Hershey News 1959-03-05

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 7 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 5, 1959 No. 10
PRIZE-WINNING ESSAYS WERE WRITTEN by this group of Hershey High School
Sophomores in the annual contest sponsor ed by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Hershey
American Legion Post. Congratulating the winners is Mrs. John 11-Emerich, (second
from right), chairman of the Legion Auxiliary project. In the photo, from left:
Dale Bohner, son of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Bohner of 628 Cocoa Avenue, hon-orable
mention; Glenn Yocum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Yocum of 1041 West Main
Street, Palmyra, third prize (tie) ; William Cave, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Cave
of 1340 Harding Aventke; Palmyra, first prize ; Patricia Deets, • daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel W. Deets of 591/2 Trinidad Avenue, third prize (tie), Mrs. John D.*Em-erich;
and Vladimir Cini, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vladimir M. Cini, of 142 West Areba
Avenue, second prize.' The essay contest theme was "Our American Heritage".
The first prize essay by William Cave has been entered by the local Legion
Ladies' Auxiliary in the Tri-County. Council judging to select an entry for statewide
competition.
District Rotarians To Gather Here
Hershey will be the scene
of the forty-fifth annual con-ference
of District 739; Ro-tary
International, on March
14-15-16, with conference ses-sions
at the Community Build-ing.
,
District 739 embraces 38
• Rotary Clubs throughout the
Harrisburg. Lebanon - Lan-caster-
York-Carlisle area of
Pennsylvania, with some 2,-
400 Members.
The Lebanon and Myers-town
Rotary Clubs will be
hosts for the big annual dis-trict
event.
District Governor Mark H.
Tice of the Lebanon club will
preside.
- Guest speaker at the cli-maxing
program at 8:15 p.m.
• on Monday, March 16, will be
Julio A. Lacarte, Uruguay's
ambassador to the United
States. His address will be
given in the Community The-atre.
Theme of the conference is:
"Understanding'— The Need
of Our Time."
Other conference highlights
will include the election of of-ficers,
talks by Rotary Inter-national
officials, and the pre-sentation
'of Miss Mary Ann
Gemmill of Camp Hill, the dis-trict
Foundation Fellowship
student.
The conference will open
Saturday, March 14, with a
variety program in the Little
Theatre at 7:45 p.m. A Rotary
worship service will be held in
the Community Theatre on
Sunday evening, March 15, at
7:45 p.m., with the Rev. Dr.
C. Eugene Blum delivering
the sermon. , •
Three plenary sessions are
scheduled.
School Glee Club Director
Serves As Guest Conductor
Virgil L. Alexander, direc-tor
of the Milton Hershey
School Glee Club and vocal
music director of the school,
was honored by the Lancaster
County Music Educators' As-sociation
when he was select-ed
to be guest conductor of
the Lancaster County schools'
annual choral festival last
week.
The massed chorus of more
than 200 voices, plus three
soloists and a choral ensemble,
sang under Alexander's direc-tion
in the auditorium of Co-.
lumbia High School on Satur-day,
February 28, after re-hearsing
a program of 16 se-lections
throughout the day.
A similar honor was extend-
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Ambulance Corps
Seeks Day Aides
The Hershey Ambulance
Corps this week directed an
appeal to anyone interested in
becoming active in the Corps'
program of community serv-ice.
•
Robert K. Raffensperger, a
member of an Ambulance
Corps-recruitment committee,
urged "every man and woman
who is interested" to attend
a meeting at the Hershey fire
hall on Sunday, March 8, at
two o'clock, when the forma-tion
a a new First Aid class
will be discussed.
Raffensperger explained
that the Meeting will be an
"initial get-together."
The First Aid. instruction
will begin at a date to be de-cided
by those who will form
the class. The Ambulance
Corps program will be ex-plained
fully at the Sunday
afternoon session, -
Persons interested in taking
part in the Corps' First Aid
program but unable to attend
the meeting were urged to
pass their names along to
committeemen George Trump,
William Garrison, or Raffens-perger.
A critical personnel short-age
exists in the Ambulance
Corps setup for daytime serv-ice,
Raffensperger pointed
out.
• "All volunteers will be wel-comed,"
he said, "but a spec-ial
plea is issued to persons
who will he available for duty
during the' day."
- The Corps plans to start its
new First Aid class as soon as
possible after the,Sunday pre
liminary meeting.
Our American Heritage
By WILLIAM CAVE
(William CaVe, Hershey High School Sophomore, is the author
of this essay which was awarded first prize in the essay contest
conducted by the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Hershey American Legion
Post. This is how a Tenth Grade American schoolboy looks at the
rights and responsibilities of citizenship.)
Freedom has a different meaning to different people.
In India, people would be thankful for freedom from hunger;
in Russia, freedom from oppression. The American usage of
freedom means the freedom of a person to think for himself,
and to come to the truth by his.own mind and conscience.
Freedom, as we have it, does not mean freedom from
want or from work. It Simply means the right to work for
ourselves, the right to express our own individual personali-ties,
to direct our own lives and to choose whatever religion
we want. It is the freedom defined by the American Consti-tution.
We are free to have our own opinions. The opinions
of others are not forced upon us, no matter if they be of a
church, of the government, or of our fellow citizens.
We, as Americans, must work together to preserve the
heritage of freedom which was bestowed upon this country
by our forefathers. In this hour of crisis and unrest, we need
a renewed understanding of the true principles on which our
country was started.
, We also must recognize God as the Supreme Architect,
trust in His wisdom and guidance, and pray that this coun-try's
leaders will dedicate themselves to the preservation 'of
America's freedom.
Strangers to the American traditions find this aspect
of our historiCal belief in freedom difficult, if not impossible,
to accept. Their inclination is to interpret freedom as mean-ing
the privilege to think right thoughts, and by enlargement,
to think as their friends think, their party, church, union,
professional associations, or whatever the situation may be.
be JiLe everybody else, to think as
e ma or y •ln The totiffry thinks, and to teach what the
dominant political or religious opinion wants taught.
There are some,' of course, who deliberately reject the
American meaning. This group would destroy it if they could,
and replace it with an interpretation more amenable to their
own beliefs. At present, this group is not too numerous.
The real danger to freedom in the United States is the.
danger of the impairment of the American usage by negli-gence
and default.. - If we do not agree among ourselves
that by freedom we mean precisely freedom, we may end by
finding ourselves "free" in the sense in which the Russians
now find themselves "democratic."
Sometimes liberty is endangered by the honest efforts
of its own defenders. 'Against such danger, there is no better
safeguard than the alertness of a free people who recognize
that the right of a person to swing his fist ends where his
neighbor's nose begins. Democratic education means to live
and let live, to learn and let learn, to love and let love, and
even hate and let hate, as long as the basic rights of men
in general are not violated.
We, as Americans, certainly are proud of our Christian
Heritage and of possessing our "Four Freedoms." As heirs
of a great legacy, the watchwords of all Americans should
be: "Let Freedom Ring."
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