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“The School can be no better than its teachers,” must have
been the firm conviction of the courageous Horace Mann, when
in 1837, against depression, he declared in essence, “The first
step in any sensible plan for adequate education of our youth
must be the establishment of public noirnal schools for the
training of teachers.”
That same conviction must have motivated the framers of
our Federal Constitution when they in their far-sighted wisdom
charged, by implication, the several states with the prerogative
and responsibility of education the children and youth of the
land.
And it must have also been this same sense of public responsibility that caused the members of the General Assembly
of Pennsylvania some years ago to bring within their jurisdiction by proper legislation the normal schools and make them
an integral part of the public school system of the commonwealth.
The signs of the times point to new and greater demands
on our public school system. The precedents of history suggest
that in such circumstances it would be the course of wisdom for
the Commonwealth not only to guard its prerogative for the
training of teachers, but to strengthen, expand, and make still
more free those institutions which are specially charged with
this vital responsibility.

The heroic figure of Horace Mann, “Father of the Free
Public School,” and of the Founding Fathers of this great nation, if we but heed their nod, would keep us steadfast to the
principle of integrating teachers training institutions with the
vast system of public education provided for the development
physical, mental and social
of the present and future generations of Americans.

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March, 1945

Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8,
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of July 16,
1804. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.

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Wanted:
IViore and Better Teachers
Any fore-sighted post war planning must recognize the
vast social pressure to be imposed upon the schools during the
reconstruction period which lies ahead. The public schools
must be ready to jump into an intensive program to recoup the
educational losses due to the war, and to provide progressively
better education thereafter.
The deep concern of the Federal Government as evidenced
by their move to appropriate to the several states some $300,000,000 as an equalization and emergency fund for education
testifies to the seriousness of the issue. Any serious weakening
of the public school system through the dislocations of war or
any other cause, constitutes a threat to the national welfare
witness the current rise in juvenile delinquency. Children must
not be allowed to pay for this war in terms of neglect or loss of
educational opportunities.
More and better teachers are needed now, and from now
on, to meet these ever increasing demands. This calls for the
fortification of our teachers colleges and the State’s exercising
its contitutional prerogative to provide an adequate number of
qualified teachers for the schools.
The war has depleted the ranks of our teaching force
economic pressure and alluring work opportunities elsewhere
have taken thousands of teachers from the classrooms. Many
of these will not return to their profession. Enrollments in our
teachers colleges have fallen from 175,000 in 1940 to less than
70,000 in 1944.
Morever, the end of the war does not mean the end of the
teacher shortage problem. The present rising birthrate and other population trends indicate a new high in school enrollment
by 1950. All this implies that our teacher recruitment program
must be widened, and our facilities for training teachers must
need more teachers!
be expanded and strengthened.
also need better teachers. The double-edged task of
rebuilding the present dislocated educational program, and
adding the new elements demanded by an inevitable post war
are heading
society calls for superior teaching personnel.
into a technical age, an age of precision we are heading into
an age that will require deeper understandings of our social
order, a more lively appreciation of America, its sociology,
economics, and government its significant history. All this
master teachers with high acaanticipate^ better teachers
demic attainments, active social and civic interests, and cultural background, as well as thorough technical training for
proficiency in the instruction of children and youth.
The crucial problem of more and better teachers, therefore, must be a major objective of every public official, every

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lawmaker, every civic leader the serious concern, in fact, of
every citizen. It is a public responsibility, and as such, becomes
the problem of those charged with the management of the public affairs of the Commonwealth.
The teacher is the criterion hence the restoration, improvement, and expansion of teacher education facilities would
be a logical first step toward meeting the issue. The teachers
colleges of Pennsylvania are strategically located to serve every
area of the state. Like the Land Grant Colleges, they are publically endowed, because they are a direct function of the Government; and now, more than ever before, are the services of
our state teachers colleges urgently needed for the safety, security, and welfare of the Commonwealth.
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Alumni Day
Because of the fact that the March trimester does not end
week in June, Alumni Day will be held Saturday,
June 23. This will be about a month later than the time usually
set aside for the gathering of Alumni at Bloomsburg. The classes meeting in reunion this year are 1870-1880, 1885, 1890, 1895,
until the last

1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1941,
1942, 1943, 1944.
Class officers who wish to publish in the Quarterly a special message to their classmates, will please have the materia!
in the hands of the Editor by April 1, in order that the material
may be published in the May number.
Although the regular Commencement Exercises were held
in February this year, recognition will be given on Alumni Day
to those completing their courses at the end of the March trimester.
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In keeping with the holiday season a large Christmas tree
up in the lounge of the college and another one was
placed in the college social room, where an elaborate electric
train outfit, used by college students for the past several years,
presented current electrical, navigational traffic and engineering problems for the Navy V-12 students stationed in the college and their able feminine assistants.

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set

Koch, Dean of Men, represented the Bloomsburg
College at the recent “College and Career
Night” held by the John Harris High School at Harrisburg.
Over seventy-five colleges and industrial organizations were
represented at this meeting. Dr. Paul Witmyer, formerly of
Shamokin, now Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction, addressed the meeting.

John

State Teachers

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This Principle of State Control
of Puhiic Education
When the makers of our Federal Constitution omitted from
the document any mention of “education,” the responsibility
for this fundamental public service was automatically delegated
to each of the several states. Every one of the states, without
exception, accepted the responsibility and provided in their respective constitutions for a state system of public schools.
Pennsylvania, by its Constitution and numerous statutes,
has established a vast system of education for the dissemination of learning among the children, youth, and general population. Recognizing the cardinal importance of qualified instructors for the schools, the State accepted the preparation of
teachers as an integral part of the public school program, and
forthwith established throughout the state professional institutions to provide a constant supply of teachers.
In taking this vital step, the Legislature was impelled by
the needs of the people for behind legislative enactments like
this are always the urgent personal motives of parents, civicminded men and women, and even youths who are earnestly
trying to find their proper places in an increasing complex so;

ciety.

Now, there is a clear tendency throughout the nation to
increase the amount of state control and participation in the
preparation and certification of teachers. During the past century or less, the average number of specific provisions for education in the Constitutions of the 48 states increased from one
to eighteen.
If our Commonwealth continues to develop in its present
direction, the State Government will play a more important role
in the education of teachers than it has at any time in its previous history.
Underlying the present strong trend toward more state
control in this vital function of democratic government, are
such salient objectives as a well-informed population, intelligent self-government, greater efficiency of citizens in their occupations, the protection of the state from the dire consequences of uneducated masses, and the general prosperity of the
an elevation of educational standards in a society
State itself
invariably brings a proportionate increase in standards of living and economic prosperity.
As indispensable as the prerogative to levy taxes for the
public good is the sovereign right of the State to control its public school system. To make such control effective, the Commonwealth, reacting to the voice of the people as expressed through
the Legislature, set up in 14 state institutions to guarantee competent teachers for the children and youth of the land.
With the establishment of these professional schools for

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teachers, the Commonwealth officially assumed the obligation
of teacher education as a function of the State, and distributed
the teachers colleges strategically in 14 service areas covering
every county of the Commonwealth. They are accessible for
prospective teachers, adequate in capacity for the needs of the
State in normal times, and within the financial reach of any
young man or woman who aspires to a career of teaching.
As long as our public school system is a part of democratic
society, and as long as the teachers colleges are an integral part
of the public school system, it is inevitable that our State Legislature will continue to assume the support not only of the state
institutions for the preparation of teachers, but of every other
essential to a public school system worthy of Pennsylvania’s
good traditions and high place among the states of the nation.
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Announcement to Members
of the

Armed Forces

Calendar
During 1944-1945 and as long as war programs continue,
Bloomsburg will be in session throughout the year so as to provide three terms of instruction aggregating 48 weeks. Service
men should plan to enter at the beginning of one of these terms,
the opening dates being the first of July, November and March,
during the academic year of 1944-1945.
Bloomsburg Undergraduates on Leave of Absence For

War

Service
the Armed Forces, the undergraduates on leave should advise the college of approximate date of
his return to the campus. On arrival, he should present himself
to the Dean of Instruction for an interview.
If while in the
Armed Forces he has received specialized training, or has had
other experience of educational value, he should be prepared
to submit evidence as to satisfactory achievement so that it may
be taken into account in determining his academic status.
Service Men Not Previously Admitted to Bloomsburg
Service Men whose education has been interrupted by
Armed Service are eligible to enter Bloomsburg. They may apply in writing or in person to the Dean of Instruction. To be
considered for admission, the applicant must have been graduated with a satisfactory record from a four-year high school,
and possess the personality traits, health, and emotional stability, displayed through a personal interview which in connection with tests discloses a normal intelligence and a satisfactory
command of English. The applicant should be prepared to
supply transcript of previous academic records in school or college, and to furnish evidence of satisfactory achievement either
in specialized training or experience of educational value while
in the Armed Forces. The college may, at its discretion, supplement this evidence by tests.

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Academic Credit For War Service
The college is pledged to give full consideration

to such as-

pects of a man’s military service as are of a specific educational
character. It will take into account the total educational
achievement of an individual while in the Armed Forces. The
record of each returning student will be examined and academic credit will be given as generously as is compatible with the
best educational interests of the individual and with the integrity of the Bloomsburg Degrees.
Credit will be granted for Aviation and Academic courses
passed with satisfactory grades in the Navy College Training
Program (V-12), Navy Flight Instructor Program, and Navy
Aviation Cadet Programs. Definite action was taken by the
Board of Trustees on June 21, 1944, to grant credit to Army and
Navy Aviation Cadets and Naval Flight Instructors in terms of
the following policy:
1
Credit for the class work should be granted not to exceed
one semester hour for each week spent receiving ground
school or class instruction, if
A Grades assigned by college instructors and/or examination grades certified by the Civil Aeronautics Administration are average or better
B
student makes written request that credit be granted,
specifying the use to which such credit is to be put
C Student pays transcript fee of $1.00 for the second and
succeeding transcripts sent to other institutions.
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Credit for flight experience to be granted for work completed at Bloomsburg, as specified on page 56 of the 19441945 Annual Catalog.
3
The above credit may be applied in the elective field of Aeronautics, which is a part of the secondary curriculum,
as set forth in pages 51 and 52 of the college catalog.

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Credit For Correspondence Work
will give consideration to the extent of a limited number of elective course credits to be determined by the
Dean of Instruction, for the successful completion of correspondence courses conducted by the United States Armed Forces
Institute. It will also give consideration to the educational
achievement test administered by the institute.
If possible, students should have the Dean of Instruction
approve the taking of correspondence courses before enrolling
through the United States Armed Forces Institute.

Bloomsburg

Approval of Past Activities
quality and character of the War Education Programs
of the college are attested by approval of the following agencies in connection with one or more activities which have been
Civil Aeronautics Administration
in progress since 1940
through the Department of Commerce, United States Navy,
United States Army, United States Office of Education, Pennsyl-

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vania State Council of Defense, Pennsylvania State Council of
Education, Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruction and Pennsylvania State Board of Examiners for the Registration of Nurses. The college has cooperated with these
agencies in seven different war programs and has also been approved by the Veterans Administration for the Education and
Rehabilitation of Veterans.
This communication is being mailed to all Bloomsburg
students who did not complete their college work between the
year 1940 and the present time, Army Service Pilots, Navy V12 Students, Navy V-5 Students, Navy Flight Instructors, and
Nurses.
Inquiries will be gladly answered by
HARVEY A. ANDRUSS, President.
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Home Coming Day
The football game between Drexel Institute of Philadelphia and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Navy-manned
eleven was the sports attraction at the annual Homecoming Day
program which was held on the hill on Saturday, October 21.
An exceptionally fine program had been arranged for the
day, opening at 11 :15 o’clock in the morning with a Navy V-12
inspection and review on the athletic field.
The football game began at 2 :3Q o’clock in the afternoon,
followed by tea served in the Waller Flail lobby. Concluding
feature was a semi-formal dance in the Centennial gymnasium
from 8:30 to 11:30 o’clock.
Despite the storm of the day a number of alumni and parents enjoyed the Homecoming Day program at the college on
Saturday. Some of the features had to be cancelled, but the
alumni and student body was cheered by the afternoon’s victory of the football team over Drexel. A large number attended
the dance in the Centennial Gymnasium during the evening.
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Members

Club of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College prepared and delivered Christmas gifts
and packages of candy to over fifty children in the vicinity of
Bloomsburg during the week before Christmas. Those active
in the distribution work, under the guidance of Miss Bertha
Rich, Club Adviser, included the following: Evelyn George,
President; Martha Donahue, Vice-President; Flarriet Rhoodes,
of the Social

Service

Treasurer; Peggy Beach, Secretary; Eva Bourgeois, Rosanna
Broadt, Athamantia Comuntzis, Jean Richard, Jacqueline Shafer, Barbara Greenly, Marian Creveling, Ruth Richard, all of
Bloomsburg; Carrie Johnson, Anna Pappas, Lois Faust, Joyce
Gass, Martha Hathaway, all of Danville; Betty Adams, Dalmatia; Marjorie Stover, Lewisburg; Lorraine Fichter, Hazleton; Rose Cerchire, Nesquehoning Louise Sharpless, Catawissa.
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Deans Meet at Bloomsburg
The deans of instruction or other representatives of the
State Teachers Colleges in Pennsylvania held their annual
meeting Saturday, October 21, 1944, at the Teachers College.
This is the first time in the history of the State Colleges that the
deans have not met in Harrisburg at the Department of Public
Instruction. This year, the deans expressed their desire to meet
at one of the State Teachers Colleges and elected Bloomsburg
as the location of their first meeting under the new plan.
The conference opened at 9 :30 o’clock under the direction
of Doctor Henry Klonower, director of teacher education, of
Harrisburg. The morning session was under the leadership of
Doctor Robert M. Steele, president of the State Teachers College at California, and chairman of the curricular and credentials committee of the Board of Presidents of the State Teachers Colleges. Problems discussed were those related to war veterans who are returning or who will return to colleges, especially under the provisions of the Servicemen's Readjustment
Act of 1944, and the Federal Act, No. 16.
After a luncheon in the College dining loom, the group
spent the afternoon discussing topics pertinent to certification,
curriculums, orientation and guidance of students, and improvement of instruction in general.
Many of the deans arrived at the College Thursday night
and spent some time in visiting the Benjamin Franklin Training
School and other departments of the college.
The following attended the conference
Dr. Henry Klonower, director of teacher education and
certification, Dr. Stanley A. Wengert, assistant director of
teacher education and certification, of ;he Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg; Dr. Robert M. Steele, president of
the California State Teachers College; President Harvey A.
Andruss, Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The Deans of Instruction of State Teachers Colleges in attendance were Paul
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California; William M. Menchan, Cheyney; C. F.
Becker, Clarion Dr. H. L. Offner, Edinboro Dr. Ralph Heiges,
Indiana; Dr. Clark R. McClelland, Kutztown; C. M. Sullivan,
Lock Haven Sanders McComsey, Millersville Dr. Earl Wright
Shippensburg Winfield W. Menhennett, West Chester; Dr.
Thomas P. North, Bloomsburg. Others attending the meeting
were: Miss Edna Hewson, registrar at Mansfield; Miss Maree
McKay, registrar at Slippery Rock Dr. Earl F. Sykes, director
of personnel at West Chester.

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The Navy V-12 Trainees and the undergraduates of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College attended the annual Christmas Dinner-Dance, Thursday evening, December 21. The
Christmas Dinner was served in the College Dining Room and
the Dance was held in the Centennial Gymnasium.
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“Saucereti and Biowed”
By

You

E. H.

NELSON

George Buchheit all of the credit for the
outstanding track teams that have represented Bloomsburg
during the past ten or twelve years. Nor can you give him all
of the credit for the outstanding basketball team that he is
coaching this season (the boys have already polished off Kutztown State Teachers College, Bucknell University, University
of Scranton, Ithaca College, West Chester State Teachers College and East Stroudsburg State Teachers College). Give some
Mrs. George Buchheit to you.
of the credit to Natalie Briggs
You will see her at all of the meets and games, and at many
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Bloomsburg athletes now in military service all over the
world were recipients of a unique Christmas card she devised,
featuring the Physical Education Department of the College,
and how the boys have responded with letters of appreciation
including two
Besides looking after the Buchheit household,
she answers the letters that come from the
lively youngsters,
many athletes coached by her husband during their college
days. But why shouldn’t Mrs. Buchheit be interested in physical education? She literally grew up in a gymnasium and on
an athletic field. Her father, A. W. Briggs, is Director of Physical Education at the Teachers College, Springfield, Missouri,
and her mother was also a physical education teacher before
her marriage. Mrs. Buchheit majored in physical education for
her Bachelors Degree from the Teachers College, Springfield,
Missouri, and later for her A. M. at Columbia.

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Since the Health Education Department has the column
limelight, why not mention the fact that the Girls’ “B” Club
has purchased War Bonds to the amount of $700. Miss McCammon furnishes the active leadership for this group. Congratulations!
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We thank

you for the hearty response to the “V” membership plan. Many alumni in service are receiving the “Quarterly” because of your kindness. And anyhow, isn’t it a sort of satisfaction to know that your dues are all paid up for five years in
advance? Your $5.00 has paid dues for five years, and the Service Membership is thrown in for your personal satisfaction and
the enjoyment of some one away from home who likes to hear
from the school.
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Commander Herbert E.
of the college faculty, indicates that he is
“somewhere on Midway.” His address is Commander H. E. McMahan (SC) USNR, Naval Operating Base, Group 10, Navy
Postmaster, San Francisco, California.
1504,
Christmas card received from

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Educators

Session

One of a series of conferences of the Northeastern Convention District of the Pennsylvania State Education Association was held at the Teachers College, October 24, for the presidents of local branches, chairmen of local legislative committee
and county and district superintendents. Around thirty educators attended.
There was a session at four o’clock in the afternoon and a
second at eight in the evening, following the dinner.
Attending were: David W. Foust, Danville, R. D. 2; Dr.
H. Harrison Russell, Bloomsburg; L. Irene Frederick, Northumberland Mary C. Welsh, Danville; Mary A. Hartman, Stillwater; Fred W. Diehl, Danville; Bruce M. Dreese, Herndon;
Robert M. Knoebel, Sunbury; Franklin A. Noetling, Trevorton
Hugh E. Boyle, Hazleton; George M. Ammerman, Sunbury;
Sarah Minnich, Hazleton; Elizabeth Seager, Danville; Iva M.
VanScoyoc, Amanda K. Thomas, Bloomsburg; J. H. Davidson,
Selon F. Dockey, L. Ward Lichtel, Shamokin; Walter S. Rygiel,
Joseph R. Bailor, Bloomsburg; F. M. Martin, Washington; R. C.
Webster, C. O. Williams, Harvey A. Andruss, Dr. Thomas P.
North, Bloomsburg; C. E. Hilbish, Northumberland.
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Baccalaureate Exercises
Following is the program of the Baccalaureate Exercises
Sunday, February 25, at 2:30 P. M.
“Ancient of Days” Music by J. A. Jeffery;
Processional
Words by William Croswell Doane.
Reverend Carl Ernest Anderson Minister, First
invocation
Presbyterian Church, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
Hymn “Faith of Our Fathers” Music by Henry F. Hemy and
J. G. Walton; Words by Frederick W. Faber.
President HarI Corinthians, Chapter 13
Scripture Reading
vey A. Andruss.
Baccalaureate Sermon “The Essential Endowment” Reverend Carl Ernest Anderson.
Mendelssohn
Women’s
“Lift Thine Eyes” from “Elijah”
Choral Ensemble Miss Harriet M. Moore, Director.
Benediction Rev. C. E. Anderson.
“Awake My Soul” Music by George Frederick
Recessional
Handel; Words by Philip Doddridge.
Miss Harriet M. Moore.
Director of Music
At the Console Mr. H. F. Fenstemaker.

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On Wednesday, November
Robert Whitney,

15, Nelson Sabin, baritone, and
pianist, presented a much enjoyed recital at

the College assembly.
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Mid-Year Comroaereceraeaif
Fifteen students of the

College received their Bachelor’s

Degrees at the Commencement Exercises held in the auditorium
of Carver Hall Monday morning, February 26, 1945. The speaker was Miss Cecile Hamilton, Assistant Aviation Editor of the
New York-Tribune, who spoke on the part that aviation will
play in the world of tomorrow.
The exercises, which took place at 10:00 A. M., were begun with the traditional academic procession. For the first
time in many years, the procession was prevented from moving
down Senior Walk, because of the rain. The members of the
Senior class and the faculty met on the first floor of Carver
Hall, instead of the gymnasium, as had been the custom.
Following is the program that was followed
Processional
March Allegro, From Symphony No. 6 P. I.
Tschaikowsky.
Invocation
Mr. William B. Sutliff, Dean Emeritus.
Address Miss Cecile Hamilton, Assistant Aviation Editor, New
York Herald-Tribune, New York City, New York.
“We Fight For Peace” Bruno Huhn Miss Marylou Fenstemaker, Vocalist; Mr. H. F. Fenstemaker, Accompanist.
Conferring of Degrees President Harvey A. Andruss.
“Alma Mater” The Assembly.

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Recessional
Postlude Pomposo A. Louis Scarmolin.
Director of Music
Miss Harriet M. Moore.
At the Console Mr. H. F. Fenstemaker.
The list of members of the graduating class follows Mildred Dzuris, Nanticoke; Elsie Gladys Flail, Schuylkill; Enso
Robert Frosini, West Wyoming; Flora Catherine Guarna, Mt.
Carmel Alice Zehner Heupcke, Bloomsburg Elizabeth Hoffman Hubler, Gordon Lucille Grace Martino, Easton; Louise

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Buck Miller, Montgomery; Marilyn Dorothy Sailer, Reading;
Laura Eva Schoener, Stroudsburg; Harriet Meade Sterling,
Bloomsburg; Arlene Norma Superko, Mocanaqua; Marian Elizabeth Zong, Milton.
American Education Week was observed at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College with a special assembly program
at 10 :10 o’clock. The program opened by a Scripture reading
by Bernard Kane, Philadelphia; a reading, “More Than Bugles,” by Maj. Harold R. Benjamin, U. S. Air Force, read by
A-S Michael Remetz, Wilkes-Barre “America” by the College
Chorus; an address, “Educational Aspects of the Herald Tribune Forums of 1942, 1943 and 1944,” by Mrs. Marion T. Adams; motion picture, “Education for Victory.” The program
concluded with the College Chorus singing “America the Beau;

tiful.”

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V-12 Notes
former executive officer of the
Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio, reported October 16 to assume command of the
V-12 Unit at Bloomsburg. Lt. Ferguson replaced Lt. Lloyd P.
Jordan, who was transferred to Franklin and Marshall College.
Lt. Russell J.

Navy V-12 Unit

Ferguson,

The new Commanding Officer is a veteran of World War
From 1923 to 1925 he was assistant coach an Indiana University. He went to the University of Pittsburgh in 1925, and
was a member of the History Department- there until 1943,
when he took up his duties at Bowling Green.
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Hugh McCullough, Chief Specialist, became attached to
the local unit in November. The new Chief is a graduate of the
University of Oklahoma. He is an All-American football player, having to his credit one season with the Pittsburgh Steelers
and two seasons with the Chicago Cardinals. McCullough entered the service in April, 1942. He was stationed with the V12 unit at Franklin and Marshall from June, 1943, until he reported at Bloomsburg.
Early in November ninety-six men from the fleet arrived to
begin their training with the Bloomsburg V-12 unit. They came
from almost all of the combat areas of the world, and a great
majority of them have served two to three years in the Navy.
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A delightful reception for new students was held Saturday
evening, November 18, by the trustees, faculty, and upperclassmen. A program was presented in the auditorium, and a dance
followed in the Centennial Gymnasium.
In the auditorium Mary Louise Fenstemaker, president of
the Community Government Association, extended greetings.
Miss Peggy Beach sang, and President Andruss extended greetings on behalf of the College. Miss Bernice Gabuzda and A-S
Russell Crosby sang “My Hero” from the “Chocolate Soldier.”
Miss Kay Kurilla was the accompanist.
Lt. R. J. Ferguson, commanding officer of the V-12 unit,
extended greetings, and there was some group singing directed
by Harriet M. Moore. The Bloomsburg Players, under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston, with Miss Jeanne Keller as the
student director, presented an enjoyable one-act play. Miss
Althea Parcell sang a solo, and the program closed with the
singing of “Anchors Aweigh.”
In the reception line at the gymnasium were President and
Mrs. H. A. Andruss, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hidlay, Lt. and Mrs.
Ferguson, Dr. and Mrs. T. P. North, Miss Mary Louise Fenstemaker, and A-C Michael Remetz. The music for the dancing
was provided by Ivan Faux’s orchestra of Sunbury.
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John W. Weimer
John W. Weimer, former student and athlete at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and later, for five years,
the school coach, died of a heart ailment at his home in York
Friday, December 1. He was sixty-one years of age. At the
time of his death, he was secretary of the Central Pennsylvania
Football Conference.

Mr. Weimer was a student at Bloomsburg at the turn of
the century, and was a fine baseball, football and basketball
player. He played the outfield in baseball, the backfield in
football, and the guard position in basketball.
He was later assistant to Dr. Aldinger, then head of the
physical department of the Normal School, and in 1912 returned for five years to fill the position of head coach, and Director of the Department of Physical Education. He later accepted a position as Athletic Director and Coach at the Allentown High School. From there he went to York as head of the
Department of Physical Education.
Not only was he outstanding as an athlete in his student
days in Bloomsburg, but he later excelled in football and baseball at Gettysburg College, which he entered after leaving
Bloomsburg. He played professional baseball for a number of
years, but his active career in that sport came to an end in 1914
because of an old football injury.
He was twice manned. His first wife died a number of
years ago. He is survived by his second wife.
o

President H. A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, Dr. H. H. Russell, President of the College unit of the
P. S. E. A. and Miss Edna Hazen, of the College Faculty, attended the North Eastern Sectional meeting of the Pennsylvania
State Education Association at Sunbury, Friday, December 7th.
At the evening session the speakers were Dr. Francis B.
Haas and James Young, author of “The Rising Sun” and an
authority on Oriental affairs.
O

John C. Koch, Dean of Men and Director of Aviation at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, participated in a “Career Conference” held recently at the Plazleton High School.
The conference was sponsored by the Hazleton Kiwanis Club
and the Vocational Guidance Committee with Thomas L. Hinkle, School Superintendent, directing
the conference. Nine
speakers, representing various professions and vocations, spoke
briefly and answered questions in their respective fields. Dr.

Koch represented the

field of aviation.
O

The College recently

issued a beautifully illustrated bul-

letin “Pictures of Progress at Bloomsburg,” summarizing
activities of the College since the beginning of the war.

the

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All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson, of all
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.

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board of Directors
President
Bruce Albert
Vice-President
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Secretary
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Treasurer
Fred B. Diehl
E. H. Nelson
D. D. Wright
Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler
R.

OFFICERS OF LOCAL BRANCHES
Cumberland -Dauphin Counties

—

President Mrs. Jessie D. Hoover, 4 Altoona Avenue, Harrisburg, Pa.; First
Vice-President Mrs. Blanche M. Grimes, 204 North Second Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.; Second Vice-President Miss Elizabeth Clancy, 436
North Third Street, Steelton, Pa.; Treasurer W. Homer Englehart,
1821 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa.; Secretary Mrs. Helen Sutliff
Brown, 100 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

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Lackawanna County

—

President W. Archibald Reese, 1154 Cornell Street, Scranton, Pa.; VicePresidents 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.

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Luzerne County

—

President Edna 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 Carlisle Street, WilkesBarre, Pa.; Treasurer Mrs. Lester Bennett, 402 North River Street,
Plainsville, Pa.

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Montour County

President Ralph McCracken. 202 Gearhart Street, Riverside, Pa.; VicePresident Dorothy Sidler, R. D. 2, Danville, Pa.; Secretary Alice
Smull, 312 Church Street, Danville, Pa.; Treasurer Mildred Auten,
R. D. 1, Danville, Pa.

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Northumberland County

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President Claire E. Scholvin, 552 Queen Street, Northumberland, Pa.;
Vice-President Joseph Shovlin, Kulpmont, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer
S. Curtis Yocum, 925 Orange Street, Shamokin, Pa.

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Schuylkill County

—Orval

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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
A. Symbal, Shenandoah,
J. Flennery, Lost Creek, Pa.; Vice-President
Michael Walaconis, Ringtown, Pa.; Vice-PresPa.; Vice-President
ident 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.

President

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Philadelphia

—

President Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish, 732 Washington Street, Camden,
N. J.; Vice-President Mrs. Mary A. Taubel, 1246 Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, 7011
Erdrick Street, Philadelphia 35, Pa.

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Snyder-Union Counties

—

President Harold Danowsky, R. 3, Lewisbuig, Pa.; Vice-President Eugene
Keefer, R. 1, Selinsgrove, Pa.; Vice-President Helen Keller, Maple
Mildred Wagner, Selinsgrove, Pa.;
Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Secretary
Secretary Mrs. Harold Baker, Market Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.; Treasurer Anna Troutman, Selinsgi'ove, Pa.

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Susquehanna -Wyoming Counties

—

President Fred Kester, Mill City, Pa.; Vice-President Arlene Johnson,
Hallstead, Pa.; Vice-President—Susan Jennings Sturman, Tunkhannock,
Catherine Bell Hicks, New Milford, Pa.; Secretary
Pa.; Secretary
Mildred Avery Love, North Mehoopany, Pa.; Treasurer Harry Schlegel, Montrose, Pa.

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Columbia County

—

President A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Pa.; Vice-President Larue Derr, Beaver; Secretary
Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Treasurer Paul
Brunstetter, Catawissa, Pa.

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1884
Mrs. Jennie B. Moore, of 22 Bloom Street, Danville, widow
of Howard R. Moore, died Saturday, October 8, at four o’clock
at the home of her son, Robert, 110 West Market Street, Danville. Death was due to heart failure.
Mrs. Moore, a retired teacher, was born in Pottsville 78
year ago, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F.
McGinnes. She moved to Danville with her parents in 1881.
Her father was for many years general superintendent of the
operations of the Montour Iron and Steel Company, which later
became the Reading Iron Company. She graduated from
Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1884 and subsequently
taught the old “Slope” school in Frosty Valley for two years.
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After her husband’s death in 1912, she taught in the Fourth
Ward school until her retirement in 1934.
Mrs. Moore is survived by two sons, Robert and Theodore
McGinnes, of Philadelphia, and by two grandsons, Robert and
John.
1888
Mrs. Minnie Kitchen Faus, widow of the Rev. George W.
Faus, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harrison Taylor,
Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, November 14. She is survived by
three sons and a daughter: the Rev. Raymond W. Faus, of Pittsburgh the Rev. W. Arthur Faus, of Clearfield Keeler Faus, in
the diplomatic service and now stationed in Madrid, Spain, and
Mrs. Taylor. The body was brought to Bloomsburg, and burial
took place in Old Rosemont Cemetery.
;

;

Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Cool, formerly of Philadelphia,
have established themselves in Bloomsburg, after spending a
year with their son, Harold H. Cool, in Culver City, California.
Their Bloomsburg address is 128 East Fifth Street.
1901

Jacob H. Maust, of Bloomsburg, died at the Bloomsburg
Plospital Thursday, November 16, after an illness of five years.
He was confined to his bed for two years, and was taken to the
Bloomsburg Hospital three months before his death. Mr. Maust
was born near Jerseytown. He served as Deputy Sheriff of Columbia County under four sheriffs. He served two terms as postmaster of Bloomsburg, through both of President Wilson’s administrations. He was treasurer of the Bloomsburg Fair for
twenty-nine years. He is survived by his wife, three sisters, and
one brother.
Mrs. Renna Leidy McHenry died Friday, October 20, at
her home in Mifflinville, following a stroke of apoplexy. She
had been in poor health for several years. She was born in
Hemlock Township, Columbia County, and had lived nearly all
her life in Bloomsburg until nine years ago, when she moved to
Mifflinville. Before her marriage to Albert McHenry, who died
in 1927, she had taught in Fernville, Rock Glen, and Jerseytown. Before moving to Mifflinville, she was a member of the
Bloomsburg Reformed Church.
1902
Captain Arthur S. Clay, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S.
Clay, of Bloomsburg, died in a hospital at Guadalcanal on December 11. His mother, the former Laura Moyer, of Bloomsburg,

member

of the class of 1902.

Captain Clay had been a member of the expeditionary
forces for a year and a half, serving practically all of that time
as a front-line surgeon in headquarters sheltered by sandbags.
He enlisted in the Army Medical Reserve the day he received his diploma from the Medical School of the University of
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Pennsylvania. He then devoted much of his time as opthalmologist for the Allegheny County induction board. In January,
1943, he entered active service, going first to the Fiji Islands
and then to the Solomon Islands. The family has been notified
that he was carried by plane from the upper Solomons to the
hospital at Guadalcanal.
His wife is the former Page Gemmill, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Port Gemmill. Dr. and Mrs. Clay were married in June,
1938, and they have one daughter, Karen. Mrs. Clay’s mother
is the former Zora M. Low, of the class of 1910.
An Eagle Scout in his boyhood days, he was graduated
from the Bloomsburg High School in 1929. He continued his
education at Blair Academy, and was a student at Hamilton
College before entering the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine. After receiving his degree, he was for a year an interne at the Geisinger Hospital at Danville, and then took some
work in the Post Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania before taking a twenty-seven months course in eye surgery at the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia. For a year prior
to his entry into the service he was associated with his fatherin-law, Dr. Port Gemmill, at the Gemmill Eye Hospital, Monessen, Pa.
He was a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity, and of the
Presbyterian Church at Belle Vernon, Pa.

1904
MacCachran, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
MacCachran (Margaret Jenkins), of 16 South Twenty-Sixth
Street, Camp Hill, was recently promoted to the rank of serCpl. Robert F.

geant in the Air Force Intelligence of the Eleventh Air Force in
the Aleutian Islands. His brother, Pfc. Russell A. MacCachran,
Jr., is with the Air Force in New Guinea. Robert was inducted
in February, 1943, and was trained at the Army Clerical School,
Ft. Logan, Colorado. He is a graduate of the Camp Hill High
School and the Washington and Lee University, 1942. Russell
is also a graduate of the Camp Hill High School, and was a Junior at Washington and Jefferson when he enlisted in May, 1943.
He was trained in Kansas City and Drew Field, Florida, and
went overseas in July, 1944.

1909

News has been

received of the recent death of Chester E.
McAfee, for twenty years a member of the science department
at the Stetson Junior High School. Mr. McAfee died at his
home, 19 West Ashmead Place, Germantown, after an illness
of more than two years. For thirteen years, Mr. McAfee owned
and operated the Tioga News. After his graduation from
Bloomsburg, he taught at Eagle, Lionville and Parkesburg. He
served as President of the Tioga Business Men’s Association
for four years, was a director of the Tioga National Bank, and
a Commodore of the Ocean Gate Yacht Club. He is survived
by his wife, Clara, a son, Lt. (jg) Chester E. McAfee, Jr., DenPage Seventeen

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Corps, U. S. Navy, stationed at Farragut, Idaho; a daughElizabeth, wife of Major Philip W. Bowers; and a brother,
George. Interment took place in St. Andrew’s Cemetery, Ludwig’s Corner, Chester County.

tal

ter,

1910

W. Potter, of Jersey Shore, have two
Myron Lowe Potter, and Lt. Charles W.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles
sons in the service, Lt.

Potter, Jr. The former is a pilot of a Flying Fortress in the
Eighth Air Force. Lt. Charles received several honors at the
commencement exercises at Jefferson Medical College, held last
September. In addition to receiving his commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve, he was presented with two
awards for excellence in medical college. He also received the
second award of general excellence in orthopedic surgery. He
was one of the twenty members of his class who attained the
standard required to be chosen for interneship in the Jefferson
Hospital. He began his interneship October 1, and after nine
months will report for active service with the Army Medical
Corps. Lt. Potter received his degree of Bachelor of Science in
Biology, magna cum laude, in 1941 at Bucknell University. He
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity, and was a
member of Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity, serving as
president of the Bucknell chapter of the latter organization.

1911
Dr. E. H. Nelson, member of the college faculty, and Business Manager of the Alumni Quarterly, was honored September
27, when he was created a Thirty-Third Degree Mason at the
annual session of the Supreme Council at Cleveland, Ohio. Dr.
Nelson is Second Lieutenant Commander of Caldwell Consistory.

1915

The Quarterly has recently been informed

of the death of
Paul Milnes, which occurred January 7, 1940. He had been
suffering from a heart ailment for some time before his death.
Mrs. Milnes, who lives at 17 Homewood Drive, Toronto, Ontario, writes the following
“We have four children, Humphrey, Sydney Hilda, Anthony and William. Humphrey is married, and has a little son,
Paul, two years old. He is overseas with the Canadian Army
in the Intelligence Corps. Sydney is a Lieutenant in the Army
Medical Corps, and is now stationed in British Columbia. She
Anthony is almost nineteen, and is planis a Physiotherapist.
ning with joining the American forces. William worked last
summer at a camp run by the Y. M. C. A.”

Alma

Baer,

Rua Prudente de Moraes

365, Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil, says in a recent letter:
“Had hoped to be in U. S. to attend my class reunion next
year (1945), but due to war conditions, I fear it will be impos-

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sible.

outfit

and

Eduardo is “somewhere overseas” with his
second son Juan is now a student at the Wharton
College, University of Pennsylvania. My youngest son, Paul, is
now doing his second year of high school and then expects to
complete his education at the University of Pennsylvania.”
eldest son

1920
Earl R. Strange, Sr., formerly of Pottstown, has arrived in
Hawaii to serve the armed forces as an American Red Cross assistant field director. Before his Red Cross appointment Mr.
Strange was commercial instructor and athletic coach at the
Pottstown High School. Pie is a graduate of the Minersville
High School, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and the
American University School of Law, class of 1937. He also attended the Indiana State Teachers College, Temple University
and Ursinus College.

1928
Clarence Ruch, of Berwick, who has been on overseas
duty with Navy convoys for the past eighteen months, has been
assigned to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station for three
months of shore duty.
1932
Lt.

Pvt. Seymour Stere of Millville, is stationed at Camp Lee,
Virginia, as an instructor in the Quartermaster Corps. He entered service in March, 1944.
?

1933

Mary Freas Schuyler, of Bloomsburg, a member of the
Women’s Army Corps, died of meningitis in Litchfield, England, on Saturday, November 25. Members of her family were
T-5

from the War Department.
“The Secretary of War asks that I assure you of his deep sympathy in the loss of your daughter,
Technician Fifth Grade Mary F. Schuyler. Report received
notified of her death

The telegram

stated

states she died twenty-five
Letter follows.”

November

in Litchfield,

England.

Overseas since last March and based in England throughout that time, she was a postal locator, handling mail not sufficiently addressed to reach its destination without securing additional information. The la.st letters to the family were dated

November

18, and they were of an optimistic tone, although
she stated in one that she was tired as the result of handling a
huge amount of Christmas mail.
Keenly interested in the country surrounding her base,
she took trips whenever off duty a sufficient length of time. She
was not based at Litchfield, and it is believed that she was visiting there.
The daughter of Fred H. Schuyler, she was reared in the
home of her aunt, Miss Mary Freas. She was a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School, class of 1929, and of the Bloomsburg

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State Teachers College, class of 1933. She later took advanced
work at Duke and Rutgers Universities.
From January, 1934, until she was granted a leave of absence in 1943, she w'as a teacher in the William Case School at
Morrisville, Pa. She was the first woman from that community
to enter the Women’s Army Corps. She was a member of the
executive council of the Morrisville Parent-Teacher Association. Throughout her life,
first in the Bloomsburg Methodist
Church, and later in both the Presbyterian and Methodist congregations in Morrisville, she was exceptionally active in church

work.
Cpl. Schuyler was a member of the Kappa Delta Pi, national honorary professional fraternity, and
Theta Upsilon, national geography fraternity.
She enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corp at Trenton, New Jersey, in January, 1943, and was called to service
February 22 of that year. Her basic training was taken at Foil
Oglethorpe, Georgia, and she then served at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and Fort Riley, Kansas.
It was while she was at Fort Riley that the Women’s Army

Gamma

Auxiliary Corps was disbanded and the woman’s branch made
part of the Army. She then reenlisted and volunteered for overseas duty.

She went to England

last

March.

Surviving are her father, two brothers and a
aunts, and a nephew.

sister,

three

Lt. Col. Woodrow Hummel, of Bloomsburg, was killed in
action in Belgium Saturday, September 9. He was assigned to
the expeditionary forces in August, and went into action immediately. The War Department telegram, sent to his wife,
the former Helen Krape, of Renovo, was received Saturday,
September 30. He is the highest ranking officer in the Bloomsburg area to make the supreme sacrifice in the present war.
Lt. Col. Hummel entered federal service with Company M,
Berwick National Guard unit, with the rank of second lieuten-

His advance in
ant. He was later assigned to another unit.
rank was rapid, and he was made a lieutenant-colonel about a
month before he was assigned to the European theatre as an of-

replacement.
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and was employed by the
E. R. Beers Electric Company from the time of his graduation
until he entered the service.
Lt. Col. Hummel was a member of Washington Lodge, F.
& A. M., the Bloomsburg Camp of the P. O. S. of A., and of the
Bloomsburg Reformed Church.
ficer

He was

Major John Q. Timbrell, of Bloomsburg, has been appointed chief censor for the China-Burma-India war theatre for the
U. S. Army Air Forces. He has a staff of fifty officers and forty
enlisted

men.

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Capt. Howard Berninger, of Mifflinville, has been stationed
on the Hawaiian Islands, after sixteen months on Guadalcanal.
He is a member of the Army Air Forces.

1934
Miss Maudmae Edwards, of Bloomsburg, and Alden J.
Danks, of Milton, were married Saturday, December 16, at the
Bloomsburg Reformed Church. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Edwin E. Staudt. The bride has been a teacher in
Milton since her graduation from Bloomsburg. Mr. Danks is a
graduate of Elmira High School, Elmira, New York. He attended Alabama University, and is a graduate of Susquehanna and
Bucknell Universities. He is a teacher in the Milton High
School, and has also been serving as the head coach there.
Louis W. Buckalew, Jr., husband of Maryruth Reishe
Buckalew, of Bloomsburg, has been promoted to the rank of
Captain, and is now on duty in the European area.

1936
Captain Robert D. Abbett, Bloomsburg, is a squadron adjutant in a Twelfth Air Force B-25 Mitchell Bombardment
Group which participated in the D-Day air support of the invasion of Southern France. Capt. Abbett’s medium bombardment group supported the air-sea-land attack from a base in
Corsica, and worked in close support with all other Twelfth
Army Air Force bombers, fighters and troop carrier aircraft.
Staff Sergeant Theodore S. Whitenight, of Bloomsburg, is
stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, where he has recently
completed his required medical basic training for foreign service. Sgt. Whitenight was previously stationed at the Schick
General Hospital, Clinton, Iowa, where he held the position as
supervisor of enlisted personnel in surgery.

1937
Brown, of Bloomsburg, has been elected executive secretary of the Columbia County Tuberculosis and Health
Society. Mr. Brown is a member of the Commercial Department
in the Bloomsburg High School, and has also served as the
chairman of War Price and Rationing Board No. 1, with headquarters in Bloomsburg.
1938
Hit in the left arm by shrapnel from a German 150 mm.
gun near Aachen, Germany, Staff Sergeant Aerio F. Fetterman,
of Catawissa, R. D. 3, was sent to a hospital in England. He
has been awarded the Purple Heart.
“We were awaiting new orders in our huts,” said Sergeant
Fetterman, “when a German 150 mm. gun let loose with a shell
which landed outside the hut. Pieces of shrapnel came whizzing through the windows and I got hit in the left arm. I was

Edward

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given first aid by one of our medical officers, and then was
transferred by plane to this hospital.”
Sgt. Fetterman was a teacher in the Locust Township High
School before entering the Army in June, 1942.
Capt. William Thomas was a visitor at the College January
is serving with the U. S. Army Engineers, and has had
two years of service overseas. He has been in Australia and
New Guinea, building warehouses and handling supplies. He
is now at Foil Belvoir, Virginia, for special training.
His address: Capt. William Thomas, Co. 0, O. S. B., S. S. R., Foil Belvoir, Va.
8.

2nd

Lt.

Vance

Laubach, of Berwick, now

England,

recently completed an orientation course designed to bridge the
gap between training in the United States and combat service
against the enemy in France. Before entering the service, he
was employed as a teacher at the Senior High School in
Waynesboro, Pa.

1939
Miss Martha Wright, of Bloomsburg, and Lucas H. Moe,
Jr., of Auburn, New York, were married Saturday afternoon,
December 30, at the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Samuel Williams
Strain, pastor of the church. Mrs. Moe is the former executive
secretary of the Girl Scout Council of Cayuga County, New
York, and of the Columbia County Girl Scout Council. Mr. Moe
is

employed by the Columbia Rope Company, Auburn,

New

York.
L. Ruth Kleffman and Raymond H. Ensminger, both of
York, were married Tuesday, December 26, in the Ascension
Evangelical Lutheran Chapel, Stoneleigh, Maryland. Mr. and
Mrs. Ensminger are both members of the faculty of the William Penn Senior High School in York.
Lt.

Robert J. Reimard enlisted in the Navy
and is now serving in the South Pacific.

(j.g.)

gust, 1942,

Au-

Lt. Robert Ohl, of Lime Ridge, a member of a B-29 bomber
crew, has been promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant.

1940
Frank Kocher, of Espy, has accepted a position as instructor in mathematics at the Admiral Farraguit Naval Academy,
St. Petersburg, Florida. He began his new duties in January.
Mr. Kocher has been teaching in the Conshohocken High
School.
1st Lieutenant William H. Hess, of Bloomsburg, has been
transferred to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, from Santa Monica,
California. His new address is Hq. Air Technical Service Command, TSELA-4C5, Area B, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.

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Private Ruth E. Boone, of Bloomsburg, is a member of a
unit which left the First
Training
Center, Des Moines, Iowa, for duty with the Army at the AAF
center in Palm Springs, California.

Women’s Army Corps

WAC

Capt. Byron D. Shiner, of Berwick, was recently promoted
rank at Cortland Army Air Field, where he is
Post Adjutant. He has been in the service since 1941.
to his present

1941
Second Lieutenant Charles A. Robbins, of Bloomsburg,
has been receiving further training in the four-engine pilot
school at Roswell Army Air Field, Roswell, New Mexico. He
received his wings March 3, 1943, at Mather Field, California.
Irene Diehl, of Bethlehem, is teaching Commercial Office
Practice in the Liberty High School, Bethlehem.
1942
Lt. Drue Folk, of Berwick, who had been missing in action
since his plane was shot down during a raid on Vienna, Austria,
is back
on duty, according to a War Department telegram received by his wife, the former Dorothy Savage, of Berwick.
Lt. Folk is a navigator of a Liberator bomber crew. He is
known to have been on many bombing missions before the one
on which his plane was shot down. His plane was based in
Italy.

The Editor recently received a card from James William
Davies, who is a prisoner in Germany. Lt. Davies was a navigator on a B-24 bomber, which is believed to have been shot down
Easter Sunday, 1944, while participating in a raid over Germany. Lt. Davies’ message indicates that he is well.

A son, Richard William, was born October 21, 1944, to Sgt.
and Mrs. Richard O. Matthes. Sgt. Matthes is stationed in Hawaii, and Mrs. Matthes, the former Ann Boyer, is living at 1370
Beverly Road, Union, New Jersey.
1943
Miss Phyllis Wagner, of Miffiinville, and Ernest D. Kocher,
of Espy, were married Thanksgiving Day in the parsonage of
the First Baptist Church of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Malcolm C. Hunsicker. The bride, a
graduate of Center Township High School, has been employed
at the Milco Company in Bloomsburg, and the groom is employed by Harold Shuman, Willow Grove.
1944
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Florence Faust, of Ambler, and Lt. Philip R. Yeany, of Bloomsburg. Miss Faust is a teacher in the commercial department of
West Reading High School, West Reading, Pa. Lt. Yeany is
first pilot of a B-26 bomber, and is located at Barksdale Field,
Shreveport, Louisiana.
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The Dean’s Honor Roll for the July trimester, 1944, at the
Bloomsburg Teachers College has been announced by Dr.
Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction. The Dean’s Honor Roll
includes the following:

Seniors

—Louise

Montgomery; Mildred Dzuris, Secondary,
mores

—

Miller,

Elementary,
Sopho-

N anticoke;

Helen Wright, Elementary, Bloomsburg; Lillian Guis,
Secondary, Sheppton Bernice Gabuzda, Secondary, Freeland
Freshman Ellen Moore, Secondary, Washington.

—

;

o—

—

Members of the Faculty of the Bloomsburg Stale Teachers
College were represented at the annual Pennsylvania State Education Association meeting held in Harrisburg during the
Christmas holidays. Dr. H. H. Russell, President of the Teachers College Branch of the P. S. E. A., was the local official delegate and others from the College who attended were: President
Harvey A. Andruss, William Forney, Head of the Business Education Department and John C. Koch, Dean of Men and Director of Public Relations.
-

The Christmas Dinner and Dance was held the night beDecember 21.
The Christmas Dinner was served at 6 :S0 P. M. in the college
dining room with Miss Ellen Penn, College Dietician, in charge
of arrangements. The dance was held in the Centennial Gymnasium and was semi-formal. The Ivan Faux Orchestra furfore Christmas vacation beginning Thursday,

nished the music.
O

Miss Joyce Renee, violinist, and Miss Minne Haffer, accompanist, presented a fine program at the college assembly
held Wednesday, December 6.

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fyosimeti

Students

The following was received from Sgt. Joseph Marinka,
32302789, G-4, Sec. Hq. 4th Infantry Division, APO 4, U. S.
Army, % Postmaster, New York
“Your invitation to attend Homecoming Day was greatly
appreciated, and I thank you very much for it. It would have
been my extreme pleasure to attend, but you can see that it was
quite impossible to do so. I do hope that I shall be able to be
present next year to renew old acquaintances and take part in
the festivities.
“The consideration given to members of the armed forces
is very liberal, and I must say that it will be very advantageous
to take into consideration all the credits offered by the College
when continuing our education after the end of hostilities.
“After being here since D-Day, I’m more anxious than ever
to follow the slogan of “America First.” Throughout France,
Belgium, and now Germany, however beautiful they may seem
in Travelogues and the like, there is no place like the good old
U. S. A.
“Best wishes for the holiday season.”

Second Lieut. Buddy M. Hartman, twenty, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Hartman, Benton R. D. 3, a fighter pilot in a 15th
AAF P-51 Mustang fighter group in Italy, has completed his
first 100 hours of combat flying over enemy territory.
Lt. Hartman passed this mark on October 19 while participating a high altitude escort of heavy bombers attacking the
Blechhammer oil refineries in Germany. Since entering on active combat flying on August 22, he has flown twenty successful combat missions over Yugoslavia, Romania, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Greece.
In recognition of his meritorious achievements in participating in sustained aerial operations against the enemy, he has
been awarded the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster.
Enlisting in the Army Air Force in April, 1943, he was
awarded his pilot’s wings on January 7 of this year, completing the advanced flight courses at Napier Field, Dothan, Ala.
A graduate of the Benton High School, Lt. Hartman was
enrolled at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College when he entered the service.

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William E. Duy, of Bloomsburg, was recently commissioned an ensign in the Naval Reserve and designated a Naval
aviator at the Naval Air Training Base at Pensacola, Florida.
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Cpl. Dante Edmund Villa is missing in action in France according to word received by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Villa, of Berwick.
He is an infantryman and is one of three
brothel's serving in the present war. The telegram received
stated he had been missing since October 4.
Cpl. Villa, who entered the Federal service, with the Berwick National Guard companies, went overseas in August.
Prior to sailing he was an instructor in the Army.
The soldier was in action with Gen. Patton's Third Army
on October 4 when he was reported missing. Prior to entering
the service four years ago he had been attending B. S. T. C. and
he left his studies there to go to camp.

Lieutenant Leon H. Hartman and Miss Rachel A. Cook,
both of Elysburg, were recently married in St. Peter’s Lutheran
Church, Elysburg. Mrs. Hartman was graduated from the
Ralpho Township High School in 1940, and for several years
has been employed by the War Department in Newark, New
Jersey. Lieutenant Hartman was a student at Bloomsburg when
he entered the service. They will live in McAllen, Texas, where
Lt. Hartman is serving as a flying instructor in the Army Air
Force Pilot School.

The three hundredth anniversary of the birth of William
Penn was observed during the assembly period at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held October 23.
The governor’s proclamation was read by Julian Zinzarella. “William Penn and His Ideals” was discussed by Elsie
Flail. Miss Althea Parsell, of Orangeville, sang “The Lord’s
Prayer” which was composed by a Pennsylvanian.
Miss Rose Boyle read the poem “Philadelphia,” by Rudyard Kipling.

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Miss Mina Dean Biehler and Sergeant Charles Stout, both
Berwick, were married Saturday, October 14, at the Bower
Memorial Evangelical Church in Berwick. The Rev. Reed O.
Steely, pastor of the church, performed the ceremony. The
bride has for the past two years been employed in the offices of
the A. C. F. Company in Berwick. The groom is a graduate of
the Berwick High School, in the class of 1940. Until his enlistment two years ago, he was employed in the Auditing Department of the A. C. F. Company. He is at present stationed at
Camp San Luis Obispo, California.
of

Sgt.

Virginia,
six

Manley Fought, of Millville, trained at Fort Belvoir,
and served with the combat engineers in Iceland for

months.

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now

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Lt. Charles W. Murphy, of Frackville, recently participated in the hundredth combat mission of a Liberator bomber
group based in Italy. The group has been in operation since
last February, and has participated in the destruction of enemy
targets and communication lines throughout southern Europe.
Previous to entering the service in 1942, he worked for the East

Bear Ridge Colliery Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kline, of Benton,
their son, Staff Sergeant James S. Kline,

have been notified that

a prisoner of the GerThis word was the first since the family had
been notified that Sgt. Kline, tail-gunner of a B-24, had been
missing in action since October 13. Pie pperated from a base in
Italy, and is the holder of the Air Medal and several Oak Leaf
is

man government.

Clusters.

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Walter M. Novelli, of Mocanaqua, was recently graduated
from the Aviation Radio School at Jacksonville, Florida, and
was promoted to the rank of Seaman First Class. Entering the
Navy February 19, 1944, he received his recruit training at
Sampson, New York, before being transferred to the Naval Air
Technical Training Center at Jacksonville.

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2nd. Lt. Wayne E. Leaner, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 3, has
been graduated as a B-24 bomber pilot at Fort Worth Army Air
Field, Texas, a unit of the AAF Central Flying Training Com-

Deaner received previous
Oklahoma, and
was commissioned May 24, 1944.

mand.

Lt.

ana, Texas, at Enid,

flight training nt Corsicat Altus, Oklahoma. He

•

Danny Litwhiler, of the St. Louis Cardinals and Alumnus
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, addressed the regular college assembly Thursday, December 14. Litwhiler discussed some of his experiences as a professional baseball player, and recounted some parts of his trip to Alaska with a party
of other pro-ball players. The trip was sponsored by professional baseball to bring bits of the baseball season directly to
Uncle Sam’s

GI’s.

Litwhiler, whose activities in the major league have been
closely followed by fans in this area, will be remembered as
the protege of Dr. E. H. Nelson, Director of Athletics and base
ball coach at the college, who broke up a game between
Bloomsburg and the University of Pennsylvania with a ninth
inning home run which brought a 10-9 victory to the college.

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the Alumni gather at the College on Alumni Day,
23, a familiar figure will be missing. As a profound shock
tc the entire community of Bloomsburg, and to all Alumni and
friends of the Bloomsburg State College, came the news of the

When

June

sudden death of R. Bruce Albert, of Bloomsburg, President of
Mr. Albert, one of the most prominent
activities in Columbia County, was
religious
and
civic
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stricken with a heart attack Wednesday, May 30, and died at
the Bloomsburg Hospital Thursday morning, May 31, at 8:45
the Alumni Association.

o’clock.

While he had not been feeling well for a few days, he was
many organizations with which he was identified,
and he planned a trip for the holiday to visit his brother-in-law
and sister, the Rev. and Mrs. Dallas G. Baer, of Norwood.
While engaged in preparations for the trip, he became ill and
soon lost consciousness. He was taken to the hospital and remained unconscious until the time of his death.
Few in any community have been identified with so many
phases of civic and religious life, and so active in all of them,
as was R. Bruce Albert.
He was a native of Bloomsburg, the son of the late Prof,
and Mrs. Charles H. Albert, and made his home in Bloomsburg
the greater part of his life. He graduated from the Bloomsburg
State Normal School in 1906 and later graduated from Gettysburg College. He was a member of the Kappa Psi fraternity.
He was a teacher for several years, and during part of that time
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served as principal of the Administration Building of the Scranton schools.
fie taught at Benton for a time after his graduation from
Bloomsburg, and following his graduation from Gettysburg was
elected to a position in Scranton. He received his Masters Degree at Columbia University.

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During World War 1 he served in the United States Navy.
Following his service in the war, he entered the field of bonds
and investments. He later became identified with the Scranton
investment house of Forrest and Dunlap, and was associated
with that firm for many years until he went into the State Department of Public Assistance.
He handled relief work in Columbia County and was later
transferred to Wyoming County, with offices in Tunkhannock.
He resigned his position there to take the chairmanship of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Drive for the Worthy Student Fund, which contributed as a part of the Centennial observance at the Colloge in 1939. As a result of his efforts,
the Student Loan Fund was increased to $15,000. Mr. Albert
then became the efficient head of the Columbia County office of
the State Department of Public Assistance* and occupied that
position at the time of his death.
For twenty years he was president of the Columbia County
Sabbath School Association and gave untiringly of his time and
behalf. He was reelected to the office only a few
his death, at the convention held in Berwick. During his administration he organized the districts and attended
their meetings and aided in the planning of their programs.
Always interested in young people, he was especially active in,
young people’s work. The county organization made great
strides under his leadership.
He was active in the First Presbyterian Church, and was
president of the Men’s Fellowship. An able Bible student and
forceful teacher, his services were called for in this capacity by
Sunday Schools and other religious groups in the entire area.
From the time the Columbia County War Fund Committee
was organized, Mr. Albert was county chairman of payroll deductions. He assisted in the organization of this plan in industries throughout the area. He was especially busy in setting up
the program for the present Seventh War Loan Drive, and in
connection with that drive, he visited every industrial plant in
the county and addressed workers in most of them.
For almost twenty years he was president of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association. During that
time he saw the organization incorporated and alumni program
grow. In that period the Alumni Room was created as a memorial to the late Prof. O. H. Bakeless, and there were many
memorials to other veteran members of the faculty.
He organized branches of the Association in the several
counties within the service area and was a regular attendant at
their several gatherings. Already thousands of invitations for
the 1945 reunion, June 23, have gone out to Bloomsburg graduates over his signature and that of Harvey A. Andruss, President of the College.
A charter member of the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club, he
v as a past president and a past lieutenant-governor. He served
for many years as a director and served often as song leader.
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He was a member of the Kiwanis Octette. For several years he
was chairman of the Program Committee, a position that he
held at the time of his death. Interested in the rapidly growing
Kiwanis-sponsored Community playground, he was chairman of
the Playground Committee during the first year that it operated.

He was for many years a supporter of other phases of sowork, and at the time of his death was the efficient head of
the local organization of the Salvation Army.
When the Columbia and Montour Boy Scout Council was
formed, he became a worker in that movement, serving as its
president for one year, and was recognized some years ago by
being presented with the Silver Beaver award for outstanding
contributions to boyhood. He served on numerous Scout committees, and was chairman of the most recent Boy and Girl
Scout drive in the Bloomsburg area. At the time of his death he
was chairman of the council leadership training council, having
held that office from the time of its organization. For many
years, he was Scoutmaster of Troop No. 21 at St. Matthews
Lutheran Church.
Mr. Albert was past chairman of the Bloomsburg Chapter
cial

of the American Red Cross, and was serving as director at the
time of death. When Bloomsburg raised funds for the construction of the Public Library and the Bloomsburg Hospital,
he was a member of those campaign organizations.
He was a member of Washington Lodge No. 265, F. & A.
M., of Caldwell Consistory, and of Irem Temple Shrine, Wilkes-

Barre.
Surviving are his wife and two brothers and two sisters
Keller B. Albert, of Reading; Charles H. Albert, Jr., of Dallas;
Mrs. Jesse Y. Glenn, of Berwick, and Mrs. Dallas G. Baer, of

Norwood.
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In the editorial columns of Bloomsburg Morning Press appeared the following tribute to Mr. Albert;
“The sudden death yesterday morning of R. Bruce Albert
came as a distinct shock, not only to Bloomsburg, but throughout the county, where he was widely known.
“Stricken down in the prime of life, his death removes a
church and civic leader one who has given many years to civic

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betterment.

“To mention his activities in town and county in the last
quarter of a century would embrace the major ventures.
“He gave unstintingly of his time and talent and has left
to those who must carry on the heritage of a life well spent.
“He was never too busy to help others, while his leadership qualities were constantly in demand.
“Bloomsburg has all too few of his type. He will be missed
as few could be, but his memory will be cherished by many.”
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Bloomsburg Sunday afternoon, June 3, at 3:00 o’clock. Services were in charge of the Rev. Carl A. Anderson, of the First
Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg, and the Rev. D. L. Bomboy, pastor of the Buckhorn Lutheran Charge, and a lifelong
friend of Mr. Albert. Many friends, both from Bloomsburg and
from a distance, were present at the services.
o

KENNETH RICHARD ALLEN
was

First Lieutenant Kenneth Richard Allen, of Shamokin,
killed in Germany March 1, his parents were informed by

telegram from the War Department.
Lt. Allen was wounded in action December 19, 1944, and
returned to action with an artillery unit shortly afterward, after recuperating from wounds of the shoulder and arm.
While a student at Bloomsburg, Lt. Allen enlisted in September, 1942, and trained at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, with an
infantry outfit. He was selected to take an officers’ candidate
course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and was then transferred to the
artillery. After being commissioned, he was sent to Camp Butner, North Carolina, later returning to Fort Sill for further
training. Following completion of this special course, Lt. Allen
was sent to Camp Pickett, Virginia, and late last year was sent
overseas, arriving in England October 5, 1944.
Kenneth Richard Allen, who will be remembered by his
fellow-students as Kenneth Morse, was born in Shamokin May
9, 1922, and was graduated from the Shamokin High School in
1940, after which he enrolled at Bloomsburg. He was well
known as a talented drum major, performing with the Shamekin High School Band, and later with the Maroon and Gold
Band at Bloomsburg. He taught drum majoring in Scott High
School and later in Danville. Since childhood, he was a member of the Trinity Church and Sunday School in Shamokin.
Surviving are his parents and two brothers, Private James
Allen, who is with the Army in Belgium, and Howard Allen,
ladio operator, who has been reported missing in action since

September

17, 1944.
o

Administrators and representatives of parocial, private and
public secondarry schools, colleges and universities attended
demonstrations of procurable training aids and devices by the
U. S. Army Air Forces at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College April 23. Bloomsburg is one of the seven teacher colleges
in the state where the demonstrations were given.
In general, the program covered the utilization of aircraft
as a teaching aid, the utilization of training aids and devices
and a demonstration of Army Air Force’s methods in the teaching of academic subjects as they relate to aeronautics.

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(What of the Future?)
HARVEY A. ANDRUSS, President

State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

democracy can succeed only with an educated

ate. Free public
ditions.

education

elector-

one of America’s proudest tra-

With thirty million boys and girls in schools and colleges;
with one million teachers in the classrooms; and with thirty
billion dollars spent annually on education the public is vitally
concerned with our educational program. This deep interest is
the surest safeguard for the continuance of the democratic tradition and the American way of life.
To their credit and the glory of the American educational
profession, the schools and colleges of this country are functioning despite all obstacles. Thus far not one important fouryear institution of higher learning has closed its doors. Colleges
are mortgaging their future to continue. As the plight of education has become known, support has been forthcoming.
Alumni, friends, and the lay public have rallied to educational
institutions in need.
In this country, American education is now in a stage of
transition. The normal under-graduate enrollment has been
sharply curtailed. Many colleges are marking time, limping
along as best they can. Financial problems coming naturally in
the wake of a depleted campus are growing apace. Many of
the finest American colleges and universities are operating on
a skeleton basis.
Benjamin Fine, writing in the New York Times, Sunday,
March 25, 1945, of a survey of seventeen typical Liberal Arts
Colleges, reveals how four years of war have left their mark.
These broad conclusions emerge: (1) the enrollment of civilian
student-body is down to about 15 per cent of normal; (2) the
faculty has been depleted and in many instances reduced by
more than half; (3) course offerings have been slashed and
complete departments eliminated for the duration; (4) extracurricular activities have been reached or in many instances
entirely abandoned; (5) almost every college is now operating
;

at a financial loss; and (6) buildings, plants and equipment
have deteriorated and are in need of repairs.
Those institutions that had substantial financial resources
have been able to weather the emergency in better shape than
the poorer ones, but even the larger colleges are beginning to

face deficits.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been fortunate

many ways during
Five years are

war period.
now finished what

the

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of the future?

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all American life has moved, at times spasmoda future filled with wishful thinking, wars, and
warnings. All things have been bent toward the turning of
plow-shares into swords and pruning hooks into spears.

Since 1940

ically,

toward

Now we
A

turn and look back over the five years which are

finished.
new course must be set to determine whither we
shall go “when Nations shall not raise sword against Nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.”
cannot answer this question unWhat of the Future?
til we know where we are
and the route that we traveled to
arrive
where we are.

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;

Before the passage of the

was evident

first

Selective Service Act in 1940

some college administrators that changes were
impending. Were the transition made gradually, there would
be less interruption in the work of faculty and students at a
given time and, moreover, Alumni would have ample time to
be advised just what was happening at their Alma Mater.
The prophet of 1940 did not forsee the marked decrease in
college enrollments. However, those institutions which insisted
on “keeping on” doing the same things as before, have been
denuded of students. Their opportunities for contributing to
it

the

war effort have been limited by a slow start.
The purpose of this discussion is to summarize some

of the

important developments at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College over the last five-year period. In so doing it is hoped that
we can demonstrate (1) the forward looking policy of the
Board 'of Trustees and college administration; (2) our contribution to the war effort; and (3) the carry-over of experience
and residual values to be expected as the college faces the future.

Buildings and Equipment
While colleges are not buildings alone, the plant provides
background and atmosphere for learning. Even the casual observer notes the construction of a new building without having
any idea as to what goes on inside.
Public funds are more easily obtained for those additions
to the plant which are most likely to be noticed. Just prior to
tire opening of the five-year period under consideration, the
General State Authority had expended almost $600,000 in a
building program which placed the following new structures
(3)
on our campus
(1) Gymnasium; (2) Laboratory School
Shop Building; (4) Addition to the Heating Plant.
The problem of putting these buildings into operation on a
budget based on the operation of the plant before the building's
were constructed, meant a delay in putting the new structures

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;

into use. Equipment was needed, and most of all new underground conduits for power and light of all buildings had be-

come an absolute
lion

necessity.

During the half-decade just past, over one-third of a mildollars has been spent on Buildings and Fixed Equipment,

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Movable Equipment, Contracted Repairs, Grading Roads and
Walks. These funds are provided as follows:
General State Authority
College Budget (Estimated April

1945)

$177,193
160,000
$337,193

Total

The ability of the college to provide almost one-half of the
amount expended was due to the funds made available from its
war programs.
Among the chief changes brought about by our war program has been the shift in enrollment which has made necessary increased facilities for men. The conversion of dormitories was made possible through rebuilding of five toilet rooms
and the replastering and relighting of North Hall (Men’s Dormitory). The conversion of the dining room into a cafeteria was
the result of labor shortage accompanied by the renovation of
the kitchen.
The net result of all the changes made to accommodate
the war programs can best be summarized by stating that the
total dormitory lacilities of the college can now be available
for either men or women, depending on the relative needs. An
increased number of students can be accommodated in the dining room through the use of cafeteria service. This may mean
a great deal in the future.
Prior to 1940 from 100 to 150 men had to find living accommodations in the Town of Bloomsburg, since we did not
have dormitory facilities to accommodate them. At the same
time, our dormitory facilities for women were used to less than
50 per cent capacity.
While eight (8) different war programs have been in operation during the five-period, the primary function of the college, the education of teachers, has continued to develop. This

improvement has been reflected in existing areas, namely,
Business, Elementary and Secondary Curriculums, and through
the addition and expansion of certain other areas, such as Educational Clinic, Field of Speech Correction, Field of Aeronautics, and the addition of Spanish as an elective in both Business
Education and the Secondary Fields. The Experimental Laboratory School in Aviation was without parallel in our nation
in

1944.

idea of the balance between the Teacher Education deWar Programs can best be depicted by
placing them as follows:

velopment and the

PROGRAMS OF STUDY
Teacher Education Developments
Educational Clinic with Health, Psychological and Speech divisions approved by the State Council of Education.
Field of Speech Correction as a part of the curriculum for the

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education of teachers of Mentally Retarded Children.
Field of Aeronautics as a part of the curriculum for the education of Secondary Teachers.
Field of Spanish as an elective for Business Education students
and later as an elective field for Secondary Students.
Experimental Laboratory School in Aviation, Summer of 1944.

War Programs

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Aviation Programs
over 1,000 persons given flight instruction.
Civil Pilot Training for 100 college students.
High School Teachers of Aeronautics 100.

Naval Flight Instructors 250.
Aviation Cadet Program 550.
Science Hall facilities provided for 2000 enrollees in Engineering, Science and Management War Training Courses.
Bloomsburg Hospital School of Nursing received Science in-

Army and Navy

struction for 35 students.

Navy V-12 Unit

(Officer Candidates) 500 Trainees.

The accelerated program for graduation in three calendar
years was in operation during this period and has enabled 40
per cent of our regular student-body to prepare themselves for
teaching positions one year sooner than in previous years. On
July 1, 1943, the college year of two eighteen-week semesters
and three summer sessions aggregating twelve weeks was
also provided for teachers. This change in calendar enabled us
to bring our accelerated program into step with the calendar
prescribed by the Navy V-12 Contract.

The residual value of the experience gained by the faculty
personnel of the college in war programs is great. The ability
and willingness of individuals to adjust themselves lo meet new
conditions is a most estimable quality.
In operating the 1944 Summer Courses in Aviation as an
experimental laboratory school, we were able to staff the program with members of our own faculty. This program would
not have been at all possible if we had followed the policy of
hiring outside specialists to teach the war program.
Notice of the national importance of this program has been
reflected in the columns of the. New York Herald Tribune of
August 6, 1944, and in the October, 1944 issue of the Aviation
Magazine.
is a symptom but not a cure for all educational ills.
are necessary to the operation of a college and, therefore, an analysis is presented so that we may view the situations
as they have changed and the steps which have been taken to
meet them as they occurred.

Size

Numbers

Adjusted Enrollment (on full-time basis) including Sum-

mer

Sessions.

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War
Students

Educational Students

502
610
204

361 (Estimated April i945)

1944-45
1943-44
1942-43
1941-42
1940-41

622
484
494
718

Number

war students not

(None)

Total

863
1232
688
494*
718

available.

When we

think of faculty we again consider numbers.
However, mere quantity is not enough. Let us consider quality.
Instruction has been tested in this last five years as never
before. The Civil Aeronautics Administration, acting for the
Department of Commerce, has compiled, administered, and
evaluated the tests given to each aviation student. The Navy
has also tested its V-12 Trainees in both physical accomplishments and academic achievement. Nurses have been examined
by the State Board of Nursing before the Registered Nurse CerNever before have the results of
tificate has been conferred.
college instruction been subjected to evaluation by outside

agencies. The results have been unanimously satisfactory m
comparison with other institutions and this is attributable in a
large part to the efficient coordination and the conscientious
instruction in our war programs. No higher compliment can be

paid to a faculty group.
The regular faculty has been reduced 8 per cent (not including training teachers) while the average decrease in all
teachers colleges has been 24 per cent. Three colleges show
their faculties decreased by 50 per cent.
The basic employment period for the instructional staff is
36 weeks. All salaries are computed on this basis or fractional
part thereof.
Summer Sessions have been self-supporting in terms of instructional costs, although for many years the rate of salary
payment during the summer has been from 70 to 80 per cent of
that provided in the basic salary schedule.
With the change in calendar to the year-round operation
of the college having three terms of equal length, we have been
able to maintain the salary schedule during the Summer Term
or Trimester and Sessions for Teachers.
More employment, that is more weeks of employment,
have been provided. The average faculty member taught fortyone (41) weeks in the college year 1942-1943 and this was increased to forty-five (45) weeks in 1943-1944.
A cost of living increase for all instructional and non-instructional employees receiving less than $3,750 was made effective as follows: 15 per cent additional October 16, 1942,
10 per cent additional, September 1, 1944. Therefore, present
salary rates are approximately 25 per cent higher than before
the

war

period.

While one-fourth of our faculty are active

the Aviation

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Program and over one-half in the subsequent Navy and Nursing
Programs, part-time instructors were employed on an hourly
basis and thus, when the program ended, were not carried on
the payroll past the time of their service. Regular faculty members who offered instruction in war programs in addition to a
regular teaching assignment were paid for these additional services at the same hourly rate as part-time faculty members.
Student Activities
its heavier academic load,
caused the termination of many extra-curricular activities. Social life in terms of formal dances, dinners, and those activities
requiring transportation were of necessity curtailed, hence the
arrangement of activities in order of worth has preserved and
even enhanced the contribution of the Maroon and Gold (college newspaper) and the Obiter (now the all college year
book). Social life has centered itself of necessity around the
campus, with the result that a social room for men and women
has been installed near the old gymnasium so as to make danc-

The accelerated program, with

ing possible.

To provide

refreshments on the campus, a canteen
college students has been in operation for
over a year and has provided the funds necessary for the publication of the Yearbook.
Student contributions to the Red Cross, National War
Fund, U. S. O. Drives, and the purchase of War Bonds and
Stamps has attained a high level of which the college is proud.
When travel has permitted, student representatives from
the college have attended conventions of the Eastern States Association of Professional Schools for Teachers in New York
City, and the State Conventions for the Government Associations of the various State Teachers Colleges.
Week-end recreation journeys to Eagles Mere were a popular activity in the summer of 1944 and are to be continued in
football, basketball, soccer, track,
1945. Intercollegiate sports
wrestling, and intramural competition have been maintained
during this period except for the year 1941-1942.
for

light

Navy men and

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What

of the Future?

With the possible termination of the Navy Programs, the
immediate problem of the college calendar must be considered.
Since all other Teacher Colleges operate on a two-semesterthree-summer-sessions calendar, we are legally bound to return
to that basis with the termination of the war programs. The
transition from one calendar to another can be easily made following the conclusion of the term or trimester in June, 1945.
Aside from the mechanics of the calendar, we have noted
that the continuous three year round calendar which formerly
was spread over four years with summer vacations has (a)
caused noticeable student physical fatigue and lagging student
effort; and (b) an equally evident tension on the part of the

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faculty. If such a calendar is to be continued, specific provision
should be made so that faculty members will not be scheduled
to teach continuously for more than 80 weeks over two college
years of 96 weeks.

Bloomsburg places over 90 per cent of its graduates, as
a survey completed in 1941. A study of 1,025 graduates who completed the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education over the ten year period from 1931
to 1940, inclusive, discloses the fact that 92 per cent have been
gainfully employed. Of these over 77 per cent were engaged
This
in teaching, while 15 per cent were in other occupations.

shown by

leaves only 8 per cent to be accounted for in such activities as

homemaking, government, continued college attendance, and
the unemployed.

Future prospects

the field of teacher education in terms
we are already approved may be

of the curriculums for which
summarized as follows:
1

the salaries of elementary teachers are equalized with the
salaries of secondary teachers who have equal qualifications,
there will be a marked incentive for young women to come
to college in order to teach younger children in the elementary grades. If not, we can expect decreases in enrollment
Additional subsidies for teachers of special
in this field.
classes for the mentally retarded are proof of these expectaIf

tions.
2.

High school teachers will be in demand in certain academic
such as Mathematics, Science, and Foreign Languages, particularly Spanish. The English and Social Studies fields always have been and possibly always will be over-crowded,
since many college Seniors in Liberal Arts Colleges decide
shortly before they graduate to complete the minimum requirements for certification. The kind of student who does
not decide what he is going to do with his education until he
is a Senior is usually one who does not have the prerequisites
for successful work in Mathematics, Science, Languages, and
in similar fields of about equal difficulty. Therefore, we have
the cry that “there are too many teachers,” based on the fact
that the number of certificates issued is in excess of the number of positions available. The question “are there too many
teachers?” has never been conclusively answered, and requires careful study.

Business Education as an activity on the college level has
suffered marked decreases in enrollment, both on account of
the large number of men enrolled in this field, and also because it was possible for the high school graduate, with very
little training, to go into business or government offices and
demand salaries in excess of those paid college graduates.
It is to be expected that with the return of peace this situa-

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tion will right itself.

Increases in enrollment are to be ex-

pected.
4.

of the offerings of State Teachers Colleges,
both in the field of Teacher Education and in other fields, is
receiving consideration by the Legislature at the time of this
writing. Whatever may be the outcome, it is felt that the
field of Aeronautics will be developed on the high school
level. Over four hundred high schools in Pennsylvania are
now offering a course to Juniors and Seniors. Present certification requirements are on a war emergency basis and it
is to be expected when these are brought up to the level of
other subjects there will be a necessity for the training of
teachers in this field.

The expansion

The location of the college in relation to the airport makes
Bloomsburg a natural .aviation center. This relationship exists
because of the far-seeing efforts of Harry L. Magee and a number of Bloomsburg citizens who pioneered the airport, and our
Board of Trustees who have been willing to experiment with
things in education for a new day.
In the event that legislation makes possible the training of
veterans and war workers in the field of Aeronautics, this and
other areas of instruction yet to be developed will then attract
an increasing number of young men and young women.

new

The transition from war to peace has already begun in our
Teachers Colleges. There remains the problem of facing the
future with the same far sighted enthusiasm and cooperation
which made possible our marked contribution to the war effort.
Only through the vision of the Board of Trustees, the cooperation of the faculty, the confidence of the student body, the
interest of the public spirited citizens of Bloomsburg, along
with the continued support of the 9,000 Alumni have we been
able to meet the challenges of war. With the same spirit we
shall be able to solve the problems of peace and the education

which

will

promote

its

continuance.
o

The Navy has announced that its V-12 college units will
remain in operation for the term from July to November 1. At
the same time it was announced that the establishment of additional naval reserve officers training corps units, previously
scheduled to take place July 1, would be postponed.
John C. Koch, Director of Aviation at the college has given
Commencement addresses at Colley Township High School,
Lopez; Beaver Township High School; and Centralia Bureau
High School. His subject was “The Effect of Aviation Upon
Our Future World.”

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the Qaad Old

The following, taken from “The Passing Throng’’ column
Morning Press, should be of interest to many Alumni:
It occasionally takes one a long time to catch up with what

of the

goes on in town, in this particular instance a confession that
Saturday evening was the first we had made a personal inspec-

new gymnasium.
were a long time getting around to

tion of the college’s fine

it, but it was worth
waiting for.
Frankly, we were amazed and delighted at the completeness of the set-up. We can easily imagine that those who have
occasion to use it are even moiv delighted.
The evening proved nostalgic. That would be apparent to
all sports lovers when we make the admission that we hadn’t
seen a basketball game since the days when the centres jumped
for the ball following the throwing of each basket. That, we
take it, was a long time ago.
Memory kept harking back to the days of the old gymnasium, with which we were familiar for many years. It was
there we witnessed this area’s first basketball games and there
we witnessed the first of Normal's gym exhibitions, where very
modest bloomers for the girl participants were first introduced.
Those same bloomers contributed toward making the “gay nineties” exactly what they were.
That old gymnasium at the time was thought a marvelous
advancement and it was.
But the seating capacity was limited to the running track
above the playing floor and to the ends of the gymnasium. It
seated but a fraction of those who can be accommodated in the
gymnasium of today.
The game we witnessed Saturday evening was a far faster
game than was basketball as we knew it.
Back in those old days it is our recollection that brawn was
stressed even more than today’s speed.

—

Ed Harrar and

Bill Worthington of Normal’s first team
more to width than to height, although Tom Moore,
Bobbie Young and young Dewhiler went to the wiry type.
Still later, we can still see John McGoffey shaking off the

were

built

opposition in football fashion as he played with the ball until
his eye caught a fellow player in a position to throw. John,
who later became a county commissioner of Luzerne county, at
one time held all the field records rung up at track meets here.
He likewise was a tower of strength on both the football and
baseball teams. Those records always looked impressive to us
until we were shown some of the present-day records. Then

they lost some of their glamour. John, with whom we kept up
an acquaintance through the years, died a few years ago. Oth-

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remember him as the representative of the Penn ToCompany for many years.
Some great games were played in the early years of that

ers will

bacco

It was there that Normal defeated the UniverPennsylvania, along with many of the state’s other college teams.
The town followed the team in fine fashion, and trudged
there no matter what the weather might be. There were no
parking lots then and no automobiles to shorten the distance.
There was the time, too, when the Normal student seemed
mature. Then came the period when one took notice. Today,
one is impressed by their youth.
What intrigued us the most, however, was the sight of the
local college cheerleaders in uniform. That was something we
had never seen before. It brought the reminder that practically
all the boys there today are boys in service.
As you may have gathered it had been years since we had
last seen a basketball game. What interested us the most was
the speed it has acquired, and the ability of the players to get
the ball in the basket from all angles. From the foul line we recall having seen more accurate shooting.

old

gymnasium.

sity of

•

Somebody mentioned the fact yesterday that the Indiantown Gap basketball team which came to the college gymnasium is composed of players all over six feet.
That was sufficient to bring back memories of the first basketball games played in Bloomsburg.
It is our recollection that the first gymnasium at the
Bloomsburg State Normal School was erected in 1894 and with
its completion there came to Bloomsburg as director of the department of physical education Dr. A. K. Aldinger, a York
boy who was to win his M. D. degree in later years.
No sooner had “Doc” Aldinger come into the picture than
all branches of sport on the hill. Footbaseball and basketball came in for his attention, and it
wasn’t long before he had championship teams in all three
branches of the sport.
By that time folks knew something of football, because
Professor Detwhiler had coached the school’s first football
teams before “Doc” Aldinger appeared in the picture. Baseball was a sport well established in Bloomsburg many years beBut basketball was something entirely new.
fore.
The public loved the new Winter sport, and crowds attended the games from the first.
“Doc’s” material at the school was not too hefty in those
days, but he had a way of helping himself out.
He conducted night classes in physical education, and to
them went young men of the town who were athletically inclined. It was in these classes that “Doc” found much of his
best material.

he set about developing
ball,

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Memory runs back to the night Bloomsburg Normal defeated the University of Pennsylvania basketball team on the
local floor. The five who represented Normal in the game that
night included two regularly enrolled students the younger
brother of Prof. Detwhiler and “Bill” Worthington. The other
Bobbie Young, Tom
three were students at the night classes
Moore and Edward Harrar.
“Doc” Aldinger, who was retired not so long ago after
having headed the department of physical education of the
New York City schools for years, always knew how to get tal-

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ent.

Many

a boy who wasn’t advanced too far scholastically,
to Normal in the old days. They might not have been
scholars, but they certainly were athletes. And before they
had finished at the school, they were fine students, as well.
There were several such boys who went on from here to secure
their doctor’s degree. Many of them made a place for themselves in the world. That is the other side of the proposition

came

that athletes should never be commercialized.
Reference to that old gymnasium recalls the annual gymnastic exhibitions staged under Dr. Aldinger’s direction. It was
not long, it might be added, before there was a lady assistant
in that department.
Class rivalry reached a climax on that night and fights
were expected, as a matter of course.
But the first thing to attract attention in those exhibitions
was the introduction of bloomers upon the part of the female
participants. Viewed by present-day apparel, they were the
soul of modesty, but back in the nineties they were epochal.
They reached the gym of B. S. N. S. about the time they
made their appearance throughout the country, and for several
years cartoonists had a marvelous time.
Of course, they were practical and the thing to wear, but
they certainly did create a sensation.
•

Reference was made
exhibitions of B.

in this

column

annual “gym”
stand out in mem-

to the

Among them two

ory.

it was then that class rivalry
will illustrate the truth of that:
were at work at our desk in the Dentler building early
morning when we heard somebody running up the steps.

referred to the fact that

ran rampant. This

one

The door burst open and there was “Bill” McAvoy, clad
“gym” shoes, a pair of “gym” shorts and a thin shirt.
The thermometer registered well below zero.
“Bill,” in his day was one of the greatest athletes at Normal and later to star at Lafayette and then for many years
only in

coach of the University of Delaware, had plenty on his mind.
“I ran all the way down so we could get it in this morning’s paper,” Bill opened up.

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“You ran down about what?”
“Boy, did

we do

it?”

“Meaning whom?”
“The College Preps.”
“And what did you do?”
“Boy, you ought to have seen it. We got up to the top ol
Carver Hall, planted our flag on the flagstaff, and then you
ought to have seen us knock off the other classmen when they
attempted to get up to us. (It might be added that the College
Preps numbered most of the school’s athletes).
“Bill” went on in great detail, and was having a marvelous
time.

“But how
get

down

the world did you get through that

to the office?”

we wanted

mob

know.

“Through the crowd Not a bit of it. 1 climbed down over
the tower and the outside of the building to get the story to
you.”
There are those who will recall “Bill” and his football
playing days here. Let somebody crack him in the head and he
More than once Normal players had
lost all sense of direction.
to overtake and tackle him when he was dead set upon carrying the ball in the wrong direction.
The other exhibition that stands out in memory was that
of 1901
a time when several metropolitan newspaper men
were here working on the Tom McHenry murder mystery.
They laughed off the idea of attending a “gym” exhibition, but
because there was nothing better to do that night went along to
the packed gymnasium.
It was evident from the first that anything could happen
that night. And almost everything did.
Bedlam broke loose when a Junior turned loose a small
pig dressed up in Senior colors. That was the spark that ignited the fire.
Instantly, all hands jumped into the fray. Some grabbed
muskets, used in drills, from the sidewalls. Others grabbed
Indian clubs. Then they went after each other in proper form.
The affair was getting completely out of hand when “Doc”
Aldinger jumped into the fray, with his assistant, John Weimer, just behind him. They let loose with their fists, knocked
the ringleaders to the floor, and a semblance of order gradually
made its appearance. The sight of students lying unconscious
on the floor had a sobering effect.
As for these same metropolitan newspaper men: “This is
the best thing we’ve struck in a long time. Why didn’t you tell
us it would be as good as this?”
It was because of that inevitable upsurge of class rivalry
that the annual gymnastic exhibition eventually disappeared
from the picture. But it was a colorful affair through the years
!

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lasted.

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(From the*Morning

Press,

January

11,

1919)

Banquet followed by a delightfully informal gathering

marked the meeting of the Faculty club of the Bloomsburg
State Normal School held last night at Hotel Magee. Upwards
of fifty members of the club and their wives were there. Prof.

W. B. Sutliff presided as president. Miss Edith Perry entertained with a selection “In Love’s Shop’’ and Mrs. J. K. Miller
presided at the Victrola with a number of special Christmas
selections rendered. The following were present: Miss Edith
Perry, Prof, and Mrs. O. H. Bakeless, Miss Lois Black, Miss Virginia Dickerson, Prof, and Mrs. C. H. Albert, J. Stewart Wiant,
Prof, and Mrs. George E. Wilbur, Prof, and Mrs. D. S. Hartline,
Mr. and Mrs. Nevin T. Englehart, D. J. Waller, Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. G. E. Elwell, Jr., A. B. Black, Prof, and Mrs. J. G. Cope,
Prof, and Mrs. J. T. Goodwin, Miss Elizabeth Shearer, Miss
Mary A. Good, Miss Helen Carpenter, Miss Mabel Moyer, Prof,
and Mrs. J. C. Foote, Miss H. Gertrude Cruttenden, Miss Elizabeth Sherwood, Miss Sadie E. Kintner, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Pownall, Miss Ruth L. Myers, Miss Julia F. Holter, Miss Edna Isaacs,
Miss Anna S. Kingman, Miss Bess Hinckley, Miss Clementine G.
Herman, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. McCahran, Prof, and Mrs. William
Brill, Prof, and Mrs. F. H. Jenkins, Miss Helen M. Stackhouse,
Mrs. Marion E. A. Miller and Mrs. Emily Robinson.
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From the Morning Press, January 1, 1920: Those who escaped the accident declared it was the “younger and giddier”
crowd who figured

in the upset of the sled that sent them piling
on top of each other on their way to Orangeville to enjoy a fine
supper which the ladies of the Reformed Church there had
waiting for them last night. The occasion was the sleighing
party of the members of the Faculty Educational Club of the
Bloomsburg State Normal School, and except for the spill which
only added zest to the affair and gave better appetites, the affair was as dignified as Faculty Educational Club affairs are
supposed to be.
The party was driven to Orangeville by Howard J. Traub
and his sons. Those taking part in the affair were Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Foote, Mrs. E. F. Herman, Miss Emily Robinson, Miss Gertrude Cruttenden, Miss Ruth L. Myers, Miss Mabel Moyer, Miss
Sadie Kintner, J. Stewart Wyant, Miss Helen M. Stackhouse,
Miss Hinckley, Mrs. Elizabeth Kendall, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bruce
Black and son, Miss Bertha Schools, Miss Christine Carter, Miss
Edna S. Isaacs, H. G. Teel, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Bakeless, Miss
Elizabeth Shearer, Miss Edith M. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Goodwin, and Miss Mary Good.

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“Saucered and Biowed”
By
Just received

word

E. H.

that

NELSON

Hugh “Red”

Niles has completed

his missions in Italy and is on his way home. “Red” ran Cross
Country and was a Varsity pitcher while in college. He has a
baseball cap he wore on every mission, so he writes.
can
guess that the cap isn’t for sale at any price. Maybe “Red” can
be here for Alumni Day along with his pretty wife, Pauline

’44, who has been teaching in the Honesdale Schools
during her husband’s absence overseas.

Geary

Do you remember Dr. Waller when he wore a beard ? This
department received a picture a few days ago to add to the
trophy case collection. This photograph of the Normal School
faculty was taken 55 years ago. It might be analyzed as follows Males 9, Females 5.
Males with beards and mustaches
3
Males with beards alone
2
Males with mustaches alone
2
Males with no facial hirsute adornment
2
It may also be stated that one half of one female foot is
visible. See this picture for yourself, Alumni Day, June 23.

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you

good baseball, see the college team

Alumni Day. As we go

in action

have
been won, including Ursinus College. The playing field is the
best you ever saw at Bloomsburg, and the boys are using it to
good advantage.
to press three one-sided victories

As predicted in our last issue, Coach Buchheit had an outstanding basketball team. Ten wins against four losses, and the
Pennsylvania Teachers College championship for the 1944-’45
season. Two of the losses were against professional service
teams.
Suppose we conduct an Alumni “plunge” hour when you
23. Bring along your bathing suit and actually
pool. Dive, swim, or just paddle. Let’s fill it

come back June
try out the new

up with people who “haven’t had so much fun
of life guards, hair driers and towels.

years.” Plenty

The

were recently elected to serve next
year for the Community Government Association of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College: President, Henry Gatski,
Bloomsburg; Vice President, Helen M. Wright, Bloomsburg;
Secretary, Eileen Falvey, Berwick; Treasurer, Ann Baldy, Catawissa.

follow ing officers

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THE PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
Officers

Mrs. Lillie Hortman Irish ’06, President, 732 Washington
Mrs. Mary Moore Taubel, Vice PresStreet, Camden, N. J.
ident, 1246 Main Street, Norristown, Pa.; Mrs. Nora Woodring
Kenny ’09, Secretary-Treasurer, 7011 Erdrick Street, Philadel;

phia, Pa.

The Philadelphia Alumni meets the second Saturday of
every month, at Gimbels, from October through May.
if there are any Alumni in or near Philadelphia, we invite
you

come and

join us.

should also like to have the names and addresses of
any who have moved in our vicinity. These may be sent either
to the President or Secretary. We are always glad to receive

new members.

We will have two picnics this summer. The first will be
Cooper River Park in Westmont, N. J., the second Saturday
The second one, at the home of our Vice
Mary Moore Taubel in Norristown, will he held
July.

urday

at
in

President, Mrs.
the second Sat-

August.

association wishes to extend sympathy to Nevin Funk,
recently buried his father.
Anna Owen Brimijoin 1906, has gone to Maine for the sum-

Our

who
mer.

Lillie Hortman Irish, President.
Nora Woodring Kenny, Secretary-Treasurer.
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Members

of the Special Education Class of the Danville
Schools were the recent guests of the Special Education Class
at the Benjamin Franklin Training School of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. The Danville students under the direction of their teacher, Miss Miriam E. Welliver, were studying a
unit on transportation and came to Bloomsburg by train and returned to Danville by bus. To complete the Transportation unit,
plans had been made to take the class across the Susquehanna
River by flat boat, and then to take an airplane ride from the
Danville Airport. High winds prevented both the river trip and

the airplane ride.
While guests at the Bloomsburg State Teachers Colloge,
the Danville students attended the college assembly exercises,
visited the college museum and held a picnic in the basement
of the training school. Mrs. Thomas, of the college faculty, her
student teachers, and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Special Education Class acted as host.
o

President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, delivered Commencement addresses at the
Huntington Vocational High School and the Ralpho Township
High School at Elysburg. President Andruss spoke on “American Unity Without Uniformity.”

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ANNOUNCE DEAN’S

LIST

Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction at the Blooms
burg State Teachers College, announces the Dean’s Honor Roll
for the past college semester. Five business education students,
seven elementary, seven secondary, one special education and
ten Navy V-12 students make up the thirty on the honor roll
v ho come from twenty-four cities and eight different states.
The honor roll includes the following Martha Hathaway, Danville; Helen Wright, Bloomsburg; Doris Dickinson, Dalton;
Jacqueline Shaffer, Bloomsburg; Martha Duck, Lewisburg
Carol McCloughan, Danville; Louise Miller, Montgomery; Secondary Elizabeth Baldy, Catawissa Ellen Moore, Washington
Dawn Raup, Bloomsburg; Mary Rush, Bloomsburg; Bernice
Gabuzda, Freeland; Mildred Dzuris, Nanticoke; Mary Fenste:

;

maker, Bloomsburg; Business: Anna Bucinell, Forest City; Isabel Gehman, Ephrata Harriet Rhodes, Bloomsburg; Ellen Falvey, Berwick; Mary Schroeder, Easton; Special: Mary Kramer, Lehighton Navy V-12: John Betelak, North Syracuse, N.
Domenico Bibbo, Mass.; Joseph Casey, Huntington East,
Y.
;

;

Irving Feldsott, Carbondale, Pa.; Owen Howard,
Saul Mariaschin, Brooklyn, N. Y. Russell
C.
Nickerson, Cranston, R. I.; Joseph Petit, Grand Rapids, Mich.;
Edward Valentauk, Oswego, N. Y., and John VanWyk, Morrisville, N. Y.

West Va.

;

Washington, D.

;

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The “Aviation Fund” at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College has just been the recipient of its first contribution. In a
gracious gesture to the experimental aviation programs which
have been pioneered at this college Miss Cecile Hamilton, assistant aviation editor of the New York Herald Tribune, recent
commencement speaker, has returned her uncashed honorarium check with the request that it be used in some connection
with aviation at the college. Miss Hamilton, in returning the
money, requested President Harvey A. Andruss to determine
“how it can best be used in promoting aviation at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.”
Miss Hamilton was an interested observer last July of the
experimental aviation laboratory school conducted by the college when, for the first time, boys and girls above the age of
fourteen had an opportunity in an organized program of flight
and ground instruction. Another feature of the laboratory
school was the joint participation of high school teachers from
four eastern states. The high school boys and girls in the course
came from ry,ne eastern seaboard states. A similar aviation program for high school students above fourteen and high school
teachers of aeronautics will be conducted this summer.
o

Charles W. Murphy, of Frackville, recently participated in the hundredth combat mission of a Liberator bomber
group based in Italy.
Lt.

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COMMENCEMENT

ACTIVITIES

Commencement

exercises at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College will be held at 10 A. M., Saturday, June twentythird, in the college auditorium.
Ely Culbertson, noted authority on world peace and wellknown bridge expert, will be the commencement speaker. President Harvey A. Andruss of the college will confer the degrees.
Alumni Day activities, due to war-time restrictions will be
held the same day and begin immediately after commencement.
A feature of the activities will be a baseball game on the college diamond at 4 P. M.
Major-General I. H. Edwards, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3,
Organization and Training Division of the War Department,
and alumnus of the college will be present and speak briefly
during the exercises.
Baccalaureate exercises will be held Wednesday, June 20,
with Doctor Morris Smith, President of Susquehanna University
delivering the sermon.
o

Lt. Vincent Washvilla,
ball star, is going ahead in

former Bloomsburg College basketsport in the

Army.

Now

a pilot at-

tached to the Fourth Air Force he has been chosen on the allstar five of that unit. This is noted in a letter to Coach George
C. Buchheit by Walter (Whitey) McCloskey, another former
Husky court star who is now in the Navy with the rank of ARM
3-c.

McCloskey is at a Navy base at Memphis, Tenn., and is
playing basketball there. He notes that his team won the title
in the Tri-State tourney last year and is making another bid this
spring.
O

Woodrow W. Aten, of Bloomsburg, Pa., was
the first in the 12th Armored Division to receive Presidential recognition after the Division’s arrival overseas.
He is a member of the 134th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion which, by direction of the President, has been awarded
the Meritorious Service Plaque for the period from January 1,
1944, to November 30, 1944.
The battalion won recognition through “a superior performance of exceptionally difficult tasks” and “achievement
and maintenance of a high standard of discipline.”
First Lt.

among

Commander Herbert E. McMahan, former member of the
college faculty, is now stationed at the Naval Depot at Mechanicsburg, Pa. Commander McMahan served for many months in
the Pacific Area.
o

Plarvey A. Andruss, President of Bloomsburg State Teachmeeting of the Pennsylvania Business
Education Association held in Reading Saturday, January 27.
ers College, attended a

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MISS ELIZABETH

WALLER

Following an illness of a year, the death of Miss Elizabeth
daughter of the late Dr. E. J. Waller, Jr., and Miss
Anna Appleman Waller, occurred at the Bloomsburg Hospital
Sunday, April 1. She had been a patient there for two days
preceding her death.
With the exception of the years during which her father
was State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the years
during which he was principal of the Indiana State Normal
School, her entire life was spent in Bloomsburg. She was born
T. Waller,

Bloomsburg April

7, 1880.
Surviving are a brother, .Robert, of Newton, Mass., and two
sisters, Mrs. James W. Mack, of Indiana, Pa., and Miss Margaret Waller, of Bloomsburg. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and always kept up her interest in the work
which was of such importance to her father and grandfather.
Funeral services were held at her late home on Market
Street on Wednesday, April 4. Burial took place in the family

plot in

Old Rosemont Cemetery.
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The Senior Class held their annual ball and banquet Frievening, February 16, at the Elks’ Home in Bloomsburg. The
Seniors and their guests assembled at 6 :30 in the dining room
where they were served by the Elks. The president of the class,
Arlene Superko, acted as toastmistress for the affair. The program began with the singing of the National Anthem, followed
by the invocation given by Dr. Nell Maupin. Group singing was
led by Joy Propst.
The following speakers took part in the program President Harvey A. Andruss, Dr. Thomas P. North, Dr. Nell Maupin, Lieutenant Ferguson, Commanding Officer of the V-12 Unit
and Prof. E. A. Reams. Rose Boyle gave a toast to the boys of
the Senior class who are serving in the armed forces. Joseph
Gula, general chairman of the evening’s activities, thanked the
committee and expressed appreciation to the faculty.
After the singing of the Alma Mater, a program of dancing, cards and games followed. The following were the chairmen who worked with the president, Arlene Superko, Mr. Rygiel, chairman of Senior commencement activities, and Dr.
Maupin, class advisor: General Chairman, Joseph Gula, General Co-Chairman, Julia Welliver, chairman of the ball, Betty
Zehner, chairman of the banquet, Mary DeVitis, dance program chairman, Elvira Bitetti, chairman of decorating committee, Cleo Kinney, orchestra committee chairman, Elsie Flail, investigation committee chairman, Lucille Martino, tickets and
program distribution, Mary Louise Fenstemaker, tickets, Carrie Johnson, invitations, Shirley Starbrook, refreshments, Martha Duck, publicity, Marjorie Downing, transportation Gloria
:

Belcastro.

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DAUPHIN- CUMBERLAND BRANCH
The Dauphin-Cumberland Branch of the Teacher College
Alumni Association met Tuesday evening, April 10, at the William Penn Hotel, Harrisburg, with fifty in attendance.
Those attending from Bloomsburg were President H. A.
Andruss, Dr. Marguerite Kehr, H. F. Fenstemaker, Miss Edna
Hazen, Miss Althea Parcell, S. I. Shortess, Dr. K. C. Kuster,
John C. Koch.
W. Homer Englehart was the toastmaster. Dr. and Mrs.
Francis B. Haas were in attendance and were presented. President Andruss introduced the members of the Bloomsburg
group and read a letter from Bishop Robert F. Wilner, class
of 1909, who was interned in the Philippines from May, 1942,
until recently. Mrs. Wilner was the former Alvaretta Stark of
the class of 1912. They are now on their way home.
Miss Parcell, a student at the college, sang three numbers.
A college film, “Transition of a Teachers College,” was shown.
PresOfficers of the Dauphin-Cumberland Branch are
ident, Mrs. Blanch Miller Grimes; first vice president, Miss Mae
:

Berger; second vice president, Dr. W. B. Mausteller; treasurer,
Englehart; secretary, Mrs. Helen Sutliff Brown.

W. Homer

NEW TRUSTEES
The following is the list of the new trustees of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, recently appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate: R. S. Hemingway and Mrs.
Elsie A. Jones, of Bloomsburg, and Fred W. Diehl, of Danville,
reappointed. Earl V, Wise, Berwick, to succeed W. Clair Hidlay, Bloomsburg; Thomas Morton, Berwick, to succeed Frank
D. Croop, Berwick; George L. Weer, Kingston, to succeed M.
Jackson Crispin, Berwick; Howard S. Fernsler, Pottsville, and
Charles D. Steiner, Shamokin, to fill vacancies.
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Miss Helen Marie .Murphy, of Riverside, died at her home
Wednesday, February 28, after an illness of one month. She
was born August 12, 1896, at Latonia, Ohio.
A graduate of St. Joseph’s Parochial Schools, she was also
graduated from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and
St. Frances Academy, Joliet, Illinois.
Her post-graduate work
was done at Bucknell University.
For twenty-five years she taught in the Gearhart Township School, and prior to her work there, she had been teaching
at Kipps Run.
She was a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and of
the Blessed Virgin Sodality. For many years she served as organist there.
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The speaker at the college assembly on Wednesday, January 24 was Major John Hanson-Lawson, who took part in the
landing

Normandy on D-Day.

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GamfiuA,

New-4,

At a college assembly held Friday, March 16, Dr. Ernest
Nickel, conceit musician and whistler, entertained the student
body and training school with a unique program. Dr. Nickel
helped to make thirty-nine Disney pictures, including Bambi
and Snow White, and has just returned from overseas.
-

The Board of Trustees of the college granted a leave of absence to President Harvey A. Andruss for the summer session.
President Andruss will- be a visiting professor of Business
Education at the University of Pittsburgh from June 25 to
August 3, and will offer graduate courses in methods and materials in teaching bookkeeping and accounting, and courses in
methods and supervision of business education.
The text books to be used are those written by President
Andruss,
es at

who has

New York

served as a special lecturer for similar coursUniversity, the University of Oklahoma, and

Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical
summer sessions.

College

in previous

First Lieutenant Robert Ohl, of Lime Ridge, was in one of
the first B-29 Superfortresses that bombed the Japanese homeland. Because of the great secrecy surrounding many phases of
the huge bombers, Lt. Ohl cannot tell much of his adventures,
but he does say that the results are good. He is engaged in a
secret phase of the bombing raids that will not permit the revelation of his duties aboard the large craft.
As a member of the 20th Air Force of the China-BurmaIndia theatre, Lt. Ohl has taken part in strikes against objectives in Manchuria, China and Singapore. He has been awarded the Air Medal with Oak Leak Cluster. He wears four campaign stars on his Asiatic theatre service ribbon.
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Miss Althea Parcell, of Orangeville, a Senior at the College, was one of the two finalists chosen to sing with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the music festival given at the Philadelphia Municipal Stadium Friday evening, June 1. From a field
of five hundred, fifteen were chosen to sing in five broadcasts
and from this number, five were selectgiven by station
ed to sing at the broadcast given Sunday, May 27. The judges
who made the final selection were Miss Marian Anderson, Olga

KYW,

Samaroff Stokowski, and Eugene Ormandy.
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Earl Spicer, baritone and ballad singer, who has appeared
at the college on several occasions, gave a program of songs at
the college assembly Wednesday, March 21.

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Saul Mariaschin, Navy V-12 student from Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and Peggy Beach, Bioomsburg, and Eva Bourgeois, Philadelphia, ail undergraduates at the Bioomsburg State Teachers
College, were declared winners in a recent song writing contest held at the college. The contest was sponsored by the Booster Committee Peggy Anthony, Shamokin, chairman Mrs. H.
It. Miller, Mr. H. P. renstemaker of the college faculty and Mrs.
Virginia Reams Roberts were the judges.
The winning songs were presented at a recent chapel program. “All Those Things You Gave Me'’ composed by Miss
Beach and Miss Bourgoois was sung by Althea Parseil, Orangeville, with Mr. Fenstemaker at tiie piano. “The More 1 Do," a
boogie-woogie number composed by Mariaschin was sung by
Navy V-12 Irving Feldsott, of Forrest Hills, N. Y., with Colm
McPherson, also a Navy V-12 Trainee, of Quincy, Mass., at the
:

;

piano.
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In compliance with a request of the Office of Defense
Transportation to cancel or reduce Easter vacations to a minimum, the Bioomsburg btate Teachers College cancelled the
scheduled Easter recess for this year.
Spring recess for the under-graduates, however, began
Thursday, March 1 at 5:00 P. M. and ended Tuesday, March 6.
Spring recess for the Benjamin Franklin Training School began
Wednesday, February 28 at 4:00 P. M. and ended Tuesday,
March 6 at 9 :00 A. M.
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The Bioomsburg State Teachers College has been

listed

four times in a recent “Directory of Pennsylvania Education
and Training Institutions Approved for Veterans Training” recently published by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction. The Bioomsburg State Teachers College is listed under the following categories in the publication
Colleges and
Universities Accredited by the State Council of Education;
Business Administration Atypical Education Flight Schools
in Pennsylvania Approved for Veterans Training for both Pri:

;

mary and Advanced Work.
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Dr. E. H. Nelson, Director of Athletics at the Bioomsburg
Teachers College, announces the following baseball
schedule for the current season: April 21, Bucknell, away;
Vpril 25, Elizabethtown, away; April 26, Ursinus, away; May

State

Olmstead, home; May 9, East Stroudsburg, home; May 12,
Olmstead, home; May 16, Penn State, away; May 19, Bucknell,
home; May 23, Elizabethtown (tentative); May 26, East
Stroudsburg, away; June 1, Ursinus, home; June 6, Penn State,
d,

home.
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Robert Whitney, American pianist, gave a recital at the
College at the assembly exercises held Wednesday, January 17.

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A memorial service for the late President Franklin D.
Roosevelt was held in the auditorium of Carver Hall, Saturday
morning, April 14. The following program was presented:
Prelude
Organ Selections
Howard
— “America the

Hymn

Fenstemaker
Audience

Beautiful’’

Scripture Reading
President Harvey A. Andruss
Portions of the 90th Psalm 43rd Chapter of
“The Wisdom of Sirach”
A/S Carl R. Crosby, Jr.
Vocal Solo— “The Lord’s Prayer”
Daniel A. Poling
Prayer for Franklin D. Roosevelt
Poem “The Ship of State”
Henry W. Longfellow
A Petition for the President and these United States
;

—

Book

Common

Prayer

“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Audience
Singing under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Moore.

Accompanist

— Mr. Howard

Fenstemaker.

Navy-College sponsored dance featured the week end of
January 27 at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The V12 Naval Trainees joined with the civilian undergraduates of
the college in holding the dance which took place in the new
Centennial Gymnasium. A Scranton orchestra furnished the
music.
o

The Bloomsburg Players, under the direction of Miss Alice
Johnston, presented “Mr. and Mrs. North” Friday evening, February 2 in the college auditorium. The cast included: Isabel
Gehman, Ephrata Anne Williams, Luzerne; Marilyn Sailer,
Reading; Lucille Martino, Bangor; Russell Crosby, Providence,
R. I.; Douglas Jackson, Queens Village, N. Y. Irving Feldsott,
Forest Hills, L. I. Baaron Pittinger, Kansas City, Mo. Rudolph
Ghezzi, New Brittain, Conn.; James Tierney, New York City;
Michael Remetz, Swoyerville; Francis Hantz, Duryea, and
Richard Grimm, York, Pa.
;

;

Miss Betty Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cieaver Hess,
become the bride of Ensign Carl Shultz, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Shultz, of Benton, at a candlelight service on
March 22 at six o’clock P. M. at the home of the bride’s parents.
The double ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. John
Herritt, pastor of the Methodist Church of Benton.
The bride is a graduate of the Benton High School, class
of 1943, and is a Junior at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The groom is a graduate of the Benton High School, class
of 1942 and is at present stationed at Philadelphia Navy Yard.
of Benton,

Dr. E. H. Nelson
Scott

gave the Commencement addresses

Township High School, Wednesday, June

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fyo-'ane'i

Studentb

Nevin U. Funk, oldest member of the Columbia County
Bar both in age and in years of service, died at his home along
Berwick Road, Scott Township, following an illness of two
j/ears. Death was due to a heart condition. He observed the
ninety-third anniversary of his birth last February 11.
Mr. Funk, long active in the community where he spent his
entire life, along with the late William Christman, was honored
five years ago by the Columbia and Montour County Bar Association at a dinner held at Danville.
He had been confined to his bed or to his bedroom much
of the time recently but until the start of his illness was active
as a practicing attorney.

member

of the Farmers National
attorney. He remained a
of the board of directors from the organization of the

bank

1891 until his death.

He was one of the organizers
Bank and was its first secretary and
in

The son of the late Rev. Henry Funk, at one time pastor of
the Reformed congregation in Bloomsburg, Mr. Funk was
named to the Consistory of the Bloomsburg Reformed Church
in 1877 and for years served as an elder, trustee and treasurer.
Two years ago, when he was no longer able to continue active,
he was honored by being made elder emeritus of the council.
He was born in Bloomsburg February 11, 1852, and was
e'ducated at the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, now the State
Teachers College, and at Princeton University from which he
in 1874 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
In the following year he took up the study of law, attending lectures at the Columbia Law School, and afterwards read
law in the office of the late Charles R. Buckalew, of Blooms-

graduated

burg.

He was admitted to the bar of Columbia County in 1877
'and through most of his life was an active attorney.
In 1890 he and several other men of the community organized the Bloomsburg Land Improvement Company which developed Fifth Street, east of East Street. He was one of the
ten charter members of the Irondale Electric Light, Heat and
Power Company which later merged into the Columbia and
Montour Electric Company. These holdings a number of years
ago were sold to the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company.
He served for a number of years as a trustee of the Bloomsburg
Literary Institute and State Normal School. An active Democrat, he attended many State conventions as a delegate.
Surviving are two children, Miss Marie A. Funk, who resided with him, and Nevin Elwell Funk, an official of the Philadelphia Gas and Electric Company.

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Major James Harman, of Catawissa, Army aviator who
went down in action over the Mediterranean on April 18, 1943,
and who was officially reported dead a year ago, was machine
gunned by two Nazi planes after he had left his damaged plane
and had opened his parachute.
Details of the aviator’s death have been learned by the
family, members said, from a bomber pilot, now discharged
from the service, who was in the same engagement and was a
close friend of the Catawissa flier.
The bomber pilot, in a chance conversation with S. F. Rarig,

was asked

he knew Major Harman and

then developed

that he had been a close friend.
He told the family that there had been a bitter air battle
up near the ceiling and that Harman’s plane was badly damaged and out of control.
As the major dropped out of formation, the bomber pilot
said he radioed that if he would hold off for about three minutes they could come to his aid. He radioed back “I can’t” and
was seen to leave his plane.
It was estimated that he was at about 45,000 feet and did
not open the parachute until about 2,500 feet above the water.
Then two enemy planes converged on him and the bomber pilot
saw the major collapse. Both of the enemy craft, he said, were
bagged. The Army planes circled the spot many times but
could see nothing and later sent out a searching party'.
Maj. Harman, who in peace time served a three-year enlistment with the coast artillery, based in Hawaii, was the husband of the former Mary Margaret Brunstetter, of Catawissa.

He never knew

of his promotion to major. The commission was
awaiting at his base, having arrived shortly after he left on the
mission from which he never returned. Posthumous awards
have been made to his family of the Silver Star, Air Medal and
Silver Oak Cluster. He was an Eagle Scout.
A star athlete at the Catawissa High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, he left the college at the end of
two years to enter the Parks Air College, East St. Louis, in the
Fall of 1940 as an air cadet. He was a flight commander of a
pursuit squadron and on his way from England to North Africa
was forced down in Portugal and interned there for a time.
Later he rejoined his flight in North Africa. The day before he
was reported missing in action the news wires told of him bagging a German Junkers 88.

Sgt. Robert Rhawn, of Catawissa, husband of the former
Helen Hartman, Danville, R. D., has been home on a thirty-day
furlough after serving thirteen months in Bermuda. He is now
the non-commissioned officer in charge of the athletic program
at his base. Widely known as a baseball player and under contract with the St. Louis Cardinals, he played on the strong New
Cumberland service team in the summer of 1943.

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The second and last son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hower, of
East Third Street, has been killed in the service of his country.
First Lt. John L. (Jack) Hower, who had been reported as
missing in action over Borneo, in the Dutch East Indies, since
October 10, 1944, has been reported by the War Department
as being dead since that date.
His other brother, Lt. Frank Hower, Jr., was reported as
missing in action with the Air Corps in the Mediterranean area
on February 15, 1945, and on February 22, was reported as
dead.
The telegram received by Mr. and Mrs. Hower read:
“I am deeply distressed to inform you corrected report
just received states your son First Lieutenant John L. Hower
who was previously reported missing in action was killed in action on ten October over Borneo. The Secretary of War asks
that I express his deep sympathy in your loss and his regret
that unavoidable circumstances made necessary the usual lapse
of time in reporting your son’s death to you. Confirming letter
follows.”
Lt.

Hower, who was twenty-one years of age, enlisted in
September, 1942, and took instruction at Dickinson

C. P. T. in

Junior College, Williamsport. He entered the regular army on
January 9, 1943, and was commissioned at Yuma, Arizona, December 5, 1943. He has also taken training at Rosewell and Albuquerque, N. M.
Following his commission he was transferred to March
Field, California, and was visited there in March by his parents,
shortly before he joined the expeditionary forces.
During his scholastic days at Bloomsburg High School he
was an expert Indian club swinger and held the Pennsylvania
schoolboy title in this gymnastic event. He attended the Teachers College before entering Civilian Pilot Training. He took his
primary training and basic flight training at Sequoia Field, Visalia, California, and Lemore, Army Flying School, Lemore, Cal'

ifornia.

Surviving in addition to his parents are these sisters Mrs.
Patrick O’Neil, of Hazleton; Mrs. Phillip Caputa, of New York
City; Miss Genevieve and Miss Ruth, at home.
He was a member of St. Columbas Catholic Church and a
member of the Holy Name Society.
:

The Distinguished Flying Cross, an award for “extraordinary achievement in aerial flight,” has been awarded to First
Lieutenant Buddy M. Hartman, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Hartman, Benton R. D.

15th

AAF

P-51 Mustang

pilot, Lt.

Hartman has been

cited for his successful strafing of the Seregelyes airdrome in
Hungary on October 21, 1944. Attacking the airdrome in the
face of intense light flak and small arms fire, Lt. Hartman’s

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plane was hit in both wings and a fuel tank was hit while he
was making his first two passes over the field.
In spite of the damage to his plane he continued his attacks and made four more passes and destroyed two German
planes, damaged four others, and also destroyed a locomotive

on a siding near the airdrome.

The citation accompanying his award concludes: “Lieut.
Hartman’s outstanding courage, professional skill and devotion
to duty in the face of the most determined enemy fire and with
a badly damaged plane, reflect great credit upon himself and
the Armed Forces of the United States of America.”

A
Lt.

veteran of 43 successful missions over enemy territory,

Hartman has flown over 224 hours

combat

flying.

In ad-

DFC

he is also authorized to wear the Air Medal
with three Oak Leaf Clusters.
A graduate of the Benton High School, he was enrolled as
a student at Bloomsburg State Teachers College when he entered the AAF in April, 1943. He was awarded his pilot’s wings
at Napier Field, Dothan, Ala., on January 7, 1944.
dition to the

First Lieutenant Joseph P. Tustin, of 1621 North Second
Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has recently completed two

years overseas with the United States Army Air Forces in North
Africa and Italy. Lieutenant Tustin is the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Edward B. Tustin, formerly of Bloomsburg, Pa., and
the nephew of Paul Tustin, of 150 West First Street, Bloomsburg. He has many friends and relatives in Pennsylvania and

New

Jersey.

Lieutenant Tustin enlisted in the United States Army at
Fort Dix, New Jersey, on May 4, 1942, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first enlistment in World War I on May 4, 1917. He
served with the United States Naval Battery in France in 1918.
Prior to the present service he was employed as an accountant
for the American Smelting and Refining Company in Perth
Amboy, New Jersey. Shortly after graduating from the Army
Air Forces Officer Candidate School in Miami Beach, Florida,
Lieutenant Tustin was assigned to overseas duty in North Africa in January, 1943. He is now Adjutant of a service squadron of the Fifteenth Air Force Service Command in Italy. His
squadron recently received the Meritorious Service Unit Award.
In addition to the Victory Medal with battle stars for participation in the Oise-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne, and Lorraine campaign of World War I, Lieutenant Tustin now wears the European, Middle-Eastern Theater ribbon with three bronze stars
marking participation in the Tunisian, Naples-Foggia and
Rome-Arno campaigns.
First Lieutenant Joseph Howard Lemon, 27, of Bloomsburg, Pa., has returned home on leave after ten months of combat operations in the European Theater of Operations. He is

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an A-20 Havoc bomber pilot
bardment group in France.

in a

Ninth Air Force light bom-

His unit, the 410th Light Bombardment Group, played an
in the tactical air operations which helped to
defeat the Germans in the “Battle of the Bulge.”
Operating in direct cooperation with the Allied armies, the
410th has dealt crippling blows against Nazi supply lines and
communication centers behind the German lines harassing
the enemy and blocking his movement of supplies and reinforcement to the front.
Lieutenant Lemon considers flying combat missions during
the “Battle of the Bulge” were the most interesting experiences
of his tour. “For almost a whole week we were blessed with
perfect flying weather,” he stated. “We had hit Jerry’s supplies and strafed his convoys until the roads were clogged with

important role

—

wrecked

vehicles.”
Prior to his enlistment in the army in October 1942, he
graduated from the Bloomsburg High School in 1935 and attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

o
O. D. McHenry, aged eighty-three, a direct descendant of
Daniel McHenry, one of the pioneers of this area, died at his
home in Stillwater from infirmities of age. He had been bedfast two months.
Through much of his life he was extensively engaged in
lumbering. From 1885 to 1900 he was identified with the McIienry-Crispin Lumber Company and much of that time its vice
president. The company built a railroad for logging from Rupert to Millville.

At the conclusion

of that operation he organized the O. D.
its headquarters at Natural Bridge, Va., and was long in operation there. The late
John G. McHenry, of Benton, was one of those active in that enterprise.

McHenry Lumber Company which had

The home in which Mr. McHenry resided most of his life
was located on the site where his pioneer ancester, Daniel, had
erected his first log cabin. Born November 17, 1861, he attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, then the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, and also the Starkey Seminary. He was
graduated from Lafayette College in 1882 as the valedictorian
of his class.

He was a lifelong Democrat and active in the party. Civic
minded, he was a former burgess of Stillwater borough and for
thirty years a member of the council there. He was the owner
of the McHenry Grove, Stillwater, where many have vacationMr. McHenry was a member of the Stillwater Christian
ed.
Church and a charter member of the Columbia County Historical Society.
sister, Miss May McHenry, of Stillwater, survives.

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Failure of his parachute to open when he leaped from a
disabled plane in Holland caused the death in action of Sgt. Leo
j Hoffman, Jr., of Almedia, formerly of Shickshinnv. This was
revealed to the parents some time ago in a letter from the navigator of Hoffman’s bomber, who successfully parachuted to
safety. He wrote the parents that he saw Hoffman plummet to
the earth, his parachute evidently becoming stuck.
The officer added that he had attended the burial services
for Sgt. Hoffman, and sent a picture of the grave, somewhere
in Holland, to the parents.
Sgt. Hoffman met death on August 5, 1944, but at first was
merely listed as missing. W.ord to the family that he was dead
came first from the officer’s letter, and then confirming word
came from the Government.
The soldier enlisted in the Air Corps Reserve while a student in the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1943, and was
called to duty in February, 1944.
.

Mr. and Mrs. James P. Dennen, of Exchange, announce
the marriage of their daughter, Veronica, yeoman second class
U. S. C. G., to Edmond Fontaine, U. S. N., of New Orleans, La.,
on March 9, 1945. The single ring ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Edmund Keifer in St. Mary’s Catholic Church at Norfolk, Va., and was witnessed by several shipmates of the groom.
The bride is a graduate of Turbotville High School and attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the Goodwin
School of Business at Williamsport. She has been a Spar for 19
months and is stationed in New Orleans. Before entering the
service she was employed by the Armour Leather Co., of Newberry, as a stenographer.
The groom has been stationed at Norfolk since his return
fiom overseas.

•
Dr. John Howoth, former president of Luzerne County
Medical Society and also former staff president and chief of
staff of Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, died recently at his
home. He was a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and
took post graduate work at the Mayo clinic.
He had been surgeon for Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
since 1922. He was on the surgical staff of the Wilkes-Barre

which serves much of northpracticed in Wilkes-Barre since

Selective Service induction center

eastern Pennsylvania.
1911.

He had

•
Wirt,
Maise
of
Bloomsburg, and Captain RobMiss Helen
ert D. Joy, of Danville R. D. 4, were married Saturday, January
27, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Bloomsburg. The rector,
the Rev. William J. Watts, officiated at the double ring ceremony. The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School

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is employed by the War Department at Washington, D. C.
Capt. Joy has been in military service since February, 1941, and
served for thirty-two months in the Aleutians. He is now based
at Ashville, North Carolina.

and

•
Rishe
has been wounded in action
Donald
First Lieutenant
in the European theatre of combat. He stated in a recent letter that he had been struck in the left arm by a piece of shrapnel and that the arm was broken. He has been in a hospital in
France. He was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant three
days before he was wounded. He entered the service with the
National Guard in 1941 and is a member of a tank destroyer
unit. He was commissioned in May, 1943, in Texas, and went
overseas in

December

of last year.

•
E. Seltzer, of Espy, has been missing in action
graduate of the Scott Township High
since December 20.
School in 1942 and valedictorian of his class, he entered the

Pfc.

Ralph

service June 22, 1942, and joined the expeditionary forces in
October of last year, going directly to France. He had completed a year of studies at Bloomsburg before going into the army.

•
Joseph C. Gillespie, of Bloomsburg, was
presented with the Air Medal for his activities as a pilot of a
B-24 bomber. He is based in England. A letter received from
him in March told that he had completed twenty-one bombingmissions from his English base.
First Lieutenant

First Lieutenant Nelson M. Oman, of Bloomsburg, has been
to the rank of Captain. He is stationed at Camp

promoted

Springs Army Air Base, Washington, D. C.,
instructor in the Thunderbolt P-47.
Sgt.

where he

a flight

•
William Stanley Fortner, of Bloomsburg, has been

awarded the certificate of merit for his participation in action
He is with the 102nd Infantry Division.
in Germany.
a
President Harvey A. Andruss was called to Oklahoma City
in January by the death of his father, Edward H. Andruss, formerly superintendent of the Northwestern Hospital in Enid,
Oklahoma.

Lt. Spencer Roberts, of Catawissa, has been attending the
University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. Lt. Roberts entered the Navy in September, 1942.

Pfc.
at

Band,

months

Sam Cohen, of Bloomsburg, is
Camp Howze, Texas. He was

in the

Alaskan area.

AGE

with the 96th
stationed for several

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O
1876
Miss

Mary Jane Hunt,

of McAllisterville, passed

away

Fri-

day, February 16, at her home. She would have been ninety
years of age if she had lived until June 27. The funeral was
held in the Lost Creek Presbyterian Church at McAllisterville,
and burial took place in the Lost Creek Presbyterian Cemetery.

1880

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1884
Miss Jennie Helman, of Catasqua, died at her home Sunday, April 1, 1945. After graduation, she taught for fifty years,
and about twenty years ago she was instrumental in starting the
Catasqua Public Library, where she served as librarian, devoting her full time to that work after her retirement from teaching. At the time of her retirement as librarian, the following
tribute was given to Miss Helman.
“The resignation of Miss Jennie Helman, chief librarian
of the Catasqua Public Library since its incorporation, brings to
a close a long career of usefulness in behalf of the youth of the
community. From a small beginning of a few hundred books
under her leadership, the library has grown to a collection of
more than seven thousand volumes. Last year nearly fifteen
thousand people used the library.
“This is truly a remarkable showing. While Miss Helman
as resigned from active work, her interest will remain with
the library. At the time of her resignation, many warm tributes
richly deserved were paid to Miss Helman by her fellow workers, her church and the local press, representing the entire community.”
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1885

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1888

News has been

received of the death of Harriet Richardson Gordon, which occurred July 18, 1884, at her home in Norwalk, California.

1890

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1893
Atty. Edgar C. Nagle, one of the Lehigh Valley’s oldest
practicing barristers and an outstanding civic and business
leader in his native Northampton, died in December at the Half
Hospital. He was aged 70.
The veteran lawyer, who this year would have observed
the 40th anniversary of his admission to the bar, succumbed to
a heart ailment from which he suffered since March. Prior to
that time he had been very active, both in his profession and as
a guiding hand in community affairs.
He was admitted to the Northampton County bar in 1905,
and later the Lehigh County bar and the State Superior Court
bar. He was a member of each of the three bar associations,
lie maintained offices above the Cement National Bank of Siegfried.

Atty. Nagle served terms as Northampton borough solicwell as solicitorships for the borough of Walnutport and

itor, as

Allen and East Allen townships. Three weeks before his death
he' resigned memberships with the Board of Benchers and the
Board of Viewers of Northampton County. He at one time was
also a member of the Northampton school board.
One of the borough’s most active civic leaders, he was an
instigator in establishing the Red Cross and in December of last
year received from the organization a certificate of public recognition for “distinguished service rendered the community.”
For 20 years he had served on the organization’s board of directors and for many years was its chairman.
At the time of his death, Atty. Nagle was a director of the
Cement National Bank of Siegfried, and was also treasurer of
the Northampton Chamber of Commerce. His fraternal affiliations included the Northampton Rotary club, the Masonic
Blue and Royal lodges, F. P. A., of Northampton and P. O. S.
of A. He was also a member of St. Paul’s Evangelical and Re-

formed Church of Northampton.
Atty. Nagle resided at 302 East 21st Street, Northampton,
where he leaves his wife, the former Mabel Laubach. There
are also two daughters, Elizabeth, of Cambridge, Mass., and
Mrs. Louise Marburg, of Baltimore; one son, James L., of Lebanon; one grandchild; two sisters, Gertrude Nagle and Mrs.

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Rodney

B. Miller,

and

a brother,

Irwin Nagle,

all

Center

Valley.

A native of Northampton, Atty. Nagle was born November
1874, a son of the late William G. and Amanda, nee Steinmetz, Nagle. He was a graduate of Catasauqua High School,
Bloomsburg Normal School, and Franklin and Marshall School,
the latter in 1889, six years before he was admitted to the bar.
3,

1895
Catherine Cadow, of Bloomsburg, died Tuesday, February 6, at the Bloomsburg Hospital, where she had
been a patient for a week. She had been ill since last August.
Miss Cadow was for many years active in educational and
religious circles in Bloomsburg. She taught for years at the
Fifth Street School in Bloomsburg, and closed her teaching career at the Benjamin Franklin Training School. She was a
member of the Reformed Church and was active in many organizations in that congregation. She was a member of the
Delta Club and a former president of that organization.
Miss

Emma

The class of ’95 will celebrate its fiftieth reunion on AlumDay, Saturday, June 23. Members are requested to bring
photographs or other mementos. Members are asked to communicate with Mrs. Ada Lewis Beale, of 908 High Street, Duncannon, Pa.
1899
Prof. Harry F. Grebey, of Hazleton, died at his home Monday evening, January 15, soon after he had returned from a
Chamber of Commerce meeting, where he had spoken on postwar plans. Mr. Grebey began teaching in 1900, and at the time
of his death he was principal of the Green-Vine Junior High
School, and was advisor on school affairs.
1900
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1908

The
ing Dr.

newspaper has the following concernHarold Grimes, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Grimes and

Danville, Ind.,

formerly of Millville
“Dr. J. Harold Grimes,

r"acticing physician in Danville
for thirty-two years, will retire from general practice Monday,
April 2, to become medical director at the Home Lawn Sanitarium, Martinsville. Dr. Grimes has been selected to take the
place of the late Dr. Robert Hite Egbert, who served the sanitarium as medical director for thirty-five years. Dr. and Mrs.
Grimes have purchased the McNelley home in Martinsville, and
will move there in June. Present plans are for the doctor to be
in his office here of evenings to take care of local patients.

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“Dr. Grimes was born in Millville, Pa., where he graduated from high school. He graduated from the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pa., and in 1912, he graduated from Loyola Medical School in Chicago. Following graduation, he served as house doctor at St. Mary’s Hospital in
July,
Grand Rapids, Mich. He began practice in Danville,
1913, where he continued to practice until World War 1. He
then served fourteen months as a captain in the Medical Corps
in France.
“He was married to Miss Ruth Parr, of St. Charles, Mo., in
1914. While Dr. Grimes was overseas, Mrs. Grimes returned to
her home in St. Charles. After the close of the war they returned to Danville for residence.
“Dr. Grimes has served as surgeon for the New York Central Railroad since 1914. He is a member of the Hendricks
County Post of The American Legion, serving two terms as post
commander, and a charter member of the Indianapolis Voiture
of the 40 and 8. He helped organize the Paul Coble Post of The
Legion in Indianapolis, an organization of professional men.
Professionally, he served four times as president of the Hendricks County Medical Association and is a past president of the

Seventh District Medical Association.
“He is a member of the local Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite

and Shrine of Indianapolis, and a

life-long

member

of the

Methodist church.
“In civic organizations he was a charter member of both
the Danville Commercial and Lions clubs. A director of the
Danville State Bank, Building and Loan Fund & Saving Association, he is also a member of the board of trustees of Central
Normal College. He is a 25-year member of the Columbia Club,
and has membership in the Indianapolis Country Club and Tippecanoe Country Club.
“In connection with The American Legion he at one time
was manager of the Junior American baseball series.
“Mrs. Grimes graduated with an A. B. and Master of Music degree from Lindenwood College at St. Charles, Mo. She is
serving as state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution; is a chapter member of the local Tri Kappa organization served as home service secretary of the local Red Cross
for twenty-six years, and is a trustee of the Kate Duncan Smith
school at Grant, Ala.
“She was the first chairman of the American Legion Auxilliary of the old Fifth district, and served twice as grand organist of the Grand Chapter, Order of Eastern Star.”
;

1908
Joseph E. White, Jr., of Light Street, died Sunday, February 11, at his home. Mr. White was born and reared in Buckhorn and lived in Light Street about fifty-one years. He was
graduated from Bloomsburg in 1908, and was graduated as an

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from Pennsylvania State College in 1912.
business since 1920. He was a member of the board
of directors of the Farmers National Bank, of Bloomsburg. He
was a member of the Masons and Caldwell Consistory in
Bloomsburg, and of Irem Temple Shrine in Wilkes-Barre. He
was also a member of the Light Street Methodist Church.

electrical engineer

He was

1909
Robert F. Wilner, Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of
the Philippines and a Wyoming Valley native, was among the
civilians liberated February 3 from Santo Tomas interment
camp in Manilla, according to word received by Mrs. Harry
Baker, Tunkhannock, from her sister, Mrs. Alfaretta xStark Wilner, 1812, wife of the prelate.
On February 28th, the family of Mrs. Robert Wilner, the
former Alfaretta Stark, learned from a message released
through the War Department that she had been liberated from
the Santa Tomas internment camp in Manila, but no mention of
her husband, Rt. Rev. Robert F. Wilner, Episcopal Suffragan
Bishop of the Philippines. The first news of his safety came in
a letter written by Mrs. Wilner and received by her sister, Mrs.
Harry C. Baker, in which she said her husband was with her.
It was the first direct word received from her since the fall of
Manila in December, 1941. In the letter she also said that she
was well, but that the Bishop was ill as a result of the years of
imprisonment.
Mrs. A. W. Sturman received a letter from her cousin, Mrs.
Wilner, which said that her husband was “responding wonderfully” to treatment and a proper diet.
In this letter, Mrs. Wilner disclosed that she was interned
January 6, 1942, but the mission people were released later,
and she was allowed to remain in her own home until July 8,
1944, at which time she was again placed in a camp. On October 17, she was transferred to Santa Tomas, where Bishop
Wilner was interned. In the two and one-half years they had
been prisoners, Mrs. Wilner had spent but one and a half hours
with her husband until they were reunited at Santa Tomas.
Mrs. Wilner speaks of the joy that prevailed in the camp
when the American Army came to their rescue about 9 o’clock
the evening of February 3. She says it was especially fortunate
that the Army came just as it did, for their food supplies were
practically exhausted but she says, “You should see the food
Rt. Rev.

now.”
the hope of Bishop and Mrs. Wilner that they may be
in Manila for a time to help in the rehabilitation of the city. At the time she wrote she said that part of
their mission had been destroyed, and they were fearful for the
It is

allowed to remain

rest.

Bishop Wilner was born in Forty Fort and resided many
years in Plymouth. His mother, Mrs. Belle Wilner, and a brother, Charles, live near Pittsburgh. Another brother, George,

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lives in Wichita, Kan. He
en’s parish, Wilkes-Barre,
at Plymouth.

was a former member of St. Stephand attendant of St. Peter’s Mission

Through a mission study class he volunteered for missionary duty as a layman and for a number of years served as assistant treasurer of Diocese of Hankow, China. He later decided to enter the ministry and, returning to this country, was
educated in Philadelphia Divinity School. He was ordained by
Bishop Frank W. Sterrett, of Bethlehem, at St. Peter’s Church,
Plymouth, in June, 1917.
He then served as a deacon in the Philippines one year,
after which he was raised to the priesthood. He immediately
assumed charge of the Easter School and was appointed Suffragan Bishop in 1937.
Bishop and Mrs. Wilner have three children, Isabel, who
T/5 Robert Wilner, Jr., who
is attending school in Pittsburgh
Medical Corps aboard a hospital ship, and Pvt.
is with the
George, who was reported missing in action in Belgium since
;

November 14.
The following was

recently received from Bishop Wilner:
“Mrs. Wilner (Alfa Stark ’12) and 1 were released from
our Japanese “guardians” on February 3, and we have since
been regaining our strength by consuming quantities of good
U. S. Food. We were both considerably run down under our
starvation diet. I had been interned since May 21, 1942, and
while Mrs. Wilner was not interned until July 8, 1944, she had
found living outside quite difficult and had already lost consid-

hope to leave for the U. S. A. shortly and
erable weight.
our mail address will be 281 Fourth Avenue, New York 10, N.
Y. When we have access to some real (U. S. ) money we shall
send you our Alumni dues. Please advise us the date of the
spring meeting of the association. If transportation and other
war time conditions permit we may be able to get there.
“A fellow-internee in the Baguio Camp for a year and a
half was Sarah Schilling (Mrs. Bartges) ’32 ( ?) who is already
on the way to the U. S. A. Her husband, Rev. Woodrow Bartges, was formerly pastor of the Evangelical Church in Nescopeck.
“Please remember us to any friends who may still be
around B. S. T. C.”
1910

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1912

The Rev. Paul D. Womeldorf, D.

D.,

has been named Exe-

cutive Secretary of the South Central Jurisdictional Council of
Methodism, and is now serving in that capacity, with offices in
the Commerce Exchange Building, Room 702, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. He was recently awarded the degree of Doctor of

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Divinity by Southwestern University, at Winfield, Kansas. Dr.
and Mrs. Womeldorf (Eudora Walton ’ll) live at 3412 N. W.
36th Street, Oklahoma City. They have three children: Harry,
a lieutenant in the army, Ruth, a graduate of Friends’ University, Wichita, Kansas, and Lois, a Senior at Southwestern, ma-

joring in religious education.

1913
In action on the Italian front for more than six months,
Pvt. Reese Crawford, of Berwick, who has been home on furlough, was brought home because of an injury to his eye that
was caused not by enemy fire but by the branch of a tree that

snapped into his eyes.
Crawford spent a twenty-one day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Ada Davis Crawford.
The soldier was wounded more than a year ago, the day
after he went into action in Italy. That was on February 9,
1944, at Cassino, when fragments from a German hand grenade struck him in the leg and arm. He was out of action for
seven weeks.
He rejoined his

outfit in

time to take part

the Anzio

Beachhead fighting and then started on the road to Rome. His
outfit was relieved for two weeks, and then went back to the
line. After Pisa was captured, they were given seven weeks
away from the front, and then started the advance toward
Florence through the Gothic line. It was in this fighting that
Pvt. Crawford suffered the eye injury.
A wireman in the communications section of an infantry
battalion, his job was to make sure that wires were intact for
communication. He was out at night checking on wires strung
through trees, when a tree branch that he had bent back suddenly snapped forward and hit him in the eyes. Cataracts developed, and in January he was sent back to the United States
by ship, and spent some time at Camp Edwards, Mass., before
flying to the O’Reilly General Hospital, Springfield, Mo. He
will report back to that hospital at the completion of his furlough.

Russell C. Lanterman, husband of Elizabeth Ferguson Lanterman, Bloomsburg, died suddenly at the Berwick A. C. F.
plant, where he was employed as superintendent in the preparation department.
Mr. Lanterman had been ailing for a year, but had been
able to attend to his work at the Berwick plant. He was born
in Newton, N. J., and resided in Bloomsburg for twenty-two
years.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the
Superintendents’ Club at the A. C. F.
He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Carol, at home;
a son, Robert, somewhere in France two brothers, Ray and
Willard, of Berwick.
;

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Bloomsburg friends have received word that John Bakehas been promoted from the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel to
that of Colonel. When last heard from he was in England.
less

1914
Major-General Idwal H. Edwards, now stationed at Washington, has expressed his hopes that he will be able co be present at the College on Alumni Day.
1915

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1920

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1927
Esther M. Welker (Mrs. J. R. Capp) lives at Hummelstown, R. D. 1. Mrs. Capp was graduated in the two-year course
in 1927 and received her B. S. ’egree at Bloomsburg in 1936.
Sgt. Fred Visintainer writes the following from the Marianas
“I was delighted to receive the recent issues of the Quarterly and the College Bulletin. They are very welcome over
here, and the only source of information about the doings at
B. S. T. C., to say nothing of the whereabouts of former schoolmates. 1 want to express my appreciation to Miss Margaret
Lewis, of Scranton, for her gift membership.
met Lapinski (’40)
‘.‘I was cp.iite surprised recently when
over here, during church services one evening. It was the first
that we had met since graduation, and we spent an enjoyable
time reminiscing and swapping news of various schoolmates.
“There really is not much to say about the progress of our
imagine, the news reports disclose the
boys around here, but,
work being done by our B-29’s stationed here in the Marianas.
“Best wishes for continued progress and success to the College and the Alumni Association.”
:

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1932
Andreas, 31, of 205 West Main Street,
Bloomsburg, Pa., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Andreas, has recently returned from service outside the continental limits of the
United States and is now temporarily stationed at the Army
Ground and Service Forces Redistribution Station here. While
at this installation he will be given a series of tests to determine
T. Sgt.

John

his fitness for future assignments.

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Andreas served 37 months as Battalion Sergeant of
the Asiatic-Pacific theatre of operation. He is a recipient of the following decorations Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal and the American Defense MedT. Sgt.

Supply

al.

Before entering the service T. Sgt. Andreas was employed
by Magee Carpet Company, of Bloomsburg, Pa.
Lieutenant Senior Grade Ezra E. Harris, has been spending a thirty-day leave with his wife, the former Betty Jones,
and their daughter, Elizabeth. Lt. Harris is a former member
of the Center Township High School faculty. He was in the
Naval engagements at Bougainville and at other points in the
Solomons, and more recently was based at Espiritu Santo in the
New Hebrides.

1933

Thomas H.

Beagle, of Bloomsburg, was
seriously wounded in France on the 9th of February. A letter
received shortly before the news of his being wounded arrived
stated that he was on patrol work at the time.
Lt. Beagle entered the service in November, 1942, and was
graduated from the officers training corps at the Anti-Aircraft
Artillery School, Camp Davis, North Carolina, May 27, 1944.
A letter received from him by his wife, the former Caroline Holton, of Locust Gap, stated that he had suffered wounds
of the forehead from mortar fire. He said in his letter that he
was coming along all right, but that he would not be writing
for sometime, as it was necessary for him to rest his eyes.
First Lieutenant

A promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel has been
received by Major James C. Hunckley, of Berwick. Lt. Col.
Iiunckley has been serving along the Burma Road in command
Chinese Officers and men. He was commander of Company
National Guard, at the time the Berwick companies were
transferred into federal service. The 28th Division was located
iii Louisiana when Capt. Hunckley was promoted to the rank
of Major and assigned to special duty at Washington, D. C. He
later attended the Army Staff School at Camp Hood, Texas,
and was then sent to the East.
of
1,

A son

was born Monday, February 12 to Mrs. Woodrow W.
the late Lt. Col. Hummel, at Renovo. Mrs. Hummel is the former Helen Krape, of Renovo. Lt. Col. Hummel,
who entered federal service in February, 1941, was killed in

Hummel and

action in Belgium last September.

1934

W. Buckalew,

Jr., husband of the former Maryruth Rishe, of Bloomsburg, is back in the United States and is
located in the government hospital in Ohio. He was wounded
in action in Germany, and spent some time in a hospital in England. He was recently home on a twenty-one day leave visiting
with his wife, son and parents.

Captain

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1935

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Captain Clyde Christian Kitch, of Columbia, an officer in
the United States Marine Corps, died in Santa Barbara, California, December 25, 1944. The telegram received by his wife
stated that the cause of his death was coronary occulations.
After his graduation from Bloomsburg, Captain Kitch entered the Pennsylvania State Police, transferred to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, and was on the staff of the United
States Secret Service before joining the Marines. He was commissioned a first lieutenant upon entering the service, and later
was promoted to the rank of Captain.

1936
Signifying that he has played a part in the Rome-Arno
campaign since January 23, 1944, a Twelfth Air Force headquarters has recently announced that Captain Robert D. Abbott, Bloomsburg, Pa., authorized to wear an additional battle
star on his European-Middle East-African theatre ribbon.
Captain Abbott serves as squadron executive officer with a
B-25 Mitchell bombardment group operating from the island of
Corsica. This group continues to aid the advance of the Fifth
and Eighth Armies by the destruction of German supply, gun
and troop concentrations and the cutting of enemy communications lines.

Captain Abbott also is authorized to wear the Distinguished Unit Badge signifying a recent citation of his group by
the War Department for the destruction of the Benevente, Italy
railroa,d yards.
A graduate of the Bloomsburg Teachers College, Captain
Abbott was, in civilian life, a commercial instructor at the Mifflintown, Pa., High School.
Mrs. Robert D. Abbott, his wife, resides at 529 N. W. 19th
Street, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Lt. George E. Kessler, of Locust Dale, and Lt. Lillian Mae
Every, of Pottsville, were married March 17 in the Methodist
Church at Aberdeen, Maryland. The bride is a graduate of the
Pottsville High School, and the Philadelphia General Hospital
Nursing School, and served as instructor at the Norristown State
Hospital before going on duty in the Army Nurse Corps. She
spent thirty-three months overseas in the Southwest Pacific
area. At present she is with the Army Nurse Corps at the Valley Forge General Hospital at Phoenixville. Lt. Kessler recently returned to the United States after serving thirty-three
months in China, Burma and India. At the present time he is
an instructor in the Ordnance School at Aberdeen, Maryland.

1937
Robert R. Goodman, Sp. (A)

2-c, of

Bloomsburg,

sta-

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tioned at the Navy Training Center in Gulfport, Mississippi, as
physical and swimming instructor. Before he entered the service in 1944, he was field Scout Executive for the Boy Scouts of
America. He received his training at Bainbridge, Maryland.
His address is Robert R. Goodman, Sp. (A) 2-c, Barracks 78,
U. S. N. T. C., Gulfport, Miss.

John
for almost

1939
Bower, of Berwick, has been

two

years.

in the Middle East
recently spent a furlough in the Holy

Land.

1940

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COME!
Seaman Second Class Carl Welliver, of Millville R. D. 2,
was chosen honor man of his company after completing his bastraining at Sampson,
instructor at that base.
ic

New

York.

He entered

He has been
service

serving as an
11, 1944.

August

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Moore are now living at 403 West
Street, Wilmington 259, Delaware. Mr. Moore is a member of the faculty of the Alexis I. DuPont High School in Wilmington.
1941
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22nd

Lt. George Houseknecht, of Hughesville, has returned to
the United States from England, and is now stationed in this
country. While in combat in France, he was awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, and a presidential citation. He has
been promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant. After returning
to the United States, he received medical treatment at the Ashford General Hospital at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

1942

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE

Second Lieutenant Earl J. Harris, twenty-four, was killed
in action on the island of Cebu in the Philippines on March 28,
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Harris, of Orangeville, were
notified by the War Department.
The officer, an infantryman, was wounded on Bougainville
on July

1944, but returned to action after being hospitalized

more than two months with injuries to the foot and arm.
The officer held the Purple Heart with one cluster, having
been wounded on Leyte, March 12, although his wounds at that
time were much less severe than he had earlier sustained at
Bougainville.

He was in the invasion of Leyte, first of the Philippines to
be reconquered, and from there, insofar as the family knows,
went to Cebu. His last letter home was under date of March 18.

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Lt. Harris, a graduate of the Scott Township High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, enlisted immediately after graduation from the latter institution in the Spring
of 1942. He took his training at Fort Benning, Ga., where he
was commissioned, and joined the expeditionary forces in December of 1943.
He has two brothers in the service Lt. (sg) Ezra Harris,
United States Navy, just returned from twenty-two months of*
action in the Pacific theatre and now based at Washington, D.
C., and Sgt. Paul Harris, a veteran of the African and Italian
campaigns, and now also based in Washington where he is assigned to the Pentagon building.
Ezra and Earl met several times in the New Hebrides while
the latter was hospitalized. They had contacted each other at
Bougainville but missed meeting there because each was away
from his base searching for the other simultaneously.
Lt. Harris was a member of the Hidlay Lutheran Church.
In addition to his parents and two servicemen brothers, these
brothers and sisters survive: Mrs. Marshall Van Scoten, Athens, Pa.; Mrs. LaRue C. Derr, of Shumans; Philip Sterling, and
Fred Harris, Bloomsburg, R. D. 5.

Ralph H. Zimmerman, of Berwick, has been promoted to
the rank of First Lieutenant at the 20th Ferry Group, Ferrying
Division, Air Transport Command, Nashville, Tennessee
The Ferrying Division, through its various groups, delivers
military aircraft to the Allied fighting fronts all over the world.
The 20th Ferrying Group is at present engaged in a double
function of the Ferrying Division the ferrying of military aircraft, and the housing of a part of Military Air Transport, a
newly added role of the Ferrying Division in the prosecution of
the war.
Planes of all types arrive and depart at the Nashville installation of the Ferrying Division, and the intense activity of
the base makes it one of the most interesting fields in the coun:

try.

Lt. Zimmerman’s present duties are as Assistant Operations Officer, Staging Section at the 20th Ferrying Group.

Lt. Wilfred H. Conrad, of Benton, entered the service in
August, 1942, and took his basic training at Camp Croft, South
Carolina. After completing Officers’ Candidate School at Fort
Benning, Georgia, he was commissioned March 19, 1943. He
arrived in England in June and took part in engagements in
Belgium, France, and Germany. On December 26, Lt. Conrad
was wounded and sent to the hospital. While at Bloomsburg,
he was editor of the Obiter and a member of Kappa Delta Pi.

A letter and a card have been received from First Lieutenant William Wanich, of Scott Township, who was taken prisoner by the German government on December 21 and in the early
days of the German counterattack in the “Battle of the Bulge.”

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Re noted

that he was all right but requested some food articles,
particularly sweets. The lieutenant said he was getting enough
to eat. He told his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl G.
Wanich, to “keep your chin up. I’ll be home.” Both the card

and

letter

moted

Army

were mailed

January.

Raymond Chandler,

Jr., of Bloomsburg, has been proto the grade of Technical Sergeant. As a member of the
Airways Communications System of the Army Air Forces,

he has an important assignment in connection with its worldwide operations. Army Airways Communications System stations, like the one in the Alaskan area where Sergeant Chandler is stationed, are located along the highways of the air in
every part of the globe where American aircraft fly to and from
the battle fronts.

Miss Idajane Shipe, of Berwick, and Sergeant Joseph F.
Madl, of Shamokin, were married Saturday, February 10, in
the Grace Lutheran Church, Berwick. The ceremony was performed by the bride’s father, the Rev. H. R. Shipe. Mrs. Madl
has been teaching in Berwick since her graduation, and Sgt.
Madl has been stationed in California.

Robert L. Johnson, 224 Reservoir Street, Lancaster, Pa.,
has been promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant. Sgt. Johnson,
who has been in the service thirty-one months, spent the past
twenty-two months in the India-Burma area as Chief Clerk in
the Quartermaster Section of Tenth Air Force Headquarters.
Captain Robert Linn, of Catawissa, a navigator in the
United States Air Forces, recently flew from England to spend
a fifteen-day furlough with his wife in Bloomsburg. He has
been with the Expeditionary Forces almost two years, and has
been in the service since August, 1942.
1st Lieutenant Robert J. Webb, of Collingswood, New Jerhas been missing in Belgium since December 27. He entered the Army in June, 1942, and went overseas a year ago.
He had been awarded the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
and a Presidential Unit Citation.

sey,

1943

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE

William H. Barton, of Bloomsburg, entered the service in August, 1943, and received his basic training at Miami
Beach, Florida. He was later sent to an Army Air Force Technical School at Fort Logan, Colorado, and upon completion of
Pfc.

in a troop carrier squadron. He
Missouri, Alliance, Nebraska, and
Camp Mackall, North Carolina. On September 30, 1944, he
was sent to Fort Wayne, Indiana, from where he was sent overseas. He is at present stationed at the Island of Oahu, Hawaii.

a clerical course

was stationed

His wife

was placed

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Bomboy, of Bloomsburg, has reCluster to his Air Medal for meritorious achievement while participating in bombing attacks
on military and industrial targets in Germany.
Sgt. Bomboy is the aerial engineer and top turret gunner
on an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress in the 385th bombbardment group. He entered the Air Force in July, 1943, attended the school for airplane mechanics at Amarillo, Texas,
and received his aerial gunnery wings at Kingman, Arizona, in
March, 1944.
Staff Sergeant Charles H.

ceived the second

Oak Leaf

1943
Miss Reba Henrie, of Mifflinville, and Staff Sergeant H.
Burnis Fellman, of Allentown, were married Saturday evening,
January 27, in the Mifflinville Lutheran Church. The Rev.
Frank Ulrich performed the double ring ceremony. Mrs. Fellman is a graduate of B. S. T. C. and is a teacher in the Danville
High School. Sgt. Fellman, also a graduate of Bloomsburg, has
been serving for the past two years in the Statistical Unit of the
Air Corps.

Second Lieutenant Bernard M. Pufnak ,of Swissvale, Pa.,
recently reported at headquarters of the San Francisco Port of
Embarkation. He was assigned to the Ships Complement Division.

1944

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE
Miss Janet Shank, of Catawissa, a

member

of the

WAVES,

and Corporal C. P. McLaughlin, USMC, of New York, were
married Saturday, March 3, in the Navy chapel at Portsmouth,
Virginia. The ceremony was performed by Lt. Commander J.
A. Whitman, Navy Chaplain.
Pvt. Frederick G. Dent, of Bloomsburg, entered the Army
3, 1944, and took his basic training at Camp Blanding,
Florida. He is now serving in the Philippines. His wife, the
former Jean Maschal, is now living with her parents in Penns
Grove, New Jersey.

August

T-4 Robert W. Warrington, of Sunbury, has entered the
Field Artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Warrington was formerly Miss Helen Cromis of Bloomsburg.

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COMMENCEMENT
“I am sure the United States can do what no nation has
ever been able to do it can declare peace on the world and
;

win

it.

Thus spoke Ely Culbertson, expert on political psychology,
the address Saturday morning, June 23, at the annual commencement of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College during
which degrees were awarded to a class of thirty-four in the
presence of an audience of relatives, friends and alumni which
well filled the auditorium.
He advocated as the fundamental basis for peace a limitation of the amount of heavy implacements of war, with allocation of the amount each nation may have in the hands of international peace authorities who would see that twenty-two per
cent of the heavy arms are provided an international army
made up from the small nations of the world.
In recognition of her exceptional services to the college
throughout her course, President Harvey A. Andruss, on behalf
of the institution, presented to Miss Althea Parsed, of Orangeville, co-winner of the “Voice of Tomorrow Program,” a service
key in music. The college head said she had been called upon
frequently to sing at college and alumni functions and had
never refused.
The invocation was given by William B. Sutliff, dean emerDuring the exercises Howard F. Fensteitus of the college.
maker played an organ selection “Invocation.”
President Andruss told the class “you have a challenge.
The difficulty with a challenge is that you must make a decision.
don’t like decisions, for we have to think, and that is hard
work. We must weigh the immediate against ultimate values.
We hope you have success in your profession for without education all plans for peace will be in vain.”
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The Address
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BRUCE ALBERT

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Resolution Adopted by
B. S. T. C.

Alumni Association
JUNE

23, 1945

marked by the absence
sympathy with the success

Our meeting today

whose heart was ever in
Institution, and whose untiring
forth, without limit, to

joyous occasion.
We can but

make

bow

of one
of this

efforts were always put
the meeting of the Alumni a

before the will of that Infinite

Power which ended the earthly career of one whom we
loved, and whose life spared no effort to make this por-

tion of the

world a better place

which

to live.

Our President, Bruce Albert, whose untimely death
we mourn today, was a man of varied gifts and one who
never spared himself in the social service of his community.

His efforts placed the Alumni Fund upon a sound financial basis. His presence was an inspiration. His absence leaves a void which we sorely regret.

RESOLVED

that this Alumni Association hereby desires to express its deep sympathy to his beloved wife,
and to place on record our sincere feeling of sorrow and
loss, in

the untimely death of our President, Bruce Albert.

Signed,

B. Sutliff.

Mrs. C. C. Housenick.

Fred W. Diehl.
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Dr. E. H. Nelson

New

President

of Alumni
Dr. E. H. Nelson, head of the Department of Health Education at the College, has been elected President of the Alumni
Association, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of R. Bruce
Albert, of Bloomsburg, who filled the office for many years.
In accordance with the Articles of Incorporation of the
Alumni Association, the President of the Association must be a
member of the Board of Directors, and is elected by the Board.
Dr. Nelson was elected at the organization meeting of the
Board of Directors following the meeting of the General Alumni Association.
Dr. Nelson is a member of the Class of 1911. Following
his graduation at Bloomsburg, he taught for several years at

Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. He then entered Dickinson
College, Carlisle, where he remained for one year.
In 1915, he entered as a Sophomore at the University of
Michigan, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at that
institution in 1917. Following his graduation from Michigan,
he taught in the high school at Highland Park, Michigan. His
work there was interrupted by World War I, and he was in the
Officers’ Training School at the time of the Armistice. He returned immediately to Highland Park, and was made Head of
the Department of Physical Education.
He later studied at Harvard University, where he received
his Master’s degree. In 1922, he became Head of Physical Education in the schools of Bethlehem, Pa. In 1925, he came to
Bloomsburg to become Head of the Department of Health Education, the position which he now holds.
In the academic year of 1930-31, he obtained a year’s leave
of absence, and completed his work on the Doctor’s Degree at

New York

University.

For many years he has been a member of the Board of
Directors of the Alumni Association, and has also served as

Manager of the Quarterly.
Under the leadership of Dr. Nelson, the Alumni Associa-

Business

tion can look

forward to a period of growth and progress.

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President Andruss

England

Harvey A. Andruss, President of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, was commissioned a Colonel in the Army of
the United States on July 1 and went to the European theatre
to aid in the organizing and operation of army university study
centers in England and France. He expects to be gone from
seven months to a year.
He was granted a leave of absence to enter the service by
the Board of Trustees of the local institution with the approval
of Dr. Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Governor Edward Martin.
Announcement of his entering the service was made at the
commencement exercises on Saturday morning, June 23, and
while the college president was addressing the thirty-four to
whom he had earlier awarded Degrees of Bachelor of Science
in Education.
President Andruss has been associated with the local institution of learning since 1931. He came here from Indiana State
Teachers College to become head of the local department of
business education and during the period he was in charge of
the department it increased in enrollment from forty-nine to
324 and practically all of the graduates were immediately placed.

He was named acting president of the institution in Auguse, 1939, following the resignation of Dr. Haas to become State
Superintendent of Public Instruction in the cabinet of then Governor Arthur H. James. He was named president of the local
college January 15, 1941.
Mrs. Andruss and their son, Harvey, Jr., will remain in
Bloomsburg and continue residence in the president’s home on
the campus. He will be concerned with commerce courses, with
special reference to accounting and allied subjects.
His writing in this field, along with experience in teaching
these subjects at Northwestern University, Oklahoma University, Oklahoma A. & M. College and New York University,
coupled with pioneer work in the field of business teacher education at the State Teachers College at Indiana and Bloomsburg, form a background for his choice.
The acceptance of this assignment from the War Department prevented President Andruss from acting as visiting professor of business education at the University of Pittsburgh durduring the summer session.
Under his leadership, Bloomsburg has become recognized
in the field of education for its pioneer work in aviation and the
college during the summer sessions offered two four weeks’
a field introduced last summer
laboratory courses in aviation
with much success.
During his assignment with the Army, Dr. T. P. North.

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instruction, will be active head of the local institution.
President Andruss will be employed as Professor of Accounting and allied subjects when the centers open in the latter
part of July in England and France.
President Andruss is scheduled to be assigned to the first of
the two Army University Centers to open the latter part of July
With an enrollment of about 4,000,
in Shrivenham, England.
the center will offer courses in agriculture, commerce, education, engineering, fine arts, journalism, science and liberal arts.
The courses will be patterned on the average American university summer session and will be of eight weeks’ duration.
The program is being presented for enlisted personnel and
officers not engaged in full time military duties, who can make
effective use of this plan by pursuing a course of study in keeping with their individual post-war plans and ambitions.
In a recent announcement, General Eisenhower said that
the Army is promising no miracles in its educational program.
The Army is simply doing what it can to assist soldiers in preparing to face the “new challenge of civil life.”
The Army Education Program in the European Theatre of
Operations is directed by Brigadier General Paul W. Thompson, Director of the Theatre Information and Education Divi-

dean of

sion.

President Andruss is the author of “Ways To Teach Bookkeeping and Accounting” the only textbook for teachers of
these subjects which is now in its second edition. His leave of
absence is expected to run for seven months, after which he is
expected to return to Bloomsburg to introduce any new developments in this field in the Department of Business Education,
which he organized in 1930.

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New Alismni Officers
At the Alumni meeting held on Alumni Day, Mrs. C. C.
Housenick, of Bloomsburg, and Fred W. Diehl, of Danville,
were reelected members of the Board of Directors of the Association. Edward F. Schuyler, of Bloomsburg, was elected to
fill the vacancy by the death of R. Bruce Albert.
Following
the meeting of the association, the Board of Directors, acting in
accordance with the regulations of the Corporate Charter of
the Association, elected Dr. E. H. Nelson President of the Association. At a meeting of the Directors in July, H. F. Fenstemaker, of Bloomsburg, was elected to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Dennis D. Wright. Mr. Fenstemaker was also
appointed Treasurer of the Alumni Loan Fund, a position capably held for many years by Mr. Wright.
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IVY

DAY

Seeing the San Francisco World Conference as the beginning of a way of life “in which we as educated people can be
more useful than we have been as students in a world dominated by war,” Miss Mary Louise Fenstemaker, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker, in the Ivy Day oration at the
Teachers College, asserted that this way of life can lead to “the
peoples of the world working in harmony as one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice to all.”
The traditional exercises were held on the campus immediately following the baccalaureate service. The Ivy was planted on the east side of Noetling Hall, one of the older buildings
of the institution.
The program, following the processional, opened with the
singing of “Maroon and Gold.” Miss Elvira A. Bitetti, president
of the class, presented Miss Fenstemaker. Planting of the ivy
followed the oration. Then came the time honored spade ceremony with the presentation by Miss Bitetti and the acceptance
by Miss Eileen Falvey. The program concluded with the singing of “Alma Mater,” the college chorus.

Oration

The oration of Miss Fenstemaker follows:
“Never before in the history of our Alma Mater has the
planting of ivy been so symbolic of the beginning of new life.
this June day of 1945 we .face more than the commencement of our own individual lives we face the commencement
of a new world, a new era.
“What are going to be our responsibilities as educated men
and women? What new problems shall we have to face and
what preparation shall we need in order to face them? None of
us here can be blind to the fact that we shall have many difficulties in the years to come
personal problems, yes, but more
than that, national and international problems of greater importance.
“We as a class have spent perhaps the most tumultous
three or four years that any class has seen. Those of us who
entered in September, 1941, had just passed safely through the
terrors of customs and had become used to college life when the
treacherous attack by the Japanese came. In the months and
years that followed, we saw our classmates drop out one by one
to enter the armed forces, until thirty-seven of them were gone.
The war took its toll also in those who became government
workers and brides. Others we lost to the class of 1944 through
the accelerated program, which as compensation gave us many
classmates who are graduating with us this year.
“As a class we saw the conversion of this great country of

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ours from peace to war. We saw the factories in Bloomsburg
and our home towns begin to turn out war materials; we dug
into our pockets for war bonds, and we tried to keep track of
our classmates and friends as they moved from camp to camp
and finally were sent overseas. In 1942 we had the war brought
closer to us by training Naval Flight Instructors, Naval V-5 cadets, nurses and beginning in July, 1943, the V-12’s. Just as we
had become used to hearing the drone of planes all day long,
the cadets and flight instructors deserted Bloomsburg for other training centers and we had to become accustomed again to
silent skies and halls bare of the unfortunates who had pulled
guard duty. When we adjusted again to the Navy V-12 whites,
the boys changed to their winter blues. All of this to confuse
the mind of a poor student who was already involved in the intricacies of tests and measurements, Art II or accounting
“Classmates began to take on responsibilities in the school.
We got our long-desired social room and financed the most ambitious Obiter ever published by stalling the popular canteen
We were more than proud to have as our classlast summer.
mate “The Voice of Tomorrow” with her great abilities and potentialities.

“And still over and above our small school troubles and
we must work on toward
pleasures ran the constant theme
Victory! We followed the North African and Italian campaigns closely, feeling that we still had a long way to go.
saw the newsreels of the D-Day landing with tremendous interWe spent the
est and watched the armies dash across France.
fateful December of 1944 in anxiety as the Battle of the Bulge
was raging. We watched the fall of the famed Siegfried Line,
glad to see the German myth of the impregnability of the homeland crack, not forgetting those who were fighting so desperately in the Pacific, but who were for the present eclipsed by
the more immediate gains in Europe. And we took the final
news of V-E Day calmly with little celebration. It was a real
victory, all right, but the fight had been so long, had taken so
many lives, and had yet so far to go before it would be completed. In retrospect, perhaps we shall feel glad that as a class we
saw the beginning of the end as well as sweating out three and
a half years of conflict; for the present we can only hope that
we shall see V-J Day as soon as possible.

—

“Perhaps more important to the future of all of us is not
the fact chat we experienced the declaration on May 8, 1945,
but the fact that April 25, 1945 saw the beginning of the great
World Conference at San Francisco. Certainly it is the beginning of a way of life in which we as educated people can be
more useful than we have been as students in a world dominated by war a way of life which needs educators who can see
the whole picture of the peoples of the world working together

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harmony

for

as one nation indivisible,

with liberty and justice

all.

“We plant this ivy today as a symbol of our growth after
leave this campus. As the ivy, having put down our roots
here, we shall now grow upward, ever striving for new heights
of achievement.”
we

College Faculty Has Dinner
Mrs. A. N. Keller, training teacher of the sixth grade and
Miss Mabel Moyer, training teacher of the second grade of the
Benjamin Franklin School of the Teachers College, were honored Tuesday evening, May 8, by the members of the college
faculty. Both retired at the end of the school term.
The enjoyed evening opened with a dinner in the college
dining hall, followed by a social program. President Harvey
A. Andruss spoke on behalf of the college, and Miss Edna
Hazen, director of the Benjamin Franklin School, presented
tokens of appreciation from the faculty to the guests of honor.
Scrolls, carrying drawings by George J. Keller and autographs of all members of the faculty, were also presented to
Mrs. Keller and Miss Moyer. Dr. H. H. Russell, president of
the college faculty organization, presided.
Guests were these retired members of the faculty Mrs. D.
S. Hartline, Mr. and Mrs. Earl N. Rhodes, Miss Harriet Carpenter, Miss Helen Carpenter, Dean and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Mrs. J.
:

Foote and Miss Edna Shaw.

Philadelphia Branch
The Philadelphia Branch of the Bloomsburg Teachers ColAlumni met for their regular session at Gimbels “Paul Revere” room on Saturday, May 12. Plans were made for a picnic at Cooper River Parkway in Westmont, N. J., on July 14
lege

and noted to accept the invitation of Mrs.
ristown, on August 11.
Attending were Mrs. Irene H. Irish,

Mary Taubel,

of Nor-

Camden, N. J. Mrs.
Rubrecht, Philadelphia; Mrs. Grace B. Auten Thorofare, N. J. Mrs. S. J. Steiner, Philadelphia Miss Mary Richard,
Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary Allen, Wilmington, Del.; Mrs. Marion
Spangler, Reading; Mrs. Joseph Lewis, Philadelphia; Mrs.
Nora Kenny, Philadelphia; Mrs. Luella Sinquett, Haddonfield,
N. J. Mrs. Emilie Gledhill, Westmont, N. J.
Miss Mary L.
Mrs.
Rorer, Philadelphia; Mrs. Grace Frantz, Merchantville
Kate Morris, Philadelphia; Mrs. Edith M. Dodrson, Philadelphia; Miss Jennie Arbogast, Glenside Miss Gertrude Rinker,
Prospect Park Mrs. Anna Allen, Darby.

Anna

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ABumni Day
On Alumni Day, Saturday, June 23, Bloomsburg College
Alumni decreed a $100 annual scholarship as a memorial to R.
Bruce Albert, long active head of the body; heard Major Idwall Edwards, class of 1914, tell of the Army training program
which he heads and Miss Dorothy Schmidt, of Scranton, relate
some of her experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese in the
Philippines Islands. Dr. E. H. Nelson, class of 1911, was elected president by the Board of Directors.
The main floor of the auditorium was almost filled for the
session which followed the commencement exercises. Various
reports were received. D. D. Wright’s proposal of the Albert
Memorial Scholarship from the reserve of the student loan fund
was passed unanimously, as was a resolution on the death of
Mr. Albert, which was submitted by a committee composed of
Dean W. B. Sutliff, Mrs. C. C. Housenick and Fred W. Diehl.
Mrs. Housenick and Mr. Diehl were re-elected directors for
three years and Edward F. Schuyler was named to fill the vacancy on the Board created by Mr. Albert’s death. Dr. Kimber
Kuster gave the report of the nominating committee. Welcome
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, Wilkes-Barre, the vice-president, presided.

was extended by President Andruss.
The

1945 joined the association in a body and prememorial, an honor roll for the sons and daughters of
Bloomsburg in the service of the country in this war.
General Edwards spoke of his Army career being aided by
his work at Bloomsburg, for he has been in the training phase of
the program most of the time. He was for some years commandant at Randolph Field, Texas, and is now in charge of the
general supervision of the training program of the entire Army.
He said that sixty per cent of Army training can be used in civilian life and spoke of the program ahead in preparation for
an all-out effort against Japan.
The officer touched on the program of education already
started for men who must remain for some time in the European Theatre of Operations. “We are very conscious of the
problem of keeping them busy and holding their morale up and
hope to send them back not only good soldiers but good citisented

class of

its

zens.”

Miss Schmidt, repatriated in February of this year, is back
the United States for the first time in eight years. She taught
Japan four years, leaving shortly before the war broke out
and being captured in the Philippines in July, after hiding for
some months in the jungles. She spoke of the gratitude of all
of the liberated to the First Calvary Division which lost a third
of its men in the drive which freed the captives from the Japain
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She also touched interestingly on the meager rations and
on the job of liberation.
Classes in reunion then reported, two of the graduates

nese.

coming from California

to participate in the

festivities

of the

day.

Probably no more features were ever packed into one day
the history of the Teachers College, but despite the competition the class reunions, as usual, stole the show.
Marked by exceptional attendance, considering conditions,
the reunion classes had a splendid time and vied with each other in claims of supremacy.
Harry O. Hine, Washington, D. C., representing the class
of 1885, was the only one back of a class of fifty-eight. This
was the oldest class in reunion.
Three of the class of ’88 were back. Mrs. J. Frank Nuss,
Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Annie Supplee Nuss, Bloomsburg, and Anna
M. Hine, of Conyngham.
The Rev. John K. Adams, of Bloomsburg, was spokesman
for the class of 1890, which was represented by five members.
Mrs. Mary Frymire Kirk, Watsontown, represented the class of
1894.
in

Dr. Nelson Speaks at Memorial

Service For Bruce Albert
Tribute to the memory of R. Bruce Albert, class of 19u6
and for twenty years president of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was paid at a memorial assembly held in the college auditorium June 7.
Dr. E. H. Nelson gave the memorial talk. He spoke of having lost a buddy and told of the excellent work of Mr. Albert in
building up the Alumni Association.
He spoke of the worthy student fund, from which money
is loaned without interest to students so they can complete their
work. This fund was started in 1893 and by 1939 was just un-

der $4,000. Then Mr. Albert devoted a year of effort to the
fund which was increased to $15,000. His watch word was “Be
sure of the worthiness of the student” and he so well operated
it that many have been aided and all money returned or now on
active loans.

From the funds invested, because they were not required,
the earnings are around $1,000, and the alumni at its meeting
later in the month will consider giving an annual $100 scholarship to a student as the Bruce Albert Memorial Scholarship.
The college was closed on August 8 and 9, in accordance
with the proclamation of President Truman and Governor Martin, following the acceptance of surrender terms by Japan.
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Dennis D. Wright
’ll, a member of the Board of Directors
Alumni Association, died Thursday morning, July 5, at
the Bloomsburg Hospital.

Dennis D. Wright

of the

In failing health for the past year, but active much of that
time in connection with his duties as a member of the firm of
Creasy and Wells, Inc., he was admitted to the hospital on Monday, July 2.
During his residence in Bloomsburg, Mr. Wright was a
leader in the First Methodist Church and active in many phases
of civic endeavor. He was a member of the Official Board of
the Methodist Church, a member and treasurer of the Board of
Trustees, one of the trustees for the bond-holders under the
mortgage on the Church School, superintendent of the Adult Division of the Church School, and for many years active in the
Ushers’ Union and various other organizations of the church.
Born near Laceyville, he was a graduate of the Laceyville
High School, and was graduated from Bloomsburg in the class
of 1911. He was president of the class.
For two years following graduation he was principal of the
school at Noxen, Pa., and then returned to Bloomsburg, where
he was employed by the White Milling Company. He later became associated with his father-in-law, the late S. C. Creasy, in
the lumber and milling firm of Creasy and Wells.
He was identified with all the civic drives during the past
twenty-five years and was active in the Columbia and Montour
Boy Scout Council from the time of its organization in 1923.
He was a member of the executive committee, and served for
years as council chairman of the Camping and Activities Committee. He was also active in Girl Scout work.
In the days prior to the organization of a Chamber of Commerce in Bloomsburg, he was a member of a small committee
that had for its objective the securing of new industries. When
the Chamber of Commerce was organized, he was a leader in

organization.
He was a charter member of the Bloomsburg Kiwanis
Club, which was organized in 1923, and served as its secretary
in 1929 and as its president in 1932.
He remained active in the
club until the time of his death.
Mr. Wright was always active in the Alumni Association.
He was one of the directors at the time the Association was incorporated, and continued as a member of the Board of Directors since that time. For years he was treasurer of the Student
Loan Fund, and gave this activity much of his time and ability.
At the meeting of the Alumni on Alumni Day of this year, he
proposed that the reserve of the Student Loan Fund be used to
give an annual scholarship of one hundred dollars, to be known
as the R. Bruce Albert Memorial Scholarship. This proposal
its

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was given the unanimous approval of the graduate body.
He was a member of Washington Lodge No. 265, F. & A.
and the various bodies of Caldwell Consistory.
He is survived by his wife, Ethel Creasy Wright ’09, three
daughters, Mrs. Lucas J. Moe, Jr., Helen May, and Anne, and a
M.,

son Cpl. H. Clifton Wright, serving with the Army in the South
Pacific.
He is also survived by five brothers and two sisters.
The Bloomsburg Morning Press made the following editorial comment on Mr. Wright’s death
“All Bloomsburg was shocked by the news of the sudden
death of Dennis D. Wright, long an outstanding figure in the life
of the community. The end came within less than three days
after he had entered the Bloomsburg Hospital for treatment,
and death struck him down at a time when he had the natural
:

many more years.
“Through these many years he has been active in Bloomsburg. He came here first as a student at the Bloomsburg State
Normal School, and to the Alumni Association of that institution
expectancy of

he gave freely of his time.
“First associated with his father-in-law, S. C. Creasy, in
the firm of Creasy and Wells, he was a directing head of that
firm for

many

years.

“But it was not merely through his business connections
that he was widely known. He was devoted to his church
and had served in an official capacity for a
the Methodist
He was one of the founders of the Bloomsburg
long time.
Chamber of Commerce, and even before that organization was
formed worked as a member of a committee that for some years
handled what normally would be Chamber of Commerce work.
“No man was more civic-minded that he, and none more freeThere were few local civic enterprises thal
ly gave of his time.

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did not find him enrolled.
“But, beyond everything else, Dennis Wright was a fama devoted husband and father who will be sadly missily man
ed. To those who are left to mourn his loss, the sympathy of

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the community will be extended.

“Dennis Wright was a fine citizen, and in his passing
Bloomsburg especially has suffered an irreparable loss.”

An informal dance, sponsored by the Social Committee of
the Community Government of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, was held in the old gymnasium Friday evening, April
Music was furnished by an informal group of Navy-12
27.
Trainees stationed at the college.
Walter Olitzki, baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, presented a very fine program at the College Assembly
held Wednesday, May 9.
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Members

of College

Faculty Retire
Miss Mabel Moyer, of Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Etta Keller, of
Orangeville, successful teachers of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College for many years, retired at the close of the present
term.
Mrs. Keller, teacher of the sixth grade in the Benjamin
Franklin School, has been in the service of her Alma Mater for
twenty-one years and Miss Moyer, second grade teacher in that
school, took up her work on the college campus in 1914.

iss

Moyer

Miss Moyer received her elementary and secondary education in the Bloomsburg public schools under the superintendency of L. P. Sterner. She then entered the upper section of the
Senior class of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, by State

Board examination, graduating the following year.
She continued her professional studies at the Pennsylvania
State College, Susquehanna, Columbia and Bucknell Universities.
She received the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Education and Master of Arts at Bucknell University and took graduate work at New York University.
Her professional experience began with two years of
teaching in the rural schools of Columbia County, following
which she was a substitute teacher for some time in the Bloomsburg Junior High School and then became a regular teacher in
the elementary department of the Bloomsburg public schools.
Later she was elected to the position of demonstration
teacher and critic of student teaching in the first and second
grades in the then “model school” of the Bloomsburg State Normal School during the directorship of the late Prof. O. H. BakeShe also occupied the position of instructor of methods at
less.
the Normal School during the presidency of the late Dr. D. J.
Waller, Jr.
The Benjamin Franklin School, built during the presidency
of Dr. Francis B. Haas, required a classroom teacher for each
of the six elementary grades, in addition to kindergarten and
special grade teachers. Miss Moyer, during the directorship of
Earl N. Rhodes, became classroom teacher of the second grade,
demonstration teacher for B S. T. C. classes and training teacher of college student teaching in the training school. She has
continued in these positions.
During the summer sessions she was college instructor of

“Technique of Teaching” and “Teaching of Reading” classes.
She is a member of the Parent-Teacher Association of the
Benjamin Franklin School, in which she has served on various
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committees, and is especially interested in the promotion of the
study group on problems of childhood.
Miss Moyer is superintendent of the Children’s Division of
the Columbia County Sabbath School Association instructor in
the Columbia County Community School of Religious Educateacher of a women’s class in the Methodist Church
tion
School. She organized and directed for two years the first vacation Church School in the Bloomsburg Methodist Church.
She is a member of the Delta Club, of Bloomsburg, and president of the Bloomsburg Branch of the American Association of
University Women.
;

;

Mrs. Keller
Mrs. Keller, nee Hirlinger, graduated from the Bloomsburg
Normal School in 1902. She taught six years in the public
schools of Columbia County. She married Alfred Nevin Keller, of Orangeville, April 12, 1906, and lived in Washington, D.
C., five years while Mr. Keller was employed in the U. S. Treasury.

She was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science by the
Pennsylvania State College in 1923 and the degree of Master of
Arts by Columbia University in 1931. She did graduate work
at both Clark and New York Universities and taught a year in
the high school of Dimock, Consolidated School, Susquehanna
County, following graduation from State College.
At the close of that term in 1924 she came to the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, then the Normal School, and continued teaching there, first in the Junior High School and later
in the elementary training school.
Mr. Keller, who retired from the Shickshinny High School
three years ago, has been substituting in the Bloomsburg High
School the last year and a half. He will retire at the close of
this term and Mr. and Mrs. Keller expect them to be continually
at their home in Orangeville to devote their time to their many
interests.

Mrs. Keller has long been associated with civic activities in
Orangeville, having been a moving spirit in the establishing of
a public library in that borough. She has also been most active
the Orangeville Civic Club.

At noon Saturday, June 16, Mrs. Anna Timbrell Cox,
daughter of Mrs. John T. Timbrell, was married to Frederick
F. Traugh. Both reside in Berwick. The Rev. S. Bruce Bidlack,
of Mifflinburg, an uncle of the bride, officiated.
Mrs. Traugh is a graduate of the Berwick High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and has been employed recently at the A. C. F. Mr. Traugh is foreman of the freight
platform of the A. C. F. Co.
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Reminiscences
(From the “Passing Throng” column

of the

Morning

Press,

June

22, 1945)

This year’s commencement at the Bloomsburg State Teachis reminiscent of the many years during which the
week was always the last week in June. In more recent years
commencement week has been observed the latter part of May
Back in those years when the State Board examinations always preceded commencement and when the course was one of
two years, rather than four, those State Board examinations
were always a last-minute hurdle to be taken and always feared by those called upon to take them. As a matter of fact, we
recall few instances in which the entire Senior class, certified
over to the State Board, did not pass the examinations given by
the latter.
When the announcement of the examination results was
made to the student body, there was always a rush for the post
office to send the good news home.
Back in those years when the course was one of two years
we have known the graduating class to number almost 300 in
ers College

some

years.

Commencement week was always

a big

week

for the town,

and alumni day something to be remembered.
There were few alumni days that didn’t find Judge John
M. Garman back to his alma mater and usually he was on the
program. He was one of the old-time orators. George E.* Elwell, of Bloomsburg, was frequently the toastmaster at those
alumni banquets.
Class Day and Ivy Day were always important days on the
commencement schedule. The auditorium was always packed
for the Class Day program, while the Ivy Day program very
frequently was held in the grove.
Those were the days when the faculty members were fixProf. Noetling, Prof. Bakeless, who followed
tures for years
Prof. Noetling, Prof. Wilbur, Prof. Cope, Prof. Albert, Prof.
Hartline, to mention only a few of the old-timers. Prof. Jenkins,

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was of course, a fixture.
Coming down to more recent years, we

as registrar,

recall no more impressive alumni day than that during the year when Professor
Wilbur, whose life hung by a thread in a Scranton hospital for
weeks, recovered sufficiently to be able to return for alumni
day. There were many in tears that day. He was a man with
a remarkable personality.
There was one certainty in the days of those June commencements: the warmest weather of the year always made its

appearance with commencement week.
liked

Folks sweltered

and

it.

Then, with the regular session closed, there was no activity
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on the hill until Fall rolled around. It is all quite differently today, with a year-round schedule carried out.
Our memory of the school goes back to the days when Dr.
Waller was filling the principalship for his first occupancy of
that office. Followed then Dr. Judson Perry Welsh, who resigned to go to Penn State as dean.
In the meantime Dr. Waller had served as state superintendent of public instruction and then had gone to Indiana, Pa.,
to assume the principalship of the State Normal School in that
town.
We have a very distinct recollection that following the resignation of Dr. Welsh, an invitation was sent to Dr. Waller at
his summer home- in Canada to return to Bloomsburg.
It was on an August night that John M. Clark, then secretary of the Board of Trustees, brought to the Morning Press office, Dr. Waller’s telegram of acceptance.
That brought him back to Bloomsburg and to the school
until his retirement.

He was followed by

Dr. Charles H. Fisher; then by Dr. G.

C. L. Reimer, under whose administration the local school became a Teachers College; by Dr. Francis B. Haas, and more re-

Harvey A. Andruss.
growth of the institution occurred during the
years the above mentioned men were at the helm.
cently by

The

real

Coliege Calendar
First

Semester

— 1945-1946

Monday, September
Tuesday, September
Thanksgiving Recess Begins at Noon Wednesday, November
Monday, November
Thanksgiving Recess Ends at Noon
Christmas Recess Begins at Noon __ Wednesday, December
Christmas Recess Ends at Noon
Wednesday, January
First Semester Recess Ends
Saturday, January
Registration
Classes Begin

Second Semester
Registration
Classes Begin
Easter Recess Begins at Noon
Easter Recess Ends at Noon _

Alumni Day
Baccalaureate Services

Day Activities
Commencement

Class

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11

26
19
2
19

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Wednesday, January 23
Thursday, January 24

Saturday, April 13
__ Wednesday, April 24
Saturday, May 25
Sunday, May 26
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“Saucered and Bio wed”
By

E. H.

NELSON

Received an interesting letter from El wood Wagner ’43
His latest assignment has been cargo transport over
in the China-Burma area. According to his description, one has
to imagine a lot of high humps in that region to indicate Himalaya peaks. If Lieutenant Wagner took his plane over with the
grace and ease with which he used to follow a soccer ball, it is
little wonder Uncle Sam has seen fit to hand out deserved decorations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal
recently.

and battle stars. The pay off of a little agreement between
Wagner and myself is to the effect that I have to drive a jeep
all over this campus next Alumni Day. If he wants to be a passenger, he has to wear his decorations. All other service Alumni need only to be in uniform to get free rides. Just picture for
yourself a snappy taxi service a la jeep all day long. Say you
want a ride from the new gym down to the dining room. The
trip would probably be made via athletic field, barn, grove,
Science Hall and North Hall terraces, with safe delivery to
Watts the receiving clerk. See you all soon.

Frank Hutchison ’16 and his wife, Josephine Duy ’15 live
on Chestnut Street, Bloomsburg. Fifty per cent of the homes
on the street house Bloomsburg Alumni, Hutchison brags that
he and his wife are the only alumni on that street. Figure that
one for street size. Also when you write Hutchison make sure
to use just one “n.” He doesn’t like two. But where would he
Hutchiso, too much like Tokyo Charley’s hanbe with no “n”
,

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dle.

The Navy ships out November

1st.

That cancels the staspeak
meals
Navy.

tion with its decks and bulkheads. Once again we will
of the dormitory floors and walls, and report for various
instead of always answering chow call. But we salute the

hope the college has done

its bit in

the

war

effort.

As of this date we have 79 “V” memberships listed. My
sincere thanks to you, and I know the Service Alumni appreciate your kindness. Occupation duty is a tedious job, and a
“Quarterly” subscription is a real morale builder.
o

Capt. John C. Koch, aviation coordinator at the college,
has been named acting editor of the Civil Air Patrol publication “Wingslip.” The newspaper is published once a month and
has a large circulation in the state.
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Commencement
From Page One)

(Continued

devote much of his time to the question of the world peace. He
also claimed the distinction of being the only native born American to speak English with an accent and Russian without one.
He spoke of the class as social engineers. “Teachers are
the salt of the earth. Of all professions none is so vital and
none gives less as a reward unless that comes from service. You
have the task of shaping the minds and souls of future generations of Americans. Remember, that the next ten years are
years of the great decisions of history.”
is one of the yard-sticks of world citizenship.
of America as the most powerful nation of the world
But he stressed that if power politics continue in another fifteen
years other nations with as much in the way of natural resources as America and more manpower will “approach the United
States and inevitably surpass us.” In twenty to twenty-five
years under this system this nation will probably be No. 3 in
power with no guarantee whatsoever as to the future.

Time, he said,

He spoke

of heavy weapons being the implements which
and the only way to overcome this is to put a limit
on the heavy weapons each nation can have and to see that
these limitations are adhered to. He advocated seventeen per
cent of these weapons to the United States, Russia and Great
Britain with lesser amounts to other major powers and with
twenty-two per cent to a combination of the small nations.
dictate force

Mr. Culbertson said he is convinced that along these lines
the hope of replacing power politics and thus assuring peace
for the world.
Graduates of the class of 1945 who received their Bachelor
of Science degree in Education were Business Education Curriculum
Theresa Belcastro, Wyoming, Pa. Betty Burnham,
Lansdowne, Pa. Mary DeVitis, Wayne, Pa. Elsie Flail, Schuylkill Haven, Pa.
Flora Guarna, Mt. Carmel, Pa. John Gulla,
Swoyerville, Pa. Gertrude Harmon, West Pittston, Pa. Jeanne
Keller, Benton, Pa.; Cleo Kinney, Danville, Pa.; Catherine Longo, Sheppton, Pa. Shirley Wolfe, West Nanticoke, Pa..
Carrie Balliet, Danville, Pa.
Elementary Curriculum
Nancy Berlew, Dallas, Pa.; Elvira Bitetti, Freeland, Pa.; MarMary Flaherty, Bloomsburg, Pa.;
tha Duck, Lewisburg, Pa.
Frances Foust, Danville, Pa. Mary Furman, Northumberland,
Pa. Evelyn George, Danville, Pa. Ruth Kester, Courtdale, Pa.
Carol McCloughan, Riverside, Pa.; Shirley Starock, Northumberland, Pa.; Stanley Stozenski, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Julia WelliBetty
ver, Bloomsburg, Pa. Lois Wintersteen, Danville, Pa.
Zehner, Sugarloaf, Pa.
Secondary Curriculum LeRue Bender, Catawissa, Pa.

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Evelyn Doney, Shamokin, Pa.; Marjorie Downing, Bloomsburg,
Mary Louise Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg, Pa. Elizabeth
Pa.
Hess, West Hazleton, Pa.; Bernard Kane, Philadelphia, Pa.;
Eugene McBride, Bloomsburg, Pa. Althea Parsell, Orange;

;

ville,

Pa.

View Methods Army Air Force
The method of instruction used by the Army Air Force was
demonstrated at the Teachers College, Monday, April 23, by
the AAF Training Liaison Office, New York, to seventy educators, including public school superintendents and principals and
representatives of three colleges.
The “mock-up” system of teaching was demonstrated in
the college gymnasium. Under this system a part of an engine
This may
is set up apart from other phases of the mechanism.
be smaller or larger but it is to scale. It is a step further than
visual education.
For example, if the hydraulic system is to be studied, this
system would be assembled alone, so that no part of it would
be obscured by other parts of the engine and the student could
concentrate upon its operation.
The Civil Air Patrol has been active in this type of instruction and the purpose of the demonstration was to call to the attention of educators how the Army Air Force system works and
to inform them that much of this teaching material is now being made available to the schools.
Lt. Robert J. Anderson explained what the Army Air Force
is doing and how it came to use the system.
This was done in
the morning and in the afternoon he demonstrated the “mockup” system and conducted a period of questions and answers.
Major Reber, executive officer of the Pennsylvania wing of
the CAP, Harrisburg, told of the background of the Civil Air
Patrol and Dr. George Stover, State Department of Public Instruction and assistant training officer of the Pennsylvania wing
of CAP, spoke of the plans for aeronautic courses in the high
schools. These plans have rapidly developed and include four
hours of flight experience, which would be the laboratory part
of the instruction.
Captain John C. Koch, CAP, of the college faculty, told of
the CAP recruiting and training program, explaining the methods used. This work at the present is on a preinduction basis.

The Army Air Force instructors here were Lt. Robert J.
Anderson, Lt. Frank J. Cignetti, Lt. Robert W. Elmer, Sgt. Walter E. Rauch, Sgt. Thomas R. Knox and Sgt. Gustave Goehring.
This is the eighth teachers college in which the demonstration has been given and the attendance here was the largest
thus far. Other teachers colleges of the Commonwealth will
be visited in June.
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Campus News
The aviation laboratory class of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College were recent guests at the Harrisburg Airport
and Olmstead Field, Middletown.
Through the courtesy of William L. Anderson, State Director of Aeronautics and Brig. Gen. John M. Clark, Commanding
Officer at Olmstead, the Bloomsburg aviation students had a
full day of aeronautical experiences.
The class, which is composed of high school boys and girls
above the age of fourteen and high school teachers interested
in aviation, arrived at the Harrisburg Airport in the morning
and was immediately divided into two groups. Dr. G. F. Stover
of the State Department of Public Instruction, met the class and
escorted one group to the control tower where they witnessed
the control tower communicating with and bringing in a mail
pick-up plane under instrument conditions. Mr. Wendell explained the tower procedure. The other group were taken to
the link trainer where the mail plane’s instrument approach
was explained by Pat Brooks, after which each of the students
received about five minutes each “flying” in the link trainer.
The entire group then visited the weather bureau and communications department and then had lunch in the
dining
room.
William L. Anderson, who delayed a trip to Cincinnatti,
and “Red” McFarland provided the youngsters with an unexpected thrill by flying the entire group to Olmstead field where
arrangements had been made to visit the Army Air Base.
At Olmstead field the youthful pilots-to-be were extended
every courtesy by the Army Air Force personnel under command of General Clark. The group was met by a base bus and
after a brief tour of the installation, Maj. C. F. Smith explained

TWA

the operations of the Middletown Airport including the repair
work done to the giant C-54 planes. Maj. Smith, Lt. Kaminski
and Sgt. Gordon accompanied the party on a detailed tour of
the C-54 work, explaining the procedure. The party was given
the privilege of going through two C-54s which were adapted
for different types of work.
Colored movies were made at the Harrisburg Airport and
as the party left Olmstead field. The group was in charge of
Capt. John C. Koch, CAP, Director of Aviation at the college;
Lt. Joseph C. Gillespie, former student at the college and recently returned B-24 pilot from the European theatre and Prof.
The party included Mary Hocht, Glen Falls, N
S. I. Shortess.
Y. Faye Robinson, Oxford, Pa.; Helen deGraffenreid, Bayside,
N. Y. Mary Byrno, Jackson Heights, N. Y. Lillian Hofferman,
Bill Sewell,
Liberty,
Allentown Ruth Briggs, Nescopeck
Maine; Fred Crispin, Bloomsburg; Daniel Whitenight, Tamaqua; Leo Kennedy, Vandling, Pa.; Wesley Rickets, Philadel;

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phia, Pa.; Horatio Raney,
ich,

Upper Darby,

Pa.,

and Collins Wan-

Orangeville.
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Easton High School was the team winner of the Thirteenth
Annual Pennsylvania Commercial Contest sponsored in May by
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on the college campus.
Prof. William C. Forney, Director of the Department of
Business Education, announced that thirteen schools were represented in the contest and that forty-eight high school students
and teachers were present.
Mr. Forney announced that other schools participating finished in the team standing with Bloomsburg High School following Easton, then Hamburg, Coal Township and Plymouth. A
commercial plaque, which becomes the permanent property of
the winning team, was awarded. The following individuals finMadeished in the various tests as listed: Shorthand Contest

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Abromaitis, Easton; Anita Arnold, Stroudsburg; Lorraine
Albertson, Bloomsburg; Mary Raubenhold, Hamburg; Mary
Claugh, Wiconisco; Jane Kern, Slatington; Louise Kaneskie,
Phyllis Lileman,
Coal Township Roberta Dewey, Abington
Scott Township; Doris Schleicher, Catasauqua; Betty Rupert,
Scott Township; Dorothy Kolvick, Wiconisco; Gladys Schwank,
Catasauqua Dolores Piszczek, Plymouth Irene Dalton, DanTypewriting Contest
ville and Doris Dentler, Hughesville.
Louise Miller, Hamburg; Anna Geistwite, Bloomsburg; Rose
Jennis, Coal Township; Mildred Kline, Scott Township; Ann
Yost, Easton; Jean Flory, Stroudsburg; Jayne McConnell, Danville; Marie Bilheimer, Catasauqua; Elsie Passerin, Abington;
Eunice Reiber, Wiconisco William Reinert, Slatington; Jean
Lake, Plymouth, and Elizabeth Smith, Hughesville. BookkeepRichard Strock, Easton Romayne Kuznack, Plying Contest
mouth Marjorie McHenry, Bloomsburg Betty Spayd, Hamburg Florence Motson, Abington Edmund Roberts, Slatington; Paul Cashner, Danville, and Erma Noll, Coal Township.
line

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The second annual aviation laboratory school opened to
high school boys and girls above the age of fourteen, high
school teachers and college students interested in aviation or
teaching aeronautical subjects was held at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College this summer. Three courses of four
weeks duration each were offered, beginning June 4, July 2 and
August 1, respectively.
The aviation course

consists of ten hours of dual flight with
experienced instructors and seventy-two hours of ground school
work, including civil air regulations, meteorology, navigation
and general service of aircraft. The equipment and facilities
used in the aviation laboratory school is the same which was
used in the training of over a thousand military pilots at the

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Bloomsburg State Teachers College. College instructors who
trained the military personnel are now available for use in the
civilian aviation laboratory school.
The course, which was so successful last summer, attracted students from nine Eastern States and aroused such interest
that it was the subject of a feature article in the New York Herald Tribune and “Aviation” magazine.
O

Dr. I. G. Pursel, one of Danville’s leading business men,
died at his home on Thursday, July 6. He had been ill for the
past eight weeks. Death was due to a heart attack following
an operation. He would have been 73 years of age October 6th
next.

He was born in Buckhom, Columbia County and attended
the Bloomsburg Normal School and was a graduate of Potts
Business College in Williamsport and the McCormie School of
Opthamology in Chicago. He was engaged in business in DanHe was a member of St. Paul’s Methodist
ville for 41 years.
Church.

He is survived by his wife, two brothers and a sister Bart
Pursel and Mrs. Charles Carr, of Bloomsburg, and Cliff Pursel,
of Danville.
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Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction and Acting President of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has_ announced
the Dean’s Honor Roll for the March trimester 1945.
The honor roll includes the following by classes: Senior,
Mary L. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg; Juniors, Athamantia Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Eileen Falvey, Berwick; Bernice Gabuzda,
Freeland; Lillian Guis, Sheppton; Sophomores, Ellen Moore,
Bloomsburg; Harriet Rhodes, Bloomsburg; Navy V-12, Domonico Bibbo, Brockton, Mass.; Joseph Casey, Huntington, W.
Va. Donald Fleisher, Wila, Pa.; Lewis Garbacik, West Hazleton; Russell Nickerson, Edgewood, R. I.; and Karl Van D’Eldon, Kew Gardens, N. Y.
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The Freshman-Sophomore dance of the college was held
Friday, May 4 in the Centennial Gymnasium from 8:30 to
11:30. Music was furnished by the Ivan Faux orchestra of
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Former Students
The Quarterly recently received the following clipping
from the base newspaper of the 346th Bombardment Group,
Pratt, Kansas
“Even if nobody else does we love our mascot,” said S/Sgt.
George L. Benesch emphatically.
“Yes,” added his AC, Capt. John A. Maksimiuk, “and he is
very sensitive about remarks concerning his personal hygiene.”
“We would love him even if he weren’t deodorized,” continued Benesch.

The two of them with Crew 1-2, of the Rascals Sq., contemplated their mascot. He was a small, underslung, black and
white striped creature with a great bushy tail. He was a skunk.
“His name is Flyaway,” said Capt. Maksimiuk, “P U Flyaway. But don’t get the wrong impression. He is absolutely
inoffensive from an er
olfactory standpoint.”
Flyaway is a native of Pueblo, Colo., born seven weeks
ago. Before he attained the distinction of being probably the
only airborne skunk in captivity, preventive surgery was neces-

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sary.

“We felt it would be a social asset for him to relinquish
two small scent glands he carried astern,” commented Benesch,
now he

not only airborne, but odorless.”
rolled up a total of 43 hours, 35 minutes of
B-29 time, is proud of it, and will take nonsense from no one
especially dogs. When under threat of canine attack, he turns
so as to bring his main batteries into play. After this fails
and it usually does he springs at the aggressive dog who invariably defaults the bout.
“We have a theme song for him that really does him an
injustice,” said Benesch, bursting into song: “Can it be the trees
?”
that fill the breeze with rare and lovely perfume
The crew replied in chorus
“Oh no, it isn’t the trees
“so

Flyaway had

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it’s

Flyaway!”
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Pfc. Ralph E. Seltzer has returned home after being a prisoner of war of the German government. Pfc. Seltzer was reported missing in action December 20, 1944.
Seltzer is a graduate of the Scott Township High School,
class of 1942, and was valedictorian of his class. He entered
the service on June 22, 19 43, and received his training at Camp
Hood and Camp Howse, Texas. He joined the expeditionary
forces in October, 1944, and went directly to France. He is the
holder of the expert infantryman’s badge.
Before entering the service, Pfc. Seltzer completed one
year of study at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

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Captain John Lobach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lobach,
Danville, R. D. 4, died of wounds received while a prisoner of
war of the German government, his family has been notified.
He is the third Montour County man to die while a prisoner of
the Germans.

The captain was taken prisoner on December 21. First
word that he was a prisoner came from Mrs. Reva Holsein, of
Houston, Texas, who had a son in the same camp. A few weeks
ago the government confirmed the fact that he was a prisoner
of war. The parents also received a letter and card written by
their son in the early months of 1945. Captain Lobach, who is
survived by his parents, was a member of the Shiloh Reformed
Church, Danville.’

S. Sgt. James S. Kline, of Benton, will never forget his
twenty-first birthday.
He was liberated that day, April 26, from the Germans
During that time
after being held prisoner for seven months.
he never received any mail or any boxes which relatives and
friends endeavored to get through to him.
The tail gunner, veteran of forty missions and holder of
the Air Medal and several Oak Leaf Clusters, was a member of
He
a B-24 bomber crew which operated from an Italian base.
was reported missing in action since October 13 and later word
came that he was a prisoner of the Germans. It is believed that
other county men were held prisoners at the same camp.
Kline was one of twenty-five Bloomsburg State Teachers
College students who enlisted in the Army Air Corps Reserve
and were called in February, 1943. He entered the expeditionary forces in December of that year.
•

Miss Betty Van Liew, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 5, and Pfc.
Richard D. White, of Omaha, Nebraska, were married Monday,
April 30, at the home of the Rev. Father Paschang, of Omaha,
who officiated at the ceremony. The bride is a graduate of the
Scott Township High School, class of 1942, and was formerly
employed by the United States Navy at Washington, D. C. Pfc.
White is a former member of Father Flanagan’s “Boys’ Town,”
of Omaha, and entered the Marine Corps in February, 1942.
He is a veteran of the battles of Tarawa and Midway, and was
stationed in the Hawaiian Islands, being overseas for twentynine months. Returning from overseas, he was stationed at
Washington, D. C., and after further training at San Diego, is
awaiting orders for shipment overseas at Camp Pendleton, California.

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Mary

Alice Bower, of Berwick, and Lt. Joseph C. GilBloomsburg, were married Wednesday, June 20, in
the Bethany Lutheran Church at Montoursville. The Rev. O. E.
Sunday, who married the bride’s parents thirty years ago, performed the ceremony. The bride is a graduate of the Berwick
High School and attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She has been employed in the offices of the American Car
and Foundry Company in Berwick. Lt. Gillespie recently returned from England, where he was a pilot on a B-24 of the
44th Bombardment Group of the 8th Army Air Force. He completed thirty-five missions over Germany. After the ceremony,
Lt. and Mrs. Gillespie went to Miami Beach, Florida, where the
former was to receive further assignment.

Miss

lespie, of

•

Mrs. Catherine L. Dildine, wife of Myron Dildine, and a
former resident of Turbotville, died at the Geneva, N. Y., Hospital on Thursday, April 12. She had been a patient at the hospital four weeks, and death resulted from complications.
She
was born February 2, 1898, at Mausdale, Montour County, and
had resided in Geneva the past ten years. She was a member
of the First Presbyterian Church and of the women’s society of
the church in Geneva. She graduated from the Turbotville
High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and
taught school for eight years.
Survinig are her husband, one daughter, four sisters, and
two brothers.

With word received recently by Mrs. Anna Soback, Nescopeck Township, that her son, Pfc. Michael Soback, was killed in
action in the Pacific, there is likelihood that the airman died in
one of the B-29 raids over Japan. He was a member of a B-29
crew, and only recently arrived at that Pacific base. The last
letter, received five weeks ago, brought word to the family that
he had arrived at Saipan.
The War Department telegram stated that Soback was
killed in action on May 6. No other details were given.
Surviving the airman are his mother and two sisters and
one brother, Ann Soback, nurse at the Berwick Hospital Helen
Soback, Nescopeck High School teacher, and Andrew Soback,
;

home.
•

T-3 Robert Vanderslice, of Bloomsburg, R. D., has been
honorably discharged from the Army under the point system,
and has returned to his home. He entered Federal service in
February, 1941, and has served with the expeditionary forces
in England, Africa and Italy since August, 1942.
He had been
affiliated with the local National Guard unit from the time of
its

organization

November, 1939.
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T-5 George Edward Horne arrived overseas early in May.
the service June 3, 1943, and received his basic
training at Camp Haan, California, in an anti-aircraft division.
In May, 1944, he was transferred to the infantry and took additional training at Camp Carson, Colorado, and Fort George
Meade, Maryland. He served as mail clerk at Fort Meade until he joined the expeditionary forces.

He entered

•

Sergeant Howard F. Fenstemaker, Jr., of Bloomsburg, has
been sent to Paris for eight weeks of study at the Sorbonne. He
a radio operator with the 11th Armored Division, of the
Third Army. His division was in the city of Linz, Austria, at
the time of the surrender of the Germans.

was

•

Lt. James Cannard, of Danville, who was shot down on a
bombing mission over Budapest, was liberated April 29. In a
recent letter, he stated that he was well, but had not had any
news from home since last November. After his capture, he
was taken to Breslaum and later to a camp near Munich.
•

Sergeant Charles Harmony, of State College, formerly of
Bloomsburg, was seriously wounded on Okinawa on the 19th of
April. He entered the army August 28, 1941, and took his
basic training at Camp Adiar, Oregon. He took part in the invasion of Leyte.
•

Corporal Thomas P. North, Jr., has returned home on a
furlough after a year of service in the Pacific, in which he took
part in six major campaigns. He participated in the invasions
of Palau, Anguar, Leyte, Linguyan Gulf, Manila and Okinawa.

Lt. Donald Rishe, of Bloomsburg, was home recently to
spend a thirty-day leave. Lt. Rishe had been wounded in the
arm in Germany, and had been at the Fletcher General Hospital, Cambridge, Ohio.

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To Bloomsburg Alumni:
Our task was never more

vital. We have been deprived of
and leadership in the recent deaths of Bruce Albert, Association President and Dennis Wright, Treasurer of the
Student Loan Fund. It matters now that we carry on exceedingly well. The Student Loan Fund
the County Organizations
and “The Spirit that is Bloomsburg” need our most serious attention. Your officers, by means of the “Quarterly,” bulletins,
personal letters and visits, will contact you often. We hope
you will contact us often too. Don’t forget the pledge we made
.”
as students
“Years to come will find

active support

—

Sincerely,
E. H.

NELSON,

President.

All Alumni are earnestly requested to inform Dr. E. H. Nelson of all
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.

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board
Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
Edward
E. H.

of Directors

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

-•

Hervey

Schuyler

Smith

H. F. Fenstemaker
Elizabeth H. Hubler

1885
ner,

The following note was recently received from W.
Route 1, Box 4, Madera, California:

Con-

“This is coming from our favorite camp on the Redwood
Highway. Four years ago one of the trees fell. It was all taken
to a sawmill but the 22-ft. butt log. Here are some of the figures a state forester has placed on the log: Height 310 feet,

diameter at base five feet above the ground, 12.1 feet, contents
of the 22 foot log 14,000 board feet. The age of the tree is 1225
years.”
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1890
Mrs. Sula L. Adams, wife of the Rev.

K. Adams, died at

her home at 155 West Third Street, Bloomsburg, after an illness of several years. She was bedfast only a few days before
her death. She had resided in Bloomsburg for the last twentyseven years.
Mrs. Adams was born January 16, 1864, and was the oldest of three children of the late A. W. and Maria C. Santee, of
Sybertsville, Luzerne County, where she was born. She was a
graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, of the class of
1890. She was a successful teacher for eight years in the public schools of Dorrance and Sugarloaf Townships, prior to her

marriage.
Mrs.

Adams was a member and regular attendant of the
Bloomsburg Reformed Church and Sunday School until illness
prevented her going. On October 25, 1899, she was united in
marriage with the Rev. John K. Adams, then a home missionary
in the Homestead-Duquesne charge of the Reformed Church,
who survives. One sister, Miss Virginia M. Santee, of Berwick,
also survives.

The class of 1890 celebrated the fifty-fifth anniversary of
graduation on Alumni Day. The class originally numbered
seventy-seven members. Of that number, five were present.
They were Ira Brown, of Rutherford, New Jersey; Mrs. Mary
Moore Taubel, of Norristown; Mrs. Margaret Lewis Davis, of
Scranton Mrs. Margaret Evans Eves, of Millville, and the Rev.
John K. Adams, of Bloomsburg.
Letters were read from the following members unable to
be present Mrs. Clementine Greogy Herman, of Los Angeles,
California Misses Eleanor and Adda Hayman, of Turbotville,
its

;

and the granddaughter of the late George W. Walburn, who
died February 26, 1945. Mr. Walburn taught for thirty-one
years, and served two terms as Superintendent of the Snyder
County schools.
1891

Attorney James

P. Costello, Sr., aged 82, father of the forof Hazleton, James P. Costello, Jr., and one of the
most outstanding men in lower Luzerne County, died at his
home, 418 West Oak Street, at 7 :00 o’clock Sunday morning,
July 22. He had been ill since the holidays and was bedfast
since July 1 with illness incident to advanced age.

mer mayor

The funeral was held from the family home on Wednesday
morning, July 25, at 10:00 o’clock with solemn high mass of
requiem in St. Gabriel’s Church at 10:30 at which his son, Rev.
Father Francis A. Costello, pastor of St. Peter’s Cathedral, of
Scranton, was the celebrant. Interment was made in St. Gabriel's cemetery.
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A native of Branchdale, Schuylkill County, where he was
born December 19, 1862, Attorney Costello was the son of Owen
and Anne Donlin Costello who were natives of Ireland. He
came to Lattimer as a boy at the age of six years, and later located in Hazleton.
Like many men of this community who attained high success in later life, Attorney Costello began his career as a breaker boy and later as a miner at Lattimer. He attended Hazle
Township schools and prepared himself to enter a field of learning. A member of the class of 1891 at the Bloomsburg Normal
School, he taught school in between his years at that college,
and after graduation became a member of the Hazle Township
teaching stalf.
Continuing his education, he entered Dickinson Law School
and was graduated there with the class of 1897. He came to
Hazleton to establish a law business in which he was Joined in
1936 by his son, Attorney James P. Costello, Jr., and the latter
has been carrying on the practice since advanced age kept his
father at home.
In 1919, Attorney Costello joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, and for three
years was head of the Law of Contracts Department at that

world-famed

institution.

of both branches, Common and Select Councity form of government prior to third-class
classification, Attorney Costello was a member of the Building
Committee which planned for the new city hall in Hazleton, in
which his son was to serve as mayor from 1838 to 1942.
He was one of the developers of the Diamond Addition,
and erected many homes in the early days of the growth of the
northwest section of Hazleton as a residential zone.
In the field of temperance, Attorney Costello was outstanding and he was one of the pioneers in pleading for moral suasion in the fight against drink in the Scranton Diocese. For
years he spoke at the Father Matthew Conventions in many
In the Fourth District he was associated with
cities and towns.
the late John J. McMenamin, Thomas A. Kelly, Hugh F. Coll,
James F. Sweeney and others, in organizing temperance societies and cadets to lead the Catholic youth to a life of sobriety.
He took the pledge at the age of 21 when he helped organize the St. Aloysius T. A. B. Society at Harleigh, and had the
distinction of never violating that promise.
He was firm in his belief for education and he practiced
this creed by having all six of his children attend college.
He
was always interested in the children of his neighborhood, to

cil,

member

which was the

whom

he pointed out the advantages that go with an education.
Active in the Luzerne County Bar Association for years, he
was assigned many posts in both the local and state organizations.

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Attorney Costello was a member of St. Gabriel’s Church
and of the Holy Name Society of that parish.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Theresa Carr Costello, formerly of Wanamie, and the following children, Attorney Eugene A. Costello, of the Veterans’ Administration, Insurance secDr. Martin Joseph Costello, of the Medical Department of
the Dupont Co., Oak Ridge, Tenn. Attorney James P. Costello,
Rev. Father Francis A. Costello, pastor of St.
Jr., Hazleton
Peter’s Cathedral, Scranton Attorney John Costello, Harrisburg. A brother and sister, Eugene Costello, of Hazleton, and
Mrs. Patrick Collins, of Harwood, also survive. Among the six
grandchildren surviving is Mary Ellen McGeehan, who resided
at the Costello home but who is presently employed in Washtion

;

ington, D. C.

1893
Miss Alice Fenner, of Allentown, spent the winter
tona Beach, Florida.

Day-

1895
Returning to their home in Slatington on the evening of
Alumni Day, June 3, after attending the fifty-year reunion of
Mr. Snyder’s class, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson Snyder were almost
instantly killed when their car crashed into a stone wall on the
Broad Mountain Highway, between Hazleton and Mauch
Chunk.
The accident occurred about 5 :45 in the evening, about
three miles from Mauch Chunk. The spot is known as “Shady
Rest Curve,” taking its name from that of a refreshment stand
operated at that point. The curve is exceedingly sharp. The
car hit a retaining wall on the right side and then shot to the
Mrs. Snyder was killed instantly, and her
left and into a bank.
husband died within a few minutes.
Mr. Snyder was graduated from Bucknell University in
1902 and served as supervising principal of the Berwick schools
Mrs. Snyder, the former Gertrude Mendenhall, was
until 1906.
also a teacher in the Berwick schools for a number of years. Mr.
Snyder left Berwick to become the principal of the Slatington
schools, where he served for more than thirty years. He retired several years ago.
Mr. Snyder was seventy-two years of age at the time of his
death, and Mrs. Snyder was sixty-seven. They have one son,
Lt. Col. John M. Snyder, who had charge of mobile hospitals in
Africa and France, and served in the Normany invasion.
Mr. Snyder is survived by a brother and a sister, and Mrs.
Snyder is survived by a brother and two sisters.

Following are the names and addresses of the members of
the class of 1895, which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on

Alumni Day: Nathan Bloss, Wapwallopen; Gertrude Jones
(Mrs. Tudor Roberts) 20 Crisman Street, Forty Fort Sara Moy;

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er (Mrs. W. R. Bray) 1655 Cloverleaf Street, Bethlehem; Martha Romberger (Mrs. Simon Fickinger) 119 East 6th Street,
Media; Dr. James Gallagher, 11410 East Jefferson Street, DeElizabeth Lesher (Mrs. Thomas Dunham) Nortroit, Mich.
thumberland; Claude Stauffer, 649 Highland Avenue, Bethlehem; Annie Derr (Mrs. Benjamin Vansant) Turbotville; Henrietta Zeiders (Mrs. C. E. Shope) 313 E. 21st Street, New York
City Charles W. Derr, Turbotville; A. Cameron Bobb, 112
Ferry Street, Danville. Since the last reunion, the following
have been added to the list of those deceased Dr. B. J. Beale,
Alice Buck, Archie Marvin, Patrick O’Donnell, J. Wilson Sny;

;

der.

One of the most remarkable reunions was that of the fifty
year class, which had twenty-four in attendance. The Golden
Anniversary Jubilee attracted Mrs. Hattie J. Price, Mrs. Martha R. Fickinger, Mrs. Thomas P. Sheely, Mrs. Mae Evans John,
Mrs. Theressa Hehl Holmes, Mrs. Ada Lewis Beagle, Mary
Pendergast, Lula McHenry Schlingman, Margaret Andreas
Lindsay, Gertrude Jones Roberts, Fred E. Fassett, George M.
Norman, A. Cameran Bobb, Flora Tinkham Marvin, Mr. and
Mrs. James Wilson Snyder, Charles W. Derr, Claude M. Stauffer, N. W. Bloss, C. P. Readier, Mary Lowrie Higbee, Dr. James
U. Gallagher, Charles M. Keefer, ’96, Mrs. Mundy.

Mary Pendergast,

secretary of the class of 1895, lives at

918 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg.
1898

There were four members of the class of ’98 back. They
were Sarah H. Russell, Watsontown; Elizabeth C. Foresman,
Montgomery; Mrs. James H. Fassett, Orlando, Florida, and Alberta Nichols, Wilkes-Barre.

1900

There were eighteen of the class of 1900 in attendance.
J. Edward Klingaman, Winchester, Va., with four
sons in the armed forces, was the spokesman. Members present came from California, Virginia, New Jersey, New York and
Pennsylvania and were Mrs. Ellen (Zimmerman) Harvey, Hazleton Mrs. Lillian (Baker) Gordner, Moorestown, N. J. Bertha A. Holderman, Shenandoah; Mrs. Ada Geary Zern, Pittsburgh Mrs. Ada Shuman Nelson, Los Nietos, California; G.
Bernard Vance, Berwick; Lillian Swainback Powell, Rochester,
N. Y. Lydia Zehner Shuman, Bloomsburg; Emma Kramer AnJulia Kirk, Shenandoah; Winifred Evans,
drews, Slatington
Danville Glenmore N. Snyder, Mountain Top, R. D. 1
Daniel
Rarich, Hazleton Leon Seesholtz, Mrs. William C. Wenner,
Stillwater; Frank C. Harris, Orangeville; Rev. J. Edward Klingaman, Winchester, Va. Raymond R. Tobias, Mt. Carmel.

The Rev.

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1903
Flossie Rundle (Mrs. Arthur L. Chase) lives at 111 Spring
Street, Carbondale, Pa. Her classmates extend to her their
sympathy for the loss of her husband, who passed away Friday,

June

15, 1945.

1905
There were twenty-six members and guests of the class of
1905 on the campus.
G. Edward El well, of Bloomsburg, reported that of a class
of 124 there are twenty -three known to have died. The present addresses of fourteen are unknown to the class. Members
are scattered through twenty states of the Union.
Present were
Dr. C. L. Mowrer, Hagerstown, Md.; Dr. H.
R. Rarig, Berwick; Mrs. Dorothy Kiefer Kashner, Bloomsburg;
Ida Smith Conrey, G. Edward Elwell, Jr., Kathryn Wilkins
Fulson, Sugar Notch; Caroline Clark Myers, Boyd’s Mills; Mrs.
Myrtle Robbins Woods, Nescopeck; Edna Crouse Harrison,
Orangeville, R. D. 2 Adelia Mertz Bergen, Harlingem, N. J.
Elizabeth Mertz Lesher, Northumberland; Vera Hemingway
Housenick, Bloomsburg; Emma M. Smith, West Hazleton; Ida
Sitler, Hollins College, Va. William G. Jenkins, Edwardsville
Anna Thomas, Edwardsville Beatrice Larrabee Albertson,
Peekskill, N. Y.
Edna L. Walters, Hazleton; Sara M. Elwell,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Gertrude Hartman Dildine, Orangeville; Nevin T. Englehart, Espy; Mrs. Charles Vermorel, Hackensack, N.
Mrs. Blanche Miller Grimes, Harrisburg; Mrs. Edgar A.
J.
Shelly, Washington, D. C. Bessie K. Grimes, Catawissa Claire
E. Scholvin, Northumberland.

—

;

1906
Rev. William Emerson Jones, of Waterford, Ohio, a retired
Congregational minister and an alumnus of Marietta College,
Marietta, Ohio, died Sunday, May 13 in Marietta Memorial HosHe and his wife were on the way from Florida, where
pital.
they had spent the winter.
Mr. Jones was a native of Wales, ana was born November
He came with his parents to America when he was
1881.
29,
four years old. They settled in a Welsh colony in Pennsylvania, and he spent his early life working in the coal mines at Nanticoke.

After graduation from Bloomsburg he entered

Marietta

College, and was graduated in 1910. He completed courses at
Harvard University and Andover Divinity School. During these
years he held pastorates in Boston. In 1913 he was ordained a
minister in the Congregational Denomination. He received his
M. A. degree at Marietta College. He served in churches at
Chicago, Forth Worth, Texas, and in 1918 he entered the U. S.
Army as a chaplain, with the rank of First Lieutenant. His last
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was at Beverly, Mass., until his retirement, which was
to failing health.
He is survived by his wife, one sister, and two brothers.

pastorate

due

No more official information has been received concerning
Jack Shambach, son of John E. Shambach, former superintendent of Sunbury schools, and a former Bloomsburg resident,
since his mother, who resides at Donora, received the news that
he was missing in action over Italy last October.
Communication has been established by the family with a
member of a plane crew which followed Sgt. Shambach in the
action in which he was lost. Through this means it was learned that two parachutes had been seen to leave the plane, which
v/as hit amidship by enemy fire and completely disabled.
Sgt.
Shambach was bombardier on the plane, a B-26 bomber, and it
is believed that his position may have enabled him to leave the
Sgt.

plane with safety if not severely wounded.
Hope for eventual information that her husband is safe is
entertained by his wife, who is the mother of an infant daughter born in January of this year.

Frank Hess,

54, of

1910
330 Vine Street, Berwick, died

re-

stricken with a heart attack. The well known Berwick man, a member for many years of the Berwick High
School faculty, had been troubled with a severe heart condition
for the past two and a half years.
Mr. Hess, a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, when it was the Bloomsburg Normal School, was captain
of the football team there and later coached the teams at that
He was also well known for his baseball playing
institution.
He was a native
ability and had played professional baseball.
of Benton.
For several years Mr. Hess was principal of Nescopeck’s
school system and had for the past 15 years been a member of
Berwick High School’s faculty. He was an active member of
the Berwick Elks’ Cub and was secretary of that lodge for many
years. He was also a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are his widow, the former Florence Whitmire
his daughter, Peggy, at home; his father, Orion M. Hess, of
Benton, and his sister, Mrs. Lucille Konkel, of Detroit.

cently

when

members of the class of 1910 were in reunion and
M. McFarlane, Hazleton; Georgena M. Sharadin,
Middleburg, R. D. 1; Maurice T. Houck, Berwick; S. Tracy
Roberts, Clarks Green; A. J. Sharadin, Middleburg; Margaret
O. Walton, Berwick; Harold C. Box, South Canaan; Hilda Altmiller Taylor, Hazleton; Florence Heubner Buckalew, Bloomsburg Ida Smith Conrey, Philadelphia Mildred Snell Boston,
West Pittston Robert C. Metz, Ashley; JohnS. Kwein, McAdoo.
Thirteen

Emma

were

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1911
Rev. C. Carroll Bailey is now located in York, PennsylHis address is 715 West Poplar Street. This year his
daughter, Frances, was graduated from Junior College, Mary
Alice was graduated from Senior High School and Carolyn
from Junior High School.
vania.

1913

Rena M. Schlotterbeck (Mrs. W. L. Snyder) 920 Pallister
Avenue, Detroit, Mich., retired from teaching in 1943, after
serving twenty-five years. She has been serving as a Nurses’
Aid in the Henry' Ford Hospital, Detroit.
1915

The

class of 1915 celebrated their 30th reunion June 23,
1945, at the college. Joe Cherrie presided, and a check-up of

member was made. The twenty-six members present reported their various successes and accomplishments, with no
failures in the picture. How could the members of 1915 fail in
each

any way ?
Eulah Boone Spiegle gave several laugh-provoking readings and “a good time was had by all.” It was decided to make
the 1951 reunion the biggest and best ever staged. Get ready
now. Send in your name and address to Rebecca Ikeler, 121
West Main Street, Bloomsburg. She will inform you concerning
the activities that are already being planned.
The members attending this year were as follows: Helene
Mitchel Weaver, Box 105, New Holland, Pa.; Lillie Zimmerman, 1613 Howard Street, N. W. Apt. 113, Washington, D. C.
Paul M. Trembly, 239 East Street, Bloomsburg; Warren A.

Dollman, 833 Market Street, Bloomsburg; Eulah Boone Spiegle,
Espy; Mary E. Hess Croop, 1733 West Front Street, Berwick;
Catherine Leighow Bittenbender, R. D. 5, Bloomsburg; Clara
Oman, 208 Massachusetts Avenue, N. E., Washington, D. C.
Bess Thompson Watkins, 9*4 Kermar Avenue, Alden Station,
Nanticoke; Elizabeth Gronks Rarin, 48 West Main Street, Glen
Lyon; John Shuman, College Hill, Bloomsburg; Etta B. Evans,
106 York Avenue, West Pittston; Edith Saricks, 933 Berkbeck
Street, Freeland; Lois McCloughan Snyder, 144 South Second
Street, Catawissa; Marian Hutchison Stumpf, Rock Glen; Roy
C. Kindig, Clearfield Edith Martin Larson, Laurel Springs,
New Jersey; Ruth Pooley, Bloomsburg; Esther C. Helfrich, 26
Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre Ruth Kaehler Hayes, 322 Harrison
Avenue, Scranton; Katherine Bierman Edwards, 3222 Klinglc
Road, N. W., Washington, D. C. Josephine Duy Hutchinson,
Bloomsburg; Frances Smith Lewis, Dalton; Ethel Watkins
Weber, 725 North Bromley Avenue, Scranton; Joseph Cherrie,
69 Robert Street, Alden Station.
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Dr.
late H.

1917
Loomis Christian has purchased the property of the

M. Vastine

at 109 Locust Street, Harrisburg.

us-

ing the first floor for the practice of medicine, specializing in
Internal Medicine. The rest of the building space is used as ofhces. He extends an invitation to all Bloomsburg Alumni to
drop in and see him.

There were twenty-six members of the thirty year class in
They were Edith M. Saricks, Freeland; Lois McCloughan Snyder, Catawissa; Marion Hutchkins Stumpf, Rock
Glen; Ray C. Kindig, Clearfield; Edith Martin Larson, Laurel
Springs, N. J. Ruth E. Pooley, Bloomsburg; Esther C. Helfrich,
Wilkes-Barre; Ruth Koebler Hayes, Scranton; Rebecca Ikeler,
Bloomsburg; Katharine Bierman Edwards, Washingotn, D. C.
Josephine Duy Hutchison, Bloomsburg; Frances Smith Lewis,
Dalton, R. D. 1 Ethel Watkins Weber, Scranton; Joseph Cherrie, Alden Station
Catherine Leighow Bittenbender, Bloomsburg, R. D. 5; Clara Oman, Washington, D. C. Bess Thompson
Watkins, Nanticoke; Elizabeth Gronka Ravin, Glen Lyon; John
H. Shuman, Bloomsburg; Etta B. Evans, West Pittston Helene
Mitchell Weaver, New Holland; Lillian Zimmerman, Washington, D. C. Paul M. Trembley, Bloomsburg; Warren A. Dollman, Bloomsburg; Eulah Boone Spiegel, Espy; Mary E. Hess

reunion.

;

Croop, Berwick.

1920
Florence Marie Beyer (Mrs. Thomas G. Lewis) lives at 306
St. George Street, Lewisburg. Her husband, Major Thomas G.
Lewis served in the Army for four years, and returned home in
January after two and one-half years overseas. He has been
transferred to inactive service, and is now at home with his
family.

The

class of 1920 in Silver Jubilee reunion reported twenR. E. Kahler, responding for the class, said his
group had been members of the “lost generation.” He was one
of those who came back from Germany and returned to school.

ty-two back.

1925
There were sixteen at the reunion of the twenty year class.
Those on the campus were Arlie Leister Goodman, Sunbury;
Grace Troxell Shaffer, Northumberland; Helen Welliver Hayhurst, Espy; Martha A. Fisher, Sunbury; Gladys Richards
Kleckner, Hazleton; Lillian Wagner Vought, Maryan H. Miller,
Berwick Ruth Mensinger Grimes, Bloomsburg; Mabel E. Loeb,
;

West

Earl T. Farley, Rochester, Pa. Tia Perigo Bolles,
Scranton; Frances Ruggles Trumbower, South Williamsport;
Pearl Radel Bickel, Sunbury; Frances Davenport Pennington,
Bloomsburg; Martha Roushey Miers, Clifford; Winifred Flaherty Kraus, Cranford, N. J.
Pittston

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Miss Ruth Owens, a teacher in the Scranton public schools,
died February 26, 1945, at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. H.
Penn, Scranton, following a long illness.
A graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Miss
Owens taught in the Audubon School, Colfax Avenue and Mulberry Street, Scranton, and formerly taught at the Longfellow
(No. 28) School, 1625 Wyoming Avenue, Scranton. She was a
member of the Green Ridge Presbyterian Church and the Women’s Teachers’ Club.
Besides her sister she is survived by her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John G. Owens, Scranton.

1927
Miss Gertrude Grimes, teacher for over twenty-six years in
the Berwick schools, retired from teaching at the close of the
school year in June. She was the principal of the Chestnut
Street Building and teacher of the second grade.

1929
Miss Marian Ashworth, of Wapwallopen, and Harry E.
Campbell, of Berwick, were married Sunday, June 24, in the
Bennett Memorial Methodist Church. The bride has been teaching in the Hollenback Township schools, and the groom is engaged in the commercial printing business, and is a member of
the editorial staff of the Berwick Enterprise.

Jack Fortner, of Bloomsburg, has been promoted to the
rank of first lieutenant. He has been at Gaudalcanal and has
been in the Pacific theatre of operations for some time.

The

class of

1930
1930 had eight members back.

They were

Mrs. Elizabeth Myrich Jones, Peckville Anna E. Isenberg, Sunbury Lavere Dieffenbach Hoyt, Shickshinny, R. D. 2; Dorothy
Keith Harris, Plymouth; Karleen M. Hoffman, Bradford; Dorothy Hoen Hersker, West Hazleton; Janetta York Coleman,
Peckville; Llewelyn Edmunds, Nanticoke.
;

;

1932
Margaret M. Hendrickson (Mrs. Ralph S. Krouse) lives
503 Beech Avenue, Patton, Pa. Mrs. Krouse, whose husband

at
is

a clergyman, served during the past year as a substitute teacher
in the Patton schools.

1933
Lieutenant Thomas H. Beagle, a former Bloomsburg resident, known throughout the region as a wholesale florist unat Auresmacher,
til the time he entered service, was wounded
Germany, on February 18, receiving a slight skull fracture
from the penetration of a mortar fragment. He was subsequently hospitalized in France and, upon arriving back in the States
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on April 9, was assigned to the Thomas M. England
Hospital, Atlantic City, for continued treatment.

General

A daughter, Ann Britton Parker, has been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert B. Parker, of Belville, New Jersey. Mrs. Parker is
the former Frances Evans, of Bloomsburg.
1934

son

was born June 12

of Bloomsburg.

Mrs.

to Lt.

Bowman was

and Mrs. Bruce E. Bowman,
the former Alice Kimbel, of

Bloomsburg.

A daughter was born June 6 to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Moltz,
208 Pennsylvania Avenue, Watsontown, Pa. Mrs. Moltz was
formerly Miss Kathryn Wertman.
1935
There were thirteen members and guests of the class of
1935 on the campus. They were Rosebud Golder Ungemach,
Berwick; Harriet Styer Boop, Bloomsburg; Naomi M. Myers,

Veda Mericle Stewart, Catawissa; Unore B. MendenBenton; Mildred Ford Wesner, Kulpmont; Mr. and Mrs.
Robert L. Diseroad, Bloomsburg; Helen Merrill, Light Street;
L. Irene Frederick, Milton, R. D. 1 Gladys Boyer Witmer, Pillow Dr. and Mrs. H. Harrison Russell. Dr. Russell was the
Pittston

;

hall,

;

class advisor.

1936
Lieut, (jg) Sara M. Berger, of River Road, Bloomsburg,
officers from the Fourth Naval District
was one of eight
designated as Naval Air Navigators to perform navigational
duties for the Navy. They became the first women officers in
any U. S. military organization to be part of a military air crew.
in this program have been subjected to the
The
same rigorous training demanded by the Navy of all air navigators.
While they were trained primarily to replace navigators assigned to sea duty, they have already proved their versatility in every phase of air navigation and are functioning at
the present time as navigational instructors. In addition to this
Air Navigators will serve as trans-ocean navigaduty,
tors in those theaters where
may be assigned to duty,

WAVE

WAVES

WAVE

WAVES

including Hawaii and the Aleutians.
The
were in Naval Air Navigator schools located
where the courses began and at Shawat Hollywood, Fla.
nee, Okla., where courses are in progress at present.
During this training period, they studied in the same classes as men, and flew on the same cross-country check flights,
graduating in the same classes.

WAVES

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Capt. Robert D. Abbott, of Bloomsburg, was a visitor on
Capt. Abbott wears the EuropeanAfrica-Middle East theatre ribbon with seven battle stars.

the

campus on Alumni Day.

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While in service overseas he served with the 310th M-25 Bomb
Group, which contributed to the German collapse in northern
Italy with its attacks in the Battle of the Brenner Pass and the
aerial support given the oth and 8th armies in their final drive.
Esther M. Welker (Mrs.
melstown, Pa.

Marie E. Foust, of 141

Capp)

lives at R. D. 1,

Hum-

1937
Center Street,

Milton, Pa., has
joined the Red Cross as a hospital recreation worker in overseas service.

1938

A beautiful wedding ceremony was solemnized in Grace
Evangelical and Reformed Church of Mill Grove Sunday, April
15, when Miss Margaret Miller, of Catawissa, R. D. 3, became
the bride of S. Sgt. Aerio M. Fetterman, of Richmond, Virginia.
The single ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. Edward
Sykes.
At the termination of the groom’s thirty-day furlough, he
returned to McGurre Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, where he
has been a patient since his return from the European front,
where he served in the U. S. Chemical Warfare Division.
The bride was a graduate of the Locust Township High
School, class of 1943. The groom was also a graduate of the
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1938. He was
Locust Township High School, class of 1934, and a graduate of
formerly a member of the faculty of the Locust Township High
School for three years and was in the service for almost three
years.

Miss Grace Irene Gearhart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton M. Gearhart, of Iron Street, Bloomsburg, became the bride
of 1st Sgt. Stanley Webb, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Saturday, June 16, in a ceremony performed in the St. Matthew’s

Lutheran Church, of Bloomsburg.
The newly-married couple left for Miami Beach, Florida.
Upon their return, they will reside in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mrs. Webb is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and received her Master’s degree at Temple University,
Philadelphia. Prior to her marriage, she was a commercial
teacher in the Bristol High School, Bristol, Pa.
Ella May Murray, a kindergarten teacher in the Philadelphia school system and Jay H. Pursel, of Bloomsburg, a member of the faculty of Nescopeck High School, were united in
marriage recently at the bride’s home in Roxborough, Pa. The
Rev. William J. Hand, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiated.

Mrs. Pursel

Temple

University.

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Roxborough High School and
Her husband, a teacher in the social stud-

a graduate of

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a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
and has been working for his Master’s degree at Temple Uniies field, is

versity.

Dorothy Edgar Cronover
hospital at Huntington,

Long

serving in the laboratory of the

Island, while her

husband

the Navy.

1939
First Lieut. Robert A. Ohl, 27, of Bloomsburg, R. D. 5, has
arrived at Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No. 2 in

Miami Beach for reassignment processing after completing a
tour of duty outside the continental United States.
As a B-29 Superfortress radar officer, Lieutenant Ohl flew
eight combat and twenty-two operational missions in the ChinaBurma-India theatre of operations, winning the Aid Medal with
an oak leaf cluster. He is the son of Mrs. Edna C. Ohl, of
Bloomsburg, R. D. 5. Prior to entering the Army in July, Lieutenant Ohl was a division head for the Sears Roebuck firm in
Bloomsburg.

1940
Miss Ruth E. Boone, of Bloomsburg, and Zane G. Smith, of
Neligh, Nebraska, were married Wednesday, March 28, in a
military wedding performed by Supreme Court Judge De
O’Reilly, of Los Angeles. The bride, a former member of the
faculty of the Danville High School, is a member of the WAC,
and is studying physiotherapy at the O’Reilly General Hospital
in Springfield, Missouri.
The bridegroom is a graduate of the
Brunswick Public High School, Neligh, Nebraska, and attended
Stanford University until June, 1941, when he enlisted in the
Marine Corps. He served eighteen months in the South Pacific
and participated in three major battles. He wears the Purple
Heart and the Unit Citation. At present, he is again overseas on
limited service in Hawaii. Mr. and Mrs. Smith plan to make
California their home after the war, where the groom plans to
complete his education.

Drue W. Folk, 204 East Fourteenth Street, Berwick, navigator on a B-24 Liberator bomber of the 15th Air Force, has
been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant.
Since arriving overseas last September, Lieutenant Folk
has flown 21 combat missions against enemv installations
throughout Europe. He wears the Aid Medal with one bronze
cluster “for meritorious achievement
while participating in
sustained operational activity against the enemy.”
A graduate of State Teachers College, Lieutenant Folk
formerly was employed as a fitter for the American Car &
Foundry Co., Berwick, Pa. He was commissioned at Ellinton,
Texas, on May 20, 1943. His wife, Mrs. Dorothy J. Folk, lives
at the Berwick address.

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Earl

W. Houck,

of Berwick,

who has been

overseas for

more than two years, has been promoted to the rank of captain.
Capt. Houck was employed by the Berwick Bank before he entered the service in July, 1941. He has been overseas with the
Air Transport Command for almost thirty months.
Carl T. Welliver, of Bloomsburg, was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy when he was graduated recently
from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School at Abbott Hall,
Northwestern University.

Stanley Kotzen has been promoted to the rank of Captain
Army. He has been stationed at Fort Ord, Cal-

in the U. S.
ifornia.

1941
Mr. and Mrs. John Parsed, of Orangeville, announced the
marriage of their daughter, Marie, to Lt. Thomas A. Perkins, of
Boston, Mass., on May 7, 1945, in the Methodist Church of Pan-

ama

City, Florida. The Rev.
ple double ring ceremony.

Cawart

officiated at the sim-

The bride graduated from the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, class of 1941, and attended Duke University, Durham,
N. C. She was a teacher in Centre Junior High School for three
years, prior to her present position as a teacher of history in
the high school at Bridgeton, New Jersey.
Lt. Perkins received his A. B. degree from the University
of New Hampshire, where he was a member of Kappa Delta
Fraternity, and was graduated from Northeastern University
Law School, where he belonged to Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
As an attorney at law, he is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and is a member of the Boston Pentucket Club.
Recently returned from active duty in the Pacific,
where he was commanding officer of an L. S. T., Lt. Perkins is
now training officer at Amphibious Training Base, Panama City,
Florida.
Lt. George Houseknecht, of Bloomsburg, who has been
awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the Distinguished
Unit Citation and the Combat Infantry Badge, arrived at the
Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution Station at Ashville,

C., recently,

N.
Lt.

for reassignment.

Houseknecht won the Bronze Star for leading a patrol

which captured a German pillbox-fort near Metz, taking near“We were lucky that we found the right enly 300 prisoners.
trance,’’ he said at the Battery Park, one of the resort hotels
leased by the Army for the use of returnees. “We shot the two
guards at the door, burst in. and found we were in the headquarters office. The officers had to surrender or be killed, so
they surrendered.”

The

lieutenant’s parents,

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knecht, live at Hughesville, R. D. 1. His wife and two small
sons, Ronald and Martin, live on West Fourth Street, Bloomsburg. Lt. Houseknecht was graduated from the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in 1941, just before entering the Army.

Miss Elizabeth Guthermuth, of Jefferson, Indiana, and Sergeant William G. Kerchusky, of Ringtown, were married Fri-

May 4, in the First Christian Church of Jefferson. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. E. Carroll. Sgt. Kerchusky is stationed at Morrison Field, Florida.
day,

Mrs. Victoria Smith Bundens, of Bloomsburg, will teach in
the elementary grades of the Bloomsburg schools during the
coming year. Mrs. Bundens has for several years been teaching in Paulsboro, New Jersey.
Julia C. Hagenbuch, of R. D. 1, Danville, Pa., has been
elected teacher of commercial subjects in the Mifflinburg High
School. She taught for four years in the Wisconisco High
School.

Miss Jane Dyke, of Mt. Carmel, and Willard P. Jackson, of
Pa., were married Thursday, August 2, at the
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Allentown. Mr. and Mrs.
Jackson are now living in Honey Brook.

Honey Brook,

Miss Florabelle Schrecongost, of DuBois, and S. Sgt. Herbert E. Schneider, of Hazleton, were married Thursday, June
7, at the parsonage of the First Methodist Church at DuBois.

The latest known address of Sgt. William F. Pegg is
1024th Signal Company (Ge) ( AVN) 56th Service Group,
APO 72, Care of Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal.

A son, James William, was born February 7 to Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Sherwood, of Galilee, Pa. Mrs. Sherwood was
formerly Miss Mary F. Keesler.
1942

Second Lieutenant Earl

Harris, 24,

was

killed

action

on the island of Cebu in the Philippines on March 28.
The officer, an infantryman, was wounded on Bougainville
on July 8, 1944, but returned to action after being hospitalized
more than two months with injuries to the foot and arm.
He held the Purple Heart with one cluster, having been
wounded on Leyte, March 12, although his wounds at that time
were much less severe than he had earlier sustained at Bougainville.

He was in the invasion of Leyte, first of the Philippines to
be reconquered and from there, insofar as the family knows,
went to Cebu. His last letter home was under date of March
18
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Lt. Harris, a graduate of the Scott Township High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, enlisted immedHe took his
iately after graduation from the latter institution.
training at Foil Benning, Ga., where he was commissioned and

.mined the expeditionary forces in December of 1943.
He has two brothers in the service, Lt. (sg) Ezra Harris,
United States Navy, just returned from twenty-two months of
action in the Pacific theatre, and now based at Washington, D.
African and Italian
C'., and Sgt. Paul Harris, a veteran of the

campaigns, and now also based in Washington where he is assigned to the Pentagon Building.
Ezra and Earl met several times
the New Hebrides
while the latter was hospitalized. They had contacted each
other at Bougainville but missed meeting there because each
was away from his base searching for the other simultaneously.
Lt. Harris was a member of the Hidlay Lutheran Church.
In addition to his parents and two servicemen brothers, these
brothers and sisters survive: Mrs. Marshall Van Scoten, Athens, Pa.; Mrs. LaRue C. Derr, Shumans; Philip Sterling, and

Fred Harris, Bloomsburg, R. D.

Miss Marjorie C. Young, of Sunbury, and Lt. Frank C.
Broderick, of the U. S. Air Forces, were married October 1,
1944. The ceremony was performed by Dr. George M. Bell in
the Dorranceton Methodist Church.
Mrs. Broderick has been
teaching in the schools of Muncy. Lt. Broderick, a graduate of
Bellefonte High School and the University of Pennsylvania,
served sixteen months in the African-European theatre of war
in the Tunisian, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns.

promotion to the rank of first lieutenant has been receivRobert Bruce Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray C. Miller, of Berwick.
The Berwick airman has been an instructor for the past
two years for B-24 pilots.
Lt. Miller was a graduate of the Berwick High School in
the class of 1937 and he also was graduated from Bloomsburg
State Teachers College where he took training in the flying of
cub planes.
ed by

Lt.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Mary Jane Sharpless, of Bloomsburg, and Arnold Wagner, also
of Bloomsburg. Miss Sharpless is a teacher in the Millville
High School. Mr. Wagner, a graduate of Culver Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, and Ohio State University, is superintendent of D. L. Dillon’s farms and greenhouses, Bloomsburg.
He has also served for several years as organist of the First

Methodist Church

Bloomsburg.

Announcement has been made
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W.

Va., on June 25, 1945, of Miss Letha Buck, of StillwatAlan H. Bauer, of Batavia, Ohio.
George F. Bauer, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Sistersville, and uncle of the groom, performed the ceremony.
Mr. Bauer is a graduate of Otterbein College and Ohio
ville,

er, to

State University. He is assistant director of plant pathology at
the Pennsylvania State College.
First Lt. William P. Wanich, husband of the former Kutli
E. Dent and son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Wanich, of Light
He has one child, a daughter, KaStreet, has arrived home.
ran. The officer was taken prisoner by the Germans in Belgium, December 21, and later was liberated by the Americans.
Lt. James William Davies, of West Pittston, has returned
after spending a year in a German prison camp. His plane was
shot down on Easter Sunday, 1944, on its way back to England
from a mission. Lt. Davies was a navigator on a B-24 Liberator bomber.

Aleta Stiles (Mrs. Nevin L. Ehrhart) lives at R. D. 2, lied
Lyon, Pa. Her husband has been serving on an aircraft carrier.
Mrs. Ehrhart is teaching in the schools of Shillington, Pa.

1943
Thirty-two bombing attacks on military and industrial tarGermany, and Nazi installations in the path of the advancing Abide armies were accomplished by Technical Sergeant Charles H. Bomboy, of Bloomsburg.
Sgt. Bomboy, holder of the awards of the Air Medal with
four oak leaf clusters for “meritorious achievement, courage
coolness, and skill,” is a Eighth Air Force engineer and turret
gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress, with the 385th Bombardment
Group. His group is part of the Third Air Division, the division
cited by the President for its now historic England-Africa shuttle bombing of the Messerschmidt aircraft factories at Regensgets in

burg, Germany.

After his arrival overseas, Sgt. Bomboy helped to bomb
such vital objectives as the industrial targets in Dresden and
Munich, aircraft factories in Madeburg, tire plants in Hanover,
marshalling yards in Chemnitz and Dessau, and oil refineries in
Merseburg. He also flew on coordinated air-ground attacks on
Nazi troop concentrations, railheads, bridges and communication centers.
“1 always knew that the Fortress was a good plane, but 1
received additional proof of it on one mission,” said Sergeant
Bomboy. “After bombing our target and heading out of Germany, we ran into bad weather. Our formation was trying to
climb over the clouds when the slipstream from the other Fort-

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We

went straight up and then over in
resses caught our plane.
a backward somersault. As we came out of the loop the plane
went into a terrific dive of more than 380 miles an hour. How
these wings held on while the pilot was getting the plane back
into level I’ll never know. But we made it back to England with
only a number of torn rivets in the tail section and the crew a
bit shaken and bruised from the rough ride.”
Sergeant Bomboy entered the Army Air Forces in July,
1943, and won his gunnery wings in March, 1944, at Kingman
Field, Arizona.

The marriage of Dorothy Ruth Johnson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert L. R. Johnson, of Berwick, to Sergeant Leonard J. F. Wasco, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wasco, of Berwick,

was solemnized

at 10 :00

o’clock

Friday, April

27, in the

St.

Mary’s Rectory by Rev. Charles H. Allen.
Miss Johnson was a graduate of Berwick High School in
the class of 1939 and of Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
the class of 1943. She is now teaching in the Berwick Public
Schools.
Sgt. Wasco was also graduated from the Berwick High
School in the class of 1939. He was home on furlough after
nineteen months service in the South Pacific with the United
States Marine Corps.

The right to wear a pair of coveted “Silver Wings” and fly
cne of Uncle Sam’s swift and deadly fighter planes against our
Axis enemies has been won by Frank M. Taylor, of Berwick,
who was commissioned a second lieutenant in out-door graduation exercises at the Pecan Grove at Craig Field, Selma, Alabama.

new

The awarding of the wings and commission came after the
had completed his advanced flight training at

flying officer

the Fighter School in Selma.

WAC

R. Holoviak, of Nesquehoning, has
redistribution and convalescent hospital at Camp Davis, North Carolina, and will work as a secretary. Previous to her entrance into the service, she was a teacher in Lancaster County.

Private

Peggy

been assigned to the

AAF

1944
Pvt. Frederick G. Dent, of Bloomsburg, has been awarded
the Combat Infantryman Badge for participation against the
Japanese on Luzon. Pvt. Dent is with the 6th Infantry Division, which has set a record for continuous combat against the
Japanese on Luzon, and probably for the entire Southwest Pacific theatre of operations, according to a press release passed
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters.

Announcement has been made
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of the

engagement

of Miss

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Betty Katerman, of Bloomsburg, and Warrant Officer Raymond
A. Algatt, of Berwick. Miss Katerman has been teaching in the
high school at Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Warrant Officer Algatt has recently returned after thirty-one months of
service in the African and European areas.

daughter was born July 9 to Captain and Mrs. Robert L.
is the former Maryrith Lovering, of Scran-

Gunter. Mrs. Gunter
ton.

Mary DeWald, of Turbotville,
the public schools of Jersey Shore.

teacher of

first

grade

1945
Mr. and Mrs. Walter George, of Danville, announced the
engagement of their daughter, Evelyn, to Midshipman William
Davis, son of W. E. Davis, of St. Louis, Missouri, at an informal
lawn party recently.
Miss George is a graduate of Danville High School, class of
1942, and a member of this year’s graduating class of Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Midshipman Davis is a graduate of Edwardsville, Illinois,
High School and is now at Columbia University, New York.
Miss Carol F. McCloughan, of Riverside, has
to a position in the schools of Danville.

been elected

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The

First
By

American Army University
HARVEY

ANDRUSS,

President

State Teachers College

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Educational First
In Shrivenham, Berkshire, England, began the first American Army University for G. I. students. July, 1945, was spent
and
in revising catalogue descriptions, constructing schedules,
preparing registration routines for 4,000 enlisted men and officers sent from Continental Europe.
August marked the arrival of G. I. students from every
state of the Union. New York headed the list with 595, Pennsylvania was second, and Nevada just got under the wire with
one student. Almost half of the students had attended college
previously, 12 l/2 per cent having graduated. The average age
was 24 years and every state university was represented. Thus
the Shrivenham Army University was not only the first of its
kind, but truly an American institution.

English Setting
Berkshire is a delightful part of the English countryside.
The village of Shrivenham is two hours’ traveling from London
and less than one hour from Oxford. For a period of eight
weeks, students lived in a setting saturated with tradition and
history; within sight of White Horse Vale and White Horse
Hill, the campaigns of King Alfred against the Danes, the contest between St. George and the Dragon, Wayland Smith’s
magic forge, and the scene of Tom Brown’s school days.

Truly Representative Enterprise
Only a unique project as an army university could attract
a faculty of 225 from civilian colleges and universities and
army officers with previous teaching experience in institutions
of higher learning. These instructors, many of whom are distinguished teachers and scholars, came from 150 different instiInstitutions were most cooperative in releasing memtutions.
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bers of already depleted staffs to undertake this most important and challenging assignment.
In the first American Army University instructors find the
most exciting experience of their professional careers students of high quality, responsive, charged with seriousness and
high purpose, eager to pick up the broken thread of their
schooling or tense with the anticipation in beginning their college careers.
Since soldiers awaiting deployment or transport could not
get to an American campus, a complete university was brought
to him. A university with all the trappings and outward aspect
library, laboratories, seminars,
of an institution in America
catalogues, registration, counseling, lectures, competitive athletics, football team, coaches, and cheerleaders, dramatics,
band, orchestra, chorus, art exhibits, dances, dates, school journeys, field trips, radio, hobbies, arguments, loafing, “cokes,”

—

and

bull sessions.

The Army University

truly an

American

institution.

The Army Plan
The Army Education Program is that part of the training
program Providing educational activities not related directly to
military duties or supervised recreation. Its objectives are
a. To assist in the maintenance of military discipline and
:

morale.
b.

Without delaying the separation from service of any individual, to assist in the preparation of each man for

his return to civilian life.
this program gave rise to several kinds of
schools to provide educational facilities capable of answering
the needs and preferences of an army composed of men and
women who represent all levels of educational achievement and

Implementing

all kinds of occupational and professional aptitudes.
The chief
school organizations are
Its program in1. The Unit School of 1,000 men or less.
cludes vocational training, on-the-job training, general
education, literary training, and educational advise-

ment.
The Technical School offers specialized vocational or
on-the-job training.
Civilian Colleges and Universities are used to the extent they are available when the size of the institution,
its location, the breadth of its curriculum, its proximity
to other cultural advantages, its scholastic repute are
such as to promote sound international relations and
produce results approximating those found in representative American institutions.
The University Study Centers are intended to
a.

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where educational needs and interest are beyond the
level of the unit school program and are not related
to the instruction offered in the technical schools.
b.

facilities of a military post or civilian educationplant in the establishment of an American Univer-

Use
al

sity

abroad.

The program of studies of such universities may include
courses in the liberal arts, sciences and professions. Each university is limited in scope by the availability of qualified instructor personnel for the respective subjects.

An Acknowledgment

of Appreciation

The writer has quoted

liberally from two sources.
One,
Technical Manual, TM 28-205 and the Commencement Address delivered to the first graduating class of
the first American Army University by Elmer T. Peterson, Deputy Director, Academic Division, Shrivenham American Uni-

War Department

versity.

To these sources, grateful acknowledgement is herewith
recorded.
Since the writer’s first hand information includes contacts
as pre-registration advisement of G. I. students and later as
head of one of the departments in the Division of Commerce,
the remainder of this discussion is limited to certain phases of
guidance and instruction which have emerged to date. These
impressions seem to be sufficiently wide to be characteristic of
the whole university offering 365 courses to 4,000 students.
Cooperation With English Universities
Located less than thirty miles from Oxford, Shrivenham
Army University has had opportunities to use many of the
Bodleian Lifacilities made available by the Oxonian colleges.
brary, Rhodes House, including its library, contacts with English faculty members through lectures, teas, and other social occasions have given American G. I. students and faculty much to
remember of English open-handed social and intellectual hospitality.
Graduate students have found the facilities of Oxford
and the University helpful and in some cases indispensable to
the task they are performing in the period of eight weeks residence. Certain areas of academic instruction on the college
level are not found in English universities. Commerce is not a
separate area of concentration in Oxford and Cambridge. Although the University of London and the “red brick” or provincial universities have developed college instruction in commerce
to a limited extent, it is not comparable to the emphasis given
in American universities to this field.
An idea of the stage of development of thinking in the
area collegiate business education can be discerned by an item
appearing in “The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post” of London, dated October 12, 1945, as follows:

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“An

inquiry by Cambridge University Appointments Board on university men in business re-

vealed that
“Seventy-three per cent of employers approached
spoke strongly in favour of university education
as a preparation for business.
“This is revealed in a report on the inquiry, published today.
“Among the constructive suggestions made to the
board is that undergraduates should be brought
in contact with their possible employers before
the third year, an obvious advantage to both employer and employee.
“A stabilizing period of a year in an office or
works before going to the university is also advocated.”
Division of

Commerce

With one exception, the Division
more students than any other.

Commerce

enrolled

60 instructors aided by 15 academic assistants
in branches or departments as follows: Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Economics, Business Administrastaff of

were organized

tion (law,
Studies.

organization, and

management), and Secretarial

the institutions

represented in the Accounting-

Among

Branch were: Northwestern University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Texas, Dartmouth College, University ot
California, and the State Teachers Colleges located at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Greenville, North Carolina, and Muncie,
Indiana, and many others.
An impression of the first Army University can be given by
answering the question

What About

the G.

One has had

Student?

to search to find a soldier without a

definite

There is the lad whose college education has been
interrupted by his entry into national service and who wants to
pick up where he left off. There’s the freshman wanting to get
the feel of college work and laying the foundation for his professional training. There’s the graduate student, anxious to
take refresher courses, to get back into the swing of academic
life, or to pursue subjects which he had never had the opportunity to explore outside his specialized field. There has been
the medical officer who wanted studio work in sculpturing or
painting and the engineer who wanted philosophy. There has
been the chap who has decided to farm, or open a retail store,
or become an accountant, or go into teaching or journalism
seeking technical preparation and assistance.
For the most part, these students have known exactly what
they wanted the most specific and functional training for
their own particular job at home.
objective.

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The activities of the first Army University have been dedicated to the purposes of peace, to the cultivation of constructive
forces, to the fostering of spiritual and intellectual life, to the
restoration and enhancement of the civilizing influences and
values. Opportunities which have been provided have been
rich and varied. The response of the student soldier has been
magnificent.
Let administrators of college and university education in
America note well these outcomes as a sound basis for future
planning and adaptation to meet the needs of G. I. students
when they return home.
Such are some of the outcomes which emerge from the first
army institution of higher learning known officially as Shriven-

ham American

University.
o

Representatives of the Community Government Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College attended a conference of the Student Government Association of Pennsylvania
Teacher Colleges held recently at the Cheyney Training School
for Teachers at Cheyney, Pa.
General sessions and panel discussions featured the conference at which student government problems at the teacher
training institutions were discussed.

Attending from Bloomsburg were: Ann Baldy, Catawissa;
Marcia Patterson, Berwick; Helen Wright, Bloomsburg; Helene Brown, West Hazleton
Henry Gatski, Bloomsburg, and
Dean of Men, John C. Koch.
;

•

The

social season at the

Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

“Open House” held in the college Centennial Gymnasium. The affair was sponsored by the Community
Government Association and attended by students, faculty
members and boys in the Navy V-12 contingent.
The swimming pool was open for an hour and a half and a
large number enjoyed a dip before attending the dance in the
lege opened with an

main gymnasium.
played

Cards, shuffle-board and
the auxiliary gymnasium rooms.

ping-pong were

Preceeding the Navy program a hundred civilian boys, under-graduates at the college, were given flight and ground
training and almost to a man they entered military service immediately after Pearl Harbor and have rendered distinguished
service all over the world.
Throughout the war years the college continued its function of training teachers for the schools of Pennsylvania and
with the cessation of military programs will continue to function in that capacity.

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Dr. Nelson Leaves College
Dr. E. H. Nelson, Director of Health Education at Bloomsburg for twenty years, has been named Chief of Health and
Physical Education in the Department of Public Instruction and
assumed his new duties November first. He was appointed to
the post by Dr. Francis B. Haas, Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of Governor Martin. He fills a vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. J. Wynn Fredericks.
Dr. Nelson started as a teacher in a one-room country
school in Wayne County, was a faculty member at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, was Director of Physical Education at Highland Park, Michigan, and at Liberty High
School, Bethlehem, before coming to Bloomsburg.
He is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School
Upon his graduation at Bloomsburg he
in the class of 1911.
went to Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, where he taught until 1914.
He then attended Dickinson College, Carlisle, for one
year, and then transferred to the University of Michigan, where
he received the degree of A. B. in 1917.
He served for one year in the Army during World War I,
and was in Officers’ Training School at the time of the Armistice.

He continued his studies at Harvard, where he received his
Master’s degree. During the college year of 1930-1931, he attended New York University, and received his Doctor’s degree
from that institution.
For many years he has been considered by educators as
one of the leading authorities in physical education. During
his time of service at Bloomsburg, he has received numerous attractive offers from other colleges and universities.
He has also been very active in the life of the community
and in demand throughout Central Pennsylvania as a commencement and after-dinner speaker.
For years he has been active in the affairs of Caldwell
Consistory, and is now a member of the Board of Trustees of
that body. He was crowned a Thirty-Third Degree Mason at
the sessions of the Supreme Council in Cleveland, Ohio, in September, 1944.
Dr. Nelson has been associated with the College Alumni
Association. He has for years served as a member of the Board
of Directors and Business Manager of the Alumni Quarterly.
The directors, at their annual meeting in June, elected him
President of the Association, filling a vacancy caused by the
death of R. Bruce Albert.
He is a past president of the Bloomsburg Kiwanis Club,
and was a member of the Board of Directors this year.
He was named faculty manager of athletics at the Teachers College one year after he was named to the faculty and efficiently held that position throughout the balance of his service
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Bloomsburg. His baseball team of 1934 won the State Teachchampionship and several of his squad through the
years have gone on into professional baseball. These include
Danny Litwhiler, now in the Service, who has played in the big
leagues four years with the Philadelphia and St. Louis clubs of
the National League, and Bernie Cobb, now coach at Shickshinney High School, who had several years in Class A and AA
minor league competition and one season was named the outstanding player in the Texas League.
Dr. and Mrs. Nelson have one daughter, Miss Patricia, recently graduated from the Pennsylvania State College.
Dr. Nelson served on the faculty here during the administration of Dr. Francis B. Haas, who resigned as president of
the Teachers College to become State Superintendent of Public
Instruction during the administration of Arthur James and has
remained on the cabinet of Governor Martin.
in

ers College

Philadelphia Alumni
Miss Mabel Moyer, training teacher emeritus of the Benjamin Franklin Training School, and her sisters, Miss Edith Moyer and Mi’s. Lucetta Moyer White, of Bloomsburg, were guests
during the summer at the home of Miss Gertrude Rinker, of
Prospect Park, a former resident and teacher of Bloomsburg.

They attended
Alumni Association

a picnic
at the

luncheon of the Philadelphia
of Mrs. Mary Moore Taubel,

home

of Norristown.

The pleasure of the meeting was marred only by the absence of the President of the Philadelphia Alumni Association,
Lillian Hortman Irish ’06, of Philadelphia, formerly of Berwick,
and of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cool ’86, of Bloomsburg, who
were detained because of illness. Mrs. Cool ’88 was the organizer and first president of the Philadelphia Alumni Association.
Attending the luncheon were the following: Mrs. Mary
Moore Taubel ’90, 1246 West Main Street, Norristown; Gertrude Rinker ’98, Prospect Park Mary Detwhiler Bader ’95,
sister of the late Professor Detwhiler, 163 Main Street, Phoenixville Julia Sharpless Fagley ’96, 165 East Walnut Lane, Ger;

;

mantown; Ada Mowrey Housenick ’27, 712 Homestead Avenue,
Beechwood Park, Upper Darby; Marie Cromis ’17, Hotel Marlyn, 40th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia; Anna Sachs Allen
’10, 214 Highland Avenue, Darby Grace Kishbach Miller ’19,
Linfield; Anna Solomon Rubrecht ’00, 705 North 63rd Street,
;

Philadelphia; Ruth Johnson Garney, ’20, 7109 Pennsylvania
Avenue, Upper Darby; Verna Miller Hunsberger ’13, 1228
Oakland Avenue, Norristown; Lena Oman Buckman ’24, West
Philadelphia; Edwina Wieland Brouse ’18, Norristown, R. D.
2 Mabel Moyer ’97, Bloomsburg; Jean Robison McLoughlin
'03, Spring Avenue, Fort Washington; Lucetta Moyer White
’86, Bloomsburg, and Edith Colsher Moyer, Bloomsburg.
;

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“Saucered and Blowed”
E. H.

NELSON

To 1896:

Do you remember the “three fifteen-minute innings” games
Normal used to play? Seven men on a team

of basketball that

guards, two forwards, and three
—two24-12
was one
on February
21, 1896,

nell

centers. Beating Buckof the highlights of

the season. The players were Detwhiler, Moore, Davenport,
Fox, Young, Harran and Worthington.
On April 18th of the same year, the Callie Society, with
its motto “Semper Paratus” (later changed to “Praestantia aut
nihil”) presented “Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.” Harry Barton
played the part of Sample Swichell, a live Yankee. I wonder if
he will remember his lines at the fiftieth reunion next May!
And not to forget the Philos, their “Ye Publick Exhibition of
Ye District School” was one of the year’s highlights. The composition on “Ye Cat,” by Leonola Capitola Swartz, was really
something.
The school poet penned the following lines during your
last year in school
“With bicycles the Faculty
Is fairly well supplied.
It’s quite a sight, so we are told,
To see those teachers ride.”

To 1901

On February
play.

The Senior

21,

1901,

gilds did a

came the wonderful “Gym” disnumber called “Bounding Balls.”

According to authenic records, a member of your class had the
following dialogue with one of the professors:
Senior: “Professor, is it ever possible to take the greater
from the less?”
Professor: “There is a close approach to it when you take
the conceit from a Senior.”
You probably will never forget the night of April 27. On
that day Captain Newton’s baseball team defeated Villanova
College. You celebrated with a big bonfire in the evening.
Someone wrote a poem, “The Vanquished,” which was hailed
with wild acclaim during the celebration. Don’t forget to attend your reunion next May and talk over the good old times.

John Bakeless, 1913, sends greetings from Bulgaria. He
has a Colonel’s rating and is now functioning as a member of
the Allied Control Commission. John had one year’s service in
World War I, then twenty-one years of Reserve Corps training,
and five full years thus far in this second world flare-up. John’s
father was a wonderful teacher and gave many years of excellent service to this school. John’s wife is Katherine Little, of
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1915, and if you haven’t seen her latest book, “Glory Hallelujah,” get a copy.
And that leads me to say that we are starting a library of
books and monographs written by Bloomsburg graduates.
Make sure that you have your contribution in our files.
O

Navy Program Closes
in thirty-nine months military uniforms
the undergraduates of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.

For the

will be

first

absent

time

among

The Navy V-12 program, which began at Bloomsburg in
came to an end Wednesday, October 24. During the
period over five hundred officer candidates in the Navy received

July, 1943,

Part of the group
which left Bloomsburg have been assigned to Penn State College and paid to Bucknell University to complete their training.
Dr. Thomas P. North, Acting President of the college, has been

their preliminary training at Bloomsburg.

the coordinator of the program since its inception.
Since July, 1942, various types of military programs in
aviation have supplemented the college’s regular activities. Beginning with an aviation program in which Army service pilots
and Navy combat pilots were trained together, the college
moved into exclusive naval aviation training in the Fall of 1942
when Bloomsburg was selected along with four other colleges
in the United States, Georgia, Texas, Chicago and Purdue, to
train naval flight instructors. This program ended in June,
1944, and until September of the same year the college continued to train Navy combat pilots. As the military aviation pro-

grams

closed, civilian flight

programs were

set

up and during

the past two summers, approximately seventy-five high school
boys and girls and teachers of aeronautics were given flight and
ground training in the college and local airport.
In the military aviation programs approximately five hundred Navy combat pilots received training at Bloomsburg, two
hundred naval flight instructors, one hundred Army service
pilots and one hundred airline pilots received instrument training.
o

Thirty-one counties are represented in the undergraduate
enrollment for the current year at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Columbia County, in which the college is located, leads
with fifty-seven students, closely followed by Luzerne with forty-eight students represented. Other counties with sizeable
groups on the campus are Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill,

Lackawanna.

will

Anticipated additional enrollment for the second semester
undoubtedly add other counties not now represented at the

college.

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Pennsylvania’s Unique System of Teacher
Education
When the Legislature of Pennsylvania established fourteen
state teacher college districts with a professional school in
each, it created a system of teacher education ideally suited to
the important function it was to fulfill.
The system is still ideal. It is ideal because it covers every
part of the state, each college serving an average of about five
counties; it is ideal because each institution is specificially
equipped to prepare teachers; it is ideal because each teachers
college affords students the opportunity to do student teaching
and gain practical knowledge in the art of instruction it is
ideal because it is accessible to every worthy young man or woman, regardless of race, color, creed, or financial status, who
aspires to a career in teaching; it is ideal because it is an intogral part of the public school system; it is ideal because the
local school officials cooperate with the college staff in developing the best possible corps of teachers for the schools within
the area; and it is ideal because it is coordinated through the
State Department of Public Instruction with respect to the curriculums, instructional staff, and general administration.
But, Pennsylvania’s unique system of teacher education
institutions does much more than simply supply teachers for
the public schools. To the campuses of these state institutions
come not only teachers with their professional problems, but
also school directors, supervisory officials, and lay leaders with
their problems relating to public education. Through the educational clinics are brought problems in speech difficulties,
remedial reading, pupil health, mental retardation, poor hearing, social maladjustment, delinquency, school attendance, library service, tests and examinations, and the like, for diagnosis and recommendation as to treatment.
Specialists 'from the state teachers colleges give demonstrations on methods of instruction before county institutes and
other gatherings of teachers, speak before parent-teacher and
other groups interested in the education of youth, conduct tests
on aptitudes, interests, mental ability, hearing, and like; judge
debates, exhibits and contests and consult on special school
problems free of charge.
Another service these colleges are able to perform because
of their distribution in fourteen districts of the state is extension
;

—

;

courses for teachers in the various communities comprised in
the service area of a given teachers college. Such classes are
held in the afternoons and evenings so as not to interfere with
the regular work of the teachers. Members of the staff frequently visit teachers in their classrooms, especially new teachers, to assist them in making a good start in their profession.
Many teachers who need additional college work to complete
their degrees, raise their certification, or generally improve
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their proficiency, avail themselves of Saturday classes on the
campuses of the state teachers colleges.
Through the placement service, the college officials and
the local superintendents work hand in hand to place teachers
in positions best suited to their proportion and specific qualifications. This cooperation is of such a nature that within a service area teachers may be readily transferred from one position
to another in order to improve their effectiveness in the class-

room.
Teachers colleges also work closely with guidance counselors in the high schools with a view to lining up for the teaching profession high school graduates who show the best promfor teaching.
These colleges invite the public in the surrounding counties to the campus to enjoy the many celebrated artists in music,
drama, science, art, economics, world affairs, and crafts which
are sponsored for the education and entertainment of the student body. In these and other ways, the state teachers colleges
became the centers of culture for the entire population in their
respective areas.
Through this unique system of teachers colleges, well organized, coordinated, and integrated with the public schools,
lies Pennsylvania’s confident hope to meet the ever-increasing
responsibilities of public education, both with respect to the
training of teachers and the general education of her 2,000,000
children and youth.
ise

Home-Coming
Many Bloomsburg Teachers College Alumni were here
Saturday, October 20, for the Homecoming, the first visit for
most of them to the campus since the opening of World War II.
It was a beautiful day, and the crowd was the largest in
some years with a fine program for their entertainment. The
day opened with the V-12 review on the athletic field.
The football game was a thriller with Lock Haven scoring
a safety in the last four minutes to triumph over the Huskies,
8 to 7. A tea followed in the Waller Hall gymnasium and the
dance in the evening in the Centennial Gymnasium, was the
largest attended in many years. It was in the nature of a farewell for the V-12 Navy trainees who completed their work at
Bloomsburg.
o

Thirty-eight educational leaders of nine local branches of
the Northeastern Division of the Pennsylvania State Education
Association met recently at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. A dinner preceded the general session after which Miss
Hilda Machling, Executive Secretary of classroom teachers of
the National Education Association, Washington, D. C., discussed the N. E. A. handbook. Mr. Raymond Webster, Field
Secretary of the P. S. E. A. presided at the meetings.
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Campus News
Vincent C. Olshefsky, thirty-one, doctor in the
United States Navy and for more than a year on the staff of the
V-1‘2 at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, died at 7 :30
o’clock on Sunday evening, September 2, in the Naval Hospital
Norfolk, Va.
Word of his death came as a profound shock to the many
friends which the officer made while in Bloomsburg from January, 1944, until the middle of August. He became a member
of the Rotary Club while stationed in Bloomsburg.
Lt. Olshefsky, a native of Mount Carmel, had been in the
service over three years and served with the Pacific fleet before
he was transferred to Bloomsburg. Included in his survivors
are his wife and one daughter. They had returned to their
Mount Carmel home when the officer was transferred to Norfolk. A brother, Joseph, is a graduate of the Teachers College.
The officer was an athletic enthusiast and during last Winter coached the Navy wrestling team.
Lt. (sg.)

•
Convocation exercises in honor of the Navy V-12 trainees
who completed their work at Bloomsburg were held Wednesday morning, October 24, in Carver Hall auditorium.
Following the singing of America, the Scripture was read
and the invocation pronounced by Prof. H. F. Fenstemaker.
Althea Parsell, Orangeville, sang “The Lord’s Prayer,” after
which Lt. Comm. R. J. Ferguson, Commanding Officer of the
V-12 Unit, presented the Navy Award of “Certificate of Service” to the college. Dr. T. P. North, Acting President, of the
college accepted for the college. A/S Russell Crosby, Providence, R. I., sang “None But the Lonely Heart.” Certificates
were then presented to the Navy V-12 trainees by Dr. North
and the program ended with the singing of the “Navy Hymn”
by the entire audience. A/S Colin MacPherson, Quincy, Mass.,

was

at the console.

At the end of the

•
week

of the Fall term at the Teachers College the enrollment of the institution, aside from the
Navy trainees, was up seventeen per cent over last year with a
total of 227.
There are eighty-five new students in this group plus seven more who were not in college last year. Many of the latter
first

are veterans.

The program for teachers in service opened recently and
advance registration indicates that there will be around seventy-five. Freshmen enrollment is fifty per cent above last year.
At the present time there are nineteen men and 119 girls
boarding at the college with twelve men and fifty-four girls as
day students. The total is thirty-one men and 173 girls and
added to this are twenty-three nurses at the Bloomsburg Hospital

School of nursing

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Former Students
Captain Paul S. Burger, of Catawissa, has added to his
previous tennis laurels the doubles crown of the recent
Command tennis tournament held in the Hawaiian Islands.
His partner in the tournament was Colonel F. T. Folk, of Yukon, Oklahoma. In July of this year, Captain Burger had completed ten years of active duty in the United States Army. During this time he has served at military posts in Virginia, North
Carolina, Texas and Hawaii.

AAA

Staff Sergeant James S. Kline, of Benton, has received his
discharge from the Army, after having been a prisoner of the
Germans for several months. The bomber on which he was flying was forced down in Eastern Germany on the 13th of October, 1944, when he was on his forty -sixth mission. He spent
much of his time as a prisoner in a camp thirty-five miles northcast of Stettin. Those in his camp were started on a forced
march February 6, and were still marching when they were
liberated April 26 by the 104th Division of the First Army. Sgt.
Kline is the holder of the Air Medal and four Oak Leaf Clusters.

Wilson B. Sterling lives at 631 North Jerome Street, Allentown. After leaving Bloomsburg in 1934, and after receiving
training at the Danville State Hospital, Mr. Sterling was appointed Assistant Director of Male Nurses and Attendants at
the Allentown State Hospital, a position which he has held for
six years.

Louise M. Lindenman, of Milnesville, is now serving as
teacher of special education in the Bloomsburg schools. For
seven years she taught grades one and two in the Peace Street
School, Hazle Township, and for two years she taught in the
grades in the Pardeedville School in the same township.

Miss Shirley McHenry, of Bloomsburg, and Ruy Cordeiro,
City, were married Friday, August 31, in a ceremony performed by the Rev. Dr. Fielding, at Baltimore. They
will make their home in the Shelton Hotel, New York City.
of

New York

Corporal Thomas P. North, Jr., of Bloomsburg, recently
spent some time in Bloomsburg on a furlough. He is back from
fourteen months in the Pacific zone, after taking part in the invasions of Peleliu, Angaur, Leyte, Luzon, Subic Bay and Okinawa.
Millard C. Ludwig, of Millville, has been with the Pacific
Fleet for the past year and a half as a radio operator. He has
served in the Admiralty Islands and in New Guinea.
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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board
Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl
Edwai'd
Hervey B. Smith

of Directors

E. H.

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
F.

H. F. Fenstemaker
Elizabeth H. Hubler

Schuyler
‘

1880
Celeste Kitchen Prutzman, Trucksville, Pa., will celebrate
her ninety-first birthday on Sunday, December 9. She is able to
sit up a part of each day, and her son informs us that her mind
is quite good yet, and that she will be interested to hear at any
time from the college.

1886
Claude Iveiper died November 19, 1944, at his home in
Washington, D. C. He was a prominent member of the Masonic
fraternity, and was Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
the District of Columbia. For many years he was connected
with the War Department.
J.

your reunion year.

1946

Mrs.

Maude Smith

How many

will

be there?

1887
lives at

Fausel, former

member

of the faculty,

716 West Main Street, Albermarle, North Carolina.

1891
Plan to attend your reunion on Alumni Day.

Rose A. Cohen

lives at 5

1891
Mallery Place, Wilkes-Barre.

1892
Mrs. Sue Creveling Miller lives in Weatherly, Pa. Her
grandson, First Lieutenant William C. Brower, is with the Signal Corps, and has been stationed in Paris. Another grandson,
George H. Brower, is an Ensign in the Navy, and is stationed in
Washington. Both are sons of Dorothy Miller Brower, of the
class of 1917.
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1893
John Luther Bates, of Catawissa, died at his home Tuesday, July 17. He was a Reading Railroad inspector, and retir-

He was a member of the Catawissa Methodist
Church and a member of the Official Board. He was formerly

ed in 1938.

a teacher in Hazleton.

1895

Announcement of the retirement of Samuel J. Johnston as
manager of Hotel Magee, Bloomsburg, following twenty-six
years’ service there, was received with regret by the public,
which at the same time will realize he is entitled to well earned
leisure following a lifetime of activity.

During the years he was manager of the hotel, he always
maintained a first class hotel and did much to spread goodwill
for Bloomsburg.
1896
On Alumni Day, Saturday, May 25, the class of 1896, at its
fifty-year reunion, will be the featured class. More details will
be announced later. Do not miss it!
The Quarterly has been informed of the death of Miss
Celia M. Cohen, of Wilkes-Barre. Miss Cohen died April 21,
1944.

1897

W. Frank Thomas,

for

many

years a building operator in

Hazleton and brother of the late A. D. Thomas, former superintendent of the Hazleton schools, died at his home in Bethlehem
August 28, 1945.
He was born in Stockton, Pennsylvania, came to Hazleton
in his youth, was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, and then entered the building business. He left Hazleton when the war broke out, and took an important position
with the United States Signal Corps at the plant of the Bethle-

hem

Steel

Company.

Mr. Thomas was a member of Hable Lodge No. 327, F. &
A. M., of Hazleton Chapter No. 277 of the Royal Arch Masons,
and of Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg. He was a member of
St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Hazleton, where he
served both as a trustee and on the official board.
He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Amy Beishline,
and by eleven children, five of whom are sons of the armed
forces.

1899

One

of the most successful class reunion on Alumni Day,
June 23, was that of the class of 1899. The class began its forty-fith reunion activities Friday evening, June 22, with a dinner
at the Hotel Magee. Twelve class members and three guests
were present. After dinner all adjourned to the lounge on the
third floor, which had been decorated by the Bloomsburg members of the class. The members of the class spent several hours
recalling pleasant memories of their school days.

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On Saturday, twelve others joined the group, bringing the
attendance at the reunion up to the fine record of twenty-one
per cent of the members of the class who are still living. Many
brought back pictures of Normal days, which added greatly to
the pleasure of the afternoon.
The following class officers were elected President, Lindley H. Dennis; Vice-President, Ben Burns; Secretary-Treasurer,
Gertrude Morris.
The following were present at the reunion: Lindley H.
Dennis, Bessie Creveling, Lillian Hidlay Scoot, Edna Welliver
Fortner, Jennie Smith Guillot, Margaret Finnernan Histed, Eugene K. Richards, Emory Bowman, Carrie Flick Redline, John
Redline, Laura Hughes Lewis, Gertrude Morris, Mary Smith
Slusser, Margaret Fortune Eves, Ben Burns, Rush Shaffer, Mabel Heist Clayberger, Cunia Hollopeter Persing, L. W. Hart,
Martha Dodson, Elizabeth Pettebone Gregory, Gertrude Rinker
:

and Mabel Mover.
Plan

now

to attend

1901
your class reunion on Alumni Day,

May

25, 1946.

Miss Bertha Appleman, retired Army nurse, died Monday,
Miss Appleman was a grad22, at her home in Danville.
uate of the Pennsylvania Hospital School for Nursing in Philadelphia. After her graduation, she returned to Danville, and
served for two years in the Geisinger Memorial Hospital. She
then left to take charge of the nursing staff in the Coaldale
Hospital. When the First World War began, she joined the
Red Cross as a nurse and remained in the Army until she was
retired a year ago. She served for seven years in Hawaii, and
was there at the time the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. She
was a member of the Shiloh Evangelical and Reformed Church,
the American Legion, and the Geisinger Alumni Association.

May

1906
Carrol D. Champlin, professor of psychology at Pennsylvania State College, participated in nine Kiwanis and Rotary
programs during the summer months. “Joining Up For Peace”
and “What We Should Know About Russia,” were the topics
discussed. Cities in which Dr. Champlin spoke were Allentown,
Altoona, Harrisburg, Hazleton, Lancaster, Philipsburg, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport. He planned to fly to
Europe this fall to teach for several months in the Army University at Biarritz in southern France, following which he will
visit several countries to observe the effect of the war on the
schools.

Lu Buddinger Mersham is now living at 16 Ledgewood
Avenue, Netcong, New Jersey. She is teaching in the schools of
Flanders,

Now

New

Jersey.

the time to begin planning for your reunion,
Day, Saturday, May 25, 1946.
is

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Alumni

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1907
Bakeless (Mrs. George Harris Webber) lives in
Milledgeville, Georgia. She has been librarian of the Baldwin
County Library since 1939.
Lillian

1908

Adda Brandon

Westfield lives at 1224 Potter Street, ChesHer daughter, Catherine, who has a marionette act,
ter, Pa.
has toured the United States twice with the U. S. O., and is now
on a tour in Alaska. Another daughter, Ann, whose stage name
is An Sharon, and who does the same type of work, went on a
U. S. O. tour last year with the Persian Gulf Command. Another tour this year is covering part of the same territory, but will
aiso include China, Burma and India. Mrs. Westfield says:
“The marionettes are created in our studio workshop, where
everything is made from wigs to slippers. 1 design patterns and
fashion the costumes, so we all find expression for our love of
color and design, and it is most fascinating work.”

W. D. Watkins is President and Treasurer of the Continental Publishing Company, distributors of The Century Book
of Facts. His office is in the National Exchange Bank Building,
Wheeling, West Virginia.
1909

Almah Wallace

Box 1 135, Ajo, Arizona, would
communicate with her classmate, the Rev. Robert F. Wilner, who was recently liberated from a prison camp in the Philippines. She is teaching Papago Indians in the primary grades
in Ajo, a Phelps-Dodge copper mining town in Arizona.
She
Mrs.

Scholl,

like to

says in a recent letter that after school she is trying to help a
seven-year-old boy who was in the same prison camp with the
Wilners. His name is David Bell, son of George Bell, former
superintendent of the mill at Baguio. Mrs. Bell died as a result
of the privations in the prison camp. She was a very close friend
of Mrs. Wilner.

ley,

1910
Bertha Polley (Mrs. James L. Oakes),
New York.
1911

lives in

Newark

Val-

Edwin Yocum,

of George Washington University,
the author of a book entitled “Plant
is attracting much attention. Dr. Yocum, a native of Catawissa, is a graduate of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
State College, and Iowa State College. He has taught biology
at Iowa State College, Pennsylvania State College, North Carolina College for Women, and George Washington University.
He is at present Professor of Botany at George Washington,
and has made special studies of corn stalk tissues, garden pea
structures, trans-location of food material, wheat seedling, root
growth and transpiration.

Dr. L.

Washington, D.
Growth,” which

C., is

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
The

class of 1911 had a wonderful reunion
will be better than ever.

in 1941.

The

1946 reunion

Anna
lon,

Long

Wiant

Island,

New

now

located at the Nurses’ House, Baby-

York.

1912
Earl Laubach, for years a member of the faculty of the
Sugarloaf High School, Columbia County, is now teaching in
the Benton Vocational High School.

1914
Miriam Forscht (Mrs. Sherman Care)

lives at

1815 Boas

Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Come back

1916
Bloomsburg to attend your

Alumni Day, Saturday, May

class reunion,

25, 1946.

1917
been
appointed acting superintenPaissell A. Ramage has
dent of the schools of Prescott, Arizona. Mr. Ramage assumed
his duties Monday, June 5. He came to Prescott as instructor
in industrial arts and military drill. For the past five years, he
has been coordinator of vocational education in the Prescott
Senior High School.
A native of Pittston, he is a graduate of Bloomsburg, and
received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona.
He received his master’s degree from the Colorado State College of Education, with educational administration as his major.
He served in World War 1 training troops, and is a member
of the American Legion and of a chapter of the Disabled American Veterans. He came to Arizona in 1920.
He is married and has two daughters. The elder, Thelma,
was graduated this year from Prescott Senior High School, and
the younger, Janet is now in ninth grade. Mr. Prescott and his
family live in their home in Sunnyslope, Arizona.

Mary Agnes Warner Smales

lives in Laceyville.

1919
received of the death of Mary Grover (Mrs.
William D. Powell) of Wilkes-Barre. Mrs. Powell died July 2,
3945.
The Quarterly has been informed of the recent death of
Mary Grover (Mrs. William Powell), of Wilkes-Barre, and for-

News has been

merly of Ashland.
1921

Marylynn Shafer, 1432 South Main
states that the class of 1921 will be

twenty-fifth reunion in

er.

back

Street,

Wilkes-Barre,

in full

force for their

May.

Twenty-five years! This reunion should be a record-breakSaturday, May 25, 1946.
Don’t forget the date

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1924
Miss Laura V. Hile, of Espy, and William Q. Eberhard, of
Bridgeport, Connecticut, were married at Mays Landing, New
Jersey, Saturday, August 11. Mrs. Eberhard has for some years
been teaching in New Jersey, and Mr. Eberhard is employed by
the Seaview Country Club, Absecon, New Jersey.
1925
Bronwen Rees Boone is now living in Washington, Pa.,
where her husband is associate physician in the Hillsview Sanitarium, a private hospital.

1926
you have never attended one of your class reunions, now
Saturthe time to begin. Mark this date on your calendar
If

day,

May

—

25, 1946.

1927
Esther Welker (Mrs. R. C. Copp) is teaching in the Hershey public schools. Her address is R. D., Hummelstown.

1929
Kathryn Bingaman (Mrs. Jack Reese) lives at 626 West
Chew Street, Phliadelphia. She has a four-year-old son.
Rachel Gething Powell lives at 419 Ferndale, Youngstown,
Ohio.
Elsie

Lebo Stauffer

lives at Shaft, Pa.

Eleanor M. Zydanowicz (Mrs. David L. Cooke) is now living at 1409 Harrison Street, Topeka, Kansas.
A daughter, Maureen Nancy, was born May 26 to Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas F. Sweeney, of 134 Welles Street, Nanticoke. Mrs.
Sweeney was formerly Miss Mary K. Storosko.
1930
Mrs. Mildred Ruth Manbeck Houseknecht, of Bloomsburg,
died Saturday, September 1, at the home of her parents in
Bloomsburg. She had been ill since January and was bedfast
for six weeks. She was born in Bloomsburg and lived here all
her life. She was an active member of St. Matthew’s Lutheran
Church. She is survived by her parents and two children.
Ruth M. Lewis, of Kingston, has been serving with the
American Red Cross in Italy. She was formerly Executive Secretary of the Red Cross Chapter in Schenectady County, New
York, and held the same office in the Chapter in Hancock
County, Ohio.
Harold H. Hidlay, former principal of the Orangeville

High School,
High School.

now

member

of the faculty of the

Bloomsburg

1931

Warrant

Samuel W. Kurtz, now based in New
York City, recently spent a few days in Bloomsburg. After
spending two years in Africa and Italy, he is now with Special
Service, Division of Music, and is a band leader’s consultant.
Officer (jg)

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Come back

to Bloomsburg on Alumni Day, Saturday, May
and renew the ties broken by the war.
1933
John Q. Timbrell, of Bloomsburg, who for some time has
been the chief censor for the China-Burma-India Theatre, has
been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His wife and
daughter are living in Bloomsburg.
1934
A son was born Sunday, June 17, to Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Knorr, of Bloomsburg. Mr. Knorr is a member of the faculty of the Bloomsburg High School, and is secretary of the
Bloomsburg Chamber of Commerce.

25, 1946,

Miss Esther Dagnell, of Mainville, is teaching in the Nescopeck High School. She had been teaching for several years in
the Beaver Township Consolidated School.

Arden Roan, of Espy, is teaching mathematics in the Beaver Township Consolidated School. He had previously taught
for two years in the Locust Township schools.
1935
William Reed, for the past nine years a teacher in Hamburg, is now a member of the faculty of the commercial department of the Bloomsburg High School.

1936

The Quarterly has received a very interesting program of
a concert given by the band of the high school at Palmyra, New
Jersey. Kenneth Merrill is conductor of the band, and the program included a number arranged by Mr. Merrill.
Come back to Bloomsburg on Alumni Day, Saturday, May
25, 1946, and hear some thrilling stories as told by your classmates.

Anna Ebert Darby

1937
383 Race

lives at

Street,

Denver

Col-

orado.

1938

was commissioned a second
lieutenant by direct appointment in the headquarters of the
31st Infantry Division, Mindanao, shortly before the end of the
war. Lieutenant Cushma was a Technician Fourth Grade in
the division surgeon’s office when he received his commission.
He was assigned to the Adjutant General’s Department, as a
He was a teacher in Clifton Heights, Pa.,
clinical psychologist.
before his induction. After graduation from Bloomsburg, he
received the degree of Master of Science at Temple University
in 1942.
John

Cushma,

Shultz

Yocum

Her husband
is

Drifton,

Shultz lives at 461 Chestnut Street,
serving in the Marine Corps. Mrs.
teaching in the third grade in the Milton schools.

Mrs. Carrie
Milton.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Ann Jane Morgan and Captain Edward Howard

Miss

con, of the class of 1940,
in Taylor, Pa.

were married Wednesday, August

Ba15,

1939
For his exceptional work in seeing the ammunition got
through to the front in Italy, many times in the face of almost
insurmountable odds, Capt. Frederick L. Houck, of Catawissa,
has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
The officer entered the service June 5, 1941, and has been
with the expeditionary forces in Italy since December, 1943.
Houck is a former well known Catawissa High and Bloomsburg
Teachers College baseball player and was a member of the
Catawissa High School faculty prior to entering the service.
His wife, a native of Oklahoma, now resides with the officer’s
parents

Catawissa.

The
The

Citation

citation follows

Frederick L. Houck, 01285426, Captain, Infantry, 350th
Infantry Regiment. For meritorious service in combat from 4
March, 1944, to 2 May, 1945, in Italy. During this period, Captain Houck has been ammunition officer for the 350th Infantry
during its entire time in combat and his constant devotion to
duty and efficiency have been a constant inspiriation to his men.
Although working long and tedious hours, Captain Houck has
never faltered in his duty and has always maintained a steady
flow of ammunition to the forward troops, regardless of almost
insurmountable odds. On one occasion, a direct hit by enemy
artillery blasted the forward ammunition dump, demolishing
the bulk of ammunition. After checking to see that no men
were injured, Captain Houck hastily supervised the movement
of ammunition from the rear and so efficiently did he perform
this task that companies suffered no lack of ammunition even
for a short period of time. During the crossing of the Po River,
the only available means of getting the much needed ammunition across was with a few slow boats, but because of Captain
Houck’s unceasing efforts and supervision, this was done in a
remarkably short time. His unswerving loyalty and superb initiative have won for Captain Houck the confidence and respect
of all who know him and represent the determined spirit of the
American soldier. Entered military service from Catawissa,
Pennsylvania.”
The citation is signed by Brigadier General J. C. Fry.
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Smith, of Sunbury, have a son,
James T. (II), who was five months old October 29. Mrs. Smith
is the former Donnabelle Smith.
Mr. Smith is a Lieutenant,
Junior Grade, in the United States Navy, and is stationed near

Tokyo.
Lieutenant William J. Yarworth has been serving with the
33rd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, Army Air Corps,
in

the European Theatre.
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1940

daughter, Wendy Kathryn, was born Monday, June 4,
to Sergeant and Mrs. Duff Maynard, Jr., of 1 Doden Lane.
Flushing. New York. Mrs. Maynard was formerly Miss Carrie
Kreiger. Sergeant Maynard has been serving overseas with the

armed

forces.

Rose Mary Hausknecht lives at 48 Curtis Avenue, WoodNew Jersey. She is now teaching her fourth year in the
high school at Swedesboro.
bury,

Maria Raklevicz, of Wilkes-Barre, has been serving as an
program director with the American Red Cross in
Hawaii. She was formerly employed by the Personal Finance
assistant

Company

Wilkes-Barre.

1941
Miss Lois Gruver, Mifflinville teacher, became the bride of
Sgt. Oscar Gassert, of Catawissa, in a beautiful ceremony performed in the St. John’s Lutheran Church of Mifflinville. The
double ring ceremony of the Lutheran Church was performed
by the Rev. Frank Ulrich.
The bride is a graduate of Mifflinville High School and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a teacher of the first
grade of the Mifflinville school. She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Gruver, of Bloomsburg R. D. 3.
The bridegroom before entering the service, was employed
m the ACF armor plate department. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Gassert, of Catawissa.

There

no need to say why you should come back
on Alumni Day, Saturday, May 26, 1946.
you miss it.
is

class reunion

be sorry

your

You’ll

1942
Miss Doris M. Guild, of 337 South Fulton Street, Waverly,
N. Y., became the bride of Warren E. Chamberlin, of 70 Pitney

Waverly, in a ceremony performed at 8 P. M., Wednesday, October 17, in the Methodist Church at Waverly. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. R. W. Lyon.
Mrs. Chamberlin, who is a graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, class of 1942, is head of the commercial
department of the Mansfield High School. Mr. Chamberlin, a
graduate of the Athens High School, class of 1937, is employed
at the Waverly Post Office.

Street,

Mary Jane Sharpless and Arnold B. Wagner, of Bloomsburg, were married Monday, September 3, at the Methodist
Episcopal Church at State College, by Dr. Watkins, pastor of
the church. Mrs. Wagner has been teaching in the Millville
High School and Mr. Wagner is superintendent of Dillon’s
Greenhouses in Bloomsburg. He has also served for several
years as organist of the First M. E. Church in Bloomsburg.
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Ruth James and Francis Thomas were married Saturday,
August 18, at the Sarah James Johnson Church in Johnson City,

New York. Mr. Thomas holds a very fine position with the
Southern Railways in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
were recent visitors to the Bloomsburg campus.
Adrian Masanotti, of Berwick, is school librarian and
teacher of English in the Scott Township Consolidated School
at Espy. Miss Masanotti taught for three years in the Berwick
schools.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. McCracken, Jr., of Berwick, have a
young son, David. Their address is 113 Arch Street, Berwick.
Mrs. McCracken was formerly Miss Helen Klingerman.
Jeanne Noll Zimmerman is teaching this year in Quarryville, Pa.
Her husband, Lt. Ralph Zimmerman, formerly of
Berwick, has for some time been stationed on Guam as Personnel Officer for a weather squadron.
Margaret M. Jones (Mrs. Glenn Letterman) lives at 132
Washington Street, Taylor, Pa.

Ruth Sluman lives at 1735 Jefferson Street, Hollywood,
She is teaching first grade in the Hollywood schools.
1943

Florida.

In the Carlisle Chapel, Miss Sara E. Hottenstein, of Milton,
recently became the bride of Dr. Robert C. Dix, Jr., of Nicholson. The ceremony was performed by Chaplain Harry G. YagMrs. Dix was formerly a member of the faculty of the comgi.
mercial department of the Mifflinburg High School, and recently resigned as stenographer in the Department of Public Instruction at Harrisburg. Lt. Dix is a graduate of the Nicholson
High School, Franklin and Marshall College, and Jefferson
Medical College. In June he completed his interneship at the
Harrisburg Hospital. He has been attached to the Third Air
Corps, and has been stationed at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida.

Eleanore M. Althoff lives at Canal Road and Elm Street,
South Bound Brook, New Jersey. In a recent letter she says:
“It seems as if all of Bloomsburg is teaching down here
Kathryn Campbell, Wanda Farnsworth, Virginia Lawhead, Stella
Williams, Margaret Lambert, and I. We often get together and
talk over those wonderful times back at “dear ole Bloom.’’ We
are hoping to get back to Home Coming this year.”

—

Hugh

is teaching in the consolidated school at SelMr. Niles has been discharged from the Air Forcafter serving for some time in the European Theater of Op-

Niles

lersville, Pa.
es,

erations.

1944

Announcement has been made
Stella

Mae

of the engagement of Miss
Williams, of Luzerne, and Ensign James N. Fulton,

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
of New Kensington. Miss Williams is teaching in Bound Brook,
New Jersey. Ensign Fulton was graduated from Kensington

High School, and attended the California State Teachers College and Washington and Jefferson College. He was also graduated from the Midshipmen’s School at Notre Dame University,

South Bend, Indiana.
ing on Saipan.

received his commission while serv-

daughter, Sandra Lee, was born to Pfc. and Mrs. Frederick G. Dent, in the Salem County Hospital, Salem, New Jersey, August 23. Pfc. Dent is serving with the infantry on Luzon. Mrs. Dent is the former Jean Maskal, of Bloomsburg.

Not many years have passed since 1944, but much has happened since then. Bring yourself up to date by attending your
class reunion on Alumni Day, Saturday, May 25, 1946.

Mary
burg.

Louise Madl, of Shamokin, is teaching in Middlelast year in the Scott Township High School

She taught

at Espy.

T-4 Robert W. Warrington, husband of Helen Chromis
Warrington, of Bloomsburg, is stationed in Panama. His address is T-4 Robert W. Warrington, 33234254, Battery B. 901st

AAA, AW.

Bn., A. P. O. 829, care

Postmaster,

New

Orleans,

Louisiana.

1945
Miss Althea Parsell, of Orangeville, co-winner of the
“Voice of Tomorrow” contest in Philadelphia last spring, was a
guest soloist at the Lakeside and Forest Inn Hotels at Eagles
Mere in August.

Eugene McBride,

teaching science

the Beaver

Town-

ship Consolidated School.
Julia Welliver, of Bloomsburg, is teacher of
the Scott Township Consolidated School, Espy.

fifth

grade

Mary Louise Fenstemaker, of Bloomsburg, is employed at
the National Airport, Washington, D. C., as secretary to the
Chief of Personnel Procurement of the Pennsylvania Central
Airlines.

Mary Louise Scott, of Bloomsburg, who taught last year in
the schools of Montgomery, Pa., is teaching in California.

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