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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Our Teaching Profession
An interesting pamphlet published by the National Education Association tells of the crisis which is facing our educational system.
It points out that by viitue of public education we became
citadel of economic, social, political and even military
mighty
a
strength. Our rise to world leadership was made easy by the
fact that other large nations lagged far behind us in their edu-

cational efforts.

The exodus from the teaching profession in recent years is
probably the most striking vocational migration in our history.
An estimated 350,000 teachers have quit the profession entirely
since 1939. Approximately 60,000 positions have not been filled
or have been closed out and the work had been distributed
among the remaining teachers.
The number of women in teachers colleges dropped onethird from 1941 to 1943. Colleges and universities reported an
increase of almost twenty per cent in the number of women
students from 1941 to 1945. But teachers colleges reported a
decline of almost twenty per cent in the number of women
students.

For twenty-five years before 1943 approximately 90,000
enrolled each year as full-time students in our
teachers colleges. In October of last year 179 teachers colleges
reporting to the U. S. Office of Education could count only

women were

51,000

women

enrollment.

in their total

of our colleges and universities is now undergoing the greatest increase in history. It is estimated that
college enrollment may reach 2,000,000 next year, but only a
handful are preparing to teach.
One major cause of this present condition is the teacher’s
salary. In 1939 the average teacher’s salary in the United
States including classroom teachers, principals and supervisors

The enrollment

was $1408. During the past year the average teacher salary

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Vol. 48-No.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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February, 1947

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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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Gives Address at Allentown
“If the schools and attitudes toward education in peace
time take steps to improve, then the Army has been instrumental in stalling a movement which will strengthen our national
life,” President Harvey A. Andruss, president of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, said Friday, October 18, in an
address at Allentown High School before the Eastern Convention District of the P. S. E. A.
Speaking on “Army Education in retrospect,” he spoke of
the various elements which went into the Army educational
program, including unlimited sums, the powerful motivation of
war and patriotism, and modern equipment.
In part he said
“In the early 1940’s, at every meeting of educators we
heard the outcry that we should do things ‘the Anny way.’ At
least the question was asked, ‘If the Army can do it why can’t
:

we ?’

“Now

is a good time to reflect.
“Shortcomings of public and private education previous
to the war were not wholly a matter of not knowing what to do.
We were only too well aware of them. Granted that the limiting factore were removed, we cannot automatically assume
that a better citizenry would have been educated but at least
it could have been attempted.
“Educate for peace, then go to war reluctantly and we try
to find a scapegoat for our shortcomings.
“The general question remains unanswered. However, it
can be stated as follows: Given unlimited funds, amply compensated teachers, small classes, modern equipment, motivation as powerful as that of war and patriotism, can we expect
public schools to be as effective in educating people for peace
as the Army was in educating soldiers for war?
“Answer this question as you will. It is evident that the
Army did isolate and identify the shortcomings of American
education and thus warn the American taxpayer. If we then
take steps to improve schools, teachers, and attitudes toward
education then the Army has been instrumental in starting a
movement which will strengthen our national life.”

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Miss Shirlee Evans, of Forty Fort, and Henry Krzywicki,
of Kingston, were married September 30 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Both were students at Bloomsburg at the time of the marriage. Mrs. Krzywicki is a graduate of the Forty Fort High
School and the Wilkes-Barre Business College. Mr. Krzywicki
is a graduate of the Kingston High School, and attended the
Wilkes-Barre Business College. He was a lieutenant in the
Army Air Forces during the war, and is now a sophomore in
the business curriculum at Bloomsburg.
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College Survey Getting Attention
One of the most significant studies of interest to those in
the field of teacher training has been the ten year survey on
the placement of graduates of a teachers college, 1931-1940,
inclusive. This work which was completed in 1942 continues to
attract interest four years after its publication. It was featured
in the twenty-fourth yearbook of the Association for Student
Teaching, which continued an annual bibliography for the
years 1941-1944.
A recent reprint of this yearbook includes the detailed report by Earl N. Rhodes, former director of teacher training of
the Teachers College. Mr. Rhodes, who is now retired, had his
study originally printed in the September, 1942 issue of Educational Administration and Supervision. In this article, he described his attempt to secure accurate data as to the proportion
of graduates who have taught at any one time since they have
completed their college work. He also determined what proportion was employed in occupations other than teaching.
There is also included in the May, 1942, issue of the Peabody Journal of Education, an article written by President Harvey A. Andruss, under the title of “How Many Teach,” which
gave an account of the ten year study of the placement of
graduates. This study reveals far more than an answer to the
question of how many teach, and relates the value gained by
the alumni and faculty members through the study.
It will be remembered that of over 1,000 students surveyed
at this time, seventy-seven per cent had taught, fifteen per cent
were gainfully employed in occupations other than teaching,
and eight per cent were in the armed service, were married, or
unemployed in 1942.
Recognition of this study by a national association is encouraging to the college authorities.
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Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been appointed by the Association of the Liberal Arts Colleges of Pennsylvania for the advancement of teaching to represent the Pennsylvania State
Teachers Colleges on the Professional Education Committee.
The committee on which Dr. North will serve is a new committee established to evolve criteria to be applied in the evaluation
of programs of teacher education in Pennsylvania. It is planned
to make the question of teacher education in the state a cooperative affair. Chairman of the new committee is Dr. Willis
Pratt, head of the Department of Education of the Pennsylvania State College.
Dr. North plans to attend the first meeting of the committee Saturday, January eleventh, at State College. Other meetings will be held until all the criteria have been developed.

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More Additions To Faculty
In addition to the new faculty members reported in the
of the QUARTERLY, several more have
been added, including two who joined the faculty at the beginning of the second semester.
Mrs. Sidney Rosbach, of Benton, took over classes in English and Speech, relieving John A. Hoch, who became head
coach of football following the death of Alden J. Banks. Mr.
Hoch serves also as assistant dean of men and director of public
relations. Mrs. Rosbach is a graduate of the University of Indiana, and has had many years of experience in teaching on the

December number

secondary

level.

The extension

of service to teachers in Northumberland
led to the establishment and expansion of centers for part-time students who attend late afternoon
and evening classes in Sunbury, Mt. Carmel, Hazleton and Kingclass was also held at the Sacred Heart Villa in Danston.

and Luzerne counties has

A

during the first semester.
To meet the demands made in this field, Clarence Ruch,
formerly a teacher in the Berwick High School, and Fi’ank
Witchey, formerly of the Ashland High School, have been added to the staff of the College on a part-time basis.
Mr. Ruch is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. Mr. Witchey is a graduate of Bloomsburg with a deHe also holds a
gree of Bachelor of Science in Education.
Bachelor’s degree from Juniata College and a Master’s degree
from the University of Pennsylvania.
Over one hundred part-time extension students, composed
largely of teachers in service, were enrolled in the five offcampus centers during the first semester. Regular college staff
members who are offering courses on Saturdays or in extension
are Dr. H. Harrison Russel, Miss Bertha Rich, Dr. Nell Maupin,
ville

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Shortess and Harold Lanterman.
In a recent study made by Prof. Joseph R. Bailer, there are
revealed some interesting facts concerning those students who
were graduated from Bloomsburg between September 1, 1945,
and September 1, 1946.
Out of a total of seventy-six graduates, seventy are now in
the teaching profession. The percentage of those teaching is
92.1 per cent. Thirty-five were graduated in the elementaiy
field, and of this number, thiity-four are teaching, and one is
married. Of the twenty-three graduated in the secondary field,
twenty are teaching, one is engaged in an occupation other than
teaching, and two are taking graduate work. Of the eighteen
graduated in the field of Business Education, sixteen are teaching, one is in business, and one is taking graduate work.
Of the seventy-two who are teaching, eighteen, or 25.7
per cent, are teaching in their home town, and fifty-two, or
74.3 per cent are teaching away from home.
S.

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Saucered and Slowed
E. H.

NELSON

To 1897:

Do you remember when

Amy Beisline debated in Philo on “Resolved that the
fear of punishment has more to do with the formation
of character than the hope of reward.”
2. Anna Edwards debated in Callie on “Resolved that woman has a greater influence in the formation of character than a mam”
3. The Y. M. C. A. sponsored a party simulating the experiences of the Washington trip.
4. Principal Welsh and his wife went to Washington to assist in the inauguration of President McKinley.
5. Professor Noetling declared “careless teachers seem to
be the rule rather than the exception. They not only
permit their pupils to do careless work, but do no better
themselves.” He also declared penmanship to be among
the “lost arts.”
6. A train load of 300 went on a school picnic late in May
’97 on the B. and S.
7. Dr. and Mrs. Welsh gave the annual senior reception
with the banquet in the old Manual Training rooms.
8. You resolved to attend your 50th reunion.
“Reunion to reunion” membership is now the popular type.
When you are attending your reunion, pay $5.00, get a sustaining membership card and know that all financial obligations
are taken care of “until we meet again.”
1.

John Hoch and Dean Landis stepped
ball situation, and
severe blow to lose

came through with

into a difficult foot-

flying. It was a
“Lefty” Danks. He was laying the groundwork for good football days at the college.

colors

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T. DeVoe, foimerly of Berwick, is now a member
of the faculty of the College, and is teaching in the English department. In addition to his preparation at Bloomsburg, Mr.
DeVoe took work in vocational shop at Millersville State Teachers College and has done some graduate work at Bucknell University. He taught for several years in the Stevens High School
at Williamsport and at the Williamsport Technical Institute.
Mr. DeVoe’s wife is the former Lucille Martz, of Berwick, also
a graduate of Bloomsburg. Mr. and Mrs. DeVoe have one

Edward

daughter.
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Mary Burke (Corny) lives at 56 Seventh Avenue, New
York 11, N. Y. Her husband died recently. A friendly note
from classmates would make these tough days of readjustment
a bit easier.

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Church Program For Students
Students of the Teachers College met the clergymen of the
town Thursday, October 24, in the weekly college assembly
and heard each of the community’s pastors extend to them a
warm welcome to attend services in the town churches.
President Harvey A. Andruss presided over the program
which was planned by the Bloomsburg Ministerium to acquaint
the college community with the leaders of the town’s churches
and the services each provides. Reverend Malcolm C. Hunsicker, pastor of the First Baptist Church, and the president of the
Bloomsburg Ministerium, offered prayer followed by the Scripture reading by President Andruss.
Mr. Andruss then introduced the following clergymen who
spoke briefly of the work being done by his church of interest
to the college student; the Reverend Harry K. Franks, First
Church of Christ; the Reverend C. Morgan Jenkins, Good
Shepherd Evangelical Church the Reverend D. Ziegler, St.
Matthews Lutheran Church the Reverend Samuel W. Strain,
Methodist Church; the Reverend C. Douglas Davies, First Presbyterian Church; the Reverend M. Edward Schnorr, Bloomsburg Reformed Church, and the Reverend William J. Burke,
St. Columba’s Catholic Church.
The newly organized Men’s Glee Club, under the direction
of Miss Harriet Moore, sang during the program which was
closed by prayer offered by the Reverend William J. Burke.
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Mary T. Oplinger, of Harrisburg, formerly of Shickand Norman O. Cleavish, of Harrisburg, were married

Miss

shinney,
Friday, October 11, in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Harrisburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. B. L. Stanger, pastor of the church.
The bride is a graduate of the Shickshinny High School
and attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College and the
Pennsylvania State College. She served for several years as a
teacher in Luzerne County. During the war she was employed
in the Security Branch of the Middletown Air Service Command. Since then she has been employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg.
Mr. Cleavish is a veteran of World War 11 and was awarded the Purple Heart Citation with the 112th Infanti*y Regiment,
28th Division. He is now employed as a registry clerk in the
Harrisburg Post Office.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleavish are now living in New Cumberland.
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Margaret Berninger, who taught for some time at the
Beaver Township Consolidated School, Columbia County, is
now teaching in the sixth grade at the Fifth Street School in
Bloomsburg.
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Memorial Trees Planted
Impressive ceremonies to honor a graduate of Bloomsburg

campaign were carofficials and the
members of the Science Club. Two small California redwood
trees were planted between Carver Hall and Noetling Hall in
memory of Earl Harris ’42, of Orangeville, former president of

who was

ried out

killed in action in the Philippines

Wednesday, October

9,

by college

the Science Club.
The trees were obtained from California by Mrs. William
A. Conrad, of Benton, who has been visiting in the far West.
She sent the memorial redwoods to her sons, Wilfred and Royal
Conrad, the latter now an undergraduate at the college.
During the ceremonies, the president of the club, Clayton
Paterson, of Nescopeck, spoke briefly. Dr. H. Harrison Russell
represented President Anruss, who was unable to be present.
A large number of students attended the exercises, which were
planned by Dr. Kimber C. Kuster. Lt. Harris’ parents were honored guests at the ceremony.
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Army’s way of attacking the learning
problems and impressions of Army education is the theme of
a thought-provoking aificle written by President Harvey A.
Andruss of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and published this month in the Business Education Outlook, a national
publication for teachers and administrators of Business EducaReflections on the

tion.

As President of a college whose primary purpose, before
the war, was the training of teachers. President Andruss was
called upon, during the war, to administer seven war programs
involving Army and Navy aviators as well as flight instructors
for both branches of the service, nurses, college students of
aviation, navy-officer candidates, and industrial workers.
Following V-E Day, he helped organize and headed one of the depaitments in the first American Army University overseas.
Writing from this rich background of educational experience, President Andruss discusses the debt Army education
owes free American democratic education and answers some
of the claims made for the “Army way’’ of teaching. He also
presents a detailed list of activities which characterized the
Army’s Education Program, pointing out that many of the
things the Army was able to do are not available to public and
private educational agencies which are naturally limited in
their functions.
President Andruss concludes his treatise with this statement: “If ... we work constructively and vigorously to improve the schools, the teachers, and the attitudes of the public
toward education, then we will be indebted to the Army for
starting a movement which will strengthen our national life.”
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Campus Notes
An

unusual program featuring an interesting panel dismarked the assembly program held Tuesday, Novem-

cussion,

ber 19, at the Teachers College. Presented by a group of seven
students and townspeople, the program was entitled “Facing
New Tasks,” and was presented as one of the college’s contributions to American Education Week. Robert Bunge, Catawissa, presided over the panel group and represented the secondary students of the college.
On the panel were Mrs. Harry Keller, Jr., Parent-Teachers
Association William A. Lank, executive vice president of the
Farmers National Bank; Robert Bird, Berwick, commercial education Mrs. Laura Davis, Shamokin, elementary education
Richard Bower, college freshman and veteran and the Rev.
Malcolm C. Hunsicker, pastor First Baptist Church, Bloomsburg.
The discussion group was presented by the Future Teachers of America and was in charge of Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of elementary education at the college.
Mrs. Keller presented the position of the parents in this
atomic age and declared that perfect housekeepers do not always make perfect homemakers. “Today is improvement day,”
Mrs. Keller stated, “not tomorrow.” During her brief talk she
urged that all children be encouraged to read and develop a
problem solving attitude.
Mr. Lank, a Naval officer during World War II, spoke
briefly of our effort to overcome economic instability. He told
of the recurring periods of prosperity and depression, tracing
the factors involved in periods of economic collapse. The bank
executive urged a cooperative study to eliminate the causes. In
closing he mentioned some solutions to the problem.
Speaking for the students in the business education department, Bird stressed the need for better trained teachers and individual guidance for pupils if the school is to face the tasks in
this post war world.
Mrs. Davis told of the three-fold problem facing the elementary school. She mentioned the critical teacher shortage,
the decrease in returning teachers, and the increased elementary school enrollment, stating that the grade school teachere
have an important role to play in the raising of the standard of
living in our communities. Mrs. Davis emphasized manj^ of the
more recent trends in elementary education.
In his brief but stirring discussion. Bower discussed the
problem of the returning veteran who is asking an education.
He stated that the age in which we live demands leaders. “Are
we going to be conquerors or be conquered,” Bower asked.
“Education will make leaders, not followers,” he pointed out.
The concluding message in the discussion was brought by
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the Rev. Mr. Hunsicker, who appealed for teachers trained in
morality and with a knowledge of the high human values. He
decried the smug satisfaction with which we view secular things
and pointed out with regret to the inadequacies found in modem education.
President Harvey A. Andruss presided over the convocation while Miss Harriet Moore led group singing. Professor
Howard F. Fenstemaker accompanied the group at the piano.

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Two hundred sixty high school journalists, representing
twenty -two schools of Northeastern Pennsylvania, received advice on improving their publications Saturday, November 16, at
a regional conference of the Pennsylvania School Press Association, held at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Speaking on “Stop Being A Ham,” at the luncheon, John
A. Hoch, football coach at the college, stressed the information
of ethics in releases from schools to the public press, particularsports releases.
told of “bear stories,” originating from a coaching staff
before important games, in which untruths leading the reader
to believe that the team is a decided underdog. Such stories,
he emphasized, do nothing but create mistrust of the newspaper that prints them.
Speaking at the morning meeting. Miles Sucher, owner of
the Sucher Advertising Agency, Williamsport, presented the
group with ideas on increasing the efficiency of the business
staff of a school publication. Howard Fenstemaker, Jr., of the
staff of The Morning Press, discussed college journalism as a
preparation for a newspaper career.
The group held sectional meetings on various phases of
school press work and publication clinics in which their publications were discussed and criticized.
Entertainment at the luncheon was furnished by an orchestra led by Darryl Stull, of the college student body, with
vocal selections by Miss Dorothy McCullom, Misses Midge and
Madge Fuller and John Lydon.
Edward T. DeVoe, of the college faculty, acted as conference chairman. Miss Miriam Wendle, of Williamsport, is regional chairman.
Next year’s meeting will be held in Williamsport, with the
Stevens junior high school as the host school.
Schools represented Saturday were Wyalusing, Curtin and
Stevens Junior High Schools, Williamsport; Towanda, Danville,
Williamsport Senior High School, Montgomery, Montrose,
Hughesville, Marysville, Millville, Hepburnville, Catawissa,
Roosevelt Junior High School, Williamsport; Coal Township,
ly in

He

Sunbury, Davidson Township, Mt. Carmel, Susquehanna TownShamokin, Muncy and South Williamsport.

ship,

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An appreciative audience of 400 music lovers from Bloomsburg and vicinity attended a brilliant song recital by Roland
Hayes, distinguished Negro tenor, in the Cai-\’er Hall auditorium of the Teachers College Sunday afternoon, November 10.
The nationally-famous artist presented a well-balanced program of songs, including a number of Afro-Ameiican religious
folk songs arranged by himself.
Mr. Hayes, whose career includes command perfonnances
before the king and queen of England, opened his recital with
Bach’s “Mine All In All My Eternal Good.’’ His rich full voice
gave the eighteenth century hymn its full coloring and richest
appeal.
His second selection was a Spanish

number “Quando Miro”
(To Chloe) by Mozart, and this was followed by “The Spirit’s
In this well known ballad, Mr
Song,’’ by. .Joseph Hayden.
Hayes’ interpretation drew from the audience well merited applause. The last song in the first group of solos, “Le Tambourin,” was skillfully rendered and delightfullj' interpreted.
For his second group of solos the noted tenor selected two
of Hugo Wolf’s better known works “Auf Eil Altes Bild” and
“Dadoch Gemalt All Deine Reize Waren.” A group of three
“Claire de Lime” and
delightful French selections followed
“Prison” by Gabriel Faure and “The Dance of the Skeletons.”
To each of these numbers, Mr. Hayes gave unique expression
:

that enriched its presentation.
His program reached its fullest emotional appeal in his
third group of songs. Henry Cowell’s wistful “The Donkey”
was most touching as was “Waiting Mice” by Edward Ballantine. In the same group he sang “Le’ Me Shine” and “Heaven,”

two Afro-American folk songs.

He closed his presentation with a series of well known reLord Deliver Daniel?”
ligious folk songs including, “Didn’t

My

and “Steal Aaway.”
Throughout the program, Mr. Hayes was accompanied
the piano by Reginald Boardman.

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“The world needs a leader at the present time more than
any other period in the history of the world. It is one of the
great tragedies of the present age.” This was the keynote of
an address made Thui-sday, October 31, by Dr. Samuel Van
Valkenburg, director of the School of Geography of Clark University, at the weekly assemblj" program of the Teachers College. Dr. Van Valkenburg, who is an internationally famous
educator, author, and geographer, spoke on the general theme
of “The New Europe.”
in

In his stirring address, the noted educator pointed out the
historical background of the present confusion in Europe. He
outlined the work of three historic European conferences which

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—

attempted to redraw the map of Europe the conference of
Vienna, and Versaille’s Peace Conference and the Potsdam
Conference of the Big Three. In his historical synopsis he dis-

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what nations were represented,
cussed three major factors
the leaders of the conference, and the basic principles on which
the geographical changes were based.
In each of the conferences Dr. Van Valkenburg pointed out
Europe’s fate was decided by non-Europeans, while world leaders attempted to speak for the European peoples.
The absence of a world leader today, such as the late
Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deplored by the speaker. He was
especially critical of the fact that present nations of the world
are trying to create a new Europe without a basic principle for
re-creation.
In closing
economic bloc,
its

—

he urged that Europe be made one unit a solid
and he pointed out the great need for economic
groups if Europe is to achieve peace and prosperity.
Dr. Van Valkenburg was introduced by Dr. H. Harrison
Russel, head of the College Depailment of Geography. President Harvey A. Andruss presided over the convocation.

Educational leaders of Central Pennsylvania were the
guests of the Teachers College Monday, October 28, when over
a hundred principals, superintendents, supervisors and classroom teachers met to discuss effective local paiTicipation in the
new state-wide program of curriculum revision for the elementary school. The educators held their meetings in the Benjamin Franklin Training School.
President Harvey A. Andruss of the host college welcomed
the visitors at 9 :30 A. M., while Dr. Laversia L. Powers, chief of
elementary education, Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, addressed the group and presented the
problems of elementary curriculum revision. She also outlined
the Commonwealth’s suggestions regarding procedures.
After Dr. Powers’ address, the group was divided into
smaller sections for conferences and panel discussions. The
committee planned organization on the basis of county, independent district and college interests.
A luncheon was served at 12:30 o’clock in the college dining hall. The faculty of the Benjamin Franklin School joined
with President Andruss in acting as host and hostesses for the
luncheon and group meetings.
Because of the conference, the Benjamin Franklin School
did not hold an afternoon session for children that day.

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Ensign Bradsford Dale Miller, aged twenty-six. West Jefhusband of the former Claire Bachinger, daugh-

ferson, Ohio,

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ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bachinger, of East Eighth Street,
was killed Saturday, November 23, when his plane crashed at
the Pensecola Naval Air Base, Pensecola, Fla.

The Associated Press carried the following report conceniing the accident:
“The Navy Public Information Office said that Ensign
Bradford Dale Miller, of West Jefferson, Ohio, was fatally injured in a crash Saturday about two miles east of Choctaw
Field.

“The fighter type airplane which Miller was piloting was
based at nearby Whiting Field and was engaged in aircraft
field carrier landing practice at the time, officials said.”
Ensign Miller came to Bloomsburg State Teachers College
early in the war and made a number of friends here. He had
been at various bases since he was commissioned in April, 1945,
and his wife was with him. There is one child, a daughter.
He is survived by his wife, daughter, father, Addison Miller, West Jefferson, Ohio; a brother and two sisters.
Mrs. Miller is the daughter of the former Teresa Dailey,
of the class of 1912.

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One of the highest honors of the Pennsylvania State Education Association has been accorded Dr. Thomas P. North,
Dean of Instruction of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
when the State group elevated him to the presidency of the Department of Higher Education for the year 1947. Election to
this office automatically makes Dr. North a member of the Executive Council of the State group as well as a State delegate to
the National Education Association Convention which will be
held this year in Cincinnati.
The Bloomsburg educator succeeds Dr. Marion Trabue,
Dean of the School of Education of the Pennsylvania State College. Dr. North is the second state teachers college educator
to have been elected to this high position. Dr. Robert Steel,
President of the California State Teachers College, having been
the only other State Teachers College representative to hold
the presidency.
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OUR TEACHING PROFESSION
Continued From Page One

the nation was about $1950.
The teacher’s responsibilities to each child have increased
by an expanded school curriculum. The mastery of teaching
procedures has become more involved.
If we want better schools, it is vital that we realize the
character and importance of teaching, that we demand a better
educational system and that the standard for teacher salaries
be raised. (Morning Press Editorial).
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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

H. Nelson
President
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Vice-President
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Secretary
Harriet Carpenter
Treasurer
Fred W. Diehl
Edward F. Schuyler
H. F. Fenstemaker
Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler
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The Philadelphia branch of the Alumni Association held
annual Christmas party at Gimbel’s on Saturday, December
14. The group joined in the singing of Christmas carols, with
Mrs. Ruth Albeit Baer at the piano and Myitle Maurer Johnson leading. A telegram was read from Mrs. Florence Hess
Cool, who has gone to California to make her home.
The following were present Geitrude Rinker, Laura A.
Witmer, Marion Spangler, Ruth A. Baer, Emilie Gedhill, Maiy
Sweeney, Mary A. Allen, Maud J. Steiner, Mary E. Richard.
Anna S. Allen, Marguerite Wearing, Alma Ludy, Grace Fenstemaker, Ruth R. Block, Myitle M. Johnson, Ruth J. Garney, Beatrice W. Eichner, Marian Garney, Anna S. Rubrecht, Stella S.
its

:

L. Rorer, Lena O. Buckman, Edwina W. Brouse,
Mary D. Bader, Mary Moore Taubel, Beitha A. Stepler, Edith
W. Dodson, Kate S. Morris, Lillian H. Irish, Nora W. Kenny,

Swank, Mary
Louella

S.

Sinquet, and Esther V. Castor.

The January meeting was scheduled
January

to be held Saturday,

11, at Gimbel’s.

1880
Mrs. Celeste Kitchen Prutzman died Sunday, November
her home in Huntsville, fifteen days before her
ninety-second birthday.
Mrs. Prutzman, the daughter of John and Larissa Shaver
Kitchen, was born in Kingston Township in 1854. She had resided in Huntsville more than fifty years.
She attended Alumni Day every year until 1941. In 1940,
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she was one of the three attending her class reunion. She
taught for fifteen years, beginning her teaching career in a oneroom school in Dallas Township. When the new school was
built in Dallas Borough, she was one of three teachers to serve
there.

She was a member of the Dallas district of the WCTU, of
the Huntsville Methodist Church, taught in the Sunday School,
and was superintendent of the Home Department for thirtyfive years. In 1936 she received an electric clock from the Sunday School in recognition of fifty years of service. She also received a gold medal from the State Sabbath School Association
for fifty years of Sunday School work.
She is survived by one son, two grandsons, and several
nieces and nephews.
1881

The Quarterly recently received the following obituaiy of
Martin Oliver Lepley, taken from the publication of the New
York East Conference, 1943:
“Martin Oliver Lepley was in a real sense a man of destiny.
He was born of devout Christian parents, November 3, 1860,
near New Berlin, Pennsylvania. He was reared in a positive religious atmosphere. There wer five brothers and three sisters
in the family. All, with their parents, were faithful members of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
“The father was a farmer in summer and a teacher in the
winter. He trained his boys in the fine art of teaching. All the
sons became teachers, excepting one who died in his youth.
One brother graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal
School, taught for a time, and then joined the Central Pennsylvania Conference. This set a pattern for Martin. Not having reached his majority, he purchased his time from his father,

borrowed money

to

come

to

Bloomsburg, and was graduated

1881. In 1883, he became the principal of the public schools
in Kingston. Here he taught the two upper grades for four
years and superintended the schools.
“In his intermediate years, he would say to himself “What
lawyer, doctor, teacher, preacher?” Soon
are you going to be
he said to himself, “You know what you are going to be
preacher.” When the impediment of debt was removed, he
acted. At Hackettstown, New -Jersey, he taught the common
branches in the Centenary Collegiate Institute, and studied in
preparation for the Classical College Course, graduating in
1889. He entered Wesleyan University and graduated in 1893,
winning the prize as Commencement orator. He had preached
his way through college, being supply pastor of the East Berlin
Church for three years. He exerted a wholesome influence in
the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, of which he was the President
in his senior year. In 1916, Milton University, Maryland, granted him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
in

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“Maitin O. Lepley was twice married. Miss Birdella
Sprague, a worker with the Connecticut Bible Society, went to
Beacon Falls as an evangelist and church visitor. Their common interests and her successful service drew the young pastor
and the Christian worker together, and they were married at
Cleveland, Ohio, October 3, 1894. Three daughters were born
01 this union, which was severed by the death of Mrs. Lepley,
at Waterbury, Connecticut, February 4, 1908.
“On June 30, 1909, he married Miss Mabel D. Thompson,
who had been a teacher in the Waterbury schools. By this marriage, there were three more daughters.
“For foi-ty-six years. Dr. Lepley served churches in the New
York East Conference, retiring in 1939. The family established
residence in Jamaica, Long Island, and identified themselves
with the First Church at Hollis. His last church service was
March 14, 1943. He passed away in the Methodist Hospital,
Brooklyn, April 4, 1943, in his eighty-third year.”

1882
Juanita Elizabeth Collins (Mrs. William T. McCoy) passed away on May 29, 1946. She was over eighty-six years of
age at the time of her death. After attending the Bloomsburg
State Normal School, she taught for several years in Mifflin
County, and was man-ied in May, 1893. She spent her entire
life in Mifflin County.

The Quarterly has been informed of the death
S. Helman, who passed away April 1, 1945.

of Miss

Jennie

1887

CLASS REUNION

— MAY 24

1889
Miss Helen M. Vanderslice, of Bloomsburg, was found dead
in her apartment Tuesday, December 3, death having resulted
from asphyxiation by gas. Miss Vanderslice, an efficient teacher
in the Bloomsburg schools for many years prior to her retirement six year ago, had apparently died late Monday afternoon
or early that evening from fumes which resulted when the
flame on the gas stove went out. She had apparently became ill
from the fumes and had walked into the bedroom, where she
collapsed.
A native of Bloomsburg, she spent five years of her childhood in Kansas and Oklahoma during the period when those

were admitted to the Union. She returned East and was
graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School. She began her teaching career in the autumn of 1899 in Center Township, and then came back to Bloomsburg, where she taught
until the time of her retirement.
Miss Vanderslice was an esteemed teacher and numbered
states

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among her

friends thousands of her former pupils.

1891
Miss Jennie Sheep, of Bloomsburg, a teacher for forty-five
years, died on Christmas Day at the Bloomsburg Hospital, after
having been a patient there for three weeks.
Miss Sheep was born in Turbot Township, Northumberland County, July 1, 1870, and lived successively in Millville,
Jerseytown and Bloomsburg. Her teaching career included one
year in Mt. Pleasant Township and one year at West Creek, in
Columbia County; two years in Point Township, and one year
near Northumberland; six years at Espy, two years at Lime
Ridge, and thirty-two years at Berwick, from where she retired
in 1935. She was active in the work of the Bloomsburg Presbyterian Church.
1892

CLASS REUNION
Bertha Burrow Martin lives
Harrisburg, Pa.

— MAY 24

at

3527

Rutherford

Street,

1893
Fenner is now “Phoebe Home,’’ Allentown, Pennsylvania. She writes that she is very pleasantly
situated, and will be glad to have her friends visit her.

The address

of Alice

1896

The following was received by President Andruss from
Jane Rosser, 9 South Maple Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey,
a short time after she attended her fiftieth year reunion at the
College last Alumni Day:
“Last year 1 attended my fiftieth reunion as a guest of the
Teachers College. From many of the members who were there
came evidences of their appreciation of the gracious hospitality shown us. It was a joy to see the growth of buildings, but a
greater joy, still, to feel that Bloomsburg was adhering to the
same high ideals which were our inspiration in the past. It renewed one’s faith in young people and in their ability to go on
to higher things. It is easy for us older ones to feel that things
ai*e going “to the dogs.’’
“We old ‘girls’ got quite a thrill when the students greeted
us with ‘Hello,’ wanted to carry our bags and trays, expressing
such surprise that we graduated fifty years ago. Such flatteiy
was wine to old ladies. For the time being, we were eighteen
again. The friendliness at every turn did us all good.
“We shall be back again, if not in person, in our wishes of
success to the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.”

1897

CLASS REUNION

May

24 will mark the

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— MAY 24
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The class will be the honored class on
Alumni Day, and those returning will be the guests of the College and the Alumni Association. Plan now to come back and

tion of the class of ’97.

have an eniovable day.
1901
Dr.

Frank Laubach, of Benton,

working with the

is in Hollywood, California,
producing films to be used in
connection with the world literacy program.

film industry in

the mission field in

1902
45th

YEAR REUNION

— MAY 24

BIG DINNER

WATCH FOR FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Miss Marie L. Diem, of 944 Taylor Avenue, Scranton, who
has been supervisor of the elementary grades in the Scranton
Public Schools for the past twenty years, retired last summer
from active teaching. She taught in the Scranton schools for
foity-two years, having spent the first two years after her graduation in an ungraded school in Exeter Borough, Luzerne
County.
Miss Diem was appointed teacher in the seventh grade in
the Benjamin Franklin (No. 86) School when the late George
Phillips was superintendent. Under the superintendency of S.
E. Weber she was appointed assistant to County Superintendent Thomas Francis, then principal of the John James Audubon .(No. 42) School, and later became principal of the Girard
and Fulton schools.
Upon recommendation of the late Rhys Powell, then superintendent of schools. Miss Diem became supervisor of six
elementary grades, a position which she continued to hold,
with one additional grade being added to her supervising duties.
Miss Diem spent several summers at the University of
Pennsylvania and at Columbia University, studying to solve
problems met in classroom teaching. She then matriculated at
New York University, where she received the degrees of Bachelor of Alls and Master of Aits. She has frequently been called
upon to address teachers in their meetings. She is a member of
the Women Teachers’ Club and of the Quota Club.
Miss S. Geitrude Rawson, principal and teacher at the
Benjamin Rush (No. 24) School in Scranton for the past twenty-seven years, retired in June from active duty, and was given
a farewell surprise reception by the members of the ParentTeacher Association, the faculty, and the children of the school.
The group of mothers from the PTA assembled as Miss
Rawson dismissed her classes, and during the program that followed, Miss Rawson was presented with a radio by the mothers.
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a purse by the faculty, and numerous gifts by the children.
Miss Rawson thanked the mothers, teachers, and the children
for the gifts. Stating that it had been her desire to be a good
teacher, she added “I feel that this has been accomplished
when I see such a large assemblage of mothers who have come
to honor me on an occasion like this. I will always remember
the cooperation given by the mothers and teachers of this
school.”

1907

CLASS REUNION

— MAY 24

1911
Miss Eliza J. Goldswoilhy, of Hazleton, a commercial
teacher in the Hazleton High School, died October 18, 1946,
after a long illness. She had been unable to return to her duties
at the beginning of the school year. Miss Goldsworthy was a
graduate of the Hazleton High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Rider College, and New York University. She was
a member of the First PresbjTerian Church of Hazleton, the
Sophia Jack Bible Class, Mayflower Chapter 107, Order of the
Eastern Star, and the Hazleton White Shrine, No. 4.
Rev. C. Carroll Bailey is now pastor of St. Paul’s EvangelChurch, York, Pennsylvania. Several bulletins and programs received by the editor give marked evidence that, under
the leadership of Rev. Bailey, the church is carrying on a fine
ical

program

of activities.

Ethel Adamson (Mrs. E. G. Sturgis) lives at 1534 North
East Weidler Street, Portland, Oregon. She has one son, John,
who is now out of the service, married and attending college in
Seattle,

Washington.
1912

CLASS REUNION

— MAY 24

1913
Kelley lives at 610 Vernon Road, Philadelphia.
He recently returned from service, where he was a Captain in
the U. S. Naval Reserve, and at the present time, in addition to
carrying on his law practice, is serving as manager of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, with offices in the LincolnLibertv Building.

Bernard

J.

1917

CLASS REUNION

— MAY 24

1919

Grace

B.

McCoy

town, Pennsylvania.
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428 West Fourth

Street, Lewis-

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1922

CLASS REUNION
Eva M. Morgan

I

!

— MAY 24

2139 North Main Avenue, Scran-

lives at

ton.

1924
Campbell, of Linglestown, Dauphin County, a former resident of Shamokin, died Tuesday, November 12.
in Linglestown. She was a teacher in Lower Paxton Township
for twenty-one years.
Miss

Maude

E.

Arlene Johnson (Mrs. Filbert I. Banker)
den Street, Binghamton, New York.

lives at

41 Bel-

1927

CLASS REUNION
Helen M. Parris
ton

lives at

— MAY 24

1928
1635 North Main Avenue, Scran-

8.

1931

Helen L. Maynard (Mrs. Lot Lake)
Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
1932

CLASS REUNION
Lois

Heppe Rosenberger

lives at

1608 Mousey

— MAY 24

lives at

2128 Greenwood

Street,

Harrisburg. She has three sons and a daughter. Her oldest
son entered Junior High School at the beginning of the school
year.

1933
John Q. Timbrell has been a member of the military tribunal which tried Nazi war criminals at the infamous
Dachau “murder factory” in Germany.
Lt. Col. Timbrell, a native of Berwick, has had a long record of military service. He was in the Pennsylvania National
Guard for a number of years and held the rank of captain at
the time when the two Berwick companies went into Federal
service in February, 1941. His advancement has been steady.
He was for some time in the Midwest, where he did excellent
work in the training of Negro troops. He was then sent to
Asia, where he was for some time in the office of the chief censor in the Chinese Theatre. He was employed as an investigator for the State Department of Public Assistance at the time
of his entry in the Federal Service in the Army.
Lt. Col.

Mary E. Betterly (Mrs. A. Kenneth Maiers)
Kenny Road, Columbus Ohio.

lives at

1840

1934

Maryruth Rishe (Mrs.

L.

W. Buckalew,

Jr.)

and her son
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Bloomsburg early

December

for Foit Hamilton, New
preparations before sailing for
Bremerhaven, Germany. She was scheduled to go from Bremerhaven to Karlsruhe to join her husband, Captain L. W. Buckalew, Jr., who is stationed there with the Headquarters First
Constabulary. They expect to remain in Germany for the next
left

York, where she

in

made

final

two years.
Miss Mary DeWald, of Turbotville, and John Letteer, also
of Turbotville, were married Wednesday, September 18, 1946,
in the Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church of Turbotville.

Mr. Letteer served nine years in the Army, and
ployed as an automobile mechanic in Turbotville.

is

now em-

1936

The

dinner reunion of the class of 1936 was held on
the evening of Homecoming Day, November 2, 1946, at the
Hotel Berwick, with many class members and friends present.
Mr. Francis Rompolo presided at the meeting. Following a fine
dinner, Daniel Litwhiler, of the Boston Braves, was the principal speaker.
A business meeting followed, at which time
plans for future meetings were discussed. The following ofPresident, Francis Rompolo
ficers were elected
SecretaryTreasurer, Jean A. Phillips. It is the intention of the group to
make this an annual affair on Homecoming Day, with all class
first

:

;

members present.
The following were

present LaRue C. DeiT, Shumans, Pa.,
Gordon, Shamokin Mr. and Mrs. Sam Green, Berwick Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hassell (Violet Brown), Morrisville;
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Molick
Florence Keating, Steelton
(Rachel Beck), Sunbury; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick McCutcheon,
(Mary Jane Fink), Hershey Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Michael,
Allentown: Jean A. Phillips, Scranton; Francis C. Rompolo,
Cumbola; Mr. and Mrs. Robeif J. Rowland, Shenandoah; Helen
F. Snyder, Sunbury; and June Sharpe Wagner, Drums.

Mabel

:

S.

;

;

;

;

Charles

P.

Michael,

formerly

a teacher

in

Township Consolidated School, Columbia County,
ing in the Veterans’ High School in Allentown.

is

the

now

Beaver
teach-

1937

CLASS REUNION

— MAY 24

James R. Kantner, of 2611 9th Street, Saint Andrew,
Florida, and Miss Rochelle V/ard, of Brewton, Alabama, were
married August 24, 1946. Mrs. Kantner has been a teacher in
the schools of Santa Rosa County, Florida, for several years.
She will receive her degree from the State Teachers College at
Troy, Alabama, in May, 1947. At the present time she is teaching in Lynn Haven, Florida. Mi\ Kantner is Personnel AssistPage Twenty

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ant and member of the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners,
U. S. Mine Countermeasures Station, Panama City, Florida.

Eudora Hosier (Mrs. Robeit H. Kuhl) lives at 357 Plaza
Avenue, Ferguson, Missouri. Her husband spent four years as
a medical officer in the army, two of which were spent in Europe. After his discharge last spring, he took up further training in surgery in the St. Louis County Hospital. They are living
in Ferguson until his woi'k is completed.
1940
Miss Elnora Unger, of Danville, and William Houck, of
Berwick, were married Saturday, November 30 in the parsonage of the First Baptist Church of Danville. The ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev. R. A. Pavy. Mrs. Houck has
been teaching Latin, French, and Spanish in the Danville High
School. She joined her husband in New York at the first of the
year.

Hope Penman, of Bloomsburg, has accepted a position as
Boy Scout Executive in Philadelphia. Mr. Penman was discharged from the armed forces in April after serving three
years.

William Miller, of Nuremberg, is teaching social studies
and geography in the Beavei- Township Consolidated School,
Columbia County.
1941
Miss Isabella Maria Constance Olah, of Berwick, and
George James Horvath, of Sunbury, were married Thursday,
December 26, at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Berwick.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father Francis Dinkel. The bride attended Duke University after her graduation
from Bloomsburg. Mr. Horvath is a graduate of the Sunbury
High School and attended Columbus University at Washington,
D. C. He is now employed as an auditor-investigator for the
federal government.

Mary Bretz Shugart

writes from 1610 Tenth Street, Berkthat her husband is a chief petty officer with
the Navy, stationed at Treasure Island. They have been living
in California since last April.
Mr. Shugart’s six-year enlistment in the Navy will expire in October.
ley, California,

1942

CLASS REUNION

— MAY 24

Idajane Shipe (Mrs. Joseph Madl) is teacher of girls’ physical education and Hygiene at the Berwick High School.

1944
Miss

Mary

E. Parr, of Berwick,

and John R. Seybert, of
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Philadelphia, were married Sunday, October 7, in St. John’s
Lutheran Church, Berwick. The officiating minister was the
Rev. E. A. F. Kallenbach, pastor of the church. The bride is an
air hostess, and the groom, a graduate of Hazleton High School,
is

employed

in Philadelphia.

Wanda Farnsworth
West High

Street,

(Mrs.

Robert Langdon)

Bound Brook, New

lives

at

49

Jersey.

1945

CLASS REUNION

— MAY 24

Rose Boyle and Daniel Young, of Tamaqua, were married

September

14, 1946.

1946
Lorraine Fichter, of 719 Locust Street, Hazleton, is teaching in Pembeiton, New Jersey. Miss Fichter is certified to
teach Social Studies, English and Geography.
Lillian H. Guis, of East Pine Street, Sheppton, is teaching
Somerville, New Jersey. Miss Guis is certified to teach in
Science and Social Studies.
in

Marian J. Creveling, of 225 West First Street, Bloomsburg, a gi’aduate of the elementary curriculum, is teaching in
the schools of Harrisburg.
Stephen M. Hotz, of 20 North Street, Hudson, a graduate
of the elementary curriculum, is teaching in Mountainview,
New Jersey.
Lola F. Good, Hazel E. Keefer and Frances L. Saunders
are teaching in Bel Air, Maryland. All three are certified in
science and mathematics.
Beniice R. Gabuzda, of 899 Center Street,
teaching in Cambridge, Maryland. Miss Gabuzda
French, Spanish and English.

Freeland,
is

is

certified in

Charles L. Wagner, of 237 South Vine Street, Mt. Carmel,
teaching in Monticello, New York. He is certified in Biological Science, History and Social Studies.
is

Harrison J. Cameron, of 823 Susquehanna Avenue, Berwick, is teaching in Denton, Maryland. He is a graduate of the
business curriculum.
Eileen L. Falvey, of 413 East Front Street,
teaching commercial subjects at Mt. Penn, Pa.

Berwick,

is

Janet R. Shultz, of 5951 Bilden Street, Philadelphia,
teaching commercial subjects in Lakewood, New Jersey.

is

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Alda R. Hunter, of Hunlock Creek, a graduate of the elementary curriculum, is teaching in Moorestown, New Jersey.
Marie
teaching

in

Krum, Anastasia Pappas and Betty
South Bound brook. New Jersey.

L.

Jacqueline

J.

J.

Smith are

Shaffer, R. Lorraine Utt, Robeit A. Welliver
in the schools of Allentown.

and Donald D. Rabb are teaching

Violet L. Weller, of Turbotville,

Maryland. Miss Weller

Mary A. Lorah,
mentary curriculum,

is

is

in Cambridge,
and mathematics.

teaching

certified in science

of Sonestown, Pa., a graduate of the eleteaching in Verona, New Jersey.

is

1947
Miss Dorothy Eleanor Davis, of Bloomsburg, and Robert L.
Bunge, of Catawissa, were married Saturday, November 30, in
the First Methodist Church of Bloomsburg. The Rev. Samuel
W. Strain, pastor of the church, officiated at the ceremony.
The bride, a graduate of the Nesquehoning High School in the
class of 1943, was graduated from the Bloomsburg Hospital
School of Nursing with the class of 1946. Mr. Bunge was discharged from the armed forces last February, and is at present
a member of the senior class at Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Hazel Suit Gaumer, of Berwick, and Robert Siegworth, of Warren, were married Saturday, November 2, at the
home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Reber Summers, of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Marjorie Sweppenheiser, of Nescopeck. Mrs. Siegworth will be graduated
‘

from Bloomsburg in May. The groom is employed by General
Electric at Erie, where he and Mrs. Siegworth will reside after
the latter’s graduation.

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CREASY & WELLS

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Bloomsburg 850

1926

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Bloomsburg 528

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Mrs. Olive Payne Beeman, well-known aitist and painter
of River Hill, Columbia County, has been appointed a temporary, part-time instructor in art at the Teachers College. Mrs.
Beeman, whose work has been acclaimed by critics, has recently
sold a number of her paintings to collectors in the Eastern part
of the United States.
The new instructor is a graduate of Hinsdale High School,
Hinsdale, Ilk, and the University of Chicago where her scholastic achievement won her membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She
taught in the public schools of Winnetka, Ilk, for a number of
j^ears before becoming supervisor in the Glen Ellyn public
schools in the same state. She also held a supervisory position
in the Thoiton Township High School, Thornton, 111.
Mrs. Beeman at one time held the position of special teacher at the Chicago Teachers College as well as the Pestalozzi
Teachers College in Illinois. She was critic teacher on the staff
of the Francis Parker School in Chicago.
A pupil of Jessie Todd and Fred Oswald of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. Beeman has had extensive training in design, modeling, textile, handcraft, painting in pastels, water colors and oils. She has also done advanced work in the Public
School Alt University of Indiana.
She came to Pennsylvania primarily because of the natural
beauty of the landscape and she and her husband, Charles Beeman, purchased a farm just across the river from Bloomsburg
in 1941. After spending two summers in this scenic spot, she
moved there permanently in 1943. Having found Pennsylvania
stimulating, Mrs. Beeman feels that her enthusiasm for ait
should be shared with others and invites those interested in art
to visit her home at River Hill or in the art room in Science Hall
at the College.

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Clayton H. Hinkel, Easton, has been named to the faculty
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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,
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in the Department of Business Education.
The new faculty member is a native of Easton and attend-

commercial subjects

ed the public schools

in that city.

Following his graduation

from the Easton High School, he worked for

five years in various business establishments before entering Bloomsburg. He
received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education here in
1940 and the degree of Master of Arts from Temple University
in 1943.
While in college, Mr. Hinkel served as treasurer of the
Business Education Club, and typist for the Obiter, college yearbook, and the Maroon and Gold, college newspaper. He is a
member of Pi Omega Pi and Kappa Delta Pi.
Mr. Hinkel taught for two years in the junior high school
of Easton before accepting a position as head of the Department of Business Education and the placement bureau of the
Easton High School. Since 1943, he has been associated with
the Churchman Business College, Easton, as an instructor in the
evening school.
He is the author of a monograph, “Business Education,”
and a number of magazine articles, some of which have appeared in the “Business World” and “The Journal of Business

Education.”
At the present time Mr. Hinkel is a member of the Advisory Council of the Pennsylvania Business Educators Association.
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An unprecendented demand for College courses, especially
in the field of science and history, by teachers-in-service has led
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College to add a new extension
instructor to its growing staff. Mr. George Shane, vice-principal
of the Hazleton High School, has been named to the College
staff as a part-time extension teacher. President Harvey A.

Andruss stated recently.
In the extension field, where the college operates centers
Kingston, Sunbury, Mt. Carmel and Hazleton, there has been
an increasingly large number of requests for college work. To
answer this need, the College will offer courses in Physical

in

Science, United States History, Pennsylvania History, American
Government, Sociology Literature, and Ethics in the four extension centers. No on-campus courses for teachers-in-service
will be offered during the new semester, it has been announced
by Joseph R. Bailer, director of secondary education of the
College.

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The Bloomsburg State Teachers College Maroon and Gold
Band presented a “Pops Concert” program in the regular weekassembly held in the Carver Hall Auditorium. Professor
Charles H. Henrie directed the band and arranged the program
which was in the form of a mock radio broadcast. Charles E.
Hawk, West Pittston, announced the program which was one of
the finest ever presented by the Maroon and Gold Band.
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Athletics
Gilbert L. Kline, of Catawissa, a Bloomsburg Teachers College graduate and a former teacher at Catawissa High, is now
faculty manager of athletics for Nether Providence Township
High at Wallingford which has a basketball team in the Dela-

ware County League.
The schedule listed as the Nether Providence Athletic
Director Chester V. Haupt, also a Bloomsburg alumnus.
Haupt’s name recalls many memories having to do with
the athletic rebuilding program of Bloomsburg Teachers College, then a Normal School, in the days immediately after World

War

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George M. Meade came in from Hilldale, Mich., to reorganize spoH at a time when, with the exception of basketball,
they had hit bottom.
He was successful in his program and he got much assistance for a number of years from Trevorton which sent many
athletes to the hilltop institution.

Chet Haupt was the second of the Haupt brothers. The
was Elmer. Other Trevorton boys of that period who
starred in most sports for the Maroon and Gold were Malcolm
Dirk, Bill Partridge and “Piggy” Swinehart. In recent years
the Zerbe Township school has not done so well for the local
institution but perhaps the years ahead will produce another
such array of talent from that community.
It appears that talent comes in cycles. Newport Township
once sent many ace athletes here, also during the twenties.
These boys included the Lerda brothers, Stephen and Lou, the
late George Sack, Bill Stoker, Arch Turner, Art Jenkins, “X”
Matthew, Gil Cooper, Stan Zimolzak and a number of others.
In more recent years, in the days when George Buchheit
was turning out state championship track teams, much of the
talent was coming from Forty Fort which sent the Jenkins
brothers
Donald, who lost his life in the Ploesti oil I'aids and
HaiTy Bill Bonham and Eddie Mulhern. The only Forty Fort
alumnus now starring for the Huskies in track is Matt Kashuba,
the ace high jumper.
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The Bloomsburg State Teachers College baseball team will
play ten games during the 1947 campaign which got under way
April 16 when the Huskies traveled to Lock Haven for a crack
at the powerful Bald Eagles. Home and home agreements have
been concluded with four State Teachers Colleges, including
Shippensburg, Lock Haven, East Stroudsburg and Mansfield.
Two games have also been scheduled with the University of
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Scranton tossers.
The completed schedule as announced by John A. Hoch,
chairman of the College Athletic committee, follows:
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April 16, Lock Haven STC, away April 19, Scranton Uniaway; April 23, Shippensburg STC, home; April 30,
Stroudsburg STC, away; May 3, Mansfield STC, home; May 7,
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versity,

Shippensburg STC, away; May 10, Stroudsburg STC, home;
May 17, Lock Haven STC, hcm.e May 21, Mansfield STC, away
May 24, Scranton University, home.
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The All-State college basketball selections, announced by
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the Associated Press, recently, place Charles Boyer, Jr., Pottsville, of the Bloomsburg Teachers College Huskies, on the allstate Teachers College team.
That is quite an honor for the local athlete for he was in
action in only six games at the stait of the season, going out at
the end of the first period in the Lock Haven contest of last
January 11 with a dislocated knee. But by that time he had
shown enough to win a spot at guard on the state team.
Boyer, an ex-G. 1., who had won the individual scoring
honors with Pottsville High in the Eastern League season of
1941, is a good floor man and a dead shot from almost any position on the couif.
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Danny Litwhiler, star outfielder of the Boston Braves in
the National League, was the featured speaker at the assembly
program Thursday, January 16, of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Litwhiler, who stepped into professional baseball
from the campus of the State Teachers College, is one of the
most prominent athletes ever to be graduated from the college.
The one-time Husky outfielder told of his many and varied
experiences in the big leagues and related a number of humorous and interesting anecdotes of his career with the Philadelphia Phillies, the championship St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Braves. Moving through his stories were such outstanding
players as “Dizzy” Dean, Stan Musial, “Pepper” Martin, Ernie
Lombardo, and many others whose activities on the big league
diamonds are printed daily in the Metropolitan newspapers.
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The Institute of Mental Measurements of Rutgers, in compiling the Third Mental Measurem.ents Yearbook, has invited
President Harvey A. Andruss, of the State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, to review tests in the fields of Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Clerical Practice. This Yearbook is
the most complete list of testing materials with critical e-. alua.tions now being published, and is edi'ed by Dr. Oscar K. Buros.
For a number of years President Andruss compiLd th.
Bookkeeping Examinations used in the Pennsylvania State Commercial Contests, and from time to time has completed similar
services for the State of New York and various \ .''estern tatcs.
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Scholarships

Awarded

Three students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
were honored when they were awarded scholarships during the
weekly assembly program held in the Carver Hall auditorium.
In presenting the winners of two Alumni Scholarships and the
Bruce Albeit Memorial Scholarship, President Harvey A. Andruss stated that the awards were based on scholastic attainment, personality, professional promise and need.
Miss Rose Thompson, Towanda, was the winner of the
$100 Bruce Albeit Memorial Scholarship, which was established in memory of Bruce Albeit, former president of the
Alumni Association. During the late Mr. Albeit’s presidency,
an alumni loan fund of nearly $1-5,000 was established and the
scholarship bearing his name is annually presented to a student of the College whose achievement and scholastic standing
merit reward. Two $50 Alumni Scholarships were given to Miss
Elizabeth Lehet, Wilkes-Barre, and Albert D. Rickmers, of

Bloomsburg.
President Andruss read interesting excerpts from old College catalogues, beginning with several references from the
1839 bulletin of the Literary Institute from which the Bloomsburg State Teachers College developed. He also presided over
brief devotional exercises at the start of the program. Miss
Harriet M. Moore directed the group singing.
Miss Lehet also has been awarded the Irma Russell Ward
Scholarship at Teachers College. The award, which carried a
cash value of fifty dollars, is annually presented to a student
who is working in the College dining room who has better than
average scholarship, fine character and gives promise of becoming a good teacher. The award was presented to Miss Lehet by Dr. Marguerite Kehr, dean of women at the College.
In her presentation Dr. Kehr pointed out that the Ward
Scholarship was established by the late Miss Erma Russell
Ward, who served as dietician at the College from 1924 to
1939. It was that period that Miss Ward became interested in
the problems of the students who worked in the college kitchen
and dining room. She often took their part when she felt they
needed help.
After Miss Ward died suddenly in 1939, a number of
Bloomsburg Alumni raised a sum of money as a memorial to the
beloved dietician who had helped them on many previous occasions. Raymond Hodges, professor of dramatic art, in the
professional schools of William and Mary College, announced
the creation of this memorial in 1930.
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All personal items received by the Editor after April
be published in the next issue of the Quarterly.

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Record Enrollment
The largest peacetime enrollment in the history of Bloomsbnrg State Teachers College marked the opening of the second
semester, Thursday, January 22.
Eighteen students graduated at the end of the first semester, and the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education v/ill be
conferred in absentia, since many of them went directly into the
teaching profession.
Seventy-five freshmen and several upperclassmen have
brought to the college approximately eighty-five new students
for the second semester. This will cause the full-time enrollment to exceed 750, as compared with 740 full-time students
at the College October 15.

The extension centers

in

Mount Carwas offered in

Hazleton, Kingston,

mel and Sunbury are being continued. One
Danville during the first semester, but it
a class so near the college when there

class

not necessary to offer
a center in operation
in Sunbury. Approximately one hundred teachers-in-service
are being accommodated in these extension centers.
A comparison of the enrollment of the college year 194647 with the college year 1940-1941, which was the last year
preceding the war, reveals the full-time enrollment was 150
greater in 1946 than in 1940, while approximately the same
number of part-time students are being accommodated.
The second semester marked a new high for college enrollment. A study of enrollment figures reveals that the Teachers
Colleges are beginning a new phase or period. The transition
period from 1927 to 1934 marked the introduction of the fouryear curriculum or the granting of the Degree of Bachelor of
Science in Education and the ending of the two-year certificate
courses.
The college period beginning in 1935 marked the beginning of the four-year status for all students, ending in 1941
with the outbreak of World War II.
In the “war” period of 1941 to 1946, some 4,000 students
other than prospective teachers were trained at Bloomsburg.
The “development” or “present” period opened in September, 1946, with banner enrollments and the introduction of
the liberal arts curriculum for freshmen who had met the entrance requirements for Pennsylvania State College.
The phases referred to here as the “transition” period,
eight years in length; “college” period, six years in length, and
“war” period, five years in length, seem to indicate that in the
development of institutions of higher learning it is necessary to
change every five or seven years to keep in step with the times
and fit young people for the future, be it in the profession of
teaching or for other professions or activities. President Andruss, of the college, observed.
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College Adopts Counseling System
In order to focus the attention of its student body on the
for higher standards of professional education, the
Bloomsbiirg State Teachers College has instituted a new-type
counseling system under the leadership of President Harvey A.

need

Andruss.
Despite the overflow enrollment in teacher education inthere is no evidence that the present shortage of
teachers in the Commonwealth will soon be alleviated because
a large number of entering freshmen are not considering teaching as a profession. This fact has emphasized the great need
of a counseling system which will first, help the student to make
up his mind what he would like to do, and second, assure the
college that those students who continue have the academic
ability, personality traits, and professional promise which are
desirable in teachers.
stitutions,

The “Bloomsburg Plan” is not a formal guidance system,
but a counseling system that sets up some of the aspects of the
well-known tutorial plan. The great influx of freshmen students renders the former system of counseling by deans and depaitment heads unworkable; therefore, all members of the
faculty participate and thus the ratio of counselees to counselors is one to ten or less. Administrative officers, however, are
responsible for counseling upper classmen, who constitute about
30 per cent of the enrollment.
Augmenting the individual conferences which are held
whenever the need arises is a series of general faculty conferences at which time individual cases are presented and dis-

A number of educational aids are available for use
during these consultations, including profile charts of the individual’s scores made on the college placement tests, results of
achievement tests, and intelligence test scores.

cussed.

Because of the nature of the individual conferences, the
faculty counselors are encouraged to have available all the
latest information regarding the status of the drive for higher
salaries for teachers as well as the efforts being made to improve the social status of the profession. It has been learned
that counselors can do much to encourage worthy young people to enter the profession, especially in the field of elementary
education, where so great a need for teachers exists.

Although the plan
lege to

is relatively new, it is helping the colrole in the educational plan of the Commoneducating of teachers for the public schools of

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B. S. T. C. Sponsors

Radio Programs

Decision of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College to parweekly programs of radio station
in Nanticoke has been announced by President Harvey A. Andruss.
The one kilowatt radio station was recently erected by Radio
Anthracite, Incorporated. It is an independent station unaffiliated with any national network. Its frequency, wattage and
location will enable listeners to hear programs in a primary
coverage area that extends from above Scranton to below

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Bloomsburg.
Radio Anthracite, although limited to daytime operation,
has set aside six hours a week for school and college I'epresentation. Under the original plan, one half hour each week day
was to be devoted to the high schools included in the primary
coverage area, and one half hour each Saturday to the colleges.
Because of the reluctance of the high schools to produce more
than one progiam a month, the schedule has been revised to a
three-a-week program.
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Broadcasts at the college will originate in the Carver Hall
Auditorium every Tuesday, from 2:00 to 2:30 P. M. and are
under the direct supervision of a faculty committee headed by
Miss Alice Johnston, head of the department of speech. Representative programs including choral groups, band and orchestra concerts, vocal and instrumental solos, and special dramatic
presentations are being developed and presented during the
College broadcast.

These piograms, in the interest of public service and education, are not commercial in nature. The company offers each
as a public service. In accepting the responsibility to its public,
Radio Anthracite feels that educational institutions will support such programs.
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An

unusual interesting piano recital was presented to the
students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Thursday
morning, February 20, by Robert Whitney, outstanding young
American pianist. Mr. Whitney’s program of distinctive music
featured the weekly assembly program of the College.
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Miss Catherine Schwarz, of South Williamsport, and
Charles V. Swope, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Swope of Railroad Street, Danville, were married in the Methodist Church at
Mechanicsburg, by the Rev. Victor B. Haan, superintendent of
the Methodist Home.
Mr. Swope is a graduate of the Danville High School and
attended the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, prior to entering the Army where he served four years. Mrs. Swope is a
graduate of the South Williamsport High School.
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Foucault Pendulum Installed
Students at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College will
soon know that the earth is rotating on its axis, for the visible
evidence of the earth’s rotation can now be observed in the lobby of Science Hall where a Foucault pendulum has been installed. With its installation, Bloomsburg became one of the
few colleges in the Eastern United States to have this scientific
device; in fact, there have been only five installed in colleges
and universities along the Atlantic coast.
The apparatus takes its name from the famous French
scientist, Jean Bernard Foucault (1819-1868), who was born in
Paris. Prior to his appointment to the French Academy in 1855,
Foucault attempted to prove the truth of Newton’s first law of
motion. As an indirect result of this experiment, he perfected
a giant pendulum that really proved that the earth rotated on
its axis.

Foucault knew that a body set in motion tended to remain
motion in the same line and in the same plane. A swinging
pendulum illustrated this fact, but the French physicist reasoned that if such a body was freely suspended over a rotating
object like the earth, any apparent deviation in its motion would
prove the rotation of that body.
He worked at his theory until 1851 when he perfected the
apparatus that now bears his name. From the ceiling of
the Pantheon in Paris he suspended a pendulum 220 feet long
with a bob weighting 65 pounds. When swung the Foucault
pendulum tended to keep moving for a period of at least twenty
four hours and was brought to a stop only because of friction
in

in its

moving

parts.

Professors Harold Lanterman and S. I. Shortess, of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Physics Department, felt
the need of this device as an aid in their department. It would
help explain the principle of the pendulum, particularly the effect of increasing the length on the period, and its usefulness in
the field of geography was urged by Dr. H. Harrison Russell,

who

also advocated

installation.
installed recently by workers of the
the direction of Nevin E. Englehart. Professors
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The pendulum was
College under

Lanterman and Shortess provided technical supervision.
The forty-foot pendulum has been suspended from the ceiling of the fire tower in Science Hall and reaches almost to the
ground floor. Professor Lanterman designed the dial of a compass, four feet in diameter, and Professor Shortess painted it on
the floor directly beneath the bob of the pendulum. The apparatus itself was obtained from a Chicago scientific apparatus
company and is claimed to be scientifically accurate because the
installation has been almost perfect.
From figures prepared by Mr. Lanterman, the Science Hall

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device requires seven and two-fifths seconds to complete one
swing and, once started, will swing freely for about twenty-one
hours and fifteen minutes, withstanding drafts from open doors,
defects in installation, and friction of its moving parts. Its compass deviation is fifteen degrees per hour, which compare exactlv with the rotation of the earth.
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“Saucered and Blowed”
By

E. H.

NELSON

This column is of the opinion that Branch Associations
should each year assume a definite responsibility for some project that would be of direct benefit to the College as a living,
growing institution. The most obvious thing to do in this way is
to provide a scholarship or scholarships. The smaller groups
might take the responsibility of one $50.00 scholarship and the
larger groups perhaps three or four such stipends.
Service clubs are criticized for becoming “eating” clubs.
Unless they work on some worthy community projects, they
hardly deserve the name of Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Quota, etc.
And I think the same can be said of our local branches. It is fine
to get together once or twice a year, have a good dinner and a
fine social time, but our real interest in our Alma Mater will be
evidenced by making a contribution in such a way that worthy
boys and girls may be aided in their efforts to secure an education.
It is noticeable that such graduates become loyal alumni,
and on the cycle goes “Years to come shall find us ever true to

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still.”

Robert W. Megargel, of Orangeville, will be a candidate
for the degree of bachelor of arts at Bucknell University’s annual mid-winter graduation exercises Saturday morning, February 1.
Mr. Megaigel,

who was graduated from the Orangeville
High School, studied for one year at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College prior to enrolling at Bucknell, where he has
specialized in journalism. He was sports editor of The Bucknellian, campus newspaper, and L’ Agenda, the college yearbook, and has been employed in the office of Bucknell’s News
Service.

A member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity, Megargel also holds membership in Pi Delta Epsilon, journalism
fraternity, and Omicron Delta Kappa, men’s leadership society.
He was named

to

“Who’s

Who

in

American Universities and

Colleges” last fall. During the college’s 1945 football season,
he served as the Bison’s varsity football manager.
Following his graduation from Bucknell, Mr. Megargel has
been employed on the staff of The Evening News in Harrisburg.
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Student Teachers
With the present shortage of elementary school teachers
posing a serious problem to school administrators throughout
the nation, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has eight
senior elementary students engaged in practice teaching in the
Benjamin Franklin School on the campus. These eight seniors
have chosen the elementary field for their teaching careers and
will help relieve some of the acuteness of the present situation.
Engaged in student teaching in the kindergarten under the
direction of Miss Grace H. Wool worth is Mae Klinger, Lykens,
R. D., while Jean Gilbert, Hazleton, and Renee Paul, Lavelle,
are doing work in the Grade 1 with Mrs. Lucile J. Baker as the
critic teacher. Miss Paul has also been assigned to the Special
Class which is taught by Miss Elma L. Major.
Miss Iva Mae Van Scoyoc, teacher in Grade II, has Shirley
Keiser, Dalton, and Ruth Richard, Bloomsburg R. D. 4, under
her supervision, and Joyce Smith, Sugarloaf, and Nancy Maxey,
Scranton, are practice teaching in Grade 111 taught by Miss
Lorraine C. Snyder. Miss Maxey is also doing work in Grade IV
which is taught by Mr. Harry N. Gasser, while Joyce Smith has
also been assigned part time to Grade IV taught by Mrs. Anna
G. Scott.
Theodore Czajkowski, Wilkes-Barre, is teaching in Grade
IV, and Betty Adams, Dalmatia, is student teaching in Grade V.
Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of elementary education of
the College, is in general charge of student teaching in the Benjamin Eranklin School.
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Mrs. Nora Girton Kemery, aged sixty-seven, a Bloomsburg
native and widely known as a singer, having been at one time
with the Metropolitan Opera Company, died at her home in
Wilmington, Del., and funeral services were held there.
Mrs. Kemery resided in Bloomsburg until her marriage and
her first experience in singing was secured in the choir of the St.
Matthew Lutheran Church. She studied first at the Bloomsburg
Normal School, now the Teachers College, and later at the Allen
Freeman studio in Scranton and in Philadelphia. For a time she
studied under the late George Toms, New York City.
In Wilmington she was widely known as a soloist and
director of church groups, having been active there since 1917
when she became alto soloist at Grace Church. For a number
of years she directed and was soloist of the First United Presbyterian Church, Wilmington. She also taught vocal and instrumental music in that city. Early in her career she had some
stage experience.
Surviving are her husband, one son, Russell H. Kemerly,
New Castle, N. J., businessman, and a grand daughter, Mary

Nora Kemery.
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New Electives
Keeping pace with the rapidly expanding educational
needs of the post-war world, the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College has added several electives in Aviation Education to its
curriculum, President Harvey A. Andruss announced recently.
These electives, along with others in radio education and retail
selling, were originally outlined by President Andruss in his
address to the alumni of the College last May.
The air education program, offered on a limited basis during the 1946 Summer Session, is being returned to the curricuin much the
in 1941. The

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same manner

as Civil Pilot Training was offered
initial aviation training
for manj" students who later went into the air forces during
World War II, and the local college and airpoif are credited
with doing pioneer work in this field of education.
A group of fifteen men, all veterans of World War II, most
of whom have had flight experience during the war, are taking
advantage of this new program of aviation education, which
includes actual flight training and experience. Included in this
group are the following; John Urich, Halifax; Edward Belfield,

CPT program

provided

Swarthmore; John Wiedenman, Harrisburg; Ted Wie.denman,
Harrisburg; Stanley Semic, Steelton Edward Bollinger, Erie;
Henry Krzywicki, Kingston; David Jones, Dunmore Carl
Lucyk, Mahanoy City; Leo Martin, Wilkes-Barre; Frederick
;

;

Zeigler, Scranton.
In the aviation education course, there will be included
twenty-seven hours of flying and the remainder of the time will
be devoted to a preview of flying and a Teview or conference on
student progress. Only those students who have a high rating
in their basic courses may elect this program and most of the
students now enrolled in the course are those who started their
freshman work, where all studies are basic, at the start of the
second semester of the 1946-47 term.
The new college course is exploratory in nature and enables the students to determine whether they wish to go into
pre-flight instruction.
Dr. H. H. Russell heads the new aviation education program, and A. T. Perugino, instructor at the Bloomsburg Airport, gives flight instruction, assisted by Charles Eves, Blooms-

burg.

9

The electives in the field of retail selling are alligned with
the Department of Education and include salesmanship, merchandising and store practice. The latter is to be obtained in
stores in the home communities of the students or in merchandising houses in Bloomsburg and vicinity. The general policies
of this program will be outlined at the retail selling conference
to be held here.
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The radio education activities will be centered in Carver
Hall Auditorium, and weekly broadcasts are planned to include
music, dramatics and educational demonstrations.
In the aviation education course there will be included
twenty-seven hours of flying and the remainder of the time will
be devoted to a preview of flying and a review or conference
on student progress. Those in the course who had flying experience in the war had this experience, for the most part, with
heavy aircraft. The college course is an exploratory course in
which the students can learn whether they wish to go into preflight or flight instruction.
Dr. H. H. Russell heads the a /iation education program.
Dr. J. Frank Dame is head of the retail selling program, with
Charles Henrie as the instructor. The committee in charge of
radio education is composed of John A. Hoch, chairman; Miss
Harriet H. Moore and Miss Alice Johnston.
The College has been offered a scholarship to send a faculty member to the Link trainer factory at Binghamton, N. Y.,
to take a four weeks’ course in instruction on the trainer.
The increasing enrollment in the extension centers has led
to the employment of another part-time instructor, with Roy J.
Haring, supervising principal of the Nescopeck borough schools
having been secured to give courses in social studies and education at the Hazleton center. There are also centers at Kingston,
Mt. Carmel and Sunbury and the total enrollment for the second semester is substantially larger than the 111 for the hrst
half of the year.
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One of the most interesting and appealing addresses given
on the campus of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in recent years was presented Thursday morning, February 13, by
Donald E. Hawk, prominent Allentown attorney, who spoke at
the assembly period. Hawk, who is widely known as a forceful
speaker, spoke on the general topic, “Convictions For Tomorrow’s World.”
He portrayed vividly the need for deep-seated beliefs in
principles that are vital to American life, by telling a number
of anecdotes from American history to illustrate his point. Using the life of Abraham Lincoln as an example, he told of the
great fortune of America to have had a great President, such as
Lincoln, with convictions as deeply rooted as those of the martyred President. At that period of history. Hawk pointed out,
no man of lesser beliefs in what he believed to be right would
have pulled our nation through its greatest crisis.
Professor E. A. Reams, of the college social studies depaitment, introduced the speaker, while President Harvey A. Andruss presided over the brief devotional period and presented a
short tribute in memory of Abraham Lincoln. Miss Harriet M.
Moore

led

group singing.
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Sales Conference Meets at B. S. T. C.
The great oppoiliinity in the field of distribution and the
need for skilled youth in this phase of business, were emphasized by state and federal experts at the Teachers College, here
Wednesday, February 12, at a retail sales training conference
in the auditorium of Carver Hall.
Educators, businessmen and students joined for the session
that featured four addresses by men with vast experience in the
field of distributive education and retail selling.
In describing the purpose of the meeting, Charles H. Henrie, retail selling instructor of the Department of Business Education of the College, and conference leader, stated that the
conference was being held as a service of the College to its service area. Henrie said that distributive education is one of the
most important developments in the country today. Retail selling occupations are found in every American community regardless of size, and with five millions now employed in the distributive occupations, the problem of distributive education becomes most important to school administrators, guidance counselors and representatives of sales organiza' ions.
President Harvey A. Andruss extended greetings to the
many businessmen and educators who had gathered to discuss
new developments in distributive education and retail selling
programs in the high school.
The initial address was presented by G. Henry Richert,
program-planning specialist. Business Education Service, United
States Office of Education, Washington, who spoke on the subject, “How Can Retailing as a Career Be Made Attractive to
High School Graduates?” Richert stressed the growing need
for young people who have the right kind of training and exoccupations.
He stated that the
by the federal government to
aid in job training, has been growing by leaps and bounds
throughout the states, providing better workeis for the dis-

perience in the distributive

George Dean program,

instituted

tributive field.

The need for teachers is acute now, Richert pointed out,
and suggested a number of things that can be done in order to
interest high school students in retailing as a career. Many rehe said, were tackling the problem in a positive manner by distributing literature to high school seniors and preparing films which popularize selling. The role of the retail store
in providing part-time work opportunities for high school students was mentioned is a method in creating new interest in the
retail field for high school graduates.

tail stores,

Many

Opportunities
distributive education. Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, spoke on the topic, “DisOffers

Samuel K. Caplan,

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and Retail Selling Programs in the High
School.” He reviewed the need for training students, pointing
out that six students are trained for every one office job while
only one is prepared for twenty distributive occupations. He
asked what benefits students get from such training and answered his own query by saying that they become vocationally
competent in a profession which offers many and varied opportributive Education

tunities.

Caplan defined retail selling as part of the business educawhich has consumer education value. He pointed out that pupils do not go to work in retail stores but are giv-

tion curriculum

en practical sales experience
Three-fifths of the high schools
retail selling or salesmanship.

in
in

the high school classroom.
the state now offer courses in

Lauds Pennsylvania Program
Distributive education, Caplan said, is a vocational subject
taught in paid-time or evening courses to workers employed in
distributive occupations. The program, which is paid for by the
state and local districts, sets up strict requirements for directors who are called teacher-coordinators. The courses are presented on a twelfth-year level to selected pupils after the community has been surveyed as to the need for such a program.
He emphasized the need for publicity and “selling” distributive
education to the public and lauded Pennsylvania’s program as
the best in the country. Caplain praised the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College for helping, “blaze the trail” for teacher education in the distributive field.

Looking for Skilled Help
Speaking on the topic, “How Business Benefits From Distributive Education,” Loyal D. Odhner, managing director,
Pennsylvania Chain Store Council, Philadelphia, indicated that
one of the benefits business has gotten from distributive education has been learning of some of its own faults as far as personnel is concerned. He said emphatically that business must
improve itself in the postwar era and that trained students help
this process of betterment.

Postwar distributive education will be entirely different, he
suggested, and business is looking for more skilled students who
are capable of holding down the many excellent jobs available.
He concluded by, stating that distributive education has rendered a major service to business in the field of human relations.
Great Potential Opportunities
speaker was Michael W. Britcher, store superintendent, Bon Ton Department Store, York, who spoke on “Looking at Distributive Education.” Britcher, who is a successful
store executive gave a number of personal experiences in the

The

final

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retail selling field to illustrate the

need of personnel trained

in

the science of salesmanship.

The program was planned by the Department of Business
Education of the College under the general supervision of Dr.
J. Frank Dame, acting director, and was under the leadership
of Charles H. Henrie. Committees of students assisted with the
job of welcoming the many guests to the campus and provided
stenographic help for the transcription of the proceedings in
shorthand.
o

The freshman class of the Pennsylvania State College will
again be assigned next year to other educational institutions
throughout the state, including State Teachers Colleges, and
area institutions set up for veterans.
The decision was announced by Dr. Francis B. Haas, state
superintendent of Public Instruction, after a conference of officials of Penn State, the Department of Public Instruction, and
the State Teachers Colleges.
About 1400 Penn State freshmen students were spread
acioss the state in other institutions this year, about half of
them in State Teachers Colleges, to provide facilities at Penn
State for its veterans’ education program.
O

Miss Luzetta J. Davis died at her home in Berwick. She
in ill health for the past five years and confined to her
bed since June.
Miss Davis was born in Minersville and resided in this
vicinity most of her life time. She was a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She taught school in Grand Junction, Colorado, and in the Berwick School district for twenty-two years. She retired five years
ago. She was a member of the P. O. E., of Grand Junction, Col.,
the Berwick Chapter of the D. A. R., and St. John’s Lutheran
Church.
Survivors include three sisters. Miss Edna Davis, at home
Mrs. Ada Crawford, of Berwick; Mrs. George Nungessor, Berwick and two nephews, Donald Davis, of Chicago, 111., and
Reese Crawford, of Berwick.

had been

;

o

One of Canada’s most versatile artists. Miss Frances James,
gave a concert in the Carver Hall Auditorium of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Friday evening, February 21, at
8:15 o’clock. Miss James, whose beautiful soprano voice has
made her one of the most sought after young vocalists in the
country, appeared as guest artist on the February number of
the College Artists’ Course.
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Campus Notes
With graduation days lying just ahead, thirty-two seniors
the field of secondary education at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College recently began practice-teaching in high
schools at Bloomsburg, Berwick and Danville. The studentteaching program of the College in that field is under the direct
supervision of Joseph R. Bailer, director of secondary education,
and it involves services of twenty critic teachers in the three
high schools which annually cooperate with the College in its
teacher-education program.
Assigned to do their student teaching at the Bloomsburg
High School are the following students who are teaching chemMargaret Luchi, Conyngistry, general science, and biology
in

:

ham; Robert Bunge, Catawissa; Albert Naunas, Bloomsburg;
John Bruner, Bloomsburg; Dorothy Kucharski, Exeter; Helen
M. Wright, Bloomsburg; Donald Karnes, Bloomsburg. Cooperating teachers are J. F. Brink, Lawrence Campbell, and Miss
Bessie M. Long.
Albert Naunas, Bloomsburg; Dawn Eshleman, Berwick;
Edward Hollis, Drifton Harold Swisher, Falls Church, Virand Rosanna Broadt,
ginia; Robert Martin, Edwardsville
Bloomsburg, have been assigned to the Bloomsburg High School
where they will work under the direction of Mrs. Harriet Kline
;

;

in

the field of English.

Ray

Schell,

Robert Mercer and George Mordan, mathe-

matics instructors at the local high school, have John Slegeski,
Freeland; Eugene Brady, Johnsonburg; V/alter Kritzberger,
Luzerne; Clifton Skow, Bloomsburg; and Margaret Luchi working under their diiection.
A large number of students are doing their practice teaching in the field of social studies under the supervision of Harold
Miller, Miss Marie Pensyl, and Miss Myra Sharpless, of the Social Studies Department of the Bloomsburg High School. Listed
in this group are Harold Swisher, John Bruner, Feme Van
Larry Doster,
Zandt, Numidia; George Conbeer, Shamokin
Forty Fort; Edward Hollis, Robert Martin, John Whitby, Edwardsville; John Siegeski, Dorothy Kucharski, and Evelyn Hiit,
Berwick.
Miss Mary Pelchar Chamberlain, Keiser, is teaching Spanish under the supervision of Miss Mary Serocca.
Five Berwick High School teachers are directing student
teaching with six secondary students in several subject fields.
Social studies classes taught by Lee Banghart, Delmar Smith
and Miss Mildred Moody are being taught by Richard Rowlands, Mrs. Mary Pelchar Chamberlain, Clayton Patterson, Nescopeck; John Thomas, Scranton; and Dolores DeVizia, Wapwallopen while David Shaffer, Bloomsburg, is working under
the direct supervision of Miss Jennie Birth in the field of bi;

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ology.

Students doing practice teaching at Danville under George
Myerly, Mrs. Sara Free, Mr. Richie and Mrs. Phyllis Blaum are
William Hummel, Espy; Irvin Yeager, Bloomsburg; and Vincent Wash villa, Mt. Carmel. Mr. Hummel is doing work in
American history and English, while Yeager and Wash villa
have been assigned to classes in English and social studies. Mr.
V/ ash villa is also doing some instructional work in the field of
aeronautics.

9
Several hundred teachers and educational leaders throughout Central Pennsylvania attended the 1947 Secondary Education Conference held at the State Teachers College Saturday,
March 8. Joseph R. Bailer, director of secondary education at
the College, directed the activities of the conference which had
as its theme, “Good Practice in Secondary Education.”
There were two general meetings, and each was followed
by group meetings in which problems presented by the conference speakers were discussed and prepared for presentation at
a final closing session.
Dr. G. Derwood Baker, Professor of Education, New York
University, headed the list of visiting speakers which also included Dr. J. Chester Swanson, assistant superintendent of
schools, Allentown, and Dr. Leversia Powers, Chief, Elementary
Education, Department of Public Instruction Harrisburg.
Discussion groups were led by Dr. John B. Kennedy, superintendent of schools, Kingston Orrin G. Cocks, supervising
;

principal of schools, Watsontown, and Walter B. Henninger,
supervising principal of the Northumberland schools.

•

A

belief that the Pennsylvania State Education Association
with more than sixty thousand members will produce more for
the teachers of Pennsylvania than the pressure measures of the
C. I. O. teacher groups, was expressed by Miss M. Elizabeth
Matthews, editor of the Pennsylvania School Journal, in a talk
before the Future Teachers of America of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Wednesday, March 20. Miss Matthews spoke
at the last meeting of the winter season of the Oscar Hugh
Bakeless Chapter of the groups held in the social room of Science Hall.
Using as her subject “The Mission of the Teacher,” Miss
Matthews combined facts gathered by the state and national
education association to point out the fine work that teachers
are doing in the schools today. She told of the growing prestige
of the teacher in national life and indicated that it has been the
result of the increasing publicity given teacher problems by the
newspapers, magazines and radio. Miss Matthews is closely associated with the present legislative maneuvers at Harrisburg
and commented on the progress of the drive for higher teachers’

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salaries.
She deplored the recent “march” on Harrisburg of
the “teachers’ army” sponsored by the C. I. O. and indicated
that the P. S. E. A. would likely achieve more through its methods than any pressure group.
Her talk was followed by a forty-minute discussion period.
The resignation of the Chapter President, Edward J. Hollis,
Drifton, was accepted by the group. Miss Betty Adams, Dalmatia, was named to till his unexpired term. Plans for a spring

meeting were discussed.

•
the Department of Business Education
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College are doing their student teaching in the Danville, Berwick and Bloomsburg High
Schools, according to an announcement made by W. J. Eorney,
Supervisor of Student Teachers of the Department of Business
Education.
Four of the seventeen have been assigned to the Berwick
High School for their practice teaching. Gerald Demaree, Berwick, and Gilbert Henry, Bloomsburg, are teaching commercial
subjects under the direction of Murry Watts, while Bynoth Bird,
Berwick, and Theodore Jurasik, Plazleton, are getting experience in the typewriting and shoithand classes of Miss Ruth

Seventeen seniors

in

Hartman.
At Danville, Paul Lauderman, Hazleton, and Lado

Savelli,

Swoyersville, are student teaching with Neil Richie in the Senior High School. In addition to bookkeeping, Mr. Lauderman is
teaching business mathematics. Mr. Savelli has classes in book-

keeping only.
Also assigned to the Danville High School are Harriet
Rhodes, Bloomsburg; Plelen P'ehl, West Reading; Marian
Chubb, Troop and Nancy J. McHenry, Berwick. Misses Rhodes
and Fehl are teaching shorthand and mathematics with Miss
Mary Ellen McWilliams as a critic teacher, and Miss Gertrude
Gardner is supervising Miss Chubb and Miss McHenry.
There are seven more doing their practice teaching in the
;

Bloomsburg High School. Assisting

in

the project are the fol-

lowing cooperating teachers: Edward Brown, William Shutt,
William Reed and Wesley Knorr. Assigned to Mr. Brown are
Robert Joy, Bloomsburg, and Edith Fling, Glenside. Mr. Joy is
teaching Salesmanship, while Miss Fling has classes in typewriting and shorthand. Harry Zavacki, Simpson, is working
with Mr. Shutt’s typewriting and Junior Business Training classes, and William Horvath, Allentown, is teaching shorthand and
typewriting.

Miss June Niles, Wellsboro, and Joseph Lyons, WilkesBarre, are doing their student teaching under the supervision of
Mr. Reed who teaches bookkeeping and business mathematics,
while Joseph Barchock, Wilkes-Barre, has Mr. Knorr’s guidance in advanced classes in shorthand and typewriting.
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The outstanding record compiled by the placement department of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been continued with the present graduating class of the College, it was
announced by Joseph K. Bailer, Director of Secondary Education.
Most of the eighteen persons who were graduated at the
first semester with the degree of Bachelor of Science
education have already secured positions in their chosen pro-

end of the
in

fession.

These graduates are beginning work in their new positions:
Miss Pauline G. Egizie, Berwick, will teach in the high school at
Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. She was graduated in the field of
secondary education with a major in science and social studies.
Miss Gloria M. Gillis, Duryea, has accepted a teaching position in the business education department of Towson, Maryland, High School. In addition to being certified to teach all
commercial subjects, Miss Gillis is qualified to teach English

and

social studies.

George H. Gillung, Brockway, Pennsylvania, has accepted
a position in the Millersburg High School. He is teaching in the
department of business education. He is also certified to teach
social studies.
Charles C.

Harmany, Bloomsburg, is a member of the speeducation staff in elementary schools of Allentown. He is
qualified to teach speech correction and specialized in education for the mentally retarded.
Robert F. Hartman, Bloomsburg, has accepted a teaching
position in the Mt. Penn High School, Reading. He is a member
of the commercial education department and teaches various
cial

commercial subjects.
Xen Hosier, Allentown, has notified the placement department that he has accepted a position with a prominent Allen-

town

industrial concern.

He

is

a

member

of the office staff.

Frances C. Mylet, Sugarloaf, is teaching in the elementary
schools in Lewistown, while J. Robert Zerby, Herndon, has accepted a similar position in the Allentown elementary schools.
Two other graduates have chosen teaching positions in
New York State public schools. Paul F. Rowlands, Plymouth, is
teaching in the business education department in Mt. Upton,
New York, High School, while Robert Warrington, Sunbury,
has accepted a position in the Cortland, New York, public
schools.

George W. Smith, Shamokin,
coaches baseball
School.

He

is

is

teaching mathematics and

in the McAllisterville, Pennsylvania,
also certified to teach English.

High

Forty-three students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College have been named on the Dean’s Honor List for the first semester 1946-47, according to an announcement made by Dr.
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Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction. Twenty-six students are
members of the freshman class. All persons named received a
quality point average of 2.5 or better for their first semester
work. Upper classmen must maintain a cumulative average of
at least 2.0 while in attendance at the College.
The following students were named Seniors Mrs. Laura
Davis, Denver, Colorado; Margaret H. Luchi, Conyngham Walter Kritzberger, Luzerne; Haniet W. Rhodes, Bloomsburg;
Juniors
Anne E. Baldy, Catawissa Elroy Dalberg, Windber;
Maltha Hathaway, Danville; Elizabeth Lehet, Wilkes-Barre;
Harold W. Reineit, Slatington Jean H. Richard, Bloomsburg;
Ralph Seltzer, Espy; Marion E. Wilson, Kis-Lyn Sophomores
Ralph W. Baird, Bloomsburg; Verna G. Cope, Berwick, Alberta
G. Funk, Danville; John M. Purcell, Shenandoah; Anne E.
Wright, Bloomsburg; Freshmen Joan Bergdoll, York; Frederick Cook, Hazleton
Ruth Elder, Berwick, Robeit Eshleman,
Bloomsburg; Shirley Gauger, Watsontown; George Gera, Eckley; James Hantjis, Berwick, David Jones, Dunmore; Alfred
Kovell, Paxinos; Mary Louise Lohr, Berwick; Francis Luchnick,
Mt. Carmel; Donald F. Maietta, Williamsport; Alfred J. Mar-

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:

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;

;

;

—

;

Tamaqua Leo E. Maitin, Wilkes-Barre Betsey S. McKay, Glenside; Wilmer F. Nester, Emmaus Sarah J. Robertson,
Foxburg; Barbara Schiffman, Harrisburg; William Stimeling,
Berwick; Martha Teel, Bloomsburg; Rose A. Thomson, Towanda; Carl K. Walton, Allentown; Josephine Wesenyak, Duryea;
John Wiedenman, Harrisburg; Ted H. Wiedenman, Harrisburg;
Frederick Ziegler, Scranton.
chetti,

;

;

;

.

•

One way to overcome the
bring your home with you.
That is what a number of
all

present housing shortage
G.

1.

is

to

college students are doing

over the nation.

Two of those, both married and with children, who are attending State Teachers College, have trailers parked on a lot of
J. P. Zeigler, East Fourth Street, and all members of each family unit are satisfied with the accommodations and are getting
along nicely.
One thing that makes it attractive to the children in the
families is that there are many youngsters in the neighborhood
and there is certainly no shortage of playmates.
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Urich, of Halifax, Pa., and their two
children, John, Jr., three, and daughter, Renee, almost seven
months, occupy one of the trailers and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart
Becktel and their son, Clifford, aged four, of Elizabethville, the
other.

Urich is taking the first year of his college work at the
Teachers College, but plans to continue at the Pennsylvania
State College next Fall. He will major in business administration.

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He served for three years in the United States Navy during
World War II and in that period served in the Atlantic, European, Asiatic and C. B. 1. zones.
Mr. Becktel served for six years in the United States Army,
being in the Adjutant General’s Department. For three years'
he was in the Pacific Theatre. He is taking a course in the Business Education Department at the College, now being in the
second semester. He plans to complete his work here.
Both men are taking aviation courses as a second semester
elective. This includes some flight instruction at the local airport.

9
“Peace in 1947 is discussed in terms of representation,
and religion,’’ President Harvey A. Andruss of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College told the Luzerne County
League of Women Voters recently, following a noon luncheon
meeting held in the Y. W. C. A. at Wilkes-Barre. Speaking on
the subject, “The Three R’s in Modern Life,’’ President Andruss
pointed out that the old-time fundamentals of education must
be supplemented by a study of representative government, racial cooperation, and religious understanding.
The Wilkes-Barre group had as its general topic for discussion, “What We May Expect of Public Schools in a Demoraces,

cratic Society.’’

peace is not onlj'^ a world problem, Mr.
also a drudgery problem with sixty cents
out of every tax dollar going to pay for wars, past, present and
future. “The best way to balance the budget,’’ President Andruss declared, “is to perpetuate the peace.’’
In developing the theme of his address, Mr. Andruss discussed the role of representative government in the public
schools and in the nation. He said that the best place for boys
and girls to learn and practice the rights and responsibilities of
representative government is in the schools.
In conclusion. President Andruss discussed the current
dilemma of the teaching profession and suggested that the current move to raise teachers’ salaries is not the sole answer to
the question of him to keep good teachers in the profession and
attract woith while people into teaching. “We must take steps
to develop more accurate evaluations for teaching and learning
so that effective teaching will be rewarded.’’ The social rights
of teachers as individuals must be recognized and incentives for
teachers to grow and progress in their profession must be offered. These incentives will enable schools to be effective institutions because they will help make good teachers to make
Indicating that

Andruss said

them

it

so.

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Dr. J. Frank Dame, acting Director of the Department of
Business Education, State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, has
been named editor of the Journal of the United Business Education Association. The Association is a Department of the
National Education Association and plans to make its journal a
full-fledged business education magazine covering all phases of
the field. The first issue of the Journal should reach members
of the organization during the month of March.
Dr. Dame, who is co-author of the book “Prognosis Guidance and Placement in Business Education,” is also the author
of many popular articles in his field. He has had considerable
experience in supervision and secondary education in addition
to his more recent work in business teacher-training institutions.
Dr. Dame is a member of the Executive Committee of the Eastern Commercial Teachers Association and is active in other professional groups.
In his work with the new publication. Dr. Dame will be assisted by a staff of specialists in each of the following divisions:
stenography and typewriting, bookkeeping and accounting,
general clerical occupations, and distributive occupations. Supervisors, classroom teachers, and leaders in the field of business
and commercial life will contribute aiticles of interest to workers in the field. Space will be devoted to activities within the
United Business Education Association, such as testing programs, Future Business Leaders of America Clubs, and National

Headquarters notes.
Dr. Dame wrote in the first editorial of the new publication, “We are embarking on a tremendous enterprise
(and)
I am possessed with a great feeling of humility and a heartfelt
.

.

.

desire for the personal cooperation of all business teachers
everywhere. Only through such action can success in any measure be achieved.”
•

Ten students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
attended the thirteenth annual conference of the Eastern States
Association of Professional Schools for Teachers held March
20, 21 and 22 at the Hotel Commodore in New York City. Miss
Ethel A. Ranson and Joseph R. Bailer, of the College faculty,
accompanied the group to the conference.
William Horvath, Allentown, president of the Community
Government Association, spoke at the conference on the subject, “Is Asia Becoming More Democratic?” while Betty L.
Fisher, Bloomsburg, presented the topic, “Musical Milestones
The Negro’s Gift to American Culture.” Miss F’isher is the secretary of the College Council.
The following students attended the conference: William
Horvath, Allentown, president of C. G. A. Robert Martin, Edwardsville, vice-president of C. G. A. Betty L. Fisher, Blooms;

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burg, secretary of the C. G. A.; Joseph Lyons, Wilkes-Barre,
treasurer of C. G. A.; Shirley Reiser, Dalton, president of Waller Hall Association; Janet Gilbody, Bloomsburg, student representative from Pennsylvania on the Board of Control of the
Eastern States Association of Professional Schools for Teachers Shirley Henley, Scranton, representative of the Sophomore
class; Jack O’Donnell, Coaldale, president of the Sophomore
class; Herman Kuster, Bloomsburg, president of the Freshman
class, and William Deebel, Ringtown, delegate-at-large.
;

•
Mrs. Amelia M. Swentek, the first woman advertising writWyoming Valley and former resident of Danville section,
died recently at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Hannon,
following a lingering illness. Her husband, the late Paul Swentek, Danville businessman, died July 8, 1911, after which she
carried on the business interests.
Mrs. Swentek was born in Vilyna, Poland and came to Nanticoke with her parents, August and Volchner Matuke, when a
child. She resided in Nanticoke for many years and attended
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, afterward becoming manager of the shoe department in the Glen Alden Coal Company
store at Nanticoke.
Following her marriage Mrs. Swentek moved to Danville
where she resided 42 years. She was active in the civic life of
that community. Deceased was a member of St. Hubert’s
Church, Danville, the Altar and Rosary Society, and the Beneficial Society. She was also a member of the Mother’s Assistance Fund and president of the Republican Women of Danville.
Since residing in Wilkes-Barre, she had been a member of St.
Aloysius Church and the Altar and Rosary Society of that parer in

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Louis P. Lochner, noted newspaper correspondent, who
will deliver the commencement address at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College on Monday, May twenty-sixth, has just
returned from Germany where he served as political advisor on
the Food Mission headed by Herbert Hoover, President Harvey
A. Andruss was advised recently. While in Germany, Mr. Lochner gathered the very latest and most reliable data on the
stricken nation such material as would ordinarily be denied to
any correspondent other than on an official mission for the gov;

ernment.
This material, which he will incorporate in his address,
will assure his listeners of hearing the latest facts about Germany and the problems faced by the occupation forces of the
United States, Britain, France and Russia. A former Pulitzer
prize winner, Mr. Lochner will also present the “inside story’’
about Germany based on twenty-two years of living and rePage Twenty-Four

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polling in the country and intimate and personal relations with
the leaders of the beaten Nazi party.
No other American has a more outstanding background
with which to answer the question, “What About Germany

Now?”
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A brief but inspiring program based on a patriotic theme
featured the regular assembly program Tuesday morning, February 25. “The timeliness of the theme,” said Miss Ann Baldy,
Catawissa, president of the Women’s Chorus, who presided
over the assembly, “was in harmony with the month of February birth month of great Americans.”
President Harvey A. Andruss presented the first of our national ideals. Righteousness, by reading an excerpt from the
writing of Benjamin Franklin. A quotation from Woodrow
Wilson on the second of our nation’s ideals. Education, was read
by the student body which also read a well-known extract from
the pen of George Washington, entitled “Justice,” a third of
our national ideals.
The Women’s Chorus, under the direction of Miss Harriet
M. Moore, sang “This is My Country,” by Jacob-Scott. Miss
Maltha Hathaway was the accompanist.
This excellent bit of choral singing was followed by the
Men’s Glee Club who presented two numbers. “Eternal Father,
Strong to Save,” the Navy hymn, and “Stouthearted Men,” by
Romberg. Miss Moore directed the Glee Club, while the accompanist was Miss June Keller.,
The program was concluded by the singing of “America.”

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A recent announcement of a meeting of the Commission on
Evaluting Teacher Education indicates that President Harvey
A. Andruss, of the Teachers College, is a member of the executive

committee of ten men who

will direct this

joint project

of

the Cooperative Commission on Teacher Education in Pennsylvania and the Association for the advancement of teaching.
The executive committee includes representatives from
Temple University, Pennsylvania College for VComen, Gettysburg College, University of Pennsylvania, Mount Mercy College, Lehigh University and the superintendent of York public
schools.

On January 30-31 and Eebruary 1 meetings were held at
the Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, where President Andruss
represented the State Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania in this
voluntary procedure for the improvement of the education of
teachers.
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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

H. Nelson
President
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Vice-President
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Secretary
Harriet Carpenter
Treasurer
Fred W. Diehl
Edward F. Schuyler
H. F. Fenstemaker
Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler
E.

1885
Mrs. Annie M. Melick, former president of the Delaware
County Federation of Women’s Club, died Saturday, February
1,

in

Bryn

Mawr

Hospital.

Mrs. Melick, who lived in suburban Swaithmore, headed
the federation from 1929 to 1938. She also was a former president of the Women’s Club of Media and founder of the Women’s Republican Club of Pennsylvania.
Born in Bloomsburg, Pa., she was graduated from Bloomsburg State Normal School and taught music before her marriage to Elmer E. Melick, former Philadelphia textile executive,
who died in 1933.
Mrs. Melick was a director of the Women’s Division of the
Sesque-Centennial Exposition in 1926. In 1931 she won the
Philadelphia Soroptimist Club award for civic service and from
1931 to 1934 she was chairman of the press, and publicity committee of the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. She served as
Pennsylvania vice chairman of the advisory committee on women’s participation in the New York World’s Fair.
Mrs. Melick is survived by two sons. Dr. Joe M. Melick, of
Worcester, Mass., and James B. Melick, of Westport, Conn.; a
daughter, Mrs. H. Chandlee Turner, of Haverford, Pa. a brother, Charles W. Miller, of Riverside, Calif., and two sisters, Mrs.
Gertrude M. Postle, of Van Nuys, Calif., and Mrs. Vida M. Pursel, of Bloomsburg, Pa.
;

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1888
Elizabeth Lewis Price, of Plains, died recently at the home
of her son in Hazleton, following an illness of three months.
She was the widow of Hugh Price, a former superintendent of
Dorrance Colliery, of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company. Mr.
Price passed away twenty years ago.
Mrs. Price was born at Spring Brook, but came to Plains at
an early age. After her graduation from Bloomsburg, she
taught for several years in the schools of Plains. She was an
active member of the Miner Congregation Church, a member of
the official board, and a teacher of a Sunday School class for
twenty years. She was also active in the Ladies’ Aid Society.
Mrs. Price was also a member of the Pittston Chapter of
the Order of Eastern Star, and was a past matron of the chapter.
She was also affiliated with the Knights Templar Auxiliary.

She

survived by her

is

sister,

two

and four grandchild-

sons,

ren.

1892

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1895
Mrs. Eugene F. Carpenter, of Yeadon, the former Mary
Everett, passed away in February, at the home of a daughter.
Miss Marion F. Carpenter, Beacon,* New York, of heart disease
from which she had suffered for several years.
A native of Bloomsburg, she was the daughter of the late
Frank and Anna Hartman Everett, and a granddaughter of the
late I. W. Hartman, of town, with whom she resided after the
death of her mother. She graduated from the Bloomsburg High
School in 1894 and Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1895.
She and her husband left Bloomsburg about thiity years ago.
She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. She and
her husband would have celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary next November 10.
Surviving are her husband, two sons. Dr. Eugene F. Carpenter, Jr., of Yeadon, a surgeon at the Hahnemann Hospital,
Philadelphia and Frank R. Carpenter, of Washington, D. C.
two daughters, Mrs. A. W. Burr, of Claymont, Delaware and
Miss Marian F. Carpenter, Beacon, N. Y. nine grandchildren,
one brother, Fred Everett, of Bloomsburg, and two sisters, Mrs.
;

;

Laura

Thiell,

Washington,

D. C., and

PJrs.

Rodney

Sechler,

Phoenix, Arizona.

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1906
of

Edwin M. Barton, supervisor of social studies in the schools
Elizabeth, New Jersey, was elected president of the New

Jersey Association of Teachers of Social Studies, an affiliate of
the New Jersey Education Association, at an annual meeting
Saturday, November 9, 1946, in Atlantic City. Mr. Barton is
also a member of the Middle States Social Studies Council, The
National Council for Social Studies, the New Jersey Education
Association, and the Elizabeth Teachers Association. He has
been supervisor of social studies in Elizabeth since 1929. His
address in Elizabeth is 218 Keats Avenue.

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1947

1909
Bishop Robert Franklin Wilner is helping to rebuild the
shattered life of the city of Manila. A native of Forty Fort,
Bishop Wilner was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School, and attended Temple University and the Philadelphia Divinity School before being ordained a deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1928 and a priest in 1929.
Previous to that, he had been engaged in secretarial work
in Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia, but an appointment as a
missionary to China by the Board of Missions of the Episcopal
Church came to him in 1915. For the next ten years he served
as assistant treasurer of the China Mission at Shanghai, and
later at

Hangkow.

a member of the staff of the St. Stephen’s Mission to the Chinese at Manila in 1928, and in 1929 was named
assistant priest of the Church of the Resurrection at Baguio.
While at Baguio, he was elected Suffragan Bishop, and in 1938
he was consecrated Bishop of the Philippine Islands, a post
which he occupies today in the war-torn islands. His home is

He became

in

Manila.

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1923
Mrs. Victoria Bundens returned to her teaching duties at
the Fifth Street school March 17, after being confined to her
home for nine weeks with a fractured ankle.

1927

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1929
Bloomsburg Night was observed recently at the Ebenezer
Welsh Presbyterian Church in Scranton, when Dorothy Schmidt
was the guest speaker. Miss Schmidt was interned in Manila
by the Japanese during the war, and returned recently from the
Philippines. William B. Jones, principal of the Abraham Lincoln School in Scranton, and a classmate of Miss Schmidt, planned the program and mailed invitations to all class members.
1932

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24,

1947

Paul I. Reichart, formerly of Light Street and now residing in Bloomsburg, is opening a general agency for the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company here. Mr. Reichait has
been associated with life insurance for twelve years and has a
firm knowledge of the field.
Much of his experience has been in the supervisory field
and for several years the work in which he was engaged dealt
with personnel and training, as well as insurance underwriting.
He is bringing this broad experience into the agency which
he is now opening for Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, with the office at Room 100 of the former Legion Build-

Main and Center Streets.
The area which he will supervise consists of ten
including Columbia and Montour.
A graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
ing,

class of 1931,

counties,

College,

he taught school for three years.

He

did well in teaching but became increasingly interested
Starting as a local agent he began selling insurance shortly after his college graduation and then was promoted to district manager of four central Pennsylvania counties,
working out of Lewistown. He was promoted in 1937, going to
Columbus, Ohio, as a special agent in life insurance. The following year he went to Baltimore, Md., as supervisor for a life
insurance company.
For five and a half years he was in Raleigh, N. C., as as-

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manager of a life and casualty insurance company and
for the past two years he was employed with the Lumberman’s
Mutual Casualty Company in Illinois as the state manager.
sistant

1934

Arden Roan, of Espy, has been elected principal of the
Beaver Township Consolidated School. He became a teacher in
the school in September, 1945.

1935
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph

Townsend, of East Street, Bloomsburg, announce the engagement of their daughter. Dawn Elizabeth, to Sterling G. Harvey, son of Mrs. Mary M. Haiwey, of
Bloomsburg.
Miss Townsend is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School
and received her Bachelor of Science Degree in kindergarten
and primary education at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, an honorary sorority.
Miss Townsend has been a popular and efficient second
grade teacher at Fifth Street School for the past ten years.
Mr. Harvey is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and
attended the University of Florida and Bucknell University,
where he was a mem.ber of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.
L.

He served eleven years in the United States Army Air
Corps, one year of which was spent in the South and West Pacific Theaters.
He was discharged last May with the rank of
colonel.
Until recently he was associated with the H. & M. dry
cleaning firm, here. He has accepted a position with Ford Motor Company and expects to leave in the near future for Dear-

born, Mich.

The wedding

will

take place

in

June.

Helen Hartman (Mrs. Stephen Cimbola),

lives at 115 VicPittsburgh 27, Pennsylvania. From September,
1935, until November, 1941, she was employed as a secretary
to the Resettlement Board of Corporation Taxes, Department of
Revenue, Harrisburg. She was maiTied June 22, 1938, to Stephen J. Cimbola, of Hazleton. Mr. Cimbola is employed as an accountant with the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. Mr.
and Mrs. Cimbola have a son, who was born November 4, 1943.

toria Drive,

1936

LaRue

Beaver Consolidated School for the past ten and a half years and
widely known in the county, has resigned his position and has
become supervising principal of the Highspire borough schools.
Dauphin county.
He is a graduate of the Bloomsburg Teachers College, and
got his Master’s Degree at Temple University.
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He went to Beaver for the opening of the school term of
1936 and that year an eleventh grade was added.
The present consolidated school building built during the
depression as a
project and one of the finest small school
plants in the area, opened at the start of the 1937 term and
since that time Beaver has offered a complete four-year secondary program. The school, since moving into the present building, has operated on the six-six plan.
There are four hundred students in the Highspire school,
of whom 209 are in the junior-senior high school. He will be in
charge of a system which employs twenty teachers.
Mrs. Derr and their two children will reside in Shumans
until they are able to secure a home at Highspire.

WPA

Kenneth C. Merrill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Merrill, of
Light Street, has accepted a position with the mathematics department of the Moorestown, New -Jersey, High School.
Mr. Merrill, who graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College, took graduate work at Bucknell, Rutgers and Temple Universities. He taught in the schools of Orangeville, Turbotville and Palmyra, N. J., where from 1941 to 1946 he was
director of the Palmyra High School Band, which won the
award of merit at the University of Pennsylvania Cultural
Olympics.
Mr. and Mrs. Merrill and their two children live in Riverton, N. J.
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1939
Robert Reimard, of Bloomsburg, has been appointed manager of the Bloomisburg farm store of Sears, Roebuck and Company. Mr. Reimard has been with Sears since April, 1946. During the war he was a lieutenant, senior grade, in the Navy,
serving in the Pacific Area.

1940

The marriage

of Miss Ehiora Unger, daughter of Mrs. Roland Unger, of Danville, and V/illiam Houck, son of Mr. and
Mrs. M. E. Houck, of West Front Street, was performed on November 29, 1946, in the Baptist parsonage, of Danville. The
groom’s father was superintendent of Berwick Schools for many
years.
Mrs. Houck is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and was a teacher in the Danville High School.
Mr. Houck graduated from Penn State and was discharged
from the United States Army in October of 1945. He served
thirty-nine months overseas. He is now em.ployed in State Conservation work at Lowville, New York, where the couple are
residing.
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1941

George Lewis, of Bloomsburg,
ship High School, at Espy.
1942

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Miss Audrey Loose, of Oxford, England, and Paul A. Klingwere married Saturday, January 11, in the Bower
Memorial EUB Church. Dr. Adam C. Ruth, pastor of the
church, united the couple with the single ring ceremony before
an altar decorated with baskets of cut flowers, palms and caner,

of town,

dles.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Loose, of
Oxford, England. She attended Art College at Oxford, England, after which she served with the Royal Air Force for a period of five years.

The groom, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Klinger, of
510 Chestnut Street, is a commercial teacher in the Berwick
schools, having graduated from Berwick High in the class of
1938, and from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1942.
Mr. Klinger served over three years in the Air Force and was
located in England for two and a half years.
Scoring 64 points,

Muncy Consolidated

Schools wrestling

team took the championship of District Four in the district meet
at Muncy. Coach Stanley Schuyler, formerly of Berwick, received a gold cup for managing the team and coming through
victorious. The team defeated Shamokin, Sunbury and Hugheshigh schools

order to take the district honors.
letters and wrestling and football at B. S. T. C. He is also a graduate of Watsontown High
School. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Schuyler, of East
Tenth Street, Berwick.
Merrill A. Deitrich received the degree of master of business administration from the University of Pennsylvania in Irvine Auditorium on the university campus in Philadelphia February 15.
Mr. Deitrich is a Bloomsburg State Teachers College graduate and served in World War 11 as a lieutenent in the Marine
Air Corps.
He is now employed as an accountant in Price, Waterhouse
& Company, of Philadelphia.
ville

in

The former Berwickian won

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1946
at

Henry Gatski, of Bloomsburg, is teacher and
the Scott Township High School, in Espy.

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The 1947 Commencement
Telling the members of the graduating class of the Blooms^
burg State Teachers College that they are destined to play a
part in America’s collective task in Germany—the proving
ground of democracy Louis P. Lochner, internationally known

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that “If we fail to make democracy a success in western Germany, the entire Reich is bound to become a prey to communist
ideology.”
Lochner, who for eighteen years was head of the Berlin
bureau of the Associated Press and who recently was a member of the Herbert Hoover mission studying the economic situation in Europe, was emphatic that “once all Germany has gone
communist, the whole of Europe is more than likely to become
a totalitarian continent in which freedom as we understand it
will

have ceased

to exist.”

Pointing out that our occupation duties are likely to continue for decades, he told the graduates that “through your
classes, therefore, will pass many a youngster who later will be
sent overseas to help carry the message of democracy to the nation we have conquered. Also, you will be teaching a generation before it. Every advancing year involves us more deeply in
international relations. An enlightened public opinion, backgrounded by what you and thousands of other teachers will implant in the minds of the coming generation, will be essential to
make our role in international relations a force for good
“Our stake in Germany is a great one. It is nothing short
of saving the world from totalitarianism by making democracy
work in the area most endangered. Will you help to win that
stake ?
Degrees Presented

There were seventy-three members of the class of 1947

who were awarded degrees of Bachelor of Science in Education.
Some of the class completed their work early this year but the
majority finished in the semester closing with the exercises.
President Harvey A. Andruss, of the college, presented the degrees.

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1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., imder the Act of July 16,
1804.
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The exercises opened with the processional “Festival Procession,” R. E. Marryott. William B. Sutliff, dean emeritus, gave
the invocation. Following the address there was an organ selection, “Romanza,” R. S. Schumann. President Andruss conferred the degrees, the assembly sang “Alma Mater” and the recessional was “March De La Cloche,” Leo Delibes. Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the music with H. F. Fenstemaker, at
the console of the Hammond organ.
The Address
Lochner spoke largely of Germany, which he knows intimately and where he believes the job must be done if democracy is to prosper and communism to be halted.
In his introduction he touched for a moment on the salary
situation for teachers and declared that “America cannot pose
effectively in the world as the outstanding champion of democracy unless an enlightened people at home guides and supports
the efforts of our envoys abroad.
“For the rearing of an enlightened democracy and for the
perpetuation of the high ideals of the founders of our nation,
in a more decisive position than the teacher. Yet, grotesque as it may seem, and contrary to all sound
reasoning as it is, we have let the teaching profession become
one of the most underpaid of public service.”
Speaking on American opinion and how it is formed Lochner observed, “I see the deplorable fact that many Americans
seem no longer to do their own thinking, to make up their own
minds, to arrive at own opinions, but prefer to hear or read what
their favorite commentator or columnist has to offer in the way
of predigested intellectual fodder.”
While he admitted that any easy way to deal with the Germany problem was to speak of all Germans as being alike, he
pointed out this is not the case any more than all in America

no individual stands

are alike.

“Now,” said Lochner, “we realize that unconstitutional surrender has an important corollary, unconditional responsibility
for the fate of the defeated country. It is costing the American
tax payers at least three hundred million dollars annually to
keep our zone of Germany going. It is therefore an investment
that well merits our scrunity.”
In the occupation he said that three negative policies of denazification, demilitarization and deindustrialization, “took so
much of our time and energy that almost nothing was done the
first year-and-a-half in the way of reeducating the German people in the ways of democracy.
“The German problem is an exceedingly complicated one.
There is the heritage of nazism, which has brought terrible
havoc in the German soul. There are the natural resentments
of a lost war. There is the loosening of morals attendant upon
every armed conflict. There are the tragedies of insufficient
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housing, under-feeding, lack of clothing which ceitainly do not
improve the morale of the conquered. There is the ever present
communist propaganda which thrives on misery and finds its
best breeding ground in unstable economic conditions.
“But there is also a willingness and readiness to renounce
nazism and embrace democracy, apparent especially, surprising
though this may seem to many of you, in the younger generation.

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“I wish I could take you into my study and show you the
correspondence which I conducted during my one-and-a-half
post-war years in Germany and which I am still carrying on
today, with thinking Germans in all walks of life, in which there
German hunger for new ideas,
is revealed something of the
something of the soul-searching for knowledge of what has
been and is going on in the rest of the world, something of the
soul-searching in which honest Germans are indulging to find
out what must be done to lead the outlawed country back into
the family of nations.”
Speaking of the recently formulated educational policies
in Germany as “gratifying, positive and constructive,” he said
that before such a program can reach full fruitition, “it is imperative that hunger and starvation be eliminated and that shelter and work be provided for its teeming millions.
“Germany, by the outcome of this war, has become the
proving ground of democracy in the very heart of Europe. We
Americans with our outlook upon life find ourselves in keeji
competition there with the dictatorial way of life, represented
by Soviet Russia.”

Final Word to Class
President Andruss told the class:
“Having granted degrees to this class, there remains only
one pleasant duty for the president of the College to perform.
It has been my custom to address a last work to graduating
classes for a number of years.
“This year I would like to call your attention to two quotations contained in the Seventh Year Book of the Future Teachers of America. By combining them, my message may be called
“The Teacher and Three-Point Minds.”
“We cannot expect people to respond to new ideas on the
first presentation.
The propagation of a new idea up to the
point of action is an art and a science. People do not receive
new ideas readily. They must be approached again and again.
A few people get an idea by the third time it is presented they
may be said to have three-point minds; other people require
that an idea be presented five times and some many more. Advertisers know this and when seeking to sway the masses present the same idea thousands of times. Anyone who has sought
to make some improvement in public policy must feel the force
of the following quotation, from the “Prophet” by Horace
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said, ‘I see.’ And they said, ‘He’s crazy; crucify him.’
said ‘I see,’ And they said, ‘He’s an extremist.’ And
they tolerated him. And he continued to say: ‘I see.’ And they
said ‘He’s eccentric.’ And they rather liked him but smiled at
him. And he stubbornly said again: ‘I see.’ And they said:
‘There’s something in what he says.’ And they gave him half
an ear. But he said as if he’d never said it before: ‘I see.’ And

“He

He

still

:

:

and they gathered about him and
at last they were awake
built a temple in his name And yet he only said ‘I see.’ And
they wanted to do something for him.
“
‘What can we do to express to you our regret?’ He only
smiled. He touched them with the ends of his fingers and kissed
;

:

What could they do for him? ‘Nothing more than you
have done,’ he answered. And what was that? they wanted to
know. ‘You see,’ he said, ‘that’s reward enough; you see, you
them.

see.’

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The other quotation, from “A Tribute to the Teacher” by
Joy Elmer Morgan follows:
“The teacher is a prophet. He lays the foundations of tomorrow.
“The teacher

is an aitist. He works with the precious clay
of unfolding personality.
“The teacher is a friend. His heart responds to the faith
and devotion of his students.
“The teacher is a citizen. He is selected and licensed for
the improvement of society.
“The teacher is an interpreter. Out of his maturer and
wider life he seeks to guide the young.
“The teacher is a builder. He works with the higher and
finer values of civilization.
“The teacher is a culture-bearer. He leads the way toward

worthier tastes, saner attitudes, more gracious manners, higher
intelligence.

“The teacher is a planner. He sees the young lives before
before him as a part of a great system which shall grow stronger in the light of truth.
“The teacher is a pioneer. He is always attempting the
impossible and winning out.
“The teacher is a reformer. He seeks to remove the handicaps that weaken and destroy life.
“The teacher is a believer. He has abiding faith in the
improvability of the race.”
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George DeMott, well-known entertainer, presented an unusual program of slight-of-hand and juggling at the weekly
program at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held in the
Carver Hall Auditorium Tuesday, July 9.
Mr. DeMott, who gave a brief history of the art of juggling
before presenting his routine, demonstrated unusual skill and
dexterity in his program of entertainment.
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Baccalaureate Sermon
Members of the Teachers College graduating class at baccalaureate service in the Carver Hall auditorium were admonished by the Rev. Stuart F. Cast, Washington, D. C., to use their
talents for good, overriding discouragement and employing
every effort to accomplish what God has placed in their hearts
for

them to do.
The Rev. Mr.

Cast, now rector of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C., is a former
rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, here.
The service opened with the prelude “Larghetto,” L. Bottazzo. The processional was “Ancient of Days.’’ The Rev. Mr.
Cast gave the invocation and the congregation sang the hymn
“Faith of Our Fathers.” President Harvey A. Andruss, of the
college, read Isaiah 56 as the Scripture lesson.
The Rev. Mr. Gass spoke on “The Call of Life,” and Miss
Jean Gilbert, with Miss Patricia Clark as the accompanist, sang
“O Divine Redeemer.” The service concluded with the benediction by the Rev. Mr. Gast and the recessional, “Awake My
Soul.” The postlude was “Benedicamus Domino,” KornmuellerMonar. Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the music with H. F.
Fenstemaker at the console.
Using for his text a quotation from the Book of Nehemiah,
“What my God had put it in my heart to do,” the Rev. Mr. Gast
emphasized the greatness of Nehemiah’s call in life and stressed
the fact that there is a call for everyone and especially at this
time of graduation when youth is at the crossroads.
“To accomplish this purpose,” he said, “one should make
certain that the heart is filled with the desire to ‘do the job’ and
prompted by God to seek His blessing on our every effort. It is
in harmony with God’s will we can ask His blessing and test it
by making certain that it brings good not only to one’s self but
also to others as well
“Certain results come from knowing the purpose is God’s
namely, the creation of steadfastness as we realize that our job
is part of a Divine plan and therefore we can face difficulties
and discouragements that otherwise might be too much to bear.
The speaker hoped that the job was tough; otherwise it
was not worth the title of ‘life work.’
Stressing the fact that the majority of persons cannot be
outstanding leaders but persons who make little or no impression in unimportant positions, the rector said that the knowledge
of being part of a Divine plan would serve to give incentive to
everyone to do little things in the spirit of greatness and thus
deliver us from the increasing irritations over life’s littleness.
“The democratic way of life,” he continued,” is one which
places value on the individual as contrasted with the totalitarian
ideology in which the state alone has any real value. So we
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ents for good, overriding any discouragements and employing

every effort to accomplish ‘what

God had put

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heart to

do’.”

The Rev. Mr. Cast closed with Overstreet’s

lines

‘‘You say the little efforts that I make
Will do no good
They never will prevail
To top the hovering scale
Where justice hangs in balance.
I don’t think
I ever thought they would.

But I am prejudiced beyond debate
In favor of my right to choose which side
Shall feel the stubborn ounces of my weight.”
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A

cooperative sales training program has been operated
at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College during the summer
session and will continue throughout the regular school year in
connection with the retail selling sequence of the business curriculum at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. This program is composed of store practice which is necessary for certification to teach retail selling in the high schools of Pennsylvania.

This program includes actual store practice in a number of
stores in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. At the present time
there are thirteen students enrolled for this course who are employed in Bloomsburg, Berwick, Danville, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Tunkhannock and Philadelphia. Students are given actual
practice in these stores so that they will be better qualified to
teach high school students how to sell.
These students are working in a number of various types of
stores ranging from Wanamakers in Philadelphia to small stores
in this area as well as chain and independent stores. During this
period of training the students will receive practical experience
in the various phases of a retail store operation including receiving, marking, shipping, selling, buying, advertising and display work.
All work which the students are doing this summer will be
supervised by the College through the coordinator Charles H.
Henrie. This supervision will include visits to the stores as well
as written reports from the employers. Students will also participate in group conferences to be held at the College during
the summer. The program this summer is just the beginning of
an expansion of the retail selling program in the Department
of Business Education which will be continued next school year
with students working in a number of the local stores while attending school. During the coming year there will be approximately two hundred students taking courses in salesmanship
and one hundred students studying merchandise information.

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Ivy

Day

Declaring that the members of the Teachers College graduating class must “pledge our support to any situation which
arises that will be of benefit to the maintaining of peace,” Harold Swisher, Falls Church, Va., delivered the traditional Ivy
Day address during Senior Day activities.
While several hundred watched the ceremony, the class
planted the ivy along the west wall of the Waller Hall gymnasium.
Harry John, of Bloomsburg, president of the class of 1948,
accepted the Ivy Day spade on behalf of his class from Lado
Savelli and senior president, the ceremony concluded with the
singing of the Alma Mater.
Observing that most of the men in the graduating class are
World War 11 veterans, Swisher declared that “peace is the
closest thing to Heaven.”

The Oration
The Ivy Day

oration follows:
“It is my belief that Ivy Day exercises should reflect the
spirit of the day, and so I have chosen a rather broad topic, the
idea of working for peace.
“Most of the fellows irf this, the class of 1947, are veterans
of World War II, and the girls have gone through college during the trying years of war
as a result the class as a whole
might be called veterans
“We have encountered a great many difficulties, but the
main item which stands out in our mind is that we have overcome all the difficulties and emerged victorious. At the present
time, the road to peace seems to be blocked by arguments from
nations on all sides, and the road ahead looks very rough
however, our road was just as rough, but with proper guidance we
have come out on top, and so I am sure that our world troubles
will be settled, and an equal, as well as just peace, will be attained.
“We as teachers can now be a guiding hand in the establishment and maintaining of peace by molding the children into
good citizens. It is our duty to teach all the good we know to
these future citizens so that when they reach maturity they will
have the right ideals instilled in their minds.
“We also will be better prepared to teach these children
the correct ideals than those, who have graduated before us,
because we have had the actual experience we have gone
through the trying times, and we have indeed learned a lesson
not to be readily forgotten.
“Peace is a wonderful thing as a matter of fact, it seems
to be the closet thing to heaven. If we want to attain this standard we must pledge our full support to any situation which
arises that will be of benefit to the maintaining of peace.

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“Our world leaders are more or less the mouthpiece of the
people, but it is the masses who really determine what is to be
done. Hence, we must do all we can to uphold the standards
of liberty, help spread our doctrine throughout the world, and
teach the children in a manner that will be beneficial to the
peace of the world.
“In closing, we the class of 1947, plant this ivy with the
hope that it will grow and mature into full bloom as has our
country, and in addition, may it always gaze out on a world of
peace and happiness, rather than a world of war and destruction.”
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Forty-three students of the Teachers College were named
on the Dean’s Honor list for the first semester 1946-47, according to an announcement made by Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of
Instruction. Twenty-six students are members of the freshman
class. All persons named received a quality point average of
2.5 or better for their first semester work. Upper classmen must
maintain a cumulative average of at least 2.0 while in attendance at the College.
The following students were named: Seniors Mrs. Laura Davis, Denver, Colorado; Margaret H. Luchi, Conyngham; Walter Kritzberger, Luzerne; Harriet W. Rhodes, Bloomsburg; Juniors Anne E. Baldy, Catawissa;
Elroy Dalberg, Windber; Martha Hathaway, Danville; Elizabeth Lehet,
Wilkes-Barre; Harold W. Reinert, Slatington; Jean H. Richard, Bloomsburg;
Ralph Seltzer, Espy; Marion E. Wilson. Kis Lyn; Sophomores Ralph W.
Baird, Bloomsburg; Verna G. Cope, Berwick; Alberta G. Funk, Danville;
John M. Purcell, Shenandoah; Anne E. Wright, Bloomsburg; Freshmen Joan
Bergdoll, York; Frederick Cook, Hazleton; Ruth Elder,Berwick; Robert Esh-

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James Hantjis, Berwick; David Jones, Dunmore; Alfred Kovell, Paxinos;
Mary Louise Lohr, Berwick; Francis Luchnick, Mt. Carmel; Donald F. Maietta, Williamsport; Alfred J. Marchetti, Tamaqua; Leo E. Martin, WilkesBarre; Betsey S. McKay, Glenside; Wilmer F. Nester; Emmaus; Sarah J.
Robertson, Foxburg; Barbara Schiffman, Harrisburg; William Stimeling,
Berwick; Martha Teel, Bloomsburg; Rose A. Thompson, Towanda; Carl K.
Walton, Allentown; Josephine Wesenyak, Duryea; John Wiedenman, Harrisburg; Ted H. Wiedenman, Harrisburg; Frederick Ziegler, Scranton.
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Harry Reitz, Shamokin, was elected president of the Community Government Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in the annual all-college election. Mr. Reitz, a junior at the college, has been exceptionally active in campus activities and is manager of the varsity track team. He succeeds

William Horvath, Allentown, who graduated

in June.
Betty Lehet, Wilkes-Barre, was elected vice-president, and
Betty L. Fisher, Bloomsburg, w'as re-elected secretary. John
Purcell, Shenandoah, was chosen treasurer. All three are juniors and active in extra-curricular activities.
Retiring vice-president of the Community Government Association is Robert Martin, Edwardsville, while Joseph Lyons.
Wilkes-Barre, has held the office of treasurer.

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The senior class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
held their annual ball and banuet Thursday evening, May 26,
at the Lycoming Hotel in V/illiamsport. The seniors and their
guests assembled at 6 :30 o’clock in the dining room, where they
were served a delicious meal. Harold Swisher, general chairman of the ball, acted as toastmaster for the affair. The program began with singing of “America” by the group, followed
by the Invocation given by Helen Fehl. During the dinner,
group singing was enjoyed under the leadership of Betty
Adams.
The speakers

for the evening, introduced by the toastmaswere as follows Mr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean
of Instruction, and Mr. Howard Fenstemaker, Senior Class advisor. Harold Swisher thanked the committees and expressed

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After the singing of the Alma Mater, dancing was enjoyed
to the music of “The Esquires.”
The chairman and committees who started with the president, Lado Savelli, Mr. Rygiel, chairman of the senior commencement activities, and Mr. Fenstemaker, senior class advisGeneral chairman Haror, to make the affair a success were
Harry
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Hazleton; dance program chairman Feme VanSant, Numidia;
chairman, Nancy McBetty Adams, Dalmatia; decorations
Henry, Berwick; Irvin Yeager, Bloomsburg; refreshment
chairman, Dorothy Hornberger, Elysburg 'Dorothy Kucharski,
chairman, Robert Bird, Berwick;
Wilkes-Barre; orchestra
Harry Zavacky, Simpson Larry Doster, Wilkes-Barre Albert
Naunas, Bloomsburg; tickets and distribution chairman, Gerald Demaree, Berwick; Helen Fehl, Reading; transpoitation
chairman, Eugene Brady, Johnsonburg; publicity chairman,
Joseph Barchock, Wilkes-Barre; Shirley Reiser, Dalton; Mae
Klinger, Lykens investigation
chairman. John Whitby, Edwardsville Paul Lauderman, Hazleton Harold Swisher, Falls
Church, Va. John Bruner, Bloomsburg; invitation chairman,
Evelyn Hirt, Bloomsburg; Jane Gilbert, Hazleton. Host and
Clifton Skow, Bloomsburg; Marian Chubb, Troy.
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The Bloomsburg High School band under the direction of
Edwin T. McCormick was the guest of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Tuesday afternoon. May 12, when the College
presented its weekly radio program over Station WHWL, Nanticoke. The sixty-piece musical organization broadcast a halfhour concert program from the Carver Hall auditorium, beginning at two o’clock. Director McCormick presented a well-balanced program of band music for the broadcast.
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New

Faculty

Ralph

S.

Members

Herre, State College, Pennsylvania, and a native

West Webster, New York, has been named to the faculty of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, according to an announcement made recently by President Harvey A. Andruss,
of

Mr. Herre, who will complete all subject matter requirements
for the Doctor of Education Degree by the end of the 1947 summer session, will teach social studies and geography when the
regular fall term opens here in September.
After graduating from Pittsford, New York, High School,
Mr. Herre attended Colgate University where he was granted
the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1925. He received the degree of Master of Arts from the Teachers College at Albany.
New York, and attended summer sessions at the University of
Buffalo,

and Penn

State.

Following graduation from Colgate, Mr. Hen-e taught at
the Silver Creek, New York, High School. In 1926 he became
principal of the high school department in the State Normal
School at Brockport, New York. He left there in 1929 to accept
the principalship of the Leavenworth Central School at Wolcott,
New York, where he served until 1943. Since 1943 he has been
principal of the Senior High School at Lockport, New York, and
during the summer has been professor of the social studies at
the State Teachers College at Brockport, New York.
Mr. Herre is married and has two children. His wife is a
graduate of the Rochester, New York, Institute of Technology
in

Fine Arts.

Dr. J. Almus Russell, acting head of the English Departof Washington and Jefferson College, Washingtaon, Pennsylvania, has been named to the English Department of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, according to an announce-

ment

ment by President Harvey A. Andruss.
The new faculty member is an author of more than one
hundred articles published in educational and public magazines.
He brings a broad background of experience in supervision
and teaching to Bloomsburg. Following his graduation from
Dartmouth College in 1921, he taught for three years in secondary schools in Massachusetts and New York. He served for
five years as instructor in English at Colgate University. In 1934
he became head master at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Connecticut, but he resigned that position in 1937 to become head
of the English Department at Dakota Wesleyan University,
Mitchell, South Dakota.
He holds the Master of Arts Degree from Coniell University, where he also was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, specializing in American and Victorian Literature. Since
1945 Dr. Russell has served as acting head of the English Department at Washington and Jefferson College. Aside from his

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educational interests, he is a member of the Middle Atlantic
College English Association, Friends of the Middle Border, A.
A. U. P., Fortnightly Club, Rotarian and Mason.

Richard G. Hallisy, of Washington, D.

C.,

has been

named

the Department of Business Education at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College according to an announcement made by President Harvey A. Andruss. Mr. Hallisy, who
is at present an education specialist with the Veterans’ Administration at Washington, succeeds Dr. J. Erank Dame who resigned early this year in order to become Educational Director
of the National Office Management Association.
Mr. Hallisy is a native of Wisconsin, and he received the
degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Education at the State
Teachers College at Whitewater, Wisconsin. He received his
Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa and is currently working on his doctorate at the University of Iowa.
For a number of years he taught in the township high
schools near Amboy, Illinois, but he later accepted a position at
the Washington Park High School at Racine, Wisconsin. He
held a teaching fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, and
served as acting head of the Business Education Department at
the State Teachers College at Farmville, Virginia.
Mr. Hallisy came to Bloomsburg July 13 and assumed his
new duties immediately upon arrival here. He is married and
has two children of school age.

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Franklin P. Adams, noted “Information Please” expert,
spoke recently at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on the
final program of the college 1947 Artists’ Course series. An audience of 850 persons filled the Carver Hall Auditorium to hear
the famous columnist whose antics on the “Information Please”
program won him the name of “The Hard-To-Stump-Expert.”
Mr. Adams, familiarly called F. P. A., used the rather appropriate subject, “Sense and Nonsense.” Those who heard

him were unanimous in their praise of his wide knowledge,
whimsical humor, and soul stirring renditions of Gilbert and
Sullivan and old-time ballads. After his lecture, Mr. Adams
answered a number of questions put to him by members of the
audience. All those in the large crowd who heard him agreed
with Harper’s Magazine which had this to say about him
“Needless to say, Mr. Adams is beyond question the greatest
living expert in useless information, and his affectionate following

is

enormous.”
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Stephen R. Hopkins, director
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
of piano music as a feature of the
day, May 20. Mr. Hopkins gave

of the school of private music
College, presented a program

College radio broadcast Tuesa varied and entertaining re-

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Saucered and Blowed
By

E. H.

NELSON

Did you read “What Do Diplomats Do, Anyhow?” in the
17 “Saturday Evening Post.” According to the article
Keeler Fans spent his boyhood days in our immediate vicinity.
According to our alumni records his mother was a member of
the class of 1890, and her maiden name was Minnie S. Kitchen.

May

If you were present Alumni Day you enjoyed with us the
fine talk of K. Maude Smith Fausel gave in responding for the
1887 class.
we all wished we might have toured the

How

Waterloo

and Mary Good

battlefield with her

Three members of the 1897 class came back proudly wearing their class pins. And how that class entered into the spirit
of the Alumni Day activities
And what a large group of 50
!

year graduates returned to do honor to their
are proud of you.

Alma Mater!

We

It was a pleasure to welcome State Superintendent of PubInstruction, Dr. Francis B. Haas, to our general meeting
Alumni Day. His continued interest in the college which he
served so well as president from 1927 to 1939 is very much appreciated.

lic

The idea of “Reunion to Reunion” memberships is being
well received. Thanks so much for your splendid cooperation.
“$5.00 for 5 years” indicates a continued and abiding interest
in the college. And we have received a few $25.00 life memberships. This all sums up to helping youngsters get an education, because any extra dollars we have go to help worthy students. Last year we were able to contribute $200.00 directly from
the membership and “Quarterly” funds.

Our busy Editor, H. F. Fenstemaker, 1912, besides looking
after the foreign language department at the college, is organist at Caldwell Consistory for the various Masonic bodies, is organist at the Baptist Church, pianist for the Kiwanis Club, and
general handy man in the community when one needs an accomMake his editorial duties easier by sending him lots of
panist.
and the Bloomsburg graduates you know.
news about
Let’s have the “News of the Classes” something more than
obituary items. If your class isn’t listed it’s your fault.

YOU

Not too early

Make attendance
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Faculty

Members Do Graduate Work

Twelve members of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College have been pursuing graduate work during
the summer, or have completed work during the week-ends of
the last college year, according to President Harvey A. Andruss.
The geographic distribution of the institutions located at
points as widely separated as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago
and Nashville, Tennessee.
Four faculty members were pursuing work on the Doctorate, seven on the Masters, and one for a graduate degree in
Bachelor of Science in Library Science.
Faculty attendance shows two at each of the following
University of Pennsylvania, University of MichUniversities
igan, New York University and Pennsylvania State College, and
one at each of the following institutions: Bucknell University,
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois-; Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana George Peabody College for Teachers,
Nashville, Tennessee. These faculty members are as follows:
Joseph R. Bailer New York University, Candidate for Ph. D.
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Attending George Peabody School for TeachN. Harvey Deal
ers and expects to receive the Bachelor of Science Degree
in Library Science at the end of the summer session.
Edward T. DeVoe Attended Bucknell University as a candidate for the M. A. Degree in Education.
Harry N. Gasser Attended University of Pennsylvania as a
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Completed the Degree of Master of Business
Administration at Northwestern University at the end of
the summer sessibn.
Harold H. Lanterman Completed the Master of Science Degree at New York University in February, 1947.
Elma L. Major Completed the Masters Degree in Special Education at the University of Michigan during the summer.
M. Beatrice Mettler Completed the requirements for the Masters Degree in nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
during the summer session.
Harriette Smith
Has completed the course work and will continue to meet further requirements for the Doctor’s Degree
in Business at Indiana University during the summer.
Lorraine Snyder Will become a candidate for the Masters Degree in the field of Elementary Education at the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Peter Wisher Continued his work on the Degree of Doctor of
Education in Physical Education at Pennsylvania State
College during the summer. Mrs. Wisher pursued work

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and completed the requirements for a Masters Degree

at

same time.
More than one-fouilh

the

of the faculty are thus equipping
themselves for greater service to the Teachers College, and the
results of this additional training will be reflected in the college
year beginning in September, 1947. Never in the history of the
college have so large a proportion of the faculty continued to
flt themselves by means of pursuing further training in the graduate schools of the country.
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The elementary workshop at the Teachers College summer
session has become so popular with teachers in the field that
there was an enrollment of seventj-two who observed classes
in the Ben Franklin and attended sessions that were addressed
by a number of the leading educators of the state.
The first speaker was President Haiwey Andruss. Other
speakers were Miss Alliene Harder, department of curriculum
research, F. E. Compton and Companj^ Chicago; Wednesday,
July 2, Dr. Willis E. Pratt, head Department of Education;
the Pennsylvania State College; Wednesday, July 9, Dr. Leversia Powers, chief elementary education. Department of Public
Instruction, Harrisburg; Wednesday, July 16, Miss Dorothy M.
Warner, advisor, special education. Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg; Wednesday, July 23, Dr. Paul E. Whitmeyer, superintendent of schools, Williamsport; Wednesday,
July 30, Dr. Karl Berns, assistant secretary. National Education
Association, Washington, D. C.
Demonstrations were held in the Benjamin Franklin Training School each Tuesday morning at 9:15 o’clock and each
Thursday morning at eleven o’clock. These demonstration lessons were taught by members of the Benjamin Franklin School
staff.

The workshop was directed by Miss Edna J. Hazen, with
the other teachers being Miss Iva Mae VanScoyoc, Mrs. Lucille
J. Baker and Miss Edna Barnes.
Appearing at the convocations during the sessions were the
following: July 2, Dr. Willis E. Pratt, head. Department of Education, the Pennsylvania State College; July 9, George DeMott, Millville entertainer; July 16, Tatterman’s marionettes;
July 23, Robert Green, psychologist; July 30, Brig. Gen. H. C.
Holdridge, retired.
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Miss Effie Jean Patterson, of Shamokin, and Leslie B. Gore,
of Traverse City, Michigan, were married Friday, May 29, in the
chapel at Muhlenberg College, Allentown. Mrs. Gore is a teacher in the Allentown schools and Mr. Gore, a senior at Muhlenberg College, plans to enter dental school after completing his
work at Muhlenberg. Mr. and Mrs. Gore are living at 1926
Washington Street, Allentown.
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Miss Bertha Rich Retires
After a period of service extending over more than two
decades, Miss Bertha Rich of the faculty of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College has retired. During her long tenure at
the College, Miss Rich served as Dean of Women, supervisor,
and instructor. In recognition of her loyalty and long unselfish
service to the College, the Board of Trustees at its last meeting
unanimously passed the following resolution
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College has been advised of the retirement of Miss
Bertha Rich, after a period of service extending over more than
two decades, now adopts the following resolution to be spread
upon the Minutes and a copy forwarded to the recipient of this
citation. WHEREAS, it has always been the policy of the Board
of Trustees to note with appreciation the services of employees
who have given faithful and efficient service over a long period
of time, and WHEREAS, the services of Miss Bertha Rich as
Dean, Supervisor and Instructor, have been so varied as to evidence an unusual amount of versatility, and many times the services rendered have been over and above the ordinary requirements of faculty staff members, the Board of Trustees resolves,
upon the recommendation of President Harvey A. Andruss, to
herewith record the appreciation of the college community,
composed of faculty, students and alumni, for the fine spirit of
leadership, the unusual professional interest, and the high level
of scholarship maintained by Miss Bertha Rich as a member of
our faculty. In so doing, expression is given to the hope that
the days which lie ahead will be filled with happiness, health
and continued interest in the progress of her chosen field of education.

At the present time Miss Rich is living in her newly-built
at 6766 Myrtle Avenue, Long Beach, California.

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An

intimate story of political, social and educational life
in war-torn Poland today was related to the students of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College by Miss Helen Rekas, Berwick. The former Berwick High School teacher, a graduate of
the State Teachers College, spoke at the weekly assembly program held recently in the Carver Hall auditorium.
Miss Rekas, who recently returned to this country after a
prolonged visit in the war-ravaged country, related her experiences as an instructor in the University of Warsaw and of her
travels throughout western Europe.
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The Editor

regrets that, because of lack of space, it has
been impossible to publish all of the fine letters received from
many Alumni. These will receive priority in the next issue of
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Named Dean of Men
John A. Hoch has been named dean of men at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, according to an announcement
made by President Harvey A. Andruss.
Mr. Hoch, who served as football coach last Fall after the
sudden death of the late Alden J. Banks, will also be director
of public relations and assistant football coach.
The new dean of men succeeds William E. Landis, who resigned the position at the close of the second semester. Dean
Landis came to Bloomsburg last June.
Mr. Hoch is a native of Milton, where he was a member
of the faculty of the Milton schools for twelve years. After his
graduation from Milton High School, he attended the Pennsylvania State College where he received the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. Dean Hoch did his graduate study at Bucknell University which granted him the Master of Arts Degree in 1941.
While at Milton High School, he coached football and basketball and was a leader in many community activities. He was
the founder of the Milton Teen Canteen, one of Pennsylvania’s
leading youth centers.
Mr. Hoch assumes his new duties with the beginning of the
college pre-session and will be in specific charge of the Summer
recreation program.
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Orion Milton Hess, eighty-two, of Benton, R. D. 2, passed
away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Follmer. The deceased was an uncle of Mrs. Follmer.
Mr. Hess lived in Berwick for a number of years and was
employed as a guard at the A. C. & F. plant for some time. He
also, in his younger days, was a school teacher and taught in
Sugarloaf Township. He was born June 19, 1864 at the residence in which he passed away.
He arose and went about in his usual manner during the
morning and was shortly after stricken with a heart attack
which proved fatal.
He was a member of the First Christian Church, P. O. S.
of A. and the I. O. O. F., of Berwick. Mr. Hess was the last surviving member of his family of ten children.
He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. William J. Konkel,
of Detroit, Michigan, and two grandchildren.
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Miss Mary Longo, of Sheppton, and Paschal A. Pratico, of
Schenectady, New York, were married Saturday, June 14, in
The bride has been teaching
St. Joseph’s Church, Sheppton.
in the Sheppton High School, and the groom, a former member
of the V-12 unit at Bloomsburg, was graduated from Syracuse
University in June.
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Service Keys

Awarded

Seven members of the senior class of the Bioomsburg State
Teachers College were awarded Service Keys at the traditional
Senior Assembly held in the Carver Hall auditorium. These
awards, made annually to members of the graduating class, are
given to those persons who are most active in campus activities
on the basis of a point system administered by the College. The
1947 selections were made by a student committee.
In presenting this year’s Key Awards, President Harvey A.
Andruss stated that the winners represented only ten per cent
of the graduates and that the honor is one of the greatest
Bioomsburg can bestow on its seniors. The award winners follow William Horvath, Allentown; Wilham Hummel, Espy;
Paul Rowlands, Mae Klinger, Lykens Harriet Rhodes, Bioomsburg; Harold Swisher, Fails Church, Va.; Flelen Mae Wright,
Bioomsburg.
President Andruss indicated that Miss Wright had amassed
a total of seventy points through participation in a number of
extra-curricular activities, a record of which the College is
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proud.
Certificates

1947 by Who’s

were presented

Who Among

to five

Students

in

members

of the class of

American Colleges and

Universities, a national publication of increasing impoiTance.
These persons, chosen by a faculty committee consisting of the
Dean of Instruction, Dean of Men, Dean of Women, were selected for inclusion in the 1946-47 edition. The selection is based on
personality, college record, scholarship, service, leadership,
and potential usefulness. President Andruss. presented the certificates to Paul Rowlands, William Horvath, Robert L. Bunge,
Catawissa; Shirley J. Keiser, Dalton and Helen Mae Wright.
Before making the announcements of the winners of these

awards. President Andruss spoke
of the

briefly,

thanking the

officers

Community Government Association and the College

Council for a .iob well done. He also spoke his appreciation to
Robert Llewellyn, Wilkes-Barre, and Harry Reitz, Shamokin,
for the tedious task of making the student
ing the weekly assembly program.

announcements dur-

During the program, William Horvath, Allentown, president of the Community Government Association, expressed appreciation to the College Council, faculty and student body for
the cooperation he received during the present term. He stated
that many of the good things accomplished this year would not
be felt immediately, but that subsequent improvements would
be the results of this year’s planning.
He installed the newly-elected officers of the Communty
Government Association Harry Reitz, Shamokin, president
Betty Lehet, Wilkes-Barre, vice president; Betty L. Fisher,
Bioomsburg, secretary; John Purcell, Shenandoah, treasurer.
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elected members of the College Council were also installed in a brief but inspiring ceremony.
Lado Savelli, Swoyerville, president of the senior class, pre-

Newly

sided over the assemly which was attended by the student body,
members of the faculty, and a number of out-of-town guests.
Members of the class wore their caps and gowns and marched
into the auditorium at the start of the program. Howard F.
Fenstemaker, class advisor, played the processional and recessional.
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Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, attended the National Conference
for Improvement of Teachers in July at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. This year’s conference theme was “Teacher Adjustment to a Dynamic Society,” and Dean North was invited to
serve as head of a number of discussion groups during the conference. Conference leaders have made plans to entertain 300
educators from the United States. Dr. North is one of five of
Pennsylvania’s outstanding educational leaders to have been
selected to attend this national conclave.
Following the conference. Dr. North attended the National Education Association Conference in Cincinnati. He was
the official delegate of the Department of Higher Education
for the remainder of the week represented the 65,000 teachers of Pennsylvania at the general meetings of the National
Education Association. The Bloomsburg Dean is a member of
the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania State Educational
Association and is President of the Department of Higher Education.
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A summer

resort theme in a colorful red, white and blue
setting provided a sparkling backdrop for the Mid-Summer
Dance of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Friday night,

July 11. A1 Zimmerman, Hazleton, designed and executed the
decorations which were by far the most attractive yet carried
out for any summer dance at the College.
Lee Vincent and his Melodeers provided the music for the
dancing which began at 8 :30 o’clock and continued until midnight.
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Clayton H. Hinkel, an instructor in the Department of Business Education of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, is
the author of a magazine article which appears in the current
issue of
entitled,

SCHOOL AND COLLEGE PLACEMENT.

In this article

“Placement at Easton High School,” Mr. Hinkel summarizes the guidance and placement activities of the school.
In his former position as head of the business education department and placement bureau at Easton High School, Mr.
Hinkel placed over 1,000 students and graduates in full-time
and part-time positions over a period of four and a half years.
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Twenty-Five Years Ago
A bronze tablet in honor of

Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., former
principal of the Normal School, and to commemorate the graduation of the fiftieth class of teachers from the institution was
unveiled with appropriate ceremonies in the hall leading from
the main building. The speaker of the occasion was Judge J.
M. Garman, of Wilkes-Barre, and the unveiling was done by
little Charles Yost, son of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Yost, and Kathryn
John, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl John. Judge Garman referred to the fact that the class of 1882 which was celebrating
its 40th anniversary has stalled the movement among members
of the alumni for the placing of the tablet which was unveiled.
He declared that Dr. Waller had left an impression on the
school that time could not remove and that in his forty years of
effort as teacher, principal of the Bloomsburg and Indiana Normal Schools and Superintendent of Public Instruction, his work
has been without flaw or criticism. There is a growing tendency, the speaker said, to preserve the memory of those who
are near and dear to us. Dr. Waller, he said, held the love of
his pupils, the respect of the patrons of the school, and the tablet was in honor of his work and in gratitude to Dr. Waller.
The inscription on the tablet reads: “1870-1920 Truth and
Presented to the Bloomsburg State Normal School by
Virtue
its alumni to commemorate the graduation of its 50th class of
teachers, and the 44 years of educational service to the Commonwealth of David Jewett Waller, Jr., as principal of the State
Normal Schools of Bloomsburg and at Indiana, and as Superintendent of Public Instruction. With culture and efficiency as
educational aims, he placed character, honor, right living and
high ideals above every material success.” The tablet was made
by the Tiffany Studios of New York. Dr. C. H. Fisher, principal
of the school, accepted the tablet in behalf of the trustees of
the school. The committee in charge of placing the tablet consisted of the following: Dr. Henry Bierman, 1882; Mrs. L. P.
Sterner, 1882; Mrs. S. C. Creasy, 1881; Miss Dora Marr, 1881
Miss May Sharpless, 1881; William H. Brower, 1881; Mrs. C.
W. Funston, 1885; Mrs. D. W. Holmes, 1885; Miss Stella Lowenberg, 1886; Miss Helen John, 1889; and George E. Elwell,
class of 1887.

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Miss Nerine Middleworth, of Troxelville, a student at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was awarded $50 at the
Spring Conference of the Central District of the Pennsylvania
Parents and Teachers held at the auditorium of the college.
The award was made to encourage teachers and one will
be presented each year to a student in each of the state’s Teachers Colleges. The award is based on scholarship in the elementary field and personality. Miss Middleworth has a “B” average in her work here.
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Athletics
Mr. Robert B. Redman, coach of championship football
at North High School, Binghamton, New York, and before that at Sayre, has been named head football coach at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, President Harvey A. Audi uss, announced recently following action by the board of trustees. He is a former all round athlete at Swarthmore College.

teams

Redman comes to Bloomsburg from Triple Cities College
of Syracuse University, Endicott, New York, where he was a
coach and economics instructor. He has been at Triple Cities
College since the first of this year and coached baseball and
football there.
Redman, who came to Bloomsburg early in June to lay
plans for the coming gridiron campaign, succeeded John A.
Hoch who took over as acting head coach last fall after the untimely death of Alden J. (Lefty) Banks just prior to the opening of the season.
Hoch, who did a splendid job

last

year

in

leading the Hus-

kies to their best football season since 1935, will continue on the
coaching staff as Redman’s first assistant and Tom Lewis, of
Sunbury, varsity baseball mentor, will also be a member of the
football staff.

World War 11 veteran, was formerly
High School, Binghamton, New York,
and his team in 1940 was voted by sports writers as the best
scholastic eleven in the Empire State. His 1942 team at North
The new coach, a
football coach at North

High defeated powerful Union Endicott, for

its first

victory over

that school in thirteen years.

Before going to North High he was head football coach at
Sayre High in his native community from 1931 to 1937. During
this period his team won four Susquehanna Valley Interscholastic Athletic Association championships and boasted a winning
streak of twenty-five straight games. He was also head basketball coach for two years, his team winning its league title his
second year for the first such title annexed by Sayre in twelve
years.
In the recent conflict he entered the United States Navy in
November, 1942, as a lieutenant, junior grade. During his naval
service he was successively an aviation training officer, administration officer of a naval air squadron, and an administration
officer of a naval auxiliary air station. He held the rank of lieutenant commander when he was separated from the seiwice in

February, 1946.
A graduate of Sayre High School, he

won

varsity letters in

football, basketball, baseball and track.
lent scholastic record he was awarded the

Because of his excelDudley Perkin Schoh
arship by Swarthmore College from which institution he graduated in 1930.

At Swarthmore he won varsity
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and basketball and captained the nine his senior year. He also
holds the degree of Master of Arts from Duke University.
The new Husky coach is married but has no children. He
will teach mathematics and economics at the local institution.
The majority of last year’s football squad will be available

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number of scholastic gridders entered the colfor next fall.
lege at the start of the present semester and a number of athletes are expected to enroll in the fall.
The 1946 eleven tied its first game, lost the next three and
then came through with four straight victories.
The strength

of our school lies in

young men who know

how

to deal with youngsters in doing what they want to do,
Harry L. Lawrence, newly-appointed head football coach at
Bucknell University, told members of the Bloomsburg College
athletic squads Monday evening. May 14, at the annual college
athletic banquet.
“You’re the most valuable of teacher prospects,’’ Lawrence

declared, “because you

know something

in

which children are

interested.’’ He stressed the value of contact with students
through athletics in that in sports they are what they like voluntarily.

Lawrence, who was appointed head football coach at Bucknell this spring to replace A1 Humphries, who was elevated to
the post of director of athletics, pointed out the advantages of
going into the teaching profession at this time, noting increased
salaries coupled with an appalling shortage of male teachers.
More than one hundred letter winners in all sports, together with the faculty athletic committee, attended the affair, held
in the Bloomsburg Elks home.
John A. Hoch, head football
coach for the past season, acted as toastmaster and introduced
members of the committee. Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds Nevin T. Englehart and Ben Pollock and Frank Colder
of the Bloomsburg High School coaching staff.
Hoch spoke of the cooperation this year of the college administration in the athletics program and mentioned the work
of the managers in the various sports for their efforts.

President Harvey A. Andruss spoke briefly, emphasizing
the building of good sportsmanship as well as winning teams.
He said that of $25,000 in the student activity fund this year,
$11,000 was used in the providing and promotion of sports.
Charles H. Henrie, of the faculty led in group singing, with
H. F. Fenstemaker at the piano. President Andruss gave the
invocation.

Matt Kashuba, Forty Fort, a member of the senior class of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was awarded the Jack
Dempsey Adam Hat Sports Trophy as the outstanding athlete
of 1947 at the Senior Day assembly held in the Carver Hall auditorium. John A. Hoch, chairman of the College Athletic CornPage Twenty-One

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mittee, made the presentation of the beautiful gold trophy, tht
gift of the nationally famous manufacturing corporation.
Kashuba, one of the outstanding high jumpers of the nation, holds the Pennsylvania State Teachers College record oi
six feet, two inches, established in 1940, but his best mark waj

and three-quarters made last winter at the Philadelphis
Inquirer Meet. Oddly enough, this leap won him only third
place in the competition and required a leap of six-nine by N
Y. U.’s Irv Mondschein to win the championship.
The lanky Forty Fort leaper won all his dual meet competition without difficulty and equalled his 1940 mark to wir
the state title at Shippensburg a few weeks ago. He also fared
well in other events this season, copping points in the hurdles
both low and high, as well as field events, discus and shop put
He recently accepted a teaching position in the Berwicl^
High School, where he has been engaged in practice teaching.
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Varsity letter winners in all spoils for the past year at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College received their awards at a
college assembly program recently. The awards were presented by the coaches of the various sports.
President Andruss discussed the athletic program, pointing out the cost and value to the college community, and told
the students of Robert Redman, new football coach who will
take up his duties next fall.
Motion pictures of the Huskies in action, taken by President
Andruss, and Football Thrills of 194-5 and 1946 were shown.
Following the program, the student body voted on the list
of nominations for the outstanding athlete of the year.
John A. Hoch presented the football awards; Peter Wisher, those for soccer, basketball and track; and Tom Lewis, the
baseball awards.
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Daniel H. Creveling, former Superintendent of Grounds, at
the College, died Monday June 9, at the Bloomsburg Hospital,
where he had been a patient for three weeks, following a heart
attack. He was eighty-one years of age at the time of his death.
Mr. Creveling was born near Bloomsburg and learned the
blacksmith trade. He erected and operated the Underwood
greenhouses from 1902 until 1921, when he became Superintendent of Grounds at the College, a position which he held
until 1936.
He was a member of the Bloomsburg Town Council for
twelve years. He was a member of Washington Lodge, F. & A.
M., and of the various Masonic bodies. He was also a member
of the Grange and of the P. O. S. of A. He was an acitive member of the Lutheran Church, and a member of the Church Council.

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Danville Wins Commercial Contest
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Danville High School, placing first and second in the bookkeeping event, garnered eight points to take top honors in the
fifteenth annual Pennsylvania business contest at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College here Saturday, May 3.
The widely known contest of the college, under the supervision of the Department of Business Administration, drew a
record number of participants this year. There were a total of
170 students from forty-two high schools participating.
In the bookkeeping George Grausam, Danville, was first
and Loy Meyer, second, to win the title for the Montour county

school.

Northampton gained seven points and second place with a
business arithmetic by Miss Mary Farkas and a third in

first in

shorthand by Edward Farkas.
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schools tied for third with five points each, these pobeing earned by Miss Marion Frack, Nazareth, first in
typewriting, and Miss Ethel Clark, Collingdale, first to shorthand.
Bloomsburg earned a second in business arithmetic, awarded Miss Elaine Kindt, to tie with Edwardsville, and Hegins
Township for fifth. Miss Delores Kwashnak, Edwardsville, was
second in typewriting and Miss Alice Kessler, Hegins, second
in shorthand.
Third places earned three schools a tie for eighth. These
were Lebanon, Miss Janet L. Hamilton third in typewriting;
Miss Gladys Bullock, Tunkhannock, third in business arithmetic, and Miss Bernadine, third in bookkeeping.
sitions

P.T.A. Holds Sessions at Bloomsburg
Losing no time in getting started on the general theme of
“First Things First,” 120 Parent Teachers Association leaders
from all parts of Pennsylvania opened a four-day leadership
training school at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Tuesday, July 9, with a panel discussion on “Educational Problems
as They Affect Youth.”
Teachers in service who are attending the Summer school
took an active part in the discussion which had for its leader,
Joseph R. Bailer, director of secondary education at the local
institution.

The program included addresses in the morning on “P. T.
A. Fundamentals,” by Mrs. A. J. Nicely, P. T. A. state president,
and “Parliamentary Procedures,” by Mrs. W. E. Brosius, state
chairman of planning. Program planning was discussed and
Dr. C. E. Whipple, assistant superintendent of the schools of
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Warren, delivered a lecture on “School Education and the Local P. T.

A.”

The attendance

at this year’s school is more than triple
the attendance at the 1946 summer session, according to an announcement made by Mrs. A. J. Nicely, Erie, Pennsylvania,
president of the Pennsylvania Congress of Parents and Teachers, who is directing the sessions here at Bloomsburg.
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May Day
Despite the fact that a rapidly dropping temperature and
winds gave many of the 1,500 spectators the thought that
the weather was more suitable for an ice carnival, the brilliant
pagentry of May Day, long associated with the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, was revived Wednesday afternoon. May
14, following a wartime curtailment which had followed the
1941 presentation.
The tradition of College May Day was evidenced in the
fact that the stands on the campus between the main buildings
and Science Hall were well filled long before the scheduled
hour for the heralding of the Queen of the May, Miss Betty
Adams, Dalmatia.
All of the participants were in the colorful march at the
opening which led to the crowning of the queen by William
Horvath, of Allentown, of the Community Government Association. The trumpet call preceding the crowning was by George
Thear, Nesquohoning.
Students of the Benjamin Franklin School provided entertainment for the Queen and her court who viewed the pageantry from a throne surrounded by evergreen boughs. Included in
the court were: Helen Fehl, West Reading; Dorothy Hornberger, Elysburg; Helen Wright, Bloomsburg; Mary Chamberlain,
Reiser; Harriet Rhodes, Bloomsburg; Shirley Reiser, Dalton;
Nancy J. McHenry, Berwick; Marion Chubb, Troy.
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The Berwick High School Band, one

of the busiest musical
organizations in Columbia County, presented a concert in the
Carver Hall auditorium Tuesday, May 13, in the weekly assembly program of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Russeil Llewellyn, director, planned an interesting program of
band music for the College audience. A number of high school
students from county schools were present to hear the visiting
musical organization which came here as a Music Week feature.
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Miss Lucy Rleckner and Alvin Lutz, both of Berwick, were
married Friday, May 30, in the First Reformed Church, Berwick. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Wayne Lutz,
Pastor of the church. The bride is employed by the Bell Telephone Company in Berwick, and the groom is a student at
Bloomsburg.
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Summer Sessions
One of the largest summer session enrollments in the history of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was announced
by President Harvey A. Andruss who revealed that 484 men
and women had completed registration requirements.
Veterans of World War II again lead in the registration
figures with 275 ex-G. I s enrolled for courses in the fields of
business, secondary and elementary education. Registered as
boarding students are 111 veterans, two of whom are women,
while 164 former G. l.’s are listed as day students. This total
includes three women.
Teachers-in-service who are returning to the campus to
complete work for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education or to make their college certificates permanent have boosted the non-veteran enrollment total of 209. Of this number, 81
are residing in the dormitories on the campus and 128 are living in town or commuting from their homes.
Dr. Thomas P. Noith, dean of instruction, said that a number of the courses being offered this summer were filled to capacity. Overflow classes in some fields have had to be divided
among several members of the faculty. Dr. North also stated
that the Elementary Education Workshop is one of the largest
in Pennsylvania this summer. A number of outstanding experts
in the field have been invited to address the Workshop which
is under the direction of Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of elementary education.
A number of students enrolled in the aviation course and
were ready to begin their flight experience at the Bloomsburg
Airport. Dr. H. Harrison Russell is the coordinator of the aviation

program.

A record enrollment of 161 pupils in the Benjamin FrankSchool boosts the total number of students now using the
facilities of the College to 645.
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One of the largest Elementary education workshops in
Pennsylvania was launched at the State Teachers College here
by President Harvey A. Andruss, who addressed a group of
more than seventy students and teachers-in-service. President
Andruss was the first of a number of prominent leaders in education who have been secured to present timely topics in the
field of Elementary education during the coming six weeks.
Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of Elementary education is the
director of the workshop which meets in the Benjamin Franklin

School.

President Andruss presented the topic “Six Correlated
Stages of Elementary Education,” in which he gave a splendid
outline of elementary education up to the present time. The
first stage was the tool stage or the period in which teachers
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knowledge stage. At this time subjects such as geography, history and physiology are taught and the pupil is either good or bad, according to the amount of knowledge gained
from the subject.
Leading philosophers of education, HerbeiT Spencer in
particular, taught that attention should be given to complete
living, so teachers moved from the second to the third stage
adult activities, and the elementary school tried to prepare for
ter or

living as adults.

The fourth stage, project or purposeful activity, was pr.omoted by Dr. John Dewey, and teachers began to use the textbook as an aid in learning rather than as an end. It was at this
time that schools changed to chairs and tables from screweddown seats and desks.
The fifth step in the improvement of Elementary educat-

known today

as the creative or child-centered school.
earlier stages but is an improvement over
any and all of them. At present, we may be said to be in the
sixth stage
that of social reconstruction or society-centered
school.
tion

is

This stage uses

all

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President Andruss’ address launched the program of the
Elementary Education Workshop for the summer and set a high
plane for activities throughout the session.
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record-breaking enrollment of 370 students for the presession of the summer school of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College was revealed by President Harvey A. Andruss. This
number is more than fifty per cent higher than last year’s total.
President Andruss declared.
The registration figures disclose a three to one ratio between college men and women enrolled with ninety-two women
and two hundred seventy-eight men listed on the registry rolls.
Of the 370 students now pursuing their studies on the accelerated program, one hundred sixty-two are living on the campus.
Veterans of World War II comprise an overwhelming majority of the pre-session students. There were two hundred sixtyone former GPs enrolled in courses of studies leading towards
the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education. Five women
students who served in the armed forces during the war were included in the veteran group.
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Miss Emily May Baum, of Nuremberg, and David S. Kerr,
of Bridgeton, New Jersey, were married Sunday, April 6, in
Emmanuel’s Evangelical and Reformed Church, Nuremberg, in
a ceremony performed by the Rev. Wallace A. Baum, of New
Providence, assisted by the Rev. Bernhardt R. Heller, pastor of
Emmanuel’s Church.
Mrs. Kerr has been teaching in the elementary grades in
the Nuremberg school, and Mr. Kerr, a veteran of World War
11, is a student at Muhlenberg College, Allentown.
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Improvements on the Campus
Contracts for the remodeling of the old gymnasium at the
Teachers College, which call for the lowering of the ceiling and
the creating of a lounge on the east side of the building, and
also for the adding of some 4,000 square feet of floor space to
the library, have been awarded.
Money for the improvements, which approximate $30,000,
has been available for two years but owing to building conit was impossible to award the contracts earlier.
John A. Schell, of Bloomsburg, is the architect for the
work. The general contract went to William Schimmel, Nanticoke. Tiling of the first floor lavatory and shower room in
North Hall is included in the work with the plumbing and heating contract going to the Campagna Company, Wilkes-Barre.
The portion of the old gymnasium where the east side seats

ditions

have been for years will be converted into a lounge. It will be
on an elevation from the gymnasium floor and will have a balustrade. Two stairways will lead to the lounge from the floor.
The ceiling over the gym floor will be lowered and the gym will
continue to be available for dancing.
In the biennium recommendations for improvements it is
hoped to secure additional funds with which to continue remodeling the gymnasium so that it will have accommodations
as a center of social activities on the campus.
The college library has increased in size 7,000 volumes, or
one third, in the past seven yeaars. More space has long been
needed.
This is to be secured by closing off the old stairway leading
to the second floor of Waller Hall, at the old gymnasium and
using that portion of the floor and also the corridors on the
west and south sides and the librarian’s office is also to be added to the library. The staircase has not been used since a fire
tower was placed a number of years ago and the corridors, likewise, have little use. The librarian’s office will be placed in another part of the building.

Further improvements contemplated will include the placing of a concrete and steel fire tower in the clock tower in Carver Hall. There are now three fire towers in this building and
the erection of the fourth will complete the program.
Bids are also to be secured for the placing of concrete steps
and floor at the front of Carver Hall, but the picturesque columns on that porch will be retained.
Also out to bids is the placing of a fire tower on the west
side of Noetling Hall and the placing of all of the wiring in
Science Hall in conduit.
A fire wall is to be placed in Waller Hall at the elevator
shaft. This will go up at a point that separates the portions of
the upper floors occupied by men and women boarding students.
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Campus Happenings
The members of the class of 1947 were announced by President Harvey A. Andruss, of the State Teachers College. Of
those, fifty-four completed their work in May for the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Education and were graduated on May
26. There are eighteen who completed their course last January. Of the total, nineteen are residents of this county. May
graduates: Betty E. Adams, Dalmatia; Joseph J. Barchock, 53
Spruce Street, Wilkes-Barre; Bynoth R. Bird, 120 Coughlin
Street, Berwick; Eugene M. Brady, Jr., 279 West Center Street,
Johnsonburg; John H. Bruner, 106 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Robert L. Bunge, 573 Shuman Street, Catawissa; Mrs.
Mary Pelchar Chamberlain, 538 North Street, Reiser; Marian
E. Chubb, Dedington Avenue, Troy; George P. Conbeer, 614
North Shamokin Street, Shamokin; Theodore J. Czajkowski, 49
Lee Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre Gerald J. Demaree, 613 Mulberry Street, Berwick; Delores K. DeVizia, Wapwallopen, R.
D. 1 Lawrence R. Doster, 46 Yates Street, Forty-Fort; Dawn F.
Eshleman, 203 East Sixth Street, Berwick; Helen E. Fehl, 723
Penn Avenue, West Reading; Edith T. Fling, 344 Kenmore Avenue, Glenside; M. Jean Gilbert, 615 North Locust Street, Hazleton; Evelyn J. Hirt, 519 East Third Street, Berwick; Edward J.
Hollis, Drifton Dorothy M. Hornberger, Elysburg; William E.
Horvath, 414 North Ninth Street, Allentown; William W. Hummel, Main Street, Espy; Robert D. Joy, P. O. Box 385, Bloomsburg; Theodore E. Jurasik, 202 East First Street, Hazleton;
Donald M. Karnes, 331 Main Street, Bloomsburg; Matthias F.
Kashuba, 1172 Murray Street, Forty Fort; Shirley J. Reiser,
Church Street, Dalton; Mae E. Klinger, Lykens, R. D. Walter
M. Kritzberger, 234 Cooper Street, Luzerne; Dorothy K. Kucharski, 266 Harland Street, Exeter; R. Paul Lauderman, 778 McNair Street, Hazleton; Margaret H. Luchi, Conyngham Joseph
F. Lyons, 32 Spruce Street, Wilkes-Barre; Robert P. Martin, 550
Garfield Avenue, Edwardsville Nancy E. Maxey, 812 Monroe
Avenue, Scranton; Nancy J. McHenry, 237 East Third Street,
Berwick; Alberta B. Naunas, 390 East Street, Bloomsburg;
Betty R. Paul, Lavelle Ruth L. Reichard, Bloomsburg, R. D. 4
Harriet W. Rhodes, 414 Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg; Richard
W. Rowlands, 203 Greenwich Street, Reading; Lado Savelli, 20
Hemlock Street, Swoyerville; David L. Shaffer, Jr., Bloomsburg,
R. D. 4 Clifton S. Skow, 142 West Main Street, Bloomsburg;
John M. Slegeski, 715 South Street, Freeland; Joyce L. Smith,
Sugarloaf Harold W. Swisher, Rt. 1, % Ancient Oaks, Falls
Church, Va. John W. Thomas, Schuylkill Avenue, Hamburg;
Feme E. VanSant, Numidia; Vincent F. Washvilla, 220 East
Fifth Street, Mt. Carmel; John J. Whitby, 48 Green Street, Edwardsville Helen May Wright, 58 East Fifth Street, Bloomsburg; Irvin R. Yeager, 644 West Main Street, Bloomsburg;
Harry Zavacky, 528 Main Street, Simpson.
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Graduated in January: Leah Wanda Barth, Box 53, SilverMrs. Laura Dunlap Davis, 2224 Leyden Street, Denver 7,
Colorado; Pauline Roslyn Egizie, 325 West Third Street, Berwick Gloria Mary Gillis, 93 Chittendent Street, Duryea; George
H. Gillung, 441 Market Street, Millersburg; Thomas P. Grow,
19 Main Street, Ringtown; Charles C. Harmany, 22 East Third
Street, Bloomsburg; Robert F. Hartman, 224 West Street,
Bloomsburg; Xen S. Hosier, 122 North Arch Street, Allentown;
Frances Mylet, Sugarloaf R. D. 1; Frank J. Novell!, 35 Italy
dale

;

;

Mocanaqua; Frederick C. Pressler, 109 Walnut Street,
Berwick; Paul F. Rowlands, IOO 8 I/2 West Main Street, Plymouth; George W. Smith, 1028 North Rock Street, Shamokin;
Thomas E. Verchinski, 249 South Beech Street, Mt. Carmel;
Robert W. Warrington, 135 Race Street, Sunbury; John R. Zerby, Herndon Louise A. Zondlo, 403 Bear Creek Road, Dupont.
Street,

;

“Elementary school teachers must do more today than
teach the essentials of reading, writing and arithmetic,” Dr.
Laversia Powers, Chief, Elementary Education, Department of
Public Instruction, Harrisburg, told more than one hundred
members of the Elementary Education Workshop of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. In her address before the college
group. Miss Powers emphasized the need for teaching those
things which are of most value to Americans because they are
Americans.
Dr. Powers pointed out the three greatest needs in elementary school teaching.
I. Teach the essential dignity and worth of the human being.
That means that we will teach racial tolerance, religious tolerance, and class tolerance.
2. Much is needed in inter-cultural relationships and the elementary teachers through literature, history and geography

can lay a fine foundation for it.
Conservation is a much needed phase in our American life.
Americans are wastful in every mode of living; wasteful of
food, forests, or minerals. In the elementary school, children can learn how to conserve, which is the best training in
learning to conserve as adults.”
During her address, she gave an excellent report of what
is going on throughout the state of Pennsylvania in the more
than, 600 groups of teachers who are now working on curriculum revision in the Elementary School. About eighty-seven
groups are working in the field of Social Studies, while eighty
groups are developing the science curriculum. Sixty groups
are studying the field of arithmetic, and about one hundred
groups are working in the field of Language Arts. Another
large group is revising the curriculum for literature. To illustrate the importance of these groups. Dr. Powers stated that
less than 15 per cent of Pennsylvania’s children are getting an
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opportunity to learn Science. This is true today in Pennsylvanwhen there is much need for science.
During the present year, an Elementary Curriculum has
been developed which is different than any developed in the
past. Most teachers are compelled to work on it, and no teacher is told what to put in. The Department of Public Instruction
in Pennsylvania urges teachers to contribute subject matter and
method that is functional. The Elementary Curriculum in Pennsylvania in the future will be the curriculum that classroom
teachers with the help of administrators and parents have
ia

wanted.

Thomas B. Brobst, widely known citizen of Berwick, and
former hardware store operator, died Friday, May 16, at the
Berwick Hospital, after having been in ill health for several
years.

Mr. Brobst was born in Danville, and spent most of his life
Lime Ridge and in Berwick. He was a graduate of Bloomsburg and of Wood’s Business College, Scranton. He taught in
Lime Ridge for three years and moved to Berwick in 1889, taking a position with the Berwick Store Company. He was for
many years in charge of the garage and Reo agency of that
firm. In 1921 Mr. Brobst purchased the hardware business of
T. Harvey Doan, and continued that business until 1941, when
he was obliged by ill health to sell the business.
He was a member of Knapp Lodge No. 462, F. & A. M., of
Caldwell Consistory, and of Irem Temple. He was a member
of the First Methodist Church of Berwick, and was a trustee
and member of the official board of that church. He was a
trustee of the Old Stone Church, Historical shrine of the Methin

odist Church, located in Briar Creek. He also served on the
board of the Berwick Hospital, of the Berwick Hotel, and of
the Berwick Y. M. C. A. He was also a former Rotarian and a
member of the Odd Fellows.
He is survived by his wife and a daughter. Miss Bertha
Brobst ’10, a teacher in the Berwick Schools. He is also sur-

vived by two brothers and two sisters.
Special summer series of weekly radio broadcasts over
Nanticoke, were presented by the Bloomsradio station
burg State Teachers College. Introduced in February and designed to acquaint the public with activities at the College, the
programs were under the direction of a faculty committee consisting of John A. Hoch, Miss Alice Johnston and Miss Harriet
M. Moore. The first week’s broadcast featured the organ music of Howard F. Fenstemaker, Sr., Thomas E. Lewis, Sunbury,
announced the program. The programs are broadcast directly
from the Carver Hall auditorium and can be heard every Tuesday afternoon from two o’clock until two-thirty.

WHWL,

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“The most powerful weapon in our development of world
understanding is education,” Dr. Willis E. Pratt, Head of the
Department of Education at the Pennsylvania State College,
said recently in an address before the students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Dr. Pratt, who served as Major in the Allied Military Government in Italy during the war, spoke on the general topic of
the struggle to secure lasting peace. In his address. Dr. Pratt
said that a number of things were necessary to insure peace
throughout the world. Among these essentials are freedom of
thought and freedom of action. “Only in a world where there
are freedom of thought and freedom of action can there be
peace,” Dr. Pratt emphasized.
He illustrated his address with many interesting experiences he had in Italy where he served for a while with the British
Army. He paid the American soldier a tribute when he said
that all British officers were convinced that the American G. I.
had qualities of initiative and responsibility that were not present in the troops of other nations.

President Harvey A. Andruss and Charles H. Henrie, retail

Bloomsburg State Teachers College, attended the recent convention of the Pennsylvania Vocational
Association which was held at Eagles Mere. Mr. Henrie acted
as chairman of the various meetings of the Business Education
and Distributive Education sections of the Association. During
the convention these sections were addressed by: Dr. Paul L.
Cressman, State Director of Vocational Education; Thomas E.
Miller, Supervisor of Distributive Education; Miss Mildred Ankeny, Advisor of Distributive Education, Temple University;
Samuel W. Caplan, State Chief of Distributive Education S.
Gordon Rudy, State Chief of Business Education and Arnold L.
Edmonds, Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce.
During one session the Business and Distributive Education Sections joined with the Homemaking Section for a demonstration meeting with a group of Pennsylvania retailers. The
meeting was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Chain Store Council, Pennsylvania Retailers’ Association and the National Consumer-Retailer Council and was followed by a luncheon and a
Fashion Show.
selling instructor at the

;

Mr. and Mrs# Joseph L. Townsend, of East Street, announce
the marriage of their daughter Dawn E. to Sterling G. Harvey
in the First Methodist Church, of Chicago, Saturday afternoon,
April 13 at five o’clock. They were married by Dr. Charles R.

I

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Goff.

Mr. Harvey, a World War 11 Air Force Veteran, where he
served as a colonel, is in training at the Chicago district assembly plant of the Ford Motor Company. Upon completion of this
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months’ course, he will be reassigned within the Mid-west
region as a zone manager.
Mrs. Harvey has been a successful teacher in the Bloomssix

burg schools.
Forty high school juniors and seniors from the Hanover
Township High School Science Club visited the campus of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Wednesday, May 14, as a
climax to a year’s program of activity. The group has toured
industries and places of interest in Wyoming Valley in order to
broaden their knowledge and to observe “science and education
on the job.”
Charles J. Morris, a graduate of the College in 1914, is
principal of the high school, while another College alumnus,

James W. Reynolds, Class

of 1924,

is

the club sponsor.

Dramatic scenes from the operas “Faust” and “Samson and
Delilah” were presented to the students of the Teachers College Monday, April 15, by the Janet Bush opera quartet at the
weekly assembly program held in Carver Hall auditorium. The
quartet, which was made up of Janet Bush, contralto; Gordon
Hendricks, tenor; Irma Cooper, soprano; and Franklin Neil,
baritone, sang the garden and prison scenes from “Faust” and
the second act of “Samson and Delilah.”
J. B. Farr was the accompanist for the group. The program was introduced by E. A. Reams of the social studies department, while President Harvey A. Andruss presided over
the assembly.

A varied program of instrumental and vocal music by the
Brahms Trio of Williamsport, featured the weekly assembly
program of the State Teachers College held Wednesday, June
18 in the Carver Hall auditorium. Featuring as vocal soloist,
Mrs. Marion R. Wilsox, the Williamsport musicians presented
an unusually well balanced program of compositions by American and European composers.
The trio consisted of Mrs. Marjorie V. Lehman, marimba
and flute; Mrs. Carol S. Enenden, piano, and Joseph T. Mirark,
violin. Mrs. Wilcox, the soprano soloist for the trio, is also an
accomplished artist with the Swiss bells.

President Harvey A. Andruss of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College has announced that Saturday, October 25,
1947, will be Home-coming Day at the College. Although plans
for the annual celebration are not complete. President Andruss
has announced that two athletic contests will be among the features of the day’s program. The Bloomsburg soccer team will
entertain Elizabethtown, while the Husky gridders wdll play
host to a strong Shippensburg eleven. Complete plans wdll be
announced as soon as they are developed.
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Miss Ruth M. Hartman, of Orangeville, and Hervey Richard Thomas, also of Orangeville, were married Friday, June 27,
in the Orangeville Reformed Church, in a ceremony performed
by the Rev. John Light, pastor of the church. Mrs. Thomas has
been teaching in the commercial department of the Berwick
High School, and the groom is employed by H. B. Low and Son,
in Orangeville. He served four years with the Army Air Corps,
with one year of services in the European Theatre.
Jessie Fleckenstine (Mrs. William S. Gerhard), a former
nurse at the Bloomsburg State Normal School), and wife of a
former minister of the Orangeville Reformed Church, was
killed and her husband seriously injured in an automobile accident that occurred this spring near Winchester, Virginia. The
Rev. and Mrs. Gerhard were on their way to their home in Middlebrook, Virginia, where the former is pastor of St. John’s
Evangelical and Reformed Church.

Mrs. Lester Bogart, nee Kleckner, died Monday, May 19,
home near Forks, Pa., after a long illness. Mrs. Bogart
taught for twenty-three years in Fishing Creek Township, Stillwater Borough, Scott Township and Liberty Township. She was
a member of the Benton Chapter of the Eastern Star and of the
Orangeville Grange. She was also a member of the Zion
at her

Church.
Miss Betty Longenberger, of Bloomsburg R. D. 2, and DonThomas, of Fernville, were married Saturday, April 5 in
the Church of Christ, Bloomsburg, by the pastor, the Rev. Harry
K. Franks. The bride is a graduate of the Catawissa High
School, and has been employed at the Magee Garpet Mill. Mr.
Thomas is a student at Bloomsburg.
ald B.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Nancy Fisk, of Danville, and John Curry, also of Danville. Miss
Fisk is a student at Bloomsburg, and Mr. Curry is a student at
the Western Pennsylvania Hortalogical Institute, Pittsburgh.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Marian Lavera Lindemuth, of Catawissa R. D. and Herman L.
Kuster, Jr., of Bloomsburg. Mr. Kuster is a student at Bloomsburg.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Mary Severn and Francis X. Brennan, both of Bloomsburg.
Both are students

at

Bloomsburg.

Bartha and Captain Dominick J. Nunziato, of the
Air Corps, were married Sunday, May 11, at St.
Athanasius Roman Catholic Church, Brooklyn, New York.
Elizabeth

U.

S.

J.

Army

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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

H. Nelson
President
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Vice-President
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Secretary
Harriet Carpenter
Treasurer
Fred W. Diehl
Edward F. Schuyler
H. F. Fenstemaker
Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler
E.

•

Alumni Meeting
Bloomsburg State Teachers College during the past year
gave instruction to 1,143 persons, the most for any year in its
more than a century of service, returning graduates were informed by President Harvey A. Andruss during the general
alumni meeting.
The Alumni Day was considered one of the finest in the
history of the institution, with the auditorium well filled for a
two hour session that moved along rapidly and without a dull
moment. More than seven hundred attended the luncheon
which followed.
Diplomas For Class

The

forty returning

members

of the class of 1897, in fifty

year reunion, were presented with facsimiles of the diplomas
they had received just a half century before. The presentations
were made by Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the alumni, in the
role of Dr. Welsh, head of the school in ’97, and Dean Emeritus
W. B. Sutliff, of the institution’s “Old Guard.’’
Dr. Haas Speaks
Dr. Francis B. Haas, former president at Bloomsburg and
now State Superintendent of Public Instruction, told the group
that “when we think of institutions for learning we think of the
individuals and not of the buildings or equipment. The best and
finest contribution graduates can make to an institution is to
use the memories of what they received in the institution to project a better future for themselves, their families, communities

and

nation.’’

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A Survey of Bloomsburg Graduates
1941 to 1945, Inclusive

A

Ten-Year Survey of the Placement of Graduates of our
was made by Mr. Earl N. Rhodes, then Director of
Teacher Training and the Placement Service. This survey in-

college

first class graduating, after four years of continuous
education, in 1931, and included all degree holders up to and
including the 1940 group. The 1941 graduating class was not
included, since it was felt that year was not a normal one, due
to the war and the operation of the Selective Service Act.
are now making a Five-Year Survey to include the classes from
1941 to 1945, inclusive.
The results of the Ten-Year Survey have been reported in
the columns of the Alumni Quarterly of April, 1942, and the
September, 1942, issue of Educational Administration and Supervision, issued by the Peabody Journal of Education, under
the following titles and by the following persons

cluded the

We

—

A Ten Year Study of the
Placement of Graduates,” by Harvey A. Andruss. President, State Teachers College, Blooms-

“How Many Teach?

burg, Pennsylvania.

—

“Ten- Year Survey Placement of Graduates of a
Teachers College,” by Earl N. Rhodes, Director
of Teacher Training and Placement Service,
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

We

are now inviting all Alumni, whether they fall within
the years stipulated in this survey or not, to complete the enclosed form and mail to us. The letter accompanying the 1941
questionnaire is reproduced in the same form, and the questionnaire is identical with that used in the first survey.

Letter

Accompanying Questionnaire

State Teachers Colleges are being judged solely in terms of
of graduates placed. This number is determined a
after the Spring commencement. Such figures do
not reflect the positions secured after that time.

number
few months

the

The College desires to find out how many of its graduates
have taught at any time during the past ten years or have engaged in any other occupation.
Will you please aid your Alma Mater by filling in the blank
spaces below and returning this circular to us in the enclosed
envelope? (Postage already paid). This information will be
treated as confidential and will aid us in promoting the educational interests of the College in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Your cooperation will be deeply appreciated, and
tend to you the heartiest greetings of your Alma Mater.

we

ex-

Very cordially yours,

Harvey A. Andruss, President.

NOTE
the years from 1941 to 1946, inFrom the 589 alumni
398 replies. You are
received
has
college
the
canvassed,
thus
asked to remind your fellow alumni, regardless of the date of
graduation, to complete and to return the questionnaire on the
next page to the college as soon as possible.

Alumni who graduated

clusive,

in

have received questionnaires.

Name
women

Married

please give

Maiden and Married name

Address
State

City

Street

(1) Please check Curriculum completed:

Elementary
(2)

(

Secondary

)

(

Business

)

(

)

Please indicate fields of certification completed at Blooms-

burg
Secondary

Elementary
Kind.-Pri.

(

)

Inter.

(

)

English
Latin

Rural

(

)

(

)

Special
Business Education
Commercial Subjects
List Other Fields

(3)

)

)

(

)

French

(

)

Science

(

)

Mathematics

(

)
)

Geography

(

Soc. Studies

(

)

Speech

(

)

Have you ever been regulary employed
(

How

Yes

)

If so,

(4)

(

(

long?

(

as a
)

Teacher?

Years.

where

you have answered “yes” to (3), please check the grade
and/or write subjects taught:
Elementary School
If

(

)

1,

)

(

2,

(

)

3,

(

)

4,

(

)

5,

(

)

6,

(

)

7,

(

)

8.

ft

Junior High School
(

)

7,

)

(

8,

(

)

9.

Subjects

Senior High School

(5)

10,

(

)

11,

(

)

12.

Subjects

(

)

If

you have been otherwise employed, or married, please

indicate here

Annual Salary

For Last Year.

$

Date

194__

How Many Teach?
A TEN YEAR STUDY OF THE PLACEMENT OF
GRADUATESBy

HARVEY

A.

HOW MANY

ANDRUSS,

President

FIND POSITIONS?

Facts foretell the future. Without them we estimate, guess
or flounder in our own inability to answer questions. Too many
times the attempt to answer the query “How many graduates
find positions?” merely serves to awaken doubts in the mind of
the questioner. Investigating committees from legislative bodies seek to find the demand for teachers in order that future appropriations may be increased or decreased according to the
need which then exists. All too frequently, teacher education
institutions do not take a comprehensive or long-time point of
view.
The college must follow the graduate as an individual, for
To look at all its graduates
its alumni are its greatest asset.
every decade or so forms a basis for long term planning by the
college sending young people out into the profession of teach:

ing.

FINDINGS
The study did more than answer the question, “How many
teach?” The figure results are probably of less importance
than the common interest of the faculty in our graduates. Then,
too, alumni of ten years realize that their alma mater continues
to be interested in them. This phase of the study cannot be valued objectively, but mailing lists are more accurate because of
the study.

Among
1.

A

larger

the objective findings are the following:

number

of placements

were discovered than by a previous meth-

od.
2.

A

comprehensive look over a decade discloses certain trends such as the
and increasing industrial activity.
Average period of teaching service of six years was obtained.
Figures relating to salaries of teaching and non-teaching groups were
effect of tenure

3.
4.

made
5.

6.

to
7.

*

available for further study.

Demonstrated value of individual placement records as a supplement to
the questionnaire method.
Furnished basis for guidance of present and future students who expect
be teachers.

Definite information is now available for legislative
appropriations are being considered.

Excerpt from

HOW MANY

TEACH, The Alumni

consideration

when

Quarterly, April, 1942.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
The educator paid tribute to Dr. H. V. Hower, of the class
of 1881, former president of the college board of trustees. He
recalled Dr. Hower’s statement at an alumni meeting that “as
far as I’m concerned this institution is going to operate for educational purposes,’’ and the educator added that this was exactly what was done
With regard to Dean Sutliff, Dr. Haas asserted that “he
epitomizes for me the ideal faculty member.’’ In closing he
said that “a great educational institution is nothing more than
a community organized for learning and Bloomsburg is such
an

institution.’’

Guests of Honor
The members of the class 1897 held the honor places of
the platform. Members of the class of 1947 marched into the
auditorium at the opening of the meeting and Lado Savelli, vicepresident, presented a check covering dues of all members of
the class in the alumni association.
Recipients of three alumni scholarships. Miss Rose Ann
Thompson, awarded the $100 R. Bruce Albert Memorial Scholarship, and Miss Elizabeth Lehet and Albert Rickmers, each
receiving $50, were presented by President Andruss.
The College head said that the three new features spoken
at the 1946 alumni meeting as being considered for the year
now concluded had been realized. During the Summer he said
college students in retail selling will be in twenty area stores.
There are twenty veterans now taking aeronautics, in which
there is a demand for teachers, and the college now has radio
broadcast.
Programs of reunion classes of the Teachers College set a
new standard in connection with the 1947 Alumni Day activities. Practically every reunion class sad a splendid attendance
and put on a number of special features.
Many of the graduates arrived on Friday and some of them
were still on the campus the following day, busy renewing
friendships, and in touring the college buildings and noting improvements and enlargements that have marked the progress
of the institution since their student days.
’81 Has Representative
Dr. Heister V. Hower, Berwick, a member of the class of
1881, was the representative of the oldest class on the campus.
A former president of the board of trustees, he was paid a
glowing tribute by Dr. Francis B. Haas, former president at
Bloomsburg, and now State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Among others on the campus but not in reunion were John
Conner, Trenton, N. J., ’82; Mrs. John J. Jones, Scranton;
Anna M. Hine, Conyngham, and Annie Supplee Nuss, ’88; K.
Maud Smith Fausell, Albermarle, N. C., ’87 Mary D. Comerford, Philadelphia, ’13; Elizabeth H. Hubler, Gordon, ’21;
J.

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Kathryn M. Abbett, Williamsport, ’28; Elmer Levan, Catawissa,
R. D. 3, ’98; Miriam Lawell Heller, ’15; Clara M. Swank Wap*
wallopen, ’98.
Katharine Young Dodger, ’87 Anna M. Fox, Bloomsburg,
’85; Mrs. F. T. Kocher, Espy, ’ll; Mrs. C. F. Abbot, Espy, ’09;
Mrs. Elliott Adams, Berwick; Mrs. John E. Bower, Berwick, R.
D. Mrs. Edna Aurand, Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, Wilkes-Barre,
’18 Mrs. Etta Buss Evans, West Pittston, ’15 Mrs. Marion Roat
Hallman. Kingston, ’13.
;

;

;

;

1892
Nine members of the class of 1892, the oldest class in reunion, had an outstanding day. The class organized by naming
G. W. B. Tiffany, Little York, N. J., president; Mrs. William
Douden, Washington, D. C., vice president and Miss Flora Ransom, Kingston, secretary-treasurer.
In his response before the general body Mr. Tiffany observed that “since we have been left in the world to work we
should make our work count for character and influence.”
Present: G. W. B. Tiffany, Little York, N. J.; Mrs. William Douden, nee
Pauline Louise Lattimore, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. David H. Martin, nee
Bertha W. Burrow, Harrisburg; Miss Ellen Doney, Shamokin; Miss Flora
Ransom, Kingston; Mrs. Bertha Campbell Garrison, Elmira, N. Y.; Edna L.
Fairchild, Nanticoke; Mrs. Eva Faus McKelvey, Montoursville; Mrs. C. C.
Creveling,

Mount

Airy, N. C.

1902

The

class of 1902 started its reunion with a dinner on Friday evening at the Magee Coffee Shop, participated in all of
activities on the hill on Saturday and on Saturday evening were
guests at Orangeville of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Keller, Mrs. Keller
being a member of the class.
Present: Mr. and Mrs. George C. Baker, Moorestown, N. J.; Marie L.
Diem, Scranton; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hebei, Liverpool, R. D. 1; Bess Long,
Bloomsburg; Amy Smethers, Mrs. Mary Fairchilds, Berwick; Mrs. Grace
Bradbury Everett, Stroudsburg; Effie Vance, Orangeville; Mr. and Mrs.
George Gibbons, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Blanche Kochenderfer, Lewistown;
Eunice Spear, Bloomsburg; Alice Guest, Harriet Fry, Danville; Mrs. Essence
Hohyeter Martin, Palmyra, N. J.; Gertrude Rawson, Scranton; Charlotte
Heller, Hadassa Balliett, Williamsport
Mrs. Gertiude Dress Jacobs, Steelton; Mrs. Eleanor Gay, Mehoopany;
Mrs. Margai'et Hoffa Henninger, Dushore; Marion Johnson Skeer, Northumberland; Mrs. Elizabeth Pollock Kirkland, Scranton; Mae Richard,
Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Jennie Williams Cook, Hazleton; Mrs. Etta Hirlinger
Keller, Alfred N. Keller, Orangeville.

1907
1907 included in those back for their fortieth
year reunion twin sisters, Mrs. Nellie Lesser Culp, Verona, N.
J., and Mrs. Lu Lesser Burke, Union City, N. J.
W. V. Moyer, of Bloomsburg, in responding for the class,
read a letter from J. A. E. Rodriguez, San Juan, Puerto Rica, a
member of the class in which he spoke of his regret in being

The

class of

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unable to attend. He enclosed a fifty dollar check for the class
to use as it desires. Mr. Rodriguez was last at Bloomsburg for
the twenty-fifth year reunion of his class.
Present: Mrs. Ralph Howell, nee Anna Chamberlain, Binghamton, N.
Y.; Laura Rittenhouse Yohey, Berwick; Myrtle Wanich Brobst, Bloomsburg,
R. D. 1; Mrs. Roy L. Sarves, nee Minnie A. Zang, Sidney, Ohio; Arvilla Kitchen Eunson, William V. Moyer, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Nellie Lesser Culp, Verona, N. J.; Mrs. Lu Lesser Burke, Union City, N. J.; Margaret G. Dailey,
Steelton; Edith Campsie Dreisbach, Lehighton; Helen Roat Harrison, Dallas, R. D. 2; Mrs. Henry Sippel, nee Florence Corby, Kingston.
Mrs. James A. Brennan, nee Genevieve Todd, Kingston; Mrs. Evan
Whitby, nee Miriam Jones, Edwardsville; Mrs. Arthur Holt, nee Pearl D.
Anstock, Hawthorne, N. J.; Mrs. Alfred S. Leidy, nee Alma Novel, Havertown; Mrs. Albert Henseler, nee Margaret O’Brien, Weehawkin, N. J.; Bertha D. Lovering, Scranton; Elizabeth V. Dreibelbis Orner, Bloomsburg; D. G.
Meisinger, Shamokin; Edwin M. Barton, Elizabeth, N. J.; Stanley J. Conner,
Trenton, N. J.; Paul N. Englehart, Harrisburg; Mary A. Kelly, Scranton;
Belle Mullaney Reily, Shenandoah; Helen Wardell Eister, VanWert, Ohio;
Mary Hess Colyer, York; Alice Dean Wetherly, Archbald; Sadie Moyer MacSulloch, Lodis, N. J.; Anna Wolfe Magill, Sugarloaf; Mrs. Louis Barber, nee
Gertrude Vance, Pottsgrove.

1912
good attendance marked the thirty-fifth year reunion of
the class of 1912, which opened its activities with a banquet and

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continued with another get-together.
Attending were Lenora Ash Burke, Tacoma Park, Md.; Clarence

E.

Barrow, Emily Barrow, Ringtown; George Barrow, Nutley, N. J.; Ercel D.
Bidleman, Bertha Harner Bidleman, Theresa Daily Bachinger, Howard Fentemaker, Ona Harris Henrie, Harriet Hartman, Edna Hess Fry, Ray Masteller, Bloomsburg; LaClaire Schooley Fetterolf, Spring Mills.
Florence Blecker Crouse, Anna Reice Trivelpiece, Danville; Dr. Fred J.
Creasy, Harvey S. Fetherolf, Berwick; William H. Davis, Binghamton, N. Y.;
Mabel Derr DeMott, Eyers Grove; Grace Derrick Boat, Marne Derrick Zeigler, Herndon; W. Francis Dobson, Forty Fort; Jessie Doran, Moscow; Helen
Fetter Ream, Beatrice Foose McBride, Rock Glen; Elnora Seeley Remensnyder, Nescopeck.
Emma Hartranft Tyler, Irwin; Esther Hess Pettit, Pitman, N. J.; Harriet
Squires Hillis Smith, Lansdowne; Ruth Kline Everett, Indiana; Edna Klinger Rhinehart, Sunbury; Lena Leitzel Streamer, Collingswood, N. J.; Florence
Merritt Dixon, Kingston; Emily Nikel Gledhill, Westmont, N. J.; Frances
Pachnicke Fetherolf, Freeburg; Margaret Row Englehart, Harrisburg; Martha Selway Schiefer, Steelton; Floyd Tubbs, Shickshinny; Frances Westgate
Sheffel, Binghamton, N. Y.; Abbie Whitebread Leh, Palmerton; Mary Grace
Wolf Arnold, Glenside.

1917
Frank Brink, of Bloomsburg, responding for the class of
1917, said there were only five of a class of 180 who were
known to have passed away. Sixteen per cent of the class was
represented at a get-together, and forty were in attendance at
J.

a class breakfast at Fest’s.
Attending Bertha Broadt, Margaret McHugh, Mary Schaller, Hazleton;
Agnes Warner Smoles, Laceyville; Mabel E. Maust Duck, Helen Lord Bulla,
Kathryn Row McNamee, Lillian Gensemer Moyer, Bloomsburg; Nan Jen:

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Nesquehoning; Effie Benscoter Kinback, Peckville; Gertrude Lord
Blanch, Pottsville; Fred Snyder Hughey, ’18, Anna Tripp Smith, Sharon;
kins,

Mabel Dymond

Bell,

Nora Verlew Dymond,

Dallas, R. D. 3;

Dorothy Deck-

er Swetland, Pittsburgh.

Mildred Avery Lone, North Mehoopany; Helen Gregory Leppert, DalDunlap Wech, Mountain Top, R. D. 1; William O. Wech, Ruth
Smith, State College; Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Brink, Bloomsbui'g; Dr. Loomis
Christian, Harrisburg; Lucy Padagomas, Glen Lyon; L. Stanford Williams,
Som.erset; Margaret Barnum Bredbenner, Wilkes-Barre; Fred E. Jones,
Kingston; Dr. Herman E. Wiant, Haddonfield, N. J.; A. C. Morgan, Berwick;
ton; Mrs. Elsie

W. A. Thomas, Lock Haven; Hugh E. Boyle, Hazleton.
Mary Moss Dobson, Plymouth; William W. Keller, Dawson; Florence
Atherton Shaffer, Fred H. Shaffer, Forty Fort; Harriet Etheji Sharpless,
Bloomsburg; Hope Dennis Anderson, Falls Church, Va.; Harriette Shuman
Surr, Wynnewood; Allen L. Cromis, Bloomsburg; Mary Kahny Arnold,
Saltsburg; Marie Cromis, Philadelphia; Agnes Maust Dieffenbacher, Hester
Faus Fogle, Bloomsburg, R. D. 1; Nellie Suthff, Nanticoke; Margaret Pettebone Moss, Kingston.

1922

The

class of 1922 concluded a busy and enjoyed day with
a banquet at the Fest Restaurant that served as a fitting climax
to a memorable occasion.
Miss Cleora McKinstry, of town, was general chairman of
the successful program and Thomas Hinkle, superintendent of
the schools of Hazleton, was toastmaster.
Following the invocation by Mrs. Marion Hart Smith, of
Lewisburg, she read the poem “The Victors” in tribute to the
memory of these nine members of the class who have passed
away: Josephine Coira, Anna C. Granahan, Miriam Hendrickson, \V. Neal Hutton, Mary Smiles, Helen Reed, Elizabeth

Thomas, Betty Owens Penn and Ruth Logan Fairbanks.
The song leader was Miss Eva M. Morgan, of Scranton,
with Florence Sugerman Settler, also of Scranton, as the accompanist. Mrs. Marie King Harris, of Swanton, Vermont, gave
the class poem.
There were a number of humorous presentations. Mrs.
Settler and Miss Morgan were featured in “You Ask. We’ll
Tell;” Miss Gladys Ramage, of Pittston, spoke on “Things We
Hoped to See;” Mrs. Anna Naylor Kuschel, Scranton, gave the
class history; Mrs. Ruth McIntyre Lenhart, of town, conducted
a feature “Guess Who?” and Miss Evadne Ruggles, Hunlock
Creek, commented on “Would the World Come to an End If
The concluding entertainment number was “Things We Cannot Imagine” was given by Miss Edna Harter, Nescopeck. The
program concluded with the Alma Mater.
Forty-five members were back and these officers were
named to have charge of the program for the thirtieth year re-

—

Lucille Jury Wise, president; Edna Haiter, secretary;
and Gladys Ramage, treasurer.

union

:

Attending were: Evadne M. Ruggles, Hunlock Creek; Catherine E.
Payne, Shamokin; Marie King Harris, Swanton, Vt.; Betty Gilbert Vincent,

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Danville; Genevieve Bahr Morrow, Endicott, N Y.; Esther J. Saxe, Wyoming; Thomas L. Hinkle, Hazleton; Harold L. Hoy, Montandon; Marjorie
Walker Johnston, Coopersburg; Clarissa Sharretts Welliver, Berwick; Olwen
M. Lewis, Scranton; Adelle Cryder Raymond, Easton; Helen Deitrick Harman, Springfield; Cecelia Philbin, Archbald; Ruth Sober Fairbanks, GlensTde; Sara Campbell Haldeman, Willow Grove; Lucille Jury Wise, Berwick;
Pauline McLean Gibson, Scranton.

Helen Berry Quinn, Scranton; Marion Hart Smith, Lewisburg; Gladys
Ramage, Pittston; Marion Graham, Peckville; Arline Tosh Bohn, WilkesBarre; Katharine Hayes Kelly, Scranton; Nan Emanuel, Wilkes-Barre; Martha Y. Jones, Scranton; Helen Hess Strauch, Benton; Henrietta Rhoades
Ramage, Wyoming; Lillie Harter Cameron, Nescopeck; Edna Harter, Nescopeck; Valeria A. Sypniewski, Nanticoke; Mary Lawrence Paettell, Milford, N. J.; Gertrude S. Miller, Bloomsburg; Stella Wheeler Kern, Harrison,
N. J.; Florence Sugerman Settler, Scranton; Eve Morgan, Scranton; Ruth
McIntyre Lenhart, Bloomsburg; Geraldine Schultz Wagner, Millville R. 1;
Anna Naylor Kuschel, Scranton; Zellma Thornton Lugg, Duryea; Margaret
Murray Luke, Mahanoy City; Mattie Luxton Lynch, Laurel, Maryland; Harriet Schultz Sweppenheiser, Bloomsburg R. 3; Cleora M. McKinstry, BloomsE.

burg.

1927
1927 had a large number back for their twentieth year reunion. This was the first class to graduate from the
institution after it was granted the authority to grant degrees
of bachelor of science in education, a fact emphasized by Mrs.
Verna Medley Davenport, of Plymouth, in her response at the
general meeting. The class reunion was concentrated in the
afternoon when many pleasant memories of college days were

The

class of

revived.
Attending: Mrs. Earl Lamoreux, Dallas, R. D. 1; Mrs. William Clarke,
1; Mrs. George T. Smith, Mrs. Robert Gloman, Mrs.
Tubridy, Norine N. Amesbui’g, Mildred C. Benson, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs.

Mountain Top, R. D.

Ray

Molly Brace Duffy, Bristol; Victoria Smith Bundens, Bloomsburg; W. Bernard Roan, Cresco; Lena E. VanHorn, Baltimore; Helen Andrews Thomas,
Leonardo, N. J.; Mrs. Isabel O’Donnel Sweeney, Hazleton; Elizabeth Delaney Fogarty, Nanticoke; Verna Medley Davenport, Plymouth.
Elsie Bower, Berwick; Edith Quinn Jacobsen, Springfield, N. J.; Geraldine Hess Ruch, Berwick; Oce Williams Austin, Alderson, R D. 1; Grace
Jones, Hazleton; Mary E. Jones, Stella M. Murray, Scranton; Pauline Vastine Sugden, Wilkes-Barre; Mary M. Jones, Plains; Mrs. Ada Mourey Housenick, Mifflinville; Mrs. Martha Tasker Cook, Shamokin; Mrs. Genevieve
Chumard, Cook, South Canaan; Mrs. Erla Long Creasy, Berwick; Mrs. Vivian Pitt Hill, Lattimer Mines; Mrs. Helen Schaefer Jacobs, Milnesville; Miss
Helen Ceppa, Nanticoke; Mrs. Wilma Dietterich Bowman, Berwick; Mary
C. Kutz, Glen Lyon; Clara Zydonowiez, Glen Lyon.

1932
Miss Helen Rekas, of Berwick, who returned home recently
from Poland where she had been teaching, was one of the class
of 1932 in attendance. Others included Mrs. Irma Lawton Eyer,
Millville
Mrs. Ann Harris Dobbs, Mrs. Margaret Francis
Hughes and Mrs. Jeanne Hudson.
Others either of that class or around that time included
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Dorothy G. Brobst, Mr. and Mrs. George Horvath, Berwick;
L. Major, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Charlotte Osborne Stein,

Elma

Churchville, N. Y. Mrs. Dean Ward, Kingston; Edwina Evans,
Scranton; Mrs. Meta Kistler, Forty Fort; Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Schenck, Noxen; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cobleigh, Dallas, R. D.
Marjorie Coombs, Wapwallopen; Mrs. Wilhelmina Lesalus, ’25,
Thelma M. Naylor, ’28, Scranton, and Eleanore M. Reilly, Shenandoah.
1937
Ten members of the class of 1937 were in reunion and included James L. Martin, Mrs. Lawrence Piatt, Berwick; Mrs.
John J. German, Jr., Annapolis, Md.; Mrs. Luther P. Hower,
Bloomsburg; J. Blaine Saltzer, Gettysburg; Mr. and Mrs. Earl
A. Gehrig, Bloomsburg James L. Marks, Pine Grove; Marie
;

;

E. Foust, Milton.

1942
1942 had a number in attendance. Members
back included David L. Shaffer, Bloomsburg Edna Zehner
Pietruszak, Idajane Shipe Madl, Berwick; Elizabeth Hoagland
Dobb, Elysburg; Louise Seaman Thomas, Harrisburg; Erma
Wolfgang Latshaw, John M. Latshaw, Shenandoah; Aleta
Stiles Ehrhart, Nevin L. Ehrhart, Red Lion, R. D. 2 Dora Taylor Smith, William E. Smith, Merchantville, N. J. Helen Klingerman McCracken, Ralph McCracken, Montoursville Sylvia
Feingold Sheiman, Williamsport; Jean Noll Zimmerman, Ralph
H. Zimmerman, Quarryville Mary Whitly Mohr, Walter Mohr,
Edwardsville Edward B. Carr, Luzerne; Viola Disbrow, Forty
Fort; Margaret Jones Letterman, Scranton; Ruth James Thomas, Francis P. Thomas, Albany, N. Y. Barbara Straub Hartman,
Stuart L. Hartman, Danville Robert B. Miner, Royersford.

The

class of
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;

From Recent Years

Among

those back were from recent years were; 1943
Mrs. Joyce Lohr Kleckner, Philip R. Yeany, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood M. Wagner, William H. Barton; 1944 Margaret E. Latsha, Helen E. Behler, Anita E. Behler, Hazel Enama, Florence
Faust Yeany, Mary Louise Scott; 1945 Mary Lou Fenstemaker
John, Eudora Berlew Lyhme, Shirley Starovk, Harriet Sterling;
1946 Eileen L. Falvey.

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Harrisburg Alumni
Thirty-three Bloomsburg State Teachers College alumni of
the Harrisburg area attended a meeting of the Dauphin-Cumberland alumni group, held in the Harrisburg Y. M. C. A., on
Monday evening. May 12.
Mrs. Helen Sutliff Brown, Harrisburg, was elected president of the group for the coming year. Other officers named
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ident; Mrs. Blanche Miller Grimes, Harrisburg secretary; and
W. Homer Englehart, Harrisburg, treasurer.
Speakers of the evening were Dr. Francis B. Haas, state
superintendent of public instruction Harvey A. Andruss, president of the college; and Dr. E. H. Nelson, state director of
physical education.
Attending: Margaret F. Grant, Marie C. Higgins, Flora B. Bentzel,
Katharine Coleman, Mary Pendergast, Mary A. Meehan, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Homer Englehart, Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, Dr. E. H. Nelson, Mrs.
Blanche Grimes, Louise D. Clayton, Eleanor Swope, C. Mabelle Dobbs, Mary
;

E. Sullivan, Mrs. Lottie

Ross Frey, Mrs. Bertha Burrow Martin, Nelle Seidel,

Harrisburg.

Gertrude D. Jacobs, Margaret Dailey, Florence E. Keating, Margaret
Selway Schiefer, Steelton; Margaret Jenkins MacCrachan, Lucretia Christian Wooten, Camp Hill; Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Englehart, Penbrook; Ada Lewis
Beale, Duncannon; Effie Womeldorf Bentz, York; Mrs. Mabel Swartz Gardner, Colonial Park; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Elsie Belle Dobbs Swope
Mrs. Elsie Belle Dobbs Swope, of the class of 1909, wife of
Walter M. Swope, died on Friday morning, August 23, 1946,
following a heart attack at her home, 1823 Regina Street, Harrisburg, Penna.
She was an active member of the Pine Street Presbyterian
Church, and Adult Education Board, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Girl Reserve Mother’s Club of the Young
Women’s Christian Association, the Mother’s Club of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, the Auxiliary of the Railway Mail
Association, and an active paiticipant in the affairs of the
Dauphin-Cumberland Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. She took great pride and joy in attending our local meetings and rejoiced in seeing her many friends
on each occasion. Her passing from our midst so suddenly was
a severe shock to all of us.
Surviving, in addition to her husband, are two daughters,
Mrs. Manley M. Chaffee, Woodbury, N. J., and Miss Eleanor
M. Swope, of Harrisburg; two sisters. Miss Josephine Dobbs
and Miss C. Mabelle Dobbs, of Harrisburg, and a brother, Harry
A. Dobbs, of Akron, Ohio.
The following resolution is hereby prepared:

Whereas, Almighty God in his Great Wisdom, has seen fit
from our midst, Elsie Belle Dobbs Swope, of the Class of
1909, on August 23, 1946, and
Whereas, in so doing we have all felt a keen sense of personal loss of a friend and co-worker.

to take

Therefore, be

it

Resolved that we express our heart-felt

and personal sympathy, in this though humble and sincere
fashion, and that a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the
minutes of our Association and that a copy be sent to the bereaved family for their comfort and consolation.
loss

W.

HOMER ENGLEHART,
Class of 1911.
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William B. Mausteller
William B. Mausteller was born at Milton, Pennsylvania,
April 11, 1872. His early education was received in the public
schools of Milton after which he entered the Bloomsburg Normal School and Literary Institute, as our Alma Mater was then
known, and was graduated in the class of 1892. Following graduation, he taught in the public schools of Sunbury and Milton
for some j’ears.
At this point he decided to engage in dentistry. He matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania School of Denistry
from which he was graduated in 1902, whereupon he located
in Harrisburg in which he practiced to the time of death.
On October 27, 1904, he married Miss Harriet Lamm, of
Milton, Pennsylvania, she having been principal of the school
in which he taught in that city. He is survived by his daughter,
Mrs. Maria C. M. Putney, 3120 North Second Street, HaiTisburg,
Pennsylvania, his wife having passed away less than a year before him.
He was an active member of Market Square Presbyterian
Church in which he was a deacon as well as Vice President of
the Henry Spicer Men’s Bible Class. He was also affiliated with
state and national dental associations, and is a past president
of the district dental association. Fraternally, he was a member of Harrisburg Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons, and of Zembo Temple, of the Shrine.
The following resolution was adopted
WHEREAS, God in His unsearchable wisdom has seen fit to
call from his earthly scenes our friend and alumnus, William B.
Mausteller; and
WHEREAS, during the years of his residence in Harrisburg he maintained a constant interest and actively engaged
in the affairs of our Alumni Association, through the Executive
Committee and otherwise, giving to it his reasoned opinion and
:

sound judgment; and
WHEREAS, he was found active in the better phases of
communal and private life, in addition to his worth to our Alumtherefore be it
That in the passing of William B. Mausteller
we shall note keenly the absence of his quiet mannerisms and
sound judgment; and be it further
RESOLVED That this resolution be copied on the minutes
of our Association and a copy forwarded to the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in order that it might be printed in the
Quarterly; and that a copy be forwarded to surviving daughter,
Mrs. Maria C. M. Putney.
ni Association

;

RESOLVED

:

;

Jessie Dershimer Hoover
With great regret, the Dauphin-Cumberland Branch of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association notes
the passing of Jessie Dershimer Hoover, past president and ac-

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member. By unanimous action of the members, it was resolved that the Association express its sincere sorrow and regret
over the severe loss with which it has been affected, and that
this expression of regret be entered on the minutes along with
the following record of service which sets forth the severity of
the loss we have suffered.
Mrs. Jessie Dershimer Hoover was born at Falls, Pennsylvania. Attended the township schools and graduated at Tunkhannock High School. She graduated from Bloomsburg Normal
School with the class of 1913. She taught two years at South
Montrose, four years at Tunkhannock, one year at Carson Long
Institute and six years at Hershey. She was married July 29,
1926, to C. W. Hoover, Principal of the West Shore Schools.
Mrs. Hoover was an active member of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church, being a teacher in Junior Intermediate Department of the Sunday School. She was a Past President of
the Pastor’s Aid Society and Past President of the Circle No. 13
of the Women’s Association. Among her other activities were
Staff Assistant of the Harrisburg Chapter of the American Red
Cross for many years, being active in Welfare and Community
Chest Work. Past President of the West Shore Junior Red
Cross. Her activities included membership on the Board of
Directors of the Y. W. C. A. for twelve years and serving as
chairman of the Cafeteria Committee for eight years. She was
a member of the Troop Committee of the Enola Girl Scouts.
She is survived by her husband, C. W. Hoover, Supervising
Principal of the East Pennsboro Township Schools, and a sister,
Mrs. Paul G. Shultz, Hershey.
It is further resolved that a copy of this action be sent to
the bereaved husband and the B. S. T. C. Alumni Association at
tive

large.
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Montour County Alumni
The eighth annual banquet of the Montour County Alumni
Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was held
Monday evening, April 22, in the Montour Hotel in Danville,
with the president, Ralph McCracken, presiding. The officers
were re-elected as follows President, R. McCracken vice president, Mary Ellen McWilliams; treasurer, Susan Sidler; secretary, Miss Alice Smull.
Members of the faculty were guests of the association and
were presented by Dr. T. P. North. Members of the senior class
of the Danville High School, who recently took part in the contests at York, gave a musical program: piano solo, Jean Hill;
cornet solo, Robert Foust; poetry reading, Shirley Lindauer;
baritone solo, Joseph Blackburn.
A group of students from State Teachers College sang a
variety of songs, did some skits and rendered several instru:

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mental selections. Howard Fenstemaker and Mr. Henrie, of
the Teachers College, led the group singing.
Mr. Fenstemaker, Editor of the Alumni Quaiteiiy, spoke on
alumni matters. President Harvey A. Andruss gave a talk, “Report from Bloomsburg” and traced the history of the college and

made some prophecies

for the future of the institution.

The meeting closed with the singing of the Alma Mater.
The session was thoroughly enjoyed and pronounced one of the
best held by the group.
Attending were H. F. Fenstemaker, Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, Ralph
McCracken, Mary Ellen McWilliams, Alice L. Smull, Harvey A. Andruss,
Mrs. Anna Miles, Mary Louise Henry, Mrs. Pauline Swank, Mrs. Mary Fegley, Mrs. George H. Miller, Joseph Blackburn, Shirley Lindauer, Jean Hill,
Harriet Frye, Rebecca Appleman, Alice Guest, Helen Quigg, Viola Young,
Carrie Biyner, Winifred Evans, Julia Warner, Helen Johnson, S. Irvin
Shortess, Edward T. DeVoe, Alice Karosa, Elizabeth Tovey, Ruth M. Rudy,
Marie Wright, Helen H. Rhawn, Lois L. Wintersteen, Mary R. Moser, Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Vastine, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis, Winifred McVey, Mr.
and Mrs. Foster Kirkner, Mr. and Mrs. George McCollum.
Nell Maupin, H. Harrison Russell, Mrs. Lucille J. Baker, Harry N. Gasser, Charles H. Henrie, Thomas P. North, Mis. Sara Ellen Mack, Mrs. Wilda
Margrity, Mrs. Alice Simington, Mrs. Margaret Morrison, Margaret Sidler,
Susan Sidler, Mary A. Boyer, Mary C. Wagner, Dorothy Dean, Viola Blue,
James Jowell, Herman L. Kuster, Jr., Harold H. Lanterman, Mrs. Harry
Lindauer, Mrs. H. Evangeline Deibert, Earl Deibert, Charles Hartman, W.
C. Forney, Earl Gehrig, Mrs. Frank Crouse, Mrs. Olive Gass, Kimber Kuster, John A. Hoch, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Beaver, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lee Funk,
Rush Shafer, Kathryn Campbell, B. Llewellyn, Candy McCollum, Carol R.
McCloughan, Helen P. Swank, Lois C. B.yner, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Seibert,
Honora Dennen, Herbert Barr.

Susquehanna, Wyoming Counties Aiumni
Forty-four attended the largest meeting of Susquehannaof the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
held at the Lake Side Inn, near Tunkhannock, Monday evening,
April 29.
Officers chosen were Stuaif Button, Susquehanna, class of
1917, president; Mrs. Francis Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock, class
of 1923, and Mrs. Retha Noble Burgess, Hallstead, class of
1931, vice president; Dean Harpe, Tunkhannock, class of 1940,
and Catherine B. Hicks, New Milford, class of 1940, secretaries;
Doris VanBuskirk, New Milford, class of 1931, treasurer.
The branch has decided to contribute twenty-five dollars
toward the renovation of the alumni room. Stuait Button presided. Speaking for the college were President Harvey A. Andruss and Dr. Nell Maupin. Six college students provided entertainment and in all eight of the faculty attended.

Wyoming alumni

Among those at the dinner were Catherine Bel Hicks, Doi'is Empett
VanBuskirk, New Milford; Retha Noble Burgess, Hallstead; Herman L. Kuster, Jr., Bloomsburg; Betty Ann Buck, Greenwich, Conn; Betty M. Butts,
Wilkes-Barre; Rita J. Belle, Tunkliannock; Mabel G. Decker, Mehoopany;
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Mildred Avery Love, North Mehoopany; Rhea LeFrance Lee, Springville;
Mrs. Glenn Hasbrouck, Clifford; Mrs. Joy DeVall, Kingsley; Bessie L. Raynolds. South Gibson; Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Sturman, Tunkhannock; Margaret
Kiefer Hewitt, Dean Harpe, Ruth W. Sherwood, Elsie O. Shaughnessy, Tunkhannock; Frances E. Kiner, Great Bend; Adelaide McKown Hawke, Elsie
Stevens Herric, Tunkhannock; Harry N. Gasser, Edward T. DeVoe, M. Beatrice Mettler, S. I. Shortess, Mrs. Lucille J. Baker, Harvey A. Andruss, Nell
Maupin, Thomas J. North, Bloomsburg; Stuart E. Button, Susquehanna;
Mrs. Martha R. Miers, Carbondale; Mrs. Olwen A. Hartley, Lenoxville.
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1882
May Regan (Mrs. Willard L. Frost) lives at 2608 Jackson
Street, Sioux City 18, Iowa. She reports of the death of Emily
Fetherolf Hood, which occurred in September, 1946, as the result of an accident. Mrs. Frost would like information about
any of her classmates who are still living.
1885
Harry O. Hine is living at 1401 Fairmont Street, Apt. 501,
Washington, D. C.
1886
Mrs. Lucetta Moyer White died at her home in Bloomsburg, April 29, 1947. She had not been in good health for several years, but her death came as a shock to her friends and
family.

She was a native of Bloomsburg, a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Moyer, and the widow of Charles Edgar
White, of Weston, Ohio.
She graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School,
in the class of 1886, and taught in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, for five years prior to her marriage in 1891. Her husband, a former resident of Columbia County, was a member of
the class of 1886, and her brother, the late Reverend Harry C.
Moyer, was a graduate of the same class.
Following her husband’s death in 1919, she made her home
in Bloomsburg with her mother and sisters and taught for a
number of years at Lime Ridge, Pa., and in the Third Street
School of town.
She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Weston,
Ohio, and of the missionary organization of the Bloomsburg
Methodist Church. She was also a member of the Delta Club
of Bloomsburg.
She is survived by a foster son, Dana Chase, of Bowling
Green, Ohio; two sisters. Miss Edith Moyer and Miss Mabel
Moyer of town, and several nieces.
Funeral services were conducted at the Baker Funeral
Home by the Reverend G. Dongles Davies of the First Presbyterian Church. The body, accompanied by her relatives, was
taken by train to Weston, Ohio, where further services were
held in the Presbyterian Church, in charge of the pastor. Reverend Leslie Bell. Interment was in the Weston Cemetery.
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Miss Elizabeth Culp, who retired several years ago after
forty-four years of teaching in the schools of Sunbury, died
December 24 1946, at her home, 437 Catawissa Avenue, Sunbury. She became a teacher in the schools of Sunbury immediately after her graduation from Sunbury, and at the time of
her retirement in 1940 she was the principal of the High School
in the Ninth Ward. She was a member of Zion Lutheran
Church, and of many organizations connected with the church.
Slie was also a member of the Mendelssohn Club and the Business and Professional Women’s Club.

Josephine Barkley (Mrs. Warren Eyer) died Sunday, April
13, at her home in Bloomsburg. She was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Barkley. Her father was one of
the most prominent lawyers of his day. She was a member of
the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg. She is survived

by her son Charles.
Elfreda Barnes (Mrs. Edwin H. Gottschall)
Washington Avenue, Tyrone, Pa.

lives at

951

1888

More than 500 persons attended the banquet celebrating
the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Bethlehem Business
College and honoring its founder and present head, William F.
Magee, in the Masonic Temple.
Alumni faculty members, representatives of Lehigh Valley
schools and business and civic leaders were among the host of
diners feting Mr. Magee, who has spent approximately 60 years
in the teaching field since graduating from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in 1888.
The program opened with the singing of “America” and
the invocation was given by Rev. A. Augustus Welsh, pastor of
Christ Reformed Church. Robert T. Wimmer, class of ’32, president of the Alumni Association extended greetings and in behalf of the Alumni and faculty presented Mr. Magee with a
radio.

Edward

S. Bixler,

class of ’01,

was the master of ceremon-

ies.

Franklin E. Valkenburg, class of

’15,

past president of the

Alumni Association, introduced the banquet speaker, James E.
Gheen, public relations counsellor. New York City, who spoke
on the subject, “Philosophy and Humor.” Mr. Gheen said there
are five rules applicable to success, “Know what you want to
do, desire to do that particular thing, confidence, persistence
and be willing to make sacrifices.”
Clarence E. Musselman, former faculty member and past
president of the Alumni Association, presented Mr. Magee with
a leather covered register, containing the signatures of all the
members present at the banquet. Iwan W. Gangawer, class of
1900, introduced Ervin Stein, class of ’99, who presented Mr.

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Magee with a bouquet of yellow roses as a token of esteem and
friendship from the classes of 1898, 1899 and 1900. Charles G.
Reigner, president of H. M. Rowe and Co., Baltimore, offered
brief remarks. The dinner music was played by the Beth-Art
Trio and the Revelers sang several novelty songs.
Charles A. Klein, assistant to the principal of Liberty High
School, was the song leader and Miss Helen M. Starner was
pianist.
C. H.

Bower, principal of B. B. C., introduced the following
guests: Mr. and Mrs. James Magee, Frank L. Magee, Harold T.
Magee, Curtis W. Magee, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gapp, Lee Walrath, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Churchman, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dennis,
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Daugherty, G. P. Eckels, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles and Mrs. C. H. Bowser.
Frederick A. Zillinsky, head of Secretarial Department
introduced the following guests: David H. Brillhart, William H.
Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hartzog, Dr. Wray H. Congdon,
Edmund J. Buckley, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Wallace, John W.
Hedge, Elmer F. Greene, W. Stahlnecker, Mr. and Mrs. John S.
Stetler, Robert N. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Toohey and Mrs.
Fred A. Zillinsky.
Charles E. Mengel was general chairman of the banquet
committee assisted by the following Edward S. Bixler, A. Earle
Felker, Eva A. Miller, Clarence E. Musselman, Elvin E. Myers,
Frances Smith Pearce, Cora Heft Roth, Carl B. Spogen Charlotte, Worman Stecker, Franklin E. Valkenburg and Robert T.
:

Wimmer.
1893
Miss Eunice Titus, of Sunrise Terrace, Binghamton, New
York, passed away October 11, 1946, after a long illness. Miss
Titus was a graduate of Syracuse University, and received her
Masters degree at Columbia University. She taught English in
the Binghamton High School for twenty years, and was retired
five years ago. She was a member of the West Presbyterian
Church, and was active in the Civic Club of Binghamton, the
American Association of University Women, and the Sunrise
Terrace Garden Club.
Alice Fenner
Street,

is

living at the

Phoebe Home, 1903 Turner

Allentown, Pa.

1897
Excerpts from Class Letters
Hear ye
All Ninety-Sevens
“Hear ye
Come to B. S. T. C. to the reunion we’ve been waiting for
!

!

Our
Let’s lay aside our cares

Fiftieth
to

and come

“Old Normal’’

May

23

1947.

Show ’em we

still

have the

spirit of

“Old Bloomsburg.’’

ZERBIN LOW,

Class President.
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We’ll have a grand evening, by the rules we’ll abide.
This class of ’97 so young, sweet and fair
Not later than eleven must climb the ‘Golden Stair,’

Or wend

its

way homeward down ‘Normal

But ‘Lovers’ Lane

in the

gloamin’

“We’ll meet you and greet you

in

is

Hill’ as of yore,

gone forevermore.’

the Alumni Room.

MABEL MOYER,

Class Secretary.

Not every class retuming for its “Golden Reunion’’ can
boast the attendance of fifty-four members of superior intelligence and unusual beauty; in good health and excellent spirits; which includes their illustrious guests.
Responding to the pictorial first call to “Dinner’’ issued by
Dr. E. H. Nelson, alumni president (dinner being provided by
the Alumni Association) reinforced by special invitation from
Zerbin Low, class president since 1925; followed by one in
verse written by Mabel Moyer, class secretary since 1925, we assembled in the “Alumni Room’’ to guess “Who’s Who?’’
Soon to our surprise and delight we were stepping into the
college dining room to the strains of the “Lafayette March”
played by Mrs. Ella Stump Sutliff, who in ’97 was Miss Stump,
instructor in the Music Department and leader of the orchestra.
She played us regularly out of chapel every morning and “woe
be us” if we chattered or got out of step. Bang! went those
and stepped
dainty hands on the piano, and presto we
up. Incidentally, this march was composed that year by a
graduate of Lafayette and presented to Miss Stump by William
B. Sutliff, B. S. N. S. instructor on leave of absence for his B. S.
degree from Lafayette. Needless to say our present Dean Emeritus Sutliff has continued more than a musical interest in our
present Mrs. Ella Stump Sutliff.
The dining tables were beautifully decorated with center
pieces of yellow roses and daisies, and the flowered place cards
!

CLASS OF 1897
Row

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right
Theodocia Welliver Hackett, Lenore
Pettibone, Grace Lendrum Coxe, Elizabeth Dailey Curran, Elizabeth James,
Mary Seeley, Eva Martin, Dora Huber Ely, Mabel Moyer, Anna LeVan
First

(seated)

left to

Montgomery, Mary Williams Gething.
Second Row (left to right) Bertha Kelly, Mary Williams Lawrence,
Bess Davis, Jessie Gilchrist, Hettie Cope Whitney, Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Mae
Meixell, Blanche Lowrie, Mary A. Good, Emma Ruggles Starr, Mr. W. B.
Sutliff, Martha Brugler Creasy.
Third Row (left to right) Amy Beishline Thomas, Mrs. Alfred B.
Houtz, Alfred Houtz, Ruth Williams Henry, Jean Menzies Scott, Blanche
Balliet, Millicent Broadbent Sitler, John S. Brace, Curtis Welliver, Isabel
Smith York, Ada McLinn Clare, Bertha Shortz Campbell, Leslie Seeley,
Zerbin Low.

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lettered in gold ink by Mae Meixell and Mary Seely added to
the beauty of the setting.
Following the invocation by Dean Sutliff a delicious turkey
dinner was served by the college dietician assisted by college
students and interrupted only by the necessity of having a class
photograph taken, which, as usual, turned out to be unusual.
Introduced by Zerbin Low, Leslie B. Seely as toastmaster
expressed appreciation to the committee on arrangements:
Zerbin Low, Mary Good, Mae Meixell, Mary Seely, Curtis Wel;

and Mabel Moyer.

liver

the ladies who were class guests Mrs.
Harvey Andruss, Mrs. William B. Sutliff Mrs. Leslie Seely, Mrs.
Zerbin Low, Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Mrs. Hettie Cope Whitney, Mrs.

He then presented

:

Bertha Shorts Campbell, Omaha, Neb., who responded with
charming smiles but no speeches.
Letters and telegrams of congratulations were read from
Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and also from classmates of ’97 Dr. Charles Appleman, Dean of Graduate School, University of Maryland Mrs.
Elizabeth Moyer Kreider, Toledo, Ohio Mrs. Grace Lean MilRev. Arthur Ohl, Trappe, Collegeville, Pa.
ler, Riverside, Cal.
Ralph Sands and Mrs. Ora Rollison Sands, Hawley Pa. Harry
Wisconsin Masonic Home;
Curran Wilbur, Dousman, Wis.
Elsie M. Wilson, Newark, N. J. and George (Stony) McLinn,
Editor Spoils Parade WIP.
Letters were read from relatives of W. C. Burns and Helen
Mans Vanderslice who died during the past year, and the class
stood in memory of all their deceased classmates as this memorial verse written by Mrs. Amy Beishline Thomas ’97 was
:

;

;

;

;

“Sacred to Their Memory.’’
“We’ll not forget those who have gone.
We who stay a little longer here.
Their names, their faith, their love
Will live in our memories bright and clear.’’
Group singing during the dinner was directed by Blanche
E. Lowrie ’97 former director of music in the Irvington Public
Schools, N. J., and accompanied by John L. Andreas, 1937.
Harvey A. Andruss, President of the B. S. T. C., was presented and brought greetings from the college. He stated, “Any
read

:

shadow of the men and
Bloomsburg State Teachers College today is but the projection of what the Bloomsburg
State Normal School was a half century ago.
“Proof of right training in mind, manner and morals is
shown by what each generation does with its education after its
graduates have left the institution.
“Judged by these things the class of ’97 has set the high
water mark of achievement both in this reunion and in contributions educationally rendered and others rendered to the colinstitution

is

but the link that

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commonwealth and the alumni association.”
Mrs. Ada McLinn Clare read the original class statistics
which she composed in ’97 noting: “One hundred thirty-four
swelled heads who passed the ‘State Committee’s Finals plus
six College Preps who didn’t need to pass them.
“The ambition of class members of ’97 excelled in colossal
proportions the Washington Monument and they have recently
received messages from the ‘Man in the moon’ that they are
nearing his domain.
“The literary ability of our class is unparalleled in the records. The presses of Bloomsburg, Buckhorn, Espy and Berwick and other towns of the country have been called into service, yet many of our works remain unpublished. These outstanding works are ‘That Tired Feeling,’ ‘Beauty and How to
Attain It,’ ‘Learning to Ride a Wheel,’ ‘Campus Enjoyments’
and the ‘Benefits of State Board Examinations, etc.’
‘The outstanding events of the year were ‘Philo’ reunion
Booker T. Washington, speaker Excursion to Washington
December 15 to 18th ‘Callie’ reunion Fiske Jubilee SingDr. and
ers
Season of Mumps and Measles, March and April
Mrs. J. P. Welsh’s reception to seniors June 14
Best Athletic Games under the direction of Dr. Aldinger Coach
FootBasketball with University of Pennsylball with Lafayette
vania and doing well in baseball.
“Irregularity of the Earth’s rotation during the year was
attributed by leading scientists to the great height of the brains
of ’97 and they anxiously await the scattering of this great aggregation of gray matter that Old Earth may resume her accustomed pace.”
“The world is calling loudly for us; when politics became
purified, schools elevated and the world revolutionized, remember that this class is out in the world taking its place among the
heroes.”
“Dear Faculty:
Days like these must ever be left behind
But we shall never forget B. S. N. S. so kind,
Alma Mater may she stand, ever may her bright stars shine.
She’s the best in all the land, and her fame shall ne’er decline.
Classmates, ever true at heart, may our friendship ne’er be riven
lege,

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Linked by bands of unity. Our Beloved ’97.”
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Houtz, of St. Petersburg, Florida,
were presented and Mr. Houtz responded with a request story
given in his clever manner.
Mrs. Leslie B. Seely delighted with a piano solo, “Romance.”
Jessie Gilchrist in her inimitable style presented some of
the interesting characters and events of the class and faculty
in the following remarks
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I can well believe the claims of insurance statistics that life
expectancy has increased in the last fifty years. You all look
exceedingly fit. Tonight, I am seeing you as you were back in
those days and with you, the ones who guided us along the paths
of learning and, incidentally, kept us in the straight and narrow way.
“With very little effort you can see them, too. Can’t you
catch a glimpse of Prof. Cope striding through the hall or standing behind his demonstration table ? Don’t you hear the tinkle
of Dr. Welsh’s knife on the glass as he calls us to order in the
dining room? There is Prof. Albeit standing at his class room^
door as we meander out of Chapel. Do you catch the twinkle
in Prof. Wilbur’s eye when he calls on you to solve that difficult
problem in geometry or to produce an ‘Original?’ Remember
those rapid-fire questions of Prof. Detweiler which reduced
some girls to tears? Some of us picture Miss Margaret Bogenrief in her good-looking garnet suit checking attendance in the
‘gym.’ You can hardly miss the patient smile on Prof. Joseph
Dennis’s face as you falter through a Virgil translation, nor the
sharp eyes and ears of Miss Dickerson hunting a Caesor’s ‘pony,’
with her sweet words of reward for the faithful student. There
stands Prof. Noetling with his white hair and kindly face, jotting down a ‘goose egg’ for that question you could not answer.
Perhaps he is regaling you on the model classroom with its

you,

hard-wood

splinterless floor, well oiled.
“Splinterless floors remind me too of the day Grace Lawrence sprinting down third floor dormitory hall, picked up an
enormous splinter which put her out of commission for quite a
while. Splinterless floors were not found in dormitories fifty
years ago.
“And those football games we girls helped to win with our
‘Ninety-seven, ninety-seven. Too fast for
vigorous yelling
earth, too fast for heaven.’
“Or the Thanksgiving game, last of the season followed by
a delicious dinner with golden brown turkey carved by the
football hero.
“Are you girls still cherishing autographed pillow covers?
Bess and Ruth dug theirs out for this occasion. They bring back
many a happy memory. Will the girls of today cherish their
autographed shirts as well as we do our pillows?
“You can’t forget skating on the mill race or under the
covered bridges on Fishing Creek, with Prof. Cope as chaperon
cutting figure-eights, while we glided out of sight.
“Don’t fail to see McKillip’s “Masterpiece’’ before kodaks'
were plentiful but we had our pictures taken at every opporsingly, in groups, front and rear views.
tunity
“Outstanding questions of the day were ‘Why did you decide to take up teaching as a profession?’ What else could a

—

—

poor

girl

do

in ’97 ?

“What compensation
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$27.19 monthly salary was probably earned only in effort the
year but once we didn’t receive our last two months salary
That year the salary was cut from $40 to
until the next fall.
$35 and the term from eight months to seven.
“Before school opened in September at a conference of the
school board and teachers, I ventured to ask the president what
I hardly
he thought of corporal punishment. He said, “I
know, but you had better be careful about using it.’’ Then Matilda Matterau asked, ‘What about whipping?’ ‘Oh, whip
whenever you please,’ he said. Presidents of school boards were
not retired college presidents in those days.
“We all know there are many compensations in teaching
other than monetary ones. About these 1 could get quite sentimental. How far are teachers responsible for the upset conditions in this world of ours? I would hesitate to answer that
question, if I could. However, I believe this world would be
much better off today if all we who graduated from teachers’
colleges in the last fifty years had really appreciated the importance of our position as teachers, and had clearly understood
the value of the human material on which we worked. I did
realize what it was all about in ’97 and how many of
not
our grauuates do today?
“But I’m glad I was educated for and became a teacher,
that I came to Bloomsburg for my training for my life’s work
and th '.t I’m here with you tonight.
“Arthur Guiterman has said ‘As you enter the usual
town, you can hear the swishing, swashing of people taking in
each other’s washing. But in Winter Park, it’s my conjecture
that people listen to each other lecture.’ That’s what you have
been doing tonight.’’
An impromptu and humorous sketch of the school days of
’97 was enacted by Prof. W. B. Sutliff of the “Old Guard’’ and
Dr. E. H. Nelson, alumni president. The setting was the office
of Dr. J. P. Welsh, with Dr. Nelson in the role of Dr. Welsh
and Dean Sutliff, a Lafayette student on the Bloomsburg campus
for commencement. The skit was received with many hearty
first

;

—

:

laughs.

The

class was honored and delighted to have as guest soMiss Althea Parsell, with her accompanist, John L. Andreas. Miss Parsell ’46 will be remembered as the co-winner of
the “Voice of Tomorrow Contest,’’ at the first Philadelphia
Music Festival. She was a music student of Miss Laura Herring, whose outstanding reputation as a director of voice is well
known. Miss Parsell is continuing in graduate work in voice.
Mr. Andreas, ’37, was a student of Mrs. J. K. Miller, formerly director of the instrumental music department of B. S.
T. C. with graduate work at West Chester State Teachers College. He is an accomplished artist, an assistant accompanist in
Miss Herring’s Studio, and accompanies Miss Parsell in concert
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programs. They presented

with finished technique and fine
“Inventory,” “The False Prophet,” “Music of the
Spring” and “Friendship.”
The Class, seated on the platform May 24th at the Alumni
meeting received diplomas (facsimile in miniature of those received in ’97) presented by Dr. E. H. Nelson representing Dr.
Welsh, principal of B. S. N. S. and Dean Emeritus W. B. Sutliff.
Leslie Seely and Miss Blanche Lowrie ’97 responded for the
class. Miss Lowrie in excellent voice and manner sang “The

feeling

“Sweet Little Woman of Mine,” Bartlett, and
“To You,” Speaks. She was accompanied by Howard F. FenStar,” Rogers;

stemaker ’12.
Mr. Seely spoke of the value throughout life of the years
spent at B. S. N. S. He said, “Here we made associations, secured ideals, gained ability to think and to choose our associates and acquired many fine memories which have meant much
to us.”
Attending were: Dr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, President B. S. T.
C.; Dean Emeritus and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff, Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson, John
L. Andreas, of Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Leslie B. Seely, Philadelphia; Mr.
and Mrs. O. Z. Low and Miss Althea Parsed, Orangeville, Pa.; Mrs. Bertha
Shortz Campbell, Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. Jean Menzies Scott, Glenbernie, Md.;
Mrs. Ada McLinn Clare, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Hettie Cope Whitney, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Grace Lendrum Coxe, Norwalk, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Houtz, St. Petersburg, Florida; Martha Brugler Creasy and Harryette Creasy, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Ruth W. Henry, B. Grace. Lawrence, Jessie L.
Gilchrist and Julian Sharpless Fagley, of Philadelphia; Elizabeth F. James,
Darling, Pa.; Milicent Broadbent Sitler, Newcastle, Pa.; Bertha Kelly, Scranton; Bess Davis, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Williams Gething, Nanticoke; Eva
Martin and Dora Huber Ely, Hazleton; Belle Smith York, Mt. Carmel; Lenora L. Pettebone, Emma Ruggles Starr, Forty Fort; Amy Beishline ThomDaley Curran and Agnes Curran, Plymouth;
as, Bethlehem; Elizabeth
Blanche Balliet, Williamsport; Dr. D. M. Hess, Blanche E. Lowrie, Mrs.
L. Higbee, Watsontown; Anna Levan Montgomery, Milton; Harvey
Gilnett, Swineford; Mr. and Mrs. John Bi’ace, Tunkhannock; Mr. and Mrs.

Mary

Hackett (Theodocia Welliver), Sunbury; Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Welliver, Mae
Meixell and Mary Seely, Berwick; Mary Good, Wapwallopen; Mrs. E. M.
Oman and Mabel Moyer, Bloomsburg.
Reported by Class Secretary,

MABEL MOYER.
Note: Upon resignation of the present class president and
secretary, the original officers were newly elected Leslie Seely,
president; Mary Good, secretary. Address all further communications to them or to Dr. E. H. Nelson, alumni president.
:

1898
Mr. and Mrs.

Norman

G. Cool are living in Culver City,

California.

1901
Arthur T. Lowry) lives in Ed(Mrs.
Follmer
Gertrude M.
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ent for the St. Joseph Lead Company at their zinc mine. She is
teaching piano in the public schools, plays in the local church,
and is chairman for all of the women’s clubs in St. Lawrence
County, Northern New York Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Nevin Elwell Funk, a native of Bloomsburg, has been elected executive vice president and a member of the board of directors of the Philadelphia Electric Company.
Mr. Funk, who is widely known in this section and the son
of the late N. U. Funk, long a practicing attorney here, was
advanced from the position of vice president in charge of engineering.

Mr. Funk is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and a graduate of Lehigh University. He started his business career with the Westinghouse Company and he later
taught at the Georgia School of Technology.
He has been with the Philadelphia Electric Company for
many years and is a national authority on engineering matters.
Mr. Funk has been active in the affairs of many important
national associations and societies, including the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, of which he is a past national
president; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, of
which he is now a vice president; the Association of Edison
Electric Institutes the Pennsylvania Electric Association the
National District Heating Association, and The Franklin In;

;

stitute.

Horace P. Liversidge, president since 1938, has been named
chairman of the board and will continue as active head of the
company.
1902

The Class of
day evening. May

’02 started its reunion with a dinner on Fri23, at the Magee Coffee Shoppe. Following
the dinner the class was entertained at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. N. Keller at Orangeville.
On Saturday morning the class assembled in one of the
social rooms to greet those coming for the General Alumni
Meeting. At one o’clock a turkey dinner was served at Fest’s
dining room to the following
Eunice F. Spear, Marion Johnson Skeer, Gertrude Rawson, Camille
Hadsall Pettibone, May Reichard, Margaret Hoffa Henninger, Eleanor Gay
Northrup, Effie M. Vance, Helen Czechowicz, Alice J. Guest, Mr. and Mrs.
George Gibbons (Blanche Austin), Mr. and Mrs. W. Evan Hebei (Florence
Crow), Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Keller (Etta Hirlinger), Elizabeth Pollock Kirkland, Bess M. Long, Charlotte V. Heller, M. Grace Heller, Essene Hollopeter
Martin, Gertrude Dress Jacobs, Grace Bradbury Everett, Mary Croop Fairchild, Amy B. Smithers, Blanche Palm Kochenderfer, Marie L. Diem, Mr.
and Mrs. George C. Baker, Harriet E. Fry, Harriet Hitchcock McMurry ’03,
Emma Berry Motter ’04, Adele Altmiller Burkhardt ’01.
Prof, and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff and Miss Margaret Bogenreif
were guests of the class.
One of the interesting features after the dinner was the

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many letters sent by those unable to attend the reunion. Those sending letters were
Harry Jacobs, David Cotner, Maine Clark Meyers, Marie Bayley Smith,
Lourissa Leighou, Martha Frimyer Johns, Edna Elder Strassner, Bertha
Fine Gunn, David Landis, Helen Keating, Louise Larrabee, Leslie Seeley,
Edith Appenzeller, Carroll C. Wagner, Mary Francis Gendall, Jennie Harris
Young, Elsie Streeter Crawford, Helen Reice Irvin, Bessie Yeager Davies,
Agnes Melvin Echenholser, Edith L. Koons, Ada Harrison.
reading of

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news was received concern-

At the time of going to press,
ing the death of Millicent Broadbent Sitler. Further
will appear in the next number of the Quarterly.
F. A.

Humphreys

details

1903
5705 South Fifth Avenue, Birm-

lives at

ingham, Alabama.
1905
Miss Ida Sitler has retired from the faculty of Hollins College, and expects to return to live in Bloomsburg at Second and
Locust Streets, where she will be glad to see her old friends.
The following article, relative to Miss Sitler’s retirement, was
published in the Hollins Alumnae Magazine:
“This spring brings with it the retirement of Miss Ida Sitler
from the faculty of Hollins College after a continuous service
of twenty-seven years as Professor of Biology. To those of us
who have been her colleagues during the major portion of her
years here, and to many of the younger members of the Faculty
as well, her leaving is a matter of deep regret. We are all too
conscious of the realization that her place here as teacher,
scholar, and friend will be most difficult to fill.
Miss Sitler leaves behind her an unusually enviable record
of achievement. Very naturally one thinks of her first of all as
a teacher, giving freely of her time, effort, and wise counsel to
a succession of admiring and enthusiastic students. There is a
long line of Hollins graduates who, having received their initial
training and inspiration from her, have gone out into the world
to do specialized work in their different communities. Many of
these are some of the most outstanding alumnae of the college.
Among them are several Doctors of Medicine, at least one Doctor of Philosophy, and others who hold significant positions in
the nursing profession and in the fields of public health or medical research. In addition there is a large number of her former
students who have given up careers for marriage, but who
would acknowledge an inestimable debt to her for their association with her during their undergraduate years.
“Coming to Hollins at a time when sciences were far less
well equipped than they are today. Miss Sitler at once went
about working to better the physical set-up of the Biology Department. One needs only to look at it at the present time, with
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has been. What one sees there is almost entirely the reher understanding of the needs of a first class department and of her careful planning. She has been the instigator
and builder, too, of the extremely fine collection of local species
which have been gathered and identified by a succession of
Zoology III classes. This collection now has a prominent position in the hallway on the second floor of the Science Hall near
Miss Sitler’s office, and it gives evidence of the thoroughness of
her work and of the interest which she created among her students in the fauna of the immediate environment of the college.
“But Miss Sitler’s influence on the campus has gone far beyond her classroom and her laboratory. Until 1933, she acted
as faculty adviser to the college Y. W. C. A., and in that capacity she was instrumental in securing as speakers some of the
more outstanding religious thinkers of the period. She has always been interested in the health work on the campus and she
has played a conspicuous part in its development. Very regularly she has carried a heavy faculty committee program, and
wherever she has served she has made valuable contributions
due to her interest, her experience, and courage. Since 1934,
she has been secretary of the faculty and has performed the
somewhat exacting duties of that office with the untiring effort
ful she
sult of

so characteristic of her.

“Outside of the college she has been active in the work of
the Virginia Academy of Science, and she held the presidency
of that body from 1934 to 1936. From 1936 to 1938, she was
president of the Roanoke Chapter of the American Association
of University Women, and through her work in that organization she extended her interests during the years just prior to the
war to the problem of securing annually a performance of the
Clare Tree Major Children’s Theatre for the colored school
children of Roanoke. For a number of years she was a member
of the Inter-Racial Commission of the Y. W. C. A. in Roanoke
and of the Inter-Racial Commission of Virginia.
“When one thinks of Miss Sitler, one is impressed with the
keenness of her intellect, the breadth of her interests, her scholarly approach to problems, her extreme wisdom in giving advice, and her sense of humor. An avid reader throughout her
life, she has a mind richly stored with facts. She is an easy and
interesting conversationalist. Nor should one neglect to mention
her hospitality both to faculty members and to students. Without a doubt her quarters in Teachers’ Cottage are among the
most homelike on the Hollins campus. She likes people and perhaps most of all she likes young people. Many of her own major
students, long after they have left college, must carry in their
minds cherished memories of gatherings in her apartment.
“It is the combination of all of these qualities which makes
one feel assured that her retirement will be a happy one. She
has too many interests for her ever to be lonely. There are her
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Her natural liking for those about her and
the contributions which she has to offer to society will make her
a valuable member of any community in which she settles. She
will be sadly missed^ here, but we believe that by her very nature she will find happiness in the leisure which lies ahead of
her. She goes with the deep affection and best wishes of all of
close family ties.

us.

2,

at his

hip.

Gregory L. Higgins, of Carbondale, died Wednesday,
home, after a fall in which he had fractured his
Dr. Higgins was graduated from the University of Mary-

land

in

1910.

Dr.

July

1909
Jeannie Stowell

Knapp

(Mrs. Leslie R.
Reid Street, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Amee)

lives at

1923

1911
Rev. Mae V. Sherman, 225 Lackawanna Street, Olyphant,
was married Saturday, February 22, in the parsonage of the
Blakely Baptist Church to Robert Dornsife, Chestnut Street,
Cressona, Schuylkill County. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Stephen Cunliffe, pastor.
She was an ordained Baptist minister and is the widow of
Rev. John J. Sherman with whom she served for ten years at
the Bethany Baptist Church, Scranton. She is a graduate of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and earned her doctor of
theology degree at Webster University, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Dornsife is an employee of the Reading Railroad, St. Clair, Schuylkill

County. They are

now

living in Cressona.

Dr. E. H. Nelson has been named secretary of Caldwell
Consistory and of the subordinate Scottish Rite Masonic bodies
in Bloomsburg. He had been serving as secretary by appointment since May, and was a member of the Board of Trustees at
the time of his appointment. Since November 1, 1945, he has
been chief of Health and Physical Education in the Department
of Public Instruction for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Nelson has resigned from his position with the State
Department and gave a three weeks’ course at the Pennsylvania
State College before taking up his work at Caldwell Consistory
of a full-time basis.
Widely known in the field of physical education. Dr. Nelson was head of the Department of Health Education at Bloomsburg from 1924 until he was granted a leave of absence in 1945
to accept the position with the Commonwealth.
He has been prominently identified with the work of Caldwell Consistory for a number of years. During that period he
has taken several leading parts in the various ceremonials. In
recognition of his Masonic work he was crowned a Thirty-third
Degree Mason at the annual sessions of the Supreme (Council

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held in Cleveland, Ohio, September 27, 1944. He has retained
his residence in Bloomsburg.
He is a member and past president of the Bloomsburg
Kiwanis Club. For many years he has been active in the Alumni
Association, and has served as its president for the past two
years. In that time he has been working untiringly for greater
graduate support of the College program, including the field of
athletics. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
He received the Bachelor’s degree at the University of
Michigan in 1917, the degree of Master of Education at Harvard in 1924, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education at New York University in 1838. He is a veteran of World

War

I.

Previous to joining the faculty of Bloomsburg, he taught
in Wayne County, at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, in Highland Park, Michigan, and at Liberty High School, Bethlehem.

1912

The

class of 1912 held its thirty-fifth reunion as a dinner
meeting in Fest’s dining hall. Over fifty members with husbands and wives met for this gala occasion.
Guest soloist of the affair was Editha Ent Adams. She effectively sang three appropriate numbers “Spring Dropped a
Song,’’ Fenner; “The Cheerful
Sunbeam,’’ Hastings; “The
:

Cuckoo,’’ Lehman. Mrs. Adams was accompanied by Miss Carolyn Livsey. Howard F. Fenstemaker acted as chairman and
presented Clarence E. Barrow, Ringtown, who presided as toastmaster. Mrs. Ercel Bidleman led in the singing of class songs
and music of the day with Fenstemaker at the piano. Dr. and
Mrs. North of the College were honored guests of the class. Dr.
North extended a welcome from the College. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Andruss, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Sutliff also visited the group during the evening and happily addressed them.
Members of the class who responded included: Mrs. Lenora Ash Burke,
Tacoma Park, Md.; Mrs. Emily Barrow Womer, Pottsville; Ercel D. Bidleman and Bertha Harner Bidleman, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Florence Blecher
Crouse, Danville; Dr. Fred J. Creasy, Berwick; Miss Theresa Daily Bachinger, Bloomsburg; William H. Davis, Binghamton, N. Y.; Mrs. Mabel Derr
Damott, Eyers Grove; Mrs. Marne Derrick Ziegler, Herndon; W. Francis
Dobson, Forty Fort; Miss Jesse Doran, Moscow; Howard F. Fenstemaker,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Helen Fetter Ream, Scranton; Mrs. Beatrice Foose McBride, Rock Glen; Mrs. Ona Harris Henrie, Mrs. Harriet Hartman Kline,
Mrs. Hazel Henrie Wright, Mrs. Edna Hess Frey, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Esther
Hess Petitt, Pitman, N. J.; Mrs. Harriet Hillis Smith, Lansdowne; Mrs. Ruth
Kline Everett; Indiana; Mrs. Edna Klinger Rhinehart, Sunbury; Mrs. Lena
Leitzel Streamer, Collingswood, N. J.; Ray Masteller, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
Emily Nikel Gledhill, Westmont, N. J.; Mrs. Anna Reice Trivelpiece, Dan-

Row

Englehart, Harrisburg; Mrs. LeClaire Schooley
Martha Selway Schiefer, Steelton; Mrs. Abbie
Whitebread Leh, Palmerton; Mrs. Francis Westgate Sheffel, Binghamton, N.
ville;

Mrs. Margaret

Fetterolf, Spring Mills; Mrs.

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Y.;

Mrs. Grace Wolfe Arnold, Glenside; Mrs. Grace Derrick Boat, Washing-

ton, D. C.

Other guests included Homer Fetterolf, John Gledhill, Mrs. Ray MasW. C. Rhinehart, Ralph Leh, Mrs. F. Creasy, Homer Englehart, Dr.
C. H. A. Streamer, Miss Grace F. Johnson, Northumberland.
Greetings were received from Mrs. Harriet Graves Marsh, Syracuse,
N. Y.; Harold N. Cool, Culver City, Calif.; Clive P. Potts, Montclair, N. J.;
Miss Ruth Courtright, Hempstead, N. Y.; Lawrence D. Savidge, president of
the class of 1912, Scranton; Orrie N. Pollock, Wyoming; Miss Bina W. Johnson, College Park, Md.; Miss Louise W. Netterlein, Paupack; Mrs. Martha
Goulden Weitzel, Lockport, N. Y.; Oscar Whitesell, Hunlock Creek.
The committee in charge of the successmul reunion is composed of
Howard F. Fenstemaker, Mrs. Harold J. Kline, Mrs. E. C. Creasy, Mrs. Ercell Bidleman, Mrs. Cyril Trivelpiece, Mrs. Webb Wright, Mrs. Frank Bachinger, Mrs. Frank Cruse and Ray Masteller.
teller,

Dr. Fred J. Creasy, Riverview, Berwick, taught for two
years before entering Temple University, and is now practicing
denistry in Berwick. Dr. Creasy’s wife is the former Erla Long,
also a graduate of Bloomsburg. Mrs. Creasy is Home and School
Visitor in the Berwick schools, there being only seventeen such
visitors in the schools of Pennsylvania.

Marie O’Donnell (Mrs. Frank Rinehart) lives at 533 Country Club Lane, Manoa, Delaware County, Pa. She has been a
very successful social service employee after having taught for
several years in the high school.
Ernestine J. Reese (Mrs. Emlyn T. Davies) lives at 852
South Main Street, Old Forge. She has one son, sixteen years
of age.

-

Ruth Hodgson (Mrs. Walter B. MacDougall)
and Oak Road, Hammonton, New Jersey.

Ruth Fox Fegley

lives at

lives at

‘

Main

105 Virginia Avenue, Pittsburgh

15.

1913
Jessie Dershimer Hoover, wife of C. W. Hoover, supervising principal of East Pennsboro Township schools, died Wednesday, April 30, at her home, 24 Altoona Avenue, Enola.
She was a member of Pine Street Presbyterian Church and
a teacher in the junior-intermediate department of the Sunday
School. She had served as chairman of the West Shore Red
cafeteria
Cross and Junior chapters, chairman of the
for eight years, chairman of the West Shore Welfare campaign
and a member of the Enola Girl Scout troop committee.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by a sister, -.Mrs.
Paul G. Shultz, Hershey.

YWCA

Nellie

Corps, and
land.
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M. Denison has been retired from the

Army Nurse

Takoma

Park, Mary-

is

living at 103

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Street,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1915
Lois Gearhart Freas (Mrs. Leo F. Stahl) lives at 51 Wood
Pond Road, West Hartford 7, Connecticut. Her daughter, Betty
Jane Stahl, was graduated from the law school at Syracuse University Monday, June 2, 1947.

1917

Members

of the class of 1917 attending the get-together

were
Dorothy Deck Swetland, Pittsburgh; Nan R. Jenkins, Nesquehoning;
Margaret Barnum Bredbenner, Wilkes-Barre; Mary Kahmy Arnold, Saltsburg; Mabel Maust Duck, Bloomsburg; Nora Berleu Dymond, Dallas; Marie
Cromis, Philadelphia; Agnes Warner Smales, Laceyville; Hugh E. Boyle,
Hazleton.
A. C. Morgan, Berwick; Hester Faus Fogle, Bloomsburg; Mabel Dymond Bell, Dallas R. D. 3; Harriet Ethel Sharpless, Agnes Maust Dieffenbacher, Bloomsburg; Anna Tripp Smith, Sharon; J. Frank Brink, Lillian
Moyer, Kathryn Roy McNamee, Bloomsburg; Harriette Shuman Burr,
Wynnewood; Mildred Avery Love, Mehoopany; Helen Gregory Lippert,
Dalton; Allen L. Cromis, Bloomsburg; Ruth Smith, State College.

Dunlap (Mrs. William O. Wech) is a substitute
the Wright Township Consolidated School District.
She and her husband own and operate an Economy Market and
gasoline station at Wech’s Corners, R. D. 1, Mountain Top, Pa.
M.

teacher

Elsie
in

Burrell

J.

Swartwood and Mrs. Swartwood (Eva

J.

Weaver

’12) are teaching at Kis-Lyn School for Boys, Kis-Lyn, Pa.

1918
Lieut. Col. Harold J. Pegg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B.
Pegg, of Bloomsburg, R. D., has accepted a commission in the
infantry. United States Reserve Corps, and returned to his home
in Gettysburg where his wife and daughter resided during his

military service.
Col. Pegg was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1918, after which he taught school at Pine Summit and Buckhorn. He served as principal and supervising principal of the Union High School, Jonestown, for two years before

continuing his studies at Gettysburg College. After graduation
he went to Altoona where he served in the education system as
principal of the Roosevelt Junior High School at the time of being called to military service.
He was assigned to the New Cumberland reception center
on March 11, 1942, served as records and assignment officer,
company commander and educational officer in training camp
for illiterates. In May he was promoted to first lieutenant and
in June to Captain.
His military record then included Transfer to Holabird
Signal Depot, Md., April 12, 1944 Education Officer in Training
Camp for illiterates (colored troops). Executive Officer. Given
:

;

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Meritorious Service Award by Third Service Command for work
with illiterate Training Units. Promoted to Major, August 7,
1944.
Sent to Philadelphia Navy Yard, June 1, 1945, to set up
German Prisoners of War Camp, Commanding Officer of Camp.
Awarded Letter of Commendation by Fourth Naval District for
work as Commanding Officer of German Prisoner of War Camp,
Philadelphia Navy Yard. Upon establishment of Indiantown
Gap, Separation Center, sent there as Chief of Personnel and
Records Officer, July 4, 1945.
Assigned to School of Military Government University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, in training for service in
Korea, November 1, 1945, graduated in course, end of war
changed picture, class not sent to Korea. Sent to Edgewood
Arsenal, Md. as Special Service Officer, Personal Affairs Officer,
February 13, 1946. Sent to USAFI Conference, Madison, WisDirected Special Service Conference at Edgewood Arconsin.

Reconditioning and Information and Education Officer,
Valley Forge General Hospital, Phoenixville, June 1, 1946.
Called to General Headquarters of Second Army, Baltimore,
Md., September 1, 1946 to supervise all educational work of
entire Second Army area, including seven states, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and
Indiana.
Given Superior rating for work as Special Services Officer
and Information and Education Officer. Served at General
Headquarters of Second Army until released from the service.
Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in Pentagon Building, Washsenal.

ington.

1919
Mrs. Dari Ikeler Mather, of Benton, and Reeder E. Myers,
of Jonestown, were married Saturday, February 22, at the home
of the bride. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Nelson
Thomas, pastor of the Benton Methodist Church.

1921
Manhart, a teacher in the Berwick
schools for the past twenty-six years and active in many of the
organizations and service programs in Berwick died Wednesday, April 17, at about 11:35 o’clock, at her home, 213 Iron
Street. She had been in ill health since November and had been
confined to her bed since December.
Born in Franklin Township, Miss Manhart was a teacher
in the first grade of the Ferris Heights School since 1921. She
was a graduate of Berwick High School with the class of 1919
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College in the class of 1921.
She was a former member of the Women’s Board of the YWCA,
Miss

Margaret

S.

state vice-president of the Children of the American Revolution,
a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of the
Business and Professional Women’s Club, a charter member of

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the Berwick Historical Society, the Evan Owen Delta Chapter
and the Calvary Methodist Church.
Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Manhart,
of Iron Street, and one sister, Mrs. William L. Morgan, of Oak
Ridge, Tennessee.

1924
Dorothy K. John (Mrs. Harold Dillon) lives on Light Street
Road, Bloomsburg. Her eldest son, John Richard Dillon, was
elected in his junior year to the Bloomsburg Chapter of the National

Honor

Society.

1927

The following was received from Paul C. Foote, who is
chief Optical Engineer with the Bell & Howell Company, Chicago

:

had been my plan to be with you for this reunion, but
plans have had to be changed because of business. My former
“boss” and teacher is back from England for the first time in
twelve years so we have much to accomplish in a short time.
“Those responsible for writing about my interest in Science
in our Class Prophecy knew more about what I was going to do
than I did at the time
“Almost immediately after graduation, I began working
at Bell & Howell, making industrial motion pictures and doing
general photographic work. Two and a half years later Mr.
Arthur Warmisham, Optical Director of Taylor, Taylor & Hobson, Leicester, England, came over to establish an Optical Engineering Department and I was chosen to work under him.
Added courses at the University of Chicago filled gaps in mathematics and my work in Optical Designing continued under his
tutelege for about five years. Upon his return to England, I
took over the activities and have been in charge of the depart“It

j

I

!

i

ment

since then.
best wishes go to all of you
time I can be there for the reunion.”

“My

Delma Myers Husband

lives at

and

it is

hoped another

2065 Willow Street, Wesand confectionery
have one son.

leyville. Pa. Her husband owns a grocery
store in Wesleyville. Mr. and Mrs. Husband

1929
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Reese and their son are living in Gordon, Pa. Mrs. Reese was formerly Miss Kathryn Bingaman.
Rachel Gething Powell is teaching in the schools of
Youngstown, Ohio. Her address in Youngstown is 419 Ferndale Avenue.
Dr.

and Mrs. Andrew Klembarra (Mary Bartko)

436 East Norwegian Street,

live at

Pottsville, Pa.

Elizabeth Halupka (Mrs. Stephen Charnitski) lives in DuShe has three sons.

shore. Pa,

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Anna Wasley

(Mrs. August

Kirn)

lives

at

1509

Blavis

Street, Philadelphia 20.

Arline Frantz (Mrs. Walter Covert) lives on Parrish Street,
Dallas, Pa.
Elsie

Lebo (Mrs. Nelson Sautffer)

lives in Shaft, Pa.

1930

Brehm

(Mrs. Robert Rowlands) lives at 1739 Monroe Street, Scranton, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Rowlands have three
Lucile

children.

Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Harris (Dorothy Keith) were returned
Methodist Church at Plymouth, Pa. Rev. and Mrs.
Harris have one child.

to the First

1934
Ellen L. Veale lives at 318 East Elm Street, Hazleton, Pa.
In an automobile accident last January, in which both of her
parents were killed. Miss Veale was severely injured and was
unable to return to her teaching duties. She hopes to be able to
return to her work in the autumn.

1938

Announcement has been made
Freda Pearl Fester, of Bloomsburg,

engagement of Miss
Reed Raymond Bowman,

of the
to

Miss Fester is an elementary teacher in the
Center Township Consolidated School, Columbia County. Mr.
Bowman is employed by Lugbill Brothers, Archbold, Ohio.

of Striker, Ohio.

1940

One

of the versatile graduates

Teachers College

is

of the

Edward H. Bacon, Forty

employed as a training

Bloomsburg State
Fort,

who

is

now

Regional Office, Veterans Administration at Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Bacon, who received his degree from the College in 1940, is currently assigned in the
Wilkes-Barre Special Rehabilitation Unit.
After his graduation from Bloomsburg, he was employed as
fire insurance inspector in Newark, New Jersey, but in March,
1942, he enlisted as a private in the United States Army. Private Bacon received his commission as Second Lieutenant in
August, 1943. After a total of 37 months of overseas duty in
the European theater of operations, he was discharged with the
rank of Captain in December, 1945. Among his man citations
is the Bronze Star Medal which he was awarded shortly before
his discharge. At the present time Mr. Bacon is working with
the vocational rehabilitation problems of severely handicapped
veterans who are blind and deaf. He also works with amputees,
paraplegics, general medical and mental cases.
officer.

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Mary Ellen McWilliams and Donald Kessler, both of Danville,
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Miss McWilliams
High School.

is

a

member

of the

faculty

of the

Danville

1941-1943
Thursday, November 28, 1946, at a Nupital High Mass at
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Marion Heights, Miss Eleanor Marie Althoff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Althoff, of this city, was given in marriage by her father, to Mr.
Jerome G. Lapinski, son of Mrs. Estelle Lapinski, of Shamokin.
Reverend Vincent Brozys, pastor of the church, and uncle of
the bridgroom, performed the double ring ceremony and sang
the mass that followed.
Miss Lapinski is a graduate of Mount Carmel Catholic
High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She had
been teaching in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, for the past
three years, until this year when she accepted a teaching position in Rosedale, Maryland.
Mr. Lapinski graduated from Coal Township High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He did graduate work
at Bucknell University, last summer when he returned from the
Pacific theater of war. He served in the Army Air Corps for
two and one-half years during World War II. At present Mr.
Lapinski is on the faculty at Sparrows Point High School, Spar-

rows Point, Maryland.

They are now

living at 811

South Ogden Street, Baltimore,

Maryland.
1941
Miss Claraline Schlee, of Danville, has been elected librarian in the Danville High School. She has taught for several
years in the Shickshinny High School.
lives at 522 South West End Avenue, Lanmarried, and is the father of a small daughborn Sunday, May 25, 1947.

James H. Deily

caster, Pa.
ter,

He

is

William G. Kerchusky lives at 543 West Main Street, RingHe and Mrs. Kerchusky will teach next year in high
school at New Castle, Delaware.
town, Pa.

1942

The class of 1942 held
Alumni Day, May 24, 1947.

a very successful fifth reunion on
It was decided to form an organ-

Walter Mohr, Scranton, and Idajane Shipe Madl, Berwick, were elected president and secretary-treasurer, respectively. The class is planning to have a luncheon reunion on

ization.

Homecoming Day this fall. They would like to have as many
members back as possible. All those whose addresses can
be obtained will be notified when definite plans are made.

of the

Everyone in the class is asked to watch the Alumni Quarterly
for more information concerning this Homecoming Day reunion.
Miss Dorothy Franklin and Fred C. Long, both of ShickPage Sixty-Five

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shinny R. D. 3, were married Saturday, April 5, in the Southdale Methodist Church. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. John Baxter Howes. The bride has been teaching in the
Greenwood Consolidated Schools, Columbia County. The groom
a veteran of World War II, served four years in the 83rd Armored Reconaissance Battalion of the Third Armored Division.
He was awarded the European campaign ribbon with five battle stars, bronze star medal. Purple Heart for wounds received
in action in Germany, also the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He was
recently placed on officers reserve status. At present he is employed in the A. C. & F. plant in Berwick.
Bernice Blaine (Mrs. Hurley C. Stout, Jr.) lives at 6224
South Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Stout
have a daughter, born January 31, 1945. Mr. Stout is connected
with the American Car and Foundry Company.
Cordelia M. Taylor (Mrs. William J. Sammon) lives at
4107 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia 4. During the war, Mr.
Sammon was a captain in the Army Air Forces, and Mrs. Sammon was a Lieutenant in the WAVES. Mr. and Mrs. Sammon
are partners in the brokerage business, and have offices in the
Weightman Building, 1524 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

1943
Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Dix are now living in Harrisburg,
where Dr. Dix is Resident Physician at the Harrisburg Hospital.
Dr. Dix served during the war with the 20th Air Force. Mrs.
Dix was formerly Sally Hottenstein, of 330 Broadway, Milton,
Pa.

Carl S. Berninger has completed his Middler year at the
Princeton Theological Seminary. He recently went on a fortyday tour of the United States and Mexico with the Seminary
Choir. Mr. Berninger’s address is Room 309, Braun Hall,
Princeton Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey.
cibo,

Josefina Valladares (Mrs. Pablo Caban)
Puerto Rico.

1944
Janet Shank (Mrs. C. P. McLaughlin)
Brooklyn, N. Y., to Catawissa, Pa.

Wanda Farnsworth Langdon
Bound Brook, New

lives at

is

living in Are-

has moved

from

49 West High Street,

Jersey.

1946
teacher of commercial subjects in the
Chunk High School, and is living at her home, 2

Rose M. Cerchiaro
East

Mauch

is

West Coal Street, Nesquehoning, Pa.
Mary Schroeder lives at 252 West Wilkes-BaiTe

Street,

Easton, Pa. She is teacher of shorthand and typing at Easton
High School, and serves also as co-adviser to the Senior Girl
Reserve Club.
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1947
Robert Bunge, of Bloomsburg, was one of those who testified at Harrisburg Tuesday, April 22, at the hearing held in
the Forum of the Education Building on House Bill 147, which
dealt with increasing teachers’ salaries. He was vice-president
of the Oscar Hugh Bakeless Chapter of the Future Teachers of
America. Thirty College seniors chartered a bus to attend the
hearing.

Mathias F. Kashuba, Bloomsburg Teachers College graduate of last Spring, was elected a teacher in the Berwick Junior
High School. Mr. Kashuba had filled the position as a student
teacher during the last several weeks of the term just concluded.

Robert Warrington, of Bloomsburg, has been elected
teacher of mathematics and mechanical drawing in the Danville

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Home-Coming Day
Graduates by the hundreds were back to participate in one
of the largest and finest Homecoming Day programs in the history of Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
While the Huskies lost the football game to Shippensburg
in a thriller, 19 to 12, in the day’s big feature, the Bloomsburg
graduates were highly pleased with the high calibre of the gridiron sport now being presented.
A Naval commendation for the local institution’s services
during World War 11 in the Navy V-12 and V-5 programs and
in the operation of a flight preparatory school was presented
during the assembly.
A bronze plaque, 12x18 inches, was awarded along with
the commendation, which was made on behalf of the Secretary
of the Navy by Captain W. T. McGarry, professor of naval
science at the Pennsylvania State College.
Reg. S. Hemingway, president of the Board of Trustees of
the college, in his acceptance, referred to the excellent program
of service that the institution has given to the immediate area,
the Commonwealth and to the Nation through the more than a
century of its existence. The plaque will be placed in Navy
Hall, the building that was the center of service training and
which now houses the active and growing Business Education
Department.
President Harvey A. Andruss extended greetings to the
student body and alumni who well filled the auditorium for the
exercises.

Harry Reitz, president of the Community Student Goveniment Association, in presenting Dr. E. H. Nelson, former faculty
member and president of the graduate body, referred to him as
“The Mr. Chips of Bloomsburg.” Dr. Nelson told of the interest
Bloomsburg graduates always retain in their Alma Mater.
There was a pep session in connection with the assembly,
with numbers by the band and several cheers.

Vol.

48— No.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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December, 1947

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 March 3,
1879. Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.
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There was a soccer game on the campus during the morning and Elizabethtown College was defeated, 3-0, and the football game at the Athletic Park in the afternoon. The grid contest, off the campus for the first time on a Homecoming Day,
was staged before the largest crowd in many years.

A large numbei' attended the alumni tea which was held in
the Waller Hall lounge, the former gymnasium, which is now
being extensively remodeled, and in the parlor which is just off
the lounge and was recently refurnished. Many graduates had
lunch and dinner on the campus.
The number attending the dance in the evening, the concluding feature of the program, was the largest ever to be present for such an event in the Centennial Gymnasium. Ivan Faux’s
Orchestra, of Sunbury, provided the music.
Shippensburg, which brought its band and a larger number
of supporters here for the game, included in its party Dr. Levi
Gilbert, the president of the Cumberland Valley institution, and
Dr. and Mrs. Earl W. Wright. Dr. Wright is the dean of instruction at Shippensburg. His wife is the twin sister of Mrs. Andruss.

Much of the success of Homecoming Day at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was due to the fine work of student
committees wdio handled efficiently certain events during the
day-long program. Hospitality Committee under the co-chairmanship of Dale Mantz, Slatington, and Miss Celestine Longo,
Nuremburg, was active throughout the day providing a cordial
welcome for alumni and friends of the College. Other members
of this busy committee were Rose Thompson, Towanda Betty
Ridall, Town Hill Jean Stein, Shenandoah; Midge Fanzo, Bethlehem; Eloise Noble, Milanville; Louise Hess, Benton; Aleki
Comuntzis, Betty Crouse, Danville Sara Graham, Bloomsburg
Lionel Livingston, Courtdale Albert Marchetti, Tamaqua Ted
Swigonski, Nanticoke; Nick Panzetta, Hazleton; Wilmer Nester, Emmaus; Edward Kreitz, Slatington; William Homisak,
Forest City; Neil Dent, Stillwater; Geraldine Webb, Blooms:

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burg.
In charge of the Gabfest, which attracted a large crowd
following the football game, was an active committee headed
by Miss Jean Lichtenw'alner, Orangeville. Members of this committee follow Dorothy Mitten, Camptown Betty Bolig, Richfield Matilda Patrick, DuPont; Mary Ellen Clark, Bloomsburg;
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AnneNorthup, Dalton; Jack Furman, Wyalusing Paul Slipetz,
Frank Dudzinski, Elizabeth Reece, Westgrove.
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Emery E. Reeder, of Sunbury, passed away Friday, July
after a long illness.
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New Members of the Faculty
Dr. J. Almiis Russell, acting head of the English department of Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, has been named to the English department of the

Teachers College.

The new

member

an author of more than one
and public magazines.
He brings a broad background of experience in supervision
and teaching to Bloomsburg. Following his graduation from
Dartmouth College in 1921, he taught for three years in secondary schools in Massachusetts and New York. He seiwed for
five years as instructor in English at Colgate University. In 1934
he became head master at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Connecticut, but he resigned that position in 1937 to become head
of the English department at Dakota Wesleyan University,
Mitchell, South Dakota.
He holds the Master of Arts Degree from Cornell University, where he also was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, specializing in American and Victorian literature. Since
1945 Dr. Russell has served as acting head of the English department at Washington and Jefferson College. Aside from his
educational interests, he is a member of the Middle Atlantic
College English Association, Friends of the Middle Border, A.
A. U. P., Fortnightly Club, Rotarian and Mason.

hundred

faculty

is

articles published in educational

•
B. Sterling, Columbus, Ohio, has been named
of the Aviation Department and instructor of business
subjects. Mr. Sterling, who has three thousand hours of flight
time to his credit, came to Bloomsburg directly from his position
as primary flight instructor for the National Research Council
Visual Study Program at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
The new college faculty member holds his flight instructor’s rating, commercial pilot’s license, and several other aviation credentials. He is a graduate of the Plattsburg State Normal School, Plattsburg, New York, and holds the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Business Education from the University
of Buffalo. His graduate work was done at Syracuse University.
He served as secondary flight instructor at Rochester where he
received his commercial pilot-flight instructor rating. He taught
business subjects at Middleport, (N. Y.) High School and Dunkirk (N. Y.) High School.
Mr. Sterling has had one year’s experience at the Onondago. New York Aviation Company. He also has had experience in the Navy, CPT Program with flight training at Syracuse University, as well as at the Rennssalaei- Polytechnic Institution Navy Pre-Flight School at Troy, New York. He also

William

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was associated with the experimental flight program of the NaResearch Council Program at the University of Tennes-

tional
see.

Miss Honora Noyes, Pittsburgh, has been appointed an instructor in the Department of Business Education. Miss Noyes,
who is a native of San Francisco, taught during the past summer session in the School of Business Administration at the
University of Denver in Colorado.
The new college instructor has had extensive experience in
secretarial work and served as a graduate assistant in commercial education at the University of Pittsburgh. She has had additional teaching experience at Penn State where she was an
instructor in secretarial subjects. She was also an instructor in
Commercial Education at the University of Pittsburgh. During
the past year Miss Noyes held the position of supervisor of Industrial Training at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in
Pittsburgh.
She is a graduate of George Washington University at
Washington, D. C., where she was granted the degree of Bachelor of Arts. She holds a Master of Education Degree from the
University of Pittsburgh.

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Miss Ella Jane Krumacher, Trenton, New Jersey, has been
instructor in the Department of Business Education.
Miss Krumacher, who has had extensive teaching experience in
the public schools of New Jersey and New York, is teaching
business subjects. She is a graduate of Rutgers University,
where she was granted the degree of Bachelor of Science. Educational work was completed at Rider College, from which she
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Commercial Science.
Her graduate study was done at New York University, which
granted her the degree of Master of Arts.
She taught for a number of years at Paulsboro, New Jersey,
High School, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, High School, and the
Regional High School at Springfleld, New York. Miss Krumacher also was an instructor at Punghoe Academy at Honolulu in

named an

the Hawaiian Islands.
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Captain William N. Kirk, of Berwick, has accepted an appointment as major in the Officer Reserve Corps. Capt. Kirk,
who entered the Army in 1941, and was commissioned in February, 1942, is at the present time assigned to the First Rescue
Squadron, 6th Fighter Wing, as pilot as public information offlcer. During the war, he served in the European Theatre of
Operations, where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross and Air Medal with eight oak leaf clusters.
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Faculty

Members Granted Degrees

Four members of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College have completed their graduate work in specialized fields and have been granted graduate degrees by four
universities in scattered sections of the country.
Miss Elma L. Major, director in special education at the
Benjamin Franklin School of the College, has been awarded the
degree of Master of Science by the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor. Miss Major, who is one of the recognized leaders
in her field, recently completed her studies at the University
where she specialized in education for the exceptional child.

Miss Beatrice M. Mettler, college nurse, received the degree of Master of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia Thursday, August 28. Miss Mettler has completed graduate study in the School of Education at Penn, where she
had specialized in nursing education.
N. Harvey Deal, who holds the position of College librarian, has completed all the requirements for his graduate work
in the field of Library Science at the George Peabody College
for teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Deal was awarded
the degree of Bachelor of Science in library science at a special
convocation at the college Friday, August 22.
The fourth Bloomsburg faculty member to complete graduate work this summer was Earl A. Gehrig, who is an instructor
in the Department of Business Education.
Mr. Gehrig was
awarded the degree of Master of Business Administration by
Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, on July 29.
Through the efforts of individual faculty members like
these, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College will be better
equipped to continue its program of educational seiwice to the

Commonwealth.
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President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College has been appointed as a member of the Administrators’ Committee of the United Business Education Association. The national organization, which is one of the largest
departments of the National Education Association, has been active in promoting better business education throughout the
United States, and President Andruss’ appointment is in recognition of the role he has played in the development of progress
in teacher education in the field.
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Alexander Foster, of Danville, has been serving as a member of the public relations staff at Bucknell University. He will
his studies there at the beginning of the second semes-

resume
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Teachers Return From Germany
After one year in Munich, two Bloomsburg teachers are
glad to be back in a country where the school children don’t

jump

to attention like

ramrods and

click their heels

when

called

on to recite.

The

teachers, Miss

Cecelia R.

Brennan and Miss

Emma

Mae Berger, have returned to their teaching positions at Conyngham and Steelton, respectively, after a year’s leave of absence spent in the U. S. occupied zone in Germany.
They traveled to Germany last summer with the first group
of teachers sent to set up schools for the children of American
civilians and military personnel in the occupied zone. While
they had no connection with the German educational system,
Miss Brennan and Miss Berger had an opportunity to observe
German children in their own schools.
Strict military procedures are still used in the German
classrooms. Miss Brennan discovered on a visit to high school
classes in Frankfort, even though the Nazi ideology has been
crushed. Both teachei's were struck by the contrast of the severe discipline to the free and spontaneous atmosphere of the
American classroom.
“The American schools first set up in the U. S. occupied
zone had little resemblance to the well-equipped, well-lighted
buildings in Columbia County,’’ Miss Brennan said.
The building designated by the army for the American
high school in Munich was a somber mansion in the comparatively unbombed southern part of the city. Rooms were tiny
and the lighting was poor, but the biggest trial. Miss Brennan
said were the uncomfortable German school benches which the

had to use.
Only three blocks aw ay was the ruined skeleton of Rudolph
Hess’ home, completely destroyed by American bombs.
The enrollment which was seventy-five at the beginning of
the term sw’elled to nearly 500 this spring at the high school in
Munich. Miss Brennan had charge of orchestral and vocal music in the high school, while Miss Berger taught fifth grade in
the elementary school.
Other high schools in the American zone w^ere located at
Berlin, Frankfort, Erlangen and Heidelberg.
“Faced with the problem of teaching music without a single musical instrument in the school system, I had to become my
owm procurement officer,’’ Miss Brennan said. After some
sleuthing, she found a Beckstein baby grand, in good condition,
which w'as moved with great effort into the music classroom.
The huge German piano, they found, more than half-filled the
pupils

tiny room.

Other musical instruments were even more
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the fall, Miss Brennan located a complete set of instrua Munich warehouse which had belonged to the Ozark
division. The Army is still working on the transfer according to
Miss Brennan, but in the meantime other instruments were obtained and a full fledged band played for high school graduation this spring.
For the American children going to school in Germany,
geography is an easy subject. On each military leave, families
set out to visit another new country and children came back filled with new experiences to tell their classmates. Miss Brennan

Early

in

ments

in

said.

High school students visited the war criminal trials, the
famous operas and art exhibits of Germany, and the many history-making spots of World War 11. For recreation they went
skiing on the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany, some
of them becoming so proficient that they won medals in competition.

Four German teachers were attached to the American high
school in Munich to teach the language to the students. The pupils learned quickly but discipline fell apart when the teachers
attempted to adapt their regimented study routines on their
charges. Miss Brennan said.

The young students in German high schools took every opportunity to visit the classes in the American high school and on
the many German religious holidays, they eagerly gathered to
hear the American history teacher lecture on parts of German
history they had never heard before.
“One phase of European education which outshines that of
the American system,” Miss Brennan said, “is the emphasis on
languages. Every graduate of the German high school knows
at least two foreign languages, and most of them know four.”
The study of languages in the German schools is started with
Latin at the age of 11, she added.
Miss Brennan and Miss Berger traveled widely during their
year in Germany, visiting Rome at Christmas time Prague,
Czechoslovakia, at Easter, and cities in France, Austria and
Switzerland during other school holidays during the year.
Living conditions were not too comfortable during the Winter, which was one of the coldest recorded, and there were few
fresh fruits and vegetables to be found in the stores. Most other necessities, the teachers said, could be obtained but prices
were high.
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Miss Katherine Greenly, of Montoursville, and James Eugene Winters, also of Montoursville, were married Saturday,
July 6, at the home of the bride. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Arthur Faus, cousin of the bride.
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Aviation at Bloomsburg
policy of offering the latest and most
in the field of education, the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College is now offering courses in Aviation that
will fit the prospective teacher to teach aeronautics in the public
schools of the Commonwealth. The new offerings, outgrowths
of the aeronautics program developed at Bloomsburg as early
as 1941, will be under the supeiwision of William B. Sterling,
In keeping with

its

modern developments

Head of the Aviation Department of the College.
The College now offers eighteen required hours
tics for

those students

who wish

to

in

aeronau-

have aviation as a minor

Mr. Sterling stated, following a series of conferences with
President Harvey A. Andruss and Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of
Instruction. The College program will be launched immediately with a limited number of students already taking a course in
flight experience.
This course consists of twenty-seven hours of actual flight
training which will be carried out at the Bloomsburg Airport
under College supervision. The Columbia Airways, under the
direction of Andy Perugino, are providing facilities for the
field,

course.
Interest in Aviation Education is reported to be growing
throughout the nation, and the Bloomsburg Plan represents an
effort to meet the demand for specialization in Aviation for preservice secondary teachers.
Much interest among Bloomsburg
students has been reported by Mr. Sterling who called attention
to the fact that during the war, the College’s participation in the
Aviation Programs of the Army and Navy offered opportunities
for over 1,000 young men and women to become airline personnel, teachers of pre-flight aeronautics, and combat pilots for the
Army and Navy of the United States.
The College organized the first class in the United States
devoted exclusively to the instruction of teachers of Pre-Flight
Aeronautics. Class enrollment was limited to twenty. College
instructors certified by the National Government carried the
A large number
first group through to a successful conclusion.
of these teachers returned to their high schools to begin teaching Pre-Flight Aeronautics in September, 1942, while others are
now teaching Aviation at leading universities and occupy positions on the staff of the Civilian Aeronautics Administration.
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Gehman, of Ephrata, and "William J. Davis, a forof the V-12 Unit at Bloomsburg, were married on
July 15, in the Rectory of St. Barbara’s Church, Brooklyn, New
York. Mrs. Davis is teaching in the State College High School,
and Mr. Davis is attending the Pennsylvania State College.
Isabel A.

mer member

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“Saucered and Blowed’^
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Our congratulations to Coaches Redman and Wisher. The
football and soccer at the college this fall were tops. The Husky
teams did all that could be asked to make us proud of our Alma
Mater. They deserve our hearty support. If you didn’t see
them in action you missed something. Let’s give thought to
boosting athletics in a practical way. It takes more than praise
Send in names of good high school
to produce winning teams.
athletes in your community. Better still, see to it that a boy of
merit enrolls at Bloomsburg because of you. That is the old
school spirit expressed in a very satisfactory manner.
Mrs. Foster Lee Richards (Bertha 1. Sterner, 1907) 1123
Baldwin Street, Williamsport 29, Pa., missed her bus last May
and almost missed the reunion program of her class. But perseverance won out and she was among those present, only to
find that an old Normal custom was still in vogue
roll was taken at the beginning of the class period
Thus her name was
omitted from the list of those present.

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The Class

of 1898 has already started to

year celebration.

plan for

The Spanish-American War butted

its

in

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on

April 21, 1898, to attract public attention at graduation time,
but we hope nothing will interfer on May 22, 1948, to make the
occasion a very happy and memorable one. The College and
Alumni Association salute you. “Remember the Maine.’’ And
you of 1898 will also remember that Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, ex-president of Wellesley, delivered the Commencement
address on June 29th. Her subject was, “How Can Teachers
Prepare Themselves to Meet the New Demands in Education?’’
We are still wondering after 50 years.
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1948
Miss Dorothy DeHaven, of Berwick, and Graydon Gumpy,
of Bloomsburg, R. D. 5, were married Saturday, October 4, at
the home of the bride’s parents. The Rev. Mark A. Herman, of
the Espy Evangelical United Brethren Church, performed the
double ring ceremony. The bride is a graduate of the Berwick
High School in the class of 1947. The groom is a graduate of
the same high school in the class of 1943. He served in the U.
S. Navy for thirty-one months, spending twenty-four months
overseas. He was a radio man, and served in both the Atlantic
and Pacific Theatres. He is at present a student at Bloomsburg
Mr. and Mrs. Gumpy are livin the Department of Commerce.
ing at Lime Ridge.
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Improvements

at B. S. T. C.

Over $100,000.00 will be expended within the next few
months by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in repairs, renovation, and expansion of the facilities and plant of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The first changes to meet the eye of the casual observer are
those in the clock tower of Carver Hall. The interior of this
tower has not been usable as a fire exit for some years on account of its wood, lath and plaster construction. These stairs
and walls will be replaced by ceramic tile and steel so as to be
fire proof, and will provide the fifth exit from the second floor
auditorium. The clock will be electrified so that the danger of
the weights, which now operate it, falling and damaging the
ceiling of the auditorium, as they did recently, will be avoided.
There is also the possibility that the clock tower will be illuminated by means of flood lights located near the base.
Probably the students will mark with greatest interest the
new
changes which have been made in the Old Gymnasium.
ceiling has been placed at a lower level so as to provide better
acoustics and at the same time give the atmosphere of a college
lounge. The bleachers on the right-hand side have been removed and a balcony lounge has been erected in their place. Furniture has arrived, and the hardwood maple floor will be eventually covered with rugs as soon as they can be obtained. The
bleachers on the left-hand side of the gymnasium have not been
removed and it is a plan of the future to preserve the shower

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bath and toilet facilities below them, in the event that the gymnasium is transformed to another use.
The knob and tube wiring of Science Hall, now forty years
old, is being replaced by modern electrical conduit which will
reduce the fire hazard and at the same time carry electric current of higher voltage for use in the laboratories located in that
building.
In order that fire hazards in Waller Hall may not sweep
structure, wiping out the dining room, administrative offices, library, and dormitories, a solid wall of brick will be erected near
the elevator just off the lobby of first floor, from floor to floor,
and corridors will be closed by means of metal swinging doors.
This will not disturb the present rooming arrangements but is
expected to deter the spread of any fires which may threaten
this building, which stands on the site of a former dormitory
which was originnally destroyed by fire in the 1870’s.
The first floor bathroom in North Hall is being retiled and
renovated so that this dormitory, which houses 70 men, will
have on the first floor additional toilet facilities which are used
by those who visit the college or who attend games played on
Mount Olympus or on the playing field near Navy Hall.
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The audit of tlie college accounts covering the years from
1943 to 1946 indicate that approximately $100,000.00 were
spent during that period on contracted repairs. An equal
amount is being spent in 1947, so that it may be said in a period
of four years $200,000.00 have been spent, not only to replace
existing college facilities, but in some cases to improve them maAll of the work under contract will be completed durterially.
ing 1947.
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Faculty Reception
Four hundred students and members of the faculty of the
Teachers College attended the annual faculty-student reception
for new students held in the Centennial Gymnasium by the
Community Government Association, the finest ever staged by
the college.
The reception and dance were preceded by a short program of entertainment in Carver Hall Auditorium. Harry Reitz,
president of the Community Government Association, extended
greetings to the large crowd of students. Two piano solos were
presented by Stephen R. Hopkins, of the private school of music
of the college. Mr. Hopkins played “Des Abends” by Robert
Schumann, and “Grande Valse Brillante” by Frederick Chopin.
Following the piano numbers. President Harvey A. Andruss extended a welcome to the new students. During his remarks, President Andruss told a number of interesting stories
about college education in England and called his listeners’ attention to the fact that going to college is a privilege which the
American men and women should not take lightly.
Following President Andruss’ address, the Bloomsburg
Players, under the direction of Miss Alice Johnston, presented
a short play, “The Manager” by Joseph Lincoln. Mike Remetz,
Swoyersville, Betty Jane Anella, Hazleton, and Ed Parker, East
Orange, N. J., portrayed the characters in this adaption from
one of Mr. Lincoln’s more popular plays of New England life.
As a concluding feature of the entertainment. Miss Harriet M.
Moore led the audience in singing the Alma Mater. Howard F.
Fenstemaker, Sr., presided at the console of the organ.
Following the entertainment, the students were entertained
in the Centennial Gymnasium at a reception and dance. In the
receiving line were President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl V. Wise, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. North, Dean
and Mrs. John A. Hoch, Dean Marguerite V. Kehr and Miss

Mary M. Moser and Harry Reitz. Dancing was enjoyed until
midnight to the music of Jack E. Nans and his Berwick orchestra. Refreshments were served during the evening by a committee headed by Miss Peggy Lewis, Phoenixville, and Jack
O’Donnell, Coaldale.
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B. S. T. C. Students In

“Who’s Who”

B. S. T. C. is the proud Alma Mater of nine promising
students who have made a grab at the first rung of the ladder of
success by being chosen to appear in the 1947-48 edition of
“Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and
Colleges.” This honor is conferred on outstanding students
throughout the nation and is based upon their achievements in
scholarship, campus activities and leadership as evidenced by
service to the college.
The local students chosen to appear in the annual publication are
Anne Baldy, of Catawissa. Anne is a Secondary student
whose principal fields are Science and Math. Anne has been a
very active young lady in college. Among her many accomplishments we found that she has been President of the Women’s
Chorus for two years, chairman and treasurer of C. G. A., president of the Athenaeum Club.
Betty Fisher, of Bloomsburg. Betty is a business student
interested principally in Accounting and Retail Selling. This
popular young miss has let no grass grow under her feet as far
as campus activities are concerned. She was president of the
Day Women’s Association for two semesters, secretary of C. G.
A. two semesters, treasurer of Pi Omega Pi, treasurer of the Social Service Club, and Secretary of her Sophomore Class.

of Danville. Martha is an Elementary
as her principal field. Martha is known
throughout the campus for her musical ability and is pianist for
various college organizations, including Women’s Chorus. She
was also chairman of C. G. A. for two semesters.
Anne Northrup, of Dalton. Anne is one of the friendliest
of our co-eds. She has been a member of the Mixed Chorus, Y.

Maifha Hathaway,

student

W.

who has speech

and athletics.
Harold Reineer, of Slatington. Harold is a Business student taking General Commercial with Retail Selling as a field.
Harold was committee chairman of his Freshman Class, vice
president of the Business Education Club for two semesters and
president of S. C. A. two semesters. These are a few of the
many things that have kept Harold on the go.
Harry Reitz, of Shamokin. Harry is a Secondary student
with Math., Social Studies and Aviation as his principal fields.
His popularity and capability are evidenced by the various offices to which he has been elected. This year he is president of
the C. G. A., and in the past has been president of the Bloomsburg Players, president of the Men’s Dormitory Association and
council chairman of the C. G. A.
Michael Remetz, of Swoyerville. Mike’s principal fields are
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Science, Math., and Social Studies and he is a Secondary student. Among his many other activities-Mike was librarian of the
Mixed Chorus and president of Alpha Psi Omega.
James Rooney, of Philadelphia. Pat is a Secondary student interested principally in Science, Social Studies and Aviation. Pat is a “brain” but has taken time out to be president of
the Men’s Glee Club for two semesters, chairman of C. G. A.,
program chairman of the Science Club, and chairman of the As-

sembly Committee.
Jean Richard, of Bloomsburg. Jean is a Secondary student
majoring in Speech Correction and minoring in French. We
only have space enough for a few of her campus activities
among which were: Member of C. G. A. Council, Girl Reporter
for Freshman Class, Associate Editor and Editor of the Maroon
and Gold, chairman of the Freshman Class orchestra, chairman
of C. G. A., and vice president of the Athenaeum Club.
The activities mentioned for the above students are not all
complete and are on the most part merely those in which offices were held. Activities for the year are not included since
they are not yet registered in the Dean’s office.
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Fraternity Initiates

Gamma

Delta Chapter of
Theta Upsilon, national geograpfraternity, received eleven members as part of the Homecoming Day activities at Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The
ceremony was unique in that alumni members did the active
work in the initiation. Dan Jones, Millville, New Jersey, acted
as presiding officer. Assisting him were Edwin Creasy, Dallas,
ic

Wallace Derr, Jerseytown; Matt Kashuba, Foity Fort; Lois

Lawson and Miriam Lawson, Bloomsburg.
The new members of the fraternity are

Mario Berlanda,
Hazleton; Robert Blew, Mahanoy City; Marjorie Brace, Hunlock Creek; Luther Butt, Hazleton; William Deeber, Ringtown
John Jones, Mountain Top; George Remetz, Swoyersville Hazel Suit Sigworth, Berwick; Thomas Smigel, Courtdale; Robert
Thomas, Danville, and Millard Ludwig, Millville.
Other alumni members present to welcome the initiates
were: Mrs. Euphemia Gilmore Yeager, Hazleton; Blanche Garrison, Mrs. Idajane Shipe Madl, Berwick; Harriet Carpenter,
Adolph Zalonis, Bloomsburg; Unora Mendenhall, Benton. FacMiss Edna J. Hazen and Dr. H.
ulty members present were
Harrison Russell.
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William Grant Baker, of Bloomsburg, died at his home on
Tuesday, October 14, following a long illness. For several years
he had been employed at the College before ill health forced
his retirement.

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Dr.

Haas Reappointed

Governor James H. Duff has re-appointed Dr. Francis B.
to a fourth term of four years as state superintendent of

Haas

public instruction

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a post he has held continuously since 1939.
satisfied,” the governor told reporters at a news conference, “after a thorough examination of the situation in respect to education in Pennsylvania and other states, that Penn“I

am

sylvania

is in the very forefront of education and that people of
Pennsylvania are greatly indebted to Dr. Haas for his very
sound views of education and his practical approach to all its
problems.
“1 feel that very considerable of the outstanding accomplishments of the educational program of Pennsylvania are due
to the sound judgment of Dr. Haas and his associates.”
Dr. Haas first headed the education department in 1925
under appointment by former Governor Gifford Pinchot. He
left in 1927 and was president of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College until 1939. Former Governor Arthur H. James then recalled him to the top post in the State Education Department
and former Governor Edward Martin continued him in office.
Dr. Haas, a native of Philadelphia, was educated in Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. He taught
school in Philadelphia from 1906 until 1920, when he became a

member of the Department of Public Instruction. Five
years later Governor Pinchot appointed him to head the Commonwealth’s educational system.
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Record Enrollment
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
time in the more than a century of service of the institution, has gone over the thousand mark.
This was achieved with the opening of an extension center
at Wilkes-Barre, that increased the part-time student enroll-

The enrollment

for the

ment

first

to 170.

With the campus enrollment 831, the grand total of both
full-time and part-time students is now 1,001, President Harvey
A. Andruss, of the College, announced recently.
He observed that this is an all-time high and represents exin terms of the policy of offering courses for teachersin-service in five centers in the four-county seiwice area.
The enrollment on the campus follows: Business, 376;
secondary, 299 elementary, seventy-eight liberal arts freshmen, seventy-five special students three, total 831. Of this
numoor there are 471 day and 360 dormitory students.

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The enrollment at the extension centers follow WilkesBarre, thirty-three; Kingston, thirty-one; Mount Carmel, thirtyone; Sunbiiry, twenty-two; Hazleton, fifty-three, total 170.
The shift in enrollment during the past twenty-one years,
since the college began to educate teachers on a four-year basis,
from the elementary to the secondary and special department
of business, represents a change in the character of the institution which involves the shifting of teaching personnel, conversion of plant facilities and has undoubtedly affected the number of men students in relation to the number of women, the
president said.
It is expected that some freshmen will be admitted for the
second semester, beginning January 22, 1948.
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Already the third largest of the Commonwealth’s fourteen
State Teachers Colleges, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
has announced through President Harvey A. Andruss, the inauguration of a fifth center for extension courses for teachersin-service. The newest extension center is located in WilkesBarre, and courses are now being offered in the James M.
Coughlin High School.
The addition of a fifth area center has meant the extension
of the services of the college to all districts within its area. In
addition to the Wilkes-Barre center, classes are being conducted
in Mt. Carmel, Hazleton, Sunbury and Kingston, and the total
enrollment in the five centers is now 131.
The usual plan is to offer two courses in one evening, but
interest is so high at Hazleton that the college has announced
the offering of three courses. Courses in American Literature,
Appreciation of Art, Physical Science, Psychology, and United
States History are being offered in the area centers.
Since almost 50 per cent of the teachers in Pennsylvania
have not yet attained the four-year or degree level of education,
the College is offering these off-campus opportunities. There is
not sufficient campus space to continue the classes formerly held
here Friday evenings and Saturday mornings.
The present staff of extension instructors include George
C. Keller, of the regular College staff, and the following parttime extension instructors: Elfred Jones, Clarence Ruch, George
C. Shannow, Roy J. Haring, and Mrs. Charles Beeman. Joseph
R. Bailer, director of secondary education and the College
placement service, is directing the extension program of the

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ATHLETICS
THE HUSKIES
George J. Keller, the art teacher-animal trainer, was responsible for the College athletic name of Huskies. Keller, who
started out as a youngster, in paitnership with his brother, as a
circus promoter and has been more or less in the business ever
since, at one time raised Huskies.
During that period Keller, who is a man of enthusiasm, decided that the Husky is an animal with all of the characteiistics
that a winning athletic team must possess.
Further, should the college decide to name its teams the
Huskies, Keller would supply the mascot. That was done and
Roongo I was furnished. When he left this life of trials and
tribulations Roongo II came on the picture.
But some years ago Keller turned his attention to other
things. The Huskies, many of which went with Adm. Byrd on
some of his polar expeditions, were disposed of and the college
was cut off from its supply of mascots. The athletes are still the
Huskies but the mascoting is limited to a likeness of the animal
which, at times, is etched on some of the sports jackets.
The cheer leaders are probably just as happy that the real
mascot is a thing of the past. At least they are if they saw or
heard of one cheer leader’s experience with a Husky.
The animal was big and needed exercise. The football
field was a sea of mud. The cheer leader, probably not as well
versed in the power of canines, was anxious to show off the
mascot.
He elected the time between halves when he and the dog
would be the center of attraction. Starting under one goal post,
the yell inspirer made the mistake of deciding to run. Roongo I
took over at that point. He lit out at top speed and took the
cheer leader along with him. It was a picture of arms, legs and
flying gum shoes that those who saw will never forget.
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THE

1947

FOOTBALL SEASON

With the football season now at a close as far as BSTC
students are concerned, a little review of the highlights seem to
be in good order.
Looking back to see what our men in moleskins did, we
find that the college has compiled the most successful record in
its history
modern history at any rate. Outstanding were the
thrilling victories over Lock Haven and Stroudsburg, and the
overwhelming defeat of Millersville. The unsuccessful efforts

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against Mansfield and Shippensburg were completely overshadowed by these and other victories registered by the Maroon and
Gold, as well as the above par play of Kreiser, Donan and Maley, which netted them nominations to the All-Pennsylvania

team.

game our squad plainly showed its superover its opponents, but evidently lacked the final push
necessary for Victory.
Not disheartened by this one-point reverse, the Huskies
bounced back to win a spectacular 19-14 victory over the favored Bald Eagles from Lock Haven and followed this with an
In the Mansfield

iority

11-7 triumph at Clarion.
The big guns of Coach Redman’s team really went off with
a bang against Millersville in a game which found the Huskies
winning handily by a score of 37-0. That this was no minor feat
was shown by the recent performance of Millersville against the

undefeated and bowl-bound West Chester aggregation which
had to go all out to win by a lone touchdown.
Despite this overwhelming triumph, the Huskies lost their
chance at the championship a week later when Shippensburg
put on a terrific air barrage in the second quarter that netted
them three touchdowns and a i9-12 victory. The squad came
back to register a 24-7 win over Kutztown, and in the final home
game of the season our boys spotted the highly touted East
Stroudsburg eleven two touchdowns early in the game and came
on to win in the last quarter 13-12 in as thrilling a game as anyone could wish to see. This game produced a bright light in
Parrell, who had seen little action prior
His line plunging paced the Husky drive towards

freshman fullback Dan
to this contest.

the winning touchdowns.
A sort of anti-climax was the 34-0 decision over Rider College at Trenton in the final game of the season.

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HUSKY ALL-STATE CANDIDATES
Because of their outstanding play during the 1947 season,
three Bloomsburg Teachers College gridders have been nominated for places on the 1947 All-Pennsylvania team, and each of
these Huskies has a better-than-average chance of winning a
coveted berth on one of the All Star elevens named by the statewide press association.
The Huskies’ outstanding triple threat halfback. Matt Maley, is the scribe’s first nomination for All-State honors. Maley,
who learned his football at Pottsville under the guidance of
“Tubby” Allen, has been the sparkplug of the Maroon and
Gold’s attack all season despite injuries that kept him benched
during the Clarion and Millersville games. The 190-pound junior set what is believed to be a local record (at least) when he
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completed sixteen out of thirty-two passes in the 19 to 14 win
over Lock Haven. A better-than-average punter, Matty whacks
out plenty of yardage every time he lugs the ball.
Second Husky nomination is Tommy Donan, aggressive

sophomore tackle, who starred in every game except the Shippensburg contest, which he watched from the bench because of
a knee injury. The 210-pound youngster hails from Columbia
where he starred as a high school guard under the direction of
Woody and Boyd Sponaugle. He is a sixty-minute player who
makes things plenty rough on visiting backs, while his offensive
play

well-nigh perfect.
of the biggest and toughest ends in State Teachers College football this season is big Elmer Kreiser, a young giant who
learned his football chores at Columbia High School. “Big
Elm” towers six feet-four inches and weighs 230 pounds, yet he
is one of the youngest members of Coach Bob Redman’s squad,
having just celebrated his twentieth birthday. Rated by opposing coaches as the best defensive end they have had to contend
with this season, Kreiser is also a pass catcher who rates with
the very best in the state. He is only a freshman, so rival schools
will see a lot of him during the next three years, and pass defenses will have to be ovei'hauled in order to check this young
is

One

Columbia

giant.

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Coach Pete Wisher’s Bloomsburg State Teachers College
cagers will face a tough nineteen-game schedule when the 194748 cage season rolls around. The Huskies basketball card was
released recently by John A. Hoch, chairman of the College
Athletic Committee. The Maroon and Gold dribblers will face
the same rivals they met during last year’s campaign with the
exception of the University of Scranton, which has been replaced by King’s College from Wilkes-Barre.
Another newcomer on the Huskies’ schedule is East
Stroudsburg, which was not met last year because of schedule
difficulties. Highlights of the home card are tilts with Lock Haven on December 16 and West Chester on January 10. The
Huskies will wind up one of the toughest schedules in history on
March 2, meeting Kutztown on the home court. The complete
schedule follows
Home
December 3 Temple University

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December 6 Elizabethtown
December 12 Kutztown
December 13 West Chester
December 16 Lock Haven
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Januaiy 23 Millersville
January 24 Shippensburg
January 26 Mansfield
January 31 Stroudsburg
February 3 Shippensburg
February 6 Mansfield
February 11 Elizabethtown
February 14 Stroudsburg
February 19 Millersville
February 24 -Lock Haven
February 26 King’s College
March 2 Kutztown
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In an effort to build natural I’ivalry in its football schedule
for 1948 and 1949, athletic officials of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College announced the signing of King’s College and
Wilkes College, Pennsylvania’s newest four-year colleges to
home and home contracts for those seasons.
John A. Hoch, chairman of the College Athletic Committee, stated that the two Wilkes-Barre schools would meet the
Huskies here in 1948. In addition to these two new opponents,
the charges of Coach Bob Redman will square off against traditional rivals from Mansfield, Lock Haven, Millersville, Ship-

pensburg, Kutztown and East Stroudsburg.
Wilkes College and King’s College replaced Clarion and
Rider, both of whom were met during the past season on the
home gridiron. The complete schedule follows:

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October 2 Lock Haven
October 9 King’s College

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October 30 — Kutztown
November — Stroudsburg
November 13 — Wilkes College
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September 24 — Mansfield
October —Lock Haven
October 8 — King’s College
October 15 —
October 22 — Shippensburg
October 29 — Kutztown
November — Stroudsburg
November 12 — Wilkes College
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President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, spoke Armistice Day at York to 250 at a
meeting arranged by the York Teachers Association and attended by the faculty of the schools there, members of the PTA and
laymen.
Once each year the teachers provide for a professional address and President Andruss was invited for this year’s program. He spoke on the “Creative Approach” and pointed out
that a creative minority differs sharply from a dominate minority.

Whereas the latter endeavors to gain its ends by force or
through a pressure group, a creative minority endeavors to get
followers through the worthiness of the cause it represents. He
stressed that there is a creative minority in almost any organization that is getting ahead.
He said that one danger we face is that doing the right
thing for the wrong reason. In this regard he said the education
program for GPs was created more to prevent unemployment
than with the thought of giving the serviceman an opportunity
to obtain an education to fit them for their life’s work.
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Music lovers in Bloomsburg and Central Pennsylvania had
an opportunity to hear one of America’s top-flight lyric tenors
Friday evening, November 14, in the Carver Hall Auditorium of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College when Eugene Conley,
noted American operatic tenor presented the second number on
the College’s 1947-48 Artists Course. Mr. Conley, who is one of
the nation’s youngest singing stars, came to Bloomsburg directly from New York where he has been appearing on his own radio program “NBC Presents Eugene Conley.”
Mr. Conley opened this season’s summer opera at City Center in “Rigoletto” and he spent the rest of the summer at the
National Opera of Mexico City.
Mr. Conley has previously appeared with the Chicago
Opera Company, the Philadelphia La Scala, the Cincinnati Summer Opera, the New York City Center, the San Carlo Opera
Company, the National Opera of Mexico City, the New Orleans
Opera Association and the Essex County Symphony Association

Opera Season.
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first time since before the war, freshmen students
Bloomsburg State Teachers College participated in a
week-long series of orientation activities under the direction of
committees of upper-classmen. Over 270 new students participated in these “freshmen week functions.”

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On the Campus
The Student Christian Association enteiiained the freshmen men and women at a reception and party Wednesday evening, September 10, in the Navy Hall auditorium. At that time
more than 150 yearlings enjoyed a full program of games,
stunts, dancing,

raine Snyder, a

and singing under the direction of Miss Lorof the college faculty. Refreshments

member

were served by a student committee.
The Community Government Association sponsored an
Open House in Centennial Gymnasium Saturday afternoon, September 13, from 3 :00 o’clock to 4 :30. The swimming pool was
opened and other recreational facilities in the gymnasium were
used during the aftemoon.
A tea for dormitory women was held Thursday afternoon,
September 11, in the Science Hall social rooms. This function
was sponsored by the Waller Hall Association of which Miss
Mary Moser, Ringtown, is the president. Members of the faculty were guests along with the new students.
Sunday, September 14, was designated as “go to church”
Sunday, and members of the Student Christian Association helped the new students locate their church in Bloomsburg.

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Bloomsburg State Teachers College for the

first

time

in

the

a century of service for the present year of 1947-48
has a budget of over a half million dollars. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the institution, announced recently. The total is

more than

$541,000.
Of that a third is contributed by the state and the rest
comes from the students and the federal government.
The local college for the past year ranked third in adjusted
enrollment which includes regular, summer, extension and parttime students, all considered on a full-time scale.
West Chester was first with 1,972, followed by Indiana,
1,659, and Bloomsburg with 906. The enrollment in the other
teachers colleges was: East Stroudsburg, 880; California, 845;
Shippensburg, 783; Lock Haven, 776; Clarion, 725; Mansfield,
712; Millersville, 708; Kutztown, 701; Slippery Rock, 696;
Edinboro, 630; and Cheney, 331. Bloomsburg ranked third
only twice before and generally has been fourth or fifth.
There were 353 students enrolled in the Bloomsburg Business Administration department, only two under that of Indiana, which was stalled ten years earlier. Shippensburg, which
its department after Bloomsburg, had 229.
Edinboro has 222 extension students in a program it has
had for some years. Bloomsburg, in its second year, had 182.

started

The extension program

of the local college is being so well reis to be established
and will be at

ceived that a fifth center
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There are now 825 students here, with sixty-five per cent
of the enrollment men and thirty-five per cent women. There
are accommodations remaining in the dormitory for twenty
girls.

The

is now feeding 500 students each day in the
hundred of those are day students. Feeding of the
day students on the campus is being conducted on a month’s

college

A

cafeteria.

trial basis.

issue of the BUSINESS EDUCATION
contains an article which is described by the Editor as
“one of the deepest, sharpest, probing analyses of the etenial
battle between the classicists and vocationalists that we have
ever read.’’ He advises teachers “to be on their academic toes

The November

WORLD

and ready to take on comers by reading this aificle.’’
Under the title of “The Dilemma of Education in a Democracy,’’ President Harvey A. Andruss, of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, explains why he believes that the classicists and vocationalists must cease “either-or” arguments and
seek to share common ground in which both contiibute to the
all citizens, striking out of the evil of choosing one
alternatives. Liberal Arts Education is characterized as
education for the CLASSES, from which leaders will emerge,
and Vocational Education an education for the MASSES, who
are faced with the problem of making a living.
The real problem is not a choice between these two kinds
of education, but is how shall we combine these two types of
education so that we may be able to fit all citizens of a democracy for complete living where universal, or compulsory, education is required by law.
This situation has never existed before in the world and has
existed for such a short time that the problem is not one of competition between two types of education, but requires the cooperation of the two and the development of a type of education
for those who graduate from high school, become employees
and full fledged citizens, and learn the duties of their occupations and citizenship after thev are on the job.

education of
of

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The

number

of students ever to attend a post session at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College completed their
summer session work here. Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction at the College, announced that a total registration of
399 students was the greatest in the history of the institution.
Two hundred fifty-seven men and eighty-two women pursued
courses of study offered during the three-week post session.
Of this number, 242 were veterans of World War II who
are continuing their college work under the G. I. Bill of
Rights. There were 39 women living in the College dormitory.

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men were housed

while 98

in

A

total number of 197
Hall.
for the season.

rooms in Waller Hall and North
day students were also enrolled

This summer’s enrollment tops last summer’s high of 238
students which, at that time, was the greatest since the College
began offering its extensive summer session program. Previous
high enrollment was recorded in 1942 when 143 students enrolled for the post season. The enrollment for this season raised
the total enrollment for the 1947 summer season to a grand
total of 1,192, another record-smashing total.

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Waller Hall (women’s section) held “Open House’’ on
Homecoming Day at Bloomsburg State Teachers College for
alumni, parents and friends. Dormitory rooms, clubrooms and
lobbies were made ready for visitors under the direction of the
House Committee chairmen for the three floors: LaFerne Shirk,
Richfield; Helen Brace, Hunlock Creek; and Sarah Faust,
Weatherly. As part of the Freshman Customs, all freshmen
women gave an hour’s service to the College and under the supervision of the Customs Committee, Doris Condor, Hazleton,
chairman. Waller Hall freshmen made Homecoming autograph
books for all dormitory rooms and door cards for the Governing Board, the House Committee, the Fire Chiefs and the Customs Committee.
Freshmen also formed a Painting Squad with Shirley Bonnelly. Willow Grove, as foreman. This group did special jobs
of painting furniture for dormitory lounge rooms. Hostesses for
the “Open House” were: Dawn Swartz, New Buffalo; Norma
Gamble, Wyalusing; Carl Stair, Wapwallopen; Eleanor Mc-

Clintock, Nescopeck; Jane Warner, Weatherly; Helen Romanczyk. Forest City; Mary Persing, Trevorton Marian Lake, Carbondale Barbara Wescott, Susquehanna; and Carol Greenough, Sunbury.
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B. S. T. C.

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September 27
October 4
October 11
October 18
October 25

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November 11
November 15

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Clarion

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Millersville

Shippensburg

19

Kutztown

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East Stroudsburg
Rider
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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Board

of Directors

H. Nelson
President
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Vice-President
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Secretary
Harriet Carpenter
Treasurer
Fred W. Diehl
Edward F. Schuyler
H. F. Fenstemaker
Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler
E.

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1879
Miss Louise Robbins, affectionately

known

as “Miss

Lu

to

the thousands of her “boys and girls” who came under her
splendid influence in the forty-nine years of her public school
teaching career, died in the Bloomsburg Hospital. She was aged
eighty-nine years.
Throughout the almost four score years and ten of her life
span her principal interest was in youth and she often remarked that she had never regretted a decision, made in childhood, and that to be a teacher.
Her work among youth was not only in the school room
three years in Plymouth and the remainder in Bloomsburg
but in the church as well. She was for years head of the primary department of the Methodist Church and retained her active interest in the church program until she became confined
to her home last February.
The daughter of the late William V. Robbins, a former
Bloomsburg tax collector, and Elizabeth Robbins, who was no
blood relation to her husband. Miss Lu, as she preferred to be
called by her pupils, was born in Unityville, but moved to
Bloomsburg as a child and spent the remainder of her life here.
In connection with her church work and in addition to her
activities in the Church School, she was a member of the Susannah Wesley Bible Class, the Women’s Service Circle, Senior
Women’s Circle, and the Women’s Society of Christian Service.
She was also a member of the Bloomsburg Union of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
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as a teacher had an indelible imprint for
thousands. She began her career at a salary
of twenty-eight dollars a month but repeatedly remarked that
she never regretted her choice of a life’s work.
Retiring in 1928, at the age of seventy, she was just shoil
of a half century of valuable service in the public school system.
Miss Lu began her cai-eer as a teacher in Plymouth. She
had 120 pupils in a room twenty-five feet square. The Board
promised that if she remained in the system they would do their
best to reduce the size of the class, and she recalled some years
ago, in an interview, that they did this. One of her cherished
memories of the three years in Plymouth was that one of her
pupils. Miss Lucy McAlarney, told her she wanted to follow in
Miss Lou’s footsteps. She graduated from the local Teachers
College, then a Normal School, as Miss Lu had, and later became principal of the school in which Miss Robbins started
teaching.
Miss Robbins came to Bloomsburg to succeed Miss Hannah
Breece, who resigned her position to take one at Waynesboro.
Miss Robbins said she came here at a small decrease in salary
and was scolded by the late Prof. Noetling, of the Normal
School, for so doing but commented, she was glad to get home
and did not mind the salary cut.
Speaking of the changes that had taken place in the schools
during her long period of service, she compared them to a pendulum, observing “the methods will swing decidedly to one side
at certain times but usually they swing back to the old meth-

Her contribution

good on the

lives of

ods.’’

One thing she believed played a larger part in her success
than any other was her work in the primary department of the
Sunday School. “God gives me all that I have and is very good
not give Him Sunday?’’
to me. Why should
“I have seen many come and go and 1 have tried to help
them all,’’ she said about her pupils. “Many, after they leave
me came back for aid and 1 always do all 1 can to help them.
You dare not be grouchy with children,’’ she said upon the occasion of that interview near the close of her teaching. “If they
do something well encourage them and if they try to do something but do not succeed praise the effort. Children in the primary grades will thrive on praise but will be retarded by criticism of an unfavorable nature.”
She always retained all of the unusually good things which
the children made in her school.
When asked at that time if she thought school teaching
was getting more and more to be a profession she answered in
the affirmative and added that one of the leading reasons was
the much larger salary being paid. She added with a smile that
when she started to teach her salary was $28 a month. “I made
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most of my own clothes then, and did many other things that
one hasn’t time to do now, and that aided in cutting down my
expenses.
“All the years that I have taught 1 have never shed a tear
over my work or wished that 1 was anything else than a teacher,’’ she said, and added thoughtfully, “I shall be Sony to leave
the school.”

1884
Mrs. Bessie Dershimer Carter passed away April 24, 1947,
at her home in Peckville. Mrs. Carter always maintained a keen
interest in all of the affairs at Rloomsburg, and was seldom absent from the class reunions or from the meetings of the Lackawanna County Branch of the Alumni Association. She is survived by her daughter, Louise Carter Dickman, who lives in
Johnstown, and is teaching in South Fork.

1886
Nolan H. Sanner died suddenly July 18, 1947, at his
home, 1250 Piermont Avenue, Pittsburgh. Death was due to a
heart attack. After his graduation from Bloomsburg, Dr. Sanner taught in the public schools until he entered the ministery.
When he was a young man his home was in Ligonier, Somerset
Dr.

County.

He was a faithful president of the class of 1886. He and
his wife never missed one of the class reunions held at the College. The success of the class reunions was due to the time he
gave to make them a success, and he will be greatly missed by
members

of the class.
Dr. Sanner spent fifty-three years in the Methodist ministry, and had filled more than a dozen pulpits in the Pittsburgh
District. During his pastorate of the Mt. Lebanon Church, from
1917 to 1925, the new church was erected, and in January,
1944, the old building was incorporated into a church structure,
and was dedicated as a memorial chapel to him by the members
of the congregation. Following his pastorate at Mt. Lebanon
Church, he became Superintendent of the Blairsville District
Then he became pastor of the Mifflin Avenue
until 1931.
Church, Wilkinsburg. He retired in 1933 to become treasurer
of the Methodist Centenary Fund Society, under which all trust
funds of the denomination are administered. From this post he
retired in October, 1946.

the

Mrs. Josephine Barkley Eyer, of Bloomsburg, died April
her home on Market Street. Mrs. Eyer taught two
years previous to her marriage to Warren Eyer, who died several years ago. She is survived by her son Charles.
13, 1947, at

1892
Mrs. Louise Petty Smith, of Berwick, died Friday, August
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28, at the Berwick Hospital. She was born August 11, 1872, in
Salem Township, and lived in Berwick during the greater part
of her life. She taught in the Berwick and Nescopeck schools

for several years before hei' marriage.

1897

The following letter was received from Amy Beishline
Thomas, of 603 Union Boulevard, Bethlehem, after her fiftieth
reunion on Alumni Day:
“The reunion of the class of 1897 was a success and much
enjoyed by all present.
“Receiving the photographic copies of our original Teachers’ Certificate was quite a surprise, and I personally deemed
it a great honor to receive my copy from the hand of my favorite

teacher. Professor Sutliff.
“After leaving Bloomsburg,

1

taught

in

the public schools of

Columbia County, then married and had thirteen children, two
of whom died when they were small. The other eleven have
grown to manhood and womanhood. Six of them have been college graduates; my youngest son is now attending Penn State.
Six of my daughters-in-law and sons-in-law are college graduates, so you see that my family are college-minded people.
“That makes fifteen of all in the family, including my husband, who was in the class of 1896.
“Looking after the family and keeping books for my husband, who was a contractor and builder, kept me very busy, but
1 taught a Sunday
1 also found time to engage in church work.
School class of women for over ten years, and served on the Y.

W.

C. A.

board for

five years.

“About twenty years ago, 1 began to express my thoughts
and feelings in verse, so 1 have written quite a number of poems.
1 enclose one as a toast to the Alumni of B. S. T. C.

A

Toast to the Alumni of Bloomsburg State Teachers College

Knowing

folks like you is very great pleasure
Keeping friends like you is possessing great treasure.
May I prove worthy to have you for a friend
May I be true and loyal till time shall end.
“I often wondered if 1 should be able to attend my fiftieth
reunion. I am very glad that I was able to be there, and I hope
I may be there in 1952, if I am still alive.’’

Mrs. Millicent Broadbent Sitler died in Pittsburgh Wednesday, August 6, 1947.
Mrs. Sitler was born in Stoneboro, Pa., November 18, 1877.
She lived in New Castle for forty-five years and had been a
member of the Methodist Church, Daughter of Union Auxiliary,
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and Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 522.
She is survived by her husband, John A. Sitler.

Hany

Curran Wilbur, son of the late Professor G. E. WilAugust 2, at the Wisconsin Masonic Home, Dousman,
Wisconsin. After his graduation from Bloomsburg he was graduated from Dickinson College.
bur, died

1900
Daniel Rarich, long-time resident of this region, died suddenly of a heart attack Friday, September 4, in his room in the
Y. Pd. C. A. dormitories on West Broad Street, Hazleton.
Born in Sugarloaf Township, he was the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rarich. He was graduated from Bloomsburg Normal School in 1900 and taught school for several years
in Sugarloaf Township. He was employed by the Hazleton National Bank for some time, and later worked for the Hazleton
Machinery & Supply Co. before he retired.
He formerly lived at Diamond Avenue and Peace Street,
and he also resided in Conyngham. His wife, the former Cora
Knelly, daughter of the late C. H. Knelly, Conyngham building
contractor, died five years ago, and after her death Mr. Rarich
moved to the Y. M. C. A. dormitories.
He is survived by one son, Charles P. Rarich, of Long Island, a sister, Mrs. E. E. Miller, of Conyngham, and two brothers, Abram, of Scranton, and William, of Philadelphia. There
is one grandchild.
1901
Adele Altmiller (Mrs. G. F. Burkhardt) lives at 154 South
Cedar Street, Hazleton, Pa.

1902
A. E. Keiber is a member of the faculty of the High School
in Davenport, Iowa. The school, with an enrollment of two
thousand, is the largest high school in the state. Mr. Keiber
went to Davenport in 1910, after his graduation from Lafayette
College, to teach American History and Civics and to coach
speech work. One of his former students is editor of McCall’s
Magazine, another was secretary to Wendell Wilkie, and another was on Governor Dewey’s staff of speech coaches during
last fall. Mr. Keiber is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Iowa
High School Speech Association.

Lourissa V. Leighow, of 1204 South Grand Avenue, GlenSprings, Colorado, recently sent the following to her class-

wood

mates
“For many years
:

it was not convenient for me to attend
reunions of our class when held at Bloomsburg, but I felt that
surely I would be able to attend our forty-fifth reunion.
“After teaching for several years, I went to Washington,

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D. C., in August, 1919,

where

1

was

in

government service

until

returned to my former home in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, in October, 1944.
“The seasons of 1945-46 and 1946-47 I spent in St. Petersburg, Florida, where 1 met my classmate, Mrs. Etta Keller, who
later entertained me at her home in Orangeville.”
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1904
Mrs. Maude Davis Pentecost, 1000 Richmont Street, Scranton, wife of Dr. M. I. Pentecost, died Thursday, August 7, at the
White Nursing Home where she had been a patient for some
time. She had been seriously ill for the past two years. She was
sixty-one years of age.
Mrs. Pentecost was born in Taylor, the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Davis. Her father was a pioneer druggist
of that place. She was a graduate of the 1904 Class of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, the former Bloomsburg Normal
School and taught in the Taylor schools prior to her marriage
in 1909.
After living in Peckville following their marriage Dr. and
Mrs. Pentecost went to Scranton to reside in 1922.
Mrs. Pentecost was one o”^ the city’s best known women.
She was for a number of years active in the Century Club, having served as its recording secretary and as chairman of the
publicity, garden and other departments and editor of the Century Club Bulletin. She was active in the women’s group of the
Scranton Country Club and had won cups for her success as a
swimmer and golfer. She was a former officer of the Women’s
Auxiliary to the Lackawanna County Medical Society. She was

member

of Asbury Methodist Church.
During the war Mrs. Pentecost served as secretary of the
headquarters office for surgical dressings classes held at the
Century Club under the auspices of Scranton Chapter American
Red Cross. During the entire war period she spent many hours
practically every day at the club and knew by name each individual worker of the various classes. She was awai’ded a citation for her accurate and well kept records and another for the
unusually large number of hours devoted to this work which
a

totaled far in excess of 6,000 hours.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Pentecost is survived by a
son, William I. Pentecost, two grandchildren and a brother, A.
J. Davis, Pittsburgh.
Russell A. MacCachran, of Camp Hill, husband of the forJenkins, died Tuesday, October 14, at the Barton
Memorial Hospital, Philadelphia, following an operation.
Mr. MacCachran was directoi- of the Field Management
Bureau of the State Game Commission at the time of his death.

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He had been an employe of the State Game Commission since
August, 1930. He was first a game land engineer, later becoming Assistant Director of the Bureau of Refuge and Land Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Land. Later he became assistant to
the Executive Director. He assumed the title he held at the
time of his death when the commission was reorganized about
a year ago.
A native of Newville, he was born March 1, 1886, and was
a graduate of the Newville High School, Dickinson Preparatory
School, and Lafayette College. He received his degree as Civil
Engineer in 1909. He served as an engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, State Department of Highways, and for J. L.
Elder, of Edensburg. For several years previous to his appointment to the Game Commission, he had offices in Bloomsburg as
a consulting engineer.

He was an active member of the Camp Hill Presbyterian
Church, a former chairman of the West Shore Area, Boy Scouts
of America, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and of the Engineers’ Society of Pennsylvania. He was
a member of the Masonic Lodge at Newville, and of Caldwell
Consistory, Bloomsburg.
He is survived by his wife and two sons. Robert, the elder
son, is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, and is now
a student at the American Institute of Foreign Trade, Phoenix,
Arizona. The other son, Russell, Jr., a graduate of Washington
and Jefferson, is employed at Akron, Ohio.
Funeral services were held Saturday, October 15, at the
Musselman Funeral Home, Lemoyne.
1908
Williams is traveling for a large leather company. His address is 70 East Scott Street, Chicago, Illinois.

George

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1909
Fred W. Diehl, Superintendent of the Schools of Montour
County, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, and a member of the Board of Directors
of the

Bloomsburg Alumni Association, was crowned a Thirty-

Third Degree Mason at the 135th annual convocation of the Supreme Council held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in September.
1911
Dr. E. H. Nelson has resigned his post as chief of health
and physical education in the Department of Public Instruction,
and is now serving as Secretary of Caldwell Consistory, and the
subordinate bodies of Scottish Rite Masonry in Bloomsbug.

1912
Miss Mary M. Edwards and Howard F. Fenstemaker, both
of Bloomsburg, were married Sunday, August 24, in the First
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Baptist Church of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Raymond H. Edwards, brother of the bride, of Ossining, New York.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and
attended the Post Business School, Waterbury, Connecticut.
During the war she served with the Women’s Army Corps in
Italy, and after her return was employed as a secretary in the
Department of Forests and Waters. The groom is a member of
the faculty at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Florence E. Blecher (Mrs. Frank Crouse) lives at 114
Pleasant Street, Danville. Mr. and Mrs. Crouse have two children Elizabeth, a student at Bloomsburg, and Frank, Jr., a student in the Danville High School. Mr. Crouse is employed at the
Danville State Hospital.
:

C. Cortright lives at 15 Totten
York. She is a teacher at Manlius.

Ruth

New

Ray Austin

is

is

Box

in

New

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Holland, Pa.

105.

1924
Helen G. Jones (Mrs. George E. Gilbert)
Ariel, R. D.

Hempstead,

teaching at Laurel Run, Pa.

1915
Helene Mitchell Weaver is teaching

Her address

Street,

lives

at

Lake

Pennsylvania.

1928
Dorothy McCollum (Mrs. Russell Tressler) lives at 19
Jackson Street, Port Carbon, Pa. She is a substitute teacher in
the Port Carbon schools.
1929
1132 West Locust Street, Scranton, is
principal of the Abraham School No. 14, and teaches English
at the Adult Institute at the Scranton Technical High School.
Mr. Jones’ wife is the foimier Marion J. Thomas, of the class of

William

B. Jones,

1930.

1932
practicing medicine in Pittsburgh.
married and has one daughter, six years old. His address
Elm Street, Bridgeville, Pa.
Dr. C. C. Hess

is

1936
Bernard Cobb, who has been teaching for some time
Shickshinny High School, is now teacher of mathematics
Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre.
1937
Mr. and Mrs. Ray H. Schrope

live

He

is

is

660

in

the
the

in

on Morrell Street, Yale,
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Michigan. A son, Brian Richard Schrope, was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Schrope January 5, 1947.

1938
Miss Jean Cameron, of Mt. Union, and Vance S. Laubach,
of Berwick, were married Sunday, June 29, in the Presbyterian
Church of Waynesboro. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Harold Smith, pastor of the church.
The bride is a graduate of the New Castle Senior High
School, attended Bethany College, West Virginia, and received
a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gettysburg College. She taught
for one year in the McConnelsburg High School and for the past
two years was a member of the facultj^ of the Waynesboro Senior

High School.
Mr. Laubach saw action during the war

as a first lieutenant
the 9th Army Air Force. He is now an instructor in business
education and aeronautics at Waynesboro, where he taught
previous to his military service.

in

Miss Carolyn M. Livsey and G. Edward Deily, both of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, July 19, in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was performed by the pastor of the Church, Dr. Elvin Clay Myers. The
bride has been employed in the offices of Bloomsburg Mills, Inc.,
and the groom, who served forty months with the Armed Forces, is bookkeeper for the Art Bronze and Iron Works, Danville,
Pa.

Neil Richie, formerly of Bloomsburg, was awarded the degree of M. S. in Commerce and Finance at Bucknell University
at the close of the summer sessions this year.
Discharged from the Army Air Corps in March, 1945, with
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Mr. Richie resumed his position
as a member of the faculty of the Danville High School. He is
teaching this year at Rider College, Trenton, New Jersey.

1940

One of the versatile graduates of the Teachers College is
Edward H. Bacon, Forty Fort, who is now employed as a training officer, regional office. Veterans Administration, at WilkesBarre. Bacon, who received his degree from the College in
1940 is currently assigned in the Wilkes-Barre special rehabilitation unit.

After his graduation from Bloomsburg, he was employed
insurance inspector in Newark, New Jersey, but in
March, 1942, he enlisted as a private in the United States Army.
Private Bacon received his commission as second lieutenant in
August, 1943. After a total of thirty-seven months of overseas
duty in the European theater of operations, he was discharged
with the rank of captain in December, 1945. Among his many
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is the Bronze Star Medal which he was awarded shortbefore his discharge. \t the present time Bacon is working
with the vocational rehabilitation problems of severely handicapped veterans who are blind and deaf. He also works with
amputees, paraplegics, general medical and mental cases.

citations
ly

Mrs. Joseph A. Withey (formerly Gertrude Wilson, of
Drums) who received her B. S. Degree from the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in 1940 is now living at 1005 ConstituEmporia, KanssTs, where her husband is Director of Dramatics in the Kansas State Teachers College. Mrs. Withey
taught eleven years at her home in Butler Township, Luzerne
County, and one year in the Ithaca City Schools, New York,
where her husband received his Masters Degree at Cornell University. Mr. Withey graduated from the New York State
Teachers College at Albany, taught at Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey and spent two and a half years overseas
in the United States Army.
tion,

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Miss Honora M. Dennen, of Danville, R. D. 3, and Herbert
were married Thursday, October 9, in
the rectory of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Danville. Mrs. Barr
is a graduate of the Slovak Girls’ Academy, Danville, and of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She also attended Bucknell University.
She has been teaching in the Antliony Township Consolidated School. Mr. Barr, a World War veteran, and
a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Embalming, is associated with the Vincent Funeral Home in Danville. Mr. and Mrs.
Barr live at 110 Lower Mulberry Street, Danville.
E. Barr, of Turbotville,

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Miss Ruth Lenore Brandon, of Berwick, and H. Drue Kinmarried Sunday, August 17, in the
Nescopeck Methodist Church, with the Rev. N. G. McClockey
officiating. Mrs. Kinney has been teaching in the Shickshinny
High School, and Mr. Kinney is underwriter for the Mutual Life
Insurance Company. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania
ney, of Nescopeck, were

State College.

Mary Edna McWilliams,

of Mooresburg, and Donald
were married Saturday, August 23, in the
Mooresburg Presbyterian Church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Louis Barber, of Pottsgrove, and the Rev. Mr.

Miss

Kessler, of Danville,

Foose, of Williamsport. Mrs. Kessler has been serving as a
of the faculty of the Danville High School, and Mr.
Kessler, a World War veteran, is employed in the Marks Clothing Store in Danville.

member

and

Charles Girton is now located in Los Angeles, California,
living in the nearby town of Westwood.

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Earl Houck, of Berwick, is teaching
partment of the Berwick High School.

in the

commercial de-

1941

Ruth Shay (Mrs. Richai’d A. Biery) who has been living at
1947 North Street, Harrisbuig, Pa., has sent the Quarterly the
following change in address:
Mrs. Richard A. Biery, Care of
T-Sgt. Richard A. Biery, RA. 20300048, AWS. Weather Station, Itazuki Army Air Base No. 3 Strip, APO. 929, Care of Postmaster, San Francisco, California. Sergeant and Mrs. Biery
were scheduled to sail for Japan on Monday, November 17.

—

A daughter was born June 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Karl E. Balof 239 Trenton Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey. Mrs. Balliet
was the former Edith Berninger. They also haVe a son, two
jears old. Mr. Balliet is employed as a research chemist with
the United States Rubbei* Company.
liet,

After living for some time in California, Mary L. Bretz
(Mrs. William F. Shughart) reports that she is now living
at
113 North Carlisle Street, New Bloomfield, Pa.
Rebel- R. Fisher is now employed as teller at the Farmers’
National Bank, Bloomsburg. He was previously employed in a
similar position in the First National Bank of Catawissa.

Julia C. Hagenbuch is teacher of commercial subjects in
the Mifflinburg High School.

1942
Captain Richard C. Nonnemacher, of Allentown, has been
named Commanding Officer of the 409 Transportation Corps
Truck Company, which has recently been activated. Captain
Nonnemacher served overseas in the Quartermaster Section at
Bellows Field, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii. He entered the Army
in 1942 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Lee, Virginia, January 15, 1943. He
is now a teacher in the Allentown High School.

The class of 1942 held a dinner at
Homecoming Day, with a large number

the Char-Mund Inn on
present. Invited guests

were President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, Dean and Mrs.
Earl W. Wright, of Shippensburg, Dean and Mrs, Thomas P.
North, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Fenstemaker.
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Smith are now living at 301 Barlow Avenue, Merchantville, New Jersey. Mrs. Smith was formerly Miss Dora Taylor.
1943
Miss Jean C. Sidler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter F,
Sidler, Danville, became the bride of Philip F. Snyder, son of
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Snyder, Mifflinburg, in an impressive
wedding ceremony performed in St. Paul’s Methodist Church,
Danville, Saturday afternoon, October 26, at 4 :00 o’clock. The
Rev. Paul Austin, pastor of the church, performed the double
ring ceremony. The couple was unattended.
The bride was graduated from the Danville High School
and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Since her graduation
she has been teaching in the commercial department of the Mifflinburg High School. She expects to continue with her teaching position for the present.

The groom was graduated from the Mifflinburg High
School and is at present associated with his father, dealer in
He was a member of the
coal, lumber, and building supplies.
United States Army for three years, having served in both the
European and Pacific Theatres.
For the present Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are residing with the
groom’s parents at 300 Walnut Street, Mifflinburg, Pa.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss
Louise Schmidt, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to George Piarote, of
Lebanon, Pennsylvania. The marriage took place June 4, 1947,
at the Chapel of Columbia University, New York City. The
bride is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where she
majored in medical technology. Mr. Piarote was graduated
from BSTC in 1943 and completed his studies this summer for a
Master of Arts degree at Columbia University. At the present
time he is employed in the legal department of an oil company
in New York City and will continue his studies for the Doctor’s
degree at Columbia. The address of Mr. and Mrs. Piarote is
243 Bedford Park Boulevard, New York 58, New York.
Miss Helen M. Miller and John R. Kettering were married
Saturday, March 15, 1947, in the First Evangelical United
Brethren Church in Palmyra, Pa. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Harold Hollingsworth. Mrs. Kettering has been
teaching in the Palmyra schools. Mr. Kettering, a graduate of
the Palmyra High School, was discharged from the Army in December, 1945. He served thirty-three months with General MacAithur’s headquarters and is now engaged in the furniture business.
Mr. and Mrs. Kettering are living in Palmyra at 345-A
North Railroad Street.

Winton Laubach

is

an instructor

in

mathematics

at

Samp-

son College, near Geneva, N. Y. Sampson is one of three colleges of the Associated Colleges of Upper New York, which
were opened last Fall to accommodate veterans and others
crowded out of established institutions.
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Paith Hope (Mrs. William P. Handy) lives in Sadsburyville,
Chester County, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Handy have a daughter,
Frances Jean Hope Handy, born July 22, 1947.

Miss Hazel O’Brien, formerly of Benton, and Joseph P. G.
Davis, of Brooklyn, New York, were married Saturday, July 12,
Mrs. Davis has been
at the Episcopal Church of All Saints.
teaching at Gillette, New Jersey. The groom is a graduate of
McBurney High School and of the Merchant Marine Academy
of King’s Point, Long Island. At present he is secoiid officer
with the United States Shipping Company.

1944
Miss Helen Parangosky, of Shenandoah, and John Barclay
Shock, Jr., of Baltimore, were married June 23, 1947, at the
Church of the Immaculate Conception in Townson, Maryland.
Mrs. Shock has been teaching commercial subjects at Kenwood
High School, Baltimore, and will continue in that position. Mr.
Shock, also a teacher at Kenwood High School, is a graduate of
the Townson State Teachers College, and received his M. A. degree at Columbia University. Mr. and Mrs. Shock are living at

8703 Lock Bend Drive, Townson

4,

Maryland.

Joyce E. Hay, who lives at 1807 Hay Terrace, Easton, Pa.,
serving in her fourth year as teacher of commercial subjects in the high school at Bangor, Pa.
is

now

Harold Miller, of Catawissa, is teaching his second year at
Robert College, Istambul, Turkey. During the past summer he
traveled in France, England, Switzerland and Italy.
1945
Trinity Lutheran Church at Danville, Pa., was the
scene of a beautiful v>^edding Saturday afternoon, August 24,
1946, when Miss Evelyn G eorge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter George, of Danville, became the bride of William E. Davis,
of St. Louis, Mo. The double ring ceremony was performed by
the Rev. B. W. Krapf, pastor of the church, before an altar decorated with white gladiolus and hydrangeas. The bride is a
graduate of the Danville High School and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and taught the past year in Somerville, N. J.
schools. Mr. Davis is a graduate of the Edwardsville, Ilk, High
School, and was a member of B. S. T. C. under the Navy V-12
program. He received his commission from Columbia University July 5, 1945 and spent three and one-half years in service.
They are residing now in Edwardsville, Bk, where the groom is
employed with the Dura Tile Co.

The

Miss Betty Louise Zehner, of Sugarloaf, and Francis Dietwere married Saturday, August 9, in the

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Black Creek Methodist Church. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Robert Scheean. The bride is a graduate of the
Black Creek Township High School, class of 1940, and of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1945. She has been
employed as a teacher in the schools of Chalfont, Pa. The
groom attended the Hazleton High School and is at present employed by the Heintz Manufacturing Company, of Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich are living at 4738 Ella Street, Philadelphia.

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Ralph McCracken, who served last year as teacher of speceducation in the Danville schools, is now teacher of seventh
and eighth grades in the Riverside schools.
ial

Miss Eltheda Klingaman, who taught last year in the high
is teaching this year in the Catawissa High

school at Troy, Pa.,
School.
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Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Newhart (H. Jean Barr) live
yngham. Pa. They have a daughter, Susan Ruth, who

year

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old.

Miss Violet Weller, of Turbotville, and Ralph
Jr.,

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were married Saturday, July

J.

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19, 1947.

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Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss
Draconda C. McKennon, of Shickshinny, to Harold W. Swisher,
of Falls Church, Virginia. Miss McKennon was graduated from
the Shickshinny High School in the class of 1944, and is employed in the offices of the Luzerne Telephone Company at Shickshinny. Mr. Swisher was graduated from the Shickshinny High
School in the class of 1939. He served three years in the Armed Forces, two of which were in the European Theatre of Operations.
He is now a member of the faculty at Lititz, Pennsylvania.

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the Highspire High School.
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teaching Spanish and

1949
Miss Eleanor Frutchey, of Danville, and Vincent J. Gilbert, of
Bloomsburg, were married Saturday, August 31, in the Mahoning Presbyterian Church. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. James J. Mentzer, Pastor of the Grove Presbyterian Church
of Danville. Both bride and groom are members of the Junior
class at Bloomsburg.

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Former Students
Monsignor Hugh L. McMenamin, native of Freeland and
rector of Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Denver, died Sunday, July 27, at the cathedral rectory. He had been in failing
health the last year.
Msgr. McMenamin, who was well known in Wyoming Valley, was born and reared at Freeland, son of Hugh and Anne
O’Donnell McMenamin. He attended Freeland public schools
and was a graduate of Bloomsburg Normal School.
He attended Sacred Heart College, Denver, and studied for
the priesthood at St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore. He was ordained to the priesthood in June, 1900, by James Cardinal Gibbons and was later assigned as assistant rector of St. Mary’s
Church, Colorado Springs, where he served four years.
In 1904, he was made assistant rector of Immaculate Conception Cathedral and rector in 1908. When he celebrated his
silver jubilee as rector of the cathedral in 1933, he was elevated
to the rank of monsignor by Rt. Rev. Urban J. Vehr, bishop of
the Denver Diocese. That same year, he also was made domestic prelate to His Holiness, Pope Pius XI.
Msgr. McMenamin was a leader in civic alTairs in Denver
and was well known as the leader of a crusade against obscene
literature in that city. He was a member of Denver Red Cross,
Anti-Tuberculosis Society and Knights of Columbus and was a
frequent contribute!- to various Catholic journals.
noted orator, Msgr. McMenamin was a pioneer in many
He reportedly was the first priest to use radio
to broadcast Christmas midnight mass.
Survivors include a brother, John, of Hazleton; a sister,
Mrs Arthur Gilmore, of Philadelphia, and several nieces and
nephews in Wilkes-Barre. A sister, Mrs. P. D. McNelis died in

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Catholic activities.

1934.
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Another graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Russell W. Bower, Berwick, is a key figure in the Veterans
Administration at Wilkes-Barre. At the present time Mr. Bower is Assistant Chief of the Advisement and Guidance Section of
the Veterans Administration at Wilkes-Barre, and his activities
there are closely allied to educational work. His duties include
the supervision of ten Guidance Centers located at various instiA very comprehentutions throughout Eastern Pennsylvania.
sive program of counseling and testing is carried on at these
This service is provided for all disabled veterans apcenters.
Vocational Rehabilitation as well as for non-disabled
for
plying
veterans who desire educational and vocational guidance.
Following his graduation from the College, he attended
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Syracuse Univeristy where he received his Bachelor of Science
Degree in education as well as his Master’s Degree. He also
attended Cambridge University in England. He was a teacher
in the Berwick public schools from 1922 until 1925 and served
as an assistant in the school of education at Syracuse University
while he was engaged in graduate study. During his extensive
career, he taught in the Uniontown, Pa., public schools and was
supervising principal for one year at Conyngham Township
school at Mocanaqua. For thirteen years he was principal of
the junior high school at Cortland, New York, and served in the
armed forces for a year and a half before becoming administrative assistant. Corps of Engineers in April, 1944. Since November, 1945, he has been associated with the Veterans Administration.

Among

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many

club affiliations, Mr.

Bower

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of the Masons, American Legion, Elks, Rotary Club,
ber of honorary and professional fraternities.

a

member

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