Swarthmorean 1955 April 1

              * Sv/arthmore
Pp.
THE SWARTHMOREAN
VOLUME 27—NUMBER 13
SWARTHMORE, FRIDAY,  April 1, 1955
$3.50 PER YEAR
> 1955 Cancer Crusade
Chairman   Jones   Names
Team Captains For
Local Drive
The 1955 Caflcer Crusade was
officially launched this morning.
Swarthmore Chairman Donald P.
Jones announced that the local
campaign will be under the direction of 16 team captains which
include:
Mrs. Barton Calvert, Mrs. E. L.
Conwell, Mrs. William H. Gill,-
Jr., Mrs. W. O. Heinze, Mrs. Richard E. Hunt, Mrs. David McCahan, Mrs. H. D. McCray, Jr.,
Mrs. George W. McKeag, Mrs.
falter N. Moir, Mrs. Henry C.
^Patterson, Mrs; Joseph Reynolds,
Mrs. Harold C. Roxby, Mrs. Roger
S. Russell, Mrs. Glen T. Smith,
Mrs. James Stephens, and Mrs.
William Watkins.
Through their team members,
these ladles will impress on all
Swarthmore residents the vital
nature of the work of the American Cancer Society with the hope
that the community will generously support the. Crusade.
Nearly one-third of the total
funds collected will be spent for
research to speed the finding of
a cure for cancer. Of nearly equal
importance are the activities of
the Society in the fields of education and service.
Of particular interest to
Swarthmoreans is the fact that
expenditures for service last year
included $7,500 paid for 4,572
nursing' calls to 212 cancer patients^ jn O^ei^a^Cou^f^^^
■tihesei'■■YI8s^^i^ts^''were'■'■lie^e'Kln,
Swarthm'ore. All the nursing care
is provided by the Public Health
Nursing Services with the visits
to cancer, patients being paid by
the American Cancer Society.
Captains and team members
participating in the Swarthmore
Crusade now number more than
100. This organization is expected to be complete within a
few days and will be included in
The Swarthmorean next week.
SCHOOL VACATION
BEGINS TODAY
Swarthmore Schools will close
this afternoon at the usual hour
for spring vacation. All of next
week and Easter Monday, April
11, will- be observed as the holiday. Classes will resume at the
usual hour on Tuesday, April 12.
In order that tiie teachers may
participate for one afternoon in
the three-day session 'of the
Schoolmen's Week held annually
at the University of Pennsylvania, the school will be closed
on the afternoon of Thursday,
April 21, thus providing another
half-day holiday for pupils.
Red Cross Total
Hongs on Week-End
The Borough Red Cross campaign stands at 70 per cent of
the quota with the final reports
of hardwtfrked solicitors due
Tuesday, April 5. Twenty-five
per cent of the solicitors have
not been able to make reports
and are making an Intensive
effort over this week-end to
finish their solicitation.
Drive' Chairman Ellis B. Ridgway, Jr., believes that the quota
is within reach but only with
the extra effort to be certain
that each resident has tiie opportunity to contribute. "We
must not fall in our support of
our local workers 'who have
worked long, and hard already,
and who will continue to work
until the drive.closes.
"The   fund   is   necessary   to
continue the needed services of
tiie Red Cross, the blood pro-
.gram, disaster relief, safety in-
MagicCasementLady'
To Speak Here Tues.
Julia WiJIiamson Featured
Guest at Woman's
Club Program
Julia Williamson, the "Magic
Casement Lady," will speak on
"Adventures in Storytelling" at
the meeting of the Woman's Club
of Swarthmore Tuesday, April 5,
at 2 p.m. Mrs. Joseph B. Shane/
chairman of the Literature department, will present the speaker.
Since .the program will interest
children as well as adults, school
children of the fifth through the
eighth grades, will be admitted
free and are cordially invited.
Miss Williamson began her
storytelling as a volunteer at St.
Martha's House in Philadelphia.
Her first professional work was
as supervisor of Storytelling in
the Free Library of Philadelphia.
During World War I she served in
France, Belgium, and Holland
under the Y.M.C.A. and the American Library Association, and
found the doughboys as interested
in stories as younger boys. After
the war she became Girl Scout
Director of Philadelphia, and later
Brownie Advisor on the Girl Scout
National Staff. Traveling from
one end of the country' to the
-other, she told stories in most of
the United States. She made nine
visits to the British Isles and
Europe, telling campflre stories to
(Continued on' Page 5)
Methodists Plan Group   •
Entry to New Depts.
Pupils of the Swarthmore Methodist Church School will have
their own Triumphal Entry procession on Palm Sunday to their
newly remodeled Sunday School
Rooms. The extensive, remodeling and alterations, amounting to
more than $70,000 have been completed and on Sunday, the.Church
School classes will be able to oc-r
cupy their new departments, the
Rev. John C. Kulp, pastor, announced this week.
The Sunday School classes,
children and adult, will gather at
9:45 a.m. with their teachers hi
the Woman's Club where they
have met for the past three
months. When all are assembled,
the procession, led by flag bearers,
will move, across Park avenue
from The" Club to the Church
building and thence to the respective departments.
Marching in the procession to
the tune of "Onward Christian
Soldiers," will be the Board • of
Trustees, A. Carl Behenna, president of the Building Committee,
Theodore H. Purnell, chairman, a
contractor's- representative, the
three church choirs, the sixth
grade Church Membership Confirmation Class in white gowns,
and teachers and superintendents
of the Church School.
Motion pictures of the Triumphal Entry wiU be recorded in
flhn for the church record. A
special open.house.for the com-
tomtity is planned for Saturday,
***» ie, at ■;'$, pm
(service to the armed forces;
veterans, and -their families),
motor corps service, gray ladles,
canteen, entertainment and supply, arts and skills, production,
nurses aides, staff aides, social
welfare aides, Junior Red Cross,
and college activities." ,
Swarthmoreans not yet solicited are asked to be ready to
give over the week-end or
to deposit their contribution at
the E. L. Noyes office, South
Chester road.
Polio Health Bulletin
Troops 2 and 3 Plan
For Summer Camp
Leaders of Swarthmore , Boy
Scout Troops Two and Three ask
that men of the borough, 16 years
and older, who are interested in
Scout activities volunteer as lead™
ers or assistant leaders for the
summer camping period planned
for the first two week of August
at Camp Delmont, the Valley
Forge Council Camp.
Troops participating must live
together under their own leadership, although Camp Delmont does
provide adult and junior adult
leaders as instructors and supervisors. All expenses for anyone
volunteering will be paid. Those
interested should contact Peter
Murray at KIngswood 4-1335.
The troops arec preparing for the
camping season at Camp Delmont
as the highlight of the summer's
activities. In past years Swarthmore Scouts have earned many
honors, a^d their leaders expect
another good showing from this
year's campers.
w
pects to receive a report from
scientists who are currently evaluating the results of the Salk Vaccine which has been used to prevent Poliomyelitis.
If these results prove the vaccine to be satisfactory regarding
safely, effectiveness, etc.,, then the
Foundation will supply free of
charge through the respective
State Health Departments the nee
essary amount of vaccine to inoculate all school children enrolled
in the first and second grades of
every school in the U.S., Alaska
and Hawaii. The Foundation has
spent $9,000,000. from the March
of Dimes Program to buy this vaccine, and it.will be administered
absolutely free of charge.
If the parents wish their child
to be inoculated, a signed permission slip must be filed with the
school. It should be emphasized
that children not enrolled in the
first and second grades can be
inoculated only by their physician.
Details of plans to have volunteer physicians, school nurses and
other worker* are being drawn up
in all communities. Parents will be
notified as soon as possible regarding the schedule forgiving the
vaccine.
J. ALBRIGHT JONES, M.D.,
Borough Health Officer,
Chairman   of   Medical   Advisory
Committee of the Delaware County Chapter of the National Foundation Infantile Paralysis.
Easter Egg Hunt
Set for April 9
The Easter Bunny will entertain Swarthmore boys and girls
at bis annual Easter Egg Hunt
scheduled this year for 10:30
Saturday morning, April 9!
The event will be sponsored
by the Swarthmore Lions Club,
which has made arrangements
with the Bunny to have the
hunt on Palmer Field (near the
College Field House), for all
children old enough to pick up
Jelly beans, through sixth grade.
Rain date, they gloomily decided, would be the following
week,'Saturday, April 16..
H. S. Juniors to Go
Abroad This Summer
Nancy Dellmuth, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl K. Dellmuth
of Swarthmore avenue, and Nancy
Martin, daughter of Dr. and .Mas*
Whitney Martin of EUwyn, b*th
juniors 'in the Swarthraore High
School, will participate this* summer in the International Living
(Continued on Page 8)
Pre-Hight Graduate
Duane Richard Terry, 3rd, of
North Chester road, graduated
March 18 from the U.S. Naval
School, Pre-Flight, at the Naval
Air Station at Pensacola, Fla.
Cadet Terry, a graduate of
Swferthmore High School class of
1950, attended Dickinson College
in Carlisle before entering the
Naval Aviation Cadet Program at
Willow Grove in November, of
•rtS4. Hi is now stationed at the
US. Naval Auxiliary Air Station,
Whiting Field, Milton, Fla., where
he hr engaged in primary flight
training.     -. -—   '■•";' ?-\
Toy Importers In
Display-Talk Here
Henry   Schlosser*   at   Jr.
Club Tuesday Night
April 5
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schlosser
of West Chester will speak on
imported toys on Tuesday evening, April 5, at the meeting of
the Swarthmore Junior Woman's
Club at 8 p.m. at the Woman's
Clubhouse.
New toys from Europe and ideal
Easter toys will be displayed. The
talk will be augmented by colored slides of antique toys, dating
back to 2500 B.C. They will also
show colored slides of, their re-j
cent travels' to Germany visiting
the Nuremberg Toy Fair and the
Frankfprt Industrial Fair.
^^c&losaer; came?4#^the- 'United
States from Germany 27 years ago
and was in the advertising business until his interest became
directed to toys. Mrs. Schlosser is
a graduate of Pratt Institute and
former fashion artist in advertising.
During the war they manufactured   toys,   but  since  that time
have devoted their efforts to im-
(Continued on Page 8)
Trinity Church School
Bake Sale Tomorrow
All Swarthmoreans are invited
to plan their week-end menus
around the Bake Sale which is to
be held Saturday afternoon, April
2, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Trinity
Church.
The entire proceeds of this annual sale go to the children's Mite
Box Missionary Offering. W. E.
Hetzetf Jr., superintendent of
Trinity's Church School, states:
"The sale of even one cake can go
far towards carrying the gospel
to children in an Episcopalian Mission field in some part of the
world."
Mrs. Paul Banks, chairman of
the Bake Sale, has had the wide
cooperation of all Church School
teachers, and the culinary contributions of all church members
promise to make this the most attractive and successful Lenten
Bake Sale Trinity has ever had.
The pricing and selling committees include Mrs. Francis S. Chambers, Jr., Mrs. Robert Bennett,
Mrs. A. G. Boyd, Mrs. William
McCawley, Mrs. James B. Bullitt
and Mrs. W. N. Ryersoh.
Posters have been designed by
Elizabeth Gibson and Eddie Echen-
hoff, with Mrs. L. L. Walmsley in
charge of distribution and Mrs.
Valentine Fine directing publicity.
Salvation Army Set
For April Campaign
Solicitors'. Named    In
Month-Long
Drive
The Salvation Army Fund Drive
opens officially in Swarthmore today, AprH 1, under the chairmanship of Mrs. William F. Taylor,
2nd. Mrs. Taylor and her captains
and workers will be seeking to top
last year's total of $4,072.75 in the
month long, campaign.
Assisting Mrs. Taylor in the
business section will be William
A. Booth, while Mrs. Thomas W.
Simpers will take charge of the
solicitation in the Swarthmore
Apartments.
Other captains, with their respective workers, are as follows:
Mrs. W. R. LeCron, captain;
Mary S. Pusey, Mrs. Richard
Wray, Mrs. A. S. Robinson, Mrs.
H. W. Brinkmann, Mrs. Dean
Caldwell and Mrs. Robert J#CadV
igan.
Mrs. William Leach, captain;
Mrs. William Rowland, Mrs. William F. Singleton,,Mrs. Fred A.
Patman, Mrs. Carl Atkins, Mrs.
George Valentine, Jr., Mrs. O.
W. Sweet, Mrs. A. M. Lackey, Mrs.
J. Grant Hebble, Mrs. William
Hordern and Mrs. Henry T.
Gayley.
Mrs. Kendall C. Sadler, captain;
Mrs. David W. Morgan, Jr., Mrs.
A. Weslie Hogg, Mrs. Ford F.
Robinson, Mrs.' Henry D. Bevan,
Mrs. W. D. Mclntire, Mrs. C. B. .
Howland, Mrs. A. S. Johnson, Jr.,-
^ ; ;<-£C^tinu.ed on Page 8);- ,1 ,'..>
Editors to Speak
At literature Night'
Two associate editors, Harry G.
Nickles, of Holiday magazine and
Marione R. Nickles, of the Saturday Evening Post, will be guest
speakers at the annual Literature
Night of the Swarthmore Mothers'
Club to be held Wednesday, April
20, at 8:30 p.m. at the home of
the literature night chairman,
Mrs. Heinz Heinemann, 213 Dickinson avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Nickles will give a
preview of magazine publishing
today, and will lead an informal
discussion on current magazine
writing.
Dr. Nickles, who is associate
editor of Holiday magazine, has
been on the staff of that publication" for the past eight years. During World War II he saw service
in England, France, Germany ahd
the Middle East as a lieutenant in
the Navy and in the O.S.S. He
received his A.B., Masters, and
Ph.D. degrees frjim the University of Pennsylvania, (where he
was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Mrs. Nickles, an associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post,
is in charge of cartoons and humor
in that magazine. "Postscripts,"
one of the features of which Mrs.
Nickles is in charge, is rated the
second best-read" feature in "the
Post. A graduate of linden Hall
Seminary, she came with the Post
shortly after graduation from
college ahd has risen through the^
ranks, from file clerk to her present position as associate editor. °
Co-chairman and co-hostess for
the evening is Mrs. Mather Lip-
pincott.
HEART RIND TOTALS
Robert G. Gilfillan, Jr., Heart
Sunday chairman for Swarthmore,
has reported tiie final total of
$1,858 in collections. The figure
represents a $1,300 increase over
last year's drfvevt;.
U. W\ F. DATE CHANGED
The   United  World   Federalist
meeting featuring General Carlos
P. Romulo, announced for April'4,
in the Ben Franklin, Philadelphia,,
has been changed to tiie following.
evening, Tuesday/ April 5, at the