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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
State Teachers College,
Volume

L

1

Bloomsbu rg, Pennsylvania

MARCH,

1951

Number

I

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LI I,
Published

No.

March, 1951

I

quarterly by

the

Alumni

Association of the State Teachers Col-

Bloomsburg. Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8, 1941, at the
Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under

Mid-Year Commencement

lege,

March

the Act of

scription. $2.00;

Yearly SubSingle Copy, 50 cents.
3.

1879.

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

T2

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H.

Nelson,

’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT

Philip F. LaFolIette, distinguish-

ed Wisconsin lawyer and son of
Robert M. LaFolIette, Progressive
Party candidate for the presidency
in
1924, delivered the mid-term
Commencement address at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Thursday evening, January 18, in
Carver Auditorium. Colonel LaFollette, who served with distinction in two World Wars, was twice
governor of Wisconsin; he is the
brother of Robert M. LaFolIette,
Jr., who represented Wisconsin in
the LL S. Senate for more than
twenty years.
Philip E. LaFolIette

E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

Alumni Day
Saturday

of Wisconsin,

March, 1951

a native
in

Madison. His father, the nationaLly-famous “Fighting Bob” LaFollette, was not only a politically important figure in the first two decades of the twentieth century but

he was one of the nation’s most

dis-

tinguished public servants.
With
the
possible
exception
of
the
Roosevelt family, no other American family has had such a profound
influence on contemporary Ameri-

can history.

The Commencement speaker was
educated in the Wisconsin schools
is a graduate of the University
of Wisconsin. He began the practice of law in Madison in 1922.
He
served as a second lieutenant of an
infantry company during World
War I. Following the war, he was
elected District Attorney of Dane
County, Wisconsin. From 1926 to
1930, LaFolIette was on the faculty
of the Law School of the University of Wisconsin.
He was elected governor of his
home state in 1931 and served two
terms, during which he won the ad-

and

miration and respect of the citizens
He volunteered for
service following the outbreak of
World War II and served in the
Southwest Pacific with the combat
lorces, rising from the rank of captain to that of colonel.
Since the
of the state.

May 26

is

having been born

end

of the war, he has

been praclaw in Wisconsin.
Speaking before a capacity audience in the Carver Hall auditorium,
LaFolIette used the theme “What
licing

Our Future?”
He blasted the
repudiation of moral principles by
our leaders since World War I,
praised our Far East policy and asserted that while he is a foe of com-

of

munism he
the
the

men
men

in

is more worried about
Washington than about

in the

Kremlin.

The invocation was given by
Fred W. Deihl, superintendent of
the schools of Montour county and
vice president of the

board of

trus-

Miss Mary

Lou Todd, of
town, accompanied by Miss Mary
tees.

Grace

Aimers, Plymouth, sang,
This Day Is Mine.”
Dr. T. P.
North, dean of instruction, presented the candidates to Dr. Harvey
A. Andruss, president of the College, who conferred the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Education.
Charles H. Henrie led in the singing of the Alma Mater. Howard F.
Fenstemaker was at the console.
LaFolIette said that despite the
frustrated world of today “I look
to the future with confidence. The
troubles we have today are the products of yesterday’s mistakes.”
He asserted that the world we
have tomorrow is the kind of world

we make. The world needs

leadership and he said the things which
make this are courage, understanding and, most of all, perspective.
“Great material power without
great moral principles cannot succeed,” he continued.
LaFolIette
stressed the American way of life,
particularly the principle that all
men are created free and equal.
He pointed out that America is
not perfect; that the nation is still
faced with problems of racial and
religious prejudice and bigotry.

However, more people in this country have gotten the opportunities
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High Placement Record For Class of 1950
Approximately 90 percent of the
the
graduating
class
of
1950
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col

who

lege,

are available, are

now

employed.
As a regular yearly process, the
Placement Service of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College gets in contact with all of its graduates of the
previous year.
This is the twenyear for which figures are
and the 1950 class, consisting of 263 students, the largest
in the history of the college. Divided into Business graduates 91;
Elementary graduates 64, Secondary graduates 108, of this group,
170 are teaching, 37 are employed
in Business, giving the total number of employed 207, or 79 percent
of the total class number.
tieth

available,

Of the remaining 56, thirty are
not available for employment, since
eight are in the Armed Forces,
twenty are attending graduate
schools, and two are married and
have indicated their desire not to
leach at this time. This leaves 26,
twelve of whom cannot be located
and the remainder, fourteen, were
unable to secure positions.

number

available for
fixed at 233, then
there are 88 percent of the number
available who are employed. This
assumes that all those who could
not be reached by the questionnaire are not employed, and would
probably understate the results.

the total

If

employment

is

Compared with

the

placement

record for the 1949 Class, the 88
percent compares with 89 percent
for last year, with a larger number
being available for employment on
account of being called into the

if

complete information were

able on

all

members

avail-

of the Class

of 1950 at this time,

the figures
would exceed 90 percent, which is
about the same figure that the College has maintained in its placement records since the end of

World War II.
The final results

of

the

study

shows that almost 40 percent have
gone outside the State of Pennsylvania to teach.
Some would account for this situation by pointing
to the higher beginning salaries in
the states outside Pennsylvania;

may

say that administrators
from New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland are coming
directly to colleges in search of
teachers, while Pennsylvania administrators are waiting for teachers to come to them.
others

Of the 263 graduated, 231 are
available for teaching positions.
This means that 20 of the 1950
graduates continued to attend college on the graduate level, nine are
in the Armed Forces, and three,
having married, indicated that they
did not care to teach at this time.
The study just completed by Dr.
Ernest H. Englehart, Director of
Placement of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, is the continuance of a survey beginning in 1931
and now covers 2,306 graduates of

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is

reasonable to assume that

were present at the conference,
which also included a series of
panel discussions based on the demonstration lessons; an auditorium

program featuring an address by
Dr. Roma Gans, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; and a conference
iuncheon
ing room.

The

in the

faculty

Waller Hall dinof

the

Benjamin

Idaho.

Teachers

Joseph R. Bailer, former Director
of Secondary Education and Head
Bureau
at
Placement
of
the
Bloomsburg, is now a member of
the faculty at

West Maryland Col-

T. Hayden, former Director
Primary Education, lives at the
Thompson Apartments, Lewiston,

It

Croup Living.”
Hundreds of elementary school
teachers and school administrators

Cheat Heritage” for the demonstra-

State

Of

employed.

was a feature of the Fourth Annual Conference on Elementary
Education held at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College Saturday,
December 2. Miss Edna J. Hazen,
Director of Elementary Education,
chairman of the Conference, had
arranged a program in which’ all
lessons would be based on the general theme “Guiding Children in

of

the Bloomsburg
College.

Armed

the 80 Business graduates of
1950 available, 75 are employed,
thus giving a 94 percent placement
of those employed, 58 percent are
not teaching, and 36 percent are in
Of the 64 Elementary
business.
graduates available 95 percent are
employed, and of the 89 Secondary
graduates available, 82 percent are

A series of meaningful demonstration lessons in the various grades of the Benjamin Franklin School

School taught special
lessons in each grade beginning at
9:30 a. m.
The kindergarten children, taught by Miss Grace H.
Woolworth, were seen “Planning
Christmas Activities.” Mrs. Lucile
J. Baker, teacher of Grade I, demonstrated “Social Guidance through
Song and Story,” while Grade II,
whose children are taught by Mrs.
Iva Mae Beckley, chose the topic
Studying the Community and Using Its Resources.” Grade III presented “Larger Horizons for the
Child.” Miss Marcella M. Stickler
the training teacher for Grade
is
HI. Grade IV, Mrs. Anna G. Scott,
teacher, had an interesting unit
“Developing World Understanding
Among Children.” Grade V, taught
by Mr. Russell Schleicher, discussed “Our Changing Northeast,” and
Miss Edna J. Barnes selected the

Westminster, Md. Mr. Bailer returned to the United States
one'
year in
after teaching for
Cairo, Egypt.

Services. However, certain
trends are evident when we consider the Business, Elementary and
Secondary curriculums.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
CONFERENCE

lege.

May

Franklin

‘

topic

“Modern Living,

tion in

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, Pres.
Harold R. Moyer, ’09, Vice-Pres.

Bloomsburg 246

Grade

IV.

The

Utilizing a

Special Class

under the direction of Miss E. Marjorie Stover did an exercise on
“Working Together is Fun.”
Following the demonstration lessons, a series of panel discussions
was held under the direction of
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BUSINESS EDUCATION

College Recruitment Program

(

“No

college can afford to stand
in quiet dignity and await serenely
for those who would enter its
doors. Faithful to its purpose, the
college must go afield and seek out
the very best of those qualified to
profit by its services.” This advice,
given recently by the American Association

of Colleges for

Teacher

adequately
the need for a sound recruitment
Education,

describes

program by any college, and
Rloomsburg State Teachers College
is

getting ready to put this advice

into practice.

Under the

direction

of

Dean

John A. Hoch, interested members
of the college faculty are willing to
coordinate their efforts and carry

out a high school visitation program in order to recruit worthy
young people for the teaching profession.

Last year faculty members visPennsylvania high
schools and spoke to or conferred
with more than 2000 high school
seniors about advantages and opited 64 Central

As a reof these visits more than 50
percent of those persons now
enrolled in the freshman class were
portunities in teaching.

sult

to
before
coming
This achievement is
considered most worthwhile, and
the 1949-50 recruitment program

be contacted,

will

more

than

100

increasing
the number

to
of

schools visited.

Contacts with prospective students are friendly contacts, but
Dean Hoch emphasizes they must
be restrained and dignified. Faculty
in

members who

this year’s

will participate

recruitment program

will direct their efforts

toward

sin-

cere counselling rather than mere
“sales talk.’’
In other words, the
College cannot afford to make its
recruitment program a mere scramble for students.

has been termed “the most successthe College.
Dean Hoch plans to make the 1950-

ful in the history of

51 program more extensive and, if
possible, more effective than last
year’s.
For the first time in many

The 19th Annual Business Education Contest of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College will be held
at
5,

Bloomsburg on Saturday, May
The contest will be con-

1951.

ducted

in the following fields, proiding a sufficient number of
schools are entered in each contest:
bookkeeping, business mathematics,
business law, Gregg shorthand, typewriting.
\

Friday evening. May 4, at 8
the annual fashion show
will be given in honor of visiting

On

o’clock,

teachers and contestants.

After an initial visit to the high
schools during the last few weeks
of the first semester and the early
weeks of the second semester, the
College will attempt to entertain
prospective students on weekend
visits and special
visitation days.
Other contacts will be made
through alumni, former students,
students now enrolled in College.,
and friends of the College. In addition to these approaches, prospective students will also be contacted by mail and receive various
College publications from time to
time during the second semester.

(Continued from Page 2)

area

teachers

and

Climaxing these contacts, members of Dean Hoch’s committee
will make a second visit to the high
schools late in the spring semester
lor the puqiose of making a final
follow-up of earlier contacts. Approximately 25 members of the College faculty will participate in the

out the latest equipment.
Further details concerning the
contest and exhibits will be mailed
lo all Pennsylvania schools upon

As the number of schools
entering the contest will be limited
to approximately 35 to 40 schools,
depending upon the number of
contestants entered, it is suggested
that schools planning to enter indicate their desire as soon as possirequest.

ble.

Entrance blanks will go out to
schools previously entered in
the contest and to schools in our
service area during the latter part
of January.
all

Kehr and
Marguerite V.
Macdonald, of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, attended the Thirtieth annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania Assoheld
ciation of Deans of Women
recently at the Penn-Harris Hotel
Women deans and
at Harrisburg.
Dr.

program.

Leaders of the discussion groups

were Thomas L. Hinkle, Superintendent of Schools, Hazleton, Pa.;
Mrs. Edvthe R. Miller, Elementary
Teacher, Milton, Pa.; Kenneth E.
Hawk. Supervising Principal, Fair-

Township, Mountain Top,
Grace S. Beck, Supervisor Elementary Education, Sunbury, Pa.;
Kenneth L. Terry, Superintendent

view
Pa.;

of Schools, Berwick, Pa.; Mrs. Irene
Millroy,
Elementary
Teacher,

Bloomsburg,
March, 1951

Pa.;

Supervising Principal, Forty Fort,
Pa.; and Raymond Treon, Supervisor, Special Education, Columbia,

supervisors.

Frank W. Walp,

of-

itv to try

Miss

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
CONFERENCE

An

machine show and book exhibit will be held Saturday, May
5, in Navy Hall Auditorium. Every
elfort will be made to give visiting
students and teachers an apportunfice

contacted

Bloomsburg.

INFERENCE ANNOUNCED

years, schools in the Scranton area

Montour and Northumberland

Counties.

Conference visitors were entertained from 10:45 until 11:15 a. m.
by the teachers and children of the
Benjamin Franklin School in an
“open house” which was held in
Benjamin Franklin classrooms.

all

CONNER & FLECKENSTINE
PRINTERS TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner, ’34

Mary

counsellors in the colleges, universities and secondary schools of the
state participated in the sessions
which stressed the theme, “Challenge of Contemporary Living.”

Dean Kehr and Miss Wacdonald,
who is Coordinator of Counselling
and Personnel Services at Bloomsburg, were members of a panel
that discussed the subject, “ContinSecondary
uity of Guidance from

School to College.”
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New Book By John
John Bakeless, son of the
Prof, and Mrs. O. H. Bakeless,
published

now

author, recently
Eyes of Discov-

distinguished

a

late

“The

ery.”

Bakeless

many

has

friends

in

Bloomsburg, where he spent his
boyhood and young manhood and
at times gets back to this communHis wife is the former Kathity.
erine Little.

His new book is a pageant of
North America as seen by the first
explorers.
trated and

is 439 pages, illuspublished by Lippen-

It

cott.

The book

is

made

the basis for

an interesting column, “Books of
the Times,” by Charles Poore of
the New York Times. The column
carries a cut of Bakeless

and

fol-

f

lows:

The land

is

still

here,

scarred

and serene and immortal. It was
threatened by sea and most perilously nine years ago today. It may
he threatened by air most barbar-

We did not get
without some fights. We have not
without some battles. We
held

ously tomorrow.

it

it

may

yet have to sacrifice for it
even some of the rather irregularly
boiling blood of our most sedentary
And better
armchair strategists.
men. But it will survive, the America that John Bakeless shows us
again through the words and deeds
of the early explorers

and naviga-

and adventurers in a timely
book of daring and perspective,
“The Eyes of Discovery.”
Whose eyes first saw America?
Who knows? It may be that the
tors

writer, the first poet, the first
scribbler who really can describe

first

We

can
best has not been born.
pick and choose our way through
fact and legend, meantime, in the
inexhaustible welter of imaginative
records and impressively scrawled
reminiscences.
In this book Mr. Bakeless, helped
bv such mandarins of our heritage

it

as

on,

Bernard DeVoto, Gregory MasGeorge Stevens, James T. Babb,

Donald Culross Peattie and ninety(who
librarians
dedicated
seem to have taken the place of the

nine

graduate students usually chosen
to
4

do so much

for so little credit),

Bakeless Reviewed

has produced a very unusual anthology indeed.
“There is a story,” he writes,
“that a Chinese explorer visited the
California coast, near Monterey,
about the time Hannibal was at(27 B. C.)— and
tacking Rome.
seized the occasion for tactfully
praising the California climate.
And there is also the story that another Chinese expedition was somewhere on the coast about the fifth
century A. D. But these are dubious stories of the exploits of
shadowy figures in ancient Orienobscure, unconfirmed,
tal annals,
verification, and probably
misunderstood.”
Don’t be too surprised, though
if versions of them turn up one of
these days among the Muscovitated
claims being advanced by the Chinese Red delegation out at Lake
Success. They might want to take
Hollywood back to Peiping. Possibly using that big Chinese-style
theatre as evidence.

beyond

Champlain

(a pre-PIarthere) saw in the
Cambridge and greater Boston region was a forest of x>ine, fir,
spruce, oak, maple, birch and of

All that

vard

man up

elm trees. The beavers
were already eager. There were

course,

swamps along the Charles River.
In fact, swamps may bear some
obscure relationship to colleges. As
late as Scott Fitzgerald’s day people are said to have caught malaria

around the swamps

at Princeton.
certainly saw
Fitzgerald
Princeton with the eyes of discov-

And

ery.

Once upon a time deer stamped
along Fifth Avenue. The New
York Public Library lions would
probably frighten them today. Although Verrazano had entered our
harbor in 1524, and a Spaniard in
the Portuguese service called Estevan Gomez in 1525, we naturally set most store by Hendrick Hudson’s 1609 discoveries.
Not wanting to get every antiquarian in town shooting at me, I

pass on with some trepidation the
legend that everybody had a snifter to celebrate Hendrick’s arrival,
so that the place came to be known
“Manna-hata,” or “place ot
as

drunkenness.” Quite properly, Mr.
Bakeless calls that “dubious” too.
Why? Well, among other reasons,
because Manhattan seems to have
had its name long before that; it
probably doesn’t refer Po elbowbending at all— and the quafting
really took place up near Albany,

anyway.
As someone or other was saying
only the other day, though, New
York has changed. When the seventeenth century was young, Mr.
Bakeless tells us, “over all of Greater New York was the quiet of the
wilderness, broken only by the occasional calls of birds and the rare
cries of the usually silent wilder-

ness beasts.
still,

dark

At night, above
villages,

boomed

the
the

whoo-whoo of the great horned
Wolves may have howled oc-

owl.

there cannot even
then, have been many of them—
the Indian population was too
thick, scattered along the shores
and among the islands.” Always

casionally, but

you see; always some
But quieter.
There was a day when visitors
complained of the lack (repeat,
lack) of smoke around Pittsburgh,
though coal was “discoverable in
the gullies of the road, and among
the roots of trees that have been
overthrown by the wind.”

crowded,
howling.

The great tradition of Southern
cooking goes back to Indian times.
According to James Adair, who

among the Suth’n Indians,
they could “diversify their courses
as much as the English”— you don’t
suppose that means they also considered Brussels sprouts edible, do
you?— and “all their food was gratefor a wholesome stomach.”
ful
lived

Elsewhere

in

North America, Mr.

Bakeless points out, dining with
the Indians was no spectacularly
sweet esthetic experience.
The Frenchman, the Spaniards,
the English missionaries, the settlers, and the men and women and
children who simply pushed on to
avoid town life and the varied twilights of suburbanization, reached,
eventually, all the mountains, all
the deserts, all the streams. They
often saw them as freshly as if they
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Student

the Husky,

for everyone.

pages.

“Are

OLYMPIAN

MAGAZINE

staff lacks in

port.

up

have been taken; group
photographs were taken by Mr. DeVoe, Richard Knause, and Keith

look" is the fashion for the cover of this year’s issue of the OLYMPIAN. The December copy of the magazine had
a striking new cover. With all due
respect to “Leo,” who formerly
adorned the place of honor on the
cover of the magazine, the decision
was made to spice life with a little variety and give “Leo” a vaca-

in

tion.

staff

cover is not the only innovation of the ’50-’51 OLYMPIAN. The new trend toward visual
education is recognized, and the
publication will carry more illustrations and cartoons in the future.
It will be the policy of the magazine
to introduce all the variety possible in the handling of material.

For the benefit of those who are
not “in the know,” the OLYMPIAN, instituted by its able former
editor, William A. Stimeling, in

is

as

new

unusual cover

its

is

a

list

of the general

members:

Editor-in-chief— David Newbury.
Associate Editors— Joanne Fornvvald, Jack Simpson.
Business Manager— Leonora Magill.

Advertising
Manager — Henry
Marini.
Sales Manager— Alex Kubic.
Art Editors— Anna May Kornfield,

A new

as

staff

However, what the
experience, it makes
originality and ambition.

Following

The “bold new

Charles Andrews.

Faculty Adviser— I. Almus Russell.

the editor, Dave
Newbury, the basic aim of the
OLYMPIAN this year is to try to
satisfy student demand for variety
and interesting material, to offer
a better product at the same price,
and to gain importance as a campus publication through wider rec-

According

to

ognition.

creative writing.
Staff membership is open to all contributors.

1951, the yearbook of
getting underway. The
staff has been hard at work for
some time, and it is evident that
the members are doing everything

is

The purpose

The magazine’s contents include
poems, essays, short stories, and
cartoons. All copy is student written and its quality is dependent
upon the response of the student
body to requests for material.
This year a relatively new and
untried group of writers replaced
such celebrities as Don Butcofsky,
Canouse, Junior Eddinger,

Bob

A1 Stimeling, and Mike Bell. Some
of this year’s contributors are Hazel
Palmer, Jim Whibley, Jack Thomas,
John Wagner, and Jim Ciavaglia.
Marie Mattis is one of the few veterans of former issues.
Short stories worth reading in the
coming OLYMPIAN are “Too Easy
to Remember,” a tragically true
story

Belle

town

by

James

Dames

Whibley;

“The

Salon,” a look at small
characters by Hazel Palmer;

March, 1951

THE

1951

Obiter,
B.S.T.C.,

in their

OBITER

is

power

to

make

this year’s

publication equal or superior to the
sensational Obiter of last year.
Homer Zeizler is editor-in-chief
of Obiter 1951. Other members of
the staff are: associate editor—

John Bums; editorial board— Harry
Fenstermacher, Joseph Kissinger;
business manager— Lillian Mlkvy;
director of publicity— Thomas Anthony; sports editor— William Kline;
photography editors — Richard
Knause, Keith Smith; director of
senior pictures— Marie Mattis; ad-

manager— Clifton Clarridge; secretary— Mickey Casula;
typists— Eleanor Bolinsky, Richard
vertising

Powell.

The theme

One hundred

sixty-three sen-

ior pictures

Smith.
All

art

work

is

being done by

students of the college, under the
direction of Leonora MacGill.
The annual Obiter show, which
is always one of the keynotes of
the college year, is to be held in
April. The show will be under the
direction of Tom Anthony, director
of publicity.

Typists and Copyreaders— Millie
Mervine, Pat Penny, Lois Frantz,
Barbara Gulich.

the college literary magaof the publication is to encourage and gain recognition for students interested in
1948,

zine.

hundred books are to be printed,
each containing one hundred sixty

illustration.

and untried

ISSUE LITERARY

in

All portraits are being taken by
Robert Somerville, who is connected with L. L. Stearns, of Williams-

The

Activities

which will be featured
gray on a maroon cover. Four

You Superstitious?”, a
by Jack Thomas. The
December OLYMPIAN had everything for someone and something
and

hair-raiser

of this year will

be

SPEECH FRATERNITY
ORGANIZED
Speech majors have organized a
chapter of Sigma Alpha Eta, a national speech correction fraternity,
at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Temporary

officers

were

elected and a committee was appointed to draft a prospective constitution at a recent meeting.
Sigma Alpha Eta had its origin
at the Pennsylvania State College
in 1948 under the leadership of Dr.
Cordelia Brong, of the speech department. To be eligible to have a
chapter of Sigma Alpha Eta on its
campus, a college must offer accredited speech and hearing courses leading to state certification in
the field of speech correction.
The objectives of Sigma Alpha
Eta are: To create and stimulate
an interest among college students
in the field of speech and hearing;
To encourage professional growth
by providing learning experiences
not offered in the formal course
structure; To foster a spirit of unity
by offering opportunities for social
and professional fellowship; To aid
in building wholesome public relations with other college departments and with local organizations
interested in knowing about the
field of speech and hearing.
Temporary officers elected at
the first meeting of the Bloomsburg

chapter of Sigma Alpha Eta are:
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SPEECH FRATERNITY
ORGANIZED
(Continued from Page 5)
president, Frank Dean; vice president, Robert Laubscher; secretary,
Lena Caccia; corresponding secretary, Nancy Powell; treasurer, Robert Jewell; and adviser, Miss Alice

The constitution committee, headed by Philip Weinstein, consists of Vivian Brennan.

Johnston.

Mt. Carelected class treasurer.
mel students honored were Mike
Bernot, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bernot, 25 South Walnut Street,
Mt. Carmel, and Miss Dolores
Doyle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. L. Doyle, 31 North Vine Street,
Mt. Carmel. Bernot was selected
vice president, while Miss Doyle

was named secretary.
Two Bloomsburg students were

Nancy Heebner, Paul Keener, John
Kennedy and Mildred Pliscott.

named

SOPHOMORE COTILLION

Rumer, 223 West Eighth Street,
was selected as women’s representative, while Oren Baker, son of

Miss Theresa Ann Cierlitski, of
Washington, D. C., a graduate of
B.S.T.C. last Spring, was chosen
December Queen at the annual
Sophomore Cotillion held Friday
evening, December 15, at Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She
was chosen by members of the orchestra.

was
Centennial
Gymnasium
transformed into a Winter WonThe spacious floor was
derland.
ringed with snow-covered evergreen treles, while gaily colored
lights and holiday decorations were
used overhead.
A giant fireplace, complete with
the traditional stockings and toys,
was erected in the center of the
dance floor and provided a cheery

centerpiece for the social event.
More than two hundred couples
were in attendance.
Lee Vincent and his orchestra
provided music for dancing. Shortly
before intermission, dancers
participated in a gala Grand March
and Mr. Vincent announced the

queen, who was crowned by Anthony Grabowski, of Shamokin,

Community Government
Miss Cierlitski
Charles Daly.

was

president.
escorted by

FRESHMEN ELECT OFFICERS
Two students from Mt. Carmel,
two from West Pittston were elected Freshman Class officers in
Freshman class elections held recently at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Michael Crisci,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crisci, 608
Jenkins Street, West Pittston, was
named president of the class, while
John Scrimgeour, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Scrimgeour, Sr., 602 Wy-

oming Avenue, West
6

Pittston,

was

representatives to the College Council. Miss Nancy Rumer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph

Mrs.

Anna Baker, 335 West

Wagner

Two

awards of fifty
were awarded by Dr.
Andruss.
They were made to
James Ciavaglia, a sophomore in
the Business Department, and to

as their class

advisor.

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED

President’s

dollars each

Vincent Nawrocki, also a Business
sophomore.
The Scholarship Committee consists of Dr. Kuster, Dr. North, Dr.
Kehr, and Mr. Hoch. Scholarships
are open to all freshmen, sophomores and juniors, and are awarded on the basis of scholastic standing, need, and professional promise.

An

Street,

was elected men’s representative.
The Freshman Class also elected
Dr. E. Paul

freshman.

audio-visual education clinic

was held recently at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
Carver Auditorium. The program
was arranged by Mr. U. F. Goodall, Chief of Radio and Visual Education, Department of Public Instruction.

In the student assembly on Tuesday, January 9, scholarship awards

were

made

to

five

Bloomsburg

State Teachers College students.

Dr. Kuster, chairman of the
Scholarship Committee, introduced
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the

Alumni Association, who awarded
the alumni scholarships.
Dr. Nelson refused to let the occasion become one of seriousness
and solemnity, and told several
amusing stories about the past hisHe also gave a
tory of B.S.T.C.
brief history of the scholarships
available to Bloomsburg students.
The Alumni Association sponsors
three scholarship awards: the Nolan H. Sanner Scholarship, the R.
Rruce Albert Memorial Scholarship and the Class of 1950 MemThe Class of
orial Scholarship.
1950 left eight hundred dollars to
l)e used for this purpose.
The President’s Scholarship is
sponsored by President Andrnss
from the sale of his textbook, “Business Law Cases and Tests.”
The R. Bruce Albert Memorial
Scholarship of one hundred dollars
was awarded to Alice Quick, sophomore in the Secondary Depart-

The

part of the program ina demonstration of the
opaque projector, the filmstrip projector, and the motion picture projector,
along with direction on
first

cluded

maintenance; an explanation

their

equipment in the
educational program; and an investigation of the extent to which the
equipment can be used in the serof the use of the

The program was

vice area.

lowed by

fol-

question and answer

a

period.

During the second phase of the
was given concerning the procedure and terms
which schools must follow in order

clinic information

to

secure

audio-visual

materials

from the Pennsylvania regional

li-

brary.

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making the score read 7-0. Parrell
scored twice more before the half.
Tavalsky made good on one attempt, and the score was 20-0 at

ATHLETICS

half-time.

The second-half was featured by
some great defensive play on the
part of the Husky forward wall
who time and again stopped the

1950 Football Coaches

Shippers offense as they got within
striking distance of the Bloomsburg
goal. A third period Shippensburg

was matched

score

by

a

short

plunge by Barney Osevala in the
linal quarter which ended the scoring for the day, the Huskies again
victorious.

Bloomsburg 35— Kutztown 0
Playing their first
of the year before a

crowd of about
trounced

3,000, the Huskies

once-beaten

The game was

35-0.

home game
Homecoming
Kutztown

as lop-sided

as the score indicated; in fact, the

Huskies played rather sluggish ball
in recording their fifth win of the
season.

Bloomsburg 27— Wilkes 7
Parrell scored on the

Dan
DR.

THE
A

1950

E.

P.

WAGNER. ROBERT REDMAN. JOHN HOCH

FOOTBALL SEASON

powerful Bloomsburg Husky

grid machine completed another
successful football campaign under
the able tutelage of head coach
Bob Redman. Only a single loss
blots the otherwise perfect record
that was rolled up by the Husky
Bloomsburg outscored
warriors.

opponents by 205 to 52. Of
those 52 points, 31 were amassed
by West Chester, lone conquerors
Following are
of the Huskies.
brief summaries of the games:
its

Bloomsburg 39—Mansfield 6
Bloomsburg started the defense
of

its

Teachers College Crown at

Berwick’s Crispin Field, as it defeated a big Mansfield team. The
linal score was 39-6 in favor of the
Huskies, who dominated the play
throughout the game.

Bloomsburg 20— Lock Haven 0
Huskies
added another

The

Teachers College scalp to its growing list as they outclassed a strong
Lock Haven team on a fog-covered
field at Lock Haven.
A first half
passing attack was linked with a
powerful second half running atMarch, 1951

tack to give the Huskies a decisive
victory.

Bloomsburg 40— Millersville 2
Bloomsburg tallied almost

at

will against a

scrappy but woefully

weak

team at GladfelColumbia to chalk
win of the young sea-

Millersville

ter

Stadium

up

their third

in

The

reserves played almost
tiie entire last three quarters and
accounted for two of the six touch-

son.

downs.

Bloomsburg 26— Shippensburg 6

The

Huskies

made

straight victories ox er a

it

twelve

two year

period as they crushed a previously
unbeaten Shippensburg eleven at
Shippensburg.
There was no score in the first
quarter of this game, which was
strictly

an

show from
The play see-sawed

offensive

start to finish.

between the 20-yard lines until the
Huskies finally pushed across a
touchdown just as the second stanza started.
It
was Parrell who
went the final yards to put the
Huskies in the lead, which they
never relinquished. Tavalsky’s all
important try for point was good

first

the game as he broke
through the middle of the Wilkes
forward wall and raced 80 yards
unmolested for the tally. Ed Tavalsky kicked the extra-point and it
looked like another romp for the
Huskies who were playing their
last home game of the season. But
this early score spurred the Wilkes
team rather than it demoralized

play

of

them.

The ball moved back and forth
between the 20 yard lines until
midway in the second stanza.
Bloomsburg led at half-time. 14-0.
Wilkes took the second half kick
off and marched the length of the
field to score and they were still
very much in the ball game. The
Husky backfield stopped two more
Wilkes threats by pass interceptions, the second by Barney Osevala which set up the third Husky
Osevala plunged over for
score.
the score on the first play of the
final quarter and this eased a little
of the tension that had been
mounting. Later in the final quarWilkes drive stalled on the
Colonels 39. A Husky drive from
ter a

this

point was rewarded by a thirty

yard run on the part of Osevala

and the game ended shortly

after.

(Continued on Page 8)
7

THE

1950

MID-YEAR COMMENCEMENT

FOOTBALL SEASON

(Continued from Page 7)

(Continued from Page 1)
Good Life” than those of
any other country in the history of
the world.
The frontier of our age, he said,

Bloomsburg 6— West Chester 31
There is not much to be said
about this game but that the Husk-

of “the

did everything wrong and the
was
llams did everything right. It
are
that
games
those
of
just one
that is
to be expected from a team
under pressure of a long winning
Not many teams could
streak.
have beaten West Chester that
the
night as they were playing at
they
Though
peak of perfection.
were outplayed, the Huskies were

ies

atomic energy but he condemnstress placed on destructivethan the constructiverather
ness
ness of atomic power.

war will ultimately be provided by the Japanese and Filipinos, and their friend-

Poverty, said LaFollette, is inexcusable in an atomic age. Given
the leadership, world peace can be
achieved by the constructive use
he
of this newly discovered power,

ship for us is a result of our wise
policy in that section of the world.
The speaker declared that the
State Department is so close to the
forest tli at it can’t see the trees and

declared.

that in Washington you either work
for the government or work on
those who work for the govern-

said that our leadevidence in all of
given
ers have
our international relations, since

World War

In illustration,

Charter were revoked by
the Potsdam, Yalta and Terehan
agreements.
“We will lose our freedom only
tolerate conditions that produce dictators.”
Continuing, he said that man s

if

leads to these conditions as well as to economic depression.

SEASON’S STATISTICS

>»
»»

>»

Total

Mansfield

Kutztown

»>
>»
»>
>»

Total

238
292
283
285
257
408
253
2016

West Chester
Shippensburg
Wilkes
Millersville

Lock Haven
Mansfield

Kutztown

YARDS GAINED PASSING

Bloomsburg
»»

»
»
»»
it

Total

10

6

auguration of a policy of non-exploitation of non-Eastern peoples,
LaFollette continued. He said that
McKinley and Taft particularly
were interested in the preservation

5
10

6

32
106
41
68
85
20
45
397

West Chester
Shippensburg
Wilkes
Millersville

Lock Haven

430
158
185
121
120
80
69
1163

30
70
89
48
18

Mansfield

151

Kutztown

72
478

INDIVIDUAL. SCORING

Parrell

Osvela

Lang
Travalsky

Spack

17
14

68

YARDS GAINED RUSHING
»»

8

Lock Haven

90

Bloomsburg

One place in which America has
been true to our principles is in the
Far East, he said. This policy was
begun in 1898, following the conquest of the Philippines, by the in-

DOWNS

Millersville

66
30
24
29
6

Boychuck
Lambrinos
Krapalick

Verhausky
Porr

we

mismanagement

ers 12-0.

Wilkes
Shippensburg

he

12
6
6
6

6

ment.

BOOK REVIEWED

BAKELESS’

pointed out

lantic

ended another successful grid
season by blanking Indiana Teach-

West Chester

of the repudiation
principles.

that Wilson’s fourteen points were
nullified by the Versailles Treaty
and the four freedoms of the At-

ies

12
8
16
8
17
17
12

I,

of great moral

fighting to the end.

»*

greatest barrier to

The speaker

Bloomsburg 12-Indiana 0
Sparked by Freshman back Barney Osevala, who scored one touchdown and passed for the other, the
1950 edition of Bloomsburg Husk-

Bloomsburg

that the

is

ed the

stunned Huskies fought back with
everything they could but it wasn t
Spack
in the books for them to win.
a
scored the lone Husky tally on
yard
a
20
having
after
buck
short
dash called back because of an inThe game ended with
fraction.
line
the Huskies on the Ram’s goal

FIRST

his beliefs

Another of

is

not outfought.
Trailing at half-time by 19-0 the

still

not worried by the men in the
Kremlin but about the men in
Washington. As an aside, he expressed the personal belief that any
general war between the United
States and Russia would end in a
deadlock.

(Continued from Page 4)

had been reading Conrad Richter s
novel, and, like those same characters, they learned in due course to
regard our greatest wonders as
commonplaces.
For it is the eye of discovery that
or is not fresh, rather than the
object of discovery. And the date
of the observation does not matter
half so much as the truth of it.

is

We

honor Columbus and Coronado, De
Soto, Raleigh, Capt. John Smith
and the dozens of early writers in
Mr. Bakeless’ bibliography.
But we have also seen America
through other eyes of discovery.
have seen it in the pages of
Willa Cather’s stories of Nebraska,
Stephen Crane’s New York, SinMark
Minnesota,
Lewis’
clair
MisFaulker’s
Missouri,
Twain’s

We

sissippi.

We

nature of this attitude is illustrated
bv the present relations between
the Japanese and Americans, he ob-

shall see it again through the
eves of younger writers who are
today unknown, still facing stacks
of blank paper in lonely rooms,
knowing that the last word will
never be said about the discovery

served.

of America.

of

human freedom.
An indication of

the continuing

MacArthur’s program to challenge the best in the victor as well
the
as the vanquished has been in
successful
a
speaker
opinion of the

M. C. Strausser,
122 East

one.

As a young lawyer he said he
was advised not to underestimate
an opponent.

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DR.

RALPH

S.

HERRE

In a

Faculty

INSTITUTE
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, of the
Teachers College, addressed prin-

and supervising principals
Luzerne County Thursday, September 21, in Wilkes-Barre.
Subject to Dr. Andruss’ talk was
‘Training Teachers
Today for
Schools of Tomorrow.”
cipals

of

He

reported on last year’s
graduating class and pointed out
the higher pay a teacher receives
if he takes a job in a neighboring
state rather than in Pennsylvania.
The meeting was held in the offices of the Luzerne County Superintendent of Schools, E. S. Teter,
who sponsored the meeting.
teacher.

FACULTY MEMBER
WRITES ARTICLE

o’clock,

Bloomsburg

Ushers included Daniel J. Scelsi,
Robert J. Mitchell, of
Walsh, of
Williamsport; Joseph
Scranton and William T. Clark, of
of Palmyra;

stressed that in order to pro-

teachers lack training, the College
glad to aid the school districts
to get the new teachers orientated.
Dr. Andruss also gave an outline of the process of training a

at three

the

was maid of honor. The best man
was Charles Ginader, of Scranton.

duce good teachers, the College
must receive good students from
high schools, adding that if new
is

in

Methodist Church, Miss Marjorie
Arlene Keller, daughter of Mrs.
Alfred DeForest Keller, of Sayre,
Pa., and the late Mr. Keller, was
Willard
Anderson
married
to
Swartz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willaid Swartz, of Scranton. The Rev.
Dr. Elvin Clay Myers performed
the double ring ceremony.
Miss Sara Hess, of State College,
bride,
a college classmate of the

ANDRUSS ADDRESSES

He

ceremony

November 20

Notes
DR.

FACULTY MEMBER WEDS

Dr. Ralph

Herre, instructor in
has
returned
to
Bloomsburg State Teachers College after spending nine weeks at
social

S.

studies,

Columbia University, where he represented the college in a citizenship project.
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College is the only state
teachers college in
Pennsylvania
that was chosen to partake in the
project.

product for forming the candles,
in addition, he quotes the general
rule to be used by the novice candlemaker: Ten pounds bayberries
make one pound wax. One pound
wax makes two goodsized candles.
The average candle is formed from
30 to 35 dippings, with any desired green coloring being added to

Scranton, all Sigma Chi fraternity
brothers of the groom.
Mrs. Swartz was graduated from
the University of Pittsburgh and is
on the faculty at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
Mr. Swartz, an alumnus of Lafayette College, is a civil engineer
is
for the Reading Railroad and
Harrisburg.
now located
i n
During World War II he served
with the Army Air Force in the

European theatre.
Mr. and Mrs. Swartz are living
at 500 East Second street. Bloomsburg.

A

feature article in the

Novem-

ber issue of “Business Teacher,”
bore the title of “What Do We
Expect?” This article was written
by President Harvey A. Andruss as
the basis for an address given at
the Pennsylvania State Education

“Bavberry Candles Recall Farm
Lighting of Yesterday,” by J. Almus Russell, member of the English Department of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, has recently been published in The Pennsylvania Farmer (Harrisburg).
In this article, one in a series of
Forgotten Home Industries, Dr.
Russell explains
the process of
making dipped and molded candles
from the wax of the bayberry, the
product of the fruit of a pasture
shrub indigenous to sections of
Pennsylvania and the Northeastern

graphs, including those of a hayberry candle, the branch of a shrub
loaded with fruit, and a bayberry

edge the valuable assistance given
by Mr. Edward DeVoe, of the English Department, in making up the

States.

plantation.

Quarterly in

The author tells in detail about
method of gathering the ber-

the

boiling the drupes (fruit) in
order to melt the wax scales preliminary to skimming off the wax,
clarifying it, then using the melted
ries,

March, 1951

the final dip.
In his story the writer indicates
also the great economic value of
this wax-producing berry to
the
early settlers and their descendants
in providing a native source of
candle-wax for farm use.
Dr. Russell has illustrated his
article with several excellent photo-

ARCUS

this

time of stress and

strain.

APPRECIATION
The Editor wishes

its

new

to

acknowl-

format.

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FOR YOUR RIDING CLOTHES
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
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KELLER AND HIS CATS

The 1947 Memorial

Animals may have their limitabut nature has provided them
with a permanent T-V make-up,
which is more than it has done for
tions

the trainers.

That was one observation made
by George J. Keller, trainer-prof-

made after
known animal

essor,

his

international-

ly

act

appeared

on

the “Big Top” program, the only
act ever to he recalled for a repeat
performance by that presentation.
The act was staged in Camden
and televised over channel 10,
NBC, New York. There were seven
program,
hour-long
acts on the
with Keller’s cats in the featured
It was staged at the Conspot.

1947

MEMORIAL

he college has a new outdoor grill.
This stone-brick structure is located on the practice field just behind
I

scholastic honors, great infootball
achievements,
tellectual

High

glory, or just

spending dad

s

money

goals for different students
But there are other
in college.
things which fit into the realm of
college life which play a part in
the acclimation of the student to

are

all

society as a whole.

most important cogs
machinery is the informal
get-to-gether, which give the student a chance to relax and enjoy

One

of the

in this

The
life in the company of others.
imclass of 1947 recognized this
money
left
they
when
portant fact
for a memorial of the type which
would give the students more
chances to participate in informal
get-to-gethers.

committee
and Or.
Bell
Michael
headed by
Kehr chose as a class memorial an

A

student-faculty

They envisioned
grill.
many happy groups of students

outdoor

clustering about the grill; the tanthe succulent,
talizing aroma of
roasting frankfurters; the sweetness
of toasting marshmallows; and per-

haps the mouth-watering sizzle of
a steak,

which would make

any

student forget his worries for a
happy hour or so. Yes, these visions can

now become

realities, for

Navy Hall.
The grill

is

constructed of

red

brick and faced with flag stone. It
contains two large grills for roasting or toasting, plus two fair-sized
Dutch ovens and adequate space
to place spare utensils and food.
The grill was designed by Mr.
Englehart and Mr. Sharretts, of the
Building and Grounds department.
designed to incorporate
It was
beauty, economy and utility. This
structure was the last of countless
campus improvements constructed

by Mr. Englehart

just

before he re-

tired.

and

usable.
r
J'here are some proposed additions
Mr. Sharretts
to this area which

The

grill is

finished

beauty and
The proposed addi-

hopes will add to
practicibility.

a
vention Hall, Camden, before
turn-away audience.
The lights are by far the strongworked
est that the animals have
under but they didn’t appear to
bother them. They have been in
the movies upon a number of occasions but the lighting for motion
pictures is much less intense.
The act made history when it
was on the bill at the Palace,
vaudeville
famous
Broadway’s
house. This was the first time that
the act had ever been presented in
a theatre.

the theatre that in
was the
In the recent
object of every act.
entertainreturn of that type of
ment to prominence the Palace has

The Palace

the heyday

its old place.
was
act
After the Palace the
scheduled to play theatres in leadseaing cities along the Eastern
board, going as far north as MonBookings will carry well
treal.
into the Spring and Keller returned

regained

the Shrine circus circuit, opening in Minneapolis, Minn.

to

CREASY & WELLS

BUILDING MATERIALS

its

are a flagstone-paved area
around the grill, benches and tables, and the addition of two smaller
grills to the area.

is

of vaudeville

Mrs.

C. Creasy.

S.

’81.

President

Bloomsburg 520

tions

T^WESLEY KNORR,

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West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

1935

Helen Hartman Cimbala has announced that she and her husband
have a daughter, Michele Ann ( ambala, born March 28, 1950, at St.

HERVEY

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other until

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Mrs.

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A. Taubel

St..

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Gertrude Morris,

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Francis Paul Thomas,

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W. Claude Fisher, ’04
Dr. Margaret Park, ’23
Juel Carmody, ’25

VICE-PRESIDENT
Martha R. Miers

Eileen Falvey,

Harford, Pa.

I

am

at

Bethlehem Steel

official,

and

Education from Lehigh University,
also lives in Bethlehem. My youngDocest son, Joseph, who had a
tor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lives
connected
in Buffalo, where he is

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five children.

1655 Cloverleaf Street in
Bethlehem. Sara Moyer Bray married Archibald Larrish, also an executive of Bethlehem Steel.
William, who has a Master’s Degree in

H. Walter Reiland, ’03, chairman
Guy H. Rentschler. ’04

Harford, Pa

lived there

lives at

Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Naugle,

PRESIDENT
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7011 Frederick

We

death in 1933.

“We had

VICS-PRESIDENT
1246

We

present living with
Mary Bray
Young, who has a daughter and a
I
son.
make the rounds among
my children about once a year.
Ruth, the second daughter, married

PRESIDENT

J.

each

were married in 1902 after Mr.
Bray had been elected principal of
the Mining and Mechanical Institute in Freeland.

Mrs. Lillian
732 Washington

know

in 1898.

did not

we met

’46

with the Osmore Preserving Co.

VICE-PRESIDENT

MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI

Mrs. Shaughnessy

Tunkhannock, Pa.

PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Mrs. Ruth

Mrs. Donald Hicks

New Milford, Pa.
SECRETARY

Rudy

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Donald Kessler

Dean Harpe
Tunkhannock. Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Alice Smull

TREASURER

TREASURER

Mrs. Olwen Hartley
Lenoxville, Pa.

at

Miss Susan Sidler

1893
Eleanor Williams Roderick liv es
23 East North Street, Wilkes-

Barre, Pa.

President, Claude M. Stauffer; vice
president, Charles W. Derr; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. J. S. John.

Those present were:
Mrs. Mary L. Higbee, 21 Main
Watsontown; Mary Pendergast,
Sixth Street, Harrisburg; Mrs.
Beale, 206

•

S. John, 214
West Main Street,
Bloomsburg and Mrs. Jonathan W.
Buck, 458 Market street, Bloomsburg.
J.

Merit L. Laubach lives at

1895
At the reunion meeting of the
class of 1895, held on Alumni Day,
the following officers were elected:

Street,

918
B.

N.

1940 after serving for thirty-five
years as head of the Department
of Industrial Arts and Vocational
Education at the Terre Haute
State Teachers College.

Ada Wolfe lives
Wyoming Avenue, Forty

1228

at

Fort, Pa.

F.

Church Avenue, Duncannon;

Mr. and Mrs. Claude M. Stauffer, 649
Highland Avenue,
Bethlehem;
Mrs.
William Mundy, 1112 Wyoming Avenue,
Pittston; Mrs. P. M. Ikeler (Anna Sidler), R. D. 2, Danville; Fred E. Fassett,
Front Street, Wyalusing; Nathan W.
Bloss, R. D. 1, Wapwallopen; Harry J.
Lewis, Trevorton;
Charles W. Derr,
Riverside, Pa.; Mrs. Theresa H. Holmes,
128 W. First Street, Bloomsburg; Mrs.

March, 1951

104

South 21st Street, Terre Haute, Indiana.
Mr. Laubach retired in

Miss

The following
a letter received

are extracts from

from Mrs.

Moyer Bray, whose mailing
1655 Cloverleaf
is
Bethlehem, Pa.:
dress
“I

1902

A

Sara
ad-

Street,

was Sara Moyer and married

a member of the “Post” class
of
1898. Many of you will remember

William R. Bray, of the class

of

fareweli party was tendered
Danville
to three teachers in the
schools who retired at the end of
the term. They are Miss Katherhigh
ine Bennett, teacher in the
Appleman,
school; Miss Rebecca
teacher in the junior high school
and Miss Harriet Fry, principal of
the Fourth Ward Grammar School.
The affair was featured with a
the
Montour
turkey dinner in
superHotel.
Clifford Jenkins,
the Danville
vising principal of
toastmaster.
Each
schools, was
teacher was presented with a gift
with Principal Mensch making the
presentation to Miss Bennett; Mr.
Stamm, principal of the Junior
High School, to Miss Appleman
and Miss Elizabeth Peifer, a member of the fourth ward staff, making the presentation to Miss Fry.

County Superintendent Diehl complimented the guests of honor on
Danville
their fine record in the
schools and F. W. Magill spoke for
Miss Bennett,
the school board.
Miss Appleman and Miss Fry spent
almost all their teaching careers
rein the Danville schools and
ceived the good wishes of their
co-workers.

Miss Lourissa Leighow of Washand St. Petersburg,

ington, D. C.

11

member

Florida, a

week

1902, spent a

last

Mr. and Mrs.

visiting

August

Alfred N.

During Miss
Mrs. Keller, also a.

Keller, of Orangeville.

Leighow’s

visit,

Hared Miss Alice Guest and Miss
Bess
Miss
Danville;
riet Fry, of
EtMiss
and
Blomsburg
of
Long,
spend
to
Orangeville,
Re Vance, of
with
an afternoon and evening
them. All were “Naughty-Twoers

members

as the

themselves.

it

the

ner at
.Club.

was the first
had been to-

Bloomsburg

Columbia University,

Wilkes-Barre, spent the afterof
noon of August 27 at the home
of
Keller,
N.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
was
Gibbons
Mrs.
Orangeville.
02.
Blanche Austin, of the class of

of

The Editor has received an

an-

J.

of the Bloomsburg
long serfaculty, has retired after
PubState
the
of
secretary
vice as

former

member

School Employees’ Retirement
teaBoard. Mr. Shambach began
to
ching at the age of sixteen, came

lic

as a student, and after
graduation taught at Bloomsburg
He then left to
for several years.
of Michigan,
University
attend the
where he later received his Bach-

lives

he
wick schools, a position which
years.
several
for
filled
capably
the
Berwick, he went to

From

Public InState Department of
apstruction, after which he was
oche
that
position
the
pointed to
retirecupied at the time of his
at
work
his
to
ment. In addition

Bloomsburg and the University

of

Michigan, Mr. Shambach studied
Pennsylvania
at the University of

and Columbia University.
12

situations

tvpical in the daily
called the
is
It
er.

Judgment

]ersey.

are
a teach-

which

“Teaching

Test.

rating of the subject

The

is

de-

West

Knight

wood,

New

store at

Jersey.

is

op-

Haddon and

Avenues,

The

number of
a sufficiently large
to inditested
been
have
teachers
highly
cate that the system will be
screening
of
means
a
effective as
applicants for teaching positions.
UniverDr. Jarecke joined the
after sevago
year
a
faculty
sity
princieral years as a high school
supervisor
district
school
pal and

He was educated
Jersey.
State Teachers
Bloomsburg
at the
State,
College, Duke and Penn

New

in

Collingsstore

was

holding a doctorate in education
from the latter institution.

formerly operated by her husband,
who passC. Hayden A. Streamer,
Mr.
ago.
year
a
ed away over
his
Streamer was very active in

Danny Litwhiler, a ten-yeai vetto beeran of' the big leagues, is
Cincinnati
the
with
coach
a

profession, in

Reds.

Masonic circles, and
Church.
Lutheran
the

Degree.
BerSupervising Principal of the
elor’s

which was created by

life of

at

1925
Margaret Jones Golden is manager-owner of Goldens Pharmacy,
Avenue,
located at 625 Allegheny
Oakmont, Pa. She states that she
would be very glad to hear from

became

has

approach to each
termined by
saic
situation, and Dean Stemple

in

then

test,

theoretical

Citi-

Bloomsburg

He

the

possib e

1912
Lena G. Leitzel Streamer

Hill,

profession

the

his

erating a drug

Camp

of

Dr. Walter H. Jarecke, assistant
16
professor of education, employs

Margaret Fraser (Mrs. Vernon L.
and
johnson) lives at Springfield
Providence,
New
Avenues,
Central

1905

at

lives

ulty.

ren.

New

Doyle

Pa.

been developed by a member of
facthe West Virginia University

VerShelburne Road, Burlington,
She reports that she has
mont.
grandchildfour children and four

a long
ago, and had been ill for
May
lime. Death occurred Friday,
12, 1950.

of

members

Foundation

Carnegie

Gillow

Wil-

in

A

1911

lost

Shambach,

made

Edna Lewis Robinson

nouncement of the death of Edith
C Appenzeller. Miss Appenzeller
her sight several years

Y.

Project

zenship
through
Funds.

in the

Church

1933

College as one of eight TeachUnited States
ers Colleges in the
cooperating with Teachers College,

Country

Williamsport. Pa^
pastor of the Third

of
test to perdict the ability
evalua new teacher as well as to
experienced
ale the effectiveness of

ers

Mr. and Mrs. George Gibbons,

had

Conflicts,

1948Council for Social Studies for
instrucas
acted
Barton
1949. Mr.
during the abloi in social studies
who repHerre,
sence of Dr. Ralph
TeachState
Bloomsburg
resented

time that these
reminisgether since graduation,
In
day.
the
of
cing was the order
dinenjoyed
group
the
evening
the
six

Loma

Lakewood,

Content and ProAnnual
cedures,” appearing in the
States
Middle
the
of
Proceedings

of the class called

As

is

Street Methodist
liamsport.

titled

dom:

Street,

Her husband

the pubrector of social studies of
New
JerElizabeth,
lic schools of
article enan
of
author
the
is
sey,
“America’s Heritage of Free-

of the class of 1902, invit-

member

Third

1906
Marion Groff Spangler lives at
Reading.
1048 North Fourth Street,
1907
Edwin M. Barton, formerly di-

of the class of

her classmates.

1932

Gerald C. Hartman is principal
Still
of the schools of Catawissa.
of
director
is
he
active in music,
Presbyterian
First
the
at
choir
the

Church, Bloomsburg, and
well

Consistory,

Mason,

in

at

Scottish

CaldRite

Bloomsburg.

(Mrs.
Hendrickson
Margaret
East
931
at
lives
Ralph Crouse)

1938

come

,

known

word went

recently
out from Cincin-

nati that waivers

were being asked

That became
after

on Litwhiler.

announcement
made Warren Giles, president
general manager of the Reds,
tacted Litwhiler and offered
Before the

the position of coach.

was
and
con-

him

Litwhiler

once and rean honor.
The local resident has an out^agues.
standing career in the big

he accepted
garded the offer

said

at

as

m

1941)
in with the Phils
St. Loui?
the
to
traded
and was
memCardinals in 1943. He was a
Champion
World’s
ber of the
year
Cardinals of 1944. The next
1

le

broke

was

in military service.
rejoined the Cards in 19-46
and was later sold to the Boston
Braves, remaining with them until
1948 when he was sold to Cincinlie

He

nati.

Litwhiler said that the offer to
in Cincinnati was an exceptional honor for he has been with
the club only three years. He said
it
was a different situation than
had he been offered such a position
after having been in the employ of
the club for a ten or fifteen year

coach

period.

1939
Lucille

Reummler)
Street,

band

is

Adams

W.

Her hus-

of the East Chi-

cago Plant of the Eagle
Company. Mr. and Mrs.
mler have three children.

Picher

Reum-

Manley

of

by the State Board of Exam-

of Public Accountants that
he has successfully passed the examination and is now a Certified
iners

Public Accountant.
Mr. Manley has been employed
for some years as instructor in Accounting in Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and while at the
college was both Vice-President
and President of the Community
Government Association; President
of Pi Omega Pi. Business Education
Fraternity; Member of Phi Sigma
Pi and Kappa Delta Pi Fraternities;
and the Business Education Club.
He graduated from the Hanover
High School, where he ranked 14
in a class of 316.
He completed
the
Accounting
Sequence
at
Bloomsburg with minors in both
English and Social Studies with a
superior academic standing.

1945
Kehler is teacher in the
school of Ashland. Pa.
1946
John Hmelnickey, of Exeter, who

Wanda

was a member of the Husky basketball teams during World War
II and was one of the most popular
boys ever engaged in athletics on
the hill, has been named coach of
basketball
March, 1951

at

Hmelnickey starred in several
sports both in high school and college and captained the Husky five
during his senior year at Bloomsburg.
The Brothers finished in a
second place tie with Central last
year and hope to come through
with the title during the season.
1947
Delores DeVizia Ilelge lives at
12 Main Street. Englishtown, New

er at

three years in

is teaching
Catawissa, Pa.
Her husband, a member of the
faculty of the Bloomsburg High
School, passed away over a year

the Schools

was graduated from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1947.
He recently completed work there
for his M. S. degree in electrical
engineering. He is employed in the
Electronics Laboratory of the General Electric Company, in
Syracuse, N. Y.

1950

Nancy Crumb

Christian

Brothers

of Miss Loretta E.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel D. Blatt, of 1518 Penn
Ave.. Wyomissing, and Robert F.
Hartman, Buttonwood St., Reading, son of Mrs. Charles O. Wagner
and the late Harry L. Hartman, of
Fleetwood R. D., took place Sun-

November 12, 1950.
The Rev. Jacob B. Landis

day,

in

offici-

Reformed

James

St.

Church, West Reading.
Mr. Hartman is a graduate of
Bloomsburg High
School
and
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

He served for four years in
the United States Army and is employed by the Reading Company.
lege.

Attending from Bloomsburg were
Mr. and Mrs. VanHorn and Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Mclntrye.
1948
In a lovely ceremony performed
at two-thirty o’clock Saturday,

vember

18,

in

St.

No-

Matthew Luth-

eran Church, of Bloomsburg, Miss
Barbara Jean Greenly, daughter of
Mrs. Helena C. Greenly, of East
Street, Bloomsburg, became the
bride of Ralph Kenneth Strawn, of
Syracuse, N. Y., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clayton Strawn, of Perkasi,
'

R.

D.

is

teaching in the

elementary grades in the Berwick
schools.

Alfred Stimeling is a teacher
the elementary grades in the

Berwick schools.

of

Blatt,

ated

Joint High School,
Her husband served
the U. S. Navy and

W.

Laura Berger Schell

in

Mahanoy

Dalmatia.

in

in

The marriage

WilkesJ.
Barre, Pa., who received the Bachelor of Science Degree from the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College in January, 1944. has been notified

athletic de-

rector.

ago.

1944

Edward

as

suc-

remain

will

P.

2141 Nondorf

Dyer, Indiana.

manager

Hofer who
football coach and
Bill

Jersey.

(Mrs.

lives at

He

College, Memphis, Term.

ceeds

1.

The Rev. Edgar D.

Ziegler, pas-

church, performed the
double-ring ceremony before 200
tor of the

1951
Forty seniors at Bloomsburg
State Teachers College received
the degree of Bachelor of Science
in Education at mid-term Commencement Exercises held in the
Carver Auditorium Thursday evening, January 18.
The graduates had a busy week
of activities, beginning Tuesday
morning, January 16. when the
Senior Honor Assembly was held
in the Carver Auditorium.
Service
keys and other awards were presented to outstanding members of
the graduating class by President
Harvey A. Andruss. That evening,
the class held its annual Senior

and Banquet at the Irem TemCountry Club, near Dallas.
Music for dancing was provided by
Russ Andalora and his orchestra.
Ball

ple

The members

of the class are:

Robert Clell Andrews, Johnstown;
Gerald Arthur Bacon, Towanda;
Walter Joseph Banull, Scranton;
Francis Rackett Bodine, Kane; Romeo Joseph Danni, Allentown;
Jean Silvan Davis, Wilkes-Barre;
Bernard Joseph DePaul, Berwick;
Rita Mildred Dixon, West Hazleton; Robert Joseph Dubbs, Shamokin;

David

Thomas

Edwards,

Kingston; Joan Antoinette Grazel,

Richard
Curwood
Mabel Ellen
Berwick;
Harris,
Beach Haven; Michael
Hemlock, Berwick; Norma Fay
Hinderliter, Ringtown; James Anthony Kleman, Ashland; Norman
Ellsworth Kline, Lewistown; John

Shenandoah;

Hamer,

Bloomsburg State

graduate of
Teachers Col-

Anthony Klotsko, New Philadelphia; John Kocur, Junedale; Charles
Gustave Kraemer, Scranton;

lege, class of 1948.

She

Robert Keith LaPard, Lansdowne;

wedding

The

guests.

bride

is

a

is

a teach-

13

Charles James Linetty, Kulpmont;
Charles Howard Lockard, Muncy;
Harold Edward Lundy, WilliamsAndrew Maceiko, Wilkesport;
Barre; Robert John Maza, Nantieoke; Robert William McCaffrey,
Berwick; Francis Row McNamee,

Bloomsburg; Nancy Ann Morgan,
Hazel Elvira Palmer,
New Milford; John Lewis Parsed,
Hazleton;

Wanda M.

Orangeville;

Petraitis,

Evansburg; fames Joseph Purcell,
Shamokin; Emory Webster Rarig,
Catawissa; George E. Reck,
Jr.,
Shamokin; F. Richard Schilling,
Bloomsburg;
Richard
Charles
Schwartz, Pine Grove; Richard
Hazleton;
Frederick
Waechter,
Clyde Eugene Yohev, Bloomsburg;
Walter Allen Zorn, Lansdowne.

SAUCERED AND BLOWED’
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

We
tions

hope the county organizaare planning for area meet-

and will hold them early
enough to avoid the pressure of
College affairs during the month
of May.
Student talent is available for our enjoyment if we util-

ings

ize

it

come

before the final examinations
into the picture.

more members
get

away

Then

too,

of the faculty can
get together

to enjoy a

with their pupils of yesterday. It
interesting to note how class
room techniques work out at a

is

banquet

get a a great deal of pleasure in
hearing from you.
Think of the
times she overlooked Senior faults
in
giving direction
to
student
teachers. Address: 404 Center St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

In a lovely fall ceremony at two
o'clock Saturday, November 4, in
the
First
Methodist
Church,

Bloomsburg, Miss Jeanne Rae Dudaughter of Raymond P. DuBois, of town, and the late Mrs.
DuBois, became the bride of Robert Ash Naunas, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert G. Naunas, of BloomsBois,

burg.

The Rev.

table!

Dr. Elvin Clay Myers,
performed the double-ring
ceremony.

pastor,

Don’t like to get personal but I
Alumni should know that
Dean Emeritus W. B. Sutliff is a
pretty sharp pinochle player.
Re-

The

think

Miss Mary Ruth O’Neal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C.
Street,
O’Neal, of West Main
Bloomsburg, became the bride of
F. Richard Schilling, son of Mrs.
Freda Schilling, of town, in a ceremony Saturday, December 2, in St.
Columba’s Catholic rectory. The
Very Rev. William J. Burke officiated.

After a short wedding trip the
couple are residing at 107 North
Iron Street, Bloomsburg.

The

graduate of
Bloomsburg High School in 1949
and is employed at the Magee Carpet Co. The groom, a graduate of
bride

is

a

Bloomsburg High School,
1944,

served with

Corps and

now

is

class of

Army

Air
attending B.S.

the

T. C.

Miss Joan

VanSickle,

daughter

and Mrs. J. O. VanSickle,
of Michigan City, Ind., became the
bride of Theodore Patlovich, of
Milwaukee, Wis, in a ceremony in
First
Presbyterian
Church, of
Michigan City. The Rev. Charles
C. Lindsay officiated.
Mrs. Patlovich attended Purdue
University and was employed in
Michigan City. The groom graduated from Berwick High School
in
1945, attended B.S.T.C. and
of Mr.

from Springfield ColSpringfield, Mass.
He is a
scout executive, Boy Scouts

graduated
lege,
field

of America, in

Milwaukee, where

the couple will reside.

H

member

that smile

when he

greetor office? It
still functions as scores are checked after the games. You know
why!
The Law of Probability,

ed you

in class

room

bride

is

a

graduate

of

Bloomsburg High School, class of
She
1943, and attended B.S.T.C.
is employed in the payroll department of the Magee Carpet Co. Her
husband graduated from Bloomsburg High School in 1941 and attended B.S.T.C.

until

his

enlist-

Choice and Chance, Diminishing
Returns, Percentage of What, and
Variability don’t have a chance

ment in the U. S. Coast Guard during World War II. Fie served more
than three years.
At present, he

when

is

the

Dean

exercises his tal-

ents.

Nevin Englehart

is

going to have

a lot of fun at the May reunion.
He will be there and won’t have
a single “care of the campus.”
Whether you find a place to park
your car, or get lunch, or locate a
room for your reunion, or get an
easel on which to exhibit Aunt
Minnies picture the year she won
the croquet tournament in “the
most exciting athletic frenzy the
Normal ever experienced,” won’t
worry him in the least. He has retired from active duty and will be
there with the rest of us checking
on the new versus the “good old
days.”

Mary Good had an accident during the holiday season and had to
greet Santa Claus with her arm in
a cast. Those of us who had the
benefit of instruction and inspiration from this fine teacher should
be sending her letters and cards.
Address: Wapwallopen, Pa.
And
that reminds me, send Helen Carpenter a card too. She can’t get
out of the house much, and would

associated in the confectionery
business with his father.

In a simple ceremony performed
Saturday, September 16, in the

Reformed

Bloomshurg

Church,

Miss Donna Shaver, of Bloomsburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Shaver, of Lewisburg, became the bride of John C. Haddon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L.
Iladdon, of Northumberland.
The Rev. M. Edward Schnorr,
pastor of the church, performed
the ceremony.
Mrs. Haddon, a graduate of
Bucknell Univ., is employed at
where she is
radio station
a copywriter and is also in charge
of children’s shows.
She is best
known as the “Story Book Lady.”
The groom, who is a part-time

WCNR

announcer for radio station W’LTR,
Bloomsburg State
is
attending
Teachers College where he is majoring in special education.

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, T6

INSURANCE
Bank Building
Bloomsburg 777-J

First National

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

He attended Pennsylvania State
College and later transferred to
Lafayette where he was graduated
as a civil engineer in 1909.
After
several years in engineering work
in Philadelphia he became a poli-

Nprrnlngg
Martin E. Gruver,

'OG

writer for the old North American in Philadelphia.
When it
ceased publication he joined the
staff of the Philadelphia Evening
Public Ledger.
tical

Dr. Martin E. Gruver, 64. of 247
North Fifth Street, Reading, Pa.,
died in January at the Reading
Hospital after an illness of several

months.

He was
Columbia

a native of Mainville,
County, a son of the late

and Sarah Gruver. He
graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, Rucknell
University, Medico-Chirurgici College, and the graduate school of
the University of Pennsylvania. He
F. Pearce

was

a

His labor relations career began
1915 when he became director
of public information in the newly
created Pennsylvania Department
of Labor and Industry.
His first

was

task

publicize

to

the

Work-

mens Compensation law and

reg-

employment of
women and children which were
ulations governing

new

He

ganized the department’s Bureau
of Vocational Rehabilitation and

ing.

became

Wyomissing Club. He purchased the American Die and Tool
Works last August.
Surviving are his widow, Georgine (Kurtz) Gruver; two sisters, Anna, wife of Guy Levan, Mifflinville;
Mazie, wife of Neiman Shuman, of
of the

Mainville; also a

number

of nieces

and nephews.
Silas S.

then

in Pennsylvania.

its first

director.

first deputy
Department of Labor and Industry under Secretary

secretary of the

Richard II. Lansburgh.
He also
served several years as director of
the department’s Bureau of Employment.

He was

a

member

sylvania State

merce

Chamber

of

Penn-

Com-

labor relations expert, former civil
engineer and
political writer and the State De-

ly

Wednesday, December

home

at

6, in his

2402 Bellevue road. Har-

risburg.

He was manager

of the IndusRelations Bureau of the State
Chamber since 1935 and served in
this capacity as secretary of three
of the Chamber’s committees— social security, pollution abatement
trial

and

industrial relations.

A

native of Shamokin, he moved
with his parents while a child to

Bloomsburg

where he attended
public schools and the Bloomsburg
Normal School. While attending
high school he obtained his first
newspaper job on The Morning
Press.

March, 1951

Grace Me-

Harrisburg; the
Engineers’ Society of Pennsylvania
Society, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Washington Lodge No. 26

Bloomsburg;

Zembo

and

Caldwell

Zembo

Luncheon

Shrine
Club,

Harrisburg.

official,

partment of Labor and Industry’s
first deputy secretary, died sudden-

of

Church,

thodist

Consistory and the
Silas S. Riddle, sixty-five,

or-

Later he became the

F&AM,

Riddle

months.
Born in Briar Creek, Mrs. Harry
was the daughter of the late Wesley and Harriet Croop Shaffer. She

was

father, the late Rev.

PI is

Brown

Riddle,

was

a

Finley

Methodist

minister.

Surviving, in addition to his wife,
Mrs. Nell Welsh Riddle, are a
daughter, Mrs. Leonard Hinkley,
of Harrisburg, a granddaughter,
and a sister, Miss Margaret Riddle,
of East Orange, N. J.

a

member

byterian

Church

of the First Presof Berwick.

Surviving are her daughter, Dr.
of State College; one
brother, Charles C. Shaffer, of
Berwick, and two grandchildren.

Henning,

in

interned at the Reading Hospital
in 1914 and then began the practice of general medicine in Read-

Doctor Gruver was a member of
the Lutheran denomination, and

sided with her daughter for about
six

Gertrude Vance Barbour,

Mrs. Gertrude Vance Barbour,
wife of Rev. Louis Barbour, died
at her home at Pottsgrove,
Tuesday,

November

critically

ill

She had been
month.

14.

lor a

She was born in Mt. Pleasant
Township, in Columbia county,
September 5, 1887. She was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal School in 1907. For many
years she
tic

was a teacher

in Atlan-

City.

She was married to Rev. Mr.
Barbour in 1941. She was an affiliated member of the Atlantic
City
Presbyterian
Church and
joined the Pottsgrove Presbyterian
Church in 1943 where she taught
the Junior and Intermediate classes of the Sunday School.
She was also adviser of the
Youth Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church and served as president of the Pottsgrove and Mooresburg Missionary Societies for
one year and was secretary of the
sewing projects of the Presbytery.
She was the daughter of John
and Mary Vance. She is survived
by her husband, two sisters, Mrs.
Willis
Demott and Miss Effie
Vance, of Orangeville; two brothers, George Vance, of Orangeville,
and Boyd Vance, of Montoursville,
and fifteen nieces and nephews.

Dorothy G. Brobst,
Alice Shaffer Harry, ’07

’07

’30

Garnet Brobst,
308 East Fourth Street,
Berwick, died Tuesday, December
10, in the Wilkes-Barre General
Miss

Dorothy

forty, of

Mrs. Alice Shaffer Harry, Market Street, Berwick, and a teacher
of the first
grade in Berwick
schools for a number of years, died
Thursday, October 19, at the home
of her daughter, Dr. Harriet Harry

Henning, 718 West Nittany Avenue, State College. She had been
in ill health for some time and re-

Hospital.

Miss Brobst had been in ill
health for several years. She was

shopping in Wilkes-Barre with a
when she became ill and

friend

was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
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She was bom in Berwick, November 2, 1910, and was a graduate
of
the
Berwick High School,
Rloomsburg State Teachers College and had taken graduate work
at Penn State.
Miss Brobst had
been a teacher in the Berwick
School district for about eighteen
months.

At the time of her death she was
the second grade in

a teacher in

the Ferris Heights school.

She was a member of the First
Methodist Church and Sunday
School.
Surviving is her mother,
Mrs. Charles Brobst.

Chaucer,

Drama

and

American

Literature.
She was the author of
several articles which were published in professional magazines.

Washington and Jefferson College announces the appointment of
William F. Neely as instructor in
(he Department of Biology.
Mr. Neelv attended Bloomsburg
State Teachers College as a member of the Navy V-12 program and
later served on active duty with
the United States Navy in the
Asian, European and Pacific Theaters.

After being discharged from

the service, he continued his studies
in biology at Indiana State

Dorothy
Dr.

former

Dorothy

member

Isabella
Morrill,
of the faculty at

Bloomsburg and

an

outstanding

college professor of English
her retirement in 1949, died
nesday, July 26, 1950, at her
in

College where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1949. Mr. Neely did graduate study in zoology at the University of Pittsburgh during the
past year and received his Master
of Science degree at the end of the

Teachers
Morrill

I.

Auburn, Maine.

until

Wedhome

summer

session this year.

She had been

ill health for a year before her
death.

in

Born

Auburn, December 27,
1891, Miss Morrill was the daughter of the late Judge John A. and
Isabella Olive Littlefield Morrill.
A graduate of Edward Little

High School in Auburn, she received her Bachelor’s degree at Mt.
I lolyoke in
1914 and her Master’s
degree at the University of Michigan in 1915.

For the next three years,
Morrill

was teacher

of

Miss

German

at

Bloomsburg. In 1916 she received
the Master’s degree at Badcliffe
College, and in 1921, she received
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the same institution.
She later studied at Oxford University, specializing in the field
of
English.
For twenty-eight years previous
her retirement, Dr. Morrill was
Professor of English at Hood College, Frederick, Md.
In the later
years, she was head of the English
department.
During her long
teaching experience, Miss Morrill
twice served as Acting Dean
of
Hood College.
to

Dr. Morrill was recognized as a
leader in her field. She specialized
in
the
teaching
of
advanced
courses in English, Shakespeare,
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Additional Sports

in

FOOTBALL AWARDS
Varsity
football
letters
were
awarded to 66 members of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
football team according to an announcement made by Robert B.
Redman, head football coach of
the Huskies, who finished their season with a record of 7 victories and
1 loss.
Included in the list of winners were 4 seniors.
The major
letter award list follows: Bernard

doah; Jack Long, Shamokin; Russell Looker, Johnstown; Tom McLaughlin.
Forty
Fort;
Bernard
Mont, Hunlock Creek; Gene Morrison, Bloomsburg; John Nemetz,
Shamokin; Barney Osevala, Shamokin; Dan Parrell, Hazleton; Frank
Perry,
Shamokin; Gerald Pope,
Bloomsburg; John Porr. Highspire;
Charles Puckey, Nuangola; Jack

Schaar,

Hazleton;

Tom

Schukis,

Mahanoy City; Francis Sheehan,
Mahanoy City; Tom Spack, Johnstown; Ed Stecker, Mt. Carmel;
John Stonik, Plymouth; Ed TavalJohnstown; Robert Thurston,
Sunbury; Joseph Boyle, Harwood,
Russ Verhausky, Coaldale; Floyd
sky,

Williams,

Ashley;

Ardell

Mowry.
The following members

Zeigen-

fuse,

of

the

1950 football squad received minor
letter
awards: Larry Bernhardt,
Tamaqua; Loren Bower, Berwick;
Jack Chaplinsky, Shenandoah; Joseph Costa, Frackville; Dick Dietz
(manager), Bloomsburg; Franklin
Richard
L'uncan,
Montgomery;
Lnglar, Milton; Larry House, Watsontown; Edward Johnson. Bloomsburg; John Just, Dupont; Victor
Karvcki, Mt. Carmel; Paul Macio,
Morrison,
Wilkes-Barre;
John
Bloomsburg; Leonard Podzielinski,
Utica; Frank Riddall (manager).
Town Hill; Roland Schmidt, Wilkes-Barre; John Shaffer (manager),
Bloomsburg; Dan Trocki. Edwardsville.

SOCCER PLAYERS
RECEIVE AWARDS

Hamershock,
Weatherly;
John
Babb, Bloomsburg; Tom Anthony
(manager), Shamokin; Charles Baron, Endicott; Mike Bernott, Mt.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College were awarded varsity letters.
The Husky hooters completed their

Carmel; Joseph Beily, Berwick;
Alex Boychuck, Shamokin; Charles
Brennan, Towanda; Don Cesare,
Old Forge; Edwin Confer (manager), Slatington; Ronald D’Angelo,
Berwick; John Dietz, Plymouth;
Walter
Dyslesky,
Wilkes-Barre;
Albert Eremich, Mt. Carmel; Dave
Evans, West Reading; Guy Germana, Philadelphia; Joseph Glosek,
Shamokin; Merlyn Jones, WilkesBarre; Joseph Kapralick, Willow
Grove; Robert Kressler, Bloomsburg; Alex Kubik, York; George
Lambrinos, Endicott; Bob Lang,
Milton; Dave Linkchorst, Shenan-

season with a record of four wins
and three losses. The following
men received major awards: Adam
Ben, Blakely; Robert Bickert, Catawissa; William Cleaver, Orangeville; Paul Conard, Muncy; Harry
Fenstemacher, Catawissa; Frank
Furgele, Ashland; Paul Gansel,
Berwick; Dick Gearhart. Catawissa;
John Jankowski, Catawbsa; James
Lesser, Wilburton; Royal Miller,
Pague,
Bloomsburg;
William
Bloomsburg;
Richards,
Drehcr
Berwick; Robert Roan, Cresco; Allen Savage, Atlantic City, N. J.;
James Thompson, Kane.

Twenty-six soccer players of the

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Vol. LI I,
Published

No. 2

May, 1951

quarterly by

the

Alumni

MAKE

Association of the State Teachers Col-

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.
lege,

GIFTS

TO LOAN FUND

EDITOR
H.

F.

Fenstemaker, T2

MANAGER

BUSINESS

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E.

H. Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith
I)R.

GEORGE

E.

PFAIILER

MRS.

MAY EVANS JOHN
(Photo by Dobyns)

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey

B.

Smith

Elizabeth H. Hubler

Alumni Day
Saturday,

May 26
May, 1951

Dr. George E. Pfahler, of Philadelphia, world-famous radiologist
and an alumnus of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, has given
a thousand dollars to the student
loan fund of the local institution.
The gift, unsolicited, was sent
to Dr. E. IT. Nelson, president of
the general college alumni.
Dr.
Pfahler, who last May was presented Meritorious Service Award by
the Bloomsburg College Alumni,
observed in connection with that

He was

educated

school of his
State

in the

ungraded

home community,

Normal School

at

the

Bloomsburg

and Medico-Chirurgical College.
He received his M.D. degree at the
latter institution

in

1898.

He

also

from Cambridge
University, England, and Ursinus

holds

degrees

College.
The latter institution of
learning presented him with honorary degrees in 1930 and 1942.

“The basic truth is that our Alma
Mater gave to me the foundation
on which my succeeding life
depended and any successes that
have had are primarily due to the
fine
instruction
and inspiration
given by my teachers at Blooms-

A true pioneer in Roentgen ray
diagnosis and therapy, Dr. Pfahler
endured
the
difficulties
and
dangers
that
characterize
the
pioneer’s lot. He worked with such
rudimentary equipment that two
and three hours exposure was often
necessary to make a “picture” of
the hip joint or the kidney.

therefore feel deeply
can add that even at the
present time, I do not see how I
could have gotten a good start
excepting for this fine institution.”
A native of Numidia, Dr. Pfahler
was born in 1874, the son of
William and Sara (Stine) Pfahler.

As early as February, 1901, Dr.
Pfahler was treating cancer with
X-ray. He reported on this at the
first
scientific
meeting of the
American Roentgen Ray Society in
Buffalo in September of that year.
He has written more than three
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award:

I

burg.

grateful.

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SENIOR BROCHURE

IS

RELEASED BY PLACEMENT
BUREAU

Teachers College. I feel definitely,
as I expressed to you last year, that
this is a
most excellent service
which you render your seniors and
also

placement
annual
third
brochure of R.S.T.C. seniors was

The

delivered to the school administration officials recently. The booklet
sixty-four
presents one hundred
seniors— fifty in business, fortythree in elementary and seventyone in secondary education.

probably
the most attractive one published
by this school. The cover is a
inset
brilliant yellow and has an
showing Dr. Kuster and a group
from his vertebrate anatomy class
delicate
carefully examining the
This year’s brochure

is

interested

You may remember

idea of such a publication
originated with President Harvey
A. Andruss three years ago. Since
become an annual
then, it has
affair.
Credit must be given to the
especially
Marie
Obiter
staff,
Mattis who secured and set up the
pictures of all the seniors. Along
with each picture, there is a list of
the activities in which the student
participated while at Bloomsburg.
A thousand copies of the
brochure are now available for
distribution through the placement
service.
Copies have been sent to
the
in
all school administrators
Other copies are
service area.
furnished, upon request, to other

employers.
School administrators, who have
brochure
received copies of the
indicate that they appreciate such
a publication. Special credit is due
Andruss
A.
to President Harvey
since he first suggested the printing
of such a booklet three years ago.
Since then it has become an annual
publication.

The brochure is mailed each
year to school administrators in the
service area of B.S.T.C., as well as
to school officials in several neighErnest
H.
Dr.
boring states.
Englehardt, director of placement,
has received many complimentary
letters from administrators concerning the booklet.
The following letter was recently
received at the Placement Bureau:
“Dear Mr. Englehardt:
Thank you so much for sending
me the excellent brochure of your
z

that

I

am

the

one who employed Walter Bird
Walter has been most
last year.
his
successful for a beginner in
coaching, teaching and all relationHe is outstanding and is a
ships.
type of young man whom most of
but are
us are always seeking
seldom successful in finding.
Thank you again. You may
hear from me later.
Verv truly yours,
A.

innards of the dog-fish shark.

The

school administra-

tois.

MOULTON

Alumni Asso-

money

receiv-

and from the income thus
additional
provided, award
an
scholarship to a worthy student of

ed,

the College. The investments held
Association
have made
possible three academic
scholarships this year, and several more
are contemplated.

by the

Most Alumni

of

Bloomsburg

Supervising Principal,

tion of

MAKE

GIFTS

(Continued from Page

1)

scientific articles since.

He

regarded by his colleagues as an
artist in the application of radium.
His great enthusiasm, sustained
pioneering spirit, vast experience
and great courage in the use of this
therapy have helped him achieve
is

sults

ciation to invest the

Township of Neptune
Ocean Grove, N. J.
This letter indicates the valuable
by the brochure in
acquainting educational employers
The
with available employees.
publication is the best of its kind
in Pennsylvania and ranks among
the best in the country.

many

Directors of the

of

believe that the
public
schools
play a great part in the preserva-

J.

part played

hundred

J. S. John, prominent physician
and surgeon of Bloomsburg, has
always been keenly interested in
the activities of the Alumni, and
was active in the reunion of the
class of 1895. held last Alumni Day.
It is the intention of the Board

Dr.

spectacularly successful

and save many

Announcement of Dr. Pfahler’s
Alumni was follow-

aned shortly afterward by the
nouncement of another gift of one
thousand dollars by Mrs. May
Evans John, of the class of 1895.
Mrs. John presented her gift in
memory of her brother, the late
William W. Evans, for many years
the Superintendent of the schools
of Columbia County.
Mrs. John, the wife of the late

HUTCHISON, T6

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Bank Building
Bloomsburg 777-J

First National

Those who

aration to become teachers. Every
dollar administered in this way is
of
an investment in the future

America.

The applicants for scholarships
are considered very carefully by a
The members
faculty committee.
of the committee believe that the
give
students whom they select
promise of becoming fine teachers.
These students will, in the form of
service rendered to the Commonrepay
Pennsylvania,
wealth
of
many times over the amount of the
scholarship that they have received.

re-

fine gift to the

S.

ideals.

lives.

MRS. JOHN

FRANK

American

hold this belief could find no better
way to put it into action than to
assist young people in their prep-

Miss Lois F. Franz, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis C. Frantz, of
Berwick, became the bride of Donald R. McClintock, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. O. McClintock, of Berwick,
in a

ceremony performed Novem-

ber 25 in Grace Evangelical and
Reformed Church, of Richland. The
Rev. Lee Loos officiated at the

candlelight ceremony.
was unattended.

The couple

The bride wore a black and
white checked suit with a corsage
of white chrysanthemums.
Mr. and Mrs. McClintock were
Berwick High
graduated from
School in 1949 and are attending
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

They

are residing at 1122

Wal-

nut street, Berwick.

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SUMMER

SESSIONS

The Rloomshurg State Teachers
College will again offer a 12-weeks

Summer

The

college will
again offer a Pre-Session of three
weeks, a Regular Session of six
weeks, and a three-week Post
Session.

Session.

The first three-week session will
begin Monday, June fourth, while
registration for the Regular Session
will be held Monday, June twentyfifth.
Classes for the Post Session
begin Monday,
August
sixth.
Although the Summer Sessions are
designed primarily to enable Penns\ lvania
teachers
to
advance
professionally and
to
meet the
certification standards approved lv
the State Council of Education, all
courses offered will lx* on a colleand

be of particular
Undergraduates qualifying for advanced
standing or the removal of conditions; teachers in sen ice qualifying
for (a) advanced State Certification
(IT the
Degree of Bachelor of
Science in Education, and (c) the
Permanent College Certification;
giate basis

will

interest to the following:

college graduates qualifying
State Certification.

for

Dr. Andmss has announced that
the college will admit new students
beginning June fourth and June
twenty-fifth. The 1951 sessions are
the thirty-third in
a series of
summer session programs offered
by the college.

The Business Department of the
College is planning to offer a combined Shorthand and Typewriting
Workshop this summer to enable
graduates and seniors
to
meet
certification requirements in these
subjects.

The Workshop, one

of
the most popular features of the
1950 Summer Sessions, will begin
on June fourth and will continue
throughout the twelve weeks of
the summer session.
Participating
students will be able to earn eight
semester hours credit in Shorthand
and four semester hours credit in

Typewriting.

To be eligible for enrollment in
the workshop, one
must be a
graduate of or a senior in an accredited
college
and
have a

minimum of three semester hours
credit in shorthand and two semester hours in
Such
typewriting.
May, 1951

students will enroll for the entire
twelve week period
and will
receive credit only upon completion
of
the
workshop.
Those
students
having completed six
semester hours work in typewriting
will enroll for a minimum of nine
weeks, the pre and regular sessions,
and will receive nine semester
hours credit to be distributed
between shorthand and typewriting
in accordance with their needs. The
workshop will meet five hours daily
with two sessions of 90 minutes

each in shorthand and two session
of 60 minutes each in typewriting.
Gregg Shorthand Simplified will be
taught.
A feature of the 1951 Regular
Summer Session will be the fifth
workshop for elementary teachers.
The college is also planning to
offer a combined shorthand
and

typewriting workshop this summer
to enable graduates and seniors to
meet certification requirements in
these subjects.
This
workshop
begins on June fourth
and will
continue throughout the twelve
weeks of the Summer session.
High school seniors will be able
to begin
their
college
studies
immediately
upon
graduation
under a plan announced by President Harvey A. Andruss of the

Bloomsburg
College.
the plan,

State

Teachers

The primary purpose of
as
outlined
by Dr.

Andmss

is to enable June
graduates to get an earlier start on their
college education and thereby prepare themselves better
for
the

defense tasks which
assigned to them.

may

Dr. Andruss said that

man

classes

later

new

be

fresh-

would be admitted on

June 4 and again on June 25. The
June 4 session will be of three
weeks’ duration and will afford the
the newcomer an opportunity to
initiate his training in any one of
the three curricula now offered by
the institution.
The June 25
session will be six weeks in length.
The accelerated program is not
new on the Bloomsburg campus.
In fact, a large percentage of the
student body has been accelerated
since 1946 when students returned
to the campus from the last war.
Acceleration is believed by many
colleges to be the pattern of higher
education in the future and is a

service not only to the country but
also to those persons who sooner
or later may be drafted for defense

The present emergency
created by a shortage of elementary teachers can only be met by a
step-up in the completion dates of
college students.
Entering students may take their
choice as to whether to begin their
freshman year in the summer session or wait until the opening of
the regular fall session September
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duties.

.

IMPROVEMENTS ON THE
CAMPUS
Work has been in progress in a
new General
State
Authority
project to renovate the present
central heating plant.
The $325,-

090 renovation of the heating plant

underway in March and within
twelve months, the college
will
have one of the most modern heating plants in this section of the
got

country.
S.

H. Evert Company,

Inc.,

is

the general construction contractor
lor the big job, while main contractor for heating is Rado Heating and

Plumbing,
Berwick.
Electric
contract will be handled by the
Jere Woodring Company, Inc., of
Hazleton.
The project calls for the replacement of all obsolete equipment in
the present plant, which is nearly
35 years old.
Equipment to be
replaced includes one stoker and
four hand-fire boilers, totalling 907
horsepower.

Three new anthracite

stokers, totalling 807 horsepower,
will be installed along with
auto-

matic conveyors for coal,
new
equipment, and mod-

pump room

ern shower and storage

Only

structural

facilities.

change

in
the
present heating plant will result in
the roof being raised to accomodate
the new machinery and foundation

for new equipment. The stack
be untouched and the external
appearance of the building will be
unchanged. The new heating plant

work
will

will enable the college to operate
with three full-time firemen and
one relief man. At the present
time, with the outmoded
equipment, the services of three full-time

firemen, one relief man, and
full-time helpers are needed.

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SALES CONFERENCE

WESTMINSTER CHOIR

HELD

CARVER HALL

IN

Hundreds of area businessmen
and members of their sales forces,
school administrators, and teachers
of retail selling
and distributive
education

attended

the

Fifth

Annual Retail Training Conference
held in Carver
on
Auditorium
Thursday
evening,
March
8.
Addresses by two of America’s outstanding figures in the field
business and merchandising,

of

H.

Bruce Palmer and “Sunshine Gene”
Flack, highlighted
the program.
Mr. Frederick Deisroth, of Deisroth’s Department Stoxe, Hazleton,
introduced the speakers.

Mr. Palmer’s business

life

has

been spent in association with the
Mutual Benefit Lift Insurance Co.,
of Newark, New Jersey.
On the
basis of his personal sales record,

Mr. Palmer,

in

membership

in the

1946

won

personal

Mutual Benefit

National Associates, the company’s
top club of leading producers.

Mr. Flack, a dynamic personality,
a member of the National Council of the U. S.
Department of
Commerce, the Advisory Council
of the U. S. Treasury and U.
S.
is

Associates of International
ber of Commerce.

Cham-

Before the evening session, the
Bloomsburg and Berwick Rotary
and
invited
conference
Clubs
guests attended a dinner in
the
college dining hall. Toastmaster for
the dinner was Fred
W. Diehl,
Superintendent of Montour schools,

member of the college Board of
Trustees, and past district governor
of the Rotary Club.
Student chairman for the afternoon program was Lillian Mlkvy;
Carl Persing was in charge of the
evening program. Members of the
conference
advisory
committee
were: John Quigg, president of the
Retail

Merchants

Danville,

Association,
Frederick Deisroth,

of
of

Deisroth ’s Department Store, of
Hazleton; L. C. Hartzel, Penney’s
Store, Mt. Carmel;
Sloan,
Jack
Dixie Shops, Bloomsburg and L. P.
Worcester, Montgomery and Ward
Store, Berwick.

Mr. Charles

the
college faculty was general supervisor of the annual affair.
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An Ensemble from the famed
Westminster Choir College appeared at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Monday evening, April
second in the feature of the 1951
Artists Course.
This year marks
the 30th season this distinguished
concert group has been before the
concert public.
The Westminster Choir, first
organized to serve as the volunteer
choir of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of
Dayton, Ohio,
still retains the name it had in its
affiliation with this church, but it
is no longer a church choir. It is
the touring concert unit of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N. J.
John Finley Williamson, founder and conductor of the
choir, is also founder and president
of the College.
In contrast to the present highlytrained personnel of
the
group
selected from the college student
body of 400, the members of the
first choir were business men and
women and housewives who devoted their leisure hours to singing
under the inspiring direction of Mr.
Williamson, then minister of music

Westminster Church.
So exciting and exacting was the
singing of this volunteer group that
its fame spread, and people began
visiting Dayton to hear it.
Called
upon to sing at an increasing
number of meetings and gatherings, it was placed under the direction of a concert manager and in
1921 undertook its first tour.
Since this initial tour, the Westminster Choir has sung throughout the United States, Cuba and
Canada, made European tours in
1929 and 1934, which included
England, Scotland, 13 countries on
live continent, and Russia.

TEXAS LUNCH

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Manager
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Assistant
142 East

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BUILDING MATERIALS
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Bloomsburg 1115

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C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner, ’34

at

has made over 100 orchestral
appearances in the last ten years
with symphony orchestras, including the
Philadelphia
Orchestra,
New York Philharmonic, NBC
Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Norfolk Symphony,
Baltimore
Symphony and the El Paso Symphony under the direction of such
conductors as Arturo
Toscanini,
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Bruno Walter, Eugene Ormandy, Artur Rodzinski, Leopold Stokowski, Charles
Munch and Jose Iturbi.

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122 East

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Prop.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

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S.

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52

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Bloomsburg 850

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“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”
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50

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville. Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
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W.
R.

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Booth,

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'SITTING IT

OUT

’

Student

A ctiuities
JUNIOR PROM PROVES MOST

SUCCESSFUL OF SEASON
The Junior Prom, with

its

Orien-

decorations, attracted a
huge
throng of dancers to Centennial
Cvmnasium on Friday, April 6.
Musi' for the affair was furnished
by A] Anderson and his orchestra.
tnl

1

Highlight of the evening was the
floorshow held during intermission.
lancing to the singing of B.S.T.C.s
Hilly Eckstein
George Lamhrinos ... a chorus of beauties presented several musical
numbers.
The chorus line included Kitty Mitchell.
Peggy Dorasavage, Diane
Snyder. Laura Philo. Dotty Stec.
Enama, Marlene Wetzel.
loan
Joanne Vanderslice. Nancy Swartz,
and Peggy Bourdette. Piano accompaniment for the bells was
1

.

.

.

Myra Albertson.
program. Mary Ann
freshman nightingale,
Her accompanist was
sang “If.”
Marilyn Lundy.
Next to enter the spotlight was
Later

l

ink,

in the

the

B.S.T.C.’s version of the Andrew
Sisters—Lola Deibert, Mary Ellen
Dean and Jeanne Ruckle. The trio,
accompanied by Myra Albertson,

sang "The

Way You

played by
Musical selections
Tom Jones on the marimba thrilled
the audience.
His musical rendition was followed by guest musician. Gordon Sminkey, who received the plaudits of everyone with

harmonica playing.

The entire program of entertainment and enjoyment was conducted by Dick Powell, master of
ceremonies for the occasion.
General chairman for the dance was
Joyce MacDougall. Clifton
Clarridge
The
headed the orchestra committee.
refreshment committee was composed
of Marie Yozviak. Richard Laux. Nancy
Williams, Gloria Mazzetti and Constance
Stanko. Decorating committee members
were Marilyn Evans, Lois Newman.
Barbara Hessert, Jeanne Krzywicki,
Geraldine Funk, Janice Rider,
Mary
Ann
Wright,
Wachowski,
Delores

May, 1951

Jones, Milton Hughes. William

Ginter.

Atwood Badman,

Peggy Dorasavage.
William Gilbert and John Stonik. Juniors who comprised the ticket committee are Jeanne Ruckle. Joane Vanderslice and Jean Meier.
The publicity
committee was made up of Thomas
Anthony. Philip Search and Lola Deibert.
The finance committee was
headed by Walter Troutman.

Look To-

night.”

his

George Smith, Russell Looker, Thomas

FRESHMAN HOP
The Freshman Hop, one of the
big social events of the year at
bioomsburg State Teachers College
was held recently in Centennial
Gymnasium. Music was furnished
by Russ Andaloro and his orchestra,
from nine until
with dancing
twelve.
The decorating committee selected a gay Mardi Gras theme, complete with baloons, streamers, and
all the trimmings, to symbolize the
French
gaiety of the traditional
season at this time of year.
The Hop was under the general
supervision of Michael Crisci, West
Pittston, who was assisted by John
Scrimgeour, West Pittston and
Delores Doyle, Mt. Carmel.
The

orchestra committee

was under the
Wayne;
members of the committee were
John Bogdan, Philadelphia; Mary
Ann Martz, Pottsville and Shirley
direction of Peter Ferrilli,

Andrews, Milton.
Seeley,
Jane
Scranton, headed the refreshment
committee, which was comprised
of Bette Vanderslice, Bioomsburg;
Mary Walters, Hunlock Creek;
Betty Yeager, Catawissa and Judy
Fry, Williamstown.
Charles Andrews, West Pittston, was head of
publicity, acting with Janice Pugh,
Ashley, Susan Hvasta,
Scranton,

and Ann Gengenbach, Trerose. The
finance committee was composed
of
Lesser,
Wilburton,
James
Charles Rhoades, Chester, William
Manchester and
Olive
Jacobs,
Fedrigon, Nuremburg. The decorating committee
consisted
of
Pittsburgh,
Joanne Steinmeyer,
Sara Urich, Lebanon, Phyllis McLaren, Balboa, Canal Zone, Jean
Newhart, Tannersville, Rosemary
Snierski,
Plymouth,
Margaret
Shoup, Jefferson, Bob McManus,
Mt. Carmel, Merlin Jones, Wilkesand
Barre, Paul Metza, Sunbury

Ann Komfeld, Croydon.
5

DEAN’S LIST
The Dean of Instruction,
Thomas P. North, has released

Dr.
the

following names of students who
have been qualified for the Dean’s
List for the first semester, 1950-51.
These students have a quality point
average of 2.5 or better for the first
semester, 1950-51, and a cumulative
average of at least 2.0 while
in
attendance at this college:

Freshmen
Charles R. Andrews, 299 Balti-

more

St.,

W.

Pittston,

West

Pitts-

ton H. S.; Anna K. Bittner, Woodlawn Ave., Milroy, Armagh Twp.
S.; John T. Bogdan, 729 N. Third
St., Philadelphia 23, Central High;

H

William L. Carson, 246 W. Third
St., Mt. Carmel, Mt. Carmel H. S.;
Irene L. Cichowicz, 416 S. Jardin
St., Shenandoah, J. W. Cooper H.
S.; Loretta Formulak, 19 W. Enterprise St., Glen Lyon, Newport Twp.
H. S.; Judith E. Fry, 515 W. Market
St.,
Williamstown, Williamstown
H. S.; Rose Marie Grant, 539
Liberty
Bethlehem,
Broadway,
High; Elaine Gunther, 1408 Spring
Garden Ave., Berwick, Berwick H.
S.; Robert Haas, 907 E. Third St.,
Nescopeck, Nescopeck H. S.; Betty
L. Heil, Church St., Reamstown, E.
Gocalico
Twp. H. S.; Gerald
Houseknecht, 435 W. First Street,
Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg H. S.;
James Kessler, 104 Upper Mulberry
St., Danville, Danville H. S.; Alex
Koharski, 14 Fifth

St.,

Wyoming Memorial

Wyoming,

Rose M.
Korba, Pleasant Mount, Pleasant
Mount Voc. School; Raymond Kozlowski, Kingsley,
Harford Voc.;
Phyllis McLaren, 118 Ridge Road,
Balboa, Canal Zone, Balboa, Canal
Zone H. S.; Mae Neugard, Hegins,
Newhart,
llegins II. S.; Jean E.
Tannersville, Pocono Twp., H. S.;
1314 Butler
Patricia O’Loughlin,
Louise
St., Easton, Easton H. S.
Schullery, 16 Walnut St., Delano,
Delano H. S.; Sterling Smith, 136
W. Front St., Berwick, Berwick H.
S.; Gene Stevens, 589 W. Third St.,
Bloomsburg, B. H. S.; David SupFreeland,
erdock, 425 Green St.,
Freeland; Jeanette
Foster Twp.,
Traver, R. D. 5, Tunkhannock,
Monroe Twp., Harveys Lake II. S.
H.

S.;

;

Sophomores
Donald

N.

Bloomsburg,
e

Blyler,

Stewart E. Davis, 106 E. Fifth St.,
S., Wilkes-

Bloomsburg, Meyers H.

Barre; Francis Galinski, Lackawanna St., Forest City, Forest City H.
S.; John Haddon, 232 Jefferson St.,

Northumberland H.

Bloomsburg,
S.;

Henry

141

Hurtt,

Bloomsburg

13.
II.

2,
S.;

St.,

Wil-

liam H. Kline, 112 Gerhart St., Millersburg, Millersburg H. S.; Charles Pease, R. D. 1, Wyalusing, Wyalusing Valley H. S.; June Pichel, R.
D. 1, Ilellertown, Hellertown H.
S.: Richard Knause, R. D. 2, Pottstown, No. Coventry H. S., Potts-

town.
Juniors

James Arnold, 204 E. Second

St.,

Hughesville, Hughesville H. S.;
Lois Dzuris, 410 E. Church St.,
Nanticoke, Nanticoke H. S.; Harry
Fenstermacher, 239 Pine St., Catawissa, Catawissa H. S.; Barbara
E. Harman, R. D. 1, Lykens, Wi-

conesco H.

Laux, W.
Trucksville,
Kingston
Trucksville; John See-

S.;

Richard

Main St.,
Twp. H. S.,
bold, 113 Water
ville

H.

St.,

F.

Danville,

Dan-

S.

Seniors

Merlin Beachell, 257 W. Sixth
St., Bloomsburg, Ralplio Twp. H.
S.; Helyn J. Burlingame, 401 Pine
St., Berwick, Berwick H. S.; Delphine R. Buss, 709 Elm St., Watsontown, Watsontown H. S.; Beverly
A. Cole, 100 Leonard St., Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg H. S.; Anna B.
Frederick, 600 Green St., Mifflinburg, Mifflinburg H. S.; Carol B.
Creenough, Williamsport, P.S.R.,
Sunbury H. S.; Lyle Horne, Ringtown, Ringtown H. S.; Barbara A.
Johnson, 125 E. Fifth St., Berwick,
Berwick H. S.; Max Kaplan, 75 Oak
St., Port Chester, N. Y., Port Chester H. S.; James Kleman, 36 N. 19th
Ashland, St. Joseph’s FI. S.,
St.,
Ashland; Norman McClure Kline,
W. Beaver Twp. H. S., McClure;
Ned Knarr, R. D. 1, Shamokin,
Shamokin II. S.; Andrew Maceiko,
iS Simon Block St., Wilkes-Barre,
Hanover Twp. FI. S., WilkesBarre; Marie B. Mattis, 1019 E.

MISS DIANE SNYDER

ELECTED MAY QUEEN
Diane
Snyder,
lovely
and
popular senior from Mill Hall, was

May Queen by one of the
most overwhelming majorities ever
received by a May Queen.
Diane’s
election
to
be May
Queen is not her first taste of
royalty.
As a sophomore, she was
crowned Queen of Hearts at the
elected

class cotillion.

among

a

Last year, she was

group of the

loveliest

B.S.T.C. girls whose pictures were
sent to John Robert Powers, head
of the famed Powers School.
Members of Queen Diane’s court
will include Beverly Cole, Martha

Bronson, Helyn Burlingame, Mary
Alarcon, Mary Jane Dorsey,

Ann

Ruth Doody, Elvira Thomsen and

Nancy Powell.

BLOOD DONOR PROGRAM
On March 1, the Red Cross
Rloodmobile, traveling from the
Wilkes-Barre,
regional center in
made

Steiner, Aristes
R. Thomas, R. D. 2,

visit to the B.S.T.C.
Dr. Tyler from Geisinger
Hospital, was head physician. Mrs.
Wilbur Adams, executive secretary
of the local Red Cross chapter, was
in charge of the program. Assisting
in the collecting of blood were Red
BloomsCross nurses aides from
burg.

Orangeville II. S.;
Muriel Wagner, R. D. 1, Carbon-

Dr. Paul Wagner was chairman
program. Student
of the college

Webster St., Shamokin, Shamokin
H. S.; Genevieve Scheetz, 276 W.
Wilkes-Barre

Easton,

St.,

If.

S.;

Edward W.

H.

S. ;

Hervey

Orangeville,
R.

Butler

P'orty Fort, Forty Fort H. S.;

dale,

Carbondale

II.

S.

Easton

its

first

Campus.

chairmen

who

cooperated

in

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT

BLOOD DONORS

ELECTS OFFICERS
Russell

Looker,

Thomas

defeated

Johnstown,
Anthony,
of

of

Shamokin,

for the presidency of
the C. G. A. of the
Bloomsburg
State Teachers College
for
the
school year of 1951-52.
Henry
Marini, of Wayne, ascended to the
position of vice-president as he
won out over Charles Brennen, of
Towanda. Clare Davis, of Clarks
Summit, is the secretary-elect,
while the financial affairs of the
coming year will be carried out by
Henry Hurtt, of Forty Fort, who
won the race over Warren Raker,

West

Pittston.

Herbert Kerchner,

won

a three-cornered
of
race for the office
assistant
treasurer over Alfred Cyganowski,

Reading,

of

Nanticoke and Rose Mary Korba,

obtaining pledges for donations of
blood were Peggy
Bourdette,
Fry,
Judith
Peffer.
Sam
Jack
Yeager
and Richard Evans.

Although some of the blood was
collected from residents of town,
the greater portion was donated by

this campus, almost three and
one-half times as many men as
women gave blood; this is a
complete upset of expected results.

on

STUDENTS

IN

ARMED FORCES

members of the faculty and student
body of B.S.T.C.
107
In all,
members of the college community

Sgt.

contributed.

192 Ord. Battalion, APO 5 9
care PM, San Francisco, Calif.

The old gym was converted into
an infirmary from 10 A. M. until
4 P. M. The gym was divided into
several sections. There was a waiting room in which questionnaires
were filled out and examinations

were made.

Wards were

set

their

way.

Although two persons fainted
of
the sudden realization
lack of blood hit them, there were
no serious casualties.
On the
whole, most of those who contributed said that they felt fine and
would be willing to do it over
again if the occasion should arise.
Each donor received a pin and a
small pamphlet explaining
what
would be done with the blood
which he gave. Statistics show that

when

May, 1951

Ilq.

and Hq. Detachment

BATTLE OF THE CLASSES’
Underclassmen of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College won
“the battle of the classes,” a formal
in a
recent
quiz contest staged

assembly program by members of
the Assembly Committee. Members
of the
winning Freshman and
Sophomore panel of “experts”
were Joan Pichel, Hellertown and
both
Price,
Shamokin,
Robert

members

of the Sophomore class,
Pat
Boyle,
Hazleton and
Charles Andrews, West Pittston,

Gpl. Joseph Froncek
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and

Fort Story, Va.

Freshman

representatives.
contemporary
o n

Questions

up

with beds lined side by side, with
all the best equipment
ready in
case of emergency. A canteen with
food and drink was on hand to
strengthen the donors before they

went on

Joe Gavis
Medical Detachment

Pleasant Mount. The election was
inn efficiently by the college election board, of which Richard Laux
of Trucksville, was chairman.

John Klotsko
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affairs and names
in
the
news were used for the unusual
program which was under the direction of John A. Hoch, Dean of
Men. Members of the upper class
team were Marie Mattis, Shamokin,
and Calvin Kanyuck, Glen Lyon,

Sampson A.F.B.

who

Geneva, N.

and Ellen Gibbons, Trucksville,
and David Jenkins, West Hazleton,

Sgt.

Co.

Donald Peterson, 23750765
I,

Camp

109 Inf. 28 Div.
Atterbury, Ind.

Pvt.

AF

Y.

Pfc. Len Podzielienski,
Marine Barracks
U. S. Naval Base

UMMCR

Key West, Florida
Dinger 33504222
Hq. Co. 314 Ord. Gp. Ammo.
A. P. O. 660
care PM, San Francisco, Calif.
Sgt. Russel

world

represented the Senior

class,

Junior representatives. Judges for
Nell
the quiz program were Dr.
Maupin, Edward A. Reams and
Harold
Dr. H. H. Russell.
S.
The
Shelly was the timekeeper.
program was under the personal
Berdirection of Michael Dorak,
Assembly
wick, chairman of the

Committee.
7

Faculty

Notes
BEHIND THE NEWS WITH
HARRISON RUSSELL”
“
.

and now, a view behind

.

.

the news, with

H urison

Russell.

with

Being a popular instructor

the student body here at B.S.T.C.,
the name of Dr. Harrison Russell
is quickly recognized as it is flashed over the air waves.
Among wires, microphones, and
blinking lights, a daily fifteen min-

commentary

ute

called “Datelines’

presented at 4:15 over WCNR.
Playing a vital part in this program
is Dr. Harrisson Russell’s commen“Views
tary on the world news.
is

Behind the News”

consists

of

his

personal opinions and comments
on pressing events in the turmoil
of today’s world.
Dr. Russell is head of the geography department here at B.S.T.C.

Doing an excellent job on campus,
he definitely feels his radio work
is merely a side line and not anthis
Although
other profession.
work takes
amount of

up

considerable
approximately
time,
five to six hours weekly, Dr. Russell
truly enjoys it.
Dr. Russell has been “on the air”
now for three years. He first started broadcasting when two of his
and hapstudents were at
a

WCNR

comment on

the keen
which Dr. Russell showed
while speaking on world affairs in
Exactly
one day
his classroom.

pened

to

ability

received a

later Dr.

Russell

from the

studio’s

asked

he would consider work-

if

call

He was

manager.

ing as commentator at the station.
The opportunity to express his
views interested him greatly, but
at the time Dr. Russell had a very
bad cold and felt that by waiting

approximately a week,
out would be much more
This premonition of
ful.
truly paid off in the end,
for

Russell

began working

a

During

8

he does admit
he had to ask just how far
from the microphone.
to stand
Experience taught him how to
speak and what tones to use. Certain types of news such as military
goings-on in Korea must have an
that
entirely different tone from
used in talking about a party.

that

Oratorical

work

in

for Dr.

week

Dr.
his first broadcast
maintains that he had no

college

brought much experience and conand he
fidence to Dr. Russell,
strongly suggests that those interested in radio work should practice
and
speaking
public
through
debate. He also stresses the necessity of a college education and very
definitely the need for courses in
is
“A good radio man
speech.
interested in the social, economic,
political problems and affairs
of this country as well as those of

and

the world.”
Dr. Russell urges those interest-

ed

in

commentary

work,

straight

news announcing, or sports not to
become discouraged if at first they

The opportunities
don’t succeed.
and
for good men are excellent
afford a very interesting life.

his try-

waiting

HARRISON RUSSELL

fear whatsoever, but

success-

later.

Russell

DR.

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY
MAY 26

REVISING TEXTBOOK
The opportunity

of revising

high school textbook which

a

one

had previously studied is not given
to many people.
However, President Harvey A. Andruss of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
has been revising Burgess Business
Law, originally published in 1915.
It has had the longest life of any
secondary textbook
field,

in the

Business

and was originally written by

the local counsel for the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy
Railroad
and the proprietor of a Chicago,
Illinois, Business School.
It has subsequently been revised
by one or the other of the authors,
were in touch
neither of whom

with the public school situations in
widely
text has been

which the
used.

Doctor Andruss corrected final
proofs on the book, which stresses
“law for the layman” and also the
his
relations of the layman and
lawyer. The book contains approxprofusely
imately 600 pages,
is
published by
illustrated, and is

Lyons and Carnahan,

of Chicago,

Illinois.

There is an accompanying Worktests
and
book which contains
analyses of case facts, and also a
Teachers Manual.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

FORMER DEAN SUTLIFF
RECOGNIZED IN PENNA.
SCHOOL JOURNAL

IS

Asbury Church.

Charles L. Maurer, of the faculty
Temple University High School,
in a letter published in the Pennsvlvania School Journal, for March
1951, relates a revealing anecdote
about Dr. William B. Sutliff, Dean
Emeritus of
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
of

Arguing for more sympathy and
appreciation by teachers of

stu-

Mr. Maurer tells of
this incident as an illustration of
the point he makes. “Many years
ago,” writer Dr. Maurer, “a country
dents’ work,

boy, attending a Normal
School,
was struggling at a blackboard with
a problem in algebra.
He was
somewhat bewildered and consid-

erably discouraged. The instructor
noticed that the student was having
He stepped to the board
trouble.
and pointed out a simple error. The

have made some
remark but, instead, he
put his arm around the shoulders
of the student and said in almost
a whisper, ‘It wasn’t as hard as you
instructor might

sarcastic

thought

it

“Today,
as

was.’
I

remember

vividly as

pened

though

this incident
it

had hap-

me

yesterday; the building, the room, even the blackboard
beside the door.
It has been a
cherished memory.
Throughout
many years, at every opportunity,
I have retold the incident hundreds
of times in my classes. Judging by
the rapt attention of the students, I
am convinced that students yearn
for words of appreciation.”
to

Mr. Maurer,

in

his

article,

13, and Dr. North’s Section held its
sessions in the auditorium of
the

re-

veals his consideration of Dr. Sutliff as being close
the ideal
to
teacher.
He indicates that he has

attempted to pattern his life after
that of the former B.S.T.C. dean.

The topic for discussion was
‘Future Teachers Look to Teacher
Education.” Leader of the panel
was Dr. Donald G. McGarey, Associate Professor of Education, The
Pennsylvania
State
College.
Members of the panel included the
national and state presidents of the
FTA and students from Albright
College, Ursinus College and tin*
State Teachers Colleges at ChevWest Chester and

ney.

Millersville.

The annual meeting

of the Southeastern Convention District of the
Pennsylvania
State
Education
Association was also held in conjunction with School Men’s Week.

Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of
Instruction at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College was named chairman of the Section on Future
Teachers of America for the School
Men’s Week of the University of

Pennsylvania. The meetings were
held in Philadelphia, Friday, April
May, 1951

Mr. Walter S.
Rygiel of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
has completed a survey study
entitled “Shorthand Standards and
Curricular
vania.

in
PennsylPractices
of this research

A summary

study has been published in The
National.
Business
Education
Quarterly research issue.

The purpose of the study was to
determine the shorthand standards
and curricular practices which are
the high schools of
classes
of
school
Two
in
Pennsylvania.
districts
hundred schools, representing sixtytwo of the sixty-seven counties,
participated in the study.

prevalent
the

in

different

Dr. North was scheduled to be
the guest of the
York Teachers
Association Sunday evening. May

and Monday, May sixth.
The York Teachers entertained a
number of prominent Pennsylvania
fifth

educators at an informal dinner to
in the Yorktown Hotel.

be held

Special guest was Miss
Mabel
Sehabbel of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Miss Sehabbel, a junior high school
teacher in Ann Arbor, is considered
one of the best core-curriculum
teachers in the United States. The
Ann Arbor teacher gave demonstrations of technique in using the corecurriculum in the York schools.

Support

Your

Alumni

ARTICLE SELECTED
An

article

ner, of the

by Dr. E. Paul WagB.S.T.C. faculty,

Association

has

been selected by the Research
Council of the American Association for Health, Physical

Education

and

Recreation,
for
microcard
publication.
The article is titled
“Present Status of Required Physical

Education Programs for

Keep Your

Men

Colleges and Universities Enrolling More Than Five Thousand
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the deficit

and

finish

on

top.

The Teachers College went into
an overtime period before downEndicott,
ing Harpur College at
straight
fourth
their
for
York
New
Two
victory, by a 72-70 margin.

ATHLETICS

by Don Butler, one by
Chuck Daly and a foul toss bv
Dave Linkchorst nosed the Husk-

field goals

1950-51

BASKETBALL SEASON

The 1950-51 Husky aggregation
opened up the cage season with a
win over Wilkes

53-44

College.

Wilkesopenformal
the
Barre’and marked

The game was plaved

in

Butler
ing of the loser’s new gym.
17
paced the Shellymen with

counters.

The Maroon and Gold

points.

Lock Haven administered the
Maroon and Gold’s first defeat by

The

Bald

A four game losing streak was
broken by the Huskies when they
won over a determined Harpur five

Eagles

in shots from all angles and
were forced to take
Huskies
the

poured
their

Sparked by the play of reserv e
Williams, the Teachers College
of
pulled one of the major upsets
dumping
by
season,
the young cage
team
a highly favored Millersville
The game was played at
62-58.
Centennial Gymnasium. The Nanlong
ticoke athlete tossed in two
opened
that
fire
the
goals to start

Bloom’s attack. Byham and Banull
the
for
figures
hit the double
seventeen
collected
they
as
Huskies

and ten points respectively.
Nazigan of West Chester was
responsible for the Huskies second
eighteen
loss as he dumped in
62markers to pace his team in a

Bloom garnered twenty-

triumph.
opponents
three goals to their
had
Chester
West
but
twenty-one,
twenty-nine foul attempts, making
made
twenty, while the Shellymen
twelve out of fifteen. Reliable Dave
Linkchorst led the losers with
fifteen points.

The Bald Eagles of Lock Haven
at
racked up their second victory
b\
Shellymen
the
of
the expense
Centennial
the score of 62-32 at
was
contest
This
Gymnasium.

Bloom
similar to the first in that
the
while
range,
failed to find the
ever.
than
hotter
were
visitors
Coach Shelly’s Huskies lost a
hard-fought game to a taller Slnppensburg quintet on January 9 ol
The game was
this year 64-59.
played on the winner’s court. Daly
took scoring honors with nineteen
10

ov ertime.

Indiana visited our campus and
wound up on the long end of the
The Westerners
78-64.
score
grabbed an early lead and were
never headed. Their extra height
was a decided asset as they recorded a win over a determined Husky

75-68 at Centennial Gymnasium.
Banull and Andrews played their
graduated
final game before they
Bloom scored
on January 18.

first loss.

five.

twenty-six points to their opponents thirteen in the third period
necessary
which provided the

The Huskies passed

saw

court.

After a brilliant start

five of the first six shots

that
12-2
register and help produce a
bad
a
into
ran
Huskies
lead the
streak of shooting that saw the ball
everything but make the nets

do

jump. Byham and Butler sparked
the Huskies with fifteen and eleven
markers respectively.
Don Butler and Jim Thompson
wore their shooting clothes and led
the Husky cagers to a 72-66 win
over Mansfield on the Mountaineer
This marked the Shellymen’s
floor.
Butler
fourth win in ten starts.
while
points
twenty-six
in
pumped

Thompson had

nineteen.

engagement at CenBloom defeated a
Mansfield team 85-69. Just as in
two
the
the first game between
colleges, Butler led his mates by

In a return
tennial Gym,

twenty-seven points.
Maxon led the visitors with twentygood
seven counters and got a
round of applause from the fans

dropping

when he

in

left

the

game

in the final

quarter.

Danny Boychuck’s bucket
last

.500

the

mark by overwhelming the Wilkes
College team 85-69 on the winner’s

margin for victory.
center,
Chubb, Shippensburg
to
points
twenty-six
dropped in
lead the Red Raiders to a 57-56 win
over Bloom.

out in front at the end of the

ies

victory.

at
scoring a shocking 70-45 victory

Lock Haven.

quintet

traveled to Millersville on January
the
13 and found themselves on
short end of the score, 70-55. The
winners jumped off to a good lead
and managed to increase it for the

in the

minute of play decided a hard

fought contest at Kutztown as the
Huskies won out 52-50. Bloom was
down at one time by twenty-one
points but managed to overcome

The

es.

Four men

now

record

season’s

stood at eight

wins and seven losshit the double figures

Maroon and Gold squad.
They were Thompson, with twenty
for the

points,

Daly with

Byham and

eighteen
each

Butler,

and

with

fourteen.

Kutztown become Bloomsburgs
bv
ninth victim by being defeated
Centennial
a score of 68-57 in the
rush
quarter
last
A
Gymnasium.
by the Huskies put the game on
highest scorer
ice. Daly, the team’s
twenty-three
scored
season,
the
for
*

Another cage season ended with
Huskies
Shelley’s

Coach Harold

registering a record of nine victories and seven defeats.

TEACHERS COLLEGE
CONFERENCE CONSIDERED
The long awaited and long

de-

Athlesired State Teachers College
reality
to
nearer
is
tic Conference

two years of careful planning,
ending with a meeting of thirty
Teachers Colleges’ representatives
John Hoch, dean
in Harrisburg.
director Robert
athletic
of men and
Redman, head football and basebasketball mentor, Harold Shelly,
Paul
and
coach
track
and
ball
after

Wagner,

assistant to all three,

present for

Bloomsburg.

were

Thirteen

were
of the fourteen state schools
to
conference
a
such
of
in favor

the alumni quarterly

regulate the activities in the major
sports.

Dr. Charles Swope, president of

West Chester State Teachers College was appointed head of the
conference. He stated that the onlv
the actual
thing holding hack

conference from coming into existence is the approval of the Board
of Presidents, and the approval of
Dr. Haas, State Superintendent of
Schools. Members of the meeting
felt sure that the approval would
be forthcoming.

Through
will

this

much

conference,

be gained by

who

all

partici-

first place, there will
not
a goal to work for,
merely the playing of a team’s
schedule. With the reward of the

In the

pate.

now be

championship ahead, competition
should improve and all
contests
rivalry
will be of
the
friendly
nature.

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
FOR 1951
Sept.
Sept.

Oct.
Oct.
Oct.

22— Mansfield
29— Lock Haven
13— Millersville
20— Shippensburg
27— Kutztown

Nov. 3— Wilkes
Nov. 10— West Chester
Nov. 17— Indiana

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May, 1951

A ctiue

I

Meeting

10

A. M.

Daylight Saving Time

Carver Hall Auditorium

11

780 20th Avenue,

THE ALUMNI
NEW YORK AND NEW

PRESIDENT

JERSEY ALUMNI

Hortman

732 Washington

St.,

7

Irish

Camden. N.

7

PRESIDENT

J.

Mrs.

Ann

Chalis Thompson,

’04

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Mary

West Main

1246

VICE-PRESIDENT

A. Taubel

St..

Norristown, Pa.

Gertrude Morris,

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Francis Paul Thomas,

’42

SECRETARY AND TREASURER

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING
COUNTY ALUMNI

Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Naugle.

Norman

J.

’ll

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

PRESIDENT

H. Walter Reiland, ’03, chairman
Guy H. Rentschler, ’04
W. Claude Fisher, ’04
Dr. Margaret Park, ’23
Juel Carmody, ’25
Eileen Falvey, ’46

Maza

Harford, Pa.

VICE-PRESIDENT
Martha R. Miers
Harford, Pa.

VICE-PRESIDENT

MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI

Mrs. Shaughnessy

Tunkhannock, Pa.

PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Mrs. Ruth

Mrs. Donald Hicks

New Milford, Pa.
SECRETARY

Rudy

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Donald Kessler

Dean Harpe

SECRETARY

Tunkhannock, Pa.

Mrs. Alice Smull

TREASURER

TREASURER

Mrs. Olwen Hartley
Lenoxville, Pa.

Miss Susan Sidler

WASHINGTON AREA ALUMNI

COLUMBIA COUNTY ALUMNI
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Edward

Sadie Hartman

T.

DeVoe

VICE-PRESIDENT

VICE-PRESIDENT

Harry O. Hine

Donald Rabb

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Edward

Martha Wright Moe

D. Sharretts

TREASURER

TREASURER

Walter Lewis

Paul L. Brunstetter

iod of service as a teacher in California.
In a recent letter, he gives
the following resume of the years
that he spent in Bloomsburg:
“I entered Bloomsburg in
September, 1902. During that year, I
prepared stock in the Manual

Training Department and assisted
in some teaching. At the beginning
of the following year, the adminis-

’99

VICE-PRESIDENT

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney
7011 Frederick St., Philadelphia 35

Petersburg,

1907
Clarence A. Marcy is expecting
to retire this year after a long per-

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
Mrs. Lillian

St.

Florida.

tration

sent

me

to

the

Carlisle

Indian School for a short training
course, and then 1 was given full
responsibility for that department.
The Carlisle school was considered
at that time to be outstanding in

manual training.
“During those years I took a full
normal course.
However, Dr.
Welsh and Professor Hartline suggested that I take more time for
my third year’s study, and act as
Hartline in the
Science Department. I enjoyed the
work of. Prof. Hartline so much
that I spent the major part of my
time in the department and did not
graduate until 1907.
Dr. Welsh
was then Principal of B.S.N.S. and
Prof. Jenkins was Registrar.
the
“I should like to say that
training which I received in the
Science Department at Bloomsburg has been of inestimable value
throughout my whole teaching
career.
It has fashioned much of
assistant to Prof.

my method of approach in teaching science. I regret keenly that I
failed to get back to see Professor
Hartline before his death.”
Mr. Marcy is now teaching in
the Huntington Park High School,
0020 Miles Avenue, Los Angeles,
California.

1910
1893

1886

The

class of 1886 will

hold

the

65th reunion on Saturday morning,

May

26th at the

members

The

college.

of the class will

signed a room near

the

be

as-

dining

room for their use, before
Alumni business meeting is
and after the luncheon the

the
held,
busi-

ness meeting will be held in the
College Auditorium at 11 o’clock.
12

On

June 5, 1950, Miss Katherine
Bowersox, who for thirty-two
years gave
Berea College the
strength of her native wisdom, her
skill, her steady convictions, her
S.

courage, splendid, undiverting, so
that her lifetime became a symbol
of values that are more permanent
than mortals, was
awarded the
Degree of Doctor of Humanities.
Miss Bowersox is now living at

Another honor has been given
H. C. Fetterolf, former Mifflinville
resident, with his election as president of the American Vocational
He was elected at
Association.
the convention in Miami, Florida.
Mr. Fetterolf, chief of agricultural education in the Pennsylvania
Department of Public Instruction,
has a farm at Mifflinville but, due
to his work at Harrisburg, resides
at

Camp

the

Hill.

Mifflinville

He

is

a graduate of

High School and

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal School in 1910 and
later received his masters degree
Pennsylvania State College.
taught in Port Allegheny
High School before going with the

at

He

the State Department of EducaSince that time he
tion in 1915.
has become nationally known as a
leader in agricultural education. He
was sent to Korea early in 1949 and
to Germany early in 1950 to aid
with the working out of agricultural

problems.
1915

The

1915 held its 35th
reunion dinner Saturday, May 27.
c
19 0. at the Char-Mund with Charlotte Welliver Hoeh. proprietor, a
member of the class, as hostess.
cl iss

of

The dinner was

at

noon, follow-

ing the regular Alumni reunion at
the college, and the business session saw John H. Shuman, of town,
named president for the forthcom-

ing five year period, with Catherine Leighow Bittenbender,
Lime
Eulah
Ridge, vice president and
Boone Spiegel. Espy,
secretarytreasurer.
A contribution of $50
was eiven to the Alumni Association Husky Fund.
Reminiscences
and contributions of news concerning class members occupied the
remainder of the afternoon. Thirtytwo members were present at the
general alumni meeting in Carver
Hall and at the reunion dinner.
Attending: Lillian Zimmerman. Wash-

Frank Hutchison. BloomsRoy Koontz, New Haven, Con.:

ington. D. C.;

burg;

Josephine Duy Hutchison, Bloomsburg:
Etta Buss Evans, West Pittston; Hilda
Davis Morgan. Forty Fort; Roy C. KinHayes.
dig. Clearfield: Ruth Koehler
Scranton; Francis Smith Lewis. Dalton.
R. D. 1; Esther Helfrich. Wilkes-Barre;
Eva Harris
Gulliver,
Wilkes-Barre:
Sally Brace. Clarks Summit: Elizabeth
Welsh Miller, Orangeville R. D.
1:
Fulah 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 C. H.. N. J.; John H. Shuman,
Prizer.
Bloomsburg; Mary Gundry
Drexel Hill: Dorothy Rice Williams and
Fanny Leggoe Wandel, Hazleton: Mary
Catherine
Hess
Berwick;
Croop,
Ridge:
Leighow Bittenbender, Lime
Charlotte Welliver Hoch, Orangeville;
Eliz. Granka Ravin, Glen Lyon; Warren
Dollman. Bloomsburg; Josephine Cherrie. Nanticoke: Bessie Thompson Watkins, Nanticoke: Ruth E. Pooley.
of

Bloomsburg R. D.
May, 1951

1.

1918

When the PIAA met in Harrisburg over the holiday season, many
may recall that Harold I. Pegg was
named Junior High School representative on the board of control
but comparatively few knew that
Pegg is a native of Bloomsburg. A
recent issue of the PIAA publica“The Pa’Thlete" had the fol-

tion

lowing on Pegg, with
graph also carried:

his

photo-

When the Junior High School
Representatives on District Committees met in Harrisburg in December and elected ^unassuming
Pegg of District No. 6
I.
the Junior High School representative-at-large on the Board of
Control, it was doubtful, at the
time, whether anyone present realized the extent of the broad experience of the individual they had
Harold

as

elected.

Accordingly the Pa-Athlete staff
looked into Pegg’s background, and
the findings regarding this exceptional school man’s career were a

Service

Command.

Lieutenant Colonel Pegg served
as Education Officer at New Cumberland, Education
Officer and
Executive Officer at Camp Holabird, Maryland, Information and
Education Officer in Edgewood
Arsenal, Maryland, Chief of Educational Reconditioning, and Information and Education Officer,
Valley Forge General
Hospital,
Phoenix ville. Information and Education Officers for entire Second
Army area, including seven states.
Tn addition to the military posts
which have been mentioned, Colonel Pegg was commanding officer
ii
charge of the German Prisoner
of War Camp, Philadelphia Navy
Yard.

Mr. Pegg

is

also

well-known

for

his contributions in the education-

revelation.

Mr. Pegg was boru

in

Blooms-

burg, where he received his elementary and secondary education
He is
iii the Bloomsburg Schools.
listed as a graduate of Bloomsburg
State Normal School, received his
A.B. degree from Gettysburg College, and his Master’s degree from
the University of Washington, SeHe pursued further study
attle.
toward a Doctor’s Degree at the
University of Wisconsin, University of Maine, and the University
of

hard way in that he came up from
a lowly buck private to the commissioned officer status of Lieutenant Colonel, because of his meritorious service and superior work,
(or which he was given a service
citation
award from the Third

Wyoming.

field, especially for his surveys
of student participation in school
government in Pennsylvania, his
al

work as State director of student
participation in school government
and his activities in the National
organization of student participation in school government.
In intefscholastic athletics Pegg
has been active as a member of
the District Committee of District
No. 6 for a number of years.
There is no question that with
background,

such

a

Pegg

will

Harold

J.

Mr. Pegg's teaching experience
covers a total of 30 years and concerns every age level from first
grade through university. This experience included teaching in rural

high
schools of Pennsylvania on the
Board of Control in the same capable and efficient manner as he
served the public schools of the

schools, principal and supervising
principal of township schools, instructor and director of activities
in the Altoona Senior High School.
He has been principal of Theodore
Roosevelt Junior High School in
Altoona since 1938, except for five
years of service in the Army during

State

World War

II.

Army experience covers
World War I and World War II.
He finished his military service in
His

1947 with a permanent rank of
Lieutenant Colonel in the Infantry
Reserve. This rank was earned the

serve

the

and the United

junior

States

Army.

1931

Florence Dunn, of Scranton, Pa.,
received her Master’s degree in
at the Pennsylvania State College in August,
1950.

Elementary Education

Mr. Edward T. DeVoe, of the
English Department of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College is the
author of an article on stone masonry which was published in a recent issue of THE PENNSYLVANIA FARMER. The article de13

scribes the cutting of stone for a
fireplace which Mr. DeVoe built
from native field stone at Christinas Hill,

where he and Mr. Earl

A. Gehrig share ownership in a
lecreation center, together with Dr.
William P. Bond, of Espy. Four
pictures taken by the author accompany the article.

Another article by Mr. DeVoe,
“Housekeeping the Orchid,” an account of Mr. Harold Lanterman’s
success in raising orchids at home
by scientifically controlling temperature and humidity, will appear in
a forthcoming issue of the same

magazine.
1938

of

home

teaching school in his

town

He

Bloomsburg, Pa.
became an umpire student

of

George
Fla.,

school

Barr’s

“because

I

in

wanted

at

Sanford,

to find out

the interpretation of baseball’s rules

from an umpire’s viewpoint.”
Litwhiler added: “I also wanted
to find out if I could be an umpire.
Some day when my active baseball
days are over maybe I can still stay
in the

men

game

in the

as a

member

of

the

blue brigade.”

Coach Danny, graduated

from

the elementary course in umpiring
with honors, plans to take an advanced course after the baseball

season ends.
He has his

own

ideas about

how

to call ’em.

“The main thing that I found
out to be a successful umpire is to
use plain horse sense and fair play.
Know that the things you are doing
are right and
you won’t have
trouble with anyone on the field.
That goes for players, coaches and
managers.”
in
But Litwhiler still believes
baseball players speaking up when
they think umpires miss one “that
14

of

the

game.”

With

a wink, he muses:
guess I will get plenty of razzing from the bench jockeys
this
year in the National. I’m ready for
them.
“I have a shirt with ‘Barr Umpire
School’ on it which I plan to wear
under my uniform. When they start
giving me trouble I’m just going
“I

to

unbutton

it

and show them

my

umpire’s undershirt.”

1939
Alfred W. Keibler is a training
consultant with the Standard Oil
Company in Aruba, Netherlands,

West

Tell those National League umpires to sharpen their eyesight and
bone up on all the rules when
they’re working Cincinnati games
this year.
In the first base coaching box for
the Reds will be Danny Litwhiler,
who has the distinction of being
the only coach in the majors who’s
qualified to umpire.
Litwhiler, who played with four
National League clubs before signing on as a Cincinnati coach, took
an umpire’s course this year instead

the playing rules

affects

Indies.

1940

Edwards,
Bloomsburg
College alumnus and
coach
of
Stuart

many
teams

at

outstanding
basketball
Kane, has submitted his

resignation to become effective at
the close of the present season.
The wire story states Edwards
has expressed a wish
devote
to
more time to teaching. Edwards
piloted Kane to seven consecutive

Allegheny Mountain League victories and a State Class A championship. There has not been an alumnus of Teachers College in many
years who has seen so many of his
athletes come to the local institution, and the majority of them have
contributed much of the athletic
glory that has been achieved by
the Huskies in the years following
the close of World War II.

Edward

L. Bacon, a civilian of-

the Department of the Air
Force has been promoted to the
position of Deputy Chief, Civilian
Personnel Division, Headquarters
U.S.A.F., Pentagon, Washington,
D. C., Mr. Bacon had extensive
service overseas during World War
II and was awarded numerous decorations, including the Bronze Star
Upon return to civilian
Medal.
ficial of

life,

Mr. Bacon was employed as

a personnel officer by the VeterValley
Administration and
ans
Forge General Hospital and until
promoted, was a civilian personnel
Mr.
analyst with the Air Force.
Bacon is married to the former
Ann Evans (’39). They have a
daughter, Barbara Ann, and are
residing in Arlington, Virginia.

Mr. Isaac T. Jones has recently
transferred to the office of the
Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Headquarters, U.S.A.F., Washington, D. C.
Following lengthy
overseas service with the U. S.

Army, Mr. Jones was employed by
the Veterans Administration and
the Department of the Army. Mr.
and Mrs. Jones (the former Helen
Brady, ’40,) and daughter, Mary E.,
will

reside in

Arlington, Va.

1943
Carl Berninger was ordained as
a pastor of the Presbyterian Church
Friday evening, February 16, in a
service of ordination to the Christian ministry by the Presbytery of
Lackawanna in the Wyoming Presbyterian Church, Wyoming, Pa.

Berninger graduated as an honstudent from Catawissa High
School in 1939 and from the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Education in 1943. He
received the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity from the Princeton Theological Seminary,
1950, and is
now planning and preparing for
the Doctor of Philosophy Degree.
He served for more than three
years with the Air Transport Comor

mand

in the

armed

services of the

United States during World War
II and was stationed in West Palm
Beach, Florida. During that period he served as a weather forecaster,

meteorologist, chaplain’s aide

and organist.
At the Teachers College he was
active in dramatics, was a member
of the band, orchestra, a cappella
choir.

Mixed Chorus and Student

He was a
Christian Association.
member of the Alpha Psi Omega,
Phi Sigma Pi and Kappa Delta Pi
all the
fraternities and received
music

awards

while in college.
graduation he received
the Service Key, highest honor presented by the College for campus
He served as president
activities.

Upon

his

Dramatic Club and Mixed
Chorus and as secretary-treasurer

of the

of several organizations.

At Princeton Theological Seminary for two years, including the
summers, he toured with the Seminary Choir under the direction of
In this
Dr. David Hugh Jones.
period he was on four transcontinental tours of the United States

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

and one each to Mexico, Latin Amand the Pacific Northwest,
including the United States and
Canada. During the school year

erica

he traveled with the choir within
a radius of 500 miles of Princeton
each weekend, singing three and
four concerts per Sunday.

Herman

E. Vanderslice, Jr., Ill
Ave., Conshohocken,
Pa., received his master of science
degree in education at the midwinter Convocation of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,

Seventh

E.

on February

i0, 1951.

1947
William W. Hummel, of Espy,
has been appointed an instructor in
history at Geneva College, Dr. W.
E. Cleland, dean of faculty, anHummel will
nounced recently.
fill the vacancy caused when Dr.
A John Dodds was recalled to active service with the U. S. Army.
Mr. Hummel is a graduate of

Bloomsburg State Teachers College and holds a Master of Arts
degree from Bucknell University.
He has also done work at Dickinson College, Carlisle, and at Shrivcnham American University, Shrivenham, England.
Since September Mr. Hummel
has been doing work toward his
doctorate degree at the University
of Pittsburgh. Prior to that he was
a housemaster at Girard College,
Philadelphia.
He is associated with Phi Alpha
Theta, honorary history fraternity,
and Kappa Delta Pi, honorary edHe is a veterucation fraternity.
an of three years service with the
IJ.

S.

Armv.

1948
Creasy (Rosanna
Mrs.
Broadt) has been appointed teacher at the Rupert school. She was
elected as substitute teacher for
the remainder of the 1950-51 term
at a meeting of the Montour township school board and will succeed

Wayne

Mrs. Helen

Hayhurst

Utt,

who

Mrs.
submitted her resignation.
Creasy, a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Class
of 1948, was previously instructor
of English in the Pine Grove Junior

The

ceremony was

ring

single

Andrew

er. organist.

ter of

Weather Squadron.
Mrs. Griffith was graduated from
Phoenixville High School in 1945,
and from State Teachers Gollege,
Bloomsburg, in 1948. She also took
graduate work at the University
of Pennsylvania. Prior to her marriage, Mrs. Griffith was a business
education teacher in the West
Chester Joint High School, West
Chester.

was graduated from

Lt. Griffith

Phoenixville High School in 1943,
and entered Pennsylvania State
He has been
College in 1945.
working with the Air Weather SerLt. Griffith was
vice since 1948.
Rawinsonde Officer in charge of
Guam, in the South Pacific, from
March 1949 to June 1950.

James G. Tierney and Miss

Mary

Palm Beach,

Flor-

Ann Walker,

of

marriage at a
nuptial mass celebrated January 6,
ida,

were united

Church
Palm Beach.

in

of

in the

St.

Edwards,

at

Mr. Tierney came to Bloomsburg with the Navy V-12 contingent in November, 1944, and reFurned after the war to complete
his work for the Bachelor’s Degree.

He

is

now employed by

the Per-

Finance Company in Palm
Beach. Mrs. Tierney was former-

sonal
ly

employed by Howard Johnson’s.
1949

Adda Mae Myers,

Hughesville, received the degree of Master of Arts in Education at the
of

sity,

daugh-

day,

Washington, D.

November

11,

C.,

1950.

on Satur-

is

teaching

school at Cape May, New Jersey.
He has a master’s degree from
Lehigh University and has begun
work leading to the Doctor’s

degree.

Following the ceremony the couple left on a honeymoon trip to
They will make their
California.
home at Edwards Air Force Base,
Southeran California, where Lt.
Griffith is an officer in the 9th

E. Palencar

commercial subjects and acting as
a Guidance Counselor at the high

performed by the Rev. Charles D.
Moser, pastor of the St. John’s LuWedding music
theran Church.
was provided by Miss Phyllis Mill-

evening, January

24, Miss Estelle O. Friday,

May, 1951

ville.

commencement exercises held at
The George Washington Univer-

High School.

On Wednesday

ter of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy L. Friday, 455 Nutt Road, Phoenixville,
Pa., became the bride of Lt. Harold L. Griffith, son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Griffith, Phoenix-

1950

Miss Lucy Jane Baker, daughMrs. Lucille J. Baker, of College Hill, Bloomsburg, and Robert
E. Laubscher, of Broad street, Selinsgrove, were united in marriage
in a Christmas Eve ceremony at
the home of the bride’s mother.

The Rev. Elvin C. Myers, pastor
of the First Methodist Church, performed the double ring ceremony
in the presence of members of the
immediate families and a few intimate

friends.

The bride

a

is

teacher in the

at
Alexander Hamilton School
Morristown, N. J., and was graduated from the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in 1950.
Mr. Laubscher served in the
United States Army of Occupation
in Japan with the 82nd Field Artillery Battalion of the First Calvary

Division.

He

is

a senior at

Bloomsburg State Teachers
lege,

majoring

in

speech

the
Col-

correc-

tion.

Robert C. Canouse, of Berwick,

was inducted into the Army November 8, and was sent to Fort
Meade, Maryland. After six weeks
of basic training, he was transferled to Camp Gordon, Georgia.
Jean Stein is teaching High
School French and Junior High
English at Troy, Pa. Her address
is 115 Canton Street.

Marine

Second

Lt.

William

Swales, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Willis Swales, 221 West Southern
Avenue, South Williamsport, has
been attending a 12-week Reserve
Officers Course at Marine
School, Quantico, Va.

Corps

A graduate of Bloomsburg State
Lieutenant
College,
Teachers
Swales received his commission in
the Marine Corps Reserve at the
Senior Awards

Day program

last

year.
15

FROM THE ALUMNI

1951

Miss Alice Girton, daughter of
Mrs. Rebecca Girton Wampole, of
Danville R. D. 4, became the bride
of John F. Babb, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter E. Babb, of West
Ridge Avenue, town, on Saturday,
January 13, 1951.

The Rev. D.

L.

Bomboy, pastor

of the Buckhorn Lutheran Church,
performed the double-ring cere-

mony

at the parsonage.

Mr. and Mrs. Babb will reside
in their newly furnished apartment,
at 138 East Main street. Bloomsbnrg.

The bride and groom were gradBloomsburg High
from
uated
School in 1947. The groom is a
senior at B.S.T.C. and Mrs. Babb
is employed at the S. & S. Silk Co.

1
sincerely appreciate the kind
invitation to attend the 50th reunion of the class of 1901.

spent two very pleasant years
with the class. My recollection of
those school days are happy ones.
1

My

were ProWilbur, Professor Albert and

lege

He

last year.

is

employed

at

fessor
Mrs. Hartline.

As a consulting engineer,

have

I

countries on
several
only once
three continents, yet

worked
have

in

knowingly met an alumnus

T

N

I
should like to see
S.
of B.S
the old friends, and see how many
could become as ugly as I; I therefore am making plans to be present.

Thomas Downing,

Jr.

417 South 44th Street
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear
I

Nevin Moyer were married Sunday, January 21, in the Evangelical

Church

at

Ringtown, Pa.

Wanda

Collegeville, Pa., a member of the midyear graduating class, is teacher
of business subjects at the West
Chester Joint High School, West
Chester, Pa.

Miss

Howard

F.

Petraitis,

Waechter, of Hazle-

ton has been elected

teacher

mathematics and geography
Milton Junior High School.
16

of
in the

1

Sir:

the
enclosing a copy of
read at the 50th Reunion

Anna Bywater
FIFTY YEARS AGO
We studied in these class rooms.
We walked along these halls.
We led a student’s busy life,

eral
If

is now in session.
we don’t show an interest for
own benefit we can hardly ex-

our
pect the P.S.E.A. committee on retirement to look after us.
Write to your State Senator and
your Representatives in the House

do

We

of the Sages!

friendships.

And so enriched our lives;
And, in spite of harsh restrictions.

Some

won

their wives!

middy blouse and bloomers.

Down
It

students

“Gym” we

rushed,
Girl met Boy while thus attired.
She hung her head and blushed!
to the

power

of the

to increase

minimum

pro-

vided for in Act 541 and 535 to at
least $35.00 per year of service.
We are now getting $30.00 per year
of service providing we have had
forty years of service, or $12.00 per
The high cost of living and
year.
the depreciation of our dollar is a
problem the retired teacher must

meet

who

as well as the active teachers
are looking for increased sal-

meet the

at the 50th

heard Professors lecture,
And copied countless pages
Of notes and theses and acquired
lasting

their

all in

amount

situation.

The following poem was

We

formed some

teachers,

retired

Assembly

aries to

Within these hallowed walls!

The Wisdom

urge the retired teachers

I

through the Quarterly, if space will
be given, to heed the following
message:
The 1951 meeting of the Gen-

to

Some of mv
of the class of 1900.
classmates have asked me to send
you a copy, and ask you to publish it in your next issue.
Sincerely yours,

and

Hinderliter

am

poem

In

Norma

May

and the future

the

Reading.
Miss

1949.

favorite instructors

Mr. Nelson:
Miss Elizabeth Anne Walters,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad
Walters, of 121 South Woodward
Court, Hazleton, was married to
Clarence J. Meiss, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Meiss, Jr., of 116 Harvey street, West Hazleton, at 11:30
Saturday, January 30, in the Christ
Lutheran Church. Rev. Allen H.
Roth officiated at the double-ring
ceremony.
Mrs. Meiss, who was graduated
from the Hazleton High School
with the class of 1947, will receive
her degree from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in May.
The groom was graduated from
the West Hazleton High School in
1944 and received his degree from
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

I am sure the active teachers, as
well as the retired teachers of our
State, are grateful because of their
increased allowances and advantages under the various acts passed
bv the General Assembly of the
State of Pennsylvania, session of

recited

reunion of the class of

1900,

B.S.T.C.,

Many

of

of the

poem.
same

my

Bloomsburg, Pa.
asked for a copy
trust you will pub-

class

lish the

I

in B.S.T. C.

Quarter-

ly-

Just fifty years have passed, dear class
Since from these hallowed halls,
We all set forth to face the world,

To go where duty

Some ventured

called.

forth to far off lands.

Their mission to

fulfill,

Teachers were needed

— and

off they

went

They were the “Horse and Buggy” days
No radios, few cars;

From

Man’s genius has soared since then.
And Hate has fought two wars.

Teaching the youth of

In spite of age and distance,
meet again today,
With memories of hours of Joy,

We

the

Normal on the

Hill.

this fair land.

Was a task this class did share,
Good teachers—the 1900 brand,
Their qualities were rare.

When we were Young and Gay!
And now,

to

Him who

All along the way,
Our thanks and praise

God keep

Preachers, lawyers, and doctors, too,

led us,

Politicians quite a few,

we

render,

us His always!

Anna
254 N.

F.

Bywater,

Main

St.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

'00

Grand Old

Faculty,

we owe

to

you

good we daily do.
Michael D. Costello, Class of 1900
Date of Retirement —Sept. 1942

All the

—

THE ALl’MNI QUARTERLY

ANNUAL DINNER MEETING
The annual dinner meeting
the
the

SAUCERED AND
of

Columbia County branch ot
Alumni Association was held

on Tuesday, April

P.M.
the dining

3, at 6:30

The dinner was held in
room of the Eagles Home in Berwick and was open to all Columbia
B.S.T.C.
of
County graduates
was
Toastmaster of the dinner
Clarence A. Ruch and Miss Elsie
Bower, Berwick School librarian,
was general chairman.
Mr. Charles Henrie led the
group in singing the Alma Mater,
after which Mr. Earl Gehrig proDuring
nounced the invocation.
the dinner, violin music was played by John Bogdan, who was accompanied by Mary Grace Aimers.
After the dinner. Toastmaster
Ruch gave a speech of welcome
and introduced the officers and
guests who were present. Dr. AnThe
remarks.
druss gave a few
evening
principal speaker of the
was John A. Hoch, Dean of Men
and Director of Public Relations;
his address was entitled, “The Ideal

Alumnus

Public
in the College’s
Relations Program.”
Edward T. DeYoe, president of
the branch association, presided.
Following the addresses, the
dinner guests were entertained by
a talent

show, which was presented

by members of the B.S.T.C. student

•

body, with Francis Mahoney acting
as master of ceremonies. Ben Burdrinking
ness gave a pantomine
episode, and Dick Powell, popular
college tenor, sang several selections.
The entertainment was
climaxed by a parody of Shakeswith
peare’s “Romeo and Juliet,
Marlene Wetzel as Juliet and Keith
Smith playing the part of Romeo
in a pair of red flannels.
Guests at the dinner included
Dr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss;
Mr. and Mrs. Earl V. Wise, Reg.
Hemingway, Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Hoch, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L.
Terry, Superintendent of the Berwick Schools and Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Slusser, President of the
Berwick School Board.
Officers of the Association are:

Edward T. DeVoe, president; Donald Rabb, vice-president; Paul L.
Brunstetter, treasurer; Edward D.
Sharretts, secretary and Miss Elsie
Bower, program chairman.
May, 1951

E.

II.

B LOWED'”

Nelson,

’ll

From Ann

Challis
Thompson
interesting information.
In referring to Dr. A. K.
Aldinger she says that in the class
of 1904 about six members were

PLACEMENT FIGURES
RELEASED CONCERNING
JANUARY GRADUATES

comes some

graduated

who had

taken special
education, and
the
therefore entered
teaching
profession with what today would
be considered a major in the Health
Education field. Dr. Aldinger was
ably assisted in his teaching by his
wife whose recent death is recorded elsewhere in this issue of the
“Quarterly.”
Thus Bloomsburg
became a “first to train teachers in

work

physical

in

special fields.

Roongo III, the Husky mascot,
enjoyed a good winter and will be
on hand Alumni Day

to

meet new

graduate, now living
in the middle west, says she will
be back and surely wants a picture
taken in company with the mascot
to show her grandchildren. Fine

Placement information concerning twenty-three members of the
January, 1951, graduating class has
been released by Dr. Ernest Englehardt, director
of placement
at
B.S.T.C.
Of the forty Seniors,

information has been obtained from
six graduates in
the Elementary
department, eight in the Business,
and nine in the Secondary department.

Five January graduates are
serving or awaiting call into

Armed

Bloomsburg

spirit.

A member

1921

of the

class

makes claim to the biggest trout
on opening day (Pennsylvania), 20
1-4 inches.
Send in a better story
want
if possible, because I don’t
that record to stand.
to be

The

exultant
Mrs.
Lillian N. Yerkes and I don’t like
her boasting when I didn't get a

one happens

my

sister,

bite.

Annie

S.

Mausteller of the 1886

busy with reunion plans.
Her activity and interest put many
of us to shame who were graduated
is

after the turn of the century.

in

Milton.

Four graduates of the Business
curriculum are now teaching. They
are: Joan Grazed, in Ridley TownRoarship School, Mabel Harris.
ing Springs, John Kocur, Moscow,
and Wanda Petraitis, who is now
employed at Westchester High
School. Rita Dixon has secured a

government

from

John

G.
Conner,
has just returned
to his home in Trenton, N. J. after
spending the winter in Florida. He
had some kind words concerning
the “Quarterly” in its new dress.
Funny how one never gets too old
to feel a heart warming when he
reads lines saying nice things about
letter
’83 who

work he is trying to do.
See you all May 26.

the

with

position
in

the

Washington, D. C.

Elementary graduates who are
employed include Nancy Morgan,
Madison
at Hershey Jean Davis.
School in Columbia County and

High School
nice

Francis

positions.

Bodine and George Reck are
employed in Saint Mary’s County
and
in Maryland; Harold Lundy
James Kleman have obtained positions in Dundalk, Maryland. Norman Kline is located in McClure,
Pa., and Dick Waechter is working

Bernard DePaul, of

A

the

Walter

are:

Four Secondary graduates have
out-of-state

stenographic

class

They

Banull,
Robert Dubbs, Charles
Linetty, John Klotsko and Richard
Schwartz. Two graduates. Hazel
Palmer and Emory Rarig, are
pursuing further study at graduate
schools.

One

fiiends.

forces.

now

the

faculty.

Berwick

Two

other

January seniors have reported that
they are unemployed.

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, Pres.
Harold R. Moyer, ’09, Vice-Pres.

Bloomsburg 246

17

munity

Government Association
paid tribute to their friend
with a handsome spray of red and
vellow gladioli, which was sent on
behalf of the student body.
On
Friday evening a group of students
also

JCturnlngg
William E. Trump

called at the funeral home.
“Bill’s friends cannot be listed in
numbers, for it is impossible to

William E. Trump, sixty-five, 30
Penn street, Bloomsburg, night
watchman at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College for twenty-seven
vears and in that period the close
friend of thousands of
students,
died at the Bloomsburg Hospital
at nine o’clock Wednesday, Februarv 21 as the residt
ailment.

He was

a native of

of a

count them, but we know that
wherever there is a man or woman
who was a student at B.S.T.C.
during the past twenty-seven years,
there also

the trolley line then operating in
and was a special police
officer before becoming the watchman at the college.
Mr. Trump
had been ailing for several weeks

WILLIAM

E.

TRUMP

this area,

home and was removed
week

to

ago.

Surviving are his wife and nine
Trump, Johnson
children: R. T.
Morrison,
City, N. Y.; Mrs. John

Berwick Road; Mrs. Ruth Lupini,
Chicago, 111.; Charles, Bloomsburg;
Lewis Hemmer, Neffsville; Mrs.
Gordon Fleming, Bristol, R. I.;
BingCarl, Bloomsburg; Eugene,
hamton, N. Y., and Raymond, Fort
Knox, Ky.; a brother, Charles W.
Trump and a sister, Mrs. Edward
Thackara; eleven grand children
and a great grand child.
The following tribute to Mr.
Trump appeared in the Maroon
and Gold:
“The students of B.S.T.C. learned
Trump,
recently that William E.
night watchman at this college for
the past twenty-seven years
had
succumbed to a heart attack
suffered Wednesday, February 21,
following an illness of several
weeks. To all of us here at B.S.T.C.,
to his

many

student and faculty friends,

was

Bill,

as

he was known

always a real friend with a warm
smile and cheerful word, no matter
where or when he met you. Conse-

we feel that in
we have lost a truly

quently,

Bill’s

ing,

fine friend.

pass-

“Twenty-seven years is long time
and Bill shared a great part of
those twenty-seven years with the
students of this college, for
was a very important part
18

of

Bill

Peter T. Turek ’ll

Bloomsburg

and resided there all of his life. For
he was a motorman on

the hospital a

friend

a

heart

five years

at his

is

Trump.”

Bill

of

student life. He never failed to be
on guard at any type of athletic
contest, and on the evening before
the games took place, Bill's smile
of confidence was
never absent
from the pep rallies and parades.

No matter what the event, whether
a social affair or an athletic contest
we could count on Bill’s presence.
The first person we went in search
of when the lights suddenly went
out or a similar emergency occurred was our friend Bill. In short,
whatever involved the students of
B.S.T.C. also involved Bill Trump.
“The Waller Hall girls will never
forget the many things that Bill did
for them during the years that he
was with us. In addition to his
regular duties, he found time to
chase away an occasional bat that
had become annoying and to get
rid of a few rats and mice that had
established a reign of
terror
in
Waller Hall. Perhaps one of the
nicest things Bill found time to do
for the girls in the drom was
to
collect
their
letters
during the
night.
He realized how much
those letters meant to the girls and
his hand placed thousands of them
in the mailbox for them.
These
were

all little

things,

but they were

the things that made him beloved
to the students.
“As a small token of their appreciation for the things that Bill had
done for them, the Waller Hall
girls sent a beautiful basket of red
snapdragons and yellow daffodils
to the funeral home.
The Com-

Attorney Peter E. Turek, former
Glen Lyon resident died recently
Receiving Hospital,
Detroit,
following a short illness.
Attorney Turek, veteran
of

in

World War

I, was a former member
and president of the old Central
Poor District, solicitor of Newport
Township Board of Commissioners
for a number of years and a past
president of the Polish Union of
North America.
Born in Glen Lyon on December
late
5, 1892, he was a son of the
Albert and Julia Turek, early Polish
residents of that community.
He
was graduated from Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and Susquehanna University and following his

graduation

Township

taught
schools

n

Newport

and

coached

i

high school athletics.
At the outbreak of World War I,
Mr. Turek entered the Army as a
private and after more than
two
years service was discharged as a
After
captain of heavy artillery.
returning home he became princi-*
pal of Newport High School
and

coached

athletics there.

In 1924 he took

up

the study of

law at Dickinson Law School and
was admitted to the bar in 1937. He
maintained law offices in WilkesBarre for a number of years.
to
Mr. Turek was appointed
Central Poor District in 1927 and
served as treasurer and president
until the district was abolished by

law

in 1937.

Long

active

in

athletics,

Mr.

Tnrek served as an official at leading college and scholastic football
and basketball games throughout
the East.
He was also active in
HIE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

promotion of Glen Lyon

athletic-

of
charter member
American Legion Post 539, Newport Township, of which he was a
While in the
past commander.
township, he was a member of St.
Adalbert’s Church, Glen Lyon.
He was first elected president ol
the Polish Union in 1933 and was
leelected to that post several times.
wife,
the
Surviving are his
former Helen Peters of Nanticoke;
children: Mrs. Al Cimini, Scranton;
Mrs. Charles Adaszik, Rahway, N.

He was

Peter,

J.

a

Anna and Helen

Jr.,

at

a sister, Mrs. William
Sugalski, Glen Lyon and a brother.

home;

also

Joseph, Muhlenburg.

Roy Ash
Roy Ash,
wood, N.

sixtv-two,
J.,

of

Columbia
February of

an investigator

as

He and his wife were visiting
the home of a relative, when
fatal attack

Born

in

was

Riehard Miller.
He graduated
Noimal
from the
Bloomsburg
School in the class of 1912, and had
been a resident of Bloomsburg for
the past forty-two years.

His duties carried him throughout this area and his friends and
acquaintances were many.
le was a veteran of World War
serving overseas for two years.
He was a member of the First
Presbyterian church, the Valley of
Bloomsburg Post American Legion
and the Bloomsburg Lodge No. 436
B. P. O. Elks.
1

I,

at

the

Surviving
sisters,

Fishing Creek, he was

sisters.

Ash was formerly Miss MyrTurney, of the class of 1911.

Mrs.

Weston

R.

Miller,

fifty-nine,

known

o’clock,

Wednesday, January

as the result

of a

heart

10,

attack

suffered in his home on Mondayevening.
His condition had been
critical since that time.
Death came as a profound shock
to his family and friends.
While
he had not been in the best of
health, he had been carrying on

May, 1951

two

Paul E. Ranch, of Ringtown,
in
died Thursday, January
25,
Amarillo, Texas. He was the husStauffer,

of the class of 1929.

Born
son of

in

Zion Grove, he was the

Edward and Cora

Rarick,
and a widely-known contractor in
Schuylkill County.

Mr. Rarick had been ailing for
the past several years and was on
his way to the Southwest for health
purposes at the time of his death.
He attended the Zion Grove
from
schools and was graduated
Ringtown High School.
In 1936 Mr. Rarick undertook his
first construction project, the resurfacing of the Lewisburg bridge

which had been damaged

Among

his other

a
in
projects

struction jobs in the region.
At the time of his leaving the
area, Mr. Rarick had been working
He
on a project at Hudsondale.
turned over his interest in the firm
to his partner

and was no longer

associated with the company.

Mr. Rarick was a member of St.
John’s Lutheran Church, Ringtown.
wife,
three
Surviving are his
children, five brothers and six
sisters.

Mrs. C. M. Hausknecht, fiftyone of Bloomsburg’s esteemed
women, died almost instantly on
Wednesday, February 21 when she
was stricken with a coronary
attack while she was purchasing
a rug in the Wanamaker store in
five,

Philadelphia.
Mrs. Hausknecht was removed
lo the store infirmary and then to
the Hahnemann Hospital where
she was pronounced dead.

her
accompanied
She
had
husband to Harrisburg on Monday
and had then taken a train to
Philadelphia to a few days shoping and to visit with her daughter.
Miss Rosemary, who is employed
by a legal firm there.
Her health had apparently been
improving recently and she had
remarked to her daughter that she
felt

at
were the Cameron bridge
Shamokin and various other con-

T2

area man, died in
the Bloomsburg Hospital at seven

widely

wife,

Paul E. Ranch

flood.

R. Miller

are his

six brothers.

band of the former Vera

sustained.

the son of the late
P. W.
and
Susan Ash. He had been employed
in offices of the ACF since graduation from the Scranton
Business
College in 1906. He left this section
forty years ago and resided in New
York, St. Louis and Ridgewood.
Mr. Ash was a member of the
Methodist Church of Ridgwood
and of several fraternal organizations.
Surviving are his wife, one
daughter, two brothers and three

Weston

and

Mrs. C. M. Hausknecht

for

Department of Internal
Revenue by which he had been
employed since 1938.
A native of Wilkes-Barre, where
he spent his boyhood, he was the
son of the late Henrv C. and Mary

Ridgecountya heart

native died in
attack suffered while visiting relatives in Baltimore, Md.
Mr. Ash had previously suffered
a heart attack but had recovered.

tle

his duties

the State

lea ms.

better than in

some

time.

Mrs. Hausknecht was born near
young
Williamsport and as a
woman resided in that city. She
removed to Bloomsburg from Kutztown with her husband twenty-five
years ago.

She was an active and devout
of St. Matthew’s Lutheran
Church, having taught a Sunday

member

School class for a

number

of years.

She was also activ e in the Ladies’
Aid and other church organizations.

Mary G. McBride
Miss
Scott

Mary G. McBride

Street, Wilkes-Barre,

of

430

Pa.,

a

teacher in the Myers High School,
died Wednesday afternoon, January 10th. in the Mercy Hospital.
Miss McBride was a graduate of
at
the State Teachers College,
Bloomsburg, class of 1920 which
she served as secretary.
an
In speaking of her passing
editorial from the Wilkes-Barre
Record makes these statements:
“She was a credit to her profession as well as an asset to education
and was perfect in the role she
essayed in life. The children in
the junior high school idolized her.
capable,
Unselfish, conscientious,
she was an exceptional and, it
would be an exaggeration to state,
an outstanding teacher. WilkesBarre has suffered a substantial
loss in the passing of this remarkable woman.”
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———

Mrs.

Mary M.

Oliver

Kramer

Mary M.

Oliver, wife of J.
Oliver, vice president and
general counsel of the Glen Aklen

Mrs.

to a heart at-

tack.
in Pittston,

she was the for-

mer Mary

Miller, daughter of the
late William and Euphemia Miller.
She was a graduate of the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and taught school in Pittston for
ten years prior to her marriage.
She was a member of the West-

minster Presbyterian Church and
the Century Club, both of Scranton.

Surviving in addition to her hus-

band are a son, William J. Oliver,
of Clarks Summit; a daughter, Mrs.
Orville Deibler, Drexel Hill; three
grandchildren and several nieces

and nephews.
Mrs. A. K. Aldinger

M

Gertrude Stevenson Aldin-

rs.

ger, wife of Dr. Albert K. Aldinger,

passed away in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
on Sunday, March 25, 1951.
Mrs. Aldinger was Directress of
Physical Education, Women’s Department, at the Bloomsburg State
Normal School from September,
1904 to February, 1906. She was a
graduate of Mt. Holyoke College
and of the Sargent School of Physical Education, Cambridge, MassShe taught at Vassal
achusetts.
College, Rockford College and
Western Reserve University before
coming to Bloomsburg as a bride
-

Dr. and Mrs. Aldinger celebrated
anniversary
the fiftieth wedding
December 18, 1950, in St. Petersburg. They had made their home
with their daughter and son-in-law,
Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Wayne Dunlop, and grandson Wayne, at 1524

West Grange Avenue, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.

Ernest Beishline
Ernest Beishline,

sixty-five,

died

home, Main street, Benton,
Saturday, September 20, 1950.
The son of the late Nathan and
Alverna Weaver Beishline, he was
Mr. Beishborn in Bendertown.
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Church.
Mr. Beishline was a
the

Church

member

of

of Christ of Berwick.

His death severs a marital union
Surviving are
of thirty-six years.
his wife, the former Izora Miller; a
sister, Mrs. Sally Wenner, of Stillwater R. D.; a brother, Clayton, of

BLOOMSBURG PLAYERS
PRESENT “OUR TOWN”
The audience was

Bloomsburg Players, “Our Town,”
staged in Carver Auditorium
on
April 17. Because the unique qualities of this play,
such as the
absence of any stage set, the audience was instrumental in creating
the total effect.

Thornton

Wilder’s
original
version of the play re-

Broadway

-

many commendations from
New York press “Warm with

ceived
the
gentle

.

humor”

.

town, of any

cradle to the grave.”

Barbara Frederick, Mifflinburg,
Mattis, Shamokin, represented the Gamma Beta chapter
of Kappa Delta Pi fraternity at a
regional conference held in February in the Madison Hotel in Atlan-

and Marie

tic

City.

Kappa Delta

Pi,

an

honorary

society in education, was incorporated at the University of IllinIn commois on March S, 1911.
emoration of the founding of the
organization, a fortieth anniversary
dinner was held in Atlantic City.
The Bloomsburg delegates attend-

ed this dinner during which President Charles S. Johnson, of Fiske
subject
University, spoke on the
Cultural
the
“Education and
Crisis.”

Dawn

Craig, of

Bloomsburg

became the bride of Cpl. John
Maturani, son of Anthony Maturani, of Milton, in a military cere-

mony performed

at

three

o’clock

Saturday afternoon, November 11.
Majoi
at Camp Atterbury, Ind.
Martin A. Roche, Catholic pastor,
performed the double ring ceremony. Following the ceremony, a
reception was held at the Chateau,
Mrs. Maturani is
in Franklin, Ind.
a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School and is employed by the Bell
Telephone Company. The groom,
in the Army stationed at
Atterbury, is a graduate of
Milton High School and attended
B. S. T. C.

who

is

Camp

tation

.

“The life of any
human, from the
.

Dayton

A younger brother,
Beishline, supervising printhe
Huntington
Mills
cipal of
schools, preceded him in death on
April 23.

part of the
of
the

cast of the presentation

Bendertown.

Miss

in 1910.

at his

for eight years, at

Concluding his teaching career,
he farmed for fifteen years in Fishing Creek township. In 1929, he
retired and moved to Benton. For
ten years he taught the Men’s Bible
Class of the Benton
Methodist

Coal Company, died Sunday, January 27, at her home in Scranton.

Born

and

Hill

Jonestown.

Hayden

Death was attributed

Ebenezer,

taught school at

line

The

quo-

last

sums up “Our Town” very

well; for it is, in fact, the story of
small town America
and small
town people— the kind of people

most Americans are;
and all
Americans know. The little things
that make the
big thing called
“Life” are the subject of this vivid
dramatic cross-section of human
nature.

The preparation for “Our Town”
has involved the efforts of every
member of the Dramatic Club.
Miss Johnston, Club director and
director of the play, even went to
such detail as organizing an “Emergency Committee.” The following took part in the production:
Stage Manager Thomas Anthony
The Families:
Emily Webb Nancy Unger
Wally Webb Gerald Housenick

—
—
—
Mr. Webb—Bob Jewell
Mrs. Webb — Laura Philo
George Gibbs — Bob Von Drock
Rebecca Gibbs—Joanne Cuff
Dr. Gibbs— George Smith
Mrs. Gibbs — Jeanne Miller

Mrs. Soames, the town gossip

Jeanne Ruckle

Howie Newsome,

the

milkman

George Blyler
Joe Crowell, the newspaper boy
Paul Keener
Constable Warren Bob Laubscher
Simon Stimson. choir director

—

Frank Dean

—
—

Joe Stoddard, undertaker Ed Tavalsky
Sam Craig, businessman Cau Kanyuck
Professor Willard, of the State University,

David Newbury

—
—

Dave North, John Haddon
Alex
Weinstein,
Stage Crew Philip
Kubic, Gerald Housenick, Lee Benner
Sound Effects Russ Davis
Boyle,
Pat
Props Priscilla Abbott,
Electricians

—

—

Dick Ewing
Book Holders — Nancy Powell,

Peggy

Dorsavage, Paul Keener
ler,

—

Dave Newbury, Dick KressMarie Mattis, A1 Chiscon

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No. 3

Vol. LI I,
Published

August, 1951

quarterly by

the

Alumni

Association of the State Teachers Col-

Bloomsburg, Pa. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 8, 1941, at the
Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
lege,

the Act of March

Yearly SubCopy, 50 cents.

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scription, $2.00; Single

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

’12

MANAGER

BUSINESS

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER

GENERAL ALUMNI MEETING
Lt.

Gen. Itlwal T. Edwards, U.

Air

Force,

a

member

of the
class of 1914, and Dr. Carroll
D.
Champlin, Professor of Education
at the Pennsylvania State College,
and a member of the class of 1906,
S.

were honored by fellow alumni of
the Bloomsburg
State
Teachers
College, when they were presented
with Distinguished Service Awards.

The presentations provided the
highlights of the annual meeting of
the General
Alumni Association
held Saturday morning,

May

The meeting was attended

26.

by

a
large percentage of the many who
gathered on the campus, in ideal
weather, for one of the most enjoyable Alumni Day celebrations in
some time. Graduates and friends
came from far and near for the festivities, which began with dinners
and get-together meetings on Friday evening.

The citation awarded to Lt. Gen.
Edwards was “to a loyal defender

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey

B.

Smith

Elizabeth H. Hubler

SATURDAY,

OCTOBER

20

world traveland teacher of teachers.” The
presentations were handled by Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, President of
the College, for Dr. Champlin, and
by Frank S. Hutchison, of Bloomsburg, for General Edwards.
In his presentation, Dr. Andruss
a Christian educator,

made

spoke briefly of the progress

by the College, and asserted that

Mr. Hutchison, a longtime friend
Edwards, gave the officer’s military record from the time
he entered service in 1917 until the
present, but said that the
record
tells only a part of the story. “He
fits his uniform,” he said, “as well
as his uniform fits him.”
Dr. Champlin referred
citation as

one which he

sincerely cherish, while
August, 1951

Reports showed that the loan
fund continues to grow, and that
from its earnings there were $350
in scholarships awarded during the
past year. Alumni membership is
the largest in history.
Fred W.
Diehl, of Danville; Mrs.
C.
C.

Edward

and that
Champlin was “to

of General

DAY

Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of
the general alumni body, presided
at the session, and at the opening
the members of the class of 1951
attended in a body.
Richard N.
Kressler, president of
the class,
presented a check for dues in the
association for all members of the
class.
The graduates sang the
college color song, and then retired from the auditorium.

Housenick

to Dr.

in history.
-

tion.

of our nation’s honor,”

the teachers colleges
are
today
better equipped and have attained
wider recognition than at any time

HOME COMING

that with the
passing of the years, he appreciates
more and more the contribution
made to his life by the College.
Both Mrs. Edwards and Mrs.
Champlin were presented with
corsages by the Alumni Associa-

awarded
er,

Harriet Carpenter

Edwards declared

to

the

would
General

of

Bloomsburg and
of Blooms-

F. Schuyler,

burg, were re-elected to three-year
terms on the board of directors.

Members

of the class

of

1901

were given special recognition, and
were seated on the platform for the

They received copies of
diplomas, such as were issued by
the Normal School in 1901. Just
prior to the reunion, one of the
members of the class, Mrs. Mae E.
Townend, of Scranton, contributed five hundred dollars to the
session.

Alumni Loan Fund.

She was pre-

sented to the audience by Dr. Nelson.
E. Joe Albertson, editor and
publisher, of Peekskill, New York,
responded for the class of 1901.

The session closed with the responses by representatives of the
reunion classes.

(Brief biographies of Dr. Champlin
and General Edwards appear elsewhere
in this issue.)
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THE
“If

1951

we

COMMENCEMENT

lose the right to

be

free,

will be because we have failed to
measure up to the challenge of
it

freedom,” U. S. Senator Karl E.
Mundt, of South Dakota, told the
members of the class of 1951 at the
Commencement exercises in Carver Hall Auditorium Monday morning,

May

28.

Speaking directly to the graduates, he emphasized that no country is better than its
schools; it
cannot move forward any further
than its system of education will
permit it to move.
Referring to the

confusion

in

which our government finds itself
today, the Senator mentioned the
confusion with regard to foreign
policy and inflationary trends
as
well as the bitter debate on the
question of expanding the Korean
conflict.

“Shall

we

sacrifice

the formula

which has made us a great country,
or shall we adopt the
European
after which so many other countries have patterned?”
he asked,
and then said to his audience,
“think these things through,
and
then follow them through to a
plausible conclusion.”
He said that the history of the
world can be divided into three
great periods as far as human freedom is concerned, and that freedom is the thing which, after all, is
most important. It has justified the
casualty list of nearly 150,000 in

Korea.

we
we

Rather than lose freedom,

and this thing
call freedom has been developed in three main chapters throughout the history of man.
will lose peace,

He

spoke of the first period, in
which man had no individual rights,
of the second period featured
by
the Magna Carta, and of the
twentieth century, when man started to turn the clock backwards.
He observed that politicians and
government began taking away
the rights of individuals and the
powers that were rightly theirs.
To prove this, the Senator said
that we need only to compare the
world of 1951 with the world of
1921. The areas of human freedom
are growing smaller throughout the
world.
have permitted the
development of a new government
of power and authority. He outlin-

We

2

ed the gradual sweep of Communism across the face of the earth, and
with regard
to
Marshall
Tito,
declared that Tito imposes his own
brand of Communism on a depressed and dejected people, and is no
less a dictator than Stalin.
He is
a dictator on our side, and we provide him with needles so that he
can continue to needle Stalin.
The Senator maintained that
more human beings in the world
today find themselves controlled by
Codless Communism than are controlled

by

Christianity, in

whose

men have been

enrolled

noble cause

for nearly two thousand years. The
people of the world are losing the
battle for freedom; we need soldiers for freedom to begin turning

the tide.
He reiterated his faith in the
American politicians and members
of Congress, saying that they are
no better or worse than the people
who elect them to office. He ad-

mitted shortcomings of Congress,
but he asked for continued faith
because the members are capable
of doing wrong; it is only human
nature.
He told of the efforts of Congress to improve, and
said: “We
have sent two of our members to
the Federal penitentiary and one to
the White House.
have a
movement in both directions.”
He challenged the class to do

We

something soon
stay free;

it

to

help America

we keep America

America can help the world

free,

stay

strong.

BACCALAUREATE SERMON
The

great
three requisites for
are the establishment of a
Christian scale of values, a sense of
individual mission, and a sense of
perspective.
The above are the
main points of the Baccalaureate
sermon delivered by the Rev. Elvin
Clay Myers, pastor of the First
Methodist church of Bloomsburg.
The sermon was delivered in
Carvel Hall Auditorium
to
the
members of the class of 1951 on
Sunday afternoon. May 27.
Speaking on the theme “Conscripts of a Mighty Dream,”
the
Rev. Dr. Myers said to the class
“unless you are the conscript of a

living

mighty dream, you
ing to the

sum

be addpersons al-

will just

total of

ready out there whose only god
success,

who

live

is

by the law

of expediency, and who believe
that
money talks, and that selfishness is
the best law of self-preservation.
“You as teachers,” he said, “have
both privilege and power, but I beg
of you that you let it be dedicated
power, mastered by the dream of
peace, tolerance,
understanding
and unselfish lives for people issuing in service to your fellow-man.”

“There is obviously something
wrong,” he continued, “in a society
that spends only three billions to
educate and awaken the brain, and
at the same time spends nine and a
half billions a year on alcohol to
put man’s valuing attitude and

powers to sleep.”
Other excerpts from the sermon
follow:
“It is

well to

remember

that

God

both the source of the supremely
worthwhile and is Himself the obof
supreme worth— indeed
ject
man’s one sure point of reference.”
“Get hold of a great cause or two.
These causes will redeem your life
from boredom, and give you a
chance to make your contribution.”
“He who would keep a sense of
balance in difficult times must have

is

a Christian perspective of history;
otherwise he will grow discouraged
lose its challenge. You
constantly need to take the
long look. The short look at his-

and

life will

will

We

want to redisquieting.
the world in our generation.
want God to hurry, but God is
never in a hurry.”
“Keep your faith in human progtory

is

make

We

God is in His Heaven, and
not right with the world, but
the last word is with God and not
with man, and this universe is not
out of hand.”
At the close of the sermon a special selection “I Will Exalt Thee”
was sung by a trio consisting of
the Misses Lola Deibert, Jeanne
Ruckle and Mary Ellen Dean. Miss
Marilyn Lundy was the accompanress.

all is

ist.

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THE

IVY DAY
Edward W. Steiner,
1951

Ivy

Day Speaker

too, lived in a

was

many

the speaker for the annual Ivy
Planting Exercises held at the State
T eachers College Wednesday evening, May 23.
Feature of the ceremonies, which were held in
the
Waller Hall Court, was the presentation of an outdoor color-changing
fountain to the College by the Class
of 1949.
Miss Sara A. Graham, a
member of the class which selected
the fountain as its class memorial,
made the presentation, and Reg. S.
Hemingway, Esq., president of the
Board of Trustees accepted the
gift for the College.
Ordinarily held during the day,
the 1951 Ivy Planting ceremonies
were held this year at night in
order that the color-changing fountain might be presented in all
its
beauty. The processional moved
from Carver Hall to the Waller
Hall Court, where the
program
began at nine o’clock.
Richard
Kressler, Bloomsburg, president of
the Senior Class, introduced
the
Ivy Day orator, Edward W. Steiner,
who spoke on the subject, “A Challenge for Today.”
Following Mr. Steiner’s adddress
Mr. Kressler planted the ivy, symbolizing the Class of 1951, and presented the Ivy Spade to Thomas
Anthony, Shamokin, president of
the Class of 1952.
Mr. Anthony
accepted the spade in behalf of his

them

Aristes,

classmates.

President Harvey A.
Andruss
introduced Miss Graham, who presented the fountain. Mr. Hemingway accepted the gift in behalf of
the Board of Trustees and the College community. Program closed
with the singing of the Alma Mater.
Student director of music was Delphine Buss, Watsontown, a member of the graduating class.

The

oration:
are gathered for this Ivy Day
ceremony in a great and challenging moment.
It is a moment in

We

which we may become confused by
the many voices that we hear and
by the contradictions that arise on
all sides.

We are confused by vocal Congressmen who on little or no evidence accuse others of being enemies of their country.
We are
confused by the deep-seated bitterness between Democrats and ReAugust, 1951

voices.

time of stress and of
It was as hard for

as it is for us to distinguish
the goal towards which they wished to work.
Our task now, like
theirs, is to visualize that goal and
to hold it.
Just as this ivy plant,
when given light and food, reaches
up and then holds fast, then still
farther up, and holds fast, never
slipping back, so must we, with our
knowledge and our learning, seek

penetrate through this confusion
main objective and then hold
it, ever reaching upward.
In a few moments, this fountain
will blaze forth with light. At that
moment, I am rededicating myself
to peace and world understanding.
know that you will be doing the
same.
are on the
verge
of
fathoming and using the shiny
stuff from which the very universe
was created.
To our sorrow, we
already know what the blazing
stuff of the sun
can do when
bottled into a bomb. Is there not
some way that we can reach out
and lay hands on shining soul-stuff,
to

to the

1

We

Edward W.
publicans, and
that

we

Steiner

by the

hear.

We

graft charges

are

wonder whether, even

bound

to

time
of crisis, men are not playing for
votes with national policies and hu-

man

in this

We

are distressed when
one group tells us that repressive
lives.

legislation will crush Communism
in the country, and another group

assures us that such legislation will
only drive Communism underground, making it all the more dan-

we naturally wonder
whether Communism can be comgerous, and

batted at

all

by

legislation.

Please do not think that these
thoughts have little or no bearing
on our life here. They have a most
fundamental bearing.

As teachers, as individuals, as
world citizens, it is our special assignment to affect the minds and
hearts of young people so as to
change for the better the way the
world runs.
We have the privilege of placing
linger marks upon mighty historymaking events. For the very premise of educational effort is that
we have something greatly valuable
to transmit.
To make right use of
our knowledge, we need that wisdom which begins in the fear of
the Lord.
If this is a confused time, we
may take comfort from the men
who founded this nation. They,

that somehow, through some magic
alchemy, will cement man to man,
nation to nation, so that they may
all live together in peace?
Peace in the world never looked
more important, and perhaps never

more difficult to achieve. Through
World War I and again in World
War II, we dreamed of the bright,
new, shiny world of Brotherhood
and Peace. “One World,” we called
it.
It seems to have completely
eluded us. The answer depends
upon you and me, and what we do
to help, now.
For us to think that we can teach
and live as pagans, without responsibility to God and man, is the
height of

folly.

Once

the teacher,

was

venerated
Today,
we influence youth every day, by
all our words and all our deeds. We
must put new overtones to our living and teaching.
Old-fashioned honesty, initiative,
creative work, consecration, service
without personal gain— these are the
like the preacher,

merely for

his status quo.

things that I am talking about.
One of the things brought out at
the White House Conference
on

Education was that new educational efforts must be directed toward
3

helping children find

reassurance

from within themselves.
The task ahead of them is even
more exacting than any task which
the new sciences of human behavious have given us, to create the
conditions for the strength that will

be needed.

youth
strengthens
Whatever
strengthens the world’s foundation.
God forgive us if, as teachers, we
fail to accept the challenge to mold

and make Young America!
Class of ’51, we have lived
save.’’

We

to

to
said “souls
have faith to believe

create, or as

it

is

that there is something to be formed and produced in the lives of
Young America, that is an utter
essential to the maintenance of a
Do you accept the
free world.
challenge?

HOLD BANQUET
AND BALL
SENIORS

More than three hundred people,
including the members of the Senior class and their guests, attended
the Senior banquet and ball held
at the Irem Temple Country Club,
Dallas, Thursday evening. May 24.
A holiday atmosphere prevailed
as the host, Ukasin Vukcevich announced that dinner was served.
Charles Edwards, song leader, led
in group singing of
“America.”
Elvira Thomsen was at the piano.
The invocation was then given by
Eloise Symons, hostess of the affair.

Richard Kressler, president of
the class, extended welcome and
turned the program over to Russel
Hawk, chairman of the ball, who
introduced the guests and those
participating in the program. Dean

North

spoke briefly, his remarks
being followed by a piano solo by
Gloria Dawn Long, of
Berwick.
President Harvey A. Andruss re-

sponded briefly.
Marie Mattis narrated a

brief but
interesting history of the class. She
noted the progress that the class
had achieved through unity. Several verses of the popular song “So

Long, It’s Been Good to Know You”
were presented by various members
of the class. The entire group joined in the choruses.
Mr. Kressler thanked all who had

worked
a
4

diligently to

success.

He

make

the affair

introduced

Paul

Keener,

who

Andruss with the

presented

Mrs.

floral centerpiece.

Carnations for the men were distributed, the candles were lit, the
lights were dimmed, and Charles
Edwards sang “May the Good Lord
Bless you and Keep You.” The banquet closed with the singing of the
Alma Mater.
Seated at the speakers’ table
were the following: Dr. and Mrs.
Andruss, Dr. and Mrs. North, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Rygiel, Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Ploch, Dr. Marguerite
Kehr, Carl Persing, Russel Hawk,
Richard Kressler, Lola
Deibert,
Lillian Mlkvy and Robert Merrifield.
At the guest table were Miss
Honora Noyes, Eloise Symons, Ukasin Vukcevich, Russel Davis, Dr.
and Mrs. Kimber C. Kuster, Mr.
and Mrs. Howard F. Fenstemaker,
Marie Mattis, Nancy Powell, William Swales,
Catherine
Gilbert,
Franklin Dean, Margaret Dorsavage, Barbara Frederick and
Paul
Keener.
The ball which followed was a
gala affair.
The green and white
theme was displayed generously
by the table decorations, the men’s
green and white boutonnieres, the
green match-books, and the green
and white dance programs. Lee
V incent and his orchestra provided
a variety of excellent music.

The

class officers are as follows:

Richard
Kressler,
of
Bloomsburg; Vice-President, Carl
Persing, Mt.
Carmel; Secretary,
Barbara
Frederick,
Mifflinburg;
Treasurer, Russel Davis, Luzerne;
President,

SERVICE KEY AWARDS
Service keys were
thirteen

members

awarded to
of the graduat-

ing class of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College at the
Senior

Honor Assembly held

Thursday,

April 19 in the Carver Auditorium.
The keys, limited to ten percent of
the membership of the class are the
highest award the College makes to
its seniors for service to the college
community. Recipients are selected by a student committee.

President Harvey
A.
Andruss
presented the awards to Marie Mattis,
Shamokin; Richard
Kressler,
Bloomsburg; Nancy Powell, Scranton; Max Kaplan, Port Chester, N.
Y.; Shirley Ashner, Lehighton; Barbara Frederick, Mifflinburg; Lillian
Mlkvy, Slatington; Merlin Beachell,
Berwick; Russell Davis, Luzerne;
Charles Edwards, Shamokin; Paul
Keener, Watsontown; Lois Dzuris,
N anticoke and Frank Dean, Shenandoah.
Dr. Andruss also presented cermembership to the 195051 “Who’s Who Among Students
in American Colleges and Universities” to the following members of
the class: Richard Kressler, Bloomsburg; Nancy Powell, Scranton; Anthony Grabowski, Shamokin; Lois
Dzuris, Nanticoke and Merlin Beachell, Berwick.
Election to the
“Who’s Who” was based on personal
traits,
leadership, usefulness,
ability, scholarship and
academic
achievement, and service to the
college community.
tificates of

representative, Nancy Powell,
Scranton;
boy representative,
Franklin Dean, Shenandoah.
The Senior Advisor was Mrs.
Margaret Swartz. The chairman of
Senior Week activities is Mr. Rygiel.
The general chairman of the

During the ceremonies, Anthony
Grabowski, president of the Community Government Association,
presented the newly-elected offi-

banquet and ball was Lillian
Mlkvy, Palmerton, the chairman of
the ball was Russel Hawk, and the
chairman of the banquet was Carolyn Vernoy, Canandensis.

president; Henry Marini, Wayne,
vice-president; Henry Hurtt, Forty
Davis,
Fort, treasurer; Clarabelle
Clarks Summit, secretary and Herbert Kerchner, Reading, assistant

girl

cers for the 1951-51 college
lie
ies

year,

conducted induction ceremonfor Russell Looker, Johnstown,

treasurer.

President Harvey A. Andruss, of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College,
addressed the Lehigh
Valley Chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants, at Hotel
Easton, Easton, Pa., on May 18.
Dr. Andruss spoke on the subject,
What Does Business Expect?”
‘

In addition to Richard Kressler,
Bloomsburg, president of the Senior
Class, the other class officers ate:
Carl Persing, Mt. Carmel; Nancy

Frank Dean,
Powell, Scranton;
Shenandoah; Russell Davis, Luzerne and Barbara Frederick, Mifflinburg.

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DR.

CARROLL

D.

CHAMPLIN

Dr. Carroll D. Champlin was
born in Chelsea, Michigan, October
He received his A.B.
22, 1887.

Haverford College in
1914, his A. M. degree in 1915, and
the Ph.D. degree at the University

degree

at

of Pittsburgh in 1925.

He

was

married to Helen Karns in 1919.
Dr. Champlin has one daughter. He
was married to Dorothy Gage in
1946.

He was a teacher in the public
schools for five years, and an instructor in the University of Pittsbury from 1919 to 1921. He became head of the Department of
Education and Psychology at the
California State Teachers College
in 1921 and served
until
there
1926.
At that time he became
Professor of Education
at
the
Pennsylvania State College, and
still holds that position.
During
the year 1932-33, he served as exchange professor at the University
of Puerto Rico.
He has taught in
summer sessions at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania,
the University of Pittsburgh, George Washington University and the
East Stroudsburg State Teachers
College.
His religious activities
include
service as a teacher of adult Bible
classes and Army Welfare Service,
Y. M. C. A.
He is a member of the National
Society of College Teachers
of
Education, the American Association of School Administrators, the
Society for the Advancement of
Education, the American Association for Adult
Education, Alpha

Chi Rho, Phi Delta

Kappa, Pi
Gamma Mu, Kappa Delta Pi and
Kappa Phi Kappa.

He is the author of many articles
on educational, cultural and international topics, book reviews,
contributions to year books.

and

Maynard Harring, Pitman,

a junthe State Teachers College,
has been elected president of the
Men’s Dormitory Association, according to an announcement made
by John A. Hoch, dean of men.
ior at

Other officers chosen are: Thomas
Reed, Plymouth, vice president;
Charles Brenan, Towanda, secretary and John
Dietz,
Plymouth,
treasurer.

August, 1951

IMPROVEMENTS AT
THE COLLEGE

was one

An extensive program of improvements has for some time been
under way on the campus of the
College.

The

largest project

the
modernizing, enlarging and equipping of the central heating plant, a
General State Authority project involving an expenditure of approximately $325,000.
Structural steel work has been
completed by S. H.
Evert,
of
Bloomsburg,
general contractor,
while work on the plumbing and
heating contract is continuing. The
plumbing contractor is Joseph Rado
of Berwick, and the electrical contractor is the Jere Woodring Co.,
of Hazleton.
The central heating plant was remodeled in 1938, but the boilers

now
and
one
in

the

is

in use were installed in 1919
1920. It is hoped that at least
of the three new boilers will be

operation by the beginning of
first semester in
September.

The new equipment

will

be

Hall.

Joseph

McNeal,

Bloomsburg

painting contractor, has been working on a new contract to paint the
exterior woodwork, sash, cornices
and trim on Waller Hall. The main
dormitory was last painted in 1942,
when the Navy programs were in
operation on the campus. An extensive program of plastering and
painting of the men’s section of
Waller Hall is also being carried
on.
The interior of Science Hall
has also had extensive plastering
repairs.

In addition to these major proemployees of the College are
busy with a multitude of other
tasks, including the construction of
two softball fields on the
Mt.
Olympus Athletic Field. This will
provide increased facilities for the
jects,

intramural athletic program.

elec-

trically controlled.

Another major improvement

a
$20,000 project to amesite the parking lot near the Centennial Gymnasium, and to construct two amesite-covered parking strips at the
foot of the Second street terraces
near Long Porch. Excavation and

GAVE TALK AT COLLEGE

is

grading have been completed at
the gymnasium lot by the Department of Highways, and the subbase is being laid.
Work on the two parking strips
below Long Porch is expected to
begin when the Centennial Gymnasium lot is finished. With the
co-operation of the Town Council,
Wood street, as well as the alleys
between Second and Third street,
will be paved. The new parking
should reduce much of the congestion caused by heavy parking on
Second Street. Forty cars will be

accommodated

of the items of a $30,000
contract which included extensive
roof repairs to campus buildings
and a new slate roof for Science

in single-line diagonal parking.
Contractors have completed
a
new porch at North Hall, one of
the men’s dormitories. The structure of brick and concrete
construction, with tile floor, steel sash
and iron handrails, is enclosed with
glass, and adds much to the
appearance of the building, which
houses seventy men. This project

Louis

P.

industrial

Shannon, widely known
on

educator,
talked
“Progress in Better Living” at

the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Tuesday morning, April 24.
He told the story of how some of
the products of modern industrial
chemistry were created and what
made them possible, showing how
they fit into th enational ecenomy.
He discussed some developments
which are so new as to be still in
experimental or evaluation
and explained the factors
that have given
the
people of
America the highest standard of
living in the world.
the

stage,

Miss Winnie
Mae
Mericle,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
Mericle, of Berwick
Road, and
Robert E. Hileman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Loren Hileman, of Light
Street, Pa., were married recently
in Winchester, Va.
The Rev. Mr.
Wright, pastor of the Methodist
Church. Winchester, performed the
double-ring ceremony. Both
Mr.

and Mrs. Hileman are graduates of
Scott Township high school
and
students at B. S. T. C.
5

Faculty

Notes
FACULTY MEMBERS RETIRE
The retirement

of five

members

of the faculty of the Teachers College was announced at a faculty

dinner held Char-Mund in
Country, near Orangeville.

the

The retiring faculty members,
whose tenure of service at the local institution aggregates more than
133 years, were honored at the annual party, which was staged by
the College branch of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.

Leaving the faculty at the close
of the present college year were
Miss Harriet M. Moore, Dr. H. Harrison Russell, Samuel L. Wilson, S.

and John J. Fisher.
faculty presented each person with a gift.
The gifts were
presented by Edward A. Reams.
President Harvey A. Andruss announced the retirements and paid
tribute to the loyalty, devotion, and
service of each of the honored
guests.
Dr. Andruss pointed out
that in addition to their long tenure
at the College, each of the instructors has
given many additional
years of service to education boosting the aggregate years of teaching
Irvin Shortess

The

to

more than

191.

Miss Harriet Moore
Miss Harriet M. Moore, who has
been supervisor of music in the
Benjamin Franklin School as well
as director of the Women’s Chorus
and Men’s Glee Club, has been a

member

of the faculty since 1921.

She has taught

classes in

music and

various professional subject in the
field of education.
Miss Moore has the degree of
Bachelor of Music from State

Teachers

College

Missouri, as well as
iversity,

from which

at

New

Kirksville,

York Un-

institution she

holds the degrees of Bachelor of
Science in Music Education and
Master of Arts in Education. She
did further graduate study at Bush
Conservatory in Chicago, University of Chicago, and Washington
University at St. Louis.
She has
G

directed several church choirs in
the town of Bloomsburg as well as
other choral groups.
Miss Moore served twelve years
as a classroom teacher and supervisor at Webster Grove, Missouri,
University City, Missouri, and Winnetka, Illinois. She also taught at
the Clarion State Teachers College
during the Summer Session of 1931.
Dr. H. Harrison Russell
Dr. H. Harrison Russell, who has
taught geography at the College for
the past quarter century, began
teaching at Bloomsburg in 1926.
Prior to that time, he was an elementary teacher and supervisor in
the public schools of Illinois for
four years. He also served for
eleven years as an Assistant Professor of Geography and Director
of Athletics at the Illinois State
Normal School, now State Normal
University, Normal, Illinois.
Dr. Russell is a graduate of the
Illinois
State Normal University
and holds graduate degrees from
Clark University, Mass.
He has
written a number of articles and

monographs in the field of geography, and he has served as a member of several state-wide commissions for the revision of geography
in the public schools and teachers
colleges in Pennsylvania.
also served as

He

has

an officer for various

and national associations of
geography teachers.

state

Prof.

Shortess

Prof. Shortess, a graduate of the

Milton High School, has taught at
College since 1923,
and his retirement marks the end
of twenty-eight years of continuous service. He came to Bloomsburg from Girard College, Philadelphia, where he was an instructor in
biology.
During his long tenure
at Bloomsburg, he taught classes
the Teachers

in

chemistry, physics, biological

sci-

ence and physical science.
He received his Bachelor of Arts
degree from Albright College and
the Master of Science degree from
the
University of Pennsylvania.
Further graduate study was done
at the University of Pennsylvania
and New York University.
Mr. Shortess, who began his
teaching at Sunbury High School,
was also principal of high schools
at Berwick and Jenkintown for a
number of years. Before accepting

a position at Girard College, he was
head of the Physics Department at
J.

M.

Coughlin High School in

Wilkes-Barre.
S. L. Wilson
Samuel L. Wilson, English instructor, came to Bloomsburg in
1923 from Harrisburg, where he

taught five years. Before that time,
he was a classroom teacher in the
Homestead High School and principal of high schools at Pleasant

Cap and

Ralston.
a native of Philipsburg, Pa.,
and a graduate of Bucknell University, where he received the Bachelor of Science degree.
He was
awarded the degree of Master of
Arts by Columbia University, and
he has done additional graduate
work at Harvard University and
New York University.
In addition to his classroom
duties at the College, Mr. Wilson
has also served as an advisor to
various student publications, and
this year he served as advisor to
the Obiter, the College yearbook.
Prof. Fisher
Psychology instructor and director of the psychology clinic at the
Teachers College for the past twenty-six years, John J. Fisher is a native of the state of Indiana.
A
graduate of the Goshen, Indiana
Academy and Goshen College, he
received his Master of Arts degree
from Indiana University. He did
further graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia
University, and Ohio State Univer-

He

is

sity.

His school experience includes
teaching in the rural schools in the
state of Iowa and classroom teaching at the Academy of Goshen, InHe also taught at Goshen
diana.
College and Indiana University
before coming to Bloomsburg in
1924.
At Bloomsburg, Mr. Fisher
has been in charge of the development and administration of a complete testing program and the psychology clinic.
Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of
Instruction of the Bloomsburg State
recent
Teachers College, was a
meeting of the
speaker at a
Men’s
Schuylkill County School
Club. Dr. North spoke on the subject,

“Major Problems

in

Educa-

tion in Pennsylvania.”

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J

ATTENDS NATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of
Instruction at the College, attended the National Conference on

Teacher Education held in June at
Leland Stanford University, Palo
Alto, California.

The

sessions be-

gan on Tuesday, June 26 and ended
June 30.
Dr. North is chairman of
the
Commission on Teacher Education
and Professional Standards of the
Pennsylvania State Education Association and an advisory member
of the national commission.
The group of educators of which
Dr. North is consultant studied the
problem “Supply and Demand for
Teachers.” At the present
time,
Dr. North is directing a special
committee of the PSEA, which is
studying the same problem.
The conference was attended by
a selected group of educators from
the various state commissions and
from the top leaders of professional
organizations in the country.

Dr.

North was scheduled to speak at
the dinner meeting of the group on
Thursday, June 26, concerning the
work of the Pennsylvania group.

WRITES MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Edward

T.

DeVoe,

of the English

department of the
Bloomsburg
State Teachers
College,
the
is
author of an article on stone masonry which was published in a
recent issue of the magazine Pennsylvania
Farmer.
The article
describes the cutting of stone for a
fireplace

which Mr. DeVoe

from native

mas

Hill,

field stone

built

at Christ-

where he and Earl A.

Gehrig share ownership

in a recreation center, together with Dr.
William P. Bond, of Espy. Four
pictures taken by the author accompany the article.

Another article by Mr. DeVoe,
“Housekeeping the Orchid,” an account of Harold Lanterman’s success in raising orchids at home by
scientifically controlling temperature and humidity, will appear in a
forthcoming issue of the same
magazine.
Professor Harold Lanterman, of
the Bloomsburg
Teachers
State
College,
Atomic
attended
an

Energy

Commission

August, 1951

held recently at the Indiana State
Teachers College.
The conference, sponsored jointly by the Indiana State Teachers College and
the Brooklyn National Laboratory,
Upton, N. Y., attracted a gathering
of hundreds of students,
teachers
and lay adults from a three-state
area. The conference was designed
to provide information of
atomic
energy and its possibilities for the
future, particularly peace-time uses
ol atomic energy.

Miss Edna

Barnes, member of
the faculty of the Benjamin Franklin Training School, was
recently
installed as president of her chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, honorary teachers’ fraternity. Miss Honora M. Noyes, also of the faculty,
is
corresponding secretary of the
chapter, and Mrs. Beatrice Englehardt is treasurer.
J.

Bloomsburg
State
Teachers
College was represented at the
Eastern Colleges Science Conference held recently at Yale University.
Leon Coval, Bloomsburg and
Calvin Kanyuck, Glen Lyon,
attended the two-day sessions which
marked the fifth anniversary of the
founding of the organization. Only
two of Pennsylvania’s fourteen
State Teachers Colleges were represented among the ninety colleges
The
registered for the program.
theme of the 1951 conference was
“Frontiers of Science.”

PROMOTING DRIVES
John C. Koch, for many years a

member

of the

faculty

at

the

Teachers College during which he
was dean of men and coach of
tennis, is now busy in promoting
fund raising drives and has been in
Chicago in connection with this
work.

He

wrote

recently,

to Dr. E.

and

H.

Nelson

in his letter set forth:

March 9, to
campaign for
Andrew’s parish under the jur-

“Arrived in Chicago,

do

a million dollar

St.

Bishop

isdiction of

Bishop of
Chicago.

Sheil, Auxiliary

Archdiocese

the

of

“He is also the founder of the
Catholic Youth Organization, thirty
years ago. Will probably be here
until July 15, when I hope to be
able to take a couple of months’
v acation.
Have been on the go
steadily since
September,
1948,
without a break, and I sure could
use a rest.

“Our Georgia Tech campaign
and a half wound up

lor a million

successfully with a $30,000 oversubscription.
It was a tough one,

but

enjoyed

and
and basketduring the nine months I was

I

ball

thoroughly

it

saw some good

football

in Atlanta.

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S.

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Friday evening, April 6, for the
culminating event of the B.S.T.C.
social season, the
Prom.
Junior
About five hundred attended the
affair.
A1 Anderson and his orchestra played for the danicng in a
colorful garden setting which featured pagodas and other oriental
decorations.
A floor show, highlighted by a chorus of coeds, was
presented at intermission with
Richard Powell, of Pottstown, in

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A GLIMPSE INTO THE
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

Eventually he had
and, through his
natural love for beauty,
flowers
very early age.

The Physical Science Division of
the Science Department is
concerned primarily with the teaching
of chemistry and
physics.
The
laboratories in Science Hall were
installed in 1907, and today are

equipped with standard and advanced Scientific apparatus.
Instructors in the science field
are Dr. Kuster, Mr.
Lanterman
and Mr. Shortess; a few courses in
the science division are also taught
by Mr. Shelly and Mrs. Beeman.

According to these

own garden

his

instructors,

opportunities for
Physical
Science teachers are excellent. Currently, the demand is for
general
science teachers. If a graduate in
this field finds that he lacks interest in the teaching profession, it
is possible for him to obtain employment elsewhere. A recent example of this was the employment
of several graduates of B.S.T.C. by
the American Radium Company at
Espy.
job

The

subjects taught by Dr. Kimber Kuster are chiefly along the
botanical and zoological line. Dr.
Kuster, who attended BSTC, has

contributed

a great deal in
the
scientific advancement of his Alma
Mater. He is constantly enriching
the courses which he teaches
by

became

his

prime

interest.

It

was

not long afterward that he came in
contact with the orchid.
When a
florist
presented him with an

Dr.

Kuster
he dis-

entered the limelight when
covered a fully developed egg within another.
Scientific work with
its

many

surprises

constitutes

a

pleasurable occupation for him.

Mr. Lanterman, who, like Dr.
Kuster, attended B.S.T.C., instructs
college classes in chemistry
and
physics.
Aside from his teaching
duties, Mr. Lanterman has become

widely known for his unusual
hobby of growing orchids.
Mr. Lanterman displayed his
enthusiasm in plant growth at a
8

Army War

and from

College in 1938.

a second lieutenant in August, 1917.

of thirty five orchids of eight differ-

He was

He

combat observer and

ent genera.
In spite of the fact that he has
received several substantial offers,

Mr. Lanterman has refused to commercialize his hobby.

is

rated as a

Instructor in Survey Science at
B.S.T.C. has been Mr. S. I. Shortess

who came

to

Bloomsburg from

Girard College in 1923 and

who

command

pilot,

aircraft

ob-

server.

Entering the armed forces during

World War

I,

he was commissioned

transferred to the Air Service in 1920 as a first
lieutenant

and advanced through the grades
to Brigidier-General, which
rank
he attained in May, 1942. He be-

came

a Major-General in

Februserved on the General Staff Corps from 1938 to 1940,
and became Assistant Chief of

He

ary, 1943.

Staff, G-3, in 1942.

He

is

now Com-

has
recently retired. Although he has
been an instructor in the field of
science for the past twenty eight
years, Mr. Shortess has never ceas-

manding General, Headquarters U.

ed to be fascinated by his work and
by the changes which are constant-

SYMPHONIC BAND

taking place in
world.

ly

the

scientific

Mr. Shortess his several hobbies
which he promises to devote
more time in the future. As he
himself puts it, “I’m going to ride
iny hobbies from now on.”
to

gram.

ago

the

Lanterman made an atgrow it in the sun parlor
of his home. He was successful in
his feat, and his interest in the raising of orchids began to expand. Today Mr. Lanterman is the possessor
to

ure.

A few weeks

Command and Gen-

from the

1931,

eral Staff School in 1935,

tempt

seventy-two hour stage.
Student
interest in the study proved to be
very high and, consequently, this
study will be continued in the fut-

those students enrolled in the Embryology of Vertebrates class made
an interesting study of the incubating of chick embryoes up to the

EDWARDS

Lieutenant-General Idwal
H.
Edwards was graduated from the
Air Corps Technical
School
in

orchid, Mr.

One thing in particular that he
has promised that he will find time
for is oil painting.
There has
always been a certain amount of
artistic talent in his family, and
Mr. Shortess is anxious to try his
hand at this art. He also has in
his cellar a wood-workshop which
comes in for a share in the pro-

adding new experiments. Recently

GEN. IDWAL H.

Perhaps

his

most

interesting

hobby is music. When he first
came to Bloomsburg, he played the
cello in the college orchestra. Al-

though he gave up his instrumental
music some time ago, he still enjoys
singing.
At the present time, he
belongs to the Kiwanis Glee Club,
the Presbyterian choir
and the
Consistory Choir.

dress

Two members

of the

Maroon

and Gold band of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College were chosen
to play in the Symphonic
Band
Concert of the Fourth Annual Intercollegiate Band of Pennsylvania.
Eugene Hummel, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Hummel, Fair Street,
Bloomsburg and David Heckman,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William Heck-

man, Third street, Bloomsburg,
were among the 115 musicians representing 27 Pennsylvania colleges

who made up the All-State Band.
The concert was presented Saturday evening, April 28, in Grace
Lehigh University, and Dr.
William D. Revelli, of the famous
University of Michigan Band, was

Ilall,

the guest conductor.

The

presen-

was sponsored this year by
the Lehigh University Brown and
White band, William H. Schempf,
tation

Director, in cooperation with the
Pennsylvania College Bandmasters
Association.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

The Science Department with
efficient instruction

Air Forces in Europe. His adis Room 4 E 188, National
Defense Building, Washington.

S.

its

and excellent

equipment has not infrequently
attracted an uncertain student into
becoming a science major.

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succeeding Michael Crisci, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crisci, 608 Jen-

Student

West Pittston, this
Freshman class president,
who was elected to represent his
class on the 1951-52 College Coun-

kins Street,
year’s

Activities

John Scrimgeour, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John S. Scrimgeour, Sr.,
602 Wyoming Avenue, West Pittston, was elected
vice
president.
Other students elected to office
were Irne L. Cichowciz, Shenandoah. secretary; Edgar Berry, Montoursville,
treasurer and Elaine
cil.

SENIORS
Thomas Anthony, Shamokin, was
elected president of the Class
of
1952 of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College in class elections held
recently. Mr. Anthony, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. Harvey Anthony, 1407

West Walnut

street,

Shamokin,

is

one of the most active members of
the class and a popular student at

He

enrolled in the
Department of Business Education.
Elected to serve with Mr. Anthony
were: Maynard Harring, Pitman,
vice president; Barbara Harmon,
Lykens, secretary; Richard Powell,
Pottstown, treasurer; Robert Burns,
the college.

is

Harrisburg and Margaret Bourdette,
Athens, representatives to
College Council.

Gunther, Berwick, representative to
College Council.

WALLER HALL
Eleanor Johnson, Kane, has been
elected president of the
Waller
Hall Association of the Teachers
College, according to an announcement by Dr. Marguerite Kehr, dean
of women. Miss Johnson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Dari B. Johnson,
Kane R. D. 1, is a junior in the elementary education department and
one of the most active members of
the Junior Class.

JUNIORS
The

Class of 1953 at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College has
elected David Newbury, Watsontown. president in class elections
held this week.
Mr.
Newbury,
son of Mrs. P. A. Newbury, Eighth

and Ash

Streets,

Watsontown,

is

active in a number of extra-curricular activities at the college and
especially active in college literary

and
was

journalistic organizations.
He
also named on
Dean’s
the

Honor

each semester since he
entered the college in September,
1949. Other members of the class
elected to office are: Charles Brennan,

list

Towanda,

Other officers who will serve
with Miss Johnson for the 1951-52
college year are Mary Ellen Dean,
Milton;
Margaret
Bourdette,
Athens, secretary
and
Nellie
Swartz, Montoursville,
treasurer.
Senior representatives include: Lola
Deibert,
Danville;
Jean
Joan
Enama, Nuremberg and Lois Newman, Wilkes-Barre. Junior representatives are: Erma Bean, Rahns;
Rosella Danilo, Carbondale and
Rose Marie Domaleski, Frackville.
Newly-elected sophomore representatives are: Myra Albertson, Watsontown; Judith Fry, Williamstown
and Louise Schulley, Delano.

Erma Bean, Rahns,

vice
president;
secretary; William Kline, Millersburg, treasurer;

DAY MEN

Claude Renninger, Freeburg, and
Nancy Heebner, East Orange, N. J.,

Bloomsburg State Teachers College
have cast their votes for the selec-

Coun-

tion of officers to guide the organization for the following year. Walter Worhacz of Shamokin was elected to the presidential post. He will
be assisted by William Fisher of
Kulpmont, who was selected to fill
the position of vice-president. The
book work for the association will
be handled by Robert Garrison of
Shickshinny, the newly elected sec-

representative to the College
cil.

SOPHOMORES
Three former West Pittston High
School students were elected to
office as the class of 1954, Bloomsburg State Teachers College held
class elections.
Charles Andrews,
son of Mrs. E. W. Andrews, 299
Baltimore Street, West Pittston,
was named president of the class,
August, 1951

business student from Mt. Carmel,
elected treasurer.

who was

The Day Men’s

retary,

and

handled by

Association

be
Homberger,

financial affairs will

Lester

of

MEN’S DORMITORY
Maynard

Harring,

Pitman,

a

junior at the
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, has been elected president of the Men’s Dormitory Association.
Other officers

chosen are: Thomas Reed,
Plymouth, vice president; Charles
Brennan, Towanda, secretary and
John Dietz, Plymouth, treasurer.
The new officers will begin their
tenure with the beginning of the
1951-52 college year.

STUDENTS PRESENT
FASHION SHOW
Billowy cottons, summer sheers,
crisp piques and
cool organdies

were spotlighted

at the Fifth

nual Spring Fashion
the Bloomsburg

An-

Show held

State

at

Teachers

College Friday evening, May 4th.
Feature of the High School Business Education Contest weekend,
This year’s style show was one of
the finest ever held at the college.

With a smart country
terrace as the setting, the

club
1951

Fashion

Show

featured the latest

spring

and

summer

fashions

through the cooperation of seven
area dress shops, four shoe stores,
and one children’s shop. Cooperating merchants displayed complete
wardrobes for children, juniors and
misses.
College women modeled
the fashions under the direction of
Charles H. Henrie, retail selling
instructor at the College.

Miss Nancy Swartz, Forty Fort,
was the fashion coordinator, while
Lillian
Mlkvy, Palmerton, was

chairman of the Store Coordinators.
Others on her committee
were Kathryn Rhinard, Berwick;
Shirley Ashner, Lehighton; Michalene Casula, Shenandoah; Marie
Grazel, Shenandoah; Joanne Cuff,
Shenandoah; Irene Eckert, Gilberton; Eleanore Bolinsky, Hazleton;
Barbara Harman, Lykens; Laura
Philo, Bloomsburg; Olive Hunter,

Wilma Jones, LeRaysville.
The models for the 1951 show
were Mary Lou Todd, Bloomsburg;
Taylor;

Mildred Mervine, Gordon; Derlene
Bloomsburg;
Margaret
Shultz, Danville; Dorothy Cedor,
Berwick; Barbara Sherman, BenKeller,

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ton; Kathaleen Mitchell, Mahanoy
City; Dolores Doyle, Mt. Carmel;
Marlene Wetzel, Forty Fort; Joan-

Following the entertainment, the
winding of the May
Poles took place. College women

Bloomsburg; Joanne
Vanderslice,
Bloomsburg;
Joyce
McDougall, Berwick; Helyn Burlingame, Berwick; Shirley Eveland,
Berwick; Nancy Unger, Forty Fort;
Elizabeth Patton, Wyalusing; Joan

wound

ne Heisley,

traditional

a special maypole erected
directly in front of
the Queen’s
throne, while Benjamin
Franklin
School children danced on the terraces.

Attendants for the

May Queen

Enama, Nuremburg; Patricia Boyle,
Hazleton; Phyllis McLaren, Canal
Zone, Panama; Lois Dzuris, Nanticoke; Laura Philo, Bloomsburg and

were Mary Ann Alarcon, Keiser;
Helyn Burlingame, Berwick; Martha Bronson, Bloomsburg; Beverly
Cole, Bloomsburg; Ruth Doody,

Barbara Gulick, Danville.

Canadensis;

MAY DAY

ton and Elvira Thomsen,
Barre.

Mary Jane Dorsey, of
Bloomsburg; Nancy Powell, Scran-

Coronation of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College 1951 May Queen
climaxed the annual May Day festivities on the campus.
Miss Diane
Snyder, Mill Hall, was crowned in
traditional ceremonies by Anthony
Grabowski, Shamokin, president of
the Community Government Asso-

Wilkes-

BUSINESS CONTEST
The Annual Business Education
Contest sporsored by the Business

students,

Education Club of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College was
held
Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May
5.
Thirty-one high schools indicated that they would enter teams,
listing 133 students to take exam-

pageant,

inations in typewriting, shorthand,

theme of which was “A Holiday
Panorama.” This year’s production
was under the direction of Mrs.
Robert B. Redman, who produced

bookkeeping and business mathe-

ciation.

Hundreds

of

including

guests,

parents of Bloomsburg
witnessed the May Day

the very successful celebrations in
1949 and 1950.
Miss Lucy McCammon, of the college faculty,
and teachers of the Benjamin
Franklin School assisted in the production.
The terraces between Science
Hall and Noetling Hall were the
setting for the 1951 pageant. Senior
girls carried garlands to form an
honor court which accompanied
Miss Snyder, her eight attendants,
crown bearer, herald, flower bearers and pages to the green.
Music for the occasion was furnished by the Maroon and Gold
Band under the direction of Charles
A short concert preH. Henrie.
ceded the processional.
The theme for the entertainment
for the Queen and her court centered around a Travel Bureau in
the United States. Cast of characters included a travel bureau agent,
travelers

and people

spots around the world.

in

holiday
audi-

The

ence was taken to an art gallery, a
zoo, historic Williamsburg, the gay
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, a dude
ranch, and a number of vacation
spas in Europe and South America.
10

matics.

The over-all response to the 1951
Contest sponsored by the Business
previous year. Many of the schools
which entered contestants were
competing for the first time. Includwere schools where
recent Bloomsburg graduates are
teaching commercial and business
ed

in the list

subjects.

Nine companies had interesting
displays at the second annual Office
Machines Show held at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Saturday, May fifth. The show, a feature of the High School Commerlast
cial Contest, was inaugurated
year and proved to be an outstanding attraction.
International Business Machines
again agreed to exhibit the most

modern

office

equipment and

NURSING CURRICULUM

OFFERED
A curriculum for public school
nurses aird dental hygienists, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree
in Education, will be offered for
the first time by Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, it was announced by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
college president.
Similar courses
will be offered at the other teachers
colleges in the state.
The curriculum for school nurses
is based on the satisfactory completion of three years of preparation
in a private school of nursing, plus
the addition of forty-five hours of
preparation offered in the college.
In the case of dental hygienists, the
course is somewhat shorter.
assignments
Although faculty
have not been announced, it is
probable that Miss M. Beatrice
Mettler, college nurse, will take an
active part in the training program.
Miss Mettler was one of the
committee of seven representing
the different types of school districts of the state and the various
discolleges interested in school
tricts of the state and the various
colleges interested in school nursHer contribution was recoging.
nized in the foreward of the School
Nursing Manual, bulletin 314,
tributed

by the State

dis-

Department

of Education.

Miss Mettler has been offering
courses in hygiene to freshman coltwo
past
lege students for the
vears and was instructor during the
1948 Summer session at Pennsylvania State College. She holds a
Bucknell
Bachelor’s degree from
University in Science, and is a gradHopkins Hospital
uate of John
School of Nursing, Baltimore. In
addition. Miss Mettler has an M. S.

Degree

in

Nursing Education from

the Univ( rsity of Pennsylvania.

cal-

Underculating machines, while
wood Corporation displayed its
newest products. Other exhibitors
included: Remington-Rand CorpoSmith and Corona
ration, L. C.
Dictating
Typewriter Company,

and Sound Equipment Company,
Friden Automatic Calculators, Multigraph Sales Agency, Monroe Calculating Machine Company and
Machine
Marchand Calculating

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”

Max
50

Arcus,

’41,

Mgr.

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

SMITH, 22
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

IIERVEY

B.

Court House Place

Bloomsburg

1115

Company.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

greater advantage the time between
graduation from high school and
entry into the armed forces.

Summer

Many men

Sessions
For the fifth straight year, the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
has offered a workshop for Elementary teachers as a feature of
the
1951 Summer Session. Developed
to assist

mature and

experienced

teachers, the Elementary
Education Workshop provides an opportunity for experienced teachers to

observe and participate in

group

discussions, field trips, and demonstration lessons, as well as hear lectures by prominent authorities in
their fields.

College credits earned

the
a
college certificate permanent, or
they may be applied as credit toward graduation. For those who
may wish to extend their present
certificate to include teaching on
the elementary level, the Elemen-

workshop may be used

to

in

make

tary Education Workshop offers an
excellent opportunity, especially in

view of the present need for teachers for the elementary school.

The workshop

also

is

helpful for

secondary or former
elementary
teachers for the elementary school.

The workshop

also

secondary or former

is

helpful for

elementary

teachers who desire a “refresher”
course before re-entering the profession.
Many of these teachers
have been recalled because of the
critical
shortage of
elementary
teachers.

Because the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College feels an obligation to cooperate to
the
fullest
extent in
vices

making available its serfacilities to
meet the
the Commonwealth and

and

needs of
the Nation in the present national
emergency, new students have been
admitted with the 1951 Summer
Sessions, beginning June
4 and
June 25. Response to this announcement has been encouraging and
high school seniors are indicating
an increasing interest in the new
policy, which offers an opportunity
for high school boys to utilize
to
August, 1951

graduating from high

school this spring may be able to
complete the equivalent of two or
more college years by entering the
accelerated program, and persons
desiring to prepare for teaching in
(he elementary grades are offered
a chance to begin their preparation
at an earlier time.
The continued
shortage of teachers for the elementary schools has created a tre-

mendous demand for competent
teachers, and the Bloomsburg State
Teachers. College therefore accepted new Elementary students this

summer.

The enrollment of the 1951 summer session at the College was
slightly over 400.

This figure
than that of last year, but is
considered very good, in the light
of present conditions. Classes were
being taught by regular members
of the faculty, with the addition of
three others.
Mrs.
Amanda K.
Thomas, Director of Special Education in the Palmerton schools, was
in charge of the special education
room at the Benjamin Franklin
Training School. Russell C. Gillam, of the Lock Haven State Teachers College, taught classes in
public school music, and Miss Florence M. Kunkel, formerly Dean of
Women at the Maryland College
is less

for

Women, relieved Dean Kehr
Summer Session.

during the

Bloomsburg State Teachers College was host to a summer group
discussion conference by the Pennsylvania Branch of the National Association of Secondary School Prinon June 22 and 23.
This workshop conference has
been held at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College for a number of

the teaching of basic skills?
Mr. Leon C. Bubeck, principal of
Forty Fort Junior and Senior High
School, was chairman of the conference. Dr. E. H. Engelhardt actas coordinator and represented
the college.

ed

An enrollment of 175 pupils in
the six weeks’ summer session at
the Benjamin
Franklin Training
School has been announced by Miss
Edna J. Hazen, Director of Elementary Education and principal
of the school.
Miss Elvena Dawn Warr, of
Bloomsburg and Ronald A. Kaler,
of Millville, were married Thursday, May 31, at the parsonage of
the Church of the Nazarene, in
Bloomsburg, by the pastor, the
Rev. Robert C. Roberts. Mrs. Kaler
is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg

High School and is employed
the F. W.
Woolworth store

Bloomsburg. Mr. Kaler is a member of the class of 1952 of B.S.T.C.
Miss Mary Lee Udstad, of Berwick and William Creighton Lindsay, of Sydney, New York, were
married Saturday, June 2, in Christ
Episcopal Church, Berwick. The
bride, a graduate of Knox School,
Cooperstown, New Jersey, has been

serving as secretary in the office
of Dean of Instruction Thomas B.
North, and the groom is a graduate
of Springfield College, Springfield,
Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay are
now living in Sydney, New York.

JOSEPH

Bloomsburg is one of several centers at which such conferences are held. At a meeting of the
steering committee for the affair,
three basic problems were chosen
for group study from a possible list
of fifteen.
These problems are:

What
What

is right with
our schools?
should be the cooperation relationship between
teacher
and
principal? How can we improve

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner, ’34

cipals

years.

at
in

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODS
M.

C. Strausser,

122 East

—

REPAIRS

’27,

Prop.

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

THE CHAR-MUND INN
Mrs.

Charlotte Hoch, T5,

Prop.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

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SAUCERED AND BLOWED
E. H. Nelson

was pleasing

It

DEAN’S

11
greet

to

the

members

of the 1901 class at reunion time and note the fine spirit
and enthusiasm which was manifest during their stay on the camAnd to spear-head the conpus.

Alma
their
interest
in
tinued
Mater, one of the members, Mrs.

Mae

Townend

of Dallas, Pa.,
presented a check for $500 to be
that
applied to the Loan Fund,
E.

others

may be helped

satisfaction that

know

to

the

comes from being

a graduate of

Bloomsburg.

we would be

remiss

And

we

didn’t
S. Mausteller of
if

salute Mrs. Annie
the class of 1886 who put much
effort into making the 65th reunan outstanding
ion of her class
event.

HONOR

LIST

The Dean of Instruction of the College, Dr. Thomas P. North, has
released the following names of students who have qualified for the
Dean’s List for the second semester, 1950-51. These students have a
quality point average of 2.5 or better for the second semester, 1950-51,
and a cumulative average of at least 2.0 while in attendance at this
college.

FRESHMEN
Name

Student
Anderson, John A.
Bittner, Anna K.
Bogdan, John T.
Carson, William L.
Cichowicz, Irene L.
Funson. Faith
of

Fink, Mary Ann
Grant, Rose Marie
Gunther. Elaine
Harris, Robert
Heil, Betty

Hoffman, Sara Jane
Koharski, Alex P.
Korba, Rose M.
Ledyard, Mary L.

Newgard, Mae P.
O'Donnell, Jean
O’Loughlin, Patricia
Price, Robert

We

are pleased to report that an
increasing number of Alumni are
taking out memberships for 3 and
5 year periods, and also that the
life membership list is increasing.
When you next visit the Alumni
Boom, take a look in the record
book and see what a fine list of
life members we have.

Schullery, Louise M.
Scrimgeour, John S.
Superdock, David A.
Traver. Jeanette E.

Newbury, David
June

Pichel,

to smile

was

all

with satisfaction when it
over, as he has had oppor-

tunity to

do many times
gone by, when he was

in years

scorekeeper for many of
burg’s fine teams.

Blooms-

official

Members of the Alumni group in
the New York area are to be congratulated for their zeal and enA luncheon is being
thusiasm.
planned for October 6th in New
York City. Looks as tho it will be
one of the big Alumni events of
But don’t forget,
the fall season.
Back to the Campus
everybody.
for

20th.
12

Homecoming

Day,

October

High School

Hand St., Jessup
Woodlawn Ave., Milroy

Jessup

729 N. Third St., Philadelphia
246 W. Third St., Mt. Carmel
416 S. Jardin St., Shenandoah
596 E. Second St., Bloomsburg
"27 F. Tenth St., Berwick
539 Broadway, Bethlehem
1408 Spring Garden St., Berwick
R. D. 1, Pittston

Central Philadelphia
Mt. Carmel

200

Armagh Twp., Milroy

Church St., Reamstown
611 W. Main St., Annville
14

Fifth

Pleasant

Annville
Pleasant

South St., Gibson
Hegins
501 Berwick St., White Haven
1314 Butler St., Easton
210 S. Market St., Shamokin
16 Walnut St., Delano
602

Wyoming

125

Green St., Freeland
5, Tunkhannock

W.

•

V yoming

Wyoming
Mount

St..

Ave.,

W. Cooper
Eloomsburg
Berwick
Liberty, Bethlehem
Eerwick
West Pittston
E. Cocalico Twp.
J.

Pittston

Mount Voc.

Harford
Hegins Twp.
White Haven
Easton

Shamokin
Delano
West P.ttston
Foster Twp., Freeland

Monroe Twp.

R. D.

SOPHOMORES
Benner, Lee E.
Fisher, William G.
Galinski, Francis
Johnson, Janice E.
Ksanznak, Lawrence
Pease, Charles

Did you see the fine comeback
made by the college baseball team
Alumni Day? After the first inning, the game seemed lost, but its
the 9th inning that pays off and
activity
found
that
period of
Bloomsburg with the top score.
Dean Emeritus Sutliff was on hand

Address

Wrzesniewski, Mildred

304 E. Chestnut
1459 Poplar St.,

Lackawanna
1070

St.,

Selinsgrove

Kulpmont

St., Forest City
Ave., Lewisburg

Adams

W. Hazleton
Eighth & Ash Sts., Watsontown
R. D. 1, Wyalusing
112 N. Fifth

Freeburg
Memorial

F. D. R.

St.,

R. D. 1, Hellertown
310 Taylor Terrace, Chester

forest City

Lew.sburg
West Hazleton
Watsontown
Wyalusing Valley
Hellertown
Chester

JUNIORS
Abbott, Priscilla
Bowman, Doris
Davis, Stewart E.

Fenstermacher, Harry
Haddon, John C.
Harman, Barbara
Hurtt,

Henry

Lehman

Lehman

234 Walnut St., Milton
354 E. Fifth St., Bloomsburg
239 Pine St., Catawissa
232 Jefferson St., Bloomsburg
R. D. 1, Lykens

Milton
Meyers, Wilkes-Barre
Catawissa

141 Butler St.,

Forty Fort
Mt. Carmel

Mouery, Olive L.

136 S. Poplar

Arnold, James
Ashner, Shirley
Babb, John
Burlingame, Helyn
Dzuris, Lois
Grabowski, Anthony
Hackett, Faythe
Horne, Lyle
Johnson, Barbara
Kaplan, Max
Kressler, Richard N.
Laux, Richard
Long, Gloria Dawn

204 S. Second St., Hughesville
R. D. 3, Lehighton
486 W. Riage Ave., Bloomsburg

Marie B.
Mlkvy, Lillian
Russell, Donald H.
Scheetz, Genevieve

1019 E. Webster St., Shamokin
409 Lehigh St., Palmerton
60 E. Main St., Bloomsburg
276 W. Wilkes-Barre St., Easton

St.,

Northumberland
Wiconisco
Forty Fort
Mt. Carmel

SENIORS

Mattis,

Steiner,

Woll, Charles T.

Bloomsburg
Berwick

401 Pine St., Berwick
410 E. Church St., Nanticoke
1016 W. Spruce St., Shamokin

Nanticoke
Coal Twp., Shamokin

W. Mt. Carmel Ave., Glenside
128 E. Main St., Ringtown
125 E. Fifth St., Berwick

Cheltenham
Ringtown
Berwick

75 Oak St., Port Chester, N. Y.
R. D. 1, Bloomsburg

W

Main

St.,

Trucksville

Briar Creek

Edward

Thomas, Hervey
Vukcevich, Ukasin
Wire, Ralph

Hughesville
Lehighton

Port Chester

Bloomsburg
Kingston Twp.
Berwick
Shamokin
Palmerton
Hazleton
Easton
Aristes

Orangeville
204 E. Oak St., W. Hazleton
333 W. Fifth St., Bloomsburg
1600 Fairview Ave., Berwick

Orangeville
West Hazleton
William Penn

Berwick

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

more years.
Coach Redman has

ATHLETICS
Husky Backstop Swings a Big

also suffered
1951 baseball team.
Included in the group of graduates is Michael Evans, the powerful
right-hander from Wilkes-Barre,
who for the past two seasons was
the ace of the Husky mound corps.
losses

Stick

from

his

A

sore arm, however, limited his
an outfield berth, but
he contributed the second highest
individual batting average to the
success of the Pluskies on the diamond, and his work in the outfield
He also
has been outstanding.
played varsity basketball during
his first two years at Bloomsburg.
activities to

%

Another diamond regular who
be sorely missed is Dick Hummel, from Northumberland. Hummel won the second base position
and
in his first year on the squad
will

during the rest of his college
The coach rates him as one
of the smoothest performers in inheld

it

career.

and his timely
been a factor in the
Huskies’ winning habits during the
tercollegiate ranks,

hitting has

past three seasons.
third Husky to graduate is
Kearns, pitcher from Lewisthe
town.
Kearns, who learned
diamond game at Juniata High
School, Yeagertown, has been used
largely in relief roles, but he picked
up two victories this season to contribute to the diamond fortunes of
He also was listed
the Huskies.
on the varsity basketball squad
at
during his first two years

The

Don

George Lambrinos. hard-hitting Husky catcher, gets set for the
pitcher’s next delivery.
George’s big bat has been an important factor
in the Huskies’ impressive record during th 1951 campaign.

OSS OF ATHLETES
Commencement exercises markd the departure

from Bloomsburg

of athletes who have
elped to write athletic history on
f

a

number

le hill.

Coach Redman’s 1950

football
the hardest hit, although
le baseball squad has suffered the
>ss of three regular players. Coach
[arold Shelly’s basketball team has
Dme through without a single loss
personnel, but his track team will
liss dependable Frank Womer, a

piad

is

:

insistent

winner and point-getter.

one varsity soccer player was
raduated, but informed
sources
ave asserted that the sport will be
ropped from the fall calendar.
>nlv

From the once-defeated football
}uad of 1950, Coach Redman will
)se

three starting regulars:

arrell,
.11-State

Dan

Frank Perry,
lineman from Shamokin,

Hazleton;

uigust, 1951

and Ed Tavalsky, talented end and
place-kicking specialist from Johnstown.
Parell has been one of the offensive mainstays of the
Maroon
and Gold for the past four seasons,
and led the state-wide collegiate
individual scoring race throughout
the major part of the 1950 season.
Perry, who has been a
varsity
guard for three seasons, was a
starter on the offensive unit during
the 1950 season, and his depend-

able performance won him a place
on the All-Pennsylvania and AllState Teachers College teams.
Tavalsky won four varsity letters
in football and played on both the
offensive and defensive units.
He
was an exceptionally fine placekicker, and did fine work in this
department of play. He was also a
member of the basketball squad

during his Freshman and

Sopho-

Bloomsburg.
Only one track man will be lost,
but the loss is a major one. This is
Women
Frank Womer, Pottsville.

new

college record in the pole
clearing the bar at 12 feet
S inches in the meet with Shippensburg this spring. He is also defending pole vault champion of the
set a

vault,

Teachers College Conference, and
he holds the conference record of
12 feet 6 inches.
their
Other athletes receiving
diplomas with the class of 1951 include Joe Apichella, the Hazleton
halfback who won All-State honors
following the 1949 season. He was
ineligible for competition last year.
Glenn Von Stetten, who played on
the 1948 and 1949 squads, and John
Babb, of Bloomsburg, were also
members of the graduating class.
13

AWARD FOUR

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
The

of
the
feud
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Huskies and the West Chester

dramatic

Teachers, which became in a single
season the top rivalry in the Teachers College Conference, will be renewed at Bloomsburg Saturday,
November 10, as tire feature of the
five-game all-star home schedule of
the 1951 Huskies. The Glenn Killinger outfit was the only team to
whip the Huskies last season, and
Coach Bob Redman’s returning regulars have vowed to even matters
with the down-staters this year.
West Chester’s appearance here
will headline the best home schedule ever arranged for a Bloomsburg
eleven. Four other top-flight clubs
will visit the den of the Huskies—
Lock Haven, Millersville, Shippensburg and Indiana. Herb Jack brings
his Lock Haven Bald Eagles here
for a night contest Saturday, September 29, while Millersville “T”minded Marauders invade Athletic
Bark two weeks later— Saturday

ment

$50

SCHOLARSHIPS
Four Bloomsburg State TeachCollege Students were awarded

ers

scholarships

May

Tuesday,

1,

in

appropriate ceremonies in the Carver Hall Auditorium. Three of the
four scholarships were
presented
by the General Alumni Association,
while the fourth award was made
by the Bloomsburg Branch, American
Association of University
Women. All the scholarships were

awards of

fifty

dollars,

award was made

to a

and

each

member

of
the freshman class.
The scholarship presented by the
A. A. U. W. was given to Miss Antoinette Czerwinski, daughter
of
Mrs. Frank Czerwinski, 124 Maple

Miss Louise

Carmel.

Street, Mt.

Reinhart, president of the Bloomsburg Branch, made the presentation
who is a
to Miss Czerwinski,
student in the Secondary Education

of Elementary Education.
Mr. Fenstemaker revealed that
the awards boosted the total scholarship grants made
during the
present college year to $350, while
loans have been
made totalling
$1750 from the Alumni Loan Fund.
Dr. Kimber E. Kuster, chairman of
the College Scholarship Committee, presided over the assembly.

VARSITY TENNIS
For the

TEAM

time since the be-

first

ginning of World War II, Bloomsburg State Teachers College was
represented by a varsity tennis team

The

this spring.

Husky

racket-

swingers played an abbreviated
schedule of four intercollegiate
matches, facing Kings College and
Lycoming College in home-and-

away

The

series.

tennis

varsity

Department.
Three Alumni grants were presented by Howard F. Fenstemaker,

program, initiated this year on an
informal basis, is under the general
direction of John A. Hoch, faculty
sponsor, but the team was coached
by Hervey B. Smith, well-known at-

Bloomsburg Tennis Club team.
The team, which opened

member

Loan
of the Alumni
The Florence J. Cawley
Scholarship was given to Jean-

torney and

The Hur
will stage their
Homecoming L ay on Saturday, Oc-

Fund.

tober 20, and the headline attraction will be the powerful Shippensburg Red Raiders. Following the
game with West Chester, the Huskies will close their season witli the
Sam Smith’s strong Indiana Teachers on Saturday afternoon, November 17.

daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Voyle Traver, R. D. 5, Tunkhannock, a student in the Department of Elementary Education.
Keith A. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Smith, R. D. 1, Pittston, was

season against Lycoming College at
Williamsport,
three
included
Bloomsburg students: David North,

night,

October

13.

treasurer

1

'

(

;

Coach Bob Redman’s squad
scheduled to make

its

is

1951 debut at

ette E. Traver,

W. Pfahler
J.
Scholarship.
Smith is enrolled in
the Department of Business Edu-

awarded the Dr.

Mansfield, Saturday, September 22,
although efforts are now being
made to play the game at nearby
Berwick, as has been the custom in

award, the William W.
Memorial Scholarship, was
presented to William L. Carson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Carson,

recent years.
Other games away
from home include meetings with
Kutztown, Saturday afternoon, October 27, and a night game at Wilkes College, Saturday, November 3.
The complete schedule follows:
September 22, Mansfield State
Teachers, away; September 29,
Lock Haven State Teachers, home,
night game; October 13, Millersville
State Teachers, home, night game;
October 20, Shippensburg State
Teachers, home; October 27, Kutztown State Teachers, away; November 3, Wilkes College, away, night
game; November 10, West Chester,
home;
November 17, Indiana,

246 East Third

final

Flvans’

Carson

of

the
its

James Doty and David Heckman.
Other members are Clifton Clarlidge, Washington, D. C.; Henry
Hurtt, Forty Fort and Robert Van
Drach, Pottstown.

The schedule

follows:

Lycoming

May 10; Kings College, home, May 12; Lycoming College, home, May 19
and Kings
College, away, May 21. The team
College, away,

cation.

The

a

is

Mt. Carmel.
a freshman in the Departstreet,

used the Bloomsburg Tennis Club
this
courts for its home matches
year.

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF GREATER N. Y.
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1888
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Bloomsburg, and Mary

Paul L. Brunstetter

present at the various activities on

Nuss, of
E. Taylor

among
Jones, of Scranton, were
on
those present on the campus
Alumni Day.
Fred E. Fassett

is

living in

Wy-

He

informs us that
he has retired after ten years of
teaching and forty-five years
as
owner of a general country store.

1897
Bertha
Aujpist, 1951

Kelly,

the

campus on Alumni Day.
1898

Ira C. Herrington, of Allentown,

was on the campus on Alumni Day.
1899
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene K. Rich-

1895
alusing, Pa.

D. Sharretts

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Mrs. Alwen Hartley
Lenox ville, Pa.

Mrs. Annie

Scranton,

“Every American is asking: How
can we stop world-wide CommunMust we chance a
ist aggression?
devastating atomic war? Is there
hope for peace? For survival?
“Dr. Laubach’s on-the-spot observations confirm his belief: the
world’s wounds can be healed before they fester under the poisonous influence of the Kremlin. Here
world
for
is the Christian plan
peace.”

1909
Dr. Scott R. Fisher has retired
from the active practice of medicine, and has established his resi-

dence

Harry O. Hine

Mrs. Helen

publishers have issued the
following statement regarding Dr.
Laubach’s book:

was

ards, of Elysburg,

were present to
Alumni Day.

greet old friends on

1901
Dr. Frank C. Laubach, who is
known all over the world for his
system of teaching illiterates
to
read, is the author of a book re-

at

2814

South

Peninsula

Daytona Beach, Florida. He
spends his summers at Thousand
Drive,

Island Park,

New

York.

1910
Teachers of South Canaan Consolidated School, Wayne County,
honored H. C. Box, retiring principal, at a testimonial dinner recently.
Present were: Mr. and Mrs. Box,
school directors and teachers, Mr.
of
Ammerman, Superintendent
Wayne County School; Mr. Ryder,
Mr.
assistant superintendent and
superintendent.
Howell, retired
Mrs. Robinson presented Mr. Box
Mrs.
with gifts from the teachers.
Mr.
Box was given a corsage.
Howell and Mr. Ammerman were
Mr. Box has
principal speakers.
been teaching in South Canaan
Township for 41 years and has
taught in various one-room schools
throughout the township.
1911
Miss Sarah E. Yoder, of Selinsgrove R. D. 1, became the bride of
Harold L. Sharadin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Sharadin, of Middleburg,
on Saturday, June 23, in the Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Middleburg. The groom will graduate
next year from the Temple University Dental School.
1912
Helen Appleman (Mrs. Herbert
B. Keller) lives at 442 Forest Place,
Culver, Indiana.

Her husband

is

15

a

member

of the faculty of

Helen G. Metzinger

lives at 308
Center Street, Mahanoy City.
Miss Metzinger is Art Supervisor

E.

in the

Mahanoy

Agnes G. Maust (Mrs. K. E. Dieffenbacher) lives at R. D. 1, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Dieffenbacher reports the recent arrival of
two
grandchildren.
1919
Lillian Fisher
Long, guidance
counsellor at the Radnor High
School, and Jacob C.
Fisher,
of
Washington, D. C., were married

Monday, June

18, at

North East,

Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are living at the Kingsway Apartments, Wayne, Pa.

Ralph Dreibelbis reports that
he and Mrs. Dreibelbis recently
spent several weeks
in
Florida.
They planned to visit their son
Kenneth, who was recently transferred to the Keesler Air Force
Base in Mississippi, where he was
enrolled in the Air Force
Radar
F.

Squadron.
1924
Doris Morse, 5 Franklin Avenue,
White Plains, New York, has been
serving this summer
as
Cabin
Counsellor at Camp Kokatose, a

camp

for

professional

women

at

Raymond, Maine.
1925

Marian Gower, 406 Prospect
Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey,
and James P. Bussberg, of Covington, Kentucky, were married Saturday, June 23, at the home of the
bride.

1927

Edythe B. Hortman, of Berwick
and Michael F. Slanski, of Mocanaqua, were married Monday, June
18 in a ceremony performed by the
Rev. M. J. Krupar, of the Mocanaqua Ascension Church. The groom
is employed by the Berwick
Store
Company. Mr. and Mrs. Slanski
are

now

street,
16

living at 300 East Eleventh

Berwick.

Ruth L. Bennage (Mrs. Robert
G. LaRue) lives at 134 Arch street,
Milton, Pa. Her husband, a major
in

the

Army,

United

Infantry,
is

States

in Korea.

City High School.

1917
Mrs. Dorothy Brower, formerly
Dorothy Miller and daughter of
Mrs. G. W. Miller, Jr., is now a
teacher in the kindergarten in the
Weatherly schools.

Korea

1930

the

Culver Military Academy.

1931

Dorothy Forgeng (Mrs. Edward
P Smith),

lives at

Scranton.

Street,

1313

She

Pettebone
has four

children.

1932
Miss Ida Bubb, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Stewart Bubb, of Berwick, became the bride of Leroy
Conway, son of Jesse Conway, of
Danville, in a ceremony at noon
Saturday, April 7, in
St.
John’s
Lutheran church, West Milton. The
Rev. Ernest L. G. Bottiger officiated before a floral background of

red rosebuds and white snapdragons.The couple left immediately
following the ceremony from the
Riverside airport for a week’s wedding trip to Florida. Mrs. Conway
is a graduate of B.S.T.C. and is a

member

of

American

registry

of

X-ray technicians.
Prior to
her
marriage, she was head of the X-ray
department at Muncy Valley Hos-

Her husband is a farm
machinery salesman for Housenick
Motor
Company,
Bloomsburg.

pital.

Upon

their return, they will reside
home in Muncy.

at their

1934

Major Gerald Woolcock, Orangeville R. D. 1, has been spending a
thirty-day rotation leave with his
family. Major Woolcock, assigned
as a personnel and supply
officer

with one of the

Mountain”

South

Korean
on

divisions, received

May

16 his order to depart for the
He left by jeep with his
interpreter the following morning,
taking the only supply road
in
allied hands, back to Taegu.
One hour after his departure, the
second big Red offensive of the
Spring opened, with the
Major’s
division bearing the brunt of the
first thrust.
Sixteen of the thirtyStates.

five

American

officers

remaining

killed. The
up what belongings

with the division were
rest

had

to pick

(hey could carry when the Chinese
cut the road taken an hour before

by Major Woolcock.
Enroute for home, Major Woolcock traveled by jeep from the
Iront to Taegu, by ferry boat from

to Japan, and by transportation ship to San Francisco.

A

brought him to Chicago,
where he was met by his wife, the
former Ruth Ginter, of Halifax, Pa.
Mrs. Woolcock and the children
were evacuated from Korea last
train

year, when the big battle for the
peninsula started. The major was
stationed in Seoul at that time.
Major Woolcock taught at the
Millville High School before World
War II and after his discharge with
the rank of Captain after five years
of service. He volunteered to reenter the sendee from the Reserve
in February, 1949.

Florence S. Hartline, 319 East
Bloomsburg, has for the
past five years been teaching in the
Third Street and Fifth Street
schools in Bloomsburg.
She previously had taught in the Valley
Consolidated
School
and the
Weatherly High School and tutored in Berwick. Miss Hartline
received her Bachelor’s degree at
Street,

Bloomsburg

in 1950.

1939
Alfred Koch, Class of 1939, Department of Business graduate, of
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colthe
lege, has successfully passed
last CPA examination. Mr. Koch is
assistant professor of accounting,
School of Business Administration,
Lehigh University, and has also
aught on the college faculties of
West Virginia and Ohio Northern
He married Lois
Universities.
They
Farmer, of Bloomsburg.
I

have two children, and have lived
in Bethlehem for the past several
Professor Koch is editorial
director of the National Cost Accountants Association.
years.

Yarworth, attorneyat
400 Gillet
Redwood and Light
Building,
Streets, Baltimore, 2, Maryland.

William

at-law,

is

J.

located

Anna L. Orner, now in York, is
State Recording Secretary of the
Business and Professional Women’s
Clubs.
1944
Miss

Mary Ellen

Flaherty,

of

Bloomsburg, and Albert Kohrherr,
of Milltown, New Jersey, were married Saturday, June 30, at the rectory of St. Columba’s Church, in

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Bloomsburg. The officiating priest
was the Very. Rev. William Burke.
\lrs. Kohrherr has for some time
been a member of the faculty of
lie schools in Cranford, New Jer:ey.
Her husband attended Panzer
College and Rutgers
University,
ind

is

Webb

for several years as secretary in the
office of the
Benjamin Franklin

the

He
Jersey.
\rmy for three years, including a
/ear and a half with the infantry

n the European theatre.
1947
Miss Nancy McHenry, daughter
if Mr. and Mrs. Silas McHenry, of
Stillwater, became the bride
of
lobert Devore, of Berwick, son of
dr. and Mrs. Peter
Devore, of
.akeworth, Fla., in a quiet cerenony on Thursday, March 22 in the
r
irst Evangelical
and Reformed
1’hurch,
Berwick.
The Rev.
Vayne Lutz officiated. The couple
eft immediately on a wedding trip
ind

upon

their return, will reside

Devore was graduated from Berwick High School,
hS.T.C. and the John Robert Pow*rs School, New York
City.
The
’room graduated from Stroudsburg
State Teachers College and served
n Berwick. Mrs.

a U. S.

is

Vorld

Navy

War

II.

acuity of the
ligh School.

officer

during

Both are on the
Mifflin

Township

1948

A

Pan-American Day observance
seventh grade students, taught
iv a Bloomsburg graduate, is conained in photographic records in
he Pan American Museum, Washngton, D. C. In a class project at
he Avoca School, Wilmette, Illin’is,
students of Mrs. Francis
X.
Irennan, the students participated
;y

“Good Neighbors” play. Upon
equest, photographs were sent to
he museum. Mrs. Brennan is the
n a

ormer Mary Severn, of Blooms>urg.
Her husband, a former B.S.

C. student,

a member of the
Jnited Press radio staff in Chicago.
is

James J. Dormer,
Hatboro, Pa.,

-.ane,

8 ,1950.

Brunswick,
served with the

New

Sew

November

1949
A son, Richard Dean, was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Stout,
on March 6 at the Mountainside
Hospietal, Montclair, N. J., where
Mr. Stout teaches in the Junior
High School. Mrs. Stout served

now employed by

Aire Company,

Michele, born

506 Preston
teaching in

is

Training School.
Eloise L. Noble (Mrs. Arthur E.
Fasshauer) lives at 801 Court St.,
Honesdale, Pa. She and her husband are operating a custom tailor
shop, specializing in made-to-order
clothes for

men and women.

1950
Miss Anna Stella Raski, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Raski, of
Benton, became the bride of Pvt.
Glenn Raymond Baker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Baker, of Benton,
in a pretty ceremony at nine o’clock
Saturday morning in Our Lady of
Mt. Carmel Church, Lake
Silkworth, Pa. The Rev. C. J. Sikorski
performed the double-ring ceremony. Following the ceremony, a
wedding breakfast was served at
the Top Hat Annex, Kingston, for
the immediate families. Private

and
Mrs. Baker left later on a wedding
trip through New York State. The
bride is a graduate of Benton High
School and the Franklin School of
Science and Art, Philadelphia. The
bridegroom, a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
is
now stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga.

Edward

J.

North Eighth

Sheehy lives at 8
Lebanon, Pa.

Street,

ceremony Saturday morning. April
in the Evangelical and Reformed
i

Church, Bloomsburg. The doublering ceremony was read by the Rev.

M. Edward Schnorr, pastor of the
churchc, before members of the
immediate families. The bride is a
graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The bride groom, a
graduate of Scranton-Lackawanna
Business College, is an accountant
for W. A. Albertson, contractor.
Miss Pauline Vee Clossen,
of
Bloomsburg and Elmer R. Wyant,
of Noxen, were married Saturday,
June 9, at the Hidlay Lutheran
Church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Arthur Eves,
of Espy.
Mrs. Wyant, formerly
employed in the office of Dean
North at the College, is a graduate
of the Wilkes-Barre Business Col-

28th Infantry Division,
terbury, Indiana.

Camp

At-

Richard Wagner, teacher of
mathematics in the Nescopeck High
School, has resigned to join
the
tabulating department of the American Car and Foundry Company,
in

High
Joint
He is also doing
Graduate work in the University of
Pennsylvania Graduate School of
education.
Mr. Dormer is maried,

and has a daughter,

August, 1951

Darlene

executive sec-

Miss Louise Lohr, of

Berwick,

and David P. Wentzel, of Trevorton, were married Friday, June 8,
in the Bower Memorial E. U. B.
Church, Berwick.
Mrs. Wentzel
taught last year in the

Catawissa

High School, and her husband

is a
of the class of 1951
at
Dickinson College. He served with
the Army for eighteen months, and

member

has accepted a position with the
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Com-

pany

in Philadelphia.

Miss Elizabeth Jane Ridall, of
Hill, became the bride
of
Donald G. Wagner, yeoman third
'J

own

class. United
States
Navy,
Broadway, on Saturday, June

Town

of
23,

Hill Methodist church.

The bride taught

last year in
the
business department of the Elizabethville High School. The groom,
a graduate
of
the
Huntington
Township High School, is stationed
with the Navy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. After July 1, Mr. and
Mrs. Wagner will live at 23 Lee

Street,

Berwick.

Miss Martha Louise Teel, daughter of Mrs. Harold G. Teel, Bloomsburg, and the late Mr. Teel, became
the bride of Richard Alan Ammerman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
H. Ammerman, Bloomsburg, in a

is

YMCA.

in the

Joseph V. Murdock, of Bamesville, Pa., is now Sergeant Murdock,

Wyant

retary of the Wilkes-Barre

he Commercial Department of the

Iatboro-Horsham
ichool in Hatboro.

Mr.

lege.

of

Cambridge

39, Mass.

Janice Audrey Jones,
daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Jones,

of 137 West Shawnee Avenue, Plymouth, Pa., was married to Wesley
David Castner of 13 Willow Street,
Plymouth, on Saturday, March 24,
in the
Pilgrim
Congregational
17

Church

at

traveled around the world, in

Plymouth.

Mrs. Castner is a graduate of
Plymouth high school and of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and is a member of the faculty
of Captain Jack Joint Pligh School,
Mount Union, Pa. Mr. Castner was

graduated from Larksville High
School and is associated with his
father in business in Plymouth.

Helen

Hoffman

Gerringer

is

teacher of first and second grades
in the Valley Consolidated School,
Montour County. Her address is
636 East Front Street, Danville.

1951

Rhoda

Ringtown, has
been elected teacher in the elemenCarls, of

tary grades in the

Sunbury

schools.

At a meeting of the DauphinCumberland County Alumni, held

MacCachran, 16
sixth street,
16,

we were

South

Camp

A.

R.

Twenty-

Hill, Pa.,

May

grieved to learn of

Mary Mickey, which
occurred May 5, 1951. Miss Mickey
was born September 23, 1863, in
Harrisburg.
She was graduated
from Harrisburg High School in
the death of

and from Bloomsburg Normal
School and Literary Institute, as
our Alma Mater was then known,
in 1885.
She taught for a few
months each at Catawissa and
1883,

Nescopeck, for seventeen years at
Steelton, and for 25 years at Harrisburg,
whereupon she retired
June 14, 1928.
On June 26, 1886, she became a
member of Pine Street Presbyterian
Church with which she was affiliated to the time of her death. She
was a quiet, unassuming person
whose acts of charity and benevolence in her church and in civic life
were typified by the even tenor of
her ways, thus again exemplifying
the beauty of character which befits
one so graced with genuine goodness and service in

the

common

good.
Miss Mickey was a constant reader of good literature, which kept
her mentally fresh and well informed. In addition to her reading, she
received a liberal education from
travel,

having visited

Europe

three occasions, and also
18

on
having

made

the

lasting

vocation. John A. Hoch led group
singing and introduced three students of the College who gave musi-

By unanimous action of the
Alumni a committee composed of

cal selections.

Miss Mary Pendergast, Miss Marie
Higgins and P. H. Englehart gave
expiession to the following

Lundy, of Bloomsburg and

RESOLUTION
Whereas, the Great Common
Denominator has issued the summons to Mary Mickey to join the
caravan which travels ever toward
that undiscovered
abode from
which no traveler returns; and
Whereas, these words by Max

Ehrmann, “Let me not follow the
clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.
Give me a few
lriends who will love me for what
I am; and keep ever burning before

my

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND
ALUMNI
at the residence of Mrs.

course of which she
friendships abroad.

steps the kindly light of hope.

And though age and infirmity over* * *
take me
teach me still to be
thankful for life, and for time’s
olden memories that are good and
sweet; and may the evening’s twilight find me gentle still,” were so
well exemplified in her life; and
Whereas, during the egregious
span of years she maintained a constant interest in the activities of our
Alumni Association, lending to it
that

something which can be

felt

but not observed; therefore be it
Resolved: That in the passing of
Mary Mickey we shall miss this
of
quiet personality, the impress
whom shall leave us richer because
she has gone on the way with us;

and be

it

Powell,

of

They were Richard
Pottstown;

Marilyn

Mary

Ann

Fink, of Berwick.
During a brief business session
these officers were chosen:
Mrs.
Ruth Rudy, president;
Robert
Lewis, vice president; Miss Alice
Smull, secretary and Miss
Susan

The group voted
hold the Fall dinner meeting on
the Monday evening of Thanksgiving Week in an effort to gain a

Sidler, treasurer.
to

larger attendance.

Mr. Hoch gave a report of recent
events and of progress made at the
College during the past year.
He
spoke in place of Dr. Harvey A.
Andruss who was attending a

meeting of Pennsylvania Cost Accountants at Easton.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, alumni president, talked in some detail for increased cooperation among alumni
in regard to raising scholarships for
worthy students. He stressed the
need for a graduate organization
that helps meet the requirements of
the College. He said there will be
other large gifts, made by alumni,
announced in the near future.
Representing the College faculty
in addition to Mr. Ploch were Miss
Edna J. Hazen, Mrs. Lucille Baker,
The meeting
Dr. Ralph Herre.
closed with the singing of the Alma
Mater.

further

Resolved: That this resolution be
copied in the minutes of our

COLUMBIA COUNTY BRANCH

Alumni Association, and a copy be
forwarded to the Bloomsburg State

umbia County Branch of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Alumni Association, held in Berwick on April 2, Edward T. DeVoe,
the president, was authorized to establish what is hoped to be a longrange scholarship program for
worthy students at B. S. T. C.
It was agreed at the meeting that
each Columbia County graduate

Teachers College with the request
that it be printed in the Quarterly;
and that a copy be forwarded to D.
Paul Rogers, 309 Fifteenth Street,
New Cumberland, Pa., one of the
nearest of kin.

MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI
Seventy-five alumni and friends
of the College of

Mountour county

met Friday evening, April 6 at the
Mausdale church and enjoyed a
Mrs. Ruth
splendid program.
Rudy, president of the Montour
county branch, presided, and Fred
W. Diehl, superintendent of the
Montour county schools and a
trustee of the College, gave the in-

At the annual dinner of the Col-

should be asked to contribute ten
cents per year for each year which
lias elapsed since the time of his
or her graduation from the college
up to the present year, with a minimum contribution of one dollar.
Here is how the plan will work in
actual practice. If an alumnus is a
recent graduate of B.S.T.C., in 1946
for example, his contribution will

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

$1.00.

ie

If

he or she were grad-

the contribution will
If the graduate
to
$2.00
mount
iclongs to the class of 1897, his
ontribution will be based on fiftyour years of alumni membership

ated

nd

in 1931,

amount

will

to $5.40.

The

as-

graduates
that older
lenefited yearly from the training

umption

is

hey received

at their

Alma Mater

ind that they are in a better finanial position than the neophytes. If

Columbia County Branch members join the “Ten Club,” the scholirship fund should be adequate for
ill

it

least a

decade.

Payment of contributions will
lutomatically qualify a Columbia
bounty alumnus for membership
n the “Ten Club.” Recognition of

uch membership will be made in
he Alumni Quarterly through the
•ooperation of Dr. Elna H. Nelson,
president of the

Howard

Alumni Association

Fenstemaker,
editor of the alumni magazine.
and

F.

Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, a member
a
of the Science Department and

alumnus, has
accepted the chairmanship of the
scholarship committee. All contributions should be addressed to Dr.
Kuster, in care of the college. The

Columbia County

chairman will have a free hand

in

the distribution of these grants-inreport of
a
aid and will give
receipts and expenditures at the
annual branch dinner.

The next dinner meeting of the
group will be held next fall in the
the
college dining room through
courtesy of Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the college. An effort
will be made to hold the dinner on

an evening

when an

outstanding

number of the evening entertainment program is being presented.
Branch members will be treated to
artists’
the finest in the college’s
course in addition to an excellent
meal.

Teachers Association,
recent trip to

Cuba

Fifty alumni and friends of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College

attended the twentieth annual reunion of the Philadelphia branch

Alumni Association, on Saturday evening, April 28 at McAlof the

lister’s

restaurant.

The alumni heard Mrs. Florence
Hess Price, East Orange, N.
J.,

Jersey State
tell

of

her

as a guest of the

Class

Cuban government, and

Dr. E. II.
the general

Nelson, president of
body.
Other speakers included

Mrs.

Nora Kenney, Philadelphia,

secre-

tary-treasurer of the

who

association,

read an account of the history

of the organization.

Bernard J. Kelly, manager of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Pennsylvania, Delaware and

New

jersey,

was the toastmaster.

Mrs. Mary E. Taubel, of Norristown, was recognized during the
program as one who has contributthe
of
ed much to the success
Philadelphia branch.

Harvey A. Andruss, president
and John A. Hoch,
dean of men, spoke briefly. Mrs.
Lillian Irish, of Camden, N. J.,
president, presided at the opening
Dr.

of the college

of the program.

Entertainment was provided by a
group of college students, John
Bogdan, Philadelphia; Mary Grace
Aimers, Plymouth and Mary Ann
Fink, Berwick. Others from the
college faculty attending were Miss
Edna J. Barnes and Miss Lucy Mc-

Cammon.

The executive committee of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Alumni
Association of Greater New York
met April 10, 1951 at 500 5th Ave.,
New York City to formulate plans
for a luncheon and reunion.
It was decided to hold a luncheon and reunion on October 6, at
the Allerton Hotel, 57th Street and
Lexington Avenue. This date was
selected in order that it might not
interfere with college activities at

The committee met

May

21 and drafted a preliminary notice of our luncheon and
reunion, which was mailed to 315
alumni in and around New York.

again

working hard to
The committee
make this reunion and luncheon an
enjoyable affair. Won’t you help?
A fiinal and more detailed notice
Sepwill be mailed out early in
is

tember.

Reunions
1886

Members

of the class of 1886 at-

tended the Alumni meeting and
luncheon on the campus on Alumni
Day, and then enjoyed an afternoon
tea at the home of Mrs. Melle Long
Dickson in Berwick.

Of the

original sixty-three

mem-

twenty-one are living and the
lollowing enjoyed the day’s activities: Mrs. Belle Monie Jones and
her husband, Drexel Hill, Pa.; ElUeda Barnes Gottschall, Tyrone;
Annie Bloss Wolf, Shickshinny;
Melle Long Dickson, Berwick and
Annie Snyder Mausteller, Bloomsbers,

burg.
Greetings were read from Marion
A. Kline, Cheyenne, Wyoming;
Hattie Hoffman Ruhl, Lewisburg;
Rachel Schultz, Philadelphia; Maud
Runyan Colley, Honesdale and
Mrs. Nolan H. Sanner, widow of
the late president of the class.
Two scholarships have been
given to the College in honor of the
class during the past five years. One
in memory of Miss Stella Lowenberg, a scholarship of two hundred dollars; the other, a scholarship of five hundred dollars, was
in memory of the Rev. Nolan H.
Sanner, and was presented by Mrs.
Sanner and her family.
Mrs. Mausteller, who has been
active in the promotion of her class
reunions, has served as class secretary since graduation.

was

ALUMNI OF GREATER
NEW YORK

Bloomsburg.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI

New

president of the

1891

The sixty-year class had seven
members back for their reunion.
These included William

Dean Emeritus

of

the

B. Sutliff,

College;

Waynesboro;
Mrs. Orr, Lewistown; William A.

Harvey

Rhinehart,

Elizabeth
Tumbach, Hazleton;
Smith, Mount Carmel; Mrs. Gratz,
Long Island City and Mrs. B. W.
P'urman, Bloomsburg.
1896
The Class of 1896 had the following members present Friday evening,

May

26:

Charles L. Boyer, Lewisburg;
Harriet F. Carpenter, Bloomsburg;
19

August, 1951

Gertrude Rees (Mrs. Ray W. Hartman) Rerwick; Daisy Reimensnyder (Mrs. I. R. Teitsworth) Kingston; Bessie Vance (Mrs. Willis M.

DeMott)
(Mrs.

S.

Winter
Millville; Rachel
L. Prath) Nanticoke.

Baker, Arthur D. Templeton, W. R.
Lams, Mary Thompson, Lucy Brobst
Kline,
Mary Flanagan McDermott,
Keller B. Albert,
O’Donnell
Maisie
Klein, Daisy F. Eggleston, Harriet A.
Bittenbender, Mabel Pennington WieE.

land.

They enjoyed

a six o’clock dinner
College dining room, where
the class of 1901 was also dining.
When the president of the Alumni
asked different groups to stand,
Teitsworth
Daisy Reimensnyder
gave the following toast to the

in the

class of 1901:

“Here’s to the class of 1901

To be with us is lots of fun.
The class of 1896
Welcomes this hour with you

to

mix.

We’ve met old mates

of the school

day.

’Twas long ago, life had her way
So Alma Mater, we are here
To celebrate another year.’
Saturday the group attended the
Alumni meeting and then had
lunch together at the College.
1901

The

of

1901,

day evening preceding Alumni
Day. The class was honored on
Alumni Day by being seated on the
platform during the meeting of the
General Alumni Association, and
by the presentation of copies of
diplomas such as they received fifty
years ago. The following attended
the dinner:
George W. Williams, E. S. Merrill, Ida
Armstrong,
B. Gilbert, Estelle White
Minni Owen Geist, Martha A. Jones,
Lucy Brobst Kline, Lela Shultz Madsen,
Gertrude Follmer Lowry, Mabel Pennington Wieland, Harrit A. Bittenbender,
Helen Young, Shields, Maisy O’Donnell
Kline, Helen Lesher Frederick, W. R.
Lams, Mary Challenger Griffith, Evelyn
Creveling Shuman, Alice Oliver RoderGertrude
Joseph,
ick, Mary Thomas

Morgan Northy, Mary Shoemaker ValCook, E. Joe Albertson,
Adele Altmiller Burkhardt, Keller B.
Albert and Mary Albert Glenn.
The class continued its program on
Those who
the campus on Saturday
remained for the Saturday activities
were Helen G. Lesher, Charlotte V.
Heller, Mary Challnger Griffith, Virginia Vought, Gertrude Morgan Northy,
George W. Williams, Estelle White Armentine,

Fred

S.

.

Mae E. Townsend, Mary
Shoemaker Valentine, Mr. and Mrs. E.

strong, Mrs.

Joe Albertson, Alice Oliver Roderick,
Young Shields,
Frieda Cook, Helen
Eveling Creveling Shuman, Thomas F.
Downing, Jr., Martha A. Jones, Dr. G.
20

of the class of 1906 in
attendance at their reunion were

the following:
James A. Kinney, Bethlehem; Mary
Butt Klase, Benton; Lu Buddinger Mershon, Mt. Carmel; Blanche Pealer Troxell, Narberth; Amy
Levan, Sunbury;
Hazel Owen Schuchart, Penn Farms,
Florida; Laura Aurand Witmer, Collegeville; Marion Groff Spangler, Reading;
Emma M. Smith, West Hazleton; Blanche Mille Grimes, ’05, Harrisburg; Mary
Dailey, ’05, Wilkes-Barre;
Irving
Cogswell, Montrose, R. D.; Sara E. Buddinger, ’04, Mt. Carmel;
Mrs.
John
Lyons, Mt. Carmel; Mrs. Elizabeth Stiver Mittleford, Elizabeth, N. J.; Nellie
Durbin Batey, Forty Fort; Helen DeWitt Terwilliger, Bloomsburg; James A.
Kinney, Bethlehem; Mr. and Mrs. W.
Raymond Girton, Ithaca, New York;
Lillie Hortman Irish, Camden, N. J. and
Mary E. Keller, Wilkes-Barre.
B.

1911

Members

celebrating
this year the fiftieth anniversary of
its graduation, met at a dinner held
in the college dining room on Friclass

1906

Members

opened

of the Class

their 40th reunion

of

1911

program

with a dinner served at the Bloomsburg Evangelical and Reformed
Church Social Rooms, on Friday
evening at 6:30. The fact that
about 80 members and friends of
the Class took the time from their
busy lives to attend this function,
attests to the loyalty of the Class

of ’ll to their

Alma Mater and

their

class mates.

Following the dinner and a short
impromptu program presided over
by Ray Cole, the group wended
their way to the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Elna H. Nelson, where the
in
rest of the evening was spent
good fellowship, recalling the
events of 40 years ago, and catching up on more recent activities of
class members.

At the business meeting held on
Saturday, following the luncheon,
the following officers were elected:
Nelson;
President, Dr. Elna II.
Diehl;
Fitch
Secretary, Pearle
Treasurer, Pauline Sharpless Harper.

By unanimous
members present,
place the names

action
it

of

the

was decided

to
Class of

of the
1911 on the Scholarship Loan Fund
Roll, and to raise the necessary $50
by voluntary contributions. A free
will offering given by those present,

was more than

sufficient to

the scholarship.

pay

The meeting

for

ad-

journed to meet again in 1956.
The following were present:
Harriet Armstrong Garberson and Mr.
Berklie Small, Harry M. Bogart, Irene
Garberson, Bessie Ash Naunas, Jennie
Campbell Getty,
Mae Chamberlain
Dornsife and Mr. Dornsife, May
M.
Cole and Mrs. Cole, Pauline Coleman
M.D.,
Stimpson. James A. Corrigan,
Carlton T. Creasy, Mrs. Creasy
and
Marilyn A. Creasy, J. Frank Dennis and
Mrs. Dennis, Ethel Faust Hagenbuch,
Peaile Fitch Diehl and Mr. Diehl, 'Margaret Fraser Johnson and Mr. Johnson,
Elmira Guiterman Linner and Mr. Linner, Merlin S. Gulliver and Mrs. Gul-

Ruth Harris, Dr. M. L. Hartman
and Mrs. Hartman, Grace Hartman Artley, Louise Hartman Cortright and Mr.

liver,

Reinhart,
Irene Heimbach
Cecelia Hofer Bartle, Donald F. Ikeler,
Mrs. Ikeler and Miss Rebecca Ikeler,
Grace F.
Catherine Jameson Burr,
Johnson, Thomas H. Keiser and Mrs.
Dr.
Ke'sr, Anna Kline Kocher and
Kocher, George B. Landis and Mrs. LanCortright,

dis.

Edna Lewis Robinson, Irma Miller
Kenneth Naugle, Florence
Morgan McLenan, Dr. E. H. Nelson and
Mrs. Nelson, Anette Osborn Frantz, Ruth
HasReynolds Hasbrouck and Mr.
Naugle, A.

brouck. A. J. Sharadin and Mrs. SharaPauline Sharpless Harper, Helen
Shew Ferguson and Mr. Ferguson,
Grace Shuman John, Margaret Simmons
Yost, Harry A. Smith M. D., and Mrs.
Dr.
Smith, Irene Snyder Ranck and
Ranck, Katharine Stuntz Rarick and Mr.
Rarick, Jennie Tucker Williams, Miriam
Warden,
Vannatta Freas, Clara May
Whitmire
Elisabeth A. White, Jennie
Kelt, Anna K. Wiant, Elsie Winters Herrick and Mr. Herrick, Mrs. Dennis D.
Wright, Mrs. Reba Nietz, Miss Mary A.
Good, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Carpenter,
Robert C. Metz, TO.
din,

1916

Members
met

of

1916

at ten o’clock Saturday

morn-

of the class

ing at the cottage and then held a
at the Char-Mund.
Present were: Mrs. Horace Williams,

luncheon

Monroe Frey, Mrs.

Mrs. B.

H.

Boyd

Hagnbuch, Mrs. Sam Henrie, Ivan Schlauch. Margaret Hidlay Potter, Ethel
Hilda
Searles, Ruth Fuller Grgory,
Wosnock Welliver, Cora G. Hill, Earl
Hartman, Frank S. Hutchison, Mrs. T.
A. O'Connell, Mrs. J. G. Hopkins, Jr.,
Blanche Robbins Damon, Emma HarriMr.
son Myers, Hazel Walper More,
and Mrs. D. Emerson Wiant, Elsie H.

Robison.
Jessie M. Jones, Joanne Powell LorHarman
enz, Sara Cook Young, Irene
Dew, Alice Neily Ellston, Dorothy M.

Mary Siegel Tyson, Lorena Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. William Evans and
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thomas.

Fritz,

1921

The

class of 1921,

active in reunion,
TIIE

one of the most
opened its pro-

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

am

with a dinner at Fest’s on

riday evening. Thirty-six mem?rs and guests joined in the proam which included a solo by Miss
laree E. Pensyl.

Greetings were

ctended by Myrlynn T. Shaffer,
ilkes-Barre, the president.
Attending: Edith Blossom Hoffman,
azleton: Lillian Nelson Yerkes, Honesile; Warren Fisher, Mary E. Beamer,
Beaver,
[oomsburg; Angeline Evans

Dawning Major,
Mildred
;ranton:
rucksville; Helen Welliver Girton. O.
Girton. Sunbury; Helen Lowe Sch.

Montros; Oda Behr, Lopez; Jen-

gel.

Cooke Ellis, Scranton.
Helen Phillips White. Bloomsburg;
ertha Billmeyer Zong, J. Elmer Zong,
t. and Mrs. Frank Honstrater, Bellee

N.

lie.

J.;

Mrs.

Ray Kester,

Danville;

azel Zeigler, Bloomsburg; Mr.
rs. T. Edison Fischer, Glen Lyon;

and

Mary

Harry W.
Brower, Bloomsburg;
Anna Garrison Scott. Bloomsburg;
Beatrice
ucille S. Kile, Willard Kile,
.

:ott.

Elmer
Eichner, Philadelphia;
Major, Trucksville; Mrs. H. R. Miller,
loomsburg; H. R. Kocher, Helen E.
ocher, Mifflinville; Peg Martin, Elmer
r

illiam

.

Bethlehem; Harry E. Cole
McKinstry Cole, Bloomsburg;
live Scott, Kingston; Jack E. MacAlter. Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Law;nce R. Cherrington, Margaret Hines,
elen Welliver Girton, Sunbury; Ralph
Shuman, Elizabethtown; Victor Dobb,
[artin.

hloe

.

Wilkes-Barre.

1926

Members

of the twenty-five year

had a splendid turnout and a
usy day on the campus. Attending;
Margaret Coburn Davies, Hazleton;
larjorie Zehner Albertson, Conyngam; Margaret Kraft, West Hazleton;
Gallagher Jenkins, Plymouth;
lary
lary Sweney Ruddy, Germantown; Lulass

year reunion, had the largest turnout of the day with 86 members
and guests at luncheon at the Elks.

Dinner music was by
Mary
Grace Aimers, pianist, and John
Bogdan, violinist. There was a
humorous sketch by Ben Burness.
Motion pictures of College activities of 1929, 1930 and 1931 were
shown and Edward T. DeVoe,
chairman of the class committee on
arrangements and toastmaster, took
motion pictures of the reunion
which will be shown when the
class gathers in 1956.

Guests of honor were Miss HarM. Moore, class adviser; Mr.
and Mrs. S. L. Wilson; Dr. and
Mrs. T. P. North. Other faculty
members attending were E. A.
Kearns, Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Miss
Ethel Ranson Dr. and Mrs. Francis Haas, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
Dr. E. H. Nelson sent regrets.
riet

All

officers

Davis,

were
James B.

were

Mechanicsburg,

president;

Bowman, Bloomspresident; Thomas Kirk-

Miss Elizabeth
burg, vice
er,

Detroit, Mich., treasurer; Mrs.

Lot Lake, Windsor, N. Y., secretary.
Favors included miniature mortar boards and megaphones.
The
committee along with DeVoe were
Mrs. Bruce Bowman, dinner chair-

man; Mrs. Edward T. Kitchen, Mrs.

.lien

Earl E. Davis, Mrs. Hower Kitchen,
and Miss Eva Krauss. There were
brief reports by members relative
to activities since leaving college.

ester,

The death

Llla

;y,

Kaufman Foulkrod, Hazleton; Mrs.
Earnhart, White Haven; Frances
Berwick; Mrs. Russell A. FagElysburg; Mrs. Robert M. Dwyer,

Marjorie Davey, Honesdale;
George McCollum, Danville; JesMargaret
ica C. Trimble, Kingston;
Isaac, Hazleton; Mrs. Carl M. Davis,
Stocker,
E.
irangeville; Mrs. Paul
lempstead, L. I.; Mrs. Joseph Coyne,
Ixeter; Mrs. Grace Vail Noble, Jermyn;
lrs. Ruth Allen Smith, Lakewood; Mrs.
leadville;
lrs.

I.

Fisher Perrego, Dallas, R. D.
Gertrude Powell. Mountain Top; Mrs.
i. R. Miller, Jermyn.
'ranees
:

Miriam Hippenstiel Gass, Danville;
Werna Paul Bennett, Shamokin; Verna
Josephine
Fetterman,
Sunbury;
lavey Swithers, Glen Lyon; Stephina
tasmus Butka, Glen Lyon; Grace Haros Carr, Kingston; Fannie Hilbert RobRoderick,
erts, Wyoming; Eleanor
J.
Wilkes-Barre; Edith Morris Rowlands,
'.

iohn T. Rowlands,
Meshoppen; Ruth
V.
Jeixell Miller, Shickshinny; Leora
Souders, Nescopeck; Mabel Davies Turler. Sheatown; Margaret Phillips Walter,

Glen Lyon.

1931

The

class of iaol, in

August, 1951

twentieth-

Norman Morgan, of
Lewisburg, was announced. DeVoe
of

was elected chairman of th earrangements committee for the 1956
reunion and authorized to name his

own

committee.

Mrs. Samuel A. Wright,
Watsontown; Mrs. Lot Lake, Windsor,
N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Orval C. Palsgrove,
Norwood; Miss Doris Palsgrove, George
Palsgrove, Frackville; Mr. and Mrs. S.
Arthur Smith, Bloomsburg; Mr.
and
Mrs. E. H. VanDine, Montoursville; Mr.
and Mrs. M. J. Pennington, Bloomsburg;
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sutliff; Raymond
W. Williard, Trevorton; Kenneth E.
Hawk, Bear Creek; Mrs. Nelson M. Penman, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Harold
H. Lanterman; Mrs. Harry M. Wagner,
Freeburg; Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon A. MacDougall, Benton, R. D. 1; Mrs. Esther
Yeager Castor, Croydon; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Baum, Sunbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. MacPartland,
Hartford, Conn.; Emily A. Park, Endicott, N. Y.; Minnie Olschefsky, Catawissa, R. D. 1; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred FrankAttending:

Chester; Adaline Burgess,

Wyoming;

Theodore Laskowski, Trucksville, R. D.;
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Wolever, Miss Cherrell Wolever, Clarks Green; Mr. and
Mrs. Chester, Jr., Glen Lyon; Elizabeth
H. Hubler, Gordon; Miss Tracy VanBuskirk, Binghamton, N. Y.; Mr. and
Mrs. S. Lee Ritchie, Orangeville, R. D.
Mrs. Maurice Eyer, Millville, R. D. 1;
Miss Catherine Stackhouse, Lisbon, Md.;
Richard Acker, Rochester, N. Y.; Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas P. North, Elizabeth C.
Bowman, Bloomsburg; Mr. and Mrs. S.
L. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. DeVoe, Clara E. Fahringer, Williamsport;
Florence Dunn, Jermyn; Mrs. Donald
E. Bangs,
Millville;
Mrs. Donald E.
A.
Bennett, Millville; Mr. and Mrs.
Hower Kitchen, Bloomsburg; Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Kindig, Berwick; Miss
Helen C. Rosser, Clarks Green; Mr. and
Bloomsburg;
Mrs. Robert Shoemaker,
Mrs. Eleanor Kearnes, Nanticoke; Miss
Erma V. Kelchner, Shickshinny; Mrs.
Helen Strykal Zebroski, Plains; Mrs.
Helen Galazin Yenchek, Nanticoke; Mr.
Bloomsburg;
r.d Mrs. Jack Eble, Jr.,
Miss Kay Ingram, Pittsburgh; Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Swan, Wilkes-Barre Miss
Catherine Williams, Nanticoke; Mr. and
Mrs. Edward T. Kitchen, Bloomsburg.
i

of the class

They

present.

lin.

1936

Among

those back for their fifteenth year reunion were M. W.
Mericle, Baltimore, Md.; Mr. and
Mps. Daniel J. Jones, Millville, N.
j.; Mrs. Rachel Beck Malick, Sunbury; Mrs. June Sharpe Wagner,
Drums; Mr. and Mrs. David Mayer,
Wilkes-Barre; Violet Brown Hassell

and Robert Hassell,

Morrisville.

1941
In attendance from the class of 1941
were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Klotz,
Schencksville; Mr. and Mrs. Edward V.
Dobb, Milton; Mr. and Mrs. Edward D.
Dorothy Schaeffer, BerEdwards,
wick; Mr. and Mrs. Stuart
Kane; Mr. and Mrs. Clark Renninger,
Arlington, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
and Mrs.
Robbins, Bloomsburg; Mr.
James H. Deily, Jr., Lancaster; Howard
Sharretts, Mrs.

and Sara Tomlinson, Clair Miller, Mary
Albertson
Dorothy
Sweigart Miller,
Dodock,

Florabelle

Schrecongost

Sch-

neider, Herb Schneider, Marian Murphy,
Lois Fullmer
Jessie Schiefer Hower,
Metzfier, Mr. and Mrs. George Horvath.

1946
Returning for the fifth year reunion of the class of 1946 were Miss
Anastasia Pappa, Danville; R. Lorraine Utt, Allentown; Mrs. Charles
W. Creasy, Jr., Catawissa R. D. 1;
Dora Brown, Dover; Reed and Lenore Buckingham, Allentown; Isabel
Gehman Davis, Ephrata; Mrs. Martha Etitzel

Mrs.

Schappel,

Evelyn

Witman

Hamburg;
Mooney,

Shartlesville; Eileen Falvey, Belleville,

N.

J.;

Miss

Anna

Barbara

Businell, Forest City.
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Miss Kline had resided her enlife at the West Third street
home and her death occurred in
the same room in which she was
tire

Nerrnlngg

born.

Miss Mary Mickey, ’85
Miss Mary Mickey, of 112 South
St., Harrisburg, died Saturday, May
She was the
5, in Harrisburg.
daughter of the late Christian H.
and Susan Shields Mickey.
She was one of the oldest members of the Pine Street Presbyterian
A graduate of BloomsChurch.
burg State Normal School and the
New York Chautaqua, she taught
in the Harrisburg public schools
She
until 1928, when she retired.

was

also

a

life

member

of

the

YWCA.

A graduate of the Bloomsburg
Normal School in the Class of 1894,
she had entered the teaching proAfter teachfession early in life.
ing one year at Stillwater and one
at Orangeville, she accepted a posi-

years

Edith A. Moses,
of Miss Edith A.
Moses, eighty-one, former student

Bloomsburg Normal School,

died at her Wilkes-Barre
io winfi a brief illness.

had been devoted

home

century.

Miss Kline was the daughter of
the late Mathias L. and Sophia A.
Kline.
She was a member of St.
Surviving are a nephew, David

Much

of her

to teaching.

Ella Knittle, ’92

several years.

Born in Catawissa, she was the
daughter of the late J. B. and Rebecca Berninger Knittle. She had
spent her entire life in Catawissa,
and had taught in the Catawissa
She had
schools for fifty years.
retired several years ago.
Miss Knittle was a graduate of
the Catawissa High School and the
Bloomsburg Normal School, and
studied on graduate level at Pennsylvania State College and Susque-

hanna University.
She was an active member of St.
Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Catawissa, and was a charter member
the
of the Catawese Chapter of
Order of Eastern Star.
Kline, ’94

Mary C.
Miss Mary C. Kline, seventy-four,
well-known retired local school
teacher, died at her home, 225 West
Third street, Bloomsburg, Monday,
March 26, of complications. She
had been in ill health for several

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F. Kline, of

New

ter-in-law, Mrs.

Jersey, and a sisB. Kline, at

Lucy

home.

f ol-

Miss Ella Knittle, widely-known
retired Catawissa school teacher,
died Wednesday, April 4, at her
home, 505 Mill street, Catawissa.
She had been in failing health for

years.

retirement

youth nearly half a

Matthew Lutheran Church.

The death

life

entering

before

after serving

Dr. Susan Koons Dodds, ’94
Dr. Susan Koons Dodds, 145
Nieto Avenue, Long Beach, California, died Friday, July 6, a her

home.

Dodds was

a native of PennShe and her husband,
Frank W. Dodds, lived for several

Dr.

sylvania.

years in Chicago.
Rotary International

Mr. Dodd’s

in
ol

office.

post-graduate

College and took
at Bucknell

work

University.

She was a retired teacher of Jerseytown and Washingtonville disa
trict schools and at one time
member of the Derry and Milton
Presbyterian Churches.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Margaret Brower, and a niece, Miss

Mary Brower, both

of

Bloomsburg.

faculty.

She taught here, principally at the
Third Street School, for forty-three

’90

of the

Bloomsburg

tion with the

State Teachers

was formed

He was one

the charter members.
Dr. Dodds was graduated from

Bloomsburg State Teachers Col
Bloomsburg, Pa., and later
from the University of Illinois
School of Medicine. She went to
China in 1903 as a medical missionary and was in charge of the
women’s hospital at Tain Fu until

Blanche Letson MacAmes,

’00

Mrs. H. C. MacAmes, a former
Kingston school teacher, died suddenly June 19 in a hospital at
Creenville, Tenn.
She was the
former Miss Blanche Letson.
Mrs. MacAmes taught school in
Kingston and Lansdale. She was
State
a graduate of Bloomsburg
Teachers College where she majored in music and where she served for some time as a member of
the faculty. To broaden her training she studied at Cornell University and in New York City and was
under the tutelage of one of New
York’s leading voice teachers.
Later, she became a member of
the faculty of Tusculum College,
voice,
Tennessee, as teacher of
harmony and dramatics.
She was married to H. C. MacAmes, an instructor at the college.
Possessed of a beautiful soprano
voice and a pleasing personality,
Mrs. MacAmes was not only interested in promoting college activities but in community affairs.

lege,

1910. After having returned to the
United States, she established her
own office. She had resided in
Long Beach since 1930. She was a
lifelong member of the Methodist
Church.

Mary B. Love, ’96
Miss Mary B. Love, former area
teacher, died Tuesday, March 22,
in

Farrow Hospital,

Erie.

Miss Love, who resided in Wesleyville with Mr. and Mrs. Clair
Mercer, was born in Derry township, Montour county, a daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. B. Love.
She was a graduate of Bloomsburg

Catherine O’Brien, ’00
graduate of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and former principal of Exeter High School, Miss
Catherine O’Brien, died at her
home in Exeter Monday, April 9.
She had been ill one week. She
was a graduate of West Pittston
High School and did graduate work

A

Susquehanna University following her schooling in Bloomsburg.

at

Mary Welsh, ’02
Miss Mary Welsh, life-long resident of Danville and retired teacher, died Sunday, June 2, at the GeisShe reinger Hospital, Danville.
tired three years ago after long serShe
vice in the Danville schools.
was a graduate of the Danville
State
schools of the Bloomsburg

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ormal School, and

of

Bucknell

niversity.

She was a member of St. Joseph’s
Church, Blessed Virgin
idality of the Church, Women’s
allege Club, and the Red Cross
itholic

>ard.

Harry E. Rider,

’04

Harry E. Rider, sixty-six, one of
oomsburgs best known men,
ed May 14 at the Bloomsburg
Dspital

following a heart attack

stained at his home.

West

•eet.

He was removed

spital

immediately.

m remained

critical

First

the
His condiuntil the end.
to

For years he was proprietor of
s Kocher Coal Company, with
Pices on East Seventh street, and
ior to that time he was, for a
inber of years, principal of the
Elementary School.

fth Street

A

native of Catawissa township,

had resided

in

Bloomsburg

for

out forty years. He was a gradte
of
the Bloomsburg State
achers College, then the Normal
hool, in 1904.

Throughout his residence in town
was an active member of the
ethodist Church. He was a memr of the board of trustees and for
enty-seven years secretary of the
nday School. Mr. Rider was serig as a member of the advance
mmittee of the congregation at
3 time of his death.
One phase
this project is the $75,000 imovement program just recently
proved.

Mr. Rider was long active in the
rious Masonic bodies. He was a
st master of Washington Lodge,
). 265, F. & A.
M.; a member of
oomsburg Royal Arch Chapter,
).
218; Mount Moriah Council,
).
10; a past commander of Crude Commandery, No. 12, Knights
implar; of Caldwell
Consistory
d the Coordinate Bodies of town,
d Irem Temple Shrine, Wilkes-

grand children, Harry Rider

ree

Reed Leonard Blom and

om,

Ann Blom, of town; a broGeorge Rider, Catawissa R.
two sisters, Mrs. Sadie Kern,
town, and Mrs. Mattie Fetter-

dith
er,

in,

School, was receiv ed with profound
regret throughout Carbon County
Saturday afternoon, April 7, particularly by members of the faculty,
student body and alumni association, all of whom respected her as
a teacher and friend.

A

Fernville.

igust,

1951

beloved

Miss

citizen,

enthusiasm, giving of her talents
unstintingly
to
the
inestimable
benefit of her pupils. As a disciplinarian, she was respected and her
kind, generous counsel was always
freely given to those who
sought
advice in their dilemma.
Miss Bevan was as popular out
of the classroom as in the school
building and her gracious and captivating charm made her a welcome
addition to all circles. She devoted
much time to civic interests and in
this endeavor she was characteristically efficient.

A

lifelong

resident

of

Mauch

hunk, she was born August 8,
1890, the daughter of the late J.
and Frances Cole Bevan, her
J
father having served for a number
of years as Carbon County Superintendent of Schools. Her mother,
(

too,

was a teacher

in the

commun-

ity.

She was graduated from Mauch
in 1907
and
from Bloomsburg Normal School in

Chunk High School

1909, receiving her education

subsequent years
of

in

at the University

Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia;

Muhlenberg College, Allentown;
Temple University, Philadelphia
and Boston University. On June
12, 1935, she received her Master’s
degree from New York University,

York.

Her

certification

after graduating

for

coming to Mauch Chunk.
She was a member of the First
Presbyterian Church and was active
prior to

in

the affairs of the Sunergoi.

teaching

Orrie N. Pollock, T2
Orrie N. Pollock, died Wednesday, May 23, in the Wilkes-Barre

General Hospital.

He had been

in

health for six years, and had
been in the hospital for two weeks.
Born at Lake Silkworth, Mr. Pollock was the son of the late Samuel
and Ida Wilkinson Pollock, Hunlock Creek. He was a graduate of
the Dallas High School, of Pleasant Hill Academy, Sweet Valley,
and of the Bloomsburg State Normal School. He taught for a number of years at Hunlock Creek, Wyill

oming, and Berwick.
Surviving are his wife, the

mer Mabel

Clark, of

for-

Wyoming,

a

daughter, Mrs. Maxwell Williams,
Wyoming, a son, Capt. F. N. Pollock, with the Air Force in Alaska,
six grandchildren, and a brother,
M. L. Pollock, Hunlock Creek.

Muriel Harrison Kramer. T3
Mrs. Muriel Harrison Kramer
died Tuesday, April 3, at the home
of her nephew, Joseph H. Beishline, near St. James, where she had
been under a doctor’s care for several months.
She had been bedlast since Friday. She was a teacher in the public schools of Columbia and Luzerne Counties for a
number of years and was active
as a Sunday School teacher.

She was

fifty-eight

and

is

sur-

vived by her husband, R. H. Kramer, of Muncy R. D.; a stepdaughter,
Mrs.
Maynard Yocum, of
Whitehall; two nieces, Evelyn and
Jannine Beishline, and two nephews, Joseph and John Beishline.

from Bloomsburg

was in the fields of English, Latin,
German, mathematics and history,
in recent years, while serving
Principal and Dean of Girls

Mauch Chunk,

Teachers’ League, the Pennsylvania
State Teachers’ Association and the
National Educational Association.
She assumed the principalship in
July, 1936, and has served continuously in the position until her death.
She taught for a time in Jenkintown

Bevan

was possessed of all the attributes
of a good teacher, having a pleasant personality and a genial disposition which endeared her to
all.
She was an exemplary teacher and
conducted her classes with zest and

New

rre.

Surviving are his wife; a daughMrs. Jay Dee Blom, of town;
:,

;

Mary Bevan ’09
The news of the sudden death of
Miss Mary Bevan, esteemed principal of Mauch Chunk Jr.-Sr.
High

as
in

she taught history
and bookkeeping.
She was a member of the State

Charles R. McBride
Charles R. McBride died Sunday, June 10, in the University Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, following a
heart attack.
Dr. McBride was a
professor of rural economics at the
Ohio State University until the
23

time of his death. He was a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Normal School and the Pennsylvania
State College, and received his
Doctor’s Degree at Cornell University.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Lois Dewitt ’07, one
son, Harold, of Toledo, Ohio, and
a sister, Mrs. Anna L. Girton TO,
of

Bloomsburg.

Chloe Travelpiece Frey
Mrs. Chloe Frey, of Nescopeck,
died April 9, at her home after an
illness of six weeks.
She was a school teacher, having taught thirty-five years.
She
was a graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers
College.
Since
1944, she had been teaching in the
Her
Nescopeck school system.
husband, Charles, died three and
a half years ago.

She was born in Lycoming
County but spent most of her life
in Luzerne County.
She was a
member of the Berwick Baptist
Church and the American Legion
Auxiliary of Berwick.
Surviving are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. David Lewis, Warren Travelpiece and Scott
Travelpiece, of Berwick; Mrs. Samuel Smith, Montoursville; Miss Jessie Travelpiece, Allentown; Clyde
Travelpiece, Miss Jennie Travelpiece, of Nescopeck. who teachers
at Bloomsburg High School; and
Blair Travelpiece, of Heidelberg,

Germany.

Miriam Benson Treon
Mrs. Miriam E. Treon died at
ten a. m. Sunday, May 1, at her
home, 28 North Third street, Sunbury. She was 84 years of age and
had been in failing health for sometime. She was the widow of Grant
F. Treon, manager for many years
of the former Victoria Theatre, now
the Rialto Theatre, Sunbury.
Mrs. Treon was born in Centralia,

January 30, 1867, and had

been a resident of Sunbury for fifty
She was graduated from
years.
Bloomsburg State Normal School,
now Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. She was a former school
teacher at Mainville, Mt. Carmel,
and in Sunbury. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church.
Surviving are five children, Mrs.
L. Treon Miller, missionary

Miriam
24

for

the United Lutheran

Church

Harold and Donald Treon, Sunbury; Clyde Treon,
Pittsburgh; Byron Treon, Tampa, Fla.

in Liberia;

Also surviving are three brothers,
Charles Benson, Sunbury; William
Benson, Long Island; Raymond
Benson, Pittsburgh; a sister, Mrs.
Hannah Haupt, Shamokin, and ten
grandchildren.

William H. Coffman
William H. Coffman, seventythree, formerly of Bloomsburg and
well-known as a baseball player
and coach, died April 14 at Altoona
where he resided.
Four sisters, residents of Bloomsburg are among the survivors of
Mr. Coffman who was once baseball mentor for old Bloomsburg
Normal, and who at one time played with Milwaukee of the American Association.
According to word received by
his sister, Mrs. Harold Fetzer, Mr.
Coffman suffered a stroke and had
been confined to his home. He
left this section about thirty-five
years ago to move to Altoona.
Mr. Coffman was a retired PennDursylvania Railroad employe.
ing his railroad service he managed several PRR nines.

Philip Kester
Philip Kester, a former resident
of Shickshinny, who taught in the

public schools of Cumberland, Md.,
died suddenly Thursday, May 24,
following a heart attack.
He is survived by his mother, his
wife, a daughter

and a

sister.

Georgianna Erdine Butt
Georgianna Erdine Butt, seventy-six, well-known and esteemed
resident of Benton, died Sunday,
March 11, at her home. She was
the widow of William A. Butt, who
The
died in September, 1948.
daughter of the late *Mr. and Mrs.
M. Thompson McHenry, of Benton, she was in failing health for
the past six weeks. Death was due
to complications.

A school teacher, she taught for
several years in the Benton vicinity
She was a
before her marriage.
member of the Benton Christian
Church and a charter member of
the Columbia Chapter, Order of

Eastern Star of Benton.
Survivors include two brothers,
Hessie McHenry, of Benton R. D.,
and Barrett McHenry, of Benton,

and several nieces and nephews.

DRAFT EXAMS GIVEN
AT BLOOMSBURG
One hundred forty-seven
men appeared to take the
the College so

that

college

their

test at

draft

boards might determine whether or
not they should be drafted.
The group taking the test at
Bloomsburg formed a part of the
175,000 taking the test in one thousand centers throughout the nation.
Results were determined by the
Educational Testing Service, Princeton,

New

Jersey,

and were pass-

ed on to the draft boards responsible for those taking the examination.

Dr. Ernest H. Englehardt, of the
was the administrator, with
Richard Hallisy, Dr. Paul Wagner
faculty,

and Harold

Shelly, assisting.

With centers as close as WilkesBarre and Lewisburg, most of those
taking the test at Bloomsburg were
members of the Bloomsburg student body. The goal was to attain
or surpass a critical score of seventy, equivalent to successful completion of the Army Officer Candidate examinations.
Decision concerning drafting remained with the local boards, but
selective service recommended the
listing.
tests and a class standing
The latter provides that students
should be deferred on the basis of
their scholastic standing as follows:
Freshmen, upper half of their class;
upper
two-thirds;
Sophomores,
Juniors and Seniors, upper threefourths.

James C. Klinedinst, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Shirley Ann Hagen,

were married
Paul’s Evanand Reformed Church in
The officiating minister was

of Saline, Michigan,

Friday, June 22, in
gelical

Saline.

St.

the Rev. Alvin Eiemsen, pastor of
the church. The bride and groom
are both seniors at Michigan State
College, Lansing. Mrs. Klinedinst
is a member of Kappa Delta Sorority, and Mr. Klinedinst is a former student at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
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Vol. LI I,

December

quarterly by

Published

the

Alumni

Association of the State Teachers College,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Entered as Sec-

ond-Class Matter, August

8, 1941, at the

Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the Act of

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EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

T2

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

Bloomsburg Wins Conference Championship
The Quarterly

salutes the mag1951 football team at B.
S. T. C.
The team, with a perfect
record for the past season, and the
amazing record of only two losses
in four seasons, stands at the top
of the list in the newly organized
Teachers College Conference. The
summary of the 1951 season fol-

men showed a much improved defense and a sparkling offense that
had the visitors on the run most
of the way.

lows:

overwhelming ground and air assault that rocketed the Bloomsburg
Huskies to a 40 to 14 victory be-

nificent

BSTC

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet Carpenter

Edward

F.

Schuyler

20,

MANSFIELD

7

Sparked by the hard running of
Bob Lang and Tom Spack, the
Husky football team successfully
opened the 1951 Season with a
convincing 20-7 decision over
a
lighting, but out-manned,
Mansheld team. The game was played
under the arcs of Berwick’s Crispin Field before a crowd of 3,000
tans on Saturday, Sept. 22.
Although the Huskies had only
a two touchdown edge, there was
never any serious doubt as to the
ultimate outcome of the game. The
Huskies stepped off to a 20-0 halftime lead,
and although they
threatened to score several times
following the
intermission,
the
scoring thrusts never materialized.

BSTC
Fred W. Diehl

35,

LOCK HAVEN

6

At Athletic Park on Saturday
evening, September 29, the Huskagain showed their power by
defeating the Lock Haven
Bald
Eagles by a score of 35-6. Touchdowns were made by Lang, Brennan, Lambrinos and Osevala. Linkhorst had a perfect record by kicking all of the five placements.
ies

PI.

F.

Fenstemaker

Hervey

B.

Smith

Elizabeth H. Hubler

BSTC

40,

SHIPPENSBURG

SATURDAY

MAY

24, 1952

BSTC

14

brought its muchvaunted passing attack to Athletic
Park on Saturday evening, October 13.
It went away feeling that
the Huskies just didn’t appreciate
it— at all. From the opening kickoff, the BSTC footballers had the
situation well in hand,
and the
Raiders just didn’t have the stuff
to

December, 1951

MILLERSVILLE

27,
Millersville

keep up with them.

The Red-

14

The Shippensburg Red Raiders
found a cure for all of their many
aches and pains but none for the

fore 3,000

Homecoming

Olympus Saturday

fans at Mt.
afternoon, Oc-

tober 20.
For a while

it
looked as if a
Trojan Horse had invaded Husky-

wile, especially

when

the
hosts
dole
out seven
points within the first minute of
play.
But the Huskies, behind for
the first time this season, bounced
back with shattering land and aerial thrusts that resulted in a bountiful harvest of touchdowns.
Within a matter of seconds after
the Raiders scored, the
Huskies
evened things up, then gorged
themselves on another touchdown
in the first period, a pair
in the
second, and single tallies in each
of the succeeding sessions.

were forced

BSTC

28,

to

KUTZTOWN 0

Wingback Tom Spack

led

the

Bloomsburg Huskies to a 28 to 0
victory
over
Kutztown
before
about 600 fans at the Kutztown
field Saturday afternoon, October
27.

The Johnstown whippet passed
touchdowns and
one himself to account for
to three

ALUMNI DAY

1951

of the

scored
four

all

Husky markers.

Pitted against the stiffest
forward wall of the season, the Huskies displayed only a faint shadow
of the power that smothered four

previous opponents. Their ground
attack sputtered
repeatedly and
needed strong aerial support to
keep the touchdown drives in high
gear.

1

Bloomsburg State Teachers College Championship Football Team

The Bloomsburg State Teachers College Champion
Football Team, coached by Bob Redman, is shown above.
First row, left to right, George Lambrinos, Bob Lang,
Russell Verhousky, Charles Baron, Ardell Ziegenfuse, Tom
McLaughlin, Don Cesare, Rus Looker, Charles Brennan,
Tom Spack, Barnie Osevala; second row, John Dietz, Bernie
Mont, Bob Thurston, Dave Evans, Merlyn Jones, Tom
Schukis, Ed Yost, Alex Kubic, Bob Shearer, David Linck-

BSTC 27, WILKES 7
On Saturday evening, November
the Huskies, thriving on a numbWilkes
ing cold out-slushed the
Colonels in Kingston’s Stadium by
a score of 27-7. In this final rehearsal the Maroon and Gold were led
by the hard running Barney Osevala and Bob Lang. This duo picked up a combined total of 227
yards in 24 tries and accounted for
three of the Husky touchdowns.

Jack Long; third row, Roland Schmidt, Joe Boyle,
Karol Ruppell, John Nemetz, Joe Costa, Frank Sheehan,
Joe Glosek, John Panichello, Jack Schaar, Alex Boychock,
Ted Rainey; last row, Joe Steiner, Duane Angus, Dan
Trocki, Bob Rainey, Floyd Williams, Francis Bidelspach,
Bruce Zenuch, Jim Steiner, Don Thomas, Ronald Couch,
Gene Morrison, Eddie Connelly.
horst,

defensive play of the year to roll
within a step of an undefeated
season.

3,

bSTC

16,

WEST CHESTER

7

The Bloomsburg Huskies tightened the strings on the Teachers
Conference title as they marched
to a 16 to 7 victory over West Chesat
eleven before 4,000 fans
Crispin Field Saturday afternoon,
ter

November 10.
The Huskies,

through the
air by a fast charging West Chester line, unfurled a land attack and
coupled it with their most alert
2

stalled

*

carved his name into the Bloomsburg record books when in the
third period he
blazed to his
twelfth

BSTC 20— INDIANA

0

Coach Bob Redman’s Bloomsburg Huskies wrapped up their
second undefeated and untied season in four years as they softened
lough Indiana enough to punch
out a 20-0 victory before 2,500 fans
on Mt. Olympus Saturday afternoon, November 17.
Halted again in the air, the Huskies took up the slack with a bruising land attack powered by Tom
Spack, Bob Lang and Jack Long.
Spack, whose aerials were rendered impotent by an impregnable
Indiana defense, turned speedster
and reeled off ninety-six yards in
six tries, including
an eighteen
yard touchdown run in the first

touchdown of

the

year,

breaking a scoring mark of sixtysix

points set

by Dan

Parrell

last

year.

FINAL STANDINGS TEACHERS
COLLEGE CONFERENCE

W
Bloomsburg
California

Clarion
West Chester

Kutztown
Shippcnsburg
East Stroudsburg
Slippery Rock
Indiana

7
4
3
3
3
4
2
1

Edinboro

5
0

Mansfield

1

period.

Millersville

Although held to a net gain of
twenty-seven yards, Bob
Lang

Lock Haven

3
0
0

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Iheyney

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2
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5
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COACH OF THE YEAR

instances

(From the “Fanning” Column
The Morning Press.)

Bob Redman,

of

the successful

and

popular gridiron coach
of
the
Blooms burg Huskies is now taking
as
a deserved breather; that
is
much a breather as one can take
who has a number of other chores,

which

teaching, and
who has as his special hobby, the
fine art of worrying
about grid
matters which lie
somewhere

principal of

is

We walked across

the skiddy turf

Olympus on Saturday

after-

noon, after Indiana Teachers had
been defeated 20-0, to extend congratulations to Bob.
He expressed thanks and then added, “This
Indiana was good this year but
they will certainly be tough next
year.
They will lose hardly anyone.”

Bob gained

much

satisfaction

lrom the voluntary comment of
Coach Smith and his two assistants,
each speaking to him at different
times and not in the presence of
others.
The coaches from the
Western Pennsylvania school told

him

He didn’t develop rapidly but
he was always trying. Then came
his senior year.
Nothing much
was expected of him but all of a
sudden he got going. The line
wasn t too deep during the past
season and this fellow’s contribution was most important, “And he

the only lad who has paid off
either," the coach observed.
isn’t

ahead.
of Mt.

than not these fellows

rewarded him for his patience. We
have in mind one fellow who stayed with the squad throughout his
career on the hill.

Bloomsburg and California were the two cleanest teams
they had encountered during the
season and Smith
added,
“and
they were the two best.”
That
rating was of much satisfaction to
Bob who thinks highly of his
charges and has always gone on
that

the premise that if a fellow is to
play football well he must concentrate on the game and not on
some activities outside the rules.
One of the things which has
paid dividends for the coach is
his patience and the fact that
he
will never turn a fellow down if
he wants to play football.
There have been a number,
many more in fact than most observers realize, who have come out
for the club with little to support
them except love of the game.
Some played on small high

school teams and didn’t do better
than gain a reserve position. But
they like football and wanted to
play.
There were occasions when
adding a half dozen to the squad
also added to the work of
the
coaches.

But Redman never turned them
down. He kept them and in more
December, 1951

Bob was a winning coach when
he came here.
Certainly he has
retained that standard while on the
hill.
He has lost four games in
live years.

The

We

recall

them

well.

time he took his Huson the field as coach he was
defeated by Mansfield, 7-6, in a
game at the Kingston stadium.
Bloomsburg scored in the opening
minutes and Mansfield near the
close of the game.
Well always believe that it
wouldn’t have been a defeat had
the Bloomsburg field captain, early
first

kies

in the third period,

requested

measurement on whether
had made first down in

his

a

team

midfield.

we

never heard Redman alibi.
Later that season he lost another,
this one 19-12,
to
Shippensburg

But

before a Homecoming Day crowd
at Athletic Park. That was a tough
one to take. The Huskies got a
12-0 lead and then the Red Raiders came back with one
of
the

most brilliant form reversals we
have ever watched, scored three
times in the second period, triumphing 19-12.

From that time until 1949 the
Huskies suffered no gridiron reverses.
Then in the ’49 opener
they lost to Wilkes, 20-7. The Colonels had been walloped easily the
year before and while George Ralston had a fine ball club, the thing
which did most to upset the Huskies upon that occasion was over-

confidence.
It got them started back on the
victory trail and they continued in
high gear until the next to last
game of the 1950 season when
they were walloped, 31-6, at West
Chester.
That was a walloping of par
excellence.
It was the only real

tanning that Bloomsburg got under
it was one well remembered. The Huskies gained

Redman and
some

solace early

in

November

when

they defeated West Chester,
16-7, to nail down the first actual
Teachers College Conference title
that tire Commonwealth ever pass-

ed out.
There have been some changes
made in the program under Redman. The most marked, of course,
came with the post-war program
of the institution.
The late A. J. (Lefty) Danks was
brought in to coach but his untimely death occurred before the
first game. John A. Hoch took over
in that trying situation and did a

remarkable job.
Hoch still is on
the coaching staff and each year
turning out a fine line.
After Redman came in there was
a shift in the sites of some of the
is

The

coach didn’t have
about that. It was
decided by the College but it has
games.

much

to say

worked out well.
There have been a number of
fine men at the helm of
athletic
teams on the hill and many have
contributed much to the community, including
George Buchheit,
one of our top favorites and coach
for thirteen years.

But through

of the
period
identified with
sports
picture,
we
all

when we have been

the College
never knew a fellow

way

and kept
Redman.

early
as

who won

his

into the hearts of the fans so

that position so well

He is always available as a
speaker at various area functions,
and we know full well that he
meets many of those appointments
as a personal sacrifice.
He has a
fine acquaintanceship and he is always ready and willing to lend a
helping hand.
Bob Redman has brought winning football to Bloomsburg Teachers College.
But in a larger
sense he has brought much more.
He has brought the community
and the area residents much closer
to the school.
And that is of utmost importance.

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BUILDING MATERIALS
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THE COACHES

THE COACHING STAFF

Harold Shelly

Coach Harold Shelly, characterized by his genial good nature, first
appeared on the Bloomsburg campus in 1949. Coach Shelly, since
coming to Bloomsburg, has always
had tiie Husky hoopsters above the
five-hundred mark.

A

real

stick-

conditioning, Mr. Shelly has
the local gym echoing with grunts
and groans by early November and
the beginning of another basketball season.
Coach Shelly came to B.S.T.C.
by way of Wilmington College,
Ohio; before that he
produced
championship teams in the suburbs
of Cleveland.
Coach Shelly also
directs track and
Coach
assists
Redman on the gridiron.
ler for

Left to right, Robert

Redman, Head Coach; John A. Hoch, Harold

Shelly, Joseph Colone, Joseph Zahora.

WIN STATE HONORS

points.

Bob Lang and John Nemetz

of

Bloomsburg were placed on the
1951 Associated Press All-teachers
College football team. Bob Redman, coach of the conference-wineleven,
was
ning Bloomsburg
named “coach of the year.”

Tom

Spack, Husky wingback,
was picked for the second team
along with Ardel Zeigenfuss, local
Among the honorable
guard.

mention
end,

Tom

were

Russ

Verhousky,

Schukis, center,

Bidelspach, guard.

Bloomsburg, which pretty much
dominated the balloting, West
Chester and California each placed two men on the first team.

Bob Redman, coach

of the conference-winning Bloomsburg eleven, took “coach of the year” award

although he received competition
from Art McCourt of the luckless
Edinboro eleven, credited with
“getting the most of his material of
any teacher college coach.”

Redman, a native of Sayre, Pa.,
has compiled a fabulous record in
five years at Bloomsburg, winning
38 games and losing only four.
Lang is a 60-minute performer,
who operates from left half in
Bloomsburg’s single wing. Redman
said the Milton back “can cut back
nicely despite his weight and is a
Lang topped
very hard runner.
all teacher college players in total
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game

of the year.

The

gigantic

Cheeks, dubbed “Big Humphrey”
by his teammates, was given a lot
coach, William
of credit by his
Storer, as “a bruising tackier
.juite fast for his

George

Lambrinos, quarterback and Francis

Nemetz, a former PIAA heavyweight wrestling champ, was a 60minute man and a bulwark in
Bloomsburg’s strong defense. Redman bestowed plenty of credit on
Nemetz for stopping the West
Chester attack in the “big” tutor

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Bailey, Calif.
Shaffer, Ind.

Lang, Bloom.
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W.

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INSURANCE

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Bloomsburg 850

Charlotte Hoch,

’15,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

serves in the capacity of assistant
football coach, and for one year he
held the reins as head football
coach. Due to his many activities,

he relinquished this position. Mr.
Hoch, along with coaching duties,
holds such titles as Dean of Men,
Athletic Director, Publicity Director, Instructor and general
allaround helper. Throughout the
season Coach Hoch is chief scout
on Saturday afternoons.

Joe Colone
Joe “Bells” Colone is the new
addition to the Huskies staff. He
he
is a native of Berwick, where
starred in all sports. Recently enrolled as a freshman, he assisted

Redman

Shelly.
and
had professional experHe played
ience in two sports.
basketball with
the
New York

Coaches

“Bells” has

Giants for a time before going into
He has playthe Armed Service.
ed professional basketball for the
New York Knickerbockers and this
year has signed with the WilkesBarre Barons of the American Association.

Joe Zahora
a
Zahora, of Coaldale,
transfer student from Penn State,
also rendered valuable assistance
He spent his
to the coaching staff.
first year at Bloomsburg as a Penn
State freshman, and was a member
of the Husky football squad during
Joe

THE CHAR-MUND INN
Mrs.

John Hoch
Mr. Hoch came to Bloomsburg
by way of Milton, Pa. Coach Hoch

Prop.

that season.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

For the next four years, Mrs.
Hufcut took over the food department of a small hotel in Boston,

Faculty

Massachusetts.

Notes
MEMBERS

lege.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College extends its most cordial welto the

new members

of

its

Mrs. Horace G. Hufcut
was appointed to replace Miss
Della M. Thayer. Following Miss
Harriet M. Moore as head of the

faculty.

Mr.
Ralph
is
Replacing Miss
Catherine Zealberg and Miss Mamusic department
Fisher Smith.

thilda

Muyskens

are
Elinor

as librarians

Miss Elsie Bower and Miss
Keefer.

she went to
Pratt
Institute
in
Brooklyn, New York, where
she
pursued the course of teacher

Home

Economics. Then

Mrs. Hufcut went to
Columbia
University for her degree. Like so
many students at B.S.T.C. and
other colleges, Mrs. Hufcut worked her way through Columbia, and
having secured her degree,
she
was married to Horace Hufcut the
following year.
The first opportunity in Mrs.
Hufcut’s career came as the result
of her substituting for a friend of
hers.
This substitution job devel-

oped

employment as
and Cafeteria
Mrs. Hufcut spent ap-

into full time

Home Economics
Director.

proximately ten years at this job
and then shifted to employment
with a large chain of restaurants

New

York City. Following this,
Mrs. Hufcut was employed by the
new Waldorf Astoria Hotel when
it was opened in
she
1931, and
in

Mrs. Hufcut has had a very busy
and most interesting career. She
was food editor for one of the New
York newspapers for tour years,
and did a lot of radio advertising
work. She enjoyed her lecture and
demonstration
work immensely,
during which she would prepare a
five or six course dinner
on a
stage, talking continually

to

the

audience while preparing the dinner.

Some

Mrs. Hufcut
Following the departure of Miss
Della M. Thayer, the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College appointed
Mrs. Horace Glidden Hufcut as the
head dietition at the “friendly
college on the hill.”
Mrs. Hufcut was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and attended
the
elementary and secondary
schools in that town.
Following
her graduation from high school,

training in

Boston, Mrs.

vania, and finally came here
to
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

NEW FACULTY

come

From

Hufcut went to a State Teachers
College in Maryland, then to Penn
Hall in Chambersburg, Pennsyl-

spent almost eleven years at this

world famous hotel.
December, 1951

of Mrs.
Hufcut’s
most
enjoyable years were spent at the
Waldorf Astoria, where she had
the opportunity to become acquainted with some of the world s most
famous celebrities.
One of the
first meals she prepared
at
the
Waldorf was served to the King of
Siam, who was in this country to
have an eye operation. Some of

Mrs. Hufcut’s acquaintances were
with such people as Joan Bennett;
Edna Mae Oliver, the character
actress in Oliver Twist and Romeo
and Juliet; Norma Shearer; Adolphe Menjou; Maurice Bagley;
Walter Damrosh; Maurice Chevalthe French actor and singer,
who, Mrs. Hufcut laughingly recalls, always called
her “cheri”;

ier,

and Sydney Howard, who did the
movie adaptation of Gone With
the Wind.
Mrs. Hufcut has served such
diplomats
Franklin
as
Delano
Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover,
Cardinal Dougherty, Fiorella La Guardia, and one of the most interesting things she observed about these
people was their desire for simple
food.
Premier
Laval,
for
instance, one time had a meal con-

clam chowder, pumpkin
and Virginia spoon bread.

sisting of
pie,

Mrs. Hufcut’s
experiences,
in
her own words, have been “lots of

She believes that one of the
most important things in life is
the ability to derive great joy from
the simple things at hand.
She
herself has an “overdeveloped abil-

fun.”

enjoy things.” Mrs. Hufcut
that she can have more
fun on one dime in New York than
ity to

believes

someone who would throw away
five hundred dollars on
a
good
time.
Of course, this is easily
understood, for Mrs. Hufcut spent
twenty-eight years of her

New

York

life

in

from 1914 to 1942.
Indeed, Mrs. Hufcut has had a
very active career. She has been a
member of the New York Advertising Club for twenty-five
years,
the American Dietetics Association
and the Home Economics Association for about the same length of
time. We
here at
Bloomsburg
should appreciate her even more
City,

because she has “touched” so many
distinguished people
and
can
share her experiences with us.

Mr. Smith
Experience is the best teacher,
and experienced teachers are the
best professors.
Very few could
come to our college more capable
of teaching than the new inhabitant of “Music Hall.”
To know
that your instructor is well versed
in the language of his
profession
adds incentive and interest to your
classes.
Mr. Ralph Fisher Smith
comes to us not only as a devoted
teacher of music, but one who has
had vast experience in that field.
Mr. Smith was born in the northernmost state of New England—
Maine. He received his Bachelor
of Science degree from the University of New York and has a Masters
degree in education from Temple
University.
Mr. Smith later attended the Faelton
Pianoforte
School in Boston, Massachusetts.
For four years he was a private
student of Arthur
Foote, noted

American composer and teacher.
To add to his laurels, Mr. Smith is
a graduate of the A.E.F. (American
Expeditionary Force) Bandmasters
and Musicians School in Chaumont, France.
In the field
of
teaching Mr.
Smith has held many responsible
positions. He has been Supervisor
of Music in Bar Harbor, Maine for

four years; Head of the Music Department in Albany, New York for
two years; and since 1927, he was
Director of Music Education in
Reading, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Smith has also written two
books on music theory which he
5

believes makes the study of music
easier for the average person. The

“Elementary
Music
Theory” is used in colleges and
schools throughout the
country.
The other, “Intermediate Music
Theory,” will be published in the
first

book,

spring.

In his teaching, Mr. Smith tries
everyone a cultural understanding of music appreciation. He
believes that everyone should be
able to enjoy hearing the works of
famous men that have stood the
to give

test of time.

There was no need to ask
whether or not he enjoys teaching;
anyone who has taught so long is
like so many others devoted to the

He

agrees that to help
successful
future for themselves and to
be
profession.

young people mould a

remembered always by your students is more than adequate compensation for the disadvantages in
teaching.

Mr. Smith also has a daughter in
the teaching profession.
Dorothy
is employed as a teacher in Windsor, Connecticut; she is a graduate
of West Chester
State Teachers
College.

The student body and faculty of
Bloomsburg welcome Mr. Smith
into our college community.
Mr.
Smith has stated that he
enjoys
his work here and finds both the
faculty and student
body both

friendly

and courteous.

Miss Bower and Miss Keefer
Miss Elsie Bower and Miss Elinor Keefer have been appointed to
the faculty of the college as librarians.

Miss Keefer, of New Kensington,
Pennsylvania, succeeds Miss Catherine Zealberg. Miss Zealberg resigned in order to accept a position
with the Army War College.
Miss Keefer is a graduate of
Muskigum College, New Concord,
Ohio, and received the degree of
Master of Letters from the UnivPittsburgh.
ersity of
She also
holds the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Library Science from
the George Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee.
Her experience in school work
includes teaching at Mount Bethel

Township,
Harmar
Township,
Cheswick, Pennsylvania, and the
G

Ji.-Sr.

High School, Arnold, Penn-

sylvania. .before accepting the position nere, Miss Keerer was librarian at the Peoples Eree Library in

New

Kensington.
Miss bower, a resident of Berwick, Pennsylvania, replaces Miss
Mathilda Muyskens as circulation
librarian.

tor two years she attended the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She received her Bachelor
Science degree at Pennsylvania
Her Bachelor of
Science degree in Library Science
was awarded by Drexel Institute
of Technology Library School in
oi

State College.

Philadelphia.

Formerly, Miss Bower taught
English and History in the Fourteenth Street Jr. High School in
Berwick. She was also the Librarian at this school.
During the
summer session of 1950, Miss

Bower was

Bloomsburg

at

State

STUDENTS IN
WHO’S WHO”

B.S.T.C.

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College who will be listed in 1952 edition of “Who’s
Who in American Colleges and

L niversities” were named recently.
They are: Thomas Anthony, Doris
Bowman, Lola Deibert, Michael
Dorak, Henry Hurtt, Eleanor Johnson, Richard Laux, Joyce

MacDou-

Richard Powell and James
Whibley.
Choices are made on the basis
gall,

of personal traits, leadership, practical qualities, professional
promise, potential usefulness to society,
actual ability, past record, scholastic achievement and service to the

college.

The choice

is

made by

the fol-

lowing and approved by Dr.

An-

Dean of Instruction; Mr. Hoch, Dean of Men; Dr.
Kehr, Dean of Women; Mr. Haldruss: Dr. North,

Director of Business EducaMiss
Hazen,
Director
of
Elementary Education and Dr.
l’nglehart, Director of Secondary
Education.
lisy.

tion;

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, T6

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

FIGURES
Unofficial figures released
by
the office of tne
President and
uean of Instruction reveal a total
enrollment of 768 students for the
first semester of the school
year
1951-52.
Ot tnese 768 students, 486 are
boarding students at the college;
l 64 boys being lodged in Waller
Hall and North Halls, and 222 girls
occupying the girls’ section of
Waller Hall.

Further statistics show that day
students now include 193 boys and
89 girls enrolled, a total of 282.
This semester there are 115 veterans on campus, 146 more boys
than girls enrolled, and a
grand
total of 230 members of tire fresh-

man

class

on campus.

Tlris year’s

enrollment

a decrease of

7.3% from

indicates
tire total

of 831 students who registered for the first semester of the
1950-51 school year.
The average decrease, however,
in other Pennsylvania State Teach-

number

Teachers College.

Seniors from

ENROLLMENT

shows an enrollment
drop of 13%, with B.S.T.C. rank-

ers Colleges

ing fourth

in

fourth in the

on

campus.

enrollment.

total

Bloomsburg’s rank

is

shown as
of veterans

also

number

Although

many

colleges have had a decrease in enrollment of elementary
students,
that of B.S.T.C. has beexr slight.
The enrollment during the past
summer showed a total of 964
students registered.
The summer
series of classes was divided
into
three sessions, and the pre-session
class, which lasted three
weeks,
showed a total enrollment of 408,
consisting of 110 teachers in service and 298 undergraduate
students.
The regular summer session of
six weeks had the same total enrollment.
The last three week
session brought forty teachers
in
service
and 207 undergraduate
making a
students to B.S.T.C.,
summer
total of 247 for the final
session.

Bloomsburg Alumni are pleased
appointment of Dr.
Francis B. Haas for his fourth conto learn of the

secutive term as Superintendent of
Public Instruction.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

“SAUCERED AND BLOWED”
write of a
the tintinnabulation of bells, but
I

would be more specific.
want to talk about a single

I

just

I

Lone Ranger on radio and
Mickey Mouse on television. And
—just a minute— watch out for that
Pardon me,
it’s
atomic bomb.
just a pretty red headed girl passing by— same in 1884 as 1951.
the

Poe wrote of

bell.

tintinna-

bulum.

comes about this way. Editor Fenstemaker goes to a football
game and sits by a girl who has in
It all

her possession a bell. On occasion
she rings the bell. To the Editor’s
musical ear it has a familiar sound
—or tone— or pitch— or whatever
results come from the reverberatory
He
action of metal hitting metal.
questions the girl as to place of
procurement. She tells the Editor
that it came out of kitchen storage
and the story connected there
which is to. the effect that in days

was

used to
waken the student body, through
the medium of having a boy tramp
the corridors each morning, producing sound effects about as
popular as reveille or the shriek

gone by

bell

this

of a Sergeant’s whistle.

Do hope you had a chance to
see the championship football team
in action this Fall. No greater team
ever represented Bloomsburg since
the
the sport was introduced on
allCongratulations to
Hill.
coaches to water boy.
Fine weather and a fine crowd
on Homecoming Day. Kind of a
pleasure,

mind

alerted to the possibilities
not
of another organization.
have a Bell Ringers’ Club, its membership consisting of those who had
been official “arousers” during

days?

He made

a

terly.”
Maybe the charter memtheir
bers of the club will have
names engraved on the bell with
year or years of serv ice. Possibly

Club

“Here

too.

New

Happy

and

Christmas

Year.
E. H.

Why

few contacts, and already three
names are on the last. If you were
a bell ringer and want to join, send
in your name. A picture of the old
bell will appear in the next “Quar-

show the kids
where
is

to

her practice teaching.” Best of all
you know when the youngsters get
a look at the swimming pool that
they will want to be Bloomsburgers

Merry

Immediately the Editor’s

it,

say,

your pop roomed’’ or “this is the
room, dearie, where mother did

became

their student

isn't

around and

NELSON,

’ll

HONORED BY
PHI BETA KAPPA
Phi Beta Kappa Associates, composed of two hundred of the over
100,000

members

of

this

first

American fraternity, has extended
an invitation to President Harvey
A. Andruss, Bloomsburg State Teachers College, to be one of five

new members

to

fill

vacancies for

the current year.

These two hundred members inmen and women of demon-

be instrumental in
arousing the Alumni body to pur-

clude

never
as
poseful activity such
before has been achieved, just as
through the
early morning trips

nard Baruch, Ambassador Joseph
Davies, Frank
Gannett,
Senator

this

will

dormitory halls in days gone by
awakened a sleeping student body
for the day’s work.

strated achievement, such as: Ber-

Theodore Green of Rhode Island;
H. V. Kaltenbom, former Senator
George Wharton Pepper, John D.
Rockefeller,

Jr.,

Nelson Rockefel-

and William A. Schnader.
Dr. Andruss was President of the
Alpha Association of
Phi Beta
Kappa for the Eastern-Central Diswas
trict of Pennsylvania, which
chartered December 14, 1938. This

ler

Miss Bess Hinkley has given us
another item for the display cases

—a

of
class day program
Date June 25. Time 4:00

1884.
P.

M.

Couldn’t pull that today. By June
25 school would be over a month
ago, and by 4:00 in the afternoon
everyone would be out for an automobile ride.
And why listen to
class orations and double quartettes

anyway, when

December, 1951

we can have

original fraternity

was founded

at

Williamsburg,

Raleigh

Tavern,

Virginia,

by students

of

William

and Mary College, December 5,
1776, being the oldest of all Amer-

RECEIVES MASONIC

Honor
The Supreme Council of the
Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of
representing
States,
the United
in
Scottish Rite Bodies meeting
the
conferred
Boston, recently
Thirty-Third Degree on Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the
BloomsState Teachers College,
burg.
Doctor Andruss is a member of
the

28

,

Norman, Oklahoma Lodge No.
The Acacia (Masonic) frater-

nity of the University of Oklahoipa,

and Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, where he has
been active in degree work over a
period of years.
Since graduating from the University of Oklahoma with an A.B.

Andruss
1924, Doctor
the M.B.A. Degree
University,
Northwestern
from
Chicago, Illinois and the Ed. D.
i degree
from Pennsylvania State

Degree

in

has earned

College.
Since 1930, when he c^me to the
BloomsState Teachers College,
burg, as the organizer and director
Business
of
of the Department
Education, he has been Dean of
Instruction, and President since
1939. Prior to that time he was a
member of the faculties of Northwestern University and State TeaHis
chers College, Indiana, Pa.
teaching and
other educational,
lecturing assignments have been in
the following institutions: Teachers
College, Columbia University; New
York University; University of
Oklahoma; Oklahoma A. and M.
College and Pennsylvania State
College.
In 1945 Doctor Andruss helped
American
the first
to organize
Army University located at Shrivenham, Berkshire, England, where
he also acted as Head of the Ac-

counting Department. During this
period of World War II, he was
also a Research Reader in the BodOxel an Library, University of
He is an author of
lord, England.
many books, articles, and teacher
aids in the field of Business Edui

cation.

HERVEY

B. SMITH, 22
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Court House Place

Bloomsburg 1115

ican fraternities.
7

ELEMENTARY-SECONDARY
CONFERENCE
annual conference for
Tne
elementary ana secondary teachheld at
ers and administrators was
on Sattiie btate ieacners college
years
inis
10.
urday, JNovember
trom
ditferent
was
conrerence
fifth

pievious years in two
tne date, iNovemoer
a

montn

10,

tnan otner years
Secondary Uonterence

was
Elementary

spang

Meeting.

Elementary teachers met tor tnese
demonstrations in the Laboratory
College.
School of tne Teachers
by tne
presented
were
lessons
The
teaching staff of die Benjamin
inese
l'ranklin Laboratory School,
developed
demonstration lessons
lerence.
activity,

con-

Following each rooms
from
education leaders

now making many

Geh-

In
business Education World.
points
Gehrig
Mr.
this lead article,
stuout the value of permitting
their
of
care
take
dent groups to
financial affairs.
in-

basic

cluded in the material as a
There
plan for budget procedure.
to aid
are also two separate items
systhe
of
understanding
the
in
the
of
“Financial Duties
tem.

high

These
the language arts.
were
school demonstration lessons
JuniorBloomsburg
the
in
held
Senior High School. The cooperpreating teachers of the college
dissented the lessons followed by
the
of
members
cussions led by
staff.
college
Following tho demonstration
Seconlessons all Elementary and
dary teachers and administrators
came together for a general session
Carver Hall.
in the auditorium of
presided
This general session was
Andruss,
A.
Harvey
Dr.
over by
President of the Teachers College.
Following musical entertainment,
Profesthe featured speaker was
years
many
for
Geyer,
sor Ellen M.
of
Department
English
the
of
head
Miss
Pittsburgh.
the University of
her
Geyer is at present devoting
textlime to the writing of English
books for use in both Elementary

Officers and Faculty Sponsors

of

and
Organizations
Student
Student
All
for
“Budget Procedure
all

Organizations.”
excellent

four

.

,

Included in Mr. Gehrigs
are

article

illustrations

showing the accuracy of his sysitems as
tem. These portray such

cash
expenditures,
“estimated
^
totaling
and
book
and petty cash
of
cash book.” A careful study
a
provide
these illustrations alone
systhe
of
knowledge
substantial
tem.

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
50

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

R.

J,

’42
’42

WESLEY KNORR,
notary public
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

science Hall has received plas

rooms and

be

will

this

re-painted and re-decorated
put
winter. New roofs have been
storage
the
and
Hall
Science
on
Gutters and roofing have
barn.
on all buildings.
repaired
been

Hard-surface parking lots have
been constructed near Centennial
Gym, below Long Porch, behind

Waller Hall, and behind Nordi
the
Hall in order to help solve
have
parking problem. White lines
and
been painted on these lots,
lights will

the

be constructed on

Centennial Gym
near future.

Improvements

Parking

lot in the
,

in

tor

facilities

of
sports include the re-surfacing
Olympus
tennis courts of Mount
all
and the painting of fences on
campus.
tennis courts around the
Excavation at the end of the athleake use
to
tic field is in progress
field
the
of
of the upper portion
football
a
make
to
possibly

m

and

.

34

Hall.
has been added to North
are
which
trees
old
the
Some of

been
campus landmarks have
surtree
by
improved
saved and
the
during
done
trimming
and
gery
has
shrubbery
New
summer.

campus,
been planted around the
at a
and much more is to be done
later date.

TIIE
8

New
painted.
fountains have
most of the build-

asphalt flooring has been
post
the floor near the
on
put
and
lounge,
office, in the elevated
porch
new
a
and
room,
social
in the

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURAN1
Highway
Webb,

of

New

Danville, Pa.

J.

electric drinking
been installed in

field.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Sunbury-Selinsgrove
W. E. Booth,

been bronzed or

ter repairs in all

Four concise statements are

as
the college service area served
group
discussion leaders for the
present.
In the secondary field demonacastration lessons in all major
Here
presented.
were
fields
demic
subthe lessons showed how every
with
correlated
be
ject field can

Wood-

Waller
work on
ben Franklin Laboratory
Hall,
have
Scnool, and Centennial Gym
Clock
old
the
and
painted
been
lower on Carver Hall has been
Hand
re-painted and re-decorated.
have
runs tnroughout the campus
tne exteriors

A.

im-

necessary

The
piovements on tne campus.
exboth
been
have
improvements
ine
tenor and mterior in nature.
Waller Wall Dormitory has been
renovated and rooms have been

procedrig on the topic of budget
organizaextra-curricular
for
ure
in the
tions was published recently
magazine,
the
of
issue
September

own

BSTC

of

during
has been exceptionally busy
even
tne last summer and is busy

painted and re-decorated.

BUSINESS MAGAZINE
PRINTS ARTICLE
An article by Mr. Earl

ine tneme
ence was "Trends in Language
demArts.” Tne meeting teatured
grade
onstration lessons at every
tnrough
level irom kindergarten
tne iz grades ot senior nigh scnool.

of the

The maintenance crew

College.

oi tire

of the 1951 confer-

the announced theme

IMPROVEMENTS

Acaddress the topic, “Motivating
Arts.
tivities in the Language
session,
f oilowing the general
dining
the
in
served
was
luneneon
room ot Waller Hah at the college,
attended
inis was the most largely
conference of its kind in the history

earlier

tne
usually Held in tne
com uined with tne

and

respects

was about

AND

PtEPAIRS

and Secondary schools. She is also
worKing as Curriculum Consultant
Syracuse Uniin Language Arts at
Miss Geyer chose for her
versity.

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI

THE ALUMNI

The annual dinner

at the

LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI

NEW YORK ALUMNI

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Edna Aurand
162 So.

Washington

St..

Francis Thomas,

Wilkes-Barre

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY AND TREASURER
’ll

Edison Fischer

Market

Glen Lyon

St.,

MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI

VICE PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

C. Alberta Nichols
71

Lockhart

St.,

VICE-PRESIDENT

SECRETARY-TREASURER
Mrs. Ruth
96

Willow

St.,

S.

Rudy

Mrs. Ruth

Wilkes-Barre

Robert Lewis

Griffith

SECRETARY

Wilkes-Barre

Alice Smull

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMINC
COUNTY ALUMNI

TREASURER

PRESIDENT

COLUMBIA COUNTY ALUMNI

Robert Llewellyn

Susan Sidler

PRESIDENT

VICE-PRESIDENT

Edward

Francis Kinner

DeVoe

VICE-PRESIDENT

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Helen

T.

Donald Rabb

Thompson

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Edward

Mrs. Ernest Pinnock

D. Sharretts

TREASURER

TREASURER

Paul L. Bvunstetter

Mrs. Alwen Hartley
Lenoxville, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND
ALUMNI

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian

PRESIDENT

732 Washington

Mary Agnes Meehan

Hortman

Irish

Camden, N.

St.,

J.

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mary A. Taubel

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

Mrs.

Nellie M. Seidel

1246

West Main

St.,

Norristown, Pa.

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Paul Englehart

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney
7011 Frederick St., Philadelphia 35

SECRETARY
Pearl L. Baer

WASHINGTON AREA ALUMNI

TREASURER

PRESIDENT

W. Homer Englehart

Saida Hartman
4216

The published lists of officers
of the various
Alumni branches
would serve
better

if

the

their

purpose

mailing

much

addresses

and the years of graduation
were included. Tire Editor would
appreciate it very much if these
addresses were made available to
him.
December, 1951

Brandywine

St.,

N. W.

Washington, D. C. 16

VICE-PRESIDENT
Harry O. Hine

SECRETARY
Martha Wright Moe

TREASURER
Walter Lewis

the
of

Luthe

in April

Dresden, in Wilkes-Barre.

The invocation was by Miss Elizabeth Pugh. Miss Edna Aurand,

’42

Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Naugle,

of

County Branch
B. S.T.C. Alumni was held

zerne

president of the local branch, welcomed the members and the guests.
President Andruss talked on the
subject “Five More Years Are Finished.” This covered the improvements and additions to the College
in the past five years. He said that
many new courses have been added, and that, along with other
teachers colleges, Bloomsburg for
several years was engaged in the
farm-out program, in which it has
accepted many freshmen from the
Pennsylvania State College.
Dr. E. H. Nelson, President of
the General Alumni Association,
also addressed the group.
He announced that two $1000 grants have
been placed in the student loan
fund in memory of two of the graduates of the College. This brings
the loan fund nearly to its goal of
$15,000. Urging the Alumni to help
in this program, Dr. Nelson said
that he had more requests for loans
during the past six months than at
any previous time.
Dr. Andruss introduced the following members of the faculty who
were present at the dinner. They
were Dr. Thomas P. North, Dr.
Kimber Kuster, Dr. Nell Maupin,
Mrs. Iva Mae Beckley, Dr. Ralph
S.
Herre, Dr. J. Almus Russell,
Charles Henrie, Harold H. Lanterman and Dr. E. Paul Wagner.
The following recalled incidents
in their life at Bloomsburg: Elfred
Jones, Edward DeVoe, of the faculty,
Charles Morris, Glenmore
Snyder, Myrlyn Shafer, Mae Townend and Chester Wocjik.
Three members of the class of
1898 were introduced. They were
C. Alberta Nichols, Nellie Reynolds
and Mrs. Mabel Hawk Anthony.

The tables were decorated with
red roses, daffodils and candles of
maroon and

gold. Edison Fischer,
supervisor of music of the Newport
Township Schools, led in the singing.
The program was under the
direction of Mrs. Ruth Griffith, secretary-treasurer of the Luzerne
County group. There were sixtythree in attendance.

9

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND
ALUMNI

CLASS OF

1901

The annual dinner meeting of
the JDauphin-Cumberland Alumni
Association was held Thursday
evening, October 11, at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in
Harrisburg.
Miss Mae Berger, president of
the Dauphin-Cumberland branch,
Dr. Francis B. Haas,
presided.
Superintendent of the State Department of Public Instruction and
former President of the College,
and Miss Mary Macdonald,

Assis-

Dean of Women at

the College
spoke briefly.
President Andruss
told about activities at the College
and of the Alumni Association. He
showed an interesting film on college activities throughout the past
tant

year.

||

.

,«

Students from the College, Lola
Marilyn
Deibert, Jeanne Ruckle,
Lundy and Mary Ellen Dean, enmusical
tertained
with several
selections.
Mrs. Helen Sutliff led

group singing.
During a brief business session
Miss
these officers were chosen:
Mary Agnes Meehan, president;
Miss Nellie M. Seidel, first vice
in

president;
Mr. Paul Englehart,
W.
Mr.
second vice president;
Homer Englehart, treasurer; Miss
Pearl L. Baer, secretary.

The meeting closed with
Alma Mater.

the

singing of the

WASHINGTON ALUMNI
The Washington, D.
of the

Bloomsburg State

C. chapter

Teachers

College, held its annual picnic in
Rock Creek Park, Saturday, Augpresent.
ust 4, with about
forty

Martha Wright Moe and Walter
Lewis were in charge of arrangements; Bob Zimmerman and Carl
Oliver took over the recreation and
games. Harriet Kocher was chairman of the supper committee and
the food was furnished by the New

Members

of

the Class of 1901, as they gathered

NEW YORK ALUMNI
Dr. Harvey Andruss and Dr. E.
H. Nelson were
guest speakers
B.S.T.C.
at the newly-organized

Alumni Club in New York
About fifty former students

City.

Thomas,

42,

president;

Mrs. A. K. Naugle,

Mr.

’ll,

and

secretary

and treasurer.

1886

Among

Colonial Hotel. Assisting her in
the table arrangements were Ruth

Finn Harrington and Nora Clancy

Hoffa Huhl.

Lavins.

1891

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner, ’34

Mary

Wheeler (Mrs. William
H. Lewin) lives at 38 Susquehanna
E.

Avenue, Shickshinny, Pa.

Word

preciated if someone would supply
the Editor with further particulars.

1901

The Morning

Press

had the

fol-

lowing concerning Miss Martha A.
Jones, who recently retired from
teaching:
When the school bell rang in
September, Miss Martha A. Jones,
of West Main street, failed to respond to its summons for the first
time in almost a half century. Miss

Jones has retired.
The fact is, she
the

summons

has answered

of that bell for

much

longer than the forty-six years of
her teaching career.
For a considerable period before and during her professional life she was a
student, being a graduate of the
Bloomsburg High School and Normal School and holding her degree

from Susquehanna University.

1900
has been received of the

death of Carolyn Wallace
10

their fiftieth

00, widow of Harry Harman ‘99.
As the Quarterly has no further information it would be greatly ap-

were

present at the luncheon meeting at
the Allerton Hotel.
Officers for the year are Francis

those listed as being present at the reunion of the class of
1886 was Hattie Hoffman Ruhl, of
Lewisburg.
name
Mrs.
Ruhl’s
should have appeared as Hattie

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.

for

reunion on Alumni Day.

Harman

Yes, she said yesterday as she
chatted in her pleasant apartment,
she will miss teaching.
She en-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

CLASS OF

joyed it. There were periods, we
are sure, when discipline was necessary for the pupil’s good, that the
more
teacher suffered probably
than the student. But except for

1931

that Miss Jones enjoyed her work.
This was reflected in her con-

versation. Telling about the places
she had taught, she said she never
liked to leave a school “because of
the wonderful children but “I always found other children just as
’

wonderful where

1

went

my

for

next assignment.”

She feels that there has been an
improved attitude on the part of

War 1.
the children since World
And she is happy that the program
in the high schools today offers so
much more than when she was

a

Her field was generally
in
the
English and history but
student.

taught
of her service she
every grade from one through

years

twelve.

Miss Jones started her teaching
Hickory Hill school in MadIt was a one-room
ison township.
ungraded school with nineteen
pupils on the roll but with seldom
more than twelve in class at a
that
time “for we had measles
in the

There was

year.”

at

least

one

oungster in each of the first eight
was a seven-month term
at twenty-eight dollars per month.
After that she taught for two

y

grades. It

years in each of two
ungraded
schools in Fishingcreek township.
Fortified by that experience of five
years in the rural field, she went to
Shickshinny and remained in that
system seventeen years, with all
but five years of that period in the
high school.
Then for five years she taught in
I'orty

her

Fort before

home town

to

returning

to

conclude a most

successful career.
She smiled as she recalled that
she “just sort of drifted into teaching” but she has no regrets of having given her life in this field
of
service.

Students who went to
her
through those forty-six years will
join in wishing her many years of
happiness in her retirement.
And
they will be busy years. For after
of that tune in the
classroom
being busy is a habit that cannot be
broken.

all

A woman

of

December, 1951

many

interests

and

Members of the Class of 1931 and their guests pose for their 20th
reunion picture on the steps of the Bloomsburg Elks Home on Market
Street. Photographic enlargements of this informal shot may be secured
for fifty cents. Send orders to Edward ’T. DeVoe, Box 291, State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pa. Be sure to include your address with your order.
a keen sense of humor, she probably already has more projects
lined up than she will be able to
deal with in the fall and winter
season just ahead.

Adele Altmiller (Mrs. George F.
Burkhardt) lives at 154 South Cedar Street, Hazleton, Pa. She was
a teacher in Hazleton until her
marriage in 1915.

1907

A

memorial to Dr. Charles G.
McBride, native of
Columbia
County, who was a member of
Ohio State University for twentynine years is being established and
will take the form of a camp for
boys or as a scholarship to Ohio
State University.

Organizations in which he was a
member and numerous personal
friends have made large contributions.
A tribute, written by a
member of the faculty of Ohio
is as follows: “In memory of
Dr. Charles G. McBride, A scholar,
a teacher, fact finder, counsellor, a
man of the family, of the church,
of the lodge, of the faculty, of his
community and commonwealth, a
gentleman in the truest sense, an

State,

optimist in philosophy and fact, a
friend to be highly praised, a life
that left the world richer because
he was a part of it.”
Dr. McBride was the husband of
the former Lois DeWitt ’07.

1909

The man

who

for thirty-two
years prepared the city-wide examinations for the Wilkes-Barre grade
schools retired September 29, 1950
after forty-three years of service in
the field of education.

He is Daniel J. Mahoney, of 589
Carey Avenue, who severed official connections with the teaching
profession for the first time since
1905.

his retirement, Mr.
district
serving as
principal, having supervision of all
Miners
schools in
Parsons and
Mills, in addition to the
Guthrie
and Union Schools in WilkesBarre.
Born and reared in Montrose,
Mr. Mahoney as a small boy decided that he wanted to be a teacher

At the time of

Mahoney

v/as

in 1905 he was appointed
to
teach in a small one-room school in

and

Susquehanna County. Holding that
11

post until 1907, he decided that a
good teacher must be as well
trained as possible, and entered the
Bloomsburg State Normal School.

He went
to

fill

to

Elk County in 1909

a position there.

He

remain-

ed in Elk County until the close of
In the
the school term in 1912.
autumn of 1912 he joined the
Wikes-Barre school system, and in
1914 he was appointed principal 'of
the
Conyngham school— a post
which he held for thirty-one years.
In 1945, Mr. Mahoney was elevated to the post of district principal of the northern section of tire

He

devoted his entire teaching career to elementary school in-

city.

struction.

His deep understanding of problems of grade school students was
recognized in 1918, when he was
selected to write the examinations
for all city grade schools. His success in this

work resulted

in

his

being retained for that assignment
for a total of thirty-two years.

the
In 1936 he was awarded
A.B. degree at St. Thomas College,
now the University of Scranton.
It was a standard practice with
him to visit the homes of children
not doing as well as he thought
they could, and also those doing
exceptionally well, to
acquaint
their parents with the real facts. As
a result, parents looked upon Mr.
Mahoney as a figure to who they

could turn, long after their children

had

left his classes.

1910
Hilda Altmiller (Mrs. R. J. Taylor) lives at 678 North Church St.,
Hazleton, Pa. She was a teacher
in the Hazleton schools until her
marriage in 1921.
1912
Clarence Miles, a member of
Caldwell Consistory, and a former
Normal football star, in the days
before World War I, died September 13 in Nesbitt Memorial HosHe had
pital from a heart attack.
been admitted to the institution but
forty minutes before his death.
A resident of Luzerne, he was
associated with the Wilkes-Barre
death
His
Transit Corporation.
came as a shock to his many
friends. Survivors include his wife,
Edwards, TO,
the former Mary
also a Bloomsburg alumnus, and a
brother.
12

1913
Ethel Altmiller, 131 South Cedar
street, Hazleton, is teacning in tne
Grehey Memorial Junior High
School in Hazleton.

Ruth Altmiller (Mrs. William H.
Jones) is teaching ha the Green
street School, Hazleton.
Francis B. Eveland

is

stationed

Great Lakes Naval Station as
assistant to Admiral Agnew in the
Reserve Component, 9th Naval
His rank is Commander,
District.
Medical Corps (Specialist) Reservat the

es,

U.

S.

Navy

Reserves.

1915
Mrs. Maud Peet Laughlin, of
Dalton, has been appointed chairman of the history department at
Lebanon Valley College, according
to an announcement made by Dr.
Irederic K. Miller, president of
the Annville institution.
Laughlin,
fonnerly
Professor
professor of political science and
sociology, also will head the Division of Social Studies in the College’s new General Education program. She recently lectured at the
University of Oxford, and returned
to the United States in the latter
A native of
part of September.
Dalton, Prof. Laughlin is a gradNormal
Bloomsburg
uate
of
School and Columbia University.
She is the author of several articles
on the Far East and Australia and
has done numerous book reviews
for the “American Historical ReScience
“Political
view’’ and the
Quarterly.”

1918
Florence Altmiller (Mrs. Conrad
Hazle
in
the
Walters), taught
Street School, Hazleton, until her
marriage in 1926.
1919
Stricken
with a heart attack
while driving to Kis-Lyn Industrial
School on February 23, 1950, Bur-

Swortwood of Mountain Top
was pronounced dead on admission
rell J.

to

Hazleton State Hospital.

The

victim was a native and
Mountain
prominent resident of
Top, being a son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. William Swortwood. A
graduate of Fairview Township
High School and Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, he taught six
years in Fairview schools and one
year in Slocum Township before

joining the Kis-Lyn staff 20 years
ago. Active in tne affairs of Mountain Top Presbyterian Churcli, Mr.
Swortwood was a church elder and
superintendent of
the
Sunday
School.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Eva Weaver, T2, of Mountain Top; five brothers and a sister,
Julian, Bruce D., Vance and Ethel
Swortwood, all of Mountain Top;
J.
William H., Pottstown and Lloyd,
El Paso,’ Texas.

1923
Miss Winifred Edwards, a graduate of the Bloomsburg Schools
and a former successful teacher in
Bloomsburg, is now
popular
a
member ot the Irvington, N. J.,
High School faculty.

A

recent issue of the

Irvington

Herald and Times, with illustrations, was written about Miss Edwards and her work with young
people. It was captioned “Presenting a Staunch Defender of This
Younger Generation.”

Miss Edwards

has

numerous

friends in this area and we know
they will be interested in the article which follows;
The gracious lady with the ready
smile sat at her desk and beamed.
She was talking about young
people— girls in particular for girls
and their problems are her principal hobby— and extolling the virtues
of the teenage generation.

“They’re wonderful, and anybody who thinks otherwise just
we
doesn’t know them the way
do!” she declared.

This staunch defender of today’s
youth is Miss Winifred Edwards
who teaches stenography and typing— and a lot more, at Irvington
High.
For classroom instructions
is only one phase of Miss Edwards’
activities there.

She spends a period each morning in the guidance room, counseling students with personal or vocational problems and frequently devotes afternoon and evening hours
to the same type of work.
In addition, she is advisor of the
Girl Reserves, a self-improvement
and service organization which has
grown from a membership of 30 to
330 during the 15 years she has
served as its mentor. And she is
feature advisor of “The Torch.”
A native of Bloomsburg, Pa.,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Miss Edwards attended the Normal School there and later tire
Tierce School of Business in PliilaShe was one of 10 studelphia.
first
dents to participate in the
spelling bee to be broadcast over
a radio station while she was at
Tierce, Miss Edwards recalls. “We
won, too,” she smiles.
Her first teaching position found
her in a one-room country schoolhouse, in Millgrove, Ta. All eight
grades, comprising 35 pupils, were
in that one room.
After a year of that rigorous experience, she went on to Blooms-

burg High where she
senior English

mentored
and math and serv-

ed as advisor of the school
book and newspaper. The

yearlatter

at

300 East Eleventh Street,

Ber-

Dr. Margaret B. Parke is
Research Assistant in the Bureau of

Curriculum Research
City.

Her

hi

New

special field

is

York
Lan-

guage Arts. After her graduation
from Bloomsburg, Dr. Parke studied at the Pennsylvania State College and Teachers College, Columbia University.

1926
Pearl Ilagenbuch Swenson lives
at Grandview Place, North
Caldwell, New Jersey.
Mrs. Swensen
studied at Columbia University,
where she received her Master’s

degree in Fine Art Education. She
taught for seventeen years in the

New

rose to the medalist class in ColumPress
Conference contests

schools of Passaic,

under her guidance.
Miss Edwards came to Irvington
in 1934 and besides her classroom
and extra-curricular work here she
has earned her bachelor and masters degree from New York University and completed her six-year

Mildred Rehm, a member of the
teaching staff in Passaic, New Jersey, has been on sabbatical leave,
studying for her Master’s degree at
the University of Wisconsin.

bia

level of training at
bia,

NYU, Colum-

Rutgers and Seton Hall during

die intervening years.

And now she’s studying tole
tray painting for art has been another vital interest of this versatile
lady.

Miss Edwards makes her home
at 64 Union avenue where she can
engage in another favorite hobby,
cooking. She spends her summers
at the old family
homestead in
Pennsylvania— “and it’s
a
quite
family when we all get together;
25 or 30 at a meal isn’t too unusual
at a reunion.”

No

avid joiner of organizations,
she belongs to the Quill and Scroll,
international
journalism
society;
the American University Women’s
Club and Delta Pi Epsilon Fraternity of

NYU.

Miss Edythe B.
Hortman, of
Berwick, became the bride of Michael F. Slanski, of Mocanaqua, in a
ceremony performed Monday, June
18 by the Rev. M. J. Krupar, of the

Mocanaqua Ascension Church. The
is a graduate of the Berwick
High School and Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. The bridegroom
is employed by the Berwick Store

bride

Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Slanski are living
December, 1951

one time, had a

radio

"The Golden Book,” on

wick.

Jersey.

1927

1928
Eleanor Sands Smith, of Benton,
poetry editor of
The Morning
Press for the past six years,
has
completed a manuscript of poems,
entitled “St.
Martin’s
Summer,”
which will be published by Fal-

program,
a

local

station.

A.

M.

Sullivan, president of the
of
America, has

Poetry Society

that Mrs. Smith’s new
a very original contribuour treasury of
lyric

commented
work
tion

“is

to

poems.” Lawrence H.
Conrad,
English head of State Teachers
College, Montclair, N. J., has stated that “the collection gives me the
kind of thrill that I knew in the
early 1920’s when the fine,
new
poets of our Golden Age were first
making their appearance.”
Mrs. Ancker, artist for the book,
has done commercial art for the
tashion field, here
and abroad.
While often exhibiting in sculpture, she is also greatly interested
in water color and oil.
She has

Art
taught at
Cooper Union
School, University of Cincinnati.
She is a sister of Robert Hutton, of

Bloomsburg.
1929

Eleanor

David

L.

(Mrs.
Zydanowicz
Cooke) lives at 15720

Mansfield Road, Detroit 27, Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooke have
four children.

1931

mouth House, Manchester, Me., be-

is
Beatrice
Beale Letterman
teaching at the Fifth Street School

fore Spring.

in

book have
Ruth Hutton

Bloomsburg.
1932

Illustrations for the

been executed by
Ancker, of Summit, N. J., who is a
former Bloomsburg resident. The
book will contain fifty or sixty of
Mrs. Smith’s favorite poems written during the past twenty-five
years.

The

title,

which

means

“Autumn,” expresses the mood of
the poems and of the poet, who is
strongly affected by that season.
Mrs. Smith says she is a traditional poet with the “austerity of a
white landscape” but has mellowed with the years and likes to write
abstractions just for fun.

She worked with Vachel Lindsay, Edward Davison
and John

Macey

at the Pennsylvania
State
College poetry workship in 192930 and admits that her own work
became conscious of the post
World War I British school of
poetry through her contact with
Davison. She has reviewed books
for the Fine Editions Press and Falmouth Publishing House and, at

Dr. Henry J. Warman, associate
of
the
professor and
secretary
Clark University Graduate School
of Geography, has been nominated
to serve as the representative of
Clark University on the Honorary
Advisory Group to the Organizing
Committee of the Third Pan American Consultation on Geography.
The conference will be held in
Washington, D. C., July 25 through
August 4, 1952, with the Government of the United States serving
as host.

Dr. Warman,
who will join
representatives of various Federal
agencies,
national organizations
universities
concerned with
geographic programs, received his
bachelor of science degree from
Bloomsburg in 1932. He played
football and basketball throughout
his four years at Bloomsburg, cap-

and

his
tained the football team
in
senior year, and was a member of
In
the track team for two years.

13

1950 he was awarded

“gold”

a

lifetime interscholastic pass for the

Key Club.
The Clark geographer
his

received

master of science degree from

Temple University, Philadelphia
and his doctor of philosophy degree
from Clark University, Worcester,
Mass., in 1945. He has also studied at the Berlitz Schools and the
University of Pennsylvania, both in
Philadelphia.. A member of Clark
University’s faculty since 1943, Dr.
Warman has also been a teacher,
coach and athletic director in Norristown, Pa., public schools.

1933

James Gordon Cullen, 40, of 709
Highland Avenue, Clarks Green,
died suddenly Wednesday, September 22 at his home. Mr. Cullen
was born in Roulette, Pa., and resided in Berwick for some time. He
was a graduate of Berwick High
School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He was a resident
of Baltimore, Md., before moving
to Clarks Green a year ago.
Surviving are his wife, Minnie;
a son, Robert, at home; his mother,
Mrs. Frank Cullen; a sister, Mrs.
Samuel Schaadt, both of Pottstown
and a brother, Dr. Philip Cullen,
Little Rock, Ark.

The appointment

Rob-

of Prof.

ert B. Parker, of Bloomfield,

N. J.,
Technical Publications Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been announced by the
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals
Co., operators of the laboratory at
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Mr. Parker has been assistant
professor in chemistry at Newark
College of Engineering since Febto the

ruary,
duties
is the
ghter

1946,

and assumed

his

new

September. Mrs. Parker
former Frances Evans, dauof the late Mr. and
Mrs.
William Evans. Prof. Parker received his degree at B.S.T.C. and
Pennsylvania State College, and
took additional graduate study at
in

Columbia University.
1934

How

would you

like to leave for

the United States an hour before
a Korean Communist push cut
your division to ribbons?

How

would you

be relieved of your post an hour before
a battle that

14

saw

like to

half of the

Amer-

ican officers with the South Korean
division killed and the other half
forced to walk 52 miles to safety?

happened

Gerald
Woolcock, of Orangeville R. D. 1,
who was home recently with his
family on thirty-day rotation leave.
Major Woolcock, assigned as a
personnel and supply officer with
one of the South Korean “MounIt

to

Major

tains” Divisions, received his orders to

May

depart for the United States,
He left by jeep with his

16.

interpreter at six o’clock the fol-

lowing morning taking the only
supply road in allied hands back
to Taegu.
One hour later, the second big
Red offensive of the Spring opened with the Major’s division bearing the brunt of the first thrust.
Sixteen of the remaining thirty-five
American officers with the division were killed.
The rest had to
pick up what few personal belongings they could carry when the
Chinese cut the road taken an hour
before by Major Woolcock.

Enroute home, Major Woolcock
by jeep from the front to
Taegu, by ferry boat from Korea
to Japan and by transport ship to
A train brought
San Francisco.
him to Chicago where he was met
by his wife, the former Ruth Gintraveled

ter,

of Halifax, Pa.

Mrs. Woolcock and the children

were evacuated from Korea

last

year when the big battle for the
Peninsula started. The major was
that
time
stationed in Seoul at
which is Korean
with
the
Military Advisory Group to
area. The three Woolcock children
are Deanna Sue, six, the oldest,
Gary and Eugene, two, the young-

KMAG

est.

Major Woolcock, a graduate of
the Teachers College taught at
Millville Lligh School before World

War

II

and

after

his

discharge

with the rank of captain after five
years service.
He volunteered to
reenter the service from the Reserve in February of 1949. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Wool-

cock

live in Millville.

1935
of
Gerald Harter,
formerly
Bloomsburg, is coach of wrestling
High
at the Haverford Township
School and at Haverford College.
He has also been officiating at

many

collegiate

He

matches.

is

remembered by Bloomsburg Alumas the outstanding
placement
kicker in the history of football at
B. S. T. C.

ni

Anthony Conte was recently appointed principal of the Benjamin
Franklin School, Elizabeth, New
Jersey. Mr. Conte, a business education teacher at Thomas Jefferson
High School since 1947, started
teaching at Marquis de Lafayette
junior High School in February,
1936.
A native of Italy, he is a
graduate of Thomas Jefferson High
School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa. He
has his master of education degree
from Rutgers University and has

done graduate work

at

New

York

University.

He

has served as assistant base-

and basketball coach at Jefferson and is a member of the Eli-

ball

zabeth Teachers’ Association. Mr.
Conte is married and is the father
of four children.
Mrs. Conte, the
former Santina La Brutto, is also a

member

of the class of 1935.

Former Lieutenant Rostand
Kelly, 342

Seventh

East

D.

street,

Bloomsburg, was recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander, USNR, and is now serving
as Center Commander’s Aide at
the Naval Training Center.
Prior to being recalled to active
duty in February of this year, he
was active as an educator, professor

and principal

at several eastern

schools.

Kelly

first

entered the

Navy

in

March, 1942, and was commissioned an ensign. During World War
Naval
11, he served at the U. S.
Station, Coco Solo, Canal Zone, as
personnel officer.

Later assignments took him
to
Washington, D. C., where he was
assigned to the Bureau of Personnel.
He was also connected with
the Classification Detail

and

Billet

Office.

He

is

tre

wear the
American Thea-

authorized to

Asiatic-Pacific, the

and the World

War

II

Victory

ribbons.

Kelly

attended

Bloomsburg

State Teachers College where he
received his Bachelor of Science

Degree.

He

later received his

TIIE

Mas-

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Degree from Columbia Uni-

ters

versity.

While attending the college he
was active in sports and played
four years of varsity football.
He
was a member of the Alpha Psi

Omega, Phi Delta Kappa
Sigma Chi fraternities.

and

L. Cr. Kelly, who is single, is residing at the
Bachelor Officers’
Quarters at the Naval Training
Center.

B.S.T.C.

student now teaching at Shamokin
High School, claimed as his bride.
Miss Erma Nissley, daughter
of
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Nissley, of
Middletown, in a ceremony held
in July in the Valley Forge Memorial Chapel.
The bride, a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College, is home economics teacher at
Shamokin High School.
The

bridegroom graduated from Conyngham Township High School and
B. S. T. C.

work

He

took post-graduate

at the University of Pennsyl-

vania, Bucknell University
kes College.

and Wil-

1940
Baker is Employment

Donald S.
Manager for Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia. His address is
328 Maple Avenue, Langhorne, Pa.

and Ethel Ruth Moore
Lehigh Road,
Cooper Farm, Wilmington, DelaPhillip

are

now

living at 16

ware.

Miss Rose Mary Hausknecht, of
Woodbury, N. J., daughter of Chester M. Hausknecht, of Bloomsburg,
and the late Mrs. Hausknecht, became the bride of Earle Daniel
Brown, Jr., son of Mrs. Earle D.
Brown, of Swedesboro, N. J., and
die late Mr. Brown, in
a recent
ceremony in the Woodbury Presbyterian church.
The Rev. William
W. Allen, Jr., assistant pastor of
the church, performed the
ceremony. Mrs. Brown is a graduate
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College and Mr. Brown of Gettysburg College, where he was a
member of the Lambda Chi Alpha
Fraternity.

James Hinds has been discharged from military sendee and has
returned to his duties as teacher
December, 1951

staff

Gwladys Jones Miller, 21 Indiana Road, Riverside, Rhode Island,
announces the arrival of a son
born August 10, 1951.
Mr. and

Columba’s Rectory, Bloomsburg. Mrs. Kohrherr is a graduate
of B.S.T.C. and has been on
the
faculty of the Cranford, N. J. pubSt.

lic schools.
Her husband attended
Panzer College and Rutgers Uni-

versity

and

is

now employed

by

Mrs. Miller are also the parents of
a small daughter.

Webb Wire Co., New Brunswick,
He served with the U. S.
N. J.

1941
Frederick Worman is director
of the High School Band at Milton,

Army

S.

Florida.

1938

Byron Beaver, former

and member of the coaching
at Sunbury High School.

Grant Brittingham is Director of
Student Activities in the Huntington

Township High School.
1942

Stanley Schuyler, of Berwick,
coach of football and wrestling
the

Muncy High

is

at

School.

Merrill A. Deitrich and his wife,
the former Kitty O'Neill, are living
in Detroit, Michigan
where Mr.

Deitrich

employed

Supervisor of General Accounting at
the
Lincoln-Mercury
Division,
Ford Motor Company. Mr. Deitrich received his MBA degree from
the

is

as the

Wharton School, University

of

Pennsylvania in 1947. He passed
his CPA examination in New Jersey in 1949. Prior to his present
position, Mr. Deitrich was employed as a Senior Accountant at Price,
Waterhouse & Co. His wife is employed as a secretary by the Automotive Division, E. I. DuPont de
Nemours & Co. Their address is:
13254 No. Norfolk, Detroit 35,
Michigan.

for three years including
a
year and one-half with the infantry
in the European theatre.
Mr. and
Mrs. Kohrherr are now living at
95 Ford Avenue, Milltown, New

Jersey.

1946
Harrison J.
Cameron, Jr., of
Berwick, has accepted a position
on the faculty of Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Texas.
A
graduate of the class of 1946 ai
BSTC, he was awarded a master s
degree at Penn State in 1943, and
has completed all the woik necessary for a doctorate with the exception of a dissertation. Mr. Cam-

eron was formerly a member of
the Sayre High School faculty and
has also taught at Denton,
Md.,

and Bellefonte.
He assumed his new duties on
September 14 and is teaching business administration and
business
education

In a lovely
thirty Friday,

Millville

Geraldine Bitting (Mrs. Raymond Oberle) lives at 1402 Harrison Avenue,
Silverside
Heights,
Wilmington, Delaware.
Mr. and
Mrs. Oberle were married September 11, 1951.

1943
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Lapinski,
live at 8525 Philadelphia
Road,
Baltimore 6, Maryland. Mrs. Lapinski was formerly Miss Eleanor
Althoff.
Mr. and Mrs. Althoff
have two children.
1945
Miss Mary Ellen Flaherty, of
Railroad street, Bloomsburg,
became the bride of Albert Kohrherr,
of Milltown, N. J., in a ceremony
at one o’clock Saturday afternoon,
June 30. The Very Rev. William
Burke officiated at the service in

subjects

to

students

working toward bachelor and master degrees.
Mr. and Mrs. Cameron and son, James Arthur, make
their home in Lubbock.

ceremony
September

at

tvvo-

28, in the

Methodist Church,

Miss

Beatrice Ludwig, of Millville, became the bride of Grant Greenly,
Jerseytown. The Rev. John Hoover, pastor, performed the
doublering ceremony before the
altar
which was beautifully decorated.
The bride is a graduate of Millville
High School and B.S.T.C. She is
a teacher in the Madison Township
school. Her husband is a barber in
Jerseytown.

1948
Miss Martha Alice Hathaway,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dovle
D. Hathaway, of Danville, and Lt.
Billie D. Starkey, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elbert M. Starkey, of
Seymour, Tex., were married at the
Tulsa Baptist Temple, Tulsa, Okla.,
by the Rev. Clifford E. Clark. Mrs.
Starkey is a graduate of B.S.T.C.
15

and attended Pennsylvania State
College.
She was an elementary
school teacher in Carlisle, Pa. Her
husband attended Fullerton Junior
College, Fullerton, Calif., and is a
graduate of the Officers Candidate
School, Fort Riley, Kansas.
They
are now living in Fort Bel voir, Va.,
where Lt. Starkey is assigned to
the

Army Engineering

Miss Helen E. Brace of Hunlock Ureek and Karl H. Hess, of
register, were married recently in
tne Hunlock Dreek
Metnodist
Cliurcn. Miss Brace is a graduate

groom is a member of the
school faculty.
The bride

Harter High Scnool and B.b.T.
C.
Mr. Hess, a graduate of Hun-

A. C. F.

tington Mills Hign Scnool,
in farming.

Dorothy Grifasi is employed as
secretary in the offices ot tiie Fed-

or

is

Barbara Brace (Mrs.
Robert
Rosengrant)
lives
in
Hunlock
Creek, Pr. She was married February 22, 1951.

ticoke,

is

a

J.

1949
Swigonski, of Nan-

member

of the faculty

Huntington Township High
School, where he teaches
mathematics and social studies, and serves as coach and director of guidance.
Mr. Swigonski, who has a
Master’s degree from
Bucknell,
taught last year in Maryland.

23.

In a lovely ceremony at
two
o’clock Saturday, August 25 in the

Washingtonville Lutheran Chuich,
Miss Grace Alberta Funk, of Danville R. D. 2, became the bride of
Henry E. Crawford, of Bloomsburg R. D. 4. The Rev. John Fisher, pastor, performed the doublering ceremony. The bride is a graduate of Danville High School and
her husband is an alumnus of the

Bloomsburg High School.
Both
graduated from BSTC
and are
employed as teachers by the Hughesville School District. Mrs. Crawford is the sixth grade teacher and
Mr. Crawford is teacher in the
commercial department of the
high school. The groom served in
the Air Force during

World War

II.

working
is
Hydrographic
Office.
His address is Apartment
9, 319 Parkway Terrace Drive. S.E.
Washington, D. C.
William R. Deebel

for the U. S.

1G

Navy

a

position as supervisor ot
speech
correction in
tne Warren,
Pa.,
schools.
He was graduated from
tne Ploomsburg btate Teachers

as a

comptometer operator

at the

Reserve Board, Washington,
D. C. Her address is 235 Second
Street, N.E., Washington, D. C.
Miss Philomena Cislo of DuPont,
became tne bride ot John B. Czer-

College in
and received his
masters degree at Bucknell Uni-

nakowsxi,

versity.

16,

1950

of the

John M. Purcell is employed as
a Senior Accountant in the Contract Billing Department
of
the
Foster Wheeler Corporation, New
York.
He is also attending the
Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University.
His address is Box 953, Y.M.
C.A., 5 West 63rd Street, New York

was

graduated
from Berwick High
School in 1946 and was employed

eral

school.

Frank Johnson has accepted

Thaddeus

en-

gaged

high

Mrs. Betty Ridall Wagner is
teacning commercial subjects
in
tne riuntington
Townsnip High
School, Huntington Mills, Pa. Sne
taugnt last year in tne high school
at Buizabethtown, Pa.

Jim Reedy, Milton nigh product

and a

star tor tne Bloomsburg College Huskies during tne post-war
revival of the gridiron sport here,
nas been elevated to tne head
coaching spot at Highspire High.
Reedy succeeds Charles T. Leon-

ard tor whom he was assistant last
season and will coach basketball
as well as the gridiron sport. He is
a teacher in tne commercial department at Highspire. LaRue C.
Derr, Madison township native and
Bloomsburg alumnus, is now supervising principal of the Highspire
schools and made the
announcement. Mr. Derr was for some years
supervising principal at the Bea-

Township Schools.
Reedy,
brought to Bloomsburg by the late
Alvin J. Danks, was fullback three
seasons and quarterback one for
the Huskies. He joined the Highspire faculty last year after having
taught in Paulsboro, N. J., the first
ver

Jr.,

The Rev.

Pont.

C. H. Kolakowski

The

groom, a well known graduate and
runner athlete at B.S.i.C. is now
on the statt at Doylestown High
School wnere he is teaching and
coaching. The bride is a graduate
ot rauront High School and attended Scranton Lackawanna Business College.

George Paternoster, of Hazleton,
has been appointed head basketball coach at the high school
in

Cape May, New Jersey.
Before
joining the faculty at Cape May,
ne was a member of the teaching
staff at the Hazleton High School.
In a lovely ceremony at two
o’clock Saturday afternoon, August
28, in

Paul’s

St.

Presbyterian

Church, Laurel Springs, N. J., Miss
Anne Louise Hickman became the
bride of John W. Williams, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. Horace Williams,
of East Fifth street,
Bloomsburg.

The bride was employed

as secretary for Curtis Publishing Co., in

Philadelphia, before her marriage.

The bridegroom, a graduate
Bloomsburg High School and
T.C.

is

member

a

Heights, N.

Helen Elizabeth Kolet, of Berwick, and Leonard Edward Gricoski, Shamokin,
was solemnized recently in the
Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin
Mary,

double

aJso read tne nuptial mass.

and coaching

semester.

The marriage

ot Plants, in a

ceremony on Saturday, June
in Secred Heart Bliurcn,
Du-

ring

J.,

of
B.S.

of the

faculty

staff of the

Haddon

Senior High School.

of Miss

Berwick, with the Rev. Fr. Joseph

Smarsh reading the nuptial mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Gricoski went
to
Canada on a wedding trip and are
living in
Tremont, where
the

Andrew

E. Palencar

is

teaching

commercial subjects and serving as
guidance counselor at the high
school in Cape May, New Jersey.
After graduation from Bloomsburg,
lie did graduate work at
Lehigh
University, where he received his
Master’s degree.
Ilis address
is

825 Washington Street, Cape May,

New

Jersey.

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The marriage of Lois Lucille
Jackson, Danville, and William Allied Stimeling, Berwick, was solemnized in October in the Berwick
Christian Church. The Rev. William F. Tucker, pastor, officiated
at tlie single ring ceremony which
was performed by candlelight.
Tne bride, a graduate of DanHigh School, attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The
groom, a graduate of Berwick High

wile

School
and Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, is .a speech instructor at William Penn Junior
and Senior High School, Newcastle,
Delaware, hollowing a brief wedding trip, the newlyweds returned
to
Newcastle, Delaware, where
they will reside in a newly-furnished apartment.

1951
ton, teacher of English in the Nescopeck High School, has accepted
a similar position in West
Hazleton.

Miss Rlioda Carls, Ringtown, has
been named to the elementary staff

is

Sunbury

schools.

Hervey Thomas, of Orangeville,
teaching in Nescopeck, Pa.

John E. Rodeback, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Rodeback,
College Arms, West Chester, Pa.,
has completed processing at tire
2053d Reception Center at Fort
George M. Meade and is assigned
to tire Hawaiian Infantry Training
Pvt.

Center, Schofield Barrack, T. H.,
Army basic training.

for

The marriage

Miss Gerry
Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lattimore Hess, of Catawissa, to
Ephraim Shannon Weaver, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Shannon
Weaver, Sr., of Shamokin, was solemnized Saturday, August 11, in
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Cataof

wissa.

The Rev. Howard

Hugus, pastor of the church, performed the
double-ring ceremony.
S.

The bride is a graduate of CataHigh School and Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
Her husband graduated from Shamokin
High School and B.S.T.C. and also
served two and one-half years with
wissa

the U. S.

Navy.

December, 1951

burg Public Schools.
In a double-ring ceremony Saturday, August 11, in St. Columba’s
Catholic Church, Bloomsburg, Miss

Dorothy Louise Cedor, daugnter of
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Cedor,
ol Berwick, became the bride of
Francis Row McNamee, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leo C. McNamee, of Cen
ter Street, Bloomsburg.

The

the Very
pastor.

Rev. William

J.

Burke,

l he
newly-weds will reside at
Havre de Grace, Md., alter the

bride completes her college studies
B.S.T.C. in January.
She will
receive a B.S. degree in elementary education.
at

He

has accepted

bridegroom attended St.
Conege, Latrobe, and
graduated from R.S.T.C. with a ma
jor in the secondary field.
He has
been attending Bucknell University
studying tor a master's degree in
V incent’s

Education. He will teach in the
Havre de Grace, \ld.. High School
this year. He is a veteran of three
years U. S. Naval service.

The Catawissa Methodist church
was the setting at 2:30 o clock Saturday afternoon, August 4, tor the
impressive

ceremony

uniting

in

marriage Miss Nancy Jane Drunstetter, daugnter of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul L. Brunstetter, of Catawissa,
and Thomas Harvey Anthony, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Harvey Anthony, of Shamokin.
Olriciating
nuptials was
Glenn, pastor
The bride,
C., is

John Seebold, Danville, and Miss
Joyce Lynn, of Red Lane, were
married
in
Trinity
Lutheran
Church, Danville, at three o clock

Monday, August 27. The ceremony was peironned by Rev. Bernard Krapi, pastor of the church.
Mr. Seebold is a graduate of
Danville High School and graduated in May of this year from the
School of Nursing, Reading General Hospital.

The young couple

nuptial mass was read by

The

West Hazle-

Patricia Kringe, of

of tire

a position as teacher in the Dills-

the

double-ring
Rev. Walter F.
of the church.
a graduate of B.S.T.
a .member of the faculty at
at

the

Township High School. Her
husband is a senior at the Teachers
College and has been elected pres-

Scott

ident of the senior class.

Miss Florence Mordan, of Millis teacher of sixth grade in
die schools of Nescopeck, Pa.

ville,

Beverly Cole is teaching in the
high school at Bradford, Pa. During the past summer she received
six weeks of training at the Women’s Officers’ Training School, at
the United States Marine base at
Quantico, Virginia.

home

will

make

Maryland,
where Mr. Seebold has accepted a
teaching position on the faculty of
their

in Baltimore,

the
Mntord
School.

Mill

Junior

High

Miss Nancy Mae McHenry, of
Berwick, became the bride of Bernard Joseph DePaui, of Berwick,
in a ceremony at eleven o CiOck
Saturday, August 25, at ti.3 rectory
of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Berwick.

The bride is a graduate of Berwick High School and has been
employed in the offices at Wise
Potato Chip Co. Her husband, a
graduate of Berwick High School,
received his degree from B.S.T.C.
where he was active
is

in sports.

He

a teacher in the Newcastle ele-

mentary schools.

Ann Papania
in the junior

is teaching English
high school at Cata-

wissa, Pa.

Miss Joan Harman, of Berwick,
became the bride of Michael Hemlock, of Berwick, in a ceremony on
November 3 at the Episcopal
Church, Rockwell, Md. Tne Rev.
R. P. Black officiated.

Mrs. Hemlock was fonnerly employed at Main Auto Sales, Berwick.

Her husband

is

a teacher in

Washington, D. C., having graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

They are residing at 1302 Thomas street, Arlington, Va.
Pvt. John D. Swartz, 22, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swartz, 362
Broad street, Montoursville, Pa.,
has completed processing at the
2053d Receptioin Center at Fort
George G. Meade, Md., and is assigned to the 3d Armored Division,
Fort Knox, Ky., for Army basic
training.

He was

graduated from Blooms17

burg State Teachers College last
May with a Bachelor of Science degree in business education.

anthology

recently published in
San Francisco.
The selection by Miss Mattis was
originally printed in the Maroon
and Gold, student publication of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, and later in an annual anthology published by the National
Poetry Association.
Miss Mattis
who was co-editor of the Maroon
and Gold in her senior year, is now
employed on the editorial staff of
the Shamokin Citizen.

RECORD CROWD ENJOYS
EXCELLENT HOMECOMING
The twenty-fourth annual Homeocming

at the

Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College was the most
largely attended and enjoyed
in
the history of the institution.
The program got underway
with a fine concert in the Waller
Hall Lounge
by the Teachers

College Band.
Graduates
and

their

friends

coming on the campus
early.
They remained through
much of the day and had a splen-

started

did time.
Big feature of the day was the
football game in which the Huskies
defeated Shippensburg Red Raiders 40 to 14, before a crowd that
College authorities estimated
at

around 3,500.
Bands of both

institutions

added

splendid
programs
between halves and just before the
game a football, decorated with
competing
the
colors
of
the
schools, was dropped on the field
from an airplane by Brad Sterling,
a member of the College faculty.
One thing noticeable was the

color

with

number
football

Bloomsburg
players who were in the
Just about every team of
of

crowd.
the Huskies

former

in

the past

was represented.
There were more than

twenty

years

a thousand at the informal get-together
of graduates and friends in Waller
Hall lounge following the game.
This was by far the largest number
ever to attend that event.
18

Nathan W. Bloss

U. Grant Dodson, of Shickshinny, died in July at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Mansur, in Haddon-

New

Jersey.

vived by a son,

who

He

is

also sur-

lives in Seattle,

Washington.
Edith A. Moses

to

his

made

New

Jersey.

U. Grant Dodson ’88

field,

Previous

death, he had for many years
his residence in Edgewater,

£forrolngij

Miss Marie B. Mattis, of 1019
Webster St., Shamokin, is the author of a poem appearing in an

Company.

ance

’90

Miss Edith A. Moses, retired Wilkes-Barre teacher, died Sunday,
April 22, at her home, 73 Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, after a brief
illness.

’95

Nathan W. Bloss ’95, one of lower Luzerne County’s best known
men, died Monday, November 5,

when stricken with a heart attack.
The retired educator was in the
yard of his Pond Hill home when
be was stricken. Mr. Bloss- had
suffered with a heart condition for
time.
He observed his 75th
birthday anniversary on October

some
24.

Mr. Bloss, who has been a naHobbie, had spent most of

tive of

Miss Moses was born May 27,
1870, in Wilkes-Barre, and lived
there during the greater part of her
life.

After completing her education
in the Wilkes-Barre schools, Miss

Moses entered Bloomsburg.

She

started her teaching career in the

Wilkes-Barre school in 1890, spending a total of forty-nine years in
the old Central Building and the
G.A.R.
Memorial High School,
from which she retired in 1939.

Many men and women who

later

distinguished themselves in public
and private life passed through her
classrooms throughout the years.
She was a member of the First
Welsh Presbyterian Church, and
was one of a group honored several years ago for having been members of that church for fifty years
or more.
She is survived by one sister,
Mrs. David R. Jones, formerly of
Philadelphia, and now living in
Forty Fort, and by a number of
nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and

grand-nephews.
Ira A. Roberts ’99
Ira A. Roberts died July 25 in
the Inglewood Hospital, New Jersey, after a short illness.
He had
been ailing for three years. He is
survived by his wife, Myrtle Roberts and a sister, Mrs.
Roberts Severance, of Los Angeles,
California.
Mr. Roberts was in business in
Bloomsburg for several years. His
later years were spent in the service of the Connecticut Life Insur-

Emma

Pond

his life in

Hill.

He was

a

graduate of Bloomsburg Normal
School and, after a period of teaching in Slocum Township began a
long career in the Conyngham
schools.
He was supervising principal of that system for
several decades and became wide-

Township

ly

known

affairs.

in

Luzerne County school

He

retired five years ago.

In addition to his school activities, Mr. Bloss had long been active in affairs of the Junior Mechanics and of St. Mark’s Lutheran
Congregation. He was a member
of the church council and a teacher in the Sunday School.

Surviving are his wife

mer Mary Ruckle; two
B.

Bloss,

of

the forsons,

Ray

Ringtown, and Har-

old C. Bloss, of Pond Hill.
Also
surviving are four grandchildren
and the following sisters: Mrs. Eliza
Readier, of Glen Lyon, and Mrs.

Emma

Moyer, of Hobbie.

Mrs. James Bebney

’98

Mrs. James Behney (nee Laura
Landis), of Jonestown R. D. 1, near
Lebanon, a former teacher in the
Hazleton city schools, died recently in the Good Samaritan Hospital,

Lebanon.

She had been

ill

for

two

weeks.

Her

husband,

teacher, taught at
They resided for

also

MMI,
many

a former
Freeland.
years at

Freeland until Mr. Behney retired
from the teaching profession.
Mrs. Behney
four
four brothers.

husband,

is

survived by her

step-children

and

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

.

Edward Griffith ’01
Edward Griffith ’01, president of
Glen Alden Coal Company, collapsed unexpectedly and died of a
heart attack at his home, 44 Reynolds street, Kingston. He was 68
years of age.
Mr. Grittith headed the world’s
largest producing company in anthracite coal mining since 1046. At
that time he succeeded Major W.
\V. lnglis,

who

retired as president.

Outside the coal industry, Mr.

won

recognition in civic
and financial fields. In 1947, Wilkes-Barre Rotary Club recognized
his service to the community by
designating him Wilkes-Barre’s outlie
standing citizen of the year.
was chairman of the board of First
National Bank of Wilkes-Barre and
a director of the Scranton-Spring
Brook Water Service Company. In

Grittitti

ager after the death of Douglas
bunting. He was named a direcUpon merger
tor tne same year.
oi tne company with tne Glen Alden, Mr. Luniith became general
superintendent of the Soutnem Division.

m

months.
Bloomsburg, a son of
the late John Lloyd Dillon and
Eliza Jane Barkle, he graduated
from Bloomsburg State Normal
School with the class of 1903 and
The Pennsylvania State College,

an

illness of several

Born

in

1934 he was made vice-president and general manager of the
Glen Alden, succeeding the late
Sneiby D. Dimmick, and continued
in tnat post until he succeeded Ma-

class of 1908.

jor Lnglis in 1946.

years.

Mr. Uritlith also was president
Delaware, Lackawaima and
of
Western Coal Company and president of the Lehign and WilkesBarre Corporation. He was a trustee of Wyoming Seminary and Wilkes College and a director of Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
As head of the Glen Alden, Mr.
Griffith served as chairman of the

A member of the Grace Episcopal Church, of Kingston, and its
Men’s Class, Mr. Dillon was ac-

He was a mining engineer with
the Glen Alden Coal Company for
tne past tuirty-seven years and had
resided in Kingston for thirty-nine

church work until

tive in

his

ill-

ness.

addition, Mr. Griffith was included
in the 10-member advisory group
to Secretary of Interior Chapman;

committee; was a

chairman of the Anthracite Industries Advisory Committee for the

lated the industry in some respects,
and a director of Anthracite In-

Surviving are his wife, the forof Catawissa;
one daughter, Mrs. Louise Dillf
t,
Winters, of Kingston, forme:’
West Hampton Beach, L. I.; two
son. Max G., Jr., of Ithaca, N. Y.,
and Capt. John L. Diilon 3rd, U.
S. Air Force, Topeka, Kansas, and
four grandchildren. A sister, Mrs.
Alice Dillon Furman, of Bloomsburg, and two brothers, Charles H.

stitute.

and Harold

Office of Price Stabilization; member of the Board of Directors of
Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton,
and a member of the Harrisburg
committee in charge of the Anthracite Production Control Plan.
The hard coal industry, however,
was Mr. Griffith’s principal interest for 52 years. All of that period
was spent in the employ of the

Glen Alden Coal Company and
Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal

Company.

He was

in his office as

usual the day before, devoting his
time to executive tasks but left an

hour earlier than usual.
Mr. Griffith was born in WilkesBarre on November 21, 1882, a son
of the

late

Samuel and

Hannah

His father was a mine
foreman for Lehigh and WilkesBarre Coal Company.
Educated in schools of WilkesBarre and Newport Township, Mr.
Griffith was graduated in 1901
from Bloomsburg State Normal
School. He entered the mines a
year later in the operating department of Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre
Coal Company as a clerk.
Progressing to positions of greater responsibility, Mr. Griffith was
assistant general manager of
Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre in 1919, and
in 1928 was named general man-

anthracite

operators’

negotiating

member

of AnBoard of Conciliation; the
Committee of Twelve which regu-

thracite

He was

member

WilkesBarre Lodge 442, F. & A. M., and
in 1950 was made a 33rd degree
Mason. He was also a member of
Scranton;
Consistory,
Keystone

Dieu

le

a

of

Veut Commandery

45,

Knights Templar and Irem Temple.
Mr. Griffith for many years was
active in Community Chest and
Red Cross campaigns.
He was a member of Kingston
Presbyterian Church, Westmoreland Club, the Scranton Club, Union League Club of New York, and
the American Institute of Mining
and Metallurgical Engineers.
His wife, the former Helen
Hughes, died July 7, 1950.

Griffith.

December, 1951

William A. Good ’02
William A. Good, brother of Miss
Mary A. Good, former member of
the
Bloomsburg faculty, died
Thursday, August 30, at his home,
1802 Green street, Harrisburg. He
was a member of Augsburg Lutheran Church, in that city.

Max

G. Dillon

’03

Max Grant Dillon ,Sr., sixty-five,
native of Bloomsburg, died Monday, October 5, at his home, 590
Wyoming Avenue, Kingston, after

mer Harriet Smith,

i

P.,

Bloomsburg, also

survive.

Norma Johns Jones ’07
Mrs. Norma Johns Jones,
merly of Taylor, died in July

for-

at her

home in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
She taught in Taylor for several
years before moving to Asbury
Park thirty years ago. Mrs. Jones,
talented musician, served for
years as organist in one of
the churches in Asbury Park.

a

many

Arthur Holt
Arthur Holt, husband of Pearl
D. Anstock ’07, died July 29, 1951,
at his home, 21 Royal Avenue,
Hawthorne, New Jersey. Mr. Holt
was a guide for the Wright Aeronautical
Corporation at Wood'

New

and a member
Lodge No. 82, Free
He was
and Accepted Masons.

Ridge,

Jersey,

of Falls City

also a

former Assistant Chief of the

Hawthorne Fire Department.
Funeral services were held Tuesday evening, July 31, at the Mason
Funeral Home in Hawthorne. Interment took place the following

day

in the

etery,

New Rosemont Cem-

Bloomsburg.

Surviving are his widow and two
daughter, who live in Hawthorne,
19

and two
Hains,

sisters

New

who

live in

White

York.

Mary G. McBride ’20
Miss Mary G. McBride, of 430

seph’s Catholic Church, N. C. of
C. W., Blessed Virgin Sodality of
the
Church, Women’s
College

Red Cross Board and

(dub,

active

in the cancer drive.

Scott Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., died
11, 1951, after a short ill-

January

Mrs. D.

J.

Mahoney

The

funeral of Mrs. Daniel J.
Mahoney, of 589 Carey Avenue,
Wilkes-Barre, was held in October,
1950, from the James B. Brennan

Funeral Home, 133 West Main St.,
Plymouth, with many relatives and
friends in attendance.

Mrs. Mahoney, the former Anna
Mangan, of Plymouth, wife of Daniel J. Mahoney, who retired September 29, 1950, as a grade school
supervisor in the Wilkes-Barre City
School, died on her 60th birthday
anniversary.

A

solemn high mass of requiem

was

celebrated in St. Aloysius’
Rev. John Dacey was the
celebrant, with Rev. Thomas Monahan as deacon, and Rev. A. Morarity as sub-deacon.
Seated in the
sanctuary were Monsignor Dennis
Kane, of Hazleton, and Rev.
J
Francis Kane, assistant supervisor
of parochial schools in the Scranton Diocese.
Burial was in St. Vincent’s cemetery, Larks ville, where Rev. Father Monahan pronounced the bene-

Church.

diction.

Miss

Miss Mary Welsh, life-long resident of Danville and retired school
teacher, died in the Geisinger Hospital Sunday, June 3, where she
was admitted after suffering a cere-

hemorrhage May 27.
She retired three years ago

bral

after
a life-long service in the Danville

She was graduated from
tire Danville High School, Bloornsburg State Teachers College and

schools.

20

a

heart

attack.

He had worked for the College
about ten years and prior to that,
he was employed for many years
by the Magee Carpet Company.
Ife was a member of the Bloomsburg Lodge of Moose.
Deborah Tustin

Little

Mrs. Robert R. Little slept peaceaway at the home of her sonin-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
John Bakeless, Great Hill, Seymour, Conn., on Saturday, September 2.
The cause of death was a failing heart, aggravated by her advanced years. Had she lived till
next March, she would have been
93 years old.
Mrs. Deborah Tustin Little was
the daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Philips Tustin, former pastor
of the Baptist Church and first
cashier of the First National Bank,
and his wife, Catherine Nicely Tusfully

Northumber19, 1859, but was
brought to Bloomsburg at the age
She spent all her
of five, in 1864.
tin.

land,

She was born

in

March

here until, after the death of
her eldest sister, Miss Mary Tustin,
she decided to make her permanent
home with her daughter.
She was educated in private
life

schools in Bloomsburg, at the old
Normal School and Literary Insti-

Mary Welsh

Bucknell University.
She was a member of

John O. Gibbons, seventy-two,
an employee at the Teachers College, died suddenly Saturday, June
12, shortly after admission to the

Bloomsburg Hospital, of

St.

Jo-

Bucknell Seminary. At
the Normal, Judge Little, her future husband, then a very young
man, was for a short time her
teacher in mental arithmetic.
She married Judge Robert. R.
Little, former district attorney and
for many years President Judge of
Columbia County, in 1878. Her
husband died in 1906.
Mrs. Little was a devoted member to the Baptist Church, her
Philips forbears having been Welsh
tute,

and

at

in

County

John O. Gibbons

ness.

Miss McBride, who taught the
seventh and eighth grades in the
Meyers High School, was a graduate of the class of 1920 of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and
College Misericordia.
Miss McBride was a well known
vocalist,
having taken part in
many musical events in tire valley.

who came to this country
1754 and settled in Chester
County. The Tustins, believed to
have been of Norman-French stock,
settled in Kent, England. The ancestral Philips home in Chester
Baptists

still remains.
In former years, Mrs. Little was
an active member of the Century
and Civic Clubs of town, and one :
time Regent of the local chapter
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, of which she
was a
charter member.
She had earlier
become a member of tire Chester
County Chapter, desiring to join
while her aunt, a daughter of a
Revolutionary soldier, was alive.
Her ancestor, Lt. Josiah Philips,
served General Washington at Valley Forge, as a scout supplying mil-

itary intelligence of

terrain

and

persons in the locality, which was
his

home.

Mrs. Philip C. Guinard
Mrs. Philip C. Guinard (Elizabeth Ohl), forty-nine, of East Seventh Street, widely-known and esteemed Bloomsburg woman, died

Wednesday, August

29, in

Temple

University Hospital, where she had
been a patient seven weeks. She
was serious much of that time and
her condition became critical. Her
husband and daughter, Miss Theresa, were in Philadelphia when her
death occurred.

Guinard spent her entire
section and was a graduate of the Bloomsburg High
School, where she achieved high
scholastic honors.
She was later
Mrs.

life in this

secretary to the President at tire
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Mrs. Lulu Long Burlingame
Mrs. Lulu Burlingame, fifty-four,
wife of Alva E. Burlingame, of
Briar Creek borough, died Monday, October 2, in the Geisinger
Memorial Hospital, where she had
been a patient for about three
weeks.

She was born in Unityville, November 5, 1896, and had resided
in this

area for the past forty-five

She was a graduate of
B.S.T.C. and taught school in Berwick for twenty-one years.
years.

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THE

\LUMNI
Vol. L III, No.

I

QUARTERLY
March 1952

PRESIDENT’S PAGE
If the

and

Past

is

the prologue, then

we

should study

it

to

understand the Present,

try to forecast the future.

For the
college:

its

first

time,

origin,

we

are bringing together

development, and present

some

of the facts regarding the

status.

While a definite history of the college is yet to be written, the collection of
certain facts will appear in a 72 page brochure now being printed. The title of
It will contain a directory
this publication is Bloomsburg Through The Years.
of all living Alumni whose addresses are available.

The Alumni Association is making arrangements to distribute a copy of
Bloomsburg Through The Years to all holders of three year, five year, or life
memberships. This brochure contains the Alma Mater and three other college
songs, with both words and full musical score.

The abbreviated

table of contents

Foreword — Francis B. Haas
Development and Organization
Campus and Buildings — Nevin

as follows:

is

— Wm.

B. Sutliff and Harvey A. Andruss
T. Englehart
Curriculums
T. P. North, W. C. Forney, Edna J. Hazen, John C. Koch
Twelve Faculty Members (past and present)
Fields of Study

—

—

— Earl N. Rhodes
Session and Classes for Teachers-in-Service — T. P. North
College Library — Pearl L. Mason, Catherine Zealberg
Student Life — Marguerite W. Kehr
Athletics — E. H. Nelson and John A. Hoch
Public Relations and Alumni Activities — John A. Hoch and E. H. Nelson
Looking Ahead — Harvey A. Andruss
Student Teaching and Placement Service

Summer

Acknowledgments are due to a large number
and Alumni who have contributed to this literary

of facutly, past

and present,

some of whose names
appear at the beginnings of chapters, but special acknowledgments are due
Marguerite W. Kehr, who collected and edited the manuscripts, and Edward T.
DeVoe, who selected the format and piloted the copy through the printing
effort,

process.

Alumni, whose present membership in the Association is three years or more,
be mailed copies before April 1, 1952. Those who renew their memberships
immediately for three years, or more, will receive copies as long as the supply
The college is pleased to cooperate with the Alumni Association in this
lasts.
will

venture.

Cordially yours,

President.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LI

II,

Published

No.

March 1952

I

quarterly by

the

Alumni

Association of the State Teachers Col-

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 Cppy, 50 cents.
lege,

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

MANAGER

BUSINESS

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

MID-YEAR COMMENCEMENT
“The breaking of the Golden
Rule has been the basis of all our
wars in the past and will continue
to bring grief and strife until man
learns to be humble inwardly and
accept the equality of all men,” Dr.
Leslie Pickney Hill, President EmTeachers
eritus of Cheyney State
College, in his address to the midyear graduating class at their commencement exercises. The class of
twenty-nine received their diplomas and degrees of Bachelor of

Science at ceremonies held in Carver Auditorium Wednesday evening,

January sixteenth.

Dr. Hill pointed out that we need
not look for some complicated an-

swer to all of our present-day problems, but have only to look back
to Christ and Ilis Golden Rule to
find the necessary basic answer to
ties

and

dignities

too long,

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY

MAY

24, 1952

and

1952

to

tion

we must

We

must move

personali-

have been denied

remedy

this situa-

respect all humans
and realize that they are equal, regardless of race, color or creed.
The speaker named three steps
future.
that we must take in the
into God’s

wond-

rous world and open our eyes to
His glories, give broader understanding to the rights of all humans
and have faith and possess a vision
into the spirit of man.
The ceremonies began with the
processional, as the members of the
faculty and the graduating class,
attire,
entered the
in academic
auditorium and took their places.
The invocation was offered by Fred
W. Diehl, Superintendent of the
Montour County Schools, VicePresident of the Board of Trustees,
and a member of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association.
The address of the evening, “The
Individual in a Harried World,”
followed the invocation. Dr. Hill
was bom in Lynchburg, Virginia
and was educated in the public
schools of that city, and also in

East Orange,
March

Human

our problems.

New

Jersey.

He

re-

ceived the degrees of Bachelor of
Arts and Master of Arts at Harvard University, where he was also
He
elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
received the degree of Doctor of
Letters at Lincoln
College and
Morgan College.
He served for
thirty-seven years as President of
the Cheyney State Teachers College, and is now President Emeritus of that institution.
Following the address, a trio con-

Miss Jeanne Ruckle, Miss
Lola Deibert and Miss Mary Ellen
Dean sang “Lift Thine Eyes” from

sisting of

the oratorio “Elijah,” by Mendelssohn.
Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of
Instruction, then
presented the
candidates for degrees, and President Andruss conferred the dedegree of Bachelor of Science in
•Education and presented the diplomas.
The program closed with the
singing of the Alma Mater, under
the direction
of
Ralph Fisher
Smith and with the recessional,
with H. F. Fenstemaker at the
organ.
Degrees were given to the fol-

lowing: James Babcock,

Mahanoy

George Baski, Kulpmont;
Russell Brachman,
West Hazleton; Ronald
Bushick, Kulpmont;
James J. Cannon, Shamokin; Clifton Clarridge, Washington, D. C.;
City;

Michael

Dorak,

Berwick;

Irene

Harry Fenstermacher, Catawissa; Glenn Fogel,
Sunbury; Dyar Haddad, Sunbury:
David Jenkins, West Hazleton;
Eckert, Gilberton;

Thomas

Jenkins, Pittston;

Calvin

Kanyuck, Glen Lyon; Nelson Kile,
Wyoming; William Kreisher, Shamokin; Robert Laubscher, Selinsgrove; Richard Laux, Trucksville;
Jack Lenhart, Bloomsburg; Stanley
LeVan, Bloomsburg; Alfred Marsilio, Hazleton; Mrs. Dorothy Cedor McNamee,
Berwick;
Marion
Payne, Clarks Green; Joseph Pelchar, Keiser; Mary Shultz, Rupert;
George Smith, Sunbury; John Sto1

nik, Baltimore,

Md.; Philip Wein-

Wilkes-Barre; Robert

stein,

Wom-

er, Pottsville.

girls

ly

presented

a memorial photograph of William
E. Trump, former night watchman,
to the College during the Assembly hour Tuesday, December 8.

The photograph

is encased in
a
gray frame and bears the inscrip-

tion: William E. Trump, B.S.T.C.
Night Watchman, 1923-1951. Mr.
Trump’s well-remembered cheerful smile is an outstanding feature

of the picture.

The speech of presentation was
made by Eleanor Johnson, president of the Waller Hall Association for 1951-1952.
Dr. Kehr accepted the memorial on behalf of
the college. Following is the content of Miss Johnson’s speech:
“Dr. Kehr, on behalf of the Waller Hall girls I wish to present to
the college this photograph of William E. Trump, as a memorial to
him.
“Mr. Trump began work as night

watchman at B.S.T.C. in 1923. He
served until just before Christmas
1950.

“To

all

of us here at B.S.T.C.,

he was known to his many
student, alumni and faculty friends,
was always a real friend with a
warm smile and cheerful word, no
matter where or when he met you.
“Twenty-seven years is a long
time and Bill shared a great part of
Bill,

as

those twenty-seven years with the
students of this college, for he was
a very important part of student
life.

test,

He

never failed to be
on
any type of athletic conand on the evening before the

guard

at

game took
fidence

place. Bill’s smile of con-

was present

pep rallies and parades.
No matter what
ihe event, whether a social affair
at the

or an athletic contest,

we

could

ways count on Bill’s presence.
short, whatever involved the

al-

In
stu-

dents of B.S.T.C. also involved Bill

Trump.
“The Waller Hall

never
forget the many things that Bill did
for them during the years that he
was here with us. In addition to
his regular duties, he found
time
to chase away an occasional
bat
2

had invaded the dorm, or get
few mice that had estab-

lished a reign of terror in Waller
Hall, or to take care of a flooding
lavatory. When the lights sudden-

STUDENTS PRESENT
PORTRAIT
The Waller Hall

that

rid of a

girls will

went out

emergency
person we went

or a similar

occurred, the first
search of was our friend Bill.
Perhaps one of the nicest things
Bill found time to do for the girls
in the dorm was to
collect
their
letters during the night. He realized how much those letters meant
to the girls and his hand
placed
thousands of them in the mailbox.
in

These were all little things, but
they were the things which
endeared him to the students.
“Mr. Trump’s death on February
21, 1951, brought his long period
of service to B.S.T.C. to a close.

“And so, Dr. Kehr, as a token of
our appreciation for his many
kindnesses we are happy to present to the college this memorial
of William E. Trump.”

NEW MEMBERS OF
IHE FACULTY

A

State University since 1949.
former teacher in the elementary
schools in the state of Washington, Miss Stolp is a
graduate of

Eastern Washington college, Cheyney, Washington. She was awarded the degree of Master of Arts
at Northwestern
University
and
will be a candidate for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University in June, 1952.
During World War II, she served
in the United States Coast Guard.

SENIORS RECEIVE AWARDS
Three members of the mid-year
1952 were awarded service
keys at the Awards Assembly held
on Tuesday, January 15, at the
close of the first semester.
Those
who were honored in recognition
of outstanding achievement in the
class of

Geld of extra-curricular activities
were Michael Dorak, Berwick; Calvin

Kanyuck, Glen Lyon and

Clif-

ton Clarridge, Washington, D. C.
The records of the recipients of
the Keys are as follows:
Clifton Clarridge— 1948-49, Men’s
Glee Club; 1949-51, Men’s Glee
Club treasurer; 1950-51, Community Government Association, chairman; Men’s Glee Club; Obiter, Advertising Manager; Junior
Class,
Orchestra
Chairman.
1951-52,
Kappa Delta Pi officer; Senior
Class, general chairman;
Obiter,
Advertising Manager.

Dr. C. Cornelia Brong, of Pennsylvania State College, and Miss
Dorothy Stolp, of Louisiana State
University, have been added to the
faculty of the Bloomsburg
State
Teachers College.
They began
their work at the beginning of the
second semester.
The former will fill a vacancy
created by the resignation of Miss
Alice Johnston, who has been a
member of the faculty for a quarter of a century, and whose resignation became effective
the
at
close of the first semester.
Miss Stolp is an addition to the
faculty, necessitated by a change
in the curriculum requiring more
instruction in speech and
speech

Michael Dorak— 1949-50, Community Government Association,
Chairman; Maroon and Gold, Advertising Manager.
1950-51, Community Government Association,
Chairman; Maroon and Gold, Advertising Manager.
1951-52, Senior Class, Chairman of
Banquet;
Obiter, Advertising Staff:
Future
Teachers of America, Vice Presi-

correction.

dent.

Dr. Brong has been Assistant
Professor of Education at the Pennsylvania State College since 1947.
She has had teaching experience
in the public schools of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, after having served on the faculties of the
Lock Haven State Teachers College and Northwestern University.
Miss Stolp will teach
General
Speech and English, and will direct dramatics and radio programs.
She has been teaching in the De-

partment of Speech

in

Louisiana

Kanyuck— 1949-50,

Calvin

The

Bloomsburg Players, Public Play;
Community Government Association,
Assembly Crier.
1950-51,
Science Club, Program Chairman;
Bloomsburg Players, Public Plav;
Maroon and Gold Feature Staff.
1951-52,

Senior Class, Decoration

Chairman;

Future

Teachers

of

Committee
Chairman;
Bloomsburg Players. Public Play;
Maroon and Gold, Feature Staff.
During the exercises, certificates
of
election
to
membership in
America,

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“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universities” were given to Michael Dorak
and Richard Laux. Students are
nominated for this honor on the
basis of scholarship, extra-curricular activities, professional promise,
and a number of other qualifications.

President Andruss spoke briefly
during the ceremonies and presented certificates of recognition to
lour

members

of the

BSTC

football

team who had been selected on
Allthe annual Associated Press
Pennsylvania State Teachers College team. Certificates were given
to John Nemetz, Shamokin; Robert

Thomas

Milton;

Spack,
Johnstown and Ardell Zeigenfuss,
Mowry. President Andruss stated
that the certificates were made posof
sible through the cooperation
The Morning Press with the chief
of the Pennsylvania Bureau of the
Associated Press, Joseph Snyder.

Lange,

A

was given to
Redman by Dr.

special certificate

Coach Robert
Andruss

B.

in recognition of his

sel-

by the Associated Press as
“Coach of the Year.” Coach Redman was awarded that honor as a

ection

result of a poll

of sports

and coaches throughout the

Members

writers
state.

1951
football
squad were presented jackets by
Coach Redman in recognition of
their efforts in writing another undefeated season into
the record
of the

books.
The jackets were made
possible through the
cooperation
of the
Community Government
Association, the college
administration,

and the Board of Trustees.

The graduating

class

was seated

on the platform, following a processional.
Thomas Anthony, Shamokin, president of the Senior
class, presided over the exercises
and read the Scripture. Earl Gehrig, class
advisor, presented the
the class who were
the recipients of the awards.
Dr.
Thomas P. North. Dean of Instruction, gave the “Who’s Who” shingles to the winners, and Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Dean
Women,
of
presented the service keys.
Ralph Fisher Smith directed the

members

of

assembly singing, with Howard F.
Fenstemaker at the console.
The
marshal for the academic procession

was Walter

March

1952

S.

Rygiel.

EDUCATION— U.
(Editorial in

S.

STYLE

Maroon and Gold,

January 11, 1952)
statement in a recent newspaper editorial is indicative of the
sort of thing that helps to create

A

distrust and lack of faith in American schools. The statement read:
'One thing more would be to insist
upon some standards of teaching in
order that young people will get an
education instead of
wasting a
good bit of time they spend in the
classroom.”
There are two kinds of criticism
icing hurled at the schools today,
The
destructive and constructive.
1

first kind merely finds fault,
frequently reaching a conclusion without a knowledge of the facts. Constructive criticism, on
the
other
hand, not only points out defects
based on a knowledge of all the
facts but also offers a better plan
to replace the one that has
been

proved
will

to

be

welcome

ineffective.

Anyone

kind of criticism
leads to progress instead of
this

since it
destruction.

There is nothing more disheartening to a teacher, especially a new
teacher who has chosen the profession as a life’s work, to see education ridiculed by a press and public unfamiliar with the
techniques
and goals of teaching. What more
is needed to turn teachers sour and
cynical, to stifle enthusiasm and initiative, than a public and press unappreciative of the teachers’ constant efforts to teach the democratic processes, to instill ideals in the
receptive mind of youth, to make
him a courteous person, to give him
a feeling of security and success as
he gropes to find his place in an
insecure world?
If the more than one
million
school teachers in our nation do
not feel confident that what they
are trying to do is worthwhile, if
they become resigned, pessimistic,
unappreciated, you may be certain
that it will not be long before corruption and communism, the twoheaded frankenstein now seen in
high places, will eventually displace decency and democracy, the
twin virtues teachers are emphasizing throughout the land today.
Let those who so gladly criticize
find and face the facts before they
write; let them think twice before

Such people forget
democratic education is fundamentally a trial and error proI

hey speak.

that

which forges the character of
leadership in the give and take of
school life. They forget that school
must
is
a place where students
have practice in the art of self-exguided.
pression, constructively
Mistakes will be made, but these
will be natural mistakes made in
any democratic society from which
cess

self-improvement and group benewill

fit

We

be derived.

that
teachers
beings engaged in the
noble and never-ending task of preparing the children of America to
be informed persons; however, let
us not forget for a moment
that
this is only the beginning of our
task, that teachers must appeal to
the heart as well as to the mind of
the child, lest the finished product
of the school be merely a mechanical robot without ideals, a walking encyclopedia without spirituality, an educational formula without
kindness in his heart. It we as teachers reach the heart of the child,
we shall not have taught in vain.

are

fully realize

human

Dr. Ernest Englehardt, Director

and
Education
Secondary
Placement at Bloomsburg, was reof

cently the

guest speaker at

the

The
Kiwanis Club of Pittston.
meeting launched the eleventh anguidance
niversary of the youth
program of the club. The school
principals and directors of the area
were guests of the club. Dr. Englehardt’s topic was “The Function
of the State Teachers Colleges in
Pennsylvania.”
In the evening. Dr. Englehardt
spoke to the Parent-Teachers AsPittston
the West
sociation of
schools. His topic was “The Child
as a Personality.”

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CHRISTMAS AT BLOOMSBURG
A

varied program of music by
the
Christmas Assembly held Thursday, December 20, at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The
large organization, under the direction of Ralph Fisher Smith, sang
the

Women’s Chorus featured

a number of traditional Christmas
carols as well as original arrangements of music by well-known

American and European

compos-

ers.

During the program Miss

Mary

Fink, of Berwick, sang Adams’
Holy Night” and the senior trio,
composed of Mary Ellen Dean,
Milton; Lola Deibert, Danville and
Jeanne Ruckle, Bloomsburg, presented beautiful arrangements of
Mary Jo Williams,
several carols.
Trucksville, and Marilyn Lundy,
Bloomsburg, were the accompanists for the special numbers.

Arm

O

‘

Howard

Fenstemaker was the
organist for assembly singing, and
he also played an organ solo,

March

‘

F.

of the

Magi

Kings,”

by

Accompanists for the
Women’s Chorus were Mary Jo
Williams and Mary Grace Aimers,
Plymouth.
DuBois.

The assembly was

the opening
day of pre-holiday
In
the
on the campus.

event on a
activity

full

evening the students enjoyed the
annual Christmas dinner in the
College dining room. Decorations
were in keeping with the holiday
season and featured a ceiling-high
Christmas tree trimmed with hundreds of colored lights. Gifts were
presented by the students to needy
Bloomschildren in the town of
burg.

Climax to the day’s activities
was a Carol Sing in the Waller
Lounge. Following the singing of
Christmas carols and songs, the
students enjoyed dancing

to

the

music of Henry Marini and his
More than four hundred
Pastels.
students enjoyed the dance and refreshments which were served by
the Social and Recreational Committee of the Community Govern-

ment Association.

The holiday recess began at the
close of classes on Friday, December 21.

Classes were resumed on

Thursday, Januaary
4

third.

DR. ANDRUSS APPOINTED
TO ADVISORY COMMITTEE
PresiDr. Harvey A. Andruss,
dent of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, has been appointed
Coma member of the Advisory
mittee of the School Facilities Survey sponsored by the Department
This is a
of Public Instruction.
survey of school buildings in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
as provided in Federal Public Law

815.

The Advisory Committee

is

com-

posed of a Director and Coordinator from the Department of Public
ReInstruction; the Director of
search and Statistics, Joint

Government

Commission;

State
Secre-

Pennsylvania School DirecDirectors’ Association; Research
Education
tor, Pennsylvania State
tary,

of
President
Superintendents Division of the Pennsylvania

Association;

the

County and

District

State Education Association.

Doctor Andruss represents the
which
Colleges,
will be used as centers for the survey throughout the State.
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colleges will be used as a pilot study
Counties,
for
the surrounding
which will include Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and possibly

State Teachers

On the basis of the reports made, the forms used will be
given a
revised and procedures
Luzerne.

trial

before the study for the rest
is attempted.

of the State

This is a long range program to
determine the existing school facilities and the future
needs
in
terms of increasing populataion.

One

of the short range functions
study will be to enable Pennsylvania to request allocations of
steel
for
new construction of
school buildings on a
state-wide
At the present time each
basis.
building project must justify
its
of the

own

requests on a local basis
the national government.

The leading
ber,

Business

Human

article in the

issue

1951,

of

Education”

to

Octo-

“American
‘The
is

Side

of
Administration,”
written by President Harvey A.
Andruss, of Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

Dr. Andruss delivered an address
this same subject to the Admin-

on

istrators

Department

and

Round Table

Heads

of National

Business
Teachers Association in Cleveland,
Ohio, December 29, 1950.

The National and Eastern

BusiAssociations have
the
magazine,
jointly supported
American Business Education,”
and a single year-book. These publications reach thousands of
business teachers from New England
to the Mississippi River, and south
to Washington, D. C.
ness Teachers

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BSTC GRADUATE
LIVING IN ALASKA
An insight into the life

three of my Indian friends, Sergei,
Peter and Arsenie, who had been
hunting in the rain up Currant
of a for-

mer Columbia county school teacher,

now

aska,

living at Port Alsworth, Algiven in an interesting let-

is

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. ArnJonestown.

ter sent to

old, of

Bill Park,

13,

Fairmount

in

whose home was
Springs,

boarded

with the Arnolds while he taught
in Fishingcreek township.

He writes as follows:
“After the first of July

it

rained

summer, almost every day
until September 20. when we had
our first frost. Since then most of
and
the weather has been fine,
It
some of it absolutely lovely.
been very cold— eight
has not
above zero at the coldest; and that
only for one morning. All the little
lakes are frozen and Hydenberg
Bay was frozen shut until wind
and waves and a spell of warm
weather broke up the ice.
The
main lake never freezes until it is
really cold, and it has been known
to stay open all winter.
“Quite often this fall 1 have been
down at Babe Alsworth’s helping
with one thing or another, putting
a roof on the hangar they
have
all

been building, painting the hangar,
putting up the boat and scow for
the winter, sawing wood, and the
like.

Babe needs me, he comes
and gets me. Maytold you about the Als worths.
If

up with
be

I

a plane

an old time bush pilot. He
married Mary (I forget her name)

Babe

is

from Pilot Point,
and they have three children from
three and one-half to six and one-

a half-Aleut girl

years old.
They settled at
Hydenberg Bay with nothing and

half

have

made

house,

all

quite a place, a

modern; an

nice

long
planes to land, a
air strip

enough for DC-3
truck patch for vegetables, goats
for milk, and chickens and ducks
for eggs.
Mary is the postmaster.
Before they had children she and
Babe were the greatest wolf hunters in Alaska. Babe flew the plane
and Mary shot the wolves with a
single-barrel shotgun loaded with
buck shot. They do all kinds of
things for me, and I help
them

March

1952

all

and gave

me

on

their

way back

a great hunk of

a
hind quarter. Then all in one day
they shot two down at Babe’s. Mike
Vandergrift shot one that
came
walking down the airfield, and
Harry bhawbuck shot the other a
quarter of a mile up along the
bay. It happened that 1 went down
that day, and when I got
there
Mike had just finished hanging up

one moose and was out with the
tractor to drag in the one Harry
had killed a few minutes before. I
helped dress Harry’s moose and
hang it up beside the first one. It
looked pretty good, fifteen or sixteen hundred pounds of nice meat,
as good as beef or better.
They
gave me a whole boxfull, all I
thought 1 could take care of. Most
of the meat they flew down
to
Biistol Bay and put in cold storage
at one of the canneries.
“1 could have killed a
moose
myself up at the little lakes where
they were hanging out, but it was
too warm to keep a big
animal
like that, and I lacked ambition to
pack out a half ton of moose and
give it away.
A couple of days
after the moose episode I decided
wanted a mess of fish. In just
a little while I caught three nice
ones at the mouth of a little creek
about two hundred yards from the
cabin. I was just taking the third
one off the hook when I heard
something
grunting.
I
looked
around, and there was a big black
bull with horns that looked
six
feet wide just inside
the
brush
twenty yards away. It was mating
season when moose are on
the
warpath and can be dangerous.
W hen they grunt, they are looking
1

for trouble.

I

remembered

some

on Fay Baichtal’s
head.
A gaunt old bull with a
bad disposition knocked him down,
boxed his ears, broke three of his
libs, and came near killing him. I
laid down the fly rod
and made
tracks down the beach with
the
bull right after me on the bank

moose tracks

the

above. When I came out of the
cabin with the rifle and a camera,
the moose stood sixty feet away
waiting for me.

First,

“Here was a whole mountain of

whenever they want someone.
“For a month I had
moose meat I could eat.

River, stopped

meat almost on my doorstep, and
with the .300 Savage I have never
needed to shoot a moose twice.
But I had all the meat I could use,
the neighbors had plenty, and the
weather was warm and wet.
I
decided to walk up to him, stick
the camera in his face, and take his
But as soon as I started
he started backing off,
stopping each time I stopped, and

picture.

lor the bull,

We

turning to face me again.
went
that way quite a piece back into
the woods, and then the
moose

turned and walked solemnly away.
pictures were not much good,
for the day was dark, the back-

The

ground was dark, and the bull was
almost sixty feet away, and that
was about as close as I got to him.

“Spruce grouse were fairly plenand I have had a chicken
dinner any time I felt
like
it.
Spruce hens are a trifle smaller
than ruffled
grouse,
and taste
about the same until winter when
they feed mostly on spruce needtilul

les

and

taste sprucy.

“The days are now getting pretty
It is not
really
daylight
nearly nine, and by four it
is getting dark again.
This is the
southeast side of the lake and the
mountains are close so that pretty
soon the sun will not shine at all
Each day I go out
at the cabin.
and bring in a sled load of wood
or two and except for a little running around the woods, that
is

short.

until

about

do.

I

ahead so that

if

all I

like

enough wood

get sick it will
last until I either get well or die.
If I get well, I can cut some more;
and if I die I don’t figure I will
nee dany. I have plenty of grub,
I

and can be as independent
mean and ugly as I please.”

and

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E. H. Nelson,

One

11

thing leads to another.

the last

In

“QUARTERLY” we made

mention of the receipt of an 1884

Commencement program. In almost the next mail we receive a
“programme” for the 1882 Commencement, along with an 18811882 catalogue.

of the sender.

spiirt
“

part
myself.
at

of

And we

like the

She says in

am doing all right for
am in graduate school

1
I

Marywood, within nine credits
my M. A. I am having fun for

myself.

I

am

also four grand-chil-

dren to the good.”

The

sender,

the 1907 class lists and a committee will be at work soon. The class
of 1927— the 25 year group— is a
big one. It should be a great reunion. Editor Fenstemaker is looking after the interests of T2.
shall be pleased to hear from any
class member who has a reunion
coming up if you think we can

We

tion

is

year— $2.00. 3 years— $5.00.
Life— $25.00.
5 years— $7.50.
Recognition on Bronze Husky
Plaque— $50.00.
If you live in an area where there
is
an organized Alumni Branch
and pay your dues through its officers, one fourth of the fee is retained by your local treasurer. And
we have another special announcement to make which is also to be
found elsewhere in this issue. Note
1

carefully.

you take out a three year membership (or more) after this date
will
of
you
recive
a
copy
If

“BLOOMSBURG
THE YEARS” as

THROUGH

soon as

it

is

to

F.

1255
of
Coshocton, Ohio,

Ralph Dreibelbis,

Denman Avenue,
I

want

to

accept your invitation
club describ-

to join that exclusive

in the

Decem-

In other words, I am a
former “Bellringer.” I was the official “Arouser” during the winter
and spring terms of my senior
year (1919) and will gladly concede
the point that this bell was as popular as the proverbial Sergeant’s
whistle.
This attitude was also
shared by a few of the faculty

members.
I think the idea of organizing a
“Bellringers Club” is a good one
and you can be assured of my moral
support for this venture. If I can
be of further service, let me know.
Other known members of the

club are P. Clive Potts, T2, and
Oscar Boyer, T3, of Ringtown.
The Editor would appreciate the
assistance of the Alumni in compiling a complete roster.

won’t want to miss this interesting
There
story of your Alma Mater.
is included an Alumni Directory in
the booklet.

Ed. A. Zwiebel, Pottsville newspaperman, has been named clerk
of Schuylkill

questions in the

County Courts.

He

succeeds Bruce S. Clayton, who
died of a heart attack.
Zwiebel wil serve out Clayton’s
unexpired term and take Clayton’s
place on the ballot for re-election
in November without Democratic

instruments,
agency, and sales and bailment of
personal property. Although the
examination in Business Law has
been cancelled in previous years
if the number of schools and contestants

were

leadership of Miss Blanche
Lowrie the ’97 class members are
being rounded up for action in
May. Stuart Hartman is getting
’42 in line.
A luncheon at classmate Bill Booth’s Montour House
Ed. Barton has
is already planned.
the

6

The appointment was made by
Chairman G. Harold Watkins of
the Schuylkill County Republican
Committee in accordance with
party and legislative rules.
Zwiebel is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College. His
wife is the former Eileen Durkin,
of Shamokin.

insufficient to

make

examination will be
year even though entries

a contest, the

held this
are very limited.

Because of the growing interest
the contest, it has become necessary to limit the number of schools
entering to not more than 40. Selection of schools will be on a firstreceived, first-served basis. All entry blanks must be on file on or beEntry blanks
fore April 20, 1952.
and information concerning the
contest may be secured from Richard G. Hallisy, Director of the
Business Education Department,
BloomsState Teachers College,
burg.
in

High Schools located 80 miles or
more from Bloomsburg may secure
at
free over-night accomodations
the College for one teacher and
five contestants.
Friday evening, May 2, at 8:15
Annual Fashion
p. m. the Sixth
Show will be given in honor of
contestants.
visiting teachers and
The Annual Fashion Show has become one of the outstanding collegiate events in Pennsylvania.

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, T6

INSURANCE

opposition.

Some of the classes are on the
move in planning reunions. Under

Business

examination will be limited
sources of law, court procedure,

contracts, negotiable

BELL-RINGERS CLUB

off

You will find it quite
worthwhile.
Members who have
paid up memberships running for
three years or more after May 24,
1952, will receive a copy also. You
the press.

The

your officers

NOW.

ber issue.

fees:

1952, at the State

Law

after

ed by E. H. Nelson

your use and in operathe schedule of membership

3,

make it so. Get
and committees

graduate

for

May

Saturday,

help in planning. But remember,
your reunion will be good if YOU

has sent us the following:

Ready

The Twentieth Annual Business
Education Contest will be held on
Teachers College.
Examinations
will be conducted in tire following
subjects:
Bookkeeping,
Business
Arithmetic,
Gregg
Shorthand,
Typewriting and Business Law.

Grace Gillner Zane was graduated
in 1910.
The programme was her
father’s, who was a Bloomsburg
also.

BUSINESS EDUCATION

CONTEST

First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”

Max
50

Arcus,

'41,

Mgr.

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS

Pictured

left to right

are Larry Ksanznak, Kenneth Kirk, Patricia Boyle, David Superdock,

Helen Rutkowski and Robert Price.

SIX

AWARDS ARE GIVEN

B.S.T.C.

to

Patricia

Boyle, of Hazleton.

STUDENTS

Six scholarships

A.A.U.W.

ter of the

awarded

were

Tuesday, December 4 during the
weekly assembly at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The R. Bruce Albert Memorial

hundred dollars
David Superdock,
This scholarship was
of Freeland.
established by the Alumni Asso-

Over 95 percent

awards were
the college assembly

The winners

of

presented to
by Dr. Kimber C. Kuster,

man

of

the

faculty

chair-

scholarship

committee.

scholarship of one

was awarded

ciation in

to

memory

of the late pre-

PLACEMENT RECORD HIGH

SENIOR BALL
The annual banquet and ball of
was held

the January Senior class

of those desir-

ing positions, who graduated last
year at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, are teaching. Of the
total number of graduates, 19 are
employed in occupations other
than teaching, 4 are in graduate
Armed
school, and 22 are in the
Services, thus are not available for
Of the reschool employment.
and
mainder, 3 are unemployed
134 graduates are teaching.

sident of the organization.

Thursday evening, January 17, at
Bloomsburg.
the Moose home in

The Noel H. Saanner scholarship of fifty dollars was awarded

Alfred Marsilio acted as toastmastthe
er, and Michael Dorak gave

salaries for

invocation.

graduates
entary and secondary
went to other States to begin teachThis is not so true for busiing.
ness graduates, since only 22 percent of this group went to other

Helen Rutkoski, of WilkesBarre township. The class of 1950
was
dollars
scholarship of fifty
given to Larry Ksanznak, West
Hazleton, and the William W.
was
F.vans memorial scholarship,
to

awarded to Robert Price, of Shamokin. These scholarships were presented by Howard F. Fenstermakabsence of the president
E.
the Alumni association, Dr.
H. Nelson.
scholarship,
The
President’s
made possible by Dr. Harvey A.
Kenneth
to
Andruss, was given

er in the
ol

Kirk,

West Wyoming,

and

was

presented by Walter Rvgiel, of the
business Education Department.
Mrs. S. I. Shortess presented fifty'
dollars from the Bloomsburg chap-

March

1952

Those who spoke briefly were
Presideirt Andruss and Dean North.
general chairthanks to the
of the committee and the

Clifton Clarridge,

man, expressed

members

his

One
faculty for their assistance.
evening
of the highlights of the
was the presentation of certificates
The
to the wives of the seniors.
music for the dancing was provided by Lee Vincent and his orchestra.

The

attractive higher beginning

teachers

when over 45 percent

is

evident

of the elem-

states.

Some

of those

who

are

unem-

ployed at the present time are unemployed because they are not
willing to leave their home communities or are waiting induction
into the Armed Services.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

Miss Vance L. Buck, of Millville,
has enlisted for three years in the
Miss Buck had
U. S. Air Force.
completed three semesters of work
at Bloomsburg.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth, ’42
R.

J.

Webb,

’42

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COLLEGE ENROLLMENT

HONORED

LEADS GROUP AT

DR. HAAS

CONFERENCE

Dr. Francis B. Haas, Superintendent of Public Instruction and
former President of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was
signally honored by tire All-Pennsylvania College Alumni Association at the annual luncheon of the
group in Washington, Saturday,
February 2. Dr. Haas was presented with the organization’s 1952
citation for the “Pennsylvanian who
has made an outstanding contribution to Education in the Commonwealth.” The State Superintendent
was President of the local Teachers College from 1927 to 1939.

North, Dean of
attended a
Instruction, recently
conference in Washington, D. C. In
attendance was a selected group of
educators from Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, District of ColDr.

Thomas

P.

umbia, Maryland, North Carolina,
and
Virginia
Carolina,
South

West

Virginia.

Dr. North, who is chairman of
on
the Pennsylvania Commission
Teacher Education and Professional Standards, served as chairman of
one of the groups dealing with the

problems of maintaining and improving the standards for the teaching profession in the Middle States
region.

The selection of Dr. North as a
group chairman, lends further disof
tinction to Bloomsburg as one
the leading teacher education institutions in the country.

Dean North is an advisor of the
National Commission on Teacher
Education and Professional Standards, and has taken an active part
in the improvement of the profession on both the state and national levels.

Miss Cleola Wilson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilson, of Millville

R.

D.,

became the bride

of

Ralph E. Barthlomew, son of Mr.
and Mrs. N. A. Bartholomew, of
Orangeville R. D., in a ceremony
Saturday, August 4, in the KitchThe Rev.
en’s Methodist Church.
Roger Burtner, pastor, officiated.

The bride

is

a graduate of the

Bloomsburg High School with the
class of 1950 and for the past year
has been employed in the office of
Bloomsburg Mills, Inc.
The bridegroom is a graduate of
He
the Bloomsburg High School.
attended B.S.T.C. and graduated
from Pennsylvania State College in
June of this year. He majored in
agriculture education and has accepted a position as agriculture
teacher and veterans’ instructor at

Oswego Central High School,
Oswego, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew will

the

be at home in their newly-furnished aptrtment, at Oswego, after August 13.

Pennsylvania
Attending from
were Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, and Dr. E. H.
Nelson, President of the

BSTC

Al-

Members of
umni Association.
the Washington Branch of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Alumni Association attended the
luncheon and proceeded through
the reception line as a group.

While in Washington, President
Andruss was the guest of Dr. Harry
O. Hine, one of the oldest living
Bloomsburg alumni, Class of 1885,
at a dinner meeting of the Federal
Schoolmen’s Club. The dinner was
Cathedral
held at the National
School for Boys. For many years
the
of
Dr. Hine was Secretary

Board of Education
of Columbia.

INCREASED
Second semester enrollment

fig-

ures at Bloomsburg show a direct
trend.
national
the
contrast to
While most college enrollments
have shown a decline during the

past two years, President Andruss
students
lias announced that 722
had registered for the second semRegistration
ester at the close of
Day. This is an increase of five

over the same period

last year.

Another evidence of the stability
of the enrollment at Bloomsburg is
revealed in a recent report of the
InState Department of Public
struction.

It

shows that

Blooms-

7.4 per cent of the total
full-time enrollment of the fourin
teen State Teachers Colleges

burg had

October, 1951, compared with 6.9
Enrollment at
per cent in 1950.
the College during the first sem-

was

ester

769.

Starting classes at the beginning
of the semester were thirty freshmen and transfer students. Four
hundred resident students again
have filled the college dormitories.

Teacher-in-service classes opened
Saturday, January 26, with courses offered in physical science, teaching of elementary science, teaching of English, ethics, and home
and family living.

of the District

In a ceremony
Thursday evening.

seven-thirty
31, at the

at

May

of the Rev. Robert C. Robpastor of the Church of Nazarene, Bloomsburg, Miss Elvena
Dawn Warr, of Bloomsburg R. D.
5, became the bride of Ronald AlThe doulen Kaler, of Millville.
ble-ring ceremony was used.

home
In a lovely ceremony Saturday,
July 28, in the Benton Methodist
Church, Miss Louise Katherine
Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Hurl Hess, of Benton, became the
bride of Claude Mordan Lewis, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lewis, of

Benton R. D.

2.

nuptials were
Nelson A.
Rev.
the
by
performed
Thomas, former pastor now of

The double-ring

erts,

Mrs.

is

a

graduate

of

B.S.T.C.

South Williamsport.

Both the bride and groom graduated from Benton High School.
Mrs. Lewis attended B.S.T.C. and
is now employed at the Columbia
County National Bank, Benton.
Her husband served three years in
the U. S. Army including two years
in India, and is now truck driver
for Eastern Auto Forwarding Co.

Kaler

Bloomsburg High School and is
emploved by the F. W. Woolworth
Her husband is a senior at
Co.

at

Mr. and Mrs. Kaler are living
27 East Third stret, Bloomsburg.

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer. ’07, Pres.
Harold L. Moyer, '09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
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MISS

JOHNSTON RESIGNS

A farewell dinner was held recently at Fest’s restaurant for Miss
Alice Johnston, who resigned recently from the faculty of the ColThe dinner was given by
lege.
Alpha Psi Omega, dramatic fratMiss Jeanne Ruckle, of
ernity.
Bloomsburg, president of the fraternitv, presented Miss Johnston a
gift

from the members.

Miss Johnston has

been

long

the
at
active in dramatic work
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. She founded the local branch
the honorary fraternity, and was
director of the Bloomsburg Playol

many

ers for

years.

The most

productions have

recent

included

"The Barretts of Wimpole Street,”
“The Late George Apley,” and
Our Town.”
Miss Johnston will continue

Miss
Arbuta
Avis
Wagner,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clemens

Wagner,

of Lancaster, became the
bride of Dr. Richard E. Bootthman,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William Booth-

man, also of Lancaster,

in a recent
Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Washingtonville.
The double-ring ceremony was perlormed by the Rev. Russell Flower
assisted by the Rev. John Fisher.
The bride attended Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and is a
graduate of Thomas W. Evans
Museum and Dental Institute, Philadelphia. She is an assistant in a
dentist office in Lancaster.
Dr.
(

eremony

Boothman

is

a

practicing dentist

Lancaster and graduated from
Franklin and Marshall and Temple
University Dental School.
The couple are residing in Lan-

in

caster.

her

speech work at Alburquerque, New
Mexico. Iler address in Albuquerque will be 423 Alcazar Street.

The marriage of Miss Frances E.
Riley, of Danville, to Donald R.
Kline, of Berwick, was performed
eleven

at

and
Keith McKay, son of Mr.
Mrs. E. Edwin McKay, 11 South
43rd Street, Harrisburg, has been
elected president of the Freshman
Class at Bloomsburg State TeachMcKay, a graduate
ers College.
of Swatara Township High School,
of
is enrolled in the Department
Secondary Education, majoring in
science.

Other Freshman class

in the

officers

include: Michael Moran, Hazleton,
vice
president;
Robert Rainey,
GillJohnstown, treasurer; Ruth
man, Mountain Top, secretary;

Rudy Holtzman, Clarks Summit,
Barbara Lee
historian;
James,
Chinchilla, women’s representative

vember

8,

Catholic

o’clock

Thursday,

No-

Joseph’s Roman
Rectory, Danville, with
in

St.

the Rev. Father Hubert

McGuire

bride, a graduate of

Dan-

High
School,
attended
B.S.T.C. and was employed at Cabinet
Industries,
Danville.
Her
husband, a graduate of Berwick
High School, also attended B.S.T.C.
He is now in the U. S. Navy and
was graduated recently from a Navy Personnel school at Norfolk, Va.
ville

He

reported to Great Lakes Naval
Training Station on November 21.
The couple will reside there.

College Council, and Fred Delmonte, Shamokin, men’s representative to College Council.

The marriage of Miss Lola Mary
Laycock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Rollin Laycock, of Locust street,
Bloomsburg, to Claude Renninger,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Ren-

Chester O. Prince, Jr., is associated with the U. S. Steel-Mellon

ninger, of Richfield, Pa., was solemnized recently in the First
Church of Christ, Bloomsburg.

to

Bank in Pittsburgh as AsManager of three new res-

National
sistant

taurants, including the private res-

taurant of Benjamin Fairless, all
located in the new U. S. Steel
Building. Mr. Prince’s wife is the
former Martha Knorr, of Bloomsburg, who also attended B.S.T.C.
They are living at 4531 Forbes

Apartment 610, Pittsburgh
March

1952

13.

The Third Austrian Goodwill
Group of North America presented
an unusual program of Austrian
folk songs, folk dances and Viennese music at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College Thursday, February 7.
This
completely new
program of the Austrian Students
and Teachers’ Group was the third
a series of presentations to furunderther better
international
standing between European students and Americans.
Eighteen students in the cast are
in

on leave from Austrian universities.

Some

of the players are teachers

and holders of university degrees,
and their organizer. Dr. Oskar F.
Bock, is one of Europe’s outstanding educators.

While on tour, the Austrian students and teachers hope to become
thoroughly acquainted with the
American way of life and to write
and lecture about it when they
Therefore the purreturn home.
pose of the tour is to acquaint
Americans with the legendary
charm of Austria and to give Austrian students a first-hand look at
American

officiating.

The

PRESENTED PROGRAM

The Rev. Kenneth M. Gould,
pastor of the church, performed
the double-ring ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of
Bloomsburg High School in 1950,
is employed in the credit department of Sears Roebuck and Company, Bloomsburg. Her husband is
attending B.S.T.C.

life.

Experts in the songs, dances,
and musical instruments of their
regions, the Austrians presented an
“Greetings
original
production,
from Vienna.”
The presentation,
an Artists Course number, was
staged in Carver Auditorium.

J.

WESLEY KNORR,

34

NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner, ’34

HERVEY

B. SMITH, 22
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

Court House Place

Bloomsburg 1115

CREASY & WELLS
Ethel Creasy Wright,

’09

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520
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COACH REDMAN RECEIVES CONFERENCE TROPHY

Athletics

Bloomsburg State Teachers College wrote “finis” to its second undefeated season in four years when
were awarded

letters

to 51

mem-

Teacners
College Conference championship
squad. Coach Robert B. Redman,
whose powerful gridders have won
32 of their last 34 games, also announced 15 winners of minor letter awards.
The Huskies swept through a
tough eight-game schedule this
season without a loss to win the
first official championship of
the
Pennsylvania State Teachers College Conference.
Their undefeated record also placed them among
the seventeen colleges in the United States with perfect seasons.
The complete list of letter winners follows: Charles Brennan, Tobers of the 1951

State

Tom

Mahanoy
Schukis,
Morrison, Bloomsburg; Joseph Costa, Frackville;
Tom Spack, Johnstown; Merlyn
Steiner,
Jones, Wilkes-Barre; Joe
wanda;
City;

Eugene

Bloomsburg; Jim Steiner, BloomsKubik,
York;
John
Nemetz, Shamokin; Donald ThomPlyas, Shamokin; John Dietz,
mouth; Charles Pope, Conyngham;
Tom Anthony, Shamokin; Bernard
Mont, Hunlock Creek; Ted Rainey,
Johnstown; Bob Rainey, Johnstown.
Bob Rainey, Johnstown; Dave
Linkchorst,
Shenandoah;
Jack
Long, Shamokin; Bruce Zenuch,
Marion Heights; Don Cesare, Old
Forge; Joseph Glosek, Shamokin;
Tom McLaughlin, Barnesville; Ed
burg; Alex

Connolley, Danville; Francis BidelBaron,
spach, Sunbury;
Charles
Endicott, N. Y.; Floyd Williams,
Ashley; Dave Evans, West Reading; Russ
Verhousky, Coaldale;
Karol Ruppel, Reading;
Roland
Schmidt, Wilkes-Barre; Eddie Cunfer, Slatington; Joseph Boyle, Harwood Mines; Robert Lang, Milton;
Ralph Verano, Shamokin; Joe Lenox,

Towanda.

Jack Schaar, Brooklyn,

Edward
Sheehan,
10

N.

Y.;

Yost,

Bloomsburg; Frank

New

Philadelphia; Arden

Zeigenfuse, Mowry; John Panichello, Glenside; Russ Looker,
Johnstown; Claude Rumer, Hatboro;

Ronald Couch, Tamaqua; Robert
Thurston, Sunbury; George Lambrinos, Endicott, N. Y.; Duane Angus, Mt. Pleasant; Dan Trocki, Edwardsville; Alex Boychuk, Shamokin; Barney
Osevala, Shamokin;
Donald Spotts, Shamokin; Arnold
Garinger, Harvey’s Lake; William
Fllinger, Shickshinny; Allan Wolfe,

Robert Babetski,
Glen Lyon; Cyril Dougherty, Shenandoah; Alton Schmidt, Lavelle;
Thomas Adams, Halifax; Joseph
Wilkes-Barre;

and Norman Cheeks,
Rock. Lang, Nemetz,
Cheeks were the only
ference players to be

of

Slippery

Prender and
teacher congiven recog-

nition.

A tackle, Nemetz was chosen for
Colihe first string All-Teachers
lege team along with
teammate
Bob Lang, holder of the BSTC
scoring record.
They were also
named to the second string AllPennsylvania team, Nemetz as offensive tackle and Lang, defensive
back.

Prender,

who topped

Pennsyl-

vania’s point producers in the 1951

Kinder, St. Clair; Thomas Herbert,
Shemanski,
Edwardsville; Joseph
Glen Lyon; Frank Janowczyk, Shamokin; Donald McNelis, Kingston;

season, had previously been named
was
to the All-Teacher team and
given honorable mention on the
All-State eleven. Cheeks, a tackle,

Robert Cumens, Coatesville; DonClarence

honors.

ald Richards, Elysburg;
Laine, Wilkes-Barre.

John Nemetz and Bob Lang, of
the undefeated Bloomsburg Huskies, reaped another honor as they
were given honorable mention on
the 1951 Associated Press
All-America football team.

Also rating honorable
were Steve
Trudnak,

Little

matched Nemetz and

Bloomsburg athlete who set a
record
North Carolina scoring
while performing with Lenoir Rhyne; Fred Prender, of West Chester

in

John J. Fisher, who retired from
the College faculty last Spring, has
been elected psychologist for the
Harrisburg School District.
Mr. Fisher, who has been certified as a public school psychologist for

mention
former

Lang

many

years,

was

instructor

psychology and director of the
clinic at the Teachers College for
twenty-seven years.
Ilis office in Harrisburg will be
of

located in the Administrative Building,

Chestnut

street.

THE ALUMXI QUARTERLY

1894
Dr. George E. Pfahler, of Philadelphia, received the gold medal of
the Radiological Society of North

THE ALUMNI

America

at

its

annual banquet.

The medal, awarded

LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI

NEW YORK ALUMNI

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Edna Aurand
162 So.

Washington

St.,

Gertrude

Wilkes-Barre

VICE PRESIDENT
Edison Fischer

Market

St.,

New York, N.
SECRETARY AND TREASURER
Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Naugle,

VICE PRESIDENT
Lockhart

St.,

PRESIDENT

Wilkes-Barre

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Rudy

VICE-PRESIDENT

Mrs. Ruth S. Griffith

Willow

St.,

’ll

MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI
Mrs. Ruth

96

Y.

Glen Lyon

C. Alberta Nichols
71

E. Norris

130 East 67th Street,

Robert Lewis

Wilkes-Barre

SECRETARY
Alice Smull

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING
COUNTY ALUMNI

TREASURER
Susan Sidler

PRESIDENT
Robert Llewellyn

VICE-PRESIDENT

COLUMBIA COUNTY ALUMNI

Francis Kinner

Thompson

T.

Donald Rabb

Mrs. Ernest Pinnock

TREASURER

Edward

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
PRESIDENT

Lexington Street
Harrisburg Penna.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Mrs. Rachel

1618 State Street

Owen Buchman

SECRETARY-TREASURER
Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney
7011 Frederick Street, Philadelphia 35

Harrisburg, Penna.

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
Paul Englehart
2921

’07

SECRETARY
Pearl L. Baer
21 S.

WASHINGTON AREA ALUMNI
PRESIDENT

George Street

Harrisburg, Penna.

’32, ’35

Union Street

Saida Hartman
4216

Brandywine

St.,

TREASURER

Harrisburg, Penna.

March 1952

teaching in Norristown.
living at the Milner Hotel.

Washington, D. C. 16

VICE-PRESIDENT
Harry O. Hine

SECRETARY
Martha Wright Moe

TREASURER
Walter Lewis

Street,

is

She

1906
Masten,

been

10 Jay
York, has
Central High

F.

Binghamton,
teaching

New

in

She received her Bachelor and Master’s degree at Syracuse University.
School, Binghamton.

1912

Announcement has been made

of
the appointment of Harold N.
Cool, Culver City pharmacist, as
president fo the Southern California Pharmaceutical Association.

A resident of Culver City since
1912, Mr. Cool is also president of
the Santa Monica Bay Area Pharmaceutical Association, which has
as

N. W.

Middletown, Penna.

W. Homer Engelhart ’ll
1821 Market Street

McMurray

now

Christella

Mrs. Ruth Johnson Garney

Nellie M. Seidel ’13

1904
.Harriet Hitchcock

D. Sharretts

TREASURER

PRESIDENT

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

1899
Elizabeth
Hammond O’Brien
lives at 221 Highland Street, New
Haven, Connecticut. After retiring in 1949, she has resumed work
as a teacher in the Americanization
Classes held in the Wilbur Cross
High School, New Haven. After
her graduation she taught in Pennsylvania and Indiana, was out of
the profession for nineteen years,
and began teaching again in New
Haven, where she taught for twenty-three and one-half years.

is

Mary Agnes Meehan T8
2632

Dr. Bouslog called Dr. Pfahler a
for improvement in radiology.

pioneer in working

SECRETARY

Paul L. Brunstetter

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND
ALUMNI

“dean of radiology.”

DeVoe

VICE-PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Mrs. Alwen Hartley
Lenoxville, Pa.

out-

PRESIDENT
Edward

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Helen

for

standing achievement in radiology,
was presented by Dr. John S. Bouslog, retiring president of the society, who called Dr. Pfahler the

its

members pharmacists from

Culver City,

Ocean

Mar

Vista,

Venice,

Park, Santa Monica, Brent-

wood and Westwood.
1914
Idwal H. Edwards,
one of the graduates
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College honored on Alumni Day
in 1951 by fellow alumni, has an exLieut. Gen.
class of 1914,

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friends in

ing with the class of 1914 of which
he was class president. He entered the Army in 1917 as a second
lieutenant of infantry, and in February 1918 transferred to the Air
Gorps, with which he has served
continuously.

His wife is the former
Katherine Bierman, of town, and
he frequently visits in Bloomsburg.

During the period between the
two World Wars, he served in the
Philippines, in
Hawaii, and at

ceptionally fine service record.

In making the presentation
at
the general meeting, Frank S. Hutchison, of town, longtime friend of
tiie officer, did a most
complete
job.

The

many

officer has

this area.

After reviewing the record of the
General, Mr. Hutchison in his presentation commented:
‘‘The official record is impressive and does credit to the unusual competence of General
Ed-

wards

as

an

But

officer.

it

fails

reveal the character which has
earned him the esteem of his fellow officers, and the affection of
to

who know

all

among

his

him.

friends

numbers
many, many

world-famous people. It is to be
evpected that one who has risen
so high in his profession
should
come in contact with other leaders
in his and other fields.
But it is

many of these
contacts have ripened into warm
and lasting friendships.
“Perhaps part of the reason is
that he has never lost his sense of
proportion. His headgear has become embellished, but there has
been no change in dimensions. I
am fully aware of the fine tradition
of the service when I say that he
fits his uniform as well as it fits him.
A companion trait is his persistent
refusal to court publicity or to play
to the gallery.
He has been ably
significant that so

aided and abetted in this refusal I
suspect, by his good wife— Katherine
1915.

Bierman Edwards,

“General Edwards’
qualities

come

as

class

many

no surprise

of
fine

to

those who have known his family
—especially, of course, his parents.
can pay no greater compliment
than to say of him what Paul Harvey said of someone last Mother’s
Day: ‘While his clothes may be
tailor-made, the man, himself, is
1

home-made.”

The record

of the officer follows:

Lieutenant
General
Edwards
was born April 5, 1895, in Freedom, N. Y. He attended public
school at Taylor, Pa., and entered
the

Bloomsburg

School in the
12

fall

State

Normal

of 1911, graduat-

stations in

United States.

the

continental

He

attended the
various service schools, including
Force Tactical School,
the Air
Langley, Va.; the Command and
General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Army War
College, Washington, D. C., graduating from the latter in 1938.
At the outbreak of World
II,

Edwards

“General

many

General Edwards was in

War

August

his
5, 1917, and received
regular commission as a second
lieutenant of Infantry October 26,

1917.

He was promoted

1918

burg College.

com-

of Randolph Field, Texas.
During the war he served on two

Assistant Chief
Staff for Training on the War
as

of

Department General Staff. He also
served as Chief of Staff of the European Theatre of Operations in
1943, and as a deputy commander
of the U. S. Air Force in the Mediterranean theatre during 1944 and
1945.

At the end of the war he was
appointed commanding general of
the U. S. Air Forces in Europe, in
which capacity he served from
March 1946 to August 1947. Subsequently, he served as
Deputy
at
Chief of Staff for Personnel
USAF headquarters in Washington, D. C., from August 1947
to

March 1950. He is at present assigned as Deputy Chief of Staff
for Operations at Air Force headquarters.
In this capacity he has
supervising
the responsibility for
Air Force military operations and
deployments, world-wide.
been
General Edwards
has
awarded numerous
decorations,
both by the United States and foreign governments, including the
Distinguished Service Medal with
one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion
the
of Merit, the Commander of
Order of the British Empire, and
Commander of the French Legion
of Llonor.

He

is

rated a

command

combat observer and

aircraft

first

Charles R. Wolfe, 37 East Lincoln Avenue, Gettysburg, is completing his ninth year as Registrar
and Dean of Admissions at Gettys-

mand

occasions,

to

lieutenant on June 20,
to
1918;
captain on July 1, 1920; to major
on August 1, 1935; to lieutenant
colonel on June 17, 1938; to colonel on January 21, 1941; to brigadier general on May 24, 1942;
to
major general on February 5.
1943 and to
lieutenant
general
October 1, 1947.

pilot,

ob-

server.

He was commissioned a second
lieutenant in Infantry Reserve on

1920

The following

appeared in
“The Connecticut
Teacher,” publication of the Connarticle

a recent issue of

necticut Teachers Association:
When the teachers of Northwest
Education Association nominated
Bill Shultz for
Vice-president of
CEA back in 1950, they stated that

although he had then been their
superintendent for only a short
lime, they were already “most favorably impressed by his vigorous
approach to educational problems
and his genuine concern for the
welfare of the profession.”
Bill

was nominated by

his

own

teachers from the floor of the 1950
Assembly and this spring, the CEA
Board of Directors named him for
the presidency and he was elected
by unanimous vote of the 1951 Representative Assembly. His qualities
of leadership and his background
of service to the profession make
him a man ably fitted to be the
leader of more than ten thousand
Connecticut educators.

convinced that aceducation aspart of our profession-

Mr. Shultz

is

tive participation in

sociations
al

his

is

and the story of
career demonstrates belief

responsibility

own

backed by

action.

He began

his

Connecticut teaching experience in
Wallingford and while there, first
as a teacher, soon as a principal
and then as superintendent from
1943-1946, he served the Wallingford Teachers Association as president for three years and as a delegate to the State Representative

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Assembly for nine years.
He has been generous with

his

the state teachers orHe served as a member of the CSTA Board of Directors from 1943 to 1946, was chairman of the Teacher Recruitment
Committee, chairman of the Scholarship Committee, and a member
of the Organization Committee of
the Board of Directors. These exyear as
periences, including his
services to
ganization.

valuable
vice-president, provide
background for his duties as
president. In addition, he is a life
member of the NEA.

CEA

In 1946 Mr. Shultz left Wallingford to become superintendent of
the TerryviUe schools, and in January 1949 he was named to his
present position as superintendent
of the Northwest Supervisory Dis-

Before coming to Connectitrict.
cut from his home state of Pennsylvania, Mr. Shultz, after graduation from the
Bloomsburg State

Teachers College in 1920, taught as
an elementary teacher and as
a
high school teacher of commercial
In 1928, the
subjects.
year he
came to Connecticut, he had received his B.S. degree from Susquehanna University.
In
1942 he
earned his M.A. at New York University, and since then, along with
other
professional
activities,
has found time for advanced graduate study at
Boston University

his

and the University of Connecticut.
As the years have gone on, Bill
Shultz has taken on more and more
responsibility in the education field,
always regarding service in the professional organization as an integral part of this responsibility.
As
president of the Connecticut Education Association, he
have
will
even less time for his favorite hobbies of golf and hunting, but it is
evident that he will regard the office as an opportunity to give even
more generously of himself to the
cause of the welfare of the profes-

church at Oxford, Pa., where he
preached for seven years.
Rev. McKenzie studied at the
University of Pennsylvania and at
University.
He is secretary of the
Washington-Philadelphia Church School Board; a member of the District Board of Ministerial Studies and Board of Orders
and Relations, a member of the
District Board of Home Missions,
and a trustee of Eastern Nazarene
College, Wollaston, Mass.
Rev.

Temple

McKenzie married Anne Morgan,
and they have two children,
Ethel Anne, 16 and Arthur M., 12.
•

’31

Their address is 1530
Pike, Bethlehem, Pa.
Mr.

Edward

T.

Nazareth

DeVoe, English

is the author of a feature story appearing in the December 22 issue of the Pennsylvania

instructor,

Farmer.
lot

Entitled “Aid to

Management.” the

Wood-

article con-

tains three large illustrations and
was prepared with the assistance
of Mr. Samuel Cobb, District Forester.
The story by Mr- DeVoe is
the fourth written by him in the
past few months for the Pennsyl-

vania Farmer.

Dr. John J. Gress, of New York,
has been awarded the doctorate degree in the School of Business Education at New York University.
Dr. Gress is a member of the
acuity of Hunter College of the
He received
City of New York.
his Master’s degree from New York
University, and his Bachelor’s degree from the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.

1

his teaching career in

Bloomsburg High School and
served as the head of the commercial department in the local high
school. Dr. Gress was also the faculty advisor of “The Red and
the

White,” assistant coach of basketball

and business manager of

ath-

letics.

sion.

In addition, he has taught in the
high schools of Nether-Providence

1931
Rev. Arthur C.

came the

McKenzie

be-

pastor, last year, of the

and Boothwyn,
time he taught

Pa.,

at

after

which

Elmsford and

Bethlehem.
in
a teacher in the
Ritten-

Dr. Gress
Oceanside, New York.
has also been on the staff of New

house Jr. High School in Norristown for thirteen years, then became pastor of the Nazarene

York University, was a department
head at Hofstra College, Hempstead, Long Island, and was a lec-

Nazarene church

He was

March 1952

New

York.
Dr- Gress is a life member of
Delta Pi Epsilon, honorary graduate business fraternity; Pi Omega
Po; Phi Delta Pi; Kappa Delta Pi;
and Phi Sigma Pi. Professionally,
Dr. Gress has had manuscripts published in the Business Education
World; The Journal of Business
Education; The National Business
Education Quarterly; The Business
Teacher; The Business Quarterly;
The Journal of Retailing; and The

Forum.
Moreover, he has been
of The Gregg Shorthand
Association of New York
of The Nassau County
Teachers Association of

president

Teachers
City and
Business

Long

Is-

He

has also served as a member of the Executive Board of The
Commercial Teachers Association
of New York City and has appeared on programs of the Eastern
Business Teachers.
land.

Dr. Gress served four years in
(he U. S. Navy and won a commission from the enlisted ranks;
and he is currently a senior-grade
lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.

He

1935

He began

turer at the School of Business of
of the City of

The College

is married to the former Miss
Betty Mihala of New York City
and has three daughters.

Mrs. Laura Berger Schell, who
has been teaching in the Catawissa
Schools, is now teaching in Bristol,
Pennsylvania.

1938
veteran of nearly 12 years in the National League,
expects to sign a contract soon to
play for the Oakland Acorns of the
Pacific
Coast League.
Danny
agreed to terms offered by Mel
Ott, manager, and Clarence Laws,

Danny Litwhiler,

owner

of the California club at the
at Col-

minor league meeting held
umbus, Ohio, recently.

Coach and outfield for the Cincinnati Reds last season, the popular Bloomsburg athlete said he
was pleased with his new job and
that he turned down several chances to manage in the minors so that
he could continue his playing career.
He added that he is particularly anxious to join Ott, former New York Giant greatDuring the minor league meet13

was granted an
“open classification” which league
iag the coast loop

regard as the first step toward major league status. The circuit now has the highest classifica-

He served with the
during World War II.

School.

Jury, of

Bloomsburg,

now

eastern Pennsylvania district of
twenty-eight counties and in anticipation of entering upon his duties in this section,

moved

his

fam-

Orangeville.
Shortly afterward the head of the
Fort Wayne chapter resigned his
post to go into the blood program

ily to

of the
D. C.

Red Cross

at

Washington,

time
There are
workers in the chapter, including
those in charge of the blood program.
forty-five

full

A daughter, Lyn Ann, was born
December 3 to Mr. and Mrs- P.
Zagondis, at People’s Hospital, AkMrs. Zagondis will be
ron, Ohio.
remembered by her classmates as
jean Richards, formerly of Bloomsburg.

assigned to the 3rd Armored Division, Fort Knox, Ky., for Army

Miss Jane E. Hughes, daughter
and Mrs. Elias Hughes, of
South Main Street, Shickshinny,
and Robert Martini, son of Mrs.
Florence Martini, of Benton, were
united in marriage Saturday, Deof Mr.

22, at 2:30 o’clock in

the

Church.
Methodist
Shickshinny
The Rev. Thomas Stone officiated
at the double-ring ceremony.
Mrs. Martini was graduated from

High

basic training.

He was graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College last
June with a Bachelor of Science
degree in business education.

School.

The

Shickshinny
groom, a graduate of Benton High
School and B.S.T-C., is on the faculty of Shickshinny Junior High

will reside

B.S.T.C.

The

bride

graduate

a

is

of

Bloomsburg High Schol of 1943
and attended Pierce School of BusiHer husness, in. Philadelphia.
band graduated from Pottsville
High School in 1943 and was
graduated in January from B.S.T.C.

He

served in the U.

Navy

S.

for

and one-half years during
World War II, with service in the
two

Pvt. Paul L. Keener, of

Dewart,

has completed processing at
the 2053rd Reception Center and
is assigned to the 10th Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas, for Army
Pa.,

South Pacific.

basic training.

Jeanne Ruckle, of Bloomsburg,
has been elected teacher of first
grade in the schools of Catawissa.

He was graduated from State
Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.,
last June with a Bachelor of Science degree in speech correctionPvt. John Yeager, 21, of Route 1,
YVapwallopen, Pa., has completed
processing at the 2053rd Reception
Centere and is assigned to the 5th
Infantry Division, Indiantown Gap

Military Reservation, Pa., for
basic training.

Army

He was graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College last
June with a Bachelor of Science
degree in education.
Robert W. Luchs, Bloomshas completed his basic
training with the Army Signal
Corps and is now assigned as a student at Camp Gordon, Georgia, in
advance training. His address is
Pvt. Robert W. Luchs, 521D085,
Student Company 6, STR, TSESS,
Camp Gordon, Georgia.
Pvt.

1952

1950

cember

John D. Swartz, Montourshas completed processing
the 2053rd Reception Center and

Pvt.

ville, Pa.,

burg,

1948

Womer

Bloomsburg until the bridegroom completes his course at

in

is

located in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
where he has been named executive director of the Red Cross for
Fort Wayne and surrounding Allen county.
This chapter is classified in
group 2 and is in the same category
as Scranton, Pittsburgh and Richmond, Va., chapters. It is a splendid advancement for the local man
who entered Red Cross work only
in recent years.
Earlier Mr. Jury, who had been
a regional director at Suffolk, Va.,
had been transferred to the Northis

iris.

1951

at

1940

Mark W.

white blossoms accented with blue

Mr. and Mrs.

officials

tion in the minors.

Navy

In a lovely ceremony performed
at three o’clock on the afternoon
of Christmas day, Miss Elsie Winifred German, daughter of Mrs.
E. German, of Bloomsburg,
became the bride of Robert Mortimer Womer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clayton E. Womer, of Pottsville.
The Rev. R. L. Lundy performed the double-ring ceremony in the

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI
On

account of

Hortman

lie

illness,

Mrs. Lil-

Irish has resigned the

Presidency of the Philadelphia
branch of the Bloomsburg State
The
Teachers College Alumni.

new

officers are:

Mrs. Ruth Johnson, Garney, preBuchsident; Mrs. Machel Owen
man, corresponding secretary; Mrs.

Nora Woodring Kenney, secretarytreasurer.

Alumni held
Christmas Party December 8,
1951. Those who attended were:

The Philadelphia

its

Harriet

Shuman

1916;

Burr,

Rachel

1917;

Dorothy

Fritz,

Harriet Banning Bonham,

1904;

Oman Buckman,

1924;

Westfield. 1908: Grace
Kishbaugh Miller, 1918; Claire Hedden.
1909; Grace Fenstemaker Frantz, 1906;

Adda Brandon

Margaret Butler Minner, 1923; MarjorAnna Sachs
ie Reese Penman, 1909;
Allen, 1910;

Mary Anna

Maude Kline

Steiner, 1909;
Allen, Betty A. Burnham,

1917; Kathryn M. SpenLouella B. Sinquett, 1910; Emilie
Nikel Gledhill, 1912; Edwina Wieland
Teal, 1918; Charlotte F. Coulston, Irene
Hortman, 1924; Ruth Johnson Garney,

Marie Kromis,
cer,

1920;

Nora Woodring

Kenney,

Beatrice Eichner, 1921; Lillie

1909;

Hortman

Irish, 1906.

Emma

United Brethren
Bloomsburg, before a
large number of friends and relaThe church
tives of the couple.
was decorated with bouquets of

First Evangelical

Church,

The published

lists

of

officers

Alumni branches
of the various
would serve their purpose much
better

if

the

mailing

addresses

and t h e years of graduation
were included. The Editor would
appreciate it very much if these
addresses were made available to
him.

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Narnlintu
William Franklin Magee, ’88
One of Bethlehem’s most promFrank
inent educators, William
Magee, 85, founder and president
of the Bethlehem Business College,
at
St.
died Sunday, January 20

commercial subjects in Union and
Luzerne Counties and at Shamokin
High School during the next three
years.
From 1S90 to 1897 he conducted the Shamokin Business
College as principal and proprietor.
t

Widely

known

He held membership in a host of
business, educational and fraternal
organizations.
He was a member
of the
Bethlehem Chamber of
Commerce, the
and was a
former director of the Union Bank

for his efforts in business

educa-

and Trust Co.

Luke’s Hospital.

Magee was admitted

tion,

to

hospital suffering a cerebral
He resided at
orrhage.

the

hem183S

Richmond Avenue.
20,000
More than

it

by Magee.

On May

17, 1897,

he established

the South Bethlehem Business College which was regularly incorporated three years later.

During the first year the school
former
occupied rooms in the
Bank
South Bethlehem National
Building, then located at the corner
of Third and Adams streets.
Following steady progress of the
institution,

it

was moved to
Third

O’Reilly Building at

New

streets.

the

and

tion of Private

Business Schools,
Council
of
Business
Schools, Eastern Business Teachers
Association, National Business Teachers Association and various other
business organizations.
Fraternally, he was a member of
H. Stanley Goodwin Lodge 648,
Ezra Royal Arch Chapter 291 and
Council 36, all of Betlilehem Masonry; Lehigh Consistory, Allentown;
Rajah Temple, Shriners,
Reading; Tall Cedars of Lebanon,

Shrine Club, Cedar Club and the
Rotary Club, all of Bethlehem.
He was married to the late Mrs.
Ida Louise (Boyer) Magee at Mifflinburg.
His wife preceded him
in death in 1936.

Pressed for additional

room by ever increasing patronage,
the school took up its present quarters in the Union Bank and Trust
Co. Building.
The designation
“South” was dropped from the institution’s

His educational affiliations
included the Pennsylvania Associa-

National

students
at
availed themselves of courses
the institution during the fifty-four
years of active guidance devoted
to

YMCA

name

in 1918.

Born February 10, 1866, in BufTownship, Union County, Pa.,
Magee was a son of the late Lewis
and Ellen (Zellers) Magee.
Brought up in the country, he
remained with his parents until he
was 19, helping with farm work
before and after school. His duties
varied and included herding
of
cattle in which his father
dealt
extensively.
He enjoyed fishing in
nearby creeks
mountain
and
streams some miles away.
After completing his
public
school education in 1884, he entered
Bloomsburg
State Normal

falo

The following

editorial

tribute

appeared in the Bethlehem GlobeTimes at the time of Mr. Magee’s
death:

Death
Franklin

yesterday

o

f

William

Magee removes from

the
local field of education a personality who leaves an indelible impact
on the entire Lehigh Valley.
For 55 years his Bethlehem Business College has been
training

young men and young women in
the commercial and secretarial arts.
Today there are thousands of graduates whose progress in business
and industry can be attributed to
the administrative know-how they
acquired under the progressive,
kindly and understanding founder
of the school, recognized as one of
the best of its kind in eastern Pennsylvania.

School (now Bloomsburg
State
Teachers College) in 1885 and was
graduated in 1888. Later he took
post graduate work
Bucknell
at

The Bethlehem Business College
through the years has seen 19,478
boys and girls go through its por-

University.

graduated.
16,000 men and

Following college,
March

1952

Magee taught

tals.

Of

number 3,181 were
This means that some

this

women

took part

time work in day or night school
knowsessions to increase their
ledge of business methods. With
close to 20,000 men and women in
business or secretarial posts

one

can readily see the important part
played by Mr. Magee
and his
school in the development of industry in the Lehigh Valley.
At the turn of the century, when
few public schools offered business courses, Mr. Magee was one
of the advocates of the school of
thinking which
brought women
into business and industry. Accountants, stenographers and secretaries
generally were males. The Bethlelem school has been a part of the
movement that has changed that—

women now predominate

in

most

these jobs.
As public schools added commercial courses to the high school
curriculum, many privately-owned
business schools were compelled to
close their doors because of a lack
of students.
Not so with Bethlehem. Mr. Magee foresaw the need
to augment
the training which

boys and

girls

obtained

in

high

school and his courses were built
along those lines. The result was
that Bethlehem
Business College
continued to flourish and its graduates, now successful in business,
are sending
their children
and
grandchildren to
the
institution

whicch gave them their start.
William Franklin Magee had a
rich and productive life. It will be
difficult to

ant

by

fill

the niche

made

vac-

his death.

Elisha B. John

Barton John, seventyformer resident of Bloomsburg and descendant of pioneer
families here, died recently in the
Elisha

eight,

Hamot

Hospital, Erie.

He was

born in Mt- Carmel, October 1, 1873, a son of the late Jefferson Monroe John, major in the
Union Army, and Mary Alice Barton John.
He was graduated from the

Bloomsburg Normal School and
from Lehigh University in 1895. He
was employed as a civil engineer
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, later serving as superintendent of the
Erie Division for twenty-seven
years. He retired in 1943 but was
called back in an advisory capacity

15

Nursing Home.

during the recent war years.

A

was a diHamot Hospital and a

resident of Erie, he

rector

of

member

Ada Lewis Beale
Ada Lewis Beale,

’95

Mrs.
of
81,
206 Church avenue, Duncannon,
died in a Harrisburg hospital. The
widow of Dr. B. F. Beale, she was
a graduate of
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
She was a
member of the auxiliary to the
Perry County Medical Society and
the

the auxiliary to
Tire Company.

She

is

B. R.

Thomas

Mrs. Carolyn Wallace Snyder,
wife of the late Harry L. Harman
’99, of Hazleton, Pa., died August
8, 1951, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Hutton Snyder,

Washington, New Jersey. Burial
took place in the family plot in
Vine Street Cemetery, Hazleton.

in

Womeldorf Bentz ’04
An announcement has been
Effie

Beale, of
Lemoyne and
of Duncannon; two daugh-

Mrs. H. W. Arndt, of Duncannon and Mrs. William Letterman,
of Bloomsburg; a brother,
Harry
Lewis, of Trevorton; a sister, Miss
Lillian Lewis, of Philadelphia, and

seven grandchildren.

Anna Simon

’98

Funeral services for Miss Anna
Simon, former Bloomsburg resident, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on Tuesday, November 21, were held from Sherman’s
Flatbush
Memorial,
in
Brooklyn, N. Y. She had resided
with two sisters and a brother at
284 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.

She was born in Freeland, Pa.,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Simon. She resided with the late
Lewis Cohen, at 262 West street,
while attending Bloomsburg High
School and the Bloomsburg Normal
School.
She graduated with the
the Bloomsburg High
School in 1897 and from the normal school in 1898.
first class at

Going to New York City, she
supervised teaching of operators in
ihe Bell Telephone system- In 1910
she was employed by Kuhn-Loeb
and Co., Wall Street, and was later
secretary to Felix Warburg.
Mrs. J. Edward Klingaman ’00
The Quarterly has been informed of the death of Mrs. J. Edward
1, Winchester
Virginia.
Mrs. Klingaman passed
away Sunday, December 23, after
an illness of nineteen years.
She
spent the last three and one-half

years of her

R.

D.

life

in

the Hillcrest

twenty-five years of this time she
taught social studies in the seventh
and eighth grades at the East Junior High School.

David Howard Robbins
David Howard Robbins, Director of Rural Education from 1921
his retirement in

until

re-

reived concerning the death of Mrs.

D. Bentz (Effie Womeldorf),
which occurred Sunday, December
A.

1951. Burial took place at
Holly Springs.

2,

Mount

evening, January 13, in the Sunbury Community Hospital, where
he had been a patient for three
days.
He had been ill for a year,
during which time he was unable
to carry out his duties as an accountant at the Williams Plumbing

and Supply Company.
He had been a resident

of Sunbury for twenty-seven years, and
was active in the affairs of the Albright Evangelical United Brethren
Church.
Mr. Bomboy was born at Espy
August 12, 1891. He was a veteran of World War I. At the time
of his death he was steward of Al-

bright Church and secretary of the
Administrative Council.
He was
formerly treasurer of the Sunday
School.
He was a member of
Washington Lodge 265, Bloomsburg, of Caldwell Consistory, of

Suprema Encampment, Espy, and
of Espy Lodge 681 of Odd Fellows.
He is survived by his wife, three
sons, and a sister, Mrs. Nevin T.

15,

Englewood, New Jersey.
He was a graduate of Bucknell
University, and received his Master’s Degree at the University of
in

ate

work

and

New

at

He

also did gradu-

Columbia University

York University.
Before coming to Bloomsburg,
Mr. Robbins served as teacher and
'

high school principal at Phoenixs ille,
as Supervising Principal at
Tredyffrin and Easttown Townships,

Harold L. Bomboy ’ll
Harold L. Bomboy, 711 Catawissa Avenue, Sunburv, died Sunday

1935, died

suddenly on Sunday, December

Pennsylvania.

Duncannon

ters,

16

Mrs. Carolyn Wallace Snyder ’00

survived by two sons, Dr.

Klingaman,

of the Evangelical

Star.

of the Erie Club.

Mrs.

She was a lifelong
and Reformed Church and of the Eastern

member

Berwyn,

Pa.,

and

as a

mem-

ber of the faculty at the Lock Haven State Teachers College.
He is survived by his two daughters, Evelyn, of Englewood, New
Jersey, and Mrs. Grace Kammann,
of East Sandwich, Massachussetts.

Peggy Jane Bitler
Miss Peggy Jane Bitler, aged fifteen, daughter of Mr .and Mrs. Luther W. Bitler, of 259 Edgewood
Avenue, Williamsport, died Wednesday, January 16, at the Selinsgrove State Colony.
She was born in Danville, and
had resided with her parents at
Tottsgrove and Dalmatia.
Mrs.
Bitler
was
formerly Margaret
Swartz, of Millville.
Dr. Ernest H. Englehardt, director

secondary

of

education

at

Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was re-elected president of
the College and Teacher Training
Department of the Northeastern
District of the Pennsylvania State
Teachers Association at Hazleton,
November 16. Having served two

Byington, a teacher in the
schools of Binghamton, New York,
dic'd Tuesday, December 25, at her

years as president of this department he was re-elected for the two
ensuing years.
Dr.
Moore of
Stroudsburg State Teachers College was elected secretary.
Following the election, Dr. Englehardt led the discussion “What
Can the College and Teacher

home

Training Institutions

Englehart, of Espy.

Mae

Byington T3

Mae

in Binghamton.
Miss Byington taught for thirtyone years in Binghamton. For

cate

for

Moral

Do

and

to

Edu-

Spiritual

Growth?”

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ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY
MAY

24, 1952

CLASS REUNIONS:
All Classes to

1902

1902

1922

1942

1907

1927

1947

1912

1932

1950

1917

1937

Following the custom begun several years ago,
the Class of 1902, at

its

fiftieth

year reunion,

will receive special honors.

COME BACK

TO

BLOOMSBURG

Education

....

The Hope

of Democracy

The Bent Twigs

'\v»

SufLjiosU the Public ScUooti

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2

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1952

Would you

like to

have a BSTC Commemorative Plate?

Many of our Alumni have inquired from time to time about the College Commemorative Plates sponsored as a project by the Kappa Delta Pi Fraternity.
The history of this project is interesting, since it was launched before our
entry into World War II and a part of the first shipment from the Wedgwood
Pottery in England was sunk by submarines.
However, there are four kinds of plates in two colors, blue and mulberry,
with the center scene being that of a view of the entrance to Carver Hall.

Even though these plates were displayed only on Alumni Day and at Branch
Meetings of the Alumni Association, the first shipment was sold, and when the
present stock of the second shipment is exhausted, we may be unable to secure
plates from Wedgwood.
Thinking that Bloomsburg graduates would be interested in the Commemorative Plates, as well as in the College History “Bloomsburg Through The Years.”
I am calling this project to your attention at this time, which also gives me an
opportunity to congratulate Dr. Nell Maupin and Members of the Kappa Delta
Pi Fraternity, who have made a distinct contribution to our college.

P. S.

These Plates may be purchased for $2.50 each from the Retail
Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

Store, State

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. Llll,
Published

May 1952

No. 2
quarterly by

the

Alumni

Association of the State Teachers College,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Entered as Sec-

ond-Class Matter, August

8,

Probing Professional Problems

1941, at the

By

Post Office at Bloomsburg, Pa., under
the Act of

March

scription, $2.00;

Yearly SubSingle Copy, 50 cents
3,

1879.

THOMAS

P.

NORTH

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Keynote address delivered at the Second Annual Southern Convention District Conference on Teacher Education and Professional
Standards, held March 7. 1952, at Hershey, Pennsylvania.)
•

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

As an introduction
marks,

should

I

back briefly

like

to the

my

re-

to take

you

to

days before the

Edmunds Act. I am sure that those
of you who have taught with me
more will agree that
some changes have taken
place in education. We hope t[)ere
has been some progress. Prior to
for 35 years or

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY

at least

the passage of the

and

its

Edmunds Act

mandated standards and

teacher salary schedules, the secondary school teachers in the better school districts were college
graduates, rich in subject matter
but poor in methods; while the elementary school teachers, products

Harriet F. Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

of

ter.

placed on the same basis according

In the less progressive rural
school districts the selection of elementary teachers was based to a
great extent on the influence of
their dads with the County Superintendents.
The general impression was that if a person could
read and write and could keep
school ... he could teach. Those
of us who survived these conditions
were evidently born school teachers or unfit to do anything else
and believe it or not, there are still
people in Pennsylvania who think

to their

our normal schools, were rich in
methods but poor in subject mat-

.

that

ALUMNI DAY

young people

MAY

May

1952

24, 1952

unfit for

.

.

any

other career should become teachers.
But to return to our bird’s eye
view of the pre-Finnegan days. I
distinctly how we, in a
rather progressive rural school district, selected our teachers for our
one room rural schools by recruiting such teachers from our high
school graduates. If they survived
and could keep school they were
teachers. To these survivors of the
fittest we paid $45.00 to $65.00 per

remember

SATURDAY

Since our high school
teachers were college graduates
and received salaries of $100 to
$125 per month there was bound to
be a line of cleavage between the
teachers of the high schools and
elementary schools. When we take
into consideration that there were
more than 4,000 such districts in
Pennsylvania, we need not wonder
why the elementary teacher in general has been lacking in prestige.

Also we saw the normal schools
converted into teachers colleges.
T.wo year courses for teachers were
extended to three and four year
programs;
certification
requirements were improved; single salary

Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER

month.

were established and teachers

acts

We

preparation.

saw the rise of the vocamovement, the development
of the child centered school and
“the creative approach to educaalso

tional

tion.”
Many of us enjoyed our experiments and experiences in connection with that new creative approach to education. I remember

some

of the creative exdiscovered by Hughes
Mearns in his work with elementary school youngsters. Such poems
as “I Wonder,” written by a nine
year old girl:
“I wonder if the trees care
when the leaves fall from them.
I wonder if the flowers care
when they are picked and picked.
I wonder if the grass cares
when the snow falls thick on it.
I wonder if the ocean cares
distinctly

pressions

when
I

the boats sail over

wonder

if

when

walk on

I

it.

the earth cares
it.”

A

fourth grade girl expressed her
idea of a snow covered birch tree
1

which she called “The Cold White
Lady”:
“The snow makes the tree
Look like a lady with a cold

1

white face
wears a dress of white
And buttons her dress
With her long white fingers.”

Who

And

a third grade child who had
been watching the rain falling on
a small pool in the yard near the
windows of her school room wrote:
“The rain is falling all around
In tiny silver rings

They would
They are so
Delicate.”

fit

fairy fingers

.

.

more recent times when
witnessed the influence of
National Education Associa-

and

to

we have
the
tion

on Teacher Education

and

Professional Standards.
Now, at
last, there is evidence of an organized profession alert and fighting
for1.the more than twenty-seven and
one-half million children and teachers in the country— a new milestone in the history of education.
But all is not bright in education.
The danger signals are flying and
regardless of the zeal of some of
us, we are bound to experience
considerable difficulty during the
new fews years in the improvement
of our schools, and the up-grading
of our profession.
It would seem
imperative that we realize some of
the major factors that will retard
our progress. I am not certain as
to which is most important.
However, I believe we shall agree that:

Low

salaries,

poor working

conditions and the lack of prestige
are important. The National Education Association tells us that in
January 1952, teachers were
below the average of all employed
persons in the country, while in
1939 they were 12% above all othSince 1939 the averer persons.
age employed person has had an
increase of 167% over his 1939
If teachers’ salaries had
earnings.
increased as much, the present avThis
erage would be $3800.00.
would be about 15% above preAn immediate objecsent levels.

3%

2

program

and perhaps they are, but I wish
to remind you that many of us
thought that Ralph McDonald and
the National Commission on Teacher
Education and Professional
Standards had gone completely out
of bounds in demanding in June

you briefly concerning the
demand and supply of elementary
and secondary teachers. Let us examine this factor in light of the
study made by a joint committee

1946, a minimum salary of $2400.00
for qualified beginning teachers.

.

Those were good days, but we
have gone on beyond them. We
think nothing today of creative activity because it is common in the
schools throughout the Commonwealth.
But we must get along
.

tive of the National Education Association is to restore teachers’ salaries to relatively pre-war levels.
In September 1951, the National
Education Board of Directors set
new salary goals at a range from
$3200.00 to $8000.00.
Many people say such goals are fantastic,

Committee

In fact, the Executive

Education Association did not go on record until 1947

of the National
in

recommending a minimum

sal-

ary of $2400.00 for a qualified beginning teacher and maximum salaries
ranging from $4000.00 to
$6000.00 or more a year.

Another retarding factor

2.

is

what

I like to call “the inertia of
old age.” I need not tell you that
we have too many old teachers who
are satisfied with their old ideas,
old methods and old text books.
Such teachers remind me of old
paint.
If you have ever tried to
stir a can of old paint you will
know what I mean. Basically the
old teachers may be made of good
stuff but take a great deal of stirring to make them worthwhile; the
sad part of it is that some of them
have stood so long that they cannot be stirred
they are worthless and yet they will be with us
until Nature takes its course.
.

.

.

Another deterrent to the
3.
building of the profession in Pennsylvania is the peculiar relationship
existing between the teacher and
the public and politics. As a matter of expediency, state legislatures
make it possible for unqualified
persons to teach largely because of
the failure of the public in general
to

understand

teacher

may be

that

a

certified,

qualified
but that

not always
qualified.
To affect a better understanding on the part of the public and to safeguard our salary increases and other benefits, I have
proposed and shall continue to in<yst that it is incumbent on the organized profession to develop a
highly coordinated, non-offensive
n

certified

teacher

is

public relations and
imperative that the
people of Pennsylvania be acquainted
4.
with the good work of
education if we are to continue
with the building of a profession
of

publicity.

It is

ol teaching.

Next,

should like to talk

I

with

the Executive .Council of the
Pennsylvania State Education As-

of

and the Commission on
Teacher Education and Profession-

sociation
al

Standards and the records of the
of Public Instruction.

Department
A.

In the

first

place,

we had

conducting

our
study because too few of our
school systems are thinking very
far ahead in their planning. Very
difficulty

few

in

have any ideas as
needs over a period of

districts

to their

years for teachers and buildings.

know where
new buildings for
maximum use during the

Too few

districts

to build their

their

next few decades.
B.
Another complicating factor is that there is evidence that
elementary teachers are going to
retire
in
increasingly greater
numbers beginning with the
school year 1952-53.
But we
are not sure of this.
From my
experience with teachers of retirement age, I should conclude
that they make their decision to
voluntarily retire almost suddenly.
They get old and contrary,
if the weather is bad or they are
“crossed” in some way they may
suddenly decide to retire.
C. What is going to happen
this fall in the school year 195253?
Well, we shall probably
need in Pennsylvania five or six
times more additional teachers
for the elementary schools than
we did in 1950-51. The crest
of the wave of babies born five,
six, and seven years will crash
down onto our school systems.
shall be fortunate if the
present standards and facilities
can take the overload.
In 1953-54 we shall probably
need 8 or 9 times more additional teachers than in 1950-51.
After 1954-55 the demand should

We

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j

begin to level off somewhat but
don’t expect too much because
the number of live births in this
State during the past few years
has been high and also don’t
forget that a great many of the
old normal school graduates are
getting old and we have one of
the best if not the best retirement systems in the country.

As

my

secondary teachers,

to

advice

don’t sell this field
in the face of an
over supply of certified teachers there is a demand for wellqualified teachers. Furthermore,
some of the war babies will be
in junior high school this fall.
Five years from now in 1955-56
short.

is:

Even

we

shall
need approximately
1700 additional secondary school
teachers due to an increase in
enrollment. In fact, the Division
of Child Accounting and Research of the Department of
Public Instruction forecasts a
need of approximately 1000 additional secondary school teachers, due to enrollment increases
alone, for the year 1954-55.
1.

My

may be

groundless,
but I am afraid that we are
about to be set back on our professional haunches by a serious
shortage of qualified elementary
fears

teachers.

Our hope

lies

to

a

great extent in the willingness
ability of the school districts of the State to use their
subsidies for increasing teachers’
salaries and not for decreasing

and

taxes.

From
da for

the standpoint of the agen-

this

conference your atten-

directed to the following
seven observations:
tion

is

There

is

a

need

for

more

spe-

designed curriculums for
the preparation of teachers qualified to teach in the primary grades
and the junior high schools of the

cifically

Commonwealth.
Here are two
areas which require rather highly
specialized
preparation.
In the
preparation of competent teachers
for the primary grades we must
recognize the results of recent scientific studies in
child development, teaching of reading, and the
teaching of meaningful arithmetic.
While the teachers of our junior
high schools must be better grounded in the psychology of adoles-

May

1952

cence, the philosophy of the junior
high school, and the principles of
guidance and counseling.
The
very nature of the junior high
school youngster not only demands
teachers with broad understanding
and less specilaization in academic
subject matter, but a separate
school plant, equipped to meet
their special needs.

have on their campuses, excellent
laboratory schools for elementary
children and many other facilities
necessary for an adequate program
ol graduate work for the Master’s
Degree in Elementary Education.
^

In conclusion, I should like
to say a few words about the preparation of teachers.
7.

A.

In the

is

ing certificate to replace the present v icious form of Permanent Certificate.
Surely the permanency of
any college certificate should be

contingent on its use.
In other
words, a lapse in use of a college
certificate for at least five years
should be cause for its invalidation.
Of course no such regulation
should be retroactive.
3.

The organized

teaching

in

advisory capacity.
5.
There is considerable opinion that the schools could be improved and professional standards
raised if there was more cooperation between the front office and
the classroom teachers.
It is said
that too many administrators have
a hang-over from the days of the
poorly prepared teachers and give
the impression that they are the
only people who know anything.
On the other hand, it should be
pointed out that too many teachers
are reluctant to take responsibility.
They do no more than is necessary
... a characteristic of modern day
life.

The upgrading

of the profession could be expedited to a considerable extent if the State Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania were
authorized as is the case in several
other states to grant the Master
6.

Degree

The

in

Elementary Education.

teachers colleges of this state

the

first

to

Such objectives

will require not

only the initial
selection of students for preparation on the basis of their capacities for

should

have more direct representation on
the State Council of Education. At
least the profession could be represented by some form of advisory
committee to the State Council.
4.
In a like manner, the organized teaching profession should
lake advantage of the interests and
recommendations
of
such
lay
groups as the P.T.A., A.A.U.W.,
and the School Directors Association, if in no other way than in an

reason

qualifications.

profession of

Pennsylvania

In

place, there
believe that the
chief objective of a teachers college or department of education
should be the preparation of
competent teachers — teachers
so good that if graduated they
can be placed, and when placed
the school district will desire
more teachers with the same

upgrading of professional standards more thought must
be given to some form of continu2.

competency, but also

a systematic, continuous selection up to the time of graduation

and

certification.

The program must be balanced with respect to general
B.

•

education, specilized fields, professional education, and opportunities for broadening activities
and elective courses. Opportunties,

throughout the period of

preparation,

youth

how

for

observation,
study of
youngsters act and learn
contacts,

are essential.

and

Student teaching

must provide competencies

in a
large cross section of regular
teachers’ activities.
C.
The faculty should be
comprised of Master Teachers,
well prepared in subject matter

and with an up-to-date understanding of the needs of teachers.
Such Master Teachers
must come from the public
schools and be in continuous
contact with them and their
problems.
D. Every teacher education
institution should maintain an
efficient program of placement
and follow-up. Both programs
can be of mutual asistance to
the graduates and the institution.

Teacher education,

to be good,
constant alertness and
hard work. Good enough is not
sufficient and for this reason the
accrediting of teacher education

requires

3

,

institutions has become one of today’s hottest issues in American edA proper system of acucation.
crediting teacher education institutions would within a very few
years eliminate many of the blem-

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT

PRESENTED IN
NEW COLLEGE PUBLICATION
OF

B.S.T.C.

The

long-awaited

publication,

require teacher education institutions to examine themselves, it will

Bloomsburg Through the Years,”
has finally been delivered by the
printer, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
President, announced recently. The
72-page book contains tire history
ana development of tire present
State Teachers College from its beginning as an Academy in 1839

be more than worthwhile.
You may feel as I do

through the subsequent stages of
development from Literary Insti-

and problems in education
with which we are now confronted.
However, accreditation is no
panacea for all our educational ills,
but if it does nothing more than
ishes

that

we

at times,

are not progressing very

should like to remind
you that you are in good old Penn-

But

fast.

sylvania

ance

is

I

where a

good balmaintained between Youth

and Age.
but sure.
visit

some

that
that

when

fairly

Our

progress is slow
If you don’t believe this,
other states. I am sure
you return you will have

good feeling

of being at

home

again.

PENN STATE HONORS
FRED W. DIEHL
Fred W. Diehl, superintendent
the Montour county schools,
and Charles E. Hilbish, holding a
similar position in Northumberland, were among twenty-six county superintendents and assistants
who were honored at State College recently for having completed

of

twenty-five years or
ice in

county

more

of serv-

at

Hilbish is currently
twenty-fifth year.

serving

his

Diehl has had forty-three years
in teaching and administration and
prior to going to Millville was a
teacher at Toby Run. He left Millville to become a member of the
Danville High School faculty and
served there five years before taking over as head of the county
He is a graduate of the
schools.
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colllcge, where he is a trustee and also
a director of the Alumni Association, and of Bucknell University.

Much

consolidation has marked
Only five
his service in Montour.
of the forty-nine one-room schools
remain that were in existence when
he began his administration.
4

Normal School
Teachers College

tute in 1856, State
hr 1869, to State

in 1927.

The

attractive 9xl2-inch publihas a maroon cover with a
half-tone reproduction of the State
seal iir the upper left-hand corner.
catioir

The

“Bloomsburg Through
and tire dates of the
of development are
over-printed in black.
The back
title,

the Years,’’
four stages

cover contains a simulated wood
block print hr maroon of the pergola in the college grove with a
legend taken from Act II, Scene 1
ol “The Tempest,” “What’s past is
prologue.” The inside of the cover contains a screen reproduction
ol the map of the Commonwealth
in nraroon with halftone reproductions of presidents and principals
of the college since 1890 to the
present.
The general layout and
design were handled by Mr. EdT. DeVoe, chairman of
Publications Committee.

ward

office.

one time head of
the Millville schools, has had thirMr.
ty-four years of such service.
Mr. Diehl,

'

tire

Dr. Andruss, Nevin T. Englehart,
former Superintendent of Grounds

and Buildings; Dr. Thomas P.
North, Miss Edna J. Hazen, Mr. W.
C. Forney, Mr. John C. Koch, for-

mer Dean

of

Men; Mr. George

J.

H.

Harrison Russell,
Mr. John J. Fisher, Mr. S. L. Wilson, Mr. Howard F. Fenstemaker,
Dr. E. H. Nelson, former Athletic
Director, now President of Alumni Association; Miss Ethel A. Ranson, Miss Harriet M. Moore, Miss
Alice Johnston, Mr. Earl N. Rhodes,
former Director of Secondary EduKeller,

Dr.

cation
and Placement Service;
Pearl L. Mason and Catherine I.
Zealberg, former College Librarians.

College Songs Are Feature
first time in the history
of the college, the four popular
college songs, “Alma Mater,” “My
Girl’s a Hullabaloo,” “Old Bloomsburg,” and “Maroon and Gold,”
have been reproduced with full
music scores for piano. Mr. Howard F. Fenstemaker, who composed
(lie music for the last two mentioned, arranged the scores. The publication is so designed that the
songs fall in the center section of
the book, an arrangement which
will prove convenient for pianists.

For the

Another feature of the publication

is

the inclusion of the

names

and addresses of all living alumni
from 1879 to 1950 inclusive. This
is the first time a complete list of
alumni has ever been published in

The directory appears in the second section

a B.S.T.C. publication.

Edited by Dr. Kehr
Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr, Deaxr
or Women, edited the college publication and was responsible for coordinating the great amount of material contributed by former and
present members of the college fac-

the
pages.
ol

book and covers 28

full

photographs taken from
be of interest to
“old grads.” In the “Student Life”

Four
alumni

files will

and

are reproductions of the
popular Washington Excursion in
1910 and the Kappa Delta Pi installation group in 1931.
An early
1900
football
squad and the

prepared a very interesting and
readable hsitory of the organization and development of the “College on the Hill.”
Dr. Francis B.
Haas, Superintendent of Public In-

B.S.N.S. baseball team are reproA line
in the sports section.
cut reproduction of the institution
as it appeared at the turn of the
century and an aerial view of the

Dean

Emeritus William
Boyd Sutliff delved into the faded
manuscript records of early boards
ulty.

of trustees of the institution

struction

and President

of B.S.T.C.

from 1927 to 1939, wrote the Foreword.
Other contributors who were responsible for various phases of the
development of the college include

section

duced

present campus are also included
in the publication. The latter scene
illustrates the poem, “Alma Mater,”
written by former Dean Sutliff.
According to Dr. Andruss, the
publication will be distributed to

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

regularly enrolled students of the
college at the Honor Assembly

which

will

be held

in

Carver Audi-

Wednesday, May 21, at 10
Faculty and Alumni may sea. m.
cure a copy of the publication by
torium,

presenting a receipt for a 3-year
membership in the Alumni Associ-

These memberships may be
purchased from Dr. Nelson or his
ation.

authorized representative for $5 00.

BOB REDMAN
State

IS

Redman,

Bob

HONORED

Lawrence, of Bucknell University,
were awarded scrolls in tribute to
their outstanding coaching records
and contributions to collegiate
sports
at
Harrisburg Exchange
Club’s sports banquet this past winter.

the coaches both of

teams

to

whom

seasons in 1951,

to

led their

and untied

undefeated

by Roy Nassau,

Thursday, February 14, the Red
Cross Bloodmobile made its second annual appearance at Bloomsburg State Teachers College. The
old gym was the center of atten-

on

Valentine’s day from
10 a. m. to 4 p. m. In all, 137 students, faculty members, and downtown residents donated blood.
tion

The

Bloomsburg
Teachers College, and Harry
of

The awards were presented

COLLEGE STUDENTS GIVE
GOOD SHOWING IN SUPPORT
BLOOD DONOR PROGRAM

this

person to donate was
18, of 53 West Union
Street,
Nanticoke, Pennsylavina.
His first stop on his errand of mercy was at the registration desk
where he was assisted by Mrs. Rachel Miller.- At his next stop Mrs.
Walter Welliver took his temperature, weighed him, and checked
his hemoglobin.
After a glass of
juice he continued on and had his
blood pressure taken by Mrs. Kellfirst

John Czech,

er.

cally

Preliminary checks being over,
Mr. Czech stepped through the

Sportscasters Association.

curtain into the section where the
actual blood donation took place.

lo-

well-known president of the
Harrisburg
Sportswriters
and
At the same time, the Harrisburg Exchange Club gave Vic
Seizas, top-ranking amateur tennis
player in the United States, an engraved plaque as “Pennsylvania’s
Athlete of the Year.”

In his acceptance speech,

Red-

who was

man,

cited for his 38-4
collegiate record, stressed the value
of teachers colleges in preparing
athletes for both
teaching and

coaching positions. They are doing a splendid job and at the same
time have elevated athletic standards to the level of most smaller
colleges in the country.

He

said

that

as

every

coach

knows, the degree of success a
mentor can achieve depends on the
will of his boys to play and on the
cooperation he receives from the
college administration, the students
and from the townspeople. In
Bloomsburg, he said, every qualification has been met.
His talk was enthusiastically received by a host of sports dignitaries that included Jim Tatum,
head football- coach at Maryland,
Charles (Rip) Engle and Charley
Speidel, of
T.

Penn

State,

and Henry

Bream, of Gettysburg.

May

1952

On duty
lyn

at this spot was Miss EveShenan, of Nesbitt Memorial

ating their time and blood so un-

people have given

selfishly, these

other

humans the chance

to live.

CUNFER HEAD OF STUDENT
ASSOCIATION AT COLLEGE
Edwin W. Cunfer, East Church
was elected president of the Community Government Association of the Teachers
street, Slatington,

College it was announced by John
Burns, Harrisburg, chairman of the
election committee. Cunfer, son of
Mrs. Mary A. Cunfer, is a junior in
the Business Education curriculum.
Michael Crisci, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Crisci, Jenkins street,
est Pittston, was chosen vice-

W

president.
He is a sophomore in
the Department of Business Education.

Judith E. Frye, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Frye, West Market street, Williamstown, was elected secretary. She is also a sophomore in the Business Education
curriculum.

Newly-elected Community Government Association treasurer is
William Jacobs, son of William Jacobs, Harding street, Manchester.

Hospital, Kingston, Pennsylvania.

Jacobs

Mr. Czech’s last stop in his journey was at the Red Cross cafeteria

Education Department.

is

a junior in the Business

for a stimulant of warm coffee, tomato juice and crackers. At this

Elected to the post of assistant
treasurer was Gerald G. Houseknecht, ward of Mrs. Arthur C.

point he was rewarded with his
blood donor pin as were the others
who followed him.

Bloomsburg.

The tireless committee behind
movement did an outstanding

tin's

Their first jobs were to organize and then to recruit donors.
They sponsored an assembly program and had posters placed
throughout the school. John Kennedy, of Kingston, was at the head
of this committee and the rest of
the workers
included:
William
Jones, LeRaysville; Peggy Bourdette,
Athens;
Samuel Yeager,

Manbeck,

Mary Lou Todd,
Bloomsburg; John Nemetz, Shamokin; Walter Worhacz, Shamokin; Jack Peffer, Kulpmont; Judy
Frye,
Williamstown, and Judy
Bauer, Sunbury.
Of

course,

all

this

could

not

have been possible without the cooperation of the fine group of people here at Bloomsburg. By don-

First

street,

Houseknecht is enrolled in the department of Secondary Education and is a member of the Sophomore Class.

The

Community

elections

Government
were held recently and

attracted

a

job.

Montgomery;

West

record-breaking vote.

More than 600
students and

votes were cast

faculty.

The

by

elec-

tion committee reported that more
than 80 per cent of those entitled
to vote cast ballots.
The students
used two electric voting machines
provided by the county commis-

sioners of

Luzerne county.

APPOINTED TRUSTEE
Vic C. Diehm, of Hazleton, wide-

known in radio work in this
area and long an active Kiwanian,
has been appointed a trustee of the
Teachers College, to fill a vacancy.
He will serve until the third Thursday of January, 1955.
ly

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FRATERNITY
PRESENTS PLAY
On Tuesday evening,

April

1,

in

Carver Auditorium, Alpha Psi Omega, college dramatic fraternity,
presented The Bloomsburg Players
in “You Can’t Take It With You by
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.
Pulitzer and Academy Award
whining play was under the direction of Miss Dorothy Stolp.

The

The play

takes place in the

home

one Martin Vanderhof, just
around the corner from Columbia

parents, were portrayed by Thomas
Stefanik and Lee Ann Caccia. The
three detectives were played by

DR. BERNREUTER ADVISES
STUDENTS ON PERSONALITY

Herre, Larry Cole and
Steve Devereux.
Mary Jo Williams was assistant
Io the director. Stage and Business

As a part of the Annual Retail
Sales Conference, a special after-

George

Managers were Frank Vacante and
Judith Fry. Joanne Cuff was House
Manager; ushers were provided by

Alpha Psi Omega. Music between
acts was provided by Mary Grace
Aimers.

ol

University. The
living room is
meals are eaten,
snakes collected,

highly decorated
the place where
plays are written,
ballet steps practiced, xylophones played, printing
presses operated, portraits painted,
and erector sets assembled. The
time of the play is 1937.

Penelope

homey

Sycamore,

little

woman

a gentle,
in her fifties,

was portrayed by Jeanne

Miller.

Penelope writes plays or tries to,
along with painting in her spare
time. Her daughter Essie, a slight,
dainty

girl

who

loves to ballet

and

make “love dreams,” was played by
Mary Lou Todd.

Tom Anthony was

Paul, Penelope’s
husband.
Paul is mild,
charming, and makes firecrackers

with Mr. DePinna, portrayed by
James Ferdinand. Mr. DePinna is
a bald headed Italian who also
poses for Penny’s portraits.
The two colored servants, Rheba
and Donald, were played by Vivian
Burness and James Luchs. Essie’s
xylophone playing husband, Ed,
who prints on the side, was played
by Bob Von Drach.

George Blyler had the role of
Martin Vanderhof,
philosophical
whose motto is “You Can’t Take
Barbara James and
It With You.”
James Ciavaglia were Alice and
Tony, the two young lovers with
different
to

backgrounds with which

contend.
Russian Boris Kolenkhov and his

aristocratic friend Olga Katrina,
two outcasts of the revolution, were
portrayed by John Kennedy and
Patricia Boyle. Henderson, the Internal Revnue agent, was played
by Frank Vacante.
Happily drunk Gay Wellington
was played by Lynn Goodell; Mr.
and Mrs. Kirby, Tony’s high brow

6

N. E.

DISTRICT MUSIC

The Northeastern Pennsylvania
contests of the Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League
were held at B.S.T.C. on Saturday,
March 29, under the direction of
The
Dr. Ernest H. Engelhardt.
contests began at 10 P. M. in Carver Auditorium, and Room 33 in
Science Hall.

from eleven high
an eleven-county area
in Northeastern Pennsylvania coinpeted for ratings in a number of
music events. Those rated superior
went to Harrisburg during the
Contestants

schools in

in April, to

compete

for

the state championships.

Contests were held in piano solo,
snare drum, soprano solo, and baritone solo.

Contestants from this district who
entered the State competition for
piano solo are Louise Kam, from

Westmoreland High School, and
David Fischi from Plains High
School.

Rated superior in snare drum
competition were: Ned Dodson, of
Berwick; Robert Wilson, Shamokin;

“On Developing Your Personality,”
brought out the relationship between teaching and selling and the
importance of personality to both.
observed

that one of the
a teacher deals
with helping others to develop
their
personalities.
He defined
personality as “the effect one pergreatest

District

week

G. Bemreuter, director of tire psychological clinic of Pennsylvania
State College.
Dr. Andruss introduced Dr. Bernreuter as both a
teacher and a salesman; his topic,

He

CONTEST HELD HERE

third

noon assembly featured Dr. Robert

George Heebner, Shamokin;

and Thomas Lewis, Montrose.
Charles Ward, from St. John the
Evangelist High School, Pittston,
and Daniel Robinson, Danville,
were judged superior baritone soloists.

Soprano solo finalists from this
district were Margaret Mclndoe,
Danville; Theresa Kowalski, Montrose; Naomi Yeigh, Danville; Joan
Russin, Plains; and Dolores Stella,
Plains.

Mr. Ralph Fisher Smith acted as
judge for drum and vocal competition; Miss Irene Engel, of Bloomsburg, judged the piano soloists.

tasks of

son has on those with

whom

and emphasized that
notice a person and respond
lives,”

“if

he
you

to him,
has a personality.
Whether it is a plesant kind of response or not depends upon the sit-

person

that

uation.”

Dr.

Bernreuter listed

annoying

characteristic of teachers;
general attitude expressed toward
pupils, poor speech habits, general
carelessness
classroom behavior,
traits

about personal appearance and
poor techniques of teaching. Each
of these has an adverse effect on

program of children

the

the

in

class.

“It

pays to develop your

own

personality as well as you can,”
To imDr. Bernreuter advised.
prove a negative personality, he
suggested that the individual do
all he can to eliminate superficial
defects and that he consult an expert to help correct deep-rooted
defects.

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFRESHMENTS
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Manager
Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

Assistant
142 East

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville. Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
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R.

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THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

FROM THE PAST

VOICE

Nelson.

to

About the time the Huskies
wound up their second undefeated
football season in four years George
(Stoney) McLinn, who spent his
boyhood in town and is always
happy to give Bloomsburg favorable publicity on his “Old Timer
program on Philadelphia’s WIP, arranged for a recording of various
representatives of the club and the
institution.

He arranged

with

Danny

Lit-

up the program on
which appeared Bob (Witchaboo)
Lang, some other members of the
club, Danny and Dr. Nelson, presiwhiler to set

dent of the Alumni, participated.

put on sometime ago and

w’as

It

out at Newberry, Mich., Jackson
heard the program and memories
of his year at the local institution
passed in review.

going back to the MidWest, Jackson writes, he returned
After
the

to

from

University of Illinois and
there went to Munising,

Mich., and then into Newberry. At
the present time he is coordinator
for

Newberry High School

as director of

Institute.

He

also in politics

present holds the

at

as well

the school’s veterans’
is

title

World War

prior to

Dr. E. H. Nelson got a letter the
other day that was just like a voice
from the past. It came from Alf
K. Jackson who was coach at old
Bloomsburg Normal for one year
back in the mid-twenties and then
coached at Berwick High School
After that
for the next two years.
he went back to the mid-west and
we didn’t hear anything from the
amiable fellow until the letter came

and

of village

president.

He mentions several of his
Bloomsburg friends and acquaintances in the letter and asks for
information concerning them.

Jackson came to Bloomsburg

af-

II.

those days the male population of the local institution was
small by comparison with the number of girls enrolled. The playing
field was what they now term the
“old field.”
In

Jackson did well in the year he

was here but

at the

end

of the seaBerwick.
His
work there was good, too, and included the customary wins over
our Panthers. But then he decided to get back to the Mid-West
where he was swallowed up in the
vastness of the country, insofar as
tiiis
section was concerned, until
his recent letter.

son

moved on

to

MWANIS AWARDS
77 ) SIX

STUDENTS

B.S.T.C. students received
scholarships Tuesday, February 5,
in a combined assembly program of
giving and taking.
Before the
awarding of the scholarships, a
Six

blood donor program was arranged
by the student faculty committee
to arouse the student interest in
our nation’s need for the vital fluid.
Mrs. Clair Ilidlay, representing
the Red Gross, gave an interesting
discussion of the procedures which

would go through in this
blood giving process. Dr. E. Paul
Wagner then gave a few statistics
on the number of students who had
already signed to donate on Feba student

ruary 14.

Following this part of the program, Dr. Kimber C. Kuster, chairman of the Scholarship Committee,
introduced Mr. J. Howard Deily,
past president of the Kiwanis Club
of Bloomsburg.
Mr. Deily in turn
presented Mr. Charles Beeman,
chairman of the Kiwanis Scholarship
Committe, who presented
awards to Nancy Sue Williams,
James Luchs, Faith Eunson, Vir-

George M. Meade, who was
here from around 1921 to 1925 and
did a pretty good job in getting
“Old Normal” started back on the

Horne and Ruth Thomas. The
money was accumulated for these
scholarships by placing gumball

road to some athletic recognition
after there had been some excep-

To

ter

meager years, especially on
the gridiron, went back to Michigan.
The pre-Meade years cortionally

responded in grimness to those we
were to go through in the years

May

1952

ginia

machines in various places in town.
date, approximately eight hundred dollars has been awarded by
the Kiwanis Club.

The

Class

of

1951 Scholarship

was also presented by Dr. Kuster
to William Jacobs, a sophomore in
the Business Curriculum.

NEW COURSES OFFERED
Increasing emphasis on taxation
and tax-record keeping has prompted the Bloomsburg State Teach-

College to include a Federal
in its course offerings
lor the 1952 Summer School.
The
course will include procedures in
tax accounting, income taxes for
ers

Tax Course

individuals,

and

corporations,

estates

and

a brief treatment of
Pennsylvania taxes which will meet
the needs of teachers seeking pertrusts

manent
al

certification

and profession-

improvement.

The summer
iness

sessions in the Bus-

Education Department pro-

ide opportunities for the business
teachers of Pennsylvania to complete the requirements for permanent certification and to extend
their certificates to include additional business subjects. Non-business teachers also may work toward
certification in business education.
\

Certification in either typewrit-

may be
summer by enroll-

ing or shorthand or both

secured in one

ment

in the Shorthand and Typewriting Workshop.
Prerequisites
for enrolling are a minimum of two
semester hours of college credit in
typewriting and three semester
hours of credit in college shorthand. The equivalent of these credits or mastery of the fundamentals
ol touch typewriting and of writing Gregg Shorthand, Anniversary
or Simplified, may qualify for conditional enrollment.
The college
will offer a course in Money and
Banking provided there is sufficient

demand.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kolcun, of
White Haven, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Dorris Ruth Martini, to the Rev. Thomas E. Eisenman, of White Haven, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman

Eisenman, of Derringer.
Miss Martini is a graduate of
the White Haven High School and
attended B.S.T.C. She is employed by the Acme Markets, Hazleton.
The Rev. Mr. Eisenman, pastor
of the White Haven Methodist
Church, is a graduate of Lycoming College and is completing his
studies at

Drew

Theological Sem-

New

He formerJersey.
ly served the Millville parish.
inary, in

7

was elected president of the
AACTE for the coming year. MaSchool
rion R. Trabue, dean of the

OBJECTIONS TO

ton,

FORD PROGRAM
Problems and ways

of

improv-

ing teacher accreditation and the
F oundation
Ford
controversial
teacher education proposal to Arkansas were the focal points of discussion at the fourth annual meeting of the American Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education in
Chicago F ebruary 21 to 23. President Harvey A. Andruss, of the
Teachers College, was among the
presidents, deans and professois of

College, was

new

of-

in Chicago, Dr. Andruss
attended the convention of
the National Association of Business Teacher Training Institutions.
The Teachers College is a member
Naof both the AACTE and the
Business
of
Association
tional

While

Teacher Training

Institutions.

CHOSEN FOR STATE BAND
Four members of the Maroon
and Gold Band of the Bloomsburg
selecState Teachers College were

as the teacher-education curriculum in all colleges of Arkangenersas, a four-year program of

lish,

education to be followed by a
year of professional internship. 1 he
proposal was described as “the universal imposition of a highly unal

promising pattern upon all paiticiThe AACTE
pating institutions.
as
also defined the Ford proposal
century
18th
an
an “adoption of
model for teacher preparation - a
scheme comparable to that used
500 years ago.”
Support was given the proposed
organization of the National Counfor Accreditation of Teacher
cil
Education. T. M. Stinnett, execuComtive secretary of the National
and
Education
Teacher
mission on
Professional Standards, labeled the
establishment and application of
the
valid accrediting procedures as
number one challenge of teacher
Among other subjects
education.
discussed at the convention were
health education projects, field
programs, intervisitation
service

programs, and ways ot providing
student teaching facilities.
The association adopted a numone
ber of resolutions including
attacks
over
alarm
expressed
which
on public education by anti-educaIt also cxpiesstion organizations.
so-called Arthe
to
protest
its
ed

and

to the

also

Dr. Andruss said the association
was quick to raise objections to the
Ford Foundation project to estab-

Plan

named

fice of president-elect.

universities
and
colleges
253
present at
nation
the
throughout
the annual sessions.

kansas

Education, Pennsylvania State

of

recommended

ted for the Fifth Intercollegiate
17,
State Band Festival held April
the Pennsylvania State
J 8 and 19 at
from
The students
College.
Bloomsburg were R. Eugene Hummel and A. Paul Franklin; Marjorie

Walter, Milton, and M. Louise La-

Hummed

Sarsa, R. D. 1, Falls. Mr.
the
olayed in the cornet section of

trom-

All-State Band, Franklin, the
bone section, and Miss LaSarsa, the
Miss Walters is
clarinet section.
a flutist.

The Penn State Blue Band was
with its
host to the group along

well-known director, James DunWilliam Revelli, director ot
lop.
Michigan
the famous University of
the guest conductor.
the
Charles H. Henrie, director ot
attended
Band,
Gold
Maroon and
meeting
the events and the annual
Collegiate
Pennsylvania
the
md Directors Association.

Band was

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner.

January 31 the annual “Batin Cartle of the Classes” was held
ver Hall Auditorium. The subject
for the quiz show sponsored by

On

Time Magazine was “Contemporaiy World Figures and Events.
Tne questions covered such topics
domestic affairs, sports, musical
dramatics,
literature,
comedies,
Korean War, novels and motion
as

pictures.

A close race for supremacy was
fought by the upper classmen and
The Seniors
the under classmen.
be the suto
proved
Juniors
and
preme power even though they
won the battle by a very close marSeniors and Juniors attained 25 points while their rivals
had 24 points. The highest individual points were attained by John
Burns, a senior, whose score was 10

The second prize winners
Mervine, a junior,
Mildred
were
and Gerald Houseknecht, a sophomore, who had seven points each.
These high scorers received one
vear subscriptions to Time. The
points.

other contestants were Ruth Glidden, senior; Larry Ksanznak, junMary Ann Fink, sophomore,
ior;
and Betty Hoover and Keith Mc-

Kay, freshmen.
of Men, John Hoch, was
and Coach Harold
Quizmaster
the
Shelly was the timekeeper. Judges
Maufor the contest were Dr. Nell
Mr.
pin, Mr. Edward T. DeVoe and
Edward A. Reams.

Dean

Program Chairman was Alfred
Chiscon. Mr.

Howard Fenstermak-

chairman of the Student-Facwhich
ulty Assembly Committee,
David
sponsored the program.
stuthe
of
chairman
Newbury is

er

is

“The Battle
l

HERVEY B. SMITH, ’22
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Court House Place

ape-recorded

CREASY & WELLS
’09

Ethel Creasy Wright,

er shortage.

building materials

of the Classes” was
by radio stations

and WIILM. The recordwere then sent along with
photographs and news stories to

\\

CNR

ings

Time

Bloomsburg 1115

Bloomsburg 520

The

gin.

dent committee.

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teachsteps to alleviate the critical

Robert E. McConnell, president
of
of Central Washington College
Education, Ellensburg, Washing-

UPPERCLASSMEN WIN
BATTLE OF CLASSES

offices in

New

MOYER

York.

BROS.

prescription druggists
SINCE 1868
William V. Moyer.

Harold

L.

’07,

Pres.

Moyer, ’09, Vice-President
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AUSTRIAN STUDENTS
PRESENT PROGRAM

dances and yodeling numbers, culled from the folkways of all Austria filled a two-hour program. The

Austria sent her most charming
ambassadors, music and youth, to
B.S.T.C. on Thursday, February 7,
when IS students on leave from
Austrian universities presented a
musical show of gay Austrian melodies, folk dances and yodeling in
Carver Hall Auditorium.
These young Austrians are on an
eight-months tour of United States
cities

and

universities in a

unique

gesture of international goodwill.
By means of the tour, the student
ambassadors who created the show
hope to introduce Americans to the
colorful culture of Austria, and at
the same time, to learn for themselves about life in America so they
may write and lecture about it
when they return home.
All young university students or
school teachers, the eight girls and
ten boys represent as many regions
ol Austria as do the songs and dances they perform in their show;
they come from the Alps, the Tyrol,

Carinthia, Syria, Upper and Lower
Austria, Innsbruck, Graz, Salzburg

troupe’s brilliant

and authentic

cos-

tumes have been loaned by the provincial

museums

of Austria.

THE WARD FUND
The Ward Fund was established
memory of Miss Irma R. Ward
by Alumni who had worked in the
dining room while she was college
in

(1924-1939).

dietitian

Miss

Ward

had been in the habit of making
small temporary loans to students
and so the dining room alumni decided that a fund to make such
loans would be an appropriate memorial to her.
Since most of the gifts were
By
small, the fund grew slowly.
fiie time it was large enough to
begin operations, there was not

much demand
it

was decided

Therefore

for loans.
to

put the

money

to

In
use by awarding scholarships.
1946-47 and again in 1947-48 a $50
Ward scholarship was awarded,
each time to someone working in
the college dining room. Since that
time the Ward Fund has again

and legendary Vienna.

been built up by

Experts in the songs, dances and
musical instruments of their rethe student ambassadors
gions,

ous college student organizations.
Since 1948, loans varying in
amount from $5 to $45 have been
made for periods from one week
These loans
(o several months.
have taken care of all sorts of emergencies for a number of students.
Additional gifts, small or large,
will make the Ward Fund still
more helpful to B.S.T.C. students.
Dean Marguerite Kehr is acting as
Treasurer for the Fund.

were selected for this unique production by the “Amt fuer Studentenwanderungen,’ an organisation
founded after World War I by Dr.
Oskar F. Block, lector at the University of Vienna. This “Office for
Student Tours’ ’was formed as a
token of gratitude for aid rendered
Austrian students by the college
students of the United States and
Great Britain.
In their fields of study, the AusIrian students resemble any American university group. Among them
are students of modem languages,
engineering, law, physics, history,
music, dramatic arts, education,
banking, commerce, economics, aguculture and forestry.
While on their tour of American
cities
and universities, the cast
hopes to become thoroughly acquainted with the American way
of life and to write and lecture
about it when they return home.
To the accompaniment of the
harp, zither, guitar and accordion,
a profusion of rollicking songs,

May

1952

gifts

from

vari-

Miss Lornamae Freas, of Berwick R. D. 1, became the bride of
Harold Whitebread, of Beach Haven, in a recent ceremony performed by the Rev. Ned Weller, of Picture Rocks.

Mrs. Whitebread attended Berwick High School and the brideattending B.S.T.C. They
will reside with the parents of the
bridegroom.

groom

J.

is

WESLEY KNORR,
NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

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FRENCH PIANIST
GIVES RECITAL
It is a rare occasion when a great
piano virtuoso finds himself acclaimed a gifted composer also, but
such was the case with Pierre Sancan who presented a recital at the
Teachers College Thursday, April
17, during the regular weekly assembly program at 10:00 a. m. Beginning with the writing of little
pieces long before the age of 14,
Sancan showed considerable talent
as a composer while studying at
His Canthe Paris Conservatory.
tata based on the Icarus legend

won him

the Grand Prix de Rome,
France’s highest musical honor, in
competition with fifty other com-

posers.

Since that time, Monsieur Sancan has composed the White Symphony based on his experiences living at his farm at Chamonix under
towering heights of Mont
the
Blanc; a ballet, the

Commedia

del

and a piano concerto which
had its world premiere in Paris in
November, 1951.
Arte,

This marked Sancan’s first visit
United States. Because of
appearances
his
triumphant
throughout Asia and Africa and
Europe, lie was chosen as the first
musician to be sent to this country
in an interchange of artists between
France and America. This is a new
and important development in the
cultural and amicable relations between the two countries. As his
extraordinary press notices from
to tiie

abroad indicate. Monsieur Sancan
is

certain to inaugurate

it

brilliant-

ly-

Dick Morlock

is

now

a

member

of a real estate and insurance firm
in Hillsdale, Michigan.

Dick was an athlete on the hill
He was one
of two Hillsdale athletes brought
here by George M. Meade in order
in the early twenties.

bolster the athletic fortunes of
the local college, then a normal
school, in the davs following World
to

War

I.

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, T6

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

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DEAN’S

HONOR

LIST

The Dean of Instruction of the College, Dr. Thomas P. North, has
released the following names of students who have qualified for the
Dean’s List for the first semester, 1951-52. These students have a quality
point average of 2.5 or better for the first semester, 1951-52, and a
cumulative average of at least 2.0 while in attendance

at this college.

FRESHMEN
Name

Student

of

Arnold, Shirley
Bower, Janice

DelMonte, Fred
Rebecca

Guinard, Theresa
Harris, Gloria

Hoover, Betty
Pozzebo n, Louise
Taylor. Charles F.

Nancy

St. Edwards, Shamokin
Montandon
Sunbury
Bloomsburg
Mahanoy Joint. Dalmatia

Milton

Hickory Corners
Honesdale

Grace

Williams,

Shamokin
2, Sunbury
Bloomsburg

Fisher, Alice

H'isted,

School
Millersburg
Clarks Summit-Abington

1,

S.

;

gb.

Honesdale

Halifax
Hazleton

Millersburg
Hazleton

Montgomery
Clarks Summit

Montgomery-Clinton
Clarks Summit-Abington

R. D.

2.

Anna

Bittner,

Bogdan, John
Cichowicz, Irene
Dreibelbis, Mary
Fink, Mary

Gunther, Elaine
Heil, Betty
Houseknecht, Gerald
Jacobs, William
Koharski, Alex
Neugar-d,

Mae

Superdock, David

Jessup
Freeland
Milroy
Philadelphia

Jessup
M. & M. Institute, Freeland
Armagh Twp., Milroy
Central, Philadelphia
J. W. Cooper, Shenandoah

Shenandoah
Bloomsburg
Berwick
Berwick

Bloomsburg
Berwick
Berwick

Reamstown

E.

Bloomsburg
Manchester

Bloomsburg
Manchester
Wyoming Memorial
Hegins

Wyoming
Kegins
Freeland

Cocalico Twp.,

Reamstown

Foster Twp., Freeland

JUNIORS
Davis, Clare
Jones, Richard
Kline, William

Clarks

Knause, Richard
Pease, Charles
Piehel,

June

Quick, Alice
Smith, Sterling
Whitebread, Harold

Summit

Mr. Neal introduced each number with comments about the composer and the composition.
The
informality and friendliness of the
couple delighted the audience and
helped to lift the performance out
of the realm of the ordinary concert.

SOPHOMORES
Anderson, John
Bell, Clyde

Nelson and Neal, well-known duo
preesnted a sparkling program of piano music and patter in
assembly on Thursday, February
pianists,

28.

Address
Millersburg
Clarks Green
R. D.
R. D.

Ellis,

H

NELSON AND NEAL,
TWO-PIANO TEAM,
PRESENT PROGRAM

Newton-Ransom, Clarks Summit

Millville

Camp

Millersburg

Bloomsburg
Wyalusing

Millersburg
North Coventry, Pittston
Wyalusing Valley

Hellertown
Wyalusing

Hellertown
Wyalusing Valley

Berwick
Beach Haven

Berwick
Berwick

Hill

First

on the program was Bach’s

Fugue.’’
This was followed by the three movements of Poulenc’s “Sonata.”
Next came the
familiar First and Fifth of Brahm’s
“Little

Hungarian Dances.
“Saturday Night Waltz” and “Hoe
Down,” from Copland’s “Rodeo
Ballet,” followed.
Last number on
the program was “Variations on
Yankee Doodle,” by Braggiotti.

number contains variations in
manner of Bach, Beethoven,
Chopin, Debussy, and Gershwin.
This number was particularly well-

This
the

received by the audience.
As encores, the two-piano team
“Sabre
played
Khachaturian’s

Dance” and “Jamaican Rhumba,”
by Arthur Benjamin.
Allison Nelson, who had been
Australia’s

leading

child

prodigy,

met Harry Neal while both were
studying

piano

Curtis Institute.

at

Philadelphia’s

His

home town

is

Tennessee.
In a back-stage interview, Allison told about their lives together.
Now twenty-five years old, she began playing the piano when she
was five years old. Harry has been
playing since he was about eight.
They have been playing as a
They
team for about two years
began when the TV station, CBS
WCAU, where Harry worked, asked them to fill in as a two-piano
team.
Paris,

SENIORS
Lehman Twp.

Abbott, Priscilla

Lehman

Bourdette, Margaret
Bowman, Doris
Burns, John
Coleman, Shirley
Davis, Stewart
Dorak, Michael

Athens

Athens

Milton
Harrisburg

Milton
Wm. Penn, Harrisburg
Beaver Vocational
Meyers, Wilkes-Barre
Nanticoke

Edwards, Richard M.
Evans, Marilyn

Beavertown
Bloomsburg
Berwick
Plymouth
Wilkes-Barre

Galinski, Francis

Forest City

Glidden, Ruth

Susquehanna
Bloomsburg
R. D. 1, Lykens
Pitman

Haddon, John
Harman, Barbara
Harrirg,

Maynard

Laux, Richard
Lundy, Marilyn
Matuleski, Charlotte
Mouery, Olive

Newman,

Lois
Rider, Janice
Ruckle, Jeanne
Weinstein, Philip
Yozviak, Marie

10

Trucksviile

Plymouth
Coughlin, Wilkes-Barre
Forest City

Susquehanna
Northumberland
Wiconisco
Hegins
Kingston Twp., Trucksviile

Bloomsburg

Carlisle

Nanticoke

Nanticoke

Mt. Carmel

Mt. Carmel

Wilkes-Barre

Coughlin, Wilkes-Barre

Millville

Millville

Bloomsburg

Bloomsburg

Wilkes-Barre
Wilkes-Barre

Hanover Twp.

G.A.R. Memorial, Wilkes-Barre

.

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODS
M.

C. Strausser,
122 East

—

REPAIRS

’27,

Prop.

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ARTICLES BY

TWO

the accumulated mine waste from
century of mining, and are swept

a

FACULTY MEMBERS
IN SAME MAGAZINE
Two members
faculty

the

of

have written

downstream by spring
B.S.T.C.

articles

which

appear in the March 22 issue of the
Pennsylvania Farmer.”

‘

“Barrel

Making— A

Forgotten

Farm Industry" was written by Dr.
Almus Russell, while Mr. Ed].
ward DeVoe is the author of an
“Buried Treasure.”
The cover of the magazine, showing a picture of a river dredge, refers to Mr. DeVoe’s article.
In his article. Dr. Russell reminisces about the now almost-forgotten farm industry of barrel making.
He describes the cooperage of his
article entitled

grandfather, the processes in making barrels, and the importance of
the industry to that period.
The barrel. Dr. Russell says, was
practical
a
necessity.
Kitchens
contained barrels of flour and sugar; smaller kegs in the carpenter
shop held nails; in the woodshed
was a barrel of sand for sprinkling
on icy sidewalks; hogsheads of unboiled sap stood in the saphouse;
and in the cellar was the ever-present hard cider, useful for vinegar

and

to attract hired

help in haying

time.

DR. HAAS

Bloomsburg State Teachers College had a contingent of thirty-five,
largest of any of the forty Pennsylvania institutions of higher learning represented, at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C., Saturday,
February 2, as Dr. Francis B. Haas
was presented with a citation for
his
outstanding contributions to
Pennsylvania education.
The citation was conferred by
Senator Edward Martin when Governor John S. Fine was unable to

Milton Christie, editor of
the Kiplinger tax letter, addressed
the gathering of 400 on “Education,
Gifts and Taxes.”
Mrs. M. Vashti Burr Whittington, a graduate of Indiana Teachers and Dickinson, presided and
attend.

Glen R. Law, Westminster, was
chairman of the event. Music was
provided by the courtesy of Campbell Music Company.
The head
of the company is the husband of
the former Sabilla
Shobert, of
Bloomsburg.
Miss Harriet L. Kocher, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank T. KochEspy, is recording secretary of
the organization, the All Pennsylvania College Alumni Association.
Under the plan alumni of all
Pennsylvania colleges who reside
in Washington are asked to organize.
Bloomsburg was one of the
er,

“An early arithmetic

text

...

in

the early ’80’s, in the midst of the
barrel-making period, devotes an
entire section to problems involving
Gauging— that is, taking the dimensions of a cask in inches to find its
c

HONOR

ice floes.

ontents in gallons.”

“Buried Treasure” tells about the
dredging operations on the Susquehanna River, where over a million
tons of valuable coal are received
yearly.

do this. Six more groups
organized during the past year.
Harry Hine, Bloomsburg 1885, was
the oldest graduate atttending. Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss and Dr. E. H.
Nelson were in attendance from
first to

The Clear-Streams Act, passed by
the state in 1946, has shortened the

Bloomsburg.

dredging season and is causing the
once-profitable
business to
die

NEVIN T. ENGLEHART
COLLAPSES ON STREET

slowly of starvation. Mines are
now required to remove all mine
waste from polluted water before
emptying it into streams. One operator reports that his take has fallen, as a result, from 15,000 tons of
coal in 1947 to an expected 6,000

26,

tons in 1952.

Main

Where this coal comes from is a
puzzling question.
One theory
holds that these deposits have lain
in the river bed for scores of years.

the Bloomsburg Hospital by ambulance and his condition has been

May

1952

BLOOMSBURG GIRL IS
REVEALED AS COED OF
THE YEAR’ AT B.S.T.C.
Miss Phyllis McLaren, sophomore from Bloomsburg, was crowned “Coed of the Year” Friday, February 22, at the Freshman Hop
held at Centennial Gymnasium,
B.S.T.C.
Deacon Hill’s orchestra

provided music for the dancing.

The gym was

gaily decorated to

represent the Mardi Gras by a committee headed by Jeanetta Mincer.

Miss McLaren was presented
with a cup by Obiter editor, John
Burns. She also received a bracelet, the gift of Harry Logan, jeweler.
She was crowned by Sam Yeadirector of the contest as
tier,
“Coed of the Year and Queen of
die

Mardi Gras.”

Plans are for the “Coed of the
Year” contest to become an anThe coed is selected
nual event.
not only on beauty, but also personality, popularity and participation

Miss
campus activities.
was selected for this
honor by vote of the student

in

McLaren
y ear’s

body.
Miss McLaren, a sophomore in
elementary education, came to
Bloomsburg a year ago from Balboa, Canal Zone. Her mother and
sister are now residing in Bloomsburg with her. Last year she experienced her first northern winter

and

also

saw snow

for

the

first

time.

a member of the Dramatic
the Women’s Chorus and
modeled in last year’s fashion show.
When she isn’t working as librarian at WCNR, she likes to knit and
play the violin.

She

is

Club,

Charles N. Cox, Bloomsburg
High School teacher, was named
as the new head football coach for

Nevin T. Englehart, Main street, ^ an unspecified term at the Februarv session of the Bloomsburg
Espy, former superintendent of
School Board at the high school.
grounds and buildings at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

Monday, February
Shuman’s Hardware Store,

lege, collapsed
in

THE CHAR-MUND INN

street.

Mr. Englehart was removed to

Mrs.

Charlotte Hoch,

’15,

Prop.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

critical.

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RECEIVE TRAINING
IN CIVIL

cue team workers in basic rescue
methods and use of rescue tools
and equipment.

DEFENSE

Recognizing the need for instructors for the teaching techniques
needed by the Civil Defense Services, the Bloomsburg State Teachers College sent four representatives to the

Federal Civil Defense

Administration Training School at
Rydal, Pa., near Philadelphia, for
a special two weeks’ course of instruction. Bloomsburg thus became
the first college in Pennsylvania to
recognize the necessity of preparing competent leadership for Civilian Defense.

Representing Bloomsburg at the
Eastern Training School were Harold S. Shelly and James Cherrington, both of Bloomsburg; Keith
McKay, Harrisburg; and Jeanetta
Mincer, Jersey Shore. Mr. Shelly,
a member of the college faculty, is
also head coach of basketball and
track, while Mr. Cherrington is a
member of the Grounds and Buildings staff.
Miss Mincer and Mr.
McKay are Freshman students at
the College.

There are three Training Schools
the United States: Oklahoma A
and M College, Stillwater, Oklahoma; St. Mary’s College, St.
Mary’s, California; and the Ogontz
in

Center of Pennsylvania State ColRydal, Pennsylvania.
Each

lege,

the school offered courses designed to give Civil Defense Officers the information and assistance
needed to develop present Civil
Defense Organizations to fullstrength national standards and to
use the organization effectively at
of

any stage of

The

chief

its

development.
purpose of these

schools was to train instructors in
the methods of Civil Defense in
order that they might return to
their

home communities and

struct others.

Such phases

in-

of Civil

Defense as the Warden Service,
Rescue Services, organization of
business, industries, and institutions of Civil Defense, Fire Fight-

Chemical Warfare Defenses,
and Atomic and Radiological Defenses were covered in classroom
The
laboratory
sessions.
and
Bloomsburg representatives are

ing,

now

qualified to train warden instructors and, in addition, train res12

EDIT STATE TEACHERS

FACULTY JOURNAL
Dr.

Ernest H.

been selected

SUMMER
A

SESSION

complete program of summer

courses will again be offered by
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College during the 1952 Summer
Sessions, it was announced by Dr.
Thomas P. North, dean of instruction.
Dean North pointed that the
Pre-Session will begin Monday,
June 2, and continue until Friday,
June 20; classes for the Regular
Session will be held from June 23
to August 1, while the Post Session
begins August 4, and ends August

22

.

The 1952 summer

sessions

are

designed primarily to enable Pennsylvania teachers to advance professionally and meet the certification standards approved by the
All
State Council of Education.
courses offered will be on a col-

Engelhardt has

act as editor for
the journal of the Association of
Pennsylvania State Teachers College Faculties for the college year
1952-53.

The

to

journal, published four times

a year, contains news, editorials, a
calendar of coming events, results
of studies on such subjects as enrollment, teacher loads, curriculum,
legislation, and other information
of professional interest. Dr. Engelhardt will replace Dr. Edna Bottorf, of Lock Haven State Teachers
College, as editor.
The Association of Pennsylvania
State Teachers College Faculties
is

an organization

to

which every

faculty member belongs.
Each
college sends one representative as
a member of the Executive Committee, which meets four times a
year as the acting body for the As-

legiate basis and will be of particular
interest
undergraduates
to

sociation.

who

ANDRUSS AT
EDUCATION SESSIONS

desire to complete the degree

of Bachelor of Science in three calendar years; teachers-in service

qualifying for the Bachelor of Science degree, Permanent College
Certificate; or extending their present certificate to include other areas
of concentration; school nurses and
dental hygiensists; college graduates who wish to obtain certification to teach in the public schools
of the state, and former teachers
who wish to take refresher courses.
As has been the custom in former
Summer Sessions, the 1952 Summer School will feature the Sixth
Annual Workshop for teachers in
the elementary grades and a Short-

hand and Typewriting Worshop.
These features have proved to be
most popular with summer session
students.

Enrollment for the 1952 sessions
be limited to teachers, present-

will

ly-enrolled students of the college,
others who have been in attendance at an accredited college, and
a limited number of Freshman students desiring to enter Bloomsburg
on an accelerated program with the
opening of the Regular Session.

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY 24,

DR.

Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the Bloomsburg Teachers
annual
College,
the
attended
convention of the American Association of Colleges for Teachers
Education held recently in the ConWhile in
gress Hotel in Chicago.
Chicago, Dr. Andruss also attended
(he convention of the National Asof
Business
Teacher
sociation
Training Institutions in the Sherman Hotel. The meetings were
in
progress from February 21
through February 23.
College presidents, deans, and
member
heads
of
department
institutions attended the annual
convention of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education, a department of the
Education Association.
National
President Andruss served on the
1951 Committees on Audit as its
chairman.

HARRY

REAL ESTATE
52

1952

S.

BARTON,

—

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INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

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ALUMNI QUARTERLY

SALES CONFERENCE

scale

More than 1200 tickets for the
Annual Sales Conference
Sixth
sponsored by the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College were distributed
to

area

Chambers

Commerce,

of

Schoolmen and businessmen, Charles H. Henrie, director of the 1952
The conference
event, reported.
was held in Carver Audtorium

Thursday evening, March 6, and
featured two outstanding personalities— H. B. “Doc” Sharer and Harry

Bowser, nationally-noted sales-

experts.
Sharer,
t raining
Training specialist for the

Rubber Company,

Sales

U. S.
and Bowser, Di-

of
Sales
Education for
Sloane-Balbon Corporation, the linoleum division of Alexander Smith,
Inc. are known widely as dy namic
speakers and sparkling platform
rector

personalities.

“Doc Sharer is a specialist in organizing and supervising the training of thousands of salesmen.
He
has been the featured speaker at
hundreds of sales rallies throughout the country, having addressed

among
clubs

others the large advertising
in

Chicago and Cleveland

during the past year.
Bowser, known as the foremost
authority in the country in his field,
lias

inspired

more men

to sell

adelphia Sales Managers Association said recently, “You see immediate results after a group of salesmen hear Bowser speak.”
Mr. Henrie also reported that
of

Commerce

in Blooms-

Berwick, Danville and Mt.
Carmel had received blocks of tickets.
This accounted for the overflowing crowd that congregated for
the evening sessions in Carver Hall

burg,

which began

at eight o’clock. “Pro-

ductive
Salesmanship’
was the
theme of the conference, and area
businessmen learned the secret of
selling more goods to an increasingly large number of customers.
In addition to the program in the
evening, there was an afternoon
session of the conference featuring
an address by Dr. Robert B. Bernreuter.
Professor of Psychology,
Pennsylvania State College.
Dr.

Bemreuter is known throughout
the world as a developer of rating

May

1952

personality

and person-

ing

room

at 6:30 o’clock.

Student chairman of the evening program in the Carver Auditorium was Henry Ilurtt, Forty
Fort.
Mr. Louis C. Hartzel, manager J. C. Penney Co., Mt. Carmel,
introduced the speakers.

SPEAKS AT

BASKETBALL DINNER
John A. Hoch, Dean of Men,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was the featured speaker at
the annual banquet of the Wyoming Valley Chapter of the National
\ssociation of Basketball Officials

held at Hotel Reddington in Wilkes-Barre Saturday evening, April
19.

Dean Hoch, who

of the college

is chairman
committee on athle-

tics and assistant football coach, is
the secretary-treasurer of the Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges

Conference.

.Athletic

He

spoke on

subject, “Conduct and the
Game of Basketball,” emphasizing
the role coaches, players and fans

the

play in the smooth operation of an
intercollegiate basketball program.

more

merchandise than
any other person in the United
States.
A spokesman for the Phil-

different kinds of

Chambers

for

development.
Kiwanis Clubs from Bloomsburg
and Danville attended a pre-conierence dinner in the college dinality

OFFICE MACHINES

SHOW

Eleven nationally-known office
machines companies and distributors cooperated in the Third Annual Office Machines Show which

was held Saturday, May third, in
conjunction with the Twentieth
Annual High School Commercial
The Office Machines
Contest.
Show was held in the Navy Hall
Auditorium along with an exhibit
of textbooks and school supplies.
These two features were among
the most popular events on the daylong program that attracted hundreds of visitors to the Bloomsburg
campus.
Among the machine companies
that agreed to exhibit their merchandise were the following: Remington Rand, Inc., Shamokin; Dictaphone Corporation. Wilkes-Barre;
Addressograph-Multi graph Corporation,
Scranton; Tamblyn Company, Wilkes-Barre, Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Wilkes-Barre; Underwood Corporation,
Wilkes-Barre; Miller’s Office Supplies, Bloomsburg; Ritter’s Office

Supplies, Bloomsburg; Ralph C.
Coxhead Corporation, Newark, N.
Friden Calculating Machine
J
Agency, Kingston, and Dictating
and Sound Equipment Company,
.

;

Kingston.

ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT

Book companies

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Steiner,
R. D. 1, Milton, has announced
the engagement of their daughter,
Ruth, to Jack Mordan, R. D. 1,

that participated
the display of textbooks and
school supplies are: Lyons and Carnahan, Wilkes-Barre; The Gregg
Publishing Company, New York;

Millville.

American

The

a graduate of
Turbotville High School with the
She has been emclass of 1949.
ployed at Mack’s general store at
Potts grove.
Mr. Mordan, son of Horace Mordan, and the late Mrs. Grace Mordan, was graduated at Millville
High School in 1944. A veteran
World War II, he say overseas
He is a graduate of
service.
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is now employed by the
Pennsvlvania Railroad at Northbride-elect

is

umberland.

in

lishing

“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”

Max
50

Arcus,

’41,

Mgr.

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

Company,

Rowe Company,

New
Bal-

South-Western Pub-

Company,

Cincinnati, Ohio.

ANDRUSS SPEAKS AT
SCHOOL DEDICATION

DR.

“The prime

requisite for educa-

tion for all children

whether they

come from

the vast farm lands or
the crowded cities, is a modern education plant,” Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the Teachers
College, told 250 guests recently at
the dedication of the new Sugarloaf

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York; II. M.
timore, Md.;

Consolidated

Elementary

School.

The new $130,000 school has
been constructed in the shadow of
the famous Sugarloaf and has been
called the most modern school in
Luzerne county.
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SPEAKS TO SCHOOL PRESS

THE ALUMNI

MEETING AT COLUMBIA
Edwards,
E.
Winifred
Miss
F. P. EdMrs.
and
Mr.
of
daughter
wards, of West Main street, was
recently one of the speakers at the
twenty-eighth annual convention

LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI

from Key West to give the closing
address for the group of youthful
editors and advisers.
in
formerly
Edwards,
Miss
pubWhite
and
Red
the
charge of
lication in the local high school,
publiis now connected with the
cations of the high school at Irvington,

New

Francis P.

Edna Aurand
162 So.

Washington

St.,

Wilkes-Barre

VICE PRESIDENT
St.,

Glen Lyon

VICE PRESIDENT
71

VICE PRESIDENT

C. Alberta Nichols
Lockhart St., Wilkes-Barre

Mrs. Ruth

Willow

St.,

MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI
PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth

S. Griffith

Robert Lewis

SECRETARY

and Carnahan, wellpublishing conAmerican
known
cern, has just announced the revision of “Burgess Business Law”
(Fourth Edition 1952) by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

President Andruss, who is
known throughout the country for
his writings in the field of Business
lege.

Education, is also known for his
textbook in accounting.
The newly-revised textbook of
600 pages is planned for a onesemester or one year course.' The
materials have been suggested by
of

the National Association of Secondary Principals and include aids in
building better citizens, better con-

sumers, and better businessmen. A
Teacher’s Manual is also available.

Susan Sidler

PRESIDENT
VICE-PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Helen

Thompson

Edward

T.

DeVoe

VICE-PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Donald Rabb

Mrs. Ernest Pinnock

SECRETARY

TREASURER
Mrs. Alwen Hartley
Lenoxville, Pa.

Edward

D. Sharretts

TREASURER
Paul L. Brunstetter

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND
ALUMNI

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Mary Agnes Meehan T8
2632 Lexington Street

Harrisburg Penna.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
T3

Nellie M. Seidel

1618 State Street
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It

1917
At the annual meeting of Pennsylvania State Education AssociaHarrisburg, Miss Freda
tion at
Jones, a teacher of mathematics in
Kingston High School, was elected
to the executive council of Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of
Mathematics.
A graduate of B.S.T.C., class of
1917, Miss Jones was class historian, honor student, Ivy Day poet,

and editor of the campus magazine, the Literary Society Journal.

Upon leaving Bloomsburg, Miss
Jones received her B.A. from Syracuse University, and her M.A. from
Columbia University.
Miss Jones was one of three
mathematics teachers chosen from
the entire state and will serve for
a period of three years.
She is a
member of the National Council
Teachers of Mathematics and
has served on several committees
of

of that organization.

She also was elected

to Pi

Mu

Epsilon, a national fraternity composed of those who have attained
distinction in the field of mathematics.
She is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, national scholastic college honorary society.

1921
Russell

W. Bower,

131

West

Sec-

ond street, Berwick, was recently
promoted to assistant chief of the
Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Division of the WilkesBarre Regional Office of the Veterans
Administration.
Bower has
been with the VA since 1945 and
replaces H. E. Shirey, who has
been advanced to chief of the divi-

1946

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Waltman,
Nescopeck, announce the engagement of their daughter. Alba
Dawn, to Robert II. Kishbaugh,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kishbaugh, of Berwick. The wedding
will take place soon.
of

Waltman, a graduate of
Nescopeck High School with the
class of 1951, is employed at Hotel
Berwick. Mr. Kishbaugh is a graduate of Berwick High School, Class
of 1946, and of B.S.T.C. He is now
Miss

teaching in the
High School.

Berwick

Junior

1947
Miss Alberta B. Naunas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Naunas, of Bloomsburg, became the
bride of William G. Gillespie, son
ot Mrs. Kathryn Gillespie, Collingswood, N. J., and Glarence Gillespie,
of Bloomsburg R. D. 5, in a ceremony at three o’clock Thanksgiving afternoon in the Bloomsburg
Reformed Cburch.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
M. Edward Schnorr. After a wedding trip to New York City, Mr.
and Mrs. Gillespie are residing at
372 East street, Bloomsburg.
Both are graduates of Bloomsburg High School. Mrs. Gillespie
was graduated from Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and was
recently

WHLM.
the

employed at radio station
She is now employed at

College

in

1943

the office of Dr.

at B.S.T.C.

of Miss

Mary Ka1951
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Tietjen,

therine Kelly, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. Leonard Kelly, of Bloomsburg, to Bernard C. Rogan, son of

of

Mrs. Lola A. Rogan, of White
Stone, L. I., N. Y., was solemnized
at a nuptial mass in St. Columba’s

engagement of their daughter,
Helen Louise, to Harold F. Emmitt, son of John F. Emmitt, of

Church, Bloomsburg, Wednesday,

Danville R. D. 4.
No date has been selected for the

December 26.
The ring ceremoney was performed by the Very Rev. Father William

J.

The

Burke.
bride

is

a

graduate

of

Bloomsburg State Teachers College and is at present serving as
librarian in the Bloomsburg High

May

1952

Newmanstown,

majored

in general science

employed by

and

is

his father.

Charles F. Lewis, Northumbera recent Bloomsburg State
Teachers College graduate, has
land,

Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction.
The bridegroom is a senior

sion.

The marriage

School.
The bridegroom is associated with the Richell Realty Co.,
Bayside, L. I., N. Y.

Pa.,

announce

tlie

wedding.
Both Miss Tietjen and Mr. Emmitt are graduates of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Class
of 1951.
Miss Tietjen majored in
biological science and is now teaching in McLean, Va.
Mr. Emmitt

been elected to the faculty
Northumberland
Junior

of the

High

School. He is teaching science, social studies and English.
i

In a simple ceremony at six
o’clock Saturday, February 25, in
the St. Matthew Lutheran Church,

Bloomsburg, Miss Mollie Louise
Haas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur C. Haas, of East Fourth
street,
Bloomsburg, became the
bride of Pfc.
Richard Samuel
Harter, U. S. Air Force, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Luther C. Harter, of East
Ridge avenue, Bloomsburg.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Edgar D.
Ziegler, pastor.

The couple
wedding

trip

left later

to

New

on a short
York.
The

bridegroom reported on March 1
San Francisco for service over-

to

seas.
.

The

bride

is

a

graduate

of

Bloomsburg High School, class of
1951, and is a student at B.S.T.C.
Her husband graduated from
Bloomsburg High School in 1948
aid has served with the Air Force
for the past year and one-half. His
las station was Grenier Air Force
Base, Manchester, N. H.

1952

Twenty-eight seniors were graduated at the commencement service Wednesday evening, January
Of
16, in Carver Hall Auditorium.
these members of the graduating
class, fourteen followed the secondary curriculum, six, the elementary curriculum, and seven, the
business curriculum.
Several of these former B.S.T.C.
students have already begun teaching.
In the secondary field, Jack
Lenhart is teaching in Unionville,
Pennsylvania; Nelson Kile is at the
Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Virginia; Russell Brachman, in
Linthicum Heights, Maryland; Marian Payne in Easton, Maryland;
Robert Womer in Turbotville,
Pennsylvania; and George is employed at the Hazleton Speech
Clinic.

Michael Dorak and Harry
15

Fenstermacher are enrolled for
post-graduate courses at Bucknell
Univei sity.
Five of the six elementary students now have teaching positions.
Thomas Jones is teaching in Lock
Raven, Maryland; Mrs. Dorothy

Cedar

McNamee

Havre

de
Grace, Maryland; John Stonik and
Philip
Weinstein
in
Baltimore
County, Maryland; and Robert
Laubscher in Morristown, New
George Brewer is doing
Jersey.
YMCA work in Berwick and hopes
to begin teaching in September.
in

In the business curriculum, three
graduates are teaching.
James
Babcock has accepted a position in
McCann School of Business in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania; Dyar
Haddad in Milton High School, and

Richard Laux

in

Upper Darby High

School. George Baski is pursuing
his studies at Bucknell University.
Alfred Marsilio is now employed
by Sears Roebuck and Company.

a

enty-seven, died at his home in
Plains Thursday, February 14, after
an illness of two years.

Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Miss Vanderslice is a senior at
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. Mr. Clarridge is a recent
graduate of the college.

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Ruckle,
Bloomsburg, announced the engagement of their daughter, M.
Jeanne, on Valentine’s Day, to
Donald C. Berninger, son of Mr.
of

and Mrs. Wilbur Z. Berninger, of
Bloomsburg R. D. 2.
Miss Ruckle is the first grade
teacher at the Catawissa public
school.

Mr. Berninger

is

a senior

at

Susquehanna University where

is

is

majoring

in

public

school

music.

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY

lfi

24, 1952

who

lost

a foot in a

rail-

road accident in 1893, gained considerable fame while playing in the
line

the

of

football

Bloomsburg

Normal

teams of 1895, 1896 and

1897.

In those days, when most plays
were through the line, Butts was
a tower on defense and he played
in
twenty consecutive contests

without a substitute.
Butts’

achievements on the foot-

won him

ball field

recognition in

Ripley’s cartoon and in Bill Stern’s
book of unusual achievements in
athletics.

the Plains township
schools at the age of ten to work
in the mines and then became a
brakemair for the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company and continued
in its employ until the accident.
It was then he decided to become a teacher and entered the
local Normal School on a scholarship.
He taught for twenty-three
years
in
the
Plains
township
schools.
In 1921 he was named
merchantile appraiser of Luzerne
county and in 1925 was elected
county controller there.
Surviving is a son, Milet J.
Butts,
general manager of the
left

Branchdale

Coal

Company

in

Schuylkill county.
Phillip

L.

previously I had
Indian School
when I organized the Carlisle Indian Football Team which after-

taught

Harry T. Butts
Harry T. (Peg Leg) Butts, sev-

Butts,

of its football team.
I
a teacher there at that time.

"Two

Dwrrnlngij

He

Mrs. Josephine Vanderslice, of
Bloomsburg, announces the engagement of her daughter, Joanna
Mae, to Clifton Gerome Clarridge
III, son of Mrs. Fred Cleary, of

member

was

Drum, Wilkes-Barre

attorney and active alumnus of the
Teachers College, recalled the other day an interesting experience
with regard to his athletic career.
The attorney and Butts, who later was comptroller of Luzerne
county, were lifelong friends and
Mrs. Drum recalled they often
talked of the incident which took
place in a game between Normal
and the Carlisle Indians.

Here is Mr. Drum’s story:
“The death of Harry T. Butts
recalls an amusing event when he
was a student at the Bloomsburg
State Normal School, now Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and

years

at

Carlisle

wards became famous for

its

ess against college teams, so

prow-

upon

my

suggestion, arrangements were
made for a game between the Indians and the Normal School boys,

be played at Bloomsburg. The
Indian coach sent his second team
to

which played a fine game until
Harry Butts was carried from the
field with a broken leg.
After a
delay of about ten minutes, the
players returned to their positions,
;>nd Butts to his place at center.
“The Indians and onlookers had
seen the leg doubled up and all
were astounded to see Butts return.
The Indians being superstitious, were afraid to charge center, as they had theretofore, and

played somewhat listlessly. They
couldt not understand how a boy
with a broken leg could get back
into the game.
“Only a few persons knew that
Butts had an artificial leg and that
when he was carried from the field,
it was only necessary to make adjustments and refasten the straps.
However, as I recall it, the Indians won the game.
“The next day Butts asked permission to go home to have his leg
fixed, and the principal wanted to
know what was the matter with his

being somewhat skeptical
about the excuse, and was surprised when Harry told him that he
had an artificial leg which had become damaged in the game with
the Indians.
His request was

leg,

granted.”

Charles

S.

W. Fox

Charles S. W. Fox,
whose death occurred

ninety-six,

at Aspinwall recently, left this area about
1922 but kept in touch with many
of the residents of the section.

Mr. Fox was born January 25,
1857, at Numidia, the son of Doctor Henry Haines Fox, a Quaker,
who was the first physician in
Roaring Creek Valley.
Mr. Fox attended the public
schools and later the Bloomsburg
State Normal School. When fourteen he left his home in Numidia

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

and began clerking in the store of
He held this
F. P. Kobo, Ashland.
position for two years and returned

He

taught
school during the Winters of 1S73
and 1874. In 1878 he entered the
employ of Dr. J. H. Vastine, Nuto the valley in

1872.

midia, clerking in his store for
years,

place of business

when

it

was taken over by Knorr and Daniel.

In 1885 he
store of

and

later

became

a clerk in the

Jacob Yeager, Slabtown,
worked for L. H. Daniel

and implement store
Numidia, which was established
in 1880, remaining there for nearly
twenty years.
It
was during that period as
it

his general

in

clerk and assistant postmaster, that
he received the name of ‘Uncle
Charley,” conferred on him by
children and friends because of his
willingness to aid anyone in need.
He assisted in the laying out of

which are now in the builtup section of Numidia, measuring
the lots

the land and then writing the
deeds. He served as township auditor for twenty-one years and until he removed from the township.
Mr. Fox was a keen student of
the Civil War, and from veterans
he got first hand information of
battles of that conflict.
He aided
many of them in securing pensions.
In 1904, when the Catawissa National Bank was organized, he was
offered the position of cashier

which he accepted December 12,
1904.
He remained in that position for eighteen years and then
became cashier at the bank at Boyer, Pa., where he remained until
his retirement.

In 1882 Mr. Fox married Rebie
Levan, daughter of the late Daniel P. Levan.
He was a member
of the United Brethren Church, be-

coming affiliated in 1870, and was
a past grand member of Good Will
Lodge, No. 310, I.O.O.F., Numidia,
joining in 1887.
He remained a

member

until his death.

His last photograph was taken
by the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph
and published in the January 30

The article set forth that
Mr. Fox was believed to have been
the oldest crossword puzzle fan in
issue.

the nation.
It was his favorite
pastime. Just a short rime prior to

May

1952

(lie

death he wrote to friends in
county. His handwriting was

exceptionally fine.
Surviving are two children, a
son, Claud, of Enola, and a daughter, Mrs. E. W. Feglev, Aspinwall.

two

and then continued on duty

at that

his

Dr. William Welliver
Dr. William E. Welliver, sixtylive, a practicing physician in Lock
Haven for over forty years and a
native of Bloomsburg, died at the
Lock Haven Hospital recently from
arthritis.

He had been

suffering from that
ailment for several years. Dr. Welliver was the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Charles E. Welliver, of
Bloomsburg. He was a brother of
Mrs. Edmund T. Hoch, Orangeville, and Walter C. Welliver, of

Bloomsburg.

who was promiLock Haven medical and
civic circles, was a member of the
Clinton County Medical Society,
the Masons, Elks and kiwanis.
He was a graduate of the Danville
High School, Bloomsburg
Normal School and the Medical
The

nent

physician,

in

School of the University of Pennsylvania, being a member of the

1910 at the latter institutook his internship at the
Lock Haven Hospital and then re-

Unityville, and several
nieces and nephews.
Burial was in the Millville Cem-

Partlow,

etery.

Walter D. Brunges
Walter D. Brunges, of 323 West
Fifth
street,
Bloomsburg, died
Monday, January 7, at the Bloomsburg Hospital. He had been ill for
about a month.
He was a native of Pittston, but
had resided in Bloomsburg since
1930.
He was the superintendent
of the Altoona Division of the International Correspondence Schools

with which he had been affiliated
for twenty-one years.
He was in
charge of the area which includes
Central
Pennsylvania,
Western

Maryland arid West Virginia.
He was a member of Valley
Lodge, No. 499, F. & A. M., PittsCaldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg, the First Methodist Church
of Bloomsburg, and of the Men’s
ton,

Bible Class of that church.
He is survived by his widow,
Leona Sterling Brunges, of the class
of 1930.

Mrs.

class of
tion.

He

mained

in that

community

to prac-

tice his profession.

Survivors include two
Nancy and William, both

children,
at

home.

Miss Pearl C. Eves
Miss Pearl C. Eves, fifty-eight,
daughter of the late Wilson and
Sarah Wolf Eves, died at the home
of of a brother-in-law and sister,
Mr. and Mrs. R. Rea Lawton, Millville R. D. 2, recently.
She had been in ill health for

two years and had been
for two months.

critically

ill

Miss Eves, a native of Jerseytown, had resided for several years
in Millville.
She taught in several
Pennsylvania schools for thirtyeight years, the last nine of which
were spent at New Cumberland.
She was a member of the PSEA
and of the Baughman Memorial
Methodist Church, New Cumberland
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs.
Belle Macy, Albany, N. Y.; Mrs.
R. Ray Lawton and Mrs. Jesse

Edwin

I.

Eyerly

Mrs. Edwin I Eyerly, fifty- three,
329 East street, Bloomsburg, died

Tuesday, December 25, 1951.
She was bom in Catawissa township

and moved

to

Sunbury

after

she was married. She lived in Allentown three years before moving
to Bloomsburg. She was the daughter of the late Ed H. and Lillian
Fisher.

Mrs. Eyerly was a graduate of
Main Township High School
and the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and did graduate work
at Columbia University. She taught
school in North Berwick and Milburne, New Jersey, and was active
the

Matthew’s Lutheran Church
and the Parent Teachers Association.
She had been in failing
in St.

health for the past five years.

Mrs. Elfreda A. Barnes Gottschall
Mrs. Elfreda Gottschall, a former resident of Harrisburg, died
Tuesday, February 18, in the Methodist Home at Tyrone, where she
had been a guest for eleven years.
Mrs. Gottschall, widow of Edwin
H. Gottschall, was a lifelong mem17

her of Grace Methodist Church.
Mrs. Gottschall was injured in
an automobile accident last October and had been a patient in the
Pittsburgh Hospital
for several
months.

Funeral services were held in
the home chapel at 9 a. m. Monday, February 24, with the Rev.
Samuel W. Strain officiating. Further services were held at the Harrisburg Cemetery, assisted by the
Rev. Dr. Rerryman McCoy, of

Grace Church, Harrisburg.

Avery C. Garberson
Avery C. Garberson, sixty-nine,
of near Wellington, Ohio, died recently in a Toledo hospital after

an

illness of

two months.

He was

husband of Harriet Armstrong,
whose father was a Bloomsburg
merchant for many years.
He was vice-president in charge
of mining and railroad supplies for
the

W. Bingham Co., Cleveland.
With Mrs. Garberson, he attended
the

June, 1946, Miss Rawson was principal of the Benjamin Rush (24)
School. Prior to her appointment
to the teaching staff of the Scranton Public Schools in 1915, Miss
Rawson taught in the Greenwood
schools for thirteen years. She was
named principal of the Rush

School in 1919.

At the close of school on the day
her retirement Miss Rawson was
honored by students, faculty members and the Parent-Teacher Association of the Rush School at a
of

farewell surprise party. Miss Rawson was known in school circles as
“Goody No. 2 Shoes.”

Miss Rawson was born in England, a daughter of the late Henry
and Eliza Ann Ashton Rawson, and

came

to this

country at the age of

six.

She received her elementary education in the Minooka and Greenwood schools and was graduated
from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. She received her bachedegree at Columbia Uni-

the class reunion of his wife’s class
of 1911 at B.S.T.C.

lor of arts

Funeral services were held at
Wellington and interment was

Miss Rawson joined Moosic Presbyterian Church in 1899 and was
one of the oldest members of the
congregation in length of member-

made

there.

Dr.
Dr.

J.

J.

Stuart

Stuart

Wiant

Wiant, fifty-one,

graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in 1917,
died in the Overlook Hospital in
Summit, N. J., on Saturday, March
a

15.

Wyoming.
Surviving are his wife, two children, a sister and two brothers.

Gertrude Rawson

lengthy illness proved fatal in
Moses Taylor Hospital to Miss S.
Gertrude Rawson, 69, of 748 Prescott Avenue, Scranton, a teacher in
the Greenwood and Scranton Public Schools for 44 years.
At the time of her retirement in
18

1904

Announcement has been

receiv-

Slade Flint Clark. The ceremony
was performed Saturday, January

did research at the University of

S.

ADDITIONAL ALUMNI NEWS

plant pathologist

a

S.

19,

of
an exemplary American— do
hereby choose for such distinction
Dr. James A. Corrigan, a founder
oi an outstanding hospital, a phyof
exceptional ability, a
benefactor to many thousands,
wnose morality and professional

sician

and

civic

accomplishments overown modes-

flow the barrier of his
ty-”

The

scroll

contains

the

signa-

committee members
who made the selection: Paul McNelis, Edward Brown, Daniel T.
McKelvey, Cyril Sweeney and
tures of these

Jerry Gallagher.

Dr. Corrigan, after receiving the

award from Attorney Thomas Kennedy, Jr., said he felt greatly honored on being selected for this
unique distinction and that he and
his family would cherish it forever.
He added: “I wonder how President Truman would feel if he was

my

place tonight.” The doctor
to a statement by the
President at a meeting of high
school editors in New York relative
to the grand feeling one experiences as President of the United
in

was referring

States.

Department of AgriNew York for the past

He was

twenty-one years. He resided in
Westfield, N. J.
He received a bachelor of arts
degree from the Pennsylvania State
College in 1924 and the degree of
doctor of philosophy from Cornell
University in 1928. Before joining
the Department of Agriculture, he

A

ship.

ed concerning the marriage of Mrs.
Ann Challis Thompson and Mr.

with the U.
culture in

versity.

City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, deacknowledge and properly compliment the meritorius labors
siring to

at

the

Central

Presbyterian

Church, New York City. Mrs.
Clark has been very active in the
affairs of the

Bloomsburg Alumni

the New York area.
Mr. and
Mrs. Clark are living at 7 Peter
in

Cooper Road,

New

York 10, N. Y.
1911
Dr. James A. Corrigan, of 330
West Broad street, Hazleton, received the first annual award presented by the Hazleton Sons of St.
Patrick for distinguished services
rendered to the public by a city
resident of Irish descent.

The honor was conferred upon
the eminent physician at the St.
Patrick’s Eve dinner.
Dr. Corrigan was presented with a scroll
bearing the inscription:
“The Sons of St. Patrick of the

In closing he said: “I thank you.
In the name of all of us we thank
you.”

The doctor subsequented his remarks with a poem regarding the
Irish and also explained the origin
of the Irish greeting

“Top O’ the

Mornin’ To You.”

One

of the

main features of the

event followed the program when
Dr. Corrigan joined the Carpathian Choir and sang a number that
he, Prof. Morris, Rev. Sabo and Attorney George I. Puhak used to
sing years ago.
In making the presentation attorney Kennedy enumerated the
many services rendered to the public of Hazleton and vicinity by Dr.

Corrigan

during

his

outstanding

career.

Rev. John Jacklin, of Scranton
University, paid a great tribute to
(he Irish in his discourse as the
main speaker.

Remarks were made by Congressman Daniel Flood, Judge Harold Flannery and Attorney Edmund Cullough. The latter exTIIF.

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

plained that the dinner formed the
for a permanent Hazleton Sons of St. Patrick organization
to be established in the near fuHe urged all preesnt to beture.
come affiliated with the organization which is being revived after

groundwork

a lapse of

M. V.
a

32 years.

Coll, City Controller

and

member

of the Plain Speaker
served as toastmaster. Dur-

staff,

ing the program he commended
Dr. Corrigan on his distinguished
career, and lauded the sponsors of
the dinner on their action to reestablish the Irish organization.

1933

The marriage

of

W. Fow-

son of Mrs. Emma Fowler, of
Espy, and Miss Frances Zeilsdorf.
dorf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Zeilsdork, of Danville, was
solemnized at the St. John’s Lutheran Church parsonage. Espy, by
the Rev. Arthur Eves on Saturday
afternoon, February 2.

The couple was attended by Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Nygren, Danville.
The groom is employed at the
Merck Corp., in Riverside. He is a
graduate of Scott Township High
School
and
Bloomsburg
State

He is
World War II.

Teachers College.
eteran of

also

a

Mr. and Mrs. Fowler will reside
in

Danville.

uary 29, 1874. He graduated from
the Medico-Chirurigical College of
Philadelphia — now
amalgamated
with the University of Pennsylvania— in 1898. His internship at
the Philadelphia General Hospital
was followed by a three year period as assistant chief resident physician.
He then visited European

He

received

degrees of
D.M.R.E. from Cambridge University, England, in 1925, arid Sc.D.

Hathaway

(Mrs.

Bill

Grand St.,
Her husband is a

D. Starkey) lives at 207
Danville, Pa.

Second Lieutenant
Army.

in

the

U.

S.

president of that society in 1909-10.
In addition to being a Charter
Member of the American Radium
Society, he was president in 192122
He then serv ed as first president
of the American College of Radi.

ology in 1923.

of the

American College of Radiology,
announcing the annual meeting,
contained the following regarding
a distinguished alumnus of Bloomsburg:
Certainly, one of the high lights
of the Annual Banquet will be the
presentation of the Gold Medal of
the American College of Radiology
to Dr.

George E. Pfahler of Phila-

delphia.

This will be the eighth Gold
Medal awarded by the Board of

Chancellors
in
the twenty-nine
year history of the College. Former
medalists have been: Dr. W. D.
Coolidge,
Dr. H. Clyde
1927;
Snook, 1928; Mme. Marie Curie

May

1952

offices

The medal Doctor Pfahler will
receive will be inscribed as follows:
To

PFAHLER HONORED

The Monthly News Letter

other

Pfahler’s

as well as his contributions to the
literature are too numerous to set
forth here.

GEORGE
DR.

the

from Ur sinus College, Collegeville,
Pennsylvania in 1929.
Doctor Pfahler presented a paper
on “The Treatment of Epithelioma
by the X-Ravs” before the first
meeting of the American Roentgen
Ray Society in 1901, and served as

Doctor
1948

Martha

Albert Soiland— founder of the College-1933; Dr. W. Edward Chamberlain, 1941; and Dr. Lowell S.
Goin, 1951.
Dr. George E. Pfahler was born
in Numidia, Pennsylvania, on Jan-

clinics.

Fred

ler,

v

and Dr. C. C. Lauritsen, 1931; Dr.

E.

PFAHLER.

M.D., F.A.C.R.

For distinguished and extraordinary
service to

American College

and
which it stands
Presented by the Board of Chancellors,
the

of Radiology

to the profession for

1952.

ably recall articles in Life, Time,
Reader’s Digest and many other national magazines which told the
story of the colorful Barter Theatre.
Former members of the Barter company include many Hollywood and Broadway notables such
as Gregory Peck, Patricia Neal,
Jeffrey Lynn, Frank Lovejoy, and

Lizabeth Scott.

ELECTED MAY QUEEN
Margaret L. Bourdette, daughter
and Mrs. Harold Bourdette,
503 First Street, Athens, has been
of Mr.

elected May Queen by students of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers College,

it

was announced by John

J.

Burns, Harrisburg, chairman of the
election comimttee.
Miss Bourdette, an attractive brunette, a senior in the Department of Business

Education, presided over the colorful

day,

May Day
May 14.

festivities

Wednes-

She has been very active in campus activities during her four years
at Bloomsburg.
She is a member
of the Business Education Club
and has served as historian for that
Organization during the past year.
As women’s representative for the
Senior Class, she is a member of
the College Council.
Miss Bourdette is secretary for the College
Yearbook, the Obiter, and the Waller Hall Association. She is a member of the F.T.A., Pi Omego Pi, national honorary business fraternity,
and Kappa Delta Pi, national honorary education fraternity.
Last
semester, she was selected as Snow
Queen at the Sophomore Cotillion.
Others in the May Queen’s Court
were the following Senior women
who were selected for that honor
by the student body: Peggy Dorasavage, Pottsville; Joan Enama,

Nuremberg; Barbara Harmon, Ly-

BARTER THEATRE
The world-famous Barter Theof Virginia made its second

atre

appearance in Bloomsburg on
Thursday evening, March 20, when
Robert Porterfield’s celebrated repertory group presented “The PurHappiness,” the comedy hit
about American colonists, on the
stage of the Carver Auditorium at
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

kens; Joyce MacDougall, Berwick;
Kitty
Mitchell,
Mahanoy City;

Laura Philo, Bloomsburg; Patricia
Dushore; Nancy Unger,
Forty Fort; and Nancy Williams,

Taylor,

Ashland.

suit of

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY

24.

1952

lege.

Residents of Bloomsburg prob-

19

CITATION LUNCHEON AT

WASHINGTON,

The following persons were

The following Bloomsburg Alumattended the Pennsylvania Col-

ni

Alumni Citation

lege

Washington,

D.

Luncheon,
February 2,

C.,

1952:

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Dr. H. A. Andruss.
Dr. E. H. Nelson.

Washington, D. C.

Henry Broadbent,

’98.

'Martha Wright Moe, ’39.
Helen Mae Wright, ’46.
Ann Morgis, ’30.
Genevieve Morgis, ’34.
Harry Hine, ’85.
Sabilla Schobert Campbell and husband, ’14.
(Mr. Earl Campbell furnished organ and organist for music.)

—

Hope Dennis Anderson,

’17.

Irma Myers.
Saida Hartman, ’08.
Mattie Luxton Lynch and husband,
’

22

.

Emma

Cortright Shelley,

’05.

Crumb, ’15.
Mary Crumb, ’24.
Augusta Henkleman, ’01.
Lenora Ash Burke, ’12.
Saidie

Walter Lewis, ’43.
Harriet Kocher, ’39.
Carl Oliver, ’41.
Virginia Rosser (ex-student,
ing in D. C.).

James

E.

Cummings,

’92.

Aurand.

WEST BRANCH ALUMNI
The West Branch Alumni Group
Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Alumni Association held a
most successful meeting at the
of the

Vicksburg Social Hall, Vicksburg,
Pennsylvania, on Friday evening,
March 28, 1952, with over 60 persons present.

The College Trio, composed of
Miss Lola Deibert, Danville, Pa.;
Miss Jeanne Ruckle, Bloomsburg,
and Mary Ellen Dean, Milton,
accompanied by Miss Marilyn

Lundy, Bloomsburg,

buch, Mrs. F. E. Kirk, Mrs. Caroline
Mrs.
Spotts Crisswell,
Thomas C.
Welles, Mr. Charles I. Boyer, Mrs. Helen Egge Kunkel, Mrs. Carrie Shultz,

Pa.,

Saturday,

Margaret
Miss
Miss
Hogendobler,
Blanche E. Lowrie, Mrs. Mary Edith
Kitt, Mrs. Florence Jones, Mrs. Mary
Lowrie Higbee.
Mrs. Curtis C. Lesher, Miss M. Augusta Schnure, Mrs. Helen Brouse Brow,
Mrs. Erma Moyer Angstadt, Miss Helen
M. Keller, Miss L. Irene Frederick, Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Johnston, Mr. and
rs. Stanley Ritter, Mrs. Edith Miller,
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, Mr. Harvey A.
Andruss, Jr., Miss Lola Deibert, Miss
Jean Ruckle, Miss Mary Ellen Dean,
Miss Marilyn Lundy, Mr. Claude Ren-

May 24

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE HUSKY FUND TO DATE FOR
Mrs. Adda Rhodes Johnson
*Mrs. Louise Easen Heffernan
Mrs. Grace Gallagher Byron
Charles S. Boyer
Mrs. Reba Breisch Stephenson
Mrs. Sara Moyer Bray
F.

R. Griffith.

Pa.,

Alumni Day

liv-

Hartrisburg, Pa.
Mrs. Meehan.
Mrs. B. Grimes.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Mrs. Esther Bone.
Mrs. Harion H. Stumpf.

Pa.;

Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Danowsky, Mr.
and Mrs. William Roth, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Kline, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley
Auten, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Glover, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles E. Snyder, Mr. and
Mrs. Lynn Tiley, Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
Reigle, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Schnure,
Mr. Clyde Confer, Mr. Ray W. Confer,
Miss Sarah H. Russell, Mrs. Hope Sterner, Mr. and Mrs. James Webster.
Miss A. Helen Reimensnyder, Miss
Virginia F. Reimensnyder, Mr. and Mrs.
B. Long, Mr. LaRue E. Brown, Miss
Cora Baumer, Miss Julia C. Hagen-

ninger.

now

’08.

Pauline Lattimore Dowden,

E.

pres-

ent:

D. C.

sang three

“The Star.”
Three poems written by Dean
William B. Sutliff were read by
three of the Alumni. The motion
picture “Alma Mater,” taken in
1939, was shown, and the group
was addressed by Dr. Harvey A.

selections, including

Mrs.

W. S. Conner
*Hervey B. Smith
William M. Hess
Robert E. Martin
W.

Mary
Mrs.

Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
*Mrs.

Pizer

Mae

E.

Townend

Jennie Rosenstock Young
Blanche Westbrook Fetter

Florence Morgan McLenan
Helen Oliver Erdner
A. W. Duy, Jr.
Mrs. Lillian Nelson Yerkes
Mrs. Florence Gamber Haas
Mark H. Bennett
Margaret R. Lodge

Margaret V. Hower
Frederick Jaffin
Nelle M. Seidel
Mrs. Maude Pannebaker Butterfield

Moyer

O. Z.

Anna Monahan Corrigan

Elmer Levan
C. L. Albert

Mrs. Ruth Titman Deitrick
Arden H. Blain
Leah D. Evans

Lowry

E.

Genevieve L. Bubb
Frank A. Humphreys

James Corrigan
Mrs.

Girton

Laurer
Mrs. Jennie Blanford Morris
Olive O. Robinson

George M. Norman

L.

R.

Mrs. Florence

A. K. Naugle
Mrs. Erma Miller Naugle
Harriet A. Bittenbender
Mrs. Beatrice Foose McBride

Harold

Anna Kitchen Creveling

Ercell D. Bidleman

W. Magrady

Mrs. Thelma Baer Doig
Oscar H. Boyer
William D. Taylor
Mrs. Bertha Polley Oakes
Johanna J. Sullivan
Mrs. Alice Melvin Eichholzer
Miles I. Kilmer
Ida Sitler
*C. B. Fisk Brill
H. R. Rarig
Mrs. Ethel Creasy Wright
Maplewood, N. J. (No Name)
Mrs. Lenore Ash Burke
Mrs. Reba Quick Lerch

1952

"

Low

Mrs. Beatrice Girton Learn
Mrs. Mabel VanReed Layton
Anna K. Donovan
Mrs. R. Bruce Albert
Mrs. Margaret Hendrickson Krouse

*indicates listing on

Husky Plaque

Andruss, President of the College.
20

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

'SauceAed and felawed'
E.

H. Nelson,

Leafing over a QUARTERLY
dated January 1902 we notice quite
an artcile concerning Rev. John K.
Adams, 90 who was then located
in Berwick.
Today the good Reverend gentleman lives in Bloomsburg and is raising a heard to be
a thing of hirsute beauty when

Bloomsburg celebrates

its

Sesqui-

centennial in June. He is very active in these later years and will
be on the campus Alumni Day to
greet his friends. By his beard ye
shall know him!
o

Another

o

o

QUARTERLY

interest in a 1902 issue

item of

a statethe effect that a grand
stand was needed on the athletic
field. The punch line in the article
is, “why not a grand stand as well
as a library.” The writer had something there sure enough.
Fifty'
\ ears ago the students were clamoring for a “well rounded program.”

ment

to

The 50 year

May

is

will

class in reunion this

be living evidence of how

well their interest in their school
has paid off. One of the members
wants her room of fifty years ago
reserved for her and her room-mate
over the reunion week-end, and
that request has been granted by
the Dean of Women. Good morning to you fifty years later! Don’t
forget the rales concerning proper
conduct relative to the male sex!
Perhaps we had better quote the
regulations of half a century ago:
“Gentlemanly and ladylike behavior are matters of necessity, and
no student is allowed to remain in
school who does not show by his
behavior that he is in earnest in
his efforts to get an education.”

The catalogue
more specific:

of 1882

was a

bit

“The young ladies and gentlemen
are not allowed to pause and loiter

intercommunication

for
Halls,

Rooms
cial

Society

Rooms,

or Parlors, unless

permission.

in

the

Dining

by spe-

Neither are they

’ll

permitted to walk, ride or corre-

spond with each other.”

Guide yourselves accordingly.
o

a

o

While we are in the realm of
days gone by, the girls’ basketball
team of 1902-1903 snould be men-

The lassies defeated East
Stroudsburg 9-7.
Ladies
only
were admitted to the game. Mere
man was decidedly at a discount.
tioned.

The game

consisted of

10

three

minute periods, not counting time
taken out to adjust side-combs
(what is a side-comb?) and replace
lost hair-pins.
An account of the
game ends with this statement,

‘May they win

all

games and
and lonely bro-

their

invite their rejected

thers to the next one.”
O

The

new

«

72

“BLOOMSBURG
THE YEARS
may be

booklet,

meeting with real

The brochure

favor.

but

is

page

THROUGH

isn’t for sale,

secured by

Alumni dues three years

paying
ad-

in

ance ($5.00). The articles contributed by Dean Emeritus W. B. Sutliff are alone worth the money in\

volved.
<*

Roongo

III will

<*

be on hand

to

greet Almni on May 24th.
Don’t
forget that mascot maintenance
costs

money, and we want

to

keep

our Siberian Husky well fed. Have
you sent in your contribution to the

HUSKY FUND
please,

if

yet?
Do it now,
you have not already at-

tended to

Alumni

this

important item of

business.

Check

that

bronze plaque in the recreation
room and see if your name is there.
The list is headed by the fine boys
and girls who gave everything—
life itself— during World War II,
that we might be free to carry on.
Shouldn’t we give something of our
substance that we may be worthy
of their sacrifice?
Remember our
pledge, “Years to come shall find
us ever true to Bloomsburg still.”

ALUMNI
SATURDAY,
MAY 24, 1952
CLASS REUNIONS:
All Classes to

1902

1902

1922

1942

1907

1927

1947

1912

1932

1950

1917

1937

Following the custom begun several years ago, the Class of 1902,
at

its fiftieth

year reunion, will receive special honors.

COME BACK TO BLOOMSBURG

THE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Perinsyluania

Vol. L III

September, 1952

No. 3

WHERE ARE OUR ALUMNI?
Many
city or

times, at the annual

town of the

State, or

May Alumni

even

Meeting, or on the street in some

in other States,

Alumni Board, or the President, meet and greet

members

of the faculty, or the

a graduate or former student of

Bloomsburg.
Frequently they ask, “Why don’t I hear from the college any more?” or “I
have had no announcements of Homecoming or Alumni Day in the last five
years.”

Do we have

your address?

By

this

I

mean does

the

Alumni

office or Secre-

tary have your address?

Every Fall and Spring we mail approximately 5 000 postal cards. Many of
them are returned marked “Unclaimed, “Unknown,” “Moved, Left No Address,”
etc.
In one case we found that a son had been accepting mail for his father who
had been deceased for seventeen years, and a telegram and telephone call finally
gave us the information that his father had passed away.
In writing this message, I realize that we are addressing Alumni whose addresses we already have, i.e., members of the Alumni Association. This'is somewhat like the minister, priest, or parson, urging his congregation, or parish members, to attend religious services, when as a matter of fact he was talking to the
members who were present.

Bloomsburg,
If you have a friend who was a former student or Alumni of
you not send to us his latest address, or have him do so? The list of Alumni
in the back of “Bloomsburg Through The Years” is incomplete.
Maybe your
name did not appear in this publication. If it did not, it is due to the fact that
we have had a piece of mail returned from the address that once appeared in
will

our

files

for you.

If you do not have a copy of “Bloomsburg Through The Years send Dr. E.
H. Nelson a check for $5.00, which is three years dues, and we will see that you

receive a copy.

The following statement appeared at the head of the Alumni Directory—
“Names and Addresses of Alumni— Included herein are the names of those Alumni

whom w

have addresses. Names of those reported deceased have been deNotice to Alumni— If your name does not appear here, please send it with
your address to Alumni Directory, State Teachers College. Bloomsburg, Penna.”

for

leted.

If you, or your friends, are on the campus at Homecoming or Alumni Day,
please check to see if we have your address. The Alumni Branches have been very
helpful, but one of the continuing problems is trying to keep track of our own.

A member of our Faculty has found that the Berrien Bindery, Berrien
Springs, Mich., will bind a copy of “Bloomsburg Through The Years” at a cost of
less than $2.00. You may wish to preserve your copy from the handling that you
will give it in looking up Alumni names and addresses.
Cordially yours.

President

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LI

1

1,

No. 3

September, 1952

quarterly by

Published

the

Alumni

Association of the State Teachers Col-

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.
lege.

The 1952 Commencement
ercises
will

H. F. Fenstemaker,

'12

BUSINESS MANAGER
Nelson,

E. H.

‘11

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet F. Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward
II.

F.

F.

Schuyler

Fenstemaker

Hervey

B.

Smith

Elizabeth H. Hubler

HOMECOMING DAY
SATURDAY

OCTOBER

September, 1952

4,

1952

the Teachers

at

ex-

College

down

go

in history of the inthe “graduating exercises with two speakers.”
Salom
Rizk, who was scheduled, failed to
put in an appearance at the starting hour. Vic Diehm, Hazleton, a
member of the board of trustees,
consented to speak. He had just
about finished his address when
Rizk arrived and explained he had
been delayed by a flash flood at
Pittston.
He had not telephoned.
He gave a short address. As President Andruss told the class, it
was a historic occasion.
There
hadn’t been a speaker until three
minutes before the exercises start-

stitution

EDITOR

COMMENCEMENT

1952

as

ed but before they were concluded two addresses had been delivered.

he undeclared “cold war,”
the
mistakes that have led to
Korea, the unrest abroad as well
as at home. He mentioned the preI

tragic

sent

and

difficulties between
capital
labor, particularly
conditions

'hat

have led

portant

to a migration of im-

industry

out of

Pennsyl-

vania.

He urged the listeners to interpret the present handwriting on the
wall.
“Live at peace with
your
neighbor,” the speaker concluded,
‘and teach all young people that

groups cooperate

ill

other in order that
to live in

it

with
will

each

be fun

America.”

The two addresses featured

ex-

during which the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Education
was conferred on 138 members of
ercises

Dr. Harvey A.
the
degrees,
P. North,
dean

the Class of 1932.

anyone tell you that
America is no longer the land of
opportunity,” Salom Rizk, author
and lecturer, told members of the
“Don’t

let

'Andruss conferred

and Dr. Thomas
of instruction,

candidate

for

introduced
each
baccalaureate

the

1952 graduating class at the college.

degree.

Speaking to a capacity audience in
the Carver auditorium, Rizk said:

The invocation was pronounced
by Fred W. Diehl, Danville, vicepresident of the board of trustees
and Superintendent of
Montour
County Schools.
Ralph Fisher
Smith was director of music, and
Howard F. Fenstemaker was at the

“Even the refugee who hardly
knows a word of English still finds
full of opportunity.
But young
it
people born here should do more
than use their education to make
something of themselves.
They
should
selves

make something
and use

to get rich

of them-

their education not

but to enrich America.”

The speaker’s arrival in Bloomsburg was delayed more than forty
minutes by travel conditions. In
his place Victor Diehm,
Hazleton
radio executive, and a member of
the college board of trustees, was
substituted. Diehm capably spoke
briefly on the subject, “It’s Fun to
Live in America.”
In his remarks, Diehm pointed
out that we must do something
about present national and international conditions or it will not
be fun to live in this country. He
surveyed international situations—

console of the college organ.
Rizk, a native of Syria, said that
first saw the Statue
of
Liberty, he was choked with astonishment, and he had a million ques-

when he

tions to ask. His first astonishments

had

to do with outside facts— high
buildings, well-dressed crowds, rich
farms, fine schools.
bigger
His
astonishments were at the inside
truths about America, particularly
the fact that the government belongs to the people and is the servant of the people.

His biggest astonishment of

came with the

realization
Americans— especially young

ericans— take their blessings
granted. His mission in life,

all

that

Amfor

he
1

claimed,

is

to

awaken

his

fellow

Americans to these many blessings.
“Our greatest strength,” he conluded, “is that we are still buildOur problems
ing this country.
are our greatest opportunity.”
t

Members

of the class are:

Priscilla Abbott,

Lehman; Eugene A.

Adami, Berwick; Jean R. Allen, Scranton; Thomas H. Anthony, Bloomsburg;
F. Badman, Paxinos; Charles N.
Baron, Endicott, N. Y.; Adam M. Ben,
Bangor;
Blakley; Dale Bennett, East
George E. Blyler, Bloomsburg; Eleanore
Kolinsky, Hazleton; Margaret L. Bourdette. Athens; Doris R. Bowman, Milton; Albert L. Brown, Sunbury; Francis
Brown. Sunbury; John J. Burns, Har-

Atwood

risburg.

Robert P. Burns, Harrisburg; Donald
W.
Butler, Warrior Run; Harold
Carey, West Pittston; Michalene A. Casula, Shenandoah; Donald J. Cesare, Old
Hazleton;
Cherilla,
Forge; Rocco V.
Anthony G. Ciampi, Shickshinny; ShirColeman, Beavertown; Leon
ley J.
Dailey,
Coval. Bloomsburg; Jacob E.
Bloomsburg; Charles J. Daly, Kane;
Stewart E. Davis, Bloomsburg; Lola J.
John Domaleski,
Danville;
Deibert,
Frackville; Margaret Dorsavage, PottsPlymouth;
ville; Richard M. Edwards,
Joan C. Enama, Nuremberg; David C.
J.

Evens, West Reading.
Wilkes-Barre;
Evans,
B.
Marilyn
Mayfield;
Fitzsimmons,
Marguerite
Geraldine M. Funk, Lebanon; Frank J.
Galiley,
Furgele, Shamokin; Leonard
Danville; Francis Galinski, Forest City,
Edward Gallagher, Shickshinny; FrankJoseph George,
lyn Geist, Danville;
Chambersville; William J. Gilbert, WilGillespie,
G.
William
kes-Barre;

Bloomsburg; William L. Ginter,

Hunlock

Philadelphia; Lois J. Newman. WilkesBarre; David T. North. BloomsburgRobert G. Osenbach, Frackville; John
Philo,
J. Peffer, Kulpmont; Laura A.
Bloomsburg; Richard G. Powell, Pottstown; Janet E. Price, Reading; George
Rachko, Frackville; William Radzwich,

Tomhicken; Thomas J. Reed, Plymouth;
William W. Reed, Sunbury; Jack D.
Reese, Berwick; Kathryn Rhinard, Berwick; Janice M. Rider, Millville; John
E. Riley,
Danville;
Jeanne Ruckle,
Bloomsburg; Frederick C.
Rummage,
Hunlock Creek; Roy W. Sanders, Shamokin; Angelo P. Scheno, Bloomsburg.

Thomas

Schukis,

E.

Mahanoy

New

Strausser, Bloomsburg.
Fort; Patricia

Williams, Ashland;

Graydon

Thomas

M.
Jean
Meier, Mifflinville; Florence M. Mertz,
Northumberland; Robert E. Miller, Sunbury; Royal Miller, Bloomsburg; Kathleen Mitchell. Mahanoy City; Richard
Morrison, Danville; Olive L. Mourey,
New
Mt. Carmel; Vincent Nawroski,
McLaughlin,

2

Barnesville;

did not

as

little

mean

that

‘We

that

children,’

we

feeling and thought has
carded.

J. Taylor, Dushore; David H. Thomas,
Orangeville; Robert Thurston, Sunbury;
John F. Trisko, Hazleton; C. Walter
Troutman, Shamokin; William Troxell,
Shamokin; Nancy J. Unger, Forty Fort;
Joanne Vanderslice, Bloomsburg; Andre
Wagner,
Vanyo,
Duryea;
John I.
A.
Whibley,
Bloomsburg;
James
Bloomsburg; John E. White, Bloomsburg; George Williams, Danville; Nancy

B.

is

are to

become immature and childish to
attain the highest and best.
“His plea was child-like trust
and dependence; but, as Paul latmaturity comes
ei pointed out,
when childishness in speech and

Nancy Swartz, Forty

been

dis-

“The world today needs an adult

mind— men and women
mature

lo live

prepared

lives.

urged men
Christianity
to love God with their
minds, as well as with their emo“But

and women
tions.

“The marks of Christian matur-

C.

Wood, Berwick; Walter Worhacz, Shamokin; Mary Anna Wright, Bloomsburg;
Marie Yozviak, Wilkes-Barre.

ity are:

A

This,
great faith in God.
mature religion, must be a
Repersonal knowledge of God.
knowligion, must be a personal
Religion is not a
ledge of God.
message but a life. This personal
discovery of God comes through
1.

in a

BACCALAUREATE SERMON
“The world today needs an adult

the accompanist.
Following is a condensation of
Rev. Mr. Cummin’s address:
“The main business of religion,
and particularly Christianity, is to
enable a person to stand up to life
to endure his own thoughts about
himself and never to become wearThat
ied over himself or details.
"Christianity is the reis maturity.
said
ligion of an educated mind,’

Cornelius McHugh, Hazleton;

He

Carl R. Shultz, Bloomsburg;
Simpson, Berwick; Edward
P. Slikes, Wilkes-Barre; Joyce M. Sluyter, Towanda; Edward Snyder, Hazleton; Francis
Stanitskie,
Kulpmont;
Dorothy
Constance Stanko, Danville;
M. Stec, Mahanoy Plane; John Stevens,
L.

Jesus taught

must become

R.

Raymond J. Kozlowski,
Nanticoke;
PlyKingsley; Jeanne C. Krzywicki,
mouth; Richard Ledyard, Bloomsburg;
Russell L. Looker, Johnstown.
Bloomsburg;
Lundy,
Marilyn W.
Michael Lylo, Berwick; Joyce L. MacDougall, Berwick; Charlotte Matuleski,
Nanticoke; William McAloose, Kelayres;

“When

City;

Benton;

Morea; Fred

who

tion.

Philadelphia; Barbara A. Sherman,

Edwin

intelligent person,

choose
learned
to
He has a sense of values,
wisely.
a purpose in life, a sense of direc-

Search,

mind— men and women

Glidden,

“The

mature, has

Wilkes-Barre; John P.
Shanahan, Bangor; Francis J. Sheehan,

Philip

Susquehanna;
John C. Haddon, Bloomsburg; Barbara
Harman, Lykens; Maynard L. Harring,
Pitman, Harold V. Hartman, Lenoxville.
David Heckman, Bloomsburg; Harry
Herman, Sunbury; William G. Herr,
South
Hazleton; Barbara M. Hassert,
Williamsport; Albert H. Hitchings, Luzerne; Lester J. Hornberger, Mt. Carmel;
William F. Hrisko, Frackville; Milton
C.
G. Hughes, Wilkes-Barre; Henry
Edward Johnson,
Hurtt, Forty Fort;
Bloomsburg; Eleanor M. Johnson, Kane;
Ronald A. Kaler, Millville; Eleanor A.
A.
Patricia
Bloomsburg;
Kennedy,
George Kobal,
Kistler, Bloomsburg;
Creek; Ruth

While
contributing to maturity.
Christian faith has an appeal for
persons at every stage of their development, it is true that Christianitv is the religion adapted to mature persons.

prepared
to live mature lives,” was the message of the Rev. Varre A. Cummins, First Presbyterian Church,
to the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Class of 1952 at baccalaureate exercises held in Carver Hall
auditorium Sunday, May 25.
A college trio sang Gounod’s “O
Divine Redeemer” during the prowere
Jeanne
gram.
Vocalists
Ruckle, Lola J. Deibert and Mary
Ellen Dean.
Marilyn Lundy was

William Ramsey.
“Education is one of the factors

Sir

•

who came

|esus Christ,

reveal

to

God. Add to this a great faith in
God. the kind of self one can live
with.
“2.

Our

great weakness

divided heart.
some master; let
“3.

We

will

is

the

worship

it be Christ.
And, a mark of Christian mat-

You
work to do.
of the Class of 1952 who
are going into teaching will have a
great work, in a noble tradition.
Christ was a teacher.
urity

is

a great

members

“Beyond

this,

however, there

is

a wider and greater work to build
world.
the
a Christian order in
This calls for maturity.

“The maxim for justice as means
faith,
be used to gain such
such a life and maturity are: to
to

know

Christ rather

than

know

keep following the
know of
best and highest you
about him;

to

T1IF.

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Christ; to

keep praying and keep

"If

we

learn to give

ourselves,

and to foregive others and to live
with thanksgiving, we need
not
seek happiness ... it will seek ns.
For educated people, Christianity
must be the religion of maturity.

SENIORS RECEIVE

AWARDS

Fourteen members of the graduating class were presented
with
service keys for outstanding work
during their years at Bloomsburg
State Teachers College at the SenHonor Assembly Thursday,
ior
May 22 in the opening event of
Senior Day.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the College,
made the
presentation on behalf of the institution and in recognition of distinguished service in the field of extracurricular activities.

Receiving the Keys were:

Thomas

Shamokin;
John Burns, Harrisburg; Lola Deibert, Danville; Jeanne Ruckle and
Laura Philo, town; Richard Powell,
Pottstown; Eleanor Johnson,
Anthony,

Kane; Maynard Hairing, Pitman;
Joyce MacDougall, Berwick; Priscilla
Abbott,
Lehman;
Nancy
Swartz, Forty
Fort;
Margaret
Rourdette, Athens; Michalene Casula. Shenandoah
Marilyn
and
Evans, Wilkes-Barre.
Senior

Maroon

director of the

lie,

Cold band, presented

loving.

members

of the

Maroon

and Cold band were honored and
maroon jackets were presented to
Laura Philo, town
and Nancy
Swartz, Forty Fort, baton twirlers.
Certificates of election to membership in ‘Who’s
Who Among
Students in American Colleges and
Universities” were presented during the honor assembly to Thomas
Anthony, Doris Bowman, Milton;
Lola Deibert, Henry Hurtt, Forty

Joyce MacDougall. Richard
Powell and James Whibley, town.
The assembly featured an academic procession with the faculty
and seniors appropriately gowned.
Anthony, president of the class of
1952, was in charge of the
devotions.
Earl A. Gehrig, class adviser, presented the seniors who were
honored with service keys; Russel
Looker, Johnstown, president
of
the Community Government Association, presented the “Who’s Who
Certificates”, and Charles H. HenFort;

September, 1952

awards.

was

Howard

F.

the

and
band

Fenstemaker

at the

console of the collage
organ and Ralph Fisher Smith was
director ol music. Walter S. Rygiel
served as marshal of the academic

a number of events of the day
which was climaxed by the annual
Senior Ball and Banquet which
was held in the Irem Temple
Country Club near Dallas.

ALUMNI DAY

procession.

IVY

Bloomsburg State Teachers Colalumni honored four of its

lege

DAY ORATION

Donald Cesare, son

members

and
Mrs. Primo Cesare, 515 Lawrence
Street, Old Forge, delivered the
ivy Day oration at the Bloomsburg
of Mr.

College WednesMay 21. The speaker is a
graduate of Old Forge High School
where he starred in three varsity
sports, and at the Teachers College be sparkled as a varsity guard
on Coach Bob Redman’s 1951 State
Teachers College championship
eleven.
He has been active in
campus activities and is a member
of a number of honorary scholastic
State
day,

Teachers

and professional fraternities including Phi Sigma Pi and Kappa Delta

for distinguished service

one of the principal features of
Alumni Day that brought the largest number back to the campus of
in

the local
years.

institution

Those honored were:
Dr. II. V. Hower, eighty-eight,
a

member

of the class

of

The
Senior

exercises, traditional in the

Week

program, were im-

pressive and featured the planting
of the ivy in memory of one of the
most active classes in recent

Bloomsburg

history.

trustees of the College.

Mrs. Florence Hess Cool, of the
class of 1886, a resident of
City, California, and the

ing the history of the traditional
planting. In part he said, “The ivy
is indeed a suitable parting gift to
our college.
It is beautiful and
strong ... it has tenacity ... its
green leaves never fade but remain a symbol of strength for all
time.”

He

expressed

the
in

hope that
power and

fame and her loyal students be as
numerous as the leaves on the
vine, her teachings as firmly root-

ed

in

the truth as the ivy in the

spirit in the organization of the
Philadelphia Branch of the Alum-

ni Association.

of
of the
school board of Washington, D. C.
Miss Mary A. Good, Wapwaldopen, of the class of 1897, one of
the most popular
and efficient

1885,

for

years

class

secretary

institution.

The rain which started to fall
shortly after ten o’clock on Saturday morning altered the program
but did not mar the day. The genmeeting had been in session
for a short while before the storm
broke.
Most of the graduates
arrived either Friday evening
or
Saturday morning or were
near
Bloomsburg at the time the storm
broke. Thus the rain did not cut
into attendance, although it
did
cause cancellation of the baseball
game between the Huskies and
Wilks in the lone sports event of
eral

the day.

soil.

The Ivy Day

Culver

moving

teachers in the history of the local

Cesare discussed
the significance of Ivy Day, tracIn his oration,

Alma Mater grow

1881,

prominent Berwick physician and
a former member of the board of

Harry O. Hine, of the

Pi.

recent

in

year in the Waller Hall Court
immediately following the Senior
Honor Assembly in the Carver
Auditorium. The planting of the

Members of the graduating class
attended the meeting in a body,
were voted into membership and
joined enmasse.
The check was
presented by Thomas Anthony,

ivy

was done by Thomas Anthony,
Shamokin, president of the Senior
Class, and the spade used for the

Leonard Gaililey,
on behalf of 1952, presented a
check for $300 for the alumni

planting was presented to Henry
Marini, newly-elected president of
the Class of 1953.
The Ivy Day program is one in

scholarship fund.
A splendid photograph of the
late R. Bruce Albert, provided by
his wife, was unveiled at the meet-

exercises

were held

this

class president.

3

The presentation was by
Fred W. Diehl, superintendent of
the Montour
county schools, a
trustee of the college and a close
friend of Mr. Albert. It was during.

ing

tiie latter’s

tenure as president

Bloomsburg Teachers Alumni became a growing and active
that the

force in support of the college.
Re-elected directors for threeyear terms were Miss Harriet Car-

penter and H. F. Fenstemaker, of
town, and Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, Wilkes-Barre.
Reports of the
association were received.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the College, extended wel-

come and made
of the

award

presentation

the

Hower.

to Dr.

He

spoke of the physician’s many accomplishments and the citation
mentioned that Dr. Hower is “always alert to community needs.”
Dr. Nelson made the presentation to Mrs. Cool who
travelled
alone from California. She observed that despite the fact she had
been forced down in Michigan and
lost her baggage it was a memorable trip. She organized the Philadelphia branch in 1931.
The presentation to Mr. Hine
was by Supt. Diehl. In his acceptance Mr. Hine said that the honor
will provide “a golden glow for my
remaining sunset years.”

Dean

made the presentaGood with the citation

Sutliff

tion to Miss

pointing out she was “an inspiring
teacher of chemistry for many
years.”

Life memberships went with all
of the citations.
The roll call of

followed and
concluded the general session.
classes in reunion

Edward Campbell,

of 20 South
Ashland, was elected
president of the Day Men’s Asso-

Front

street,

Bloomsburg

State
a
junior in the Department of Secondary Education, is quite active
in college affairs.
Other officers
Kulpmont,
are: William
Fisher,
vice-president; Clyde Adams, R. D.
4 Shamokin, secretary and
John
Bogdan, Philadelphia, treasurer.

ciation of the

Teachers College.

Campbell,

,

HERVEY B. SMITH,

’22

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Court House Place

Bloomsburg 1115

4

TRIBUTE PAID TO
R. BRUCE ALBERT

size.

Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association
at
the
present time is as active as at any
period in its history and certainly
one of the most active in this type
of institutions
in
the Commonwealth.

The graduate body

of the

local

has been moving forward as a force in support of the
institution for some time and ever
since the late R. Bruce Albert was
named president a number of
years prior to his untimely death
institution

on Memorial Day, 1945.
To most of those who have been
active in the
alumni association
through the years Bruce is
the
real father of the graduate body.
There was an alumni association
long before he became its
head
but it was more or less a once-avear get-together.
Then everything was forgotten until another
Alumni Day rolled around.

On

the basis of a cool appraisal
Alumni Association it was,
until Albert took over,
a
social
group.
The only thing it could
point to with any show of pride
was its student loan fund and that
was only around $3,000 and had
been built up largely from the
contributions of senior classes.
Bruce, the son of one of the beloved “Old Guard” of the institution, Prof. C. H. Albert, loved the
school. He felt highly honored to
be named president of the graduate
body and he worked untiringly to
make it an active, constructive
group.
of the

Dr. E. H. Nelson,

who

has carried on most capably
following
Mr. Albert’s death, would be the
first to recognize that the building today is on the
foundation
which his predecessor laid.
In fact the present head of the
organization was
outspoken for
years that the association
should
have in the institution a photograph of Albert. This was provided by Mrs. Albert and Fred W.
Diehl did his usual capable job of
making the presentation at the
general meeting.
One thing that stands as a
monument to Albert is the present
loan fund which is of substantial

was

It

in 1939,

when

the

College was observing the centennial of its founding, that
Albert
decided something of a substantial
nature by the graduates
should

mark

the occasion.
to that time the loan fund
had done an exceptionally fine job

Up

but it was not sufficient size to
take care of all of the worthy cases.
Bruce got the go-ahead from

and made a one-man
Around $10,000 was

the directors

campaign.

added at that time. Further it set
tempo that has been kept pretty
much since. The fund is increasing in size each year.

a

now

has reached the
point
not only takes care of all
of the worthy cases but there have
been annual earnings that have
gone into a scholarship named in
Bruce Albert s honor.
His life was marked with service
to others.
He was for years "read
of the County Sabbath School AsIt

where

it

sociation.

The community
his dream and

play-

ground was

it

is

entirely fitting that this project has

been named by the sponsoring
Kiwanis Club as the “R. Bruce Albert Memorial Playground.”
All of these projects were close
to his heart but none was closer
nor got more of his talented direction and untiring efforts than
the
Teachers College and its graduate
body. All in the years ahead who
view his photograph on the campus will gain inspiration. For he
was a man who inspired the best
in all with whom he came in contact.

One of the few and most favored proteges of the great Jose Iturbi,
William Haaker, presented a rec ital of piano music at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Wednesday morning, July 2. Haaker,
who has been carving a niche for
himself in the American musical
firmament since his New York
Town Hall debut in 1945, has won
not only the acclaim of a nationwide musical public, but the real
affection of his audiences.

THE CHAR-MUND INN
Mrs.

Charlotte

Hoch,

'15,

Prop.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

REAMS RETIRES

MP».

Reams, member of
the Department of Social Studies,

Edward

A.

since 1925, retired at the close of
the second semester and is now
living in Whittier, California.

Mr. Reams was born and reared
in Kansas. He received his M.A. at
Columbia and later secured a teaching position at

Lock Haven

State

Teachers College, where he stayed

come

to

He

Lock Haven to
Bloomsburg where he re-

until 1925.

left

placed the late Professor

Brill

in

the field of Social Studies.

During the war Mr. Reams acted
He
as Dean of Men on campus.
also taught a ground school course
in Civil Air Regulations and offered social studies to the V-12’s
During his
who trained here.
years at the college on the hill, he

coached Bloomsburg s
tennis team and accompanied them
on trips to meet competing teams.
also

lias

Mr. Reams has studied in schools
ranging from the west coast to the
east coast, having studied at Southern California and New York Uni\

ersity.

Mr. Ream’s address is 1324 Eastlidge Drive, Whittier, California.

He

says that he is offering a door
prize for the first visitor who
is

from Bloomsburg.
At the annual Faculty

Wednesday, May

held
well

Banquet,
14. at Cald-

Consistory, Mr. Reams was
the guest of honor, and was presented with a beautiful wrist watch.
The principal address was given
by President Andruss.
The address follows:

“Doors”

The opening and

closing of doors

among

the most significant acof man’s life.
The opening
of doors is a mystic act.
It has in
it some measure of the unknown;
some sense of moving into a new
are

tions

moment.

What

mysteries

hind doors?
Since a member of our
faculty

is

door to a

about

to

new home

open
in a

lie

be-

college
a
new

new

state

new section of our country,
are gathered here in honor of
the doors that he has opened while
in the college and as a member of
the community, and to assure him

in a

we

that many doors lie ahead of him
—to be opened.
Doors of all kinds, open doors,

September, 1952

doors ajar, half-closed doors, closed
doors and locked doors— there is
always an element of uncertainty
when we placed our hand on the
knob, that when the door is opened we will find what we expect, or
Or we may be merely curfear.

what lies behind it.
During his years at Bloomsburg,
Professor Reams has opened many
doors through which we, as members of the
college community,
both faculty and students, have
been allowed to pass. 1
would
like to mention two of them, one
the door of reading and scholarship, and the other the door of culious of

ture.

Do you ever stop to think that
we have over 50,000 volumes available for the use of faculty and students of the college because
of
the presence in our town of
the
Bloomsburg Public Library? While
our college library has grown at
a rapid rate in the last ten years,
we still depend upon the Bloomsburg Public Library for
many
things.
As a member of the Library Board. Mr. Reams has helped
to keep these doors open, and more
recently, as President of the Controlling Body, he has faced
the

problems of

inflation,

spiralling

cost of operation, and the
ling of benefactions upon

dwindwhich
this library is forced to rely. So I
say to you that the door of read-

many evening

entertainments, par-

music and
drama, as in former years.
This half-closed door has been
opened wide through the patience,
understanding, ability to comproticularly in the fields of

and willingness to move slowbut surely toward the desired
end, as evinced by the one whom
we are honoring.
mise,
ly

And so say to you that the second door which Edward Reams
lias helped to open and keep open
lias been the door of culture.
I

And yet another door is about to
be opened. It seems to me that
when we look into history, for our
friend is a historian, he finds
somewhat

himself
ol

in the

position

famous old Grecian characabout whom Tennyson wrote

that

ter

in the poem titled “Ulysses.” After
addressing himself to his subjects
and appointing his son as his successor, Ulysses charged the mariners that they were about to open a
door of discovery, and I think such
a door now stands before our fellow faculty member. And Ulysses

speaks:

The

begin to twinkle from

lights

the rocks;

The long day wanes; the slow
moon climbs, the deep
Moans round with many voices.
Come, my friends.
Tis not too late to seek a

newer

world.

ing as the basis for scholarship has

been kept open through the efforts
of our Ed Reams.
We wish to signify our appreciation in that we have been allowed
to pass through these portals because this door has been kept open

by him.
The door

of culture, so far
as
the bringing of talented and famous personalities in the fields of

music, drama and speech was once
a half-closed door, since we at the
college were not able to
attract
any substantial number of townspeople to join with us in sharing
those
experiences
which were

our campus for our
with the end
of
World War II, and the inauguration of the cooperative
plan in
which the college joined the townspeople in sponsoring the Civic

brought

students.

Music
to

Push

off,

and

sitting well in order

smite

The
To

sounding furrows;
purpose holds

sail

beyond the

Of

all

baths
the western

It

may be

that

wash
It

us

sunset,

my

and the

stars.

the

gulfs

will

touch

the

down;

may be we shall
Happy Isles,

And

for

see the great Achilles,

whom

we knew.
Tho’

much

taken,

is

and

much

abides;

tho’.

to

But,

Series,

we

have been able

provide two or three times as

We

are

Moved

now

not

which

that

strength

days
and heavens,

in old

earth

that

which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts.
Make weak by time and fate, but
strong in will

To

strive, to seek, to find,

and not

to yield.

We

only hope that in the opening of doors yet to come, you realize, Mr. Reams, that the doors of
Bloomsburg will never be closed
behind you, and we know that your
friendliness and
great humanity
are keys which will cause many

doors to open to both you and your
good wife in California, ever remembering that you will not need
a key to reopen the
doors you
leave here in Pennsylvania.

THE YEAR’S REVIEW
BSTC opened

its doors for the
semester in September, 1951,
by admitting approximately 770
students to classes. A cordial welcome was extended to four new
members of the faculty: Mrs. Ilufcut, head dietition who
replaced
Della M. Thayer; Mr. Ralph Fisher Smith, music instructor, who replaced Harriet Moore; Miss Elsie
Bower and Miss Elinor Kiefer, who
replaced Miss Muyskens and Miss
first

'/ealberg as college librarians.

Dick Powell and his customs
committee quickly began orientating the incoming Freshmen to the
wonders of college life. Early in
October, the Honorable Walter H.
Judd, Congressman from Minnesota, gave an authoritative
address
on foreign affairs to the college assembly.

The annual Talent

Pro-

gram under the direction of the
Freshman Class was presented on
October 25. A week previously,
the National Male
Quartet,
the
most famous of its kind in America,
presented the first of the
downtown music series.
The twenty-fourth annual Homecoming Day was held on Saturday,
October 20. Hundreds of alumni
and college friends returned to the
campus for a day filled with colorful activity.

November saw BSTC

act as host

numerous

regional
educators
annual conference for
elementary and secondary teachto

lor the fifth

ers.

The theme

of this year’s con-

ference was “Trends in

Language

Arts.”

On November
of

19,

to the

music

Mel Arter and his orchestra, the
Club held its annual stag

Varsity

dance.
0

Highlight of the evening

was the naming

of freshman coed,

Sherrill Hiller, as Varsity
1951.

Queen-

It was announced that ten members of the Senior Class had been
selected to appear in the publication “Who’s
in American Colleges and Universities.”
Among
those chosen were Tom Anthony,

Who

Doris Bowman, Lola Deibert, Mike
Dorak, Henry Hurtt, Eleanor Johnson, Richard Laux, Joyce MacDougall, Richard Powell
Whibley.

and

James

Under the sponsorship of the F.
T.A., Joy Elmer Morgan, distinguished editor of the N.E.A. Journal,
spoke in Carver Hall Auditorium
on November 15.
Six
students
from B.S.T.C. were awarded scholarships during the December 4 assembly program. They were David
Superdock, Helen Rutkowski, Kenneth Kirk, Patricia Boyle, Robert
Price and Lawrence Kzanznak.

December 14 marked the date of
the Sophomore Cotillion.
With a
winter-blue and silver motif and
the music of Lee Vincent, it was
one of the biggest social events of
the year.

Charming

Bourdette was

Queen

senior

named

as

Peggy

Snow

at the Cotillion’s intermis-

sion.

The downtown music league preDecember 7, Marias and
Miranda,
internationally
known
singers. The Waller Hall girls presented on

sented a memorial photograph of
Mr. William Trump, former night
watchman, to the college during a
program held December 18.

tion, presented an inspiring talk
on World Affairs in a January assembly program. The annual quiz
program, “The Battle of the Classes,” was presented in the
latter

part of January,- the Senior Class
being named the victor.

Early in February, BSTC played host to eighteen Austrian students and teachers who put on a
charming evening program of folk
songs and dances. February also

saw the once-a-year coming of the
Olympian, college magazine. Under
the editorship of Charles Andrews,
this publication brought together
a wealth of student literary achievements.

Again in the second semester,
scholarships were awarded to six
more BSTC students, this time to
Nancy Sue Williams, James Luchs,
Faith
Eunson, Virginia Horne,

Ruth Thomas.
Contestants having been selected for the Obiter “Coed of the

Year” Contest, the vote of the student body indicated that
lovely

sophomore

Phyllis McLaren
was
the lucky winner.
The Freshman
Class soon announced
the
that
‘

Mardi Gras” was

Two new instructors were added to the faculty at the start of
the second semester. Dr. C. CorBrong was named a teacher
and speech,
and Miss Dorothy Stolp was named
as teacher of general speech and
English.
Miss Stolp
was
also
named as dricetor of dramatics and
became head of the campus radio
nelia

of speech correction

programs.
Carleton

Smith,
international
head of the National Arts Founda-

be the theme

their

members able and willing
The appearance
the unit was arranged by Dr.

faculty
to

Dr. Leslie Pickney Hill, President Emeritus of Cheyney State
Teachers College, presented the
principal address at the
January
Commencement exercises held on
January 16. His topic was “The Individual in a Harried World.”

to

annual Freshman
Hop.
Held on February 22, the semiformal featured the music of Deacon Hill and his band. At this
dance the “Coed of the Year” was
formally crowned.
The second annual appearance
of the Red Cross Bloodmobile on
campus found 137 students and
of

of

donate blood.

Wagner, chairman of the drive.
“Doc” Sharer and Harry Bowsnationally noted sales training
experts were the main speakers at
the sixth annual sales conference
held early in March.
After perhaps the most fervent
er,

campaigning done

new

in

years,

five

C.G.A. officers were elected

Chosen for president
was Edwin Confer and for vicepresident Mike Crisci. Four BSTC
delegates attended the 14th Conference of the Student Government
for next year.

Associations of the Penna.
Teachers Colleges held at

State

West

Chester March 7.
Recognizing the need for instructors for the teaching of techniques

THE AI.UMNI QUARTERLY

needed for Civil Defense, BSTC
sent four delegates to the Federal

MILES KILMER

HONORED

Administration
Defense
Civil
Training School at Rydal, Pa., for
a special two week’s course of instruction. The representatives were

Coach Harold

Shelly, Janies Cher-

rington, Keith

McKay and

Mincer.
Miss Peggy
earlier in the

Irem Temple Country Club,

Jeanetta

May to preMay Day

ed music for dancing.
Mr. and Mrs. James

Dr.
EngleErnest
ceremonies.
hardt was selected to act as editor
for the Journal of the Association
of Penna. State Teachers College
Faculties for the college year 1952-

were

The highlight of the banquet
program was a mock commencement in which Ph.T.C. degrees
(Push Husbands Through College)
were awarded to wives of gradu-

and vogue were

year’s

show

on Earth— The American Girl.
keeping with the present election year. Phi Sigma Pi sponsored
a mock political convention held in
a special three hour assembly. The
program followed closely the regbe
ular procedure which would
Major
followed in a
National
Party Convention. In all, five canIn

didates

were

nominated— Eisen-

hower, Warren, Taft, MacArthur
and Stassen. Eisenhower received
the nomination for president on the
•second ballot, with Warren getting
the vice presidential bid.
With rain offering a slight threat,

May Day was held with its usual
pomp and pageantry. Twenty maypoles were wound on the terraces
by the

training school children and

college

girls.

With the Senior Class busy preits Ball and Banquet, the
Honor Assembly and Ivy Day be-

paring

ing held, another chapter of
history was completed.

BSTC

CREASY & WELLS
Ethel Creasy Wright,

’09

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU”

Max
50

Arcus,

’41,

Mgr.

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

September, 1952

ates

Createst

Girl

Whibley
was

invocation

monies.

the cry of the sixth annual fashion
show held May 2. Under direction

used the theme of the

The

hosts.

given by Mr. Whibley.
Thomas
Anthony acted as master of cere-

1953.

of Mr. Henrie, this

in

was the setting for the annual Spring banquet and ball held
by the senior class of B.S.T.C. Lee
Vincents and his orchestra providDallas,

side over the traditional

Style, fashion,

Pitts-

SENIOR BALL

Bourdette, chosen
year as Snow Queen,

was elected Queen of

Deike and Lewis E. Young,

burgh; John M. Spangler, McConnellsburg and John J. Forbes, of
Washington, D. C.

Miles 1. Killmer, a
native
of
Berks county and a graduate of
Bloomsburg State Normal School,

was one of five alumhonored by The Pennsylvania

class of 1900,
ni

State College this year for distin-

guished achievement. Killmer now
i. vice president and general manager of Mason and Hanger
Co.,

New

York City.

A few

years ago

Bloomsburg
he was honored by
State Teachers College.
Mr. Killmer also took a year of
graduate study at Normal School
before entering Penn State
and
graduated in 1906 with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering.

Sandwiched

in

between

term at Bloomsburg and
his first semester at State College
was a seven-month teaching stint
in a country school.

his last

Since 1906 Mr. Killmer has had a
in the construction of every
major underground tunnel in the
New York area, including the
tunnels
Pennsylvania
Railroad
under the East River, the Lexington Avenue Subway, and the Holland Tunnels. Since 1928, Mason
and Hanger Co. has held contracts
amounting to approximately $190,000,000 for both private and gov-

hand

ernment

A

for their part in
bands’ achievements.

their

hus-

Wives who were honored were
Anthony, Mrs. Anthony Ciampi,
Mrs. William Gillespie. Mrs. Ronald Kaler, Mrs. Raymond Kozlowski, Mrs. Robert Miller, Mrs. Jack
Reese, Mrs. Francis Sheehan, Mrs.
Edwin Simpson, Mrs. John Stevens, Mrs. Fred
Strausser,
Mrs.
James Whibley, Mrs. George Williams,

Mrs.

David

Edward Snyder, Mrs.

Thomas,

Mrs.
Craydon
Wood, Mrs. Jacob Dailey, Mrs.
Walter Worhacz and Mrs. Robert

Thurston.

A parody in song by Richard
Powell was enjoyed. Congratulations to the seniors were given by
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss and
Dr.
Thomas

P.

North.

Tom Anthony and

Ruth Glidden, president of the class
and
chairman of the banquet and ball,
respectively, expressed their thanks
to all those who aided in the ball’s
success.

Corsages were presented

to Mrs. North, Mrs.

Walter Rvgiel

and Mrs. Gehrig.
J.

WESLEY KNORR,

34

NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

jobs.

year ago, Penn State inaugurated the custom of honoring five
alumni annually for distinguished
achievement.
Honored with Mr.
Killmer this year were George H.

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

16

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

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GEORGE KELLER RESIGNS
George

J.

Keller,

now an

worked with Junior High

inter-

nationally
known wild animal
teacher but still “the art professor” to most of his area friends and
to thousands of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College students who
were instructed by him, has tendered his resignation to Dr. Harvey
A. Andruss of the Teachers College.

Now

on a leave of absence, Kel-

some years has been away
from his classes probably more
ler for

than he has been on his teaching
job, but he has always been identified with the
local
institution
where he first went on the faculty
in 1921.

The

local resident,

who

has

al-

ways been a showman at heart,
used to team up in boyhood with
his brother Charles,

now

a successful surgeon and physician, to present each summer the “Keller
brothers Circus.” There were no
stray dogs and cats roaming town
streets at that time.
They had all
been rounded up, labeled “ferocious lions and tigers” and caged
up in boxes that not long before

had been orange crates.
Keller, who, incidentally, was a
pretty good baseball
pitcher
in
High School, matriculated at the
“Old Normal” and then finished
off at Columbia U., where he had
experience with lions— allhough the Columbia variety had
to have a human form under the
hide to give them locomotion. For
down at Morningside Heights,
George was one of the cheer leading corps that looked
after
the
his first

“lion” mascot.

teaching career may have
been just a stepping stone to his
present and now fully time profession as animal trainer but it was
a most important one.

His

He

has always been fascinated
by animals and able to do much
Many will remember
with them.

he big, white dog he had that
“could tell” colors. The reason he
was so smart is that George put in
a certain word ahead of the colored handkerchief the dog was to
pick up.
l

His

experience at stagat
ing shows with animals came
he
the Teachers College where
K

first

real

pupils.

School
performers

The animal

didn’t do much but Keller saw
(hat they got considerable publicshows,
ity and the home talent

well produced, packed
them in.
They even took one of them “on
the road” and drew well during a

couple of
one-night
nearby communities.

stands

They had a fox in one
productions “Little
Red
Hood.” When
ance on stage
startled, timid

it

made

it

and

its

of

in

the

Riding
appear-

was the

most

altogether-at-

sea trouper we ever saw behind
the footlights.
The boy who had
hold of the leash
had to pull
“foxie” across the stage in one of
It wasn’t
die big climax scenes.

much, maybe, but everyone was
satisfied.

They they moved on

to

the

three bears and, of course, Keller
They put
came up with a cub.
it in a pen up at the College for
safe keeping and one morning the
Seems as
animal was
gonel
bear
though, being winter, the

decided to hibernate and dug his
way into a place where he planned to have a long winter’s nap.

But he reckoned without Keller.
George located him, got a gallon
of extracted honey, opened it up
at the mouth of the hole and then
sat around waiting for the bear to
Once that was
dig his way out.
done, without any manual labor
on Keller’s part, the cub was transferred to a pen which had a concrete floor and stayed there until
the show was finished.
Perhaps some of you will re-

member

the “Chinese dragon” that
was in a tent along the Berwick

road one summer. It was straight
from Texas but probably wouldn’t

have done any better attracting
attention had it come from China.
Then there were the albinos,
human and animal, that got a
big play and was the first of the
products of Keller’s fertile brain
national
to get a spread in
a
magazine.
Since that he has hit
the slicks, the metropolitan press,
and just about eveiy other media
fellow
this
of information for
reared,
Keller, locally born and
doesn’t take a back seat for any of
them in his chosen profession.— The

Morning

MISS JOHNSTON RESIGNS
Miss Alice Johnston left BSTC
She graduated
January, 1952.
from Park College with a B.L.
She secured her
degree.
M.A.

in

lrom Columbia University,
has done graduate work at

and
the

Wisconsin, Michigan and Chicago;
the
Central
School of Speech, London; and the
New York League for the Hard of
Hearing.
Miss Johnston came to Bloomsburg in 1926 as
instructor
in
speech and speech correction. She
has also served as director of the
Bloomsburg Players and public
plays, and The College Hour. She
has helped to found BSTC chapters of Alpha Phi Omega, national
dramatic fraternity,
and Sigma
Alpha Eta, national speech fraternity.
During World War II she
worked in an amy hospital with
speech
injury
cases concerning
and speech organs. Miss Johnston
Universities

of

now

residing in
Albuquerque,
Mexico, where she operates a
private speech clinic.
is

New

ORGANIZATIONS ELECT
OFFICERS
The Day Women’s
of the

Association

Bloomsburg State

College

held their

final

Teachers
covered

Room.
dish in the Day Women’s
highlight of the affair was the
installation of the new officers for
the coming year. Each of the new
officers
officers and the retiring
were presented with corsages of
yellow daisies. The newly-install-

The

ed officers are: Elaine Gunther,
Berwick; Hope Horne, R. 3, Cata-

who were elected president
respectively.
vice-president
Representatives from each class include Barbara Bucher, Catawissa.
and Eileen Fry, Nescopeck, sopho-

wissa,

and

Kulpmores; Phyllis Makowski,
mont, and Faith Eunson, Bloomsburg, juniors;

Leona

Muncy

Mildred

and

Diltz,

R.

1,

Neyhard,

Orangeville, seniors.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville. Pa.

SUSOUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway

W.

E. Booth. ’42
R. J. Webb, ’42

Press.

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MAY DAY

M

Margaret L. Bourdette,
Athens, was crowned May Queen
during colorful ceremonies held
on the campus of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
The atiss

tractive senior, who received the
degree of Bachelor of Science in
Education on Monday, May 26, is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bourdette, 503 First Street,

Athens.
ditional

Looker,
the

She was crowned in traexercises by Russell L.
Johnstown, president of

Community Government Asso-

The

ceremonies attracted an
overflow crowd to the campus, and
music by the musical organizations
of the college featured a muchenjoyed program. Miss Lucy Mc-

Cammon

directed the fete, assisted
by members of the Benjamin
Franklin School faculty and student teachers.

crowd filled the temporary bleachers and spilled over on
large

(he sunny terraces behind Noetling.
for the annual observance. The college band, women’s chorus,
and
men’s glee club were featured in
the program.

The "Triumphal March”
"Aida,”

The Maroon and Gold Band,
under the direction of Charles H.
Ilenrie, played a number of marches.

ciation.

A

members of her court performed a
coronation dance.
The
women’s chorus
song
“Music,” by Klemm; “High Upon a
Hilltop,”
Youse; “One
World,”
O’Hara. The men’s glee club sang
“Worship of God in Nature,” Beethoven; “Annie Laurie,” Scott; and
"Stouthearted
Men,’
Romberg.
Ralph Fisher Smith was director
and accompanists were Mary Grace
Aimers and Mary Jo Williams.

played

from

by

the B.S.T.C.
band, announced the entrance of
the May Queen, Miss
Bourdette.
Senior women carrying the traditional garland of
forest
greens

were followed by a group of flowbearers, Mollie
Haas Harter
and Theresa Guinard, Bloomsburg;
Jane Seely,
Scranton;
Dolores
Milewski, Mt. Carmel, and Ann
ei

Conwell, Wilkes-Barre.
Attendants to the queen, dressed in filmy gowns of pastel shades
and carrying arm bouquets of
Spring flowers, were
Margaret
Dorasavage, Pottsville; Joan Enama, Nuremberg; Barbara Harmon,
Lykens; Jo\ ce MacDougall, Berwick; Kathleen Mitchell, Mahanoy
7

Laura Philo, Bloomsburg;
Patricia Taylor,
Dushore; Nancy

City;

The traditional winding of the
Maypoles concluded the festivities.
College women and pupils of the
Benjamin Franklin School participated in the winding of the festooned poles. During the winding,
the May Queen and her attendants
recessed.
Properties used during the procram were designed and built by
Edward D. Sharretts, Mrs. Charles

Beeman, Joyce MacDougall, and

Mary Anna Wright, Bloomsburg.
Accompanists were Mary Grace
Aimers, Plymouth; Mary Joe Williams, Trucksville, and Myra Alwere
lisy

Watsontown.

Programs
in charge of Richard G. Haland Richard Knause, Potts-

bertson,

OBITER DICTA
A new sidewalk has been laid on
the front and Second Street side of
the campus.
A much enjoyed
summer sessions

feature of the
has been the
“Coffee Hour,” held during the
morning sessions in the College

Lounge, better known to Alumni
Old Gym. The serving of
coffee and cakes, plus the sociability of the occasion, helped greatas the

ly

the tension

relax

to

of

work during the hot days
summer.

class-

of the

Dr. Brong and Miss Stolp, of the
Department of Speech, have left

BSTC

secure positions elseDr. Brong and Miss Stolp

to

where.

came

Bloomsburg

to

last year, at

the beginning of the second semester.

Work on the College heating and
power plant is drawing to a close.
The work was begun over a year
ago.
The project included raising
the building another story, installation of

new

and mechanizaequipment.

boilers,

tion of the firing

town.

The
Henry Marini, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry’ Marini, Sr., of Wayne,
was elected president of the Senior
Class of the
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Other officers
elected by the Class of 1953
include John Scrimgeour, West Pittston, vice-president; Clare
Davis,
Clarks Summit,
secretary;
Dan
Fitzpatrick,
urer.
to

Northumberland,

treas-

The Women’s Representative

College Council

is

Mildred Wrz-

esniewski, Chester, while the

Man

Representative will be Alex Kubik,
York.

Unger, Forty Fort and Nancy Wil-

class

reunions

held

on

Alumni Day again brought out the
a successful reunion rea great amount of ground

fact that

quires

work and preparation on the part
of a local group of graduates who
are willing to take the responsibilIf your reunion
ity
next year, start
7

.

is

NOW

coming up
and initiate

some

correspondence that will
interest in your reunion.
Write to Dr. Nelson for your class
list.
Check the list, and hunt up
the people whom addresses are not
on file at the College. The Editor
urges you to read carefully the
article on the inside of the front
cover, written by President Anarouse

druss.

liams, Ashland.

Miss Bourdette attired in a bou-

gown

white net, was
crowned with a wreath of flowers
by Russell L. Looker, Johnstown,

ffant

of

president of the

Community Gov-

ernment Association. She carried
an arm bouquet.
In her
honor
September, 1952

MOYER

HOMECOMING DAY

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

4

SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, Pres.
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

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GRADUATES HONORED
Many

are the attractions which
bring graduates and
friends
of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
back to the campus for Alumni

Day

festivities.

Of course there is nothing that
can exceed in interest the reunion
with classmates, the primary purpose.
But there is no such general interest in any one phase as
in the presentation of the meritorious service awards which are presented each year.
This is a comparatively new feature of the association and because
of the fact that none was made for
so many years it is especially difficult to make the selections. That is
the reason that four were made
this year.
The policy calls for but
two annually and in a few years
this will be reverted to. Thus far
the committee has never failed to
win wide acclaim for those it signaled out for the honors.
Dr. Hower, now
eighty-eight,
was born in Mifflinville October
He is a graduate of the
31, 1863.
Baltimore College of
Medicine,
now the Medical School of the
University of Maryland, in
1887.
lie first practiced his profession in
Mifflinville and then removed to
Berwick. Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
in his presentation, told of the help
lie

had been

to

him while the phy-

on the board of trusand he closed this line from

sician served
tees

“Ulysses,” Tennsyson, “to strive, to
seek, to find and not to yield,” declaring this described the active
and fruitful life of Dr. Hower.
In his acceptance the
Berwick

resident observed that “age has its
compensations as well as a few
drawbacks.” In that regard he
mentioned that because of his age
his driver’s license had been revok-

ed after he had driven during fprtyfive years a distance of over a million miles and had never been arrested.
Then he added: “But it

was restored

to

me by

our county who
board of trustees.
of

driving again and

any one

is

the Judge

also

Now
I

on your
I

am

haven’t killed

yet.”

Mrs. Florence Hess
Cool
been one of the most loyal

has

and

active of the graduates. Her citation stated that she
was ‘loyal

and devoted
to

to her

Alma

Mater

through these many years’
and
certainly that was true. In her acceptance she spoke of her love for
Bloomsburg and mentioned that
throughout the period of activity
for the
College,
“my husband

pany, speak on the subject, “In-

worked with me and

B.

encouraged
me. This institution has memories
which can never be replaced.”
Harry O. Hine, Washington, D.
C., was another of those
whose
loyalty to the school has been outstanding.
He graduated here in
1885, one of a class of fifty-eight
members. He taught for a time
the schools
of
Pennsylvania,
starting in Sugarloaf township, Lu-

dependence in Word Attack.’
Other workshop speakers follow:
Wednesday, July 9, Lyle S. Hance,
Mathematics Editor, J. C. Winston
Co.; Thursday, July 17, Mrs. Robert
Redman, formerly Director of
Physical
Education, Elementary
Schools, Endicott, N. Y., who spoke
on the subject, “Singing Games and

Folk Dancing”; Wednesday, July
23, Miss Clariss Breing, Supervisor
or Art, Public Schools, Allentown,

who spoke on

much

of his life

through

was secretary

of
the Washington, D. C., board of
education.
He has an honorary
doctorate for his work in the field
of education.
Miss Mary A. Good, a member
of the class of 1897, observed that
she had had the “glorious experience of forty years of test tube
washing.” She observed that any

honor which she had been awarded she should turn back to her
teachers and mentioned particularly the late Prof. J. G. Cope.
It was of
interest
honored
mentioned

those
frequently
their instructors while at the College.
Standing ovations marked
the announcement of the recipients.
Each was also presented flowers.
The honors will be cherished by
the recipients but judged by the
reaction on the part of the assembled audience the alumni was just
as happy to give them as the four
honored were to be recognized.
that

ELEMENTARY WORKSHOP
An
ers

attractive program of speakwas planned for the Elemen-

Education Workshop held at
the
Bloomsburg State Teachers
Beginning
College this summer.
June 26, when Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, president of the Teachers
College, addressed the group, the
workshop heard outstanding educators who have achieved prominence in many fields. President Andruss spoke on the subject, “The
Three Philosophies.”
tary

Wednesday, July second, the
workshop group heard Miss Margaret Hoffman, Education ConForesman Comsultant,
Scott

and

Crafts.”

Rosella Danilo, daughter of Mr.

in

zerne county, and then

“Arts

and Mrs. Walter Dando, R: D. 1,
Carbondale, was elected president,
ol the

Waller Hall Association at

the Bloomsburg
State
Teachers
College. Miss Danilo was installed

her

in

new

office at a tea held in

honor of the newly-elected

officers

of the organization.

Other

officers elected included:
Albertson, Dewart, vice president; Louise Schullery, Delano,

Myra

Mary Ledyard, South
Gibson, treasurer; Senior representatives— Betsy Baer,
R.
D.
2,
Shickshinny; Ila
Mae Coursen,
Scranton; Joan Greco, Old Forge,
and Mary Elizabeth Patton, Wyalusing; Junior representatives— PatPatricia
ricia Edwards, Kingston;
O Loughlin, Easton; Mary Jo Wilsecretary;

Sophomore representatives— Janice Bower, Clarks
Summit; Alice Fisher, Sunbury and
Joan McCormick, Sunbury. Freshman representatives will be electliams, Trucksville;

ed

in

September.

Miss Marjorie Etta Averill, of
Berwick, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Bowman, Berwick, and James
A. Averill, Huntington, West Vir-

became the bride of Harold
Weeks, Bloomsburg R. D. 5, son
of George W. Weeks, Berwick, in
a double-ring ceremony Thursday,
April 17, performed by the Rev.
Paul Kleffel, pastor of the Almedia
ginia,

T.

Evangelical Church.
Mrs. Weeks attended

Berwick

High School. Her husband graduated from Scott Township High
School and attended B.S.T.C. He
served with the U.
during World War

S.

II

Air Force

and

is,

at

equipment operator for
Pennsylvania Department of Highpresent,

ways.
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timely death of the late Alden J.
Danks, just prior to the
opening of the 1946 season.
John A. I loch, still an assistant
football coach and active in many
phases of the College program, did
a commendable
job in
finishing
out that season hut did not wish
to continue in the post and Red(Lefty)

ATHLETICS
REDMAN RESIGNS
Robert B. Redman,

who during

guided
has
past five years
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colof
lege through its greatest era
head
football, has been named
football coach at East Orange, N.
High School and has accepted.
J.,
the

While it was known that a man
ability
and
of Redman’s record,
attenpersonality had attracted
tion on the part of numerous large
high schools and a number of colleges from the time he turned out
his first undefeated team here in
was
1948, the first word that he
leaving Bloomsburg at the end of
the present year

came

as a surprise.

The two

principal
Redman’s decision to
East Orange post was
able increase in salary
summers in which to
uate work, the popular

Newark, N.

J.,

factors

in

take
the
a consider-

and

free

take grad-

coach said.
papers gave con-

siderable space to his appointment
and dealt at length on bis achievements.
Few men on the College faculty
have ever taken such an active
part in the athletic and civic program of this entire area and cer-

man was named.
II is

first

year saw

six

victories

and two defeats. His undefeated
team of 1948 won the college and

community national publicity. The
next two years his club was defeated hut once each campaign. Last
year, the first season there was a
State Teachers College Conference,
his club took the championship at
the close of another undefeated
season.

His

overall

football

record

at

Bloomsburg is thirty-eight victories
and six defeats. He also has coached some top baseball teams. His
1949 team was undefeated and his
club of last Spring was rated strong
in all departments.

Redman, forty-three, is a graduate of Swarthmore College
and
holds a master’s degree from Duke
University. He has had outstanding success in scholastic and collegiate coaching and served four
years in the Navy during World
War II, being a lieutenant commander at the time of his separa-

High School
Susquehanna

his

teams

won

four

League

championships, including the last 25 games
in a row.
Then he went to North
High, Binghamton, N. Y., where he
coached five years prior to entering the Navy.
He was coach of the year of the
Teachers College Conference in
1951.
He also was given one of
two awards for distinctive achievement made by the Harrisburg Exchange Club and the Harrisburg
Sportswriters
and Sportscasters
Association.

The “Fanning” Column

of

The

Morning Press paid the following
tribute to Coach Redman and bis
record at Bloomsburg:
Resignation of Robert B. Redman as head coach of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College football teams, which recorded the unwins
usual record of thirty-eight
and four losses through a five-year
with
period, is indeed regarded
regret.

Redman through that relatively
short period earned for himself
the respect and admiration of all,
not necessarily those whose particular interest was centered in football.

His ability as a coach and the
accompanying personality are illustrated in the record which his

yet to be selected and
East Orange officials are now engaged in looking over the field of
applications. Redman has requested an aide experienced in teaching

squads established at the college.
Winning teams are not simply a
matter of outstanding athletes. It
the
is a combination of this and
personality behind them.
The best wishes of Bloomsburg
go with Bob in his new assignment
at East Orange, N. J. Bloomsburg’s

line tactics.

loss

is

Redman graduated from Swarthmore in 1930, after having won

New

Jersey city.

hole

field of a

candidates
hundred
which had been narrowed down to

Perkins
Memorial
Scholarship in a Sayre, Pa., High
School career which included var-

a three

man choice. The Newark
Evening News reported that “two

ious athletic activities, class presidency and status as valedictorian.

interviews and numerous telephone
conversations
East
convinced
Orange authorities that Redman
was the man they wanted.
East Orange is a city of 90,000
and has two high schools. Scholastic football games frequently
attract crowds of 12,000.
Redman was named football
coach at the Teachers College to
fill
a vacancy created by the un-

At Swarthmore he was an allaround athlete, captained the basewas
ball team his senior
year,

held
tainly none has won and
more friends than Redman.
The announcement of Redman’s
appointment was made by Dr.
Henry E. Kentopp, superintendent
He
of the East Orange schools.
succeeds Edwin Lewis whose resignation as coach was announced

during the past winter.

Redman was

September, 1952

selected

from

a

tion.

His assistant coach in the

regime

new

is

that college’s

associapresident of the athletic
tion and Letter S Club and a member of the Block and Key, senior
honorary society and of the Phi
Delta Theta national
fraternity.

That

fraternity

1948 as

in

of the year.
a six year period at Sayre

its

During

man

recognized him

certainly a gain for

Coachc Redman leaves

that

big

a

on the athletic program of the Bloomsburg State Teato

fill

chers College.

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner, ’34

HARRY

S.

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52

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REPORT FOR PRACTICE

veteran

Bloomsburg State Teachers College

reported for the
Tuesday, September

footballers

opening drills
responding to die call made by
Jack Yohe, newly-elected football
coach.
Yohe, who succeeds Rob2,

ert

Redman, who resigned

13.

late

this summer to accept a
coaching
post at East Oronge, N. J., High
School,
comes to
Bloomsburg
from West Chester State Teachers
College where he has served
as
backfield coach under Glen Killinger for the past five years.

Yohe will have a nucleus of
twenty-seven lettermen with which
to work, although several of last
season’s top-flight performers will
not be available. Lost by graduation were such standouts as Bob
“Witchaboo” Lang, the 205-pound
tailback from Milton; George Lambrinos, 210-pound blocking
back
from Endicott, N.
Y.;
Charles
Baron, the 240-pound tackle from
Endicott, N. Y., and aggressive Don
Cesare, the powerful guard from
Scranton.
Scholastic difficulties have taken
other topflight performers like Tom
Spack, the strong-armed wingback

from Johnstown; Alex Boychuck
and Jack Long, clever halfbacks
from Shamokin and a number of
promising stars from last
year’s
Freshman group.
But Coach Yohe and his assistants have several eye-pleasing lettermen to build their 1952 grid
machine. Powerful ends are available in Charley Brennan, glue-fingered To wanda senior, and Russ
Verhousky, clever Coaldale senior.
Gene Morrison, the lightweight
terminal from Bloomsburg,
will
also be on hand.
All-Stater John

Nemetz, the Shamokin strongboy,
leads the tackle contingent, while
veteran guards— Ardell Ziegenfuse,

Ashland; Merlyn Jones, WilkesBarre, and Joe Glosek, Coal Township, will

answer the

first

call

to

arms.

Eddie Connolly, Danville soph,
the only center returning
for
but
several
promising
Freshmen are listed to report,
backfield prospects include the
is

action,

powerful

Bernie

Mont,

Lehman

Rainey brothers
from
Johnstown; Ralph Verano, Shamo-

ace;
kin;
12

the

Dan

Troeki,

Edwardsville;

Dave

Linkchorst, Shenan-

doah and a few bright reserves
from the 1951 contingent.
The Huskies open their campaign

at

home Saturday

night,

September

the
Wilkes
27, with
College Colonels
providing the
competition.

to

Kutztown and

New

the
sters

Millersville. After

Year, the

found new

Husky Hoopand rolled

life

over practically all competition. As
the campaign ended, the Maroon
and Gold had up-ended seven consecutive foes to set their final chart
at 12 and 4.
Shelly’s free use of substitutions

LETTERWINNERS

was advantageous on almost every

Twenty-one varsity letterwinners were announced recently by
Robert B. Redman, baseball coach,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Coach Redman’s Huskies recently completed a successful diamond campaign, winning eleven of
fourteen games. The varsity monagrams went to the following mem-

occasion, and the closeness in individual scoring showed this true.
After Daly were Byham, Williams,
I inkchorst and Erickson in
tallying— all four of these boys scoring
ox er 120 points.
With the loss of but three players via the diploma route, the Shelleymen can well point to next season when old standby Maroon and
Cold talent will show its full might
on the courts of the Tutor Conference.

of the 1952 squad: Robert
Aurand, Millville; Albert Bolinsky
and Edward Kapsak, Berwick; Billy Creasy, Mifflinville; Paul Franklin and Kenneth Hidlay, Bloomsburg; John Halcovich, Shamokin;
Rudy Holtzman, Clarks Summit;
George Lambrinos, Endicott, N. Y.;
David Linkchorst, Shenandoah;
John Mincemeyer, Muncy; William
Rartleson, Warriors Run; Donald
Butler, Warriors Run; Robert Cumens, Coatesville; Joseph Glosok,
Coal Township; Joseph Kinder, St.
Clair; Richard Ledyard, Bloomsburg; Clem Makowski, Kulpmont;
John Panichello, Glenside; Claude
Rumer, Hatboro, and Ronald Steinbach, Bethlehem.

bers

BASKETBALL,

’52

Mr. Shelly’s basketball wizardry
reigned on the State Teachers College courts this past season

finally

Maroon and Gold cagers
bucketed
dribbled, swished and
their way to a brilliant record of
.12 happy nights against 4 reversals.
With Chuck Daly, Kane ace, leading the Husky
pack with 203

BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC
BSTC

65 Harpur

47

55 Kutztown
71 Lock

56°

_

Haven 57°

60 Millersville

64

_

67 Kutztown __ 43
69 Lock Haven _ 84
75 Wilkes
60 Ship’sburg

_

71
37°

48°

44 Mansfield _
65 Millersville
72 Mansfield _
93 W. Chester

76°

92 Ship’sburg

53°

_

56°
57°

79 Indiana ___ 73°

83 Wilkes
90 Harpur

Won

66
69

12, lost 4.

“Denotes League games.

as the

BSTC

boys lost only to
Haven, Mansfield and Kutztown, all in
foreign
dens. Another phenomenon lay in
points, the

Millersville,

Lock

the fact that Shelly’s

bow

to

any team twice

stars

didn’t

this

year—

quite a feat considering the strong
opposition in Millersville and Lock

Haven.

The Huskies opened the season
with an easy home verdict over
Harpur. Mediocre success followed
as the locals

bowed

in close

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Bloomsburg 529
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HOMECOMING DAY
OCTOBER 4. 1952

tilts

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EICI IT-G AME

SCHEDULE

games with the
powerful New Haven, Conn., State
and Trenton
Teachers College
Intersectional

Teachers College feature a
tough eight-game schedule lor the
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

State

Huskies, kingpins of the
Pennsylvania State Teachers Col
lege Conference, when the 1951
tutor champs begin preparations

lege

for

1952 campaign.

tin*

The

’52

card, announced by John A. Hoch,
looms as the
director,
athletic
toughest layout ever prepared for

Maroon and Cold

a

Saturday,

Saturday, October 18— Scranton,

away 0

visit

.

.

“night

games

Two

champions are listed
those who were awarded
v arsity track letters at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College this
state

tional

outstanding
middle distance runner from Mt.
Carmel, who won the State Teachers College mile championship this
year, and John Scrimgeour, West

night,

who copped the state title
the javelin throw, received the
It was Feifer’s third
varsity “B.”

addition to these intersectilts, the Huskies will meet
the strong University of Scranton
Saturday
Scranton
at
gridders
In

October

IS.

The meeting

Carlessiomo’s Royals
will mark the beginning of grid
relationships with the Purple and

with

Pete

The
White school.
ome to Bloomsburg
c

Royals will
in 1953 for a

return contest.

Four tutor foes will be met during the 1952 campaign— Mansfield,
California, West Chester and Lock
Haven. Mansfield’s Mountaineers
opposition for
will provide the

Homecoming Day

Saturday, October fourth, while the California
Vulcans, a newcomer on the 1952

Feifer,

Joe

Pittston,
in

\

arsity

award

and

Scrimgeour’s

second.

Other major letters went to Ted
Rainey, Johnstown; Robert Lang,
Milton; Jerome Kopec, Forty Fort;
William Ginter, Harvey’s Lake,
and Maynard Harring, Pitman.
Ginter and Harring were student
managers of the Husky track
squad.

Minor awards

went

to:

Mike

John Nemetz,
Shamokin; Dan Trocki and CharCrisci,

West

Pittston;

card, will

Yesson, Edwardsville; Edgar
Berry, Montoursville; Don Smith,
Forty Fort; Joe Barkley, Hatboro;

entertain the local collegians Friday afternoon, November 21.

John DiRico, Wayne; Richard CorHerre,
George
Noxen;
nell,
Bloomsburg; Eugene Karol, Mifflinville; Ronald Couch, Tamaqua;
Charles Rhoads, Chester; James
Luchs, Bloomsburg; Allen Walburn, Coal Township; Robert Nor-

be met away from home
Saturday, October 25. West Chester’s Golden Rams will play host
to the Huskies Friday night, No\ ember
14, and Lock Haven will

Opening rival for the Huskies
be Wilkes College. The up-

will

river
raise

outfit will help the Huskies
the football curtain Saturday

September

night,

27— the

latest

opening date in years.
The complete schedule follows:
Saturday, September 27—Wilkes,

home 0

.

September, 1952

Actual demonstrations of psychic
which disclose the
secrets of mediums and fortune
tellers featured the weekly assem-

phenomena

bly program of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College Wednes-

Howard
day morning, June 18.
Higgins, former dean of Emerson
College, Boston, and a well-known
psychologist, presented his unusual

program, “Among the

The

program

Spirits.’’

which

exposed

practices of fortune-telling mediums. Dr. Higgins, one of the most
sought-after speakers on the American platform today, approached
his subject with all the objectivity
a

pure

scientist,

and he

effec-

scuttled the favorite pracmost unprincipalled
tices of the
medium of fortune teller.
tively

CHAMPIONS ARE LISTED

spring.

enth.

UNUSUAL PROGRAM

of

Both are newcomers to
Bloomsburg athletic schedules, and
both will inaugurate a home and
home series, Mr. Hoch announced.

for

Saturday,

1

home.

November 8— Open.
14 — West
Friday, November
0
Chester STC, away
Friday, November 21— Lock Ha-

among

contest

STC.’,

Saturday,

an afternoon
October elev-

Trenton

November

Saturday,

Haven

— New

Mt.

Olympus Saturday afternoon, November first, while the Huskies will
travel to

25— California

Saturday, October

STC, away.

ven, away.

eleven.

will

circuit,

11—Trenton

October

STC, away.

New Haven, undefeated titlists
England Teachers
of the New
College

4— Mansfield

Saturday, October

STC, Homecoming.

les

Additional donors to the

Jordan, Mrs. Hannah Law
Groner, Dr. H. A. Smith, Corinne Hess

O’Rouke

Fiske, Claire Hedden,
Ralph Dreibelbis, Mrs.
Brownen Rees Boone, O. Z. Low, Mrs.
Bertha Burrows Martin, Mrs. Ruth S.

Miller, Ward E.
K. B. Albert, F.

Griffith.

Frank
Class of ’17, Joe Vincent,
Koniecko, Teloiv Wagner Wetzel, Paul
Dennison,
A. Klinger, Jr., Nellie M.
Helen May Wright, Doris K. Hosier,
William H. Selden, Mrs. Pauline Knies
Williams, Fred L. Houck, Mrs. Albert
G. Isaacs in memory of Mr. A. G. Isaacs, John F. Hendler, Mrs. Francis
Dietrich, Mr. and Mrs. William Wertz,
C. L. Kelchner, Wilbur G. Fisher, Donald L. Hoar, Carl S. Berninger, *Mrs.
Helen Harris Aliton, Cyril F. Menges,
John F. Witkoski, E. Marjorie Stover,
Mrs. Dorothy Berdine Way.
Indicates listing on Husky plaque

1948

Major James

quest, Berwick.

The Huskies went
dual meets, but they showed conimprovement throughout
sistent
the season behind the heavy pointgetting of their one-two punch—
Feifer and Scrimgeour.
winless in five

Husky

since the last issue of The
Listed in order of reQuarterly.
ceipt of contribution.
Helen Cashmareck, Emily E. Craig.
Minnie L. Gernon. Mrs. Mary Albert
Glenn, Mrs. Angeline Evans Beavers,
.Juan Selles Gongalez, Francis Garrity,
Clara M. Swank, Kathryn M. Spencer,
Carroll D. Champlin, Mary Vollrath,
Mrs. Catherine Vollrath Symons, Mrs.
Mae
Mrs.
Hart Mingos,
Margaret

Fund

J.

Dormer was

re-

called to active duty in the armed
forces last October, and is now
stationed at Clark Field in the Philis
address
His
ippine Islands.
of
5Slst ARCWG, APO 74, care
Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
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WEST BRANCH
ALUMNI MEET

THE ALUMNI
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Thomas ’42
VICE PRESIDENT

Francis P.

Edna Aurand
Washington

St.,

Wilkes-Barre

VICE PRESIDENT
Edison Fischer

Market

St.,

Glen Lyon

Eileen R. Falvey

St.,

The College

Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Nagle
116 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.

J.

PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth

Three poems written by Dean
Emeritus William Sutliff were read
by three alumni, and a motion picture, “Alma Mater,” taken in 1939,
was shown.
The following persons were present:

SECRETARY
Alice Smull

Mrs. Ruth S. Griffith
96

Willow

St.,

TREASURER

Wilkes-Barre
312

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING
COUNTY ALUMNI

PRESIDENT
Edward

Robert Llewellyn

T.

DeVoe

VICE-PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb

VICE-PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Francis Kinner

Edward

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Helen

Susan Sidler
Church St., Danville, Pa.

COLUMBIA COUNTY ALUMNI

PRESIDENT

B.S.T.C.,

Thompson

D. Sharretts

Bloomsburg, Pa.

TREASURER

SECRETARY

Paul L. Brunstetter

Mrs. Ernest Pinnock

TREASURER

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI

Mrs. Alwen Hartley
Lenoxville, Pa.

Mrs. Ruth Johnson Garney

PRESIDENT

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Owen Buchman
SECRETARY-TREASURER

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND
ALUMNI
PRESIDENT
Mary Agnes Meehan T8
Lexington Street
Harrisburg Penna.

2632

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Nellie M. Seidel ’13
1618 State Street

Harrisburg, Penna.

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
Paul Englehart

Mrs. Rachel

7011

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney
Frederick Street, Philadelphia 35

WASHINGTON AREA ALUMNI
PRESIDENT

New

Harriet Kocher
Colonial Hotel, Washington

5,

VICE-PRESIDENT
Harry O. Hine

D. C.

Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Danowski. Mr. and
Mrs. William Roth. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kline, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley Auten.
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Glover, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn
Tiley. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Reigle, Mr.
and Mrs. E. D. Schnure, Clyde Confer.
Ray Confer, Miss Sarah Russell, Mrs.
Hope Sterner, Mr. and Mrs. James
Webster.
Miss Helena Reimensnyder, Miss Virginia F. Reimensnyder, Mr. and Mrs.
Zong. LaRue Brown, Miss Cora
B.
Baumer. Miss Julia G. Hagenbuch, Mrs.
F. E. Kirk, Mrs. Caroline Spotts Criswell. Mrs. Thmas C. Welles, Charles
Kunkel, Mrs.
I. Royer. Mrs. Helen Egge
Carrie Shultz, Miss Margaret Hogendobler. Miss Blanche I. Lowrie, Mrs.
Mary Edith Kitt.
Mrs. Florence M. Jones, Mrs. Lowrie
Higbee, Mrs. Curtis Lesher, Miss M.
Augusta Schnure, Mrs .Helen Bruse
Brow, Mrs. Erma Moyer Angstadt, Miss
Helen W. Keller, Miss L. Ireen FrederMr.
ick, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Johnston,
and Mrs. Stanley Ritter, Mrs. Edith
Miller, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, Harvey
Andruss, Jr., Miss Lola Deibert, Miss
Jean Ruckle, Miss Mary Ellen Dean.
Miss Marilyn Lundy and Claude Renninger.

SECRETARY

1905

Martha Wright Moe

George Street

425 North Main

Harrisburg, Penna.

Walter Lewis

Virginia.

SECRETARY
Pearl L. Baer
21

S.

’32, ’35

Union Street

Middletown, Penna.

TREASURER

WEST BRANCH AREA
PRESIDENT
Harold Danowsky

VICE-PRESIDENT
William Roth

SECRETARY

W. Homer Engelhart ’ll
1821 Market Street

Dorothy Criswell Johnson

Harrisburg, Penna.

Cora Baumer

TREASURER

at

Ditzler Brundick lives

Anna

’07

TREASURER

2921

of

burg.

Robert Lewis

SECRETARY -TREASURER

composed

panied by Marilyn Lundy, Blooms-

Rudy

VICE-PRESIDENT

Wilkes-Barre

Trio,

Deibert, Danville; Jeanne
Ruckle, Bloomsburg, and Mary
Ellen Dean, Milton, sang during
the program. The trio was accom-

Lola

MONTOUR COUNTY ALUMNI

C. Alberta Nichols

Lockhart

College.

’46

SECRETARY -TREASURER

VICE PRESIDENT
71

Bloomsburg State Teachers
College met at the Vicksburg SoMore than sixty
cial Hall in April.
meeting
the
attended
persons
which featured an address by Dr.
Harvey Andruss, president of the

NEW YORK ALUMNI

LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
162 So.

The West Branch Alumni Group
of the

street,

Woodstock,
she

In a recent letter

writes:
‘‘I

have been living

in

Japan

for

some time with my husband, who
was stationed there with the Army
of Occupation.
now a retired

Col. Brundick

is

chaplain and
we have bought a house 175 years
old and are having fun restoring it.
It

had

five

Army

fireplaces

and

wide

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
14

charm of an old
any 1905 folks drive
through Woodstock, Virginia, on
Route 11, look us up. We shall
he so happy to see you.”
floors

and

house.

all

So,

1906

Raymond Girton, Ithaca,
York, recently retired after
serving forty-five years with the
International Salt Company, and
W.

New

was honored b\

his

co-workers and

plant executives at a dinner held
Tuesday evening, June 24.

1915

Martha Maun (Mrs. George H.
Moore) lives at 205 Water Street,
She has been
Pottstown 3, Pa.
teaching at the Wnydcroft School

1925

Anthony

Flannery has been
J.
elevated to the position of superintendent of schools of West Ma-

hanoy Township.
The appointment was effective
immediately.
Mr. Flanner succeeds Henry F. Murray, who resigned recently to go on retirement.

The new superintendent is a
graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College and Bucknell
University from which he holds
the degrees of Bachelor of Science
and Master of Science in Education.
In addition he has taken excollege
Valley
and
Colleges.
tra

Mr.

work from Lebanon
Pennsylvania

can Institute of Geography
and
History.
Dr. Warman is one
of
twelve Advisers on
the
United

He

States delegation.

a

is

member

the Teaching and Methodology
Committee of the Commission of
Geography. A member of the
Clark faculty since 1942, Dr. Warman was born in Scranton, Pa. He
received a bachelor
of
science
degree from State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, in 1932; a master
of science degree from
Temple
University, Philadelphia, in
1938
and a doctor of philosophy degree
from Clark in 1945. Dr. Warman
also has studied at the University
of Pennsylvania and the
Berlitz
Schools, both in Philadelphia.
He
formerly taught in the schools of

Norristown, where he was also
coach and athletic director. He was

coach of
Clark one year.

assistant

basketball

at

eight years as clerical assistant and
secretary to the superintendent of
schools, and for the past ten years

high school principal.
The
hoard considered this an excellent
as

for his

new

position.

The new superintendent is well
known in educational circles in this
part of the state. For several years
he has been a member of the Shenandoah Lions Club and the Executive Board of the local Red Cross
Chapter. He resides with his wife,
nee Helen Doming, R.N., of Mahanoy City, and four children at

320 Florida Avenue,
Heights.
September, 1952

Major

has

served the
school district a total of twentyeight years, including ten years as
elementary teacher and principal,

Shenandoah

supervision and training of all
units of the Army Organized Reserve Corps, and Reserve Officers
Training Corps detachments in the

Commonwealth.

A reserve officer, Major Woolcock was recalled to active duty in
February, 1949.
As Senior Unit
Instructor he will work in the training program designed to furnish
the Army with units organized and
trained in time of peace, for rapid
mobilization and expansion during
time of emergency, and to supply

and

officers

enlisted

men

as

in-

dividual replacements.
In civilian life Major Woolcock
a high school instructor in
Millville for eight years.
He graduated from Millville High School

was

1929 and then earned his Bacheof Science in Education at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa.
In 1940 he
received his Masters in Education
at Penn State College, State Colin

lor

lege, Pa.

Major Woolcock was initially
commissioned a 2d Lieutenant at
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in July, 1941.
His most re.cent promotion to Major was in
Korea in March, 1951.
The Major holds the Bronze Star
Medal, the Combat Infantryman’s
Badge, Presidential Unit Citation,
and the Korean Service Medal with
live Battle Stars.

1937
D. A. Watts, teacher at the Wat-

sontown High School, recently was

State

1934

Flannery

background

Dr. Henry J. Warman, associate
professor of geography and secretary of the Graduate School
of
Geography at Clark University,
Worcester, Mass., has been designated an Adviser on the United
States Delegation to the Third Pan
American Consultation on Geography. The consultation was held at
Washington, D. C., July 25-August 4, at the invitation of the government of the United States of
America. It was held concurrently
with a meeting of the Commission
on Geography of the Pan Ameri-

oi

Pottstown.

in

1932

the

if

Gerald

named
M.

Woolcock,
has been assign-

Orangeville, Pa.,
ed a Senior Unit Instructor for
the
Army Organized Reserve
Corps (ORC) center in Chambers burg, Pa.
Major Woolcock recently returned from duty in the Far East Command where he was a member of
the
Korean
Military
Advisory
Group for over two years.
His wife, Ruth G. Woolcock, and
children, Deanna Sue 7, Gary John
5,

and Harry Eugene

their

home

ville,

Pa.

3,

live

at

D. 1, Orangeville.
Major Woolcock’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. R. Woolcock, are in Millin R.

Pennsylvania

Military

commanded by
Sutherland,

is

Colonel

District,

E.

M.

responsible for the

principal of the

West

Chil-

lisquaque Township High School
to fill the vacancy created by the
resignation of James Tresslar.
Watts, who taught history and

mathematics

at

Watsontown,

will

teach social studies in Montandon
in addition to his administrative
duties.

He

the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Millville, and is a
graduate of Millville High School
and B.S.T.C.
He did graduate
work and received his master’s degree at Bucknell Unviersity.
Prior to World War II, he was
principal at Pottsgrove. He served
in the U. S. Navy as a lieutenant
on the destroyer, Wilkes, and since
that time has taught at Watsontown
and at the Navy School at Williamsport.
is

Fred Watts,

15

Hawthorne

Avenue, Springfield,
New Jersey. She taught last year
in the Regional High School in
Springfield.

1943

Promotion to major for Capt.
David M. Jones, of 332 West Arch
Street, Shamokin, Pa., has been announced at Mitchel Air Force Base,
Long Island. Major Jones is personnell and administration inspector in the inspector general’s office.

Major Jones was a B-17 pilot in
the 301st Bombardment Group of
the 15th Air Force in Italy and the
He
Balkans during the last war.
won the Air Medal. After the war.
Major Jones joined the counter intelligence corps in Germany, and
became liaison officer at the U. S.
Consulate in Stuttgart.
Major Jones was graduated from
Pennsylvania Teachers College at
Bloomsburg, Pa., and earned his
Columbia
master’s degree from

He

University.

is

a

member

of

Kappa Delta

Pi and Phi Sigma Pi,
fraternities,
honorary
education
and is a Mason. He is married to
Theresa
Elizabeth
the
former
Gartland, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
They have a son, David Gartland.

Major Elwood M. Wagner has
been attending the Academic Instructors’ Course at Maxwell Air
Force Base, Alabama. In September he will resume his duties as Assistant Professor of Air Science and
Tactics at Ohio State University.
His mailing address is 2119 Ridgeview Road, Columbus 12, Ohio.
1945
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Crocker (Flora

Guarna) are the parents of a son,
William Leroy 3rd.
1949

James Sampsell has been teaching in Alaska since graduation. His
Native Service,
address: Alaska
Chenega, Alaska. During the past
summer he returned to the States
with his wife and son to attend
summer school at Brigham Young
The Sampsells also
University.
came East and spent a short time
visiting in
1C

Fay Smith, Farmingdale, N.

1950

1941
Irene Diehl Konrad lives at 210

Bloomsburg.

Wayne

VonStetten, of Columbia,
for
dependable
quarterback
Bloomsburg Teachers in the years
immediately following World War
II and one of the
most popular
men on the campus during his days
in Bloomsburg, has been
named
head football coach at Coatesville
a

High.

Elmer

Kreiser, also of Columbia,
and basketball star for the
Huskies, has been elevated to the
post of head basketball coacli at
his scholastic alma mater.
He is
assistant football coach to
Tom
Donan, also a Bloomsburg College
alumnus and who was named an
all-star guard during his days on

the

Rev.

J.,

Thomas Fletcher

and

offici-

ated.

They

are

residing

Road, Wayside.
ers

in

Neptune

the

at

Browne

Both are teach-

Township

School system.
Sgt. Leo J. McDonald has been
teaching mathematics at the Armed
Forces Education Center at Camp
Zama, Japan.

football

College

Hill.

Bloomsburg has had a remarkable record in sending athletes into
scholastic coaching following their

A
graduation here since the war.
check showed that twenty-seven
Bloomsburg alumni in that period
have been named coaches in some
sport.

Practically

all

of

them are

doing exceptionally fine jobs and
many have directed championship
teams.

1951

The First Presbyterian Church,
Berwick, was the setting at four
o’clock Saturday, April 5, for the
ceremony uniting in marriage Miss
Gloria Dawn Long, of Spring City,
Pa., daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde W. Long, of Briar Creek, to
James L. Whitney, Jr., of Lakehurst, N. J., son of Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Whitney, of Sunbury.
The Rev. Gladstone P. Cooley,
pastor of the church, performed
the double-ring ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of Berwick High School and majored in
languages at B.S.T.C., where she
was a member of Kappa Delta Pi.
She is teaching at Spring City. Her
husband, graduate of Sunbury

The First Church of Christ in
Lock Haven was the setting of a
wedding on May 2 which united in

High School, majored in science
at B.S.T.C. and was a member of
Phi Sigma Pi. At the present time,

marriage Deryl Jack Samois, son
of Mrs. Verna
Samois, Danville,
and Miss Jeannette Keller daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Keller, of Lock Haven.
The doublering ceremony was performed by
the Rev. William Thompson. The
bride is a graduate of Geisinger
School of Nursing in 1950 and has

he

been employed there as a staff
nurse. The bridegroom graduated
from B.S.T.C. in 1950 and served
for a year in the U. S. Air Force.
Pie is employed as a clerk by the

Pennsylvania Railroad at Enola.
Mr. and Mrs. Samois are living in
an apartment at Colonial
Park.
Harrisburg.
In a ceremony performed recently in the Wayside Methodist

Church, Wayside, N. J., Miss Anna
Jane Battjer, daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Battjer, of
Wayside, became the bride of
Walter Bird, son of Mr. and Mrs.

George

Bird, of Berwick.

studying aerography while
is
serving with the U. S. Navy.
Pfc. Robert E. Hileman, a member of the 1951 graduating class, is
now with the 43rd Infantry Divis-

ion in Augsburg,

Germany.

Homecoming
Day
Saturday,

October 4

The Rev.
TIIE Al.UMNI

QUARTERLY

Worrall Adler, Mrs. Marie Dempsey Ford and Miss Ida Walter if
any members can report concerning them.
•

CLASS

many

Not

REUNIONS

of

the

class

fine

The Class

of 1892 in Reunion on

sixtieth anniversary

ils

members present

as

had eleven

will

The Class of ’97 met in reunion
and attended the College dinner.

up

Reminiscences were

to

fifty-three

iar as

I

ord for

Mr.
York; Mr.
Hanover;

The

1897

years,

which so

know was the longest recany member of the class.

the class

State Teachers College at

Kerstetter,

Milton;

Miss Ellen Doney, Shamokin; Miss
Carrie Black, Philadelphia, and
Miss Flora Ransom, Kingston. The
only other living male member of
the class, Mr. Frederick Vincent,
Wilkes-Barre, being unable to attend, sent greetings.
were congratulated on the
fact that we had the largest number present of any sixty year class

We

many years, probably ever, to
date.
Much of the success in getlor

ting this number, eleven, to be
present was due to the help given
the secretary by
Mrs. Douden,
Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Garrison and
Miss Doney, who wrote letters during the year to members
of the
class.
Much of the reason that we
do not have more written up about
the class in the Quarterly is because many of the members do not
answer letters sent them.
So far as we are able to find out.
not more than twenty-eight members are living and of those we
can get reports of but twenty-four.
Beside Mr. Vincent, Mrs. Nettie

La Gorce

Streeter, Mrs. Anna Kitchen Creveling, Mrs. Lillian O’Donnell
Flood,
Mrs.
Louise

Voung Van Horne were too

ill

to

The Alumni Quarterly

A MEMORIALIZATION
At the meeting (the 60th) of the
lass of

1892, held

May

1902

A

substantial gift to found
The Alumni Quarterly, being presented to the then Principal, J. P.
I.

Welsh; and applied by him to the
first issue of that publication, published in 1892 and regarded as the
forerunner of the present Quarterly.
II.
A gift of approximately
S300 to help found a Scholarship,
but later deemed as advisable and
appropriate to purchase a curtain
for the Auditorium.

Whereupon, the Secretary of the
Class was instructed to communicate the action to the College and
the Alumni Quarterly.
(Miss) Flora Ransom,

Mary A. Pollock.
Mrs. Lena Cole Field and Katie
Cannon were two added to the list
of deceased members.

The above article was prepared
by Mr. Thomas F. Chrostwaite
upon resolution of the Class of

should like to get in touch
Mrs. Mary

Lulu Tweedle,

September, 1952

.

Houck, Shavertown; Mary Good, Wapwallopen; Blanche Lowrie. Watsontown;
Zerbin Low, Orangeville; Bertha KelScranton; Carrie Lloyd Gelatt,
ley,
Thompson: Eva Martin, Hazleton: Jean
Menjies Scott. Severna Park, Maryland: Mabel Moyer, Bloomsburg; LeonIsabel
Forty
Fort;
ora
Pettebone,
Smith York, Mt. Carmel; Emma Ruggles Starr, Forty Fort; Mary Veal Probert, Hazleton; Mary Williams GethNanticoke; Bess Davis, Wilkesing,
Barre; Curtis Welliver, Berwick.

Mater:

3S6 Rutter Avenue
Kingston, Pennsylvania

We

Lizzie Dailey Curran, Plymouth: Dr. D.
Washingtonville;
George
Hess,

Rl.

(

be present. These also sent greetings as did also Miss Cady Hawk
and Miss Edna Fairchild and Miss

with

beth Dailey Curran, Zerbin Low.
Attending: J. S. Brace, Tunkhannock;

24, 1952,

there being present eleven members (reported to be the largest
lass so attending in the recent
records of the Institution), it directed that a notation be made in the
minutes of the class and submitted
foi the appropriate records of the
College in the nature of a Memorialization of the following:
The President of the Class, Mr.
Tiffany, reported two items of special distinction as expressive of the
devotion of the Class to its Alma

in order and
and addresses were

urday.
Election of officers: Leslie Seeley, President; Zerbin Low, Vice
President; Mary Good, SecretaryReunion officers elecTreasurer.
ted were:
Mary Jane Gething,
chairman; Belle Smith York, Eliza-

and

(

list

brought up to date. The class attended the general Alumni meeting, and the luncheon served Sat-

Bloomsburg

Pauline Lattimore Douden,
Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Bertha
Burrow Martin, Harrisburg; Mrs.
Bertha Campbell Garrison, Binghamton, N. Y.; Mrs. Eva Faus McKelvy, Montoursville;
Mrs. Sue
(.’reveling Miller, Weatherly; Mrs.
Blair

soon be located.

teaching their life’s work, but four
those who kept at it taught from
forty-seven years before retiring

Mrs.

Grace

and cooperation by
and are convinced it

made

follows:

G. W. B. Tiffany, Little
Chrostwaite,
Thomas

are glad to have such

interest

the Faculty

ol

1892

We

orial."

Class Secretary

1892 to institute a search for
lost or mislaid “Class of ’92

our

Mem-

The

fifty-year class with

thirty-

back opened a memorable
weekend with a dinner on Friday
evening, at which the General Al-

one

umni Association was host. Members were all seated on the platform for the general meeting. Each
was presented with a facsimile of
the diploma issued them at graduation a half century earlier. David
his
for
Cottner, Scranton, back
first reunion since graduation, re-

sponded

for his class.
Attending: Mrs. Blanche Austin Gibbons, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Marie Bailey
Bradbury
Smith, Benton; Mrs. Grace
Cottner,
Everitt, Stroudsburg; David
Scranton; Mrs. Florence Crow Hebei,
Liverpool; Miss Marie L. Deim, Scranton; Mrs. Gertrude Druss Jacobs, SteelMorris,
ton; Mrs. Margaret Edwards
Edwardsville; Mrs. Bertha Fine Gunn,
Binghamton, N. Y.; Mrs. Mary Francis
Gendell. Chalfonte; Miss Harriet E. Fry,
Danville; Mrs. Eleanor Gay Northrop,
Mehoopany; Miss Alice Guest, Danville;
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Heiss, Potersville, N. J.; Mrs. Charlotte V .Heller,
Williamsport; Mrs. Etta Hirlinger Keller, Orangeville; Mrs. Margaret Hoffa
17

Henninger, Dushore; Mrs. Essene MarMarion Johnson
lin, Forty Fort; Mrs.
Leighow Lewis,
Skeer, Mrs. Estella
Germantown; Miss Lourissa Leighow,
Long,
Washington, D. C.; Miss Bess
Bloomsburg; Mrs. Helen Reice Irven,
Lewisburg.
Smoczinski,
Catawissa;
Miss Mary
Miss Eunice Spear, Bloomsburg; Miss
Elfie Vance, Orangeville; Mrs. Jennie
Williams Cook, Hazleton; Mrs. Bessie
Jennie
Fort;
Yeager Davis, Forty
Harris Young, Minneapolis; Mrs. Jennie
Rosenstock Young, Middletown, N. Y.;
Mrs. Carolyn John Kearns, Wyoming.

1907

Evidence of the youthful

spirit

members of the Class of 1907
shown by their report of their

of the
is

reunion:

Members of
we graduated
hundred and

the Class of 1907,
45 years some one

thirty-six

strong, ac-

cording to the class day program,
although our numbers have been
IK

eroded to one hundred and
four on the college lists.

thirty-

From our questionnaire, we received usable replies from 41 persons. This gives us a base ratio of
By well known rules of
41:136.
sloppy approximation, our arthmetical expert,

Agnes Wallace Dutch-

we can get the working ratio of 1:3 although it is actually 1:3.3170731707.
Do you remember, a circulating decimal?
bet’s call 1/3, O. K.? The request
comes from one who barely got
through Sutliff on Arithmetic!
er consenting,

Seven states or provinces are
represented in answers from living members, Pennsylvania leads
with 20. New Jersey with seven
New York lists three
is second.
with Ohio and California claiming

two each.

If the other two-thirds had answered shall we assume that we
would have had three times as
many states represented, or woidd
there have been representatives
from three times the distance?
What about it, Agnes?
Four inquiries on our deceased
members were answered.
Mabel Dexter, (Ph. B. Dickin-

son) died of a cardiac attack in
1947. She served thirty-three years
as teacher.

Deri Hess died in 1945 from an
asthmatic and heart condition.

Mary Weaver Evans was
in

killed

an auto accident.
Thirty-three

of

our responding

members married, of whom twelve
were left widows or widowers.
Two of these remarried. Dave
Meisberger says he was married

THE AI.HMNI QUARTERLY

twice, “not at the same time.”
These thirty-three married class-

as

mates have brought up eighty-one

September 1949 to September 1950
in which he organized the largest

children,

three

of

adopted and five of

whom were
whom were

step children.
Thirty-six of these
children are college graduates.

is

William Englehart, son of Paul,
a pharmacist, doctor of medi-

cine,

the
land,

and

and the resident physician at
Women’s Hospital of Maryspecializing

in

gynecology

obstetrics.

David, son of Bessie Coaswell
graduated magna cum
laude from Drew Theological SemTaylor,

from which his father and
grandfather had graduated, all at
twenty year intervals. After editing the Christian Advocate, he has
served as minister of a Chicago
inary,

Congregation.
Lyman, Bessie’s
youngest son, also a minister, served in Korea as missionary and was
evacuated during the 1950 invasion.

Seventeen

are

veterans

of

the

armed services, including WAC
Anna Susan, daughter of Anna
Wolfe Magill.
Blanche Hoppe
Chisholm’s step son Raymond, of

whom

she says, “one of the grandboys I ever knew, was killed
in action and was awarded the D.
S. C. posthumously.
Foster, the
son of Bertha Sterner Richards,
was a lieutenant in the Army Air
He was credited with forForce.
est

ty-seven missions as bombardier in
Italy.
He is making the Army his
career, specializing in electronics
and radar.
Andrew, also child of Anna
Wolfe. R.S.T.C. ’42, got his U. S.
and British wings.
She reports

he flew from Great Falls,
Mon., to Alask. Then he flew to
India from Nashville via South
America, Atlantic Ocean and Africa.
He made 81 round trips over
“the Hump.”
After the war was
over, he flew Ambassador Patrick
Hurley home from India via the
Philippines, Hawaii, San Francisco
and Nashville, thus having flown
completely around the world.
John, son of Irene Reimard
Cressler, a fourth generation doctor
to
graduate from Jefferson
Medical College, is a surgeon in
the United States Army.
His duties have taken him to Germnay,
Japan, Panama and Korea as well
that

September, 1952

extensive travel in the United
“He served in Korea from

ded or almost two thousand teach-

hospital in the world, 11,000 beds,

we venrepresent something like a
true picture of our return to society through service in schools

and was decorated by the United

and

States.

States

Government with the

‘Le-

gion of Merit’.”

We

suggest the citation of “Distinguished Mothers” to Blanche
Hoppe Chisholm with three step
children, four additional children,
14 grandchildren or step grandchildren, and five great grandchildren; to Helen Boat Harrison with
four children and sixteen grand
children; and to Mary Weaver Evvans with seven children and nine
grandchildren.

Quoting

know why

I

Blanche: “Now you
have gray hair, with

two sons and two sons-in-law
over seas at once.”

all

we award the citation
“Worthy Fathers” to Dave Meisberger with three children and nine
grandchildren, and to Deri Hess
with five children and five grandFurther,

of

children.

Ten of our number secured further education with extra courses
or attendance at Bloomsburg, or
elsewhere.

We

have eight bachelor’s degrees, and seven master’s degrees
(one person has two).
Five have
training beyond the master’s degree. These persons include: Louise

Jolly,

Pitt.);

Bill

couseling Dr. (Univ. of
Moyer, Phar. Dr. (Phil.

Coll. Phar.);

(Univ.

of

and

Pa.)

Levan, Ph. D.
chemistry and

Bill

in

physics.

Can we conclude from our basic
ratio that three times this number
degrees would have been revealed if we had had the full number of answers? Well hardly, but
from information picked up here
of

others, we can
conclude that there must be a number of additional attainments, as

and there about

in the cases of Harry DeWire, Bill
Landis, the Dana Boys, and probably others.

From our data, some of which
are only approximate, we estimate
that 617 teacher years of service
have been rendered from the persons who responded to our questionnaires.
Three times this number, if all the members had respon-

er-years of service would,
ture,

colleges.

is not necessarily measured in terms of conspicuous or
glamourous positions.
Margaret

Service

forty-four
years,
and
Iless-Colyers’
thirty-three
years, of direct classroom contact
with children may in actual value
have been of more importance than
ten years of service of those of us

Dail ley’s

Mary

who may have had more

conspicu-

ous positions.
This can very well be said of
others of our class whose experience was entirely as classroom
teachers.
But recognizing tin;

shortcomings of such evaluations,
let us note those who have held
more conspicuous, and possibly

more

positions.
At
have served as principals including Ethel Burrows,
Mabel Dexter, Deri Hess and Sadie
Moyer MacCulloch. Three of our
number have served as supervisors in city or county school sys-

responsible

least five of us

tems, including Deri Hess, as vocational supervisor in Northumber-

land County, Pa., and Agnes Wallace
or in

Dutcher as primary supervisAlameda County, California.

Roth served with distinction, Deri
for his promotion of Future Farmers of America work and aid in re-

farm machinery with
high school trainees during the war,

habilitating
in

Snyder-Union-Northumber-

the

land Vocational District in Pennsylvania, and Agnes as arithmetic
program builder, and improver of
reading programs in several California Counties.
She also was se-

conduct demonstration
Fine work, Agnes, and we
wish that Deri were here so that
we might say the same to him. One
member has obtained mention in
Who’s Who in Education. Alma
Noble Leidy and Bill Levan have
lected

to

classes.

been

regular

Alma

in

college

instructors;

speech education at Indiana S.T.C. and Bill teaching chemistry to medical students at Cedar
Crest and Findlay Colleges.
Bill
is also our only member so far discovered in an honorary scholarship
fraternity, Kappa Phi Kappa. And
he played center and backfield in
19

football at college!

Only four

berships

of our

members

pared for business, but

pre-

at least five

are in business at this time.
Bill
Moyer is a head of an important

wholesale and retail drug firm, the
only firm, or one of the only two,
continuously in business since the
1902 centennial of Bloomsburg,
now operating at the time of its
Sesquicentennial in 1952. Stanley
Conner is president of a wood millworking factory in Trenton. Paul
Englehart has been for the last
twenty-three years head comptroller of the Harrisburg State Hospital. Tony Bodriguez, I venture gets
the top mention as our most successful business man.
As traveling government auditor and assistant manager of an auditing company, he finally went into manufacturing successfully for twentyseven years. He is president of his
company. He has been past president of the Puerto Rican Institute
of Accountants.

Educational articles

in

regional,

and national publications, a
textbook, and poetry have issued
from our membership.
Note our
poet, Agnes Wallace Dutcher.
state,

Hobby

interests reported include

woodworking,

china
collecting,
quotations (Sadie Moyer
MacCulloch) china collecting, also
laces (by Agnes Wallace Dutcher).

quaint

Tony Rodriguez has
hole-in-one

golf

club

joined the

by

two

achievements

of this remarkable
one with a drive or
push or stroke of 85 yards. He also,
at various times, has saved eight
persons from drowning.
stunt, the last

almost half of the rereport
lodge activity
among, in order of frequency, the
Masons, Eastern Star, Elks, Odd
Fellows,
Knights of Columbus.
Several men are members of more
than one lodge. Mary Hess Colyer
mentions all the offices: Worthy
Matron, Grand Master or Grand
Matron are mentioned by Ethel
Barrows, Paul Englehart, Louise
folly, Irene Reimard Cressler and
Pony Rodriguez. In terms of lodge
degrees, Marne Barrows, Stanley
Conner, Paul Englehart, Deri Hess,
Sixteen,

sponders,

Irene

Reimard Cressler

seem

have gone especially high.
There are over a dozen
20

to

mem-

in

civic-service

or the
type
civic
clubs.
Three presidents are included. Dr.
jolly was state president of the
Business and Professional Women’s Federation of California.

1912

classification

Four

of our

members have been

regular Sunday School teachers;
eight have been repeatedly or continuously on the governing or sacramental bodies of churches. Agnes Wallace Dutcher was deaconfor twenty years; Ethel Burrows was treasurer for twenty-four
ess

years.

In political life

we seem

scored only twice,

at

to

least

have
from

among

the thirty-seven or eight responders. Tony Rodriguez, as previously mentioned, secured high
citation for official work in his province of Puerto Rico. Bill Moyer
is one who has pulled the votes to
be made member of the Bloomsburg School Board, Fire Chief of
the Winona Fire Company, and
President of the Bloomsburg Town

Council.

The

Congratulations,

Bill.

reunion is only
one-half years away.
Would it not be fine to have our
survev 100 percent comprehensive
of all the class membership by
then? Adress: Secretary, Class of
1907, care State Teachers College,
four

fifty-year

and

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Attending: Mary Hess Colyer, York;
Agnes Wallace Rees, Berkeley, California; Helen Wardell Eister, Van Wert,
Ohio; Helen Roat
Harrison,
Tampa.
Fla.; Minnie S. Zang Garver, How-inthe-Hills, Florida; Edith Campsie Dreisbach, Philadelphia; Dr. and Mrs. W. C.
LeVan, Elysburg; Sadie Moyer MacCulloch, Lodi, N. J.; Pearl
Anstock
Holt, Hawthorne. N. J.; Bertha D. Lovering, Scranton; Anna Wolfe
Magill,

Four

States, the District of

The

lumbia, and

Coof

Canada were represented among
(he more than forty members
of
the class of 1912.
Opening event
was an Alumni Day eve dinner at
Fests.

Laurence D. Savige, Scranand Howard F. Fen-

ton attorney

stemaker of the College faculty,
responded for this
class
which
numbered 192 at the time of graduation.
Attending: Mabel Derr DeMott, Eyersgrove; Frances Westgate Sheffel, Binghamton. N. Y.; LeClaire Schooley Fetterolf. Homer W. Fetterolf, Spring Mills:
Harriet Hartman Kline, Bloomsburg:
Florence
Blecher
Crouse,
Danville;
Theresa Dailey Bachinger, Bloomsburg;
Anna Reice Trivelpiece, Danville; Mr.
and Mrs. George M. Barrow.
Hazel
Henrie Wright, Bloomsburg.
.Jessie Doran, Moscow, R. D.3: Helen
G. Metzinger, Mahanoy City; Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence E. Barrow, Ringtown; Ercell D Bidleman, Bertha Harner Bidleman, Bloomsburg; Greta
Udelhofen
Keenleyside. Brantford, Ontario, Canada; Emily Barrow Womer, Pottsville;
Helen Appleman Keller, Culver, Ind.
Ona Harris Henrie, Lydia Andres
Creasy, Bloomsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Savige.
Scranton; William C. Weaver,
Catawissa R. D. 3; Eva Weaver Swortwood,
Mountain Top; William H. Davis, Binghamton, N. Y.; J. W.
Everett,
Ruth
Kline, Everett, Indiana; Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Tubbs, Shickshinny; Edna Klinger Rhinehart, Sunbury R. D. 2; Grace
F. Johnson, Northumberland; A.
W.
Duy, Jr., Bloomsburg; Mary Derrick
Ziegler, Herndon; Mary Hidlay. Eisen-

hauer, Mifflinville; Emillie Nikel GledWestmont, N. J.: Grace Wolfe Arnold, Glenside; Lena Leitzel Streamer,
Collinswood, N. J.; Beatrice Foose McBride, Rock Glen; Mr. and Mrs. Howard
hill.

F.

Fenstemaker,

Emma

Bloomsburg;

Hartranft Tyler, Irwin; Ruth Fox Fagley, Pittsburgh; Ellnora Seeley Reimensynder, Berwick; Grace Derrick Roat.
Washington, D. C.

Sugarloaf.

Lu Lesser Burke, Union

Dominion

1922
City. N.

J.;

Nellie Burke, Verona, N. J.; Mame Barrow Anderson, Plainfield, N. J.: Arvilla

Kitchen Eunson, Bloomsburg; Margaret
O'Brien Hensler, North Bergen, N. J.;
Irene Reimard Cressler, Wilkes-Barre;
Ethel L. Burrows, West Pittston; Florence Whitebread Lyone, Elmira, N. Y.:
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Englehart, Harrisburg; Mrs. Henry Sippel, Kingston; Miriam Johnes Whitby, Edwardsville; Mrs.
James A. Brenan, Forty Fort; William
V. Moyer, Helen Moyer
Hemingway,
Bloomsburg; Dr. D. T. Meisberger, Shamokin; Bertha Sterner Richards, Williamsport; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Barton,
Bloomsburg; Gertrude Gross Fleischer
and husband, Sunbury; Elizabeth Dreibelbis Orner and husband, Bloomsburg.

The

1922 reported 42
back for a busy day on the campus
in thirty year reunion.
Attending were Edna Harter, Nescoclass

of

peck; Martha Y. Jones, Scranton; Mrs.
Arch Ramage, Wyoming; Mrs. John D.
Raymond. Easton; Aileen Tosh Bohn,
Wilkes-Barre; Cecelia Philbin,
Archbald; Nan Emanuel, Wilkes-Barre; Marion Graham, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Theresa Knoll Shimansky, Nanticoke; Margaret Murray Luke, Mahanoy City; Valeria A. Sypniewski, Nanticoke; Margaret
Murray Luke, Mahanoy City; Valeria A.
Sypniewski. Nanticoke; Alderetta Slater
Cook, Bringantine, N. J.; Eva
.Mortown; Mrs. Joseph B. Cameron, Nesgan, Scranton; Edward L. Yost, Ring-

M

Till!

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Williams,
M. Donald
copeck: Mrs.
Payne,
Canadaiqua. N. Y.; Catherine

Shamokin; Mrs. Mary

L. Paetzell, Milford, N. J.: Mrs. Stella Kern, Harrison,
N. J.; Gertrude S. Miller, Bloomsburg:

Welliver, Berwick:
Anna Naylor Kuscher, Scranton; Helen
Dietrich Harman, Springfield; Genevieve
Bohr. Endicott, N. Y.; Mattie Luxton
McLntyre
Lynch, Laurel, Md.; Ruth
Lenhart, Bloomsburg; Lucille Jury Wise,
Clarissa Sharretts

Berwick.

1927

A

quarter century ago

I’lie

twenty-seveners put on

(piite

a show.
in

the clouds

we

sallied forth

the

World

for

what

it

was worth.

The

starry eyes of grey,

brown and

blue

And

the well-tended
every hue

May have dimmed

tresses

of

a bit or turned

to grey,

But come the 24th of

We

hope you

will

be

May—
at

our class

reunion

And though

Irene Hilgert Smith, Esther E. Dierolf,
Berneta Valentine Zehner, Ruth Davies
Ashton, Alice Brobyn De Ronde. Dorothy Dodson. Ruth Anthony Ralph, Edith
Quinn Jakobsen, Gerry Hess Ruch, Elsie Bower, Hope Schalles Rosser, Pauline Vastine Sugden, Verna Medley Davenport, Helen Andrews Thomas, Herman E. Fowler, Lillian Denn Clarke,
Bertine
Prosser,
Emily
Goldsmith,
Irene Feeney, Margaret Finnerty, Winifred A. McVey, Helen Schaeffer Jacobs,

Mary

K.

Gallagher.

Marion

McHugh

Thelma Ca,rr Lameroux, Doris Evans
Powell, Kathleen Somers Bonner, Althea Farley Betz, Margaret
Hartman
Evans, Loie Bickert, Erla Long Creasy,
Clara Miller Siegfried, Edna Berkheiser Sylvester, Irene Benovitz Spitz, Kitty
Heffern
Higgins,
Catherine
Deane,
Dorothy Bennetto Tubridy, Evangeline
Lanning Deibert. Mollie Brace Duffy,
Victoria Smith Bundens, Dea Fogherty,
Ruth Smith Shapiro, Sally Miller Meister, Margaret C. Healy, Norine N. Amesbury, Ellen Oates McKeehan, Oce Williams Austin, Archie Austin, Margaret
Sheridan Harrington.

Notes— Ethel Fowler Brown inyou to “Brown’s M & M Mo-

vites

there are shocks— no

fair swoonin’.

Service lads.
pictures of your brides
grads,

Even your grandchildren— if
must
(Yours will leave

all

tel,”

101

Bring along those snaps of

And

Ellery,

George
Harrington, Jessie Hastie, Lena
Van
Horn (City Hospital, Baltimore, Md. ),

Shadduck. Helen Hergert Guyler.

With our heads

To conquer

Arch). Mary Jones,
Rosina
Delma Myers Husband, Alta

your

and
you

Santa

Maria,

Cal.,

Highway

.

Mary Freas has a gift shop at
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Florence Gambler Haas has a
chicken farm at Duncannon, Pa.
Helen Mulligan is owner and director of “Camp Tekhita,” Lake
Ariel, Pa.

Class of 1932

Among

be lots of fun and some
surprises—
later than most of us realizes.

There’ll

So come meet your friends and review old days—
You’ll be glad to go back to your
present ways.

Verna Medley Davenport

com-

piled the
announcements which
were sent to every member of the

whose address we could find.
Seventy-two attended; we had
lunch in the dining room; the second cup of coffee was served by
our College hostess, Miss
Ethel
class

Ransom in the Day Women’s
Lounge and we talked about B.S.
T.C. and the class of 1927.

had fun.

We

Present were:

Sue R. Fenwick,
Lowry
Mildred
Marcy, Martha Tasker Cook,
Delores
Eisenhower,
Pauline Forsythe Hile,
Stella Murray, Isabel O. D. Sweeney,
Sylvia Cimmet, Grace
(Mrs.
Jones
September, 1952

1942

A

very successful reunion of the
class of 1942 was held at the Montour House, Danville, on the evening of Alumni Day.
Those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. H. Burnis Fellman, Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Dean (Charlene Margie), Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Mohr,
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dobb (Betty Hoagland), Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. Hoover,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Zimmerman (Jean
Noll), Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Chamberlain (Doris Guild), Mrs. Donald Wintersteen
(Ludmilla Matanin), Mr. F.
Stuart Straub, Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas (Louise Seeman), Mr. and Mrs.
Stuart L. Hartman (Barbara Straub),
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Madl (Ida Jane
Shipe), Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Smith (Dora
Taylor), Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Zale
(Eleanor Twardizik), Mr.
Raymond
Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Thomas (Ruth James), Mr. and Mrs. Ehrhart (Aleta Stiles), Miss Mary Jane
Mordan, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Webb,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCracken (Helen
Klingerman), Mrs. W. Pietruszak (Edna
Zehner), Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shope
(Mary Davenport), Mr. and Mrs. Robert Trewella (Dawn Osman), Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Fritz (Carolyn Cole), Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn R. Letterman (Margaret
Jones), Mr. and Mrs. William E. Booth,
Mr. Alexander Hardysh, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy L. Rishel, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood
Beaver, Mr. and Mrs. John Latshaw
(Erma Wolfgang), Dr. and Mrs. H. A.
Andruss, Prof, and Mrs. H. F. Fenstemaker.

the rest in the

dust.)

It s

Mrs. Galen H. Fisher, Marysville; Anna
Jean Laubach Gehrig, Earl A. Gehrig,
Bloomsburg; Florine Moore Piatt. Berwick.

those back for the twentieth year reunion of the class of

1932 were:
Mrs.

Mildred Dimmick

Hinebaugh,

Mrs. Mary Bray
Smith,
Wilhelmina Cerine, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Lorna Gillow Doyle,
Lakewood; Helen M. Keller, Mifflinburg; Mrs. Margaret Shultz Harrison,
Shickshinny, R. D. 1; Elizabeth Jones
Davis, Plymouth; Clarence L. Hunsicker, Mansfield; Mrs. Mabel Rinard Turse,
Hazleton; Mary Davis, Pittston;
Ruth
Smith Johnston, Sunbury; Ethel Felker,
Beaver Springs; Almeda Derby, Scranton; Jeanne
Morgan, Jermyn; Alice
Rowett Fronduti, Falls; Mrs. Catherine
Smith German, Hummels Wharf; Mrs.
Kathryn Benner Houser, Lewistown;
Mrs. Dorothy Jones Berry, Kingston.

Drexel

Q

Hill;

Nanticoke;

Boost Your

Alma Mater

Class of 1937

Among

those back for the fifteenth year reunion of the class of

1937 were:
Mrs. Dorothy Hower German,
Jr.,
Glen Burnie, Md.; Mrs. Vici Hower,
Bloomsburg; Marie E. Foust, Lebanon;

21

Scranton April 22, 1878, and graduated from the Bloomsburg State
Normal School in 1896. She was a

N gmthigij

member

Presbyterian
the
Women’s
Association
of
that
church.
She was also a member
of the Twentieth Century
Club,
Berwick, and for many years served on the board of the Berwick
public library.
She taught in Berwick and in
Scranton schools for many years.
Surviving are her husband and
one daughter, Mrs. R. R. Llewellyn; two
grandsons,
Craig and
Rees Llewellyn, Berwick.
of the First

Church, of Berwick, and of

Harry Edgar Crow ’88
The Rev. Harry Edgar Crow,

80,

retired Methodist clergyman, died
Friday, June 20, at the home of a
son, Harry E. Crow, Jr., 725 North
Fourth Street, Reading, Pa. He retired from the active ministry in

1939, but continued to serve as a
supply and substitute pastor, and
last year celebrated his 50th anni-

versary in the ministry of the

Me-

thodist denomination.

He was

graduated from Dickinson College in 1901 and was a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Fraternity.
He also graduated
from the former Bloomsburg State
Normal School and from Centennary College in Hackettstown, N. J.
During his active ministry he
served the following Methodist circuits, all in Pennsylvania: Greencastle, 1901-1903; South Williamsport, 1904-1905; Wilburton, 1906Laurelton, 1909-1911; Con1912-1917;
Dillsburg,
19221918-1921;
Shippensburg,
1925; Burnham, 1931-1935; Houtzdale, 1936-1938.
He was a native of Liverpool,
Pa., a son of the late Abraham and
Mary (Bair) Crow, and resided in
Reading the past eight years. Surviving are his widow, Mary L.
(Lickle) Crow; three sons, Harry
E. Crow, Jr., with whom he resided; John F. Crow, of Chester, and
George Y. Crow, of Harrisburg;
four grandchildren; two brothers,
W. T. Crow, of Liverpool, and Jacob C. Crow, of Mill Hall; one sis1908;

yngham,

Mellie, widow of Jacob F. Fortney, Newport, Pa.

Cora Gernon Wynkoop

Mrs. Gertrude Hartman, wife of
Ray W. Hartman, of West Front

Berwick, died at her home
four-thirty o’clock Sunday, May

street,

at

25.

a

Death was sudden and due

to

coronary occlusion.

man had been

in

Mrs. Harthealth
failing

through the Spring and was hospitalized in February.
Her death
came during a period when she
was apparently well on to recovery.
Mrs. Hartman
was born in
22

Born

a brief illness.

in Chinchilla,

a daughter of the late Charles and
Emily Leach Gernon, Mrs. Wynkoop had resided in Scranton for
more than 50 years. She was a
Bloomsburg
State
graduate of
Normal School and prior to her
marriage taught at the old Bayard

Taylor School,

Scranton.
Mrs.
a member of Green
Ridge Presbyterian Church and
was active in its various organizations.
Surviving in addition to her
husband are two sons, William, of

Wynkoop was

Bethlehem and Charles

G.,

Penn

granddaughter, two
grandsons and a sister, Miss Minnie
Gernon, of Scranton.

Wynne,

Pa.; a

Mary I. Valentine 01
Mrs. Mary I. Valentine, seventy-

ter,

Gertrude Rees Hartman ’96

’96

Mrs. Cora
Gernon Wynkoop,
of Scranton, wife of James A. Wynkoop, cashier of Green Ridge Bank,
died at Hahnemann Hospital at
3:30 p. m., Saturday, July 26, after

one, wife of President Judge W.
Wilkes-Barre,
Alfred
Valentine,
died at the Wilkes-Barre General
She was a graduate of
Hospital.
Bloomsburg State Normal
the
School, class of 1901, and attended
(lie fiftieth reunion of her class at
he College here last May. Her
death followed an illness of several
Funeral services were held
days.
in the First Presbyterian Church,
Wilkes-Barre.
I

Sunbury

R. D.,

and

a retired teach-

died Tuesday, July 22, at the
Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Danville. following an illness of several
months. She was 65 years of age.
er,

Born October 20, 1886, a daughMr. and Mrs. Peter Weiser,
she was a resident of the Hallowing Run area for many years and
ter of

taught schools in the rural area
surrounding Sunbury.
Upon the
death of her father she and her
sister, the late Miss Laura Weiser,
a teacher in
for

kin

the

Sunbury Schools

many years, moved to ShamoDam. She had been a resident

of that place for

32 years.
Miss Weiser was a graduate of
the Bloomsburg Normal School
and along with school teaching
was a music instructor. She was
a member of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Shamokin Dam, and a
teacher in the Sunday School. She
also was a member of the Patriotic
Order of America of Shamokin

Dam.

Samuel P. Kressler ’07
Samuel Pealer Kressler, seventytwo, of East Sixth street, Berwick,
died at ten o’clock Saturday, May
Hospital.
He
3 at the Berwick
became ill on Friday and was admitted to the hospital Saturday
afternoon at four o’clock.
He was born on April 7, 1879, at
He attended Bloomsburg
Espy.
High School and completed a teaBloomsburg
cher’s course at the
Normal School at the age of seventeen. He clerked for a time in the

drug store of George A. McKelvev, Bloomsburg, and then taught
seven terms at Light Street, Almedia and Bloomsburg High School.
After a year in the employ of
he
the Berwick Store Company,
attended the Schissler Business
He taught
College, Norristown.
Bloomsburg
in the
two terms

Grammar

was
Schools and then
Berwick Store
at the
Company for nine years. In July,
1913, he joined the Berwick Bank
and eventually became a teller. He
was held in high regard by his em-

employed

ployers.

He was
Cottie

M. Weiscr

’06

Miss Cottie M. Weiscr, of Sha-

makon Dam, former

resident

of

a

prominent member of

the First Methodist Church, Berwick, a member of the Maltas,
the P.O.S. of A. and the Defender

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Fire

Company.

School of Nursing

nurse at the

member

White

of his family.

James Stewart Wiant 17
James Stewart Wiant, Westfield,
N. J., passed away on March 15,
1952, after a lingering illness.
was the son of David Wiant

He

and
May Koons Wiant, having been

born

in

Kingston,

and moving

to

Pennsylvania,

Huntington Mills

when a young boy. He entered
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
year student finishing the
training course in 1917
and completing the college preparatory course in 1918.
as a first

teachers'

He was

a

member

line in Biological Sciences.

He entered Pennsylvania State
College as a student in College of
Agriculture in 1920, graduating in
1924.

.aramie,

his grad-

Wyoming.

1931 he accepted a position
with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, stationed at Market Pathology Laboratory, New York. N. Y.,
In

and where he was employed as a
Senior Pathologist at the time of
his death.
In this connection a
o notation from
Market Journal
reads: “He was engaged for many
years with marketing problems and
was one of the best known workers
in the country in his field.
He was
well informed, not only on the diseases but on all phases of transportation and handling of vegetables and the results of various
treatments.” He has published innumerable articles on fruit and
vegetable diseases in professional
and government publica-

journals

New

Plains, N.

Y.,

graduates, D. E. Wiant T6, Prolessor of Agricultural Engineering,
Michigan Agricultural College; Dr.
H. E. Wiant 17, physician at Haddonfield, N. J.
David Wiant, his
lather, was a member of the Class
ot 1893 at Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Stewart was active in church,
school and civic groups in Westfield, N. J., and was a lover of nature and spent much time pursuing his hobby when he was capable of doing so.

Mrs. William B. Sutliff
Mrs. William B. Sutliff, seventy-seven, the former Ella Stump,
one of Bloomsburg’s most esteemed women, died Friday, April 4,

Bloomsburg Hospital.
Ill
since November, Mrs. Sutliff had since been a patient at
the hospital and the Sober nursing home in Eyersgrove. She was
the

admitted

last

to

the

hospital

a

week before her death.
Her death severed a marital union of fifty-three years last August 10.
She had been a resident
of Bloomsburg since 1893, coming
here to teach piano at the Normal
School.
A native of Stouchsburg, Berks
County, she took a course in music at Palatinate College, Myers-

town, later merged with what is
Albright College, and completed her musical education at
the New England Conservatory of
Music in Boston.
Mrs. Sutliff was a member of
the Normal School faculty for
eleven years. She was married to

now

Dean Sutliff on August 10, 1898,
but continued teaching until 1904.
During her activities at the then
Normal School she organized an
orchestra and long directed this
unit.
Her interest in music never
She was most talented
and a recognized
critic.
Mrs. Sutliff was long active in numerous civic activties.
She was a devout member of

the First Presbyterian Church, a
charter member of both the Ivy

Club and Delta Club, and also a
member of the Bloomsburg Chapter, Order of Eastern Star.
Surviving
are
her
husband;
three children, Helen, a teacher in
the Harrisburg schools; Robert,

Delray Beach, Florida, and Mrs.
Harold Herr, Palmyra; a granddaughter, Marcia Jean Herr, and
a

Mrs.

sister,

Lillie

Fisher,

Pal-

myra.

Mrs. Aaron C. Jury

Aaron

Mrs.

C.

Jury,

seventy-

835 Market Street, Bloomsburg, the former L. Gertrude flower and one of Bloomsburg’s esteemed women, died at the Bloomsburg Hospital at two-twenty P. M.
eight,

Saturday, April 26.
Her passing severed

union of

a

fifty-five years.

marital
Mrs. Jury

was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and Circle No. 3
of the Guild and Dr. Waller’s Bible
Class

of

that

congregation,

the

Bloomsburg Chapter of the Eastern
Star and Rugged Cross Chapter of
•the White Shrine of Jerusalem.
Mrs. Jury was a native of
Bloomsburg and spent all of her
life here except nine years immediately after her marriage when
she resided in Scranton. She and
her
husband have resided in
Bloomsburg
continuously
since
1906.

She was the daughter of the
Mr. and Mrs. Azima B. How-

late

Their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary was observed last February 9.
Mrs. Jury attended the
er.

Bloomsburg High School and the
Bloomsburg Normal School.
Surviving are her husband and
three children: Mrs. Earl V. Wise,
Berwick; Mrs.
Edward S.
Nichols, Woodbury,
N. J., and
Miss Isabel Jury, at home.
Also
surviving are five grandchildren,
twelve great grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. George Kitchen, and a
brother, Charles Hower, both of
Sr.,

Bloomsburg.

lessened.

tions.

He

York

York Hospital,
and the following brothers, both Bloomsburg

at

May, 1924, he began

uate studies in plant pathology at
Cornell University, receiving his
doctorate in 1928.
For three years he was employed as Assistant Agronomist and
plant pathologist by Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station
at
1

New

of the faculty

for three years assisting Prof. Hart-

In

in

City; a son, James R., a student at
Princeton University, also
by a
sister, Miss Anna K. Wiant ’ll, a

Surviving are his wife, the former Bertha Welliver, and one daughKressler, of
ter, Miss Martha L.
New Jersey. He was the last

survived by his wife, Mary
Powell Wiant T8; a daughter, Betty Joan Wiant, a student of Cornell
University - New York Hospital
is

September, 1952

in

this

Amy Thomas
Amy Beishline

Mrs.

field

Mrs.

’97

Thomas,

widow
and

of William Francis Thomas
a native of Columbia County,
22

died Wednesday, April 23, at her
home, 820 North New Street, Beth-

ter

in
the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and retired several years

dead on

lehem.

previous to his death. During his
ministry he served for a time as
District Superintendent of the Altoona District.
He was a graduate of Baltimore
City College and of Drew Theological Seminary. He received the
degree of Doctor of Divinity at
Divinity at Dickinson College. He
was a member of the I.O.O.F. and
the Masonic Fraternity.

“Besides
leaves
a

She was born in Fishing Creek
Township,
Columbia
County,

March

8,

1879, the daughter of the

and Mrs. Augustus W.
She attend New Columbus Academy and was graduated from the Bloomsburg State
Normal School.
late

Mr.

Beishline.

Mrs.
ton

in

Thomas moved to Hazle1901.
Her late husband,

who was

a lumber dealer and
building contractor, and brother of
the late D. A. Thomas, superintendent of Bethlehem Schools, died
about seven years ago.
She had
resided in Bethlehem since 1941.
Surviving are eleven children
among whom are Helen, wife of
Walter Sandjrock, West Pittston,
and Lt. Commander Stanley C.
Thomas, with the U. S. Navy in

Washington, D.

C.,

and 16 grand-

children.

Herbert C. Wenner ’05
Herbert C. Wenner, of Drums,
Butler
principal
of
Township schools the past 25
years, was found dead Friday,

supervising

Mrs. D. Z. Mensch ’89
Z. Mensch, widow of
the late D. Z.
Mensch, former
president of the
First
National
Bank of Shickshinny, died at the
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Kingston, on Monday, May 14 of a heart
condition.

Mrs. D.

Born at White Hall in 1869, she
was the daughter of the late Jonathan and Abigail McBride.
She
was a member of the Shickshinny
Presbyterian Church; the Daughters of the
American Revolution,
and the 20th Century Club of Berwick.
She was a graduate of B.
S. T. C. and taught
school
in
Shickshinny and Berwick.

July 25. Mrs. Wenner summoned
the family physician, who
stated
that

Mr.

Wenner had

probably

suffered a heart attack and

was

dead about an hour when found.
A lifelong resident of Drums, he
was a son of the late Samuel and
Anna Hauge Wenner. After graduating from Bloomsburg State Normal School he became a member
Butler Township
high school in 1906.
Twenty-one
years later he was appointed principal, a post he held at the time of
his death.
Mr. Wenner was a
member of the Reformed Church
of St. John’s; the Men’s League of
Hazleton Presbyterian church and
the Odd Fellows Lodge of Drums.
He was president of the Cemetery
Association
of
the
Reformed
church.

of the staff of

John

P. Zagoudis, Jr.

John Zagoudis, Jr., drowned
Saturday, April 26, in a backyard
swimming pool near his home, in
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

The child’s mother is the former
Jean Richard, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ceorge H. Richard, with
the maternal grandparents of the

The Quarterly has been informed of the recent death of James
McKendree Riley, D.D., husband
of Eleanor Witman 05. Dr. Riley
served over forty years as a minis24

parents,

his

Johnny

four-month-old
Lynn Ann; grandparents, Mr. and
Nlrs.
George Richard, Cuyahoga
Falls, and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Zagoudis, Brooklyn, N. Y.”
sister,

The mother

of the child

is

a na-

She is a graduate of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Her husband, a
tive of

Bloomsburg.

graduate of Penn State, also attended the local institution. Mrs.
Albert Andrews and Fred Richard,
of Bloomsburg, are aunt and uncle
of the victim.

1912

LIONS RESTORED

They had
ty

to

wait more than

for-

years to get their faces lifted, but

was worth it. Today, Leo and
Leona, the two bronze lions that
have welcomed forty freshman
classes to the campus are wearing
it

a shining coat of bronze.

The
year

class

for

of 1912, meeting this
fortieth reunion,

their

raised a fund to be used for the repair of the lion, which had suffered
greatly from the ravages of time.
The lions have been guarding the
campus during the administrations
of Dr. Waller, Dr. Fisher, Dr. Reirner, Dr. Haas and Dr. Andruss.
The repair work, which consisted of rebronzing and soldering of
joints, was done by the Danville
Art Bronze Company.

When

the class of 1912 memorial

Cuvahoga

dispatch out of Akron, Ohio,
gave the following account of the
tragedy:

Hall, while a pair of eagles, with
widespread wings, were to grace
pillars at the bottom of the steps.
Some patriotic persons, however,

child

also

residing

in

Falls.

A

“After his father tied his shoes
the two-anda-half-year-old boy ran out to play

Saturday afternoon,

behind

his

Cuyahoga

was the

ft

last

Falls

home,

time he saw his

protested that the American eagle
should never be placed below the
Therefore, the posiBritish lion.
tions of the eagles and lions were
reversed when the memorial was
erected.

ror

Through the years, however, the
wings of the eagles were broken,

yard

and the birds were removed during the thirties, and decorative
lamps were put in their place.

“About ten minutes

M. Riley

Thomas Hos-

was originally planned, Leo and
Leona were to be placed on pillars at the top of the steps on the
front campus leading up to Waller

son alive.
Dr. James

arrival at St.

pital-dead from drowning.

later the horfather,
stricken
John, Sr.,
searching the neighborhood for his
son, found him floating in a back-

home.
child

swimming pool

near

their

His efforts to revive the
failed.

Little

Johnny was

The face-lifting job has attracmuch attention on the campus.

ted

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

j

I

J

I

'Scutcesied

anA

E. H. Nelson,

It

was a pleasure

spirit

evidenced on

to note the fine
all

was an

there

“ALMA MATER'

before 1911 yours
tridy
never
heard it during his student days at
the Normal School from 1908
to
1911.
On occasion we did sing
“Bloomsburg Will Shine Tonight
but the sentiment expressed in that
song wouldn’t make one’s heart
ache— much. The 1911 Class song

was

as follows:

Far above the

On

its

hills

Town

of
of blue,

Stands old Normal
cheerful
Glorious to view.

11

How we

Bloomsburg

bright

and

Chorus— Lift the chorus; speed
onward

love thee, dear old Nor-

mal

sides dur-

ing the period of Alumni activities
May 23 and 24. The 1902 class
did itself proud in attendance and
cooperation.
The
pre-reunion
banquet was attended by about 75
people, mainly of 1902-1897-1892
and their friends. President Andruss greeted the guests and keynoted the program that was to follow, as the facilities of the College
were turned over to the students
of yesterday. The general Alumni
meeting was well attended on Saturday morning. A more detailed
account of the proceedings will be
found elsewhere in this issue, but
one item needs consideration here.
And that item is “ALMA MATER.
It

Bloated'

How
May

thy praises swell,
thy path be ever onward.

Mid sweet memories,

dwell.

Maybe the words of this song
weren’t entirely original with the
authors — Myrtle,
Turney and
George Landis— but it is the song
that Prof. J. H. Dennis used, with
appropriate revision, to give the
School the “ALMA MATER” that
has come down through the years.

The Class of 1892 in reunion
came forth with an interesting fact.
Dr. Welsh, then principal,
suggested to the ’92 Seniors that an
appropriate Class Memorial would
be money to start the publication
of an
’92.

Alumni bulletin. Thank you
Thus the “QUARTERLY”

was born. The first issue did not
appear until February 1894. Contained therein

is

a

poem

“OUR

QUARTERLY’S BIRTH,”

written
by Margaret M. Evans, Class of
’91.
Twelve stanzas in all, the last
one reads as follows:

Prove our work is still “not done,”
Yea, is even “just begun”;
All our fire and zeal renewing,
Gladly, each his best work doing—
Work for Bloomsburg’s “QUAR-

TERLY”

it

Till its

fame we proudly

see.

Sing her praises true.
Ilail to thee dear Nineteen Eleven
Hail to white and blue.

Homecoming Day comes
By the peaceful Susquehanna
With its stately shores.
Reared against the arch of Heaven
High

its

banner

soars.

early

Fall— Saturday, October 4.
Plan now to be present. You will
enjoy a day on the campus.
Be
seeing you all.
this

M 1 w®*'
Expanded enrollment due to our
mean about 7 million moke
American schools, during the next

present high birth rate will

SCHOOL children

in

7 years, than there are today ... a lot of these right here
in our

community.

Our schools

will need additional classrooms, more
supplies and textbooks, more teachers but particularly
they’ll need us, and all the help we can give them.
You’ll help, won’t you? Today join your
local group working in behalf of better
schools. And for information on how

—

—

citizens in many communities have worked
together, write to: National Citizens
Commission for the Public Schools, 2 West
York 19, N. Y.
will
45th Street.
all benefit
for high standards of education
mean higher standards of living.

—

We

New

This advertisement

B.S.T.C.

is

sponsored

in

the public interest by

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

THE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg

Voi

L III

Pennsylvania

December, 1952

No. 4

AM MY

BROTHER’S KEEPER?

I

The students of our college have answered this question through the College Council
by setting aside from one-fourth to one-half of the profits of the Retail Book Store for
scholarships. They are willing to pay the current retail market prices for books rather
than get them for less, or have foregone the opportunity to spend the Book Store profits
for such things as more lounge furniture or a new station wagon.
is expected that an amount wiil be available each year that will be sufficient to
college fees and books (not including board, room, and laundry) for twenty students.

It

pay

all

The Faculty Scholarship Committee will continue to make awards on the same basis
Alumni Scholarships, and from time to time additions will be made to the Alumni
Loan Fund or to the Ward Temporary Loan Fund so that more money may be borrowed by
as the

students, without interest,

when needed.

The President’s Scholarships based on the profits from the sale of "Business Law
Cases and Tests” will be absorbed in these new scholarships since they too were derived
from college book store

sales.

The joint approval of the Board of Trustees, the College Council, and the Directors
of the Alumni Association will oe necessary to make the general scholarship policy effective for the present college year of 1952-1953.
At the present time the Alumni Association is making $16,276.46 available for loans
and/or scholarship awards to approximately thirty students each year.
I believe
that this scholarship policy is without parallel in collegiate circles.
It
represents unselfish action on the part of students who are willing to either forego benefts
or savings so that other more needy students may have help in pursuing their college
education.

The need
or loans,

G.

is

Bill

I.

for student assistance either in the

number

increasing, since the

has decreased almost

to the finishing

year in the cost of attending Bloomsburg, which
the increase in costs of other colleges,
of

an increasing amount of help.

so that

you

will see the different

continue as inflation and taxes

can

we

form

of veterans
point.
is

of

more employment,

who were

With the increase

a very modest increase

find that a larger

scholarships,

being educated under the

number

of

about $100 a

compared with

of students are in

need

Therefore, the whole picture has been outlined for you

forms of aid available and the increasing need that will

make

their pressure felt in colleges as well as in all

Ameri-

life.

The College Community Scholarships, so called until they are given a more distincnumber of scholarships available to Bloomsburg students

tive name, will bring the total
to thirty-five.
This means that
scholarships to worthy students.
It

is

approximately $20,000 will be available either as loans or

heartening indeed to be identified as an institution whose Alumni and students
may have opportunities which they are

are so willing to sacrifice unselfishly that others
enjoying or have previously experienced.

With

this spirit

“Ever upward, striving, climbing, Onward Bloomsburg goes.”

PRESIDENT

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LI

1

1,

No. 4

•

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

Yearly SubCopy, 50 cents.

HOMECOMING DAY
(FROM THE “FANNING” COLUMN, THE MORNING PRESS)
For real color there

1879.

3,

scription, $2.00; Single

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

’12

E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E.

H. Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet F. Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

is

no

clay

on the local College campus that
compares with that of Homecoming.
It is staged in the Fall of the
year when Autumn is generally at
its

BUSINESS MANAGER

best.

And

the local institution,

draws inclement weather at
times, has been most fortunate in
having clear skies and a favorable
temperature throughout most of

while

it

the quarter century that this has
been a feature.
Homecoming, of course, is built
around the football game. That is
the event which brings them back.
And since the war the Huskies have
had football that is at the top of
fheir class.

We

noted that

in the

publicity

was sent out in building up
the big day last Saturday it was
noted that the Huskies have not
that

lost a

Hervey

B.

Smith

Elizabeth H. Hubler

We

Homecoming on that turf was that
in 1947 we staged the Homecoming
Day game on the Athletic Park
field.

That was in Bob Redman’s first
Shippensburg was the opponent. Things looked fine for our
side when
we racked up two
touchdowns early in the game.
Then Shippensburg came back to
score three times before the

We

don’t

know

had anything

SATURDAY,

MAY

December, 1952

23, 1953

When

it isn’t,

large-

then the

air-

conditioned Mount Olympus is a
miserable place to be.
You just
can’t do anything except
try
to
battle frost bite

and endeavor

to

reason with yourself that you are
being sensible by remaining.

The one we had this year was
easiest Homecoming we can

the

recall.

bad

It

idea,

doesn’t appear to be a
however, to have it in

early October.
You like a
nip in the air but don’t care

little

for

downright cold.

When

be next year we
But there will be a
lot more home games with standout opponents and therefore considerable more choice.
But if it
has to be early there are few who
are going to complain.
it

will

Homecoming Day game on

the present athletic field.
didn’t search the records on
that one and it is probably correct,
but the reason we haven’t lost on

game

was concluded.

ALUMNI DAY

The weather has been

tive.

ly ideal.

don’t know.

year.

H. F. Fenstemaker

December, 1952

to

that the defeat

do with the mov-

ing of the Homecoming Day game
back on the hill. The principal
reason was that the faculty held
that when the alumni comes home
it
shouldn’t have to go off
the
campus for the main feature.
They had a lot of good sense on
their side and
the
weatherman
after that was more than coopera-

It is always fine to win on Homecoming, probably more important
than any other time of the season
for the grads are back and
it is
always fine to make the alumni
happy.
We didn’t like to lose that one in
’47 but things have a way of evening up. In our gloom over that reverse we were forgetting another
homecoming game back in the

thirties.
If

ball

you have followed Husky footfortunes for any period you

know

full well that things weren’t
so good during much of the decade
prior to the opening of World War
II.

On
have

this particular

date that

we

mind, Eddie Julian brought
a fine Cumberland Valley eleven
here from Shippensburg.
It was
rated so high that
our Huskies
shouldn’t have been on the same
field with the Raiders.
However, strange things happen.
The Huskies became alive that
afternoon.
Most everything they
in

1

did was right.
a little late

and

We
as

got to the game
we went through

the gate asked a freshman
score was.

what the

He told us “7-0,” to' which our
reply was, “For gosh sakes (only a
little more forceful) has Shippensburg scored already?”
The

lad

drew himself up

to his

freshman dignity and replied,
“Sir, the Huskies are ahead.”
And
ahead they stayed, winning four
touchdowns to two.
full

We

shouldn’t cry too

Victory was far from assured for
the Huskies when the second half
started in the Homecoming battle
with Mansfield and most of the
largest crowd that has ever assembled to watch this Fall event was
concentrating on the action of the
gridders.

We

chanced, however, to be in
Navy Hall at that time and to
glance out of one of the windows
overlooking what is now the practice field and which for generations
was the varsity field for all Bloomsburg athletic endeavors.

much when

our favorites are defeated at Homecoming for on the road our knights
in moleskins are certainly not cooperative with their hosts.

Even in the days when victory
come too often it generally
was achieved when the host school
had its graduates on hand to watch
didn’t

the proceedings.

Still carefully groomed, it
was
a rather desolate place that afternoon. The neatly trimmed turf was
dotted with the canvas covered
dummies that are used to teach
linemen to block. The goal posts
at the west end were padded. With
the exception of these two factors
there was no evidence of use.
wondered if any of the former gridders, back for the day, who
wore the Maroon and Gold when
this field was the center of both
competition,
practice and game
took time out to go to that turf.
been
II they did there must have
plenty of memories.

We

Take anything

else,

the draw is
up, although

when the team is
we never had much complaint on
the number of fans assembled here

best

one of these functions regardteam rating.
Fact is the crowds have been
better in poor seasons than they
have in good ones, all things confor

less of

sidered.

Homecoming has become so important to the College program that
it has been kept going regardless
cf the situation from an athletic
standpoint.

We didn’t have
erial

War

any football matimmediately prior to World

IT

athletic

and

went

football

program.

off

the

Substituted as

the Homecoming attraction until
the sport was revived was soccer.

The College had some good soccer teams but they never got the
support accorded to

even

poor

football.

The present field, which has
been enlarged annually since it
was given top rating, is
about ready for its final face

first

now

field, is where the first Homecoming was staged back in 1927.
The oldtimers can tell you when
the athletic activities were staged
on the plot which is now the campus just to the North of Waller
and Noetling halls. They looked

ing

elsewhere for a field about the
time that Science Hall was constructed early in the century. The
old track on the front campus remained for some years after the
switch was made.

was on what we now term “old

It

Mount Olympus” that the late
John Weimer turned out so many
championship teams for Bloomsburg Normal and where Dietterick
and Billy Pownall coached teams
for brief periods immediately after

World War I.
It was there

that

George Meade

directed clubs as the then Normal
School drove back into the front
ranks of its class in athletic compe-

immediately

tition

after

World

War I and when

the fortunes of the
local school were at low ebb.

Upon

this turf

many

of the his-

games with Wyoming Seminary football and baseball
teams
were staged. Sem has been off
toric

we gained college stahaven’t as yet built a
rivalry with any present opponent
that equals that we used to have
since

ihe

list

tus

but

we

with Wyoming.

lift-

ing.

Each year they have been cutaway red shale to grade and
they have a spacious spot up there.
ting

it is going
to
be large
enough that they can have several
groups practicing at the same time
without anyone getting in the road
of anyone else.
At the moment President Harvey
opinA. Andruss is busy getting
ions on any changes which should
be made. One thing is sure, there
will be a quarter mile track and a

In fact

After Meade left to go back to
the Mid-West, A. K. Jackson was
here for a year. Then came Thornley Booth for a substantial stay and

him George Buchheit.
13-vear
latter, who had a
regime on the hill, developed some
after

The

exceptional grid teams considering
the amount of material at hand and
was at the helm for the greatest
era in track and field that the College ever had enjoyed.

During part of the time when
the war was in progress there was

long straightaway.

service football.
One year the
principal attraction on Homecoming was a drill between halves of
the soccer game by the Navy V-5’s.

on the college campus since they

when they
the old field to the
present one. The late Austin Tate
also coached at the present location

cut off a piece of the old field to
make room for Navy Hall.

Kostos, Schmidt and Jack

There’s always been a
Homecoming since the first one and it is
so successful that there will always
be one as long as there is a “friendly College on the Hill.”
2

We

haven’t had that

Buchheit was here

moved from

much

track

and during World
ellyn

On

that

quiet patch
the gridders

turf
of
practice
where now
and use on home game dates to
cross because it is a short cut from
the dressing quarters to the play-

were

in

War

TI

Frank
Llew-

charge for brief

in-

tervals.

There

is

no question but

the present field has

that

advantages

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

of space such as the old field never

SIDELIGHTS ON

could have provided.
But the big reason

HOME-COMING

that
the
change was made so rapidly was
that the Navy Hall made the old
It has been used
field too short.
for track and field events since, because the track has been the only
one. But it is now so small that the
boys circling it in the two mile
event must be pretty dizzy at the
finish.

While the Huskies don’t play on
own field often, moving down
to Athletic Park frequently where
there are accommodations for night
ball and the temperature is
often
more favorable, they have drawn
some of their biggest crowds to
their

And

the present turf.

they have used

it

for

campus during the

certainly

games

on

greatest era of

football at the institution, at least
in

what is termed modern times.
Chances are that now, with

Those who thought the weatherman outdid himself for the 1951
Homecoming at the College are
convinced that he did even better
for the twenty-fifth annual staging
of this festivity on Saturday.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the institution, spent a busy
day on the campus welcoming returning alumni and friends. It was
his opinion that the day was
the
finest yet held.

The Huskies put

the old grads in

good humor by winning the football game from
Mansfield.
The
boys even got their ground game
working off the T which Coach
Jack Yohe installed this year.

DEAN NORTH SPEAKS

line.

all

of the turf

some

It

AT KALAMAZOO, MICH.
The

North, dean of
instruction at the Teachers College,
addressed several hundred educators attending the national convention on teacher education and professional
standards
at
estem
.Michigan
College,
Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
Dean North was one
of fifteen speakers on
the weeklong program sponsored by the Na-

assembled early.
There were a goodly number pres-

Education Association.

The show which the Mansfield
and Bloomsburg musicians staged
between halves was excellent. It
was one of the finest ever presented here.

Dr.

Thomas

P.

W

tional

Miss Alba Dawn
Waltman,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B.
Waltman, of Nescopeck, and Richard Kishbaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Kishbaugh, of Berwick, were
married Saturday, June 7, in the
Nescopeck E.U.B. Church by the
Rev. Mr. Newcomer. The doublering ceremony was used.
Miss
Waltman graduated from Nescopeck High School in 1950 and has
been employed at the
Berwick
Hotel.
The groom is a graduate
of Berwick High School and B.S.T.
C.

He

the Berwick
Junior High School at the present

visitors

ent for the band concert which the
Maroon and Gold Band, Charles
H. Henrie directing, staged on the
campus during the morning. The
concert was moved outside and
was much more successful than
when staged in the buildings.

December, 1952

now manager

is

the

of

The crowd started pouring into
the athletic field an hour before
game time but at that there was
still a line at the ticket booth at
the kick-off and some of the late
comers missed the first touchdown
of the Huskies.
The chrysanthemum

sale

It

seemed every

hand was wearing one

must
local
girl

on

of the flow-

ers.

The crowd not only came early
but stayed late. Centennial gymnasium had the largest attendance
Saturday evening
for the dance
that ever marked
homecoming.

this

feature of

APPOINTED TO
TRAINING SCHOOL STAFF
Warren
street,

I.
Johnson, 735 Locust
Columbia, has been named

training teacher for Grade Six of
the Benjamin
Franklin Training
School.
Mr. Johnson, an elementary school principal in the Columbia Borough Schools, replaced Miss

Barnes, who is teaching
J.
college classes and supervising offcampus elementary student teach-

Edna

ers.

Th

grads like to re-hash victories, particularly while
consuming
refreshments.
During the get-together in Waller Hall lounge immediately after the
game they
made a hundred ten dozen doughnuts disappear in jig time.
The

doughnuts were washed down by
coffee or cider.

teaches in

time.

and

College.

on grade, they
attention to providing some trees or some other type
of wind breaker.
about

tion

Park Hotel, Healy Fork, owned bv
the Alaskan Railway. He gets back
once each three years and then has
a three months’ visit in the States.
His wife and two children were
with him.

have set a new high for the

was estimated that well over
2 500 crowded around the playing
field to watch the
game.
The
seating accommodations were inadequate.
They were standing
three deep back of the south goal

will give

the Waller Hall lounge, was busy
during the morning.
One of the graduates back for
the day was John Witkoski, Mount
Witkoski
Carmel, class of 1941.
has been in Alaska since gradua-

The

aluinni desk,

which Dr. E.

H. Nelson set up in the lobby of

Mr. Johnson, a graduate of the
State Teachers College, holds the Master of Education
degree from the Pennsylvania State
College and is currently working
toward his doctorate at the same

West Chester

institution.

He

taught at the Richhill Town-

High School, Green county,
before moving to Columbia where
ship

he taught for a number of years
before accepting the position at
Bloomsburg.
3

EDUCATORS ATTEND
CONFERENCE
More than

five

hundred teachers

and school administrators attended
the Sixth Annual Conference on
Education held Saturday, November 8, at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. It was the largest attendance in the history of the
event.

A

demonstration lessons
high school subject fields and
in all grades of Benjamin Franklin Training School attracted overflow crowds of teachers from nearly every Central Pennsylvania community, while an enthusiastic audience of conference guests and students of the College filled Carver
Auditorium for the general session
held after the demonstration lessons. The program was concluded
with a luncheon in Waller Hall
dining room.
series of

in six

The guest speaker for the general
was Dr. Paul A. Weaver,
President of Lake Erie College for

session

Women.

Dr. Weaver, one of the

foremost speakers in the country,
spoke on the subject “Moral and
Spiritual Values Needed to Meet
Tomorrow’s World.” In an inspiring and forceful address, he presented a number of workable ideas

on how education can prepare children to meet the moral and spiritual crises of tomorrow’s world.
Prior to Dr. Weaver’s address.
Miss Margaret St. Clair, costume
dramatist, presented a number of
characterizations of school teachers.
The talented artist, a former teacher, drew heavily upon fellow teachers she

had known

in

her teaching

experience.

President Harvey A. Andruss presided over the general session and
welcomed the visitors to the campus.
He also introduced the directors of the curricular division, who
had charge of the conference.

These were Miss Edna J. Hazen,
Director of the Department of Elementary Education; Dr. Ernest R.
Englehardt, Director of the Department of Secondary Education, and
Richard C. Hallisy, Director of the
Department of Business Education.
The demonstrations in the Benjamin Franklin Training School
were taught by the regular members of the school faculty: Miss
4

Grace Woolworth, Mrs. Lucille
Baker, Mrs. Iva

J.

Mae

Beckley, Miss
Marcella Strickler, Mrs. Anna G.
Scott, Russell Schleicher, Warren
Johnson and Miss F. Marjorie Stover.

Discussion leaders for the group
held following the lessons
were Herbert F. Cobley, Associate
Superintendent of Schools, Bloomsburg; Miss Christine Smith, Bloomsburg; Frederick Bachman, Hazleton; Miss Harriet Adams, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Ruth Lenhart, Danville;
Miss Nan Jenkins, Mauch Chunk;
Mrs. Rachel Malick, Sunbury, and
Raymond Treon, Bloomsburg.
Lessons in six high school subjects were taught by Mrs. Harriet
Kline, Robert Hutton, George W.
Mordan, Harold Hidlay, Leon
talks

Maneval and William Troutman.
Discussion leaders included Dr. J.
Almus Russell, Dr. Ralph S. Herre,
Miss Ethel A. Ranson, Dr. Nell

Maupin, Howard F. Fenstemaker
and Dr. Kimber C. Kuster.
A large group of business education teachers attended an extremely interesting lesson in

Navy Hall

Auditorium. Louis A. Leslie, coauthor of “Typewriting Simplified,”
taught
a
demonstration
lesson

which disclosed new and startling
and procedures which he had
discovered about speed and accur-

facts

acy development.
The conference concluded with
a luncheon in the Waller Hall dining room. Music for the luncheon
was provided by the Brahms Trio,
of Williamsport.

Miss Annabelle
Lee
Brobst,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Brobst, of Fernville, became
the
bride of George Elmer Laubach,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer G. Laubach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer G.

Laubach, of Bloomsburg, in a cereat
two o’clock Saturday
afternoon, June 28 at St. Columba’s Roman Catholic Church.
The Very Rev. William J. Burke,
pastor, performed the ceremony.
Both the bride and groom are
graduates of Bloomsburg High

mony

School.

The bride attended

B.S.

T.G. and the groom is a graduate
of the Pennsylvania State College.
He served three years in the U. S.
Navy and is now a design engineer
for

Boeing

Aircraft, Seattle,

SCHOLARSHIPS, JOBS,

LOANS

NOW

$50,000

Present opportunities for student
assistance at the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College total nearly $50,000 a year, according to a statement

made by President Harvey A.
Andruss. President Andruss stated that the college is spending approximately $3,000 per month for
student services in the college library, dining
room, offices and
buildings.
This will approximate
$27,000 for the regular college
year.
If $1,000 per month is added for the summer

sessions, a total
sufficient to pay for
the college fees for 200 students.

of $30,000

is

The Alumni
fund amounts

Association

loan

approximately
$15,000, which is available for Juniors and Seniors, while the Ward
Fund is also available for temporto

ary loans.

Last year the Alumni made
scholarships available to the extent
of approximately $1,500,
the inauguration of the

and with
College

Community

Scholarships, payable
from the profits of the Retail Book
Store, the total amount available
through the faculty committee on
Scholarships will reach approximately $4,500.

estimated that scholarships,
to students by outside organizations, such as State Congress
of Parents and Teachers, local Kiwanis Clubs, A.A.U.W., and other
organizations, will bring the total
scholarships to an amount of approximately $5,000. This means in
effect that students earn approximately $30,000 a year; students
may borrow up to $15,000 a year
and students receive scholarships
amounting to $5,000 a year, making a total of $50,000 a year available in opportunities for student
It is

awards

assistance.

There

is

a

need for double

the

amount of scholarships now available, and efforts will be made to
increase scholarship awards to
least $10,000.

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ELECTRICAL

PROGRAM

IS

ed

PLANNED

The final planning conference
covering the replacement of electrical conduction lines in
Waller
Hall, including all dormitory rooms,
offices and classrooms, installation
of new fire alarm, clock and bell
system, and extension of campus
lighting near the Centennial Gymnasium, toward Navy Hall,
was
held during the summer at the
Teachers College.

in the future.

This contract has

been in progress for over one year
and represents a vital service to the
college, not only for heating, but
also for cooking, laundry work, and
hot water for use in showers, as
well as the heating of swimming
pool water.
This project is being completed
by the General State Authority and
is
the only project of this kind
which has so far been awarded to
the local college.

HONOR

reached final decisions, upon which
were formulated the specifications

Six employes of the
State Teachers College

for bids.

August were honored at the second annual picnic of the non-instructional employes of the college
at Columbia Park.
A buffet lunch
was prepared by the dining room

It is

expected

this

major renovaapproximate-

and represents the largsingle expenditure
from the
college budget since the war proest

grams were

in progress at the col-

lege.

When

completed,

will

all
dormitory
have modern and in-

creased light, the clock and bell
system, since the latter will consist
of electrical horns with
a large
siren to be placed on the heating
plant.

The placing of light standards
along Mt. Olympus from the gymnasium to Navy Hall and the Benjamin Franklin School will, along
with the present installations
on
the parking lot adjacent to the Centennial Gymnasium, complete the
lighting of the campus.

Present lines are over a quarter
century old and have unbalanced
loads.
There are frequent interruptions
and continual danger

from fire.
According to President Harvey
A. Andruss, the completion of this
$100,000 project is at least one year
in the future. Procurement of materials,

government controls

and

continuous use of college dormitory
facilities will undoubtedly slow the
progress of this contract.
The $400,000 addition to the present heating plant is
completed.
This project includes the increase
in the height and size of the structure housing three modern electrically stoked boilers having capacities which will be sufficient in
the
event the college plant is expandDecember, 1952

Appointment of two new faculty
at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College was announced
at the

beginning of the

EMPLOYES OF

sistant Professor of

retired

semes-

Speech, respec-

The new appointees

Dorothy

B.S.T.C.

Bloomsburg

who

retired

staff.

Those who

first

by President Harvey A. Andruss.
Dr. Maryland W. Wilson, of
Greenville, S. C., and Miss Clara
B. Weir, of Sea Breeze, N. Y., were
named Professor of Speech and Aster

ceed Dr. Cordlia Brong and

RETIRING

in

ly $100,000,

rooms

SIX

ON FACULTY

members

tively.

Electrical engineers, representatives of the Department of Public
Instruction, and college authorities

tion project will cost

TWO APPOINTED TO
POSITIONS

and who

re-

ceived gifts from the group were
Dora Dresher, Jennie Heist, Ernest
Creasy, Mrs. Mary Ent, Mrs. Anna
Hutchings and Mrs. Minnie Stetler.
Attending were R. Drake, A. Evans,
R. Diefenbach, Jim Ale, Esther Turner,
Mae Gray, Hazel Patterson. Mae Crawford, Lillie Fritz, Dora Dresher, Flo
Pennington, Mrs. Oscar Oman, B. Hileman, Mrs. Sallie Stevens, Miss Minnie
Stetler. Mrs. Mary Hagerty, Mrs. Martha Ammerman, Mrs. Phebe Erdman,
Mrs. Mary Ent, Anna Hutchings, Doris
DeWald. Joanne Lawton, Shirley Frey.
Theron Watts, Jennie Heist, Florence
Dalrymple. Blanche Derrick, Eleanor

Krum, David Heckman, Jane A. Brobst,
Daphne Young, Ruth Brobst, Edith Wolverton, Harvey A. Andruss, Jr., Cheryl
B. Creasy. Harry Laubach, Bill Laubauch, Ed Sharretts, Mrs. Fred Beers,
Grace Ash, George Ash, Helen Rutkoski, Alberta N. Gillespie, George W.
Fedder, A. F. Harman, Mrs. Henry Minnick.

Claude Renninger, Beatrice Eyerly,
Laura Jane Unger, Paul Martin, Henry
Morrow, Dale Martz, Archie Best, Kenneth Peterson, Ernest C. Hess, Clarence

Frank Welliver, Harry B.
Smith, Fred Beers, Harry Fisher, Vincent D. Quinlan, Arthur Thomas, Harry
D. Sands, James Hunsinger, Marie Lee,
Ella Kline, B. Roadarmel, Carl J. C.
Long, Edward Wall, Earl L. Kishbaugh,
E. C. Ledger, John J. Mitchell, C. Ray
Henri, Harry F. Fowler, Helen Megargell, DeWitt Campbell.
Gilbert,

Stolp,

who

suc-

Miss

resigned.

Dr. Wilson, a graduate of Winthrop College, Rock Hill, Georgia,
holds the degrees of Master of Arts
and Doctor of Philosophy from the
University of Michigan. She taught
in the high schools
in
Cuthbert
and Thomasville, Georgia, and
Columbia, S. C. She has also been
a member of the faculties of Sullins
College, Bristol, Virginia, and the
Alabama State College for Women.
Dr. Wilson taught overseas with
the American School of the University of Maryland.

Miss Weir, for the past several
years Assistant Professor of Speech
at Ithaca College, Ithaca, N. Y., is
a graduate of Syracuse University.
She holds the Master of Arts
degree from the Teachers College,
and a certificate from the Syracuse

School of Lip Reading. She also
attended St. Lawrence University.
Miss Weir has had teaching experience in the elementary and
secondary schools of New York
State and served in the Department
of Special Education, Rochester, N.
Y., public schools.
She was also
teacher of Speech. District Three,
Greensburg, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.,
and for a time was associated with
the Board of Education, New York
City.

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NEW CONSTRUCTION

is

PROJECT
Over a half-million dollars are
being expended on construction at
the Bloomsburg Teachers College.
Of this amount, $400,000 represents
expenditures on construction being completed in the heating plant,
and the contract will be awarded
within a few days for the renova-

conduction lines,
clock system, and fire alarm systion of electrical

some additions to campus
These measures are necsafety and health factors in

tem, and
lighting.

essary
the dormitories at a time

when

the

enrollment is being maintained at
such a level that the institution
ranks third among the State Teachers Colleges in Pennsylvania.

There

is still

need for

additional

dormitory facilities for approximately 100 men who now live in the
town.

The

30,000 volume library

is

now

outgrowing its quarters on the second floor of Waller Hall, and the
weight of the books and stocks has
become a safety factor which requires either the relocation of the
Library or the erection of a Library
building.
If dormitorv facilities are increased, dining

room space

will

need

to

be increased and one of the prothe present
dining room space will be used for
the relocation of the Library and a
new dining room be constructed on
the site of the old tennis
courts.
Such a building program would enable North Hall to be used as an
additional garage and storage building so that the old barn could be
demolished and its unsightly presposals provides that

ence removed from what would be
a pleasing

campus

vista.

The leveling of Mt. Olympus
from Chestnut street to Spruce
street is being completed through

Magee Car-

the cooperation of the
pet Companv, and the completion
of this would involve an expenditure of not less than $50,000. This
will enable the football gridiron to
be relocated so that it will not overlap the baseball diamond and provide a standard size running track.
The first Mt. Olympus Athletic
Field is now used as a practice field,
since it is near the dressing rooms
of the football team in the laundrv.
When the new Mt. Olympus field
6

completed

hoped that addirooms will be avail-

it is

tional dressing

able under the suite of offices in
the Centennial Gymnasium.

PHILOSOPHIES DISCUSSED
“Is it good, will it work, or is it
practical— these are the three ques-

which have

tions

to

be answered

in the three philosophies

that af-

American life and education,”
President Harvey A. Andruss told
members of tire Elementary Education workshop, on July 26 at the
fect

Teachers College.
Speaking on the

subject, “The
Three Philosophies,” Dr. Andruss
said that we need not engage in a
controversy to determine which is
the most important, but it is necessary to be able to identify or justify
our actions with reference to one

or

more

of these philosophies.

President Andruss was the first of
a number of outstanding authoritwho
ies in the field of education
spoke to the teachers-in-service and
prospective teachers who were enrolled in the six-weeks workshop.

Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of
elementary education, was also director of the workshop.
Dr. Andruss said, “If we are going to take the long view from
childhood, through the adulthood,
and to the next generation, idealism will certainly affect and flavor
the education of children. To try
to

make boys and

and

women

is

girls little

men

to overlook the fact

that they are living creatures. The
pragmatic or practical person realizes that teachers as helpers, school
libraries, school journeys, and motion pictures are more interesting

effective for boys and girls
than books, questions, answers and

and

examinations.”

But Dr. Andruss emphasized, we
need the realist who will test,
insofar as he can, the outcomes of
education to determine how well
students learn. This will keep the
idealist and the pragmatist in proper balance so a better system of

BLOOMSBURG THIRD AMONG
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES
At the end of the first semester
enrollment
period,
Bloomsburg
State Teachers College had 772
students, which is about the same
enrollment as last year. In the light
of the over-all five percent
decrease in enrollments in all institutions of higher
education, this
places Bloomsburg third among
the fourteen State Teachers Colleges of the Commonwealth. The enrollment is exceeded only by Indiana and West Chester State Teachers Colleges.

East Stroudsburg and Kutztown
rank in either fourth or fifth places
with enrollments around 725.

The final figures show that the
number of men exceeds the number of women by over 100, while
over sixty per cent of the students
receiving their board,
room or
both, at the college.
This means
that two out of every three students are living in College dormitories or in the town.
Seniors doing student teaching
are located in the high schools of
Berwick, Danville and WilliamsFor
port, as well as Bloomsburg.
the first time in the history of the
College all Seniors are doing their
student teaching on a full-time
basis and living in or near the community in which they are teaching.
This apprenticeship teacher experience is being done in high schools
from which Seniors did not graduate.

Bloomsburg has not ranked
enrollment during the
college year since 1938.
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AREA TEACHERS LEAVE
FOR POSITIONS

Stewart Davis, science and geography, McGraw, N. Y.

Robert M. Worrier, science, social

and

That Bloomsburg

vicinity
large
exceptionally

sends out an
number of teachers to other
tories

when

personal items are received
who are leaving for

their posts.

Here are many of them:
Jack Lenhart, high school mathematics and baseball, Unionville.
Mrs. Ruth Lenhart, Miss Gertrude Miller, Mrs. William Beagle
Gaski, Danville.

commer-

Mrs. Victoria Ilower,
cial subjects, Millville.

Ann

Turner,

grade,

first

New

Berlin,

N. Y.
Charles A. Savage,

commercial
Honesdale.
Miss Winifred Edwards, business
education and guidance, Irvington,
N.J.
Miss Marilyn Lundy, combined
fourth and fifth grades, Allentown.
Mrs. Mildred Kowalsky, first
subjects,

grades, Rupert.

Miss Edna Pursel,
grades, Springfield, N.

elementary
J.

Miss Karleen Hoffman,
education, Newark, N.

special

J.

Miss Pauline Ranck, third grade,
Girard College, Philadelphia.
music,
Miss Cecelia Brennan,
Coatesville.
fifth

grade, Cro-

Robert Kashner, typing,
River, N.

Toms

J.

Nancy Swartz, Hatboro.
Miss Mary Anna Wright,

fifth

grade, Coatesville.
Millville,
Miss Janice Rider,
fourth grade, Coatesville.
Miss Laura A. Philo, business education, Unionville.

Angelo

P.

Scheno, business edu-

cation, Ellicott City,

Md.

Miss Eleanor A. Kennedy, elementary grades, Espy.
elemenMiss Patricia Kistler,
tary grades, Femville.

Mrs. Jeanne Ruckle Beminger,
first grade, Catawissa.
Mrs. Joanne Vanderslice
Clarridge, elementary
Lyngrades,

wood, Calif.
Jacob E. Dailey, science and geography, Doylestown.
December, 1952

Deadwood,

t

Mrs. Jean Silvan Davis, elemenMcGraw, N. Y.

try grades,

William E. Letterman, English
and social studies, Millville.
James Creveling, business education, Bellefonte.

M

iss Marian Creveling,
grade, Harrisburg.

Gilbert Henrie,
Myersdale.

Jr.,

fourth

mathematics,

Mrs. Betty Collins Henrie, physical education, Berwick.

Mrs. Beverly Cole German, EngFrench and Spanish, Alaska.

lish,

Greenwood.
Doyle Steinruch,

Stanley Freeda,
ton Falls, N. Y.

English,

terri-

of teachers

and Henry

and

Mo.

brought home each Fall

is

Mrs.

studies

Miss Jean Meier, Mifflinville, elementary grades, Allentown.
Miss Barbara Sherman, Benton,
elementary grades, Platboro.
David
Thomas, Orangeville,
special education, Lancaster.
Richard
Gearhart,
Catawissa,
social studies and geography, Lewistown.

Richard Wagner, Nescopeck, science and mathematics, Turbotville.
George Brewer, Nescopeck, elementary grades, Abington.
Michael Lylo, Berwick, business
education. Egg Harbor, N. J.
Miss Kathryn L. Rhinard, Berwick, business education.
Lang-

home.
Miss Joyce MacDougall,
Berwick, elementary grades, Endicott,
N. Y.
Mrs. Dorothy Cedor McNamee,
Berwick, elementary grades, Havre
de Grace, Md.
Francis McNamee, social studies,
Havre de Grace, Md.
Edwin Simpson, Berwick, English and speech correction,
Des
Moines, la.
Graydon Wood, Berwick, mathematics and science. Darby.
Richard R. Norrison, Danville,
business education, Ellicott City,

Md.
Lola J. Deibert, Danville, elementary grades, Doylestown.
John Riley, Danville, elementary
grades, Millville.
Constance Stanko, Danville, elementary grades, Southampton.
Danville,
Franklyn
I.
Geist,
mathematics, Bellescience and

Roy W.

Bevers,

Danville,

ele-

mentary grades, Bristol.
Ronald A. Kahler, Millville, science and mathematics, Benton.
school.
Stephen Sakalski, high
Sparrow’s Point, Md.
Lewis Stauffer, Pottstown.

Royal Miller, Bloomsburg R. D.
3, Carlisle.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Normal Alumni took steps toward naming three of the buildings of the institution in

men who have done

honor of

outstanding

work for the school and whose
names the association wants to see
perpetuated.
The plan is to call
the front building, now known as
in
Hall,
Hall, Carver
honor of Henry Carver, a leading
figure in the founding of the institution.
The second building, now
used as a training school, under the
plan will be called Noetling Hall,
the
in honor of a former head of
department of pedagogy, and the
Hall,
in
main building Waller
honor of Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., of
Bloomsburg, for many years principal of the school. The motion to
take steps towards naming these
buildings was made by Prof. O. H.

Institute

Bakeless and received the hearty
and unanimous support of more
than 500 alumni who attended the
general meeting in the school auditorium. A committee composed of
Fred W. Diehl, Alumni president;
R. Bruce Albert, Alumni secretary;
and Howard F. Fenstemaker, a

member

of the school faculty, will
see the board of trustees and others
necessarv for the affixing of the
names of these three men to the
buildings.

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COM. WISHER AT
BAINBRIDGE
Navy Lieutenant Commander P.
R. Wisher, USN, regimental comof the Second Regiment at
the Naval Training Centre, Bainbridge, Md., can now write “Dr.”

mander

before his

name

as well as his

Navy

Clayton H. Hinkel, of
was
faculty,
College
Teachers
granted a scholarship and studied
during the summer at the Union
Theological Seminary, Columbia
He
University, New York City.
was enrolled in ‘Christian Foundaa
Teaching,”
tions for College

title.

He

Doctorate
in
Summer from Penn-

received his

Education

this

sylvania State College, State College.

Prior to his recall to active duty.

Commander

at
Wisher taught
Bloomsburg High School and at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and coached basketball, soccer and

track teams.

Later he became the assistant
professor for physical education at
the University of Maryland, where
and
basketball
he also coached
gymnastics.
His duties at Bainbridge include
administration of the regiment and
charge of the overall military training program for the recruits under
his

command.

Last year

Commander

Wisher,

whose present home is at College
Park, Md., coached the center bas-

special

program

for college

and

university teachers. Mr. Hinkel is
faculty advisor to the college Student Christian Association and St.
Matthew Lutheran Student Association.

Our Lady

of Mt. Carmel Church,
Md., was the setting for
the marriage at four o’clock Friday afternoon, September 26, of
Miss Mary Katharine Shoemaker,
of Bloomsburg, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Philip E. Shoemaker, of
Essex, Md., to Richard Arnold Ledyard, of Fort Knox, Ky., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Ledyard, of
Bloomsburg.
in Essex,

The Rev. Francis Wagner,
tor,

performed

the

nuptials.

nament.

ving with the U.S.
Knox, Ky.

Commo-

who placed second in the
Middle Atlantic Interservice League (MAISAC) and were runnersup in the Fifth Naval District tour-

Dr. William H. Fisher, son of
Charles H. Fisher, president of
Bloomsburg Normal School in the
early 1920’s, has become assistant
professor of education at Wilkes
College.

After attending high school in
Bloomsburg, the Wilkes appointee
moved to Bellingham, Wash., where

Army

the late
bride of

R. Austin, became the
Ford A. Reynolds, son of
Mrs. T. E. Reynolds, of

W.

Mr. and
Luzerne, August 23, in the Luzerne
Methodist Church.
The Rev. William Davies performed the double-ring ceremony.
A reception was held on the lawn
of

the

bride’s

summer home at
150 guests. The

Jonestown for
couple went on a wedding trip to
Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada, and are now residing at 307
Bennett Street, Luzerne.
The bride, a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and
the groom, a graduate of Mansfield
State Teachers College and Bucknell University, are both teachers
in the Luzerne Public School.
8

president

of

Western Washington College of
He earned his A.B.
Education.
and Ed.M. at the University of
Washington, Seattle.
The holder of an Ed.D. granted
by Teachers College, Columbia
University, Dr. Fisher was instruceducation at Temple Univerbefore coming to Wilkes. He
had previously taught in the high
schools of the State of Washington,
New
Schools,
Fieldston Ethical
York City; Eastern Washington
College of Education and Highlands University, N. M.
tor in

sity

The marriage

Miss Janet
of
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

at Fort

Samuel

Marriage of Miss Evelyn M.
Conner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John M. Conner, of Town Hill, to
Airman First Class Frank D. Ridall,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William H.
Ridall, of Town Hill, was solemnized on September 20 in Town
Hill Methodist church.
Hemlock and white gladioli

formed the background for the
double ring ceremony performed
The
by Rev. William L. Price.
bride is a graduate of Huntington
Township High School and was
employed by Lady Esther Lingerie
The bridegroom
Corp., Berwick.
was graduated from Huntington
Township High School, attended
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and is in the U. S. Air Force, stationed at Elmendorf Air Base, near

of

Eifert,

Market

street,

Bloomsburg, to Cyril R. Dougherty,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dougherty, of Shenandoah, was performed by the Rev. Walter A. Team,
Md., Methodist
Elkton,
of the
church, on May 24. The doublering

ceremony was used.

The

Anna Frances Austin,
Miss
daughter of Mrs. William A. Austin of Luzerene and Jonestown, and

became

father

his

Eifert,

dores,

Navy

ON WILKES STAFF

pas-

double-ring

Mrs. Ledyard graduated from
Bloomsburg High School and is assistant manager of the J. S. Raub
Shoe Store, Bloomsburg. Her husband, a graduate of Bloomsburg
High School and B.S.T.C., is ser-

ketball team, the

WILLIAM FISHER

DR.
the

bride

is

a

graduate

of

Bloomsburg High School in 1951.
Her husband has been attending
B.S.T.C.

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cently resigned to accept the posi-

head football coach at East
Orange, N. J., High School. Under
Coach Redman, the Huskies betion as

ATHLETICS

came

a power in Pennsylvania collegiate football, losing only
four
games in five years, and compiling

NAME JACK YOHE
FOOTBALL COACH
W. Yohe,

Jack

for the past five

coach at
West Chester State Teachers College, has been named head football coach at
Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. President Harvey A. Andruss, who announced
Yohe’s election following the June
meeting of the board of trustees,
years

assistant

football

said that the newly-elected
football mentor would serve as assistant dean of men and hold the rank
ot associate professor.

Yohe, a thirty-seven-year-old natis a graduate of
the Lock Haven
State Teachers
College where he starred in football and track.
He holds the degree of Master of Education
from
Temple University, and he has
completed the residence requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Education from Temple.
Following his graduation from
Lock Haven in 1938 he taught and
coached at Biglerville High School
ive of Jersey Shore,

and one-half years, leaving in March, 1942, for active service with the United States Navy.
He was separated from the service
in January 1946 with the rank of
lieutenant.
for three

Yohe was a teacher and football
coach at Upper Merion High school
for one year before he accepted a
position on the faculty of the West
Chester State Teachers College in
1947. Since that time he has been
an instructor in health and physical
education along with his duties as
varsity backfield coach and assistant basketball coach.
His most
recent stars are
West Chester’s
sparkling halfbacks, Earl Hersh
and Fred Prender, known throughout the East as the “Touchdown
Twins.”

The new coach

is

a firm believ-

er in the split-T formation, and his
coming to Bloomsburg will mark
the end of six years of singlewing
football.
Yohe succeeds Robert
B. Redman, coach of the
Huskies
for the

past five years,

December, 1952

who

re-

two undefeated and untied seasons.
They culminated their march to
gridiron preeminence by
copping
the first official championship
of
the State Teachers College Conference last Fall.
Yohe, the father of a son, Barry,
will

move

to

Bloomsburg

August to make
campaign.

early in
plans for the 1952

ing crowd of over 2,000, the Hussent Barney Osevala, Bernie
Mont, and Bob Rainey twice over
the goal line, while Don Williams
scored the Mountaineers only six
kies

pointer.

Mans. Bloom
First

downs

Passes attempted __
Passes completed __
Yds. kick-offs
Yds. punts
Yds. penalized

Fumbles

FOOTBALL -

4
60

Yds. rushing
Yds. lost rushing
Yds. passing

15

33
20
4
4-5.3

4-38

45
1

lost

16

223
14
106
7
4
5-44
1-25

30
3

1952
B. S.T.C. 13,

TRENTON

6

At the time that the Quarterlv
went to press, the 1952 B. S. T. C.
football team had a record of four
victories, two defeats, and one tie.
One game, with Lock Haven, remained to be played. Brief sum-

Exploding for two rapid-fire
touchdowns in the last six minutes
of play, Bloomsburg S.T.C. downed a hepped-up Trenton Teachers
team, 13-6, Saturday, October 11,

maries of the games follow:

at

WILKES

B.S.T.C. 32,

12

Coach Jack Yohe unveiled his
new
T-formation
Bloomsburg
S.T.C. football team in the dust at
Athletic Park Saturday, September
27, and to the delight of some 1500
fans, the Huskies rolled to a 32-12
conquest of Wilkes College.

Taking up where they left off
season, the defending State
Teachers College champions ran
their winning streak to ten games.
Bloom Wilkes
last

First

downs

Yds. rushing
Yds. lost rushing
Yds. passing

11

9

129

50
100
234
29
12

16

208
21

Passes attemped
Passes completed

Avg. yds. kickoffs
Avg. yds. punts

_

9
6-49
2-44

Yds. lost penalities _

Fumbles

lost

3-41
5-27
15

30
4

9

Trenton, N.

J.

The Huskies found themselves
hampered by penalties throughout the game which saw all the
confined to the final six
minutes of play.
Bloom Tren.
First downs
16
3
Total yardage
278
98
Passes attempted __
13
9
Passes completed
6
3
Passes intercepted
2
3
Yds. penalties
125
80
Fumbles
2
3
Own recovered
2
1
scoring

SCRANTON
The

31, B.S.T.C 6

University

of

Scranton,

packing plenty of weight and plen-

snapped Bloomsburg
winning streak at twelve
Saturday, October 18, as they roared to their third lopsided win of
ty of depth,

S.T.C.’s

the season before 7,800 at Scranton’s

B.S.T.C. 25,

MANSFIELD

Bloomsburg

S.T.C.’s

6

Huskies

struck early through the air and
three more times on the ground to

whip Mansfield

S.T.C., 25-6,

Sat-

urday afternoon, October 4, and
run their winning streak to eleven
games since 1950.
Performing before a Homecom-

Memorial Stadium.

Not since West Chester walloped
them 31-6 in the next to last game
in the 1950 season had the Huskies
suffered defeat.

The Huskies, pre-game underdogs, started out as if they meant
to make a rout of the affair, with
a touchdown in the first two minutes of play, but the Royals re9

taliated

quickly and con-

just as

tinued to pour

it

on.

downs

8
93
20
5
117
0
6
2

9

294

Yds. rushing
Passes tried
Passes completed
Yds. passing
Passes int. bv

1

5
114
5
5

Fumbles

Own

26-B.S.T.C. 0

West Chester broke

Scran. Bio.
First

WEST CHESTER

recovered

1

8-27
8

Yds. punts
Penalties
Yds. lost pen.

5-33

6
50

90

loose with
twenty points in the second quarter
and appeared to be headed for a
high-scoring rout, but bogged down
in the second half to defeat Bloomsburg 26-6, in the game played Friday evening, November 14, at

Wayne
As a

Field,
result.

West Chester.
West Chester con-

tinued undefeated and untied.
It
their ninth straight victory over
a two-year period, and their twen-

was

ty-ninth at

home.

Bloom W. C.
B.S.T.C.

0— CALIFORNIA

The Huskies
Vulcans

the

at

of

First

0

Bloomsburg and
California

State

Teachers College battled to a 0-0
lie Saturday, October 25, on the
California

High School

a

field in

State Teachers College Conference

game.
Lacking the necessary punch to
score, and unable to get their passing attack in working order, the
Huskies moved inside the enemy
twenty-yard line on several occa-

and inside the ten-yard line
a few times, only to be turned back.
The line play was outstanding
throughout, and entirely responsible for halting the threats on both
sides, since there were few fumbles
sions

or

conseHuskies held the marof

penalities

serious

quence. The
gin on first downs, twelve to nine.

downs

4
92
14
3
74
2

19
144
19

1

1

1

1

10-39
3-42

7-29
5-43

Yds. rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yds. passing

Fumbles
Recovered
Lost
Av. yds. punts
Kick-offs

7
109
3

St. Columba’s Catholic Church,
Bloomsburg, was the setting Saturday, June 7, for the marriage of
Miss Mary Patricia Park, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. O. James Park, of
Bloomsburg, to S-Sgt. Richard Dale
Sands, son of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle

Sands, of Orangeville.

The Very Rev. William

J.

Burke

officiated at the double-ring cere-

mony.

The couple

are living in Quanwhere the groom is stationed with the Marine Corps. He
is a veteran of World Ward II and
has been recalled to active duty.
tico, Va.,

B.S.T.C.

22-

NEW HAVEN S.T.C.

12

The Huskies opened
two

The

fire rapidly

period touchdowns,
and then held off a determined
New Haven State Teachers College rally to close out their home
season with a 22-12 triumph Saturday, November 1, on Mt. Olympus.
for

first

Bloom N.Hav.
First

downs

yds. rushing
Yds. lost rushing

Yds. passes
Passes tried
Passes completed __
Yds. kickoffs
Yds. punts
_
Yds. penalized
.

.

Fumbles
10

lost

.

.....

.

8
157
29
78
10
5
4-47
6-43

30
2

bride, a graduate of BloomsHigh School, attended B.S.T.

burg
C. and was graduated from Wheaton Business School. She has been
employed as a bookkeeper for the
Sunshine Laundry, Inc. Sergeant
Sands, also a graduate of Bloomsburg High School, attended Dickinson College.

10
101

46
149

22
10
4-27
6-37
15
1

M. Houseknecht,
Miss
Joan
daughter of Willard J. Houseknecht, Shickshinny, and the

late

Houseknecht, became the

Julia N.

bride of Edward C. Gallagher, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward V.
Gallagher, Shickshinny, in a ceremony performed in St. Mary’s
Mocanaqua.
Church,
Catholic
The Rev. Father Anthony B. Grauzlis performed the ring ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of Garrison
Memorial
High
School,
Shickshinny, and is employed as a
teller in the First National Bank
there.

The groom

is

a graduate of Gar-

rison Memorial
a student
at

High School and is
Bloomsburg State

Teachers College.

months

He

served 30
with

in the Pacific theatre

S. Navy.
Following a reception held
the American Legion Home,
Shickshinny R. D.. the couple

the U.

at

at
left

wedding trip to Atlantic
City and Beach Haven, N. J. They
are residing at R. 119 Union Street,
upon

a

Shickshinny.

Miss Dorothy Jean Farnsworth,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J.
Farnsworth, Danville, became the
bride of Dr. Samuel Zeiders, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Zeiders,
of Mifflintown, in a ceremony on
Saturday, August 30, at Shiloh
Evangelical and Reformed Church,
Danville. The Rev. Alton W. Barley officiated.

The

bride is a graduate of DanHigh School, attended B. S.
T. C. and graduated from the Temville

ple University Hospital School of
Nursing in June. Her husband attended Pennsvlvania State College

and graduated from Temple

Unithis
Dentistry
He served two years in the
year.
He plans to open a
U. S. Navy.
dental office in Mifflintown.
versity School of

The following have made contributions to the Husky Fund
since the last issue of the Quart-

A

son was born
on Monday,
23, in St. Francis Hospital,
Evanston, 111., to Mr.
and Mrs.
Francis X. Brennan, of Chicago.
Mrs. Brennan is the former Mary
Severn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Tsaac Severn, of Leonard
Street,

August

erly:

No Name. Northumberland. Pa.
Dorothy A. Thomas
Alfred

J.

Woodrow

Marchetti
Litwhiler

Dr. A. K. Aldinger

Bloomsburg.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT
Edward
S. T. C.

y

T. DeVoe. ’31
Bloomsburg, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

HONORARY PRESIDENT

Area

A. Wilkes-Barre

Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish ’06
732 Washington St., Camden, N. J.

PRESIDENT
Miss Edna Aurand, T8

VICE PRESIDENT

D. Sharretts,

S. T. C.,

Bloomsburg Pa.

'41

30

St.,

SECRETARY-TREASURER

’21

Glen Lyon, Pa.

St.,

Miss C. Alberta Nichols,
433 Rutter Ave., Kingston

T4

L. Brunstetter,

Main

Market

VICE PRESIDENT

TREASURER
441 East

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer, T8
Fairview Village, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Edison Fischer,

Edward

PRESIDENT

St.,

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SECRETARY

Paul

Washington

1622 S.

Donald Rabb, ’46
Market St., Benton, Pa.

’98

Pa.

Catawissa, Pa.

SECRETARY-TREASURER
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, T8
92 Willow St.. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, ’09
7011 Erdrick St., Philadelphia 35. Pa.

SUSQUE1IANNA-WYOMING AREA
PRESIDENT
West Harrison

B. Hazleton

George

St.,

147 East Chestnut

’07

Harrisburg, Pa.

SECRETARY

562 N. Locust

42 Slocum, Ave.,

Hazleton, Pa.

St.,

TREASURER

TREASURER

McHose Ecker ’32
Washington Ave.. W. Hazleton, Pa.

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Main

Mrs. Ruth Dyer Rudy,

’22

Ave., Scranton, Pa.

635 East Front

St.,

Robert Lewis,
310 East Market

St.,

New

SECRETARY

Miss Alice Smull,

’31

427 Washington Ave._ Jermyn, Pa.

312

Church

St.,

’05

Danville, Pa.

Miss Susan Sidler,

’21

227 Stephen Ave., Scranton,

Pa.

615

Bloom

St.,

’30

Danville_ Pa.

SECRETARY
Mrs. Martha Wright Moe,

’39

614 Mississippi Ave., Silver Springs,

Md.

TREASURER
Walter Lewis, ’42
1736 “G” St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

SUPPORT

323

Anthony Conte, ’35
John St., Elizabeth, N.

J.

Mrs.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mary Davenport Shope,

’42

YOUR

PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anna Price Snyder, ’23
251 Garfield Ave._ Milton, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

George Ave., Rahway, N.

J.

SECRETARY
A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park. N.

J.

J.

Mrs. Kathryn House Everitt,
R. D. 2, Lewisburg, Pa.

’30

SECRETARY
Mrs.
517

ORGANIZATIONS

TREASURER
Miller Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.

LOCAL

RRANCH

Erma

December, 1952

C.

WEST BRANCH AREA

PRESIDENT

Mrs.

AREA

Harry O. Hine, ’85
Fairmont St., Washington, D.

1401

NEW YORK AREA

729 St.

C.,

VICE PRESIDENT

TREASURER

TREASURER

D.

Miss Harriet Kocher ’39
Colonial Hotel, Washington, D. C.

'40

Danville, Pa.

T4

Hartley,
Milford, Pa.

PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Miss Florence Dunn,

Olwen Argust

WASHINGTON,

’25

Danville, Pa.

’ll

TREASURER
Mrs.

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Henrietta Cabo McCann, ’30
1315 Prospect Ave., Scranton, Pa.

Miss Lydia Bohn,

SECRETARY

New

MONTOUR COUNTY

Tunkhannock, Pa.

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,
Clifford, Pa.

Mrs. Lucille
127

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA
Miss Eva Morgan,

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman. T4

Miss Elizabeth Probert, T8

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg. Pa.

2217 North

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

Miss Pearl L. Baer ’32
21 South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

’52

Milford, Pa.

Mehoopany_ Pa.

Hazleton, Pa.

St.,

Tunkhannock, PA.

Miss Mabel Dexter, T9

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

VICE PRESIDENT
2921

New

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine St., Hazleton, Pa.

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, T3
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Paul Englehart,

Area

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

St..

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

PRESIDENT
Miss Mary A. Meehan. T8
2632 Lexington St.. Harrisburg, Pa.

’24

Francis Shaughnessy,
63

Erma Moyer

McClay

Angstadt,

’35

Ave., Lewisburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Miss Cora Baumer, ’49
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.
11

1889
Mrs. Elliott Adams, of Pine St.,
Berwick, was honored recently on
her eightieth birthday.

She was bom
She was
1872.

White Haven,
graduated from

in

high school at the age of twelve
years, taught school for two years
and graduated from Bloomsburg
Normal School at the age of sixteen.

in

the

Elizabeth,

New

Jersey

he taught at Locust Township, Millville, Trinity Chapel, N.
schools,

Meriden, Conn., Brooklyn, N.
and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He is a co-author of a widely-used
school textbook on civics and a conY.,

1902

The thirteen-classroom school
was named in honor of Ada ShuNelson,

a

graduate

Bloomsburg Normal School

of

the

in 1902.

Mrs. Nelson taught six years in
Pennsylvania, at Kane, West Berwick and Centre township, before
moving west to continue with her
teaching profession.
California has begun the practice of naming schools after living
educators, rather than some person
long dead and often having no relation to education.
The school plant named in honor
of Mrs. Nelson is one of the most
outstanding new type school plants
in that fast-growing section of California.

The unit cost approximately half
a million dollars, contains an administration

thirteen

unit,

Instruction,

State

Department of

Education.

1907

who formerly
the
Bloomsburg
State
served
Teachers College as an instructor
in extension classes and as an interim instructor during the absence
Edwin M.

Barton,

one of the staff members of the
Department of Social Studies is

of

serving as assistant professor of social studies on the campus.
Mr. Barton, who resides at 1004

West Main

Street,

is

tributor to national educational
historical journals.

a graduate of

and

1912

widely known
county teacher, has retired from
the Benton High School
faculty.
Laubach has been teaching in
county schools for some time and
has been highly successful.
He
taught and coached baseball
at
Earl

Laubach,

Orangeville, Sugarloaf Junior High
and at Benton for a number of
years.

Elizabeth Connor (Mrs. J. F.
Boylan) lives at 104 Waldo Avenue,
Bloomfield, New Jersey. Mrs. Boylan has returned to teaching in the
schools of Bloomfield. Her daughter, Margaret, is also teaching in
the same system, and her son, John,
is a senior in the Georgetown University School of Dentistry, Washington, D. C.

class

rooms, two kindergartens, a cafeteria and playground.
Mrs. Nelson is district superintendent of the school district.
Addresses were given by Dr. Arthur P. Corey, executive secretary
of the California Teachers Association and Dr. Frank M. Wright, association superintendent of Public

n

Before his retirement as a teacher

Y.,

Dedication of the Ada S. Nelson
School in tribute to a former Columbia county school teacher at Los
Nietos, Calif., was held Sunday afternoon, June 15.

man

Trinity College and holds the Masters of Arts degree from Teachers
College, Columbia University. He
has done graduate study at the University of Minnesota and the New
York University.

1913
L. Ray Appleman, a teacher for
forty-nine years and supervising
principal at Benton for the past two
score years, resigned his position
effective August 31.
Mr. Appleman, one of the best

known and

respected educators in

this entire area, observed that he
had made no plans for the future.
It was suggested that he take a
good rest but the man who has
been so active in schools for half
a century observed “that might be

difficult.”

Mr. Appleman began his career

one-room school
for the next two
years he taught at Waller and after
hat moved into the Benton system
as a teacher in a
in Central.

Then

I

to

teach for

a

total

of

forty-six

years.

From the time he started in the
classroom until his retirement he

missed only one year and that was
that he could take additional
work at the then Bloomsburg Nor-

so

mal School.

He has seen the Benton school
system “grow up.” At tire time he
begirn

his

teacting

career

there

were around two hundred youngsters in the schools.

Now

there are

seven hundred under the joint
board of Jackson, Benton borough,
Benton township, Stillwater and
Fishingcreek.

He became
cipal in 1912

the supervising prin-

and three years

later

Benton added a vocational education program to its curriculum.
There are now six county high
schools with vocational agriculture
programs but Benton was the pace
setter.
It was in 1927 the Benton borough and township formed a joint
board which operated most suc-

cessfully. With that step the present Benton school was constructed,
replacing the old frame building.

In 1951 the territory cooperating
public education in the northern
end of the county was expanded
when Jackson, Stillwater and Fishingcreek came in to form a joint
in

board

with Benton borough and

township.

With this step the board is now
engaged in expansion of the school
plant and has taken the initial steps
toward the construction of an elementary school building on part of
what is now the Benton park area
for the parking of automobiles.

Mr. Appleman has been excepactive in the community
and has been one of the most protionally

gressive of the area educators.

When Ray M. Cole, the present
superintendent of schools, organized the Columbia County Athletic
Association in 1923, Appleman was
one of the foremost boosters. He
has serv ed as head of that organization several times.

His counsel has had much to do
with the fine balance that the association has observed between

academic work and

athletics.

He

always stood for an equitable balance and several times guided the
athletic program over rocky shoals.
Exceptionally popular with his
students, he holds the friendship
of thousands who came to know
him first as the man in charge of

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

I

And he has
the Benton schools.
never lost interest in the progress
of a single hoy or girl. In fact he
has always considered them “my
boys and girls.”
1923
Miles M. Kostenbauder, a native
of Aristes, has been elected principal of the Milton Joint Senior
High School.

A

graduate

of

Conyngham

Township High School and the
bloomsburg State Teachers ColKostenbauder joined the
Milton High School faculty in 1937

In

an

double-ring

impressive

ceremony at two o’clock Saturday,
August 16, in the Methodist Church
Huntington

Mills, Miss CatherStackhouse, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles H. Stackhouse,
of Shickshinny, became the bride
of Richard Acker, Rochester, N. Y.

of

ine

The Rev. William
of the

Price, pastor

Huntington Mills Methodist
officiated before one hun-

Church

dred twenty-five guests.

The

bride received her B.S. degree from B.S.T.C. She has taught

lege, Mr.

in

when he was named

bia counties and the past four years
has been the second grade teacher
in the elementary school at Lisbon,

vocational arts
instructor.
He taught there until
1942 when he left the system to
teach at West Chester and Allentown.
In 1941 he returned to Milton
and the following year was named

director of vocational shops.
In
October, 1950, he was named supervisor of buildings.

Mr. Kostenbauder was graduated
from Conyngham Township High
School in 1920 and began his teaching career there in 1923 following
his graduation from Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.
In 1934.
he received his bachelor of science
degree from Pennsylvania State
College and eleven years later
earned his degree of master of supervision and guidance from Buclcnell University.

1927

Delma Myers

(Mrs. Arthur Husband) is now living at 1015 Newton
Avenue, Lawrence Park, Pa. Her
husband is an inspector in the Erie
Works of General Electric, Refrigeration Division.

Lycoming, Luzerne and Colum-

Md.

The

gr.oom served thirty-nine
an aeronautical engineer
in the U.S. Air Force and is now in
the vending business.

months

as

Mr. and Mrs. Acker are
ing in Rochester,

New

now

liv-

York.

graduated
School in

August

He

has been supervising
High Bridge, N. J.,
is a graduate of the
Teachers College and has gone up
steadily in the administrative field
in education. His late brother, Ted
P. Smith, was for some years coach
and later principal at the Bloomsburg High School.
1.

principal of the
schools. Smith

Margaret
Hendrickson
(Mrs.
Ralph S. Krouse) is now living at
533 Main Street, Bellwood, Pa. Her
husband is pastor of the First Me-

Church

1931.

Benton
High
1927 and B.S.T.C. in

He

received a master’s degree in nature education and botany at Pennsylvania State College
in 1940.

December, 1952

He was named assistant
manager and storekeeper in
1939, and director of the industrial
serv ice department in 1949, and di-

partment.
traffic

rector of the cooperative training
He is a charter
division in 1950.
member, director and officer of
Scranton Junior Chamber of Com-

merce.

He

has served as a director of
Senior Chamber of
Commerce, was a charter member,
officer and director of the
the Scranton

YMCA

Industrial Club and
later of the Industrial Supervision

Young Men’s

Club, president ICS Employes’ Association and president of the Dalton Methodist Men’s Club.

Oman

in Bellwood.

Albertson
Oman, of
Bloomsburg, has been appointed
general manager of International

Correspondence Schools, Canada,
one of two major changes
announced by Lawrence W. Tice,

Ltd., in

president;

of

International

Text-

book Company, parent company of
the International Correspondence
Schools.

Oman

assumed

his

new

duties

Aug. 16, making his headquarters
in Montreal.
He will be assisted
by William Carfa, as assistant gen-

He

did graduate work at New York
University extension and taught
four years at the Orangeville High
School.

He is married to the former Sarah Dutrow of Richmond, Va. They
have two daughters, Linda and
Laura, currently residing at Dalton.
Fred Kester is principal of the
schools of Clark’s Summit. Pa. His
daughter, Barbara, is a Freshman
at

Bloomsburg

this year.

1934
Presented a certificate of achieve-

ment
Sgt.

mand

meritorious service,

for

John

M-

Danwas congratulated by

P. Shellenberger, of

Pa.,

Gen. William E.

of the

Glenn

a graduate of the

burg State Teachers College.

ville,

1933

is

High School and the Blooms-

Brig.

L.

from

Winnipeg.
Mr. Oman went to ICS in 1937
as an editor in the educational de-

local

H. Edmond Smith, son of Mrs.
T. L. Smith, Light Street Road, and
the late T. L. Smith, has been elected superintendent of Palmyra, N.
J., schools, and took up his duties

thodist

Creveling, assistant
principal and science teacher at
Hughesville High School, received
his Master of Science degree in
Education at the close of the Summer Session at Bucknell University.
His degree is in the fields of
administration and supervision. A
native of the Bendertown area, he

intendent of the Prairie Division,

Mr.
1932

1931

Lewis

manager in charge of sales.
Carfa has been with the company
since 1934 and is at present supereral

UN

Crist, chief

Civil Assistance

Com-

Korea (UNCACK). Sergeant Shellenberger, whose wife
Norma lives on route 3, Danville,
was cited for outstanding service
as public information non-commissioned officer for the Army-Air
Force recruiting station at Columin

bia, S. C.

Before joining

UNCACK

Korea last April, he had served
for six and a half years at the re-

in

cruiting station. A graduate of the
State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, the sergeant taught at De-

Long Memorial High School

in
13

Washingtonville, Pa., before entering the Army in 1942. He now is
with the UNCACK civil informalio section.

His

1935
Class of 1932, Conyngham Township High School, held its first re-

union at Mets restaurant, Aristes,
recently and voted to present the
the high school with a bronze
plaque in memory of Lamar K.
Blass, a member of the class who

was

killed in

War

II.

Blass

Italv

during World

was an outstanding athlete
Conyngham and at Blooms-

both at
burg State Teachers College.
In a quiet

Bethany

ceremony performed

EUB

Church, Berwick,
recently. Miss Letha Lutz, of 311
Summerhill Avenue, daughter of
James Culp, of Hunlock Creek R.
in

D.,

became the bride

of

Albert

Hayes, son of Mrs. Florence Hayes,
of Berwick R. D. 2.
The nuptial

ceremony was performed by the
Rev. H. H. Jacobs, pastor.
The bride, a graduate of Meyers
High School, Wilkes-Barre, is employed by the Wise Company.
The bridegroom, a veteran of
World War II, is a graduate of
Berwick High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College. He
has accepted a teaching position
with the Berwick schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayes are living at
311 Summerhill Avenue, Berwick.

1940

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Moore are
now living at 16 Lehigh Road, Wilmington, Delaware.
Mrs. Moore,
formerly Miss Ethel Ruth, was also
a student at Bloomsburg.
1941
S. Frederick Worman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. S. K. Worman, Danville,
and a graduate of B.S.T.C. in 1941,
has returned for his sixth term to
his position as bandmaster at Milton High School, Milton, Fla. He
has been a member of the Florida’s

Bandmaster’s Association for seven
years.

During the past school term, the
Milton band received superior ratings in marching and sight reading
and an excellent rating in concert
work at the Florida Sixth District
Band Festival at Tallahassee. Ad14

ditionally, four solo and one ensemble entries won superior ratings.

drum major and

his

solo

clarinetists

attended the state mus-

ic clinic at

Tampa and

the concertmistress of the band, Shirley Hudson, played in the 120-piece Florida
All-State Clinic Band under the
direction of Paul Lavelle, national-

ly-known NBC bandmaster, and
Dr. William D. Revelle, director of
University of Michigan bands.
Worman was previously employed as Latin instructor and bandmaster at Spruce Pine, N. C., West
Pittston, Pa., and Apalachicola, Fla.,
before going to Milton.
During
the current semester an instrumental music student “Interne” is assigned to him by Florida State University School of Music.

1942
Otis Air Force Base, Falmouth,
Mass, Sept. 30— Major Nelson M.

Oman, former commanding

officer

Supply Squadron and
who has also acted as camp commander of the Air Force ROTC
Second Lieutenant Indoctrination
program at Otis, succeeds Major
Robert P. Freto as executive officer of the 564th Air Base Group
Headquarters, Otis Air Force Base.
Major Oman assumed the executive officer’s duties last week.
He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Oman, East Third Street, Bloomsof the 564th

burg.

He

entered the Air Force shortly

after Pearl

Harbor and was sent to
Base, San An-

Brooks Air Force

tonio, Texas, for flight training.
Successfully completing this course
he was commissioned a second lieutenant September 6, 1942.

In the early part of 1943 the major was sent overseas as a member
of the 86th Fighter-Bomber Group.
Flying A-36 type aircraft the major
participated in aggressive action
against the enemy in Africa, Sicily
and Italy. In a seven-month period Major Oman flew fifty-one combat missions, bombing arftl strafing

enemy implacements and installations.
The major returned to the
states in the latter part of 1943.

During his second tour of duty
overseas, from 1948 through 195L
Major

Oman was

attached to Head-

quarters, 3rd Air Division,

London,

There he acted as chief
and communications for
the supply directorate which was
attached to the deputy chief of
Englind.

of aircraft

staff,

material.

The new executive

officer of the

attended the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in Blooms-

group

burg, Pa., for three years until his
formal training was disrupted by
Pearl Harbor disaster in
of 1941.

December

Major Oman is married to the
former Betty Dawson, of Blooms-

The couple, whose home is
located in Buzzards Bay,
Mass., have three children, two
boys and a girl: Barry age nine,
Gary age seven, and Cynthia age
burg.

now

five.

Helen Berfus (Mrs. Stephen C.
Carney) lives at 144-01 78th Road,
Flushing 67, New York.
1943
Miss Joyce Wilma Knorr, New
York City', daughter of Mrs. Calvin
Knorr, River street, Wapwallopen,
became the bride of Julius F. Adamic, son of Mrs. Julius Adamic,
Ridgewood, N. Y., in a ceremony
performed Saturday, August 30, at
3 o’clock in Old First Methodist
Church. West Long Branch, N. Y.
The Rev. Bruce Duvall, pastor, officiated.

The couple are at home at 315
West 106th street. New York City'.
The bride is a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
and is employed as Registrar at
Walter Harvey Junior College,
New York City. The groom is a

Navy

inspector at Sperry
scope, Co., Great Neck, L.

GyroI.

Marian Wallace Carley lives in
Odessa, New York, where she and
her husband are associated in the
hardware and sporting goods business.

1945
In

a

ceremony

at

five

o’clock

the Espy
Lutheran Church. Miss Harriet M.
Sterling, daughter of Mrs. Mary

Saturday, August

9,

in

of Bloomsburg, became
the bride of Robert W. Brendle,
son of Mrs. Ella Brendle, of MidSterling,

dletown.
The bride
B.S.T.C.

and

is
is

a

a graduate of
teacher in the

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Middletown Public Schools.

Her

Mining and Mechanical

Institute in

He

30, in St. Peter’s

has served in those
capacities for the past four years.
A native of Freeland, Slegeski
compiled an enviable record, his
teams
winning seventy
games
while losing thirty.
His 1951-52
quintet, which gained a high place
in the B.S.T.C. Invitation Tournament, posted a record of twenty
victories against five defeats.
His
other records were sixteen and seven, 1948-49; eighteen and ten, 1949-

N.

50;

husband, a

graduate of

town High School,
tor at

pot.

is

Middle-

a fire inspec-

New Cumberland Army DeHe served in the U. S. Navy

for thirty-one months.

Mr. and Mrs. Brendle live at the
Knupps Apartments, Spring and

Union

streets,

Middletown, Pa.
1946

In a

ceremony on Friday, May

Church, Belleville,
Miss Eileen LaVerne Falvey,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
M. Falvey, of Belleville, formerly
ol Berwick, became the bride of
John Patrick McGovern, son of Mr.
J.,

and Mrs. John McGovern, of NewN. J.
The Rev. Charles H.

ark,

Allen, Lancaster,

officated at the

nuptial mass.

Mrs. McGovern is a graduate of
Berwick High School and B.S.T.C.
She attended Columbia University, New York City, and is secretary
at

the Criterion

Advertising Co..

New York. Her

husband, a graduate of Syracuse University, is an industrial engineer with Lever Bros.
Co.,
pilot

New

He was a Navy
World War II.

York.

during

Miss R. Lorraine Utt, daughter
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Utt, of Oran geville, and J. Frank Moyer, son
of Mrs. Jacob Moyer, of Barberton, Ohio, and the late Jacob Moyer, were united in marriage recently in the Washington Memorial
Chapel at Valley Forge. The Rev.
John Robbins Hart, D.D., performed the double-ring ceremony.
After a trip to the Thousand
Islands and Canada, the couple established residence at 205 North
Seventh street, Allentown.
Mrs. Moyer was graduated from
B.S.T.C. with a B.S. degree in elementary education. She took graduate work at The Pennsylvania
State College and is now a teacher
in the Allentown school system.
Mr. Moyer, a graduate of Allentown High School, served with the
military forces two years during
of

World War
as a

II

and

is

now employed

salesman for the Sunshine Bis-

cuit Co.

1947
John Slegeski has

relinquished
his posts as head basketball coach
and a member of the faculty at the
December, 1952

Freeland.

and sixteen and six, 1950-51.
Under Slegeski’s tutoring, the

M.M.I. cagers have been a constant threat for championship laurels in the Anthracite League.
In
1950 and again last season, the Miners took the league’s first half flag,
but both years they were beaten
out for the crown by West Hazleton in playoff clashes.
Slegeski plans to establish his
own insurance business in Freeland
and has no present plans for continuing his coaching career.
Graduating from Freeland High
in 1941, Slegeski entered Bloomsburg S.T.C. His collegiate career
was interrupted by a 42-month tour
of duty with the U. S. Navy during
World War II.
He re-entered
Bloomsburg S.T.C. in 1946 and was
graduated in 1947.
He was a teacher and head
coach of basketball at Beaver Vocational High School in Snyder
county during the 1947-48 school

year.

degree

He
this

received his master’s

summer

College.
He is business manager
of the Danville Morning News.

1950

A

son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Johnson, former Bloomsburg residents, at the Warren General Hospital.
The baby, which
weighed six pounds and four ounces, has been named Douglas FranThe father is a teacher in the
cis.
Warren public schools. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Fetterman, Catawissa, and Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Johnson, Bloomsburg.

A daughter was born

at

Bucknell

University and for the past four
vears has been teaching at Middletown, Pa.
Mr. Troutman assisted in coaching football, basketball and track
at
Middletown, which has had
some exceptional teams in recent
years.

1949
Miss Elizabeth Jean Crouse,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L.
Crouse, of Danville, became the
bride of Robert Carl Leedy, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Leedy, of
Danville, in a ceremony Saturday,

recently

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Freeda of
Croton Falls, N. Y., at the Kisko
Hospital in New York. Mrs. Freeda. the former Ruth Bachinger, is
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Bachinger, of East Eighth street.
to

Tl is

the couple’s

first child.

St. Tohn’s Evangelical Lutheran
Church, of Potts grove, was the set-

ting

1948

William Troutman, a graduate of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, has been elected teacher
of Biology in the Bloomsburg High
School.

June 28, in Shiloh Evangelical and
Reformed Church, Danville.
The Rev. Alton Barrley, pastor,
performed the double-ring ceremony. George Rudy, Danville, served at acolyte.
Mrs. Leedy was graduated from
Danville High School and B.S.T.C.
She teaches English and Latin in
Trevorton High School. Her husband graduated from Danville
High School and took extension
courses from Penns vl vania State

at

two-thirty

Sunday

after-

noon, June 28, for the ceremony
uniting in marriage Miss Ruth Barbarann Steiner, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Steiner, of Milton R. D. 1. and Jack LeRov Mordan, son of Horace J. Mordan, of
Millville R. D. 1.

The Rev. Myles
tor,

officated

at

R. Smeltz, pas-

the

double-ring

ceremony.

The bride graduated from TurHigh School and has been
employed at Pottsgrove. Her husband, a graduate of Millville High
School and B.S.T.C., is emnloved
by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Norbotville

thumberland.
In a lovely Summer wedding at
four-thirtv Saturdav, June 28. at St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, Blooms-

burg,

Miss Aleki D.

Comuntzis,
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daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Demetrius J. Comuntzis, of Light Street
Road, became the bride of George
M. Nickles, son of Mrs. Michael
Nickles, Trenton, N. J., and the
late Mr. Nickles.

The Rev. George Economu,

pas-

Greek Orthodox Church,
Harrisburg, and the Ven. William
I. Watts, rector of St. Paul’s Church,
tor of the

town, officiated at the double-ring

ceremony.

The bride

a graduate of B.S.T.
C. and received her master’s degree
from the University of Pittsburgh.
Her husband is a graduate of the
University of Minnesota and is an
aeronautical engineer for Chase
Aircraft, Trenton, N. J.
is

Mrs. William Harris, of Beach Haven, became the bride of Jack Livingston Horner, of Roaring Springs,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Horner,
of Boswell.
The marriage took
place August 2, at 2 o’clock, with
the Rev. Chancey Ickes, brotherin-law of the groom, officiating.

Mrs. Horner is a graduate of
Berwick High School in the class
of 1946; Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and is a member of the
faculty of the Roaring Springs High
School.

The groom served with the U. S.
Army in the European Theatre during

World War

II,

and

is

employ-

ed as a carpenter.

They

are

now

living at 612

Cem-

etery Street, Roaring Springs.

Mrs. Helen Hoffman Gerringer,
636 Front street, Danville, has accepted a position teaching the first
grade in Montandon School in Nor-

thumberland County.
Since graduating from Bloomsburg State Teachers College two
years ago Mrs. Gerringer taught
first and second grades at Valley
Consolidated
County.

School

in

Montour

1951

was recently
Mlkvy Merri-

letter

nue, Berwick, and Charles Eves,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Munro Eves,

Almedia, were united in marriage
candlelight ceremony performed Saturday evening, August 2, at
7:30 in Berwick’s St. John’s Lutheran Church.
The Rev. Graham
in a

T. Rinehart, pastor, performed the
single-ring nuptial rites.

The bride, a graduate of Berwick High School was graduated
from Bloomsburg State Teachers
College with the Class of 1950. She
a fifth-grade teacher at the fourteenth Street School in Berwick.

is

The groom, a U. S. Navy veteran
World War II, was graduated

from Bloomsburg High School. He
attended Bloomsburg State TeachCollege prior to entering the
estate insurance business and
becoming affiliated with the John
II. Shuman Agency, Bloomsburg.
ers

real

Probably through rumors you have
heard that Bob Merrifiekl and I
were married this past summer—
July 15— to be exact.
I gave up my teaching position in
Cape May and sailed on the S. S.
Ancon from New York City. It
was my first ocean voyage and was
wonderful.
We were married at
the Fort Clayton chapel on base.
It was a small wedding with just
a few friends. At the present we
are living in Panama City, the section of Bella Vista whic his one of
the few places the Army will approve for off-post quarters. The
Canal Zone begins about 10 blocks
from where we live. It certainly
is a fascinating place.
The people
that live in the center of Panama
live in one or two rooms and their
homes are like pictures of the
worse slums you have ever seen.
They do have, however, very cute

and charming shops on Central
Avenue where they sell things from
over the world.
Bob’s camp is along side of
Miraflores locks of the Canal
there isn’t a day that goes by
don’t see a ship go through
all

In a quiet lovely

wedding

ceremony performed in the Baptist
Church of Boswell, Miss Mabel Ellen Harris, daughter of Mr. and
1G

At the present time we are in the
rainy season.
It rains practically
every day, but it stays warm all
the time. The way it seems now,
will never stop; however, we
were told that the dry season will
begin in January and that is for
three months with very few scattered showers. It is strange to be
living in a warm climate when you
it

know

that

it

is

beginning to get

cold at home.

have done quite a bit of
sightseeing visiting Old Panama
and other historical spots.
also
toured Cristobal, which, I think, is
Phyllis McLaren’s old homestead.
However, that is on the Atlantic
side and we live on the Pacific

We

side.

The El Panama

Hotel, which is
the pictures illustrated it in the Life magazine, is
only two blocks from our apartment.
have spent several Satas beautiful as

field:

Just a line to let you know how
things are down here in Panama.

Miss Nancy Jane Crumb, East
Fourth street, Berwick, daughter
of Emanuel Crum, Fairview Ave-

of

Turbotville.

received from Lillian

We

We

J. Richard Wagner, Nescopeck,
teaching mathematics in the
is
North-Mont Joint High School at

The following

Canal.
It cereainly was a feat of
engineering the way the locks early the ships through. It takes about
eight hours for a ship to go from
the Pacific side to the Atlantic side
and she must go through three sets
of locks.
have seen ships from
many parts of the world.

the

and
you
the

We

urday evenings there.
I’m not doing anything at the
moment but experimenting with
housekeeping. We have a woman
do our laundry every Monday for
Labor is very cheap here and
$2.
you can get a full-time maid for
315 a month plus meals.
One of my students from Cape
May is also down here. She flew
down here to be married also. It
certainly is a small world.
also would appreciate hearing about B. S. T. C. and kindly

We

say “hello” to our many friends.
With best wishes and regards,
Lillian Mlkvy Merrifiekl
Address:
Mrs. R. S. Merrifiekl
C/O P.F.C. R. S. Merrifiekl
U. S. 51034044
Hq. Hq. & Svc. Co.
45th Recon. Bn.
Fort Clayton, Canl Zone
In a lovely ceremony held Tuesday, June 17, in Christ Episcopal
Church, Berwick, Miss Beverly
Ann Cole, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry E. Cole, of Blooms-

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burg,

became

the bride of Lt. R.

Leonard German, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George German, of Berwick.
The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the llev. William R.
N. Ilaire, pastor of the church.
The bride is a graduate of
B.S.T.G., with the class of 1951 and
her husband graduated from the
Pennsylvania State College the
same year. He served with the
U. S. Marine Corps from 1944 to
1946 and is, at present, a liuetenant in the infantry. They will
make their home in Alaska where
Lt. German will be stationed.

Robert E. Hileman, son of Mr.
L. J. Hileman, of Light
Street, has reported to Camp Kilmer, N. J., for duty overseas. He
was formerly at Fort Jackson, S. C.
A graduate of Scott Township High
School and B.S.T.G., he entered
service in October, 1951.
He is
married to the former Winnie Mae
Mericle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
M. W. Mericle, of Berwick Road,
Bloomsburg.

and Mrs.

Charles Richard Gearhart, son
Mr. and Mrs. William Gearhart,
Catawissa, is teaching in the Lewistown public schools. He has
been active in sports throughout
his school career and will assist in
coaching soccer at the Lewistown
school.
He is teaching seventh
grade history and eighth grade
geography.
of

Miss
Alice
Marie
Jacques,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
D. Jacques, of Falls R. D. 1, became the bride of Carl Howard
Grimes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart R. Grimes, of Bloomsburg R.
D. 1, in a ceremony at one’clock
Sunday afternoon, June 8, at the
parsonage of the Dr. Elvin Clay
Myers, pastor of the First Methodist
Church, Bloomsburg.
The
double-ring ceremony was used.

The bride graduated from Falls
Overfield High School, Mill City,
Pa., and
B.S.T.C.
She is now
teaching at the Tunkhannock grade
school.

The bridegroom attended

school at

Bloomsburg and

is

en-

gaged in fanning with his father.
Miss Jo Ann Victoria Fornwald,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
December, 1952

Boyd

of Bloomsburg, was
marriage to Charles

Keller,

united

in

Lindbergh Edwards, of Montgomery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
E. Edwards, of Shamokin, in a
donble-ring ceremony performed,
at
two-thirty Sunday afternoon,
June 15, in the First Presbyterian
Church, Bloomsburg, by the Rev.
Varre A. Cummins, pastor.

Approximately one hundred attended the ceremony which was
solemnized before the altar decorated with lighted candles, snapdragons and yellow carnations.

The
bride
graduated
from
Bloomsburg High School and is a
senior at B.S.T.C.
Pier husband
graduated from Shamokin High
School and was a member of the
class of 1951 at B.S.T.C.

ved

in the

U.

S.

teaching in the
School.

Army, and

He

ser-

is

now

Montgomery High

the setting Saturday, July 5, for
the marriage of Miss Helen Louise
Tietjen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Tietjen, to Harold Franklin Emmitt, son of John Franklin
Emmitt. Danville R. D. 4, and the

Elizabeth

Drumm Em-

mitt.

The impressive double-ring
mony was performed by the
A. R. Bachman before an
banked

cerealtar

with

of

Both Mr. and Mrs. Emmitt are
graduates of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, class of 1951. The
is

2,

at

Cyril

Ss.

and Methodius Creek Catholic
Church. Berwick, by the Rev. Father John Bilanych.
The bride attended Berwick
High School and is employed at the
Wise Potato Chip Co., Berwick.
Her husband graduated from Berwick High School, Wyoming Seminary in Wilkes-Barre, and B.S.T.C.
and is employed in the offices of
the A.C.F.

The

Forty

Fort

Methodist

Church was the setting on Friday,
August 1. for the ceremony uniting
in marriage Miss Nancy Jean Unger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tru-

a teacher at

and the bridegroom
service and is based
Gap.

McLean,

Va.,

is

in military

at

Indiantown

versity.

In a lovely ceremony at three
o’clock Saturday, June 14, in the

Matthew

Lutheran Church,
Miss Joanna Mae
Vanderslice, daughter of Mrs. Josephine Vanderslice, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of Clifton
G. Clarridge III, son of Mrs. Fred
St.

Bloomsburg,

Cleary, of Pacific Palisades, Calif.
the Rev.

four
6,

in

St.
Matthew Lutheran Church,
Bloomsburg, Miss Patricia Ann
Kistler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred W. Kistler, of River Road,
became the bride of Donald LaRue Diseroad, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Victor H. Diseroad, of town.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Diseroad
graduated from Bloomsburg High
School and attended B.S.T.C. The
bridegroom is employed as a clerk

at the local post office.

The

Rev. Edgar Singer officiated.
Mrs.
Keiser
graduated from
B.S.T.C. this Spring and will teach
fourth grade in a Liverpool, N. Y.,
school this Fall. Her husband, also
a graduate of B.S.T.C., received his
master’s degree from the University
of Scranton and is working on his
doctor’s degree at Syracuse Uni-

The ceremony was performed by
Edgar D. Ziegler, pastor,

1952
In a lovely ceremony at
o clock Saturday, September

Mrs. Fred Keiser, of Scranton.

Rev.

palms, baskets
white carnations and ferns.

bride

Saturday, August

man Unger, of Forty Fort, to Norman Fred Keiser, son of Mr. and

Elias Reformed Church at Newmanstown, Pa., near Reading, was

late Mrs.

The marriage of Miss Sara Frances Taylor, of Berwick, to Michael
Lylo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Myron
Lylo, of Berwick, was solemnized

before

one hundred friends and

relatives of the couple.

The

bride

is

a

graduate

of

Bloomsburg High School. Both she
and her husband graduated from
B.S.T.C. this year. Mr. Clarridge
served for three years in the U. S.

Navy and

is

now employed by

Douglass Aircraft Corp., Los Angeles.

at

Mrs. Clarridge will

teach

Lynwood, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarridge are

liv-

ing at 1031 Sliff Street, Pacific Palisades, California.
17

ceremony at
June

In a lovely

ty o’clock Saturday,

two-thir7, in

the

Church, Bloomsburg. Miss Martha Jeanne Ruckle,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James L.
Ruckle, of Bloomsburg, was united
in marriage to Donald Clair Beminger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
Z. Berninger, of Bloomsburg R. D.
First Presbyterian

2

.

graduated
from
The bride
Bloomsburg High School in 1948
and B.S.T.C. in 1952. She was a
member of Kappa Delta Pi and
She is now
Alpha Psi Omega.
teaching

first

grade at Catawissa.

The bridegroom graduated from
Bloomsburg High School in 1948
and Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, in 1952, where he was a
member of Theta Chi Fraternity.
He majored in music education.
In a ceremony performer recentTrinity Evangelical Congregational Church, Frackville, Miss
Adeline Cresswell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Cresswell, of
Frackville, became the bride of
Royal Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Miller, of Bloomsburg R. D.

ly in

O
•J.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Kenneth R.
Maurer, pastor of the church.

A reception was held at Stine’s,
near Hazleton.
The couple left
on a wedding trip and will reside
on their return, at Frackville.

COLUMBIA COUNTY BRANCH
More than seventy members

of

Columbia County Branch of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Alumni Association attendthe

ed the annual dinner meeting held
room, Satur-

in the college dining

day,

November

1.

After dinner, the group adjourned to the Women’s Day Room in
Noetling Hall to hear an address
by Herbert E. Stover, of Lavonia,
Mr. Stover is a well-known
Pa.
lecturer and author. In his address,
Mr. Stover pointed out many facts
of historical interest which stems
from this particular region. In his
opinion, Conrad Weiser was a more
romantic figure than Daniel Boone
in the early history of this country.
His address was later broadcast
and
over radio stations

B.S.T.C.

Miss Priscilla Abbott, daughter
Rev. and Mrs. Frank Abbott, of Lehman, Pa., became the
bride of Harry Fcnstermacher, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Fenstermacher, of Catawissa, recently at the
Methodist Church in Lehman.
of the

The bride is a graduate of
B.S.T.C. this year.
Her husband,
a graduate of the same college in
1951, is a veteran of World War II
and has been taking graduate work
at Bueknell University.

Edward Snyder

is

teaching Social

and French at the Lord
Baltimore High School in Ocean
View, Delaware.

Studies

18

F.

Rradley Sterling,

Howard

Fenstemaker and Claude Ren-

ninger.

GREATER NEW YORK

classes

Miss Elsie Bower, college librarian, was in charge of general arrangements, assisted by Edward D.
Sharretts, of the college staff. Dinner music was provided by Miss
Myra Albertson and John Bogdan,
college students. Mrs. Earl A. Gehrig and Mrs. Edward T. DeVoe

1907

get-together in the

Officers which include Include
Edward T. DeVoe, president; Donald Rabb, Benton, vice president;
Paul Brunstetter, treasurer; and Edward D. Sharretts, secretary; were
re-elected for the coming year. The
president explained to the group

graduate of Beaver
School
and

High

Herre,

ings to the group.

business meeting preDr.
ceded Mr. Stover’s address.
Elna H. Nelson, president of the

band

a

Those
who attended from
Bloomsburg were: President Harvey A. Andruss, Dr. Ralph S.

B.S.T.C. Alumni Association, was
called upon for a few brief remarks. Dr. Andruss extended greet-

WCNR.
A short

poured

is

The Alumni of the Harrisburg
area held a dinner meeting in October in the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg. Mary Agnes Meehan 18, president of the
organization, presided.
President Andruss spoke to the
group about the College program
of students and Howard F. Fenstemaker, of the faculty, entertained with a musical novelty.

The third annual reunion luncheon of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Alumni Association of
Greater New York was held Saturday, October 25, 1952, at the Allerton Hotel, Lexington Avenue and
57th Street, New York City. There
were
forty-five
members and
guests present with the following

WHLM

Mrs. Miller is a graduate of
Frackville High School. Her hus-

T ownship

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND
ALUMNI

at the

Day Room.

contributions could be made
the Columbia County
Branch. If members of the Alumni
Association residing in Columbia

how

directly to

County would pay

their

dues

di-

rectly to the treasurer of the Columbia County Branch, the local

group might retain twenty-five percent of all monies received as dues
On Alumni
for its own treasury.
Day, the Columbia County Branch
will arrange to have a representa-

represented:
1903,
1891,
1909, 1910, 1911 (5), 1919,
1921, 1923 (3), 1928, 1930, 1931,
1935, 1938, 1941, 1942 (3), 1946,
1948 and 1950.
Honored guests were: Dr. and
Mrs. Andruss, Dr. Nelson and Mr.
Danny W. Litwhiler, all of Bloomsburg, Pa.; Mrs. H. W. Riland and
Mrs. Anderson, of New York City.
Dr. Andruss gave the Invocation
(4),

and later spoke on, “Student Employment and Earnings at the College,” and also on scholarships.
Dr. Nelson acted as Master of
Ceremonies and introduced memMr. Litbers of various classes.
whiler gave an interesting account
of his career as a Major League

He stressed the
baseball player.
value of an education and advised
all

young men who have aspirabecoming ball players, to

tions of

complete their college education
first, if

possible.

A. K. Naugle, Secretary

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI

tive in Noetling Hall to collect
dues from Alumni residing in the

The Bloomsburg Alumni Association of Philadelphia held its regular monthly meeting October 18,
1952, in Gimbel’s Club Women’s

county.

Center.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING

WEST BRANCH

Church, New Milford. A chicken
dinner was served to the group by

and guests attending.

Wide-Awake class.
The meeting was opened by singing America, Mrs. Howard May-

Nelson,

Miss Elizabeth Brooks, daughMrs. Harry Bahner, Dalmatia, and the late John T.
Brooks,
became the bride of Lambert E.
Broad, of Freeland, son of Edward
Broad, of Nazareth, and the late
Mrs. Broad, in a ceremony held in
the Beaver
Memorial Methodist
Church, Lewisburg.
The Rev.

Alumni

Kenneth Rose

Susquehanna-Wyoming Counties
Alumni Association of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College held their

42nd meeting Wednesday evening,
October S,
at
the
Methodist

the

nard leading the singing, accompanied by Mrs. Harold Hartt. Dr.
Kehr gave the invocation. Raymon Kozlowski acted as chairman
of the business meeting.

The following
ted

for the

officers

coming

wore

year:

elec-

Francis

Shaughnessy,
president;
Mabel
Decker, vice president, and Mrs.
Susan Sturman, secretary, all of
Wyoming county; Raymond Kozlowski, vice president; Mrs. Glenn
Hasbrouck, secretary, and Mrs.

Owen

Hartley, treasurer,
quehanna county.

all

of Sus-

Dr. Andruss, president of the colspoke on behalf of the college
and the Alumni Association.
lege,

Miss Mary Jo Williams, a student at the college, gave a piano
solo.
Miss Earla Myers, sang a
vocal solo,

accompanied by Joanne

Dauber.

Following the musical selections
movies of the college and students
were shown.

There were thirty-four

in attend-

ance.

Miss Della N. Martz, daughter
Nola B. Martz, of Bloomsburg, became the bride of William
R. Barstler, son of Mr. and Mrs.
of Mrs.

C. Barstler, of Bloomsburg R.
D. 5, in a ceremony at four o’clock
R.

Saturday, August

8,

at St.

John’s

Lutheran Church, Catawissa.
The Rev. Howard S. Hugus, pastor of the church, performed the
double ring ceremony before the
immediate families. Mr. and Mrs.
Barstler are now residing at 700
East Seventh street, Bloomsburg.
Both graduated from Bloomsburg High School. The bride attended B.S.T.C. and is employed
in the office at Letterman’s Bakery, Inc.
The bridegroom, a veteran of
anic at

World War II, is a mechColumbia Aircraft Services.

December, 1952

The West Branch Alumni organization

of

the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College field its annual
dinner meeting at the Hotel Milton
on October 17, with 52 members

Congenial toastmaster, Dr. E. H.
president of Bloomsburg
Association,
introduced
each member and guest and Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, college president, addressed the meeting on the
importance of the teacliing profession and the alumni organizations.
Special
entertainment
was
brought by Mr. Harry S. Barton,
Bloomsburg Class of ’96, whose recordings of interviews with Dr.
Francis B. Haas, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and

Homecoming Welcome by

Presi-

ter of

Mrs. Broad is a graduate of Milton High School and B.S.T.C. She
has been employed as an English
teacher at Lewisburg High School.

Her
husband
graduated from
Lehigh University and earned his
master’s degree at the University
of Pittsburgh. He is headmaster of
the Mining and Mechanical Institute at Freeland, a college preparatory school for boys.

dent Andruss, as well as college
band and chorus music, formed the

background

for the

showing

of col-

ored slides

of college personnel,
events and grounds.
College guests, including those
named above, were Dr. Marguerite Kehr, Professors Ralph Ilerre,

Ahnus

Russel,

Edward DeVoe and

Mr. Claude Renninger.
The 1952-1953 officers elected
were Mrs. Charles Snyder, Milton,
president; Mrs. Paul Everitt, Lewisburg R. D. 2, vice president; Mrs.
Halter Angstadt, Lewisburg, secletary; and Miss Cora Baumer,
Lewisburg R. D. 3, treasurer.
Those persons present were the college personnel, Mr. Barton, Mrs. Walter Angstadt, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley
Auten, Miss Cora Baumer, Mrs. Charles Boyer, Mr. Clyde Confer, Mr. Ray
Confer, Mrs. Helen Crow, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Danowsky, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Dietrich, Mrs. Paul Everitt, Mrs. Eugene
Johnson, Miss Helen Keller, Mrs. F. E.
Kirk, Mrs. Howard Kitt, Prof, and Mrs.
George Kunkel, Mrs. Curtis C. Lesher,
Miss Nerine Middleswarth, Mrs. U.
Grant Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pet-

Mr. and Mrs. John Reigle, Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Ritter, Miss Sarah Russell, Miss Virginia Shambach, Mrs. Violet Shirk, Mrs. Carrie Shultz, Mr. and
ers,

Mrs. Charles Snyder, Mrs. Ruth Sterner, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Swartz, Mr.
and Mrs. Lynn Tiley, Mr. and Mrs.
James Webster, Mrs. Martha Jean Yocum and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Zong.

officiated at the ring

ceremony.

In a pretty

ceremony Saturday

at

Joseph’s Catholic Church, Danville, Francis
of
J. Mahoney, son
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Mahoney,
Danville, took as his bride.
Miss
Ramona Jean Mottern, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Mottern, of
Danville.
The nuptial was performed by
the bridegroom’s brother, the Rev.
Daniel J. Mahoney, of York, Pa.
Both are graduates of Danville
High School. The bridegroom attended B.S.T.C. for two years and
St.

employed at Merck while awaiting his call to the U. S. Army. Mrs.
Mahoney has been employed at
is

Westinghouse plant, Sunbury. Mr.
and Mrs. Mahoney are living at
120 Mill street, Danville.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold
East Sixth St., Berwick,
the marriage of
their

Mary Ann,
of Mr.

to

Fink,

of

announce
daughter,

Ted Marshman, son

and Mrs. T. A. Marshman,

of East Front street, Berwick.
The single ring ceremony took

place August 11, in the

St.

John’s

Lutheran
Church, Hagerstown,
Md., with the Rev. L. Boyd Hamm,
officiating.

Both young people are graduatBerwick High School. The
bride attended two years at
the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
The groom is employed in
the Engineering Department of the
American Car and Foundry Comes of

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY 23,
.

.

.

1953

pany.
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and was hospitalized six
Her husband died in 1947.
She was a member of the St.
Matthew Lutheran Church and the

Miss L. Edith Hartman '92

The death
man,

of Miss L. Edith Hart80, occurred at the home of

her sister, Mrs. Grace H. Ellsworth,
39 Pringle Street, Kingston, recently.
A retired school teacher, she
had taught 51 years.
Miss Hartman was born in
Shickshinny, a daughter of the late

Edward

S. and Hannah V. Sutliff
Hartman. She lived in Shickshinny most of her life, and resided

with her

the past 12 years.
She was graduated from Professor
Walker’s Private School at Shickshinny, Stroudsburg Normal School
and attended Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
Miss Hartman was an instructor
in Shickshinny public schools most
of her teaching career. She taught
in schools in Kankee and Chebanese,

111.,

sister

for seven years.

She

re-

Miss Hartman

tired 15 years ago.

was a member of the Presbyterian
Church of Shickshinny.
Louise Young

Van Horne

Irene Girton Johnson ’93
Mrs. Irene Girton Johnston, sev-

widow

of

Samuel

J.

Johnston and one of Bloomsburg’s
most esteemed residents, died at
the Bloomsburg Hospital
Thursday, October 2.
A lifelong resident of Bloomsburg, she was a
graduate of the first class after the
present Bloomsburg Teachers College,

which started

as a

Literary

became a Normal School.
Her husband was a member of the
same class.
Institute,

Mrs. Johnston taught
in
the
schools of Grovania and Millville
and was also a substitute teacher in
Bloomsburg schools. She taught
the Bible Class of St.
Matthew

Lutheran Church for many years.
She was the daughter of the late
William and Elizabeth Kline Girton and the last of her family. She
had been ailing for a number of
20

commended

weeks.

pearance of the college property.

Missionary Society of that church.

he was exceptionally active
many phases of civic endeavor.

She was also a member of
Bloomsburg Delta Club.

the

Ada McLinn Clare ’97
Ada McLinn Clare, wife of

the

Bev. Robert D. Clare, died Sunday, May 25, 1952, in the Graduate
Hospital, Philadelphia.
The funeral service was held Thursday,
May 29, in St. Mark’s Lutheran
Church, Baltimore, Maryland, the
church with which they were associated from 1918 to 1948.
Since
retirement the Clares had been living in the Shirley Court Apartments, Upper Darby, Pa.

Anna Le Van Montgomery, ’97
Mrs. Anna L. Montgomery died
Friday, May 30, 1952, at her home
East Haven, Connecticut. A naMrs. Montgomery lived for a time in Hazleton, where she was active in the
First Presbyterian Church and the
Order of the Eastern Star.
in

tive of Limestoneville,

Nevin T. Englehart

’05

Nevin

T.
Englehart,
widely
area resident and for fortyfive years on the
the
staff
of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, died at his home in Espy. His
death followed a lingering illness
during which he was hospitalized

known

on numerous occasions.

His

last

began some months
ago when he was stricken while in

serious illness

Bloomsburg’s business

district.

He

was removed to the Bloomsburg
Hospital where he
remained a
patient for some time and then returned to his home in Espy.
He joined the staff of the Bloomsburg Teachers College, then a Nor-

mal School, six weeks after he was
graduated and his tenure was the
longest of any individual in the history of the institution.
He served as clerk and bookkeeper until 1918 when he became
superintendent of buildings and
grounds, a position he continued
to

fill

until his retirement

on June

30, 1950.

Throughout his service as
of the maintenance force he

A

for the

head
was

splendid

ap-

lifelong resident of this area,
in

He

was a member of the Bloomsburg
Evangelical and Reformed Church
and a member of the Consistory

He was

thirty years.

’92

Louise Young (Mrs. F. B. Van
Horne) died August 28, 1952, at her
home in Boonton, New Jersey, after
a long illness.

enty-eight,

years

mem-

also a

ber of the Men’s Bible Class and
attended services as long as
his
health permitted.

He was

member

a

of the

F.

&

M. and the various bodies of the
Caldwell Consistory and of the
Espy Lodge of Odd Fellows and
A.

the

Encampment

of that organiza-

tion.

Mr. Englehart

member

of the

was a charter
Bloomsburg Kiw-

Club and serviced that organization as both secretary and president.
He was a charter member
of the Espy Fire Company.
He was the moving spirit behind
many of the features which marked
sessions of the College alumni and
of the Kiwanis Club.
anis

Surviving are his wife, the forBomboy, Espy; two
brothers, Paul H. and W. Homer
Englehart, Harrisburg; four sisters,
Mrs. Joe Riccardi, Atlantic City,
N. J.; Mrs. James Reed, Miami,
Fla.; Mrs. Claude Sneidman and
Mrs. Newton White, Almedia.

mer Aleta

Funeral services were held at
Dyke Funeral Home, Market
street, and were in charge of the
the

Edward

Rev. M.
the

Schnorr, pastor

Bloomsburg
Reformed
Burial was in Creveling

of

Church.
cemetery, Almedia.

Anna K. Donovan TO
Anna K. Donovan, of Laceyville,
died in Boston from a coronary
thrombosis and was buried from
the Greenwood Funeral Parlor in

Tunkhannock, Pa.

She was a
Nurse

Consultant
Massachusetts.
State

tired

Mrs.
Mrs.
at her

rein

Anna Montgomery

Anna
home

L.
in

Montgomery

died

East Howen, Con-

necticut on May 30.
She was a
graduate of the Bloomsburg Normal School and had lived in Hazleton,
store,

where her husband

much

of her

had

a

life.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

)

WE NEED YOUR HELP

Charles R. Martz
Charles R. Martz, a Marine
Corps veteran and first-year student at Bloomsburg, died August
11 in his dormitory room at the
College.

Death was due

to

per-

from a ruptured appendix.
Mr. Martz entered the College last
January and attended the summer
session in order that he could enter as a Sophomore in September.
itonitis

Klutz, R. Daisy (Mrs. L. H. Brown)
Lewis, Deborah M. (Mrs. Reiley)

Mail addressed to the following

Alumni has been returned to the
College by the Post Office Department.
Both the College and the
Alumni officers will greatly appreciate your help in locating these

graduates of Bloomsburg.
address your
President’s

Please

information

Office,

the

to

State Teachers

nedy)

Miss Mildred Houser
Miss Mildred Houser, forty-eight,

and resident

South Market Street, Berwick,
for the past seven years, died in
Berwick Hospital Monday, September 29, after only a few days hosof

1893

Stevens, Benjamin M.
Taylor, Edward S.

Cole, Edna <Mrs. J. N. Eschenbach)
Connelly, Kate
Coughlin, Maggie ( Mrs. T. J. O’Neill)
Dintinger, Eva E. (Mrs. E. D. Frick)
Fahringer, Effie (Mrs. W. N. Dennison)
Gallagher, Celia
Gibbons. Minnie (Mrs. W. F. Hosie)

Truckenmiller, Mary
Whitaker, Mary R.
Wilcox, Howard J.
Williams, Watkins H.
Withers, Samuel C.
Wolf, Edith
Wylie, Arthur L.

Gotshall. Mercy
Kurtz, Ella B.

Lewis, Margaret E. (Mrs, Frank Fait)
McLaughlin. Bridget
McNulty, Katie (Mrs. John Hay)
O'Neill. Dr. Charles H.
Snively, Myrtle (Mrs. Hosley)
Thomas. Maggie (Mrs. W. T. Beck)

1903

Adams,

Ikeler, Jessie

1898

Jordan, Reginald L.
Aldinger. Harry E.

Armstrong, Margaret A. (Mrs.

fession for about five years, serving in Foster and Black Creek-

Bashore, Charles F.
Brenneman, Harriet (Mrs. H. B. Roop)
Brown, Anna A. (Mrs. J. H. Kenney)
Callender, Asa
Conner, Frances R.
Coxe, George W.
Cunningham, Bridget (Mrs. Jas. A.

Two Bloomsburg students were
awarded the degree of master of
science in education at the annual
Summer Commencement exercises at Bucknell University.
They
are Miss Florence S. Hartline, 319
East Street and Mrs. Margaret Berninger Riffel, 131 West Main St.

Both Miss Hartline and Mrs.
hold the degree of bachelor
of science in education from
the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
where they graduated in 1950.
Riffel

member

Bloomsburg State
Teachers College last year, was
awarded the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at the August 8 Commencement at Louisiana State University, Baton Rogue, Louisiana.
December, 1952

J.

Franey, Ella (Mrs. Ella Gallagher)
Harrison, Minnie M. (Mrs. W. W. Chambers)
Hetherington, Florence

While in Berwick Mrs. Houser
was employed as a housekeeper.
Mrs. Houser was a graduate of
Bloomsburg Normal School and
was a member of the teaching pro-

Township School.

C.

Eves, Mildred

pitalization.

Miss Dorothy Stolp, a

merman)
Redeker, Lillian A. (Mrs. Simmonds)
Reed, Clara A. (Mrs. W. H. Webster)
Rorer, Mary Louise
Rude, Judson R.
Snyder, Laura Jane (Mrs. U. Grant
Steinbach, Mabel B. (Mrs. G. E. Ken-

Mrs. Ella Britton, fifty-nine, of
Register, died at
the
Wyoming
Valley Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, Saturday, June 14. Death was attributed to euremia. She was a graduate of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College and taught school in
Pennsylvania for 35 years.

of the faculty of

Millington, Bessie A. (Mrs. W. C. Norton)
Munroe, Edna A.
Nicely, Ralph A.
Rabinovtich, Eva R.
Rechel, Lillian Osman (Mrs. E. C. Am-

Morgain

College, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mrs. Ella Britton

native of Fern Glen,

Maue, Gertrude

Kemmerer, Arthur
S. J.

Par-

sons)

Armstrong,

Margaret B. (Mrs. D.
Daniels)
Barley, Maud C. (Mrs. Carl Olsen)
Barrett,

R.

Nora

1908

Hannah

E.

(Mrs.

John

M.

Hough))
DeLong, Eudora (Mrs. Forbes)
Dillon, Frances A.

Easton, Bessie N.
Evans, Martha D. (Mrs. Fred Barrett)
Forster, Emma Alta (Mrs. Sims)
Frederickson, Elam A.
Gibbons, Agnes
Goodman, Theresa (Mrs. Henry Sout-

herner)
Graydon, Esther M.
Hagenbuch, Netta Eletha (Mrs. Byron
J. Grimes)
Hardenbergh, J. H.
Hayward, William H.
Hilbert. Fred F.
Hostetter, J. M.
Jewett, Elizabeth E.
Jordan, Mary Monica
Joyce, William
Kelly, Margaret V.
Kempfer, Amelia (Mrs.

van)

Arnold, Ina A.
Beddall, Joanna (Mrs. Marshall Watkins)
Cox, Nell
Deeths, Anna R. (Mrs. James E. Regan)
Deighmiller, Ella R. (Mrs. Kimber A.

Hartman)

Rooney)
Davies,

E.

Moran, Mollie
Redeker, Laura (Mrs. C. W. Disbrow)

Faust, Sara C.
Finn, Ruth M. (Mrs.
Geisdorf, Charlotta
Grimes, Jay H. Dr.

Ruth Harrington)

Handley, Alberta M. (Mrs. John F. Mc-

Gowan)
Heberling, Pearl
(Mrs.
Gaylord
J.
Jones)
Henrie, Ethel L. (Mrs. Edward C. Stevens)
Jayne Elsie H.
Johnson, Margaret J.
Mercer, Irene (Mrs. Paul M. Rainey)
Miller, Harriet
Morris, Mary E. (Mrs. E. P. Thomas)
Oman, Della (Mrs. M. D. Mordan)
Petrilli,

Piatt,

Francesco C. L.

Eugene W.

Rarick, William
Sanders, Clyde
Smith, Merrill W.

Turek, Frederick
J.

Kimber Le-

Wells, Grace F. (Mrs. Clyde Sanders)
Woods, Margaret

21

Leach, Bernard M.
Levan, Katie Elva
Lord, Helen Gertrude (Mrs. Arthur R.
Powell)
Lundahl, Esther Marie

1913

Ashton, Morville
Bennett, Clayton James
Bucher, Jessie C.
Engel, Maude Bogart (Mrs.

S.

B.

Dil-

cer)

Frey, Gordon Freas
Gruber, Amos B.
Haley, Margaret L. (Mrs. F. C. Flaherty)

Harman Ruth Edna

Abner N.

(Mrs.

Seely)

Rowlands. David

Mullen,

Mary Doretta
Fanny Isabella
Rommel, Mary Ford
Shannon, Nora Irimna

Sick. Sr.

Rarig,

Smith, Esther M.
Sober, Annabelle
Troy. Hazel K. (Mrs. George F. Burns)
Vance, Cordelia K. (Mrs. James Beal)
Vosheski, Lucy
Wolverton, Kathryn E.
Zerbe. Helen A. (Mrs. T .D. Jenkins)

Sheridan, Sr.

(Mrs. Nora Deck-

er)

Carrie Louise
Smith, Zola Arlene
Stevens, Reuben D.
Sweeney, Frances Regis
Terwilliger, Edyth Luella
Welker, Ruth Madeline
Watrous, Marguerite M.
Walton, Lena Elizabeth (Mrs.
Wilcox, Cora Douglas
Williams, Jane Naomi

Lynch, Anita G.
Mack. Marion (Mrs. John

S.

Kinner-

(Mrs.

Charles

Ferry)

man)
Miller,

O’Donnell, Raymond
Rhodes, Effie L. (Mrs. Effie Bond)

Bowers)

.S.

J.

G. Luccar-

erri)

Simpson. Ethel M. (Mrs. Charles G. RaySnyder, Hilda (Mrs. Lester Stevenson)

Thomas, Gertrude (Mrs. A.
Throne, Robert H.

S.

Leonard)

Transue, Anna (Mrs. Anna Dickenson)
Wasilewski, Bella
White, Albert Leerea
Williams, May (Mrs. W. D. Jones)

1918

Andres, Helen Grieves
Andrews, Bertha Ada (Mrs. Frank Stepler, Jr.)

Augenblick, Rebecca Delphia
Baird, Ruth Matilda (Mrs. Ruth Bond)
Brotherton, Nelli Fancourt (Mrs. Harry
O. Geary)
Clark, L. Fuston
Creasy, Jessie Elizabeth (Mrs.

James W.

McKeand)
Dennis,

J.

Elliot

Dodson, Edna Bees (Mrs. J. Roland
Follmen)
Donovan, Ann Cecelia
Fetterolf, Nita Marie
Fritz, Sarah B. (Mrs. Sarah Brunstet-

Baer, Zell

Benson, Rachael (Mrs. Benton Mitchel)
Berlew, Beatrice (Mrs. Beatrice Jopling)

Clark, Funston

Hahn, Edith Rebecca (Mrs.

L. J. Seid-

ers)

Harrison, Eleanor Bertelle
Hill, Florence (Mrs. Ernest H. Knorr)

Rebecca Audrey
Lower, Dr. Charles Maxwell
Hutton, Ruth (Mrs. Ruth Aucker)
Jones, Margaret Reba
Hill,

Jordan, Rema Ethel
Kase, Katharine May

Brandon, Grace
Brannigan, Joseph
Brennan, Kathryn M.
Brunstetter, Jessie (Mrs. Jessie Roundtree)
Campbell, Helen (Mrs. Ted Renand)
Caswell, Leah N. (Mrs. Leon C. Pratt)

Chesnulewicz, Sr. M. Casimer
Colley, Mary J. (Mrs. Eddie Howard)
Dawson, Beatrice (Mrs. E. C. Jones)
Doherty, Margaret
Epler, Myrtle M. (Mrs. Ralph Mertz)
Farrar, Rose (Mrs. Rose Finney)
Flanagan, Sr. M. Ruth
Foster, Mrs. Agnes L.
Foulk, Madeline (Mrs. Madeline Benton)

Gavin, Sr. M. Anita
Givens, Sr. M. Augustine
Grady, Joseph
Hoyt, Emmett M.
Kasnitz, Anna H.

Kathryn (Mrs. Hensler)
Knorr, J. Ramona
Lenahan,, A. Leo
Lenhart, Ruth E. (Mrs. C. Donald Craw-

Kleinfelter,

ford)

Lowe,

ter)

(Mrs.

Warren

Yeager)
Klingaman, Foster E.
Knedler, John Warren Jr.
Knoll, Gertrude (Mrs. Thomas O’Toole)
Laudig, J. Frear
22

1923

Boyle, Sr. M. Louis

nes)

M. Hildegarde

Bone, Margaretta Mary
Boyer, Naomi Rosalie
Smiley)
Burdick, Ina C.

(Mrs.

Earl

J.

Carlson, Ebba Matilda
Cobb, Thelma Warren

Robert H.

Roberts, Helen Parry
Shuman. Carrie (Mrs. L
Shuman, Mabel E. (Mrs.

T.

Mary Gerald

1928

Arthur

Harmon)

bach)
Kester, Eura M.

ton)

McKeon, Anna Agnes
McLane, Anna Helena

Sites,

Hartzell, Russel J.
Hetler. Miriam (Mrs. J. H. White)
Hughes, Hazel P. (Mrs. James Barton)
Karns. Helen Coreen (Mrs. Helen Knandel)
Kearney. Lillian M.
Keefer, Myrtle May (Mrs. Harry Brum-

Helen A. (Mrs. Herbert Hart)
B .(Mrs. Meetching)
Robbins. Beula A. (Mrs. John Roberts)
Robbins, Pearl P. (Mrs. Alfred S. BurRiegel,

Riel, Ethel

Sr. M. Imelda
Matusavage, Julia
Mainwaring, Margaret (Mrs. George
Schwartz)
Meixell, Genevieve E. (Mrs. Elwood F.
Laneer)
Monroe, Madaline
Moran, Martha J. (Mrs. Buck)
Morgan, Margaret (Mrs. Granville B.
Haines)
Morris, S. Jeane (Mrs. Wilde)
Naylis, Kathryn (Mrs. Pelak)

Nelson, Beatrice A.
O’Brien, Mary W.
Powell, Esther M. (Mrs. Bryan)
Pratt, Mary W. (Mrs. Davis)
Ransom, E. Elizabeth

Colley, Elizabeth S.
Costello, Laura Catherine

Davies, Irene Elizabeth
Davies, Martha Roberts
Davies. Ralph
Davis, Ellen Gower

Dermondy, Marguerite Mercedes
Glayds J. (Mrs. M. K. Whit-

Dildine,

mire)
Dushanko, Mary
Eastman, Helen Frances
Wise)
Ellis, Irene Gladys
Evans, Janet Louise

(Mrs.

Alvin

(Mrs. Janet Mar-

tin)

Beulah Lorraine (Mrs. Weldon Mann)
Finley, Mary Joan
Flowers, Gertrude Jacqueline
(Mrs.
Donald Davis)
Frank. Cora Etta (Mrs. Wilbur Brooks)
Gallagher, Bernard
Garrison. Geraldine Mildred
Geiss, Dorothea
Geissinger, Carrie Rea
Gemmell, Janet C.
George, Patrick Paul
Greenfield, Mildred
Gresh, Dorothy Humphrey
Hawkins, Ray E.
Heiss, Raymond Arthur
Hendershott, Lida Margaret
Herr, Mildred Marguerite
Hildebrand, Ruthe Mae (Mrs. Kenneth
E. Van Buskirk)

Fairchild,

Hinkle, Catherine Irvin
Hirsch, Gladys Isabelle
Hutton, Helen Elizabeth
Ivey, Doyle W.
Ivey, Harriet Elizabeth!

Mrs. Robert
Wilson)
Johnson, Catherine Bernadette
Johnson, Edith Mary
Jones, Margaret Jane (Mrs. Margaret

Lackhan)
Kashner, Myrna Harriet (Mrs. Frederick Sands Hite)
Kemper, Marion Ruth
Kimble, Doris Helen

Klein, Marjorie Viola
Kornell, Irene Amelia

(Mrs.

Harolc

Davis)

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Krzyanski. Celia

(Mrs.

Pinkow-

Celia

1933

ski)

Laird.

Mary

A.

Roland

Lavelle,

Albertson. Catherine
Fuller)
Arey, Joseph

J.

Lawless, Winifred Agnes
Leininger. Helen
hoff)

Mae

(Mrs. John Brok-

Lewis, Virginia Marie
Lloyd, Esther (Mrs. Clifford
McGuire. Helen Elizabeth

Bound)

McLaughlin, Arthur Francis
McManimen, Elizabeth Dorothy
Madden. M. Eileen
McCombs, Margaret Jane
Mitchells. Lois Pauline
Mittelman, Sara
Mordan, Bessie
Mordan. Viola May

Anna

Ellen

Moyer, Cordelia Belle
Nagorski, Elizabeth Martha
Osinchuk, Winifred C. (Mrs.
chal)
Ottaviani,

Lillian

Artman William Edgar
Beck, Melba (Mrs. Melba Hyde)
Betterly, Mary E. (Mrs. Kenneth

M.

(Mrs.

Zy-

Lillian

Owens, Helen Frances
Helen

Parris.

Pennington, Alice
Phillips. Mary Josephine
Phillips, Mildred Elizabeth (Mrs. Richard Powell)
Pursel. Marjorie Vida (Mrs. George F.

Wyman)
Reichenbach. Leona Carolyn (Mrs. Leona R. Epler)
Rhoades, Elizabeth Mary (Mrs. Russell
Tripp)
Richards, Dorothy Rozelle
Roberts, Elizabeth Jane
Roushey, Edna Mary
Rutter, Elizabeth Grieves
Schlier, Ellen Alberta (Mrs. Earl A.
Schaeffer)
Schoen, Atilla (Mrs. Dan Lewis)
Sechak, Mildred
Shepherd, Margaret Eleanor
Sheridan. Jane Mary
Sherwood, Ina Mae (Mrs. Ina

Mae Fran-

cis)

Sims, Doris E.

Snyder, Florence Katherine
Snyder, Lehman J.
Stiver,
Florence Anne (Mrs.

B.

L.

Camp)
Stockoska, Victoria Maria
Stokes, Blake
Sullivan, Sarah Lucille

Thomas, Mary Eleanore

Van Aernam, Hugh Edward
Van Buskirk, Nicholas
Wallace, Edmund Donald
(Mrs.

P.

Hauze, Mary A.
James, William L.
Kafka, Albert J.
Krauss, Milton L.

Krum)

Linn B.

(Mrs.

Mensch, June (Mrs. Stanley Strausser)
Murzenski, Sabins (Mrs. Sabins Konieczny)
Naus, Irene (Mrs. Irene Munson)

W.

Pohle)
Yeager, Lucille Ellen Marie
dore Heickler)
Young, Harriet Ellen

Hilda Edora

Zorskas,

Nancy

December, 1952

tary

teacher in

Berwick schools, became the

bride of Francis Sullivan, teacher
in the schools of Chicago,
in a
recent ceremony in Chicago.
After a month’s trip through the
Great Lakes Region, Mr. and Mrs.

make their home in
The bride is a graduate
T. C. Her husband holds

Sullivan will
of B. S.

degrees from Holy Cross College
and Boston University.

F. Albertini)

11

Pack, Josephine
Partridge, Marguereta
Potter, Miles
Reng, Pauline (Mrs. Paul
Riggs, Carl
Shanno, Alice
Shepela, Alex

J.

Turek)

Snyder, Arthur
Snyder, Violet (Mrs. Robert Hoffman)
Stier, Walter H.
Strausser, Stanley C.
Strunk, Catherine C. (Mrs. C. V. Snyder)
Timbrell, Edna Louise (Mrs. Thomas
Metzger)
Van Horn, Marion (Mrs. A. C. Fray)
Walsh, Mary N.
(Mrs.

Kathryn

(Mrs.

Dean A.

Williams, Edward R.
Williams, James H.
Wolfe, Mary Helen (Mrs. Mary Davis)
Yoretski, Walter (Jarecki)
Yozviak, Leo V.

Grace

Radler)

James Hiscox
Margaret J. (Mrs. Margaret

majoring in elemeneducation at B.S.T.C.
For
the past several years he has been
a member of the Wilkes-Barre Barons basketball team.
Mrs.
Colone attended Plains
Tfigh School and has been employed by the Social Security Administration, Wilkes-Barre.
is

Chicago.

Long, Pauline

Phyllis (Mrs.

Bloomsburg where the

are living in

bridegroom

Miss Martha Rider,

Kressler, Martha
Kritzberger, Walter M.
Lamoreaux. Edna A. (Mrs. Karl Albertson)
Landis, Emily (Mrs. Paul Sopensky)
Lewis. Ruth
Litzenberger,
Frances
Edwin
(Mrs.

Newman,

In a nuptial mass at nine o’clock
Saturday morning, June 14, in St.
Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church,
Hudson, Pa., Miss Genevieve Papaj,
daughter of John Papaj, of Hudson,
was united in marriage to Joseph
“Bells” Colone, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Emilio Colone, of Berwick.
The Rev. Francis Baranowski
celebrated the mass.
The couple

the

Ward)

Watkins, Lois Allison

Sherwood)
Welter, Grace Eilzabeth

J.

Hagenbuch, Jay

Wenner, Kathryn E.
Thacher)
Wilkinson, Lorene G.

Traub, Dorothy Lindner

Weber, Ruth Albright

Bohr. Edward P.
Burns. Mary E.
Busch, Anna Mildred
Coursen, Thomas S.
Davis, Joseph P.
Peppen, Helen K.
Dymond, Frances E. (Mrs. Frances Gay)
Edwards, Inez E. (Mrs. Fred T. Aten)
Enders, Ruth L. (Mrs. Clyde Shive)
Evans. Thelma F. (Mrs. Thomas Williams)
Gallagher. Catherine A.
Gallagher, Mary Grace
Greco. Frank

S. J.

Ouslander, Ruth

Zeisloft,

A.

Getz, Karl L.

Mineo)

Williams,
Williams,

J.

Maiero)

Lesser, Jeannette F.

Morris,

(Mrs. Leonard

SUPPORT THE

SENIORS IN WHO’S

WHO

Eleven outstanding members of
the Senior Class have been chosen
to appear in the 1953 edition of
“Who’s Who in American Colleges
and Universities.” All selections
were made on the basis of personal
leadership, practical qualiprofessional promises, potential usefulness to society, actual
ability,
past
record,
scholastic
achievement, and service to the
traits,
ties,

The choice was made by
the following and approved by
President Andruss: the Dean of Incollege.

struction, Deans of Men and Women. Director of Business, Elementary and Secondary Education.
John Bogdan
Charles Brennan
Irene Cichowicz
Edwin Cunfer
Rosella Danilo
Clare Davis

Mary Ellen Dean

(Mrs. Isa-

HUSKY FUND

Richard Knause
Henri Marini

David Newbury
John Scrimgeour
23

WHAT AMERICA MEANS TO ME
By GEORGE

ADAMCHAK

(Reprinted from the “Maroon

&

Gold”)

I will try to explain what America means to me and why America
has the greatest standard of living
in the world today.
In America we have freedom to
worship in the church of our
In some countries the
choice.
church and government are connected, and the people may go only
to that church.
In America we have freedom of
the press which many other countries do not have.
Our newspapers
can print the truth without fear of

cially those dealing

arrest.

given a chance
to prove his innocence before a
jury of 12 people, and if he is too
poor to hire a lawyer the State provides one for him.
If he is sent
to prison it is not like the slave
camps and mines in some other
countries.
In our prisons many
trades are taught, and the prisoners
may obtain an education. Some
learn to read and write, others finish grade school and go through
In
high school and even higher.
some cases the instructors come
from their own ranks but in most
cases the state provides them.
Our Army and Navy are the finest and best paid in the world.
When a person joins one of the
military organizations he or she is
given a choice of many interesting
fields to work in.
They receive
specialized training in their chosen field and it is possible to get a
college education in the service,
coming out with a degree dependon branch of service, choice of
Then
field, and personal ability.
they have their training to get good

We

have hospitals for hurt or
people regardless of race,
If they
creed, color, or religion.
are unable to pay or can only pay
part, they still get the same medical care as the very rich.
There
are different kinds of insurances
sick

available where for a few dollars
a year you are assured of paid medical attention. Public health nurses
play a great part in nations public
schools.
There are public and private
schools for handicapped people.

Certain standards must be met to
enter colleges but for those unable
to pay there are many scholarships
available for those who can qualify.
Some scholarships are unfortunately based on athletic abilities
instead of mental abilities.
Fellowships are offered for those who
are especially talented by interested people or companies. That is,
Dupont, Westinghouse, Rockefeller foundations etc.
Our Country
spends money for the study and
experimenting in many fields espe-

with physical
anr mental diseases and cures.
have public libraries where
the public can get free books on
any subject he wishes to pursue.
have one of the finest governments in the world.
have
free elections and almost anyone
can vote for the person of his or
her choice.
Our laws are made by the people.
If a law becomes obsolete or

We
We

We

is

unpopular

it

amendment or
who is arrested

can be changed by
repeal.

Anybody

is

ALUMNI

jobs.

American business

is constantly
In our factories
increasingly better rela-

being improved.

we have

between employees and emMany have lunchrooms
where employees can get hot lunches and some factories have recretions

ployer.

ation for the workers; both these
factors help the factories to
efficient and productive.

be more

One thing that makes other people come to America is that from a
small beginning people in America
have become rich and it has been
proved time and time again.
Our farms are run by machinery
which

We

is faster and more profitable.
also
practice
conservation

which improves the land to giving
33V2% more crops.
We have many industries which
are not controlled by the government. This is an important factor
in the freedom of the people.
All the above things are reasons
why anybody should want to live
in America.
But to me, a handicapped person, it is especially important. I am an American because
we put life above everything else.

NOTE: The Maroon

&:

Gold

is

pleased and privileged to present

something unique

in

the

way

of

This essay, “What America
Means to Me,” is not only a writing about the much-written subject of democracy; it is also an essay in courage.
You see, it was
written by a ten year old boy who
has spent all his life in a wheelchair with a serious spinal ailment.
essays.

DAY...

SATURDAY, MAY
21

paying

23,

1953

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

'SauceA&d o+uH felaw&dl'
E. H.

NELSON,

11

Not many clays ago a very fine lady called to see me. In her hand was
something wrapped in paper. That something turned out to he five, twenty dollar hills.
She asked that the money he used for the student loan fund. She also
asked that her name be left out of the picture. Any acknowledgment should be
from “A friend” or “The Class of 1895."
A few weeks before that a check for $100.00 was in the morning’s mail, designated for similar use. That check was from a former teacher of mine. Again
hesitate to mention names, but to a country boy she was a wonderful, inspiraknow there are hundreds of Bloomsburg Alumni who sav with
tional teacher.
pride and satisfaction, “She was a GOOD teacher.
And the above two paragraphs lead me to say that being president of an
Alumni Association may not be all fun and financial profit, but some rewards
come along that do not figure in a personal bank account at all.
I

I

— o—
Had

from Gertrude Moiris. ’99, the other day. She lives in Scranton
now and is anxious to see a live Branch Organization develop in that area. Grace
Gilner Zane, TO, is in on that deal. too. Eva Morgan, 27, will make good use of
their enthusiasm. Judging from the pioneer work Miss Morris did down in the
New York area, our advice is “Watch Scranton Grow.”
a letter

— o—
A

loyal alumnus, A. K. Naugle,

11,

who

HUSKIES

lives in Roselle Park,

N.

J.,

took his

against the State Teachers
College there. Bloomsburg won, and he was so impressed with the team that
he says the score should have been 35-0. Which leads us to say that if possible
see the squad in action. Coach Yohe is doing a good job with the boys. It is a
team of which to be proud.

family over to Trenton to see the

in action

— o—
New Jersey,

When around Newfoundland,
Helen Hess Terhune, TO. will be there
“Apple Blossom Queen any day.

be sure

to greet you.

to visit

“Apple Acres.”
to her as

Our vote goes

— o—
are missing something if you do not attend the meetings of the Alumni
Association in your area. Some of your classmates will be there. The College
Give
will be represented to bring to you, first hand, latest doings on the hill.
your area officers a boost by getting in touch with them and offering your support
to the programs they are planning to promote “The Spirit that is Bloomsburg.”

You

— o—
Danny

Litwhiler is back in town after managing a team during the summer
North Dakota. Even after a ten year tour of service in the Major
Leagues he looks very capable of breaking up a ball game if any pitcher should
be foolish enough to think a fast ball would breeze by untouched. Remember
how his hitting and fielding used to be an outstanding feature on the HUSKY
teams in the middle thirties?
in Fargo,

— o—
Since

we

it

close this

won’t be long now before Yuletide decorations dominate the scene,
page by wishing for all a very happy holiday season.

ALUMNI DAY

Saturday, May 23, 1953
REUNION CLASSES
ALL CLASSES TO

1893

1893

1913

1938

1898

1918

1943

1903

1923

1948

1908

1928

1950

1933

Begin

Class

to plan for

lists

may be

your reunion now!

secured at the College.

The Alumni Quarterly
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Vol.

LIV

March, 1953

No.

'

I

Raising Standards and Maintaining Enrollment
Education is based on a belief in the improvability of the human race, and
schools are institutions that help the home, the church, and the community, to
make each generation better than the last.

A

fifteen year period is drawing to a close, and during this time we have
tried to raise the standards of our college.
By this, we mean we have tried
to improve students admitted through more careful selection, the students graduated through requirements which stress quality rather than quantity, through
self-evaluation on the part of the administration and faculty, and investigations by accrediting committees.

Faculty preparation, in terms of degree status, has been improved, and the
accreditment by the Middle States Association of Colleges and
Secondary
Schools and re-evaluation by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education, have given the college both regional and national recognition.

The first five years of the fifteen year period beginning in 1940 was taken
up with war programs involving Army, Navy and Nurse personnel, along with
the gradual diminishing number of teacher education students. Our plant was
adapted for greater use by men during this period.
The next five years were spent on the post war problems of providing education for the optimum number of students whose ranks were swollen by returning G. I.’s. In raising standards it was necessary to set a top enrollment
figure in terms of the faculty and facilities of the college.
Although we had reached the 900 mark one year when we had over 250
Seniors, half of which would be off-campus in any one semester, it was felt
that an enrollment of between 700 and 800 was the optumum number.

We are pleased to report that during the past two years, in the face of
the operation of Selective Service and enlistment of men students, which has
taken the properly qualified students out of colleges in larger numbers than
would normally be true, we have maintained an enrollment at a little in excess
of 800.

The soundness of the policy is shown by the fact that we now have the
third largest enrollment among Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges. Those

who went up to the 1,000 mark have
the problems incident to retrenchment.

institutions

with

all

now come down

to

below

700.

our placement record better than the average in the State, but
that standards can be raised and enrollments be maintained
and that the maintenance of the standard itself will attract a type of student
which is better fitted for the teaching profession.

Not only

is

we have proven

If Pennsylvania is to have better schools, we much help to provide better
teachers, and the measure of professional success is not total enrollment figures
or the size of the graduating class, but the number of Bloomsburg Alumni
teaching in the public schools in such a manner that their students want to
attend the college from which their teachers graduated.

These are the thoughts for March, from

PRESIDENT

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LIV,

No.

March, 1953

I

Published quarterly by

the

Alumni

Association of the State Teachers Col-

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.

Mi'd-Vcar

lege,

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

i

Commencement

“Education is a choice of an outlook on life— the choice of a viewpoint— the determinator of all the
choices we have to make,” the
Honorable Paul L. Wagner, chairman of the education committee of
the Pennsylvania Senate, told a capacity audience at the mid-year
graduating exercises of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College held
Thursday, January 22, in the Carver Auditorium.

Speaking on the subject, “Educa-

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet F. Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY,

MAY

23, 1953

tion— an Outlook on Life,” Senator
Wagner, who has represented the
Twenty-ninth District, Schuylkill
County, since 1944, said that only
the educated person can make the
right decision when a choice must
be made.

Climax of the well-attended exwas tlie presentation of de-

ercises

grees to a class of thirty-six candidates and the awarding of honors
to
outstanding members of the
class.
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the College, conferred the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education on the candidates presented by Dr. Thomas P.
North, dean of instruction, aud conferred honors on those introduced
bv Dr. Nell Maupin, advisor of the
Senior class.

Richard C. Knause, Potttstown,
received the coveted Community
Government Association service
key for outstanding service to the
college community.
It is considered the highest award that the
student body can make to its members.
Mr. Knause also was given
a certificate of election to

Students in American
Universities and Colleges.”
This
honor is given to not more than
ten per cent of a graduating class
upon recommendation by the faculty of the College.
President Andruss also presented
life-time athletic passes to Donald
Butler, Warrior Run, and John Maturani,

March, 1953

“Who’s

Who Among

Milton,

for

four-years

of

'.usity competition in intercollegiate athletics.
Butler was a mem-

ber of the Husky baseball team for
the past four seasons, while Maturani won four varsity fotball letters
with the grid squads of 1946, ’47,
’48

and

’49.

Wagner,
manager for

In his address. Senator

who

is

district sales

Bastian Brothers, nationally-known
jewelers and engravers, of Rochester, N. Y., and one of the leading
proponents of educational reforms
and legislation to advance the
.Commonwealth, said that education
had undergone significant
changes through the years. Once
regarded as a mere collection of
facts, education has now become
a matter of outlook on life.

He likened the various kinds of
viewpoints to the panorama one
gets by looking through the various windows of his home, and he
spoke of these outlooks as the
“north” window, the “south” window, the “east” window, and the
“west” window.
“It’s

that

we

out of the north

window

find self-styled critics look-

ing,” Senator

Wagner

said.

Here

are found the faults, blemishes and
short-comings of our day and age.
He mentioned the present criticism
being hurled at the State Teachers
Colleges in some sections of the
daily press, and he scored the critics who have urged the cutting of

educational services.
“I
doubt
whether the day will ever come
when we cannot use all the facilities we have created for the education of youth,” he said.

The “south” window attitude is
flavored with complacency, and he
severely criticized the philosophy
of ‘let well enough alone.” He remarked that it leads to never-ending demands for more governmental services and assistance— a ticket to “never-never” land.
Pointing out that forty-six cents of the
Pennsylvania tax dollar is spent for
1

education, the

Tamaqua lawmak-

er proudly said that it indicates
a healthy and forward-looking outlook for the Commonwealth.

Those who look out of the “west”

window

see only

and the end

the setting sun

of all opportunity in

These people see recurring crises and the dark lining
in the clouds overhead. Admitting
the country.

easy to become discouraged in tire present age Senator
that

it is

Wagner emphasized, “You
build a better world
it upside down.”

if

can’t

you build

In concluding, he urged his listeners to take a real look out of the
“east” window for an “outlook that
includes a place for God in everything you do.” Despite the ills and
trobules of a plagued world, there
is the redeeming factor of tire educated viewpoint. Here can be
found the spiritual outlook.
“It

make tomorrow and today
what you want them to be,” he conwill

cluded.

Included on the program was
the Scripture reading by
Henry
Marini, Wayne, president of
the
Senior class and organ music by

Howard F. Fenstemaker.
The following members

of

the

degree of Bachelor of Science in Education: Richclass received the

ard

Dawson

Bishop, R. D.

1, Pitts-

Donald N. Blyler, Bloomsburg;
Donald Joseph Butler, Warriors

ton;

Run; William J. Cleaver, R. D.. 2,
Orangeville; LaRue Cooke, R. D. 3,
Danville; Alfred J.
Cyganowski,
Nanticoke; Palmer E. Dyer, Jr.,
Sunbury; Stephen Fago, Centralia;
Thurston

Fulmer, Sunbury.
Gibbons, R. D. 1,
Trucksville; Marie Grazed, Shenandoah;
Douglas I.
Hayhurst,
Bloomsburg; Grace Heppe, West
Hazleton; R. Eugene Hummel,
Bloomsburg; Herbert R. Kerchner,
Reading; Richard C. Knause. Pottstown; Michael A. Krepich, Berwick; Joseph Krunkosky, and Mary
Lou Krunkosky, Lost Creek; Robert L. LaBarr, Oneida; John
B.
Maturani, Milton; Rita M.
Meisner, Kulpmont; Stephen Payer, McAdoo; Michael Pihanich, Nanticoke; Mildred M. Pliscott, Exeter;
Robert I. Price, Shamokin; Jack II.
Rittenmeyer, Philadelphia; Theodore Roll, Berwick; John W. Sobcrick, Jr., Berwick; Anne Kelley
S.

Ellen A.

2

EDUCATION PRACTICES
ARE EVALUATED

committee met for two

visitation

hours with the faculty and adminis-

questions regarding their

tee of educators representing

report.

the
Colleges

American Association of
for Teacher Education.
The

local

number
by the association, was inspected and evaluated by the visit-

institution, accredited for a

of years

ing educators as a part of an interv

isitation

program begun

in 1951.

Included among the distinguish-

ed representatives of the national
organization on the campus were
Dr. Tyler Miller, president of Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Dr. T. O. Marshall, head of the
Department of Education, Univercity of New Hampshire; Dr. Charles Long, head of the
Department
of Education, Pennsylvania
State
College, and Dr. S. J. Turille, head
of the Business Education Department, Madison College.

The primary purpose of the intervisitation program was to aid in
the education of teachers for American schools largely by an interchange and exchange of ideas
about successful practices. All presentations of the program have
stressed the fact that purposes were
to be met in a spirit of professional
helpfulness.
Prior to the present visitation,
members of the faculty and the administrative staff carried out an extensive program of self-evaluation
on the basis of evaluation schedules
prepared by the organization’s
Committee on Studies and StandThis process of self-evaluaards.
tion provided the members of the
local faculty and the administration a rich experience in self education.

The college was also accredited
within the past two years by the
Middle States Association of Colleges

The

and Secondary Schools.
three-day

visitation

completed when members

of

was
the

The

trative staff of the college.

During the week of November
17, the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College acted as host to a commit-

committee made an extensive oral
report of its findings and answered
written

Dr. T. O. Marshall, head of the
of Education, University of New Hampshire,
presented
the over-all report of the findings
of the
committee,
while
other
members of the committee spoke
briefly of the
impressions
they
gained during the visit. Included
among the other members of the
committee were Dr. Tyler Miller,
president of Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia;
Dr.
Charles
Long, head of the Department of
Education, Pennsylvania State College, and Dr. S. J. Turille, head of
the Department of Business Education, Madison College.

Department

Committee members were
spoken

out-

in their praise of the col-

lege and its faculty as well as its
student-teaching
program.
Dr.
Marshall also commended the stu-

dent body for
friendliness

spirit

of

and found reason

for

its

fine

praise in the fine cooperation between faculty, administration, and
students.

Among

the

many

speakers sche-

duled for the Centennial Convention of the Pennsylvania State Education Association held December
was
29, 30 and 31 in Harrisburg
Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of Instruction, Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Dean North, who is
chairman of the Pennsylvania State
Commission on Teacher Education

and Professional! Standards, made
the commission’s annual report to
the House of Delegates Tuesday
evening, December 30.

The state-wide organization of
public school teachers was organized in 1852. The theme of the
1952 convention was “Another
Century of Opportunity for Great
'Teachers.”

Stonik, Shamokin; John J. Tilmont,
Wagner,
Centralia; Raymond
J.

Simpson; Thomas A. Walsh, Warrior Run; Edward P. Weaver, Jr.,
Bethlehem; Alton S. Zerby, Halifax and Harry R. Edwards, Hazle-

HERVEY

B. SMITH, ’22
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

Court House Place

Bloomsburg

1115

ton.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

i

ALUMNI HONOR
DR. ALDINGER
former
A.
K.
Aldinger,
Dr.
of
director of Physical Education
the New York City public schools
and athletic coach and director
at
the
education
of physical
Bloomsburg State Normal School
U 893- 1905) was presented the
Distinguished Service Award of
of
the
the Alumni Association
Rloomsburg State Teachers College during the assembly held on

Tuesday, November

18.

The award, customarily given
during the meeting of the General
Alumni Association held in May,
was made at this time because it
Dr.
has never been possible for
Aldinger to be present at the time
of the Spring meeting.
making

the

presentation,
B. Sutliff
pointed out Dr. Aldinger’s contributions to
the development of
athletics and physical education at
Bloomsburg. He said that Dr.
Aldinger brought into the field all
the skills and knowledge of a medical doctor.
Dean Sutliff told how
the
one-time coach introduced
basketball to Bloomsburg. He paid
tribute to Dr. Aldinger for his expert knowledge of all fields of
In

Dean Emeritus William

athletics.

Dean

by Dr. Nelson. In brief remarks
preceding the presentation, Dr. Aldinger spoke of his career in physical education and athletics, and related a number of incidents involving his stay at the college.

Now
was

in retirement.

for

many years

education in

sical

This was his

Dr. Aldinger

director of phy-

New

first visit

York City.
Blooms-

to

burg since he came here in 1939 to
participate in the dedication of the

new

Centennial

Gymnasium and
Day fes-

participate in the Alumni
livities of that Spring.

Dr. Aldinger now spends his
winters in Florida and his summers at the home of a daughter in
Milwaukee. His wife died about
two years ago. He is in his early

and enjoying good health.
in
Bloomsburg about twelve years, leaving
eighties

The educator was

in 1905.

He

B. Sutliff,

is

a close friend of

dean emeritus

of

W.
the

local institution.

was on February 22, 1894, that
gymnasium, now the Waller
Hall lounge, was dedicated as part
of a program observing the twentyIt

the old

fifth

anniversary of the founding of

the school.

The

first

Alumni Quarterly, pub-

lished a half century ago, carried
this item:

“The

Sutliff also

pointed

out

that Dr. Aldinger’s work was recognized in 1906 when he was named to an administrative post in the
New York City Schools.
He

stressed his great contribution
to
the rehabilitation of
the
handicapped children of the city.
The

award, which was presented by Dr.
E. H. Nelson,
President of the
Alumni Association, paid tribute
to Dr. Aldinger as “an outstanding
leader in the field of health
and
physical education,” and to his
“pioneer work in
establishing
a
sound program of athletics and
health education.”

the presentation,
Litwhiler, a former major
league baseball player and a holder of the
Distinguished Service
Following

Danny

Award, presented Dr. Aldinger
with a life-time pass to athletic
events.

Dr. Aldinger’s appearance before
the college

March, 1953

assembly was arranged

latest addition to the facProfessor A. K. Aldinger of
Oil City, Pa., who is director
of
the new gymnasium.
The trustees searched the country very carefully, desirous of securing for this
position the best possible available
man. They believe that in Professor Aldinger they have the right
man, and his popularity among the
students, his enthusiasm in his

ulty

is

work
seem

and

excellent results,
to bear out this opinion.
his

His coming to Bloomsburg ushered in a program of organized
athletic
endeavor.
The school
had a basketball team as early as
1894.

Some of the football teams
coached by Aldinger played and
defeated several of the
football
teams of the largest universities of
that day. Frequently appearing on
Bloomsburg sports schedules of the
Aldinger era were Bucknell, Lafayette, University of Pennsylvania,
Gettysburg and Susquehanna.

TEACHERS COLLEGE GIVEN
FULL NCAA MEMBERSHIP
The Bloomsburg State Teachers
College has been elected to active
membership in the National Collegiate

Athletic

member

District of the

The

Association.

Second

institutions of the

NCAA

voted unani-

mously to admit Bloomsburg to
membership. The active participaCollege in the NCAA
regarded as another step for-

tion of the
is

ward

in

the college’s athletic pro-

gram.

The NCAA, which lists as members most of the colleges and universities in the United States, promotes the establishment, maintenance and implementation of the
of integrity,
highest standards
honesty, and efficiency in the administration, policies and scope of
athletic activities in

member

col-

enacts rules and regulations designed to achieve these
purposes.
leges.

The

It also

college,

which

is

a

member

of the Pennsylvania State Teachers
College Athletic Conference, also

holds membership in the National
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
This association was formed
recently to promote athletics in the
in
small colleges and universities
the country.

Bloomsburg’s membership raises
the total of the Pennsylvania Teafour.
chers Colleges affiliated to
West Chester, Lock Haven and
Millersville have been members of
the
for
the past several
years.

NCAA

MOYER

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

CREASY & WELLS
Ethel Creasy Wright,

’09

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

THE CHAR-MUND INN
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch,

'15,

Propr.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

3

ON SABBATICAL LEAVE
A

fact-finding

trip

through the

southern states and
survey to determine changes in attitudes of the people of the South
is planned by Dr. Nell Maupin, a
a “grass-roots”

member

of the

Bloomsburg State

College faculty since
1925, who has been granted a sabbatical leave for the second semDr.
ester of the college year.
Maupin, Professor of Social Studies, left Bloomsburg early in February and will return to the cam-

Teachers

pus early in June. She planned to
states
visit most of the southern
during this time.
While on this trip. Dr. Maupin
southern

mill
towns and industrial centers in
order to evaluate the attitudes of
will live in small

factory workers, fanners, and small

businessmen.

She

will talk

with

women and children, particularly those who are not ordinarily

men,

contacted in opinion surveys.

Dr.

Maupin wants

especially to study
the impact of the Texas oil industry
on the economy and social structure of that state.
Because of her continuing interest in public education, Dr. Maupin will visit schools and teachers
She is esin the southern states.
pecially interested in the shift in
sectional attitudes toward separate
educational facilities for Negro

children.

Dr.

Maupin came

to

Bloomsburg

Greenville, North
1925 from
Carolina where she was a member

granted a sabbatical leave for the
second semester, beginning January 26. Miss Hazen, who is also
principal of the Benjamin Franklin
School, plans to travel in Greece,
Egypt, and the Near East, leaving
New York City on the winter tour

Bureau of University Travel.
Dr. Louis E. Lord, nationallyknow author and lecturer, will personally conduct the tour to Egypt,
Holy Land,
Syria, Lebanon, the

of the

Turkey, Syprus and Bhodes. A full
two months will be spent in visiting important areas, historic spots,

and shrines

and Doctor of Philosophy from
She has
Iowa State University.
done additional graduate work at
New York University. Dr. Maupin
is well known on the campus, especially for her activities as sponsor of Kappa Delta Phi and various

the British Isles a number of years
England, Scotland,
ago, visiting
Ireland and Wales. She was also
a member of a geographic excursion to the Caribbean region under
the auspices of Clark University.
Last summer, Miss Hazen travelled
in Mexico on a tour sponsored for

teachers by the National EducaShe visited
Association.
tion
schools and teachers throughout
the country as well as the University of

num-

Miss Edna J. Ilazen, for a
ber of years Director of ElemenEducation at Bloomsburg
tary
State Teachers College, has been
4

Mexico.

Miss Hazen came to Bloomsburg
from Erie County where
she held the post of assistant
Prior to
county superintendent.
that time she taught in Erie county
the
as
rural schools and served
principal of the junior high school

in 1927

at

Edinboro Normal

School.

A

graduate of Columbia University,
Miss Hazen holds the Master of
Arts degree from Teachers College
She has
of Columbia University.
taken additional graduate work at

New

York University and Western

Reserve University.
Andruss announced
President
that Dr. Ernest H. Engelhardt, dirwill
ector, Secondary Education,
handle Miss Hazen’s duties as dirElementary Education.
ector of
Miss Hazen will resume her regular
assignment at the beginning of the
college year in September.

ARCUS

graduating classes.

and

The overseas trip will not be a
new experience for Miss Hazen,
who travelled extensively through

in

of the facullty of the Greenville
Prior to
State Teachers College.
high
that time, she taught in the
schools in Gates City, Virginia and
She holds
Woodstock, Virginia.
Science Degree
the Bachelor of
from the Peabody State Teachers
College in Nashville, Tennessee
and the Degree of Master of Arts

of art, literature

culture.

WOMEN S SHOP

“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50

PUBLISH ARTICLE
The leading article of the December, 1952, issue of “American
Education,” a joint publication of
the Eastern Business Teachers Association and tlie National Business Teachers Association, is tided
"Dudes of Department Heads,”
and represents the
Harvey A. Andruss,

joint efforts of
President, Wil-

liam C. Forney, formerly Director
of die
Department of Business
Education, State Teachers
College,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

This study was begun by a questionnaire sent out by Mr. William
C. Forney, then Head of die Business Department, Easton High
School, in 1931.
The same quesloinnaire was sent out to Pennsylvania High Schools in 1941, and
again in 1951, to determine the
experience
preparation, salaries,
and professional dudes of die
Heads of Business Departments in
the high schools of Pennsylvania.
The comparisons of die 1930 and

1940 figures appeared as Chapter
4 of a book published under die

BETTER BUSINESS EDUCATION, by Harvey A. Andruss
title

and odiers, and the present article
makes comparisons between the
1941 and 1951 figures contained in
the replies received from 76 Pennsylvania high schools.

This magazine article represents
the longest continuous follow-up,
based on identical questionnaires,
that has ever been made in the field
Education of die
of
Business
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colloge, in addition to those named at
the beginning.
diese figures
It is hoped diat
covering three samples for a period
of twenty years, will cause diousands of business teachers located in
the Eastern and Middle East States
of our Country to think about what
has happened in Pennsylvania, and

propably pursue similar studies

in

other States.

Harry N. Gasser, former instrucBenjamin Franklin Training
School, and more recently a member of the Department of Educator at

tion at Pennsylvania State College,
has been appointed Chief of Elementary Education in the Pennsylvania Department of Public In-

struction.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

NEW MEMBERS OF FACULTY
Dr. Cecil C. Seronsy, of Camhas been
bridge, Massachusetts,
at
English
of
Professor
appointed
Teachers
State
the Bloomsburg
College, it was announced by PreDr.
Andruss.
sident Harvey A.

Seronsy

is

teaching courses in

Composition and English

lish

EngLit-

erature.

The newly appointed
member holds the Bachelor

faculty
of Arts
Degree from the University of \ irginia, and he received the Degree
of Master of Arts and Doctor of

Philosophy from Harvard University.

Following his graduation

from

he
Virginia,
of
University
taught for eight years in the high
For
school of Lowellville, Ohio.
six years, he was associated with
the

Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company. Dr. Seronsy was a
member of the faculty' of Purdue
University for two years and taught
the

classes at Northeastern University,

Boston, Mass., and Harvard

Uni-

versity.

Mrs. Martha

M. Johnson,

form-

Columbia, Pa., has been
appointed Instructor of Art at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College. A native of Lancaster county
years Art
and for the past seven

erly of

Supervisor at the Manheim Township Public School in Lancaster
county, Mrs. Johnson will teach
classes in Art and Art Appreciation
during the spring semester.
Mrs. Johnson is a graduate of the
Millersville State Teachers College
and has done Art Education work
State Teachers
at the Kutztown
State
College and Pennsylvania
College. Prior to her appointment
to the Manheim Township position,
she taught in the public schools of

Rock Ledge Borough and.. Marietta
Borough. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the Pennsylvania Guild
Craftsmen.

Mrs. Charles M. Evans,

Jr.,

of

13T

Bloomsburg, has
been named instructor in music at
Teachers
the Bloomsburg State
Mrs. Evans, who is well
College.
known throughout this area, is

West Fifth

during the second semester.
A graduate of Hazleton High
School, Mrs. Evans holds the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Music Education from the PennShe has
sylvania State College.
done graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and Bucknell
Iler teaching experiUniversity.
ence includes instruction af adult
Hazleton and public
classes at
schools

at

and

Millville

Matam-

oras, Pa.

Mrs. Evans is president of the
Bloomsburg Civic Music Association, chorus director of the Women’s Civic Club, and Chairman
of the Committee which presents
the Salome Gaynor Theatre for
She has been especialChildren.
ly active in the Parent-Teachers
Association and has held a number

of

bia

committee posts in the ColumCounty Federated Women’s

Clubs.

ENROLLMENT

With the closing of second semester enrollment, it is evident that
the over-all figures for the college
year 1952-53 will be 804 as compared with 800 for the previous
college year.
In view of the large

men

students

number

who have been

of

call-

ed into military service, either
through the Draft or as members
of the Reserve, it is noteworthy
that the enrollment of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College has leveled
off to approximately 800 during
the last two years. This gives the
college the rank of third among
the fourteen State Teachers Colleges of Pennsylvania in enrollment of regular full-time students.

Thirty-five students were graduated at the end of the first semester and thirty-three new students
Of
entered the second semester.

number, approximately twenwere Freshman students
and the others were returning students and the others were returning students who had been pre-

this

ty-five

Tbe annual Freshman Talent
Show, long established as a part of
Freshman Customs, was presented
in the College Auditorium Tuesday’ morning, October 28. and was
well received by the student body.

The following members

of the

program:
trumpet; Joan

class participated in the

Richard Caton,
Dauber, piano, Mary Ruth
dick, dancer;

Diann Jones,

Rudsinger;

Hoffecker, dancer; Byron
Evans, harmonica; Joyce Lundy,

viously enrolled.

Since the end of World War II,
the largest enrollment has been
900, and it has varied between that
figure and 800, which is looked
as the optimum number for
die present faculty and facilities.

upon

Mary

Eleanor Nichols, marimba;
Earla Myers, singer; Harrison Morrison, trombone.
Mary Hoffecker, Caroly Case,
singer;

Stephens, Marcy Gracion,
Joan Alex, Martie Molchan, dancers, closed the program with “Varsity Drag.”
Accompanists were Peggy Lou
Bartges and Marcy Gracion.

Judy

POEMS TO BE PRINTED
COLLEGE ANTHOLOGY

JOSEPH

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner,

HARRY

S.

REAL ESTATE

poems

six

52

by

members

of

the

The poems
B.S.T.C. community.
selected were “Man With the Pen,
by Rudolph Holtzman; “A Prayer,”
by Dolores Doyle; “Dowry,” by
James Ferdinand; “Night on tbe

by Lynda Bogart; “Nature’s

Wonderland,” by W. Leonard Carson, and “Twilight,” by Mr. Russel
Schleicher.
of ColPoetry” is a compilation of
poetry written by college students

The “Annual Anthology

’34

BARTON,

—

IN

This year the “Annual Antholoprint
gy of College Poetry” will

Shore,”

lege

Street,

teaching classes in Music AppreciaMusic
tion and Introduction to

1952-53

'96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

and faculty members and is published by the National Poetry As-

The annual contest for
the anthology is sponsored in this
college by the Poetry Club on the

sociation.

campus.
5

March, 1953

MID-YEAR GRADUATES
ATTEND BALL

SALES CONFERENCE
Frank W. Lovejoy, Sales Execu-

The January graduating class
enjoyed a gala ball and banquet
Tuesday evening, January 20, at
Music was supthe Elks Home.
plied by Lee Vincent and his orchestra, and a steak dinner was served at tables decorated with cand-

tive,

and mixed flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kerchner
acted as host and hostess. Special
guests included President and Mrs.
Harvey A. Andruss, Dean and Mrs.
Thomas P. North, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter S. Rygiel and Dr. Nell
Maupin.
The invocation was given by
Douglas Hayhurst. R. Henry Marles

ini,

president of the class, introduc-

ed Herbert Kerchner, master of
ceremonies.
Dr. North and Dr.
group.
Andruss
addressed
the
Group singing was enjoyed and
was followed by dancing.

The officers of the class are:
President,
Henry Marini; Vice
President, Jon Scrimgeour; Secretaries,

Carabelle Davis and June

Pichel; Treasurer, Daniel Fitzpat-

The class advisor is Dr. Nell
Maupin and Walter Rygiel is chair-

rick.

man

in

charge of

commcement

ac-

tivities.

New

Socony-Vacuum Oil Company,
York City, and Armand Gar-

President,
Sales
Training
International, Barre, Mass.,
were
the featured speakers at the Seventh Annual Sales Training Con-

iepy.

ference held at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, Thursday evening, March fifth.
Charles H. Henrie, retail selling instructor at the
College and chairman of the conference, was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Lovejoy, who has been associated with Socony-Vacuum for the
past twenty-five years, was one of
the featured speakers fo rthe rally,
which attracted a capacity audience.

Bom

Boston, Mass., and a
Pratt Institute and
Harvard Business School, the nationally-known sales executive entered
the
petroleum
industry
through the dry goods business and
the Curtis Publishing Company.
He is a specialist in marketing.
As past president of the Sales’ Executives’ Club, of New York, he is
in much demand as a speaker for
meetings of business and professional organizations. He is a practical salesman who believes that
persons in every walk of life need
to know the principles of merchanin

graduate

of

Attending were Ray J. Wagner,
Terese Ann Tomaing, Stephen Fago, Dorothy Watkins, Frank Furgele,
Mildred Pliscott, Francis

dise.

Bidelspach, Deborah Grozel, John
Tilmont, Eleanor J. Tilmont, Richard D. Bishop, Nancy Bishop,

high school
principals,
business
education teachers, secretaries of

Down Wanke,

Chambers

Robert Price, Donna Kubik, Alex W. Kubik, Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore Roll.
Alfred Cyganowski, Mary Ruth
Steiner, James
Fvanko,
Grace
Heppe, Mr. and Mrs. Thurston S.
Fulmer, Donald N. Blyler, Janet
L. Fly, R. Eugene Hummel, Carol
Shupp, Dolly Mordan, Jack Soberick, Jr., Ruth Dent, Douglas Playhurst, John Scrimgeour, Jeananne
P/vans, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P.
North.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Kerchner,
phens,

Henry

Ma,rini,

Judy

Ste-

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C.
Knause, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer E.
Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. LaRue Cooke,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Frankowski,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bolesta, Dr.
and Mrs. PI. A. Andruss.
o

Announcements were mailed

to

of Commerce, and service clubs in Central Pennsylvania.
Following a practice begun several
years ago of inviting area service
clubs to attend a dinner in the

College dining room preceding the

members

Bloomsburg
and Berwick Lions Clubs were this
Diehm,
Victor C.
year’s guests.
Hazleton radio executive and a
member of the College Board of
Trustees, was master of ceremonrally,

of the

ies.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth, ’42
R.

J.

Webb,

’42

SELECT ARTICLE
BY DR. ANDRUSS
Delta Pi Epsilon, honorary fraternity of graduate schools in the
field of business education, makes

selections of the outstanding publications in the field of business

education annually. The October
issue of the Journal of Business Education has included as the first
article on administration in the
lield of business education, “The
Human Side of Administration,” by
Harvey A. Andruss, president of
State
Teachers
the
College,

Bloomburg.
Doctor Andruss originally presented

this

article as address at a

meeting of the National Business
Teachers Association meeting in
Chicago in December, 1950.
The thesis developed in “The

Human

Side of Administration’ ’is
choices must be made
between faculty or facilities, personnel or plant, we must always
give preference to the personnel,
or faculty to the living human
things in education, as it is a social
that

when

The building, campus,
well painted and well lighted
classrooms may impress the visitor,
the parent, or the taxpayer, but after all in education the student and
teacher are the vital moving factors
in learning and living together.
process.

Such problems

as selection, pro-

motion, and retirement, were discussed, not in the light of justice
alone, but in terms of humanity,
which in turn proves that the best
public relations are nothing more
than good private relations publicity understood.

The Bloomsburg Players presenBad Luck,” a one-act
play by Wm. G. B. Carson, in the
ted “Five For

College

cember

The

Assembly, Tuesday,

De-

9.

cast

was composed

of the

following: Wylla Mae Bowman,
Janet Ference, Phyllis McLaren,
Harry Smith, Paul Shoop, Bill OttaSherrill Hiller, Pete Margo,
John Kennedy, Richard Graboro-

viani,

ski.

The play was directed by Dr.
Maryland Wilson, of the Faculty,
and the student director was William Ottaviani.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

APPEAR IN WHO’S
JN U. S. COLLEGES’

WHO

GAVE RECITAL

Eleven members of the Senior
Bloomsburg State Teachers College have been chosen to
appear in the 1953 edition of
“Who’s Who in American Colleges
and Universities.” All selections
were made on the basis of personal
class at

leadership, practical qualities, profesisonal promise, potential
usefulness to society, actual ability,
past record, scholastic achievement
and service to the college. The
selections were made by a faculty
traits,

committee and approved by

Presi-

dent Harvey A. Andruss.
Included among the 1953 group
are John Bogdan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Bogdan, Philadelphia;
Charles Brennan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Brennan, Towanda;
irene Ciehowicz, daughter of Mrs.
E. Chichowicz, Shenandoah; Edwin Cunfer, son of Mrs. Mary Cunfer,
Slatington;
Rosella
Danilo,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Danilo, R. D. 1, Carbondale.
Clare Davis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence I. Davis, R. D.
2.
Clarks Summit; Mary Ellen
Dean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
D. Ralph Dean, Milton; Richard
Knause, son of Harry F. Knause,
Pottstown; Henry Marini, son of
Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Marini,
Wayne; David Newbury, son of
Mrs. P. A. Newbury, Watson town;
John Scrimgeour, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John S. Scrimgeour, West
Pittston.

The marriage

of Miss Florence
daughter of Stanley
Keszkowski, Bloomsburg R. D. 3,
to George G.
Grausam, son of
George A. Grausam. Danville, was
solemnized in October in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Danville,
by the Rev. Fr. Francis Conrad.
C. Keszkowski,

The bride

is

employed

as a gen-

nurse at the Geisinger
Hospital.
She is a graduate of
Beaver Township High School and
the Geisinger Hospital School of
Nursing.
Her husband served two years
with the U. S. Marines. He graduated from Danville High School
and attended two years at BSTC.
He is employed at the Thompson
eral

staff

plant.

March, 1953

Philippe Entremont, the brilliant
who
18 year old French pianist,
made his first tour this side of the
Atlantic during January, 1953, presented a recital at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College
Tuesday,

January

The young

13.

came

French

America in the wake
of major European successes that
singled him out as “one of the great
hopes of the young generation of
French pianists.”
During the past two years, M.
Entremont has distinguished himself by winning prizes at two of the
artist

to

outstanding international
piano
competitions.
First, he was laureate at the International Competition of Madame Long and Jacques
Thibaut field in Paris during 1951,
and this past summer, he was a
winner of the competition of Queen
Elizabeth of Belgium held in Brussels.

PLACEMENT
BROCHURE FOR

1953

Approximately 900 copies of the
1953 Placement Brochure will be
sent to most
Pennsylvania,

boring

The

school

in

officials

and some

in neigh-

states.

brochure

contains

about

thirty pages, featuring pictures

and

qualifications of all graduating sen-

arranged according to curricIt also contains a message on
past placement records by President Harvey A. Andruss and a message on the brochure by the Director of Placement, Dr. Ernest H.
Englehardt.
The book is highlighted by an attractive red cover
containing pictures of a student in
iors,

ula.

two different college situations—
one as a student and one as a student teacher. Under the pictures
are the lines by Chaucer, “And
gladly wolde he learne— and gladly
teche.”

Philippe Entremont gave his first
recital in Paris when he was 10 and
since then has been recognized
throughout France for his “easy
virtuosity and brilliance.”
He has
performed at the Salle Gaveau
under Maurice
Hewitt;
at
the
Champs Elysees Theatre, with the
C Concert Orchestra at the Conservatory and has been
heard on
radio stations throughout Europe.
His appearance in
Bloomsburg
met with a very enthusiastic response.

Miss Phyllis Brackett, daughter
of Mrs. Alan R. Brackett,
Brattleboro, Vt., became the bride of Jack
L. Thomas, son of Mr. and
Mrs.
Norton Thomas, Bloomsburg R. D.
5. in a recent ceremony in Boston.
The bride is a graduate of the
Brattleboro High School and the
Wilson School in Boston and is
now employed as a medical technician at the Massachusetts General
Hospital.
Mr. Thomas is a graduate of the Berwick High School
and attended tire
Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. He is now
completing an
Army technical
course at Fort Devens, Mass.

The purpose of the booklet is to
emphasize the idea represented in
the title, “Teachers from Bloomsburg.”
It is published before the
second semester so January graduates can be placed.
It has been

instrumental in the past in placing
many Bloomsburg graduates.

IN

LEADING ROLE

Miss Peggy Beach daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Beach, of
bloomsburg, appeared in the lead,

ing role of Nadina in Straus’ ‘The
Chocolate Soldier” presented in
November by the Philadelphia
Musical Comedy Association at
Fleisher Auditorium, Philadelphia.
Miss Beach, who has been studying
voice in Philadelphia, graduated

from Bloomsburg High School and
attended B.S.T.C. for several years.

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, ’44. Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46
Assistant Manager
142 East Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

THE WOLF SHOP
Edwin Snyder

teaching Social

LEATHER GOODS

Studies and French at Lord Baltimore High School, Ocean View,
Delaware.
His address is Mill-

M. C. Strausser,

ville,

is

122 East

— REPAIRS

’27,

Propr.

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Delaware.
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SCHOLARSHIPS

AWARDED

Just prior to the beginning of the
Christmas recess, the report of the
faculty committee on Scholarships,
Grants, and Aids, Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, was approved by
President Harvey A. Andruss, providing for the distribution of approximately $1,700 to 25 students.

amount $300 was disbursed
Albert Memorial
Bruce
Scholarship and Grants from the
Alumni Association, three Grants
from the Classes of 1950-1951, and
and College Community
1952,
Grants payable from the profits of
the Retail Book Store amounting
Of

this

for

tlie

eighteen students.
$1,245 to
These eighteen students received
grants varying from
$60.00 to
$75.00 for the semester. Additional
Grants will be made during the
second semester to diose who demonstrate ability and need.
to

This is the largest amount ever
distributed at one time by a combination of the Alumni Association,

recendy

graduated

classes,

and

present student-body to diose who
are seeking to complete their college education.
Those receiving College Community Grants are as follows: Charles Andrews, West Pittston; Richard Bittner, Williamsport; Robert
Bottorf, Bellefonte; Ronald Girton,

Bloomsburg; William Kline,

Mill-

ersburg; Keith McKay, Harrisburg;
Mary Trefsger, Watsontown; Marjorie Walter, Milton.

Joan Christie, Shenandoah; RobEvans, Shamokin; Shirley Fisher, Shamokin; Beverly Hough, Berwick; June Reese, Millville; Roy
Allen
Rosenberger, Doylestown;
Walburn, Shamokin; Evelyn Wea-

were presented as follows: the
Nolan H. Sanner Alumni Award of
fifty dollars to Miss Rebecca Ellis,
daughter of L. Glenn Ellis, R. D. 1,
Milton; the Dr. George P. Pfahler
Memorial Award of fifty dollars to
Michael Crisci, West Pittston; William W. Evans Alumni Award of
dollars to Joseph P. Feifer, Mt.
Carmel. Crisci is the son of Mr.

fifty

and Mrs. Leo

608 Jenkins
while Mr.
Feifer, who holds the State Teachers College mile championship, is
(he son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Feifer, 403 West Fourth street,
Mt.
Carmel.
Street,

West

Crisci,

Pittston,

Class memorial awards were announced as follows: the Class of
J950 Memorial of fifty dollars was

presented to Edward J. Connelley,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Connelley, 301 West Mahoning street,
Danville; the Memorial Award of
the Class of 1951 went to James K.
Luchs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
R. Luchs, 18 West Third street,
Bloomsburg and the Class of 1952
Award was given to Edwin P.
Chase, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
Chase, 506 Cedar avenue, Scranton.
Dr. Elna H. Nelson, president of
the General Alumni Association,
made the awards for the association, while Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the College, announced the winners of the class memor-

Howard F. Fenstemaker presided over the devotions and presented Dr. Nelson and President
Andruss to the assembly.

ials.

ert

ver,

Muncy.

Seven Bloomsburg State Teachers

College students shared a

sum

hundred dollars as
scholarships and grants were presented as a special feature of an
Awards Assembly. The award of
$125 went to Miss Betty Hoover, a
sophomore from Halifax, who was
presented the R. Bruce Albert
Memorial
Scholarship.
Miss
Hoover, the daughter of Mr. and
of nearly five

Mrs. Charles H. Hoover, R. D. 2,
Halifax, is enrolled in the Department of Secondary Education. She
is a Dean’s List student.
Other Alumni Association awards
8

Edwin Cunfer,

Slatington,

act-

Director
of
Student
as
Twenty-sixth Annual High
School Invitation Basketball Tournament held at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College during the second and third weeks of March.
Cunfer, who is president of the

ed

the

Community Government Associaand active in campus affairs,

tion

FACULTY MEMBER HAS
WIDE EXPERIENCE
Teaching has brought travel and
adventure to Dr. Maryland Wilson,
a

member

of the faculty

Bloomsburg State
Dr. Wilson,

lege.

the
ColProfessor
of

Teachers

who

is

of Speech, has had a number of
interesting experiences as a result
of her work teaching public speak-

ing in schools, colleges, and

Army

bases.

She organized a summer course
speaking for military personnel of the Donaldson Air .Force
Base. There she received her first

in public

professional shock

—

walking into

and finding

it composed almost entirely of officers.
As Dr. Wilson states, “Had they not
shown themselves as frightened by
the whole situation as I, I am sure
all of us would have walked
out
then and there.”
She continued this work with
the Army Overseas Education program in Germany, being stationed
first in Nuremberg and
then in
Frankfurt. She taught English to
American
children and
public
speaking to Air Force and Army
personnel at Wiesbaden, RhineMain, and Frankfurt. Dr. Wilson
says that this was the most stimulat-

her

first

class

ing class she has ever taught.

men ranged

The

age from 20 to 50,
and in rank from private to full
colonel.
The group met in classrooms that varied from one extreme
to anodier— luxurious hotel parlors
to one-room Army barracks.
in

During her European assignment
she traveled extensively throughout Europe and witnessed man)'
famous events such as the Nuremberg Trials, the Passion Play in
Oberamergau, and the Tulip Festival in Holland.
Following her
return to the United States, she
completed the requirements for the
Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at
Her
the University of Michigan.

EducaHe served as
Department.
co-manager of the very successful
1952 tournament, which attracted
a banner entry list of 34 high
His assistant was
school teams.
Eugene Morrison, Bloomsburg,
manager of the varsity team and

based on pre-commeruncovered previouslyunknown material of that era. She
is collaborating on a book having
to do with pioneers of radio.

a member of the varsity football
team.

at

is

a senior in the Business

tion

dissertation,

cial

radio,

Richard

M. Edwards is living
Shawnee Avenue,

17 1-2 East

Plymouth, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

FIVE TEACHERS

EUROPE

FROM

Gras and the University of

Inns-

bruck.

VISIT B.S.T.C.

to

Mrs. Kirsti Liisa Cronhort, from
Finland, is interested in the training of Commercial teachers and
teaching the mother tongue
and
business correspondence at
commercial colleges.
In order to further these interests, Mrs. Cronhort
attended the University of Helsinki, Commercial University College,

their

and Normal Secondary School for

Five European teachers visited
State
Teachers
!he Bloomsburg
College to study administrative, organizational, and educational methods used in the preparation of
business teachers.
All of the visitors are planning

use the knowledge gained in
observation ot teacher-education institutions and the public
schools to aid in their
home country.

The European

work

in their

included
Dr. Anton Alois Habelt of Vienna,
Austria, a teacher at Stadtschulrat
fur Wien; Miss Gertrude Franziska
Berner, also from Austria, a teacher of English

business

and

German

correspondence

Commercial High School

at
at

and
the
Linz;

Mrs. Kirsti Lisa
Bronhort from
Finland, who teaches Finnish and
commercial correspondence at the
Commercial College of the Finnish
Businessmen; Dr.
Robert
Jean

Smets of Belgium,

mastery
to

visitors

who

is

employed

Inspector
of
Commercial
Schools with the Belgium Office
of Education, and Dr. Olaf Loanerd Benjamin Kran, President
of
Oslo Commercial College, Norway.
as

where she

Girls

qualified for senior

Before coming

of Finnish.

Penn

State, Mrs.

Cronhort was

teaching Finnish and Commercial

orrespondence at the Commercial
College of the Finnish
Businessmen.
C

Mr. Jean Robert Smets was born
Belgium and has traveled in
England, France, Switzerland, the
Netherlands, Sweden,
Italy
and
now the United States. While in
the U. S., Mr. Smets is interested in
studying the methods of training in
business education at the secondin

ary and university levels.
After
attending Brussels University for
his Doctor of Commercial Science
and teaching commercial science
for 15 years.
Mr. Smets is now
employed as Inspector of Commercial Schools with the Belgian Of-

Education.
Mr. Olaf
Leonard
Benjamin
Kran is from Norway where he is
President of Oslo Commercial College.
Before holding this position,
Mr. Kran was President of Tonsberg Commercial College, Faculty

fice of

The group was accompanied to
Bloomsburg by Dr. James Gemmell of the Pennsylvania State College.

Dr. Anton Alois Habelt

was born

Vienna, Austria.
It is
from
Vienna, where he teaches at Stadtschulrat fur Wien, that he came to
the campus.
Besides Penn State,
Dr. Habelt has attended “Theresanum” where he received his certificate of Maturity and “Commercial
College” for his doctor’s
degree.
Upon his return to Vienna, Dr.
Habelt plans to use the knowledge
he gained of the American School
System to aid the Austrian apprentices is the commercial branch.
Miss Gertraud Fraziska Berner is
in

also

from Austria.

Her

special in-

terests lie in English and German
languages and business correspondence. Since 1950, Miss Berner
has been teaching these subjects at
(he Commercial High School
at
Linz. Before starting her teaching
career, Miss Berner attended the
University of Vienna, University of

March. 1953

Law

and
Legal and Eco-

at the University of Oslo,

Director General of

nomic Departments in the War OfWhile in this country, Mr.
Kran hopes to observe commercial
colleges and high schools in regard
fice.

to

administrative,

organizational

and educational methods.

COMMUNITY SINGING
PROGRAM PRESENTED
On December 2 in Carver Hall
Auditorium, a community singing
program took place during assembly.

Mr. Frank Galo and Mr. Hummel Fishburne, the best known
group singing team in Pennsylvania, presented the entetrtaining

program to the student body. A
wide variety of favorite tunes was
sung, both as a group and in
rounds.
Mr. Gallo led the group
singing while Mr. Fishburne offered a piano accompaniment.
Mr. Fishburne is head of the
Music and Musical Education Department at Penn State College
and diagrams the formation for the
Blue Band.
He is past president
of the Pennsylvania Music Education Association.
Mr. Gallo is a

member of the Music Department
Staff at the same college and is interested in choral group work.
The team travels all over the
United States. Its largest audience
was 6600, which was at the Library
of Congress Auditorium.

Miss Dolores Doyle, of Mt. Carmel, was crowned varsity queen
at the second annual varsity dance
held in November at Centennial
Gymnnsium, B.S.T.C. More than
one hundred couples enjoyed dancing to music of Deacon Hill and
orchestra.
Decorations were
maroon and gold.
Varsity Club president, Charles
Brennan, of Towanda, crowned
the queen and presented her with

his

in

a gift from the Varsity Club.
Four sports queens were

They were

selected.

also

Miss Nancy

Sue Williams, Clark’s Summit, basMiss June Pichel, Heller-

ketball;

town, track;
J.

WESLEY KNORR,

’34

Miss Sherrill Hiller,

Jersey Shore, baseball, and Miss
Bess Marie Williams, Forty Fort,

NOTARY PUBLIC

football.

West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

John
Nemetz,
chairman of the

252

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, 16

of
Shamokin,
dance arrangements, assisted Charles Brennan in
presenting gifts to each of the
queens from the Varsity Club.

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

Jean

Stein

and English

is

teaching French
high school at

in the

Troy, Pa.
9

BUSINESS EDUCATION

ATTENDED CONFERENCE

CONTEST

North, Dean of
Instruction,
of
the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, participated in the New York City Regional
Conference of the National Commission on Teacher Education and
Professional
Dean
Standards.
North served as consultant to
one of the study groups which
considered phases of the problem.
Implementing the
Professional
Standards Movements through the
work of State and Local Teacher
Education and Professional Standards Committees and
Advisory
Councils.”
Dr.

The Twenty-First Annual
ness Education Contest

Busi-

and Office

Machines Show will be held at the
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania on Saturday,
May 2. Examinations will be conducted in accounting, business
arithmetic, Gregg shorthand, typewriting and business law. A limited
number of copies of last year’s examinations are available at the
price of $1.00 per set.

As the number of schools entering the contest is limited by the
and the
capacity of the rooms
availability of equipment, it is suggested that interested schools secure entry blanks as early as possible.
Entrance to the contest will
be determined upon a

first-receiv-

ed, first-served basis.

High schools located eighty miles or more from Bloomsburg may
secure free overnight accommodations at the college for one teacher
and five contestants as long as accommodations at college are availIn case accommodations at
able.
the college are insufficient to care
rooms,
for the number requesting
contestants and teachers may secure rooms at tourist homes at moderate cost.
On Friday evening, May 1, at
8:15 P. M. in Carver Hall Auditorium, the Seventh Annual Fashion
Show will be given in honor of visiting teachers and contestants. Saturday morning, May 2, from 8:30
to 12:30, in

Navy Hall Auditorium,

be an exhibit

there will

of business

and office
machines commonly found in small
offices and schools.
textbooks

education

Thomas

P.

Sessions of the regional confer-

ence were held January 2 and 3,
1953 in the Mayflower Hotel, New
York City. Other regional conferences were held simultaneously in
Atlanta,
Chicago, Kansas City,
Colorado Springs and San Francisco.

The conferences considered two
(1) thorough discussion of pressing problems in teacher education and professional standards and (2) the formulation of
action programs by state
delegations for improvement in the areas

broad themes:

discussed.

a

thirty

Franklin Edward Patschke, of Enson of M. Luther Patschke, of

ola,

Lebanon.

The Rev. Arthur

L. Eves, pastor

Association at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, and also at the College
Assembly held Tuesday, November

Hidlay Lutheran Church,
performed the double-ring ceremony before an altar decorated
with palms, poinsettias and white
The bride graduated from McKeesport High School, attended
Indiana State Teachers College
and received her degree from
She has been teaching
B.S.T.C.
in the Harrisburg school system.
Her husband, a graduate of Lebanon High School, Lebanon Valley College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, is
pastor at Zion Lutheran Church,

4.

Enola.

A

cordial invitation is extended
to all business teachers of Pennsyl-

Show,
the Fashion
Textbook and Office Machines Exvania to

visit

hibits.

Eleanor

BSTC,

Johnson,

class of 1952,

graduate

showed

of

slides

Sweden, Germany and England,
which she visited last Summer, at
a meeting of the Lutheran Student

of

10

of

the

Mr. Bradford Sterling, campus

Geography

instructor, and several
other noted instructors from colleges in Pennsylvania were guests
ot the United States Air Force
during a two week visitation in
December, at the Air Force Technical School.
A special plane left
Harrisburg for Scott Field where
the first week of the visit was
All the instructors were
spent.
given two weeks temporary duty
without pay, and were given the
officers. They
were housed in barracks and were
on the same schedule as the Air

rank of field grade

Force. After a week at Scott Field,
the party flew to Keesler Field,
where they visited the schools at
the base.

The purpose

of this trip

was

to

bring about unity between civilian
and Air Force training programs.
The teachers were able to see the
methods of instruction used at the
bases and to give some information
that might prove helpful to the Air
Force instructors. This shows that
the Air Force respects teaching
and wants to keep up with all

methods of

lovely ceremony at twoSaturday afternoon, December 13, in Zion Lutheran Church,
Enola, Miss Dorothy Ann Thomas,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norton
D. 5,
j. Thomas, Bloomsburg R.
became the bride of the Rev.

In

MR. STERLING GUEST
OF U. S. AIR FORCE

instruction.

Mr. Sterling, a flight instructor
during the war, has had extensive
experience in this unusual phase
of education.

Irme Kovacs, one of the counkeenest observers of world
affairs, spoke at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College Tuesday
morning, February 17, when the
Brotherhood
College
observed
Week. Mr. Kovacs, who works in
an ever-enlarging field to promote
try’s

a

of

realization

means

what

it

really

be an American, is living
proof that “Some people are born
others, no matter
American,
where they were born, were bom
to

.

.

.

American.”

He was

born

in

Hungary and

re-

ceived his formal education in Hungarian,

German, Roumanian and

Serbian schools. After his arrival
in America, he completed his education at Yale Graduate School,
Lancaster Theological Seminary
and the Juilliard School of Music.

THE

AI.tJMNI

QUARTERLY

year were Trenton, N. J., TeachNew Haven, Conn., Teachers
and California Teachers, in this
ers;

ATHLETICS

state.

The

FOOTBALL
At the close

of the 1952 season

the following comment appeared
the “Fanning” column of The
Morning Press:

m

Bloomsburg State Teachers College which has not had a losing
football season since the sport was
re-established here in the Fall oi
1946 has concluded another successful campaign on tire football
field.

The Huskies made

the inaugural
year of Jack Yohe a successful one
with five triumphs, two defeats and
a tie.
The worst year on a won and
lost percentage since the gridiron
revival here was that of the 1946
season when the team won four,
It had
lost three and tied one.
undefeated seasons in 1948 and
Of course, it is
again in 1951.
fine to have them and the aim is
always to sweep the schedule but
when you play in your own class
that isn’t going to happen too of-

The

campaign

was a year

just

of transition.

concluded
It

came

many

of the schools
who had been on the schedule of
the local college for many years,
severed relations on the gridiron.

about because

They gave numerous reasons but
always be our opinion that
the one which really figured was
the fact that the Huskies were winning too often over these schools.
The wholesale changes brought
about a definite shift in the layout.
Shippensburg, Millersville, Indiana
and Kutztown all went off the list,
following East Stroudsburg which
had bowed out about two years
will

earlier.

a

That made the job of scheduling
major task and John A. Hoch

did a real job in arranging the 1952
layout.

Of

made

it

ne-

cessary for the Huskies to play on
Fact
the road much of the time.
is they were away five times and
played four of the last five on foreign fields.

Next year, of course, that is gomean that there will be five
games at home.
It would not be surprising if the
Huskies were to add a ninth game
to the 1953 program and schedule
That would be
that for away.
looking ahead to the 1954 season
and would thus eliminate the
chance of playing such a heavy
percentage on the road.
ing to

The

fact

that

there

were but

home games here this year
mentioned as a fact and not as

three
is

adverse criticism. We don’t know
a fellow who could have done a
better job under the circumstances
He is one, however,
than Hoch.
who is always looking ahead and
we sort of expect that ninth game
next Fall, particularly if the chance
comes to land a first rate opponent
located in this area.

ten.

it

slutting about

the additions to the schedule the one which we believe is
going to be especially attractive
and which we certainly hope will
be on the list for years is the University of Scranton.
Other new faces on the list this
all

March, 1953

was a fine attack functioning.
In modern football there are sure
to be ups and downs. Every school
lias them.
We had them, too. But
one thing in the favor of the ’52
Huskies was that they were a fighting outfit.

Some days they were considerably better than others but always
One
they were giving their best.
of the worst evenings was against
They
the University of Scranton.
just couldn’t retain possession of
the pigskin and when you battle a
team as good as the Boyals you
just can’t let them have the ball so
much of the time without dire results.

Another time they weren’t able
going was out at California
State.
But after that they were in
high gear and probably played the
to get

game of
West Chester,
best

the season against
a remarkably fine

club.

Then

at

Lock Haven they

on a victory note. That was one
of the games the Huskies especially wanted and they got it in a
clear-cut manner.
Yohe and his boys did a fine job.
The 1952 season was one all
Bloomsburgers can recall with

It is good to get into competition
with clubs from other areas but

pride.

we have to have opwithin a comparatively
short distance to foster natural riv-

B.S.T.C. END ON
TEACHER SQUAD

by and

large

ponents
alries.

Wilkes is one that is going to
keep increasing as a gate magnet
and so is Scranton. Some years
ago King’s was on the slate. Since
then this Wilkes-Barre institution
has come up in football and there
may be a day when athletic relations will be resumed.
There have been years when we
were deeper in material than in
On
the campaign just concluded.
the whole the ’52 squad gave a
good account of itself.
The undefeated team of 1951
had a real hole tom into its roster
graduation and
through
both
through boys who were tackled by
the books and thrown for a loss.
The team worked off a T this
year, that type of offense replacing the single wing. It caught on
pretty well and at the finish there

bat-

tled both the Bald Eagles and the
elements to close out the campaign

Russ Verhousky, B.S.T.C.’s rugged two-platoon end, was awarded
a berth on the State Teachers College Football Conference all-star
team.

The six-foot, 175-pound senior
from Coaldale was the lone Husky
gain mention on the squad
to
which saw Shippensburg’s undefeated eleven dominate the selections.

Rounding out his third year of
Verhousky was tabbed as a sure bet for all-conference
honors at the season’s outset, and
lived up to expectations throughvarsity play,

out the Huskies’ eight-game schedule.

One of the loop’s top-flight ends
during his three years of play, Verhousky was a dangerous man on
the receiving end of a forward
pass— and an equally capable defender.
11

THE 1953 FOOTBALL
SCHEDULE

stay off

(From the “Fanning Column”
The Morning Press)

Bloomsburg State Teachers ColJege football team will play the
same teams in ’53 as during the
past Fall but there will be five
home games next season and three
on the road.
There isn’t anything surprising
about that. It was anticipated that
a ninth game would be added for
that open spot in early November
and it still may come along. It depends principally on whether a
suitable opponent is interested.
The breather comes just prior
to the West Chester visit here.
It
worked faily well during the past
season. Anyway, Jack Yohe’s boys,

who

weren’t too well fortified in

replacement strength, played then
best football of the season in the
last two skirmishes, one at West
Chester and the other at Lock
Haven.

may be

that this experience
won’t make the Husky authorities
too eager to fill in the open date.
But they admit that they will do so
if they find a club that will just fit
the bill, holding such a game is
better than an open date.
It

they do get around to doing
it isn’t a last minute
fill in.
have often been skeptical of that kind.
In the first
instance they don’t draw and in
the second place they may prove
costly. In support of those contentions we refer you to Danville
High’s experience of the past Fall
in the added game against Mount
If

it

we hope

We

Carmel Catholic. Tom Shepperson
was hurt in that one.

We

understand that the Huskies
could fill in the date with Shippensburg. But they don’t want the

Bed Raiders right ahead of West
Chester and Lock Haven and that
isn’t difficult to understand.
However, had the Raiders stayed on the list last Fall there is no
question that they would be on
(he slate next year wheter it suited
Husky plans or not. But they decided to bow out after taking it on
the chin four years running. Looks
as though they’ll be back in a couple of years.

partment

n

is

Insofar as this de-

concerned

they can

and we certainly hope

tire

Huskies have enough pride that if
they do resume gridiron relations
with the Raiders it is on such terms
as are entirely suitable to the local
institution.

In addition to the overtures from
Valley it is
also

Cumberland

known

that Millersville Teachers
College is going to be back on tire
slate soon and probably by ’54.
There will probably be others.

The one thing we are sure the
local institution will bear in mind
is that they owe first allegiance to
the Teachers College outfits who
stayed on in ’52.
We well remember the many
meagre years in football at the
‘friendly college on the hill” but
(lie Huskies took their beatings.
The complete schedule: at Wilkes, September 26; at Mansfield,

October 3; Trenton STC, October
10
Scranton University, October
17 California, October 24; at New
Haven, Conn., October 31; West
Chester, November 14, and Lock
Haven, November 21.
;

;

CLOSES SUCCESSFUL
FOOTBALL SEASON
When die last issue of die QuarB.S.T.C.

terly

to press,

one game on

Scoring all then points in die
fourth quarter, die Huskies of
BSTC closed out the 1952 football
season Friday, November 21, with
a 14-0 victory over Lock Haven
-

STC.
In racking up their fifth win of
(he campaign, the Huskies were

forced to combat the elements as
well as the host Bald Eagles. A
tormenting rain which fell throughout most of the game was backed
up by a roaring wind, which was so
strong that it actually ripped the

stadium flag from its pole.
The victory over Lock Haven
gave Coach Yohe, in his first season at BSTC, a record of five games
won, two games lost, and one game
tied.

BSTC LH

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
The Twenty-sixth Annual High
School Invitation Basketball Tournament was held at Bloomsburg
State Teachers College during the
second and third weeks of March.
Dates for the preliminary round
were set for March 10 to 13, while
the semi-final and final-round gamwere played March 18, 19 and
21

went

the football schedule remained to
be played.
The following completes the record:

First

downs

Yds.
Pass
Pass
Pass
Pass

rushing
attempts

16

completed
yardage
int.

by

Avg. yds. punts
Avg. yds. kickoffs
Yds. penalized

Fumbles

Own

recovered

254
12
2

7
145
6
0
0
3

13
3
6-39 7-39
2-40 2-32
50
35
2
2
2
1

es

.

Announcements were mailed to
more than 100 Central Pennsylvania high schools.

WASHINGTON BRANCH
ENJOYS RECEPTION
The Washington, D.

C., branch
Teachers College
Alumni Association enjoyed a re-

of

John A. Hoch, dean of men,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, was the speaker at the annual Athletic Dinner tendered athletes at Montgomery-Clinton High
School,

Friday night,

March

1.3.

Mr .Hoch ,who

serves as athletic
director
and assistant football
coach at the College, used as his
topic, “What is a Football Player?”

the

State

ception held in November at the
New Colonial Hotel in the Capital
City.
Dr. A. K. Aldinger, coach
at the school from 1893 to 1905,
was among those in attendance.
Present from the College were
President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss. Dr. E. H. Nelson, president
of the Alumni, represented the

graduate body.

1930

Helen E. Snyder is teaching First
Grade in the Ninth Ward School,
Sunbury, Pa.

Market

Street.

Her address

is

1059

1935

Naomi Myers is teaching English
in the Red Lion High School. Her
address is 30 North Main Street.
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT
Edward
S. T. C.,

PHILADELPHIA AREA

HONORARY PRESIDENT

A. Wilkes-Barre Area

T. DeVoe, '31
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish ’06
732 Washington St., Camden, N.

PRESIDENT
Miss Edna Aurand, T8

VICE PRESIDENT

S. T. C.,

Sharretts,

VICE PRESIDENT

Bloomsburg Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

St.,

SECRETARY-TREASURER
Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, ’09
7011 Erdrick St., Philadelphia 35. Pa.

Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

Catawissa. Pa

DAUPHIN-CUMBER LAND AREA

SECRETARY-TREASURER

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith, ’18
92 Willow St.. Wilkes-Barre. Pa.

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St.. Tunkhannock, PA.

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

PRESIDENT
B. Hazleton

Miss Mary A. Meehan. T8
2632 Lexington St.. Harrisburg, Pa.

George

St.,

147 East Chestnut

’07

Harrisburg, Pa.

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

’18

Miss Elizabeth Probert,
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

McHose Ecker ’32
Washington Ave.. W. Hazleton, Pa.

TREASURER

Mrs. Lucille
127

MONTOUR COUNTY

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Dyer Rudy,

Main Ave., Scranton, Pa.

635 East Front

VICE PRESIDENT

Robert Lewis,
310 East

Market

St.,

New

Miss Alice Smull,

’31

427 Washington Ave.. Jermyn, Pa.

312

Church

St.,

1401

Harry O. Hine, ’85
Fairmont St., Washington, D. C.

SECRETARY
’05

Danville, Pa.

Mrs. Martha Wright Moe,

Miss Susan Sidler,
615

Bloom

St.,

’30

Danville, Pa.

TREASURER
Walter Lewis, ’42
1736 “G” St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

WEST BRANCH AREA

NEW YORK AREA

SUPPORT

PRESIDENT
323

Anthony Conte, ’35
John St., Elizabeth, N.

J.

Mrs.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mary Davenport Shope,

’42

729 St. George Ave.,

Rahway, N.

YOUR
J.

SECRETARY
A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park. N.

ORGANIZATIONS

March,

1951

J.

PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anna Price Snyder, ’23
251 Garfield Ave.. Milton, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Kathryn House Everitt,
R. D. 2, Lewisburg, Pa.

’30

SECRETARY
Mrs.
517

J.

Erma

Miller Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.

LOCAL

BRANCH

TREASURER
Mrs.

’39

614 Mississippi Ave., Silver Springs, Md.

TREASURER

TREASURER
Miss Lydia Bohn, ’21
227 Stephen Ave., Scranton, Pa.

AREA

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

SECRETARY

C„

Miss Harriet Kocher. ’39
Colonial Hotel, Washington, D. C.

’40

Danville, Pa.

D.

PRESIDENT

’25

Danville, Pa.

Hartley,
Milford, Pa.

WASHINGTON,

VICE PRESIDENT

Mrs. Henrietta Cabo McCann, ’30
1315 Prospect Ave., Scranton, Pa.

Miss Florence Dunn,

St.,

T4

Olwen Argust

Mrs.

New

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA
’22

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER
W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

2217 North

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, T4
42 Slocum, Ave., Tunkhannock, Pa.

SECRETARY

Miss Pearl L. Baer ’32
21 South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Miss Eva Morgan,

VICE PRESIDENT
Mehoopany. Pa.

Hazleton, Pa.

St..

’52

Milford, Pa.

Miss Mabel Dexter, T9

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

VICE PRESIDENT
2921

New

PRESIDENT

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, T3
1618 State St.. Harrisburg, Pa.

Paul Englehart,

Area

Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine St., Hazleton, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

’18

’98

Miss C. Alberta Nichols,
433 Rutter Ave.. Kingston

Paul L. Brunstetter, T4

Main

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
Fairview Village, Pa.

Edison Fischer. ’21
30 Market St., Glen Lyon, Pa.

‘41

TREASURER
441 East

PRESIDENT

St.,

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

SECRETARY
Edward D.

Washington

1622 S.

Donald Rabb, ’46
Market St., Benton. Pa.

J.

Erma Moyer

McClay

Angstadt,

’35

Ave., Lewisburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Miss Cora Baumer, ’49
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.
13

1911

ents,

A

former principal of Berwick
High School will spend the next
two years in Iran, as a general educator under the Point Four technical cooperative assistance

program

Government.

of the U. S.

Dr. Clyde B. Myers, Scipio, N.
November 21 for the Middle East where he will help establish an educational system.
Dr.
Myers is a native of the Berwick
area and was principal for three
years, about the year 1934, when
Y., left

lie left

for

New

York

He

State.

is

a former superintendent of schools
in the Fourth Supervisory District
of Cayuga County, N. Y., and operates a 500-acre farm in Scipio.

According to an article in the
Citizen-Advertiser of Auburn, N.
Y., Dr. Myers says the program will
develop teaching materials appropriate to Iranian cultural patterns

and will train elementary teachers.
There will also be an education

Mr. and Mrs. Frank

Slaven,
residence,
38
Locust St., Fleetwood, Pa.
A graduate of Fleetwood high
school in 1934, Mr. Slaven earned
his Bachelor of Science in Education from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1938.
He was
recalled to active duty in June,
1951 and served in Korea from
February, 1952 to September of
that same year.
During World
War II, the Lieutenant served in
the Aleutian Islands, from 1942 to
1944 and in Europe from 1944 to
1946.
live at tire

family

1939

James Robert Kantner

is teaching at the Gordon Military College,
Bamesville, Georgia.
In a recent letter he writes:
“Just a few lines to bring you up
to date on some changes in my life
since I last wrote you.
“In June of 1952 I received a
Master of Arts Degree conferred

program.

upon me by

Dr. Myers will be accompanied
by his wife. En route they will

of the University of Texas,

visit their son, Sgt.

John Myers,

in

Germany, and

their daughter, Eleanor C. Myers, at Seventh Army
headquarters, at Stuttgart, Ger-

many.

tire

Western Branch
Texas

Western College, El Paso, Texas.
“In August of 1952 I returned to
the teaching field, accepting the
position of Head of the Business

Administration Department, Gordon Military College Bamesville,
Georgia. After I reported for duty
I was offered tire position of As,

1938
Mr. John F. Slaven, a First Lieutenant in the Army Reserve from
Fleetwood, Pa., has been awarded
the Commendation Ribbon
with
Metal Pendant for meritorious
service in Korea, it was announced
by Colonel E. M.
Sutherland,
Chief, Pennsylvania Military Distrist.
As an assistant intelligence officer with the 32nd Infantry
Regiment from May to August, 1952,
“Lieutenant Slaven studied and coordinated patrol activities within
the regiment to insure
that
the
maximum area of enemy-held territory would be covered
according to the citation.
Lieutenant Slaven made careful
studies of the reports
made by
,” and, the citation
these patrols
continues, “extracted all the important information concerning enemy
.

.

activities

.

.

.

.

.

...”

Mr. Slaven, an instructor in the
Bensalem High School, Cornwells
Heights, Pr., now lives at Kings
Ave., Cornwells Heights. His par14

Coach of Gordon
Military College, a position which
I accepted.
“The organization of Gordon
Military College is somewhat peculiar.
The town of Bamesville has
no local high school.
The high
school is a part of the College.
sistant Athletic

We

have both

local

and boarding

stu-

dents in the high school.
“The athletic teams play against
other military preparatory schools
and for its first season, with practically all the boys never having
played football or had a uniform
on, we have had a fairly successful season.”

A

1942
group of young people

attended

Summer camp

who

at Zaners,

above Stillwater, attended the
Epachiseca banquet at Allentown
in October.
The speaker was the
Rev. George Griffith, new minister
of the Allentown Christian Church.
He is a graduate of BSTC.

1950
Gerald Fink is teaching French
in the high school at Oxford, Pa.

1952
In a quiedy impressive

wedding

ceremony, Miss Kathryn Rhinard,
daughter of Mrs. Rose Rhinard,
Chestnut Street, Berwick, became
the bride of Michael Krepich, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William Krepich,
Sr., Ferris Avenue, Berwick.
The
marriage took place Monday evening,

December

Bethany

29, at 8 o’clock in

EUB

Church, with die
Rev. H. H. Jacobs, pastor of' the
church, officating.
the

Both young people are graduBerwick High School. The

ates of

bride is a teacher in the Neshaminy High School near Philadelphia
and her husband is a attending
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and will graduate in January.

Berwick Presbyterian
was the setting recently
marriage

Church
for

the

Miss Joyce Louise
MacDougall, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl M. MacDougall, Berwick, and Baisel LeRoy Eveland,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville L.
Eveland, Heights Road, Berwick.
The Rev. G. P. Cooley officated.
A graduate of Berwick High
Schooland B.S.T.C., the bride is a
teacher in the Endicott, N. Y., public schools.
Her husband, a graduate of Berwick High School and
Bucknell University, is employed
as an engineer with International
Business Machines Corp., Endicod,
of

N. Y.

Following a wedding trip, the
couple are living at 35 Riverside
Drive, Binghamton, N. Y.
Miss Anne Marie Kelley, daughMr. and Mrs. James F. Kelley, Shamokin, became the bride
of John Michael Stonik, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Anthony J. Aigeldinger,
Baltimore, Md., in a ceremony Saturday morning, December 29, at
St. Joseph Church, Shamokin. Msgr.
Dennis R. Reardin performed the
double-ring ceremony.
Mrs. Stonik graduated from St.
Edward High School and is a senior at B.S.T.C.
Her husband, a
of
Davenport High
graduate
two
School,
Plymouth,
served
years in the U. S. Navy and graduter of

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ated from B.S.T.C. in 1952.
A breakfast was held in Hotel
Penn-Lee and a reception in the
Knights of Columbus Hall in tire
afternoon. After a wedding trip to
New York City, the couple took up
residence in Baltimore, Md.

A

survey of

the 1952 class of

Bloomsburg State Teachers College
shows that ninety-nine percent of
hose graduates available for employment are employed.
Of a total of one hundred eighty-five, one hundred thirty-three
are teaching, eighteen are employ-

School, Coatesville.

Her husband attended Bloomsburg High School and is now a
private in the U.

These figures were com-

position.

by Dr. Ernest Englehardt.
Director of Placement.
piled

If

those in military service and

graduate school are treated as being unavailable for teaching, the
placement record for those entering the teaching profession is eighty-seven percent, with twelve percent being employed in other occupations than the teaching profession.
This represents an all-time
high in the placement of graduates
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, according to President
Harvey A. Andruss.

Teachers educated for teaching
in the elementary school exceeds
those

who went

in the teaching of

academic high school or business

by

percent
Schools are not
likely to secure elementary teachers to meet their increasing enrollment in the near future.
subjects

placement

a

ninety-six

figure.

ceremony at ten forty-five Christmas morning in St.
Matthew Lutheran Church, Miss
In a lovely

Mary Anna Wright, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Webster Wright,
of Bloomsburg, became the bride
of Milton Richard Kline, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John K. Kline, of
Orangeville.

The Rev. Edgar D.
performed
ceremony.
tor,

The

bride,

the

an

Ziegler, pas-

double-ring

alumna

of

Bloomsburg High School, graduated from B.S.T.C. in 1952.
She
is fifth grade teacher in the Terry
March, 1953

Army

station-

with an engineer division at
Fort Belvoir, Va.

consists of a set of sketches set in

in

the varied periods of the past fifty
Although the performance
is primarily light-hearted, there are
serious moments as well. By using
basic costumes, the changes be-

of

provided an uninterrupted evening
of what proved to be an unusual
theatrical program.

Henry C. Hurtt

is

an instructor

the Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa.

•

ed in occupations other than teaching, twenty-five are in military ser\ ice, six are in graduate school, and
one student refused to accept a

S.

ed

Lady, starring Peggy Ann Gardner
and Helen Gahagen.
“The Twentieth Century Show”

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Papania,
Bloomsburg, announce the mar-

riage of their daughter, Ann Elizabeth, to Stephen W. Bergstresser,
son of Mrs. Nellie R. Bergstresser,
Selinsgrove, and the late Dr. Ralph
11. Bergstresser.

The couple was married on WedNovember 26, in St. Peter’s

nesday,

Lutheran Church, of Highspire,
Pa., by the Rev. Ralph R. Bergstresser, brother of the bridegroom.
Mrs. Bergstresser, a graduate of
Bloomsburg High
School
and
B.S.T.C., is a teacher in Catawissa
schools.
Mr. Bergstresser, a

graduate of

Pacifici area.

After a short wedding trip, Mr.
and Mrs. Bergstresser are residing

18 South Front Street, Selins-

grove.

Hal Holbrook and Lee Firestone,
two of the country’s finest young
dramatic

stars,

tween the scenes were rapid and

COLLEGE HEAD
ON COMMITTEE
President Harvey A. Andruss
served on two visitation committees, one at the State Teachers Colfor
lege, Montclair, New
Jersey,
the three-day evaluation from November 17 to 19, and the second at
Madison College, Harrisonburg,
Virginia, from December 8 to 10.

These committees reviewed the
made by the faculty
and administration of each instituthe
findings
tion, and reviewed
presented, and made suggestions
self-evaluation

Selinsgrove High School and Lock
Iloven State Teachers College, also
teaches at Catawissa. He is a veteran of World War II, having served with the U. S. Army in the

at

years.

presented “Twenti-

eth Century Show” at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College TuesMr.
day evening, February 17.
Holbrook, who with his talented
wife, Ruby, have been acclaimed
as the top dramatic duo in the en-

tertainment and concert field.
When a daughter, Victoria, was
born to the Holbrooks last spring,
Lee Firestone took over the distaff
acting chores.
She has since became a permanent part of the
show, replacing Mrs. Holbrook
when she is unable to travel. Miss
Firestone is a product of Northwestern University. In New York,
she has been a guest star on television shows— the Firestone Hour,
Studio One, and Tales of Tomorrow. She was seen on Broadway
last year in the revival of First-

colfor the consideration of each
lege, looking forward to gradual

improvement.
Doctor Andruss evaluated the
budgetary policy and procedure in
each administration, and considered the work being done in the
Business Education Department of
each college.
Since the Bloomsburg State Teachers College had just completed
such an evaluation under the policies of the American Association of
College for Teacher Education, it
gave President Andruss an opportunity to visit other institutions,
and this provided an opportunity
for comparison, which is a part of
the general plan for mutual selfevaluation and self-help among the
important Teachers Education In-

stitutions of the

United

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY

States.

.

.

.

23, 1953

15

ADDRESSES - CLASS OF

1952

Adami, Eugene
705 Green St., Berwick, Pa.

Clarridge. Clifton G.
3897 Century Blvd.,

Allen, Jean R.
962 Hamilton St., Allentown, Pa.

Anthony, Thomas H„
148 N. 15th

Jr.

Philadelphia

St.,

Ciampi, Anthony
92 S. Main St., Shickshinny, Pa.

2,

Pa.

Babcock, James
25 E. Spruce St., Mahanoy City, Pa.

Paxinos, Pa.

BMTS

Baron, Charles
St., Bloomsburg, Pa.

Adam
Pa.

Pvt. Dale T. Bennett 1336195

M

1st Pit. USMCR 6th O.C.C.
Co.
4th Trng. Bn. S.S. Marine Corps School
Quantico, Va.

Lt.

R. D.

George E.
George E. Blyler

P Co. 1st Trng. Bng. MCS
Camp Barrett, Quantico,

R. D.

1,

Canton, Pa.

Haddon, John

E.

232 Jefferson

C.
St.,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Harman, Barbara
R. D.

1,

Lykens, Pa.

Harring,

Freetown Road, McGraw, N. Y.

2nd

Va.

G

Co. 3rd Trng. Bn. 4th Pit. 17th S.B.C.
Camp Upshur, Quantico, Va.

J.

17 1-2 E.

Nanticoke, Pa.

Shawnee

52213484

2nd

Pit.

Hartley, Harold
Lenoxville, Pa.

Heckman, David L.
436 E. Hamilton Ave., State College, Pa.
Herman, Harry M.
Maryland School For The Blind
Overlea 6, Maryland

J.

Edwards, Richard M.
R.

St.,

Ave., Plymouth, Pa.

Herr, William G.
114 Washington Ave.,

Newtown, Pa.

Hessert, Barbara M.
160 S. Main St., Yardley, Pa.

Clearfield, Pa.

Brachman, Russell C.
311 Hilltop Rd., Linthicum Heights, Md.

Brown, Albert

St.,

Dorasavage, Margaret A.
Vineland Traiing School, Vineland, N.

Bourdette, Margaret L.
452 Main St., Royersford, Pa.

Bowman, Doris

Broad

US

QMRTC

Lt. J. A. Dietz 058164

174 E.

Maynard

Pvt. Maynard Harring
Co. I 1st Trng. Gp
Fort Lee. Va.

John A.

Dietz,

Domaleski, Rose Marie
402 Grand Ave., Hackettstown, N.

Bolinsky, Eleanore D.
1105 Penn St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Second

Hunlock Creek, Pa.

Haddad, Dyar

Dorak, Michael

112 S.

2,

2007

Deibert, Lola J.
264 E. Court St., Doylestown. Pa.

Bennett, Dale T.

2nd

William G.
Bloomsburg, Pa.

St.,

Davis, Stewart E.

Academy Road, Hatboro,

Blyler,

13444917

Daly, Charles J.
Pvt. Charles J. Daly, US51 193972
Co. B 7th Bn. MRTC, Camp Pickett, Va.

214 East

35

Fit.

ABN

G inter, William

Coval,

Dailey, Jacob E.
Easton Road, Edison, Pa.

Baksi, George
924 Barclay St., Chester, Pa.

Ben,

Gillespie,

329 East

Sampson Air Force Base, New York

Badman, Atwood
1,

RA

ABN

Coleman, Shirley J.
2401 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg. Pa.

Leon
A-B Leon Coval AF

Pa.

Gilbert, William J.
Pvt. William J. Gilbert
13445054
Co. S 516th
Inf. Reg. 101st
Div. 60, Camp Breckinridge. Kentucky

Calif.

Clarridge, Joanne Vanderslice
3897 Century Blvd., Lynwood, Calif.

3665
R. D.

Lynwood,

George. Joseph D.

Twin Rocks.

L.

Enama, Joan C.
156 Cedar Ave., Hershey, Pa.

Hitchings, Albert
483 Charles St.. Luzerne. Pa.

Evans, David C.

Hornberger, Lester

2037

Penn

Ave.,

West Lawn, Pa.

R. D.

1,

Willow

J.

Street. Pa.

Reedsville, Pa.

Evans, Marilyn B.
202 Aigburth Road, Towson

Brown, Francis T.
Second St., Newport, Pa.
Burns, John J.
1420 Mt. Vernon Memorial Blvd.
Alexandria, Va.

2nd Lt. Robert P. Burns OS7101
2nd Trng. Bn. 18th SBC MCS
Quantico, Va.

Bushick, Ronald P.
Co. E ASTAR Regt. 8622 A.A.U.
Fort Devens, Mass.

P. O.

Box

243,

J.

Old Bridge, N.

Carey, Harold W.
E. 1st Ave., Parkesburg, Pa.
Casula, Michalene A.
Box 144, Avondale, Pa.
Cesare, Donald J.
“M” Co. 4th Trng. Bn.,
Quantico, Va.

MCS

Cherilla, Rocco V.
728 S. Crouse Ave (YMCA)
New York 1, N. Y.

1G

Md.

New

Jersey

37 Taylor Ave.,

Manasquan, N.

Hrisko, William F.
Perkiomen School. Pennsburg, Pa.

Hughes, Milton G.

enstermacher, Harry

55 Washington Ave., Atlantic Highlands,

Fenstermacher, Priscilla Abbott

Burns, Robert P.

Cannon, James

E

4,

J.

52 South

St.,

Red Bank, N.

Hurtt, Henry C.
Box 188 Mercersburg
Mercersburg, Pa.

J.

Academy

Fitzsimmons, Marguerite
\WCA, King St., Pottstown, Pa.

Jenkins, David W.
1420 Mt. Vernon Memorial Blvd.
Alexandria, Va.

Fogel, Glenn N.
521 Edison Ave., Sunbury, Pa.

Johnson, Edward W.

Funk, Geraldine

Edward Johnson AD 13445069
Box 860 Class 53 Skd. B. Stallings Air

Shoemakersville, Pa.

Base, Kingston, N. C.

Furgele, Frank J.
c-o Walter Burns, White Hall, Md.

Johnson, Eleanor
Box 304, R. D. 1, Kane, Pa.

Galiley, Leonard
728 S. Crouse Ave., Syracuse, N. Y.

Jones, Thomas C.
610 Bosley Ave., Townson

Galinski, Francis B.
35 Academy Road, Hatboro, Pa.

Kaler, Ronald A.
State St., Millville, Pa.

Gallagher, Edward
2138 Cottage Lane, Philadelphia, Pa.

Kanyuck, Calvin W.
6 Rock St., Glen Lyon, Pa.

J.

Geist,

R. D.

Franklyn I.
Howard, Pa.

2,

4,

Md.

Kennedy, Eleanor A.
R. D. 5, Bloomsburg, Pa.

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Nelson H.

Kile,

479 Second

Highspire, Pa.

St.,

Kistler, Patricia (Mrs. Diseroad)
210 Pine Ave., Bloomsburg. Pa.

Schukis,

Morrison, Richard R.
c-o W. Dickey, Montgomery Road,

13444400
Pvt. P. W. Search
Co. E Stu. Bn. TASA TR.

RA

ASA Trng. Regt.
Fort Devens, Mass.

Md.

Ellicott City,

Washington Ave.. Newtown, Pa.

114

Kozlowski,

Johnson

Mouery, Olive

Raymond

New

St.,

J.

Sunbury

Shamokin, Pa.

St.,

Krzywicki, Jeanne
160 S. Main St„ Yardley, Pa.

Laubscher, Robert
19 Mills St., Morristown, N.
E.

J.

492, E.

Nawrocki. Vincent
A-3C Vincent Nawrocki AF 13458207
Box 367 Scott Air Force Base, Illinois

64 Valley

Newman,

Lois

Sherman, Barbara A.

73 Oliver

St.,

J.

Campus. Florida State Unv.

Sheehan, Francis

37

Wilkes-Barre. Pa.

Summit

J.

New

St..

Philadelphia, Pa.

Ave., Hatboro, Pa.

North, David T.
Woodland Drive, State College, Pa.

Simpson, Edwin I.
844 Euclid Ave., Des Moines

Osenbach, Robert C.

Slikes, Edward P.
116 Washington Ave.,

222

Laux, Richard

Box

Shanahan, John P.
417 Pennsylvania Ave., Bangor, Pa.

136 S. Poplar St„ Mt. Carmel, Pa.

Milford, Pa.

Kreisher, William J.
76 E.

W.

Search, Philip

Kobal, George

15

Thomas E.
128 Delsea Drive, Clayton, N. J.

Mitchell. Kathleen
c-o Mrs. Edward Rook, 2nd St. Pike
Southampton, Pa.

2019 Madison

St.,

Philadelphia

Pa.

34,

Iowa

13,

Newtown,

Pa.

Tallahassee, Fla.

Ledyard

800

US

52213111
Div. Arty 3rd

Co. D 37th AIB
Fort Knox, Kentucky

Armd.

Div.

Lenhart, Jack M.

Gay

202 E.

St.,

Sluyter, Joyce

Payne, Marion V.

Ledyard, Richard A.
R. A.

West Chester, Pa.

LeVan, Stanley
St., Bloomsburg, Pa.

635 E. 4th

Argonne Drive. Baltimore

18,

Md.

Box

256,

Lesh Apartments, Newport. Pa.
Pelchar, Joseph J.
305 Stock St., Hanover, Pa.

Millville,

John

J.

Philo, Laura A.
320 W. Miner St.,

28,

Delaware

Stanitskie, Francis J.

Btry

West Chester, Pa.

A

1st F.

1st F.A. Trng. Bn.
A. Trng. Gp.

FARIC, Fort

Oklahoma

Sill,

Stanko, Constance M.
c-o Mrs. Edward Rook, 2nd

Price, Janet E.
430 W. Market St., Orwigsburg, Pa.

Pike

St.

Southampton, Pa.

Lundy, Marilyn
Rachko, George
324 S. Lehigh Ave., Frackville, Pa.

Stec, Dorothy M.
100 8th St.. Salem, N. J.

Radicchi, Ruth Glidden
R. D. 3, Susquehanna, Pa.

Stevens, John
1125 Kleiuhans

MacDougall, Joyce (Mrs. Eveland)
308 Massachusetts Ave., Endicott, N. Y.

Radzwich, William J.
315 N. Broad St., West Hazleton, Pa.

Slonik, John M.
1125 Blueridge Road, Baltimore,

Marsilio, Alfred S.
610 Bosley Ave., Towson

Reed,

133 N. Jefferson St.,

Allentown, Pa.

Lylo, Michael
149 Liverpool Ave.,

Egg Harbor

City, N. J.

4,

Md.

Thomas

114 Blair St.,

J.

St.,

Easton, Pa.

Md.

Strausser, Fred L.

Plymouth, Pa.

123

Academy

St.,

Clayton, N.

J.

Matuleski, Charlotte M.
220 S. Front St., Sunbury, Pa.

Reed, William

Swartz,

1265 Highland Ave., Sunbury, Pa.

37

Mazzetti, Gloria
1103 Ferris Ave., Berwick, Pa.

Reese, Jack
406 E. 5th St., Berwick, Pa.

Taylor, Patricia J.
174 N. 5th St., Lindenhurst, L.

McAloose, William

Rhinard, Kathryn L.
221 N. Pine St., Langhorne, Pa.

Thomas, David H.
47 N. W. End Ave., Lancaster, Pa.

Rider, Janice
423 E. Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, Pa.

Thurston, Robert L.

116 N.

Wyoming

St.,

Hazleton, Pa.

McHugh, Cornelius
W. 7th St., Hazleton,

415

Pa.

McLaughlin, Thomas

Buck

Mt., Barnesville R. D., Pa.

Riley, John E.
20 Lower Mulberry

St.,

Danville, Pa.

McNamee, Dorothy Cedor
618 Congress Ave., Havre de Grace, Md.

Ruckle, M. Jeanne (Mrs. Berninger)
524 W. Third St., Bloomsburg, Pa.

Meier, Jean M.

Rummage, Frederick

1107

Walnut

St.,

Allentown, Pa.

5630 Merrick

Coral Gables
Mertz, Florence
R. D. 1, Northumberland, Pa.
Miller,

Robert

Lock Raven Village Apartments
8434A Greenway Road, Towson, Md.
Miller, Royal
144 S. Hanover St., Carlisle, Pa.

March, 1953

Sanders,

E.,

Unv.

C.
of

Miami

Pvt. R. W. Sanders
Bn
Co. B 7th

MTK

US 52227501
CCB 3rd Armd.

136

Nancy D.
Summit Ave., Hatboro,

South

St.,

Div.

Fort Knox, Kentucky

Md.

I.,

Trisko, John F.
65 Euclid Ave., Hackensack, N.

N. Y.

J.

Troutman, C. Walter

Box 1045, 3606th Stu. Sqd.
Ellington A.F.B., Texas
Montgomery, Pa.

Unger, Nancy Jean (Mrs. Keiser)
Buckley Road. Liverpool, N. Y.

Wagner, John
1201 Mifflin

Scheno, Angelo P.
c-o Mrs. Frank Curtis, Waterloo Road

Pa.

Sunbury, Pa.

Troxell, William I.
115 E. Houston Ave.,

46, Fla.

Roy W.

Ellicott City,

Md.

Snyder, Edward

Powell, Richard C.
315 S. Lehigh Ave.. Downingtown, Pa.

Looker, Russ
Vineland Training School,
Vineland, N. J.

Campbell, N. Y.

Smith, George A.
5 Edmondson Ridge, Baltimore

Peffer,

I.

St.,

Huntingdon, Pa.

Weinstein, Philip
4032 Edgewood Road, Baltimore, Md.
17

Whibley, James A.
4724 Chestnut St., Philadelphia

mediately, found the
39,

Pa.

N gmUngif

White, John E.

White

Pvt.J. E.

Co. B
Camp

US

52213626

Mrs. Margaret Hippensteel Shaffer

Williams, George E.
Apartment G4, Oakwood Gardens
Lansdale, Pa.
Williams,

Box

15,

Nancy

B.

Madison, Conn.

Womer, Robert M.
Corner Pine and Birch
Leadwood, Missouri

Sts.

Wood, Graydon C.
315E. Ashland Ave., Glenolden, Pa.
Worhacz, Walter
234 S. 2nd St., Shamokin, Pa.
Wright, Mary Anna
423 E. Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, Pa.

Yozviak, Marie C.
121 E. Main St., Lansdale, Pa.

Q
Boost

Mrs. Margaret Shaffer, fifty-five,
esteemed town resident and elementary school teacher in Center

Consolidated School, died at the
Bloomsburg Hospital Wednesday,
November 5. Coroner S. Earl McHenry reported that an autopsy
disclosed death was due to a brain
tumor.
Mrs. Shaffer was
stricken
ill
while attending a meeting of the
Bloomsburg Chapter, Order of
Eastern Star and was removed to
the hospital.

While she had not been in good
health, she was able to teach and
had done so up to the day before
her death, which came as a profound shock to her family and a
wide circle of friends.

A native of Light Street, she resided in New Jersey for some time
but for the past thirty years was a
resident of Bloomsburg. She was
Charles
the daughter of the late
and Elizabeth Hippensteel, Light
Street, and was a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
Mrs. Shaffer was an active
member of the Bloomsburg EUB
Church and
ter

Eastern

Bloomsburg

Star.

Chap-

Surviving

are

Middletown, and
James, at home; a sister, Mrs. Grace
Black and a brother, Bruce Hippensteel, both of town.

two

the

of

Alumni

sons,

Roy,

Louis
L.

W. Buckalew

W. Buckalew,

seventy,

and
one of the area’s best known men,
died suddenly Sunday, November
10 at his home on West Fifth St.,
Bloomsburg, from a heart attack.
His death came with shocking
suddenness. He had been hospitalized last March from a virus infection but was completely recovered from that illness.

During the evening meal he was
mood and then
went to the second floor of the
home. Mrs. Buckalew heard somein his usual bright

thing
18

fall

and, investigating

Gager Buckalew and was born
September 1, 1882. He was a graduate of
the
Bloomsburg High
School and Normal School and attended the Pennsylvania State College.

He was

active in

athletics

three institutions, being a
member of the football and basketball teams.
He was a member of
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.
In 1910 he established a shoe

in

all

store at East and Main street and
for many years conducted there
one of the best known stores in the
area.

In

more recent years he was

in general insurance as

an

agent

and broker.
Blessed with a fine personality,
had a legion of friends. He was
a charter member of the Bloomsburg Rotary Club and of various
Masonic bodies including Washington Lodge, No. 265, F.
A. M.,
Caldwell Consistory, Mt. Moriah
lie

&

Council No. 10, Royal Arch Chapter No. 218, Crusade Commanderv
No. 12 Knights Templar and Orient
Conclave No. 2, Red Cross of
Constantine. For years he was one
of the leaders in production work
for the ceremonials of Consistory

and other bodies.

An

active

member

of St. Paul’s

Episcopal Church, he served

on

and as
the vestry thirty years,
secretary during much of that period, and was a life member of vestry at the time of his death.
Surviving are his wife; a son,
Lt. Col. L. W. Buckalew, Jr., Fort
Knox, Ky.; two grandsons, CharWalter Buckalew III and John
Nelson Buckalew; a sister, Mrs.
Harry E. Rider and a brother,
Raymond G. Buckalew.
les

life-

long resident of Bloomsburg

Association

of her

A member of one of Bloomsburg’s pioneer families he was the
son of the late Russell and Mary

MTB MRTC

9th
Pickett, Va.

body

husband.

im-

G. Elroy Beagle
G.

Elroy

Beagle,

well-known

former
Watsontown man and
Bloomsburg resident, died Friday,
November 14 at Geisinger Hospital after a six week illness.

Born

in

Eyersgrove, August 23,

1883, Mr. Beagle moved to Bloomsburg with his parents, Frederick
at the age
attended Bloomsburg

and Katherine Beagle,
of four.

He

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

schools and Bloomsbury
Normal School. He was active in
athletics, and captained the baseball team at the Normal School in

public

and 1904 seasons.

15)03

He moved
November of

to

first

organized a parliamentary class in
Drexel Hill. She was also a member of the Eastern Star in Philadelphia.

employed

Her husband, a Du Pont Powder
Company manager, preceded her in

as

a

woodcarver by the Barr Table
Works, and later at the Watsontown Table and Furniture Co. lie
was employed as general foreman
ol the shipping department of the

death by a little over two months,
having succumbed to heart trouble

October

Division of Philco
Corporation from that plant opening until his retirement in 1946.

Mr. Beagle was a member of
Masonic bodies including the Watsontown lodge F. and A.M., of
which he was a past master, and
the Williamsport Consistory.
He
also a former member of the
Milton Lodge of Elks, and a lifelong member of the Presbyterian
Church of Watsontown. Active in

was

the

Mr. Beagle served on

Watsontown Borough Council

and one term

as chief burgess.
survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mae Morgan Beagle, and two
sisters, Mrs.
William
Clarence
Leech, Macomb, 111.,
and Mrs.
Charles Shrader, Atlantic City.

He

is

14. 1952.

Mary

Watsontown

civic affairs,

Monie

unconscious
Miss Mary
Alice Yoder, 47, formerly of 807
West Front Street, Berwick, died
for almost

insti-

tution.

She was married March 26, 1891,
to Samuel Charles Jones.
She was
the mother of six daughters, all
married.
She traveled extensively
in the United States, Alaska and
Europe and lectured in many cities
in the United States.
She was the founder of the Garden Club of East McKeesport, Pa.,
and was head of the women’s classes in the Presbyterian Churches in
East McKeesport and Drexel Hill.
She also organized Home Departments in the two churches.
She
March. 1953

years,

Philadelphia.

She had been in ill health since
February 25, 1951, and on March
9 of last year had undergone an
operation for a brain tumor at the
University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.
She had never
regained consciousness.
Miss Yoder,
a
graduate
of
B.T.S.C., had been a teacher in the
Orange Street Junior High School
for twenty-five years

and was

ex-

tremely popular. She was a member of the First Baptist Church

Isabelle
Monie Jones passed
away December 19, 1952,, follow-

and was graduated from that

two

December 16 in the Thoroughgood
Nursing Home, 40th and Streets,

Jones, ’86

ing a heart attack.
She was bom
March 11, 1864, in the Monie
Castle in Scotland.
She came to
the United States when she was six
years of age. Following her graduation from Bloomsburg, she attended the University of Pittsburgh,

Alice Yoder

After having been

and of the
Isabelle

for

the improvement of the Arlington
Section of East McKeesport, and

Watsontown in
and lived there

1904,
until his death.

He was

Community Club

organized a

Women

of the

Moose.

Clyde E. Burlingame

Clyde E. Burlingame, fifty-two,
Almedia, died in January at his
home.

A

lifelong resident of that area,

Burlingame was

in

ill

health since

November and was bedfast
his home since December 27.

last

at

He was a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and was employed by the
Magee Carpet Company

for thir-

ty-one years.
He was a member
of the Almedia Social Club.

BACTERIOLOGY LAB
IS

IMPROVEMENT
One

of the

many improvements

being made around college is taking place in a small room directly
oft Room 23 in Science Hall. During the Christmas vacation, work

began on a new laboratory at this
used as a darkroom. The wall and cabinets have
been painted white and the floor
has been covered with a composition tile laid in a checkered pattern of brown and cream.
Equipment installed includes an
autoclave and a constant heat cabinet.
The autoclave is used as a
sterilizer, and the constant heat
cabinet will be used chiefly by Dr.
location, formerly

Kuster for developing cultures necessary in biological courses. This
cabinet looks like a modern refrigerator, but differs from one in that
it can be set to a desired constant
temperature, whether hot or cold.
A new sink is to be installed in the
near future.

The room

will also

serve as a

water analysis laboratory for Mr.
Lanterman, who has had considerHe
able experience in this field.
will perform bacteriological and
chlorination tests on the water
from the Centennial swimming

and

be able to test
the steam plant.
Now it is necessary for him to perform these tests in the steam plant

pool,

will also

the water from

with

inadequate

equipment.

At

present, the pool water has to be
sent to Wilkes-Barre to be tested.

This will no longer be necessary
when the laboratory is completed.

Whether the addition of the new
laboratory to the science department will bring new courses to the
biological department is still unknown. The equipment, however,
would make it possible for Dr.
Kuster to grow the bacterial cultures necessary for a course in Bacteriology.

1937

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY

.

.

.

23. 1953

Josephine Magee

received her
Master’s Degree in Latin last summer at the Pennsylvania State Col-

She has been teaching for
several years in the high school at
Tower City, Pa.
lege.

19

PLANS BEGUN FOR
FASHION SHOW

HIS

Among

Plans are well under way for the
seventh annual B.S.T.C. fashion
show, it was announced recently
by Mr. Charles H. Henrie, producer of the event. The show will be
presented Friday, May 1, in connection with the annual Business
Education Contest. Two performances are being planned, because
of the customary large attendance
—an afternoon matinee and an evening program starting at 8:15.

This year the British coronation
be featured as the theme of
the Show. Under direction of Mrs.
Olive C. Beeman, extensive decoration is being planned.
A large
jewel studded crown will dominate
the center of the stage, together
with wrought iron gates and fences. The stage setting will also include guardhouses, complete with
will

guardsmen in full dress, from uniform to high black shakos.

A

small coach containing BenFranklin Training School
children is also planned. The runway this year will be in the shape
of a letter “T” rather than the “U”

jamin

used

Ushers will wear
fashioned by Mrs. Beeman’s
year.

last

tiarras

art classes.

Phyllis

McLaren has been

selec-

ted as fashion coordinator for the
show, and Mary Lewis will act as
Chairman of the store coordinators.
Organ music will again be furnish-

ed by Mary Grace Aimers.
ber of college

girls

A num-

will serve

as

wardrobe mistresses while boys
be used to put up the settings.
Tryouts for models for the Fashion Show were held the week of
March 9, Mr. Henrie announced.

will

A large number of new underclassmen has been selected this year because of the large number of girls
who graduated last year. Selection
was made on the basis of personality, posture, beauty, general appearance, and scholastic and social
record.

nine stores will participate
show. These include a jewelry store which is attempting to
In

all,

in the

obtain replicas of the crown jewels
for the show.
A dinner meeting
was held recently with the merchants of the town, with Mr. Hal20

HOBBY-BLOOMSBURG
the

faculty

here

at

Bloomsburg State Teachers

College, hobbies are also considered
one of the best methods of keeping occupied. John Hoch, Dean of
Men at B.S.T.C., has a hobby that
takes practically every minute of

His hobby is Bloomsburg.
Mr. Hoch was born in Milton,
Pennsylvania, and was graduated
from high school at the age of sixteen.
When he was just twenty
years old, he received his Bachelor
of Science Degree in Education
from the Pennsylvania State College and returned to his home to
teach.
He received his Master of
Arts Degree from Bucknell in 1942
and came to B.S.T.C. in 1946 as
his time.

the

assistant

of

the late

“Lefty”

Danks.
This “hobby” of Mr. Hoch is indeed a twenty-four hour proposition.
In the fall he is assistant
coach of the Husky football team.
During this time he must keep in
constant touch with the head coach

and the players, making sure that
no important detail has been left
out of the preparations for the com-

game or scrimmage. He has
an important part in scheduling
the games and in making arrangements for visiting teams and for the
Huskies when they are playing
away from Bloomsburg.
As Dean of Men it is his job to
make arrangements with all men
students who wish to stay in the
ing

This task begins in the
and, to a lesser degree, is carried on for the remainder of the school year.
There is always a steady demand from students who wish to
live in the dormitory and can’t understand why they can’t move right
in.
It is Mr. Hoch’s job to explain
why and to place their name on his
waiting list.
Mr. Hoch lives in the North Hall
Men’s Dormitory with his wife and
family, and this tends to produce
still another duty to which he must
devote his time.
Every night of
the school year, without exception,
dormitory.
late

lisy,

summer

Beeman, Mr. Henrie,
McLaren, Mary Lewis and

Mrs.

Phyllis

he must make several trips around
the dormitory to see that everything

and

right

all

is

noise,

when

it is

to quiet the

possible.

B.S.T.C. has a Public Relations
at the head of this
organization is the assistant coach
and Dean of Men, John Hoch. To
keep up with the requirements of
this position Mr. Hoch must write
all news releases.
This means that
anything of interest that happens
to Bloomsburg, or any of its faculty or students, is written up by
him and turned over to the local
papers. When there is a news
item of interest to the home town
of one of the students, it is he who
sees that that particular paper gets
the full story. If Bloomsburg is to
be represented at some meeting or
dinner the most likely man to represent it will be John Hoch.

Department and

Now

to

most people

this

would

represent a full schedule with no
lfs, ands, or buts.
But Mr. Hoch
has still another job for which he
must prepare and carry out. He
must teach an occassional History
or Government course and, when
the need arises, a course on Education.
This is during the regular
session; during the summer sessions, however, he teaches full time
and still manages to carry on his
other duties.

So

from day to day,
month, year to year. This
is the hobby of John Hoch.
It is
a full time one, which must be, and

month

is,

it

goes

to

well done.

And

if,

in the future,

he should be given some additional
task, you can be sure it will take
its proper place in his vast collection of “hobbies.”

1913

Marion Mack Kinneman lives at
912 South Fell Avenue, Normal, Illinois.
She is the wife of Dr. John
A. Kinneman, head of Social Studies, Normal University.

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY

.

.

.

23, 1953

Elizabeth Patton representing the
college.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

'

ScutceAed a+id Hlawe^d'
E.

When

Nelson, ’ll

II.

Paul Revere hurried from Boston to warn the countryside of British

Underlying

troop movements, he was, in a sense, going for help.

make

the thought of an aroused people to
for

good

living.

stirred to action.

for him, but

To accomplish

this

this

meant that the feeling of Colonists must be

Paul Revere didn’t finish his intended trip— Longfellow did

he did exemplify the

spirit that

is

We

Some 85

value.

was an
It

Out

can’t

be

years ago a

necessary to produce results.

New

England college professor

whatever we want

duty

is

to

become

active

ing this item you realize that such

members

only.

becoming

all

of us.

members
is

your

We,

true for

too, are

all,

active, interested

first

Bloomsburg needs our support.

of the

Alumni Association. In read-

status, for the

by being

summoned

Bloomsburg must

“Quarterly

However, you can help by sending

promptly when due and, most of
to action in

come

to see

told his class that elec-

would never have commercial

took an Edison to change that line of thought.

true in the hearts and minds of

first

active

to be, let us use the glor-

today only.

static, living for

interesting laboratory plaything but

to recognize that

come

it

the past, her yesterdays, to furnish inspiration and guidance for her great

tomorrows.

tricity

was

land a place of greater opportunity

To make Bloomsbnrg the Alma Mater we want her
ies of

his action

a Paul

members

Revere

in

is

mailed to

your renewal

in stirring

of the graduate

Alumni

body and

thereby make a reality of “Ever upward, striving, climbing, onward Bloomsburg
goes.”

ALUMNI DAY

Saturday, May 23

,

REUNION CLASSES
ALL CLASSES TO

1893

1893

1913

1938

1898

1918

1943

1903

1923

1948

1908

1928

1950

1933

Begin to plan for your reunion now!

Class

lists

may be

secured at the College.

1953

The Alumni Quarterly
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsyluanla

m

Vol.

LIV

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,

1

V

5 ’JEd

El

June, 1953

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No. 2

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF TEACHERS COLLEGES [1927-1952]
The Legislature, which

in session at the

is

the report of

writing, has considered

this

the State

(commonly

Committee

Survey

Government

time of

Teachers Colleges, and

(3)

that the present

fourteen

State Teachers Colleges be reduced to seven.

called

The people

Chesterman, or “Little Hoover” Committee) with respect to the future Teachers Colleges in Pennsylvania.

and out

their Senators,
of fifty, forty

of Pennsylvania

of a total

more

or

have spoken through
Senate membership

of the Senators voted against

each of these measures.

For over twenty-five years there have been forces
operating for the express purpose of reducing the opportunity of education for young people at the college

There as been

level.

a feeling that

colleges those that remain

ment.

This

is

if

there were fewer

would have larger

enroll-

very doubtful, since the cost of college

If

there

a complaint that graduates of Pennsyl-

is

vania State Teachers Colleges do not teach in Pennsylvania, then

our

Commonwealth should

increase the

salaries of beginning teachers in Pennsylvania to the
level of that paid in surrounding states.

education has always been so high that the citizen of

average

means has not been able

educate

to

If

his

we

Boards of Trustees are not satisfactory,

local

remedy the administration

not

will

Teachers Col-

of

children.

leges by organizing another
It

so

happens that

ability to learn

pay are not necessarily found together.

book

ability to

many cases has been the sole determining
who should go to college or who should go

work.

and

in Harrisburg.

are able to train only about

teachers that are needed in the schools,

its

land grant college

the centers of population,
college only

is

located in the geograat a

is

many

distance from

students can go to

they live at or near their homes.

if

The

State Teachers Colleges represent the only opportunity

provided by the state for the children of

neither

is

it

any

of

the sources of supply, whether they be private colleges

its

citizens

It

hoped that the ghost

is

education has been

of

private vs. public

hear the sepulchral voices of those

when education was

past

tunities

a class-structured opportun-

who have

which the Commonwealth

The Chesterman Report repeated arguments which
were discounted or discredited twenty-five years ago
when they were first brought forth by the same group

education to the oncoming children

of persons

who

acted as advisors for the preesnt report,

which proved the basis for three
to defeat

by

bills

lopsided majorities.

was nine or

these bills provided

(1)

that students

from Teachers Colleges and who
the first five years following

we

close the doors on opportunities for higher

the possibility that

that three

of

who graduate

ory Boards and that a Bureau be set up (and this was
to

be on economies) in the Department

of Public Instruction

in

shall

we

cannot evade

develop some “ism”

of a State Teachers College

As Alumni

been in existence,

in

Harrisburg to handle State

you

will understand

what

which has
I

am

try-

since you have been the recipient of an

educational opportunity which

may have been

you had Pennsylvania had only private colleges
time you were seeking higher education.

Yours for
graduation shall

repay to the Commonwealth the amount of their tuition;
(2) that local Boards of Trustees be replaced by Advis-

was supposed

we

America other than Americanism.

do not teach two of

their

Pennsylvania

to its future citizens.

ing to say,

For the information of alumni, and for the future

know

of

which went

In most cases,

ten to one against their adoption.

record of historians, they should

for all the

from the oppor-

the ability to profit

owes
If

we
the

few rather than an opportunity

ity for the

children

shall

who pursue

and that no more

laid,

to get a college education.

the vote

of the

or State Teachers Colleges.

phic center of the state, which

down

90%

wise, expedient, or economical for us to reduce

Since Pennsylvania does not have a state university,

we

Since

in too

factor of
to

and

Papa’s pocket-

Bureau

a

Bigger and Better Bloomsburg.

denied
at the

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Vol. LIV,

No. 2

June, i953

The 1953 Commencement
“Maximum freedom of thought
the best way to preserve our system of government,” Dean Fran-

is

Keppel, of the Graduate Faculty of Education, Harvard Univer-

eis

told the

one

hundred-fiftynine members of the graduating
class at the commencement exer-

sity,

cises held

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

March

the Act of
scription,

$2.00;

3,

1879.

Yearly Sub-

Single Copy, 50 cents.

T2

BUSINESS MANAGER
E. H. Nelson, ’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Nelson

E. H.

25, in Car-

ver Auditorium. Speaking to a
large audience. Dean Keppel outlined his predictions of "Teacher
Education in the Coming Decade,”
basing his remarks upon the assumption that there will be at least
a decade of international tensions
and a general atmosphere of lack
of security.

William Boyd Sutliff, Dean Empronounced the invocation

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker,

Monday, May

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

Harriet F. Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey

B.

Smith

Elizabeth H. Hubler
June, 1953

velopments that profoundly affect
the course of public education in
the country. He said that the present generation has been the most
successful generation in producing
children.
The birth rate in 1937
was 2.6 million children, while in
1952, the total has risen to four
million.
This is not a good thing
for the public schools, for

pledged ourselves

we have

provide educhildren up to the age
to

cation for all
of sixteen or eighteen.
Add fifty
per cent of the total, and the result
is staggering.
In addition to this, he said that

America spends only about

six bil-

than

eritus,

lion dollars for education, less

following the processional.
After
the singing of the Alma Mater, the

the amount that is spent for alcoholic beverages and cosmetics. Unless we are willing to increase the

class

and faculty recessed.

How-

ard F. Fenstemaker was at the
console of the organ and played
Beethoven’s march from “Egmont”
lor the processional and “Fanfare”
by Sergisson for the recessional.
Ralph Fisher Smith was director
of music.
President Harvey A. Andruss
conferred the degree of Bachelor
of Science in Education on the candidates for the degree, who were
presented by Dr. Thomas P. North,
Dean of Instruction. In addition,
Dr. Andruss introduced the members of the class who were selected
for the Community Government
service key award, the highest
award that the student body can
grant. He introduced the recipients
of certificates of election to

TREASURER

youngest university deans in the
country, traced a number of de-

Who Among

“Who’s

Students in American

Colleges
and Universities.” He
then presented three members of
the class who gave outstanding service to the College during the past
four years. These were Edwin
Cunfer, Slatington; David New,
Watsontown, and David
bury,
Linkchorst, Shenandoah.
Dean Keppel, who is one of the

by at least fifty per cent, we
bound for trouble.
Dean Keppel stressed the fact

hill

are

that another pressing problem is
America’s crying need for new
teachers, pointing out that we need
at least 160,000 new teachers per
annum. It is necessary to attract
them by higher salaries.
Unless
this is done, there will continue to
be overcrowded conditions in the
public
schools,
poorly
trained
teachers, and public dissatisfaction
with the work of the schools.
He declared that the public is
becoming more and more disgusted
with the effects or results of the
Dewey philosophy of pragmatism,
stating that this is another of the
tensions which are clouding the atmosphere of public education.
“There is no basic agreement as to
the aims of education,” Dean Keppel remarked.
He devoted a portion of his remarks to the attacks now being
made in schools and teachers in
various loyalty probes now under
way. “Schools are going to be under increasing attacks,” he said,
1

John

and this can only result in a growing sense of insecurity among the
teachers.” To take a stand on the

‘

question is difficult, but Dean Kepsuggested that freedom of
thought has been the basis of our

reer.

»

George Lambrinos, Endicott, N. Y.
William B. Linn, Catawissa.
Mildred June Long, Liberty R. D. 1.
Leonora M. Macgill, Nisbet.

semester:

Mary

Lena Ann Caccia, Friendsville
Shirley M. Carmody, Danville.

.

2.

Mary C. Condon, Old Forge.
Roy Croop, Jr., Berwick.

David N. Newbury, Watsontown.
Miriam L. Neyhard, Orangeville.
M. Elaine Ohlman, Wilkes-Barre.
Doris A. Pasternoster, Hazleton.
Mary E. Patton, Wyalusing.
Charles Pease, Wyalusing R. D.

2.

Ellen

Dean Bartholomew, Mil-

ton.

Leona I. Diltz, Muncy, R. D. 1.
John M. DiRico, Jr., Wayne.
JoAnn F. Edwards, Montgomery.
Richard W. Evans, Shamokin.
C. Richard Ewing, McClure R. D.

1.

Hellertown R. D. 1.
Quick, Wyalusing.
Raymond R. Raabe, Sugarloaf.
Warren L. Raker, West Pittston.
Claude W. Renninger, Bloomsburg.
Alice

Pichel,
J.

R.

Rompala, Meshoppen.
Pittston.

Elizabeth A. Speal, Freeland.
Robert C. Stevenson, Factoryville.

Martha

E. Stiner, Berwick.
William H. Stoutenburgh, Hatboro.

Nellie H. Swartz, Montoursville.
Charles H. Taylor, Jr., Willow Grove.
Ruth E. Thomas, Bloomsburg R. D. 4.

James W. Thompson, Kane.
Russ Verhousky, Coaldale.
Jeanne A. Wallace, Berwick.
Joseph J. Wasiakowski, Nanticoke.
Dorothy S. Watkins, Summit Hill.
Joan Wersinger, Hazleton.
Harold B. Whitebread, Nescopeck.

Samuel R. Yeager, Montgomery.
Ardell E. Zeigenfuse, Mowry.

The following are expected to
complete their requirements at the

Summer

2.

Joseph P. Feifer, Mt. Carmel.
William G. Fisher, Kulpmont.
Daniel E. Fitzpatrick, Northumberland.

Loretta Formulak, Glen Lyon.
Edward Goodhart. Northumberland,
R. D. 1.
Thomas A. Goodwin, Kane.
Arlene G. Gordner, Millville.
Barbara A. Gulick, Riverside.
Delores E. Harding, Muncy R. D. 1.
Anna C. Heacock, Millville R. D. 1.
Nancy R. Heebner, West Orange, N. J.
Regina M. Herschel, West Hazleton.
Mrs. Winnie Mae Hileman, Bloomsburg R. D. 5.
William Hill, South Williamsport.
Russell O. Hons, Shavertown.
Janice E. Johnson, Lewisburg.
Jimmy D. Johnson, Benton R. D. 1.
Richard H. Jones, Bloomsburg.
Wilma I. Jones, LeRaysville.
Mary E. Kallenbach, Shartlesville.

session:

Clyde C. Adams, Shamokin, R. D. 1.
William A. Bartleson, Jr., Warrior
Run.
Keith S. Bearde, Spring City.
Clyde H. Bell, Freeland.
Irvin R. Bickel, Sunbury.
Sylvester V. Bodek, Nanticoke.
Joseph E. Boyle, Harwood Mines.

Harry
Vivian

P. Brooks, Pittsburgh.
E. Burness, Bloomsburg.

Edward

Campbell, Ashland.
Irene L. Cichowicz, Shenandoah.
Ila Mae Coursen, Scranton.
Helen K. DeCampi, Nuremberg.
James E. Doty, Bloomsburg.
Robert J. Dowd, Ringtown.
Irene J. Endler, Wilkes-Barre.
N. Douglas Erickson, Ludlow.

Madge

J.

R. Felker, Mt. Bethel.

James V. Ferdinand, Freeland.
John M. Gembusia, Alden.
Mrs. Margaret M. George, Hazleton.
Robert A. Gerhard, Palmerton.
Joan M. Greco, Old Forge.
Robert E. Hale, Hazleton R. D.
Robert V. Haas, Nescopeck.
Robert E. Harris, Pittston R. D.

William Hatrack, Mt. Carmel.
Mrs. Margery N. Hosier, Bloomsburg.
Susan D. Havasta, Scranton.
George F. Johns, South Williamsport.
Veronica A. Kane, Sunbury.
John L. Krause, West Hazleton.
Mrs. Rachael Evans Kline, Orangeville.

Alex W. Kubik, York R. D. 2.
Robert L. Lang, Milton.
David R. Linkchorst, Shenandoah.

Edward

R. Linn.

Richard

J.

Bloomsburg

R. D.

1.

Locke. Alden Station.

Clement J. Makowski, Keiser.
Donald R. McClintock, Berwick.
Edward J. McGee, Hazleton R. D.
Mrs. Joyce Schofield

1.

McMahan, Au-

denried.

Bessmarie C. Williams, Forty Fort.
Mildred J. Wrezesniewski, Chester.

Rosella Danilo, Carbondale.
Clarabelle Davis. Clarks Summit, R.

2

5.

Albert E. Williams, Nanticoke.

Joanne R. Cuff, Shenandoah.
Edwin W. Cunfer, Slatington.
Ronald F. D’Angelo, Berwick.

Mary

Myrtele Megargel, Danville R. D. 2.
Phyllis Y. Morgan, Danville R. D. 4.
Milton E. Morrison, Bloomsburg R. D.

John S. Scrimgeour, West
Jean A. Skeeba, Hazleton.
2.

Theresa L. Charney. Mahanoy Plane.
Salvadore J. Ciavaglia, Lehighton, R.

D.

Henry Marini. Wayne.

Edward

G. Aimers, Plymouth.

Marjorie H. Ayre, Tunkhannock.
Elizabeth A. Baer, Shickshinny R.D.
Joseph R. Barkely. Holmes.
Erma R. Bean, Rahns.
Lee E. Benner, Selinsgrove.
John T. Bogdan, Philadelphia.
Daniel Boychuck, Shamokin.
Charles M. Brennan, Towanda.
William E. Byham. Kane.

D.

R.

June

The following completed their
requirements at the close of the

Kennedy, Kingston.

ton.

pel

national development.
In concluding, the Harvard educator pointed out that the teaching profession will not be a dull
one during the next decade. “You
are going to be the center of a lot
of ideas; you are not going to be
reformers, for the issue of education is going to be the issue of sensitivitv.
You have an exciting ca-

L.

William H. Kline, Millersburg.
Alex P. Koharski, Wyoming.
Lawrence R. Ksanznak, West Hazle-

1.

Nira J. McQuown, Shickshinny.
Joseph H. Meier, Mifflinville.'
Donald E. Meredith. Northumberland.
Jean L. Miller, Tunkhannock.

John K. Mincemoyer, Muncy.
Robert

E.

Ogden

P. Moss, Jr.,

Moore, Benton.

New

Milford.

Leland E. Ney, Berwick.
Michael J. Palko, Pottsville.
Edwin P. Pauzer, Kulpmont.
George W. Reinsmith, Lehighton.
Shirley M. Reisenweaver, Conyngham.

Nancy Lou Rhoads, Catawissa.
Edward A. Sable, Glen Lyon.
James H. Sharp, Hazleton.
John Sivulich, Kulpmont.
Alexander Swaboski, Mt. Carmel.
Joseph A. Trudnak, Mocanaqua.
Alfred V. Wesner, Mt. Carmel.
Mrs. Teloiv Wetzel, Conyngham.
Sheldon Williams, Wilkes-Barre.
Joseph J. Zahora, Lansford.

TAKES PART IN VISITATION
Thomas

Dr.

instruction,

P.

North, dean of

Bloomsburg

State

Teachers College, recently participated in a three-day visitation to
the Pennsylvania State College.
Dean North, who is chairman of
the Pennsylvania Commission on
Teacher Education and Professional Standards, was a member of an
intervisitation team of die American Association of Colleges for
Teacher Education, which evaluated the School of Education at

Penn

State.

The

intervisitation

program

of

the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is designed to aid in the improvement
of programs for the education of
teachers
for
American schools
largely by means of an exchange
of ideas about successful practices.

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

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1.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

BACCALAUREATE SERMON
"It is

God

to

whom man

is

un-

equivocably responsible,” Dr. John
C. Schroeder, Master of Calhoun
College and John Hoober Professor
ol Religion, Yale University, told
members of the graduating class
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College at impressive Baccalaureate exercises held Sunday, May 24,
Speaking
in Carver Auditorium.
on the subject, “A Sense of Responsibility,"
Dr. Schroeder told a
large audience
that the moral
problem of every generation is to
rliscover responsibility to be a joy
rather than a burden.

The

class

and faculty entered the

using
"Ancient
of
Days” as the processional.
Dr.
Schroeder pronounced the invocation, and Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
president of the College, read the
Scripture lesson.
Following the
Baccalaureate sermon, the College
Trio sang Hamblen’s "Hear Us, O
Saviour.”
Jeannie Miller, Tunkauditorium,

hannock; Joan Curilla, Shamokin,
and Mary Lewis, Lewistown, are

members of the group. Mary Grace
Aimers, Plymouth, was the accompanist.
Miss Miller and Miss Aimers are members of the graduating class.

Following the benediction by Dr.
Schroeder, the class and faculty
recessed while the audience sang
Handel’s “Awake My Soul.”
In his sermon. Dr. Schroeder said
that responsibility connotes many
things, but the problem of the in-

dividual is how to be responsible
to the ideals he has in a ruthless

and sometimes inhuman world.
There are many different ways
of answering questions.
At one
extreme, he pointed out, is the in-

who

dividual

avoids the issue

by

denying any sense of responsibility'.
It results in a complete denial of
accountability and results in the
morality of bedlam, broken treaties, disregard of all obligations.
Human society to endure, he said,
must be established on moral foundations; we cannot easily disregard

our

responsibilities,

whether

we

like to or not.

Then

there

is

the person

who

has

the over-exaggerated sense of responsibility.
The result is a per-

son

who

insists

June, 1953

on others doing ev-

erything he says.
heartless reformer.

He becomes

a

In

Another kind of individual, Dr.
Schroeder said, exhibits only concern for his

own

well-being and

independent of others.

ALUMNI DAY

The

is

result

accordance with long-estab-

members

lished custom, the

Alumni Association

of the
of the Blooms-

burg State Teachers College assembled for their annual meeting
in Carver Auditorium on Saturday,
May 23. The meeting was up to
its usual standard, both in attendance and in enthusiasm.

the cynic with his self-concern,
pre-occupation, and arrogance.
With these several attempts to
answer the question, one is forced
to the conclusion that individuals
must acquire a sense of responsibility without knowing it, realizing
that it is not important to know that
he is responsible for but that he is
responsible to something or someone. “This may be the clue to our
trouble,” Dr. Schroeder said, “we
lo not know or realize to whom we
are responsible.”

of the class of
attending their fiftieth-year
reunion were seated on the stage
as the guests of honor, their identity being easily established by the
golden crowns that they were wear-

This philosophy leads, he added,
us into the realm of the religious,

Service Awards.

is

selfish

we must know that it is God to
whom man is responsible. Only

and

life be worth living and
becomes a real joy.
Howard F. Fenstemaker was at

then can
living

console of the organ while
Ralph Fisher Smith was director
the

of music.

The Bloomsburg State Teachers
College admitted new students
with the Summer Sessions, beginning June 29, 1953. This will provide an opportunity for men desiring college standing to utilize to
a greater advantage their time between graduation from high school
and entry into the armed forces.
Persons who wish to prepare
for teaching in the elementary
grades may do so in the shortest
possible time. This acceleration is
most desirable since present estimates of demands for competent

an increasing
teachers
indicate
shortage for several years to come.
In addition to providing an opportunity for high school graduates
to begin their college studies before September, the 1953 Summer
Sessions are designed to enable
Pennsylvania teachers to advance
professionally and to meet the cerrequirements approved
tification
by the State Council of Education.
The College again offered twelve
weeks of courses, beginning with
three-weeks Pre-Session Monday,
June eighth.

The members

1903,

ing.

The high spot of the meeting
came when two Bloomsburg graduates and a former faculty member
were presented with Distinguished

The persons

so

honored were John F. Bakeless ’13,
of Seymour, Connecticut; Miss Nellie Dennison
13, of Washington,
D. C., and Dr. A. K. Aldinger.
To Miss Dennison went the

award

recognition of her disservice in the U. S.
Army Nursing Service from 1920
until her retirement in 1946, with
the rank of Major.
Dr. Bakeless
has gained considerable recognition in the military field, as well
as in the field of letters. Both Miss
Dennison and Dr. Bakeless are
holders of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Dr. Bakeless having received
the award twice.
Dr. Aldinger, who upon a visit
in

tinguished

lo

Bloomsburg

last

November had

received the award at a student assembly, was recognized and receiv-

ed a fine ovation.
Declaring that if America is to
continue great, it must keep open
the doors of higher education to
the youth who are able to absorb
and capably use that training, Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, President of
the College, asserted that Pennsylvania needs more, not fewer colleges.

He termed the Chesterman committees investigation a “farce,” because the committee failed to visit
any of the colleges. He expressed
the hope that the investigation represents the last attempt of the private institutions of the Commonwealth to eliminate some of the
state institutions.

The committee
3

had recommended

that half of the
teachers’ colleges be closed, but
tire recommendation failed in the
Senate by a very decisive vote.

Dr. Andruss stated that the teachcolleges are the only truly state
operated institutions in the Commonwealth. He said that it is imperative that we have state institutions of learning and declared that
the decision as to whether an individual is to receive higher training should not be determined alone
'by the size of dad’s pocketbook.’

ers’

He

declared that any fewer inof learning in Pennsylvania would accelerate the shift of
population from the Commonwealth. Answering the complaint

stitutions

that many teachers trained in Pennsylvania go out of the state to teach,
he reiterated the comment of Dr.
f’rancis B. Haas, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, who said “let
the Commonwealth pay salaries
comparable to those in surrounding
states, and we shall keep the teachers at

home.”

Unless the door of opportunity is
kept open to our youth, he declared that there will be an ism creeping into our country that will be
quite different from Americanism.

The graduating class, attired in
caps and gowns, marched into the
auditorium at the opening of the
session, presented a check to cover
dues for its 192 members, and sang
he Alma Mater. Henry Marini, of
Wayne, Pennsylvania, made the
I

presentation.

Mrs. Vera Housenick, Bloomsburg. Secretary of the Alumni Association, read the minutes of the
1952 meeting, which were approved. Acting for Miss Harriet F. Carpenter, Treasurer of the Association, Edward F. Schuyler read tire

which was approved. The report of the Alumni
Loan Fund was read by Howard
treasurer’s

report,

Fenstemaker, Treasurer of the
He stated that the fund now
amounts to $17,603.21, with $6,445
now out on loans.
F.

fund.

MAY DAY

DEAN KEHR RETIRES

Bessmarie Williams, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Williams, 51
West Pettibone Street, Forty Fort,

After serving for twenty-five
years as Dean of Women at the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr has
announced her retirement, effective
at the close of the Pre-Session.
Dr. Kehr received her Bachelor’s
degree at the University of Tennessee, and her Master’s degree at
Wellesley College. She also studied at Bryn Mawr, and received the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy at
Cornell University.

May Queen

was crowned

in tradi-

ceremonies at Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. Miss Wiltional

liams, a

member

of the Senior class

and the Department of Elementary
Education, was elected May Queen
an All-College election.
For the first time in many years,
the colorful exercises were held indoors and the coronation ceremonies climaxed a May Dance attended by several hundred persons. Edwin Cunfer, Slatington, president

in

Community Government

of the

sociation,

Queen

of

As-

crowned Miss Williams
the May on a flower-cov-

ered dais in a setting of gaily-festooned Maypoles.
Members of the Queen’s court
were: Joanne Cuff and Irene Cichowicz, both of Shenandoah; Betsy
Baer, Shickshinny; Mary Elizabeth
Patton, Wyalusing; Jeanne Wallace,
Berwick; June Pichel, Hellertown;
Dolores Harding, Muncy, and Nancy Heebner, West Orange, N. J.
Following the coronation ceremonies, twenty Freshman and Sop-

homore women wound the tradiLee Vincent and
tional Maypole.
orchestra
dancing.
his

oldest

provided music for

Hubler ’31, Hervey B. Smith ’22,
and Dr. E. H. Nelson ’ll.
Harry O. Hine, Washington, D.
C., of the class of 1885, was the

To all of the women students
who have lived in Waller Hall Dormitory during the past twenty-five

and to countless others,
Bloomsburg means Dr. Kehr, and
Dr. Kehr means Bloomsburg. She
has made a strong impression on
oil those who have worked with

years,

her.

Realizing that leadership

is

gain-

ed largely through participation

in

outside the classroom,
Dean Kehr has been a strong advocate of participation in student government and all other campus activities, and has encouraged students to assume duties and accept
She was able to
responsibilities.
draw out the students’ potential
abilities because of their love and
respect for her. As one student exactivities

alumnus

present

the

at

meeting.

Frank D. Hutchinson gave the
presentation speech for Dr. BakeMiss Mary Good, WapwallopDennison, and
Dean Emeritus William Boyd Sutliff introduced Dr. Aldinger.
Responses from the reunion classFollowing
es closed the meeting.
adjournment, the graduates went
to the college dining room for the
alumni luncheon. During the afternoon, the reunion classes met in
the room assigned to them, recalling the days spent together as students, and bringing each other up
to date on their present activities.
less,

en, presented Miss

pressed

it

recently,

any troubles, she

whom we

“When we have
is

the

one

to

turn.”

Dr. Kehr was honored by the
faculty at a dinner held Tuesday,
May 12, at the Eagles’ Home in
On that occasion, she
Berwick.
was presented with a string of
pearls, and a book containing the
autographs of all the members of
the staff.

Reelected to the Board of Directors of the Association for threeyear terms were Miss Elizabeth

had previously served at
Forest College, and was taking her sabbatical year, when she
was called to Bloomsburg in 1928
to act as Dean of Women during
the absence of Dean Edith StaufNot long afterfer, who was ill.
ward, Dean Stauffer passed away,
and Dean Kehr’s temporary position became a permanent one.
She

Wake

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON,

’16

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

She was also honored by the student body at the Honor Assembly
She
held Wednesday, May 20.
was at that time presented with a
Wedgewood tea set as a gift from
the students,

and received a stand-

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4

ing ovation from them.

As far as
our recollection goes, this was the
first time that a retiring faculty
member has been so honored.
The Student Council has recom-

mended

that the

Ward Loan Fund

be renamed the “Kehr-Ward Loan
Fund” and that the fund be increased in amount.
By means of

augmented loan fund, the
of Dean Kehr will be cemented as a friend of youth, both
students and alumni, at the Bloomsthis

name

burg State Teachers College.
Dr. Kehr was honored at the
National Association of Deans of
Women held recently at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago. Miss
Kehr was presented a citation as a
tribute to her long years of distinguished leadership to young wo-

men.

The association, a professional
organization of deans, counselors,
and others engaged in student personnel work, has more than 1500
members

colleges,

universities,

and secondary schools

in all forty-

in

eight states.

a member
of the association since 1929. During that time she served two terms
as
national publicity chairman,
president and vice president of the
Pennsylvania Assocation of Deans
of Women, and chairman of a number of state-wide committees.

Dean Kehr has been

At the Chicago convention, she
was seated at the speaker’s table
and presented orchid corsages by
the national group as well as the
.

Pennsylvania organization.
Featured speaker at the testimonial
dinner held in the Grand Ballroom
of the Conrad Hilton was Miss
Dorothy Stratton, National Executive Secretary, Girl Scouts of America,

New

York

City.

Harold E. Dodson, formerly of
Rohrsburg, and Doris A. Wetzel, of
Donaldson, Pa., were married recently

in

Church, Harrisburg.

Dodson are

Lutheran
Mr. and Mrs.

Memorial

living at 133

Hoemer

Street, Harrisburg.

IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
contracts in total amount of $60,395 for the renovation and repair
of Carver and Waller Halls.

This project, for which the conexpected to be awarded
soon, provides for the housing of
administrative offices of the Presitracts are

Dean

dent,

Business

of

and

Instruction,

Manager on

the first floor
of Carver Hall. This is the original building of the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, and was constructed in 1867.
The offices of the
chief administrators have for many
years been located in Waller Hall.

Provision is also made for a new
floor for the College Lounge, lo-

cated in the old gymnasium, which
provide additional
lounge
^pace with a fireplace as the center.
The infirmary, located in

will

Waller Hall, will have a new floor

and a new
of

ceiling,

and the

ceiling

Carver Auditorium will be

re-

painted.
It

is

that,

some time

in

the future, the space vacated by
the present administrative offices
will

be used by the Dean of

Men

and the Dean of Women, and that
additional lounge space will be provided at the entrance to the college
dining room.

During the past biennium, over
a quarter of a million dollars will

have been spent on repairs for the
College physical plant.
This includes a contract now being completed by the Thomas Electric
Company of Kingston, which provides for rewiring of the Waller
Hall dormitory, a new clock and
bell system, and a new fire alarm
horn system.
In addition, through the cooperation of the Magee Carpet Company, the excavation and leveling
of Mount Olympus Field has been
completed, and the finishing of this
project of removal of more than
50.000 cubic yards of red shale and
earth now provide an athletic area
on which a running track, baseball

diamond, and football
not overlap each other.
With the purchase

field

will

of

new

the College expects to

Jean Stein is teaching French
and English in the high school at

play most of

Troy, Pa.

1946,

its

at

its

football games on
in the future. Since

own campus
many of the games have been

Bloomsburg

Athletic

Park.

A

series of five short-term con-

not exceeding $4,000 each
has been let to bidders.
These
include the following: installation
and repairs to sidewalks and curbs,
installation of new sidewalks and
curbs, painting of Carver Hall,
plastering and painting North Hall,
interior painting of Waller Hall,
and the purchase of additional dormitory equipment.
The new heating plant, constructed under a General State Authority grant of approximately $400,000,
is now in full operation, and before
the beginning of the 1953 pre-session, additional steam lines were
scheduled to be connected so as to
give control of steam for heating,
laundry, and cooking at the pressure needed.
In this way a variation from forty to a hundred
pounds can be conducted to the
point of use without carrying to
all points the maximum pressure
tracts

needed

planned

bleachers,

June, 1953

played

Local firms were low bidders for

at

one point.

not expected that the renovation of Waller and Carver Halls
It is

will

be completed

until

early in

1954.

President Harvey A. Andruss delivered a series of

Addresses

Commencement

high school graduating classes, with the Montoursville High School on Tuesday evening,

May

dress

to

to

26, preceded by an adthe Rotary Club of the
same town. The following day Dr.
Andruss gave the commencement
address in the Elizabethville High
School, and on Wednesday, June 3,
1953, at the Lake Township Consolidated High School, Lake Ariel,
Pennsylvania.
Concluding address was at the
Buck Hill Falls Inn with the Barrett Township High School graduating class of Cresco, Pennsylvania.

Prof.

Edward

A. Reams,

who

re-

year ago, and lives at 1324
Eastridge Drive, Whittier, California, was very seriously ill during
the past winter, but is recovering.
However, his physician tells him
He
that he will need a long rest
and Mrs. Reams would surely appreciate hearing from former students and friends.
tired a

.

5

THE WARD FUND
The Ward Fund was

established

memory of Miss Irma Russell
Ward by alumni who had worked

in

in the dining

college

picture which
college dining

(1924

-

room has

in

the

this

in-

scription:

In

room while she was

dietitian

now hangs

memory

1939).

of

those

who

served here

small loans of money to students.
Therefore, after her sudden death
here at college, it was decided that
a suitable memorial to her would
be a loan fund to help students
who might need a small sum of
money for a short time to meet an

The Committee reported these
presentations to alumni, friends and
relatives and set to work to increase
the Fund.

emergency.

terms to meet emergencies, preference being given to students working in the dining room. The student’s signature was to be the only
security required. A committee of
alumni were to be responsible for

The

first

steps

were taken by a

committee made up of Raymond
Hodges, Lois DeMott, Marjorie Orr
and Henry Warman. They asked
al head waiters and waitresses to
send a list of all the students they
could remember who had worked
in the dining room while they were
in college.

To

names secured,

the

an alumni committee sent a letter
dated October 25, 1939.
Members of the committee were Raymond Hodges, Marjorie Orr, Lois
DeMott, Henry Warman, Luther
Peck, Thelma Moody, Rachel Beck,
Mae Mantz, Miles Potter, John
Beck, Norman Maza, Elfrieda Hartung and Anna Malloy.
Contributions in cash, check and

money order began

to

come

from

in

Alumni, friends and relatives. These
ranged in size from 25 cents to 25

The
November 20,

dollars.

first

1939,
1941, the

deposit

was

made
By

$9.09.

March,
Fund was approaching $50 and the Committee
began to make preparations for putting

it

into operation.

At the Homecoming dinner No-

vember 1, 1941, the Ward Fund
was formally presented to the College by Raymond Hodges, then
Associate Professor of Dramatic
Art in

Richmond

stitute

of the College of

Professional In-

William

The policy and administration
up were purposely simple. Small
loans were to be made for short

set

and administration

policy

of

the

Fund, for perpetuating the Committee, and for increasing the Fund.
Dean Kehr was asked to act as
Treasurer and local representative.
The money was to be kept in a savings account.

The Fund grew

slowly.

By

Jan-

1944, the amount with in$142.54.
During the
war years there were no requests
for small loans to meet emergencies.
Since it seemed a pity to have
the money idle, the Alumni Committee decided to use some of it
for scholarships— outright grants of
money to students not eligible for
Alumni loans which usually go to

uary

6,

was

terest

seniors.

Two
en.

such scholarships were
Awards were made on

basis: a

givthis

sophomore, or junior work-

ing in the college dining room who
better than average scholarship, fine character, and the promise of becoming a good teacher.
Choice was made after consultation
with the College Scholarship Com-

had

mittee.

In the year 1946-47 the Irma RusWard Scholarship of $50 was

and Mary, Richmond, Va. As a
second and more tangible gift he
presented also a copy of Adolf
Dehn’s painting “Minnesota in August.” This was painted near Miss
Ward’s home by an artist who also

sell

came from

the return of veterans to college,
Loans
requests for loans began.
for 1948-49, 1949-50 and part of
1950-1951 were made from Dean
Kehr’s personal account because

that part of the state.

Although she loved Pennsylvania,
Miss Ward never forget her native
state and she had a copy of this picture over the desk in her office. The
c

awarded

Elizabeth

Lehet.
$50 was
awarded to Adda Mae Myers.
This left the Ward Fund with
approximately $50. In 1948-49 with
to

account was so

to build up the Fund again.
In 1949-50 the Science Club gave
$10, the Future Teachers of America, $10 and the Day Men’s Association, $25.
In 1950-51 gifts were
made by the Class of 1952, $5; Pi
Omega Pi, $5; College Council.
$50; Gamma Theta Upsilon, $5;
Men’s Dormitory Association, $25;
Waller Hall Association, $5; and
the Day Men’s Association, $25. In
1951-52 the following gifts were
made: Men’s Dormitory Associa-

helped

B.S.T.C. 1924-1939

From

Ward Fund

Realizing the need for increasing
the Fund to meet these requests
various college organizations have

Irma Russell Ward

Through the years Miss Ward had
been in the habit of quietly making

the
low.

In 1947-48 a scholarship of

tion, $5; Phi Sigma Pi, $5; Waller
Hall Association, $10; Kappa Delta
Pi, $10;

Day Men’s Association, $10;
gift made by an anony-

and a $5

mous individual to be credited to
the Student Christian Association.
The Class of 1942 had made a contribution of $25 at the time of its
graduation.
In January 17, 1952, tire Fund
was changed to a checking account
to facilitate

the handling of loans.

Through the years interest to the
amount of $10.70 had been added
to the

Fund.

In 1950-51 there were four loans
from the Fund; in 1951-52, twenty;
and in 1952-53, eighteen. Through
the years loans have been made
ranging in size from $5 to $50 and
in time from a few days to several
months.
Loans have been made
for many kinds of personal needs—
delay in receiving veterans’ checks,
buying a class ring, going to get
a job, paying college fees, support
until a job opened, etc.
All loans
have been repaid, although some
borrowers needed extension of time
or had to pay in installments. One
borrower made a gift of $1.50 to
the Fund.

The Ward Fund

at present is
This comparatively small

$268.95.

sum

has done a great service almany B.S.T.C. students
and it will be a living memorial in
the years to come.

ready to

From 1924
Russell

to

Ward was

1939 Miss Irma
our college dieti-

During those years quite a
tian.
large group of students worked in
the college kitchen and in the din-

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

room as waiters and waitresses.
These students. Miss Ward felt,
were her particular responsibility.
She was interested in all that concerned their college life and also
in their home and personal problems.
She gave them good training in doing a job well. She took
part if she thought they needed
ing

help.

One of the headwaiters wrote
the following about his experience
with Miss Ward:
“I wanted to apply for a job, but
was really afraid of the woman in
charge— they called her the Dietitian.
She was a tall, austere woman with keen eyes and sharp features. Would she have anything to
do with me, a green youngster just
out of high school who had never
had a tray in his hand? When I
finally screwed up enough courage
to ask her about work, I found she
was nothing like what I expected.
She was all business, and yet very
friendly.
I got a job— and I found
1

a friend.

“For four years, three meals a

we worked together. She never lost her business-like attitutde,
but as we got to know each other,

day,

she
ner
not
but
it

injected in a very casual mansound advice, and helpful hints,
on how to run a dining room,

on how to live.
“When I was about to graduate—
was she who first suggested that

I go on and get a graduate degree.
In fact she sat down with me and
worked out a balanced schedule.

Well,

I

finally got that Master’s de-

gree; as a matter of fact before she
was able to get hers. Because, you

was not an isolated example.
were many others being
helped in this same friendly, unassuming way.
“Now did her help end with educational matters.
I can remember
see,

I

There

very well her remarks when I told
her I thought was going to be married; and when I brought my future
wife here for her approval, I was
relieved and happy to know that
she felt I was doing the right thing.
“Because we were both busy people our visits were less frequent,
but I felt she was here, a rock, a
mooring place to which I could fly
if necessary.”
Miss Ward died suddenly in
June, 1953

1939. What has been quoted was
part of a speech made at the 1941

Homecoming dinner by Raymond
Hodges, Class of 1930, now Assistant Professor of Dramatic Art in
the professional schools of William
and Mary College, Virginia.
He
was presenting the memorials to
Miss Ward which were given by

alumni and friends.
One memorial was the painting
now hung just inside the door of
the college dining room. This is
a picture which she liked because
it was painted in
Minnesota near
her former home by a Minnesota
painter— Adolf Dehn.

The

memorial

other

Ward Fund.

was

the

The reason

for es-

tablishing this was stated
as follows:

by Mr.

Hodges

“Miss

Ward had

long been in

the habit of helping worthy people
financially.
There are times when
a fee is due, or a book must be
bought, and the student feels prettv desperate.
But one had only to
go to her and bluntly ask for a loan.
It did no good to try ‘apple-polishThe loan
ing’ or fancy phrases.
was a business-like arrangement.

“To perpetuate this spirit of helpwe have gathered some
money and now want to announce
the establishing of the Irma Ward
Fund. This will be for small,
short-time loans to students, to be
made without the legal procedure
fulness

necessary for larger loans.”

Henry Krauser

lives at

217 Krew-

son Terrace, Willow Grove, Pa. He
is
Field Engineer for the Boston
Gear Works, of Quincy, Mass. His
business address is Broad Street,
comer of Lycoming and 16th Sts.,
Philadelphia 40.

STUDENTS RECEIVE HONORS
Outstanding members of the
Class of 1953 of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College were honored in impressive ceremonies during the Senior Honor Assembly
held Wednesday, May 20, in Carver Auditorium. President Harvey
A. Andruss presented the awards
to candidates who had been selected by faculty and student groups
for distinguished service in extracurricular activities, athletics and
scholarship.

Andruss

Dr.

of

Ilosella
Danilo, Carbondale; Clare Davis, Clarks Summit; Mary Ellen Dean BartholoMilton;
Henry
Marini,
mew,

Wayne; David Newbury, Watsontown, and John Scrimgeour, West
Pittston.

Walter

C.

CONNER

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner,

HARRY

S.

REAL ESTATE
52

’34

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

S.

advisor, presented
for the

Rygiel, faculty
the candidates

award.

Edwin Cunfer, President of the
Community Government Associaannounced the recipients for
the service key, the highest award
that the College grants to students
who participate in extra-curricular
Dr. Andruss presented
activities.
keys to the following: David Newburv, Watsontown; Alex Kubik,
York; Clare Davis, Clarks Summit;
Edwin Cunfer, Slatington; William
tion,

Henry Marini,
Wayne; Mary Ellen Dean BartholoMary
Alice
Quick, Wyalusing;
Kline, Millersburg;

Grace Aimers, Plymouth; Mildred
Harry
Chester;
Wrzeniewski,
Brooks, Pittsburgh; John Scrimgeour, West Pittston; Leonora MacGill,

JOSEPH

certifi-

in

Slatington;

Williamsport;

Jean

Miller,

and

June

Pichel,

Tunkhannock,

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.

presented

membership

“Who’s
Who Among Students in American
Colleges and Universities” to John
Bogdan,
Philadelphia;
Charles
Brennan, Towanda; Irene Cichowicz, Shenandoah; Edwin Cunfer,
cates

Hellertown.
Gold keys for senior members of
the Maroon and Gold Band were
presented to Janice Johnson, Lewisburg; Claude Renninger, Freeburg;
and Nancy Lou Rhoads, Catawissa.
A maroon and gold jacket was
awarded to Irene Cichowicz, Shenandoah. Charles H. Henrie, director of the band, presented the winners, and Dr. Andruss made the
presentations.
7

TWICE HONORED

FASHION SHOW
colorful coronation theme
inated the backdrop for the

dom-

enth Annual Spring Fashion

Show

A

Sev-

Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Friday evening, May 1.
Charles H. Henrie was director and
producer of the event. The setting
was the courtyard of Buckingham
Palace, where the royal coach was
waiting its royal passengers.
Grenadier guardsmen, with their
at the

high bearskin shakos, walked their
beats along the high iron fences
and wrought-iron gates. Guard
houses lent a touch of realism to the
setting designed especially for this
year’s production by Mrs. Olive

Beeman.

To emphasize

the theme

of the show, Mrs. Beeman designed a large crown, which was placed

on an elaborate pedestal near the
side of the stage. A long T-shaped
runway was used by the models to
show the latest spring and summer
fashions.

performances were givenmatinee at 2:30 o’clock and an evening performance at 8:15 o clock.
Phyllis McLaren, Orlando. Flor-

Two

ida,

was the fashion coordinator,

while Mary Lewis, Lewistown, was
the chairman of the store coordinaOrgan music was furnished
tors.
by Mary Grace Aimers, Plymouth.
Nine area stores cooperated with
he college in staging the 1953
show, and nineteen college women
modeled hats, dresses, suits, beachI

wear, lingerie, sporting togs

and

accessories.

A showing

of the latest fashions
was one of

in clothing for children

the highlights of the Fashion Show.
Seven boys and girls were selected
to participate in the colorful pro-

duction,

which

Mary Ruth

IVY
Blooms-

Dreibelbis,

burg, was twice honored by the local chapter of Sigma Alpha Eta,
the National Speech and Hearing
Fraternity at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. She was installed as in-coming president of the
lota chapter at the final meeting
held in Science Hall. Miss Dreibelbis was named as honor member “for her superior work as a
clinician, for her promptness and
efficiency in the execution of her
duties, and for her genuine enthusiasm for work in speech and hear-

During the past year she has
been Corresponding Secretary of
She has been
the local chapter.
active in such campus groups as
Women’s Chorus, Dramatic Club,
Day Women’s Society, and Kappa

ing.”

Delta.

Miss Rose Korba, Wayne, was

named

as vice president

and given

She was
an honor membership.
cited as “an officer, recording sec-

who

regularly and carefully
As a clinician,
she has put more than average en-

retary,

met her

obligations.

ergy and enthusiasm into her work.
As one interested in therapy, she
has done additional work for outpatients

who came

During her years
State

Teachers

been active

as

for diagnosis.”
at

Bloomsburg
she had

College
a

member

of

the

Women’s Chorus, Dramatic Club,
Kappa Delta Pi, Canterbury Club.
Dormitory Association and Sigma
Alpha Eta.
Other officers named were: Miss
Patricia Boyle, Hazleton, Secretary,
and Douglas Stauffer, Ringtown,

T reasurer.

retail selling in-

structor at the College.

The following children modeled
spring and summer fashions: Susan
Lowe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Loren Lowe, 230 Glen Avenue,
Bloomsburg; Judith Clews, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Clews,
240 West 12th Street. Bloomsburg;
Stephen Laubach, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carlton Laubach, 823 Market
Street, Bloomsburg; Martin Collier,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Collier,
891 South Railroad Street, Bloomsburg; Judy Whitenight, daugliter

“As we have planted this ivy in
the ground, so we dedicate, with
the help of God, our abilities and
our knowledge to the teaching of
others,” William E. Byham, Kane,
Pennsylvania, told the members of
the Class of 1953 in a stirring Ivy
Day oration at the ceremonies held
in Waller Hall Court Wednesday,
May 20. Mr. Byham, one of the
outstanding members of the class,
and a varsity letter-winner in bas-

and baseball, spoke to an
audience of several hundred stuketball

dents and faculty members at the
traditional Ivy Planting Exercises.

Mr. Byham spoke of the challenge of the individual student, and
of the necessity of knowing the
pupil and his interests. In a world
of jet propulsion and television,
there are many out-of-school interests that compete with the school,
and this poses a difficult problem
for education. In addition, school

must be prepared
worthy community living— a

for

children

job
chal-

that presents a tremendous
lenge to the teacher.
“A free-minded person in a free
school, being taught by a freethinking teacher— the strength of
this nation depends upon this combination. This is the teacher’s challenge; can we face and overcome
it?”

Henry Marini, Wayne, President
of the class, introduced Mr. Byham.
and, after planting the ivy, presented the spade to William Jacobs,
Manchester, President of the Class

A piano duet was played
by Mary Jo Williams, Trucksville,
and Myra Albertson, Watsontown.
Mary Ellen Dean Bartholomew,

of 1954.

Milton, served as song leader.

was directed by

Charles H. Henrie.

DAY

Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Whitenight, R. D. 4, Bloomsburg; Patricia Walters, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Glen Walters, Glen Avenue,
Bloomsburg, and Geolene Billig,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Billig, Seventh Street, Bloomsburg.
of

James Ciavaglia, Lehighton, was
chairman of the Ivy Planting Exercises Committee, which included
Alex Kubik, York; Dorothy Watkins, Summit Hill, and Mrs. Bartholomew. Walter S. Rygiel was
the advisor of the class.

MOYER
HERVEY

SMITH, ’22
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
B.

Court House Place

Bloomsburg 1115

BROS.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer. ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
8

CROWNED COED OF
THE YEAR’
Two

mounting suspense
February
20, when lovely and vivacious Judy
Fry was named the student’s choice
in the Obiter sponsored “Coed of

ended

weeks

ot

Friday evening,

the Year” contest.

Crowned

at the

Freshman Sweetheart Dance, midst
glittering red and white cut-out
hearts and streamers, Judy succeeded Phyllis McLaren, last year’s
lucky winner.

Judy is a junior business student
from Williamstown. In her spare
time at B.S.T.C. she

sociation, Treasurer of
Pi,
Pi.

Secretary
As-

is

Community Government

of the

Omega

Pi

and a member of Kappa Delta
In previous years she has been

in the Women’s Chorus, Bloomsburg Players, S.C.A., Business Education Club, and last semester was

Circulation

Maroon
high school Judy was

Manager

and Gold.

of the

In
cheerleader, played basketball,
was in the band, Honor Society,
and chorus, together with being
secretary of the Student Council.
Judy’s hobbies include dancing and
a

swmming.
The Coed

presentations were
during intermission following a
novelty number by Lee Vincent’s
Orchestra.
The eight contestants
were introduced by Obiter Editor

David Newberry, and paraded with
their escorts across the length of
the gym from the bandstand to the
throne.

Barbara Bennett was escorted by
Robert Nicholas, Joan Scott by
Harry Brooks, Nancy Bangs by
Keith McKay, Jan Ference by Russell Berhousky, Shirley Eveland by
Merlin Beachell, Judy Fry by John
McCarthy and Elizabeth Patton by
A1 Marsilio. Senior representative
Bessmarie Williams was unable to
attend the dance because of illness.
The throne opposite the bandstand was occupied by 1952 Coed

McLaren, who, at the announcement of the contest winner,
crowned Judy “Coed of the Year,”
and presented her with the tradiPhyllis

with a

tional loving cup, together
gift

from Logan’s Jewelry

Store.

so thrilled, I don’t know
to say,” were Judy’s words
being interview after the

“I’m

what
upon
dance.

Judy was beautifuly

June, 1953

FROM NORMAL SCHOOL
TO COLLEGE

in a black strapless gown with a
pearled top of matching black stole.
The idea of the Obiter sponsored “Coed” contest originated in
1950 when Nancy Unger was selected by beauty authority John Robert Powers. The idea was renewed after a year’s lapse last year,
when Editor John Burns again held
the contest.
The winner, Phyllis
McLaren, was this time picked by
student vote, that practice being
carried over this year.
Beauty, poise, and personality
were the qualifications considered
when the President and Man Representative of each class made the
original two choices.
Following
the formal announcement of the

contestants

in

Maroon

the

Gold, posters containing

To one present at the 1953 commencement, when degrees were
conferred on a class of almost 200,
there came to mind the memory of
the 1927 commencement, when Arthur Jenkins, of Hanover Township, was the lone recipient of the
Bachelor’s degree, thus gaining the
honor of being the first one to graduate from Bloomsburg with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education.
In 1928, the degree was conferred on seven women and four men.
The following were the members
of the group: Harriet F. Carpenter,

Bloomsburg; Margaret

and

\

Robert H. VanSickle, of Catawissa, chief clerk of the Columbia
County Commissioners since 1937,
except for about five years in the
treasurer’s office, has resigned his
position, and has accepted a position in the sales department of the
Wise Potato Chip Company, Berwick.

A graduate of Catawissa High
School and B.S.T.C., he was named chief clerk of the county commissioners

1937,

in

and came

to

Harrisburg,
Bloomsburg
from
where he had been employed by
the Commonwealth.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth, ’42
R.

J.

Webb,

’42

’09

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

S. McHugh, Hazleton; Cleora
McKinstry, Bloomsburg; Nicholas
Polaneczy,
Freeland;
Helen P.
Stackhouse, Bloomsburg; Nicholas
Van Buskirk, Wilkes-Barre, and
Thomas E. Welsko, Freeland.
After the many years during
which the name of the school was

.

“Bloomsburg State Normal
the
School,” it took some time to get
rid of the habit of calling the institution “The Normal.” One still
hears it occasionally, but the use is
becoming less frequent. The words
of the Alma Mater had to be changed to fit the new situation. The
word “Normal” appeared several
times in the song, and was replaced
by the word “College.” The institution is located on what was always referred to as “Normal Hill.”
This name has also been changed
to “College Hill.”
The official statement authorizing the change to college status
was signed by Dr. Francis B. Haas,
then Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The following year Dr.
Haas became President of the College, and served in that capacity
until 1939, when he was reappointed to the office which he still
holds.

CREASY & WELLS
Ethel Creasy Wright,

Emmitt,

cis

seven contestants.
The entire Obiter

contest this
ear was under the management of
Publicity Director Keith McKay.

F.

Danville; Doyle W. Ivey, Bloomsburg; George M. Janell, Bloomsburg; Esther Lloyd, Starucca; Fran-

length
pictures of the girls adorned the
halls and old gym.
With the announcement of Judy Fry as winner,
a full page picture of her will appear in Obiter ’53, together with
smaller pictures of the remaining
full

THE CHAR-MUND INN
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch,

’15,

Propr.

Bloomsburg, Pa.

attired
9

SUMMER

SESSIONS

Pre-Session of three weeks
began Monday, June 8, and continued until Friday, June 26. The
Regular Six-Weeks Session will begin Monday, June 29, and will con-

The

tinue until Friday, August 7, while
registration for the last ThreeWeeks Session will be held Mon-

day, August 10.

The 1953 summer

sessions

are

designed primarily to enable Pennsylvania teachers to advance professionally and to meet the certification standards approved by the
All
State Council of Education.
the courses offered will be on a
collegiate basis and will be of particular interest to the following:
especially
Undergraduates,
1.
students on an accelerated program
who desire to complete the requirements for the degree of Bachelor
of Science in Education within
three calendar years.

Teachers in service qualifying for (a) the degree of Bachelor
of Science in Education; (b) the
Permanent College Certificate; (c)
an extension of their present certi2.

ficate to include other areas of concentration or other fields, such as

the extension of a certificate valid
for the secondary school to include

the elementary field.
School nurses and dental hy3.
gienists qualifying for the Bachelor
of Science degree in accordance
with the regulations prescribed in
1951 by the Board of Presidents of
the State Teachers Colleges.
College graduates who wish
4.
certification to teach in
obtain
to
the public schools of the Commonwealth.

Former teachers desiring re5.
fresher courses so as to be better
qualified to re-enter the profession
because of the critical shortage of
elementary teachers.
Walter S. Rygiel, of the State
Teachers College, was the chairman and discussion leader of the
business law section at the Pennsylvania Business Educators Association Conference held Saturday,
April 25, at the Hcrshey High

STUDENTS RECEIVE GRANTS

ELECTS OFFICERS

nearly
totalling
Grants-in-aid
81,500 were awarded to twentythree students of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, President
Harvey A. Andruss recently revealThe awarding of these grants
ed.
is the result of a plan developed
by President Andruss, College
Council, and the Board of Trustees
to use from one-fourth to one-half
of the profits of the Retail Book
Store for scholarships and loans.

Michael Crisci, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Crisci, 608 Jenkins Street,
West Pittston, was elected president of the Community Government Association at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Crisci,
a junior in the Department of Business Education and active in campus affairs, succeeds Edwin Cunfer,
Slatington, who served as president
during the past college year. Crisci

defeated Albert McManus, Shamokin, in a close contest in an all-college election which attracted a banner turnout.
Newly-elected vice president is
George Derk, Montandon, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Derk.
Derk is a sophomore in the Department of Business Education. He
won over Donald McNelis, a sophomore from Kingston.

Miss

Mary

Ellen

The theme of the conference was
“Trends in Business Education and
Practice.”

Henning,

a

sophomore from Stroudsburg, defeated Miss Doris Sadowski, Duryea, in a close contest for secre-

while Richard Hurrt, Forty
was defeated by Ed Longo,
Kelayres, in another tight race for
tary,

Fort,

treasurer.

Only freshman

to

be

The

include: Janice
Clarks Summit; Richard
Patricia
Williamsport;
Bittner,
Boyle, Hazleton; Leonard Carson,
Mt. Carmel; Alfred Chiscon, Kings-

Richard Evans and Robert EvShamokin; Cora Gill, Hanover
Township; Joanne Hester, Watsontown; Nancy Homshere, Ardmore;
Richard Ishler, Bellefonte; William
Jacobs, Manheim; Ronald Krafjack,
Duryea; Donald Levan, Millville;
Keith McKay, Harrisburg; Phyllis
McLaren, Orlando, Florida; Lloyd
ton;

ans,

Peak, Falls; Thomas Persing, Shamokin; Shirley Rineheimer, WapRummage,
Charlotte
wallopen;
Milton; Marian Walsh, Archbald;
Margerie Walters, Milton; Harriet
Williams, Old Forge.

lege

assistant treasurer.

leges

Two voting machines were provided by the Luzerne County Commissioners for use in the elections,
which were held throughout the
day

in

the Waller Lounge.

The

was complete with all the
trimmings of a national political
campaign, and it climaxed two
weeks of excitement and activity
on the campus.
election

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESIIMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, ’44. Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46
Assistant Manager
142 East Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODS
122 East

— REPAIRS

’27,

Propr.

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

recipients

Bower,

elected to an all-college government post was Harris Marson, Radnor, who nosed out Tom Higgins,
Sunbury freshman, for the office of

M. C. Strausser,

School.

Good Classroom

COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT

Bloomsburg State Teachers Colthe leader among those coltraining Business teachers.
Figures released by the Department of Public Instruction show
that of the total of 382 Business
is

teachers certified from Pennsylvania Colleges during die last year,
ending May 31, 1953, Bloomsburg
trained more than 15 per cent of
There are twenty-five
this group.
colleges engaged in educating Busi-

They rank as folness teachers.
lows: Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, first; Indiana State Teachers College, second; University of
Shippensburg
third;
Pittsburgh,
State Teachers College, fourth;
Temple

University,

The

reless

of Business

Ed-

The Department

ucation was begun in 1930 under
the direction of Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, who is now President of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

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10

fifth.

maining twenty colleges train
than twenty teachers per year.

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

BLOOMSBURG PLAYERS

day, July second, when President
Harvey A. Andruss will speak.

PRESENT PLAY
Edward Chodorov’s most famous
was presented
by the Bloomsburg Players in Carver Hall Audtorium of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College Monday evening, March 30, at 8:15
play, “Kind Lady,”

o'clock.

“The Kind Lady”

is

one

Hugh

Walpole’s most interesting
characters, and Ethel Barrymore’s
portrayal of her on the Hollywood
screen made the character one of
die most-discussed personages in
of

the American theatre.
The three-act modem melodrama
starred in the title role Connie Bauer, Slatington, and featured Robert
Yon Drach, Pottstown; Joan Curil-

Demonstration of modern techniques in elementary school art instruction will be given Friday, July
tenth, by Miss Mary Mahan, Art
Consultant,
Binney-Smith Company, while methods of teaching
elementary school music will be
discussed by Russell Gillam, Professor of Music,

Teachers

Lock Haven State
Wednesday,

College,

July fifteenth.
Mrs. Helene Hospodor, supervisor of Physical Education, Allentown Public Schools, will present
a demonstration of

new methods

in

SECONDARY CONFERENCE
Secondary
Schools
problems
were discussed at a workshop conference held at Bloomsburg State
Teachers College on Thursday and
Friday, June 18 and 19. The conference was one of twelve being
held throughout the State by the
Pennsylvania Branch of the National
Association of Secondary
School Principals in cooperation
with the Department of Public Instruction
and the Pennsylvania
State Education Association.
L. C. Bubeck, Principal of Forty

George

leaching health and physical education Wednesday, July 22.
Paul
1. Kosiak, guidance consultant,
Science Research Associates, will
be the guest speaker for the session on Wednesday, July 29. Final

Ernest Englehardt, Director of Secondary Education at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, served as coordinator. Other mem-

program on

bers

of

Cuff,

fifth, will

were

J.

Shamokin; Wylla Mae Bowman,
Berwick; James Luchs, Bloomsla.

burg; Sherrill Hiller, Jersey Shore;
Ilerre, Bloomsburg; Joanne
Shenandoah; Doyle Linn,
Catawissa; James Ferdinand, Freeland; Joan Scott, Oreland; Judy
Bolling, Scranton, and John Ken-

nedy, Kingston.

Committee chairman were: costumes, Gloria Benner, Lititz; Jan
Ference, Williamsport; Paul Shoop,
lighting,
Eiderson
Bloomsburg;
Dean, Milton; properties, Gerald
Houseknecht, Bloomsburg; tickets,
Mary Ruth Ruddick, Kingston;
usherettes, Jean O'Donnell, White
Haven. Miss Ference headed the
publicity committee, while Shoop
was in charge of the stage crew.
The three-act drama was under the
direction of Dr. Maryland Wilson,
of the Speech Department.

SUMMER WORKSHOP
Bloomsburg State Teachers Colseventh annual workshop for teachers of the
elementary grades during the 1953
Regular Summer Session. One of
the most popular features of the
six-weeks session, the workshop
will offer an opportunity to earn
credits to th extent of three semester hours in the courses listed in the
tentative program.
This year’s workshop promises to
be varied and interesting. An atlege will conduct

its

program of lectures and
group discussions led by prominent
authorities in their fields has been
tractive

arranged, beginning with the opening session of the workship ThursJune, 1953

Wednesday,

August

feature Harry N. Gasser,

Chief

of Elementary Education,
Department of Public Instruction,

Harrisburg, a former member of
the faculty of the college.

The 1953 program is especially
arranged so that observation ofclasses may be an integral part of
the workshop. Group discussions,
field trips, and demonstration lessons will afford excellent opportunand participateachers, especially at this time of greater emphasis on elementary education.
ities

for observation

tion

by experienced

Miss

Sherrill

Phillips,

daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur J. Phillips,
of East Third street, Berwick, be-

came the bride of William Clausen,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William Clausen, East Second Street, Berwick, on
Wednesday, February

18, in the
Parish Home of the Immanuel
Evangelical and Reformed Church

Cambridge, Md.
The bride is a graduate of Newport News High School, Newport
News, Va., and is a member of the
in

sophomore

class at State Teachers
College in Bloomsburg.
Clausen is a graduate of Berwick High School and a member
of the senior class at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre.
The couple are home in their
newly furnished apartment at 804-a
East Third street, Berwick.

Junior-Senior High School,
was conference chairman and Dr.

Fort

the

Steering

Committee

Frank Dennis, principal of
Wilkes-Barre Meyers High School;
Francis Truscott, principal of Wilkes-Barre Coughlin High School;
Frank Trimble, principal of Westmoreland High School; George
Breznay, principal of Ashley High
School; Thorwald E. Lewis, associate supervising principal of Northwest Joint Schools; Charles A.
James, Instruction and Curriculum
Supervisor of Dallas Borough and
Kingston
Township
Jointure
Schools; Francis Early, principal of
Pittston High School, and Frank
Shepela,
principal
of
Newport
Township High School.

The problems chosen by the
committee for discussion were taken from a list prepared by the research and planning committee of
the Principals’ Association.

were:

How

can

we

They

encourage par-

ticipation by citizens in the school
program? How can we improve
our methods of evaluating student
growth in view of modem needs
and trends? What should be the

purposes,

function,

organization,

and program of the Junior High
School?

J.

WESLEY KNORR,

’34

NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

11

“April in Paris, chestnuts in blosholiday tables under the

som,

The

unforgettable strains
melody describe
more vividly than mere prose the
setting of this year’s Junior Prom.
A flower-bedecked sidewalk cafe
with candlelit tables under a cantrees.”

of this popular hit

opy

of striped

awning was

trans-

ported from the heart of Paris to
B.S.T.C.’s Centennial Gymnasium.
Also, the world renowned Eiffel

Tower

(or

a

reasonable facsimile

was borrowed from the

thereof)

French capital

just for

the occa-

sion.

'_(

Beneath a ceiling of midnight
blue and sparkling stars the dancers waltzed to the rhythmic music

Mai

of

CLASSROOM TEACHERS MEET

DEAN’S LIST FOR
FIRST SEMESTER

THEME
OF JUNIOR PROM
APRIL IN PARIS’

Arter.

These elaborate decorations and
the treasured souvenir programs
were planned by Rose Snierski and
Johnny Johnson, with the aid of
Peggy Haupt, Thelma Hendershot,
George Kallenback, Howard Marr,
Phyllis McLaren, Jean Newhart,
Phyllis Paige, Sarah Uhrich and

The Dean

Many

of of Instruction of the

college, Dr. Thomas P. North, has
released the following names of
students who have qualified for
the Dean’s List for the first semester, 1952-53.
These students have
a quality point average of 2.5 or
better for the first semester, 195253, and an accumulative average
of at least 2.0 while in attendance
at this college.

Freshmen: Wylla Bowman, Bernardine Butz, Marion Duricko, Robert Evans, Marilyn Harter, Joanne
Hester, Bertha Knouse, Doris Krzywicki, Joyce Lundy, Nancy Renn,
Edward Siscoe, Eileen Watson,
Jean Zimmerman.
Sophomores: Lynda Bogart, Vincent Buckwash, Eileen Gerosky,
Mary Henning, Nancy Snyder.
Juniors: Charles Andrews, Fred
DelMonte, Mary Dreibelbis, Joseph
Froncek, Rose Grant, Elaine Gunther, Betty Hoover, Gerald Houseknecht, Rose Korba, Mary Ledyard,
James Luchs, Phyllis McLaren,
Louise Schullery, Charlotte Stoehr,

Mary Jo Williams.
The amusing Assembly poems

Mary Zimmerman.

and dance

Bean, Donald Blyler, John Bogdan,
Clare Davis, Ben Duke, Harry Edwards, William Fisher, William
Hill, Richard Jones, William Kline,
Richard Knause, David Newbury,
Doris Paternoster, Charles Pease,
June Pichel, Alice Quick, Ruth

were the brain
Ottiaviani and

skits

chil-

Tom

dren
Rowley, while the orchestra was
secured by Pat Boyle and A1 McManus.
of

Bill

posters were
the products of advertising chair-

The eye-catching

man Steve Wolfe, and committee
members Carl Hinger, Joe Kissinger, Ann Kornfield and Charles Yesson.

Feme Soberiek headed the refreshment committee, and Ken Kirk
was chairman of the ticket sellers.
and punch made
and raspberry sher-

Pretzels, cookies

with ginger ale
bet comprised the refreshments.
Shirley Eveland, A1 Chiscon and
Bill Ottaviani made up the committee in charge.

Happy memories

of a

wonderful

evening and haunting strains of
“April in Paris” lingering in the
heart were the unforgettable souvenirs of anyone attending the affair.

Charles Beeman was

class

David Superdock; Vice

Presi-

Mrs.
adviser for the entire dance.
Junior Class Officers were: President,
12

Seniors:

Clyde

Adams,

Enna

Thomas.

teachers

Day

er

and school admin-

attended Classroom Teach-

istrators

at

the

Bloomsburg State

Teachers College Saturday, March
28.
Sponsored by the Northeastern Convention District of the
Pennsylvania State Education Association,

the

program

featured

group discussion of problems com-

mon

to the teaching profession.

The

theme of the program was “Accent
on Profession.”
Mrs. Miltona Klinetob, Berwick,
president of the Northeastern Dis-

Department

trict,

of

Classroom

Teachers, of the P.S.E.A., presided
over the general session in Navy
Hall Auditorium.

Topic

for
discussion
includProfessional Organizations —
P.S.E.A. and N.E.A. Professional
Standards, Professional Codes, Professional Relationships, and Professional Salaries, Legal Aid, Ten-

ed

ure,

and Retirement.

Discussion

leaders and group consultants were
selected from faculties of high
schools and elementary schools in
Northeastern Pennsylvania and the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

John Lumley, Deputy SuperinDepartment of Public Instruction, and H. Elizabeth Mattendent,

thews, Associate Editor of the
Pennsylvania School Journal, rep-

resented the Department of Public Insrtuction.
The National Education Association was represented by Ben Elkins, Regional Director,

Department

of

Classroom

The Pennsylvania De-

Dr. E. Paul Wagner, Professor
of Psychology, Bloomsburg State
Teachers College, reported to the
Willow Grove Naval Air Station on
May 28 for a fifteen-day training
period with the U. S. Naval Reserve. Dr. Wagner, who holds the
rank of Lieutenant in the U.S.N.R.,
had as his assignment the screening
of candidates for the Naval Air
Cadiet Program. His duties were
to interview and classify college
men who plan to become Navy

Teachers.

pilots.

Brillhart, of

partment of Classroom Teachers
had as its spokesman Charles Sandwick, president of the state-wide
organization.
William Shopped,
president of the Pennsylvania and
the National Future Teachers of
America, also attended the meetings.

During the auditorium program,
President Harvey A. Andruss gave
the address of welcome. The keynote address was given by Norman
Reading, while orienremarks were given by Harold Koch, of Hazleton.
Following the group meetings,
there was a conference luncheon
served at the Bloomsburg Elks
tation

dent, Douglas Stauffer; Secretary,
Dolores Doyle; Treasurer, John AnWoman Representative,
derson;

Harriet Williams; and Man Representative, Charles Andrews.

Club.
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ALUMNI QUARTERLY

STRESS NEEDS OF COLLEGE
The Board
fact that there

of Trustees has called to attention of the State authorities the
is

a pressing need for additional facilities.

of a resolution passed

by the board, and

May

29,

1953

2

a Committee of the American Association
of Colleger for Teacher Education visited the campus
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College on November 12, 1952, and on the basis of their visit rated the

college library as 5 on a rating of 10 (or 50%), and
further commented as follows:

from Kenneth L. Martin, Supervising InspecDepartment of Labor and Industry, Williams-

port, Pennsylvania, dated July 14, 1952:

by complying with a directive from the
Auditor General requiring you to place your
Receiving Room under lock and key, you would
cut off the means of egress from your kitchen.
Furthermore, our Rule 111. paragraph (i)
limits the maximum travel from an occupied
area to an exit to one hundred (100) feet.
Inasmuch as the distance from the kitchen
area to the front exit is over one hundred fifty
<150) feet
This arrangement would only be
acceptable until you could provide a direct
exit from the kitchen area to the outside.”
“.

.

“An expanded library is a serious
a new library plant should be

need. Either
provided, or

other arrangements made. As suggested earlier

.

in this report, a possible solution is to build a
new dining hall and kitchen and convert the

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

present dining and kitchen space into a library.
It might be pointed out that this would eliminate a fire hazard and at the same time give the

and
Since the kitchen section of our dining room
does not meet the safety requirements of the
Department of Labor and Industry

IT RESOLVED by the Board of Trustees of the
State Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania,
that such a condition should be called to the immediate attention of the Governor, the Department of Public Instruction, the Department of Property and Supplies. and the General State Authority.

BE

IT

FURTHER RESOLVED

that this resolution

by the President of the College
with the request that since the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College has had no new plant additions under
the present General State Authority Program, sufshall be transmitted

ficient funds be allocated to construct a new dining
hall and kitchen and a new library, or convert the
present dining hall and kitchen space into a library
during the biennium of 1953-1955.

May

29,

1953

Hon. John S. Fine
Governor of the Commonwealth
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

to the action of the Board of Trustees on
herewith respectfully transmitting a
1953, I

Pursuant

am

resolution covering the urgent building needs of the
Bloomsburg' State Teachers College with respect to the
removal of fire and safety hazards and the provision of
library facilities necessary to meet the requirements of
the American Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education.

May I offer, as supplementary explanation for the
enclosed resolution, the following statements:
1

—Auditor
May

General’s Report for Fiscal Year Ending

31, 1951,

page

.

safety regulations of the Department of Labor and
Industry, we respectfully suggest your consideration
of the attached resolution of the Board of Trustees,
which provides for the construction of a new Dining
Hall and Kitchen Building, and Library Building, or
the provision of additional library facilites.

Since this college has not had any new buildings
under the present General State Authority Program,
we invite an examination of this situation by the proper
authorities and suggest that provision be made to meet
these needs during the oncoming 1953-1955 biennium.

At present Bloomsburg ranks third in enrollment
the State Teachers Colleges and serves students
from the following counties: Luzerne 203; Columbia
180: Northumberland 107; Schuylkill 61; Montour 26;
out of a total of 800 students. Over a hundred of these
students have to live in private homes in the Town of
Bloomsburg on account of lack of dormitory facilities.
However, we are not requesting a dormitory building
at this time, since the Dining Hall and Library are
more urgently needed.

among

Additional information regarding this situation,
if not corrected will not only imperil the lives
of students and the property of the Commonwealth,
but will affect the standing of the college with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
and open the educational integrity of the college to
serious question, will be made available by the Board

which

Your Excellency:

May 25,

.

Since safeguarding of stores, according to the
Auditor General, would prevent us from meeting the

library a fine central location.’’

AND BE

is a copy
Governor Fine:

— Letter
tor.

WHEREAS,

Following

also a letter sent to

4:

“Supplies are being stored in twelve rooms
It is recommended that arrangements be made
to store supplies in a central storeroom. It is
also noted that the receiving room for stores
was not under lock and key. It is recommenthat this condition be remedied.’’
.

.

.

of Trustees

through

RECENT GRADUATES

OFFICE EQUIPMENT SHOWN

FINANCIAL AID

OBTAIN POSITIONS

The latest in office equipment
and business machines was displayed at the Annual Business Machines
Show staged by the Bloomsburg

EXTENDED TO MANY

January graduates of B.S.T.C.
have obtained scattered and widerecords of

ly diversified positions,

Placement Director Ernest Englehardt indicate.
Of the graduated Business students, the following are known to

have positions:
Palmer Dyer— Millerstown.
Marie Grazel— Pocono Pines.

Ihe

VVCNR.
Douglas Hayhurst — Salesman,
Herbert Kerschner— Darby.
Richard Knouse — Accountant,
Kennedy-Van Saun, Danville.
Michael Pihanich — Bethlehem
Steel.

The Elementaries who have obtained positions include:
William Cleaver— Yardley.
Thurston Fulmer— Selinsgrove.
Anne Kelly Stonik — Baltimore

County, Maryland.

Mary Lou and Joseph Krunkosky— Raritan, New Jersey.
Rita Miesner— New Brunswick,

New

Jersey.

Mildred Pliscott— Southhampton,
Pennsylvania.

Robert Price— East Orange,

New

jersey.

The Secondary students
ployed include:
Donald Blyler— Marines.
Donald

Butler

—

now em-

Professional

baseball.

Alfred Cyganowski
mark.

Harry

Edwards

—

—

Warriors

Graduate

school.

Eugene Hummel— Lancaster.
Rittenmeyer— Speech Specialist, Bucks County School District, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Walsh— Baltimore County, Maryland.
Edward Weaver— Duncannon.
Jack

elementary students who
graduated in May have already
signed contracts for teaching posi-

Many

These include:
Mary Grace Aimers

tions.

New

show was staged

—

Raritan,

Twelve well-known

Ayre— New

Jersey.

Theresa Charney— Allentown.
Mary Condon— Allentown.
Barbara Gulick—Warrington.
Nancy Heebner, Yardley.
Regina Herschel — Lindenhurst,

office

ma-

chines distributors indicated their
willingness to display their products at the affair, while five publishing companies cooperated in the
textbook exhibit. Included in the
exhibitors were:
list of machines
Machines
International Business
Corporation, Scranton; Tamblyn
Company, Wilkes-Barre; Underwood Corporation, Wilkes-Barre;

Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation, Scranton; Friden Calculating
iMachine Agency, Kingston; Remington Rand, Inc., Shamokin; Business Machines Company, Scranton; Barrett

Adding Machine

Divi-

books to the amount of $700. Orig-

known as the President’s
Scholarship, this amount will become a part of the College Cominally

administered
Grants
Scholarships and Grants, with Dr.
through tiie faculty committee on
Kimber C. Kuster as chairman.
So far this year, the profits from
the Retail Book Store have made
available for College Community

munity

Grants approximately $3,000, which
aided 34 students. Amounts varied
from $50 to $150.

During

this period,

the

Alumni

has made available
slightly less than $2,500 to students
from the Loan Fund, and along
with several of the recent post war
Association

have made scholarship
awards amounting to $500.

classes

In addition to

all

and

ships, grants,

these scholarthe stu-

loans,

Philadelphia; Soundscribersion,
Dictating and Sound Equipment
Company, Kingston; Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Scranton;
C. L. Metzgar, Philadelphia, and
Ralph C. Coxhead Corporation,
Newark, N. J.

dent payroll of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College has offered an opportunity for students to
earn approximately $30,000 during
the current college year.

Publishing houses which were
represented were: Lyons and Carnahan, Wilkes-Barre; Gregg Publishing Division, New York; H. M.
Rowe Publishing Company, BaltiPrentice-Hall,
Maryland;
more,
Inc., New York, and South-Western
Publishing Company, Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Mifflinville,

John’s Lutheran Church, of
formed the setting for
the wedding on Saturday evening,
May 21, at eight o’clock, of Miss
Nancy June Wolfe, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde H. Wolfe, of MifSt.

and George William Creason of Mr. and Mrs. George E.
Creasy, of Mifflinville. The can-

flinville,

sy,

ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Charles Rudy, pastor

dlelight

of the church.

New

The bride

Jersey.

Richard Jones,

New

New

Brunswick,

Jersey.

Nira

New
Brunswick,

Navy

in the

Hall Auditorium along with an interesting display of textbooks, office supplies and audio-visual aids.

June

Jersey.

Marjorie

New

State Teachers College as a feature
of the Twenty- first Annual Business Education Contest on Saturday, May second. As has been the
custom during the past few years,

The Board of Trustees of
B.S.T.C. recently passed an unanimous resolution of appreciation to
President Harvey A. Andruss, for
his generosity in making available
to students, profits from one of his

Long— Allentown.

McQuown —

is

a graduate of Mif-

Township High School and
employed in the office of the U.
Radium Corp. at Almedia.

flin

The bridegroom, a graduate
Township High School,

Lindenhurst,

Mifflin

Jersey.

a

student

at

Bloomsburg

is

S.

of
is

State

Myrtle Megargel— Warrington.
Jeanne Miller— Montrose.

Teachers College.
Following a reception the newly

Morgan— Yardley.
Doris Paternoster— Allentown.

weds left upon a honeymoon at
For the present,
Williamsport.
they will reside at 213 West Main

Phyllis

Shirley Reisenwcaver
hurst,

New

Jersey.

—

Linden-

street, Mifflinville.

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14

IMRE KOVACS SPEAKS

NEWLY-ELECTED OFFICERS

“Only through the brotherhood
man can we justify and glorify
this great land of ours,” Imre Kovacs, noted American lecturer, told
students at the Bloomsburg State
Teachers this past spring in an inspiring Brotherhood Week address.
Speaking on the subject, “Brotherhood,” Kovacs outlined the practical approach to the problem in the
United States.

of the college
students at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College elected officers to head classes and organizations during the college year beginning September, 1953. Newlyelected officers for the various
class and organizations follow:

“Enthusiasm, fervent love for
country is the well out of which
this spirit springs,” he said, “and
we cannot achieve the brotherhood
of man unless there is an humble

chester.

of

acknowledgment of the Fatherhood
of God.” He illustrated his splendid address with a number of anecdotes and experiences which
grew out of his travels throughout
the United States, Mexico and Canada.
In closing Mr. Kovacs reminded
his

listeners not

man— God’s

to

great masterpiece.

He

right in others.

He was

introduced to the College audience by Barbara Zimmerman, while brief devotional exercises were in charge of Patricia
O’Laughlin.

Louis J. Alber, author and foreign correspondent, analyzed recent developments in Soviet Russia
in an address at the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College Tuesday
morning, April 21, at 10 o’clock. Internationally known as a foreign
correspondent, Mr. Alber has visited Europe and talked with most
of the figures and personalities who
are making today’s headlines.
He has been an avid student of
Russia and the Soviet system for
the past twenty-five years. Checking trips into Europe and behind
the Iron Curtain have given Mr.
Alber a rare insight into the techniques and methods by which the
Communists have seized control in
Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Bulgaria, Albania and Czechoslovakia.
More than 100,000 miles of travel in
Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
have given him a personal contact
with the twin enemies of the democracies— Communism and Fascism.
June, 1953

COMMITTEE

Near the close

year,

Miss Homwa M. Noyes, of the
business education department of
die State Teachers College, is serving as membership chairman of
Eastern Business Teachers Association for the state of Pennsylvania.

The appointment was announced
by Dr. Helen Reynolds,

Senior Class

York

President— William Jacobs, Man-

Treasurer
Mildred,

—

Doyle,

William

Man Representative
Chiscon, Kingston.

Mt.

Ottaviani,

— Myra

Woman Representative
Albertson, Watsontown.

—

Alfred

Junior Class
President
Danville.

— Edward

Connelley,

Vice President— Robert Cumens,
Coatesville.

Secretary— Ruth Paul, Plymouth.
Treasurer— Richard Hurrt, Forty
Fort.

Man Representative
Smith, Kingston.

—

Woman Representative
LaSorsa, Falls.

Donald

— Louise

Sophomore Class
President— Edward Siscoe, Forest

New
of

*

Miss Noyes occupies herself with
square dancing and painting in her
spare time. Last summer she worked on a dude ranch in Wyoming
and previously has traveled to

many

interesting points in the Unit-

ed States.
She is a member of the
Pennsylvania Business Education
Association, National Educational
Association, and United Business
Education Association.
Eastern Business Teachers Association is composed of about 3,000
business educators in eastern Unit-

City.

Vice President— Robert Evans,
Coal Township.
Secretary— Muriel Neilson, West
Pittston.

Treasurer— Edwin Chase, ScranRepresentative— Carl MeyPlymouth.
Woman Representative — Joan
Cristie— Shenandoah.

Man

er,

Day Men's

Canada, Cuba and PuerThe annual convention
which attracts about 1,000 educaed

States,

to

Rico.

tors
in

ton.

change.

Treasurer— James

was held at the Hotel Statler
York City, April 2-4. Lead-

New

ing educators took part in the program. Many teachers from Pennsylvania attended the convention
and took an active part in the pro-

gram.

Men’s Dormitory Association

Association

President— Gerald Houseknecht,
Bloomsburg.
Vice President — Oren Baker,
Bloomsburg.
Secretary — John Dennen, Ex-

ville.

of

president

In her capacity as state membership director, Miss Noyes will
be responsible for membership promotion in the state. This is an important assignment as Pennsylvania
is a keystone state as far as E.B.T.A.
is concerned.
The state has been
host to its convention in Philadelphia many times. In assigning this
task to Miss Noyes President Reynolds has made a wise choice. Already membership figures for the
state are well ahead of previous
years, and a new record is sure.

baeh, Chartlesville.

Secretary— Dolores
Carmel.

University,

E.B.T.A.

Vice President— George Kallen-

underestimate

urged them to cling to the right to
be one’s self and to respect that

NAMED TO HEAD

President— Merlyn Jones, WilkesBarre.

Vice President— John Johnson,
Plymouth.
Secretary— Donald Smith, Kingston.

Kessler,

Dan-

Treasurer— Joseph

Kinder,

St.

Clair.
15

RECIPIENTS

PRESIDENT OF WALLER
HALL ASSOCIATION

OF THE

Louise Schullery, Delano, has
been elected to serve as President
of Waller Hall Association of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College

ALUMNI CITATION
1948

1951

John Gilbert Conner— Class of
In recognition of his brilliant at-

tainment as an educator, business
man, manufacturer, college trustee,

and churchman, and

his outstand-

ing contribution to his community,
state

Idwal

H.

Edwards

— Class

of

1914.

1883.

and nation.

Buchman Haas

Francis

In recognition of his service as
President of the College from 1927
to 1939, and to the cause of education in

A

loyal defender of our nation’s

honor,

a distinguished career of
service in the United States Air
Force that has made him known

and honored throughout the world,
and one we are proud to have represent the spirit that is Bloomsburg.
D.

Carroll

Champlin— Class

of

1906.

Philosopher— Christian Educator
Traveler — Teacher of

— World

our Commonwealth.

Daniel Webster Litwhiler— Class
of 1938.

In recognition of his outstanding
contributions to his Alma Mater as
an athlete, a sportsman, and a gentleman.

Teachers. Granduated Bloomsburg
State Normal School, 1906. Haverford College, A.B., 1914; University
of Pittsburgh, A.M., 1915; PhD.,
1925.

1952
Heister V. Hower,

1949
Ida Sitler— Class of 1905
In recognition of her scholarship
as a distinguished teacher of Biolo-

M.D.— Class

of

1881.

gy and related sciences, and the
inspiration to American youth in

Physician, Trustee and HumaniThese are only three of the
many contributions of a loyal Alumnus friend and guide of our Col-

high

pursuits

lege.

Class of

1888.

ideals

and useful
Lindley

of

scientific

living.

Florence Hess Cool

—

Hoag Dennis

1899.

a Vocational leader
and organizer; his counsel is sought
by Education from every part of
the Continent.

Great

tarian.

as

—

Class of

Loyal and devoted to her Alma
Mater through these many years.
Gave of her time and strength so
generously that the Philadelphia
Area became noted for its outstanding Alumni accomplishment.

1950

William Boyd

Sutliff

— Class

of

1891.

A
ar

grand gentleman, a fine scholand teacher, and an understand-

ing friend of youth.
Carrie Clark Myers

—

Class of

ington, D. C.

1905.

For her pioneer work in family
and childhood education, and

life

for her charting of

children’s

literature,

new

paths in

especially

in

children’s magazines.

George E. Pfahler— Class of 1S94.
A pioneer in radiology, a world
leader in the field, and the recipient
of
1G

much

Harry O. Hine— Class of 1885.
native of Columbia County
has gone afar in the educational field.
For many years a teacher in school and college, and in later years— until retirement— Secretary of the School Board of Wash-

A
who

international recognition.

Mary

A.

Good— Class

Inspiring teacher
for

many

uates
pride

them

Chemistry

of

Hundreds of gradBloomsburg recall with

and

satisfaction her superior

ability

ence

of

of 1897.

for next year.
Alice Fisher, Sunbury, is the new Vice President,
while Sally Morgan, Edwardsville,
will serve as Secretary, and Evelyn
Weaver, Muncy, as Treasurer.

Newly

elected senior representaEdwards, Kings-

tives are Patricia

ton;

Mae Neugard,

Parrish,

Hegins; Marie

Mary

and

Kingston,

Jo

Williams, Trucksville. Junior representatives will be Janice Bower,
Clarks Green; Anna Dreese, Beavertown, and Grace Histed, Honesdale.
Jacqueline Albert, Lebanon;
Joanne Hester, Watsontown, and
Mary Hoffecker, Yeadon, will represent the

sophomore

class.

Retiring
officers
are
Rosella
Danilo, Carbondale, President; Myra Albertson, Dewart, Vice President; Louise Schullery, Delano.
Secretary,
and Mary Ledyard,
South Gibson, Treasurer.
This
year’s Governing Board consisted

Mary Condon, Old Forge; Joan
Greco, Old Forge; Mary Kallenbach, Shartlesville; Ila Mae Coursen, Scranton; Doris Paternoster,
Hazleton; Mary Elizabeth Patton,
Wyalusing; Claire Davis, Clarks
Summit, and Betsy Baer, Shickshinny, seniors; Mary Jo Williams,
of

Trucksville;

Edwards.

Patricia

Kingston, and Patricia O’Loughlin,
Bower,
Easton,
juniors;
Janice
Clarks Green; Joanne McCormick,
Sunbury, and Alice Fisher, Sunbury, sophomores, and Jacqueline
Albert, Lebanon,

Mae Bowman,

and Wylla Mae

Berwick, freshmen.

Gloria Harris, Hickory Corners,
was recently appointed Editor of
the Waller Hall
year.

Her

Handbook

staff will

for next

be Joan Chris-

Shenandoah; Janet Ference,
Williamsport; Betty Hoover, Halifax, and Nancy Williams, Clarks
tie,

Summit.

years.

making

possible for
to understand better a sciso closely associated with
in

wholesome

living.

it

Carmela Tarole
commercial

is

subjects

teacher of
Liberty

in

High School, Bethlehem,

Pa.

Gerald Fink is teaching
high school at Oxford, Pa.

in

the

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

four years varsity football;
Russell Verhousky, Coaldale, four
years varsity football, and Ardell
Zeigenfuse, Ashland, four years
varsity football.
John A. Hoch,
dean of men, announced the relnirg,

ATHLETICS
HUSKIES TAKE

LEAGUE CROWN
Bloomsburg
ner

of

the

is

the official win-

Pennsylvania

State

cipients,

and Dr. Andruss presen-

ted the passes.

Teachers College Basketball Conference championship.
the

conference

final

Not

until

game was

played at Edinboro where Slippery

Rock won, 71-67, was the championship decided in Bloomsburg’s
favor over California Teachers.
Bloomsburg won the crown by five
conference points— the same number of points separating the Edinboro losers and the Slippery Rock
winners in the season’s finale. Had
Edinboro won the game, Bloomsburg and California would have
been deadlocked for first place
with 280 points.

Coach Howard Shelley’s Huskies
replace Lock Haven as the confercnce floor titlists in the two -yearold circuit.

FINISHED SECOND PLACE
BASEBALL CONFERENCE
Bloomsburg State Teachers ColLock Haven
the State Teachers College Base-

ball

The

Bald Eagles successfully de1952

title

Bloomsburg.

W.

L.

Pts.

10
6
5
_
5
_
6

2
2
0
3
3
5
4
6
6
6
8
9
4
5

280
275
210
208
170

_

—

.

West Chester
Clarion

_

9
3
4

Lock Haven

_

6

Edinboro
Kutztown

_

Millersville

._

East Stroudsburg

Shippensburg

—

Tndiana

Cheyney
Mansfield

PASSES

2
4
3
0
0

148
148

90
85
70
0
0
0
0

AWARDED

Life-time athletic passes were
presented to the following seniors
who earned four varsity awards in
intercollegiate athletic competition:
Daniel Boychuck, Shamokin, four
years varsity basketball; William
Bvham, Kane, four years varsity
baseball; Joseph Feifer, Mt. Carmel, four years varsity track; David
Linkchorst, Shenandoah, four years
varsity football, baseball and basketball; Eugene Morrison, BloomsJune, 1953

The

All-Pennsylvania

games were not

of four league

eligi-

ble for the pennant.

W.

L

Pts.

4
2
5
2
2

1

145
120
100
97
87
65
60
44
0
0
0

Lock Haven
East Stroudsburg

_

Bloomsburg

West Chester
Indiana
Mansfield
Slippery Rock
Clarion
Shippensburg

0
2
1
1

1

3

1

1

1

2
5
5
4

2

Kutztown

2
3

Millersville

ruary 7, in the Terrace Room of the
Hotel Shoreham, Washington, 14.
C. The 1953 Citation was awarded to Dr. Felix Morley, of Haverford College.

tion, consisting of residents of the

Washington area who are graduates of a Pennsylvania college.

Street.

Phillips

is

a

graduate of

Bloomsburg High School, Class of
1950, and is now in her senior year
at the University of Pennsylvania

School of Nursing.
A graduate of Scott Township
High School, Class of 1948, Mr.
Fenstermacher attended B.S.T.C.
prior to enlisting in the
ces.

Guard

He

now with

armed

for-

the Coast
at Barnegat Light, N. J.
is

at

the luncheon by the following:
Grace Derrick Boat ’12, Nellie Sherriff Dixon ’01, Mattie Luxton Lynch ’22,
and husband. Henry F. Broadbent ’98,
Carroll Bailey

C.

’ll,

Sadie C.

Crumb

Mary R. Crumb ’24, Florence Grady
Morau ’24. Walter Lewis ’42, Margaret

’15,

’39, Mrs. Pauline Daudin
Mrs. Muriel Hartley ’41, Mrs. Helen

A. Steininger
’92.

Nora Clancy Lavins
’08, Irma G. Myers ’05, Harry O. Hine ’85, Elna H. Nelson ’ll, Sabilla Schobert Campbell ’14
and husband, Emma Cortright Selly ’05
and daughter Dorothy. Harriet Kocher
’39 and Mr. Harney Miller, Lindley Dennis ’99 and Mrs. Dennis, Collin W. Vernay ’42 and Marvin Fewell.
’09,

’19,

Sadia L. Hartman

In a

ceremony

at ten o’clock Sat-

25, at Congress Heights Presbyterian Church,

urday morning, April

Washington, D. C., Miss Adrian
Masanotti, daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. James Masanotti, Berwick, became the bride of Dr. John
W. Kallander, son of Mrs. Clara
Kallander, Bessemer, Mich.
The Rev. Richard D. Tursell officiated

Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips, of
West Ninth street, Bloomsburg, revealed the engagement of their
daughter, Sally Ann, to Glen Fenstermacher, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Timothy Fenstermacher, of Light
Miss

College

Alumni Association held its 1953
Citation Luncheon Saturday, Feb-

Moran Walsh

Teams not playing the minimum

Final standings of the teams:

Rioomsburg
California
Slippery Rock

by taking

the championship from a field of
eleven contenders, despite their one
They won both
loss to Mansfield.
games that they played with

Final standing of the clubs:

Conf.

AT LUNCHEON

Bloomsburg was represented

Conference.

lenck'd their

REPRESENTED

Miss Harriet Kocher ’39 is Recording Secretary of the organiza-

lege finshed second to
in

B. S.T.C.

at

the

double-ring cere-

mony.

The bride

is

a graduate of Ber-

wick High School and Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. She is now
employed in the Department of
Agriculture, in Washington, D. C.
The bridegroom is a graduate of
the A. D. Johnson High School,
Bessemer, Mich. He received his
Bachelor of Science Degree in electrical engineering at Michigan College of Mining and his Master of
Science and Doctor of Philosophy
degrees at the University of Cincinnati.

Following a trip through New
York state, the couple will reside
in Washington, D. C.
17

THE ALUMNI
LUZERNE COUNTY

COLUMBIA COUNTY
PRESIDENT
Edward
S. T. C.,

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA
PRESIDENT

A. Wilkes-Barre Area

DeVoe, ’31
Bloomsburg, Pa.
T.

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St., Tunkhannock, PA.

PRESIDENT
Elfed Vid Jones

VICE PRESIDENT
Donald Rabb, '46
Market St., Benton, Pa.
D. Sharretts,

S. T. C.,

Bloomsburg Pa.

New

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY
Edward

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

’41

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Jerry Russin

Miss Mabel Dexter, T9

Mehoopany

TREASURER
Paul L. Brunstetter, T4

Mrs. Betty Hensley

SECRETARY

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, T4
42 Slocum, Ave., Tunkhannock, Pa.

Main

St.,

Catawissa, Pa.

Chester Wojcik

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA

SECRETARY

TREASURER

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,
Clifford, Pa.

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

Miss Mary A. Meehan, T8
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.

B. Hazleton

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, T3
1618 State St., Harrisbfirg, Pa.

Mrs. Olwen Argust Hartley, T4

VICE PRESIDENT

Miss Pearl L. Baer ’32
South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

127

McHose Ecker.

Ave., Scranton, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

’32

David W. Foust,

Mrs. Henrietta Cabo McCann, ’30
1315 Prospect Ave., Scranton, Pa.

R. D.

RECORDING SECRETARY

2,

Mrs. Catherine Oplinger Renninger,
1728 N. Rhodes St., Apt. 278.
Arlington, Va.

’35

Danville, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY
427 Washington Ave.. Jermyn, Pa.

Mrs. Harriet McAndrew Murphy, T6
6000 Nevada Ave., N. W.
Washington, D. C.

SECRETARY

TREASURER

Miss Alice Smull,
’21

Miss Lydia Bohn,
227 Stephen Ave., Scranton, Pa.

312 Church

St.,

’05

Danville, Pa.

TREASURER

WEST BRANCH AREA

Miss Susan Sidler, ’30
615 Bloom St., Danville Pa.

NEW YORK AREA

PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anna Price Snyder, '23
251 Garfield Ave.. Milton, Pa.

PRESIDENT

PHILADELPHIA AREA

J.

’42
Mrs.
729 St. George Ave., Rahway, N. J.

'30

J.

SECRETARY
Mrs.
517

Erma Moyer

McClay

Angstadt,

’35

Ave., Lewisburg, Pa.

J.

Fairview Village, Pa.

SECRETARY-TREASURER

TREASURER

J.

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, ’09
7011 Erdrick St., Philadelphia 35, Pa.

Miss Cora Baumer, ’49
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

Erma

Miller Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.

732

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer, T8

TREASURER
Mrs.

Hortman
Washington St., Camden, N.

Mrs. Lillian

Mrs. Kathryn House Everitt,
R. D. 2, Lewisburg, Pa.

Irish. ’06

PRESIDENT

SECRETARY
A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.

VICE PRESIDENT

HONORARY PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Mary Davenport Shope,

'41

TREASURER

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash St., Danville, Pa.

’31

Anthony Conte, ’35
John St., Elizabeth, N.

CORRESPONDINF SECRETARY
Virginia L. Rasser, '30
Washington, D. C.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

323

PRESIDENT

MONTOUR COUNTY

’22

AREA

Pauline L. Danden, '92
1840 Biltmore St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Washington Ave., W. Hazleton, Pa.

PRESIDENT

D. C.,

Walter Lewis. ’42
1736 “G” St., N. W.. Washington, D. C.

TREASURER
Mrs. Lucille

Miss Florence Dunn,

Hazleton. Pa.

SECRETARY

TREASURER

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

St.,

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Main

Milford, Pa.

WASHINGTON,

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7
147 East Chestnut

SECRETARY

Miss Eva Morgan,

New

PRESIDENT
Harold J. Baum, ’27
40 South Pine St., Hazleton, Pa.

Paul Englehart, ’07
2921 George St., Harrisburg, Pa.

2217 North

’ll

TREASURER

Area

VICE PRESIDENT

18

.

Pa.

RECORDING SECRETARY

441 East

21

’52

Milford, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

LUZERNE COUNTY ALUMNI
Officers
at a

were elected

as follows

recent annual dinner meeting

Luzerne County Chapter of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Alumni Association in the Central
Y.M.C.A.: president, Elfed Vid
of

Jones;

first

president, Miss
second vice presi-

vice

Betty Roberts;

dent, Jerry Russin; recording secBetty Hensley; financial
secretary,
Chester Wojcik;
treasurer, Mrs. Ruth Griffith.
retary, Mrs.

Invocation was offered by Elfed
Edison Fischer, supervisor

[ones.
of

music for Newport Township
group singing, ac-

schools, led the

companied by Mrs. Agnes Sylvanv.
Miss Edna Aurand, president, welcomed members.

A

report of the year’s activities

was read bv the secretary, Mrs.
Ruth S. Griffith. Nominating committee had as members; Mrs. Marion Hartman, chairman; Misses
Elizabeth Pugh and Margaret Reynolds.

Appointed to audit the books
were Miss Ann Dzurv and Tom
Flaherty.

Jones thanked the association for
the honor and sought cooperation
of members.
He also expressed
the gratitude of the association to
Miss Aurand for the sendees during
her regime.

Miss Aurand was presented with
the table centerpiece.

Assisting on arrangements were:
decorating, Mrs. Betty Hensley,
Elizabeth Pugh, Mrs. Mary An-

drew, Katherine Williams; tickets,
Margaret Reynolds, Mrs. Marion
Hartman, Eleanor Haines; reception, Mrs. Jennie Williams, Alberta
Chester Wojcik, Elfed
Nichols,

DAUPIIIN-CUMBERLAND

BRANCH
The Dauphin-Gumberland-Perryand York Alumni Association of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
met in Harrisburg at the Immanuel
Presbyterian Church in October.
Miss Mary Agnes Meehan, president,
conducted an interesting
meeting.
Dr. Harvey Andruss,
president of the College, was the

June,

195:

of the special guests of honor at the 75th anniversary observance of the old Wilkes-Barre Academy held recently at Wyoming
Seminary Day School, Forty Fort,
Was Dr. G. E. Baker, Forty Fort
physician, who had taught at the
academy from 1906 to 1911. Dr.
Baker graduated from B.S.T.C. and
taught in Orangeville before turning to a medical career.

speaker.

A

musical skit was presented by
Mr. Fenstemaker, and a motion
picture, “Alma Mater” taken in
1939,

was shown.

One member from

the class of
Mrs. Mary S.

1934

Gerald M. Woolcock,
Orangeville R. D. 1, has been released from active duty with the

Major

U.

S.

A

Army.

World War

veteran of

II

and

1893 was present,
Gilmer.
Mrs. Katherine Anwyl,
Class of 1899, and Miss Mary Pen-

the Korean fighting. Major Woolcock’s most recent assignment was
as Senior Unit Instructor of the

dergast. Class of 1895, also attend-

Army Organized Reserve Corps

ed.

(ORC)

Others
were:
present
Mrs.
Blanche M. Grimes, Miss Nellie M.
Seidel, Mrs. Gertrude Jacobs, Mrs.
Margaret Grant, Mrs. Mary Shambach, George D. Donachy, R. S.
Herre, Mrs. Margaret MacCachran,
Mrs. Lucretia C. Woofers, Mrs.
Irene Adcock, Mrs. Pauline R. Turek, Mrs. Marion V. Fray, Richard
Grimes, Wilson H. Kile, Howard
Fenstemaker, Claude Renninger,

W.

B. Sterling, Kimber C. Kuster,
Mrs. Martha Selway Schiefer, Miss
Margaret Dailey, Ralph Shuman,
P. H. Englehart,
Mrs. Margaret
Crouse Derrick, Miss E. Mae BergMrs.
er, Miss Florence Keating,
Dorothy Ferensic, Miss Mary E.
Miller, Miss Mary A. Meehan, Miss
Pearl Baer, Dr. J. Loomis Christian.

Arch Austin, Mrs. Oce Austin, Gertrude Lecher, Mrs. Edna R. CherLucille Groff and Mabel Belles.

rie,

Jones.

Others in attendance: Mabel
Loeb, Mrs. Grace Brodbeck, Mrs.
Etta Evans, Mrs. Emeline Hazeltine, Mrs. Fred Greeley, Eleanor
Materewicz, Mrs. Josephine S withers, Mrs. Armedi Petrini, Fredja
Jones, John Skuba, Mrs. Eula M.
Schlingman, Frank Perch, Alberta
Nichols, Mrs. Estelle Wright, Margaret Arnold, Mrs. Ruth Bond,
Mary E. Davis, Mrs. Mary Ratajski,
Bessie Coughlin, Daniel Mahoney,
G. W. Piaorte, Marion Murphy,

1905

One

He

Chambersburg, Pa.

units in

married to Ruth G. W’oolcock and they have three children,
is

Deanna Sue, seven, Gary John, five,
and Harry Eugene, three. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Woolcock,
live in Millville.

A graduate of Millville High
School, Mr. Woolcock, forty, received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in 1934, and a
Master’s degree in Education in
1940 from Pennsylvania State College.

While in civilian status he was a
High School teacher in Millville,
from 1935, and has returned to that
position.

Woolcock served as a
the Korean Military AdGroup from March, 1949, to

Major

member of

visory
June, 1951.
ficer,

A Reserve Corps ofhe was originally commission-

ed in July, 1941, served until 1946,
and was recalled to active duty in
February, 1949.

As senior unit

instructor.

Major

SUPPORT

Woolcock trained ORC units in the
Chambersburg area, under the su-

YOUR

pervision of the Pennsylvania Military District, Commanded by Col.
District HeadE. M. Sutherland.
quarters is at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation.

LOCAL

BRANCH

1935

ORGANIZATIONS

Gress, U.S.N.R., a
of the Business Education
Department of Hunter College,
Lieut.

John

J.

member

19

New

York City, was presented with
the Ten-Year Naval Reserve Medal
by Captain R. R. Mullaney, U.S.
N.R., Commanding Officer of Naval
Reserve Composite Company 3-27.
The Reserve Medal is awarded
on the basis of ten years of continuous

satisfactory naval service,
officer must at-

and a qualifying

tend regularly scheduled

drills

announce the birth of a daughter,
Mary Anne, March 31, 1953. Mr.
and Mrs. Smiley also have a son,
Richard.
ly

Mrs. Smiley was formerMargaret A. Latshaw.

of

his unit, participate in reserve ac-

complete naval correspondence courses, take a two-weeks’
tour of training duty each fiscal

1950

tivities,

year, and,

must receive a
from his

finally,

satisfactory fitness report

commanding

officer.

Dr. Gress is currently the education training officer of his reserve
unit. He began his naval career by
enlisting as an appresentice sea-

man, and he won

his

numbered one hundred and thirtysix men. In addition, he was awarded a citation by the Secretary of
the Navy for his outstanding services as a naval officer in the operation known as “Naval Reserve Recruiting.”

1936

Brown

(Mrs. Robert Hass-

ler) lives in Morrisville,

her husband

is

N.

J.,

where

teaching.

1939

McKechnie, Jr., D.
has been a member of
the faculty of the Temple University School of Dentistry and Secretary to the Faculty, has moved to
Camp Hill, where he has opened a
private practice.
His address in
Camp Hill is 19 North 24th Street.
Alexander

D.S.,

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wyant, of

Huntingdon,

are

Pa.,

the parents

Tyrone Clossen Wyant,
Born March 28. Mrs. Wyant was
formerly Miss Pauline Clossen, and
was a secretary in the office of Dr.
of

a son,

Thomas

P.

North,

Dean

of Instruc-

tion.

J.

who

1951

wedding ceremony

performed Thursday, January 11,
Bower Memorial E.U.B. Church,

in
in

Berwick, Miss
Gloria
Mazzitti,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mazzitti, Ferris avenue, Berwick,
became the bride of Private Henry
Carleton Ermish, son of Henry Ermish, West Front street, Berwick.
The Rev. A. C. Ruth, pastor of the
church, perfonned the double-ring
ceremony before an altar set with

wedding

George J. Keller left in February on a tour with his wild animal
act that will keep him on the road
until next October.
The bookings
will carry him to California for the
first time and also include the Mid-

West and Canada.
The black panther, which

flowers.

Following a honeymoon spent in
New York City, the groom left for
Camp Chaffee, Ark., where he is
stationed with the post band.
He

was

a teacher in Berwick’s Orange
Street School, and graduated from

Berwick High School and Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

The bride

is

a

teacher in the

Berwick schools, and made her
home with her parents until the
close of the school term, when she
planned to join her husband.

act

when

it

joined

months ago and
was but three weeks out
several

of the jungle, fits well in the act

which features seven different varities of

the cat family.

is

the

largest

number ever worked

to-

This

gether in a cage at the same time,
in the United States.

The

act opened in Chicago on
show, Super Circus. The itinerary continues: February 20 to
a

In a lovely

CALIFORNIA

VISIT

the

commission

while in the ranks. He has won the
coveted award of “Honor Man” of
his boot training company which

Violet

KELLER ACT TO

1944

Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Smiley,
613 Grand Street, Lewistown, Pa.,

TV

March 7, Minneapolis, Minn.,
Shrine circus; March 9-15, St. Paul,
Minn., Shrine circus; March 19-28,
Dayton, Ohio, Shrine circus; March
29to April 5, open, Holy Week;
April 6-12, Columbus, Ohio, Shrine
circus; April 17-May 3, Cole Brothers circus, Chicago Stadium; May
9-16, Winnipeg, Canada, Shrine circus;

May

17-23,

Brandon, Canada,

Shrine circus.
The act then moved outdoors
with the Tom Pack’s Shrine circus
unit, playing the larger cities in the

Mid-West.

The

circus will

as far East as Pittsburgh

move

where

it

show at Forbes Field.
Then the act will play Conneaut
Lake Park, Pa.; Riverside Park,
Springfield, Mass.; Lake Canananwill

daigua, N. Y.
From there the act moves West
to the Washington State Fair at
Puyallup, Wash., and then visits
Keller will
four California fairs.
return from the Golden Gate State
to the East to line up his Fall dates.

1942

David M. Young, whose home
town is Danville, is teacher of Latin,
French, and English in the
Ridgeview High School, Hickory,
North Carolina. He is President of
the Language Association of North
Carolina, and recently served as
delegate of his district to the North
Carolina State Teachers’ Association at the meeting held in Raleigh.
With his brother, he also operates a school bus line and a city

HOME COMING DAY
-

OCTOBER

10,

1953

FOOTBALL
B.S.T.C.

vs.

TRENTON

S.T.C.

service taxicab business.
20

T!IE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Carbondale; William C. DeLong, Berwick; Mrs. Mary Edith Gresh, Milton;
Mary Wilson Hilburt. Plains; Ellen Hottenstein Schnure, Milton R. D. 2; Ella

Class Reunions
The biggest features
Day were the festivities

of Alumni
of the various classes in reunion.
Some of
them began on Friday night and
others did not close their activities
until late on
Saturday.
Special
dinners, breakfasts, and luncheons
were held in Bloomsburg and in

neighboring communities.
Attendance was good for most

Some were so
welcoming classmates that
they did not have time to sign regOthers were so engaged in
isters.
of these functions.

busy

handling the various details that
they did not turn in their reports

Some

until late.

of the classes will

wish to publish more complete accounts of their reunions than those

which are printed

in

this issue of

We

die Quarterly.
shall be glad
to publish these more detailed accounts in the next issue, which will
appear early in the fall.
From the information now available, the following were in attendance at the various reunions:

Class of 1S92

by Harry O. Hine ’85, Washington,
D. C.; John K. Adams ’90, and Mrs.
Annie Supplee Nuss ’88.
Class of 1893

Representatives of the Class of
’93 were Burton Williams, North

Mehoopany;

Philip

Drum,

D.

Kingsston; Lizzie Morgan McDonnell, Philadelphia; Minnie Penman,

Bloomsburg,

and

Maude

Burns

Larr, Bristol.

Class of 1903

Members

of the Class

were guests of the College

of

1903

at a din-

ner held in the College dining room
Friday evening, May 22.
They
were seated on the stage as guests
of honor at the Alumni meeting,
and received replicas of their twoyear certificates. The following

were registered

as present:

Etta Schatzel Horlacher, Weatherly;
Mrs. Ono Fleming Levering, Stroudsburg; Helen Irene Rubinkam Jameson,
Harold A. Jameson. Scranton; Abraham
Rarich. Scranton; H. Walter Riland,
Scarsdale, N. Y.; Flossie Rundle Chase,

June, 1953

liamsport.

Class of 1918
Class of 1908
Laura Benscoter Dodson, Shavertown;
Marion Smith Moore, Freeport, Long
Island:

Mae

Callender Wilson, Kis-Lyn;

Adda Rhodes Johnson, Hazleton; Adda
Brandon Westfield. Chester; Florence
G. Beddall, Lancaster; Mrs. W. W. Wootus:

Haverford; Mrs. Pearl Jones, town;

Rebecca Appleman, Danville; John E.
Piatt, Wyoming; Effie M. Conrad, Sunbury; Martha V. James, Scranton; Agnes
Burke. Bethlehem; Oliver A. Major, Lyons, N. Y.; Rhea W. Bassell, Factoryville; Helen Wardom Garbut, Dallas;
Kingston;
Laura E.
Oliver
Rosser,
Boone, Hazleton; Dr. and Mrs. J. H.
Grimes, Clearwater, Fla.; Willie Morgan Stein. Philadelphia; W. D. Watkins,

Mabel

C. Pollock.

Wyoming: M. Evelyn

Peck. Sayre; Mrs. H. G. Williams, Old
Forge; Miss Ella M. Billings, Nicholson
R. D. 1; Charles Maurer. Collinswood,
N. J.
Also attending from around that period were Pearl Anstock Holt, Hawthorne,
N. J.: Edwin M. Barton, town; W. C.
LeVan. Elysburg, 1907; Lloy T. Krumm,
Upper Montclair, N. J., 1909; Emma M.
MacFarlane, Hazleton, 1910.

The Class of 1918 enjoyed a
house party Friday evening. May
22, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy D. Snyder and continued the
program with a breakfast Saturday
at St. Paul’s Parish

ed by the

festivities

House followon the campus.
Adams Trescott,

Attending: Louise
Richboro; Florence Altmiller Walter,
Hazleton; Edna C. Aurand, WilkesBarre;
Katherine
Bakeless
Nason,
Cleveland. Ohio; Leslie E. Brace. Westfield, N. J.; Paul L. Cherrington, Allentown; Edna Davenport Ohl, Bloomsburg; Dorothy Edgar Creasy, Espy;
Criddie Edwards Berninger, Pittston;
Mary M. Gillespie, Hazleton.
Laretta Good White, DeLand, Fla.;

Rose Gronka Kielar, Glen Lyon; Dr.
Ralph Hart, Philadelphia; Florence
Hess Price, East Orange, N. J.; Harriet
Hill Knorr, Hetlerville; Rebecca Hill
Kramer, Summit, N. J.; Muriel Jones
Keffer, Audenried; Nellie M. Kabusk,
Kingston; Carrie Keen Fischer, Glen
Lyon; Raymhond R. Kester, Danville.
Russell L. Kressler, Pennsville, N.

W.

Tiffany, Mrs. Eva R.
McKelvy and Flora Ransom. The
members of the class were joined

Mrs. G.

Lea Mengel Heim, Schuylkill Haven;
Gertrude Follmer Lowry, Balmat, N.
Y.; Mrs. Beatrice Larrabee Albertson,
Peekskill. N. Y.; Charles L. Albert, Dallas; Howard K. Houtz, Sioux City, Iowa;
Robert V. Glover, Mifflinburg.

Keller,
Hummelstown; Edith Keeler
Tallman, Vienna, Va.; Elizabeth Schweppenheiser Hicks, Berwick; Ada Davis
Crawford. Berwick; Nellie M. Dennison,
Takoma Park, Md.; Estella Callendar
Wright, Kingston; Ruth Altmiller Jones,
Hazleton;
Charles
L.
Tess,
Clifton
Springs, N. Y.; Robert L. Girton, Wil-

The members

of

the

J.;

Hannah Law Groner, Katie LeVan Kuster, Bloomsburg; Elmer Lohman, Nan-

Class of 1913
Class

of

1913 had a very enjoyable get-together Friday evening. May 23, in
the social rooms in Science Hall,
and continued their actiivties Saturday afternoon, when Elizabeth
Pugh presided, and each member
of the class gave an account of his
since graduation.
The
following were registered as presactivities

ent:
Elizabeth L. Pugh, Ashley; Elizabeth
K. Scharf, Selinsgrove; Elizabeth Sturges, Pittsburgh; Rena M. Snyder, Detroit; Renna Crossley Masteller, Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Katherine M. Williams,
Ashley: Helen Jones Lister, Trenton.
N. J.: Homer W. Fetterolf, Spring Mills;
Ethel Jones Messerne, Mountain Top.
Mildred Mack Shovlin, Wilkes-Barre;
Jacob F. Wetzel, Centre Hall; Mildred
Stemples Linsey, Binghamton, N. Y.;
Marion Roat Hartman, Kingston; Helen
J. Pegg, Danville; Irene Boughren Mock,
Hazleton; Ethel Altmiller, Hazleton;
Marie Snyder Pomeroy, Pittston R. D.
1; Ray V. Watkins, State College; Flora
Snyder Stock, Dallas.
Luther Hess, Espy; Michael J. Skweir,
Northampton; Ralph E. Kuster, Bloomsburg; Lillian Fischer Moore, Forty Fort;
Edna Runyan Cherrie, Nanticoke; Nellie M. Seidel, Harrisburg; Annie Cassel

ticoke;

Edith

Helen Lord Powell, Kingston;

Medo

Dzuris, Nanticoke;

Mary A.

Meehan, Harrisburg; Rachel Miles Porter, Shavertown; James T. Musgrave,
Scranton, Martha O’Brien Pursel, J.
Claire Patterson, Bloomsburg.
Florence Peckam Sampson, Clarks
Summit; Harold J. Pegg, Altoona; Marion Phillips Stiteler, Bloomsburg; Mary
Powell Wiant, Scotch Plain, N. J.; Elizabeth

Probert

Shearer,

Connellsville;

Fred Snyder Hughey, Dallas; Ruth
Speary Griffith, Wilkes-Barre; Kathryn
M. Spencer, Fairview Village.

Reuben

D. Stevens,

Washington, N.

Helen G. Sypniewski, Nanticoke;
Miriam Welliver Funk, Danville; Edina
Wieland Teal, Norristown; Ida Wilson
Snyder, Bloomsburg; Charles R. Wolfe,
Gettysburg; C. Coursen Zeliff, State
College; Nell Kabusk, Kingston; Lawrence Wagner, Conyngham.
J.;

Class of 1923
Eighty-six members attended the
reunion of the Class of 1923 which
had a get-together at the home of

Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Turner, Bloomsburg R. D. 4. The group gave fifty
dollars to the student loan fund in
memory of deceased members.
Miss Freda Phillips of the class on21

ly recently
in

returned from teaching

Japan.
Attending:

Anna

Price Snyder, Mil-

Margaret Hughes, Betty Evans
West, Helen Eike West, Wilkes-Barre;
Ruth McNertney Smith, Harleigh; 4-n ‘
ria Ozelka Kohler, Clifton, N. J.; Mr.
and Mrs. Leroy A. Richard, Shamokin;
Lucy Weikel Coughlin, Dunellen, N. J.;
Adelia Jones Pendleton, Warren Center,
N. J.; Mathilda Koetenbauder Tiley,
Lewisburg; Alice Albee Lutz, Ashley;
Catherine Morgan,
Berdine Aeisen,
Nuremberg; Margaret Jones, Oliver
ton;

James, Kingston; Isabelle Lukasytis,
Ruth Robbins
Hazleton;
Chimleski,
Creasy, Briar Creek.
Leah Caswell Pratt, Morristown, N.
Y.; Myrtle Epler Mertz. Northumberland; Helen M. Keller, Kingston; Kathryn Griffith Nichols, Kingston; Dorothy
Titman Blancher, Ithaca, N. Y.; Anna
Jarrett .Taylor; Cecelia Furman. Nanticnke; Gladys Buitzman Snell, Scranton;
Lois Dodson Maynard, Wilkes-Barre;
Leona B. Williams Moore, Simsbury,
Conn.; Rachael Evans Kline, Orange-

Robina Batey, Plymouth; Beulah
Robbins Roberts, John N. Roberts,
Shickshinny; Rev. H. Merle Saxman,
Mill Hall; Grace Seely Smethers, Eliz-

Keller Riehl, Wilkes-Barre; Dorothy
Gilmore Gunton, Noxen.
Grayce Walter Brodbeck, Pittston;
Leona Reichenbach Esler, Lewisburg R.
D. 3; Margaret McComb Rohrbach, Lewisburg; Mary K. Heintzelman, Sunbury;

Eugene Keefer, Selinsgrove; Mary
Betterly Maiers; Miles B. Potter, Bryn
Mawr; Walter H. Yanetski; Charles F.
Hensley,
Wilkes-Barre;
William
L.
James, Fleetwood; Lois Laubach Webster: Mae Mantz Kreiss, Slatington; Bes-

Miriam Wenner

Stahl. Burnham; Grace RaHartman. Sunbury; Louis Brislir,
Thomas, Kingston; Frances Austin Reynolds, Luzerne; Harold M. Danowsky,
Marion DeFrain Danowsky, Lewisburg;
Evelyn Smith Hoover, Weatherly; Laura
Kelley Bollinger. Northumberland; Lois
Lawson, Bloomsburg; Irene Naus Mun-

et

J.

Elizabeth Robinson Roland, Alfred
Roland, Harrisburg; Martha Fenwick,
Ashburn; Helen E. Sutliff, Harrisburg;
Dorothy Barton Cherrington, Bloomsburg; Ralph R. Beagle, Danville R. D.
Lawrence R. Cherrington, Blooms5;
burg; Ronald H. Beagle, Danville R. D.
Danville R. D. 6;
5; Robert Campbell,
Stephen A. Lerda, Hampstead, Md.;
Archie Litwhiler, Scranton; Grace Williams, Hackettstown, N. J.; Ruth Geary
Evelyn Thompson
Danville;
Beagle,
Reid, Camp Hill; Frances Adams Toor,
Doylestown; Gertrude Bates Keifler,
Honesdale; Katherine Brace Laidacker,
Bristol; Harrietta Reeder Souleret, Turbotville; Arline Hart Brown, Kingston;
Andrew B. Lawson, Williamsport; Josephine Kistler Vanderslice, Helen Wolf
Kashner,
Kessler
Betty
Streausser,
Gulley,
Helen Arthur
Bloomsburg;
Thompson; Kathryn Campbell, Danville
R. D.

6.

Ruth Lenhart Crawford, Wilmington,
Donald Black, Mill-

Del.; Mr. and Mrs.
ville R. D. 2; Grace

H. Brandon, ChamFlorence Breisch Drake, M.
LaRue Drake, Light Street; Harold
Mertz, Northumberland; Mr. Pendleton,
Plainfield, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
bersburg;

Turner and family.

Class of 1928

The following were

registered as

being present at the twenty-fifth
year reunion of the class:
Margaret

E.

Hill,

Scranton;

Grace

Saylor, Watsontown; Hazel Epler Furman, Northumberland; Caroline Spitts
Criswell, Lewisburg R. D. 1; Anna Mary

Lonberger, Boalsburg; Marjorie
Wallize Prettyleaf, Lewistown; Jeanette Hastie Buckingham, Easton; Irene
L. Evans, Anna B. Zorskas, Scranton;
Harriet E. Adams, Bloomsburg; Margar-

Hess

22

Conyngham;

Hummel

sie

del

Mary McCawley Ryan.

son, Mifflinburg;

Exeter.

Shenandoah.

ay,

Class of 1938
Class of 1933

Members

of the

Class of 1933,

holding their twenty year reunion,
enjoyed a dinner at the Elks home:
The class voted to contribute $40 to
the Kehr-Ward student loan fund
at the college.

Plans were

ville;

abeth, N.

Astleford,

Hilda Zeisloft, Philadelphia; Elizabeth
Saylor Williams, Ashley; James H. Williams, Baldwin, N. Y.; Irene Karnell
Davis, Hackettstown, N. J.; Pauline Bell
Walker, Wilkes-Barre;
Nellie
Daley
Shockloss, Ewoyerville; Mary Blackwell
Litwhier, Scranton; Rachae Long Sauers, Mifflinburg; Atella Schoen Lewis,
Clarks Summit; Sarah Lawson Docker-

unions.

made

for the 1958 re-

The committee

in

charge

include Lois Lawson, chairman; Charles Cox, Harriet Styer

Joycelyn Andrews Summers, Edward
Summers, Catawissa R. D. 2; Eleanor
Lharadin laust, Middleburg R. D. 1;
Dorothy E. Sidler, Washington, D. C.;
Audree Reed Robins, Columbus, Ohio;
Margaret Smith, Dickey Starrucca, Vera
oilmer Baker, Danny Litwhiler, town;
Mrs. Dorothy Frick McDougall, Benton
i:

cl. D.
phia;

1;

Dr. E. H. Nelson and Dr. Harvey
A. Andruss were present and spoke
briefly at the dinner. Other faculty guests were Dr. and Mrs. Tho-

mas P. North, Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Fenstemaker and Miss Edna
J.

Hazen.

Attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Drake,
Eve Krauss, Mrs. Ariel Boop and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Cox, Bloomsburg;
Harold E. Bollinger, Northumberland;

James Probert, Hazleton; John Zeisloft,
Conyngham; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Wise, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stevens,
Thomas Hartman, Berwick.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Parr, Mifflinville;
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fowler, Mr. and Mrs.
William McWilliams, Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde
son,

Eifert, Danville; William HarriBelles, Wilkes-Barre; Mar-

Mabel

garet Donaldson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Morgan, Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Johnson, Lewisburg; Jack Lewis,
Minersville; Donald Black, Millville.
Mr. and Mrs. J. George Brueckmann;
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Beagle, Danville; Mr. and Mrs. John H. Reilly, Mary
Ahearn Reilly, Ruth A. Pealer, Benton
R. D.; Zela Bardo Black, Millville R.
D. 2; Violet Snyder Hoffman, Montandon; Catherine Strunk Snyder, Mowry;
Anne McGinley Maloney, Centralia;
Betty Boyle Church, Locust Gap; Louise
Shipman Evans, Sunbury; Bertha Astleford Probert, Emily Wagner Zeisloft,
Hazleton; Amelia Wany Higgins, Shamokin; Adelaide Hausch Kline, Kingston;
Matilda Olash, Luzerne; Marion Van-

Horn Try, Port Royal; Homer Bixler,
Norristown R. D. 1; Thomas J. Griffiths,
Jr.,

Salem, N.

J.

J.

L. Fetterolf, PhiladelSpringfield; Paul

Kushma,

Martin, Charles Henrie, town.

will

Boop, Eve Krauss and Dorothy
Hummer.

Andrew

John

Class of 1943

The

Class

of

1943 held their

Montour

tenth year reunion at the

Hotel in Danville on

The members

May

of the

23, 1953.
class and

husbands, guests and
friends were seated at tables beautifully decorated with spring flowtheir wives,

ers and boutoinierres of maroon
and gold provided by Mrs. Barbara

Rick Slanina.

The reunion was opened with an
invocation by Rev. Carl

S.

Berning-

er.

After

the

George W.

dinner

was

served,

Piarate, our able toast-

master, introduced the class

offi-

cers for the four years of college.

Led by Reverend Berninger, the
had a moment of silence and
a word of prayer in tribute to the
three members of the class who lost
their lives during World War II,
namely, Donald Jenkins, John Yenclass

alavage and John Atkinson.

The class had as its guests Dr.
and Mrs. Harvey Andruss, Dr. and
Mrs. E. II. Nelson, and Dr. and
Mrs. Kimber C. Kuster, Doctor Nelson, Doctor Kuster and Mr. George
G. Buchheit had been the advisers
for the class. Mr. Buchheit was unable to attend but did send a greeting to be read to the class.
Doctor Andruss, in his comments
to the group, spoke of the whereabouts of former faculty members
and of some of the members of the

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group who were unable to attend.
Both Doctor Nelson and Doctor
Kuster spoke on various aspects of
the Alumni Association.
Class members were introduced
hv the toastmaster and each member spoke briefly of his present location and activities.
Silver dollars were presented to
several members of the class for
various accomplishments.

Major and Mrs. Elwood M. Wagner did all the necessary work and
planning for our reunion, and the
class wishes to take this opportunitv to thank them.
The following were present at
the dinner:
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Schaeffer, Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Wasco (Dorothy
Johnson >. Mr. and Mrs Francis Slavina
(Barbara Rick\ Mr. and Mrs. Julius
Adamic f.Tovce Knorr), Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Kocher. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Deets (Marjorie Coombs), Mr. and Mrs.
Boyd Buckingham (Joanne Fice). Mr.
and Mrs. William P. Handy (Ruth
Hope), Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
H. Burnis Fellman (Reba Henrie). Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Barton, Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Bardo (Miriam Mensch),
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Snyder (Jean Sidler), Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. Yeany, Mr.
and Mrs. John Thomas. Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Algatt (Betty Katerman), Major and Mrs. David M. Jones, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Von Blohn (Jean Kuster),
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lapinski (Eleanor
Althoff ).

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lynch (Kathryn
Campbell), Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Dix,
Jr. (Sally Hottenstein), Mr. and Mrs.
Max Follmer (Elaine Kreischer), Major
and Mrs. Elwood M. Wagner (Kay
Jones). Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kleckner
(Joyce Lohr), Mr. and Mrs. Herman E.
Vonderheid (Betty Lebengood), Dr. and
Mrs. Harvey Andruss, Dr. and Mrs. E.
H. Nelson, Dr. and Mrs. Kimber Kuster,
Miss Martha H. Wright, Mrs. Anna M.
Knight, Miss Sara K. Wagner, Miss Peggy R. Holovick, Mrs. Jean Barr Newhart, Mrs. June Zartman Feeman, Miss
Lois Wintersteen, Miss Gertrude Makowski. Mrs. Mary Middleton Smith,
Mrs. Marian Wallace Carley, Miss Jane
Rutledge, Miss Jean Laugan, Miss Laura
C. Cyysleran. Captain Lee Roy Beaumont, Mr. Walter McCloskey, Mr. William Selden, Jr., Mr. Jerry Y. Russin,
Mr. G. W. Piarate, Rev. Carl S. Berninger.

Class of 1948
Betty Fisher, town; Louise Sharpless,
Catawissa; Mary Elizabeth Rush, Nicholson; Rose Marie Kraiser Schreiber,
Horsham; Henry Kulik, Mt. Carmel;
Gloria Maniero Bell, Harrington, Del.

Class of 1952

David T. North, town; Tom Schukis,
Clayton, N. J.; Dotty Stec, Salem, N. J.;
Kitty Mitchell, Warminster.
June, 1953

the

Red

Cross,

and

er

Nrrrnlttitii
Dr. G. C. L. Riemer
Dr. Guido Carl Leo Riemer,
principal of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College from 1923 until
1927 when it was a State Normal
School, died Friday, March 13, at
the home of a son, Grier Riemer, in
Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio.

The widely known Pennsylvania
educator was aged eighty years,
and had been

retired since

1943.

Funeral services were held from
Shaker Heights.
Dr. Riemer for many years has
been a leader in education in the
eastern part of the United States,
an active contributor of articles on

education to various magazines,
and a speaker on education.

He was born in Saxe-Weimar,
Germany, on August 27, 1873, and
came to the United States with his
family in 1882.
He received his
early education at Clarion, Pa., and
attended Bucknell University, from
which he was graduated with the
degree of AB in 1895. He received
the degree of Master of Arts from
Bucknell in 1896, and the degree

Doctor of Laws in 1926.
attended Harvard University
in 1900, receiving the degree of
Master of Arts, and the University
of Liepzig, from which he was
graduated with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1905.
He began his professional career
at Bucknell in 1901, where he was
of

He

German until 1918. He
member of the Department

Professor of

was

a

of Public Instruction of the State
of Pennsylvania, from 1918 until
1923, and was principal of the

Pennsylvania State Normal School,
Bloomsburg, from 1923 until 1927.
He then became president of the
Pennsylvania State Teachers College at Clarion, Pa., serving from
1928 until 1937. From 1937 to his
retirement in 1943 he was Professor of Speech at the Pennsylvania
State Teachers College at Kutztown, Pa.
Following his retirement he continued to live in Kutztown, devoting his time to public service activities, including the Boy Scouts,

library organ-

when

Dr. Riemwife went to live with
his son, Grier, and family at Shaker Heights.
He is survived by Mrs. Riemer,
the former Mary Grier Youngman,
whom he married in Danville, Pa.,
in 1901, by three sons: Karl, an attorney in Washington, D. C., Grier,
a landscape architect in Cleveland,
and Hugo, president of the Nitrogen Division of Allied Chemical
and Dye Corporation; and by a
dauughter, Mrs. Isabel Turner, of
Houston, Texas.
A brother and
sister also survive: Dr. H. B. C.
Riemer, and Mrs. G. A. Stuntzner,
both of Norwood, Mass.
He was a member of the Nationization, until 1950,

and

his

Education Association, the Pennsylvania State Educational Association, Phi Delta Kappa, honorary
educational fraternity, and Phi
Gamma Delta.
al

Florence Hess Cool

’88

With the passing of Mrs. Florence Cool, Bloomsburg lost one of
its
most distinguished and loyal
graduates.
Mrs. Cool,

who lived in Culver
City, California, during the last few
years of her life, was taken to the
hospital

Monday,

March

2,

passed away Tuesday, March

and
10.

Her physical condition had become
steadily worse for three months
previous to her death.
At the Alumni Meeting held on
Alumni Day in 1952, Mrs. Cool was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Citation of the Alumni Association,
in recognition of her work in organizing the Philadelphia Branch.
As president of that organization,
she served long and worked hard.

Her enthusiasm and loyalty were
an inspiration to all who worked
with her.
Mrs. Cool is survived by her son,
Harold N. Cool T2, 4115 Irving
Place, Culver City, California, and
by four grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren, all living in
Culver City. She is also survived
by two sisters and a brother.

McKown Hawke ’89
Adelaide McKown Hawke,

Mrs. Adelaide
Mrs.
of

Tunkhannock,

died

July

14,

1952, at the age of over eighty-five
23

She retired from the Tunkhannock schools in June, 1935. In
years.

the early days of her teaching career, she taught for three years in
the rural schools.

Elizabeth Zeliner Keiper ’96
Mrs. S. Elizabeth Zehner Keiper,
of Rock Glen, died Thursday night,
March 19, at her home after a lengthy illness.
Born December 13, 1873, she was
seventy-nine
aged
accordingly
years and was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Zehner.
She resided in the Rock Glen area
throughout her life and was a member of the Black Creek Methodist
Church, Black Creek township.
She was a graduate of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and taught school forty years,
retiring in 1943 at the age of seventy.

Emory I. Bowman
Emory I Bowman, class of 1899,
died at his home in Washington, D.
’99

C. on February 6, 1953, at the age
Following his graduation,
of 74.
Mr. Bowman taught in several
,

schools in

Dauphin County, Penn-

sylvania, for about three years. He
then settled in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, where he went into the furHe continued in
niture business.
this

business until his death,

ing from

Shamokin

to

mov-

Washington,

D. C., in 1922.

Frank A. Humphreys ’03
Frank A. Humphreys, Birmingham, Alabama, class of 1903, passed away on November 28, 1952, at
the age of 69. He had been in failing health for the past three years,
although he was active in his work
up to the day of his death.
He was a 32nd degree Mason,
Scottish Rite, member of Zamore
Temple Shrine, Vestryman, Lay
Reader and Trustee of Grace Episcopal Church, also Past Patron of

Woodlawn Chapter

110 Order of

Eastern Star.

He was most

interested in

the

program of State Teachers College
and enjoyed the Quarterly greatly.
He had a pleasant visit at the reunion of 1938 and again in 1943,
and would surely have made the
reunion again this year had he liv-

ed and

Normal School, and

his health permitted.

early in his

took over the active management of the J. L. Dillon floral firm.

life

Ann

Challis

Ann

Mrs.

Thompson Clark 04
Thompson
Challis

Clark, a teacher of physical education in the Washington Irving
High School, New York City, for
thirty-eight years until her retirement in 1952, died recently in St.
Luke’s Hospital.

Clark

Mrs.

Bloomsburg and

was

New

educated at
York Univer-

Before joining the Washington Irving High School faculty in
1914, she had taught for seven
years at Rye Seminary.
She was married to Frank W.
Thompson, who died in 1927. She
is survived by her second husband,
Slade Flint Clark, and a son, David

sity.

C.

Thompson.
Oscar Boyer T3
Oscar Boyer, Ringtown, died in

the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, Sunday, January 11, 1953,

trom

complications

following

an

operation.

He was a member of the Ringtown Lutheran Church.

In association with his brother,
P. Dillon, who joined the
firm within a few years, and later

Harold

aided by his

own

son,

Douglas,

who became
last

active in the firm the
years, he built the local

few

business into a position of prominence.

Both
and in

in the size of the operation

pioneering work

its

at-

it

tracted the interest and attention
of florists throuughout the nation.
Much of the experimental work
was carried on in such an outstanding manner that universities and
colleges featuring horticulture became interested and for many
years, each Fall, the local firm has
been host at a College Day which
attracts students from Cornell and
Ohio State Universities, as well as
Pennsylvania State College and
other institutions and the United
States Department of Agriculture
Experimental Station, Beltsville,

Md.

He was

a past president of Roses,
national organization of rose
growers; first president of the
Pennsylvania Growers, a director of
the Florists Hail Association, an insurance company; active in the Society of American Florists and the
f lorists Telegraph Delivery.
Inc., a

Winifred Hutchinson Stormfeltz
Mrs. John H.

Stormfeltz,

’21

fifty,

the former Winifred Hutchinson, of

Bloomsburg, died Thursday morning, January 1, 1952, at the Bryn

Mawr

Hospital, Philadelphia.

She was the daughter of Mrs.
William A. Hutchinson, West Third
street, Bloomsburg, and the late
Mr. Hutchinson. She graduated
from Bloomsburg High School in
1919 and from the Normal School
She taught school for a
in 1921.

number

of years at Elkins Park.

Charles H. Dillon
Charles Hutchison Dillon, fiftynationally-known florist and
Bloomsburg civic leader, died
Thursday, January 8, in Memorial

five,

Hospital, New York City.
Stricken while vacationing with
Mrs. Dillon at Sarasota, Fla., he
was admitted to the hospital in that

on November 12 and later removed to Memorial Hospital where
he was a patient for some weeks.
A native of Bloomsburg, son of
the late John Lloyd Dillon and
Louise Hutchison Dillon, he was
educated at the Bloomsburg State
city

He was for many years on the
committee that staged the National
Flower Show and was chairman of
one of the outstanding shows.
Mr. Dillon was a past president
of the Bloomsburg Rotary Club.
He belonged to die Bloomsburg
Country Club, was a member of
the vestry of St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, the organizer and chair-

man

of the

which

Bloomsburg Red Cross
donor program
year had the finest rec-

blood

chapter

last

ord in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
He was a past president of the

Bloomsburg

Chamber

of

Com-

former member of die
Bloomsburg School Board, a direc-

merce,
tor of

Trust

a

Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia

Company,

a

member

Washington Lodge, No. 265,

F.

of

&

M., Caldwell Consistory, and
other Masonic bodies and of the
Bloomsburg Lodge, No. 436, B. P.

A.

O. Elks.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
24

'SauceAed and
NELSON

E. H.

B lowed'
’ll

1903

SOME OF US REMEMBERThree terms

—

Fall

—

Winter

—

modern two Semester

Spring, not the

ar-

rangement.

When Main

Street had
on Market Square.

a trolley

and there was no Soldier-Sailor monument

When

exercises in “nailing, chiseling, and joining (including the halved
joint, ledge joint, dove-tail halved across, halved miter, mortise and
tenon, simple and compound dovetails)” were a part of the teacher train-

corner

ing program.

When

tuition, board, furnished

room, heat,

light,

and laundry

cost $140.00

for a full year.

When

Dr. Aldinger taught “health, grace, beauty, and ease of movement,”
a “gvm” exhibition that was a gala day on

and climaxed the training with
the Hill.

1928

MORE OF

US RECALL-

The

fine Alumni meeting President Fred Deihl arranged, and II. Walter
Riland's appeal to beat Wyoming Seminary in the Alumni Day baseball

game.

(Bloomsburg did win.

Score

3-2.)

The

aggressive leadership of Professor O. H. Bakeless in securing funds to
decorate and refurnish corridors, lobbies, and the Alumni Room.

Miss

McCammon’s

The high

The

fine

May Day

program.

school basketball tournament

Minstrel

show put on by

won by

Nanticoke.

the North Hall boys during the

Summer

Session.

1943

MANY OF US HOLD IN VIVID MEMORYorganization of a College War Council to give active attention to Air
Raid Warnings, fire protection, American Unity, Conservation of Defense
Materials, and men-in-service.

The

Military drill three periods per week for over fifty students with reserve
status as a preparation for call to active service.

part the College played in the War Effort
large number of Naval Officers and Cadets.

The

by housing and

training a

1953

ALL OF US EXTEND GREETINGS—
To

the Graduating Class now enrolled 100% in the active Alumni Group
of the General Association. May you continue through the years to hold
dear the memories of your student days by aggressive leadership that
will reflect credit

on you and your Alma Mater.

COLLEGE CALENDAR
1953

-

1954
WEEKS

PRE-SESSION - THREE

1953

Monday, June

Begins

8
Friday, June 26

Ends

1953

REGULAR SESSION -

Registration
Classes Begin
Classes End

WEEKS
Monday, June 29
Tuesday, June 30

_

Friday, August

1953

7

POST SESSION - THREE WEEKS
Monday, August 10

Begins
v

SIX

Ends

Friday. August 28

FIRST SEMESTER Registration of Freshmen
Registration of Upper-Classmen
Classes Begin _

Thanksgiving Recess Begins
Thanksgiving Recess Ends
Christmas Recess Begins
Christmas Recess Ends
First Semester Ends
*

_

1953-1954

Tuesday, September 8
Wednesday, September 9
Thursday, September 10

Tuesday, November 24
Monday, November 30

Wednesday, December 16
Monday, January 4

SECOND SEMESTER Registration
Classes Begin

_

1953-1954

Monday, January
Tuesday, January
Tuesday, April
Tuesday, April

-

Easter Recess Begins
Easter Recess Ends

ALUMNI DAY

May
Mav
Monday, May

Saturday,

Sunday,

Baccalaureate Services

Commencement

Thursday, January 21

Exercises

_

25
26
13

20
22
23
24

The Alumni Quarterly
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Photo by Edward DeVo

Vol.

L/V

September 1953
,

No. 3

?

HOW MANY

TEACH

This question was answered more than a decade ago in the April, 1940, issue

Alumni Quarterly, based on our survey of over 1,000 persons who received
Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education between the years 1931 and 1940.

of the
the

At the beginning of the Pennsylvania Legislature, which recently adjourned,
“How Many of the Graduates of the
Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges Actually Teach?”
the same question was asked again, namely,

We are now planning to survey nearly 1,700 Degree holders
from our college between the years 1941 and 1952, inclusive.
Since

we have made

sive),

and

have,

when

Alumni

of

who graduated

a five-year survey of 519 graduates (1941 to 1945 inclu-

a three year survey of 275 graduates (1946 to 1948 inclusive),

the present survey

is

we

shall

completed, the most complete picture of our

any State Teachers College

in the

United

States.

Will you help Bloomsburg by answering the questionnaire appearing on
if you have not already done so, and by
page 19 of ihis issue of the Quarterly, for whom
we have no addresses, so that you can help us locate them?

page 20

of this issue of the Quarterly,

scrutinizing the

Our

last

list

of persons on

survey shows an increasing number of graduates have gone into the

field of teaching, as follows:

Ten-year Survey (1931 to 1940 inclusive)
Five-year Survey (1941 to 1945 inclusive)
Three-year Survey (1946 to 1948 inclusive)

77%
83%
89%

These figures are about ten per cent higher than those shown
to the Department of Public Instruction annually.

We

teaching
teaching
teaching

in the reports

made

must have figures to show that Bloomsburg is truly a State Teachers
College, and your cooperation in returning the questionnaire, if you have not
already done so, and sending us the present address of students which we do not
have, will be appreciated by
President

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No. 3

Vol. LI V,

September, 1953

NEW DEAN OF WOMEN

r

Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, of South
Williamsport,

dean of

Published quarterly by the Alumni
Association of the State Teachers Col-

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.
lege,

has

women

at

been

named

the Teachers

College. Mrs. Miller, who has been
dean of women at Lycoming College, Williamsport, since 1950, succeded Dr. Marguerite V. Kehr,
whose retirement became effective
at the close of the Pre-Session of
the current Summer School.
Dean Miller holds the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Education
from the Slippery Rock State
Teachers College and the Master
of Education degree from the PennHer pubsylvania State College.

PRINCIPALS IN SESSION
EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

BUSINESS MANAGER
E.

H. Nelson,

’ll

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E.

H. Nelson

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY

Methods of evaluating student
growth in terms of modern needs
and demands were discussed during the first day of a two-day conference of the Pennsylvania branch
of the Secondary Principals Association at the Teachers College.
The conference, one of a number

Summer

of

Discussion

Group

Workshops held throughout the
state, began June 15 and concluded
June

16.

Dr.

Ernest H.

Engle-

hardt, director of secondary education at the teachers college, was
coordinator for the local workshop.
One of the largest groups ever
to attend the Bloomsburg sessions,
the visitors were entertained at the

weekly assembly program where

lie

school experience includes class-

room teaching

in

Worthington,

Pa.,

consolidated school and the public
schools
Prior to

South

of

Williamsport.

becoming dean of women
at Lycoming College, Mrs. Miller
held a similar position at the Edinboro State Teachers College. She
was also associated with the Lycoming College office of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Assistance.

Mrs. Miller assumed her new
duties at the College with the
start of the regular Summer session on Monday, June 29.

Stephen Kozakevitch, baritone, and
Priscilla Alchard, presented a song
recital. Dr. Thomas P. North, dean
of instruction,

welcomed

the

mem-

bers of the association to the campus,

plans

and Dr. Englehardt outlined
for

the

discussion

groups.

Leon C. Bubeck, principal of Forty Fort High School, served as
chairman for the general meeting.
Two discussion groups were led
by J. Frank Dennis, principal, Elmer L. Meyers High School, Wilkes-Barre, and Herbert G. Cobley,
associate

superintendent

Bloomsburg public

schools.

of

the

Con-

groups were Dr.
Vernon G. Smith, professor of education, Wilkes College, and Dr.
William A. Herr, principal, Grebey
junior High School, Hazleton.
sultants for the

Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet F. Carpenter

ON THE COVER
The cover photograph represents a span of over fifty years of athletics
Bloomsburg. Let to right: Jack Yohe, present coach of baseball and football; Dr. A. K. Aldinger, the father of athletics at B.S.T.C.; Dean Emeritus
William B. Sutliff, for many years Faculty Manager of Athletics; Danny
Litwhiler, ’38, noted big-league star; and Dr. E. H. Nelson, President of the
Alumni Association and for many years Director of Health Education,
Faculty Manager of Athletics and baseball coach.
at

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith
Elizabeth H. Hubler

September, 1953

1

AND ADMIRATION

PRAISE

In “Twin Tower Light,” May 8,
1953, containing the Congregational Activities of the Mt. Lebanon
United Presbyterian Church, of
which Dr. Cary N. Weisiger III, is
minister, the following appeared
in the Pastor’s

Column:

Last fall I participated in a panel
The occasion was a
discussion.
conference of the deans of women
As a rein Pennsylvania colleges.
then I went
up to Bloomsburg a few days ago
to speak to an assembly hour of the
State Teachers College.
I was impressed by what I saw.
sult of a contact

made

administration, faculty, and
student body with the attractive
campus are a credit to the educational standards of this commonwealth.
There are about 800 students

The

enrolled.

Most

of

them come from

surrounding north central Pennsyl-

and the majority are preparing to teach. There are two compulsory assemblies a week. I gave
a Christian message which was

vania,

graciously received.

The

trip

gave

me

a

different
region of

glimpse of the mountain
Pennsylvania. Not knowing what
to expect in the way of views I
happened upon one of breath-taking beauty just west of State College on route 322. Coming over a
ridge at a place that is something
of a gap I found myself gazing
upon a wide vista of ranges and
valleys that run across the state
It
from southwest to northeast.
is the most impressive view that I
have beheld in this state.
1
was told that some of the anthracite mines in this region are
now exhausted. There are miners

now seeking jobs in industry.
One girl explained that her
ather was now working at the Fairwho

are

l

less

Plant of U.

S.

Steel in Morris-

ville.

Even so the region seems rich in
resources of agriculture and commerce. There seems to be substitution of occupation but no diminishing of wealth and opportunity.
On the whole it was a pleasant
experience and a chance to give an
appeal for life dedicated to the plan
of Cod.
2

ANDRUSS GIVES ADDRESS

BEN FRANKLIN
HAD FULL HOUSE

DR.

Enrollment at the Benjamin
Franklin School of the Teachers
College was excellent, according to
Miss Edna J. Hazen, director of
elementary education. Miss Hazen reported that as many children
as could be accommodated were
registered for the six-weeks sum-

proach

mer session.
The first and second

grades, under the direction of Mrs. Lucile
Baker, emphasized science activTire children
ities this summer.

worked on a literature unit which
up to a musical play, “One Enchanted Hour with Jack and the

led

Student teachers with
Baker were Mrs. Veronica
Kane, Sunbury, and Mrs. Sara
Mack, Milton. A nutrition unit
was introduced in the third and
fourth grades under the direction
of Mrs. Iva Mae Beckley. The aim
Beanstalk.”

Mrs.

was to provide experience that
would develop a liking for nutritious foods. Through many varied
experiences, the children developed
a better understanding of the need
Student
for eating various foods.
teachers were Jason Schaeffer, Selinsgrove, and Jack Gardner, Elys-

In outlining tire constructive apto the answers of his theme
query, “What Do
Do Now?”
President Harvey A. Andruss of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
told the graduating class of Lake
Township High School, Lake Ariel,
Wayne County, to beware of preof
the
present,
scapeservers
goat hunters or buck-passers, and
pursuers of the past— all of whom
give good advice to young people.
Today we must find new. answers to old questions, have a sense
of humor, and appreciate the sacrifices of those who have made
our country, our homes, and our
schools possible.

We

A

graduating class of thirty-five
is always
a confusing place for those who
are growing up; therefore they
should be careful in acting on the
advice of others who think only of
themselves or the past and frequently try to shift the responsibility to the war, someone else or
anything which will explain their
apparent inability to cope with

were told that the world

problems.

burg.

Miss Edna J. Barnes, who was
the fifth and sixth grade teacher,
planned a study of folk tales around
the world as a means of understanding people of the world. The
pupils made some of these folk
tales into plays and learned folk
The program
songs and dances.
also included daily instruction in
typewriting and bi-weekly parties
in the college pool. Student teachers were Mrs. Maizie Freas, Eyersgrove, and Joseph Trudnak, Mocanaqua.
The bovs and girls of the special
class studied cowboys and the related subject, the meat packing inThey received material
dustry.
from different states where beef
The usual prorattle are raised.

ALUMNI DAY

OCTOBER

10

Football

B.S.T.C. vs. Trenton

gram of reading, arithmetic, science
and handicraft was offered with
materials related to the general
Student teachers
unit of study.
Hosier,
Marjorie
Mrs.
were

Bloomsburg; Mrs. Eva Trachtenberg, Ashlev, and Nicholas Badida,
Schuylkill Haven.
TIIF

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

SELECTIONS FROM THE

14-22; 2: 1-13; 14-23; 3: 1-11; 4:
9-10; 13-17.

BIBLE FOR CLASSROOM
A

of the second semester
1952-53, B.S.T.C.
Edited
by Marjorie Ay re and Mary Grace Aimers, under direction of Dr. Marguerite

project
Ethics Class

—

1516

Section

Pennsylvania
Bible to be read in

School Law —
public schools.

14.

least ten verses

ject to direction, then the teacher
exercising such authority shall read
the Holy Bible, or cause it to be
read, as herein directed.
If
any school teacher, whose
duty it shall be to read the Holy
Bible, or cause it to be read, shall
fail or omit so to do, said school
teacher shall, upon charges preferred for such failure or omission,
and proof of the same, before the
board of school directors of the
school
district,
be discharged.
(Amended May 9, 1949, P. L. 939.)
The selections should be:
Generally acceptable.
At least ten verses but not too

1-17; 28-

31; 55.

Psalms— 19:

1-9; 23; 33: 4-8;

67; 90: 1-6; 12;

from the Holy
Bible shall be read, or caused to
be read, without comment, at the
opening of each public school on
each day, by the teacher in charge:
Provided, that where any teacher
has other teachers under and sub-

At

The Story of Esther—The whole
book.
Ecclesiastes— 3: 1-8; 12: 1-7; 13;
Isaiah (Isaias)-35; 40:

Kehr.

\V.

1;

(first

16;

12;
17; 93; 95: 1-7

sentence only); 96; 100; 103:

1-8; 15-22; 104: 1-5; 24; 111; 119:
1-16; 121; 136: 1-9; 23-26; 139: 1-12;
145: 1-13; 148: 1-13.

(Psalms 9-147 in the Roman
Catholic version are one number
less than this King James version
numbering.
Sometimes there is
also a difference in the numbering
of the verses.)
Recommended: Bible Readings
lor School and Home— Elizabeth

M. Wesson.
60 cents.

Harper

&

readings by subject
such as The Greatness of God and
Great People of the Bible; great
passages for memorizing; and readIncludes

ment:

—

In the Beginning
Genesis 1:
1-10; 11-23; 24-31; 2: 1-3.
The Garden of Eden— Gen. 2:
4-17.

Noah and

Ark— Gen.

the

7: 7-10; 8: 1-12;

6: 9-22;

15-19; 9: 8-17.

—

The Storv of Joseph
Gen. 37:
1-11; 12-22;' 39: 1-23; 40: 1-23; 2336; 41: 1-13; 14-24; 25-36; 37-47;
4S-57; 42: 1-17; 18-28; 29-38; 43:
I- 14; 15-25; 26-34; 44: 1-13; 14-34;
45: 1-15; 16-28; 46:
1 - 12

1-7; 28-34; 47:

.

The Storv

Moses— Exodus

of

1:

7-14; 2: 1-10; 2: 23-25; 3: 1-10; 3:
II- 22; 4: 1-17; 18-23; 29-31; 5: 1-14;
6: 1-8;

14:

12: 21-28; 29-39; 13: 20-22;

5-14;

19-31;

Deuteronomy
The Story

19:

20;

1-17.

20:

34.

of Joshua (Josue)—
Joshua 6: 1-11; 12-20; 23.
The Storv of Gideon— Judges 6:

The Story

of

September, 1953

Ruth— Ruth

1:

1-8;

Fowler, Berwick; Patricia A. Hartman, Bloomsburg R. D. 5; Bertha
M. Knouse, Bloomsburg R. D. 2;
M. Lundy, Bloomsburg;
Joyce
Jean E. Zimmerman, Berwick.

Sophomores

Mr. and Mrs. I. Pordy, New York
The wedding and recepCiCty.
tion took place on Sunday, June
20, at Franklin Manor, Brooklvn,
N. Y.
graduate of
Mrs.
Pordy,
a
High
School and
Bloomsburg
B.S.T.C., also attended the School
of Retailing,

New

York University.

At the present time, she is a member of the executive buying staff
of R. H. Miller, Inc., a national apparel chain store organization.
Mr. Pordy, a veteran of World

War

II. is currently employed by
the Department of Justice, Immigration Service.

After a wedding trip to Havana,
Cuba, the couple will reside in

New York

City'.

Bogart, Berwick; Vin-

Buckwash, Keiser; Hope H.
Horne, Catawissa R. D. 3; Sally F.
Morgan, Edwardsville; Ruth E.
Paul, Plymouth; Malcolm H. Smith,
cent

Hazleton;

residents, announce the marriage of their daughter, Ethel
Claire, to Melvin Pordy, son of

Nancy

teaching in

the schools of Leadwood, Missouri.

Williams,

Juniors

Charles R. Andrews, West Pittston; W. Leonard Carson, Mt. Carmel; Mary R. Dreibelbis, Bloomsburg; Joseph R. Froncek, West
Wyoming; Betty M. Hoover, Halifax R. D. 2; Gerald C. Houseknecht,
Bloomsburg; James L.
Kessler,

Danville;

Phyllis E.

Mc-

Laren, Orlando, Fla.; David A. Superdock, Freeland; Elaine Gunther
Yeager. Berwick.
Seniors
Clyxle H. Bell, Freeland; Irene
L. Ciehowicz, Shenandoah; Edwin
Warren Cunfer, Slatington; Joann

Fornwald

Edwards, Bloomsburg;
Richard W.
Evans,
Shamokin;
Loretta C. Formulak, Glen Lyon;
Thomas A. Goodwin, Kane; Robert
V. Llaas, Nescopeck; Richard H.
Jones, Millville; Wilma I. Jones,
LeRaysville; William H. Kline,
Millersburg; Leonora M. MacGill,
Nisbet; Russell Rhodes, Catawissa
R. D. 3.

HARRY
52

is

S.

Summit.

S.

REAL ESTATE

Wormer

in at-

Freshmen
Wylla Mae Bowman, Berwick;
Mrs. Virginia Dunn, Bloomsburg;
Shirley Fisher, Shamokin; Elaine

Clark’s

Robert

11-23; 7: 9-21.

average of at least 2.0 while
tendance at B.S.T.C.

Prepared with advice and criticism of authorities of the Protestant. Catholic and Jewish faiths.

burg
the Old Testa-

point average of 2.5 or better for
the semester and an accumulative

ings for special occasions.

A

unit.

who have qualified for the Dean’s
List for the second semester, 195253.
These students have a quality

Lynda M.

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lauer, of
Brooklym, N. Y., former Blooms-

Selections from

Dr. Thomas P. North, Dean of
Instruction at B.S.T.C., has released the following names of students

Brothers.

Suited to the age of the students.

long.

HONORS AT
TEACHERS COLLEGE
LIST

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

RENOVATIONS FOR CARVER
HALL AND LOUNGE PLANNED
In order that the visitor to the
of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College may be able to
find the administrative offices in
the first building which he approaches, the renovation of the first
floor of Carver Hall is now in progress. This change has been needed for years and will put the administrative offices in the front of
the college where they can be easily found by the public and will
remove them from the cramped inadequate space they now occupy.

campus

The contract will provide for the
renovation of the entire first floor
of Carver Hall into space for the
administrative offices of the college which are now located in Waller Hall. Up to the present time this
first floor of Carver Hall has provided four classrooms and one large
faculty office space. The renovation
will provide space for offices of
the President,

Dean

of Instruction,

and Business Manager, with a
Board Meeting Room and Reception

Room

included.

This contract will also include a
new slate roof on the Carver Hall
building and painting of the auditorium ceiling. The Infirmary will
receive some attention— a new ceiling and floor covering will be installed.

The

MOTHER, SON GET DEGREES

COMMENDED

A Sunbury mother and her son
were awarded the Bachelor of Sci-

The Board of Trustees of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College has passed an unanimous res-

ence in Education degree at the
completion of the Summer Session
of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College.
Mrs. Pearl Bickel, and
her son, Irving, of 1028 Masser
street, Sunbury, completed their
degree requirements during that
Session.
Bickel,
whose husband,
A. Bickel, was former principal of the Sunbury Junior-Senior
High School, was graduated from

Mrs.

Grants

Sunbury High School and attended
the Bloomsburg Normal School.
She has been teaching at the Selinsgrove Colony for Epileptics.

Kuster as Chairman.
So far this year, the profits from

Mr. Bickel
the

is

a representative

Lyons-Carnahan

Company

of

New

York.

The son, Irving, is a graduate
of the Sunbury High School, class
of 1949.
He attended Bucknell
University

before

transferring

months

an active

member

of the

Maroon

and Gold Band, and he held memberships in the Future Teachers of
America, Men’s Dormitory AssoHe
ciation, and the Science Club.
plans to teach
school this fall.

in

an

area high

JOSEPH

of the Eagleville

School, in Cali-

fornia.

His wife, the former Lucy Jane
has accepted a teaching

Baker,

position in the

same

school.

administered through the
faculty committee on Scholarships
and Grants, with Dr. Kimber C.

the Retail Book Store have made
available for College Community
Grants, approximately $3,000.00,
which aided 34 students. Amounts
varied from $50.00 to $150.00.
During this period, the Alumni
Association has made available
slightly less than $2,500.00 to students from the Loan Fund, and
along with several of the recent
post war classes have made scholamounting
to
arship
awards
8500.00.
In addition to all these scholarships, grants and loans, the student
payroll of the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College has offered an
opportunity for students to earn
approximately $30,000.00 during
the current college year.

Miss Judith E. Fry, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Fry, of Williamstown, became the bride of
John Hain McCarthy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Hain, of Harris-

to complete.

Robert E. Laubscher has just
completed the Master’s Degree in
Administration from Columbia University, New York City, and has
accepted the position of principal

to

Bloomsburg to complete his education.
At Bloomsburg he was enrolled in the Department of Secondary Education, majoring in Science and Social Studies. He was

college

six

of

Publishing

originally

proximately

olution of appreciation to President
Harvey A. Andruss, for his generosity in making available to students profits from one of his books
to the amount of $700.00. Originally known as the President’s Scholarship, this amount will become a
part of the College Community

Leon

recreation center,
was the old gymnasium, receives a new asphalt tile
covered cement floor replacing the
present old wooden floor. In addition, a fireplace and small lounge
room are to constructed at the
north end of the recreation center.
This contract will require ap-

which

BY TRUSTEES

C.

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner.

'34

burg, in a ceremony performed Memorial Day in the Immanuel Lutheran Church, of Williamstown.
Both the bride and groom are students at the Teachers College.
A reception followed at Trade
Winds Hotel and the couple then
motored north for their honeymoon. The bride is a senior at the
Teachers College where she is a
member of Kappa Delta Pi and Pi
Omega Pi and was recently chosen
Bloomsbnrg’s 1953 coed of the

The bridegroom
year.
and active in athletics.

is

a junior

The couple

Mr. and Mrs. Laubscher left for
California, Sunday morning, August

will reside with the bridegroom’s
parents until September when they
will return to Bloomsburg to re-

16.

sume

4

their studies.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

ATHLETICS
(From the “Fanning” Column
Morning Press.)

Even

the present age,

in

of

The

when

Blooinsburg College football teams
are playing the best in their class
and a few generally regarded as
some distance above them, and doing all right, there are some old
timers around who will tell you that
“Old Normal played the really big
boys in the good old days.
Some time ago a friend brought
in the office a copy of The Morning Press of September 17, 1902.
That was the year this publication
was founded and the young publishers were so busy keeping things
moving that the file was neglected.
As a result there are few copies
of the early issues in the office
files.

This one carried a front page
story that the University of Pennsylvania was coming the following
Tuesday to Bloomsburg to meet the
local eleven.

We

should have talked this game
over with Dr. A. K. Aklinger when
He
he was here in the Spring.
could have told us how the game
out. The article that we are
printing here dealt only with the
arrangements of the game.
It will be of interest, however,
in this age when football schedules
are arranged years in advance.
This one was setup just a week
before it was played. And Pennsylvania was coming here for the

made

editor of The Morning Press.
“Prior to this conversation Manager Crossley, of the Normal football team, informed a representative of The Morning Press that

Pennsylvania would be here Tuesday provided they could make the
necessary train arrangements, so
that they could reach Philadelphia,
Wednesday morning.
“This conversation led to the
one over the ’phone with Manager
Evans.
“He was assured that he could
leave here after the game and get
to Philadelphia the next morning,

upon which he stated that he would
have the boys here Tuesday without a doubt.

“Can we so

state

it

in

tomorrow

morning’s paper?” he was asked.
“Yes, certainly,” he replied.
“Manager Crossley, of the Normal team, was immediately apprised of the fact and he stated
that everything would be in readi-

this

tract attention

year,

it

will at-

throughout the col-

lege world.

“Normal’s men are green— very
green— but they are a beefy lot of
youngsters and have all kinds of
grit.

“Manager Evans stated that
Penn’s team was not a heavy one,
rather the reverse, and that the
Normal boys would probably size
up with their men.
“The game will be a great one
for
Bloomsburg and Columbia
county and there will undoubtedly
be a large attendance.
“Pennsylvania is being coached
by Carl Williams, who played on
the team for several years.
He,
together with Bull and Hedges, two
other famous Pennsylvania players, will be here.
“Their football squad will be
composed of Richardson, Metzger,
Dick, Weschler, Torrey, Thomas,
Donaldson, Collins, Taylor, Stock-

ness for them.

“The boys

Pennsylvania

of the

Red and Blue

well.

McCabe,

Piekarski, Fortiner,

probably arrive in Bloomsburg
on the noon train over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and
leave over the Pennsylvania road

Bradbury, Bogardus, Dale, Howard, Weissenfluh, Kellar, Weede,
Hartung,
Gardiner,
Sloan,
and
Hare.

in

the evening, taking the sleeper

at

Sunbury.

“Coach Aldinger has not yet decided upon his lineup, but all the
candidates are working hard and

will

“In

game

view
wall

of

the fact

be the

first

that

the

one for

faithfully practicing.”

BLOOMSBURG

S.T.C.

HOME GAMES

contest.

we had an athletic
leading university
come to Blooinsburg it was for basketball and one of the stipulations
was the type of defense the Huskies
The

team

had

last

time

from

to use.

Here’s the article telling of arranging for that U. of P. game:
“The Morning Press is able this
morning to assure its readers that
the University of Pennsylvania
football team will play the Bloomsburg Normal team on the Normal
gridiron.

"October 10

Trenton S.T.C.

October 17

Scranton University

October 24

California S.T.C.

a

November

14

West Chester

S.T.C.

November

21

Lock Haven

S.T.C.

AWAY
September 26 (N)
October

3

Wilkes College
Mansfield S.T.C.

Tuesday.

“This announcement is based
a conversation over the long
distance telephone, last evening,
between Manager Evans of the
Pennsylvania football team and the

upon

September, 1953

October 31

“Homecoming

New Haven

S.T.C.

ALUMNI

T H E

LUZERNE COUNTY

COLUMBIA COUNTY
PRESIDENT
Edward
S. T. C.,

PRESIDENT

A. Wilkes-Barre Area

DeVoe, ’31
Bloomsburg, Pa.
T.

PRESIDENT

Donald Rabb. ’46
Market St., Benton, Pa.

New

Miss Betty Roberts

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

’41

Sharretts,

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY
Edward D.

Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St., Tunkhannock. PA.

Elfed Vid Jones

VICE PRESIDENT

S. T. C.,

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

VICE PRESIDENT
Miss Mabel Dexter,

Jerry Russin

Bloomsburg. Pa.

’52

Milford, Pa.

’19

Mehoopany. Pa.

RECORDING SECRETARY

TREASURER
Paul L. Brunstetter,
441 East

Main

St.,

SECRETARY

Mrs. Betty Hensley

’14

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, T4

Catawissa, Pa.

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

42 Slocum, Ave.,

SECRETARY

TREASURER

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbrouck,

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

Miss Mary A. Meehan, T8
2632 Lexington St., Harrisburg, Pa.
Miss Nellie M. Seidel, T3
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs. Olwen Argust Hartley,

New

PRESIDENT
Harold

J.

40 South Pine

VICE PRESIDENT
Paul Englehart, ’07
2921 George St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Baum,

147 East Chestnut

’27

WASHINGTON,

St.,

Hazleton. Pa.

SECRETARY

TREASURER

Miss Eva Morgan,
2217 North

Main

Ave., Scranton, Pa.

David W. Foust,

Mrs. Henrietta Cabo McCann, ’30
1315 Prospect Ave., Scranton, Pa.

SECRETARY
Miss Florence Dunn, ’31
427 Washington Ave.. Jermyn, Pa.

R. D.

2,

Danville, Pa.

TREASURER
6000

SECRETARY
312

Church

St.,

Mrs.

VICE PRESIDENT
Mary Davenport Shope,

Washington, D. C.

Danville, Pa.

TREASURER

WEST BRANCH AREA

Miss Susan Sidler, ’30
615 Bloom St., Danville Pa.

PRESIDENT
Mrs. Anna Price Snyder, ’23
251 Garfield Ave.. Milton, Pa.

’35

729 St.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

J.

VICE PRESIDENT

HONORARY PRESIDENT
’42

George Ave., Rahway, N.

J.

SECRETARY
A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.

Mrs. Lillian Hortman Irish,
732 Washington

St.,

Mrs. Kathryn House Everitt,
R. D. 2, Lewisburg, Pa.

’06

Camden, N.

’30

J.

SECRETARY

PRESIDENT
Mrs.

Erma Moyer

Angstadt,

J.

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer, T8
Fairview Village, Pa.

SECRETARY-TREASURER

TREASURER

J.

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, ’09
7011 Erdrick St., Philadelphia 35, Pa.

Miss Cora Baumer, ’49
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs. Erma Miller Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.
6

’16

’05

PRESIDENT
Anthony Conte,
John St., Elizabeth, N.

McAndrew Murphy,
Nevada Ave., N. W.

Mrs. Harriet

Pa.

NEW YORK AREA
323

’41

VICE PRESIDENT

Miss Alice Smull,
’21

RECORDING SECRETARY
Mrs. Catherine Oplinger Renninger,
1728 N. Rhodes St., Apt. 278,
Arlington, Va.

’35

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash St., Danville, Pa.

TREASURER
Miss Lydia Bohn,

Virginia L. Rasser, ’30
Washington, D. C.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

227 Stephen Ave., Scranton,

CORRESPONDINF SECRETARY

MONTOUR COUNTY

’22

C.

VICE PRESIDENT

McHose Ecker ’32
Washington Ave., W. Hazleton, Pa.

PRESIDENT

AREA

Pauline L. Danden, ’92
1840 Biltmore St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

TREASURER
127

C.,

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Lucille

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

D.

Walter Lewis, ’42
1736 “G” St., N. W„ Washington, D.

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
1821 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

’14

Milford, Pa.

Hazleton, Pa.

St.,

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

Miss Pearl L. Baer. ’32
21 South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

Area

B. Hazleton

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Tunkhannock, Pa.

Chester Wojcik

DAUPHIN-CUMBEKLAND AREA

517

McClay

’35

Ave., Lewisburg, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

1892
Mr. and Mrs. Clem C. Creveling
(Anna Kitchen) live at 1S4 Rockford

Mount

Airy, North Carolina.
They celebrated their golden wedding September 17, 1952, at which
time about three hundred of their
fellow-townsmen called to offer
Street,

their congratulations.

1901

We

are at “war not against communism
but against hunger
and want, ” Dr. Frank C. Laubach,
world authority on information of
the masses, advised recently as he
returned to his native Renton to address the Benton Joint High School
.

.

graduating

.

class.

In his opening remarks, the famed educator of millions of the
world’s illiterate peoples, reflected
upon his own graduation from Benton in 1900, the first Benton high
school class to graduate, and mentioned in passing that his son, Robert, had presented him for awarding of an honorary doctorate at
Syracuse University.

He spoke of his recent return
from India and of seeing large airfields for jet planes as part of our
defense from a Russian attack from

He said, however,
north.
he did not think attack would
come from that direction, but that
we should be wary of activities in
Asia and Africa. In fact, he expressed “I believe ... I could be
the

that

wrong
Russia will not start a
hot war with atomic words. She is
waging and winning the cold war.”
The speaker declared “we are
losing the battle for men’s minds
the battle for Democracy.” Of
such battles, he said, the biggest
was in India where he has been engaged in the past year and a half
in educational effort for the U. S.
government in behalf of the Point
Four program. He said that eighty
per cent of the population, two and
a quarter times larger than the
United States, cannot read, and in
their recent election, voted for symbols. He said the people can’t read
.

.

.

.

.

.

newspapers and know what is going on and they do as some individual

tells

them, adding,

have Democracy

“We

can’t

like that.”

If an Armistice is attained in the
present war, he warned, “Americans must not be deluded that

September, 1953

peace has come

.

.

.

(the cold war) will

Dr.

the other

war

go on.”

still

Laubach declared

there is
longing” among the masses
of the world ... a terrible determination to raise themselves. No
a “great

one
knows
better
They want help, and

than
those

I.

that

don’t give it are likely to be considered their enemy.” He pointed
to the efforts being made to educate the Indian peoples to adopt

American farming methods through
a preparation of a primer containing ninety points.
He said that

Minister Nehru declared
only 20 of the points were
adopted, the people could raise
more food than they need.

1903
Mrs. Arthur T. Lowry (Gertrude
Follmer) has moved to Balmat,
New York. She is living with her
son, who is associated with the St.
Joseph Lead Company. Mrs. Low-

from Bloomsburg in
music with the class of 1903. and
attended the reunion of that class
ry graduated

this year.

1904

W. Ray
Flower

Ilelwig

if

If we solve the food problem in
India and Asia, he said, the people

will

we

have no desire to revolt. “If
help, we can get them (the peo-

ple).

If not.

the

Communists

will

3179

at

Calif.

1906

Prime
that

lives

Lynwood.

Street,

Carroll D. Champlin, for
many years a member of the faculty at the Pennsylvania State College, retired with emeritus rank on

Dr.

On

June 30.
scheduled

to

Mary

his

for

June 24, he was
on the Queen

sail

seventh

European

tour.

take them.”

we are not at
against
communism
but
against hunger and want, he said
that if all the Communists were
destroyed, four-fifths of the human
race might still arise.
“America’s
only hope is to help the world
Declaring that

war

.

.

.

bers of the class to count their life
not by material gain but by the

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS
Poletime Comuntzis, ’44. Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46

Manager
Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

Assistant
142 East

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODS
M.

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REPAIRS

C. Strausser, ’27, Propr.

122 East

an extensive tour

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

R.

D. 1,
took

New York,

last winter.

He

went by boat to Mexico, with a
stop-over in Cuba.
He flew from
Mexico to California, where he visited

his

daughter.

he was met by
return trip

.

“size of service.”

Girton,

In

California

.

America goes isolationist, we
will be destroyed
Need is a
menace,” he said, and revolution
and hate stem from hunger.
He concluded by advising memIf

.

W. Raymond

Lake Road, Ithaca,

bile.

many

his wife and, the

was made by automo-

Mr. Girton has retired after
years of service with the In-

ternational Salt

Company.

1910
Mrs. Grace Gillner Zane, wife
of Fred W. Zane, of Sterling, was
recently awarded a Master’s Degree
from Marywood College,
Scranton, at the Summer school
commencement exercises.
Mrs.

Zane wrote a

thesis

upon “Horace

Greeley Settlement at Greeley,
Pike County,” by which, with other
credits she obtained her degree.
Her next step is to obtain a higher
degree.
Mrs. Zane is a graduate
of Sterling High School, Bloomsburg State Normal, Syracuse University,
N. Y. She has taught
school at LaAnna, Pike county, and
Sterling, Wayne County. Her husband is Mr. Zane, employed at
Fairview, as senior revenue investigator of the department of revenue, Harrisburg.

1913

Benton High School alumni honored L. Ray Appleman, principal
7

of the school

gas stove

its

service.

from 1912 to 1952, at
annual dinner Saturday evening,
June 6, at the Benton Grange Hall
and program which followed in the
school auditorium
More than two hundred enjoyed
the outstanding evening. The invocation was given by Dr. Frank
Laubach. Willard Fritz, president,
.

welcomed the members and guests
and conducted the business session.
Mrs. Eleanor Sands gave the report of the secretary and Lyle Benjamin that of the treasurer.
Dr. Laubach
Appleman with

Mrs.
presented
a handwrought
scroll, illuminated in gold and the
handwork of Arthur Cole.

making the presentation Dr.
Laubach commented on the untiring efforts of Mr. Appleman and
In

The

In his acceptance Mr. Appleman
noted it is interesting that two
men as famous as Dr. Laubach,

work in literacy, and
Mr. Cole, who is one of the most
noted pen artists in America, had a

known

for his

part in the presentation.

The chief thing he had tried to
establish in his educational career
were suitable situations for learnIn this work, he said, there
had been many excellent teachers
and many viistors had commented
that the student body was of uning.

He said he
usually fine quality.
had used his years but the school
grow and he asked
continued support of the

will continue to

for the

alumni.

A

Troop 11, Boy Scouts of the Christ
Lutheran Church, Harrisburg, at
the Scout Jamboree in California.

1922

Miss Beatrice Englehart, Bloomsburg, reecived her Master’s Degree
at the annual summer commenceexercises at Bucknell University.

Lois Pfahler Jones lives in Elyria,
Ohio. She taught for twenty years
She is active in
after graduation.

community

affairs through P.T.A.,
church groups, Red Cross Canteen
Service, and the American Legion

George A. Mathews received the
degree of Master of Education at

Auxiliary.

the spring

Mrs. Jones is interested in organizing a B.S.T.C. Alumni Branch
in the Cleveland area. Those interested are requested to communicate with her.

held June 10 at the University of

1924

Max

last

May.

College maintains social
rooms on the first floor of Science
Hall that are large enough to accommodate any class returning for
reunion.

One room

is

equipped

with chairs, tables and a piano. The
adjoining room is a kitchen with a

1929

commencement

exercises

Pittsburgh.

Roy
of the

J.

Haring, former principal

Nescopeck schools, received

Doctor’s degree at the summer
at the Pennsylvania State College.

Iris

E. Long, son of Mrs. Minnie

Long, West Ninth street, has
been appointed the art supervisor
E.

of the Chester schools.

commencement held

1931
Hastie (Mrs. William
Buckingham) lives at 1022 Washington Street, Easton, Pa. She
taught for six years after graduaShe has four children. She
tion.
active in Sunday School and
is
Bible Club work.
Jeanette

who is widely known
has been a teacher in
the Chester schools twenty-eight
He began his teaching cavears.
reer at the Dewey-Mann School in
After teaching there six
1925.
Mr. Long,

in this area,

years he was transferred to Smedley Junior High School where he
has been art teacher for twenty-

1932

graduate of the Bloomsburg
High School and the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College, he holds
a B. S. degree and also a Master’s
Degree, the latter granted by Temple University in February of this

Dr. Henry J. Warman, Secretary
of the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester,
Massachusetts, was granted funds
to do research work in the Caribbean area during the summer. He
has also been granted sabbatical
leave for the second semester of
the coming year to do field work-

year.

in

two

years.

A

of

The

Blanche Fahringer, now Mrs.
Randall L. Newell, lives at 1258
Her
Swatara Street, Harrisburg.
son,
James Newell, represented

6:30 to 9:00 o’clock Friday evening.
These rooms are available by
making reservations in the Office
ol the Dean of Instruction.

was given
work and the

Many of the classes in reunion
enjoy an evening of reminiscence,
with refreshments. The problem
is primarily one involving the serving -of food. The Class of 1913 was
most fortunate in solving this prob-

8

purchased, prepared

and served a buffet supper from

rising vote of thanks

to Mr. Cole for his
program closed with the singing
the alma mater.

lem

who

1927

utensils for limited

Class of 1913 employed a

cateress

the exceptionally fine service he
has given to the school and the

community.

and

South America.
1933
Kathryn Abbett is teaching in the

Cochran Building, Williamsport.
Her address is 523V£ Market Street.

The West Branch Alumni
ation of B.S.T.C. will

October

16, at Milton.

Associ-

meet Friday,

Catherine Albertson (Mrs. Leonard J. Fuller) lives on Heights
Road, Berwick. She has two children, one of whom is a student at
Pennsylvania State College.

Thomas Beagle
side,

Pa.

He

is

lives

in

engaged

Riverthe

in

lumber business.

A

1934
daughter was born recently to

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Eldridge,
909 Ohio Avenue, Corpus Christi,

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Miss Eldridge was formerMiss Maudmae Edwards, of
Bloomsburg.

Texas.
ly

Evans McFadden,
been teaching in Catawisteach in the Bloomsburg

Esther

Mrs.

who

lias

will

sa,

schools this year.

1935
in

Los

visited

in

Rostand Kelly, a teacher
Angeles,

California,
Hloomsburg recently.

He

spent

his summer vacation in Europe as
chauffeur and escort for two elderly

California

women.

1937
Mrs. Victoria Muskaloon Hower,
of Bloomsburg, attended the summer session of the University of
Maryland.
1940
Phillip Moore is a member of the
faculty of the Alexis I duPont High
School,
Wilmington,
Delaware.
During the summer, Mr. Moore
serves as Associate Director at
Camp Tockwogh, located in the
Eastern Shore country of Maryland
on the Chesepeake Bay. The properties are owned and operated by
the Y.M.C.A. of Wilmington and
were provided to sene the needs
of youth in the area.
Mrs. Moore (Ethel Ruth) serves

with her husband, being in charge
camp bank.

of the

1941
The 9548th Volunteer Air Reserve
Training Squadron
with
headquarters in Bloomsburg, has
anounced the recently received
promotion of Charles A. Robbins,
4 West Eighth street, from First
Lieutenant to Captain in the United States Air Force Reserve.
Capt. Robbins is an active member of the local Unit having joined
the 9548th in 1950 and has since
served as squadron recruiting officer, adjutant of flight “E” and is
at the present time the squadron

training at west coast flying schools.
After receiving his commission and
wings in 194.3 he flew student
aerial gunners, bombardiers, and
navigators prior to going through

heavy bombardment transition, labecoming Airplane Commander
of a B-29 before his relief from active duty in 1945.

ter

assignment to the
he was active in reserve
affairs with the 452nd Light Bomb
Sqdn. at Reading, Pa., and the 327th
Troop Carrier Sqdn. at New Castle,
Delaware.
At the present time his civilian
duties are sales manager of Robbins Studebaker Garage in BloomsPrior to his

9548th

burg.

William G. Kerchusky lives at
817 Cliren Road, Jacksonville, Fla.
1942
Major Drue Folk is stationed at
Biggs Air Force Base, El Paso, TexMajor Folk is married and has
as.

two

A daughter, Rebecca, was born
Saturday, July 25, to Mr. and Mrs..
William Booth, of Riverside. Mr.
Booth operates the Montour House
Mr. and Mrs. Booth
in Danville.
have two

sons, Billy

and Bob-

bv.

1943

A

He was born

State Teachers
College graduate has been named
chief of business education in the

Bloomsburg

HERVEY

SMITH, ’22
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
B.

Court House Place

Bloomsburg 1115

College here with a B.S. in education.
He has participated in
Penn State extension course work
ers

and

is

USAF

presently enrolled

Extension Course

in

the

Institute.

Pie entered active military service in 1942 and received his pilot

September, 1953

Haas, former president

Dr.
the

local

John

S.

college,

said

that

of

Gov.

Fine approved the appoint-

ment before leaving
conference

ernors’

for the

gov-

Seattle,

in

Wash.
In his

early

thirties,

one of the youngest

Selden is
ever to

men

hold the post.

Mr. Selden has been a Berwick
resident since September of 1932
when his family moved to that
community from New York. His
father retired several years ago
from a position of mechanical engineer for the Berwick-located,
New York ACF engineering department.

new business education
a member of the Berwick
Presbyterian Church and had been
a member of the church’s Boy
is

Scout Troop

10.

He

attended the East Berwick
and Orange street grade schools
and is a graduate of Berwick High
School.
Mr. Selden was graduated from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in January of 1943
with a Bachelor of Science in business education with a major in the
accounting curriculum.

He joined the Berwick school
system as an instructor in March of
1943 and was granted two years’
military leave of absence for military service in

April to

World War

II.

From

August of 1951, he was a

member

of the faculty at State College in an Air Force training pro-

gram.
In August of 1949, he was awarded a Masters Degree in Education
at State College, and expected to
complete this summer, courses for

in Orangeville in

from Bloomsburg
High School and also State Teach-

In-

Dr. Francis B. Haas, superintendent of public instruction, stated that William H. Selden, Jr., Berwick, has been named to succeed
Dr. John R. Haubert, who resigned.

'chief

also

Public

of

The

sons.

adjutant.

1920, graduated

Department

State

struction.

MOYER BROS.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE

1868

William V. Moyer, '07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

a Doctorate.

He

is

also preparing

“A Survey of Selective
junior High Schools to Determine
Content and Practices of Business
Education,” the thesis is based on
a nationwide survey made by Mr.

his thesis,

Selden.

He has been an instructor in
Junior High School at the Four9

'

teenth street building, Berwick, for
several years.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Algatt
(Betty Katerman) live in Salisbury,
Maryland. They have two children,

Judy and

Jeff.

A Cook’s tour of Europe without
the regimented aid of the famed
travel bureau’s guides began in
June for Miss Martha Zehner and
live teachers from Bangor and Pen
Argyl.

They embarked from New York
aboard the Media, a Cunard liner,
for a visit on the Continent of two
Much of their traveling
months.
was via a Volkswagon, an eightpassenger pickup bus which they
had purchased through Pacific
Motors Company of New York, and
which they had claimed upon their
arrival in Paris.

France, Italy, Austria, Germany,
Switzerland, Belgium and Holland
were covered in the journey. Their
boat docked at Liverpool. From
there they entrained for London
and spent several days before crossing to Paris and a few days of
sight-seeing at the French capital
before setting out on their extenThey returned to Paris
sive tour.
a few days before sailing for home
August 22 aboard the Mauretania

from LeHarve.
Miss

Zehner,

a

graduate

of

has been awarded a fellowship by
the Fund for the Advancement of
Education.
The fellowship includes a full
year’s salary plus travel and tuiAs part of his work,
tion costs.
he plans to travel to New Orleans,
Los Angeles, Denver and Boston.
He attended York High School,
Bloomsburg State Teachers College, where he received his bachelor of science degree, University
Pre-Flight
Carolina
North
of
School, Bucknell and Lehigh UniPennsylvania State
versities and
College. He won his master’s degree at Lehigh in 1949 and is at
present a candidate for a doctorate

from Penn

State.

Mrs. Reed Buckingham lives at
316 North 16th Street, Allentown,
She is teaching in the fifth
Pa.
grade in the Palmer Township
She puts out a grade
Schools.
“The Palm,”
magazine,
school
which received the top award of
the Columbia University Press Association. At their dinner last year,
she was seated next to President
Truman. Mrs. Buckingham was
formerly Miss Lenore Seybert.

Ralph Tremato

is

an executive

with the Texas Oil Company, and
Mr.
lives in Bogota, Columbia.
Tremato is married and has a
young daughter.

B.S.T.C., is teaching special eduPreviously, she
cation in Bangor.
taught third grade in the Dallas
Township School.

1946
Miss Ann Pappas, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Pappas,
Danville, became the bride of John
Frank Trowbridge, son of Frank
P. Trowbridge, Danville, in a cere-

FRANK

S.

HUTCHISON, 16

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

erator.

er
in

10

Reed Buckingham, former Yorkwho teaches English and speech
the Northampton public schools,

cently

J.

elected

president

of

the

Binghamton Teachers’ Association.
As president of the organization, he
will represent the Binghamton educators in development of school
policies between the superintendent of schools and the Board of Education.

There are 700 teachers in the
Binghamton school system.
Mr. Demaree has been a business teacher and assistant football
coach in the Binghamton school
system since 1947. The new president holds a Bachelor’s Degree
from the State Teacher’s College at
Bloomsburg, and a Master’s Degree
from New York University.

George W. Smith

teaching in

is

the high school at Millersburg, Pa.
He is the father of a daughter, born

March

17.

Mr. Smith

is

working

ior his doctor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert L. Bunge, who has been
teaching science in Catawissa for
the past four years, resigned to accept a position with the U. S. Radium Corporation.
1949
Miss Elaine Begar, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Begar, of
Passaic, N. J., became the bride of
John Kuntza, of Passaic, formerly
of Berwick, in a recent ceremony
at St. Michael’s Greek Rite Catholic

Church

in Passaic.

is the son of Mrs.
Carl Cameron and Michael Kuntza,
of Berwick.
Mrs. Kuntza is a secretary with
the Allen B. DuMont Laboratories.

Mr. Kuntza

Mr. Kuntza, a graduate of B.S.T.C.,

mony performed

recently at Christ
Episcopal Church, Danville, by the
Rev. James Aloupis.
The bride graduated from Danville High School and B.S.T.C. She
Her husis a teacher at Danville.
band, also a graduate of Danville
High School, is employed by the
Mt. Carmel Item as a linotype op-

1947

Demaree, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Con Demaree, of 613
Mulberry street, Berwick, was reGerald

office manager for P. W. Kero
He is also
Co., Lyndhurst, N. J.
treasurer of the New Jersey Interstate Speedways of New Jersey.
After a honeymoon in Miami
Beach, Fla., the newly-weds are
is

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"FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
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Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50 Wesit

residing in Clifton, N.

J.

1950

A son, Jeffory Lee, weighing
eight pounds and eleven ounces,
was born recently to Mr. and Mrs.
Leon E. Grant at the Lutheran
Hospital of Maryland, Inc., 730
THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Ashburton Street, Baltimore. Mrs.
Grant is the former Marjorie Sharretts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Sharretts, Bloomsburg.
Arthur Riegel has been elected
to the position of science teacher

and faculty manager of

athletics in

He

graduated from
Catawissa High School in 1941 and
from B.S.T.C. in 1950. He has completed more than half of his work
for a master’s degree at Bucknell
University. He taught one year in
Prince Georges County, Maryland,
Catawissa.

and the last two years at Jersey
Shore. While in the service, he was
an army ordnance inspector and instructor in army automotive school
while overseas.
1951

Richard M. Kressler, teacher in
the Baltimore schools, attended the
summer session of American University, Washington, D. C.

the Middleburg Joint

High School,

graduated from Catawissa High
School and B.S.T.C. and last year
lie

taught at Lewistown Junior Pligh
School. He will be head coach of
soccer and assistant basketball

coach

at

and
the junior and

Middleburg,

teach history in
high school.

will

sen-

ior

and the

late William Hess.
Rev. Elmer Keiser, rector of
die church, performed the doublering ceremony before members of
die immediate families.

The

The

bride

is

a

graduate

of

where she majored in elementary education. She is a member of the faculty of the Sunbury
B.S.T.C.

Schools.

Laura Philo, Bloomsburg, has
been elected teacher of business
subjects in the Bloomsburg High
School.
Paul’s
Episcopal Church,
St.
Bloomsburg, formed die setting at
seven o’clock Thursday evening.

May

28, for the

ceremony uniting

marriage Miss Charlotte Matuleski. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Matuleski, Nanticoke, and
William J. Hess, Jr., son of Mrs.
William J. Hess, Sr. Bloomsburg,
in

Mary Jane Dorsey, daughMr. and Mrs. Frank J. Dorsey, Bloomsburg, was united in
marriage to Richard M. Genke, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Hilbert F. Genke,
Miss

Mr.
Hess
graduated
from
Bloomsburg High School and attended B.S.T.C. and the University of Nordi Carolina.
He is in
business in Bloomsburg.

The marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Eugene Ilornberger was
solemnized recently in St. Peter’s
Lutheran Church, Grovania. The
bride, the former Dawn Eileen
Morgan, of Bloomsburg, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ottis S.
Morgan, Danville R. D. 4.
Her
husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Ilornberger, Elysburg R.
D. 1, and is a graduate of B.S.T.C.

ter of

Miss
Barbara Ann Sherman,
daughter of Mrs. Miriam Sherman,
Benton, became the bride of Rich-

Suring, Wis., in a ceremony at eight
o’clock Saturday evening, August
8, at the First Methodist Church,

Bloomsburg.

ALUMNI DAY

The Rev.

Dr. Elvin Clay Myers,
pastor, performed the double-ring
ceremony before the altar which
was decorated with white chrysan-

themums.

A reception followed at American Legion Post 273. For a wedding trip to Northern Wisconsin,
the bride chose a navy blue dress
with white accessories. They will
reside in Madison, Wis.
The bride
graduated
from
Bloomsburg High School
and
B.S.T.C.
She is a teacher at the
Suring, Wis., High School.
Her
husband, a graduate of Suring High
School, is a student at the University of Wisconsin.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Anthony
(Nancy Brunstetter) are the parents
of a daughter born Sunday, July
26.

1952
Charles Richard Gearhart, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Gearhart,
Catawissa, will teach this fall in
September, 1953

ard Elmer Kersteen, Kingston, Friday, July 3, in the Redeemer Lutheran Church, Lubbock, Texas. The
Rev. Louis Pabor performed the
double-ring ceremony at an altar
decorated with large white daisies

and

gladioli.

A

OCTOBER

10

reception for thirty guests was
held at the Officer’s Club, Reese
AFB, Lubbock, Texas. After a
wedding trip through Mexico, the

couple will reside at 2322 Seventh
Street,

Football

Lubbock, Texas.

The bride, a graduate of Benton
High School and B.S.T.C., was on
the faculty of the schools at Hatboro, Pa., for one year. The bridegroom was graduated froh Kingston High School, Admiral Farragut Academy and the U. S. Naval

B.S.T.C. vs. Trenton

Academy and

is

now engaged

in

training with the U.S.A.F.
at Reese Air Force Base. Lubbock,

flight

Texas.

Miss
Miriam
Jeanne
May,
daughter of Mrs. Isaac May, Shamokin, became the bride of Roy Williams Sanders, B.S.T.C. graduate
and son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy E.
Sanders, Shamokin, in a recent
1)

ceremony at St. Edward Church,
Shamokin. The Rev. Michael Homola, assistant pastor,
of the nuptial mass.

The

at the

ment

was celebrant

versity.

Mr. Fenstermacher will serve
year as a member of the faculty of the Danville High School.

bride was graduated from

this

Coal Township High School in 1950
and has been employed by Anthracite Shirt Co. The bridegroom was
graduated from the same high
school in 1949 and from B.S.T.C. in
1952.
He is serving in the U. S.

In a pretty ceremony at three
o’clock Sunday, August 16, at St.

Matthew Lutheran Church, Miss
Barbara Jane Harter, daughter of
Luther C. Harter, Bloomsburg, and
the late Marguerite Harter, was united in marriage to Albert Henry
Hitchings, son of Mr .and Mrs.
Charles Hitchings, Luzerne.

Army.
Before the altar decorated with
bouquets of white snapdragons and
carnations in St. Peter’s Methodist
Church, Riverside, Miss Lola Jean
Deibert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

The double-ring ceremony was
performed by the pastor, the Rev.
Edgar D. Ziegler.

Earle M. Deibert, Danville, became
the bride of Lawrence Clifton
Glass, son of Mrs. Irving C. Tarler,

Mrs. Hitchings

the church. The double-ring cereused.

tary schools.

7112 Devon

Street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia.

The bride

In a pretty candlelight ceremony
at three o’clock Saturday, August
S, in the First Methodist Church,

a graduate of the
State Teachers College
is

Berwick, Miss Martha Evelyn Stiner, daughter of Ernest H. Stiner,
Sr., Berwick, became the bride of
William Arthur Bartleson, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Bartleson, Warrior Run.
The Rev. A. F. Shank, pastor,
officiated at the double-ring ceremony. The gold wedding band
placed on the bride’s finger was
one which had belonged to her
mother and grandmother.
Both the bride and groom graduated from B.S.T.C. this spring.
Mrs. Bartleson graduated from
Berwick High School in 1947 and

U. S. Army for four years with
part of the time in Alaska. He is
employed by the firm of Leeds and
in

Germantown.

Miss Mildred M. Pliscott, daughMr. and Mrs. Ernest O. Pliscott, Exeter, and Frank J. Furgele,
Shamokin, were married recently

ter of

Immaculate Conception
the
Church, West Pittston. Both are

in

B.S.T.C. graduates.

A wedding

breakfast

for

the

and a reception were
Moose Club in West
The newly-weds then
Pittston.
left for Daytona Beach, Fla.
bridal party
held at the

Mrs. Furgele is a member of the
teaching staff of the Centennial
school, Wilkes-Barre, and her husband is on the faculty of the Delhaas High School, Buck county.
They are residing at 25 East Moreland Ave., Platboro.

Harry M. Fenstermacher, Catawissa, received his Master’s Degree
12

J.

WESLEY KNORR,
NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

her husband from Warrior Run
High School in 1946. He served in
the Far East during World War II,
and was called back into service
for a year in 1951 with the reserves.
He spent that year in France.
While at B.S.T.C. he was active in
baseball and basketball.
Both will teach at Woodbury,
N. J., during the coming year. Mrs.
Bartleson will teach fifth grade

and her husband
tor at the

will

be an

instruc-

high school.

Eugene

Morrison, Bloomsburg
inducted July 8,
is taking his basic training at Fort
Leonard Wood, Mo. He was graduated from the Bloomsburg State
Teachers College this year.
Plis
address is Pvt. Milton E. Morrison,
US, 52262445, Btry C, 61th, AAA,
AW, Bn., Res. Comd., 6th Armd.
Div., Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
R. D. 5,

who was

Donald Blyler joined the United
Marine Corps after graduThe latest word from him

States
ating.

he expected to complete
training course on
May 23, after which he was scheduled to receive his commission and
begin a five months’ basic course.
During the first part of his training, he was stationed at Quantico,
states that

1953

Bloomsburg
and has been teaching first grade
in the Doylestown schools.
The bridegroom attended Temple University and served with the

Northup

a graduate of

husband, a graduate of Kingston
High School and B.S.T.C., served
four years with the U. S. Navy in
World War II. He taught for the
past year in the Luzerne elemen-

mony was

will reside at

is

Bloomsburg High School and is
employed at Rea and Derick’s. Her

Germantown.
The ceremony was performed at
two o’clock Saturday, July 18, by
the Rev. Henry Hopkins, pastor of

They

annual summer commenceat Bucknell Uni-

exercises

’34

his

pre-basic

Virginia.

Ben Linn, of Catawissa, is teaching this year in the high school at
Millville, Pa.

Miss Sophie Cecelia Lesnefsy,
daughter of Mr .and Mrs. Peter
Lesnefsky, Bloomsburg R. D. 3, and
Robert Bernard Plafcan, son of Mrs.
Anna Plafcan, Bloomsburg R. D.
3, were married July 4 at nine-thirty o’clock in St. Joseph’s Church at
Nuremberg.
The double ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. G. Eugene
Frank, of Weston.
The bride was graduated in the
1949 from the Beaver
class of
Township High School and is employed at Bloomsburg Mills, Tnc.
The bridegroom graduated from
Beaver High School in 1948 and is
('moiled at the Bloomsburg State

Teachers College.
The couple will reside with the
.

bride’s parents.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

)

WE NEED YOUR
In this issue of the Quarterly we
are publishing the names of those
members of the 1954 reunion classes whose addresses are unknown.
Mail sent to them at the address
given in the Alumni file has been
returned.
Readers of the Quarterly can
render great assistance by supplying the College with the addresses
of any whom they may know. Send
your information to the President’s
Office, State
Teachers College,

Bloomsburg, Pa.
1894
Bartels. Bird

I.

Charles, Robert
Eckbert. Lottie D. (Mrs. Alex M. Lupfer)
Fleisher,

Hiram H.

Harter, M. Gertie (Mrs. C. B. Miller)
Higgins, Kate E. (Mrs. Kate Divers)
Hoban, Alice L.

Hunt, M. Louise
Lawlor. Margaret L.
MacCullough, Jean T.
D unwell)

HELP!
Mulliner, Beulah A.

Oler, A. Esther
Oliver, E. Grace
ers vi lie)

(Mrs. George Hag-

Pace, James W.
Quick, William J.
Rhoads, Fay (Mrs.

Thomas

J.

Flan-

agan)
Rinker, Gertrude

Mary

Scull,

Jean

Coursey
Wallace, Margaret
Waltz, Pierce
Williams, Mabel A.
Williams, Richard M.
Williams, Sarah D.
1904

Albertson, Elizabeth H. (Mrs. Harvey
H. Hess)
Aldinger, Harry E.
Andres, Daisy (Mrs.

Maude

H. MacBean)
E. (Mrs. J. F. NewJ.

Margaret V.

Crossley,

Pearl A.

(Mrs.

J.

Allen B.
Flaherty, Margaret A.
Hartman, Prof. C. N.

Eister,

Mrs. Charlotte Hoch, T5, Propr.
J.

(Mrs. D.

S.

Smith)

Bloomsburg, Pa.

1914

Vera Pauline (Mrs.

ham)
Conyngham, William
Corrigan, Mary J.

C. B.

Gor-

J.

(Mrs.

William

O’Brien)
Eisenhauer, Esther (Mrs. G. H. Kesrt)
Evans, Margaret Hill
Gleason, Lillian Claire
Harpel, Frances (Mrs. Howard Coun-

Hartman, Hazel (Mrs. John Koehler)

Murphy)

Jackson, John S.
Jones, Margery

Kinsman, Edward E.
Lake, Gertrude E. (Mrs. J. E. Fidler)
Lewis, Rosanna
Linderman, Philip C.
Mason, Marvin C.
Miller, Gertrude (Mrs. Golenclay)
Milsom, Mabel (Mrs. Jasper S. Still-

September, 1953

Shuman, Dr. George A.
Thompson, Mary E. (Mrs. G. G. Reich-

cil)
J.

Houseknecht, Freeman

Morton, William

burn)
Johnson, Robert L.
Krepps, Ethel F. (Mrs. A. C. Brown)
Marcy, Estella
O’Neill, Frances H. (Mrs. Donovan)
Regan, May C. (Mrs. Louis F. Bume)

Colvin,

Gill,

man)

1909

White, Agnes (Mrs. Almon)

Maude

D. Eleanor
Gold, Guy D.
Grier, Lenora
Griffith, Essie
Hicks, Elsie
Higgins, Belinda (Mrs. M.
Hines, Lillian

Wilson, Martha (Mrs. James R. Burs)
Wolfe, Raymond

ley)

W.
(Mrs. George
Fowler, Lillian
Wright)
Fowler, Lottie (Mrs. Percy F. Best)
Frederickson, Elam A.
Fry, E. Blanche (Mrs. W. S. Keiter)
Gates, Marilla (Mrs. Lewis C. Emory)
Giles,

William A.

Gleason, Ruth E. (Mrs. Horace Wash-

Edna

Ellsworth, Emma
Fortune, Arthur

(Mrs.

Powers)

Edwards, Mary (Mrs. George A. Shu-

THE CHAR-MUND INN

Davis. Arthur
Deitrick.

H. S. Wil-

man)

1899

Curtis, Louise

(Mrs.

Charles)
Cintron, Francisco H.

S. Ella

Beardsley, Charlotte
Connole, Mary
Coyle, Philip

Stead, Eugene R.
Sterner, Mary E.
liams)
Wagner, Virginia

Beddall, Fannie May (Mrs. Brown)
Bishop, Madeleine V. (Mrs. Rollin L.

Winter, Irvin H.

Young,

J. (Mrs. Elmer Nast)
Moses, William E.
Moss, Claude L.
Muth, Carrie L. (Mrs. George Rose)
O’Donnell, Daniel L.
Parker, Mabel H. (Mrs. Clark Kitchen)
t
Richart, Bessie (Mrs. C. J. Corse)
Rooks, William J.
Rosenthal, Libbie (Mrs. Lewis Marks)
Sholenberger, Wells A.

W. Pic-

kett)

MacDonough, Margaret (Mrs. Louise
Margaret Dodson)
Mansell, Mary J. (Dr. Mary M. McKee)
Robbins, Laura I (Mrs. Edwin Paul)
Rogan, Maggie E. (Mrs. J. S. Scanlon)

Gertrude M.

Morris, Blanche

man)
(Mrs.

Krommas, Lulu M.
Miller,

N.

Stackhouse, Bertha (Mrs. Charles L.
Lewis)
Stewart, Bertha (Mrs. William S. De-

Clair.

Andrew Muir)

Messersmith, Palace E.

Seely, Fred

Baldwin.

Henrie, H. Claire
Hess, Palmer E.
Jayne, Mabel H. (Mrs.
Kelly, N. C.
Kelly, Martin
Kitchen, Clark E.

CREASY & WELLS

Hendershott, Charles H.
Hill, Isabel

Ethel Creasy Wright,

’09

BUILDING MATERIALS
Bloomsburg 520

Salome (Mrs. A. F. Long)
(Mrs. Ray M. Evans)

Hummel, Daisy

Kimble, Bessie Warner (Mrs. Charles

Young)
Laub, Henry Rupert
Leonard, Malcolm Shafer
Mann, Alma C. (Mrs. Sharp)
Martin, Christine
Mensch, Harriet O.
Smith, Charles Karl
Wardlaw, Edith May

i:

1919

NAMES

Baker, Paul N.
Barndt. Hester (Mrs. R.

Lyman

THE NEWS

IN

Ses-

sions)

Blecher,

Mary

Berwick Evangelical
formed Church was the

Celesta

Breisch, Ina M.

Brown, Claude C.
Mildred M.

Burdick,

(Mrs.

Norman

Wood)
Cabo, Irene Marie

Roy Croop, Berwick,

Cummings, Anna A.

Rev.

Mary Rosaria

Durkin,

Epler, Frances C.

Erwin,

Mae

E.

Farnsworth, Lois L.
Ferguson, Eva H.

(Mrs.

Edward

Bowder)
Fiester, Zella Pearl (Mrs. D. E.

Flynn,

Smith)

Mary H.

Miriam W. (Mrs. Campbell)
Gordon, M. Gertrude (Mrs. Wesley
Davies)
Hancock, Mary
Hanner, M. Elizabeth (Mrs. H. S. DeGilbert,

Long)
Heimbach, Ruth Elizabeth
Heiss, K. Margaret (Mrs. Chester Vastine)

Veda Lois (Mrs. Veda H. Lewis)
Helen Catherine
Johnson, Marion F.
Kahler, Ruth H. (Mrs. Charles Pur-

Hess,
Hill,

nell)

Kilcoyne, Marion Catherine
Kline, Mildred Elizabeth (Mrs. Robert

Barthalomew)

P.

Knedler, J. Warren, Jr.
Manley, Ursula Mary
Marks, Gerald Ellsworth
McDonnell, Sadie Marie (Mrs.
son)

ThompHarold

(Mrs.
Gertrude
Meenan,
Wright)
Menges, T. Amelia (Mrs. Stuart Sny-

der)
Papania, Elvira M.
Porteus, Erma Mildred

(Mrs.

Paul

Re-

the marriage of Miss Ceccelia M.
Woll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore Woll, Berwick, and Milton H. Croop, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Connor, Catherine Jane
Dougherty, Katherine Marie

and

setting for

recently.

The

Wayne

Lutz, pastor, officiated.
The bride is a graduate of Berwick High School and is employed
with the Bell Telephone Company,
Bloomsburg. Her husband graduated from Berwick High School
and served four years with the U. S.
Air Force with two years in Alaska.
He is a student at B.S.T.C.
After the wedding reception, the
couple left on a trip through the
South. They will live in Briar
Creek.

marriage of Miss Aileen
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Frey, Nescopeck, to William John Waltman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Waltman, Nescopeck,
was solemnized recently at St.
Mark’s Lutheran Church, Nescopeck, by the Rev. John Dietterle.
Both the bride and groom are
graduates
of
Nescopeck High
School. The bride is a student at
B.S.T.C. and the groom is employed by Frank Allen, Nescopeck.
They are residing with the parents
of the bride.

The Hidlay Lutheran Church
formed the setting at two o’clock
Sunday afternoon, August 9, for
nuptials uniting in marriage
Miss Esther Faye Clossen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Clossen,
Bloomsburg R. D. 5, and William
son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. Cleaver,
George C. Cleaver, Orangeville R.
D. 2.

the

Mainville Lutheran Church
was the setting at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, June 21, for the
ceremony uniting Miss Carol D.
Vought, daughter of Mrs. John

The

Y’ought, Bloomsburg R. D. 3, to
Franklin R. Shuman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray H. Shuman, Bloomsburg R. D. 3. The Rev. John
Swavely officiated at the doublering ceremony.
from
graduated
bride
The
Bloomsburg High School in 1950

and

is

a senior at B.S.T.C.

Her

husband, a graduate of Bloomsburg
High School in 1947, is employed
by the Light Milling Company. He
served two years in the armed forces with ten months in Korea.

A

reception followed at the parFor a wedding trip to
the New England states, the bride
selected a steel gray taffeta suit

ish house.

with navy blue accessories.
Mrs. Cleaver graduated from
Bloomsburg High School and
Mansfield State Teachers College.
She is employed as an assistant
home economics extionsion representative in Columbia and North-

umberland counties.

Her husband, a graduate of BenHigh School and B.S.T.C., has

ton

Broch)
Renner, Grace Vincent

been teaching

in the
school of Fairless, Pa.

Rentschler, Henry D., Jr.
Roberts, Anna H.
Rosell, Victor Julio
Schools, Helen Everett (Mrs. Adolph
F.

The

Frey,

Knapp)

Seely, Catherine A. (Mrs. Herchbergcr)

Shuman, Sarah Clementine
Smith, Mary Agnes (Mrs. Clair MOnrOe)

»
JN
Aurand)
Steele, Elizabeth Muir (Mrs.
Sweetwood, Ida J.
Warner, Meta V. (Mrs. William Kist-

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville. Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrove Highway
W. E. Booth, ’42
R. J.

Webb.

’42

elementary

Miss Janice Lee Pugh, daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Melville
Pugh, Ashley, was married recently to Charles Howard Taylor, Jr.,
of

Philadelphia, in a ceremony performed at the Presbyterian Church
by the Rev. Varre Allis Cummins.

The

bride, a graduate of Ashley
in 1950, is a senior at

ler)

High School

White, Marion C.
Williams, Gertrude Louise
Mary E. (Mrs.
Williams,
Breisch)
Woodring, Dorothy Elizabeth

from Hatboro High School and
B.S.T.C. He has been commissioned a lieutenant in the U. S. Marine

Zelinski,

14

Agnes

E.

B.S.T.C.

Byron

Mr.

Taylor

graduated

Corps.

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St.

Gabriel’s

at Coles Creek,

Episcopal Church,
formed the setting

on Saturday, April 11, for the wedding of Miss Donna Getz Harrison,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie
D. Harrison, of Cambra, and Joseph B. Gallagher, son of Mrs. Dorothy Gallagher, of Hazleton. The
Rev. James Stanley, pastor, officiated at the double-ring ceremony.

A

reception for the immediate
was held at the home of
the bride after which the couple

families
left

for

Wilmington,

where they

will

make

Mrs. Gallagher

i

Delaware,

their

home.

sa graduate of

Huntington Mills High School, and
was employed in the Purchasing
Department of the A.C.F. Company

Miss Joan Wiant, daughter of
Mrs. James S. Wiant, of Scotch
Plains, N. J., and the late J. Stewart Wiant, formerly of Huntington
Mills, has been chosen by her
classmates at Cornell UniversityNew York Hospital School of Nursing to represent the school as student delegate to the International
Council of Nurses to be held in
Brazil, July 12-17.
A second year student at the
school of nursing, Miss Wiant attended Westfield High School and
Susquehanna University before beginning her nursing education. She
has recently been elected secretary
of the student organization.

prior to her marriage.

The bridegroom is a graduate of
Hazleton High School; he attended
B.S.T.C., and served with the U. S.
Navy for two years. He is employed with Chrysler Corporation in
Newark. Delaware.

Mary Bertram,
Shirley
Miss
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A.
Bertram, West Nanticoke, was marRobert Lee Garrison,
ried
to
Bloomsburg, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter A. Garrison, Shickshinny,
in a recent ceremony in St. Paul’s
Methodist Church, Danville. The
Rev. Thomas M. Stone officated.
They are residing at 200 Bloom

ceremony

at

the

copeck High School and B.S.T.C.
She is a teacher in the Berwick
elementary schools. Her husband
graduated from Lehigh University
and served three years with the
U. S. Army during World War II,
with one year in Germany. He is
employed as a salesman by the
Hudson Coal Co., Scranton.
Following a wedding luncheon

street,

ALUMNI DAY

OCTOBER

10

The bride graduated from GarHigh
School,
Memorial
Shickshinny, and the Geisinger Me-

Football

pital.

Mr. Garrison, also a graduate of
Garrison

Pvt. Paul M. Cain, Jr., fonner
student at B.S.T.C., has completed
basic training at the Signal Corps
Replacement Training Center at
Camp Gordon, Ga.

the

home of the bride’s parents.
The bride graduated from Nes-

of the bridal couple,
the newly-weds left on a wedding
trip to the New England states.
They will reside at 812 East Third

rison

Memorial High School,
was employed at A.C.F., Berwick,
for two years before entering B.S.
T.C. where he will enter his senior
year this Fall. He is employed at
Photo Sendees, Bloomsburg.

The Rev. Melvin Whitmire

ton.

performed

for families

street, Danville.

morial Hospital School of Nursing,
Danville.
She is on the operating
room staff at the Geisinger Hos-

In a quiet ceremony Saturday,
afternoon, August 15, Miss Madelyn Ann Schalles, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank S. Schalles, Nescopeck, became the bride of Charles
Henry Rice Williams, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul E. Williams, Hazle-

B.S.T.C. vs. Trenton

Nescopeck.

Miss Mary Grace Mensinger,
daughter of Mrs. Frances Mensinger, Berwick, became the bride of
Gaylord Maxwell Laubach, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Orvie G. Laubach,
Berwick, in a ceremony at three
o’clock Saturday afternoon, April
11, in St. John’s Lutheran Church,
Berwick.

The Rev. Graham T. Rinehart,
pastor of the church, performed
the double-ring ceremony before
an altar decorated with white blossoms.
A reception followed in the
church social rooms. The newlyweds left later on a wedding trip
to Washington, D. C., the bride
choosing for the trip a navy blue
suit with white accessories and a
white orchid corsage.
They will reside at 77 Mystic
street, West Bedford, Mass.
The bride is a graduate of Berwick Hig!h School and attended
B.S.T.C.
Her husband, a graduate of Berwick High School, is stationed with the U. S. Air Force at
Bedford, Mass.

SUPPORT THE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Hazel Palmer

is

working

for her

doctorate at Syracuse University.
September, 1953

15

RETIRING TEACHER RECEIVES TRIBUTE
Mrs. Geraldine Follmer has 1500

At

least that’s

to

the

schoolhouse.

The school

was known as the “Home
School,” and Mrs. Follmer taught
then

children.

how

she regards

them.
Mrs. Follmer concluded a 44year teaching career as she bid
goodbye to youngsters at the Sugarloaf township school.
Mrs. Follmer and her husband have no children of their own. but she told a
reporter that the students who had
studied under her were “all my children.”
County school officials estimated
that 1,500 youngsters had been under her care since the day in 1902
she began her career in the same
schoolhouse as that she left for
good, officially.
Mrs. Follmer, the former Geraldine Hess, recalled that she entered
the teaching field the same year
that the late William W. Evans,
former county superintendent of
schools, took office.
She didn’t have far to go to her
Her home, then and now, on
job.
Benton R. D. 2, was right next door
stead. Next door, schoolhouse was

the primary pupils there for five
She had begun her career
at the age of 17 and with the equivalent of a high school education.
After five years in the field,
teaching under a county superintendent’s certificate, she studied at
the Bloomsburg Normal School
where she completed the two-year
course.
She then taught eighth
grade at Benton for a time and later in the West Berwick Borough
school system in the Ferris Heights
building when Harlan Snyder was
years.

grades for five years. In the 192627 term, Sugarloaf consolidated its
system, and she took over grades
one and two in the school, known
as the “Diltz School.”

Recalling her career, Mrs. Follto physical changes
among many of the benefits effected in teaching.
She recalled
the days when she used to do all
of the janitorial work, with the exception of help she received from
“kind students.”
Along with her teaching career,
Mis. Follmer has also maintained

mer pointed

interest in Girl

cently,

upon

Scout work.

retiring

Re-

from active

principal.

participation in that extra-curricu-

In Berwick, Geraldine, daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. Wellie
Hess, became the bride of George
E. Follmer, son of the late Dr. and
Mrs. J. Brooks Follmex*.
The World War I years found
Mrs. Follmer busy in the classroom, but in 1921, she and her husband returned to her old homethen only a one-room institution,
and Mrs. Follmer taught all eight

lar

activity, she received gifts in
recognition of her ten years of ser-

vice.

We

don’t know what her feeling
when she bade her last class
goodbye. But we have an idea how
she’ll feel when schoolbells ring

was,

this Fall.

In her

own

happy about

words, “I’m not too

it.

“I’m going to miss

it.”

ALUMNI DAY
OCTOBER
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10

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mer
tual

Nm*nlmw

pupils as “Miss Ellie,” her acname was Mrs. Ella Allen

Bond.

She had evidently died peacefully

Mordecai Jackson Crispin
Mordecai Jackson Crispin,

sev-

enty-eight, died Thursday, July 2,
at six o’clock after a prolonged illness at home, 121 East Front Street,

Berwick.

He was

one of
the founders of the American Car
and Foundry Company.
Mr. Jackson was the grandson
and namesake of the co-founder of
the Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, which grew into
a descendant of

A.C.F.
A native of Berwick, he was the
son of the late Benjamin Franklin
Crispin,

Jr.,

in

The doctor,
home of
McKenzie, West Third

her

sleep.

when summoned

and Margaret Emily

Jackson Crispin.
He was a graduate of Princeton
University in 1896 and entered as
an employe with First National
Bank, Berwick. He later was affiliated with Jackson and Woodin firm
and its successor, A.C.F. In 1901,

Mrs.

J.

Street,
thirty

T.

to

the

Bloomsburg, about eightsaid she had not been gone

With the exception of rheumatism, she had not been in ill
health.
She had resided at Mrs.
McKenzie’s for the past five years.
Her death was attributed to her
long.

adv anced age.

“Miss Ellie’ had taught school
children for forty-two years.
Born April 10, 1858, in the home
now occupied by Mrs. Samuel
Bidleman, corner of Third and
Center Streets, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Elizabeth Bainbridge Bond who had im-

migrated here from Glasgow, Scotland.

One

of the oldest alumni of the

he became director, secretary and
treasurer of U. S. Metal and Manufacturing Co., and six years later

Bloomsburg Normal School, she
was the last of her class. At the
alumni program in the spring of
1949 she was honored with the presentation of an orchid and fifty

served as general manager of the

dollars, the gifts of the association.

In 1916, he joined the New
York office of A.C.F. and entered
retirement in 1920.
A director of First National

For years she and Prof. C. H. Albert and Miss Louise Robbins were

Bank, Berwick, he served as president for forty years until 1949, and
continued as chairman of the board
until his death.
He had served as
trustee of Bloomsburg State Teachers College and general chairman
of Berwick Sesquicentennial and
chairman of World War II bond

Miss Ellie entered the teaching
profession immediately upon her
Her first years were
graduation.

firm.

drives.

Mr. Crispin was a member of
Christ Episcopal Church, Berwick.
He was also a 32nd degree Mason
and a member of the French Legion of Honor in addition to many
other organizations of national and
international scope.
His charities
included the donation of Crispin
Field to Berwick High School and
for the Berwick Hospital and its
annex.
Mrs. Ella Bond, ’79
“Miss Ellie” died Tuesday, June
30, after a full ninety-five years of
living.

Known by

thousands of her

September, 1953

for-

the onlv three left of the class of
1879.

in

Plymouth township and Luzerne

county. For an even quarter century, she taught in the old High
School building in Bloomsburg.
For the remainder of her fortytwo years of service she taught
school in Berwick.

The well-known teacher’s life
had not been without its sorrows.
During the later vears of the life

who died in 1913,
Mrs. Bond had a heavy load to carrv in caring for her. Her married
of her mother,

was happv but short. On November 27. 1918, she became bride
of Wilson C. Bond. He died seven
She returned to
later.
years
Bloomsburg to make her home in
life

1931.

At the age of twelve, she joined
the church, and throughout her active life had taken a part in church
work.

addition to her membership
the
Bloomsburg
Methodist
Church, she had been president of
the Purdy Missionary Society for
six years.
She was also a member
of the Senior Women’s Circle of
the W.S.C.S., the Service Circle,
the Susannah Weslev Bible Class
and the W.C.T.U.
Surviving are one niece, Mrs.
In

in

Rebecca Pepperman, Bloomsburg;
two great nieces, Nancy Pepperman, Bloomsburg, and Mrs. Charles
Leurs, Richmond, Va.; one
nephew, Joseph L. Allen, Bloomsburg; and one great nephew, Allen Stuffer, Washington, D. C.

Harry D. Keefer, ’00
Harry D. Keefer, well known
Lime Ridge resident, died Tuesday, June 16, following an illness
of the past two months.
He was
75 years of age.
Mr. Keefer, a former assessor of
South Center Township, was also
a former traveling state auditor. He
had been one of the first motormen
of the old
Bloomsburg-Berwick

He was a member of
the Lime Ridge E.U.B. Church and
of the Volunteer Fire Company of
trolley lines.

Lime Ridge.
Surviving are his wife, Martha
Keefer; two daughters, Mrs.
John Brumbach, Bangor; Mrs. Elbert Ashworth, Canton; a brother,
Charles E. Keefer, Walla Walla,
Wash.; a sister, Mrs. Dorothy
Kashner, Bloomsburg, and two
grandchildren.
E.

Miss Emily Appenzeller, 02
Miss Emily Apuenzeller, 72, 8
Front Street, East Mauch Chunk,
died July 23 in the Gnaden Huetten Memorial Hospital, Lehighton.
Born in the home in which she
and her sister resided, she was a
daughter of the late James and
Carolyn Knickerbocker Appenzeller.

She

was graduated from East

Mauch Chunk High School and
Bloomsburg

State

Teachers

Col-

lege.

Miss Appenzeller was the first
and second grade teacher in the
East Mauch Chunk Grade School
for

many

years, prior to her retire-

ment.

She was a

life-long

resident of
17

community and was

the

Episcopal faith.
Her only survivor

of

a

is

the

sister,

Elizabeth.

Some of

nice to

It’s

Emma Smith,

about

05

The Quarterly has been informed of the death of Miss Emma
Smith, for many years a teacher in
Her death
the Hazleton schools.
came a few months after her retirement from teaching.
The following clipping from the
Hazleton Plain Speaker of December 3, 1952, tells of the tribute paid
to Miss Smith at the time of her
retirement:

Herbert E. Rawlinson, ’04
Herbert E. Rawlinson passed
away in Los Angeles, Calfornia,
Sunday, July 12. The following
clipping is taken from the Los An-

Examiner and

geles

is

signed by

Louella O. Parsons:
of my oldest friends, and
an actor much loved in our indus-

One

Herbert Rawlinson, passed
at the Motion Picture Country Home yesterday morning.
try,

away

Dr.

him

Dudley M. Cobb had taken

the hospital only Friday
when his condition became alarming.
He was stricken with pneumonia about a month ago and
it was then learned that there was
a malignancy of the lung.
Herb was born in Brighton, England,

to

and was 67 year

sold.

He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Sally
White, and a son, David RawlinHe was separated from Mrs.
son.
Rawlinson about five years ago, but
she and Herb remained the best of
friends and she was with him at
the hospital when the end came.
Herb worked almost up to the
lime of his death and recently finished his picture at Monogram.
In the early days he was a star
at Universal, where he was a real
matinee idol with the girls.
His daughter told me that she
was grateful that he had not suffered and had no knowledge of the
nature of the disease. He was conscious almost to the end.
Funeral arrangements are being
made by Alan Mowbray,

a close

He belonged to
personal friend.
Dr. Ernest Holmes’ Church, and
Dr. Holmes will conduct services to
be announced
is

later.

Masquers,

his pals at the

where he was an active member,
were planning to give a testimonial
dinner for Herb on August 3.

know

knew

that he

that.

Crosby, ’92
Mrs. Richard S.
Crosby occured Monday, July 6,
at the home of her son, W. Fassett
Crosby, Gross Manor, Dallas, following a brief illness.
Mrs. Crosby, the former Mary
Mrs. Richard

The death

was bom at Forkston on
September 3, 1873. A graduate of
Bloomsburg Normal School, she
taught in the schools of Bucks
County and also at Black Walnut,
Beaumont and Noxen.
Miss Cottie M. Weiser
Miss Cottie M. Weiser, of Shamokin Dam, former resident of SunD.,

of age.

Born October 20, 1886, a daughMr. and Mrs. Peter Weiser,
she was a resident of the Hallowing
Run area for many years and
ter of

taught schools in the rural area
surrounding Sunbury. Upon the
death of her father she and her
sister, the late Miss Laura Weiser,
a teacher in the Sunbury Schools

many

Anna Catherine Strausner
Miss Anna Catherine Strausner,
forty-three, died recently at her
home in Penn Argyl, Pa., after an
illness of one year.
Miss Strausner
had been bedfast since October 1,
1952.

She was born in Mahoning township on September 16,

1909,

the

daughter of William and Anna
Louise Strausner, both deceased,
and was a graduate of Danville
High School and Bloomsburg State
Teachers College. Since 1941 she
had served as a teacher in the
Northampton county schools.

and a retired teacher,

died Tuesday, July 21, at 3 P. M.
at Geisinger Memorial Hospital,
Danville, following an illness of
She was 65 years
several months.

for

and resided in Loyalsville until
moving to Cambra in 1946. She
was a member of Sweet Valley
Church of Christ and taught its
Ladies’ Bible Class for some time.

S.

of

Fassett,

bury R.

inary and B.S.T.C.
She was married to Nesbitt Williams in 1923

years,

moved

to

Sham-

She had been a resiokin Dam.
dent of that place for 32 years.
Miss Weiser was a graduate of
the Bloomsburg Normal School and
along with school teaching, was a
music instructor. She was a member of St. Matthew’s Lutheran
Church, Shamokin Dam, and a
teacher in the Sunday School.

Eva Williams

Mrs. Maude Olver
Mrs. Maude Olver, seventy-eight,
of Catawissa, died recently in the
Bloomsburg Hospital of complications.
She had been in ill health
for nine months.
She was born in Catawissa, January 16, 1875, daughter of the late
Tobias D. and Margaret Bowdoin
Berninger.
Her husband, Lloyd,
died fifteen years ago.

Miss Grace Sones
Miss Grace E. Sones, fifty-six, of
155 South Third street, Hughesville, died this past winter in the
Muncy Valley Hospital of complications.

She had been a teacher

in sevof the
Columbia County
schools for more than twenty-two
years.
Sixteen years ago she sustained a stroke and was forced to
retire from teaching.

eral

Eva Eipper, she was a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. John Eipper.

Mrs. Jennie Renn Nealon
Mrs. Jennie G. Nealon, Scranton,
former Bloomsburg area teacher,
died at the Scranton State Hospital
Thursday, March 26. She was the
daughter of the late Fred and Hannah Renn.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Ella
E. Casey, and a brother, Harold
Renn, both of Scranton, and a brother, Elias Renn, of Hyattsville,

She graduated from Wyoming Sem-

Md.

Mrs.

Eva

E. Williams, eighty, of
Cambra, died Sunday, July 25, at
her home after a year’s illness. She
was a former teacher, having taught
in a number of nearby township
schools and in Nebraska for a total

Mrs.

of thirty-five years.
Born at Loyalsville,

the former

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

YOU PLEASE GIVE US THE PRESENT
ADDRESS OF THE FOLLOWING ALUMNI:

WILL

Brandon, Ruth

Miller,

41

L.,

Gillette,

Barbara

’41

E.,

(Mrs. Benoski)
Griffiths, Elizabeth

Hudock, Joseph

L., ’41
E., ’41
’41

Kerstetter, Relda,

Lehman, Leo

J., ’41

Letterman, Paul R., ’41
Malinchock, Joseph J.,
MeCloskey, Donna, ’41

'41

(Aldonna Maslowsky)

(Mrs.

Vaughn, Elwyn
Wesley, Joseph
Williams,
Zeisloft.

’41

’41

Donahue. Martha

C.. ’46

(Mrs. Bottger)
Felton, Ralph D.,
Keeler, Hazel E.,

'46

Hmelmicky John

J.,

’41

T., ’41

E.,

Butler,

Davenport,

Cain,

’46

Klingaman. Eltheda M.,
(Mrs. Smith)

Mary

’46

Propst, Violet Joy, ’46
(Mrs. Lawrence Moore)

’42

Adeline,

'42

Barth, Leah Wanda,
Bird, Bynoth Robert,

’46
’47
’47

(Mrs. Frank Shope, Jr.)
Derolf, Chester Lawrence, '42
Eaton, Mildred Ruth, ’42

Bunge, Robert L., ’47
Chamberlain, Mrs. Mary Pelchar,
Davis. Mrs. Laura L., ’47

Edmunds, William,

Doster,

’42

Fellman, H. Burnis, 42
Griffith, George James, ’42
Imboden, Lawrence L„ ’42
Kokora. Sophie Helen, '42
(Mrs. Peter Lukac)
Matthes, Richard O., ’42
Pakutka. Agnes A., '42
(Mrs. Carpenter)
Roan, Harriet Elizabeth. '42
(Mrs. Campbell)
Troutman. Luther,
Young, Harriet, ’42

’43

Kerr, Mrs. Emily Baum,
Kight, Karliss, L., ’47
J.

’47

Schupp)
’47

Deaner, Wayne, ’43
Eastman, Sara Jean, ’43
Kelly, Mary Katherine,

Amsbach, Mrs. Rose Poncheri,
Baker, Paul Newton, Jr., ’48
Barth, Rosalyn L„ ’48
’43

(Mrs. Bernard C. Rogan)
Godleski, Lois E., ’43
(Mrs. Lynn)
Henrie, Reba Maxine, ’43
(Mrs. Burnis Fellman)
liubiak, John, ’43
Jones, Catherine L., ’43
(Mrs. Elwood M. Wagner)

Knorr, Joyce Whilma, ’43
Kozlowski, Joseph W., ’43
Linskill, Frances A., ’43

Bollinger,

Edward

L., ’48

Chesney, Joseph J., ’48
Edwards, Blodwen P., ’48
Fvancho. Nancy, ’48
(Mrs. Robert Seltzer)

Hathaway, Martha A„

’48

(Mrs. Billie D. Starkey)
Kriss. Henry Stanley, ’48
Lehet, Elizabeth ’48
Lewis, Thomas William, ’48

Northup,

Anne

Penman, Mabel

Fuller, ’48
G., ’48

Edward
Thomas

'48

’48

G., ’49

G„

’49

F., ’49

James Michael,

’49

’47

Nuss, Eugene Miller, ’49
Padula, Josephine Elizabeth.
(Mrs. Harold J. White)
Parnell, Peter, ’49
Panzetta, Nicholas J., ’49
Purcell, John Michael, ’49
Speicher, Leo Joseph, ’49
Tiddy, William J., Jr., ’49

Trimpey, Ruth Gaye, ’49
(Mrs. Lee Whitenight)
Troback, Gretchen Dorcas,
Vought, William Clarence.
Case, Frederick John,

'49

’49
’49

’50

Cierlitsky, Theresa A., 50

Davis, William C., ’50
Dent, Neil Eugene, ’50

Eddinger, Jounior L., ’50
Freeda, Stanley J., ’50
Gieda, Joseph J., ’50
Glass, Charles F., ’50
I ogar, Berdine A., ’50

McCormack, Grace Emma, ’50
Metzo, Thomas Michael, ’50
Shupp, Ruth Elaine. ’50

Rowlands, Paul, ’47
Rowlands, Richard W., ’47
Zondlo, Louise Anna, ’47

Smith, Marjorie Ann, ’50
Somers, Marguerite Mary,

’43

Collins, Loren, ’43

September, 1953

(Mrs. Robert McCaffrey ) ’47
Fehl, Helen E., ’47
Gilbert. M. Jean, ’47
Hartman, Robert, ’47
Hosier, Xen, ’47
Joy. Robert D., ’47
Keller, Mrs. Cora Schaeffer, ’47

Martin, Mrs. Grace Linskill,
Paul, B. Renee, ’47

H., ’43

Bramble, June Helen.

H., ’47

Egizie. Pauline, ’47

(Mrs. B.

’42

Biermann, M. Elizabeth,
(Mrs. Albert Collis)

Bomboy, Charles

Lawrence

’48

Dodson, Harold Eugene, ’49
Fox, Herbert Harris, ’49
Gearhart, Luther Elton, ’49
Hawk, Robert Alexander, ’49
Hess, Richard Charles, ’49
Houck. Donald Clayton, ’49
Kuntza. John, ’49
Lutz, Alvin Eugene, ’49
McCullough. Jane R., ’49
(Mrs. George Johns)
Mooney, William B., ’49

L., ’42

George Alvin,

E., ’48

Smith, James E.. ’48
Smith, Mrs. Marion Hart,
Stasko, George, ’48
Winkelblech, Dorothy E.,
(Mrs. Watts)

Beyer.

’46

Saunders, Frances L„

Ralph

Sharpless, Louise C.,

Baker,

(Mrs. Brooks)

’41

Baird, Ruth Irene, '42
(Mrs. Herbert Ireland)
Barrouk. Albert Peter, ’42
Bartha, Edith Esther, ’42

Buck, Letha

Seltzer,
'44

Becktel, Stewart,

Blackburn, Donald, ’46
Cameron. Harrison J., ’46

’48

Schlieder, Donald A., ’48

’45

’41

’41

J.,

Regan. Michael, ’48
Richard, H. Jean, ’48
(Mrs. Zagoudis)
Rodgers, Bernard F„

Kester, Ruth June, ’45
Miller, Mrs. Louise Buck, ’45
Wolfe, Shirley Marcia. ’45

F., ’41

Howard
Hilda

Bender, LaRue Girton,
Boyle, Rose Mary, ’45

’41

Soback, Helen J.. ’41
Tannery, William W.,
Van Antwerp, Floyd,

’43

Mary Edna, '44
Harry Heckman)

Snyder,

Miller, Elizabeth E., '41

(Mrs. O’Hora)
Moss, Jean W., ’41
Musial, Zigmund M.,
Pegg, William F., ’41
Shaffer, Lucretia M.,
Shuntill, Mrs. Nellie,

George Elwood,

Perry. Raymond Benjamin, '43
Behler, Anita Elizabeth. ’44
Behler, Helen E., ’44
Ilagenbuch. Mary Elizabeth, '44
(Mrs. D. E. DeLong)
Hollenbeck, Mrs. Catherine Bittner,
Manley. Edward Joseph, ’44
Parr, Mary Erla, ’44
Propst. Jessie E., ’44
(Mrs. Leonard Wearne)

Gearhart, Charlotte E„ '41
(Mrs. Charles Bakey)

’48

’50

Jean Elizabeth, ’50
Wagner, Mildred Amelia, ’50
Young, Frederick D., Jr., ’50
Bruchs, Robert Joseph, ’51
Davis, Mrs. Jean Silvan, ’51
Kressler, Richard Norman. ’51
Stein,

Reinhart, Jacquelin E., ’51
Ryan, John Joseph, ’51
Scheetz, Genevieve Jane, ’51
Tohmsen, Elvira Edwards, ’51
Coval. Leon, ’52
Payne, Marion Vaughn, ’52
Schukis, Thomas, ’52
Stec, Dorothy, ’52
Williams, George, ’52
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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

SURVEY OF GRADUATES

(1941-1952)

Name

Year
Married

women

of Graduation

maiden and married name

please give

Address
Street
(1) Please

City

check Curriculum completed:

Elementary

(2) Please indicate fields of certification

Elementary

(3)

State

Secondary

)

(

(

)

Business

(

)

completed at Bloomsburg:

Secondary

Kind.-Pri.

(

)

Inter.

(

)

English
Latin

Rural

(

)

French

Special
All Elem. Grades

(

)

Science

(

)

Mathematics

Have you ever been regularly employed

Geography

(

)

(

)

Soc. Studies

(

)

(

)

(

)

(

)

Speech
Spanish

All Com. Subjects
Only Sec. Subjects

(

)

Bookkeeping and

(

)

Aviation

(

)

(

)

Biol. Sci.

(

)

How

as a teacher?

Business

Related Subjects

(

)

(

)

(

)

List Other Fields

Long?
Years

(5)
(4) If

you have answered “Yes”

Elementary

1,

)

(

Junior High

(

)

7,

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(

)

10,

If

(6)

(

)

2,
8,

)

(

(

(

)

(

11,

to

3,

)

(

)

9,

(

)

(3),
)

4,

please check the grade and/or write in subjects taught:
(

)

5,

(

)

6,

(

)

7,

(

)

8

or subjects taught

12,

or subjects taught

you have been otherwise employed, or married, please indicate below:

Please give us this information so that we can
This information will be kept confidential.

tell

whether

salaries are higher in Pennsylvania or out-

side.

Teaching Salaries:

Other Employment:

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$

Date

19

Last year

$

Date

19

—

to 19

First year

$

to 19

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$_

Date
.

-Date

19

to 19

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to 19

you have completed additional advanced study since graduating from Bloomsburg, please answer queson the back of this sheet and use remaining space to send us a message or make suggestions for the
improvement of your Alma Mater.
If

tions

Date

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ADVANCED OR GRADUATE WORK

(10)

name

(7)

Please

(8)

Approximately how many semester hours have you earned?
and
Name degree that was conferred on you, if any

(9) If

you hold

the colleges or universities

a graduate

which you have attended since you graduated from Bloomsburg:

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degree please indicate:

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If

your Bloomsburg undergraduate work was adequate, please check here
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20

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

'SAUCERED AND BLOWED’
E. H.

NELSON,

’ll

There are several ways by which we can share our success with others. Oft times we
wish to do this in memory of some one who has been near and dear to us. Just recently a
check came to this office from Minnie L. Gernon, Class of 1904, in memory of her sister who
was graduated from the College in 1896. This money is to be used as a loan for students
who have demonstrated their worth. What a fine way to perpetuate the memory of Cora
Gernon Wynkoop who was a loyal Alumna down through the years.
We are printing below a form that may be used as a will pattern in setting up a bequest.
It is a happy thought to make such a contribution while you are still living, that you may
have the pleasure of meeting these fine students to whom you are giving assistance, but
you have the assurance that as the years come and go many boys and girls will live to call
you blessed should you be unable to share with them while you are living.
Several ways in which funds may be used are listed below:
1.
For needy students as loans.
2.
The Husky Fund. (For those interested in athletics.)

5.

Prizes for specific ability.
Discretion of Alumni Board of Directors.
Any purpose you designate.

6.

Memorial.

3.

4.

'

BEQUEST

TRUST TO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOR A SPECIFIED PURPOSE:

IN

Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers ColBloomsburg. Pennsylvania, a corporation, the sum of
dollars ($
),
in trust, nevertheless, for the following uses and purposes:
1.
The principal thereof to be used as a Loan Fund for needy students, and the income
therefrom as a Scholarship Fund for needy students. (Student Loan Fund)
2.
To use the income and so much oi the principal as the Board of Directors shall, in
its sole discretion, deem advisable for worthy students who are active in college athletics.
I

give and bequeath to the

lege,

(Husky Fund)
3.
To use the income and

so much of the
deem advisable as a prize

principal as the Board of Directors shall, in
for students showing outstanding ability in
dramatics, chemistry, business education, teaching, mathematics, etc.). OPTIONAL Said
prize to be known as the “John Smith Prize in (dramatics, chemistry, business education,
teaching, mathematics, etc.).”
4.
As a memorial to the late John Smith (Class of
or Professor of
.),
said sum to be held by the Alumni Association as a separate fund and the income devoted
to a prize to be awarded to any student in recognition of special achievement in the field of
dramatics, chemistry, business education, teaching, mathematics, etc.)
5.
In memory of John Smth, formerly Professor of Mathematics, to be held as a separate and permanent fund to be known as tne “John Smith Memorial Fund.” The annual
income thereof to be used for prizes for proficiency in mathematical study and research.
its

sole discretion,

—

•

•

OUTRIGHT BEQUEST OR DEVISE TO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TO BE USED BY
FOR ANY PURPOSE THAT IT MAY CONSIDER DESIRABLE.

IT

I

give anf bequeath to the Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers Col-

lege. Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, a corporation, the sum of
dollars ($
),
to be administered by its Board of Directors in any manner that it may see fit.
house and lot located at No.
I give and devise
Market Street, Bloomsburg,

my

,

Pennsylvania, which was conveyed to me by Deed from John Jones and Mary Jones, his
wife, dated September
1953, recorded at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book
Volume
Page
to the Alumni Association of the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, a Corporation, to be administered by its Board of
Directors in any manner that it may see it.
If the above bequest or devise is made by way of a Codicil, the following form should
be used:
of
do hereby declare this present writing to
be a Codicil to my Last Will and Testament, bearing date the
day of
1953.
(Here insert bequest or devise.)
And I do hereby ratify and confirm my said Will in all other respects.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, to this, a Codicil to my Last
day
1953.
Will and Testament, this
.

,

,

,

,

,

,

(SEAL)
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Testator as and for a
Codicil to his Last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who at his request, in his
presence and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as Attesting
Witnesses:

COLLEGE CALENDAR
1953-1954

FIRST SEMESTER Registration of

1953-1954

Freshmen

Registration of Upper-Classmen

Tuesday, September

8

Wednesday, September

9

Thursday, September 10

Classes Begin

Thanksgiving Recess Begins

Tuesday, November 24

Thanksgiving Recess Ends

Monday, November 30

Christmas Recess Begins

Wednesday, December 16

Christmas Recess Ends
First Semester

Ends

SECOND SEMESTER -

Monday, January

4

Thursday, January 21

1953-1954

Registration

Monday, January 25

Classes Begin

Tuesday, January 26

Easter Recess Begins

Tuesday, April 13

Easter Recess Ends

Tuesday, April 20

ALUMNI DAY

Saturday,

May

22

Sunday,

May

23

Baccalaureate Services

Commencement

Exercises

Monday, May 24

The Alumni Quarterly
State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Vol.

LIV

December, 195 3

No.

4

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
No. 4

Vol. LIV,

December, 1953

r

NEW MEMBERS OF FACULTY
This

fall

Mr. Miller

the B.S.T.C. faculty has

had an addition of four new members— Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, Dean
of

Women;

Nelson A. Miller, of State Colhas been appointed to the

lege,

Miss Mary Louise Fon-

faculty

band

direct the

and music instructor; and
Mr. Boyd Buckingham,
speech and dramatics instructor.
er,

director

The new Dean of Women, Mrs.
Elizabeth Miller, comes to B.S.T.C.
from Lycoming College, WilliamsHer home is in South Wilport.
liamsport.

Miller received her BacheScience from the State Teachers College at Slippery Rock and a
rs.

lor of

EDITOR
H. F. Fenstemaker, T2

Master of Education from

Penn

State.

BUSINESS MANAGER
E.

H. Nelson,

’ll

Besides her duties as dean, Mrs.
Miller teaches Evolution of American Public Schools, and is adviser
for the Waller Hall Governing
Board. She and Mr. Hoch are advisers to

THE ALUMNI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
E. H.

Nelson

Music

C.G.A.

and

refinishing antique
furniture are two of Mrs. Miller’s

many hobbies and
She did

work with the

social

and

faculty
the Indiana State Teachers College, and
he holds the degree of Master of
Education from the Pennsylvania
State College. He has also studied
at the University of Pittsburgh.
Further graduate work has been
pursued at the Pennsylvania State
College.

Mr. Miller, who has been instrumental music instructor at the
Oliver High School, Pittsburgh
for the past three years, previously taught at high schools in Shanksville and Oakmont. He served four
years in the United States Army
where his duties included the administration of the Army General
Classification Test.

Miller has directed bands
beginning
orchestras
since
He has also had conteaching.
experience in church
siderable
choir and community concert work,
presenting many concerts with

Mr.

and

interests.

Lycoming Board

Maroon and Gold Band

The newly - appointed
member is a graduate of

Published quarterly

M

the Bloomsburg State
Mr. Miller will

along with his other duties
teaching assignment.

Mrs. Miller
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.

of

Teachers College.

tana, dietitian; Mr. Nelson A. Mill-

of Public Assistance for five years and was Dean of
Women at Edinboro State Teachers College for five years.

these groups.

He

served as direc-

VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ruth Speary Griffith

SECRETARY
Mrs. C. C. Housenick

TREASURER
Harriet F. Carpenter

Fred W. Diehl

Edward

F.

Schuyler

H. F. Fenstemaker

Hervey B. Smith

ON THE COVER

.

.

MEET

.

THE

1953

HUSKIES!

—

First row (left to right) Bernie Mont, Mike Lashendock, Charles Pope,
John Nemetz, Joseph Glosek, Ed Connolley, Merlyn Jones, Floyd Williams,
Robert Stroup, Barney Osevala, and James Browning.
Second row Bob Dipipi, Les Shuda, Sammy Belle. John Panichello,
Thomas Persing. Charles Skiptunas, Thomas Shuey, Don Thomas, Bob
Cumens, Bob Groover, and Len Gwiadowsky.
Third row Bob Tilburg, Ned Reese, Dick Sitrine, Ron Couch, Frank
Kaminsky, Ray Severance, John McCarthy, Harry Weist, Stan Kurtz, Don
Samsel, John Angus.
Fourth row Rod Follmer, Anthony Christino, Charles Kwiatkowski,
Joe Kwak, Harry Hughes, Gerald Kaufman, Harold Coakley, Don Wright,
James McShea, Kermit McMeans, Charles Casper, and Harvey Boughner.

—

—

—

Elizabeth H. Hubler

December, 1953

1

tor of the R.O.T.C.

Penn

Army Band

at

State, director the State Col-

American Legion Drum
and Bugle Corps, and has been a
music counselor at summer camps

B-17’s

and served

in the

European

theater.

lege Junior

While a student at B.S.T.C., Mr.
Buckingham was active in extra-

for boys.

He repcurricular organizations.
resented the Junior Class in C.G.A.
and served! as president of the

a member of Phi Mu Alpha, national music honorary society; Phi Delta Kappa, national
education honor society; Pennsylvania Music Educators Association;
the National Society for Music
Teachers, and he has served as
president of the Pittsburgh In and
About Music Educators Club.

He

Mr.

is

Miller

is

married and has

ing his

dent of
His wife
B.S.T.C.

IN
Miss Mary Louise Fontana is the
Miss Foncollege dietitian.

new

who

from Matamoras,
Pennsylania, graduated from high

tana,

is

New

school at Port Jervis,

York.

She has had experience in hotel
and dining room management. She
was Dining Room hostess at Breakers Hotel in West Palm Beach,
Florida, and at the Skytop Club at
Skytop, Pennsylvania, before accepting the Bloomsburg appointment. Before that she was associated with the Fontana Restaurant
Matamoras and the Payroll
in
Division of Swank’s, Middletown,
New York.

Mr. Buckingham

The new freshman speech
structor

is

in-

a graduate of B.S.T.C.

Mr. Boyd Buckingham taught two
years at Athens and six years at

Sayre before coming to

Blooms-

burg.

Besides his degree from Bloomsburg, Mr. Buckingham holds a
Master of Science from Bucknell
and is now working on a doctor’s

degree at Penn State.
He is teaching Speech 1 and II,
and is in charge of the Dramatic
Club, which will present a threeact play this year, Alpha Psi Omega, and the college radio broadcasts.

Mr. Buckingham

interested in
He enjoys fly-

is

radio and speaking.
ing, which he learned while he was
During
a student at B.S.T.C.
World War II he was a pilot of
2

is

also

presi-

graduate of

a

They have two

children,

and a boy

six

old.

B.S.T.C. IS

two children.
Miss Fontana

class

a girl five years old,

months

Dur-

and C.G.A.
Junior year he was
Alpha Psi Omega.

sophomore

THIRD

ENROLLMENT

Bloomsburg is the third largest
State Teachers College in Pennsylvania.
Based on the summary of
enrollments in Pennsylvania State
Teachers Colleges released by the
Department of Public Instruction
for the year ending May 31, 1953,
Bloomsburg had an adjusted enThis enrollment
figure was exceeded only by West
and Indiana. Of this
Chester
total number, the regular year accounted for approximately 800 and
the remaining students were the
full-time equivalent of the summer
session and part-time enrollments.

DR.

ANDRUSS AT

HAZLETON SESSIONS
The

last three day's of

the

week

preceding the opening of the Hazlepublic schools on September

ton
8,

piloting

were held

planning

or

sessions

both the
elementary and the secondary defor teachers of

partments, dividing into nine or
more groups. Each department
had a chairman and an outside consultant.

President Harvey A. Andruss of
the Bloomsburg State Teachers
College acted as consultant for the
department,
education
business
whose chairman is Frank Serany.
This group, composed of ten
Senior High School teachers and
two Junior High School teachers,
met for four sessions on three days
2, 3 and 4, to plan
work for the coming year and
exchanged ideas and decided upon
the over-all policy to be followed

on September
their

in business education.

rollment of 896.

Bloomsburg

had

the

number of Business
Freshmen during the

largest

Education
past

year.

While Indiana had 86 and Shippensburg 63, Bloomsburg had 100
Freshmen, giving a total business
enrollment at Bloomsburg of 235.
Two trends are evident: one is
that a larger number of students
are planning to become Elementary teachers, but fewer teachersin-service are attending summer
school or part-time classes in the
evening or over weekends.

MONTOUR HOTEL
Danville, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA RESTAURANT
Sunbury-Selinsgrrove Highway
W. E. Booth, ’42
R. J.

Webb,

’42

Ph D.

AWARDED TO

RICHARD HALLISY
The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was awarded to Mr. Richard
G. Hallisy by the University of
Pittsburgh at

ceremonies

its

on

annual graduation

August

26,

1953.

Director of Business
Education, now joins the growing
list of Doctors on the B.S.T.C. faculty, having received his Bachelor’s
Dr.

Hallisy,

degree at Whitewater State Teachers College in Wisconsin and his
Master’s degree at the University
Appropriately, the title
of Iowa.
of his required dissertation is “The
Attitudes and Interests of the Student Body of a State Teachers College As They Relate to the Teach-

ing Profession.”

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schalles,
Nescopeck, announce he marriage
of their daughter, Joyce Elaine, to
Tames Albert Trenholm, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alvin Trenholm, New

York

City.

The marriage

took place in

New

York City on Saturday, August 8,
and the couple will reside in that
city.

Trenholm attended
Her husband is a profes-

Mrs.

B.S.T.C.

sional skater.

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

MISS WEIR STUDIED IN

SUMMER WORKSHOP

the

Miss Clara Weir, speech instruchere at B.S.T.C., spent her summer studying and working with
speech and hearing cases at the
summer session of Syracuse Unitor

versity.

She attended a cerebral palsy
workshop headed by Dr. William
Cruickshank, professor at the University, and directed by other top
people in the field of speech and
It was one of five such
hearing.
worshops in the United States this

summer.
Miss Weir was one of

many

in-

terested teachers who worked in
the quarter of a million dollar
building for speech and hearing
and the exceptional child. Supplied
with everything in the latest machines and equipment, the group

worked

as

a team, checking

and

interviewing, and sometimes examing children with unknown complications. The place of work was
located near two hospitals and had
twelve medical doctors associated

with

it.

The workshop was sponsored by
the

New

ceremony at two
September 13, in
Rloomsburg E.U.B. Church,

In a lovely
o’clock Sunday,

York State Association for

Crippled Children, Incorporated.
This was the fourth year in which
it has cooperated with the National Society for Crippled Children
and Adults, Incorporated, and Syracuse University in presenting the
Workshop on Problems of Cerebral
Palsy.

Ann Phillips, daughter
and Mrs. John YV. Phillips,
Bloomsburg, became the bride of
B. Glen Fenstermacher, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Timothy Fenstermacher,
Miss Sally

of Mr.

Light Street.
The Rev. C. E. Keafer, Mifflinburg, former pastor of the church,
performed the double-ring ceremony assisted by the Rev. R. L.
Lundy, pastor. Bouquets of white
pompoms decorated the altar.
They will reside at 403 South
40th street, Philadelphia.
The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg High School and the
University of Pennsylvania HospiShe is staff
tal School of Nursing.
Her husnurse at that hospital
band, a graduate of Scott Township High School, attended B.S.T.C.
before his enlistment in the armed
services. He is now stationed with
the U. S. Coast Guard in New Jersey.

Two
their

B.S.T.C. graduates received
Master’s degrees at the an-

nual

Summer commencement

Miss Beatrice Englehart, Market

Bloomsburg, and Hany M.
Fenstermacher, Pine Street, Catawissa, were awarded master of
science degrees in education.
Miss Englehart and Mr. Fenstermacher hold a bachelor of science
degrees from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.

street,

David Jarden, who has taken
canoe trips in the wilderrness
North Ontario. Canada, presented his latest colored motion picture, “Northern Adventure,” for assembly on Tuesday, October 20, in
Carver Auditorium.
ten

of

The
things
little

told

story

encountered

known

interesting

of

many
this

wilderness. Especially

were the many pictures

of wild life, including

ary shots

the

through

of

extraordinexciting

moose and

fishing pictures.

The

address

of

Mary Agnes

Smith (Mrs. Clair Monroe), is 1107
Childs Avenue, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.

December, 1953

ex-

ercises held at Bucknell University.

THE WOLF SHOP
LEATHER GOODS
M.

C. Strausser,

122 East

— REPAIRS

’27,

Propr.

Main Street

Bloomsburg, Pa.

TWELVE SENIORS CHOSEN

WHO

WHO’S

IN COLLEGES’

Twelve outstanding members

of

the Senior Class of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College have
to

tion of

been

1954 edi-

appear
“Who’s Who Among
dents in American Colleges
chosen

in the

Stu-

and

Universities.”

The selections were made by a
faculty committee on the basis of
personal traits, leadership, practical qualities, professional promise,
potential usefulness to society, acabiltual achievement, scholastic
ity and service to the college.
The 1954 selections
follow:
Charles Andrews, son of Mrs. E.
W. Andrews, West Pittston; Alfred
Chiscon, son of Mrs. Helene Chisson, Kingston; Michael Crisci, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crisci, West
Pittston;

Mary

Ruth

Dreibilbis,

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Dreibilbis, Bloomsburg; Fred Del
Monte, Shamokin.
Gerald Houseknecht,
Bloomsburg; William Jacobs, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William R. Jacobs, Manof
chester; David Superdock, son
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Superdock,
Freeland; Harriet Williams, daughWilliams,
ter of Mrs. Herbert G.
Old Forge and Elaine Gunther
Yeager, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Irvin M. Gunther, Berwick.

Robert L. Garrison, of Berwick,

and Miss Shirley M. Bertram, of
West Nanticoke, were married
June 27, in St. Paul’s Methodist
Church, West Nanticoke.
Miss Bertram was graduated
from Garrison Memorial High
School, Shickshinny, and Geisinger Memorial Hospital School of
She is on the
Nursing, Danville.
in the operating room at
Geisinger Hospital and Foss Clinic.
staff

graduated
Mr. Garrison was
from Garrison Memorial High
School, Shickshinny. He was employed at American Car and Foundry, Berwick, for two years before
entering Bloomsburg State Teachers College, where he is a senior.
At present he is employed at Photo
BloomsIncorporated,
Services,
burg.
3

.

.

To open
Huskies

HUSKIES PLACE THIRD
By

virtue of Bloomsburg’s 46-13

place

of the Pennsylvania State
Teachers Colleges Football Conlinger’s

their

1953 season,

the

played

Wilkes

Thus Coach Glenn Kilsuccessfuly defended

Rams

September 26,
at the Kingston High School stadium. With the score 6-6 at the end
back

touchdowns and three suc-

three

cessful conversions.
B. S.T.C.

West Chester nosed out Shippensburg by 13 rating points. For
the second straight season Shippensburg completed an undefeated
and untied season, running its winning streak to 18 games, but just
missed capturing the S.T.C. crown.
Caliber of opposition figures heavily in the Saylor rating system employed by the conference. The
minimum of four conference games
must be counted in computing the
standings.

West Chester was undefeated
and untied last year but lost only
its opener this year to Ft. Belvoir
in a non-conference game.

West Chester
Shippensburg
Bloomsburg

Clarion
Indiana
East Stroudsburg
Slippery Rock
California
Mansfield
.

Cheyney
Lock Haven

.

4

0

..

6

0

3

1

3
3
2

1

.

....

.

.

.

.

.

,.
.

.

..

1

.

2

.

2

,.

1

3

Edinboro

Kutztown
Millersville

2
2
2
3
3

..

Pts.

0
0
0

263
250
213
188
163
163
138
125
100
100
88
88
75
63

0
0
0
1

0
0
0

.

4

4

0

.

1

3

1

2
0

4

0

6

0

.

.

.

First downs
First downs, rush
First downs, pass

Yards gained, rush
Yards lost, rush
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained pass
Intercepts by
Gained by inter

Poletime Comuntzis, ’44, Mgr.
Athamantia Comuntzis, ’46
Assistant Manager
142 East Main Street
Bloomsburg 529

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

rets,

Kick-offs
Penalties

Fumbles
fumble recov.
Bloomsburg

Own

.

..6

Bloomsburg

.

1

2

.

.

.

.

.

.

7

4

14—27

0—

6

Touchdowns—

—Gronka

(pass).

7
3

75

131
4

3
4

2
16

132
5-47

2-55
87
6-34

15

3-33
49

.

lost

0
2

1

Penalties

Bloomsburg

.

.

7

4-50
0 12

..007

—
scoring:
PAT—Hoagland

2

0

28

by

inter,

68
1

1

287
38
12

.

Yds. gained inter
Kick-offs
Kick-offs ret

34

0
0

Touchdown

Pass

Mansfield

Osevala, Mont, Casper, Tilburg; PAT
(rushing); Casper 2 (placements).
scoring:

Yds. lost rush
Passes attempted
Yds. gained pass
Passes completed

13
3

28
37
2-10

Mont

.

Yards rushing

3

..060

scoring:

1

.

Fumbles

20
2-37
5-37
10
105
3-15

0

11

1

.

Wilkes

.

1

0
0
5-47
3-41

yds

.

Punts
Punts returned, yds.

.

yds
ret.

3
.

6
5

104
44

Man.

B. S.T.C.
First downs
First downs, rush
First downs, pass
First downs, pen

11
10

13
8

.

.

Wilkes

233

.

Punts

Punt

3-25

'

7—26

0—

7

Bloomsburg scoring: Touchdowns
Browning, Osevala, Groover, Shuda;
PAT Casper 2 (placements). Mansfield

Touchdown

— Hoagland;

(placement).

B. S.T.C. 48,

Trenton 0

What was

hilled as the annual
of the Teachers College turned out to be a birthday
celebration for Bob Tilburg, a

homecoming

freshman halfback from Kane, on
Saturday afternoon, October 10, as
Trenton Teachers, making their initial appearance here, were swamped, 48-0.

possession, once turning back their

Tilburg, listed in the program as
and a
half feet, must have given the boys
from Jersey the idea he was a run-

hosts with a 100-yard pass interception return for touchdown by sop-

away tank.
The eighteen-year-old made

Bloomsburg

26,

Mansfield 7

a 160-pounder standing five

Striking the

first

time they had

homore Boh Groover, of Williamsport, and pretty much dominating
play all the way, Bloomsburg Col-

his

score— third for the Huskies—
near the end of the first half when
he was hit with a pass by Ed
first

lege Huskies enrolled their second
triumph of the football season at
Mansfield on Saturday afternoon,
October 3, with a score of 26-7.

Moving

The TEXAS
FOR YOUR REFESHMENTS

.

Kick-offs

Wilkes
T.

came

the second half to score

in

title.

Final Standings
W.
L.

the

College

of the first half, the Huskies

—

..
.

from the Northern tier, producing
one touchdown for each.

Saturday evening,

win over Lock Haven, West Chester moved into undisputed first

ference.

Wilkes 6

B. S.T.C. 27,

ATHLETICS

—

...

into

the

lead

in

the

opening minutes and not allowing
the home team to have possession
of the ball in Bloomsburg territory
once during the first half. Jack
Yohe’s Maroon and Gold operatives

had things

largely their

own

way.

HARRY

S.

REAL, ESTATE
52

BARTON,

—

’96

INSURANCE

West Main Street
Bloomsburg 850

weapon was the
The home club got few op-

Mansfield’s one
aerial.

portunities

to use it in the first
half— and then the heaves were
desperation ventures. And in the
second half it worked quite as well
for the Huskies as for the hoys

4

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Reese, a freshman quarterback
from Plymouth, while all alone on
the left flank. The
pood for six yards.

maneuver was

scoring thrusts. lie bulled his way
lb yards to the double stripe to
tally a third period touchdown after apparently being halted twice
by a host of Trenton Lions and then
early in the fourth period ambled
He swivel
66 yards for a score.
hipped a few on that jaunt but was
likewise aided materially by some
effective down field blocking by

teammates.
B.S.T.C. Tren.

First downs
First downs, rush
First downs, pass

Yds. gained rush
Yds. lost rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Gained passing
intercepted by
Yds. gained inter
Kick-offs
Yards returned

Punts
Yards returned

Own

recovered

Penalties

First
First
First
First

downs
downs rush
downs pass
downs pen

Yards rushings
Lost rushing
Yards passing
Pass Tries

Punts

1

2

278
36

72
24
14

Kickoffs
Penalties

4
2

4

188
24
55

201
42
205

9

16
7

5
0

6-31
2-45
4-50

1

36

1

0
0
1-40
103
8-30
21

5-52
6-70

7

4

Own

5

3

B.S.T.C. 20, California 13

Jimmy Browning,

a wing-footed

4
2

2

sophomore from Williamsport, led
the College Huskies back on the

0

victory

6-70

4-20

Scranton 25

The Bloomsburg Huskies found
Joe Zack and Jim Lavery a bit too
tough to shackle as they bowed, 25
to 7, to powerful University of
Scranton before 3,000 fans on Mt.
Olympus Saturday afternoon, October 17.
wrecked
Zack
Quarterback
Bloomsburg’s bid for victory number four with a sensational pass-

trail

Saturday, October 24,

Teachers were hum-

game marred by

and
slowed by numerous time outs.
The sky was overcast and the
wind on the chill side on the plateau which serves as the home domain of the Maroon and Gold but
penalties

every time the fair sized assemblage started getting uncomfortable from the weather the Mechaniesburg youth did something to pep
them up.

He

pitching for two
TDs and setting up another in completing seven of eleven tosses for
205 yards. He also scored a touchdown in a sneak from the one.

second Husky
touchdown, grabbing a pass from
Mike Lashendock in a 57-yard aerial thrust, to put the Huskies ahead.
Then, early in the final period,

Lavery, a fast-stepping halfback,
up 123 yards in thirteen carries and crossed the goal line in a
24-yard sprint in the third period.
It was Scranton’s second triumph
in three games.
The Huskies, while outgaining
Scranton on the ground, couldn’t
make their efforts count until the
fourth period when halfback Harvey Boughner sparked a 93-yaixl
Fullback Barney Osevala
drive.

Bloomsburg got loose at left end
and tore 51 yards for the touchdown that was to prove to be the
one which swung the scales of vic-

ing

exhibition,

rolled

December, 1953

yds
yds

ret.

ret.

Penalties

Fumbles
Ball lost

8

26
22

3
85

6
83

1

1

5-43
4-35
13
67
12-113
3

2-27
9-38
72
6
4-50

1

0

fum

B.S.T.C. 14,

3

4
107

New Haven

1

12

The educated toe of Charlie
(jasper of Bellefonte provided the
margin of victory for Bloomsburg
College Huskies over
Teachers on Saturday

New Haven

bled, 20-13, in a bruising football
7,

Punts
Punts

1

2

322
36

Passes attempted
Passes completed
Yards gained pass
Pass intercepts by
Kick-offs
Kick-off

10
4

13
10

Yards rushing
Yards lost rush

Teachers

as California

B.S.T.C.

up

B.S.T.C. Cal.
First downs
First downs, rush
First dowjis, pass
First downs, pen

1

Fumbles
recovered

the western part of the state put
a real battle.

2-31

7

63

-46
8

B.S.T.C'. Scr.
15
11
9
6

Completed
Intercepted by

72

backs

their

second half, putting forth all they
had to stop Scranton thrusts to the
seven, fifteen and nineteen.
But
the visitors broke through twice as
they leveled the Huskies with a
touchdown-a-period pace.

2

8
3

cli-

through most of the

the wall

4

13
12

6-36
104

Fumbles

The Yohemen had
to

Tilburg’s hard running wasn’t
demonstrated until the next two

his

cracked over from the one to
max the march.

scored

the

tory in favor of the Huskies.

At another point he got free deep
own territory and raced 44
yards before being pulled down on
in his

the California 36.

he had himself an afternoon and he couldn’t have picked a
better time, for the Vulcans from
All in all

afternoon, October 31.

The Maroon and Gold, with
Jimmy Browning racing 62 yards
one score and Barney Osevala
bursting through the line for three
yards for another, recorded a 1412 victory in New Haven as they
gave their hosts their first defeat
of the season.
The win was the fifth in six starts
for Jack Yohe’s charges and the
for

Huskies

in

winning turned

exhibition

linest

of

in their

football

this

season.

They were scored on twice
quarter by the finest

in the

small
college passing combination in the
nation but after that bottled up the
vaunted aerial attack of the New
first

Havenites.
B.S.T.C. N.H.
First

downs

4
180
43
137

Yards gained rush
Yards lost rush
Net gain rushing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Pass intercepts by
Yards gained passes
Fumbles by
Ball lost fumbles

Number

2
2

of punts

Penalties, yards

JOSEPH

C.

8

83
38
45
25
8

0
5

2
123

2

1

0

1

8-24
25

5-35
30

CONNER

PRINTER TO ALUMNI ASSN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Telephone 867
Mrs. J. C. Conner,

’34

5

West Chester

20, B.S.T.C. 7

The Bloomsburg Huskies dropped out

of contention for the State
Conference
College
Teachers
championship by losing, 20-7, to
West Chester before about 3,000
fans on Mt. Olympus Saturday af-

ternoon,

November

14.

Fred Prender, 190-pound halfback, delivered the most damaging
blows, scoring two touchdowns as
he led a powerful running attack
that netted West Chester 200 yards.
Prender gained 90 yards in 12 carries and reeled off numerous long
Bloomsburg
returning
runs
in
punts.

Bob Groover,

halfback, set the
stage for Bloomsburg’s lone scoring drive as he intercepted John
McAneny’s toss on the Husky 40.

Groover, Browning and
Barney Osevala alternating, the
Huskies picked up three first
downs to move to the 22. From

With

Mosteller
tra
points — Prender,
(placements).
Bloomsburg scoring: Touchdown

Conrad, Gaschel, FarB.S.T.C. W.C.

alizing to the opposition.
L.H. B.S.T.C.

Extra point— Casper

—Browning.
Officials:

McGill.

First
First
First
First

putting together their sixth

triumph in eight contests, put their
sights on the main objective— getting points on the score board. The
way they carried out their plan of
battle could not help but be demor-

(placement).
ina,

letes,

downs
downs rushing
downs passing
downs penalty

Yards rushing
Lost rushing
Yards passing
Passes attempted

10
6

10
7
1

1

2
157

3

242
200
29

74
41

12
4

11

Completed

3

Intercepted by
Kickoffs

3

1

2-40
7-29

3-44

Fumbles

2

6

Own

1

Punts
recovered

8-90

Penalties

B.S.T.C. 46,

4-35

6-GO

Lock Haven 13

the premise of
sustained drive when
one well-executed play will do the
trick,” Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Huskies concluded another successful season on Saturday,
November 00, when they ran
through and passed over a valiant

Operating

on

First
First
First

down
downs rushing
downs passing

Yards gained rushing
Yards lost rushing
Passes attempted
Yards gained passing
Intercepts

12

6

5
7
71

4
2

264

28
23
212

by

Yards by intercepts
Fumbles
Ball lost, fumbles
Kick-offs

Punts returned yards
Kick-offs
Kick-offs returns, yards ....

61
9

199

1

2

20

51

5
3
4.50

5
0

7-48

26
4-50
102

7-48
79

21

PLAYED THEIR LAST GAME
Six seniors played their last foot-

game

Bloomsburg

“why put on a

ball

verted to give

but often befuddled band of Lock

when the
entertained
the Lock Haven Teachers on scenic
Mt. Olympus. Three of the fourthyear men hail from the Shamokinthe
while
Coal Township area
other three claim die Wyoming

lead.

Haven Bald

'.’alley as their

Lashendock tossed to Browning on the ten and the slippery
halfback streaked into the end

there,

zone.

Capable Charley Caspter conBloomsburg a 7-0

West Chester

Ends— Paciaroni,

Gatski, Crozier,

Furlow.

Tackles— Duff, Janiek, Sorber.

Guards— Soscia,

Chilbert,

Dol-

bin.

Centers— Stashis, Beck.
Backs— Spafford, Prender, Mosteller, Neiman, McAneny, StrzelMarion,
mot, Miller.
ecki,

McDer-

Buechele,

Bloomsburg

Ends— Stroup,

Pope,

Cumens,

Belle.

Tackles—Thomas, Nemetz, Hughes,
Panichello, Thomas, Williams.

Guards— Glosek,

Eagles, 46-13.
small gathering of the faithful,
sitting through a light rain, saw
Jack Yohe’s knights in moleskins
operate with such efficiency that
362 of the 463 yards gained from
scrimmage during the afternoon
were forged into scoring drives.
The seventh touchdown was the
result of a pass interception and
35-yard return by Harvey Boughner, the sophomore from Trevorton.
Statistics tell the story but there
is one line in those of that Saturday’s game which, standing alone,
would not give you anything like
That is the one
the real picture.

A

Persing,

Wwak,

downs. Lock Haven had
advantage there.

listing first

a 12-6

The Maroon and Gold

clad ath-

Jones.

Centers— Severance,

Skiptunas,

Connolley.

Backs — Lashendock, Groover,
Browning, Osevala, Angus, Casper,
Boughner, Dipipi, Tilburg, Mont,
Shuda.
0 14 0 6—20
West Chester
7 0 0 0— 7
Bloomsburg
West Chester scoring: Touchdowns— Piciaroni, Prender 2. Ex6

J.

WESLEY KNORR,
NOTARY PUBLIC
West Fifth Street
Bloomsburg 131-M

252

’34

for

the

State Teachers College

twice-beaten Huskies

home

district.

Oddly

enough, three of die six are linemen, the remaining trio are backs.
Barny Osevala and John Nemetz, who played standout foot-

Greyhounds of Shamoand Joe Glosek, one-dme Coal
Township star, were slated to sing
their swan song for the Huskies.

ball for the
kin,

Wyoming

include
Valley seniors
Bernie Mont, Lehman, who had
not been in action since the Wilkes
game because of a fractured shoulder; Floyd Williams, standout Ashley high grad, and Merlyn Jones,
205-pound Coughlin, Wilkes-Barre
guard.
earned
All six of die gridders
four varsity letters for the Huskies
by the time the clash with the
Bald Eagles was over. All have
played important roles in post-

World War II Husky grid fortunes.
All were members of the 1951 club
that compiled

an undefeated

rec-

ord and copped the first Teachers
College championship. Since their
freshman year, the Huskies have
won 26 games, lost but five, and
tied one.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

COLORFUL PEP RALLY IS
STAGED BEFORE CONFLICT
had anything to do with
Bloomsburg State Teachers
College Huskies would have beaten
If spirit

the

it,

the

West Chester Rams

a “couple

zillion’ to zero.

At least

what was

indicated in one of the most colorful pep
rallies ever staged here by college
that’s

students and

Husky

adherents.
students followed
three bands and nearly twenty
foats in a parade that halted at the
square for a half-hour session of
cheering and vocalizing of college
songs, and then returned up College Hill for the traditional “Burning of the Ram” at bon fire exer-

Hundreds

of

cises there.

Most of the floats and participants boded ill for West Chester
with stretcher-bearers, hearses and
such predominant in the “Beat
West Chester” and “Bury the
Rams" themes. Among the more
colorful were the “Friendly Vets,”
student-veterans of the Korean
war, attired in grid uniforms and
dragging a genuine dog sled.
Eddy Chase, aged fourteen
months, was the youngest in the
line-of-march as he portrayed the
future sweetheart of Phi Sigma Pi.
Miss Edna Zigenfoos, of Ashland,
first in

a line of fraternity cars pret-

portrayed the present “SweetFollowing her were runners-up attired in feminine garb
but with distinct male appearance.
Prize winning floats were those
of Phi Sigma Pi, the Fourth Floor
Waller Hall Girls, the Day Women’s Association, and the Shaky
Club. At the college hill rally, bon
speakers were Coach Jack
fire
Yohe and Dr. Hanev A. Andruss,
tily

heart.”

college president.

MOYER BROS.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
SINCE 1868
William V. Moyer, ’07, President
Harold L. Moyer, ’09, Vice-President

Bloomsburg 246

DONATED BY CLASS
FOR NEW SCORE BOARD

HUSKIES NEARLY

$300

TOOK POLICE EXAM
Connecticut

were

telling

policemen
they nearly had

state

how

the Bloomsburg, Pa., State TeachCollege football team in their
ranks.
ers

It

happened

all

at

New Haven

State Teachers College where the
state police department was con-

ducting examinations.

A
was

examiner said he
when in walked
husky guys— fine state

state police

sitting there

these 40 tall,
police material.

He handed them examination
papers and pencils and told them
to take seats

and

start right in.

“Hey, wait a minute,” blurted
one of the bruisers. “I think we re
in the wrong room.”
“Aren’t you here to take the state
police test?" The examiner asked.
"Heck. no. said the husky youth.
state
“We’re
Pennsylvania
the
teachers college football team. To-

morrow we play New Haven
Teachers.”
They did and dumped unbeaten

New

Haven,

14-12.

COLLEGE SONGS'
NOW ON SALE
On

book store is a
publication, “ColPrinted by Grit of
lege Songs.”
Williamsport, the song sheet contains all the words and music to
the old and cherished songs everysale in the

new Bloomsburg

one should know.
These songs include the Alma
Mater, Maroon and Gold, Old
Bloomsburg, and My Girl’s a HulThe score was arranged
labaloo.
by Mr. Howard Fenstemaker who
originally did the work for an
publication, “Bloomsburg
earlier

Through the Years.”
The necessary material for the
sheet was selected and gathered
by Mr. Edward T. DeVoe and Alfred Chiscon. The cover is printed
in maroon and gold and contains a
decorative music bar design.

To have

a giant’s strength; O,

The class of 1948 has donated
$300 towards the purchase of an
electric football score board on Mt.
Olympus.
Discussion on the project of buying an electric football scoreboard
last year when Henry Marpresident of the class of 1953
College
presented the plan
to
Council. The approximate cost of
the scoreboard would be $1,265, inincludes
cluding installation, and
all the necessary equipment for op-

began
ini,

The class of 1953 decided
give $350 to this fund, if the
Community Government Association would give $300, with the provision that tlie balance of the necessary fund be raised within the
next three years by future classes
who choose to join the class of
1953 in this project. If at the end
of three years no class has contributed to this effort the class would
decide on another memorial at a

eration.
to

reunion.

The dimensions of the scoreboard that the class considered
were seventeen feet, four and onehalf inches by nine feet, five and
one-half inches. These dimensions
do not include the height of the
steel uprights on which the scoreboard will be placed. The numerals for the scores are two feet high
and the numerals on the clock are
one foot high. The clock is eight
feet in diameter.

The scoreboard

of aluminum with a protective coating.

is

made

the scoreboard is bought, it
not be installed for a year or
two, as the football field is in the
excavated and
process of being
If

will

would
possibly relocated, which
necessitate moving the scoreboard.

THE CHAR-MUND INN
Mrs. Charlotte Hoch,

’15,

Propr.

Bloomsburg, Pa.
it is

excellent; but it is tyrannous
it like a giant.

To use

(Shakespeare: Measure for

Measure.
December, 1953

Act

II, Sc. II)

7

REDMAN

BIDS

FOR STATE TITLE
Boh Redman, who

in

his

six-

year tenure at at Bloomsburg State

Teachers College had two undefeated teams and not a single losing
campaign, has another winner.

The charges of the popular
mentor, the youngsters of East
Orange, N. J., High School, on Saturday, October 24, defeated Montclair, 27-13.

This was the first time in ten
years East Orange has defeated
that club and it halted a Montclair
winning streak of sixteen games.

There were over 10,000 fans
the

contest,

ceremony

Nazareth LuthMd., on
Monday, September 14, Miss BeaIn a

Miss Patricia Ives, daughter of
Ives, Bloomsburg,
received
her cap in a candlelight
service
held recently in Hurd Hall of Johns

at

eran Church, Baltimore,

at

with standing room

sold.

That makes the record of East
Orange five wins and no losses or
ties and puts them out front in the

John

M. Auchter, granddaughter
George Auchter, Lime Ridge,

trice

of

became the bride

Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
There were ninety-three in the
class from twenty-six states.’ Miss
Ives, a student at Johns
Hopkins
School of Nursing, graduated from
Bloomsburg High School in 1952
and attended B.S.T.C. for the past
two years.

Stanley L.
of Mr. and Mrs.
of

Ksanznak, son
Stanley L. Ksanznak, Sr., West
Hazleton.
The bride is employed by the
U. S. Radium Corp., Almedia. The
bridegroom is a graduate of West
Hazleton High School and is now
a senior at B.S.T.C.

Heaven doth with us

we

as

with

torches do,
Pvt.

George E. Plafcan, Blooms-

burg R. D.

Not

light them for themselves; for
our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ’twere all

fonner B.S.T.C. stucompleted his basic

if

3,

dent, has
training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.
He has been transferred to

alike

As

Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he is
in training for the military police.

if

we had them

not.

(Shakespeare:

Measure.

Act

Measure
I,

for

Sc. I)

race for scholastic gridrion honors
of the state.

Redman had

a pretty good sea-

son at East Orange last year but
his charges took a drubbing from

BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

Montclair.

1953

This year’s game had been built
as the principal schoolboy clash

1954

-

up

in that

section of

New

Jersey.

One

observer in a pre-game comment observed that “You wouldn’t
have been given a plugged nickle
for East Orange’s chances against
Montclair before the season opened.
But Coach Bob Redman has
done a top job with the Panthers
and they will be fighting for a shot
at

Montclair’s state

title.”

Miss Irene Matonte, daughter of
Mrs. Fannie Matonte DeLorenzo,
Pardeesville, was married to John
D. Keegan, Jr., former B.S.T.C.
student at St. Nazarius Church, in
Pardeesville, recently.
The Rev.
Joseph Ferrara, pastor, officiated.
Mrs. Keegan attended Plazle Twp.
High School and the Hazleton
State Hospital School of Nursing.
She has been employed at the Danville State Hospital.
Mr. Keegan,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Keegan,
Shamokin,
attended
Shamokin
schools and B.S.T.C.
He is employed as supervisory trainee at the

General Motors

Institute,

Home
Home

November 28— Wilkes College
December

5— Millersville

S.T.C.

December 12— Lock Haven
January

7— Kutztown

Away

S.T.C.

Away

S.T.C.

January

13-Scranton University

Home

January

16— Mansfield

January

28— Lock Haven

Home
Home

S.T.C.

S.T.C.

February

3— Cheyney

February

6-West Chester

Away

S.T.C.

Home

S.T.C.

February

10— Lycoming College

Away

February

13— Wilkes College

Away

February

17— Kutztown S.T.C.

Home

February

20— Millersville

S.T.C.

Away

February

24— Lycoming College

Home

February

27— Mansfield

Away

March

3— Cheyney
J.V.

S.T.C.

Home

S.T.C.

Games -

Varsity

7:00 P. M.

Games —

8:30 P.

M.

Wilming-

ton, Del.
8

TIIE

ALUMNI QUARTERLY

HUSKY BACKS AVERAGE
4.9 YARDS PER CARRY
In compiling another successful
record on the gridiron, Bloomsburg
State Teachers
College
Huskies
ground out over a mile from rushing and added more than a quarter
of a mile from passing to out-distance the best
efforts
of
their
eight opponents. The offense-minded Huskies of Coach Jack Yohe
banged out 1821 yards from scrimmage during the 1953 campaign,
an effort of 227.6 yards per tilt. In
order to cane out this yardage,
Husky backs, led by Jimmy Browning and Barnet Osevala, lugged the
pigskin 371 times for an average
carry of 4.9 yards— respectable in

any league.
Browning, the sophomore flash
from Mechaniesburg, led the Husky
ground gainers with 764 yards net
in 69 carries— better than
eleven
yards average on each carry. Osevala, the veteran fullback
from
Shamokin, was the Huskies’ second best offensive weapon, piling
up 289 yards net in 53 tries— an
average gain of 5.4 yards. Browning’s efforts earned him
a
spot
among the twenty leading small
college gainers, according to figures released by the N.I.A.A.
However, the rushing figures do
not tell the whole story, for Browning was one of the Huskies’ favorite targets

eleven

He caught

for passes.

aerials,

five

of

them

for

touchdowns, for a total gain of 284
yards. This yardage plus his rushing yardage gave him a fat total
gain of 1048 yards— a net gain per
of 132 yards.
Three other
touchdowns via the ground route
made the little Mechaniesburg
whiz the Huskies’ top point-protilt

ducer with 48

tallies.

While the Husky backs were pulverizing the opponents, the Husky line turned in another top performance, limiting eight rivals to
a net gain from rushing of
672
yards— 84 yards per game. Passing,
however, added 637 yards to the
enemy’s total— giving the Husky defense an overall record of
1311
yards for the season or 164 yards
per tilt.
In the punting department, the
Huskies were somewhat outshone

by

their rivals.

December, 1953

converted back, doing most of
the booting in the absence of the
injured Bemie’Mont, the Huskies
kicked 42 times in eight games—
an average boot of 33 yards. The
rivals’ total shows 45 punts for
a
total of 1527
yards— an average
punt of about 34 yards. Cumens
performance, however, is considered remarkable in view of the
fact that he shouldered the entire
load in his first season as a varsity
a

With Bob Cumens,

starter.

Despite defeats by championship
West Chester and the powerful
University of Scranton, the Huskies
outscored their rivals 29
touchdowns to 15. Little Charlie Casper, the Bellefonte freshman with
the educated toe that inflicted the
only defeat on New Haven’s passminded Owls, booted 21 of 29
placements for extra points— one of
the best records the Huskies have
had since the days of Ed Tavalsky.

1934
Sara Lentz Eynon has been elected
President of the
Clark’s
Summit P.T.A. for the current
school year.

IMPROVEMENTS ARE
NEARING COMPLETION
Improvements at the College,
begun during the summer, are now
nearing completion, and will provide greater facilities for the various activities on the campus.

The

first

Carver

Hall,

contained

three

floor of

which formerly

classrooms, office for faculty and
a storage room, has been remodel-

ed to provide offices for the President, the Dean of Instruction, and
(he Business Manager. The offices

open from a central lobby, which
one enters after passing through
an octagonal vestibule inside the

main

entrance.

The

The building known to older
graduates as the “Old Gym” has
been undergoing a

grade of lieutenant colonel, the U.
Army Reserve Center, Williamsport, has announced.
He is a veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict. Col. Woolcock is a
graduate of the Teachers College
and received his master’s degree at
the Pennsylvania State University.
He resumed his teaching activities
in January after
being released
from active duty.
1954
Miss Anne Mae Cheslock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Cheslock, Shamokin, became the bride
of John W. Nemetz, son of
Mr.
and Mrs. Roman Nemetz, Shamokin in St. Stanislaus Church, Shamokin, on November 26, with the
Rev. Emanuel Wolkanoski, officiating.
Mrs. Nemetz was graduated
from Coal Township High School
in 1950 and has been employed in

general meeting place.

series of alterations for several years, and is now
serving as a student lounge and

S.

office

of
bride-

are

location for the administrative offices; strangers have usually entered Carver Hall to find the offices,
as it is the first building that one
sees as he drives up College Hill.

Gerald M. Woolcock, a member
of the Millville Joint High School
faculty, has been promoted to the

the Shamokin business
the Bell Telephone Co.

offices

decorated in the Colonial style, in
keeping with the style of the exterior.
Carver Hall is the natural

Several years ago the east side,

where the bleachers were located,
was raised, and on this level are
located easy chairs and davenports
and is a popular gathering place
for the students.

During the summer the floor
was removed from the main part
of the building and
a
concrete
floor was laid in its place.
This
w as then covered with tile.
At
7

the north end, a large stone fireplace has been built and the area
has been separated from the main
floor by a difference in level, with
a

wooden

railing.

College authorities are now considering what to do with the side
where the west bleachers are located.
Several plans have
been
considered, but no final
decision
has been made.

groom graduated from Shamokin
High School in 1949 and is now attending B.S.T.C. where he is active

The electric wiring system in
Waller Hall is being replaced, to
provide for the carrying of heavier
loads of current, and to reduce the

in athletics.

fire

The

hazard.
9

PERSONNEL OR PLANT
Faculty or
environment.

facilities,

[1952-19541

true or false, black or white,

good or bad, heredity or

Those who make decisions are continually faced with the choice of one of
The public is more impressed by the plant than by the degrees
following the names of the faculty members in the catalog or the names of Associations accrediting the particular institution. A new building is more impressive
than figures showing that a large number of graduates have been employed either
in the professions for which they have been prepared or in other gainful occu-

two

alternatives.

pations.

Generally, if only two choices are given it is always wise to look for a third or
fourth possibility or avoid thinking that if one thing is chosen the other tiling
must necessarily be foregone.

During the past five years, the college has been evaluated and reaccredited
by two agencies, one regional and the other national, and the faculty has completed more hours of graduate credit than in any previous period of like length.
Faculty salaries have been advanced and the attendance at educational meetings
both in and out of the State of Pennsylvania has been larger than in many years.
While this has been going on in the field of improving personnel, our plant
has been improved during the past two years to the extent of over $500,000. The
completion of a battery of electric stokers has enabled us to produce more heat
at less cost, and the rewiring of all dormitories has removed a fire hazard of long
standing. Sometime in the early part of 1954 we expect to move die administra-

now located in Waller Hall to the first floor of Carver Hall. A visitor
our campus on coming to the first floor of the first building will be able to
find eidier the President, the Dean of Instruction, or the Business Manager. The
administrative space vacated in Waller Hall will be renovated for the use of the
Dean of Men and the Dean of Women, and the lobby and adjacent areas will be
resurfaced. Plans are also being made to complete the renovation of the Old
Waller Hall Gymnasium into a college lounge. Just now a new asphalt tile floor
on a concrete base is being completed, with a fireplace at the far end of die
lounge surrounded by knotty pine woodwork.
tive offices

to

expected diat an architect will shortly be appointed to draw plans for a
entrance to Carver Hall and two porticoes for Waller Hall, one entering the
lobby and the odier entering the first floor below the library. It is expected that
along widi the renovation of the space occupied by the administrative offices
new doors and locks will be installed in the Mens wing of the Waller Hall
dormitory.
are endeavoring to plan for improvements in both plants and personnel
In otirer words,
so as to keep a proper balance in our budgetary allocations.
when an opportunity has been offered to further either plant or personnel, we
It is

new

We

have

tried to

do something

for both.

On your next visit to the campus, you will undoubtedly notice some of these
changes, and if you will come down to the first floor of Carver Hall you may
expect to find the office of

President

Sauc&ied and felawed'

'

E. H.

NELSON,

’ll

This has been a good Fall to build up loyalty to our
to the

Campus

beauty

is

The

gratifying

and

is

ot

team

is

its

one

ot

and student

which we may well be proud.

Especially

the enthusiasm manifested by the students in supporting the team,

up

justifiable pride in the school of their choice.

have been privileged

"get togethers

’

The experience
appraise

visit

the Administration, faculty,

to attend

Alumni gatherings

Harrisburg, and Scranton so far this school year.

we

A

you who were there Homecoming Day experien-

welcome from

spirit of

football

in building

We

Those

unexcelled.

Mater.

we may wander”

convinces one that “far and wide though

ced the gracious
body.

Alma

its

our heart)’ thanks.
of following years

worth

those

New

York, Milton,

who promote

—

Graduation was the beginning

the

these
start.

deepens the meaning of school comradship and

reminiscence and song.

in

To

in

Plan to be present

when

the

clan gathers in your area.

A
to

be

letter

in

from Dr. Aldinger recently

May

Bloomsburg next

carries the

good news that he expects
Those

for his 50th reunion.

privileged to be in Bloomsburg during the Aldinger days will

and greet the
good

fine

gentleman who pioneered

start in the field of Physical

thing in a concrete

days?

How

each year?

way

to

to

want

to

come back

Bloomsburg away

Education and Athletics.

show our appreciation

you who were

Can’t

to a

we do some-

for his efforts in those early

about an Aldinger Scholarship, available for a student or students

Send me your

on song and praise alone.

Bloomsburg

in getting

of

in

mind

you and yours.

in

ideas.

Some

Remember, no school can continue
expression

your contributions

—

is

needed

in

your

in a definite

will.

Happy

to develop

way.

Keep

holiday season

THE ALUMNI
COLUMBIA COUNTY

LUZERNE COUNTY

PRESIDENT
Edward
S. T. C.,

A. Wilkes-Barre

T. DeVoe, ’31
Bloomsburg, Pa.

SUSQUEHANNA-WYOMING AREA

Area

PRESIDENT
Francis Shaughnessy, ’24
63 West Harrison St., Tunkhannock, PA.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Elfed Vid Jones

Donald Rabb, ’46
Market St., Benton, Pa.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

D. Sharretts,

S. T. C.,

Bloomsburg Pa.

New

Miss Betty Roberts

SECRETARY
Edward

VICE PRESIDENT
Raymond Kozlowski,

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

’41

’52

Milford, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

Jerry Russin

Miss Mabel Dexter,

’19

Mehoopany. Pa.

TREASURER

RECORDING SECRETARY

Paul L. Brunstetter, T4

Mrs. Betty Hensley

SECRETARY

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

Mrs. Susan Jennings Sturman, '14
42 Slocum, Ave., Tunkhannock, Pa.

Main

441 East

St.,

Catawissa, Pa.

Chester Wojcik

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND AREA
Miss

Mary

A. Meehan, T8
St., Harrisburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs.

Harold

J.

40 South Pine

VICE PRESIDENT
Paul Englehart, ’07
2921 George St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Baum,

St.,

147 East Chestnut

WASHINGTON,

St.,

W. Homer Englehart, ’ll
Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.
127

AREA

PRESIDENT

Hazleton, Pa.

Walter Lewis, ’42
1736 “G” St., N. W„ Washington, D.

VICE PRESIDENT

TREASURER

Pauline L. Douden, '92
1840 Biltmore St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Lucille

1821

D. C.,

Miss Elizabeth Probert, ’18
562 N. Locust St., Hazleton, Pa.

TREASURER

T4

’27

SECRETARY

Miss Pearl L. Baer. ’32
South Union St., Harrisburg, Pa.

Hartley,
Milford, Pa.

Hazleton, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT
Hugh E. Boyle, T7

SECRETARY

Olwen Argust

New

PRESIDENT

Miss Nellie M. Seidel, T3
1618 State St., Harrisburg, Pa.

’ll

Clifford, Pa.

Area

B. Hazleton

VICE PRESIDENT

21

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Hasbro uck,

Mrs. Ruth Griffiths

PRESIDENT
2632 Lexington

SECRETARY

TREASURER

McHose Ecker.

’32

C.

Washington Ave., W. Hazleton, Pa.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE AREA

MONTOUR COUNTY

PRESIDENT

RECORDING SECRETARY

PRESIDENT

Miss Eva Morgan,
2217 North

Virginia L. Rosser, ’30
Washington, D. C.

’22

Main Ave., Scranton,

David W. Foust,
Pa.

R. D.

2,

Mrs. Catherine Oplinger Renninger,
1728 N. Rhodes St., Apt. 278,
Arlington, Va.

’35

Danville, Pa.

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Mrs. Henrietta Cabo McCann, ’30
1315 Prospect Ave., Scranton, Pa.

Lois C. Bryner, ’44
38 Ash St., Danville, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs. Harriet McAndrew Murphy,
6000 Nevada Ave., N. W.
Washington, D. C.

SECRETARY

SECRETARY
Miss Florence Dunn,

Miss Alice Smull,

’31

312

427 Washington Ave.. Jermyn, Pa.

Church

St.,

Miss Susan Sidler,
615

Bloom

St.,

’05

WEST BRANCH AREA

’30

Danville. Pa.

PRESIDENT
Mrs. Harold Danowsky
R. D. 3, Lewisburg, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA AREA

NEW YORK AREA
Richard C. Stout,

732

'49

Miss Kathryn M. Spencer,
Fairview Village, Pa.

’35

SECRETARY-TREASURER
A. K. Naugle, ’ll
119 Dalton St., Roselle Park, N.
12

Hortman Irish.
Washington St., Camden,

Mrs.
R. D.

’06

N.

Lewisburg. Pa.

SECRETARY
’18

SECRETARY-TREASURER
J.

Lynn Danowsky
3,

J.

PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT
Michael Prokopchak,

VICE PRESIDENT

HONORARY PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lillian

PRESIDENT

’16

Danville, Pa.

TREASURER

TREASURER
Miss Lydia Bohn, ’21
227 Stephen Ave., Scranton, Pa.

’41

Mrs. Nora Woodring Kinney, ’09
7011 Erdrick St., Philadelphia 35, Pa.

Mrs. Walter Angstadt
Lewisburg, Pa.

TREASURER
Mrs. Clarence

Crow

Lewisburg, Pa.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

NEW YORK ALUMNI
The fourth annual reunion luncheon was held on Saturday, October 24, 1953,
Hotel, Lexington
Street,

New

at

the

Allerton

Avenue and 57th

York City, with

thirty

members and guests present.
Honored guests were: Dr. and
Mrs. Andruss and Dr. Nelson, of
Bloomsburg;
Class of

Mr.

Ira

1890, Passaic,

Brown,
N. J., and

S.

Miss Gertrude E. Morris, Class of
1899. Miss Morris was a very able

member

committee that orin the New York
area, and has been devoting considerable time and energy in re\ iving a
once active Lackawanna
of the

ganized the group

group.
Dr. Andruss showed some very
interesting moving pictures of college scenes and activities.
Dr. Nelson spoke on ways and
means of building up a better organization. He stressed two major
points:
1.

An

objective

—

Something

worthwhile.
2.

Personal

contact — Plenty

of

it.

Dr. Andruss, guest speaker, gave
an interesting talk on various associations, growth of some, decline
of others.
He also stressed personal contact as a necessary means
for growth.

A

slate of

candidates for office

drawn up by the nomcommittee was read by Mr.

tor 1954 as

inating
Francis

Thomas

as follows:

President— Mr. Richard C. Stout,
Class 1949.
Vice President — Mr. Michael
Prokopchak, Class 1935.
Secretary-Treasurer — Mr. A. K.

Naugle.

The above candidates were duly
elected for 1954.

—A. K.

Naugle, 1911. acting secretary

WEST BRANCH AREA
ALUMNI MEETING
held October 16, 1953, at the Susquehanna Valley Veterans’ Home,

S.

HUTCHISON, 16

INSURANCE
First National

Bank Building

Bloomsburg 777-J

members and

Milton.
Fifty-four
guests attend.

The College guests were President, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, and
the Alumni President, Dr. E. II.
Nelson, Bloomsburg.

The

old officers were:

President— Mrs. Charles Snyder,
Milton.

Vice President— Mrs. Paul EverLewisburg R. D. 2.

itt,

Secretary— Mrs. Walter Angstadt,
Lewisburg.

Treasurer— Mrs. Lynn
Lewisburg R. D. 3.

Danow-

Leonard Baker.

officers

Mrs. Stanley Ritter, chairman;
Mrs. Reginald Shultz, Mrs. Lynn
Tiley.

DAUPHIN-CUMBERLAND
BRANCH
The Dauphin-Cumberland CounAlumni Association of Blooms-

ties

burg State Teachers College held
their annual dinner meeting at Witmer’s, Penbrook, Pa., on October
29. There were thirty members and
guests present.
Dr. Andruss, president of the
College, gave the invocation, and
later spoke to the group about the

survey of Bloomsburg graduates
that has been made. He also gave
interesting information about
the
college songs.

sky,

The following new

—Mrs.

Nominating committee:

The Annual Dinner Meeting of
(lie West Branch Area Alumni was

were

elected:

President— Mrs. Harold DanowLewisburg R. D. 3.

sky,

Vice President— Mrs. Lynn Danowsky, Lewisburg R. D. 3.
Secretary— Mrs. Walter Angstadt,
Lewisburg.
Treasurer— Mrs. Clarence Crow,
Lewisburg.

The members and guests attending the meeting were:
Lewisburg Mrs. Walter Angstadt, Mr
Charles I. Boyer, Mrs. Clarence Crow,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Danowsky, Mrs.
Lynn Danowsky, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Everitt, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Johnson,
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Reigle, Mr. and Mrs.
Lynn M. Tiley, Mr. Oren E. Kreisher,
Mr. and Mrs. John Letteer.
Milton Miss Leile I. Frederick, Miss
June Rose Good, Mrs. Albert T. Jones,
Mrs. Lewis Jones, Miss Helen Keyser,
Miss Mary Kathryn Moyer, Mrs. Edythe
R. Miller, Miss Helena Reimensnyder,
Miss
Virginia
Reimensnyder.
Miss
Pauline Showers, Mrs. Reginald Shultz,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snyder.
Middleburg Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Shar-

—

—

—
Mifflinburg — Mr.

adin.

and Mrs. Robert V.
Glover.
Washingtonville Miss Viola M. Blue.
Danville
Miss Julia Hagenbuch.
Northumberland Mrs. Anthony Markunas. Miss Caroline E. Petrullo, Mrs.
Anne Zerbe.
Watsontown Miss Grace Saylor, Mrs.
Wright, Mrs. F. E. Kirk, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas C. Welles, Mrs. Samuel A.
Clyde Confer, Miss Sarah H. Russell.
Dewart Mrs. H. B. Sterner.
West Milton Mr. and Mrs. Hurley

—

—

FRANK

Lock Haven

—

W. B. Sutliff, dean emeritus, and
Dr. E. H. Nelson, president of the
B.S.T.C. Alumni Association, were
speakers.
A movie of the college
and students was shown.
Pearl L. Baer, secretary
In a
thirty

ceremony performed
o’clock Saturday

at two-

afternoon,

October 10, in St. Matthew Lutheran
Church,
Bloomsburg,
Miss
Marilyn Greenly, daughter of Mrs.
Helena C. Greenly, East Main
street,
Bloomsburg, became the
bride of Theodore William Bargstadt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Bargstadt, of New York City.
The Rev. Edgar D. Ziegler, of
Hanover, former pastor the church,
performed the double-ring ceremony.
The bride attended Bloomsburg
State Teachers College and is a
graduate of Traphagen School of
Fashion. She is employed by Hat!ie Carnegie, New York City.
Mr. Bargstadt is employed by
the Federal Telecommunications
Laboratories in Nutley, N. J., and
is

a First

Regiment
al

Sergeant in the 165th
New York Nation-

of the

Guard.

—

—

—

A uten.
Auburn, N. Y.

—Mr.

HERVEY

B. SMITH, ’22
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

Court House Place

Bloomsburg 1115

and Mrs. Lyman

Walter.

December, 1953

i:

1893

Members

of the class of 1893 recently reported as deceased are
Edna Cole (Mrs. J. N. Eschenbach)
and Mrs. Eva Dintinger Frick.

She started teaching Septem1919 in Mt. Penn Borough.
The School Board and teachers
tendered Miss Brandon a dinner at
the Wyomissing Club on May 13,
Pa.
ber,

1953.

1899
Dr. L. H. Dennis was sworn in as
Consultant to the Technical Cooperation Administration, Department of State, on March 30, 1953.
Mr. R. E. Morrissey, Personnel Officer of the Department of State,
administered the oath.
Dr. Dennis left Washington by
air on April 17 for Paris where he
spent several days conferring with

UNESCO

From

officials.

Paris he

flew to Cairo to spend two days at
the Heliopolis

Trade School.

From Cairo he proceeded to
Bagdad where he spent a month
acting as Vocational Education Adviser to the U. S. Technical Cooperation (Point 4) Mission to Iraq
and the Iraq Ministry of Education
about the establishment and organization of a vocational and technical school.

On

return to the United
Dennis visited the AmUniversity at Beirut and

his

States, Dr.

erican

F.A.O. officials in Rome.
Dr. Dennis has spent almost his
entire career in Vocational Education.
For seventeen years he served as Executive Secretary of the
American Vocational Association.
Since his retirement from the latter

December

of 1950, he
has served prominently as a private vocational education consultant with offices in Washington,
D. C.

position in

1902
Marie L. Diem is now living at
1002 North Irving Avenue, Scran-

Miss Brandon was the recipient
many gifts from the School
Board, teachers and the Mothers’
Club.
Her present address is 2 North
Third Street, Pottsville, Pa.
of

1908

1912

Ten outstanding women of the
commonwealth — Distinguished
Daughters of Pennsylvania— were
honored at a luncheon at the Executive Mansion. The Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania,
headed by Mrs. William S. Peace,
Rydal,
this
of
state chairman,
year selected the following Pennsylvania women: Mrs. Edred
J.
Pennell of Mifflintown; Mrs. George E. Alter, Dr. Dorothy Klenke
Nash, Mrs. R. Templeton Smith, all
Margaret
Miss
Pittsburgh;
of
Louise Conarroe of Bryn Mawr;
Mrs. Isidore Kohn, Mrs. Morgan F.
Vining, Mrs. William W. Arnett of
Worthington
Mrs.
Philadelphia;
Scranton, of Dalton and Mother
Mary Lawrende of Rosemont ColCo.
lege, Rosemont, Montgomery

Morgan, sister-inlaw of Governor Fine, was honorThe
ary chairman for the event.
W.
invocation was given by Mrs.
Homer Engelhart (Margaret Row),
president of the Women’s Church
and Missionary Federation of HarP.

risburg.

Washington.
Allen
at

1128 Twenty-third

i

Pearl E. Brandon retired May 29
from the public schools of Reading,
14

CREASY & WELLS
Ethel Creiasy Wright,

Bloomsburg 520

Edwards War-

Street North, Seattle, Washington.
I

book, “In

the Big

be

will

dedication
Bakeless’s

of

new

Time,” which

Lippincott has published recently.
It is

dedicated to “the old crowd,”

Bloomsburgers,

ten

or

former

Mrs.
Bloomsburgers,
Bakeless’s
closest friends during her girlhood

The dedication

here.

says:

“To the

Jo, Kit B., Peg, Kit R.,

Demmy, Blake, Hutch
memoriam, Dill.”
In other words the new book is

Syl,

Rish,

and

in

dedicated to Mrs. Frank Hutchison
(Josephine Duy), Mrs. Idwal Edwards (Katherine Bierman), Mrs.
Ladislav Boor (Catherine Richardson), Mrs. James Jessup (Margaret
McKelvy), Mrs. Jerome Friedman

Myron Rishton, John
Albert Demaree, Frank
Hutchison, and the memory of
Charles Dillon. All of this group
grew up together in Bloomsburg,
all were children together in the
Model School of the old Normal,
and almost all of them later graduated from the Normal. Mrs. Bakeless began the musical studies on
which her books are based under
Mrs. J. K. Miller at the Normal,
where she took both the college
preparatory and the musical diplomas.

(Sylvia Gross),

Bakelss,

“In the Big
of a departure

Time” is something
from Mrs. Bakeless’s

earlier books, since it is only partly
musical. Her earlier books, “Story
Lives of Great Composers,” “Story
Lives of American Composers,
“Birth of a Nation's Song,” and
“Glory, Hallelujah” have all been
entirely musical. “In the Big Time,
however, tells tire stories of musiList,

but

many popular

it

en-

tertainers like Hildegarde, Bing
Crosby, several famous clowns, and

’09

BUILDING MATERIALS

1906
lives

Little

also deals with

Bertha Allen has retired from
postmaster’s office, Seattle, Washington.
Her present address is
1128 Twenty-third Street North,

nack

Katherine

the

Menuhin, and Eugene

1905

Caroline

in

cians like Marian Anderson, Yehudi

ton 10, Pa.

Seattle,

interested

Old Crowd,

Miss Elsie H. Jayne lives at 90
Academy Street, Plymouth, Pa.

Mrs. Donald

1915

Bloomsburg graduates

many

other figures in the entertain-

ment world.
Mrs. Bakeless is the daughter of
the late Judge and Mrs. R. R. Little,

aunt of Llewellyn Little, and sisterin-law of Mrs. Josiah Little, of
Bloomsburg. She is now working,
together with her husband, on a
juvenile edition of Dr. Bakeless s
book, “Eyes of Discovery."

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

1918

Lena

E.

Walton (Mrs. Arthur

tarmon) lives
Plymouth, Pa.
1

at

235 Ashley Street,

visit Clarice’s

new

hat shop in downtown Northumberland, say it isn’t the same. They
miss the clutter and the children
under foot which added to the unforgettable atmosphere of Clarice’s

workshop— her

lirst

own

living

room.
But, Marie Colt Reece,

who

is

Mrs. J. Marion Reece, Millville,
has caught this atmosphere in a

warm, human book entitled, What
Happens Is,” the story of “Hats by
Clarice,” which has just reached
‘

l

lie

local bookstore.

Those who have attended one of
Clarice’s hat demonstrations know
her to be an artist with her fingers,

homespun

with her humor and
boundless in energy. Mrs. Reece
has caught the many facets of her
personality in this first-person tale
of Clarice’s struggle to help support
her
family by designing

‘dream hats” while her husband
finished his college work.
Mrs. Reece, whose four children
have had college training, felt especially akin to Clarice, Mrs. Richaid Huccel, whose hope is that she
will be able to obtain college education for her four youngsters with
her hat designing.
Through her
book. Mrs. Reece hopes to
Clarice attain that goal.

help

The author, whose first book has
been accepted by Pageant Press,
New York City, is a former teacher.
She graduated from Bloomsburg Normal School and taught at
Nescopeck High School before her
marriage.
During the war, she
taught in the Millville schools.
Both her sons are graduates of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. William got his Master’s
degree in aeronautical engineering
at Cornell and is now doing research.
Dick got his Master’s degree in architecture at M.I.T. and
is now in the office of the head
of the architecture department.
Her daughter, Mary Louise, attended Pembrooke College where
she completed her college and after
her marriage went to St. Louis

work

at

Washington

December, 1953

Reece and Greenly Milling

of the

1919

Women who

The younger daughter, Ellen, is a
home economics senior at Syracuse
University.
Her husband is head

University.

Company.
The author is an active clubwoman, having served as county
president of the Federation of Women’s Clubs and also as a state

chairman of motion
is

a

member

She
Garden
County

pictures.

of the Millville

Club, the D.A.R., the
Child Welfare Board, the American Legion Auxiliary and the C.C.
Club. She is also president of the
Millville

W.C.T.U.

Short Story Contest and in the
Short Story Contest of the Pennsylvania Federation of Women’s
Clubs.
Clever drawings to illustrate the
book are by Mrs. Elmer Stiteler of

Bloomsburg.
1923

Grace I. Williams and Harold W.
were united in marriage
Tuesday, August 11, in the Trinity
Methodist Church, Hackettstown,
N. J., with Rev. Frank T. Reed
officiating. The ceremony was witnessed by only the closet relatives.
Keller

Keller is a graduate of
Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Susquehanna University,
and has her degree of Master of
Arts from Columbia University.
She has taught school for thirtyfive years, twenty-five of which
were spent in the English department of the Hackettstown High
Mrs. Keller has always
School.
been active in church work, serving

Mrs.

offices

She has been

from time

time.
secretary-treasurer of
to

the

Warren County Teachers’ Cre-

dit

Union

for

many

years.

Mr. Keller is a graduate of Dickinson College and has his degree
of Master of Arts from Columbia
University. He has been in school

work

for thirty-two years, the past
as instructor in mathe-

five years

matics in the Neshaminy High
School, Langhome, Pennsylvania.
In September, 1952, Mr. Keller

was ordained a Local Deacon in
the Methodist Church and in Sep-

In the

years.

Council

George Washington

present, “Pop” Keller
is the adult adviser to the
Order
ol the Arrow and an instructor in
the University of Scouting, an annual training school for scout leadat

ers.

at

A former teacher of English and
Latin, she has been interested in
writing for many years.
Two of
her short stories have won first
prizes in the Magie Essay and

many

he will receive his
Local Elder. For
the past two years he has been pastor
of
the
Linvale
Methodist
Church, near Trenton. Mr. Keller
has been active in many phases of
Boy Scout work for thirty-three
tember, 1954

final ordination of

Mr. and Mrs. Keller are at home
315 Berwyn Avenue, Trenton 8,

New

Jersey.

1924
Clara Abbett is a teacher in the
Indian Mission at Oneida, Wisconsin.
This is said to be the oldest
mission in the United States.
1927
Miss Edith Dennis

is head teachnewly completed Downey
Elementary School in Harrisburg.

er at the

Harrisburg’s elementary school
teachers and the city’s school building program were lauded Wednesday evening, October 14, by Dr.

Mordecai W. Johnson, president of

Howard

University,

as

the

new

Cumberland and Monroe
was dedicated.

school at
Streets,

One of the largest dedication audiences ever to assemble for a program in the city filled the Downey
auditorium to hear Dr. Johnson pay
tribute to the elementary school
faculties who, he said, “lay the super-structure for the nation’s uni 7
versifies.”

He commended

school directors
to give Harrisburg “adequate educational facil-

for

ities

their

program

and good teachers.”

Speaking

directly to directors
administrators, Dr. Johnson
said: “Pennsylvania is a great state
and is a leader in the nation. But
although they have the finest and
most modern school buildings, and
a fine educational system, the legislators defeated Gov. Fine’s fair em-

and

ployment bill and left Pennsylvania
wanting in achievement tostill
ward unity and understanding.”
Referring to Negro students in
the school, Dr. Johnson told his
audience: “You build fine buildings
in which to educate these children,
15

but refuse to give them job oppor-

commerce and

tunities in

This

is

lack.”

the one

He

1939

A

industry.

achievement you

said Pennsylvania

and

the United States cannot maintain
world leadership unless “job opportunity is given every man and wo-

Aruba, N.W.I.
Portions of the letter follow:

man on competency and moral
tire

new

Downey School was formally dedicated to Americanism by Charles
W. Whisler, president of the school
board, who urged the parents to
"know and appreciate this new
school and make sure it plays an
important part in educating for

“The school, run by the company
children of foreign staff em-

for

As a part of the ceremonies, an
American flag was presented to the
school by the Jewish War Veterans.
The flag was accepted by

ployees, is very well rated.
All
teachers are hired from the States.
You might advise any experienced
teachers if they are interested in
teaching here they should apply to
the Overseas Personnel Dept., 30
Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20
N. Y.”

Miss Dennis.

The new Downey

school, constructed at a cost of $650,000, is
situated on a four-acre tract at 1313
Monroe Street, and contains 16
classrooms, an auditorium-gymnasium, all-purpose room, library,
health suites and six other units of
educational facilities. The school
is

named

at the Bloomsburg State
"Teachers College.
Mr. Buckingham, a graduate of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in the class
of 1943, has been a member of the
faculty of the Sayre High School
for die past six years.

Van Aemam,

E.

3410 Old Orchard Road, Progress,
recently received the

Commenda-

Ribbon with Metal Pendant at
ceremony in Korea. Captain Van

tion

a

The new

faculty member received the degree of Master of Science
from Bucknell University, and he
has done additional graduate work
at the Pennsylvania State College.

Aernam

distinguished
himself
while serving as adjutant with the
3rd Transportation Military Rail-

way

Service.

Doyle Ivey

Prior

tenure at Sayre,
Buckingham taught for two years

teaching in Steel-

is

to

into effect this fall.
At the close
of the workshop the officer instructors will return to their schools to

organize and conduct an in-service
training

program

for their college
In this manner all of
the instructors in the Air Force

R.O.T.C. program which is presently being conducted at 209 colleges and universities will become
familiar with the new curriculum.

The new curriculum

parallels an

established trend in higher education in that it is a changeover from
a highly specialized program to a
generalized, intellectually stimulating educational program.

to

his

Athens High School.
During
six years at Sayre, he served
as staff announcer and news editor
for Radio Station WATS.

1944
Mr. and Mrs. Donald DeLong,
Ambler, are parents of a daughter
born on Monday at the Woman’s
Medical Hospital, Gennantown.
Mrs. DeLong is the former Betty
Hagenbuch, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Boyd Hagenbuch, of Bloomsburg.

1945

Mr. and Mrs.

W.

E. Davis, Elmthe parents of a
daughter born Friday, October 23.
Mrs. Davis, the former Evelyn
hurst,

111.,

are

George, of East Front street, Danville, is a graduate of Bloomsburg
State Teachers College.

his

1933

Dorothy Gilmore Lovell is now
living at Rt. 2, Box 49x, Hermiston,
Oregon. Her husband was one of
nine power plant operators sent
from Bonneville Dam, where Army
Engineers held an eighteen-months

work

at

McNary

Dam,

McNary, Oregon.
Ruth Lewis

with the American
Red Cross. Her address is 3139
Middlesex Drive, Toledo, Ohio.
16

acquaint the officer innew Air Force
R.O.T.C. curriculum which will go
is

structors with the

at

Ion, Pa.

course, to

Buckingham has been

and radio

1928

Hugh

F.

appointed assistant professor of
speech and director of dramatics

burg family.

Capt.

shop

of August.
of the work-

1943

Boyd

a pioneer Harris-

after

month

The primary purpose

instructors.

war.

Americanism.”

at the Ohio State UniColumbus, Ohio.
The
workshop began on August 2 and
continued through August 14.
This is one of thirty workshops
being conducted throughout the
versity,

nation during the

“For your information I’m working here in Aruba, a small Dutch
island off the coast of Venezuela.
This refinery— the largest in the
world— is a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). I
have been down here since 1941—
with two and one-half years out
for service in the Navy during the

character alone.”
Earlier in the program,

workshop

was recently received
from Sheldon C. Jones, whose address is P.O.B. 888, Lago Oil and
Transport
Company,
Limited,
letter

is

Mrs. Buckingham was formerly
Miss Joanna Fice, also of the class
of 1943.

They have two

children.

I

Major Elwood M. Wagner, U. S.
Air Force, is one of twenty-six Air
Force
officer
instructors
from
twenty-one different colleges and

ARCUS WOMEN’S SHOP
“FOR A PRETTIER YOU’
Max Arcus, ’41, Mgr.
West Main Street
Bloomsburg 356-R

50

universities located in Ohio, West
Virginia,
Kentucky,
Tennessee,

Alabama and North Carolina
tending

an

Air

Force

at-

R.O.T.C.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

Raymond

1947

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin L. Esh-

leman of Berwick announced the
engagement of their daughter.
Dawn Forrester, to Eugene B. McCord, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall McCord, Baltimore, Md. Miss
Eshleman received a bachelor of
science degree in secondary education at B.S.T.C. and a master
of
science degree in clinical psychology from the Pennsylvania State
College in 1951. She has been employed since 1951 as a psychologist in the public schools of Wilmington, Del.
Mr. McCord
received his
bachelor of
science

degree in chemical engineering
from Johns Hopkins University
and his master of science degree
in chemical engineering from The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served with the U. S.
Army in the Italian area during

Worrld

War

II.

He

is

employed

chemical engineer at the Experimental Station of E. I. duPont
de Nemours and Co., in Wilmington.
No date has been selected
for the wedding.
as a

1949
Charles K. Moore, of Mentor,
Ohio, has received the degree of

Master of Arts from The Graduate
School, of Western Reserve Uni-

for-

education instructor at West Chillisquaqua Township High School,
Montandon. He is a graduate of
B.S.T.C. of 1950 and taught in
Troy. He is married to the former
Ethel Hulsizer, Turbotville R. D.
The couple has three children.

Charles W. Longer, of Bloomsburg, has accepted a position with
the Derry Township High School,
Hershey.
Mr. Longer is teaching
physics and chemistry to vocational
and industrial students. Since his
graduation from Bloomsburg, he
has taken additional work at the
Pennsylvania State College.
St.
Joseph’s Catholic Church,
Berwick, formed the setting Satur-

day, September 16, for the marriage of Miss Dorothy Marie A.
Grifasi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Vincenzo Grifasi, Berwick, to Bruno B. Bujno, Mocanaqua. The
Rev. Father Mongelluzzi.

The bride graduated from Berwick High School and B.S.T.C. She
secretary, Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System, Washington, D. C.

ing has provided courses for more
than 44,600 men and women and
has awarded 1,683 master’s degrees.

A member

of the Class of 1947
High School, Mr.
Merrifield served in the Army for
two and a half years. He received
his bachelor of science in education
at Atlantic City

degree from Bloomsburg in 1951,
and has been associated with Sears,

Roebuck and Company.
Carmela Tarole and John

J.

Gott-*

both of Bethlehem, were
married Saturday, August 1, in the
Holy Rosary Church, Bethlehem.
Nuptial mass was celebrated by
the Rev. Joseph Pugliese.
Mrs.
Gotthardt, who has been teaching
hardt,

the Commercial Department of
Liberty High School, Bethlehem,
received her Master’s degree at Lehigh University last June.
Mr.
Gotthardt, a graduate of Moravian
College, is a teacher in the Broughall Junior High School.
Mr. and
Mrs. Gotthardt are living at 802
in

Maple

A
born

Street,

Bethlehem.

Mary

daughter,

Susan,

was

October to Mr. and Mrs.
James Boyle, Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Boyle is the former Susanne
Dreibelbis, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Dreibelbis, Jefferson
Street, Bloomsburg.
in

1951

1950

December, 1953

Riverside,

Watsontown, has been
elected social studies and physical

versity.

is

Huff,

merly of

Wanich

Carol

teaching

is

commercial department
Bethlehem High School.

in

of

the
the

In a candlelight ceremony recently at Shiloh Reformed Church,
Danville, Miss Carol M. Gass,
daughter of Mrs. Olive M. Gass,
and the late Roy W. Gass, was
joined in marriage to Roland B.
Bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos
C. Bell, Mountain Top.

Rev.

W.

Alton

Barley,

pastor,

wedding trip
through the New England States,
the couple took up their residence

officiated.

in

After

a

Norfolk, Va.

The
ville

bride graduated from DanHigh School and B.S.T.C. She

formerly taught at the Catonsville,
Md., Junior High School. Her husband is a graduate of the Fairview
High School and is stationed at the
Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va.

Robert S. Merrifield, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. S. Merrifield, of 220
North Wyoming Avenue, Ventnor,
N. J., is among 55 graduate students enrolled for a year of study
at New York University’s School of

The marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles R. Wells was solemnized
recently at the First Presbyterian
Church, Bloomsburg. Mrs. Wells
is the former Miss Mary Christine
Kreamer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Retailing.

Edwin M. Kreamer, Bloomsburg.
Her husband is the son of Mr. and

Preparing

careers as store
executives or teachers of retailing,
the students receive training both
in and out of the classroom in a
program leading to the master of
science in retailing degree.

The

for

trainees,

who

from a large group

are selected
of applicants,

New York City
department stores where for three
months they acquire full-time, plan-

Mrs. George W. Wells, Elizabethtown. A graduate of B.S.T.C., Mrs.
Wells is a teacher in the Lancaster
Public Schools.
Her husband, a
graduate of Elizabethtown College, is a teacher in the North
Wales High School.

enter cooperating

ned, on-the-job experience. Upon
returning to the N.Y.U. campus,
the group spends 20 weeks in intensive study of all phases of re-

1952

Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Brink,
Bloomsburg, announce the engage-

ment

of

their

daughter,

Nancy

tailing.

Jane, to Richard William Evans,
son of Mrs. Louis Evans, Shamokin, and the late Mr. Evans.

Since its establishment 34 years
ago, the N.Y.U. School of Retail-

Miss Brink graduated from the
Bloomsburg High School and is
17

now employed

B.S.T.C. He is now serving with
the armed forces.

date has been selec-

ted.

The marriage

of Miss Kathleen

Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Mitchell, Mahanoy City,
and Daniel Boychuck, son of Mich-

Boychuck, Shamokin, was solemnized Saturday, October 17, in
ael

Canicus Church, Mahanoy City,

St.

by the Rev. John J. Foody.
Both the bride and groom are
graduates of Bloomsburg State
Teachers College.
Mrs. Boychuck has been employed by Centennial School District,
Bucks County. Mr. Boychuck entered the armed forces on October
26.

A

reception was held at

hard’s Hall,

Mahanoy

Francis J. Stanitskie
the Armed Forces.
Sgt. Francis

J.

is

New-

City.

serving with
His address:

Stanitskie

Willow Grove, Pa. He
assigned to the U. S. Naval
Auxiliary Air
Station,
Whiting

‘Air Station,
is

now

Field, Nilton, Fla., where he is enin primary flight training.

gaged

Mr. and Mrs. James Sitler, Berwick announce the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Beverly Naugle, to James E. Doty, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Doty, Sr., Blooms-

Naugle is a graduate of
Berwick High School in 1950 and
attended B.S.T.C. She is employed as a teller in The Berwick Bank.
Mr. Doty, a graduate of Bloomsburg High School in 1949, received his degree from B.S.T.C. at the
Miss

close of this year’s

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Hdqts. 3rd Infantry Division
G-l Section
A.P.O. 468, care Postmaster

is

tioned

now
at

summer

session.

Army, and is staAberdeen
Proving

in the

Grounds, Aberdeen, Maryland.

San Francisco, California
Mr. and Mrs. John Haddon, Jefferson Street, Bloomsburg, are parents of a son bom at the Geisinger
Hospital recently.
Mrs. Haddon
is the former Donna Shaver of the

WCNR.

Miss Phyllis Marie Huddock,
daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Andrew Jay Huddock, Bloomsburg,
and Sheldon Williams, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Owen Williams, WilkesBarre, were united in marriage at
two o’clock Sunday, August 30, in
the First Presbyterian Church.

The

father of the bride officiated

at the double-ring nuptials.

1953

The marriage

of Miss Nellie

H.

Swartz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert M. Swartz, Montoursville,
to William E. Byham, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Byham, Kane, was

solemnized at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, October 24, at Bethany Lutheran Church, Montoursville.

The two B.S.T.C. graduates were
united in marriage by the Rev.
John Lenhardt, pastor.
The couple
in gtown

will reside at

is

Mrs. Byham has been
teaching at Coatesville.

a teacher.

18

The newly-weds left later on a
wedding trip to New York State.
They are now living in Nunda, N.

Wilkes-Barre, in a ceremony at 11
o’clock Saturday morning, Septem-

ber

5, at

Holy Angels Church

in St.

Thomas.

The Rev. Father W. Keelan

of-

A

reception followed at
Alma Villa, Port Stanley. After a
wedding trip to New York City, the
couple will reside at 84 Highland

ficiated.

Avenue, Jamestown, N. Y.
The bride graduated from St.
Joseph’s High School and has been

employed by the Public Utilities
Her husband, a graduate of B.S.T.C. where he was ac-

Commission.

speech supervisor

in

Chautataguee

county.

A
day,

daughter was born WednesSeptember 16, to Corporal

and Mrs. Ben Burness, of Atlantic
City.

Corporal Burness,

who

has

been serving in the U. S. Army,
has been discharged and has returned to B.S.T.C. to complete his
studies.

Arlene Gordner, of Millville, is
teaching in the Lincoln Elementary
School, New Bruinswick, New Jersey.

Miss Phyllis Y. Morgan, daughMr. and Mrs. Ottis Morgan,
Danville R. D., has accepted a
position with the Fallsington, Pa.,
She graduated from the
schools.
High School and
Bloomsburg
B.S.T.C. this spring with a degree
She is
in elementary education.
living at Yardley, Pa.
ter of

Y.

The bride graduated from the
Bloomsburg High School and the
bridegroom is a graduate of Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre, and
B.S.T.C.
He served more than

Edward R. Linn is teaching in
the
elementary grades of the
schools of Milton, Pa.

three years with the U. S. Naval
Air Corps and is now social studies
teacher at Nunda Central School,
Nunda, N. Y.

was

Down-

where the bridegroom

Miss Doreen Catherine Regan,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett
T. Regan, St. Thomas, Ontario,
Canada, was united in marriage to
Donald Joseph Butler, B.S.T.C.
graduate from Warrior Run, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Butler,

tive in sports, will serve as assistant

burg.

He

RA

staff of

Naval School, Pre-Flight, was
Naval Aviation Cadet Thomas A.
Goodwin, son of Thomas W. Goodwin, of 224 Park Avenue, Kane,
Pa.
Cadet Goodwin attended the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College from 1949 to 1953, and entered the Naval Aviation Cadet program in June, 1953, at U. S. Naval
S.

Mr. Evans graduated from Coal
Township
High
School
and

No wedding

Recently graduated from the U.

in the office of the

Milco Undergarment Co., Inc.

Miss June Long, Allentown, who
a member of the 1953 gradbe
uating class at B.S.T.C. will
wed in the near future to Walter
F. Gatsche, Jr., formerly of Williamsport.

William

Kline is teaching in
Mohnton, Pennsylvania. His address is 123 North Church Street.

The

bride-to-be

is

now

teaching in the Allentown schools.
The couple will reside in Allentown.

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

We

Members For Whom
In this issue of the

of the 1954

Quarterly

we

Have

No

are again publishing the

reunion classes whose addresses are unknown.

dress given in the

Alumni

file

Address
names

of those

members

Mail sent to them at the ad-

has been returned.

Readers of the Quarterly can render great assistance by supplying the College with
the addresses of any

whom

Office, State Teachers

(Mrs.
Birch.

J.

Guy

J.

College,

may know.

Send your information

McMichael, Edith
(Mrs. L. L. Dodson)
Marshall. Margaret P.

Moyer)

Frank V.

Miller, Phyllis E.

Dumbold)

(Mrs. E. M.

Carr, Frances E.
(Mrs. Fred Layson)
Casey, Sr., M. Beatrice

Mulherin, Alice A.

Pace, Marjorie M.
(Mrs. Edwards)
Palya, Mary M.
Partridge. William H.
Pensyl, Frances
Peterson, Dorothy W.
(Mrs. Marsh)

Derk, Merle M.

Raymond

Dodd. Harper B.

Dunn, Mary

I.

Phillips.

(Mrs. Gable)

Dymond, Sarah

(Mrs.

Edsell. Charles L.
S.

Fahey. Agnes M.
Fenstemaker, Consuelo L.
(Mrs. Noz)

Ferguson, Isabelle
Fitcher, Marian
Fultz, James W.

Gallagher,

S.

M.

Raymond

E.

Gensemer, Helen C.
(Mrs. John B. Kennedy)
Colightly, Mrs.

Hannah

D.

Heimbach. Laura A.
Hortman, Irene
Houser,

Anna Mae

Hower. Heister
Jenkins, Ruth D.
(Mrs. Sam Harris)
Johns. Ruth M.
(Mrs. C. A. Killinger)
Johnstone, Ida
Jones, Anne Z.
Jones, Esther R.
(Mrs. Willard K. Davis)

Kane, Anna V.
Kleckner, Grace C.
Koch, Elizabeth
Laubach, R. Gordon
Leonhart, Edna
Linkskill, Emily
(Mrs. C. H. Roberts)

December, 1953

Mary

E.

Price. Ethel M.
Pursel, Edna R.

B.

(Mrs. V. E. Whitlock)

Evans, Edith

Walsh, Mary C.
Werkheiser, Marie K.
(Mrs. Rev. Hemmig)
Wright, Minnie
(Mrs. Kershner)

Zadra, Eva M.

Ostrander, Ida M.

Cooley, Ethel
Creasy, Jane I.
(Mrs. Leonard Miller)
Cullinan, Mary

J.

Marion M.

Ullrich.

Zearfoss, Charlotte
(Mrs. Charles Johnson)

Novak, Helen

Connor, Rose M.

Derrick.

to the President’s

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

McGovern, Vera
McHenry, Marjorie

Class of 1924

Aurand. Ella

they

Herman Fowler)

Reinbold, Alvin E.
Remley, A. Lois
(Mrs. Wayne Hartrandt)
Richards, Louise O.
(Mrs. Bundrock)
Ridall, Mabel G.
Riley, Mary Ellen
Rodgers, Sue C.
Schultz. Eleanor
Schultz, M. Roselda
Scott, Pearl I.
(Mrs. C. Snook)

Seely, Leslie

W.

Shook, Agnes
Smith. Margaret
(Mrs. E. B. Morris)
Smull, Sarah E.
(Mrs. Free)
Snook, Romaine A.
Snyder, Tressa
(Mrs. Merle Johnson)
So don, Clara
Sonenberg, Bertha D.
(Mrs. Joseph Thomas)
Stapinski, Martha A.
Stees, Sarah K.
(Mrs. Herbert T. Clarke)

Class of 1944

Behler, Anita Elizabeth
Behler, Helen E.

Hagenbuch, Mary Elizabeth
(Mrs. D. E.

DeLong)

Hollengeck, Mrs. Catherine B.
Parr, Mary Erla
Propst. Jessie E.
(Mrs. Leonard

Snyder,

Wearne)

Mary Edna
Heckman)

(Mrs. Harry

Class of 1949

Edward G.
Becktel, Stewart G.
Baker,
Beyer,
Cain.

Thomas Francis

James Michael

Fox, Herbert Harris

Gearhart, Luther Elton

Hawk, Robert Alexander
Hess, Richard Charles
Houck, Donald Clayton
Lutz, Alvin

Eugene

McCullough, Jane Richardson
(Mrs. George Johns)
Mooney, William Barrett
Nuss, Eugene Miller
Panzetta, Nicholas
Purcell,

J. P.

John Michael

Tempest. Ruth L.
(Mrs. R. W. McLaughlin)

Terry, Ruth M.
(Mrs. Kenneth Corway)
Thomas, Eva G.
(Mrs. McGuire)

Speicher, Leo Joseph
Tiddy, William James, Jr.

Trimpey, Ruth Gaye
Trobeck, Gretchen Dorcas
Vought, William Clarence.
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the

daughter of the late Gilbert

and Phoebe Smith Turner. Prior
to moving to Scranton twelve years

Ngrrnlngii

ago she resided in Peckville for
thirty-four years.

Charles

W.

Keeler

Charles W. Keeler, of Mauch
Chunk, died Wednesday, October
Death was sud28, at his home.
den and occurred at one-fifteen
o'clock in the morning.
He was the son of the late Ervin
and Alice Schultz Keeler. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jennie Richsister, Mrs. Alfred Belles, and a
ard Keeler, a son, Charles, Jr., a
brother, Orville Keeler, both of
Benton.
Funeral services were held Saturday morning, October 31, at 11
o’clock at Mauch Chunk, with short
committal services at New Rose-

mont cemetery

at 1:30 o’clock in

teacher
Jones,
of the

the

in

Nanticoke public

Her husband, William X.

is

a former superintendent

Blakely

Home where

once was employed.

member

of

Ashbury

she

She was a
Methodist

Church.
Additional
sons,

William

survivors

are

four

G., Harrisburg; Rich-

ard S., Scranton; James T., Pottstown, and John B., Blakely; two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Turner, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Carrie Rowe,
Nanticoke; two brothers, William
J. Turner, Philadelphia, and Thomas Arnott, Nanticoke.

member

of the
Mauch Chunk High School faculty
at the time of his death. He could
have retired in three years.
He
taught in Bloomsburg, Locust Twp.

Mrs. Besse Richart ’04

The death

of Mrs. Besse Richart

and Benton early in his career and
then went to Mauch Chunk.
He
was a graduate of Bloomsburg

Normal School.

son, N.

William Hayward

Sherman

at

J.

Burial

was made

in the

Laurel Grove cemetery, Paterson,
in
Mrs. Corse was born
N. J.

’98

Bloomsburg

Hayward,

South
11
Street, Wilkes-Barre, died

Saturday, May 30, in Wyoming
Valley Hospital where he was admitted May 21 as a medical patient.
He was born in Larksville, son of

and Mary Hayward.
Hayward lived in Plymouth
until 1940 when he came to Wilkes-Barre and made his home with
the late James

Mr.

nephew, William H. Lewis. He
graduated from Bloomsburg State
Teachers College in 1898 and
a

taught school in Plymouth for
fourteen years. He served for seventeen years as cashier of the
Plymouth National Bank prior to

in

1879.

She was a

graduate of the B.S.T.C. class of
1904.
She was also a graduate of
the
Moses Taylor Hospital in
Scranton.

Her husband

was the

Charles J. Corse, Paterson, N.
Mrs. Corse resided for the past
J.
year with her daughter and son-inlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar C. Powell, Park Ridge, N. J.
She w as a member of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, PatSemper
erson, N. J., also of the
Fidelis chapter of the Order of the
Eastern Star, Newark, N. J. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Edgar
P. Powell, Park Ridge, N. J., and a
son, Kenneth, Bloomsburg R. D.
late

his retirement.

Mrs.

Hannah Turner Jones 02

Mrs. Hannah Turner Jones, 69,
1720 Sanderson Avenue, Scranton,
died Tuesday, September 1, in the
Hahnemann Hospital after a two-

week

A
20

Miller.

illness.

native of Nanticoke, she

was

The jewel

that

we

find,

we

Welcome was extended

members and

to

by Miss Eva
Morgan, who introduced the committees and officers, and presided
at the business meeting, which inguests

cluded the secretary’s report, the
treasurer’s report, the report of the

nominating committee, and the
troduction of

new

in-

officers.

Morgan then introduced
Thomas Francis,

the Toastmaster,

Corse occurred November 12, 1953
the Pearl River General Hospital, Pearl River, N. J.
Funeral
services were held November
14
at the Legg Funeral Home, Pater-

William

Nelson, accompanied by Mr. Fenstermaker, after which the invocation was given by Miss Margaret
Lewis.
During the dinner community singing was led by Mr.

Miss

the afternoon.

Mr. Keeler was a

The Lackawanna- Wayne Branch
the B.S.T.C. Alumni met in
Scranton Thursday, November 5,
and was largely attended.
The
program was opened by the singing of America, directed by Mr.
of

A graduate of Bloomsburg State
Normal School, she was a former
schools.

LACKAWANNA-WAYNE
BRANCH

08, Superintendent of the schools
of Lackawanna county.
The pro-

gram was

as follows:

Introduction of guests at speakers table; soprano solos, Miss Earla
Meyers, accompanied by
Miss
Joanne Dauber, students at B.S.T.
C.; introduction of Dr. E. H. Nelson; accordion solos, Miss Dorothy
Homing; piano solos, Miss Mary
Dr.
Jo Williams; introduction of
Harvey A. Andruss. The program
closed with the singing
of
the
Alma Mater.
The following served on the
various committees that made preparations for the successful affair:
general chairman, Miss
Margaret
Lewis; arrangements, Mrs.
Billy
Spanenberg Lesaius, Miss Ceil
Miss
Tuffy (P.S.E.A.); program,
Margaret Dyer, Mrs. Florence Sugarman Settler; decorations, Miss
Irene Guest, Mrs. Marion George
Evans; publicity, William B. Jones,
Archie Reese, Mrs. Anna Naylor
Kuschel; nominating, Miss Bertha
Lovering, David Cotner; tickets,
Miss Martha Jones.

stoop

and take’t
Because we see

it, but what we do
not see
We tread upon, and never think of

ALUMNI DAY
Saturday,

May

23,

1954

it.

(Shakespeare: Measure for
Measure. Act I, Sc. IV)

THE ALUMNI QUARTERLY

COLLEGE CALENDAR
1954

FIRST SEMESTER

Monday, January

Christmas Recess Ends
First

Semester Ends

4

Thursday, January 21

SECOND SEMESTER
Registration

Monday, January 25

Classes Begin

Tuesday, January 26

Easter Recess Begins

__

Tuesday, April 13

Easter Recess Ends

__

Tuesday, April 20

ALUMNI DAY

__ Saturday,

May

22

Sunday,

May

23

Baccalaureate Services

Commencement

Monday, May 24

Exercises

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