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THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

DECEMBER, 1928

BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

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PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
of the

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
December, 1928

Vol. 30

No.

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

H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12
F. H.

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Jenkins,

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THE COLLEGE TOWER CLOCK

Common

conveniences and equipment of a College

are ordinarily taken as matters of course. Little thought
is

given to

how they came

to be at

back of most such things there

hand
is

for our use. But

a story

of

human

endeavor.

The college clock faces us at every point of the comIts warning voice or must hands direct our steps to
meet important engagements. How did it happen to be
there? Well, it did not happen. Back of that is an interpass.

esting story.

Among

other improvements in the late ’90’s the trus-

remodel the front of Carver Hall. The
present imposing front facing the town, including the

tees decided to

clock tower,

was

erected. But no clock

was available

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other words, there was no cash on hand to provide the

windows were boarded up, blind eyes
a beautiful tower. By the way, did you ever notice its

clock.
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circular

suggestion of Independence Hall

—not a

duplicate, but a

similarity of outline?

At that time William Housel was the efficient steward at the Normal School. He saw the need of a clock and

made

the proposition to the trustees to secure

cost to the institution.

it

without

His plan was briefly this:

The

large eating stand at the Fair Grounds could be rented

and dinner served

crowds at a fair profit. He decidbuilding and serving a turkey dinner

to the

ed to try renting this

each day during the Fair.

The students and faculty
in

of the school

were

the project. Volunteer waiters were secured.

enlisted

Some

do-

made by dealers from whom regular supplies
were purchased and the plan went forward with great
enthusiasm. Good weather prevailed and large crowds
were in attendance. It was a successful project from

nations were

every standpoint.

Mr. Housel then went to

New York and

with about

seven hundred dollars as his assets from the plan, bought
the clock and

had

it

installed without cost to the school.

Later someone conceived the idea that a small clock
face looking toward Waller Hall would be a convenience

about thirty feet

An

was run up
above the clock and the proper mechan-

to those .living in the dormitory.

ism installed to connect the hands
the rest of the clock. This

according to Mr. Housel’s

extension

in this

was paid

letter.

smaller face with

for by the trustees,

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There is one strange feature about this whole affair.
Although there are many who remember how the clock
was obtained, no one can tell when it was placed in the
tower. Records and Board Minutes have been searched,
but no mention of it can be found. It all took place during the administration of Dr.

J. P.

Welsh

— 1890

to 1906,

but the exact date has not been determined. The cut

in

the 1898-99 catalogue shows the picture of Institute Hall

before the tower was remodeled. About 1900-01 the

tower was

built,

but no clock face shows. The cut in the

1902-03 catalogue shows the clock in place and

we have

evidence
This

is

new

of the date of

its

is

the best

appearance.

a belated thank you to Mr. Housel,

now

resid-

ing in Philadelphia, and a reminder to those students and

others
its

who

trust

helped, that the good old clock

and

is still

is

faithful to

keeping watch over each successive

generation of students with as fine a tone and as accurate
in

schedule as

it

did in

its

youth.

Here’s hoping that someone will remember the date
and place a little marker upon the clock to give a few
details of its origin and credit to whom credit is due.

ATHLETICS

Bloomsburg’s football team

this season

gave a good

itself. The season opened with Kutztown at
Kutztown and the boys brought back the bacon. West

account of

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Chester climbed Mt- Olympus the following week and
got so wrought up over Greek Mythology that they took

away

Shippensburg, already flushed with

a 13-0 victory.

came

victory over East Stroudsburg,

Bloomsburg the

to

next Saturday but had to leave with the short end of a
13-7 score. For the

the succeeding

met

coal
is

week

time

to the

in history,

our team traveled

western end of the

soft coal at California, Pa.

smudge on

their noses.

Hard

state.

All that can be said

that our boys were royally treated but

a 6-0
a

first

came back with

Another week end brought

Lock Haven invasion and a 12-0 victory.
IMansfield visited us for the next

game, and Blooms-

burg amply revenged a 1927 defeat of 40-7 by worsting
the mountain boys by a couple of touchdowns.

Wyoming Seminary. Everything was
except the score.

Then came

splendid that day

was “home coming” day, and hun-

It

dreds of Bloomsburg’s loyal sons and daughters were

They saw the defeat

here.

had high hopes of

may

be said that there hangs

ture of the last
is

victory.

of a

Bloomsburg team that

For general information
in

the athletic offices a pic-

team that beat Wyoming

at Kingston.

covered with dust and shows signs of age.

allowed to dust

oming
say

it

it

until a

at Kingston.

No

one

It
is

Bloomsburg team can beat Wy-

With considerable emphasis the boys

can be done next year.

We

The Wyoming game took
leader, Capt.

it

Kraynack

nut for the season, as

shall wait

its toll.

of Plymouth,

was

and

see.

The

inspirational

was

injured,

and

also Kirker, another important

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players out

string

first

Stroudsburg for the
resulted.

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backfield man.

from the

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game

final

so the season

weakened condi-

—the

boys met East

of the year.

A

ended with four

12-0 defeat

victories

and

four defeats.

MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY ATTEND CONFERENCE

A number

of the

members

of the faculty

of the

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College took part in the seventh annual conference of the Teachers of the State Normal Schools and State Teachers’ Colleges held at West
Chester State Teachers’ College Thanksgiving week.

members

In order that all

of the faculty

might

at-

tend the sessions the College closed for the Thanksgiving
recess on Saturday noon

and sessions resumed Monday

noon, December third.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal at Bloomsburg, pre-

sided at the general session Tuesday evening.

M. Hausknecht, local bursar, presided at the conference of that group during Tuesday afternoon while
John C. Koch, Bloomsburg, dean of men, presided at the
morning conference of the deans of men.
C.

Miss Marguerite Kehr, of Bloomsburg, spoke

“How May

the

Dean

of

Women

on

Best Enlarge the Social

Experience of the Students’’? at the conference of the

deans of women.
Miss Irma
tians.

Ward

presided at the conference of

dieti-

H. F. Fenstemaker spoke at the conference of

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“Rearrangement and

Modification of Content of Foreign Language Courses in
the Pennsylvania State Teachers’ Colleges”.

During the meeting of the geography group H. Harrison Russell gave the report of the syllabi committee. E.
H. Nelson presided at the conference on physical education

and Miss Pearl Mason spoke

at the librarians’ con-

ference on “Report on Uniform Syllabi in the General
Ifibrary Course”.

“Physical examinations and

What They Reveal” was
Maude Kline delivered

the subject of the talk which Miss
to

the nurses, while Miss Alice Johnston spoke to the oral

English group on “Language of the Body”.

At the

Reams spoke
Based Upon State and

social studies conference E. A.

on the subject “Some

Map

Studies

National Elections” and at the conference of the teacher
training faculties Miss

Edna

J.

Hazen spoke on “Student

Teaching and Conferences”.

At the round table conferences on Wednesday afternoon Profe.ssor John Fisher represented Bloomsburg.

DR.

AND

MRS.

HAAS ENTERTAIN AT DELIGHTFUL
SOCIAL EVENT

Haas delightfully enterhome on Light Street Road

Dr. and Mrs. Francis B.
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The guests were the

of the board

of trustees of the State Teachers’

members

of the college faculty, the school

College, the

boards of Bloomsburg and Berwick and the teachers in
those towns engaged in teacher training work, and their

husbands and wives.
There were about two hundred who enjoyed the eve-

The home was beautifully decorated with cut flowand Alexander’s orchestra furnished music. Delicious

ning.
ers

refreshments were served consisting of chicken a

mushrooms, buttered

rolls, coffee,

la king,

nuts and mints.

NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY

new members of the
work at the beginning of

Several
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tehir

QUARTERLY
of the

is

faculty andved to take

the

first

The
the members

semester.

pleased to present them to

Alumni Association.

Miss Alma Caldwell replaces Miss Harriet Moore,
who was granted a year’s leave of absence for study at

New York

University.

Miss Caldwell did her undergrad-

uate work at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.

She studied music for one year at the University of California, and received the degree of Master of Arts at Columbia University. She has taught in the schools of Nogales, Arizona, Holtcille, California, Oakland, California,

and Los Angeles.

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Supervisor of Teacher

Training in the primary grades in the Berwick Schools.
She received the degree of Bachelor of Science at Colum-

She has served as teacher and principal

bia University.
in
tle

in

the schools of Grand Haven, Manistique, Holland, Bat-

Creek and Mt. Clemens,

all of

the above

cities

being

IMichigan.

Robert E. Clark
Music.

He

is

teacher of Voice

in

the School of

who

succeeds Miss Eleanor P. Sands,

teaching at Northfield, Mass. Mr. Clark

is

is

now

also Director of

the Bloomsburg Civic Chorus, and the Men’s Glee Club in

Berwick.

Mr. Clark has studied at the University of

Iowa, and Chicago Musical College, and has also studied
with Victor Herbert.

He was

Wanamaker Church

Philadelphia, and was Director of

in

Director of Music at the

the Training School for Music Leaders at Columbia Uni-

San
PT’ancisco where he was Director of the School for Song
Leaders, which was conducted by the Y. M. C. A.
versity during the war.

After the war, he located

in

Marjory McHenry is teacher of Piano in the School
of IMusic. She was graduated from Bloomsburg in 1924,
and later studied at Columbia University. She received
her Diploma from the Institute of Musical Art, New York
City, in 1927. She also took the teacher’s coui’se- conducted by John M. Williams, nationally known authority on
child methods. She gave private lessons in New York for
one year.
Miss

Mary

garten, which

E. A. Merritt has charge of the Kinder-

was reopened

last year.

She

of the high school at Hollywood, California.

is

a graduate

She received

the Kindergarten and First Grade Certificate at the University of California in 1919.

She received the degree of

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at the same institution. She taught in the Kindergarten
at Long Beach, California, from 1917 to 1927.
Miss Ruth Beery is the training teacher of first grade
in the College Training School. She received the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in Primary Education at the Western
State Teachers College, Gunnison, California. She has
taught in Bui’lington, Colorado, Las Animas, Colorado,
B.S. at

Dillon,

Montana and Gunnison, Colorado.

All subscriptions expiring August, 1928, have been

March, 1929. All Alumni that have sent in
their renewal in response to the notice of expiration have
been credited with payment of 1928 dues and the subs- iiption extended to May 31, 1930.
extended

to

COLLEGE ENTERTAINS COLUMBIA COUNTY

TEACHERS

The

finest social

event ever held

in

connection with

was the College reception to the teachers in the College gymnasium Tuesday evening, December 4, when three hundred fifty teachers in the county
and town schools and at the college were present.
a county institute

E. H. Nelson

iirogram and

it

that every one

and

S.

I.

Shortess had charge of the

v^as not long after the reception

was acquainted and having a

opened

fine time.

The gymnasium was beautifully decorated

in blue.

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orange and white and Alexander’s orchestra furnished a
line program of music. Novelty dances were a feature.

Many who did not care to dance enjoyed cards in room
K near the gymnasium. Punch was served during the
evening.

and lecture course of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College opened Nov. 21 at 8:15
o’clock when Dr. George Earl Raiguel, in the College
auditorium gave the first of a series of five lectures and
spoke on ‘.A Political Survey in the United States”.
This year’s

artists’

About 30 enrolled Nov. 6 in the Scout training course
is being given by the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College. The course is directed by Earl N. Rhodes.
which

Hundreds of Bloomsburg Teachers’ College alumni,
many of them returning for the first time in several years,
spent Nov. 17, 1928 in Bloomsburg for the annual Home
Coming Day and although many were keenly disappointed at the football game all were pleased with the fine program that had been worked out by the faculty and l?tudents for their entertainment.

Some

Bloomsburg Friday night
but the majority reached here during the morning or early
of the alumni reached

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witnessed by more graduates than was the game Sat-

afternoon.

urday.

An

game was enjoyed by many while

ing the

dinner

informal get-together in the gymnasium follow-

Hundreds

in

the

gymnasium

Sat-

The gymnasium was

beautifully decor-

the College colors and music

was furnished by

urday evening.
in

number had

and guests had a merry

of alumni, students

time at the dqnce which was held
ated

a

the College dining hall at six o’clock.

in

Alexander’s Orchestra.

The Bloomsburg
audiences
cotte’’,

13, in

Civic

Chorus delighted two large
the comic opera “La Mas-

when they presented

by Audran, on the evenings of December 12 and
the High School Auditorium. The Director of the

member of
another member

opera was Prof. Robert F. Clark, a
faculty.

Prof. S.

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Shortess,

ulty,

played one of the leading

roles

were played by Harold Moyer,

’06;

Rowland Hemingway,

’09

’05; Elizabeth Kessler Kashner, ’23;
’21.

;

R. Bruce Albert,

Milleisen Elwell,

and Maree Pensyl,

The male chorus was made up largely

of the College, find

it is

of the fac-

Other principal

roles.

’05; Sara

the college

of students

needless to state that the Alumni

Normal were well represented in both the men’s
Mr. Clark and his Civic Chorus are
greatly to be complimented for the contribution they are
making to the cause of good music in Bloomsburg.
of Old

and

ladies’ choruses.

The Music Department of the College is sponsoring a
series of “Good Music’’ hours during the winter. The

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was given in the College Auditorium,
Sunday, November 18 at 2 :30 p. m. All lovers of music
are welcome. The program was as follows:
first

of the series

Aria from

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Trovatore. Verdi; Hindu Chant,

berg; Ave Maria, Gounod, Miss

Alma

Rem-

Caldwell.

Schumann; Romance F Major, Schumann; Souffrance, Sievesking, Miss Marjory McHenry.
Noveletten,

By the Bend of the River, Edwards; Do Not Go, My
Love, Hageman, Miss Alma Caldwell.
Ballade

A

Major, Chopin, Etude C Minor, Chopin,

Etude E Major, Chopin, Miss Marjory McHenry.
I’ll

sing

Thee Songs

Woolforde-Finden

Bells,

of Araby, Clay;
;

Kaskmiri

Song,

The Temple
Woolforde-

Finden. Miss Caldwell.

As the second number of the College Entertainment
Course, a delightful program was presented by the Boston
fifty

Women’s Symphony

Orchestra, an organization of

talented musicians.

Miss Ethel Leginska, internat-

known artist, is conductor of the orchestra. The
program opened with the overture, “Russian and Ludmilla’’, by Glinka. Following this the orchestra played
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, always a favorite with music lovers.
Miss Leginska then played and conducted
Liszt’s “Hungarian Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra’’.
Following this the orchestra played the Dance of the
Clowns, from the opera “The Snow Maiden’’ by RimskyKorsakoff. The program closed with the Overture “Rienzi’’, by Wagner. This was one of the finest and most expensive attractions ever brought to Bloomsburg, and it
ionally

delighted a capacity audience.

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1874

Samuel Lloyd Sheep, a former resident of Derry town4:28 Monday, October 30 at his home in
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, at the age of 72 years.
He was the son of the late Matthew Sheep, He was a
graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School class of
74 and taught in the schools of Montour and Northumship, died at

berland counties for several years, later going to Elizabeth City w'here he had been superintendent of the schools
of that place for 50 years.

He

is

survived by three sons

and three daughters.

The Elizabeth

City “Independent” printed the fol-

lowing editorial at the time of Mr. Sheep’s death
If

riches

a good

name

is

rather to be chosen than great

Samuel Lloyd Sheep has

left his

children a greater

heritage than silver or gold.

If

kind hearts are more than coronets and simple

faith than

Norman

blood, in the passing of S. L. Sheep,

Elizabeth City has lost a regal citizen.

His interest

in

people, particularly in children, of whom he knew by
name more perhaps than any other man in Elizabeth City,

was one

of his

most pronounced

traits, as

was

ene faith and quiet courage, neither of which,

also a serin

the face

of disappointment or trial, ever faltered.

If a

man’s success

in life is to

be measured

in

terms

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who

is

servant of

all,

if

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he really

is

greatest

among us

surely hardly has Elizabeth City

ever honored a greater soul than Samuel Lloyd Sheep.

Thus it is that today not only his children
call him blessed but also a great host of those
has taught and who have taught under him.

To

us

from

failing

up

to

whom

he

rise

hands he threw the torch that

years ago he lighted in the Albemarle. Be ours to hold

it

high

J.

K. Bittenbender lives on Route No.

1,

Upper Marl-

boro, Marfland.

1889

Benjamin Apple, of Sunbury, Pa., has been elected
Northumberland County.

State Senator from

1890

Onandaga Street, SyraSurgeon-in-Chief of the new Onandaga

Dr. T. L. Deaver lives at 677
cuse, N. Y.

He

is

General Hospital which has just been completed.

Dr.

Deaver has the following to say about the hospital “It
is one of the most efficient institutions of its kind in the
United States. It has every modern facility, and is beautiful throughout. I extend to you all a very cordial invitation to come and see it. Do not wait until you are sick.
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Come and

see,

Shamokin, Pa., has been
Congress as Representative from the Sev-

Frederick
re-elected to

and be kept well.”

W. Magrady,

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enteenth District.
Rev. Foster U, Gift
tion

in

Superintendent of Instruc-

Motherhouse Training

Baltimore, Md., has recently written another

book. The

new book

Lutherans as Keybooks.
title

is

of the Lutheran Deaconess

School

new

who

of this

new

book. In

one

is

in a series

“The Ministry
it

known among

of

Love”

is

the

Dr. Gift treats of such things

Work, Ministerial Pensions, National Lutheran Council and June Missions. We rejoice that Dr. Gift
was selected for this fine work. This is his third book. His
others are “A Compendium of Christian Doctrine”, and

as Deaconess

“Week Day

Religious Education”.

1898
R. Daisy Klutz (Mrs. L.

H. Brown)

lives at

619 East

Washington, D. C. She is Secretary of the
Stanton Park Citizens’ Association, and is also Historian
of the District of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher
Capitol Street,

Associations.

Her husband

is

Assistant Paymaster at the

Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D. C. Mr.
and Mrs. Brown have two children, a daughter who is a
student at George Washington University, and a son who
is

high school.

in the

1885

Fred Holmes, (Edith Ent) of West street,
Bloomsburg, has rounded out 45 years of service as organist of the Fii-st Methodist Church and her faithful services over that long period of years were recognized at
Mrs,

ye.sterday morning’s service at the church.

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There M'as a large bouquet of roses placed on the
organ and a letter thanking her for her

fine services v^’as

given her by the official board of the church. Rev. H. F.

Babcock, the pastor, spoke of this exceptional service during the morning services.

1886

Jeremiah Reeder is still teaching Garfield School,
Shamokin. He has been Principal and teacher there since
1897. He is living at 909 East Sunbury Street, Shamokin,
Pa.

1889
Miss Lulu C. Briggs and James P. Grimes, well

known

were quietly married Aug. 15 at
of the bride, corner of Third and
Jefferson streets, by Rev. Harry F. Babcock, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. J. K. Adams, of
town. The wedding was witnessed by a few friends.
Bloomsburg

residents,

9 :30 o’clock at the

They

home

will reside in

Bloomsburg. Mr. Grimes

is

em-

ployed at the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and
both he and the bride have

many

friends in this section.

1895
Mr.

W.

A. Shuping visited the school on Sept. 26,

1928, and called on some of the teachers
school at that time.

He had

here thirty years ago.
great changes.

It is

who were

in the

not been back since he

needless to

left

say that he saw

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Danville, Sept. 16.

— Danville Rotary Club paid hon-

or to Professor D. N. Dieffenbacher, retired supervising

weekly meeting this
evening. He was the guest of honor at the dinner at
Round Top Inn, near Muncy.
principal of the public schools, at

D. E.

its

Edmondson, president, was chairman and Prof.

DeWitt Jobborn, secretary of the club, spoke
work of Prof. Dieffenbacher during his long term.

J.

of the

Prof. Jobborn eloquently detailed his connection with

the

work

of the retired official

with the schools.

and traced

He dwelt upon

his connection

the ideals which the

guest of honor had set up for the children of the com-

munity, and told of his interest in civic affairs. Prof. Job-

born remarked that the influence set up was an everlasting

monument which would be remembered by gener-

ations.

1901

The following from the Public Ledger concerning
Nevin Elwell Funk, son of N. U. Funk, of Espy Road, who
has been named assistant general manager of the Philadelphia Electric Company, will be of interest to his classmates

:

The appointments

of Nevin Elwell

Busell Bryans as assistant general

Funk and Henry

managers

of the Phila-

delphia Suburban Counties Gas and Electric Company,

have been announced by William H. Taylor, president.

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and a

graduate of Lehigh University, began his career with the
Philadelphia Electric

man

Company

in

1907 as assistant fore-

in the station electrical construction division. In

1915

he became assistant operating engineer and two years

lat-

was made operating engineer. In 1926 he became assistant chief engineer and on the death of William C. L.
Eglin last February he was named as his successor as
er

chief engineer.

He

is

a

member

of the

American Society

of Mechanical

Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers,

National Electric Light Association, American Society for
Testing Materials and the American Mathematical Society.

Louise Larabee

is

now

living at the Hotel Grenville,

Honolulu, Hawaii.

1905
Ida Sitler

is

teaching

in Hollins College, Hollins, Vir-

ginia.

1906

Norma

L.

Hamlin

lives at Falls, Pa.

She

is

postmis-

tress at that place.

1909
Robert Wilner was ordained into the ministry in St.
Stephens Church, Plymouth, Pa., in June, 1928. He and
Mrs. Wilner
ila in

who was Alfa Stark

(1912), sailed for

September, 1928. Their address

Perah, Manila, P.

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is

Man-

567 Calle Isaac

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(Mrs. Frank Buck.)

The following

was received from St. Augustine, Fla., since the hurricane: “We were hit by the storm but nothing like they
were at Palm Beach and Belle Glade. Belle Glade is the
place where the Florida East Coast R. R. had begun buildletter

ing a

new

railroad to reach the sugar plantations and

some celotex

home

is

Everything was wiped out.

factory.

very near the water and

we

Our

got the full force of

The wind
blew up the shingles until the whole east side of the house
leaked. The water just bubbled up inside the screens and
simply flowed in and down the walls. We were mostly
afraid of the trees, for they kept falling all around us. It
the seventy-five mile gale for thirty-six hours.

was
to

as hard a storm as

know

ever care to see.”

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We

are glad

that our friend and classmate survived that ter-

rible hurricane

without any more serious damage.

1911

Edna Lewis (Mrs.

E. J. Robinson) lives at 1547 Far-

well Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

she states: “I

am

always so glad

In a recent letter

to receive

my

Quarterly.

Being out here among strangers, I look forward
ing, as it is like a breath from home.”

Lottie Spangler,

California.
California.

now

Her address

is

Mrs. M. A. Loose,

to its

is

com-

living in

Verduga Rock, La Crescenta,

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Mabel Smith is married and lives at 64 West Street,
Tunkhannock, Pa. Her married name is Mrs. R. B. Ward.
1911

George D. Wilner
ita,

is

Kansas. His address

Professor of Dramatics in Wichis

1526 North Holyoke Avenue,

Wichita, Kansas.

1913
Dr. C. J. Bennett has charge of a hospital in

Oak

Creek, Colorado. Dr. and Mrs. Bennett have one child, a
little girl.

In a quiet
ents,

ceremony

at the

home

of the bride’s par-

Mr. and Mrs. William Wolfe, of East

street, their

daughter. Miss Letha M., became the bride of Orval Bennett, son of P.

Y. Bennett, of tov^m. Dr.

Norman

S.

Wolf,

Matthew Lutheran Church, officiated at the
ceremony which was witnessed by members of the immediate families and a few close friends.
pastor of St.

The bride and groom are among Bloomsburg’s most
esteemed residents and they have the best wishes of a
host of friends. They were attended by Miss Esther Ke.ster and Guy McBride, of Bloomsburg.
Following the wedding, breakfast was served at the

Wolfe home with the table decorations yellow and white.
The bride and groom then left for Hamilton, N. Y., where
they will reside at 47 Main street.

The groom

is

a graduate of the

Bloomsburg State

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He received his
member of the

faculty of Colgate University, at Hamilton. Mrs. Bennett
is

a graduate of the Bloomsburg High Shcool and for sev-

eral years has

business office

been a most efficient worker in the local
of the Bell Telephone Company.

George Yerg, principal of the Lewistown Junior high
i^chool, died November 2 in the Geisinger Hospital where
he had been a patient for two weeks suffering with ulcers
of the stomach, for v. hich he underwent two operations.

He was

a graduate of the Turbotville high school

and

Bloomsburg Normal, and taught at Yeagertown before
becoming principal at Lewistown ten years ago. He is
rairvived by his wife and two sons, Bindley, aged nine, and
Donald, aged 3, and by five brothers and four sisters.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, November 7, at

of

one o’clock at his late home with burial

Mary
Laris,

E. Heacock’s

new address

in

is

Lewistown.

2879 Catawaba

Chickasau Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee.

1914

Beulah Fowler (Mrs. R. B. Thomas)

1027A
Her husband
holds a responsible position with the S. S. Kresge Company. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have one son, aged two years.

Commodore Avenue,

St.

lives at

Louis, Missouri.

1915
Mis? Marion Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Miller, of Iron street,

Bloomsburg, lectured

in

Williams-

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D. C. Black, of that city.

home

of Mrs.

The Williamsport Gazette and

Bulletin published the following concerning her lecture
to the College

Club

:

Miss Marion Miller, one of the lecturers from the
.Metropolitan

Women’s

Museum

of Art, spoke last evening at the

club house to the

members

of the College club

and their guests on “The Homes and Furnishings of the
Colonial Period”. Miss Miller spoke entirely of the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum and her lecture
was accompanied by a complete set of beautiful slides
showing the interiors of American homes beginning with
the early 17th century and carrying on to the Constitutional or Federal period.

Furniture arrangement; the textiles, some imported
from India and others made by the colonists; the ceramies; silverware and china were all clearly shown in the
slides and were commented upon by the speaker.

Miss Miller was a delightful speaker and her descrip-

and explanations of the various types of period furwere distinctly interesting. Some of the rooms
shown in the slides w'ere taken from the Hewitt house on
Long Island, others from the Powell house in Philadelphia, and still others from the Beekman house in New
York city.
tions

niture

Miss Miller’s address
Street,

Apartment

6-8,

is

325 East Seventy-Second

New York

City,

New

York.

1917
Mrs. Horton Bell (Mabel

Dymond) has moved from

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Mrs. Davis T. Smales, whose
Avas

Mary Agnes

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name while

at school

Warner, lives at Laceyville, Pa., Rural

2,

1918

David B. Miller

is

now

living at

3400 Franklin Ave.,

Des Moines, Iowa.
Clyde A. Miller

is

building this year a combination

Business and Apartment Building at Danville, Pa.
also an operator

and repairman

He

is

of electric pianos in this

part of the state. In a year or so he
the business of handling and selling

is

all

planning to enter
kinds of store

fix-

tures.

1919
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Birch, of Bloomsburg, an-

nounce the marriage of their daughter, Martha Elizabeth, to Floyd Leon Cole, of Lewisburg, Pa., Monday, July
30, 1928, at Edinboro, Pa.,
tist

by the pastor of the

Fir.st

Bap-

church. Rev. Ivan M. Sherve.

The bride Avas a student of the Bloomsburg High
School, and of the Bloomsburg Teachers’ College. Mrs.
Cole has been teaching History in the Pennsauken Junior
High School, of Merchantville, NeAv Jersey, and returned
there September the fifth.
1920

&

’25

Miss Jane Meenahan, daughter of Attorney and Mrs.
John Meenehan and a teacher in the Kulpmont schools,
died at her home here from pneumonia. She was a grad-

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1924
Miss Pearl Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E.
Pollock, of Bloomsburg,

became the bride

of Clifford

Snook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Snook, of Hopewell,

New

Jersey, in a quiet

evening,

November

Milford,

New

ceremony performed Wednesday

7, at the Presbyterian

parsonage at

Jersey.

The bride

is

a graduate of the Bloomsburg

High

School, class of 1922, and of the Teachers’ College, class
of 1924.

For the past three years she has been teaching

at Pennington,

New

as a surprise to

many

Jersey.

News

of the

wedding came

friends in town.

Five years ago a group of young men, then

in their

Senior year at the Teachers’ College, had a banquet and

pledged to meet in five years on the evening
Wyoming-Bloom.sburg game.

at that time

of the

On Saturday

that group were back and of the

not attend most of

was

Magee most of
small number who could

night, Nov. 17, at Hotel

them had

sent messages of regret. For

Bloomsburg since graduation, and to all, guests of the class included, it was a
night that will be long remembered for it was made vivid
with reminiscences of school days and with happenings
a

in

few

it

their first visit to

the lives of each of the class.

The majority

of those at the banquet

were members

were attending College
part of the time that the members of the class were there.
of the class of 1924 while others

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member

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pledge made to meet

in reunion-

All declared that

was
meet

it

great to be back with the gang and the motion to

here again on the evening of the home-coming day of 1930

met with unanimous approval and every one

at the ban-

quet signed the pledge.

Frank L. “Ace” Buss, of Wilkes-Barre, and F. H.
“Shack” Shaughnessy, of Manheim, both prominent members of the class of 1924 were the two men responsible
for arranging the dinner and they were given a hearty
cheer. Mr. Buss happily presided as toastmaster.

The program opened with the singing of “Alma
Mater” with “Normal” used in the song in place of “College” for it was Normal when the fellows were here.

Manager Johnston served an
waffle dinner

in

the private dining

excellent chicken and

room

at the hotel

and

the time went swdftly by as the fellows told of their lives
since leaving Bloomsburg.

Some

had not seen each other since
happy reunions. Many
a laugh climaxed the telling of a story of school day
pranks and few remained in their chairs when the pre.slding officer called for all who had been on “campus”
of the fellows

leaving school and there were some

part of the time to stand up.

them also graduates, entered into
the meeting and the program was made even

Guests, several of

the spirit of

more delightful by

their contributions.

The group was delighted with the
tendered to

all

cordial reception

of the alumni by the faculty

and student

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displayed by

the undergraduates, even in the face of defeat.

Every fellow pledged

come

to

do his best to aid

in getting

and declared they were
back of the team. “BiH” Partridge, who played on
the Maroon and Gold team two years, told the group he
had made a resolution to see every Bloomsburg-Wyoming
game until Bloomsburg won and that thus far he has seen
athletes to

to the College

solidly

every contest.
fine spirit

Many

of the fellows fell in line with the

displayed by “Bill” and promised to see every

now on

one of the games from
efforts of

A

until victory

crowns the

Bloomsburg.

plea for every fellow to put his shoulder to the

wheel and aid Bloomsburg athletics
celebrate a

Wyoming

victory

so that they could

when they meet

in

1930

brought a ringing cheer.

Most of the fellows who are back have been

in

the

teaching profession since graduation. Several are heads
of their departments in special fields while one

and another a school

cipal

In planning for the

open

it

is

a prin-

director.

1930 dinner the crowd voted

to

not only to those at the dinner Saturday night and

others who had been at the first dinner but to all men who
were members of the class of 1924. The committee in
charge of the 1930 dinner is composed of William Partridge, of Trevorton; Harold Llewellyn, of Wilkes-Barre,

and Edward Schuyler, of Bloomsburg.
Those attending were: F. H. Shaughnessy, Manheim John Kanyuck, Nanticoke F. J. Matos, Forest City
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W.

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Gordon Llewellyn,
Parsons; Thomas R. Rowland, Scranton; Arthur M. Abbott, Catawissa George Sack, Catawissa Frank L. Buss,

ton; Walter P. Benninyer, St. Johns;

;

;

Wilkes-Barre; Patrick

J.

Kane, Forest City; William

J.

Joseph M. Gallagher, Tresckow
Edward F. Schuyler, Bloomsburg; F. R. Geiegle, W. H.
Partridge, Trevorton; James W. Reynolds, Ashley; Peter

Jones, Edwardsville

Sincavage,

Sugar

;

Notch;

Roy

C.

Bennett,

Scranton,

Harold Llewellyn, Wilkes-Barre, and Charles Shipturas,
Sugar Notch.

ley,

On Tuesday morning, November 20, Miss Ella Freiddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Freidley, of Benton,

became the bride

of Clayton C. Robbins, son of Mrs.

Eva

Robbins, of Orangeville.

The wedding was performed by the Rev. James V.
Lewis, of Pittston. The couple was unattended.

The bride

is

a graduate of the Benton Vocational

School, class of 1924, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, class of

1926.

She

is

also

an accomplished

pianist.

The groom attended the Benton Vocational School
and for the past six years has been employed as a painter
by the Orangeville Manufacturing Co.

The romance started when the young people attended high school. The couple are two of the up-creek’s most
popular young people. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins are on an
extended weddings trip.

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At a dinner and bridge given by Mr. and Mrs. R. B.
Aul at their home in Espy Friday evening, November 30,
they announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss
Geraldine K. Aul, to Carl M. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
S. S. Davis, of Espy. The young couple is among the most
esteemed in this section.
Both Miss Aul and Mr. Davis were members of the
class of

The

1924 of the Scott Township High School.

bride-to.-be

also a graduate of the

is

Teachers’ College and

is

now

Hershey schools. Mr. Davis

is

Bloomsburg State

a successful teacher in the
a graduate of the Pennsyl-

vania State College, class of 1928, and during his college
career was a

member

of the State track team.

He

is

now

vocational supervisor in the high school at Bellville.

Clara D. Abbett of Rupert, Pa.,
governess

in a private family.

is

now engaged

Her address

is

as a

Elkins Court

F-3, Elkins Park, Pa.

1925
Miss Gladys A. Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry

S.

Richards, of West street, and one of Bloom.s-

burg’s best

known young women, and Willard Kleckner,

son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kleckner, of Shickshinny, and

one of that town’s most popular young men, were married

December

1 at

the First Methodist Church of Blooms-

burg by the pastor, Rev. H. F. Babcock.

They were attended by the brother-in-law and
of the bride, Mr.

chantville, N.

ceremony.

J..

sister

and Mrs. H. Stanley Kleckner, of Meiand parents of the couple witnessed the
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Mr. and Mrs. Kleckner

motor

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left

Seigfried, near

Northampton,

Pa., af-

The bride is a graduate of the Hazleton High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, and has been
a successful teacher in the Hazleton schools.

Mr. Kleck-

ner is a graduate of Shickshinny High School and State
College and for the past two years has been assistant superintendent of transmission for the Pennsylvania

and Light Company

at Hazleton.

He was

Power

recently trans-

ferred to Seigfried.

1926

—

As a surprise to their many
came the announcement Nov. 18 at a dinner party
at the Kitchen home, 209 Main street, of the engagement
of Miss Thalia Kitchen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Kitchen, one of Catawissa’s best "known and most esCatawissa, Nov. 18.

friends

teemed girls, to Gilbert Cooper, of Coatesville, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Cooper, Glen Lyon, who was prominently identified with athletics and other college activities when he attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College.

Both the bride-to-be and Mr. Cooper are members of
the class of 1926 of the State Teachers’ College and have
a number of friends throughout this section. Miss Kitchen for the past three years had been a successful teacher
in

the Catawissa schools and Mr. Cooper

visor of the public schools at Coatesville.

is

now

aid super-

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ceremony in the First Methodist Church
August 16, two of Bloomsburg’s best known
and esteemed young people were united in marriage by
Rev. Harry F. Babcock, the pastor, when Miss Mary Elizabeth Bomboy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Ellsworth
Bomboy, of c96 West Main street, became the bride of
In a pretty

at six o’clock

Hei-bert E. Ralston, of Hazleton, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Roy

Ralston, of 415 Fair street.

They were attended by Miss Evelyn Bomboy, a sister of the bride Roy 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.
;

Following the ceremony the bride and groom
a trip through
will

be at home

The bride

New York
at 121

State.

Putman

left

on

Upon their return they
West Hazleton.

street.

a graduate of the Bloomsburg High

is

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

a graduate of the

is

Bloomsburg High

School, class of 1922, and holds a responsible position with

the

West Hazleton

Floral

of friends in this section

Company, Both have

who wish them much

a legion

happiness.

1928

Dorothy V. Jones

Her home address

is

is

substitute in Pittston

High School.

16 Charles Street, Pittston, Pa.

Claude Miller of Pond
shinny Junior High School.

Hill, is

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nue, Lewistown, Pa.

teaching in the third grade, Ber1132 Orange Street, Berwick, Pa.

Phyllis Callender

wick.

Her

addre.ss

Irene Ellis
is

is

is

is

teaching in Edwardsville. Her address

96 Short Street, Edwardsville, Pa.

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TRAINING

PROPOSED

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PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMM ASSOCIATION
of the

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Entered as Second-class Matter, July I, 1909, at the Post Office
under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year

H. F. Fenstemaker, ’12

Jenkins,

F. H.

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Business Manager

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THE NEW TRAINING SCHOOL

Plans for the

new

training school building of the Teachers’

College provide for an unusually complete plant for the grades

which are used as a laboratory for student teachers.
expected that bids on the construction of the building,

It is

which

is

two

stories high

feet in size, will

A
pupils

is

large

be asked

tion teacher

suites of

about 60x160

month.

can there teach a

College observing

will

accommodate 80

lesson with

the

work.

80

A

demonstra-

students of the

Several classes

thus

repetition of the lesson eliminated.

rooms are provided

suite including a session

an

is

real features of the building.

may be grouped and
Seven

this

demonstration room that

one of the

Teachers’

with basement and

in the

building, each

room, group room and cloak room and

office for the training teacher.

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first floor will

and two, the demonstration room and a health room
vided with

all

facilities for

of the

basement

In the

children, a storage
arts’

is

is

needed for such work.

facilities

both boys and

that

girls

pro-

Toilet

are provided on both floors.

a large play

room or gymnasium

room and provision

made

is

for

for the

industrial,

rooms.

On
suites,

the second floor are a teachers’ rest room, others of the

two extra

class

rooms that can be used for the college

classes or for expansion of the training school.

The group rooms are
Instance

accessible to

and may be used from

Work

either

two

room

has almost been completed on the

emergency lighting system

rooms

class

in

every

as desired.

placing of

an

in the college auditorium, the corri-

dors in Waller and Noetling halls and the

fire

towers.

REUNION CLASSES

The following

1874

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Class officers should begin

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staff will

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to get ready to

year’s meeting even better than the one held last

The Quarterly

June

classes will hold their reunions next
.

make

this

May, and that

in the history of the school.

be glad to furnish mailing

lists.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
To

All

Bloomsburg Alumni:

Another school year
of our annual

is

in its closing quarter,

Alumni gathering

of our meetings of the past
the present,

—

and the

;

is

and the day

The successes

drawing near.

the achievements of our school

prompt

possibilities of the future,

this

at

mes-

sage to you.

No

small

endeavoring

amount of the pleasure

to fulfill the

honor and

been realized

in

has been mine

in

that has

trust that

serving as your President, has been found in the Annual Alumni

meetings of the past two years.
the large attendance,

and the

The response of our alumni,

interest

and enthusiasm which has

been manifested on these occasions, have been of
the pleasure which has been felt
inspiration

which

surance which

it

it

has given the student body, and

in

in the

the as-

and confidence

in

of

our school, and those

are directly connected therewith.

Two

years ago, in our message,

we

prophesied that under

was

as-

many

vis-

the leadership of President Haas, Bloomsburg’s future

sured.
ible

;

has manifested to the trustees and faculty

the College, of our faith

who

real value in

by those who attended

Now we

urge you to come back and see the

evidences of the truth of our prophecy.

maintenance of the standard of
has always stood, you will see

efficiency, for

In addition to the

which our school

many marked improvements

the physical equipment, buildings, etc., of the College.
probability,

In

in
all

by Alumni Day, the construction of the new $125,-

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The money

be under way.

for this

and the plans are already prepared.

available,

will

endeavor to have a pleasing program, and a good

We

especially urge the

members

of the classes which

are scheduled for reunions this year, to plan

per cent, attendance.

This will require

the part of class officers, but
this year’s

it

some

can be done.

for one

hundred

special

work on

Let us again

make

meeting “the Best Ever.”

With sincere appreciation of the loyal support and co-operation of the past

Bloomsburg and

;

with best wishes for the future success of

all

her Alumni, and with an earnest hope that

you may meet with us on Saturday, May 25th,
Very

I

am

truly.

FRED W. DIEHL,
President Alumni Association.

THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE ART LEAGUE
AND ITS WORK

The Art League
burg

is

composed of

to year.
ty years.

It

of the State Teachers College at Blooms-

the Faculty

has been at work

It

really

the Class of 1903.

began
It

its

and the Senior Class from year

in the

school for

work with

upward

of twen-

the efforts and gift of

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Each year the Senior
faculty, sponsors

an

Class,

art exhibit

guided by some members of the

by which

it

raises funds to pur-

chase pictures and other objects of art to enrich the school and

enhance

its

environment.

Its

purpose

is

expressed by the

fol-

lowing membership card
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ART LEAGUE BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
is

a

member

of the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College Art League.

The purpose

of the league

is

—^To adorn our walls with the best procurable copies

of

the masterpieces of the ages.

2

To develop

interest in art, a discriminating

and appreciation
best in

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To

in

our students for the

judgment,

finest

and best

all fields.

give the out-going teachers a knowledge of the cor-

rect principles of

schoolroom decoration, and to edu-

cate them in methods of advancing the cause of school-

room adornment.
4

To

unite in the enjoyment of every beautiful thing.

The work

of the league during the last twelve

been very gratifying indeed.

number

of beautiful pictures,

From year

to

It

months has

has added to the collection a

some

year the exhibit

of

is

them very

rare treasures.

usually based on the Elson

Collection which has been furnished to the public for

many

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by the Elson Art Publishing Company of Belmont, Massachusetts.

The funds

raised in this

way

are spent for copies of their photo-

graphic reproductions of the masterpieces of the world suitable
for

Some

schoolroom decoration.

dition to these the exhibit
prints

from other

is

in

touch with a veritable local art

about 400 masterpieces and learn to
art

and something of the schools of

ities

how

to secure

and what

The

know

museum

of

names

in

the great

and love the best

art

in pic-

give.
The prospective teachers, too,
and handle an exhibit in their own commun-

world has to

tures the

learn

by beautiful color

Thus each year our school

art establishments.

and town can come

In ad-

of these are in color.

usually enhanced

is

suitable for schoolroom decoration.

class of

1

928 through

their exhibit

purchased a large

photographic copy of the Milan Cathedral and of Burnes-Jones’

Golden

Stairs.

The

class of

1

929, as a

The Pioneers by Robert W. Amick
in

Blue by Whistler for the

of

result

its

purchased

exhibits,

for fifth grade, the Nocturne

office of the

Dean of

Women

and sev-

eral others.

In addition to these

ed

its

pledge to raise

new

$150

ings purchased last spring.
raise this

to

pictures the Class of

pay

929

fulfill-

work was due

greatly

the play “Applesauce.”

They

This piece of

money they presented

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for the framing of the etch-

to the effort of their class president, Mr.

Theodore Davis.

To

were trained by the able and always self-denying head of the
Department of Dramatic Expression, Miss Alice Johnston.
Last
of $241

,

March the members of the

faculty subscribed the

for the purchase of nine very fine etchings,

presented to the school.

It

was

this

sum

which were

group of pictures that were

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were

as

follows:

Rose Bonheur’s “The King Watches,” etched by Dickree; “InMilan Cathedral,” by R. C. Brewer; “Ratisbon Cathe-

terior of

dral,”

by A. Brewer; “Rouen Cathedral,” by L’Hermit; the

St.

Michel Cathedral, by Delanney; “Willows Whiten and Aspens

Quiver,” by Debarner; “Out of the Mist and the Rain,” by Herbert Fedeola;

ing,”

“The Wood Gatherer,” and “The Shepherd Rest-

by Thomas

G.

Appleman.

two

corridor of Waller Hall;

The

stairway of Carver Hall.

Of these

in

portraits of the

and State Superintendents were
in

five

hang

in the

main

Noetling Hall, and two on main

also

former principals

framed uniformly and hung

the auditorium.

The

Class of

to use their

1918

at their tenth reunion

(1928) decided

fund for pictures, and purchased beautiful copies of

Rembrant’s Old Man, etched by Waltner, and Night Watch, etched by Koeffing, for the stairway of Carver Hall.
unusual etchings, valued at

The
a very

Class of

$200

1930 decided

These are both

each.

to purchase another picture of

remarkable copy of VanDyke’s Children of Charles

We

ed by Laguillmir.
place in the

Two

New

Training School

W. Funston,

corridor of the second

etch-

may eventually find its
Building now being planned.
this

engravings presented to the school

fine old steel

Mrs. Charles

riage of

hope that

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of the Class of

1887 now hang

story of Noetling

Hall.

Titles:

by

in the

“Mar-

Pocohontus” and “Christ Rejected.”

The Art League of the school during these years
functioned

— from

work was done by

1909
gifts

to

1929

— (though

from the classes of

1

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has

really the pioneer

903 and

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Mary

early as 1901 Mrs.

partment, did the

initial

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work by placing

terpieces of art on the walls

several copies of mas-

of the schoolrooms

four art

in

works of

windows through

Literary Societies

and

Y.

They have

art.

C. A.

and

W.

Y.

to

commemorate
50th

schools’

class of

memorial tablets
ter of a
J.

the

;

anniversary

one to Prof.

Wm.

its

contribuin

1920,

graduation of the

They have

teachers.

“Philo”

Alma Mater

the

of

li-

The alumni

C. A.

gave the Tiffany Memorial “Truth and Virtue” as
tion to the enrichment of the life of their

the

placed

also

“Callie” and

the aid of the

M.

in

many hundreds

brary) have earned for the school’s adornment
of dollars, invested

and

Noetling,

also

added three

who gave

a quar-

century of superb service to the school; one to Dr. D.

Waller,

Jr.,

who

served as principal of the institution for a

period of twenty-nine years, and one to the Founders and Trustees of the school

who

for

many

made

years

success of the school their chief concern.

stermaker
fulness

is

now chairman

and enthusiasm has

and more worthwhile cause of

own

There are many phases of

not yet been touched, so
that will enrich

many

the institution

and we hope

petty

this art

F.

Fen-

its

use-

interests in the

their institution

pect bigness of soul, unity of work, and
tion.

Howard

Only as faculty and

begun.

student body forget for a time their
larger

Prof.

of the League,
just

the interests and

growth

in

may we
any

ex-

institu-

development that have

growth and development

lines of

and enhance

its

work.

should be formulated wisely and pursued persistently

These
through

In this way only may we hope for the lives
and pupils to be enriched and the work of the institution enhanced and the community in which our college lives,
be made an ideal college town, a cultured, intelligent, growing

the years to come.
of teachers

people.

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0. H. Bakeless.

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P'or several

years a strenuous effort has been put forth by

the school authorities to modernize

home

a

for

young women

and improve Waller

The

students.

old dangerous stair-

ways were removed some time ago and four
with stairways substituted

Hall, as

fire-proof

towers

A commodious

in strategic locations.

and beautifully furnished lobby now occupies the space of the
old stairway and hallway and business offices.

The plans of renovation provide
three upper stories
ing the rooms

and hallway,

feature, however,

the space

;

is

to

of the stairway, a

room

or reception

The aim

is

to

floors, in

lobby or

students of

floor

and

is

most

that

sat-

have each of these rooms models of

The idea was conceived and

commencement

920

m

for the

small

and comfort.

taste

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have on each of the three upper

The work has been begun on fourth

floor.

isfactory.

remodeling of the

now under way.

is

made by removal

general gathering

for a

putting in concrete flooring and redecorat-

to

the

unite in raising a fund to decorate

so far as

movement

started

last

have the classes which have graduated since

no provision

is

made

and furnish these rooms

for this purpose in the general

funds.

We

are glad to say the project was received kindly and re-

sponses have been coming
ating.

From time

in.

The fund

to time a report will

is

gradually accumul-

be given

in the

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Thus far about $414 have been pledged or paid

treasury on the lobby fund.
lars.

Any

We

want about two thousand

Art League, and

it

will

treasurer of the fund.

“What we

give

much more

we

to us as

Howard

Fenstemaker, President of

F.

be acknowledged, and turned

We

urge

we

will

who have

N. Polaneczky

Atilla

Walter Krolekowski

Edith Davis

Hummel

Teloiv R.

Wagner

Hilda Robinson

Helen Welliver

Helen Ceppa

Mary

Gamble

L. Fruit

Mary

Flick

Clara E. Fisher

Ada

Mowrey
P. Morgan

L.

Minnie Peter

Elias

Doris Moses

Viola M. Kline

Oda H. Baer
A. L. Lenahan
Hannah Golightly

Dorothy V. Jones

Anna Albert

Lois Pfahler

Gertrude Flowers

Marjorie Davrs

John B. Timco

Bronwen

F.

Rees

T. A. Wakefield

Margaret

Jean E. Young

Hazel M. Zigler

Kate D. Becker
Viola V. Clark

Thomas Welsko
Maude Fenstermaker

Olive Scott

Lois Dodson

Clare

Lowenberg

mean

given either

Schoen

Edith M. Behr

Stephen A. Lerda

the

so

sacrifice for her betterment.

cash or pledge

Mildred M.

in to

to contribute to the fund.

all

have,” and our Alma Mater

Following are the names of those

I.

dol-

pledges or cash can be sent to Mr. C. M. Hauseknecht,

Business Manager, or Mr.

Marjorie

into the

J.

Jones

Jean C. Conner

Sylvia

Cimmet
Lydia Bohn

Katherine E. Ball

Helen Bonet Baer

Delma

Ruth A. Baines
E.

Myers

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Marian K. Andrews

Frances Pensyl

Arline Hettler

Gertrude A. Ruoff

Marian A. Dennis

Orice Dodge

Fannie R. Kaswitz

Lillian Ottaviani

Laura Zielenski

Margaret Sumner

W. H. Kashner

Mildred Phillips

Ruth Klingerman

Dorothy Goss
B.

M. Robbins

L.

Crouse

Ruth A. Weber

Mary Youtz
Catherine

Margaret

Mildred Taylor

Fear

J.

Jennie Whitenight

Estella Goldsmith

Celia M. Krzyzanski

Mildred Hankee

Mrs. Herbert

Ruth Beaver

Verna Fetterman

Lugg

Mordan

Elva L. Ruckle

Bessie

Arlene Johnson

Beatrice Englehart

Pearl Poust

R.

Carl D. Blose
F. Beatrice

Williams

Pengo Bolles
Henry F. Rohde
Helen R. Kellam

Dorothy Gilmore

Elizabeth Maroney

Mary M. Polya

M. Edna Girton

Margaret Berlew

M. Gerald Sheridan

Sister

Donahoe

Margaret Krapp

Joseph

Elizabeth Rhoades

Richard D. Lowell

Erodue M. Ruggles

Lillian

J.

Wagner Chamberlai

Bessie A. Singer

Mary

James H. Sterner

Virginia Gallen

L.

Healy

Helen Stangert

Hugh VanAernam

Helen Kramer

Helen Jenkes

Ira C.

Markley

Anna W. Pursel
Anna Nancy Zorskas
Christine Smith

Carolyn Ciampi
Bettie

J.

Roberts

Dorothy E. McCollum
Elizabeth Davis

Grace Welter

Eva

L.

Lloyd

Virginia M. Lewis

Ida Steinert

Beatrice Sanford

Doris Palsgrove

Dorothea Geiss

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Mildred Bohn

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Margaret Lewis

Adelaide Bahr

Marjorie A. Orr

Alice M.

Ellen Rupert

Betty McNanimin

Katherine Smith

Jaenette Lesser

Helen Spare

Mary

M. Agnes Sweeney

Kathryn Foye
Edna A. Kulick

.Arthur Jenkins

J.

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Mary Dushanko
Ebba Carlson

Allinda B. Krause

Gladys

Margaret Shepherd

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Marcella Lipsky

Hirsch

Margaret Keller

Helen Owens

Margaretta Bone

Ethel Roberts

Alice Shields

Marjorie M. Hofmeistcr

Josephine M. Mozukewicz

Dora Wilson Risley

Gladys

Ammerman

New York

State Education” for November,

following concerning a former

member

Normal School

at

928, has the

of the faculty:

Doctor Howard G. Burdge has resigned
cipal of the State

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his position as prin-

Fredoma where he has

serv-

ed for the past five years.

Doctor Burdge received

his early

education in Ohio

normal school training at Bloomsburg, Pa.
Allegheny College and received
umbia.

His early

professional

his

He

—

his

a graduate of

is

M. A. and Ph. D. from Col-

experience

was

school principal and superintendent of schools.

that

of high

From 1918

to

1921 he was director of research and vocational training in the
New York State Military Training Commission. In 1922-23 he
was assistant director of the Educational Finance Inquiry under
the

American Council of Education.

He is the author of ‘‘Our
a statistical study of boys in industry in New York State,
and he has collaborated on several other books.
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ATHLETICS

The college boosts

the championship of the eastern district

for the basket ball season just closed.

This district includes 8

Normal Schools and Teachers Colleges.

Every one of the

was met by Bloomsburg.

schools in the district

East Strouds-

burg was the only school to boost of as much as an even break
with our squad.

In this case each

team won one game, but

in

other respects East Stroudsburg had to surrender any claims to

Bloomsburg.

Our old

rival,

Wyoming Seminary, was

also a

worthy foe during the season and each school has one victory

to

Academy won

a

its

credit.

game

By a two

point margin Bucknell

This was the only gam.e in which the col-

Bloomsburg.

at

lege

was beaten on the home

that

was

A

floor,

with the exception of a

game

forfeited because of ineligibility of a visiting player.

team that can turn

in a season’s

record of 10 victories

and 3 defeats against such teams as Shippensburg, West Chester,

Wyowing and

East Stroudsburg,

others of

equal caliber

is

well worthy of note.

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—At Home—Alumi 32;
—At Home—Kutztown

The season’s schedule:
W'ednesday, Dec. 12
Saturday, Dec.

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S.

T. C. 60.

S. T. C.

33

S.

;

T. C. 58.

Saturday, Jan. 5
Saturday, Jan.

1

—Away— Lock Haven
2 —Away — Shippensburg 32
12;

S. T. C.

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48.

S. T. C.

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—At Home—Wyoming Seminary

18

28;

S.

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Saturday, Jan. 19

—At Home—

Bucknell Freshman 41

;

S.

T. C. 39.

Friday, Jan. 25
S. T. C.

—At

Saturday, Feb. 2
S.

Home

—Shippensburg

T. C.

32;

S. T. C,

37;

S.

50.

—Away—

East Stroudsburg

T. C. 36.

Saturday, Feb. 9
S. T. C.

—At Home—West

Chester

S. T.

C.

39;

40.

Friday, Feb. '15

—At Home—

Mansfield

S.

T. C.-S.

T. C.,

Forfeited.

Saturday, Feb. 16

—At Home—Lock Haven

S. T. C.

25;

S.

T. C. 57.

Saturday, Feb. 23

—Away—

Mansfield

S. T.

C.-S. T.

C.

—

For-

feited.

Friday,

37;

S. T. C.

March

1

—At Home—

East Stroudsburg

S. T.

C.

44.

Saturday, March 2

—Away—Wyoming

Seminary 31

;

S.

T. C. 28.

Saturday, March 9

—At Home—

Millersville S. T. C.

34;

S.

T. C. 38.

Friday March 15; Saturday, March 16; Friday, March 22;
Saturday, March 23

by Mahanoy

City.

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ball activi-

the school closed with the 8th annual High School Tourn-

ties at

Teams

ament.

good showing

hoped

that

districts

The

A. A.

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tries in

college acts as hosts to the vis-

way

every

Changes

and worth while.

much more

own

in their

teams and

who have made a
and who have the official

are invited for competition

sanction of the P.
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to

in the

make

gymnasium have made

from the spectators point of view and

suitable

by next season proposed projects

thereby adding

stay pleasant

their

much

will

it

it

is

be completed,

to the success of the annual spring tourna-

ment.

The tournament

list:

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March 15th.

Friday,

9 00 A. M.
:

Twmp.

vs.

—

Larksville vs. Mainville

Luzerne:

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—Coal

0 00 A. M.:

—Mahanoy

City vs. Dickson

—Wyoming Newport Twp. 2:00
M. — Hershey
Duryea; 3:00
Hazleton
00
Twp.
4:00
M. — Bloomsburg
City;

12 M.

vs.

;

vs.

vs. Plains

P.

ville vs.

P.

;

5

:

—West
M. —Dan-

M.

Freeland;

vs.

P.

P.

Hanover.
Saturday, March 16th.

2:30
hanoy City
land;

vs.

9:00

—
M. — Bloomsburg

M.

P.

P.

Larksville vs. Coal

Newport Tw'p; 8:00

Friday,

8:00
Duryea

vs.

P.

M.

—

M.

P.

M.

—Duryea

—Ma-

vs. Free-

Hanover.

March 22nd.

Coal Twp.

Hanover.

vs.

Twp; 3:30

P.

vs.

Mahanoy

City;

9:00

P.

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9:00
lianoy City.
P.

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City vs.

Duryea.

Winner

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Previous tournament winners have been:

922

Newport.

1923

Newport.

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Wilkes-Barre.

1

925

Taylor.

1

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Newport.

1

927

Nanticoke.

1

928

Nanticoke.

too early to say

mind the Alumni of the

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we would re
928 Alumni Day game which saw Wymuch about

oming Seminary humbled 3-2.

baseball, but

The same

attraction will be here

(May 25). Come and
Bloomsburg team make Wyoming bite the dust.
for

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Lossers play for 3rd and 4th places Saturday 8

Alumni Day

this spring

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3 —Wyoming Seminary —
20—Shippenburg
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26—Shippensburg
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The schedule:
April

April

April

There.

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S.

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May 4 — Kutztown
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May 8—
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May
—Lock Haven
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May
— Stroudsburg
May 8—
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May 25 —Wyoming Seminary —
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April

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Mansfield

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S. T. C.

There.

S. T. C.

Here.

Here.

S. T. C.

E.

Mansfield

S. T. C.

There.

There.

S. T. C.

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Here.

S. T. C.

East

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There.

Here.

E. H. Nelson, ’ll.

NAMED TO BOARD TRUSTEES

William

S.

Johnson, of

Berwick,

district

manager

of the

American Car and Foundry Company, has been named a member of the board of trustees of the Teachers’ College here, suc-

ceeding William
of business
filled

and

L.
ill

Groce, of Selinsgrove,

who

The appointment

health.

resigned because

of Mr. Johnson has

the only vacancy which Existed on the board.

A

daughter, Jane Louise, was born October 5 to Prof, and

Mrs. George

J. Keller.

Mrs. Keller was formerly Miss Eleanor

Evans, daughter of County
Evans.

Superintendent and

Mrs.

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A

very successful banquet of the Luzerne County Alumni

was held

ing

Mr. D. T. Mah-

Wilkes-Barre, February 6, 1929,

in

oney, ’09,

who was

in

charge of the

sends us the follow-

affair,

—

communication regarding the banquet:

Dear Alumi:

—

That the Bloomsburg Alumni Banquet held
ington, February 6, 1929,

which

want

hear expressed by

I

was a

those

all

to state also that our records

success for the

sum

of one

I

attended the
that

affair.

was a

it

opinion

the

is

and the net proceeds

deficit

(Banquet held

I

financial

in

is

al-

1920)

hundred dollars ($100.00).

want

purchased
in

who
show

of the donations

most enough to clear up the old

success

social

Red-

at Hotel

to thank all those

tickets,

who made

and especially

all

donations,

those

who

all

those

who

so loyally aided

the sale of tickets.

The group was highly pleased with the speakers and
tainers:

Mrs. Daniels, Mrs. Henshall, Mr.

Zeiser,

Mr.

enterSutliff,

Mr. Bakeless and Dr. Haas.

Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal of the State Teachers’ College

has been invited by the

New

Jersey Educational Commission to

join with six other distinguished educators in

the

New

making a survey

of

Jersey school system.

Four of these experts have been selected from
sey and the other three are from out of the state.
of the survey

school system

is

to provide a plan

may be improved.

New

Jer-

The purpose

whereby the New Jersey

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TEACHER TRAINING AGREEMENT APPROVED

The teacher
1929-1930

training

as submitted

agreement for the

by

term of

school

Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal of the

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, has been accepted by the
Bloomsburg school board and passed with the recommendation

and the college allow the contract

that the district

to

remain

in

force from school year to school year unless either party wishes
to terminate

Such action must be taken before April

it.

first

preceding the next school term.

The contract
school district
there

is

as submitted

by

substantially the

is

Dr.

Haas and accepted by the

same

although

as last year,

a slight change in the wording.

The terms

of the contract follow

“The Board

of Directors authorize the Teachers’ College to

use the schools of the district for teacher training subject to such
regulations as

may be made by

the superintendent

of the

dis-

trict.

“Each

class

room used

for teacher training shall

approximately 50 per cent, of the time by the teacher

employed by the
“It

is

be taught
in

charge

district.

specifically

understood that the college

from the school immediately any student teacher

will

withdraw

at the request

of the superintendent.

“The

college will use only such teachers

teacher training

work and only such teachers

-

as desire
as are

to

do

mutually

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“The

legal salary schedule for cooperative teacher training

approved by the State Council of Education of Pennsylvania gov-

who

erns the additional salary for teachers

are designated for

teacher training work.”

Never before has the agreement between the

district

and

the college been entered into so far in advance of the opening
of the school year which

affects

it

and never has there been as

opposition to the agreement on the part of

little

The board expressed the opinion

board.

the present school year

was working out

members

of the

that the agreement of
to the

mutual benefit

of both parties.

The Berwick school

approved a

board has also

similar

agreement for next year.

Bids are being asked by the Teachers’ College for the erection of

an entrance

into Waller Hall at the northeast corner

just opposite the post office

which

located in

is

Such an entrance and outside stairway
for the

men

make

that building.
it

much

residing in North Hall to get to the dining

A way

Waller Hall.
also

will

for

men

and

easier

room

in

to reach the college infirmary will

be provided.
It is

now

necessary for the

men

to

and enter by the way of the gymnasium
south to get into Waller Hall.
start just as

soon as the contract

go around the building
or go around toward the

Work on
is

the improvement will

awarded and the work

is

ex-

pected to be completed long before the close of the present
term.

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TEACHERS’ COLLEGE CONFERENCE

TO BRING 700 HERE

Seven hundred educators, members of the

IN

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the

faculties of

State Teachers’ Colleges of Pennsylvania, will be guests here for

two days during the Thanksgiving season
nual conference, which

Announcement
ers’

College for the

to

is

be held

this

of the selection of the
1

year for the an-

at the Teachers’ College.

Bloomsburg Teach-

929 meeting was made

recently

by Dr.

Francis B. Haas, principal of the local college.

The conferences have been held annually
during the Thanksgiving vacation

The conference

some years

teachers colleges and in

in the

by about seven hun-

the past several years have been attended

dred each year.

for

lasts for

two days.

The Senior Play was presented Thursday evening, December 20.

The play chosen

for this year’s

plesauce,” by Barry Connors.

the cast: Jack Fortner, Grace Kivler,

Scanlon, William

performance was “Ap-

The following were members of

Swinehart, Arthur

Charlotte Mears,

MacKenzie and

Ruth
Wilbur

Fischer.

Prof. Charles H. Albert has
er

W. Tope

the

work

in the

Wilkes-Barre and Scranton

because of the
Prof. Albert has
years.

been authorized by Rev. Hom-

League

of the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon

recent

death of Rev.

to look after

districts temporarily,

J.

Mitchell

Bennetts.

been speaking for the League for a number of

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The budget submitted
Fisher gives

some

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BUDGET

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to the state legislature

interesting figures

by Governor

on the operations of the

Teachers’ College here.
Total expenditures of the institution for this biennium are

estimated at $1,026,927, of which more than $450,000

and wages of employes.

salaries

$235,238

000

for buildings

Included

in

another item of

is

and construction and more than $103,-

for food.

Receipts are estimated as equal to

expenditures

and

clude $345,000 for maintenance, $12,900 for repairs and
ations,

$197,000

for

students for board,

new

construction,

$64,085 from students

in

alter-

for instruction.

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1925-26, $475,000

in-

$348,000 income from

These figures compared with $347, 86
in

is

total expenditures

1926-27, or $822,186

in the

1925-27

biennium.

tees,

Mrs. Paul E. Wirt, wife of a

member

died December 29, 1928,

at her

after a week’s

illness

with pneumonia.

of the Board of Trus-

home
She

is

in

Bloomsburg,

survived by her

husband and a daughter, Pauline.
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev.
Heistand, rector of

made

in

St.

J.

Thomas

Paul’s Episcopal Church and burial

Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg.

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their first presentation in the college
ing,

March

crowd

19, a

young men under the capable

recently

hundred thoroughly en-

was well

presented by the

direction of Prof. Robert E. Clark.

Considering the fact that

of

auditorium Tuesday even-

of about four

joying the two part program which

in

it

was the

first

program of

this

formed organization, the work of the more than a score

members was remarkable, both

the presentation of the

Men

took

all

first

in the

group numbers and

act of the opera,

of the roles in the opera

in

“La Mascotte.’’

and

their

impersona-

were one of the features of the snappy and entertaining

tions

program.

The club made a
they wore for the
ber,

first

fine

appearance

in

part of the program.

evening dress, which

The opening num-

“Old Friends Together,” was sung before the curtain was

drawn and

this

nade.”

“Little

lowed.

The

was followed by “Sarita” from “Spanish SereGreen Winding Lane” and “Torch Dance”

first

part of the

fol-

program closed with the singing of

“Alma Mater.”
Principals in the presentation of the opera were: Bettina,

Armond
erick,

Keller; Princess Fiametta,

Haven Fortner; Prince Fred-

Jack Fortner; Farmer Rocco, Arthur McKenzie; Pippo,

Henry Warman and Prince Lorenzo, Samuel Kurtz.

The college orchestra under the
maker, furnished a program of music
gram.

direction of H. F. Fenstein

connection with the pro-

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Mr. Marion A. Kline from Cheyenne, Wyoming, called on
friends in

He came

Bloomsburg December 8th.

East to appear

before the Supreme Court of the United State at Washington, D.

Wyoming.

C. to represent the State of

The death

of Rev. Harry

Moyer, Third and Railroad

C.

streets,

Moyer, son of Mrs, Albert
Bloomsburg, occurred

the

in

Martinsburg, West Virginia, hospital, at seven o’clock Saturday

morning, January

by a cerebral

1

Death was due

2.

Mr. Moyer

became

fell

about two weeks preceding

Thursday he grew much

his

of

Mary A. and

his family

make

their

recovery seemed probable, but

at the time of his

He was born

ton county.

age

to the hospital last Tues-

death was serving a

came

to

at Selinsgrove

and was the

the late Albert Moyer.

home. Mr. Moypr was educated

the latter institution

in

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taught in Bloomsburg and at
this

work

oldest

At an early

Bloomsburg, the father’s native town,

Following

He graduated

other points

to enter the ministry,

his
in

to

public schools

in the

Bloomsburg and the State Normal School.

gave up

on

Methodist Episcopal Church at Harrisonville, Ful-

in the

child of Mrs.

his condi-

worse.

The Rev. Mr. Moyer
charge

Ap-

his death.

But a week later

and he was taken

serious

For several days

day.

brought on

lesion.

parently he was not severely hurt.
tion

to paralysis

at

graduation he

the

county.

and continued

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Benezette,

in

Breeze-

wood, Washingtonville, Cogan Valley, Cherry Tree, Farragut

and

at

Jonestown, Columbia county.

For the

last

two years he

has been at Harrisonville.

He

is

survived by his wife, formerly Elizabeth Adams,

Roaringcreek and three daughters
ton

Mrs. Bertram

;

His mother,

:

Mrs.

Andrew

Boyd and Miss Olive Moyer,

Moyer and

Mrs. Albert

brother also survive:

the

Slavin, of Eas-

of Williamsport.

following sisters and

Mrs. Lucetta White, Misses

Mabel Moyer and Albert Moyer,

all

of

and

Edith

of Bloomsburg.

Services were conducted in the Mulberry Street Methodist

church

in

uary 15.
trict,

was

Williamsport at

2:30

o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Jan-

Dr. J. H. Ake, superintendent of the Harrisburg disin

He was

charge.

assisted

by

W. Long,

Dr. J.

pres-

ident of Dickinson Seminary.

1889

Edward

many
home in

E. Caldwell, for

burg resident, died

at his

known Blooms-

years a well

Detroit, Michigan, at

2:30

o’clock Saturday morning, following a lingering illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell, the latter formerly Miss Esther Geddis,

have resided

in Detroit for the last

ten years

greater part of that time Mr. Caldwell has been in

unedrwent a very serious operation and

last July,

however,

with

ill

health.

his condition

what improved following the operation.
ill

and during the

was some-

He became

a complication

He

of heart

seriously

trouble,

asthma and dropsy.
Mr. Caldwell was one of Bloomsburg’s
riers,

the others being

Edwin H. Ent and H.

first

S.

three letter car-

Pohe.

That

ser-

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896.

for

two years

when he

as a rural carrier

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as a carrier in

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town

He served

ser-

then

resigned from the ser-

and took a position during the war with the Berwick plant

of the American Car

Caldwell and he

He was

&

moved

there, Mrs.

to Detroit.

the son of a Presbyterian clergym.an

number

the congregation at Elysburg for a
sister.

From

Foundry Company.

Miss Martha Caldwell,

who

who

served

With

of years.

died about six years ago and

his uncle, Ezekiel Caldwell, he resided in Bloomsburg for

years.

In his

his

many

younger days he was a member of the Blooms-

burg baseball team

—back

in

the Hayes

and Shaffer battery

days.

1894
David Wiant, aged 55, prominent Huntington Township
farmer, died from injuries received

when

his truck

was struck

by a Jersey Central engine on a grade crossing near Mocanaqua.

A

fifteen

year old niece,

who was

with him on the seat of the

truck at the time of the crash, escaped without injury.

Mr. Wiant was on his

way

“back road” from Mocanaqua
of the Jersey Central on

its

to

market and had taken the

to Glen Lyon.

At the crossing

spur back of the mountain into Moc-

anaqua, at a point known as Green Creek, the truck was

down by an

run

engine running light toward Mocanaqua to pick up

a train of cars.

The truck was almost completely demolished and
occupants were hurled a considerable distance.

the two

Mr. Wiant was

hurriedly taken to the Nanticoke Hospital suffering with a frac-

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lured skull, broken leg and other injuries.

at

10 o’clock and his death occurred at 10:35.
Mr. Wiant was born
life there.

He was

in

Huntington township and spent

active in township affairs

his

and had served

several terms as a school director.

Surviving are his wife and four children, Emerson, George,

Herman,

in

the West; Anna, a trained nurse.

1896
Captain Charles M. Oman, native of Light Street,

who

suc-

ceeded Read Admiral Cary T. Grayson as the head of the Naval
dispensary, has had a varied career in the navy, in which he has

served with distinction for the past twenty-six years.

Captain

Oman

is

one of the most prominent members

navy and has had a wide experience

the medical corps of the
all

of
in

parts of the world.

Born

in

Light Street in 1878, he graduated from the Uni-

versity of Pennsylvania in

Naval Medical corps

in

1901 and

in

1902 entered the U.

February and has served

in the

S.

various

grades and on various ships and shore stations.

He served on
on gunboats, on

the China station on three different occasions,

five battleships, as fleet

surgeon, as executive

surgeon of hospitals, as surgeon at the American

Legation

Peking, China, as operating surgeon in hospitals, as
ing officer of the U. S. Naval Medical School

and

in

in

command-

other capaci-

ties.

In

1908 he made the

United States battleships.

cruise

around the world with the

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During the world war he saw service
pital, in

command

of the hospital ship

of Base Hospital No.

Navy Cross

in Brest,

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He was awarded

France.

the

for distinguished service during that conflict.

Captain

Oman

has been awarded the navy cross, the medal

for service in the Philippine
in the

in the

Cuban

Oman

and a Red Cross

star,

government for service

Italian

sina earthquake disaster in

Captain

medal with

pacification, a

medal issued by the

campaign, medal for participation

in

the Mes-

909.

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a m.ember of the Xi honorary fraternity,

is

of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, member of
the Society of Foreign Wars, Caraboa Association

and member

of the National Board of Medical Examiners.

He is a member of the New York Yacht Club, of the Army
and Navy Club, of the Army-Navy and Marine Country Club and
of the

Chevy Chase Club

at

Washington, D. C.

1898

Mrs. L. H. Brown, of

619

East Capitol Street, Washington,

who was formerly R. Daisy Klutz, North Carolina, recently
visited her Alma Mater. She had seen but two of the teachers or

D. C.,

students in thirty years.

Her husband

is

now

Assistant

Pay-

master at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Washington,
D. C.

They have two

children, a daughter

George Washington University and a son who
Mrs.

school.

sociation

;

Brown

is

who
is

is

a student at

a student in high

Secretary of Stanton Park Citizens’ As-

also Historian of the District of

Columbia Congress of

Parent-Teacher Association, Washington, D. C.

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Announcement

as

been made of the engagement of Miss

Grace Leaw, of Langhorne, Pa., to Charles W. Miller, of Pasa-

The

dena, California.

latter

the brother of

is

Frank

Mrs.

P.

Pursel, of town.

Leaw and Mr.

Miss

Miller

were classmates

The marriage

burg State Normal School.

will

at the

Blooms-

take place

in

the

Spring.

1899
The Colorado Springs Evening Telegraph had the following
recently regarding Miss Elsie Hicks, a former

dent

Bloomsburg

resi-

:

Miss Elsie Hicks, organist of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist,

was born

Bloomsburg, Pa., of American parentage,

in

On

though of English, French, German and Welsh ancestry.
parental side she

is

the

a descendent of Elias Hicks, founder of the

Hicksite Quakers.

Miss Hicks began her musical education at 8 years of age
with Prof.

W.

I.

appearance

Niles,

and

her school class, playing
time, too, she
in

at

9 years she made her

From

in concert.

all

this

the

first

public

on she was the musician of

songs and marches.

was doing much accompanying

for violin

At

this

and voice

her home.

Her next piano instructor was Charles Elwell, a graduate of
the

New England

conservatory.

At the age of

1

5

years. Miss Elsie

graduated from the

Bloomsburg State Normal School and the following year she took
postgraduate work studying piano and voice with Signorina Ru-

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becoming Mrs.

Y

Maude Runyan

bina Ravi of Florence, Italy, and organ with Mrs.
Colley, later

L

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Colley’s assistant at the First Pres-

byterian Church.

At

this time, thru interested

teachers and friends, a benefit

concert was given Miss Hicks, to enable her to further study at
the

New England

conservatory, Boston, Mass.

In this latter institution, she took a soloist course, studying

piano with Carl Stansny, a pupil of Liszt

;

organ with Henry Dun-

ham, a noted organist and composer, theory, with Louis

and harmony with Benjamin

C. Elson,

Cutter.

After graduation, from the conservatory. Miss Hicks ap-

peared
tists

as

in

concert in various eastern

Madam

Lillian Blauvelt,

garian virtuoso,

who

Her

was

first

This

and he

she could arrange to live in

she

and the

late

playing for such ar-

Rafael Joseffy, Hun-

presented her with his book,

Advanced Piano Playing.”
the artist to compile

cities,

work required

also offered her instruction gratis

New York

if

City.

church position was held at the age of 19 when

and choir director of the Mahoning Presbyter-

organist

From

ian Church, of Danville, Pa.

Presbyterian Church

in

her

home

Several years ago Miss

there she played in the First

town.

Hicks came to

this

played professionally ever since, both here and
pearing

“School of

eight years for

in theatre

and

in

city

and has

Denver, ap-

in hotel orchestras.

She was pianist with the Sunday afternoon orchestra concerts held in Stratin

the Musical Club

Park for a number of seasons and

Symphony

later

with

orchestra.

She has held positions as organist of the

First Presbyterian

Church, First Baptist Church, Unitarian, First Methodist Episco-

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tion.

Miss Hicks
sicians

and was

is

a

member

American Federation of Mu-

of the

for four years one of the examining boards for

the local Musicians Union, No. 154.

1900
Prof. G. Elmer Wilbur, a native of
Florida’s

most prominent educators, died

Hospital, Baltimore, Md.,

A

Bloomsburg and one of
Johns Hopkins

in the

August 28, 1928.

brain tumor, similar to that from which he recovered in

September, 1927, and pneumonia, which developed about two

weeks before, caused
In

his death.

He was aged 44

years.

September, 1927, Prof. Wilbur became seriously

was removed

to the

Johns Hopkins Hospital,

Baltimore,

where some of the leading physicians studied the case.
tracted nation wide interest

and

ill

Md.,
It

at-

and was broadcast nation wide by

news gathering agencies.
After considerable work physicians finally discovered that
a tumor on the brain
E.

was

the cause of the illness

and Dr. Walter

Dandy, noted brain surgeon, performed an operation, which

was one of the most outstanding

moved

in

medical history

when he

Prof. Wilbur’.s recovery, following the operation,
id.

his

re-

the tumor.

He returned
work

as

Florida city

to his

home

in

head of the schools
is

was

rap-

Jacksonville and soon resumed
in

Duval county

in

which the

located.

In July the other

tumor on the brain had developed and on

August 3rd Dr. Dandy again performed an operation and remov-

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it

at the

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that disease

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developed and
ed

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which

is

later

pneumonia

thought to have caus-

his death.

Born
Prof,

in

Bloomsburg, Prof. Wilbur was the son of the

and Mrs. George

He was

E. Wilbur.

a graduate of

late

the

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and had a legion of friends

m

Bloomsburg and

vicinity.

He was

also a graduate of Dickin-

son College.

Soon after he
in

educational

left

work

college he went to Florida

until his death.

and was active

For the past several years

he was superintendent of the schools of Duval county and was
re-elected in June to serve another term in that position.

He

was a 33rd degree Mason.

He
bur, Jr.,

IS

survived by his wife and one son, George Elmer Wil-

and a brother, Harry Curran, of Chicago.

was taken

to Jacksonville

where funeral

services

The body

were held on

August 30.

Miles Killmer, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College,

a brother-in-law of Mrs.

W.

B. Sutliff,

was one

of

men who February 22 spoke over the radio from underneath East River, New York, when a test was made to determine
the

if it

was

possible to broadcast from under water.

who graduated from

Mr. Killmer,

the completion of his course here,

construction of the

New

was

State College following

chief engineer during the

Holland tube and

is

now

superintendent

of the operations during te placing of the tube which connects

Brookly and

New

York.

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Miss Nelle L. Imboden, a resident of town for

years and

26

widely known, died Saturday morning, February 11,
o’clock at the

home

of her sister, Mrs. Charles

Fourth Street, after a long

J.

at

five

Keller, of

West

illness.

Miss Imboden was stricken with congestion of the lungs
July and an abscess formed.

last

failed to

improve her

illness

when her

Later,

was diagnosed

condition

as tuberculosis

she was confined to her bed most of the time since

last

summer.

Miss Imboden was a native of Luthersburg, but had

home with

her

her sister since she was

1

6

years of age.

was a graduate of the music department of the Teacher’s
lege

and taught music for several years.

uate

in

ed

the commercial course and for

in the

and

in

made
She
Col-

She was also a grad-

some years was employ-

court house, serving as deputy register and recorder

as commissioners’ clerk.

ployed

and

Lancaster.

For about two years she was em-

For about

six years she

had been employ-

ed by the Columbia County Trust Company and after

its

merger

with the Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company.
Miss Imboden was 42 years of age and was a
the Presbyterian Church.

member

of

She held the highest esteem of a wide

circle of friends.

Surviving are her

Imboden, of

St.

sister,

Mrs. Keller and one brother,

J.

A.

Mary’s.

1905
Mrs. Samuel

D.

Mock

(Lillie M. Peiffer) lives on Wilson Street,
Her post office is Sinking Spring, Penna., R.
Their son Donald is a Sophomore in Muhlenberg College,

Springmont, R. D.
Allentown.

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Dr.

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New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospi-

staff of the
tal,

as Instructor in the

Dr. Creasy

is

Department of Laryngology.

also practicing as specialist in the diseases of

the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Street,

New

His address

is

30

East 40th

\ ork City.

Mrs. David I. Spangler (Marion M. Groff)
North Fourth Street, Reading, Pa.

lives at

1048

1907

The death of Mrs. Hazel Kocher Rider, wife of Harry E.
Rider, ’04, and one of Bloomsburg’s most highly esteemed w’omen, occurred at her home in Bloomsburg, Saturday, February
2 from a complication of diseases w'ith which she had suffered
for

some months.

A

Bloomsburg resident, she had been active in the
Methodist Church until the past year and was formerly a teacher
lifelong

in the Fifth Street school.

A
the

graduate of the Bloomsburg high school

Normal

Sc’nool in

1

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four years in a rural school and five years in town.

member

1

904, and of

907, she taught for nine years following,

She was a

of the Methodist church from childhood and

active in the

had been

Sunday School and the Ladies’ Aid Society

about a year ago.

until

She was also a member of the Eastern Star

and of the Missionary Society.
Mrs. Rider was aged 41 years last September and

is

ed by her mother, Mrs. Geraldine Kocher, her husband,

surviv-

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and one daughter, Geraldine,

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Morgan

Mrs. Laura
Philadelphia,

she

was

Stein,

who

3816 Locust

lives at

the victim of a serious accident last

was struck by a

truck.

Her

left

arm and

Street,

fall,

when

were broken,

leg

We

and she also suffered of concussion of the brain.

were

in-

formed of thee accident by Jennie Yoder Foley, 8134 Henning
Street,

Stein

Fox Chase, Philadelphia.

was well on

Mrs. Foley

stated that

Mrs.

the road to recovery.

1909

We

are pleased

to print the following

—
—

message from the

president of the class:

My

Dear Classmates;

The
urday,
est

Class of

1

909

will

May 25 and we hope

attendance of any which

have been
old class

it

will

we have had

year on Sat-

have the

larg-

since graduation.

I

communication with various members of our dear

The
be

farther

for

ours and yours.

Come and

this

that this reunion will

and many are looking forward

this year.
ficult

in

hold their reunion

you

to our

“Home-coming”

away you have wandered,

the

more

dif-

to attend, but the greater pleasure will

be

Write to your friends and urge them to attend.

let’s live

over again,

in

memory, the happy days we

spent together at “Old Normal.”
Sincerely yours.
D.

J.

MAHONEY.

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to Mr.

and Mrs. Earl Laubach, of

Orangeville.

1912

A

son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bachinger, BloomsMrs. Bachinger was formerly Miss

burg, on Christmas morning.

Teresa Dailey.

1913

Announcement has been made

that

John Bakeless, son of

made

Prof, and Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless of town, has been

The Living Age, of which he was formerly

Coincident with that announcement comes The Living
entirely

ment
sold

new form and

dress,

editor.

Age

in

J

^

an

and the added announceof world affairs has been

by the Atlantic Monthly Company and beginning with the

September
at

modern

a

known magazine

that this well

editor of

associate

issue will

be published by The Living Age Company,

280 Broadway, New York
The announcement

torship of this well

many Bloomsburg

City.

of Mr. Bakeless’s promotion to the edi-

known magazine
friends.

is

of especial interest to his

He gained

his first

experience as a

reporter in Bloomsburg.

This

was followed by some outstanding work

Springfield Republican

and a number of the

New York

during the years he spent at Williams college.

were followed by further years

at

for

the

papers

Those years

Harvard, where he did

his post

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graduate work.

work,

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each position with the brilliance

filling

was marked even

had the urge

to write,

in his early

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magazine

and earnestness

days as a young reporter

and who made

it

who

his business to see that

he had the opportunity to satisfy that urge.
Mr. Bakeless
the subject of

is

the author of two books which have been

much comment.

His

first

book, “The Economic

Causes of War,” was awarded the Wells Prize of
liams College, in
Sir Philip Gibbs,

1

920.

$500 by

Concerning Mr. Bakeless’ second book.

noted British author, says

have read “The Origin of the Next War,”

“I

Wil-

Bakeless and regard

it

as the

most masterly analysis of the un-

derlying dangers in Europe and the rest of the world.

by getting such ruthless and

by John

It is

only

scientific revelation of fact that

we

can hope to escape or at least postpone another conflict between
nations.”

Ex-1913
At
red, at

home on Chestnut Street, Berwick, there occur5:30 o’clock Monday morning, March 4, the death of
his late

Arthur Brecht Lesher, son of the late Prof. A. N. Lesher and of

Martha A. Lesher.
While Mr. Lesher has been practically an invalid for nearly
ten years

it

was not

until the last

showed a marked change.

Six

few months

that his condition

weeks ago he suffered a severe

heart attack from which he never fully recovered.

was summoned
the family no

to his bedside

hope beyond the

the optimism, faith

His sister

and the attending physician gave
possibility of a

few hours.

But

and gallant courage which had played such

an important part thru years of patient suffering, came again to

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life

of personality

whose admiration
weeks when

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won

for

I*

him a wide

circle of sincere friends

solitude always

The kind

friends

who came

went away with a smile on
in

their lips

to share his

and a more

general for he was

to point out the finest qualities of his fellows

consequence

his daily life

Mr. Lesher was born

He was educated

and

life.

enforced solitude he was a constant

his

sympathetic attitude toward mankind

in the

was an

Lancaster, Pa., January

in

al-

and

in

inspiration.

8th,

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elementary schools of Berwick and was

graduated from the Berwick high school

completed a course

later

humor and

His keen sense of

he was fighting such a valiant battle for

and consistent student.

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During the years of

ways eager

A

at the

in the

class of

1911.

Bloomsburg State Teachers’

College.
In

years

1

920 he married

Miss Iva M. Gearhart,

was night supervisor
Besides his wife he

Brecht Lesher,

Jr., his

is

for several

survived by one small son,

mother Martha A. Lesher and one

Helen Lesher Adams, of Pottstown.
at his late

who

of the Berwick Hospital.

home Thursday

Funeral services

afternoon, March

Arthur
sister,

were held

7.

1914
Silas S. Riddle,

head of the bureau of

State Department of Labor
dle,

formerly of town and

now

of

New

Sunbury.

An appraisement

who

filed in

died some time ago

the

Northumberland

county court shows the estate to be worth $ 02, 708. 3.
Sara Elliott is teaching in Akron, Ohio.
Her address
1

Grace Avenue.

the

Jersey, will share equally

the estate of their aunt, Julia K. Riddle,
at

rehabilitation in

and Industry, and Miss Margaret Rid-

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and Mrs. H. Bierman received a telegram announcing

Dr.

the birth of a daughter to their son-in-law
tain

and daughter. Cap-

and Mrs. Idwal Edwards, (Katherine Bierman),

Announcements have been received of the

birth of a son,

Paul Alexander, to Mr. and Mrs, E. Llerena, of Rio de Janiero,

on October

1

Mrs. Llerena was formerly Miss

6.

Alma M.

Baer,

of Shickshinny.

1916

Benjamin

B.

Baer was graduated from the Pennsylvania

State College at the sixteenth annual mid-year

He was one

which took place February 13.
the graduating class

awarded
Degree

first

who ranked
Mr, Baer

honors.

commencement,

of six

members

of

highest in scholarship and were
is

now working

for his Master’s

at the University of Pennsylvania.

1917
Dorothy Miller (Mrs. W. R. Brower)
Pa.

A

son, Richard Alan,

October 13, 1928.

was born

to Mr.

lives in

Lehighton,

and Mrs, Brower on

Mr. and Mrs. Brower now have three

sons.

1918
Percy W.
at

Griffith

has been elected head coach of football

Dickinson College, over a large

past
lege.

two years he has been

line

field

of applicants.

For the

coach at Pennsylvania State Col-

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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Birch, of town, announce the mariage of their daughter, Martha Elizabeth, to Floyd Leon Cole, of

Lewisburg, Pa., Monday, July 30, 1928, at Edinboro, Pa., by
the pastor of the First Baptist Church, Rev. Ivan M. Sherve.

The bride was a student of the Bloomsburg High School and
Bloomsburg Teachers’ College.

of the

Pennsauken Junior High School, of Merchant-

ing History in the
ville.

New

Mrs. Cole has been teach-

Jersey.

Lawrence Keefer
University

of

is

working for

his doctor’s

He has been very

Michigan.

degree at the

successful

teacher of English and will probably continue in that

Gerald Marks

lives in

Los

Angeles.

as a

field.

He was graduated

last

August from the Law School of the University of Colorado,

and

is

Suite

now

member of the law firm of Marks and
903, Law Building, Los Angeles, California.
a

Klenke,

1921
Miss Eleanor C. Shannon, of Berwick and

J.

Allen Kaiser,

of Pottsville, Pa., w'ere married Saturday, September 19, at 3
P.

M.

in Trinity

Lutheran Church, Reading, Pa., by Rev. Herman

Miller.

Mrs. Kaiser
non, of

is

the daughter of Mr.

422 East Fourth

and Mrs. Leopold Shan-

Street, Berwick.

teacher in Wilkes-Barre and

is

a

She was a former

graduate of the Bloomsburg

Teachers’ College.

Mr. Kaiser

is

the district agent of the real

ment of the Reading Company

at Pottsville.

estate

depart-

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Jos-

ephine Pursel Allison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Allison,
town’s most popular and

of Catawissa, one of that

young women,

to

Raymond Moyer,

esteemed

Lexington,

of Line

near

Philadelphia.

The wedding was solemnized

at St. Augustine, Florida,

Camden,

N.

noon on Thanksgiving

The couple spent

the chapel at Valley Forge.

Street,

at

and are now

their

living at

at

honeymoon
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The Wilkes-Barre Record

had the following

of August 21

regarding the wedding of Frank B. Shapela,

a graduate of the

1922 of the Teachers’ College and a

class of

football star here

during his entire course

A

pretty

wedding was solemnized

Nanticoke at 10:00 o’clock
ter of Mrs.

when

at St. Stanislaus’

Church,

Miss Helen M. Sawicki, daugh-

Witold Sawicki, 127 West Main Street, Nanticoke,

became the bride of Frank

B. Shepela of

Alden.

Rev. V.

L.

Biczypski, pastor, officiated.

The bride was attended by Miss Jennie Banashek
of honor,

as

maid

and Miss Helen M. Sawicki of Sugar Notch. The bride-

groom was attended by

his

brother Alex Shepela as best

man and

Joseph Sawicki, brother of the bride, as usher.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Shepela are well knov/n
ive communities.

Mrs. Shepela

is

in their respect-

a graduate of Nanticoke high

school and for the past two years has been employed in the office

of the C.

member

I.

T. Corp., at Wilkes-Barre.

Mr.

Shepela

is

a

Newport Township high school. After
a reception at the bride’s home the young couple left for a motor
tour of Philaelphia, Baltimore and Washington.
of the faculty of

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Announcement has been made

of the marriage in June of

Miss Mildred M. Hess, daughter of Mrs.
fred R. Harrington, son of Mr.

News

of Benton.

of the

Elizabeth

and Mrs. H.

wedding came

Hess to Al-

T. Harrington, both

as a surprise to friends

of the couple.

The wedding took place
is

a graduate of the

been teaching
is

in

in

New York

in

June.

The bride

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and has

the public schools of Newark, N.

manager of the Harrington foundry

in

J.

The groom

Sugarloaf township.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Harder have announced the

gagement of

their daughter,

land, Ohio, son of Mr.

Miss Harder

and

is

Mr. Klarr

Kathryn, to John A. Klarr, of Cleve-

and Mrs. A.

Klarr, of Vermilion, Ohio.

a graduate of Bloomsburg Teachers’ College

for several years has

wissa.

en-

is

been teaching

employed

as

in the schools of

Cata-

an auditor for the Glidden

Paint Co., of Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs.

ment of

A

.1.

Robbins have announced the engage-

their daughter. Pearl, to Alfred S. Burton, of Pittsburgh.

Miss Robbins

is

a graduate of Shickshinny High School and of the

Teachers’ College here and

Mr. Burton

is

an architect

place next Fall.

is

now

teaching

in Pittsburgh.

in Irvington, N. J,

The wedding

will

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Miss Elizabeth H.

Drumm,

Drumm, daughter
became

of Bloomsburg, R. D.,

of Mr.

and Mrs.

the bride of

John Em-

and Mrs. Frank Emmitt, of Danville, R.

mitt, son of Mr.

C. E.

D., in a

ceremony performed September 25 by Rev. John Weikel

in the

Lutheran Church at Espy.
After the ceremony the bride and groom

Washington, D.

C.,

and other places of

interest.

left

by auto

The bride

for
is

a

graduate of Centre High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College, class of

1924 and has been teaching

Mr. Emmitt

years.

College, class of

is

for the last four

a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers’

1919 and

at present

is

one of Hemlock town-

ship’s best farmers.

In the

Packer Memorial Chapel of Lehigh University

at

Bethlehem, there was solemnized at 12:30 o’clock on the after-

noon of December 26, the wedding of Miss Helen Kathryn Jury,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
Nicholls, of

Woodbury,

Nicholls, of Bethlehem.

N.

J.,

C.

Jury of town and Edward

son of Mr. and Mrs.

The Rev.

S.

D.

Wilmot Gateson, of Bethle-

The

hem, performed the ceremony.

Edward

S.

bride’s attendant

was Miss

Mildred Bartean, of Portland, Pa., and the groom was attended

by

his brother,

Vern

Nicolls.

The marriage was solemnized

the presence of only the immediate

money

the bride

and groom

Woodbury,

The bride

is

N.

on a wedding

They are now

interest in the South.

Street,

left

living at

in

trip to points of

60 West Chester

J.

a graduate of the

Bloomsburg State Teachers’

College and at the time of her marriage

year

in

After the cere-

families.

was teaching her fourth

the Nischman building, Bethlehem.

The groom grad-

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ed

degree

his master’s

burgh.

He

is

in

science from the University of Pitts-

Vacuum

associated with the

facturers of Mobiloil, at their Paulsboro,

Miss Lena

Oman, daughter

Oil

New

Company, manu-

Jersey, plant.

of Mr. and Mrs. T. N.

Orangeville and George Buckman, of Media, a

now honeymooning

builder, are

ding

in the

in the

Oman,

of

contractor and

South following their wed-

parsonage of the Media Presbyterian Church.

Rev.

Leader performed the ceremony.

The bride

is

an esteemed Orangeville

She

friends in this section.

cational School, class of

Teachers’ College, class of

is

of

the

For four years she was a suc-

924.

Mr. and Mrs.

Vo-

Bloomsburg State

cessful teacher in the schools of Oakland, Md.,

Doylestown, Pa.

and has many

a graduate of the Orangeville

1919 and
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Buckman

and Elwin and
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the third grade in

the

are living

Spring Avenue, Llanerch, Pa.
Miss Frances Pensyl
schools of Westfield, N.

is

teaching

in

J.

1925
William Coffman, a well

completed

his

close of the

gone

work

first

to larger.

known Bloomsburg young man,

for a degree at Bucknell University with the

semester of the present college term and has

West

Virginia,

where he has accepted a

position

as principal of the high school.

Mr. Coffman
ers’

is

a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teach-

College and before entering Bucknell

er in the Mifflinburg schools.
local post of the

He

American Legion.

is

was a

a past

successful teach-

commander

of the

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Since graduation, Lucy H. Evans has been employed in the
office of the

Elmira Star-Gazette, one of the leading newspapers

of the southern tier of

celebrated

New York

The paper

State.

recently

one hundredth anniversary.

its

1926
Irene Besteder
Pa.

is

teaching in the

Her home address

is

first

grade at Shavertown.

Trucksville, Pa.

John Opiary, graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College, class of

now

1926 and a well known Freeland young man,

Young Men

teaching at the Kyle School for

the-Hudson,

New

is

at Irvington-on-

York.

Miss Isabel Ward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

L.

A. Ward, of

town and Russell Hummel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hummel,
of Cresco

and formerly of town, were united

afternoon, October 5, 1928, by Rev.

is

employed

marriage Friday

N. Bair at the parsonage

I.

The couple were unattended.

of the Espy Evangelical Church.

The groom

in

at Cresco

teaching for two years at Vintondale.

and the bride has been

Each enjoys a wide

circle

of friends.

1927
Miss Leila Watters, of Mifflinville, and Kenneth Fulkersin,

were united

of East Eighth Street,

in

marriage at Wilkes-Barre on

February 9th, friends of the couple have learned.
a daughter of Mr.

She

Mifflinville.

Berwick High

in

and Mrs. Byron Watters and
is

employed

at

known

in

a graduate of the Mifflinville high school,

in the

At the present time she

Nuremberg

schools.

the machine shop of the A.

plant in Berwick.

well

is

1925 and the State Teachers’ College, Blooms-

burg, in the class of 1927.

ed as a teacher

is

The bride

is

employ-

The groom has been
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Two
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of Bloomsburg’s best

marriage

at

known young people were

Wilkes-Barre Friday afternoon, January

:30 o’clock, when Miss Kathryn

Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Werkheiser,

C.

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,

at

Werkheiser, daughter

of

became

the

of East Fourth Street,

bride of Oran F. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Baker, of West

The ceremony was performed by Rev. James Lewis,

Street.

a

Baptist minister at Wilkes-Barre.

The bride

is

a graduate of the

Bloomsburg High School and

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College while the groom
graduate

They

will

of the local

make

their

High School and attended Drexel

home

in

is

also

a

Institute.

Bloomsburg.

1928

Anna

C.

Curry

lives at

660 South Tamaqua

Street,

McAdoo,

Pa.

Grace Frantz
Sunbury, Pa.

is

teacher of second grade

Her home address

is

in the schools

of

Picture Rocks, Pa.

At 10:30 o’clock Saturday morning, December

8, in

the

Methodist Church at Orangeville, Miss Helen R. Kline, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs.
of

Warren

Kline, of Rohrsburg,

became

the bride

Edgar R. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Baker, of Unity-

ville.

Rev. Gilbert

L.

Bennett, pastor of the church officiated,

uning the beautiful double ring ceremony.

They were attend-

ed by Mr. and Mrs. Kline, parents of the bride and Mrs. Ernest
Baker, mother of the groom.

The bride

is

a graduate of the Millville High School of the

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of Miss Kathryn Loose, of

Waukesha, Wis.,

of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ Col-

Leo

December 21

E. Sutliff,

Benton lumber dealer, was announced

a formal

at

friends of the couple at the

The announcement

home

The bride

of Mr.

and Mrs.

of the wedding,

came

which the couple enjoys

circle of friends

attended by

dinner party

Frederick, Md., on September 7,

in

at the

Mr. and Mrs. Baker will reside at Unityville.

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He has taken work

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county schools.

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school in the class of 1927.

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members

been an

known

county.

in that section of the

Mr.

of the faculty.

Sutliff,

The second annual college

in

wide

in this section.

the physical education department of the college

son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo E.

Reams.

which took place

for the past three years has

of the most popular

intimate

and

of Benton

night, sponsored

instructress

and

is

Sutliff is
is

one
the

very well

by the Rotary

and Kiwanis Clubs of Bloomsburg, was held Thursday evening,
January 24.
dress

A

fine

menu,

spirited singing,

an outstanding ad-

by Dr. Henry H. Crane, of Scranton, and the comedy “Ap-

plesauce,” presented by the College

Dramatic Club, were the

high lights of the night’s enjoyable program.

During the din-

ner the College orchestra furnished a musical program.

Mr.

Reams spoke before

afternoon on the topic of

the history

“Map

division

Studies In Teaching

Thursday
Political

Campaigns.”
Dr. Haas spoke to the teacher training division on “Teacher Training

ident.”

From

the Point of

View

of a Teachers’ College Pres-

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The winter meeting
their assistants

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A H T K KL Y

of the superintendents of schools

and

from fourteen counties of northeastern Pennsyl-

vania was held at Teachers’ College on Tuesday, December

Meetings of the superintendents and assistants of

this

part

1

1

of

the state are held quarterly.

Among

other subjects brought up for discussion

tenure of teachers and the P.
Prof.

teachers.

John

J.

S. E.

A.

home

was

the

for superannuated

Fisher gave a report of a study of the

standing of college freshmen

in

Eighth Grade English and Arith-

metic.

Superintendent

W. W. Evans,

of

Columbia

county, was

chairman of the meeting.

The Third Annual Play Tournament of the College Dramatic

Club was held

March

in

the college auditorium Thursday evening,

The following one-act plays were presented: “Jazz

7.

and Minuet,” by Ruth

Giorloff

Norman McKimel; and

:

“The Bishop’s Candlesticks,” by

:The Wonder Hat,” by Kenneth Good-

man and Benjamin

Hecht.

awarded

named

to the last

;

The
play.

decision

judges was

of the

The following players

ed honorable mention for the excellent manner

in

receiv-

which

they

played their roles: Florence Fest, Charlotte Lord, Dorothy Foote,

John Taylor and Maynard Pennington.

Prof.
the

Edwin A. Reams, of the

social studies

department of

Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and Dr. Francis

principal of the college, took part in the Schoolmen’s

gram which was held
13, 14,

15 and

16.

Week

at the University of Pennsylvania,

pro-

March

This event annually attracts thousands of

educators and some of the most
field in the

B. Haas,

prominent

county are on the program.

in the

educational

r

Dr.

A L

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MX

and Mrs. Francis

December
Haas,

II

who

1

6 by

has

the

B.

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Haas were called

sudden death of

frequently

li

visited

K L Y

to Philadelphia

Miss

his sister.

here and

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who

has

Lillian

many

friends in Bloomsburg.

Miss Haas was apparently

in the

best of health

and had

eat-

en a hearty dinner just before she was stricken with an attack
of acute indigestion.

Her death quickly followed.

Miss Haas was a teacher

in

the Philadelphia schools

survived by three brothers and three

We
t'.e

and

is

sisters.

are indebted to the Bloomsburg “Morning Press”

use of the cut showing the proposed Training School.

for

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Vol.

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No. 3

THE ALUMNI
QUARTERLY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

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O. H.

BAKELESS

The Alumni Quarterly
PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Vol.30

JUNE, 1929

No. 3

Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa„ under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year

H. F.

FENSTEMAKER,

F. H.

JENKINS, ’76

’12

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Editor-in-Chief

-

Business

_

Manager

PROFESSOR BAKELESS RETIRES
After having
years as a

member

served faithfully and

devotedly for

thirty

of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Nor-

mal School, Professor 0. H. Bakeless retired June first, with the
knowledge that his has been a piece of work that was well done.
Professor Bakeless first took up his work in Bloomsburg in
893 to become
890, and after three years here resigned in
principal of the United States Industrial School for Indians at
Carlisle.
This position he held for nine years.
1

1

In

1902 he returned

Bloomsburg, and has been a memHe is loved and honored by
under his instruction, and occupies a

to

ber of the faculty since that date.
the hundreds

who

has sat

place in their hearts that

is

equal to that held by the late Pro-

fessor Noetling in the hearts of those

Even though Professor Bakeless

who worked under
is

lege work, his influence in the school and

him.

from active colcommunity will be felt.

retired

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and no one can say how great

is

the influence that he

through the great number of alumni,
out

all

who

is

exerting,

are scattered through-

the states of the Union.

About one hundred persons who are active or who have
been active in the work of Old Normal paid tribute to Professor
Bakeless at a dinner held in his honor on Monday evening, April
29, in the Wimodausis Club rooms.
Dr.

Haas presided

at the dinner,

and introduced Mr. A.

Schoch, President of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. D.

J.

Z.

Waller,

Both of these men paid tribute to the work of Professor
Bakeless during the years they have worked together.
A letter
of congratulation from M. E. Glover, of Mifllinburg, a member
of the Board of Trustees, was read, as was also a telegram of
praise for Brofessor Bakeless from Mrs. John G. Harman, anJr.

other

member

of the Board.

The musical part of the program consisted of group

sing-

Alma

Cald-

ing led by Miss Jessie Patterson, vocal solo by Miss
well,

and piano

solos

by Miss Marjory McHenry.

At the close of the program. Dr. Waller,

in

behalf of the

Faculty and Board of Trustees, presented Prof. Bakeless with a

and chain, as a token of the love and
which they hold him.
In responding. Professor Bakeless spoke of the loyalty of his fellow teachers to him, and of the
earnestness of the boys and girls who worked with him.
He
I
do not deserv'e it
closed by saying, “I appreciate this gift.

beautiful white gold watch

esteem

but

I

in

will

take

it.”

At the Alumni meeting. Professor Bakeless was called to
the platform by R. Bruce Albert, ’06, newly elected president of
the Alumni Association, and was greeted with a standing ovation
Mr. Albert then informed
by the members of the Association.
Professor Bakeless that he had been made sole administrator of
a fund of over $1200, to carry on the art projects in which he
He is also to
has been so deeply interested for so many years.
have charge of the Alumni Memorial Trophy Room, which the
Board of Trustees will be asked to provide.

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The various reunion

classes

5

had been canvassed before the
announce their subscripThe notice sent to
of classes.

general meeting, and were ready to
tions at the time of the roll call

each class by the executive committee bore
Professor Bakeless:

“We,

as fellow

members

Association believe this will be the finest
Prof. Bakeless.

We

this fitting tribute to

thing

of the

Alumni

we can do

also feel confident that the

Alumni, as

for

a

whole, will endorse the plan with enthusiasm, and that the funds
will

come

to Prof.

Bakeless’s hands to

days of leisure to crown a most useful

enable him in his
life

new

with a characteristic

achievement.”
In the course of the next four years, all of the other classes
will
less

be given the opportunity to pay tribute to Professor Bakeby contributing their share to this most worthy project.

ALUMNI DAY
Ideal weather and one of the best rounded programs that
had ever been arranged for the affair, brought back to Bloomsburg hundreds of graduates for the Alumni Day exercises, one of

the principal events of the

Commencement

season.

In addition to the classes in reunion there

were additional

hundreds of other class members who came back for the day.
Graduates arrived early in the morning, some of them having
arrived in Bloomsburg Friday evening.

were well attended during the morning with
friends.
There were a
number of matters of interest to the individual classes which
were also up for action.
Class reunions

graduates busy

greeting college day

one smiling face was missing, that of Prof.
years a popular member of the College
faculty, Mr. Cope having passed away during the year.
Alumni
expressed regret over the passing of this man who had done
much in moulding the lives of hundreds of students.
In each reunion

J.

G. Cope,

for

many

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One matter which came before each

class

was

that of con-

fund of which Prof. 0. H. Bakeless is to be
the sole administrator.
Each class was enthusiastic over the
plan and subscribed varying amounts for the project.
Prof.
tributions for an art

Bakeless has for years worked tirelessly

in

beautifying the cor-

and rooms of the buildings with good works of art. The
matter will be placed before each of the classes in reunion for
ridors

the next five years.
Dr. Waller presided at the meeting in the absence of the

who was attending the National Synod of
Reformed Church. The main floor auditorium was well filled and there were many in the balcony when the session opened.

president, Mr. Diehl,

the

R. Bruce Albert read the minutes of the last meeting and the College Glee Club,

under the direction of Prof. Clark, sang two

selections.

Prof. S.

and

I.

Shortess told of the organization of the Glee Club

said that an active

Any who would

program would be carried out next year.
were asked

care to secure the club for a concert

to submit the requests for dates.

R. Bruce Albert, a member of the class of 906, was elected president of the Alumni Association, succeeding Fred W.
Diehl, superintendent of the Montour County schools, who was
The report of the
chosen chairman of the executive committee.
nominating committee, Mrs. C. W. Funston, D. D. Wright and E.
H. Nelson, was accepted as presented by Mrs. Funston.
1

The

officers are:

President, R. Bruce Albert; Vice-Presi-

dents, Dr. D. J. Waller, class of 867, and 0. H. Bakeless, class
of 1879; Treasurer, F. H. Jenkins, class of 1876; Secretary,
1

Edward

W.
W. Funston,

Schuyler, class of 1924; Executive Committee, Fred

Diehl, Danville, class of 1909, chairman;

Mrs. C.

1885 Maurice Houck, class of 1910; Miss
Harriet Carpenter, Bloomsburg, class of 1896; D. D. Wright,
Bloomsburg, class of 1911 and Dan Mahoney, class of 1909.
Bloomsburg,

class of

;

Miss Catherine Johnson, a

member

of the

class of

1928,

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sang a solo and Dennis Wright submitted the report of the Treasurer, Prof. Jenkins.
A rising vote of thanks was given to Prof,

and Mrs. Jenkins for

their untiring efforts in the publication of

the Quarterly, supported

by the alumni.

The report of the scholarship fund, prepared by C. M.
Hauseknecht and presented by Mr. Wright, was that $2,751.79
was in the fund with $1,933.50 now outstanding in loans to
students and graduates.
H. F. Fenstemaker, a

member

of the College faculty

and

the Alumni and editor of the Quarterly, asked that each class
have a member write up its reunion and send it in for pubblication.
Mrs. Funston gave the report of the Nominating Committee.

The class of 1867 was the oldest
members present, George E. Elwell and

in

reunion and had two

Dr. D. J. Waller.

879 with a record of having had its 22 mem624 years, had six members present. Prof.
C. H. Albert, for many years a member of the faculty of the College, made the report.
He said that four of the members had
taught 50 years, three 49 years, one 45 years and two 30 years.
The

class of

1

bers teach a total of

Kennedy reported for the class of 884 which had
members present. Mr. Kennedy spoke of the institution
the days he was a student there.
Charles

1

four
in

The class of 889 had 25 in reunion. State Senator Benjamin Apple, of Sunbury, responded for the class and spoke of
the delight of the members in seeing Dr. Waller at the reunion.
1

Of the

class of

59

there are

43

living

and $115 was subscribed

to the art fund.

Mr. Lewis responded for the class of

members

in

1

894 which had 25

reunion and he urged that the graduates return as

often as possible for the reunions.

The

class

pledged $108 for

the art project.

Mr. Gager, of Scranton,

reported for

the class of

1899

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9 attending.
He spoke of the fine features of the
and declared that one year while his class was at the
school they did not lose any football or basket ball games and
lost only two of
baseball games.
which had

1

institution

1

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John McGuffy, a member of the class, was introduced as
one of the greatest athletes in the history of the institution. The
class pledged a minimum of one hundred dollars to the art fund.
G. L. Howell reported 29 of the 2 members of the class
904 back and said $34 had been subscribed for the fund.
Dan Mahoney reported 23 of the class of 909 in reunion with
$1000 subscribed to the fund. The class of 1914 had 20 in reunion with one member having come from St. Louis, Mo.
Mrs.
Roy Cook reported for the class which subscribed $25 for the
1

of

1

1

1

fund.

Mrs. Mary Woolcox reported for the class of 1919 which
had 55 back and pledged $100 to the fund.

The class of 924 had the largest number in reunion, 47
The class had not determined on
back out of a class of 330.
the amount it would give to the fund but pledged its share.
1

1

Edward Schuyler reported
The

class of

for the class.

1927, the youngest class in reunion, claimed
it the first graduate to have obtained a de-

the honor of having in

gree at the institution,

$900

Arthur Jenkins.
The class has given
and pledged $250 for the art

for furnishing of the lobby

project.

Miss Verna Medley reported for the class.

meeting had been
upon to stand. There were
The meeting then adjournabout 50 members in attendance.
ed and the members went to the dining hall for the banquet.

The

class of

1

929, which

elected to membership,

was

earlier in the

called

BACCALAUREATE SERMON
“Be such teachers that your pupils will speak not only of
you gave by the lessons you taught but by the light of

the aid

THE ALUMNI QUARTEKLY
character that shines
in

in

9

your eyes, and that character is created
creator,” Rev. J. Thomas Heistand,

communion with God our

rector of St. Foul’s Episcopal Church, told the

members

of the

graduating class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College

in

delivering an impressive sermon at the baccalaureate services in
the College auditorium

Sunday afternoon. May 26.

Dealing separately with the physical, intellectual and moral

phases of

life

the minister in his brief address held the closest at-

tention of the class as he spoke of their responsibilities as teachers.

The

services

opened with the processional at 2 30 o’clock,
gowns singing the processional hymn
:

the class in black caps and

of the institution, “Ancient of Days.”

The

class

was headed by

its

who were

officers

followed by

those taking part in the service.

Seated on the stage during the
exercises were Rev. Heistand, A. Z. Schoch, J. T. Townsend,

members

of the Board of Trustees; Dr. D.

principal; Dr. Francis B. Hass, principal,

well

and H.

sang,

F.

Jr., former
and Miss Alma CaldJ.

Waller,

Fenstemaker, of the College faculty.

Rev. Heistand offered the invocation and the congregation
0 Master Let Me Walk With Thee.” Dr. Haas read the

Scripture.

Following the sermon by the Rev. Mr. Heistand, Miss
Caldwell, of the College faculty, sang,

by Gounod, with

violin obligato

“0

Alma

Divine Redeemer,”

by Gerald Harter, of Blooms-

burg.

850 ALUMNI AT

ANNUAL BANQUET

There were 850 members of the Alumni Association of the
at the banquet served in the College
auditorium at 12:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. May 25, and
the banqueters enjoyed an excellent address by one of their
members, John Bakeless, editor of the Living Age, and were

State Teachers’ College

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10

heartily greeted

by

Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal of the College.

R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni, presided and the

under the direction of H.

College orchestra,

F.

Fenstemaker,

furnished a program of music during the serving of the dinner.

Mr. Albert,

in

introducing Dr. Haas,

said that

looking

in

over the records of the association for the past eight years

it

was

found that the number of graduates returning during the past
two years numbered many more than in preceding years. He
declared that the warm reception given them by Dr. Haas and
the school authorities was what he believed to be the reason for
the steadily mounting attendance.
Dr. Haas welcomed the
graduates, expressed the hope that they would enjoy themselves
and extended a hearty invitation for them to return.
Just at the close of the meeting, the entire assemblage rose
in tribute to Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., a

for

many

ed a prominent part
uates,

member

many

of

in

whom

work

1

grad-

were among the Alumni present.
rise,

paid a

867,

has play-

Mr.

fitting tribute

of Dr. Waller.

Mr. Bakeless,
tion of the

man who

building the lives of hundreds of

Albert, in calling for the assemblarge to
to the

of the class of

years principal of the school, and a

in

a fine address which held the closest atten-

gathering,

told of the

powerful influence that the

United States had at the present time and declared that whether
that

power was wisely used depended

to a large extent

upon the

teachers of the nation.

Mr. Bakeless said:
claim; but

I

think

I

may

“It

may be

egotistical to

make

the

assert with reasonable confidence that

—

have been a part of the Normal School or the Teachers’ Colwe must now call it at least as long as any one in this
For eleven years I
room, except the veterans of the faculty.
was part of the body, entering the model school in the second
grade in 1902 and finishing at last in 1913.
I have never yet
been quite clear whether the faculty felt that after eleven years
there was nothing left to do for me, or whether they adopted the
I

lege, as

—

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more
ed

was about

cynical view that eleven years

stand.

At any

rate, the school

and

I

11

all

they could

parted company

—

or seem-

to.

whether any one can ever quite part
Not all of you,
with his school.
probably, entered the school, as it was then, at so early an age
And
as seven.
But we all came here in our formative years.
no influence, exerted in youth when the strongest character is
still pliable and forming can hope ever in the future to throw off
that influence.
Of course, we don’t hope to throw it off. We
don’t even throw it off.
We want to keep it. For the influence
to use an old,
of old Normal
if you will permit an old-timer
familiar name
is one of the best influences any of us can ever
hope to have in our lives.

“For

I

seriously doubt

company with

his college or

—
—

“Of course, any school can claim

to exercise

some such

in-

Every school can
make the claim because, by and by, every school does just that.
But no educational institution can make quite so large a claim to
exerting a wide-spread influence, as one that specializes in the
training of teachers.
A teachers’ college might be described as
a kind of intellectual grandfather.
It is accomplishing a double
task.
It is exerting an influence
on its generation not only
through its own alumni, but through the teaching that those
alumni are themselves doing.
fluence over the future lives of

“I

remember
what

plexity as to

its

alumni.

several years ago

future course

I

when

I

was

in

some per-

should pursue, going for ad-

vice to Dr. Talcott Williams, formerly editor of the Philadelphia
Press, later the

first

director of the Pulitzer School of Journalism.

“
‘Well,’ said he, ‘you

must choose between two courses.

You must decide what kind of influence you want to exert. Do
you want to exert an influence over your own time and your own
generation?
Or do you want to exert an influence over the generation that

is

to come.’

“In the mind of this veteran journalist, the two were not to

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be combined.
But it is by no means certain that he was right,
even so far as individuals are concerned.
And certainly he was
not right as far as institutions are concerned.

obviously exercising influence over
fluences

the

its

“Now what

Surely

is

it

We

civilization.

ought to be, here

since
it

it

in
in-

influences

indirectly through them.

the influence that

is

of ours to exert?

vilization

For a school
time,

students directly, and equally obviously

coming generation

American

own

its

we may

expect

this college

ought to be a formative influence in
are not yet so great a country as we

There is no denying that our cicrude and unfinished and raw.
We have yet to proAmerica.

in

duce a distinctively American culture.
So far we are borrowers and merely imitative borrowers from Europe.
There is, to
be sure, nothing disgraceful in being borrowers of another people’s culture.
All races everywhere have always borrowed.
But they have also added something of their own to what they
have borrowed, and that is what we here in America have yet
to do.

“Moreover, we are living in an age which faces tremendous
problems, and it is our nation which exercises the greatest power
We have come a long distance in this
in the modern world.
At the turn of the century we
country in the last thirty years.
were still a small and relatively unimportant power. Today we
are the greatest single influence in the
to

determine the use that

Surely

we

are to

ourselves, as citizens.

mestic policy

we

we

is

weak

If

America’s foreign

or unworthy, then

For

are to blame.

modern world. Who is
of this power of ours ?

make

it

we

or do-

are unworthy and

has been well said

that ‘the

trouble

If
with representative government is that it does represent.’
America has not wholly lived up to her opportunities, then we

are to blame.

“And

is

there a

next generation.

remedy?

And

Yes,

it

the training of the next generation

the hands of the teachers of the country.
carefully trained to

the training of the

lies in

honest and

We

impartial

is

in

need clear minds,

scientific

thinking.

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That

is

13

the greatest gift that our schools can give to the nation

And

or to the world.

training institutions.

it

is

peculiarly the

And we,

as alumni,

work

of

the

teacher

have special duty

to

The work of the school is properly under the direcBut we have a share
tion of its administration and its faculty.
The
in it as well.
For it is our college and we are its alumni.
college has a right to expect our loyalty and our practical cooperation in every way, and I know that it is sure to find it in the
perform.

future as

it

always has

in the past.”

IVY DAY

PROGRAM

While thunder rumbled far away and lightning flashes were
reduced by distance to a mere dull glow. Seniors of the Teachers’

Ivy Day program in
commencement features.

College presented their annual

grove, the most picturesque of the

the

“Robin Hood” was the presentation this year, and in setting
and costume the presentation lacked nothing. The program
came after the planting of the ivy and the Ivy Day oration by
Miss Charlotte Lord,
base of the

new

fire

An audience

this part of the exercises being given at the
tower on the south side of Carver Hall.

of several hundred witnessed the presentation,

braving the premature dusk and distant rumble heralding the ap-

proach of storm, to say nothing of the splattering rain drops that
fell during the last half of the program.

The march from Carver

Hall to the grove was an impresscap and gown clad members of the
Senior Class entered the grove to form a semi circle on the
ground in front of the crowd of other spectators who filled the
ive sight as the scores of

bleachers to overflowing.

At the head of the procession were a dozen or more of the
girls

of the class, clad in white, carrying the ivy chain.

Some

of the spectators

were driven out when the

rain be-

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gan to pelt the crowd as the program was half concluded, but
most of the audience remained to the end.
Miss Alice Pennington was in the role of Robin Hood, Miss

John and Miss Florence Fest in the role
All were in costume as were the other participants.
As Robin Hood and his men made merry in Sherwood forest there were enacted a half dozen episodes. These
opened with Robin Hood meeting Little John and Maid Marian
coming to the forest.
Isabel Chelosky as Little

of Maid Marian.

The second scene was

at

Nottingham

with dances by

fair,

the villagers in their vari-colored costumes that stood out against

the green background of the grove.

Robin Hood’s victory

in the

The archery contest with

shooting match followed.

The program concluded with Robin Hood and Marian planning their wedding and the

visit

of King Richard in disguise to

the forest to grant a pardon to Robin Hood.

Miss

Anna Taby was

in the role of

King Richard.

tendants were Misses Sarah Pierce and Agnes Bieler.

Her

at-

Miss Flor-

ence Jones was the nurse, and Robin Hood’s men were Misses
Helen Seely, Mary Becker and Verna Valence, with Miss Mary
Carr as the sheriff, and Miss Rachel Pratt as Ellen.
In charge of the production

were Miss

McCammon and

Miss Johnston, of the College faculty.

CLASS NIGHT
The lighter side of College life, trivial happenings of today
become the cherished memories of tomorrow, formed the
basis of the Class Night program of the Class of 929 which was
that

1

given before a large audience in the College auditorium Tues-

day evening. May 28.

the

Built around a “Misrepresentation of Assembly Exercises”
program was a delightful and amusing cross section of the

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good times of school days
class

when

the

15

ended for the majority of the

that

exercises brought another Col-

Commencement

lege year to a close.

The program was climaxed by the presentation of the meform of a check, which was in addition to the proof framing pictures that now adorn college walls and which

morial, in the
ject

will for

years perpetuate the

name

of the Class of

1

929.

The presentation was made by Theodore Davis,

of Nanti-

coke, and accepted on behalf of the institution by Prof. W. B.
Mr. Sutliff, in accepting the gift
Sutliff, dean of instruction.

and that each
form of a
memorial.
Mr. Sutliff spoke of the many memorials that had
been left in the past and of the part that they have played in
The probinding closer together the school and its graduates.
Song.
gram was concluded with the singing of the Class

said each year a large group leaves the institution
class leaves

some evidence

of

its

College

life in

the

opening the program Mr. Davis presided at the “chapel
There was no responsive reading because “every
one had been too busy during the past two weeks.”
There was
no singing because the “books could not be found.”
There
were no faculty members to make reports, class members exIn

exercises.”

plaining that the faculty

ground by the

came a complaint
every

Waller Hall

graduating

into

class.

of the conduct of the locker

shift:ng of the scenes to
realistic in

was probably forced

brilliance of the

room

back-

the

And

then

and a
the “locker room,” a sketch that was
girls

detail.
girls

followed with a dramatization of

life

and then students who had done their practice teaching
wick gave a glimpse of student life there.

in

there

Ber-

George “Ex” Mathews, president of the Student Council,
and a group of Seniors then provided a training school scene that
was anything but realistic but certainly provided a lot of laughs.

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16

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
An

audience of relatives and friends of the class that

filled

the auditorium enjoyed the impressive exercises that brought to

a close another College

Commencement and sent
300 qualified teachers.

out into

the

great field of service almost

Of the class, one of the largest in the history of the institu23 received degrees in bachelor of science of education, 22
of them earning the degrees in Junior High School work and one
tion,

obtaining a degree in the elementary

field.

The class, in black gowns and caps, entered the auditorium
from the rear as Alexander’s orchestra played the processional.
Dr. David J. Waller, Jr., for years principal of the College and
intimately concerned with the progress of the institution throughout his

life,

offered the invocation.

Seated on the platform for the exercises were those who
in the program, members of the Board of Trustees and

took part
the

members

of the faculty.

the faculty were

in

Participants in the

program and

the class procession, following the officers of

the class.

The Commencement Address was given by
Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of Education

New

York.

Introduced by Dr. Haas as the

friend, teacher

and

inspiration. Dr.

Graves

Dr.

Frank

of the State

of

man who was

his

in

opening

his

ad-

dress spoke of the principal of the local institution as one of the

leaders in the educational system of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Graves also paid tribute to Prof. 0. H. Bakeless,

who

retired at the close of the College year after years of invaluable

service

and

to Dr. D. J. Waller

one of the founders of the

He spoke

and

to the latter’s father,

who was

institution.

of the changes in the institution since its foundachanges that are those of progress, but declared that the
ideals of the founders remain unchanged.
tion,

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17

There is no more worthy objective than that of creating
There are many ordinary individuals who can follow
but the world must look to certain individuals for leadership to
keep the human race from stagnation.
leaders.

He spoke

and environment play in the
two factors by English and American leaders.
Dr. Graves was inclined
to accept the American theory that environment played the most
life

of the part heredity

of the individual

important

of the importance placed in these

role.

He spoke

down

;

have been handed
through training and environ-

of the contributions which

to the present generations

ment and not through heredity, and prophesied
in

the future will be largely as in the past

that the

—through

advance

the class

room.

Speaking of the part heredity plays. Dr. Graves admitted
had not been given a fair trial that as yet we do not give
the attention to human mating that we do to the breeding of the
lower animals.
He deplored the fact that hardly an effort is
being made to prevent the mating of those who are physically
and mentally unfit.

that

it

If

thought

;

knowledge were applied. Dr. Graves
would take a comparatively short time to improve the

the accumulated
it

race and raise the level of
It is

human

standards.

the popular creed that one man’s opinion

is

as

good

as

would be paid to the
If we have hope
of raising the intellectual standard we must realize that the plan
now used must be corrected and that it must be corrected
another’s.

Certainly today no attention

advice of an expert

in the

choice of mating.

through education, he declared.

He spoke

American point of view of giving educahe called attention to the limited
He spoke of the attempt now being made

of the

tional opportunities to all but
ability of

through

man.

tests to select

only those for higher education

who can

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18

take advantage of the opportunities.

Thus

the

far

tests are

crude, but he believed that they are bound to help to form
the

groundwork of the

He deplored

final solution.

the abuses of educational opportunity and de-

clared that any faculty or trustee
is

proving unworthy to a

vidual through education

trust.
is

who
If

used

He

tolerating a lazy student

power given

to the indi-

selfishly or criminally

ing could be so detrimental to the

tunities

is

the

human welfare

then noth-

as college.

closed with the plea that the class, realizing the oppor-

which had been

should go out and

theirs,

assist

in the

giving of opportunities to others.
Dr. Graves in his address to the class said that a most
worthy objective of an institution was that of turning out leaders.
He declared that through the ages there had been very little change in man but that those of today are enjoying the contributions handed down through the training and environment
of the past.
The speaker said that heredity had a less important

part in progress but deplored the fact that less attention

en to the mating of the

The point
dual as

human

giv-

race than to the lower animals.

America today

is

to give each indivi-

as the individual

is

capable of consum-

of view in

much education

was

The welfare of the race demands it and we Americans
ing.
have seen the demand and are endeavoring to supply it. Dr.
Graves pointed out, however, that all are not created alike and
that the sooner that

realized the better off

is

we

will be.

Shall

we

never learn, the speaker asked, that all Americans cannot do
everything and that there is honorable work outside of educa-

tion?

Moral qualities are bound to play an important part

in the

success of the individual, perhaps even a greater part that
stract intelligence.

each individual to do

He
his

ab-

was a challenge on the part of
utmost to remove the abuses to the

said

it

privileges of education.

After Dr. Graves delivered his address, Robert E. Clark, a

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member

19

of the College faculty, sang Tschaikowski’s

“Don Juan’s

Serenade.”
Dr. Haas then

made

the awards of the certificates

plomas, each graduate standing as his or her
Prof.

W.

B. Sutliff,

dean of

instruction, presented the

successful candidates to Dr. Haas.
letic

and

name was

The presentation

lists

di-

read.

of the

of the ath-

awards was then made.

As the names of those receiving degrees were

called,

the

students went to the platform and received their diplomas, each

being personally congratulated by Dr. Haas.
Miss Genevieve Meixell, of Espy, secured her degree in the

Those who secured them in the Junior High
were: Lawrence H. Creasy, Catawissa; Ralph W.
Davies, Theodore S. Davis, Nanticoke; Florence J. Fest, Jack B.
Fortner, Bloomsburg; Mark I. Fowler, Espy; Cora Frank, Mahanoy City; Bernard Gallager, Parsons; Ray J. Haring, Nescopeck; Martha A. Laird, Mary A. Laird, Hughesville; Miriam R.
Lawson, Bloomsburg; George A. Mathews, Sugar Notch; Charlotte Mears, Bloomsburg; Marjorie A. Orr, Shickshinny; Alice B.
Pennington, Millville; Mildred J. Rehm, Bloomsburg; Charles
H. Surfield, Shenandoah; Ruth E. Titman, Bloomsburg; Theodore Vital, Glen Lyon; Kenneth E. Yocum, and Minnie Melick,
Bloomsburg.
elementary

School

field.

field

In his parting

claring that

whether

it

rests

his life

is

words

to the class Dr.

Haas spoke

briefly de-

with each one as he goes from the institution
to

be one of enslavement or freedom and ex-

pressed the hope that each one had secured that which would

enable him to secure freedom.

At the exercises the institution continued a custom inauguryear and which promises to be a feature at Commencements in the future, that of presenting to each man of the graduating class who earned letters in varsity athletics a gold key and
ated

last

a certificate.

Those who received the awards were

George Mathews,

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20

Wilbur J. Fisher, W. Archibald Reese, Robert Davis and Henry
Morgan.

The assemblage stood

for the singing of

Alma Mater and

the audience remained standing while the class left the auditor-

ium

for the last time in their College careers.

Alexander’s or-

chestra played the recessional.

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ATHLETICS
The Spring season has been successful in sport activities at
The inter-collegiate sports have been baseball,
track and field, and tennis.
There has been also a splendid program for girls of which we shall speak later.

the College.

The baseball team won five of its eight games. The vicwere as follows: Wyoming Seminary (2), East Stroudsburg ( ) Kutztown ( ) Mansfield ( )
Defeats Shippensburg (2), Mansfield (1 ). The team reached its greatest heights
on Alumni Day. Those who saw the game were delighted to
see the splendid performance of a good team.
tories

1

,

Track

1

,

activities started

val sponsored

1

.

on February 20

:

at a

Relay Carni-

by the Scranton Technical High School.

Allen-

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town Prep., Bloomsburg and Keystone Academy were classed to
run in competition and finished in the order named.
The College sponsored a triangular track and field meet on May
Shippensburg, East Stroudsburg and Bloomsburg had an inter1

esting
Price,

with an

Shippensburg,

day.

won

the meet.

burg’s third place was brightened

ance of Rinker, a Freshman,

May

run.

in

Blooms-

somewhat by the perform-

winning

place in

first

the mile

and Field Meet for

18th, the Eastern District Track

Normal Schools and State Teachers’ Colleges
Bloomsburg took fourth

the eight

area was held at Shippensburg.

The
times.

in the

place.

team met Mansfield twice and took defeat both
was the only inter-school competition scheduled.

tennis

This

The

named

outstanding star

East Stroudsburg was second.

1

program

based on a point system
and chevrons.
Keen
interest in shown in achievement in the wide variety of activities
offered for credit.
To win numerals, 300 points must be earnAbout 150 girls met the requirements. Nearly 125 more
ed.
won the coveted “B” by scoring 600 points. Thirty secured
One four year student, Dorothy
chevrons with 900 points.
Foote, a Senior, has to her credit 3 chevrons with a grand total
of 500 points earned during her four year course.
girls’

reward

for

in the

way

in the

school

is

of numerals, letters

1

To

all

men

who have earned
recognition is made

graduates

ing their course, suitable

varsity “B’s” durin the

ment program by the presentation of Athletic
gold keys.

Five Seniors received

Commence-

Certificates

these

rewards

Alumni

interest

the

at

and
last

Commencement.

We
in

sign off

now

until Fall.

is

welcomed

keeping our athletic standards worthy of Bloomsburg.
E. H.

NELSON,

’ll.

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NEV/S OF

We

ALUF/INI

acknowledge with thanks the receipt of many

Owing

ing personal items.
print

THE

23

them

all in this issue,

to lack of space,

but will print them

It is

now

not too early to begin

should begin

now

to

make

interest-

are unable to

in later issues.

^

¥
reunion the greatest ever.

we

to plan to

Officers of

make

the

following

the

1

930

classes

1870, 1875, 1880,

preparations:

1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925,
staff will be glad to furnish lists of
Please note the action taken regarding

1885, 1890, 1895, 1900,
1928.
The QUARTERLY

names and addresses.

the Bakeless Art Fund, mention of which

Remember

this issue.

the date

:

is

made elsewhere

Alumni Day, May 24,

1

in

930.

1876
Quietly at the

Judge Charles

C.

home

of the bride’s sister October 24,

Evans, of the Columbia-Montour

Mrs. Elizabeth Milnes Mears, of West Second

were united

in

928,
and
Berwick,
1

district,

Street,

marriage.

Only the immediate families of the prominent couple witnessed the ceremony, which was performed at
the

home

2:30

o’clock at

of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. White in Briar Creek.

hom.e was beautifully decorated with a profusion

chrysanthemums, yellow roses and

The

of yellow

ferns.

Rev. Joseph C. Stuart, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Berwick, performed the ring ceremony as the couple
met before a bank of flowers, the bride being given in marriage

by her brother, John Milnes, of Kenwood, N.
orchid chiffon velvet and carried violets and

Y.

The bride wore

orchids.

There were no attendants at the ceremony and following a
wedding dinner the couple departed on a honeymoon to a number of

cities in the East.

The bride

is

one of Berwick’s most highly esteemed

women

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and the many friends of the couple

will join in

extending hear-

congratulations.

tiest

Mrs. Evans has been

coming
sided.

a resident of Berwick since 1922,
Berwick from Scranton, where she had formerly reShe is, however, a native of Espy.
Since coming to

to

Berwick she has been particularly active in the Women’s Department of the Y. M. C. A. and the work of the Girl Reserves and
for several years has been an officer of the Advisory Board of
the women’s department, a position that drew her into active service in the growing work of that organization.
During the past
year she has been president of the Council Cup Chapter of the
Delphian Society.
Guests at the wedding were

:

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Milnes, Mr.

and Mrs. John Milnes, Kenwood, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Ives, of Clark Summit; Robert Mears, of New York City; Miss
Marion Mears, of Franklin; Mr. and Mrs. Clark Evans of New
York City; Mr. and Mrs. Morris Evans and son Charles, Miss
Elizabeth Milnes and Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. White.
;

1879
There were

who

six of the Class of

returned for their

fiftieth

22 which graduated

year reunion and

bers of the class have taught a total of

had a

fine

624

all

in

of the

years.

1879

mem-

This class

time throughout the day telling of their work during

the half century since graduating and also telling of absent class-

mates.

1882
Stricken suddenly with heart disease at Nutley, N.

her daughter

is

a teacher, Mrs. L. P.

Sterner,

J.,

where

one of Blooms-

known and most prominent women, died at 5:30
Monday morning, June 4, after a few minutes’ illness.

burg’s best
o’clock

Prof. Sterner

was

visiting his son. Dr.

delphia, at the time,

the 3

Robert Sterner,

in Phila-

and was overcome with shock.

The body of Mrs. Sterner was brought to Bloomsburg on
50 D. L. & W. train and was removed to the family home
:

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on Third
relatives,

25

where funeral services, which were private for
was held at 1:30 Thursday afternoon, June 7. Rev.

Street,

A. Marker, of the Presbyterian Church, officiated.

S.

Mrs. Sterner

ed

was one of Bloomsburg’s most highly esteem-

women and had

long resided in Bloomsburg.

About two weeks before Mrs.

sudden death. Prof,
and Mrs. Sterner left for Philadelphia to visit their son. Dr. Robert Sterner.
Mrs. Sterner had gone to Nutley to spend the weekHer daughend with her daughter and was stricken suddenly.
ter and her son, James, were at her bedside when the end came.
Prof. Sterner and Robert were immediately notified and went to
Nutley at once.
adelphia, but

it

Sterner’s

The body of Mrs. Sterner was removed to Philwas impossible to continue the journey to

Bloomsburg because of Prof. Sterner’s condition.
Mrs. Sterner

last

Spring underwent a very serious operation

for the removal of a goitre at the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia.

Her condition then was such that she was a patient at
weeks before it was doomed wise to opHer condition since had shown an improvement and she

the hospital for several
erate.

has

made

a satisfactory recovery.

Mrs. Sterner was a descendant of Robert Fulton, inventor
of the steamboat,

New York upon

and some years ago was an honored guest

in

the occasion of the celebration of the invention

of the steamboat.

Her maiden name was Miss Nora Finney, and she was for
of years a very successful and much loved teacher in
it was while she was a teacher
the Bloomsburg High School,
and Prof. Sterner the principal that their marriage took place.
a

number

Mrs. Sterner
fall

after

is

survived by her husband,

a long period of

service

as

who

retired last

superintendent of the

Bloomsburg schools and three children: Dr. Robert, of PhilaJ., and James, a student at

delphia; Miss Alice, of Nutley, N.

Harvard.

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Mrs. Sterner had expected to go from Nutley to
City with Prof.
University,

New York

commencement at Columbia
daughter was to receive a degree.

Sterner for the

where

their

Mrs. Sterner was active in the W. C. T. U., the Fort McClure
Chapter of the D. A. R., the Century Club and the Presbyterian
Church.

1883
passed away at the hospital at 5 20 A. M.
October 29, 928, after having been in a very critical condition
and at the point of death for the two days.
Ira C. Dietterick

:

1

Suffering for weeks with a stomach ailment, he underwent
an x-ray examination that revealed ulcers that necessitated a serious operation.
It was performed and a condition developed
which gave few hopes for his recovery.

Mr. Dietterick was born in Berwick on December 3, 1863,
and was accordingly aged sixty-four years, seven months and
twenty-six days.
His early life was spent in Berwick where he
served an apprenticeship in the Reagan Drug Store and became
He went to Nebraska to locate and
a registered pharmacist.
established a drug store at Crawford that he conducted for many
years.

Some twenty-five years ago he returned to Berwick and
his home with Dr. G. L. Reagan, and Mrs. Reagan, his sisHe
ter, and was employed at Clewell and Currin’s Drug Store.
the
Mocanaqua
Store
of
Drug
was for several years in charge of
S. J. Bannan, of Shickshinny, and returned to Berwick when the
store was sold.
He has since been employed with local drug
A man with a never
stores and at the Berwick Store Company.
failing disposition of friendliness and cheerfulness, he was a man
He was a member of Christ Episcopal
with many warm friends.

made

Church and of Berwick Tent, Knights of the Maccabees.
There are surviving two children, Elwell, of Scranton and
New York City. Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyt,

Mrs. Harriet Catasus, of
of Berwick,

is

a niece.

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1884
There were four members of the Class of 1884 present at
and they had an excellent time during the day.
Charles Kennedy, of Hazleton, who
The members were
taught until 1919; Miss S. Ella Young, of Millville; Mrs. John
C. Scanlon, of Laurytown, and Miss Mae Sharpless, of Bloomsthe reunion

:

burg.

1885
Miss

Anne Fox, a

successful

teacher

in

the

schools

of

Bloomsburg for 41 years and one of the town’s most esteemed
women, who retired at the close of the present school year, was
guest of honor at a banquet Monday evening. May 13, at the
Elks’ Club of the teachers of the Bloomsburg public schools, a
group which has in it six of Miss Fox’s former pupils.
During the evening Miss Fox was presented with a handsome wrist watch by the teachers, the presentation being made
by Superintendent W. W. Raker. An excellent chicken dinner
was served.
1889

The

Class of

1

889 had one

of the best records of attend-

Of a class of 59, of whom
were 25 back for a delightful re-

ance of any of the classes in reunion.
only 43 are

now

living, there

union.

Among
James

the

members

P. Grimes, Mrs.

of the class attending were:

Mrs.

Fannie E. Tressler, Mrs. A. B. Longshore,

Malena Gabbert, Mrs. Frank
Benjamin Apple, Mrs. John W. Kirkley.

R. D. Renn, Harrisburg; Mrs.
Irvin,

B.

1892
Caroline H. Black
ville.

is

Principal of the schools at

Newport-

Pa.

^

Word reached Columbia County
New York

death at the Clifton Springs,

ner, ^on of Mrs. S. J. Conner, of

relatives

May

3

1

of

the

sanitarium of Pierce Con-

Willow Springs, and a prominent

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28

figure in the business life of Trenton,

New

Jersey,

where he has

resided for the last twenty-five years.

Before going to Trenton Mr. Conner was a foreman

&

American Car

Foundry Company plant

in the

Upon

at Berwick.

going to Trenton he associated himself with

his

brother

in

the

Conner mil! enterprise of that city.
He becam.e a bank director, was interested in a large department store in Trenton and
had varied other interests there.
Mr. Conner was the son of the late Samuel

He was

Elmira Conner.

J.

Conner and

a graduate of the Bloomsburg State

Normal School and married Miss Letta Schnerr, of Hobbie.
They have two sons and a daughter, Maurice F. Conner, Scott
Conner, of Trenton and Mrs. Archibald Updike, of Sebring, Fla.

He was associated with his two brothers, John G. Conner
and Stanley J. Conner, in the Conner Millwork Co., of Trenton,
N. J.
He was a director of the Prospect National Bank, a Past
Master of Trenton Lodge No. 5, F. & A. Fd. and an elder of the
Bethany Presbyterian Church of Trenton.
He

is

survived

mother, Mrs.

addition to his wife and children by

in

Conner, of Willow Springs; his

S. J.

Charles M. Petty, of Madera, Cal.
of East Orange, N.

J.

;

Conner, Madera,

Cal.,

his

Mrs.

Mrs. George A. Whittemore,

;

Miss Martha Conner, of Pittsburgh and

brothers John G. Conner and Stanley
S.

sisters,

and Ray

S.

J.

Conner, of Trenton;

W.

Conner, Schenectady.

1894

Members

of the Class of

1894 from

all

parts of the State

gathered at their Alma Mater to spend a day they

will

remember

the rest of their lives.

Among

those back for the reunion were Mrs. F. C. Stehie,

Towanda; Mrs. Hannah

Dalton, Shenandoah;
Margaret W. Palmer, Shenandoah; Mary G. Monaghan, Shenandoah; Mrs. Teressa G. CosSarah J.
tello, Hazleton; Mrs. Catherine Albertson, Sunbury;

Miss Bertha Espy,

Mrs. Oscar C. Kunze, Newark, N.

J.

;

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Catherine Hardcastle Albertson, Sunbury;

Hughes, Scranton;

Mary

C. Rassier

29

and Mrs. Hannah Dalton, Elizabeth

Shen-

Beilis,

andoah; Mrs. Mary Frimire Kick.

* ^ * V
William Buckwalter
ton, Pa.

His address

is

employed

is

622 North
^

Nellie

ham

Coffman (Mrs.

Street, Carlisle, Pa.

in the

Post Office at Scran-

Lincoln Avenue.

If-

C. H.

She

is

McDermott),

lives at

235 Gra-

teaching in the Carlisle public

Her daughter, Sara, is teaching in the High School at
Gloucester, N. J.
Another daughter, Mary, is a member of the
Her son, William,
faculty of the High School at Ardmore, Pa.
schools.

a graduate of Dickinson College in the

Class of

1928,

is

now

studying at Johns Hopkins University.
V-

H-

Bessie G. Lynch (Mrs.

James

Street, Kingston, Pa.

Edith M. Nesbit

is

John A. Redington),
She has five children.
>{>{>{>(

living

lives at

73

on a farm near Milton, Pa.

1899
About one-fifth of the members of the Class of 899 were
back for an enjoyed reunion and they entered into the spirit of
the day along with the youngest members of the association in
1

reunion.

Among
Scott, Mrs.

those at the reunion were:

Emma

Mrs. Lillian

Hidlay

Severann, Mrs. Mabel Heist Clayberger, Mrs.

Richard Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Fortner, Mrs. Carrie Flick
Redline and Henry Clayberger.

1904
There were 22 members of the Class of

The

1

904 back

for the

numbered 121. Most of those
in reunion arrived early in the morning and exchanged experiences and news of other members in the morning and following

25 th year reunion.

class

the banquet in the afternoon.

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30

1908
Flora M. Miller (Mrs. C. E. Anderson) lives in Camden, N.
J.,
is

where her husband is in the hardware
129 South 27th Street.
* V ^

business.

Her address

^(1

William Rarich
N.

J.

Mr. Rarich

is

lives at

250 Wyoming Avenue, Audubon,

Treasurer of Harris

J. Latta, Inc.,

of Phila-

delphia.

¥ ¥
Mrs.

Bank

Anna M.

*

Shiffer Peters

is

Her home

of Wilkes-Barre.

a stenographer in the Miners
is

Hudson, Pa.

in

1909
There were 23 members of the Class of

1

909 back

after

years and they had some enjoyed experiences to relate.
those at the College were:

Bess

Hinckley,

20

Among

Geraldine

Hess

Follmer, Kate Seesholtz Morris, Irma L. Heller Abbott, Carrie E.

VanCampen, Rebecca Stroh Williams, Mary F. Bevan, Gertrude
Hobbes Pooley, Julia Simpler Aurand, L. T. Heran, Dr. John W.
Grassier, A. L.

Rummer;

Dr. Scott Fisher, Syracuse, N. Y.

;

Lydia

J. Mahoney, Kathleen Major Brown, Elizabeth Fagan, Mary Edwards Shuman; Joseph E. Pooley, Madison, N. J,;
S. A. Shuman; J. E. Klingerman, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Gilgallon
Rockefeller, West Pittston; Gertrude M. Menuley, Peckville;
Mrs. D. J. Mahoning.

Williams, D.

V-

Bess Hinckley,

a former

>{

member

of the

faculty,

is

now

Personnel Welfare Worker and Librarian at the Danville State
Hospital.

^
Samuel J. Steiner is head of the Spanish Department in
Temple University, Philadelphia. His address is Box 205, Tem-

ple University.

* * ¥
Dr. Scott R. Fisher
tal,

Syracuse, N. Y.

cuse.

is

surgeon at the Crouse-Irving Hospi-

His address

is

5

1

1

Keith Building, Syra-

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31

1910
Reay W. Milnes
Oneida Community,

is

Assistant General

Works Manager

of the

Ltd., at Oneida, N. Y.

* ¥ ¥
John Skweir

is

practicing law in

McAdoo,

Edith C. Corse (Mrs. R. C. Tringley),

is

Pa.

teaching in the Vo-

cational High School at Harford, Pa.
>{

>(

v-

Grace A. Gillner (Mrs. Fred W. Zane), lives in Sterling,
Pa.
She writes that her time is very much occupied in taking
care of her twins (age and sex of same not stated).

¥ ¥ ¥ ¥
Helen

E. Trescott (Mrs.

Lee A. Perry),

lives in

New Lyme,

Ohio.

Julia G. Brill
at the
is

1

is

Assistant Professor of English Composition

Pennsylvania State College.

Her address

in

State College

28 East Nittany Avenue.
1914

There were 20 members of the Class of 1914 back for the
reunion and although no men in the class were back the women
had a great time. Those attending were Cora Severance Pinnock, Forty Fort; Pearl Hughes Gunther, Bloomsburg; Beulah
Fowler Thomas, St. Louis, Mo. Ethel Ravert Keck, Berwick;
Leah Bogart Lawton, Millville; Flora Fritz Henderson, Benton;
Sabilla Schobert Campbell, Kathryn Merle Erdman, Washington,
D. C. Vera Colvin Gorham, Clark’s Summit; Pauline F. Fennelly, Frackville; Martha F. Rosenstock, Ruth Hidlay, Bloomsburg;
Hester Eisenhauer Kerst, Lancaster; Oliver Miller Cook, Sunbury; Margaret Foust Beaver, Danville; Stella Buckley, Bessie
Winter, Nanticoke; Adelia Fagan, Hazleton; Susan Jennings
Sturman, Tunkhannock; Irene Fulmer; Pauline Lloyd, William:

;

;

sport.

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Flora L. Fritz and
Bellefonte, Pa., July

1

Edward

7,

B.

Henderson were married

at

1928, by Rev. Thompson, pastor of the

Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Henderson has for several years
been teaching Music, English and Dramatics at the Benton Consolidated School.
After June 0 she will make her home in
1

Indiana, Pa.

1919

The

had one of the
There were 55 members back.

Class of 1919, in tenth year reunion,

best turn-outs of the day.

Those attending were:

Martha

Hagemeyer, Scranton;

Anne Cummings Loftus, Moosic; Meta Kistler, Hazleton; Veronica Kennedy Muldowney, Claire E. Keating, Philadelphia Mary
H. Flynn, Centraha; Mary Durkin Ryan, Alma L. Bachman,
Wilkes-Barre Grace B. McCoy, Lewistown Mary Grover Powell, Mildred E. Stover, Anna M. Conboy, Scranton; R. U. Nyhart,
Wyoming; Margaret J. Dyer, Scranton, Marie Colt Reece, Mill;

;

;

ville;

Elizabeth Muir Stelle, Shamokin; Falla Linville Shuman,

Catawissa; Mildred E. Grifhth, Kingston; Mollie Jeremiah, Mildred E. Evans, Shamokin; Mrs. C. L. Heist, Berwick; Mabel G.

Beck, Factoryville; Lillian C. Fisher, Mt. Carmel; Miss Marion

Carmel; Mrs.
Laura Breisch, Ringtown Helen MeixRhoda Crouse, Berwick Dari Heeler Mathell, Berwick, R. D.
Stillwater; Margaret
er, Benton; Mary Harrington McHenry,
Heiss Vastine, Mifflinville Helen Howell Fieury, Espy; Olive M.
Burns, Oneida; Elizabeth E. Fessler, Shamokin; Marjorie A.
Crook, Minersville; Marian Troutman, Shamokin; Ruth Doyle
Agnes ShuMoore, Bayonne, N. J. Edwina Evans, Scranton
man Eves, Almedia; Ruth Maust Drumm, Bloomsburg; Marie
Ouikavan Turnbach, Hazleton; Arthur E. Hoffman, Newport;
Mary Williams Breisch, Ringtown Mary Diemer Myers, Bloomsburg; Bertha V. Baker, Espy; Anna Cole Stevens, Harrisburg;
Mary Belefski, Glen Lyon; Bee Evans Woolcock, Shamokin;
Irene Cabo, Wilkes-Barre.
C. Kilcoyne, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. S. Wilkinson, Mt.

Stanley Davis, Berwick

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

¥ ^

A

daughter was born Monday, April 22, to Mr. and Mrs.

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Clair Monroe, of Bloomsburg.
Agnes Smith.

Mrs.

33

Monroe was formerly Mary

1920
(Mrs. William 0. Seitzinger, Jr.), lives
City, where her husband is proprietor of a drug store.

Rachel
in

Tower

E. Patrick

1923

Anna W.

New York

Pursel

is

now

located at

49 West Ninth

Street,

City.

1924
The

which ever
from
institution,
reported
47
of
members
graduated
the
its
back for the fifth year reunion and they had a great time. A
telegram of greeting was received from Mary Crum.
Class of 1924, one of the largest classes
1

Among

those attending

were:

Mary Amesbury, Ruth

Jones; Sara E. Smull, Danville; Eva Watters, Mifflinville
ty E. Smoczynski, Catawissa

;

Mary Dowd

;

Het-

Deiterich, Harold Mil-

Bloomsburg Adda M. LizLake Silkworth; Emily Linskill Roberts, Fanwood, N. J.;
Margaret Smith Morris, Forty Fort; Ruth Morris, Luzerne; Frances Morris Williams, Edwardsville
Ruth D. Jenkins, Taylor;
Rose Connor, Wilkes-Barre; Helen Gribben, Dunmore; Mary
Wilkes-Barre;
Lois
Remley, Bloomsburg;
Riley,
Matilda
Mensch, Bloomsburg! Christine Gable, Tower City; Helen Barrow, Sunbury Gertrude M. Roberts, Nanticoke Leona E. MailEdith

ler,

W.

Ent, Christine Holmes,

;

das.

;

;

;

ey, Kingston; Lucille Groff, Wilkes-Barre;

Mary

Barret,

Wood-

Theresa Lyons, Wilkes-Barre; Margaret Berlew,
Kingston; Lydia A. Pollock, Mildred Ridgley, Anna Singleman
Barnes, West Pittston; Sarah Dymond Whitlock, Wyoming; Marridge, N. J.

;

garet B. Mensch, Millheim;
sie

A. Singer, Williamsport

;

Maude

R. Stover, Rebersburg; Bes-

Esther M.

Sitler,

Berwick

;

Elizabeth

Corrigan, Hazleton; Cathrine F. Fear, West Pittston; Ruth Win-

Nanticoke; Ruth

Tempest, Marion K. Andrews,
Bloomsburg; Arminta Howell
Jones, Alice Williams Keller, Aletha Bullock Allan, Beulah Deming, Arlene Johnston, Helen Leuthalt, Mildred Heiss, Elizabeth
ter Pratt,

Philadelphia; Mrs.

Ted

L.

P. Smith,

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Drumm

Emmitt,

Ruth Dunly, Consuelo

Fenstermaker,

Anna

Wright, Katherine Ball, Edith Brace, Aldona Baldowski, Kathryn Deckant, Miriam R.

Lawson, Viola M. Kline, Kathryn C.
Wanamie; Helen Krolikowski,
Helen Novak, Martha Stapinsky, Emma Burkett, Glen Lyon;
Grace Kleckner, Hazleton; Grace Woodring, St. Johns; Mildred
Houser, Eckley; Ella J. Aurand, Globe Mills; Elizabeth J. Mathias, Sorthumberland
Ruth Reynolds Stevenson, Factoryville;
Arlene Johnson, Hallstead; Frances M. Hahn, Edith E. Brace, Aldona Baldowski, Elizabeth Koch, Mrs. Catherine Creasy, Mrs.
Catherine Huttenstine, Mifflinville Mr. and Mrs. William Mess,
Frank Buss, Harold Llewellyn, Gordon Llewellyn, James ReySchuyler, Elizabeth Kruskinski,

;

;

nolds.
>{

Maude
grades

in

R. Stover

is

ff-

teacher of the fourth,

Her home address

Millheim, Pa.

is

fifth

and

sixth

Rebersburg, Pa.

^ ^ ^ ^
Ruth

Reynolds (Mrs. William M. Stevenson), lives at
Her daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was born on
928.

E.

Factoryville, Pa.

October 3,

1

>{

is

Helen Novak is
219 Ridge Street.

Katherine Ball lives

!{

Her address

V-

V-

in Factoryville,

She

Pa.

is

a teacher

the Little Exeter School.
>{

Paul Burdella

is

A. Mildred Heiss lives
in Mifflin

Plymouth, Pa.

>(

!{

in Mifflinville,

She

Pa.

is

teaching

Township, Columbia County.
if.

Frances M. Hahn
the schools of

Street.

V-

if-

teaching in
if-

in

if-

teaching in Glen Lyon, Pa.

^

in

ff-

West

is

if.

ff.

if.

Art Teacher

Pittston.

in the

intermediate grades

Her address

is

1

1

2 Washington

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Doris Morse
dress

is

is

35

teaching in White Plains, N.

Y.

Her ad-

48 Park Avenue.
1925

The engagement of Miss Gladys A. Richards, well known
Bloomsburg girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Richards, of
West Street, to Willard Kleckner, popular Shickshinny young
man and son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kleckner, of that place, was
announced October 22, 928, at a party held at the Hotel Ber1

wick.

Miss Richards

is

very popular

in

Bloomsburg.

She

is

a

graduate of the Hazleton High School and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College and
ton schools.

is

now

Mr. Kleckner

a successful teacher in the Hazle-

is

a graduate of Penn State and

is

employed in the transmission department of the Pennsylvania

Power and Light Company and

is

located at Hazleton.

1926
Miss Thalia Eleanor Kitchen, one of Catawissa’s most esteemed and popular girls, became the bride of Gilbert Smith
Cooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper, of Glen Lyon, in a
quiet ceremony at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Warner Kitchen, of Main Street, Catawissa, at 6:00 o’clock
Friday morning, March 29.

The ceremony was performed by Rev H.

J.

Billow, pastor

of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Catawissa, in the

presence of members of the immediate family.
Breakfast was served following the wedding and the couple then left on a

Mrs. Cooper

wedding

trip to Atlantic City.

is a graduate of the
Catawissa High School,
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College and
since her graduation has been a successful teacher in the Catawissa schools.
Mr. Cooper is a graduate of the Newport Township High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, Class of
926, and is now art supervisor in the Coatesville public schools.

Class of 1924,

1

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Both were very popular while students at the College and were
prominent in College activities.
They have also attended State
College.
>{

Frances Fisher
ship,

is

teaching

if-

in the schools of Dallas

Town-

Luzerne County, Pa.
if

if

if

if

Fae Womelsdorf and Bernard Tubick, of Wilkes-Barre,
were married March 23, 1926. They are now living at 245
Centre Street, Wanamie, Pa.
if

Margaret
married March

Phillips
1

2,

1

if

if

if

and Fred Walker, of Glen Lyon, were

926.

Their address

is

now

Spring Street,

Glen Lyon.

Laura

E.

Mann

625 North Church

is

teaching in

Her address

Hazleton.

is

Street.

1927
The Class of 1927, in reunion for the first time, had 50
back and the day was one of much enjoyment for them. Among
those attending were:
Wilma Dietterick, Beatrice Renn, Berwick; Ruth Manta, Nora Tucker, Edwardsville Marion Thomas,
Bethlehem Ruth Oswald, Hattie Everett, Mahanoy City Adella
Chapley, Shenandoah; Edith Sweetman, Martha Tasker, Shamokin; Mary E. Jones, Scranton; Hilda Ruggles, Hunlock Creek,
;

;

;

Emily Goldsmith, Demunds Helen Adrews, Miriam Eves
Margaret Caswell, Camptown; Ruth Rockwell, Wyalusing Verna Medley, Pauline Vastine, Stella Murray, Scranton; Isabel

R. D.

;

;

;

O’Donnell, Ellen Smith, Ebervale;

Anna

E. Gerringer, Danville;

Mrs. Harry Lindauer, Danville; Eldora B. Robbins, Orangeville;

Myra

L.

Thomas, Bethlehem; Doris Palsgrove, Frackville; Mild-

red R. Lowry, Forest City; Esther M. Welker, Bloomsburg; Lena

VanHorn, Hershey; Blanche Fahringer, Catawissa; Irene HilHelen Shaeffer,
Jessie M. Hastie, Avoca;
Mary Ryan, Helen Penman; Marion Marshal, Kingston; Edith
Sweetman, Taylor; Helen Andrews, Slatington; Mildred F.
Adams and Dorcas M. Epler.
E.

gert, Factoryville;

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Miss Bessie

6:00

Mae

37

Leech, of Muncy, was married

May

3

1

,

at

o’clock in the morning, to Fred White Kistler, of Blooms-

burg, at the

home

of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Leech, on

North Washington Street, Muncy.

The ceremony was performed by Rev.

J.

W.

Gentzler, pas-

presence of a few friends and

tor of the

Lutheran Church,

members

of the immediate families.

in the

Following a v/edding breakfast, they took a motor

Beaver

Pittsburgh and Uniontown.

Falls,

They

to

trip

will reside in

Wilkes-Barre.

The bride

is

a graduate of the

Muncy High School and

Nurses’ Training School at the Geisinger Hospital, Danville.
Kistler,

who

teacher

in

is

a graduate of

the Mountain

the

Mr.

Bloomsburg Normal School,

is

a

Top High School near Wilkes-Barre.
^ ^ ^ ^

Doris G. Palsgrove
dress

is

1

1

is

teaching in Frackville, Pa.

Her ad-

7 North Lehigh Avenue.
V-

Rachel

J. E.

Wolfe

is

!{

f{-

teaching

in

Lewisburg, Pa.

¥ y
Blanche Y. Fahringer

Her home

midia. Pa.

is

in

is

ff-

Edith E.
Pa.

She

is

Sweetman

teaching

in

teaching

ff-

is

High School

at

Nu-

ff-

lives at 5

1

9 West Taylor

Street, Taylor,

the Taylor public schools.
i{-

Emily Goldsmith

in the

Catawissa, Pa.

if-

teaching
ff-

if-

in Dallas, Pa.

f{-

V-

Florence M. Gamber is teacher of grades 4 and 5B at
Coxestown, Pa.
Her home address is 35 Ann Street, Duncannon.
1

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1928
Marguerite Catherine Minnich
trict office

of the

Hazleton, Pa.

'

is

a billing clerk

in

the dis-

Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, at

Her address

is

322

East Broad Street.

>{

Marguerite M. Dermody

is

V-

teacher of seventh grade

Junior High School at Scranton, Pa.

She

lives at

in the

1711 Roselyn

Avenue.

^

^ ^

Mary Youtz is a substitute teacher in the Northumberland
County schools.
Her address is R. D. 4, Sunbury, Pa.

Dorothy E. McCollum

is

schools of Shamokin, Pa.

teaching in the second grade in the

Her address

is

210 North Rock

Street.

1929
Alice Pennington has been elected teacher of English and

Dramatics at the Benton Vocation School.
>(

ff-

f{-

if-

Lawrence Creasy and Margaret Orr have been elected
the faculty of the Shickshinny High School.
if-

if-

if-

to

if-

Martha Laird has been elected teacher of English and Latin
Main Township Consolidated School at Mainville, Pa.

in the

if-

if

if-

if-

Charles H. Surfield has been elected to the faculty of the

Shickshinny High School.

JUNIOR PLAY
Juniors in the four year course at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers’ College Wednesday evening, March 27, delighted a

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large audience in the College auditorium with the presentation of

Austin Strong’s

comedy drama, “Three Wise

The members of

the cast

were

Mr.

:

Fools.”

Theodore Findley,

Clarence Ruch; Dr. Richard Gaunist, Fred Berger; Hon. James

Raymond Hodges;

Maudrue
O’Connell; Mrs. Saunders, Miss TKursabert Schuyler; Gordon
Sc’’uyler, Haven Fortner; Benjamin Suratt, Llewellyn Edmunds;
Trumbull,

Miss

Fairchild,

M:ss

John Crawshay, Armond Keller; Poole, Alex Kraynack; Gray,
Charles John; Clancy, Charles Wadas; Douglas, Elfred Jones,
and a policeman, Richard Frymire.

1929 OBITER DEDICATED TO DR. HAAS

The Obiter

1929 of the Bloomsburg State
one of the finest a graduating class of the inhas ever published, both as to content and appearance.
of the Class of

Teachers’ College
stitution

is

Handsomely bound in a leather cover, the volume of almost 350 pages is devoted entirely to the class and to College
activities and life during the period the graduating class spent on
the hill.
The cover is one of the finest creations that has ever
been placed on an Obiter.

The volume
of the College.

who was

is

dedicated to Dr. Francis B. Haas, principal

was edited by Ralph Davies, of Nanticoke,
by the following staff:
Business manager,

It

assisted

Anna Ziemba; associate
Lawrence Creasy, Miss Marguerite Keithline, Miss Muriel Jones: stenographers. Miss Margaret Bower, Miss Dorothy
Schmidt; art editor. Miss Eleanor Amos; athletic editor, RobCharles Poole; secretary to the editor,
editors,

ert Davis
calendar editor. Miss Grace Kivler assistant business
managers, Isabel Chelosky, Elizabeth L. Williams.
;

A number of
campus are in the

;

fine

photographs of the College buildings and

front of the

volume and are followed by a

«

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group picture of the faculty and individual cuts of some of the
members, including that of Miss Jessie Patterson, the class advisor.

There are individual write-ups on each member of the

class,

the write-up being under the cut of the individual.

Space

in the

volume

is

also given to the other classes, school

organization and activities.
as well as

many snap

In this department, the

work

is

ex-

Pictures of organizations and individuals

ceptionally complete.

shots

add considerable

to this

department.

One department is devoted to organizations, another to
drama and music and a third to athletics. The College calendar

is

given

in the rear of the

book.

SET DATES FOR

SUMMER

SESSION

The summer session at the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ ColMonday, June 24, and will continue over a period
The dates were
of six weeks, closing on Saturday, August 3.
session
bulletin which was issued at the
announced in a summer
A catalogue for the coming College year of
College recently.
929-30 has also been issued. This catalogue is very complete
and contains a number of pictures of the school plant and school
The Fall term will open Tuesday, September 0.
organizations.
lege will open

1

1

E. H.

Some

SOTHERN RECITAL

of the greatest stage characters

were brought

to

an

appreciative audience in the College auditorium Friday evening,
April 12,

by Edward H. Sothern, one of America’s foremost
who appeared here in a recital and dramatic

stage personages,

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lecture in bringing to a close one of the finest artists’

41

and lecture

courses that the College has ever had.

Recognized as one of the leading exponents of romantic,
and Shakespearean productions and one of the greatest of Shakespearean actors, Mr. Sothern, in his recital, gave
some of the principal scenes from two of Shakespeare’s most
popular plays, “Macbeth” and the “Merchant of Venice.”
legitimate

He

“Lord Dundreary,” one of
“Cur American Cousin” and gave
poems from “If I Were King.”
also delighted with

cipal characters in

the

Because he was forced

in his recital to

the prinparts of

go from one char-

acter to another he did not appear in costume but his character

portrayals were so fine that his audience
that he

was not

One

in

soon forgot the fact

costume.

of the most enjoyed parts of his

program were

his re-

minisences and the telling of several incidents linked with the
stage career of his father and himself.

FRESHMAN HOP
gymnasium, beautifully decorated in t he
and white, the Freshman Class of the
Teachers’ College held their dance Saturday evening. May
1.
Alexander’s Orchestra furnished a fine program of music.
In the College

class colors

of purple

1

Hoops were placed under the rafters and from them were
suspended purple and white streamers.
The basketball banking boards were decorated in those colors and paper along the
walls was in an attractive design.
Paper over the windows gave
the effect of curtains.

A

occupied by the orchestra.

and were

fence was placed

around the space

The programs were very clever

tied with cord in the class colors.

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The patrons and patronesses were
er,

:

Miss Kehr, Miss Turn-

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Koch, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson and

Mr. and Mrs.

S.

I.

Shortess.

SENIOR BANQUET
The Commencement program

Bloomsburg State
May 16 with the
Senior banquet held in the College dining hall and attended by
The affair proved
about 300 members of the class and guests.
to be a most delightful one.
of the

Teachers’ College opened Thursday evening.

and Prof. W.

Prof. E. H. Nelson presided

dean of
and Theodore
presided.
Dr. Haas
B. Sutliff,

instruction; Miss Jessie Patterson, class advisor,

Davis, of Nanticoke, president of the class,
the principal,

was unable

to attend

owing

to business in Harris-

burg.
Prof. E. A.

Reams

led in group singing

orchestra furnished music during the

and the North Hall

dinner later for

dancing

gymnasium.
Armond Keller and Henry Warman sang
three numbers which were well received and Miss Alma CaldThe banquet was in charge of a
well sang a beautiful solo.
committee headed by Miss Marjorie Orr, of Shickshinny.
in the

Russel McHenry, a well-known

member

of the

force, recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday.

helped

know

in the

janitorial

Mr. McHenry

construction of Carver Hall, or as most graduates

has been practically
be seen on the campus during these summer days, pushing his lawn mower and doing his
it,

the chapel building,

continuous ever since.

and

He can

his service

still

share with the rest of them.

At a dinner held

in his

honor by the members of the Church

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of Christ of Bloomsburg, Dr. Haas spoke of Mr. McHenry’s faith-

Words

fulness.

of greeting

were also spoken by N.
and Grounds; Prof.

hart. Superintendent of Buildings
kins,

former Bursar;

C.

T. EngleF. H.

Jen-

M. Hausknecht, present Business Mana-

ger and by Dr. Waller.

CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDINGS BEGUN
The Berwick Lumber and Supply Company was awarded
the general contracts for both the

new

training school building

and the new laundry building of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’
College.
Work on the buildings has been begun and both buildings are expected to be completed by late Fall of this year.
Both contracts have been approved by Dr. John A. H. Keith,
superintendent of public instruction.

The

total bid for the training school

was $105,900 and

for

the laundry building, $22,700.
C. H. Sherry, of Hazleton, at a bid of $15,01
was awarded the heating and ventilating contract for the training school
while Herre Brothers, of Harrisburg, received both plumbing
contracts, the one for the training school at a bid of $6,428 and
the one for the laundry at a bid of $2,747. A. Rockafeller Company, of Mt. Carmel, received both electric wiring contracts at
bids of $4,816 for the training school and $3,300 for the launIhe heating and ventilating contract for the laundry went
dry.
1

to the

Chambersburg Construction Company

The

total bids for the

at a bid of

$3,987.

two buildings amount to $164,889,
$132,155 and that for

the bids for the training school totaling
the laundry $32,734.

The

training school building will be erected

the south of North Hall, the men’s dormitory.
ing will be in front of the tennis courts.

back of and

to

Part of the build-

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The laundry
at the

will be erected on the land between the bank
west end of the athletic field and the beginning of the Col-

lege grove.

The

tennis courts will be

tion plan of the College,

as a

campus.

and

The new

moved, according

to the construc-

that part of the grounds will

be used

tennis courts will probably be placed

east of the training school.

The part of the grounds to the north of the new building
and back of North Hall and the old barn will be graded and a
play ground for the training school children will be provided.
It is the ultimate hope of the College to erect a junior high school
at the location of the present athletic field.

The work of the summer
ment

also includes

nineteen

improve-

which include the completion of the painting,
plastering and flooring of the dormitory and the completion reprojects,

novation of the auditorium.

SISTER OF

FORMER PRINCIPAL

DIES

Miss Mira V. Welsh, of Orangeville and one of the most
highly esteemed residents of that section of the county, died on

Tuesday morning, April 16

at the

home

of Philip L.

Drum,

Esq.,

of Kingston ,where she spent the Winter.

Miss Welsh was the daughter of Abner F. and Mary Welsh
and was born about 79 years ago at Orangeville, where she resided in the old homestead all her life excepting the last two
Winters which she spent with her niece, Mrs. Drum, of Kingston.

She was a

faithful

member

of the

Ladies’

Missionary So-

Church of Orangeville, and frequently
miles
from
her home to Orangeville to attend the
walked the two
ciety of the Presbyterian

meetings of the society.

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She leaves to survive her one brother. Dr. J. P. Welsh, of
former principal of the Bloomsburg State
Normal School.
Pleasantville, N. Y.,

Her
“I

am

life

was

filled

has to her credit the

them

many kindly deeds, her motto being
She was a very devout Presbyterian and

with

here to servve.”

training of

young men

several

—among

Dr. J. J. Ossuna of the University of Porto Rico.

MAY DAY PROGRAM
The campus

of the Teachers’ College presented a colorful

Thursday afternoon. May 23, when more than two hundred
pupils of the training school and a number of members of the
sight

College Senior Class participated in the annual

ance of the school.

The campus

All the participants

itself

has

were

May Day
in

observ-

costume.

never looked prettier and as

the

groups of dances, including a number of folk dances were given

by the youngsters of the

training school, the

many

tumess presented a constantly shifting scene of

colored cos-

brilliant colors

against the green background.

McCammon arranged and directed the presentaprogram and the accompanying music was arranged
and directed by Miss Alma Caldwell.
Miss Lucy

tion of the

Parents of

many

a considerable

Hall

were presand formed

of the training school children

ent for the exercises, which began at three o’clock

crowd about the campus.

The program was presented on the campus between Science
and the main building.
The beautiful afternoon gave opportunity for enjoyment
program to the fullest extent and there were fourteen May

of the

poles used during the program, there being one for the smallest
tots as well as others for the

ing school.

more advanced

pupils of the train-

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTION
Edgar
of

1

930

E. Richards, of

in the four

Alden Station, a member of the Class

year course leading to a degree, was elected

of the Community Government Association of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College for the year of 1929-30,
the completion of the count from the recent election shows.
A

president

number

of county residents are officers in the organization.

who

government are;
Warman, Scranton; treasurer. Miss Dorothy Foote, Bloomsburg.
Other

officers

will lead the student

Vice-president, Nicholas Jaffin, Berwick; secretary, Henry

Members

of the students council are:

— Charles

Seniors-

Wadas, Alden Station; and Miss Maudrue O’Connell, Ashley;
Chester Hess, Trevorton and Miss Beatrice Bowman,
Juniors
Orangeville; Miss Lois DeMott and Seymour Stere, both of Millville
Seniors in the two year course
Miss Gertrude R. Schraeder, of West Hazleton and Jack Taylor, of Wilkes-Barre; girl day
students
Miss Josephine Holuba, Berwick, and day boy stud-

—

—

;

ents

—
— Harold

Hidlay, Espy.

The president of the Waller Hall Association in Waller Hall
Margaret Swartz, of Millville, and the president of the North
Hall Association men, Gilbert Gould, of Nanticoke, are also members of the council.

The organization of the Women’s
is;

association in Waller Hall

President, Miss Margaret Swartz, Millville;

Norma

vice president,

The secretary and treasurer will be
The members of
elected from the governing board next term.
vice
president
as ex-officio
the board, with the president and
members, are: Senior in the four year course. Miss Margaretta
Bone, Kingston; Seniors in the two years course. Miss Virginia
Cruickshank, of Shamokin; Miss Ethleda Young, Berwick; Miss
Elizabeth Talbot, Shickshinny and Miss Ruth Starick, Sunbury;
Junior in four year course. Miss Dorothy Voigt, Hawley; Sophomore in the four year course. Miss Lorna Gillow, Lakewood.
Two Freshmen members of the board will be chosen next Fall.
Knoll, Nanticoke.

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The men’s student government

association has the follow-

President, Gilbert Gould, Nanticoke; vice presi-

ing officers:
dent, Joseph

47

Wadas, Alden Station; secretary, Brooke Yeager,

Wilkes-Barre and treasurer, Nicholas

Jaffin,

Berwick.

Haas was the Commencement speaker at the
Benton, June 6; Shickshinny, June
4 and Carbondale, June 20,

Dr. Francis B.

following places this year:
7

;

Espy, June

We

1

from the Pennsylvania School Jour1929: “Principals of our State Teachers’ Colleges
are now Presidents.
This appropriate change in title was made
by the 929 Legislature by enacting H. B. 2099 by Thomas B.
Wilson, chairman of the House Committee on Education.”
It
will therefore in the future be proper to say “President” Haas.
print the following

nal of June,

1

Day students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College
were guests of the boarding students at dinner in the school dining room Tuesday evening, April 9, and it was an enjoyed affair.
Members
which met

in

propriately decorated.
ter

and there was some

licious

ham

and Bloomsburg debating teams
same evening, sat at tables apKoch, dean of men, was toastmas-

of the Mansfield

the auditorium the
J. C.

fine singing

during the serving of the de-

dinner.

Miss Caldwell sang a solo and Henry

Warman and Armond

Both selections were enthusiastically reAnother enjoyed number was a ukelele selection by
ceived.
Misses Hortense Evans and Dorothy Lord.
Dr. Francis B. Haas,
Keller sang a duet.

principal of the College, spoke.

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BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

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PUBLISHED BY

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
SEPTEMBER, 1929

Vol. 30

No. 4

Entered as Second-class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa., under the Act of July 16, 1894.
Published Four Times a Year

H. F.
F.

FENSTEMAKER,

H. JENKINS, ’76

’12

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_

Editor-in-Chief

-

Business

_

Manager

SUMMER SCHOOL NOTES
The summer

session of the college

opened Monday, June

The enrollment this year
24, and closed Saturday, August 3.
was 325 the enrollment last year was 385. The estimate of
;

the State Department

was 300.

due to the fact that

the function

The decrease in enrollment is
of the summer session has

changed since 1927. Previous to that date, the main purpose
was to bring teachers with insufficient preparation up to the
At the present time, most of
standards required by the State.
the attention is directed to students who are working for their
degrees.

Several

members

of absence for the

of the regular faculty

summer.

Prof.

John

J.

were granted leaves
Fisher, Prof. Earl N.

Rhodes, and Miss Anna Garrison studied at Columbia University; Prof. E. H. Nelson took work at the University of Michigan; H. F. Fenstemaker attended the summer session of the University of Pennsylvania; Prof. S. L. Wilson studied at Harvard,

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and Miss Irma Ward took additional work.

W. Wilbur

Miller, of

College, Indiana,

who

Columbia, Ohio, a graduate of Goshen

obtained his Master’s Degree at Ohio State

University, took the place of Prof.

John J. Fisher as instructor
Psychology and Educational Measurements.
L. P.

Gilmore, a

member

of the faculty of the

Junior High School, and one of the

members

of

in

Bloomsburg
the

summer

school faculty last year, taught courses in the History and Principles of Education.

The

first

social event of the

summer

session took place Fri-

day evening, July 5, when the school gave a reception to the
The affair was held in the gymnasium,
students and faculty.
with dancing as the principal feature.

Thursday evening, July
1, Strickland Gillilan, noted humorist, spoke in the college gynasium, in a feature number of
1

summer entertainment course. All of the entertainment
were held in the gymnasium because of the alterations
that were being made in the auditorium.
the

features

Baseball furnished a major attraction, the interest centering
around the annual championship contest between “Turner’s
Toads’’ and “Vital’s Vipers’’ the championship went to the
team winning the most out of fifteen contests.
;

Friday, July 19, the day students and
ulty

were the guests

of the dormitory

college dining room.

Toads renewed

members

of the fac-

students at dinner in the

Following the dinner the Vipers and the

their feud

on the baseball

field,

and

at 7 :30, the

talent of North Hall put on a vaudeville program in the gymFrom 9:00 to 11 :30, Alexander’s Orchestra furnishnasium.

ed music for dancing.

Wednesday evening, July 24, a recital was given by FranMrs. J. K. Miller was at the
ceska Kaspar Lawson, soprano.
piano.

At the regular convocations, several interesting features

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3

Wednesday, July 7, visual education was
were presented.
The speaker was Dr. H. H. Russell, of the Department
stressed.
of Geography, and Director of Visual Education at Bloomsburg.
Prof. Shortess showed the films taken here on May Day and during Commencement Week.
July 30, the speaker was Mrs. Edgar A. Weimer, Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Congress of
Parents and Teachers.
1

The swimming pool
the

life

of the

summer

at

Columbia Park added something to
Swimming classes were

school students.

held regularly during the entire session.

At the close of the session, thirty-one students completed
work in the two year course. Roy Haring and Theodore
Vital completed their work for the degree of Bachelor of Science
their

Education.
No commencement exercises were held, as the
above students participated in the regular commencement activities at the close of the second semester.
in

PROGRESS BEING MADE ON CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
At the time of going

new
is

to press, the construction

work on

training school building has reached the second story.

expected that

ready late

in

the

The most

this building, as well as

the

new

the
It

laundry, will be

fall.

change awaiting the students at the bethis fall was the Auditorium in CarDuring the summer, all of the old plaster was removver Hall.
ed, the lath replaced by metal lath, and new plaster applied.
The walls and ceiling have been painted with well-blended tints
of cream and light green, and the wood work has been stained
The front of the stage has been remodeled, with
mahogany.
ginning of the

striking

first

semester

disappearing footlights

installed.

The

entire

auditorium has

been rewired, a new switchboard placed back of the stage, and

modern
will

lighting fixtures

placed

in the

auditorium.

be covered with cork linoleum, and new seats

will

The
be

floor

install-

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Members

ed.

of the

meeting next year
them.

Alumni Association who attend the Alumni
have a delightful surprise in store for

will

Several improvements have added to the beauty of the
campus.
The outside steps leading from the bridge have been
removed, and the bank graded.
A new walk has been laid,
leading from a point just above the 1912 Memorial Steps, going
under the bridge, and reaching a large octagon, west of the gymnasium.
From this octagon, a new walk leads to Science Hall,
another one to North Hall, another one to the fire tower between
Noetling Hall and the gymnasium, and another one to the north
porch of Carver Hall.
The walk leading to Science Hall is higher than the old one, and the campus has been graded up to it on
each side.
This makes better provision for surface drainage it
will no longer be necessary to wade in several inches of water
after a heavy rain, in order to reach Science Hall.
;

The improvement program

much

is

moving

steadily

forward.

be done, but enough has been done already
to make any Bloomsburg Alumnus feel proud of his Alma Mater,
when he sees for himself what a beautiful place the State Teachers College of Bloomsburg really is.

There

is still

Moral

:

to

Plan to come to Bloomsburg Alumni Day,

May

24, 1929.

Mary Moyer, mother of Miss Mabel Moyer, of the
Monday, August 12, at her home
Mrs.
Moyer
was
eighty-six years of age. SurBloomsburg.
in
children,
Mrs.
Lucetta
Moyer White, ’86; Miss
viving are four
Mrs.

Training School faculty, died

Miss Mabel Moyer,

and Albert Moyer, at
The death of another son, the Rev. Harry Moyer, ’86,
home.
was noted in the April issue of the QUARTERLY.
Edith Moyer,

’97,

ALUMNI DAY, MAY

24, 1930

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5

OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President

—

R. Bruce Albert, ’06, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Vice-Presidents

—

Jr., ’67,

Dr. D. J. Waller,

Bloomsburg,

Pa.; 0. H. Bakeless, ’79, Bloomsburg, Pa.

—Edward
—
Committee — Fred

Schuyler, ’24, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Secretary

Treasurer

Executive

Chairman; Mrs.

F.

H. Jenkins, ’76, Bloomsburg, Pa.

W. Funston,

W.

Diehl,

’09,

Danville,

Pa.,

Bloomsburg, Pa.; Maurice
Harriet Carpenter, ’96, BloomsE. Flouck,
0, Berwick, Pa.
burg, Pa.; Dennis D. Wright, ’ll, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Daniel J.
C.

’85,

’

1

Mahoney,

;

’09, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

ALUMNI OBJECTIVES FOR 1929-1930

Every Graduate should join the Alumni Association
and support the publication of the Quarterly.
Send your dollar
to Prof. F. H. Jenkins, Treas., Bloomsburg, Pa.
DO IT TODAY.
Also send to the Editor, Prof. H. F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg,
Pa., interesting news items regarding Alumni.
1

.

The County Alumni Associations need

2.

many

ized in

Elect live

cases.

We

3.

of

all

in

classes

to

to be reorganhave a pep ban-

will cooperate.

have the Alumni Memorial and Trophy
This will become the Headquarters

operation shortly.

Alumni

todian.

hope

officers,

The College

quet and get on the job.

Room

wire

He
and

Activity.
will

Prof. 0. H. Bakeless

receive

suggestions

is

the capable cus-

and contributions from

individuals, regarding the completion of the various

Art Projects.
4.
The Alumni Scholarship Fund has done a splendid serand is still providing help to the worthy student.
Send the
names of deserving students to the College Authorities. The

vice

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Committee

will gladly aid

them.

We

need the support and earnest cooperation of every
member of the Alumni Association. WILL YOU HELP?
Respectfully yours,
R.

BRUCE ALBERT.

ALUMNI NEWS

Members

Alumni Association are urged

of the

send

to

in

news of themselves and of other Bloomsburg graduates.
dress

all

communications

We

ger.

are especially desirous of

dresses of

all

Several have already responded

class secretaries.

The cooperation of

to a previous appeal.

the

AdManaobtaining the names and ad-

to Prof. F. H. Jenkins, Business

Alumni Association

is

necessary, to

all

make

adequately functioning organization, and to
TERLY all that it should be.

the

members

of

the Association an

make

the

QUAR-

ALUMNI DAY. SATURon your calendar:
Reunion classes
1870, 1875, 1880,
1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925,
Begin your plans NOW to make the above date a red
1927.
Do not fail to read
letter day in the history of Bloomsburg.
printed
elsewhere
message,
in this issue.
Albert’s
President
Mark

DAY,

MAY

this

24, 1930.

:

¥ ¥ * ^

1879

Anna
Pa.

She

is

E.

Roxby

lives at

1

1

2 Cornell Avenue, Swarthmore.

Principal of the schools at Linwood, Pa.

1880
Lina E. Faulds, who has retired from teaching, lives at
Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

West North

39

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1881

We
lives at

were recently informed by Miss Margaret Fee, who

5929 West

Jefferson Street, Philadelphia, that her sister,

Mary, died March 22, 1925.

1882
Helen

L.

Gossler lives at the Presbyterian

Home,

Newville,

Pa.

Mary Reagan, (Mrs.

Good) lives at 2608 Jackson
Her husband died in 1921.

E. C.

Boulevard, Sioux City, Iowa.

1883
Mrs. Samuel Daniels (Sarah E. Richards) lives at
1

50th

Street,

Harvey,

Illinois.

1

76 East

Mrs. Daniels recently resigned

her position as librarian of the Harvey Public Library, after ten
years of service.

The

City Council

sent flowers

and a

letter

signed by the Mayor, expressing their appreciation of her work.

1884
Laura M. Helman lives at Catasaqua, Pa.
She has compiled the genealogies of the Dreisbach and Drum families, and is
the author of a book of research work on Allentown and vicinity,
a work prepared for the Daughters of the American Revolution.

1885

Word has been
in a New York

death

received,

by Bloomsburg

friends,

of the

hospital of Charles B. Noetling, formerly of

Beaver Valley, and son of the late Prof. William Noetling, for
many years Head of the Department of Pedagogy at BloomsMr. Noetling is survived by his wife and two children.
burg.
Louis P. Bierly

ed

in the

D. C.

is

living in Pittston, Pa.,

where he

is

engag-

insurance business.

Harry 0. Hine lives at 3204 Highland Place, Washington,
Mr. Hine is Secretary of the Board of Education of the

District of

Columbia.

He

writes that the Congress of the United

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States,

which

is

the governing

body

of the District of Columbia,

has recently enacted a law whereby the two normal schools, one

and one for negroes, shall have their courses of study
become teachers’ colleges with authority to grant
appropriate degrees.
This statute is to take effect so that by
933 the first classes will be graduated.
for whites

extended

to

1

Sally

C.

Watson

is

teaching in the eighth grade in the

schools of Keyport, N. Y.

1886
Grace A. Leacock

lives at

282 North Maple Avenue, King-

ston, Pa.

1887
Margaret Lewis died of pneumonia in a Scranton hospital
Sunday, August 25, and was buried at Montrose Wednesday,
Miss Lewis had been teaching in Scranton until her
August 28.
retirement a few years ago.

W.

E.

Wagner

lives

in

Gordon, Pa., where he

the pro-

is

prietor of a store.

1889
George T. Brown lives
ment 3B, New York City.

at

256 Wadsworth Avenue, Apart-

Cassie Furey (Mrs. L. A. Willard)

lives

in

Tofrencedale,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Margaret Stephens (Mrs. John
New London, Connecticut.

C.

Taylor) lives at

1

59

State

Street,

Mattie Harding is keeping house for her father at 5135
Camden Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. Previous to her retire-

ment from the teaching profession, she had taught
in

for ten years

the schools of Duluth, Minn.

Clara E.

Cummings (Mrs. F. B. Irvin)
Hill, Long Island, N. Y.

lives at

1

0458 90th

Avenue, Richmond

Mrs. Bruce F. Evans (Sue Reay) lives at 2201 South CenTerre Haute, Indiana.

ter Street,

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1890
Frederick W. Magrady,
the

1

Representative

in

Congress from

7th District of Pennsylvania, recently received a letter from

Majority Leader John Q. Tilson, praising him for his service and
support during the extra session.

1893
Martha Powell
Bloomsburg, Pa.

is

secretary of the White Milling

Company,

1894
Esther Corrigan (Mrs. E. F. Barrett) lives in Buffalo, N. Y.

Her oldest son

is

an instructor

Bridgett C. Quinn (Mrs.

Montana.

She

is

Field

in St.

Conius College

J. E.

Keough)

Matron

in that city.

lives in St. Xavier,

the U. S. Indian Service.

in

1895
Harry H. Davenport died recently at his home in Wilkesmonths.
Mr. Davenport was
born in Plymouth, November 9, 868.
He attended the public schools, and was a member of the first class to be graduated
from Plymouth High School.
After a term at Wyoming Seminary he spent several years in his father’s mercantile business.
After his graduation from the Bloomsburg State Normal School,
he taught for several years as principal of Vine Street School.
While serving as a teacher he studied law and was admitted
to the Luzerne County bar on September 28, 907.
In the same
year he and Cordie A. Smith, of Plymouth, were married.
Mr. Davenport was an active member of the Christian
Church of Plymouth and was superintendent of the Sunday
School for several years.
He was one of the organizers of the
Hanover Bank and Trust Company, and served on the first board
At the time of his death he was
of directors of that institution.
secretary of the board of managers of the Wyoming Camp MeetBarre, after an illness of several
1

1

1

ing Association.
In his extensive practice of
affiliations,

law and

his

church and business

Mr. Davenport endeared himself to a host of friends,

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who

mourning the

join with the family in

loss of a true Christian

character.

He

is

survived by his wife and three children, and by three

brothers and two

sisters.

1896

An
of

1

member

envelope containing the dues of a

896 bears

address.

We

a

name which cannot be

of the Class

deciphered, and has no

should appreciate any information which

able us to give credit to the person to

whom

it is

may

en-

due.

1896
Etta M. Thielke (Mrs. Lafayette

W. Killam)

lives at

1077

71st Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

James
J.

E. Teple

His address

is

is

an insurance salesman

22 Sylvan

in

Rutherford, N.

Street.

1897

Mary A. Good
School at

New

teacher of Chemistry in the Senior High

is

Pa.

Castle,

Her address

is

227 East

Lincoln

Avenue.

Broadbent (Mrs. John A.
West Madison Avenue, New Castle, Pa.
Millicent L.

Sitler) lives

at

624

1898
Harlan R. Snyder has been reelected as supervising princiMr. Snyder has alpal of the Catawissa schools for three years.
ready served in this capacity for the past ten years.

1899
H. F. Yearick

1914 Park

is

in the

Railway Mail Service and

lives at

Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Harriet Buckalew

Hagenbuch

is

a teacher in the Consolidat-

ed School at Benton, Pa.

Anna Sandoe

(Mrs.

grade at Atlantic City, N.

J.

J.

F. Hake) is teaching in the sixth
Her address is 49 St. James Place.
1

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Katherine Shepperon (Mrs. M.

J.

Buck)

11

lives at

705 Front

Street, Danville, Pa.
E. F. Brent

Maude

Postmaster at Lewistown, Pa.

F. Giles

tion Club, at the

Emory

is

I.

is

Executive Secretary of the

Duplan

Girls’

Recrea-

Silk Corporation, Hazleton, Pa.

Bowman

is

with Mayer and Company, dealers

furniture, Washington, D. C.

His address

Mary W. Schmidt (Mrs. Charles

L.

is

1

1

Knapp)

in

Seventh Street,

lives in

Shenan-

doah, Pa.

George W. Carl

and

lives in

is

principal of the Fountain Springs School,

Ashland, Pa.

Jennie A. Beagle (Mrs.

W.

C.

Leach)

lives in

Engelmine,

California.

Josephine M. Cummings

is

teacher of Geography

son Junior High School at Harrisburg, Pa.

in

Her address

the Ediis

3652

Brisbane Street, Paxtang, Harrisburg, Pa.
Elizabeth Evans

Range, Wisconsin.
in the

Arthur H. Eves) lives in South
She has two sons, one of whom is a Junior
(Mrs.

University of Wisconsin, and another will

university this

enter the

same

fall.

1901
and Mrs. Frank Laubach and son Robert, of Benton,
have returned to the Philippine Islands, where they will spend
five more years in missionary work.
Dr.

Mary Albert (Mrs.
nue, Bloomfield, N.

Regina
Pittston, Pa.

Collier

Jesse Y. Glenn) lives at

55 Park Ave-

J.
is

Principal

Her address

Mary M. McFarlane

is

is

of the Senior

82 Butler

High School

at

Street.

teacher of fourth grade in the Bach-

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man Annex,

Hazleton, Pa.

1902
Robert B. Leighow is Professor of Chemistry, Head of the
Department of Industrial Science, and Associate Director of
Summer and Night Courses at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Edith C. Appenzeller

Mauch Chunk,

is

teaching in the grades in East

Her address

Pa.

is

8 West Front

Street.

Louise M. Larrabee lives at the Granville, Honolulu, Hawaii,
She has been teaching in the McKinley High School in that city,

1903
Gertrude M. Follmer (Mrs. Arthur T, Lowry) lives at 10
Madison Avenue, Port Washington, N. Y. After having served
as President of the Music Study Club and of the Village Welfare
Society of Port Washington, she has just been elected as Nassau
County Executive in the Long Island Federation of Women’s
Clubs.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowry have two sons and three daughters.

1904
Irwin Cogswell

is

employed

as machinist

by the Heath Ma-

chine Company, at Montrose, Pa.

2527 West Fourth

Matilda M. Black lives at

She

liamsport, Pa.

is

teaching

in the first

grade

Street,

Wil-

William-

in the

sport schools.

Alvirda Davenport

is

teacher of History and Civics in the

She

Junior High School at Plymouth, Pa.

lives at

143 Church

Street.

Blanche

J.

Morris (Mrs. Elmer

S.

Mast)

lives at

21

1

East

North Street, Bethlehem, Pa.
Elizabeth Specht teaches Civics
at Hazleton, Pa.
y'

Her address

Adele Meade (Mrs.

L. T.

is

in

the Junior High School

541 North Vine

Kendrick)

lives at

Street.

638

S.

W, 15th

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She invites any of her classmates
Avenue, Miami, Florida.
touring in the South to look her up.
Louise Rogers

(Mrs.

E.

J.

Warren)

teaching in the

is

Her

Indian Service at the Fort Peck Agency, Poplar, Montana.
oldest daughter
luth,

is

a student at the State Teachers College, Du-

Minnesota.

1905
Superintendent

Nevin T. Englehart,

and

Buildings

of

Grounds, and President of the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club, attend-

ed the convention of Kiwanis International, held at Milwaukee

in

June.

Krumm

Katherine

(Mrs. A. F.

Twogood)

lives

118

at

Stonehurst Court, Upper Darby, Pa.

Eleanor Witman (Mrs.

J.

M. Reiley)

801 Lexing-

lives at

ton Avenue, Altoona, Pa.

Sarah Mae Laubach (Mrs. Chauncey I. Albertson) died on
Wednesday, July 3 at her home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
1

,

George H. Webber
edgeville, Georgia.

Dr.

507 West Hancock Street, MillWebber is Professor of Education and

lives at

Psychology and Head of the Department

Women

College for

South Carolina
ship

in

Science

in

1

Gamma Mu

Academy

American

the

928.

of Science,

and was elected

Association
is

This

—

B.

Dean

of the

in

for

the

memberAdvancement of
to

Secretary of the Beta Chapter of the Pi

National Social Science Honor Society.

following degrees:
Sc. D.

He

acting

1927, and was made Dean of
He was recently made a Fellow in the

College of Arts and Sciences

Students the same year.

Georgia State

in the

He was

at Milledgeville.

Pd., A. B.,

A. M., M.

S.,

summer he was named a delegate from

He

holds the

Ph. D.,

and

the National

Education Association to the World Conference held at Geneva,
Switzerland, July 26th to August 3rd.

1906
Lu Buddinger (Mrs. Robert Mershon)
Street, Jamaica, N. Y.

lives at

901

1

169th

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14

1907
Florence Whitebread

Hoover

(Mrs. C.

E.

1 ,

135

Stillwater, Pa.

Sadie R. Moyer

Main

at

lives

Hayman) may be reached

Edith A. Doty (Mrs. Harold H.
at R.

Lyons)

Street, Sayre, Pa.

Street, Lodi,

(Mrs. John R. MacCulloch) lives at

New

1

78

Jersey.

1909
Miss Eura Kester has been teaching

Mary

in

Anaconda, Colorado.

Gilgallon (Mrs. J. H. Rockefeller, Jr.) lives in West
Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller have three children.

Pittston, Pa.

Rebecca

E. Stroh (Mrs. L. E. Williams) lives in Alderson,

Pa.

Jennie Birth
School.

She

is

lives in

teacher of Biology in the Berwick High

Nescopeck, Pa.

«

Gertrude M. Meneeley is Principal of Number One School
Pa.
Her address is 745 River Street.

in Peckville,

1910
Mabel Smith (Mrs. R.
Tunkhannock, Pa.
S.

in the

Tracy Roberts

B.

Ward)

lives in Clarks

Technical High School

in

lives at

64 West

Green, Pa.

He

is

Street,

teaching

Scranton.

Helen M. Hess (Mrs. Gilbert V. P. Terhune) lives in NewShe states “We have a large apple orchard up
foundland, N. J.
here in Northern Jersey, four miles from the New York State line,
and forty miles from New York City. I should be glad to have

My teleany friends coming to New York to stop and see us.
phone number is West Milford 77F15.” She further states the
wish that the class of 1910 would send in more news items.
We second the motion, and extend its application to all of the
classes.

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1911
After serving

for

two years

assistant to Dr.

as

Poling, of the Marble Collegiate Church,
C. Carroll Bailey

is

now

located

Grace Evangelical Church.

Daniel A.

City, the

Rev.

Baltimore as pastor of the

in

His

New

York

address

is

928

East

Preston

Street.

Tuscan Road, Maplewood, New
Ruth Ruhl lives at
Miss Ruhl is a first grade teacher in Irvington, N. J.
1

1

1

Jersey.

Elizabeth K. Scharf

is

teacher of

fifth

grade

in the schools

of Selinsgrove, Pa.

Frank Dennis

J.

is

Director of Manual Arts in the Wilkes-

His address

Barre schools.

is

576 North Warren Avenue, King-

ston, Pa.

Mae Chamberlain
V

(Mrs.

Sherman)

is

Associate Pastor

teaching in the

Commercial De-

J. J.

of the Bethany Baptist Church in Scranton.

Edward

E. Hippensteel

is

partment of the Senior High School
address is 3939 Ventor Avenue.
A.

J.

Sharadin

is

His oldest son

Pa.

School

His

at Atlantic City, N. J.

Director of Health Education at Ford City,

was graduated from the Ford

City

High

this year.

1912
P. Clive Potts

is

the Blind, Baltimore,

Charlotte A.

Her address

Mary

is

Principal of the

Maryland State School

for

Md.

Koehler

is

teaching in White Plains, N. Y.

204 Martine Avenue.

N. Eckert (Mrs. Earle

Bennett Street, Kingston, Pa.

Andrews)

lives at

123 South

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have two

children.

Roxie H. Smith
partmental work
town.

in

lives in Truckville, Pa.

the

She

is

seventh and eighth grades

doing dein

Shaver-

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Ruth Monahan is a first grade teacher
Her address is 440 Carey Avenue.

in

Wilkes-Barre.

1913
Elizabeth

Sturges lives

articles that

at

2956

Miss Sturges

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Hills,

have been printed

is

Belrose

Avenue, South

the author of a

number

of

Normal Instructor and Primary

in

Plans.

(Mrs. C. W. Hoover) lives at 315
Lemoyne, Pa. Her husband is Supervising Prinof the West Shore Schools.

Jessie R. Dersheimer

Market
cipal

in

Street,

Juan Selles Gonzalez is a Pharmaceutical Chemist and
San Lorenzo, Porto Rico.
Nellie

M. Seidel

Nellie Gleason

Olyphant, Pa.

is

lives

teaching in Harrisburg, Pa.
lives at R. D.
J. White)
communication, she states “I have

(Mrs. Martin

In a recent

a family of four boys.

1

:

Last winter

I

taught

my home

Lackawanna County, a one-room school
and expect to do the same next term.”
Justus,

Marion Roat (Mrs.

Ira

Hartman)

lives at

school in

of eight grades,

282 North

Col-

lege Avenue, Kingston, Pa.

Merle Goodenough (Mrs.
her home, at R. D.

I

,

E.

W. Stookey)

is

teaching near

Pleasant Mt., Pa.

Honoring Miss Natalie Green, who was married in June,
two showers and a dinner were held, the guests, who were all
classmates at Bloomsburg, being: Miss Elizabeth Pugh, Miss
Marie Collins, Miss Ethel Altmiller, Mrs. Ruth Altmiller Jones,
Mrs. Lillian Fisher Moore, Mrs. Edna Runyan Cherry, and Mrs.

Marion Roat Hartman.

1914
Pauline Lloyd
at Williamsport.

is

Director of Music in the Junior High School

Her address

is

81 5 Nichols Place.

Susan Jennings (Mrs. A. W. Sturman)

lives at

42 Slocum

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Place,

Mr. and Mrs.

Tunkhannock, Pa.

17

Sturman have a two

year old daughter.
A. Joyce

J.

is

in

the

Government

service,

and

lives in

Wash-

ington, D. C.

Mabel

Hawk

is

teacher of Public Speaking in the High

School at Monessen, Pa.
Pauline R. Fennelly

teaching

is

in Frackville, Pa.

1915
Ruth M. Albert (Mrs. Dallas
25th

C.

Baer)

lives at

1

754 North

Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

1916

Emma

G. Harrison

schools of Bridgeton,

Myers

is

Supervisor of Writing

Her address

N. J.

is

237 North

in the

Pearl

Street.

326 South 43rd

Claire E. Keating lives at

She

phia.

is

teaching English

in

Street, Philadel-

one of the Continuation Schools

in that city.

Cora G. Hill lives at 253 West 4th Street, Williamsport,
She is a departmental teacher in the schools of that city.
1

Pa.

Mabel M. Anthony (Mrs. George L. Parsels) is teaching
Her address is 5 West Wabash Avenue.
sixth grade in Pleasantville, N. J.

Frank S. Hutchison
Bloomsburg, Pa.

is

1

in the Life

Insurance business

in

1917
Lucy Padagomas is teaching
Her address is 56 Main

Lyon, Pa.
^

in the

first

grade

in

Glen

Street.

D., lives at 3632 Rutherford AveFor the past two years he has been Chief
Resident of the Harrisburg Hospital, but left this summer to take
charge of the Boy Scout Camp for the city of Harrisburg as their
J.

Loomis Christian, M.

nue, Harrisburg, Pa.

camp

doctor for the months of July and August.

After a

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month’s

he expects to start in private practice, and
one of the surgeons in Harrisburg.

rest,

be assistant

will also

to

Blanche Caswell

lives at

402

East Main Street, Plymouth.

She informs us that she has been promoted to the position of
Principal of the Penn Street School in Plymouth, as the result of
her early training at Bloomsburg.
Harriet

J.

Shuman

(Mrs. Reuel

chester Road, Merion Station, Pa.

S.

Burr) lives at

1

12 Win-

Mr. and Mrs. Burr have a

daughter, Ellen, aged two years.

Mary

F.

Her address

is

McManus

is

teaching

grade at Erie, Pa.

in third

7 2 East 6th Street.
1

1918
David

Company.

B. Miller

is

Graybar Electric
Des Moines, Iowa.

Sales Engineer for the

His address

is

Mr. Miller was graduated

635 49th
in

1923,

Street,

in

Electro-Chemical

Engin-

from the Pennsylvania State College.
He held a position
with the National Carbon Company, of Ohio, for four years, being located in Lakewood, near Chicago, and in New York City.
In April, 1927, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Edith Keene, of
Waymart. Mrs. Miller is also a graduate of Penn State.
eering,

Anna

Costello

(Mrs.

928, of pneumonia.
daughter, aged three.
1

A

J.

She

is

McGeehan) died September 21,
survived by her husband and one

very pretty church wedding took place Thursday after-

noon, June 6, at 2 00 o’clock, when Miss Lora M. Wallace,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Wallace, of Laurel, Pa., and
:

Harold J. Pegg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Pegg, of
Bloomsburg, Pa., were united in marriage by the bride’s pastor.
Stewartstown Presbyterian
Rev. T. Edwin Redding, in the
Church.

The groom is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School,
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College, Gettysburg College and M.
A. degree from Washington University, Seattle, Washington. He
has been a member of the History Department of the Altoona

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High School for the past four years.

Roads High School,
Millersville State Teachers’ College and did graduate work at
Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, and American Academy of
Dramatic Arts, New York City.
She has been director of Dramatics at Roosevelt High School, Altoona, for the past five years.
They left on an extended honeymoon to the Pacific Coast
and Alaska. They will reside in Altoona where the groom has
a position in the High School.

The bride

is

a graduate of the Cross

1919
A.

\V. Kirkhulf,

who

took the special course

lives at

in football

845 Quincy Avenue, Scranton,
coaching given at the summer

session of the Pennsylvania State College this year.
huff,

Mr. Kirk-

formerly coach at the Ashley High School, has been elected

Northumberland High School. He coached at Oxford High School, Pennington Seminary, and Mauch
Chunk High School, before he took up his work at Ashley.
After graduation from Bloomsburg, Mr. Kirkhuff attended the
athletic director at the

Springfield Y.
for

two

M.

Coaching School

C. A.

Veronica Muldowney Kennedy
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
sixth,

at Springfield, Mass.,

years.

She

is

seventh and eighth grades

lives

at

5524

Litchfield

teaching Health in the
in

fifth,

the Philadelphia schools.

Arthur E. Steward is a clerk in the Magee Carpet Company,
Bloomsburg.
His address is R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Ruth F. Doyle (Mrs. John W. Moore) lives at 25 West 34th
Bayonne, N. J.
She has two daughters, Jean, aged four,
and Marion, who is two years old. She invites all of her friends
who come near Bayonne, New Jersey, or New York to come to
see her, or call her at Bayonne 2276-J.
Street,

Mildred E. Stover

lives at

1

020 Grandview

Street, Scran-

ton, Pa.

Marie Gucjavan Turnbach

husband

is

a funeral director.

lives in Hazleton, Pa.,

where her

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Gertrude Meenan (Mrs. Harold Reif)

lives

on Cedar Ave-

nue, Scranton, Pa.

A

son was born

Mr. Niesley

May 9

and Mrs. Paul G. Niesley, of
Martha Knorr.
County Farm Agent in Columbia County.
1

to Mr.

Mrs. Niesley was

Bloomsburg.
is

formerly Miss

1920
Florence Beyers, of Lewisburg, Pa., and

y

Thomas

Lewis, of

New

Jersey, were married June 12, 1928, by the
Rev. Mr. Welliver, at the M. E. Parsonage, Lewisburg, Pa.
At
the time of her marriage, Mrs. Lewis was a teacher in the Lewisburg schools.
Mr. Lewis, a graduate of Bucknell University, is
employed by the Beyers-Fortner Gas and Oil Company, of Lewis-

Vineland,

burg.

A

very pretty wedding was solemnized at high noon Satur-

day, June 8,

when

of Nordmont, Pa.,

Miss Marie Snider, daughter of

became

the bride of S.

W.

B. Snider,

Lee Menges, son of

The wedding took place
Williamsport.
The Rev. L.

Mrs. Myrtle E. Menges, of Turbotville.
at the

home

of the bride’s sister, in

E. Kline, pastor of the First Evangelical Church,
officiated, the

of

Sonestown,

double ring ceremony being used.

The bride is a
of 1919, and also

graduate of the Sonestown High School, Class
She has been a very
The groom is a graduate of
successful teacher for seven years.

of the Mansfield State Teachers’ College.

the Turbotville High School, Class of 1920,

gree

He

this

summer from

and received

his de-

the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College.

has taught school for six successful terms.

Following

the

wedding ceremony, a reception was held after which Mr. and
Mrs. Menges left for an extended trip to Philadelphia, Atlantic
City, Washington and Pittsburgh.
Dorcas Patrick (Mrs. Roscoe Wagner)

Clara E. Fisher
City, Pa.

is

lives in

Supervisor of Penmanship

Tower

in

City,

Mahanoy

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Elizabeth E. Fetherolf (Mrs. Daniel P. Fister) lives at

Cleveland Avenue, Intervilla, Pa.
stitute

2442

She has been acting as sub-

teacher at Berkshire Heights.

Ralph G. Shuman, a graduate of the Bloomsburg Teachers’
College, has accepted a position as dean of boys and instructor
in mathematics in the Thomas Ranken Patton Masonic Institution
for boys at Elizabethtown, Pa., and will take up his position on
September
Following his graduation here he served as Principal of the Mifflin High School for three years and in 926 received his degree of Bachelor of Arts at Pennsylvania State College, and since then he has been Principal of the Mt. Rose Junior High School at York, Pa.
1

.

1

1922

A

daughter, Patricia Louise, was born to Rev. and Mrs. Perry

Conyngham, Pa., on October
was formerly Marion Hart.
L. Smith, of

1

1,

1928.

Mrs. Smith

1923
At 6:30 A. M., Saturday, June 22, at the Presbyterian
Church of Bloomsburg, there was solemnized the marriage of
Mary C. McNinch, of Berwick, and Keith E. Davis, of Jamestown,
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. S. Harker,
N. Y.
pastor of the church.
Mrs. Davis has been teaching in Berwick
for the past six years.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis are now living in
Jamestown, where the former is employed.
•
Miss Mildred Edwards, esteemed Bloomsburg girl and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brockway Edwards, of 330
East Eighth Street, became the bride of Rev. John Frederick Williams Howell, of Columbia, Conn., son of Rev. and Mrs. Frederick W. Howell, of Mansfield Depot, Conn., in a pretty wedding
performed by Rev. Raymond H. Edwards ’23, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., brother of the bride and

Rev. E.

J.

Bloomsburg,

Radcliffe,

pastor of the First Baptist Church of

in the Baptist

afternoon, July 3

1

Church

at

4:00

o’clock

Wednesday

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The wedding was solemnized in the presence of a number
and friends of the couple and the church was beautifully decorated in Queen Anne’s Lace, phlox and ferns.
The maid of honor was Miss Helen Edwards, of Milton,
Mass., sister of the bride and the groom’s man was Rev. M. Eugene Levy, of Baldwinsville, Mass.
Howard Hileman and Beecher Hileman, of Bloomsburg, were ushers.
The music was by Mrs. Alice Shipman Edwards, ’23, of
of relatives

Plattsburgh,

at

A

N. Y.

home

reception followed at the

Rev. and Mrs. Howell

bride’s parents.

of

will reside in the

the

manse

Columbia, Conn.

The bride

is

a graduate of the

Class of 1921, the Teachers’

Newton Theological

Bloomsburg High School,
Class of 1923, and the

College,

Institution,

Newton

Centre,

Mass.,

of this

year.
Ella E. Luring,

became
pretty ceremony
of Espy,

daughter of the Rev. A.

S.

Luring, formerly

the bride of Paul Stokes, of Shamokin,

in

a

at the Dillsburg Methodist Church, the father of

the bride officiating.

Miss Kathryn Fox Harder, of Catawissa, and John A. Klarr,
of Cleveland, Ohio, were married at the

home

of the bride Tues-

day morning, June 18, by the Rev. Murray Young, pastor of the
Mrs. Klarr has been
Methodist Episcopal Church, of Catawissa.
teaching

in the schools of

Catawissa

for

several

Mr.

years.

Klarr holds a responsible position with a large firm in Cleveland.

Walter A. Krolikowski lives in Glen Lyon, Pa.
grade school in Newport Township.

He

is

Prin-

cipal of a

S. Gamble is a teacher
Her address is Sugar Run, Pa.

Marjorie
schools.

in the

Steelton

public

Raymond H. Edwards, who was graduated this spring from
Theological Seminary, is now pastor of the BapRochester
the
New York.
Plattsburg,
tist Church at
1924
After an

illness

of several years, Florence Caswell (Mrs. 0.

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at her home in Bloomsburg, Sunday mornSeveral times during her illness her condition had
June 23.
been such that it was feared that she could not survive, but each
time she rallied, and when she was fatally stricken, she appearShe was a member of the First
ed to be in her usual health.
Presbyterian Church, and of Fort McClure Chapter, D. A. R.
She is survived by her husband and a daughter, Mary Edith.

Evans Shipman) died
ing,

Jeanne Fox, of Catawissa, and Edwin W. Daveler, of
at Dover, Pa., on Monday, July 23,
The wedding was announced by the parents of the bride
928.
\/ at a bridge luncheon on Wednesday, June 19, 1929. Mrs.
Daveler has been teaching in Wilkes-Barre for several years.
Mr. Daveler holds a responsible position with his uncle in KingKingston, were married
1

ston.

Miss Frances Pensyl

is

teaching in Westfield, N.

J.

Miss Pearl Scott, of Bloomsburg, was married Wednesday,
7, 1928, to Clifford Snook, of Hopewell, New Jersey.
For the past three years Mrs. Snook has been teaching in Pen-

November
nington,

New

Jersey.

Esther Dildine

Oman

is

teaching

in

the

first

grade at

Hall-

stead, Pa.

Ruth T. Lehman (Mrs. Kenneth Conway) lives at 41 Florence Avenue, Irvington, New Jersey.
Mr. and Mrs. Conway
have one son, Warren Kenneth.
Mildred Ridgley

Y

is

teacher of

West Pittston, Pa.
ing Avenue, Wyoming, Pa.

Street Building,

first

grade

Her address

in
is

the

Linden

597 Wyom-

Announcement was made July 29
1

9,

1

of the marriage, on May
928, of Maude C. Mensch, of Bloomsburg, and Morris

Ridall, of Shickshinny, R. D., at Port Jervis, N. Y.

has been

Mrs. Ridall

charge of the smallest children at the I. 0. 0. F. Orphanage at Sunbury for the past two summers. During the winter

in

she has been teaching in

County.

the

rural schools

of

Columbia

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1925
and Joseph R. Kleckner,
have announced their marriage, which took
place last winter.
The bride has been teaching in Coatesville,
and the groom has been completing his work for a degree at the
State Teachers’ College at West Chester.
Mr. and Mrs. KleckMiss Lyle Mather, of Berwick,

also of Berwick,

ner will

make

their

home

Announcement has

in Coatesville.

recently been

made

of the marriage of

Leona Reichenbach, of Point Township, to J. Gordon Epler, of
Wilkes-Barre.
Before coming to Bloomsburg, Mrs. Epler attended the Northumberland High School.
Miss Gladys A. Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
S.

Richards, of Bloomsburg, and Willard Kleckner,

son of Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Kleckner, of Shickshinny, were married Thursday morning, November 29, 1928, at 7:00 o’clock, at the First
Methodist Church, of Bloomsburg, by the pastor. Rev. H. F.
Babcock.

The bride

is

ful

High School and
and has been a success-

a graduate of the Hazleton

the Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College,

teacher in the Hazleton schools.

of Shickshinny High School

Mr. Kleckner

is

and State College and

a graduate

for

the past

two years has been assistant superintendent of transmission for
He
the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company at Hazleton.
was recently transferred to Seigfried, Pa.

On
became

Saturday, June 22, Miss

Grace

Miller, of

Mifflinville,

the bride of George E. Creasy, of Philadelphia.

past four years Mrs. Creasy has been

Mr. Creasy

is

teaching

in

For the

Mifflinville.

a graduate of the Berwick High School,

Class of

1922, and of the Philadelphia Schools of Industrial Arts, Class
At the latter institution he won a scholarship in furniof 1927.
ture designing as a result of which he was sent to Grand Rapids,
Mich., to study the manufacture of furniture in the large factor-

He now holds a responsible position
DeLong Furniture Company, of Philadelphia.

ies there.

the

as designer for

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Watkins has been teaching

Lily
ton,

New

Pa.

is

in Irving-

is

teaching

in Register, Pa.

Her home

Cambra, Pa.

Martha A. Fisher lives at 310 South Front Street, Sunbury,
She is teaching in the grades in the Sunbury schools.

Ann
ley,

grade

Jersey.

Helen Barrett Baer
address

in the fifth

25

Liydas was married June 30, 1928, to Freeman Ting-

a graduate of Bucknell University.
Beryl Ikeler, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 6, has been elected for

the fourth term to teach in the rural

schools of Mt. Pleasant

Township, Columbia County.

1926
Elizabeth Keller, of Orangeville, Pa., and Leon B. Epler, of

Northumberland, were married Saturday, March 2, at Freeburg,
by the Rev. William S. Gerhard, a cousin of the bride. Mrs. Epler has been teaching in the Orangeville schools.
Mr. Epler is a
graduate of the Northumberland High School, Class of 1917,
and of Pennsylvania State College, Class of 1925, and is now a
farmer in Point Township.
Miss Grace Robbins, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. D. H. Rob-

degree of B. S. this year at New York Univerhas been named teacher of Social Studies in
Robbins
sity.
Miss
the new Junior High School in Darien, Connecticut.
bins, received the

Emily Davies

is

a

member

Avenue Junior High School,
Arlene E. Sweet

lives

of the

in Irvington,

at

1

faculty

New

of the Madison

Jersey.

15 East Market Street,

Lewis-

burg, Pa.

1927

Pa.

Myra L. Thomas is teacher of Art and Music
Her address is 527 Prospect Avenue.
Hannah Barry

zerne, Pa.

is

at

Bethlehem,

teaching in the elementary schools of Lu-

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26

Marion Marshall lives at 845 Anthracite Avenue, Kingston.
She is teacher of fifth grade in the Kingston schools.

Pa.

Helen Ceppa

West Grand

Emma

teaching

Her address

is

3

Jermyn and Vivian M. Jermyn are teaching

in

is

in

Nanticoke.

Street.
J.

Junedale, Pa.

Delma

E.

Myers was married Wednesday, November 28,
Mr. and Mrs. Husband live at 78

1928, to Arthur Husband.

Church

at

Street, Pittston, Pa.

Arthur C. Jenkins, the first recipient of the degree of B. S.
Bloomsburg, and now coach of the Newport Township High

School,

was one

course

in football

lege at the

of the

men who were

enrolled in the special

coaching given at the Pennsylvania State Col-

summer

session this year.

Miss Pauline Vastine, of Danville, R. D., and James E. Sugden, of Wilkes-Barre, were married in the Westminster Presbyterian

Church

at Wilkes-Barre,

Tuesday morning, June

the Rev. William H. Sugden, brother of the groom.

18,

by

Mrs. Sug-

The groom is a
1927, and is
employed by the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, at

den has been teaching

in

the Danville schools.

graduate of Bucknell University, in the

Class of

Allentown.

Verna M. Keller and Richard Hill, both of Berwick, were
married Saturday, June 23, in the parsonage of the Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church of Berwick, by the pastor. Rev. C. S. Bottiger.
Since her graduation, Mrs. Hill has been teaching in Salem
Township and Nescopeck Township. Mr. Hill is employed by

Power and Light Company

in

Berwick.

At seven o’clock, Saturday morning, July

6, in St.

the Pennsylvania

Paul’s

Protestant Episcopal Church, Miss E. Victoria Smith, of Blooms-

burg,
J.

was married

to Edw^ard

Mr. and Mrs. Bundens are
Miss Pauline Ranck,

teacher of second grade

in

M. Bundens,

now

Jr.,

of Paulsboro, N.

living in Paulsboro.

Bloomsburg, has been elected
Bloomsburg for the coming term.

of

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Ranck has been teaching

Miss

New

boro.

for the

27

past two years

in

Pauls-

Jersey.

Miss Beatrice Englehart has been elected teacher of second

grade

Bloomsburg.

in

the past

She has been teaching

in

New

Jersey for

two years.

1928
Dorothy V. Jones lives at 16 Charles Street, Pittston, Pa.
She has been acting as substitute teacher in the Pittston schools.
Callendar

Phyllis

Her address

schools.

Mary

R. Cahalan

teaching third

is

1132 Orange

is

is

grade

in

the

Berwick

Street, Berwick, Pa.

a substitute teacher in the schools of

Kingston, Pa.

Anne Yuran

is

a fourth grade teacher in the Pringle school,

Luzerne, Pa.
Miss Minnie Mellick,

who was graduated from

the two-year

1923, and received the degree of B. S. in Education
this year, has been elected as teacher of third grade in Bloomsburg.
Miss Mellick taught three years at Light Street and one
course

year

in

in

New

Jersey.

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At Kingston

Kutztown
October 5
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October 2
Mansfield
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24,

1930

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ADDRESSES UNKNOWN
The

QUARTERLY

will appreciate any information regardAlumni whose addresses are unknown. Please
communications to F. H. Jenkins, 216 West 5th Street.

ing the following

send

all

Bloomsburg, Pa.
1879

Hess, Floyd L.
Johnson, B. R.

Cullen, William F.
Filson, Ira D.
Fisher, William I.

Keiter, George H.
Lewis, Charles L.

Moore, Arthur

1884
Albright, Ella M.

(Mrs.

E.

M.

Baxter).
Bertels, Bird I.
Charles, Robert
Eckbert, Lottie D.

(Mrs. Alex.

M. Lupfer)

1899
Albertson, Hattie

(Mrs.

David

Evans)

(Dun-

well)

McDonough, Margaret (Mrs.
Frank Dodson)
Mansell, Mary J. (McKee)
Winter, Irvin H.

1889

Dunsmore, Mary A.

J. J.

O’Hearn)
Williams, Ethel

Higgins, Kate E. (Divers)
Hoban, Alice I.
Hoban, Annie E.

Hunt, M. Louis
Kolb, Nellie M. (Smith)
Lawlor, Margaret L.
MacCullough, Jean T.

J.

Patterson, J. Howard
Paul, J. Frank
Robison, J. Boyd, Jr.
Rosser, Bessie
Whalen, Mary E. (Mrs.

(Mrs. Rob-

ert Kelley)
Irvin, Florence G. (Fields)
Ream, Frederick (State Certifi-

cate)

1894

Beardsley, Charlotte
Carpenter, Perry A.
Church, Lillian (Mrs.

Sydney

Dearborn)
Connole,

Mary

Coyle, Philip
Curtis, Edith
Davis, Arthur
Deitrick, Edna
Ellsworth, Emma

J.

(Mrs. D. C.

Smith)
Fowler, Lillian (Mrs. George W.
Wright)
Fowler, Lottie (Mrs. Percy F.
Best)
Frederickson, Elam A.
Gill, D. Eleanor
Griffith, Essie

Abbott, Florence
Acherly, Mae (Alexander)
Belles, Nellie D. (Mrs. W. H.

Griffith, Nellie

Heddin)
Corgan, Genevieve (Baratt)

E. O’Brien)
Hammond, Josie

Darlington, W. Ramsay
Dechant, Harrj’ G.
Fisher, Corinda S. (Mayer)
Haggerty, Mary (Mrs. James
Tigue)

Higgins,

Hammond,

Elizabeth (Mrs.

W.

'

Belinda

(Mrs.

M.

J.

Murphy)
Hines, Lillian
Hollopeter, Cunia (Mrs.
Persing)

H. M.

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Jackson, John S.
Lake, Gertrude E. (Mrs.

Robbins,
J.

E.

Mary A.

Gertrude

Golen-

(Mrs.

(Mrs. John R.

Bower)
Rooke, William

Fidler)
Miller,

29

Seesholtz,

J.

Hervey W.

Sholenberger, Wells A.

clay)

Moore, Lawrence C.
More, Fred C.
Morton, William
Mulliner, Beulah A.
Oler, A. Esther
Olver, E. Grace (Mrs.
Hagers ville)
Price, J. Herbert
Quick, William J.

Stead,

George

Eugene

R.

Thomas, Margaret (Mrs. John
Edwards)
Tibbets, Luzenia (Mrs. William
G. Isham)
Wagner, Virginia (Mrs. William
A. Powers)
Wolfe,

Raymond

Roberts, Ira
Rohr, Myra

1909
Barrow, Harrison R.

Scull, Mary N.
Stackhouse, Bertha (Mrs. Chas.
L. Lewis)
Stewart, Bertha (Mrs. William

Betts, Bessie B.
Bishop, Madeleine V. (Mrs. Rollin L. Charles)
Bryant, Leon D.
Garrison, Florence W. (Mrs. C.
H. Danforth)
Gleason, Ruth E.

S.

DeCoursey)

Wallace, Margaret
Waltz, Pierce
Williams, Irene (Mrs.
A. Evans)
Williams, Mabel A.
Williams, Richard M.
Williams, Sarah D.

William

1904

Lucy
Rody)

C.

Anna

E.

Baldy,

Challis,

(Mrs.
(Mrs.

Gary
F.

W.

Thompson)
Clair,

Corssley, Pearl A. (Mrs. W. J.
Pickett)
Fletcher, Esther R. (Armitage)

Helwig, W. Ray
Henrie, H. Clare
Keely, N. C.

(Mrs.

Charles

Regan,

May

C.

(Mrs.

Louis F.

Bumei
Tobin, Teresa
White, Agnes (Lamon)
Williams, George

1914

Kelley, Martin

Krommas, Lulu M. (Mrs. H.
J.

G.

W.

Bonham)
Mertz, Mabel I.
Messersmith, Palace E.

Gertrude M.
Moses, William E.
Putman, Stewart L.
Rawlinson, Herbert E.
Bessie
Richart,
(Mrs.
Corse)

Cook)
Reese, Marjory

Penman)

Margaret V.

Lesser)
Lanning, Hattie L. (Mrs.

Johnson, Robert L.
Kase, Harriet (Foland)
Kintner, Sadie
Marcy, Eva L. (Mrs. J. G. Pace)
Noble, Laverne R.
O’Neill, Frances H. (Donovan)
Potts, M. Reinee
Priest, Florence A. (Mrs. M. W.

Bone, Catherine Hasty
Corrigan, Mary J. (Mrs.
O’Brien)
Edwards, Idwal H.
Elliott, Sara Elizabeth
Evans, Margaret Hill
Hendershott, Charles N.
Hill, Isabel

Miller,

Wm.

Salome (Mrs. A. F.

Long)

Hummel, Daisy

(Mrs.

Evans)
C.

J.

Keller, Russell

Laub, Henry Rupert

Ray M.

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Martin, C. Christine
Mensch, Harriet 0.
Miller,

Patterson, H. Ottis
Perkins, Elsie R.

Eda

Renner, Grace Vincent
Rosell, Victor Julio
Summers, Margaret Ruth

Pegg, Nola C.
Riddle, Margaret Isabel

Ryman, Lawrence Brown

Sweetwood, Ida J.
Walton, Helen Gould

Smith, Charles Karl
Wardlaw, Edith May

Williams, Gertrude Louise

1924

1919

Anna M.
Curtis, Mary M.
Derrick, J. Raymond
Dunn, Mary I.
Gallagher, Raymond

Blecher, Mary Celesta
Clark, Maude M.
Dreibelbis, Francis Ralph
Epler, Frances C.
Erwin, Mae E.
Eshleman, Fay E.
Ferguson, Eva H. (Mrs. Edward

Booth,

Jones, Anne Z.
Keefer, Margaret E.

Bowder)
Griffith,

McGovern, Vera

Mildred Elizabeth (Mrs.

Bruce Shearer)
Heimbach, Ruth Elizabeth
Veda Lois (Veda
Hess,
Lewis)
Hoffman, Arthur E.
Johnson, Marion F.
Kester, Zoe (Mrs. Miller)
Kirkhuff,

Marshall, Margaret P.

Norton, Mervym
Ostrander, Ida M.
Price, Ethel M.
Rees, Ruth Irene
Schultz, M. Roselda
Shook, Agnes
Williams, Edna D. (Mrs. Ebenezer D. Williams)

H.

Asa W.

Marks, Gerald Ellsworth

WIDOW OF PROF.

Mrs.
for
l.er

many

Lillie

Gregg

Brill,

E.

Hortman, Irene

widow

BRILL DIES

of the late William

years a resident of Bloomsburg, died at the

son, Francis A. Brill, of

46

S.

Brill,

and

home

of

Fourth Street, Sunbury, Satur-

day evening, June 29, from a complication of ailments.
She had been in failing health for about a year but her conShe had
dition did not become critical until Mother’s Day.
been

living

with her daughter. Miss Julia G.

Brill,

of State Col-

and when her condition became serious she was taken to
home in Sunbury. She remained bedfast for the sucson’s
her
Her condition gradceeding weeks, showing no improvement.
quietly
away.
finally
passed
and
she
weaker
ually became
in
Milton,
the daughMrs. Brill was born January 10, 1855,
lege,

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ter of the

Rev. and Mrs. Jacob

S.

McMurray.

31

Her father was a

minister and presiding elder in the Central Pennsylvania Confer-

ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

She was married on September
liam

Brill,

a minister

of the

1

,

1

886, to the Rev. Wil-

With him she

same conference.

served as pastorates at Port Matilda, Pine Grove

Mills,

Birming-

ham, Tyrone, Mount Union, Burnham, Altoona, Williamsport,
Shickshinny, Sunbury and Danville.
For sixteen years she resided at Bloomsburg, where her
husband v/as a member of the High School faculty for several
years and then of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Normal
At the time of her husband’s death in 1925, she reSchool.

moved

to State College to

make

her

home with

her daughter.

There she remained until taken ill early in May.
She is survived by three sons, Francis A. Brill, Sunbury
business man; Clinton B. Fisk Brill, of New York City and William Gregg Brill, an official of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,
and by one daughter, Julia Brill, of State College.
One son, Jacob McMurray Brill, of Sunbury, was killed in a

World War while serving with the American
Argonne forest, against the Germans.
Her family has been connected with state and national affairs since the Revolutionary War.
She was a direct descendant
of Major James Potter and of United States Senator Andrew
She was a cousin of Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin
Gregg.

battle during the

army

who

in the

served as chief executive of the state of Pennsylvania dur-

ing the Civil

War and whose home was

at Bellefonte.

Three of the trustees of the College were reappointed June
Fisher.
They were Mrs. John G. Harman and
Dr. R. E. Miller, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Effie Llewellyn, of

28 by Governor
Elysburg.

ALUMNIDAY, MAY

24,

1930

.

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32

Frank R. Carpenter, of Bloomsburg, father of Miss Helen
home on
Tuesday morning, June 25. At the time of his death he was in
his eighty-second year.
He had been in failing health for some
months, but his condition had been serious only a short time before his death.
For fifty-three years an employe of the Reading Railroad, and for many years station agent in Bloomsburg,
he had retired from active service twelve years ago.
He is survived by one brother, G. D. Carpenter, of Bradford, and four
children, Harriet and Helen, of Bloomsburg, Eugene F., of
Philadelphia, and Ben F., of Washington.
Carpenter, of the Training School faculty, died at his

Normal
Normal School at Bellingham,
Bloomsburg during the summer, and was

Dr. Charles H. Fisher, former principal of the State

School,

now

principal of the State

Washington, visited

in

warmly greeted by

his

many

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr.,

friends.

and Miss Elizabeth Waller have been

spending the summer at their cottage at Windemere, Canada.

ALUMNI DAY, MAY

24,

1930