
Company. She taught violin at the West-
town Friends School and in the Swarthmore school system. In the latter, Mrs.
Colafemina developed successful ensemble
groups for violin students.
Mrs. Colafemina was a birthright member of the Society of Friends and was an
active member of the Middletown Meet-'
ing until her illness. She is survived by
her husband, a daughter, Vincenza, and a
sister, Mrs. Eugene S. Farley, of Wilkes-
Barre, in addition to her parents.
News of her death proved a source of
sorrow to her many friends. Gifted in so
many ways and with a charming personality and brilliant intellect, Mrs. Cola-
Ktmi./a^dccuplca'i'. *unlq~uenpoS2timrhrtousifc'
circles.
Unassuming in all her endeavors, she
won the admiration and deep respect of
all with whom she had contact and death
at an early age was a grievous announcement to aft who knew her.
14TH BIRTHDAY FOR
HANNUM & WAITE
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Interesting  Sidelights  in  History
of Borough Revealed in Recollection of Local Firm's Start
Hannum and Waite, the oldest Swarthmore automobile agency, has just celebrated its fourteenth birthday.
On September 20, 1922, Porter Waite,
who until then had operated a repair business behind the American Store, and
Clarence Hannum, formerly a Dodge salesman with Samuel M. Dodd, who had the
Swarthmore. Garage, opened a business at
the corner of Dartmouth and Lafayette
Avenues in the building now occupied by
Russell's Service and originally built by
William Brannon, present janitor of Borough Hally
On their fourth birthday, September 20,
1926, they moved into their new building
at South Chester Road and Yale Avenue,
where they are still located. In 1929,
Hannum and Waite became a Chrysler and
Plymouth agency instead of representatives of Willys-Knight and Overland.
Mr. Hannum, recalling the early days,
speaks of the following existing businesses
which were also in operation way back in
1922: Shirer's Drug Store, Joseph Seal,
Woodward, Jackson, and Black, Celia
Shoe Shop, Harris and Company, William
S. Bittle, H. B. Green, Swarthmore National Bank, Miss Marsh's Utility Shop.
At that time the post office was in the
Shirer Building.
Born in Swarthmore, Mr. Hannum has
had an excellent opportunity to observe the
growth of the community. The Swarthmorean appreciating the interest of retrospection, will welcome a report of the
oldest business in the town.   Who's is it.
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Needlework Guild Meeting on
30th
A business meeting of the directors of
the Swarthmore branch of the Needlework
Guild of America will be held at the
Woman's Clubhouse at 2 o'clock next
Wednesday afternoon, September 30. AH
directors are urgently requested to be present. The fall display will appear soon
after October 1 in the window of E. L.
Noyes' office on South Chester Road.
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