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Alumni Quarterly

State Teachers College
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Vol. 51

MARCH,

No.

I

1950

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Mid-Year Commencement
We

where we were before,” Cameron Ralston, traveler
mid-year graduating class of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, Wednesday, January 18, after he had traced
Sixty-five received
the cycles leading through two World Wars.

and

are “back

lecturer, told the

degrees of bachelor of science in education.

The author and lecturer stated that we are “spending our way
back” and pleaded for economy and thrift in government spending.
He queried, “How can we teach economy when the government
persists in spending more than it takes in?”
Ralston’s address was a feature of impressive ceremonies conducted in the college’s Carver Hall auditorum. Gowned candidates
Fred W. Diehl, Danville, vice presifiled in to processional strains.
dent of the college board of trustees, offered the invocation.
Following the address, quartet numbers were offered. Presentation of the candidates was made by Dr. Thomas U. North, dean of
instruction, and the degrees were conferred by Dr. Harvey A. AnDr. Andruss spoke briefly to the
druss, president of the college.
graduates prior to the recessional.
Miss Harriet Moore directed musical presentations and H. F.
Fenstemaker presided at the console of the auditorium.
In a graphic manner, Ralston stressed the need for development
of leadershii) and the responsibility for education to produce leaders as he traced the background of world conditions.
He traced from
World War I to the present. In the first war, he said, there were
thirty-three million casualties, thirty billions of dollars property damage and the foundation laid for the building of international debts
totalling 212 billions of dollars.
He cited the tragic failure' of the V’ersailles conference as a product of machine politics that “trampled democratic ideals underfoot,”
and created conditions that residted

in the establishments of dicta-

torships that “preached the doctrine of hate

and the praise of the

slate.”

Ralston touched on the rise of money madness of the United
States in the 20’s, the creation of tariff barriers, and the raising of the

Vol. 51, No.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

March, 1950

Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers
Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8,
College. Bloomsburg, Pa.
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of March 3,
1879.
Yearly Subscription, $1.00; Single Copy, 25 cents.
H. F.
E. H.

FENSTEMAKER. T2
NELSON, T1

EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
.

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tremendous debt structure that toppled o\er in the 1929 crash that
plunged the country into the depths of depression. The “pump
priming” of the New Deal was recounted and also the breaking of
\\'orld War II, a conflict, he pointed out, that took a higher price
than before.

he said, “hack where we were before.”
background he painted three great needs of
teachers today: enthusiarns, appreciation, and devotion.
Teachers are needed who will seek truth with enthusiasm and
will educate to overcome world-wide pessimism and cynicism.
He
especially criticized the loss of enthusiarns for those who have made
our country strong and decried the loss of Americanism. The first
grade teacher, he said, is the most important in our school set-up because at that point in the child’s life are sown the seeds of love for
“All this lea\es us,”

Against

this

pictorial

learning.

was asked to inquire how they had gotten
he charged them to appreciate the opportunities
they have recei\’ed from their parents, home life and such. He called upon the graduates to continue with their tasks with the same
starry-eyed attitude and devotion they held when they began their

The graduating

where they have,

class

as

studies.

In closing, he decried the present attitude of the part of many
Americans that the government owes us everything and emphasized
that teachers should always be seeking truth.

o

Miss Keora Kono, head of the Personality Development Departat the Powers School, New York, gave a lecture at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on Wednesday evening, December 7.
.Miss Kono, born in Hawaii, came to the States for her adult
education at Emerson College. At present she is taking work on her
Ph. D. at New York University.
“Personality Development,” as interpreted by Miss Kono, means
personal adjustment to surroundings, society and circumstance. “A
woman can prett>' much control her own surroundings and is expected to adjust no more than half way to her society but over circumstances, be it a little thing like weather or a big thing like world
She therefore finds it her dut\' to
aifairs, she has \ery little control.
be better informed about other people’s ideals, customs, backgrounds
and beliefs so that her \oice will have authority.”
Miss Kono outlined the ways and means of widening a woman’s
horizons in her home, in her business, in her community and in her
world.
Her lecture covered the inter-relationships between a woman and her associates.
“A mirror can reflect your face,” says Miss Kono, “but it cannot
reflect your mind.
The face seen in the mirror will look far more

ment

attractive

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if

the

mind

is

alert,

recepti\e and well-stocked.”

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
SCHOLARSHIPS

AWARDED

Scholarship awards were granted to eight students of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and members of the varsity and
junior varsity football squads were presented letter awards at a special Awards Assembly held Tuesday, Deeember 20, in the Carver
Auditorium. In a special presentation, Nevin T. Englehart, Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings, was given the varsity gold key,
the highest honor the College bestows on its athletes, as a token of
appreciation for his services to the athletic teams of the institution
over a long period of years.
Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, chairman of the Faculty Scholarship and
.\wards Committee, presented the candidates for four Alumni scholarships, while Howard F. Fenstemaker, Treasurer of the Alumni
Loan Fund, presented the winners with checks totalling $200. Mr.
Fenstemaker also announced the winner of the R. Bruee Albert Memorial Scholarship, and made the presentation.
President Harvey A. Andruss named the two winners of the
President’s Scholarship and presented ehecks totalling $100.
Dr.
Andruss also presented varsity letter awards to members of the 1948
football s(juad and minor awards to members of the junior varsity
squad. Candidates for the athletie awards were presented by Coach

Robert B. Redman. Coaeh Redman also introdueed Mr. Englehart
presented the key award by President Andruss.
James A. Kleman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kleman, 36 North
19th Street, Ashland, was presented the Bruce Albert Memorial
Scholarship of $100. Mr. Kleman, who is a junior in the Department
of Secondary Education, has been aetive in eampus aetivities and
athletics, and his scholastic record is excellent.
Four awards of $50 eaeh were presented by the General Alumni
Assoeiation of the College.
These awards were given to Robert
Martini, son of Mrs. Florence Martini, Benton; David Newbury, son
of Mrs. Priseilla Newl^ury, Watsontown; Miss Faythe N. Hackett,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James K. Hackett, 314 Mt. Carmel Avenue,
Glenside (Montgomery County), and Miss M. Eloise Symons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Symons, 239 Inman Park, Wilkes-

who was

Barre.

Mr. Martini is a senior in Seeondary Edueation, while Mr. Newis a freshman in the same department.
Miss Haekett is a sophomore in the Department of Elementary Edueation, and Miss Symons
is also studying in the Elementary Education field.
She is a junior.
All the awards were made on the basis of scholastie attainment,

bury

eampus aetivities and professional promises. A faeulty
committee made the seleetions.
Miss Louise Reinhart, president of the Bloomsburg branch, American Association of University Women, presented a $50 seholarship
to Miss Vivian Brennan, daughter of Mrs. James P. Brennan, 23 South
Parker Avenue, Atlantie City, N. J. Miss Brennan is a freshman in the
charaeter,

i

'A

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Department

of

Elementary Education.

Two

other students were announced as the winners of the President’s Grant, and $50 checks were presented by President Andruss
to Miss Delphiae Buss, Watsontown, and Robert T. Granger, Hallowell.
Miss Buss, who is the daughter of Mrs. Regina K. Buss, is a
junior in the field of Elementary Education, and Granger, son of
Mrs. J. G. Turrey, is enrolled as a freshman in the Department of
Business Education.
Prior to the presentation of the Bruce Albert Memorial ScholarMr. P’enstemaker told of the work and contribution of the late
Bruce Albert in quadrupling the principal of the Alumni Loan Eund.
The four Alumni a\\ards were authorized by the governing board of
the General Alumni Association from the interest that has accrued
from the fund, while the Bruce Albert scholarship is an alumni grant
memorializing the person who helped develop the alumni organizaship,

tion to

its

present status.

During the exercises, Mary Louise Todd, Bloomsburg, sang “O
Holy Night.” Her accompanist was Barbara Gulick, Riverside. Emory Rarig, Gatawissa and Richard Wagner, Nescopeck, also presented a novel organ-piano arrangement of “A Ghristmas Eantasy.” Zigniund Maciekowich, West Hazleton, presided over the devotional
exercises preceding the musical portion of the program, and Miss
Harriet M. Moore led assembly singing to close the exercises.
o

The Eighteenth Annual

Business Education Gontest will be held

May

5 and 6, 1950, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers Gollege.
The contest will consist of examinations in bookkeeping, typewritA book display and ofing, shorthand, and business mathematics.
fice machines show is planned in conjunction with the contest.
The
machines on display will include the latest models of equipment in
common use in schools and small and medium sized offices. In addition, models of twenty and forty years ago will be on display to show
The period of twenty
the progress made in office mechanization.
years was selected as this is the twentieth anniversary of the Business

on

Education Department.
On Eriday night. May 5, 1950, the Annual Eashion Show will
be presented by the Retail Sales classes in honor of \ isiting contestants, teachers

and

guests.

o

Mr. and Mrs. George \k Ash, of Bloomsburg, announce the engagement of their daughter, Joyce, to Harry G. Gray, also of Bloomsburg. No date has been set for the wedding.
Miss Ash is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and is
employed at the Bloomsburg Bank-Golumbia Trust Go. Mr. Gray is
He served eighteen
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School.
months in the U. S. Navy and is now a sophomore at B. S. T. G.
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Mrs. Florence H. Price
Mrs. Florence H. Price,
wlio was elected President of
the New Jersey Education
Association at its convention
City, November
1949, has combined elementary teaching with an extensive background of teacher organization work.
in

Atlantic

13,

After graduating from
Bloomshurg State Teachers
began
her
College,
she

teaching

career

Pittston, Pa.,

her

in

West

home

town.

Two

years later she was emin the Newark (N. J.)
public schools, and was assigned to Roseville Avenue
School.
She has continued
to teach in that same school

ployed

Lorstan Studios

for

29 years.

At one time

or another she has taught
every elementary grade from fourth to seventh. Her present class
In the meantime she has continued her prois a sixth grade group.
fessional work at Newark State Teachers College and at New York
University.

Early in her teaching career, she became interested in teacher
organizations. She was first active in the Newark Women Teachers’
Guild, sert'iug as its secretary. The Newark Grade Teachers’ Association elected her President, and she was a member of the Executive Committee of the Newark Teachers’ Association.
Transfeiring her interests to state and national organizations,
she was active in the New Jersey Elementary Classroom Teachers
Association, of which she became \ ice president. At the same time
she served on various state and national committees, including the
NEA Resolutions Committee, and the NJEA committees on Certification, and Revision of the Constitution.
She was chairman of the
state committees on Necrology, Resolutions, Teachers’ Liability, and
Annual Banquet.
In 1947, Mrs. Price was elected treasurer of the NJEA for a
two-year term, and in 1949 was chosen as President, without opposition.

She is the sixth
year history.

woman

president of the Association in

its

96-

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ASSIST IX WRITING MANUAL
Four members of the faculty of the Bloomsburg

State Teachers
College were represented in tlie production of the new Business Education Manual recently published by the Department of Public Instruction.
The manual, which was prepared to serve as a guide to
improve the business education program in the secondary schools of
Pennsylvania, contains a wealth of suggestions on the basic principles, best practices, problems, teaching techniques, visual aids, and
standards in the field of Business Education.

Dr. Har\ey A. Andruss, president of the College, served in an
advisory capacity, and contributed the chapter on the philosophy
and objectives of business education, while Richard G. Hallisy, director, Department of Business Education, was a contributor of the
course of study on Business Economics.
Miss Honora Noyes and
"Walter S. Rygiel contributed to the sections on Business English and
Business Law respecti\ely.
The manual was a copperative enterprise; contributions ha\ing
been made by outstanding teachers and leaders in the field of Business Education from the secondary schools. State Teachers Colleges,
and universities of the state. It is the first of a series of bulletins
dealing with the subject of Business Education in the state. In the
near future it is expected that the sections dealing with courses of
study, teaching techniques, equipment and supplies, tests and testing
will be expanded. Each unit of each course of study will also be enlarged anr more fully developed to enhance the contribution of Business Education to the areas of social and economic living.
Because of its importance, it is hoped that the new manual will
ser\ e to raise the general level of \ ocational and general business
education in the public schools of the Commonwealth.

o

Miss Sarah H. Park, fifty-nine, of East Fifth street, Bloomsburg,
teacher in the Catawissa schools for the past thirty-three years, died
Sunday, No\'ember 27, shortly after suffering a heart attack while
returning from an auto trip.
She was returning with a group of friends from a \isit with her
She became ill as they arrived in
brother, Joseph, at Honesdale.
Berwick and died before the car reached the Berwick Hospital. The
cause of death was given as thrombosis.
Born in Pittston, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Park, she
resided in Fairmount Springs before coming to Bloomsburg to live
sexen years ago. She had been a teacher in Catawissa since 1916
and had conducted her class work as usual when the Catawissa
schools closed for the Thanksgixing holiday.
She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, the Delta Society of Catawissa, and the Methodist Church.
Surviving are three brothers, William, of Council, Alaska; Harold E., of Carlisle, and Joseph B., of Honesdale.
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BEGINNING TEACHERS’ CLINIC
Problems of the beginning teacher and suggestions for more
rapid adjustment to these problems were related during the Beginning Teachers Clinic held recently at the Bloomsburg State TeachNearK' one hundred persons attended the clinic which
ers College.
was the first of its kind ever held at the College.
The program, in the form of an informal panel discussion, featured a short talk l)y Gerald P. Hartman, principal of the Catawissa
High School, on “What The Principal Expects of a Beginning Teach-

Members of the panel, recent graduates of the College, were
Miss Margaret Suchy, Lewis Rutherford Morris Central School, New
York; James Hantjis, Stroudsburg High School, and Ralph Baird,
Williamsport Technical Institute. Richard G. Hallisy, director. Department of Business Education, was the moderator for the discuser.”

sion.

In his remarks, Mr. Hartman stressed the qualities he would
like to find in a beginning teacher— a code of ethics, punctuHe stressed the basic
ality, loyalty, community spirit, and ingenuity.
importance of ethical standards in the teaching profession and stated
that no one can go far in the field without having a high code of
Mr. Hartman also emphasized the need for sympathetic unethics.
derstanding of teacher and administrator.
Members of the panel outlined their experiences during the first
three months of teaching, indicating some of the outstanding prob-

most

lems faced and the adiustment they made to them. Following the
talks, the members of the audience were given the opportunity to ask
ouestions.

The

was sponsored by the Department of Busiitess Eduwas attended by members of the Curriculum Materials
student teachers and a number of alumni and friends of the
clinic

cation and
classes,

College.

o
University of New York invited Dr.
Harvey A.
Andruss to attend a two-day conference held in Buffalo.
This
was probably the outstanding meeting of college educators during
the year and included such speakers as Governor
Thomas E.
Dewey, the State of New York; Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor
of the University of Chicago; Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard Univ'ersity; Chancellor Edmund E. Day, Cornell University and
Dr. James L. Morrill, president. University of Minnesota. President
of the State University of New York, Dr. Ah in C. Enrich, presided
at some of the sessions.
The overall organizations of the State Univ'ersity includes thirtythree institutions of which eleven are State Teachers Colleges. Wide
diversity of opinion
was present and attention was focused
on the public’s concept of what a State University should accomplish
to meet its responsibilities to the community.

The

State

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ATHLETES RECEIVE AWARDS
were awarded to the members of the 1949 footsquad of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College at a special
Awards Assembly held recently in the Carver Auditorium. Coach
Robert B. Redman announced the winners of the monograms, and
President Harvey A. Andruss made the presentation. Minor awards
were given elev'en members of the Husky junior varsity squad.
The Huskies won eight straight games during the past season
after dropping their opening game to Wilkes College, and their 1949
V arsity letters

ball

record gives Coach Bob Redman a three-year record of twenty-three
wins as against three losses. His 1948 club was the only unbeaten
college eleven in Pennsyh’ania.

Winners of the major award follow; Joseph Apichella, Hazleton Benjamin Burness Havertown; Fred Denesev'ich, West Hazleton; Richard Dietz, Bloomsburg; Jack Fetterolf, Bloomsburg; Edward Jones, Milton; George Lambrinos, Endicott, N. Y.; Jack Lewis,
Bloomsburg; John Maturani, Milton; Rodney Morgans, South Williamsport; Frank Perry, Shamokin; James Reedy, Milton; Paul Slobozien, Johnstown; Edward Tavalsky, Johnstown; Glenn Von Stetten, Columbia; Ardell Ziegenfuss, Mowry; Charles Baron, Endicott,
N. Y.; William Byham, Kane; Bernard DePaul, Berwdck; Albert
Eremich, Mt. Carmel; Louis Gabriel, Hazleton; Elmer Kreiser, Columbia; Robert Lang, Milton; Jacob Lichty, Shamokin; Henry Marek,
Dupont; Eugene Morrison, Bloomsburg; Donald Peterson, Berwick;
Thomas Schukis, Mahanoy Tw'p.; John Stonik, Baltimore, Md.; Robert Thurston, Sunbury; Harold Willig, Middletown; Joseph Zahora,
(ioaldale; Patrick Bredbenner, Berw'ick; Donald Cesare, Old Forge;
John Dietz, Plymouth; Da\ id Ev ans, Reading; Richard Jarman, Plymouth; Stephen Kriss, Berwick; Robert Leshinski, Wilkes-Barre; Russell Looker, Johnstown; Thomas McLaughlin, Buck Mountain; Daniel Parrell, Hazleton; Jack Rebuck, Sunbury; John Slesser, Berw'ick;
Willis Swales, Williamsport; Russell V^erhausky, Coaldale; Richard
VVMlford, Milton; Managers— Thomas Anthony, Shamokin
Joseph
Elmer Wyant,
Curilla, Shamokin; Henr)’ Krauser, Whlkes-Barre;
Noxen.

Minor Awards were made to: Richard Black, Summit Hill;
Donald George. Danville; Leon Green, Beach Haven; William Pague,
Espv; (oseph Boyle, Harw'ood Mines; Guv Germana, Atlantic City,
N. J.; Bernard Hammershock, Weatherly; Francis Sheehan, Mahanoy
Citv; Charles Brennan. Towanda; Thomas Goodwin, Kane; Alex
Kubik, York; Edw'ard Cunfer, Slatington, Mgr.; Jack Powell, Scranton, Mgr.
o

Ruth Alice Mong (Mrs. Edward Erlsten)
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

Street,

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lives

at

1000 Bridge

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
SENIOR BALL
Sixty-five seniors of the January class of 1950 at B. S. T. C. celebrated graduation with the traditional Senior Ball, held at the Hotel
Altamont in Hazleton Thursday evening, January 19. The bamiuet
was followed by dancing from eighty-thirty to twelve. Music was
furnished by Lee Vincent’s orchestra.
Plans for the affair w^ere drawn up under the supervision of Joseph E. Sopko. chairman of the ball and banquet, who was assisted
by Dorothy Lovett, banquet chairman, and Louis Gabriel, ball chair-

man.

Dance programs were handled by a committee composed of
Walter Bird, chairman; Robert Wingate and Charles Jacobs. Alice
Smolski and Edward Jackovitz comprosed the decoration commitMembers of the investigating committee were Robert E. Wiltee.
liams, chairman; Thomas McAndrew and James Reedy.
On the orchestra committee were Edward Mitras, chairman;
and Edward Skowroski, Peggy Kashuba, chairman; and Joseph Murdock were the in\ itation committee. Wayne- Von Stetten, chairman;
;>nd Frank Pringle handled publicity.
Other committees were: refreshment. Louis Pecora, chairman;
Max Cooley; Dance tickets, Luther Routh, chairman; Paul Slobozien;
transportation, Owen Diehle, chairman, and Arthur Reigel.
The banciuet program opened with the singing of America.
John Hoch ga\e the invocation. Group singing was led by Miss
Grace Smith. President of the 1950 class, Don Butcofsky, extended
welcome and introduced Joseph Sopko, toastmaster.
Speakers of the evening were Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean of
Women, and John Hoch, Dean of Men. Principal speaker of the
evening was Dr. Harv ey A. Andruss, President of the College.
The Class Will was presented by Dorothy Lovett. Alice SmolThe floral centerpiece was then
ski presented the Class Prophecy.
presented to Doctor Andruss by Miss Smolski.
o

Rev. Hobart W. Tyson, a rural Berks county Lutheran pastor,
died Tuesday, January 3. He was 52 years of age.
Mr. Tyson, a graduate of Catawissa High School, Muhlenberg
College, Mount Airy Theological Seminary and the University of
Pennsylvania, served as an Army Chaplain during the Second World
IVar and was in the infantry during the First World War.
A member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society and the
Olney Lions Club, Mr. Tyson is survived by his wife, Mary Siegel
Tyson (’16), a son. Rev. Dean E., assistant pastor of Hope Lutheran
Church, Detroit, Mich., and two daughters, Joann, wife of Rev. E.
P. Weber, Lutheran student pastor at Purdue Lhiiversity, West Lafayette, Ind., and Elinor N., wife of Rev. Charles Aurand, pastor of
Grace Lutheran Church, Sunbury.
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WILL SHOW OFFICE MACHINES
In commenoration ol the Twentieth Anniversary of the founding of its Department of Business Education, the State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pa., is planning to hold an Office Machines
Show in conjunction with the Annual Business Education Contest
and Clinic May 5 and 6, 1950. Many companies have already agreed
to display modern office equipment commonly found in schools and
small medium sized offices.
In addition to the latest models, the
companies are displaying machines in approximately twenty-year intervals to show the progress made in mechanical office equipment
during periods equal to or greater than the life span of the Department. In \'iew of the number of machine companies who ha\e accepted the in\’itation and ha\ e entered into the spirit of the occasion, an exceedingly worthwhile display of modern and
historical
machines will be on hand. Representatives of the various companies
publishing business education textbooks will display their wares in
Navy Hall as they have in the past.

A short skit depicting an office of the Gay Nineties is being
planned by Miss Honora M. Noyes of the Business Education Department and Miss Alice Johnston of the Speech and Dramatic Department who are collaborating in writing the skit.
E\ery effort is being made to bring; back the graduates and former students of the Department of Business Education now numbering over one thousand. Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, the first director of
the department and now President of the College, will present a
short history of the department highlighting major ev-ents and outstanding graduates of the past twenty years. The annual luncheon
will include not only contestants and their teachers but the graduates
of the first class, outstanding graduates, representatives of the business machines companies, textbook companies and local businessRefreshments will be served during the mamen’s organizations.
chine show and examinations.
On Mav 5 Mr. C. H. Plenrie and his sales classes will present
the annual Fashion Show honoring: the visiting contestants, their
teachers, and graduates in Career Hall auditorium.
This event has
grown in importance and color until it represents one of the finest
eeents on the college calendar.
All graduates of the Business Education Department, high
school students, teachers and businessmen are cordially invited to
attend the commemoration exercises in Navy Hall auditorium Saturday, May 6, 1950. W^e assure you a most enjoyable and profitable
experience.

ALUMNI
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MAY

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
SERVICE KEYS

AWARDED

In impressive convocation exercises Thursday, January 19, featuring the presentation of student awards, the college closed its first
semester of 1949-50,

With members of the faculty, the gowned graduating class filed
into the Carver Hall auditorium to the strains of a processional as
the group, graduated Wednesday, attended their last assembly. The
president of the Senior Class, Donald Butcofsky, of Shamokin, gave
the Scripture reading.
In recognition of their services to the college during their enlollment, five graduates were presented with service keys. The presentations by Dr. Andruss were to Jean Stein, Hazleton; Wavne Von
Stetten and Robert Walther, Columbia; Joseph Sopko, Carbondale,
and Robert C. Welliver, Jr., a recent Bloomsburg resident.
Following those presentations. Dr. Andruss presented certifiAmong Students in American Colcates of election to “Who’s
leges and Universities to two graduates, Wayne Von Stetten, Columbia, and Donald Maietta, Williamsport. The certificates are based on college service, personality, leadership and extra curricular

Who

’

activity.

of a

Following the presentations, assembly closed with the singing
hymn, led by Charles Henrie.
o

In the picturcscpie Little Church Around the Corner, in New
York City, at eleven a. m., on December 20, the marriage of Miss
Lois Shaffer to Stanley L. LeVan, Jr., both of Bloomsburg, was
solemnized.
The double ring ceremony was performed the Rev. Randolph
Kae, rector of the church. The couple was unattended.
The newly-weds are at home at 635 East Fourth Street, Bloomsburg.
The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Shaffer, of Berwick Road, was graduated from Scott Township High School in 1947
and has been employed as secretary in the office of Boyer’s Garage.
The bridegroom, son of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Levan, of
Bloomsburg, is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School, class of 1947,
and is now attending B. S. T. C.

o

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lohr, of Berwick, announce the engagement of their daughter, M. Louise, to David P. Wentzel, son of Rev.
and Mrs. B. E. Wentzel, of Trevorton, formerly of Berwick
The couple are graduates of Berwick High School with the class
of 1946.
Miss l.,ohr is a senior at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mr. Wentzel, a veteran of World War II, is attending Dickinson College.
No date has been set for the wedding.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
RETIRED TEACHERS AND FUTURE RETIRED TEACHERS
OF PENNSYLVANIA
Michael D. Costello, Class of 1900
Date of Retirement— September, 1942

Freedom

we ha\e

and freedom of the press. What a privilege
Be thankful to the framers of our
the United States of America. M"e should avail our-

of speech

in this coimtrx’ of ours!

Constitution of
selves of this opportunity as occasion arises.
It is wdth great pleasure that I WTite concerning the retired teachers and the future retired teachers of our great state.
I am sure
the eight thousand retired teachers and the acti\'e teachers are gratefid to the law'-makers of our state for enacting into law during the

session of 1949, financial rew^ards in keeping w'ith the high cost of
li\ ing.
Consider the legislation the beginning of better things to
come. Not only should the retired teaehers be grateful, but with
their knowledge should be \ italh' interested in local school affairs in
their districts.
Competent teachers are a recpiisite. The best qualified superintendent of sehools should be a matter for all concerned. Men and
women of integrity should aspire to the office of school director or any
Cither elective office.
The retired teaeher is the forgotten individual.
This should not be. The retired teachers are competent, providing
they take advantake of the retirement age.
The local school district where the retired teachers gave many
years of faithful ser\ice in the noble profession of teaching should
leel free to consult with the retired teachers on educational and disciplinary matters. The need of guidance is evident from all sides. The
first eight years in school are most important.
During this period
impressions are indelibly impressed upon the minds of our boys and
girls.

First and foremost during the first eight years in school should
be the responsibility of e\er\- teacher to promote respect for public
and private properU', respect for law' and order and secondly to w'ork
for achievement in the studies prescribed in the curriculum. In many
cases this accomplishment wall be gained w’ithout much stress, but you
w'ill find some w'ho will need particular attention if you w'ish to attain your goal. This is the test of a w'orthy teacher— to surmount difficulties w'here

it

is

evident.

The

quality of persistency in a teacher

be crow'ned with success.
To show' you appreeiate the noble w'ork of teaching apply yourself assiduously to your work and when your time comes to retire you
W'ill do it feeling that you did not shirk your responsibilities to the
boys and girls w'ho came under super\ ision. Strikes are unnecessary
in school districts that ha\e an efficient Board of Education
and
trustworthy teachers. Only competent teachers should be employed
and salaries should be high enough to attract teachers interested in

will eventually

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the cause of education.
Since the minimum retirement allowance after forty years of
service is twelve hundred dollars per annum, I feel the recent law
enacted should have provided for an increase annually after the first
year of retirement. And those teachers by ill health who were obliged to relinquish their teaching duties should upon reaching the
retirement age, if still incapacitated, receive the same consideration
as the teachers who completed forty years of service.

o

Miss Flovd Barbee, famous Powers model and consultant at the
Powers School, New York, lectured on “Proper Care of your Skin and
Hair,” at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on January 4, 1950.
Miss Barbee, a former student of Dermatology at John Hopkins,
is an expert on the care of the skin and hair, and has headed this department at the Powers School since its inauguration over ten years
ago.
A nationally known Powers Girl, Miss Barbee says, “A woman’s attractixeness depends upon her ability to enhance her own
natural loveliness.”

Miss Barbee’s talk at Bloomsburc covered all the phases of the
care a wo'uan must eive her skin and hair to bring out its natural
beauty.
She cox'ered the four steps in the care of the skin,
rleanliness, stimulation, lubrication and protection.
Miss Barbee
discussed the best methods to employ in each of these steps for
every individual type of skin. Miss Barbee says, “You cannot take
care of anv woman’s skin with a blanket prescription. Each woman
needs advice according to her own type.”

The lecture also included the most detailed information on tliQ
care and grooming of hair. Miss Barbee feels that hair is the most
mobile of all of a woman’s features and can make or break her otherwise beautifully turned-out appearance.
“Mkae-Down,” say Miss Barbee, “is dependent upon good health,
a clear, clean complexion plus the careful application of cosmetics.
A woman should use her cosmetics so that her worst enemy can’t tell
her best friend!” Miss Barbee’s lecture stressed all the technkpies
of the proper application of every cosmetic.
She also discussed the
colors and textures suited to each individual type of skin.

—

o

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president, Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, has been notified of his inclusion in the new 26th Biennial
Edition of “Who’s Who in America,” published by the A. N. Mar(juis Company, and the new Seventh International Edition of “Who’s
Who in Commerce and Industry,” soon to be published.
This forthcoming edition will be the first since the war to resume
in full international coverage.
It will contain the life and business
records of approximately 25,000 of the most outstanding business
men the world over. The initial x olume was published in 1936.

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'Saucered and Blowed'
Checkins; back 50 years to collect some items for the coming reunion Saturday, May 27, we find the following interesting notation:

“The Class of 1900 was the largest ever graduated from
the school, but it is not upon this fact alone that the school
It is because the class was one of
is to be congratulated.
the best prepared and fitted for its work.”
Now after 50 years we shall see this class in reunion and check
on the varied activities of its members. Their commencement pro-

gram went something

like this:

Saturday evening, June 23— Debate.
Sunday— Baccalaureate Sermon.

Monday— (a)
(b)

Field Sports I3ay.
Recital

by Music Department.

Junior Drama.
Tuesday— Class Night Program.
(c)

W ednesday— Commencement

Exercises.
are back in this 50 year daze, do you remember
those “Seven Wonders,” winners of the “Ladies’ Basket Ball Tournament”? A male was persona non grata during the progress of the

And while we

contests.

Long porch is no longer but the new porch is just as long.
en more desirable for romancing. The old wooden structure
joins the town pump on memory lane.
e\

And
now

Prize of a year’s subscription to the “Quarterly” given for the
correct answer received to the following question: “What was
commonly referred to as ‘State Aid’ by the domitory population in
days gone by?” (Your scribe was graduated in 1911.)
All correct answers gi\en honorable mention.
first

The Husky

plaf^ue is soon to have 7 additional names.
The
the latest entry. Jackpots may grow, and grow, and
grow. Then some one guesses correctly and the start must be made
all over again.
Not so with this list of loyal Alumni. It grows, and
grows, and grows. “E\er striving, ever climbing, onward Blooms-

class of 1949

is

l)urg goes.”

Plans for an Alumni Meeting in the Greater New York area are
.Another Washington, D. C., get-together is scheduled for
F’ebruary 20. How Professor Dennis would have liked to participate
He was the pioneer promoter of “On
in the Washington meetings!
to Washington.” The memory of those excursions in tlie early part

underway.

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of the century lingers on.
is named after Professor Win. Noetling who refrom the faculty just 50 years ago, after having served faithHe was often referred to as
fully and well for twenty-three years.
"Nestor of our faculty.” Webster says a Nestor is “The oldest, wisest and most e.xperienced of any company or association.” And from
what Professor Noetling’s pupils have told us, the term “Nestor” was

Noetling Hall

tired

well used.

Plan

now

to visit the College

Alumni Day, May

—

E. H..

27.

NELSON,

’ll

o

Twelve women students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
have been selected to compete for the honor of being named “Coed
of the Year” in a contest sponsored by the 1950 Obiter, the All-College yearbook. John Robert Powers, nationally-famous beauty expert,
has consented to judge photographs of the contestants and select the
winner.

The

contestants include: Jane Keller, Beverly Cole, Susan Drei-

and Laura Philo, all of Bloomsburg; Jane Kepping, Ha/deton;
Nancy Unger Forty Fort; Joan Grazell, Shenandoah; Charlotte Matbelbis

uleski, Nanticoke;

Madehn

Dallas; Kitty Mitchell,

Schalles, Nescopeck;

Mahanoy

Mary Lou Cooper,

City and Diane Snyder, Mill Hall.

The young ladies were selected by a special committee headed
by Joseph Curilla, Shamokin, editor of the 1950 Obiter. Members of
the committee follow: Donald Butcofsky, Shamokin, president, Senior Class; Walter Zorn, Lansdowne, president Junior class; Thomas
Anthony, Shamokin, president. Sophomore class; Alex Kubik, York,
president. Freshman class; Merlin Beachell, Bloomsburg, editor. Maroon and Gold, the College newspaper; William Stimeling, Berwick,
editor, the Olympian, the College literary magazine and Richard
Wagner, Nescopeck, president. Community Government Association.
o
In a lovely ceremony at three-thirty Saturday afternoon, January
21 in the St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg, the marriage of
Miss Janet Louise Hileman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eston W. Hileman, of Bloomsburg, to Robert H. Conrad, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey B. Conrad, of Boyertown, R. D. 2, was solemnized. The Rev.
Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor of the church, performed the double-ring
nuptials.
The bride is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School with
the class of 1948.
The groom graduated from Boyertown High
School in 1943 and served with the U. S. Navy for three years. He
is a senior at B.S.T.C. majoring in business.
Mrs. Conrad is employed as secretary to the director of business education at B.S.T.C.

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COLUMBIA COUNTY ALUMNI
Columbia County Branch of the Alumni Association of the
Teachers College completed a much enjoyed day with a dinner in the
College dining hall Saturday ev'ening, November 12, after having,
occupied a reserved section during the afternoon at Atliletic Park
as the Huskies ended a splendid football season with a dramatic 2822 win over East Stroudsburg.
The group decided to hold a session on the evening of the last
home game of each football season and also aided the alumni activities with a fifty dollar contribution.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College, e.xtended
greetings and told of the work of the College and of the gratifying
results of a survey on the occupation of graduates of recent years.
Dean Emeritus W. B. Sutliff. one of the beloved College “Old
(Tiard,” graciously resi^onded.
President Edward F. DeVoe named
these chairmen: Scholarship, Kimber C. Kuster; program, William
I. Reed, and membership, Nevin T. Englehart.
Officers introduced were President De\he; Donald Rabb. Benton, vice president; Paul L. Brunstetter, Catawissa, treasurer, and
Edward Sharretts, Berwick, secretary.
The session opened with the singing of the Alma Mater, led
by Joyce Kleckner. The invocation was by Cla>ton Hinkel. Andrew
Macieko pleased with some accordion selections. Edward F. Schuyler presided.

Attending: Thursabert Schuyler, Sara A. Graham, Lois Lawson,
Harriet E. Adams, Beatrice M. Englehart, Beatrice E. Girton, Mrs.
R. L. Diseroad, Miriam R. Lawson, Mrs. G. G. Housenick, Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Moyer, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Hutchison, Edwin Barton, Mrs.
Alice Keller, Mrs. Mary Myers.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gromis,
Marie Gromis, Harrv' Gasser. Charles Henrie, Earl Gehrig, Mr. and
Mrs. A. N. Keller, Dr. Kimber Kuster, Elmer Levan, W. B. Sutliff,
Dr. and Mrs. J. Almus Russell, Charles Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trembley, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bunges,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kistler.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. De\’oe, Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Andruss,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schuyler, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Hinkel, Edward Sharretts, P. L. Brunstetter, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rabb, Mrs.
Martha Pursel, Mrs. Ruth Lenhart, Gertrude Miller, Mrs. Josephine
Vanderslice, Mr. and Mrs. L. Clair Conner, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Davis,
Mr. and Mrs. Wulliam Reed, Nevin Englehart, William Karshner,
Mildred Johnston Karshner, Harold Miller, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Bidle-

man.

ALUMNI DAY, MAY 27
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ELEMENTARY CONFERENCE
Mrs. Gertrude Speed Stokes, of the Temple University Laboratory School, addressed nearly 300 persons Saturday morning, December 3, at the Teachers College auditorium as the highlight of the
annual conference on elementary education.

The group represented the largest number ever
Over 200 were educators of this area.

to attend the

conference.

Mrs. Stokes spoke on “The School Is for the Children.” She asked
are children going to learn well unless the learning is done in
a situation that is real?” The speaker said that children are being

“How

prepared for a

life that is real.
“Until the child is old enough to realize the relation between
academic work and its application, we are wasting our time,” Mrs.
“The study must make sense to the children. They
Stokes said.
must see how it operates.”
Mrs. Stokes explained that the first objective in elementary education is discipline of a developmental type. These, she continued,
include discipline of attitudes, prejudices and knowledges and skills.
Dr. Har\^ey A. Andruss, president of the College, spoke followEnlarging his subject “There
ing a luncheon for the conference.
Are All Kinds of Children,” he said that enough attention is given
the below and above average children but that the “so-called average” child gets little attention.
Dr. Andruss described the child that is developed by the imaginations of parents who succeed only in creating a miniature adult
in a child’s world.
“The job of the school is to meet the challenge posed by all
kinds of children,” Dr. Andruss finished, “and, teachers cannot shirk

this responsibility.”

Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of the conference, presided at the
luncheon. Entertainment was provided by Andrek Macieko and his
accordion, soprano Jane Kelvin and accompanist Lola J. Deibert.
One of the highlights of the conference were the demonstration lessons in the class rooms of the Benjamin Franklin school.
These classes were taught by the regular teachers for the edification
of those attending the conference.
Following the lessons, various
groups met for discussion.
The Women’s Chorus, under the direction of Miss Harriet
M. Moore and accompanied by Miss Mary Grace Aimers, sang during the auditorium phase of the conference.
o

1943

David M. Jones has completed the requirements for the Master’s
Degree at Columbia University. His graduate work was in the field
of Comparative and International Education.
His address is 630
Furnald Hall, Columbia University, New York 27, N. Y.
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THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Vice-President
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
Secretary
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Treasurer
Harriet Carpenter
H. F. Fenstemaker
Fred W. Diehl
Edward F. Schuyler
Elizabeth H. Huber
Hervey B. Smith
E.

H. Nelson

1886
Rev. L. M. Fetterolf, pastor of the First Reformed Church of
died suddenly Thursday, December 22, in the Pottsville
Hospital.
His wife, the former Flora Jones, who had been seriously ill in the hospital for several months, followed him in death two
days later, on Saturday, December 24. The double funeral was held
in the First Reformed Church on Tuesday, December 27.
Pottsville,

Mrs. Fetterolf was the oldest daughter of Eli Jones
wife, Lavina Jones, of Bloomsburg, where the father was

and his
engaged

and building business. As a girl, she attended
the public schools of her home town, and was graduated in 1884.
She then attended the Bloomsburg State Normal School, from which
she was graduated in 1886. After her graduation she taught for a
number of years in the public schools of Nescopeck and Bloomsburg
until the time of her marriage in .1896.
in the contracting

At the time of his marriage. Rev. Fetterolf was serxing his first
pastorate in what was then known as the Mainxille Charge.
As a
\ oung man preparing for the ministry, Rew Fetterolf took the classical course at Mt. Herman, Massachussetts.
In the fall of 1895, he
entered the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at LanPennsyhania, from which institution he was graduated in
to 1898, Mr. and Mrs. P’etterolf lived in Lancaster,
from where they moxed to Mainxille, where they continued their
work in the charge for three more years.

caster,

1896.

From iS96

In 1902, Rex'. Fetterolf accepted the call from the Toxver City
Living in Lykens and serxing also the Toxver
City Congregation until 1914, he accepted a call from the First Reformed Church in Pottsville, xvhere he and Mrs. Fetterolf lived until
the time of their deaths.

and Lykens Charge.

They

ix ed by txx o daughters, Gladys Fetterolf Crossman,
and Ruth Fetterolf Goodell, of Prospect Park, and by
a granddaughter, Constance Goodell.

of Pottsx

are surx

ille,

Word has been received of the death of Noi-man G. Cool, xvhich
occurred Thursday, January 19, at Culx er Citx', California, xvhere he
and Mrs. Cool have been lixing. A more extended obituary of Mr.
Cool xvill appear in a later issue of the Quarterly.
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
1889
Mrs. Fannie East Tressler, seventy-nine, widow of the late J. D.
Tressler, died at her home in Hazleton, Saturday, April 9, 1949. Born
near Hazleton, she spent most of her life in that city. Mrs. Tressler
graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School, in 1889. She
taught for a number of years in the Hazle Township Schools and
Mrs. Tressler was an active
later in the Conyngham public schools.
member of St. Paul’s Methodist Church and a Sunday School teacher
for fifty-two years, teaching for thirty-five years the class which
bore her name.
1911
Dr. E. H. Nelson, Bloomsburg Kiwanian and retiring lieutenant
governor of the eleven-club district No. 9, was honored January 12
at the Reformed Church when he was given a beautifvd clock by the
district, with the presentation being made by Dean W. B. Sutliff, a
past president, former teacher and long a friend of the honored nsan.
The clock was the work of two of the Bloomsburg club, John
U. Ralston, jeweler, and Charles L. Haire, of the vocational depart*
ment of the Bloomsburg schools.
The clock is electrically operated from a battery witliin the casing. The dedication plate is on the center of the face.
The Kiwanis emblem appears where the numerals “12” are generally found, and in place of the other numerals are the names of
each of the eleven clubs of the district.
1913
Daniel Boone has at last reached Germany, with the publication

Munich of a German translation of DANIEL BOONE: Master of
the Wilderness, by John Bakeless, which William Morrow and Gompany. New York, published in 1939.
The German publishers had troubles of their own finding the
right title, since Daniel Boone as a name is rather less known in Germany than American names like Eisenhower and Pershing. However, all German know all about the “Leatherstocking” novels, and
it is pretty generally known that Cooper borrowed a good deal of
his leatherstocking material for “The Last of the Mohicans” and “7'he
Deerslayer” from the real Daniel Boone. He also borrowed an incident from the Lewis and Clark expedition, which forms the subject of Dr. Bakeless’ recent LEWIS
CLARK: Partners in Discovery.
So the Germans are calling the book
LEDERSTRUMPF— “the real leatherstocking,” an American name known to
in

AND

DER EGHTE

every German. The book is adorned with special American frontier
m.aps, the familiar names translated into German, and is published
by Paul List Verlag, of Munich, Leipsiz and Freiburg.

Walter

vember

J. Bower, of 160 Oakland Road, Maplewood, died in Noof a heart attack recently while teaching at Upsala Gollege,

East Orange.

He had been

a mathematics teacher at Irvington

High

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
School since April, 1924, and since 1945 also had been an instructor
of mathematics at Upsala. He was 55 years of age.
Born in Herndon, Pa., Mr. Bower attended Bloomsburg State

Teachers College and received his B. S. degree from Bucknell in
1918. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He had lived
13 years in Maplewood.

&

member

A.
of Herndon Lodge No. 702, F.
of Philadelphia, and also of the Areopagus
Club of Irvington, and of Prospect Presbyterian Church, Maplewood.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Helen Diffendafer Bower, and a son,
Walter J. Bower, Jr., of the home address.

Mr. Bower was a

M., Temple,

AAONMS,

1914

The present address

of Lawrence
Street, San Francisco 9, California.

Ryman

is

720 Leavenworth

1918
present address of Helen R. Becker, B. S. T. C. 1918, is:
No. 174 College of Education, the University of Akron, 302 East
Buchtel Avenue, Akron 4, Ohio. Prof. Becker is head of the Kindergarten and Primarv Dejoartment and director of student teaching in
that department.
She received the decree of Doctor of Education
at Teachers College, Columbia University, and went to the University of Akron last September after a variety of teaching e.xperience.

The

1919

Ralph Dreibelbis

employed

as Soil Scientist in the Research
Division of the Soil Conserx’ation Service, U. S. D. A., and is located at the Hydrologic Research Station, Coshocton, Ohio. He has
been conducting research in soil and water conservation investigations at this station for the past fifteen years.
He is either author
or co-author of nineteen publications which have appeared in various scientific periodicals. His name appeared in the Biographical
Directory of American Men of Science (1949 edition). Besides graduating from Bloomsburg he also got a B. S. degree from Penn State,
M. S. degree from Ohio State, and has also been a student at Stanford and at Cornell. The Dreibelbis family resides at 1255 Denman
Avenue, Coshocton, Ohio, and ha\'e one son, Kenneth, who is a student at Wooster College.
is

1920
H. Keffer Hartline, professor of biophysics and chairman of that
department at Joims Hopkins Lhiiversity, former Bloomsburg resident, has been appointed to succeed Robert D. Fowler as the scientific repiesentati\ e from John Hopkins on the Board of Trustees of
Associated Universities, Inc.
The board is one of the governing
bodies of the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

1927
Mrs. Lottie Ross Frey lives at 2146 Swatara St., Harrisburg, Pa.
She is teaching in the Swatara Township School, Dauphin County.
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She has a daughter who

is

student at

Wheaton

College,

and a son

in the eighth grade.

1928
Miss Helen Hutton, formerly of Bloomsburg, became the bride
of Philip Morris, of New York City, on Thanksgiving Day. The wedding took place in Trinity Episcopal Church, New Rochelle, N. Y.,
and was followed by a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Mason Ancker, at 109 Liberty Avenue, New Rochelle. Mrs. Ancker
is the former Ruth Lapet Hutton, sister of the bride.
Mrs. Morris is a native of Rloomsburg, and a graduate of the
Rloomsburg High School and the Rloomsburg State Teachers College.
She recently received her master’s degree from New York
University.
For several years she has taught school in Huntington,
Mr. Morris is prsident of a New York advertising company.
L. I.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris will make their home in a house which Mr.
Morris recently purchased in Huntington, L. I.

1930

Helen E. Sn)^der
She

is

is

living at 1059

Market

Street,

Sunbury, Pa.

teaching third grade in the Rohrbach School in Sunbury.

1932
Dr. Henry
internationally

Warman, associate professor of geography at the
known Craduate School of Geography, Clark UniverJ.

Worcester, a native of Scranton, Pa., and son of Mrs. Alice F.
of Woodstock, Ontario, has been appointed a member of
the Executive Board of the New England Association of Social
Studies Teachers. This marks the first time that a geographer has
been named to the board.
Dr. Warman received his bachelor of arts degree from State
Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pa., his master of science in education from Temple Lhiiversity at Philadelphia, and his doctor of philosophy from Clark. He has also studied at the University of Penns>'lvania and the Berlitz Schools in Philadelphia.
The Clark educator was formerly teacher, coach and athletic
director in the Norristown, Pa., schools.
A member of the Clark
faculty since 1943, he is chairman of the committee of the National
Council of Geography Teachers which is surveying, assembling and
analyzing the research done since 1945 in the field of “Geography
in Education.”
sity,

Warman,

1933
Joseph D. McFadden, aged forty-one, a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1933, and husband of the former Esther Evans, of Bloomsburg, died Saturday, November 12, in
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hazleton, as the result of a heart condition
and asthma.
Funeral services were conducted at St. Gabriel’s Church, Hazleton, witli a

Solemn Mass of Requiem.

Burial

was made

in St.

Ga-

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cemetery.
Surviving are his wife; two ehildren, John, six, and Mary Catherine, three; a sister, Catherine, of Hazleton and a brother, Daniel,
Newark, N. J. He was employed bv the State.
1937
briel’s

Virginia E. Criiikshank, teaeher of
Sehool, Sunbury, Pa., is included in the

Grade Five, Fourth Ward

of prize winners in the
1949 Travel Contest sponsored by “The Instructor” Magazine. Miss
Cruikshank was awarded a prize for her article “Down in Maine.”
1938
Danny Litwhiler, veteran outfielder who hit .370 from July 4
to the end of last season, has signed his 1950 contract with the Cincinnati Reds.
Danny, who hits a long ball and likes to slide head first into
bases, finished last year with a .291 batting average, and with 48
runs batted in.
Danny has just returned home after spending several days in
Cincinnati and New York. He was a guest recently at the annual
Sport Magazine banquet held in New York in which Leon Hart,
Notre Dame gridiron ace, was honored as the athlete of the year.
list

Mr. and Mrs. William Ditty (Helen Weaver) live at R. D. 3
Sunbury, Pa., where the former has a farm implement agency and

Thev

repair garage.

liave three sons.

1940
teaching in the accounting department
of Rider College.
His work began there after he completed his
work for the M. B. A. degree at the Wharton School of Finance and
Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Kiefer’s address is 500

Lawrence

J.

Kiefer

is

Osborne Avenue, Morrisville, Pa.
Two other Rloomsburg graduates, Neil
Baker, are also

members

Ritchie

and

Donald

of the faculty at Rider.

1941
craduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, F. Lewis
Long, Benvick High School instructor, is the president of the Berwick Borough Council. Born May 4, 1903, he has been a lifelong
resident of Berwick with the exception of three years when he was
employed by the Bethlehem Steel Company at Danville.
H was graduated from the Berwick High School in 1927, attended Pennsylvania State College for hvo years, and was later
graduated from the Teachers College. He was conferred the master’s degree at Bucknell.
Long joined the high school faculty in
1939, teaching until 1944, when he entered the Naval service for one

A

>ear.
is his second term on the borough’s governing body, and
term as president. Mrs. Long is the former Etliel Keller,
of Berwick.
The couple have two daughters, Muriel and Lenore,
and one son, Harry.

This

his first

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1942
(Mrs. Morrie A. Greene) lives at Apt. 406, 2331
Cathedral Avenne, N. W., Washington 8, D. C. Her husband, a
member of the staff of the Australian legation, recently accompanied
the Director-General of the Australian Food and Agricultural OrHis trip included England, Portugal,
ganization on a world tour.
Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Pakestan, India and Thailand.
In India he had lunch with Pundit Nehru, and at several points in tlie
tour he participated in conferences. His trip continued to Golombo,
After three weeks in
Geylon, Singapore and finally to Australia.
Australia, he returned home by way of Noumea, Canton, Honolulu
and San Francisco. The trip, almost entirely by air, lasted 107 days.

Anne Northrnp

1943
teacher of first grade in the schools of Portland,
address is 7110 S. E. Lafayette, Portland 6, Oregon.

Ruth Shnnan
Oregon.

Her

is

1944
In a pretty ceremony at four o’clock Saturday afternoon, December 17, in the Trinity Methodist Cluirch, Norwark, Calif., Miss Mary
Louise Scott, of Whittier, Calif., daughter of Mrs. Lillian H. Scott,
Third Street, Bloomsburg, became the bride of Robert Clifford Bayless, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Bayless, Norwalk, Calif.
The Rev. Phillip li). Norvell, pastor of the church, performed
the double ring ceremony before one hundred guests.
The couple left immediately following the reception on a wedding trip to San Francisco. After February 1, they will be home at
712 East Putnam Drive, Whittier, Calif.
Mrs. Bayless was graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and the groom graduated from Whittier College, in California.
He served with the U. S. Navy in the South Pacific during
World War II and is now a teacher.

Wanda

Farnsworth (Mrs. Robert Langdon) lives at 49 West
Bonnd Brook, New jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Langdon have
a son, Howard, nine months old.

High

Street,

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome G. Lapinski lives at 8525 Philadelphia
Road, Baltimore 6, Maryland. Mrs. Lapinski was formerly Miss
Eleanor Althoff. They are the parents of a young son, born November 6, 1949.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Diehl (Helen Oyer) are the parents of a
daughter born August 10, 1949. Mr. and Mrs. Diehl live at North
Ninth Street, Lehigh ton. Pa.
1945

Enso

R. Frosini,

West Wyoming, has been awarded a grant un-

der the Fulbright Act to study in Italy. He planned to leave New
York for a year’s study on November fourteenth, on the S. S. Saturnia, American Export Line.
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1948
Mrs. Helena C. Greenly, of Bloomsburg, announces the engagement of her daughter, Barbara Jean, to Ralph K. Strawn, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clayton Strawn, of Perkasie, Pa.
Miss Greenly is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1948, and is employed as a teacher at Dalmatia, Pa.
Mr. Strawn served three years in the U. S. Navy and was graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947. At pressent, he is doing graduate work at that school and is employed as
a research assistant in their Research Laboratory of Electronics.
Gloria C. Mainiero lives at 229 North State Street, Dover, Delaware. She is serving as Speech Correctionist in Kenty County for
the Department of Public Instruction, State of Delaware.

1949
Mr. and Mrs. Arley D. McClintock, of Rahway, New Jersey,
have announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Eleanor
Alice McClintock, to Donald F. Maietta, of Williamsport.
The announcement was revealed at a Christmas Eve party held
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Mears, of Philadelphia.
Miss McClintock was graduated from Bloomsburg State TeachShe is now teaching at Elkton
ers College with the class of ’49.
Elementary School, Elkton, Maryland.
Mr. Maietta is attending Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
where he is president of Alpha Psi Omego, National Co-educational
Dramatic Fraternity; vice president of Phi Sigma Pi National Honorary Men’s Educational Fraternity, and a member of Kappa Delta
Pi, National Honor Co-educational Society.
From the graduating class of 1950, Mr. Maietta has been selected for membership in “Who’s Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges.” During the war, he served 30 months as
an aviation cadet in the Army Air Force.

Robert

J.

Blew

is

a

member

of the faculty of the Millville

High

School.

Miss Mary Ruth Tyson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
Tyson, of Fisher avenue, Catawissa, became the bride of Charles L.
T.auck, of Mt. Carmel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lauck, of State College, in a ceremony performed November 22 in Trinity Evangelical
Church, Middleburg.
The Rev. Mr. Stock, pastor the church, performed the traditional
ring ceremony at eighty-thirty in the evening.
The bride was a member of the class of 1949 of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and is now English teacher in the West Beaver Township Schools, at McClure.
The bridegroom served three years in the U. S. Army and is
now a senior at B. S. T. C.

William T. Tiddy,
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Jr., is

teaching at Leonardtown, Maryland.

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1950

The following were

the

members

of the mid-year graduating

class:

Gene Joseph
Ande, Ralph Franklin, Jr.
Balent, Robert
Barnhart, Mildred Gray
Baylor, Robert Arthur
Bird, Walter

Merena, Walter

Allegrucci,

Edward John
Montague, Robert Edgar
Mitros,

Palencar,
Patterson,

Pecora, Louis Salvadore,

Brennan, Dorothy Snyder
Bush inski, Walter Bernard
Garl, John Harvey
Gavanaugh, Glaire Teresa
Cooley, Max Glenn
Derzak, Joseph Lewis

Riegel, Arthur Clair

William James
Boeder, William Keith
Roth, Luther Harry
Sakalski, Stephen Frank
Skowronski, Edward Frank
Slobozien, Paid John
Smith, Grace
Rishel,

Diehle, Owen Charles
Evans, Russell Yordy

Leonard Anthony

Freeda, Stanley John
Gabriel, Louis Salvadore,
Gardner, Jack Elias
Grande, Joseph John
Hartman, Dayne Ashel

Jr.

Henry, I.eroy Keller
Jackovitz, Edward Frank
Jaeobs, Charles Kenneth
Karas, Vincent William

Kashnba, Margaret Kearkuff
Kelly, Daniel

Jr.

Elmer
Pringle, Frank Madison
Reedy, James Allen, Jr.
Phillips, Charles

Bolinsky, Isabel Della

Fellon,

Andrew Emery
Andrew Thomson

Edward

Keyser, Richard Bird
Krafchik, Thomas Albert
Leshinski, Robert Walter
Lovett, Dorothy Ruth
Maietta, Donald Francis

Smolski, Alice

Ann

Soback, Andrew
Sopko, Joseph Eugene
Stair, Carol Vivian
Starr, Raymond Alvin
Stein, Jean Elizabeth
Stratton, William Richard
Talarsky, Henry Charles

Von

Stetten,

Wayne

Walther, Robert Franklin
Williams, John Wilford
Williams, Robert Edward, Jr.
Wingate, Robert Maxwell
Wintersteen, William Jackson
Yakoboski, Joseph Richard

McAndrew, Thomas John
In a lovely ceremony, bright with the colors of the holiday seaand Mrs. Murray H.
Ash, Bloomsburg, became the bride of Owen Charles Diehle, son
of Mrs. Elizabeth Diehle, of Philadelphia, and the late Russel C.
Diehle.
son, Miss Carol Louise Ash, daughter of Dr.

The wedding was solemnized in a candlelight setting at four
o’clock on Christmas afternoon at the Methodist Church, Bloomsburg,
by the Rev. Dr. Elvin Clay Myers, pastor.
The bride was graduated from Drexel Institute of Technology
and

is

at present

teaching

home economics

in

the high school at

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Newport, Pa.
The groom, who was a lieutenant (jg) in the Naval Air Corps,
was graduated from B. S. T. C. in Januarx', having completed his
major in speech correction.
o

The Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company presented “The
Taming of the Shrew” at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Friday evening, December 16, in the Car\er Auditorium at 8:15
o’clock.
The noted American company, now on its second annual
tour, began its 1949 coast-to-coast tour at Rhode Island State College in October with a performance of “Julius Caesar.” Heading the
cast of twent>'-one players are Louisa Horton, Kendall Clark, and

David Lewis.
Miss Horton won acting honors as the star of the Broadway hit
“The \’oice of The Turtle” and in her recent performance in the
screen version of the prize-winning drama “All My Sons.” Kendall
Clark, a veteran of numerous Broadway productions, has appeared
opposite such stars as Ina Claire, Ethel Barrymore, Jane Cowl, Tallulah Bankhead and Eva LeGalliene.
Mr. Lewi§, another familiar
performer along Broadway, scored an outstanding personal success
in last season’s touring production “Hamlet and “Macbeth.”
Other
important roles were portrayed by John Straub, Larry Gates, Erederick Rolf and Dion Allen.
”

Highly acclaimed during its initial 40,000 mile barnstorming
venture last season, the troupe has been booked by Impresario S.
Hurok through April 1950. Comprising twenty-one actors, five technicians and a company manager, this unique company travels by bus
while a specially constructed trailer-truck carries scenery, lighting
ecjuipment, costumes and properties used in the two productions.
The functional settings, concei\ed by Ben Edwards, who most recently designed “Medea” can be set up within one hour on stages of
all shapes and sizes.
A musical score, arranged by Lehman Engel, accompanied the

two productions.
o

Alex Kubik, York, was elected president of the Freshman class
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Mr. Kubik, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Kubik, R. D. 2, York, is enrolled in the Elementary curricidum. During the past football season, he was a member
of the junior \ arsity grid squad.
Other freshman officers chosen during class elections were
Nancy Heebner, West Orange, N. J., who was elected vice president;
Bess Marie Williams, Eorty Fort, secretary; Annetta Deussen, Bloomsburg, treasurer; Nancy Bogar, Selinsgrove, historian; James Creasy,
Bloomsburg, and W’ihna Jones, LeRaysville, representatives to Colof the

lege Council.

Page Twenty-six

Edward

T.

De\oe was named

class advisor.

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President Harvey A. Andruss of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
meeting of teachers of Business subjects and
Consumer Education during the annual convention of the Pennsylheld
Harrisburg beginin
vania State Education Association
ning December 27. Dr. Andruss spoke on the subject of “What Do
C'ollege addressed a

We

Expect?”

The theme

is a development of the answers to three questions
do we expect from education? What do we expect from
schools? What do we expect from Business Education?
The philosophy and objectives of Business Education was

— Wdiat

developed in the light of the recently-distributed Bulletin 271 of the
Department of Public Instruction— Business Education Teachers
Manual— as it appears in Chapter One, which was written by Dr.
Andruss.

Later in the week at a meeting of the National Business Teachin Chicago at the Palmer House, Dr. Andruss attended the bookkeeping and accounting sections of the Association.
He was one of the speakers on the general theme of how we
ev aluate bookkeeping ability.
Plis subject was “Appraising Achievement in Bookkeeping and Accounting.”
ers Association

The widespread use of the words “test” and “measure” is too
exact in use in dealing with learning situations and human beings,
and Dr. Andruss proposed the use of the old-fashioned word “examine” in the place of test and “appraise” in the place of evaluation
or measure. This follows the general line of reasoning contained in
two books written by President .\ndruss some years ago which bear
the titles “Ways to Teaching Bookkeeping and Accounting” and
“Better Business Education.”
o
Sixteen members of the 1949 Bloomsburg State Teachers College soccer team have received the vai'sity “B.” Coach Shelly has
also named eight minor award winners.
The Husky hooters won
four, lost three, and tied one in Shelly’s first season as coach.

Major awards went

to:

Clyde Ackerman, Zion Grove; Glenn

Baker, Benton; William Cleaver, Orangeville; William Davis, Beach
Haven; Harry Eenstennacher, Catawissa; Frank Furgele, Shickshinny; Richard Gearheart, Catawissa; Joseph Gieda, Plymouth; Doyle
Johnson, Bloomsburg; Norman Kline, McClure; Clair Mensinger,
Mifflinville; William Pague, Espy; Paul Plevyak, Carbondale; Dale
Spiegel, Bloomsburg; Joseph Vincent, Ashley; Walter Zorn, West
Lansdowne; Paul Gansel, Berwick, Mgr.

Those who received the minor award were: Adem Ben, BlakeA1 Hitchings, Luzerne; Thaddeus Krensavage, McAdoo; Dreher
Richards, Berwick; Milford Shellhamer, Mifflinville; Ray Wagner,
Simpson; James Whibley, Parkersburg; Clyde Yoheny, Bloomsburg.

ly;

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Bloomsburg State Teachers College has had a wonderful time
with its Kids’ Christmas project. Similar projects have been carried
out for a number of years but none on so large a scale as this year’s
activity.

The Day Women’s Association, Kathryn Craham, Bloomsburg,
president, gathered gifts for distribution to fifteen children living
The children’s letters to Santa Claus
in the town of Bloomsburg.
were relayed to the day room where the gifts were placed at the
foot of the large Christmas tree. This job was in charge of the Social
Service Chairman, Alice Jacques, Falls, Pa., assisted by Arlene Pope,
Sunbury.

A joint committee fro mthe Student Christian Association and
the Waller Hall Association handled the collection of gifts provided
by women and men boarding

students.

Ruth Shupp, Plymouth,

served as chairman for the Student Christian Association and Elvira
Thomsen, Wilkes-Barre, for the Waller Hall Association.
The gifts, which were placed on exhibition, were wrapped for
distribution by the Child Welfare, the Red Cross, the Salvation

Some gifts went to specially selected children.
Publicity for the project was in the form of attractive posters
and a series of clever announcements. This activity was handled by
Schalles, Nescopeck;
a Poster Committee consisting of Madelyn
Frances Cerchiaro, Nesquehoning; Jane Kenvin, Hazleton, and
Leonora Macgill, Nisbet.

Army.

o
Dr.

Thomas

P.

North, dean of instruction at the College and

chairman of the State Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards, attended a two-day conference on teacher education held last month at Washington, D. C. Dr. North was chairman
of the group of Pennsylvania delegates attending the conference.
In an address at the concluding general session of the conference, held at the Sheraton Hotel, the local dean emphasized the need
for a reevaluation and improvement in the present certification
standards of the teaching profession. Pie also recommended a plan
lor registering available, unplaced teachers and all unfilled teacher
positions in Pennsylvania by August 1, 1950, as a mutual aid to teachers

and school

districts.

o

Miss Edna

Hazen, director, elementary education, was a
J.
member of the committee, “Professional Activities in Teacher Education,” which met at the State Association Headquarters at Harrisburg, in December.
Members of the committee were appointed by Dr. David H.
Stewart, president of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
The committee has been active in formulating plans for organizing
chapters of Future Teachers of America in high schools and colleges throughout the state.
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not a process that can be shouldered by one institutold a panel meeting of the PennsylA’ania State Education Association held at Harrisburg in December.
“It is a cooperatixe endeavor and the schools, the community, the
home and the church all play an important part.” The president of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College said that it is equally unfair for
schools to claim credit for all the successes of their graduates or bear
the responsibility for their failure.

‘Education

tion,” Dr.

is

Harvey A. Andruss

Speaking before a forum of the Pennsylvania Business Educators
Association, held in conjunction with the parent group’s annual convention, Andruss said there is a need for an appraisal of the competency of graduates.
“To say that every graduate will fill painstakingly all the needs of
“We don’t know exactly what
of an employer is foolish,” he said.
luisiness wants, and I’m not sure it knows itself.”
In regard to business education, Andruss said he believed too
many teachers spend too much time correcting papers and arranging
tests instead of counselling their students. A business education must
be based on lifelong needs, he said, and it must be concerned not only
with earnings but must give emphasis to spending, saving and investing.
o

Nine students from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
have been selected for inclusion in the 1949 edition of “Who’s Who
Among Students in American College and Universities.” Nominated
by a faculty committee, the selections were based on a number of
points, including personality, leadership, professional promise, scholastic achievement, service to college, and potential usefulness to society.

Those nominated for the lionor from Bloomsburg include:
Aleki Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Joseph Curilla, Shamokiu; Kathryn
Craham, Bloomsburg; Donald Maietta, Williamsport; Charles Roberts, Slatington; William Stimeling, Berwick; Wayne Von Stetten,
Columbia; John Richard Wagner, Nescopeck Bernard Zelinski, Mt.
Carmel.
o

John Henry Faulk, humorist and entertainer, presented his famous “Speaking of People” at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in a recent assembly program.
Mr. Faulk, who has been described as a “kind of a combination of Will Rogers and Mark Twain,
and Ruth Draper,” gave a series of amusing caricatures of people he
simply called “your neighbors.”
His “Congressman Guffaw” and the talkative President of the
Magnolia Garden Club were matchless lessons in poetry, prose, and
tolerance. He had his audience howling with laughter and enthusiastically applauding his unique and artistic presentation.

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Peter Wisher, former basketball coach and physical education
teacher at Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has accepted a position with the University of Maryland, at Elkins Park, Maryland.
He is teaching principles and methods of physical education and
Maryland
the
assisting A. L. Stewart, head basketball coach at
In addition, is helping with the supervision of student teaschool.
chers.

Mr. Wisher, who has a bachelor’s and master’s degree, is working on his doctorate at present and returned recently from New
London, Conn., where he did additional work last summer at the
combined schools of New York University and Connecticut UniverHe is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State College.
sity.
After originally taking a job at Slippery Rock Teachers, Wisher
decided upon the Maryland position. Slippery Rock consented to
liis

release.

Mr. Wisher was basketball coach at B.S.T.C. for three years.
Prior to that he spent some time in theservice.
He also coached
soccer at the college.
Mr. Wisher also served on the faculty at
Bloomsburg High School prior to the war, and for a time was basketball coach.
o

Miss Roberta Miller, daughter of Mrs. Crace E. Miller, of Jefferson street, Bloomsburg, and John McCurk, son of Joseph McCurk, of Stroudsburg, were united in marriage on November 29, by
the Rev. H. H. Sanddect, in the Zion Lutheran Church, Davenport,
Iowa.

The newly-weds are now residing in their newly furnished
apartment at 612 Brady street, Davenport, Iowa.
Mrs. McCurk graduated from Bloomsburg High School in the
class of 1946 and attended B. S. T. C. for a year and one-half.
Mr. McCurk graduated from Berwick High School and attended flying school in South Carolina. He served in the Air Force during the war and is now attending the Palmer School of Chiropractor,
at Davenport, la.
o
In a double ring ceremony performed by the Rev. Francis L.
Conrad on Saturday morning, August 6, in St. Joseph’s rectory, Danville, Miss Carol F. McCloughan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
T. McCloughan, Riverside, and Archie H. Hilkert, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin Hilkert, of Danville R. D. 1, were united in marriage.
Mrs. Hilkert, a graduate of Danville High School
and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, is a member of the faculty of
The bridegroom is engaged in
the Danville Junior High School.
farming and is also employed as assistant technician by the Lewisburg Cooperative. Mr. and Mrs. Hilkert are living in the newly

furnished

home

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in Danville R.

D.

1.

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According to

Department

statistics

released

of Pnblie Instruction,

by the Teaehers Burean of the
Bloomsbnrg State Teaehers Col-

lege ranks third among the fourteen institutions in the total student
enrollment for the regular eollege year beginning September, 1948,
and ending May, 1949. West Chester and Indiana are the two institutions who have ser\ed more students during this period than

Bloomsburg.

The Department of Business Edueation at Bloomsburg had an
enrollment of 354 students as comiiared with 347 for Indiana and 211
Extension elasses for teaehers-in-service showed
for Shippensburg.
an ecpiivalent to sixty-two full-time students, while Edinboro showed fifty-eight and Indiana forty-seven. These figures did not inelude
freshmen assigned by Pennsylvania State College to the various Teachers Colleges but represented the teaeher edueation pre-service and
in-service offerings of the various institutions.

The oxerall pieture including summer sessions of 1948 showed
the following adjusted enrollments: West Chester— 2501, Indiana1869, East Stroudsburg— 1087, Bloomsburg— 1079, California— 1011,
These enrollments are the largest in the history of the State Teaehers College.
o

ceremony at eight o’eloek Friday evening,
December 23, in llie Church of the Nazarene, Bloomsburg, Miss
Julia Deitterick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Deitteriek, of Bloomsburg R. D. 1, beeame the bride of the Rev. Robert P. Mitehell, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Paid A. Mitchell, of Alifflinburg R. D. 2.
The bride graduated from the Bloomsburg High School and attended B. S. T. C. The groom, a graduate of Mifflinburg High
In a pretty holiday

Sehool, obtained his theologieal training at Florida Biblieal College,
Intercession City, Fla.
o

Perry D. Freas, eighty-one, died at his Light Street home Monday, January 23 following an illness of about twenty-three years. Mr.
Freas was born and reared in Rohrsburg. He farmed in Fishingereek
township for six years, and later was employed as a carpenter of the
Bloomsburg Normal Sehool. He was Superintendent of Buildings
and Grounds at the school for eight years. Surviving are his wife, at
home and one sister, Mrs. Isabel Keller, of Dunmore, Pa.
o

Bernard Zelinski,

Mr.

Carmel and Riehard Wagner, Neseo-

peck, represented the Bloomsburg State Teaehers College at the annual meeting of the Association of Student Governments of the Pennsylvania State Teaehers Colleges held in Shippensburg Friday and
Saturday, Oetober 7 and 8.
Mr. Wagner is the president of the
Community Government Assoeiation of the loeal Gollege, while Mr.
Zelinski is the vice president. Miss Mary MeDonald, assistant dean
of women, aceompanied the students to Shippensburg.
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Vol. 51

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No. 2

1950

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Furbay Commencement Speaker

Dr.

Dr. |ohn H. Fiiibay, Director of Air World Education, will be the
speaker for the annual Coinmenceinent exercises of the Blooinsburg
State Teachers College to be held in the Carver Auditorium Monday,
May 29 it was announced by Dr. Harx ey A. Andruss, president of the
College. President Andruss said that Dr. Furbay, who was one of the
featurd speakers at the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators held recently in Atlantic City, will speak
on the subject, “At Home in One World.”
,

Dr. Furbav has had a long and distinguished career in the field
of education, having been a professor in a large mid-Western univerHe has held
sity and the president of the College of West Africa.
other teaching posts in a number of colleges and universities throughout the United States and Hawaii.

He was an official observer at the first United Nations meeting in
San Francisco and in 1945 was the official United States delegate to
At the present time he is
the Mexico City meeting of UNESCO.
Director of Air World Education, an organization devoted to interpreting our air world responsibilities. A speaker of national reputation, Dr. Furbay is exceptionally well qualified to speak on the subject he has selected for the bloomsburg commencement.
o

A

file

Alumni from the

of

burg Literary

first

Institute contains the

graduating class of the Blooms-

names

of

10,209 graduates, in-

cluding the class of 1949. Of this number, 8,741 are lix ing. Approximately 2,000 of this number hold the degree of Bachelor of Science
in Education, first conferred in 1927.
The Alumni Association now has 1,637 paid members. This is
an increase of twenty percent over the paid membership of a year
ago, and an increase of forty percent of the total membership in 1945.
o

Much

done by Blooinsburg seniors is
Their work is supervised by seventy-four cooperating teachers, located in the high schools in Williamsport, DanX ille, Berwick and Blooinsburg.
done

of the student-teaching

off the

Vol.

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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 March 3,
1879.
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'Saucered and Slowed'
E. H.

We

NELSON, 11

were much pleased with the response

to our “State Aid”
query.
First prize for quick response goes to Clyde R. Luchs, 18
W. 3rd St., Bloomsburg. He won out by using the telephone. First
prize for an answer with a chuckle goes to Grace Gilner Zane, and
to those of you who remember Grace, doesn’t this sound like her.

“Dear E. H. N.— Has the Bloomsburg culture declined
where the students no longer know that ‘State
Aid’ is the black molasses one uses to skid the bread down
to the point

after the butter gives out?”

Credit for correct answers goes also to Kathryn Dechant, Harold Bo.x, “Fat” Hartman, Mabel Decker, Myrtle Turney Ash (along
with a nice long letter), Maurice Hauck, Annie Cassel Keller, Mary
Loury Shambach, Anna Sachs Allen, Blanche Miller Grimes, Editli
Martin Larson, Martha Baum Moore, Lillian G. Fisher, Ann Challis
Thompson, Bertha Homer Bidleman, Helen Garpenter, Abe Sharadin
and Anna Kline Kocher. Thank you all.
One Alumna thought “State Aid” should be interpreted as money
paid by the State to those who promised to teach for two years, but
that answer is rather technical for the average praduate.

Still

and

staying with State Aid, was

it

Webster

molasses or sirup?

a couple of others define molasses as “a viscid dark colored un-

crystallizable liquor which, in the process of manufacture,

is

separ-

ated from crvstallizable sugar by draining.” On the other hand sirup
is, for one thing, “the condensed cane-juice before separation of the
crystallizable sugar.”
Then there is the question of flavor. Flavor
is more obvious in sirup.
Did our State Aid have flavor, and to what
degree? Maybe we should ha\'e analyzed some “State Aid over in
Miss Good’s Ghemistry Class. Notice above that Webster uses the
word “liquor” in his definition. Perhaps there were possibilities in
the “State Aid” that were never utilized! Or did it foam sometime?
Then again, it might be sentences you analyze— not State Aid. I’ll
check with Miss Swartz. Professor Foote used to say a “word is a
sign of an idea,” so that double barreled word “State Aid may be
the sign of a couple of ideas. But on to the next query.
Do some species of snakes swallow their young for protective
purposes? The idea being, of course, that when tbe danger is past, the
young snakes come wiggling out again to check on the stability of
Prof. Hartline’s or Dr. Kuster’s classes when on field trips.
An authentic correct answer to that one carries with it paid up Alumni Dues
for one year, plus one jug of State Aid. See you May 27. Will announce the winner then.
”

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Oratorical Finals at B.

S. T.

C.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College was recently honored by being chosen the seat of the State Oratorical Contest Finals for 1950.
The district champions of the state competed for the state championship on Friday, March 17, in a special college assembly period at
10:00 a. m. in Carver Hall auditorium.
Dean of Men, John A. Hoch introduced Mr. A. C. Morgan, Berwick, Department Chairman of the American Legion Oration Committee. Mr. Morgan presented the rules of the contest as well as the
procedure for participants. The orations were to be based on some
phase of the Constitution of the United States which gave emphasis
to the attendant duties and obligations of a citizen to our government.
The minimum time limit was ten minutes, the maximum twelve.
Dick Wagner and Joseph Curilla were official
runner-up in the Lancaster division, was the

scorers.

Sam

Al-

time-keepThe names of the contestants were not given until all three of
er.
them had make their speeches.

ley, a

official

Contestant number one, as was later revealed, was Barbara Nolan of the Holy Rosary High School of Scranton, Champion of the
Central district. Miss Nolan delivered her speech with perfect diction and poise despite emotional handicap she suffered from having
buried her father tlie preceding day. The Central Chatnpion’s speech
centered on the constitution in general.
.A.S an interlude between the speeches, Emory Rarig, at the organ, and Dick Wagner, at the piano, played a duet. Then Mr. Hoch
introduced contestant number two, who later proved to be the State
champion, Marion De Vore of Millersville, representative of the
Eastern district. Her speech theme was “The Constitution and the
Opportunities I Receive from it.”
Thereon, Mary Joan Williams played Dubussy’s “Clair de Lime”
on the piano. The next contestant was later revealed as Phyllis Mermelstein,

champion

of the

Western

district

and

a natix'e of Sharon.

spoke in a calm, sincere tone and held the attention of the audience remarkably.
At the conclusion of Miss Mermelstein’s speech, Emory Rarig
and Dick Wagner did a second number entitled “Triumphal March”
by Greig. The contestants then made extemporaneous speeches on
Niiss VIermelstein

“Article
to rights

I

of the

and

first

ten

amendments

to the Constitution pertaining

privileges.

The judges were

scattered throughout the audience and includSpeech department of B.S.T.C., Mr.
Hemingway, President of the Board of Trustees of the college; Dr.
Ernest Englehart of the secondary departments; Reverend Edgar
Zeigler, minister of the St. Matthews Lutheran Church of Blooinsburg; and Mr. Edward T. DeVoe of the English Department.
Chairman John Hoch announced the residts, which placed Miss
ed: Miss Alice Johnston, of the

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De\'ore as state champion, Miss Mermelstein second and Miss Nolan
The judges had a difficidt decision as all of the girls
were excellent. Mr. Morgan expressed his thanks to the judges and
any other persons aiding in the contest. He stated that the three finalists were chosen from 1200 contestants.
In short they were one
in 400.
The Department Superintendent to Public Instruction, Dr.
Gross, presented the troph\" to Miss Marion De\’ore and stated that
from here she woidd go to the quarter finals.
in third place.

o

Retail Sales Training

Conference

A preview of better li\ ing made possible by recent developments
the field of science and chemistry was afforded several hundred
persons who attended the Fourth Annual Retail Sales Training Conference held Thursday, March 9, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. Speaking on the subject, “Progress in Better Living,” Louis
P. Shannon, Eastern Manager, Extension Division, Public Relations
Department, E. I. DuPont DeNemours and Company, gave a lecture
demonstration in which progress in better living was documented
with a display of advancements in the field of chemistry.
in

Mr. Shannon also gave his listeners a preview of things so new
still be in the experimental and developmental stage, indicating
that much more progress can be expected in the development of plasHe made note of the social and economic system that made
tics.
these great de\ elopments possible. His lecture was challenging, edu-

as to

cational

and

inspiring.

The

exhibits

were

colorful

and

his

demon-

strations held interest at a high level.

Immediately preceding Mr. Shannon’s address, Q. Forrest WalEconomist and Business Ad\ isor, R. H. Macy and Company, New
York, spoke on the subject “The Economic Outlook for 1950.” Mr.
^Valker, who is widely known as a lecturer on corporation finance and
investments, outlined the economic factors which are in operation today and related tliem to present conditions in business and finacce.
Both Mr. Shannon and Mr. Walker spoke at the evening session
of the conference which attracted one of the largest crowds e\'er to
attend a similar affair on the campus.
ker,

In the afternoon session, Mr. Earl Lifshey, Editor,
Retailing
Daily, spoke on “Retailing Home Furnishing.”
Long a student of
marketing and merchandising and a teacher of tlie subject at New
York Uni\’ersity for se\eral years, Mr. Lifshey told his listeners that
the future of the home furnishings business is bright. New developments in the field promise much more comfort and enjoyment in living.

The second speaker on the afternoon program was Mrs. Annie
Reese, Director of Promotion, Josiah M'edgwood and Sons,
New
York, who addressed the group on the subject “Chinaware.” A wellknown authorit)' in the field, Mrs. Reese told the story of MTdgwood,
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a living tradition. During the course of her remarks she pointed out
that Wedgwood’s achie\ements were \ aried, for he became famous as
His
a scientist and a friend of the most eminent men in England.
work in social reform was outstanding.
Conference chairman was Charles H. Henrie. Retail Selling inPresident Harvey A. Andruss spoke briefly
structor at the College.
at

both sessions and e.xtended greetings to the guests

who

attended

the conference.

o

President Andruss Publishes Article
The leading article in the current issue of American Business
Education, “Appraising Achievement in Bookkeeping and Accounting,” was written by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President, Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
This particular issue was distributed to
members of the National Business Teachers Association and the Eastern Business Teachers Association now in session at the annual convention in Boston.
“If we are to improve the bookkeeping ability of students,” writes Dr. Andruss, “We would do well to coirsider these things:
(1) What does business want?
(2) Can fairly \alid prognostic
procedures be developed to determine who will be able to keep
books? (3) What other things must be considered along with examination results and ordinary school grades? (4) How can we improve school examinations? (5) Do we use employment examinations
such as the United Business Education Association and National Office Management Association Business Entrance tests as widely as
we should? (6) Recent studies show that technical knowledge of subject matter is not as important as teachers think.”
“Improvement is a matter of supplementing and refining the best
that we have today rather than supplanting or throwing overboard
ill present methods and material because they are not perfect,” so
concludes Dr. Andruss.
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WHY THE

INCREASE IN DUES?

In most of the copies of the Quarterly sent out this time will be
found the usual renewal slip. Readers will nitice that the annual
membership dues have been increased from one dollar to two dollars.

An explanation of this change is necessary.
As many Alumni
are a\\-are, the Alumni Association has developed a growing program
of awarding scholarships to worthy students of the College.
These
scholarships have been awarded to such students, whether they are
participating in athletics or not.
Realizing the growing needs of funds for this purpose, the Alumni
present at the general meeting held on Alumni Day last
year voted to increase the dues from one dollar to two dollars. The

who were

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motion was made from the floor, and was not suggested by the Board
of Directors. The Board did, however, at a later meeting, ratify the
action taken by the General Association.
We hope that the Alumni, after having been informed of the
good use that w'ill be made of these funds, will help in this worthy
program by renewing their membership from year to year.
o

The Business Education Department of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College welcomed to the campus ou Friday, March 24,
Mrs. Madeline Strony who spoke to the business education students
on her favorite subject, namely shorthand. Mrs. Strony joined the
Gregg Shorthand Company about a year and a half ago. Before
joining the Gregg Shorthand Co. Mrs. Strony was a teacher in the
Business Education field, also her name was connected with the famout “Business Girl Clinics” at the Packard School in New York. Under
Gregg she has traveled extensi\ ely all over the United States giving
lectures ou Shorthand.
E\ery student of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was
be present to hear Mrs. Strony, and a large number of pup-

iin ited to

did attend this conference.
Mrs. Strony gave some very good hints to students who were not
as competent in shorthand as they should be and suggested excellent
remedies for improvement. After her lecture she opened the floor for
questions to students regarding shorthand.
ils

o

E\el\m MacGregor, radio star of the “American Album of FamMusic” presented the final number of the 1049-.50 Artists Course
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in the Car\ er Auditorium
Tuesday evening, February 7, at 8:1.5 o’clock Miss MacGregor was
joined on the program by Norman Kelley, leading tenor of the Philadelphia LaScala Opera Company.
His many appearances in
the
United States and Canada ha\ e won him a place among the fi\ e leading tenors on the concert and opera stage today.
iliar

—

o

James Klemans, of Ashland, was chosen “Joe College,” the typical
college male, by a \ote of the students at Bloomsburg, it was revealed at the intermission of the Junior Prom held Friday evening,
April 21, at the College.
The Prom, a gala event on the Spring social calendar, emphasized the spring mood. The center of attraction was a “Wishing M’ell”
in the center of the dance floor, while surrounding the dancing area
were white posts from which were suspended bird cages. Lee \’incent and his orchestra prov ided music for the dancing. Walter Zoni,
Lansdowne, is president of the Junior Class.
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The Philadelphia Alumni
The annual dinner of the Philadelphia Alumni Association of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College was held at McCallisters,
Saturday, April 22, 1950.
Mrs. Kate Seasholtz Morris gave the invocation.
of welcome were e.xtended to all of the guests, especially
to those who were there for the first time, by the president, Mrs.
Lillie Hortman Irish, who also introduced the toastmaster of the evening, Dr. Ralph L. Hart, of Philadelphia.
Mr. John A. Hoch, Dean of Men of Bloomsburg State Teachers
His address was mainly about
College, addressed the assemblage.
the most important things the College has done recently and is e.xpecting to do in the near future.
It was Mr. Hoch’s first visit with us.
His address was very well

Words

reecived, and his affable manner made him a friend of all.
Dr. Nelson, President of the Alumni Association, talked about
College Athletics which is dearest to his heart. He also told us about
the new Alumni Association that has been instituted in Washington,
D. C., and about the new one now l^eing formed in New York City.
These new organizations need our moral support and we wish them
every success.
A fifty dollar Scholarship was presented by Dr. Hart for the
Philadelphia Association.
It was received for the College by Dr.
Nelson.
He assured the organization that a plaque would be inscribed and placed in the College.
The president then announced that for next year the luncheon
meetings will be the second Saturday of each month from October
Meetings are held at Cimbel’s Club
to and including April, 1951.
Women’s Center.
The next annual dinner will be held April 28, 1951, at McCallisters.
Mrs. Mary Moore Taubel, the vice president, has graciously
invited the Alumni to her Stone Harbor seashore home. New Jersey,
for a day’s outing, Wednesday, July 19, 1950.
The president then said that next year is the twentieth annix ersary of the founding of the Philadelphia Association. She urged that
all work together to make this a memorable reunion.
Dr. Ralph Hart was a very estimable toastmaster, and when the
evening was over, every one went home feeling that they had a very
wonderful evening.
Those present were:
Mr. Percy P. Teal, Norristown; Edwina Wieland Teal, Norristown: Alice
Snyder Guthrie, Swarthmore; Marion Phillips Stiteler. Havertown; Harriet
Shuman Burr, Wynnewood; Dr. Ralph L. Hart. Yeadon; Mrs. Ralph L. Hart,
Yeadon; Elmira Guterman Linner, Philadelphia: John Linner, Philadelphia;
Willie Morgan Stein, Philadelphia; Marjorie Reese Penman and daughter,
Havertov/n; Lena Leitzel Streamer, Collingswood. N. J.; Anna Sachs Allen,
Darby; Jeanne La Bohn, Darby; Harriet W. Pitner, Deans, N. J.; Kate Sea-

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sholtz Morris, Philacielphia; James Morris. Philadelphia; William Rarick, Philadelphia: Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Rowland. Philadelphia: Mr. and Mrs. Percival
Rieder. Abington: Mrs. Mary Moore Taubel. Norristown.

Gertrude Rinker, Prospect Park; Margaret Butler Minner, Prospect
Park; Robert Minner, Prospect Park; Grace Fenstermaker Frantz, Merchantville, N. J.; Irene Hortman. Camden, N. J.; Adda Brandon Westfield, Chester;
Emilie Nikel Gledhill, Westmont, N. J.; Louella Burdick Sinquett, Haddonfield,
N. J.; Roy Sinquett, Haddonfield, N. J,; Betty A, Burnham, Philadelphia; Grace
Baylor Auten, Tliorofare, N. J.; Hurley L. Auten. Thorofare, N. J.; Allen P,
Rubrecht, Philadelphia; Anna Solomon Rubrecht, Philadelphia; George R.
Buckman, Philadelphia: Rachel Oman Buckman, Philadelphia: Ruth Johnson
Garney, Upper Darby; Myron F. Garney, Jr,, Upper Darby; Marion G, Jeffers,
Philadelphia; S, William Jeffers, Philadelphia; Mr, John A, Hoch, Dean of

Men, S. T. C., Bloomsburg; Nora Woodring Kenney, Philadelphia; George
Kenney, Philadelphia; Lillie Hortman Irish, Camden, N, J,; Dr, Elna H, Nelson,
President of the Alumnia Association, Bloomsburg.

Mrs. Kate Seasholtz, ’09, and her husband have recenth’ returned from an extended vacation trip to Miami and Key West, Florida,
Mexica, and other interesting points in the South.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Teal (Edwina Brouse ’18) visited their daughter and family in Texas in January. They also had a delightful
trip to

Mexico.

The Philadelphia Alumni

of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College were deeply grieved to hear of the death of Norman Grant Cool,
who died at his home, 4113 Irving Place, Culver City, California, on
Thursday, January 19, after a prolonged illness. He is survived by
his wife, Florence Hess Cool, his son, Harold N. Cool, ’12, by four
grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
A native of Pennsylvania, he was born November 8, 1867. He was
graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School in the class
of 1886.
He attended Lafayette College, and was graduated from
theh Eastman Business College.

He was engaged in the wholesale lumber business during the
greater part of his life, and was connected with H. Millard
and
Sons, New York, William H. Whitmer and Sons, Philadelphia, and
Beecher and Barr, Potts\ ille. After li\ ing for sometime in Pottsville,
he returned to Philadelphia, where he was associated with the George B. Evans Laboratories in the drug business. He was associated
with this firm for fifteen years. He retired in 1943, at which time
he and Mrs. Cool woved to California to be near their son.
It was Mrs. Cool who organized the Philadelphia Alumni Association in 1931, and Mr. Cool was always at her side to
give aid
whenever it was needed. It was through their earnest efforts that the
organization grew and prospered.
The Philadelphia organization
sends deepest sympathy to Mrs. Cool and her family.
Lillie

Hortman

Irish,

President

Nora Woodring Kenney, Secretary-Treasurer
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Plans For
Workshops

in

Summer

Sessions

Elementary Education and Shorthand and Typing

feature the 1950 Summer sessions of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, according to announcements made by Dr. Thomas P.
North, dean of instruction. Dr. North said that the three-weeks PreSession will begin Monday, June 5, while the regular six-weeks Summer Session will begin June 26. Registration for the Post Session will
be held Monday, August 7

^vill

Because of the present shortage of teachers for the elementary
Elementary Education Workshop is expected to attract
a capacity enrollment. Developed to assist mature and experienced
school, the

teacheers, the workshop carries a credit of three semester hours in
the courses listed in the tentative program. These credits. Dr. North
indicated, can be used to make a college certificate permanent; they
can be used toward graduation; credits may be used to extend a present certificate to include teaching on the elementary level, or as a
refresher course for former elementary teachers who desire to reenter the profession because of the critical shortage of elementary
teachers.
The 1950 program is especially arranged so that observations
may be an integral part of the workshop. Bloomsburg is one of the
few colleges in Pennsylvania that maintains its laboratory scliool
during the regular summer session. The Benjamin Franklin School
affords an excellent opportunity for obser\'ation and participation by
experienced teachers. The eombined Typewriting and Shorthand
Workshop will enable seniors and graduates to meet certification requirements in these subjects. The workshop will begin on June 5 and
continue throughout th twelve weeks of the summer session.

o

A

group of students of Bloomsburg State Teachers College presented a unique assembly program at the Nescopeck High School on
Thursday, February 16, under the direction of Richard Wagner, a
senior at the College and a graduate of Nescopeck High School. The
following students presented a well-balanced and delightful program
of music: Mary Lou Todd, Bloomsburg; Barbara Gulick, Riverside;
Emory Rarig, Catawissa; Charles Edwards, Shamokin; Andrew Macieko, Wilkes-Barre and Jack Wintersteen, Danville.
Dr. Ralph Herre
was in charge of the group.

ALUMNI DAY
Saturday, May 27, 1950
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Business Education Contest
An Office Machines Show was held in conjunction with the Annual Business Education Contest and Clinic at the Bloomsbur>^ State
Teachers College Saturday, May sixth. A number of nationally-known
companies displayed modern office equipment commonly found in
schools and small to medium-sized offices. In addition to the latest
models, the exhibitors showed machines manufactured during twentyyear intervals to show the progress made in mechanical office equipment during periods equal to or greater than the life span of the Department of Business Education.
The show featured the Twentieth Annix ersary of the founding of
the Department at the College, and as a special feature of the anniversary celebration, a short sketch depicting an office in the Gay
Nineties was presented. Miss Honora M. Noyes, of the Department
of Business Edueation, and Miss Alice Johnston, of the Speech and
Dramatics Department, collaborated in writing the sketch which was
acted by students of the Department. As has been the custom for
many years, a display of textbooks, teaching materials, and audioxisual aids was staged in the Navy Hall Auditorium by representati\ es of the various publishing companies.
o

Charles Fowler Bomboy, a lifelong resident of Espy, passed away
at his home Saturday, February 4.
He was born March 2, 1864, in
the home in which he died. In his boyhood he learned the blacksmith trade under the apprenticeship of his father, P. E. Bomboy, and
worked at that trade in the days when the Pennsyh ania Canal Company had a boatyard at Espy.
Following this he worked in furniture factories at Bloomsburg
and Espy. He worked as a blacksmith for considerable length of
time at the ACE Co., Berwick. In 1920 he began his employment in
the maintenance department at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College where he worked fourteen years, retiring at the age of seventy.
For the past fifteen years he lix ed in retirement at his home in Espy.
o

Arthur Hoffman, of 211 Robert Street, Sheatoxvn, a retired NexvTownship school teacher, died in March at Nanticoke State Hospital, xxdiere he had been a patient since February' 21.
He was a native of Glen Ex on, being a son of the late Mr. and
rs. Reuben Hoffman.
He xvas a graduate of Buckhorn High School,
Buckhorn, Columbia County and Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
He taught in Nexvport Toxvnship schools for 26 years and at the time
of his retirement in January, 1945, he xvas co-principal of the K. M.
Smith School, .^Iden. Mr. Hoffman xvas a member of the .Alden P.
O. S. of A. and St. John’s Lutheran Church, Nanticoke. He xvas active
in church affairs and formerly serx ed on the official board.
port

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TONY GRABOWSKI CHOSEN NEW
Although the intensity of

political

C.G.A.

HETD

campaigning did not reach the

level this year that it did in the past, several events of this season are not to go unnoticed.
In keeping with what seems to be tradition by now, the Waller
Lounge was colorfully bedecked with numerous banners and placContrasting colors presented
ards, announcing candidates for office.
The placards carried r artheir messages boldly from the banners.
ious slogans declaring the \irtues and abilities of several of the can-

same

didates.

Election eve was highlighted, for the second year in succession,
by a campaign dance. Informality was the keynote of the affair as
dancing was enjoyed in Waller Lounge from eight until nine-thirty
Arrangements for this social event were begun by Max
o’clock.

Kaplan.

During a short intermission, all candidates who were present
were introduced by Max Kaplan. Most of these persons responded
w’ith bows, although Tony Grabowski added a few weighty comments. All those who were in attendance will remember the “bandw'agon” entrance of Claire Davis, whose political campaign was directed by Donald Butcofsky.
Further ado was in order in Carver Hall Auditorium on election
morning. The arch of the stage, the sides of the balcony, and several of the doors carried banners and cards as reminders of a number
On the auditorium seals were placed mimeographed
of candidates.
pleas, in the form of a defense for some campaign speech remarks,
asking members of the college community to “vote for Cal.”
The
real flurry of the assembly period w'as provided when, during the announcement period, balloons and tags bearing the name of Dick
Kressler came floating down from the balcony. The political operations of this aspirant for the office of vice president seemed to be supported to some degree by the Day Men’s Association. Included at
\arious phases throughout the week-or-so preceding the
elections
were the distribution of book-matches bearing the expression, “Matchless,” and of pencils.
A group of “Burma-Shave” type signs paved the way between Noetling and Carver Halls presenting another
message in behalf of the “vote for Dick” campaign.
With the passing of the elections, losers have congratulated the
r ictors (campaign managers as well as candidates) and, with the passing of the signs from Waller Lounge, all is once again back to normal
for another year.

o

Mark

Wanich, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Collins Wanich,
of Light Street, has completed w'ork for his Master of Arts degree at
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City. He is now
teaching in the Amityxille High School, Long Island, and expects to
start work for his Doctor’s Degree in June.
Collins

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TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS ATTEND CONFERENCE
“A new look at the schools’ public relations program” was the
theme around which the annual Secondarv Education Conference revobed on Saturday, March 25, in Car\er Auditorium. Dr. Ernest
H. Englehardt, director of Secondary Education, planned a \’aried
and interesting prograan for teachers and school administrators of
the Bloomsburg service area.
Dr esse Bnrkhead, Professor of Economics, Maxwell School of
Citizenship, Syacuse University, opened the general session speaking
on ‘The Pennsyhania Revenue Problem.” Dr. Bnrkhead, who has
I

written a series of articles for the Pennsylvania School Journal on financial problems, outlined the possible solutions of our difficulty. He
expressed the hope that we would not take the easy way out— that
of raising additional re\'enue by adopting a sales or income tax—
without first considering the needed improvement in existing property taxes.

An outstanding personality in the field of public relations, Roy
National
K. Wilson. Assistant Director, Press and Radio relations.
Education Association, based his speech on the seven qualities that a
community public relations program should have. Honest in approach, intrinsic in v'alue, continuous in application, positiv'e in content, comprehensive in scope, sensitive to public concern and simple
in manner— these qualifications will mark any public relations program as a successful venture. Mr. Wilson further described specific public relations programs of varied natures which have been successful in securing community interest and aid in school affairs.
Following the general session, the conference continued with
three discussion groups: “Good Teachers are Good Salesmen,” led by
Dr. John B. Kennedy, Superintendent of Schools, Kingston: “New
Ideas in Newspaper— Radio Publicity for Schools” headed by Orrin
Gocks, Supervising Principal, Watson town; and “School Financial
Problems Facing Administrators and Directors” with Superintendent
Fred Diehl, Montour County Schools, as chairman. After the panel
group had introduced the topics, a very beneficial and enlightened
discussion followed.
A short summary of each discussion was presented by the group
chairman at the luncheon which included the conference program.
A vocal duet with Joseph Curilla and Aleki Communtzis, accompanied by Athamantea Communtzis, was given after the general
.session.
Music at the luncheon was furnished by Thomas Jones on
the marimba accompanied by Richard M'agner.
o

Margaret Potter (Mrs. Henry Steiner) is teaching geography in
the high school at Lititz, Pa. Her husband is Director of Music in
the same school. Mr. and Mrs. Steiner have a daughter, Sally, now
in first grade.

Peggy Lewis
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is

teaching in the high school at East Lampeter.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
RECEIVES DOCTOR’S DEGREE
Ralph S. Herre, a member of the Teachers College faculty, was
awarded the degree of Doctor of Education at the mid-year Commencement of the Pennsylvania State College. Dr. Herre, who came to
Bloomsburg in 1947, is a teacher of social studies and serv'es as asPrior to coming here, he served
sistant dean of niQn at the College.
as principal of the Senior High School, Lockport, N. Y., from 1944
to 1946. Pie was also principal of the Wolcott, N. Y., Central School
and for a number of years served as principal of the High School Department of the State Normal School at Brockport, N. Y.
Dr. Herre is a graduate of Colgate University, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science. He was awarded the degree
of Master of Arts by the State Teachers College at Albany, N. Y., and
at Clark Ptniversity of Buffalo, and New York University before matriculating at Penn State.

He is a member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the National Education Association, and the Pennsylvania State Association.
In addition to a number of articles he has written for educational
journals and publications, he is the author of “A History of Auburn
Prison.”

o

some time ago from David M.

Jones, he says:
have just completed the requirements for the NIaster’s degree
at Teachers College, Columbia University and am presently taking a
few additional courses to round out my profession preparation.
My
graduate work has been in Comparative and International Education,
a field that became of interest to me because of my rather intimate
contact with world problems and other cultures during my foreign
service with the Armed Forces and because of the increasing opportunities that seem to be afforded in the field of international relations
as the world, despite discouraging set-backs at times, becomes more
and more aware of the need for international unity. I hope eventually
that this work will lead to a position with an inter-cultural or international education organization such as UNESCO, the State Department, or with the Division of International Educational Relations of
the U. S. Office of Education, though I realize that I have yet to gain

In a letter received

“I

much more

experience in the educational

field.”

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The Sophomore

Class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College
held its annual Cotillion in Centennial Gymnasium Saturday, Febmary 24. The theme of this year’s dance was “Antoine’s Cabaret,” and
decorations were in keeping with the continental flavor of a French
night spot.
The dance floor was ringed with tables and chairs,
carrying out the night club atmosphere, while a color scheme of
cherry red and white added brilliance to the gala affair. Lee Vincent
and his orchestra provided music for dancing, which began at nine
o'clock and continued until midnight.

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COLLEGE ENROLLMENT REACHES

900

2ND SEMESTER

With the second semester of the ’49-’50 college year now underway, the student rollbook tallied up, in round numbers, to something
Included in this check-up were seven hundred and eighty
like 900.
regular students, and over a hundred extension course enrollees.
The campus dormitories are bulging at the seams with a capacity house of 400.
In the Waller Hall domain, 170 women are being
housed, and in the North Hall, 230 men “sack in” nightly. The dining room is also doing a rush business with 450 mouths to feed three
times daily. This culinary workshop takes care of faculty, dormitory
students, and day men students who are residing in town households.
The veterans are slowly relinquishing their supremacy in the
student line-ups.

The
o\ er

The number

women

students in

of G.I.’s

now

attending classes

is

278.

one dominance of men sbidents
the enrollment number.

overall picture reads a

two

to

The College now has

three extension classes in
Wilkes-Barre
twenty-odd students, and in Hazleton, extension classes
Saturday classes at the
ser\ e about 40 education-minded students.
College have fifty teachers attending.
In
comparison with last
semester’s teacher-in-service total, there is now an increase of over
one hundred teachers attending College sssions.

which

total

o
S. Dayton Beishline, principal of the Huntington Township Joint
School, Luzerne County, stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage while
on a fishing trip on April 15, died Sunday, April 23, in the Bloomsburg Hospital.

With his son, the Rev. Richard Beishline, pastor of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church, Plymouth, Mr. Beishline had gone on a fishing trip on the first day of trout season. The two returned to rest,
and the son fell asleep. Later the minister awakend and found his
father in a coma.
Mr. Beishline was later taken to the hospital.

He was a native of Columbia County. He was bom at Bendertown, April 5, 1898. He attended the Bendertown School and the
Fishing Creek High School. He was a graduate of Bloomsburg and
took further studies at Cold Spring Harbor. In recent years he was
awarded a master's degree at Bucknell University.
Mr. Beishline taught at the Crossroads School and the High
School in Fishing Creek Township. Later he taught for a short time
at the New Columbus School. After nine years at Scott High School,
Espy, he became Supervising Principal at Picture Rocks. At the time
of his death, he had ser\ ed at Huntington Mills for fifteen years.
Mr. Beishline was well known for his church actix ities. He was
a member of the Huntington Mills Methodist Church, its Sunday
School Superintendent for the past twelve years, and the conference
lay leader of the church. He also taught the adult Bible Class.
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ALLER HALL
The new

WOMEN NAME GOVERNING BOARD

and members of the Waller Hall Governing
Board were announced at the Waller Hall Dorm Party recently. The
officers

newly-elected officers are as follows: Shirley Ashner, president; Lola
Deibert, vice president; Eleanor Johnson, secretary and Nancy
Swartz, treasurer. Other members are: Mary Condon, Whlma Jones
and Mildred Pliscott— sophomores; Doris Bowman, Oliv'e Mouery and
Eleanor Young— juniors; Barbara Frederick, Janet Price, Carolyn
\>nioy and Muriel Wagner— seniors.
o

American life during the past half-century was colorfully reviewed in song and dance at the annual May Day ceremonies of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College Wednesday, May 10. Mrs. Robert B. Redman directed this year’s fete, tlie theme of which will be
“A Mid-Century May Day.”
The boys and girls of the Benjamin Franklin School presented
a varied and colorful program of dances in harmony with the various
jjhases of American life during the past fifty years. The program took
place before the court of the May Queen, who was crowned in traditional ceremonies on a dais erected on the terraces behind the Waller
Hall gymnasium. The Maroon and Gold band provided music for
the exercises and piesented a brief concert prior to the processional,
which began at 2:30 p, m. Daylight Saving Time.
This year’s May Queen was Miss Jane L. Keller, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Keller, Light Street Road, Bloomsburg. Miss Keller’s
attendancs, were: Susan Dreibilbis, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Jane Kepping,
Hazleton; Lucy Jane Baker, Bloomsburg; Betty Ridall, Town Hill;
Jeanne Kelder, New Albany; Carmela Tarole, Bthlehem; Terry Ann
Cierlitsky, Tamaqua and Elizabeth Reece, \Vest Grove.
o

The present age

of the average faculty member at Bloomsburg
is forty-seven and one-half years.
A recent study of the teaching experience of the faculty shows
the following, in years of service:

Years
0- 4
5- 9
10-14
15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-44

Total

At Bloomsburg

1

21

4
4
8
6
5
9
9

2
2
4
11
7

47

1

47
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Athletics
A new

college scoring record

was

set

by the Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College basketball team which recently closed its season
with a record of twelve wins and seven losses. Coach Harold Shelley’s cagers tallied 1156 points in nineteen games for an a^’erage production of 60.8 tallies per contest— a new record. Led by Walt Bannil,

Plymouth

junior,

who was named

to the All-Pennsylvania squad,

the Huskies outscored last year’s outfit by

more than 300

points.

Banull copped individual scoring honors with 271 points.
His
a\erage of 14.2 points a game topped his last year’s average of 5
tallies a contest.
Ed Jones, Milton senior, was second with 194 tallies, while Bill Bartleson, the speedy Warrior Run dribbler, took third
place with a production total of 166 points.
Defensix ely, the Huskies limited their rivals to 1069 points, an
average of 56.2 points a game, but their offensive scoring punch was
more than equal to the task. Interestingly enough, the Huskies dropped two decisions to rivals they had defeated earlier in the campaign.
The wound up the season in a blaze of glory,
pounding out three
straight decisions. Their 12-7 record was the best since 1944 when a
Navy V-12 studded Maroon and Gold outfit compiled a record of 10
\ ictories in 14 starts.

Coach Shelly will
Jones, Milton center, and Bobby Kashner, diminutive
Bloomsburg shotmaker. He will also have available one of the best
junior \ arsity combinations in the school’s history,
an outfit that pick0ed up 11 victories in 14 contests. Only the Bucknell Freshmen were
able to pin the Husky Pups twice during the campaign.
Prespects for next year are rather bright since

lose only

Ed

In addition to the three top scorers, here are the records of the
rest of the players for the season.
g-

Robert

Kashner 57

Bob Andrews

Byham
Don Butler
Dan Boychuck
Bill

56
43
45
7

Tom Reed
Jim Thompson
Larry Ksansnak
Charles Daly __
Al Williams __
Jack Rittenmeyer
Dreher Richards

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3

fg.

pts.

30-48
27-37
27-47
12-28

114
137
113
102
2-2
16
0-1
6
1-1
6

2
2
2
2

1-3
0-2

1

1

1

0-0
0-0

5
4
4
2
2
2

1-1

1

1-2

1

Bob McCaffrey

1

Don Raker
Ed Goodhart

0
0

2
2

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B.

S.

T. C.

TRACK SCHEDULE
May
May
May

April 22 Home
Cheyney STC
April 25 Away
Shippensburg
April 28 29 Phila. Penn Relays

May

2

Away

6 Home
13 Shippens.
17 Home

W.

Chester

State

Meet

Scranton U.

Lock Haven
o

Those who were at Bloomsburg during the war years will be
knowing that Lloyd Paul Jordan, who has been football
coach at Amherst since 1932, has accepted a similar position at Harvard.
Mr. Jordan will be remembered as Lt. Jordan, sommanding
officer of the V-12 Naval Unit at Bloomsburg.
interested in

o

Lovely spring and summer fashions, designed to please the most
Spring
discriminating tastes, were displayed at the Fourth Annual
Fashion Show staged by the Bloomsburg State Teachers College as a
feature of the Eighteenth Annual Commercial Contest held Saturday,
May 6. The show, which last year attracted a capacity audience to
the Carver Auditorium, was presented by the Retail Selling classes
of the College, Friday evening, May 5, at 8:15 o’clock, while a special matinee performance was held Friday afternoon at 3 p. m. for
invited high school students and women guests attending the Spring
Reunion of the Caldwell Consistory.
With the assistance of a large number of retail merchants in the
town of Bloomsburg, this year’s show was the most outstanding of
tiie series.
Fashions from the following merchants were modeled by
a group of College women: Arcus Women’s Shop, Dixie Shops, W. T.

Grant Company, Dorothy Kashner Millinery, Kay Long Shop, The
I.ittle Shop, J. C. Penney, F. P. Pursel, Racusin’s and Snyder’s Millinary.

The setting for the 1950 presentation will be a lounge in the
Women’s Dormitorv'. Furniture and materials for the stage set were
furnished by the Davison Furniture Stores and the Mackay Home
Decorators.
Student chairman in charge of the stage setting were
^^r. and Mrs. George Kepping, Hazleton, while W. B. Sterling, of
the Department of Business Education, was the faculty advisor.
A special feature of the Fashion Show was a review of fashions
of the beginning of the Century, centering attention on what the welldressed college girl wore in the early 1900’s
Susan Dreibelbis, of
Bloomsburg, was the student chairman in charge of this phase of the
program. A number of students served as store coordinators for the
event: Betty Ridall, chairman. Town Hill; Berdine Logar,
Weston;
Marjorie Franzo, Bethlehem; Joan Grazell,
Shenandoah; Kathryn
Rhinard, Berwick; Lois Yeager, Numidia; Shirley Ashner, Lehighton;
Mary Ann Alarcon, Keiser; Olive Hunter, Taylor; Betty Cole, Meshoppen and Lillian Mlkvy, Palmerton.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
A

glimpse behind the scenes of the grand opera and the Broadwas giv'en students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Thursday, April 20, by Humphry Doulens, tour manager for
Lily Pons, Dorothy Kirsten and Hildegarde. In an exceptionally-interesting presentation, Mr. Doulens, who personally managed the affairs of the late Grace Moore, bred nostalgia with high spirits, memories of the f>ast, and intimate stories of the dazzling personalities of
He took
the greatest names in the story of the American theatre.
his listeners behind the scenes of America’s leading theatres and opera
houses. He related the fabulous legend of a scared and pretty high
school girl named Dorothy Kirsten who was auditioned by Grace
Moore and rocketed to fame with her assistance. The former stage

way

theatre

editor of “Newsweek” and “Variety” also told the inside story of how
comparative! \' unknown singers and actresses are introduced to the
music-lo\ ing public and rise to fame in a very short time.

o
President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss, of the College, attended
the annual all-Pennsylvania College dinner held in the Sapphire Boom
Mondav evening,
C.
of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.
February 20. It was the second of the dinners sponsored by the All
Pennsyh ania College Alumni Association, of V’ashington, D. C. The
president of the Washington Alumni Chapter of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, James Cummings acted as host for the reception of
the presidents of the various colleges, which was held preceding the
dinner. There was an attendance of around 500 rpresenting all the
colleges in Pennsylvania.
o
in recent years 7nade many contributions in the field of published writings. The totals include nine
books, with five more in preparation; 176 magazine articles, eighteen
bulletins and yearbooks, two sets of testing materials, twenty-five
book reviews and twenty theses and dessertations.

Members

of the faculty

have

0

A

five-year study of the progress in the degree status of tlie
faculty at Bloomsburg shows that ten hold the Doctor’s Degree, five
have the Master’s Degree plus an additional year of preparation, thirty-two hold the Master’s Degree, and one has the Bachelor’s Degree.
There are now forty-seven members of the faculty.

ALUMNI DAY
Saturday,
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May

27,

1950

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

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

1894
Mrs. Crawford C. Smith, the former Anna Straw, died suddenly
of a heart attack Friday, March 10, in Kingston, where she resided.
A graduate of the
Mrs. Smith was well known in this section.
Bloomsburg Normal School, she attended the fiftieth reunion of her
Her husband precided her in death five years
class a few years ago.
ago. He was a well known lumberman. Surviving are six children:
Dr. Donald Smith, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Harold Howe, Daytona Beach,
Fla.; Dr. Harold Smith, Wilkes-Barre; Miss Kathryn, Miss Jean and
Gordon Smith, at home.

1896

The address
D. 1, Box 225,

of Florence E. Kitchen (Mrs. Clinton G. Fullmer)

is

Mrs. Fullmer was also graduated in the College Preparatory Course in 1905. She informs us that
her daughter, Roberta, is in Heidelberg, Germany, and plans to attend the Oberammergan Passion Play and the International Association of Universitv Women during the coming summer.
1888
The present address of Mrs. Florence H. Cool is P. O. Box 225,
R.

Pasco, Washington.

Culver Citv, California.
1901
East Dewart street, Shamokin, member of a
pioneer Hazleton family, died Wednesday, March 15, after a years
illness.
He was born in Hazleton on November 26, 1883, a son of
the late Philip and Mary Maue and was a graduate of Hazleton High
School; Bloomsburg State Normal School and Lafayette
College,
class of 1911. A mining and industrial engineer by profession he was
first affiliated with the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., in that capacity; later with the Harwood Electric Co. and then with the Temple Coal Co.
Mr. Maue located in Shamokin in 1931 to associate with his brother,
Fred Maue in the Maue Silk Corporation of which he was president.
He was a member of Azalea Lodge, No. 687 F. and A. M. of Hazleton; the Williamsport Consistory; the Rajah Shrine, of Reading and
was a member of St. John’s Reformed church, of Shamokin.
Philip

Maue,

66, of

Stephen Mitterling, West Philadelphia physician, died Sunat his home, 5731 Baltimore ave.
He was 71 years of
Dr. Mitterling. who had practiced medicine in West Philadel-

Rr.

day,
age.

March 19

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
phia for 38 years, was graduated from the Medico-Chirurgical ColHe was born in Richfield, Pa. Dr.
lege of Philadelphia in 1911.
Mitterling served as instructor at his alma mater until the college
closed in 1916. From 1916 until 1928 he was an instructor of anatomy in the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. In
later years he was an instructor in the eye, nose and throat department of the Graduate School of Medicine at the University. For many
years he was a member of the staff of Methodist Hospital and a courtesy member of the staffs of other hospitals. Dr. Mitterline was active
He served as presiin the West Philadelphia Medical Association.
dent of the organization and as a member of the board of directors
for many years. He was a member of the Philadelphia County MedHe also was a member
ical Society and served as its vice president.
of the American Medical Association and the Medical Club of Philadelphia. For the past 15 years he had been a physician at the Presb}'terian

Home

for

Widows and

Single

Women.

Dr. Mitterling

was

an elder and president of the board of trustees of the Ninth Presbyterian chcurch.
He was a member of Rolling Green Golf Club and
a Mason.
1903

Delong retired last April from the Metropolitan Life
insurance Company. He spent the winter in Orlando, Florida and
M'illiam C.

summer at his home in Berwick. He attended his forty-fifth reunion in 1948 and is a member of the committee which will plan
the fiftieth reunion in 1953.
the

1911

and many adult residents of
that vicinity were saddened by the death of the beloved principal of
Landing School, Mis. Grace M'^egge McAleer, says the Glen Cove
Glen

Co\'e, N. Y., school children

Echo.

A resident of 16 Roosevelt street, Glen Gove, Mrs. McAleer died
on Sunday, March 19at, at the North Gountry Gommunity hospital.
A solemn requiem mass was sung on M^ednesday, March 22, at St.
Patrick’s church and the funeral was held from her home, under the
direction of Matthew J. Kramer. Interment was at St. John’s eemetery in Brooklyn.
All schools were closed on Wednesday morning in tribute to the
memory of this belo\ ed teacher and to give those desiring the opportunity to attend her funeral. Gity flags were at half-mast.
A member of the Glen Gove school system for the past 31 years,
Mrs. McAleer first started teaching at Hawley, Pa., where she was
born. A graduate of Bloomsburg Teachers Gollege, Bloomsburg, Pa.,
she also taught in Akron, Ohio.

She went to Glen Gove as a teacher in 1919 and in 1932 was apl^ointed principal of Landing School. During her many years of educational guidance of Glen Gove youngsters, Mrs. McAleer endeared
herself to young and old alike, and her passing is felt deeply by all
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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
\vho had occasion to know and work with her. The wife of the late
John A. McAleer, who died in 1941, Mrs. McAleer is survived bv three
sisters, Mrs. Mary Gillespie of Pittston; Mrs. Ellen S. Schmit. of
Philadelphia and Miss Agnes B. Wegge, of Hawley.
re.solutions were drawn by the Glen Gove Board
on the passing of Mrs. Grace W. McAleer:
Whereas, the Board of Education of the Gity of Glen Gove deepIv regrets the death of Principal Grace W. McAleer of the Landing
Elementary School, and
Whereas, Mrs. McAleer served with devotion, loyalty and distinction as teacher and elementary school principal for a period of

The following

of Education

G1 years.

Whereas, the Board of Education
these capacities, and

is

aware of her contributions

in

Whereas, during Mrs. McAleer's years of seiwice in Glen Gove,
the scholastic standards and the moral standards in her classes and
her school were always held high, increasing in prestige the development of our young people.
Whereas, the Board of Education is appreciative of the leadership and the fine personal qualities of Mrs. McAleer, a principal and
educational leader of Glen Cove, in which she transmitted to the
citizens, the teachers and children, a high type of American citizenship.

Now,
l^ress its

therefore, be it resolved: That the Board of Education exdeep sympathy to the family of the late Grace W. McAleer,

and further

Be

it

resolved:

That a copy of

this resolution

brother and sisters of Mrs. McAleer and spread in
of the Board of Education.

be sent

full in

to the
the minutes

1945

Enzo Bobert
Teachers College

who graduated from Bloomsburg State
February, 1945, as a business major, is now in

Frosini,
in

Florence, Italy. Becipient of the Fulbright Grant (Senator Fulbright,
of Arkansas),
Frosini
in
Florence.
is
The Fulbright Grant
is one of the many exchange programs in education whereby American ideas and aims are presented to the people of other nations.
After completing his work at Bloomsburg, Frosini studied at
Columbia Unhersity where he received a Master’s degree in psychology and guidance work. Now 27 years of age, Frosini sailed
for Italy last

November.

According to post cards sent to President Andruss and Dr. Maupin, Frosini is ^'ery much impressed with Old World culture and the
beauties which exist in the vicinity of Florence. It has been the policy of such exchange scholarships to try to assign students to the locality of their particular ancestry so as to be familiar wtih the dialect
and customs of the area.
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Harold

Swisher

is

1947
teacher of Social Studies and Speech in the

high school at Lititz, Pa.
Paul Lauderman is teacher of commercial subjects

in the Lititz

liigh school.

Clifton S. Show has accepted a position as chemical engineer
with Hercules Powder Company, in Wilmington, Delaware. He is a
He
graduate of B.S.T.C. in 1947, and Bucknell University in 1948.
recently completed requirements for a master of science degree to be
confrred upon him in June graduation exercises at Bucknell.

1949
ey of the Class of 1949 of Bloomsburg State Teachers College shows that 91 percent of those available for positions have been
placed, 76 percent in teaching and 15 percent in other occupations.
Of the total number of 225 graduating, 22 were not available for
placement, ha\ing enrolled in graduate schools for the Master’s
Degree, or in other curriculums than those in which they had recently graduated, for extended certification.
The o\ er-all placement picture for the four years since the war,
beginning in 1946 and including 1949 shows a placement of 94 percent with 83 percent in teaching, and 11 percent in other occupations.
Married women who had not taught or had other employment, students enrolled in graduate schools at tlie time of the sur\ ey, the small
number of unemployed, and those from whom no information could
be secured amount to less than 10 percent.
The study of 1025 degree graduates was begun about eight years
ago by Mr. Earl N. Rhodes, then Director of Teacher Training and
Placement, and has been eontinued by President Harv^ey
Andruss,
who has made a five-year sur\ey covering 518 graduates from 1941
to 1945, a three-year survey covering 275 graduates from 1946 to
1948, and now has completed an additional surx ey of 225 graduates
for the year 1949.
Thus over 2040 graduates of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College have been followed up in terms of employment.

\

sur\

In a lovely candlelight ceremony performed at four-thirty Saturday, January 28 in the Nescopeck Methodist Church, Miss Eleanor
Alice McClintock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arley D. McClintock,
of Rahway, N. J., became the bride of Donald Erancis Maietta, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Maietta, of Williamsport. The Rev. J. Earl
Bassler, pastor of the ehurch, performed the nuptials. The couple left
later on a honeymoon in the Poconos and are now living in Pittsburgh
where the bridegroom is assistant professor in the department in the
speech pathology. University of Pittsburgh.
The bride is a graduate of Neseopeck High School and the
groom from Williamsport High School. Both received their degrees
from B. S. T. C. The groom also served twenty-two months in the
air corps.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Miss Claire Young, of Berwick R. D. 1, and Edward G. Baker,
were married Saturday, April 22, in the First Presbyterian Church, Berwick. The Rev. Gladstone P. Cooley officated
at the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and the
Katherine Gibbs School, New York City, and has been serving as a
secretary at B. S. T. C. The groom, a World War II veteran of tliree
and one-half years of service, is a graduate of the Spring City High
School and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
of Philadelphia,

Estelle Friday

county.
Alfred

is

Lampman

Stewart Bechtel
Harrisburg, Pa.

teaching in the schools of Paradise, Lancaster
is

is

teaching at Columbia, Pa.
teaching in the

Thompson

Business College,

1950

On

Saturday afternoon, February 4, at four o’clock, in the sanctuary of the Methodist Church, of Bloomsburg, Miss E. Norene Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Adams, West Fifth street,
Bloomsburg, became the bride of John Harvey Carl, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey M. Carl, of Trevorton. The Rev. Dr. Elvin Clay Myers
with the class of 1946. She studied for one year at Bloomsburg
performed the ceremony.
Miss Adams was graduated from the Bloomsburg High School
State Teachers College. In June, she will enter Bucknell University
as a medical technician.
\Ir. Carl was graduated from Trevorton
High School with the class of 1941. He served three years in the
United States Army with service overseas from 1943 to 1945. At
the mid-year commencement Mr. Carl received from the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College his bachelor of science degree. He is, at present, enrolled at Bucknell as a graduate student.
o

Leroy Brochy, fifty-eight, 252 North Third street, Catawissa,
died at the Geisinger Hospital Thursday, February 2 at 4:20 o’clock.
He had been in ill health for several years and seriously ill since
October.
A native of Catawissa, he was the son of tlie late Edward and
Cora Jessie Ward Brochy. He spent his entire lifetime in Catawissa,
and was employed as an electrician at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College for the past twenty-eight years.
He was preceded in death about two years ago by his wife, the
former Ruth Hunsinger. His daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Rider, died about
two and a half years ago following an accident. Mr. Brochy was a
veteran of World War I, and a member of the Catawissa American
Legion Post 541, and the Harman and Allen Post, Catwaissa VFW.
He was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Catawissa.
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FRANK

CREASY & WELLS

S.

HUTCHISON,

’16

INSURANCE

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Bank Building

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J.

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’34

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Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

252 West Fifth Street

Bloomsburg 669-R

W.

E.

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FOR YOUR REFRESHMENTS
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Bloomsburg

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S.

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’42

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Street
529

’42

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—

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Bloomsburg 850

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PRINTERS TO ALUMNI ASSN.

Mrs. Charlotte Hoch,

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Telephone 867
Mrs.

J.

Prop.

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Arcus,

’41,

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

B.

SMITH

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M.

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’15,

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ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
Max

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Bloomsburg, Pa.

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1868

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Harold R. Moyer, ’09, Vice-Pres.

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The

Alumni Quarterly

State Teachers College
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Vol. 51

No. 3

SEPTEMBER, 1950

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Commencement
To live in the one-world society which we now have we must
know geography; be able to speak or know the languages of the peoples of the world and break down the walls of inejudice. Dr. John H.
Furbay, director of Air World Education, told two hundred members
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
capacity audience heard Dr. Furbay tell the class “we must
sow the seeds of peace in the mind of man and the schoolroom is the
place where this can best be done.”
Declaring that every age has its pessimists, he declared, “we are
living in a wonderful world” and not facing any problem today that
has not arisen before. He declared those who look back to the “good
old days” are never leaders and those who are pessimistic “never
seem to do anything about improving the situation which they beof the graduating class of the

A

moan.”

The Commencement opened with the processional, “Grand
choeur,” William Faulkes, and the invocation by Dean Emeritus ''.VilFollowing the address Joseph Curilla sang “One
liam B. Sutliff.
World”; Dr. T. P. North, dean of of instruction, presented the class
and Dr. Harvey A- Andruss, president of the College, conferred the
degrees. The exercises concluded with the singing of “Alma Mater”
by the assemblage and the recessional, “Egyptian March,” Dudley
Peele.
Miss Harriet M. Moore directed the music with H. F. Fenstemaker at the console.
The Address

“We

ing in a wonderful world. Pessimists say we are ‘going to pot,’ but such folks have lived before; every generation has its
pessimists and crepe hangers who can see nothing but the dark side
of the picture. The trouble with pessimists is that they never seem
to do anything about improving the situation which they bemoan.
“There isn’t a problem today that we haven’t had before. The
problems of the twentieth century are the same basic problems mankind has always faced. The pessimists of today would have been
pessimists in an earlier age; on the other hand, there are other peo]jle who firmly believe that man has the intelligence to cope with the

Vol.

.51,

are

No.

li\

3

THE

AI.U.IINI

QUARTERLY

September, 1950

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, $2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.
H. F.
E. H.

FENSTEMAKER, T2
NELSON, T1

EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
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problems now facing mankind.

They

are the ones

who make

the

progress.

Every community has a few
is a changing world.
look backward to the ‘good old days,’ but they are not
the leaders. Throughout history, the leaders have been those who
have had the courage to take hold of new things and turn them into
channels to ser\ e others.”
“Tlie world

people

who

He

changing nature of the world by telling of the
in Beirut, Lebanon, when 44 American
delegates joined with hundreds of other leaders from almost every
country in the world (save the Soviet satellites and the USSR) in an
All the delegates arrived
international meeting of unusual interest.
by air, using technological improvements de\eloped in the United
States and extended by the scientific minds of other nations. A sur\ ey of those who attended showed that the delegation that had come
from the longest distance had travelled only 36 hours to get there.
It was truly a “town meeting of the world”; the whole world had “arlived” at Beirut in a day and a half.
He asked, ‘”\\4iat does it mean to live in a 36-hour world?” and
asserted, “A one-world community is already here.
The physical
proximity of all peoples is an accomplished fact, but there remains
a big job to be done: the creation of a one- world spiritually— the accomplishment of this is a major task for education. Teachers must
be prepared to educate children to live in a one-world society.
“The whole world today is smaller than any one of the original
American colonies. Distance, that is actual linear distance has not
changed, but space-time factor has been changed by man’s scientific
illustrated the

1949 meeting of

progress.

Our

UNESCO

lives are

made

of time.”
in an air-age world is to teach children now to get along with their global neighbors. “It is a dangerous
thing,” he stressed, “to bring our hatreds and prejudices together in
such a small world. \Ve must bring up one generation of children
to be at home in one world,” he said.
The program of the United Nations Assembly and Security Council is aimed to keep the political world from exploding into war, but
it is the task of
to develop a feeling of brotherhood which
wall enable men to get along together. “Wars and peace are made in
the minds of men,” he said, “we must sow the seeds of peace there
instead of the feelings that lead to war. The school room is the place
where this can best be done.”
must teach friendship for other peoples; our children must
learn how to get along with their neighbors across the seas.
must
tlirow our energies toward peace.
Teachers ha\ e a tremendous responsibility to show youth the new frontiers created by the air age

Another task for education

UNESCO

We

We

in

which we now

He

li\ e.

opened new lands for concjuest.
Citing examples in South America, Africa, and the Orient, Dr. Fursaid that the air world has

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never before opened to man’s economic and
were made available by the airplane. He gave
a number of examples to show the vast opportunities now’ being made
available to Americans in overseas businesses. He predicted that our

])ay said that vast areas

industrial penetration

yontb will take jobs

all

over the earth.

own job training young people to enter
“Aviation,” he said, “is my
positions overseas in air transportation.
business.” Air World Education is sponsored by the airlines of America, chiefly, TWA, to educate technically-trained youth for jobs in
other lands; jobs that ha\e connections with the air transport industry.
Furbay described

He

bis

we

are walking into a big w'orld economically. The
there are new worlds and empires in
w'e are entering an international
existence in business, diplomacy, and education. “We will soon be
educating our children all over the world,” he predicted. He said that
there are now 26,000 American students studying abroad. These are
the things, he said, that pessimists do not like to talk about.
A hopeful sign. Dr. Furbay pointed out, can be found in the fact
that Congress has appropriated 140 million dollars for international
education. It marks the first time in the history of the United States
that we have given the price of one machine of war (a battleship)
for education for international understanding.
In order to live in “one world” Dr. Furbay outlined briefly three
“musts”: 1.
must know more about geography; 2.
must be able
to speak or know the languages of the peoples of the world and be
able to converse intelligently with them and get acquainted w’itli
them, and 3. W’e must break dowm the walls of prejudice— finding
fault with other ways of life, religions, races and color— that have separated others from us.
“The base” of all prejudice,” he declared, “are ignorance and lack
of experience.” The Russians, he explained, make use of our tendency
toward prejudice to build up anti-democratic feelings in the countries
of Asia, Africa and Europe. ‘AVe cannot afford to be separated from
three-cpiarters of the people of the world by a thing like racial prejudice.
He urged his listeners to get some sense into their racial relations and thus gain better international thinking.
He begged the
class to dissoh'e the walls of differences that are now dividing us from
the rest of the world.
In closing, he urged the graduates, who are about ready to begin teaching, to do their best to educate children to live in one world,
for in education lies the one hope that mankind has of attaining the
dream of world peace and understanding.
Members of the class are:
Clyde .T. Ackerman, Zion Grove: Glen R. Baker. Benton: Lucy Jane Baker. Bloomsburg; Ramona R. Baksi, Reiser; Leonard A. Balchunas, Shamckin;
Hurley C. Baylor, Danville; Michael F. Bell, Camden, N. J.; Ned O. Benner,
Sunbury; Frank J. Bertollo, Jr., Berwick; Lucy F. Bitteti. Freeland; Earl H.

world

is

said that

up with Americans
business and industry
filling

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Jr., Berwick; M. Gloria Bonin, Hazleton; Kenneth E. Borst, Equinunk;
James H. Boyle, Shamokin: William J. Brennan, Bloomsburg; Elizabeth Broome,
Shenandoah; Henry E. Brunn, Nanticoke; Nancy J. Brunstetter, Catawissa;
Donald Butcofsky, Shamokin; John E. Buynak, Wilkes-Barre; Robert C. Canouse, Berwick; Frederick J. Case. Danville; Frances A. Cerchiaro. Nesquehon-

Blake,

Katherine E. Chapin, Berwick.
George Chebro, Beach Haven: Theresa A. Cierlitsky, Tamaqua; Aleki D.
Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Robert H. Conrad, Boyertown; Kenneth L. Cook, Elverson: Eugene J. Corrigan, Bloomsburg; Jay B. Cortright, Berwick; Nancy
J. Crumb, Berwick; Joseph Curilla, Shamokin; John B. Czerniakowski, Plains;
William C. Davis, Beach Haven; Kathryn E. Dechant, Renovo: Dorothy M. DeMott, Eyers Grove; Neil E. Dent, Philadelphia: Mrs. Betty Dietrich. Mifflinburg;
Bernard J. Dormer. Shamokin: Susan A. Dreibelbis, Bloomsburg; Harry J.
Drennan, Jr., Buck Hill Falls; Elizabeth J. Dunnigan, Hazleton; Junior L. Eddinger, Brwick; Edward H. Edwards, Edwardsville; Hannah Emanuel. WilkesBarre: Marian M. Engle, Nuremberg; Marcella J. Evasic, Luzerne; Mar.iorie
L. Fanzo, Bethlehem; Sarah M. Faust, Weatherly.
Gerald E. Fink. Bloomsburg: Patrick J. Flaherty, Bloomsburg: Norma
E. Gamble, Wyalusing; Flarold A. Garrison. Trevorton; Elbert G. Gaugler,
Port Trevorton, Leonard R. Gazenski, Wilkes-Barre: Mrs. Helen Hoffman Gerringer, Danville: Joseph J. Gieda, Plymouth: Charles F. Glass, Danville; Richard C. Gleockler, Fork.sville; Harry J. Gobora, Danville: Mrs. Anna A. Golob,
Scranton; M. Kathryn Graham, Bloomsburg; Leon E. Grant, Millville; Leonard
E. Gricoski, Shamokin; Dorothy Grifasi, Berwick: Lucille Groff, Wilkes-Barre;
Mrs. Hazel Chappell Guyler, Danville: Murray A. Hackenburg. Danville; Esther M. Hanlon, Tamaqua; Florence S, Hartline, Bloomsburg; C3Me H. Hartman,
Bloomsburg; Howard R. Hartzell, Jr., Danville; Curtis W. Herb, Bechtelsville.
Robert S. Flippman, Shamokin; Donald L. Hoar, Harrisburg; Ralph E.
Hornberger, Elysburg; Mrs. Erma Callender Huff, Federalsburg, Md.; Raymond
A. Huff. Watsontown; Mrs. Winifred Ikeler, Millville; Walter Guy James,
Frackville; Richard E. Jarman, Plymouth. Leonard A. Jasezak, Dupont; Doyle
W. Johnson, Bloomsburg; Francis R. Johnson, Bloomsburg; Luther Jones, Wilkes-Barre; Janice A. Jones, Plymouth; Shirley H. Jones, Ashley; Harold R.
Kamm. Harrisburg: Robert J. Kashner. Bloomsburg: George L. Kearnej’, Paxinos; Norman F. Keiser, Scranton; Jeanne A. Keller. New Albanjq Jane L.
Keller, Bloomsburg; Anna M. Kemp, Conyngham; Wilbur H. Kemp, Bloomsburg; Jane L. Kenvin, Hazleton: George Kepping. Hazleton; Mrs. Jane Price
Kepping, Hazleton; Donald F. King, Dallas.
Richard E. Kline, McClure: Thomas A. Klopp, Freeland; Mrs. Avis Wesley Kocher. Dallas; Michael Kollesar, Jeddo; Edward J. Kolodgie, Dupont;
Glenn R. Koplin. Easton: Elmer Kreiser. Columbia; Edward J. Krietz, Slatington; Thaddeus P. Krensavage, McAdoo; Stephen F. Kriss, Berwick; Genevieve A. Krzywicki, Drum.s: Stephen Kundrat, Jr.. Berwick; Joseph E. Kurey,
Mt. Union; Charles L. Lauck, Mt. Carmel; Lionel C. Livingston, Courtdale;
Berdine A. Logar, Weston; M. Louise Lohr, Berwick; Charles L. Longer,
Bloomsburg; Grace A. Lord, Wilkes-Barre; Frank T. Lupashunski, Berwick;
Zigmond D. Maciekowich, West Hazleton: Edward W. Mack, Glen Lyon; Henry
L. Marek, Dupont; Muriel F. Marks, Reading; Robert Martini. Benton; Grace
E. McCormack, Scranton; Leo J. McDonald. Ringtown.
Margaret McNealis, Nanticoke: Clarence J. Meiss, West Hazleton; Clair
E. Menscinger, Mifflinville; Edward F. Messa, Easton; Thomas M. Metzo, Wilkes-Barre: Nerine M. Middleswarth, Troxelviile; Charles E. Miller. Sunbury;
Mrs. Edythe Reimensnyder Miller, Milton: Richard C. Millhouse, West Hazleton; Jack L. Mordan, Millville; Rodney K. Morgans, Bloomsburg; John S. Morris, Bloomsburg; Joseph V. Murdock, Barne.sville; Thelma M. Naylor, Scranton;
Henry F. Pacholec, Scranton; John T. Panzetta, Allentown; Ann E. Papania,
Bloomsburg; Donald Parry, Blakely; Concetta G. Petarra, Camden, N. J.; Paul
P. Plevyak, Carbondale; Arlene M. Pope, Sunbury; Eleanor F. Poust, Muncy;
Margaret E. Reece, West Grove: Virginia F. Reimensnyder, Milton. John J.
ing;

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Marion Heights: Elizabeth J. Ridall. Town Hill; Mrs. Margaret Berninger
Bloomsburg; Mary E. Riley, Wilkes-Barre; Charles E. Roberts, Slatington; William G. Romig, Danville.
William H. Ryan, Riverside: Deryl Jack Samois, Danville: Madelyn J.
Schalles, Nescopeck: Walter G. Scheipe, Pottsvile; Leone M. Schain, Tamaqua;
Edward F. Sheehy, Columbia; John Shelman, Lopez; Eugene R. Shipe, Danville; William F. Shoemaker. Espy: Ruth E. Shupp. Plymouth; Paul D. Slusser,
Bloomsburg: Donald Smethers. Bloomsburg; Edward J. Smigelski, WilkesRick,

Riffel.

Barre; Marjorie A. Smith, Reading; Marguerite Somers, Hazleton; Elbert L.
Stamm, Danville; Doyle T. Steinruck, Bloomsburg; Warren M. Sterling,
Bloomsburg: William A. Stimeling, Berwick; Willis Swales, Jr., South Williamsport.

Mrs. Catherine Vollrath Symons, West Nanticoke; Carmela A. Tarole,
Bethlehem: Martha L. Teel, Bloomsburg; Audrey C. Terrel, Waymart; Mrs.
Alma White Todd, Girardville; Mrs. Edith LaBarr Tormay, Hazleton; Paul
Edward Ulrich. Danville; Andre M. Vanyo, Duryea; Joseph G. Vincent, Ashley;
J. Richard Wagner, Nescopeck; Mildred A. Wagner. Wilkes-Barre: Jane K.
Warner. Weatherly: Josephine A. We.senyak, Duryea; Harold J. White, Easton;
George E. Widger, Catawissa; Catherine Williams, Nanticoke; M. Richard Wolford, Montandon; H. Grace Worrall, Shamokin; Elmer L. Wyant, Noxen; Frederick D. Young, Jr., Ashland; Bernard J. Zelinski, Mt. Carm.el.

O

Baccalaureate

Sermon

The

present civilization must either meet the spiritual challenge
the Rev. Howard Pierce Davis, Bolton, Mass., minister, teachei, traveler and author declared at the Baccalaureate exercises of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The impressive di\ ine service was conducted in the Carver Hall
auditorium. The 200-gowned members of the 1950 class filed into
the auditorium to the strains of the processional, “Ancient of Days,”
with Prof. Howard F. Fenstemaker at the organ console. Miss Harriet M. Moore was director of music.
The invocation by the Rev. Davis followed. Dr. Harv'ey A. Andruss, president of the College, lead the Scriptural selection that proceded the sermon, “Open Doors are Front Doors.”
The word “doorway,” Davis explained, “symbolizes all the dooror

fall,

ways through which you

will pass, or through which you ha^'e passed
reaching this stage of your life. Many of the doorways of life have
already been opened to you— free education, the advantages given you
be, membership in a free society, the heritage of birth, and heredity.
Others, perhaps, have been slammed in your face by political chicanery and demagoguery.
“Life is a complete continuation of sequences of open doorways.
There is a tremendous lure in an open door.” He indicated that pride
in our soul which mocks at a goal has had a great historical past and
has implications for us in the future. It helps us determine the way
in which we must direct our life.
“The most impelling and driving force in the universe is the
spiritual force.
This drives us through open doors and tests closed
doors. It drove men to search for the truth of nature and planetary
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It helped our social organization develop into a democracy.
impelled men to unlock the mysteries of natural laws. It motivated mankind more than the mere acquisition of “things” and materi-

secrets.
It

alistic goals.

“An open door implies a ‘there’ which can conceivably be an
impro\ ement on the “liere.’ It provides a challenge to go from ‘here’
to ‘there.’ Civilization cannot be static.
“In spite of the power, scientific progress, speed of living, and
our ‘upholstered’ existence, things are getting too hot ‘here.’ Our generation is hysterical, degenerated, frustrated
only five years ago
we stood at the peak of international power. We had every reason
to expect a le^ elling off, a stabilization of society
peace was an
immediate prospect, but today we are told that peace is wishful thinking
some say that it is a subx ersive sort of thing
“\^^e do not want to ‘go back to religion.’
The religion of Jesus
Christ is far ahead of us; we have never caught up to it. No nation
has ever yet applied the Christian ethics to the conduct of international affairs.
Conser\ e the \ alues of the past, but move forward in a
.

.

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.

.

.

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.

.

.

dynamic sense.”
He encouraged his listeners by saying “God is still here. He has
not gone on relief; or old age pension. He has not abdicated. The
life are still waiting for people who have dared go
through open doors. His ci\ilization will either meet the spiritual
challenge or go down.”
Following the address, Aleki D. Comuntzis, accompanied by
Pdchard Wagner, sang, “The Greatest of These Is Lo\ e.” The program concluded with the benediction and recessional.

ultimate values in

o

A gland condition that developed while he was serving in tlie
S. Army during World \^’ar II, resulted in the death on Wednes-

U.
day, June 14, of Maclyn P. Smethers, well known young Berwickian.
He had been receiving treatment at intervals at Walter Reed Hospital
since his discharge from the Army four years ago and had, with the
exception of four days, been in that hospital since March 1. His condition had been critical there for about ten days.
The former soldier was a member of the Episcopal Church, was
long active in the Berwick Lodge of Elks and was a member of the
American Legion. He was employed in the office of James Miller at
the A. C. F. Mr. Smethers was a star athlete at B. H. S. and at B.
S. T. C.
Sur\'iving are his wife, the former Bette Dietterick; a son, Gregory, aged a year and a half, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
Smethers, of East Second street, Berwick.
o

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Jurasik, of 8531 123rd

Long

New

St.,

Richmond

Hill,

York, announce the birth of a son, Peter Anthony,
on April 25, 1950. They now hav e tliree children.
Island,

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SENIORS RECEIVE HONORS
Eighteen members of the graduating class of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College Thursday morning, May 25, at the Senior Honor Assembly were presented with College Service Keys, the highest

award made

to students at the local institution.

presentation of the keys, based on citizenship and service
to the college community, were presented by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the institution, to the following:

The

Kaye Chapin, Berwiek; Aleki Comuntzis, Bloomsburg; Joseph
Donald Butcofsky, Shamokin; Charles Roberts, Slatington;
Robert Canouse, Berwick
Kathryn Graham, Bloomsburg; Audrey
Terrell, Waymart; Lucy Baker, Bloomsburg.
James H. Boyle, Shamokin; Nancy Crumb, Berwick; Richard
Wagner, Nescopeck; William Stimeling, Berwick; Ruth Shupp, PlymCurilla,

outh; Junior Eddinger, Berwick; Doyle Johnson, Bloomsburg; Sara
Maud Faust, Weatherly; Madeline Schalles, Nescopeck.

There were seven of the class who are in the Who’s Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleges who were presented
crtificates of merit and accomplishments.
They were Bernard Zielinsky, Mt. Carmel; Richard Wagner, Nescopeck; William Stimeling,
Berwick; Charles Roberts, Slatington; Kathryn Graham, Bloomsburg;
Joseph Curilla, Shamokin, and Aleki Comuntzis, Bloomsburg.

Two members

of the class received commissions in the

who will enter active duty, and Willis Swales, South
who will remain in the Marine Corps Reserve.

Barre,
port,

United

They were John Buynak, Wilkes-

Marine Corps Reser\e.

States

Williams-

The program at the assembly opened with the Senior procession“Festal March,” Kroeger; Scripture reading, Donald Butcofsky,
president of the class; presentation of service keys and Who’s
certificates. Dr. Andruss; presentation of commissions in U. S. Marine
al,

Who

Corps Reser\'e, Captain Fred F. Herbin, Washington, D. C.; announcements of Ivy Day, Butcofsky- “Faith of Our Fathers,” College
chorus; recessional, “March,” Merkel.
o

A

More Years are Finished (1945-1950),” has just
thousand alumni and friend of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. Written by John A. Hoch, Director of Public
Relations, the pamphlet summarizes the progress made at the College
during the past five years in the broad fields of facilities, plant im]>rovements, curricular offerings, student activities, alumni relations,
and educational services. It is an outgrowth of a similar publication
written by President Harvey A. Andruss in 1945 entitled “Five Years
Are Finished (1940-1945).”
bulletin, “Five

been mailed

to three

Dr. Caroll D. Champlin
IMiversity of Utah.

is

o
teaching ’during the

summer

at the

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CLASS OF

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Alumni Meeting
The presentation of a living memorial by the elass of 1950 in the
form of eight hundred dollars, to be presented as scholarships by the
Alumni Association, and the honoring of three graduates with the
Alumni Distinguished Service awards, featured the meeting of the
bloomsburg State Teachers College’s graduate body.
The session, one of the largest and most interesting ever held,
also saw the introduction to the graduates of the Husky canine Roongo III, which has been purchased by the Alumni and has been pre•sented to the College as mascot for its athletic teams.
The distinguished service awards were presented to Dean Emeritus William Boyd Sutliff, of the beloved College “Old Guard”; to
Mrs. Garry Cleveland Myers, class of 1905. of Boyd’s Mills, a pioneer
in parent education and child literature, and Dr. George E. Pfahler,
class of 1894, of Philadelphia, who has done outstanding work in
radiology in which he was a pioneer worker and recognized as one
of the world’s outstanding

men

in this field.

1950 got an o\ation from the graduates when they
entered the auditorium, attired in caps and gowns. Donald Butcofsky,
Shamokin, president, presented to Dr. E. H. Nelson, Alumni president, a check for dues of all members of the class in the association,
and Miss Audrey Terrell, Waymart, presented a check for eight hundred dollars for scholarships.

The

class of

The class announced that there is to be a fifty dollar scholarship
eiven each year. Plans have already been made for the first reunion
of the class and the program outline calls for the class to give a scholarship annually throughout its life.
Members of the class of 1900 were gi\ en the honored places on
the platform and each was presented with a certificate such as was
awarded by the State after graduates had taught successfully in the
schools of the Commonwealth for two years.
Dr. Francis B. Haas, former president of the Teachers College
and now the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, presented the
Distinguished Service Award to Dean Sutliff and the graduates got
to their feet, applauding, as he advanced to receive the certificate.
It was presented by Dr. Haas to “a grand gentleman, a fine scholar
and teacher, and an understanding friend of youth.”
Dr. Pfahler, a native of Numidia, is one of the world’s leaders in
the fields of radiology and has received international recognition for
his work.
Mrs. Myers was granted her award for “her pioneer work in
lamilv life and childhood education and for her charting new paths
in children’s literature, especially in children’s magazines.”
Dr. Nelson presented the awards to Mrs. Myers and Dr. Pfahler.
Mrs. Myers also received a corsage from the Alumni which was presented to her by her husband. Dr. Myers. There were also corsages
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MRS. CARRIE CLARK MYERS

WILLIAM
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B.

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Smith and Mrs. Pfahler.
Both Mrs. Myers and Dr. Pfahler responded briefly. Dean Sutliff, \’isibly mo\ed by the presentation whieh was beantifnlly done
by Dr. Haas, declined the in\ itation to respond but did pronounce the
Dr. tiaas in his presentation
benediction concluding the meeting.
read some of the Dean’s poems.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College, extended welcome and presented Harry O. Hine, Washington, D. C., of the class
of 1885, and Dr. and Mrs. Antonio Fiernos-Isern.
The doctor, who attended the Bloomsburg Normal in 1910 and
He
1911, declared his days at Bloomsburg the happiest of his life.
later became public health commissioner for Puerto Rico and then
the representative of the U. S. possession at Washington, D. C.
Directors re-elected for three-year terms were Miss Elizabeth
Huebler, Hervey B. Smith and Dr. E. H. Nelson. The latter did his
usual expert job in keeping the session moving and reports of the reunion classes were, as always, one of the highlights.
for Mrs.

o

COLLEGE TEACHER MARRIED
Miss Iva Mae VanScoyoc, daughter of Mrs. Charles Calvin VanScoyoc, of East Second Street, Bloomsburg, and William S. Beckley,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Beckley, of Bloomsburg R. D. 4, were
married in an informal ceremony Wednesday, April 5, in the Presbyterian

Church.

The Rev. G. Douglas Davies performed

the ceremony with the
immediate families of the bride and bridegroom present. Mrs. Ruth
Billig, of Dan\ ille, prov ided nuptial music on the organ.
The bride, escorted by her brother-in-law. Ward L. Myers, of
Muncy, chose her sister, Mrs. Ward Myers as matron-of-honor. John
B. Waters, Jr., of Camp Hill, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, was
best man and ushers were Frank Shuman, of Shamokin, William
Shuman, of Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Beckley was graduated from Lock Haven State Teachers
College and the Pennsylvania State College. She took advanced study
at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and is a member of the faculty of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mr. Beckley graduated from the Wharton Sehool, University of
Pennsylvania, and recently received his law degree from the Dickinson School of Law. He is serving a clerkship in the law offices of
Smith and Eves. During the war, he served four and one-half years
in the U. S. Army.

o

James F. Krumerine, a former student at Bloomsburg, was graduated from Advanced Flying Training at Williams Air Force Base
on June 29, 1950. He will be rated Pilot and be assigned to an Air
Firce tactical flying unit.

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'Saucered and Blowed'
By

E. H.

NELSON 11

was a genuine pleasure to welcome the fine reunion groups
on Alumni Day. “Bill” Watkins went to work and had an enthusiastic representation from 1908 back for a get-together, although it
was an off year for that class. And how our Challis Thompson is
working for her class and the greater New York area! One feels honored to be associated v/ith such loyal Alumni.
It

The presence of Dr. F. B. Haas, Superintendent of Public Instruction and former President of the College, is always an inspirational touch to Alumni Day activities.
III), the new College mascot,
attendance at the general meeting Saturday morning. May 27, and the generous response to the appeal to
provide for her “board and keep” was most gratifying. She is a fine
husky dog from the Chinook Kennels in New Plampshire and does us
proud. Meet her at the football games in the fall.

The

introduction of “Imp” (Roango

was well received by those

History was

in

made when

the graduating class presented $800.00

to the Alumni Association to be used for scholarships— one $50 scholarship each year, and the class will add to this at later reunions. Every
year, for many, many years to come there will be a “elass of 1950
scholarship” available for a worthy student. Thanks to the class and
its fine officers.

Ed
Press,”

medium
that

is

Schuyler, ’25, the genial editor of the Bloomsburg “Morning
an ardent booster for the College and the hill. Through the
of his newspaper columns he does much to build the spirit

is

Bloomsburg.

Louise Larrabee was in from Honolulu for the weekend activities.
Older Alumni will remember her mother as the Librarian and custodian of the study

hall.

The Reverend Mr. Klingaman of 1900, acting as Class Marshall,
was as aggressR'e as the day he was graduated. His youthful spirit
added much to the grand reunion of the Naughty Naughters. Harry
O. Hine, ’85, in fine health and keen mental •acumen made those 50year members seem like a bunch of youngsters!

'\Ve

Our next big get together will be Home Coming Day in the fall.
always find the College a royal host, so let’s be on hand to enjoy

the fine reception that wall be ours.

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Ivy

Day

The traditional Ivy Day ceremonies, Senior Day feature, were
held in the court of Waller Hall and featured the address by Kenneth
Cook, of Elberson, who declared that “one of the most horrible weapons scientific progress has made possible is thought control. There
is the threat to our culture.”
At the Ivy Day ceremonies, Mr. Butcofsky, Senior Class President,
presented Mr. Cook. At the close of the oration, Mr. Butcofsky presented the spade to Richard Kressler, Bloomsburg, president of the
class of 1951, and the program concluded with the Alma Mater led
by Charles Roberts.
The Ivy Day oration follows:
Today we are gathered together to take part in a ceremony
which has become an established part of life at Bloomsburg.
plant ivy— that the ivy may svmbolize by its growth and spreading
upward, our own growth and dispersion into the world that awaits
us upon graduation. As the ivy draws nurture from the soil in which
it is rooted, so are we, and all people feeding on the cultural environment in which we grow and think. This cultural environment, largely our great American heritage, is today threatened more than it has
ever been in our history.
“The graduating year of this class of 1950 is one of mounting
crises.
Modern technology has given man powerful tools which he
is not yet prepared to use intelligently.
Some of these tools are adapted to violence, others are more subtle and sinister. One of the most
horrible weapons scientific progress has made possible is thought

We

control.

“There

is

the threat to our cidture.

“Today we find the thinking of a large number of the world’s
people dominated by a few men whose political philosophy is quite
different from our own.
At will, these men may manipulate the
opinions of millions of people to gain support for any policy they may
undertake. They have mobilized the press and radio, the schools,
and every field of scientific knowledge to make possible this control.
Aleanwhile, the best minds in America are considering how we shall
defend oureslves from the menace of that world power, without for-

own freedom. Our indictment of Communism is not so
against the economic system as it is against the political philosophy that would sacrifice human freedom on the pagan altar of
material gain.
“There are a few people in this country who are really afraid
that the spread of Communistic ideas may destroy our institutions.
But can we in this case fight fire with fire? Can we hope to preserve
feiting our

much

our freedom by restricting our freedom? This problem is of particular
concern to workers in the field of education. On the teacher rests
the responsibility of imbuing our young people with a love of freePage Thirteen

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dom and

with a respect for the opinions of others that will never tolerate the decimation of our liberties.
“I believe that the American way is the right way, and, believing
that, I am sure that we need not fear for American ideas in the free
exchange of thought.
“Can we not believe with Jefferson that ‘Error of opinon may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
“With a ^•igilanl concern for the freedoms of speech, the press,
religion, assembly, and petition let us mo\ e on to that brighter, better world that science and education have made possible for all mankind.
“As the i\ y we plant here will be sheltered in its early growth
by the walls which surround it, so ha\ e we been sheltered by our
Alma Mater that we might be properly disciplined before assuming
our places as educators and leaders in a world desperately in need of
intelligent leadership.”
o

TO HEAD COLLEGE SENIORS
Richard Kressler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan R. Kressler, R. D. 1,
Bloomsburg, has been elected president of the Senior Class at Slate
Teachers College. Kressler, who has been quite active in campus
activities, graduated from Bloomsburg High School with the class
of 1947.

Other officiers elected include Carl Persing, Mt. Carmel, vice
president; Barbara Frederick, Mifflinburg, secretary; Jack Reese, Forty Fort, treasurer; Nancy Powell, Scranton, and Frank Dean, Lost
Creek, representathes to College Council. Miss Marjorie A. Keller
is class ad\ isor.
o

Church, State College, formed the setting
at noon Saturday, April 8, for the marriage of Miss Marian E. Ballamy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart F. Ballamy, of Xescopeck, and
Elbert B. Tice, of Jamesburg, N. J., son of the late Albert and Ida
Tice. The Rev. Frank Montgomery officated.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Jones, of Bridgeton Pike, Millville, N. J., attended the couple.
Mrs. Tice is a graduate of Nescopeck High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College and was a former teacher in the Nescoj)eck schools.
She is now a teacher in the schools of Bound Brook,
N. J.
The groom, a graduate of the Jamesburg High School, N. J., and
Rider College, Trenton, X. J., is a ser\ ice super^ isor for Public Service
Electric and Gas Company, New Brunswick, X. J.
Following a wedding trip to Washington and Mrginia, the couple
are now at home to their friends at 261 Handv Street, New Brunswick,
N. J.
St.

Paul’s Methodist

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NEW MASCOT
Roongo

wagged

ARRIVES

town a few days l^efore Alumni Day and
was apparently pleased with what he saw of his new home town
from the confines of a wooden cage.
Roongo III, eighteen months old, is a Siberian Malamute of the
same breed of canine that gave the Bloomsburg State Teachers College teams their title of “Huskies.” For some time, the College has
been without a mascot.
The name “Roongo” is contrived from a corruption of the names
of the school colors, Maroon and Gold. Drop a couple of consonants
and you’\ e got a Husky.
Richard ^Vhitner, of town and a student at the college, will be
in

III

into

charge of the animal.

Through the

new Husky was

interests of

Alumni and

Prof.

George

|.

Keller, the

obtained from the Greenlawn Kennels, Laconia,

New

Hampshire.

Roongo I was acquired by Prof. Keller for the formation of a
dog sled team, and shortly become the Gollege’s mascot. He was
borrowed by the Huskies of the Uni\ ersity of \Vashington and went
to the Rose Bowl in 1937.
There wasn’t much heard of Roongo I
after that.
Washington lost to Pittsburgh, 21 to 0.
Not long afterward, Roongo II put in his appearance. He finally went South with Admiral Byrd.
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B. S. T. C.

ACCREDITED

Bloomsburg State Teachers College graduates will now have their
work at the local institution accredited in any graduate school in the
countr\^ and in fields other than education as the result of having attained membership in the Middle States Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools, a regional accrediting association.

This important step of the local institution has been announced
by Dr. Har\ey A. Andruss, president of the college.
The school has been approved for years by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and was approved by the
State Council of Education at the time that it became a Teachers

But now the credits will be recognized in fields in addition
and including such licensure boards as those in law and
medicine. It amounts to national recognition in all collegiate fields.
It also adds to the academic prestige of the local institution.
Acceptance into membership was based on an evaluation of the
results of inspection during a visit of a group of educators designated
by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education.
The accrediting committee was headed by Dr. C. M. Huber, assistant to the president, Wilson Teachers College, Washington, D. C.,
and recently visited the Bloomsburg campus where it sj)ent several
days inspecting the facilities of the college, examining the program
and evaluating the general offerings of the institution.
Other members of the committee were Dr. J. Conrad Seegers,
dean of the Teachers College, Temple University; Dr. DeAlton Partridge, dean. State Teachers College, Montclair, N. J.; Miss Mary Jane
Cort, librarian. State Teachers College, Slippery Rock, and Carl Sapper, steward. State Teachers College, Edinboro. M’ord of acceptance
came from Frank H. Bowles, chairman. Middle States Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools, Commission on Institutions of HighCollege.

to education

er Education,

Columbia University,

New

York.

o

Miss Eleanor Elizabeth Woodruff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
of East Third street, town, became the bride of
Joseph Papania, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Papania, also of town,
in a ceremony at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, June 10, at the
Bloomsburg Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. G. Douglas Davis pastor of the church, performed the
single-ring ceremony.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Papania are graduates of the Bloomsburg
High School. Mrs. Papania is also a graduate of Beaver College, Jenkintown and Kutztown State Teachers College, where she majored in
She has accepted a position as art instructor in the klillvdlle
art.
School for next Fall. Mr. Papania attended the Unb’ersity of Maryland and is enrolled at present at the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College in the junior class. They will be at home, upon their return,
at their newly furnished apartment at 403 Fair street.

Elmer Mmodruff,

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COLLEGE WILL AID IN PROJECT
Bloomsburg State Teachers College has been selected
several State Teachers Colleges throughout the United
invitation of Teachers College, Columbia University,
in a project for the improvement of the teaching of
secondary schools. The project began with eight or

school districts in

New

York,

New

fersey,

as

one of

States, at the

to participate

citizenship in
nine selected

Connecticut and Pennsyl-

vania, pooling their most effective methods of bringing high school
students in touch with actual experiences in \ oting, jury duty, student

government,

etc.

The proposed plan

is for one Teachers College in each State,
Bloomsburg being the only Teachers College in Pennsylvania, to

make

these materials available to students being educated for the
profession of teaching.

This means that college classroom instructors, college advisors of
student government groups, and part-time cooperating teachers in
the public schools in which student teaching is done will need to acC[uaint themselves with and cause students to have experience which
will fit them for leadership in developing citizens of the future who
will \'ote voluntarily in larger numbers than heretofore, be willing
to act as jurors,

and exercise an active

interest

and participation

in

the democratic activities of such a country as ours.
In addition to the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, the presidents of the following institutions, along with President Harvey A.
Andruss, were invited to meet for a two-day seminar at Columbia Unversity on April 28 and 29, 1950:
State College for Teachers, Albany, New York; State Teachers
College, New Britain, Connecticut; State Teachers College, Montclair, New Jersey; State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas, Indiana
State Teachers College, Terre Haute, Indiana; North Carolina Teachers College, Greenville, Noidh Carolina.

o
Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Harvey A. Andruss, their guests, members
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Branch of Pennsylvania
State Education Association and their guests enjoyed the Annual Facidty Banquet held at the Pine Barn Inn in Danville. Also attending
were Dr. and Mrs. Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Education, Mr. and Mrs. George Shanno, of Hazleton, and Mr. and Mrs.
Elfred Jones, of Wilkes-Barre.
Dean John A. Hoch gave the invocation and Mr. W. B. Sterling,
president of the local PSEA Branch introduced Dr. Andruss who presided over the program.
Mr. G. M. Hausknecht, retiring Business
Manager, and Mr. Nevin T. Englehart, retiring Superintendent of
Grounds and Buildings, were each presented with a Gonsistory ring
for their outstanding service to the College by Dr. Kimljer C. Kuster

and Mr. H.

F.

Fenstemaker, respectively.
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COLLEGE OFFICIALS RETIRE
Ne\ in T. Englehart, an employe
College for forty-fi\e years and

of the

Bloomsburg State Teach-

superintendent of buildings
and grounds for the past third of a century, and C. M. Hausknecht,
business manager of the institution for almost twenty-five years, retired on June 30.
ers

its

Edward Sharretts, of Berwick, who has been an assistant to
Englehart for the past two years, has become superintendent of buildings and grounds, and Paul Martin, of town, son of the Rev. L. M.
Martin, of Catawissa, succeeded Hausknecht.
Mr. Englehart, who went to work for the institution, then a Normal School, six weeks after he graduated in 1905, has had the longest
tenure of continuous service in the history of the college.
He and William H. Hagenbuch, local automobile dealer, were
the first graduates of the commercial course of the Normal School
which was then in charge of Prof. Goodwin. The latter is still active
as

head

of a private business school.

The

twelve years of Mr. Englehart’s service were as bookand then he turned his enrgies to buildings and grounds. Throughout his tenure the appearance of the plant
has won commendation from the town and visitors. It was touched
upon in detail in a recent report of some educators who gave the college a high rating in the field of education.
Mr. Hausknecht has been in educational work forty-seven years.
He is a former principal and head of the commercial departm.ent of
the Lock Haven High School and came to Bloomsburg from Kutztown
State Teachers College where he served a number of years as bursar.
He succeeded the late Francis H. Jenkins, one of the beloved College “Old Guard.”
Both Mr. Englehart and Mr. Hausknecht have been active in
civic affairs.
Mr. Englehart is a charter member of the Bloomsburg
Kiwanis Glub and a past secretary and president. Mr. Hausknecht

keeper

first

in the business office

a past president of Rotary.
Mr. Sharretts is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Gollege and is well known in the community.
Mr. Martin, a Naval veteran with a number of years of service,
was teller in the Farmers National Bank, here, for a time after the
close of M^orld ^^^ar II and then accepted a position as a state bank
is

examiner.

The two men retiring were guests of honor recently at the annual
faculty banquet held at Pine Barn Inn, Danx'ille, at which time each
was presented with a Gonsistory ring.
Mr. Englehart and Mr. Hausknecht were honored at a party tendered them by more than seventx' fellow employes of the State Teachrs Gollege.
The party was held in the Waller Hall lounge. Each
was presented with a wrist watch.
Theron M^atts, store keeper and recei^ing clerk, served as master
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Mrs. Anna Knight, secretary to the president, presented the watcli to Hausknecht, and Walter Rhodes, of the
maintenance department, made the presntation to Englehart.
or ceremonies at the affair.

A bouquet

of flowers

was given

to Mrs.

for Mrs. Englehart,
husband for her.

who was unable

Edward D.

who

Sharretts,

will

Hausknecht. A bouquet
was presented to her

to attend,

succeed Mr. Englehart, and Paul
among those who spoke

Martin, successor to Mr. Hausknecht, were
briefly.

o

COMMERCIAL CONTEST
Berwick and Trevorton High Schools tied for first place in the
Eighteenth Annual High School Commercial Contest held at the
Teachers College. The results, based on the sum of the rankings
achieved by individual contestants from the schools in contests in
business arithmetic, business law, shorthand, bookkeeping and typewriting, gave each of the winning schools a low-point total of twentyseven tallies.
^V\’oming, Collinsdale and Bloomsburg finshed in third, fourth
fifth places, while Danville High School was sixth.
A total of
.177 contestants from thirty-fi\'e high schools competed in the contest
which was one of the features of the Twentieth Anniversary celebration of the founding of the Department of Business Education. Richard G. Hallisy, director, Department of Business Education, said that
championship placques will be awarded to each of the two schools
that were deadlocked for first place.

and

Berwick High School took first place in the bookkeeping contest
through an excellent performance by Nancy Nagy who tallied 237
points in competition with twenty-five students and another top spot
in the Business Law examination when Jo Anne Alay led seven contestants with a total score of 131 poiiR
The Columbia Countians
also picked up a third place in shorthand when Marion Smith scored
396 points to earn a high rating among forty-five contesants.
Trevorton

hand

won

only one

contest, but picked

up

place, as individual title in the shortthird-place ratings in bookkeeping and

first

typewriting and had comparatively-good showings in Business Law
and Business Mathematics to earn a tie for top honors with Berwick.
Collingsdale High School equalled Berwick’s feat in picking up
first places, taking home honors in business, matehematics and
typewriting, but other team contestants finished far down in the ratings, and the Collingsdale team finished in fourth place.

two

Bloomsburg High School netted one third in Business Law when
Peggy Durling made a good showing in a contest with seven other
entries.

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THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
H. Nelson

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

^E^^

On May

13,

YORK AND NEW JERSEY ALUMNI
1950, the Alumni Association of the New

York and

New

Jersey area held the first Blooinsburg State Teachers College
reunion in the histor\- of the College. Mliile a reunion meeting had
ben held in New York about thirty years ago under the auspices of
the then State Normal School Alumni Association, the plans for further meetings were abandoned, and no attempt was made to organize an Alumni Association in this great area with upwards of four
hundred alumni members and graduates.

Through the efforts of a few graduates who became interested in
organizing the Association to meet annually, sixt\ -four persons representing classes from 1890 to 1946, following tlie in\ocation by Dr.
llar\ ey A. Andruss, sat down to dinner at the Allerton House, 57th
Street and Le.xington Avenue, in New York City on the abo\ e date.
President Andruss and Mr. Englehart represented the College facult\" at the dinner and brought to the group assembled interesting facts
about the College curriculum and student body; also plans for the
future welfare of the College.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, President of the
General Alumni Association, brought greetings and congratrdated the
group for the splendid work being started in the Great New York
area toward building a stronger Alumni body.
Following brief opening remarks by tlie Chairman and Master
of Ceremonies, H. M’alter Riland of the class of 1903, Mrs. Ann Challis Thompson, class of 1904, and the one most instrumental in promoting the meeting, was called upon to state how the inspiration to
hold this reunion came about.

Three minute sketches of personal achievement were given by:
1.
Ira S. Brown, class of 1890, oldest graduate present.
2.
Margaret Burke, class of 1898, Principal of Jane Adams \’ocational High School, New YMrk.
Miles Killmer, class of 1900, for many years engineer in
3.
charge of the building of New Y'ork’s water tunnels and subway. Mr.
Killmer is now \'ice-President of Mason and Hanger, Construction
and Contracting Engineers.
4.
E. Joe Albertson, class of 1901, Editor Peekskill Star, N. Y\
5.
Claude Fisher, 1904, Engineer Consolidated Edison Co., New
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York

City.

Mrs. Florence Price, 1918, President of the New Jersey Feachwhich has a membership of 26,000 teachers.
Association
ers
Time did not permit calling upon all of the graduates present, but
enough was said by those who had an opportunity to speak to give
sufficient evidence that Bloomsburg State Teachers College and its
predecessor, the State Normal School, can be proud of the achievement of its men and women graduates.
Tnere was unanimous agreement that the reunion should become
an annual affair and to this end officers were elected and an Executive Committee was appointed to promote the meeting for 1951. The
6.

names

of the officers

and committee are

as follows:

President— Mrs. Ann Challis Thompson, ’04.
Vuce-President— Gertrude Morris, ’99.
\’ice-President— Francis Paul Thomas, ’42.
Secretary and Treasurer— Mrs. and Mrs. A. K. Naugle, ’ll.
Executive Committee— H. Walter Riland, ’03, chairman, Guy H.
Rentschler, ’04; W. Glaude Fisher, ’04; Dr. Margaret Park, ’23; Juel
Carmody, ’25; Eileen Falvey, ’46.
At the close of the dinner all joined hands and sang “Should auld
acquaintance be forgot.” Many lingered to exchange further greetings and talk over experiences during Bloomsburg State Teachers
College days. If we can judge by the enthusiasm created by the first
Alumni meeting in this area, the Metropolitan New York Association
Pennsyh'anians, keep
IS off to another successful reunion in 1951.
\'our eye on New York and New Jersev.
H. WALTER RILAND
o

MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI
The Montour County Branch of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Alumni Association held its annual party recently in the
Mausdale Reformed Church. The ladies of the church served a delicious chicken dinner.

The speakers were Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the general
Alumni, and Dr. Harvey Andruss, president of the College.
Special musical numbers were given by a trio from the College,
composed of Andrew Macieko, Norman Kline and Max Kaplan.
The new officers are: president, Mrs. Ruth Rudy; vice president,
Mrs. Donald Kessler; secretary. Miss Alice Smull, and treasurer. Miss
Susan

Sidler.

Those present were Mary MacDonald, Kathryn Campbell. Mrs Olive
Gass, Mrs. Mildred A Ferry. Mrs. Geor.ge McCollum, Miss Susan Sidler, Mr.
and Mrs. Edmund Miller. Mrs. Carrie Bryner, Miss Lois Bryner, Mrs. Carol M.
Hilkert, Miss Ann Pappas. Charles Hunselman, David Foust, Mrs. Alice Karosa. Miss Harriet Fry, Miss Winifred McVey, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Hackenburg, Mrs. Bruce Rhawn, Miss Lois Wintersteen, Mrs. Olice Clark, John Betz.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hoffman. Mrs. Sara Fine. Miss Alice Smull, Mrs.
Donald Swank, Mrs. Ralph Balliet, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Seibert, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Hartman, Miss Rebecca Appleman, Miss Alice Guest, Mr. and Mrs.

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admiration of her pupils. In the minds of many of Miss Guie’s pupils
of another generation she stands out as the teacher who most influenced their lives for good. Many of her pupils have the fondest
memories of Miss Guie’s elasses in literature and the gems that were
required to be memorized for speeial oceasions.

Always a gentle personality, unselfish in her devotion to others
and an inspiration to all those whose lives she touched, Miss Guie
will be long remembered.
Many of her pupils, 20 and 30 years after graduation, made annual pilgrimages to Catawissa to \isit Miss Guie. The years were
kind to her and friends in recent visits have remarked that she was
one who never seemed to age with the years.
Miss Guie was a member of the Daughters of American Revolution and retained membership in the Third Presbyterian Church of
Seattle, Washington.
1885

The

class of 1885 was the oldest class to be represented on AlumEarl Delbert. Mr. and Mrs. John Sidler. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Warrington, Mrs.
Donald Kessler, Mrs. Charles Guyler, Danville; Norman E. Kline, Max Kaplan,
Andrew Macieko, Mrs. Lucille Baker, Thomas J. North, L. J. Satterfield, Mrs.
William S. Beckley, Bloomsburg.
Rev. Charles Glass, Mrs. Charles Glass, Harriet M. Moore, Dr. Harvey
Andruss, Mrs. Ruth Rudy, Mr. and Mrs. Fied Diehl, Dr. E. H. Nelson, Rush
Shafer. Charles M. Derr, Mrs. Anna Miles, Miss Julia Warner, Daisy LeVan,
Mrs. Daisy Girton. Mrs. Dorothy Dean, Ella Underwood, Marie K. Wright,
Naoma M. Eble. Elizabeth Tovey.

o

1881
Mi,ss Enola B. Guie, one of the most Ijeloved teachers in the old
'\hlkes-Barre High School, died Friday afternoon, June 2, in the
Bloomsburg Hospital after a short illness. She was 92.
Miss Guie was graduated from Bloomsburg State Normal School
She came to the Wilkes-Barre Pligh School, as
in the class of 1881.
it was known then, in 1891 and taught elocution and English literature
until she reached retirement age in 1919. She also directed the dramatics of the \ arious classes and the plays of the Shakespearean SoBefore she came to Wilkes-Barre
ciety and the Cliosophic Society.
she was a member of the staff at the Bloomsburg State Normal School.

When

she reached her retirement age she

left

Wilkes-Barre

and took up her residence in Morristown, N. J. Shortly afterwards
she and her sister, Claudia, mo^'ed to Seattle. But the love of her old
friends and the old famly home in Catawissa were too close to her
heart to leave behind and upon the death of her brother she and her
sister returned to Catawissa and reopened the old homestead, where
tfiey lived quietly in the community that meant so much to them.
In the classroom it was a rare occasion when Miss Guie had to
discipline a pupil. Possessed of a fine sense of humor and an unique
understanding of boys and girls, she immediately won the respect and
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lii

Day.

Harry O.

hearer of the

Hiiie, of

Washington, D.

C.,

was the lone standard

class.

1886
Main, wife of Thomas B. Main, died May 5,
1950, in a hospital in Tryon, North Carolina, after a short illness.
Emma Murphy was one of fi\e Harrisburg, Pa., girls who attended
Bloomsburg Normal School and graduated with the class of 1886.
Mrs. Main graduated with first honors from Harrisburg High School
in 1885. Her scholastic ability won her high honor at commencement
at Bloomsburg. Teaching a few years, she resigned from the Harrisburg teaching force and moved with her parents to Philadelphia,
where she became associated with the Fidelity Insurance Company.
She married Mr. Thomas B. Main, a civil engineer, now retired. They
resided in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. They finally decided to live
in North Carolina on account of the fine climate.
They spent their
winters there and their summers in the North. Mr. Main and several
cousins survive. She was a cultured Christian worker, a loyal friend

Emma W. Murphy

by whose influence many

lives ha\ e

been enriched.

1888
Mrs. Annie Supplee Nuss, of Bloomsburg, was the lone representative of her class on Alumni Day.
1890

There were

five

members

of the class of 1890 present for their

sixtieth year reunion.

They were the Rev. John K. Adams, town; Ira S. Brown, East
Rutherford, N. J.; Grace Gallagher Byron, New York; Mrs. Mary
Moore Taungel, NorristowTi; Mrs. Kate Lewis Davies, Scranton.
Mrs. William H. Kerslake passed away Monday, April 17, after
being ill at home a few days.
She was the former Carrie Smith, daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Smith and was born at Newcastle, Pa.
A graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, she taught
sehool a number of years in Shenandoah.
She was a member of St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Survixmrs are her husband, a daughter, Mrs. W. C. Fleck, of Alden. Pa.; a sister, Mrs. Emily S. Carl, of Fresno, Calif., and a brother,
Alillard, of Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Two grandchildren also survive.

1894
Seventy-six years ago George E. Pf abler was born unto Mr. and
Mrs. William Pfahler in the southside community of Numidia.
He was no exception, having attended, like the rest of his playmates, the ungraded country school of the community.
This v/as the beginning of a distinguished and unusual career,
for following graduation from the Bloomsburg State Normal School
back in 1894 he reeei\ ed his M. D. from Medico-Chirurgical College,
a diploma in medicine, radiology, and electrology from Cambridge

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England; an honorory doctor of science from Ursinus
College in 1930 and finally in 1942 a LL.D. degree.
Alumni Day Dr. Pfahler was the recipient of a distinguished service award at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
As one might suspect, Dr. Pfahler began his career as a school
University,

However, this field was changed to his lifetime’s profession.
For over four years he was resident physician and more than three

teacher.

years assistant chief resident at the Philadelphia General Hospital.

His many other ser\ ices included director of the radiological del^artment at the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital; clinical professor of
radiology at the same college from 1909-1911; professor of that department from 1911 to 1916; professor of radiology and vice dean of
the Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; graduate
school of medicine from 1916 to 1946, and emeritus professor and
emeritus vice dean since that date. During 1916-32 Dr. Pfahler was
the director of the radiological department of the graduate hospital
in Philadelphia, and director of the radiological department at the
Misericordia Hospital from 1916 to 1943.
His activities have been both many and ^'aried. He is a member
board of directors of Ursinus College and a member of the
board of directors of the Aid Association of the Philadelphia County
Medical Society; chairman of the committee on cancer control of the
Philadelphia County Medical Society for nineteen years; chainnan
of the executive committee of the American Cancer Society, Philadelphia division seven years, and a member of the advisory committee during M’orld War 1.
Dr. Pfahler served on the executive committee of the First and
Second International Congress of Radiology; honorary \ice president
of the Fifth International Congress of Radiology, held in Chicago,
1937, and is named as honorary vice president of the Sixth International Congress, held in London, July, 1950.
Dr. Pfahler is a member of the American Medical Association;
American Radium Society; College of Physicians of Philadelphia;
American College of Physicians; American Gastroenterological Society. He was president of the American Roentgen Ray Society, 190910; American Electrotherapeutic Association 1912-13; served as first
president of the American College of Radiology in 1922-23; president of American Radium Society 1921-22; he is honorary member of
the Radiological Society of North America, and is honorory member
of the Radiological Society of France; also the German Roentgen Society; the Radological Society of Russia; Radiologieal Society of Scandinavia; Radiological Society of Austria; Radiological and Physiotherapy Society of Mexico; Radiological Society of Guba; honorary member of the Radiological Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine
in London; honorory Fellowship of the Faculty of Radiological Section of tlie Royal Academy of Medicine in London; honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Radiologists, London, England, (1950); member
of the

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Club of Philadelphia.
Dr. Pfahler has been the recipient of a number of awards. Numbering among these are the Strittmatter Gold Medal of the Philadelof the Medical

phia County Medical Society; Gold Medal, American Roentgen Ray
Society.
The Hall of Science at Ursinus College was named in his

honor

in 1942.

Several of the world’s greatest authorities have considered Dr.
Pfahler as one of the pioneers of roentgenology and have dedicated
works in his honor. They include such men as Francisco Arce, of
Madrid, Spain, and H. R. Schinz, W. Baensch and E. Friedl.
Dr. Pfahler has contributed hundreds of articles to medical journals.

1896
Miss Ida D. Andrews, eighty-three, of New Columbus borough,
died at the Nanticoke State Hospital Thursday, April 13.
She was born in Fishingcreek township and was a former resident of Plymouth and had resided in New Columbus for 52 years.
She was a member of the Methochst Church and was a member of
the first graduating class of the Plymouth High School.
She was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal School, Class
of 1896, and taught school in New Columbus, Plymouth and Shickshinny for a number of years. She also served as a school director
at New Columbus, and was long active in church and other community activities there.

1897

Amy
Street,

V. Beishline (Mrs.

W.

F.

Thomas)

lives at

820 North

New

Bethlehem, Pa.
1898

At the turn of the century, a nineteen-year-old girl was graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School.
Now, at tlie age of seventy, but still young through fifty-one years
of contact with young America, Miss Gertrude Rinker, of 623 Eighth
Avenue, Prospect Park, is packing her gift luggage for a tour of the
United States and Canada. After more than a half-century of teaching in Pennsylvania, she is retiring from service.
Upon her graduation from the Normal School, Miss Rinker entered the teaching profession as instructor at the one-room Buckhorn
school. After one term, she accepted a position in the local school
system where she taught in the grades for twenty years.
Subsequently she taught six years at Prospect Park, Delaware
county, and spent the past twenty-four years as first grade instructor
for the school district of Tinicum township, Essington School, also
Delaware county.
In honor of Miss Rinker’s long and useful service, the school
board, faculty, former pupils and townspeople gatliered to pay her

homage

at a testimonial dinner at Essington recently.

Miss Ethel

Simpson Rayne, principal of the Essington School, who served as
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toastmaster, paid high tribute to Miss Rinker. Members of the school
felicitated Miss Rinker.
The Chester Times, in an account of the event, reported, “Miss
Tinker has established a reputation for thorough and careful teaching
and has had the ambition to be patient, kmd and interested in children.”
Miss Rinker received many beautifnl gifts, including a beautiful
brooch from the school board. Members of the faculty presented
her with a two-piece luggage set which she plans to put into immediate use in her projected tour.

board and many others

1899
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Severance recently entertained in honor of
their fiftieth wedding anniversary. In\ itations were extended to three
hundred guests. They have eight children, twenty-three grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Severance live at 10734
Lindbrook Drive, West Los Angeles, California.
1901

Edward Fagan,

practicing physician for forty years and
for twenty-one years medical examiner for the Hazleton city school
district who died at the State Hospital Friday, February 2, was buried
from his home, 103 W^est Diamond a\’enue.
Although not in the best of health for the past year. Dr. Fagan
was about as usual and entered the hospital following a sudden attack. His condition had been regarded as fair.
Dr. Fagan, who practiced medicince in Hazleton the past forty
years and whose long medical career included the delivery of close to
4,000 babies, was born in Lattimer, a son of the late Robert and Adelia

Dr. Peter

iO’Reilly) Fagan.

He graduated from the Hazle Township High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College and from Jefferson Medical College in
1909. Prior to entering Jefferson College he was engaged as a teacher for a number of years in the Hazle Township school distinct.
Following his graduation from Jefferson he sensed his internship
at the Hazleton State Hospital and then began his medical practice
in Hazleton in 1910.
Dr. Fagan became affiliated with the medical staff of the city
schools as assistant to the late Dr. W. F. Danzer and in May would
have completed 21 years of service with the school district, most of
them as head of the medical staff.
He became well known in industrial compensation work as chief
surgeon for the Jeddo-Highland Coal Co., having succeeded the late
Dr. H. M. Neale in this post after the latter’s death in 1937.
In addition he ser\ ed as a medical examiner for tlie Metropolitan
JJfe Insurance Co., and had been a \’eterans’ Administration doctor
since World War I, after having served with the rank of captain in
the U. S. Army Medical Corps during that war.
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his presence at various athletic events of the schools and until
few years ago he frequently accompanied the Hazleton High football and basketball teams.
Besides his medical work he served as president of the Union
Savings and Loan Association, a post he held for some years past.
Fraternally he was associated with Hazleton Lodge No. 200. B.
Dr. Fagan was
P. O. Elks and the Luzerne County Medical Society.

braced
a

a

member

of St. Gabriel’s Church.

The following

editorial

comment appeared

at the time of Dr.

Fagan’s death:

The hand of death again touched Hazleton’s medical profession
and claimed Dr. Peter E. Fagan, whose forty years of practice exemplified the high ethics of that fraternity. Family doctor, coal company
surgeon, school medical examiner, and a man whose varied business
required an effort that finds him passing on when his years might have
been extended to the service of mankind.
Dr. Fagan came of an old Hazleton family and his entire life is
interwoven with region history. After his graduation at Bloomsburg
State Normal School, class of 1901, he returned here to become a
teacher in the Hazle Township schools. An athlete of renown, and a
member of the college varsity baseball team, he followed that game
after graduation and won notice in semi-pro ranks. A foot racer with
few equals, he contributed much to that sport, which was a major
event in his day.
His early youth and manhood was spent in Lattimer where his
father. Bob Fagan, was mine superintendent. Like many of the boys
from the villages, he made the best of every opportunity and after a
few years as teacher, he left his school role for a higher calling in the
field of medicine, and in which he was to distinguish himself.
Records show that he delivered close to 4,000 ehildren throughout this area, and in view of the horse-and-buggy era in which he began the practice of his profession, it is evident that his path to success was no easy one.
As surgeon for the Jeddo-Highland Coal Co., for more than 12
years he was ever on call, and his 21 years as medical examiner for
the Hazleton School District added another burden that undoubtedly
shortened his years. His school obligations found him traveling with
the athletie teams in all kinds of weather, adding extra hours of service during the long seasons of football and basketball.
With his tasks well performed. Dr. Fagan goes to rest and the
people whom he served, particularly the youth to whom he was attached, will long remember his deeds and eonsiderations.

1905
Mrs. Charles E. Mericle, seventy, of 307 Iron Street, Bloomsburg,
died Sunday, March 26, at the Bloomsburg Hospital. She had been
in ill health for a year and was bedfast for about six months.
She
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had been hospitalized three weeks.
Born and reared in Mt. Pleasant township, at the age of fifteen
She was the former Zella Sarah
she moved to Madison township.
Thomas. Mrs. Mericle resided in Mt. Pleasant township until three

when she moved to Bloomsburg.
She was a graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal School, class of
1905, and taught at the Geiser school and the Madison schools. Mrs.
Mericle was a member of the Dutch Hill Reformed Church.
Surviving are her husband; one son, Wilbur, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Carroll Matson, of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Stanley Stewart, of Catawissa; two grandchildren; a brother, Fred Thomas, of
Philadelphia, and a sister, Mrs. George Betz, of Bloomsburg.
Also surviving is her mother, Mrs. Matilda Hartzel, who has been
confined to the Bloomsburg Plospital for the past year.

years ago

1906
Dr. Juan Jose Osuna, internationally known edueator and retired
of the School of Education of the University of Puerto Rico,
died Sunday, June 18, at his home, 1300 Twenty-fourth Street South,
Arlington, Virginia. He had been ill since he suffered a heart attack
last January.
In a letter to President Andruss, dated June 9, he said:
“After two months in the hospital and four more at home, I am beginning to go out a bit. It has been a long ordeal for a man who has been so

Dean

active, but when the heart refuses to function properly, there is nothing else
o do but to give it a long rest. We’ll see if I ever come back to myself again.”

He
24, 1884, in Caguas, Puerto Rico,
country when he was sixteen years old, and studied for
a time at Bloomsburg. He became naturalized in 1917. He was graduated from the Pennsyh’ania State College, and reeeived his Ph.D.
from Columbia University in 1920. Before taking his graduate work
at Columbia, he had prepared for the Presbyterian ministery at Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1915.
After his graduation from Princeton, he served as a missionary in
Anasco, Puerto Rico, under the Presbyterian Board of Missions.
After a wide European study in the educational field, Dr. Osuna
became director of the summer school at the University of Puerto
From 1928 to
Rico, and served in that position from 1922 to 1928.
1945, he served as Dean of the College of Education.
In 1938-39 he traveled in Latin America in behalf of the World
Federation of Education Associations.
Dr. Osuna was the author of “A History of Education in Puerto
Rico,” published in 1923 by the Editorial of the University of Puerto
Rico. A second edition of the book appeared in 1949, and Dr. Osuna
presented a copy of the book to the College.
As a testimony of the high reputation held by Dr. Osuna among
his colleagues in Puerto Rico, a foreword, of which the following is
a part, and which was written by Jose Padin, appeared in the second
Dr.

came

Osuna was born June

to this

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edition of the book:
“The author of this book is the most distinguished Puerto Rican educator
of his generation. For almost a quarter of a century he was Dean of the College of Education of the University of Puerto Rico. Few educators have taken
their work more seriously, and fewer still have combined the desirable zeal
with the indispensable technical and professional equipment to do a good job.
Firmly convinced that there is no equality of opportunity without an efficient
system of public schools and no educational efficiency without properly trained teachers, he concentrated on teacher training. Thousands of teachers in
Puerto Rico owe to him the inspiration to secure adequate professional training, and many of them the necessary aid in the form of scholarships to get it_
To him belongs by right the lion’s share of the credit for whatever the educational system of Puerto Rico may have accomplished during the first fifty
years of American occupation. Obviously, such a man has one of the prime
qualifications to write on the history of education in Puerto Rico, for he has
contributed substantially to a large portion of it.”
While he was a student at Bloomsburg, Dr. Osuiia lived at the

home

of Dr. Welsh, near Orangeville.
In accordance with his oftexpressed wish, his body was brought to Orangeville, to rest among
his beloved Pennsylvania hills.

1908
perhaps will remember Charles L. Maurer, formerly of
Fisherdale, and now of Collingswood, N. J. He graduated from the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Ursinus College and holds a
graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctor’s
degree from Temple University and an honorary degree, L.H.D. from
the College of South Jersey.
Dr. Maurer is a vocational and scholastic counselor for the Temple University high school adult and special programs.
He was principal of schools in Cleveland township for three
years, and principal of Roaring Creek Township High School for two
years. After two years as vice head master of Conway Hall, he moved
to Camden, N. ]., where he served as head of the history department
and subsecpiently as director of Psychology and Guidance. He organized and served as director of the Parent Child Guidance Clinic.
In 1932 he joined with two other men in organizing The College
of South Jersey and Law School. He served as dean from the inception of this Junior College.
Steps have been taken to merge with
Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. It will then
be an autonomous division of the State University.
Since 1946 he has served, part time, as Coordinator of Veterans
Education at Temple Uni\’ersity-Secondary Division.
He is author of “Early Lutheran Education in Pennsylvania,” and
has an article on An Aecelerated Program of a University High School
in the February issue of Educational Administration and Supervision.
His name appears in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the
East, Who’s Who in Education, and Who’s Who in the World.
1909
P’red W. Diehl has been reelected superintendent of the Montour
County Schools for the ninth time and for his thirty-third year, hav-

Many

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ing been elected the first time in 1918.
He has next to the longest tenure as superintendent in the state.
During Mr. Diehl’s tenure, forty-two one room schools in the
county have been closed and six new buildings erected; Danville
High School, Anthony, Limestone, Valley, Mahoning and Washingtonville.

1911

Edgar

Company

Chemical Bank and Trust
York since 1927, died Friday, June 23, in White

B. Landis, trust officer of the

of

New

Plains Hospital.

Mr. Landis was graduated from the Wharton School of the Uni-

He was national vice president of
versity of Pennsylvania in 1919.
Alpha Phi Rho fraternity, and and honorary member and former presSigma fraternity.
ident of the New York alumni of the Zeta

Gamma

He had been

president for three years and a member of the
council of the University of Pennsylvania Club of New York. He was
the recipient of the 1947 alumni award of merit and was a director of
tlie alumni board of the university.
Mr. Landis was for many years a lecturer on trust problems at
the American Institute of Banking and was a member of tire trust
functions committee of the New York State Bankers Association. Survi\ ing are his wire, Mrs. Ruth Kendall Landis, and a son, E. Kendall
Landis.

1912
Earl Andrews, of 184 Hillside Road,

Oak Ridge, Tenn., died
suddenly on Tuesday, May 9, 1950. Death was due to a heart attack.
Mr. Andrews is survived by his wife, Mary Eckert Andrews, a
son, Richard E. Andrews, a student at the University of Maryland
in Baltimore, a daughter, Mrs. William Rosenbaum, West Pittston,
Pa., a brother, P. Lewis Andrews, of Billings, Mont., and two grandsons.

A

native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Andrews and his wife came to
in July of 1947.
Prior to his position in the physics division there, Mr. Andrews was associated with the Republic Aircraft

Oak Ridge

Corporation in Farmingdale, N. Y.
He was born in Easton, Pa., on October 18, 1888, and was educated iu Wilkes-Barre High School and Penn State College, where he
specialized in aeronautics, design and engineering.
Mr. Andrews was a member of the Wilkes-Barre Methodist
Church, but was not affiliated with any civic or fraternal organizations in Oak Ridge.
The Andrews went to Oak Ridge directly from Wyoming, Pa., the
town where they were married.
Previous positions held were mainly associated with aircraft.
He was connected with the Consolidated Vultee Company in San
Diego, Calif., at one time.
For a number of years he worked for the borough engineer in
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Kingston, Pa., and before that worked for the eommissioners of Luzere eounty. He also was employed by the Pennsylvania Department
of

Highways.

Mrs. Andrews is now living with her son-in-law and daughter at
416 Luzerne Avene, West Pittston, Pa,

Helen Appleman (Mrs. Herbert B. Keller) received the Bachedegree this year at Manchester College, Manchester,
Indiana. She is teaching fourth grade in Culver, Indiana.
J.

lor of Science

Thomas

Isabel

is

principal of the

Linden Street Building

in

West

Pittston.

is

Helen G. Metzinger, 308 East Center Street,
Art Super\'isor in the Mahanoy City Schools.

Mahanoy

City, Pa.,

1915
Holland, Pa., has completed twenty-seven years of teaching in the public schools, and two years as a
private kindergarten teacher.

Helene Mitchell Weaver,

New

1917

(From the June

19, 1950, issue of the

“Evening Courier,” Prescott,

Arizona.)

Twenty-five years of service on the faculty of Prescott schools

were marked

off this

month by Bussell A. Ramage, principal
who came to this city in 1925.

of Pres-

cott Senior Pligh School,

The popular

principal began his Prescott career as an instructor
military training and has served in various capacities since that time.
Recalling his early years with the local schools, Ramage said
til at when he arrived, the high school was a four-year school in the
building which now houses the junior high school, but in 1925 it was
less than half the size it is now.
class of 38 seniors was graduated at the first commencement
Ramage attended, he remembers, 11 boys and 27 girls. There were
only 15 teachers on the facultv, counting the principal, four men and
in

woodworking and

A

11

women.

In contrast to that time, the senior high school is now a threeyear school, has a faculty of 29, 16 men and 13 women, and this year
graduated a class of 132.
In September, 1938, Ramage was made vocational coordinator

and counsellor for boys. He
1944, when he was elevated

filled this position until the spring of

to the position of superintendent of
schools during the absence of Don R. Sheldon, then serving in Germany with the American Government section of the U. S. Army.

When Sheldon returned in January, 1946,
the senior high school as principal.

Ramage

returned to

1929
Alice

Rabuck (Mrs. Hiram Smith) has been

living at 366

Broad

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Her husband. Lieutenant
Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Colonel in the Army was recently transferred to Fort Dix, and his
wife has joined him there.
1934
Esther Evans McFadden has been elected teacher in the elementary grades of the Catawissa schools.
Street,

J. Wesley Knorr is handling Public Relations for the
pet Company, Bloomsburg. His address in Bloomsburg

Magee Car252 West

is

Fifth Street.

1938
Robert R. Mhlliams received his Master’s Degree at the Commencement Exercises held at Bucknell University on Sunday, June 11.

He

is

a

member

of the facultv of the

Bloomsburg High School.

1939

Miriam Louise Utt (Mrs. Samuel R. Frank) is living at 462 Railroad Street, Manchester, Pa. Rev. and Mrs. Frank announce the birth
of a daughter, Rebecca Louise, February 9, 1950.
Miss \urginia E. Cniikshank, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and now a teacher in the fifth grade in the Fourth
Ward School, Sunbury, is represented in the May issue of “The Instructor.”
Miss Cmikshank has written the words and music for a
song entitled, “Let’s Go Travelling,” which appears in the Program
Material section of the magazine.
The Sunbury teacher received
her Bachelor of Science degree at the local institution in 1939.
1940
A daughter, Christine Isabel, was bom to Mr. and Mrs. E. F.
Miller on February 25. Mrs. Miller was Gwladys Jones, class of 1940.
Her husband is a member of the East Providence, R. I., school faculty.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Moore (Ethel Ruth) have been living at the
Park Lynn Apartments Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Moore is teaching in the Alexis I DuPont High School in that city. They are building a new home, which they expect to occupv soon.
1942
Emia M. Wolfgang (Mrs. John M. Latshaw) lives at 519 North
First Street, Shamokin, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Latshaw announce the birth
of a son, John David, on the thirty-first of May, 1950.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Zimmerman, of Quarr\wille, announce
the birtli of a son, Douglas Bmce Zimmerman, on Sunday, June 4.
Mrs. Zimmerman was formerly Jeanne Noll, also of the class of 1942.
Mr. Zimmerman, a teacher in Quarrvwille, recened the degree of
Master of Science in Education at the University of Pennsylvania

m

August, 1949.
1943

Ruth

Hope

(Mrs. William P. Handy), lives at Hopewell Farms,
R. D. 4, Coatesville, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Handy have two children, a
B.

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daughter, Frances Jean, almost three years old, and a son, William

Hope Handy, born January

24, 1950.

Elizabeth Bierman (Mrs. A1 Collis) lives at 1175 Gresham Rd.,
Her husband is employed by the Mack Motor Truck
J.

Plainfield, N.

Company

in Plainfield.

Elwood Wagner, an officer in the Army, has recently been promoted to the rank of Captain. Mrs. Wagner was formerly Catherine
Jones, of Shickshinny. They have a son, Kurt, who was a year old in
June.

1944
Miss Mary Elizabeth Hagenbuch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.
Boyd Hagenbuch, of Iron street, town, became the bride of Donald
Eugene DeLong, of Philadelphia, in a ceremony performed by the
Rev. Edgar D. Ziegler at St. Matthew Lutheran Church at two o’clock
Saturday afternoon, June 17. The impressive double ring ceremony

was used.

A reception followed at the Bloomsburg Country Club, and the
couple then left on a wedding trip to Bermuda. They will make their
home in Jenkintown.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The bridegroom, who served
as captain in the United States Marines during World War II, is completing a course at Temple University. He is employed by RCA Corporation in Camden, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeryl Moyer (Jean Ackerman), of 56 South Fourth
Hamburg, Pa., are the parents of a son born March S. Mr.
Moyer is a clerk at the Pennsyh'ania Steel Casting Company in Ham-

Street,

burg.
Salvatore A. Mazzeo, 1223 Ferry Street, Easton, Pa., is teaching
Pen Argyl High School. He recently received the degree of
Master of Education from Temple University. He is a member of

in the

Phi Delta Kappa, Temple's honorary graduate professional fraternity.
Janet Shank (Mrs. C. P. McLaughlin) states that she and her husband have recently purchased a new home near Bloomsburg. Her
address

is

R. D. 2,

Bloomsburg.

1948
Mr. and Mrs. John Scheber, Jr., announce the birth of a daughter, Robin Elissa, June 6, 1950. Mrs. Schieber is the former Rose Marie
Kraiser, a graduate of B. S. T. C., class of 1948.
Since graduation Mrs. Schieber had been teaching commercial
subjects at Hatboro High School, Hatboro, Pa.
Mr. Schieber is a
1950 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and is now employed as a chemical engineer in Jenkintown, Pa.

Mr. and Mrs. James

J.

Dormer

live at

1616 Paxton Street, HarPage Thirty-three

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risburg, Pa., have just returned from Japan, where the former seiv^ed
as Assistant A-4, with the 374th Troop Carrier Wing at Tachikawa,
and later at Shiroi Air Base. He went to Guam in the autumn of
1948 and was transferred to Japan in the spring of 1949. His wife
joined him in Japan in September, 1949. Mr. Dormer plans to teach

during the coming school year.
1949
Miss Dorothy Gail Rowan and Vincent F. Friday were united in
marriage Saturday, June 10, in the First Baptist Church, Phoenixville.
Miss Rowan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Rowan, Jr.,
312 Gay Street. Mr. Friday is the son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy L.
Friday, 455 Nutt Road.

The Rev. Ronald K. Adams, pastor of the church, officiated at
Wedding music was provided by Miss
the single ring ceremony.
Sara T. Opp, organist, and Mrs. Leslie Prizer, soloist.
Mrs. Friday was graduated from Phoenixville High School, attended Pottstown Business School, and is employed in tire office of
the B. F. Goodrich Company, Oaks.

Mr. Friday, a member of tlie faculty of East Pikeland Consolidated School, is a graduate of Phoenixville High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He served for three years in tire U. S.
Naval Air Corps, during WMrld War II.
Miss Elisabeth Ann WTight, daughter of Mrs. Dennis D. Wright,
of East Fifith Street, town, and the late Mr. Wright, became the bride
of Samuel S. Papania, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Papania, of
Bloomsburg, in a lovely ceremony Saturday, April 1, at the Blooms-

burg Methodist Church.
Preceding the wedding service, Howard F. F'enstemaker, Bloomsburg, played organ selections and Miss Irene Engle, of town, sang
“The Wedding Prayer,” “Because” and “I Love Thee.”

Both Mr. and Mrs. Papania are graduates of Bloomsburg High
School. Mrs. Papania is also a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The bridegroom is employed by Bmce Hippensteel, of
town.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Noble, of Calkins, announce the engage-

ment of tlieir daughter, Eloise L., to Arthur E. Fasshauer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur F. Fasshauer, of Honesdale. Miss Noble is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, class of 1949.
Mr.
Fasshauer graduated from the Cybick School of Tailormg in New
York and is proprietor of Art’s Custom Tailor Shop in Honesdale.

Marie A. Stadts, 84 Main Road, Plyanoutli,
Harter High School, Plymouth Township.
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were reelected for ten-year terms.
addresses are as follows:

officers

home

The

officers

and

their

President, Don Butcofsky, 1149 Walnut St., Shamokin, Pa.
Vice-President, Bill Davis, Box 106, Beach Haven, Pa.
Secretary, Kay Chapin, 229 E. 5th St., Berwick, Pa.
Treasurer, Harold Kamm, 2510 Agat St., Harrisburg, Pa.

However, since the

class officers are seattered over

area, all general eorrespondence should
at the address given above.

home

addresses of

the
to keep the
all

There

members

is

be directed

a complete

to

file

of the class of ’50,

sueh a wide
Butcofsky

Don

available of the

and every

effort

up-to-date. Any of these addresses will
be furnished upon request. All of you are also “cordially urged to
drop us a few lines every so often when you find the time. That is
the only way we can keep this alumni report interesting and timely.
have a lot of ideas on how to keep the Class of ’50 in first
place in the Alumni League. All we ask of you is that you send us
your ideas and criticisms and let us know that you are interested.
Our class is the biggest and best ever.
may not always be the
biggest, but we will always be the best. Let’s pitch in and make the
Mid-Century Class the Class of the Century.
have fifty years in
will

be made

file

”

We

We

We

which

to

do

it.

1950

By
Back

DON BUTCOFSKY

Corona again, this time to give you
of affairs as they stand with our class since graduation.
It’s a little too early for much general news except to say that jobs
are searcer than orange hats in Dublin on St. Patrick’s Day, if you
who are sons and daughters of the Old Sod will pardon that figure
of speech.
a

at the eonsole of the

summary

The first S50 award from our Memorial Scholarship Fund will
be made during the 1950-51 term. The annual selection of the person
to receive this award will be made by the Alumni Scholarship Committee, which is under the able chairmanship of Dr. Kimber C. Krister.
The prime consideration to be taken by the eommittee in naming the annual recipient of the scholarship will be professional promise
and the existing need of the student for financial assistance.
Doubtless most of you January graduates are wondering how
the transition from a fountain fund to a scholarship fund was made.
Well, to make a long story short, the fountain fund whieh had already been established by the Class of ’49 was found to be sufficient
lor the aqueous edification of the Waller Hall Court.
The scholarship fund, which had been a close second in the previous balloting,
was then established by a ballot that was only a few votes short of
unanimity.
in

At the same class meeting the class also decided overwhelmingly
favor of remaining organized following graduation.
The same
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Rodney Morgans,

member

of the class of 1950 at the Teachon the local institution’s winning football teams of the past four years, has accepted a position on the faculty of his Alma Mater, South Williamsport High School.

K.

and a

ers College

a

star tackle

Morgans is the husband of the former Patricia Mercer,
and the son of Mrs. John Morgans, of South Williamsport

of town,

.

The widely known athlete graduated in the secondary department of the College and will teach at South Williamsport, and be
assistant to

Mac

During

and

is

Hufnagle, the South football coach.
Morgans has made

his years at the College,

widely known in the area for his work at tackle.

when

many

friends

During the

was a lessening of the manpower available
work was exceptionally outstanding.
In high school he was a member of the football team throughout
his four years of scholastic training and was on the Susquehanna
Conference championship team of 1943.
Upon his graduation from South Williamsport High in 1944 he
entered the United States Marine Corps and served for thirty-two
months in the South Pacific. He was in radar work.
1949 season,

there

at the tackle positions, his

Miss Claire Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Young,
of Berwick R. D. 1, became the bride of Edward G. Baker, son of
Mrs. Kathryn Baker, of Philadelphia, in a Spring ceremony at five
o’clock Saturday evening, April 22, in the First Presbyterian Church
Berwick.
Palms, fern and baskets of white gladioli, stock and white chrysanthemums decorated the altar before which the Rev. Gladstone P.
Cooley, pastor ,performed the double-ring nuptials.
ol

the

They will reside in Coatesville where the groom is employed by
Newberry Co.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and the

J. J.

New York City, and has been employed as a
secretary at B. S. T. C. The groom, a World War II veteran of three
and one-half years service with the expeditionary forces, is a graduate
of the Spring City High School and B. S. T. C.
Katherine Gibbs School,

John W. Williams, Bloomsburg, has been elected to the faculty
of the Haddon Heights High School, Pladdon Heights, N. J. Mr. Williams will assume his duties beginning with the Fall term in September.

He

commercial subjects and assist in coaching varsity
and basketball at the New Jersey school.
A graduate of Bloomsburg High School, 1945, Mr. Mhlliams was
graduated from the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in January
1950 with a major in retail selling in business education. He was a
member of the varsity basketball and football teams while in high
school and was also active in the athletic program at the college.
During World War II he served eighteen months in the U. S.
will teach

football

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Navy with

fifteen

months duty

in the

South Pacifie theater.

Miss Dorothy R. Schug, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sehug,
of East Eighth street, Bloomsburg, beeame the bride of Walter Marena, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Merena, of Excelsior, Pa., in a ceremony at three o’clock Sunday afternoon, June 3, at the Ukrainian
Church of the Transfiguration, Shamokin, performed by Father

H antra.
Following the ceremony, a reception was held at the Penn Lee
Hotel, Shamokin. The couple left later on a wedding trip to Atlantic
City and upon their return will make their temporary residence at
151 East Eighth street, Bloomsburg.
The groom is a graduate of Coal Township High School, Shamokin, and B. S. T. C. He served with the 28th Division in World War
The bride is
II and plans to enter the teaching profession this Fall.
a graduate of Bloomsburg High School.

The garden at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George J. Keller, of I.ight Street Road, was the picturesque setting
at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, June 3, for the wedding uniting
Miss Jane Louise Keller and Frank Louis Molinaro, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Molinaro, of Pittsburg, Calif.
The Ven. William J. Watts, pastor of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
town, performed the ceremony.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Molinaro are graduates of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. The foi'iner is teaching at John Hill School, Boonton, N. J., and Mrs. Molinaro will teach in the primary grades at Boonton this Fall. The bridegroom is a Navy veteran of four years ser\^ice, two years of which were in the Pacific area.
He is a lieutenant
(ig) in the Naval Reserve.

Charles L. Lauck, of Mt. Carmel, has taken a position with the
Popular Finance Company, Inc., there. A native of State College,
he graduated from B. S. T. C. this year with a B. S. degree in business administration, majoring in accounting and minoring in retail
sales.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Lauck, of State College, he is
married to the former Mary Ruth Tyson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Tyson, of Catawissa. She is also a graduate of B. S. T. C.,
class of 1949.

Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Walters, of 121

S.

Woodward

Court, Hazle-

announce the engagement of their daughter, Betty Anne, to
Clarence J. Meiss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Meiss, Jr., of West
Hazleton. Miss Walters is a member of the Senior Class and is majoring in the Elementary Field. Mr. Meiss graduated from B. S. T. C.
in May in the Secondary Course, majoring in Social Studies. Miss
ton, Pa.,

is the daughter of the fonner Florence Altmiller,
the class of 1918.

M^alters

member

of

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Class Reunions
1895

The fifty year class, that of 1895, had
Among those presen were Mrs. Harry

a splendid turnout.
Higbee, Watsontown; Mary
Pendergast, Harrisburg; Mrs. B. F. Beale, Duncannon; Fred E. Fassett, Wyalusing; Nathan W. Bloss, Wapwallopen; Harry J. Lewis. Trevorton; Mr. and Mrs.
Claude M. Stauffer, Bethlehem; Mrs. William Monday, Pittston; Mrs. M. P.
Ikeler, Danville R. D. 2; Charles W. Derr, Riverside; Mrs. Theresa H. Holmes,
Mrs. J. S. John, Mrs .Jonathan W. Buck, of Bloomsburg Miss Bertha Seely,
L.

1898, also attended.

1900

There were more than

thirty of the class of 1900 in attendance

The fifty' y'ear class was the honored class of the
day and during the general meeting the members were presented
with copies of certificates such as were presented to graduates after
they completed two years of teaching in the schools of the Commonwealth. Some members of the class were able only to be present for
tlie dinner on Friday evening.
Others joined the class for Saturday’s
e\ ents.
Most of them, however, were present throughout the obser\’ance and all had a splendid time.
at their reunion.

In attendance Saturday were these members: Miles I. Killmer, South
Orange. N. J.; Michael D. Costello, Shamokin; Clyde Confer, Watsontown R.
D. 1; Lydia Zehner Shuman. Bloomsburg: Kathryn Gorrey Carlin, Gary. Ind.;
Frank C. Harris, Orangeville: Guy A. Mowerj'. Danville R. D. 4; Rev. J. Edward Klingaman. Winchester, Va., R. D. ]; Mrs. B. F Bieber. Washington, D.
C.; Mrs. Leslie Seely. Philadelphia; Mrs. G. Clayton Welles, Watsontown; Glenmore N. Snyder. Wilkes-Barre: Mrs. William Zimmerman, Mary Boyle. Hazleton: Mrs. Walter H. Andrews. Slatington: Mrs. W. C. Leach, Macomb, Rl.;
Anna Solomon Rubrecht. hiladelphia; Emily Appenzeller, East Mauch Chunk;
Stella Shuman Swenk, Philadelphia; Mrs. Jesse Y. Glenn, Berwick; Phoebe
W. John. Charlotte I. Deitrick, Mt. Carmel; Edna Hassler, Pitsburgh; Lottie
Burgess Mane, Hazleton.

The

class of 1904,

1904
holding a special reunion, had a good repre-

sentation.
Present were: Mrs. Mabel Mertz Dixon, Belle Meade, N. J.: Mrs. Jessie
Boyer Howell, Trucksville: Mrs. Elizabeth Specht Martin, Hazleton; Mrs. Leona
Kester Lawton. Millville; Irwina Cogwell, Montrose: S. Margaret Seely, Berwick R. D. 1; Mrs. Harriet Hitchcock McMurray, Mehoopany; Emma Kelminski, Mt. Carmel; Sara E. Buddinger, Mt. Carmel; J. M. Malone. Shenandoah;
Mrs. Anna C. Thompson. New York City.

1905
Class of 1905 assembled in the College auditorium, thirty-five in
number. Alumni Day, for the General Alumni meeting. At the roll
call of classes, Nevin T. Englehart responded briefly for the class.
At adjournment of the alumni meeting, tlie class and its guests
moved to a private dining room at Test’s where a fine dinner was
served.
son,

Following the dinner brief remarks were madeby E. Joe AlbertJ. Y. Shambach, Mrs. Carrie Clark Myers, Mrs. Emma Cortright

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Plans were laid for a reunion five years hence.
Attending: Edna Crouse Harrison, Orangeville: Kathryn Wilkins Pulson,
Wilkes-Barre; Anna Thomas, Edwardsville; Carrie Clark Myers, Dr. Gary C.
Myers, Boyds Mills; G. Eldward Elwell, Jr., Sara Milleisen Elwell, Bloomsburg;
Adelia Mertz Bergen, Harlongen, N. J.; Elizabeth Mertz Mitchell Vermorel,
Hackensack, N. J.; Anne E. Conlan, Wilkes-Barre; Emma Cortright Shelby,
Washington, D .C.; Blanche Miller Grimes, Harrisburg; Dora Leidy Fleckenstine, Bloomsburg; Beatrice Larrabee Albertson, Peekskill, N. Y.; Claire E. Colvin. Northumberland; Bessie K. Grimes, Catawissa; Dr. Charles L. Mowrer,
Hagerstown, Md.; Grace E. Roberts Miller, Dorothy Keefer Kashner, Bloomsburg; Mary Kirkendall Hagenbuch, Pottstown.
Myrtle Robbins Wood. Nescopeck; Inez Robbins Wilson, Emma Smith;
Nevin T. Englehart, Aleta B. Englehart, Espy; Vera Hemingway Housenick,
Bloomsburg; Jesse Y .Shambach .Harrisburg; William G. Jenkins, Wilkes-Barre;
Paul Pooley, Mrs. Paul Pooley, Danville; Neil Harrison, Orangeville; E. Joseph
Albertson, Peekskill, N. Y.
Shelly and others.

'

The
members

class of

1908
1908 held a special reunion and had twenty-nine

coming from four states. They started their program on Friday evening and continued throughout Saturday.
present,

'

Present were: Miss Rebecca Appleman, Danville; Mrs. G. L. Dodson,
Shavertown; Miss Ella M. Billings, Nicholson R. D. 1; Miss Laura E. Boone,
Hazleton; Mrs. George S. Westfield, Chester; Mrs. Lloyd Wilson, Kis-Lyn; Mrs.
William T. Wooters, Camp Hill; Mrs. Orrie Pollock, Wyoming; Miss Effie M.
Conrad, Sunbury: Miss Margaret D. Coyle, Mount Carmel; Thomas Francis,
class secretary, Scranton; Miss Sadie L. Hartman, Washington, D. C.
Miss Martha V. James, Scranton; Mrs. Frank Buck, St. Augustine, Fla.;
Miss Olive A .Major, Philadelphia; Dr. Charles Maurer, Collingswood, N. J.;
Miss Mary Louise Moore, Scranton; Mrs. Vincil G. Stein, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Bernard McCadden, Plains; Miss Evelyn Peck, Sayre; Mrs. Arthur
Johnson, Hazleton; Miss Olwen Rosser, Kingston; Mrs. J. Clarence Creasy,
Bloomsburg; Mrs. H. G. Williams, Rendham-Old Forge; Miss Mary Southwood,
Mt. Carmel; Mrs. J. R. Garbut, Dallas; William D. Watkins, Wheeling, V. Va.;
Mrs. A. L. Orner, Rocketon R. D. 1, and Mrs. J. Gaylord Jones, Bloomsburg.

1910

had a splendid turnout. The members and
guests enjoyed a luncheon at the Char-Mund. The class gave fifty
dollars to the Husky fund.

The

forty year class

Present: Hilda Altmiller Taylor, Hazleton; Lila Anwyl Davis, Harold Davis,
Waltham, Mass.; Harold Box, South Canaan, Pa.; Julia Brill, State College;
Blanche Brown, Akron, Ohio; Larue Brown, Lewisburg; Louella Burdick Sinquet, Haddonfield, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Lester Burlingame, Bloomsburg; Mr.
and Mrs. Fred W. Diehl, Danville; Howard Fetterolf, Camp Hill; Agnes Freas
Keiser, Hollingswood, N. J.; Nora Geise, Northumberland; Grace Gilner Zane,
Fred Zane, Sterling, Pa.; Josephine Holland Greenwood, Tunkhannock; Maurice Houck, Berwick; Florence Huebner Buckalew, Bloomsburg; Olive Kresge
Montanye, J. D. Montanye, Wilkes-Barre; Grace Krum Savage. Turbotville;
Sara Lewis, Forty Fort; Mary Lowry Shambaugh, Camp Hill; Emma McFarland, Hazleton; Georgena McHenry Sharadin, Abe Sharadin, Henry Sharadin,
Abe Sharadin, Lewisburg; Robert Metz, Ashley; Charles Morris, Wilkes-Barre;
Margaret Oliver Walton, Fred W. Walton, Berwick; Charles Potter, Jersey
Shore; Emory Rarig, Catawissa; Tracy Roberts, Clark’s Green; John Skweir,
McAdoo; Ida Smith Conrey, Orangeville; Mildred Snell Boston, West Pittston;
Enola Snyder Evans, Long Island, N. Y.; Ralph Wertman. Tamaqua; Lois Yost,
Smith, Rev. Weston Smith, Hartford, Conn.; Mrs. Isabelle Smith Corson,

Wilkes-Barre.

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1915
1915 held its reunion dinner at the Char-Mund with
Charlotte Welliver Hoch, proprietor, a member of the class, as hostess.
The dinner was at noon and the business session saw John H.
Shuman, Bloomsburg, named president for the forthcoming five year
period, with Catherine Leighow Bittenbender, Lime Ridge, vice president, and Eulah Boone Spiegel, Espy, secretary-treasurer.
A contribution of fifty dollars was given to the Alumni Association Husky Fund. Reminiscenses and contributions of news concerning class members occupied the remainder of the afternoon. ThirtyLvo members were present at the general alumni meeting in Carver
Hall and at the reunion dinner.
Attending: Lillian Zimmerman, Washington, D. C.; Frank S. Hutchison,
Bloomsburg; Ray Koontz, New Haven, Conn.; Josephine Duy Hutchison,
Bloomsburg; Etta Buss Evans. West Pittston; Hilda Davis Morgan, Forty Fort;
Roy C. Kindig, Clearfield; Ruth Koehler Hayes. Scranton; Francis Smith Lewis,
Dalton R. D. 1; Esther Helfrich, Wilkes-Barre; Eva Harris Gulliver, WilkesBarre; Sally Brace, Clarks Summit; Elizabeth Welsh Miller, Orangeville R. D.
1; Eulah Boone Spiegel, Espy.
Edith Martin Larsen, Laurel Springs. N. J.; Lois McCloughan Snyder, Catawissa; Ruth Albert Baer, Norwood; Ethel Watkins Weber, Scranton; Miriam
Lawall Heller, Wapwallopen; Dr. Millard Cryder, Cape May. N. J.; .John H.
Shuman, Bloomsburg; Mary Grundy Prizer. Drexel Hill; Dorothy Rice Wil-

The

class of

liams, Fannie Leggoe Wandel, Hazleton; Mary Hess Croop, Berwick; Catherine
Leighow Bittenbender, Lime Ridge; Charlotte Welliver Hoch, Orangeville;
Elizabeth Gronka Ravin, Glen Lyon; Warren Dollman, Bloomsburg; Joseph
Cherrie, Nanticoke; Bessie Thompson Watkins, Nanticoke; Ruth E. Pooley,
Bloomsburg R. D. 1.

1920

Twenty-nine members of the

class of 1920 were back and had a
splendid day.
They were Mrs. Anna Davis Barrow, Ringtown; Mrs. Edna Taylor Bailey,
Kingston; Mrs. Ralph Morgan, Nanticoke; Mrs. Armeda Petrini, Glen Lyon;
Mrs. Ella Sweppenheiser Kennedy, Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Mr. and Mrs. Mark
H. Bennett. East Bangor; Clara N. Santee, Conyngham; Jessie Mensinger,
Sheppton; Mrs. Roy O. Fry, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Grayce M. Newhart, Bloomsburg R. D. 1; Mrs. L. R. Grover, Moorefield, W. Va.; Mrs. Helen S. Noack, Forty
Fort; Alice Cocklin, Shickshinny; Mrs. Helen Roberts Truscott, Jermyn; Mrs.
Grace Gotshall Pannebaker, Lock Haven; Mrs. Clair Herman Ruth, West Nanticoke; Agnes Anthony Silvany, Wilkes-Barre; Edward R. Unangst, Catawissa;
Valara Fox Steinmayer, Pittsburgh; Marjorie Rose Thomas. Harrisburg; Margaret Ferree, Oak Hall Station; Jeanne Stroh V/alsh, York Spring; Wilhelmine
White Moyer. Bloomsburg; Ruth Johnson Garney, Upper Darby; Mary G. McBride, Wilkes-Barre; Ethel Kettrick Ogin, Wilkes-Barre; Laura Shaffer Peters,
Nescopeck; Mrs. Fern Traugh Eshleman, Berwick.
Guests were Mary Fern Eshleman, Berwick; Benjamin Bailey, Kingston;
Mrs. Edward Unangst, Catawissa; Merton Ruth, West Nanticoke; Mrs. Mark
Bennett, East Bangor; C. J. Steinmayer, Joanne and Charles Steinmayer. Jr.,
Pittsburgh.

1925
Forty members of the class of 1925 were back for their silver
annit ersary and kept most of their activities on the campus.
They were: Mrs. Anna Geary Sidler,, Margaret E. Griffith, Plymouth;
Lillian Burgess, Wyoming; Marian Hess Carmick. Philadelphia; Ruth Walper
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Ellen Phebey Gray, Wyoming; Margaret Jones Bennett,
Gertrude Hildebrand Crayton, Clark Summit, N. J.; Laverne Hill
Moore, Nanticoke; Anna Doughtery Gdennon, Freeland; Kathryn McMennimen Kennedy, Wilkes-Barre; Betty Davison Hoffner, Scranton; Martha A.
Fisher, Sunbury; Martha Roushey Miers. Harford.
Margaret Fay, Kingston; Mary Hart Miller, Berwick; Bronwen Rees Boone,
Washington; Gladys Richard Kleckner, Allentown; Francis Davenport Pennington, Bloomsburg; Frances Ruggles Trumbower, South Williamsport; Rachel
Bolles Malone, Jessups, Maryland; Adaline Burgess, Wyoming R. D. 3; Mytrle
Wharmby, Plymouth; Elsie Jones Voight, West Pittston; Jessie E. Keen Deeter,
Nanticoke; Martha Lawson Goff, Shenandoah; Marian A. Gower, Hackensack,
N. J.; Harriet Walp Eastburn, Coatesville; Vivian Harris Hallenback, Taylor.
Esther Whalen Farrell, Shenandoah; Pauline Bucher Swank, Elysburg;
Juel Gaughan Carmody, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Laura A. Davis, Scranton; Wilhelmina Spangenberg Lesaius, Scranton; Edith Harris Frantz, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs.
Margaret R. Price Miller, McAdoo; Mrs. Pearl Rodel Bickel, Sunbury; Mrs.
Bessie Michael Bogart, Berwick R. D. 2; Mr. and Mrs. Arch Turner, Sheatown;
Mrs. Walter R. Griffith. Bloomsburg.
Officers chosen were Pearl Radel Bickel, chairman of the class; with Mrs.
H. Max Pennington, treasurer, and Maryan Hart Miller, secretary.

Hinder,

Hazleton;

Plainsville;

1930
Largest class reunion was that of 1930 which had almost a hundred at its luncheon at the Elks auditorium. One of the big features
was the reception during the afternoon at which there were in attendance many of those who served on the faculty when the class

was

in college.

The

class gave $70 to the Husky Fund.
Guests at the dinner were the two class advisors, Dr. E. H. Nel-

son and Dr. E. A. Reams.
Harold H. Hidlay presided. Dinner music was by the Star Dusters and they played college favorites.
The Rev. Gilbert Gould, of
Lansford, gave the invocation. Mrs. Luther Ritler, Williamsport, read
the class poem and Mrs. Josephine Holuba Hawk, Lawrenceville, N.
Pictures from the class Obiter
J., gave part of the Ivy Day oration.
were projected on a screen and motion pictures of the class graduation acti\’ities were shown. One member of the class, Dorothy Keith
Harris, Plymouth, has missed only one reunion since graduation.
Those of the faculty who visited with the class during the afternoon or were at the dinner were Dr. Francis R. Haas, former college
president, now Superintendent of Public Instruction; Miss Alice Johnston, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, Dr. and Mrs. T. P. North, Mr. and Mrs.
Howard T. Fenstemaker, Miss S. Mabel Moyer, Miss Harriet M.
Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hoffman, Dr. Nell Maupin, Earl N.
Rhodes, Maude E. Kavanaugh, Mrs. Lucille J. Baker, Miss Edna
J.
Barnes, Miss Ethel A. Ransom.
Attending: Mildred Stroud Wilson. Wilkes-Barre: Ruth Vandermark, Pottsville;
Catherine Vollrath Symons, West Nanticoke; Theodore Laskowski,
Trucksville R. D. 1; Georgiena Weidner, Trucksville; Pauline Forsythe, Lewistown; Miriam R. Gilliland, Oak Hall Staion; W. Brooke Yeager, Wilkes-Barre;
Grace Lord, Wilkes-Barre; A. N. Spenseller, Hatboro; Mary Frances Morton,
Berwick; Dr. Francis B. Haas, Harrisburg; Harvey A. Andruss, Bloomsburg;
Mary White Bittenbender. Bloomsburg; Congetta Pecora Kotch, West Hazle-

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Ruth Yeager Reinhart. Weatherly; Gertrude Schrader Johnson, Norristown; Hazel McMichael Eveland, Forks; Mabel Biggar. Unitjwille; Lavere Dieffenbach Hoyt. Shickshinny; Leona Sterling Brunges, Bloomsburg; Kathryn
Stine Hufnagle, Catawissa R. D. 1.
Loathe Mericle Matson, Baltimore; Myron R. Welsh, Philadelphia; Kathryn
Jones Fritz, Jasper Fritz, Osceloa Mills; Amelia Lottie Ceppa Conage, Mar-Lin;
Margaret Davis Yenchar, Kingston; Catherine Robbins Nicholas, Edwardsville;
Dorothy G. Brobst, Berwick; Grace Reichard Gardner, Muncy; Florence Jones
Jones, Milton; M. Augusta Sclinure, Milton R. D. 2; Kathryn House Everett,
Lewisburg R. D. 2; Anna C. Strausner, W. Pen Argyl; Helen Morgan Daubert,
Lewisburg; Mabel Gordon, Dorothy Wilson Kroh, Jane Williams Perry, Jeanette Roberts Williams, Olive Phillips Williams, Clara Thompson Miller, Elma
Morris Price, Mildred Wagner, Myra Sharpless, Virginia E. Cruickshank,
Cathryn E. Payne, Myrtle Klischer, Wilkes-Barre.
Jane Williams Perry, Edwardsville; Dorothy Wilson Kroh, Bolivar, N. Y.;
Helen E. Snyder, Sunbury; Louise Miller Manning, Dalton R. D. 1; Jessie Cook
Davis, Mechanicsburg; Mabel Gearhart Miller, Sunbury; J. Fred Berger,
Bloomsburg R. D. 2; Josephine Holuba Hawk. William C. Hawk, Lawrenceville,
N. J.; Alice Johnston, Earl A. Gehrig, Edward Reams, B. S. T. C.; Harold H.
Hidlay, Thursabert Schuyler, Bloomsburg; the Rev. Gilbert Gould, Lansford;
Margaret Swartz Bitler, Luther W. Bitler, Williamsport; E. H. Nelson, Bloomsburg; Margaret Spalone dTsidoro, East Orange, N. J.; Laura Shultz Magazzu,
Hazleton; Dorothy Keith Harris, Plymouth; Shirley Snyder Sedam, Marysville; Mabel Gearhart Miller, Sunbury R. D .3; Genevieve M. Norbert, Kingston; Catherine D. Reilly, Plymouth; Grayce R. Carr, West Hazleton; Genevieve
M. Ransavage, Kingston; A. Elizabeth Myrick Jones, Peckville; Janetta York
Coleman, Peckville.
Dorothy Erwin Schoeberlein, River Edge, N. J.; Mary Agnes Sharpess
Boyer. Berwick; Anna Erwin Faux, Conyngham! Cyril W. Steiner, New York
City; Richard Fi^mire, Bloomsburg; Myrtle Klischer, Mt. Carmel; C. E. Payne,
Shamokin, Virginia Cruickshank, Sunbury; Clara Thompson Miller, Clark’s
Summit R. D. 2; Miriam Edwards, Benton; Sarah Welliver Edwards, Oaks;
Dorothy Foote Pihlblad. Jamestown, N. Y.; Karleen N. Hoffman, Newark, N.
J.; Mildred Wagner, Wilkes-Barre: Elma Morris, Edwardsville; Fronda Bingman Cobb, Beavertown; Mr. and Mrs. Dew and son Wilkes-Barre.
ton;

,

1935

Members of the class of 1935 had a fine representation for its
Special feature was a luncheon at noon at Fest’s.
fifteenth reunion.
The class made a contribution to the Husky Fund.
Attending were: Mr. and Mrs. E. J. McKechnie, Berwick; Mr. and Mrs.
John H. Yeager, Hazleton; Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Diseroad, Bloomsburg; Mrs.
Leonard R. Baker, Lock Haven; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gedenic. Kulpmont; Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Shakofski, Pearl River, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Merrill, Riverton, N. J.: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Krauss, Lock Haven; Bruno A. Novak,
Houtzdale; Mr. and Mrs. William I. Reed. Bloomsburg; Albert A. Hayes, Ber-

Woodrow G. Brewington, Benton; Mrs. Fred .1. Creasy, Berwick.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ungemach. Blanche Garrison. Mr. and Mrs. E. Roderick
Hines, Berwick; Mrs. Veda M. Stewart, Catawissa; Mrs, Harriet Styer Boop,
Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Michael Prokapchak, Newark, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin R. Creasy, Dallas; Mrs. Walter Angstadt, Lewisburg; Mrs. Irene Fredwick;

erick, Milton.
J.; Mrs. Harold Steinhart. BloomsLion; Unora B. Bendenhall, Benton; S. Stamilonis,
Shenandoah; Gerald C. Harter, Holmes; Rosina Kitchever, Plymouth; Mrs. W.
C. Forney, Nell Maupin, Dr. and Mrs. Harrison Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
P. North, Mr. and Mrs. H F. Fenstemaker, Bloomsburg.

Clarence

burg;

S.

Stater. Atlantic City, N.

Naomi Myers, Red

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1940

The

ten year class had an enjoyed reunion with these attending:
Jane Darraw, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac T. Jones, Kingston; Don Houseknecht,
Hatboro; Cora Baumer, Lewisburg; Mrs. Carrie Yocum Shultz, Milton; Mr. and
Mrs. Michael Chismar, Gladys Jones, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Kenneth Merrill, Riverton, N. J.; Robert Lewis, Danville; James Hinds, Margaret Blecher, Eleanor
Beckley, Clayton H. Hinkel, Bloomsburg; Fay Gehrig Clack, Danville, N. J.;
Lora Snyder, Turbotville; Mrs. Harold Rarig, Catawissa.

1945
1945 enjoyed the firth anniversary
dinner at the Char-Mund in the Country. Letters were read from
those not present.
Attending were Mrs. Mary Lou Fenstemaker John, Bloomsburg; Mildred

Eleven members of the

class of

Dzuris, Nanticoke; Marjorie Downing, Shickshinny; Julia Welliver, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Carol McCloughan Hilkert, Danville; Mrs. Martha Duck Kantrowitz,
Lewisburg; Mrs. Carrie Johnson Balliet, Danville; Mrs. Shirley Wolfe Nicholas,
Penns Grove. N. J.
Laura E. Schoener, Stouchsburg; Catherine Longo, Sheppton; Elsie Flail,
Schuylkill Haven, and guests, Marjorie Stover, Bloomsburg; Eileen Falvey,
Belleville, N. J.; Charles Driskell, Bloomsburg; Archie Hikert, Danville; Seymour Kantrowitz, Lewisburg; Dr. Nell Maupin, Boomsburg.

O
S. Dayton Beishline, fifty-two, supervising principal of the Huntington Township Joint School, Luzerne county, stricken with cerebral
hemorrhage on a fishing trip on April 15, died in the Bloomsburg
Hospital Sunday, April 23.
With his son, the Bev. Bichard Beishline, pastor of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church, Plymouth, the educator had gone on a fishing expedition in the Spring Brook section on the first day of trout
season. The two returned to the ear to rest and the son fell asleep.
Later the minister awakened and found his father in a coma. He
drove to the office of a Catawissa physician, who ordered the case
to the hospital.
Mr. Beishline was a native of Columbia county. He was born
at Bendertown, April 5, 1898, the son of the late Nathan and Alverna
Weaver Beishline. He attended the Bendertown school and the Lishing Creek High School.
He was a graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal School and took
further studies at Cold Spring Harbor. In recent years he was awarded a master’s degree from Bucknell University.
Mr. Beishline taught at the Crossroads School and the High
School in Lishing Creek Township, and for a short time at the New
Columbus School. After nine years at Seott High School, Espy, he
left to become supervising principal at Picture Bocks.
He had serv'ed
at Huntington Mills for the past fifteen years.
In addition to his profession, Mr. Beishline was well-known
through his ehurch activity. He was a devout member of the Huntington Mills Methodist Church, its Sunday School superintendent,
for the past twelve years, and the conference lay leader for the church.

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He

also taught the adult Bible Class.

Surviving are his 'wife, the former Maude Wenner; one son, the
Bev. Richard Beishline; a brother, Ernest, Benton; a twin brother,
Clayton, Bendertown; one sister, Mrs. Sally Wenner, of Stillwater,
and three grandchildren.
Funeral services, in charge of the Holcombe funeral home, Benton, were held from the Huntington Mills Methodist Church, with
the pastor, the Rev. William Price, officiating. A special service of
Huntington Mills students was held and regular services was conducted. Interment was in St. James cemetery at Bendertown.
o
Miss Edith M. Patterson, formerly of Orangeville, died in her
apartment at Metuchen, N. J., recently. Death was sudden and due
to a heart attack.
Miss Patterson was born and reared at Orangeville. After graduation at the Bloomsburg Normal School, she taught first at Stillwater and later at North Berwick. She then went to New Jersey
where she taught for thirty-one years, first at Rahway and then at

Newark.
For a number of years, while teaching at Newark, she resided
at East Orange.
About three years ago she retired and removed to
Metuchen.
At the time of her death she was a member of the Rahway Presbyterian Church, and previous to that was for many years a member
of the Munn Avenue Presbyterian Church, Newark,
In both churches she devoted
activities.

of friends.

much

of her time to missionary

She was endowed with a fine personality and had a host
Surviving are a brother, A. E. Patterson, of Orangeville,

and a number

of

nephews and

nieces.

Funeral services were held first from the Hilltop Funeral Home
at Metuchen and then from the Orangeville Presbyterian Church.
Interment was made in the McHenry Cemetery in Orange township.
o

The marriage

of Ardmore, and
Harry E. Rider, of Bloomsburg, took place in July at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Ardmore. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Mr. Vought, assistant rector of the church.
Miss Buckalew was given in marriage by her brother, Raymond
G. Buckalew, of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was attended by only
the immediate families.
Miss Buckalew is a former teacher in the Bloomsburg schools
but for some time has been teaching in the Lower Merion Schools at
Penn Wynne.
Mr. Rider, a former principal of the Fifth Street School, Bloomsburg, in recent years has conducted the Kocher Coal business.
They are making their home at 26 West First Street, Blooms-

burg.

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Miss Beverly A. Cole, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Cole,
Leonard street, Bloomsburg, served during the summer with the
U. S. Marine Corps.
The Bloomsburg State Teachers College senior was one of seventy young women selected from more than 2,000 applicants throughout the nation to receive training in the W. O. T. C. (Women’s Officers
Training Class), Marine Corps School, Quantico, Va.
She has been engaged in a six-week training course at Quantico.
Her Marine training, if continued in a similar course next Summer, will make her eligible for an officer’s commission in the corps
and assignment to permanent duty. She was sworn into the service
of

at Philadelphia with the rank of corporal.

Born and reared in Bloomsburg, Miss Cole is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School, class of 1947. During her high school career, she was a member of the National Scholastic Honor Society
for two years, president of the sophomore class, a member of the Red
and White staff and editor of the year book. Memorabilia.
At the College, she has been a member of the student council
and a student representative of the college at inter-school sessions,
a member of the Maroon and Gold staff, and active in other extracurricular activities. She will return in the fall to complete one semester for her graduation from the institution where she is majoring
in language.

o
Clifton S. Skow, of Wilmington, Del., son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Skow, of East First Street, Bloomsburg, graduated at Bucknell University on Sunday, June 11. He received the master of science degree
in chemical engineering.

He completed the work in February and accepted a position with
the Plercules Company, in Wilmington.
He received his bachelor
of science degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell last year.
Skow is a former Bloomsburg resident and a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and B. S. T. C.
Maynard Harring, Pitman, was elected president of the Junior
Class of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in a class election
held recently. Members of the class selected Richard Powell, Pottstown, vice president; Barbara Harman, Lykens, secretary, and Walter
Troutman, Shamokin, treasurer. Representatives to the College Council will be Dale Bennett, Bangor, and Ruth Glidden, Susquehanna.
o
Newly-eleeted officers of the Community Government AssociaBloomsburg State Teachers College are Anthony Grabowski, Kulpmont, president; Thomas Anthony, Shamokin, vice president;
Claire Davis, Clarks Summit, secretary; Alfred Marsilio, Hazleton,
treasurer; and John Ryan, Philadelphia, assistant treasurer.
Mr.
Grabowski, who is active in campus and fraternity affairs, succeeds
Richard Wagner, Nescopeck, as president of the student body.
tion of the

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Dr. Henry J. Wannan, associate professor of geography and secretary of the Clark University Graduate School of Geography, has
been named the United States member on the Committe on Teaching
and Metlnodology of the Commission of Geography, Pan American
Institute of Geography and History.
Dr. Wannan, Scranton, Pa., native and graduate of Bloomsburg,
Pa., State Teachers College, Temple University and Clark, also studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Berlitz Schools in Philadelphia, and was teacher, coach and athletic director in the Norristown,
Pa., schools.
He is the husband of the former Miss Rita Ann Montgomery, of Drexel Hill, Pa.
o

Miss Marion E. Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wilson,
of Drums, was married to Conrad A. Balliet, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Balliet, of Drums, at St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Drums, by
Re\'. Gerald L. Wilson, brother of the bride.
The bride was graduated from Hazleton High School, and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and is a teacher in the Allentown
schools. The bridegroom was graduated from Hazleton High School,
and is a senior at Muhlenberg College.
o

Miss Peggy Latorre, Elysburg R. D., and Robert Tabachini, of
Exchange, were married Saturday, June 17, in St. Peter Church, Mt.
Carmel. Re\\ M’illiam Bridy, cousin of the bridegroom, performed
the double-ring ceremony.
Mrs. Tabachini, daughter of Mrs. Rose Latorre, Elysburg R. D.,
and the late Joseph Latorre, attended B. S. T. C. and is a graduate
of the Empire Beauty College.
The groom, son of Mrs. Lena Tabachini, of Exchange, attended Mt. Carmel Township High School
and is employed by Mt. Carmel Motors.
o

As a result of a recent election, James M'hibley, Parkesburg, has
been elected president of the Sophomore Class of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
Other class officers ehosen include Ben
Duke, Berwick, \ ice president; Midge Wrzesniewski, Chester, secreJoseph Eeifer, Mt. Carmel, treasurer.
Joanne Fornwald, Bloomsburg, was elected historian, and Claire
Davis, Clarks Summit, and Hank Marini, M’a\me, were elected as

tary;

j

epresentatives to

tlie

College Council.

o

The Quarterly has

received an announcement of the death of
Charles M. Keefer, Sr., which occurred Tuesday, April 4, 1950. Funeral ser\ices were held in Bedword, New Jersey, on Saturday, April
8, with interment in Fairview Cemetery, Red Bank, N. J.

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Shirley Ashner, Lehighton junior, has been elected president of
the Waller Hall Association, of the Teachers College for the college
year beginning September 1950. Miss Ashner, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth H. Ashner, succeeds Madeline Schalles, Nescopeck, as
head of the governing board of the women’s dormitory group.
Other officers of the Association are: Lola Deibert, Danville,
vice-president; Eleanor Johnson, Kane, secretary; Nancy Swartz, Forty
Members of the Governing Board, also elected reFort, treasurer.
cently, include Barbara Frederick, Mifflinburg; Janet Price, Reading;
Caroline Vernoy, Canadensis; Muriel Wagner, Carbondale; Doris
liowman, Milton; 01i\e Mourey, Mt. Carmel; Eleanor Young. Lewisburg; Mary Condon, Old Forge; Wilma Jones, LeRaysville, and Mildred Pliscott, Exeter.

o

Miss Shirley Irene Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Jones,
of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Dyar Lladdad, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Staller, of Schuylkill Haven, in an impressive church wedding
performed by the Rev. M. Edward Schnorr at the Evangelical and
Reformed Church Saturday, April 1, 1950.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg Pligh School and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is now employed as a secretary by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Sunbnry.
The groom is a graduate of Schuylkill Haven High School and is
now a student at the State Teachers College. During his high school
years, he was an all around athlete.
Pie is a veteran of World War
II, having been in the submarine ser\ ice.
o

1949
Robert T. Millard received the degree of Master of Arts at the
commencement exercises held June 9 at the State Lhiiversity of Iowa.

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Al umni Quarterly

State Teachers College
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Vol. 51

No. 4

DECEMBER,

1950

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Five Years Reviewed
“Five More Years Are Finished” is the subject of a pamphlet recently published in the interest of the Bloomsbnrg State Teachers
College.

As the

title

implies,

it

covers the past

fi\

e year period

from 1945-

1950.

John A. Hoch, director of public relations, under the caption “A
continuing service to all” comments: “It is not necessary for one to be
a college graduate to see that the kind of world in which we live, the
American kind of world, rests on a foundation of education. America’s most important economic asset is its educated population, not
simply men and women who can read and write, but men and women

who have

ideas and a background of ideas and information.”
That America’s urgent and most pressing need is teachers is based, but not entirely, on figures of the United States Bureau of Statistics that “we must recruit and educate nearly 1,000, ()()() new teachers
during the next ten years (1950-1960).
“The immensity of the job
constitutes a tremendous challenge to institutions educating teachers.”
Continuing Mr. Hoch observes “Bloomsbnrg State Teachers College has not stood still during the past five years. As before, we have
continued to grow through service. We have not kept to our ivory
towers; we hav-e endeavored to extend our facilities to meet every
need. Our usefidness does not end with any one period nor end with
any one graduating class— ours is a continuing service to all.”
The next subject touched upon was that of enrollment.
.\s has been true of colleges and universities throughout the country, there being few exceptions, the largest factor in the enrollment
at the Bloomsbnrg State Teachers College was the ex-G.I.
The greatest number of veterans of World War II were registered during the
college year 1946-47 when 477 veterans were enrolled.
The noted

decrease of forty-five per cent is “indicative of the sharp reduction in
V eteran enrollments to be expected during the next few years.”
Mr. Hoch made the observ'ation “we do not anticipate too much
difficulty in recruiting good replacements for the veterans presently
enrolled” and added “it is rather difficult to predict an enrollment

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Vol. 51, No. 4

December, 1950

Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the State Teachers
Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8,
College. Bloomsburg, Pa.
1941, at the Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under the Act of March 3,
1879.
Yearly Subscription, S2.00; Single Copy, 50 cents.
H. F.
E. H.

FENSTEMAKER,
NELSON,

’ll

’12

EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
.

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trend, because enrollments

in

institutions

of higher

markedly influenced by general economic and

education are

social conditions.”

He made

this obser\ ation: “If present conditions remain relati\ ely
however, the total enrollment at this college should level off
at approximately 800 men and women.”
That the program of the teachers colleges has been broadened
is to be obser\ ed in the steps taken during the past five years.
These, briefly, have been to; “gradually expand, increase and
broaden the elective offerings, develop curricula in retail selling,
safety education, radio education and ax iation, provide for the needs
of in-ser\’ice teachers through extension centei's, dex elop a program
of initial selection for admission and continual screening after admission, provide for a comprehensive and integrated program of student
personnel serx ices and finally cooperate xvith the Pennsylxania State
College in the education of freshmen students in the field of Liberal

stable,

Arts.”

Of course many of the improvements to the physical plant of the
college in the past fix e year span hax e been xvitnessed by the general
public, at least by those xvho hax e had an occasion to either x isit or
Others hax e been interior ones.
drix'e past the campus.
An amount placed at 8335,000 has been spent by the state in that
period. The work included nexv fire toxvers in Carver and Xoetling
Halls and construction of fire xx'alls, extensix e remodeling of Xoetling
Hall, making available an audio-visual aids laboratory, speech and
psychology clinic. The old gx'innasium xvas renox ated and remodeled
into a student lounge and recreational center. There xvas general painting and decorating. Major repairs xx'ere made to roofs and spoutings.
One of the best-knoxvn landmarks of the college, the long porch, xvas
torn doxvn and replaced during the past year. Classrooms have been
The college library xvas exten]-)ainted and lighting xx'as improved.
six

ely

remodeled and renox ated.

tentatix e allocation of 8293,000 has been made to enlarge and
improve the present heating plant.
Then coming to the topic “Improving Faculty Status” we find “one
of the basic factors in improving the status of the indixidual faculty

A

member

the obvious influence of financial remuneration.”
increase for all instructional and non-instiTictional employes receix ing less than 83750 xvas made.
Continuing xve read “during the same period, there xvas also a
marked improx ement in the degree-holding status of the faculty. In
1949 txvo per cent held bachelor’s degrees, sixty-eight per cent master’s degrees, ten per cent master’s plus one year, and finally txventy

A

is

cost-of-lixing

per cent doctor’s degrees.
It was also interesting to note the increased interest shoxvn by
the alumni, membership in xvhich is the highest in the school’s hisAccording to the 1950 report, 1637 members have paid dues for
torv.
the present year.
That the college graduates are engaged in the teaching profes-

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sion conies from the statement “as the result of a survey made in 1941
co\ering 1925 graduates of the college from 1931 to 1940, it was re^ealed that 77.27 per cent of our graduates were engaged in teaching.

“A further surxey was made by President Harvey A. Andruss in
1949, including the original period and covering 1940 to 1948, inclusive.
Results of this study showed that the overall teacher placement figure grew to 83.40 per cent in the period from 1941 to 1945 and
increased to 88.73 per cent in the period from 1946 to 1948.”
In the concluding section, “Looking Ahead,” emphasis is placed
on the job facing Pennsyhania in the educational field.
This is based on the fact that only seven per cent of Pennsylvania
\outh between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one are enrolled in
California leads with thirty per cent.
institutions of higher learning.
A point was stressed that “Ob\iously, PennsyK ania must narrow
the gap between her present low percentage and the national averCcge. or the future of the youth from eighteen to twent\'-one will con-

tinue to suffer.”

The couclusion was made “our

college has kept in step with the
future growth and development cannot help but reflect the
demands that will be made on it, and the confidence it has inspired
in the people of the Commonwealth whom it has so ably served.”
times.

Its

o

DR.
Dr.

NORTH TAKES PART

Thomas

P.

North,

Dean

IN

of

NATIONAL CLINIC

Instruction,

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College, participated in the National Clinic on Teacher Education held at Lansing, Michigan, October 8-13.
Dr. Francis B.
Haas, Superintendent of Public Instruction, named Dr. North as one of
the Pennsyhania Representatives to the clinic. The planning committee for the clinic asked the Bloomsburg Dean to describe the

Bloomsburg program of teacher education.
Delegates to the clinic were given an opportunity

to obserx e the
techniques of in-ser\ ice education of teachers through participation
in weekend educational conferences in camp situations.

Centers were also established to proxide opportunities for those
attended the clinic to obserx e teacher eclucation programs in
selected public school systems and colleges and universities. Centers
were established at Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Kalamazoo, Lansing, metlopolitan Detroit and in Mt. Pleasant.
Along with Dr. North, who is Chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission of Teacher Education and Professional Standards, were the
following educators from Pennsyhania; Dr. Carl Seifert, Secretary
of the Pennsylvania Association of College and Universities; Mr. Stanley .A.. M'engert, Assistant Director of Teacher Education ai#d Certification in Pennsyhania; and Dr. Arthur Ferguson, Superintendent of
Schools, York, Pa.

who

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NEW

AUDIO-VISUAL DEPARTMENT

the increasing attention being directed to sensory aids in
education, the visual education departments of colleges throughout the
countr\’ are carrying on more interesting and more educational programs than e\'er before. Bloomsburg State Teachers College is no
exception.
^^’hether students enroll in the secondary, business, or elementary
fields, they are required to take a course known as Visual Education.
As summarized by the college catalog, the study “considers the psychological principles underlying Visual or Other Sensory Aids, and also
studies the collecting and assembling of suitable teaching material.”
Instructors for the course are Dr. H. H. Russell and Mr. Charles
H. Henrie.
In addition to the classroom acti\ ities, however, there are other
At the present,
responsibilities which the department undertakes.
Bloomsburg State Teachers College is making plans to ser\e as the
distributing center to the high schools in the area for the educational
films which are used in the classroom. Because of these plans, an attempt is being made to expand the film library' of the department. In
j'ecent years it has been shown that educational films are of immeasureable \ alne in the classroom as an entertaining learning medium.
.\ppointed to the job of fihn librarian of Bloomsburg State Teachers College is Mr. Thaddeus Krensavage, a graduate of the class of
1950. Ilis work entails the organizing and cataloging of all the films
in the library. The majority of these films are vocational.
On the first of November, there was an Audio-\hsual Clinic held
Representati\es from a number of schools
here on the campus.
convened here to diseuss problems and methods of sensory' education.
In addition, the operation of projectors and other machines was demonstrated. The exact worth of the college’s equipment in this department is not known, but it is estimated that it totals thousands of
\\'ith

dollars.

The department renders

a ser\ ice to student teachers

by permit-

any films which they’ might desire to use in their
classroom instruction. However, they must first give evidence that
they can efficiently operate the projector and care for the films.
Besides the \isual education staff, composed of Dr. Russell, Mr.
Henrie and Mr. Krensavage, the college maintains an Audio-\’isual
Committee, headed by Dr. Russell and made xip of Miss Hazen, Mr.
Hallisy, Dr. Englehardt, Mrs. Beeman, Miss Johnston, Miss Zealberg,
Mr. Henrie and Mr. Lanterman.
ting

them

to take out

o

Chester O. Egner

is

teaching in the Department of Business

Administration, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana.
0

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Lewis (Florence M. Beyer) live
South Fourth Street, Lewisburg, Pa. They have two sons.
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ATTENDS MEETING SPEECH GROUP
Miss Alice Johnston, of the speech department of the Bloomsburg
Teachers College faculty, attended the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Speech Association in Harrisburg on the 29th and 30th of September. Miss Johnston reported that four recent B.S.T.C. graduates
who are continuing their work in the speech correction field also attended this meeting. They are Robert Afillard, Charles Shiefer, Donald Maietta and Martha Hathaway.

Robert Millard, a graduate of the class of January, 1949, earned
degree at the University of Iowa. He is now the Director
of Speech Correction at the Lancaster Pennsylvania Cleft Palate

his Master’s

Clinic.

Clharles Shiefer, who graduated in August, 1949, received his
Master’s degree at the Pennsylvania State College, working under a
student fellowship. He is now a speech correctiouist at the Pennsyl\ ania State Center in Altoona, Pa.
The Pennsylvania State Center is
a clinical center connected with the Pennsylvania State College.
Donald Maietta is now on a fellowship, completing his work for
a Master’s degree in speech correction at the University of Pittsburgh
speech department. Donald graduated from Bloomsburg in Januarv,
1950.
.\nother recent graduate, Martha Hathaway, class of May, 1948,

She has been
is doing elementary work with some speech correction.
working for her Master’s degree during the summer and taking extension work at the Pennsylvania State College.
o
1950-1951

ENROTTAIENT

Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction, has issued an official
report on the enrollment of Bloomsburg State Teachers College for
the first semester of the college year 1950-51, It is expected, however,
that a definite downward trend in enrollment will be felt as the semester progresses because of draft requirements. The Selective Service
policy regarding eligible college students has not yet been stabilized;
therefore estimates as to the number of students affected are impossible at this time.

The enrollment of Bloomsburg State Teachers College is fairly
high as compared with her sister colleges. Other colleges reportedly
have felt decreases of from fi\ e to fifty per cent of their enrollments,
whereas B.S.T.C. has practically the same number of students

as

la.st

year.

Total enrollment of full time students is 831.
Saturday classes of teachers-in-service total 100.

Extension and

Day students number 351— nearly half the enrollment. Dormitory students total 480.
Taken by classes, the Freshmen top the list with 342 members.
Sophomores rank next with 214, and Seniors total 156; of these, 39
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in January. Juniors bring up the rear with 116 students.
Columbia County leads the counties, with 204 representatives,
l.uzerne County contributes 198 students.
A breakdown of the 1950 enrollment figures, as supplied by Dr.

will

graduate

Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction, follows:
Total enrollment, full time students
Extension (teachers-in-service)

831
70

Saturday

,30

Total enrollment

931

Freshman enrollment
Sophomore enrollment

.342

214
116

Junior enrollment
Senior enrollment

1.56

Regular students

828

College graduates extending their certificate to include
elementary
Graduate of secondary adding social studies to his field
Total ou campus

'

Day Men
Day Women

831

250
101

Total day students

Resident
Resident

2
1

.351

Men

280
200

Women

480

Total resident students
o

Miss Elaine Kreischer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. \4411iam KreischBerwick, became the bride of Max E. Follmer, son of Mrs. J.
Rolland Follmer, of Berwick, and the late Mr. Follmer, in a ceremony
Saturday, August 19, in the First Presbyterian Church, Berwick, with
the Rew Gladstone P. Cooley, pastor, officiating.
The bride is a graduate of Berwick Pligh School and recei\ ed
She did post graduate work at Lehigh
lier B.S. degree at B.S.T.C.
University and is a teacher in the Berwick schools.
Mr. Follmer, a graduate of Berwick High School, is a \eterau
He
ol World War II, ha\ ing ser\ ed o\erseas with the Signal Corps.
attended Gettysburg College and reeeived his law' degree from Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, this Spring.
er, of

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HOMECOMING DAY
The 1950 Homecoming

celebration started with a big bang.

The

and snake dance on Friday night paved the
way for the big weekend.
Saturday festivities began with the presentation of a concert by
Maroon and Cold Band, under direction of Mr. Charles Henrie and
Mr. HovVard Fenstemaker at 10:30 in Waller Cymnasium. The band
played the following selections: “Repasz Band,” “Tzena, Tzena,
Tzena,” “March Independentia,” “New Ashmolian Marching Society &
Conserxatory,” “Hoop De Do,” “The Thunderer,” “The Jolly Tar,”
“Clory of the Cridiron,” and the “Alma Mater.”
From 12:15 to 1:15, open house was held in the Waller Hall and
North Hall dormitories; \isitors and students alike axailed themselves
of this opportunity to see the li\ ing ciuarters of friends and relatives.
At 2:00 P. M., the Huskies smashed Kutztown State Teachers College 35-0; the game, which was to have been the highlight of the
day. proc ed to be a holiday for the Maroon and Cold, who scarcely
let the Colden Avalanche see the ball.
\ get-together in the Waller Cvannasium after the game gave
alumni visitors, students and faculty a welcome chance to chat and
renew old accpiaintances. Refreshments of cider, coffee and doughnuts
were served.
Festb ities closed with an informal dance from 8:00 to 11:30 P. M.
Saturday in Centennial Cymnasium. Music was furnished by A1 Anderson’s orchestra.
The affair proved to be an oc’erwhelming success, with what was estimated to be one of the largest throngs ever
giant

in

pep

rally, bonfire,

attendance at a

Homecoming

dance.
o

DR. SATTERFIELD

CLAIMED BY DEATH

On August 16, 1950, the students, faculty and administration of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College lost an instructor and a friend,
Dr. Ted J. Satterfield. The former faculty member and line coach
of the Husky football team died on the operating table at Jefferson
Hospital, Philadelphia. Dr. Satterfield did not teach during the summer months in order that he might undergo surgery for the correction
of a condition which he first encountered while serv ing in the United
States

Navy during World War

II.

Dr. Satterfield, a graduate of West Chester State Teachers College, held a position in the Lower Merion Township schools from 1939
to 1942. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Navy, with the rank of
lieutenant. After leaving the Navy, he resumed work at the Lower
Merion Township schools and remained there until 1949 when he accepted a position at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Dr. Satterfield was the second member of the Husky coaching
The late Alden J. (Lefty)
staff to pass away within a four year period.
Danks passed awav suddenly before the start of the football season
in 1946.

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B.S.T.C.

STUDENTS

IN ‘WHO’S

WHO'

Eight students of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College have

been selected

IN

for recognition

by

WHO’S

WHO AMONG STUDENTS

AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.

The Rloomscampus and extracurricular acti\ ities, were
recommended by a faculty committee and accepted by the

biirg students,
officially

all

active in

national organization.

Their names will be included in the 1950-51 issues of the publica“Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.” This official annual directory of distinguished students selected from .Lmerican schools has been published annually since 1934.
tion

Those who are nominated

for membership in the “Who’s ^^'ho” ha\ e
given outstanding service to their college and are recognized as leaders in scholastic and service organizations.
The Bloomsburg students
are: .Merlin Growl Beacheel, 257 W. Sixth Street, Bloomsburg; Lois
Edith Dzuris, 410 E. Church Street, Nanticoke; Anthony Raymond
Grabowski, 1016 W. Spruce Street, Shamokin; James Anthon\’ Kleman, 36 N. 19th Street, Ashland; Richard Norman Kressler, Route 1.
Bloomsburg; Nancy Ruth Powell, 2217 N. Main Avenue, Scranton;
Emory Webster Rarig, R. D. 1, Catawissa; Richard Fredrick W’acchter,
137 E. Broad Street, West Hazleton.

o

A two-\ olume college textbook in Accounting I and Accounting II
being written by Mr. Earl A. Gehrig, a faculty member of BloomsImrg State Teachers College and instructor in the Business curriculum
is

of the college.

Mr. Gehrig has already completed the first \olume of the book.
This \olume is now being edited by the H. M. Rowe Company of
Baltimore, Maryland, but it will be about a year before it appears
on the market. In the meantime, Mr. Gehrig is working on the second \ olume, so that both volumes will be presented to the public almost simultaneously. The books, both accompanied by practice sets,
will probably make their appearance some time in December of 1951.
o
Dr. Ralph S. Herre, instructor in social studies, has returned to
B.S.T.C. after spending nine weeks at Columbia Unix'ersity, where
he represented the college in a citizenship project. B.S.T.C. is the
only state teachers college in Pennsyh ania that was chosen to partake in the project.

Dr. Herre has been a member of the college faculty since 1947.
received his B.S. degree at Colgate and his M.A. at Teachers College in Albany. He has held positions at the State Normal School in
Brockport, New York; Central School in Wolcott, New York, and the
Senior High School in Lockport, New York.

He

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'Saucered and Blowed'
E. H. Nelson,

11

The College Bulletin Volume 19, No. 5 will be of real interest
Alumni. It will be a history of the College, with special reference
WhcTi you x’isit your Alma Mata ne.xt
to the last twenty-five years.
.Mumui Day (May 26) you will want to take home a copy.

to

Homecoming Day was another pleasant occasion. It was a pleasure to see the football squad in action. And that band is no mean
rirganization!
It’s a joy to know our College is second to none, and
the pride one feels when renewing his college days is justifiable.

How do you like Roongo HI? She was trained for a lead dog,
and when she appears at the head of the Band you known Bloomsburg
sjiirit is on the move.
Why not pose for a picture with the Mascot
when you are back next time? Have the whole family included.
Roongo HI

likes youngsters.

Gradually the shale banks on Mt. Olympus are being removed.
won’t be so long now until a beautiful athletic field will be comPermanent bleachers— running track— separate
plete in every detail.
areas for baseball and football and a generous supply of fresli air for
good measure.
It

Classes of the I’s and 6’s are beginning to take shape for reunions.
As usual the 50 year group (this year 1901) will literally and figuratively hold the stage.
But beware of the 1911 group, already cooking
up something big.

in Texas wrote me about meeting George
he does get around this hemisphere with those
When he
cats! Tele\'ision and a run on Broadway are his latest acts.
hits the home town he usually has many stories to tell of Alumni he
meets in his travels. Maybe we can arrange for a campus performance
some Alumni Day. How would it suit you?

An Alumnus dovMi

Keller there.

How

Haj)py New Year, and remember we can only be of service to
our Alma Mater as we grow and Grow and GROW.
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NEW MEMBER OF FACULTY
Edward Paul Wagner to the faculty of tlie
State Teachers College, filling a vacancy caused by the recent death
of Dr. Ted J. Satterfield, was announced on the eve of the pre-season
drills of the 1950 Husky football squad.
Dr.
agner is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State College where
he received a degree of Bachelor of Science in 1934, a degree of Master of Education in 1935 and a degree of Doctor of Education in 1950.
He taught health and physical education at Stony Creek High
School, ShanksN'ille, 1935-36, and Donora High School in 1936 to 1943.
Stan Musial, well known here and outstanding baseball player, played
at Donora High under Wagner.
Appointment

of Dr.

He was engaged
taught in the

Navy

in the \’-5

program during World

War

II

and

pre-flight school at the Uni\ ersity of Georgia in

1943.
He was executi\e and welfare officer in the United States
Navy, Pacific Theatre, 1944-45. From 1946 to 1948 he was director
of Athletics and professor of physical education and department chair-

Since
of physical education at Mohawk College, Utica, N. Y.
1948 he ser\ ed as graduate assistant in physical education at the Pennsyb ania State College.
During his undergraduate days he participated in football at
Penn State and coached football, baseball and basketball at Shanksville and Donora.
He is a Thirt\ -second Degree Mason, a member of the Kappa
Sigma social fraternity and the Phi Delta Kappa and Phi Epsilon

man

Kappa, professional fraternities.
M’agner is married and the father of two daughters, aged twelve
and fourteen years. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
o
In a candlelight ceremony Friday, September

1, at St. Luke’s
E\angelical Lutheran Church, of Light Street, Miss Blanche Maree
McHenry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Earl McHenry, of Lime Ridge,
became tbe bride of Junior L. Eddinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
C. Eddinger, of Berwick. The Rev. D. L. Bomboy, pastor, officiated.
The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and is
employed in the Bell Telephone Engineering Office, at Bloomsburg.
The groom, a Navy veteran of M’orld M ar II, graduated from B.S.T.C.
He is teaching in the Berwick Schools.
this year.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddinger are li\ ing at 201 Line Street, Berwick.

To

the readers of the

The Editor

Alumni Quarterly:

requests your forbearance for the reduced size of the
present issue. The time usually a\ ailable for the preparation of the
copv was spent by the Editor recovering from an operation. Much
of the material that would ha\ e appeared in this issue will be included in the next issue, which will be published early in the year.

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THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
H. Nelson
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffitli
Mrs. C. C. Housenick
Harriet Carpenter
Fred W. Diehl

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

E.

Hervey

B.

.

Edward

F.

H. F. Fenstemaker
Elizabeth H. Huber

Schuyler

Smith

1895
B.

Frank Beale

At the 55th reunion of the class of 1895 Max C. Stauffer was elected president. Since B. Frank Beale was class president at the time
of graduation, and since he passed May 24, 1934, without a notice
having been sent to the Quarterly, I feel that a short sketch of his life

woidd be

fitting.

After graduation, Frank taught school a few years, then entered
Medico Chi College to prepare for his life work. In college, after
much political didoing on the part of the city students in an effort
to get one of their group elected had forced a second election, Frank
was elected president of the class. When the time came for the state
board examinations, he was the only member from a small school to
be among the fifteen who were able to p)ass.

As Dr. Beale, Frank then began his medical career at McKees
Half Falls, twelve miles below Selinsgrove on the Susquehanna. There
in 1903 we were married and there we li\ ed for three years.
There
our two oldest children were born, although the first baby did not
stay with us. After the three years we mov ed to Duucannon where
we purchased and remodeled Dr. Shearer’s old-fashioned doctor’s
house with the drug store attached. There Frank was the real country
family doctor for twenty-seven years.
In Duncannon, three more
children were added to the family thus making the doctor’s home a
community center for all the youngsters of the neighborhood.
Those who knew young Frank Beale will recall that he was born
and brought up on a farm; at heart he remained a farmer, leaving two
well-developed farms as part of his estate. Many older patients longed to have the doctor call because they knew that the talk about his
farms was often as beneficial to them as the salves from his little black
bag.
After graduating in his practice from the horse-and-buggy days
to the automobile, his car was watched by everyone, not only because
lie was one of the first in his community to own a car but because
his big dog rode standing on the fender with body braced against the
body of the car, and no sharp curve, no rough road, no call of the day
or night kept Rover from his watchful riding.
The real measure of the ability and worth of a person is found
in the judgment of his professional colleagues, and Frank Beale’s fel-

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low physicians graded him one of the best diagnosticians of his time
in the state, a gift seemingly inherited by his son. Dr. Rudolph Beale,
who is now a practicing physician in Lemoyne, Pa., and a member of
the medical staff of the Harrisburg Hospital.
So time has pro\ ed that one member of the class of ’95 became
a valuable asset to his community and to his profession, so therefore I,
his widow and a fellow member of that class, proudly submit this
brief summary for all the classmates and friends who knew us when we
all li\ed in our dream instead of our memories.

—Ada Lewis

Beale

Earl M. Creveling lives at 6367 Sherman Street, Philadelphia 44.
Harr\' M. Persing, Sr., who taught in Philadelphia schools and
practiced law here for many years, died Saturday, August 5, in Temple
Hni\ ersit\' Hospital after a long illness. He was 76 years of age.
Mr. Persing, who lived at 7631 N. Gilbert Street, was a graduate
of Bloomsburg State Normal School and Dickinson Law School. He
taught in public schools here for twenty years. He was associated
witli the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society until his retirement some
years ago. He was a Mason and a member of the Logan Methodist

Church.
1900
Mrs. Stella Shuman Swenk, se\ ent>% of Philadelphia, a nati\ e of
Beaver \’alley, died Thursday, July 13, at Ocean City, N. J.
Born in Beaver Township, Mrs. Swenk taught school there for
se\ eral years prior to her marriage. She was a graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal School, class of 1900.
Survb ing are a son, Shuman, with whom she resided, and a
daughter, Mrs. Mar\' Catherine Rickobonno, both of Philadelphia,
and a sister, Carrie, of Selinsgro\e. Her husband preceded her in

death ten

)

ears ago.

1904

The marriage

Ardmore, and Harry
noon Saturday, July 8, in St.
The ceremony was performed by

of Miss Lillian B. Buckalew, of

E. Rider, of Bloomsburg, took place at

Mary’s Episcopal Church, Ardmore.
the Rev. Mr. \’ought, assistant rector of the church.
Miss Buckalew was gi\ en in marriage by her brother, Raymond
G. Buckalew, of Bloomsburg. The ceremony was attended by only

the immediate families.
Miss Buckalew is a former teacher in the Bloomsburg Schools
but for some time has been teaching in the Lower Merion Schools at

Penn MNnne.
Mr. Rider, a former principal of the Fifth Street School, Bloomsburg, in recent years has conducted the Kocher Coal business.
Thev are making their home at 26 M’est First Street, Bloomsburg.
1905
M’illiam H. Hagenbuch, sixt\ -four, proprietor of the Hagenbuch
Motor Company for the past quarter of a century and widely known
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this section, died Tuesday, August 1, from a lieart attack
home, 360 East Third Street.
Mr. Hagenbuch, who was a native of Light Street and had resided in Bloomsliurg for about thirty-five years, had been ill for about
two weeks but had been able to be about his home practically all of

throughout
at his

that time.

He was

a salesman for the local firm of Moyer Brothers for twenand it was during that time that he became interested in
the automobile business. He obtained the Buick agency and then resigned as a salesman for the drug firm to devote all of his time to the

ty-five years

Hagenbuch Motor Company which he founded.
At the

start of his activities in

handling Buicks he had his garage

at the site of the present parking lot in the rear of the court house.

For many years his garage
for the past few years it

was on West Main Street, at Jefferson, and
was located on Center Street at Anthony

Avenue.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of Washington Lodge, No. 265, F. &: A. M., Caldwell Consistory, the Bloomsburg
Rotary Club and the Bloomsburg Lodge of Elks. He was a graduate
of the Bloomsburg Normal School, now the Teachers College, in the
class of 1905.

Surviving are his wife; a son, William,
daughter.

]r.,

of town,

and a grand-

1906

The death

Byron H. Creasy, 62, of 200 South Pioneer avenue, Shavertown, occurred on Thursday, September 28, at WilkesBarre General Hospital. He was admitted there September 18, following a heart attack.
Dr. Creasy, a native of Rock Glen, Luzerne County, established
of Dr.

a dental office in Wilkes-Barre in April, 1914. He attended public
schools in Rock Glen and was graduated from State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg. He taught school for a short time in Rock Glen and decided to enter University of Pennsylvania Dental School.
A. M.;
Dr. Creasy was a member of Landmark Lodge 442, F.
Caldwell Consistory and Irem Temple.
Among the survivors are his wife, Helen; daughter, Marjorie,
Philadelphia; son, Byron, Jr., Jacksonville, N. C.; two brothers and
three grandchildren. Dr. F. J. Creasy, Berwick, is a first cousin as
was the late Dr. R. W. Miller.

&

Mrs. Stella Evans Oswald died August 18, 1950, at Scranton, Pa.
Surviving are her husband, Oscar A. Oswald; two daughters, Mrs.
Walter J. Gordon, New Cumberland, and Mrs. Jack Beck, Hershey.

John E. Shambach has retired from public school teaching and is
a part-time instructor in the Department of Education, Hiram
College. His address is Box 54, Hiram, Ohio.

now

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1907
Mrs. Alice Shaffer Harry, of Berwick, died at the home of her
daughter. Dr. Harriet Harry Henning, 718 West Nittany Avenue,
State College, Thursday, October 19.
She was born in Briar Creek, Pa., the daughter of Wesley F. and
Harriet Croop Shaffer. She is sur\i\ed by one daughter. Dr. Harriet
Harry Henning, one brother, Charles C. Shaffer, of Berwick, and two
grandchildren.
She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Bei^vick
and for many years was a teacher in the first grade schools at Berwick.
Mrs. Laura Bittenhouse Yohey, of Briar Creek, died Sunday,
August 13, at the Berwick Hospital, where she had been a patient
Mrs. Yohey was born in Briar Creek and had resided
for two days.
in that

community

all

her

life.

health for two years and confined to her bed
for the past three months.
She was graduated from the Bloomsburg
State Normal School in 1907 and taught school for a number of years.
She was a member of the Berwick Calvary Methodist Church and the
Her husband, the late William H. Yohey, died
P. O. of A., Camp 70.
20 years ago.

She had been

in

M

E. Walton, the former

ill

1908

Mable Wilkinson, of Mount
Carmel, died Tuesday, August 22, at her home at 6908 Willow Street,
Washington, D. C., following a lengthy illness. She was 62 years old.
The funeral took place from her late home. Interment was made
in Washington, D. C.
Mrs. \\^alton was born in Mount Carmel, a daughter of the late
Samuel and Elizabeth (Ludwig) Mhlkinson. A primary grade teacher
of the Mount Carmel Public Schools, she was graduated from the
Mount Carmel High School and from the Bloomsburg Normal School
Mrs. Walton also taught in Hastings,
as it was known at that time.
She was a Past Matron of Chrysanin the western part of the state.
themum Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, Mount Carmel. Mrs. Walton
was an active member of the First Methodist Church.
Sur\ ivors are her husband, Thomas E. Walton, one son. Edward,
two sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Martha Wills, Leonard Wilkinson,
George Wilkinson, Samuel Wilkinson, Mount Carmel, and Miss Violet
Wilkinson, of Plainfield, N. J.
1910
The Quarterly has been informed of the death of Edith Corae
Tingley, which occurred in June, 1948.
1912
\’iolet Wilkinson is teaching in the fourth grade in the sehools
of North Plainfield, New Jersey.
1913
Miss Helen Mendenhall, fifty-eight, Benton sehool teacher and
one of the upcreek community’s best-fo\ed residents, died in the
rs.

Thomas

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Bloomsbiirg Hospital Friday, September 15.
Her death followed a brief illness. She had been hospitalized but

a few

days.
native of Benton, she had been a resident of the community
all of her life.
She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William K. Mendenhall.

A

Miss Mendenhall was an active member of the Benton Methodist
Church, and for years, until the time of her illness, had taught a large
Bible class of the church. A public speaker of unusual ability. Miss
Mendenhall devoted her talents to church service and gave herself
whole-heartedly to Christian work in the community.
A graduate of the Benton High School and the Benton Summer
School, she received her preparation for teaching at the Bloomsburg
Nonnal School. She engaged in her profession for thirty-seven years
and early in her career taught at the West Creek and Welliver schools.
At the time of her death, she was third grade instructor in the Benton
Her illness, however, had prevented her from starting
Joint School.

the present term.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Grover C. Shaw, of Boston, Mass.,
and at home, a niece and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Karns,
Jr., a grand nephew, Edward Dixon Karns, and a grand niece, Susan
Elizabeth Karns.

Kathryn LeVan Wodock, of Allentown, became the bride of Ralph
E. Kuster, of North Street, in a ceremony performed on Saturday,
August 12, at the home of Mrs. Abbie Smith, of Light Street Road,
with the Rev. Dr. Eh in Clay Myers, pastor of the Methodist Church,
officiating.
Members of the immediate families witnessed the cere-

mony.
Mrs. Kuster is employed as a teacher in the schools of Allentown
and the bridegroom is a rural mail carrier out of the Bloomsburg Post
Office. Their home will be in Bloomsburg, although Mrs. Kuster will
continue to teach in Allentown for at least another year.

1916

The death

of

Harry K. Lear,

54,

residential

representative of

Wilkes-Barre Division, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, occurred Thursday, June 30, at his home, 29 Maffett Street, WilkesBarre, a few minutes after he suffered a heart attack.
Mr. I ..ear, former district manager for the utility, was employed
by the PP&L Company almost 25 years, having joined the organization in 1926.

Born in North Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Lear was graduated from CoughHigh School in 1914 and Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
1916. He was named district manager for the PP&L January 16, 1942,
and in March, 1946, he became residential representative.
The area resident was a member of 40 & 8 Lodge 61, F. & A. M.
Caldwell Consistory, the Shrine, Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club and Derr

lin

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Memorial Church, Wilkes-Barre.
Sur\i\'ing are his wife, the former Etta Drake, Ithaca, N. Y., a
two brothers, Ralph W. and Joseph W. Lear, both

son, Harry, Jr., and
of Wilkes-Barre.

1918
Miss Martha M. Taylor, who would have been fifty-bvo on August 16, died at her home, 40 East Third Street, Sunday July 16.
She
had been ill for a week and death was due to coronary occlusion.
Miss Taylor was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harry C.
Taylor, and she was a native of Bloomsburg.
A successful teacher for thirty years, she was a graduate of the

Bloomsburg High School, class of 1916, and at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, 1918, and was valedictorian of both classes.
She began her teaching career in the Mifflin Township High
School, where she taught for two years, and then for three years was
a teacher at Prospect Park before going to Eddystone where she taught
the past twenty-five years.
During her successful career as a teacher she took special work
at Temple University and also at the Teachers College, receiving her
Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from the local institution
in 1937.

She was spending her summer \ acation with her sister. Miss Erma
Taylor, as has been her custom, when she was stricken. She was held
in the highest esteem in the communit}' of Eddystone.
1929
Miss Irene Guest ’29 and William B. Jones ’29 were instmctors
at the workshop conferences conducted November 2 and 3 at the
72nd Annual Teachers’ Institute of Lackawanna County at West
Scranton High School. Miss Guest had as her theme, “School Discipline—An Administrative and Teacher Problem” and Mr. Jones, “Better Parent-Teacher Relationship.”
Miss Guest is a classroom teacher in the Van Buren Public School,
No. 31 and Mr. Jones is principal of the school.
1930
Helen E. Snyder lives at 1059 Market Street, Sunbury, Pa. After
having taught for some time in the third grade of the First Ward
School in Sunbury, she is now teaching second grade in the Ninth

Ward

School.

1931

Genevieve Wolfe (Mrs. Burton King) died Wednesday, October
She had been married a little
18, 1949, at her home at Harv'ey’s Lake.
over a year. Since her graduation from Bloomsburg she had been
teaching in Lake Township, Luzerne County.
1933
Miss Beatrice E. Girton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Girton, of Light Street Road, Bloomsburg, became the bride of John H.
Learn, son of Charles H. Learn, Sr., also of Light Street Road, in a
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ceremony at three-thirty o’clock Sunday, July 30, at the Bloomsburg
Reformed Church.
The Re\’. M. Edward Schnorr, pastor, performed the double-ring
nuptials.

The bride is a graduate of the Bloomsburg High School and
B.S.T.C.
She taught for the past thirteen years at the Third Street
School, Bloomsburg. The groom ser\ ed three and one-half years with
the U. S. armed forces during World War II, of which eight months
were spent ov erseas. He is employed at Milco Undergarment Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Learn will reside at 395 Light Street Road, Bloomsburg.
1937
teacher of Latin and English at the Tower
Citv^ Hish School, a position which she has held for the past six years.
Her mailing address is 236 South 29th Street, Pennbrook, Pa.

Josephine

Magee

is

1939
Dr. Alex. J. McKechnie, of Berwick, has been appointed secretary of the faculty and instructor in crown and bridge work at the
Dental School of Temple Univ'ersity. Dr. McKechnie was graduated
from the Temple Dental School last summer. After graduation from
Bloomsburg, he receiv’ed his Master’s Degree at Bucknell, served as
an officer in the Navy during World War II, and taught for a time
at Gettysburg College.

1940
Mrs. Eleanor Beckley Martin, widow of John J. Martin, of Berwick, was married Saturday, September 8, to Capt. Eugene George Sabota, of the United States Army, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Sabota, of Cleveland, Ohio. The wedding took place at the home of
the bride’s parents. Dr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Beckley, of East Fifth
Street,

Bloomsburg.

The

\'en.

William

J.

Mhitts, rector of St. Paid’s Parish,

the ceremony in the presence of

members

of the families

performed
and close

friends.

Mrs. Sabota graduated from Girls’ Slovak .Academy, Danville,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College with a B.S. degree in Special Education and Women’s Air Service Pilot training. She served as teacher
in Allentown State Hospital Children’s Clinic and substitute teacher
at Benjamin Franklin Training School, Bloomsburg, one year. She was
also Link trainer, Bloomsburg Airport, and pilot in Women’s Air Service.
She served in the American Red Cross as program director in
Manila, Philippine Islands, and Bavaria, Germany.
•Captain Sabota has served ten vears in the Lhiited States Army.
He served two and one-half years in the 79th Infantry Division in
the states and forty-two months in foreign service. He was in five
European campaigns. He has receiv^ed the following military recognitions: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart with Two Oak Leaf Clusters, French Croix de Guerre with two Palms, Presidential LTnit Cita-

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French Fouragerre, Combat Infantryman, Liaisaviation instructor, 51st Division, South Carolina National Guard, Columbia, S. C.
Captain and Mrs. Sabota are li\ ing at 5707 Fairfield Road, Columbia, S. C.
tion with

on

one

Pilot.

He

cluster,
is

Army

now li\ing at 575 Kieffer Street,
a chain store manager, and she is
serx'ing as receptionist in the office of two optometrists.
Stella

Herman McCleary

is

Her husband

is

\V'ooster, Ohio.

Hannah Unger Houck

is

now

li\

ing in Tunkhannock, Pa.

1941
After spending some time in Japan, where her husband was stationed with the United States Army, Ruth Shay Biery returned to the
states in September, 1949, and is now li\ing at 409 Hillcrest Drive,
Plattemouth, Nebraska.

Helen L. Johnson, formerly
^V.

Scammell, and

li\

es at

of Caleton, Pa.,

Newtown Road,

is

now

Mrs. Robert

Yardley, Pa.

1943

Herman

E. ^"onderheid, 111 East 7th Avenue, Con•shohocken. Pa., became the parents of a boy, Charles Edward, on July
Mrs. Vonderheid was Betty Lebengood.
21, 1950.

Mr. and Mrs.

1946

La Plume, Pa., class
Frank Houghton Applegate, Manasquan, N. J., took
place at 3 P. M. Saturday, June 17, in the First Ylethodist Church,
Factoryville, Pa.
The couple is residing in -Manasquan, where Mrs.
Applegate is a teacher in the elementary school.

The marriage

of Miss Doris Jean Dickinson,

of ’46, to Mr.

1948
Miss Janet Gilbody, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gilbody,
of Glen Avenue, Bloomsburg, became the bride of James Robert Murray, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Murray, of Cambridge Springs, Pa.,
in a prett\- ceremony at two o’clock Saturday, August 29, in St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Bloomsburg.
The Rev. Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor, performed the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of B.S.T.C., receiving her B.S. degree in
1948. She taught art two years in the Shamokin Junior High School.
Pier husband receh^ed the B.S. degree from Edinboro State Teachers
College where he was a member of Phi Sigma Pi, national professional
fraternity, and Beta Beta Beta, national biological science fraternity.
He is social studies teacher at Cambridge Springs, Pa., High School
and photographer for the Erie Times. He ser\ ed with the Air Force
during World War 11.
Gloria Mainier

is

now

Mrs. Harry John Dill,

Jr.

She was mar-

ried Sunday, April 2, 1950, in the Presbyterian Church in Dover, Delaware. Mr. and Mrs. Dill are now living in Harrington, Delaware.
She is the Speech Therapist for the Department of Public Instruction

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in Delaware.

Anne Baldy

(Mrs. L.

tal

M. Boyer)

Fort Ord, CaliFornia.
Corps.

pital,

is

located at the U.

Her husband. Major Boyer,

S.
is

Army Hosin the

Den-

1949
In a

ceremony

two o’clock Saturday afternoon, June

at

24, in the

Berwick Presbyterian Chnrch, Miss Madge L. Fuller, daughter of
Mrs. C. Clark Fuller, of Berwick, became the bride of Robert F. Jones,
son of Mrs. Clara Jones, of Nescopeck. The Rev. Gladstone P. Cooley,
pastor, officated at the double-ring ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of Berwick High School and B.S.T.C. and
is a teacher in the Berwick schools.
The groom, a graduate of Nescopeck High School, served with the U. S. Army and is, at present, sales
manager of Main Auto Sales and Service, Berwick.

who was on

the Bloomsburg College Husky varsity
and did much of the quarterbacking last Fall,
has been named assistant coach to Coach Leonard at Highspire High
where LaRue Derr, formerly at Beaver Consolidated, is the supervis-

Jim Reedy,

for the past four years

ing principal.

Reedy will also help in coaching basketball. Following the completion of his College course here last January, Reedy taught for a
semester at Paulsboro, N. J.
Frank Luchnick

is

teacher and coach in the Elizabethtown High

School.

Thomas Donan

is

head coach

at

Columbia High School.

1950
In a pretty ceremony at eleven o’clock Thursday morning, July
20, in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg, Miss Susanne I^ouise
Duy. daughter of .Albert William Duy, Jr., became the bride of Erancis Joseph Radice, son of Mrs. Catherine Radice, of Wilkes-Barre,

The Ven. William

J. Watts, rector of the church, performed the
ceremony before the altar which was decorated with white gladioli and yellow daisies.
The ceremony was witnessed by relatives and
a few close friends of the couple.
The newlyweds went to Bermuda on a wedding trip and reside
at 152 West Fourth Street, Bloomsburg.
The bride is a graduate of Bloomsburg High School and the
Bloomsburg Hospital School of Nursing. The groom, a graduate of
Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre, and B.S.T.C., is a commercial

ring

teacher.

The Berwick Methodist Church was the scene on Saturday, October 21, for the marriage of Miss Katherine Ethel Chapin, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Chapin, of Berwick, to Millard George Fisher,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Millard Fisher, of Berwick. The Rev. Aurance
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Shank, pastor, performed the candlelight ser\ ice.
After a reception in the church social rooms, the couple left for
State College, where they will reside at 219 West Foster Avenue.

The bride graduated from Berwick High School and B.S.T.C.
The groom graduated from Berwick High School and Susquehanna
Unix ersit}’ and is now attending Pennsylvania State College where he
is working toward his master’s degree.
He is a veteran of World \\'ar
II

having

serx

ed with the Air Corps.

Frank Bertollo, Jr., son of Mrs. Frank Bertollo, West Front Street,
Berwick, has been appointed to a teaching position in the Wellsboro
Senior High School, Wellsboro, Pa. Bertollo is teaching Latin and
English and is also serving as dramatic coach at the school.
Mr. Bertollo graduated in May from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education.
He was a member of Kappa Delta Pi, scholastic fraternity. Day Men’s
Association and the B.S.T.C. Dramatic Club.
Before he transferred
to

Bloomsburg, Bertollo completed two years of academic work

Charles College, Cantonsx

ille,

at St.

Md.

The well-known young man is a member of the Berwick Theatre
W’orkshop and the Young Men’s Chorus. He serx es as treasurer for
the latter organization.

Miss Lois M. Datesman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Datesman, Bangor, became the bride of Wilmer F. Nester, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer C. Nester, of Emmaus, in a ceremony Saturday, August
The Rev. Dr. Elvin Clay
26, in the Bloomsburg Methodist Church.
Myers, pastor, officiated at the nuptials for the two former Bloomsburg State Teachers College students.
Mrs. Nester is a graduate of Bangor High School and of B.S.T.C.,
and is a teacher in Bangor High School. The bridegroom, a graduate of Emmaus High School and of B.S.T.C., is teachii^g in Pen Argyl
High School. They are living at 22 Arch Street, Pen Argyl, Pa.

Richard Wagner

is

teaching in the Nescopeck High School.
o

Miss Mary \’era Foust, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Foust,
of Danx ille, and Richard C. Olsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. \’ictor A. Olsen, also of Danville, xvere married Saturday, August 5, at St. Peter’s
Lutheran Church, Grovania, by the Rex^ B. W. Krapf.

The bride graduated from Danxille High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is a teacher at Femville School. The
groom, a graduate of Manheim Township High School, graduated
from Northrop Aeronautical School, Northrop, Calif., and is employed
He xvas xvith the subat the Art Bronze and Iron Works, Danville.
marine serx ice in the South Pacific during World War H.
Mr. and Mrs. Olsen are residing at 120 Mill Street, Danx ille.
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PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
President:

Mrs. Lillian

Hortman

Irish,

732 Washington Street,

Camden, New

Jersey.
\’ice-President: Mrs.

Mary A. Taiibel, 1246 West Main Street,
Norristown, Pa.
Secretary-Treasurer: Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, 7011 Frederick
Street, Philadelphia 35, Pa.
o

ceremony at seven-thirty Friday evening, October 13, in the
Hanover Green Chapel, Wilkes-Barre, Miss Barbara Ann Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merlyn Jones, of Nescopeck, became the bride
of Bradford Hayden Cecil, son of Mrs. John Agle, of Baltimore, Md.,
and Harold H. Cecil, of Stevensville, McI.
The Bev. L. Paul Harris, officiated at the candlelight ceremony
and Miss Janet Kelly, of Wilkes-Barre, presided at the organ.
Attending the couple were Miss Mary Alice Aurand, of Nescopeck, and James O’Hara, of Phillipsburg.
In a

A

dinner at Hotel Sterling for the bridal party followed the cereMr. and Mrs. Cecil will reside on East Second Street, Berwick.
The bride was graduated from Nescopeck High School in 1945
and attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She is a secretary
in the office of Dr. Otis ^I. Eves, Berwick.
The groom graduated from Baltimore Friends School in 1944 and
from Duke University with a B.S. degree in civil engineering. He
served with the Navy Air Corps for fourteen months during World
War II. He is emploved in the plant engineering department of the

mony.

Berwick ACF.
o

Bruce Miles Callender, seventy-seven, of Shickshinny R. D. 3,
died at the Berwick Hospital Friday, August 10, at three-forty o’clock.
He was born in Fairmount Township and moved to Berwick in
1912. In 1946 he took up residence with his daughter, Mrs. Arthur
Michael, of Shickshinny R. D. 3. He had been in ill health for a
number of years and had been confined to bed for three weeks.
Mr. Callender attended Bloomsburg Normal School and taught
school in Fairmount Township for a number of years. He engaged
in farming in Briar Creek Township and later worker at the ACF.
He serv ed as a janitor at the Orchard Street School, in Benvick,
served twelve years as a tax collector in Berwick when the borough
was separated into two parts and later serv^ed as a janitor of the Berwick Bank, then known as the Berwick Savings and Trust Company.
His wife, the former Emma Haiwey, died in March, 1945. He
was a member of the Berwick First Methodist Church and the Odd
Fellows.

o

Miss Mary Lorah, teacher in the Verona, N. J., public school sysa graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has

tem and

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receh ed a special award for her school,

made by

the

Freedom Found-

ation, Inc., for teaching the students in that school system

damental Freedoms of the American Way of Life.”
In an account of the recognition the Elizabeth, N.

J.

“The FunDaily Jour-

nal, states:

New Jersey school system cited by the foundaheadquarters at \^alley Forge, for special awards
tliat will go to thirt\'-nine schools in twelve s>'stems throughout the
nation. Selections for these awards were made by a twenty-one man
jury headed by Dr. Robert L. Johnson, president of Temple University.
A total of 150,000 schools completed.
\^erona

tion,

is

the only

which has

its

The program in \"erona was fostered and carried out by a committee which drew up course outlining studies of American history,
and literahare, with democracy as its central
Miss Lorah was chosen to accept the award because of her
activity in furthering this program.
gro^\i:h, personalities

theme.

A resident of Elizabeth four years. Miss Lorah, a native of Pennsyb ania, taught in Sullivan Countv, Pa., before joining the \>rona
school system in 1946. She received her education at Marywood Seminary and Mar\Avood College, Scranton, and the State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.
o

John M^ebster Harris, sixt\-four, count}' nati\ e and former area
teacher', died M’ednesday, August 23, at his home, 101 Nortlr Twelfth
Street, Sunbury, of a lingering illness.
He had been bedfast since
June.
resident of Sunbury for the past seventeen years, Mr. Harris
in Columbia County January 21, 18S6, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Harris. He was a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and Gettr'sburg College. Some years ago he taught in the
Grade school at the Central Pennsyb ania Orphanage, east of Sunbury.
Formerly he was a teacher in Columbia County schools. During the
last war he was a cost accountant for the Office of Price Administration in Sunbury. He was a member of the Methodist Church at Buckhorn.

was born

o

Miss Elizabeth Jane Love, teacher in the Milton schools for 42
A'ears. died une.xpectedly at her home in M^esleyville, a suburb of Erie,
Monday, ,\ugust 28. She had been residuig there since her retirement
a few years ago. She had been injured in a fall and was hospitalized
but apparently reco\ ered and had been in good health until stricken
suddenly with a heart attack.
She was born in Derry Township, Montour County, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. ^^'ilham Butler Lo\ e. She attended Derry Township schools and was graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She took graduate work at Bucknell University, Lewisburg,
and Columbia University.

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In a simple double ring ceremony Thursday, September 28, Mary
F Neuhard became the bride of Charles A. Richards, of Wilkes-Barre,
.

formerly of Catawissa.

The ceremony was held at the bride’s home on East Fifth Street,
Bloomsburg, performed by the bride’s uncle, M. S. Kitchen, minister,
of East Orange, N. J., assisted by Kenneth Gould, minister of the
Christian Church, of Bloomsburg.
Mrs. Richards is a graduate of Bloomsburg High and the Normal
School. At jiresent, she is teaching third and fourth grades in Main
Township School. Mr. Richards is working in the mines*and is employed by the Glen Alden Coal Company, near Mdlkes-Barre.
o

On Saturday, July 8, in Aldie Episcopal Church, Aldie, Va., the
marriage of Miss Hannah Virginia Grehan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin B. Hutchison, of Areola, Va., to B. Robert Bird, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George B. Bird, Coughlin Street, Berwick, was solemnized.
The Rev. Spence Dunbar officiated.
Mary Washington College of Uniand Washington School for Secretaries. The groom
was graduated from George Washington University and Bloomsburg
Mrs. Bird was graduated from

\

ersity of \’irginia

State Teachers College.

The couple

will reside at Silver Springs,

Md.

o

Miss Julia Alberta Wellixer, daughter of Mrs. F. F. Welliver, of
Bloomsburg, and Charles Edward Driskell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Driskell, of Kentucky, were united in marriage in a quiet ceremony
at the Dutch Hill Emanuel E\ angelical Reformed Church by the Rev.
Ray E. P. Abbott at ten o’clock Saturday, July 8.
Following a reception held at the bride’s home for the immediate families, Mr. and Mrs. Driskell left on a wedding trip through
Canada.
Mrs. Driskell
solidated School.

town.

is

a

member

of the faculty of Scott

Township Con-

Mr. Driskell is employed by W. W. Goodman, of
They will reside at 314 Fair Street, Bloomsburg.
o

The marriage

of Miss Jbanne R. Spaid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
R. Spaid, of Mifflinburg, and Paul Simington, son of Mr. and
William M. Simington, of Mooresburg, was solemnized Saturday,

Hobart
Tvirs.

August

19, in the

Mifflinburg Methodist Church by the Rev. Clarence

F. Johnson, pastor.

The bride, a graduate of B.S.T.C. and Bucknell University, is a
teacher in the Mifflinburg schools.
Mr. Simington was graduated
from Dan\’ille High School and is employed with his brother in conducting a farm implements shop on Sunbury R. D. 2.
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