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Entered as Second-Class Matter, July 1, 1909. at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., Under the Act of July 16. 1804. Published Four Times a Year. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 Cents. H. F. FENSTEMAKER, '12 EDITOR : E. H. . ; ; i •i* NELSON, T1 . . . . BUSINESS I ; • ; MANAGER ....4. Page One ^ime liloamlLuAxf, Once again the Bloomsburg State Teachers College finds itself obliged to carry on in the face of wartime conditions. Even with the beginning of the first semester, world conditions began to be reflected in the activities of the campus. Along with all the other Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania, the enroll- ment began to dwindle. The College opened with a student body of about 400, with many different factors causing the reduction in enrollment. Many of the young men who would have returned are in the military and naval forces of our country. Many others are engaged in defense work, doing their part to build up the material assets of America and her allies. Many young women also found good positions in offices and did not return to Bloomsburg. history will unAs in the days following World War doubtedly repeat itself in the teaching profession. There is already a shortage of teachers in the elementary grades, and there will certainly be a shortage of teachers in the junior and 1 , senior high schools. The College has been adapting itself to changing condiThe CAA flying courses are now in their second year, and a large number of pilots have been trained. Every night of the tions. week the streets near the College are parked have brought in full of cars that students to take the defense courses offered in Science Hall. Now steps that the United States are actually have been taken to organize the College engaged in war, community as a home defense. A committee headed by Dr. E. H. Nelson now at work setting up procedures and routines that will make it possible for everyone to know what to do in case of unit of is emergency. The spirit of the campus is well set ment by President Andruss, published forth in a recent statein the “Maroon and Gold”: THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 i^age Two A kind. Message From the President The quest To make for certainty as old as is certain an uncertain future manis the problem of every generation. Youth is always confused by the process of growing up and the changing of events in the world at large. Life is made of such things. Change and growth as part of the continuous adjustment in living leads each generation to feel that its problems are more serious than the previous one. and Freedom, and Democracy, are that a century and a half ago our forefathers fought to get them in a form of free government. A half-dozen wars in our history indicate that we must ever fight to keep them. A new generation on the average of every twenty-five years has had to make the sacrifice of force to protect and keep Liberty, and Freedom, and Democracy as we have them Liberty, so very precious in America. What tomorrow may bring to college studno one can surely say, but it appears that democracy may need to make as great an effort to defend itself AFTER as DURING the present war period. The first line of defense now and later lies in the strength of the whole nation, whereas leadership will undoubtedly come from ents the who ranks of those are now enrolled in colleges. Students should make educational who are every program now effort as we enrolled in colleges to continue their they had previously be faced with a suicide of weakening our minds while strengthening our “arms.” The duty of all good Americans today is to do the best they can, where they are, with what they have. College students planned. Otherwise, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, shall January, 1942 : Page Three must continue to fit themselves for situations which will undoubtedly approach those for which they are being educated. The three dates — 1914-1916-1918— rep- , and the ending of the first World War. Since 1939 marked the beginning of the second World War and 1941 the critical period of the entry of America into the struggle, the question is: “What are you planning for 1943?” .Are you looking beyond the next two years? resent the beginning, the critical period, Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been given a quota of twenty student pilots for the first semester of the College year opening September 22. The quota is of the same size as the second semester of last year and for the Summer session and is larger than has been granted numerous institutions with far greater student enrollments. Bloomsburg has had an outstanding program of CAA since program was instituted. There have been forty-seven men and three women who have taken the work. All have completed the (he flying. Of the men who have passed, eighteen are now in aviation army or navy and around nine others have made application and are awaiting instructions to report. The work at Bloomsburg in training men for the service has been a pace setter the nation over. CAA students entering service on the average have been one out of ten. in either the During the Summer session concluded in early August, twenty of the sixty-seven men enrolled took CAA work. More than 500 this semester. ents was Among schools are participating in the the Pennsylvania schools, Elementary course : Bucknell program and the quota of stud- University, 1 0 ; Bucknell University Junior College, 20; Geneva College, 10; Lafayette College, 20; Lehigh University, 20; Moravian College, 10; THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Four Muhlenberg College, 10; Pennsylvania Sta‘e College, 10; Bloomsburg State Teachers College, 20; Waynesburg College, 10 . Secondary course: Bucknell University Junior College, 108; Geneva College, 10; Lehigh University, 10. Following action of the State Council of Education, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College is cooperating with Pennsylvania State College in offering defense courses. This project is made possible through recent legislation which permits the State Council of Education to request any State Teachers College to participate in this work upon the action of the board of trustees in favor of expanding the usefulness of the particular institution to those activities which will enable State Teachers Colleges to contribute to national defense. the Among the courses offered are fundamentals of engineering, engineering drafting, ordnance inspection, eering science of may management and any other courses in enginfor which a sufficient demand develop. These courses are held in Science Hall and the adminishead is Roy D. Snyder, a member of the Bloomsburg trative School Board. These courses do not bear college credit and the tuition However, students must buy their books and supplies. A high school education is the material requirement. However, persons who have certain types of vocational experience may be admitted upon the approval of the coordinator. IS free. The experience with summer offering such courses during the last from 80 per cent to 90 per cent of those who completed the courses have found places in industry, conindicates that tributing to the national defense. The Bloomsburg State Teachers College State Teachers Colleges in the who Commonwealth is one of the two of Pennsylvania are approved for this type of work. Anna Elizabeth Tugend, of Dalton, and Mark W. Jury, of in the MethBloomsburg, were married Monday, September odist Church at Tunkhannock. 1 , THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, .January, 1942 Page Five Named Director of Elementary Education Hazen has been appointed director of eleBloomsburg. Miss Hazen has been a memfaculty since of the 1927, and served as director of interber mediate and rural education. This administrative responsibility covers the administration and supervision of student teaching in kindergarten, primary, intermediate, and rural fields, as well as the special class for the mentally retarded. Miss Hazen will direct the elementary student teaching, both on and off the Miss Edna J. mentary education at campus. Miss Hazen received her education at the State Normal Pa., Allegheny College, Meadville, and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Columbia Uni- School at Edinboro, versity. She began teaching in a rural one-room school, followed by a year in a consolidated school in Erie County. After graduation from Edinboro, she taught in the elementary schools of Cleveland, Ohio. After serving for a time in Cleveland, she was offered a position as a training teacher at Edinboro. She also served as instructor in summer State Teachers College at Slippery Rock, of North Carolina. and sessions at the at the University Later she was appointed assistant superin- tendent of the Erie County public schools, being responsible for the direction of the elementary schools. Miss Hazen brings to her new position a background of experience in the different phases of elementary education, at the same time balanced with as a teacher m the high school a forward look with experience and principal of a junior high school. As a part of the service provided by the College in the Hazen has addressed county institutes and contributed to curriculum development. She has served as a member of a committee appointed by the State Superintendlocal service area, Miss ent of Public Instruction to revise the course in health education for elementary schools. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Six Bloomsburg’s Educational Clinic The educational clinic of the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg has started its second year of activity. The purpose of the clinic is to study children from the public schools who have come to the clinic because of inability to make satisfactory progress in their studies. remedial work experienced is Analyses of their disabilities recommended, and prescribed by persons who are trained and are being made, school in this adjustments are type of work. The educational clinic services of the College. It is one of the recently developed has been organized to serve the child- ren of the schools of Bloomsburg’s service area who, for any reason, are not succeeding in their school work. is housed in two suites of three exan adjoining classroom which may be used for demonstration purposes. In these rooms are found a great variety of tests, examinations, instruments and apparatus which are useful in appraising the child’s capacities and abilities, in discovering his interests, and in determining the causes of his disabilities and handicaps. The equipment includes audiometers. both group and individual, a telebinocular, an ophthalmograph, speech recorders, a preamplifier and microphone, and a variety of intelligence and other tests. The clinic is under the direction of Prof. John J. Fisher, who has charge of the psychological service. Other members of The educational clinic amination rooms and the staff are Miss Alice Johnston, specialist in speech, Carolyn Welch, who has charge of the work The educational clinic Council of Education and is and Miss in reading. has been approved by the State serving the public schools of Col- umbia, Montour, Northumberland and Luzerne Counties. There The clinic repreis no charge for this service by the College. another step policy sents in the of the College to be of greater usefulness to the school children of the section of Pennsylvania in which clinic it is located. Anyone wishing to bring a child to the should communicate with the director and pointment. THE .M.UMNI QUARTERLY, .January, 1942 make an ap- Page Seven New Courses Added Many new courses have been added to the curriculum of the College this semester, and have already proved to be very popular. The ground course given to these who meet the requirements of the civil pilot training program included instruction in civil air regulations, navigation, and meteorology. For the first time in many years, students have an opportunity to study the Spanish language. elective in and This is offered as a free be continued as long as students show interest Those students who are preparing in either the will this field. secondary or business may fields elect Spanish as an additional course or as a free elective. Advanced courses accounting are being offered to busiThese sources include accounting for manufacturing concerns, and also auditing, and go toward the in ness education students. requirements for certification to teach in the high schools of Pennsylvania. Store practice, including a study of store operation as well as actual selling, is again being offered, and students will have an opportunity to observe and participate in the type of mer- chandising carried on by local stores. In addition to the courses named above, the following new courses are offered: Curriculum in elementary science, ethics, early childhood education, speech correction, play production, speech problems, creative dramatics, journalism and typewriting as an elective for non-business education students. • Miss Betty Pauling, violin instructor at member has been elected as a of Music at Bloomsburg. Wyoming ing, who in Department Miss Pauling has been teaching at She has studied voice since 1936. has been soloist Wyoming Seminary, of the faculty in the in New various churches in Wilkes-Barre. York, and Miss Paul- teaches both voice and violin, has twice appeared be- fore the College assembly, ability as a singer and and has ably demonstrated her fine as a violinist. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Eight Go4fUn(j, A downpour dampen lasting throughout the entire day could not many hundreds of returning graduates and friends of Bloomsburg who were present Saturday, November at the various activities of the Home-Coming Day the enjoyment of 1 , program. The features of the day included the first Husky football triumph of the year, when Bloomsburg defeated Kutztown by the score of 1 4-0, the tea in the Coming Day dinner dance in the in new gymnasium, the Home- the college dining-room, and the Alumni new gymnasium. The outstanding feature of the dinner was the presentatwo memorials to Miss Irma Ward, former dietitian. One of these was a copy of a fine painting, and the other was a fund, to be known as the Ward Fund. This is to be tion to the College of used to provide small short-term loans to students who are in need of money for special emergencies. There were about 400 at the tea and about 650 attended the dinner. in the new gymnasium, A new feature of Home-Coming Day was an attractive program booklet published under the direction of Prof. Walter S. Rygiel. The booklet contained pictures of the campus, the various athletic groups, the Maroon and Gold Band, the coaches, and the managers. There were also greetings from President H. A. Andruss and R. Bruce Albert, President of the Alumni Association. In order that the guests might not miss any of the day’s many activities, the booklet also contained a time schedule, listing the time and place of the day’s events. MEMORIAL PRESENTED At the Alumni dinner held on Home-Coming Day, two memorials to the late Irma Russell Ward, former dietitian, were presented to the College. mond T?IE L. Hodges The presentation was made by Ray- ’30, Associate Professor of ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Dramatic Art in : Page Nine Richmond Professional the Institute of the College of William and Mary, Richmond, Virginia. One of the memorials was a painting, which has been hung in the college memorial is dining-room near the dietitian’s office. The other sums a fund to be loaned to students needing small The fund, known as the Ward Fund, be administered through the treasurer of the Student Loan Fund of the Alumni Association, and will go into operation as soon as a few more contributions come in. for special emergencies. will The purpose of the memorials, and the ed their presentation, are best reflected spirit in which prompt- the presentation speech of Mr. Hodges. The speech follows For many years before I was graduated from High School, I had looked forward to college. Upon arriving at Bloomsburg I was utterly amazed and quite impressed. As I became more accustomed to the place I began to realize that many young men and women were helping their college expenses by working in the dining room. I wanted to apply for a job, but I was really afraid of the woman in charge, they called her the Dietitian. She was a tall, austere woman with keen eyes and sharp features. Would she have anything to do with me, a green youngster just out of high school who had never had a tray in his hand? When I finally screwed up enough courage to ask her about work I found she was nothing like what 1 expected. She was all business, and yet vei’y friendly. I got a job and I — — found a friend. For four years, three meals a day, we worked together. She never lost her business-like attitude, but as we got to know each other, she injected in a very casual manner sound advice and helpful hints, not on how to run a dining room, but on how to live. When I was about to graduate from this place it was she who first suggested that 1 go on and get a graduate degree. In fact she sat down with me and worked out a balanced schedule. I had to study with this professor because he was known all over the world; this one talked too much. And so it went. Well, I finally got that Master’s degree; as a matter of fact before she was able to get hers. Because, you see, I was not an isolated example. There were many others being helped in this same friendly, unassuming way at the same time. Nor did her help end with educational matters. I can rememthought I was going to my future wife here for her apwas relieved and happy to know that she felt I was doing ber very well her remarks when be married; and when I brought I told her I proval, I the right thing. we were both busy people our visits were less frequent, she was here, a rock, a mooring place to which I could fly Because but I felt THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Piige Ten necessary. Then on February 25, 1939, Doctor Kehr telephoned that if I wanted to see my friend alive again I had better come quickly. I got here early the next morning, but I found that life was fast ebbing. I had never seen a person die before, and I certainly did not want to see this particular person leave. But I shall never be afraid of death again. Slowly, ever so slowly, breath left her body and a serene peace filled her face Ii'ma Russell Ward had if — gone on. We alumni who had worked in the college dining room and had so well wanted her memory to live. We wanted you, the present undergraduates to know her, and the undergraduates to come they should not be deprived of a friendship like hers. So we have tried to do two things. Miss Ward had long been in the habit of helping worthy people financially. There are times when a fee is due, or a book must be bought, and the student feels pretty desperate. But one had only to go to her and bluntly ask for a loan. It did no good to try “apple polishing” or fancy phrases. The loan was a business-like arrangement. To perpetuate this spirit of helpfulness we have gathered some money and now want to announce the establishing of the Irma Ward Fund. This will be for small, short-time loans to students, to be made without the legal procedure necessary for larger loans. The Fund will be handled by the same Alumni Council which administers the general Alumni Fund. In order to keep the Ward Fund operative and increasingly useful, we appeal to you for further support. We do not ask for large amounts; anything, even a quarter is acceptable. Will you please help? As a second project, and as a mere tangible gift to the College, we have bought a copy of Adolf Dehn’s “Minnesota in August.” It was painted near Miss Ward’s home by an artist who also came from that part of the state. Although she loved Pennsylvania, Miss Ward never forgot her native state and she had a copy of this pictui’e over the desk in her office. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to present this copy of the painting to you, the present college family. As I look at it I am reminded of Irma Russell Ward, and the words come back to me which kept running through my mind as I saw her leave this place: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me.” known her — . . e Mrs. Mary Bogennef, aged ninety-seven, the oldest woman in Union County, and mother of Miss Margaret Bogenrief, former member of the department of Physical Education at the College, died at her home in Mifflinburg late in September. Elizabeth THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Eleven Tells of Caribbean Defense Dr. Mina Kerr addressed the students of the college at the assembly Friday. October 10, on “The Caribbean, Our Sea of Destiny.” Dr. Kerr, who has traveled in South America and has made two trips to the Caribbean region, gave an analysis of the importance of this region to the economic and military wel- She referred to three great water areas the Mediterranean Sea, the that are figuring in the world news China Sea and the Caribbean Sea. Dr. Kerr called the attention to the fact that important naval and air bases were held by France, Holland and England in this territory and pointed out the danger to the United States if Hitler should win and the possibility of these falling into the hands of a hostile power. She suggested the importance of naval bases on islands belonging to the United States and those acquired from England in recent months. Dr. Kerr hinted that there was a possibility at closing of the war that possessions held by certain European powers would be demanded by the United States in return for aid to these European countries during the world struggle. This was the fifth appearance of Dr. Kerr before the students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at an assembly period. fare of this country. — • The teachers of northeastern Ohio were addressed Friday, October 24, by President Harvey A. Andruss. The subject of the address was “Adapting Learning Experiences to the Needs and Abilities of Students.” In his discussion. President Andruss outlined conflicting points of view and offered specific suggestions as to the methods by which administrators and teachers may revise the offerings on the high school level in such a way that different learning experiences may be approved for students whose interests, aptitudes, needs and abilities vary according to their social and economic background. # - Hannah Unger is teaching English, French and Latin Reade High School, Mountaindale, Pa. In addition to her ing duties, she coaches dramatics and is in the teach- school librarian. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Twelve I’age Miss Hayden Retires Miss May T. Hayden, director of kindergarten-primary education and college instructor at Bloomsburg since 1925, retired at the close of the college year last spring. During her educational career as a teacher, principal, and supervisor of elementary schools. Miss Hayden gained recognition tional circles in many in educa- states. She is a native of Minnesota, where she received her elementary and high school education. Her advanced education was received at the University of Washington, the University of California, Columbia University, and Washington State College. She received her B. A. degree at Washington State College, and her M. S. degree from Columbia, where she also pursued further graduate work. She began her professional experience in the In the Lewiston public public schools of Idaho. schools of that state she served as teacher in the elementary grades and the junior high school, as principal of an elementary school, and as elementary supervisor for the city system. She taught during summer sessions m the southern branch of the University of Idaho at Pocatello, and entered the field of and college teaching at the State Normal Colwhere eventually she held the position of the primary education building and supervisor of teacher-training lege at Dillon, Montana, of principal kindergarten-primary education. Sixteen years ago Miss Hayden came to Bloomsburg as and college instruc- director of kindergarten-primary education tor m elementary education. During the past twenty years she has lectured many times at teachers’ institutes. work in the special field In addition, of reading. she Miss has done extensive Hayden has had wide experience on national, state and local committees dealing with and other phases of educational work. the curriculum She sity is affiliated Women, Pi with the American Association of UniverTheta, and the National Curriculum Lambda Society. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, .January, 1942 ; Page Thirteen College to Get $1,000 Bequest A $1,000 bequest made College by a member to the Bloomsburg State Teachers 1885 will be paid to col- of the class of lege authorities as soon as legal requirements are met. The attorney for the estate of Florence J. Cawley, of Mil- ton, the legatee, advised College President that the estate has Harvey A. Andruss been liquidated. Miss Cawley was a member of the class of 1885 of the Bloomsburg Normal School and the legacy was one of many contained in her will, which was probated shortly after her 940. death on March terms Under the of this bequest, the $1,000 forms the Florence J. Cawley Fund to be invested and the income therefrom to be used for any purpose her class of 1885 may be called upon to aid. The class of 885 met in their fifty-fifth reunion on Alumni Day, 940, and voted that any income arising from this fund should be made available for the Alumni Association through the loan fund, to worthy students. Among the members of this class now surviving are Mrs. Fred Holmes, Bloomsburg: Harry 1 , 1 1 1 0. Hine, Washington, D. C. and Mrs. E. E. Melick, ; Miss New York Anna Fox, City, Burlington, N. who spoke at the J. alumni dinner that year. • Clara November Knapp died home at her Bloomsburg Tuesday, She was born in William and Sarah Wicht. in 18, after a long-continued illness. Bloomsburg, the daughter of the late She was a life-long member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, being active m the various activities of that church. She attended the former Academy which later became the Bloomsburg State Normal School, and was one of the first pupils to be enrolled. Her husband was Peter E. Knapp, whose father, Christian F. Knapp, was the father of Masonry in Bloomsburg. • from the University of North CaroPaul Green’s play, “The House the College Auditorium, Friday, October 7. Carolina Playmakers, lina, gave a fine presentation of of Connelly,’’ in 1 THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 - Page Fourteen Former Student Passes Away Within a half hour after he was admitted to the Bloomsburg Hospital Sunday morning, November 6, Robert F. Van1 there at 3 40 was the cause of death. Mr. Vanderslice was born in Bloomsburg, March 21 1869, the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Vanderslice. He was educated in Bloomsburg’s public schools and the Bloomsburg State Normal derslice, well o’clock. A known Bloomsburg resident, died : heart attack , School. When tives for a young man, he left tablished a small community. Upon with his parents and some rela- Kansas, locating in Dodge City, where the families es- He lived there about ten years. Bloomsburg he was employed as station agent for the D. L. & W. Railroad Company at Lime Ridge. Subsequently, he served as clerk to the County Commissioners, then as teller in the First National Bank of Bloomsburg emd for a number of years was representative for the Barron Collier AdMore vertising Company, specializing in street car advertising. Bloomsrecently he has been employed as registry assessor in his return to burg. He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Frank K. Laufman, of Concord, New Hampshire, and two grandsons, Robert and Billie Laufman. Also surviving are a sister. Miss Helen Vanderslice and a brother, George J. Vanderslice. Mr. Vanderslice was active in Masonry; was a Past Master of Washington Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 265; Past Most Wise Master Evergreen Chapter Rose Croix; Past Commander-in Chief of Caldwell Consistory A. A. Scottish Rite and a member He was a member of the First Methoof the Craftsman Club. dist Church of Bloomsburg. Addresses Wanted Margaret Francis ’32. Mrs. Leo Paulson ’31, Mrs. Albert Davis, ’29, Ruth Mildred Williams ’25, Evalyn Waters ’25, R. Thelma Gordon ’27, Priscilla T. Acker Mrs. Martin Walsh ’16, Mrs. Gerald Gregory ’31. Ella Bullock ’27, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, Januarj% 1942 ’34, Page Fifteen All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson of changes of address. Many copies of the Alumni Quarterly have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at the address on our files. all ^ GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Board of Directors R. Bruce Albert President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith Mrs. C. C. Housenick Harriet Carpenter Fred W. Diehl E. H. Nelson D. D. Wright Hervey B. Smith OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES Cumberland-Dauphin Counties — President Louise Downin Laubach, 317 North Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. C. W. Hoover, Enola, Pa.; Second Vice-President Blanche Miller Grimes, 204 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Secretary Helen Sutliff, 100 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Treasurer Howard M. Kreitzer, 120 Lincoln Street, Steelton, Pa. — — — — Lackawanna County — President Herbert S. Jones, 707 North Rebecca Avenue, Scranton, Pa.; Vice-President Thomas R. Rowland, 822 Richmont Street, Scranton, Pa.; Secretary Adeline Williams, 810 Archbald Street, Scranton, Pa.; Treasurer Lydia A. Bohn, 227 Stephen Avenue, Scranton, Pa. — — — Luzerne County Aurand, 162 South Washington Street, Wilkes-BarEdison Fischer, 30 Market Street, Glen re, Pa.; Vice-President Lyon, Pa.; Vice-President Alberta Nichols, 61 Lockhart Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Car- President —Edna — — — Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer 402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa. lisle Street, —Mrs. Lester Bennett, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 — Page Sixteen Montour County — — President Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.; Vice-President Nellie Bogai’t, Danville, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa. — Northumberland County — President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland, Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer S. Curtis Yocum, 925 Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa. — — Schuylkill County — — — President^ Orval Palsgrove, Frackville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray Leidich, 33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer, 113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; Vice- — President Anthony J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President Michael Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T. Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa. — — — — — Philadelphia — President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council Mary Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Secretaiy Lilhe Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden, N. J.; Treasurer Nora Woodring Kenney, 7011 Erdrick Street, Philadelphia, Pa. — — — Snyder-Union Counties — Harold Danowsky, R. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President Eugene Keefer, R. 1, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen Keller, Maple Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretai-y Mildred WagMrs. Harold Baker, Market ner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary President — Mifflinburg, grove, Pa. Street, Pa.; Treasurer — — — Anna Troutman, Selins- Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties —Fred Kester, Mill City, Pa.; Vice-President—Arlene JohnPa.; Vice-President — Susan Jennings Sturman. Tunkhannock, Pa.; Secretary — Catherine Bell, New Milford, Pa.; Secretary — Mildred Aveiy Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer— Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa. President son, Hallstead, Columbia County — — President A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-Pi'esident Mrs. Margaret Cole McCem, Benton, Pa.; Secretary Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa. — THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, Januai^, 1942 — Page Seventeen County Organization Notes The Cumberland-Dauphin held a fine meeting m the PennMonday, November 7. Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, on Luzerne County Monthly luncheons are held at the Hotel 2 30 on the first Saturday of each : Sterling, Wilkes-Barre, at month. No 1 1 : reservations are necessary. Montour County This is will hold the annual meeting always a splendid meeting. The Philadelphia Alumni are on ly in the spring. the job, as usual. luncheons are held at Strawbridge and Clothier’s. nual Christmas party The alumni of planning a reunion was a MonthThe an- success. Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties are in the spring. Columbia County will undoubtedly hold the annual din- ner at the College during the early spring. Lackawanna County has reported no activity for three We hope that such activities will soon be resumed. Of- years. should ficers . make plans for a spring meeting. Northumberland County has had no meeting for two We hope that a meeting can be arranged this year. years. Schuylkill County has been inactive for two years. about a reunion in the spring? Snyder-Union Counties should plan a meeting How for the early spring. Let’s get on the job, One good meeting officers, a year should and plan an active program. be the minimum goal. R. Bruce Albert, President, General Alumni Association. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 — Page Eighteen Philadelphia Alumni Association The eleventh Christmas party held Saturday, December was another fine Bloomsburg gathering of about 50, notwithstanding the inclement weather. It was the first time in eleven years the weather man treated us badly. We have always enjoyed what we call “Bloomsburg weather.” But what cared we for weather, when in that lovely meeting room on the sixth floor of the Strawbridge and Clothier store enjoying the hospitality of the S. and C. management? Our happiness was indeed coming from within, with our own “Uncle Ned” serving his Alma Mater again in his most gracious and able manner leading the carol singing. He gave a very delightful talk on Christmas and the origin of the Christmas Carols. We are indebted to the John Hancock Insurance Company for the lovely 1 3th, booklets of Carols. We had hoped to have with us Annie Miller Melick (85) of Swarthmore, and Margaret Burke (95) of New York City, but word was received from both that they found it quite impossible to get here, but promising “Providence permittin’ and the weather being fitten” they hoped to be with us Saturday, January 0th. Quite a number came from a distance. James Kinney (06) and his wife, Agnes Burke Kinney (08) drove down from Bethlehem. Bess Davis (97) Wilkes-Barre, and four of her classmates Jessie Gilchrist, of Atlantic City; Ruth Williams Henry, of Oak Lane; Eva and Grace Lawrence, of Narberth. A number from New Jersey, Wilmington and Norristown. We believe if the weather had been favorable we would have had a representation of 00. We would extend a cordial invitation to every member of our Alumni who may be in Philadelphia on the second Saturday of any month to drop in to our meeting room on the sixth floor of the Strawbridge and Clothier store and visit with us. 1 — 1 “Might as well be happy, Let’s take an hour or so Let’s mingle all together, And let THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, our friendship grow.” January, 1942 Page Nineteen In the face of be “God is j ! in the following He it it : The wrong will fail good will to man.” sleep. With peace on earth, PEACE—Was i and believe not dead, nor doth the right prevail. j the distressing happenings might all helpful to think of not — now? ever so dear as THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE BLOOMSBURG STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE ANNOUNCE THEIR SATURDAY MONTHLY LUNCHEON MEETINGS ! i i j — March 14th I February 14th ! j ! STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER ! PRIVATE DINING ROOM ! i SIXTH FLOOR ! ! ! visit the afternoon. anytime from 12:00, noon, to 5:30P.M., closing time. You may order These a cup of tea or a full course dinner. gatherings are delightfully informal. more than ever. enthusiastic, and friendly contacts today We need these a good May we have attendance ? Be interested and We talk May we have your without money. up these meetings. we cannot are purely a social group, but carry on dues as soon as possible? $1.00. Please send dues to Mrs. Nora Woodring Kenney, Treasurer, (’08), 701 1 Erdick Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, President (’88) 1 1 2 North 50th Street, Philadelphia, Penna. Mrs. Lillian Irish, 732 Washington Camden, N. J. Secretary (’06) Street, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY. January, 1942 Page Twenty Harrisburg Alumni The annual fall reunion of the Cumberland-Dauphin alumBloomsburg State Teachers College was held in the ni of the Plantation Room of the Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, November evening, I Monday 7. R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association, The song leader was Lemoyne. toastmaster. 1911, of was the Rev. C. Carroll Bailey, Dr. Francis B. Haas, Superintendent of Pubhc Instruction, was the guest speaker, and discussed “Education For National Defense.” He stressed the value of religious education and of the importance of the church in national defense and the main- tenance of democracy. H. A. Andruss, president of the College, congratulated the group for the the College. to their fine program and He extended an for its and loyalty invitation to all interest in alumni to return alma mater, particularly on Home-Coming and Alumni Days. H. F. Fenstemaker read some interesting items from the first ni issue of the “Quarterly,” published in 1894. present recalled The old alum- many memories suggested by the articles. 905 and Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of N. T. Englehart, 1 Instruction, brought greetings from the College. Alumni Day i I i Saturday, May 23rd I - — r-" r-- r Alumni ImunalB • • • 1879 Professor Charles H. Albert, one of the beloved “Old Guard” of the College, celebrated his eighty-third birthday Monday, September 22, and received congratulations from all The mail was heavy with greetings which came from sides. former students and friends throughout the country. 1882 Martha W. Vaughan died June 17, 1941, at her home, 1110 West Elm Street, Scranton. She taught for 49 years in the Scranton schools and retired in 93 A year following her retirement she suffered a fractured hip and from that time until her death, she was unable to walk. She never lost interest in Bloomsburg and attended alumni meetings and class reunions as long as she was able to do so. She was very happy in the fact that she lived to see three nieces and four grand-nieces become 1 members of the BSTC 1 . famliy. 1884 Miss College, Anna Dengler, a retired music supervisor at Smith and former music supervisor and resident of Shenan- doah, died Monday, September 29, at her home in Northampton, Mass. A year before her death, she had suffered a stroke of paralysis, which led to her death. Miss Dengler was born in Cressona, Pa., and moved to Shenandoah with her parents when she was a little girl. She was a graduate of the Shenandoah High School and of the Bloomsburg State Normal School. She was music supervisor in the Shenandoah schools for a number of years and in 1911 THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, Januaiy, 1942 Page Twenty-Two went to Newark, New same capacity. The Jersey, in the her teaching career was spent as supervisor She retired several years previous to in rest of Smith College. her death. 1885 Sarah E. Patterson (Mrs. Charles D. Harrison) is now liv5501 New Hampshire Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. ing at 1889 Mr. and Mrs. William G. Snyder, of Shamokin, observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary Sunday, November 9. 1890 Dr. William Clyde Schultz, Sr., died of nephritis at the Waynesboro Hospital Wednesday, October 29. Dr. Schultz had been suffering from arthritis for the past twenty years, and for several months before his death he had been confined to his home. He was born in Jerseytown, Columbia County, and spent his early life in Columbia County. After his graduation from Bloomsburg, he taught for two years, and then entered the Jefferson Medical College, where he was graduated in 1895. A short time afterward he began medical practice in Concord, Franklin County, and in 1899 he was married to Miss Cora E. Hockenberry. In 902 he moved to Waynesboro with his family, where he opened offices and continued the practice of medi1 cine until last year. Dr. Church. Schultz was a member of He belonged the to the Franklin Methodist Episcopal County Medical Society, of which he was a past president, and was chief of staff at the Waynesboro Hospital for three years. He was also a member of the Cumberland Valley Medical Association, Pennsylvania State Medical Association. fraternity consisted of His affiliations membership in the with the Masonic following bodies: Acacia Lodge, George Washington Chapter, Chambersburg, Knights Templar, Chambersburg, Harrisburg Council, and Zembo Shrine, Harrisburg. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Twenty-Three 1892 who worked as among mountaineers in the Carolinas Tuesday, November 23, at the home of her Miss Martha E. Robison, Burnsville, N. C., a Presbyterian missionary for 1 7 years, died Mrs. J. D. Butzner, sister, in Scranton, after a long illness. was one-time superand for 25 Union Junior Sunday School Quarterly, Miss Robison, native of Bloomsburg, intendent of rural Sunday schools in Pennsylvania was years editor of the Philadelphia. Miss Robison, daughter of James Boyd Robison, was born Bloomsburg, November 7, 1874. At the age of six she moved with the family to the Esther Furnace farm, where she spent much of her time building up a delicate physique. She possessed the deed to the farm when it was obtained from the Penn in 1 family. At the age of ten she returned to Bloomsburg, living there 1893, and then she resided in Espy until her father’s death. She was educated by her parents and knew the alphabet, it was said, at the age of two, learning to write at three. At six she could easily read anything shown her and for the next ten years spent much of her time in reading. She attended school until but little until sixteen years old. She was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal in 1892, one of the youngest members of a class of 96. Between 892 and 897 she taught four terms in the graded schools, one in Union County, one in Luzerne County and two in Espy. She then returned to school for a year and completed post-graduate work, receiving the B. P. degree in 898. She resumed teaching and from 902-04 was employed at Rohrsburg. In 1905-07 she taught in Cornwall, Lebanon County. School 1 1 1 1 1901 Miss Robison was elected superintendent of the of the County Sabbath School Association, in 906 added the duties of primary superintendent and in 907 left the Cornwall school and was recalled to Bloomsburg to become field secretary of the county association. She pioneered In Home Department 1 in this 1 work so well that in January, 1908, she worker of the state association and was given was made full THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, field charge of ColJanuary, 1942 Page Twenty-Four umbia, Montour, Northumberland, Union and Snyder Counties’ organizations along this line. November, 1913, the State Board of Directors created which she was made superintendent. She was affiliated with the Baptist Church. In the department of rural work, of 1893 Dr. W. Fowler Bucke, at one time acting principal of the Normal School at Geneseo, New York, and for seventeen years head of the Department of Education and Director of Teacher Training at that institution, died September 14, 1941, after an illness of several months, at his An educator home in Harrisburg. Bucke went to Normal from Harrisburg, where he had organized and headed the Harrisburg Technical High School, one of the first in the United States to institute trades and vocational training as an accompaniment to academic work. He previously had been head of the Department of Mathematics at Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown, New Jersey, apd principal of for nearly half a century. Dr. the Geneseo the high school at New While serving and became the Castle, Pa. at the first Geneseo Normal, Dr. Bucke founded director of the Craig Colony School of Ed- ucational Therapy, a department of the Geneseo school, for the training of teachers of mentally handicapped children. He was also instrumental in the inauguration of a course for the train- ing of library teachers. Prior to his retirement, he served as superintendent of the public schools of Collingswood, this tendents’ Association of the New Jersey. In connection with superintendency. Dr. Bucke was chairman of the Superin- Camden, New Camden County Teachers’ Jersey, and a member of Association. Bucke was the holder of two Doctor of Philosophy deHe was graduated from Bloomsburg in 1893, and from Dr. grees. 1895, subsequently receiving his A. M. institution. He then became a graduate student Dickinson College in from the latter Wooster University in Ohio, and completed a course in psychology and education. He took his second Ph. D. at Clark University as a resident scholar and fellow under Dr. G. Stanley at THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Twenty-Five who at that time was America’s outstanding psychologist. was an ordained minister of the Methodist Bucke Dr. Church, and was also a lecturer appearing before both religious and educational groups. He was a member of Geneseo Masonic Lodge, a past patron of Geneseo Eastern Star, a past master of Geneseo Grange, a member of the Rochester Consistory, of the Harrisburg Ministerium, and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Hall, 2410 North Second Street, check for the Student Loan Fund, she says “I wish you continued success in this grand and Mary E. Sullivan Gilmer lives at In a letter sending a Harrisburg. noble undertaking.” Miss Alice Fenner, of Allentown, in is spending the winter San Diego, California. 1894 The Rev. Jonathan W. Buck, husband of Minnie Hehl Buck, died at his home in Bloomsburg, Friday, September 5. Mr. Buck attended the country school at Roaring Creek, the Catawissa High School, the Bloomsburg State Normal School, Palatinate College, the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church of the United States at Lancaster, and was graduated from the latter institution May 4, 896. In the summer of 896 he was ordained by a committee from the East Susquehanna Classis, and he was instrumental in the organization of Christ Reformed Church at McAdoo. 1 1 1 Buck resigned beand later accepted a position with Dodd Mead and Company, New York. His work took him over the greater paft of the country. Seven years was spent in California, Arizona and New Mexico. In 1928 he returned to Following a successful pastorate, Mr. cause of ill health, Bloomsburg. Mr. Buck was of old colonial ancestry, being descended from Simon Dreisbach, Jr., who was a member of the constitutional convention which in 789 ratified the Constitution of the United States, and who was one of the signers of the Con1 stitution of Pennsylvania. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Twenty-Six 1897 Clarence E. Kreisher, Judge of the courts of the twentysixth judicial district of Pennsylvania, died in Geisinger the Wednesday, September 24. Death terminated one of the most brilliant legal careers in the judicial district in which he was a prominent attorney for forty years, and over which he presided as judge since May 22, Hospital, Danville, 1940. judge Kreisher, eighth jurist to preside over the several now constituted, Montour Counties, was the within the last year and a half. third of the courts of the twenty-sixth judicial district as including Columbia and eight to die Judge Clinton Herring, of Orangeville, died m office March 940, and Judge Kreisher was appointed by Governor James to serve until the first Monday of January, 1942. Judge 22, 1 who Charles C. Evans, years and retired in presided over the courts for twenty-four January, 1938, died at his home in Berwick July 20, 1941. Judge Kreisher received his appointment May 20, 1940, and was administered the oath of office two days later. In the year and four months during which he presided over the courts, he attained as jurist the same high place which he had as a '' practicing lawyer. He was the son of the late George and Mary Bahme Kreishand was born in Cleveland Township, Columbia County, on the 26th of March, 1874. As a youth he attended the old Furnace school house in Cleveland Township, and later studied at the Bloomsburg State Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1897. He was the speaker, at the Alumni Banquet last May, and delivered a fine address. er, For ied law. six years, he taught school and He was admitted was later trict courts. to practice in at the same time September, 1 900. stud- He admitted to practice law before the appellate courts of the state, and to the United States Supreme Court and dis- He served as solicitor for practically all the civic bodies THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, .January, 1942 fage Twenty-Seven South Side of Columbia County. He was president of the Catawissa borough council three years, and served for a long in the time as its solicitor, a position he held at the time of his ap- pointment to the bench. As a member of the St. John’s Lutheran Church of CataJudge Kreisher was active in the congregation, serving years on the church council, and was for a long time chair- wissa, for man of the church finance committee. Fraternally he was a member of the Catawissa Lodge 349, A. M., the Tyrian Club, Caldwell Consistory, Irem Temple Shrine, and the Catawissa Lodge of Odd Fellows. F. & He organized the Catawissa branch of the Bloomsburg Chapter of the American Red Cross, and from its inception served as its president and untiringly gave his services. Through the first World War he was attorney for the County Draft Board. He was a charter member of the Catawissa Rotary Club and the first president of that organization. Twice during he was the Republican candidate 1937, he was the Republican canthe election in which Judge Herring was his career for the State Legislature. didate for judge in In elected. He was one whose work carried through long hours. Those who have been associated with him for years estimated that he has transferred all the property on the South Side of Columbia County at least three times in his extensive practice. In the years during which he has served as an attorney, those who came to him were more than clients. Nothing was too much to do for any in need, and that spirit of helpfulness also characterized his service on the bench. 1895 Ada G. Lewis (Mrs. B. F. Beale) lives at 908 High Street, Duncannon. 1898 Miss Mary Smith Knapp, of Bloomsburg, died at the Bloomsburg Hospital Tuesday, October 22, after an illness of four weeks. Miss Knapp taught for four years in the Blooms- THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, Januai-y, 1942 P.nge Twenty -Eight burg High School, and for ter, New York. When thirty years was a teacher in Roches- she retired five years ago, she returned Bloomsburg, her native town. She was active in sports in her school days, and was recognized as an outstanding athlete at the Normal School. Her interest in sports continued after her graduation, and in Rochester a boys’ baseball team was named in her honor. She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Bloomsburg. and an associate of the Girls’ Friendly Society in one of the Episcopal churches in Rochester. to live in 1899 Harry Yearick 2419 Herr lives at Street, Pennbrook. 1900 Mr. and Mrs. William B. •Mrs. Miles Killmer, of recently visited Mr. Sutliff New York City, at the Killmer’s and summer home. Cove Point Farm, on Chesepeake Bay. Mr. Killmer is a graduate of Bloomsburg in the class of 1900. After leaving Bloomsburg, he entered the Pennsylvania State College, and was graduated as an engineer. He was construction engineer and the Lincoln Tunnel, and is now chief water supply project in upper New York state. At present he is vice-president of a construction company which has many government defense contracts. His firm is now working on a vehicular tunnel from the Battery, New York, to Govof the Holland Tunnel en.gineer of the ernor’s Island. 1901 Augusta B. Henkelman Street, Bethesda, Maryland. is now living at 114 Southwick 1902 November Wilkes-Barre schools for 8, at his home, 85 East on the Conyngham Farm, near Harry Wildnck, instructor many years, died Saturday, Vaughan Street, Kingston. Mr. Wildrick was born Dallas. in the In addition to being a graduate from Bloomsburg, Mr. Wildrick was a graduate of the Lancaster Business and Short- THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Twenty-Nine hand School and of the Zaner School of Penmanship. He began Lehman school in the fall From 1914 to 1916 Mr. of 1909, and served until 1914. Wildrick was principal of the Conyngham School in Wilkeshis teaching career as principal of the Barre, and later served as supervisor of penmanship in the elementary grades of the city schools. He had been a resident of Kingston for the past twentyHe five years, and was widely known and highly respected. was a member of the Dorranceton Methodist Church and of the Masonic Lodge at Dallas. 1903 Among names of those members of the Class of 903 whose addresses were requested was the name of Kathryne V. James. Her sister, Martha V. James, has informed us that Miss James passed away in 1928. the 1 1904 Womeldorf (Mrs. A. D. Bentz) Effie lives at 1547 West Princess Street, York, Pa. 1907 Miss Mary were married at Annapolis, The bride has taught Since in Scott Township 22 years. been teaching second grade in the Scott Township 930, she has 22. 1 and Fred C. Colyer, of York, Maryland, on Monday. September E. Hess, of Espy, Consolidated School. Mr. Colyer His former Colyer are is chef at Rest Cottage in York. home was in Milheim, Center County. Mr. and Mrs. now living at 924 Wood and Tioga Streets, Lincoln Village, York. Martha V. James 1908 1110 West Elm lives at Street, Scranton. 1911 Mrs. Jennie Whitmire Helt has been elected teacher of second grade in the Berwick schools. 1913 The address of Olive R. Breisch has been changed to 5347 College Avenue, Apt. 302, Indianapolis, Indiana. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Thirtj’ Mae M. Bymgton New York. is now living at 1 3 Euclid Avenue, Bing- hamton, 1915 who lives at Great Hill, Seymour, two more books for children. Her book “Story-Lives of Great Composers,” was published in September, and her third book “The Birth of a Nation’s Song,” will be published by Stokes in February. Mrs. Bakeless expects to spend the winter with her husnbad, John Bakeless, who is now starting his second year’s service on the General Staff Corps in Washington. Mr. Bakeless’ two-volume work on Marlowe, on which he has put many years of research, is now being printed by the Harvard University Katherine Little Bakeless, R. D. 2, Connecticut, has written Press. Zimmerman has changed her address Lillian to 1613 Har- vard Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Mrs. Harlan Snyder (Lois grade in MacLoughan) is teaching second the schools of Catawissa. Edith May Saricks lives at 933 Birbeck Street, Freeland, Pa. 1916 been changed from 25 Wampatuck Road, Quincy, Massachussetts, to 4601 Harvard Road, College Park, Maryland. The address of Olive Simons Burrus has 1917 The address New York City. of Lillian H. Rifkin is 30 East 39th Street, 1919 Mane Guckavan West Broad (Mrs. William Turnbach) lives at 423 Street, Hazleton, Pa. 1921 J. E. died at his Reese Killgore, husband of Edith O’Neill Killgore, home near Stroudsburg, Wednesday, September 24. Mr. Killgore was widely known throughout THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 the state as an edu- , Page Thirty-One having served eight years as superintendent of the schools At the time of his death he was president of the Board of Trustees of the State Teachers College at East cator,, of Sullivan County. Stroudsburg. in Muncy, June 27, 1874, the son of and Mrs. Anna M. Killgore. His father was principal of New Columbus Academy and a pastor of the Shickshinny Methodist Church for years. Mr. Killgore was born the late Rev. James L. At an early age, Mr. Killgore went College and at the age of 1 8 came to to Western Maryland New Columbus Academy He became principal Academy in 892 and taught at the Academy for two years. The Academy was then purchased by the local school board and Mr. Killgore became its principal. to assist his father as assistant principal. of the 1 In 1897 he became principal of the schools at Lopez and 1902 he became principal at Dushore. In January, 1905, Mr. Killgore succeeded the late M. R. Black as County Superintendent of Sullivan County schools and was elected to that post in April of the same year. He was re-elected m 908 and 1911, resigning from the position in 1913. in 1 That year he became associated with Ginn and Company its most valuable employes. and soon became one of Mr. Killgore was a F. & member of King Hiram Lodge, No. 721 A. M., at Wilkes-Barre. He was also a member of the Stroudsburg Kiwanis Club, and valued as a member of that organization. He was also an active worker and director of the Monroe County Tuberculosis Society. When he died he was following his profession as represenGinn and Company, publishers of school and college textbooks. In this position he traveled all over northeastern Pennsylvania and was widely recognized as an outstanding authority on school textbooks of all types. tative of Ralph G. Shuman, of Elysburg, has been elected head of the mathematics department and director of athletics in the Paradise High School in Lancaster County. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY. January, 1942 Page Thirty-Two 1923 Marjorie Gamble (Mrs. sade Road, Linden, New J. 229 Pali- 530 East Jefferson Drive, Mt. Paul Walker) lives at Jersey. 1924 Mary Dowd (Mrs. Harry F. Deiterich) lives at Third Street, Bloomsburg. 1927 / Myra L. Thomas is now living at 394 Lebanon, Pa. 1928 Miss Eleanor Sands, formerly of Benton, and Ronald Leary Smith, of Albion, in the home New York, were married Sunday, October of the bride’s mother in 1 2, Benton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Louis V. Barber, pastor of the Benton Presbyterian Church. Only the members of the two families and a few frends were present. The bride is a member of the faculty of the Brockdale School in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and is an active member of the Poetry Society of America. For the past three years, she has been editor of Unicorn, a magazine of poetry. Mr. Smith studied at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and for the past inet-making business. few years has conducted his own cabMr. and Mrs. Smith are now living in Bloomfield. The address of Hugh E. Van Aerman is R. D. 1, Dauphin, Pa. 1929 Louise Roushey, of Shavertown, has been appointed director of the Columbia County Girl Scout Council. has taught for the past twelve years in the Miss Roushey Kingston Township Her education in Girl Scout work was received at Edith Macy, to which she received a regional scholarship She was graduated from a professional course which in 1937. qualified her to hold a director’s position. She served for six years as unit leader at Camp Onandawah, and one year at Camp Moseywood. schools. Camp THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Thirty -Three who has been teaching at Factoryville for the been elected teacher of English and Latin past eight years, has Mary Laird, at Mifflinville. Erma Gold is teaching in the Junior High School at LewisShe is president of the Susquehanna Valley Branch of the American Association of University Women. burg. Rachel Gething, of Nanticoke, and Cyril Powell, of Youngstown, Ohio, were married Monday, June 2, in the Calvary Baptist Church at Youngstown. 1930 Dorothy M. Foote, formerly of Bloomsburg, and John Pihlblad, of Jamestown, New York, were married Saturday, September 6, in the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg. Mrs. Pihlblad has been director of Girl Scouts in Jamestown, where Mr. Pihlblad is a municipal employee. Raymond Hodges mond, lives at 901 West Franklin Street, Rich- Virginia. Samuel W. Kurtz, who has been supervisor of music in Bloomsburg since 1935, has been elected to a similar position in the schools of Stroudsburg, Pa. 1931 William Weaver, who has been teaching in the Madison High School at Jerseytown, has been elected teacher of mathematics and social studies in the Scott Township High School at Espy. 1932 Miss Harriet Styer, of Bloomsburg, and Ariel Charles Boop, of Glen Iron, were married Saturday, September 27, at Petersburg, Virginia. Dushore and School. is now Mr. Boop Battalion at Camp is Mrs. Boop taught teaching now in the for several years at Mainville Consolidated stationed with the Medical Training Lee, Virginia. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Ridge, and Ezra W. Harris, of Center Betty Jones, of Lime THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Thirty-Four Township, Columbia County. Ridge, and Mr. Harris is Miss Jones is teacher in the a teaching at Lime Township Center High School. H. Edmond Smith school at Fallsington, has been elected principal of the high Mr. Smith has been a teacher or Pa. science and mathematics at the Fallsington High School for the past SIX years. 1933 Margaret R. Sandbrook (Mrs. K. Everett Avenue, Akron, Ohio. E. Bristol) at 50 named to lives 1934 James A. Gennaria, of Bloomsburg, has been the faculty of the high school at was Newtown, Pa. Mr. Gennaria for seven years a teacher in Center Township, and for the member of the faculty of the Center Last summer he spent several months in past five years has been a Township High School. the army, being stationed discharged at Fort when Congress passed Knox, Kentucky, and was the law setting the age limit for service at twenty-eight. At Newtown, Mr. Gennaria succeeds another Bloomsburg Kenneth Merrill, who is now teaching in the high school at Palmyra, New Jersey. graduate, Miss Delphme White, and Alfred Vandhng, Wednesday, June 25, at Cumber- of Nescopeck, of Mifflinville, were married Mrs. Vandling is a graduate of Bucknell Unian English teacher in the Nescopeck High School. She received her Master’s degree from Bucknell. Mr. Vandling, also a member of the Nescopeck High School faculty, has a Master’s degree from New York University. land, Maryland. versity and IS Anna A. Edwards, of Frackville, and John R. Lindwere married Thursday, November 27, in the Methodist Church at Frackville. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Ward K. Shultz, pastor of the church. Mrs. Lindermuth has been teaching in the second grade in the schools of Frackville. Mr. Lindermuth is manager of the Bowe Miss ermuth, also of Frackville, Service Station in Frackville. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY. .January, 1942 Page Thirty-Five Irene Giger (Mrs. James Milroy) lives on Light Street Road, Bloomsburg. 1935 Gerald C. Harter lives at Apartment 1 Darby Court Apart- , ments, Darby, Pa. 1936 Rachel D. Beck and Kenneth R. Malick, both of Sunbury, were married Friday, July Sunbury. Mr. Malick has been Curtis Publishing Company. district sales He is now Infantry. ta school in Mrs. Malick is distributor for the stationed at N. Y., with the headquarters detachment. Armored Methodist Church, John’s 4, in St. Second Camp Pine, Battalion,, 51st principal of the Fort Augus- Sunbury. Kenneth Merrill, formerly a teacher at Turbotville, has accepted a position as teacher of science in the high school at Palmyra, New Jersey. 1937 Miss Betty E. Thomas, of Jermyn, and Robert T. Fadden, were married Saturday, May 24, in Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Fadden attended the State Teachers College at Bloomsburg and was a member of the faculty of the Henry Drinker School at Moscow. Mr. Fadden, a graduate of the University of Scranton, is employed by the Glenn L. Martin Company, at Baltimore. They are now living at 1310 Wilson Point Road, Stansburg Esof Blakely, tates, Middle River, Maryland. Victoria Muskaloon, of Peckville, and Luther R. Hower, of November 14, in St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Annapolis. Mrs. Hower is teacher of commercial subjects in the Osceola Mills High School, and Mr. Hower is Espy, were married Friday, stationed in office headquarters in the Amanda Jean Walsh New York City. is living camp at at New Cumberland, 255 West 108th Street. The address of Ray G. Schrope has been changed to 65 North Sanford Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 : Page Thirty-Six Robert Goodman mg. N. Y. lives at 229 West Second Street, Corn- 1938 Sheldon C. Jones is with the Lago Oil and Transport Com- pany, Limited, and is located at Aruba, Curacao. letter Mr. J ones states In a recent ‘Things are really going full blast down this way. This refinery, the largest capacity refinery in the world, together with the others, is draining all local sources of man power to meet the demands for the vai'ious refined You have probably read of the tanker short- products. and my working in the Mai’ine Department opened eyes to the speed which can be had by all departments working together. Before the war, a tanker v/ould sit around the harbor and anchor on the reef for days, but now they are brought into the dock as soon as a berth is available, loaded, and sent right out without moi'e than a few minutes of wasted time. “While the American consular agent in Ai'uba was in the States on vacation, I was appointed Acting Consular Agent, and got a big thrill out of it. It sort of inflated the old ego to get these formal letters from the State age, my Department.” Miss Marjorie Beaver, of Danville, and Jacob Morrison, formerly of Danville, were ployed Light in Mrs. Sunday, October 5, State College, Morrison, Mr. employed is at Morrison had been em- the Danville office of the Pennsylvania Company. Company married Delaware County. Springfield, a graduate Power and of Pennsylvania as a chemist with the Crucible Steel at Midland, Pa. Charles H. Henrie has been appointed teacher-coordinator of Distributive Education at York, and began his new duties Mr. Henrie has been occupying a simi- Monday, December lar position in the 1 . schools of ware, and formerly taught in Georgetown and Milford, DelaManor High School at Millers- the ville. Neil Ritchie where he is is at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, training as a flying cadet. Mr. Ritchie took the flying course at Bloomsburg. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 CAA Page Thirty-Seven Ann Fawcett Campbell lives at 520 North 8th Street, Sel- insgrove. Laubach (Mrs. James Webster) Watsontown, Pa. Lois Street, Philip Frankmore lives at 303J/2 lives on West First Lingle Street, Osceola Mills. Pa. Anna M. Malloy is Dominick Angelo living in Moodus, Connecticut. lives at Pardeesvilie, Pa. Jean Capwell’s address is Box 154, Factoryville, Pa. 1939 Bloomsburg, and Alfred P. Koch, of Shenandoah, were married Saturday, June 21, in the Presbyterian Church of Iowa City, Iowa. Mrs. Koch has been teaching in the Portland High School, and has attended the University of Iowa. Mr. Koch has a Master’s degree from Bucknell, and has attended the University of Iowa. He taught for a short time last year in the Camp Hill High School, and then became a Lois Farmer, of member this of the faculty of West Virginia University, and has for year accepted a position at Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio. Betty Savage, of Berwick, and W. Hope Penman, of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, June 14, at Charleston, West Virginia. For the past two years, Mrs. Penman has been teaching at Mifflinville. Mr. Penman is Field Scout Executive for the Charleston Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. Martha Wright, who has been serving as Girl Scout execuColumbia County, has been appointed head of the Cayuga County Girl Scout Council, with headquarters at Audubon. tive in New York. Leonard Bailik, of Duryea, and Miss Elizabeth Evans, of Bloomsburg,, were married Saturday, August 23, at St. Columba’s Church, Bloo-msburg. Mr. Barlik is a member of the faculty of the Duryea High School. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, .January, 1942 Page Thirty Eight Lucille Adams, of New York City, formerly of Berwick, and Waldemar P. Ruemmler, of St. Louis, Missouri, were married in November at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church in New York. They are now living at 7126 Clyde Avenue, Chicago, 111. Margaret Allen Jones, of Kingston, and Sterling of Luzerne, have announced their recent marriage. J. Banta, Mr. Banta is a teacher at Hunlock Creek. John Mondschine, whose address was 127 South Fifth been reported as deceased. The Editor regrets that he has not been able to learn any of the details concerning Mr. Mondschine’s death. Street, Coplay, Pa., has The address of William Yarworth is Private William J. Yarworth, Hq. and Hq. Squadron, 38th Air Base Group, New Orleans Air Base, New Orleans, Louisiana. Lucille E. Adams W. (Mrs. Clyde Avenue, Chicago, P. Ruemmler) lives at 7126 Illinois. Anna L. Orner is teaching Summer Street. in York, Pa. Her address 31 is North Paul A. Paulhamus is teaching in the high school at Mill City, Pa. Martha G. Wright lives at Robert R. Williams lives at Willard Davies lives at Harold Coblentz Letha Hummel is is 25 South Street, 365 Elmira Auburn, N. Y. Street, Troy, Pa. 436 Card Avenue, Wilmerding, Pa. teaching at Collingdale, Pa. teaching at Marietta, Pa. 1940 Cadet Victor Turini, of Wyoming, was killed Monday, October 27, in an airplane accident at Lee Field, Green Cove Springs, an auxiliary to the United States Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida. According to naval authorities, Mr. Turini THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 and his instruc- Page Thirty -Nine landed their plane after a test flight, and wej-e toward the hangars., when a plane taxied behind. Officials at the field claimed that warnfrom into them the men, but because of the noise of shouts were given to ing tor had walking just off the field other plane motors around the The instructor was hit field, they were unable to hear. by the wing and escaped with minor in- juries. Corps upon graduation With his previous CAA training course at the College, he advanced rapidly and received his wings two weeks before his death. He was scheduled to receive his commission in December as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve Air Corps. Mr. Turini entered the Naval Air from Bloomsburg last spring in College, he was well liked by all members body and the faculty. He served on the College newspaper, first as make-up editor and during his Senior year as Editor-in-Chief. He was president of the Poetry Club and was a member of Kappa Delta Pi, national honorary fraternity. The body was brought to Wyoming for burial and funeral services were held at the home of his parents, Saturday, Novem- While he was of the student ber 1. Announcement has been made of Louise Moyer, of Briar Creek, and Earl the marriage of Miss W. Houck, of Berwick. The ceremony was performed Monday, July 7, at Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Houck was employed during the past year at the Berwick Bank. He is now stationed at the New Orleans Army Air Base in Louisiana. Robert Zimmerman, of Nuremberg, and Miss Betty Mummey, of Weston, were married Saturday, August 16, in the Sacred Heart Church, Weston. Mr. Zimmerman is employed by the Bethlehem Steel Company. Theodore R. Parsell lives at 101 South Furnace Street, Birdsboro, Pa. Charles L. Kelchner’s address Washington, D. is 1715 18th Street, N. W., C. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, January, 1942 Page Forty Vivian Frey Hill, Pa. ark, New Edward living is 108 at H. Bacon’s address North 23rd Street, 725 is Clifton Camp Avenue, New- Jersey. John Plevyak teaching is in the Mt. St. Joseph High School, Baltimore, Maryland. 1941 Gene Sharkey lives 35 at Randolph Avenue, Meriden, Connecticut. Dorothy Albertson, of Espy, and Howard B. Wodock, of were married Saturday, October 25, in Frankfort, Indiana. Mr. Wodock was graduated from the Pennsylvania State College in the class of 1940. He is a member of Theta Ch.i fraternity. For the past year he has been employed in the engineering department of the Nickle Plate Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Wodock are now living at 1897 West 48th Street, Apt. 10, Orangeville, Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Marie Parsell, of Orangeville, has been elected permanent teacher in the Center Township High School. Miss Parsell replaces James Gennaria, of Bloomsburg, who has been elected to a position in the high school at Newtown, Pa. Charlotte Gearhart (Mrs. Charles R. Bakey, at 2570 Jr.) is living University Place, N. W., Washington, D. C. Dan Bonham is teaching and coaching basketball in the high school at North Coventry, Pa. The address of Leo J. Lehman is Box 395, Collins, Georgia. Thurwald Gommer’s address is 1711 in the 18th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Joseph Hudock is teaching Marlborough, New York. Ruth Broadbeck lives at THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, Marlborough School, 414 Robinson .January. 1942 Street, Pitcairn, Pa. •*% Basketball Schedule Season of 1941-42 —Alumni January 10— Lock Haven January 16— —Shippensburg January December 13 Millersville 1 7 — January 30—Shippensburg — January —Lock Haven — February — — 27— January 23 31 Mansfield Millersville February 7 Home Home Home Home Home Away Away Away East Stroudsburg Home Mansfield Away February 21 East Stroudsburg Away February ^West Chester Home February 13 14 Soak! ^topl StHtPo! Alumni Objectives I ® : ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 3000 Send check H. Nelson, Business Manager, for $1.00 to Dr. E. Bloomsbui-g, Penna. YOU WILL WANT THE ALUMNI DI- RECTORY. j : i : EVERY MEMBER A REPORTER FOR THE QUARTERLY. Send news items ; Fenstemaker, Editor, Bloomsburg, • A COMPLETE ALUMNI DIRECTORY TO BE PUBLISHED I to Mr. H. F. Penna. | IN THE QUARTERLY. STARTING WITH THE APRIL. ISSUE, 1939, NOTIFY US OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME OR AD- DRESS. checks to Mr. D. D. Wright, Treasui'er, Bloomsburg, Penna. \ I \ ; • • ALUMNI ON THE CAMPUS FOR ALUMNI DAY. Come 1000 i ; EVERY GRADUATE AND FRIEND OF ELOO?/ISBURG CONTRIBUTING SOiMETKING TO THE CENTENNIAL STUDENT LOAN FUND. DO YOUR PART. WE NEED THE HELP OF EVERY GRADUATE. Send j back for Alumni Day. Enjoy the fine program. See the new buildings. Shake hands with your cla.'.smates and friends. j I ; • A limited number of Dormitory Rooms for .\lumni guests of the College will be available and order of application to the Dean of Men. will be reserved in the Women and the Dean of I ; riii SklUMMi QUAKf iRLY State Teachers College Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania O Volume ^o^Uu-^luiee /\lumLe^ All Aluifuii Once more your Alma Mater is calling, “Come Home.” May 23, is Alumni Day for the graduates and friends of “Old Bloomsburg.” Plan now to spend the day among your classmates and friends on the Hill. Saturday, Classes with numerals ending in two and seven will have These classes are making preparaCommittees are working. They want to see you on the campus. An interesting program is being arranged for your pleasure and entertainment. “Come Home.” their reunions this year. tions. Enjoy your alumni. class reunion and attend the meeting for all Witness the dedication of the new gymnasium. Visit the airport. Attend the luncheon, banquet, and dance- Maybe There will be something baseball and tennis will interest you. doing all If the tim.e. the tires are ragged and woin. use the train or bus. the event that these are not available, we would In suggest the old gray mare, a wheel barrow, Kiddie-Car, or roller skates. “Keep ’em rollin’ ” until you arrive Carver Hall. at Sincerely yoixrs. BRUCE ALBERT. R. 4. t* * J ; I THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY Vol. 43~No. 2 i , . I I. , , - II - - I. + a Published by the Alumni Assoriation of the State Teachers College. Blooms- \ burg. Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter. July 1. 1909, at the Post Office j Published Four Times . .at Bloomsburg, Pa.. Under tlie Act of July 16, 1804. a Tear. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 Cents. ; H. F. FENSTEMAKER, '12 . EDITOR! . : April, 1942* E. H. NELSON, ’ll . . . . . . . BUSINESS MANAGER \ Page One <^04 ^ecuUt ? Mcuuf. //- A Ten Year Study of the Placement of Graduates HARVEY By ANDRUSS, A. How Many Find Positions ? Facts foretell the future. or flounder in our own President Without them inability to we estimate, guess answer questions. Too many times the attempt to answer the query: “How many graduates find positions ?” merely serves the questioner. Investigating committees from legislative bod- ies demand seek to find the propriations may to awaken doubts in the mind of for teachers in order that future ap- be increased or decreased according to the need which then exists. All too frequently, teacher education institutions do not take a comprehensive or long-time point of view. The its college must follow the graduate as an individual, for alumni are its greatest asset. To look at all its graduates every decade or so forms a basis for long term planning by the college sending young people out into the profession of teach- ing. All of these considerations and many more caused State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, to on a study of all graduates upon which the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education has of 1931 and 1940 been conferred between the years inclusive. How Long The the embark a Period Should be Studied ? and be covered should be long enough to include economic ups and downs and legislation as effects changing certification standards, tenure status, etc. From 1931 to 1940 is a period which includes a depression, an economic recovery, and a pre-war period. This history of the institution determines the nature length of a study of its graduates. The period to THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Two decade seems to include more different and types of kinds changes than any other decade in the history of the college. Other local facts also color the selection of a period. The was empowered to grant degrees in the fields of Elementary and Secondary Education in 1927. Students graduating from 1931 were not products of the four-year curriculum, but represent two years of additional work completed by normal school graduates of the two year certificate curriculums which had been in force since 920 and before. The Business Education Curriculum was approved in 1930, thus the class of 1934 represents the first group of commercial teachers completing all their work at State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 1 Bloomsburg. Is It would seem the Situation Typical? that a teachers college educating element- ary and secondary teachers which also has a special department commercial teachers represents a situation which cross-cuts from kindergarten through the elementary grades to the junior and senior high school. In Pennsylvania for the school system there are thirteen similar state institutions educating teachers loi grade and high schools and two others ness education. in the field of busi- In addition to the state teachers colleges, there are over sixty private, semi-private, semi-public, and institutions of higher learning, the large majority of engaged in questionnaire including the Situation letter of 1 ,025 degree graduates. The return from the ing indicated that about the form and return it 70 per cent took the trouble in a prepaid envelope. was page and transmittal carefully constructed so as to be multigraphed on one sent to which are teacher education. The Bloomsburg A endowed A first to mail- fill out yellow pep first follow-up was attached to the same quesand was followed by a second with red card attached. The two follow-ups brought in over a hundred more, llien the files of the Placement Bureau Service were carefully searched by the Director of Placement Service to supplement paragraph as a tionnaire-letter THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Three questionnaire information previously elicited. Two unique ideas had to be developed reaching the remaining graduates. Several ulty who had wide in the process of members of the fac- student acquaintances wrote personal notes Finally the idea of sending the question- on the questionnaire. naire to the parents brought in the remainder. All of the tables 1 ,025 graduates were reached save eight. shown hereafter include riving so late they could not all but eleven, the The three ar- last be included. The questionnaire follows: To Bloomsburg Graduates: State Teachers Colleges are being judged solely in terms of the number of graduates placed. This number determin- is ed a few months after the Spring Commencement. Such ures do not reflect the positions secured after that time. fig- THE COLLEGE DESIRES TO FIND OUT MANY OF ITS GRADUATES HAVE TAUGHT AT ANY TIME DURING THE PAST TEN YEARS OR HAVE ENGAGED IN ANY OTHER OCCUPATION. Will you please aid your Alma Mater by spaces below and returning envelope. (Postage already paid). This the blank filling in this circular to us in the enclosed information will be treated as confidential and will aid us in promoting the educational interests of the College in the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- vania. Your cooperation will be deeply appreciated, and we ex- tend to you the heartiest greetings of your Very H. A. Name Alma Mater. cordially yours, ANDRUSS, President. . Married women please give Maiden and Married Name Address Street City State (1) Please check Curriculum completed: (2) Elementary ( ) Secondary ( ) Business ( ) Please indicate fields of certification completed at Bloomsburg: THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Four Secondary Elementary ( ) ) English Latin ( ) French ( ) Science ( ) ( ) Kind.-Pri. ( ) Inter. ( Rural ( ) Special ( ) Business Education Commercial Subjects ( Mathematics Geography ) List Other Fields (3) ( ) Soc. Studies ( ) Speech ( ) Have you ever been regularly employed ( How Yes ) where you have answered “yes” long? as a Teacher? ( ) Years. If so, (4) If to (3), please check the grade and / or write subjects taught: Elementary School ( ) 1, ( 2, ) ( ) 3, ) 9. ( ) 4, ) ( 5, ( ) 6, ( ) 7, ( ) 8 Junior High School 7, ) ( ( 8, ) ( Subjects Senior High School ( (5) If ) 10, ( ) 11, ( ) 12. Subjects you have been otherwise employed, or married, please indi- cate here Annual Salary For Last Year Date $ Would Sampling Have Produced 19_._ the Same Sampling may have produced the same the college wanted to get in touch with all its Results? results. However, graduates not only from the point of view of getting information but to complete its alumni mailing lists. Even though they had long been placed m good positions, the tie between the alma mater and its children was thusTrenewed or further cemented. There is reason to believe that a 60 per cent sampling does not disclose the facts VQived. all when matters of personal nature are in- Salaries are a case in point. A person who answers the questions but the one involving salary gives rise to the suspicion that there is something that he does not wish to tell. Thus the salaries of the graduates of the secondary curriculum who did not enter the teaching profession are probably not a THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Five sound basis for drawing conclusions. shown figure for their earnings as clusions should not be in Over one half gave the a later analysis, but con- based on these figures without careful reservations. Sampling cannot produce the same accuracy of results as found in a study where information is available for 99 out of every 100 who answered the greater part of a list of questhat tions. How Many Graduates Answered ? Out of ,025 graduates, the questionnaires were returned by 846 and the placement records were used for 168 others 1 who did not answer. As the study progressed the whole faculty became F. B. I. operators in trying to find out the latest address of former students. College classes were interrogated to about former students from the same town. the tentative results elicit information From time were the subject of general faculty to time discus- and comment. Without the general direction of Mr. Earl N. Rhodes, Director of Teacher Training and Placement, and the cooperation of the college and laboratory school faculties, the high percentage of replies and information would not have been possible. Such a college quest becomes a witch hunt for former students. sion The Framing Care was taken in dense the questions to of the Questionnaire constructing the less than a page. list of questions to con- Writing was kept to a minimum. To get the FACTS rather than frame the questions to get some fancy FIGURES to publicize was the prime concern. Thus care was taken to find if those who had married had ever taught. Further, the substitute teachers were separated rather than lumped in with the regularly employed teacher. Too many studies have included married women who have never taught in the category with gainfully employed graduates who ing.” are in occupations cleverly phrased as “other than teach- Too many substitutes employed for short periods of time are counted in with other teachers. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Six Another consideration affecting the construction of the was the agreement signed by students in Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges to teach two years in lieu of tuition, dhe average length of service found was six years. It should also be noted that substitute teachers in Pennsylvania must be certified the same as regular teachers, thus to a degree they stand ready as a reserve to supply the Commonquestions wealth. This reserve is now (1942) Time Element Beginning in mately two years. exhausted. in Study 1940, the study was continued for approxiSince 1941 graduates were affected by de- fense activities leading to World War II, they were not included. war period. to the following were mailed previous years. Upon being This avoids the distortion sure to result from the Each year postal cards to the classes similar graduating the three returned, these cards were placed in the placement folder kept Individually, the college knew whether or not David Williams or Sarah Smith had a position in teaching or in another occupation, but no one knew how many Davids and Sarahs were available for teaching positions. of each student. SAMPLE OF POST CARD FORM Name Home Address Please supply the following information: Year If of now Curriculum Graduation teaching, give Grade or Subject Teaching Address If employed otherwise, type Do you to of work Are you willing desire a teaching posiiton accept a position in any locality? * Selective *Added Service Act Status since 1940. The placement folders might THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, contain as April, 1942 many as three Page Seven postal cards or in none made each folder, at Yet the correspondence, and cards all. it possible for information to be obtained supplement the questionnaire study. To summarize, two years intensive questionnaire circularizing and ten years of postal card circularizing made these reto sults possible. Changing Demands Variations in demands for teachers are noted in the years as follows: Degree Graduates Year 1931 1932 1933 ___ 1934 1935 ____ _ 1936 _ 1937 1938 _ 1939 _ 1940 _ 45—100% 60—100% 81—100% 105—100% - - .. , _ 95—100% 99—100% 134—100% ___ 141—100% _152— 100% . _ . The graduation lor of of a first Other Occupations 73% 82% 69% 77% 83% 85% 85% 72% 80% 69% __113— 100% . _ Teachers 16% 15% 21% 15% 12% 12% 14% 21% 12% 15% class holding the Total 89% 97% 90% 92i% 95% 97% 99% 94% 92% 84% degree of Bache- Science in Education on completing a continuous four- year curriculum; the effects of the depression and tenure status for teachers all are reflected in the figures above. Salaries of Teachers 569 Relative salaries based on The interesting comparisons. of Class of 775 reporting show some 1934 shows the highest average salary as follows: 1934 1 Ele. 12 Sec. 62 31 105 Bus. Total 2 12 42 27 . 3 4 10 31 $ 800.00 5 800.00 1170.00 800.00 22 63 $1950.00 2496.00 2400.00 2496.00 6 81 First column Degree Graduates; second column ularly; third column Number Reporting; fourth Salary; fifth column Highest Salary; sixth column seventh column — — — — Average (column 6 7 $11545.00 44296.00 36425.00 92266.00 $1154 1428 1655 1464 —Teaching Regcolumn —Lowest —Total Salaries; divided by column 3). In accounting for this average, certain conditions recited before must be recalled. The Department of Business Educa- THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 . Page Eight 1930 graduated its first class in 1934. The placement demand being brisk and this group having had a tion beginning in longer period to earn have pushed the average salary to its highest point. The average of the ten-year period given for compara- is tive purposes. 2 164 391 1 Ele. 184 Sec. 568 273 1025 Bus. Total — 219 774 3 4 5 6 7 126 282 161 569 $ 800 $2100 2800 2400 2800 $141531 381576 218618 741725 $1123 1353 1357 1303 720 1170 720 First column Degree Graduates; second column ularly; third column Number Reporting; foui'th Salary; fifth column Highest Salary; sixth column seventh column — — —Average (column 6 —Teaching Regcolumn—Lowest —Total Salaries; divided by column 3). As experience grows, salaries increase. The minimum preby the State during this period was $800 for elementary teachers and $1 70 to $1200 for secondary teachers. scribed 1 Salaries of Graduates in Other Occupations On interesting comparison reveals on cursory examination that those graduates cupations are ing. The evaluated now figures who did not teach but entered other oc- earning $80 more per year than those teach- must be examinned with care and in the light of 1 184 273 569 1025 their worth surrounding circumstances. 2 3 4 5 6 7 1915 $775 $1140 $ 957 $ 21 3600 25827 Bus. 38 677 1229 109 61 360 3500 88843 Sec. 1456 Total 156 84 360 3600 116585 1387 First column Degree Graduates; second column Other OccupaNumber Reporting; fourth column Lowest Saltions; third column ary Reported; fifth column Highest Salary Reported; sixth column Total Salaries Reported; seventh column Average (column 6 divided by column 3 ) Ele. — — — 9 2 — — — — Elementary graduates now teaching seem to earn $1123 compared with $957 earned by those who follow some other occupations. the number Clearly these figures are subject to question since is small, but the continuing students holding the degree is THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 demand evidenced. Notice for elementary was given five Page Nine years ago that m 1 943 those expecting to teach in the element- ary school must hold degrees from approved teacher education institutions. ures are Based on 61 replies from 109 secondary students, the figseem to show that those graduates not following teaching earning $103 ($1 456-$l 353) more per year than teach- ers. Do Figures Lie? Why go to a teachers college to be a teacher when other occupations pay more? Why did only 61 Secondary graduates of the 109 reporting give their salary as earned in occupations other than teaching? Of the teachers, 282 out of 391 gave their salary figures. A 60 per cent sampling would seem to be a fair criterion for drawing a conclusion. However, when 109 answer most of the items on a questionnaire but only 61 answer the salary item, would it not seem that they do not wish to make the information available? Can it be that only those who were getting as much , or more than the state minumum salary are the 61 reporting? One other point. Teachers were asked for their salary last year. Does last year mean “last school year of nine or ten months?” If so, can we compare teachers’ salaries for nine months with the yearly income from other occupations for the whole year? I think not. How Many Graduates Taught? As shown by the table below, seventy-seven out of every hundred graduates taught, fifteen were gainfully occupied and eight were unemployed. In the latter class are married women who never taught, the deceased and those called into the armed forces of the United States without opportunity to teach. Substitute teachers comprise .7 per cent of the 77 per cent quoted 1 as teachers. 1 2 3 Ele. 184 158 Sec. 564 273 1025 100.00 100.00 Bus. Total 100.00 100.00 404 220 792 6789 45 91.31 71.13 80.58 77.27 10 9 4.89 7 3.80 0 0 109 38 156 19.19 45 7.92 10 1.76 13.92 14 .37 66 5.13 6.44 1 15.22 11 1.07 THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Ten — Degi'ee Graduates First column, Number, second column, Per Cent; Teaching third column, Number, foui'th column. Per Cent; Other Occupations— Fifth column. Number, sixth column, Per Cent; Miscellaneous*—Seventh column. Number, eighth column, Per Cent; No Information Ninth column, Number, tenth column, Per Cent. * Includes married graduates who never taught, graduate students still in college, army and navy volunteers and selectees who never had an opportunity to teach and the unemployed which accounts for 3.2 per cent of the 6.44 per cent in this column. — — Findings The study did more than answer the question, “How many teach?” The figure results are probably of less importance than the common interest of the faculty in our graduates. Then, too, alumni of ten years realize that their alma mater continues to be interested in them. This phase of the study cannot be valued objectively, but mailing lists are more accurate because of the study. Among 1 . A larger the objective findings are the following: number of placements were discovered than by a previous method. 2. A comprehensive look over a decade discloses certain trends such as the effect of tenure and increasing industrial activity. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Average period of teaching service of Figures relating to salaries six years was obtained. and non-teaching of teaching groups were made available for further study. Demonstrated value of individual placement records as a supplement to the questionnaire method. Furnished basis for guidance of present and future students who expect to be teachers. Definite information eration when is now available for legislative consid- appropriations are being considered. Those outcomes justify the time, effort, and money of a two-year study of one thousand graduates. DDN^T FORGET 2>a^ Maif, 3.3^ 0 THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, O April, 1942 Page Eleven /lciiiUtle4. at summarizing the Defense and War Activities of this colpresent under the following captions the activities which have come to this campus since September, 939. In lege, we 1 Civil Pilot Training Program For Aviation Instruction Over 100 college students have had an opportunity to program sponsored by the Bloomsburg State Teachers College using the Bloomsburg Airport under the plan developed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. At the present time twenty men are enrolled in the Elementary Course and ten in the Advanced Course, with all indications that learn to fly under the these quotas will be increased in the near future. This program enabled the town of Bloomsburg to reopen Bloomsburg Airport and it now is approved for offering the following Aviation Courses Elementary, Advanced, Cross Country, Instructor, and Instructor Refresher Courses. The first two named are sponsored by the college for college students, while the last three are carried on at the Airport for those people who are giving full time to the more specialized courses of Aviation. Such a program is in existence in only four other colleges in the the — United States. Out of the tion first 50 students completing the Primary Avia- Course over one-half have already found their the Aviation Branch of our Armed Forces and several way now into hold commissions. Free War The Courses college is in Engineering, Management and Science furnishing classrooms and laboratories for courses sponsored by the United States Office of Education and in Pennsylvania through Penn State College. The first program reached 200 students, using ten classrooms, and the second program is using fourteen classrooms to house over 300 students. Two of these classes are being taught by college instructors and a third instructor is traveling forty miles to another developed center to offer a course. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 : t’age Twelve Contributions of College Faculty, Students and Employees During the Year Members to the of the college community have made contributions United Service Organizations, the Regular Red Cross Roll and the Red Cross War Relief Drive. The amounts are given here and speak for themselves. United Service Organizations $125.00 Red Cross Roll Call 157.00 Red Cross War Relief Drive _ 548.00 Call Defense Savings Stamps and Bonds Every faculty member and employee either now owns Defense Saving Stamps or Bonds or has pledged themselves to purchase regularly in the future. Defense Saving Stamps are sold at the College Retail Store and also from a booth placed in the corridor. The figures for the College community are herewith given Bonds held to date $18,743.75 Bonds pledged for year 13,300.00 Stamps pledged for year ,596.00 1 $33,639.75 College Council of Defense The college community has been organized as a unit of the Columbia County Council of Defense and the following committees are actively engaged in the duties which their names suggest Air Raid Warning, Fire Protection, American Unity, — First Aid, Conservation of Defense Materials, Men-in-Service. These activities are the basis for the sixth in the series of college films entitled First The College Aid and the Red Home “Bloomsburg Faces War.” Aid and is Home Nursing Courses continuously furnishing classrooms for First Nursing Courses sponsored by Boy Scouts and Cross* and a large number of students are enrolled in these courses. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 and town people : Page Thirteen Bloomsburg in World War I History is repeating itself. In these critical times, young men and women at Bloomsburg are facing problems like those faced by the young men and women at Bloomsburg in 1917 and 1918. Undoubtedly the minds of many graduates and former students at Bloomsburg turn back to those days, and World War are being lived over again. The following article, which recently appeared in the Bloomsburg Morning Press, is a brief statement of war activithe experiences of 1 Bloomsburg twenty-five years ago. It is interesting to note that the article appeared in the issue of December 6, 1941, the day before Pearl Harbor. “With another war in the offing, it is not without interest to recall the part played in the World War by “Old Normal,” now the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. That contribution was not only in the young men and women it sent into the service, but also its work in all the various war drives. ties at “In the Third Liberty Loan, the quota assigned to the was $3,500, and a total of $10,500 was subscribed. Tlien came the Fourth Loan, and the quota looked large indeed indeed so soon after the Third Loan had been put across, but before the campaign ended, a total of $12,300 had been subscribed, and a fifth star was won for the Liberty Loan honor school fiag. “But ‘Old Normal’ did not alone contribute of its funds gave of its graduates and under graduates by the hundreds, as the following roster of those who went forth to battle for democracy and to minister to those who were wounded so but it strikingly illustrates Roll of Honor Andres, Harry, Lieutenant Medical Department. October 4, 1917. Kunkle, John Ray, ’ll. Died Died at El Paso, Texas, at Base Hospital, Camp Greene. Krum, Howard ’ll. Died of influenza. Camp Lee, Virginia. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Fourteen Newberger, George M. ’00. Lieutenant M. C. Navy. Died Navy Yard, Philadelphia. Omsted, Hawley ’ll. Died of pneumonia in France. Red Cross Nurse, Jefferson Hospital Phillips, Meryl ’ll. died of pneumonia in New York. of influenza at the Unit ; Robbins, Earl ’15. Died of influenza Sergeant. at Camp Meade, Md. Straub, Max, died of Williams, in Dave ’00. wounds in France. Captain; died in army training camp Minnesota. Military Honors Kennedy, Anna U., citation for bravery, French govern- ment. Straub, Max, Croix de Guerre with star, Medaille Militaire, Croix de Guerre with Palm, Corps citation for bravery. Faculty Leroy Anderson, George D. Cronin, Harry Fausel, Maud Kimber Kuster, William V. Moyer. Students and Graduates in Army and Navy Rebecca Allen, Elbert Knorr, Jean Andres, Sinclair Kilgore, Bruce Albert, Reece Kilgore, Joseph Armstrong, Roy Kindig, Norman Aten, Ralph Kindig, Warren Anstock, Bruce Kindig, Harry Barton, Ronald Keeler, Fisk Brill, Fred Keeler, William G. Brill, George Keller, Bruce Blackman, Lewis Kreiger, Hugh Boyle, Myron Kocher, Guy Brunstetter, Gardner Kelchner, Reno Bush, John Knittle, J. R. Brobst, William Fred KesK. Fish, Aldus E. Keggeris, ter, Clarence Brobst, William F. Kelchner, Lester Burlingame, Anna A. Kennedy, Harry Bierman, Guy Kitchen. John E. Bakeless, Bernard Kelly, Frank Brink, Sue Knelly, George Bednarek, G. Eugene Kemp, Alan Benson, Theodore Krumm, Mark Bennett, Roy Koontz, Raymond Bucher, John Long, Charles Butler, Rupert Laub, George Barrow, Ray Leidich, Anthony Balchunas, Harry Lear, John bach, Richard Brooke, Josiah Little, T. Brooks, Earl Lau- Harold Bomboy, Samuel Longstreet, Alvah Burlingame, William Lazarus, Malcolm Leonard, Benjamin Baer, North Leidy, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 J. J. Becker, Ercell Bidle- Page Fifteen man, Ethelbert Moon, Myron Byers, Ray Mausteller, Rush Boone, Harold Moyer, Weston Miller, Herman J. Capello, David Miller, Peter Castellani, John K. Miller, Harold Cooper, Marion Morley, Harold Cool, Arthur Morgan, Carrol D. Champlin, A. C. Morgan, Ruth Clark, Joseph Cherry, Alfred C. Miller. Paul M. Champlin, Paul Milnes, Hurley Crevehng, James Musgrave, Daniel Close, William McAvoy, Harold Creasy, Kin- ney Mears, John W. Cressler, Anthony McDonald, Frank B. Cotner, Margaret McKelvy, William J. Conyngham, Frank J. Meenahan, Claude Durlin, Maxwell Mauser, William H. Davis, Harold Mensch, Warren Dollman, Maxwell Noack, Harry Dollman, Elna H. Nelson, Albert Demaree, Charles Oman, Joseph Demaree, Francis O’Neil, Francis Dobson, P. Clive Potts, Harry Derr, Walter Page, Thomas Derr, Joseph Pace, George W. Dodson, Har- old Pegg, Albert W. Duy, Myron P. Rishton, Idwal Edwards, J. Rehm, Boon Eckman, Charles Robbins, Edith Eckman, Lawrence Ryman, Homer Englehart, Glennis Rickert, Orville Eveland, Russel Ramage, Michael J. Egan, Harry Rinker, Homer Fetterolf, James Richards, David Foye, Howard R. Rarig, Gordon Frye, H. E. Rawhnson, John Feinour, Warren Shobert, Howard F. Fenstemaker, Michael Boyd Rutter, Harold Eves, Robert Skwier, Harry Fortner, Robert Schooley, Charles Fritz, Theo- dore Smith, Ralph D. Fry, Burrel Swortwood. Reuben Stevens, Raymond Fought, Roland Edward Smoczinski, Albert Foster, William Gorham, Isaac Fought, Stevens, John H. Shuman, Anthony Gorham, Bruce Shearer, Maurice Owen Serene, Percy W. Griffiths, George Smith, Jay H. Grimes, George Supplee, Joseph Griffiths, Dana Sharpless, William Gordon, Harry A. Smith, George Gress, Albert Solleder, Harold Hidlay, Edward C. Shuman, Eugene C. Hidlay, Albert F. Symbal, Clair Hower, William Taylor, Earl B. Hartman, Peter Twilk, Paul Hummel, Dayton Terwilliger, Earl Hess, William A. Thomas, M. D. Hippensteel, Richard Thomas, Oswald Hutton, Gertrude Thomas, John H, Harter, Edward Tustin, John Hodder, Joseph Tustin, C. T. Hodgson, Paul Trembley, Edwin Heller, Frank Titman, Paul Hoffnagle, John Vavalo. Charles Wiant, Girton, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Sixteen Frank Hutchison, John Hayhurst, Emerson D. Wiant, Lee Roy Hall, T. E. Williams, Gilbert Hagenbuch, Fred Weaver, W. 0. Holmes, Warner Werkheiser, Fred Holmes, Thomas Williams, H. V. Hower, Ray V. Watkins, Harry C. Hubler, George Wilner, G. Hemingway, Paul D. Womeldorf, Reginald Hemingway, Edwin Woodward, Scott Hoaglan, J. K. Wagonseller, Donald Ikeler, R. V. Wolf, Kenneth Ikeler, Karl West, Arthur Ives, Frank Williams, Arthur Jones, William Weiss, James A. Joyce, Joseph White, Joseph Joyce, Thomas Walsh, Fred Johnson, Clark H. Yeager, Edwin G. Jenkins. G. Jenkins, Corson Zeliff, Guy Knorr, David Zehner. o The brutal savagery of war seemed far removed and almost unbelievable for a couple of hours Friday evening, March 20, to a near capacity audience enjoyed the spring musical in the college auditorium as festival of the it Women’s Chorus and Men’s Glee Club. This year’s presentation was Charles Gounod’s “Faust” and it was an exceptionally fine piece of work, winning merited commendation from the audience. Five young and talented artists from New York City, where all are now studying voice, were the guest soloists and their fine voices and splendid interpretation of their roles blended with almost professional perfection with the chorus work of the 50 Bloomsburg students directed by Miss Harriet M. Moore. Miss Louise Adams, a Freshman from Shamokin, was the ac1 companist. Guest soloists were Donald Loring Rogers, tenor; Judith Margaret Wilson, contralto; Howard Woods, and Robert Schnabel, baritone. Music lovers of the community remembered Miss Wilson and Mr. Rogers for their fine work here last spring as guest soloists in von Flotow’s “Martha” and welcomed them back with enthusiasm while the other guests quickly won and held their audiences. Rogers just recently returned to New York from a successful tour during which he won acclaim at Cleveland, Detroit and other American cities. West, soprano; tenor, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Seventeen Defense Set-Up at the College Dr. E. H. Nelson, director of the department of physical head of civilian defense for the college community. His appointment by President Andruss came promptly after the rise of a national emergency and a necessity education at the College, is also for civilian preparedness. It will be Dr. Nelson’s job to coordinate and expedite the various activities connected with civilian defense, as they apply to the college may community, in such a manner that the students when an emergency arises on this campus act intelligently or elsewhere. After determining what activities were of paramount importance, Dr. Nelson designated the following committees and committee chairmen to become active immediately an air raid committee is headed by William C. Forney, who is assisted by Earl N. Rhodes. Mr. Forney, the College air raid warden, has attended classes for air raid wardens in Harrisburg. The fire protection committee is headed by N. T. Englehart and Miss : Ruth Hope, Miss Lucy Coatesville. The ents to take care of accidents Classes for advanced added to had been The first aid committee, McCammon and Donald Rabb, first and will headed l^y prepare the stud- casualties. aid training are already in progress, course for the training of first and an aid instructors has been and standard first aid courses, which conducted for some time. Welfare Committee, headed by Irving Gottlieb, concerns itself with the interests and welfare of college men who are in military service. The American unity committee, directed by Miss Harriet Moore and Miss Joyce Lohr, will be rethe beginning sponsible for parades, patriotic singing, entertainment or any ether activities which will encourage morale and higher spirits college community. The conservation committee, headed by Frank Valente, head waiter in the dining room, and assisted by the Social Service Club, will be responsible for such items in the as the conservation of electricity, prevention of waste, and sav- ing of food. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Eighteen Plan l/jeoA. Btidxhf, Students of the Pennsylvania State Teachers College will be able to complete the regular four-year curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education in three calendar years, according to plans recently approved at Harrisburg by the Board of Presidents. For some students this will be possible by attending three regular years and two twelve-week summer sessions. The new plan adds a three-week pre-session to the existing regular six-week summer session and the three-week postsession. Freshmen will be accepted at the beginning of any semester or any summer session. Students who do not desire to follow this three-year cur- liculum will be allowed to continue their college education on the four-year basis which has been in operation since the state teachers colleges were granted the right to confer the degree of Bachelor of Science m Education in 1 926. The three-year plan will enable students to begin teaching a year earlier and will reduce the present cost by approximately $200. This saving, when added to the possibility of earning a salary of $1,200 per year, results in a net gain of $1,400 for those who seek to enter the teaching profession un• der the three-year state teachers college plan. A study of demand the teacher Bloomsburg State Teachers College for graduates of the for the past ten years indi- its graduates have obtained Of 1,025 graduates granted degrees from 1930 to 1940, seventy-seven per cent actually taught, and fifteen per cates that ninety-two per cent of figures. cent obtained positions in other occupations. The new plan will enable high school graduates to begin work at the pre-session June 8, and will provide their college an opportunity for students to fore being called into service complete a college education be- in the armed forces of the United At the same time, the state teachers colleges better able to meet the present shortage of teachers. States. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 will be Page Nineteen Requests school able officials lists are received for teachers almost daily from throughout eastern Pennsylvania, and the avail- have long been exhausted. The college calendar for 1942-43 provides for two semesters of eighteen weeks each, beginning September 14 and ending May 25. Two weeks later, the pre-session begins on ending June 27. During this session, the student will be able to complete one three-credit course. Following the plan June 8, meet three hours a day, The regular summer session will begin June 29 and end August The regular session will be followed by a post-session beginning August 3 and ending Auused in the post-session, the classes will except Saturday and Sunday. 1 . gust 22. A three summer iai weeks vacation intervenes between the end of the and the beginning of the fall semester. Regu- sessions vacations approximately like those of previous years will be given at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. Upper classmen will be able graduation by attending the that Sophomores now enrolled in work in one semester plete their under the four-year curriculum. No reduction has been made required for graduation. be no reduction in the to summer shorten their less m the than the time required number of hours credit This means definitely that there will standards now prevailing. the student will be required to complete as work time for and it is possible college may be able to comsessions, In other words, many semester hours by attending college more time during the calendar year, he will be able to complete the same amount of work in less time. of as before, but ^ O 0 -” Q DDN^T FORGET Alumni Mcuf. 3.3nA 6 o THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Twenty Play Presented at College It was a great surprise to Mr. Fuller to find that the house near the Potomac that he bought had not had George Washington as an all-night guest — instead, it was Benedict Arnold. was only one of the many amusing situations which arose “George Washington Slept Here,” the play presented Friday evening, January 30, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College by the Alpha Psi Omega dramatic fraternity with the Bloosmburg Players. This comedy, written by Moss Hart cind George S. Kauffman, centered around the trials and tribulations of the Fuller family, who moved into a house that had been built before This in Revolutionary days. Elwood Beaver, as Newton Fuller, por- man who wants to live in the country. Rachel \arrowsky, as Mrs. Fuller, who was definitely city-bred, kept trayed a city the audience laughing with her skeptical, and cynical remarks. George Miller, as Mr. Kimber, the hired man, provided amusement with his presentation of a “hick.” Dave Nelson, as Uncle Stanley, played the part of a rich, fussy uncle be poor. Other characters included: Madge who turns out to Fuller, Betty Bierman; Steve Eldridge, Reed Buckingham; Katie, Mary Jane Mordan; Mrs. Douglas, Roberta Hastie; Clayton Evans, Irving Gottlieb; Rena Leslie, Stella Williams; Hester, Edna Zehner; Raymond, John Thomas; Ligett Frazer, Tony Kravitsky; Sue Barrington, Mary Lou Fenstemaker; Jane Barton, Jeanne Knight; Tommy Hughes, Kenneth Morse, and Mr. Prescott, Lee Beaumont. — o— now Scout Monday eve- Robert Goodman, formerly of Bloomsburg, Executive at Corning, New York, was the speaker ning, January 12, at the nineteenth annual meeting of the Col- umbia and Montour Boy Scout Council, held in Catawissa. Mr. Goodman is one of three Bloomsburg men who started their scouting experience in the Columbia County Council, and now are executives in the movement. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Twenty-One “Keeping Ahead of the Auditor’’ The leading March, 1942, issue of the Balance Sheet, a magazine on Business and Economic Education was written by President Harvey A. Andruss, President of the article of the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, under the title of “Keeping Ahead President Andruss of the Auditor.” bookkeeping down brings to present requirements by saying: “This gradual development of an ever-widening of view in business has been reflected keeping. When by our learning processes book- the vocational record keeping attitude prevail- began the learning progress ed, students in in bookkeeping with With the the journal, ledger, or account orders of presentation. shift of emphasis to the economic employer-managerial point of view, there was developed ders of presentation. We more of presentation giving in relation to come all the balance sheet or equation or- now have shall to develop an order attention to the needs of society personal records so as to provide a basis for tax returns. in- These records must be made so as to furnish information for income tax returns which are subject to re- view by federal revenue agents. “With the increase of the number of individuals filing income tax returns, our record keeping must recognize the Government as a representative of society. Thus, our records must be made so that summaries or reports can be constructed periodically, and they should also form the basis for making yearly income tax returns to the Federal Government. Otherwise, the individual earning from $750 to $1,000 a year will have no basis for explaining his income and the deduction figures to auditors and tax review investigators.” o Addresses Wanted Ivor L. Robbins ’32, James Cullen ’33, Roy Garman ’34, Sylvester Ficca ’35, Marguerite Lonergan ’39, Robert C. Diehl ’38, Arthur Knerr ’34. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Twenty-Two Mid-Year Graduates Eleven students met the requirements for the degree of in education at the conclusion of the first bachelor of science semester at the Teachers College. There were three education, two m m business education, five in secondary intermediate, and one in kindergarten-pri- mary education. now employed. Seven are teachtwo are employed by the Middletown air Nine out of the group are ing in public schools, depot. These students will be eligible to take part in the commencement exercises which will be held in May. Members of the January graduating class follow: John W. Betz, Danville, secondary, teaching at Curwensville; Laura Bonenberger, Barnesville, intermediate, teaching Ryran township; Howard Brochyrus, Bloomsburg, bert R. Davis, Jr., business education; Al- Tilbury Terrace, West Nanticoke, secondary, teaching at Plymouth township; Dorothy Dean, Washingtonville, kindergarten-primary, tonville; Middletown education, air teaching at Edmunds, William depot; Middletown Haven, secondary, DeLong Nanticoke, ate, teaching at education, Robert Miner, Tunkhannock, business air depot; LaPlata, Margaret Robeson, Beach Maryland; Jennie Berwick, secondary, teaching at Bloomsburg; Canadensis, secondary; Washing- School, business Trivelpiece, Collin Vernoy, Harriet Young, Nescopeck, intermedi- Spring township, Berks county. — o Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Hilda Reeves, of Hyattsville, Maryland, and Joseph K. Layos,. of Mainvillc, a sergeant in the United States Fort Meade, Maryland. Sergeant Layos, Army, stationed at who was graduated from the Bloomsburg High School, attended the College for two years, and then joined the National Guard. Miss Reeves IS employed in the office of the Bell Telephone Company in Washington, D. C. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Twenty-Three Rotary-Kiwanis-College Evening The fifteenth annual Kiwanis-Rotary-College night program presented to some 350 guests at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Thursday evening, March 12, proved most entertaining, illustrating to a large extent the part lege is which the col- playing during the present emergency. program were the premiere of a new mo“Bloomsburg Faces War,” filmed by Prof. George of the faculty, and the appearances of Edmund Hard- Highlights of the tion picture, J. Keller, ing, Washington, D. C., humorist. R. B. White, president of the Kiwanis Club, presided and introduced Mr. and Mrs. Horace Williams, the former being the R. S. Hemingway, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, the Rev. R. 0. Musser, who gave the invocation; Dr. Willis E. Pratt, president of the Lock Haven State Teachers College, and Mrs. R. B. White. Others who were present were State Senator John G. Snowden, and Mrs. Snowden, of Williamsport; John F. Stank, of Ranshaw; Joseph P. Bradley, of Mount Carmel; Mr. and Mrs. W. Clair Hidlay and Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Cole, of Bloomshurg; Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Croop and Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Houck, of Berwick; and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, and Dr. and Mrs. Gosse. president of the Rotary Club ; : Mr. Harding was song leader^ providing accordion accom- paniment with that of Gordon Keller at the Solovox. Following the dinner the group adjourned to the auditor- ium where Elwood Beaver, president of the community governm.ent association, extended greetings. Miss Betty Pauling, accompanied by Robert Morgan, sang “Three Little Fairy Songs,” Free,” while Mr. In and “A Heart That’s selection, “Ballade F Minor.” “That’s where we come interludes of Mr. Harding. of “Clouds,” Morgan presented a piano humorous stories in” proved the theme of dramatic Through an almost endless current was woven a serious note to that effect THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Twenty-Four that “now we’re in it do our let’s part.’’ bution to the program was one which will Mr. Harding’s contrilong be remembered. Following a group of patriotic selections by the college chorus, under the direction of Miss Harriet Moore, the sixth in a series of college films, “Bloomsburg Faces War,’’ offered sub- lege many proof of the stantial directing is The phases of activities to which the col- its efforts. film dealt with such activities as civilian pilot training, safety in the classroom, defense courses, defense bonds and stamps and the boys in service. The pictures, executed in colored film by Prof. George J. Keller, were characterized by their completeness in scope and timeliness. The singing of the National Anthem concluded the audiin the gym- torium program after which dancing was enjoyed nasium. O Among many men training at Randolph The four are John Maksimuk, of Wilkes-Barre, who is taking advanced flying there, Anthony Yenalavage, of Kingston, Donald Hausknecht, of Montoursville, and Walter Reed, of Shillington. Mr. Hausknecht is the service in Field, Texas, are four B. S. T. C. boys. in the flying. finance office, but the other three are taking courses in Mr. Maksimuk and Mr. Reed Bloomsburg took the Civilian Pilot Hausknecht and Mr. Reed are graduates, while the other two entered the service before their college courses were completed. It is interesting to note that a Bloomsburg alumnus is commandant at the field. He is Colonel Idwal Edwards ’13. Training course of last Mr. spring. o Miss Martha Krum, of Bloomsburg, and Franklin F. were married Friday, January 23, at the Schultz, of Danville, parsonage of Trinity Methodist Schultz has been working Mills, and Mr. m Church, in the office of the Schultz, a former Bloomsburg student, ployed as a surveyor by the State Highway Department. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Mrs. Danville. Bloomsburg is Silk em- . Page Twenty -Five College Honor Roll The following Bloomsburg State Teachers College students have a rating of 2.5 or better for the first semester, 1941-42, and an accumulated rating of 2.0 or better for all of their college work: Freshmen Poletime Comuntzis, Secondary, Bloomsburg. Mary L. M. Jane ' Fenstemaker, Secondary, Bloomsburg. Miller, Business Education, Jermyn. Sophomores Mary F. Harold DeWald, Elementary, Turbotville. E. Miller, Business Education, Drums R. D. 1 Juniors Lee Roy Beaumont, Business Education, Marcus Hook. Boyd F. Buckingham, Secondary, York. Thomas H. Cannard, Secondary, Danville. Joanna J. Fice, Business Education, Athens. Ruth B. Hope, Elementary, Pomeroy. John Hubiak, Business Education, Forest City, R. D. Virginia Lawhead, Elementary, Pottsville. Joyce M. Lohr, Secondary, Berwick. 1. Seniors Elwood H. Beaver, Business Education, Catawissa. Mary A. Davenport, Elementary, Berwick. Earl J. Harris, Secondary, Bloomsburg, R. D. 5. Roberta Hastie, Business Education, Avoca. Jean E. Lantz, Elementary, Berwick. Richard Nonnemacher, Business Education, Allentown. Dawn Osman, Elementary, Shamokin. Idajane Shipe, Secondary, Berwick. M. Claire Sirrocco, Business Education, Pottsville. H. Ruth Snyder, Business Education, Bloomsburg. Erma Wolfgang, Business Education, Shamokin. David M. Young, Secondary, Danville. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Twenty-Six Alumni The officers of the in Service Alumni Association are very desirous Bloomsburg Alumni who are in of being kept informed of the the armed forces of the United States. It is very desirable, for the purposes of the historical record, that this The plete as follows. of those concerning list whom we have information. the Alumni will render a great service of Bloomsburg graduates all list be as com- published below contains the names Members of by informing the Editor in the service. Captain John Q. Timbrell, Fort Benning, Georgia; Private \Voodrow Aten, Fort Totten, New York; Private Nicholas fin, Camp Wheeler, Georgia; Wheeler, Georgia; Private Alfred H. Miller, Lieutenant Edmund Villa, Camp Jaf- Camp Bulks, Texas. Neil est V. M. Richie, Squadron 8, Maxwell Field, Alabama; Ern- Lau, Co. A, 3rd Ordnance Mg. Bn. 0. R. T. C., Aberdeen, Cadet Thomas Grow, Naval Air Station, JacksonPrivate Harry Zavacky, Camp M. A. A. R. Bar- Maryland; Florida. ville, stcw, California; Private Theodore Radai, Coast Artillery, Fort Lewis, Washington; Cadet Walter Reed, Class 42E, Kelly Field, Texas ; Private Leon Greenly, Army Air Base, Savannah, Geor- gia; Cadet Paul Kellogg, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Flori- da; Private David nute Field, Englewood, 111. ; L. Shaffer, Jr., First School Squadron, Cha- Private Jay Sponseller, Teaneck Armory, West New 1st. cl. Frank Pettinato, SerMeade, South Dakota. vice Troop, Fourth Cavalry, Fort Jersey; Private o Mr. and Mrs. Louis Serafine, of Grant Street, Shickshinny, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Jeanne, to Private Bernard Ciampi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ciampi, R. D. Berwick. Miss Serafine, a graduate of the Shickshinny High School in 940, is employed as a typist in the War Department at Washington. Ciampi is a graduate of the Teachers College and formerly taught in the Conyngham township school district. Later he was employed at the Berwick plant of A. C. F. He is 1 , 1 now stationed at Camp Lee, Va. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Twenty-Seven All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson of changes of address. Many copies of the Alumni Quarterly have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at the address on our files. all GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Board of Directors Bruce Albert Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith Mrs. C. C. Housenick Harriet Carpenter Fred W. Diehl E. H. Nelson President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer R. D. D. Wright Hervey B. Smith ^55 OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES Cumberland-Dauphin Counties — 'President Louise Downin Laubach, 317 North Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. C. W. Hoover, Enola, Pa.; Second Vice-President Blanche Miller Grimes, 204 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Secretary Helen Sutliff, 100 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Treasurer Howard M. Kreitzer, 120 Lincoln Street, Steelton, Pa. — — — — Lackawanna County — President Herbert S. Jones, 707 North Rebecca Avenue, Scranton, Pa.; Vice-President Thomas R. Rowland, 822 Richmont Street, Scranton, Pa.; Secretary Adeline Williams, 810 Archbald Street, Scranton, Pa.; Treasurer—Lydia A. Bohn, 227 Stephen Avenue, Scranton, Pa. — — Luzerne Coimty Aurand, 162 South Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Vice-President Edison Fischer, 30 Market Street, Glen Lyon, Pa.; Vice-President— Alberta Nichols, 61 Lockhart Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Car- President —Edna — — Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer 402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa. lisle Street, — Mrs. Lester Bennett, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 — Page Twenty-Eight Montour County — — President Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa., Vice-President Nellie Bogart, Danville, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa. — Northumberland County — President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland, Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer S. Curtis Yocum, 925 Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa. — — Schuylkill County —Orval — — Frackville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray Leidich, 33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer, 113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; VicePresident Anthony J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-Presi- President — Palsgrove, — — dent A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President Michael Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T. Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South — Main Street, Mahanoy — — City, Pa. Philadelphia — President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council Mary Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Secretary Lillie Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden, N. J.; Treasurer Nora Woodring Kenney, 7011 Erdrick Street, Philadelphia, Pa. — — — Snyder-Union Counties — Harold Danowsky, R. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President Eugene Keefer, R. Ij Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen Keller, Maple Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretary Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Harold Baker, Market President — Mifflinburg, grove, Pa. Street, Pa.; Treasurer — — — Anna Troutman, Selins- Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties —Fred Kester, Mill City, Pa.; Vice-President—Arlene JohnPa.; Vice-President —Susan Jennings Sturman, Tunkhannock, Pa.; Secretary — Catherine New Milford, Pa.; Secretary —Mildred Avery Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer—Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa. President son, Hallstead, Bell, Columbia County — — president ^A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Margaret Cole McCem, Benton, Pa.; Secretary Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa. — THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 — Page Twenty-Nine The Philadelphia Alumni We have been having delightful monthly luncheon meetwhich have been very well attended. Owing to the present day situation due to the war, we decided not to have our usual annual reunion and banquet in April this year, but we hope to continue our luncheon meetings on the second Saturday of each month, at Strawbridge and Clothier’s store, 6th floor. We extend a most cordial invitation to all Alumni and Bloomsburg friends to drop in at any of these meetings and visit with us for the afternoon. The meetings last from 2 30 to 5 30 P. M. We should keep our colors flying and prove our loyalty and gratitude to our Alma Mater by giving untiring and unselfish effort to widen the sphere of the help and influence of Bloomsburg. We are sorry to note the passing of Edward A. Eyer and Edna Wilson McClintock. ings 1 FLORENCE O H. : COOL, — : President. Columbia County Alumni On Friday evening, March 20, Columbia county alumni of Bloomsburg State Teachers College heard from the adminisand saw through motion pictures what the college is doing in defense and was informed of the manner in which the graduates can aid their alma mater in these days of crisis. The Spring session, held in the college dining hall, was attended by 76. Arthur C. Morgan, of Berwick, the president, as toastmaster kept the program moving at a rapid rate. Officers chosen for the coming year are A. C. Morgan, the tration 1 president; Larue Derr, Beaver, vice president; Miss Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, secretary, and Paul L. Brunstetter, Catawissa, treasurer. The evening opened with the singing of America and the Dean W. B. Sutliff. Group singing was in charge Miss Maree E. Pensyl with Howard F. Fenstemaker at the invocation by of piano. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Thirty President Morgan spoke of the real value of returning to alma mater and expressed his thanks for the fine attendance, particularly to thirty-one Berwick grade school teachers who were present despite the Berwick-Pottsville basketball game at Hershey. membership, asserting growing rapidly with ,200 paid up mem- Dr. Nelson presented the matter of that the association is 1 bers. S. Hemingway, Fred W. and Frank D. Croop, Berwick, trustees; Mrs. President Andruss presented Reg. Diehl, Danville, Diehl and Mrs. Croop; Miss Helen Carpenter, former and the three “Old Guard,” Prof. Sutliff and Prof. D. S. Hartline. of the faculty, Dean W. B. member C. H. Albert, President Andruss said he did not wish to appear pessimistic but It is blind and useless to figure that just because we it is impossible to lose one. He spoke of the having a part m aiding the nation in this crises and he briefly sketched the many activities of the college community that have a part in the war effort. never lost a necessity of war all R. Bruce Albert, president of the general alumni body, mentioned that all institutions have a difficult time in a war period and urged that alumni be on the alert to call to the attention of the institution prospective students. The addresses sired. of college graduates in the service are de- Plans are well along for Alumni Day, May 23, with Dr. Francis B. Haas, superintendent of the Public Instruction of the Public Instruction, and Governor Arthur H. James expected to attend. The dining room program concluded with the showing of the newest motion picture on Bloomsburg college life, “Bloomsburg’s Part in the War,” and the singing of the Alma Mater. Alumni were then guests at the presentation of the musical and vocal score of the opera “Faust” by the College students, featuring guest artists from New THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, York. April, 1942 Page Thirty -One DAUPHIN COUNTY ALUMNI The hold Dauphin County Alumni Association B. S. T. C. will spring dinner meeting at the Y. M. C. A. in Harrisburg its May on Monday, A 4th at 7:00 moved into the vicinity cept this invitation to meet your old P. is extended friends. The dinner M. to any alumnus who has and has not been contacted. Please accome and join in the school spirit and cordial invitation — — be informal no speakers, just remarks and a social hour is planned so that you may enjoy your visit. Dinner 85 cents. Drop a card to Helen E. Sutliff, 00 N. Second will 1 Street, Harrisburg, Pa. o LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI The Luzerne County Alumni Association State Teachers College held a reunion 25, in of the Monday the Hotel Sterling at Wilkes-Barre. Features of the program were a puppet Miss Bloomsburg March evening, Anne Westfield, and the motion show given by “Bloomsburg picture, Faces War.” Attending from Bloomsburg and responding were: President H. A. Andruss, Dr. T. P. North, Dr. E. H. Nelson, H. F. Fenstemaker, and R. Bruce Albert. o A reception was given Tuesday evening, February 4, by Harvey A. Andruss to members of the Board of Trustees, the faculty, and members of the Board of Education of the Bloomsburg School District. Music was provided by Robert Morgan, pianist, and Miss Bettv Pauling, violinPresident and Mrs. i.'t, of the college faculty. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Thirty-Two Alumni Irraunala 1874 A from Dr. G. V. Mears, of Jacksonville Beach, two members of the class of 1874 died in March. One of these was J. K. Bittenbender, who died March 7, and the other was the Doctor’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Perkins Mears, who died March 9. Dr. Mears closes by saying “I am the last remnant of ’74.” brief note Florida, states that 1880 Horace G. Supplee, a native of near Jerseytown, and a prominent Bloomsburg business man around the turn of the century, died Thursday, April 2, in a Chicago nursing home where he was convalescing following a cold when his condition became A critical. sister, because of Mrs. Annie Nuss, of Bloomsburg, was his condition and was enroute to summoned Chicago when the death occurred. His death severs a marital union of fifty-three years. wife was the former Elnora B. Bryfogle. to Surviving in His addition her and Mrs. Nuss are two children, George Supplee, a mis- sionary in Assam, India, and Miss Mabel Supplee, of Chicago, and four grandchildren. Mr. Supplee was for many years a real estate salesman and remained active until about two years ago. He was last here in the spring of 1940 when he attended the sixtieth reunion of the class of 1880 at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Thirty-Three for years in the eighties and nineties, manager of Produce Exchange, a farmers’ cooperative which erected the building at Market and Sixth Streets, now owned by the Leo A. Schneider Company. Following the dissolution of that business, he engaged in business there for himself and He was the Farmers later retail was member a of the Supplee-^Mather Company, the last business to operate there. Mrs. Margaret Kavanaugh Bigley, widow of J. C. Bigley, and a former teacher in Shenandoah and Philadelphia, died Friday, January 16 at her home, 3727 North Park Avenue, Philadelphia. After leaving the teaching profession for a time, was by the Philadelphia Board of Education to resume teaching in 1918, and she became a member of the teaching staff of the McClure School until she retired. Mrs. Bigley C. recalled Mae Meixwell lives at 225 East Second Street, Berwick. 1885 Mrs. Charles Hampshire Avenue, is now living at 5051 New Apartment 102, Washington, D. C. D. Harrison N. W., 1883 Miss Kate E. Harvey, of Milroy, Pa., has been reported as Miss Harvey was a sister of Mrs. 0. H. Bakeless. deceased. 1886 William L. Williams has been reported as deceased. 1888 Mrs. Mary Bynon Jones, wife January vious to Hill, of the late Bruce Jones, also 1888, died at her home Monday, months preher death. Mrs. Jones was born and reared in Summit of the class of 5, 1942. and moved She had been in Pottsville failing for nine to Pottsville thirty-three years ago. The account of the death of Dr. W. Fowler Bucke, apin the January Quarterly, was erroneously listed under the class of 1893. The editor regrets this error. pearing THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Thirty-Four 1892 five sons who have foland two more who plan to be physicians, died Monday, February 23, while visiting at the home of his son Dr. Clement Hanlon, of Bethlehem. Death was due to a heart attack. Dr. Hanlon was born near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. He was brought to the United States by his parents when he was six months old. The family settled near Freeland, Pa., where Dr. Hanlon taught for thirteen years after his graduation from Bloomsburg. He completed his medical course at the Jef- Dr. Edward lowed him F. Hanlon, father of into medical practice ferson Medical School in 1908. 1897 Amy V. Beishline (Mrs. W. F. Thomas) has changed her address from Hazleton to R. 2, Bethlehem. 190Q lanthe Snyder (Mrs. Palmer P. Wiand) Pa., has of Williamsport, been reported as deceased. 1901 A letter has been received from Miss Louise Larrabee, who lor the past several years, has been teaching in Honolulu. The letters were dated December 8, and December and contained little information other than that Miss Larrabee was safe. Both letters had been opened by the censor, but nothing had been taken out. 1 Dr. 1 , Frank Laubach, who has spent many years as a miswas the speaker at the college assem- sionary in the Far East, bly Friday, January 9. 1904 Harry A. Dollman has been reported as deceased. 1905 Charles L. Maurer, Collingswood, New who Jersey, is lives at 1 30 East Linden Avenue, Cam- Director of Guidance in the den High School, Dean and Vice-President of the College of THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Thirty-Five South Jersey, Camden, and Director of the Psychological and Vocational Guidance Clinic at the same institution. 1906 Salt W. Raymond Girton, who is employed by the International Company, Ithaca, New York, has built a new home, and is now living at R. 1 Lake Road, Ithaca. 1907 Edwin M. Barton, Elizabeth, New Jersey, edited the Review Book Council page of the January, 1942, issue of the New Mr. Barton gave brief reviews of Jersey Educational Review. many of the latest text-books in Social Studies. presiding officer at the Conference of the tion of New Teachers of Social Studies. Northern He was also the Jersey Associaheld at District, the Montclair State Teachers College on Saturday, March 14. 1909 W. Garrison (Mrs. C. H. Danforth) Avenue, Stanford University, California. Florence Cabrillo lives at 607 1910 A daughter was born February 7, 1942, Bernard Williams, of Waymart. Mrs. Williams of Harold Box, of South Canaan, Pa. 1 Mrs. living at 1 Anna Girton, who formerly 740 Orange Street, Berwick. to Mr. and Mrs. is the daughter lived in Dallas, is now 1911 Ethel J. County, Pa. “Mr. Owen Paisley lives in Ottsville, In a recent letter, Mrs. Owen and I Owen R. D. 1, Bucks states: purchased the Ferndale Telephone Com- 1941 We moved from Nesquehoning to Bucks County. We are located on route 611, between Easton and Philadelphia. It was with regrets that I gave up teaching, but my physical condition just would pany on September Ottsville, R. F. D. not allow me 1 , . 1, to return.” THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942- , Page Thirty -Six Miriam Vannatta Freas lives at 4035 Chestnut Street, Philadelphhia, Pa. 1912 Edith G. Cole trial is a member of the staff of the State Indus- School for Girls at Mount Morrison, Colorado. 1913 Margarete Crossley (Mrs. F. Earle Gooding) North Winsor Street, Bound Brook, New Jersey. The address of Margie Alabama. Phillips Barnett is lives at Box 1 534 0, R. D. 1 Greenville, Mary E. Heacock lives at 2879 Catawba Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee. 1914 573 Warren Avenue, Kingston, Pauline Sosper lives at Dr. V. J. 1916 at 215 North Shamokin Baluta lives Pa. Street, Sha- mokin. Pa. Louise Carter (Mrs. C. ' W. Dickman) lives at 430 Maine Street, Peckville, Pa. 1917 Dr. J. Loomis Christian lives at 3632 Rutherford Street, Harrisburg, Pa. Rachel McHenry lives at 1315 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa. Effie Main Benscoter (Mrs. Edwin H. Kinbuck) lives at 752 Street, Peckville, Pa. Eidith Dennis lives at 1 1919 006 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, Pa. 1923 Miss Marian Williams, of Shickshinny, and Richard Mani- Berwick, were married at West Chester, Wednesday, December 24, 194). Mrs. Manival is a teacher in the elementary val, of THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 , Page Thirty-Seven and Mr. Manival, a graduate of the Automotive Engineering, is employed as the Ford Garage m Berwick. {grades in Shickshinny, [’ittsburgh School of a mechanic at 1924 Mervyn Norton (Mrs. Frank W. Walp) died Tuesday, March 3, at her home at 84 Oak Street, Forty Fort, Pa., following a heart attack. Mrs. Walp was born in New Albany, Pa., and attended the public schools there. After her graduaIn 1925 tion from Bloomsburg she taught for several years. she and Mr. Walp were married, and lived in Picture Rocks until 1933, when they moved to Forty Fort, where Mr. Walp is Supervising Principal of the schools. Mrs. Walp is survived by her husband and one son, Barry, aged twelve. 1925 Helen Mullica Richie (Mrs. Hill, New Padgett) Russell lives at R. D. 1 Jersey. 1927 Miss Danville, and Edmund Miller, also of were married Wednesday, December 24, at the home Mary of the bride. Danville, Dietz, of Danville, Mrs. Miller and Mr. is a teacher in the grade schools of Miller operates a dray business in Danville. 1928 Announcement has been made engagement of Miss of the Bloomsburg, and Harold G. Rogers, also of Bloomsburg. Miss Giger is an instructor in special education Fvlary Arzella Giger. of at the Tressler Orphans’ Home, Mr. Rogers Bloomsburg. Pa. Loysville, employed by the Magee Carpet Company, in is Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miltona of Plymouth, and Goodwin Klinetob, of Foundryville, Bolen, near Berwick. Mrs. Klinetob is a member junior high school at Plymouth, and Mr. of the faculty of the Klinetob is employed by the State Highway Department. The address of Marjorie Vanderslice is Balboa Heights, Canal Zone. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Thirty-Eight Ruth A. Webber (Mrs. Linn Franklin Avenue, Tunkhannock, Pa. B. Sherwood) lives at 72 1930 Clarence R. Wolever now connected is with the Extension Service of the Pennsylvania State College, being attached to what is known as ESMDT (Engineering, Science and Management of Defense). He is teaching Industrial Psychology, Industrial Economics, Industrial Relations and Industrial Safety in His office address various centers in the state. is Engineering “F,” Central Extension Service, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. their Mrs. Wolever (Mary E. Gorham ’30) and daughter Sherrell are living at 1801 Sanderson Avenue, Scranton. Leatha Mericle, of Bloomsburg, and Carroll H. Matson, of Baltimore, Maryland, were married at Mt. Pleasant Friday, No- vember 28. Mrs. Matson Consolidated School, and is is Mr. Matson, a graduate of as an engineer a teacher at the Madison Township president of the Girl Scout Leaders. New York by the Glenn L. University, is employed Martin Aircraft Company, in Baltimore. 1931 A. Marie Foust (Mrs. Pa., where her husband is W. Cletus Merrill) lives in Dimock, principal of the schools. Retha Noble (Mrs. Douglas Burgess) Street, New lives on Montrose Milford, Pa. 1933 Leo Yozviak has been teaching Priscilla lives at in 31 Main Road, Buttonwood, Pa. the Hanover Township Acker McPhilomy He schools. lives at Macgill Village, No. 5-F, Place Pulaski, Virginia. Walter Stier lives at 44 Green Street, Ashley, Pa. He has been teaching in the Hanover Township schools. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Thirty-Nine 1934 Henry Rishe, became the bride of Lieutenant Louis W. Buckalew, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Buckalew, West Fifth Street, both of Bloomsburg, in an impressive ceremony SaturMiss Mary ruth Rishe, daughter of Jonathan of Catherine Street, day, February 2 1 m , St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by Archdeacon Squire B. Schofield, of Christ Episcopal Church, Danville. The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Lieutenant Buckalew is a graduate of the local high school and Mercersburg Academy. He has for years been prominent as an amateur radio operator. He has been in the federal service more than a year and is now based at Fort George G. Meade, Md., with Company A, 105th lank Destroyer Battalion. 1936 Shuman, of Bloomsburg, and Norman E. Keppley, of Robesonia, were married Saturday, December 27, Mrs. Keppley has in St. Paul’s Reformed Church, Robesonia. been teaching in the schools of Robesonia, and Mr. Keppley is a junior machinist at the Middletown airport. Miss Sara M. Thomas ton, Virginia. ment F. Davis He of the U. S. is lives at 3821 Wilson Boulevard, Arling- a civilian employe in the Medical Depart- Army. Mercedes W. Deane West Chester, Pa. is now 437 South Hyde living at Street, 1937 Miss Dorothy Hess and Sergeant Bloomsburg, were married New Year’s George Linn, Day at the both of home of the The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. E. Skillington, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. Mrs. bride. Smith is employed in the office of the and Sergeant Linn has been stationed The present address of Robert Magee Carpet Company, at Fort Hill is Meade, Maryland. Route 2, Annandale Road, Fairfax, Virginia. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Forty 1938 Paul G. Martin has reported to the naval training station at Newport, R. I. Martin, son of the Rev. and Mrs. L. M. Martin, of Catawissa, recently enlisted in the naval reserve as second class officer store He keeper. is graduate a of the Catawissa High School class of 1934, Bloomsburg State Teachers College class of 1938. He took ing 1940 and a course in the American Institute of Banking dur’41 and also completed a CPT course, graduat- ing last year with a private pilot license. He has been head bookkeeper Bank at at the Farmers’ National Bloomsburg for the past eighteen months. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Diettenck, of Berwick, announce engagement of their daughter Bette to Maclyn Smethers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Smethers, of Second street. The announcement was made at a dinner Saturday evening at the Lucille Tea Room. Miss Dietterick is a graduate of Berwick High School in the class of 1936 and attended B. S. T. C. for one year. Mr. Smethers is also a graduate of the Berwick High School, class of 1934 and of B. S. T. C. in the class of 1938. Both young people are employed at the A. C. and F. Company. the Raymond W. Williard is now located at Seven Springs. North Carolina. Ann Evans lives at Jean Campbell Mary A. is 328 South Main teaching Allen’s address Factory ville. Pa. in is Street, Taylor, Pa. 221 Garfield Street, Kennett Square, Pa. 1939 Miss Mary Aikman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Aikman, of Bloomsburg R. D. 5, has assumed her duties as teacher in the Bethany Orphans’ Home Schools, located in Heidelberg township. Miss Aikman is a graduate of the Berwick High THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Forty-One School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and holds a bachelor of science degree in I elementary education, with train- She was placed in charge of one of the opportunity schools and was released from a Columbia county position to accept this type of work in Berks county. She took the place of Mrs. Evelyn Jenkins O’Donald, who reing in the special education field. signed recently. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Harand Miss Bette Elaine Dent, both of Berwick. Miss Dent is a graduate of the Berwick High School and of the Pennsylvania State College. She is a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. Mr. Border was head football coach at Blairsville before coming to Berwick as a member of the Berold L. Border I wick High School faculty. Announcement has been made I Kathleen Kohan, of Brooklyn, of the engagement of Miss York, and Frank Patrick, Miss Kohan is a graduate of Columbia Univeremployed with the Chinese News Service, a subsidiary of the Trans-Pacific News. Mr. Patrick is employed in the ordnance engineering department of the A. C. F. Company at Jr., sity, ! New of Berwick. and is Berwick. I j C. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Jean Shuman, of Mainville and Claude Zehner, of Mountain Grove. Shuman is teacher of commercial subjects in the Fairview High School, Mountain Top. Mr. Zehner is employed by the Farmers’ Cooperative Dairy in Hazleton. Miss I 1 1 The address of Glenn F. Ranch has been changed Maple Street, Allentown, Pa. Miss Annabelle Bailey were married at 5:45 1940 and Willis E. Jones, to 1 345 of Danville, o’clock Friday evening, February 6, in the Baptist parsonage at Lewisburg. The bride is the daughter of Mr. East Market Street, Danville. She is and Mrs. Suel C. Bailey, a graduate of the Danville THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Forty-Two High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a teacher in the Shickshinny High School. The groom is a son of Mrs. Martha Jones, of Elyria, Ohio. He is a graduate of Bucknell University and is a member of the faculty of the Danville High School. They have taken up their residence in the Ammerman apartment on East Market Street, Danville. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Josephine Brown, of Johnstown, and James L. Johnson, of Milton. The single ring ceremony took place at the parsonage of the A. M. E. church m Bloomsburg, with the Rev. L. E. Latimer The couple was unattended. The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School, of 1936, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, of 1940. The bridegroom was graduated from Milton officiating. class class High School, class of 1933. The young couple are residing in Philadelphia, where bridegroom is employed at the navy yard. Miss Christine Grover, of Berwick, is the the latest addition to the faculty of the Millersburg High School. Miss Grover, a graduate of Berwick High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1940, succeeds Mrs. Phyliss Heckman Masteller, who recently was married. The new faculty member will teach commercial subjects and act as secretary to Supervising Principal F. Douglas Beidel. Phillip W. Moore, a member school at Delmar, Delaware, is of the faculty of the high the author of an article entitled ‘The Challenge of Social-Business Education” appearing in the January-February number of the Delaware School Journal. Miss Jean Smith, of Catawissa, and William White, Jr., of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, were married at Elizabeth City Sunday, December 21, 1941. Mrs. White has been teaching the schools of Elizabeth City for the past White IS manager of two years, and Mr. a chain of theatres in that city. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 in Page Forty-Three Charles Girton, who enlisted in the Naval Air Corps shortly was located at Noffett Field, news was received from him. after graduation, last time that California, the Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss F^egina Lettiers, of FFazleton, and Nicholas Mitchell, of Everdale. Mr. Mitchell is employed in Baltimore, Maryland. 1941 George R. Lewis, of Bloomsburg, has been added to the national staff of the American Red Cross as a special instructor in first aid. Mr. Lewis will be assigned to teach special instructors’ courses in first aid throughout the Eastern Area, which include the twenty-four states east of the Mississippi River. The instructprs trained in these special courses will take over the teaching of standard and advanced first aid classes arranged by local Red Cross Chapters. The public demand for first aid knowledge brought on by the war and the increased emphasis on national defense. Mr. Lewis, who has been a member of the First Aid, Water Safety and Accident Committee of the Bloomsburg Red Cross Chapter for the past five years, was educated at the Peddie School, Highstown, New Jersey, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He attended four Red Cross national aquatic and has taught water safety and first aid at summer camps. Boy Scout camps, and C. C. C. camps. In addition, he has been active in Boy Scout work in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and for two years was counselor at Camp Lavigne, schools, Benton, Pa. ceremony. Miss Victoria Krum, of Bloomsburg, Roy Roberts, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Roberts, of Catawissa, Sunday, February 10. The ceremony took place in the St. John’s Reformed church, Catawissa, with the pastor, the Rev. L. M. Martin, performing the nuptials and using the impressive ring ceremony. In a quiet became the bride of The bride class of is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School, 1939, and was employed by the Bell Telephone Com- THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Forty -Four The groom is a graduate of the Catawissa High School, class of 936, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1941, and is employed at the Middletown airport. After a brief wedding trip to Philadelphia they will make their home pany. 1 at Harrisburg. Miss Doris M. Curl, of Wilkes-Barre, and Dr. Carl T. Warhurst, of the First Bloomsburg, were married Friday, November 28, in Welsh Presbyterian Church, in Wilkes-Barre. Mrs. member Warhurst, a teaching in the of last year’s graduating class, has been Portland High School. Dr. Warhurst is a grad- uate of the Bloomsburg High School and of the Temple University Dental School. and Miss Clara C. Rambo, were married April 26, 1941, at Winchester, Announcement of the marriage was made in Decem- Reber R. Fisher, of Catawissa, of Bloomsburg, Virginia. ber. Mrs. Fisher, Nursing, Hospital. of the is a graduate employed Mr. Fisher of the Williamsport School of as a supervisor in the Williamsport City is teaching in the commercial department Lower Paxton Township High School, Harrisburg. Stuart Edwards, who has been serving as a substitute teacher in the Catawissa High School, has accepted a position as biology teacher Military Academy, and in athletic supervisor in the Florida Boys’ St. Petersburg. Florida in January to begin his work Mr. Edwards went to in the new Miss Helen Kent Dixon, of Benton, and Jr., position. Edward Karnes, of Orangeville, were married Saturday, January 3, in the Mrs. Karnes is teaching and second grades in Orangeville, and Mr. Karnes is employed at the American Car and Foundry Company plant in South Williamsport Methodist Church. first Berwick. Private J. Rutter Ohl, Jr., of Bloomsburg, graduated from the Chanute Field Branch, I’echnical School. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 was recently Army Air Corps, Page Forty-Five 1942 William H. Hagenbuch, of Bloomsburg, one of the B. Jr., who last year took CAA training at the Bloomsburg airport, was among a large class of cadets who received silver wings and commissions as second lieutenants, U. S. Army Air Corps, early this year. He has been assigned to active duty. S. T. C. students The wings were presented during the last graduaBarksdale Field, Louisiana. silver tion exercises for pilot trainees at This was the second and final class of war-time uate at the air base, pending a change of the to grad- pilots field’s status from a pilot training school to a base for pursuit squadrons. Lieutenant Hagenbuch was appointed an aviation cadet the army air corps flight training at his basic flying at last June. He in received his primary school Parks Air College, East St. Louis, Illinois, and Georgia Aero Tech, Augusta, Georgia, before going to Barksdale Field for his advanced training. assigned to active duty with the Army He has been Air Corps. Miss Ruth Weitz, of Duryea, and Albert H. Warhurst, of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, October 4, in the CatheBoth the bride and groom dral of the Incarnation, Baltimore. were former students at the Nelson Oman, Mr. Warhurst Bloomsburg. at the College. Magee Carpet Company, in is employed who would have been a member of the is now an army aviation cadet, and is Senior class this year, receiving instruction in a training center in Texas. Mr. Oman successfully completed the civilian pilot training course given at the College last year. DDN^T FORGET Alumni Moif 3.3nxt THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Forty-Six Mme. Chu Shih-ming spoke before the college assembly Wednesday morning, March 18, at ten o’clock, on the general subject of China’s effort to safeguard human welfare in time of war. Mme. Chu came to the United States from Chungking dursummer and spoke from first hand knowledge of conditions there. She is the wife of General Chu Shih-ming, ing the past Military Attache to the Chinese Embassy, Washington, D. C. She studied at McIntyre High School in Shanghai and spent a year at Ginling College, Nanking. Coming to the United States, she graduated from Wellesley College and also from the Hygiene and Physical Education Department of that college. After returning to China she taught Physical Education and English at the high school Nanking, National and college she had attended and also at Central, National Peiping, and Provincial Cheking Universities. She served on the Y. M. C. A. Board in several cities and was a member of the National Committee for China and of the World Committee. Mme. Chu was twice a representative of the Y. W. C. A. of China at world conventions in Geneva, Switzerland. She represented the China Amateur Athletic Federation in the 1936 Olympic Games at Berlin. aiso Mme. Chu is a Soroptimist and was Chairman of the NanShe was an officer of the International Women’s Nanking and Chungking. king Chapter. Club in THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Page Forty-Seven Lane K. Newberry, native-born American artist and interAmerican scene, was presented Friday, February 27 to the students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Newberry, an lowian, brought with him a collection of his own oils, presented in large electrically lighted cabinets which preter of the “How Get That Way.” concerned with the historical and pictorical side of that great American epic, the Mormon migration across the plains to the chosen land in Salt Lake he uses to An Valley. illustrate his subject, important part of his display A Artists is great deal of his paintings deal with historical ma- which Mr. Newberry gathered in his travels. For example he traveled 20,000 miles while completing twenty-one new terial including paintings of the passing historical spots in Illinois, such places as the Opuka Court House where both Stephen A. Douglas spoke, kia, home of U. S. house Illinois’ first state Grant, and other Lincoln and at Kaskas- famed landmarks. • Miss Ellen Eudora Hosier and Dr. Robert J. Kuhl, both of Berwick, were married Wednesday, December 24, in St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Kuhl is a teacher m the Ferris Heights Building in Dr. Kuhl Berwick. lege, is a graduate of Pennsylvania State Col- where he was a member of the Theta Upsilon Omega fra- Last spring. Dr. Kuhl received his degree of Doctor of ternity. Medicine from St. Louis University, and at the same time, he received his commission as a reserve officer in the United States Army. He is a member honor fraternity hi.^ of the Apha Omega Alpha, professional He has been serving at St. Louis University. interneship at the St. Louis City Hospital, and expects a call with the armed forces. to service The Department of Music of the College presented a facby Robert Morgan, pianist, Thursday evening, December Mr. Morgan presented the following program to an Chaconne, by John Sebastian Bach, enthusiastic audience: Sonata, Op. 8, No. five, by Chopin, Etude, by Scriabin, The Fountain, by Ravel, Minstrels, by Debussy, Intermezzo, Op. No. one, by Brahms, and the Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody, by Liszt. ulty recital 1 1 . THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, April, 1942 Paeg Forty-Eight The fourth In the series of entertainment program given at the College was presented Friday evening, January 9, when Robert Kitain, Russian violinist, appeared in a recital that was greatly enjoyed by the entire audience. Mr. Kitain studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Lenigrad, then ersburg. first He has appeared in recitals all American appearance was in known as St. Pet- over the world. His 1939. • Dr. Nell Maupin, of the social studies department of the State Teachers and councilor of Gamma Beta chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, honor society in education, attended the convocation of Kappa Delta Pi which was held in San Francisco, California, February 23, 24, 25, Doctor Maupin was a delegate meeting, and represented her chapter. at this • Miss Edith Berwick, Friedberg, of a former student at Bloomsburg, and Elliot R. Mesnick, of Brooklyn, were married Wednesday, December 24, at Hagerstown, Maryland. The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High School, and attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Pennsylvania State College. • Perry D. Evans, of Bloomsburg, died at his home Friday, January 16, following an illness of fifteen months. Mr. Evans \vas born in Fishing Creek Township, and spent most of his life in Bloomsburg. For sixteen years he was employed as a fire- man at the College. • Miss Jean Eisenhauer, of Mifflinville, and James Gingher, have recently announced their engagement. Miss employed in the supply department of the American Car and Foundry Company and Mr. Gingher is employed in the mechanical department of the same company. of Berwick, Eisenhauer is o o DDN^T FORGET AUufuU ^cuf, Meuf. 3.3n>d THE ALUMNI QUAKTERLY, April, 1942 1 w BalhetLall Sco4e4, December 13 Alumni 20 B. S. T. C.51 January 10 Lock Haven 33 B. S. T. C. 39 B. S. T. C. 52 B. S. T. C. 44 B. S. T. C. 58 B. S. T. C. 45 B. S. T. C. 59 January 16 Millersville 48 January 17 Shippensburg 32 January 23 Mansfield 46 January 30 Shippensburg 32 January 31 Millersville 63 February 7 Lock Haven 37 B. S. T. C. 41 February 13 East Stroudsburg 48 B. S. T. C. 47 B. S. T. C. 43 B. S. T. C. 30 B. S. T. C. 44 February 14 Mansfield 5 February 21 East Stroudsburg 55 February 27 West Chester 40 t ^topl ICnok! ICtatfnI Alumni Objectives ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 3000 Send check for $1.00 to Dr. E. H. Bloomsburg, Penna. Nelson, Business Manager, YOU WILL WANT THE ALUMNI DI- RECTORY. EVERY MEMBER A REPORTER FOR THE QUARTERLY. Send news items to Mr. H. F. Fenstemaker, Editor, Bloomsburg, Penna. A COMPLETE ALUMNI DIRECTORY TO BE PUBLISHED UTTH THE APRIL, 1939, NOTIFY US OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME OR AD- IN THE QUARTERLY, STARTING ISSUE. DRESS. EVERY GRADUATE AND FRIEND OF BLOOMSBURG CONTRIBUTING SOMETHING TO THE CENTENNIAL STUDENT LOAN FUND. DO YOUR P.ART. WE NEED THE HELP OF EVERY GRADUATE. Send checks to Mr. D. D. Wright, Treasurer, Bloomsburg, Penna. ALU3INI ON THE CAMPUS FOR ALUMNI DAY. Come 1000 back for Alumni Day. Enjoy the line program. See the new buildings. Shake hand.s with your classmates and friends. f A limited number of the College will he order of application to Men. Dormitory Rooms for Alumni guests and will be reserved in the the Dean of Women and the Dean of of av'ailable THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY state Teachers Collefiie Bloomsbury, Pennsylvania Volume Forty-Three BB Three : ; Ne4AJL Qif4H^a64444n ^eJlic^itexl In one of the most impressive exercises in the history of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, the new $300,000.00 gymnasium, to be known as the Centennial Gymnasium, was dedicated Saturday afternoon. May 23. Participating in the exercises in the presence of a large audience of alumni, members of the graduating class and friends were Governor Arthur H. James, Dr. Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dr. A. K. Aldinger, New York City, who stalled the physical education program at Bloomsburg and coached some of its greatest athletic teams. President Harvey A. Andruss presided at the exercises which followed a processional of dignitaries, members of Capella Choir, the class and graduates. Music was by the Bloomsburg High School Band, T. Holland Paist, Jr., directing. The invocation was given by William B. Sutliff, dean emeritus of the college. David H. Diehl, executive director of the general State Authority, was unable to attend because of the illness of a son in a Pittsburgh Hospital. President Andruss made the presentation of the gymnasium and asserted that “in the commemoration of a century of higher education at Bloomsburg this building A accordingly named ‘The Centennial Gymnasium’.” In his acceptance Reg. S. Hemingway, president of the Trustees, asserted “In erecting this structure you are not only preserving the ancient landmarks which your forefathers have set, but you are establishing new landmarks for our prosterity to preserve and improve upon. We see in this Centennial Gymnasium not only the emblem of an intelligent Commonwealth, but a memorial to the educational progress of its people.” is 4***-"‘*‘“‘** •Vol. 43-No. 3 ,|, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY Auj^ust, 1942 ; Published by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, July 1, 1909, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., Under the Act of July 16, 1804. Published Four Times a Year. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 Cents. : H. \ I F. E. H. FENSTEMAKER, T2 NELSON. T1 . ; I I ; EDITOR . . BUSINESS MANAGER 4 THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, * August, 1942 Page Two “Let US in our fight for the freedom of the world sure that we preserve the liberties of our own nation,” Governor Arthur H. James asserted in the dedicatory address of The Centennial Gymnasium. Speaking before the exceptionally large audience, considering the curtailment of travel in the emergency, the chief executive of the Commonwealth addressed many of his remarks to the members of the graduating class who attended in a body attired in caps and gowns. He told them, “Why fear? The same sun is shining; we have the same good earth. It all depends on what we have in the heart and whether we have the courage.” make Accompanied to Bloomsburg by his wife. Governor James and other principals in the day’s program reached the College dining hall for luncheon about 1 :00 o’clock and left there immediately afterward for the exercises at the gymnasium. Governor James and President Andruss headed the procession. Presented by Reg. S. Hemingway, President of the (College Trustees, the Governor praised the work of Dr. k'rancis B. Haas and of President Andruss of the College and recalled that his earliest teacher, a Miss Wilkins, was a Bloomsburg graduate. “Bloomsburg has always stood out among the Teachers Colleges and is high on the roster of the institutions of the Commonwealth. An institution exceeded by none is Bloomsburg in the realm of education in the state.” He said that the residents of the Commonwealth upon the receipt of a building such as was being dedicated, should receive it not in the spirit of receiving something from the government but of the government recognizing the institution’s worth in the establishment of happiness and the advancement of the welfare of its people. “There is too much prevalence given to the view that we get something from the government. Let me emphasize that no government is ever higher than the people.” Speaking to the class he said “When you go out in life remember T am a sovereign in myself.’ There is no one in authority so high that he represents anything else but being the servant of our people. “If we would measure up we must see that the people have the finest advantages that they, such as you members of the class, may go out into life determined to maintain the ideals instilled in you in such institutions as : this. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Three “Do not lag in life. May there ever be the spirit of competition and ambition. If we stop moving forwai’d, either physically or in the heait, we dry up and rot. When the machine lags the machine begins to fall apart. “You are going out into the world at a time when it IS most unsettled. Do not be afraid. The world in a great measure is no different today than it has ever been. Think of life in the terms of adventure. “Our ancestors traveled 3,000 miles to this country. They had no fear, only a spirit of determination. They have founded here a government that is the finest conception man has ever realized. It is founded on the Bible and the philosophy that all men are born free. They were willing to sacrifice their lives, fortunes and sacred honor for this. “Now we see a force coming in the world that is denying this philosophy. This force takes the position that there must be a master that the ordinary man or V Oman does not know how to handle his or her life. “When the power of the democratic peoples gets lolling we know that the democratic nations will prevail and that the democratic way of life based on the Bible ; will continue. “We will give up everything in this emergency bui our liberties of telling our government what to do. We v;ill allow the government to enroll its man power and ration sugar, tires, gasoline or anything with the understanding that when this emergency is over regimentation is over, too. “Don’t get the idea that because the government says right. Tell any of the officials, including the Governor of your state, what you desire. That is your right. “With strong minds, bodies and hearts we can preserve our liberties and those of the rest of the world.’’ The A Capella Choir, with Miss Harriet M. Moore directing and Miss Louise Adams as accompanist, led in so, it is singing patriotic songs. Speaking on “One Hundred Years of Education at Bloomsburg,’’ Dr. Francis B. Haas, reviewing the contribution of the institution, observed “Could these men and women, who through devoted service in the century past, be with us today, with what astonishment they would This gaze upon the present realization of their dreams magnificent gymnasium, equipped to produce sound . THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, . . August, 1942 Page Four minds in sound bodies, in this time of great national need The roar of ‘Wings over Bloomsburg’ as the College makes its contribution to the vital necessity for trained . . . aviators. This and a host of other current projects are beyond their fondest dreams. “You have heard it said that the first hundred years ai’e the hardest. Those of us who have been privileged to have a part in the development of this institution pass on the torch with understanding of the difficult problems to be faced and with confidence that the torch will be held high and earned on. “We dedicate the ‘Centennial Gymnasium’ of this institution to the service of democracy, the immediate objective of which is the winning of the ‘World Freedom War’.’’ Dr. Aldinger asserted that he got most personal satisfaction from the development of the men who were under him in his daj’s at Bloomsburg at the turn of the century and not in the development of winning teams. V\‘’ inning, he said, came from offensive plaj* and through the practice of first aid, through necessity, for material He was presented by Dean Sutliff. \.-as limited. The program concluded with the National Anthem. W A recent count has revealed that Bloomsburg now has over 9,000 graduates. Of this number, about 1,050 are deceased, about 7,000 are on the active list, and about 1,300 are on the inactive list. The term “inactive” means that mail addressed to these people has been returned, and that the college does not have their correct addresses. Graduates of Bloomsburg can render great assistance by keeping their class lists up to date. The class of 1917, in making plans for their twenty-fifth year reunion this year, were able to reduce the number on the inactive list of their class to less than ten. What they have done, other classes can do. All that is necessary is that someone be willing to assume the responsibility. i The faculty of the college enteitained President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss at a dinner Wednesday evening, April 15, in the college dining room. Trustees of the college were also guests of the faculty. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August. 1942 Page Five Commencement A kind of education is needed which has for its focus community and the relationship of every man to his community, Dr. Ambrose L. West, President, New Jersey State Teachers College, Trenton, told the 115 members of the graduating class at the Teachers College, Tuesday the morning. May 26. By the “community” the speaker said he meant “not but his state, his nation, and now his world” and he warned that “when this war is over, we shall be tempted again to withdraw into our own contented isolationism instead of cooperating with other nations in establishing conditions of social and economic justice under which nations can j^rosper. Such isolationism will lead only to another conflict some time in the futhe place where a man lives, ture.” The procession of the class included the paiticipants the exercises, trustees and faculty with the processional “Marcia Religosa,” played by H. F. Fenstemaker. The invocation was by William B. Sutliff, dean emeritus. Following the address, Mr. Fenstemaker pleased with an organ selection, “Adoremus, Melodie Religieuse, Op. 72.” President Harvey A. Andruss, of the College, conferred the degrees. All joined in singing “Alma Mater” and the class left the auditorium as Mr. Fenstemaker played as the recessional “Te Deum Laudamus.” Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the music for the program. Dr. West during his address said in : “Society has a right to expect that graduates of colleges will have the attributes of ‘educated men.’ What are the qualities of such people? Professor Whitehead defines an ‘educated man’ as one ‘with wide knowledge, a disciplined intelligence, and a discriminating taste.’ Each of these attainments is essential for a person to be truly educated. A person with only wide knowledge, but without disciplined intelligence, would be useless in the present world. He would be ‘all dressed up’ but ‘with no place to go.’ A person with wide knowledge and a disciplined intelligence, but without discriminating taste, might be a successful gangster or some other type of menace to society. More of the same kind of education which has been current in many American communities will not solve our problems. A different kind of education is needed. This education must have as its focus the community and the relationship of every man to his community. And, of course, we mean by the community not the place THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Six man where a cation must teach men lives, but his state, his nation and now his world. Eduto understand the world in which they live and to adjust their social, economic and political policies to this real world and not to some woi'ld which has been dead for many years. “In 1919 we failed to understand our world. We were still living under the illusions created by the nineteenth century. We failed to realize that the American frontier had disappeared and that many other conditions which had given us prosperity and peace had likewise changed. We expected to take advantage of the scientific additions to our life without taking responsibility for helping to create the li^nd of world in which an industrialized and mechanized civilization could exist. So we refused to listen to Woodrow Wilson when he appealed to us to help organize a society of nations wliich might have prevented the catastrophe in which we now find ourselves. “One hundred years ago Emerson in a famous essay reminded the oui' American people that ‘inaction is cowardice.’" A philosopher own time, Ralph Barton Perry, has expi'essed the same idea of in In other words, we cannot escape the consequences which come to a people which allows indifferences to get the better of positive action. Our concepts of peace have always been negative. We have thought of peace as the absence of war and have thought that we could keep peace by declaring that we would be neutral in a struggle between other nations. We should have learned that peace is a product of cooperation and justice. It is not an end in itself but comes as a by-product of positive international relationships. When this war is over, we shall be tempted again to withdraw into our own contented isolationism instead of cooperating with otlier nations in establishing conditions of social and economic justice under which nations can prosper. Such isolationism will lead only to another conflict sometime in the future. the phrase, ‘inaction is action.’ “Every educated man must try to understand the currents of human developments which persist through the years for the improveof decent living. As Justice Holmes once said, he must be attempting to live so that ‘a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men will still be moving to the measure of his thought.’ If we look back over the world’s history, we can find men of whom that can be said. Jefferson was such a man. He fought for political democracy, religious freedom and educaitonal opportunitj’. Horace Mann was such a man in his fight for the establishment of the common school and the proper education of teachers. Pasteur was such a man as he struggled to understand and conquer the germs of disease. The Wright brothers were such men as they experimented to give us a new form of transportation. Wilson was such a man as he fought to make us see that cooperation between nations is the only possible way to avoid slaughter and ruin every few years. The ‘wave of the future’ depends on how many people are willing to be loyal to t’lese eternal values for which man has been struggling for generations. Educated men must lead in this struggle.” ment THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 : Page Seven liaxxxU(ui^i^jcUe Sen^mcm Whether we are witnessing the bankruptcy of the race or the birth throes of a new and more glor- human day will be determined largely by that which the world sees and that which it seeks, Rev. Gladstone P. Cooley, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Berwick, told the members of the graduating class of the State Teachers College at the baccalaureate services in ious the College auditorium, Sunday afternoon. May 24. The minister asserted that “This Kingdom of God, as outlined by Jesus, ought to flash upon the war weary eyes of our generation like a gem unsurpassed and as a priceless reward for those who truly seek the highest good.” The services opened with the processional, “Ancient of Days” and the invocation by the Rev. Mr. Cooley. The congregation sang “Faith of Our Fathers” and President Harvey A, Andruss, of the College, read the Scripture. Following the sermon, “Bless the Lord, O My Soul,” was sung by A Capella Choir, Miss Hannet M. Moore director, and Miss Jeanne Moll, pianist. The Rev. Mr. Cooley pronounced the benediction and the recessional was “Awake, My Soul.” H. F. Fenstemaker was at the console ancl Miss Moore directed the music. Using as his subject, “Pearl of Great Price,” and basremarks on the Parable of Jesus by the same name, his hig tlie Rev. Mr. Cooley said in part “You are being graduated at a time when you may find it difficult to decide whether you are witnessing in the world today, the of the human race or the birthroes of a new and more own feeling is that potentially it may be either glorious day. bankruptcy My upon what we do with it. And what we do with it, going to be determined largely by that which the world sees and one, depending is that which it seeks. “When we human today, a struggle certainly it seems It takes imagination and faith to be to able to visualize the possibilities of the future in the piles of debris ir: look at the struggling which most of you are soon be coming down in ruins. race become involved, to created by this war. “But ways two we need to remember sets of factors. the ‘Possibilities.’ It is in every situation in These may be called the the actualities that we now life there are al- ‘Actualities’ see. The and possi- must be imagined first and then faithfully pursued. If you concentrate on the present actualities you will become cynical and bilities THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Eight If, however, you can even imagine the possibilities you have the basis for an attempt at something better. These potentialities, conceived by the imagination but obtained by constant eifort, sometimes by ‘blood, sweat and tears,’ I am calling in this address, ‘Pearls of Great Price.’ discouraged. can at least “Jesus in His fascinating story of treasure hunting is suggesting is in this life a highest good. And that this highest good can only be obtained by an unremitting quest. To this search we must bring our critical intelligence, our highest sens^ of values and our unremitting efforts. It is by such critical and discriminating intelligence and effort that we can see the joyous possibilities in the that there drab actualities. you are tempted to feel that you are about to inherit a bankrupt world, it might do you good to take inventory of your assets. These are a part of the actualities of the moment. “If “There is for example your health, your youth and your training. These are all ‘goodly pearls.’ But one of the finest goodly pearls that you possess is your heritage. This heritage is manifold but one of the most important segments of it is your national heritage. This nationIt is al' heritage that comes to you has been produced at great cost. now being challenged and because of the challenge we have come to appreciate it anew, and we are now risking our all to defend it. It is a heritage that some of you will soon be called upon to defend. You will do it more willingly and with better grace if you are aware what this national heritage really is. “It is partly natural. That is to say the heritage which comes to us from nature, or ‘the good earth’ of this great land of ours. It is made up of the absolutely inexhaustable physical forces of this American earth, of the riches of our mines, and our oil wells, and cur forests, and our streams. “It is also human heritage; a heritage of a great people remarkably united in their agreement to establish a continental brotherhood on this hemisphere on the basis of national understanding and coop- eration. “It is also a spiritual heritage. The spiritual forbears of this na- our American ideals of liband freedom and a host of institutions that went with these ideals. This wedding of culture and faith is the true ‘American way tion, Christian in thought, gave birth to erty of life.’ “All these are goodly pearls we already possess. But like the pearl merchant of the parable we cannot be content with the possession of mere goodly pearls. We must ever be on the search for the ‘Pearl of Great Price.’ This pearl of great price, let us call ‘Destiny.’ Our heritage we possess; destiny we must yet achieve. “This ‘Pearl of Great Price,’ Jesus, in his parable, identified v/l'th the Kingdom of Heaven. Heritage and destiny come together in God who is ‘the same, yesterday, today and forever more.’ As Dr. John MacKay has put it, ‘In the measure in which we can see no fu- THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Nine ture apart from Him, so that the destiny to which we aspire and God’s purpose in Christ for our lives become one; in the measure in which God the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ is the beginning, the center, and the end of our existence. He in whom heritage and desin that measure shall we be able to look forward to a tiny meet worthy tomorrow and receive strength for the road to reach it.’ “This Kingdom of God as outlined by Jesus, ought to flash upon tne war weary eyes of our generation like a gem unsurpassed and as a priceless reward for those who truly seek the highest good, “The Pearl of Great Price.’’ The speaker said in closing, “Young ladies and gentlemen of the graduating class, I congratulate you on the goodly pearls you possess. I pray God’s blessing on you in your quest for pearls of greater price, and may you find great satisfaction for time and eternity in ‘The Pearls of Great Price,’ even our Father’s Kingdom.” — — PRE-SESSION An NEW FEATURE unanticipated enrollment of 150 registered at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College for the pre-session, which opened Monday, June 8. This program was the first in the history of the college and was the largest enrollment for any summer session of the same length in the history of the institution.) There were eighty dormitory students and seventy day students, and those residing at the college fifty-five were women and twenty-five men. Of those enrolled a small group were Freshmen who were starting the three calendar year plan. President Harvey A. Andruss stated that if present indications continue the streamline program would produce numbers for the, six-week session which will exceed that of last year. He continued that the present tendency of larger summer sessions is the manner in which colleges are meeting the present shortage of teachers. Courses offered at the three-week session were economic geography. Dr. H. H. Russell; elementary botany. Dr. Kimber H. Kuster; present day social economic problems, E. A. Reams; children’s literature, Samuel Wilson; ; , biological science. Dr. E. H. Nelson; stemaker; salesmanship and retail Forney. ethics, Howard Fenselling, William C. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Ten Alumni Meeting, T. F. Chroswaite, Hanover attorney, responding for the class of 1892, stole the show at the general alumni meeting when Mrs. C. C. Housenick, R. Bruce Albert, of Bloomsburg, and Fred W. Diehl, Danville, were re-elected directors for three year tenns. Responding for the fifty year class which had twenty members back, he told of the many professions to which members had devoted their lives. “We haven’t had a judge but we’re young yet. We haven’t had a president cither, but we hope to, that is if there is ever a vacancy. “Back in our day we thought a blackout was the plunging of the building into darkness at ten o’clock. We associated sabotage with desecration of the Sabbath. “We thought only of mythical sirens and if a cricket so much as chirped at night we went to the windows to see what it was all about. One member of our faculty of that day showed good judgment, Prof. Hartline married one of our class. I wish to say to the members of this year’s class that you have joined a society of scholars and I am ceitain you will maintain the standards that have been established.’’ The 1942 class marched into the meeting in a body and Earl Harris, treasurer, presented a check for membership of the class. R. Bruce Albert, alumni president, presided. Dr. E. H. Nelson and Howard Fenstemaker reported for the Alumni Quarterly and the report of D. D. Wright, Treasurer of the Student Loan Fund, showed the fund totalling over $10,000 with 60 persons now borrowers. The group stood in silent tribute to the memory of Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., president emeritus, whose death occurred June, 1941. Miss Edna Aurand, of the Luzerne county group, presented the balance of its $100 pledge to the student loan fund. President Andruss welcomed the graduates on behalf of the college. Dr. A. K. Aldinger spoke briefly and said the good teams of his day were the result of cooperation. Oldest living graduate present was Prof. C. M. Albert, class of 1879. Miss Mary Petty, Berwick, reported for 1887, Mr. Chroswaite for the fifty year class; O. Z. Low, Orangeville, for 1897 Miss Marie Dean, Scranton. ; THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Eleven for 1902; Miss Bertha Lovering, Scranton, 1907; Ercell Bidleman, Bloomsburg, 1912; Allen Cromis, Bloomsburg, 1917; Miss Cleora McKinstry, Bloomsburg, 1922; Verna Medley Davenport for 1927; Mrs. Betty Jones Harris, 1940. A large audience enthusiastically received the presentation of “Pride and Prejudice” by the Bloomsburg players Thursday evening, April 30, in the college auditorium. The characters of the play, written by Helen Jerome, were portrayed by B. S. T. C. students with Charlene Margie having the lead as Elizabeth and Boyd Buckingham as Mr. Darcy. The setting was England in the early century and centered around a family living in a small town. The flighty mother, who above everything else wanted husbands for her three daughters, was portrayed by Stella Williams; Jane, the prettiest of the sisters, was played by Betty Katerman; Lydia, the youngest, by Betty Hagenbuch; Mr. Bennett, the father, Lee Beaumont; Mr. Bingley, Paul Rowlands; Mr. Collins, George Miller; Charlotte, Catherine Sedlack; Mr. Wickham, Irving Gottlieb; Miss Bingley, Jean Kuster; Forbes, Carl Berninger; Mrs. Lucas, Betsy Smith; Maggie, Sara Jean Eastman; Lady Catherine, Anne Shortess; Mrs. Gardiner, Ella Shargo; Colonel Fitzwilliams, Gerald Demaree. The play was divided into three acts and seven scenes. Music between the acts was presented by Howard Fenstemaker. George Miller, as Mr. Collins, the simpering cousin of the Bennets, and Betty Hagenbuch, as Lydia, the giddy young sister who was mad about uniforms, especially amused the audience. Mr. Bennett, with his dry humor and martyred way of putting up with his wife, also drew many laughs. Miss Margie and Mr. Darcy and Miss Katerman and Mr. Rowlands provided the romantic interest for this adaptation of a classic novel. iti Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Margaret McCulla, of Freeland, and Walter Lash, of The ceremony was performed May 30, 1940, Middleport, with the Rev. Mr. Orzeck officiating. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lash are graduates of Bloomsburg, Mrs. Lash is a substitute teacher in the Foster Township schools, and Mr. Lash is a teacher in the commercial department of the Frackville High School. Frackville. at THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twelve Alumni Banquet Early developments of the Teachers College which ground work for the splendid institution of today were interestingly related at the Alumni Banquet by Prof. Charles H. Albert, a member of the class of 1879, and one of the beloved “Old Guard.” The other two living members and their wives, the latter also former members of the faculty. Dean and Mrs. B. Sutliff and Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline, were also in attendance and all were given an ovation by the gradlaid the uates. Despite the crisis and its rationing the attendance was almost as large as that of a year ago and appearing on the program wdth Prof. Albert were Dr. Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction and former Bloomsburg president Dr. A. K. Aldinger, head of ; the physical education department of the schools of the City of New York, and coach of some of Bloomsburg’s greatest teams around the turn of the century R. Bruce Albert, president of the graduate body, and President Harvey A. Andruss, who welcomed the graduates on behalf of the College. A number of alumni in the service were on the campus during the day and were recognized. Among those at the banquet were Lieutenant George Houseknecht, class of 1941, and his bride, the foimer Joyce Letterman, of Bloomsburg; Sergeant Dick Foote, 1941, of Camp Croft, S. C., a son of the late J. C. Foote, for years head of the English department; Sergeant Joseph Sworin, and Ensign Rostand Kelly, the latter at Fort Schuyler, New York. Singing during the evening was in charge of Miss Harriet H. Moore with G. Gordon Keller at the solovox. ; Dinner music wms by Mr. Keller. The program opened with the singing of America and the invocation by the Rev. L. V. Barber, pastor of the Benton-Orangeville Presbyterian church. Trustees and wives present were Reg. S. Hemingway, of Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Croop, of Berwick, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, of Danville. Alumni officers introduced in addition to the president were Mrs. C. C. Housenick, secretary, and Miss Harriet Carpenter, treasurer and former faculty member, of THE ALUMNI QUAKTERLY, August, 1942 Page Thirteen Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Ruth Speaiy Griffith, WilkesBarre, vice president. Edward F. Schuyler presided. Prof. Albert, who taught Spring terms at the college from his graduation in 1879 until 1887 and then devoted of his time to teaching at the institution until his retirement in 1926, held the closest of interest as he told of the school as it was when he enrolled and traced its progress. classmate and life-long friend of the late Prof. Oliver H. Bakeless, Prof. Albeit, now eighty-four but with a memory as keen as ever, contrasted the various changes in educational methods and lauded many of the faculty, past and present, for their contributions to Bloomsburg. His definition of education, emphasized repeatedly in the class room and long since adopted as a pattern for life by many of his former pupils who were in the banquet hall, formed the basis for some of his most pertinent remarks. The definition is “Education is that which enables us to do what we should at the right time and whether we want to or not.’’ all A Following the banquet, which concluded with the the group adjourned to the new gymnasium. Entertainment there included dancing and the showing of all of the six motion pictures which have been made of college life at Bloomsburg. Alma Mater, COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT OFFICERS At a recent chapel meeting of the Community Government Association on the campus of the Teachers College, the newly elected members of the College Council were inducted into office with a formal ceremony. El wood Beaver, Catawissa, president for 1941-42 term, opened the meeting and immediately turned it over to the vice-president, Ralph McCracken, Allentown, who inducted the members of the new College Council for the 1942-43 college term. The members of the new council are: Boyd Buckingham, York, president; Joanna Fice, Athens, vice-president; Harold Miller, treasui-er, Drums; Jeanne Knight, secretary, Bloomsburg; John Witkoski, Mt. Carmel; Carl Berninger, Catawissa; Sara Jean Eastman, Bloomsburg; George Smith. Shamokin; Stella Williams, Luzerne; Donald Babb, Benton; Bernard Kane, Centralia; Margaret Dean, Kulpmont; Robert Bunge, Catawissa; Louise Madl, Shamokin; Ruth Ebright, Mifilintown; Winton Laubach, Benton. , THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 : Page Fourteen Ivy Day Seniors had their day at the Teachers College MonMay 25, with traditional Ivy Day exercises in the grove in early evening followed by a party on the campus at which faculty, parents and friends were guests. Walter Mohr, of Scranton, Ivy Day orator, speaking from the pergola in the grove, a memorial of the class of 1916, dealt with the realities which the class faces as it goes into the world and pointed out “The chaotic condition of the world today brings to us a clearer, more distmct picture of our obligations.” Following the processional to the grove the College day, Chorus sang “Maroon and Gold.” Ralph Zimmerman, class president, presented Mr. Mohr. Plant Ivy at New Following the oration, the class Gym proceeded to the for the Ivy planting. The presentation of the spade was by Senior Class President Zimmerman and the acceptance by John Witkoski, presidentelect of the class of 1943. The program concluded with the singing of “Alma Mater” by the College Chorus. The party followed immediately. Mr. Mohr’s oration follows “The Bible teaches us that the early Christians used ivy to symbolize everlasting life; we of the class of 1942 hope sincerely that the planting of this ivy today will also be an everlasting one; a way of life that will include prosperity, tolerance, peace, and international good will; one that will see an end of intolerance, servitude and dicCentennial Gymnasium domination throughout the world. “This class is faced with more problems and more uncertainty than probably any other graduating class in the history of the school. Nevertheless, we are determined to face the future with a definite cC'Ufidence because we feel that here at Bloomsburg we have received the necessary education to cope with the problems and the uncertainty facing all graduates in all schools. All of us are quite aware that within a short time we will be called upon to contribute more in the defense of our country. Here again we have confidence in our class; we know that we are as ready to serve as were those members of our class who entered the service during the past school tatorial year. “The chaotic condition of the world today brings to us a clearer, more distinct picture of our obhgations. As trained teachers, it will be our duty to aid in developing a more liberal educational plan, to break down the barriers of ignorance, and to bring common good and brotherhood. into channels of THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 human thought Page Fifteen “Let us place our ivy in growing and let the spread of our teaching be infinitely wider and more significant than the spread of this ivy. As the ivy is a living, growing plant, let the fruits of knowledge we have gathered here in the past four years become a light to others, let it become a spiritual and educational guide to both ourselves and cur future associates. The ideas we acquired here are not to become stagnant, nor allowed to lie dormant. We must make them live and keep them as forcefully dynamic as they are at present. To fail to utilize what we have received from the relationships we have had with our instructors and fellow students, is to admit that we are in- competent to meet our obligations. As a member of the class of 1942, I should like to voice the opinion of all its members that we appreciate what has been done for us here at Bloomsburg, and that this appreciation will be manifested in the future actions of the class, collectively and individually. It is with the utmost confidence that I say that this class, with the guidance it has received, is well fitted to carry on the fine tradition set up by the preceding classes. I speak for the class when I say that we will do everything in our power to maintain our way of life. We r.'ust and we will, with the help of God, keep our freedom and our — Democracy.” Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Frances E. Houck, of Berwick, to Robert B. Miner, of Tunkhannock. Miss Houck is a graduate of the BerMuck High School and attended the Bloomsburg Hospital School of Nursing. Mr. Miner is employed by the U. S. Army Air Corps as an instructor in the Supply School, Olmsted Feid, Middletown, Pa. AUuH4^i /Iddxiciatlcut THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Sixteen May Day The beauty of the May Day pageantry of the TeachCollege is a magnet to draw the populace whether the time is in days of tranquil peace, or, as at present, in a period of war. That was evident when townspeople were joined vdth others of the section to enjoy the presentation of the annual May Day, staged on the beautiful rolling stretch of campus between Science Hall and the main buildings. Unquestionably more than the usual number walked to the scene of the pageantry and fewer, because of transportation cuitailments, were able to come from out of town but the crowd, as always, was entirely too great for the seating accommodations, numerous though they were, and hundreds sat on the lawn in front of the bleachers or stood in the rays of a warm sun for the hour and a half of the program. Miss Catherine O’Neil, of Freeland, College Senior, made a charming May Queen and was crowned as a climax of the brilliant processional, by Elwood Beaver, of Catawissa, president of the Community Government Asei’s sociation. There was never a more glorious day provided for the frolic on the greensward for the entertainment of the queen and her court. It was unquestionably warm, and many of the women in the waiting throng, used parasols in the elTort to keep off some of the heat and, quite probably, to endeavor to keep the freckles from multiplying. The Processional The Bloomsburg State Teachers College Band, which provided the music for the program, opened with the processional “Triumphal March from Aide,” Verdi. The flower girls were Donna Reice, Margaret Shoemaker, Kathryn Baker, Susan Leiby, Dora Shultz, Ruby Moyle, Nancy Brink, Anne Marie Church, Gloria Masteller and Sue Buchheit. Tom Lockard was the crown bearer. The Queen’s attendants v/ere Misses Doris Guild, Ruth Baird, Eleanor Twardzik, Ruth James, Ida Jane Shipe, Jeanne Noll, Roberta Hastie and Grace Thomas. Pages were Terrie Roberts, Ralph Dillon, Dick Vial, Charles Stout, Edward Keefer, Bill Nast, Gordon Fairchild, Alan Rippey, Donald Nungessor, Tony Johnstone, Doyle Bright and Donald Shultz. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Seventeen The Queen was crowned by Elwood Beaver, Catawissa, president Community Government Association. oE the Children’s Presentations All of the grades of the Ben Franklin School and the girls of the Freshman class of the college participated in the festivities for the e/'.tertainment of the Queen. The Kindergarten presented “At the Circus,” under the supervision of Miss Grace H. Woolworth, with Miss Hazel O’Brien as the student assistant. — “Walking in the grade dramatized its own work The cast was; Trees Bill Nast, Edward Keefer, Charles Stout, Donald Nungessor, Donald Shultz, Doyle Bright, Tony Johnstone, Dick Vial; fiowers Katherine Baker, Susan Leiby, Dora Shultz, Ralph Dillon, Joanne White, Anne Church, Gloria Masteller, Aian Rippery; butterflies Margaret Shoemaker, Terry Roberts, Ruby Moyle and Donna Reice; boy Gordon Fairchild; girl Nancy The first — Spring.” — — — — Brink. The clever presentation was supervised by Miss Carolyn M. Welch with Misses Bernice Stout and Helen McGonigle as the stude,nt assistants and Miss Catherine Jones as accompanist. Children of the second grade presented “The Palm Tree,” featuring “Little Brunette,” by Richardo Romero, with original rhythmic interpretation and the Guianeze folk song, “There’s a Pretty Girl in a Ring,” an original dance game. Miss Mabel Moyer was the supervisor and the assistants were Miss Lydia Rappella, Martha Wright, Lois Gruver, Doris Sears, Isabelle McIntyre, Jean Ackerman. ' Australia Setting third gi-ade children presented “Chichester,” an English folk dance often used in Australia. The college girls participated in the “March of the Toy Soldiers” fx'om “Babes in Toyland” by Victor Herbert. Miss Virginia Lee Lawhead was the student director. Fifth grade students supervised by Mrs. Anna Garrison Scott gave “Picadilla;” sixth grade students under the dii'ection of Mi's. Etta Keller and with student assistants. Misses Kathryn Hess and Ruth Hope, gave “Minuet” and fourth grade children were seen in The “Ostendaise,” supervised by Miss Edna J. Barnes. The dance was taught by Miss Mary Whitenight, assisted by Miss Patricia Ferguson. Then followed the Maypole winding for the group with the accompanists, Louise Adams and Janet Shank. George J. Keller designed the throne and Misses Bernice Blaine Stout and Mary Lou Fenstermaker executed the plan. The band music was under the direction of Howard F. Fenstemaker. Dillon greenhouses provided all of the fiowers tor the queen’s court. General direction of the program was capably handled by Miss Lucy McCammon and Miss Mary Whitenight. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Eighteen The program, in keeping with the times, was developed around folk dances of the United States allies. While Miss Lucy McCammon said in advance that the pageantry would be on less elaborate lines this year. Nature saw to it that the setting was exceptional and the participants did their pait to make it one of Bloomsburg’s May finest Days. Sixty-five high school girls from throughout the ser- vice area of the Teachers College were guests of the College Wednesday, June 13, at the ninth annual play day with the program in charge of the B Club, girls’ athletic organization. The program opened at nine o’clock with the regis- and a meeting in the auditorium. Girls were then divided into squads and a fine program of sport was en- tration joyed until the Maj" Day festivities late in the afternoon. Guests were entertained at lunch at the college. Miss Grace Thomas, of Bloomsburg, was the general chairman, and scores of college most enjoyable day. girls saw that their guests had a Herbert E. McMahan, member of the faculty of the now on leave of absence, is now LieutenantCommander McMahan, of the United States Naval Reserve. He has recently been made Officer in Charge of the Outgoing Stores Group of the Supply Department at the United States Navy Yard in Philadelphia. He is living at 170 West Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne, Pa. College, AUumti A^Axiclailo.^ -4 THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 : Page Nineteen Dr. A. K. Aidinger Dr. A. K. Aldinger, one whose name looms large the history of athletics at Bloomsbiirg, paid a visit to the College on Alumni Day, and was one of the speakers at the dedication of the Centennial Gymnasium. The following excellent summary of Dr. Aldinger’s career appeared in “Fanning,” the sport column of the Morning Press To many who for years have heard of the great accomplishments of Dr. A. K. Aldinger at the Teachers College there was prone to be some thought if whether some of the tales about him were not built up through the in years. When we saw Alumni Day the activities man and on the hill talked with him at the we were willing to be- anything about him that has to do with accomplishment, with the moulding of men. The calendar which dates his various activities, shows that Dr. Aldinger is now well along in life. But that alone puts the years on his shoulders. He carries lieve them lightly and graciously. He came to Bloomsbiirg around the turn of the century when the local institution had a fine new gymnasium. Now it is referred to as “the old one.” He was here for many years and started a program that through the years has become recognized as one of the finest in any insti- tution of this size. It was built on the foundation laid down by Dr. Aldinger and it is now in such capable hands as Dr. E. H. Nelson, George Buchheit, Miss Lucy McCammon and Miss Mary Whitenight. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty- Speaking before the graduates at the alumni meeting he said “my twelve years in Bloomsburg did more to give me a background than any other twelve years of my life. had to develop the program from scratch and it enlisted my best efforts. “I am known best here for the fine teams of those years but I am more proud of the work I did with all of the boys who came under me.” Smilingly, he added, “I had to have good teams to stay. They were the product of fine cooperation.” You hear much about offense these days. It’s the one topic that during the crisis is the basis of more conversa- We any other. But “offense” has been the plan of Dr. Aldinger’s life. “I always believed and always will that the way to win is by offense, not defense. When we had baseball practice we fielded fifteen minutes and batted forty-five. “We were always pulling the unexpected but we practiced that. Some of our opponents said we were tion than lucky. I don't think we were. a carefullj' arranged plan.” Dean Emeritus William It was the carrying out B. Sutliff, who was of closely associated with Dr. Aldinger at Bloomsburg and who presented him as the gymnasium dedication exercises voiced the sentiments of all when he said, “His greatest contribution was in the work with the boys of that generation. His name will alwaj^s live as an inspiration in all of Bloomsburg’s athletic endeavors.” This was Dr. Aldinger’s first trip to Bloomsburg in years but he called his “boj^s” by name when he met them on the campus. He chatted with “Pop” Ent and Tom Moore and others and he didn’t have to be introduced. He rattled off the names of the boys on those teams of four decades ago as though they were members of the squad he was coaching at the present. He observed that during his firet years at Bloomsburg they had played Wyoming in football twice, losing 40 to 0 and 36 to 6. At the close of the season he said he asked Prof. Detwiler, working with him, if he thought “Normal” would ever be able to give Wyoming a good game. Prof. Detwhiler said that with organization and morale he believed this could be accomplished. They THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty-One must have got it. The teams tied the next year and then Bloomsburg won every football game with Wyoming for nine years. “You hear lots about first aid nowadays. We learned then from necessity. We did not have many boys and we could not afford to lose them. So we learned to take care of them. We never lost any one with a broken collar bone nor by a dislocated shoulder.” Some of the boys in this era don’t take training too seriously and often get tired of practice. But they had it drills and more those days. Aldinger, “When drills in we had a stop between trains we walked through signals. Each night after supper we met and walked through signals. We took inRecalled Dr. pains to practice for every situation. that one time Berwick had been ajixious to meet Normal in a post season game. That was the day of the Harry boys and other fine Berwick athfinite He commented letes. Aldinger thought the Normal team too light but he agreed to the game. They played one half with fformal in front 20-0. Berwick didn’t continue. Not because the boys did not want to. They had played themfinally selves out in the first half. He recalled that no such thing as dancing was allowed on the hill in those days. Dr. Aldinger, however, had the thought that it had a part in the program. “So we called it aitistic steps” and it was put in the program. Dancing wasn’t permitted but dancing was the same thing. “The accomplishments of forty years are exempliby the type of work done here today. 1 agree with the Governor that there must be competition in life. Without it you would not need seats in this gymnasium. You could not have the athletic fields. “The building of good health is of paramount importance. Prevention and correction in health education has a definite part in this crisis.” Bloomsburg isn’t the only place that appreciates Dr. fied Aldinger. He was for thirty-five years in the New York City system. Then he retired on length of service and went to his alma mater, Vermont University. At the end of three years he returned to the head of the physical education department in the schools of the world’s largest THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty-Two New York had held the office open for him that Thej" couldn’t find any one that satisfied them. He could carry on in Dr. Aldinger’s footsteps. So they got Dr. Aldinger back. He’s still there and looks capable of many more years of outstanding service. city. long. • Athletes Honored Bloomsburg State Teachers College recognized the athletic achievements of its sons and daughters at “honor day’’ exercises Wednesday, May 20, those awards shar- ing the spotlight with others made for leadership and academic attainments. The program served to emphasize again that if the emergency necessitated, for the duration, the curtailing intercollegiate competition in sports, or eliminating Bloomsburg has a fine intra-mural setup which can carry on with few adjustments and accommodate all who wish to participate. The athletic awards for some years have been presented at an athletic banquet but this year the dedication of the new gymnasium, a feature of Alumni Day replaced this fete. SENIORS Senior awards in athletics went to six athletes and two student managers. The number is not high and one of the principal reasons is that men who would ordinarily have completed their work this year are now in the service. One of those who has completed a standout career on the hill is Leonard Herr, of Coal Towmship. Herr was a member of the varsity three years and would probably have made the club his Freshman year but for a fractured hand sustained in an accident. He was honorary co-captain of the 1941-42 team. In addition Herr was an end on the football team the past two years. Others who are graduating are Harold Trethaway, three years a \ arsity outfielder and honorary captain of this year’s team; John Shlenta, football two years; Edward Solack, soccer and baseball each two years; Frank Valente, basketball two years, and William Wanich, baseball two years and soccer one year. The student managers were Edwin Deleski, football, and Walter Mohr, basketball. AWARDS TO WOMEN The Women’s athletic program is confined entirely to intra-mural activities. A model program in this regard has been developed and under the rating system the women have plenty of incentive to work toward certain goals. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty-Three Chevrons are the highest awards and the two who have earned the largest number are Kathryn Hess, of Bloomsburg, 3,589, and Lois Slopey, 2,571, also a Bloomsburg resident. Others getting chevrons vi^ere Lillian Baer, Fleetwood; Florence Faust, Ambler; Doris Sears, Shamokin; Edna Zehner, Nescopeck, and Carmel Sirianni, Hop Bottom. Before the Women can obtain chevrons they must win letters and that requires 1,000 points. Letters this spring went to Emma Hutchinson, Yardley; Mary Louise Scott, Bloomsburg; Betty Burnham, Frankford; Helen Cromis, Bloomsburg; Virginia Lawhead, Pottsville; Ruth Ebright, Mifflintown; Reba Henrie, Betty Hagenbuch, Bloomsburg; Sylvia Feingold, Souderton; Patsy Ferguson, Shenandoah. Earning from 500 to 1,000 points are given numerals and were: Julia Welliver, Bloomsburg; Peggy Holoviak, Nesquohoning; Norine Miles, Shenandoah; Margaret Dean, Kulpmont; Politime Comuntzis, Marjorie Sharretts, Bloomsburg; Alda Hunter, Hunlock Creek. FOOTBALL Emphasis of the small squad with which the Huskies had to operate on the gridiron last fall is shown in the number of awards in that sport. There were fourteen varsity letters awarded and, looking over the list, it is easy to see that every one on the squad qualified for one or the other. Four local men won varsity letters. They were Donald Bitler and Stanley Schuyler, Berwick; Charles Bomboy, of Bloomsburg; and Don Rabb, Benton. Other winners of the varsity award were: Mario Conte, of Sayre; Leonard Herr, Shamokin; Vincent Husovsky, Swoyerville; Andrew Magill, Sugarloaf; Walter Maslowsky, Wilkes-Barre; George Menarick, honorary captain, Exeter; Clem Novak, Nanticoke; Donald Schminky, Shamokin; John Sclanta, Mayfield, and William Swinesburg, West Hazleton. BROADENING OUT Soccer came into the college athletic program some years ago as a direct result of the sport being played in many county high schools. In fact, the first year of soccer it operated on an unofficial basis. Fred (Feg) Houck, of Catawissa, now in the service, was the student coach. Later Pete Wisher, of the high school faculty, was obtained as coach and the sport was recognized. Pete is now in the Navy. The first teams were composed almost entirely of local boys but there were not so many getting varsity awards this year as in seasons past. Those from the immediate vicinity awarded letters were Carl Diltz, Benton; Clayton Patterson, Nescopeck; Collins Wanich, Light Street, and Leon Hartman, Elysburg. w tagiBf tile Jerry Russin is stationed at Medical Corps. Camp Lee, Virginia, in THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty-Four Big, Demand for Teachers The placement service of the State Teachers College, under Ihe direction of Earl N. Rhodes, had the opportunthirty-six positions after the public schools openSeptember, 1941. These requests for teachers came in throughout the school year from September to May. In practically all cases, the vacancies occurred because men were leaving the profession for service in the army or navy. The public schools thus faced a difficult problem, as efficient teachers were not available. ity to ed in fill Due to the fact that practically all members of the the service, only five of the thirty-six po- 1941 graduating class were employed or in the college was able to fill sitions reported since September, 1941; one commercial, and four academic positions in high schools, and none of the elementary school positions. The demand for teachers of mathematics and science in high schools stands out as one of the real needs. Young n.en as well as young women, prepared in these two fields, readily find employment in industry at attractive salaries, thus creating a shortage of teachers. The college has had requests for forty-seven teachers to begin work in September, 1942. The major proportion is in commercial work in high schools. The remain- ing positions are about equally divided between the academic positions in the high school and the elementary school. Practically all recommendations made by the college are awaiting action by school officials. In view of the fact that a relatively small number of school officials have made decisions concerning their needs for teachers for the coming year, according to President Harvey A. Andi’uss, the members of the 1942 graduating class of the Teachers College have an excellent opportunity to find positions. In fact, it is likely the college will not be able to meet the demand for teachers in its service area. w President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss entertained the board of trustees, faculty and children of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at a buffet supper Saturday afternoon. May 16. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty-Five TWELVE SENIORS HONORED Twelve members of the Senior class were given keys, emblems of outstanding service during their college careers, at the Honor Day program held Wednesday, May 20. At the same assembly the dean’s honor list and the athletic awards were also announced. Those receiving keys were the following; Rutlr Baird, Mill City; Taylor; Mary Jane MorLion; Grace Thomas, of Bioomsburg; Elwood Beaver, Catawissa; Robert Borneman, Sanatoga; Wilfred Conrad, Benton; Earl J. Harris, Bioomsburg; Walter Mohr, Scranton, and David Nelson, Hazleton. Earl J. Harris was on the dean’s honor roll all four years. Those on the list for three years were; Mary Davenport and Jean B. Lantz, both of Berwick, and Aletha Stiles, Red Lion. Those on the list two years were Jack Mertz, of Northumberland; M. Claire Sirocco, Pottsville, and Erma Wolfgang, Shamokin. Those on the list for one year were Elwood Beaver, Catawissa; Roberta Hastie, Avoca; Leonard Herr, Shamokin; Richard Nonnemacher, Allentown; Ralph McCracken, Allentown; Adrian Masanotti, Berwick; Dawn Osman, Shamokin; Josephine Rinard, Berwick; Mary Jane Sharpless, Bioomsburg; Idajane Shipe, Berwick; H. Ruth Snyder, Bioomsburg, and David M. Young, Danville. The program opened with the processional, played by H. F. Fenstemaker, and “America,” sung by the College Chorus. President Andruss read the Scripture, and Miss Joyce Lohr ’43, with Miss Louise Adams ’45 as ac- Mary Davenport, Berwick; Ruth James, dan, Northumberland; Aletha Stiles, Red companist, sang “None But the Lonely Heart,” Tschaikowsky, and “Clover” by Wintter Haynes Watts. Dean Marguerite W. Kehr made the explanation of the academic award system. Senior keys were presented by President Andruss, and Dr. Thomas P. North read the dean’s honor list. The explanation of the athletic awards system was made by Dean John C. Koch. Keys and chevrons were presented by Dr. E. H. Nelson, chairman of the faculty athletic committee. Miss Lucy McCammon made the awards to the women and George C. Buchheit those to the men. The program concluded with the Alma Mater by the audience, and the class marched out to the music of the recessional. IHM E. Mae Steelton, Pa. Berger lives at 115 South Fourth Street, She is a teacher in the Steelton schools. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty-Six COLLEGE ACCREDITED WITH NAVY RESERVE SYSTEM Bloomsburg has been accredited for the navy’s much publicized V-1 Program, which is an officers’ training program for college freshmen and sophomores between the ages of 17 and 20. Under this plan, students may enlist as apprentice seamen in the Naval Reserve, but will be on inactive duty until they have completed the college period of their training. After enlistment, such students will carry on their college life as usual. They may continue their favorite sports, and carry on their regular course of study, with the added requirement that they must take certain courses in mathematics, science, and physical education. Young men enlisting in this program will be given a examination after completing one and onehalf calendar years of college work. Those making a good record and volunteering for aviation will then go on active duty in training to become flying officers. Bloomsburg already has a well-organized pilot training program which is definitely allied with the aviation program of both the navy and the army air corps. For those who made a good record in the examination, but are not interested in aviation, an opportunitj’ will be given for them to complete their full college curriculum, obtain their degree, and then go on active duty in training to become deck or engineering officers. The V-1 plan has many advantages in that it is designed to help young men render that type of service for which their college work will best train them. It offers young men in the Bloomsburg College area an opportunity to obtain at least two years of cultural education before specializing, and at the same time stay in college to be of service to their country, and to have made a start toward an officer’s commission. classification Catherine Moore, of Danville R. D. 5, and Staff Sergeant Raymond Wertz, of Danville R. D., were married Saturday, June 6, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The bride is a teacher in the schools of Rush Township, Northumberland County. Sergeant Wertz is a graduate of the Danville High School, and was formerly employed at the Danville National Bank. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty-Seven ANNUAL HE-SHE PARTY Coeds of Bloomsburg State Teachers College proved once again that they can have a wonderful time same as the boy-friend when they staged the annual He-She party. Given the opportunity to “dress up and play” these women left no stone unturned in their originality and ingenuity. Following the grand march prizes were awarded for the handsomest couple, funniest couple, most original couple. Handsomest couple: Margaret Latsha, Star Route, funniest couple, Jean and Ann Boyer, Selinsgrove Schrader, Shamokin, and Louise Madl, Shamokin most original couple, Meda Cavello, Weston, and Ella Shargo, ; ; Fottsville. The judges for the prize winners were: Mrs. Clarence W. Sober, Mrs. Carl T. Warhurst, Ruth Brandon, ,Ruth Peeler, Betty Harris, Marie Parsell. Dancing was enjoyed and delicious refreshments vcere served. The climax of the paity was reached when the retiring officers and members of the Day Women’s Official Board and the Waller Hall Governing Board presented the newly elected officers and members with corsages. Following are the new officers of the Day Women’s Association: President, Louise Madl, Shamokin; vice president, Anne Shortess, Bloomsburg; Senior representatives: Dorothy Johnson, Berwick; Irene Kulock, Mt. Carmel; Junior representatives: Ella Shargo, Pottsville; Flaine Kreisher, Berwick; Sophomore representives: Nelena Pope, Northumberland, Carol McCloughan, Riverside. Retiring officers are as follows: President, Grace Thomas, Bloomsburg; vice president, Louise Madl, Shamokin; Senior representatives: Mary Jane Sharpless, Bloomsburg; Jean Lantz, Berwick; Junior representatives: Joyce Lohr, Berwick; Mary Trump, Danville; Sophomore representative: Mary Louise Scott. New officers of the Waller Hall Association include: President, Ruth Ebright, Miffiintown; vice president, Sara Hottenstein, Milton; secretary Joyce Hay, Easton; treasurer, Sara Wagner, Pine Grove, Senior representative, Betty Singley, Lewisburg; Anna Doberstein, West Nanticoke; Joanna Fice, Athens; Elizabeth Bartha, Yeagertown; Junior representatives, Florence Faust, Ambler; Helen Kotch, WilkesBarre; Irene Kornaski, Mt. Carmel; Sophomore representatives: Betty Zong, Milton; Anita Behler, Kingston; Joan Ackerman, Harburg. Officers who have served this year are: President, Ruth James, Taylor; secretary, Joanna Fice, Athens; vice-president, Ruth Hope; t.easurer, Candace Dietrich, Kutztown. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty -Eight All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson of changes of address. Many copies of the Alumni Quarterly have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at the address on our files. all GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Board of Directors Bruce Albert Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith Mrs. C. C. Housenick Harriet Carpenter Fred W. Diehl E. H. Nelson D. D. Wright R. President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Hervey B. Smith LACKAWANNA COUNTY ALUMNI Alumni of Bloomsburg held a largely attended rennion Saturday, April 18, at the Scranton Club. Judge William R. Lewis ’86, presided as toastmaster. Dr. Hollinshead, president of Scranton-Keystone Junior College, and President Andruss, of Bloomsburg, were the speakers. H. L. Morgan ’81, was the oldest graduate present. given an ovation by his many friends. Nearly every class from 1897 to 1942 was represented. The class of 1923, with ten members present, had the largest rep- He was resentation. Miss Janet M. Shank ’44 sang two vocal numbers, and was accompanied by Miss Louise Adams ’45. Group singing was led by R. Bruce Albert. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Twenty-Nine MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held a dinner meeting in the Shiloh Reformed church at Danville. There were over 100 attending. Fred W. Diehl, of Danville, was toastmaster. Miss Nellie Bogart, vice president of the county alumni group, presided over the short business meeting in the absence of Lieutenant Ralph McCraken, president, who is serving in the armed forces. The nominating committee presented its report which was accepted by the group. The new officers of the county association are Lieutenant Ralph McCraken, president; Miss Dorothy Sidler, vice president; Miss Alice Smull, secretary, and Miss Mildred Auten, treasurer. Mr. Diehl announced that following the meeting the association would send a telegram to Lieutenant McCraken informing him of his re-election and of the annual meeting. Mr. Diehl introduced President Harvey A. Andruss, who in turn presented to the group the nineteen faculty members and their wives in attendance. Mr. Andruss pointed out that today in America education the three “R’s” distinctly stressed are rationing, resistance and reconstruction. He told the audience that resistance does not necessarily mean of military nature but rather with regards to thinking. “We should preserve the things that we are fighting for,” the college president commented. Miss Marjorie Gass, Danville High School student and district winner in the forensic contests, played piano selections. Miss Janet Shank, accompanied by Miss Louise Adams, gave two fine vocal numbers while Miss Adams also played a selection. Both these girls are students at the college. Prof. Charles Albert, former instructor at the old Normal School, and father of Bruce Albert, president of the general alumni association, told the group that he had “Kept school for fifty-one years.” He spent forty-one of those years teaching at the Noiinal School and declared his happiest moments were experienced in the classroom. Bruce Albert, president of the General Alumni Association, called the attention of the alumni and friends to the Alumni Day celebration being held at the college on May 23. The film, “Bloomsburg Faces the War,” showing the Alumni THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Thirty \arious ways and means that B. the national crisis, was shown. by singing the Alma Mater. S. T. C. is taking during The meeting was closed PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Despite the unusually stormy weather, the Philadelphia group was well represented at the college on Alumni Day. The outstanding event of the day was the dedication of the new gymnasium, for which an outstanding program was given. It was a big day in every respect. The monthly luncheon meetings which the Philadelphia group have been holding at the Strawbridge and Clothier Store will be discontinued for the months of July, August and September, but will be resumed on the second Saturday of October. There will be three picnics this summer: If conditions are favorable, the second Saturday in July at Valley Forge. The second Saturday in August a Garden Party at the residence of Mary Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown, Pa. The second Saturday in September at the Brouse Farm (Edwina Wieland Brouse) Maple Avenue, just off Germantown Road. We extend a cordial invitation to all Alumni to meet v/ith us at these picnics, and at our regular luncheons which are held on the second Saturday of the month. Florence Hess Cool (’88) President. Lillian Hortman Irish (’02) Secretary. Nora Woodring Kenney (’09) Treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Cool (Norman G. ’86-Florence Hess ’88), 112 North 50th Street, West Philadelphia, Pa., will be at home to their friends August 6th-5 to 10 P. M. This daj^ and date marks a great event in their It is their fiftieth wedding day — their lives. Golden Wedding Anniversary. The Philadelphia group of the Bloomsburg Alumni take pleasure in making this announcement, and hope their many friends will take occasion to greet them either in person or by message. Lillian THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, Hortman August, 1942 Irish, Secretary. Page Thirty-One SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING ALUMNI HOLD DINNER Graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colwho reside in Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties held a dinner in May in the Methodist Church at Tunkhannock with thirty-five in attendance. Fred W. Kester, of Mill City, presided and attending from Bloomsburg were H. A. Andruss, college president; Dean W. B. Sutliff, of the college “old guard R. Bruce Albert, president of the general alumni, and Miss Janet Shank, vocalist, and Miss Louise Adams, pianist, of the lege student body, Dean who entertained. and President Andruss spoke during the program. The college film, “Bloomsburg Faces War” was shown. Bruce Albert led the group singing. Sutliff LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI The regular monthly luncheons of the Luzerne CounAlumni will be discontinued during the summer months. They will be resumed on the first Saturday in ty October. A summer outing is being planned, and will be held home of Mrs. Guy Evans, of West Pittston. All members and friends are invited. Edna Aurand, President. at the - %f044^ AUuftni Ai^jocicMan THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Thirty-Two ^ Alumni f rraunalB 4 ^ 1880 Friends and classmates of Ernest W. Young, 2245 Carter Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota, will regret to learn of the death of Mrs. Young, who passed away April 23. Mr. and Mrs. Young had been married almost 54 years. Mrs. Young was born and grew up in Mt. Carmel. 1882 Mrs. Esther Evans Jarvis died at her home in Brandon, Texas, Saturday, January 31. She was born at Bloomsburg August 19, 1861. When a girl she united with the church and had been a member of the Presbyterian Church at Brandon for many years. After attending Bloomsburg, Mrs. Jarvis attended Valparaiso University, where she met Mr. Jarvis. When her school work v. as completed she returned to her home in Pennsylvania, and Mr. Jarvis went to Texas and located at Brandon. They were married in 1891, and went to Brandon to live. Mr. Jarvis passed away April 4, 1917. Mrs. Jarvis is surMved by two children, J. R. Jarvis, of Dallas, Texas, and Mrs. Sadie Gilmore, of Whitney, Texas, and by one brother, L. W. Evans, of Denver, Colorado. 1883 Mr. and Mrs. John G. Conner, of 8 Belmont Circle, Trenton, New Jersey, spent the past winter in Florida. After graduating from Bloomsburg, Mr. Conner went to Lafayette College, where he was graduated in 1887. He of West Nottingham Academy, Maryland, for fifteen years, and is still a member of the board of trustees. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Lafayette College. was headmaster It is not too early to begin planning for your sixtyyear reunion next May. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 : Page Thirty-Three 1885 Harry O. Hine, 3204 Highland Place, Cleveland Park, Washington, D. C., sent the following letter of greeting to President Andruss on Alumni Day “Best wishes to the “Homecomers” and to you for a fine comin 1942 and all the years that follow.” mencement occasion 1888 Start the ball rolling now for your fifty-fifth year re- union next May. 1892 Members of the fifty year class of the Teacher Colmade merry May 23 at the home of Prof, and Mrs. lege D. S. Hartline as the opening feature of their reunion. in the sharing of experiences of Delicious refreshments were served by the The evening was spent school days. hosts. Members of the class attending were; Mrs. Harriet Keffer HartBloomsburg; Mrs. Harriet Ringrose Knies, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Mabel Westover Huff, Forty Fort; Mrs. Eva Faus McKelvy, Montoursville; Mrs. Katie Becker Read, Pittsburgh; Dr. W. B. Mausteller, li.ne, of Harrisburg. Guests were: President and Mrs. Harvey Andruss, Prof. C. H. Albert, R. Bruce Albert, president of the Alumni Association, and Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Gertrude Kyte, Earl N. Rhodes, director of teacher training, and Mrs. Rhodes, Dr. and Mrs. Kimber Kuster and Miss Jane Kuster, Dean and Mrs. Thomas P. North. 1893 1943 now the big year. to make it a big one. is The fiftieth-year reunion ! Start Alice Fenner, 2439 Walnut Street, Allentown, has returned after spending the winter at San Diego, California. 1896 A testimonial dinner was given Monday evening, June 8, at the Hotel Redington in Wilkes-Barre, in honor of Miss Celia Cohen, who is retiring after an outstanding career as a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre schools. The affair was arranged by the Carey Avenue Parent-Teachers Association. Miss Cohen has a record of teaching for forty-five years, thirty-eight of which were spent in the Carey Avenue School. Her sister. Miss Rose Cohen, also a graduate of Bloomsburg, retired last year after teaching fifty years. Principle addresses were given by Judge Valentine, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Thirty-Four who stressed the importance to the community of such persons as Miss Cohen, who devote their lives to the cause of training others. Other speakers w'ere Rabbi Wolk, Rabbi Marcus Salzman, A. E. Bacon, superintendent of schools, Thomas Mackin, member of the Board of Education, George Horst, and Walter Black. Gifts were presented to the honored guest and to the officers of the association. day, Edna Wilson (Mrs. William L. McClintock) died FriMarch 26, in Philadelphia. She is survived by her husband and one son. Charlotte H. Stark, of Lehman, Pa., retired in July 1941, after teaching forty-three years and four months. 1897 Activities of the class of 1897 w^ere confined to the college campus during the week-end. Among those present were; O. Z. Low, Orangeville; Bertha Kelly, Scranton; Eva Martin, Hazleton; Mrs. George Curran, Plymouth; Ella Benedict, Trucksville; Mrs. Dora Huber Ely, Hazleton; Mrs. E. S. Gething, Nanticoke, and Mabel Moyer, Bloomsburg. 1898 1 Daniel N. Dieffenbacher, superintendent and supervising principal of the Danville Public Schools for twenty-one years and an outstanding educator, churchman axid citizen of that community for more than half a century died at his home, 406 Bloom Street, Tuesday, April 21, 1942. Mr. Dieffenbacher, w'ho had been in failing health Mr. more than a year, was aged seventy-nine. He had been bedfast for one week. Death w^as due to infirmities for of old age. The deceased, widely-known throughout the county and served as superintendent and later supervising principal of the Danville Borough Schools from 1907 until 1928, when he retired. He made many worthwhile contributions to the borough school system during his 21 -year term in office. Born in Washington ville in 1863, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Dieffenbacher, the deceased came to Danville in 1890 and spent the rest of his life in that state, community. Prior to accepting the position of principal of the THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Thirty-Fiva Second Ward Grammar School in Danville in 1890, Mr. Dieffenbacher taught in Union County, and in the rural schools of Montour county. From 1901 through 1907 he held the position of professor of mathematics and science on the Danville High School faculty. In 1907 he accepted the position as superintendent of Danville schools, filling the role very successfully. He became supervising principal of the Bor- ough Schools when the change in title came into effect in 1920. He performed his responsible duties until retirement in 1928. He served as an educator from 1885 until the time of his retirement. Mr. Dieffenbacher graduated from Bloomsburg State in 1898, and later took special work at Normal School Grove City College. On August 29, 1894, he married Margaret Phillips, a Danville girl, who survives him. He was active in the affairs of the Shiloh Evangelical and Reformed Church for many years, serving as an elder for a long period of time. He belonged to the Mahoning Lodge No. 516, Free and Accepted Masons, the I. O. O. F. Lodge, and the Consistory at Bloomsburg. May, 1943 your : to make your forty-fifth year reunion. Begin now plans. 1900 The name of Miles 1. Killmer should have been cluded in the list of those who served in World War I. served as a captain in the 28th Engineers. in- He 1901 Lela Shultz (Mrs. Infred T. Modsen) entertained Ada Harrison ’02, Edith Curtis ’99 and Gertrude Follmer Lowry ’01 and ’03, at her home in Plainfield, New Jersey, over the week-end of June 6. \ 1902 1902 opened its forty-year reunion Friday evening. May 22, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Keller, of Orangeville. A buffet supper and an evening of reminiscences were thoroughly enjoyed. President and Mrs. Andruss met with the group. The class of Those attending were: Essene Hollopeter Martin, Palmyra, New Mary Croop Fairchild, Berwick; Florence Crow Heber and Jersey; THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Thirty-Six son, Liverpool; Harriet D. Fry, Danville; Alice Guest, Danville; Mar- Edwards Morris, Edwardsville; Camille Hadsall Pettybone, P"orty Fort, Marie L. Diem, Scranton; Blanche Austin Gibbons, Wilkes-Barre; Ada D. Harrison, Newark, N. J.; Effie M. Vance, Orangeville; Amy G. Smethers, Berwick; Mary E. Francis Gendall, Cnalfont; Marne E. Clark Myers, Wilkinsburg; Harriet Hitchcock McMurray, Mehoopany; Bessie Long, Bloomsburg; Marion Johnson Skeer, Northumberland, and Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Keller. The activities of the class were continued Saturday on the camgaret pus. Present were: Marie L. Diem, of Scranton; Mrs. Etta H. Keller, Orangeville; Mrs. Harriet Hitchcock, Mehoopany; Bess M. Long, Bloomsburg; Essene Holopeter Martin, Palmyra, N. J.; Harriet E. Fry, Danville; Marne Clark Myers, Wilkinsburg; Amy B. Smethers, Berwick; Jennie Williams Cook, Hazleton; Mrs. Mary Francis Gendall, of Chalfont; Ada D. Harrison, Newark, N. J.; Mrs. Harriet Edwards Morris, Edwardsville; Mrs. Marion Johnson Skeer, Northumberland; Mrs. Adde Altmiller Burthardt, Hazleton; Alice Guest, Danville; Blanche Austin Gibbons, Wilkes-Barre; Florence Crow Hebei, Liverpool; Effie Vance, Orangeville; Mary Croop Fairchild, Berwick and Camille Hadsall Pettebone, of Forty Fort. 1903 Next May you will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of your graduation from Bloomsburg. Who will start the ball rolling now ? 1904 John B. Boyer, of Sunbury, assistant superintendentof Northumberland county schools, was the recipient of a special medal given by the Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League at the fifteenth annual state contests at Bloomsburg, in recognition of his outstanding service as Northumberland county and northeastern district director of the league for fifteen years. Mr. Boyer, a Bloomsburg State Teachers College alumnus, has been responsible for the direction and participation of thousands of young people in bands, orchestras, choruses, ensembles, solos, debate teams, and in speech events, for fifteen years. The medal was presented for the league by C. Stanton Belfour, executive secretary. Mr. Boyer is also observing his twentieth anniversary in the county office in Northumberland County. The young people in music and speech organizations in northeastern Pennsylvania high schools owe much to him for his untiring leadership and devotion for the continuation of these contests. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Thirty-Seven The Rev. Harry S. Dollman, a resident of Pinegrove, Schuylkill County, died early in March after a short illness. He was a graduate of Bloomsburg, and taught for some time before entering Gettysburg College, after which he entered the Seminary. His first charge was at the Lutheran Church at Worthington, near Pittsburgh. P'rom there he went to Pinegrove in 1912. In 1918 he went overseas as a chaplain and after the war returned He is survived by his wife and two sons. Mention of the Rev. Mr. Dollman’s death was made in the April Quarterly, but no other details were known at that to Pinegrove. time. 1905 Ezra Rocky Hill, Connecticut, has been tour for the Townsend National Recovery B. Gruver, of on a lecture Plan, Inc. 1906 Hazel B. Allen, supervising principal of the Loveland Street School in Westmoor, died Thursday, April 16, at her home in Kingston. Miss Allen was born in Lake 'Township, Luzerne County, and resided for many years in Dallas before moving to Kingston. She was a member of the Wyoming Avenue Christian Church. The funeral was held at her late home Saturday, April 18, with a great many teachers and students attending. The body was taken to the Wardan Cemetery in Dallas for interment. of the Rev. W. E. Jones, now' of Watershould be added to the list of those who served in the first World War. He served as an army chaplain both with the Aidillery and Transport. The name ford, Ohio, The class of 1907 1907 held an enjoyable reunion follow'- ing the dedication of the Centennial Gymnasium. In the absence of their class president, Harry DeWire, Miss Bertha Lovering acted as chairlady. Members of the class enjoyed seeing familiar faces in the class picture which was brought by Mrs. J. M. MacCullough, Lodi, N. J. The following members were presented: Edith Campsie (Mrs. George Dreisbach), Lehighton; Florence Corley (Mrs. Henry Sippel), Wilkes-Barre; Elizabeth Dreibelbis (Mrs. L. T. Orner), Bloomsburg; Mary E. Hess (Mrs. Fred C. Colyer), York; Miriam E. Jones (Mrs. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Thirty -Eight Evan Whitby), Edwardsville; Bertha Lovering, Scranton; Sadie Moyer (Mrs. J. M. MacCullough) Lodi, N. J.; Irene Reimard (Mrs. John W. Cressler), Wilkes-Barre; Laura Rittenhouse (Mrs. William , H. Yohey), Berwick; Bertha Sterner (Mrs. F. L. Richards), WilliamVance (Mrs. L. V. Barber), Orangeville; Myrtle M. Brobst), Bloomsburg; Alice Shaffer (Mrs. Charles Harry), Berwick. sport) Gertrude Vv^anich (Mrs. D. ; Pearl A. Anstock (Mrs. Arthur Holt) Royal Avenue, Hawthorne, New Jersey. lives at 21 1908 Wanted make plans : to a member of the class of 1908 to start now for the thirty-fifth year reunion, May, 1943. 1909 Fred W. Diehl has been re-elected to serve a fouryear term as Superintendent of the Schools of Montour County. This will mark the beginning of his seventh term. Mr. Diehl is also a member of the board of trustees of the college and a member of the board of directors of the General Alumni Association. Emma D. 3, Eaton (Mrs. William P. Perrego) lives at R. Dallas, Pa. 1911 Margaret Fraser (Mrs. V. Providence, New L. Johnson) lives in New Jersey. 1912 1912 began its thirtieth year reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg, Friday evening. May 22. During the course of the evening a telephone call was received from George Bar- The class of row, Nutley, New Jersey, a member of the class. The following were present: Theresa Dailey Bachinger and daughter Ruth, Bloomsburg; Mabel Derr DeMott, Eyersgrove; Margaret Byerly Morrison, Danville; Florence Blecher Crouse, Danville; Trivelpiece, Danville; Mr. and Mrs. Ray. Masteller and daughter Gloria, Bloomsburg; Harriet Hartman Kline, Bloomsburg; Ona Harris Henrie, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Ercell D. Bidleman, Bloomsburg; Edith Campsie Dreishbach ’07, Lehighton; Lucille Wakeman Rair, Laceyville; Dr. K. C. Kuster ’13 and Mrs. Kuster, Dr. E. H. Nelson ’ll. President and Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Mr. and Mrs. H. F.^ Fenstemaker, Mrs. Annie S. Nuss ’88, and Mary Louise Anne Reice Fenstemaker ’45. Harriett E. Graves (Mrs. Raymond Marsh) reports that her first grandson, John Carter Marsh, was bom THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Thirty -Nine February 27, 1942, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Marsh, Jr. Her second son, William Graves Marsh, was graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, this year, and was married to Miss Clare Montague Friday, May 22. Mrs. Marsh’s address is 210 Sedgwick Drive, Syracuse, New York. Several letters from members of the class of 1912 at the class reunion. Extracts from these letters will be published in the next number of the Quarter! were read ly. The following telegram was received on Alumni Day from Mrs. Charles Widman (Anna G. Stevens), of Freeland, Pa. “Unable to attend. Greetings and best wishes to teachers and classmates.” — Louise W. Vetterlein owns and manages a tourist home, the Vetterlein Homestead, at Paupack, Pike County. She spends her winters at Miami, Florida. C. B. Fisk Brill is now a major in the Ordnance Department, and is stationed in New York City. His home address is 333 East 68th Street, New York. A telegram of greetings to the class of 1912 was sent on Alumni Day by Martha Goulden Weitzel, of Myerstown. Pa. The address of Bina W. Johnson Avenue, College Park, Maryland. is 7506 Hopkins 1913 World War 1, it was possible to state that a person was “Somewhere in France,” but in the case of Captain In Nellie M. Dennison, a member of the Army Nursing Corps, all that it is possible to say in that she is “Somewhere.” Her address is Captain Nellie M. Dennison, A. N. C., Station Hospital, A. P. O. 851, care Postmaster, New York City, N. Y. Helen Smith Beardslee nue, Bound Brook, New lives at 106 Beech wood Ave- Jersey. Don’t let the war spoil your plans for your thirtieth year reunion next May. 1914 Paul H. Brunstetter, who has for several years been THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty supervising principal of the schools of Catawissa, has been appointed Assistant Superintendent of the schools of Columbia County. He began his four-year term on July 1. 1916 William Gregg Brill is a lieutenant-colonel in the Air Corps, Personnel Division, stationed in Washington, D. C. Mail will reach him at the Army-Navy Club, Washington. tist Maxwell R. Noack is Minister of Music at the BapTemple in Philadelphia. Dr. Daniel Poling is pastor of the church. Blanche Robbins Damon lives at 373 Main Street, Concord, Massachussetts. V.^'est 1917 week-end was largest representations during alumni that of the class of 1917, with fifty-eight taking paid the various activities. One ing of the in The group met together at the college Friday evenand had breakfast the next morning at the Annex. Those attending were: A. C. Morgan, Berwick; Geraldine Nyhart Thomas, Glen Lyon; Lucy Padagomas, Glen Lyon; Grace M. Davis, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Dorothy Miller Brower, Allentown; Elsie Jones Green, Wilkes-Barre; Effie Benscoter Kinback, Peckville; Mary Kahny Arnold, Saltsburg; Arline Nyhart Kemper, Moorestown, 1\. J.; Ruth Smith, Bellefonte; Allen Cromis, Bloomsburg; Helen G. Lippert, Dalton; Anna M. Carter, Scranton; Margaret P. Foss, Mildred Milcham, Kingston; Mary Moss Dobson, Plymouth; Agnes Maust D-effenbacher, Bloomsburg, R. D. 1; Florence Atherton Shaffer, Kingston; Clyde R. Luchs, Bloomsburg. W. F. Kester, Mill City; Helen Lord Bulla, Bloomsburg; Nan R. Jenkins, Nesquehoning; Lillian Gensemer Moyer, Kathryn Row Mc- Namee, Mabel E. Maust Duck, Bloomsburg; M. Lillian Johnson Frantz, Mt. Aetna; Clara O’Donnell, Chester; Rose Monahan, Ashland; Blanche Caswell Plymouth; Bertha Broadt, Mary Schaller, Margaret McHugh, Hazleton; Marie Cromis, Philadelphia; Dorothy Dodson, Luzerne; Alice B. DeRonde, Forty Fort; Pauline L. Isaacs, Forty Fort; Helen Ceppa, Nanticoke; Mrs. Howard Greish, Kingston; Gertrude C. Lecher, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. W. E. McGuown, Ashley; Mrs. Edwin I. Eyerl 3% Sunbury; Mrs. Margaret Cox McGrath, Lost Creek; Mrs. Nellie Sutliffe, Nanticoke; Mrs. Amelia Thomas, Nanticoke; J. Frank Brink, Benton; Frederick H. Shaffer, Kingston; Hugh E. Boyle, Hazleton; Mrs. Reuel S. Burr, Cyn Wyd; Mrs. Hope Dennis Anderson, Falls Church, Va. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty-One Margaret Barnum Bredbenner, of Wilkes-Barre; Agnes Warner Smales, Laceyville; Dorothy Decker Swetland, Pittsburgh; Mildred Avery Love; Mehoopany; E. A. Zimbel, Jr., Pottsville; Mabel Dymond Bell, Dallas, R. D. 3; Nora Berlew Dymond, Dallas, R. D. 3; Caroline Ryne Harrison, Nanticoke; Freda Jones, Kingston. The class of 1917 started the festivities in observance twenty-fifth year reunion with a social evening in the social rooms of Science Hall, Friday evening, May 22, v/ith about twenty-five in attendance. Dr. and Mrs. K. C. Kuster and President and Mrs. Andruss paid the class a visit during the evening, of its Mary C. C. Kahny (Mrs. C. L. Arnold) is teaching at Kiskiminetas Springs School, at Saltsburg, Pa. I 1918 class of 1917 had a wonderfully successful reunion this year. You will have to start now, if you want The to have a better twenty-fifth reunion than they had. 1919 P. Evans, of Scranton, Pa., was recently installed as the Worthy Matron of Martha Washington Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. Edwina This honor holds more significance inasmuch as the Chapter celebrated its fiftieth or Golden Anniversary on during her term of office. April 25 — 1921 Evelyn Z. Smith (Mrs. Lyman E. Cunningham) lives at 2703 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. She has two sons and a daughter. 1922 There were over twenty members of the class of 1922 in attendance and they had a splendid time during the day. Present included; Clarissa Sharretts Welliver, Berwick; Cleora McKinstry, Bloomsbui'g; Bett Gilbert Vincent, Danville; Stanlea Henry Sliwinske, Kingston; Catherine E. Payne, Shamokin; Little Harter Cameron, Nescopeck; Martha Y. Jones, Scranton; Eva M. Morgan, Scranton; Valere Sypniemski, Nanticoke; Margaret Murray Luke, Mahanoy City; Anna Naylor Kuschel, Scranton; Arline Tosh Bohn, Wilkes-Barre; Adelle Cryder Raymond, Coatesville; Nan Emanuel, Wilkes-Barre; Edna S. Harter, Nescopeck; Mrs. Theresea K. Shenanski, Nanticoke; Gertrude S. Miller, Bloomsburg; Stella Wheeler Kern, Harrison, N. J.; Laura Miller Goodman, Center Valley; Lucille Jury Wise, Berwick; Gladys E. Ramage, Pittston. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty-Two Laura Miller (Mrs. S. D. Goodman) has moved from Bloomsburg to Center Valley, Pa. 1923 Miss Helen Elizabeth Sutliff, 100 North Second Street, Harrisburg, daughter of Dean and Mrs. William Loyd Sutliff, became the bride of Robert F. Brown, Jr., son of Mrs. Robert F. Brown, of 5011 Walton Avenue, Philadelphia, Saturday, May 16, in the First Presbyterian Church of Germantown. The ceremony was performed by the pastor, the Rev. Rev. Dr. John Clark Finney, in the chapel of the church, a?id the bride was given in marriage by her brother, Robert G. Sutliff, of Tuckerton, N. J. Mrs. Brown was educated in the Bloomsburg schools from Bloomsburg State Teachers Colthe third grade teacher at Forney School, Harrisburg, for some years. Mr. Brown, an investigator with the State Department of Revenue, attended Penn Charter School, in Philadelphia, and Wenonah Military Academy. Grace I. Williams has been teaching English and Art. ajid was graduated lege. She has been high school at Hackettstown, New Jersey, since her graduation from Susquehanna University in 1928. She has taken graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her address is 119 High Street, Hackettstown. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Mary M. Flick, of Bloomsburg, and A. Edward Neuhard, of Bloomsburg R. D. 2. The wedding took place at Sonestown June 3, 1939. The bride is a teacher in the Mainville Consolidated School and Mr. Neuhard is employed at the U. S. Army Air Depot at Middletown. in the Don’t let anything keep you away from your twenMay. Begin planning for it now. tieth-year reunion next 1927 Ten members of the class of 1927 registered during alumni activities at the college. They were Dorothy Dodson, Luzerne; Alice B. DeRonde, Forty Fort; Pauline Lloyd Isaacs, Forty Fort; Helen Ceppa, Nanticoke; Verna Medley Davenport, Plymouth; Margaret E. Lambert, Loysville; Ruth Davies Aston, Wilkes-Barre; Pauline Vastine Snyder, Sunbury; Mrs. Manta Ruth Steele, Trucksville, and Mrs. Florence Williams Thomas, of Scranton. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty-Three 1928 Miss Ruth E. Yost, of Bloomsburg, and Lehman J. Snyder, of Turbotville, were married at the home of the bride Saturday, June 6. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Harker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg. The bride is a graduate of Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, of the Merrill palmer School, Detroit, Michigan, and has her master’s degree from Columbia University. She has been teaching in Curtin Junior High School, Williamsport. Mr. Snyder has done graduate work at the Pennsylvania State College, and is teaching in the schools of Port Allegheny. A changes have taken place at Bloomsburg fifteen years. Have you seen them? Come back on Alumni Day next May and see how Bloomsburg has grown. 1929 Miss Eleanor Amos, of Wilkes-Barre, and Albert Steiner, of Bloomsburg, were married July 15, 1939, at the parsonage of the Lutheran Church in Allentown. Mrs. Steiner is teaching in the Wilkes-Barre schools, and Mr. Steiner is an inspector in the York Safe and Lock' Comlot of during the past pany. Muriel 29, at her Sachs, former teacher in the Wright Luzerne County, died Sunday, March Albert, Pa. She is survived by her hus- Thomas Township schools home in in band and three children. Dorothy Lord Pagent is teaching in the Union ville Joint Consolidated School, Unionville, Pa. Her husband is a naval officer, stationed at Norfolk, Virginia. 1930 baseball and football star in former Jasper Fritz, both Bloomsburg High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has been named principal of the Osceola Mills High School, where he has been a member of the faculty since he graduated from Bloomsburg institution around 1930. Fritz, a native of Bloomsburg, resided in Main township for some years and came to Bloomsburg to conclude his high school course. He played on the line for the eleven and was a good pitcher on the nine. It was at the Teachers College, however, that Fritz THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty-Four developed as an outsanding athlete. He was a varsity tackle throughout his college career and also a first string pitcher on the baseball team. From the time he became connected with the Osceola Mills High School he has been connected with the football team and has coached some of the finest not only in the history of that school but in that section of the state. His elevens, competing year after year against teams from larger schools, have won more than their full share of the spoils and a losing team is something that has not marked Fritz’s coaching career. In addition he has been boxing coach at the school. He is the teacher of chemistry and physics and in being named principal succeeds Albert Hobba who recently was chosen supervising principal of the schools. Miss Nancy Ruth Haynes, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, now of Livingston, Tennessee, and the Rev. Ray Ferris Brown, of Livingston, Tennessee, were married Saturday, May 30, in Memorial Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. George C. Westberg. The bride, a graduate of Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre, and of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, taught for some time in Parsons, and then went to Tennessee to engage in missionary work in the mountain section of that state. The Rev. Mr. Brown is a pastor of the Mayland and Falling Springs Baptist Churches, near Livingston, where he and Mrs. Brown will establish their residence. 1931 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Williams, 317 Miller Street, Luzerne, announce the marriage of their daughter, Violette, to Wilson B. Sterling, Allentown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sterling, Catawissa. The ceremony took place at Fogelsville, April 14, 1941. Mrs. Sterling is a graduate of Luzerne High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She is a teacher in the Luzerne schools. Mr. Sterling is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Danville State Hospital School of Nursing. He is day supervisor of male nurses and attendants at Allentown State Hospital. Rosa D. Hill is teaching fourth grade in the consolidated school in Bethel Township, Berks County, Pa. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty-Five 1932 Sara Irma Lawton, of Millville, and Mans D. Eyer, of Eyersgrove, were married Thursday, May 28, at the Church of Christ in Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the pastor of the church, the Rev. H. K. Franks. The bride has been teaching first and second grades in the Millville schools for several years. Mr. Eyer is a gi’aduate of the Millville High School and spent three years with Fairchild Funeral Directors in Brooklyn, New York. He is a member of the firm of Altman and Eyer, morticians, at Millville. 1933 son was born Thursday, May 7, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brown, of Bloomsburg. Mr. Brown, a member of the class of 1937, is a teacher in the commercial department of the Bloomsburg High School. Mrs. Brown was formerly Grace DuBois, of Bloomsburg. A Milton Krauss, of Bloomsburg, enlisted in the army January 10, and is now a member of an ordnance company and is located at Langley Field, Virginia. Your ten-year reunion next May. This ought big one. Who will take the lead in Melba Beck has completed the year course burgh. in social service at the planning for to be a it? year of a twoUniversity of Pitts- first 1934 Lorraine W. Henry, of 50 Cedar Street, WilkesBarre, and Charles L. Rishel, of Pottsgrove, were married September 21, 1940, at the home of the bride’s parents. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas Henry ’31, of Palestine, Illinois. Mrs. Rishel, before her marriage taught two and a half years in the Montour County Schools and three and one-half years in WilkesBarre. Mr. Rishel, a graduate of the Pennsylvania State College, is a merchant and also postmaster at Pottsgrove. They have been living in Pottsgrove since their marriage. 1935 Rostand Kelly, formerly of Bloomsburg, has been commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy, and has been assigned to Porf Schuyler, New York. Mr. Kelly, who has a master’s degree from Columbia University, has been an instructor in the Stevenson private school for THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty-Six boys in New York City. He was present at the Alumni meeting on Alumni Day and spoke briefly. Anthony Conte, teacher of commercial subjects in Lafayette Junior High School, Elizabeth, New Jersey, received his Master’s degree from Rutgers University in May. 1936 Verna Jones (Mrs. D. J. Jones) served as substitute teacher in the Nescopeck High School for several months last year. Her husband, also a member of the class of 1936, is a member of the faculty of the same school. Pvt. Charles P. Michael is a member of Company C, 176th Infantry, and is located at Anacostia, D. C. He states “We are here primarily to guard government buildings and places of, vital strategic importance.” 1937 Miss Eddia Fanti, of Swoyerville, and Ensign George K. Tamalis, of Edwardsville, were married June 9 in the chapel of the Naval Air Station at Pensacola. The bride is a graduate of College Misericordia. She also attended East Stroudsburg and the University of Scranton. She is a member of the faculty of the Swoyeiwille High School. Ensign Tamalis, before his enlistment in the Navy, was a teacher at the Edwardsville High School. He has done graduate work at New York University. Several friends enjoyed a luncheon given recently the Cathay Tea Gardens which announced the engagement of Ethel M. Bond, of Shickshinny, to Robert J. Woolston, of Germantown, Philadelphia. Miss Bond is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is now teaching in junior high school, Bristol. Mr. Woolston attended business school and is employed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. at A daughter was born Monday, June 1, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gehrig, of Danville. Mrs. Gehrig was formerly Anna Jean Laubach ’37. The Quarterly has been informed that Thomas Reaga lieutenant in command of a company of Military Police at Fort Meade, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davison live on Route 2, Annandale Road, Fairfax, Virginia. Mrs. Davison was Marie an is Davis ’37. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty-Seven 1938 Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Elizabeth Levan and Paul G. Martin, of Catawissa. Miss Levan is a member of this year’s graduating class of the Bloomsburg Hospital School of Nursing, and Mr. Martin is stationed at Reading as a second-class petty officer in the construction company known as the “Seabees.” Miss Mary Arzella Giger and Harold G. Roger, both were married Sunday, April 5, in the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg, with the Rev. Dr. J. E. Skillington officiating. Mrs. Roger is an instructor of special education at the Tressler Orphanage, Loysville, Pa. Mr. Roger is employed at the Magee Carpet Mill in of Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg. Miss Olga Kathleen Kohan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and T. Patrick, Jr., of Berwick, were married Saturday, April 18, at Russian Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Clenmore and Pennsylvania Avenue, in Brooklyn. The Rev. Mrs. Kizitsky, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Dzwonchik, of Whitestone, New York, performed the ceremony. The bride is a journalist for the Chinese News Service at Rockfeller Center, New York City, and her husband is employed in the Berwick A. C. F. Frank Dorothy Edgar has, for the past year, been taking a course in Medical Technology at the laboratory of the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, and has recently accepted a position in the bacteriology department there. A great many of you will be in uniform, but the rest you should carry on, and have a fine fifth-year reunion next May. Someone must lead off. Who will it be? of The address of Robert W. Hill is Route 2, Annan- dale Road, Fairfax, Virginia. at George Williard taught last year Seven Springs, North Carolina. in the high school 1939 Announcement was recently made of the marriage of F)’ances Donnabelle Smith and James T. Smith, both of Sunbury. The ceremony was performed June 2, 1941, at Virginia Beach, Virginia. Mrs. Smith taught for some time in the Elysburg High School. Mr. Smith, a graduate THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty-Eight 01 the University of Pittsburgh, is employed at Johns- town. Miss Bette Barbara Dietterick and Maclyn P. Smethboth of Berwick, were married Saturday, June 20, in Christ Episcopal Church in Berwick. Mrs. Smethers has been employed in the auditing; department of the American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick, and Mr. Smethers is employed in the sales department of the same ers, company. Robert Kantner, of Danville, a member of the Naval Reserve, is located at San Diego, California, where he is taking a course of training. He enlisted as a yeoman, third class. He has been teaching in Florida for the past two years. James R. Kantner, Yeoman 3c, is stationed at the Center, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Armed Guard California. 1940 Miss Mary Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Evans, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Michael Chism*ar, of Jeddo, Saturday, May 16, at St. Columba’s Church, Bloomsburg with the Rev. Fr. Louis J. Yeager officiating. The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School, class of 1936. The groom is a graduate of Hazle Township High School and a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. “Individual Instruction in Typewriting” was the titwhich appeared in the May, 1942, issue of The Business Education World. It was written by Clayton H. Hinkel, who is working for his Ed. M. degree at Temple University. Mr. Hinkel lives at 621 Pardee Street, Easton, Pa. le of an article Miss Mary Catherine Sands, of Bloomsburg and Robof Catawissa, were married Saturday, May 23, Linn, ert Mrs. Linn has been employat Charlottesville, Virginia. ed by the Bell Telephone Company in the Bloomsburg office and Mr. Linn is a teacher in the Doylestown High School. M. Royce Masteller, a member of the U. S. Naval Rebeen a student at the Naval Reserve Midship- serve, has THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Forty-Nine man School Room 4256. at Annapolis. His address at the school is Hazel Ruth Gotshall, of Catawissa, and Corporal Melbourne Davis, of Danville, were married Monday, May 25, at the Baptist Parsonage, Alexandria, Louisiana. Isaac Jones has enlisted in the navy and is rated yeoman, second class. He is stationed with Company 415, Newport, Rhode Island. Edward H. Bacon enlisted in the army in March and stationed with the Field Artillery, R. T. C., Fort Bragg, North Carolina. is 1941 The engagement of Miss Isabelle C. Riegel and Lieutenant Harrison J. Cameron, Jr., of Berwick, has been announced. Lt. Cameron was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant this spring, and is now at an officers’ training school at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he is in line for promotion to a higher rank. After linishing his work at Fort Benning, he expects to go to Camp Carson, Colorado. Miss Riegel is employed in the auditing department of the American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick. Lieutenant George B. Houseknecht, of Hughesville, and Miss Joyce Letterman, of Bloomsburg, were married May 23, at the home of the bride’s parents. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. E. Johnson, Saturday, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Bloomsburg. Lt. Houseknecht is stationed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. June Eaton (Mrs. William H. Hess) of Bloomsburg, died at the Bloomsburg Hospital Thursday, April 9, death being caused by pulmonary embolism. She is survived by her husband, a son, William Eaton Hess, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Eaton, of Galeton, and two sisters, Dorothy and Peggy, also of Galeton. Pvt. Max Arcus, of Bloomsburg, is a member of the 875th Quartermaster’s Corps, and is located at Gunter Field, Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Arcus entered the service in October, 1941. When Alumni Day comes around next years will have passed since your graduation. Come back THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 May, two ; ! Page Fifty and have the first of a long series of successful reunions. be good for your morale It will Private William G. Kerchusky has been taking a course of training in meteorology. His address is First School Squadron, Barracks 193, Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois. ber, Howard Williams enlisted in the army last Novemis now attending the Air Corps Odicers’ Candi- and date School at Miami Beach. Florida. Julia C. Hagenbuch, of R. D. 1, Danville, Pa., is teaching commercial subjects in the high school at Wiconisco. Pa. Ralph Crocomo olina. He is is located at Fort Bragg, North Carwith the Field Artillery, R. T. C. William Pegg taught Eureka, North Carolina. Walter Reed is last year in the high school at a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Corps. 1942 The following are the newest members of the Alumni Association Dorothy A. Austin, Danville; Ruth Irene Baird, Mill City; Albert Peter Barrouk, Wilkes-Barre; Elwood Harland Beaver, Catawissa; Helen Wanda Berfuss, Nanticoke; Gei'aldine E, Bitting, Ringtown; Bernice E. Blaine, Berwick; William E. Booth, Shamokin; Robert Urffer Borneman, Sanatoga; George Alvin Butler, Cressona; John P. F. Carlin, Summitt Hill; Edward Banta Carr, Luzerne; Helen Anne Carroll, Mt. Carmel; Herbert R. Chandler, Jr., Bloomsburg; Stella Clare Chilek, Avoca; Carolyn Catherine Cole, Benton; Wilfred Harold Conrad, Benton, R. D. 2; Mary A. Davenport, Berwick; James William Davies, West Pittston; Merrill A. Deitrich, Bloomsburg; Edwin John Deleski, Wilkes-Barre; Chester L. Derolf, Wilkes-Barre; Candace Lila Dietrich, Kutztown, R. D. 2; Viola W. Disbrow, Forty Fort; Mildred Ruth Eaton, Lehighton; Margaret Mae Eroh, Nescopeck; Sylvia B. Feingold, Souderton; H. Burnis Fellman, Allentown; George J. Griffith, Wilkes-Barre; Doris M. Guild, South Waverly; Alexander Hardysh, Mt. Carmel; Earl Joseph Harris, Bloomsburg, R. D. 5; Stuart L. Hartman, Danville, R. D. 4; Roberta L. Hastie, A-voca; Leonard L. Herr, Shamokin; Bertha A. Hindmarch, Mt. Carmel; Elizabeth Edna Hoagland, Elysburg; Bernice E. Honicker, St. Clair; Dale Wesley Hoover, Dalmatia; Francis Elizabeth Hull, Shamokin; Ruth A. James, Taylor; Robert Lee Johnson, Ickesburg; Mar- THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Fifty-One Jr., Berwick; Helen Jean Klingerman, Berwick; Helen Sophie Kokora, Mocanaqua; Jean Elizabeth Lantz, Berwick; Mrs. Margaret McCulla Lash, Freeland; George Dayton Leiser, Watsontown; Linda lone Lord, Minersville; Irene Theresa Lendosky, Hazleton; Walter R. Lewis, Danville, R. D. 3; Harriet Anna Love, Waterville; Mary Charlene Margie, Wilkes-Barre. garet Marie Jones, Taylor; Paul A. Klinger, Adrian Masanotti, Berwick; Ludmilla Matanin, Mountaintop, R. D. 1; Richard O. Matthes, Reading; Frank Joseph McAloose, Kelayres; Ralph Earl McCracken, Allentown; Helene J. McGonigle, Shenandoah; Jack Lee Mertz, Northumberland; Adelaide M. Mesh, Gten Lyon; Walter H. R. Mohr, Scranton; Mary Jane Mordan, Northumberland; David Nelson, Hazleton; George Noel, Natalie; Jeanne L.ucille Noll, Palmerton; Richard C. Nonnemacher, Allentown; Joseph A. Olshefski, Mt. Carmel; Catherine M. O’Neill, Freeland; June E. Op linger, Norristown; Dawn Harriet Osman, Shamokin; James Daniel Pape, Hazleton; Dominic Robert Pino, Hazleton; Peter George Podwika, Wyoming; Gladys Elaine Raby, Ephrata; Lydia B. Repeha; Minersville; Josephine Miriam Rhinard, Berwick; Ruth Janet Rhys, V.'arrior Run; Roy Lee Rishel, Danville; Katherine Louise Ruck, Gouldsboro; Stanley T. Schuyler, Berwick; Louise Eleanor Seaman, Hamburg; Doris L. Sears, Shamokin; R. D. 2; Mary Jane Sharpless, Bloomsburg; Idajane Shipe, Berwick; John Anthony Shlanta, Mayfield; Alberta Cynthia Sincavage, Kulpmont; M. Claii'e Sirrocco, Pottsville; Lois E. Slopey, Bloomsburg; William Elmer Smiih, Bloomsburg, R. D. 2; Carl David Snyder, Catawissa; Helen Ruth F. Snyder, Bloomsburg; Edward D. Sloback, Wilkes-Barre; Aleta Phyllis Stiles, Red Lion, R. D. 2; Barbara Jane Straub, Berwick; Frank Stuart Straub, Berwick; Dora K. Taylor, West Grove; Francis Paul Thomas, Troy; Grace Jean Thomas, Bloomsburg; Harold Paul TrethWilkes-Barre; Eleanor Marie Twardzik; Shenandoah; Frank Francis Valente, Hazleton; William Powell Wanich, Light Street; Robert W. Watkins, Numidia; Eva L. Watters, Mifflinville; Robert Joseph Webb, Pine Grove, R. D. 1; Mary Ellen Whitby, Edwardsville; Erma Marie Wolfgang, Shamokin; Rachel M. Yarowsky, Pottsville; Stewart C. Yorks, Trucksville; David Marion Young, Danville; Edna Mae Zehner, Nescopeck, R. D. 1; Ralph H. Zimmerman, Berwick. av.’ay, The engagement of Helen Klingerman and Ralph McCracken was announced at the Senior ball of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held at the Hotel Sterling, Wilkes-Barre, Thursday evening, May 21. Burnis Fellman, roommate of Mr. McCracken, told the classmates of the engagement during dancing. Miss Klingerman is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris R. Klingerman, of Berwick. During her four years at Bloomsburg State Teachers College she was active in the college band and orchestra, the Business Education THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 Page Fifty-Two Club, and has this year served as secretary of the Senior She was graduated from the Berwick High School with the class of 1938. Mr. McCracken, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCracken, of Allentown, was graduated from the Allentown High School in 1933. At Bloomsburg he is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Sigma Pi educational fraternities, the Business Education Club, and vice president of the Community Government Association. class. Bernice E. Blaine and Hurley C. Stout, Jr., both of Berwick, were married Saturday, April 4, at the First Methodist Church in Berwick. Mr. Stout is employed by the American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick. Miss Joan Wenner, of Bloomsburg, and Edwin Deleski, of Wilkes-Barre, were manned Saturday, April 4, in the rectory of St. Columba’s Church in Bloomsburg. <$> <8> THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, August, 1942 t ^t0p! ICflokl Utatfn! Alumni Objectives ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 3000 Send check for $1.00 to Dr. E. Bloomsburg, Penna. H. Nelson, Business Manager, YOU WILL WANT THE ALUMNI DI- RECTORY. EVERY MEMBER A REPORTER FOR THE QUARTERLY. Send news items to Mr. H. F. Fenstemaker, Editor, Bloomsburg, Penna. A COMPLETE ALUMNI DIRECTORY TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE QUARTERLY, STARTING WITH THE APRIL, 1939, ISSUE. NOTIFY US OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME OR ADDRESS. EVERY GRADUATE AND FRIEND OF BLOOMSBURG CONTRIBUTING SOMETHING TO THE CENTENNIAL STUDENT LOAN FUND. DO YOUR PART. WE NEED THE HELP OF EVERY GRADUATE. Send checks to Mr. D. D. Wright, Treasurer, Bloomsburg, Penna. ALUMNI ON THE CAIVIPUS FOR H01\IE-COMING DAY. Come back for Alumni Day. Enjoy the fine program. See tlie new buildings. Shake hands with your classmates and friends. 1000 A limited number Dormitory Rooms for Alumni guests and will be reserved in the the Dean of Women and the Dean of of of the College will be available order of application to Men. THE jy.UMHI fkUAMERXY State Teachers College BLDOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA Volume Forty-Three Number Four * You and Your Friends Are Cordially Invited to Attend the | PENNSYLVANIA = M. : P. 2:00 Mount Olympus Athletic Field : : • \ Mr. T. Howard Paist. Soccer Game B. S. T. C. J I • I : : vs. • Elizabethtown i • Naval Aviation Cadet Review. 4:00 Tea in the Lobby of Waller Hall. Fi-ont Campus. 5 :00 Flag Dedication College Dining 6:00 Buffet Supper (self-seiwice) — Room. Program 7 :30 Auditorium : — Price $ .60. — Theme : j i “Bloomsburg Faces War.” 9 :00 Informal Dance in Centennial Gymnasium $ .55 per pei*son or Student Ticket. : • — • : ® : I j College. : : charge. Courtesy BloomsAviation Demonstration burg Airport. 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EDITOR • MANAGER : + : .Page One Summer Twenty-six who completed their work for degree of Education at the Bloomsburg State Teachsummer were told at a dinner at the college in Bachelor of Science ers College this their School in honor by Dr. Morris Smith, president of Susquehanna Uni- upon you, the teachers of the coming generation, power that comes with nature, the strength that comes from friendship and by the strength, power and vitality which comes from the Book of Books the Bible.” E. A. Reams, of the college faculty, was the toastmaster and Dean Emeritus William B. Sutliff gave the invocation. G. Gordon Keller entertained during the dinner with selections on the solovox and Miss Harriet Moore led the singing with Howard F. Fenstemaker at the piano. A musical feature was a vocal solo by Miss Peggie Beach. President Harvey A. Andruss in presenting the academic awards based his remarks on Henry Van Dyke’s ‘To the Unknown Teacher.” The program closed with Dr. Smith’s address and the national anthem. Those completing their work for degrees and who were honored at the dinner were versity, “I call to fortify yourself with the — Elementary —Anna Shamokm Frances Austin, Luzerne; Mildred P. Rose Elizabeth Bott, Nuremberg; Jemima Eltringham, Mt. Carmel; Sara I. Ermish, Berwick; Ann J. Evans, Taylor; D. Pauline Franklin, Shickshinny R. D. 3; Dorothy Eileen Kreiger, Mahanoy City; Jane E. Lewis, Plymouth; Marian Diana Long, Northumberland; Helene T. McGonigle, Shenandoah; Anna Ixes Northrup, Dalton R. D. 2; Harriet Elizabeth Roan, Bloomsburg; Doris L. Sears, Shamokin R. D. 2; H. DoroBixler, ; thy Selecky, Wapwallopen ; Florence A. Traub, Luzerne; Jos- ephine Yocum, Danville R. D. 3 J. Corrine Zeigler, Herndon. Secondary Edith Margaret Behr, Lopez; Joseph Anthony — ; Olfshefski, Mt. Carmel; Agnes A. Pakutka, Duryea; Luther Troutman, Nanty-Glo. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 ! Two Page Business Education — Esther Lillian Edward Claire Sirrocco, Pottsville; Speaking on the theme “Education Dr. Smith spoke in part as follows “I looked Curtis, Duryea; M. D. Solack, Wilkes-Barre. in a ‘Crackpot’ World,” : up the work ‘crackpot’ in the dictionary and found that it means a ‘lunatic.’ The more I began to think about it the more I said, ‘That’s the kind of a world we have been living in for the last number of years.’ 1 think I can demonstrate something of the accuracy of that statement. Take for example the godlessness of Russia, the allsupreme states of Germany and Italy. States that are supreme over individuals in every phase of life. ‘Totalitarianism,’ it is called. I call all these brands of lunacy. strange as it may seem, I “Consider the dark background of teaching in the latter There is Charles Darwin’s statement that you could account for this world and for man and for all the developments of different species without postulating a deity. Then there is the basic materialistic fundamentals of the theories of Karl Marx that life lies in the abundance of ma- half of the 19th century. — terial things. Consider, too, the fostering of pagan deities in the liberettos of Richard Wagner and the theory of Friedrich Nietweak should perish and the sooner they are got- sche — that the ten rid of the better for m this going on of the all concerned. War is the glorious thing philosophy. These are the kinds of things that have been 1 in literature, music, and philosophy during the last part 9th century and as Wagner and much as we admire the general theory of evolution, a great deal of lunacy about the teaching of I the music of hold that there men is like that you three sources of strength in this ‘crackpot’ world. First, I suggest that you go out in the midst of unspoiled nature and renew your faith with Him who is behind “I suggest to nature. Friendship, I suggest, with stimulating people will bring you power. And then I suggest to you above everything else that you keep in close contact with that great spiritual textbook, the Bible. The truth is that you only build spiritual power by spiritual instruments. As you would build a garage with ma- THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Three terial things, you build spiritual power with spiritual instruments. The spiritual instrument of all spiritual instruments is the Bible. If you want to lift the atmosphere of your classroom, if you want your pupils to see in you a light which never was on land or you’ve got to use the spiritual instruments, you’ve got to familiar with this Book. I call upon you, the teachers sea, become power comes with nature, the strength that comes from friendship and by the strength, power and vitality which comes from the Book of Books the Bible.” of the coming generation, to fortify yourself with the that — Bloomsburg State Teachers College at the opening of the six-weeks’ term offered a course in pre-flight aeronautics for secondary teachers, men and women. The course was one of seventy-two hours work for the term and included civil air regulations, meteorology and naviga- summer tion. The the first was would equip high school teachers College, already a pioneer in aviation education, to plan a course that to instruct in aviation and in May of this year sent out letters to county superintendents and high school principals in the service what the state wanted with regard to aviation and what the college was prepared to offer. The response was so encouraging that a number of other institutions in the area quickly fell in line and plan to offer the same type of work. The instructors were Dr. H. H. Russell, meteorology; George C. Buchheit, navigation, and Dean John C. Koch, civil area, explaining instruction One novel air regulations. feature of the course offered at Bloomsburg was at least an hour in the air to give them practical knowledge of flight to correlate with the ground school work. The flight was optional with the student but was available, without cost, to all taking the course. Four hours college credit were given for each the elementary and the advanced course. These were in the ematics, science and geography. They were fields of math- also used to make a college certificate permanent. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Four *4** *'a'* *’1*^ '*’1'* *«* *«* *«** *2* *2* *2* *2* Mdtan i ^ Q *2* »j»2> 4. /C. many l/fo^UzA. member I / ^ »*•* Milton K. Yorks, a *2* **'* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* »j. *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* *2* ^**2* ^ *2 *2^^* * of the College Board of Trus- and industrial life of Bloomsburg, and since 1913 president and treasurer of the Bloomsburg Silk Mill, more recently the Bloomsburg Mills, Inc., died at his home on Market Street, Monday, June 22. On March 30, 1940, Mr. Yorks sustained a stroke, from which he never fully recovered. tees, for years a leader in the civic He was born January 23, 1888, at Paterson, N. J., the son of the late Frederick G. Yorks and Frieda Kohlhass Yorks, and came Bloomsburg with his parents in the early 1890’s. At that time his father was an experienced silk man who became associated with Joseph Ratti, who established the Bloomsburg to 889 as a silk throwing plant. Yorks became president and general manager of the company and upon the death of Mr. Ratti in 1906, purchased plant in 1 F. G. control. The local plant was converted into a silk weaving plant and operations were extended to Lock Haven. Upon the death of his father in 1913 the management of the plants was taken on by Milton K. Yorks, and the Duryea and Reynoldsville plants were added to the company. Mr. Yorks was graduated from the Bloomsburg High School and after taking special summer work at the Bloomsburg State Normal School entered Lafayette College, from which he was graduated in 1910. Under Mr. Yorks’ management operations were expanded and sales offices were established in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. He served Bloomsburg both as a member of town council THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Five and the school board. He was for many years a director of the Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company and served as a director of the Bloomsburg Hospital. At one time he was a member of the board of managers of the National Federation of Textiles. Mr. Yorks took an active interest in the First Presbyterian taken ill served on the church board. he was identified with the Republican party throughout his life, and an outstanding figure in the party’s council in the county. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in the year Alfred Landon was nominated church and until Politically, for president. Fraternally, he was affiliated with the Consistory, Wash- Royal Arch Chapter No. 218 and Crusade Commandery No. 12, all local Masonic bodies. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. W. Potts Jones, and a niece. Miss Patricia Jones, both at home. Funeral services were held at the Dyke funeral home with the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Harker in charge. Burial was made in the family plot at the Old Rosemont cemetery. ington Lodge, Bloomsburg • ADDITIONS TO WORLD WAR The following Alumni of 1 ROSTER Bloomsburg served in the United World War in 1917-18, States Naval Reserve Force during the and were the States. first enlisted women in Their military records are on the history of the United file in the Department of Military Affairs, Harrisburg. Katherine Waters, Catawissa, Pa. Hazel M. Hartman Koehler, 473 Wilde Avenue, Drexel Hill, Pa. Sadie Crumb, 1232 You Street, S. E., Washington, D. C. Adele Mead Kendrick ’04, 1453 Seventh Avenue, S. W., Miami, Florida. Lillian M. Kearney, 82 Market Street, Pittston, Pa. Blanche Miller Grimes ’05, 204 North Second Street, Har- risburg, Pa. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Six Athletic^ The following article, from the “Fanning” column of the Morning Press, is such a good summary of the history of track athletics at Bloomsburg, that we are pleased to publish it in this issue of- the Quarterly. Across the desk the other evening came a story about Ern- Lau being named a second lieutenant and thoughts turned back to what the local boy and others have done in the past decade to develop track and field sports on the Hill. While in the past half dozen years it has been track above all other sports that has brought the Husky into the athletic sun, est the sport, with the exception of soccer, is the newest on the Bloomsburg athletic program if you count from the last time it was put on the calendar. They had track and field sports on the hill in the old days and they did pretty well in their competition and put up some marks that stood for long periods, although all have now been blotted out in the successful strides of the Huskies who have been undefeated in dual meets since 935 and were four straight times champions of Pennsylvania. Of course, that is all well known history to followers of 1 college sports, but many times it is overlooked that those track crowns are the only ones that have come to the Maroon and Gold since the baseball title of 1935. Many times the court fives have been leading challengers but never have they come through to the title. In the days immediately after the World War the male and if there were the fates had been more first college population often did not exceed sixty seventy boys on the hill the coach felt than kind to him. From this meagre supply of material they developed some THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Seven good football, basketball and baseball teams, but of some of the boys being all-round performers. it was a case Under such a was no place for track because the boys could not play baseball and perform on the cinders at the same time. During the spring, around 1924, George M. Meade, now head of the department of physical education for the city of Detroit, had enough good boys in the various events that he did set-up there revive the sport. A triangular track and field meet was arranged with Wyoming Seminary and Dickinson Seminary, then leading Husky rivals, in the Nesbitt Memorial Stadium in Kingston. George Schwall and a handful of other Bloomsburg specialists gave the Maroon and Gold more firsts in that event than went to either of the other schools but Wyoming had more performers and took the title. From George Buchheit came into the college coaching picture, track and field had no place in the athletic scheme of things. that time until Buchheit, although standout performer for he’d be the Illinois in his last to tell college days you, was a and he loves the sport. Bloomsburg had just before that felt that something should be done in this regard and had started an invitation scholastic track and field meet, something on the plane in which the schoolboy basketball tourneys were conducted. kies These were helping to bring in some talent and the Husfrom this beginning started organizing a team. At the outset of this reconstruction era the local collegians were carried along largely by their distance runners. Probably they did best in these events because of cross county in the fall. Lau and Jimmy Karns were among the first of these good distance men and they were followed by Ken Hippensteel, of Espy, and Dan Kemple, of Cumbola. West Chester, down in suburban Philadelphia where there was plenty of opposition, had been dominating the State Teachers Colleges in the annual meet. In fact. West Chester was dom- THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 ! Page Eight were getting inating the sport to a point that the other schools tired of doing nothing but providing the scenery. It looked like monoply killing off the event. When Bloomsburg started going to those state meets the Huskies had no hope of winning. They were just in there trying to make a showing. We recall one year they were after 20 points and got 30 and were they happy Buchheit early realized he had to get his charges confident and Bucknell was added to the list. It was about 934 that the Bucknellians came to town and the Huskies, through their superiority on the cinders, won from the Bisons. Many who hadn’t been following the local team’s progress thought it was an upset. But just to prove it wasn’t, the Huskies a case of 1 continued domination over Bucknell until this year when the meet was cancelled by Bucknell for the duration, because of a shortened spring term. While the team has achieved outstanding success it has always been a case of quality and not quantity. There never has been a year that the Huskies had as many as a dozen first rate performers. The fact is that when all eleven boys in the state meet contributed to the score this year they set a record in that regard. The product first who big all round man was Lamar Blass, the Aristes taught at Catawissa for a year or two after grad- uating and then went to Blass, a big size, New scored two points in agile for one of his dual competition with Susquehanna at Selinsgrove one afternoon. We Holland. chap who was decidedly The Crusaders never got over that. don’t believe they ever tackled the Huskies after that. When was graduated howl about Shamokin came to start ringing up points as did sprinter, in Eddie Mulhern and Kemple. After Van Devender departed it was Kemple who was the big point-getter. Then came the Jenkins brothers, Don and Harry, who are now both flying for Uncle Sam, and after them came the two present aces, George Spontak and Mat Kasthe Blass team going the boys started to to pot, but Frankie Van Devender, uba. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 the , Page Nine In order to act as a spur for better accomplishments, they got out the old record book, in the days before World War 1 and the lads of the past decade took a look and went to work. Last of the old for a marks to go was a 4 38 mile that had hung on : good many years. But of the old all marks have been erased npw a number of years and the continued improvement of the sport on the new ones allowed most of the hasn’t to last hill much more than a year or two. Track and field are most likely to go out for the duration but they have added some thrilling pages to Bloomsburg history and who it has brought to the Husky athletic front some are now making good them every day — in fine and Uncle Sam. teaching, coaching in the front lines for chaps —more of FOOTBALL DROPPED THIS YEAR no varsity football team at Bloomsburg this fall. drop the sport for the time being came as a reof the conditions growing out of the war. With the numThere is The decision sult ber of men to students at the College greatly reduced, there are not enough experienced players to and rubber rationing, the furthermore, made it make up difficulties difficult, if of a team. With gas transportation have, not impossible, to maintain a schedule. Consequently, the attention other directions for the duration. sports has m athletics will A program be turned in intra-mural of been developed during recent years, and this pro- gram will now A soccer team is to be formed, and the regular varsity basketball schedule will be carried out this winter. No official announcement has been made with regard to baseball and track next spring. receive increased attention. Lois Yaple, of Benton, ville, is now who has been teaching in Mifflin- teaching in the high school at Benton. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Ten MEN To see IN WALLER HALL somewhat of a shock to at the windows in the third and fourth floors of Waller To those whose memory goes back to two or three destudents of recent years, it is men Hall. cades ago, the sight is quite familiar. In the days of Dr. Waller, the third and fourth Waller Hall were the regular quarters of the men floors of The from the west end of the library wing around to what is now the lobby, were occupied by men. If the walls of all of these rooms could speak, what stories they could tell! They could tell of one student, now a member of the faculty, who saw a man prowling around on the front campus one evening. The student, thinking that the man was a suspicious character, poured a pitcher of water on the head of the unfortunate individual. What was the student’s consternation when he was later called into Dr. Waller’s office and asked to explain why he had the temerity to duck a member of the Board of Trustees! Another room could tell of another student, who liked to smoke his pipe in his room. Knowing that this was against the rules, he would watch his window-shade, and when the shade blew outward, he knew that it was safe to smoke, as the smoke would go out of the window, and not into the corridor. Another room could tell of a student, in scanty attire, who was being hunted by a near-sighted hall teacher. The said teacher came into the room where the student was, looked under the table, right at the student, and never saw him. Another room could tell of a student who spent so much two students. floors time at his girl-friend’s house down ents decided that he might as well when the his trunk young man left his girl’s town, that his fellow-stud- move down. Consequently, house one evening, he found on the front porch. The change that has taken place this year has been caused by the presence on the campus of a large number of navy cadets who are taking special courses at the College, and are being trained in flying at the airport. The cadets are now housed in THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Eleven North Hall, which has been a men’s dormitory for many years, and the students have been moved to Waller Hall. Partitions have been placed in the corridors, and other adjustments will be made later. PRESIDENT ANDRUSS DELIVERS ADDRESS President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Teachers College, delivered the address at the annual dinner of the Beta Chapter, Oklahoma Agriculture and Oklahoma, Monday evening, July 13. This fraternity is composed of graduate students in the field of business education. Their annual dinner was originally scheduled for July but was postponed in order that President Andruss might deliver the address before beginning two weeks of lectures in the graduate school. Delta Pi Epsilon fraternity, at the Mechanical College, Stillwater, 1 President Andruss 1 used subject as his “Better Business Education” and in outlining the problems of today he said “anyone who reads today realizes after a time that thinking in both business and education often it is isolated remember rather than relearn the hard “The biggest business cation IS and inconclusive. appears to review fundamental principles in the won world is Every so order to in lessons. but edu- business; the biggest business of this generation, in the racies as well as in the dictatorship of the world. If democ- we are to preserve the best of the vocational, economic, and social phases of business education for those students these experiences, we must try to who need one apply, through of or all guidance, what we already know. “When we are able to avoid the danger of dualistic thinkwhen we cease assuming that what is, is necessarily right, and when we are able to distinguish true progress from mere change, we can consolidate our gains and move on to our righting, ful place in the education of the youth of America. Then we shall have better business education.” THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Twelve LARGE ENROLLMENT Bloomsburg State Teachers College’s three-week post seshad an enrollment of 141, the largest since this was made a part of the college calendar. The number, which did not include forty men in the enlisted army air reserves, was well above the previous high of 128. The summer attendance was good throughout. For the first time a pre-s6ssion of three weeks was presented and the attendance of 49 was the third largest of any teachers college in the state. The summer session attendance of 70 was five above last year and fourth among the Commonwealth’s teachers sion 1 1 colleges. Included in the post sesion curriculum was a course in en- tomology which was offered for the first time as an elective in the science field and was given by Dr. Kimber Kuster. Other courses and the instructors were Arts and Crafts economics I, E. A. Reams economics II, Mrs. Amanda Thomas : ; II, ; Miss Bertha Rich; modern trends in education, H. F. Fenste- maker; chemistry I, S. I. Shortess; psychology II, J. J. Fisher, and English I, S. L. Wilson. There were more aviation students at Bloomsburg than all of the other teachers colleges of the state combined. The preaeronautics course given during the flight tended by a full class of twenty, summer was the only one session, at- of its kind given in the teachers college as a separate course. It had for its purpose the preparation of secondary teachers instruction in high schools to give such and was so success- ful that at a meeting of teachers college presidents at Harrisburg President Harvey A. Andruss, of Bloomsburg, explained the program in a discussion which he headed. This is in accord with the new policy of the government in aviation education. Donald 1937, in the is B. now army Moyer, who attended Bloomsburg m 1936 and Randolph Field, Texas. He enlisted February, 1941. in training at in THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Thirteen TEACHERS Demand expressed a desire to there are armed DEMAND been Every member of the class of 942 teach has been placed. However, for teachers throughout Pennsylvania has particularly great this year. who IN 1 many who are awaiting notification to serve in the and who consequently have not sought positions. forces, There have been instances where students have been given have not received certification to teach. In this case, emergency certificates are issued to the person who positions, although they is lacking several credits for graduation. accept teachers of this School districts which type do not secure financial aid for the some emergency teachers. A demand has also been shown for men and women who taught during the first World War, and who since that time have not been following the profession. particular individual, but, because of the lack of teachers schools have been obliged to hire Mrs. W. Potts Jones (Elsie Yorks) sister of the late Milton K. Yorks, of Bloomsburg, has been appointed to succeed her brother as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Blooms- burg State Teachers College. The appointment of Mrs. Jones completes the six-member board. The other members are R. S. Hemingway, president; Fred W. Diehl, Danville, vice-president; W. Clair Hidlay, Bloomsburg, secretary-treasurer; Frank D. Croop, Berwick, and M. J. Crispin, Berwick. President Harvey A. Andruss, with the cooperation of the members Department of Business Education at the Colbook “Better Business Education,” which came from the press of the Gregg Publishing Company in July, The book of 390 pages covers exhaustively the field of Business Education, in which President Andruss has been a leadlege, is er for of the the author of the many years. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 — Page Fourteen All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson of changes of address. Many copies of the Alumni Quarterly have been returned because the subscribers are no longer living at the address on our files. all ^ GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Board of Directors R. Bruce Albert President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith Mrs. C. C. Housenick Harriet Carpenter Fred W. Diehl E. H. Nelson D. D. Wright Hervey B. Smith OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES Cumberland-Dauphin Counties President—Louise Downin Laubach, 317 North Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. C. W. Hoover, Enola, Pa.; Second Vice-President Blanche Miller Grimes, 204 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Secretary Helen Sutliff, 100 North Second — — Street, Harrisburg, — Pa.; Treasurer —Howard M. Kreitzer, 120 Lincoln Street, Steelton, Pa. Lackawanna County — President W. Archibald Reese, 1154 Cornell Street, Scranton, Pa.; Vice-Presidents Clinton Weisenfluh, 326 Main Street, Old Forge, Pa.; Eva Morgan, 2139 North Main Avenue, Scranton, Pa.; Marie Cabo Lesniak, 1315 Prospect Avenue, Scranton, Pa.; Secretary Florence Dunn, Jermyn, Pa.; Treasurer Lydia Bohn, 227 Steven Avenue, Scranton, Pa. — — Luzerne County Aurand, 162 South Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Vice-President Edison Fischer, 30 Market Street, Glen Lyon, Pa.; Vice-President Alberta Nichols, 61 Lockhart Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, 67 Car- President —Edna — — — Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Treasurer 402 North River Street, Plainsville, Pa. lisle Street, THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 —Mrs. Lester Bennett, — Page Fifteen Montour County Ralph McCracken, 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.; Vice-President Dorothy Sidler, R. D. 2, Danville, Pa.; Secretary Alice Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.; Treasurer President, — — Mildred Auten, R. D. Danville, Pa. 1, Northumberland County — President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Sti'eet, Northumberland, Pa.; Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; SecretaryTreasurer S. Curtis Yocum, 925 Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa. — — Schuylkill County — Orval — — Frackville, Pa.; Vice-President Ray Leidich, 33 Cresson Street, Tremont, Pa.; Vice-President Kathryn M. Spencer, 113 South Main Street, Mahanoy City, Pa.; VicePresident Anthony J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-Presi- President — Palsgrove, — — dent A. Symbal, Shenandoah, Pa.; Vice-President Michael Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-President Mrs. Marion T. Adams, Nuremberg, Pa.; Secretary George Sharpe, 414 Center Street, Ashland, Pa.; Treasurer Frank J. Meenahan, 93 South — Main Street, Mahanoy — — City, Pa. Philadelphia — President Florence Hess Cool, 112 North 50th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice-President and President of the Alumni Council Mary Moore Taubel, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; SecreLillie Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden, tary N. J.; Treasurer Nora Woodring Kenney, 7011 Erdrick Street, Philadelphia, Pa. — — — Snyder-Union Counties President —Harold Danowsky, R. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.; Vice-President — Eugene Keefer, R. 1, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen Keller, Maple Street, MiffUnburg, Pa.; Secretary Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Harold Baker, Market — — Street, MiffUnburg, Pa.; Treasurer — Anna Troutman, Selins- grove, Pa. Susquehanna-Wyoming Coimties — City, Pa.; Vice-President Arlene JohnPa.; Vice-President Susan Jennings Sturman, Tunkhannock, Pa.; Secretary Catherine Bell, New Milford, Pa.; Secretary Mildred Avery Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa. President—Fred Kester, Mill son, Hallstead, — — — — Columbia County — — President A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Larue Derr, Beaver; Secretary Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa. — — THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Sixteen PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI HONOR MR. AND MRS. COOL A assemblage gathered at the home of Mr. and 2 N. 50th Street, Philadelphia, when the Philadelphia Alumni of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held open house for them August 6th on the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and which continued throughout the week. The house was beautifully decorated with dozens of bouquets of flowers sent in by friends and relatives. The wedding cake was a gift from friends. There were over a hundred and fifty guests, many of them from out of town, Wilmington, Del., Shenandoah, Bloomsburg, Norristown, Union City, N. J., Camden, Haddonfield, Westmont, Collingswood, N. J., and Atlantic City, and from the smaller towns near the city. Mr. and Mrs. Cool received many and rare gifts of dozens of telegrams with good wishes. The Philadelphia Alumni presented them with a white satin book of “Memories” into which was pinned a one hundred dol- Mrs. brilliant Norman G. Cool, 1 1 The presentation was impressive, and was made by Nevin Elwell Funk, in which he eulogized the lives of both Mr. and Mrs. Cool and the good work they have done for the orlar bill. ganization. It who was Mrs. Cool who founded has been its the Philadelphia group, and president for eleven years. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cool responded to the presentation. A buffet lunch was served by the Philadelphia Alumni. Mr. and Mrs. Cool have hosts of friends and relatives in Bloomsburg and are well known up on College Hill. Mr. Cool was a graduate of the class of 886 and Mrs. Cool of the class of 888, when the college was still a State Normal School. They have one son, Harold, of Culver City, Calif., and four 1 1 grandchildren, is in the air all of California. A grandson, Norman G. Cool, corps in Arizona. Mr. and Mrs. Cool are taking a week’s vacation and a ond honeymoon at Mt. Gretna. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 sec- Page Seventeen Hlumru personals 1886 Judge William R. Lewis, of Scranton, Pa., passed away about September 0. Judge Lewis was a prominent jurist, and was always a loyal alumnus of Bloomsburg. He served as toastmaster of the Lackawanna County alumni reunion held at Scranton last October. The news of Judge Lewis’ death reached the editor’s desk just as the Quarterly was about to go to press. It is A editor’s desk just as the Quarterly was about to go to press. will published the next issue. more detailed obituary be in 1 1888 Start the ball rolling now for your fifty-fifth year reunion next May. Margaret ettstown. New Pell Petty (Mrs. H. D. Jersey, is now Beaty) formerly of Hack- living at 215 West Second Street, Berwick, Pa. 1893 1943 now to is make the it big year. The fiftieth-year reunion! year reunion. Begin Start a big one. 1898 May, 1943: Your make your plans. forty-fifth now to 1902 A. N. Keller, husband of Mrs. Etta Connor Keller, of the College faculty, has retired after fifteen years of service as supervisor of wood-working and sheet metal work in the Shick- shinny High School. Mr. Keller, one of the most widely travelled was men in the Marines from 1901 to 1905, and during that time visited points along the coast of North and South state, in the U. S. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Eighteen America. Since that time he has made extensive trips that have taken him to all parts of the world. From 905 to 908, Mr. Keller was a wood-worker at the 1 1 Orangeville Agricultural Works, m 1 and from 1909 1914 was From 924 he was steward and deputy game warden at the to the cabinet shops of the U. S. Treasury at Washington. 9 4 1 to 1 North Mountain Club House. Mr. and Mrs. Keller have at Orangeville one of the finest homes in the state, with (the features including a 50,000-gallon indoor swimming pool. Ada D. Harrison lives at 103 4th Avenue, Newark, New Jersey. 1903 Next May you will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of your graduation from Bloomsburg. Who will start the ball rolling now? 1904 Mrs. Avenue, Emma Seattle, Berry Motter is now living at 2717 Franklin Washington. Her daughter Helen, a former United Airline stewardess, is the wife of Lieutenant Commander James Thwing, and lives in Seattle. Lt. Thwing is with the Naval Reserves. Her son, Ensign George Motter, is also with the Naval Reserves in the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremeston, Washington. Mrs. Motter will be glad to hear from her Bloomsburg friends, and will also be glad to see any one who may visit Seattle. 1905 Shambach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Y. Shambach, of Camp Hill, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade in the Naval Reserve at the United States Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. He has been on duty as a squadron instructor and assistant flight officer at the Jacksonville Air Lieutenant Shambach, a graduate of the Camp Hill Station. High School and of the Pennsylvania State College, was employed in the Locke Insulator Corporation at Baltimore before he enHarold L. listed in the service. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Nineteen 1906 Miss Dorothea May Zecher, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Wil- liam E. Zecher (Ethel Titus), of 1415 Clearview Street, Phila- Henry Melson, of The ceremony took place in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Lebanon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Melson are graduates of Duke University, in the class of 939. delphia, recently became the bride of Robert Philadelphia and Forty Fort, Pa. 1 Lois DeWitt (Mrs. Charles G. McBride) lives at 1 644 Guilmember Her husband has been a ford Road, Columbus, Ohio. of the faculty of Ohio State University. The address of Ethel Maxwell »M. is P. 0. Box 1908 to Lehman, 8, Pa. 1908 Wanted: make A member of the class of plans for the thirty-fifth now start to year reunion, May, 1943. 1910 8 at his home near Burbank, Califrom business for about two years, and had bought a chicken farm. His wife and mother are living Merrill fornia. Smith died April He had been 1 retired in California. 1911 Mrs. Miriam Vannatta Freas, formerly of Bloomsburg, teaching at the Sharwood School in is Philadelphia. 1912 Myrtle B. Belles (Mrs. Robert J. George) lives on Rutter Avenue, Kingston, Pa. Mary Fruite (Mrs. Lloyd Puder) lives in Maplewood, New Jersey. Lena Severance (Mrs. Ray Roberts) lives at R. D. 2, Nicholson, Pa. The address of Lucile Wakeman (Mrs. K. J. Rair) is Box 75, Laceyville, Pa. 1913 Don’t let the war spoil your plans for your thirtieth-year reunion next May. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Twenty 1914 Brigadier General Idwal H. Edwards has been appointed As- United States Army. From the time he entered the armed forces in the days of World War I, General Edwards has been identified with the Air Corps, and for some time was the commandant at Randolph Field. During the spring he was called to Washington, and not long after, it was announced that he had been advanced from the rank of Colonel to that of Brigadier General, and was placed in charge of the entire training and organization program of the army. He is a native of Lackawanna County, and his wife is the former Katherine Bierman, of Bloomsburg. Mrs. Edwards is the daughter of the late Dr. Henry Bierman, of the class of 1882. sistant Chief of Staff of the days of the first World War, General Edwards was a mate of Brigadier General James Doolittle, who led the highly successful surprise attack on Japan last April. In the flying He many is the son of the late Rev. D. T. Edwards, dent of Pittsburgh. Anne His mother years in Taylor and Scranton. He the father is of who lived for now a resi- is two daughters, Miss and Miss Louise, a student at the University of Texas, Katherine, now wards and his family live at Fort attending school in Washington. General Ed- Meyer, Virginia. General Edwards made an outstanding scholastic record Bloomsburg, and was active in athletics. He played varsity football, and was quarterback of two Bloomsburg teams in games against Wyoming Seminary, which at the time was at Bloomsburg’s leading James F. rival. Gearhart, of Montgomery, Pa., passed the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, Friday, August 7. been in the hospital since May 1 0, hart wrote a cheerful letter to the 1 938. In members of away at He had May, Mr. Gearhis class, meet- ing in their thirty-year reunion. His letter said in part: “Last summer I was hoping to become well enough to attend our thirty-year reunion, but since then I have had two more opera- THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Twenty-One and although my condition is somewhat better, I very rarely sit in a wheel chair, and am far from being a well person. “At the time of our twenty-five year reunion, 1 was suffering considerably from my spinal injury, but at that time did not realize tions, the real nature of the injury. “Mrs. Gearhart has my position as teacher of science Montgomery-Clinton High School, and has been teaching since at the I came to Philadelphia. “Our eldest daughter graduated in the commercial course at B. S. T. C. in 1941, and soon after that secured a position in the F. B. I. She and Mr. Charles Bakey, Jr., of the class of ’40, were married last October. He has a position in the Department of Agriculture, and leaves for camp May 21. “Our younger daughter Geraldine hopes to finish a course in nursing at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, next October. Our son graduates at Dickinson Junior College May 25, and is finishing his course in aviation near that date. He is applying for entrance into the Navy Aviation course. “Do you remember when some of the fellows lubricated the hinges of the fire-escape door, so that their late entrance would not be detected? No, certainly not they were not members of the class of 1912! And do you remember when third floor played fourth floor in football and paraded at night or attempted to parade? — — name should be added to the list of those World War I. He served from May to November in the 22nd Company, Land Replacement Troops, Medical Corps, and in the Central Officers’ Training School at Camp Lee, Mr, Gearhart’s who served in Virginia. < William H. Davis lives at ton, New York. He expressed attend his class reunion 1 85 Washington Street, his regrets at not Bingham- being able to this year. Charlotte Peacock Holmes lives at 875 Yosemite Avenue, Mountain View, California. The following is a part of a letter that she sent to the members of her class, meeting in their thirty-year reunion: am “I cisco but Service, i. — still I e. living in the same place am now engaged the Purchasing — fifty miles from San Fran- in a different branch of Government Department of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Our office is located on the very edge of a flying field and across the road from the big dirigible hangar which is now housing the “blimps” used for Coast Patrol duty. We have had several alerts due to unidentified planes over our vicinity, but so far all have proved to be friendly. “I send you all greetings from California and 1 wish to express THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Twenty-Two my regrets in not being able to be with you. to oui' 40th reunion in 1952.” Louise W. Here’s looking forward Vetterlein, of Paupack, Pa., sent the following letter of greeting to her classmates on Alumni Day : “Greetings to you ajl from Pike County! This is to tell you that I’m verj' sorry that I can’t be with you, but I am there in spirit. I trust you have many fellow-classmates back to ‘Dear Old Normal’ for our thirty-year reunion. God willing, I hope to be with you for our 35th.” 1917 M. Dunlap (Mrs. William 0. Week) lives at Mountain She is a substitute teacher in the Wright Township Mountain Top. Elsie Top, Pa. School at M. Elsie Dunlap (Mrs. William 0. Wesk) lives in Mountain Top, Pa. 1918 The 1917 had a wonderfully successful reunion have to start now, if you want to have a class of this year. You will better twenty-fifth year reunion than they had. 1921 Miss Jeanne Miller, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Warren L. Fisher, of August 1 9, in the Kelchner Port Jervis, N. Y., Wednesday evening, The Rev. H. C. Lutheran Church at Ephrata. officiated. The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School, 1926, and the Geisinger Memorial Hospital School of Nurses, 1930. She took post-graduate work at the Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital, Pittsburgh, and attended the teachers class of college of Columbia University, employed New York as supervisor at the Geisinger ville, for the past twelve years. class The bridegroom is a graduate of 1918, and the Bloomsburg of 1921. He City. She has been Memorial Hospital, Dan- of the Mainville High School, State Teachers College, class received his A. B. degree from the Pennsylvania State College in 1926 and Columbia University in his M. A. degree 1927. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 in education from , Page Twenty-Three He was Township Consolidated 1925 and for the past fifteen years and headed the mathematics department of the Port Jervis High School, where he has taken an active part in community life. the principal of the Main schools from 1921 to He a past president of the is Port Jervis exalted ruler of the Port Jervis Elks, and a member of local draft Kiwanis Grand board 307. He Tall is Club, past Cedar 1942, also a past presi- dent of the Port Jervis Teachers Association and was a member of the House of Delegates of the State Teachers Association for four years. At present he is chairman of the Kiwanis state vocational guidance committee. Mr. Fisher was inducted into the service of the U. August 4 and is now stationed at Camp Upton. S. army 1 1923 Don’t let anything keep you year reunion next May. away from your Begin planning for it twentieth- now. Miss Genevieve Meixell, of Espy, and Elwood F. Langer, of Cornwells Heights, were home of the bride. The Gotshall, of Catawissa. at the married Sunday, June 2 was the Rev. Harvey 1 , officiating minister Mrs. Langer has been teaching in the schools of Bristol, Pa. 1924 is the new supervising prinHe succeeds T. J. Kirker ’3 Marion T. Adams, Bloomsburg, cipal of the Mifflinville schools. who Mr. 1 resigned to take a position in a defense industry in Detroit. Adams the past thirteen years has been teaching at Nurem- A graduate of the Pennsylvania State College, he holds the B, A. and M. A. degrees, and has four summers’ work berg. toward his doctor’s degree. Clara Abbett, of Bloomsburg, sion school at Ethetta, is teaching in an Indian mis- Wyoming. 1925 Miss Arlene Ruckle, of Bloomsburg, died at the Bloomsafter an illness that had burg Hospital Tuesday, September lasted several years. Miss Ruckle had been a successful teacher in the schools of Columbia and Lackawanna Counties. 1 , THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Twenty-Four 1927 Margaret Shaffer, of Bloomsburg, has been elected to a Township High School, Columbia County. position in the Center 1928 A lot of changes have taken place at Bloomsburg durmg the past fifteen years. Have you seen them? Come back on Alumni Day next May and see how B. S. T. C. has grown. Ruth Zimmerman, of Berwick, is supervisor of reading in the Berwick schools. 1929 Corporal Jack Fortner, Battalion, is located at Company A, 805th Tank Destroyer Camp Hood. Fortner went into the service Bloomsburg National Guard Temple, Texas. 1941, February, in Corporal with the unit. The engagement of Florence Mae Drummond, of Pittston. and Harvey W. Wolfe, of Newport Township, was announced in June. Mrs. David L. Cooke (Eleanor M. Zydanowicz) 16234 Lamphere Road, Detroit, Michigan. lives at 1930 Haven W. an Fortner, formerly of Bloomsburg. has accepted office position with a coal company at Indiana, Pa. Mr. Fort- ner has been teaching in the Osceola Mills School since his grad- uation from Bloomsburg. Richard B. Sibley is teacher of fifth and sixth grades in the school at Sugarloaf, Columbia County. 1932 Miss Louise T. Downin, of and Edward Harrisburg, P. Clayton, of Washington, were married last spring on the front campus of the Harrisburg Academy and Junior College where the bride had been a teacher since December, 940. The bride was for a time the president of the Dauphin-Cumberland Branch of the Bloomsburg Alumni Association. Prior to her affiliation 1 THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Twenty-Five with the Harrisburg Academy, she was a substitute teacher in the Harrisburg schools. Mr. Clayton, who is a Chief Petty Officer States Navy, spent several years as a seaman, the Navy in Asia. in the United first class, with 1937 he was graduated from the Deep Sea In Washington, where, at the time of his marriage, he was stationed as an instructor in diving, and as a student in Diving School in Mine Retrieving at the Advanced Mine School. After his graduation he was attached to the U. S. rescue ship S. S. Falcon as chief metalsmith and diver first class, and for his rescue and salvage work for the submarine Squalus he was awarded the Navy Cross by President Roosevelt. Ensign Ezra W. Harris, United States Naval Reserve, has been assigned as an instructor to teach the W. A. V. E. S., women’s auxiliary of the United States Navy, at Smith College, Northampton, Massachussetts. Ensign Harris spent the summer studying at the naval training school at Harvard. For the past ten years, he has been a member of the faculty and athletic coach at the Center Township Consolidated Junior High School, Columbia County. Captain and Mrs. Bernard A. Sage (Emilie V. Zydanowicz) A son was born They now haveitwo are living in Denver, Colorado. Mrs. Sage March 14, 1942. to Captain and children. Private Ariel C. Boop, husband of the former Harriet Styer, of Bloomsburg, is with the American Expeditionary Forces in Ireland. 1933 Your ten-year reunion next May. This ought one. Who will take the lead in planning for Miss Melba Beck, of July at the home be a big H. Hyde, were married Bloomsburg, and Harold formerly of Bloomsburg and in to it? now of Philadelphia, of the Rev, William Hyde, brother of the The Rev. Mr. Hyde officiated at the ceremony. Since her graduation from Bloomsburg, Mrs. Hyde was for some time employed by the Department of Public Assistance in Bloomsgroom. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Twenty-Six burg, and later attended the School of Social Work at University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Hyde, a member ployed by the Company. They are now J. G. Brjll of the class of 1 936, is at em- 4913 Cedar Avenue, Philadelphia. is with the 369th Infantry, 93rd Hauchuca, Arizona, where the first all-colored division of World War II was organized. He was an employee of the State Department of Public Assistance before Captain John Q. Timbrell Division, stationed at Fort He entered Federal service as commandCompany M, 09th Infantry, 28th Division. going into active duty. ing officer of 1 Private Karl L. Getz, of Bloomsburg, who has for several years been teaching in the high school at Johnson City, New York, was inducted into the army March 23 at Fort Niagara, N. y., and was at that time transferred to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, m an infantry company. July from the officers’ training school at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was a teacher at Hop Bottom High School and Summit High School before entering the army. Thomas Hartman is at Clark’s teacher of general science in the Ber- wick High School. 1934 Woodrow W. Aten, of Mifflin Township, was commissioned ordnance department of the U. S. August st at the Officers’ Candidate School at Aberdeen, Md. Lt. Aten entered the service May 12, 1941, and served four months at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. He was later transferred to Fort Totten, N. Y., where he was in charge of a a second Army lieutenant in the at the graduation exercises held 1 supply depot. When the nation began enlarging the army program, he was selected to attend the ordnance officers’ candidate school and was sent again to Aberdeen. Here he attended school for 3 weeks, specializing in the repair of tanks. Lt. Aten is a graduate of Mifflin Township Vocational High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Before en1 THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Twenty-Seven tering the service he lic was employed by the Department of Pub- Assistance. Miss Blanche Irene Kostenbauder, of Bloomsburg, and Harold A. Millington, of Lime Ridge, were married Saturday. June 20, at the First Reformed Church of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. church. Mrs. Millington is B. R. Heller, pastor of the a teacher in the Third Street School Bloomsburg, and Mr. Millington is an inspector at the A. C. F. Company in Berwick. They are now living at 53 Center Street, in Bloomsburg. Joy K. Morris and Burton J. Thomas, both of Wilkeswere married Saturday, July 5, in the Grant Street Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Walter Moore, assisted by the Rev. John H. Craven. Mrs. Thomas has been teaching in the Laurel Run schools, and Mr. Thomas, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Extension School, is employed by the R. B. Wall Company. Barre, Sergeant Pierce M. Reed, of Danville, R. D., and and Miss Elizabeth R. Auvil, of Noxen, were married June 25 in the chapel at Camp Robinson, Little Rock, Arkansas. Mrs. Reed is a Before entering the army, Mr. teacher in the Noxen schools. Reed served as teacher of agriculture in the Mam Township High School. Lieutenant Gerald Woolcock, of Millville, has been with the 28th Division at Fort Livingston, Louisiana. 1935 Ruth E. Maust, of Bloomsburg, and Robert J. Turick, of Bloomsburg R. D., were married Saturday, September 2, at the home of the bride’s parents. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. D. L. Bomboy. Mr. Turick was employed as an operator in the shear department at the A. C. & F. plant in Berwick, and is now in the army. 1 Miss Dorothy Ermish Berwick schools. is teaching in the fifth THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, grade in the October, 1942 Page Twenty-Eight 1936 Second Lieutenant Ernest V. Lau, formerly of Bloomsburg, officers’ training school at Aberdeen, Maryland, and is now serving as an instructor there. Lieutenant Lau was for several years a member of the faculty of the Dimock High School. He was married Sunday, June 4 to Betty Jane is a graduate of the 1 Davis, of that vincinity. Samuel Green, of Berwick, who was inducted in August, is now New stationed at Atlantic City, into the army Jersey. 1937 Edward Miss Janice Everett and G. Deily, both of Blooms- burg, were married Sunday, August 2, in the First Methodist Church, Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Edgard ployed in Skillington, pastor of the church. the office of the Bell Telephone Mr. Deily, burg. office of who The bride Company in is em- Blooms- has been employed until recently in the Creasy and Wells, Inc., has enlisted in the Army. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Hannah Keller, of Danville, and Bruce M. Rhawn, of Catawissa. The ceremony was performed December 18, 1941, by the Rev. Mrs. Rhawn has been teaching Second Ward School in Danville, and Mr. Rhawn has been employed at the Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Danville. Miles B. Smeltz, of Pottsgrove. in the Miss Elda Fanti, of Orange, and Ensign George R. Tamalis, were married Wednesday, June 10 in the NaThe ceremony was performed by Chaplain John K. Wharton. of Edwardsville, val Chapel at Pensacola, Florida. John Gering is teacher of science Woodmere, Long Island. Mr. Gering has Temple University. his high school at M. A. degree from at 74 Mary Day Avenue, Pontiac, On the 22nd of August, 1941, Mr. Schrope married Hildred Mae Dobbyn. Ray G. Schrope lives .Michigan. Miss in the THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Twenty-Nine Jay Pursel, of Bloomsburg, is a teacher of the faculty of He is teaching social studies, and the Nescopeck High School. also serving as librarian. Corporal Luther P. Hower, of Espy, is located at New Cumberland. The present address Street, New of Luther A. Peck is 226 East 75th York, N. Y. 1938 you will be in uniform, but the rest of you should carry on and have a fine fifth-year reunion next May. Someone must lead off. Who will it be ? A great many of M. Richie and Catherine Simpson, both of BloomsColumbus, Mississippi. Lt. Richie was a member of the second class of cadets to graduate from the Columbus Army Flying School, near Columbus, Miss. He was appointed for pilot training in the Air Corps Lt. Neil burg, were married Wednesday, April 29, at last September. He received his primary flight training at Helena Aero Tech, Helena, Arkansas, and his basic flying at the Greenville Army Flying School, Greenville, Mississippi. Before his aviation cadet appointment, Lieutenant Richie was a member of the Danville High School faculty for two and taught at the Matamoras High School one year becoming to Danville. Mrs. Richie is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and was a student at the College for some time. Lt. Richie has been promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant and has been stationed at Bangor, Maine. years, fore Dorothy J. Frick, of West Pittston, and Sheldon A. Mac- Dougall, of Chester, formerly of Berwick, were married Friday, August 21, in the First Methodist Church of West Pittston. The Rev. Richard J. Davey performed the ceremony. Mrs. MacDougall taught for several years in the high school at West Pittston. Mr. MacDougall, a graduate of the Berwick High School, is employed by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, of They are now living at 1132 Potter Street, Chester. Chester. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Thirty Second Lieutenant Adolph M. Zalonis has graduated from a coast artillery school at Fort Monroe, Virginia. ing at Trout Run at the time He was teach- he was called into the service. Anna Malloy, of Maple Hills, and Eugene Sharkey ’40, were married Saturday, August 29. They are living in Moodus, Connecticut. Carrie Livsey, of Bloomsburg, and geography in the Edna Girton is is teacher of social studies Nescopeck High School. supervisor of special education in the Ber- wick schools. Elizabeth J. Gilligan is living at the Y. W. C. A. in Scranton. 1939 Miss Nancy Burkholder, of Quarryville, and Isaiah D. Bom- boy, of Bloomsburg, were married Saturday afternoon, August 1 5, at the home of the bride’s parents. The Rev. D. L. Bomboy, father of the bridegroom, officiated. Miss Burkholder is a graduate of Quarryville High School and the Pennsylvania State College and did graduate work at Columbia University. She taught home economics at Estella and Dallastown. Mr. Bomboy was graduated from the Bloomsburg School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and did uate work at Duke University and at the Pennsylvania He has been teaching at the Estella High School. High grad- College. Following the ceremony a reception was held on the lawn many for to New guests, after which the couple left for a wedding trip York. Mr. and Mrs. Bomboy are now living in Huntington Mills where the former has accepted a position on the Huntington Township High School faculty. Miss Margaret Mary Lonergan and John Winston Smethers, were married Saturday, July in St. Mary’s Cath- of Berwick, olic Church, Berwick. 1 1 , The ceremony was performed by THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 the Page Thirty-One Mrs. Smethers has been employed Rev. Father Charles Allen. as a secretary in the offices of the A. tC. F. Company, and Mr. same plate department of the is employed in the armor company. They are now living at 329 East Front Smethers Street, Ber- wick. Miriam tary to the Bloomsburg, has been appointed secreat Bucknell University, Lewisburg. L. Utt, of Dean of Women For the past year Miss Utt has been employed as bookkeeper and associate revenue agent by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the Laurelton State Village, Laurelton, Pa. Before going to Laurelton, she was two years a teacher for in the com- mercial department of the high school at Phillipsburg, Pa. Miss Helen M. Derr, of Kingston, and Robert Price, former- were married Saturday, June 6, in the parsonage of The Rev. A. G. Kurtz offiThe bride attended Duke University, and has been teach- ly of Plains, the Kingston Presbyterian Church. ciated. ing in the Kingston schools. Mr. Price, a graduate of Blooms- He was a burg, attended the University of Pittsburgh. in the Wyoming High sition as flight instructor tion, and was located teacher School for a time, and then accepted a poat under the Mayes Civil Aeronautics Administra- Field, Huntington, Miss Catharine M. Jennings and William S. West Virginia. Strawinski, both of Harrisburg, were married Saturday, June 13, in the chapel of Wilson College, Chambersburg. was the officiating minister. The Rev. Dr. Mrs. Strawinski Wilson College, and has been teaching in the Warren N. Nevius is a graduate of Camp Curtin Jun- High School. Mr. Strawinski is with the Civil Service Board in Middletown. He was formerly a teacher in the William Penn School, High Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. Strawinski are now living at 1818 North TTiird Street, Harrisburg, Pa. ior Announcement has been made of the marriage of Melva M. Carl and Fenwick D. Douthat, of Nescopeck. The ceremony was performed October 24, 1937, in the Methodist parsonage at Frederick, Maryland. Mrs. Douthat has been a member of the faculty of the Dallas High School, and Mr. Douthat is employed THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Thirty -Two in the Ordnance Department of the A. C. F. Company, in Ber- wick. Miss Betta Barbara Diettenck and Maclyn P. Smethers, of Berwick, were married Saturday, June 20, at Christ Episcopal Church, Berwick. The bride is a graduate of the Berwick High School, and has been employed in the offices of the A. C. F. Company in Mr. Smethers has also been employed Berwick. the offices of the in same company. Aviation Cadet William J. Yarworth is a member of the Aviation Cadet Detachment at Lowry Field, Colorado, where he is training to A. C. William become an J. aerial photographer. His address is Yarworth, Aviation Cadet Detachment, Barrack 330, Lowry Field, Colorado. Robert Ohl, of Lime Ridge, a radio instructor in the Army who was recently promoted to the rank of sergeant, has been transferred from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Chicago. His new address is Sgt. Robert A. Ohl, Hq. and Hq. Squadron, A. A. F. Technical School, Congress Hotel, Chicago, 111. Air Corps, 1940 Clayton M. Hinkel has been elected head of the depart- ment of Business Education and Director of the Placement Bureau in the high school at Easton, Pa. Mr. Hinkel was an honor graduate of the Easton High School in 1931, and before entering college he had five years of private teaching and business experience. Mr. Hinkel began teaching in the Easton schools in July, 1940, sion. He when he summer sesMarch Junior High taught during the high school taught English for a semester in the School, and for the past year and a half has been in charge of Business Education in the Shull Junior High School. Elizabeth M. Chalfant and Elmer were married Thursday, July 16. E. Patton, of Scranton, Cadet Robert A. Linn, of Catawissa, has entered the army center at Nashville, Tennessee. At the classification center Cadet Linn took psychological and physical air forces classification THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Thirty-Three examinations to determine for which branch of air crew service he is best fitted. He is taking courses of physical training, academic study, and military drill, which will prepare him for the work which lies before him. Cadet Linn left a position as teacher and coach at the Doylestown High School to enlist in the service. Ray P. McBride, Jr., 939, were married SunBaptist Church of Berwick. The cere- Miss Edna Keller, of Nescopeck, and of Berwick, a member day, June 21 in the First , of the class of mony was performed by Rees. 1 the pastor of the church. Rev. Haydn Mrs. McBride has been teaching in the Coopersburg High School, and Mr. McBride is a member wick High School. They are now of the faculty of the Ber- living at 1 20 Eleventh Street, Berwick. Mrs. Samuel member J. Mercer (Josephine Richard) a former of the class of 1940, died suddenly Friday, July 24, following an operation at the City Hospital, Akron, Ohio. Mrs. Mercer was born in Bloomsburg, attended the Bloomsburg public school, and attended the College for two years. She was married November, 1938, and lived in Akron until the time of her death. She is survived by her husband and one son. Miss Betty Andreas, of Bloomsburg, and Corporal Paul F. were married Thursday, June The ceremony was performed by the Rev. B. R. Heller. Mrs. Weatherill has been teaching in the Main Township schools. Corporal Weatherill, also of Bloomsburg, 25, at the First Reformed Church of Bloomsburg. Weatherill delphia, is and a graduate of the Pierce Business School in Philais stationed at Camp Wheeler, Georgia. Miss Martha McHenry, of Benton, and Charles Wenner, of were married Saturday, June 20, at the parsonage of The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Charles Phillips. Mr. Wenner, who is a pri- Stillwater, the Methodist Church at Honesdale. vate first class in the North Carolina. Mrs. army, is Wenner stationed at Morris Field Air Base, is a teacher in the school at Ben- ton. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Thirty -Four The College has received a “V” letter from Corporal Edward H. Bacon, stating that he and Corporal Ralph C. Crocamo have arrived in England.- They expressed the desire that their friends and classmates write them. Their address is A. P. 0. 887, care of the Postmaster, Mary in York. and Harold Rarig, were married Monday evening, June 22, the Numidia Reformed Church. Mrs. Rarig has been teaching the Locust Township schools, and Mr. Rarig is employed on Miss Stine, of Elysburg, R. D. of Catawissa, R. D. m New 1 1 , , his father’s farm. Charles L. Kelchner, in an 624 Peace officers’ training school. Street, Hazleton, His address is is now Officer Candidate Company E, 3rd Platoon, Ordnance OfCandidate School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Charles L. Kelchner, ficers’ Byron Shiner, of Berwick, was introduced into the army July 23, 1941, and is stationed with a bombardment group at March Field, California. Before entering the army he was a teacher in the Berwick High School. Staff Sergeant First Sergeant Earl Houck, of Berwick, has been appoint- ed to the Army Air Force Administrative Officers’ Candidate School at Miami Beach, Florida. He has been serving for a year and a half at Private March first Field, California. class Kenneth J. Hippensteel, of Espy, enlisted United States Air Corps April 2, 1941, and is now stationed at Curacao. He was previously in Georgia and Puerto in the Rico. Gwladys Jones, 334 North Sumner Avenue, Scranton, has been elected to a position in the high school at Lewisburg, Pa. For the past two years she has been teaching in the high school at DuBois. Leonard E. Stout, of Nescopeck, is in a technical school squadron at Canute Field, Illinois. Before entering the service he was a teacher in Girard College, Philadelphia. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Thirty-Five Frank Kocher, of Espy is teaching mathematics in the Conshohocken High School. Mr. Kocher taught for two years in the high school at McVeytown. Cadet William H. Hess, of Bloomsburg, has been taking a meteorology course at New York University. Rosemary Houseknecht, Swedesboro, New Bloomsburg, of teaching is in Jersey. Vivian Reppert, of Espy, is teaching in the high school at Dalmatia, Pa. Catherine Reppert, of Espy, is teaching at Manheim, Pa. 1941 When Alumni Day comes around next May, two years will have passed since your graduation. Come hack and have the first of a long series of successful reunions. It will be good for your morale! John Rutter Ohl, Jr., has graduated from the Force Officers’ Training School at Miami Beach, Army Fla., Air and has been commissioned a second lieutenant. He enlisted in the air corps October 28, 1941, and received his basic training at Keesler Field, Miss., before being trans- ferred to the air corps technical school at Chanute Field, a course Lieutenant Ohl was graduated from that school ary of this 111., for teletype maintenance. in year and was assigned to McClellan Field, later to the in Febru- Calif., San Francisco Bay airdrome. He was chosen on and May become a candidate for a commission. A graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, he was a member of the varsity wrestling team at the college. 1 1 to Mary M. Brunstetter and Lieutenant James Harman, of Catawissa, were married in July in the chapel of St. John’s Pro- The bride is teacher of science the Beaver Township High School. testant Church, Bangor, Maine. and speech at THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Thirty-Six Shortly after the marriage, Lieutenant seas with his unit, Harman went and word has since been received over- that he has been promoted to the rank of Captain. He is a flight commander in the 94th Pursuit Squadron, and is stationed somewhere in England. His address is Capt. James Harman, A. P. 0. 873, care of the Postmaster, New York. John D. Young, of Catawissa, has graduated from Officer Fla., and has been commissioned a second lieutenant and made personal officer of an observation squadron based at Tullahoma, Tenn. Lieutenant Young has been in the service more than a year and graduated from officer training school on August 5. Candidate School, Miami Beach, He held school. the rank of corporal at the time of admittance to the He is a graduate of the Catawissa High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Lieutenant Robert Joy, a former member of the class of is now in the Pacific zone of action with an infantry regi- 1941, ment. He is attached to the headquarters troop. Lieutenant Joy when it was formed November, 1939, and went into Federal service with that unit in February, 1941. He went to Fort Benning, Georgia, for joined the Bloomsburg National Guard unit in a three-months course in the in Company Command 1942, he was transferred to another School. Early unit. Miss Edith Benninger, of St. John’s, and Karl Balliet, of Drums, were married Saturday, June 13, at the home of the bride’s brother-in-law and sister, the Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Williams, of Hazleton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Williams. Mrs. Balliet has been teaching in the Fairview School at Mountain Top. Mr. Balliet is a graduate of the Hazleton High School and of Franklin and Marshall College. Miss Sara Anne Garthwaite and Sgt. Paul Letterman, both were married Saturday, June 27, 1942, at the Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. The Rev. J. Edgar Skill- of Bloomsburg, First ington performed the ceremony. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, Mrs. Letterman October, 1942 is a graduate Page Thirty-Seven Bloomsburg High School and is employed in the Rea and Sgt. Letterman has been stain Bloomsburg. of the Derick Drug Store tioned at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Jean Greenly, formerly of Bloomsburg, and now of Harrisburg, to Charles Robbins, of Bloomsburg. Miss Greenly is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Thompson’s Business College. She office of the Bell Telephone Comis employed in the business pany Harrisburg. in Charles Robbins, of Bloomsburg, a to camp in California, Mather course Field, who has been located at has been selected from his squadron to go Sacramento, California, to take a 24 weeks’ Following the course, he will be commis- in aviation. sioned and assigned his wings. Miss Dorothy Savage, of Berwick, teaching in the com- is mercial department of the Berwick High School. She served last year as a substitute teacher for Byron Shiner ’40, who is now the service. in Samuel Frederick Worman, of Danville, is teaching in the Harris High School, Spruce Pine, North Carolina. He is teaching Latin and directing the high school band. The address of Jane Dyke ment 1 , ernment is A 611 Washington, D. C. Miss Dyke is Street N. E., Apart- employed by the Gov- at the nation’s Capitol. Miss Lois Gruver has been elected teacher in the schools of Briar Creek Township, and has been assigned to the school at Foundryville. Edwin Wenner, of Berwick, has joined the Coast Guard, and reported for duty September 24. Isabella Olah, of Berwick, is a teacher of fourth grade at the Ferris Heights Building in Berwick. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Thirty -Eight 1942 Sergeant Richard H. Foote, member Foote, former the service August 4, Corps at Camp son of the late Prof. J. C. of the faculty at Bloomsburg, entered 1941, and was stationed Lee, Virginia. in the Medical Later he was transferred to Camp where he was in charge of the hospital He has recently been located in the registrar’s office at Croft, South Carolina, library. Camp Croft. Richard Matthes, of Reading, and Miss Anne Boyer, of Selinsgrove, were married in New York City Tuesday, SeptemMrs. Matthes, a ber 8. member of the class of 1944, has re- turned to her studies at Bloomsburg. army September 1 Mr. Matthes entered the 7. Merrill A. Deitrich, of Bloomsburg, has been graduated from the U. S. Navy pre-flight school and has been transferred from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to a reserve aviation base at Chicago, Illinois. who has been teaching for Township, Northumberland County, has been elected to a position m the elementary grades in SunBetty Lou Kepner, of Sunbury, the past two years in Point bury. Corporal Robert Hartman, of Bloomsburg, a former ber of the class of 1942, Field, Virginia. He is enlisted in the mem- Personnel Section at Langley December 28, 1941. Private Robert Hopfer, a former athletic star at the College, is in a field artillery battery at Camp Sutton, North Caro- lina. Elwood Beaver has been receiving his basic training at Keesler Field, Mississippi, the replacement training center of the Army Air Force Technical Training Edward Bloomsburg, Deleski, is now on who Command. received his aviation instruction at active duty with the Air Corps. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Thirty-Nine Collin Vernoy is teaching demy, near Washington, D. C. at Charlotte Hall Military Aca- Miss Edna Zehner, of Nescopeck, R. D., is a member of the faculty of the Nescopeck High School. Miss Idajane Shipe, of Berwick, in is teaching seventh grade the Fourteenth Street Building, Berwick. Mary Jane Mordan, in the of Northumberland, is teaching Science high school of the joint Turbotville-Lewis school district. Stuart Hartman, of Danville, R. D., has received his com- mission as Ensign in the United States Navy. Ruth Snyder is teaching in the commercial department in the high school at Jelferson, Pa. The present address of Robert Hickham Housing, Honolulu, T. H. Carolyn Cole arloaf, is B. Miner is 1 63 1 9th Street, teacher of third and fourth grades at Sug- Columbia County. David Snyder is teaching science in the high school at Cata- wissa. Pa. Ruth Snyder, of Bloomsburg, is teaching in the commercial department of the high school at Jefferson, Pa. Adrian Masanotti, of Berwick, is teaching at Brockway, Pa. Josephine Rhinard, of Berwick, is teaching in the schools of Lewisburg, Pa. Jean Lantz is teaching in the schools of Berwick, her home town. ship, Barbara Straub, of Berwick, Luzerne County. Lois Slopey, of Bloomsburg, Township, near Harrisburg. is is teaching in Salem teaching in Town- Lower Paxton THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, October, 1942 Page Forty Mary Jane Sharpless, of Bloomsburg, is teaching in the Locust Township High School, Columbia County. Aviation Cadet Stuart Straub, of Berwick, Santa Ana stationed at is Field, California. The class of 1942, as part of its class memorial, buted $150.00 to the Alumni Loan Fund. Helen Klingerman, of Berwick, contri- teaching in the high is school at Coopersburg, Pa. C. David Snyder Grace J. is Thomas Jean Lantz is Jeanne Noll is is teaching in the Catawissa High School. teaching at Williamstown, Pa. a substitute teacher teaching in the of Berwick, the Berwick schools. high school at Lehighton, Pa. Margaret Eroh, of Nescopeck, Mary Davenport, in is is teaching at McClure, Pa. teaching in her home town. Ex-42 Lieutenant Nelson M. class who were trained Oman, of Bloomsburg, at Ellington was one of a and were Texas, Field, graduated from the advanced flying school of the Army Air Forces. 1943 Miss Sidnea Baker, of Espy, and Pvt. Harold Zeisloft, of Bloomsburg, were married Friday, August 14, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Schofield. Mrs. Baker is now employed at the A. C. F. Com- pany, Berwick. Private been based of first Company Robert Vanderslice, of Bloomsburg, has George G. Meade, Maryland, as a member class at Fort A, 805 th Tank Destroyer Battallion. Merrill A. Deitrich, of Bloomsburg, United States Navy. at Chapel Hill, He is in the U. S. North Carolina. THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, is now Navy October, 1942 serving in the Pre-Flight School Page Forty -One ^ ^ <5* *i* *J* **• *** *** *?* *i* ^5* ^ *5* *i* *5* *1* ^ *J* *5* *1* *5* ^ ^5* *1* *** *1* *5* *1* *5* ^ ^ ^^ *J* *•• «i* *J» CamfUid i *j*»i**i»*j**j*0 * AUufuu, •i, ^^ «j* THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY, Ad>dX) COLLEGE CALENDAR 1942-1943 September 15 Entrance Examinations. Registration and Classification of Freshmen. September 16 , Registration and Classification of Other Classes. September 17 Classes Begin. September 19 Reception of New Students. November 24 Thanksgiving Recess Begins After Last Class. November 30 C. Thanksgiving Recess Ends 12 M. December 19 Christmas Recess Begins After Last Class. January 4 Christmas Recess Ends 12 M. January 23 First Semester Ends. January 25 Second Semester Begins. February 5 G. A. Reception and Dance For New Students. February 20 Sophomore Cotillion. April 17 Easter Recess Begins. April 27 Easter Recess Ends 12 M. May 14 Junior Promenade. May 22 Alumni Day. May 23 Baccalaureate. May 24 Senior Day. May 25 Commencement. IConk! i>t0p! HtHtfn! Alumni Objectives • ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 3000 Send check for $1.00 to Dr. E. H. Bloomsburg, Penna. Nelson, Business Manager, YOU WILL WANT THE AI.UMNI DI- RECTORY. EVERY MEMBER A REPORTER FOR THE QUARTERLY. Send news items to Mr. H. F. Fenstemaker, Editor, Bloomsburg, Penna. A COMPLETE ALUMNI DIRECTORY TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE QUARTERLY, STARTING WITH THE APRIL, 1939, NOTIFY US OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME OR AD- ISSUE. DRESS. EVERY GRADUATE AND FRIEND OF BLOOMSBURG CONTRIBUTING SOMETIUNG TO THE CENTENNIAL STUDENT LOAN FUND. DO YOUR PART. WE NEED THE HELP OF EVERY GRADUATE. Send checks to Mr. D. D. Wright, Treasurer, Bloomsburg, Penna. 1000 ALUMNI ON THE CAMPUS FOR HOME-COmXG DAY. OCTOBER 31, 1942. Come back for Home-Coming Day. Enjoy the fine program. See the new buildings. Shake hands with your classmates and friends. f A limited number Dormitory Rooms for Aluimii guests and will be reserved in the the Dean of Women and the Dean of of of the College will be available order of application to Men. +