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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

DECEMBER,

1927

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BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
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DR.
Reading from

left

Paul

WALLER AT THE
to right
f

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1927

CO'IMENCEMENT

A. Z. Schoch, President of the Roard of Trustees

Wirt. Vice President,

and

Dr.

D.

J.

U'allf'r, Jr;

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THL ALUMNI QUARTLRLY
PUBLI5HLD BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
of the

STATE.
Vol.

TLACHLR5 COLLEGE
Uecember, 1927

29

No.

Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the
Blooinsburg, Pa., under the Act of Julv 16, 1894.

Post

OfTice

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at

Published November, January, April and July.

H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
F.

H. Jenkins. ’70

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Editor-in-Chief

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Busine.ss

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DAVID JEWETT WALLER,

—Ernest W. Young,

Manager

JR.

'80

(Concluded)

The attitude of his former students toward him personally and toward his aims and accomplishments is well
expressed in the words on a permanent tablet placed in
one of the buildings of the State Normal School at
in June, 1921
1920
1870

Bloomsburg and unveiled

TRUTH AND VIRTUE
PRESENTED TO THE BLOOMSBURG STATE
NORMAL SCHOOL BY ITS ALUMNI TO COMMEMORATE THE GRADUATION OF ITS 50TH CLASS OF
TEACHERS, AND THE 44 YEARS OF EDUCATIONAL
SERVICE TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF
DAVID JEWETT WALLER, JR.
AS PRINCIPAL OF THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS
AT BLOOMSBURG AND AT INDIANA, AND AS
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

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WITH CULTURE AND EFFICIENCY AS EDUCATIONAL AIMS, HE PLACED CHARACTER, HONOR,
RIGHT LIVING, AND HIGH IDEALS ABOVE EVERY
MATERIAL SUCCESS.
The student who left the halls of learning where he
was made tougher in his intellectual, moral and spiritual fiber, the more capable of initiating and carrying
on.
Gentle as a child, the Principal was bold as a lion
in meeting a crisis; nor did his courage lead him into unwarranted paths. With prudence and utter courtesy to
led

even to the provoker of disturbances, he
when faced by turbulent spirits.

all,

never

flinched

With it all, he held in slight regard the capacity of a
young man who would attempt a prank and had not the
character to give it point. On the other hand, he showed
a winning respect for the man who could work a trick
and turn it well, even if for the moment it placed the
Principal in an embarrassing position. Those who witnessed the event will not forget the calmness which met
the entire school one bright June morning when gathered in the assembly-hall for chapel and all the chairs
were missing all but one and the quiet announcement
by the Principal that, since there were no chairs, the
school would stand during worship. It was the writer’s
roommate, Norman H. Smith, who had directed the

—

;

chairs to their hiding place under the rostrum
made public after graduation.

—

a fact

Mr. Smith has recently written the present writer:
“Sure you can have the story of the hiding of the chairs.
It has been so long ago that I thought everybody had forgotten all about it. One afternoon, just before our senior examination, with nothing much to do, a warm and
humid day, I fell asleep and dreamed. In my dreams I
saw the chairs go marching around the chapel. They
to me for direction, and were steered to the belfry
and out on the roof surrounding it. There they had a
war dance. At this point I was aroused from my dream

came

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by the call for the closing of the afternoon school. I
agreed
called a council of war of trusted advisers.
that we could put the chairs around the belfry that night.
But the belfry door would not open. It was 1 :30 a. m.,

We

and each said he had left his roommate sound asleep.
We put them under the rostrum instead. We never
worked harder in our lives and at 3 a. m., we were all
back in our beds.”
Diary record shows that si.x days later Mr. Smith
so ill that he had to go home, whether because
of troubled conscience over the hiding of the chairs or
because he was appointed valedictorian of his class is
not disclosed in the record; but he has done penance for
over forty years since as a Methodist minister.

was taken

In referring to the incident many years afterward
Doctor Waller remarked that he knew that the master
in the prank was a man with a sense of honor, for the one
chair allowed to remain was that of a young woman who
was lame. Immediately chapel was over, the engineer
and every other employee were set the task of locating
the chairs, with but negative result, until at the opening
of the afternoon session of the school, as Doctor Waller
was ascending the steps to the platform he observed that
the carpet at one spot was not lying as usual on the platform, and a telltale loose tack “let the cat out of the
bag.” He had the true clue.

Three distinct traits were brought to the front in
connection with this single incident: His perfect self-control in an emergency; his keenness of observation in delecting the manner in which the small portion of the carpet was laid and his appreciation of a trick well planned
and well executed, the severest ever coming to my ears
being: “Make N. H. Smith explain at your class reunion
how he got so many chairs into so small a space in so
short a time.”
;

In practical matters Doctor Waller manifested a
combination of intelligence, common-sense, temper, and
patience that was fascinating. There came the troop of

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jiew students each year from city, town, and farm, from
river valley and back hills, from woods and mines.
In
their aims they were about as fine a combination as they
were diverse in their urbanity. The Bloomsburg School,

The Hill, was never advertised
Teach Refined Manners.” Rather, an-

delightfully located on
as a “School to

nouncement

in early issues of the catalogue, about a dozen of which, 1877-1890, the writer has in his library
bound in one robust volume, states in the beginning that
“The Normal School is established to prepare pupils for
the profession of teaching;” and closes with the statement that “Thoroughness in discipline and instruction we
consider objects of primary importance,” telling a large
part of the story of the Principal’s eminent success. At
the same time, where is the student who came into contact with Principal Waller that did not feel the refining
and inspiring influence?

As an administrator he was seldom surpassed.

This
motives that
enabled him to analyze them promptly. If a combination
of motives complicated a situation, he would unravel
thread by thread the tangled skein until the whole was
laid out in full view. He did not hurry a difficult situation his conclusion was almost invariably unerring. Nor
was any more ready to make reparation for error. His
uniform courtesy was as effective as it was unassuming,
and his tact only strengthened his position. In the little
jarring between groups, as in the literary societies in the
early days, when a dispute was referred to him he discreetly asked the two sides to get together in a compromise when no principle would be sacrificed, making them
feel that the responsibility was theirs. In case they failed
to agree and the responsibility was thrust upon him he
accepted it and met it squarely. It was then clear that
he was then ma.ster of a situation which he had not

was

in part

due

to a rare Insight into

human

;

created.
In operation he ran about as true to Nature’s

did any

man: “Never

ha.sting,

form as

never wa.sting.” His open-

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ing of a term of school was the starting of the machinery
with the least possible friction and the smoothness with
which it operated is a satisfaction to remember through
the decades.
When his day’s work was done at the
school, he threw off the anxieties and found rest and recuperation in his own family
wife and seven children.
Here, too, he accepted his full responsibility as one of a
community of social beings. His family life typical of
all other relationships, all things w'orked to perfect a
combination that made him the wise counsellor and efficient administrator he was.
;

—

A

constant student of education and affairs, in which
even as an octogenarian, is at top notch, he
had that broad vision which helped him to lay well the
foundations of a wise educational system for his State.
It is difficult to realize that a century ago there was no
such thing as a public school superintendent, and no
such thing as special training for teachers at public expense.
Yet it was at the beginning of the second half of
this period that Doctor Waller entered upon his public
duties as a leader in such special training.
And his
twenty-seven years as Principal at Bloomsburg, thirteen
years as Principal at the Indiana State Normal and his
three years as State Superintendent of Public Instruction
gave him an insight into educational methods and needs
that few men in America have had; and his quick grasp
and ready executive capacity enabled him to make effective application of his knowledge.
his interest,

While the Bloomsburg School grew large in numbers and material equipment under his administration,
it was the matter of the deeper concerns of education
that mattered most. This latter the rich impress of his
character supplied.
His earnestness was

evidence at every turn. Tall,
his enunciation distinct, with a well-modulated voice of strength
and carrying quality, it was a pleasure to listen to him at
any time in public. But who that heard, can forget the
challenge to richer living and better service in his very
slender, erect, of

in

manly but easy bearing,

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reading on Baccalaureate Sunday of the hymn,
Lord of all being, throned afar.
Thy glory flames from sun and star?

’

So much was his heart set upon the thoroughness of
preparation of the teacher for his task, and then the ut-

most application to that task, that it was a principle of
upon the product of the school for advertising
Ihe worth of the institution.
His ideas as to personal
vein.
publicity are in the same
He has no relish for being advertised, and deprecates rather than enhances his
own accomplishments. When the student wrote him of
his worth to that student as compared with Dr. Hopkins’
worth to Garfield, his sole comment was “I do not deserve it.” When he discovered that this sketch was being prepared, he said “It seems to me that the time for
publishing anything further concerning me will be after
I shall have passed on.” This is a spirit to be commended,
but one which is rather unique among public men.
his to rely

:

A favorite hour each week, remembered by hundreds of students, was that of the Sunday afternoon Bible class conducted for students resident on the grounds
by Doctor Waller in the dormitory chapel during the
quiet hour. This was a distinct aid to those students who
taught classes in the Sunday-schools of the town. No
record was kept, and it was open to all who chose to attend. In this class was laid the foundation of Christian
principles upon which a considerable number of students,
after a few years of teaching in the public schools of the
State, built for the ministry. As with all his other work.
Doctor Waller’s eifort here was plain, open, without mystery or peremptoriness, and without the slightest tinge of
professionalism. It brought the Principal very close, in
an inspirational way, to those present; it also taught
those who attended a deeper respect for Doctor Waller’s
high purpose in life and for his many-sided capacity.
As a resume
ority previously

of our subject
quoted

As an administrator he was

I

quote the same auth-

liberal,

moderately ag-

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gressive, never unsafe.

9

He would

think through a movefrom the beginning, and
was right. So he rarely or

ment

or problem, see the end

when

a change

was made,

it

never needed to go back to rectify mistakes.
His co-workers could depend on him and his coopPeople who lacked good judgment or were erratic had to face the effects of their mistakes frankly, but
sympathetically. If they could rise to the situation, well
if not, they knew in their hearts the truth of their weakness, whether they acknowledged it or not.
eration.

His students must absolutely have a square deal, and
a frank, free hearing in the presence of their accusers

There was usualno appeal from his judgment when given, unless new
evidence came in.
a thoroughly Anglo-Saxon procedure.
ly

Whatever he taught or prepared for presentation
was worth while, and the latest word. And it was usually presented with a dignified, yet boyish, simplicity and
enthusiasm.

He lived so consistently and pre-eminently what he
taught that one gladly accepted it, and especially was
this true in his student Bible-class and Sunday-school
work. His chapel exercise, Bible readings, and talks were
models of conciseness, and a lasting inspiration
spirit
it

all

—

—

to his

He alone his presence, his participation, his
made the exercises worth while. And back of

students.

were

his sincerity, earnestness, wise presentation,

any form. No man
ever brought out the lessons of the Old Testament with
the power and convincing reality, the humanness, that
he did. His faculty and students hung upon his words
and accepted his judgments in matters of morals, manentire absence of cant or pretense in

ners, habits, character-building, or training in the school,

as those of an expert,

who knew “whereof he

spoke.”

His grip on the school, community, faculty, lay in
extreme reasonableness, ever reaching out to find the
principle underlying every situation.
His fairness, sinhis
catholicity,
his open-mindedcerity, intelligent grasp,

his

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ness, his tolerance, his steadfastness, his geniality, his

—

evenness of temper these were powerful factors entering into his grasp of any situation.
Then, in something akin to a postscript, this authority warns the present writer that our subject as a man, a
teacher, a friend, makes the English vocabulary look
rather inadequate, and adds: “Superlatives will spoil the
subject-matter and be in bad taste besides; while ordinary words are tame and weak.” Thus the reader will
understand the dilemma which I stated in the opening
paragraphs: An agreeable subject, but difficult to avoid
adulation.
It has been asked why Doctor Waller never became
Perhaps it were better to ask
the head of a college.
why he should, when he had within his grasp the preparation of those who go out to teach
the finest of the
wheat. And his influence through these prepared teachers going out into an ever-widening circle, until it touches the far-flung reaches of mountain and valley, city and
this
prairie of the whole land, even to other lands
makes a life full and fruitful and melodious to his youth-

—

—

And thousands rise up and call him blessed.
“Out where the hand clasp’s a little stronger.
Out where the smile dwells a little longer.

ful old age.

West begins.”
where Doctor Waller begins, but he does

That’s wffiere the

And

that’s

not end there.

ATTENTION!

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI!

All members of the Alumni Association who live in
Philadelphia and vicinity are urged to get in touch with
liirs. Florence H. Cool, ’88, who lives at 112 North 50th
Street, West Philadelphia.

Miss Elizabeth Ohl, secretary to the principal was
married August 12 to Philip C. Guinard, of Bloomsburg.
]\Ir. Guinard is employed at the Bloomsburg Silk Mill.

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A BLOOMSBURG GRADUATE

IN

1

I

THE ORIENT

Miss Maizie V. Phillips, ’13, who has recently returned from five years’ service as missionary in China and
the Philippines has kindly consented to give us the following account of her travels

Back again in the United States after an absence of
more than five and one half years
On January 4, 1922 I left Bloomsburg for the Philippine Islands. We went across the United States by the
a

little

Southern Pacific route crossing the great desert in the
One thing that broke the monotony of our trip
across this country where nothing but cactus and the like
grows, was a sand storm. The wind all of a sudden began to blow terrifically and the air became so dense
with flying sand that you couldn’t see a thing. One grand
scramble was made to get the windows closed. The
train put on extra speed to get out of the way of a passsouth.

ing tornado.

At San Francisco we took our ship across the Pacific.
Everyone was in their gala attire. Great long steamers
of paper ribbon floated from the sides of the ship. The
band played “Star Spangled Banner” and we were off.

Our first stop was in Honolulu. The women and
children in their gaily colored dresses met us with beautiful wreaths of flowers and garlands of leaves, also
strings of beads which they called “Job’s Tears,” all of
which they offered for sale to us. The men and boys in
their bathing suits dived from their little boats for the
pennies which we threw down in the water to them. Up
they would come with their faces beaming and holding
the money in their hands.
In Japan we anchored at Yokahoma and went
across by land to Kobe. I was very much impressed with
the country of Japan and the Japanese people. Everything seemed to be so well kept up and so progressive.
The people are extremely polite. This was first brought
to my attention by a sign in the train which read, “Kindly
refrain from smoking.” You know if that had been in

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America

it

would have said very

bluntly,

“No Smoking.”

Our stops in China were made in Hongkong and
Shanghai. What a contrast to Japan! Here dirt, filth,
and poverty reigns everywhere. I was greatly impressed
little children who would follow
us for squares saying in their most pathetic voices, “No
father, no mother, no chow,” until I was told that these
were students in a school for beggars.

by the great number of

At Manila we were met at the boat by several Misamong whom was Miss Clyde Bartholomew who
was at one time a teacher in Bloomsburg Normal School.
She was at the head of Ellinwood Girl’s Bible School and
doing such wonderful work. The Filipinos simply adored
her but God called her to his home in Heaven about a
year ago as she was on her way to her home in the
sionaries

United States.
I taught in a Union Mission High School for two
years where I loved the work. Then I left for Foochow,
China, to teach in a Congregational Boy’s School. I was
here at the time of the trouble in Shanghai and had some
very thrilling experiences some so thrilling that, well
At one time I
I shouldn’t care to have them repeated.
was led along at the point of a bayonet by a Chinese soldier and several times we were notified by our American
Consul to have our clothes packed and be ready to leave

—

at a

moment's

notice.

At the end

where

I

until last

of the year

I

returned to the Philippines
the same school

—

Union High School
had been a teacher before.

as Principal

of

of Europe.

We

Here

I

remained

the homeland by way
spent four months on the way and had

March when

I

left for

a most wonderful trip.

We visited Cairo with her interesting old Museums.
Here we saw all the possessions of King Tut and the
mummified bodies of those old kings who lived so many
years ago. We spent three weeks in the Holy Land visiting all those wonderful places which mean so much

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We made a trip around the Mediterranean and on
the boat we found Miss Louisa Larabee, a graduate of
the Bloomsburg Normal School. There sailing along on
the blue waters of the Mediterranean, Dr. Frank C. Lauto US.

bach and Miss Larabee, both graduates of the same
class in B. S. N. S., and I held an Alumni Meeting. It all
made us think that the world isn’t so big after all.

We visited Rome, that old historical city. We
walked out around little Vesuvius where the earth fairly trembled as we walked along and how hot our feet
got.
And then out around Pompeii that interesting old
city which was covered by ashes from Mt. Vesuvius so
many

years ago.

Up through Italy we went stopping at Florence, Pisa
and Venice. In Switzerland we took a trip up on the
Alps in a cable car. It was a very thrilling trip. Here
we walked out on a huge glacier. In Geneva we visited
a session of the League of Nations. It was so wonderful
to be in a meeting where they are doing such big things
for the world.

We went by airplane from Cologne, Germany to
Amsterdam, Holland. It was a very windy, rainy day so
our trip was rather rough. Then we went down through
Holland, Belgium, and France.
From here we went across the English Channel to
England and then through Wales and across the Irish
Sea to Queenstown, Ireland where we took the boat for
New York. Of all the places we visited none seemed to
be so progressive or the people so happy as in our own
United States of America.

In the allocation of the lump sum appropriated the
Department of Public Instruction for the maintenance of
1927-1928,
state normal schools for the biennium
Bloomsburg received $340,000, which sum was $35,000
more than the amount allotted for the previous period.

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CALENDAR
1927-28
First

Semester

Monday,

Registration
Classes begin

Sept. 19
Tuesday, Sept. 20
Saturday, Nov. 19
Monday, Nov. 28
Friday, Dec. 23
Tuesday, Jan. 3
Saturday, Jan. 28

Thanksgiving Recess begins
Thanksgiving Recess ends
Christmas Recess begins
Christmas Recess ends
First Semester ends
Second Semester
Classes begin
Easter Recess begins
Easter Recess ends
Second Semester ends
.

Monday, January 30

.

.

.

ALUMNI DAY
Day
Commencement

Senior

Thursday, April 5
Tuesday, April 10
Friday, May 25
SATURDAY, MAY 26
.... Monday, May 28
Tuesday, May 29
.

.

...

.

PROF. KELLER

.

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.

.

WEDS

of Supt. W. W. Evans, of Bloomsburg,
the scene of a very beautiful wedding when their
eldest daughter Eleanor, became the bride of Prof.
George J. Keller, a member of the College faculty. The
ceremony was performed by Dr. G. H. Hemingway, of
Camden, N. J. Mrs. Keller is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School, and completed her academic work in
the three year course at the Teachers College. Mr. Keller
is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and holds
a B. S. degree from Columbia University. He is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts, and is a member of the Federation of Arts. Before coming to Bloomsburg, where he
is Head of the Art Department, Prof. Keller was cartoonist for the magazines Life and Judge, and taught at
Columbia. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity,
and was elected to membership in Pi Delta Epsilon, honorary fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. Keller are now living at

The home

v.’as

928 West Main Street, Bloomsburg.

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THE

1927-1928

The enrollment

ENROLLMENT

for this year totals 696 in the regu-

and 70 in the School of Music, making a grand total of 766. Of this number, 628 are women, and 137 are men.
There are 498 students living in
the dormitory, and 198 day students.
The enrollment by counties is as follows:
iar College courses,

Blair

1

Bradford
Carbon

1

Centre

7
.

.

.

Clearfield

1

Columbia
Dauphin

185
2

Lackawanna

86

Lancaster
Lehigh
Luzerne

1

2

283

Lycoming
Mifflin

1

Q
’

Montour
Northumberland

1

7

48

Pike

1

Schuylkill

26

Snyder

2

Sullivan

3

Susquehanna
Union

2

Wayne
Wyoming

8

8
9

Total for Pennsylvania

691

Other states

,5

Grand Total

696

In the first year group, comprising all courses, there

are 48

men and 284 women, making

a total of 332.

In

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the second year there are 127 in the Primary Group; in
the Elementary Group, there are 16 men and 112 women,
making a total of 128; in the Rural Group, there are 2
men and 9 women, making a total of 11. There are two
members of the third year class in the course leading to
the Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education. In the
group preparing to teach in Junior High Schools, there
are, in the second year class 26 men and 17 women, making a total of 43 in the third year, there are 18 men and
21 women, totaling 39. In the fourth year class, there
are 7 men and 7 women, making a total of 14.
;

There are, at the disposal of the Training School.
24 rooms, with a total enrollment of 887. In the Training
School on the Campus there are six rooms, with a total
enrollment of 197 in Bloomsburg, twelve rooms are being used, their enrollment amounting to 442; in Berwick,
six rooms are being used, with a total enrollment of 248.
During the second semester, certain rural schools near
the College will also be available for the use of the Seniors in the Rural Group.
;

CHANGES

IN

THE FACULTY

There have been comparatively few changes in the
Those who left were: Miss Claire M.
Conway, Dean of Women, Miss Nell Moore, Director of
Intermediate Education, Miss Charlotte Alexander,
teacher of sixth grade in the Training School, Mrs. May
K. Duncan, Training Teacher, Miss Elsie Lorenz, Teacher of third grade in the Training School, and Miss Lillian
Edmunds, x\s.«istant Dean of Women, who was married
during the .'•ummer. Because of the removal of the Junior High School to the new High School in Bloomsburg.
some of the members of the Junior High School faculty
were transferred. These were Miss Effie Doering, and
Miss Bernice Alcott. Mrs. Etta H. Keller, former principal of the Junior High School, has replaced Miss iMe>:ander in the sixth grade of the Training School. Miss
Ethel Ranson is now x\ssistant Dean of Women.Faculty this year.

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The new Dean

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Women

is Miss Edith Jane StaufMiss Stauffer comes from the
Bronxville High School, N. Y., where she was dean of
girls.
She has also been a member of the faculties of
Flemington, N. J., Coatesville, and Wayne, Pa.
Miss
Stauffer is a graduate of the Downington, Pa., High
School; she received her A. B. degree at Wilson College,
and her A. M. degree at Columbia University.

fer, of

of

Downington, Pa.

The new Dean of Men is John C. Koch, of HarrisMr. Koch is a graduate of the Harrisburg Central
High School, and received his A. B. degree at Bucknell
University.
He has taught in the Columbia High School
and at the Edison Junior High School in Harrisburg. He
burg.

is

member

a

of the Phi

Gamma

Delta fraternity.

Miss Edna J. Hazen is the new Director of Intermediate Education. She is a graduate of the Edinboro
Normal School, has a B. S. degree from Allegheny College, and received the degree of Master of Arts at Teachers College,

Columbia University.

She has served as Critic Teacher and Principal in
Edinboro, and prior to her coming to Bloomsburg, was
Assistant Superintendent of the schools of Erie County.
Miss

Maude

C. Kline, of Orangeville

is the School
a graduate of the Nurses’ Training School, Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, and for the
past five years has been doing special work in Philadelphia.

Nurse

this year.

She

is

CLASS OFFICERS!

TAKE NOTICE!

Mr. Jenkins would like to secure a list of the Presidents and Secretaries of the various classes, for the use
of the Quarterly.
We have frequent requests for this
information, and the lists we now have are far from complete.

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CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS
Dr. Haas has outlined a plan whereby the whole
plant will be painted and renovated. This program will
require two years to complete. Two painters have been
put on the payroll, and, when the weather permits, they
are engaged in repainting the outside of the buildings.
The tower on Carver Hall has been repainted, and also
During the summer the flag pole on
the front porch.
the tower was struck by lightning, and had to be removed. Under the present plans, it will not be replaced.
The tower on Waller Hall has been regilded, and, at a
distance it presents a striking appearance. The Memorial Pinery has had its star shape accentuated by the removal of the sod to make narrow flower beds connecting
the various trees. North Hall was repainted during the
summer. It is also planned to redecorate all the rooms
in the dormitory, a task w^hich will require two years to
accomplish.

The present supply room, located

at the foot of the

be turned into offices
The offor the administration of the Training School.
fices formerly occupied by the Principal, the Dean Instruction, and the Director of the Training School will be
turned over entirely to the Business Manager for the administration of the general business of the College. These
offices will be refurnished and will include a postoffice
with an adequate number of new boxes.
stairs leading to the Library, will

The decorating and furnishing of the new lobby has
been completed by the Joseph Horne Company, of Pittsburgh. The windows are hung with drab curtains and
over drapes of old rose. The rugs are green. The furniture harmonizes with the draperies.
,

Owing to the fact that alterations to the diningroom were not completed in time, the opening of the first
semester was postponed one week to IMonday, September 19th. The dining room was to have been replastered
and redecorated, and when the old plaster was removed
it was found that it would be necessary to replace the old

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steel girders.

19

Some delay was caused

by the fact that a new contract had to be let for the steel
work. Although the work has not yet been entirely completed, the dining room is now a beautiful place. It is in
The same style as the new lobby, the two rooms forming
a harmonious whole. French windows have been placed
on the south side, facing the small court, and these add
greatly to the beauty of the room. The work is practically all finished but the placing of the electric light fixtures.

Prof, and Mrs. F. A. Irwin were recent visitors in
Bloomsburg. Prof. Irwin was for several years principal
of the Junior High School at Teachers College before
taking the position as Principal of the Junior High School
at Montclair,

New

Jersey.

NEW MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Two vacancies on the Board of Trustees have been
recently filled by appointments made by Dr. J. A. H.
Keith, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The first appointment was that of Fred W. Diehl,
Superintendent of the schools of Montour county, and
President of our Alumni Association.
Mr. Diehl is a
member of the class of 1909, and is very active as an
educator. His term will extend to the first Monday in
July, 1930.

The other new member

is

William F. Groce, of Se-

linsgrove.

The

was the scene of a very
Wednesday evening, October 19th,
Haas received the members of the

Principal’s residence

delightful affair on
when Dr. and Mrs.

Board of Trustees, and the Faculty, including those
teachers in Bloomsburg and Berwick who are members
of the teacher training staff.

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THE

1927-1928 ARTISTS’

COURSE

The Musical Artists’ and Lecture course for the coming season will consist of the following:

The opening number was given Wednesday evening,
October 21, when Edmund Heller, explorer and naturalist, gave an illustrated lecture on his recent trip to
Africa.

The Brahms Quartette, composed of Claribel Banks
and Nadine Cox, sopranos and Nancy Hitch and Elinor
Markey, contraltos, gave a recital Friday evening, November 18th.

will

John Drinkwater’s great play “Abraham Lincoln”
be presented by a cast of New York Actors on Thurs-

day evening, December

first.

Jean Gros’ French Marionettes will present “The
Blue Bird” by Maurice Maeterlinck on Tuesday afternoon, December 20, and will present “Uncle Wiggly in

Wonderland” by Howard

Garris, in the evening.

On January 20, “The Chastening.” a play by Charles
Rann Kennedy, will be presented by Mr. Kennedy, Mrs.
Kennedy, known on the stage as Edith Wynne Matthison,
and Miss Margaret Gage.

The Ocko-Kahn-Hollister Trio, composed of Bernard Ocko, violinist, Julian Kahn, cellist, and Carroll
Hollister, pianist, will give a recital on February 17th.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, internationallj" famed as an
speak on March 16th.

e.xplorer of the polar regions, will

The
April 20.
pianist.

number of the course will be given on
This will be a recital by Charles Naegele,

final

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THE ALUMNI
“Years to come will find us ever
True to Bloomsburg still.”

The addresses

of the following are unknown. Anyone who
1878-can supply the desired information will confer
a great favor on Prof. Jenkins by sending it to him as
soon as possible.
Elma H. Edgar (Tucker), Frances E. Raike
(Shaffner), Ella Clementine Rogers, William H. Rote.
1879 William F. Cullen, Ira D. Filson, William I.
Fisher, F. S. Simpsoii-^ Lloyd P. Wolf.
1881 Susan R. Fellon (Poppert) Cora E. Jones
>''Mrs. John Grant), Harry F. Sharpless.
1882 C. M. Halstead (Sanders), S. Ida Harkness
(Mrs. J. M. Blaine), Celia
Ragan, May Reagen (Mrs.

—

Hood).

E. C.

^

—

1911
Ethel Grace Adamson, Anna C. Williams,
Peter E. Turek, W. Bruce Mather, Luis G. Vergne.

1867
the

Mr. and Mrs. George E. Elwell recently celebrated
anniversary of their marriage.

fifty first

1876
Charles C. Evans was recently reelected President
Judge of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, comprising Columbia and Montour Counties.

1880

We
Ernest

are pleased to print the following letter from

W. Young:
am sure the

readers of The Quarterly are always
During the past summer it was my pleasure to come into contact with severBesides my former greatly respected teachal of them.
er, Miss Lorena G. Evans, whom I had the pleasure of
calling upon in Brooklyn, she graduating in ’75, concerning whom I recently sent you a note, in Philadelphia I
had the good fortune to come across Minnie Terwilliger,
I

interested in the B. S. N. S. alumni.

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wife of Bob Young, a Bloomsburg boy, now head of the
department of employment of the great Curtis Publishing Company. She piloted me across the Delaware to the
home of Katie E. Young, ’87, in West Collingswood,
where she presides over the home of J. Lynn Dodge, and
has changed her name to Katherine Dodge. Isn’t that
fierce? Her “lone chick,’’ as she calls her son, is a student in the School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania.
Katie serves a remarkable dinner in her home
but she says her one ambition before she dies is to live
in an old-fashioned stone house.

Then Bob Young and his wife, Minnie Terwilliger,
(1896), did the handsome thing of taking wife and me
Wilmington, Delaware, for a visit to my
niece. The next Bloomsburger I met was Harry O. Hine,
‘85, secretary of the school board, Washington.
He is
the same cordial, rollicking Hine of years gone by. He
claims to be the secretary of the board but if he is not
the board, with the efficient corps of workers under his.
direction, I have not discovered wherein the power of
that board resides.
in their care to

;

have served and are serving their generaif there is a more wholesome group to
meet than these B. Burgers, I have not come across them.
Ernest W. Young, ’80

These

tions well.

all

And

Mrs. Celeste Kitchen Prutzman states that she is
glad to see the articles by her classmate, E. W. Young.
She further states “I’m rather proud that five of our girls
are still teaching, one of them. Miss Bridget Burns, having taught in the home town ever since we were graduated.’’

1883

Among the names of those members of the Alumni
concerning whom we asked for information was that of
F. Josephine Nicely. We are informed by her sister, M.
Elizabeth Nicely, that she had been married to Mr. William J. Welshans, and that she died in Los Angeles, California, October 28, 1919.

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1884

Harry A. Kinports is President
and Beard Travel Agency, of

ports,

address

is

8

West 40th

of the Gillespie, Kin-

New York

City.

His

Street.

Frank P. Hopper, for twenty seven years superintendent of the Luzerne County Schools, died November 1 at
his home in Kingston, after a two years’ illness. He was
aged sixty-nine years, and had retired from the office of
County Superintendent in 1926. He had attended school
in New Columbus, and came to Bloomsburg in 1883.
He
had taught before coming to Bloomsburg and resumed
teaching following his graduation. He was elected Su-

perintendent of the Schools of Luzerne County in 1899.
He is survived by his wife and one daughter.

1887
Margaret Lewis has retired from teaching and lives
at 113 South Bromley Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Mrs. J. D. Lowery, (Rebecca Nye), lives on East
Third Street, Watsontown, Pa.
1891
Mrs. Lewis L. Leonard (Ida M. Swartzell) lives at
223 South Elm Street, Columbiana, Ohio. She states: “I
have two daughters. The elder is married and lives in
Youngstown, Ohio. The other was graduated from Wittenburg in June, and is teaching Home Economics in
Strongville, near Cleveland.
1892
Mrs. Frank Field (Lena E. Cole) lives at 39 Chest-C
nut, Street, Ashville, N. C.

Caroline H. Black

is

teaching in Newportville, Pa.

1893

Mary A. Horn, (Yarnall) lives at Yeadon, Pa. She
expresses her hopes of being present at her class reunion
next spring. She states: “Our girls are graduated from
Swarthmore College, and are active in educational wmrk.
Meta, the elder, is Librarian in the New Jersey State College for Women, and Gertrude is head of the English Department in Collindale High School.”

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1894

Euphemia M. Green

now

Englewood,
retired, on
account of my health, by the New York City Board of
Education. I returned to my home in Florida, and opened the Lantana Gift Shop, where I have been busy and
happy ever since. I am building a new home, overlooking Lemon Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico. This little town
is growing very rapidly, and, in spite of all the untruths
Florida.

is

living in

In a recent letter she says: “I

told, Florida, to

my way

of thinking,

is

was

the only state to

live in.”

1895

Mauch Chunk, writes: “I have
thirteenth year as Supervising Principal here,
and have four Bloomsburg graduates in my corps of
teachers.”
E. P. Heckert, of

started

my

1896
Elizabeth V. Miller (Mrs. Frank P. Eyer) lives in
Millersburg, Pa.

1897
C. Wilbur is a Managers’ Consultant, with
166 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. He is
He is much
a nationally known analyst in Economics.
and
several
of his addresses
in demand as a speaker,
have had wide circulation. His address on “Business
Statesmanship,” delivered before the sixth annual meeting of the National Clay Products Industries Association,
held at the Drake Hotel, Chicago, March 18, 1926, was
reprinted in pamphlet form by that organizafon, and circulated all over the country. His address on “The Christmas Message of the Primeval Forests,” delivered before

Harry

offices at

the Clerks’ Association of the Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts,
on the 29th of December, 1926, was also sent by that
company into every state in the union.
Isabel Smith (Mrs. Thomas
the school of Ethical Culture, in
lives at 5

West 65th

Street.

York)

is

a teacher in

New York

City.

She

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1897
Miss Mabel Moyer, who was on leave of absencelast year and who received her Bachelor’s degree at
Bucknell University last June, has resumed her duties as
training teacher of second grade in our Training School.

1898
Blanche G. Dawson, lives at 2518 South 22nd Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
U. Grant Morgain lives at Allison Hill, Lock Haven,
^
Pa. Mr. Morgain is principal of the Flemington Borough
Schools, and Mrs. Morgain is also teaching there. Mrs.
Morgain was Laura Snyder, also of the Class of 1898.
ip Sarah H. Russell is teaching in Watsontown, Pa.
Florence F. Bachman is teaching in Wilkes-Barre.

1899

Joanna Sullivan

is

a Po.st Office Clerk in Scranton,

Pa.

1900
G. Elmer Wilbur, son of the late Professor G. E.
Wilbur, and for several years State Superintendent of
the schools of Florida, underwent a very serious operation
in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore.
The operation was performed by Dr. Walter E. Dandy, noted brain
specialist, and required
about four hours. Sixteen
ounces of ether were used, and a tumor weighing eighty
seven grams was removed from his brain. He gained
steadily in strength after the operation, and is now well
on the road to recovery.
Bessie Klinger (Mrs. Robert Hartman) lives at 327
Samuels Avenue, Hazleton, Pa.
Miles I. Killmer lives at 50 Locust Hill Avenue.
Yonkers, N. Y.
1901

Mary

G. Eelig is teaching in the Commercial
Department of the Bloomsburg High School. Her address in Bloomsburg is 103 Leonard Street.
Virginia E. Vought is a teacher in the Grammar

Miss

School at Elysburg, Pa.

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Laubaucm is a missionary in the Philand has been spending the last few months on
furlough at his home in Benton. On his way home, ne
joined the Sherwood Eddy party which has been studying international problems in Europe.
Dr. Frank C.

ippines,

1902
Eunice F. Spear has been teaching in Bethlehem for
several years.
She is now teaching first grade at the
Crest Avenue Building in that city. She is also Secretary of the 10th District of the Northampton County
Sabbath School Association. She lives in Hellertown, Pa.
Julia Smigelsky lives in Mount Carmel, where she

Her address is 110 Hickis employed as a book-keeper.
ory Street.
Elizabeth Pollock (Mrs. E. I. Kirkland) lives at 701
Mifflin Street, Hays, Pa.
Gertrude Dress (Mrs. George W. Jacobs) lives at
2116 Chestnut Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Camilla Hadsall Pettebone lives at 36 John Street,
Kingston, Pa.
Helen Reice Irvin is teaching in the Elementary
Schools of Philadelphia. Her address is 106 South 40th
Street.

1903
Jessie

awan, N.

Raup (Mrs.

F.

Howard Lloyd)

lives in

Mat-

J.

1904
EfRe Womeldorf Bentz has charge of the Continuaand Music in the Junior High School in West
York, York, Pa. She is doing extension work and summer school work at State College for her Bachelor’s degree. Her address is 1821 We.st Market Street, York, Pa.
Alvirda Davenport is teaching History in the Eighth
Grade at Plymouth, Pa. Her address is 142 Church

tion School,

Street.

1905

Anna Mary Fagan received
Marywood College,

Arts from

the degree of Master of
Scranton, Pa., in 1926.

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She had received her Bachelor’s degree from the same
institution in 1924.

1906
Bertha H. Bacon (Mrs. H.

Mahantango

L.

Wagner)

lives at

2000

Street, Pottsville, Pa.

Cordelia Owen (Mrs. H. A. Gordon)
Wyoming Avenue, Kingston, Pa.

lives at

614

1907

Marne Barrow (Mrs. G. W. Anderson)
Putnam Avenue, Plainfield, N. J.

S

lives at

1327

Ethel L. Burrows is teaching in the schools of West
Her address is 416 Luzerne Avenue.
E. Louise Jolly is a Chiropractor, located at f23
Twohy Building San Jose, California. She is a graduate
of the Universal Chiropractic College of Pittsburgh, Pa.
She has been practicing for about a year and states that
things are coming along nicely.
Ada Mitchell Bittenbender is a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre Academy. Her address is 33 Carey Avenue.
Margaret O’Brien (Mrs. Albert Henseler) lives at
300 Thirteenth Street, West New York, N. J.
Florence Whitebread Lyons lives at 135 Hoover
Street, Sayre, Pa.
Pittston.

1908
J. W. Sitler is teaching Biology and General Science
the High School at Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Sitier was Jennie I. Kline, of the Class of 1907.
Mr. and
Mrs. Sitler live at 1617 North Alexandria Avenue, Los
Angeles.
Robert L. Metz is Assistant to the Professor of EcoS
nomics and Political Science at Bucknell University, Lewisburg. Pa.
M. Louise Moore lives at 1029 Monroe Avenue,
Scranton, Pa.
Sara C. Foust lives at 113 Ridge Road, Rutherford,
^
N. J.
A Louise Slocum (Mrs. H. G. Williams) lives at
1024 Main Street, Rendhal, Pa.
-!>

in

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1909
S. J.
P

Temple

Steiner

is

Head

of the Spanish

Department

Prof. Steiner conducted

in

party
through Europe during the summer, and is planning to
take another party across next year. During the summe of 1926, he studied at the University of Madrid. His
address is 2817 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Marion E. Parker (Mrs. Edward E. Fall) lives in
Clemenceau, Arizona.
Ethel Kingsbury Mann lives at 602 Quincy Street,
N. W., Washington, D. C.
Sallie Vought,(Mrs. Charles Woodruff) lives in
Elysburg, Pa.
Jennie Stowell Knapp (Mrs. Leslie R. Adams) lives
Her address is 404 Capital
in Raleigh, North Carolina.
University,

a

Apartments.

1910
Lois Yost (Mrs. H. G.

West Marshall

tor of the Baptist

Zora Low

Weston Smith)

Street, Norristown, Pa.

Church

(Mrs.

in

W.

lives at

Mr. Smith

is

813
pas-

that city.
P.

Gemmill)

lives

at

130

Seventh Street, Monessen, Pa.
1911

Mae Chamberlain

(Mrs.

Sherman) lives at 1330
Her husband is pastor of
Mrs. Sherman is Assis-

J. J.

Pittston Avenue, Scranton, Pa.

the Bethany Baptist Church.
tant Pastor of the same church.
L. May Steiner (Mrs. G. E. Gamble, Jr.) lives at
2811 North 12th Street, Phildelphia, Pa.
A son was recently born to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. SharThe Sharadins now have five
adin, of Ford City, Pa.
sons and two daughters.
Alice D. Ohoro (Mrs. E. H. Beaver) lives at 628
Clay Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
H. F. Baker is practicing medicine in Muncy, Pa.

Edna G. Lewis (Mrs.

E. J. Robinson) lives at

1547

Farwell Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Ethel J. Paisley is teaching Social Science in the

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Junior High School at Nesquehoning, Pa.
Iris Avery Armitage lives in Alderson, Pa.
Mabel Van Reed (Mrs. R. T. Layton) lives in Franklin, N. J.

1912

Emma V. Hartranft (Mrs. Charles L. Tyler) lives at
578 North Vine Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Ruth Jones (Mrs. John R. Hughes) lives at 225
South Sherman Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Florence E. Blecher (Mrs. Frank Crouse) lives at
619 Bloom Street, Danville, Pa.
William H. Davis lives at 35 Grand Avenue, Johnson City, N. Y. He is in the Railvray Mail Service.
Harriet Davis (Mrs. James T. Davison) lives at 2221
L
Capouse Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
^ Lenore Ash is in the government service at Washington, D. C.
Her address is 38 Columbia Avenue, Takoma Park, Md.
Lena G. Leitzel (Mrs. C. H. A. Streamer)
125 Webster Street, Riverside, N. J.

lives at

Harriet E. Graves (Mrs. Raymond Marsh) lives at
210 Sedgwick Drive, Syracuse, N. Y.
Iva Berry (Mrs. Harold Graves) lives at Waverly,
Pa.
is teaching in the Hosmer School,
Her address is 4366 Eastlawn Avenue.
Emily Barrow is teaching in Ringtown, Pa. She re^
cently returned from a trip to Europe.
Ruth Monohan teaches in the first grade in the
schools of Wilkes-Barre. Her address in that city is 440

Laura Williams

in Detroit.

Carey Avenue.
Mrs. lanthe Kitchen Sommers has moved to R. D. 3.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, where she and her husband
have purchased a small poultry farm near the latter’s

home.
Paul D.

Womeldorf

is

pastor

of

the

Methodist

Church in Bison, Kansas. Mrs. Womeldorf was formerly
Eudora Walton, ’ll. They have three children.

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Mary

Fruite

(Mrs. Floyd Puder) lives at 18 40th

Street, Irvington, N. J.

1913
Elizabeth Sturges is teaching Mathematics in the
Thurston Preparatory School, in Pittsburgh. Her address
is 2965 Belrose Avenue, South Hills, Pittsburgh. She expresses the wish that there might be enough members
of the

Alumni Association

in Pittsburgh, so that a local

branch might be established.

Pittsburgh Alumni please

note

Charles L. Hess is
Church, in Syracuse, N.
three children, Marian,
dress in Syracuse is 821
tp

pastor of the Woodlawn M. E.
Mr. and Mrs. Hess have
Y.
Mabel and Charles. Their ad-

Wadsworth

Street,

Verna Miller (Mrs. A. D. Hunsberger)

Oakwood Avenue, Norristown, Pa.
Mary E. Collins teaches in the
schools of Shamokin, Pa.

fifth

Her address

is

lives at

1228

grade in the
214 East Sun-

bury Street.
Elizabeth K. Scharf is teaching in the fifth grade in
the schools of Selinsgrove, Pa.
Miss Maizie Phillips has been doing missionary work
in the Philippines for the last five and one-half years
She returned during the past summer, and on the way
home spent four months in Europe and the Holy Land.
While making the trip around the Mediterranean, she
met Louise Larabee, ’01. who is taking a trip of fifteen
months around the world. At our request, she kindly
consented to write a short article giving an account of
her travels, and we are pleased to print this article else-

where

in this issue.

.1914

Captain Idwal H. Edwards can

March

Field, Riverside, California,

Army

now

be reached at
is connected

where he

Air Service.
Forscht (Weikert) lives at 1815 Boas
Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
H. Pauline Lloyd is teaching music in Williamsport,
with the

Miriam

J.

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31

She received her Music Supervisor’s Certificate

summer from New York
liamsport

is

University.

Her address

in

last

Wil-

815 Nichols Place.

1915

^

Esther Dreibelbis is a member of the Staff of the
Training School at the Kutztown State Normal School.
Miss Dreibelbis is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.

1916
Mrs. Helen Runyan Myers, died Saturday, Novem5, at her home in Haddonfield, N. J., following a
brief illness. She was survived by her husband, M. Monroe Myers, formerly of Bloomsburg, and two sons, Law-

ber

rence, aged six, and Madison, aged three.
The body
was brought to Catawissa for burial.
S
Hazel A. Walker (Mrs. Edgar A. More) lives at 635
7th Avenue, Bethlehem, Pa.

Adah Weyhenmeyer

is

teaching Art

in the schools

of Wilkes-Barre.

Cora G. Hill is teaching in Williamsport, Pa. Her
is 2531 West 4th Street.
Naomi Gerber is teaching in the Continuation School

address
^

at

Tamaqua, Pa.
1917

Freda E. Jones is teacher of Biology in the High
School at Kingston, Pa.
She received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts at Syracuse University in 1924. Her
address in Kingston is 372 Schuyler Avenue.
Mary Kahny (Mrs. C. L. Arnold) lives at Saltsburg,
Pa., where her husband is a teacher in the Kiskiminetas
Springs School.
Dorothy C. Miller (Mrs. W. R. Brower) lives at 371
^
South Second Street, Lehighton, Pa.
Gertrude C. Lecher is teaching in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Her address is 54 Terrace Street.
Clara O’Donnell (Mrs. L. F. Le Min) lives at 1200
East 9th Street, Eddystone, Pa.
Jane Peck (Mrs. W. M. Starr) lives at 30 Tripp
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Street, Forty Fort, Pa.

Margaret M. McHugh is teaching in Hazleton, Pa.
is 415 West Seventh Street.
J. Loomis Christian, M. D., lives at 3632 Rutherford

Her address

Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
After completing one year as
Interne at the Harrisburg Hospital, he was elected Chief
Resident of the same hospital for the coming year.
Margaret Search is teaching in Toledo, Ohio. Her
home address is 262 Madison Street, Wilkes-Barre.

1918
Esther Conley (Mrs. Carlos C. Bell) lives in ThornLackawanna County, Pa., where she and her husband are in the poultry business.
Margaret L. Brown lives at 1331 K. Street, N. W.,
hurst,

Washington, D. C.
Vida E. Edwards is teaching in the Junior High
School at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. Her address is 186
Berkshire Road.
^ Miss Hannah W. Law, of Bloomsburg, became the
bride of Stephen S. Groner, of Syracuse, N. Y., in a brilliant wedding held in the First Methodist Church of
Bloomsburg, on the 23rd of September. The bride, after graduation from Bloomsburg, was also graduated
from Pennsylvania State College, and for several years
she has been a member of the faculty of the Bloomsburg
High School. Mr. Groner is a graduate of Cazenovia
Seminary, and Lehigh University. He is now employed
as special agent for the Royal Indemnity Company, having charge of Western New York. Mr. and Mrs. Groner
are

now

living in Syracuse.

1919
Mildred E. Kline (Mrs. R. R. Bartholomew) lives at
Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas. She planned
University
of Arkansas this fall.
to enter the
Martha Willits is a member of the Faculty of the
604

Whitham

Northumberland High School.

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1920
Marjorie M. Rose is book-keeper for a large insurance
company in Harrisburg, Pa. Her address is 3409 Rutherford Street.

Oda H. Behr

is

1921
teaching in the seventh grade at Lo-

pez, Pa.

^ Elizabeth E. Fetherolf (Mrs. Daniel P. Fister) is located at 2442 Cleveland Avenue, West Wyomissing, Intervilla, Pa.
Clara E. Fisher is Supervisor of Penmanshp in Ma,
li ^noy City, Pa.
Winifred Hutchinson is teaching at Elkins Park, Pa.
^
Her address is 5207 North Broad Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Leroy A. Richard, of Shamokin, who has been teach^
ing in Shamokin Township for the past six years, was
married to Miss Ivy E. Kerstetter, of Gowen City. The
wedding took place at Orkney Springs, Va., on Saturday,
v^eptember 3rd. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Russel P. Knoebel, a former schoolmate of the bridegroom.
1922
Mattie L. Luxton is teaching in the Junior High
School at Minersville, Pa.
k On September first. Miss Thelma Riegel, of Nescopeck, became the bride of W. Ralph Bond, also of Nescopeck. For the past five years. Miss Riegel had been
Mr. Bond was graduated this
teaching in Nescopeck.
year from the Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, and is
now Physical Director of the Washington State UniverMrs. Bond will continue
sity, at Pullman, Washington.
to teach in Nescopeck this year, and will join her husband in Washington next year.
Lucille Jury (Mrs. Earl S. Wise) lives at 115 CoughMr. and Mrs. Wise have one
lin Street, Berwick, Pa.
son, three years old.
Stanlea Henry Slivinske lives at 32 North Goodwin,

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Kingston, Pa.

Gladys E. Ramage

is

teaching

in

the sixth grade in

the schools of Pittston, Pa.

1923

S Announcement has recently been made of the engagement of Miss Alice Shipman, of Bloomsburg to Raymond H. Edwards, also of Bloomsburg. Miss Shipman
is teaching in the Shimmel School, in Harrisburg.
Mr.
Edwards, a member of the class of 1923 is also a graduate of Bucknell University, and is now studying at the
Rochester Theological Seminary.
Herbert S. Jones is in the real estate business in
Scranton, Pa. His address is 1223 Washburn Street.
'9 Helen M. Kline (Mrs. Karl Reher) lives at 6164
Haverford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
Emily Craig is a student at Susquehanna University.

1924

Kathryn E. Dechant is teaching at Renovo.
E. Smith is teaching in the schools of Mauch
Chunk.
Ruth E. Reynolds (Mrs. William Stevenson) lives at

Emma

Factory ville. Pa.
Edith M. Behre

is

teaching

in

the sixth grade at Lo-

pez, Pa.

Beulah M. Deming
Lucille Groff

is

is teaching at Uniondale, Pa.
teaching third grade at Shickshinny,

Pa.
Irene Hortman lives at 407 West 29th Street, Wilmington, Delaware. She recently took an extensive trip
through the West, Canada, and Mexico. Miss Hortman
informs us that Miss Virginia McQuiston (now Mrs. J.
R. Morris) a former teacher of Art at Bloomsburg, is
living in Wilmington, and is just as much interested in
Art as ever. She is also an active worker in Y. W. C.

A.

Work.
1925

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Miss Elizabeth Yost, of Benton was married in Lock
The wedding took place some
to Alvin Sutliff.

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time in August. For the past year, the bride had been
teaching near Philadelphia. Mr. Sutliff is a graduate of
State College, and is agriculture supervisor at the BenIon Vocational School.

The engagement of Miss Alice Ludwig to Walter
Weidler, of Camden, N. J., was recently announced. Miss
Ludwig has for the past three years been a successful
teacher in the Camden schools, and Mr. Weidler is proprietor of the Central Pharmacy at Camden.
Beatice Irene Miller, of Bloomsburg, was married
7 to Lundy K. Werkheiser, also of Bloomsburg. Mr. Werkheiser is a member of the class of 1927
in the School of Engineeing at Pennsylvania State College.
He is now employed by the Penn Public Service
Corporation at Johnstown.
Mr. and Mrs. Werkheiser
will live in New Florence, Pa.
Minnie Gregart is teaching in Plymouth, Pa. Her
address is 77 Barney Street.
Helen I. Welliver is teaching at Northumberland.
Helen Oliver is teaching at Beachlake, Pa. Her
home address is Honesdale, R. 4.
Mabel A. Lindenmuth is teaching at Zions Grove, Pa.

September

Frances Davenport

Her home

is in

C. Ellen

coke. Pa.

is teaching at Harveryville, Pa.
Shickshinny.

Andes

She

is

lives at

teaching

Esther M. Grim
er City, Pa.

is

418 E. Church Street, Nanti-

in

the schools of that

teaching in the

fifth

city.

grade at Tow-

Verna E. Davis is teaching in the schools of ScranHer address is 1938 Washburn Street.
Mildred M. Morgan is teaching fourth grade in the
Bryant School, Scranton, Pa. Her address is 822 Hamp-

ton, Pa.

ton Street.

1926

George Sack, of Newport Township, has been elected teacher of the eighth grade in Catawissa and will act
as faculty manager of athletics.
Mary S. Erickson is teaching in the Scranton

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Her address
Helen R. Kellam

schools.

is

1532 Mountain Avenue.

is

teaching in the

fifth

and

sixth

grades at Sterling, Pa.

Grace

E.

Kingston, Pa.

Harlos is teaching in the seventh grade at
Her address is 67 Poplar Street.

Laura Stevens
midia. Pa.

is

teaching

Her home address

in

the High School at Nu145 East 6th Street,

is

Ploomsburg.
Irene Besteder is teaching in the third grade in the
schools of Kingston Township, Luzerne County, Pa. Her
address is Trucksville, Pa.
Alice M.
Lansdale, Pa.
,

Budd is teaching first and second grade at
Her address is 131 South Cannon Avenue.

^lary K. Leiby
Elysburg, Pa.

(Mrs. Russell A. Fagley)

lives in

1927
Paul Foote is employed by the Bell and Howell Company, of Chicago, manufacturers of educational and industrial films, and also of moving picture cameras. He is
His address is 1725
in the film division of the plant.
Wilson Avenue. Y. M. C. A.
c-p
Bernard Roan is head of the English department of
the junior and senior high school of Barret Township,
located at Cresco.

A. Patterson, a member of the faculty.
C. Clark Cruises.
IS
Three definite sailings are listed
“Around the World" Jan. 16, 1928.
“Mediterranean Holy Land” Jan. 25, 1928.
“Mediterranean Xorwa^’, Sweden’’ June 30, 1928.
Miss Patterson will accompany a party of friends
on the summer cruise. Additional information may be
secured by writing directly to Miss Patterson at the
iMiss Jessie

agent for the

Frank

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ATHLETICS
The

and below is the record
you the winning record isn’t as glorious as it should be, reflect for a minute and count up.
how many promising high school athletes you have urged
The late Dr. James B. Angell,
1o come to Bloomsburg.
tor many years president of the University of Michigan,
once said: “In a very just sense and in a very large degree the fortunes of the University are committed to
your (Alumni) hands.” The force of that truth is evident. Our school can and will be in a large measure the
school you want it to be.
Bloomsburg 30
Kutztown Normal 0
Oct. 1
Bloomsburg 0
Oct. 8
East Stroudsburg 6
Bloomsburg 0
Oct. 15
'West Chester 39
Bloomsburg 6
Oct. 22
Keystone Academy 19
Bloomsburg 0
Wyoming Seminary 40
Oct. 29
Bloomsburg 12
Nov. 5 Lock Haven 6
Bloomsburg 0
Nov. 12 Mansfield 41
Bloomsburg 7
Nov. 18 Dickinson Seminary 6
football season closes

of the year.

If to

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ALUMNI DAY
you miss Alumni Day at B. S. T. C. on Saturday,
May 26, 1928, you will miss something worth while.
Commencement this year comes on May 29th. You
will be back, before the Seniors leave, so let’s get them
for the Alumni Association before they go.
And we
can make the day so worth while that it will be somePresident
thing that no one will want to miss again.
If

now

member

Board of Trustees, says this
day ever staged. For your private information we have this to add. The banquet and
speech making will end promptly at 2 :30 because at that
time a brass band or something equally devastating will
break into the dining room and start a parade to Mt.
Olympus where you will find the best baseball team that
has represented Bloomsburg in years all set to take a fall
Diehl,

a

of the

will be the best reunion

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nut of

you

Wyoming Seminary.

will

Some game

it

will be

and

be proud of your school.

Your

until

May

E. H.

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Nelson ’ll

DEATH OF DAVID BAKELESS
David Bakeless, son of Prof, and Mrs. O. H.
Rakeless, died Sunday, November 20, in the hospital at
Reading.
Rheumatic fever w'hich developed about eight
weeks before made necessary his admission to the Reading hospital.
He was employed at the time as clerk in
the Daniel Boone Hotel in that city.
His condition was
i^erious from the start, and when an embolism complicatc‘d his condition, it was realized that he had but a slight
hance for recovery. There was the thought at times
that the embolism might clear up, but for weeks preceding the end, his condition was critical.
Mr. Bakeless received his education at the Bloomsburg State Normal School, at a preparatory school in
Boston, and was then graduated from Harvard.
He was
preparing himself for hotel managerial work at the time
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he was fatally stricken.

He

is survived by his parents and by a brother and
John E. Bakeless, associate editor of the Forum.
York City, and Mrs. Alex Nason, of Cleveland,

sister:

New
Ohio.

The body was brought to Bloomsburg, where funeral
were conducted at the home of Prof, and Mrs.
Bakeless by Dr. Waller.
The body was then taken to

services

Milroy, Pa., for burial.

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BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

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5TATL TEACHERS COEEEGE
Vol.

29

February, 1928

No. 2

Entered as Second-class

iNIalter, Jul}' 1,
1909, at the Post
Blooinsburg, Pa., under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published November, January, April and July.

H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
F.

H. Jenkins, ’76

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Editor in-Chief
Busine.s.s

Manager

WILLIAM NOETLING
O. H. Bakeless

Professor William Noetling was teacher of pedaat the State Normal School of Bloomsburg, from
1877 to 1900. He had served for two terms as Superintendent of Schools in Snyder county, prior to that, and
had become a quiet but powerful factor in shaping the
educational thought of his community and State. For a
number of years he had conducted a Normal Institute
at Selinsgrove, where he most effectively trained teachers for the schools of his own county.
It is hardly possible to find another educator in the educational field
of Pennsylvania who has sent out so many students
aglow with the spirit of the “new education,” enthusiastic in their work, and in love with their calling.
His pu-

gogy

pils imbibed his enthusiasm and his ideals, and were
never satisfied to do commoplace work. He taught them
to think upon their work, and therefore to progress.

At the close of his teaching career, still with almost
youthful energy, he was as enthusiastic and as much in

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love with his

work

when he began.

as

No

teacher

vis-

and profited so much. None
attended educational conventions and participated in

ited schools so persistently,

much intelligence, earnestness and conviction as he. One of his former students,
a Superintendent of Schools in a prominent county of
the State, said of him “As a teacher of teachers he nad
few equals and no superior. He was a progressive educator, never accepting a thing merely because it was
new, or rejecting it because it was old. He searched for
the truth of things, the underlying principles. He laid
He was scientific as
hold of them and applied them.
an educator.” He inspired those whom he taught with
an earnest desire to improve, a desire for research and
study. He always as a teacher required thorough work,
and knew how to get it. He had that love and devotion
tor his calling that have characterized so many eminent
their deliberations with so

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German
of

educators, and probably his philosophic bent
mind was a necessary outcome of his teutonic an-

cestry.

He was born

in Mifflinburg, Union County, PennHis father, a German physician, received his
education at one of the universities of the Fatherland,
came to America early in life, and practiced medicine
at Mifflinburg for many years.
While he was the possessor of seme means, he was not able to afford his children the privilege of college training. This was no hindrance to William, who had the pluck so characteristic
of many American boys, who simply made their way if
one was not found. As a youth he learned the art of
meeting and overcoming difficulties, which spirit actuated his entire career and made him so remarkable a
worker in his chosen calling.

sylvania.

He worked at the carpenter’s bench during the
summer, and in the winter attended the academy of his
native town, and one at New Berlin, while preparing
for college.
He then began his college work at Lewisburg (now Bucknell) University. He graduated at Un-

New York, with the class of
18?7, standing very high in his class. The Registrar of
the college says of him, “During his entire course he sustained the character of a true gentleman, and in scholarship received on his several examinations the maximum
grade.’’
He was one of the best of his class as to conduct and scholarship. From this institution he took tne
degree of A. M. After graduating here he took a course
in civil engineering and one in architecture, and spent a
term in the Academy of Music at Geneseo, New York,
and later at Dr. Sauvier’s School of Languages at AmHe traveled extensively in the
herst, Massachusetts.
United States and Canada, studying the various institutions of learning, school systems and methods of instrucion College, Schenectady,

tion.

He was

vice-principal

and professor of mathematics

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Missionary Institute, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania,
some time at Belleville, Illinois, and conducted a private school at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania for

at the

taught for

several years.

He served as superintendent of schools of Snyder
County, Pennsylvania, from 1872 to 1878. It was here
his courage, energy, and efficiency as a leader showed
itself in a remarkable degree. With few or no professionally trained teachers in the county, with the most mechanical methods in use, the people intensely conservative or openly opposed to any change from the antiquated processes of school-keeping that their fathers by suffering had consecrated, he in a few years changed the
conditions to more rational methods, better buildings,
better qualified teachers; and communities began to be
proud of their schools. He conducted a normal class
several months each year and here drew about him the
brightest and best pupils from the public schools of his
own and neighboring counties, and by his thoughtful
philosophic training sent them out as enthusiastic disciples of scientific teaching, filled with his own spirit of
progress. Then by his guidance and council, by district
institutes, and lectures to the people, he brought out his
school to a comparatively high state of efficiency.
Before the second term of his superintendency had
was called to the chair of pedagogy in Bloomsburg State. Normal School, which he held for twentythree years, and in that time hundreds of young people
came in touch with him to go out as teachers, impressed
with the greatness of their calling, and the secret of true
closed he

living

—the giving

of self to others.

One of the strongest qualities possessed by Profe.ssor Noetling as a teacher was his remarkable power of
simulating thought in his pupils. When once they caught
the spirit of their master their intellectual growth was
Withal Professor Noetling was thoroughly
assured.
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the broader light of today. He was the mortal enemy of sham and quackery in education, wherever
His withering scorn and sarcasm was ofit was found.
ten effective in puncturing the bubble of pretense and
show, where reason and admonition would not do it. He
always had the courage of his convictions, and often in
the days of his superintendency did he show that German simplicity of statement that called a “spade a
spade” as he exposed the futility of the irrational processes in vogue and defended in his schools as he found
them by these who did not understand education.

yesterday

in

In all his years of teaching his attitude toward his
pupils was that of a kind helpful father; and they went
out from his influence with an affection for him that

time does not change.

The impress of his personality was ever a living
presence and an inspiration to his pupils. The thought
of his calm earnest face, so encouraging and sympathetic,
of his unselfish sacrifice for his pupils, was a constant
influence in their lives and a stimulus to their best work.
Socially Professor Noetling was very pleasant, always bubbling over with quaint humor. He had a Lincoln’s fondness for the
story.

Many and

telling joke

or

the

illustrative

lasting are the lessons fastened inci-

He was a lover of music and did
much toward developing a fondness for it in his pupils.
He was a constant contributor to the leading educa-

dentally in this way.

and in addition to his “Notes on the
Science and Art of Teaching” he was author of an “Inductive Algebra and Geometry” for the beginners of the
subject in what was then the 7th and 8th grades of pub-

tional periodicals,

lic

schools.

He retired from active work in 1900, and spent the
remainder of his days at his former home in Selinsgrove.
He died in 1918. The Training School building which
was erected during the time he was in charge of the
training

work

is

now named

“Noetling Hall.”

A

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M’as unveiled in his memory in 1920, (the anniversary of
the graduation of the fiftieth class of this institution) in
the building that now bears his name.
The inscription
is as follows

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
PROFESSOR WILLIAM NOETLING

1830—1918

LONG EDUCATOR
HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PEDAGOGY IN
THE BLOOMSBURG STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
LIFE

1877—1900

A TRL^

MAN— A

SYMPATHETIC FRIEND—
GREAT TEACHER

ADDITIONS TO THE FACULTY
Miss Edith M. Stauffer, Dean of Women, has been
obliged to resign her position because of ill health. Her
place has been filled by Dr. Marguerite Kehr, of Washington, D. C. Doctor Kehr did her undergraduate work
at the University of Tennessee, receiving from that inShe received
stitution the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
the degree of Master of Arts at Wellesley, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University.
Previous to coming to Bloomsburg, she w’as Dean of
Women and Assistant Professor of Education at Lake
Forest College, at Lake Forest, Illinois.
Miss Iva Bailey, of Canyon City, Colorado, has been
elected Supervisor in the Primary Grades, working with
the student teachers who are receiving their training in
Miss Bailey is a graduate of
the Bloomsburg schools.
She taught
at Greeley, Col.
College
Teachers’
the State
schools
in
her native
public
various
for several years in
Teacher
Training
at the
served
as
state, and has also
ColTeachers’
State
University of Wyoming, the Greeley
Montana.
Dillon,
lege, and the State Normal College at
Previous to her coming to Bloomsburg, she Avas a supervisor in the schools of Winnetka, Illinois.

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Dr. Howard G. Burdge, who was a member of the Normal School Faculty thirty-three years ago, and is now
President of the Normal School at Fredonia, N. Y., was
one of the speakers at the Columbia County Institute
held in Bloomsburg in November. Basing his remarks on
a life study of boys, and speaking from the experience
gained from a survey of 300,000 boys in the State of New
York, Dr. Burdge delivered one of the finest addresses
given at the Institute.
During Dr. Burdge's stay in
Bloomsburg, he and Prof. J. G. Cope were introduced to
the student body at one of the chapel exercises, and
were given a cordial welcome.

COLLEGE NIGHT
One of the most delightful social affairs in recent
years was held Thursday evening, December 15, when
the members of the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs of Bloomsburg, and their wives met as the guests of the College.
Four hundred guests were present.
The newly furnished lobby and dining room furnished a beautiful setting for the affair.
The pillars and sidewall lights of
the dining room were decorated with Southern smilax,
and from the pillars were draped the college colors. At
either side of the host’s table stood the Kiw^anis and Rotary banners, and as the guests remained standing. Boy
Scouts, with their bugler, entered carrying the national
colors.

The invocation was offered by Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,
and throughout the serving of the dinner there was chorus singing under the direction of Harold Moyer, of the
Kiwanis Club, assisted by various members of the two
clubs.

The following menu was served

Tomato Bisque

Fruit Cocktail

Wafers
Celery Hearts

Radishes

Roast Chicken
Filling

Cranberry Cubes

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Candied Sweet Potatoes
Parsley

Buttered Potatoes

Green Beans
Rosettes

Spiced Crabapple

Stuffed Olives
Ice

Parker House Rolls

Head Lettuce
Ice

Russian Dressing

Cream

Cake
Coffee

Wafers

Pimento Cheese
Nuts
Mints
During the dinner, music was furnished by the
North Hall Orchestra, under the leadership of Philip

K ester.
Dr.

and

Haas was

enthusiastically received

by the

guests,

remarks, he stressed the need of a close and
sympathetic understanding between the college and the
in his

community.

The guests then passed to the auditorium, where a
program setting forth various activities of the college,
was presented. The program opened with an overture
by the college orchestra under the direction of Howard
Charles F. Hoban, Director of Visual
F. Fenstemaker.
Education in the Department of Public Instruction, made
a few remarks, in which he paid tribute to Dr. Haas, and
also sketched briefly the part that the state of Pennsylvania has played in the history of art, music and literature in our nation. He also showed several reels of motion pictures, setting forth present days methods in the

Commonwealth.
The Mixed Chorus, under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore, rendered two much enjoyed numbers,
following which the audience joined in group singing
from song slides, under the direction of Miss Moore.
The Dramatic Club then presented a one-act play,
entitled “The Pot Boiler,” which was well presented, and
much enjoyed by the audience. The following students
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Van

Buskirk,

Mary

Phillips,

Haven

Fortner.

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expressed the thanks of the guests to Dr. Haas, and to the
The singing of the Alma Mater, and a selection
by the orchestra brought the evening’s program to a
In the course of the evening. Dr. Haas expressed
close.
the wish that College Night be made an annual affair,
and his suggestion was very enthusiastically received.
college.

THE SHIPPENSBURG CONFERENCE
The sixth annual conference of the teachers of the
Normal Schools and Teachers Colleges was held at
Shippensburg November 21, 22, and 23. The general
theme of the conference was “Courses in the Present
Curricula
Their Aims and Content”. Many of the members of the faculty were on the program. In the conference of bursars, C. M. Hausknecht gave a paper on “The
Balance Sheet.” Miss Irma Ward, dietitian, presided at the
State

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In the English conference. Miss
Mathilda Kulp gave a paper on “Methods in Children’s
and Juvenile Literature.” At the conference of foreign
language instructors, Howard F. Fenstemaker presented
a paper on the “Aims of Latin Instruction in our State
Teachers’ Colleges.” Dr. H. Harrison Russell spoke at
the Geography conference on “Geography in the Intermediate Grades.” Miss Christie Jefferies spoke on “The
Changing Practice in Handwriting Instruction” at the
conference of teachers of Handwriting. E. H. Nelson,

conference of dietitians.

head of the Department

of Physical Education, presided

at the Health Education conference.

Miss Helen A. Rusgave a paper on “Types of Practice Work assignments” at the conference of Librarians. At the Mathematics conference. Prof. W. B. Sutliff presented a paper
on “Comparison of courses in Mathematical Analysis organized on the General Mathematics plan, with separate courses in College Algebra, Trigonometry, etc.” Miss
Jessie Patterson, at the Music conference, presented a

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paper on “Content of Music Course for Group I and
II.”
At the conference of Deans of Instruction,
Prof. Sutliff spoke on “The Evaluation of Credits.” Prof.
S. I. Shortess gave a paper on “What are the Proper Objectives for a College Course in Everyday Science?” Miss
Nell Maupin spoke to the Social Studies teachers on
“Aims and Objectives in the History Courses in the Re-

Group

vised Curricula for the State Teachers’ Colleges. At the
conference of training school teachers, Mrs. Lucile Baker spoke on “Observation during the Pre-Teaching Period and during the Teaching Period.” At the last general session gave a summary of the discussions on “The

Superintendent’s Viewpoint.”

LACKAWANNA COUNTY ALUMNI MEET
The Bloomsburg Alumni

of Scranton

and

vicinity

revived the former custom of holding an annual meeting, when they met in Rosar’s Restaurant, in Scranton,
Saturday evening, December 17. The officers of the organization sponsoring the meeting were: John R. Jones,
President; Lydia Koehler, Vice-President; Adeline Williams, Secretary; Rebecca Hague, Treasurer; Everitt Jamieson, Financial Secretary.
Music was furnished by the Scranton High School
Orchestra, under the direction of W. W. Jones, Supervisor of Music in the Scranton Schools, and by the College Glee Club. Solos were also rendered by Miss Lenore Reese, and W. A. Viglione.
The speakers were Dr. Donald Upton, Thomas
Francis, Superintendent of the Lackawanna County
schools, Rhys Powell, Superintendent of the Scranton
Schools, Prof. W. B. Sutliff, and Dr. Francis B. Haas,
President Jones states
Principal of Teachers College.
that Dean Sutliff received the glad hand, as he always
does, and also that Dr. Haas found a warm place in the
hearts of all the Alumni. The Glee Club was also very
well received.

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for the coming year: President, Herbert Jones; VicePresident, Thomas Rowlands; Secretary, Adeline Wil-

Treasurer, Lydia Bohn Financial Secretary, Anna
Conboy.
There w'ere one hundred forty alumni present. President Fred W. Diehl has been working hard to get
Bloomsburg Alumni to hold such meetings in the various
centers where there is a sufficient number, and it is hoped that the success of the Scranton meeting will be an
inspiration to all of the Alumni to get together and revive the old Bloomsburg spirit, which must not and will
not be allowed to die out.
liams

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The Christmas program at the College opened Saturday evening, December 17, with a dance in the gymnasium, which was very largely attended. The annual
Christmas party was held in the dining room, Tuesday
evening, December 20.
Wednesday, December 21, at
the Chapel exercises, a special musical program was given, consisting of Christmas songs by the Girls’ Glee Club,
a selection by the orchestra, and the Christmas Cantata,
“Childe Jesus” by the mixed chorus.

Thomas F. Green, director of the speaking serRed Cross, spoke to the students on Friday,
November 4, in the Chapel exercises. In connection with
his address, he showed motion pictures of the work done
by the Red Cross in the Mississippi flood dictrict.
Dr.

vice of the

Armistice Day was fittingly observed at the College
by a special program in the Chapel, at which time the
students listened to an address by the Reverend J. Thomas Heistand, Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, of
Bloomsburg, Mr. Heistand is one of the two survivors of
the original Princess Pat regiment, of the Canadian
Army, all of the other members of the regiment, which
numbered ten thousand, having been killed in action.
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on the subject of Armistice Day, and the
students listened to a message that they will not soon forget.
Classes were dismissed in the afternoon to allow
the students to join with the people of Bloomsburg in a
fitting celebration of the day.
lo the students

KINDERGARTEN OPENED
The Kindergarten has been reopened, after having
been discontinued several years ago. It is in charge of
Miss Avis Smith, who has had considerable experience,
and is an expert in that field. Miss Smith, whose home
is in Chicago, is a graduate of Northwestern University,
where she obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science,
and also of the Chicago Kindergarten Institute. She
took pest graduate work at the University of Chicago,
and also at Teachers’ College, Columbia University. She
has had sixteen years’ experience as supervisor of kindergarten work, nine years having been spent in Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Last year she was supervisor of kindergarten work at Emporia, Kansas.
The Kindergarten is located in Room A, under the
chapel. Those who in other days sat under the instruction of Professor Sutliff in this room, will be struck with
transformation that has been wrought in adapting this
room to its new needs. The enrollment of the Kindergarten has been limited to thirty. The law required that
students in the Primary group shall have had training
in Primary Work, and the Kindergarten has be^n opened
to meet that requirement.

BUSINESS OFFICE REMODELED
The

tier of business offices of the first floor of the

main dormitory are now being used after work on remodeling them was completed during the holiday vacation.
The offices have been entirely refurnished with
modern equipment.

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At the end of the business offices, where the corridors running through the building meet at right angles
there is now a post office where students and faculty can
obtain or post mail. Federal equipment has been installed.
This will do aw'ay with the mail boxes which had
previously been on each floor of the dormitory.

The supplj^ room of the college adjoins the business office and there is a private office for C. M. Hausknecht, business manager of the college.
in Waller Hall, known to graduates at
recently used as a supply room has been remodeled to contain offices for the Training School. In
this suite of offices will be located the office of E. N.
Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training ,and offices for
the various supervisors. This change has been made, in
order to bring the offices as close to the Training School
as possible.

The room

Room

J,

A special supplement to the QUARTERLY will be
issued early in April, announcing the program of the various events to take place on Alumni Day, which will be
Saturday, May 26. The following classes will hold their
reunions on that date: ’73, ’78, ’83, ’88, ’93, ’98, ’03, ’08,
’13, ’18, ’23, and ’26.
The QUARTERLY will be glad to
publish any communications which class presidents or
chairmen of reunion committees will send us. The supplements wdll be mailed to all Bloomsburg graduates,
whether subscribers to the QUARTERLY, or not. This
will be the most convenient way of reaching all the members of the various classes, and we urge you to take advantage of it. All copy should be in our hands by March
15.
Alumni Day will take place before Commencement,
instead of afterward. This is a change from the policy
followed during the past few years. Many events are
being planned which will make the 1928 reunion one of
the best ever.

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SUMMER SCHOOL CUT TO

SIX

WEEKS

The Eloomsburg State Teachers’ College

this

sum-

weeks’ summer school course instead
of a nine weeks’ course as had been offered since the
summer school was inaugurated. Six semester hours’
work, and in exceptional cases seven semester hours’
work, may be earned during the session.
The college authorities have for some time considered reducing the summer course from nine to six weeks.
A six week’s course is now offered by the majority of the

mer

will offer a six

The summer school will open June 25th, almost a month after commencement, and will close August

colleges.
fifth.

The additional three weeks of the summer when
the college is not in session will give time to make needed repairs and do cleaning necessary before the opening of the fall term. This work had to be crowded into
a very short period when the summer school lasted nine
weeks.

The summer school was opened a number

of years
the State raised the standard for teachers.
The first few years saw exceptionally large summer
schools with the number in some of the yeai*s going
around the 800 mark.
Many in the field have now obtained the required
credits although there are always a large number who
desire to take additional work during the summer, especially when it is possible to obtain college credit.
Bloomsburg’s summer school has decreased in numbers but the decrease has not been nearly so marked as
With the college now havin many of the institutions.
ing the right to grant a degree of bachelor of science of
education, many have been attracted to the local summer
school to earn credits toward that degree. Last year’s
school was much larger than the State department had

ago,

when

it would be..
Leading colleges have reduced their summer coursto six weeks, and practically all of the institutions who

estimated
es

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have been offering longer courses are now reducing their
course to that length of time.

ATHLETICS
is under way.
We opened the
Mining Mechanical Institute and
Kutztown S. T. C. The first game was won by a 37-35
score and the Kutztown game lost by 28-29.
We took
a trip to Scranton and found St. Thomas College a bit
too strong, being beaten 37-52. The boys came back in
fine shape the next night and defeated Bucknell Freshman 39-30. The following week-end brought our old rivals, Wyoming Seminary, who nosed us out by two points
Possibly we can be dein a game that was a thriller.
feated again by Wyoming this year but we doubt it.
The team is good this year and worthy of the hearty
support of students and alumni. The schedule

Basket ball season

season by a

trip

to

Games Played At Home

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Games Played Away
Friday, January —Freeland M. & M.
Saturday, January — Kutztown
Friday, January 13 —
Thomas College (Scranton)
Friday, January 27 —Lock Haven
Saturday, January 28 — Mansfield
Friday, February 10 — Dickinson Seminary.
Saturday, February 11 — Wester Chester
Saturday, February 18 — Wyoming Seminary.

Thursday, December 22, Alumni
Saturday, January 14 Bucknell Freshmen.
Saturday, January 21
Wyoming Seminary
Friday February 3 St. Thomas College.
Freeland M. «&. M. Institute.
Saturday, February 4
Saturday, February 11
Lock Haven S. T. C.
Friday, February 24
Mansfield S. T. C.
Open.
Saturday, February 25
Friday, March 2
Dickinson Seminary.
6

Institute.

7

S. T. C.

St.

S. T. C.

S. T. C.

S. T.

C.

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—

Friday, March 9
Shippensburg S T. C.
Saturday, March 10
Millersville S. T. C.
Invitation High School Tournament
Friday, March 16
Morning and Afternoon.
Saturday, March 17 Afternoon and Evening.
Friday, March 23
Evening.
Saturday, March 24 Evening.

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The addresses
one

of the following are

unknown.

Any-

who can supply

the desired information will render
a great service by writing to Prof. E. H. Jenkins, West
Fifth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
1880 Ida Kolb (Mrs. Frank West)
1881
Hester V. Hower, Mary I. Wolley (Mrs. L. T.

Townsend)

Hannah Ruben

1882
1885

.

'M. Pauline Groff (Mrs. I. D. West), Ella M.
Sterner (Mrs. El wood Chrisman)
1886 Isabella U. Monie (Mrs. S. C. Jones)
1889 George T. Brown, Nettie Elias (Mrs. Price

Thomas)
1890 Mrs. Minnie Kitchen Fans.
1894 Laura Wenner (Dlrs. Howard Smith)
1895 Anna Follmer (Mrs. O. G. Hess)
1896 Lizzie Dooris (Mrs. Richardson Cronin)
1900 Bertha G. Newhouser (Mrs. W. J. Millard.)
1901
Mabel T. Pennington (Mrs. W. S. Weiland),
Mary Challenger (Mrs. John W. Griffiths), Alice Oliver
Mrs. James Roderick)
1902 Helen Ealdy
(Mrs.
William Bachman),
Grace Menhennett (Mrs. R. H. Vorch)
1904 Pearl A. Crossley (Mrs. W. J. Pickett)
190c<
Ana E. R. Coughlin (Mrs. Ana Ward), Olive
Morgan ( Mrs. David Bowen), Katherine Wilkins (Mrs.
Edwin Pulsen)
1906 Myrtle Longenberger (Mrs. C. P. Messer•

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smith)

1907

Marjorie V. Pritchard (Mrs. Henrie Becker)

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1909 Edith M. Pooley (Mrs. C. M. Griggiths,),
Madeline Bishop (Mrs. Rollin L. Charles)
1910 Mabel K. Smith (Mrs. R. B. Ward), Luella
Burdick (Mrs. L. H. Sinquet), Belle C. Eves (Mrs. R. O.
Bower)
1911 Lottie R. Spangler (Mrs. M. Loose)
1914 Vera Colvin (Mrs. Ransom)
1916 Anna Morgan (Mrs. Percy A. Williams)

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1875
Miss Alice E. Wilson, for many years one of Bloomsburg’s most efficient school teachers, died November 16,
Miss
at the Methodist Home for the Aged, at Tyrone.
Wilson had been making her home there after her I'etirement from the teaching profession.
Miss Wilson was a native of Bloomsburg. Following her graduation from the Bloomsburg State Normal
School she taught for fourteen years in Kingston, and
then, until she was pensioned about 1921, she taught in
the eighth grade in Bloomsburg.
The body was brought to Bloomsburg for burial.

1878
L.

Wallace Evans

lives at

929 Pearl Street, Denver,

Colorado.

1879
Ella Allen (Mrs. Wilson C. Bond) is a substitute
teacher in Berwick. Her address is 208 Ida Street.

1882

May Reagan (Mrs. E. C. Hood) lives at 2608 Jackson Street, Sioux City, Iowa.
Stella Sickler (Mrs. Edwin J. Jorden) lives at 129
Bridge Street Tunkhannock, Pa. Concerning Mr. Young’s
recent article on Doctor Waller she writes: “The tribute
to the life of Dr. Waller in the last two numbers by Mr.

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Young has given me great

pleasure.

preciation of such an ideal

life

Too much of apof service can hardly be

said.”

The Rev. E. J. Moore is Superintendent of the Ohio
AntiSaloon League. His address is 257 Erie Road, Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Moore was Lu M. Crippen, also of
the class of 1882.

1883
Jennie W. Wells (Mrs. S.
Montgomery, Pa.
1885

B.

Henderson)

lives in

C. Ernest Dechant is a District Manager of the Monroe Calculating Machine Co.
His address is 701 Builders’ Building, Charlotte, N. C.

1886

Maude

Hill Hetler lives in

Conyngham, Pa.

David L. Glover is practicing law in Mifflinburg, Pa.
Marion A. Kline is Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Wyoming. His wife is Worthy Grand Matron of the Eastern Star for that state.
Adelle Shaffer Broughall

is living with her mother
Oley Street, Reading, Pa.
Jere Reeder is Principal of the Garfield School in
Shamckin, Pa.
1887

at 124

Brown is teaching in Trucksville,
Young (Mrs. J. L. Dodges) lives
Elm Avenue, West Collingswood, N. J.
E. Claire

Pa.

Katie E.

at

1214

1889
L. Irene

Stager (Mrs. A. B. L. Longshore) lives

in

Shamokin, Pa.
1890
Margaretta T. Shaw is teaching in Lewistown, Pa.
E. Roberts (Mrs. Isaac Wagner) is in the

Mary

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dairy business at Shenandoah, Pa.

1891

Warren

Krise lives at 1288 Franklin Street, Johnsis now serving as Alderman in that city.
Belle Trumbell (Mrs. D. B. Replogle) lives at 2311
Ward Street, Berkeley, Cal.
Mae V. Black is teaching in Wilkes-Barre. Her
address is 202 North River Street.

town, Pa.

S.

He

1892

Mary

Fassett (Mrs. Richard

S.

Crosly) lives in Nox-

en. Pa.

Mary Booth

(Mrs. B. F.

Anna

J.

Wragg)

lives at

123 North

Shamokin, Pa.

Grant
Sue R. Creveling
Weatherley, Pa.
Street,

Gavin

is

(Mrs.

Wyoming Avenue,

W.

Miller)

lives

in

teaching in the High School at
is 1129 Main Street.

Her address
Katie Dougher (Mrs.

Pittston, Pa.

G.

J.

F. Fleming)

lives at

1240

Pa.
Her two daughters,
Kathryn and Loretta, are now students at Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Marie Dempsey Ford is teaching in Pittston.
Pittston,

1893
Edith Mary Harden ( Mrs. Bolton G. Coon) lives at
42 James Street, Kingston, Pa.

1894

Y.,

Minnie Hehl (Mrs. J. W. Buck) lives in Yonkers, N.
where Mr. Buck is a representative of Dodd, Mead,

and Co.
1895
Elizabeth Lesher (Mrs. Thomas Dunham) lives
Northumberland, Pa.
May Pendergast is teaching in Harrisburg, Pa.
Melissa S. Shaw is teaching in Lewistown, Pa.

in

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1896
H. P, Gable
side Colliery, at

is

outside foreman at the
City, Pa.

West Brook-

Tower

1897
Bertha Kelly

is

teaching in Scranton, Pa.

1899
Gertrude E. Morris

York

45 Prospect Place,

lives at

New

City.

Bindley H. Dennis, Deputy Superintendent of Public
Instruction, of the Pennsylvania State Department, re-

cently attended the convention o f the American Voca-

He was accompanied by Mrs. Dennis and their son, Bindley. Mr. Dennis and his family have recently moved into their new
home in Shiremanstown, Pa.
Bessie Creveling is teaching in Irvington, N. J. Her
address is 10 Stanley Street.
Jennie C. Smith (Mrs. C. N. Guillot) lives in Bushkill, Pa.
1901
tional Association, held in California.

Myron D. Mordan, cashier of the Farmers’ National
Bank of Orangeville, Pa., and one of the best known and
most highly esteemed residents of that community died
November 28, 1927, after an illness of about a year. His
condition had been critical for some time and the end,
while net unexpected came as a distinct shock to residents of that borough and vicinity.

Mr. Mordan had taught in the schools of Columbia
County for seventeen years. He later became a member
of the Orangeville School Beard and was secretary of
lhat organization at the time of his death. He was an
elder in the Methodist Church assistant superintendent
of the Sunday school, an officer in the Masons at Orangeville, and a past grand of the Orangeville Odd Fellows. Mr. Mordan is survived by his wife, one daughter.
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mother, and a sister.
Evelyn Creveling (Mrs. C. S. Shuman) has moved
from Catawissa to Lansdale, Pa. Mr. Shuman has for
the past five years been cashier of the Catawissa National Bank, and has accepted the position as treasurer of
the Landsdale Title and Trust Company.
Adele Altmiller (Mrs. G. F. Burkhardt) lives at 154
South Cedar Street, Hazleton, Pa.
his

1902

Marie Bailey is teaching in Fairmount, Springs, Pa.
Harriet S. Fry is teaching in Danville, Pa. Her address

is

3

Bloom

street.

Eleanor Gay (Mrs. Fred G. Northrop) lives in Mehoopany, Pa.
Madge E. Patterson (Mrs. Charles Rodda) lives at
63 Woodlawn Street, Springfield, Mass.
Jennie Williams Cook is teaching in Hazleton. Her
address is 908 West Second Street.

Gertrude Rawson is Principal of one of the Scranton
schools. Her address in that city is 3715 Birney Avenue.

Ruth Hall (Mrs. George M. Harris) lives at 32
Ridge Street, Lansford, Pa.
Grace Bradbury, formerly of Espy, and for several
years a resident of Stroudsburg, where she taught in the
schools of that town, was married to Charles Everitt, of
Bloomsburg, on New Year’s Eve, 1927, at the Stroudsburg Presbyterian Manse by the Rev. J. R. Stonesifer.
Mr. and Mrs. Everitt will make their home in Bloomsburg
where Mr. Everitt is a salesman for the Bastian Chevrolet Sales

Amy
address

is

Company.
B.

Smethers

is

teaching

in

Berwick, Pa.

Her

305. East Eleventh Street.

Eunice F. Spear is teacher of first grade in the Lindbergh Building, at Bethlehem, Pa. Her address is R. D.
1,

Hellertown, Pa.

Grace Cannon (Mrs. James Fox) lives at 115 South
Laurel Street, Hazleton, Pa.

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1903
C. J.

Adams

lives at

1641 Quincy Avenue, Scran-

ton, Pa.

1904

Maude Davis

Pentecost

lives

at

1000

Her husband is a physician
Emma S. Hinkley (Mrs. John P. Saylor)
Pine Street, Tamaqua, Pa.
K. H. Knorr lives in Staunton, Va.
Street, Scranton.

Emma
lyle Street,

Berry (Mrs. George Motter)
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Richmont

in that city.

lives at

lives at

313

76 Car-

1905
Xelle L. Imboden is an accountant in the Bloomsburg
Bank and Columbia Trust Company, Bloomsburg, Pa.

1906
Ethel L. Maxwell is teaching in Kingston, Pa. Her
address is 53 Price Street.
Lu Buddinger (Mrs. Robert Mershon) lives at 8
Brenton Court, Jamaica, N. Y. She has a daughter, Josephine Krigbaum Mershon, born October 13, 1927.
Edith Shuman ( Mrs. M. J. Grimes) lives in Catav\’issa. Pa.
She has a family of three boys.
Lillie Hortman( Mrs. Thomas J. Irish) lives at 2004
Wayne Avenue, Haddon Heights, N. J.
Amy Levan is Principal of the Third Ward School
Her address is 260 Race Street.
in Sunbury.

1907
Bertha Irene Sterner (Mrs. Foster Lee Richards)
624 Second Avenue, Williamspoii;, Pa. Mr. Richards is Manager of the Bell Telephone Company at WilThey have one son, Foster L. Richards, Jr.,
liamsport.
who is now in the seventh grade. For some unknown
reason Mrs. Richard’s name was omitted from the list of
those attending the reunion of the Class of 1907 last
lives at

June.

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Plolen Warden (Mi's. A. B. Eister) has moved to 354
Pennsylvania Avenue, Plymouth, Indiana.
Blanche Westbrook (Mrs. Newton C. Fetter) lives
at 335 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Sadie Moyer MacCulloch lives at 178 North Main
Street, Lodi, New Jersey. She has two children.
Mary Milnes (Mrs. George W. Roberts) lives at 1054
Austin Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. She has a daughter
in Junior High School, another in Senior High School,
and a son in college. She is an active member of twm
Parent-Teacher Associations.
Laura Rittenhouse (Mrs. W. H. Yohey) lives at
1802 West Front Street, Berwick, Pa.
Reba Quick (Lerch) lives at 147 25th Street, Jack-

son Heights, N. Y.

1908

Laura E. Boone is teaching in Hazleton. Her adis 587 James Street.
1909
Walter Welliver and Miss Elizabeth Ruth Rawlings,
both of Bloomsburg, were married Thursday, November
10, in St. Matthew Lutheran Church, of Bloomsburg, by
dress

The bride is a
the pastor, the Rev. Norman S. Wolf.
graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and has been
employed as bookkeeper for the Columbia Silk Throw^ing Company, of Bloomsburg. Mr. Welliver is employed
by the State Department of Health, and is stationed in
Bloomsburg.
Dr. Robert F. Wilner, who is at present on furlough
after having spent ten years in China with the Protestant
Episcopal Mission, is located temporarily at 33 Slocum
Avenue, Tunkhannock, Pa.
Irma L. Heller (Mrs. C. F. Abbott) lives in Espy, Pa.
Sarah E. Hartzell (Mrs. David D. Ogilvie) lives at
1119 Idaho Street, Elko, Nevada.

1910
Bertha V. Polley (Mrs.
Center, N. Y.

J. L.

Oakes)

lives at

Union

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Hilda Altmiller

North Church

(Mrs.

QUARTERLY
J.

Taylor)

R.

lives

at

600

Street, Hazleton, Pa.

1911

Frank Dennis

Manual Arts in the
Wilkes-Barre Schools. His address is 576 North Warren Avenue, Kingston, Pa.
Ruth Harris is teaching in Berv^dck, Pa. Her address is 1324 Market Street.
Pauline Sharpless Harper has moved to Bloomsburg,
following the death of her husband, which occurred last
spring. She is now teaching in the Bloomsburg schools.
Irene Snyder (Mrs. Dayton L. Ranck) lives at 60
North Front Street, Lewisburg, Pa.
J.

is

Director of

1912
Lera Farley (Mrs. M. G. Yard)

lives at Riegelsville,

Floyd Tubbs

Street, Shickshinny,

Pa.
lives at 5

Church

Pa.
Lucille

Wakeman

(Mrs. Kasson Rair) lives

in

Moun-

tain Top, Pa.

Oscar Whitesell

lives at R. D.

1.,

Hunlocks Creek,

Pa.

Edith Martin, (Mrs. Mathew G. Meiner) lives in
Denver, Colorado. Her address is 1000 Logan Street.
Ethel McGirk (Mrs. Samuel E. Eby) lives in Ridley
Park, Pa.
Ethel A. Simon is teaching in Sterling, Pa.
Abbie Whitebread Leh lives in Palmerton, Pa.
Helen Fetter (Mrs. Allen Ream) lives at 617 Prescott Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Norma Collins (Mrs. Henry Carpenter) lives at 1107
Woodlawn Street, Scranton, Pa.
Mary Watts lives at 901 South Franklin Street,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Florence Lowry (Mrs. George E. Pizer) lives in
,'ermyn. Pa.

Eva Weaver (Mrs. Burrell
Mountain Top, Pa.

J.

Shortwood)

lives in

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ange, N.

L. Barrett lives at

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r

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L Y

27

54 Eppert Street, East Or-

J.

Ercell Bidleman is Adjutant of the Valley of
liloomsburg Post of the American Legion. He and Mrs.
Bidleman (Bertha Harner) live at 321 East First Street,
Bloomsburg.
Iris Ikeler (Mrs. Herbert McCord) is teaching in
the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.
Her address in
C^'.icago is 4704 North Spaulding Avenue.

1913
Miss Maizie V. Phillips, of Bloomsburg, and Guy O.
Barnett, of Montgomery, Alabama, were married at the
home of the bride’s uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. M. A.
Phillips, of

Bloomsburg, Tuesday, January

was a missionary, serving

10.

The bride

China and
the Philippines.
Mr. Barnett is chief carpenter’s mate
c.n the U. S. S. Holland, which is now on the Pacific coast.
It was while he was on foreign duty that he met his bride
at Manila.
Mr. and Mrs. Barnett will make their home
a.t 3686 Georgia Street, San Diego, California.
L. Ray Appleman, Principal of the Benton schools,
was recently elected president of the Columbia County
Branch of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
Edith Rebecca Keeler was married Thursday, September 22, to Clarence J. Sallman. The wedding took
place in Richmond, Virginia.
Nellie M. Denison has been promoted from Second
to First Liuetenant Chief Nurse, Army Nurse Corps. She
is stationed at the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington,
for several years

in

D. C.
Lillian G. Fischer (Mrs. Charles K. Moore) lives at
117 Fort Street, Forty Fort, Pa. Her sister, Viola Fischer was graduated from Bloomsburg in 1918, her brother, Edison Fischer is a member of the class of 1921, and
her brother Wilbur is now a student at Bloomsburg.
Ruth Altmiller (Mrs. W. H. Jones) lives at 128
North Laurel Street, Hazleton, Pa.
Her adEthel Altmiller is teaching in Hazleton.

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131 South Cedar Street.
Maud B. Engel is teaching in the schools of Hanover
Township, Luzerne County, Pa. Her address is 34 West
Germania Street, Ashley, Pa.
Mary E. Heacock is a teacher in the primary grades
in the schools of Memphis, Tennessee.
Her address is
dress

is

2399 Parkway Place.
Catherine Malloy is teaching in Philadelphia.
Merle D. Goodnough (Stcokey) lives at Honesdale,
R. D. 3.

Nellie Gleason

O.

1,

(Mrs. Martin

J.

White)

lives at R.

Olyphant, Pa.

1914

Eva

B.

Mahanoy

Reid

is

City, Pa.

a teacher in the elementary grades in

Her address

is

329 West Mahanoy

Avenue.

Morgan (Mrs. Warren E. Swank)
Her address is 33 Wyoming Street.

Elsie P.

Hazleton.

lives in

1915
Lillian Zimmerman lives at 1104 ]vi Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Laura E. Carey (Mrs. E. M. Ellsworth) lives at 80
North Dorrance Street, Kingston, Pa.
Joseph Cherrie is Instructor in Social Studies in the
Newport Township High School. His address is 69 Robert Street, Alden Station, Pa.
Miss Rebecca S. Hower died December 27, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she had gene two months
ago for her health. Her mother was with her at the time
Miss Hower
of her death, which came very suddenly.
had been in ill health for the past two years. She had
taught for several years in the schools at Johnstown, Pa.
The body was brought to Bloomsburg for burial.

Edith M. Saricks is teaching in Freeland, Pa.
address is 801 Birkbeck Street.

Frances Smith (Mrs. Van Lewis)
Factoryville, Pa.

Her

lives at R. D. 2,

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1916

Emma

Harrison Myers

is Writing Supervisor in the
She won first prize in a Penmanship contest held during the Convention of the Nat-

schools of Bridgeton, N.
ional Association of

J.

Penmanship Supervisors at the BelleHer address in Bridge-

vue-Stratford, in Philadelphia.
ton is 65 Broad Street.
in

Margaret B. Ferris is teaching
Dickson City, Pa. Her address
C. F. Schoffstall

is

Head

in
is

of the

the primary grades

643 Main Street.
Commercial Depart-

ment in Shamokin High School. He was for several
years Head of the Commercial Department in the Slathigton High School and later became Principal of the
.came school.

Dorothy M. Fritz is teaching in Philadelphia. Her
is 1718 Westmoreland Street.
Alice Neely is teaching in the second grade in

address

Wilkes-Earre. Her home address is Lehman, Pa.
Harriet McAndrew (Mrs. George W. Murphy) lives
at Hawley, Pa.
F. Jennie Myers (Mrs. William E. Evans) lives in
Vandling, Pa.

1917

Mabel

L.

Dymond

(Mrs. Horton C. Bell)

lives at

R. D. 2, Falls, Pa.

Mildred

Reice

is

teaching

penmanship

in

the

schools of Wilmington, Delaware.

Nora Berlew Dymond lives at R. D. 3, Dallas, Pa.
Annie E. Isaacs (Mrs. Floyd W. Gay) lives in Wyoming, Pa.

Anna Pursel is teaching in Lewistown, Pa.
Georgia F. Arnold is teaching in the public schools
of Kingston. Her address is 147 Ely Street.
Mabel A. Varker (Mrs. John H. Stark) lives at 170
Robert Street, Alden Station, Pa.
Mabel L. Dymond (Mrs. Horton C. Bell) lives at
R. D. 2, Falls, Pa.
M. Elsie Dunlap

Weaver

lives at

Mountain Top, Pa.

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Anna M. Richards Carter

lives at

448 Grove Street,

Peckville, Pa.

Louise Jones ( Mrs. William
horne, Pa.

Blanche Caswell

lives at

Thomas)

lives at

Lang-

Plymouth, Pa.

Mabel Maust (Mrs. W. G. Duclc)

lives in

Blooms-

burg, Pa.

1918
Minnie E. Richardson

is

teaching

in

Mahanoy

City,

Pa.
Ella C. Butler is teaching in Dunmore, Pa.
Her
address is 612 Prescott Avenue.
Lola Inez Gotshall lives at Morrisdale, Pa.
Florence Altmiller (Mrs. Conrad Walter) lives at
120 North Pine Street, Hazleton, Pa.

Miss Ruth Hutton,

Wanamaker

store of

who was formerly

New York

City,

artist for

the

has sailed on the

French liner Paris for Havre, from which place she will
go to Paris to remain for some time.
She expects to do fashion reporting and sketching
the
Fairchild publications, 21 Rue Aubert, and also
for
the same kind of work for a current magazine, “Modes
and Manners.”
Scon after her arrival she will be attending the
spring showing of new models by the various well known
Parisian couturieres, the openings beginning at the end
of this month.
Miss Hutton expects to be abroad indefinitely, and
probably will not return until fall. From her studio in
New York she has been doing work for Vogue, Good
Housekeeping, Butterick’s Delineator and other publications.

1919

Gladys Fetterolf (Mrs. John S. Crossman)
1701 West Norwegian Street, Pottsville, Pa.

lives at

Grace Kishbach Miller lives in Linfield, Pa.
Rhoda Crouse is teaching in Berwick.

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Breisch is teaching sixth and seventh grades
in the schools of Bound Brook, N. J.
Marie Guckavan (Mrs. William Turnbach) lives on
East Beech Street, Hazleton, Pa.

Laura

I.

1920

Martha Colley is employed
York advertising firm.

as an artist with a

New

1921
Clara E. Fisher
schools of

Mahanoy

is

Supervisor of Penmanship in the

City, Pa.

Helen Boyer (Mrs. Harry Hostetter)
istown.

Pa

lives in

Lew-

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1922

Fred R. Ringrose is Supervisor of Music in the Indiana High School, Indiana, Pa.
Louise Faust Williamson, of Shamokin has announced her engagement to James R. Middagh, of Harrisburg.
Mrs. Williamson has been teaching in Shamokin.
Margaret Murray (Mrs. Harry Luke) lives in Mahanoy City, Pa. Her address is 527 East Pine Street.
1923
Miss

Mary Mensch

enger, of Pemberton, N.

and Albert Clevwere married in Philadelphia
Miss Mensch had been teaching

of Catawissa,
J.,

Saturday, November 19.
in New Jersey for several years.
They will make their
home in Pemberton, N. J.
Announcement has been made of the engagement
of Miss Helen Specht, of Milton, and Wendel Swartz,
of Lewisburg.
Miss Emmeline Fritz, of Berwick, and John H. Clemson, of New York City, were married at eleven o’clock
on Armistice Day, November 11, 1927. The ceremony
took place in “The Little Church Around the Corner.”
The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High School, and
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Fort Lee, New Jersey. Mr. Clemson is a special Pullman conductor in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with service on transcontinental trips.
Mr. and Mrs. Clemson are now living in Grantwood, New
J ersey.

Marie Handsall
mont, Pa.

is

teacher of

first

grade at Beau-

1924
Lucille Groff

teacher of third grade in Shickshinny. Pa. Her address is 26 Reese Street, Wilkes-Barre, ,Pa.
is

1925
Gladys Stecker

is

teaching

in

the schools of Carney's

Point, N. J.

Miss Katherine Rinker, of Bloomsburg, and Donald
Vervoort, of Philadelphia, were married Saturday evening December 31, in the First Baptist Church of Bloomsburg, by the Rev. Edwin J. Radcliffe. Miss Rinker has
been teaching in the schools of Camden, New Jersey, and
Mr. Vervoort is a salesis teaching this year at Darby.
man for an electrical concern in Philadelphia, where he
and Mrs. Vervoort will reside.

Two months

after his marriage to Miss Lillian

Wag-

John W. Chamberlain died in the
Bloomsburg Hospital January 13, following an operation
for appendicitis. Mr. Chamberlain was a bond salesman,
representing Blair and Company, New York investment
bankers, and had made his heme for the past two and a
He is
half years at the Magee Hotel, in Bloomsburg.
survived by his wife, two sisters, and a brother.
ner, of Bloomsburg,

1926
Louise
i\r.
Scranton, Pa.
iMarjorie

I.

Wayne County,

Moore

lives

at

1029. Monroe Avenue.

Davey is teaching in a rural school
Her address is Honesdale, Pa.

in

Pa.

Irene Besteder

is

teaching

fir.st

grade

in

Shaver-

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Miss Irlene Titel, and Albert Dewey, both of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday evening, December
31, at the home of the bride’s parents, by the Reverend

Edwin

J.

Radcliffe, pastor of the First Baptist

Church

The bride and groom have both been
employed by the Magee Carpet Company, of Bloomsburg.
They will make their home with Mr. Dewey’s
of Bloomsburg.

mother.

.1927

Evelyn Harris, who had been elected to a position
the Junior High School at York, Pa., was obliged to
give up her work because of ill health. She has been
confined to her bed at her home in Berwick, but her condition is now considerably improved.
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Vol. 29

No,

Entered as Second*cIass Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomshurg, Pa.,
under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published March, June, September and December.

H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
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ADDRESS DELIVERED BY DR. HAAS AT THE
ALUMNI BANQUET
my deep appreciation of the corwhich has been given me during my first
year here from great numbers of individuals and groups
having relations with the College, from our Trustees, our
Faculty and our employees, our students and from hundreds of citizens of Bloomsburg and nearby communities.
I

want

to express

dial cooperation

should like to discuss briefly the significance of the
in relation to the progress of an educational institution, A distinction must be made betv/een
an educational institution and a school building. “Fine
feathers may make fine birds,” but fine buildings and
equipment and apparatus do not necessarily make an educational institution. An educational institution is fundamentally an organization which gets its strength from
the spiritual side of the personnel which functions for the
purpose for which it is conceived. Outstanding among the
groups affecting these aspects of the institution are the
Trustees, the Faculty and the employees, the undergraduI

Alumni Association

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ate student body,

and the students who have

left the
out into the world. The undergraduate body represents the spiritual hope of the in-

Alma Mater and have gone
stitution.

The graduate body

is

the living demonstration

of the success of the past aspirations of the institution. In

other words, the present graduate body represents the
educational contacts of former faculty and student bodies. An effective educational institution naturally develops a growing and a loyal alumni body. The graduates
pan by precept, example, and interest, lead the undergraduate to know the meaning of loyalty to their Alma
Mater. The undergraduate age is most strongly influ-

enced by ideals, and no group can so assist in setting up
high ideals as that which goes to make up the great body
of your Association' Among others this is the reason why
the groups representing the spiritual values of the institution should come together at regular intervals that mutual understandings may be developed, and that the problems of the institution may be widely understood.
In this respect I should like to take occasion to point
out briefly the value that class and alumni memorials possess for the undergraduate body. In the memorial no
matter w'hat type it is there is a constant reminder to
those living in and about the institution that the ideals of
the Alma Mater still live in the hearts of those who have
gone out from her doors. On my first inspection of the
College I was struck by the absence of several trophies

and the lack of care of a large number of class and alummemorials. This is a situation which I assure you we
will take steps to remedy. I should like to call special attention to a fine piece of work done this year by Professor Bakeless, who has been instrumental in starting a fund
for the decoration of the institution. The faculty has set
a splendid example by contributing $250 and the present
junior class has set an example to the undergraduates by
pledging themselves to frame any pictures purchased durni

ing the next year.

The second

point

I

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be called mobilizing the graduate for effective service for
the Alma Mater. As nearly as I can sense the temper of
the graduates here today the traditions and service of

have a real meaning in the hearts of the
Including the senior class there are over one
thousand present today. I hope next year that Homecoming Day Avill raise this number to two thousand. I assure you that we can welcome you home no matter what
the number be. It seems to me that the memories and services of this institution are such as would justify an organization in each county and each school district that is
large enough to have a superintendent or a supervising
principal. It might be that combination would be advisable in some of the counties. I believe we should have a
State organization of graduates who are living and serving society outside of Pennsylvania. Other institutions
with no greater or more loyal alumni than Bloomsburg
are doing this. I should like to see every class maintain
a committee on memorials which would function to see
that the memorials of the class are kept and preserved
as they should be. In regard to the matter of class memorials I believe it would be advisable if some method
would be found by which the hands of the Principal
v/ould not be tied too closely in the matter of the type of
the memorial. It would be best I believe for the class to
authorize the Principal and the memorial committee
lointly to decide upon the type of memorial which they
deem advisable and the use to which any balance of funds
may be put. This would permit the development of some
projects on a large scale and would also tend to prevent
half a dozen small balances of a few dollars each, which
thus become unavailable for use.
this institution

graduates.

may I say a few words regarding the futhat you all rejoice in the fact that the institution has been given the right to grant degrees. Were
it otherwise and your Alma Mater remained as a twoyear Normal School it would mean that we were not making progress in educational development. Gradually durIn conclusion

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ing the past generation or two there have been developing

and standards and policies for
the teaching profession. The profession is very rapidly
coming to a point where the teacher must possess the
preparation and experience comparable to that of the
other great professions. Our College is taking its place

some very

clear cut ideals

hcnorably with the other educational institutions of the
Staff and of the Nation.
.sec*

From every

point of view as

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the situation, Trustees, 'Faculty and Employees, un-

dergraduate body. Alumni, geographical location, and
pos.sibilities of

tution

’s

professional service to the State, this

second to none and there

the proper opportunity that
full

measure of

its

it

is

no reason

why

insti-

given

should not develop to the

capacities. This

means that a compre-

hensive plan for development looking forward for a period of fifty years

is

needed. This means

in

the immediate

future the purchase of adjacent desirable land while

it

means centralization of our heating and
power problems, it means proper laundry facilities, it
means a training school. And in addition to these it
means of course a plan for gradually putting the whole
in.stitution into good physical shape and preparation for
is

available.

It

the adequate care of the health of our students, not for-

getting the needs of our athletic situation. In

all

of these

projects the presence and help of the graduate means

much. In some of them I believe that we have the desire
and ability to make some small actual contribution. I
would like to think in the future of visioning some real
living memorial on the part of the Alumni Association as
a whole. It might be that the officers of the organization
will have some plan available at our meeting in 1929.
I appreciate the opportunity to be with you and I
would like to have you know Mrs. Haas. Our reception
has been most cordial and we thank you.

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Almost 1,000 members of the Alumni of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College renewed their pledge of allegiance to their Alma Mater at the general session dur-

Alumni Day program ever held

ing the greatest

at the

institution.

Featured by the largest attendance in history, the
day was thoroughly enjoyed by all of the returning graduates. During the meeting each class promised to redouble its efforts to help the college continue along
gressive course-

its

ag-

Fred W. Diehl, superintendent of the Montour coun-

was re-elected president for the third year. A
strong plea was made for all members to subscribe to the
Alumni quarterly and to supply material so that the quarterly, revived by the association two years ago, would be
of greater interest. Reports of Alumni activities were
heard.
ty schools,

Other officers of the association elected were Vice
president. Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.; secretary, R. Bruce Albert; treasurer. Prof. F. H. Jenkins; executive committee
:

—Prof. O. H. Bakeless, Mrs. Charles Funston, Mrs.
Sterner, Miss Harriet E- Carpenter, D. D.
E. Houck. All were unanimously elected.

L. P.

Wright and M.

When the general session opened the main floor of
the auditorium was filled with graduates and many were
seated in the balcony. President Diehl presided and Dr.
Waller gave the invocation. The minutes of Secretary
Albert were approved.

The report
Prof. Bakeless,

of Treasurer, F. H. Jenkins, submitted

showed a balance

The report
which money

is

by

of $187.14.

of the scholarship fund, a fund

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it now totaled $2,670.63.
Of this $1,056 is
now being used by 11 students. Prof. Bakeless submitted

showed that

and the report of the art committee which is
composed of the Senior class, the college faculty and an
Alumni committee composed of Mrs. C. C. Housenick,
Mrs. Charles Funston and G. Edward Elwell-

this report

He

told of the drive

now under way

for the raising

of $3,300 to furnish the halls of the buildings, including
three lobbies in the girls’ dormitory. He told of the money

by the faculty to purchase works of art to be placed
the corridors.

raised
in

Prof. Sutliff called to the attention of the Alumni
that the school now offers two courses in which the degree of bachelor of science in education can be obtained.
One is in the junior-senior high school field and the other
in

the elementary

five

field.

Mr. Diehl spoke of the Alumni quarterly which had
hundred subscriptions run out after there had been

1,106 at the beginning of the year. He urged that all suband not allow their subscription

scribe for the quarterly
to

run out.

He introduced Howard F. Fenstermaker, editor of
the quarterly, who made an appeal for members to send
in items concerning themselves and their friends.
E. H. Nelson also urged the taking of the quarterly
and made a plea for the Alumni to turn out for the baseball game and aid in defeating Wyoming Seminary.

The association rescinded their action of two years
ago which limited each member of two years in office and
then unanimously adopted the report of the nominating
committee which was presented by Prof. Sutliff.
President Diehl urged that all graduates of the College
Alumni Association and make it a powerful and
helpful interest in the life and development of the institution. The roll call of the classes then started.

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Dr. D- J. Waller, Jr., and George E. Elwell, members
of the class of 1867, were in attendance and gave their
class a 100 per cent attendance record. The two men
were greeted with a burst of applause when they stood
up.

Mrs. J. W. Masteller, a member of the class of 1878
which had 18 members, responded for her class. Both
members of the class of 1883 who were presented spoke.
They were Ira C. Dietrick and Mrs. Ashley.

Frank Myers, of Wilkes-Barre, spoke for 1888
and was the first of a number of speakers to lay claim to
having the best looking and most intelligent class.
B.

Mr. Bray responded for the class of 1893 and P. Lof Wilkes-Barre, sang a song which he had composed during his school days. He congratulated Dr. Haas

Drum,

and the faculty for the splendid

spirit at

the institution.

O. B. Miller, responding for the class of 1898, which
of its 160 members present, declared his class was
the last that ever took a ride on the old canal.

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More important than the Alumni quarterly and other
matters that had been before the association was the matter of beating Wyoming during the afternoon, H. Walter
Riland, of the class of 1903, declared in responding for
his class which had 22 members attending. He pledged
th'e support of his class to any project launched by the
association.

Thomas

Francis, of Scranton, responded for the
1908 and reported that but two of the class of 103
had passed away. There were 39 at the reunion.
Greetings were read from May E. Byington, of Binghamton, a member of the class of 1913, and Harry Evans
responded for that class w’hich had 25 in attendance.
class of

Charles Wolfe, responding for the class of 1918, said
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class was just as loyal and ready to aid the college as
they had ever been. Stephen Lerda, of Glyn Lyon, reported about 100 of his class of 280 back for their fifth year
reunion and Miss Ruth Morris, speaking for the class of
1926, pledged its support. There were 50 of that class

attending.

SENIOR BANQUET
Amid the surroundings that for the past several
years had been home to them the members of the graduating class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College
Tuesday evening. May 22, opened their commencement
program with a banquet in the College dining hall.
Class colors of purple and white were used to decor-

were purple and

ate the hall while the table decorations

white sweet peas.

The North Hall Orchestra furnished a fine program
of music during the evening with the singing in charge of
E. A.

Reams, a member. of the faculty, and Miss Ella SutThe singing opened with Alma Mater and

ton, pianist.

closed with the class song.

members

It

was a gala night

for the

of the class.

Nicholas Polaneczsky, of Freeland,
presided and those responding to
Francis B. Haas, principal; Mrs. Haas,
less, class advisor; Mrs. Shortess, Prof,
class,

president of the
toasts were Dr.
Prof. S. I. Shorand Mrs. E. A.
Mrs. Koch, and

Reams, Prof. J. C. Koch, dean of men
Dr. Walter Kehr, dean of women. Miss Mildred Bohn delighted with a reading. Dancing in the gymnasium followed the banquet.
;

In a short talk Dr. Haas congratulated the class and
uiged them to remember that Bloomsburg was always
their home and that they would always be welcome
guests at their Alma Mater.

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Amid

beautiful decorations of purple and white, the
most largely attended Senior dance ever

class colors, the

held at the Bloomsburg Teachers’ College was enjoyed
bp 500 pesrons in the College gymnasium Friday evening.

May

25.

From a rim suspended from the center of the gymnasium streamers and festoons led to the sides of the balcony. The effect was a beautiful one and added much to
the evening’s program. Wainwright’s Blue Band of Bucknell furnished a fine program of music. A carnival dance,
during which much confetti was used, was a feature.
Punch was served during the evening.

The patrons and patronesses of the dance were Dr.
and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Prof, and Mrs. S. L. Shortess,
Prof, and Mrs. J. C. Koch and Dr. Kehr.
The Senior
land, president;

officers are

:

Nicholas Polaneczky, Free-

Ray Hawkins, Newport township,

vice

Miss Marjorie Orr, Shickshinny, secretary;
Leslie Zimmerman, Trevorton, treasurer, and S. I. Shorpresident;

tess, class advisor.

The dance committee was composed of Hugh Van
Aernam, Francis McHugh, Claude Miller, Miss Marion
Kemper, Miss Lois Watkins and Miss Mildred Bohn.

BACCALAUREATE SERMON
Character is a thing which is sorely needed in the
world today and if America fails it will be at the point of
character. Rev. Harry F. Babcock, pastor of the First
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the graduating class in delivering the baccalaureate sermon in the college auditorium.
It IS the man who has put mankind ahead of self who
has been behind the great progress of civilization, he declared and added, “I trust you will always remember that
you are teaching boys and girls rather than subjects and
text books.”

The impressive service was enjoyed by an audience
that well filled the auditorium. The class, attired in caps
and gowns, entered during the processional, “Ancient of
Days.” Rev. Babcock, Dr. Francis B. Haas, the principal,
and A. Z. Schoch and J. L. Townsend, members of the
board of trustees, were seated on the platform during the
services, as were the members of the double quartet.
Rev. Babcock gave the invocation and Dr. Haas read
from the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians. The audience sang “God of Our Fathers.” Rev. Babcock then delivered an exceptionally fine sermon.

“No Shadows Yonder” was sung by the double mixed
quartet of the Teachers’ College.

The audience remained standing while the
marched from the auditorium.

class

Miss Dorothy Foote, of Bloomsburg, daughter of the
has been elected president of the
Letter Club of Women of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
late Prof. J. C. Foote,

College.

This organization is a new one and will be composed
women students who have won their letters in athletics. The club will become active next year and will
have charge of the entire athletic program for women.

of all

The Letter Club, with objectives similar to those of
the men’s letter club, will take the place of the Athletic
Leaders which has become inactive after taking a leading
part in college athletics for the past several years.

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The

lighter things of College

life, those things which
have made an indelible imprint upon the memories of the
graduates and which have had their value, were reviewed
Monday evening. May 28, when 289 graduates of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College made merry during
their class night program.

In spite of the heavy shower which broke just before
the program opened there was a good sized audience of
relatives and friends who enjoyed with the graduates a

program which was unique

in its presentation

and which

provided an evening’s entertainment that did not have a
dull

moment.

Leading social activities and College life were dramatized as two of the graduates discussed between them
the high lights of the two or more years the class has
spent on the hill. Individuals, students and faculty were
scored alike in the rapid fire comment of the night but all
was received in the spirit of fun in which it was given.

Near the

close of the

program Nicholas Polaneczky,

of Freeland, president of the class, presented as a class

memorial $250 which is to be used for the College as Dr.
Francis B. Haas, the principal, sees fit.

Haas provoked

a round of applause and laughter when in accepting the gift he pledged to use it to alleviate “some of the horrible things revealed here tonight.”

Dr.

and gowns marched
open the program and
remained standing while they sang the class song.

The

class attired in black caps

into the auditorium in a

body

to

Miss Dorothy Richards and Francis Garrity then met
the
platform and by the aid of Miss Richards’ diary reon
viewed the years they had spent at the College, several
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laughter.

The first of the dramatizations was registration day
which the usual hustle and bustle was shown and in
which the “green” Freshmen were scored. From there
in

the scene shifted to Junior customs and then to a scene
in

sip

the girls dormitory in which

was dished out

in real

much

dormitory

of the College gos-

stple.

Messrs. Miller, Janell, Baer and Fortner, with Ray-

mond

Heiss at the piano, delighted with a selection and

then came the dramatization of rehearsal for the Junior

“The Goose Hangs High.”

play,

A

“bnll” session at North Hall

which “Hook” Merrick played

was the next scene

his usual

in

prominent part.

Several songs were sung, one in which the group supplied
the words

making a big

hit

with the audience.

George Janell sang a beautiful

solo

and students

staged a take-off of the College picnic in the grove. Ray-

mond

Heiss’ piano solo

was

so

much enjoyed

forced to respond with an encore.

that he

was

Two numbers by

the

quartet were also enjoyed.

girls’

“The

First

Day

of Teaching” brought a real laugh

with several of the Seniors taking the part of the children.

One

was the scene “The Trip
ro Danville” in which a number of the Seniors were
brought out upon the stage and described as interesting
of the night’s features

types.

who were day students staged the scene
Locker Room” which opened with a dance and
song. “Thirty Years Later” was the closing scene and
was the class propheiy. The Alma Mater closed the program.
Senior girls

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The

fifty-ninth

annual

Commencement

exercises

were held in the Auditorium Wednesday morning, May
29, at which time a class of two hundred eighty-nine received their diplomas. Eleven received the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Education. Those receiving the degrees were
Miss Harriet F. Carpenter, Bloomsburg
Miss Margaret E. Emmitt, Danville; Doyle W. Ivey,
Bloomsburg; George M. Janell, Bloomsburg; Miss Esther
Lloyd, Starucca; Francis A. McHugh, Hazleton; Miss
Cleora M. McKinstry, Bloomsburg; Nicholas Polaneczky,
Freeland Miss Helen P. Stackhouse, Bloomsburg Nicholas VanBuskirk, Wilkes-Barre, and Thomas Weelsko,
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;

P’reeland.

The

exercises this year

were marked by the inaugur-

men

ation of the custom of presenting gold keys to the

of

the graduating class who had been on varsity athletic
teams. On each key is a “B” in the college colors. Those
receiving the keys were
Leroy Baer, Berwick Ralph
Davies, Nanticoke; George Evancho, Eckley; Jack Fortner, Bloomsburg; Bernard Gallagher, Parsons; Francis
Garrity, Wilkes-Parre
Doyle Ivey, Bloomsburg; Hugh
Van Aernam, Harrisburg, and Nicholas Van Buskirk,
Wilkes-Barre. Dr. Haas, in presenting these awards along
with the athletic certificates, expressed the hope that the
awarding of keys would become one of the traditions of
the college.
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The auditorium was filled with friends and relatives
when Alexander’s Orchestra played the processional at 10 o’clock. The class attired in black caps
and gowms and headed by its officers entered from the
East door and took their places at the front of the auditorium. They were followed by the speaker, members of
the board of trustees and faculty who were seated on the
platform during the Commencement.
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commencement address was delivered by Dr. Edwin
W. Adams, Principal of the Philadelphia Normal School.

the

The double mixed quartet of the College sang “PilThe members were Miss Margaret McComb, Miss Evelyn Bomboy, Miss Gladys Hirsch, Miss

grims’ Chorus”.

Jessie Patterson,

bur Fischer and

George Janell, Llewellyn Richards, WilS.

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Shortess.

Di Haas read the names of the class who were
awarded degrees or certificates as he received the lists
from Prof. W. B. Sutliff, dean of instruction. As each
name was read the graduate whose name was called rose.
.

The singing of “Alma Mater” by the assembly and
the recessional closed another commencement.

A

drive has been opened for the raising of $3300 to
the decorating and refurnishing of the corridors of
Waller, Noetling, North, and Carver Halls, and the lobbies on second, third, and fourth floors of Waller Hall.
finish

The faculty and resident students have subscribed
$500, and members of the classes of 1921 to 1928 are being asked to subscribe $2600, which is to be paid by November first. A committee from each of the above classes
is soliciting the members. Owing to the fact that all the
members of the classes which were graduated previous
to 1921 had a part in the placing of the memorial windows and bronze tablets, they will not be solicited. We
have no doubt, however, that many who were back to
Bloomsburg on Alumni Day see the need that exists, and
will want to contribute something to a worthy cause. Subscriptions or money sent to Prof. Bakeless will be received
with thanks and applied to the fund which will finance
the work described above.

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LEAVE ABSENCE TO NUMBER OF TEACHERS

A number

of the m.embers of the faculty of the

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College are being granted
leaves of absence during the coming term so that they
can take additional work in their subjects.

As the summer school is smaller than during the regular term and the faculty is therefore less in number
there will be no appointments to fill the positions of those
who will study during the summer. Appointments of
teachers to take the place of those who will be absent during the fall term have not yet been announced.
Miss Harriet M. Moore, for a number of years teachand one of the most efficient and
popular members of the faculty, will enter New York
University in September for a year’s study in the Department of Education.
er of public school music

Prof. S. Irvin Shortess, teacher of science for the past
five years, will study at the University of Pennsylvania

during the

summer

to

complete his work for a master’s

degree.

Miss Irma Ward, dietitian and teacher of nutrition,
hopes to continue her work through the summer school
and plans to visit England or France during the five weeks
between the close of the Summer session and the opening
of the Fall term.

mer
sity,

Miss Pearl L. Mason, librarian, will study this sumin the School of Library Service, Columbia Univerthe work leading toward the degree of master of

science.

Miss Helen F. Carpenter, training teacher in the
fourth grade, will spend the summer working for a master’s degree at Teachers’ College, Columbia University.
Miss Mathilda G. Kulp, teacher of English, will take

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graduate courses at the University of California in contemporary American Literature, Milton and Shakespeare,
during the summer and between and after the summer
session she will tour the West.
Prof. D. H. Robbins, director of rural education, expects to take work with Dr. Suhrie and Miss Rochefort at
New York University during the summer. His major interests are matters pertaining to introduction to teaching
and student teaching.

the

Miss Marguerite Kehr, Dean of Women, will spend
in Europe.
Prof. D. A. Hartline, for years teacher of biological

summer

College, states that arrangements are
completed
about
to locate for the Summer as a member
of the Rocky Mountain Biological Station at Crested
Butte, Colo., a unit of the Western State College, Gunni-

sciences at the

son, Colo.

The objectives planned for are field studies in this
kind of country which Mr. Hartline says is new material
for him. This will contribute to some writing on nature
studies which he had been invited to make. He will also
have ample time to improve material for his work at the
college. Considerations have come into the situation that
may make it desirable to change these plans, Mr. Hartline states.

Miss Bertha Rich, supervisor in teaching in grades
four to six, will teach during a six weeks’ summer session
at the University of Tennessee. Her subjects will be geography and the teaching of geography. The semester of
the coming school year she hopes to go to Columbia Universitp to continue v/ork in teacher training and geography.
Miss Helen A. Russell, librarian, will spend the
school year of 1928-29 in studying for her master’s degree
at Teachers’ College, Columbia University.
Miss Anna C. Garrison, of town, teacher of the fifth
grade in the training school, will study during the first
semester of the coming school year at Teachers’ College,

Columbia University.

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Under a warm sun and cloudless skies children of
the training school of the Blocmsburg State Teachers’
College and student teachers made merry Friday afternoon, May 25, in presenting their May Day program
which v/as under the direction of Miss Lucy McCammon,
a member of the physical training department, and which

was enjoyed by hundreds, many

of

whom were

parents of

the children.

Miss Suzanne Hiestand, daughter of Rev. and
of the May while
Duy Hutchison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hutchison, of
town, was Prince Charming.
Little

Mrs.

J.

Thomas Heistand, was Queen

The little queen was seated upon a throne of pink
which was festooned with paper of the same color and
the throne was upon a platform of white. The queen was
crowned with a wreath of honey suckle by Prince Charming following which the kindergarten attendants grouped
around the queen’s throne.
College girls presented a number of folk dances from
Senior intermediate study which were done with a grace
that reflected considerable training.
The training school sang “Come Lassies and Lads.”
May was ushered in with the welcoming of the queen,
this part of the program being under the direction of Miss
Moore. About 30 Third and Fifth street children took

part in “Seven Jumps.” The first grade gave “Today’s
the First of May.” The second grade pupils, attired in
green costumes with peaked caps took part in a “Roman
Soldier” drill w’hile the third grade presented “Hansel
and Gretchel.” The fourth grade gave “Dutch Villagers”
and the fifth and sixth grade girls took part in “Paddy

Whack.”
The program closed with the
“Winding of the May Poles.”

“Fairies Revel” and the

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OBITER DEDICATED TO PROF. BAKELESS

The thirteenth volume of The Obiter, the annual
publication of the graduating class of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers’ College, made its appearance in the halls
of the College during the last week of the semester and
immediately won favorable comment from the students
and

faculty.

,

The volume, handsomely bound in maroon leather, is
one of the finest and most complete volumes ever issued
by a Senior class and covers accurately and in detail all
of the events of the College pear which is now closing.
The Obiter
long a

member

is

dedicated to Prof. Oliver H. Bakeless,

of the College faculty,

er for the students

and the

There are 308 pages

and a

tireless

work-

institution.

in

the volume.

The book was edited by Francis Garrity, of Bloom
Park, Hanover township, and Nick VanBuskirk, of Lee
Park, Hanover township, was the advertising manager.
Other members of the

Miss Ruth OuslanClaud Miller, Pond Hill,
associate editor; Miss Marguerite M. Dermody, of Scranton Miss Harriet Kemper, Wilkes-Barre, and Miss Thelma Cobb, Kingston, assistant business managers; Miss
Alice Pennington, Millville, and Miss Sarah Mittleman,
Kingston, secretaries; Roland Lavelle, Scranton, stenographer; Sterling Strausser, Bloomsburg, art editor; Ray
Hawkins, Newport township, sports editor, and Wilbur
staff are:

der, Scranton, associate editor;

;

Fischer,

Newport township, humor

IVY

May

editor.

DAY EXERCISES

The annual Ivy Day exercises were held Monday,
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from the gymnasium to Science Hall, where the ivy was
planted by Margaret Besecker, Celia Masucci, Janet Gemmell, and Florence Stiver. Miss Eleanor Sands, of Benton, then delivered the Ivy

Day

Oration.

Ov.dng to the inclement weather, the second part of
the program, which was to have been presented in the
grove, was presented in the Auditorium. Under the direct
ticn of Miss Mathilda Kulp, of the English Department,
five scenes from The Odyssey, dramatized by the students, were given, and were much enjoyed by the audience.

One

of the most enjoyed dramatic performances of

the year

was the presentation

members

of the College

of

“As You Like

Dramatic Club, given

It”

by

the grove
given under
in

Thursday evening. May 17. The play was
the direction of Miss Alice Johnston, and was enjoyed by
an audience of five hundred persons. The part of Rosa-

was played by Miss Ruth Hildebrand, of Hazleton,
while Archbald Reese, of Scranton, played the role of
Clarence
Orlando. Other members of the cast were
lind

:

Ruch, Claude Miller, George Mathews, Arthur McKenzie, Walter Rohland, Jack Fortner, Charles John, Walter
Siesko, Richard Frymire, Alice Pennington, Maudrue
O’Connell, Mabel Penman, Dorothy Richards, Mapnard
Pennington, Muriel Taylor, Gertrude Boyle, Sophia Makarczyk, and Mary Mattavi. The College Orchestra played
during the program.

The annual one-act play touimament, given by the
members of the Dramatic Club, was presented in the
Auditorium Thursday evening, March 22. The following
plays were presented: “Wedding Presents”, by John
Rogers, Jr. “Mis’ Mercy”, by Louise Whitefield Bray, and
“Speaking to Father”, bp George Ade. The cast of
;

“Speaking

to Father”, the play receiving the

Francis Garrity,
Haven Fortner.

winning de-

was as follows: Elizabeth Colley,
Maynard Pennington, Mary Philips and

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JOHNSTON INJURED BY AUTOMOBILE

MISS

Miss Alice Johnston, teacher of oral English at the
State Teachers’ College, suffered serious injuries Friday,
May 18, when struck by the car of Clifton Swartz, of
Millville,

during a heavy dow'npour of rain.

Miss Johnston was removed to the hospital, where
she was found to be suffering with a severe injury to her
left shoulder, including a fracture at the joint, extensive
lacerations of the body and head, bruises of the body and
head and severe shock. A number of stitches were nece.ssary to close the lacerations.

During the downpour of rain Miss Johnston was
crossing the street toward the home of Prof. Shortess. A
car was parked on the north side of the street and prevented her from seeing the approaching car as well as
preventing Mr. Swartz from seeing her as he drove up
the

hill.

Neither saw the other until a second before the machine struck her, the bumper hitting’ her and knocking her
down in the street. The car was quickly stopped, but is
believed to have struck her shoulder or passed over it.
She was hastily removed to the hospital and Dr. John
summoned to dress her injuries.

The extent
fully

was not
was known there was
the extensive bruises and lacer-

of the injury to her shoulder

determined,

although

it

a fracture. In addition to
ations, she also suffered a punctured
She was not, however, unconscious.

a

wound

of the leg.

Miss Johnston, whose home is in Nebraska, has been
of the faculty here for four years.

member

While her condition
pected.

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serious, her recovery

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In speaking cf the death of Mrs. Ida Patton Smith,

who

died of pneumonia at her
the Tyrone Daily Herald says:

home

in

Tyrone

May

6,

“Mrs. Ida Patton Smith was a daughter of the late
Guston S. and Amanda Davis Patton. She was born in
Perry county October 12th, 1854, and at the age of five
years

moved with her parents

into Juniata county.

“Mrs. Smith received her early education in the pubschools of Juniata county. After her graduation she
attended the Bloomsburg State Normal and took courses
at the Chicago, Illinois and the Columbia, New York, universities. She taught school in Juniata county, Hazleton,
Pa., the state of Minnesota, coming to Tyrone in 1895,
where she taught English in the Tyrone High school
twenty years, after which she was principal of the Greenwood school, where she taught for several years. In 1920
Mrs. Smith was elected a member of the Board of Education of Tyrone borough, serving in that capacity four
lic

years.

“On July 3, 1889, at Pekin, Illinois, she became the
bride of Dr. Alexander Smith, a noted surgeon, who
passed to his reward in 1912.
“Surviving Mrs. Smith’s death are three sisters and
a brother.

“A home

lover, public school teacher, public official,

community helper, church, missionary, Christian Endeavor worker, Sunday school teacher, president of the largest W. C. T. U. in Blair county, she found full measure of
opportunity for her talents and devoted life. The memory of labors for others, as well as her cheerful, joyous
disposition and personality will long be cherished by her

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host of friends in this community.

“As a community helper, her willingness to be a
friend to the friendless, and succor to the needy, became
almost proverbial in the phase, ‘Mrs. Smith will help.’ A
church worker, her pastor is keenly aware of the loss the
local congregation has sustained. But as a public school
and as a Sunday school teacher, Mrs. Smith has wrought
most deeply and lastingly in the mind of human character and true living.
Not only in the instituitional sense
was she an effective teacher, but in the sense that she
loved and never lost her love for her pupils. She bound
them to her by her personal loyalty; she kept in touch
with them by correspondence when they left the community; she taught them by precept, but yet more by
example, the power of true Christian womanhood.”
Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Chrisman, wife of William
Chrisman, Esq., and one of P.loomsburg’s most highly esteemed women, died at her home on West First street at
2 :30 o’clock Saturday afternoon, March 24.
Mrs. Chrisman was a lifelong resident of Bloomsburg. She was the daughter of Jacob and Mary Ann
Graul, and was born here July 7, 1855. She attended the
public schools of town and the Bloomsburg State Norma!
School, graduating from the latter institution in 1875.
Her marriage to Mr. Chrisman took place October 11,
1879, with the Rev. E- E. Sibole, pastor of St. John’s Evan-

To her church and her famher life has since been largely devoted, for she had for
many years been an active member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church of town.

gelical Church, officiating.
ily

Surviving her are her husband, and two children
M'ss Helen Chrisman and Neil Chrisman, Esq., of Wilkes:

Barre.

Mrs. Carrie

Thompson Snyder

Mary’s Hospital, Roswell,

New

is

Mexico.

a patient in St.

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1878

Ida Kistler (Mrs. J. W- Masteller), of Bloomsburg,
was the only member of a class of eighteen that was present on Alumni Day. She expressed her regrets at not being able to see any of her classmates.

1879
After forty-nine years of public service as a teacher,
which \vere spent in the Bloomsburg
schools, Miss Louise Robbins, known affectionately by
thousands as “Miss Lu”, will retire upon state allowance
at the close of the present school year.
forty-six years of

Miss Robbins’ first school was in Plymouth, where
began teaching after her graduation from Normal.
She had one hundred tw^enty pupils in a room not more
than twenty-five feet square. She taught there three
years, after which she w'as elected to a position in Bloomsburg, where she has been teaching ever since. “All the
years that I have taught, I have never shed a tear over
my work, or wished that I w^ere anything else but a teach.she

er,” she states.

“I shall be sorry to leave the school.”

1882

May Reagan (Mrs. E. C. Hood) lives at 2608 Jackson Boulevard, Sioux City, low'a. Her husband died seven years ago.
Emeline Fetherolf (Mrs. Charles F. Hood)
2063 Ross St., Sioux City, Iowa.

lives at

1883

Abbie J- Leonard (Mrs. R. R. Ashley) of WilkesBarre, and Ira C. Dietrick w^ere the only members of their
class present at the Alumni meeting.

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1884
Miss Laura M, Helman
Catasauqua, Pa.

428 Walnut Street,

lives at

1885
Louis P. Bierly is in the general insurance business.
H’s address is 925 Exeter Avenue, Pittston, Pa.

1888
Cablegrams, long distance telephone

grams brought messages

to

members

calls

and

tele-

of the class of 1888

when they gathered here for the 40th anniversary of their
graduation from the Teachers’ College.
The

delightful reunion

25, at the

home

of Mrs.

was held Friday evening. May

Annie Supplee Nuss, a member

of the class.

ble

Early in the evening, greetings were received by cafrom Mrs. Adda Yetter Clapham, now of Caracas,

Venezuela, a member of the class. Later Dr. Edward J.
Dougher, of Midlands, Mich., also a member of the class,
talked with several of the members by long distance telephone.
Mrs. Carrie McNiff Dougherty, of New York City,
sent a telegram expressing her regret at not being able
to be present.

Present were
Mrs. Ella Kitchen Sands, of Benton
Mrs- Ada Ringler Evans, of Cincinnati; Dr, and Mrs. William Treible, of York; Rev. and Mrs. H. 1. Crow, Miss
Crow, of Bethlehem; Miss Annie Hine, of Conyngham;
:

Prof. William F. Magee, of Bethlehem; William Lowenberg. Dr. D. J, Waller and Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Jenkins, of

town.

.

Others attending the reunion

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Saturday were
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Meyers, of WilkesBarre; Mr. and Mrs- J. Fowler Bucke, of New Buffalo;
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cool, of Philadelphia, and Mr. and
Mrs. F. O. Mauser.
:

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Anna M. Hine

is

teaching

in

Conyngham, Pa.

Mary E. Taylor (Mrs. John T. Jones) lives at 632
North Main Avenue, Scranton, Pa. Since the death of her
husband, which occurred in 1921, she has been teaching
in the seventh grade in the Marshall School, Scranton.
F. O.

Maurer

is in

business at

Mahanoy

Plane, Pa.

1889
Adelaide
of

McKown Hawks

is

teaching

in the schools

Tunkhannock, Pa.
1890

M- Myrtle Bidleman (Mrs. A. D. Catterson)
1067 South Gilpin Street, Denver, Col.

lives at

Bertha Louise Colvin (Mrs. Alfred E. Lister)

lives at

“Orchard Terrace”, Glenburn, Pa. Her post
dress is Clark’s Summit, R. D. No. 3.

m

office

ad-

Jennie D. Kline is Head of the English Department
the Mahanoy City High School.

1891

Kate R. Ross (Mrs. George M. Wall)

Wyoming Avenue,

lives at

467

Kingston, Pa.

1892
In the death of Mrs. Grace Hutton, wife of William
Hutton, at her home on Iron street Monday, March 26,
there passed away a member of one of Bloomsburg’s pioneer families a family that for years played a leading
part in the development of Bloomsburg.

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Mrs. Hutton had been ill for the past few years, but
her condition had been critical for only a few weeks.
Mrs. Hutton, who would have been fifty-four years
of age in July, was the daughter of Clinton W- and Emma
H. Neal. She was the granddaughter of the late William
Neal. She graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal
School in 1892 and later took a course in the Packer Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She was married to William Hutton June 23, 1897, by the Rev. C. H. Brandt, pastor of the Reformed Church. Surviving are her husband
and five children: Miss Ruth Hutton, now in Paris,
France; Miss Emily Hutton, New York City; Miss Helen
Hutton, Robert Hutton and Terry Hutton, at home. Also
surviving are a brother and sister: William Neal, of
Bloomsburg, and Mrs. W. D. Carey, of Harrisburg.

1893

There were thirty -four of the 113 who graduated
1893 present at their thirty-fifth reunion Saturday.

in

it was found that twenty-six had passed
Great Beyond, that twelve are still in the teaching
profession, six of whom were so far away that they could
not get here and back to their work in time for school

By checking

to the

Monday.

They had no

program but each one gave an
graduation.
This proved so interaccount of his life since
esting that the time from 9 o’clock until 11 :30, when the
Alumni met, was not long enough so they returned to the
room in which they were meeting, after the Alumni banquet, and spent another two hours.
special

Besides the talks by those present. Dr. Haas, ProfAlbert, Prof. Jenkins an Supt. Diehl made short addresses. Prof. Cope, one of the teachers while the class was at
the school, was unable to be present, so a large bouquet

was

sent

A

him

at his

home.

committee consisting of H. Mont Smith,

S. J.

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and Miss Martha Powell was named to get in touch
with Dr. Haas and see what the class of 1903 could do to
help in a substantial way to make the college what the
present administration wishes to make it.
ston

Those present follow: Maud Atherhold (Mrs. J. B.
Anderson), Wm. R. Bray, Maud Burns (Mrs. R. R- Zarr),

Anna Bierman (Mrs. F. R. Eogdam), Edna Cole (Mrs. J.
N. Eschenbach), Irvin A. DeWitt, Philip L. Drum, T. L.
Deaver, Kinney Freas, Minnie Gibbons (Mrs. W. F. Hosle), Irene L. Girton (Mrs. S. J. Johnston), Jennie Hughes,
S. J. Johnston. Jennie Miller, John K. Miller, John W.
Miller, Lizzie Moran (Mrs. J. F. McDonnell), Minnie
Mumford (Mrs. Charles Ingham), Edgar C. Nagle, Norma Nichols (Mrs. Wm. L. Davis), Minnie G. Penman,
Martha Powell, Laura A. Romberger (Mrs. John Bower,
Jr.), Grace Shaffer (Mrs. W. E. Perham), H. Mont Smith.
Mary E. Sullivan (Mrs. Charles Gillner), Alfred D.
Thomas, Burton Williams, Elnor Williams (Mrs. Richard Roderion), Josephine Zarr (Mrs. Charles W. Hess),
PJrs. Wm. Bray and two daughters, J. N. Eschenbach, son
and daughter, Mrs. P. L. Durm, Mrs. Kinney Freas, Miss
Mary Hosie, Mrs. E- C. Nagle, Mrs. H. Mont. Smith, Mrs.
A. D. Thomas, Mrs. Burton Williams, Mrs. Wm. Roderion
and son and daughter-in-law and daughter, and Miss
Mast.

1893
Minnie Gibbons (Mrs.

Wm.

F. Hosie) lives at 1582

E. 14th St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

A. E. Wallize is Principal of the Edison Junior High
School, Harrisburg, Pa. His address is 2004 Market
Street.

Jennie H. Miller

is

teaching

in Selinsgrove, Pa-

Anna B. Bierman (Bogdon) lives at 332 Main Street,
West Orange, N. J. She states that her present occupation
is

“wife of an

artist

and mother of three boys.”

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Scranton, Pa.

B. Nichols

1419 Lafayette

St.,

Emily Fassett (Mrs.
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B. Rainsford) lives at In-

1894
Louis. L. Ansart, former First Assistant Examiner of
Patents, has announced the removal of his office to 160

Broadway, New York, where he now occupies offices with
Frank C. Cole, Esq., and the Hon. Thomas Ewing, former
Commissioner of Patents1895
Eleanor L. Quick (Mrs. H. A. Walters) is Principal
New Mexico. Her post office address is Box 772, Gallup, N. M.
of a school in Gibson,

1896
Minnie Capwell (Mrs. E. M. Stark)
Bushkill Street, Easton, Pa.

lives

at 821

1897
S. Brace, manager of the Bell Telephone Comthe Bloomsburg district for nearly 18 years, has
been transferred to Wilkes-Barre, where he will be engaged in special work in the district manager’s office.

John

pany

in

Mr. Brace camedo Bloomsburg as manager on July
At that time there were only 686 telephones in
Bloomsburg, and only 1,420 in this district, which includes as well the Berwick, Catawissa and Danville exchange.H. In Bloomsburg today there are 1,832 telephones
and 4,400 in the district, a gain of 300 per cent in town
1,

1910.

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While it has been thirty years since the class of 1898
was graduated but eleven of their members of a class of
160 have been called by death and thirty of them returned Saturday for an enjoyed visit. They were impressed
with the many improvements and additions that have occurred since their school days and also had a fine time
talking over the events that have happened since they left
the college.

Attending were: Mrs- S. S. Hess, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Rrey, Freland; Maude F. Giles, Hazleton; Josephine Pursol Conner, Eenton
Gertrude Rinker, Moore Nora Elizabeth MacLuffie, West Pittston; Elizabeth Foresman,
Lewisburg; Sarah Russell, Watsontown; Mabel Hawk Anthony, Glen Lyon; Mrs. Oliver A. Parfitt, Nanticoke; C.
Alberta Nichols, Wilkes-Barre; Verda Geist Haas, Mt.
Carmel Bertha Seely, Berwick, R. D. 1 Edith Eves Biddle, Millville; Florence E. Bachman, Wilkes-Barre; Ira C.
Cherrington, Allentown Nellie Reynolds, Wilkes-Barre
Bessie Deets Gottshall, Wilkes-Barre; Laura Landis Behney, Freeland, R. D. 1; Eudora DeLong Forbes, Lewisburg; Flora B. Bentzel, Harrisburg; M. K. Coleman, Mrs.
H. L. Anwyll, Harrisburg; O. P. Nilher, Lewisburg; Charlotte Beardslee, Anna Groschke, Wilkes-Barre Harlan R
Snyder, Catawissa; Harry Butts, Plains; Dr. and Mrs.
John Howorth, Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas and Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Weaver, Wilkes-Barre.
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Verda M. Geist (Mrs. Wm. H. Haas)
South Hickory Street, Mount Carmel, Pa.

lives at

135

Elizabeth Foresman lives in Lewisburg, Pa.

Gertrude Rinker is teaching
is Moore, Pa.

home address

in Essington, Pa.

Her

1900
Miles Kilmemr has gained much success in the engineering world and has been prominently identified with the
construction of the Pennsylvania railroad tube under the
Hudson at New York and the recently constructed vehicular tube.

Mr. Kilmer while a student at Bloomsburg was catcher on the school baseball
to his friends.

His wife

team and was known as “Dutch”
is

a sister of Mrs.

W-

B. Sutliff.

Mr. Kilmer’s first work in construction of the under
was during the construction of the Pennsyl-

liver tubes

vania tube.

With his knowledge gained in that work he was a
most valuable man during the building of the vehicular
tube and was engaged in that work from the first surveys
until the huge task was completed. Mr. Kilmer was the
chief engineer in charge of all construction on the New
Jersey side of the river.

He is nov/ engaged in making preliminary surveys
preparatory to starting construction of a tube under the
East river which will connect New York and Brooklyn.
1900

George W. Carl
tain Springs, Pa.

Wm.

is

Principal of the school at Foun-

His post

H. Watkins

office

lives at

address

is

Ashland.

229 Market Street, Cam-

den, N. J.

1901

The Philadelphia Public Ledger of February 17 had
the following regarding the promotion to the office of
chief engineer of the Philadelphia Electric Company of
Elwell Funk.

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“The appointment

of

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Nevin Elwell Funk as chief

engineer of the Philadelphia Electric Company, to succeed the late William C. L. Elgin, was announced yesterday by William H. Taylor, president- Mr. Funk, since December 15, 1926, has been assistant chief engineer.
“

Funk

will prove a worthy successor of Mr.
Mr. Toylor. ‘His record since his graduation
from Lehigh University has been most excellent and since

‘Mr.

Elgin,’ said

his connection with the Philadelphia Electric Company,
nineteen years ago, he has been closely associated with
the planning and operation of the three large generating
stations as well as with the huge hydro-electric plant now
being constructed at Conowingo. He is a splendid engineer and his practical experience in the numerous positions
he has held with this company will be most beneficial.’ ’’

He

44 years old, a native of Bloomsburg, Columand a graduate of Bloomsburg State Normal
School and Lehigh University. After serving with the
New York Central Railroad, the Westinghouse Electric
Manufacturing Company, and as a teacher in the Georgia
School of Technology, Atlanta, he entered the service of
tne Philadelphia Electric Company in 1907. Beginning
as a sub assistant foreman, he was promoted rapidly, and
in 1926 was made assistant to the chief engineer.
is

bia county,

He

is a member of the American Society of MechanEngineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, National Electric Light Association, American Society for Testing Materials, American Mathematical Society, Franklin Institute, Engineers’ Club, University Club,
Penn Athletic Club and the Lehigh University Club of
Philadelphia.

cial

Freda
address

is

S. Cook is teaching in Arnold, Pa. Her home
213 Fifth Street, Renovo, Pa.

1902
S. Gertrude Rawson has for the past ten years been
Principal of the Rush School in Scranton, Pal

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That their twenty-five years out in the busy world
have rested lightly on the shoulders of the class of 1903
was evident all day long on Reunion day, May 26. For
bedecked with balloons in their class colors blue and
white that fiaunted their year in bold figures, they
tripped gaily into the dining room, twenty-three strong
a goodly number, considering they numbered only 70
back in 1903 when they were the first class to graduate
in the three-year course- And with their husbands, wives,

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children and friends increasing their forces to forty and
tilling four of the large dining-room tables, they donned
gay caps, sang familiar Normal songs, yelled lusty old
yells, operated their noise makers until their end of the
dining room
and the whole Normal hill, we fear resounded with the din of their noise.

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Why?
Because they are

still

Normal years when many
on the

map

up to the traditions of their
them helped to put Normal

of

in athletics.

Because they are successfully carrying on their share
and happy in their chosen work.

of the world’s activities

gave them all a thrill to assemble on Normore
and recall the experiences, happy and
mal Hill once
otherwise, of the days of youth and school.
Because

Yes,

it

Room B

it

was joyous day from

9 A.

M. when they met

Chapel until the final good-bye at 5.30,
when they separated to go on with their various tasks, but
with renewed vigor and an inspiration for a better, fuller

in

in the

life.

We were glad to find that many of them were still
doing the work for which Normal prepared them. Mary
Kelley, Edith Patterson, Carrie Hicks, Anna Patten,
Frank Berkenstock, Harold Jameison, and Wm. De Long
talked interestingly of their teaching.

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Those who told of the experiences of married life
were: Grace Housel Church, Ella Reid Robertson, Mary
Wilson Hilburt, Emma Lowe Picket, Ella Franey Gallagher, Edith Gresh Kitt, H. Walter Riland, Harold Jameison, Etta Shatzel Horlacher, Gertrude Follmer Lowry,
John R. Miller, Abe Rarich, Ora Fleming Levering, Mildred Krum Erandt, Laura Landis Behney, Nellie Sweppenheiser Warman, Wm. De Long and Frank Berkenstock.

H. Walter Riland, though reluctant to continue in
the office of president because of being somewhat removed from most of the class, was unanimously reelected
for this office. Mr. Riland is executive secretary of the
Bedford Branch of the Y. M- C. A. in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
where he announces Dr. Cadman over the radio on Sunday afternoons. So listen in.
Miss Laura MacFarlane, having acted temporarily
and 25th reunions, w'as elected
permanent secretary. Miss MacFarlane is Director of
Publications at the Woman’s Institute, Scranton, Pa., being in charge of the publication of the text and magazines
of the Institute, which teaches dressmaking, millinery and
cookery by correspondence.
as secretary for the 20th

Many

letters

and telegrams from those who could

not attend the reunion were read. In
Kramer and W. D. Snyder, deceased,
in silence for several minutes.

memory of Rosetta
all members stood

A

committee of three, Grace Housel Church, Edith
Patterson, and Wm. De Long, -was appointed by President
Riland to investigate and carry on the Memorial work of
the class.
All were urged by the President to revive the spirit
Bloomsburg and show loyalty to the School by subscribing for the Bloomsburg Quarterly. It was also deof

cided to complete the class roll so that the president could
send a circular letter to every member telling them of the

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touch with Normal affairs.

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After the very appetizing dinner in the charmingly
redecorated dining hall, which seated over 900 with ease,
and where we heard Dr. Haas tell of the ideals for a
greater Teacher’s College at Bloomsburg, and incidentally laud the class of 1903 for their spirit and noise, we
strolled over to the athletic field and watched Bloomsburg defeat Wyoming Seminary in a very well-played
game of baseball. Sitting there on the bleachers, with
Bloomsburg’s beautiful hills stretching before us, a few
golfers over on one hill, a farmer plowing on another, an
airplane buzzing over our heads the entire stage set for
beauty we spent another hour or two becoming young
again and recalling the wonderful games we witnessed
many years ago on the nearby field. We found that we
could still cheer our team lustily, rise nimbly in the 7th
inning, and disagree with the referee’s decisions.

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Yes, reunions are great youth-recalling events- They
come too soon nor too often for the class of 1903.

Among those attending were: Grace Housel Church,
Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eerkenstock, Renovo;
Mary S. Wilson, Plains; Ella Reid Robertson, Inkerman
Emma Lowe Pickett, Forty Fort; Anna Palton, Olyphant;
Edith Patterson, Rahway, N. J.; Mrs. Elian Franey Gallagher, Shenandoah; Abraham Rarich, Scranton; Edith
Gresh Kitt, Jersey City, N. J. H. Walter Riland, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mary Kelley, West Pittston; Harold A. Jamison, Scranton; Etta Schatzle Hailacher, Weatherly; Laura MacFarlane, Scranton; Gertrude Follmer Lowry, Port
Washington, L. I. John R. Miller, Scranton Ora Fleming
Levering, Larchwood Mildred Krum Brandt, By~wood
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Carrie Hicks, Kingston.

1903

Mary A. Good,

a former

member

of the

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teacher of Chemistry in the Senior High
Castle, Pa- Her address is 227 East Lin-

New

coln Avenue.
Flossie

Rundle (Mrs. Arthur

L.

Chase)

lives in Car-

bondale, Pa.

Edith Patterson
in

Newark, N.

way, N.

J.

is

teaching

Her address

Junior High School
45 Jaques Avenue, Rah-

in the

is

J.

1904
Irwin S. Cogswell is bookkeeper for the Bridgewater
Mills at Montrose, Pa. His address is 6 Wilson Street.
Carrie Phillips (Mrs. W. S. Mulford)
North Sumner Avenue, Scranton, Pa.

lives at

512

Anna Goyituey (Mrs. Fred W. Canfield) is fifth
grade teacher in the Indian school at Albuquerque, New
Mexico. In a recent letter she states: “I am just as busy
as can be with my school work and my fine family- My
family is about grown. My oldest girl is attending the
Normal University at Las Vegas and is doing fine. My
oldest boy is finishing the Junior year at high school. My
.'second girl is finishing the eighth grade at Washington
Junior High. My ‘babies’ aged nine and eleven are finishing fourth and fifth grades. There are over nine hundred students in the school in which I am teaching, and
we have added a four year high school to it. I send my
”
best wishes to the graduates and to ‘dear old Normal.’
1905
Paul M. Pooley

is

now

located at Nuremburg, Pa.

1906
Susie Rayos (Mrs. Walter K.

Marmon)

is

teaching

Old Laguna, New Mexico. Her
three oldest children are attending high school in Albu-

in the public school at

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1907

Reba H. Quick (Mrs.
Street,

F. H. Lerch) lives at 147 25th

Jackson Heights, N. Y.

1908

With 39 members of the class of 103 back for their
20th year reunion and with many others writing letters
of greeting the roll call of the class of 1908 proved of
much interest to the members and several hours during
day were consumed by
were taken by many of the
the

it.

Addresses of

class so that they

all

members

can keep

in

touch with their classmates.

Attending the reunion were: Etfie M. Conrad, Sunbury; Willie M. Stein, Philadelphia; Rebecca Appleman,
Nellie Bogart, Danville; William Rarich, Philadelphia;
Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Hazleton; Mrs. Carol Krum Buck,
St. Augustine, Florida; Martha V- James, Scranton; Irene
G. Kahler, Bloomsburg; Anna Shiffer, Peters; Pearl Heberling Jones, Uniondale; Mrs. Ethel Henrie Stevens, McKees Rocks; Thomas Francis, Scranton; Mrs. Edward
Foley, Philadelphia; Mrs. James Kinney, Nellie Bogart,
Riverside; John E. Platt, Wyoming; Mrs. C. Raymond
Stecker, Bloomsburg Mrs. Kimber A. Hartman, Sunbury
Mrs. J. C. Creasy, Bloomsburg; Mrs. J. E. Reagan, Laura
E. Boone; Mrs. Orvie N. Pollock, Wyoming; Susan Rebecca Appleman, Danville; Ernest M- Oman, Bloomsburg;
Mrs. G. S. Westfield, Retreat; Mabel Wilkinson; William
Davis Watkins, Wheeling, W. Va. E. Mary Southwood;
Mrs. Philip H. Sch-wartz, Towanda; Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Hazleton; Mrs. J. G. Jones, Uniondale.
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W. D. Watkins is President and Treasurer of the
Continental Publishing Company, publishers of the New
Century Book of Facts, with headquarters in Wheeling,

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W. Va. Last August he drove to Yellowstone National
Park with his family, and had reached Topeka, Kansas,
on his return, when the use of his lower limbs left him.
He states: “I was able to get home by hiring a chauffeur, and was confined to my bed for several months after.

I

am now

Iwo a day, but

able to get into the office for an hour or
I must not overdo it- I am coming back,

owe all to Bloomsburg Normal
was the little slap on the back
that time that gave me the courage with an empty
a slow process.

but

it is

and

to Dr. D. J. Waller.

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purse to go ahead and try to achieve.”

Jennie M. Yoder (Mrs. E. A. Foley) lives at 8134
Street, Fox Chase, Philadelphia. She is a substitute teacher in the schools of that city.

Henning

Kahler is teacher of Mathematics
Bloomsburg High School.
Irene

in

the

Anna R. Deeths (Mrs. James E. Reagan) lives at
4226 East 110th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs.
Reagan have one daughter.
Flora M. Miller (Mrs. Clarence E. Anderson) lives
Camden, N. J.

at 129 South 27th Street,

Nellie Bogart

is

teaching

Pearl Heberling (Mrs.

in Riverside,

J.

Pa.

G. Jones) lives in Union-

dale, Pa.

Rebecca Appleman
Pa. She

is

lives at

440 Mill Street, Danville,

a teacher in the Danville schools.

1909

A son, Harold, Jr., was born April 20 to Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Moyer of Bloomsburg.
1909

Krumm is connected with W. F. Etherington
wholesale dealers in paper, of New York. His

L. T.

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291 Grove Street, Montclair, N.

Helen Wilsey
Honesdale, Pa.

(Mrs.

Scott

Rutledge)

Emma P. Eaton (Mrs. William
Shavertown, Pa.

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J.

lives

Perrego)

near

lives in

Edith M. Pooley (Mrs. C. M. Griffith) lives in Forked
River, N. J.

1910
Mr. and Mrs. Kimber A. Hartman (Ellie Deighmiller
who, since June, 1922, have been superintendent and
matron, respectively, of the Odd Fellows Orphanage at
Sunbury, have recently resigned, their resignations taking
effect August 1. The Sunbury Daily says: “Mr. and Mrs.
Hartman have been well liked throughout this section,
and have many friends in Sunbury who will be sorry to
see them leave. The announcement of their resignation
came as a surprise to the committee, and although they
accepted, it wms with deep regret.”
’08)

Frank R. Adams

is

Superintendent of Schools at

Parton, Vermont.

1911

Concerning Mary Heller, we are informed by her
brother, Marvin E- Heller, that she died December 26,
1927. Her death was due to inward goitre and general

breakdown.
Parsley is Social Science Teacher in the Junior-Senior High School at Nesquehoning, Pa.
Ethel

J.

Laura Treweek (Mrs. James Watkins)
West Catawissa Street, Nesquehoning, Pa.

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A daughter, Dorothy Jane, was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Kline (Harriet Hartman) on Wednesday, April
11. Their three year old daughter, Barbara Ann, died of
pneumonia following a two weeks’ illness, on Saturday,
April 14.

A. Fisk Brill ‘is constructing enfineer for William L.
Bottomley, architect, of New York. His permanent address is 128 East Nittany Avenue, State College, Pa.
In the Public Ledger of Jan. 28, 1928, appeared the
Lena G. Leitzel Streamer, who a few days be-

portrait of

had addressed the Burlington County Junior Women’s Republican Club at Edgewater Park, N. J., on “Third
Degree Methods in Criminal Law’’. Mrs- Streamer lives
at 125 Webster Street, Riverside, N. J.

fore

1913

There were 25 members of the class of 1913 who
had a real day on the hill Saturday. School day friendships were renewed and members learned what each other and their friends had been doing in the years that followed graduation.

Among those present were Margaret C. Horn, Williamsport; Luther Hess, Espy; Sue H. Longenberger, Berwick; Verna Miller Hunsberger, Norristown; John Bakeless, New York City; Elizabeth L. Pugh, Ashley; Helen
Jones Lister, Trenton, N. J. Edna Runyan Cherry, Alden
Station; Estella I. Callender, Sweet Valley; Lillian Kocher Auvil, Noxen; Myron Rishton, Bloomsburg; Homer
Fetterolf, Spring Mills; Harry E. Evans, Scranton; Helen
Smith Beardsley, Bound Brook, N. J. Miriam Roth Bishop, Palmerton; Natalie Greene, Brooklyn, N. Y. George
Yerj:, Ruth Nicely Sterner, Dewart; Rev. Charles L. Hess,
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Verna A. Miller (Mrs. Arthur D. Hunsberger)
at 1228

Aakwood

Helen

J.

Lillian R.

lives

Ave,, Norristown, Pa.

Pegg is teaching
Kocher (Mrs. C.

in Danville, Pa.

L. Anvil) lives in

Noxen,

Pa.

Ruth

F. Nicely (Mrs. H. B. Sterner) lives in

Dewart,

Pa.

Mary

E. Collins lives at 214 East

Shamokin, Pa- She
mokin schools.
Nellie

is

teacher of

M. Denison

is

now

fifth

Sunbury Street,
grade in the Sha-

Chief Nurse at the Station

Hospital, Fort Bragg, N. C.

Helen C. Jones (Mrs.
Avenue, Trenton, N. J.

L. L. Lister) lives at

104 Bert

1914
Elsie P.

Morgan (Mrs. Warren

127 West Magnolia

Mary

L-

Aston

Barre, Pa. She

is

St.,

E.

Swank)

lives at

Hazleton, Pa.

lives

at

450 River Street, Wilkes-

a teacher of Music in the Wilkes-Barre

schools.

1915
Edith M. Saricks is teaching
address is 801 Bukbeck Street.

in

Freeland, Pa.

Her

1916

A son, George, Jr., was born February 23 to Mr. and
Mrs. George Doty (Ann Reaser), who live on East Third
Mr. and Mrs. Doty also have a
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daughter, Sarah, who is three years old.
Hilda Clark is teaching in the primary grades at

Northumberland, Pa. Her home address
D. No.

is

Danville, R.

2.

S. Margaret Hidlay (Mrs. Edson A- Potter)
Glen Gardner, N. J.

lives in

1916

Ray Leidich and Miss Blanche Maguire were married April 27 in St. John’s Lutheran Church, Tremont, Pa.

Mr. and Mrs. Leidich

live at

33 Crescent Street, Tremont.

Benjamin Baer has completed his junior year at
Pennsylvania State College. His address is 118 West Nittany Avenue.
Cora G. Hall is a departmental teacher in an elementary school at Williamsport, Pa. Her address is 2531

West 4th

Street.

1917
In First Methodist Episcopal

Church

at

Wilkes-Barre

Monday

evening, February twenty-seventh. Miss Myrtle Elizabeth Bryant became the bride of Lawrence Decker Henshall of West Pittston. Dr. Leon K. Willman assisted by Rev. Wilson Treible, an uncle of the bridegroom,
performed the ceremony.

on

William Reese gave an organ recital prior to the
ceremony, and also accompanied Dorothy Fry Reese, who
sang during the ceremonyBurt B. Bryant, Jr., and Trevor Aston, the two pages,
preceded the wedding party to the altar. The church was
decorated with palms and ferns. Easter lilies were banked
high upon the altar.

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Mrs. Henshall is a graduate of Wilkes-Barre High
School, Wyoming Seminary and Eloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Henshall is a graduate of West Pittston
High School, Wharton School, Washington University,
and a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
T. Loomis Christian, M. D., served during the past
year as chief resident at the Harrisburg Hospital, and has
been elected to the same position for another year.

A

daughter, Jessie Ellen, was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Burr on Monday, April 16. Mr. and Mrs. Burr
at Merion, Pa.

Reuel
lire

S.

Freda E. Jones is teacher of Biology in the Kingston
High School. Her address is 372 Schuyler Avenue, Kingston, Pa.

John

Richardson is a salesman, located at 2440
East 15th Street, Los Angeles, Cal.
L.

1918

More than 50 members of the class of 1918 were
back for their tenth year reunion and they had a merry
time during the morning and throughout the day’s program.
Attending were: Fanny Rarig VanSant, Muncy; Edna Deily Blecher, Bloomsburg; Miriam E. Welliver, Danville; Martha O’Brien Thomas, Bloomsburg; Edna Davenport Ohl, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth Probert, Hazleton;
Mary Gilespie, Hazleton Kathryn W. Spencer, Mahanoy
City; Helen Kehren Maxey, Scranton; Mary F. Rommell,
Thelma Deppen Zerbe, Dalmatia Blanche
Pittston
Moore, Berwick; Florence Averill Nagle, Plymouth; Edna Aurand, Dallas; Lucille R. Ryan, Wilkes-Barre; Mary
Meehan, Harrisburg; Sarah Fritz Brunstetter, Little
Neck, Long Island Anna Devers, Pittston Grace Nicholson Allan, Jermyn; Elmer Lohman, Nanticoke; Paul L.
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Cherrington, Allentown; Dr. Ralph L. Hart, Philadelphia; Ida Wilson Snyder, Bloomsburg; Beatrice Pursel
Vannan, Danville; Florence Hess Price, Newark, N. J.;
Kathryn Cotner Mottern, Clarendon, Va-; Kathryn Kase
Yeager, Danville; Edwina Wieland Brouse, Norristown;
Louise Adams Bachman, Highland Park Helen Sypniewski, Nanticoke; Mary Powell, Wilkes-Barre; Rose Gronka
Kielar, Glen Lyon Carrie Keen Fisher, Dorothy C. Pollock, Hazleton; Muriel Jones Peffer, Audenried; Florence Altmiller Walters, Hazleton; Jane N. Williams, Edwardsville, and Nell M. Kabusk, Edwardsville.
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1918

Thelma Deppen (Zerbe)

is

Supervisor of Music at

Millersburg, Pa.

Leanora Walker (Mrs. L. K. Simons) lives in Northumberland, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Simons recently announced
the birth of twins
a boy and a girl.

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Dorothy Edgar (Mrs. Orville Everitt)

is

teaching in

Espy, Pa.

Mary A.
Marne

Cuff

is

teaching

Shenandoah, Pa.

E. Richardson lives at

!\Iahanoy City, Pa. She is
schools of Mahanoy City.
F-

in

804 East Center Street,
second
a
grade teacher in the

Ruth Speary (Mrs. G. M.

Griffith)

lives at

117

Carlisle Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Edwina C. Wieland (Mrs. E. Fred Brouse) lives at
1984 Juniata Road, Norristown, Pa.
Rose A. Gronka (Mrs. Edward J. Kielar) lives in
Glen Lyon, Pa. Her husband received the degree of B. S.
from the University of Chicago in 1922, and the degree
of M. D. from the Loyola School of Medicine, Chicago,
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Mary Powell
address

is

is teaching English at Plains, Pa. Her
28 Stark Street.

Florence L. Hess is teaching in Newark, N.
address is 1 Midland Place-

J.

Grace B. Nicholson (Mrs. Elw'ood M, Allan)
358 South Washington Avenue, Jermyn, Pa.

lives at

Her

1920
Annetta Lewis Diffendafer
nue, Irvington, N.

Clara N. Santee
at

lives at

973 Sanford Ave-

J.
is

teaching in the Junior High School

Conyngham, Pa.
1921

Sara B. Morgan is teaching
is 169 Scotland Road.

in

Orange, N.

J.

Her ad-

dress

1923
Ninety-six returned for fifth year reunion banquet of
the class of 1923 of the State Teachers College at the
Elks Club at one o’clock Saturday afternoon. Miss Elizabeth M. Gill, who was class advisor, returned from Paterson, N. J., as guest of honor. Members of the faculty
who responded to toasts were Miss Pearl Mason, librarian, and Miss Jessie Patterson, of the music department.
Professor Charles H. Albert, one of the favorite instructors, also gave a brief talk, while Raymond H- Edwards, president of the class, acted as toastmaster.

While the other class reunions were meeting on the
gathered around the banquet table down town in
the midst of a beautiful setting of dogwood and iris representing the class colors, purple and white. Each one present was given sweet peas. Under the direction of the local
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ranged. The program was informal from the beginning
with paper hats, and noise makers in vogue. Attractive
program and menu booklets of purple and white were
arranged by Herbert S. Jones of Scranton.

The program included the invocation

offered by Raysinging “School Days” and
other popular songs under the leadership of Francis A.
MnHugh, of Hazleton, with Miss Edna Blaine, of Berwick, at the piano. Herbert S. Jones then introduced the
toastmaster, who in turn responded to a few words of welcome. Interspersed by songs the members of the faculty,
past and present, responded to short toasts. Miss Gill was
presented with a corsage of sweet peas as well as a bouquet of tulips. Reference was made to the memory of Professor William Brill, who was teacher of history while the
class was in college. The gala affair concluded with the
singing of the Alma Mater.

mond H. Edwards followed by

The following were present

:

Charles H. Albert, Mrs.

Phil Guinard, Miss Pearl L. Mason, Miss Elizabeth

M.

Paterson, N. J. Rapmend H. Edwards, Bloomsburg
Herbert S. Jones, Scranton; Elizabeth P. Whitby, Kingslon; Louise Davies Colwell, Kingston; Elizabeth J. Thomas ,Scranton Marie T. Cabo, Scranton; Marion C. Walters, Taylor; Miss Paterson, Marion George, Moosic; RhoGill,

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da Young, Northumberland; Mary Howell Dean, Alden
Ruth Geary Beagle, Danville; Edith Hampton,
Ruth Cordick, Lois Dodson, Wilkes-Barre
Frackville
Cora Penman, Margaret Erdman, Hazleton; Kathryn R.
Frances R. Keeler,
Griffith, Helen M. Keller, Kingston
Truckville; Eeula A. Robbins, Pearl P. Robbins, Shickshinny; Ruth Robbins Creasy, Bloomsburg; Ann Jarrett,
Taylor; Nellie Nergeli, Rendham; Marian Hadsall, Kunkle; M. Alice Shipman, Bloomsburg; Helen Wolf, Winifred E. Edwards, Bloomsburg; J. Jennings Welliver, Easton; Michael Evancho, Eckley; Marie McGrath, Scranton; Cecelia Furman, Nanticoke; Sarah Levan Catawissa;
Emily Craig, Grace I. Williams, Catawissa; Olwen E.
James. Edwardsville Margaret Hughes, Wilkes-Barre;
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Margaret E, Jones, Laflin; Mary E. Learn, Burlington, N.
Ruth A. Gaines, New York City; Elizabeth Ransom,
Kingston; Geraldine Hall, West Pittston; Marion C. Watkins, Taylor; Marion George, Beatrice Beilew, Moosic;
Elizabeth J. Thomas, Scranton; Genevieve E. Meixell,
Espy; Kathryn Campbell, Danville; Minnie Melick,
Bloomsburg; Kathryn E. Naylis, Edwardsville Mrs. EveIpn Reid, Harrisburg; Dilys P. Rowlands, Trucksville;
Josephine Kistler Vanderslice, Bloomsburg; Helen Smith
MacDougall, Berwick; Mary McNinch, Berwick; Vera
Parker, Berwick; Kathryn Townsend Nicodemus, Bloomsburg; Mary Josephine Colley, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Kathryn Brace Laidecker, Wilkes-Barre; Arline L. Hart,
Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Betty Kessler Kashner, Bloomsburg;
Ruth Crawford, Forty Fort; Dorothy Barton Cherrington,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Robert T. Geise, Sunburp; Miss Anna
Miller, West Pittston; Miss Helen L. Comber, Shamokin;
Miss Alice R. Albee, Ashley; Helen K. Eike, Ashley; Elizabeth Evans, Wilkes-Barre; Jean Morris, Luzerne; Helen
Jones, Dalton; Rose Farrar, Forest City; Celeia R. Tuffy,
J.

;

;

Scranton.

Grace Brandon, Edna Blaine, Hilda Albertson, Berwick; Michael Evansko, Eckley; Lucy Weikel, Dunnellen,
N. J. Margaret Talbot, Marion Williams, Shickshinny;
Ruth Cordick, Lois Dodson, Wilkes-Barre; Andrew B.
Lawson, Bloomsburg;; Elisha H. Vanderslice, Bloomsburg; E. M. Hoyt, Three Mile Bap, N. Y. Joseph Zelloe,
Hazleton; Stephen A. Lerda, Glen Lyon; Lester B. Bennett, Plainsville; Mrs. Emeline F. Clemson, Grantwood,
N. J.; Mrs. Frances Furman Harrell, Philadelphia; Margaret T. Morgan, Scranton; Helen E. Sutlic, Harrisburg;
Gladys C. Brutzman, Scranton Martha Fenwick Ash;

;

;

burn, Peckville.

Raymond Edwards, now a student at the Rochester
Theological Seminary, Rochester, N. Y., was recently
elected pastor of the Presbyterian Church, of Stone
Church, about twenty miles form Rochester. He will fill

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the pastorate there during his Senior year at the Seminlay. Daring his first two years at the seminary he served
as supply pastor of the Presbyterian church, at Batavia,
N. Y. During his first year at Rochester, he was president
of his class. Last year he was secretary-treasurer of the
student body, and during the coming year will serve as a
member of the student council.

Announcement has recently been made of the marriage of Isabelle Everhardt, of Danville, and R. Edwin
Snyder, of Sunbury. They were married in Wilkes-Barre.
December

31, 127. For the past five years Mrs. Snyder
has been teaching in Sunbury. They will live in Reading,
where Mr. Snyder is a salesman for the Better Foods Co.

Katherine R. Brace, of Bloomsburg, and Samuel H.
Laidacker, of Shickshinny, were married in Belief onte
November 6, 1925. Announcement of the marriage was
made this spring. At the time of the wedding Mr. Laidacker was a student at State College. Mrs. Laidacker has
been teaching in Sunbury. Mr. and Mrs. Laidacker will
live in Wilkes-Barre, where the former is in business.
Lois Dodson is a teacher in the Franklin School,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Her address is 122 Dana Street.

Zela N. Eardo

is

teaching in Millville, Pa.

Louise Davies Colwell lives at 90 Franklin Street,
Fdwardsville, Pa.

Rose A. Farrar is teaching in Forest City, Pa.
Margaret Hughes is teaching in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Her address is 257 South Grant Street.

A son was born March first to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Cherrington (Dorothy Barton) who live on West
Fourth Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
1924
Miss Lois Remley, of Bloomsburg, a senior at State

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was struck accidentally by a

links at State College, Saturday,

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19, while

watching

a match. She was taken to the Willis Eye Hospital in
Philadelphia, where an operation was performed, which,

however, could not prevent her from losing her sight

in

that eye.

Beulah M. Deming

is

Principal of the High School at

Uniondale, Pa.

Ruth Morris

is

teaching in the third grade in the

schools of Luzerne, Pa.

in

Alethea M. E. Bullock (Mrs. Russell
Shamokin, Pa.

C. Allan) lives

1925
Dr. and Mrs. G. F. Drum, of Mifflinville, recently announced the marriage of their daughter, Susan, and
Wayne E. Turner, of Bloomsburg, The ceremony was
performed in Germantown, October 1, 1927.

The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and has been
a popular teacher in the Berwick schools. Mr. Turner is
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and Bucknell
University and is now a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

Mr. Turner will continue his studies and Mrs. Turner
year at Abington.

will teach next

Laura W. Brace and Warren P. Hyde, of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, February 25.

They are

now living at 159 West Fourth Street, Bloomsburg. Mr.
Hyde is associated with his father in business.
Miss Mildred Eula Earns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William B. Earns, of Benton, R. D., a teacher in the Benton Consolidated School, died at the home of her parents
Saturday morning. May 12. She was aged twenty-six

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to

complication of diseases.

Miss Karns was a graduate of the Benton Vocational
and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, class of 1925. She taught in the Davis, Forks
and Pine Grove schools in Benton township and this term
was teacher of the sixth grade at Benton.

•School, class of 1921,

Surviving are her parents,

five sisters

and two brothers.

1926

The class of 1926, the youngest in reunion, had 50
members back and they had a real day, enjoying all of
the day’s program in addition to the reunion of the class
which was held in the gymnasium.

Among

those of the class who returned were
Ella
Mrs. Frances Conner Mensinger, Marion
Decker, Geraldine Aul, Letha Jones, Mae Gable, Marjorie Zehner, Fannie H. Hilbert, Margaret Colburn, Ruth
Laude, Arline Coolbaugh, Lotia VanScoy, Aletha Headman, Thelma Nawlor, Helen Daniels, Betty Ohlman,
Grace Harlos, Bertha Sutliff, Margaret Kraft, Margaret
Lambert, Lucille Kaufman, Laura Mann, Alice Budd,
Kathryn Boyer, Miriam Hippensteel, Elizabeth Keller,
Beryl Ikeler, Lucille P. Henry, Fay Womelsdorf, Mabel
Davies, Arlene Sweet, Dorothy Friedman, Edith Morris,
Elgie Purtzman, Ruth Meixell, Leora Souder, Pearl Radel,, Miriam Straub and Cleota Stiver Eckroth.
C.

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Marvin H. Bloss and Miss Edith E. Barneey, of Nescopeck, were married in Wilkes-Barre, Saturday, April 7.
Mr. Bloss is teacher of sixth grade in the Nescopeck
Schools.

Mary K. Leiby
Elysburg, Pa.
Ruth

E. Meixell

(Mrs. Russell A. Fagley)

is

teaching

in

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in

Nescopeck, Pa. Her

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Edith N. Morris lives at 416 Broad Street, Nescopeck, Pa. She is teaching in the Nescopeck schools.

Geraldine K. Aul is teaching at Hershey, Pa.
address is 18 Caracas Avenue.

Her

1927
Florence Robinson, of Bloomsburg, and Forest Cavtnee, of Milford, Mich., were married April 9 at the home
of the bride’s parents, by the Rev. H. F. Babcock, pastor
of the First Methodist

Church of Bloomsburg. Mr. and

Mrs. Cavenee are now living in Milford, Mich., where
Mr. Cavenee is associated with his father in business.

Florence M. Gamber is teacher of third and fourth
grades at Coxestown, Pa. Her home address is 135 Ann
St.,

Duncannon, Pa.
Lottie Irene Ross

and George Frey, of Sunbury, a

for-

mer Bloomsburg student, were married in Snydertown,
Pa., in April. They will live in Snydertown.
Verna Medley has been re-elected as teacher of
Mathematics in the newly organized Junior High School
at

Lewisburg, Pa.
\

Edna M. Berkheiser is teaching in
is 1645 West Market Street.

Pottsville, Pa.

Her

address

1928
Miss Eleanor Sands, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J.

Raymond Sands, of Benton, Pa., who delivered the Ivy
Day address at the Commencement exercises, is the second woman to be honored as Ivy Day orator. Last year
Miss Evelyn Harris, of Berwick, gave the oration after
men for many years had delivered the oration.

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The words of the class song were written by Miss
Sands, who was a member of the class song committee.
She was also president of the Current Literature Clubs
and a member of the literary staff of the Maroon and
Gold, the college publication.

As “Geo. Washington” she took part in a play written by members of the Currenet Literature Club which
was presented in the college auditorium. She contributed
a number of poems that were printed in the Maroon and
Gold.

Haas
commencement

Dr. Francis B.

high school

delivered addresses at seven
exercises this year. His sched-

Wednesday, May 23, Orangeville VocaHigh School; Thursdap, May 24, Picture Rocks
High School; Tuesday, May 29, Trevorton High School;
Friday, June 1, Hughestown Borough High School; June
Friday, June 8, Benton Voca6, Forty Fort High School
tional High School, and Friday, June 15, Berwick High
ule

is

as follows:

tional

;

School.

He

also delivered the address at the twenty-second

annual commencement exercises of the Nurses’ Training
School of the Bloomsburg Hospital, held

ium

of the College

He

Thursday evening.

in

May

the Auditor-

31.

w'as also one of the speakers at the fifteenth an-

nual Schoolmen’s Week, held
of Pennsylvania.

He spoke

teacher training section on
for Colleges.”

to

March, at the University
the joint rural school and

in

“New

Objectives of Service

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BLOOMSBURG BEATS WYOMING
Hundreds

Alumni pranced gaily about the athletic field, slapped former school mates on the back and
felt once more the thrill of triumph when Leo McGrath’s
of

single on the college field Saturday afternoon scored Bob-

by Wilson with the run that gave Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College a 3 to 2 10 inning victory over their
time-honored foe, Wyoming Seminary.
It was a great game and came as a fitting climax to
a great Alumni Day. A crowd of about 800, the majority
of them graduates of the college, watched two evenly
matched teams battle through one of the greatest games
staged on the college field in many a day.

The victory closed in a blaze of glory a season that
had been a disappointment to many of the Maroon and
Gold followers. The victory, however, took much of the
sting from that disappointment and sent home happy the
visiting

Alumni.

Bloomsburg

Wilson, 2b

S. T. C.
r.

h.

1

0

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a.

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2

5

0

0

Golder, cf

1

1

2

0

0

Garrity,

0

0

0

0

0

If

McGrath, lb
Mowrer, ss
Wadas, 3b
Kraynack, rf

0

1

11

1

0

1

1

1

5

0

0

2

0

4

1

0

0

1

0

0

Zeveny,

0

2

8

1

0

Creveling, p

0

0

0

4

0

Vocabonis,

0

0

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Bunnell, 3b

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Murphy,

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Rees, p

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Forsha, 2b

Walker,

10

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7

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12

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2
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Evans, rf

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0

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Bisbee, rf

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0

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0

0

0

0

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9x27 16

1

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Shelley, p

Totals

when Murphy

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Miller out

X

None out when winning run was

interfered with play.
scored.

Score by innings:

Wyoming

100
000

Blocmsburg

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000
200

001
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Stolen bases
Wilson, Golder, Zeveny, Forsha. SacGarrity, Kraynack, Creveling, Wilcox, Forhits
Bunnell, Mowrer. Two base hits
sha. Home runs
Wilcox, Wadas. Struck out
by Rees 4, by Creveling 9. Bases
on balls off Rees 4, Sheeley 3. Left on bases Wyoming 6, Bloomsburg 10. Double play Kingsley, Forsha
Rinker and Rishton.
to Walker. Umpires

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squad was good, but

hit

some hard sledding

in a place

The boys
Alumni and Freeland MinThen came a one point set
back from Kutztown and a rather decisive defeat from
St. Thomas College. Bucknell Freshman fell in our path,
but Wyoming Seminary was allowed to leave Bloomsburg colors on our own floor. This was too much to be
endured, and the boys started a winning streak that never stopped until Lock Haven (twice), Mansfield (twice),
or two, particularly at the close of the season.

started out by defeating the
ing and Mechanical Institute.

St. Thomas College (sweet revenge), Wyoming Seminary (sweeter revenge), Freeland Mining and Mechanical Institute, Dickinson Seminary (twice), and Gettysburg Academy had been beaten. Then came a let down
and East Stroudsburg, Shippensburg and Millersville

heat us in succession.

At the close of the interscholastic season the annual
high school tournament was conducted in the gymnasium. Sixteen high schools competed. Nanticoke took 1st
place. Plymouth second. The seating capacity of the
gymnasium was inadequate to take care of the enthusiastic followers of the various teams.

The baseball season has a bright spot which many
Alumni were privileged to see. On May 26
Alumni Day ^Wyoming Seminary took a 3-2 defeat in an
of the

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game on Mt. Olympus. That in itself is
make any baseball season a success. But the

eleven inning

enough

to

We

rest of the story must be told.
took rather decisive
defeats from Albright College (twice), Bucknell Freshman, East Stroudsburg, and Mansfield. By 2-1 scores we
lost to both East Stroudsburg and Wyoming Seminary.
Rain broke up the Shippensburg game on both scheduled dates. The Alumni team was beaten in the first
game of the season, as was Mansfield when we met them
the second time. The Wyoming game ended it all. That

was mentioned

first,

plenty of emphasis.

—but

we mention

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That the student body of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College should increase to 1,500 within the next
ten years was the unanimous opinion expressed recently
when Dr. John A. H. Keith, superintendent of the State
Department of Public Instruction, and Arthur Townsend,
State director of budget in the Fisher administration, met
with the board of directors following an inspection of the
college plant.

Townsend have been on a tour
which they visited all of the educational institutions that clear through the Department of
Public Instruction, incident to making a budget which
Dr. Keith and Mr.

of the State during

will

be submitted to the State Legislature in 1929.

Both the men were highly impressed with the locaand are greatly interested in the development of the institution.
tion of the college

Following an inspection of the plant they met with
Dr. Francis B. Haas and four of the members of the
board of trustees, A. Z. Schoch, Joseph L. Townsend, Paul
E. Wirt and Dr. R. E. Miller.

The State department is heartily in accord with the
college authorities in regard to centralizing the power
plant and erecting a laundry. These two items will probably be taken care of in the 1929 allocation of appropriations.

From the expression of the State Department that
the local college should increase its student body to 1,500
within the next 10 years the inference can be taken that
the physical plant is to be greatly enlarged during that
period.

The

college at the present time with an enrollment
700 mark has its entire plant in use with
conditions crowded in many ways. The dormitories are

just over the

and some students board in the town. Few class
rooms are not in use at any time during the sessions.
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THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
of the

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
No. 4

September, 1928

Vol. 29

Entered as Second*ciass Matter, July 1. 1909, at the Post Office at Blooinsburg, Pa.«
under the Act of July 16. 1894.
Published March. June, September and December.

H. F. Fenstemaker,
F. H. Jenkins,

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Bloomsburg State Normal School, in the
years of its existence, was supremely fortunate in

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Editor-in-Chief

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the selection of

its

faculties.

From

its

beginning,

its

teach-

— often many—strong
characters— consecrated men and women — who, with the

ing body always included some

were content

vision of true educators,
stitution year after

to stay

year for the love of

best efforts to the cause

;

it,

with the

in-

giving their

spending and being spent in the

and the educational interests of this
great commonwealth. And these teachers, thus identifying themselves with the school and its work for long per-

service of the school

iods of years, as a result of such devoted service, reaped a

reward of appreciation and reverence beyond the measure usually awarded to teachers
especially such, who,
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Among
Cope

is

name of John G.
written large on our scroll, in honor, esteem and

affection,

these great teachers, the

for

work well done, over a long period

of

service.

John G. Cope was born March 20th, 1845, on a farm
near West Chester, Pa. His forbears were of the Society
of Friends. As a child he was not of the most robust
health and spent much of his time, with brothers and
companions of like taste, in the great outdoors, along the
streams and in the woods. He thus formed a great love
for nature, for fishing and hunting. So we can readily
understand his ardent yearning for the trout brook in the
spring, and the hunter’s joy for the autumn wood, and
the changing mountainside. Here probably we find the
key

to his devotion to the natural sciences

and

his suc-

cess as a teacher of them.

His education began in the public schools of his nawhen Chester County
tive county, in the early fifties
represented about the best in education that the then recently instituted public school system of Pennsylvania
afforded. In this early stage of development of free education, the ideals of the old Lancasterian Monitorial methods still, more or less, held sway concert recitation,
geography chants, and multiplication table set to music

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of a kind. It was all diverting to the caged school boy, if
not always conducive to mental growth. None more enjoyed reproducing, by way of illustration, these quaint
and antiquated processes as this observant and fun loving
student and kindly critic of “ye olden time”. Often by an
ancedote, or reference to those days, would he make his
point, and convince his classes that our schools are “improving”. His early years were thus spent on the farm in
that idylic section of our beautiful State, among that true
and kindly people, with their simple home life, and rigid
the Quakers. He was familiar with the life
training
and loved it all their First Day and Fifth Day meetings,

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simplicity of speech

He

loved the

customs of his
sonality

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all

OUAHTEKLY

characteristic of an earlier age.

and was loyal
people and much

life,

;

at heart

always to the

of the finest of his per-

and character crystallized about

ing and simple but rigid

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this early train-

life.

In his early youth he

came under the

influence of a
a private school in West
Chester, Dr. Fordyce A. Allen, who gripped his student
as great teachers always do, arousing in them enthusiasm
for service and setting before their inner eyes the “vision
splendid”.

teacher

who was conducting

Normal School of the
was founded. Dr. Allen was later called to
that institution to become a member of its Faculty. He
served as its principal from 1864 to 1869. With an ardent
affection for this teacher, and his life work probably
chosen, John G., with others of his school mates, turned
his steps toward Mansfield to continue his education there
under the guidance of this master hand who had already
awakened the lad’s enthusiasm.
In 1862 at Mansfield the State

Fifth District

From

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was graduated, with credit to
and had found himself and his life work

that school he

himself, in 1867,
to follow

it

without varying or turning for fifty-three

from 1867 to 1920. Thousands of men and women
in Pennsylvania and others scattered world wide, are still
living to testify by word and work, to the inspiration,
skill and power that came to them through the teaching
and life of this remarkable, but modest man. Verily our
works do live after us!
Professor Cope began his career as a teacher at
Montrose, Pa., in the fall of 1867. Later, due to ill health,
he was compelled, for a season, to give up his work and
return home to build up his body.
In 1873 he became principal of the public schools of
Selinsgrove, Pa., and continued there until 1879. At this
time Prof. William Noetling, Superintendent of Snyder
County, was conducting a county normal school Normal
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in the buildings

formerly known as “Susque-

hanna Seminary”, and gave instruction from April to
September to the teachers of his county. In 1877 he was
called to the chair of Pedogogy in the Bloomsburg State
Normal School, and Professor Cope took charge of the
work of the summer normal in 1878, at which time it was
the privilege of the writer to be a student under this prince
of teachers. He conducted this school for several terms,
with brilliant results, and great enhancement to the public schools of Snyder County. His old students remember
with pleasure and pride how rigorously he held them to
logical thinking, and cl-ear and correct expression; how
he opened their eyes to the dignity and importance of the
teachers’ work, and the opportunities for service in the

educational

He was

field.

called in 1880, to the principalship of the

schools of Lewistown, Pa. He continued there until 1885,
as an honored and greatly loved teacher. His pupils of
those days ever speak with enthusiasm and highest praise
the transformation he wrought in the
of his service
schools
as his keen mind, and masterly hand reorganized and systematized the work. Both patrons and pupils
of those days hold him in loyal remembrance as they recall awakened minds, intelligent teaching, transformed
lives, ambitions quickened and successful careers built on
his earnest efforts. Lewistown has not forgotten the debt
of gratitude it owes to John G. Cope for the five years of
constructive work he did in their schools.

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In 1885 Professor Cope was called to the faculty of
the Bloomsburg State Normal School, then under the administration of Dr. D. J. Waller. He began his work with
classes in Arithmetic, Geography and English, but eventually took charge of the Sciences, which was his special
field. Here too, as he took up his work, his pupils quickly
realized that a great teacher had arrived on the scene.

His pupils of that day often tell how, by his snappy interrogations, at the proper time, he, like Socrates, showed
them their lack of grasp of the situation, or changed the.

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them, meaningless words, into a meaningful process;
the drones in the class awoke to the fact that their
somnolent days were gone from them how his persistent
driving for a reason for the statements they made in their
arithmetic recitations, caused the pupils to speak facetiously of the new teacher as “percent of what?” They enjoyed the vigor and vivacity of his teaching. He awakened thought, quickened growth, and, best of all, made
them proud of the grades they really earned by interested and intelligent effort.
to

how

;

For many years he taught physics and chemistry, and
were the busiest as well as neatest places
on the campus. His pupils understood their subject matter, were interested in their problems, and profoundly
loved their teacher. They cheerfully worked hard for his
approval, which he gave never stintingly, and many hours
outside of the class room were given to the slow but earnest student who failed to grasp the presentation of a subhis laboratories

ject. His chief delight as a teacher was the assurance
that his pupils understood the subject matter, and were
growung in power and interest in the work. His laboratories, though in constant use, were always models of
neatness and order. His apparatus was always ready for
the recitation and always in place in the cases when the
subject was finished. No teacher was ever so orderly in
his laboratory, so precise and accurate in his demonstrations and experiments; so inspiring in his recitation, so

in his tests and examinations
so sympathetic
with his students; so solicitous for better results, so eager
to reach higher ideals from day to day with each succeeding class. Here w'as the secret of the affection and loyalty
he always secured from his pupils. They never forgot the
sacrifices and patient hours of extra toil he spent for
them. Every piece of work done by him w'as done with
the skill and painstaking of the true artist. The best alone
was accepted by this master workman in everything he
did. And so his pupils respected, loved and honored him
always, and made his standards their own.

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With the adoption of the Retirement System for
teachers in Pennsylvania in 1919, Professor Cope withdrew from his work in June of 1920 at the age of seventyfive, with his powers unimpaired, and with his enthusiasm
and interest in his work unabated. During the years since
none watched the work, the changes, and the development
of this institution with more concern and loyal consideration than he. And at commencement time none were
sought with more affection, and more gladly honored by
the returned students of his day than Professor Cope.
His general health began to give way in May, and
some weeks of gradual decline he passed away Monday, July 30, at the age of eighty-four. On Thursday,
August 2, his body was taken to West Chester to be laid
among his people and the scenes of his boyhood.
after

Professor Cope was a Past Master of the Washington
Lodge, F. & A. M.; a member of the various bodies of the
Caldwell Consistory; the Craftsman’s Club and of the
County Conservation Association. His many friends and
companions will miss him; but will remember always his
delightful companionship, his genial humor, and his earnest wmrds of counsel and wisdom. His work is done, but
his influence will continue in the lives of those whom he

who knew him

as companion and
and
in
experience,
and in wisdom
friend. Rich in years,
begotten in a life work well done, he has passed on. He
leaves us, his friends, better, gentler, kinder, and more
eager to do our duty by the example of his beautiful, useful, and well spent life.

taught, and of those

O. H.

BAKELESS

Dr. G. C. L. Riemer, Principal at Bloomsburg from
1923 to 1927, has been elected Principal of the Clarion

Normal School. Announcement of his election was
made by the State Department of Public Instruction on

State

July 18.

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Edward Clark Wells

EDWARD CLARK WELLS
Edward Clark Wells, son of Theodore and Martha
Clark Wells, was born in Hughesville, Lycoming County,
Pa., September fourth, 1832. He married Elizabeth Anna
Bruner who was born in Muncy, Pa., August 1st, 1828,
and their union was blessed with four children
Jennie,

now

Mrs. L. B. Henderson of Montgomery,

Pa.

Bruce,

who

died

when about

to enter college.

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May, now Mrs.

L. Clifton

O UARTEKLY
Creasy of Bloomsburg, and

Joseph G. also of Bloomsburg.
Prior to his marriage, fired by the discovery of gold
he and five or six
Muncy youths rushed to Kansas City, in that same year,
and under the guidance of a professional outfitter purchased the team, harness, covered wagon, provisions and
otehr necessities for the trek to the land of their dreams.
It was a solemn moment when, finally, a pick and shovel
were suggested, and it was explained that possibly not
every one of them might reach the coast. After a wearisome journey across the hot and dusty plains followed by
the laborious climb over the pass of the Rocky Mountains,
w'hen descending the western slope they came upon a
promontory affording a widely extended view of the plain
below covered with flowers, with the beginnings of Salt
Lake City laid out in 1847, nestling among them. By contrast it was a suggestion of the Heavenly City. As was
the custom, they camped on the outskirts a few days for
rest, repairs and replenishing. Two daughters of an Englishman who had been induced by a Mormon missionary
to leave the old country, were employed to perform tne
much needed duties of laundresses, who begged to join
their outfit, saying that they had been sealed by officials
of the church to be added to their number of wives. The
Mountain Meadow massacre was still fresh in memory
and the youths replied that the danger was too great, but
that if they would join them two days journey out, they
at Sutter’s Mill, California, in 1848,

would convoy them to California. The girls were unable
do so. The young men had arrived at the time of the

to

great annual church festival like that of the Israelites
when all were required to celebrate the Passover in Jerusalem, and the faithful from all parts were assembled in
the great Tabernacle.

A
of

its

few years before, Congress had sent a committee

members

to investigate the truth of reports of a

purpose to set up there an independent government.

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Their report was followed by the sending of GenJohnson with a body of troops to prevent any

eral Joe

such movement.
Naturally the members of the various groups of emigrants that were re-fitting also assembled, out of curiosity. The head of the church addressed the vast audience upon the ingratitude if not bad faith of our Government, because the congressional delegation had been
courteously received and entertained, only to be rewarded by the sending of an army against them. Of course all
bound for the gold fields were well armed and the address aroused their patriotism to such a pitch that had
some one of them in the gallery arisen, swung his hat and
cried “Come on boys, let’s clean them out,” it was believed that Mormonism would have been wiped from the

United States.

While in California a Mexican nursed him through a
severe case of typhoid fever.

He made his return trip from San Francisco by water
and was rescued from drowning in the Carribbean Sea.

He became

a merchant in Washington, D. C., and
was treasurer of a railroad having offices in Corry,
Pa. It was in the heyday of passes upon railroads, and
one day he showed the writer a pile of them an inch
later

thick over various lines.

Immediately prior to coming to Bloomsburg he was
interested in the development of

oil

wells.

In June, 1877, when the Bloomsburg State Normal
School was at its lowest ebb, he was elected Steward and
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Seeing the opportunity for the education of his growing family, he accepted the position at a salary of $400 and a home for
himself and family, with free tuition for two children, the
Trustees being unable to guarantee the $500 he asked.
.

At that time Bloomsburg had no sewer system, and

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the water for cooking and drinking purposes was piped
from a copious spring on the hillside north of Snyder’s
Run. Mr. Wells applied himself closely to the interests
of the school. He cooperated with the progressive citizens, in securing, against vigorous opposition, and by a
majority of one vote in the Council, a sewer system for
the town, whereby he was enabled to abolish the large
cesspools that up to that time
casionally exploded.

had been

essential,

and

oc-

By

careful economy, and sometimes even using his
funds, Mr. Wells established the credit of the institution, and with the aid of his capable wife as Matron
secured an efficient administration of the domestic department, to the comfort of faculty and students.

own

After a very successful management of eleven years,
he resigned in 1888, having the high esteem of the Trustees, faculty and students. He then entered upon a more
lucrative business.

Mr. Wells was a gentleman of retiring disposition,
pleasing manner and absolute integrity, a member of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, a Mason and a Republican.
His apartments were a resort for those in trouble,
and popular with all those acquainted with the members
of the family.

He entered into rest Sept.
seven years.

1st,

D.

J.

1909, aged seventy-

WALLER,

JR.

Attention of subscribers to the QUARTERLY is
called to the fact that, according to action taken recently
by the Executive Committee, all subscriptions will begin
with the June issue and close with the March issue. As
many subscriptions now in force do not coincide with the
above dates, necessary adjustments will be made by the
Business Manager, until all subscription dates become
uniform.

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NOW

UNDER WAY
Construction of

new

buildings, enlargements, alter-

improvements and repairs approximating $325,000
will be completed or underway within the next six months
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, Dr. Francis

ations,

making the ancontracts appropriating
$10,000 for renovating the present plant.
B. Haas, the principal, said recently in

nouncement of the award

of

This program, which is the most extensive undertaken at one time in the history of the institution, includes
the erection of the new training school and the new laundry for which the Department of Public Instruction allocated funds. Dr. Haas expects work on these structures

by next spring. Work on specifications
under way in the department.

to start

is

now

The contracts awarded this summer for renovating
are the first step in the year’s program to completely
renovate the entire plant as to plastering, painting and
new floors. Dr. Haas said.

The painting of the exterior and the glazing of
North Hall, the men’s dormitory, was done by S. A.
Doty, of Stillwater, while the contract for the wall repairs and painting of the inside of the building was
awarded to P. K. Vanatta, of town. The contracts for the
painting of the outside and glazing and the wall repairs
and painting of the inside of Science Hall have also been
awarded to Mr. Vanatta.

The contract for the painting of the walls, ceiling and
wood work in the dining hall, first floor lobby and fourth
Waller Hall and the resurfacing and refinishing
was awarded to George
Karchner, a Berwick contractor. All of this is interior
work.
floor of

of the flooring in the dining hall

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Aaron Jury, of Bloomsburg, received the contract
for the laying of wooden sub-floors in all of the halls and
rooms east of Room 447 in Waller Hall, the girls’ dormitory. It is planned to place a composite floor in the corridors and a floor that is of an attractive design in each of
the rooms.
E. M. Holmes, Bloomsburg plumber, received the
contract for the roofing repairs and the replacement of
the cornice and gutters of Waller Hall.

Baldy’s Sons, of Catawissa, received the contract for

300 new window shades which will provide half of the
windows in the entire plant with new shades. Specifications called for the completion of all of this work by
September first.
equip the entire plant with modprogram is completed there
will be single beds for each student living in the dormitories. Each class room will be equipped with 40 new
chairs, a desk and a table at the rate of one room a
semester.
It is

also

planned

ern furniture and

to

when

this

There is now underway at the institution about $45,000 worth of improvements, practically all of which are
directed to the erection of fire towers and the elimination
of fire hazards. This work were to be completed around
September first.

Four fire towers and fire cut-off doors on two floors
between Waller and Noetling halls are now being conThis will give the institution eight fire towers
and Dr. Haas, commenting on this said, “All together we
feel that when the College opens this Fall we will have
about as complete a fire protection against hazards as it
is possible to have. No point in the buildings then will be
more than 100 feet from a fire tower or safe exit.”
structed.

have been wired and are ready
emergency lighting system, plans for which are
now being worked out.
All of the fire towers

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Plans are now being drawn up for improvements
that will cost approximately $35,000 and with practically
all of this work to be completed by February 1, 1929.
These improvements will include the modernizing of the
auditorium, the landscaping of the campus to the South
and East of North Hall, the extending of the gymnasium
to the North and the placing of permanent seats, and the
razing of the bridge connecting Carver and Waller halls
to be replaced by decorative stairs to lead into an open
balcony in Carver Hall.

program of modernizing the audiCarver Hall the College will place new chairs
in the auditorium, A new lighting system will be installed. The stage will be made over and drops will be
placed. The plastering in the auditorium will be repaired.
In carrying out the

torium

in

Considerable will be added
campus when that part which lies

beauty of the
the
East
and South
to
of North Hall will be decorated. Included in the terrace
to the South of the building will be the land no.w used for
the tennis courts. Just where the tennis courts will be
placed has not been decided.
to the

Preliminary maps are being drawn which will include the property from Penn steet to the line on the
East beyond the principal’s residence, about a mile in
length, and from Light Street Road to East Second street.
This map will be used in the locating of new buildings.

The North wall of the gymnasium will be moved out
and permanent bleachers on that side of the gymnasium
will be erected to seat about 350 persons. All of the running track will be removed except that part on the South
side. This will be used as part of a balcony on which
permanent bleachers will be erected. The gymnasium
will

be repainted.

A direct exit from the main buildings to the North
Hall will be opened near the post office in Waller hall.
This exit will allow men students to gain easier excess to

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the main buildings from North Hall.

The bridge that

for years has joined Carver and Walbe torn away. A decorative stairway will
lead from the ground into an open balcony in Waller Hall.
The campus will be regraded at that point and a concrete
walk will be built from the lower campus through to
ler halls will

Science Hall.

The college is now beginning a program of caring
for all of the trees and shrubbery on the campus.
While the location of the new tennis courts has not
been decided on it is probable that they will be placed
back of their present location when this land is acquired
by the college. There will be ten courts built to replace
the four that are now being used.

THE

1928

SUMMER SESSION

The 1928 Summer Session opened Monday, June 25,
and closed Saturday, August 4. The total enrollment this
year was 382 a slight increase over the 1927 enrollment, which numbered 363. The above figures do not include those enrolled in the Music Department. It had not
been expected that there would be as large an enrollment
this summer as there was last year, because of the fact
that the State requirements for certification had to be
met by 1927, and the summer school had been originally
started to enable teachers to meet those requirements.

—

A

considerable portion to the student body this sumconsisted of normal school graduates who were doing work leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in

mer

Education.
In accordance with the policy agreed

council of

upon by the

Normal School and Teachers’ College

prin-

cipals, the summer term in all of those institutions
throughout the state was reduced from nine weeks to six

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weeks. The maximum number of credits that could be
earned was seven. Class recitation periods were seventyfive minutes in length, and classes met six days a week.
Each student was allowed to elect two courses.

An

effort

was made

to

make

the

summer

as pleasant

were held during the course of the summer. Bernard Shaw’s play,
“Candida”, was presented by a company headed by
Frank McEntee, who is no stranger to Bloomsburg, having been a member of the Ben Greet Players, who came
to Bloomsburg every year for several years. The boys
from North Hall also gave a minstrel show toward the
as possible for the students. Three dances

close of the term.

The

daily chapel exercises were replaced by a week-

which time the students were addressed
by several prominent speakers. Among these were Dr.
Charles Lose, of Williamsport, former principal of the
Lock Haven State Normal School, who spoke on “The
Passing of Penn’s Woods”; Miss Mabel Carney, of Columbia University, nationally known authority on rural
ly convocation, at

:

education; and Dr. James N. Rule, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The Commencement Exercises

at the end of the sumSession w'ere omitted this year. All those who finished their work at the end of the summer took part in
the regular exercises held at the end of the regular year.

mer

The summer sessions of the state normal schools
served a very useful purpose in bringing the teachers of
the state up to the standard required by the state law.
That reason for the existence of the summer schools no
longer exists. The prime purpose of the summer terms
will in the future be to offer opportunities to teachers now
in service to continue their professional education, and
ultimately receive the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Education. As teachers realize and take advantage of
these opportunities, the summer sessions of the State
Teachers’ College will grow in size and in usefulness.
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NEWS OF THE ALUMNI

1872

Jennie E.

Bowen

(Mrs. Jennie E. Parker), lives at

Waverly, Pa.

1875
Mrs. Annie Morris Sayre and her son, the Rev. Samwere the guests of Prof, and
Mrs. F. H. Jenkins, a few weeks ago. It was the first time
that Mrs. Sayre had been back to Bloomsburg since her
graduation. Mrs. Sayre lives in Hampton, Va.
uel Sayre, of Williamsport,

Mrs. Carrie

Thompson Snyder

lives in

Range, Okla-

homa.
1880
Dr. D.

W. Mears

lives at

406 Connell Bldg., Scran-

ton, Pa.

Mr. C. A. Ritter

lives at

Auburn, Schuylkill

Co., Pa.

Rev. N. H. Smith lives at Williamsport, Pa.
Tillie
St.,

Sterner (Mrs. Scott Young) lives at 35 E. Main

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Laura Wooley (Mrs. Laura Morgan) resides at 848
10th

St.,

E.

Minn.

Modesto, California.

W. Young

lives at

532 P. O. Building,

St.

Paul,

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Miss Alice Fisher, resides at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y.

Miss Bridget Burns
andoah, Pa.

lives at

Maggie Cavanaugh (Mrs.

North White

J. C.

St.,

Shen-

Bigley) lives at 372'/

Park Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.

Kimber Cleaver,

Hawley, Wayne

lives at

Miss Lena Faulds resides at 39

W. North

Co., Pa.

St.,

Wilkes-

Barre, Pa.

Miss Robena Glover lives at 823

S.

49th

Phila-

St.,

delphia.

Mrs. Ella Golden Lally lives at 207 E. Coal

St.,

Shen-

andoah, Pa.
Mr. M. M. Harter

lives at

Nescopeck, Luzerne, Co.,

Pa.
Belle

Chestnut

Henderson (Mrs. John Reed)
Lebanon, Pa.

lives

at

938

St.,

Mr. G. A. Kinsel lives at 179 Church
Springs, N. Y.

St.,

Saratoga

1882
Burnette Stiles Booke lives at 180 Meigs Street, RochNew York.

ester,

Hannah Rubin
tic City,

N.

J.

lives at

36 East Elderin Ave., Atlan-

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1883

Frank R, Hight lives at Hunford, California. He
Vice President of The First National Bank in that city.

is

1884

Laura M. Helman lives at 428 Walnut Street, Catasauqua, Pa. She is chairman of the Research Committee
of the Liberty Bell Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution. Miss Helman has compiled a genealogy of the
Dreisbach and Drum families, both of which played prominent parts in the American Revolution.

1885
Stricken with a heart attack while at the family cottage at Arbutus Park, Mrs. W. D. Holmes, one of Bloomsburg’s best known and most highly esteemed women, died
almost instantly at 3 :20 o’clock Thursday afternoon,

June

28.

Death was due to dilation of the heart and came so
suddenly that it was a severe shock to the entire section
in which she had a legion of friends.
Although in ill health for some time due to diabetes,
Mrs. Holmes recently had been showing improvement.
She was working in the cottage when she complained to
her daughter. Miss Christine, that she believed she had
an attack of indigestion and that she would take some
soda. She then fell to the floor and in a few moments had
passed away.

Born in Light Street, Mrs. Holmes resided also in
Cresco and Catawissa before moving to Bloomsburg many
years ago. She would have been aged 62 years on July 15.

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Possessed of a personality that won friends at every
hand, Mrs. Holmes was well known throughout this section and was very busy in many lines of activity.

A

graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ ColHolmes taught school eight years and in recent
years was a most efficient substitute teacher in the local
lege, Mrs.

schools.

She was the first president of the Ladies Auxiliary of
the Valley of Bloomsburg Post of the American Legion,
having been elected to that post by the members of the
Legion. She had always been active in the work of the
auxiliary which has grown steadily and at the time of her
death was serving as chaplain of the five county district
and was to have gone to Pittsburgh as a delegate to the
State convention.
She was an active member of the First Methodist
Church, of the Bloomsburg Chapter, Order of Eastern
Star, and the Bloomsburg Chapter of Delphians.
She was united in marriage 39 years ago
Holmes and he and the following children survive
stead, of Reno, Nev.

Mr.

to
:

01m-

Delroy, of Point Pleasant, N.
Fred, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Christine, at home.
;

J.

Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters,
Mrs. Edward Furman and Robert Hagenbuch, of Shenandoah, and Mrs. Joseph Davis, of Mahanoy City, as well
as six grandchildren.
Rev. Herbert A. Bell resides at 744 7th Avenue,
Petersburg, Florida.

St.

O. O. Laudig lives at 36 Riverside Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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1886
Rev. H. C. Moyer lives at Needmore, Pa.

1890
Teresa A. Pace

Mary

lives at Pittston,

E. Roberts (Mrs. Isaac

Pennsylvania.

Wagner)

lives at

Shen-

andoah, Pa.

Laura Bernhard (Mrs.
Ave., Newark, N. J.

E. H. Harrar) lives at 262 6th

1892
Hattie E. Porter (Mrs. Hattie Newlin) lives at 5016

Willows Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
Caroline H. Black lives at Newportville, Pa. She
principal of the Newportville school.

Anna

is

Stair lives at 133 N. River St., Wilkes-Barre,

Pa.

1893

Edgar

C.

Nagle

lives at

Northampton, Pa. He

is

an

attorney.

Katharine

She

is

Dean

of

S.

Bowersox lives at Berea, Kentucky.
at Berea College.

Women

Charles Guscott lives at Court House, Wilkes-Barre,
Pa.

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Dr. B. F. Beale
non, Pa.

23

practicing medicine at Duncan-

is

1894
Laura Fenner (Mrs. Howard Smith)
lisle St.,

lives at

74 Car-

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

1895

Fred E. Fassett lives at Stevensville, Pa. He has
been Postmaster of that place for the past twenty-five
years.

Libbie Lesher (Mrs.
Northumberland, Pa.

Thomas Dunham)

lives

at

Nina G. Tague (Mrs. H. A. Frantz) lives at MooresJ. She is State President of the New Jersey

town, N.

W.

C. T. U.

Howard

J.

Traub

is

in

the furniture business at

Bloomsburg.

Anna Follmer

(Mrs. O. G. Hess) lives at Taft, Cal-

ifornia.

1897
Isabel Smith

65th Street,

(Mrs.

New York

Thomas York)

lives at 5

West

City.

1898

Nora E. Hankee (Mrs. John A. MacGuffie)
West Pittston.

lives at

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Margaret V. Collins (Mrs. J. Pierce Roberts) lives at
25 East Coal Street, Shenandoah, Pa. Mr. Roberts is a
physician in that city.
Miss Bertha Seely lives in Berwick, Pa.

where he

O. P. Miller lives in Lewisburg, Pa.,
in the insurance business.

is

en-

gaged

Eudora DeLong (Mrs. Robert D. Forbes)

lives in

Lewisburg, Pa.

Sarah H. Russell lives in Watsontow’n, Pa. She
teacher in that city.

Laura E. Smith (Mrs.
St.,

S. S.

is

a

Hess) lives at 923 Centre

Freeland, Pa.

1899
Gertrude E. Morris is teaching
is 45 Prospect Place.

in

New York

City.

Her address

Anna Sandoe (Mrs. J. G. Hake)
James Place, Atlantic City, N. J. She
grade teacher

in

at 149 St.
an elementary

lives
is

the Atlantic City public schools.

Fry (Mrs. Blanche Kester) lives at 315
Harrisburg, Pa. She is employed in the State

E. Blanche
S.

Front

St.,

Department

of Health.

Jennie C. Smith (Mrs. Clinton N. Guillot) lives at
Bushkill, Pike County, Pa. She states that she is a mother,
housekeeper, bookkeeper, and school director.

Maude
ton, Pa.

F. Giles lives at 27

2

N. Laurel

St.,

Hazle-

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Michael E. Reilly

lives in Pottsville,

25

Pa.

1900

Martha Franey (Mrs. U. G. Vagan)
Douglas Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

lives at

6320

1901

Mary Challenger (Mrs. John W. Griffith) lives at
100 North Main Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
1903
Edith Gresh (Mrs. Howard Guild Kitt)
Bergen Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey.

St.,

Mrs. Ella Franey Gallagher
Shenandoah, Pa.

Etta Schatzle
Weatherly, Pa.

lives at

lives at

565

129 N. Jorden

(Mrs. William Horlacher)

lives

in

Gertrude M. Follmer (Mrs. Arthur T. Lowry) lives
Madison Avenue, Port Washington, N. Y.
1904
Emma S. Hinkley (Mrs. J. P. Saylor) resides at 313

at 10

Pine

St.,

Tamaqua, Pa.
1905

Warren Nevin Drum, formerly
June 11
of

of Bloomsburg, died

in a hospital at Indiana, Pa.,

more than two months with acute

following an illness
nephritis.

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Mr. Drum had been in a serious condition for the
past eight weeks. For a time he was a patient in the Carnegie Hospital at Pittsburgh, and then was removed to
the Indiana hospital. He was a member of the faculty of
the Indiana State Teachers College, and when a blood
transfusion was decided upon, ten students at the school
volunteered. The transfusion operation was a success and
he rallied, but Monday night suffered a serious relapse

and death came suddenly.

He was the son of the late A. A. Drum, and was born
Drums, Luzerne county, in 1885, and was accordingly
aged 43 years. He had risen high in educational work
in a few years.
in

In 1895. with his parents he moved to Bloomsburg
and graduated in 1903 from the Bloomsburg high school
and in 1905 from the State Teachers College here, being
an honor student at both institutions. He graduated also
from the Lackawanna Business College at Scranton and
from Columbia University where he received the degrees
of Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts. At Columbia

he won the "Earl Scholarship.
Subsequently he was a teacher

in

Dickinson Sem-

inary, in the high school at Flemington, N. J., and in the
Kingston, Pa., high school. Later he became principal of
the high school at Millville, N. J., and the high school at

Grantwood, N. J., and then was principal of the Lock
Haven State Teachers College for four years, resigning to
enter business in New York City. He gave up that venture about three years ago and became a member of the
faculty of the Indiana State Teachers College.

A short time before he was stricken he completed
writing a book on educational work which the publishers
declared was the finest of the kind that had ever come to
their notice.

He was

a

member

of the Phi Delta

Kappa

fraternity,

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survived
by his wife, a daughter, Margaret, aged eight, and a son,
Leonard, aged three. One sister, Mrs. R. W. Rabb, of
Benton, also survives.
of the

The body was brought

to

Bloomsburg for

Eleanor Witman (Mrs. Eleanor Reiley)
Lexington Avenue, Altoona, Pa.

St.,

is

burial.
lives at

801

Ezra B. Gruver owns a grocery store at N. Brown
Lewistown, Pa,

1907

Ethel L. Burrows lives at 416 Luzerne Avenue,
Pittston, Pa.

No.

Edith A. Doty (Mrs. Harold H.
Pa.

Hayman)

West

lives at R.

1, Stillwater,

Agnes F. Wallace (Mrs. N. D. Butcher, Jr.,) lives at
Livermore, Calif. She was selected as the best representative grade teacher to act for Alameda County on the
state council of education. She teaches Grammar and
Arithmetic in the eighth grade.

1908
Mrs. J. S. Johnson, formerly Irene Mercer, of Bloomsburg, was married Saturday, June 16, at Swarthmore, Pa.,
to Paul Miller Rainey. Mr. Rainey is a graduate of the
Pennsylvania State College, and is connected with the

American Telegraph and Telephone Company in New
York City. They live at 202 Christopher Street, Montclair,

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Agnes J. Burke (Mrs. James A. Kinney) lives at 336
Cumberland St., Lebanon, Pa. Mr. Kinney is Chief Engineer and Superintendent of the Bethlehem Steel Co. at
Lebanon.

ville,

Olive A. Major is a teacher of English in MerchantN. J. She lives at 114 E. Rogers Avenue.

William Raricll
dubon, N. J.

lives at

250

Wyoming Avenue, Au-

Ernest M. Oman is engaged in the insurance business at Blcomsburg, Pa.
.

Adda Rhodes

W.

4th

St.,

(Mrs. Arthur L. Johnson) lives at 724
Hazleton, Pa.
<

is

Carol Krum (Mrs. Franklin Buck) lives at 50 MacarSt., St. Augustine, Fla.

Joseph A. Shovlin
adelphia, Pa.

is

located at 3731 Spruce

St.,

Phil-

1910
E. Geise lives at Northumberland, Pa., where
teaching in the junior high school.

Nora
she

is

Bertha V. Polley (Mrs.

J. L.

Oake)

lives at

Union

R. D. 2, N. Y.

Howard
Education
residence

Fetterolf

in the
is

is

Assistant Director of Vocational

Department of Public

Camp

Hill,

now

Instruction.

His

Pa.

Mrs. Weston Smith, lives at Norristown, Pa. Rev. Smith is pastor of the Calvary Church,
which has a membership of over 950.
Lois Yost,

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1911
Catherine Jameson (Mrs. Ralph Burr) lives at Troy,
Pa.

Laura M. Treweek (Mrs. James Watkins)
Catawissa St., Nesquehoning, Pa.

lives at

J. Frank Dennis is Director of Manual Arts
Economics at Wilkes-Barre.

& Home

Lois

Avery (Mrs. Geo.

C.

Armitage)

lives at

Alder-

son, Pa.

Charlotte Welliver (O. W. McFarland) lives at 966
Vine Ave., Williamsport, Pa.

Mary

B. Daily lives at

Carey Ave., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Elverta I. Miller lives at 934 La Fayette Ave., Niagara Falls, N. Y.

Grace Hartman (Mrs. Franklin Artley)

lives at Mif-

flinburg. Pa.

Miss F. Marie Metzger lives at 815 Berkeley Avenue,
Trenton, N. J.
$

1912

Helen G. Mitzinger

is

Primary teacher at Mahanoy

City, Pa.

Charlotte Peacock (Mrs. Charlotte P.
W. Main Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Homes)

lives

Le Claire Schooley (Mrs. Homer W. Fetterolf)

lives

at 239

at Spring Mills, Center Co., Pa.

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Miss Elizabeth Mae Schweppenheiser and Clyde F.
Hicks were married on Thursday, September 1, 1927, at
Oswego, New York. The ceremony was performed in the
Methodist church there. They have recently been furnishing a home at 221 Market street, Berwick, and word
of a marriage soon was expected when announcement
came that the ceremony had been performed nearly ten

months ago.
Miss Schweppenheiser, a graduate of the Berwick
high school and Blcomsburg Normal School, has been
teacher and principal at the Fourteenth street school
building. The groom is a son of Mrs. Josephine Hicks, of
East Fourth street, and a member of the firm of S. B.
Seely and Company.

Phoebe Berlew (Mrs. Lee Harris) died at the Binghampton City Hospital June 6, 1927. For several years
Harris taught in Luzerne
County. She is survived by her husband and daughter,
Jean Louise; also her father and two sisters.
prior to her marriage Mrs.

IMarie Collins is teaching in
resides at Dushore, Pa.

Elizabeth

Pugh

is

Lopez High School. She

teaching music

in

the G. A. R.

Memorial High School, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Callender is teaching
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Estella

School

in

in

the Continuation

is a teacher in the G. A. R.
Wilkes-Barre,
Pa.
orial High School,

Mildred Stemples

of

Mem-

Margaret Crcssley (Mrs. V. Earle Gooding) is Prin.
Watching Grammar School. She lives at 534 Winson

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St.,

Bound Brook, N.

31

J.

Margaret

C. Horn, a teacher in the Roosevelt Junior
Williamsport, Pa., lives at 905 West 3rd St., Williamsport, Pa.

High

in

Miriam Roth (Mrs. Wheeler
Princeton Ave., Palmerton, Pa.

Homer W.
he

engaged

is

S.

Bishop) lives at 307

Fetterolf lives at Spring Mills, Pa., 'where
the milling business.

in

Verna Miller (Mrs. Arthur D. Hunsberger) lives at
1228 Oakwood Ave., Norristown, Pa. Her husband is
Financial Secretary of Calvary Baptist Church. There is
now being erected a modern Departmental Bible school
as an addition to the church. Mrs. Hunsberger will be
Superintendent of the Nursery Class. She is also interested and active in Leadership Training in the Bible
School.

1915
Etta
Ave.,

Ruth
.

J.

West

Buss (Mrs. U. Guy Evans)

lives at

106 York

Pittston, Pa.

E. Pooley

is

a teacher in Bloomsburg public

schools.

Frances Smith (Mrs. Van Lewis)
R. D. No. 2.

lives at

Factory-

ville. Pa.,

Gretchen Houser lives at Taylor, Pa. She was elected president of the Scranton Delphian Chapter this year.

1916
Dr. V. J. Baluta

is

a physician at Shamokin, Pa.

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Dorothy M.
land

St.,

Fritz, teacher, lives at 1718 WestmorePhiladelphia, Pa.

Ray D. Leidick
Laura
T.

I.

lives at

Tremont, Pa.

Breisch lives at

W. Winter

lives at

Bound Brook, N.

J.

430 Anthwyn Road, Narberth,

Pa.

Claude

L.

Moss

lives at

232 Tremont

St.,

Tonawanda,

N. Y.

Catherine Mason (Mrs. Boyd Hagenbuch) lives at

Shavertown, Pa.

Anna Morgan

lives at

333 E. Main

St.,

Nanticoke, Pa.

1917

Ruth Smith

is

a teacher in the schools at Centre Hall,

Pa.

Marie Crcmis is Supervisor of Music at NorthampShe lives at 1922 Washington Ave.

ton, Pa.

Bertha Broadt

is

teaching in Hazleton, Pa.

Marion Genevieve Kline

is

a teacher in the schools

of Mt. Carmel.

Gertrude C. Lecher
54 Terrace St.

is

teaching in Wilkes-Barre. She

lives at

Grace H. Lecher (Mrs. John Hughes)

lives at

Kings-

ton, Pa.

Mary

Flaira

McManus

is

teaching

in Erie,

Pa.

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Myrtle E. Bayant
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

is

a teacher in Hill St. School,

Allen L. Cromis lives at 334 Vine
J. Clair

Patterson

is

33

St.,

Milton, Pa.

located at Miiflinville, Pa.

Louise Joney (Mrs. William Thomas) lives at Lang-

bome. Pa.

He

Guy Brunstetter lives at Little Neck, N. J.
cashier of a bank in that city.

is

1918

Martha O’Brien (Mrs.

Irvin F.

Thomas)

lives

in

Bloomsburg.
Elizabeth Moyle, teacher at Kingston, Pa., lives in

Plymouth, Pa.

Helen R. Becker

lives in

Plymouth, Pa. She

is

teach-

ing in Kingston.

Edna Deiby (Mrs. Clyde

J.

Blecher) lives at Blooms-

burg, Pa.

Florence Altmiller (Mrs. Conrad Walters)
120 N. Pine St., Hazleton, Pa.

Edna Aurand, Principal of Custer
Barre, Pa., lives at Dallas, Pa.
B.
ville,

Donald Sands

is

St.

lives at

School, Wilkes-

teaching in the schools at Orange-

Penna.
Zala A. Smith is a teacher
is Benton, Pa.

home address

in

Gibbstown, N.

J.

Her

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Elizabeth
S.

Main
C.

MacDonald (Mrs. A.

J.

King)

lives at

2G6

Street, Pittston, Pa.

Ruth Henry

is

teaching

in

the high school at Tow-

er City, Pa.

Esther Conely

(Mrs. Carlos Bell)

lives at

Thorn-

hurst, Pa.

Lola Inez Gotshall lives at Morrisdale, Pa.

1919

Kathryn Walborn (Mrs.
in

Forrester Labagh) lives

J.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Mrs. R. L.

Shuman

lives in

Catawissa, Pa.

1920
Clara N. Santee
at

is

teaching

in

the Junior High School

Conyngham, Pa.
Grace E. Gotshall

lives at Dublin, Pa.

Lawrence Cartright

lives at

2810 Oxford

St.,

Phila-

delphia, Pa.

1921

Lawrence R. Cherrington is working with his fatherin-law, Harry S. Barton, Insurance & Real Estate, Bloomsburg. Pa. Mrs. Cherrington was formerly Dorothy Barton, of the class of 1923.

Arlene Weiss (Mrs.

J.

R. Gardner)

lives

at East

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Rockaway, N. Y.
Pauline Miller lives at 1228 Oakwood Ave., NorMiss Miller is a member of the Junior High
School faculty. She is a special teacher in art. She is also
doing extension work at State College.
S.

ristown, Pa.

Gladys J. Flynn lives at 12F, Coe Ave., Hillside, N.
Oda H. Behr is teaching in Lopez, Pa.

J.

Christina Nagle (Mrs. Paul White) lives at Riverview, Berwick, Pa.

Fred A. Ringrose is now Director of Music
High School of Indiana, Pa.

At
cille

six o’clock in the

in

the

morning, August 9, Miss H. Lubecame the bride of William

Shaffer, of Rohrsburg,

The ceremony was performed at
Shingletown Gap, near State College. The bride received
her degree at Pennsylvania State College at the close of
this year’s summer session. She has been a successful
teacher in the schools of Columbia County for several
years, and will teach in the junior high department of the
Mainville Consolidated School during the coming year.
Mr. Kile is a very successful farmer in Greenwood Township, Columbia County.
Kile, also of Rohrsburg.

1922

Marion R. Hart (Mrs. Perry
yngham. Pa.
Adele C. Snyder

lives at

Archie Litwhiler

is

620

L.

S.

Smith) lives at Con-

Main

St.,

Coatesville,

Pa.

1923
teaching

in

Scranton, Pa. His ad-

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dress

is

905 Woodlawn

OVAKTE KLY

St.

Hilda O. Chaykosky
High School. Her address

is
is

teaching

Jermyn

in

the Greenfield

R. D., Pa.

On Thursday afternoon, August 16, at 4.30 o’clock.
Miss Hilda Albertson, of Berwick, became the bride of
Hobart F. Heller, also of Berwick. The ceremony took
place in Lock Haven.
Rev. Herman F. Gohn, pastor of the German Lutheran church of Lock Haven, a college classmate and fraternity brother of the groom, read the ring ceremony.

The

anad Mrs. H. F. Ala graduate of Berwick
High School and of Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College,
and has been a highly successful teacher in the Berwick
schools. The groom is a son of Nathan Heller, of Market
street, and is a graduate of Berwick High School and Getbride, the daughter of Mr.

bertson, of East Fourth street,

is

He taught

in Berwick High School until
has been serving during the summer
session of Bucknell University as teacher in charge of
teacher training work in mathematics and goes to WilkesBarre in September to teach mathematics in the new Junior College department of the Wilkes-Barre schools.

tysburg College.

June of

this year,

After a dinner in the blue room of the New Fallon
Hotel the couple left upon an automobile tour including
points of interest in
will be at

home

New York

State and Canada.

to their friends after

September

They

first

at

446 Elm Ave., Kingston.
Marjorie
dress

is

Gamble

is

teaching at Steelton. Her ad-

Sugar Run, Pa.

M, Augustine
Towanda, Pa.

Sister

School,

S.

is

teaching at the

St.

Agnes High

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In the presence of friends and relatives who filled
the auditorium of the First Baptist church and before a
beautiful flower banked altar, two of Bloomsburg’s most
highly esteemed young people were united in marriage
at

noon Tuesday, June

26,

when Raymond H. Edwards,

of Stone Church, N. Y., son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. B. Edwards, of East Eighth street, took as his bride. Miss Mary
Alice Shipman, daughter of Jacob Shipman, of East Third
street.

ciated

Rev. E.

J.

Radcliffe, pastor of the church, offi-

and used the impressive double ring ceremony of

the church.

As maid of honor was Miss Helen Edwards, sister of
the groom, while Miss Patricia Shipman, sister of the
bride, and Miss Mildred Edwards, sister of groom, were
the bridesmaids. The groom’s man was Richard Vastine,
of Shamokin, a fraternity brother, while John B. Girton
and Norman Hoffman, of town, were the ushers.

The bride is a graduate of the Hughesville High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, class
of 1923, a class of which her husband was president, and
for the past five years has been a successful teacher in the
Harrisburg schools. For some time she was employed in
the business office at the State Teachers’ College.
Mr. Edwards is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School, Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and Bucknell University and during the coming year will complete
his work at the Rochester Theological Seminary. He is
now pastor at Stone Church, near Rochester, N. Y., an.d
has been successful as assistant pastor of a Batavia, N. Y.,
church.

1924
Peter C. Jafflin
Berwick, Pa.

is

teaching in the Junior High School,

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i\Iarian K. Andrews is teaching Art in the Wynnewood Road School at Ardmore. Her address is 4653
Hazel Ave., W. Phila., Pa.

Ruth
District.

L.

She

Tempest is teaching in Lower Merion School
is making her home with Marian K. An-

drews.

Dora B. Wilson (Mrs. J. Vaughn Risley) announces
the birth of a daughter, Jean Wilson, March 22, 1928.
Adeline E. Swineford

Alma Thomas

is

is

teaching at Berwick, Pa.

teaching music in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Hartman is an art teacher and
Wilmington, Delaware.

Irene

29th

St.,

Edith M. Behr

is

lives at

407

W.

teaching sixth grade at Lopez, Pa.

Ruth Stevens (Mrs. Frank Wilso)n

lives at

Port Re-

public, N. J.

Dorothy Stevens (Mrs. Robert R. Malcolm)
1098 Valley

St.,

McKees Rocks,

lives at

Pa.

Mrs. Wm. D. Gclightly lives at Eastwood, Syracuse.
N. Y. She is teaching in the schools of that city.

1925

Saturday morning, August 4, at six o’clock. Miss Beadaughter of Mrs. Sarah M. Geisinger, of

trice Geisinger,
Millville,

became the bride

of Clifford F. Johnson, of

Bloomsburg, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Johnson, of Mulridge, Nebraska. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. H. C. Stenger, Jr., pastor of the Millville Methodist
Church, and was witnessed only by the mother of the

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Following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
on a honeymoon during which they visited many
points of interest in the West, and spent a week with the
groom’s parents in Mulridge.
bride.
left

The bride has, for the past three years, been teaching in Odd Fellows’ Orphanage at Sunbury. Mr. Johnson
is a graduate of the Mulridge High School and the Bradley School of Horology at Peoria, Illinois. For the past
two years he has been employed at the jewelry store of
J. E. Roys, in Bloomsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are now
living in Millville.

Miss Grace M. Troxell, of Winfield, a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, class of 1925, and
Francis L. Shaffer, of Sunbury, were married in June at
the First Baptist Church, of Bloomsburg, at noon Saturday. Rev. E. J. Radcliffe, pastor of the church, and a
friend of the couple, performed the ceremony.

Following the ceremony the couple left on an extended honeymoon to Niagara Fails and the West. Upon
their return they will reside in their newly furnished home
at 1316 East Market street, Sunbury.

The groom since his graduation from the Sunbury
High School in 1921 has been employed as a teller in the
First National Bank at Sunbury and is also employed by
the Sunbury Daily. The bride for three years was a successful teacher in the Sunbury schools.
Evelyn Waters

is

is

teaching at Edwardsville, Pa.

Betty L. Daniels is teaching at Taylor. Her address
117 E. Atherton Street.

Deborah A. Williams
is N. Main Street.

dress

is

teaching at Taylor. Her ad-

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Minnie Gregart is teaching and her address
Barney St., Plymouth, Pa.

is

77

Miss Elizabeth Davenport, Salem township school
teacher, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Davenport,
of Hick’s Ferry, and Edward Holmes, of Bethel Hill, were
united in marriage Saturday, June 23.

The bride is a graduate of Shickshinny High School,
and the Blcomsburg Normal School, and has been employed as teacher at the Walton school in Salem. The
groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Holmes, of Bethel
Hill. He has been employed as truck driver with Lee
Turner, of Beach Haven. The couple will make their

home

at Hick’s Ferry.

Miss Winifred Flaherty, of Bloomsburg, and Edwin
Kraus, of Mays Landing, N. J., were married Tuesday,
July 24, in St. Columbia’s Church, Bloomsburg. Mr. and
Mrs. Kraus spent their honeymoon in Washington, D. C.,
and Virginia, and are now living in Mays Landing.

The wedding of Miss Alice Ludwig, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Ludwig, of Muncy, formerly of Bloomsburg and Berwick, and Walter Weidler, of Camden, N. J.,
was solemnized on Wednesday, June 27 in the chapel at
Valley Forge.

The bride

is

Berwick high school
Bloomsburg and has been

a graduate of the

and
engaged as a teacher in Camden for the past several
years. The couple will reside in Camden, where the bridegroom is the proprietor of the Central Pharmacy.
of the Teachers’ College of

1926

ceremony in the First Methodist Church
Thursday morning, August 16, Miss Mary

In a pretty
at six o’clock

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Elizabeth Bomboy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Ellsworth Bomboy, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Herbert E. Ralston, of Hazleton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Ralston, also of Bloomsburg.

They were attended by Miss Evelyn Bomboy, a sisRoy Ralston, Jr., a brother of the groom
Miss Editha W. Ent and Marion T. Adams. The ceremony
was witnessed by members of the immediate families and
a few close friends.
ter of the bride

;

Following the ceremony the bride and groom
a trip through
will

be at

home

New York
at

left

on

Upon their return they
121 Putnam street. West Hazleton.
State.

The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School, class of 1923, and of the Bloomsburg Teachers’
College, class of 1926. For the past two years she was a
successful teacher in the Sunbury schools.
Mr. Ralston is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School, class of 1922, and holds a responsible position
with the West Hazleton Floral Company. Both have a
legion of friends in this section who wish them much
happiness.

ceremony at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Berwick, at six o’clock Saturday evening, July 14, Miss Mae Clara Bonham and Zehnder
Whitenight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Whitenight, of
Rochester, N. Y., were united in marriage by the Rev.
R. Skyles Oyler, pastor of the First Methodist Church of
Berwick. Mrs. Whitenight has been a teacher in the Berwick schools for the past two years. The groom is a graduate of the Berwick High School, and is employed in the
offices of he New York Central Railroad Company, at
In a beautiful

F. R.

Bonham,

in

Rochester.

Miss Cora Ohl, daughter of Mrs.

Anna

E. Ohl, of

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Bloomsburg, was married to Lewis F. Phillips, of Newark,
N. J., son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Phillips, of Catawissa,
Saturday morning, June 2, at the parsonage of the Reformed Church of Bloomsburg. They are now living at 3
Ridge Street, Orange, N. J. Mr. Phillips is a telegraph
operator for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and is employed
at the

Broadway

Station at

Margaret Colburn

is

Newark.

teaching in Hazleton. She lives

at 69 South Poplar Street.

Henry is teaching in Wilkes-Barre.
50 Cedar Street.

Her

She

lives

Lucille P.

address

is

Helen

is teaching
Atherton Street.

L. Daniels

at 117 East

D. Lucille
dress

is

Kaufman

is

in Taylor, Pa.

teaching

in

Hazleton. Her ad-

437 West Oak Street.

Arlene E. Sweet is teaching in the sixth grade
Lewisburg, Pa. She lives at 100 North Third Street.

in

Thelma M. Saylor lives at 102 South Walnut Street,
Kingston, Pa. She has been serving as a substitute teacher in the Kingston schools.
Margaret A. Kraft is teaching in West Hazleton. Her
address is 323 North Broad Street.

Mary A. Kuchta

teaching at Alderson, Pa.
Alderson, Pa. She is teaching at Center Moreland, Pa.
Lolita

VanScoy

is

lives at

1927

Anna
She

is

E. Gerringer lives at Danville, Pa., R. D. No. 2.

teaching near her home.

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teaching at Wyalusing, Pa.
Emily Goldsmith is teaching in the primary grades
at Dallas, Pa.
Orice

is

Wilma M.
wick, Pa.

Dietterick lives at 544 Green Street, BerShe has recently been elected teacher in the

Berwick schools.
f*hillip
ville.

Harris

is

manager

of a

creamery

at

Hepburn-

Pa.

Naomi Bender

is

Mildred Lowry
teacher

in

teaching in Sunbury, Pa.

lives in Forest City, Pa.
the Forest City Schools.

She

is

a

Miss Blanche Oliye Schultz, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lawson G. Schultz, of Millville, was united in marriage with Chauncey W. Oakley, son of Rev. and Mrs.
Williston W. Oakley, of Kingsley, by the Rev. Alvin E.
Teichart. The ceremony took place in Scranton Friday,

June

1.

The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School, class of 1925, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, class of 1927. She has been teaching music
and art in the Genesee High School for the past school
term.
Mr. Oakley is a graduate of Hartford Vocational
H’gh School and of the Mansfield State Teachers’ College. He was employed as assistant principal ifi the Genesee High School last school year.

The bride and groom will spend the summer at KingPenna., and will make their home in Ambridge,
Penna., where Mr. Oakley is employed as a teacher in the
Ambridge Junior High School for the coming school term.

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Sterling B. Strausser, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Dorothy Ferry, of Danville, were married Tuesday, June 5,
at East Stroudsburg. The bride was a student nurse at
the Danville State Hospitala. Mr. and Mrs. Strausser
will make their home at Mt. Pocono, where the groom has
accepted a position as principal of the grammar school.
.

Mrs. F. H. Jenkins recently had an interesting letfrom Mrs. Alice Carver Green, daughter of Prof.
Henry Carver, founder of the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, which later became the Bloomsburg State Normal
School. She is now living at 648 North Oakland Avenue,
Pasadena, California. Prof. Carver came to Bloomsburg
in 1866, and left in 1871. Mrs. Green has never been back
to Bloomsburg. She has three sisters living: Mrs. Della
Barnes, who lives at Ramona, Cal.; Mrs. Ida Hogg, of
Canon City, Colorado, and Mrs. Jennie Wolfe, of Denver,

ter

Colorado.

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