Swarthmorean 1940 May 3

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VOL. XII, No. 18
SWARTHMORE, PA., MAY 3, 1940
CHARLES EVANS
PASSES AWAY
Strath  Haven  Avenue  Resident
Would Have Been Eighty-Three
Next Month
Charles T. Evans died Tuesday at his
home, 634 Strath Haven avenue, after a
week's illness. Mr. Evans would have,
been eighty-three years old on June 19
of this year and his death occurred on
his   forty-ninth   wedding   anniversary.
He was formerly general manager of
the steel works of Henry Disston and
Sons from which position he retired in
1926 after forty years association with the
concern.
Mr. Evans was the oldest living past
master of the Artisans Order of Mutual
Protection and the founder of the Isaac
Underdown Assembly.
He was born in Reading, Pa., and
attended Friends Central School. Later
he taught school in Chester county at
Pughtown. He moved to Swarthmore in
1929.
An honorary life member of the
Torresdale—Frankford Country Club he
was a former member of the Manufacturers Club and Springhaven Country
Club.
Surviving are his widow, Susannah B.
Evans; three daughters, Mrs. Horace R.
Hayday and Mrs. George Gillespie, of
Swarthmore; and Mrs. John K. Desmond,
of Philadelphia; and three grandchildren,
John K. Desmond, Jr., Charles Evans
Gillespie and George Gillespie, Jr.
Funeral services were held Thursday
evening, May 2, at 7:30 at the late residence of the deceased. The Rev. David
Braun, pastor of the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church of which Mr. Evans has
been a member ever since coming to
Swarthmore, was assisted by the Rev.
Dr. J. Marshall Linton, of the Disston
Memorial Presbyterian Church, of Tacony
Philadelphia.
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CROWN QUEEN OF
MAY TOMORROW
Friends Welcome at Annual Col-
lege May Day Program and
Sports Exhibition
The annual May Day festivities of
Swarthmore College will be held tomorrow afternoon from 4 until 5 o'clock
on the hockey field. In case of rain they
will be postponed until the same hour on
Monday.
There will be the crowning of the May
queen and exhibitions of sports by varsity
teams, including badminton, tennis, golf,
archery and riding.
At 4 P. M. the sport procession will
proceed to the field from the library. At
4:45 the Queen's procession will begin,
followed by the crowning. In the court
of May Queen Mary Lois Broomell, a
senior, will be Junior Attendants Alice
Robinson and Ruth Wilbur, Sophomore
Attendants Margaret Anne Morgan and
Paty Corya, and Freshman Helen Connors.
The May Day program is sponsored by
the Women's Athletic Association. The
public is cordially invited to attend. Those
who prefer grand stand seats may have
them for a slight charge.
Legion Auxiliary Meets May 15
The next meeting of the American
Legion Auxiliary will be at 1 P. M.
Wednesday, May 15, at the home of the
president, Mrs. L. L. Hedgepeth, Sn
Bowling Green.
Dessert will be served and after a short
but very important ibusiness meeting,
bridge will be played.
Auxiliary members and friends are
urgrd to write their Congressman and
insist that he support the Legion's Widows and Orphans Bill HR9000.
Fifty pounds of candy were sent to
Coatesville Veterans Hospital from the
local unit this past month.
The annual card party sponsored by the
Delaware County Council will be held at
the Upper Darby Post Home on Wednesday evening, May 8. Mrs. Walter Thorpe
should be notified if tickets or transportation are desired.
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Spring Brownie Fly-up
A Brownie Fly-up will be held in the
Girl Scout House on Cresson lane, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Helene
Powers, Hilda Denworth, Joan Russell,
Esther Worst, Mary Dickinson, Eleanor
Shanklin, Jeanne Richmond, Dolores
Jester, Barbara Rollhaus are flying into
Girl Scout Troop #2 of which Mrs.
James Evans is leader.
All mothers are invited to attend the]
Fly-up. j
• MAY •
Diphtheria Prevention Month
HISTORY OP DIPHTHERIA
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Known in the East for centuries but not described clinically until the first
century A. D. Severe epidemics occured in Europe in the sixteenth and seventh
centuries. Washington died of the disease. The germ was isolated in *1884.
Anti toxin serum for treatment was first used on humans in 1891. By 1917
it had been demonstrated that an individual could be immunized by the toxin-
anti toxin.
There have been only ttvo cases of diphtheria in Swarthmore Borough
during thc past ten years.
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See your physician for immunization and testing.
BOARD OF HEALTH
'This Is the first of a series of five articles by the locai Board of Health.
W.I.L. MEETING
AT MARCH HOME
HONOR AYDELOTTE AT
DINNER MAY 6
Monthly Session Plans Annual
Event Set for May 20
The regular monthly meeting of the
board of the Women's International
League was held at the home of Mrs.
Harold March on the college campus
Monday, April 29.
Appreciation was expressed to Mrs.
Lucy Kennedy Brown for reading her
play "Honor Roll''' at the membership
meeting held in Bond Hall on April 22.
The setting of Mrs. Brown's play is a
college boy's room at the present time,
when the boys are reading the Congressional Record of April 1917. The speeches
of President Wilson and Congressional
leaders are admirably selected to show the
struggle of those fateful days similar to
the struggle which is again threatening
the country.
The W.I.L. cooperated with the college
peace group in bringing Smedley Butler
to the Campus on April 28.
Plans were made for the annual meeting
of the membership to be held 0"< May ?o,
Reports of the various activities of the
organization will be given, followed by
an entertainment and tea.
Those attending the board meeting
were Mrs. Philip Jewett, Mrs. Frank
Reynolds, Mrs. Roy Lingle, Mrs. Edwin
Yarnall, Mrs. Roy McCorkle, Mrs.
David Braun, Mrs. Raymond Hunt, Mrs.
Walter Robinson, Mrs. Patrick Malin,
Mrs. Howard Smith, Mrs. Margaret
Neal and Olive Cleaves.
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ASK SUPPORT FOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL HERE
This year an attempt is being made to
bring organized league Base Ball back to
Swarthmore. A team has been entered
in the Delco Valley Baseball League
composed of teams from Bortondale,
Lima, Media and Swarthmore. John
Michael has ben elected Vice-President
of this strictly amateur league.
League games will be played every
Tuesday and Thursday starting May 14th.
All games will be twilight games with the
exception of those falling on May 30th
and July 4th. These Holidays games
will be played in the afternoon.
The Swarthmore team will be well
uniformed and sponsored by the Summer
Recreation Committee. WE URGE ALL
TOWNSPEOPLE TO SUPPORT the
games, both home and away. A complete
schedule will be printed at a later date.
All local ball-players interested in
playing are urged to get in touch with
Frank Williams, William Ziegenfus or
Bob Reed as soon as possible.
Local Interest in Town
Card Party
A pleasant day has been planned in
Philadelphia for Wednesday, May 8,
which will not only afford entertainment
to those who attend, but will also assist
the fine work being done at the Economy
Shop of the Women's International
League, located at 1924  Chestnut street
The occasion is a card party at The
Whittier, Fifteenth and Cherry streets,
Philadelphia, beginning at 2 P. M. It is
suggested that local card parties meeting
on that day might move to The Whittier
for the double appeal of "something different" by way of environment, and assistance to a good cause.
A special appeal is made to garden
lovers who are "thinning out" or transplanting, that they set aside a few pots
which can be sold at the card party.
These can be taken to Mrs. J. V. S.
Bishop's home, or a telephone message to
her will bring someone to collect them.
Please mark the variety.
At 6:30 next Monday evening
Swarthmoreans will turn out at an informal dinner in the High School gymnasium to honor Dr. Frank Aydelotte
in appreciation of the cooperative spirit
and friendly hospitality he has fostered
between the townfolk and the College
during the nineteen years of his presidency.
Those who would like to share in
the tribute and have not reserved tickets have only today to do so, for the
ticket sale closes tonight. All local business houses have tickets for the event.
Following the community's greeting
to be given by Thomas B. McCabe,
the Woman's Club chorus will give a
brief group of selections from its annual concert which was very well received at the Club Tuesday, and an informal reception will be held when
everyone may greet Dr. and Mrs. Aydelotte personally.
Hotz Directs Chorus
In Annual Recital
Dane Gordon, Violinist, Appeared
With Group as Guest Artist
Last Tuesday
With its concert at the Woman's
Club on Tuesday afternoon, the Club
chorus brings to a close a period of
very hard work under the very able
direction of Henry Hotz. Both chorus
and director were in excellent form.
The numbers chosen for the program
were "The Star," "A Spirit Flower,"
"Love and Light," "Clouds," "By the
River Glommen," "Sweet Lady," "Vil-
lanelle of Sunset" and "Chanson Pro-
vencale." All were received with enthusiasm by the audience.
Dane Gordon, guest artist, played the
first and second movement of Schumann's Sonata in A Minor and a group
of four numbers which included Pug-
nani—Kreisler's Menuetto; Schumann's
Air; Sibelius*, Valse Triste; Goldmark's
Aria. Mrs. Samuel Clyde was at the
piano. Mr. Gordon displayed a rich tonal quality and gave a sensitive interpretation which charmed his audience.
The members of the chorus are: Mrs.
Rudolph Banks, Mrs. Harold G. Bower,
Mrs. T. Harry Brown, Mrs. Thomas S.
Bartram, Mrs. Frederic Child, Mrs.
Dwight Cooley, Mrs. John B. Donner,
Mrs. H. W. Emmons, Mrs. James
Evans, Mrs. J. Donald Gibson, Mrs.
James Hornaday, Mrs. Walter Kahler,
Mrs. Lloyd Kaufman, Mrs. Marjorie
Lukens, who also sang a solo part in a
delightful manner, Mrs. Irvin MacElwee, Mrs. William G. McGlathery,
soloist at the Wallingford Presbyterian church who sang a solo obligato
in one of the numbers in a professional
manner, Miss Mary Ellen Mercer, Mrs.
A. V. B. Orr, Mrs. J. Warren Paxson,
Mrs. J. M. Pearson, Mrs. Ruth Prince,
Mrs. Alban E. Rogers, Mrs. A. E. Rod-
gers, Mrs. Robert Sheppard, Mrs. Robert Spencer, Mrs. John Stainton, Mrs.
A. P. Shenkle, Mrs. Peter Told, Mrs.
Lea P. Warren and Mrs. C. F. Wolters.
Mrs. Alexander Ventner who as
chairman of the Music Section deserves
much credit for the program, introduced
it
The chorus will repeat some of these
numbers for the dinner which is to be
given at the High School Monday evening, for Dr. and Mrs. Frank Aydelotte.
Garden Visiting Days
Mrs. Roy S. Latimer, chairman of the
Garden Section announces that in cooperation with the County Garden
Chairmen, Mrs. Caudill, the local garden section is sponsoring a Community
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$2.50 PER YEAR
Swarthmore Recreation Ass'n Bows in
New Status; Plans Summer Schedule
Japanese Cherry Trees,
Daffodils Bloom on
College Campus
The daffodils and narcissus on the
College grounds are at their height and
will continue throughout next week.
The display beds are located behind the
Field House; many more are naturalized in the woods along the Crum,
south of the R. R. trestle; 100 varieties
can be seen in the Meeting House
woods and along the college grounds
on Cedar lane.
Single Japanese cherry trees, the
type which blooms around the Basin
in Washington, are now in bloom and
the magnolia trees will be at their
height within ten days. They are located
around college buildings and along
Cedar lane.
The Superintendent's office requests
the public to refrain from picking the
flowers in the woods and on the campus. They are there to be enjoyed, not
to be picked.
POPULAR JR.* HIGH
SCHOOL GIRL DEAD
Beverly Bercaw, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Corliss A. Bercaw, of 406 North
Swarthmore avenue, died at at 1:40 P. M.
Thursday, April 25, in a hospital after a
few days illness. She was a ninth grade
student in Swarthmore High School
where she had made tremendous strides
and become very popular in the short
while she had lived here. With no
previous athletic playing of any kind,
Beverly won her junior high letter on the
fourth team in basketball recently. She
also went out for lacrosse. Virginia
Allen, school coach, states Beverly showed
real promise and even arranged home
practice to bring herself up to the playing
ability* of seasoned members of the team.
Beverly was born October 9, 1926 and
nov^d to Swarthmore from Washington,
D. C, last December. Besides her parents
she is survived by a brother, Lawton, eight
years old; and a sister, Ann, who is one-
and-a-half.
Private services were held Saturday
afternoon at Oliver Bair's, Philadelphia,
Last Dancing Chaperons
The last session of the introductory,
advanced and senior assemblies will be a
program dance on Saturday, May 4.
On Monday, May 13, at 8 P. M. the
annual mothers' meeting for the assemblies will be held in the Woman's Club
House. There will be reports, and
elections of officers.
The chaperons for the advanced class
will be Mr. and Mrs. Walter Palmer,
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Shenkle, Dr. and
Mrs. C. B. Sickle, Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
Orem and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morey.
Chaperons for the introductory class
will be Mr and Mrs. W. E. Hetzel, Mrs.
W. J. Frank, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Giles,
Mr. and Mrs. Foster Nowell, Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Rumble, and Mr. and Mrs.
R. R. Bradford.
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Burns Program at Friends9 Tea
A membership tea was held at the
Swarthmore Friends' Meeting House on
the College campus Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Harold E. B. Speight gave a
Robert Burns program supplemented by
the singing of arrangements of Burns'
poems by Mrs. Clair Wilcox and Mrs.
Everett L. Hunt.
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Next Needlework Guild Hostess
A bi-weekly Needlework Guild Hour
will be held at 2 o'clock next Monday
afternoon, May 6, at the home of Mrs.
A. U. Fairbanks on Park avenue.
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Girl Scout News
Troop #283 will meet at the Scout
House on Cresson lane, tomorrow morning at 10:30, rain or shine. Members are
to bring their lunches.
Mrs. J. V. S. Bishop Heads Group
Which Organized for Year
Last Tuesday
Clarence G. Myers and Howard Kirk,
two attorneys who make their home in
Swarthmore, have generously contributed their services to bring about legal
incorporation of the voluntary recreation committee. The group functioned
successfully last summer with its day-
camp program and began an experiment
on safe ice skating for Swarthmore
children this winter. Through the efforts of these attorneys, the organization is now legally incorporated and is
known as the Swarthmore Recreation
Association.
Officers were elected at the meeting
of the Association on Tuesday evening,
April 30th, held at the Borough Hall,
to hold office until October, 1940, are
as follows: President, Mrs. J. V. S.
Bishop; Vice-President, Mrs. Thomas H.
Lueders; Secretary-Treasurer, Elliott
Richardson; Assistant Treasurer, Mrs.
Birney K. Morse; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Howard T. McCone. Standing committees appointed on property,
finance, publicity, indoor and outdoor
activities. The executive committee will
be made up of the chairmen of the following summer program committees:
finance, Elliott Richardson, Charles G.
Thatcher, Mrs. Howard T. McCone and
Mrs. Birney K. Morse; indoor activities
and nursery school: Mrs. Clair Wilcox,
Mrs. D. G. Van De Boe, Mrs. Irvin R.
MacElwee and Mrs. J. V. S. Bishop;
outdoor activities, Burgess John H. Pitman, Dr. Frederick W. Luehring, Mrs.
Thomas H. Lueders, and Howard Kirk.
The Board of Education and the Borough Council have endorsed the Swarthmore Recreation Association by contributions toward its work. The-. School
Board increased its appropriation from
$150 last year to $200 this year. The
Borough Council repeated its contribution of $150 as of last year. This $350
plus about $75 worth of equipment purchased last year constitute the resources
for Swarthmore's recreation program at
this time.
Edwin J. Faulkner and Avery Blake
who had charge of tennis and swimming
respectively last summer have advised
with the Recreation Association, offering suggestions for the coming season.
Soft Ball Program
The recreation program has now developed to the extent that it is to include Softball this season. By initiating
this activity, Swarthmore will be making available to its boys and girls one
of thc finest possible athletic games.
Stuart Jones, who has attended all of
the Delaware County meetings on Soft
Ball in preparation for this summer, will
be in charge of this activity for Swarthmore boys. Mrs. Thomas H. Lueders
is interested in attracting girls to this
fascinating game under the leadership
of Eleanor Burgett.
Nursery School
With a summer of experience behind
it, the indoor and nursery school program committee is now formulating policies and procedure in developing a
program that will be stimulating and
provide a happy experience for Swarthmore's more than 300 stay-at-home
children this summer. The possibilities
of offerings are almost as varied as
those which could be chosen by Adult
Night scholars. Choice of program must
rest on available trained instructors. It
is hoped to provide a flexible program
which will allow each child alternate
active and quiet occupation. The Recreation Association will need to know
of available trained teachers in the fields
of clay-modeling, handcrafts, and nursery school instruction. Anyone who has
had such training to teach in these
fields, or has a recommendation in regard to them is asked to send a written
application to Elliott Richardson, Secretary of the Swarthmore Recreation As-
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THE WEEK'S CALENDAR
SATURDAY.   HAT   4
3:00 P. M. — Brownie Fly Up Girl Scout House
4:00 to 5:00 P.M. — May Day Program.. „ College Hockey Field
SONDAY.  MAT  5
11:00 A. M. — Morning  Worship Local  Churches
MONDAT, MAY  6
2:00 P.M. — Needlework Guild Hour 234 Park Avenue
6:30 P. M. — Aydelotte Dinner High School Gym
TUESDAT, MAY 7
2:30 P.M. — Stated Meeting Woman's Cluh
6:30 P. M. — Evening Section Candlelight Supper Woman's Club
WEDNESDAY,  MAY 8
2:00 P. M. — Methodist Missionary Societies Patman home