Hershey News 1958-01-16

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 16, 1958 No. 3
Board Of Managers
Reelects Officers
At Annual Mee1ing
Mr. D. Paul Witmer, Chair-man
of the Board of Man-agers
of the Milton Hershey
School, announced that at the
annual meeting held recently,
the following officers were
re-elected for the year 1958:
D. Paul Witmer, Chairman;
James E. Bobb, Vice-Chair-man;
A. R. Whiteman, Secre-tary;
Joseph S. Gumpher,
Treasurer and Assistant Sec-retary;
and John T. Shuey,
Assistant Treasurer.
The Board of Managers con-sists
of T. R. Banks, James
E. Bobb, William H. Earnest,
J. J. Gallagher, Joseph S.
Gumpher, Samuel F. Hinkle,
J. B. Sollenberger, A. R.
Whiteman and D. Paul Wit-mer.
More than 1,000 orphan
boys are now enrolled in Mil-ton
Hershey School and are
being educated and main-tained
entirely by the philan-
• thropy of the late Milton S.
Hershey, Founder.
Boys between the ages of
• 4 and 14 years who have lost
either or both parents by
death, are eligible for admis-stew
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.
Dog Owners Enroll
In Training School
Registrations for the
schooling effective handling
of pet dogs are rolling in at
the Hershey Community Club
desk, Club Director Ralph L.
Hoar reported this week.
• The seventh annual dog
obedience training classes get
under way on Mon., January
20, and will continue for seven
succeeding Monday evenings.
Enrollees will be "graduated"
on March 10 to wind up the
1958 sessions.
The instruction is provided
without charge for Communi-ty
Club members; a fee of
eight dollars is required for
non-members.
Handling the instruction
will be Clyde Lamborn and
George Boyer who have been
connected with the program
for the past five years.
The Monday night classes
are held from seven to nine
p.m.
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REACHING FOR A BOOK instead of a blueprint these
days is C. Oscar Spancake, retired superintendent of
construction at the Hershey Lumber Products. With a
total of forty-five years and two months of service with
the Hershey Estates and Hershey Chocolate- Corpora-tion
behind him, Mr. Spancake is finding considerable
pleasure in his books at his home at 413 Cocoa Avenue,
where he resides with his wife, the former Mabel El-len
Strine.
Mrs. Spancake will join him in retirement at the
end of February; she is a longtime employee of the
Hershey Chocolate Corporation.
Mr. Spancake, in his long career of helping to
build Hershey, has had a hand in the construction of
buildings and other structures that would read like a
local real estate survey — Hotel Hershey, Hershey Hos-pital,
the Community Building, Sports Arena, Laundry,
Abattoir, Park Golf Club, a great many of the local
residences, dormitories and units of the Milton Hershey
School, for a partial list.
He was also the construction supervisor for much
of the remodeling done here — the conversion of the
former department store to the present Community
Inn, making a farmhouse' into the State Police Training
School, enlarging the water plant and sewage plant,
building church additions, and other projects. He has
supervised construction work on barns, swimming
pools and a great variety of other Hershey features.
His has been a busy career of forty-five years, in
which his "lost time" from his job totalled four days!
Mr. Spancake was born at what is now Milton Her-shey
School Farm 43, near the Hershey Hospital. He
learned the carpentry trade under the late John Base-hore
of Palmyra, then took charge of carpenter work
in the Hershey Chocolate Corporation's maintenance
department for ten years.
In 1922 he transferred from the Chocolate Corpor-ation
to the Hershey Estates' Lumber Products divis-ion
as construction supervisor. His first job in that ca-pacity
was the erection of the Hershey High School
building.
. The Spancakes, members of the First Evangelical
United Brethren Church, are the parents of a son and
a daughter Gladys (Mrs. John) Gruber of 726 Cocoa
Avenue and J. Parke Spancake, Parkview Apts., a
member of the Hershey Estates Accounting Depart-ment.
They also have a grandson, Parke, Jr., a student at
• Boston University, and a seven-year-old granddaughter,
Patricia Ellen Gruber.
As a retired man since December 30, he is occu-pied
with reading during these winter months, and has
plenty of "work around the house" planned for better
weather. -For•this, he is well qualified.
1958 Election
Meetings Held
By Trust Co.
Mr. J. B. Sollenberger,
President of the Hershey
Trust Company, announced
today the re-election at the
stockholders' meeting on Jan-uary
2, 1958, of the following
Directors of the Company:
T. R. Banks, James E. Bobb,
William H. Earnest, J. J. Gal-lagher,
Joseph S. Gumpher,
Samuel F. Hinkle, J. B. Sollen-berger,
A. R. Whiteman and
D. Paul Witmer.
The first meeting of the
Board for the new year was
held January 9, with the
group re-electing as officers:
J. B. Sollenberger, Presi-dent;
A. R. Whiteman, Vice-
President, Secretary and
Trust Officer; Joseph S. Gum-pher,
Treasurer and Assistant
Trust Officer; and John T.
Shuey, Assistant Treasurer.
Mr. Shuey was elected also
to the position of Assistant
Secretary.
Thea Hershey Trust Com-pany
acts in the capacity of
Trustee for both the Milton
Hershey School and the M. S.
Hershey Foundation.
1958 National Plowing
Contest Coming Here
Hershey will lie the site of
the National Plowing Contest
in August, it was announced
following a meeting last Fri-day
evening in the Commu-nity
Inn. The National Plow-ing
Contest will be held in
connection with the nation-wide
1958 Conservation Ex-position.
Hershey was selected for
the plowing competition at
the Friday session attended
by 24 persons representing
various groups interested in
agriculture and farm machin-ery.
Hershey Estates Vice
President James E. Bobb was
host.
The conference was ar-ranged
by Leland H. Bull,
Pennsylvania's deputy secre-tary
of agriculture, who was
among those taking part in
the meeting. Presiding was
Ralph E. Patterson of the
Pennsylvania State Univers-ity.
Patterson is chairman of
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Reelect Officers
Of M. S. Hershey
Foundation
At the annual meeting of
the Board of Managers of the
M. S. Hershey Foundation,
the following officers were re-elected
for the year 1958:
D. Paul Witmer, Chairman;
James E. Bobb, Vice-Chair-man;
A. R. Whiteman, Secre-tary;
Joseph S. Gumpher,
Treasurer and Assistant Sec-retary;
and John T. Shuey,
Assistant Treasurer.
The Board of Managers
consists of T. R. Banks, James
E. Bobb, William H. Earnest,
J. J. Gallagher, Joseph S.
Gumpher, Samuel F. Hinkle,
J. • B. Sollenberger, A. R.
Whiteman and D. Paul Wit-mer.
The M. S. Hershey Founda-tion
was founded in 1935 by
the late Milton S. Hershey.
Its principal purpose is the
furtherance of education in
Derry Township. The Founda-tion
supports in full the Her-shey
Junior College and,
therefore, no part of the cost
whatever is borne by the tax-payers.
Mr. Hershey's concern for
education for his people in
Derry Township is evidenced
by the fact that all the school
buildings and certain rental
properties making up the
Derry Township School Sys-tem
were donated by Mr. Her-shey
or by the Foundation.
• College Exams To Start
Hershey Junior College,
like the rest of the college
population of the United
States, will once again go
through a week of suffering
with the start of the mid-year
examinations this week.
The exams begin on Friday,
January 17.
Both the freshman and
sophomore students of the
junior college will be re-quired
to take two-hour writ-ten
examinations in all sub-jects,
except English litera-ture
in which the tests last
for three hours.
Registration of old and new
students at HJC will take
place on Friday, January 24.
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