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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. Hershey News Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Po. BULK LATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE
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Title | Hershey News 1956-03-22 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1956-03-22 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
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Description
Title | Hershey News 1956-03-22 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1956-03-22 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Rights | https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | 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. Hershey News Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Po. BULK LATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE |
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