Hershey News 1956-03-22

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 -035)-0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 22, 1956
DUTCH DIALECT CLASS HONORED—Certificates denoting the completion of the
Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect course in the Hershey Evening School were presented
to the above group last week at the class's graduation dinner in the Hershey Ele-mentary
School, left to right are, Raymond F. Evans, director of the Hershey Eve-ning
School; Laura Muth, Mrs. Rufus Eby, wife of the class instructor; Ada
Geesaman, Levi Flory, Professor Eby, Priscilla Hoffman and Anna Lehman.
Dedication Is Set
For New Catholic
Church Convent
A new convent for St. Joan
of Arc Parish here will be
dedicated on Sunday, April 8,
and an open house will be held
the same day, according to an
announcement by the Rev.
Anthony J. Mayan.
Taking part in the dedica-tion
to bless the new convent
will be Bishop George L.
Leech of the Diocese of Har-risburg.
The sermon at the dedica-tion
exercises will be delivered
by Auxiliary Bishop - Desig-nate
Lawrence F. Schott.
The beautiful new struc-ture,
built of brick and
trimmed with Indiana lime-stone,
is a two-story building
and was constructed at a cost
of $135,000. Construction be-gan
last August. It faces
Areba Avenue from the court-yard
of St. Joan of Arc
School.
Fifteen bedrooms are pro-vided
for the sisters, who will
occupy the convent shortly
after its dedication. The local
nuns — members of the order
of Daughters of Our Lady of
Mercy — are primarily
teachers.
The main floor of the,build-ing
holds a community room,
chapel and dining facilities.
- In the basement, in addi-tion
to heating and laundry
rooms, there is a large and
fully equipped kindergarten.
High School Band Going
To Cherry Blossom Fete
Hershey High School's 85-
piece band has accepted an in-vitation
from the Washington
Chamber of Commerce to par-ticipate
in the Cherry Blossom
Parade in the Nation's capital
city on Saturday, April 4.
The Hershey Band Parents
Association has voted to pro-vide
assistance in sending the
musicians to the festival. Sev-eral
buses will be chartered to
take the boys and girls to the
event.
Over 40 persons braved last
Friday's snow and ice storm to
attend the dinner meeting of
the Pennsylvania Dutch Dia-lect
Class of the Hershey Eve-ning
School at the new Derry
Township elementary school
building.
Members of the Pennsyl-vania
Dutch Days general
committee joined class mem-bers
in a tasty Pennsylvania
Dutch repast, which featured
Boova schenkel, a traditional
Dutch dish.
Certificates were presented
members o fthe class by Ray-mon
F. Evans, director of the
Hershey Evening School.
Class members honored in-cluded:
Kenneth Dissinger,
John L. Flory, Levi I. Flory,
Myrl Y. Flory, Ada Geesa-man,
Mary E. Hanshue, Pris-cilla
M. Hoffman, Anna Leh-man,
Laura Muth and Helen
K. Rhoads.
The group held a meeting
in the school's All-Purpose
room following the dinner, at
which time details of the
eighth annual Pennsylvania
Dutch Days celebration were
outlined by Carl S. Swarr,
chairman.
The group endorsed the exe-cutive
committee's recommen-dation
that future Pennsyl-vania
Dutch Days souvenir
booklets be dedicated to some
person active in the establish-ment
and promotion of the ob-servance,
and chose Milton S.
Hershey, founder of the com-munity,
as the first person to
be so honored.
Hershey Kiddies Frolic In Snow
KIDDIES ENJOY PRE-SPRING SNOWFALL—Young
daughters of Mrs. E. W. Russel, 21 North Lingle Ave-nue,
try their shovels on last week-end's 12-inch blanket
of snow. Left to right, Cecelia Anne Russel, 2, and Sylvia
Jean Russel, 3½.
Optimist Club To Sponsor
2nd Annual Bicycle Event
No. 12
The community's second annual Bicycle Safety Program,
sponsored. by the Hershey Optimist Club, has been set for
Saturday morning, April 14, on the Hershey High School
playground plaza. Rain date fpr the popular feature will
be the following Saturday.
J. William Abram, chairman of the project, has an-nounced
that boys and girls who own two-wheel bicycles may
register for the event beginning at 9 a.m. Each youth who
registers will receive a membership card and a numbered
safety emblem to attach to the rear of his vehicle.
Upwards of 500 young peo-ple
from Derry Township are lenberger, president of the
expected to take part in the Hershey Estates, will draw
program, which will include the lucky number which will
several drill tests on the play- entitle the holder to a new
ground plaza. bicycle.
Special entertainment has Thural V. Brehm, president
been arranged to follow the of the Optimist Club, revealed
tests in the Little Theater. that the program has a two-
The program will in cl ud e fold purpose. In addition to
movies and a presentation by teaching youngsters traffic
William Fisher, ventriloquist, safety rules, the registration
In addition, all boys and feature assists police in re-girls,
whether they own a hi- covering stolen bicycles. Last
cycle or not, will be given cou- year, over 40 bicycles, lost ot
pons to deposit in a special stolen, were returned to their
box, after which John B. Sol- owners.
National VFW Auxiliary President
To Be Honored By Hershey Women
The national president of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary will be entertained
here by the Hershey VFW
ladies auxiliary at a luncheon
at the Hotel Hershey on Sun-day,
April 8.
Honored guest of the local
ladies will be Mrs. Sherman
L. (Hedwig) Olson of Deni-son,
Iowa, who heads the na-tional
organization.
Mrs. Olson was born in
Berne, Switzerland, and came
to America with her parents
while a small child. She has
the distinction of being an
American by choice through
her parents' naturalization
and her own personal avowal.
For the past twenty-one years
she has been her husband's
business partner while main-taining
her home duties as
wife and mother.
As national president of the
ladies' auxiliary, to the Vet-erans
of Foreign Wars, she is
emphasizing Americanism and
community service activities
for the organization's 375,000
members. She has chosen as
her special project a program
to give financial support to
the establishment of the
American Museum of Immi-gration
at the base of the
Statue of Liberty.
The Hershey VFW Auxil-iary
committee for the presi-dent's
luncheon includes Mrs.
Lester Smith, general chair-man;
Mrs. Rose Shepler, Mrs.
Paul Hetrick Jr., Mrs. Frank
Gasper, Mrs. Frank Binner,
Mrs. Charles Lebo, Mrs. Rob-ert
Decker, Mrs. Russell Zent-meyer.
Adult Books Are Added
To Hershey library
Recent additions to the
adult shelves of the Hershey
Public Library include the fol-lowing.
Evans, From the Cross-roads;
Corbett, Family Por-trait;
Forbes-Guide to Better
Achery ; Miller, Harper's
Bible Dictionary; O'Hara, Ten
North Drederick ; Keith, Bare
Feet in the Palace; Shellabar-ger,
The Token; Asch, The
Prophet; W e s t, Heritage;
Lickey; God Speaks to Modern
Man; Dunn, Retreat From
Learning; Waugh, Island in
the Sun; Turnball, The Golden
Journey; Friedman, Speech-maker's
Ccrrnplete Handbook;
Velikovsky, Earth in Upheav-al;
Shelley, Frankenstein;
Packer, Valley of the Vines;
Van de Walter, Wings of the
Morning; Caldwell, Tender
Victory; Roberts, Boon Island.
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