Hershey News 1957-01-31

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 5 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 31, 1957 No. 5
DOG-NOLOGY is the course being taught in the Dog
Obedience Training Course sponsored by the Hershey
Community Club. Here, eight-year-old Susan Gumpher
and her dog, Frisky, are being enrolled by Club Director
Ralph Hoar (at right) as Susan's father, Joseph Gum-pher,
receives her official armband. The course got under
way last Thursday, evening in the Community Build-ing's
Social Room with fifty-one dog owners enrolling.
Designed to instruct the dog owners in procedures of
training their pets, the course has proved to be a popu-lar
Community Club function overthe past several years.
Retired Chocolate Worker Formerly
Was In Wholesale Candy Sales Work
Some of his closest friends
may not realize it, but Robert
J. Behney, who retired re-cently
from the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation, has
something in common with
Perry Como, the television
singing star. Mr. Como's first
occupation was that of a bar-ber,
and Mr. Behney began
his adult life by learning the
barber trade.
However, Mr. Behney did
not work at barbering, but
joined the Bethlehem Steel
Company organization in Leb-anon
and became a hot bolt
maker. Later, he became as-sociated
with the Sterling
Wholesale Company in sales
and warehouse work for sev-enteen
years before coming
to Hershey on September 3,
1941. In fact, it was his ex-perience
with Sterling in
candy sales that led to his in-terest
in Hershey and his
eventual employment here.
He retired from the Her-shey-
Ets Department last No-vember.
A native of Lebanon, he
Featured In Play
Ben Olena, son of Mrs. Benjamin
Olena of 347 West Chocolate Ave-nue,
will appear in the major role
of "Charlie Dalrimple" in "Briga-doon,"
which will be presented by
students of the Millersville State
Teachers College on February 13-
14-15-16.
He is a 1953 graduate of Hershey
High School and was graduated
from Hershey Junior College in
1955.
now resides at 203 South Har-rison
Street in Palmyra. His
wife is the former Mabel Eliz-abeth
"Bess" Moyer, and they
have three sons, H. Wilson,
Warren and Robert William,
as well as five grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
The Behneys are members
of Palmyra's Trinity Re-formed
Church, and through
their church affiliations they
had the memorable experi-ence
in recent years of taking
a Japanese brother and sister
into their home while they re-ceived
an education in the
United States. Also through
the church, and friends of the
church, they were able to
sponsor a second girl in the
Japanese family for a college
education in Japan.
Announcement Lists
Recent Changes At
Chocolate Corp.
A number of organizational
changes taking place recently
in the Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
have been an-nounced.
Newly created positions in
the sales organization of the
corporation were announced
last week as follows:
L. H. Harkness has been
appointed Eastern Sales Man-ager
after having formerly
served as Assistant General
Sales Manager.
E. F. Aldous has assumed
the duties of Western Sales
Manager after serving as
field assistant to the General
Sales Manager.
J. L. Stahl, Jr., has been
appointed Marketing Man-ager,
being promoted from
the post of Sales Promotion
Manager.
M. A. Cameron became As-sistant
Marketing Manager
after formerly serving as a
district manager with head-quarters
in Washington, D. C.
H. E. Ingram, who had been
serving as field assistant to
the General Sales Manager,
has been promoted to Sales
Promotion Manager.
In the procurement organi-zation,
Harold •W. Hershey
was ,promoted to Director of
Milk Purchases, with duties
in connection with the pro-curement
of milk for the com-pany
and the operation of the
Lebanon Creamery, formerly
the responsibilities of the late
P. N. Hershey.
Also, at the January meet-ing
of the Chocolate Corpora-tion's
Board of Directors, the
following changes were made
in the financial and account-ing
organization:
Earl B. Lehman, formerly
Assistant Comptroller, was
promoted to the office of
Comptroller.
Samuel N. Tancredi and L.
Whitley Simmons were ap-pointed
Assistant Comptrol-lers,
and Amos F. Geesaman
w a s named an Assistant
Treasurer after having form-erly
served as an Assistant
Comptroller.
Joseph Mastrosati contin-ues
as an Assistant Treasur-er,
alid W. E. Schiller as Vice
President and Treasurer with
general supervision over fi-nancial
and accounting mat-ters.
In the plant organization
Louis C. Smith, Jr., was
named Assistant Chief En-gineer
and Harold S. Mohler
was appointed Assistant to
the President.
Plant personnel changes in-cluded
these moves:
C. Ralph Stover was pro-moted
to the post of Super-visor
of the Breakfast Cocoa,
Hot Chocolate and Instant
Cocoa Mix Packaging Depart-ments.
Simon H. Yoder was named
Supervisor in charge of the
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Officers For 1957 Elected
By MHS Board Of Managers
D. Paul Witmer, chairman of the Board of Managers of
the Milton Hershey School, has announced that the follow-ing
officers were elected for the year 1957 at the board's an-nual
meeting held recently:
Rev. Fackler To Speak
To Retired Employees
The Rev. Erwin E. Fackler,
retired pastor of the Church
of God, will be the guest
speaker at the regular Febru-ary
meeting of the Hershey
Retired Employees' Associa-tion
next Monday afternoon—
February 4 — at the Hershey
fire hall. The association's
vice-president, William Selt-zer,
will preside at the ses-sion,
which begins at two p. m.
Entertainment will include
vocal selections by a mixed
quartet, and readings will be
presented by Mrs. Elmer Van
Horn. Group singing will be
led by Irvin Spancake, with
Mrs. Israel Early providing
the piano accompaniment. Re-freshments
will be served also.
Invite Youth Groups To
Assist In Programming
The Teen Canteen spon-sored
by the Hershey Op-timist
Club in the Women's
Club building each Friday and
Saturday evening for the
teenagers of Derry Township
has now been in operation for
four weeks and is proving
very successful, a club report
has stated.
Attendance has ranged
from seventy-five to well over
three hundred young people.
The age range has been es-tablished
by the sponsoring
club at age thirteen through
age nineteen, and dress re-quirements
are simply stated
as "neat." Slacks may be
worn by the girls following
athletic events on Friday
evenings, but the club vetoes
the wearing of •slacks at any
other time. At no time are
shorts or dungarees permit-ted
to be worn by either boys
or girls.
Membership cards are to be
issued in the near future to
Derry Township teenagers.
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D. Paul Witmer, chairman;
James E. Bobb, vice-chair-man;
A. R. 'Whiteman, secre-tary;
Joseph S. Gumpher,
treasurer and assistant secre-tary;
and John T. Shuey, as-sistant
treasurer. er
The Board of Managers
consists of T. R. Banks,
James E. Bobb, William H.
Earnest, J. J. Gallagher, Jo-seph
S. Gumpher, Samuel F.
Hinkle, J. B. Sollenberger, A.
R. Whiteman, D. Paul Witmer
and Charles F. Ziegler.
More than 1,000 orphan
boys are now enrolled in the
Milton Hershey School and
are being educated and main-tained
entirely by the philan-thropy
of the late - Milton S.
Hershey, founder. Boys be-tween
the ages of four and
fourteen years, who have lost
either or both parents by
death, are eligible for admis-sion.
If their conduct war-rants,
they will remain at the
school until they complete
their high school education.
Under certain conditions,
college aid is available to de-serving
graduates.
A recent comment by a
graduate of the Milton Her-shey
School was: "I am grate-ful
and proud to have been Mil
one of Mr. Hershey's boys."
M.S. Hershey Foundation
At the annual meeting of
the Board of Managers of
The M. S. Hershey Founda-tion,
the following officers
were reelected for the year
1957:
D. Paul Witmer, chairman;
James E. Bobb, vice-chair-man;
A. R. Whiteman, secre-tary;
Joseph S. Gumpher,
treasurer and assistant secre-tary;
and John T. Shuey, as-sistant
treasurer.
Serving on the Board of
Managers of the Foundation
are T. R. Banks, James E.
Bobb, William H. Earnest, J.
J. Gallagher, Joseph S. Gum-pher,
Samuel F. Hinkle, John
B. Sollenberger, A. R: White-man,
D. Paul Witmer and
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